Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather Bureau_forecast), Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; et iires.Hlghess 1 75, at noon Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13, 14& 15 No. 31,891. Entered as second class matter post office, . Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, MORE TROOPS SENT | T0 EASTERN CUBA AFTER OUTBREAKS Three Rebels Slain, Several Wounded in Skirmish Near Caney. SEVERAL OTHER CLASHES | IN ORIENTE REPORTED Encounter Follows Machado State- ment Voicing Confidence in Im- mediate End of Revolt. By the Assoclated Press. HAVANA, - August 24.—Fresh out- breaks in the Eastern Province of Cubs | 1ast night caussd the government today to. hurry additional troops into Orlente Police were attempting to obtain state- | cause of the course followed by Col. | t i ments today from three men arrested|anq Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh along | -}in connection with an alleged plot 0|y certain portion of the Kurile Island | | assassinate Premier Venizelos of Greece. | route 1n their much interrupted fight | in the belief that rebels concentrated a a number of strategic points might tempt a surprise maneuver. Thiee insurgents were killed and & Life Threatened BUCHAREST POLICE QUESTION TRIO IN ALLEGED PLOT. PREMIER VENIZELOS. By the Assoclated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, August 24.— It was reported that two attempts to LINDBERGH FLIGHT UNDER“SUSPICION, NEWS AGENCY SAYS ‘Japanese Officials, However, Apparently Do Not Take Report Seriously. SAID TO HAVE LANDED | ON PROHIBITED AREAS | Flyers Land at Nemuro After Hav- ’ ing Been Forced Back by ! By the Associated Press. TOKIO, August 24-—Rengo, semi- official Japanese news agency, said to- day “suspicions” had been aroused be- | from Petropaviovsk, Kamchatka, to fumber wounded and taken prisoners | Kill the Greek premier were to have | Nemuro, Japan. when one of the rebel groups was sur-| prised. A considerable number of arms, a quantity of ammunition and other been made on the occasion of his recent visit to Rumania. High government officials, however. apparently ‘did not take seriously the enin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1931—THIRTY PAGES. | | | | | /— \ FH¥ “From Press 10 Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturds; Circulation, 101,801 Sunday’s Circulation, 115,644 TWO CENTS. * (#) Means Associated Press. LABOR CABINET OUT; M’DONALD REMAINS . AS COALITION HEAD Temporary Non-Party Govern- ment Vested With Duty of Balancing Budget Planned. |SPECIAL PARLIAMENT SESSION IS LIKELY IN SEPTEMBER. Stanley Bald;vin and Lieutefiant of Lloyd George Are Co-Operating in For- mation of New Regime. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 24.—J. Ramsay MacDonald, faced with a split in the ranks of his own Labor party, today handed King George his resignation as prime minister and accepted the King's mandate to form a new government in which all three of the major parties will be represented. He stepped out as head of the Labor government and in again Two of the prisoners, heavily lrmed,.“pon that the suspicions of certain | war material was seized. Three bombs | were charged with shadowing Premier as prime minister of the new national government in 20 minutes with liere, but the Gamage was| slight. Venizelos in Bucharest, while the third was arrested on the steps of the Greek The government had issued a state-| Church in Brasov at the moment of the | | authorities had been sroused by the | | landings of Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh on | waters in prohibited zones. ‘The high authorities pointed out that the matter quite naturally might t HOUSETOPS ARE LAST REFUGE ! the King, during which he submitted to the monarch the personnel of his new cabinet. OF CHINA'S FLOOD SUFFERERS;P["-I[:E BENYMKN Then he kissed the King’s hand, an age-old ceremony, marking the beginning of his services as prime minister’under the new regime. in ll:n im- | premier’s visit to the church. of have been discussed in some circles, but | = MAIL CLERK FOUND HANGED TO TREE; WRITS SLASHED Body Discovered in Woods Identified as That of Jo- seph L. Fincham. request of .| to nothing more. A report that Amy Johnson, British aviatrix, who vecausc of storms re- turned to Osaka after reaching Fusan, Korea, would be questioned by the police had not reached government of- ficlals tonight. However, governmemt authorities expressed the belief that she might be asked, as a matter of routine regarding her route. Flew Over Prohibited Areas. The new agency said Japanese au- thorities contended that the famous aviator and his wife had flown over | prohibited areas and had descended twice in lakes where prohibited. sald it understood that su- landed not only on prohibited lakes, but also on other waters not specified by the aviation bureau in the emergency de- scent permit which it issued at the the American embassy prior ’s departure from Petro- paviovsk. Prior to leaving Petropaviovsk last Wednesda able weather reports, concluded tricky fogs might overtake them and on tI account applied to the American bessy for an emergency landing per. mit which was granted by the aviation bureau without hesitation. Unable to Locate Sites. ‘The permit landings were | the Lindberghs, from avail- | . PR e e | Hankow Is Panorama of Death, Madness, Disease and Starvation—Dwellings Collapsing. SHANGHAI August 24 (#—A dispatch to the Kuomin News Agency from Hankow today said more than 1,000 refugees housed in the bar- racks at Wuchang, across the Yangtze River, wefe drowned as a result of a fresh break in the dyke. | _Hundreds of additional houses gave | evidence that they would collopse soon | whether the flood vaters subsided or not. Apparently the water was all that was them up. y _were | | either crumbling or learing in all di- | rections. On the roofs of these houses thou- | sands of Hankowites still were cling- | ing, reconciled to the prospct of join- | ing the procession of floating | down toward the sea alorg with count- | less carcasses of animals caught in the flood. Those still cling to nnstable buildings had watched hundreds of their fellow lunge to cer ;‘ln death with collapse of their wellings. |, A few had fashioned nets for fishing in u:-e dr‘ty flogguur. wl‘mle fam- minnow, which nn:? loodc % - __Efforts of the military to clear the (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) ! ity | By the Associatea Press HANKOW, China, August 24.—A panorama of death, madness, disease and starvation spread before the Asso- ciated Press correspéndent today in cruising about the vatery streets of | Hankow at a speed of 1 mile an hour. | That pace was the fastest that could | be maintained through the assorted i of craft drifting above the { o | Court of Jemes Henry Harker, 24-year- | | later this An official statement issued later at Mr. MacDonald’s office re- ported these facts, acknowledged that the new government was to be formed “for the purpose of meeting the present financial emergency,” and added that Mr. MacDonald had gone into conference with Stanley Baldwin, the Conservative leader, and Sir Herbert Samuel, David Lloyd George’s lieutenant for the Liberals. These two, the statement said, are “co-operating with Mr. Mac- Donald in the constitution of the new administration.” CFFORDATWORK £5 =552 s ONJOBLESS RELIF to swear in members of the new - attorney today at the hearing in Police | WAS BEATENTO GET THEFT CONFESSION Detective, at Hearing, Ad- mits Hose Was Kept at First | Precinct Station. [ ola cook, who charges poiice of the arst | Takes Over Unemployment | for precinct beat him until he confessed u: # burglary, brought out that a rubber hose . similar to the one Harker charges was | Task After Lon“ Confer used on him is kept at the station, | i but only insistent denial from the po- | ence With Hoover. lice that the youth was lashed with it. | So m) . was devoted to the| mattef of how- ever, that until With only two wit- Walter 8. Gifford, newly-appointed unemployment relief director, today began the task of setting up his or- ganization which will take over the nesses heard. Commerce Department quarters for- Precinct Detective James A. Mostyn, | merly occupied by the President’s Emer- the first witness, was submitted to & | gency Committee for Employment. wlovsk and landed at Ketoi Island. urday and again encountering fog, the mnud!oea Ochiishi Station, at | requesting designation of a nearby emergency landing. Aviation Officer Bettobu, near Shana, Tanaka st Nemuro specified but _Lindbergh the F. | was a severe wound in the back of the head. : | Head Wounds Likely Old. | Corener Nevitt said the head wounds | may have been inflicted some time ago. | Hie ordered police to check all hospitals to determine if the man had been | e ae e o caaing and & yiece of biosay | Would Take Place After Flight to ]glass. On the other side was his hat, | New York, Set for Tomor- = BULDNG PRCE _ OVELL, WHDFLED from Muroton Bay, after re- | After leaving Muroton Bay last Sat- | TOUR OF EASTERN U. S.| grilling by 8. McComas Hawken, Har- ker's lawyer. After an hour and a half, Hawken drew from Mostyn an sdmission that there is a rubber hose a P house, but nothing but further denials that any harsh treat- ment was acgorded the hose or anything else. Mostyn said () | that the prisoner had been grilled for uou ::lnutu at the station house that | i 3 Charges Client Was Beaten. Hawken has charged that the youth as held incommunicado without any | charges being placed ‘against him for | more than 13 hours and was badly beaten. He has a ceriificate from a physician, DF. *H. W. Moffitt, to the PROGE LAUNCHED ' Trade Commission Seeks to { Learn if Government Is Being Gouged. L NUIRY, DS |Preferred Exile to Givin Testimony in Sinclair Prosecution. | | | | An investigation to determine whether { By the Associated Press. | collusion or understandings to charge | TULSA, Okla. August 24 —Word was | the Government higher prices: than | received here today of the death in | effect thet risoner received a se- | other bugers for building material now | Cannes, France, of James E. O'Nelll, | vere beating, the case is under in- |going into the new Federal butlding | oil man, who became an exile from | Vestigation by Inspector Louls J. |in Washington and throughout the |th: United States to evade testif R L ™ he charwe Sel W | ing | substantiated. lsmm 1s now under way. This investi- | in Teapot Dome Oil lease conspirwyi Inspeotor Stoll was present in Police the prisoner with ' ‘The latter group was absorbed by the Gifford organization under plans announced last week by President Hoover. I 3 . Giftor, president of the Amerl | srite, i it SO0°4" st Peis can Telephone and Telegraph Co., be- | Downing street for Buckingham Palace | gan his task at 2 o'clock, shortly .rmig&rmuw formal resignation of his | bis return from Mr. Hoover'’s Rapidan | g, 'noq met with the junior ministers Camp, where he had spent the week | of the Labor cabinct and later received | end mapping out with the President a | Mr. Baldwin and Samuel. | program for meeting the relief problem. | The Liberal party's “shadow Imm:diately upon taking office, all | the information gathered since last Fall| by the Emergency Committee was laid | | before Mr. Gifford by Fred C. Croxton,| e | nis assistant, who has been acting chair- | ihe King. © oo | man of th: emergency group. An ad-| Political visory commitiee of 60 members is to| the composition of |help in the work, along with volun-| government, named these : teers and hired experts for technical| Conservatives—Baldwin, himself =& | phases. former premier; Lord Irwin, recently ON OHIO PAPERS MADE| Mansfield News Target for Mis-| sile Which Fails to MANSFIELD, Ohio, August 24.—An- otber Mapsfield newspaper today bad been made the target of unidentified | | Howe, congaining his necktie and a pair of smoked glasses. A bottle, smelling of bay rum or some alcohol extract, also 1ay nearby. The railway mail division of the Post Office Department said this afternoon that Pincham’s record was excellent. He had been in the service since October 117, 1917, being appointed from Texss. The records show that he was born in | Woodville, Va.. April 9, 1891 Discovery of the body was made by three men passing through the woods. They were Willlam H. Maxwell, 703 Sixteenth street northeast: James M. 1346 E street mnortheast, and “(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) vandals in the second bombing attempt in &3 many days. A crudely made bomb was tossed into | the building housing the Mansfield | News late last night, but failed to ex- | 3 a pile of l'll!mmhl‘ jrway, creating a smouldering | - % jhed by firemen. ansfield Journal pai ed when a bomb exploded in ¢he ment, causing about $10,000 damage one man. ml‘iommdmuu motive for the at- tempted vandslism was apparent, and | the News' management had no lhwfl'; to offer. { the journal ascribed the at- | mw it to its editorial cam- paign against lawlessness, it was point- ed out that the News has engaged in no such recently. The News, however, upon the Journal. Rewards of $10,000 for the arrest and conviction of the person or per- bombed the Mansfield Jour- BRITISH EX-IDOL WED lly condemned the at- |GERMAN PLANE LANDS AT AIRPORT IN LISBON Believed Flown by Pair Unreported Since Departure From Berlin Saturday. LISBON, August 24 (#) —A Junkers’ airplane thought to be that in which Willy Redy and Christian Johannsen, German airmen, left Berlin Saturday arrived st Lisbon today. Shortly after landing at the Amadora | it landed. By a Staff Correspondent of The 8t ARLINGTON .. August 24.—An 8-year-old Joprider, who in two weeks graduated from “borrowing” bicycles t6 automo- biles must remain in his own yard “even | HOLL 00D, Calif.. August 24 (P). —Pat L former idol of the if it 15 necessary to chain him lhfl!’.‘: row. By the Associated Press MIAMI, Fla., August 24.—Possibility {of a good-will tour by the giant sea- | | plane DO-X of the Eastern Atlantic | Const and Middle Western water ports | was under discussion here today. | ntatives of companies con- | nected; with the seaplane’s four-conti- |net vikit said such a tour, if made, | would take place after the DO-X com- ! pletes its flight from here to New York. starting tomorrow. The plan would cali for visits at major ports along the At- | lantic seaboard and cities inland as far| as the Mississippi River where landing facilities are available. The flight to New York was set for 7 am, E S T. tomoriew SEEKS CHINESE LOAN NEW YORK, Augast 24 (®).—With | his purpose the negotiation of a $360, 000,000 'silver loan from this country to China for relief work, former Fed- eral Judge Paul M. Linebarger, now legal adviser to the Nationalist govern- | ment in China, arrived today aboard | the Red Star liner Westerland. Mr. Lincbarger, who was closely as- | sociated with Sun Yat Sen, founder by the next Congress BOY, 8, WHO “BORROWED” AUTOS, IS SENTENCED TO OWN BACKYARD | G iArlington Judge Decrees Ballston Child Must Stay at Home, “Even If It Is Necessary to Chain Him There.” authorities late Saturday, the boy COUNTY, COURT | walked several blocks from his parents’ | residence and climbed juto_the car of |A. B. Eaton of Ballsten Daton, who was standinig oniy a few vards away. | heard the motor start, however, and frustrated the youngster's effort to | escape with the automobile | “My_eyes are bad and it probably has affected my mind," was the only defense offered the mitc boy in Po- gation wasestarted by the Federal Trade | case. Commission, with Chief Examiner H. L.| O'Neill resigned | Court during the hearing this morn- | The Presideis: and Mr. Gifford have the presidency of ilnc, taking notes of the testimony. The | agreed that the national unemployment viceroy of India, who might take the portfolio of foreign secretary; { Anderson in charge, as a result of the resolution fathered by Senator Ship- stead. Questionnalres are being sent out to all contractors and bidders on all | Pederal buildings and other preliminary | work to determine facts and figures has | been started. This is expected to result in a thor- ough Investigation of the building ma- terial industry, it was explained at the | Pederal Trade Commission today. The commission has decided to make | & comprehensive study and report facts reluting to the letting of contracts for {the construction of Government build- ings, particularly with a view to de- termining whether there are or have {been any price fixing or other agree- | ments, understandings or combinations | | or interests among individuals, partner- | ships, or corporations engaged in the | production, manufacture or sale of buld- i ing materials relative to the prices or | other terms at or under which such building materials will be furnished to | contractors or bidders for such con- | struction work. | It has not yet been decided to send | field investigators to any particular pro- | duction point, these in charge of the Military Airdrome the plane took off for | of the Chinese Republic, expressed con- | Work declared today. {the Alverca International Airport, where | lnmd‘n“ thatethe loan would be author- 100 Held in Election Raid. | MONTREAL. August 24 -(P)—More | than 100 men were arrested early today in a raid on the committee rooms of | the Conservative lende{. Mayor Camil- | lien Houde, shortly before polls opened or the general provincial elections. ‘harges will not be revealed until to- morrow 1 Two New Features “Boners” al fld “Your ‘Handwriting Begin on Page B-6 Of Today's Star These two distinctive fea- tures will appear daily on s of The the Magazine ruc | 1 ) Star, specific charge against Harker is that he broke into and entered a lunch | in | room and pool room at 727 North Cap- | | 1923 and a few months later went to | the Prairie Ol & Ges Co., with head- quarters in Independence, Kans., { itol street Thursday night and robbed | | Europe. He sald he preferred to live | ot JSeall Tegister of $300. He is free | | abroad rather than testify against | . | | trienas. | n!;:unod Swollen Eye. i | A preliminary investigation conducted | | ONetll Was 64 years old. | by Inspector Louls J. Stoll, the report | A Dbrother, George O'Neill inde- |of which was filed with Maj. Henry | pendent ol operator of Wichita, Kans., gg- Pfl":l&:utl;.e.r:nul}gfl::hul po‘uce'. to- | | | day, s a foul precinct po- | dlgfimmn hospital :xer? A:lust B e i o b yeethed g0 | eill was one of two witnesses Who | around to_examine the man on com-‘ fled to Europe to escape testifying in| lf.llm of Dr. MofDitt, observed that his | | the Teapot Dome cases. Harry M.|Ieft eye was swollen and discolored and | ! e y | that ihere were red marks on his back Blackmer of Denver, former chairman|ang side. but that he ~could not tell of the board of the Midwest Refining | where or when they were received.” | | Co., the other man whose testimony | Daniels was the only one of the many | was sought, is still abroad. | policemen whose affidavits accompany They were wanted for questioning in | the report who admitted noticing any- | connection with the organization of the | thing wrong with the prisoner. Capt. | | Continental Trading Co., Ltd, of H of the first precinct said that | | Canada, alleged to have figured in the | e noticed that his left eye was red leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil | nd swollen, but that it appeared to | reserve by Albert B. Fall, former Sec-|be very slight and that the prisoner | retary of the Interior, now serving a | did not complain about it. | prison sentence, to Harry F. Sinclair,| According to the report, the prisoner oil magnate. The lease later was can- | Was questioned in the sergeant’s room | | celed by the courts. | by Precinct Detectives Mostyn and | Blackmer and O'Neill were among the | Laflin and Pvt. Grooms. Fach of these | oil men who guaranteed a deal by which | (Continued on Pay i | problem is a combination of locel situ- Samuel Hoare, Sir Austin and Neville Chamberlain. mer prime mlngermlm Rt (Continued on Page 2. Column 6.) - ¥ interrupted his wedding trip to take part in the budget discussions «f the 30 AMERICANS HELD SRt BY CHINESE BANDITS | ism—rui ations, and that relfe: Labor—Philip Snowden, chancellor of the exchequer in the retiring cab- | inet. and J. H. Thomas. Mr. MacDon- | ald's secretary for dominions, among others. Rule To Last Few Months. ‘The new arrangement has its prece- dent in the coalition government of 1916, formed to create national unity | in_waging the war. | The new cabinst also has a war of By the Associated Press. sorts on its hands. Its cas will PEIPING, August 24.—Dispaiches to| be to restore Great Britain's tened native newspapers from Tsinanfu today | Credit in the world of international sald 30 American missionaries wer: be-| Ui, Balancing the budget will be the ing held prisoners by bandits at Tam- task of the National Government, ingfu, 250 miles south of Peiping. X oy The dispatches said Chinzse govern- 3 few months, during w economy ment troops were besieging the gang, | Dills will be rushed through the House headed by the bandit leader Liukwei|of Comons. Tang, in an effort to free the prisoners.! Mr. McDonald's government came - The missionaries were described as be- | Into office on June 9, 1929. and longing to the Narazene, Mennonite and | Dearly two and one-half years National Holiness Churches. gled with national and world Government Troops Are Reported Besieging Gang in Effort to Free Missionaries. for the the Continental purchased and subse- quently resold to the Sinclair and Prai- | rie Oil interests 33,000,000 barrels of | Texas oil at an advance of 25 cents a barrel. The Government charged that | Fall received more than $230,000 in Liberty ds from the deal as the re- | | sult of {l’-umn( the Teapot Dome lease | to Sinclair. i \COUPLE ESCAPES INJURY "IN AUTO SOMERSAULT |Sedan Struck by Delivery Truck at ‘5’};‘:‘;}‘ | 11th Street and Columbia Road Rolls Over and Is Wrecked. Although the automobile in which | they were riding rolled over, landing on its wheels, Rodman, 2211 Evarts street northeast, and Ethel Secretary’s Wrist Slightly sociated Press. YORK, August 24.—Secretary | | of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, re- turning from Europe today, was cut on | the hand by fragments of a flashlight bulb and then, because of 3 mistake in ents, was iven irough town in _a confiscated rum-runner’s auto- mobile. The cut from the bulb explosion was ::uu’l. ln;ndil nh:‘r treatment on beard e T, Mr. transferred to a | t delivery truck at | ctter, which landed him at the Bat- | Columbia road. tery. Apparently his arrival at the | taken | point was ted i g : g g5 @ § jifat B it al i ¥ i i MELLON CUT BY BULB EXPLOSIO 'ON SHIP RETURNING FROM EUROPE Runner’s Confiscated Car. lems whose vity increased by | general eccnomic depression. i Cabinet Members Divided. | For two weeks the cabinet has been in emergency session debating measures which would wipe off that deficit, but opposition to measures which it J cuwm in Mr. MacDonald's - nation. Injured; Rides in Rum |, [} TiGr movement tormmcd ohe | jections and there developed & split in the cabinet. In the new government. which ably will not hold The Secretary smilingly permitt Li:;‘.‘.‘.‘é'lsa Staft Capt. Giorgio Cavallini of the | ister probably Biancamano to treat the slight wound | Those who on his right hand. When the bulb burst he was showered | with fine particles of glass. He was| startled by the sudden explosion and | the rain of glass, but almost at once began to smile and passed the incident off as of no consequence, i There was consternation on the deck | of the liner, however. Th: Secretary | kad posed for two pictures and was for a third when the accident of success. smail isters