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A--8 !FUGITIVE RELATES | 1,. CUBA REBEL CLASH U. S. Engineer Tells of Thirty “Legionnaires” Holding Loyalists at Bay. W. O. Fuller of Portland. Me.. formerly empioved as a surveyor by'a Cuban sugar Concern, has written the following ev Sitness account of the. four-day et Tutionars battle at Gibara sively for the Associated Press. BY WILLIAM O. FULLER. (Copyrighted, 1931, by the Assoclated Press). BOSTON, September 5 (4)—Some- where in the hills above Gibra in the | Province of Orlente, Cuba, are hidden today 33 “Foreign Leglonnaires,” many of them said to be Americans and | ‘World War veterans, men, who, for four cays, held 3,000 Cubars, loyal to Presi- dent’ Machado, at bay. I was stopping at Holguin, about 36 kilometers from Gibara on August l'l_: Just before the “Foreign Legicnnaires slipped into the mountain-locked town aboard a frieghter. For some vears I had been employed as a surveyor for a Cuban sugar company. but this vear was spending a Summer vacation with Americen friends. The island had been rife with revolt. Throughcut Cuba, people stood idly at street corners waiting for guns to be delivered that they might join the actively engaged revolutionary forces. Rumors had spread that the Cuban gun beat El Baire had agreed to join the revolutionists. On the heels of these reports came word that the Baire's commarder had backed out and in-| formed the government of the treachery aboard his vessel Village Is Quiet. The villages in Oriente were strangely quiet on the morning of the attack on Gibara. A manifesto had just been issued from Havana to the effect that the fighting was over and everything peaceful again. Then, the storm broke withcut warn- ing. I heard that a small party of Tevo- lutionists was about to land at Gibara and streaked for the village. From one of the mountains behind the town I watched the fight. It was 11 o'clock when a strange freight boat apeared in the harbor of Gibara. Townspeople noticed the awkward manipulation of the craft as she entered and suspicion was aroused A number of persors flocked to the small wharf and one rural guard, therc were only four in the town, went cut to the end of the dock to investizate. . Sweep Into Town. The freighter pulled in to the wharf and five men, in worn American Army uniforms and steel helmets, jumped to the wharf, shot the single rural guard who opposed them, and swept int> the town. R i The “Foreign Legionnaires” each car- | ried an automatic and a hand machine gun. The discipline of the rebels was excellent. One covered the entrance to a tunnel through which the railroad ran into the town, and another cov- ered a mountain pass, the only other entrance to the little port. The other three seized the post office, city hall and telegraph office, cutting off all com- munication 0 | Meanwhile the boat had tied up and | the remainder of the ®3 legionnaires| entered the town. Gerber Garbo, di-| rector of a Havana weekly, who was| forced to flee that city some months) before, leaped to a barrel in the public square and sounded a call to arms.} He made a flaming speech that finally| drew 513 men 2nd boys of the 4,000 inhabitants into the rebel forces. Arms Given Rebels. Arms of the most modern type were | given the residents. The chief of police | and his force joined the new rebels. Al went into the hills soon after the fight- | ing began, leaving the 33 in command | of the tow Spanish_fortresses that | date back 200 years were commandeered for gun mounts. T ftmiy believe they could have held | on forever if lack of slecp hadn't over- come them. For four days 3,000 sol- diers, loyal to Machado, who had mean- | while been ordered to Gibara, ham-| mered at the town. Airplanes flew overhead and dropped bombs. One of the missiles struck a house in which 35 women and children had taken refuge, and a woman and four chil- dren were killed. S Attempts were made by the legion- | naires to rush armored trains, freight | cars heavily barricaded with stecl, | through the tunncl, but the train| slipped off the track and the attempt | failed. : Flee to Mountains. i The slecp-weary 33, their boat having left the harbor on the appearance of a loyal gunboat, took to the hills as} loyal forces flanked them and climbed | down through caverns and hidden| trails. The chief of police and his men ! wept with the 33 and today are in| hfding somewhere in the fastnesses. The loyal troops shot many rebels. How many I couldn't say, but the killed numbered scores. " One man, named Bolling, of Mexican | descent but an American citizen, had | been acting as a doctor with the rebal troops. He was slated to be executed | the day the loyalists took the town over. An American official intervened | and he was freed. The surrounding country was getting hot for we who had witnessed and at- | tempted to send out news of the battle and, under cover of darkness, I slipped | out of Holguin and shipped as a sea-| man aboard a freighter at Antigua! loading sugar, landing today at Boston. | i ! ARRESTED IN MEXICO | et Former Employe of Portland Bank Fugitive Since 1914. PORTLAND, Oreg., September (®).—The United States attorney here announced today that Carroll Doty | Hulbert, fcrmer employe of the First | National Bank of Portland and charged With the embezziement of more than $12,000, is under arrest at Vera Cruz, Mexico. i The United States attorney's office here said he was using the name cf W. W. Cole and held an important position with a large oil company in Vera Cruz. He has been a fugitive since 1914 LILY PONS SUFFERS GRIP | 5] Metropolitan Opera Star Cancels Buenos Aires Concert. BUENOS_AIRES, Scptember 5 (P).— Lily Pons, Metropolitan Opera sopran is suffering from a slight attack of | RrSphe canceled her farewell concert here after two postponements, and also called off an appoarance schedufed for Montevideo tonight. ‘Tomorrow she will sail for Rio de Janeiro for a brief vacation before re- turning to New York. Deaths Reported. Mary E. Frantz. 82. 116 6th st. n.e. Mary A. Crowley, 74, 1456 Rhode Island avenue. William Beichert. 66. 430 K st. n.w. John Shaw. 64, Garfield Hospital. Margaret J. Haston, 63, Provideice Hos- pital t Mary A. Jett. 62. 4930 Illinois avenue. Theodore Swanson,_58. Sibley Hospitai George W. Storer, 56, Emergency Hospital. Coral Southworth. 51. 811 Quincy st. 0 O'Connor, 46, U. S. Naval Hospital, ugh McKenna. 37, Naval Hospital. Wiibur C. Phelbs, 36, St. Elizabeths' Hos- pital. Ernest P. Perrault, 34, U. S. Veterans' spital. st Bureau Ho Rosa E 220 12th pl. s 1eer Hospital. on.’ 52. 14 N st . 45, Gallinger Hospital. Thomas Perry, 40. 662 Navy pl. s.e. Jannie Terry. 23, Tuberculosis Hospital. Chegles H. Johnson. 7. 502 2nd s Emith. "8 months, Childremd. Hos- “Sleep” Expert NOTED PSYCHOLOGIST JOINS A. U. FACULTY. DR. HARRY M. JOHNSON, Who has_ attained a national reputa- tion for his_scientific studies of sleep at Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, has becn appointed head of the department of psychology and ecucation in the Graduate School of American University, it has been anounced by Dr. Walter M W. Splawn, dean of the Graduate School. Dr. Johnson will assume | September 28, with the opening of the the Graduate School, The appointment Fall term at 1901 F street. creates a new post in ate School, as head of a depart- ment in which will be offered courses in both psycholcgy and cducation While holding the title “senior fedlow” at the Mellon Institute during his in- vestigations into the nectsd since 1925 with the University of Pittsturgh. He holds the degree of doctor of philosophy from Johns Hop- kins University, and was a lecturer in | psychology at the University of Minne- sota and later assistant professor of psychology at Ohio State University. Dr. Johnson, as head of the new de- partment, Lolds the title of “professor of psychology.” 'SIX OFFICERS HELD AFTER INDICTMENT | Malfeasance in Office, Taking of Bribes and Extortion Charged in Florida. ! By the Associated Press. \ MIAMIL Fla. September 5.— Four Dade county ccnstables, Chicf of Po- lice H. C. Peters of Homestead. Fla and Policceman W. H. Sykes. jr. of Homestezd, were arrested today on in- dictm:nts charging malfessance in of- fice, extortion and acceptance of bribes The constables are 5. D. Callcway and George Mehan, of Miami, A. C Daniels of Ccconut’ Grove and H. M Cook of Homestead. All were released on_bond Calloway was named in five indict- ments. Three charged him with ex tortion and malfeasance, one with mal- fe>sance zlone, and one with accepting bribes by collecting weekly sums from 2 woman bootlesger in his distr Mchan was charged in two indictmen: of malfeasance by padding his co ccst bills before submission to county commission. Doniels was accused in two indi ments of collecting $200 weekly from a kennel ciub at Miami, over a three months’ period beginning January 5. 1931, Cook was accused of intoxication whil= in charge of a prisoner, and also of beating a colored prisoner. Sykes was named in one indictment for drunkenness and Sykes and Peters were named in two cthers charging false imprisonment of & colorcd man and aggravated esszult on him. ST. MARYS COLORED SCHOOLS WIN PRIZE Declared to Have Shown Most Im- provement in Cleanliness and Neatness. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, September 5.—Colored schools in St. Marys County made the best showing of any colored schools in the State in a cleanliness and ncatness contest, which was started in connection | with the Negro health work this §ear and continued until the close of the schools for the Summer. The contest was sponsored by the State Department of Education and the State Department of Health. It was undertaken in response to the offer, by Dr. H. Maceo Williams, a colored phy- sician of Baltimore City, of special awards to the two clementary schools in the two counties that showed the great- est improvement, during a given period, in the cleanliness and neatness of the pupils and in the appearance of the school buildings and school grounds. Dorchester was the other county win- ning an award. . Two Banks Closed. EL PASO, Tex.. September 5 (#).— The Federal Reserve Bank of El Paso was advised today that the First National Bank of Clint, Tex.. the Co- chise County State Bank at Tombstone, Ariz, and a branch of the latter at Benson, Ariz, had closed their doors. Clint is about 20 miles southeast of El Paso, where the failed yesterday. his_post | the Gradu- | phenomena of | sleep, Dr. Johnson also has been con- | First National Bank | THE WORLD COURT ENDS| CUSTOMS PROBLEM | 8-to-7 Ruling Holds Austro- German Union Would Vio- late Geneva Protocol. SUNDAY By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 5.—The World Court decided today that the projected Austro-German customs union would be a violation of Austria’s intefnational en- gagements under the Geneva protocol of 1922, The decision, reached at The Hague and made public here, was returned by eight judges of the court, with seven dissenting. One of the dissenters fis Frank B. Kellogg, former Secretary of State of the United States. Members of the court from France, Poland, Salvador, Cuba, Spain, Italy, Colombia and- Rumania concurred in the majority opinion. In addition to Mr. Kellogg, the German, British, Jap- (anese, Chinese, Dutch and Belgian jurists dissented. | The court held that “the regime established between Germany and Aus- tria on the basis of, and within the limits of, the principles laid down by | the protocol of March 19, 1931 (the customs union plan), would not be com- patible with protocol No. 1, signed at | Geneva October 4, 1922." - | Renounced by Nations. | Dr. Julius Curtius and Dr. Johann | Schober, German and Austrian foreign | ministers, renounced the pact before |the European commission here last Thursday. and today's decision defi- nitely removed the troublesome problem | |from’ the international arcna. France | and the litue entente powers were among the leading opponents of the union, which they saw as the opening move toward political uni The German and Austrian delega- tions at the League of Nations had looked with displeasure on the neces- sity of renunciation, but they were in good spirits as a result of The Hague decision, which they regarded as a moral victory. | The Austrian delegation issued official comment to the effect that the “weight" |of the minority opinion, voiced by the | American, British, Japanese and other judges, forever discredits the accusation that G-rmany and Austria wilfully dis- regarded Austria’s treaty obligations. | The Germans also interpreted the decision as a repudiation of the charge that they and their Austrian colleagues ! had flaunted treaties and "upset the | peace of Europe.” “Mere Speculation.” The German delegation declared | there was clarity and force in the | minority opinion compared with the “vagueness” of the majority opinion | which did not specify clearly the grounds for its conclusions, but, in the | language of the dissenters, aroused the suspicion that “these conclusions can- not amount to more than mere specu- lations.” The grounds on which the majority | opinion were based are, In effect, that Austria is a sensitive point in the Euro- pean system and her existence is an| essential feature of the political scttle- ment after the wa The opinion did not. however, state! that any form of customs union with Germany would violate the Geneva protocol. | “The court has not to consider the, conditions under which an Austro-Ger- | man customs union might receive the Council's (of the League of Nations') consent,” the opinion said. “The only qGuestion 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 oms union contemplated * * *| without committing an act which would ' be incompatible with the obligations she has assumed.” KENTUCKIAN TO FACE CHARGE OF MURDER Warrant Sworn Qut After Man He Is Alleged to Have Shot Dies. By the Associated Press. BARBOURVILLE, Ky., September 5 —R. B. Minton, wealthy saddle horse- man and manufacturer cf golf club shafts, was charged with murder today following the death of Henry Cole, 28, manager of the People’s Gas Co. here, who had siid Minton shct him. Cole was wounded in the abdomen at Minton’s Summer home August 14. He rallied after tke shooting and was expected to, recover, but suffered a relapse two days ago. He died today while an emergency operation was in ton, now in Columbus, Ohio, showing 'his widely known Hickory Mountain Stable of show horses at the Ohio State Fair, has been at liberty under $2,000 bond cn a cherge of ma- licious ~ shooting. ~ Following ~ Cole's dzath, his uncle, L. M. Cole, swore out a murder warrant against Minton. DOUKHOBORS WELCOMED Aiosicaa S Wepaper MBavoR Mbsra: ing Migration From Canada. MEXICO CITY, September 5 ()— The newspaper Universal Grafico todgw’| published an editorial welcome to 16,- 060 Doukhcbors which it said were re- ported to be about to migrate from Canada to Chihuahua to establish ag- ricultural colonies, but thz interior department said it had no knowledge that the Dcukhobers wer> coming to Mexico. The paper said, “They are good colo- nists and would help the country's agricultural progress.” .STRANGER’S “MAP” STARTS TOWN TO DIGGING FOR CIVIL WAR GOLD }Mount Alto Residents Wield Picks and Shovels on Ow Account After Watching D. C. Man Mark Out Plot. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md. September 5.— | Residents of the Mount Alto section, | tracks in which the mysterious stranger several miles north of hore, are excited over the appearance of a man, identity unrevealed, who is believed to be hunt- ing for a fortune in gold, left behind by Confederate troops during the hasty re- treat after the battle of Gettysburg. Men equipped with picks and shovels have been digging for three days near the Pearl-of-the-Park spring on Mount Alto State Forest Recervation. So far no gold has been discovered, but the search goes on unabated. ‘The stranger arrived one day the first part of last week in an automobile bear- ing District of Columbia license tags. A resident of Mount Alto saw the stranger holding a paper, believed to have been a map, and pacing off dis- tance on the ground. An investigation disclosed unusual holes dug in the ground, a complicated system of blazes on the surfaces of old trees and lengths of wood laid out as though placed to indicate directicn. Returning to the spot early Sunday moerning, the villager began digging. News spread and soon a small army was at work. No one knows the spot where the | treasure is supposed to be buried, but | excavation has been made all over the | was secn. | Legends of buried Civil War treas- | ures prevailed in that section for years. | When the Confederates, under Gen. | Robert E. Lee, began their invasion of | Pennsylvania, which culminated in the | battle of Gettysburg, many residents of | the route over which the invaders | passed buried their silverware and oth- | er valuables before the van of the in- | vading army. | “Lee’s troops reached Gettysburg by ! two main routes, Some went east from | Chambersburg, following the route of | the present Lincoln Highway. Others | took _a schort cut along the base of | South Mountain, crossing the narrows into Adams County by way of the Pearl-of-the-Park. | It is believed by residents of Mount | Alto that the stranger from Washing- | ton had & man directing him to the spot where part of the gold reported to have been hidden during the flight was |burlcd. As he worked, he was seen to foilow the paper he carried in hand, which one resident, who got close enough to him before he ol i said appeared @ be a mi 7 STAR, WASH GTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 6 From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washington's"rheaters. “An American Tragedy” Has Notable Premiere. UCH has been the crying that “An American Trag- edy,” as sponsored by the films, is not the story that was sponsored by author Dreiser. Tears from his office have ot only percolated through the coun- try, but a host of brother authors have come to his defense and pointad out that there is little in common be- tween the screen and Mr. Dreiser. All this cry- ing and gnash- ing of teeth does mnot alter the fact that this f'm, which reopened the Warner - Met- ropolitan Thea- ter yesterday, is an intensely ab- sorbing chron- icle of a boy who found that he was more of a villain than a hero. The mere mention of the villainy in him, of course, reduces him to considerably less than what the author intended. So one can agree that Mr. Dreiser is perhaps justified in his complaints. But for the average film-goer, who has not delved into the authors psychological intricacies, there is no reason in the world why he should not b> interested—if, at the end a trifle disgusted. ‘The direction of Joseph Von Stern- berg is swift, sudden and sometimes breathtaking. He unleashes scene after scene with considerable spzed— althobgh oftentimes injecting epi- sodes—such as the eternal grinding away of the presses—which are need- lessly commonplace. The general effect of speed, however, tends to enliven a story which might other- wise have died in its boots. Since there is too little time in a film to look behind the hinges of a person’s mind, the murder that Clyde commits seems about the worst villainy he could possibly have plotted. The scene in the canoe in which he drowns Roberta Alden (Sylvia Sidney), the unfor- tunate factory girl who wanted him to marry her, is an act that it is im- possible to justify (the bock, of course, does justify it). And from that moment until the end there is not ome grain of sympathy that can be summoned for this boy who was struggling to get to what he thought was the top of the world, and found only misery and anotker very different kind of a world there inst-ad } Phillips Holmes' performance of this Mid-Western lad, who started as a pellboy in a hotel and found that his blond: hair attracted the at- tention of all visiting ladies, is much less satisfactory than one could hope for. It is a performance which rises only to real power in the splen- did court room scene (the best thing in the picture), fcr he walks through the whole in a kind of a daze which seems unnec: rily cold. Sylvia Sidney feres much better— in fact, her smile is the most wist- ful part of the story—and Irving Pichel as Orville Mason is also ex- Frances Dee, who plays ‘d-butante” responsible for Cylde’s downfall, seems adequate, if a trifle Hollywcodish. All of them. however. including Cylde’s ps2lm-singing mother and the unpliable Mr. Holmes, contrib- ute to a film which has superlative moments, wheth:r you think it too drab or too un-Dreiserish, or too unlike what you would prefer an American tragedy to be —E. DE S. MELCHER. Phillip Holmes. Claudette Colbert at Palace in “Secrets of a Secretar: WWHILE murcer charges are made intriguing in “Secrets of " featuring Claudette Colbert at the Palace Theater, they are important chiefly because they lead to ingenuity in devising de- fensive tactics for a ycung woran, and create suspense in the romantic story of znother young woman who undertakes to save her friend. The saving process involves the high sacrifice of her own freedom from guilt. Miss Colbert plays the role of the social secretary, who is also the self- effacing friend of her, employer, a daughter of wealth, The produc- tion is important because of the prominence it gives to the work of this young actress, who has had less important duties in recent films, and because her talent is sufficient to meet the d2mands of a plot which has some merit and does not provide too great a strain on the credulity. Miss Colbert, without losing sight of the fact that she is creating a per- sonality of quality, covers the wide range of emotional acting, and is equally effective in moments of gayety and in the moods that ac- company the distress of tragic events. Herbert Marshall_has the conventional part of Lord Danforth, whose desire to wed her lecads to complications. He is a pleasant and unqualifiedly correct person—just the proper selection for an impres- sive wedding such as he arranges with the young woman of wealth. ‘The intended bride has been guilty of indiscretions with the gigolo hus- band of her secretary and is about to pay him blackmail money when he is killed by a gang for holding out the proceeds of robberies. The part of Sylvia Merritt, the daughter of wealth, is played effectively by Betty Lawford, while the gigolo, a flaming type, is in the capable hands of Georges Metaxa. Among the fine characterizations in this play are those of the mother and father of Sylvia, and the ap- pearance of Mary Boland and Berton Churchill as Mr. and Mrs. Meyritt is a source of pleasure to those Who are familiar with the high places that they have achieved on the stage. Others in the cast are Averell Harris, Betty Garde and Hugh O'Connell. ‘The Palace has two good comedies, one of which is a finely done cartoon, while the stage show, with artistic settings and its chorus ac- companitents, has a program of adagio, dancing and com2dy which is made attractive with the contri- butions of the Condos Brothers, Christy and Nelson, Miles and Kover, Jack Reid and Rudy Mass;;n,c C “The Star Witness” and Joe E. Brown Swamp Earle. WHEN. yesterday at midday, Joe E. Brown, the idol funnyman of juvenile America, swung his cavern- ous jaws wide apart, and intoned that ~ gutteral ~roar which has gathered for him more financial roses than was the mightest of neo-Barry- mores, he was rewarded with such 2n answering roar as made the Earle ‘Theater’s rafters, the streets, in fact all of this midtown block, shake with wonder. Outside, the swarm of police gathered to keep hysterical lady ad- mirers of Mr. Brown at arm's length, looked at each other, and wondered too—that such a mere mortal (in truth he is a real mortal, even with red tie, black and whte shoes and patent-leather hair) could do so little and win such rewards. Mr. Brown has come—and he has conquered. And mothers will be miserable all week, handing out the required sum so that little Willy can see tiis great laughing, laugh- ing man. For Mr. Brown is one of the pleasantest and noisiest of our comedians. And although his “skit” seems, perhaps, less droll that we had expected-—what with killing poor, lovely Maxine Doyle in front of all her “thank you” fans!—he should be welcomed warmly for his gentle patter—for everything, in fact, ex- cept that hot house prelude in which he says “I'm glad to be back,” and the usual dolorous etceteras. Apart from Mr. Brown, and “An Impromptu Revue” which is much better than you'd suppose, and a skit by Bert Walton, which is un- pronounceable, the theater features a film called “The Star Witness,” which is exciting and amusing, even if packed with some of the largest gumdrop “hokum” around. Although the gangster craze, in pictures as everywhere else, should be exter- minated, there is no doubt that in this Chic Sale does enough non- sense to make you forget some of the rest. Here, into a strange fami- 1y of morons, comes the unpleasant rebound of a street shooting—and the only reason that the shooting is ever solved is because Chic Sale, as a happy inebriate of Civil War days, walks along the strcet play- ing a flute. This and a number of other things make you realize that this isn't to be believed. But some of it is good—and the rest is quite bearable—and then, of course, you aren't really there for any other Zarpose than. waiting_ until Joe Brown appears, E. de 8. M. Joan Crawford at Columbia Is Better Than Her Play. $THIS Modern Age,” at the Co- lumbia this week, is about some of those bright young moderns who are so gay and so funny. Like the troupe of young wags who visited town last week in a post-war saga, and were also so funny but not so 38y, the youths of “This Modern Age” (I suppose there is some rela- tion between title and picture) laugh and play all the time. While it sometimes is very amus- ing to watch the kiddies on their gold and champagne-embossed play- grounds, enough galetw is, odd as it may seem to Hollywood, enough gay- ety. In the current Joan Crawford picture there is a magnum of af- fected clowning. That is its only de- bility. The narrative relates the romance, and attendant vicissitudes, of a sleek lass whose mother is a k——twoman, of the more expensive sort. Indeed, Pauline Frederick, as the erring mother, is so charming that one wonders why she was not more ex- pensive. Valentine, the daughter and Miss Crawford ail in one, with an uner- ring sense for dramatic complica- tions. becomes engaged to Robert whose stolid Bostonian par- are said to have made a quar- tet out of the famous Cabot-to- Lowell, etc., talkie trio. The Blakes disapprove Valentine because of her mother's waywardness, as Valentine does likewise when she discovers that her mother’s friend. Andre, is more gencrous than matrimonial The lovers are separated over this circumstance, and Valentine almost succumbs to the blandishments of a purported young rake, but is saved in time for a reunion with her lover, which, judging by the number of tears the players shed half an hour before the picture ended, none but the audience expected. Whatever ribaldry and scorn the turn of the tale casts at the straight- laced Blakes, who apparently were lacking in hearts of gold, there was 2 sigh of relief from the audience when _the stern Hobart Bosworth (Mr. Blake) and his wife appeared on the scene. The contrast with those so very frivolus swimming and drinking parties was an evident relief. The lovely Miss Crawford. who has had roles of this sort thrust upon her continuously, acquits her- sck creditably, despite the film. Her voice and manner have ma- tured and improved amazingly. and one wonders when she will be given a role worthy of her abiliti Neil Hamilton is the hea heavy, lover The Columbia program includes a tennis lesson by the facile Mr. Til- den, who makes it seem much easier than it is, and a slapstick comedy. R.B.P,Jr ‘SANITAT?Y DISTRICT ' URGED FOR SUBURB , very Proposed Plan for Area Next to | Lynchburg Believed Will Hasten Annexation. Speclal Dispatch to The Star LYNCHBURG, Va.. Formation of a sanitary district in | Amherst County to provide Madison | Heights with water may hasten the September 5.— | town’s annexation to Lynchburg rather | than postpone it indefinitely, it was said by N. M. Worley. member of the Madi- son Heights Committee working to se- cnre water for the suburb. Mr. Worley pointed out that the city and suburb will be more closely linked together {1f the water system here is extended | to the suburb and in turn the sectin wil be more attractive to the city if it has water and fire protection. | _The Board of Supervisors of Amherst | County is seeking to ascertain the | cost of a water system' for Madison Heights, an estimate by E. E. Barnard, | Lynchburg engineer, already fixing this at $55000. W. E. Sandidge, clerk of he board, was named Wednesday by the board to secure rates for water from | the city. It is proposed to extend the city mains a mile and a half from James | River. There are about 2.500 people living in the section proposed to be incorporated in a sanitary district. 'FALLS CHURCH W. C. T. U. | | Mrs. George Hawxhurst Named as | President—Mrs. Ankers Is | Chosen Secretary. Special Dispatch to The Star. FALLS CHURCH, Va., September 5. —Mrs. George Hawxhurst was elected president of the Falls Church Chapter, | Woman's Christian Temperance Union, | at a meeting held at the home of Mrs. R. E. Ankers. Mrs. R. E. Ankers was clected corresponding secretary, Mrs. Munson Lane, recording secretary; Mrs. C. A. Berger, treasurer. One vice president was elected from each of the four churches co-operat- ing: Baptist, Miss Hattle Elgin; South- ern Methodist, Mrs. J. G. Smith; | Crossman Methodist Episcopal, Miss Sybil Abbott; Presbyterian, Mrs. George H. Fadeley. Mrs. J. G. Smith was made chairman of the Standing Com- mittee on Christian Citizenship and Mrs. C H. Cannon on Publicity. It was decided to ask E. J. Richard- son, superintendent of the Virginia Anti-Saloon League, to speak at the next union church meeting in October. MAN, 82, FACES CHAIR MOCKSVILLE, N. C., September 5 (#).—John Henry Hauser, 82, was con- victed of first-degree murder in Davie County Superior Court here late today for the deather of his son-in-law, Fred S. Styers. Judge John H. Clement sen- tenced him to die in the electric chair November 5. The jury reached its verdict after deliberating more than four hours. Hauser admitted shooting Styers after the two had guarreled over the planting of their corp'crnp. 1931—PART ONE. MORTGAGE GROLP ASKS BANKRUPTEY Chicago Concern, Under Fire in Alleged Mail Frauds, May Get Receiver. e, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 5.—A volun- | tary petition in bankruptcy was filed in | United States District Court today in | behalf of the American Bond and Mort- gage Co. at the direction of its board of | directors. | Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson | said he would hear a motion for ap- | pointment of a receiver September 10, | and meanwhile directed Garfield | Charles, referee, to consider the case. Several former officers of the com pany have been indicted recently Federal Grand Juries in Boston and New York on mail fraud charges. No | schedule of assets and Habilities was filed with the bankruptcy petition. The Chicago Title and Trust Co. has been acting for a year as receiver for Ilhr company under equity proceedings. ‘The company's attorney said the d: rectors authorized Arthur W. Draper, president, to file the voluntary petition after coming to the conclusion the com- pany could not meet its debts in full The mortgage company operates mary Jarge hotel and apartment buildings L which it took over when the bonds were defaulted. U. S. WHEAT IS HELD HALF CHINA’S NEEDS {Flood Sufferers Require 1,000,000 Tons of Food, Commission | Says. | By the Associated Press. SHANGHAL September 5.—The China Flood Relief Commission said today that wheat purchased from the American Farm Board would be less than .half the focdstuffs needed this WAnter by 10,000,000 starving Chinese. The commission was seeking to aug- ment the 15.000,000 bushels of Ameri- can wheat with huge amounts <f millet | and beans from Manchuria. The com- mission had no money and Manchu- rians not only withheld credit, but pro- tested zgainst the purchase from America. { Although the Chinese government cstimated there were 50,000,000 flocd | sufferers, the commission believes it would need food for only 10,000.000. | The American wheat would supply 450.- 000 tons of the necessary 1,000,000 tons | of fcodstuffs, | With at least 100,000 reported dead | in the Northern Kiangsu Provincs flood of the past fortnight, conditions there continued harrowing. Additionzl tcwns were being flooded daily. increasing the hundreds of thousands of destitute homeless. | Jinrikishas w re reappearing on the streets of Hank . Wuchang and Han- vang. The sister cities were getting | back almost to normal after the August floods which caused about 250000 | deaths there and made a half-million | persons homel | _Nanking reported that President | Chiang Kai-shek, having returned from Hankow, planncd to inspect the Ki- | angsu_area where suffering was acute | and aid urgently necded. COLUMBUS U. ADDS ! GRADUATE COURSES | Dean William E. Leahy Announces Elective Work on Set-Up of U. S. Government. William E. Leahy, dean of the School of Law of Columbus University. 11314 Massachusetts avenue, announced yesterday that in the post-graduate riculum a number of elective courses will be added. One of these will deal | with the make-up and functions of {the various Government departments and the commissions here. Inasmuch as many of the graduates jof Columbus intend to practice law jin the District. Dean Leahy said the university desires to afford opportunity for a working knowledge of practice before these Federal units. Miss Mary Alberta Warren, the uni- versity's registrar, announced that en- rollments have shown a gratifying i crease for this time of year, in bo the Schools of Law and Accountancy. The university office is being kept open daily from 10 am. to 6 p.m. Columbus University will begin its academic year on Monday evening, | September 21, at 6 o'clock. |JAPANESE URGES U. S. | TO VENERATE ANCESTORS Author and Political Leader Says Crime Would Be Curbed as in Native Land. | By the Associated Press. | _NEW YORK. September 5—It is the view of Yusuke Tsurumi, Japanese au- thor and political leader, that if America would pay more attention to its grandfathers and great grandfath- ers this country would have much less of a crime-and-gangster problem. Tsurumi was in New York today en route from the sessions of the Institute of Politics at Willlamstown, Mass., where he represented Japan, to the Pacific Re- lations Conference in_Hanchow, China. In an interview, he said Japan does not have the widespread crime with which the United States is trying to grapple—because of the powerful re- straining influence of Japanese famil life, with its traditional veneration for | ancestors. “It may be difficult for American: comprehended,” Tsurumi continued, “but | a Japanese is intuitively reluctant to | commit a crine because it would be a | blot on the memory of his grandfather, | great-grandfather, great-great-grand- | father and also on his own descendants." AUTOMOBILE ELEVATORS 6,000 Lb. Capacity Good Condition $1 50 EACH Cost $5,000 New | ment led to the adoption of a w FOR SALE! MEMORIAL TO MARK' CHEROKEE CAPITAL Government Monument to Be Unveiled at Georgia Press Meeting. By the Associated Press. DALTON, Ga., September 5.—A per- | manent memorial to a vanished empire | will be dedicated near here September | 17, . 2 The: occasion will be the unveiling of | a Government monument to mark the | site of New Echota, last capital east | of the Mississippi_ Rivir of the once | mighty Cherokee Indian Nation. i The inscription on the monument de- scribes the remarkable degree of civili- zation atteined by the 20,000 members of the trib>. It records that the na- | tion was recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States as an in pendent community, that it was the only greup of American Indizns to adopt a republican form of government based on a written constitution, and that under the influence of Moravian missionarics the Indians were Chris- tianized. Dedication at Convention. The monument, erected at a cost of | 0, a Federal appropriation, will be | dedicated as a feature of the Georgia Press Association ¢ ention, Advancing tides cf civilization drove the Cherokees from their strongholds in Tennessee, but it wes at New Echota, in the North Georgia mountains, that | thoy established their greatest capital. | They once occupied land in Georgia, | Alabama, Tennessce and North Caro- | ina, A chief facter in the development of | the Cherokees after they settled at New Echota was the ntion of an alphabet by an educated Falf-breed | named Equoyzh. This cultural a tten Janguage and a formal code of laws The Cherokees then adopted a written constitution and organized a govern- ment patterned after that of the United Statss. They established schools and courts and encouraged domestic arts and crafts About twe s after the adoption f Sequoyah's alphabet, the Cherokee | made arrangements for the n of a tribal newspaper. mountain capital. n 28, the first issue of the | first journalistic ef- | Indians, came off the Boudinot, an educated was editor, | Paper Suspended. ed after s nal polit + contributed to the fina e Indian nation. Befo however, tke prij ed its activities to Bibles, hymn bcok: theological works The official end of the Cherokee tion here was signalized December 1839, by the si New Echota ch the Indians | ceded their lands east cf the Mississippi to the Government for $5,000.000 and a joint interest in lands west of the river already occupied by some bands | of the tribe The removal of the Indians from the territory was slow and troops under Gen. Winfield Scott finally were sent to eject them. JARRING OF PEACHES RAISES DRY ISSUE| years as dissension tk downfall of t its suspensiof plant had ex: publication school books s Virginia and Federal Officials Hold No Law Violated If Juice Is Not Alcoholic. RICHMOND, Va.. September 5.—The Charlottesville Chamber of Commerce has asked State and Federal authorities here whether it would be legal for fruit growers in Albemarle County to con- | serve their surplus peaches by placing | them. 1aw. in jars with only sugar to| preserve them, to be sold “as is." The question was placed be ¢ authorities because after a lapse of tin he peaches would likely become ° died.” Assistant _Attorney General E Gibson and Federal Prohibition Adn istrator R. Q. 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