Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1931, Page 2

A2 - wd- CHANCE MISSED Inspector Sat Near Sister of | Harker at Hearing Last Monday. Inspector Louis J. Stoll, who reported | to Maj. Henry G. Pratt, Superintendent of Police, Thursday that he had been unable to interview Adelaide Harker, sister of James Harker, whose alleged beating at the first precinct last Satur- day is under investigation, sat within five feet of the girl during Harker's fie\mmuy examination in Police Court onday. A reporter for The Star at the hear- ing interviewed Miss Harker both be- fore and after the hearing. S. Mc- Comas Hawken, attorney for Harker, declared today that Inspector Stoll could have talked to Miss Harker at that time had he requested an inter- view. When he asked to see her Thurs- day, Hawken said, he refused the re- because the Department of Justics was in charge of the investigation. Unaware of Presence. Inspector Stoll said today that he know Miss Harker 'l.lpxu::: ! made by her attorney. Mr. Hawken had said that at the first inct the police would not allow ther to come into the station g but Sister First to Call. Miss Harker was also present at this time. It was she who first called at the station to see why her brother Since it was decided tnat the police investigators should ve the questioning of all civilian witnesses in this and nt.hu‘_ caese ‘where v.hm; legree methods ve en charged a of Justice, the police on the case must be concluded t any statement from, Miss Harker. Lol CROSBY TO URGE EARLY COMPLETION OF POLICE PROBE i “cream” of the opera r Hoover of the United long investigator has placed among those at the top of Direc- tor Hoover’s of agents, is under- to have arrived here today by from San Antonio. Officials Tefused to confirm this, however. It is recalled a similar mobilization of exoneration der charge. BRIDE HOLDS SPEED LAW IS IN FORCE WITHOUT VAN DUZER’S RULING o (Conlinusd rom Wirst Page) of her husband on a mur- end. It is understood that he will farmally designate speed limitations to clear up any possible misunderstand- ings. He is not in favor of any imme- diste change, with the exception of the “un:h limitations for automobiles and Drivers Must Curb Speed. 8o in the meantime fast drivers must eurb their ardor. In a statement made by Attorney C. Collins, attorney for the Dis- trict of Columbia Division of the American Automobile Association. today Mr. Collins pointed out that the interest of the A. A A in the question of whether or not there is an enforceable speed limit law in the District of Co- lumbia is one which is based entirely upon safety to the motorists and pedestrians of the District of Columbia. Mr. Collins warned against the dan- S — POLICE KILL GUNMEN .on the burlesque stage, s THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATUKRDAY, AUGUST 29, 1931, %w STOLL INTERVIEW ~[SCHOEIELD ATTACKS ADMIRAL IR GROUP FETES ADMITS SLAYING 4 CONSIDER WORLD FOR ASKING SAILOR’S CUSTODY Philadelp! clines to Honor Request of Lucius Bostwick. Says Secretary Adams Was “Misguided in Lang Case;” Attacks Navy Yard. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, August 29 —Di- rector of Public Safety Schofield has launched a new attack on Admiral Lucius Bostwick, commandant of the | Philadelphia Navy Yard. The admiral formally requested yes terday that a seaman, held in county prison on a liquor charge, be turned over to the navy yard pending trial. Schofield replied in a srathing letter that the request was “insoient” and reminded the admiral of “the handi: caps and lack of co-operation th police, in attempting to enforce the law, have received from yourself and other officials.” Referring to the case of Patrolman Charles P. Lang, who was discharged from the Naval Reserves by Secretary of the Navy Adams because he wore his naval uniform in making a liquor arrest, the director attacked misuses to which the uniform is put “without effective protest from those in charge of the Navy Department.” Lang, misguided Secretary of the Navy” while “in various parts of this country in musical comedy, in motion pictures, in hotel lobbles, in ball rooms and various other assorted places, cheap actors, come- dians, trapeze performers, beliboys. drunken participants in mask balls and the like wear the uniform of the United States Navy.” Admiral Bostwick, through an aide, in a formal letter asked that Joseph Blau, held in county prison under $1,300 bail, be turned over to the navy yard, officers of which would be re- sponsible. for his appearance for trial. hia Police Chief De- he said, “was dismissed by a | | | | | | | | | ADMIRAL BOSTWICK. The director replied that to honor the request would be “to commit a vio- llfltion of the law,” that members of | the Navy were not exempt from the | provisions of the State law. “The policc of Philadelphia are con- |su.nfly receiving complaints regarding I!h! conduct of sallors and other gem- | bers of the Naval Reserve assigned to | the League Island Navy Yard,” the let- ter said. “It has been necessary to make many arrests for violations of almost every crime in the category. “I suggest, sir, that in the future you find it convenient to direct some dis- ciplinary action toward your subordi- nates in an effort to correct these shameful conditions, rather than at- tempt to hamper the Philadelphia police in their effort to uphold the law by seeking special favors for those under your command who violate the aw.” Schofield two weeks ago asserted drinking was rampant in the navy yard and prisoners there were given liquor. Lieut. J. F. W. Gray, aide to Admiral Bostwick, said it had been the custom to send naval men under arrest to the navy yard “brig” so they would not be listed as deserters while held in jail. Reichelderfer Asks Probe of Veteran’s Beating Charges Another case of alleged police brutality involving a colored World War veteran, who is said to have ben confined at Walter Reed Hospital for nine months with a broken jaw resulting from blows struck by a police officer, was turned over to the Depart- ment of Justice for investigation M'ieb’ Comymissioner Luther H. Re_:s:m 1derfer. ‘The Commissioner told him he heard about the case while visiting friends. W-mdumknovmen&: ent of Justice can man and get his story. HOOVER STUDYING ARMS CONFERENCE Presence of Stimson’s Aidef at Rapidan Camp Gives Rise to Reports. By the Associated Press. LURAY, Va. August 20.—In his re- treat in the Virginia hills President Hoover turned his attention this week end to plans for the forthcoming dis- | armament conference at Geneva in Feb- ruary. Although no official information on the subject was received, the presence of Assistant Secretary of State Rogers at the camp for the second time in two weeks led observers to believe the Chief Executive was studying the problem closely. Rogers has been making a detalled survey of disarmament at the instruc. tion of Secretary Stimson, and has amassed much information, which, it . | nese legation.. quired regarding the necessary permis- | throughout the world as a means of lessening the strain on finances and | thereby aiding world ‘trade and com- merce. Mr. Hoover and his week-end guests arrived late yesterday and will remain until Monday. addition to Rogers, Warren hll’blnkl; torney General; Col. U. 8. Grant, super- intendent of public parks and buildings Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chi- cago Dally News; e Alford, ‘Washi 2 it of the Kan- sas City Star, and Mrs. Alford, Law- rence Ritchey, one of the President's secretaries, and Capt. Joel T. Boone, the ‘White House physician. DRY OFFICIAL SHIFTED Frank D. Lumpkin Goes From Norfolk to South Carolina. NORFOLK., Va., August 29 (#.— Prank D. Lumpkin, for two years depu- ty prohibition administrator for the Eastern judicial district of Virginia, with headquarters here, has been or- dered to Greenville, 8. C. to become deputy administrator for the Western district of South Caroiina. T. Payne Tolbert, new deputy ad- ministrator, Charleston, 8. C., will suc- ceed Mr. Lumpkin here. Dr. Reichelderfer’s Police Probe Work Relieved by Crosby Dr. Luther Reichelderfer, chair- man of the Board of District Commissioners, was relieved of a big today when Police Commissioner Herbert B. Cros Alberta Officers Capture Two Others in Spectacular Chase. FLIGHT TO RUSSIA TENPTS LINDBERGH | | | Soviet Embassy in Tokio. | 1!7 the Associated Press. TOKIO, August 20.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, during a visit to the embassy | of the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- | lics today, told officials that he and his |{wife had not determined which route | they would take home. but both were | Rreatly interested in Siberia. | The call at the Soviet embassy was | made to express the fiyers’ appreciation of the courtesy extended them at Kara- gin Island at Petropaviovsk during their | flight from the United States to Tokio. | Want to See Moscow. | Col. Lindvergh informed the Russians | that he and his wife had for some time | been casting longing eyes toward Mos- | cow as the destination of a sightseeing |trip. He said, however. that the trip over Siberia might require more time than they planned to spend on this flight. He asked about lakes and waterways in Siberia, apparently considering | whether the pontoons, with which his plane is equipped, would be practicable. | He added that weather in Siberia !wog would be too cold for a “vacation” t. Lindbergh explained to the Russians that the wheels of their monoplane { were still in New York, but could be | shipped to the Orient. He made it clear, however, that they had no definite plans beyond a flight to China. | Unaccompanied on Visit. The trip to the embassy was made | unaccompanied by any members of the | embassy staff, the American and U. 8. . R. governments “not being on speak- ing terms diplomatically.” Originally it was planned for Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh to be accompanied by several private Americans, but the colonel declined. saying “Why. we haven't the slightest hesi- tancy about going unescorted. In fact, we prefer taking a car by ourselves.” Before visiting the U. §. 8. R. em- bassy the Lindberghs paid courtesy calls at the Canadian embassy and the Chi- At the latter they in- sion to go to China. possibly via Seoul, Korea, Mukden and Peiping. \GIFFORD ASKS BANE TO HEAD WELFARE The guests include, in | WORK FOR JOBLESS | Va., and is 38"Vears old. He served in the aviation service in the World War. |He was educated at Randolph Macon | College and Columbia University and | entered welfare work in 1920 as sec- | retary of the State Board of Charities for Virginia. He was selected as com- missioner of publit welfare in 1922, and two years iater went to Knoxville, | Tenn,, as welfare director of that city. | He again entered the office of welfare | commisstoner for Virginia in 1926. | The Virginia official was one of the first to take the stand that primary | responsibility for relief, whether oc- | casioned by unemployment or other | causes, rests on governmental bodies. Although praising the work of private relief agencies, he has declared that, in spite of their expanded work, the greater |‘burden of relief last Winter was borne, as before, by public departments. Pri- vate agencies increased their expendi- tures over the previous year for family relief 48 per cent, whereas public de- partments increased expenditures by 146 per cent, he pointed out | In order to make a first-hand survey of unemployment conditions in the coal fields, Mr. Gifford yesterday ardered Fred C. Croxton, his assistant director, to Charleston. Mr. Croxton went to the West Vir- ginia capital to confer with Gov. Conley and today was reported touring the coal regions of the southern part of the State, studying distress among the miners | No comment was forthcomiig from relief headquarters on the program of | unempiloyment relief proposed to the New York Legislature by Gov. Roose- | v It was evident, however, that of- | ficials were pleased that New York was ‘IOIB‘ abead with plans for preventing | distress, instead Mt relying upon the Survey Being Prepared. 1 Relief activities also were under con- sideration at the National Chamber of | Possibility Hinted on Visit to| FLYERS T0 TURKEY Boardman and Polando Lunch Guests of Chamber of Commerce Committee. Russell N. Boardman and John Po- lando, who recently wrote another chapter in aviation history by their flight to Turkey, were luncheon guests of the Aviation Committee of the Washington Chamber of Commerce mfl.y at the Washington Hotel. as P. Littlepage, acting president, extended the congratulations of the people of Washington for the fiyers’ achievement. v In dfu‘r“’lnr the details of the flight, Boardman paid tribute to the United States Weather Bureau for its co-op- eration in enabling the flyers to avoid bad weather. Polando emphasized the noteworthy mechanical .performance of their plane and related several “human interest” incidents that took place dur- ing the trip. ‘Among those present at the luncleon were: Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, U. 8. A.; Comdr, A. C. Reid, U. 8. N.; Paul Garber of the aviation division of the Smithsonian Institution, John Victory of the National Ad Com- mittee for Aeronautics, A. K. ) president of the Aero Club of Wash- ington; Austin H. McCormick, assistant tendent of the Federal prisons; Sohn Brice, business -manager for Boardman and Polando: A. C. Case, chafrman of the Greater National Caj ital Committee; Phillip O. Coffin and Col. E. G. Bliss of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.; Mark Lans- burgh, president of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association; P. P. Camp- bell, Martin A. Leese, past president of the Washington Chamber of Commerce; George B. Fraser, H. A. Brooks, John A. Eckert, Col. William O. Tufts. Alfred | L. Stern and Juugh D. Dreyfuss, di- rectors of the Washington Chamber of Commerce. PROSECUTOR GETS CANNON EVIDENCE; (Continued Prom First Page) indication of the use to which the re- mainder of the fund was put. Word H. Wood of Charlotte, N. C. testified he received this check from Bishop Cannon after the North Caro- lina Democrats had called upon the headquarters organization of the Anti- Smith movement for help. Earlier it had been testified that Bishop Cannon was introduced to E. C. Jameson, New York Republican capi- talist, who gave $65,300 to the Bishop tion was made by C. Bascom Siemp, national committeeman for Virginia, after the late James W. Good, Western manager for the Republican National Committee during the 1928 campaign, mind an _independent organization that Good wished Jameson would help Slemp with. Other evidence in the record traced this $65,300 through the eight bank a counts maintained by the Bishop dur- notes and to pay some ol aries of an lp.!h(e for which he was the executor. Two other witnesses from Virginia Congressional districts, H. G. Luhring of Norfolk, and Dr. E. 8. Hughes of Danville, testified that, as leaders in the Anti-Smith movement in their areas, they had no knowledge of $4.500 and $4,000 which, the Bishop had said in a statement to the press, was spent in those districts. Repaid $10,607 More. In his final appearance before the committee Manly exhibited another chart which he said indicated Bishop Canon had been repaid $10,607.71 more by the Anti-Smith Democrats’ Head- quarters Committee than he had loaned it. Eugene L. Crawford, general secre- tary of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Epis- copal Church. South, of which Bishop Cannon is chairman, said several hun- ared dollars of board money had been loaned the bishop prior to the Asheville conference, but it later had been repaid. Miss_Burroughs, just as she did last May when she declined to tell the com ters Committee of the _anti-Smith Democrats, of which she filed reports as treasurer, again presented the com- mittee with a prepared statement, which she asked permission to read. Questions Group's Power. The statement said the records of the committee after remaining in her pos- session for two years were turned over to Bishop Cannon and she had no knowledge of their present whereabouts. As_ before, the statement denied the right of the committee to inquire into the “private transactions” of the bishop, and she replied to all questions with a refusal to comment Peters followed a similar course. He submitted a statement denying he had violated the corrupt practices act and asserting the committee had no right to pursue the inquiry. He also refused to reply to questions. Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil operator, served a sentence in jail for retusing to testify before a Senate com- mittee. The testimony obtained in the three- day inquiry showed the Bishop collected personally from Jameson, $65,300; from Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, former Re- publican Senator from New Jersey, $10,000, and had available for the North Carolina Anti-Smith Democrats the $5,000 from Huston. Huston Records Sought. The committee has subpoenaed the record of the Huston account in full and Chairman Nye said this would be examined for its relation to the activi- ties of Bishop Cannon. One witness, Deets Pickett, research secretary for the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, fafled to appear at vesterday's session. Chiairman Nye explained, ever, he had been informed that Pick- ett was suffering from a high fever {and a cold. Senator Carter Glass, Democrat, of Virginie, author of the resolution under which the committee is making its in- quiry, issued & statement yesterday in reply to ome by Bishop Cannon in London Glass _described as “sheerest non- sénse” Cannon’s assertion that he was refusing to tell what he did with the Anti-Smith campaign fund to “protect” Anti-Smith Democrats to whom pay- | ments are alleged to have been made. “There seems no necessity for serious comment,” the Senator said. “The good bishop seems to prefer to persist in his hallucination that I demanded this investigation into his financial transactions in the last national cam- “F this were true, T am unable to discern “that the fact could affect in Ly it Bi Can- non_diverted to his own private uses funds intended for political purposes. Denies Making Charge. “However, as previously p‘:t‘med out, ormer political af- (Repub- n usetts. drafted a resolution, which States Senate unanimously passed, giving :semmy to shecking ‘Cannon an op- ly_demand an by the Nye Commities of this aceusation by his former ACTION IS DELAYED | for use in the campaign. The introduc- | had written Jameson that Slemp had in | mittee of the affairs of the Hsldqulr-“nw of the widow’s Park Ridge hom: | ing held for the slaying. The chief said IN'WEST VIRGINIA Correspondent of Matrimo- nial Agencies Promises to “Tell All” Today. a frequent visitor “on pleasure trips” to Chicago. He said he last saw the widow as she boarded a train for Den- ver, Colo., some weeks ago. At that| time, he said, she was accompanied by a man named Rogers. While he insisted his only business dealings with Mrs. Eicher were when he sold her home for her, police said he later admitted having given one of the children, Greta, & note to her mother's bank in Chicago requesting the bal- ance of Mrs. Eicher's account. With it, he said, he sent a blank check pur- porting to_have been signed by Mrs, Eicher, The bank, however, refused the request. Explaining his correspondence with women thioughout the country through matrimonial agencies, Plerson was quoted as saying he wrote the women “just for fun.” Many such letters were found in his possession, police said. Plerson evidently had recelved an average of a score a day. He had sev- eral in his pockets when he was ar- rested. Amorig his papers, police said they found a copy of an advertisement ap. parently used to promote correspon- | dence with ‘vomen. It read: “Civil engineer, college education. Worth $150,000 or more, has income from $400 to $3,000 per month. My business enterprises prevent me from making social contacts. I am unable, therefore, to make the acquaintance of the right kind of women. As my prop- erties are located in the Middle West, 1 believe I will settle there when mar- ried. Am an Elk and a Mason, own a beautiful 10-room home, completely fur- | nished. My wife would have her own car and plenty of spending money. Cornelius O. Plerson. P. O. Box 277, Clarksburg, W. Va. WROTE BEAUTIFUL LETTERS. | Pierson Sent Same Kind to Other Women, However, Divorcee Learns. DETROIT, August 29 (#).—Mrs. Edith D. Simpson, 38-year-old Detroit divorcee, finds it hard to believe that | “Cornelius O. Plerson,” whom she ex- | pected to marry next month, “would | hurt even an insect.” Mrs. Simpson’s romance with the man | now held in Clarksburg, W. Va., for the | | deaths of an Illinois woman. whom he also had promised to marry, and her | three children, was the product of a matrimonial agency, but, in her own | words, “he wrote so beautifully in his letters, his mind was so big and fine, I can't believe he would hurt even an insect.” | She had seen only a photograph of | her fiance, but she identified as his a pic- | Convinced of his identity, she declared that “if he committed that terrible | crime, nothing they can do to him is| 100 bad.” Mrs, Simpson, who has dealt in real estate since her divorce seven years ago, received another shock when a copy of & letter “Plerson” wrote to the woman ;:e is accused of killing was shown to er. | “Why. that's exactly one of my Jet- ters,” she sald. “He must have made circulars.” She refused to show any of the let- ters she received. “They mean something to me, any- way,” she explained. “T suppose it's a good thing for me it | happened,” she added. WIDOW'S HOME MORTGAGED. Welfare of Children Believed Aim of Affair With Pierson. CHICAGO, August 20 (#).—Mayor william A McKee of suburban Park Ridge, friend and confidante of the slain widow, Asta Buick Eicher, said to- day he believed that solicitude of a mother with dwindling funds for the welfare and education of her children led the widow and her three children to | their deaths. | Mayor McKee said that with his chief of police, Harold Johnson, he sup- ported the theory the accused killer disposed of the family after he learned the apparently comfortable surround- were merely a “front” behind which la; a story of financial difficulties and ap- proaching poverty. Will Probe Local Angles. Chief Johnson planned to fly to Clarksburg W. Va., where Harry F. Powers, alias Cornelius O. Pierson, the widow's correspondence wooer, was be- he would not leave until he could make | a further investigation of all possible local angles of the case. That the welfare of her children lay behind Mrs. Eicher’s affair with Powers was supported by Elizabeth Abernathy, the family nurse, who said the widow had asked her before Powers arrived not to mention at any time in his presence the fact that the house was heavily mortgaged. Bank Accounts Small. She had apparently , Mayor McKee said, to marry Powers for the wealth he said he had and to save her children from penury. Her bank ac- counts, the investigation showed, were ges were due and she was unable to | pay charge accounts in Park Ridge places where she traded. | Mayor McKee said he was not con- vinced the family was slain in West Virginia and that every effort was being made to find witnesses who had seen Powers or Pierson or talked to him while he was in Park Ridge. If any evidence were uncovered to | show the killings might have taken | place in or near Park Ridge extradition proceedings would be started to bring Powers to Illinois, the mayor said. | | Sir Hall Caine “Very Weak.” DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, August 29 (A —Sir Hall Caine, British writer, who | is il of heart trouble, was said today to have passed a fair night, although very weak. political companion. One would sup- pose the good bishop would be grateful to me and to the Nye Committee also for so quickly and completely affording him an opportunity to disprove so biting a charge against his personal integrity. Says Bishop Ran Away. “I note that Bishop Cannon, in his cable from London, asks why 1 haven't :;m-mfl an investigation of either e State Committee in Virginia as well as of the committees of which the good bishop was chairman treasurer. them to his own private uses. er " poltical - Amiate. Congreastman mer ca) 3 Tinkham, bring a; such mwumfian against Republican Anfel or Democratic Chairman Hooker, will g ly demand that the accusation and will my that each of investigated give personal bond these gentlemen also will demand in- v-mc-u:_n nndmnm rg: away to mhlhd_. the skirts of 8 woman secre- ture of the man held in West Virginia. , years, but alt university days, when Princeton award- Victims of Murderer MATRIMONIAL AGENCY CORRESPONDENT HELD IN DEATHS. HE bodies of Mrs. Asta Eicher, P: her three children, Annabel, Gretha and Harry, shown above, were , T, widow (lower left) ark Ridge, i“‘ buried near Clarksburg yesterday. Cornelius O. Plerson, alias Harry F. Powers (lower right), who is sald to have confessed he killed them. —A. P. Photo. | Ends Life | | ALFRED P. DENNIS. ALFRED P. DENNIS, MEMBER OF TARIFF ——(Continued From Pirst Page. recurrence of his stomach trouble and | was apparently depressed about it,” | Commissioner Brossard said. | “We all knew he was a sick man and | we had hoped that the long vacation in Maine would benefit him,” the com- missioner said. “Those of us who sat with him in the tariff hearings could see that he often was in physical pain. The distress sometimes made him nerv- curtness. “His service to the commission has been invaluable and his death not only is a tragic shock to all of us, but a dis- tinct loss to the commission.” Resigned Professorship. Mr. Dennis suffered a severe attack of stomach trouble about two vears ago and was confined to his bed for a long | period. Iliness forced him to give up a pro-| fessorship at Princeton University wnen Woodrow Wilson was head of that in- stitution and he sought to regain his| health by taking to the seclusion and open life of Northwest logging camps. He changed almost overnight from an economist and historian and all- around' scholar to a roustabout flume tender in a Canadian logging camp. Later he was promoted to cook. Two| years of this rugged life made a changed | man of him and he decided to return to the East. His interest in logging led him to go in the lumber business in Southern Maryland and Virginia, where ganized industries. In 1919 he took a Civil Service examination for lumber trade commissioner and H with such exceptional marks that in-| stead of receiving an appointment as| commissioner, he was given the post of commercial attache at Rome. Two years later he was transferred to a like post at <London. It was while in London that he first came to the attention of Herbert Hoo- ver, then Secretary of Commerce. Counducted Trade Survey. Hoover appointed him special repre- sentative of the Commerce Department in Europe, in which capacity he con~ ducted a wide trade survey. In 1922 Hoover brought him back to country and made him “personal Tariff Com: squabbles during the past few | ways emerged unscathed. His title of “doctor” dated from his PRE-CONTRACT WAGE PACTS HELD WRONG BY BRIDE RULING (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) “The by the provides that laint the Secretary of &a« the issue. There has been plaint in one case, involving and the Secretary of Labor h that the contractor must pay the pre- vailing rate of wages.” FORD RECALLS 25,000 WORKERS LAID OFF 50,000 Expected Back in Shops by Officials by the Middle of September. Br the Associated Press. DETROIT, August 20.—The Ford | 25,000 men had been ordered to return, ummmhd at starting September 8. Officials of the company sald the W.meherw‘lled" 1o announce- ment of change in the three-day-a-week worl schedule, which has been effect for many months. FRANCE ENTERS RACES “Wine Bricks” Ruled Legal. i, August ey PARLEY ON COTTON Three U. S. Agencies Get Proposal of Egypt for Conference. By the Associated Press. | Egypt's formal proposal for an in- ternational conference to discuss the | world cotton depression was laid by the State Department today before the interested Federal agencies for Lhex: Copies of the note which was handed to Acting Secretary of State Castle yesterday were forwarded to the Agri- | culture and Commerce Departments and the Federal Parm Board. ‘The three agencies already have be- fore them an informal intimation of the Egyptian proposal sent to the State Department five days ago by cable by the American legation at Cairo. Note Suggests Conference. The note suggested some sort of in- ternational discussion among the inter- control of production for legislative ap- proval might have some advantages, was said. The Egyptian communication was sent to the three agencies without com- ment by the State Department. Smith Asks Parley. Almost simultaneously with the re- ceipt from the State Department of the formal Egyptian proposal, the Farm Board received & request from Senator Smith of South Carolina for a second conference with Southern Senators this afternoon. Smith was not present at the meeting y when the plans of Senator Georgia liscussed as a possible means of re- ducing cotton supplye and increasing exporting nations at London last to attempt some solution cf the wheat problem ~ caused HE « 8E i is 82 gi? E : 53 k 4 : % 5 s i - | Quebec as Detroit Flyers Make Port Harrison. By the Associated Press. about 75 miles | Motor Co., which, on August 1, sharply | The radio branch of the Marine De- {mmllod its manufacturing foree, to- | partment reported Wolfgang von Gro- day announced that between 15,000 and | nau, flying a sub-Arctic course to Amer- Povungnituk, an Eskimo Northern Quebec, at 7:07 0 jEall f i ] b i o i E ? - i i CHANNEL WA