Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1931, Page 2

THE EVENING GERMAN FINANCE CRISIS HELD EASED Co:nplete Government Con- trol Established, Commer- cial Attache Reports. The financial crisis in Germany has : subsided follow.ng a series of emerg=n2; decrees over foreign financial trancactions and cbviating further important withdraw- als and the flight of German capitil, the Commerce Department was advised today by Commercial Attache, H. Law- rence Groves, at Berlin. The severity of the crisis, Mr. Groves said, left Germgn business in a weak- ened condition despite the early reduc- tion of the Reichsbank discount rate to 10 per cent and the collat?ral loan rate 1o 15 per cent. He asserted that bank charges to custcmers zre still so high | that business is greatly hampered in all | lines. Foreign Exchange Provided. The Reichsbank now permits estab- lished end reliable firms to secure ade- quate foreign exchange to pay current ond future import purchasss, Groves said. but iorces foreign exporters to maintain a revolving six months’ c dit equivalent to their credit out- standing through banks to German cus- | tomers on July 13 for merchandise ac- counts The commercial attache’s cabled ve- port said the Stock Exchange was still closed, with probable reopening early in September. The extent to which securi- ties have declined s, therefore, not evident. Small lots of the best Ger- man_ industrial issues have been pri- vately offcred at prices well below the Jast quotations before the crisis, but it is assumed that these oers refiect the urgent necessity of a few holders to | obtain cash, without representing the trading value of such stocks when the exchange reopens. Continuing, Mr. Groves said: “The government has secured control of both the Darmstaedter Bank and the Dresdner Bank and must continue their operations in official hands for an indefinite period. Domination of the banking field is further assured through government ownership and manage- ment of ~ther banks, notably the Ren- tenbank, the Gold Discount Bank, the Reichscredit Anspalt, the Bank of In- dustrial Debenturcs and Sechandlung, together with the patrol of 75 per cent of new acceptance and guarantce banks. The Devtschebank is the only outstanding exception. Capital Flight Continues. “Although capital flight through large transactions was_effectaally prohibited, the drain of funds froh Germany con- tinues on a emall scale, as small vestors can obtain foreign exchange n units below $750. This movement, hcor- ever, operate s slowly and is not imme. - ately feit, waile the high interest rais have forced a large proportion of tae| circulating currency in the banks which are now abundantly supplied with mark funds, but lack borrowers at the pres- ent excrbitant rates. “Thus banking has not been sub- stantially reduced sincc the crisis, ex- eent for saving banks, many of whose customers are small working people vho sre hoarding in memory of the Infla- tior. This movement has, for the first time, interrupted the steady gain of savings deposits, with the June figure at 11,073,600,000 marks, or $150.000, 000 marks bsiow that o May, while the | fon tn July was still larger. "du’l?l!w crisis has agiin proved the essential orcerlinasy and discipline of the German public when confronted with a shutdown of all banks and with government administration by emer- gency decrees issucd ing the most difficult period. Trade and industry were grestly affected by the crists, but daily busisess was carried on as usual by a grzat majority of en- terprises, as reflected in production and employment figures £ Jobless Increase. Mr. Groves said the ictal unemploy- ment at th> beginning of August amcunted to 3,970,600, of whom 1,205~ 000 received ordinary reliel: 1027.000 emergency relief. and the remainder d°- pendent on local welfare. There were a total of 3.962.000 unemployed during July, ‘Trade union unémplovment in June, he sald, amounted to 30.2 per cent ©of all members, with additional 174 per | cent working a short time. The be't ghowing was made in mining, chemicsls and textiles, with wocd workers and metal workers in a less favorable po tion, he explained | According to Mr. Groves' report bankrupteles in July totaled 1,013 and receiverships, 63 ‘The commercial attache said 1 money increased during August from 12 to 14 per cent, bank loans, frg 16 to 20 per cent. while the prive discount market remaided practl non-existent. He added that action from the governrient is awa in several unsettied protlems. official pressure to break the price rates, particularly in ret:i and the establishment of some of central control for government financial institutions now vari ministered, such contrsl to have supervisory power remains of German priviite ban CURIOUS TER.M!NOLOGY OF BUSINESS VENTURES REVEALED BY CENSUS sluntars, rtner- in nd the his busi- se store and Meat I 8l over I do $15.000 wife and ¢ An enu eport stating that s in a prietor but Yis r reporied just One distressed m ing to support ber pense.” The returns also showed that a nu ber of men with original idess used their names to acvantage in naming their places of business. John Wade, a restaurant owner in one of the Mid- western_States, calls his place “Wade Philip Kail, who aiso operates house, gave his place the title of “Kail Restaurant.” D. P. Her- ring_owns a fish market in one of the New England States. One irate owner of a business con- cern, after answering all of the ques- ticné on the return, added this heart- | felt comm:nt: “1 think this is & damn | nuisance.” Fire Department Planned. ERSTOWN, August 19 ciah)Smithebarg; wiiich s st a water system, took the first definite ps toward formaiion of & it at & mass e e - establishing complete control | Mr. | most caily dur- | Bpe- MRS. LA FOLLETTE DIES HERE AT 72, FOLLOWING OPERATION Was Counselor of Family of Pro- gressives. Noted Senator and Governor, Sons, | Accompany Body to Wisconsin. | | Mrs. Belle Case La Follette, widow, | mother and counselor of noted Progres- sive leaders, died in Georgetown Uni- versity Hospital late vesterday after an operation for an intestinal disorder. Her | sons, Robert M. La Follette, jr., United States Senator from Wisconsin, and Philip La Follette, Governor of that | | State, were with aer when the end | came. So was a deughter, Mrs. Ralph | G. Sucher, who makes her home in | Washington. Accompanied by tae sons and daugh- ter, the body was .0 be placed on a train_at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. The funeral party i5 scheduied to ar- rive at Madison, Wis,, at 5:40 Toursday afternoon, A second daughter, M; | George Middleton, will join the train |in Chicago. Tentative plans for the funeral are for a simple ceremony, | elther at the La Follette family home {in Madison or at the executive mansion there, Mrs. La Follette, 72 years old, was ill for such a brief time that very few |of her friends knew she was in the | hospital. Her two famous sons reached !the bedside only a few mnours bpetore her death, after making hurried journeys from Wisconsin by airplane iand train. After her operation Mon- | day, she was reported recovering, and |even yesterday her paysicians expected | her to pull through. | | Engaged on Biography. Mrs. La Follette had recently with- | drawn from the sovial and political | circles which knew her so well up 1o the time of the deata of her husoand in 1925, and had been engaged in writ- |ing_his’ biography. More than 50 years ago she left a farm to enter the Ualversity of Wis- consin, where she met Robert M. La | Follette, who was to become her hus- {band. Later she beciume that univer- | sity's first woman lav graduate. She 'never practiced that profession, how- | ever, devoting her energies to forward- { ing the causes of her husband and her {sons. She would not even yield to & | demand that she run for the Senator- | ship left vacant by tie death of her husband, but instead took an active part in helping her son to win the | election. Yet she was an’ ardent preacher of feminism snd a worker for | woman suffrage. |~ Seeing her husbanc. push forward | from_district attorney to a candidate for the presidency in 1924, she refused to be stopped by his death, and sent her sons to the State’s highest posi- tions. She saw new achievements inscribed on the family roll of polftical victorics last Fall when her other son, Philip Fox La Follette, was elected Governor of Wisconsin. Writings Are Extensive, After continuing La Follette's Mag- azine as a national publication for four years after the death of her husband, {or until 1929, she devoted her writing | to assembly of his biography. Pre- | viously she had been tne author of many articles on forelgn and Ameri- can political economy. Mrs. La Follette opposed wars almost 25 strongiy as her husband. She indorsed | the Soviet idea of what he called “hap- piness for all” in 1923. But her views |on the present system of government in Russia had not been expressed in | this section of the count-y recently. { In fact, her voice had not been heard {in her home State for several yeurs. £he was unable to attend the inaugu- ration of her son “Fhil" as Governor cst January. She had lived here since ibe death ‘of the senior member and founder of the “La Folleite dynas.y,” opponients of Progressivism labeled | the family tenure in office. | But her political acumen in “Phil's" campaign &nd the previous one of “young Bob” for the United States Sen- { ate was admitted. It was the elder La Follette who gave s wife the name “the counselor.” He ed to the able ussistance she ren- red in his office and his home while he rose from private law practice to district attorney, United States Repre- sentative, Governor and Senator and to the Progressive nomination | for the presidency in 1924 Progressive Home Forum. active campaigner, both for wom- e and for her husband in La Follette nevertheless % in making the wonk feum of Proyressivism. 1t and her An er wisdom s mothe: perennis] youth of mental outlock that called forth the young Senator's tribute. T%¢ marvelous thing about her, to the Senator said last n.ght, “was : youth intellzet that allowed her that she was between the pioneer and the new order—to appreciate the Froblems of this modern age.” Bort Wonewoc, Mrs. La Follette girlhood 2t Baraboo. Fhe t Marion L Follette op the the State University at 74 led several years wed the first p le: school t:aching 1889. La Follette aad ju she i n sion That wa t vent back udieq law, By district at- t woman gradu- shared public urd she life as few wives of done. 4 Polist 1906, after Mrs, La F t has be ) the in ishrd maintained I Here the family reguia public affars in which r since discussed the La Follette 1cse to leader Bofore the World War also was a mecca red their ‘deas noted Mrs. La Folleite's iberal g But used in fav ted saw Polilp vlected to the ery ors| For ye husbaid 2utobl »g Follutte urged her down to date h was published w 8 tory in 1912. When he died vithout having ‘ound time for the Husband and Wife Must Keep Silent As Divoree Pends By the Associuted Pross, GARY, Ind., Auguit 19.—Un- 4l their_divorce suits are secticd, Grorge . Bicknell apd his wif-, Pinsy, must ot spesk to each other. 1 they do they are Hoble to be ciad for contempi o court An in‘unction rdy them Was oo 2 Judgs Ciate ., was s A BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE. vmdertaking, she determined to pre- sent the whole plctur: of his life. Thus the widow withdrew from ‘so- clal functions soon after the elder La Follette died and came to live in virtual seclusion during the last few years. Living with the young Senator until his marriage this year, she spent hours at her typewriter, Messages Eulogize Character. Many messages brought eulogies of Mrs. La Follette to her family Senator Vandenberg of Michigan said “she was one cf the rare characters in the history of motherhood and citizen- ship.” Senators Davis of Pennsylvania, Glass of Virginia and Moses of New Hamp- shire were among the first to send c-n- dolences, and Senztor Costigan of Colo- rado said she was a rarely beautiful spirit. Her loss is a national loss DATA ON UTILITIES GIVEN T0 HOOVER Secretary of Electric Light Association Discusses Con- ditions During Visit. President Hoover has heard more defi- nitely of the general condition of pub- | lic utility business from a visitor to th White House, Paul F. Clapp. secret of the National Electric Light Ass tion The association Is working a plan whereby utilities workers would b2 assured employment for a specified length of time. Clapp, howe discuss that with the President the proposal is yet being conside: a special National El:ctiic Light Asso- nce | clation Committee, Although power furnished to ind tries has fallen off 15 per cent, Clay said the decrease had been partially made up in an 8!, per cent inc domestic consumption. Gro: were only 1 per cent les mouths of this year period last year. Clapp said that the National El Light Association Committee is willing to do the preliminary work neces instituting throughout the utilities in- | dustry the job-guarantes plan alroady put into effect in one branch of the General Electric Co Invest'gation thus far, however, irdicated the rational association can do nothing but gather data to support the idea and present them to individual utility companies with the recommen- dation that such a policy, or a similar one, be instituied. The special committee will meet shortly for further consideration of th plan. which Clepp said probably could be present:d to the scparate compani within the next month. The proposal contemplates that em- ployers, figuring the 10u per cent work vear 8s 52 weeks, would guarantee to each employe at Jeast 60 per cent work Meanwhile the United States Cham- ber of Commerce Committes on the Continuity of Business and Employment continues to ponder the question. Julius H. Barnes, chairman of the board of the chamber, is among those who have urg.d essurances of steady employment. He contends that employment pua untres would establish a formidabie barrier against depressions. The Chamber Bus attempting to have ready for presents tion to President Hoov 1 &n unemployment The Presigent is being cevelopments 1n th key industries to gu employ ne Senator Tows aseried *ha plan” is in *ae ofilr LINUBERGHS AFLOAT GFF KETO! ISLAND: FORCED DOWN TWICE ) relief program kept posted on co-operation by antee long-time Dickinson f istrati ied of eaming r cf thes Ketol before late 2 berghs were somwhat he dangers they face messages the positior vess Lindbergh repeated the reque times before landing Retraced Course. Leaving Petropavlovsk at 8:45 6:45 pm. Tuesday. E. S. T) after wo and one-half days' delay in the vacation flight because of bad weather the fiyers made good time down the island chain after ng their motor Messages from ihe plans indicatod they i flown out in the gion of belore am for about landing - indborgh v would b ing the piar pou. Tokio S e ” th T d the landing at id they would resume their “a¢ soon as possibhe. The fog baak evidently camie upon the Lirdbergh trail win speed. Radio Imessages rom the plan: 1o the commiaiications departiient in- dicated the ‘white darkness” shut off their view o Mrs. Lindbergh was transmitting the reports. saying they were turnin; back and were zbout o jand at Shimt hiru Apparently the fog bank hid fhimu- sh.ru 1sland befcre they reached 't, and they overshot Muroton Bay. Thm. in inquiring for the positions of the iy=urby ships, Mrs, Ling h told O.alishi Station that she could n:t send to it after landing and would endeaviw o | ve:ch the ships by witeless after coning down, | Oechilshi said the Lindberghs were isolated by iMe fog for more ths; an hour before oy finally sighted ‘and | thr, 1t and at 145 rey! Ketot dov on | er, did not | by | has | ness Committee 1~| by September | og-rnghrouded time | fiight | the island chaty while | STAR. WASHINGTON VINES IS VICTOR . INSHIELDS MATCH |California Youth Enters New- port Semi-Finals With Net Win. By the Associated Press. | NEWPORT, R. I, August worth Vine, 19-year-old California ten- | nis sensation, today gained the semi- {final round of the Newport Casino tournament by dazzling Francls X. Shields of New York, second ranking i player and Davis Cup star, with his | amazing stroke repertory for a 3— | 6—1, 6—3. 6—0 victory . | The youngster, who has chopped | down most of the Nation’s outstand- ing stars this season, had trouble han- diing Shields' terrific service in the | opening set. ‘The Davis Cup player | opened by dropping the first service game, but during the remainder of the first set Vines was completely baffied | by his high-bounding offerings, smash- | the base line | Masters Service. | Vines, however, quickly e Shields' service and pulled up even in the second set with a long series of |terrific forehand shots that forced | Shields to run all over the court. | Shields was able to get his racquet on | broke his service. Vines' perfect forehand strokes amazed the gailery. He slashed at Shields' feet, trapped him almost at will and then when Shields tried to upset him by rushing to the net, cool | passed him with vicious slices to the corners. Shields tried hard in the fourth set. Several times he put on a sensational stresk, only to have the masterly Californian pull up to deuce with his deadly forchanders and then take the games with a pair of drives that caught Shields flat-footed, the same tactics that gave him 12 of the last 13 games. Van Ryn Beats Grant, Jehnny Van Ryn, another member of the United States Davis Cup forces, lost the first two sets to Bryant Grant | before he steadied down to eliminate the unseeded Atlanta player, 8—1 0—6, 6—1, 6—3, 6—2, for a semi-final | match against Vines in the lower half lof the draw Quarter-finais—Singles: Ellsworth Vines, Pasadena, Calif., de- feated Francis X. Shields, New York, 3—6, ¢ —1, 6—0. John V Ry Philadelphia, de- feated B Grant, Atlanta, Ga., 8—10, 0 6—3, 6—2 u.s, PROBES WAGES ON SCHOOL PROJECT TO_ENFORCE SCALE (Coniinued From First Page) where simply law ing wage scale | Recently. the work is done, the contract incorporates a reference to-the is Secretary of Labor Doak, { whose decision is ~made _conclusive under the statutes, held that as to | painters the prevailing wage scale in { Washington was identical with the union wage scale. When pressed for details scale now being paid, Hunt said that “I don't see that it's any of the lic’s business what wages we pay. All I can tell you is that_we pay the prevailing wage scale. Furthermore Controller John McCarl has ruled that there is no such thing as a prevailing | wage scale. He made that ruling on a job we are doing at Port Bragg, N. C. That law doesn’t mean anything. _Maj. Holland L. Robb, Assistant En- gineer Commissioner in charge of the District building program, said that when the wage scalejlaw was passed, he had been in favor of puiting into the contract the wage scales paid by the | District government to its own worke um, but that the attorneys istrict had decided that this would be unwise, and no specific wage | scale was therefore incorporated in the contra€t The be pointed out | penalty a violation, and so even if |# contractor should refuse to keep to {a wage scale provided in the contract, there would be nothing the District could do about it under the law. PAINT ROW SEEN. of the wage w for Eleven-Dollar Wage May Bring Court Fight. Construction reiterated its to court rather than pay now_working on the {inte new Internal Revenue { Building $11 per day. as ordered by the ‘Treasury rtment. 1t was {today by Herman Morris, foreman on he job | Morris The Alliar | New York mination e today 80 ters Co. o1 explained, however, that he ad not ye: received official notice from Treasury Department and that he does nol know what his company’s ac- tual court action might be when that notice is reccived offic-ally Cites Wording of Contract. declared that if forced to pay $11 day ihe Alliance Co. be obliged to pay out “much any more” than it is paying because of the current vary- scale of pay it is using. Some of painters s declared, are be- peid $12 a day, but, he ined good men who worth more a Mo that its cont contains a ¢ | the “prevail be paid “It does mot say, th> “union scale,’” Morris said. “The prevailing scale in | the District is $7.20 and bv ‘prevailing.’ | T mean the ‘majority’. There are 400 nion painters in the District, but there ! are 2,000 non-union painters. 1 don't se= how the pay set by the union—the $11-a-day scale—can be cilled the “pre- vailing' scale when such a few men be- long to the organization that claims it.” Morris adled that while thy recognized $720 a day. o hour, as the “prevailing w va a_dol Lot | ing the expi a ate $8 his company contends with the Government which specifies that 3" scale of wages was to 90 cents e scale,” ar_an hour to its painters on Revenue Building job, POLICEMAN A.COUITTED OF “HIT-RUN” CHARGE Hugh A. Turner of Third Precinct Dismissed After Presenting Alibi Evidence. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT- HOUSE, August 19.—A charge of “hit- and-run” lodged against Policeman Hugh A. Turner of the third precinet station, Washington, following an auto- mobile accident In which a Washington th was slightly injured August 8, Was dismissed by Judge Harry Thomas the tag | number of his machine had been turned over to county police by a number of motorists who saw Wesley Perkins, 15, of 1816 Kalorama road, struck down end slightly o by a hit-and-run driver cn Lee 19 —Elis- | ing them into the net or driving over | mastered | |a few of them and these placements | does not specify what the prevail- | provided o | deter- | Others are Teceiving Alliance | ng & minimum of $8 a duy /! D. C, WEDNESDAY, COLLAPSNG DAE RASES FLODDTOL Hundreds Perish When Yang- tze River Crashes Through Hankow Protection. E By the Assocated Press. HANKOW, China, August 19.—Flood | waters of the Yangtze River today broke | | through the big Chiakow Dike protect- ing Hankow's western suburb, inundat- |ing the native industrial district and | taking several hundred more lives. Adding to the chaos of the last three | weeks, in which flood waters have | robbed some 30,000,000 persons of their | homes &nd left 10,000,000 of them des- titute, the renewed onslaught of the! (river covered the highest ground in | | Hankow under 5 feet of water and the | lower areas 10 to 20 feet under. Epidemics More Serious. | Epidemics became more serious {among the refugees, who had nothing | {to drink but flood water. Typhoid, | cholera end dysentery raged unchecked among the Chinese. Industry in Hankow was demoralized. Big flour, cotton and silk mills were flooded when the dyke broke. Such confusion prevailed that it was impos- { sible to count the casualties All foreigners were reported safe. The majority of foreign women had left or were leaving on every available steamer. Chinese were moving out by all other usable channels of travel Big river junks were moving through what once were streets, removing refugees and valuables from homes and warehouses In Wuchang an important dike burst. In the ancient city of Hanyang the | waters topped the gates of the city wall, American on Hand. Today's castastrophe here was wit- nessed by John Earl Baker, American | relief expert and adviser to the Chinese railway ministry, who is heading a party surveying the stricken area. The flooded district includes the river bot- toms of four provinces, Anhwei, Hupeh, Hunsn and Honan. Baker described the flood as “probably China’s most terrible disaster in the | present century.” The Chinese government has organ- ized an extensive relief agency and has | issued a nation-wide appeal for help. Inquiries have been made of the Americen Farm Board looking toward possible purchase of surplus American wheat on credit for use among the refugees. Higher Than Monday. The Yangtze River touched a level of | 53 feet 6 inches here today, 1 inch higher than the previous record level | of Monday. Late Monday and Tuesday the | Yangize began to recede. Then came | {a fresh {npouring from the north through the Han River, which empties into the Yangtze here. More disasater followed. A big dike on the right bank of the Yangtze 47 miles down stream | collapsed, fiooding a wide farming area. Until the last rise the dikes on the | right bank had held fairly well, keepirg a copsiderable area dry. However, along | the left bank, especially above here, | the bottoms were submerged as far as the eye could reach. Villages were in- undated entirely. Refugees were ev where, clinging to ruined dikes and other 'embankments. Calamity extended its grip even to | the lower Siang River, especially along its left bank between Yochow and its | confluence with the Yangtze. All vil- lages and arable lands along this stretch were destroyed. The Siang finally receded. its flood waier passing |into the Yangtze, { Refugees Pack Streams. | tionable { Al down-river steamers from Han- | kow were packed with refugees today They had abandoned hopes of savivg anyihing from their homes. Evacua | tion of Japanese women and chiidr was almost completed. A few Ameri-| | can and European women and children | remained in this vicinity, going to | Summer resorts in the nearby moun- | tains. { Virtually all of Hankow was without power, light and ice. The tclephone system broke cown. Live high-tension wires trailed across the water-swept | streets. Reports here indicated conditions in | Hanyang and Wuchang, which ure old valled cities with rarrow streels and ly constructed brick and rubble re worse than in buildings in ’ a Buildings in the older cit were collapsing, entrapping occupan | Authoritative foreign sources asscrted | that despite the menace of epidemic | Chinese suthorities had done nothing in the way of sanitation. Persistent rumors of threatened Communist tacks heightened the terrors for | three cit: f FLOOD AID LOAN PLANNED. | the asserted'| Chinese Nationalists Would | $6,00€.000 by September 1. | 19 ®) Raise | SHANGHAI August Au- thoritative sources disclosed today that the Nationalist government finance ministry was planning to float & domestic loan of $20,000,000 Mexican bout $6,000,000) for fiood relief pur- poses, probably about September 1 It was said this amount probably would be increased by additional issues, s the needs were made clear, and that such funds would be used for opere tions in which cash was immediately necesss such portation charges on_Ameri t which the Chinese govesnment hopes to purchase on_long-term credit The government was represented as being hopeful that cash would not be needed to purchase United States wheat and that a credit arrangement would serve. Col. G. G. Stroebe and Dr. Herbert Chatley, chief engineers, respectively. of the Yangtze and Whangpoo River con- servancy districts, said the present flood | ras "3 tfeet above the previous record of 1870, and of tremendous width and | volume.” They described the flood as “a calamity far exceeding all prognosti- cations.” T. V. Soong, Nationalist finance min- ister and head of the Flood Relief Com- mission. denied reports that his gov- ernment planned to send representa- | tives to America to raise relief funds. | The commission sald _ $2.000.000 (Mexican) appropriated by the Nation- |alist governmenl already had been | made available for relief work. | It also reported experts from many | | branches of the government had be {drafted for flood work, and aerial sur- | vey organized, an information service | formed " to gather data and that co-op- cration had been asked of charitable and philantbropic organizations in | China ‘and abroad. some of which had already made substantial gift: Lawn Party Planned. RIVERDALE, Md. August 19 (Spe- cial).—A lawn party will be heid this evening at the home of Mrs. O. B. Ballingers, Lincoln avenue, for ti benefit of & project which js being |carried on by the local Prefbyterian {Church. The affair_is sponsored by the Senior Young Peoples Christian | Endeavor Society of the church. L e TR Weevil's Spread in Oklahoma. OKLAHOMA CITY, August 19 (#).- Harry B. Cordell, presid:nt of the State Board of Agriculture. has announced boll weevils, scourge of Southern cotton ficlds, bave red in Southeast>in Oklahoma in numbers that the State’s 1831 crop be ed to lecs n bales. imat e AUGUST 19, 193Y. Location of Cuban Fighting i 0LD CONSTITUTION Restoration of Rights Aim of Rebel Forces—Success Seen as Possible. BY WILLIAM H. FORT. By Cable to The Star, Cabanas fortress. DECISIVE BATTLES REPORTED NEAR IN CUBAN REBELLION (Continued From First Page) forces that destroyed $15,000 worth of property belonging to Senator Carlos Machado, brother of the President. He will join the political prisoners in Says Machado Cut Off. At Tampa, Fla., Lieut. Rafael Reyna exiled officer of the Cuban navy, said he had learned that President Machado and his trcops had been cut off from HAVANA, Cuba, August 19 (Uncen- Havana by the rebels and were in im- sored) —According to reliable informa- {tion here, success appears possible for the revolution against the regime of Presldent Gerardo Machado, now in the middle of its second week. Rebel forces have been further aug- mented by the safe arrival of two pri- vateers from the United States, loaded with reinforcements, gnuns and tmmu- nition, at the extreme Eastern end of Cuba. This is considerzd to be of more than ordinary importence, as the main fear of the revolutionists has been that they might run out of am- munition supplies. Strictest censorship was immediately clamped on all messages Jeaving the land. For the first f'me in the his- tery of Cuba, this censorship is being enforced by armed guards placed at every newspaper officz in Havana and trict orders have been given to all ca- ble offices that no msssages, commer- cial or otherwise, are *o be sent with- minent danger of capture. Machado would be taken within 48 hours unless he should return by airplane, Reyna said. Pederal soldiers are joining the rebel- lion, he said, and rebels have captured several cities within the last three days and are within an hour of Havana. A rebel junta of 150 men was formed | to co-operate with that in New York in aiding the revelution. Eusebio Fria, veteran of the War of Independence, was nemed president. AMERICAN LEADING REBELS. Former U. S. Army Officer Made Chief of Staff of Revolutionary Forces. NEW YORK, August 19 (#).—A rep- resentative of the Cuban junta in New York $aid today that three expeditions from Europe had landed in various ports of Cuba and were ready to start a great drive. They are commanded by a former 'WHEAT FOR RELIEF . INCHINA WEIGHED {Farm 3oard Considers Plan to Sell Grain at Liberal Terms in Far East. Measures for disposing of the Gov- ernment’s stabilization wheat for the relief of starving flood sufferers in China and the destitute and unemployed at home during the coming Winter were briught to the attention of the Farm Board today. With the board's cotton destruction plan apparently rejected by the South- ern States, new suggestions for solving the planters' low-price dllemma also are pouring into the board's offices. President Hoover, to whom the State Department referred a capy of the Chi= nese government’s inguiry about wheat, is interested in the situaition. At the Farm Board it was e the Presi- dent would perhaps intervene with the board in an endeavor to grant liberal credit terms to the Chinese as a friendly action to a nation in distress, . Reaction Is Expected. The. board was actively considerin the Chinese inquiry. having consuiteq | with Stanley K. Hornbeck, chief of the Far Eastern division uf the State De- partment, when a former board mem- | ber, Samuel R. McKelvie, in & speech | at Lincoln, Nebr., suggested that surplus | wheut be devoted to feeding the desti- tute and hungry of this country, The presence of thousands in dire circumstances while the Government holds nearly 250,000,000 bushels of | wheat, is bound to have a reaction in | Congress this Winter .as ‘it did st the | 1ast session. In the last Congress the proposal that a part of the board’s wheat be given to drought sufferers and the needy in cities was made reveral | times in both Houses. A number of sim- lar suggestions have come from other sources, The Farm Board, however, is not em- powered to give away any wheat or cotton, either. The agricultural marke! - ing act, under which it operates, { charges the board with making every effort to realize a profit from its sta- | bilization operations. Efforts to amend | the law may be made. President Hoover is understood to be anxious that this country do something in a generous way toward the suffering millions in China. Chinese Situation Different. In the case of ths German offer for the purchase of stabilization wheat, the President kept hands off, although he + had sponsored the negotiations initiated | by Ambassador Sackett at Berlin. At the same time it was announced st the ‘Whit: House the President had no part in the Farm Board's recommendation | that a third of the cotton crop be de- | stroyed. | out being first submit'sd for approval lieutenant colonel of the United States | The Chinese situation, however, is & to the general army siail in the pres- | Army, who has already been designated | different one. It is solely as a humani~ idential palace. | The attitude of the Cuban general | staffl has changed noticeably from oue | of cheerful cptimism to one of chagrin. While American Ambassidor Harry F. Guggenheim, according to unque: sources has “approached” President Machado and held several conference with his close advisers with a view to reaching some measure of | compromise with the opposition forces | to prevent further bloodshed, these ef- | forts thus far have been unavailing. Opposition leaders have refused flatly | to agree to any proposition that does not carry with it an absulute guaranty by the American Government that the proposed constitutional reforms will be | carried out by the Havana administra- tion. | Terms of Opposition. H And the only reforms the opposition | will consider are those including a re- turn to the original constitution. This, if agreed to by administration forces. | would mean the end of President Ma- chado's dictatorship. A return of the popular vote without | hindrance; Organization of politics] parties—This | had been made illeg:l by changes in the Cuban constitution dictated by the Machado administration; An end of legislaticn by decree, a rej ular method of lawmaking in Cuba since Senor Mochado took office: Reinstatement of the office of vice of Col. Aurelia Hevia, one of the rebel | president, which Senor Machado had eliminat.d; Return of the city ¢f Havana to the status of a municipality instesd of a federal district, ns it is now, and, Nullification of the law extending the term of the President from four to six yea Regarded Rebel Victory. That government leaders have already approached oppesition leaders in Ha- vana on this proposal is considered of extreme importance and is looked upon | as a victory for the rebel forces. It is| 1so interpret=d to mean that Preside Michado has bren advised that the judi- cious thing for him to do is to bow 10 the will of the people, step aside and allow a provisional president to be ap- p:inted The popularity of the revolution has been clearly evidenced, In the firs attitude of the people, ! cspeclally Sunday morning when Gen M:rio G. Menocal and Col. Carlos Men- dieta, two of the most powerful rebel leaders, were brought to Havana sboard a gunboat after their capture in the Province of Pinar dl Rio. i Customarily sugh an event would be the occasion fcr a gala celebration, for | the Latin nature is one which demands firecrackers, whistles and whal not, with thoussnds turning out to | cheer. On this occasion, howgver, the sea wall along the Mal-con, which e:- | tends for approximately three miles trom Moro C>stle, at the entrance of the harbor, to the Maine Monument, was virtually deserted. flags, Captors Were Downcast. | Also, when the Prisoners of war were taken off the gunboat, the captors were | more downcast in appearance than were | the prisoners themselves, and the board- ing officer, upon stepping on deck, im- med ately ‘saluted the two prisoners. After their delivery to Cabanas fort- ress, Gen. Menocal and Col. Mendiet were supposedly denied all communica- tion with friends and supporter: De- spite this assumption, however, it is lcarned thal Gen. Menocal succeeded in sending out a procamation to his supporters urg ng them not to lose hope and predicting success for the revolu- tion. A literal translation of his mes- sage follows “In nearly all popular movements preceding great revolutions there is a moment when things seem at a stand- still and when it seems that everything has passed and that one can sleep quietly. But this is not true. “Do Not Lose Hope!” “Beh'nd the men who gave that, movement its first impulse there are ways others ready to carry it-:on. Those | who started, tired or satisfied, may rest. | The others will continue. 4 “These are the moments now for unknown or mysterious 10| act. Agenis of liberation’s passions, they will take charge of the movement where those who preceded them aban- doned it, and will carry on the fight to the finish. And they will make those who started the movement, and re- mained stuck in the hallways consid- ering their mission ended, awake in| terror. | “Do not lose hope, comrades!” | (Capyright, 1931.) as chief of staff of the revolu forces. This army man has been a soldier since he was 18. He is now 39 years old, a holder of several meritcrious fervice awards and is one of the bril- liant artillery officers who commanded units in France during the World War. He has also seen service in China. Foreigners Join Forces. The junta said his name would be made public socn as word is received from Cuba of certain action. The junta announced American, German, French and Au- strian army officers had joined its forces, as well as several Cuban youths educated at the United States Naval Academy and at various engineering schools in the United States. “We are ready to place 20,000 well equipped men in the field,” the repre- sentative of the junta said. The rebel forces also claim possession of 300 ma- chine guns and a complete chemical warfare outfit. Annapolis Graduate. Dr. Francesco M:ndez-Capote, secre- tary of the Cuban revolutionary dele- gation, announced from his New York headquarters last night that the ex- pedition reported to have landed at Cibara, in Oriente Province, Cuba, was nary led by Carlos Hevia. q Hevia, he said, is 31 years old, a son leaders of the fighting in Santa Clara Province, and a graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, class of 1920. In recent years Hevia has been a sugar planter. This expedition was reported to have advanced inland to Holguin, capturing villages en route. Dr. Mendez-Capote described it as “large and well equipped.” MACDONALD PLANS 10 PER CENT TARIFF TO AID REVENUES (Continued From Pirst Page.) whose importation for a year. Suspension of imports includes auto- mobiles and accessories, electric re- frigerators, radio sets, phonographs and all musical instruments, hats, textiles, fumery, toilet artic! foodstuffs. is to be prohibited and Emergency Measure. The bill is part of a program emergency measures prepared by National = Admiristrative Council of the and designed to solve Uruguay's economie ! crisis. The bill authorizes-the exegutive power, if it thinks“best, to limit imports to 30 per cent of last years totals instead of prohibiting them altogether, in which cese duties are to be increassd 100 per cent of the articles imported Another bill passed at the session, which lasted until 1 o'clock this morn- ing, puts a tax of from 6 to 15 per cent on all government salaries and pensions. Another provides a olanket decrease of 10 per cent on all hudgct expenditures. Another taxes gasoline 2 'cenfavos et litre, with authorization for the ecutive power to increase the tax to 3 centavos if the first ra.se does not cause a decline of 25 per cent in im- ports of gasoline. At par exchange, 2 centaves per litre is equivalent to7'. cents a gallon, and 3 centavos per litre is equivalent t 1115 cents a gallon. At the present exchange rate the two taxes are equiva- lent to half those amounts. A tax of 5 centavos a litre, equivalent at par to 19 cents a gallon, is levied on lubri- cating ofls. Consider “Moratorium.” The chamber will meet this afternoon to consider the rest of the program. which includes one bill by which the government will guarantee the exchange rate of 25 pence to a peso after Decem- ber 31 for the settlement of all foreign obligations falling due before that time and which the banks rentw. This bill provides that debtors must pay at least 20 per cent of these rene obligations every month for five months after Janu: ary 1. The project is actually a nine-month moratorium, the government avoiding the use of making the théir pas that many | hoes, | tarlan move that the President is rep- | resented as interested in the suscessful negotiations for the disposal of wheat to China. The customary thing in the case of a country so situated as China, it was pointed out in Government cir- cles, is to allow the most generous long- term_ credits. There is need for haste in the nego- tiations, for 10,000,000 Chinese ar re- ported utterly destitute and 39.000,000 more homeless. It is probable that the i board may take rcme definite acticn before the week end. The Farm Board was asksd t by Senstor Nye, Republican, N~ Dakota, to purchase some of tte 1 priced wheat to bs held [ ‘e drought-stricken farmers to use as seed next Spring. It is the belief of Senator Ny> t'at wheat prices will be higher nest T ing {end he wants the farmers to b> i1 & | position to buy their seed from the | low-priced crops now available. | Assurance was given the North Dae | kota Senator by John Barton Payne, | chairman of the Red Cross, that tnls | organization was prepered to go the limit in meeting needs in the droughi= stricken area. Nye pictured o him the | “dire distress” prevailing in the Northe | west. The Senator also will confer today with Secretary Hyde, who has just re- i turned from a survey of the drought | region. v i Board Members Silent. | The numerous suggestions for han- | dling the cotton situation range from leaving every third row of the present crop unpicked to contracting with ths | farmers not to plant next year. Whether | the board will formulate a new pian | from these suggestions remains to be seen. It is a question which board ‘mbers decline to discuss. Representative Lankford, Demoerat, Georgia, submitted a proposal toda: that the board buy cotton, tobacco and turpentine and hold the purchases for | advanced prices. He said the time for | a “great decision” had arrived. Ha added it meant “life or death” for the farmers amd for the Farm Board. | ~Chairman Stone of the Farm Board today acknowledged the receipt of a | cotton proposal from Senator George of | Georgia, who aiso had telegraphed | President Hoover urging a special ses- ion of Congress to consider the ‘acute and widespread” cotton emer- gency. Suggests Purchase. To the Parm Board Senator George suggested that cotton of the 1931 crop be purchased for 12 cents a pound, 8 cents payable immediately, and an ad ditional § cents in October, 1932. Thes terms would be extended to farmers “who wil agree not to plant, finance or permit to be planted to cotton any land controlled by them in 1932.” Stone informed the Georgia Senator | that the proposal would be given full consideration in connection with other | plans of the board with respect to the cotton situation. No other reply had been received | today from Southern governors regard- | ing the board’s plan to reduce the 1931 | cotton crop by having farmers plow | under every third row. Ten of the 14 cotton-growing States to which the proposal was made have either flatly rejected it or made counter proposals. The board has yet to hear from the i Governors of Tennessee, North Carolina jand Louisiana, as well as from South | Carclina, although Gov. Blackwood of that State was heard from indirectly through his secretary. WOULD USE WHEAT IN RELIEF. | Samuel R. McKelvie Believes Food Aid Might Use Fifth of Surplus. LINCOLN, Neb., August 19 (#).—The (huge surplus of Government-owned wheat would be made available for food relief under a plan suggested yes- | terday by Samuel R. McKelvie, former wheat representative on the Pederal | Parm Board. The plan. 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