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A Al WEATHE! T 8 Weather Bureau cloudy and tomorrow, thunder- local in the late afternoon or at night. S pRT Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 11,12&13 Ente: post No. 31,875. second class matt he WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION er shinggén, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, AU GUST 8, 1931—TWE) NTY-SIX PAGES. pening Shar. Yesterday's Circulation, 106,159 P () Means Asscciated LINDBERGHS REACH PONT BARRDH, BT FUEL STL AT SE Land at lce-Locked Port From Aklavik, 536 Mites Away, in 6 1-2 Hours. CUTTER WITH GAS AND OIL 100 MILES TO SOUTHWEST Cramer Leaves Thorshavn, Faroe Islands, for Bergen, En Route to Copenhagen. B9 the Assoclated Press. POINT BARROW, Alaska, August 8. «—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, the fiying vacationists, and their speedy monoplane arrived here today in the “shadow of the Arctic ice pack, at Ame; §ca’s most Northern outpost, 320 miles worth of the Arctic Circle. Through low-lying fog banks, which #shrouded their way, Col. Lindbergh piloted his plane from Aklavik, N. W. 7, last night and &t it down on & Jead of open water at 2 am., Pacific standard time (5 am. Eastern standard time). The hop of 536 miles along the shores of Beaufort Sea and Arctic ©Ocean was made in 6 hours and 30 minutzs. A Enthusiasm in this little community, @ handful of whites and several hun- @red Eskimos, burst forth as the glist- ening low-winged monoplane was sight- ed in the Eastern sky. Cheered on Landing. Cheers rang out from groups on sev- #ral high points of 1and in the commu- nity and they rushed to the water front %o await the mooring of the plare and the coming of the fiyer and his diminu- tive wife to shore. On their flight, with the few hours of *!the estimate as a basis for relief work. Last minute preparations for the wel- of raising flags on sev- which were in place word was: d from thelr take-off last night, t shortly 1s only & few hours vik of_dar] season of th: y:a The “time and his wife cam? ashore and were tak<n to the manse of Dr. Griest. There were no gasoline supplies here, and such every-day stapks as coffee were all potatoes, eggs and ased al weeks ago. No ship to_replenish 3 delicacies were ready In large quantities. With half of their 7,000-mils aerial Jaunt to the Orient completed, the dis- tinguished aviator and his wife were un- eertain just when they would continue their flight or how they would refuel. The ice pack has locked this port for | 30 months and supplies of gasoline for Lindbergh, which left Nome several waeks 2g0 on the cutter Northland, wera still aboard the vessel, ice-bound off ey Cape, 100 miles to the Southwest. CRAMER OFF FOR BERGEN. Jeaves Faroe Islands, Expecting to Reach Copenhagen Tomorrow. LONDON. August 8 (#) —An Ex- thange Telegraph dispatch from Copen- hagen today said Parker D. Cramer, who reached th: Paroe Islands last night on a flight from the United States, ook off at noon for Bergen, whence he ‘will proceed to Copenhagen tomorrow Lands at Faree Islands. THORSHAVN, Faroe Islands, August ® (P —Parker D. Cramer, American fiyer. charting an airmail route across the North Atlantic. brought his plane down in a bay off the nearby Isiand of Suderoe last night. He announced to- day he would take off as s00n as poss ble for Bergen and would reach Copen- | hagen from there Sunday afternoon. He came down in the ocean between | here and Reykjavik in the night, and there were reports that he had been forced down by engine trouble. bul the fiyer said this morning he had not been obliged to land. but had done so partly to test the seaworthiness of his ship The plane is in good condition. ready for a resumption of the flight whenever the pilot decides to take-off Reported Forced Down. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, August 8 () —Parker Cramer, American airman. o at orshavn, Faroe Islands, at 11 o'clock night (6 pm. E. 8. T) from Iceland, after being forced down in the North Atlantic by engine trouble Radio advices said his sirplane had been overhatiled and was now ready to yesume its flight to Copenhagen for the ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) MRS. WILLEBRANDT REJECTS WINE CASE Tells Brickmaker, “I'm Sorry, but I Do Not Take Prohibi- tion Cases. By ihe Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 8—Madel Walker Willebrandt, former Assistant Flees With $250 After Posing as Vacation Seeker By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 8 (#).—For two hours yesterday & man wan- dered around a bus station, studying travel literature. Suddenly he walked toward the bus line clerk, Harry Lucas, drew a pistol from his pocket and said: “I guess I'll take my vacation. 1t's a hold-up.” He then forced eight travelers, including three women, into ad- Joining rooms, took $250 and left to start, his vacation. HOOVER PROMISES JOBLESS RELIEF Makes Nation-Wide Survey of Conditions and Calls on Agencies. | o, | By the Assoclated Press. | A promise to the country that next | Winter's unemployment problem will be jsuccessfully coped with has been made {by President Hoover. Regardless of the scope or character {of unemployment needs, they are to be |met, the Chief Executive said, in an- nouncing he had called upon all inter- {ested agencies for data on the situation in a Nation-wide survey to delermine the probable load of distress. | “Improvement Promising.” } “While improvement in the situatio in many directions seems promising, Mr. Hoover said in-a formal statement, | “the problem, whatever it may be, will | be_met. | “With organized co-operation of local | and State and Federal authorities and the large number of relief and chari- table organizations, the problem was successfully handled last Winter. “We shall adopt organization meth- ods in such manner as may be neces- |sary for the coming Winter. “The first of the facts to be deter- mined is the probable volume of the load of distress which will need to be pro- vided for.” For the past three weeks, the Chief | Executive said. he had been studying | DUGE WILL RETURN VISIT OF GERMANS; ROME PARLEYS END Conferees Agree All Nations Must Work Together for Common Cause. EXCHANGE OF ARMAMENT DATA HELD NECESSARY tatesmen Praise Hoover Debt Holiday—Bruening and Curtiuns Leaving for Berlin. By the Associated Press. ROME, August 8.—Premier Mussolini today accepted Chancellor Bruening's | invitation to go to Berlin for a return visit with German officials at a date vet to be cetermined It will be the premier's first formal visit outside Italy since he went to London in 1922 shortly after he be- came head of the Italian state. He himself will fix the date for the trip to Berlin. Announcement of his plans came aft- er he and Dino Grandi, the Italian for- eign minister, had conferred for an hour at the German embassy with Chancellor Bruening and Foreign Min- ister Curtius. + At the same time the conferees issued a joint statement of the results of the meetings today and yesterday. Views Exhanged. «“Yarious . exchanges of views have taken place, accompanied by a sense of reciprocal, {riendly comprehension and deep cordialit; the statement said. “the general European situation has been extensively examined and the ne- cessity for active collaboration by all governments has been recognized. “The conclusion also has been reached that it is necessary to exchange data on armaments so that the forth- coming Disarmament Conterence will produce effective results in the inter- Yeus Modred_safely in short the problem and had conferred with | ests of peace and the economic and many State officials, business, financial | moral life of the world.” 5 and labor leaders and important offi-| Later Premier Mussolini received rep- | addressing them in German, expressed 6,090,000 Figure Inaccurate. Ihis delight at having met the chan- The President said the figure of |cotior and Dr Curtie. 6,000,000 unemployed, arrived at last| <y can see,” he said, “that they are yeal dicated that he placed little faith in|coumtry of the ills from which it still It would take a month, he continued, for the Government agencies to com- plete a study of the situation and meth- ods of dealing with it. By that time, he explained, it would be possible to decide upon the character and method of 1_organization necessary to|sources to pull herself out of her eco- | confidence in the future.” Has Faith in Germany. The premier reiterated a sentiment | which has been expressed before that (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) | nomic trouble. ¥ ) | “All peoples have passed through times just as herd as these,” he said, PASSENBERS TAKEN “and the present is not initself so bad. It appears to be so because remedies call for certain phenomena of a vital nature QFF GROUNDED uNERmmm are determined chiefly by mofal {factors and by increasing interdepend- Fagid | ence of the world's financial currents.” Holds' Flooded PR | e, cmpbasised his confidence 1: { s Flooded on Western |Germany's ability to heip herself an e |told the correspondents he had assured World, Munson Boat, Off |the German statesmen that “Italy will | continue to contribute co-operation Brazil Coast. | with all her strength.” H | Two Problems Taken Up. At this morning's conference the RIO DE JANEIRO, Brasl, August 8 | statesmen discussed two problems raised xyfl&’mmlmn lay sald 87 pas- by the Hoover moratorium. Premier liner Western World, which is aground at Ponta Do Boi, 50 miles north of Santos. The passengers were taken aboard the General Osorio, a Hamburg-South American liner. and will arrive here { tonight. according to the massage. | Two holds were flooded when the ship | went aground. | _The Western World sailed from New York for South America by way of Bermuda on July 25 with about 160 | passengers, including H. E. Trammell, | secretary of the American embassy at | Rio_de Janeiro, and Philip Raine, at- tache of the American legation at | Montevideo. | __She left Rio yesterday for Santos and Montevideo | " The vessel is 13712 tons grors reg- | ister and was built in 1922 |ENRAGED MINER SLAYS | WIFE, TWO MEN AND SELF i Wounds Third Man Critically— Amuck cial restrictions had subjected Italian | exporters of citrus fruits to losses, and would extend credit |and Germany would shortly remove the restrictions in question. The other problem was that of coal Italy receives about 1,500,000 tons of coal a year as reparations in kind and by the terms of sgreement, is required to continue buying the coal during a regular moratorium under the Young (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) SURVIVOR OF YACHT TRAGEDY RETURNS Arthur Describes Drowning of Mother, Sister and Sister's Chum Manchester By the Associated Press, Fiiiwing NEWFORT. R. 1 Runs August 8. —Arthur rvivor of a yachting s mother, sister and returned to New- aboard the tug Pru- Quarrel in Pit | By the Associated Press POTOSI. Mo., August 8-—Suddenly becoming enraged during an argumen (Elliott Missey. 45. ran amuck at C: !non Mine yesterday shooting to death | two neighbors and his wife before kil ing himself. A third man was shot and critically wounded by Missey Missey and John Pitzer, 55. quarrelled while working in a tiff mine Missey seized a shotgun and fired at Pitzer {a1d Clarence Leach, another miner Pitzer fell dead. Leach, shot three times, was In a critical condition tod: | Walking a quarter of s mile to th home of James Coleman, Missey shot | Coleman to death. Continuing to his own home, Missey locked his six smail children in a barn, returned to the | house and killed his wife. He then | turned the shotgun on himself |~ Officers said today they believed Mis- sey became mentaliy\ deranged during the quarrel with Pitzer sister’s chum d port e, denge ancheste chest nior skaipbuileling fi His mother Jatter's chum after a knockab sauing squall was piked ‘up ab accident by the cr He said that he s: went forward to take sister, Lawra, he saig, w The squall stry that was all. T) and T swam around for some time 100k- ing for rnother, Laura #nd Editl® The only thirg that came to the surface was a life rafi. 1 held on to it untll th Prudence picked me up” 0 13 today !y today of Arthur of Man- a Newport I Laura, and the Syme, drowned 1 avhich they were capsized during a sped a life raft and hour after the the tugboat the squall dnd » the jib. Has he said, t was swamped An American “Trader Horn” John M. Garvan lived for 20 years amnn;': the primitive mountain savages of Eastern Mindanao in the Philippines. Liberally educated, keenly observant. he returned to Améica to relate as fascinating a tale of life among Uncle Sam’s least known stepchildren as was ever put betwcen boards. His monograph, prepared for and published by the National Academy of Sciences, has been made the subject of a series of articles by Thomas R. Henry, the first of which will appea: in tomorrow's Star. . You will enjoy these stories, descriptive of life, customs and traditions among primitive people to whom the Tigure “100” represents infinity, whose stern doectrine of justice is “an eye for an eye,” and who believe that all Americans know each other intimately and are probably blood kin. cials of relief organizations. | resentatives of the German press and, | r, was not entirely accurate and in- |poth animated by a will to cure their | | suffers and to instill in their people a | | Germany must rely upon her own re- | | Mussolini said the recent German finan- | it was agreed the Italian government | to the exporters | t by his father. | i NAVY TO LAUNCH DIRGBLE AKRON 100,000 Expected at Chris- tening of Giant Ship by * Mrs. Herbert Hoover. | 'AKRON, Ohio, August 8 (A — | Mrs. Herbert Hoover and her en- tourage of Washington officials ar- rived here at 11:34 am. today. She is scheduled to christen the zeppelin Akron this afternoon. By the Associated Press | AKRON, Ohio, August 8—This city and many thousands of visitors joined with officials of the United States Navy | in the celebration here today of one of | the most important events in the history | of acronautics, the launching and christ'ning of the world's largest air- ship, the Akron. i | The new dirigible, as long as several city blocks, and as high as a 15-story building, was to be christened this' { alternoon by Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife | | of the President. At the same time, it | was to be freed from its cradle and | loated zhout 40 feet along the interior | of the glant hangar, which has covered [ it during the two years it has bren un- | der construction. 100,000 Crowd Expected. A prowd of 100,000 persons was ex- | pected by officials in charge to attend | the ceremonies at the Akron Municipal | Afrport. Th= program, similar to the launching and christening of a battle- ship, was to begin at 2:30 p.m. Eastern standard time. Not sinee the Montgolfier brothers at Annanoy, Prance, in 1783 sent up their 35-foot paper balloon has the launch- ing of a Hghter-than-air craft created | so much attention as that of the 6,500.- 000-cubic foot, helium-filled Akron This huge ship built by the Goodyear- | Zeppelin Corporation for the Navy is | the product cf years of accumulation of | knowledge of Zeppelin construction far | exceeding the dreai s of Count Ferdi- | nand Zeppelin a ha.f century ago. It is a marvel cf aeronautical engineering, ac- | complished under the direction of the veteran Zeppelin builder, Dr. Karl Arn- ! stein. | | 1l Mrs. Hoover to Christen. Mrs. Hoover was to christen the ship | by pulling a cord to release a_flock of | homing pigeons, nestled in a hatch in the nose cf the dirigible. A 100-piece | band will play “The Stzr Spangled Ban~ | ner,” while a chorus of 500 voices will | sing Speakers besides Mrs. Heover were to | include Paul W. Litchfieid, president of the Goodyear-Zeppelin _Corporation | Rear Admiral William A. Mcffett. chief ! of the Navy Bu neronautics, and David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary i of the Navy in charge of eronautics | The christening and launching in | the afternoon, will be followed by a ban- { quet tonight for 900 persons, including | Army, Navy and Marine Ccrps officers, | aviation and technical experts, newspa- per men, diplomats and other public officials. Notables to Attend. Among the notables at the christen- | ing were to be George White, Governor { of Ohio: Mayor G. Lloyd Weil of Akror, Capt. George W. Steele, former com- mander of the dirigible Los Angeles | Gomdr. Garland Fuiton. in charge of | the Lighter-Than-Air Division of the | Bureau of Aeronaui Before the christening ceremonies the doors of the hangar were swung open to permit the entrance of the spectators to the enormous room where | the dirigible rested like a chrysalis of | a butterfly ready for flight. During the leunching 150 Army, Navy and civilian k-u‘plmr& were 1o maneuver over-the dock. . The Akron is the first of a pajr of igibles ordered for construction here the N Offictals of the construc- tion, company anticipated authorization for the start of construction of the sis- r ship within six weeks. 4 Equipped for Fighting. The complete outfitting of the Akron is to includ> everything essential for| couting, bombing and aesial comba! It will carry five fighting airplanes, which may be released in midair, and | will be armed, by large-caliber machige 4 guns. The estimated maximum § is 838 miles per hour, and i is to have a cruising range at a spesd of 50 miles | an_hour of 10,580 miles | Although enough helium gas whs/ .placed in the Akron's 12 gas compart- | ‘ments to lift it from its cradle today, | the inflation will ot be com; | later, when the first trie? flight is made, | | about Septeniber 1. Mrs. Herbert Hoover 17t last night | (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) EHAPC RIS i Curtis Visits Daughter. ice President Curtis Jeft W: last night for & 1 on for'pight’ achosetls cosst. He will vist the his Divorcee, 30, Held In Alleged Demand Judge Support Her By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., August “8.— Mrs. Norman Ewald, 30 years old, a divorcee, was held today on a charge of forcing her way into the home of County Judge George A. Luxford and demand- ing that he support her for the Test of her life. Mrs. Luxford told police Mrs. Ewald asserted that, as a result of the jurist’s action in granting her husband a divorce, she had a “moral right” to make her home with them. Judge Luxford said Mrs. Ewald has molested him several tinjes since he awarded her husband a decree on grounds of mental cruelty in 1929. POLICEMAN DIES OF CRASH INJURIES A. H. Gethar Fatally Hurt in False Murder Call Accident. Policeman Arthur H. Gelhar, four- teenth precinct, died today as a result of injuries sustained yesterday after- | noon when a police emergency car, speeding to a false murder call, col- lided with another automobile on Con- necticut avenue opposite the Zoo en- trance. ' His condition became so grave early this morning that his wife was called to his bedside in Emergency Hospital He did not regain consciousness before death. Mrs. Gelhar, about to become a mother, is under care of a physician Driver Arrested. Police said_today that C. Lester Smiley, 27, Braddock Heighis, Md., driver of the car which collided with the police machine, would be taken be- fore a coroner’s jury. He was arrested following the accident and charged with assault. failing to give right of way and driving with bad brakes. He was booked at the fourteenth precinct sta- tion and later released under $1200 bond. Policeman Irving T. Headley, four- teenth precinct, driver of the emer- gency car in which Gelhar was riding, escaped unhurt, although the machine rolled completely over, coming to rest again on its wheels on the opposite side of the street from the spot where the accident occurred. Tries Left Turn. Headley reported that he was pro- ceeding south on Connecticut avenue with the siren wide open when Smiley without warning, attempted to make a left turn in front of the police car into the Zoo entrance. Gelhar was thrown 1o the street by the impact Headley placed his fellow officer in | a passing automobile and took him to Emergency Hospital, where it was said is skull and pelvis were fractured and that he was injured internally. A motor cycle policeman was preced- ing the police automobile at the time of the accident, and Smiley declared that when he saw the motor cycle pass he thought all the emergency apparatus had gone by. The call to which the officers were | responding came from 2812 Connecticut avenue. A woman is said to have be- come alarmed when she heard an argu- ment in progress and, believin ga crime was about to be committed, telephoned the precinct station. failed to discover any signs of violence when they arrived at the address. Twd Are Unhurt. With Smiley was his sister, Frances Smiley. Neither was hurt. Gelhar was 38 years old, and had been a member of the police force for almost 15 years. He was mafr: dren and lived at 4612 Foriy-third place. He was the driver of the police auto- mobile which struck and killed a pedes- trian, George H. Roney, while speeding on_an emergency call about a year ‘ago. The accident -occurre¢ at Cannecticut Avenue and Legation street. only a few Miss blocks from the scene of yesterday's crash. Sl Rioters Injured in India. AKOLA: India, August 8 (P.—An uféetermined number of Mohammed- aus and Hindus were injured. séme ted until {seriourdy, when Moslems attacked a | stol Hindu procession today with and clubs. Police suppressed the di Other policemen | ied, had two chil- | SHOWNEN PREVENT CRCUS MOVENENT |Stranded Workmen Persuade Laborers to Leave 101 Ranch Tents on Lot. The 400 workers of the stranded 101 Ranch Wild West Show were still en- camped on their lot at Fifth street and Florida avenue northeast today after having successfully resisted the efforts of the hired army of colored men to tear the show down and pack | it up. The show workers won the battle by peaceful persuasion, without a single blow being struck. Policemen Look On. Early this morning an army of about 100 colored workers rounded up yester- day by Fred D. Olmstead, personal representative of Col. Zach T. Miller, the show's owner, deployed from taxi- cabs and converged on the show ground. A detail of 28 policemen, "billies in hand, stood around in readi- ness for the trouble that has threatened during the three days since the show went on the rocks. ‘The workers from the show split the army of movers into little groups and | literally talked them out of moving the show. The argument had evidently been well rehearsed and it went some- thing like this: “We have been working for the man who hired you for eight weeks without getting a penny. If he won't pay us there isn't a chance that he will pay | you. He is mot on the showgrounds | and he probably won't put his nose | back here. When you are through with your work, where are you going to get your pay?” Two Meals Yesterday. The army, which had been hired to move the circus withdrew with few ex- ceptions. Rumors were circulated around the lot to the effect that Col. Miller was in town, but he has not been to the lot, nor has Mr. Olmstead, his repre- sentative, since the latter was escorted away by police yesterday. The showmen had two meals yester- day, and through the kindness of the American Legion, which last night raised $550 for the stranded workers, they will be fed again today. Sues to Recover Car. The Warren Savings Bank & Trust Co. of Warren, Pa.. today filed suit in the District Supreme Court against the circus, the Western Show Co., In and the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. to re- sover possession of a specially construct- ed raflroad car, which it claimed is being unlawfully detained from it. The car is valued at $1,500. The car is described as & steel stock | car, approximately 72 feet long, with slatted sides. bearing a welded cast-iron | plate with the inscription “Warren Sav- ings Bank & Trust Co.. trustee’ | _The plamtiff is represented by At- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) CHARLES B. RAITT DIES Pioneered Development of Recrea-| tional Life in U. 8. LOS ANGELES, August 8 (®)— Charles B. Raitt, 51, a ploneer in the | development of recreational life in the | United States, heart attaci died last night of a Several years ago he was appointed | by the National Recreation Association to make a survey of parks and rec- reation centers in 162 cities in the United States. He resigned from his position as head of Los Angeles play- | grounds six years ago to take the post of superintendent of parks at Rochester, N. Y. Later he returned to this city. U 5. FARM BOARD REJECTS GERMANY'S OFFER FOR COTTON Purchase Térms Considered Unsatisfactory, Due to Re- cent Drop in Market. TREASURY TO EXPEDITE WAR CLAIM PAYMENTS ettlement Would Open Way for Purchase From Trade and Quiet South. By the Associated Press. Germany's offer to buy 8 part of the Farm Board's 1,300,000 bales of price stabilization cotton has been rejected because the purchase terms offered were held unsatisfactory. | The action was announced last night simultaneously with a suggestion by the board of an arrangement by which Germany may make cotton purchases direct from the trade in this country. | The board called attention to the ef- forts of the Treasury to provide Ger- many with dollar credit here by ex- i pediting payment of war claims of Ger- | man nationals. Credit in excess of the | proposed cotton purchase, it said, would | be provided and would permit direct buying of the commodity. | Claims of German nationals, the board noted, far exceeded the possible | purchase of between $30,000,000 and | $40,000,000 under the long-term credit | plan. If these claims were settled promptly, it added, satisfactory ar- | rangements would be made for the pur- chase of cotton from the trade and | protests from the South over the stabili- | zation sale plan would cease. | Sought Higher Price. E ‘The proposition for selling the board's | surplus first was suggested to the Ger- man government by American Ambas- sador Sackett at Berlin, with the ap- proval of President Hoover. Germany cffered to buy about 600,000 bales on a 3-year credit instead of 18 months as originally suggested. In addition, Germany wanted the market price, while the Farm Board hoped to obtain a slightly higher price, because of the long-term credit. }; rejecting the proposition, the board said: “The Farm Board has given careful consideration to the German offer to purchase cotton. The board is desirous cf facilitating assistance to Germany | and to the American cotton producer by expanding his immediate markets. | “Many conditions of the German of- fer are beycnd the ability of the board | to comply with. It is therefore unable | to accept the offer under the proposed TmS. | "In addition to other difficulties the | original suj ion of Ambassader - ett five weeks ago provided for a g mum price, which would bave econ- tributed materlally to s the price of cotton and would have made it | pcesible for the board to offer ! tion to the holders of new crop cotton. The fall in price since that time, due in gfit to the situation in Central Europe, necessarily led to the elimination | by the German governmeny cf that fea- ture of its offer. Treasury Plans Aid. “However, a new possibility has arisen in this whole question, which of- fers an alternative course. urpose of the discussion has been, in effect, to assist the Germans in securing the for- |eign_exchange necessary to provide im- mediate supplies. “The effort now being made by the Treasury Department to expedite pay- ment to German nationals under awards of the arbiter of certain Ger- | man claims, if successful, would place the German bank in fon of an |even larger amount of dollar exchange than the volume of this proposed trans- action in cotton and would enable Ger- man business to make its purchases di- rectly from the producers and the trade in the normal way.” REJECTION NO SURPRISE. Berlin Financial Circles Foresaw Farm | Board Action. BERLIN, August 8 (#).—Rejection by the United States Farm Board of the German offer to purchase cotton failed to result in any great surprise in finan- cial circles here. In the first place, what the Germans several days ago had been given to understand might be an acceptable of- fer was not even approximated in the proposal actually sent to Washington. The German offer specified a three- year credit instead of an 18-month credit and stipulated the market price instead of a price slightly above the market. which it was understood the Farm Board hoped to get in view of the credit accommodation involved. In the second place, publicity given the prelliminary negotiations aroused violent objections in the cotton trade here, as it did in the United States. The news was interpreted as lessen- ing the chances for a wheat deal be- tween Germany and the United States. Early today it had seemed negotia- tions were far enough along to justify expectations that a German offer would be forwarded to Washington during the afternoon. No proposal was dispatched, however. The possibilities of a deal in surplus | United States copper were still being discussed. This would not be con- | nected with the Pederal Farm Board. | although it was believed here the | United States Government might enter | the negotiations as intermediary be- {tween Germany and the copper pro- ucers, 'RADIO DRAMATIZATIOI\{ OF :I'RIAI: DRAWS IRE OF DECOROUS JUSTICE Prosecution of Clark in Slaying of Ex-Newspaper Man | B¥ the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, gust 8.—Superior | Judge Stanley Murray, a stickler for de- | corum in the court room, was surprised | when an acquaintance told him his and Political Boss Presented—Bench Seeks Action. | take against the station, but a confer- TWO CENTS. ALIEN EXPULSION ABUSES ON WANE, DOAK MAINTAINS |Reply to Wickersham Body Charges Lays Violations to Predecessors. Press. |OBSEHVE_R—IMPRACTICAL, SECRETARY DECLARES Commission Split Over Experts’ Re- port Charging Deportation Smacked of Inquisition. Charges of tyrannic and unconstitu- tlonal practices in the deportation of aliens, lald at the door of Federal im- | migation officials by the Wickersham Commission, today drew from Secretary Doak the reply that abuses were being corrected. § The Secretary of Labor dissented, however, from some of the suggestions of the commission's tenth report to President Hoover. He asserted they came “from an observer without expert- ence in the practical problems of deportation.” ‘The commission itself split over the charges of its expert, Reuben Oppen- heimer, Baltimore attorney, who wrote all but a brief preface to the 179-page report on “the enforcement of the deportation laws.” Oppenheimer assert~ ed that in examining about 100,000 supposed allens and porting about 15,000 ennually officials employed gn:!t‘hodxd lh:t m“;fund of the inquisi- and often. violated “the plainest dictates of humanity.” Charges Grave Abuses. “It is doubtful,” he said, “if anywhere in the entire system of Anglo-Saxon Jurisprudence are Government officials given similar unfettered rights of private inquiry, or i the exercise of governmental power more often char- acterized by violations of fairness and decency.” “The limited number of cases to which Mr. Oppenheimer refers,” Doak said today, “cover a period prior to my becoming Secretary of Labor. Every effort has been made to correct ad- ministrative abuses, and Mr. Oppen- heimer generously acknowliedges that :z:e n?:xecu he finds do not now apply “The major point, however, is that the American have & right to aliens who ties and if the deportation laws were prac- “Wherever th report supports e tical measures to this end,” Doak con- cluded, “I am for the report.” ‘The report had been forecast | members of the commission as prob- ably the most controversial since its pronouncement, and it drew dissenting pa {to adopt and enunciate, as my own, findings of such a sweeping character affecting the conduct of those engaged in the administration of the law with- out having first made a personal ex- amination of the actual records other evidence upon which these find- "ings are based.” For Correction If True. OIpenhdmer's findings, however, he sald, should challenge the attention of those in authority, and if such conditions exist, corrective measures should be taken. Col. Anderson agreed that there are inherent defects in the present system, and that “the power and duties of de- tection, - prosecution, adjudication and execution of judgment should not all be vested in one administrative agency.” Me opposed the creation of an independent tribunal, however, as tending “to produce complexity and confusion in government.” He favors execution of the administrative features of the law, including investigatior., wc- tection, prosecution and enfercement of orders of deportation, by the Labor Department, with trials of offenses against the Jaw in the United States (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) HINES URGES LEGION NOT TO ASK MORE Veterans’ Administrator Says Ad- ditional Relief Should Not Be Sought in Next Congress. By the Associated Pres: { ence of judges was held to discuss the |® i matter,” said Judge Murray. who made ! it clear he did not Only the grim