Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1931, Page 2

* herds, pool tables, swivel chairs and the UNTAXED BILLIONS - FOUND IN CHICAGD Unlisted PRersonal Property Uncovered by Probers of Cook County. | i By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, August 29.—Cook County assessors and citizenry have found a 10,000,000,000-dollar treasure chest of personal property@that always has es- caped taxation, and were engaged to- day in a duel with its owners to collect revenues that ‘\wbuld replenish empty public treasuries. Their goal was legally to uncover and record upon the tax books the billions in bank deposits. stocks and bonds, automobiles, planos, watches, flocks and rest of the miscellany of wealth. $124,000,000 Unassessed. The hunt already has yielded $84,- 000,000 in railroad equipment that had never poured its tax share into the pub- lic coffers and $40,000,000 in lake and | air craft that have operated out of Chicago's harbors and airport without ylelding a cent of revenue. This ‘auspicious beginning has led John E. Conroy, secretary of the Board | of Assessors, to asi the county commis- sioners for $100,000 to finance a plan under which experts would canvass every quarter of the county, including | the wealthy Chicago Loop, ‘and make | ‘accurate appraisals of inventories in homes, stores, offices, factories and all other places that might contain some- thing on which the public freasury could levy. Even the setback of a refusal from banks and investment hpuses to sur- render financial records of patrons has not deterred the seekers. A new plan is being evolved whereby such surrender will be demanded. Five Per Cent Pay Personal Tax. Indifference of public officials and itical favoritism, plus difficulties in ocating the hidden wealth, have been held responsible by citizens and State officers for Cook County’s failure to un- earth more than the $700,000,000 in sonal Tty in a previous assess- m. eomp;l::d with over $3,000,000,000 in real property. Of 987424 families and business es- tablishments in Cook County, including Chicago, only 27 per cent had their per- sonal property assessed and only § per cent paid 1929 assessments, county rec- ords showed. Chicago's 845,036 families and esatblishments were the worst of- fenders, with only 23 per cent of them assessed and 2 per cent paying taxes. Two hundred suits filed by the State’s sitorney’s office for delinquent personal property taxes were a recent outgro and most of them named residents the wealthy Gold Coast. MACDONALD ASKED TO QUIT PARLIAMENT BY OWN CONSTITUENCY % (Continued Prom First Page. ith their study of the ecenomy pro- % be presented to the special of Parliament a week from = With the government firmly in .ud::umtyuztmm\o gm 1 Commons { sidered the House of con- *tain on all fronts. Son Must Explain. Notflenmmmlnlmhubo;un spared. ‘The youth, Wi raised | voice in lonely defense of his father | at yesterday’s Labor meeting which | the prime minister from Jeadership, today was Bassetlaw division of Nottingham, | which he represents in Commons, for an explanation. At Lossiemouth today the prime min- ister had with him for study a com- plete draft of the national cabinet's economy proposals. Stanley Baldwin, leader of the Conservatives and presi- dent of the council in the new gov- ernment, and other members of the cabinet of 10 also studied the sug- | gested cuts. | The cabinet meets at No. 10 Bown- ing street Monday afternoon and is to be in session dafly until Parliament convenes. i party Of Britain's three-fold national emer- gency the first phase—the political crisis—has been dealt with during the last week by the establishment of the national government. The second rhase | —the financial crisis with its threat | to PBritish, credit—has been tackled by | the establishment of $400,000,000 credits in New York and Paris. In the opening of Parliament will be | the occasion for completing the task | by “swift, decisive and effective ac- tion” to which Mr. MacDonald has pledged his new government. | Tariff Main Issue. | Beyond the political and financial | erisis lie Britein's deep-rooted economy | roblems. Thus far the country has| een too busy averting grave immedi- | ate perils to tackle them. As soon as the national government | has accomplished its task of balancing the budget there will be a general elec- tion to clear the political sky. A fi over the tariff issue will be the m feature of that election. During this past week of crisis, which few of the public could understand, Britons have been bewildered, but there was not the slightest trace of panic. Mr. Baldwin told his Coserva- | tive party conciave that the nation had verged on financial panic and that the crisis was then a question of hours. | ment. remained unaffected. At theaters, where English sandwiched themselves between the big American feature films, showed complete lack of excitement over the situation and entering No. only _occasional lause, of which Mr. Baldwin scemed to get the most. Today Downing strect was deserted as on an ordinary Saturday, but the sun was shining and almost for the first week end of the season the Eng- ,ll.lh were enjoying a taste‘of Summer. Accept Snowden’s Decision. The decision of Philip Snowden, chancellor of the exchequer, not to offer himself again as a candidate for Parltament from the Colne Valley di- visikm of Yorkshire was o~ night at s meeting of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Labor party on record its 's valuable Wreck of British. Ace’s Plane 7 SCHNEIDER CUP RACER ESCAPES WITH MINOR INJURIES. LIGHT COMDR. RICHARD L. R. ATCHERLEY, British Schnéider Cup racer, suffered a cut over one eye, many bruises and a severe shaking up when his plane nosed over at Cleveland, Ohio, Friday, when he attempted to land with a broken landing gear. Photograph shows the wrecked plane shortly after the crash. —A. P. Photo. PACIFIC MAIL LINES FORESEEN BY LINDY | Navy's former great racing star, leading {'CFOSSIHQ soon to Become a brilliant international team of fiyers | commonp'ace He Te"s here, is fearful of the fate of his American speed record of nearly 267 e Japanese Friends. IDIzZY SPEED HOLDS BIG SUMPAIDFOUR °22:s =R (Continued Prom First Page) | tion of what the crowds expect of the | 1931 classic. Jr., the Extortion Theory Strength- ened by U. S. Attorney’s Statement. miles per hecur, which has stood un- | challenged since 1923. Even if this record still stands Wwhen the winner flaghes across the line in the Thompson speed race, which will climax the meet |57 the Associated Press BY the Assoclated Press. calld before the | DOB Views of Downing ' street and of cabinet members leaving | Downing_brought | NEW YORK, August 29.—The state- ment that between March 1 and August 28 Hisashi Pujimura, missing Japanese mporter, paid “the greater part” of $335,000 to four men with whom ke apperently had no business assoctations today \dded weight to a theory that he was the victim of extortionists. Announcement of the mysterious payments was made by J. Edward Lumbard, assistant United States at- torney, after a series of interviews with witnesces in the case, including Mrs. :,;ry Von Relssner, aotress companion imura on the liver Belgenland when he disappearsd August 14. Letters from “The Hawk.” Mrs, Von Reissner, revezled she had been receiving threatening lctters her- letters _to the blande divorcee de- last one, W] arrived Thursday, told her that 6 am. yesterday was sero hour fcr her to have “the declined to_give disclosed for a Clarke, Greenwich and | another who, he be- Mack, the as George can tell something about Norwalk observers. One of those questioned today was William Jordan, who was in Fujimura's employ as operator of his cabin cruiser |and chauffeur until his dismissal when the Japanese sold the boat to Clarke. er man questioned was James y. day to the Federal further testimony, also. was employed at mlfim by PFujimurs to operate his Information also was obtained other investigators that Pujimura put all his insurance pelicies in order just | prior 10 safling on the Belgenland with | Mrs. Von Reissner for a six-day cruite to Halifax, during which he disap- peared. . U: S. HAS 36 MILLIONS TIED UP IN COTTON BECAUSE OF LOANS (Continued Prom Pirst Page) and the chances of a rise do not appear great at this time, there wiil be no prefit for the planter, and he in turn will be uneble to pay his debt to the Government. ‘This leaves but two courses of action open to the Government. First, if the licans are not paid, the crop can be taken under the terms of the mortgages. 1t is improbable, however, that any such action will be taken The Gov- ernment, through Parm Board stabiliza- tion operations, has 1,300,000 bales of cotton on hand siready that it has been unable to dispose of, and it doesn't want any more. The aiternative policy, and the one which probably will be adopted, is that of leniency. One Gepartmental offic situation up by saying f the cotton planter can’t pay now, there is nothing for the Government to do but wait and hope for payment later.” It is apparent, therefore, 1 summed the the welfare of the cotton grower, The fist and most important con- - | sideration is the economic effec Mr. MacDonald made & similar state- | Sideration e the ba i o, S 14t { the result if the cotton crop year a Through it e the life o ihe nation | Hoancial failure. Secondarily, however, mewareels | the Government ‘has its own $36,000,000 investment at stake, and it is not dis- Audiences |posed to treat that as an insignificant | matter. principally North D akota, Wyoming and Wi tan {tvlu. the Government some concern. t policy will be cotton loan The riculture. | the stion has be plague in Nebraska and other States. e S ViSRS Eiks Choose Los Angeles. | Los Labor day, the margin will have been TOKIO, August 29.—Col. Charles A. dodgh on the refusal | | Lindbergh predicted tonight it would become an ordinary matter for persons to fly across the Pacific and foresaw a regular passenger and mail air service whittled down to a point where just | another little burst of spesd will rele- gate the hoary old reccrd to oblivion. |~ The speed devzlopment, which {s giv- ing & new character to the races, is | more important to the Nation than |between the United States and Japan. the mere appeasing of the hunger of | Addressing the America-Japan Soci- the crowd for sensaticn or the winning ety at a banquet in his honor, the fa- of the rich stakes. It is a development | mous fiyer said: which is going to make national de-| “At present it seems uncommon for | fense stronger as fast as the results can |a person to fly dcross the Pacific, but be applied to the fighting planes, which | in the time to come this will be gn or- m;xst foll’:n ls‘helu Nl:leanil bul».:rkmog dinary matter.” safety. als> is a development which | is going to pour even stronger and| s more pulsing life into the Nation'’s| He predisted that within the next arteries of communication and trans- geperation at most there would be a portation. | r passenger and mail service fol- the air route along the Aleutian between the United States and | Tows | Isian Japan. SERVICE PLANES STUNT. o The colonel spoke after Prince { - | | Army, Navy and Marine Flyers Enter- sato Tokugawa, who presided, had paid | o [Es R bl g b £ ew York to Pa in 1! an | CLEVELAND, August 20 (#)—Mili- | ongratulated both the colonel and Mrs. ‘;?1%'#‘;.'3:;:1 ’XT,”{.';:: opening of Lindbergh upon their “great service in Navy, Marine and v fyers, Mfi"?xen:,' a North Pacific air route be: the United States and Japa {tiing a brisk wind that made the air | Baizy: vied in patotin e attalnments of Mrs. Lindbergh, new formations | o assistant to her husband on the lat- against a cloud-fleeked sky and rolling |ter flight, together with the “noble zammba'}_‘ rapidly changing tactics of War | qualities of Joung womanhood she dis- played,” said the prince, would make Outnumbering its service rivals, the a3 deep impression upon the Japanese | Alr Corps scurried 36 pursuit planes|people and excrt a lasting influence. through a maze of new formations, in- | Tn accordance with Japanese custom, | cluding the letters “A” and “C,” and |the 200 banqueters removed their shoes ;5."“ ofudci:'e:n:\;l:n rgc:zd tmr ol.':w,berore emfi% the dinln% room and Ofticially, the 10.4ay air Ciasic moved | * "Pon. cushicns on the fioor. Silent on Future Plans. Using ehopsticks to eat raw fish and Cape Cod, the cabin monoplane in | cther delicacies placed in trays before |which they flew non-stop from New them by waltresses clad in brightly | York to Istanbul, Turkey, for a dis- | colored kimonos, the Lindberghs ap- tance record of less than a half mile | peared to greatly enjoy the dinner | under 5,000 miles, Earlier they had attended a luncheon | Twelve Navy fighting planes of as guests of Mayor Nagata of Tokio, | Squadron 3 from the carrier Langley |from which they went to a tea party |were first in the air. Separating in |in their honor given by Gen. Nagaoka, | sections of three, each section wrote a |father of Japanese aviation, at his | “V” ageinst the “white ‘clouds, then | home. | went into a “stair-step” formation, and | Although it had been rumored the | from 2,000 feet dived toward the grand- | flyers would return home to America in | stands to 500 feet. Up again they |their plane, through Siberia or by way | demonstrated, describing a cylinder in |of Australia, the Lindberghs continued sky. | silent concerning their itinerary after The Marine demonstration included |leaving China on the next stage of their that the Government has a two-fold interest in The remaining $12,000000 of the fund which has been ioaned is invested in wheat crops of Montana, ] . The loans are similarly secured, land the current wheat prices are also . | week. 15 expected, however, that the same followed 'here as in the | 5. | balance of the $17,500,000 is still | at the disposal of the Secretary of Ag-| No definite use for this| money has been decided upon, slthough been made that it | in combating the grasshopper |fast it taxed the eye to watch its| the Lufberry circle—a horizontal for- | | mation with each piane close ben\nd[ | other—and a series of loops and | jor | “snake dances.” | | 'The Army fiying was the most spec- tacular, with one section of 18 planes | diving from 2,500 feet to within 100 by | feet above the grandstands and roar- |ing back into the sky. Watching the stunts from the dstands were Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeroaautics: David H. Ingalls, Assistant Secrelary of Navy | for Aeronautics, and Senator Hiram Bingham, Connecticut, president of the | Nationai Aeronautic Association. | One of the biggest thrills of the day | |wu provided by Maj. Emnst Udet, Ger- | | man war ace, who won about 62 battles | | with allied airplanes. From an altitude of about 2,500 feet, he stopped the en- gine of his red and silver biplane, went through a series of loops, Tolls, side- |slips and turns, and made & perfect | landing. | | _Maj. Ernst Udet shook hands with a Clevelander who saved his life 13 years ago. His benefactor was William Wald- mueller, once a messenger in the 16th German Regiment. | |, Shot down by an English pilot, Udet took to his parachute and was landing in a gas-filled area when Waldmueller ran to the airman, told of the deadly , and sped with him until refuge was ound in a cave. Today's meeting was |the first between the two since that escape. | _With his big silver biplane Capt. | Boleslaw Orl y, Polish flyer, flew in zig-zags only a few feet from the ground Lieut. Comdr. Mario de Ber- nardi, Italian fiyer, and Maj. Alois Kubita of Czechoslovakis, other mem- bers of the forelgn group who were brought here for the air races, also stunted. It was announced that Flight Comdr R. L. R. Atcherley, British fiyer who was injured in landing his ship here yesterday, would be able to take the air | tomorrow. SCHOENHAIR CRASHES. Winner of Thompson Trophy Last Year Out of Race. | ST. LOUIS, August 29 (P).—Lec Schoenhair, fiying his special Laird | racing biplane, which last year won the | | Thompson trophy race at the National | Alr Races at Cleveland, cracked up at Lambert, St. Louis, Field here today as | he was taking off for Burbank, Calif. Schoenhair wes not injured, but the | ship was dameged somewhat. The fiyer said that while the accident will | | put him out of the cross-country race, | he plans to have the ship repaired and | | return to Cleveland for the Thompson | trophy event the latter part of next DOOLITTLE AFTER RECORD. Army Ace Hopes to Set Cross-Country Mark in Derby. LOS ANGELES, August 29 (#) —In tiny little plane that traveled so | | ‘s flight, Maj. James H. Doolittle, age | Army pilot, Janded here today and an- lans to seek & transcontin- “vacation” flight. GOVERNOR OF IDAHO DECLARES MARTIAL LAW IN FIRE AREA rest those persons who are responsible for the starting of the fires.” Immediately upon issuance of the declaration a clean-up campaign was started among firefighters on the Boise Basin-Payette River front. Forty-five men declared “undesirable” were dis- charged by the Forest Service and escopted under guard out of the re- stricted area. Fighters Get Respite. Rain, fog and the tireless efforts of thousands of men has brought at iemst temporary respite in the most serious forest, brush and grass fire war of re- cent vears in the West. Baitle lines were entrenched against the red enemy from the Canadian line as far south as Santa Barbara, Calif, and as far east as Montana. Black- ened ruins mark the former sites of stately forests. Hundreds of homes, cabins and other small bulldings have been swept away. Six lives are known to have been lost this week. Two other fire fighters are believed to have burned to death. The worst fires in California at pres- ent are in national forests. The Forest Service reported today that 15,200 acres were aflame, with more than 2,000 men fighting them. These fires are in_the Trinity, Modoc, Plumas and Santa Bar- bara national forests. 400,000 Acres Blackened. In Montana, Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington spproximately 8,000 men still were battling 150 fires. In this area upward of 400,000 acres have been blackened. In Southern Idaho two towns have been destroyed. Three hundred persons have been driven from their homes. Two mines were ‘ruined. They were valued at $750,000. In Oregon approximately 125,000 acres were burned over and lives were lost. The costs of Western fires this season were declared by Federal and State authorities to be the greatest in his- tory. The exact amount of damage and cost to the country may not be known for weeks, if it is ever accurately ascertained. ‘AUGUST 380, 1931—PART ONE » H * : ; THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO:. [ 2 A EXPERTS CONDEMN | EUROPEAN TARIFFS Geneva Meetings Draw Weary Statesmen Seeking Re- habilitation. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, August 29 —European tariff barriers were dencunced today n a repo.t of the international group of economic experts which was prepared for presemtation to the Co-ordinating Committee of the European Commission next week. - The report stated that any improvement in the economic status of the world and Europe would be impos- sible until there was a greater freedom of circulation of goods, labor and cap- ital. The experts' group was appointed by the European Commission at its May meeting. In its report, it became known tonight, it urge that the goal to .be aimed at is to make Europe “one great market for the products of all the countries which constitute it.” ‘The committee also recommended the creation of an international bank for granting long-term credits. Leaders Look to Geneva, . Leaders of international affairs, wearied by three months of feverish negotiations in the capitals of Europe, turned tonight toward Geneva, where, in a series of meeti beginning Mon- day, the world's grfve political and economic problems will be examined afresh in the clinic of the League of Nations. European statesmen and their ad- visers will gather here Munday for the meeting of the Co-ordinating Commit- tee of the European Union Commis- sion, which will attempt to formulate a general plan for European econcgic rehabilitation. On Tuesday the League of Nations' Council convenes and on its agenda are the Rustro-German Cnustoms Union and Poland's treatment of the Ger- man minority under the Polish flag. Thursday the European commission itself meets with the hope of taking concrete action on the economic reme- dies proposed by its committee. The annual assembly of the League comes ther the following Monday in its twelfth session, at which the eco- nomic crisis and the coming World Dis- armament Conference will provide ple material for the deliberations of the 53 national delegations. All those League meetings are cer- tain to feel the influence of the German and British financial troubles, and the resultant political shakeup in Great Britain, Arthur Henderson, foreign secretary in the recent Labor cabinet, | will be greatly missed. Cecil British Spokesman. Viscount Cecil, one of the founders of the League, will be the British spokesman, but, although held in high esteem in Geneva, he is not a minister in the British government and cannot speak with the authority of the foreign secretary. ‘The strong policy which the British have pursued at the two previous as- semblies is therefore likely to be lack- ing during the coming busy season at Geneva. o Maxim Litvinoff, foreign minister of Russia, will represent the Soviet before the Euro] Co-crdinating Committee and the full commission. International quarters hope that his presence in Geneva will be the occasion for reveal- ing the status of negotiations between Moscow and Paris for a nbn-aggression act. " The Coordinating Committee, in which all European states will partici- pate, will consider the reports and recommendation of several special com- mittees appointed st the May meeting, The subjects dealth with by these special groups include the disposal of future harvest supplies, a proposal for creating an international organization for short-term agricultural credit, pre- ferential custom rates for cereals, un- employment and the soviet protocol for economic non-: jon. Dr. Julius Curtius of Germany, Dino Grandi of Italy, and the Foreign Min- isters of 10 or more other nations are expected to take part in the Co- ordinating Committee’s efforts to con- struct & general scheme out of the recommendations of the various sub- groups. Customs Union Pending The council’s most important item of business—the customs union project— still is hanging fire in the World Court at the Hague, where it was sent by the council in May for an advisory opinion as to its legality. It is generally considered that the project itself is now dead, or at least dormant, during the present disturbed political and financial situation in Europe, by which both Germany and Austria are critically affected. But the court’s decision will have great interest in political quarters. As for the German-Polish minority issue, there may be debate in the council but Poland probably will be upheld and the case closed. Other items on the agenda of the council are not of immediate im- portance, but it may be called on to put into effect whatever relief program the European Commission recommends for economic distress. Foreign Minister Alejandro Lerroux of Spain will preside over the Council. Informed persons are predicting that the Assembly will be quiet and perhaps short, It is felt in many quarters that the Assembly is too unwieldy a body problems now so insistently calling for solution. Political Cure Impossible. ‘The Assembly cannot remedy the political maladjustment between Ger- many and France, which is recognized to be one of the bases of Europe's dis- turbed condition. Real action to check economic maladies, it is pointed out here, is much more likely to come from financial powers, including the United States, than from the Assembly. International quarters here are wait- ing for some reaction to the report of the committee headed by Albert H. t‘he problems of war debts and repara- jons. Since the United States is not par- ticipating in the Assembly it is felt here that the League is not capable of solv- ing the present world problem. In some quarters it is expected that the movement against tariffs may take definite form in the European com- mission and may be carried over into the Council deliberations. The possi- bility that the new British cabinet may establish a protective tariff system is viewed with anxiety on the continent. The Journal de Geneve says: “A Brit- ish protective tariff is now the only thing lacking to accomplish the ruin of Europe.” BRIAND TO ATTEND LEAGUE. Back in New York Harbor CONSTITUTION LOOKS SAME AS IN 1815. A unique camera | for its particular purpose, photographed By the Associated Press. EW YORK, August 29.—Slowly out of the past a ghost of for- gotten seafaring days came to the world’s most modern city this afternoon. Crowds that 48 hours before had thundered fcrth a welcome to a 150- mile-an-hour flying hotel, the DO-X, looked on with silent awe as the his- toric frigate Constitution was pulled into port at the rate of five knots. From flying jibboom to fantail stern old craft looked just as she did in 1815 when she came here to receive acclaim for her succession of impres- sive naval victories. There was a touch of the pathetic, however, in the fact that her sails remained furled and she was towed in by a swanky twentieth century mine sweeper. Marine Parade Impressive. There were other anchronisms—the electric light glopes and modern plumb- ing fixtures in the cabins—but those were out of sight and forgotten in the knowledge that the 1931 crew still has to weigh the §-ton anchor by hand capstan and man the hand bilge pumps every morning in the absence of mechunical devices. The marine parade that commemo- rated the return of the famous old warship, after it had been rebuilt through the donation of school chil- dren’s pennies, was declared by old- timers to have been one of the most impressive New York Harbor has ever seen. dy of the rigging of the U. 8. S. Constitution, “Old Ironsides,” which has many lnes, shrouds, ratlines and halyards, and each there while en rourg to New York on its tour of Eastern seaports. and from truck to keep the 134-year- ! while at Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y. | “The sitent black ribbons of spectators, | Mining the shores of the Hudson, heard | the most raucous sort of a symphony and saw the most colorful kind of a spectacle that has moved in from the | sea In many a year. | Receives 21-Gun Salute. ‘The noisy cacophony was formed by | the booming of a 21-gun salute by guns | at Fort William and on Coast Guard | cutters, the discordant shriek of sirens |on the city boat Macon, the drore of | dozens of airplane motors, the braying of fog horns on all manner of miscel- | laneous craft, occasional waves of sound from an offieial band, and the tooting of factory whistles on shore. |, “Old Ironsides,” as she came to be |knoWn because of her shot-resisting wooden sides, moved in from Long ,filnd during the night and late in afternoon started toward the Hud- son River dock where she will be on display for several days before contin- uhé her tour o‘gfle‘dmby % ports. Was pre our destroyers, flanked by Coast Guard cutters and followed by a parade, miles long; in which hundreds of water and air craft | took part. | . Nearly 100 seaplanes, amphibians and |land planes circled overhead. | On the pler to greet the illustrious | 0ld ship were Albert S. Whidden, whose great-great-grandfather built the Con- | stitution, and Comdr. A. B. Hoff, ge- | tired naval officer whose great-grédd- | father was once her skipper and whose | grandfather, father and father-in-law | served on her as midshipmen. And there were also there hundreds | of children who had given their pennfes | to z:nbnlke the rebirth of Old Ironsides ! possible. HOOVER GETS REST a diplomatic conference of the great | Wiggin of New York, which dealt with | o0y, the men Instructed him to ob- After Disposing of Routine Affairs. By the Assoclated Press. LURAY, Va., August 29.—President Hoover's week end of relaxation at the Rapidan Camp was broken today only by _minor routine. He spent the morning at work in his cabin, but in the afternoon left bis work to mingle with his guests, who arrived at intervals during the morning. Confers on Arms Study. |, He had an opportunity for discuss- ing disarmament with James | Rogers, Assistant Secretary of State, who has made a study of that subject at the instance of Secretary Stimson. The Chief Executive has expressed himself as being greatly interested in the coming disarmament conference which meets at Geneva in February. Mr. and Mrs, Hoover were saddened Dennis of the Tariff Commission. He was a personal friend, having worked with Mr. Hoover intimately during the ! war days. Newspaper Men Guests. Guests for the week end were pre- dominantly from the fleld of newspaper work. Newscaper people who were present included Col. Frank Knox, publisher_of the Chicago Daily News: Warren Fairbanks, publisher of the Indianapolis News, and Mrs. Fairbanks; Mark Sullivan, newspaper writer, and Mrs. Sullivan; Theodore Alford, Wash. ington corres) it of the Kansas City Star, and Mrs. Alford. Others who were invited were John Lord O'Brian, Assistant Attorney Gen- secretaries, and Capt. Joel Beone, the | White House physician. | Mr. Hoover expecis to return to his office Monday morning. {DANIEL THEW WRIGHAT to handle successfully the tremendous | THWARTS SOLDIERS’ | EXTORTION PLOT| (Continued From Pirst Page) | ment and announced their intentions of calling the police. | ‘Wright is quoted by police as saying | that the two men declared they would | “forget about the arrest for $1,000,” ex- plaining that they would have to pay off a certain Inspector Jones “to keep | him quiet_about the matter.” | When Wright declared he had no | tain the required sum and said they would return later to collect. The men | then left the apartment, police said. | Aiken, according to Wright's story to | police, arrived at the apartment alone | Friday and demanded the $1,000 pay- ment. Police sald Wright parried with | his visitor for a while and made his telephone call to police on the pretense that he intended to call some one for the money. ‘When Wright's call for ald came to police headquarters, Inspector S. F. W. | Burke, chief of detectives, immediately dispatched Sergt. N. Holmes and John Auffenburg to the apartment Where they arrested Aiken. At headquarters, after lengthy inter- rogation, police said Aiken implicated Velde. A warrant was subsequently sworn out for Velde's arrest and he was turned over to palice by military au- thorities at Fort Humphreys. Counell session the middle of next | k. 'tlenny of Briand’s friends have been his condition. 'While it agreed to submit to a thorough examination, including a blood test. veteran statesman bowed to the AT RAPIDAN CAMP Welcomes Week End Guests | G. | by news of the death of Commissioner | eral; Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, superintend- | u ent of public parks and buildings; Law- | Senator George’s proposal that rence Richey, one of the President’s | |noon with a group of Southern Sen- iBOARD GIVES CHINA NEW WHEAT OFFER; COTTON PLAN AIRED —_(Contiffued Prom First from private interests. Ordingrily it consumes little wheat. Discusses Egypt’s Cotton Plan. A recent offer by Germany to buy 600,000 tons of wheat from the Farm Board surplus was rejected, and Wil- liams said today that no new offer from that country was before it, eithsr for wheat or cotton. The Egyptian proposal for an inter- | national discussion of cotton problems also was talked over yesterday by Mr. Williams and the Egyptian minister. | Before leaving for the Egyptian le- | gation, Willlams attended another con- | ference late in the day with Southern | Senators on the cotton situation. The Farm Board member called on | Minister Sidarouss shortly after receiv- ing the text of the Egyptian govern- ment’s m?gelum: for a meeting of | representatives of countries which grow ‘hrtA:kgglgfiflu of cotton. | any progress resulted, Wil- | liams said he could not discuss that. He |t Bt el B, B2 | & e on_the n_sugges (the State Department soon and that | this reply might be sent to Egypt. Cotton Buying Plan Aimed. He added that he saw no reason why |the board should not participate if such a meeting were cglled, but ex- | plained he expressed only his individ- ual opinion. The meeting with Southern Senators § was arranged on the request of Senator | Smith of South Carolina, ranking mem- | ber of the Agriculture Committee and | 'ded as an expert on cotton. | Smith arrived in ‘Washing yester- | day following a meeting Priday between board members and Senators George and Harris of Georgia; Black and | Blankhead, Alabama; es, South | Carolina; Fletcher, Florida, and Ashurst, | Arizona, all Democrats. | " Plans for raising the price of cotton were talked about Friday, among thttrl“n board purchase 6,000,000 %or 7,000,000 bales of cotton from farmers who would agree to plant no cotton next year. - Senator Smith has a plan for the board to purehase approximately 8,- 000,000 bales of cotton, it also being contingent on agreements not to plant next year. Smith Attends Second Meeting. Yesterday Williams and two other board members, Charles S. Wilson and . Thompson, conferred for more than three hours in the after- | | | ators. In addition to Senator Smith, it in- cluded Senators George of Georgia, Bankhead of Alabama and Byrnes of South Carolina, all Democrats. “Nothing for the time being" said Senator Smith as he left the board room. The others were also non-communi- cative, and Williams refused to say whether the chief subject was Senator Smith's plan that the board buy 8,- 000,000 bales. Williams said no time was set for further discussions with Senators on cotton situation. “I am always giad to confer with in- terested Senators on cotton,” he com- /LONG COTTONPLAN PUT UP TO TEXANS Gov. Sterling Gets Copy of Act to Ban Planting in 1932, But Refuses Comment. By the Assoclated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., August 29 —The Lone Star State, producer of one-third of the Nation's cotton crop, tonight ap- parently held the key to the success of a statute enacted by the Louisiana Legislature prohibiting the planting of in 1932 and designed to bring back a price of 20 cents a pound. A certified copy of the act which was sponsored by Gov. Huey P. Long was rushed by airplane to Gov. Ross 8. Sterling at his home here in the hops that the Texas executive would receive it favorably and imwmediately take steps necessary for enactment of a similar law in Texas. Sterling Silent on Planw A condition of the Louisiana measure was that the Governor is empowered to suspend it should Statcs raising 75 per cent of the crop fail to adopt llmg:r legislation. = Gov. Ster.ing withheld comment untll next week, when he will return to Aus- tin and discuss the matter with leaders of ,the State Legislature. Texans Want Partial Ban. ‘Texas officials generally expressed the opinion that it was imprnbllx:?er the Leg- islature would vote for a total ban on planting, should it be called into spe- i:l session to consider cotton legisla- n. A majority of those replying to a questionnaire of Gov. Sterling have ex- grmed disapproval of the Long plan, ut advocated acreage-reduction legis- lation. Reductions recommended ranged fron one-half to two-thirds in 1932 and one-half for the next three years, SOUTH CAROLINA FAVORS BAN. Farmers Back Governor's Plan to Call Session on Cotton. COLUMBIA, 8. C., August 20 (#).— South Carolina farmers today expressed g::maaell:; uver_:helmlng]y in favor of V. wood'’s proposal to call a spe- clal session of thg pro went on record in 37 of the gatheri as favoring the plan originated by G’(‘){" Long of Louisiana. One county fafled r take a ;'oue lféeer a three and a half our session. 'ven counties we against the s The only county in which there was no response to Gov. Blackwood's procla- mation calling on the farmers to give expression to their desires was Char) ton, where but little cotton is raised. Gov. Blackwood tonight refused to comment on the results, except to S8y that he was “gratified” at the response, He previously had said, however, he ::u‘l:d be Mfi,"’ guided in his decision extraordinary session of the Legislature by the attitude of the ¥ He said tonight he e it awaited re) to his queries to members of the mpflfil Assembly, but the consensus around the State Capitol is that legislators will express a willingness to assemble, LONG AWAITS TEXAS ACTION, Author of Ban on Cotton Planting Is Sure Other States Will Act. BATON ROUGE, La., August 20 (#). —Gov. Huey F. Long, gratified by unanimous passage ‘of nis cotton hibition bill by the Louisiana e ture in a five-day special session, to- "Efi:‘ lg: Suu'.h,?' and save the farm- e Governor early toda; O. K. Allen, chlinn.n" of swlmhm defiver the mew Jaw Banning o cette new law a production in 1932 to Gov. Ross Sterl- ing of Texas, as notice that it was the T“;'.he zxecu&vz‘l: next move, v on fire for the ohe- year holiday,” Long asserted. “If other States follow Louisiana’s example, 20- Cfl)‘q‘ not:on is O‘k sure tI 3 ews from Oklahoma that 3 - liam ‘Murray had declared mOov wu. special session of the Legisiature to pass 4 similar law, and from Alabama that Gov. B. M. Miller still held his “not interested” position, failed to shake the Crentially would be indoreed by nduen ly woul indors e i e ¢ a ent by Gov. ;fl;:)“e‘:l t;l IArkt..hnm npgmng growing ent for the one-! h v th':d -year holiday in Long nothing further to say to- night about possible plans for a 10 or 15 day speaking tour to “sell” his plan to other States. IS AGAINST BAN. U. B. Blalock Favors Limitation of Planting to Reduce Crop. RALEIGH, N. C, August 29 (& — U. Benton Blalock of Raleigh, president of the American Cotton Co-Operative Association, tonight said: “Any plan to absolutely prohibit the planting of cot- ton in the South next year is unwise.” “If it could be put into practice,” he said, “it would be playing entirely too much into the hands of the other cot- ton-producing countries.” “The cotton co-operatives favor limit- ing production in 1932, but not pro- hibiting it entirely,” Blalock said. Complete prohibition of planting, he i said, also would badly cripple the cot- tonseed industry “by forcing us to temporarily abandon our markets for cottonseed products.” He estimated the value of these products at $200,- 000,000 anhually. The cotton co-operative head sald the 11 member associations were ready and willing to co-operate in any plan adopted at the Washington conference, provided it was workable and one which would help materially in reducing next year's acreage. CALLAWAY ASKS ALTERNATIVE. Cotton Manufacturers’ Official Sees In- comes Lag Under Ban. ATLANTA, Ga., August 29 (P).— Cason J. Callaway of La Grange, presi- dent of the American Cotton Manufac- turers’ Association, issued a_statement today, saying farmers of the South can- not forego the planting of cotton next year unless provided with some alterna- tve source of cash income. He said the Federal Government might supply the farmers with % mented when told that Senators Robin- son and Caraway of Arkansas would join Senators from <otton States al- ready in Washingten tomorrow. RAINS SLOW SOVIET HARVEST. kgt ki 48 Production to Be Below Last Year, Agriculture Report Says. Scanning foreign ficlds, the Agricul- ture Department reported yesterday that heavy rains were hampering the grain harvest in Russia and indications were the crops would be much below those of last year. The total acreage of cereals cut in Russia up to August 10 was reported in its summary of foreign crops and markets as 141,000,000, or 65 per cent of the sown acreage. Unfavorable harvesting conditions over much of central Europe, including Germany, France, Italy and Czecho- slovakia also were reported. Church , W. Va, A seventy-third United to Meet. 20 (Spe- Ses- Christ § 26, ment by providing $300,000,000 for the construction of secondary roads throughout the cotton belt, the farmers uxl%flutr own stock and equipment. “There are about 1,000,000 men en- gaged or partly engaged in growing cot- ton this year, who should not plant cot- ton next year,” Mr. Callaway’s state- ment read. “If the Government would provide funds in the cotton-growing States, where these men could be given an op- portunity to use their labor amd equip- ment in improving secondary roads uring the months from April to Oc- tober, inclusive, or seven months a year, five 2 week, it would give the cot- ton farmer an alternative for himself and his equipment.” BALTIMORE