Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1931, Page 2

VESSEL RESCUE HONDURAN FLYER Clung to Plane Until Picked Up at Sea After Hop From Brooklyn. (Continued Prom First Page) vided the fog did not become so dense as to be unsafe for even daylight fiying. ‘An hour after the colonel lifted his trim pontooned ship off the lagoon at Point 'Barrow, where the famous couple had been the center of all attention of the several hundred Eskimos and eight whites, they were reported over the Coast Guard cutter Northland at Wain- wright, 80 miles from Barrow. Nomeites Disappointed. Tt was a disappointed crowd of Nom ftes that turned from the beach here, ere practically the entire population &f the town had been waiting for al- Tost two hours, when word was re- relved the fiying vacationists would not frrive until later today. Preparations had been made for the | and buge plies of Janding AN o Sumber were all ready driftwood and old Jum lighted m'l“,r:u B “the second fog the Lind- berghs have encountered since arriving in Alaskan terr Aklavik, N. W. T., Saturd: to a bank east of Barrow, :‘;“'mnd it and Janded in clear weather their first Alaskan stop. CRAMER FEARED DEAD. they ran Bearch Continued by Danish Flying Boats and. Ship, PENHAGEN, Denmark; August 11 (H‘cl;gmn\bh naval fiying "bodls and the admifalty survey ship lsiand ‘of ¥alk today continued theit search b the North Sea for Parker Oramer, American airman, wnd his ‘radie oper- Btor, but their efforts were fruitless. Naval and fiying suthorities hers were of the opinion that Cramer and his companion, Oliver Pacquette, h perished. s ramer and Pacquette have been 10 .n?ce Sunday on a fight between the Shetland Isiands and Copenhagen. Danish authorities were of the opin- fon they might have come down to & Torced ianding on the wa ut to sea b: g‘e‘;‘rl\“rol(m[ over the North Sea for 1 veral days. The regular airmail ::r;i:e over that stretch has been sus- Pended because of the weather. ; Capt. Rils Larsen, Arctic fiyer, said they might have been forced far to the south by the storm and drifted out Y0 open sea, where it would be dificult %o Jocate them. The water was reported y snd the wind niEh ron of Danish seaplanes. b{‘u'st:-dl Vessels, searched the Kattegat thern tip of Norway to from _the southern tp of NOTUUL, b Copenhagen__ yes! ?fih of Norwegian planes -scanned 'the Skargasrd Su‘:(:omdoflc to Bergen, ere found. m%r::::ru::m‘ouvu Pacquette left De- troit, Mich., several weeks ago without announcing their destination. and flew across Canada to Greenland to cma. irmail route from _Americh B ope. Hopping to the Faroe Islands tland Islands, ¢ for and the Shetiand It m% heard from that morning af FIND NO TRACE OF FLYER. Panish Flying Boats to Search as Far as Esblers. STED, North Jutland, August 11 .g!;fl“o ‘Denish fiying boats arrived at this port this afternoon to refuel and tinue their search for Parker Cramer :fl Oliver Pu‘quetge, ican airmen. 188! since last Sunday; H':"-I of the flying bosts said they hagd seen no trace of U American , but would con ¢ to search glong the west coast as #ar> Esbjerg. PLANES HUNT IN VAIN. Fiy Over Southwest Looking for Cramer. BERGEN, Norway, August 11 (®).— Hopes of finding the American fiyers, Cramer and te, faded tods: when three naval seaplanes retu from several hours’ search of the souths | west coastline without sighting the miss- ing plane. QUESTIONING CONTINUED. Wokio to Determine i Pangborn ard Herndon Must Face Court. POKIO, August 11 (#).—Clyde Pang- Bofn and Hugh Herndon, jr. American /mvistors Whose plane was held by gov- roment authorities because they took hotographs while fying over Japanese rritory, were questioned today by the blie procurator, who will determine hether court action shall be taken. f'he procurator-decided to continue the fuestioning_tomorrow. Meanwhile customs officers called on | the fiyers and requested a deposit or & guarantee of the payment of duty on their plane and providing for an ex- emption from payment of customs for ne year on the condition that they ave Japan within a year, The matter as left unsettled Pangborn and Herndon started = fiight around the world, but aban- it at Khabarovsk, Siberia, and fame to Tokio to make a non-stop flight Bcross the Pacific to America. Don Moyle and C. A. Allen, California Avistors who also are planning to start B transoceanic flight from here, today were given & further extension of ex- emption from duty on their plane, sav- ing them the trouble of fiying to Shang- pai and return to avold payment of cus- toms tax. The extension was made good until the end of September. Moyle and Pllen seid they would sttempt to fiy o Seattle in mid-September. “The Rengo News Agency said its under- 00d it was probable an order 1o keep jance pending settlement of their case ad been decided upon by the public rocurator Should this order be issued, it appears fikely the fivers will be allowed to con- Yiriue to stay at the Imperial Hotel Pangborn and Herndon visited Ta- it\kawn Airdrome this afternoon, under rmission of the Aviation Bureau, to work op the motor of their airplane. CONFINEMENT FACED. LONDON, August 11 (#).—A Reuter's gispateh from Tokio today said the publie prosecutor there had decided 1o order the confinement of Clyde Pang- born and Hugh Hernden, jr., American sviators, pending the outcome of an nvestigation of charges that they flew over fortified areas in Japan without [permission. The two fiyers, who failed in an at- Sempt to set a new speed record around gne world, have been undergoing ques joning by Japanese officials for several Ways. SALEM GIRLS TO SMOKE Moravian College to Let Parents Decide Issue. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., .~ girl unfle&um:;wn numw\; w mnoke at Salem itory. While flying from | ves and been | v a storm which has | c-;u*!m!* Fanmm and Herndon under survell- | THE - EVENING STAR. ABELLI NAMED AS BOLIVIAN MINISTE 'New Enovy Has Been Washingten Two Months, Representing President. in Tin Mine Owner and Engineer Succeeds Diez de Medina, Dean of Corps. By the Assoclated Pres LA PAZ, Bolivia, August 11.—Luls O. | Abelli yesterday was named Bolivian Minister to the United States, t> ceed Diaz De Medina, appointed adviser to the foreign office. : Senor Diez De Medina will devote a diplomats for the Bolivian service. He is the dean cf the Bolivian Diplomatic Corps. . S2nor Abelli is now in the United States. Luis O. Abelli, Bolivia'’s Minister-ep- pointee to the United States, will as- sume his duties here, being familiar with American customs -and life and friendly to the American people. Abelli, tin ‘mine owner and engineer and staunch friend of President Sala- manca, has been in Washington for two months, unofficially representing his chief executive in financial matters. Previously he served as acting min- ister of finance under President Sala- | manca, and represented Bolivia in a | mission to Lima in May. One of the bzsic problems of Bolivia and a scre spot in South American po- AQUAKE HITS JAPAN INTYPHOON'S WAKE | RS iCity 100 Miles From Capital Is Shaken—Two Islands Ravaged by Storm. ®y the Associated Press. TOKIO, August 11.—Japan suffered greatly from the elements today #nd yesterday. Tlere wére five known dead, scores injured, thousands of buildings destroyed or damaged and many fish- ing boats missing. The known Weaths and damage Te- sulted from a typhoon that swept the islands of Miyako and Ishigaki in the Loo Choos, south of Japan. TWwo erup- tions of the voleAno Asama, near Karui- zawa, showered the surrounding coun- try with ashes and small stones. Quake Hits City Near Toklo. Citjzens ran into this streets at Hama- matsu, Shisuoka prefecture, about 100 earthquake‘shook the eity shortly before midnight: “The towh was in darkness for hours, but no damage was done other ‘than the breaking of electric gfi quake also was felt at Yokohama, only & few mils from Tokio. and at | Osaka, Nagoye, Atami and Shimizu. 2,000 Bulldings Destroyed. Authorities estimated 2,000 build | were destroyed and 3.000 hothes d ings and eight motor No deaths were reported from Ishigaki. D. C. MAN IS ADRIFT ALL NIGHT IN RIVER AS RESCUERS SEARCH (Continued Prom First Page.) | fo_Leonardtown for boats o, search for ODonnell and the sinkin , bost. Harry M. Jones, por master at Leon- | ardtown, and Tom McKay sent their motor launches into the mouth of the | river in spite of the darkness and the | thunderstorm. o | Harris also called Piney Poinf and | Colonial Beach for help in the search and scores of fishing boats joined in the hunt for O'Donnell, The Colonial Beach call was relayed | to the proving grounds at Indian Head | by the Colonial Beach telephone oper- | ator and two submarines docked there. & revenue cutter and two airplanes were sent out 1o help the search Meanwhile O'Donnell's bost had sunk. leaving him floating on the inflated cushions, which were carried as life | preservers All night long, amid the storm and | high winds which whigped the waters O'Donnell clung to the Rir cushions. It was 4 oclock when kindly currents washed him sshore near Piney Point Able only to crawl after his night in the water, O'Donnell made his way to {a litie country store nearby, made { known his plight 4nd was taken o Tol- son’s Hotel, st Piney Point. At the hotel word had been Teceived of the search for O'Donnell and a telephone call to the Belvedere plantation allayed the fears of the searchers. O'Donnell and Mrs. Edwards notified as soon as Edwards and “Whitey” came ashore, had rushed by motor to the Belvedere plantation. and were there when O'Donnell was taken there by motor this morning. | PARALYSIS RESEARCH IS AIDED BY TESTS MADE ON MONKEYS (Continued Prom First Page | | “fiterable viruses” like those that cause | yellow fever and smallpox. The germs |in this group are so small that they pass through the finest filters that can be devised and so cannot be filtered ‘strained” out of a solution and ex- | amined | Bcientists are not absolutely sure whether Infantile paralysis i spread by contact or in some other way. It . while most dis- eases spread by contact reach their { height in Winter or early Spring. when lpenple are closely crowded together indoors. Children from 1 to 5 vears old are most su A majority {of cases occur in children under 15 | An _explanation of these facts may | hold the clue to control of the infec- tion, the Institute of Health points out Physicians ve the Teason most adulis are immune mey be that the disease is widespread in an uunrecog- nized, in_this form as measies. Blood of adults who bave deve Smmunity thi having had the dis- ease in .Am-whn and blood of recovered infantile paralysis patients in making serums. needed I:- are miles southwest of Tokio, when an/ mild form, perhaps prevalent R TO UNITED STATES suc- | Jarge part of his time to the training of | LUIS O. ABELLL —Harris-Ewing Photo. litical affairs will engage his attention slmost immediately, the Chaco boundary dispute with Paraguay. Abelli_said his friendship for the United Stafes is based upon his knowl- edge of this country. Mrs. Abelli is the former Miss Crystal Hyland of Port- land, Oreg., and with him and their two children, has spent much time recently. Abelli will succerd Minister Eduardo Dies de Medina here within a short time. THEFT OF S29000 CHARGED TO EVANS Davis Charged in Slaying of Officer—Pair Held in Extortion. (Continued From First Page.) lunch Toom at Tenth and K streets here last May. One of the shots hit Frank Langdon, associate editor of the union’s journal, who was shot through the eye, but recovered Arthur M. Huddell, president, was saved when a bullet lodged in a pocket- book in his vest, bup died several weeks Jater from a heart attack. Thomas Connors, 61 years old, was in a arrested in Chicago last Saturday in connection with the shooting. Veteran Charged as Slayer. First-degree murder is charged against Bert Davis, World War veleran an inmate of Soldiers’ Home, in an in- dictment in connection with’ the death of Policeman Charles D. Poole August 4 in & woods near the cemetery of the home. Davis is reported to have been adjudged insane in Maine in 1925 and is now under observation by Dr. D. Percy Hickling, District alienist. Poole, who was attached to the twelfth precinct, was talking with a number of inmates of the home ne: the cemetery wall when Davis is re ported to have drawn a pistol and fired three shots at Poole. He then strolled away and several hours later was found asleep in & clump of bushes by police. Davis says he had no recoilection of shooting the officer, but had shet some chickens with a pistol Carl Henry, Ramey is charged with mansiaughter’ in connection with the death of Mildred Taylor. colored, July 5. He was driving an automobile on M street between Sixth street and New | Jersey avenue southeast when the | woman walked from behind a parked car into the path of Ramey claimed. Policemen Indicted. Edward Willis Gore and Frank Joseph Hospidor, suspended fourth pre- | cinct policemen, were indicted on an extortion charge. They are accused of accepting $10 for protection from Prank Adams, colored. July 28 in front of Adams’ home, 720 First street south- west, to whom _investigating officers had given marked money. The money was dropped into the cap of one of the policemen, it is stated. The po- licemen are said to have extorted the money for protection from liquor law violation charges. The grand jury exonerated Arthur Clinton Miller of & charge of aiding in the release of two prisoners from Lor- ton and with harboring them at his home in this city. Miller had been acquitted in Criminal Court by a jury which so angered Justice Peyton Gor- don that he discharged the panel from further service. A warrant then was secured for Miller before United States Commissioner Turnage and he was held for the action of the grand jury The grand jurors also ignored charges of assault with a dangerous weapon against Cloyd Holmes. Joshua W. Collins and John Stokes: of house- breaking against Harvey Lee, of violat- ing the national prohibition law against | James H. Harper. William Jones and William Brooks, and of grand larceny against Susle Selby, Carrie Sims and Ernest Coffel. Other Charges. Others indicted and against them include John J. Neil, Lawrence W. Kidwell Russell Carlin' Brown, Napoleon J. Beausoleil. Charles E. Hairston and Landon Lorry, mon-support; Sylvester Eplc. Charles Henry Pope Patrick Price O'Brien. Philip MacAbee, Marshall Barrett and Henry Wilson Josh T. Singleton Samuel Greenberg alias Samuel Green: Joseph Fine, Ed- ard B. Halfpap, Pedro Brown Moreno, Isabelia Ford, Harold L. Stewart Thomas I. Seanlon, Willlam E. John- son. Joseph Haas, Paul Ramsey and Ralph J. Richards. grand larceny James S. Hughes and Wiliam S Hughes. embezziement. Edward H Smith, assault to rob; Clifton Tavlor. assault to commit carnal knowledge David Lewis, alias David Hawkins: James L. Strance, Henry James Handy. Frank Silver and Robert Coleman. as- sault with dangerous weapon. William Caldwell, alias Samuel Jones Leroy Jones, Joseph T. Sut Oricshy. Edward J. Fitapatrick, Joseph T. Suter, Winfield R. Thomas, Ralph J. Richards, James Brown and John Able Bryan, housebreaking and larceny Willlam F. Barrett, alias Willlam M Barrett, bigamy: James Rucker. Syl- vester Ernest Cole. William Mitchell Glenroy Toombs, Wanda Toombs, Harry Freedman, alias Deskin Eric Brown James H. Harper, violation national pro- hibition act. the charges Alfred HOOVER GRE‘éTS HEROES His Message Read at Convention Held by Legion of Valor. BOSTON. August 11 (#).—Greetings from President Hoover were read at yesterday's session of the forty-first an- Nineteen members of the organization, which is composed of veterans of three major wars and several secondary con- fiicts who have been awarded the Dis- tinguished Service Cross for acts of valor beyond the line of duty, were in attendance. ention will W“‘ through 5 -~ perplexing | here | his machine, | George | ' | GRAND JURY PROBE CLEARS GALLNGER lVeteran's Charges of Mis- treatment at Hospital Found | to Be Unfounded. | The management of Gallinger Hos- ! pital by Dr. Edgar A. Becock and his | staff is given the “complete confidence” | of the District grand jury, both of- | | ficially and as “citizens of tl.e com- ! | munity” in a report submitted today | {to Justice Joseph W. Cox. The report is the result of a recent inquiry into | complaints of mistreatment at the hos- pital. made by Joseph Edward Joffe, & | { Cincinnati World War veteran. The grand jury declares the evi- | dence submitted “failed utterly” to sup- | port the charges and asserts the hos- pital staff is “conscientiously perform- ing a_very difficult task Joffe charged he assaulted dur- ing a 48-hour stay in the institution {and given a black eye by Patrick Mul- \lany, & six-foot former Marine, who had been placed over other inmates Officials of the hospital, in whose pres- ence the incident occurred. took no ! steps to prevent the assault, he claimed | Assistant United States Attornev Julian | I Richards presented the testimony o | the grand jury Attack Laid to Grudge. The report admits the attack was | made by Mullany in the presence of | certain officials, but was wholly un- | expected by them and was “the result of the maniacal rage of A patient who bore a personal grudge. justified or | otherwise,” against Joffe, who had pointed him out as having been the assailant of another inmate. Mullany the report states, has since been ad- judged insane by a jury and committed 1 1o St. Ellzabeth’s Hospital : The grand jurors point out Gallinger | Hospjgal, like other institutions, has | rules®und regulations binding on all inmates, which from time to time are T belled against by certain types of in- dividuals who “are wrone to exaggerate | greatly imaginary grievances and 1o ccndemn those in authority.” The evidence fails utterly, the report says, to support the charges that Jaffe was improperly committed by the Vet- erans’ Bureau, that he was mistreated while there and that he was detained tco long, as well as the charges that patients of violent tendencies were given places of authority over cther patients and permitted to mistreat them. Observed Operation., Witnesses asked to be calied by Jaffe {as well as officials, physicians, attend- ants and hospital records, were exam- | ined by the grand jury. A personal visit | was made by the inquisitorial body to | the hespital and an opportunity afford- ¢ | ed to inspect and observe the personnel | | and equipment under practical working | conditions. The text of the report follows in part “Certain complaints against Gallin- | | ger Hospital having been filed with the United States district attorney, an in- | the grand respect to | fidavit filed | vestigation was begun by jury, particularly with | charges set forth in an & by the principal complainant. | "“This complainant, as well as those named by him to corroborate his state- | i ments, testified before the jury. In| | addition. the jury on its own initiative | summoned various officials, physicians, | attendants and official records. This | poay also visited the hospital to inspect | and observe its persqanel and equip- | { ment under practical working condi- | tions. | “All possible evidence avallable has | been fairly and impartially placed be: | fore this body by the district attorney's office and & most exhaustive examina- as been conducted. es were made that a certain | | patient wad improperly committed by | the Veterans' Bureau to Gallinger Hos- | | pital: that he was mistreated and was | detained unnecessarily long. Charges | were also made that patients of violent tendencies were given positions of au- | | thority over other patients and permit- ted to mistreat them and that the au- thorities of the hospital made no ef- fort to control altercations among pa- | lents | tion_h “Chaig Find Charges Unfounded. “The evidence fails utterly to support | | these charges. | " “Complaint was made that & patient | was permitted to make an assault on a former patient. We find that, while the assault did occur in the presence of certain officials of the institution, it | was wholly unexpected on their part { and was the result of the maniacal rage { of a patient who bore a personal grudge against the person assaulted, and who | | has since been adjudged insane by a jury | " “We find the hospital and its off- | cials conducted themselves n the prop- er manner and showed the proper at- | titude toward the patients under thelr | care and toward their work. “We wish to express our complete confidence in Dr. Edgar A. Bocock | and his staff. We believe they are con- | scientiously performing a very difficult task " |COAL HEADS FIGHT | RAIL RATE BOOSTS BEFORE COMMISSION| (Continued From First Page) iness and destroy a trade built up through many ars | " similar _testimony | Davies, who said his | have to obtain its coal | if freight rates in this country advanced | Admits Figures Limited. | Pigures presented to the Interstate | | Commerce Commiission by W. Rob- | b was given by company would from abroad were, joyriding: | erts, Chicago consulting accountant. de- | oo " 10" fragments of financial | increases | today by | | signed to show the railroads condition made freight rate | unnecessary, were attacked counsel for the carriers. Roberts, under close cross-examination by railroad attorneys, agreed his figures only covered 1930 and did not show the | condition of the roads at the present | | time. The witness had testified the divi-| dends paid by the railroads in 1930 were the largest, with the exception of one| year. in the history of American rail-| | Joads: that except for 1928 more stock | { was issued during 1930 ihan any year since 1919, and that the free surplus would meet dividend payments for more than seven years. | Under questioning he agreed that the | indicated net operating income for 1931 | was little more than half what his fig- ures showed for 1930. He also testified the dividend payments out of current | income in 1930, totaling $172,000.000, | were :maller than in any other year | with one exception. and proportionately | smalier than ever before. | Roberts said methods used by mod- ern commercial business to meet com- | petition were wholly lacking in rail- road operation. He added that unless the rallrosds got on & business basis llgr)' would continue to have difficul- | tes | He suggested the raliroads find out | where their profits were coming from 0 as to sustain them and where the could be | Josses were arising so they eliminated. Edna Oliver Gets Divorce. LOS ANGELES, August 11 (.- Edna May Oliver, film comedian, who “Cimarron,” yesterday was . W. Pratt, New York business man “My husband informed me it was not his desire 10 remain longer i &, state of matrimony,” she testified. “He inseribed two communications to me, urging that I institute proceedings for @ivorce.” WASHINGTON | found by the Russians in his message, just found in a bottle, | | the P € _ Undernourished TWENTY GALLONS DISTRIBUTED DAILY Children Given Milk BY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA. WENTY gallons of milk and 400 pounds of ice are distributed daily to undernourished chiidren by the Volunteers of America at headquarters, located at 471 Pennsylvania avenue Lieut. Marie Watlins is shown at one of the feeding periods. 1.5, STANDING PAT rected the output D. Evelyn B. Baldwin Recalls Franz Josef Land Trip Over 25 Years Ago. | Food Depot Saved Explorers in lcy Region, He Says, Telling Aftermath. A Washingtonian, Evelyn B. Baldwin, noted Arctic explorer, gazed back across more than a quarter of a century in retrospect today and recalled the time. back in 1902, in the Franz Josef Land Archipelago, when he left depots of food and messages for other pioneers of the frozen North, one of which has just been discovered by Russians exploring in that region. News of the discovery came from Moscow, saving that members of the crew of the Russian icebreaker Maligin found a Baldwin letter, bearing the date July 2, 1902. Many of his caches and messages still | remain in the Northland. the scene of his explorations, Mr. Baldwin sald today at his desk in the historical section of the Navv Department On Alger Island, base of the expedi- tion, Mr. Baldwin left the message He described the position of & granite cache nearby wherein he stored fcod, arms and am- munition, Ran Short of C The vet:ran explorer, now 69. in July. 1902, was attempting to leave the region cause his coal wes running short. “We had just enough strength left to wage a fight to replenish cur coal supply for our second vear's work,” he said. “We wers expecting coal from a supply steamer, but it failed to put in an sppearance. 1 was forced to turn in en order to conserve supplies and equipment fcr the contemplated dash to to pole the next year. The supply steamer was duly dispatched, but owing te ice conditions, south of Franz Josef Land, it was unable to reach us there.” Mr. Baldwin knows that his depots of food already have saved many lives, for years ago one of the survivors of another expedition, succored by his thoughtfulness, came to Washington to thank him personally. A depot he established at Cape John . Dillon nourished a shipwrecked party after the loss of the America, his old ship, which was taken over by this other outfit. Another depot, established near Etheridge Island, saved the lives of two men of this second expedition while they were making a sledge trip. Left 50,000 Pounds of Food. At Kane Lodge. on Greely Island. named by Mr. Baldwin in honor of his fellow explorer, Maj. Gen. A. W. Greely who now lives in Georgetown, his food depot saved the lives of other explorers He established other caches as far north as Crown Prince Rudolph Land, where some 50,000 pounds of condensed food were located. Mr. Baldwin believes they are there to this day, ready to aid explorers of the Arctic wastes. Many of his messages, he says, tell story of the Baldwin expedition sketching the success of his first year's work, the establishment of food depots demonstrating the utility of Siberian ponies in Arctic work, securing the first motion pictures of Arctic scenes ever obtained in low temperature and the use of balloons in transmitting mes- sages, of sufficient importance to dem- onstrate that large craft, such a dirigibles. could be utilized 'he Moscow dispatch said that the Maligin reported heavy ice prevented the dirigible Italia. Mr. Baldwin said today that it is his opinion that the men who were carried away with the detached sec- tion of Gen. Nobile's dirigible never reached Franz Josef Land, but that they were killed following the explo- sion of gas which carried them away Dropping onto the ice floe, their bodies would have been taken beyond recovery he believes. C. MAN LEFT CACHE FOUND BY RUSSIAN GROUP IN ARCTI Col. EVELYN B. BALDWIN. MRS. ROOSEVELT AMONG FIVE RESCUED WHEN SEAPLANE CRASHES (Continued From First Page) today when the party returned to San Juan. The plane landed perfectly but struck a Tock or some other unseen cbject, ripping open the hull while it was taxiing toward the shore. The pilot attempted to get into the air again, but water quickly flowed in the boat cabin, soon stalling the en- gine. Within two minutes, the pas- sengers estimated, there was more than a foot of water in the cabin. Attorney General James R. Beverley and Rafael Rios, chief of the Bureau of Commerce, opened the averhead hatchway—the only exit—and put Mrs. | Roosevelt on deck. Others in the party were Carlos E. Chardon, chancellor of the University of Porto Rico: Guillermo Esteves, com- missioner of interior, and the commis- | sioner of agriculture and commerce. Mr. Crouse flew here last week to await_the arrival of the German flying | boat DO-X, in which he plans to return to New York. An air enthusiast, he invited Mrs. Roosevelt and the others to fy around the island with him and they intended to make a brief stop at Ponce to inspect the sugar refinery. The passengers praised the conduct of Pilot James H. Tilton, Co-Pilot Robert Davis and Radio Operator Thomas Higgins, who remained with the plane until it was completely sub- merged. All the passengers sald Mrs. Roose- velt was most calm throughout Small boats took the passengers off to & nearby launch. An attempt was made to tow the plane ashore, but the ropes parted and the ship sank. Information from Ponce today was that the plane was being hauled to the shore. THOMAS' MOTHER DIES Parent of - Bocialist Leader Was Resident of Baltimore. BALTIMORE, August 11 Emma Mattson Thot man A. Thomas, Socialist candidate for President in 1928, diéd at her home here | Sunday after an illness of esveral months The funeral will be held tomorrow morning. Burial will be at Lewisburg, Pa._Mrs. Thomas was a native of Coila, N. Y., and the widow of Dr. Welling E. ‘Thomas. She had made her home here for 15 years. Three other sons and two daughters survive, Milkman Drops In on Reservoi E l APES WITH ONLY A DUCKING. F you notice s milky flavor in your drinking water today blame it on a broken steering gear of this dairy truck, which plunged over three. 5-foot embankments early today to come to rest in the Dalecarlia Reservoir. passport driver, R. 8. un'r'wr, 142 Eleventh street southeast, escaped with & ducking. | six mont! The. ~—8tar Staff Photo. Frank H. Wise, superintendent, has di- ~—Star Staff Photo. ON CTTON REPOR ‘ for Investigation. . (Continued From First Page.) crops, the board has been higher 30 times than final production figures and lower 50 times. Generous supplies of mest important crops were predicted yesterday although | drought conditions have materially re- duced earlier yleld estimates. A corn crop of 2,775,000,000 bushels is | | expected; 894,600,000 bushels of wheat; 1,170,000,000 bushels of oats: 77,600,000 | tons cf tame hay: 218,000,000 bushels of apples: 77,100,000 bushcls of peaches: 371,000,000 bushels of potatoes, and 1,- 617,000,000 pounds of tobacco. i Wheat Fed to Livestock. | . ‘With wheat prices dragging on the market's lowest level, farmers are find- ing it an econcmic convenience to use it as a livestock end poultry d in the | place of more costly corn and mixed rations. The Agriculture Department and Farm Boerd have no estimates of the amount of whe which will be fed this year, but it probably will exceed the estimate of 182,000,000 bushels made | last year. Both of these Federal agencies have advised feeding as & means of absorbing & part of the 1931 bumper crop surplus, which is adding to the already large supply in existence. Farmers, in ac- cepting this advice, are guided by rela- | tive prices of wheat and corn. Now corn brings a higher market price than wheat. A short corn crop & year ago Was an incentive for increased wheat feed- ing. On November 15, the department’ Crop Reporting Board made a special survey at the request of Secretary Hyde | and estimated 182.000,000 bushels would be fed during the Winter. Whether this re was a trué estimate will not be Crop Reporting Board issues its annual | account of the crop's disposition. Some doubt, however, has been expressed whether total feedings reached this fig- ure because of the relatively light Win- ter, which allowed live stock to feed on Winter pastures. ‘That farmers are feeding and stor- ing their wheat crops to ease the bur- den on current markets is apparent in the reduced carload totals arriving at terminals, as compared with average years. Merchants have accepted wheat in exchange for debt obligations, thus tending to lighten the burden of the Southwest farmer. Vacant stores and houses have ben turned into temporary granaries to hold these stores. GERMANY FACES SHORTAGE. Wheat Needs Estimated at 12,000,000 Bushels by Official. BERLIN, August 11 (#).—Germany's estimated wheat prospects are 300,000 tons (12,000,000 bushels) short of her | requirements, Martin Schiele, minister of agriculture, said last night in a radio address. He discussed the emergency decree issued last Saturday to alleviate the financial situation of the German farmer. At the same time Schiele announced that the proportion of German wheat which German millers will be compelled to grind into flour for home consumption has been lowered from 97 to 70 per cent. ‘The government. he said. will permit mills with large stocks on hand to ex- port wheat if they wish, granting them | certificates to reimport upon payment of 2 marks per hundred kilograms (about 14 cents a bushel). Only 40 per cent of the amount ex- ported could be reimported before January 1, 1932, he said, and the rest thereafier. rs are to be given preferential treatment at the Reichs- bank, where their rate is to be 4 per cent as long as the bank’s rediscount ! rate stands at 10 per cent. with a pro- | | portignal narrowing of the spread the bank's rate is lowered. ‘The government has set aside 150 000,000 marks for flnancing operations, Herr Schiele said, and it is still delib- erating what amount of money the | banks will advance to farmers who want | to store their crops with the government against negotiable warehouse receipts. | He estimated Germany's rye require- ments would absorb the crop prospects— about 7.200,000 tons—Ileaving no export- able surplus. PRINCESS ANASTASIA as Woman Who Claims to Be Czar's Daughter Obtains Passport Extension. By the Associated Press. Labor Department officials said ves terday that the passport of Princess A astasia mm who claims i&h.::e sia, would be six ed her p determined for several weeks when the | TO REMAIN IN U. S|z GERMANY'S WHEAT . OFFER UNCERTAIN |Farm Board Denies Knowing Anything Officially of Grain Deal. The Pederal Farm Board had Nttle hope today of immediately receiving the purported German proposal to pur- chase some 22,000,000 busbels of its stabilization wheat. Officials were un- communicative concerning the oFer, in the absence of its receipt, #nd prd- fessed to know nothing about it beyond the cable dispatches to the effect that such an offer was to be made Any sale of wheat by the Farm Board would be acceptable. Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican, North Dakota, said today, but he advanced the opinion that sales of stabilization wheat to for- eign governments should be replaced from the current crop, which, when harvested. will show a substantial sur- plus. Southern Senators had made similar demands on the board with respect to .cotton. Denies 1t W The German offer for 22,000,000 bushels of wheat. should it mature, hardly would be enough to be felt in the wheat belt, Senator Nye said. At the same time, it appeared the ;)\(Dec(}unn{ of a r;-nent of the Ger- an offer for a substantial pact, of the 1,300,000 stabilization cotton controlled by the board was more or I |less. The first German offef. it was disclosed, would have returned to the Farm Board only about 45 cents on the dollar. Farm Board officials remmined un- communicative concerning the amount of cotton Germany wished to buy on long credit- térms, though it was gen- erally understood the amount was 000 bales, with an oplion on 200,000 more. Believed a “Courtesy.” Th well informed eitcles it was gen- erally considered the German ofl".;n( more of & “courtesy” than a serious proposal, the German government wish- ing to make a “gesture” in return for Ambassador Sackett's suggestions that the Farm Board would be willing to advance cotton on favorable ecredit | terms. Whether a “gesture” or not, the Farm Board is ready to negotiate a deal with Germany at any time, it was said, shouid the terms be satisfs . e U. S. CROP FORECASTS | REGARDED HARMFUL id Be Feit. | Cutten Asserts Erroneons Reports Have Bad Effect on Market. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 11.—Arthur'W. Cut- ten, grain operator, yesterday criticized the Government's méthods of crop fore- casting. He said that long-time pre- dictions of the size and condition of agricultural crops often did more harm than good. His statement followed the ‘publica- tion of the grain reports by De- partment of Agriculture today and the cotton report of Saturday, which was followed by sharp breaks in cotton prices on all exchanges. “The Government used to represent conditions at the time the reports were made,” he said, “but now they forecast the final outcome, allow- ing for future influences.” | Crop prospects change more or less | gradually, Cutten said, and such changes | should be reflected in the crop reports. He recalled that in May the Govern- ment forecast Winter wheat at 653,000, 000 bushels, close to the average private estimates of the week before, On June 2 the private estimates averaged 681,- 000,000 bushels, but on June 9 the Gov- ernment estimated 649,000,000 bushels. “This long-range forecast proved to | be wrong. for in July thé Government revised its estimate upward to 712,000,- 000 bushels,” Cutten said. COTTON GINNERS ASK CROP CURTAILMENT Urge Hoover to Call Special Ses- sion of Congress to Obtain By the Assoclated Press. WALNUT RIDGE, Ark.. August 11 Cotton ginners of Northeastern Arks sas want President Hover to call a sp-- clal session of Congress and suggest '~ it measures for curtailing the growing of _gtmn next year. ey met here yesterday and ex- pressed their request to the President in » resolution. They contended that with this vear's expected bumper yleld of about 18- 000,000 " bales and & carry-over of 9,000,000 bales, there will be enough cotton on the shelves for two years, 12,000,000 bales for this year 13- 000,000 for next year. Moreover, they proposed that the en- tire yield of this year's erop and the carry?over of last year be turned over to the Federal Farm Board for mar- keting. The resolution claimed the Parm Board could pay from 25 to 30 cents a pound for the cotton crop this year, and asked that payments be made in quar- terly instaliments for two years. Lands diverted from cotton in 1932 should be utilized for food and feed crops, the resolution said. BILBO URGES GROWERS TO LEAVE COTTON CROP Pick Only Two Rows Out of Each Three, Gdvernor Suggests Remedy for Surplus. By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Miss., August 11.—As & means of relieving the cotton price situation, Gov. T. G. Bilbo yesterday advi growers to “pick two rows and leave the third.” .In a telegram to the Governors ef cotton growing States, Gov. Bilbo sug- each issue a proclamation urg- ing to adopt his pla would mean 15 to 20-cent cotton. ‘This plan, the Governor said, would cut the Government estimate from 15.- 000,000 to less than 10,000,000 bales this season. “The situation is 50 desperate.” Gov. bo's telegram said, “that ust organize for their own salvation.” ‘The tel went to the of Texas. s, Alabama, Tennes see, Oklahoma, _ Arkansas, m:lflllhv Filorida, Arizona, South Carolina,’ North Carolina and Missouri. SOVIET TEACHES WAR