Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1931, Page 1

The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 106,553 TWO CENTS. enin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, 'VVEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1931—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. s## GERMANY'S BUDGET IS“CUT T BONE" Y Cluing .Y, Matkets, Pages13,14&15 . A ND- 31,872. Entered as second class®matt UP) Means Associated Press. er Ppost e, Washington, D. C. e I GERMAN FAITH AIDS BANKS, AKLAVKATISMILES .\ et Scicomot and Poin LINKED N SLAYING ‘FROM BAKER LAKE : Increasing Next Hop to Be Either to; BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. BERLIN, Germany, August 5.—To- Point Barrow ‘or Fuel Ship at Sea. day the people of Germany gave s A & lesson to the Omn:& ;;‘mf. DENSE FOG HOLDS BOAT mun simply by remaining - away " 24 MILES OFF iCY CAPE the reopened banks. They at least have confidgnce in Germiany’s future as an economic unit. They at least consider that nothing is Jost while courage remains. ‘Their vast powers of passive resistance that amazed the world during the war came to the lare.1 Let this fact be hammered in every- where: Under the greatest possible temptation at a time when the imme- diate economic fate of their country upon thelr conduct, this people ‘manifest ly amazing self-control and thereby have the way for Fight Northward ‘fhde Through Bright Arctic Night in HV.‘ Hours. B the Assoclated Press. AKLAVIK, Northwest Territories, Canada, August 5.—Col. and Mis. Charles A. Lindbergh hnled here at Way to Real Recuperation by Deposits. 1o the banks today and demanded their deposits -nothing but a speedy reclos- mamunnme;uwr-b;- ted &mwwmmzmuun evaporaf ted. Came to Increase Deposits. ‘weeks and bankers pelled open. All necessary meas- were taken by innumerable emer- deprees. It was decided that sav- banks would stay shut and the lerge commercial banks bear the brunt of what might be a concentrated at- tack by depositors. Today at 9 a.m. the fate of Ge was literally uncertain. By )y was again fairly solid. DECARES DETRCH Eve;y Criticism of Extrava- gance Made by S. Parker Gflborg Met, He Says. 1931 TOTAL $385,500,000 -LESS THAN LAST YEAR Salaries and. Wages of Federal Officials and Employes Down to Levels of 1928. TMAan 16 o'clock | By the Associated P , August 5.—Vice Chancellor German, Not only Germans did not line up | Hermann Dietrich, who also is finance before the banks he_banks to_demand money; ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 4. 3:08 am., Pacific Coast stindard time 46:05 a.m. Hastern standard time), today, completing a 1,115-mile m‘l CHAMBERSILTS SLUMP CUREVIEWS Business Leaders Queried on Feasibility of National Economic Council. B7 the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK,-August 5—The Cham- ber of Commerce of the United States s canvassing the nation's business leaders for their opinions on the feasi- i stk : Tt | Bk 1 il CANTON INSURGENTS OPEN 3 YM Troop Advances Reported as Hsushungehi Is Offered Post of Generalissimo. ._g d By the Assoclated Press. HONGKONG, August 5.—Wang Ching-Wel, leader of the radical fac- tion of the Kuomintang, or “people’s party,” sald today the Canton in- surgent government was launching an attack against the Nationalist govern- ment after & delay in deference to the IN MISSISSIPPI RACE Conner 5,000 Votes Behind in Three-Cornered Fight for Wang sald the Canton government had withheld its offensive because it Demo- | giq not wish to embarrass Chiang Kai- eratic primary election, Hugh L. White, . mayor of Columbia, held a lead M‘lbtk. President of the Nationalist gov. more then 5000 over Mike Conner | ernment, i nthe campaign, now reported | former Speaker of the Mississippl to have ended. House of Representatives, for the DOM- | go announced that troops already | e late Teruims found the other two Were moving and the finance minister candidates, George T. Mitchell and Paul Johnson, bunched closely far in 000, ly. | the rear, mors than 15,000 ballots be- | were reported hind the leaders. !advancivg into Kiangsi and Hunan On a total vote of 138,278, including | provinces simuif , but it was| yeturns some complete and some in- | understood the chief complete from every county in the|tary State except Lal the standings were: | where the Nanking forces white, 46,880; Conner, 42,657, Mitchell, | weak despite h\nflldhglmmenu._ 325,384; Johnson, 24,357, Regarded presumal As & COMpro~ Ar the race for|mise cholce, Hsushungchl, who has no vailable returns in Jieutenant governor gives Dennis Mur- | troops, was offered the post of general- , former Governor, s lead of 10,- | issmo. ‘The Reds were active in Hainan and tanding Murphree, 51,037; | Walchow and also at Lukfung, where | they committed brutal purders. over the incumbent, Bidwell Adam, | METEOR SHOWER TO BE SEEN the IN SKY NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT 5 Betwpen 30 and 100 Shooting Stars an Houe Expected| to Be Visible in Heavens. L4 % Fax REVOLT ATTACK | anti-Communist campaign of Chiang | oy Kai-Shek. OKLAHOMA TRODPS CLOSIAG 0L WELL Murray Orders Guardsmen to Enforce Shutdown—7,500 May Lose Jobs. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, August 5.—Gov. Willlam H. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray has budget mads by 8. Parker Gilbert while he was agent general for reparations payments has been met in the budget for 19381, “"We have cut the budget to the bone, said Dr. Dietrich, “we have gone through every departmvint with.the pruning knife, and now we can’ say that the 1031 budget really is one of drastic economy. “The 1930 budget, put into effect by decree, for-.expen- EETAS b ($3,019,750,000), that for 1931, as passed the . Reic! and pruned . Bom vernment, _cal for 1,542,000,000 rks. X less, or a total of E marks - ($2,634,250,000). Does Not Include Holiday. “This does not yet include savings made possible the Hoover' holiday, and it all lho'l"M' wemlly'wc hat carrifed ocut a threat to shut down |gone about cutting expenses to the bone. Oklahoma ofl wells under martial law in an effort to increase prices for crude oil. He named the “supreme executive | the level of 1926, but further power of the State” as his authority. National Guardsmen, called out late i 1f sidie ¢ g z : i : i ] an 1 o H it t il afis i £+ i | g 7 i » i ] i H ik ol i §_§ i gk g%g H g 800 Wells Shut at Capital. At Oklahoma City the shutdown of nearly 800 wells was completed less than four hours after the troops meved sers fur- were ex- Sinclair Ofl employes, against which wmg:ny the Governor aimed fiery re. marks in his executive order, asked for written orders to close, it withdre . was not planning bitrate. . Gov. Murray had accused the Sin- clair Oil & Gas Co. and “their asso- clates” of “Judicial juggling through in- Junction.” He asserted their combined operations caused low prices for crude to increase their profits while ruining smaller in- | been planned. A connecting bolt at J:sem-nz @rms without such complete | the switch had been pulled, he said. ustrial facilities. Lists Reasons for Order. Going deeply into Oklahoma law, the Chief Executive used nearly 3,000 words in drafting his order. The principal points argued as reasons for down were: 1. Protection of school children of the O:fi'mly y said today he would un; hesitatingly arrest one “who might interfere with the “’;w law o ew quietly when they saw | Were killed in a wre¢k of the train at to ar- | Smelter switch, near here, early today. shut- | and fireman apparently were killed in- “Expenditures for salaries and of Federal officials and em; 3 brought b , have been xample, have are undesirable not only becsuse they would mean too great a reduction in the purchasing power of vast H{E i Tampered Switch Blamed in Ar- kansas—Tracks Buckle at Yuma. By the Associated Press. VAN BUREN, Ark, August 5.—The engineer and fireman of Prisco pas- senger train, number 703, southbound, The dead are: Lee Keithley, engineer, of Monette, Mo, and Willlam Weeks, fireman, Fort Smith, Ark. Glen Presson, Frisco trainmaster here, said apparently the wreck had An investigation was started immedi- ately. The engine left the tracks, turned, over and struck a shed. The engineer wheat sel TWO DIE IN DERAILMENT. Trainmen Killed and 17 Passengers Hurt on Southern Pacific. BEAR CONSPIRACY IS LAID T0 BANKERS Representative Beedy Says Combination Forcing Mar- ket for Profits. By the Associated Press. CRYSTAL LAKE, Me., Pl to depress stock quotations in late August or September.” DOWNSWING IN WHEAT HITS NEW LOW MARK September Delivery Closes at 48 1.2 to 48 5-8 on Chicago Board of Trade. By the Associated Press. > CHICAGO. August 5.—The found no encouragement in lunge into price ranges unparalleled L the history of organized trading. Following a corresponding loss in Liverpool prices, Chicago wheat futures as much as 1; cents and closed from 53 to 11, cents below yesterday's final . Although its loss was not so great as that of the other futures, ber set & new all time record, | touching 48%; before rallying to close at 4817 to 48%. ‘The cash market again set a new minimum FRANCIS D. LLEWELLYN OF CAPITAL DROWNS Victim of Mishap While Fishing at ‘Willisville, Ontario. By the Associated Press. a —————— CHAPLIN T o REST i is 1 i i ce with No. 2 yellow hard | as low as 45 cents a| { | moned her brother. | trousers Hoover’s “Favorite Gumdrops” Turn Out to Be Cigars DROWNED HUSBAND IS FOUND-BY WIFE Believe Vietim Struck Head on Diving Board and Fellt in River. The body of Lawrence J. Potter, 38, of 3725 Van Ness street, Washington, was found this morning in the Potomac River, near Sycamore Island, by his wife, Mrs. Einily Potter; a brother- in-law, D. L. Thompson, and J. J. Jes- ter, who had become worried when he did not return and started in search for ‘him. According to the theory advanced by his wife to Montgomery County police, Potter fell while attempting to turn the water out of his cance and hit his Mrs. left their Summer cottage at Sycamore Island about 2 a.m.’to go canoeing and that when he did not return she sum- Finding Potter's on the bank, they began g:"m. the river and later found his ly. Dr. Pratt, health officer for Mont- gomery County, is to view the body, which has been taken to a Rockville undertaking establishment, and decide whether or not an inquest is necessary. Potter was an empl of the price ‘Water House Co., offices in the National Press Bullding. He is sur- vived also by a son, 11 years old. DO-X FLYING NORTH FOR UNITED STATES | Giant Seaplane Left Rio de Janeiro | tn, Early Today Carrying 10 Passengers. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazll, August 5 (#).—The seaplane DO-X, on the way to New York with 10 passengers, landed at Caravellas at 11:30 am. (9:30 am. E. 8. T.) today. The next scheduled stop is Bahia, where she ‘will remain overnight. By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazl, August 5. —The seaplane DO-X, resuming its long-delayed flight to New York, pasfed over Victoria in the state of Esperito Santo shortly ‘before 10 am. having flown about 100 miles an hour aince leaving here at 6:36 a.m. She was in command of Lieut. Clar- ence H. Schildhauer, U. 5. N, and car- " | ried 10 passengers, 4 for New York, 1 BANDIT SLAYSGRL SHODT ? OTHERS Posse Hunts Colored Mal Who Fired on Young i R Despite her wound she was able make her way to the nearest about three miles distant alarm. A search for the but he said ‘Never mind, not now, ord:red me to drive into a into the woods. . LIGHTNING KILLS EIGHT Bolt Strikes Tent During Maneu- vers of French Cadets. A , one of them fail- ing to revive. The tent was burned. /0F D. C. POLICEMAN Unnamed Patroiman Report- ed to Have Beaten Sol- - diers’ Home Inmates. WARNED TO PATRONIZE ONLY ONE RUM SELLER werg used by a twelfth precinet police- man to force inmates of the Soldiers’ Home to buy liquor from a bootlegger recommended by him were being i £ ! i ¢ i i g& iy E g 2 H i £t i 5 i f { | i i i _i E : ! b f i £ E éfigifi i | ] il gi 55 135“ : .Ei il Prchytl i mn immediately, but the identity of the policeman ‘was not learned. Poole’s mur- der, however, the inquiry was continued with increased vigor. e Poole, who was 39, and lived at 3817 (Continued on Page 2, Column l.{ POLICE ARREST TWO IN AMBUSH ATTEMPT One of Pair Wounded by Officers in Miner ‘Strike 3 Shooting. By the Associated Press. WHITES' n a to shoot at miners going into the Viry 8l o ers - Marfork Coal Co. mine at here today. The third man the officers said. formed of the attempted ambush the Virmar mine. and the officers claimed Clarence. ton .1dst menth shortly after the strike SOLDIER PHOTOGRAPHS HIMSELF o ] B i i :