Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1931, Page 1

~ WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast). Party cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Temperatures—Highest, 95, at 3:45 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 72, 'at 6 a.m. to- \ ull report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The | “From Press to Home Within the Hour”™ The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes No. 31.87T4. Entered as second class matter post office. Washington. o . i 7, 1931—-TWENT Y-SIX PAGES. =% UP) Means Associzted as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 107,339 TWO CENTS. Press. WASHINGTON, 'D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST - FEDERAL CONTROL PROPOSED AS AID T0 COAL INDUSTRY Leading Operators in West Virginia and Pennsylvania Withhold Comment. OVERPRODUCTION HELD CHIEF CAUSE OF TROUBLE Pittsburgh Man Suggests Govern- ment Hold Undeveloped Lands as Reserve. N By the Assoctated Press. PITTSBURGH, August 7.—A remedy prescribed for the ills of the bituminous coal industry, diagnosed chiefly as over- production, held the attention of opera- tors and miners alike today following disclosure that a proposal for Govern- ment regulation of the business is under consideration. A majority of the leading owners and operators in the vast coal fields of ‘Western Pennsylvania and West Vir- ginia withheld comment pending an- nouncement of the plan in full. However, other operators ventured that the plan suggested a solution of the problem of overproduction, which would clear the way for adjustment of and working conditions, major factors in the numerous walkouts in! Tecent months. To Discuss U. S. Regulation. Today Northern West Virginia opera- fors let it be known they were prepar- ing for a meeting Monday night at which they would discuss the suggestion “that the Government regulate the in- dustry as a public utility.” It was learned authoritatively thmt suggested Government regulation at the recent conferences of Seeretaries La- mont and Doak with a group of opera- tors in Washington. Morrow’s suggestion, it was said, in- cluded a proposal thet certain mines be withdrawn from ction, these prop- erties, together With undevel lands, to be taken over by ernment Samuel Pittsburgh Terminal Coal second largest producer in the Pitts. th district, sald of the proposal: “It always was my idea of what| should be done.” He added, however, he had not at- tended any meeting at which such a proposal was discussed. J. H. Jenkins, Fairmont, W. Va. Coal Co., “was de- 1 coal sirable. Gov. Pinchot Is Silent. In Harrisburg, Gov. Gifford Pinchot declined to comment. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. said at Indianapolis that he wanted to see copies of the full plan before com- menting. Philip Murray, international vice president of the United Mine Workers, said the coal industry needs a system of -Federal control it would curtail production, stabilige prices, guarentee @ greater continu‘ty of operating time, higher wages and better working con- 8. ‘The United Mine Workers suggested | such a plan of Federal regulation to|recently sent out to approximately 200 the last session of Congress and to s>v- erdl sessions of Comgress prior to the last one, but received no support from | the coal operators as a whole,” Mur- | Tay said. !street on the evening of July 28 spray POLICE GET NUMBER OF CAR USED BY HARLEM CHILD KILLERS | o Witness to Shooting Held; [ “Human Shield” Story Has Two Versions. High Official of Force Says “Target” Clutched Boy to Save Him. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, August 7.—A man whose name police refused to divulge today admitted he witnessed the shooting in “Little Italy” in which one child was killed and four others wounded, and has given police the license number of | one of the cars in which the gunmen } rode. The man was arrested last night. | Four members o(kl‘kfie g?' orR\ilncem! ANTHONY TROBINO, Coll, intent upon killing Joey Ray, one | & S o of Coll's enemies, were in “the automo- | by vesterday A bile” which rode” through East 107th | gl SeBoNTe for the ba !in Harlem's Little Italy last w how he used the body of a little child |as a_human shield from the machin2 gun bullets. —A. P. Photo. ing buliets, which missed their intend: ed victim and struck five children, in- juring one fatally, the witness said. The man, arrested in another case, but subsequently discharged, named | three of the men in the car and de- | other, by a high police official, was scribed the fourth, police said. Accord- | that Trobino dragged the child into the ing to his story, one of the men was| hallway, not to escape injury himself, “Irigger” Frank Coppola, another a | but to save the little one from harm man named Grecco and the third “Louis.” Tony Tobrino Questioned. Rao, according to the eyewitness, for- merly worked with a narcotic rack- eteer named Rock and he stuck with Rock after the latter broke with Coll. Tony Trobino, a shifty-eyed young man, who confessed he was a narcotic racketeer, admitted to police yesterday the shotgun slugs were aimed at him. Trobino told them, -they said, that he snatched up a little child and crawled into a hallway to get out of the line of fire. And then, they said, he related that, after the gunmen’s car had sped avay leaving the five wounded children lying on the sidewalk, he leaped unhurt. into his own car and.escapad. ‘There were two versions of 7fobin¥s story of the battle. One, given out by & dptsitive, was that Trobino ured the child s a human safety. The “Let’s give the devil his due” the official said. |~ The automobile used sy the gunmen | Trobino told the police, belonged to | Nicholas Marte., known as “Bulldog” | Martello of Astoria, Queens | ot see the gunmen, he said, but ad- | mitted he nad heen in the narcotic | racket in the Bronx, working for a | man named “Rock” and for Vincent | Coll, said to be an enemy of Dutch Schultz! Bronx beer distributor Coll and “Reck” split. detectives said [into Barlem, taking Trobino and several {men vdth him. Thereupon. he said | word went out to “get Rock and his gang.” | Trobino admitted his presence at the | Harlem street battle after more than 10 hours’ questioning by the police, who bad picked him up on a robbery charge It was said unofficially the police | knew who the men were who were to | have been put on the spot with Tobrino | and were hunting for taem. NEEDS OF JOBLESS N 1L, SIREVED Picture of Distress, Sougnt by Busincss Leaters in Talk With Hoover. Business is seeking & pl:fin of the unemployment situation in @: Ufited States. terday, when Silas Strawn, president of the Charber of Commerce of the United States, and Julius Barnes, chair- man of the board of the chamber, called to acquaint President Hoover with the nature of studies the chamber has un- der way in view of the depression. Within the past two weeks. the na- tional chamber has sent to some 1,000 member bodies queries as to the amount expended for relief work in their com- munities last Winter and the prospects for the com! inter. ‘This 'is in addition to questionnaires business leaders, seeking their views as to the feasibility of formulating a long- time program for combating unemploy- ment. Commiittee Will Gather. I have argued for 10 years that the coal industry should be regulated by a | Government _commission similar to the { Interstate Commerce Commission with Tespect to rallroads” Pursglove stated. “T have discussed the proposition before the National Coal Association. | “It has met with the same treatment | the proposal for a commission to regu- | late the raliroads was first received Many opposed it. will tell you they couldn't get alon without Government regulation. “We cannot hope for repeal of the anti-trust laws to permit us to fix prices, but a Government commission | could do all this. No doubt. if such a commission were established mergers | would take place. and many smailer | companies absorbed, with beneficial ef- fect to the coal industry.” U. S. OFFICIAL’S SON BADLY HURT IN AUTO' Woman Killed and Man Believed to Be J. H. Pole May Die After Nevada Upset. t 1 | { By the Associated Press. RENO, Nev., August 7.—Patricla De Witt of Los Angeles. was killed and J. H. Fole, believed to be the son of J, W. Pole, controller of the currency, was possibly fatally injured early today when their sutomobile overturned near l.n.le:wn Springs, four miles west of 0. At St. Mary's Hospital Pole became The railroads today | 112 | was presented showing that more and Employment, headed by Henry I Harrgnan of Boston, chairman of the board of the New England Power Associ- ation, and including industrialists, bankers and other business men, will meet here on September 1 to go over preliminary reports coming {rom the questionnaires, for the purpose of mak- recommendations to the board of directors of the chamber cn a perma- nent program to guard against unem- ployment Whether the data obtained in the relief survey is submitted to this com- mittee, it was said, will depend on the nature of the material that comes in As matters stand, they are two in- dependent studies, one being designed to acquaint the business men with con- ditions as tney exist nationally and the other to sound out sentiment on long- range planning to keep labor employed Planning Board Considered. The questionnaire asks first of all if the business men think it feasible to set up a permanent national economic planning board to follow economic and business conditions, to propose ways and means for current co-ordination of production and consumption and generally to devise measures which will tend to promote continuity in business and employment Views are alio solicited as to whether such an organization should be set up by Congress as a purely governmental agency, 8s a joint effort of Government and business or as strictly an enterpris: of business. Ideas on orgenization and financing also are solicited At the recent meeting of the Inter- national Chamber of Commerce a report an 200 American concerns now are em- unconscious soon after telling authori- | ploying - permanent employment regu- ties his father, n°w in Honolulu, was a ! larization plans with,a gieat deal of prominent Governmenmt official Mrs. Dewitt died of a fractured skull | within a half hour after the accident, which occurred when their car hit a guard rail and went over the embank- ment. John Henry Pole is the only son of the controller of the currency, it was #sald et Mr. Pole's office in the Trea ury. The contrclier s out of the city SAN_ PRANCISCO, August 7 (.| J. H. Pole, seriously injured in an au- tomobile accident near Reno today, was Py bank examiner working out of San Francisco until a few weeks ago. become associated with 160 ESCAPE HOTEL FIRE ‘senta note —im n-;;u success | Concurrently with the presidential | conference with the business leadcrs, { the President’s Emergency Committee for Employmgegt announced a Nation- } wide movemerlt to k-ep the youth of the countgy in school and out of the iaor market during this period of de- pression In this effort, too, emphasis is being Jaid on the responsibility of the sev- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) [rsE st SOVIET ASKS ARMS DATA { y = | Note to Polish Envoy Proposes Ex- + change of Information. MOSCOW. August 7 (£).—Maxim Lit- vinoff, comm:ssar for relations, to the an exchan its betweenr A Committee on Continuity of Business Am ge of infor- Poland WITH MUSSOLINI Common Effort, Co-opera- | tion Only Things to Rzstore World:Confidence, He Says. By the Associated Press. ROME, August 7.—~Common sffort and co-operation are the only things ‘This developed today as an w"m'uq‘: which will restore international confi-| 3:20 am. of a conference at the White House yes- | dence, Chancellor Heinrich Bruening of | Feporied (ol PRI B0, Poieler “having Germany “raid today after a long talk with Premier Mussclini. “We hope,” said he, “that through these international conversations the realization will become general that only { co-operation and common effork can re- establish confidence in the world.” Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, who came here from Berlin with the chan- cellor; Dino Grandi. Italian foreign | minister, and Carl von Schubert. the German’ Ambassador, were present at this first conference today. “The talk,” said the chancBilor. “fol- lowed exactly along tRe lines pursued during our visits to Chefuers. Paris and { London, and the visits to Berlin of the foreign statesmen | Purpose Accomplished. “Our main purpose was ! those economic and financial which concern the whole world pupose was fully accomplished although. of course, this was ¢ first of several general discuss! we will have here “The spirit of int tion of which I spoke when we left G many. and again when we arris this morning, animated the throughout. We were anxiou: meeting with Premier Mussolini use we see in him a personality which al- ways has placed international co-opera- {tion in the foreground.” Dr. Curtius characterized the meeting as a “frank and open discussion marked by the spirit of the conference at Chequers.” ~uss s this They talked only of general prinei- | ples, he said, and there is nothing vet | about which any concrete announce- ments may be made. He was particu- larly gratified. he said. at the friendly character of the reception accorded Dr. Bruening and himself 1l Duce Welcomes Germans. Premier Mussolini em ed the im- portance of the Italo-German conversa- | tions by going to the stailon today to welcome #n person Chancellor Bruening and Foreign Minister Curtius. All Italy was expectant that this first contact between former allies would be | even more than the dicted first step toward better relatior asmuch as 11 (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) VIOLENT TREMOR TRACED IN PACIFIC Vibrations From Earth Shock Dis- lodge Recording Pins of Seismo- graph at Sydney, Australia. By the Associated Pross SYDNEY. Australia violent earthsheek, which dislodged th registering pins of the seismograph, was recorded at the Riverside College Ob- servatory at noon today. The tremors lnsted nearly thre: hours and the cen- ter of the disturbance was estimated to be 2,240 miles distant Hawaiian Eruption Due. Volcanic activity in Hawaii in the near future was predicted today by the | National Park Service on the basis of | reports from Dr. T. A. Jaggar, vol ogist in the Hawaii National Park. Jaggar cited activity of Japanese vol- canoes and pointed out the isliands are on th> same volcanic rift as the Japa- ' nese disturbance centers. i oy Leviathan Skipper Ill August A He did | he ®)d them, and “Rock” moved down | BRUENING CONFERS CRAMER TAKES OFF FOR FAROE ISLANDS ON AIRMAIL TRAL Leaves Fieykiavik. Iceland, on 450-Mile Hop En Route to Northern Europe. i HERNDON ANDT’ANGBORN FACING JAPANESE PROBE Lindberghs Growing Restless as Weather Conditions Hold Them at Aklavik. « REYKJAVIK, Iceland, August 7 () —Parker D. Cramer, American aviator blazing an airmail trail across the Arctic, took off this after- noon for the Faroe Islands, 450 miles from here. I'By the Associated Press. REYKJAVIK, Iceland, August 7.— Parker Cramer, American flyer, land- |ed here early this morning from | Angmagsalik, Greenland, on his way |to Copenhagen to map a transarctic airmail route from the United States. Cramer refucled his airplane and | awaited weather reports from the Faroe ! Islands, planning to continue his jour- | ney today. After moving his plane into the har- bor for refueling and having a short | sleep, Cramer related something of his | { “mystery” flight, which first became | known Wwhen he landed in Greenland. Nine Days on Journey. “I left Detroit nine days ago,” he told the Associated Press, “and ex- perienced good weather ail the way, except_for one bad day at Hudsons | Bay. 1 arrived at Hosteinborg, on the | west _coast of Greenland, Tuesday and | on Wednesday crossed the Greenland Icecap to Angmagsalik in five hours, fiving at an sititude of 9,600 fect. The glorious vicws over the sun-illuminated | snow fields will certainly be a great tourist attraction in the Tuture.” After & good breakfast, Cramer awaited weather reports from the Faroe Islands, The weather here was ex- cellent, being calm and clear. It is about 450 miles from Reykjavik | to the Faroe Islands. Cramer wes in communication with the radio station here .from the time of his departure from Angmagsalik | Iest night. Two hours after his hop- off from Greenland he asked Reykjavik | about the weather and visibility along the northwest coast. Learning it was | foggy and visibility was bad. he de- }rtgrd to give up a contemplated land- ing at Isafjord. o, Clear at ¥ 1t was clear at Javik, i The city was asleep and only a few reporters, harbor police end the quar- antine doctor were on hand when at the Reykiavik radio station plane had passed over the | | vik, reported that sighted 1and a little farther along, had | turned back toward the city. ! " Cramer landed near the beach, and {when told the tide would leave the i ship on dry ground, replied it did not i tnce he would not leave Ice- | | matter, | |1and until he obtained fuel and re- | He was in- | ceived weather reports. | vited to a hotel for refreshments and‘} { when he arrived there d jed & little ! sieep would do him no herm. He took | | his plane to a better location and then | turned in for a rest. CAMERA CAUSES TROUBLE. Herndon and Pangborn in International | Complications on Visit to Tokio. l TOKIO, August 7 (#)—International | | complications arose today over the | landing here of Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, jr. American airmen, | and a flight of threz United States | raval aviators over Japanese fortifica- | tions The problem created by the landing of Pangborn and Herndon without a| permit and the subsequent discovery of | |a camera in their airplane was dis-| | navy, war and communications depart- | ments of the Japanese government | It was reported some officials favored } | leniency toward the American airmen, | { while others expressed the belief some | form of punishment should be admin- | istered in view of a recent incident In- | volving three United States Navy flyers { from the fieet off Chefoo | Navy Men Took Pictures. Darien newspapers _asserted that | three American Navy airmen fiew over the Kwangtung_fortifications and took | photographs. The newspapers stated the American admiral offered an expla- | nation to the Japanese consul at Tsing- | { tau that the fiyers, who had been cruis- | | ing, had become lost | | The Japanese, the newspaper said,| gid not consider the explanation suf- | | ficient and the American consul at| | Dairen was reported to have asked | Washington for instructions regarding | | the incident i | Pangborn and Herndon made plans | | today for a non-stop flight to Seattle | | despite the fact their big red monoplane (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) | PRESIDENT WILL LEAVE FOR CAMP LATE TODAY| Hoover PIR;‘AS to 75(.’1};- at Rapidan Until Monday and Celebrate Birthday Here Tuesday. e Associated Press. President Hoover planned to leave| late todey for h's Rapidan camp to stay | | until Monday morpin | Ameng the guesis invited were Sena- H-bert, Rhode Island, and Mrs. Henty Robinson, Los Angeles financier; E. T. Clark, who was personal | secretary to Presidert Coolicge, and Mrs. Clark; Mark Sullivan, litical writer; Charlss 8. Groves, Washington correspondent of the Boston Globe, and Mrs. Groves, and Walter N:wton, one of the President’s secretaries, and Mrs. Newton. Mrs. Hoover, who will be in Akron to- morrow to christen the Navy’s new dir- ible, will return Sunday morning 2shington and probably will go to the camp. Her plans, however, are not cer- tain. The President probably will celebrate ‘White House | By tor H bert; ! 'CLOSED SEASON ON DUCKS, DUE TO DROUGHT. EXPECTED Such a Scarcity o An entirely closed season on duck hunting this year is being seriously con- sidered by the Department of Agri- culture. ‘While no recommendations have gone forward to Secretary Hyde, H. P. Shel- don, chief of the Division of Bird and Game Conservation of the department, today believed that such an emergency exists, due to the drought in the Cana- dian breeding grounds, that sportstnen this year will have to forego a large part, if not all, of their duck shooting. Morcover, Mr. Sheldon believes it will take several years of careful control of duck shooting before the flocks that have in former years migrgted in tens Sor of millions to the Chesapeake Bay country and other Fall and Winter grounds throughout the Drying Up of Breeding Grounds Causes f Wild Fowl That are replenished to the state where a full open season of shooting can be had. Already, with the hunting season a long way off, sportsmen are rallying to the cry of “Save the ducks” and haye! written individually and for large duck- shooting’ clubs that they will forego duck shooting this year in an effort conserve the supply of waterfowl. Mr. Sheldon lay sald there were many proposals before the experts of the department, all of which are being | given consideration. reaity o g ly azafnst any duck | year and' redured kills in until the flocks are replen The em cy about by a 10-year in the vast duck- m.wcone IMURRAY OIL BAN - WINS TEXAS AID Oklahoma Governor Praised as Shutdown Program Gains Strength. By the Associated Press TYLER, Tex., August 7.—Oklahoma's oil shutdown movement has penetrated to the heart of the East Texas oil fields and won the indorsement of 37 of 60 operators in the area. The 37 operators voted at a meeting | here yesterday to voluntarily shut down their wells and asked that a mass meet- ing be held here August 14, at which | time the order would be officially de- ns | cussed by officials of the home, forelgn, | clared. East Texas operators offering ofl to Okiahoma refiners while National Guardsmen patrolied that State's pro- ducing_areas were denounced. were charged with “nullifying the ef- forts” of Gov. W. H. Murray, who is seeking, by martial law, to increase the | prices for crude from a top of 50 cents to a minimum of $1. Eulogize Murray's Action. By resolution the operators expressed admiration for Gov. Murray and eulo- gized his “masterful and courageous” action in handling the oil situation in Oklahoma. “It is regrettable, indeed, that the same fine character of leadership and courage has not been shown in Texas," | the resolution said. A copy went to the Oklahoma Chief Executive's office. At Austin, Gov. Ross S. Sterling, commenting on a statement by Acting Secretary Dixon of the Department of the Interior that East Texas was re- sponsible for the oil industry’s- condi~ tion, said “blaming Texas is nothing new." Texas Move Promised. Gov. Sterling said the Texas Legis- lature should procure results vital to the oil industry within a “few days.” Four counties comprise the East Texas oil field—Smith, Upshur, Gregg and Rusk. It was discovered less than a year ago. The pool has been accused by Midcontinent oil men of upsetting price schedules in the industry by un- restricted production. On account of the embryonic form of the shutdown movement, observers said they could not immediately estimate the number of wells ana percentage of production affected. REFINERIES FEEL PINCH. Supplies of Oil Run Low in Oklahoma, but Prices Little Changed. OKLAHOMA CITY, August T Lines in the battle of Gov. W. H. (“Al- Bill") Murray for higher crude ofl (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) WOUNDED IN DUEL Government Supporter in Hungary Hurt Seriously in Sword Fight. They | AGENT FOR RS GUREDBYPILE Unpaid® Employes Refuse to Allow 101 Ranch Show | to Be Moved. | | * Threatening wirkers of the 101 Ranch Wild West Show, stranded without money on the Cymp Meigs lot since |last Tuesday, forfed police today to | escort Fred Olmstead, representative of owners of the show, from the ground |after the men had rejected his offer | of $2 apiece to load the live stock and equipment of the shiow of flat cars, Olmstead, who came here by plane yesterday from Ponca City, Okla., as & representative of Col. Zach T. Miller, owner of the show, offered the men 50 cents a day for food while the train was making its way back to Oklahoma, The hands, most of whom have eight weeks’ | pay due them, demanded their mon: in full. An ugly situation was develo ing when the police escorted Olmstead away. He had not returned at noon. Show Attaches Adamant. The show hands declare that not a rope shall be moved until they are paid off. They say that if the owners start to move the equipment by hiring “scab” help there will be trouble. They point out that it would be next to impossible for inexperienced men to get the live stock_and equipment onto the train at all. One of the string of five elephants, who is a bad actor, will not respond to anybody except his trainer, and he | could do a lot of damage of any one | else tried to move him. The employes do not believe that United States mar- shals would have very much of | cided that he didn’t want to go. | The steers would offer another prob- lem. Fourteen of them, all with sharp- | pointed horns, are packed on the lim- | ited space of a flat car, and it takes an | experienced cow hand to do this. | The benefit show staged for the | men by the District department of the | American Legion last night netted only | $1.70. apiece. The money was evenly | split among all workers and performers | and no expenses were deducted. Most of them used the money for breakfast | this morning in spite of tMe fact that breakfast was to be served later in the cook tent. It was the first money that some had seen for eight weeks. The | show is said to be $22,000 in arrears for | salaries. Says Situation Tense. Assistant Superintendent of Police E. W. Brown went out to look the scene over shortly before 11 o'clock. He had | NEW VICTIMS REPORTED " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) More in New York. NEW ' ORK, August 7 ().—Ninety- fantile paralysis were six new cases of inft reported to the city heaith department the total today. The new cases ht to 1,212 since July 1. i a chance against the elephant if he dc-‘ been sent out by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, | | Infantile Paralysis Claims 96/ DOHERTY AGQUIRES Stock in Rival of Kansas City Star. | By the Associated Pres: |Doherty, head of the billion-dollar to| Cities Service Co. who has been the | target of the Kansas City Star in a gas rate war, launched a counter attack today by buying an interest in the Kansas City Journal-Post, the Star's afternoon rival. | interest will be made today in Journal-Post, when it reproduces a ¢ | Jetter sent to the trustees of the Wil- | ltam Rockhill Nelson estate, from whom the present owners are buying the Star. Mr. Doherty's move follows close son the heels of his suit for $12,000.- damages against the Star for libel The suit was filed July 10 after Mr. Doherty had charged the newspaper was unfair in its stories about him and | his Cities Service Co, and the State | Banking Commission in Kansas at- | tempted to ban the sale of all Service stock except first preferred. Star Management Attacked. The announcement from Mr. Doher- announced in “(h's afterncon’s edition | of the Journal-Post by publication of a |letter which he addressed on August 2 to the three trustees of the Kansas City Star * in an effort to prevent pub- lic controversy and deliberate damage | to & valuable newspaper property which has not yet been paid for.” ‘The utilities man asserts in his letter that “unless the trustees assert that the present management of the Kansas City Star have breached their contract |and that all payments are, - therefore, | due, ana enforce their payments, that in the event of any loss on the ungfld portion, that the trustees will be held | Tiable for this.” ‘The letter called on the trustees, who were appointed by the terms of the will |of the late Col. William Rockhill Nel- son, owner of the newspaper until his death in 1915, to expel the present management of the paper and vest it in “honorable, constructed men.” Mr. | Doherty further charged that the sale of the Star to its present management was “illegal, its present conduct is law- |less and reckless,” and declares that although he does not desire to injure " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) 'MRS. ANDREWS DYING gAT HOME OF HER SON | Widely Known Authoress Uncon- scious and Physicians Abandon | Hope for Her Recovery. Mrs. Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, | widely known authoress of the National | Capital, is dying at the home of her | son, Eliphalet Praser Andrews, at Sem- inary Hill, near Alexandria, Va. Mrs. Andrews, at noon today, was in | | a comatose condition and her daughter- in-law said that attending pl | had abandoned all hoj for | covery. The authoress, the ymmfir Mrs. Andrews explained, has been poor | health for several months. A victim of | a complication of diseases. she had been |a patient at the University Hospital at Charlottesville until a week ago when | she was brought to her son’s home, | where she had lived for some time prior, | to_her {liness. Mrs. Andrews, the widow | Andrews, former director of the | coran School of Art, is a writer | note Her most recent works include | “The Master Builders,” “That Sweet Story of Old,” “The Cross Triumphant" and “Voice of Wild Flowers.” She also is the author of “Memoirs of a Poor Relation” and “Out of Dust.” e | SEES NAUTILUS DELAYED r Te- ‘of Eliphalet Norwegian Professor Says Trip Cannot Be Made This Year. NTEREST N PHPER = |Utility Man Buys Half of i NEW YORK, August 7—Henry L.! ty's office said the purchase would be | Cor- | FARM BOARD HOLDS SILENCE ON REICH OFFER FOR COTTON Goes Into Session Presuma- bly to Consider Proposal Received From Berlin. STATE DEPARTMENT ALSO REFUSES INFORMATION Protests Against Sale From Europe Are Augmented by Those of Southern Senators. Under a strictly applied policy of si- lence in the face of continued protests from the American cotton trade reflect- ed in some competing European centers, the Federal Farm Board was called into session today, presumably to consider credit basis. The administration-sponsored propo- sition to permit the Farm Board to un- load a great proportion of its 1,300,000 cotton bales to stimulate that industry and at the same nu‘ negotia init Sackett at B:;’dm 'fi sim an envel \ lope sent the Board Senators Augment Protests. Since the overtures were initiated in the German capital with the appros of President Hmvmcr. the A cotton Announcement of the purchase of the clude an i ig?s 3582 B T 4 Cities o | trade, and it was said today that the profests would be given full considera- tion during the board's deliberation the German i 3 simone. chairman, announced at the time the proj was rece! |that its contents would not be divu! until after it had been So far as could be ascertained, the ad- | ministration is leaving the Farm Board |a free hand in the matter, the White House referring to it all suggestions re- | cei The German cffer, @ described in Berlin dispatches which are the only source of information here, was re- ported as contemplating the purchase of the cotton at a price fixed cn the basis ! of the monthly average price on the New York Cotton- Exchange or the monthly average of the New York, Bremen and Liverpocl exchanges, with credit extended for three years and Germany paying 1'2 per cent interest. Offer Might Be Acceptable. ‘While officlals here refused to cuss such terms, there were indications that such an offer, if actually made, might be acceptable in view of a state: ment made by Chairman Stone only & few hours before the receipt of proposal. At a Erel! confe Stone had said | sale to Germany should basis of a credit “for two or vears” to accomplish the most good. He let it be known definitely that he would be agreeable to sales to Germany pro- vided “it would increase consumj of American agricultural produets,” conditional, however, on the terms of credit. The 1,300,000 bales of American cot- ton were purchased by the board in an effort to stabilize prices, but if the sale to Germany is negotiated, Mr. Stone reiterated that bales sold pmh:fig It is this policy which has done much to cause resentment among the Dixie cotton growers. Mr. Stone’s ex- pression was interpreted here as an in- dication the board is anxious to relieve itself of stabilization stocks. Senator Harris of Georgia, the most (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) {HEAD OF GRAPE PLANT SAYS HE’S RESPONSIBLE Tells Mitchell He Wants to be In. cluded in Any Indictments; Mrs. ‘Willebrandt's Service Sought. By the Assaclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Offer, head of the “Vino brick plant here, whose was raided by prohibition General