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STAR, C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1931 II][]U“T".E LANDS ! Smashes Hawks’ Recor‘d WASHINGTON, D. K2 ¥¥ CIVILIANS T0 ACT Air Races IMYSTERY AIRPLANE - ON STAPLES CASE D. C. Heads to Name Special Board—12 New Agents Join Probe. (Continued From First Page) Staples' case entirely out of the Police Department and to disassociate it com- Dletely with the District government. Only outstanding representative men whose reputation for honesty and fair- ness has been established, will be asked | to serve. Before the board is created the corporation counsel's office will en- deavor to gather all possible eviden: in connection with the Staples ca Corporation Counsel W. W. Bride sa he would request United States At- torney Leo A. Rover for such informa- tion as he has in his possession re- lating to the case. { | | charges on which he was dismiss from the force in May, 1928, also W! be invited to co-operate with the co poration counsel's office as well as the proposed civilian board. i Until the board is appointed, the Commissioners are not expected to take any further action to carry out the grand jury's recommendation:. Some thought has been given, it was said to the suspension of Policeman Hu ending the outcome of the procees gs, but the Commissioners declared they had not yet definiieiy decided what to do in his case Pay Likely for Board. Members of the proposed eivilian) board likely will be paid for their serv- jces. The Commissioners explained they have an appropriation of §1,000 which can be used for such purpose. The decision of the Commisstoners to | create a speeial civilian board was an-| nounced about noon today. after & pro- tracted conference between Commis- sioners Reichelderfer and Crosby and | Corporation Counsel Bride. The con- ference followed the receipt at 9 o'clock this morning of an official copy of the grand jury’s findings. Mr. Bride went into the conference with a program for consideration of the Commissioners in ccnnection with the Staples case. This program contained six definite steps for the Commissioners to follow with respect to the grand jury’s recommendatiors and one of ihem was understocd to be the creation of the special board, which the Com- missioners approved. The other sug- gestions ‘of Mr. Bride are expected to be acted on later. Second Boost in Staff. Today's enlargement of the staff of lmestlzyntnrs on the brutality probe is the second since the Department of Justice launched its work a week ago. after an appeal to President Hoover by Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, president of the Board of Commissioners, and W. W. Bride, corporation counsel. The regular local force under In- spector Keith was str-ngthened first by the addition of se:~ral veteran under- cover agents from cut of town, among them Gus Jones, - ‘1t in charge of the sSan Antonio field office of the bureau. Jones ook charge of the inquiry dur- ing Iuspector Keith's attendance on the grand jury proceedings in the firet group of completed cases. The first cases resulted yesterday in assault indictments against Detective James A. Mostyn and Policemen Wil- liam R. Laflin, William T. Burroughs, willlam C. Grooms and George E. Perry, of the first precinct. Mostyn, Laflin and Perry gave bond of $1000 each immediately after the indictments were returned before Assoclate Justice F. Dickinson Letts. Burroughs ap- peared at the clerk’s office in the court house this morning and was released on $1,000 bond supplied by Milton Kronhelm. Grooms is out of the city, but court officials have been advised he will surrender Monday and give bail. 25 Additional Cases. Bureau agents are seeking witnesses and evidence in approximately 25 addi- tional cases involving alleged use of cruelty and intimidation to coerce pris- oners into confessing to crimes in which they were arrested as suspects. The charges name policemen in nearly every precinct in the city, it is understood. Much evidence of a startling nature has been obtained, it is reliably report- ed. It appeared certain today that ad- ditional cases will be presented to the grand jury next week. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, who has taken personel charge of the prosecution in the third-degree cases, said today that the five indicted officers of the first precinct will be arraigned before Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat of the District Supreme Court next Friday. Trial of the accused men will be s for “the earliest practicable date” Mr. Rover declared. It is said legal prece- dents for a special trial in advance of the reguiar October term of the Crim- inal Court are being looked up. If a special session of the court is not pos- sible the police cases will be docketed for prompt trial in October. DAVIS LAUDS D. C. POLICE IN LETTER Senator Expresses Confildence in Pratt Administration of Department. A letter lauding the local Police De- partment was received at police head- | quarters today from Senator James J.| Davis, former Secretary of Labor. | The letter, addressed to Maj. Henry G. Pratt, police superintendent, fol- lows: “In these days when there is con- siderable criticism of individual police- men, I want to assure you of my ut- most confidence in your administra- tion of your department. I feel that we have an outstanding body of fine men | in the Metropolitan Police Force. Our ;gflum should be proud of them as a dy. “The individual policemen whom I have met in the vicinity of my home | i | | I Members of the grand jury who cleared Staples of the i by a foot, buj, the bes i beauty, which stuck 6 feet from the pin, | Flyer Makes ’Em Gasp‘at later, and flew his plane across the field with one wheel and one wing skillful a flyer can be. ERE'S an aviation trick that thrilled the crowds at the national air races at Cleveland. Flight Comdr. R. L. R. Atcherley of Engiand, who was injured slightly the first day of the races, came back Septémber 3, six days ENGLISHMAN SHOWS SKILL AS PILOT. scraping the ground just to show how A. P. Photo. OUINET LEADS 5 UP' [ Forum speser | AT END OF ROUND Gets Jump on Westland in Final Match of National Amateur. ____(Continued From First Page.) As Westland pushed his drive to the rough and his sccond to a tra Ouimet spanked a great second, whic landed six feet from the pin. After stopping four feet wide with his fourth shot, Westland conceaed the hole. Hole 2—545 yarde, par. 5. Both drives split the fairway and both seconds lined the right rough 30 yards short of the green. Ouimet arched his third 35 feet to th> right of the pin, Jack sending his 38 fcet to the opposite side. Jack missed his ctacled Ouimet dropped his. ~ The ball rolled down a | slight incline and popped in on a fast run. Ouimet was 1 under par and 2 up. Hole 3, 228 yards, par 3: i Jack sent his tee shot 35 yards hole high, but Ouimet pulled his far to the left rough. He dug in deep and sailed a SENATOR SHIPSTEAD. SHPSTEAD SPEAKS N FORUM TONEHT but he could not sink the putt and lost the hole to Jack's easy 3. Ouimet 1 up. | Hits Great Drive. Hole four, 365 yards, par 4: » (Quimet, hit 2" great drive. which Radio Series to Be R ed clear e dog leg yards out. | xle?u-:%'a'uue: to take mehnoo;nna DR EHIESALIROERE e janded in the right rough. eat- inn’ land's second " was “snort, Hus thira| With Address on Nation’s went over the green. Ouimet hit his| third 8 feet from the pin and he got | Troubles. an easy 4 to go 2 up. Jack's !ourth‘ 8 e 5. 414 yards, par 4 \ e Westland, still off line with his irons, | The National Radio Forum. arranged g\\;;afi "c‘;"..fi;.’fi?“sl.finihfiu'fi?fi."é r‘ | by The Washington Star and broadcast nker. 3 er- " -w fectly, banged his on, 26 feet wide of from the Capital over a Nation-wide the pin. Jack's third was on but Network of the Columbia Broadcasting 18 feet short. Ouimet hit his putt| System, will be resumed tonight, with too easily and it was 6 feet short. genator Henrik Shipstead, Minnesota Jack's putt for & 4 was just as far over. | b Ouimet missed. So did Jack, and Ouimet went 3 up. Hole 6, 187 yards, par 3: Ouimet piayed the slight wind, but his tee shot ianded in the right trap. The veteran Bostonian exploded a beauty from the M’IP, but he was left a 10-footer. He could not drop it, but {13 laid Jack a stymie and got a hllfi n 4. Hole 7—558 yards, par 5: | big hill, while Ouimet's was 20 yards| in fronf. Jack tried & low hook With | his second, but it was too flat and| hopped only 40 yards and into the| rough. Ouimet's second took too much hook and landed among the left woods ~5 yards from the green. Jack hit a nice third, 10 feet short, while his rival's was just on the back edgs. Jack's fourth rolled 7 feet short; Ouimet's 6 feet short above the hole. Jack's puti| for & 5 was 6 inches short, but Ouinet | dropped his to go 4 up. ‘ Miss Putts for Birdies. | Hole 8—375 yards, par 4: | Westiand sent his drive to the right rough. Ouimc' split with his by tlkmg[ the rough to th» left. OQuimet had the | better lie and spanked his second 12| feet short of the pin. Jack picked up | a big divot and his out landed 15 feet | hole high. They missed their putts for | birdles by 2 inches. Hole 9, 429 yards, par 4: Both drives were side by side in the | left rough, just clear of the tree-in- | fested dog-leg hole. Ouimet hooked a | pretty -second with his brassie and it | curved to the front edge of the flat, | cpen green. Jack tried the same shot, | but it didn't come off, going diagonally | into a patch of high weeds. His out was good, rolling 22 feet past the pin. Ouimet’s "third was 6 feet hole high, but his putt wouldn't drop and they halved it. Ouimet made the quarter turn 4 up. Morning cards: Westland out... 553 564 6 4 5—43 Ouimet out..... 4 4 4 45 4 5 4 539 Hole 10, 178 yards, par 3 Ouimet belted his tee shot straight and high, 35 feet short of the flag. Jack's railed-to take a fade and stop- ped near a tree trunk, just off the green. He crowded against the tree and chopped nicely 3 feet of the cup. Ouimet rolled his 4 feet over and they halved it in 3. Ouimet 4 up. Hole 11—590 yards, par 5. A stiff wina fought against them as they came to the treacherous elsventh hole. Ouimet's drive was high and the wind carried it to the left trees, but have proven themselves able, courteous and efficlent. I observe that serious charges have been made against cer- tain policemen, and that an impartial investigation is now under way. If they are guilty, I am sure you will see that they are appropriately punished. Until they are found guilty by an impartial tribunal, all the rest of us should with« hold judgment. “If my views can be of any service in maintaining the fine morale of the ld be to have you communicate them of your department ‘With alleged third-degree methods under fire, police of No. 4 precinct took no chances today in making out a re- port concerning an injured prisoner. In their official report to the central detective bureau, it was emphasized the | prisoner was injured “prior to his ar- rest.” The police incidental reads as follows: “About 1:15 a.m., Thomas Earl Nel- son, white, 27 years, 413 Second street southeast, a prisoner at No. 4, charged with being drunk, was removed to Gal- iinger Hospital in No. 4 patrol apd treated by Dr. Montgomery for lacera- tions to face received in an altercation ‘to his arrest. Condition not seri- ined in hospital for further People notified.” dropped Jack’s in the fairway. Ouimet was stymied by the trees and he played safely down tne parallel fifteenth fair- way to an opening. Jack's second was 80 yards short of the green. He hooked his third badly to the rough on the far side of a trap. Ouimet's third was in the center of the fairway and his fourth on, 25 feet short. Jack's third landed a foot closer. Both missed their putts, but Jack laid Ouimet a perfect stymie. The Bostonian made it with & mashie niblick tor a half in 6s. Hole 12—110 yards; par 3. Ouimet sailed his tee shot over the water and into the wind hole high, 15 feet away. Jack's was 20 feet too far. Jack got in easily with two putts, but Ouimet missed second to lose the hole and cut his lead to 3 up. Jack Reduces Margin. Hole 13—390 yards; par 4. Jack had a slight advantage on the tee shot. His ball sliced the middle 225 yards, while Ouimet was an inch inside from the rough. Ouimet under- estimated his second and sent it to a left trap at the green. Jack's second was too strong, going Jjust over. Jack pitched prettily to with. in two feet. Ouimet’s out was 20 feet short and he lost it to a par 4 to be 2 up. Hole 14—326 yards, par 4. They weratlmm galloping along and Westland® second was just off the right edge. Oulmet's was on 3 feet Farmer-Laborite, as the speaker. Benator Shipstead, who has just re- turned from a Euorpean trip, will dis- cuss “America’s Situation Today,” Jack's was on nicely, 25 feet hole high. [ based on his close-up observations of | the political and economic troubles which are stirring the countries of the world. ech will be heard The s through Btation WMAL at 8:30 o'clock. The forum tonight énters on the last Westland's drive barely cleared the| haif of its third year as a feature of the air after being discontinued dur- mi the Summer months. ecretary of Labor Doak will be the speaker next Saturday night, treating on the subject of immigration under the title “Cleaning Up the Nation.” closer. short feet for a birdie 3 to go 3 up again. Hole 15, 448 yards, par 4. Again the drives were straight, far and equal. Ouimet drove a great one over the pit falls and eighi fest hole high. Jack's was on but 30 feet she Jack rolled his put four fest over. Ouimet's putt was three inches but it was A partial stymie and Jack missed his put. Hole 16, 414 yards, par 4. Ouimet's drive hooksd with the wind and he was stymied by & sapling. He had to play a sefe out as Westland, straight off the tee, banged his second ‘Westland's third rolled 5 feet on the carpet, 30 feet short of the pin. | Ouimst's third was 25 feet over, but he w28 not beaten. He sank it and got a half in per. Hole 17—200 yards, par 3. Ouimet overshot the green to a down- hill patch of rough. Westland could not take advantage of the break, push- ing his te= shot to & trap.’ Ouimet again made a great piteh out, the ball roliing 6 feet hole high. Jack, too, had a nice out but was 4 feet outside of Oulmet's. Jack was 2 feet ehort with his putt but Ouim:zt again dropped his to- go ole 18, 572 yards, par S. Oulmet outdrove Jack, 15 vards around the wooded dog leg. Westland played safely, skirting the traps with his second. 'Ouimet belted one, only to have it trickle into the rough front- mfr & left trap. He matched Jack's third, sailing 15 feet wide of the pin. They both missed tries for birdies and halved it in par. Ouimet, 5 up. Morning cards: Westland in.3 6 34 454 4 53881 Ouimet in..3 6 4 53 4 4 3 53776 Afternoon Round, Play-by-play account of the after- noon round: Hole 19, 378 yards, par 4. ‘The south wind was hig..€r and con- siderably stiffer as they fi"°d their first shots of the afternoon battle. k sliced his drive, but as it headed toward the trees it bit a spectator on the head and caromed 50 feet to the center of the fairway. Ouimet's drive hooked to the rough. His second was too strong with the wind and was over the green. Jack’s second was on 40 feet wide. Oui- met rolled his third 12 feet short. Jack had a nice run up, roliing it 2 feet from the cup. Ouimet couldn’t down his in two putts and conceded, . Hole, 20, 546 yards, par 5. Ouimet outdrove ~Westland . by 10 yards, 275, with the wind. Jack's second took a bad slice to some deep weeds 50 yards short of the n. Ouimet hit another beauty and was only 10 yards short with a wide opeén shot. lowed through by 8 feet from the cup. landed in a front trap. He dubbed his out and conceded, dropping 6 again. Hole 31, 228 yards, par 3. Tre wind carried Westland's high tee shot into a trap to the left of the green. Ouimet was on 40 feet to the left of the ul? o0 clesn and it Ouimet's g‘ok“ was Westland two_more to and lost the holes Ouimet was 6 up. 4 locally | Ouimét rolled his in frcm 15| CUSTOMS PROJECT 15 RULED [LLEGAL Austro-German Union Vio-| lates Geneva Protocol, Court Says in 8-7 Vote. | | ! | (Continued From First Page.) | which embodies Austria’s post-war set- tlement. | 8ix judges signed a joint declaration to the effect that the)plan would be calculated to threaten Austria's inde- pendence and would thus constitute an act capable of endangering the inde- pendence of that country. ‘The grounds on which the court's majority opinion was based could be summarized as follows: Austria is a sensitive point in the European system, BACK INCLEVELAND Keeps Promises to Friendll to Fly Them to Air Races From St. Louis. By the Associnted Press. CLEVELAND, September 5.—Maj. Doplittle, who established a new tran: continental speed record from Burbank, Calif, to New York: won the Bendix trophy race yesterday and then flew back to St. Louls, arrived from there at 12:30 p.m. today. Doolittle'’s average speed for his 2.454-mile hop from coast to coast was 225 miles an hour. Keeps Promise to Friends. Richer by $10,000, the former Army go( and stunt king returned to St. uls at 10:22 pm. (Central standard time) last night because he had prom- ised a group of friends with whom he is associated in business tbat he would take them to the air races today. Feeling little effect from his long stay in the air, which began when he left Burbank t 3:35 a.m. (Central stand- rd time) yesterd: Doolittle pushed vay from "his well wishers when he landed and hastened for his home, He made his last hop yesterday from Cleveland to St. Louis— as enger in the plane of Jim Haislip, of ‘St. Fecord-breaking Lard sotation s "B - ird " solution- bi- plane in Cleveland. i Led Seven Contestants, Timed in 9 hours and 15 minutes, Doolittle led seven other contestants in the Bendix Trophy race. arriving in Cleveland at 12:50 p.m. (C. 8. T.) yes- terday. In finishing first in this 2,046- mile flight from Burbank, he received 47,500 in prize money. The other $2,500 wn; received for breaking Hawks' rec- ord. After a brief pause in Cleveland, the St. Louisan left at 1:04 pm. (C. 8. T.) and arrived at Newark Airport at 2:50 pm. to wrest Hawks' crown. At 3:50 he was in the air again, headed for Cleveland, where he arrived at 5:42 f'm' On the last lap to St. Louis he eft at 6:53 p.m. In the Burbank-Cleveland race. Harold 8. Johnson of Chicago was sec- ond, and the others finished in the fol- lowing order: Beeler Blevins of Atlanta, | Capt. Ira Baker of Washington, Art Goebel of Los Angeles and James Hall | of New York. One Plane Crashes, Another contestant, Walter Hunter of Srarta. Il crashed near Terre Haute, Ind., and. although his plane burned. he escaped injury. Lou Reichers of Arlington, N. Y., the last of the eight and her existence is an essential fea- | ture of the political settlement in Eu- | rope following the war. Article II of the treaty of St. Ger- main and the Geneva protocol, which, hout imposing on Austria any abso- | e veto as regards the alienation of her independence, simply requires her in certain circumstancas to obtain the consent of the Oouncil of the League' of Nations. The Court's principal opinion does not state, however, that any customs | union between Austria and Germany | would violate that protocol. | “The Court has not to consider the conditions under which an’ Austro- | QGerman customs union might receive | the Council's consent,” the decision | read. “The only question the Court has to settle is whether, from the point | of view of law, Austria could, without the consent of the Council, conclude with Germany the customs union con- | templated in the Vienna protocol of | March 19, 1031, without committing an act which wouid be incompatible with the obligations she has assumed.” How Judges Voted. The judges who declared the project | illegal were: Geuerrero of Salvador, | Rostworowski of Poland, Fromageot of | France, Bustamante of Cuba, Altamira of Spain, Anzilotti of Italy, Uruturia | of Colombia and Negulesco of Rumania. Those who could see no legal obsta- | { cle to such a union were: Kellogg of | America, Hurst of Great Britain, Wang | of China, Schucking of Germany, Van | | Eysinga of the Netherlands, Jaequ>- | | myns of Belgium and Adatchi of Japan, | | president of the tribunal. This Was seen as An inieresting situ- ation in which a French judge was joined by Spanish, Polish, Rumanian, Italian and three Latin American col- 1l es to forbid the union, while Ger- | man, British, American, Japanese, Chi- nese, Dutch and Belgian judges could | | find no fault with the idea u' | Germanic powers, 'DUCE PLANNING CALL | ON POPE NEXT WEEK | No Mention of Unpleasantness to Be Made at Long-Deferred i Visit at Vatioan, | By the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, September Premier Mussolini's long-deferred visit | to the Pope is being planned for early | Dext week, probably Tuesday, it wac sald on good authority. i The premier will be received with unusual ceremoniousness and it has | been agreed that there will be no men- tlon of the recent unpleasantness be- | tween the government and the Vatican. | | Although most of the arrangements for the visit have been made a few de- tails remgin to be determined. The | ceremony ‘for prime ministers will be altered {o make the premier's call as- sume all possible importance. R After his visit to the Pope Sigrior Mussolini will call on Cardinal Pacelii, papal secretary of state, who imme- diately afterward will return the call at Mussolini's office in the Palazzo Venesia. The premier was expected to visit the Pope after the lateran treaties were signed, but for some reason the plan never was discussed officially and con- troversy over the interpretation of the treaties soon put it aside. When the recent accord between the government and the Vatican was reached the visit was discussed again semi-officially, but many ' Fascists thought nothing would be done. Vatican officials had hoped the pre- mier would make scme such gesture of | friendliness and they are greatly pleased ior.elz the prospects for his ceremonial v | BISHOP’S RITES TUESDAY Chicago Methodist Prelate Dies of Stomach Aflment. CHICAGO, s:gumber 8 (#)—Fun- eral services for Bishop Burton J. Vin- cent of the Free Methodist (:hmg:i attending the Illinols Conference of his church at Downers Grove a week ."l,il was born at Jackeon, Mich.,, and | on one last fiing & the two | who started from Burbank. was forced out of the race at Icatrice, Nebr., after he had become lost. “The toughest part of the flight.” Doolittle told friends here. “was getting in and out of Cleveland. It was raining and I had to watch my step.” Asked about the feasibility of rapid air transportation across the countrs, Doolittle replied it will be “some time before commercial planes take it up.” AVIATION FICKLE MISTRESS. Doolittle Loses Savings, Then Regains Them in Prizes. NEW YORK. September 5 (#).—Avi>- tion has been a fickle mistress to Jime mi> Doolittle, who today wears the crown of American speed king, for it both snatched away his savings and & little later poured riches in his lap. Estly this yesr Doclittle, who is. 84 years old, bowed to his wife’s opinion that he was gitting a little too old to continue air racin, But he decided sp'ed at the Na- #icnal Air Races now In progress at Clevel:nd. S0 out of the wreckege of a plane craked up by his friend Jim Maizlip, who flew him to Bt. Louls yesterday after he had made his new transconti- nental record and happ*d back to Cleve- land, Doolittle ccnstructed a plane to ake & néw speed mark. It cost him all he had, friends have d, but Doo- little has a reputaiton for never doing things in half-hearted fashion. Flew Ship to Pieces. On June 23 Doolittle test-flew his new ship at East St. Louls. It flew fast, and it finally flew just about all to feces in the air. Doolittle came down n & parachute, his plane gone| beyond repair and his personal for- it. How seriously the sidered in the Doo- e. *“As 1 bit the ground,” Doolittle said later, “Young Jimmie ran up to me, and I thought he was going to sk if I hurt: But he didn't say anything abou that. He just shouted: ‘How much money did we have in that ship, dad?’ " Doolittle announced at that time that he was through with racing unless some one furnished a plane for the present And some one did. A group inged for construction of the little b'nlane Doolittle flew yesterda; and at the end of the flight he ha 10,000 brand-new dollats in his ket for prizes, probably somewhere in the neighborhood of the amount he lost in the plane that we~’ to pieces 10 weeks ago. SIGNS WILL DIRECT WAY TO CUP REGATTA Capt. Montgomery Announces Plan to Aid Spectators in Reaching Scene. 8igns and guides will be posted throughout the city to assist spectators in reaching the scene of the President’s Cup regatta here September 18 and 19, R. C. Montgomery of the United States Park Police announced today. Co-operating with C. P. Clark, head of the Regatta nsportation Committee, Capt. Montgomery has enlisted the aid of Willlam A. Van Duser, director of traffic; Inspector O. T. Davis, tro- politan Police; Lieut. Hobart G. Yeager, Bolling Field: Lieut. H. H. Rogers, Ni val Air Station; Lieut. E. H. Army War College, and Joseph Burk- hart, Board of Trade. Information will be supplied by the police, American Automobile Associa- tien, booths at Union Station and other sources on the days of the races, it was o HOOVER TAKES REST AT CAMP IN VIRGINIA President Will Spend Three Days in Relaxation Before Trip Back to Capital. By the Associated Press. LURAY, Va.. September 5 —Presi- dent Hoover settled down in the quiet came here to edit the Sunday school b, o Ju, Smemizn 148 une ~he 3 Widow and Bve ‘cntldren survive, s : Bn_k Closed at Scranton. T A Chiate BAnk: with deneaii, its last report president of the institution, in 1915. State bank re ing an investigation 'ank’s condition. of his Virginia camp retreat today for three days cf relaxation before return- ing to the White House. After looking over- the morning papers, the President went for a walk along the mountain trails about the camp. Amonp g the guests who accompanied géorn Benson, the cor. respondent of the Minneapolis Journal lnging RS- g tohay Sl MAJ. DOOLITTLE MAKES AIR HISTORY. Maj. Doolittle in the plane which he used in his epochal transcontinental hop. BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON, Aviation Editor of The Star. LEVELAND AIRPORT, Septem- ber 5 —Heavy downpours, which chased spectators to cover and turned airport into quag- mire, added to the drama of record-smashing transcontinental a). James H. Doolittle in/ 117 hours terday. Just as word came from Indianapolis | that Doolittle had left there, flying at rate which & new record was in sight, & dangerous-looking bank of inky clouds rolled up, covering the whole western | horison, with llgflnlnl flashing thruu(h[ their masses. n’y & few minutes be- fore the lnuni'gl-ud time of Doolittle’s | arrival here the clouds opened, and| there began a downpour which in a few moments formed lakes on the field. Before the rain had stopped Doolittle | flashed across the airport only 9 hours 10 minutes and 21 setonds after he| had taken off from the California coast | at average speed of 223.058 miles er hour for the 2.046 miles. In nine | ours he had climbed the great conul‘ range, croaced the miles and miles of desert land, the Rockies, the great| | Western prairie lands and the broad Mississippi Valley. Arrives at Newark. As Doolittle flashed on into the East on the trail of the storm which was fual clearing, the sun came out. but & | ittle later the skies again closed and another heavy rain followed his victori- | ous path, Before this storm, which was | of brief duration, had entirely cleared, | word came of Doolittle's arrival at New. ark afrport, only 11 hours and 15 min- utes after his take-off in California. He had flown the breadth of the continent in leas than half & day. As if this were | not enough for one day, he promptly | high speed record for so long & dis- tance, won the Bendix trophy, a cash prize of $7.500 for his flight from Los Angeles to Cleveland and another prize of $2.500 for breaking the transconti- rental record. Prepares for Thompson Race. Upon his arrivel in Cleveland Doo- little planned to plunge immediately into preparations for competing in the est American speed event. he will change the motor in his plane, which he calls the Sky Ways Buzzard. n his epochal cross-country flight he used & direct-drive 420-horsepower ai cooled motor. It will be rep! geared motor developing 530 horsepo With the new motor Doolittle expects | to offer some real competition for Lowell | Bayles, who has unofficially smashed the 11-year-old American speed record in bis little Gee Bee ra flying one 1ap of his trial at the remarkable speed | of 286 miles per hour, which is in ex- cess of the official world record for land planes. In an effort to squeeze still an- other mile or two out of his bullet- like plane, Doolittle will do away with the shock-absorbing mechanism of his T to cut cown the air re- sistance, depending on skill alone to avoid disastrous shock in landing. Eaker Breaks Jinx. Breaking the string of bad luck which has attended his transoontinental speed efforts, twice forcing him down, %L 1ra C. Eaker of Bolling Field. made the fiight from Los Angeles to Cleveland in i5 seconds less than 11 hours, to fin- ish fourth in the Bendix race. He trailed Harold S. Johnson and Beeler | Blevins, who finished second and third.| The derby stands as the finest long- refueled and the word came that he | distance race ever flown and gives an- had taken off again for Cleveland. In | other indication of future sensations the time between breakfast and supper | when the greatest racing planes and he had smashed the transcontinental speed record of Capt. Frank M. Hawks | by 1 hour and 10 minutes, a | pllots in the country take off Monday to compete for the Thompson trophy and $15,000 in prize money. U. S. WHEAT WILL NOT FEED HALF-STARVING | CHINESE MULTITUDES | ment will be the price quoted on the | market on the day each cargo ia dis- | patched. The grain is to be paid for | in equal installments in 1934, 1938 and | (Continued From First Page.) 11936. Four per cent interest will be | charged. Grain to Be Milled. Half of the wheat will be milled into 3 flour before shipment. Most of thi commodity will be shipped from the | Puget Sound r . ‘The Chinese | government rfi“n vev:n ;x;:ncnu lu\;: | American sl T wi en lx’: ospl:gtuunlty to bid for its, trai tation. | Al h there are a few hases of the negotiations to be work- ed out, Carl Willisms, acting chairman of the board, said the deal was re-| arded as completed and wheat and our would begin movm1 from the ! West Coast about October 1. With this sale, the board has dis- posed of 75,000,000 bushels of its sta- bilisation wheat since January 1. This. includes the recent barter of 25,000,000 bushels t6 Brasil for coffee, & surplus eommom! in that country, and sales | to East exporters. - small | Relieves Storage Congestion. Besides reducing the quantity of grain held by the -board during the past two years in an effort to sustain prices, * China shipment will relieve stor- age nnl:um\ on the West Coast. ‘The erican grain trade did not By thi tion hopes that wheat will be developed other Far Eastern countries, which, heretofore have purchased their sup- plies elsewhere, In tiating the sale, the FParm Board Attempted to meet the protests of American shipping interests result- ing from its fallure to stipulate that Brasil use American bottoms in export- wheat to that country. However, llams sald domestic lines wanted to receive their own rates which, he explained, were higher than compet! foreign ships. He suggested that i they wanted the business, they meet ©oom| ive bidders. though the board has reduced its wheat stock by 75,000,000 bushels it still has about 200,000,000 on hand, with bales P! fo dispose of hothwh but has received few reasonable offers. CONCERT. United States Boldiers’ Home 3 bandstand at | State m.nmem having increase for FEDERATION ADDS TO CAPITAL GROUP Committee to Aid Halloween Cele- bration Increased to 25 Members. Dr. George C. Havenner, prasident | of the Federation of Citizens' Assocta- | tions, today announced the enlarge- ment from 15 to 25 mombers of the| committee appointed Thursday night to aid the Qreater National Capital Com- mittee of the Washington Board of Trade in its city celebration of -Hal- | loween this year. | The full’ membership of the commit- tee is as follows: ‘Willlam A. Roberts. chairman; Joseph L. Gamme . Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan, M. M. Mcleen. John Clagett ;fot(o‘r F. A. Emery, W. 1. Swanton, Louis Glebman. George E. Sullivan, Mrs. M. Z. Baughman, William J. Weber. Ed- win_S. Hege, L. 8. Trundle, Mrs. E. C. Rittue, Mrs. Clara W. Smith, J. 8. Driggers, A. J. Driscoll, John H. Cgx- head. C. E. La Vigne, Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, Wilford H. Dunn, J. W. Mec- QGarry, Miss Bessie B. Warren, Albert E. Westrater and Mrs. H. G. Doyle. V. F. W. AWARD PRIZES IN MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Roanoke, Va., Veteran Wins First Place With $250—Capital Man Given Third With $100. B the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, September 5.—Prizes were awarded the winners of national contests at yesterday's session of the Veterans of Foreign Wars' thirty-second annual encampment. 8. Thcmas, Roanoke, Va.. i | re- celved $250 for having recruited 213 D members in a three-month period. The second prize of $200 went to J. L. Sweeney, Paterson, N. J., for recruiting 100 members. A. V. Cercel, Washing~ ton, D, C., won the third prize of $100. The “On-to-Paris” membership_con: test was won by J. L. Markey, Dear- born, Mich., for h-vini enlisted 136 new members. Markey will recelve $100 dnd & trip to Paris. The Frank T. Strayer Trophy to the the greatest he year went ia, with 6,081 new members. A g LT 2 Brazil Sets Minimum Wage. RIO DE JANEIRO, September 5 (#). —The Brasillan rnment igsued a decree today lishing a minimum wage for laborers throughout the coun- iry. The wage scale will be determined u%wmnmfiummnn- cus Deaths Reported. AR AR SR Mg‘ 8 .:c. finw S, PIoudence Hospital. o to Californ: con'” Vaiter Reca Mospital 4th st. 3y n A Rice, Forrest. 7 g:lfil'nflx afi‘m“ oorgeiown Hospital piiopeon M. Siteneil, S0, Tuberculosis Aos: ?r'-u R, Janner. aliss Whitley. 31, Cns- ualty Hospital Sy Finale, “Tm Ha honson aflsu 25, Tuberculosis Hos- iBiant,of, Titacls g Beraice Bowser, 1 o | orientation. (SEEKS SPEED MARK 1292-Miles-an-Hour Claimed for Craft_Piloted by Ray Moore. ! By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, September 5.—A rak- ish little plane drew the attention of the air wite today at the national air races. At is the San Franciscan I, chal- lenger for the air supremacy of the world amoung land planes, and an entry in the Thompson Trophy race on Labor day. Already it has assumed the “mys- tery ship” status. Halted by rain yesterday, Ray Moore, veteran racing pliot, planned to take tte little silver-bodied speedster up in the air for its trial tests today to sce how close it will fly to the 292 miles an hour claimed for it. Will Seek Record. It is_a special plane entered by Moore, Keith Ryder, Robert Clampett and Henry Morgan, all of San Fran- cisco. Moore hopes to go after the world land-plane speed record of 278 miles an hour. Lowell Bayles, Springfleld, Mass., whose dash of 267 miles an hour sev- eral days ago sent him to the forefront among racing pilots here, an- nounced his intention likewise of going after the world speed record. Bayles will pilot his Gee Bee speedster over a measured 3-kilometer course, his second rezord attempt of the 1931 rac Girl to Loop Plane. Keeping step with other record- breaking aspirants, Dorothy Hester in- dicated today might see her attempt to break her own record of 62 outside loops. John Livingston of Aurora, Ill, who shown his heels to contestants in past closed-course speed events, was en- tered in today's 25-mile free-for-all. Gladys O'Dongell, an entry in the women’s free-for-all, was a favorite on the basis of her performance yesterday, in which she turned in an average speed of slightly better than 130 miles an hour to win the women's 25-mile free-for-all for high-powered ships. REICH DIPLOMACY SPARS FOR TIME IN FIGHT WITH FRANCE ___(Continued Fro aim of pan-Germans before the World War. In May, when Germany and Austria completely surprised Burope with the announcement of their project, Ger- many tfia«ud to have the support not only of Russia and Austria, but of Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, and to have the sympathy of Great Britain and the United States. Germany's first diplomatic drives were toward Rumania and Jugoslavia and were immediate. Jugoslavia held true to its French alliance, but Rumania wavered and made a new commercial treaty with Germany whereby it tended to enter the German group. To Germany's surprise, nowever, both Italy and Hungary, after some hesita- tion, declared against the Austro-Ger- man plan, which they feared would make Germany too powerful in Central Europe and the Balkans. France pushed aggressively into the diplomati¢ ccmbat thus opened. Its préssure ssems to have cen‘ered on Austria. A leading Austrian bank failed. France was ready to save it but only on the condition that Austria renounce the custdms union. Austria Wwas wavering when German diplomacy, supported by British gold, came to its rescue. The French counter-attack was checked, but only temporarily. The German situation grew suddenly worse. International bankers lost confidence. The Hoover plan for a year's mora- torfum on war debts and reparations was announced, again taking France completely by surprise. This plan was interpreted throughout Europe ‘as di- rectly strengthening Germany against France. France Accepts Sullenly. Prance, almost completely isolated, dragged out the negotiations as long as possible and then sullenly accepted. but at the same time redoubled its diplo- matic activities for the purpose of breaking its isolation and re-establishing its situation. France began by offering terms to Germany. Germany promptly refused. Francee thereupon opened conversations with Russia, Italy and Hungary. A British financial crisis developed, crippling Great Britain with respect to foreign policy and _hastening the resignation of the Labor government, which the French think has been con- sistently hostile to Franc>. Deprived thus of the possibility of British finan- cial support, first Hungary and then Austria began to seek a French ‘The Hungarian government fell. Prance took a major part of the new Hungarian loan and brought to an end the commercial war between Czecho- slovakia and Hungary, which had been poisoning Central Europe for more than a year. A Pranco-Russian commercial treaty was signed and 10 days ago & Franco- Russian friendship pact was concluded and is ready for signature. A Pranco - Hungarian commercial treaty has been signed. Similar treaties are said to be ready bztwesn France and Jugosla: and France and Ru- mania which seems now to be veering back toward France. Tendency of Moves Explained. The tendency of these French moves in Central Europe undoubtedly is to- ward some sort of a Danube confedera- ‘tion which both _economically and politically would effectively block the German drive toward the Near East, unless, indeed. Germany, by coming to terms , with Prance, itself joins the combination. ‘The tendency of the Franco-Russian egotiations is explained by the Ham- burger Nachrichten. A Franco-Russian treaty alone, says this newspaper, would deliver Poland over to Russia and Ger- many and make it im ible for France to g0 to Poland’s help. Prance there- fore insists that there must also be a Polish-Russian treaty. But such a treaty would be equivalent to an Eastern European Locarno and would mark the complete collapse of Germany’s eastern policy. The endeavor of German dlplomn? ‘must, therefore, be to keep Russia from favoring the French aims. That German diplomacy is now act- ing on lines harmonious with the Ham- burger Nachrichten's advice, all observ- ers . It is noted, however, that the mh.n and Polish foreign minis- ters are still negotiating at Geneva, and what the outcome will be it is impos- sible to say. Setbacks Held Temporary. ‘According to the Berlin correspondent of the London Times, “the possibilities of German foreign policy seem to be contracting. bining to narrow the issue down understanding with France.” Other observers, however, differ from this judgment. German circles have lost no time explaining that the Austro- German customs union plan is_not abandoned, but merely postponed. Rus- sia. the Germans declare, will never make a treaty- with Poland. Hungary, Italy and Austria, they add, are all still fundamentally anti-French and favor- e "u%mmp.’mm ;.