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WIGEIN DEBT PLAN California Senator Calls' Upon Government to Give First Thought at Home. By the Associated Press. ‘The report of the International Bankers' Committee last week suggest- ing revision of reparations and war debts was assailed yesterday by Sena- tor Johnson, Republican, of California. as a move toward cancellation of war debts due the United States. H In & public statement issued at his office here, the Californian said that under existing conditions ‘‘considera- tion” of war debts and reparations | “means concellation just es the mora- torilum meant the first approach to| cancellation.” Meanwhile, the administration main- tained its silence on ‘he report of the International Bankers' Committee | headed by Albert H. Wiggin of New} York. Hoover Statement Recalled. ‘The silence was interpreted by some ignore the report. | known that Senator Watson of Indi- | ana, the Republican ‘lendenl:{:‘:n I.lhm' en foe of debt cance! , has e t’lu situation with President Hoover. Watson recalled after the| conference that Mr. Hoover in his an- | cement of the moratorium said: ministration to give its every attention to the domestic situation just now. He said: “Cancellation has been decreed by our international bankers just as they decreed the morat . _They are the uominant factor not only ican life today but in Amer- political life. “Their own ‘x'em:l to l?: leadership in polit! parties; and in this , with a self- sacrifice that does them infinite credit, o determined for the benefit 8 E 1 i 2, € | % g gresg i i i £ i § H ; g 3 : E i ol sis 38 B a8 L4 T0 FIVE POLICEMEN| Police Department Asked to In- vestigate “Third Degree’ Accusa- tion of James Harker. officials denied any “third degree” methods | been used on Harker. { to Harker's attorney, Har- o police, after he beaten, that being beaten by the police ' | . MAY INQUIRE INTO OIL MERGER Impending Action of Standard of New Jersey and California Serutinized. > e ustice Depas t probably will ‘The J rtment pt ly wi Jook into the reputedly impending | merger of the Standard Oll Cos. of New | Jersey and California. No complaint or request for the study has yet reached the t's & nti. trust division, Lord n - , which is headed by John O’Brian, Assistant Attorney Gen- eral. Newspaper reports, however, have been scrutinized closely and dependable sources in the department say pertinent fnformation almost certainly will b‘l collected. It was pointed out today that all mergers involving sums as substantial { | mains to be worked over. | northwest coast. |June he covered in three weeks with THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, USE OF POISON BAIT Mammalogists Call Biological “Sutwik 1, AP showing explorations of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the National Museum on and adjoining the desolate Alaskan la. On one of the islands near the peninsula, the exact location of which cannot be dis- closed at present, Dr. Hrdlicka found traces of a highly primitive cul- ture, distinct from anything ever found in North America. Other explorations, which prove that man first entered North America from the Aleutians and the peninsula, were conducted by Dr. Hrdlicka about Lake Iliamna and Egigik, shown on the map. Nushagak and Kvichak River Valleys also were explored and ruins examined. HRDLICKA TRACES EARLY AMERICANS TO ALASKAN COAST (Continued From First Page. the most interesting specimens ob- tained. In all, he collected 65 boxes of material, which now are on their | way to the Smithsonian. The discov- | ery is considered as a crowning achieve- tion. Excavations were made at one burial site on the Egigik River, on one of the shortest passes across the peninsula. “All through these territories,” Dr. | Hrdlicka reports, “were heard tales |both from the natives and the old white settlers of former incursions from the Kuskokwim, from Togiak, from Kanskak and even from the Western Aleut territory and consequent battles, some of which ‘made the waters run red’ It was invariably those from the north or the west who were at- | says, was that of parts of four slate | arrow heads of a type | significance has been attached in Amer- ican archeology after fts recent dis- d | covery in the Southwest. Here it ob- viously was of late date, since in the same deposit was a blue Russian bead. | Excavations were made at a burial spot | about four miles from Iliamna Lake. | Istand Discoveries Follow. | The remarkable island discoveries fol- lowed soon after. Regarding his work on the peninsula Dr. Hrdlicka said: “This was a regular sieve for move- ments of people from the North south- | , | ward. There is a whole series of passes | more or less easily practicable for even | | primitive people. About every 30 or| 40 miles from mtmwenltoodnnfl} tiver penetrates from the North into| the in one or more | all of which are found frequency specimens | with animal and hu- | 15 Called Prehistoric. b “According to all indications, this | cific. is one of the oldest yet discovered ‘gz gd)::m could r:duy lr‘:::e‘:ome along Far North. Not a trace of a estern Ooasts, reac oo i e of | 20d carried their skin boats over the | few rapids and portages. Then the way | brown rot, and the consider- | toward the Northwest Coast and the in of the @ | rest of the continent was open. This | was plainly the most natural and the “a-sie-t ‘way of procedure for all comers , | from the Behring Sea and Northwestern | “The peopling of America, therefore, took place m‘?‘&mm Alaska but along its Western Coasts and through the peninsula. The now nearly extinct people of the southern half of the pen- insula, Y.hoxill'll they uniformly call themselves ts, were found in sub- stance to be the same as those of the Nushagak, Toglak and Kuskokwim | regions and are doubtless of the same |old derivation.” 63 IN AIR DERBY START TOMORROW. Women Among Pilots Who! Will Fly to Cleveland for $25,000 Prize. “I was confronted with an enormous and highly promising task, and at the same time with a total lack of labor. The n\&efev whites and natives that | live on bay were all fishing and the cannery was short of labor. Never- theless, as a great favor, they gave me cne of their dock hands to help for two weeks, and it was possible to make four satisfactory incisions into the edges of the deposits, besides a few trenches and holes in the more central parts of the site. It then became im- | possible to proceed any longer. The | muscles could not stand it. e burial ground, which must contain many _, skeletons, wes not discovered. and a 17 vast amount of mising material n-‘ “This culture presents considerable | age and individuality, yet it shows re- lations on one hand with that of the | 0 and on to that of the | py the Associated Press. Do o e o okeletal yemains | SANTA MONICA, Calif. August 22. Aleut, but also show, it seems, other |—Sixty-three air pilots—17 women and interesting characteristics. 46 men—tonight awaited the start Signs of Cannibalism, tomorrow of the Transcontinental *“This eulture shows the first trace in | Handicap Sweepstake Air Derby that the Far North of cranial deformation ends i OClevelsnd, Ohio. of e cradle variety, but this taling was not universal. The remains show TS Sewy W WEA. w——— numerous and unmistakable signs of the winners in Cleveland where the, long-continued cannibalism.” national air races begin August 29.| sulz‘r. Hrdlicka et to A’h;k‘: this | The eight-day flight will carry the ' imer in continuation of lony search for the trall of man into the PUOIS Over elght States, the first over- continent and the first part of the night stop being at Calexico, Calif. Other overnight stops are Tucson, El Paso, Amarillo, Bartlesville, East St. Louis and Dayton. season was devoted to exploration of the Nushagak, Molchatna, Wood and New derby rules permit men and women pllots to race each other and Kwichak Rivers, penetrating into the dreary Alaska peninsula and the coun- also make it possible for an aviatrix | try around Lake Ila Early in in a small plane to have an equal| chance with an aviator fiying a more powerful ship. Speed tests completed yesterday in- dicated Gladys O'Donnell, Long Beach, | Iif,, aviatrix, would fly the fastest It registered 171 miles an hour | & small trapper's boat 600 miles of the Nushagak River and Its tribu- taries. is region” he sald. “is very sparsely peopled now, the total popula- tion reaching barely over 200, most of | them “mixed-bloods. But there were found & good number of old sites, one of which, at least, was of greater extent than anything seen on more northern s that in the oil company case are studied. It was not known, however, whether the study would be initiated jon of the com- No active TEXAS FARMERS DEMAND CLOSING OF COTTON GINS Petition Asks Shutdown Until Market Reaches 10 Cents a Pound. NEW BOSTON, Tex, August 22— More than 1,000 farmers met in the streets here today and recommended that Gov. Ross Sterling shut down cot- close the gins until cotton reached price of at least 10 cents a pound seed sold at & mintmum of the speed course. Handicaping speed tests were conducted by Army | officers from March Field Riverside. | C. F. Lienesch, women's air derby manager, said care would be exercised | over the first 1,000 miles of the dan-| gerous 2,400-mile route. Pllots, he said, will wear parachutes and carry | water and food against a possible forced landing in desert country A signal, fiashed by wireless from | Cleveland, will start the planes off. at| 2:31 pm. (P. . T., each leaving at one-minute intervals. Three winners | of past women's derbles will start. | They are Phoebe Omlie of Memphis, | Tenn., light-plane class winner; louis Thaden, Pittsburgh, Pa. heavy-plane class winner, and Miss O'Donnell, win- ner of last vear's derby to Chicago. rivers. Al illages existed, 1t ap- pears. to the Russlan and some even to the Americzn time, the last rem- nants dying oul during the influenza idemic of 1919. The natives now on these rivers are almost all late-comers. | No part of this region had ever been touched by a scientific man and nre- { sented virginal field for exploration. The old sites vielded much precious skeletal material, but all attempts at archeological excavation had to be abindoned, due to complete lack of labor.” | Peopled by Uniform Type. Such skeletal material' as was ob- tained, he says, showed that most of {the watershed of the river was peopled a uniform type of Eskimo popula- | | MARYLAND PLANS CHEMICAL WAR TO CLEAR WATERS OF SEA NETTLES Svecial Dispatch to The Btar. STIMORE. Md.. Anu:nu:: 22 —State i Will Feed Them Copper Sulphate, Which Will Kill 'I'hemI and Make Opysters Grow Fat. 1 | copper sulphate, which, it was nm'.ly’ R e e R SR & chemical neulqvm'; T:cmm:':(zmmg Crlbutanias » Sars Diace | Barla, but fivine It 10 208 netties I one to which great | POl inite policy is decided BY .. AGENCYHT Survey’s Policy Menace to Wild Life. ‘The Biological Survey of the Agri- culture Department, which has charge | of predatory animal control, is accused of seriously menacing the wild life of the country by the wholesale use of poison on predatory animals for the benefit of special interests, in a scorch- ing report made to the American Socl- ety of Mammalogists by its special com- mittee appointed to investigate the work of the Government agents. The soclety is composed of some of the country's foremost biologists. The report was presented to the society at its annual meeting in Phil- adelphia last May and the full text of one of the most scathing attacks yet made on & Government bureau by & national sclentific organization has just been made public in the August issue of the society's official journal, upon whose board are several Agriculture De- partment scientists. Shortly after the soclety's meeting, Paul G. Redington, logical Survey, issued an answer meet- ing the charges. ‘The survey is called upon by the mam- malogists “to show full and adequate cause for becoming the most destructive organized agency which has ever men- aced so many species of our native fauna.” The committee “asserts the claim of the great nature-loving public to a voice in the administration of our wild life’ resources and challenges the rjght of a Federal organization to con- sider only the interests of a very small minority—the live stock ipterests.” Crisis Seen by Scientists. The work of the committee, which involved inspection of conditions over approximately 12,000 miles in nine States, was financed by such organiza- tions as the American Museum of Nat- ural History, New York; the California Fish and Game Commission, the Cali- fornia Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, the University of Arizona and the New York Zoological Soclety. Financial support also was given by various raw fur dealers, who find their supplies being diminished by the Government's i | cy. ple data are at hand to justify the assumption that a crisis confronts our native mammals,” the report says, urging that far more facts should be known about conditioris before any defi- on. b gathering of these facts should be the duty of the Biological Survey,” it continues. “The survey should cur- tail the destruction of wild life wherever possible until such facts are assembled. The theory of control as formulated in Washington is often quite distinct from the facts of control as practiced in the “The survey is deliberately educating the public to seek the destruction of certain species of mammals and is ac- tively disseminating propaganda which tends to create a demand for control where none existed formerly. Jt is not | a ive agent of destruction, but is, seeking to expand along lines of its present-day policy. .Wide Opposition Reported. “A majority of the people of the United States who are informed on the subject are not in favor of the present policy of predatory mammal control. Even in the West, the studies of this| committee show, great numbers of eiti- zens are opposed to it. The vociferous supporters of this policy are a small but active minority who are interested only | in securing the maximum return from | their investment in live stock. “There is a rising throughout the entire country against the destructive activities of the survey and institution after institution is going on reccrd against the continuance of such practices. Claims for destruction of game and live stock by predatory mammals are based too much upon hearsay evidence from prejudiced sources. Incontestible facts should be made known to the public. “Very often destruction of live stock can be traced to individual predators and when that individual is destroyed the déstruction ceases. This fact is brought out time and time again and admitted by the survey predatory leaders, but they continue to condemn the innocent with the guilty and carry auflm.rol measures beyond the point jus- ed “Shiftlessness of herders results in' losses which could easily be avoided and | strays are charged up to the coyotes. It has been demonstrated by many compe- tent witnesses, many of them in the, survey employ, that more coyotes can be taken by traps than by poison, al- though perhaps at greater expense. Trapping can be made more selective than poison. There is little trustworthy data upon the full number of mammals killed by poison baits. Many survey| poisoners visit stations so infrequently, ! often not at all, that survey statistics on | pe this point are valueless. Good Example Urged. ““The use of poison in the field should | be discouraged regardless of who em- ploys it. e fur trade has your chairman, through one of its spokesmen, that it will attempt to make it unpopular with the trappers, but the | survey must set a good example. | Co-operation between the survey and the society will produce no tangible re- sult so long as the survey manifests such an interest in intensifying its pres- | ent_policy of predatory control. | “Far from indicating a desire to cut | down on poisoning until in possession of ' sufficient facts to meet all criticism, the survey has shown that in the future the use of poison is to be increased. The fur trade, from trapper to dealer, is unanimously against this policy and be- | lieves the very existence of the domestic fur trade is threatened. The dollar value of mammals destroyed by poison may equal, or even exceed, the sums saved to special interests. i “The executive officers of the survey have brought about a crisis confronting our wild life and are more directly responsible for it than any other agency. The society need feel no necessity for digging out those facts which the survey shouid seek for itself, but by every diciate of logic and common sense it can call upon the survey to show full and adequate cause for becoming the most destructive organized agency which has ever menaced so many species of our native fauna. “The society strongly urges the Bio- logical Survey to curtail the use of poison as a control measure against | predatory animals, with a view of com- plete suspension as soon as it is reason- ably possible. The society deplores the | propaganda of the survey which is de- signed to blacken unduly the character of certain species of predatory mals, giving only part of the facts and withholding the rest—propaganda which is educating the public to advo- cate destruction of wild life. Asks Volce for Public. “The society asserts the claim of the great nature-loving public to a veice in the administration o:ho\lt 'h?“me m cies and challenges the ri a Fed- | eral organization to emmn only the interests of a very small minority, the N rte report s Elfned by H. E. An e report 8 y H. E P = . P. Skinver, and E. Raymond thony, Lee R. Dice, M. all prominent American biolo- | | | Charles T. Vorhies , chiet of the Bio- % T | whose operations netted them $100,- tide of protest made | the trap and poison line situation in| D. ©. INROSENTHALCASE Police Inspector Implies. She Was With Man on Night He Disappeared. been demanded, was still missing to- night, and Nassau County Ponce were seeking a_woman as the last person known to have been with him before he vanished, August 12. Police Inspector Harold R. King of Mineola said he knew the identity of the young woman, but would not tell her name until she had been ques- tioned. He implied she was with Ros- enthal in an automobile about 10 o'clock on the night he vanished. ‘The inspector had been informed she called for Rosenthal at his offices in lower Broadway in an expensive motor car a few hours before the kidnaping. In the public notices column of & Jocal newspaper bargaining for Rosen- thal's return continued today with the “personal”: “Mrs. R. is ready; wants arrange- ments made at once on account of publicity.” It was the newest of several appear- ing in the last week. For several days one read, “Mrs. R. has returned.” Yes- terday’s said “Mrs. R. finds it impossible raise entire amount; has less than . ‘This also was repeated today. Last night two policement were de- tailed to duty outside the family'ls large house in Lawrence, Long Island, and two others were stationed indoors. It was other members of the family been threatened. Mrs. Nellie Rosenthal, the missing man's sister Babette and the wife of Rosenthal's business partner remained at the residence. The mother, who in- herited several million dollars from her late husband, was reported prostrated. 13 ARRESTS SMASH RING OF FORGERS New York Police Charge $100,000 Obtained, and 27 Others Are Sought. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 22.—Police to- night claimed to have smashed, through 13 arrests, a ring of forgers, 000, with promises of much greater profits. At least 27 other men and women, believed to have been in the ring, are sought, officers said. Among the schemes the band is said to have planned was one to swindle the Chase National Bank out of $500,000 in securities by the use of forged with- drawal demands. One of the prisoners was identified by detectives as Robert Jones, an employe of Chase Bank, who confessed, po- lice said, that his part in the plot was to honor withdrawals as a clerk in the customers’ department, for which, he told detectives, he was to receive $75,- 000 from the swindle proceeds. A man the police named as David Weiner was held as leader of the band. He was unable to furnish $10,000 bail. i NAVY MEN ASSIGNED ‘Four to Take Optical Course w}’gfl Yard Here. About four chief machinists or ma- chinists will be assigned by the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, to the Washington Navy Yard for a long course in optical instruction. This was known yesterday with the an- nouncement that applications for this assiy ent should reach Wi by, ber 1. ‘The optical course will start about January 1 and last for six months. The department will transport the families of those selected to take the course to ‘Washington when their orders are is-| sued, the bureau sald. A special eye examination will be given applicants for the course. POLICEMAN INJURED W. D. De Groot Suffers Cut Hand When Prisoner Breaks Liquor Jar. | Policeman W. D. De Groot of the liquor squad, was severely cut on the hand yesterday afternoon when a col- ored man is said to have smashed a half-gallon jug, containing alleged liquor, he was holding. raild took place at 6007 Dix| street northeast. De Groot was holding the jug as evidence when James Henry | Randolph, colored, of the Dix street ad- dress, struck it with a stick. After, taking Randolph to the eleventh pre- cinct where he was charged with as-| sault _and illegal possession of liquor, Groot went to Casualty Hospital for treatment. > | of American al it in-| ‘mammalogists, that assured | terference with the balance of wild life in the West may be in some measure responsible for the great plague of grasshoppers devastating Kansas flelds. Criticism of the Biological Survey by the Soclety of Mammologists, which culminates in the present report, has Peen voiced for some time, and the! charges have been vigorously dened | by Paul G. Reddington, head of the | survey. Dr. Reddington claims the use of poison bait is necessary against the coyote, which menaces live stock, and that methods are being devised to protect fur-bearing animals. | Mr. Redington continues | “It is fair to say that those members of the Mammal Society who have been criticizing the work of the Biological| Survey recognize that some control | must effected, though they apparently | believe that fewer men be employed | and that trapping and shooting should immediately be substituted for poison.| Careful Use Ordered. ! “Bureau biologists who investigated the West last Winter are of the opinion, however, that with eareful use of poison —as has been the rule—the killing of | coyotes by poison is not only more hu- mane than using steel not resuit, as has been charged, in the destruction of many other animals. “Instructions to our hunters are spe- cific that every possible safeguard must be thrown around the use of 3 and knowledge of the character of the men employed indicates there has been little careless work. “We are sincerely desirous of meet- ing criticisms fairly and squarely, &nd | many members of the Mammal Society whom 1 met in Philadelphia indicated their belief that we are making the improvements they have been urging. | We shall diligently pursue our investi- gations as to what is happening on the trapping and poison lines, and shall be glad to have the society’s com- mittee on problems of predatory mam- | mal eonu;l'h. l;nd out their own inves 'AUGUST 23, 1931—PART ONE. WOMAN IS SOUGHT TANLEY BALDWIN (right), Conses to form a new government in England if the MacDonald cabinet resigns. King George V (upper left), who has siven up his vacation in Scotand present cabinet crisis. Ramsey MacDonal Labor prime minister, who may be forced to' give up the | last to be in London during the (lower left), reins of government if his efforts to meef ! rvative leader, who may be called upon t the present budget fail. |ONE CRISIS AFTER ANOTHER MARKS SECOND MacDonald, Sustained as British Premier by Support of Li Many Close Calls. By the Assoctated Press. The second Laborite ministry in| British history, which came into power after the general election in 1929, has had a life of almost continual crises. Frequently it has succeeded in ob- taining support in the House of Com- mons with only the narrowest of mar- gins. Its tenure was made the more uneasy by the fact that it never has had a majority, but had been forced to| continue under suffrance by the Lib- erals, who sided with the Laborites r:.dflm than go over to the Conservative side. Ramsay MacDonald’s second Labor- ite government came into power June 4, ‘with 287 supporters in the Tons against. 260 for the serva and 59 for the Liberals. On December 2, 1929, the ministry had its first narrow escape from de- . February 27, 1930, the bill was pushed through with only 9 votes to spare. Two weeks later the government was defeated by 8 votes but | did not resign. Similar crises were| averted in April, July, December and June of 1931. Premier’s Parents Were Poor. Despite this history of narrow escapes | the Labor cabinet had assumed power| under considerabiy more promising con- | ditions than those which faced Prime Minister MacDonald when he first headed the government in 1924. At that time there were numerous predic- tions the empire would topple under | the weight of Socialism, but Great Britan soon discovered a Labor govern- | ment was much like any other and the traditions of the empire were prop- erly maintained. | Mr. MacDonald, born of poor parents in the little fishing village of Lossie- mouth, Scotland, entered second ministry with a program of soclal and political reforms. He was determined to deal with the problem of unemploy- ment, to reduce armaTents, to gvacuate the Rhineland and to effect closer co- operation with the League of Nations. In the international field the prime | minister carried out many o: nis proj- | ects. Trade relations with Soviet Rus- sia were remewed. The last British soldier left Germany. The London five- power conference early in 1930 at- tacked the problem of disarmament. ‘ In domestic and empire matters Mr. MacDonald has had his hands full| with_such problems as unemployment | and the dole, mine strikes, the trouble- | some economic relations between Eng- | land and the dominions, and India.| While the present crisis was develop- | ing the Indian difficulties again came to | a head with the refusal of Mahatma | Gandhi to attend the impending second | round table conference in London. Went to Parliament in 190 ‘The Scottish statesman who has had to deal with these various problems has been a Socialist all his political career. He received an elementary edu- cation, and at the age of 18 went to London, where he got a job as a clerk. Nights he studied. . He was elected to Parliament in 1906, and five years later was leader of the Labor party in the House of Commons. He opposed England's participation in the war and became so unpopular that he resigned his leadership. In 1918 he lost his House of Commons seat. Four | years later he returned to head the opposition, and in 1924 he formed the first Labor cabinet, which lasted less | than 10 months. | Stanley Baldwin headed a Conserva- tive cabinet which was in power be- tween the two MacDonald administra- tions, and it is to him the King will turn in the event the present difficulties | | House n: him | Tempelhot Airdrome at 7:30 a.m. to- | LABOR REGIME berals, Has Had with the Labor government prove in- | surmountable. DO-X ENDS VOYAGE T0 UNITED STATES Giant Flying Boat That Left Germany November 5 Lands at Miami. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, August 22.—The Ger~ man flying boat DO-X, largest airplane in the world, landed on the placid waters of Biscayne Bay today to com- plete its leisurely voyage from Germany to the United States, begun last No- vember 5. ‘The big ship took off from Antilla, Cuba, early this morning and was first sighted over Miam! at 10:25 am. (E. 8. T.). After circling the city several times it landed & few minutes later. Arriving ahead of scehdule, the DO-X caught the Miami Welcoming Commit- tee, nflupnpcrdmen and pl us seagoing craft off {0 greet the ship's crew and pas~ sengers. It was several hours later, howe before the officers, mechanics and u’fi sengers were brought ashore. & Leisurely Expedition. larence Schildhauer of Philadelphia, American co-pilot of the craft, de- scribed the flight from South America as ly"le"l.:lr!lylex.pdedltbn‘ nol:d-m man ‘hnical advantages been brought to aviation.” the DO-X would remain here until Tuesday "nxt. least.” From here it will proceed to :lx:. z 'f. l:oflo!k Va., of arrival at these cities indefinite. i Aboard the Mr. Baldwin, of Puritan stock, 1s the | ats son of Alfred Baldwin, chairman of the Great Western Railway, and he en- joyed all of the educational advan- tages denied to Mr. MacDonald. He went to Harrow and later to Trinity College, Cambridge, whers he took his bachelor of arts degree in 1888. Then he went into his fahter's business, and within four years he was virtually the head of it. Rise Rapid Sinee, 19 In 1908 he took his seat in the House of Commons and for several years worked quietly, but attracted but little attention. Baldwin's rise has ipid. ‘When the coalition ministry broke up kens, German business man; Theron Griffin, a Pan-American Airways mech- :‘nicmn hr:lm here; Arthur = ustral! newspaper man, and Carlos Galvani and daughter, Gal- vani, who boarded the ship in Cuba. Members of the crew were listed as Paul Berner, head of the gineer and Andrew Bonar Law made | VAL in 1922 Bonar Law became prime min- mecha: ister, the first Conservative to hold the place in 16 years, and Mr. Baldwin became chancellor of the exchequer. After a few months, the head of the government, who was critically ill, re- signed and Mr. Baldwin was summoned by the King to succeed him. The events which may recelving another & m'htmlhudmuywmxflmn of the Economy Committee, headed by Sir George May, in which it was de- clared that unless immense sums were slashed from expenditures there would be a huge deficit in the budget. the same time there was a run on ster- ling, necessitating help for the Bank of England from Prance and the United States. For the last week the Labor cabinet has been struggling with these financial problems aware that they threatened its life. MYSTERY SURROUNDS FLIGHT OF GERMANS| Tempelhof Air Police Declare I.ack‘ of News “Looks Bad"—Planned Hop to United States. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 22.—Mystery to- night surrounded the flight of the two German airmen, Willy Rody and Chris- tian Johanssen, who took off from day for Lisbon. The fiyers planned to reach Lisbon tonight and had a tentative plan to cross the Atlantic to the United States afterward. Théy were fying a plane similar to the one in which the late Baron von Huenefeld and his com- panions crossed the Atlantic several years ago. Aviation authorities here received no word of the two airmen and their pas- senger, Fernando Costa Veiga, Portu- guese sportsman, since the trio took off this morning. Tempelhof air police said late tonight they could not under- stand the entire lack of news and be- Heved the absence of reports from the plane giving its position “looked bad.” Aviation experts here said they did not believe it lkely the fiyers would attempt a non-stop crossing of the ocean, although they surrounded their preparations with secrecy as far as possible : Their plane was equipped with spe- cial tanks carrying enough fuel for 40 hours in the air. It is also equipped for blind flying. Your Handwriting Is Revealing How do you write? Do you scrawl? Do you run your senten: Are the lines thick or thin? All these signs in hahdw definite indication of character. At any rate the study of him‘lwri!m‘ is interesting. Wateh for Handwriting Analys of The Evening Star Are you precise? ! ces up or down? riting are said to be a very y resitt in his ! ummons ‘were visiting The be by way of Newf: the Azores, sm"! l.nydo!hn'm:. s e o i i IN TORCH SLAYING By the Associated Press. ANN ARBOR, Mich., August "t‘ d‘t \ys after the i of two young couples road near here, Ca kel year-old-old friend of e L i ber 2. Miss Keller, an admitted friend S’?;endes:}{-:'n:mh :!Lh David T. lhc:t A , and Frank Oliver, gelved life " jentences ~in s ranch prison for the slaying, ;:lx‘ t.h’e mt the estate of her i m:?: e lai ce Darwin Z. Curtis, Ypstlanti - - was arrested following the con- fession of Smith and his com- panions, who admitted e At the time of her arrest she turned over to.officials a pistol which she said she had loaned to Smith on several occasions. Police said it showed evi- dence of having been fired recently. tion in the admitted she had been with the trio up to 9 p.m. on the night of the slayings. The crime is believed to have been committed some time be- tween 11 pm. and 1 am. Her story that she was with another man after 9 p.m. was corroborated by QUERIES ABOUT LOVE RESULT IN $50 LOSS Woman Says Money Left With Gypsy to Be ‘“Blessed,” But Palmist Denies It in Jail. y regarding how much her caused in the Feature Jgction rting Tomorrow 3V