Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1931, Page 2

WAGE CUT POLICY 10 BE GIVEN TEST U. S. Steel Meeting Watched. | Doak $ays Hoover Stand Still Opposes Paring. ! Sails Without THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. Man Aboard DESTROYER OPERATED BY (Continued From First Page) and “some of them are faced with the | prospect of closing down altogether, and thus creating more unemployment or. alternatively, secking tempoary wage reductions.” { Replies to Pratests Over Cuts. Mr. Lamont was in Chicago at the; time the letter to Representative Con- don was made public, but Secretary Doak said he did not belleve the letter should be construed as condonement by the administration of temporar wage reductions. “Thcse persons.” M Doak added, “who are hoping for W cuts might interpret it to conform with | their hopes.’ The letter was in reply to a protest to President Hoover from the Rhode Tdand Representative. who said that {he textile industry in his State was re- ducing wages and thereby violating the “agreement” made at the White House in 1929. Mr. Lamont informed Representative Condon that “the President’s position in the matter of wage reductions is well known and sunderstood. No cne could jone more to maintain wage N Praises Conference. Continuing, Mr. Lamont wrote: “When tha conference was held in the Fall of 1920, representatives cf va- rious industries expressea themselves in favor of maintaining wage rates; and. even though thoy were not sent as Gelegates of their industries, or even of their own companies, and had no authority to pledge their eompanies or industries to any definit= plan of ac- tion, nevertheless, without exception. the industries represented have main- tainea the wage Tates that were in effect two years ago, and the influence of the conference and its conclusions have suc- ceeded 1n & marvelous manner in sus of depression length- “As the po ich were not ens, many corporations, W! well protected by reserves accumulated in vears of good business, find them- selves at the present time in extremely difficult positions. Many of them al- ready hive cut dividends and salaries. Some of them are faced with the prcs- pect of closing cown altogether and thus ‘creating more unemployment or, alter- natively. seeking temporary wage re- cuctions “T very greatly regret that these cases ehould occur. but, I do not believe it is the duty of the Government to interfere in such cases, neither do I think such interference could be effectae.” Condon Addresses Hoover. The following is Representative Con- don’s letter to President Hoover “I am again calling your attention to the wage-cutting campaign now in progress in the textile industry in Rhode Island. “You will recall that last January, on behalf of several hundred of my con- stituents, I requested your assistance to prevent a wage cut in one of the mills of the American Woolen Co., in Olne: ville, R. 1. 1 feared then that such a wage cut, if allowed to stand, would be | soon followed by others and that the nevitable result would be industrial Strife at a time when jt would be most disheartening to thosé who were doing heartening to those who were doing their best to co-operate with you in your efforts to bring business and in- dustry safely out of the present de- pression “In my letter T said that these em- ployes believed that their emplovers | were a party to the agreement entered | into with you at the White House in 1930 not to cut wages during the pres- ent depression. I also stated that the belief was widespread throughout the State d that the intiation of wage cuts was looked upon in Rhode Island | &s a breach of such agreement. | Disorders at Two Places. “It was with great regret and some e that I learned from you, Secretary of Commerce Robert ont, that the textile industry not represcnted among the in-| 1leaders of the country who made edge against wage cutting referred “A serious condition now exists in this State, and particularly in my dis- trict. Many thousands of employes in the textile industry here have recently received substantial wage cuts. In sev- | eral of the mills where wage cutting has | Leen announced strikes have occurred, and in two instances, in the cities of Central Falls and Pawtucket, serious disorder has accompanied the attempts | of employers to operate their mills with strikebreakers. It is quite likely that | this condition will grow worse unle: some one who can speak with author- ity tries to convince these employers | that they are aggravating an already | bad situation and repeating the serious | mistake they made in this industrial area during the 1921 depression. Quotes Dr. Julius Klein. “In this T am borne out by the opin- fon expressed by the Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Dr. Julius Klein, in radio address on Sunday. April 12, 1931, in which he mad: the following observation “‘Fortunately, the vast majority of| cur industrial leaders are keenly appre- ciative of the necessity of providing at | sequences. | ment contracts should be | highest wages prevailing in the district PPER: View of the U. S. S. Stoddert, a radio-controlled de- stroyer, which, on July 23, near San Clemente Island. off the Southern California coast, went through maneuvers without & man on board. A full 180-degree turn was made, speed was increased or slackened. whistles blovn and searchlights turned off and on by use cf a radio control set on the U. S. S. Perry. Lower: Lieut. Comdr. B. R. Alexan- der of the Stoddert, shown at the con- trol box on the U. S. S. Perry A. P. Photos. POLITICS IS BEHIND WAGE CUTS POLICY U. S. Business Takes Advice of Bankers for Slashes De- spite Hoover Stand. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The administration has no power to interfere with wage-cutting, and offi- cials know it. but they ars nevertheless expressing the hope and even the wish that present wages be maintained Secretary Lamont’s letter to Repre- sentative Condon of Rhode Island, con- ceding that in some instances wage cuts are expedient, is being seized upon to prove an inconsistency between the position of the Secretary of Commerce and the President, if not a change, to be sure, in Mr. Hoover's attitufle. Policy Involves Politics. The truth is, national politics and the 1932 election have much mcre to do with the problem of wage cuts than economics. The administration cannot encourage or acquiesce in wage cuts ithout incurring serious political con- 1t is denied, of course, that any politics enter into the question, as administration officials defend _their point of view entirely on the ground that decreased wages mean decreased | purchasing power and certainly do not help the country out of its depression. But the companies, which are in se- | vere straits and which already have cut | dividends and salaries of their execu- tives and are still in danger of financial collapse, say they have no alternative but to cut pay roils. It is this extreme type of case to which Mr. Lamont was referring and not the general principle of deflating wages to maintain dividends 50 often sugzested when the business depression started. Plan Like Wage Cut Used. Mr. Hoover's remarks on wages were made in December, 1929, when the de- pression began to alarm busin ers. They agreed then to preserv schedules, but they didn't visualize & long-drawn-out depression and & de- cline in the markets for their goods. Many companies, mindful of the Presi- dent’s request, did not chancze the wage price at all, but cut down the number of hours or days of employment. This was called the “stagger system™ and was adopt=d to provide as much employment to as many people a8 possible, but | actually it operated as a W ge reduction For the last several ms.ths admin- istration officials have b T hearing about the advice which I %ers were supposed to be giving thef: ‘“ustomers about the need for reducin,' ‘eges in order tn get better balans : sheets Much indignation has beem voiced | against bankers, in the abstract, ut the process of balaricing books and ¥eeping wut of the red has caused individual firms to heed the advice of bankers and cut wages. So a deflation of labor has been going on righ along. defended, of course, as an emergency measure only | and insisted upon as the only way to | keep solvent. | The Government has no power over the wage scale except on work done | for the Government itself. Congress put a provision in the public buildings appropriations that Govern- | let at the vhere the work was to be Imd?fl?ksn. Generally speaking, there is no jurfsdic- | tion over wages on the part of the Gov- | least some work for the maximum num- ber. Most of them realize, further- more, the grave perils that lurk in the short-sighted proposal of the wage cut. Let us not add strikes and other in- dustrial disorders to our troubles. We have enough gri°f as it is. That is what | was done in 1921 when wage cuts| started the greater part of the 2.400 | strikes in that depression and turned more than a million workers out ints | the streets. One dose of that kind of | dangerous nostrum ought to be enough | in our depression experiences.’ Asks President to Intervene, “It is indeed a pity that the leaders of the textile industry in this State canrot be cla: among the numb:r referred to by Dr. Klein, who realize the perils of the wag> cuts. It seems to me | that it is their duty to co-op-rate with | you and leaders of other industries | Wwho have voluntarily pledged you their aid \ “May I, therefors request that yourself in the u ing situation now rapidly developing in the textile industry in this State and to use the great influence of your ex- alted office to bring thewe lcaders of the textile Industry to a realization of the serious mistak> which they are| makirg and ask them to withdraw the | wage cuts i they have already an- nounced and put into effect.” Hoover Speech Recalled. In his specch before the American ‘Bankers’ Assoclation at Cleveland on October 2, President Hoover said: “It appears from the press that some one suggested in your discussion that our American standards of living should to lower:d. To that I emphatically dis- agree. I do not believe it represents | the views of this association. Not only | do I not accept such a theory, but on| the contrary the whole purpsss end ths idea of th's econom: is distinctive of our cc creasz the standard of adoption and the cons.a; diffusion of invention e: among the whole of o retreat from our Am of constantly increasing N living b:comes a retreat intc ial | unemcloyment and the gecceptance of | 8 cesspool of poverty for some large part of our people. “‘Our economic system is bup an in- strument of the social advanc¥ment of | most_respectfully interest | *p. o system which iy, is to in- 3 by the) ning | Young plan ernment. But an administration that argues for retention of present wages has considerable influence with busi- | ness and certainly wins the friendship | of organized labor, even if individual businesses do about as they please any- | way. (Copyright. 1931.) STEUBEN SOCIETY SENDS PLEA TO U. S. Urges Lifting Load of War Trib-| ute From Germany, Citing Menace of Bolshevism. By the Associated Press, BERLIN, July 28.—In an open letter | to the President of the United States | and the American people the German of Germany from her load of war tribute. ! The letter declares the tributes can- |Mmanaged the legion excursion to Quan- | not be fulfilled and unless they are lifted the menace of bolshevism to Europe will persist. The German people, the letter says. are meeting the present crisis with un- precedented self-discipline. This based on the hope and confidenc efforts will be made to remove th reparations system, against which loan: and credits are “ineffective medicine.” Declaring France’s oppositicn to the nd its “policy of strict adherence 'fi‘condmors of the Young plan led to Yhe present financiry crisis, the letter urges America, whos\ Presi- took the first step toward \lving preblem, not to sanction any half- e e 5 ks | way pian which would leave the subject | | of ‘reparations untouched. . It is an instru- b ve add to ecurity nd richness cf life of every i idual. It by muoriss tihe whole purpes , but it is the foundation upon which c2n be built the finer things of the spirit. Increzse in enrichment gnm. be the objective of the Nation, not 2a8e.” | since Saturday. The last | is | RADIO ON ANOTHER SHIP. PARIS-LONDONLOAN NEGOTIATIONS HALT Credits of About 100 Million to Support Pound Sterl- ing Discussed. By the Associated Press. PARIS. July 28.—Negotiations be- tween officials of the Bank of France and the Bank of England with a view to extension of a sizable W&n to the British institution wers temporarily sus- pended today to allow Sir Robert Kindersley to confer with his colleagues in London. The conversations between Sir Robert and Clement Morét, governor of the Bank of France, have been going on THhey are discuseig the possibilities of the Bank of Pral<i opening prediscount credits amounthe, to about £100000,000 with the Bank ol England to support the pound sterling. Sir Robert. a director of the Bank of England, will confer with other officials of the bank and probably also with Chancellor Philip Snowden and offi- cials of the treasury department In financial circles it was pointed out that the proposed to England was equally important for Prance because she wouid suffer deeply from financial troubles in England. while she had only a litle invested in Germany. Other_commentators said flatly that Prance had decided to lend money to England instead of Germany. A Bank of France official declared that today money was not vet at the disposition of the Bank of England. but indicated the sgrecment was awaiting signature, GEN. BUTLER RETIRES OCT. 1 AND PROMISES T0 ANSWER CRITICS (Continued From First Page.) ters who are close to the commandant, and is now furnishing it, preparatory to moving_in after his retirement in October. Tt is believed he will make this his home after completicn of his lecture tour of the country, for which he said he had signed & “general con- tract. Rumors that the Marine firebrand, noted for his bravery and disregard of danger. would quit active service were circulated following the famous Mus- solini incident. Gen. Butler in & speech at Philadelphia last Spring said he had been reliably informed Premier Mus- solini of Italy had run down a child in his automobile and_passed on_without giving aid. The Ttalian Ambassador protested the charge through the State Department and Butler was ordered court-martialed. His trial was called off, however, and the State Department officially sent Mussolini its regrets. It was a typical Butler speech last night, well punctuated with expletives, but without the usual reference to netional or international situations. Marines Are Chagrined. Announcing his retirement, much to the chagrin of the Marines present, who set up loud cries of “no, no,” Butler concluded: “And when I get out of uniform, I'm going to tell some of these people who abuse our corps where the hell to get | Steuben Soclety urges the unburdening off."” In presenting the plaque, Col. Fred- erick M. Wise, U. S. M. C., retired, who | tico, referring to the recent Mussolini | |incident, sald the Army had banished {its Mitchell and the Navy had throttled | its Magruder, “but nobody can keep Butler from talking.” , Presentation of the tablet came after | Marines on the post had put on two | four-round bouts, Bradley winning & | decision over Anderson in the first and | Lotwis gaining a technical decision over Staflet in the second. Staflet had virtually knocked out Lotwiz in the last round, but because he failed to retire |to the neutral corner, lost the fight. /In a six-round climax, Mayer of Sixth | Marines knocked out Billy Dill of Aviation in the fii The oldest Meawson, 86, of Washington, who fought in the Civil War-—was presented to the crowd by Builer as “one of the boys.” He told how they fought the war be- tween the States and got a rousing ovation from the crowd. A man who dez-ribed himself as “just {an_ex-Merine,” climbed into the ring | just as the show was about to end and “nominated” Butler “for President.” The cruise was made gn the City of Washingtome | | Deer Creek fire stance of France | | of governors of Moozeheart, the home WESTERN CIIZENS | FLEE RECORD HEAT Tell in Southwest Is 63 Dead From 25-Day Inferno With 120-Degree Top._ | By the Associated Press. | 'LOS ANGELES, July 28—Residents !fled today from the heat-stricken Im- | Iperfal Valley and Arizona as the toll | [from the Southwest'’s most prolonged heat wave in years mounted to 63 deaths. long the base of San Gorgonio | Mountain, which lifts its peak slightly |more than 2 miles above the Great | American Desert, hundreds of automo- |biles moved to the cooler coastal areas | and mountain resorts. | Forty Deaths in Valley Hea | Forty of the heat deaths occurred in | | Imperial Valley, which for the greater | part lies below sea level. The popula- {tion has been reduced to those who must remain in the heat-ridden area. The exodus continued despite hope | the heat was nearing its end. During the night torrential rains visited moun- tain areas of Southern California. The weather, as If by irony, left San Gor- gonio Mountain covered with snow. The peak usually is barren at this time of ear. p In addition, to the 40 deaths in Im- perial Valley, where a 25-day average had been 108 degrees, other points re- | ported the following deaths: Phoenix, | Ariz., 14; Needles, Calif., 6; Taft, Calit,, | 2, and Las Vegas, Nev, 1. San’ Joaquin Area Has 118. Needles reported a temperature of 120 degrees Thursday. Taft, in the San | | Joaquin Valley, yesterday reported a | temperature of 118 degrecs. { Los Angeles, with a reputation for | | being & Summer resort, sweltered under 42-degree heat yesterday. The weather | sent thousands to the beaches. The | water itself showed a temperature of | 4 degrees. Kansas Mercury Hits 110. One death was recorded in Utah. Montana and Wyoming were promised cooler weather. Scattered thunder- | storms appeared as the only forms of | relief elsewhere. In the Plains States Kansas again took credit for the high marks. At | Salina the official reading was 110. The Dakotas, Nebraska and Oklahoma also | had excessive temperatures. IDAHO FOREST FIRE HAS 17-MILE FRONT| Hundreds Waging Losing Battle Against Blaze—Half of Town Is Razed by Flames. - By the Associnted Press SPOKANE. Wash., July 28 —A raging in' North Idaho and | Montana was licking through valuable | timber today, with 25000 blackened acres in its wake. Hundreds of men vainly were at- tempting to trench the blazs s it swept through mountainous territory along a 17-mile front! Brisk winds whipped the fire from a small blaze into a conflagra- tion that sent human beings and ani- mals fleeing for life. | 'seven persons from Bonners Ferry. Idaho. found shelter,in protected mine | buildings and watched one of their| abandoned automobiles burn before | ped from the danger zone. cements were mobilized in Spokane and Newport, Wash. and Idaho and Montana towns. Trains and pack horses carried men to the danger : lines while airplanes were speeding sup- plies to the district Other fires spread a smoke pall over | the “inland empire” yesterday. One.! which started in a woodshed, destroyed Jalf the town of Loon Lake, Wash. | ‘The damage was estimated at $15,000. | In California the forest fire situation | was described as the worst in the his- | tory of the State. A blaze that swept Mount Diablo was partly under controi | today, however, and fires in other sec- tions were reported fairly well in hand. | The Mount Diablo fire destroyed | practicaily all the large timber on the | mountain and swept through the State | | park at the top. PRESIDENT AND WIFE | * RETURN FROM CAMP, | | | Hoover Rested by Four-Day Vaca- tion From All Cares of Office. Physically benefited by his four-day vacation at his fishing camp on the | Rapidan River in Virginia, President Hoover returned to Washington this morning Not only was this week end visit the first one of four days' duration, but it was the first time Mr. Hoover has been absolutely free from office cares and worries. He did not even take along his stenographer He spent his time sitting in the cool of his camp either reading or talking to members of his camp party; several | times he rode horseback over the moun- | {tain trails and on two occasions went | ifor a long hike. He fished the Rapidan | | Saturday for an hour or so with his { usual good luck. Mrs. Hoover, who had been staying at the camp since the previous week end, returned to Washington today with her husband. s LENTZ, EX-MEMBER OF CONGRESS, DEAD Insurance Union Founder, 75, Fails | to Recover From Operation at Columbus, Ohlo. By the Assoclated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio. July 28 =John J.' {Lentz. 75 years old, president and founder of " the American _Insurance |Union and former United Statcs Rep- resentative, died suddenly late last night in & hospital here following an opera- tion for a bladder obstruction. Lentz was a member of Congress be- twecn 1897 and 1901 from the twelfth Ohlo district. He was author of several books, one on the life of Thomas Jef- ferson, and w2s a member of the board maintained in Moos-heart, Ill, by the Loyal Order of Moose. DO-X OUT OF DRYDOCK Seaplane Expected to Start Hop to U. S. From Brazil Friday. RIO DE JANEIRO, July 28 (P.— The seaplanz DO-X came out of dry- dock today, flew over the city and came down to an anchorage in Botafogo Bay. The ship is scheduled o start for New York over the Pan-American| airvays route on Friday. King's Tutor Dies at 81. WINDSOR, England, July 38 (#).— Kinf George’s old tutor, Rev. John Neale Dalton, who also was domestic chaplain to the Ki died toda; huuge in the C%un Castle. He was 9 D. C., TUESDAY JULY 28, 1931 Siamese King Meets “Sultan of Swat” ROYAL COUPLE ENJOY BALL GAME AND SEE RUTH. K GRAF ZEPPELIN'S ARCTIC RENDEZVOUS KEPT WITH MALIGIN (Continued From First Page) and Queen Rambai B: no darkness—merely twilight—which completely upsets our normal routine of life. And then thore is tae time change aboard the ship. Everybody's watch is teiling different time—some Middle Eu- ropean, some Greenwich, some sun time "The ocean i a spectacular sight when viewed from aloft in the twilight, waich is night. The white sea is an unending | sheet of quicksilver, and heightening the general sense of weirdness a strong wind howls about the ghostlike pilot's bridge. White veils of mist and shreds of cloud give the landscape. by night, an utterably ghoulish, dreamlike char- acter. Nobody seems to think of sleep, all are so thrilled by this great adventure and the polar christening of the Graf Zeppelin, which Dr. Eckener arranged to perform with all solemnity. / Weather Improves. The ship's company are in excellent spirits. And we were all glad to find Monday morning that weacher condi- tions had improved over night. To return to our departure Sunday from Leningrad, our start was slightly delayed owing to a shortage of drink- ing water, which had to be brought from the city to the fiying field. We received a singularly cool fare- well from the German representatives in Leningrad, in_contrast to the warm attitude of the Russians. Neither the German Ambassador nor the consul general was present at the departure for the Arctic, although the Ambassador and three of his stafl had come espe- cially from Moscow to meet us. Dr.! Eckener. however, smiled philosophically and refused to make any comment. An amusing incident occurred over | Lake Ladoga. Prof. Walter Basse, our sentor geodetic expert, dropped a val- uable camera overboard. As it fell into Europe's largest lake we hoped this sac- rifice would soften the heart of the Arctic god. See First Snow. We saw our first snow on the west coast of Kanin Peninsula. The north- | ernmost point of that peninsula surely | must be one of the most solitary places in the world in which to maintain a garrison. Eight soldiers guard frozen outpost of civilization, and live there amid incredible hardships. Leav- ing Kanin behind we steered a course direct for Franz Josef land for our ren- dezvous with the Maligin. | I quote now from the ship's diary, giving entries made with our departure from Leningrad “An hour after departure froom Len- | ingrad the Graf Zeppelin was sailing | over the blue mirror of Ladoga Lake. Thereafter the landscape underwent an abrupt change, approaching more the | Siberian character. “Dense, primeval forests surrounded | the entire horizon in grandiose monot- ony, alternating with the vast swamp- lands of Taiga. For hours the ship sailed along without sighting a single human being. Such rare persons as were visgle appeared to Tun Aaway | across the flelds, as if the Graf Zeppelin | and thos> aboard were the embodiment of the devil. | Charts New Hill. “The country is marvelously and un- imaginably great. East of the city of Szefatosere was charted & 1,200-foot hill’ which is not on any map. This was christened Spitzerberg by Dr. Eckener. “Arrived over Petrosaeodsk. on Gulf | Onega. & place thoroughly Siberian in character, and observed that opposite | the church are well-kept foot ball| grounds. Reached Whitesa soon after | and sew beneath us a flotilla of lum- | ber ships. Two of these were German. They blew their sirens like mad and men aboard frantically waved handker- chiefs. “Next came Archangel. a fantastic looking city built almost entirely of wood, or, more correctly speaking, un- dressed tree trunks. Only the churches and public buildings are of stone. The population, roughly estimated at 10,000, | is distributed over countless islands in the delta of the River Dvina. Sight Floating Lumber. “Flying over Archangel we sighted an | enormmouy stock of lumber, an un-| known number of millions of cubic| metres. Great masses of flolflng lum- ber seemed to follow us like flowing islands. “After leaving Archangel the Graf Zeppelin began moving through a thick veil of mist, and for the first time since the departure from Friedrichshafen ran into a squall. But this was soon pass- ed and finally the polar circle was crossed. The occasion was celebrated with an en ormous meal of ham, sau- sages, cheese, chocolate and cakes, washed down with generous measures of wine. Prof. Gustave Ljungdahl, our Swedish geo-magnetist, sang toughing Swedish folksongs. (Copyrishi, 1531, by the North Americ ewspaper 3 ‘Alliance, Inc.) Al Woods Receiver Named. NEW YORK, July 28 (#).—Supreme Court Justice Willlam Harman Black yesterday appointed a receiver for Al this | ‘Woods, Broadwagy theatrieal ucer, on the appicatioBer Sibert e ING PRAJADHIPOK and Queen Rambal Barni of Siam at the Yankee Stadium yesterda: the game between the Yanks and Detroit Tigers. STREET CAR FIRMS APPEAL T0 BOARD Lose $1,000 Daily Since Taxi War Inception, They Tell Commission. __(Continued From First Page) for the other days as follows: Wed- nesd: A $592; Thursday, $1,170; Prid: Saturday, $1,400, and Sunda Doubtful of Authority. The utilities commission has been marking time over the taxi situation, it was sald, because it is not yvet certain the extent of its authority to regulate the cabs. Corporation Counsei William W. Bride, the commission’s general counsel, has been asked for certain | opinions designed to clarify this situa- tion, and until he reports it is unlikely that the commission will do anything of a formal nature. The commission also does not care to act, it was pointed out, pending the outcome of the conference between the taxi operators and People's Counsel Keech. Keech intends to go into the taxi situation thoroughly, and, aside from determining the cause of the rate war, he hopes’ to learn whether the taxi owners and the drivers are earning any- thing on the cut-rate basis and whether the public is getting efficient and safe service. Stories told by the taxi dr! are conflicting as to their earnings Some of the men have reported they earned more last week under the low rates than under the former 35-cent fat rate, and others claim their earnings have fallen off materially. ‘FOLLIESGIhL, BURNED IN YACHT BLAST, .DIES Second Chorine Injured in Explo- sion on Richman Boat to Recover. By the Aczaciated Press. NEW YORK, July 28.—Miss Helen ‘Walsh, 21-year-old Follles girl, died at a hospital in Greenport, Long Island, yesterday from burns received when an explosion destroyed Harry Richman's yacht Sunday. A few moments after she died Rich. man clowned and sang to a Follies au- | dience, unaware that the girl, whom he risked his life to save, had succumbed. He was not told of it until after the show. Virginia Biddle of the Follles, also | burned in the explosion, is still at the hospital and will recover, doctors said. | The gthers injured in the blast, includ- | ing Mark Hellinger. newspaper col- | umnist, were discharged from the hos- | pital yesterday. Miss Walsh was & native of New York | and had been on the stage for five | NEW NAVY SELECTION BOARD BEGINS TASK, Another List of Seven to Be Pro- moted to Commanders Will Be Chosen. (Prom the 5:30 Fdition of Yesterday's Star.) | The new Naval Medical\Corps Selec- | tion Board, appointed by order of Presi- dent. Hoover following rejection of a list of lieutenant’ commanders selected for.| promotion to commanders, met today at the Navy Department to begin the task of choosing another list of seven from those eligible. According to law, the selcction board must. consider the names of those eligi- ble—for promotion for at least 15 days | before forwarding recommendations to the Secretary for approval. The list turned down Lwo weeks ago faled to include the name of President Hoover's personal physician, Dr. Joel T. Boone, who holds the temporary rank of f;m-lln while attached to the White ouse. Besides| Boone, those eligible for pro- motion include Lieut. Comdrs. William B. Hetfleld, who occupied the front pages recently after he had an alterca- tion with the President of Nicaragua follawing the earthquake; Thomas A. Fortesque, William W. Hargrave, John Buckley, Charles Stephenson, Ruskin M. Lhamon, Edward E. Woodland, Clar- ence W. Ross, Carleton I. Wood, Roscoe M. ‘Waterhouse, Willlam W. Wicker- sham, Willlam H. Michael and Tal- where they witnessed Both parties were keen fans and surprised every one with | their knowledge of the great American sport. Photo shows, left to right: King Prajadhipok, Col. Jacob Rupperi 1. Babe Ruth, Yanks' home run king, is seen in rear center. —Wide World Photo. NEW MAYFLOWER RECEIVERS TO BE ___(Continued From First Page) ent corporation and that there has been default jn the payments cn account of the siniding fund. The cour?, points out that the claim is made that the American Bond & Mort- gage Co. withheld of the proceeds of the sale of second mortgage bonds $435,000, | which is still due to the Mayflower Ho. NAMED BY COURT| NATERNTY NADE ALMOST PHNLESS iNew York Hospitai Uses “Pernocton,” New Drug, With Success. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, July 28.—A new methed of reducing pain during childbirth which is almost without pain for the mother and without danger to either | mother or child has been worked out | by obstetricians at Sloane Hospital for Women here and is now being used in | & majority of cases at that institution it has been learned. ‘This method, which was first intro- duced in Germany, involves the use of a drug called pernocton. After a series of prolonged and careful experiments at Sloane Hospital doctors there have fcurd it so successful they believe it will become universal With the use of pernocton the mc: { feels some pain, but does not rem ber it afterward. The drug is said to be absolutely safe for the mother and without any of the possible ill effects on the baby that have caused other methods to be abandoned, among them the much-publicized twilight sleep. Will Make Results Known. Thus far the pernocton method is not being generally used, nor has its | successful use at Sloane Hospital been made public. In a forthcoming issue | of the American Jcurnal of Obstetrics and Gynecolcgy, however, Dr, Radford | Brown. resident obstetrician of the h: { pital, will make the,_results of his ex- | periments fellow practi- | tioners g 1 Dr. Brown was out of the city day and officials of the hos clined all comment. It was learned au- thoritativi howe r, that the new first tried out at the hos- two years ago, and that exhaustive experlments were carried on. For the last six months it has been used in the mafo of maternity cases. It s not emploved in all cases, it was explained, for the reason that there is no universal method which is applicable to all mothers. Administration May Be Repeated. Pernocton is administered to ther as soon as the pain becomes rom two and two-tenths tn her vester- 1 de- pital about into her veins and she The effects of the drug last from two to four hours, after which the injection can be repeated, if necessary, with absolute safety, it was said. In some tpspects the sction of per- nocton is like thet of twili | which also caused the pati {into a doze from which with no memory of pain. i sleep, however, was found in & few cases to have the same eflect on the baby 8s on the mother—to leave it drowsy, and occasionally the bables tel Co, and which the companies ex- | plain as a purchase by them of 4330 | .o - ., | Proportion of such cases was not large shares of stock of the American Bond & | 1" ¢ used twilight sleep to be disearded Mortgage Co., but which they deny was | . gpcrar it o 0t Coh 1O i fraudulent and dispute the claim that s i could not be resuscitated. While the the stock was worthless. With respect to the $330,000 claimed to be due from the leasing company to the parent organization for arrears of rent, Justice Gordon points out that the i The Pernocton method has found to be as safe for the child as |for the mother. It was explained that in conducting the experiments obst ricians at Sloane tried to find dange: rather than good points in the method been answer of the companies avers that| $175.000 shoult be credited on that| amount for the purchase of furniture, | and not until they had been convinced of its safety was it put into gen use at the hospital. madge Wilson. The new board, made up of captains. does not include any members of the hoard whose selecttons were rejeeted. fixtures and silverware by the parent company for its lessee and which should be charged to capital investment and not to replacements. Another $30,000, the compenies elaimed, was properly spent in the interests of the bond- holders. The court declares there is no ques- tion of the default in interest and in deposits to the sinking fund and the claim is made of an adverse and an- tagonistic position of Charles C. Moore, the trustee, with the petitioners. “Apart from the fact that the de- fendant, C. C. Moore, as trustee under both the first and second mortgages,” | said Justice Gordon, vould place him in an inconsistent situation and render him inimical to the interests of the bondholders under either trust, the court is of opinion that from the undis- puted facts recited, which it is not nec- essary to rehearse, that his personal and financial interesis are adverse to the interests of the second trust bond- holders and he is not in a position to fully and properly represent them in this matter. The court, therefore, will order his removal as trustee under the second mortgage. /MACDONALD CALLS BALANCE OF POWER DISARMAMENT BAR o (Continued From First Page.) foreign secretary, received the press im- mediately aftcr an informal call on Fresident Von Hindenburg, whom they found in excellent health. They talked with the President mostly about the servies to both countries of | the late Dr. Gustav Stnamer, Ambas- sador to London, but they also discussed the general situation in Germany At the beginning of the interview with the corrcspondents, Mr. MacDonald di couraged any tendency to expect con- crete results in the way of new credits from this visit. but he emphasized the immense importance of the psychologi- cal factor in the German crisis. The function of statesmen, he said. is to effect a general change of atmos- phere, to get the nations into a new psychological relation. With this foun- dation laid, experts in the fields of finance, disarmament and other inter- national issues may build their own permanent structures. Gradual Solution Forecast. Both statesmen and experts co- operate in their efforts to restore financial stability, revive the world's trade and insure the success of next year's disarmament conference, said Mr. MacDonald, but the world must not expect & speedy solution of its difficulties. The statesmen now in Berlin are not miracle men, he said, and what they achieve will be the result of steady, persistent efforts. ‘The prime minister sald the cordial welcome accorded himself and Mr. Henderson when they arrived here yes- terday indicates that the people, as well as their statesmen, are co- operating. A proposal for a five-year “political moratorium™ has not been discussed in the conferences here, he said, adding that he believes any moratorium likely to relieve financial or political tension would be a good thing if the practical difficulties were not insurmountable. Neither he nor Mr. Henderson would talk about the French disarmament memorandum, Mr. MacDonald said he would study it on his vacation and Mr. Henderson said he hoped to dis- cuss it at Geneva next month. ‘They agreed that real progress had been made in improving Franco-Ger- man relations and that in the past few weeks there has been a decided im- provement in those relations. This afternpon the British statesmen toured the lake region near Berlin with the chancellor and Dr. Curtius. Germany attacked the task her financlal crisis with new heart anc new energy ald’s declaral and not suffer her to go under.” The head of the British government made this statement at a dinner in honor of himself and Mr. Henderson. Chancellor Bruening's mouthpiece, the ne evidence ol the President Hoover’s s Zrom reshin British readiness te hel ranis wi Fatheriand paral of solving as a result of Mr. MacDon- tion if she did not give way to despair “other nations will help her Germania, declared the li 1t] "pm .nnln‘ Y Earlier Methods Discarded. For many years medical men | experimented to find ways of 1 |the rigors of child tism being tried. {Jected at one time: a later method was | the giving of little whiffs of chloroform {or ether. Nitrous oxide was next tried to be followed by twilight sleep, and then by the present prevailing method of rectal analgesla with ther. All these had the disadvantage either of being unsafe for mother or child or, If safe, of not really preventing pain Sloane Hospital for Women, at 168th Street near Broadway. is one of the Medical Center institutions. It is affli- ated with the College of Physicians and | | 1 Surgeons of Columbia University. Es- tablished in 1888, it was formerly at Fifty-ninth_street and Ninth avenue, Center it moved uptown. In recent years an average of 1,800 bables a year have been born there, Dr. Benjamin P. Watson is director. SUCCEEDING o?;Azo ___ (Continued From First Pageq year, and will deposit pesos in | tral ‘Bank as a guarantee of ment of interest later. Elections Due in 60 Daysy versity of Chile and & firm advoca freedom for the people, took ovep government from Pedro Opazo after Opazo had been acting President Ibanez, who fled the country sfter & three-day public uprising. Montero and Blanquier won Popular acclaim by their program of econamy, an Ibanez cabinet just before the overe throw of the former President. Thay program will be put into effect again. As Vice President and acting Presi- state for 60 days, and then elections will be held. Montero Asks Nation to Help. “A new civil government has been tain _all ideals of _constitutionality, Jegality and liberty, which are the basis of its organization,” the acting Presi- dent said in a manifesto. hour exceptionally difficult for national economy, and the first of its duties is to reconstruct the country, not only in political order, but also in material “The most pressing need at the pres- ent hour is to return to all national activities within the most absolute nor- mality. of all good Chileans, and very particu- |larly that of precisely those who have imposed on us our most honorable, dif- ficult duties.” A crowd of 100,000 persons masced in the Boulevard Alameda heard this man- ifesto and pledged their co-operation. A wholcsale change in diplomatic was learned that new Ambassadors probably will be sent to Lima, Buenos Aires, Paris and other capitals, with the exception of Washington. but with the erection of the Medical MONTERO, | penston, probably for the a Montero, professor of law at the only a few hours. in succession to Carlos instituted when they were members of dent, Montero will serve as head of the constituted and it is disposed to main- “But this government arrives at an order. “For this we need the co-operation Diplomatic Shake-up Looms. representatives abroad is-expected. It IBANEZ OFF TO BUENOS AIRES. Fleeing Ex-President of Chile Stops Overnight Just Across Border. BUENOS AIRES, July 28 (#).—For- mer President Carlos Ibanez of Chile was on his way to Buenos Aires today from Mendoza, just over the border from Chile, where he stopped last night in his flight from Santiago. When he arrived in Mendoza, he was greeted by local authorities, the Chilean consul, numerous countrymen and news- paper correspondents. Ibanez said he resolved to leave Chile to avold further bloodshed. He will stay in Buenos Aires several days until he decides in which city in Europe he will reside in the future, he explained. wz"}'\;e:lomu" er Pl‘;salden'. appeared in revealed no conversed affably.