Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1931, Page 1

WEAT (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast), Partly cloudy ton! not much change in erate westerly winds. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 11,12&13 HER. t and tomorros iperature, Mod- @b WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. H Associated service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 106,724 Entered as seco ,post _office, No. 31,885, Washington, nd class mat D. WASHINGT( )N. D. C., TUESDAY, .\l‘(}l'S’l‘ 18, 1931—THIRTY-SIX PAG (#) Means Associated TWO CEN Pre MACHADD DELAYS RETURN TO HAVANA . BATILE THREATENS Decisive Engagement Near as 2,000 Insurgents Con- centrate. PRESIDENT DECLARES | NATION INDIFFERENT Cuba Generally Reponed Quiet, With Santa Clara Tranquil in Face of 4,000 Troops. By the Assoctated Press HAVANA, August 18.—A decisive en- gagement between rebel and federal | troops in Santa Clara Province seemed | today to be in the making as President Gerardo Machado delayed his return to | Havana. \ Advices from the interior said insurgents, of whom 1,500 were el ‘ armed, were concentrated near Trinidad | and already had engaged in muwr wr- mishes. The President chang plans lzst night after m-nnmenu hwd ‘been made for his departure. ‘The arrival in Santa Clara of Clem- | ente Vazquez Bello, president of the | Senate, strengthened Indications thn an intensive battle was imminent. 1 Roads were carefully watched and the strictest censorship was clamped on | rews dispatches. Says Nation Indifferent. | President Machado announced that | the rebellich had been stamped out in every part of the island except Santa Clara and that the situation there was “not of sufficlent impertance to men- | tion.” The entire nation, he sald, was “indifferent to the revolution despite reports that the New York revclutionary Junta intended to continue direction of the rebellion following the capture of | Menocal and Mendieta. " Afrplanes flew over Havana and r pictures of former "“‘mfi.""""‘a Tuno?n 1nd Cal Carlos incbhnn!muluémc“.heln- surrection. Students circulated bul- letins saying the movement would con- flnn:. despite the incarceration of their said an army §ane OVeT | g¢ paul Island Naval Radio Station the intercepted the messages from the JUNTA REPORTS SUCCESS. | New York Leaders s.y They Need | Funds Only for Arms. | NEW YORK., August 18 (#).—Lead- | By the Associated Press | slightly under vesterday's record mark gpooo TEN MILLION DESTITUTE IN YANGTZE RIVER FLOOD meles: sands Dead—Water Supply Threat- ened—U. S. Relief Agent on Scene. itles to set a military HANKOW, China, August 18.—A fheir Hankow concession. carefully compiled survey in the hands have perished. | of Chinese authorities indicated today Dew Ganger |that at least 30,000,000 persons were supply as high water undermined the | homeless and about 10,000,000 of these reservo John Earl Baker. American, who has utterly destitute in the four provinces ,,a4eq several relief projects in China hardest hit by the current Yangtze reached here by airplane from Shang- River flood. hal to direct a survey of the damage The river bottoms area in Hupeh, 1n the tri cities of Hankow, Hanyang Anhwei, Hunan and Honan Provinces | foing mer itk (ree bities was named in the report as the hard- | reconnaissance. est hit. The Yangtze remained well - ! & VES NE. sbove the flood level here and only ' orrY LEAVES BY FLANE patrol around Thousands threatened to arise Heads Group Going Hankow to Study Situation. SHANGHAI, August 18 (#) —John of 53 feet 5 inchcs. It receded half an inca today, reviving hopes that the crest of the flood. which started three weeks ago, had been reached. Earl Baker, outstanding American au- Yesterday's high mark was 3 feet thority on Chinese disasters above the maximum level reached by PEIty which left by airplane today for | the river during the disastrous floods Hankow to study the flood situation in | of 1870. central China. Reports of lawlessness among des- _ Baker, who also is adviser to the rate refugees caused .hpcneu- -utnor- <Canunueu on Pne 2, Column 1.) LINDBERGHS HELD HOOVER PLEDGED ATPETROPAVLOVSK. LEGION SUPPORT Fog Along Route to Nemuro Wisconsin Convenhon Votes| Delays Take-Off From | to Back President as Kamchatka City. | in War Time. | Bpecial Dispatch to The Star CHIPPEWA FALLS. Wis., August 18, | —The American Legion and Auxiliary | of Wisconsin were pledged to “fight and work and labor for President Hoover as | they fought for the war President in | the World War." tion Monday night The pledge on behalf of the Legion was made by Vilas Whaley, former Wis- By the Associated PY; 3 _|consin department commander and NEMURO. Japan, August 18.—Nu-| ioogimagter, at the conclusion of an merous radio messages Indicated today address by Commodore Ernest that Col. and Mrs, Charles A. Lind- | Jahncke, Acting Secretary of the Navy, bergh had decided to wait on the weather before venturing over the fog- | ” NEMURO, Japan August 18 (#).— A radio message late tonight from the fiying Lindberghs at Petropav- lovsk, Kamchatka Peninsula, advised the Ochiishi wireless station here that they expected to start for Nemuro early tomorrow, weather permitting. lause. Commodore Jahncke flayed “political themselves as who are insiduously at of life by shrouded Kurile Islands in a flight from demagogues describing progressives, tacking the American w their Socialistic doctrines. | “our only danger lies Commodore | | Petropaviovsk, Kamchatks, to Nemuro, in continuation of their vacation tour. These reports were received after the ring thet within our own borders,” Jahncke urged the same loyal support of the President as would be given hiim in time of war. JAHNCKE HITS SOCIALISI safd it had intercepted a message from Mrs. Lindbergh saying the pair would take off today for Nemuro. M today there was fog at vari- | ous points along the 897-mile stretch | to CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. August their first stopping place in Japan, 18 (#) —Relieving _unemployment by but there were indications of clearing 3 and maintaining present wages scales was advocated tonight by Assistant Sec- weather. Broadeast Weather Reports. | retary Jahncke of the Navy Depart- | ment. the Ochiishi Wireless Station here, which | ™ Xgaressing Wisconstn State American_Legion convention. Jshncke denounced the dole and attacked “po- litical demagogues,” whose Droposals, he said, have a tendency toward | Marxtan ' Socialism steamer Kokusai Maru and other ves- sels off the Kamchatka coast, was broadcasting weather reports three times daily on the assumption that they | The problem of combatting the de- | | would be received by Russian operators | | pression, he said such evasive proposals at Petropaviovsk and assembled for the[puhm & Sbvite Chmtty Lindberghs When the Lindberghs finally hop | from Petropaviovsk, they will have com- “goes deeper than as_doles and The problem must be attacked at its root—and that root is the question how to control in- creasingly eficient mechanized produc- » Eataved ot 30.000.000—Thou- in the stoppage of the drinking water | His plane Janded after | for an aerial | to { headed a | at the State conven- Lee | wnu:n was followed by prolonged ap- | shortening the working day and week | IHOMES OF MINERS RAIDED IN HARLAN; FIREARMS FOUND Deputies Seize Rifles and Pistols and 2,000 Rounds of Ammunition. {SIX MEN ARE ARRESTED IN SERIES OF VISITS Wounded. | Court Prepares to Try Coal Strike Murder Case. News Correspondent By the Assoriated Procs | HARLAN, Ky.. August 18—1n a series of raids on the homes of striking minera in the Harlan County coal fields today | deputy sheriffs brought in six men charged with possessing arms and re- | ported they had seized more than 2,000 "munan of ammunition and confiscated | ® dozen rifies and several pistols ‘The men arrested were Pinley Powers, | fmrm Mulpr J. L. Van Hooser, Wil-! nd two colored men. 'rha d('yu!lu said %,000 rounds of am- | munition. eight rifles, two pistols and | ‘Vwo mmgun. were seized at the home| A quantity of radical litera- | \mre -Lw was found, officers reported. | Gibbs recently was released on bond | | atter a similar raid : Powers and Mealer were charged with {having shotguns and rifes. Similar | | charges were placed against Van Hooser Raids to Prevent Disorders. 107 RANCH STARTS LOADING 7S STOCK |60 Bammore Laborers Catch The raids were understood to have | been for the purpose of preventing .\ Troupers by Surprise—Ele- possible disorder during the coming s trials of more than 100 men growing| phants Are Docile. lout of coal field killings and outbreaks. | Vincent Blotti, a miner, was arrested ! resterday and charged with distributing radical literature Without waiting for an additional court order to prevent interference by | the 400 unpaid troupers, the manage- ty Sheriff R. G t Deputy Sheriff R. G. Blair sald today | ;0 'of the 101 Ranch Wild West Show he was in front of the court house| talking with Boris Isracl, correspond. | "CTELlY Imported a crew of 60 men from L for the Foderated Prews a 1por | BAitimore today and by noon half the s iy b "‘eqmpmem and stock had been moved news service, vesterday, when 10 OF| . onaratory to shipment back to Okla- | three men drove up in an automobile ’rm‘" | and casually offered to take Israel for | “rye g0 slephants. sald to be un- .. { manageable except by their - trainer. | Jack St. Claire, were docile in the experi- Blair said he did not know the men enced hands of Sidney Rink colored and paid little attention to them {elephant trainer from the Robinson Israel was taken out of Harlam and [Circus. With a crowd expecting trouble shot in the leg by the motorists. | watching, Rink moved among the huge He was in & Pineville hospital to- | Deasts and herded them off the lot day. but his wounds were not consid- | They were placed under & nearby clump | ered serious. Blair sald, no force was of trees, surrounded by & cordon of po- sed o get Isrmel into the car. Biair | lice. to await loading of the show equip- made no report of the incident. ment on the trains. Meanwhile court was moving llcnl‘l Court Hearing Continued. | with routine matters today, clearing the | Meenwhile a hearing on the applica- docket of civil motions preparatory to | tion for enlargement of the injunction starting of coal strike murder cases. | granted to the trustees against the Second Newspaper Man Wounded. |stranded employes was continued until Israel was the second newspaper man | tomorrow afternoon by Justice F. Dick- to be wounded during the labor trouble | inson Letts of the District Supreme here. Last month Bruce Crawford, | Court. Attorneys Harry S. Barger and editor of a Norton, Va., paper. was shot | Walter C. Balderston, for the trustee. in the foot as he was crossing a bridge | told the court the show was in progress here. He left Harlan in a bus after | of moving and there had been no show officers warned him it would be dan-|of opposition from the men, who gerous for him to drive through the | claimed $28,000 is due them in unpaid county in his automobile. The ambush | wages. shooting of Crawford is one of the| Attorney Norman B. Landreau, for the Shot by Motorists. Cireus Elephants Help Themselves To Farmers’ Truck By the Associated Press. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., August 18 —The circus parade was mov- ing along through Knoxville's busiest streets until the curb market was reached and the ele- phants spled farm frucks and wagons piled high with cabbage, corn, cantaloupes and such, ‘Things happened quickly there- after. Trunks dropped talls and the great beasts broke ranks like schoolboys at recess. All the farmers could do was retreat to | | places of safsty as the rowdy vis- itors scattered vegetables far and wide and devoured them with grunts of glee. The feast continued for some time until the elephants’ train- finally persuaded their | | FOREST FIRES DEFY CONTROL IN WEST Widespread Flames Sweep Valuable Timber and Menace Lives. By the Assoclaled Press. SPOKANE, Wash., August 18.—West- em Mont, Northern Idsho and Eastern Washington were red with un- counted forest and grass fires today. | Fanned by winds, thé flames were sweeping over timber and farms and menacing towns. ROOSEVELT SILENT - ONG. 0. P.INQUIRY: Associates Deny Governor Has Power to Extend Graft Probe. By the Associated Press, ALBANY, N. Y. August 18.—Al- though Gov. Roosevelt would not com- ment upon the request of State Senator Jobn J. Dunnigan, New York Demo- crat, for an fnvestigation of upstate Re- publican city and county officials, those close to the executive today declared the Governor was without power to | order a general investigation of that | character. Only through legislative ac- tion could an inquiry of such broad portions ted, they decl %-mm ROOSEVELT MAKES LETTER T0 HOOVER ON POWER PUBLIC New York Governor Says . Castle’s “Dear Frank” Note Is Not Official Reply. POLITICAL ASPECT SEEN PROBABLE IN DISCUSSIONS Authority Quoted »s Saying Substi- tution of Diplomacy for Com- missioners “Apparent.” By the Associated P ALBANY, N. Y. August 18.— Gov Roosevelt today made public contents of his letter to President Hoover in which he asked the President “to ad- vise me of the status of the negotiationx between the United States and Canada | relating to the drafting of a treaty cov- ering development of the St. Lawrence River in international section for na:- igation and power Mr. Rooscvelt’s request was based upon A letter he had received from Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the New York power authority. n which Mr. Walsh said it was “apparent” the United States and Canada Intended to | abandon the appointment of treaty commissioners and negotiate the water- ways question through diplomatic chan~ nels. ‘The State Department several da ago declared treaty negotiations wi'h | Canada had not been launched. Castie’'s Reply Published. An informal letter from Acting Sec- Tetary of State Cestle to Mr. Roosevelt | acknowledging the receipt of the Roose- velt letter was made public in Was ington yesterday ‘Washington., how- ever, did not make public the New York Governor's communication. Mr Roosevelt is understood to feel that the informal letter he received from Acting Secretary of State Castle, bearing the salutation “Dear Prank™ does not constitute an official reply to his formal letter to the President. letter from Mr. Castle, made public in Washington vester , according to the Governor's office. bore the date August 13. two davs after the Governor's letter was sent from Plattsburgh. ‘The New York Governor duwtched his letter to Mr. Hoover while on annual up-State inspection trip ll‘ » few days after he had | Massena Point and in i Prln.k P. Walsh, chairman, M. Cosgrove and Fred Freestone, mem- bers of the State’s power autherity. It | was during this trip that the Governor | recelved word that treaty negotiations were under way. The Governor had asked the President to name Mr. Cox- grove to the treaty body becauss of his familiarity with the State’s $171.- 000,000 power project. May Reveal Programs. ~ | Political experts profess to see a pos- grant immunity. was in the case of Dr. | Doyle, a retired horse doctor for the Pire Department, who represented cli- ents before the city board of stand- ards. The commitiee had information that he had split fees totaling more | than $1,500,000 in the past few years. sibility the present situation may bring the water power development theorics 10| and programs of Mr. Hoover and Mr. Rood:velt into bold relief because of the possibility they may face each oth.er in the 1932 presidential campaign. The text of the Governor's letter follows: “Referring to my letter to you of June 11, 1931, which was acknowledged by the secretary to the President under ers of the Cuban revolt in this country menced one of the mcst dangerous hops vacation journey { Although & map would seem to indicate |the flight from the Kamchatka capi- Dr. Fernando Ortiz. vice president of |14l o Nemuro a simple matter. much the junta here, declared the revolu-|Of it over land with the Kutiles & tionary forces were making consistent | SONVEDIent Sieppicy == headwzy despit the capture of two of |37 ADYLhIng stone. tion. “Obviously we cannot abandon, if | we would, the use of more efficient machinery. But one alternative re- mains, and that is to supply employ- ment by the reducing of hours of labor and shortening of the working week while maintaining the present high | standard of wages “We have created for ourselves an | crimes being investigated by the grand | jury empaneled yesterday, which sumed its deliberations today. Commonwealth’'s Attorney W. A Te- |of & show employes, asked the court to per- mit the filing of an answer and affida- | vits denying all the charges made in the trustee’s application. He also re- newed his application for appointment recefver, which had been denied Justice Cox The importat:on of the moving crew trom Baltimore caught the troupers by surprise. The firm of J. Norm Geipe. by on the train Set by Lightning. Authority Limited. date of June 20, 1931. I beg to sdvise its leaders, former President Mario G. Menocal and Col. Carlos Mendieta. He said President Machado did not care to inflict severe punishment on the | leaders in visw of the uncertainty of the situation. The revolt éculd continue for time, Dr. Ortiz added. “We do not | need money, excep. for guns and am- | munition. The question of finance i= much more important for the Machado government, since the government troops must be paid, while our fighters are all volunteers.” Dr. Ortiz said that the Cuban govern- ment had tried to win the favor of American Ambassador Guggenheim - by fiattering him and allowing him to win first prize in a “rumba” contest at the Havana Casino soon efter his arrival REBELS DESTROY POWDER. some | Ambessador Reports Damage to Quarry Owned by American. Destruction by Cuban insurrectionists of & small American quarry powder magazine at Arieta, in Santa Clara Province, was reported to the State De- partment tod: Ambessador Gug- genheim at Havana ‘The magazine was owned by N. A Allen, an American. The damage was eatimated st $5.000. The Ambassador said it was the only destruction of American property so far reported in the revolution Ambassador Guggenheim sald military activities in the revolt were limited almost exclusively to Santa Clara Proy- ince, where troops were still engaging insurgents. He added that as vet the government had not located Mendez Penate, Aurelio Hevia or Mariano Gomez, revolutionary leaders President Machado was said to have announced he would continue his pro- gram of constitutional reforms CHILE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE’S 1 25 miles ln fl hourl Aside from the danger of fog and maden storms, which have a habit of ashing the islands suddenly, the Kuriles lre sparsely inhabited. Like the Aleu- enormous giant—the machine. Now we must learn to control it “Although today there are miilions of unemployed, and the Winter ahead tians, they rise from the restless Pacific ' will without question be one of hard- waters, a string of volcanic peaks, dead ship in ma sections. nevertheless I t of the few inhabitants that we stand now on the are the hairy Ainus, a curious people, threshold of a new who live in the ground and hunt with | perity * * ** primitive weapons. Jahncke urged “loyal support” of e Ao ssatiie: the President, whom he termed “th commander in chief of the forces tha Preparations progressed rapldly here are fighting this depression.” for the reception of the Lindberghs for the first time on Japanese soil. A veri- table army of newspaper men and pho- tographers, with airplanes for the witt transportation of pictures of the land- ings to bther parts of the empire, was assembled here and the numiber was growing constantly Nemuro was said to have only two untenanted hotel rooms—apd these wers held for the Lindberghs While at Nemuro the fiylng couple will be guests of the town. The officizl greeters will include the town headran Sekiten Ando, and representatives of the Japanese customs, who will escort the fiye:s to the town hall for the of- ficial reception Short Visit Expected The Lindberghs' visit here is expect- ed 1o be briel. and then they will take off for the Kasumiguara naval base near Tokio, where their aerial vacation ends—temporarily at least Confirmation of Col. Lindbergh's an- nouncement at Nome, Alaska, that he and his wife would continue around the world in their speedy black monoplane stll was lacking here in which each alike without regard effort. energy and talent, where indl vidual initiative is outlawed, is the ap- parent uitimate aim of many of our political leaders today” he continued. “1 object particularly to their use of the word ‘progressive’ to describe them- selves * * they would have Government assume one by one the functions of private enterprise, they would stifie individual milative” VATICAN AND ROME PEACE TERMS SEEN Permanent D‘u"]unnn of Cathnlxc member is rewarded Action Organizations Pre- dicted. By the Associated Press ROME, August 18 Difficulties be- tween the Italian government and the Vatican are expected to be settled when | negotiations are resumed in the Fall on a basis of permanent dissolution of ; Catholic action organizations for youths | At the same time, observers believe, | the government probably will recognize the right of young people to join other socletlu of spiritual and parochial 'X'he foreign office said today that tem- Swims Gulf of Finland. HELSINGFORS, Finland. August 18 ) —~M. Laas, an Esthonian. swam the Gulf of Finland today from Nargoe Isiand to Porkala Beacon, covering the WIFE OPPOSES ELECTION TO POST| comtmationt i e “We Have No Ambmom," mann de Montero—Private Home Life Sacrificed. By the Associated Press. will wins. Though I opposed his acceptance, | Omr.emg: University {and that no negotiations are now under way, but that some nt { agreeme: Says Senora Graciela Fehr- probably will be Teached 1 the Pall MRS. LA FOLLETTE FAIR 3 MT-! s;ue c:u La n:uzm mol he late Senau ey - poiding t following an operal will benpu-d to the public gaze if he | for Anummy uwhk"mc—l at yester- James Ca- She Is the | o Wisconain, | I Governor of Wis- her sons are John Lyons a tal. dawn of pros- “The Marxian concept of a society | to proportional | Prober Declares Wealthy Japanese | Attacked by Three Men on Board Ship. A clety |t liner three Friday | cruise to Halifax, and | disappearance was reported | | by Miss Mary Reisner, who had ascom- wp‘med him as governess for his 7-year- | 0ld_daughter Toshika. | Two importing companies Fujmura | headed engaged Harry C. W. Melick, an | attorney, to investigate, and he said to- | | day he had learned from other peasen- | | gers that three men bad entered Fuji-| mura’s state room early Priday morn- {ing The four. Sghting desperatel;. ac- cording to Melick's information, were | then seen to struggle along a co-Tidor | to the deck All New York waters were under scru- tiny of Coast Guard vessels todiy in hope of finding the importer's body. Fujimura lived ‘at Norwalk, Conn. with | his wife and three children. |BREMEN CATAPULTS | PLANE FROM DECK Brock said he planned to seek trial tomorrow if William M. Burnett, & miner charged with siaying Deputy | pute that occurred some time b re | two other deputies, a mine commissary clerk and a miner were slain in & gun | hired to load the show Notice has been served on 14 of the [about 7 am. Under the direction of defendants charged with murder as a ~Egyp.” Thompson. veteran circus man i result of the Evarts quadruple killing |the stands and “big top” began coming county, not adjoining Harlan, job would be completed before night |” The show people stocd watching, bu: = | no eflort was made to interfere with REPORTS MISSING tie ibze mere ‘and there. | Rink arrived about 10:30 o'clock lMPORTER BEATEN bull hook” in hand. With loud com- | he mastered the beasts without diffi- | culty. Before he started working, how- ever, police cleared the elephant teat | case the beasts made a break Humane Society Pleased. presentative of the Humsane So- animals were bring handld the Associated Press Todsy marked the fourth attempt to move the equipment and stock of the ney engaged to investigate the disap- < ot remained in Washington since the last | pearance of Hisashi Fujimura, wealthy | performance. The men refused to move | importer, from the Belgenland | the show until approximately $28,000 in . oy owners mnnum-u they had no funds v:z?;];:wm‘a been set upon by With wieh to pay -n,, elbilind veturned: et In the previous attempts to load the - by & few words from the show employes. h"“”” . Today. however. the troupers were caught by surprise and the Baitimore a chance ‘o speak to them For an hour as the “big fop” came down Tea Price, Oklahoma cowboy strummed on a guitar, with a hundred comrades gathered about him. Then he left to board a frelght, refusing to _The_troupers are sbout evenly di- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5. Pouch on le to Engl-nd Found 8lit Open When Examined Sheriff Jesse Pace during a labor di battle near Evarts brought 60 'aborers to the lot in vans | that they would be tried in some other |dOWN, and it was estimated the entire the ladorers, other than dropping caus- | mand:, slaps and digs with the hook {of all persons not employed there, in sxpressed satisfaction at the way "'NEW YORK August 18.—An attor- stranded show during the 15 days it has | announced today he had evidence the|Dback ‘wages was paid them and the . train, i1e laborers nave been dissuaded crew reached the lot before any one had troubador sang his farewell as he 30_back home with the show train FROM NASSAU ROBBED Aboard Leviathan. |German Liner Sends Mail to Bos- ton, Creating Halifax | Mystery. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 18 —Postal au- thorities disclosed today that a pouch | of registered British mail been cut | open, seven 1s stolen, and the rest A By the Associsted Press e St ‘bag. HALIFAX, August 18.—The North German Lloyd liner Bremen repotted by wireless today that it had catapulted |-mllphmhunlu¢eckmhmun¢ to_carry mail to Boston. This was believed to be the German plane | was at which Wolfgang von Gronau is fy- ltu o America by way of Greenland. Ini- PlMfl Pm I-ll hamas, on its way to England, was transferred from the liner Munargo by llllll truck to the liner Leviathan. A Amerfcan vessel re- vealed & lh!fl. ‘What the stolen pack- ll- contained was unknown, inspectors Thne weeks ago & package mnmnml $25.000_in currency, consigned to the myulnknlmhnnchinmw York. disappeared from the liner Maure- | ing paved the way to settlement of the mall, brought from Nassau, Ba- | Hourly reports of new fires, some of them raging uncontrolled through vast stands of timber, came in here. Most were lightning set, but many, forest officials said, obviously were incendiary. Thousands of fl[hlsu were on the fronts and probably as many more were | being recruited or were struggling over | difficult mountain trails to reach the | flames. Human casualties have not been re- | ported, but at least three men were | unaccounted for and many farm ani- | mals were destroved. In & half dozen places farmers were fleeing from their homes. Two churches at Troy, Idaho, were turned into temporary refugee bases and many private homes had their quotas of homeless farmers. Join Fire Fighters. Pleasure seekers at two resorts-—Dla- mond Lake, in Northeast Washington, | and Tiberty Lake. 16 miles east of here | -turned fire fighters as es uuuc’ near their homes. Much of the territory burning m\ Central Idaho is in the white pine belt, ‘ where the largest forest of its kind in | the world stands Forest officials say the extremely low humidity, lack of rainfall and unfavor- | able winds make this one of the worst | fire years since 1910, when millions of | acres of virgin timber were destroyed COLOMBIA, ECUADOR RESUME RELATIONS Argentine Government Credited With Ending Schism Caused by Boundary Dispute. By the Associated Press QUITO, Colombia, August 18—Diplo- | matic relations between Colombia and Ecuador, severed in November, 1925, were resumed today The efforts of the Argentine govern- ment as arbiter were credited with hav- dispute. The Ecuadorian Minister in Panama is to become Minister to Bogola and Ismael Arciniegas, a Colombian news- paper man, will be his couatry’s Min- ister here. and Ecuador sev- ered diplomatic relations. The aetion had its roots in ratification by the Co- lombian Congress of a boundary treaty with Peru, despite Ecuadorian protests against the cession of land involved. u-u--ulpmuumv-ney which Ecuador held to be part of a parcel ceded to Colombia by Ecuador | on condition that it should not be Gll~ posed of, by Colombia except by return- Ecuador. { ng it One of Gov. Roosevelt's advisers sald “Apparently Senator Dunnigan has | & misconception of the functions of the Legislature snd tne Governor. The executive has certain prescribed func- tions and authority to order investiga- tions of certain spacific complaints “‘General investigator power never has been exercised by the executive and never will. It is purely a function of | the Legislature.” Gov. Roosevelt had “nothing to say” | to reports that his action in calling a special session of the Legislature to strengthen a legislative committee’s in- vestigation of New York was interpreted as & “break” with the Tammany fac- tion of his party. . PARTY RIFT SEEN. Breach Between Governor and Tam- many Held Widening. NEW YORK. August 18 (#).—While Tammany Hall's petition to Gov. Roose- velt for an investigation into ulleged corruption In up-State Republican cities was being drafted yesterday, the prc pect was seen in some political rirc here of a widening rift between Tam- | many and the man prominently men- tioned as possible Democrati: presiden- tial candidate. The demand that the Hofstadter | Committee broaden its inquiry Into the Democratic government of New York City to include such Republican strong holds as Buffalo and Binghamtoa v drawn up by Senator John J. Dunn! gan, spokesman for the Democratic minority of the ¢ommittee. With the demand the Democratic \conunuad “on Pue 2. Column 3. you that I have received the following | letter from the power authority of the | State of New York. ““‘In your letter to the President under date of June 11, 1931, you requested him to appoint as a member of the propased treaty commission with Canada, Mr | Delos M. Cosgrove, vice chairman of the power authority of the State of New Yo * “This letter, we understand, was ac- knowledged by the secretary to the President under date of June 20, 1931 Have Held Conversations. “‘Since that date members of the sower authority have held informal con- versations in Canada looking to the | furthering of plans for a dam in the | international section of the St. Law- | rence River. “These conversations, it has been made apparent that the governments of the United States and the inton of Canada are considering the abandon- appointment of treaty eom- and the substitution therefor of direct negotiations through diplo~ matic channels alone between the fed- eral governments of the two countries lookh\u 1o the drafting of a treaty. | These advices seem borne out by statements in the Canadian and Amer- ican press. ‘May we again call your attention to the vital importance that the State of New York be represented in the ne- | gotiations with Canada and that this | right is recognized In the fourth con- clusion of the report of the United | States-St. Lawrence Commission upon the development of shipway from the Great Lakes to the sea, submitted by President Hoover, at that time Secre. (Continued on Page 2. Column 8.) 42 WOULD-BE TOREADORS FALL IN HISTORIC “FIESTA OF SAN FERMIN” Receive Slight Wounds From Horns of Bulls and Cows Released in Pamplona Streets. By the Associated Press. PAMPLONA, Spain, August 18— -two would-be toreadors fell be- | fore the vicious horns of the wild bulls and cows released in the city streets during this year's observance of the his- toric “flesta nf lln Fermin.” Thelr slight wounds were received in the two major events which sets aside the-annual week of bull-fighting dufln( the San Fermin flesta from the ordi nary tun of bull ring battles. They | conslst of the so-called “inclosure” of bulh destined for the usual affray in | ind the liberation in the city ,u- "a half-dozen small, but valiant cows, to challenge the best technique of | those who | huge and thoro are rel at & stip a ot to the bull- " or super-! uvon cl'.y ,,......_p..;“.::.“"‘. h &l and al A ch-muhia. | It is & case where agllity and fleet- | ness constitute the only barriers to de- eat. Usually. in the heat of the chase | various “toreadors,” more it tl‘n | their companions, attempt to pass | wave of stamping animais to >y mn | or_another, using coats or sombreros in | & bit of fancy cape work to divert the | plunging herd Those who are not caught in this {mad scramble then seek the public piaza where then can show their skill | with improvised capes and dummy swords against the Infuriated lunges of | the cows. | _ Rules of the flesta do not permit the | Tiried 16 thelr pastures jollovioy their tu ir But the harvest of bout luxpennon of the inclosure laza ceremonies, these events have pown an increasing popularity each r.