Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1931, Page 1

\WEATHER. . (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecart). hundershowers late tonight or continued cooler tomorrow, afternoon or night. ‘Temperatures—Highest, p.m. yesterday; lowest, 74, at 6 a.m. to- Local tomorrot today. Closing N.Y. Markets, Full report ol No. 31,865. warm _tonight; % 94, at 3:30 n page 4. , Pages13,14&15 - Fntered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. NOTHING 1S HEARD OF OCEAN FLYERS SINCE PLANES LEFT COAST YESTERDAY Red Monoplane Observed Over Ireland Today Proves to Be Private Machine. | Close Watch Kent. FAVORABLE WEATHER ‘ ON ATLANTIC REPORTED All Europe Awaiting Word of Pangborn-Herndon , and Board- man-Polando Ships After 30 Hours of Silence, but Neither Craft Yet Regarded in Danger.' . LONDON, July 29 (#.—More than 30 hours after America's two transatlantic planes hdd taken off from New York no authentic news of their prog- ress had been received in Eu- Tope. In Ireland, where a close watch was being kept for them, the press association reported that a red monoplane which flew over Dublin was stated to be a private machine. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 29.—Two pow- erful monoplanes, each carrying two more candidates for trans- atlantic honors, were presumably | flying over the clear and calm| ocean toward Europe today. The two planes, the blue and yellow Cape Cod, piloted by Rus- sell Boardman and John Polando, and the red and orange Bellanca, piloted by Hugh Herndon, jr., and | Clyde Pangborn, were believed to| have been the ones sighted within 40 minutes of each other yester- day high over Southeastern New- foundland. One Heads Out to Sea. The Cape Cod left Floyd Bennett Airport at 5 am., Eastern standard time, and the Herndon-Pangborn craft 18 minutes later. In Newfoundiand one plane was sighted over Cape Race at 3 p.m., East- ern standard time. Another plane was sighted at Ramea at 3:36 and over Bay L'Argent a few minutes later. At 3:30 pm. one plane headed out to sea from Bay Roberts, observers said. Weather reports from Newfoundland indicated the planes would encounter clear weather, a medium wind and a full moon. Following Same Route. Both planes were undistinguishable, ‘because of the speed and great height at which they were flying. It appeared that both were following identical courses, but one was 40 miles behind the other. Although the Cape Cod took off first, it was only a 300-horsepower motor, as compared to the 500-horsepower motor in_the Herndon and Pangborn planc. Boardman and Polando are flying to Jstanbul, Turkey. The other is bound tor Moscow, on the first leg of a globe- girdling flight. GERMANS ON LOOK-OUT. Air Police From Tempelhof Airdrome ‘Watch for Two American Planes. BERLIN, July 29 (4#).—Germany’s air police are keeping a watch on the prog- ress of the two teams of American transatlantic flyers, but up to 2 p.m. today there had been no word frcm them to the Templehof Airdrcme. ‘The marine weather station at Ham- burg said the flyers should have tail winds practically the whole time during ‘which they are in the aIr. ALL EUROPE AWAITS WORD © Watchers Extend From Scandinavia to Spain on Lookout for Two Planes. LONDON, July 29 (#).—No news re- garding the progress of America’s two transatlantic planes had been received in Europe at mid-afternoon, although nearly 30 hours had elapsed since the Moscow and Istanbul-bound ships left| New York yesterday. Close watch was being kept for them by coast guards in Ireland. In fact the entire Atlantic coast from northernmost Scandinavia down to Spain and Portu- gal was virtually one string of sentinel posts with observers straining for indi- cation of the airmen’s approach. The watchers along the coasts, how- ever, were not the only ones in Europe whose keen attention was being given varjous flights. All Europe was to a great extent airminded today. There seemed a general disposition to switch temporarily, at least, from preoccupa- tion with the financial and industrial problems of the hour to interest in the number of major flights now in progress. Of chief interest were the transat- lantic flights of Hugh Herndon, jr. and Clyde Pangborn to Moscow, and of Russell Boardman and John Polando to Turkey. | WHY N |Refuses to Take Yorktown Squabble Seriously an Says Britons Don’t Care a Rap for What Happened 150 Years Ago. (Editor's note: Cornwallis bequet :ng to George Washington 150 year: In view of the that the ban origin is a consensus of British expression.) By Cable to The Star. British Englishi lose. were. L Yorktown 150 years ago marks one ! history of the English speaking race. “It terminated a bitter struggle principles of independence. I believe, fail to understand is that t. loins. “That tremendous thing called (Continued on h WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDN London to interview outstanding British statesmen on Dpressed vigorous opinions on tife commission’s Propos scenes from its pageant, but preferred not to be quoted because of the reports d with the State Department here. “That's enough to make a cat laugh.” “Not a cat in Washington, sir.” “But it's_monstrous! we've got a statue of him in Trafalgar Square, in the very heart of the British Empire.” “But you would have shot h.m, sir, if he had “That's beside the point—Washington didn’t He was a jolly fine general and all that sort of thing. Eh, I say, Old Top, you must be careful how you use my name in this connection, as it light of taking this thing seriously at all.” make me out as giving a serious answer to your question?” “No, sir. ing asked such a question.” great American general, George Wash.ngton, at Have you got that? gard with so much justifiable pride were by coionists who sprang from our own sun never sets—and whose people number more than two hundred million— d international aspects of the problem that ed to the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission by surrender- , The Star asked its correspondent at biect. . The latter ex- to eliminate the surrender However, the following LONDON, July 28 —Interview with composite British statesman: “Good morning, sir. Mr. Britisher, the Yorktown mission at Washington is planning to hold a big celebration at Yorktown, Va., next October, on the anniversary of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to George Washington. ' There was to have been a pageant with a scene depicting the ac- tual surrender, but this may b2 eliminated because some Americ: uicentennial Com- s thought the scene might offend visito! Washington was an man! We English are proud of him. Why, ; You see, I can't afford to be shown in the understand, sir. I'm handling it lightly.” ightly? Are you sure of that? You won't Great Moment in History. Tl just say you were amazed at be- | ight There was a momentary medita- ‘Well, the surrender of Cornwallis to the of the greatest moments in the common between Englishman and Englishman over What Americans sometimes, he magnificent achievements which we re- thé English speaking world—on which the | Page 2, Column 5.) LINDBERGHS START | | NEV HOPTOMAINE |Radio Set Fixed and Tested After Curious Person Re- moves Its Fuses. By the Associated Press. NORTH BEACH AIRPORT, N. Y., July 29.—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh took off at 12:50 pm.| | | | (Eastern standard time) today for | | North Haven. Me., en route to Tokio. | Col. Lindbergh spent most of the | morning making certain that his ship's | radio equipment was in perfect condi- |tion. After three missing fuses had | been replaced and final adjustments | made, the colonel and a radio engineer | circled over the airport to test the 'lnslmmenu. | “Talks” With Porto Rico. | They communicated with the Pan- | American Airways radio stations at San | Juan, Porto Rico and Miami. Satisfled, | Col. Lindbergh landed. He and his wife ate a sandwich for lunch and then left | for North Haven. | Before proceeding, directly after the | take-off from the East River, the colonel | circled over the river to give Mrs. Lind- bergh an opportunity to see if the radio | | instruments would operate as well for | her as they did for the engineer. | ""When she found that cll the difficul- | | ties she had with the equipment during their trip to Washington had been | eliminated, Col. Lindbergn turned the nose of his ship toward Maine and gave it the “gun.” Due in Maine Betore Dark. A favorable tail wind indicated that | the flying colone} and his icminine | radio operator probably will be able to | | make sufficient speed to arrive at North | Haven before dark. | After spending the night at the Mor- | row estate, the Lindberghs are expected | to hop off some time tomorrow for Ot- tawa, Ontario, on the £rst leg of their |aerial vacation trip to Toklo. Fuses of Radio Gone. Some nli-ne‘s C;‘Il'lollld,‘ Was ppl;rea.p?mn:}; for silencing the radio a us the plane Monday before the test flight to Washington, it was revealed today. Radio engineers, checking over the instruments, discovered that three fuses had been yanked out and a dynamo switch turned on while the Lindbergh plane was resting in the East River just before the flight to Washington. They deduced some one loitering around the ship had decided to tune in on its radio, and when he had turned on the sending dynamo instead of the recelving switch he became alarmed at %h: noise and proceeded to remove the uses. JAPAN PLANS RECEPTION. Emperor May Greet Lindberghs in Au- dience Upon Arrival. TOKIO, July 29 (#)—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh probably will be received by Emperor and Empress Hiro- hito when the American flyers arrive in Japan, authorities close to the im- perial household said today. Emperor_Hirohito is taking great in- ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) CHICAGO GROUP FINDS COLUMBUS ANCHORS WORTH $1,000,000 EACH Haiti Declines to Sell Third Relic for Million, Thereby Setting Their Price. CHICAGO, July 20 (#).—The Chi- cago Historical Society knew the two huge, ill-shaped masses of iron had anchored Christopher Columbus® shlp‘a more than 400 years ago, but it didn't know they might be worth $2,000,000. The anchors, exhibited free of charge, bore that stupendous value today as a result of the refusal of the government of Haiti to ;co:pt&l,oflo,po& EI‘?r l:oc-n:g used by the ex) " '.l:,:ho;rench Colonial Exposition in P aris. First knowledge of the larger anchor was obtained from a letter written by a “Dr. Henneker.,” t¢ Washington Irving in 1832 and published as a note in Irv- ing's biography of Columbus. It was found on an old inland Santo Domingo plantation by Dr. Alejandro Llenas of Fuerto Plata, Santo Domingo, who pre- sented it to the society following its exhibition at the World's Fair ‘here in 1803. Haytien, studied the voyages of Colum- bus with a view to identifying the land falls, landings and first settlements of the discoverer. Columbus’ inventory of articles left at a fortress included *‘ anchor of the caraval.” Evidence thal d belonged to the flagship Santa Maris 1492, was considered conclusive in view of its fifteenth century shape the evi- dence of Columbus itself and the local- | ity where it was found. s 4 which was wrecked off Haiti in | rock WORD FROM GRAF IN ARCTIC LACKING Zeppelin Is Silent After Maligin Rendezvous at Hooker Island. HAMBURG, July 20 (#).—The Hamburg-American Line today re- ceived a report. from one of its steamers that the Graf Zeppelin was over Nova Zembla this morning. The line did not state what steamer had picked up the Nova Zembla message. The radio from the Graf, the steamship company reported, said the dirigible was returning to Leningrad. She expects to reach Leningrad tomorrow. By the Associated Press. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, July 29.—European radio stations listened in vain today for signals from the Graf Zeppelin on her Arctic cruise, but even the Russian ice breaker Maligin, with which the dirigible had a rendezvous off Hooker Island, Franz Josef Land, Monday night, has had no direct word | since the big ship took to the air again, The Hamburg-American liner Reso- lute, 410 miles south cf Svalbaard, re- | ported picking up weak signals a little | before midnight yesterday, but could | not maintain the contact. No Alarm Felt. Officials of the Zeppelin Works here are not alarmed at Dr. Hugo Eckener's | silence, for on her world cruise the Graf's radio was still for long periods | and this time it is likely that all hands | are busy recording scientific data. It | also is possible that she has moved into | one of the “zones of silence’ common | to_Arctic regions. These zones have silenced the radios of previous expeditions and it is hoped that the cruise of the Graf may aid in clearing up this mystery of the North. 1f the dirigible is following the route originally mapped out it probably has reached Nicholas II Land, renamed Northern Land after the Russian revo- lution, and doubtless has flown over Wiese Island and Kamenev Island. Will Visit England. It was announced today that the Graf’s cruise to England, originally scheduled for July 16 and canceled because of the economic crisis, will take place on August 18. She will land at London, take on passengers for a 24-hour excursion flight around England and come back here on the morning of August 20. GRAF DELIVERS MAIL. Hundred Pounds of Letters Lowered to Maligin at Rendezvous, BY ARTHUR KOESTLER. Special Dispatch to The Star. ABOARD THE GRAF ZEPPELIN, July 29 (N.AN.A)—After being de- layed by contrary winds, fog and cold, we made a safe landing alongside the Russian icebreaker, the Maligin, in what jsortment of shoigun and revolver slugs. | sassination was in any way connected | jing his homemade lemonade. ! dozen girls were playing tag. is called Pacific Bay, off Hooker Island, late Monday night. Befors sighting the icebreaker, there was a lively exchange of radio messages between . Nobile, on the Maligin, and yProf. Rodolphe Samoilovitsch and (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) RESCUERS SEEK MINER UNDER 200 TONS OF ROCK |m Tapping on Steam Pipe Indicates Man Still' Alive at Susque- hanna Collieries. By the Associated Press. MINERSVILLE, Pa., July 29.—Rescue workers tcday continued their efforts to reach Stanley Kirinski, 45 years old, entombed Monday night by a fall in the Lytle Colliery of the Susquehanna Col- lieries Co. here. The rescue party worked throughout | under the the night.” n’f estimate 200 tons of and coal lay between them and the trapped miner, who communicated with rescuers last night by tapping on - brbm pipe running through the ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION CHILDREN, KILLING ONE. WOUNDING 5 Detective Squads Comb Har- lem for Auto Party as In- tended Victim Escapes. 5-YEAR-OLD IS DEAD, MATES IN HOSPITAL Three-Cornered Beer War Schultz, Coll and Rao Blamed, but Later Doubted. of By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, July 29.—The shooting of five innocent children in a Harlem feud late yesterday turned into lI murder hunt today as 5-year-old Mi- | chael Vengali, one of the victims, died in a hospital. Police Commissioner Mulrooney, noti- fled of the child's death at 3 a.m. today, sent a dozen detective squads into ac- tion, with orders to bring in every beer racketeer in the city for questioning. Four other children are still undergo- ing hospital _treatment for bullet wounds. One more may die. The vic-! tims, ranging in ages from 3 to 14| years, were piaying on the heat-blis- tered sidewalks of East 107th street when an unidentified touring car rolled to the curb and sprayed the Helmar Social Club, & pool room, with an as- Intended Victim Escapes. ‘The intended victim of the gunmen, described by poiice as a beer racketeer | who had “muscled” in on new territory, | escaped. He sprawled on the sidewaik at the first biast of gunfire and re- mained there while windows tinkled to the street and women and children screamed and scurried for safety. “Big" Teed, described as a book- maker, was hunted by police today as the man marked for assassination. He recently attempted to “muscle in” on other bookmakers, police said. As the automobile departed, five chil- | dren were lying on the sidewalk, hurt ! and bleeding. The first two policemen | reaching the scene were unable to reach the injured, as the thousands of resi- dents ‘cluttered the streets, screaming and cursing. The wounded dead boy's brothe 3: Samuel Devino, 5, D'Amello, 14. Police attributed the shooting to the | three-cornered beer war of Dutch | Schultz, Vincent Coll and Joe Rao, the | more prominent of New York's beer| men. Rao, volicy say, is an associate of “Legs” Diamond. 'Police later ex- pressed doubt that the attempted as- tore, 7, the | Bevilaqua, | and -Florence | re: Salva Mic} with the beer war, but offered no other | explanation, and arrest of Coll was | ordered. . Car Seen in Neighborhood. ] Rao's car, poiice said. had been seen | in the neighborhood where the shooting took place. Cemmissioner Mulrooney, in ordering the technical arrests of all beer run-| ners made it cleer that Rao and| Coll should be brought in for spe- | cial questioning. Police were check- | ing with State troopers the possibility that city beer barons had repulsed the invasion of up-State men who had tried selling their wares in this vicinity. Police had expected a beer invasion | since the closing of the huge Phoenix Br_edw:l'y by PFederal agents in a recent raid. \ Dozens of scantilly clad youngsters had been on the sidewalk in East 107th street seeking relief from the heat. A baby lay crying in its carriage. A small boy stoed behind a wooden box];ml?'k- alf a A well dressed man apparently was waiting for some one. No one noticed him, and neither was any attention paid to the open tourist car which was coming slowing up the street. Suddenly the boy at the lemonade stand screamed and ducked under the box. He had seen the muzzles of five or six machine guns, revolvers and shot- guns poked from the car. There was & roar, and a volley of lead splattered against the wall of one of the tene- ments. ‘Then another and another. Slugs ripped through the box under which l.ge boy hid. Others ploughed through the baby carriage. Still others struck children on the sidewalk. Parents in second, third and fourth story windows screamed and ducked. Chiidren unscathed in the first volleys fled, wailing, for shelter. Others stood mute with horror. An order was barked from the back seat of the touring car and the driver sent it roaring away. POLICE TAKE SEVEN IN COUNTERFEIT PLOT $13,920 in Spurious Bills Is Con- fiscated—Printing Apparatus . Seized. By the Associated Prlu B ST. LOUIS, July 29.—Police - day duclovaed a counterfeit plot with the arrest of six men and a woman and confiscation of $13,920 in spurious bills and apparatus used in printing bogus money. Thgy ascribed discovery of the plot to the keen observation and suspicion of Jesse Lotridge, 24-year-old confection= ery proprietress, who Sunday brought about the arrest of William Cronin, 47 years old, of St. Louis, as he attempted to pass a counterfeit $10 bill. Federal authorities and police, after quizzing Cronin yesterday, searched a house here today and found the $13,920 in counterfeit $10 Federal Reserve bills, a printing press, photostatic coples of Federal Reserve bills, a pen-and- drawing of a $5 bill and other cquip- nszor counterfeiting. The officers sald they obtained confessions from some of those arrested that they passed bogus money, and Joseph Donovan, 31 years old, one of . thn:eh:mxudo.m‘d- mitted, police said, pald ers. $2.50 for passing the bills. “The six men taken, all of St. Louts, are: Cronin, Donovan, Carmen Durso, 22 years old; Harry Elliott, 42 years old; Robert Klepper, 33 years old, and Alois Schendzielorz, 65 years old, and his wife, Anna, 65 years old, proprietors of a bakery, quarters, said they found the rious and apparatus hidden SpUrious % and in the attic rafters. she and her to do with the Radio I’ngn-; on ;u: B9 | well. ink | the case with Faithfull Priday in New SURRENDER SCENE IN 1932? | DER SCENE IN 1932 [GANGHEN RDDLE ¢ Foening Star. WSDAY, JULY 29, 1931—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. ##%% “From Press The Star’s every city block UP) Means Associated 2 POLICEMEN HELD ON GRAFT CHARGE Accused of Taking Marked; | “Protection” Money From | Fourth Precinct Man. Trapped through the use of marked | money, two fourth precinct policemsn | are under arrest today for alleged ex- tortion. They have been suspended and | face mot only trial by a police trial | board, but on charges of extortion as | | The two policemen, F. J. Hospidor | and E. W. Gore, were arrested last | night by Lieut. O. J. Letterman, Sergt R. C. Speith and Sergt. E. W. Reed, night inspectors, after a trap had been Jald for them. They were immediatel suspended by Maj. Henry G. Pratt chief of police, who ordered them be- fore the trial board. They were re- leased under cash bonds of $1,500 each. Court Hearing Tomorrow. ‘The criminal case against the ac- cused policemen will get under way. probably tomorrow, when they are be given a hearing in Police Court. | Lieut. Letterman reported he went to 720 First street southwest last night and arranged wita Frank Adams to be in hiding nearby when Adams paid Hospidor and Gore £10 for “protection™ from arrest on liquor charges. Letter- man added Hospidor and Gore drove up in the former's private automobil The night inspector said Adams in- vited the men inside. but they refused 1o leave their car, telling him they were afraid they would be seen. The men | | drove around the block, and when they returned, Letterman disfosed, Adams | handed Gore two $5 bills. | Speith then jumped on the right running board of Hospidor's machine. | Hospidor started to drive paying | no attention to several warnings to | halt. Speith drew his revolver and forced the driver to stop. | Money Thrown Away. Meanwhile, Letterman said, Gore | had thrown away the money handed him by Adams. Letterman said the | marked bills were found and held as evidence. ! Letterman said while he was search- ing for the missing bills Speith heard | Hospidor tell Gore, “If they don't find | the marked money, they won't have | anything on us, will they?"” Letterman reported Hospidor ex- plained his anxiousness to avoid stop- ping because he thought he would be taken before the Trial Board for riding | in his personal machine, when supposed | to be on foot patrol duty. | Inspector O. T. Davis of the third district forwarded Letterman's report to Maj. Pratt, explaining Letterman had been assigned to the case as a result of rumors that Hospidor and Gore had been engaging in extortion activities. FAITHFULL DROWNING INQUIRY TO REOPEN Grand Jury Will Call Handwrit- ing Expert in “Suicide Let- ters” Probe. By the Associated Press. MINEOLA, Long Island, July 29.— ‘The Nassau County grand jury will re- open its inquiry into the death of Starr | Faithfull, District Attorney Edwards an- nounced today. J. V. Waring, handwriting expert, employed by the dead girl's stepfather to examine the so-called icide let- | ters” found after the girl’s body was discovered in the water at Long Beas last month, will be called to testify.| Edwards has maintained the letters| were genuine. The young woman's stepfather declares the letters are for- ries. "\(nn'hfie Gov. Roosevelt's legal ad- viser, Samuel I. Roseman, will discuss York. In a letter to the Governor, Faithfull asked for an opportunity to talk with the Governor in the event that the Nassau County authorities failed to as- sure him that they had not closed their investigation of the girl's death. Buys Stamps With Eggs. ANITA, Iowa, July 29 (#).—A woman walked into the post office yesterday without money, but she did have a dozen eggs. So she asked the postmas. ter to swap them for 15 cents’ worth o stamps. He did. Would Rent Houses for $1. l Ex-Premier STOCKS DEPRESSED ON STEEL RATE CUT Leading Issues Sell Off $1 to $10, but Trading Volume Is Light. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 20.—The stock market was depressed $1 to nearly $10 | operation was satisfactory.” the major | get very far with Maryland's Democratic ence in Gov. Albert. C. Ritchie. ! reduction of its annual dividend rate | | | DAVID LLOYD GEORGE. LLOYD GEORGE HAS SERIOUS OPERATION Ex-Premier Surrounded hy1 Members of Family as Doc- tors Announce Success. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 29.—David Lloyd George, leader of the Liberal party and former prime minister, was operated on | today for a kidney ailment. It was understood the operation, | which was performed in his London home, was successful. All members of the family arrived at the house overnight, and during the| operation they sat in a room adjoining the bedroom in which the surgeon| worked. The doctors present included Lord Dawson of Penn, physician-in-ordinary to the King; Dr. Swift Joly, a Harley street surgeon, who is an expert on haematuria, the ailment with which Lloyd George was afflicted: Dr. Howard Humphries and Maj. Sir Thomas Carey- Evans, son-in-law of Lloyd George. There were three nurses. The former prime minister's son. Maj. Lloyd George, said the patient had a good night. “His condition before the explained, “and. in the circumstances, he was quite cheery.” The operation is generally regarded in medical circies as being serious. Early this afternoon he was reported to be “going on satisfactorily”safter the MARYLAND REFUSES TO AID ROOSEVELT Democratic Head Shuns Drive for New York Governor An- swering Request. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 29.—Gov. Franklinn D. Roosevelt's Democratic presidential nomination aspirations don't officials. They have their own prefer- J. Enos Ray, chairman of the Mary- land Democratic State Central Commit- tee, received a letter from F. B. Sum- mers, executive chairman of the Roose- velt ‘Southern Clubs of Atlanta, Ga., asking for names of the various county chairmen and a statement from himself Roosevelt. mers_that your purpose in for this list is to find out whether any of our county chairmen are for Gov. Roosevelt for President. then there is no need for me to send it to you. I can give you the information myself. All are for Gov. Ritchie for President. “You further ask me to give you & statement in favor of Gov. Roosevelt. I am for Gov. Ritchie for President. “In fact, I do not believe there is any fleld of operations for the Roosevell Southern Clubs in Maryland. We are all for Gov. Ritchie in this State.” guishaint s b ety Plan Probe of Incomes. |a share in the principal issues today by the news of United States Steel's to $4 from $7. ‘Trading was in comparatively light volume, after a little selling flurry in the first few minutes, but the market | | continued to work slowly lower after | an opening drop. United States Steel, which opened at $87.25, off $5.12, extended its loss to $7, but held more than $2 above the year's low, recorded early in June. Bethlehem Steel tumbled $4 a share 1o & new low since 1926, under 38. Both United States Steel's dividend .acton and its quarterly earnings’ state- ment were somewhat more adverse than Wall Street had been inclined to expect. Bethlehem Steel directors, holding their quarterly meeting tomorrow, are ex- pected to make further downward ad- Justment of its current $4 annual divi- dend rate, Auburn Auto lost nearly $10. Most losses in principal trading favorites, | however, were limited to $1 or $2. Allied Chemical, American Telephone, Atchison, American Can and Case lost 4 to 5. New York Central declined about 3 and there were losses of 2 to 3 in Union Pacific, National Biseuit, Consolidated Ges, North American, Public Service of New Jersey and du_Pont. Call money renewed at 1! per cent. ‘The stock market had been prepared for a cut in the steel dividend, although expectations generally were that the rate would be revised to a $5, instead of a $4, annual basis. The lower figure was taken as an indication that the steel management, which includes some of the country’s most prominent bankers and business men, believed the im- mediate prospects for the industry were none too bright. Nothing was learned from the direc- tors as to their attitude toward wage cuts, but it was assumed the corpora- tion’s policy of retrenchment, em- phasized not only by the dividend slash, but in the pay cuts applied to all officers and salaried employes, did not immediately include a lower wage scale for the mill workers. Rumors in Wall Street, prior to the meeting, had it that a dividend reduction would be the pre- liminary move toward a wage cut. In this connection it was pointed out that the steel industry is expecting a seasonal upturn late in the Summer, probably in September, and that the directors might have decided to await developments before reaching a definite decision. JOHN M’CORMICK’S WIFE TO SEEK RENO DIVORCE By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 29- Gattis-McCormick said last night she will leave today for Reno, Nev., to seek a divorce from John McCormick, former motion picture producer, the principal reason being, she explained, t Mc- Cormick weeps whenever he sees a pho- tograph of his first wife, Colleen of the films. cCormick and Mrs. Gattis who formerly lived in Washingt-n, D. C., were married at Honolulu recently, when the McCormick-Moore divorce final. Shortly after McCormick's return here, following the break with his bride, | Passed he declared he still loved Miss Mocre. Mrs. Gattis-McCormick sald would charge mental cruelty. mick announced yesterday a property settlement had been effected. to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 108,228 TWO CENTS. RAILWAY OFFICIALS CUT OWN SALARIES; WAGES MAINTAINED Southern Road Officers From President Down Accept Slice Voluntarily. Press. HOOVER INVITES PAYNE TO RELIEF CONFERENCE Railway Labor Union Heads De- “ plore Pay Fight Injection Into Rate Increase. Official Washington withheld ecom- ment today on the Government's cam- Paign to maintain wage scales through- out the country, resting on its state- ment of yesterday that there had been no change in policy. No statement was forthcoming from any source as to effects anticipated from the action of the United States Steel Corporation yesterday in cutting common stock dividends and at the same time recommending an “adjust- ment” in salaries. Payne and Hoover Confer. The day’s developments in Washing- ton were confined to a conference at the White House between the President and John Barton Payne of the Amer- ican Red Cross, over unemployment problems next Winter: an announce- ment from the Southern Railway that its officers had agreed to reduce their salaries, but that wage earners would not be affected. and the closing ses- sion of the heads of the rallway labor unions who, late yesterday, went on record against any wage cut and deprecated the injunction of the rail wage issue into the freight rate hear- ing before the Interstate Commerce Commission. The action of the Southern officials in taking a voluntary reduction in salary in an effort to afford as much relief as possible to the system, which in common with others throughout the country is faced with steadily declining | revenue, was made known at the gen- | eral offices of the Southern. It was described as the officers’ con- | tribution to the general economies which | the Southern is seeking to effect in | view of the present situation. ‘Wage Cuts Not Planned. In ccnnection with this move the management of the Southern author- ized the following statement: 4 “This company does not contemplate any movement for the reduction of wage scales covered by contracts with organized labor at this time. The press story to that effect doubtless had its origin in & recent voluntary reduction of salaries by officers of which no pub- licity was intended.” In voluntarily taking the salary re- duction, the Southern officers were said to be following out a line of economy |that has included furloughing and dismissal of workers, reduction in the dividend on common stock of the road, and recently, an agreement with the shop crafts for the inauguration of the five-day work week. This last-named plan was adopted in lieu of further personnel cuts. Officials Accept Burden. Officials, it was understood. felt that it was up to them to take their share of the burden. ‘The number of officials who would be involved and the saving that would be effected was not made known. The reference to a general cut had to, do with a story published this morning. The fact the road contemplated no movement for curting the pay of crgan- ized labor, it was understood. would act s a barrier to reductions of any class. There will be a few dismissals necessi- 3"'::1\‘"’ some t!nn;nix;?nh. it 1s understood, a reorganization of som - portation offices. S At the White House it was under- stood that the President was turning | his attention to the unemployment sit- uation which, according to his advices, gives no indication of immediate im- provement, the idea being to bring about a better co-operation of all the varfous agencies throughout the coun- try engaged in extending relief and charity to cope with the situatién dur- Xn{n u;fn m:mdn‘ ‘;Amer. study of the unemployment problem the President has fill‘:lfllyl"nlle: & series of conferences, the first being yesterday with F. C. Croxton, acting chairman of the President's Unemploy- ment Commission, and the one today with Chairman Payne of the Red Cross. Situation Not Alarming. Mr. Payne, who had been summon, to the White Hous: for this dlscmlofi said afterward’ that while the situae tion is serious, he would not consider it as alarming Hy | | | MELLON OPTIMISTIC Secretary Says “Everything Will Work Out All Right.” SAINT JEAN, Cape Ferrat, France, July 29 (#).—Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, back home again for the vacation interrupted by negotia- tions concerning Germany's economic plight, believas things are looking better. “I think everything will work out all right,” he said this morning when he through the town on the way to his villa, “but, of course, I can’t talk bout these affairs. I'm going to have a real two-week vacation now. A expect to go back to Paris and I hope to be home by September, 1.” GEORGE COHAN GIVES PRESIDENT COPY OF HIS BICENTENNIAL SONG “Father of the Land We Love” Is Title of Work to Be Sung in Connection With 1932 Celebration. President Hoover today received from George M. Cohan, famous song writer, t | Producer and actor, the first copy of a or the Commission. The title of it is “Father Land We Love.” WAL e accorded Mr. Cohan’s “Over There” in 1917, shortly after the United States entered the World War. He said it had been copyrighted, but: that no copies would be sold. The commission attend to its in sche clubs and or- 'b.; Wu:‘nhun Sol m'.’ the Bicen- It,lyduu. civil and newspaper men be information as to the source of their personal wealth. e servants to furnish