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WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair tonight and tomorrow: slightly warmer tonight. Temperatures—Highest, 84, today; lowest, 62, at at noon 6 am. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 he Fn = No. 31,907 post office. Entered as second class matter Washington, 1)« WASHINGTON, D. (., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1931—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. eni ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION UNHEARD FROM AS SAFETY DEADLINE FOR FLIGHT NEAR Have Gas Enough to Carry Them Until 2:30 0’clock This Afternoon—Weather Conditions Are Favorable. LAST S!G'HTED HOUR AFTER LEAVING JAPAN Flyers Had to Make 4.465-Mile Journey Across Pa- cific in 44 to 47 Hours—Little Expected Apprehension Felt by Friends Waiting in Seattle. SEATTLE . September 9 —Under clouded skies Seattle vatched today for Don Moyle and C. A. Allen, California flyers, who leit Japan almost two days ago on a non-stop flight from Samu- shiro Beach to this city. he aviators had not been re- ported since they were sighted 70 minutes after leaving the beach, but in view of the isolated terri- tory over which they would fly nd the slowness of communica- n from those parts, this was not censidered alarming. cores of cars and hundreds of ple crowded Boeing Field, wiere the flyers are expected to nd. They had hoped to reach tle by noon today. At 12:30 pm. 3:30 p.m. Eastern standard will have been in th: wind. aviators here ir gasoline supply would v the allotted 47 hours Weather is Favorable, rted seen the head morning, Was news photos, it was le ival here. It was first beli Moyle-Allen_plane ther reports Nad indicated favor- fiying conditions over the latter t of their route. Knowing Moyle and Allen had enough e to remain in_the air 47 hours 2:30 pm. Eastern: standard o watchers at the airport here voies any anxiety for their last longe: Port Puget a ship rned on d to over of Sound. carrying th: We ights and beacons were turned v from Boeing field here, and om the county airport at Tacoma in the early hours. Ships and radio sta- tions from the Aleutian Islands to Scat- tle were on the alert. eager to witness the latter phase of what started out to be the first non-stop airplane flight across the Pacific’s breadth. Crowd ont at Dawn. Interested citizens began to stir here ai dawn. A few had arnved at the air ficld soon after midnight, determined to miss nothing in the event Moyle and Allen sailed in ahead of schedule Friends of the fliers refused to interpret the long absence of News as OMINOUS. “They declined to imagine that ill luck had overtaken the former washing-m chine salesman and the erstwhile mo- toreycle sal nt who left Japan in Jane that had been all but declared orthy Moyle and Allen carried no radioand fhey essaved a course north of the great circle steamship lane. They had ex- preted to fly northward of the Aleut I lands for a considerable distance. then coss the island group and head siraight for Scattle while still some dis- nce from the American mainland The islands are sparsely inhabited ad the fliers might have passed over e tiny spots of Jand without being ®ecn. Had Good Weather. Wea conditions were favorable ong the latter portion of their rout>. There was cloudiness and some rain gouth of the Aleutians and prevailing Winds were westerly and southwester of from 12 to 28 miles an hour v Jocity. Such breezes would serve as tail winds and step up the spesd of he plane e e “headwinds faced the fiyers uoon thelr turning down the Alaskan Coast Aviators here said if and_Allen got into a wind Sould be able to conserve their gaso- line supply by rsing” the motor “ (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) DIVE FROM BUS FATAL Man Believed Despondent Plunges, Moyde they that tail Head First From Machine. TAMPA, Fla. September 9 (®).— Jordan, 49. of Detroit died hospital here last night of in- inflicted as he plunged from a ar Tampa yesterday The driver and fellow passengers told authorities he opened a door and Jeaped head first to the pavement, frac- s s route from a with family Hosptal at- dants said he apparently had been crspondent over ill health | Detioit to| MRS. G. BRYAN PITTS ARRESTED | ON ASSET-CONCEALING CHARGE Freed on $20,000 Bond After Arraignment in Atlantic City. Hart, Confidential Agent, and Clancy Also Given Liberty. Mrs. Gladys T. Pitts, wife of G. Bryan Piits, former head of the local F. H. Smith Co., was released in $20,000 bond today after she had been arrested in Atlantic City. N. J., for al alleged at- tempt to conceal her husband's assets in an effort (o avoid payment of $2,000.000 in back income taxes. Henry O. Hart, Pitts' confidential agzent, and Patrick J. Clancy, a chauf- fei arrested with her on the same charge, wers released under similar bond The arrest of Mrs. prominent Pitts, who wa ‘Washington society, followed the seizure yosterday in an At- lantic City hotel of $500.000 worth of (Continucd on Pége 2, Cclumn 2.) MEXICO ACGEPTS LEAGUE INVITATION Formal Reply Dispatched, Although Senate Must Ratify Proposal. By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY, September 9.—Mex- ico’s acceptance of the invitation to join the League of Nations is being cabled Geneva today by Foreign Minister Gernaro Estrada The proposal must also come before the Senate for ratification inasmuch as membership in the League implies adherence to the covenant and the ¢ of Versailles. to Canada for Disarming. GENEVA, September 9.—Canada support for the principle of “arbitra- tion. secutity and disarmament’—the French formula—was announced to the Assembly of the League of Nations to- day by Hugh Guthiie. Canadian dele- gate, who is making his first appear- ance at Geneva. This support, he said. would be in the nature of sympathetic co-operation in whatever plan may finally be agreed upon. Cznada is in nowise a militaristic nation and Canada’s armaments are practically negligible, he said “Canada has no need for grealer armaments.” he told the Assembly She has but one international boun- darv. The Uniied States of America, a great friendly country, is our only immediate meighbor and we are con- vinced that the peaceful aims and aspi- rations of that great country both rival and support our own.” Sees Absolute Security. While accepting the traditional French position. as expressed in “arbi- tration, ~security and disarmament.” that disarmament follows rather than precedes security. Mr. Guthrie also ex- pressed the belief that “general dis- armament upon a very extended scale may take place within a reasonable time with absolute security to all ma- tions concerned. He based this belief upon treaties and covenants looking to security which already exists between various countries. | Referring to the work of the Euro- pean commission, the Canadian dele- ' gafe indicated that he would at some future occasion set forth Canada’s op- position to proposals for tariff pref- | erences for European countries export- g wheat. Canada, as one of the world's great exporting countries, is known to object to any such pref- erential system as an infringement of her right io an open market in Europe. Rumania Adds Support. Demetre J. Ghika, Rumanian foreign minister, also regarded disarmament as the most pressing problem before the Assembly. It is futile to argue, he said, over the question whether security should pre- cede disarmament or vice versa, as if they were two separate and independent conceptions. He said, however, that “after such a great war as the last one, it is useless to expect a nation to give up its arms without the establishment of security.” Until a real restoration of confidence achieved, he said, non-aggression (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) SPEED CRIMINAL CASES Four Judges From South and West Sit in New York. NEW YORK, September 9 (/) —Four judges from the South and West sat in criminal parts of the United Staies | District Court here today in an effort to clean up the clogged calendar. Ordinarily there are two judges sit- ting on criminal cases and sometimes three. It has been five years since four judges devoted their time ex- clusively to criminal cases. The visiting jurists are Judges T. Blake Kennedy of Wyoming, Harry B. Anderson of Tennessee, John E. Mar- tineau of Arkansas and Halstead R. Ritter of Florida. is —GAR WOOD IN TEARS AS HE DENIES TRICKERY IN RACE WITH KAYE DON Contradicts Statements Published Yesterday Saying He Merely Tried to Be First to Cross Line. By the Associated Press | DETROIT, September 9.—Gar Wood, | pilot of Miss America IX in the| Harmsworth Trophy Races, today con- tradicted statements attributed to him Monday to the effect that he had de- lJiberately drawn Kaye Don, British| challenger, in Miss England II. over the starting line, caustg disqualifica- tion of both boats. Decply affected by comment which followed the second heat of the race on Mond: in which Wood and Don were disqualifica for beating the start- er's gun, Wood said the only thing he Tad in mind was to “beat Don over the Iine.” W wanted to get over first,” he | said. “I had ridden in Don's wash for 30 miles Sunday afternoon, knew what it was like. We felt if we got away first we'd have a chance to keep the lead.” Wood said that he instructed his me- chanic, Orlin Johnson, who handles the | throttle, to “watch Don and beat him | over the line, at any cost.” When they | saw Don make a start for the line, he | gled to center, Rommel stopping at sec- | employment has continued to increase said, they speeded up the boat and | passed him before the starting line was | reached. | “It was this earnest desire on Don!' part to get the lead and our determina- tion that he would not get the jump that caused this umfortunate mixup,” Wood said. | Wood wept as he discussed the state- | ments_attributed to him after the race " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) | Special Dispatch t and 1> WASHINGTON — Williams MRS. B. BRYAN PITT! HOOVER SEEKS WAY T0 EXPORT COTTON President Turns to Credit in Effort to Increase Foreign Sales. By the Associated Press President Hoover is holding a series of discussions with bankers and cotton brokers over the possibility of creating banking ciedits for exports of cotton. At the same time the White House and the State and Agriculture Depart- ments are considering the possibility and advisability of calling an interna- tional conference on the subject of cot- ton production. The President believes, it was said at the White House, that so far as this untry is now concerned the necessity establishing credits for exports is amount rather than talk of controi or restriction of acreage Leaves Acreage to Growers. The President was descibed as of the opinion that the Federal Government had no agency through which it could restrict acreage and believing that such action was a matter for the producers themselves to handle. The President conferred at length vesterday with W. L. Clayton of Hous- fon, Tex.. head of one of the large: cotton firms in the country, and with Eugene Meyer, gevernor of the Federal Reserve Boord. and George R. James, a member of the board. It was said at the White House t day that the conferences yesterday did not develop any specific plan and that the discussions would be continued cither through meetings or correspond- ence. The Agriculture Department yester- day estimated this year's cotton crop at 15.685,000 bales, the highest September estimate in 16 years Several Southern Senators have brought forward plans for bolstering the price. They called for the Government carrying over several million bales of this vear's crop for those farmers who would agree not to plant any cotton next year. Senator Caraway, Democrat. Arkan- sas. came to Washington Monday to vress such & plan upon President Hoo- ver He had an appointment at the Wkite House for today. Senator Smith, Demccrat, South Carolina, also is known to favor such action. Caraway wants the Govarnment to buy 8.000.000 bales at not less than 8 cents a pound to be allocated to farm- ers who would 2gree not to plant next vear. The farmers would collect the difference between the 8 cents and‘ih: prospective higher price in 193 The Agriculture Department's Au- RUSt estimate was 15,584,000 bales. It caused a heavy slump in cotton prices NATIONALS LEADING MACKS, 1-0, IN THIRD Joe Cronin’s Double in Second In- ning Gives Griffs Chahce to Score. The Star = PHILADELPHIA, September 9.—Joe Cronin’s double in the second Inning ; ! paved the way for the Nationals to lead the Athletics, 1 to 0, In the third in- ning of the final game of the series here this afternoon. FIRST INNING. WASHINGTON —Simmons got Myer's foul. Walberg tossed out Rice. Man- ush took a third strike. No runs PHILADELPHIA.—Cronin threw out McNair, Cramer tripied to center. Dykes fouled to Kuhel. Myer threw out Simmons. No runs. SECOND INNING. WASHINGTON — Cronin _doubled against the left fleld fence. Williams threw out Harris. Cronin going to third. Foxx took Kuhel's grounder and threw to the plate too late to get Cronin. Blucge flied to Rommel. Spencer got a single on a grounder to Williams in back of second, Kuhel stopping at that, base. Williams had a chance for a force play on Kuhel, but umpire Hilde- brand got in his way and the fielder could not make the throw. Willlam: threw out Crowder. One run. PHILADELPHIA—Foxx flied deep to Rice Myer threw out Williams. Heving took a third strike. No runs. THIRD INNING. made a flashy stop back of second and threw out Mger. Rice doubled to left. Manush fouled to Dykes. Cronin flied to Rom- mel. No runs. PHILADELPHIA — Rommel walked. Walberg flied to Manush. McNair flied to Rice in left center. Cramer sin- ond. Dykes flied to Rice. Fire Des No runs. troys Apartments. ISTANBUL, Turkey. September 9 (#). —Two blocks of apartment bufldings |'and eight houses were destroyed by firc today at Pera. Radio P;u-(;nm; on l’.ue' C5 MACDONALD ACTS | T0 GVE MINSTRY POWER T0 GOVERN House Speeds Economy Bill Which Would Block Oppo- | sition in Parliament. . ILABOR ATTACK dN PLAN SEEN IN DEBATE FRIDAY Baldwin Proposes Resolution to Enable Government to Monopolize Session. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 9.—Prime Min- | ister Ramsay MacDonald, getting down | to the business of forcing his economy program through Parliament, today pre- sented to the House of Commons a “na- | | tional economy bill,” which would em- | power the cabinet to govern by orders in council issued by the King without | the sanction of Parliament He explained none of its provisions, | | and the House passed it on the formal | first reading. On Friday it will reach the debate stage and the Labor party will marshal its strongest opposition. | | Stanley Baldwin, as leader of the government in the House and the prime minister's right-hand man, then pro- | posed resolutions which would give the | | Rovernment additional emergency pow- | | ers, enabling it to monopolize all the vest of the session to the exclusion of | private members’ bills under the so- called 10-minute debate Tule. | His resolutions also would provide for disposal of the necessary budget discussion by midnight tomorrow in | ! the Committee of Ways and Means. | Gains Second Victory. The House gave the government & majority of 94 this afternoon on a | closure “motion. The vote was 306 to 12, | 1t was the second parliamentary vic- tory since the special session began yes- terday. Last night a vote of confidence went to the government by 309 to 250, the Labor party voting almost solidly in opposition . Today's vote was on a motion to end debate “on Stanley Baldwin's proposal that the government be permitted to monopolize the time of th's session for its_emergency economy program. The Labor members protested loudly when the vote was called, but it passed and debate was closed In citing a precedent ernment taking all the time of the | session for its bills, Mr. Baldwin said that the last time Commons met for a specific purpose it was to deal with the Irish crisis in 1922. The present government, he said. intended to follow | the example of the 1922 administration | in getting through its business with the | utmost dispatch | Unemployed Dispersed. A crowd of unemployed was dis- persed by police todav in front of the Bow Street Police Court. where charges | were being Qeard against 17 persons | i arrested as a result of a demonstra- | tion outside the doors of Parliament last night Sixteen men charged with assault | conduct. Fines for obstructing police | were imposed in some cases. Other | ! prisoners were sentenced to a month at ) hard labor. The woman. Muriel Guest, | was bound over for 12 months. { Prime Minister MacDonald's ministry | i called for and received from the House | ! of Commons last night a favorable vote | on a motion to resolve the House into &« committee of ways and means to con- sider speedy enactment of its proposals Labor Forms Opposition. The government founditssupport in the | complete roster of the Conservative and | ! Liberal members, supplemented by 12| { labor delegates and three Independents. | | The great bulk of the labor membership | | formed the opposition together with the | { four members of the Moseley party and ! { three Independents, including Oliver Baldwin, son of the Conservative leader. | Coming after an eight-hour debate. | ! led by the prime minister and former | Poreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, ! the result was heard with a few cheers | | from ministerialist benches, but mostly | with silence in the rank and file of the | House. i In the later stages of the.debate { Mr. MacDonaid told his hearers of the | | utmost necessity of stemming the | | “financial_typhoon.” “I appeal to all| | classes and_conditions.” he said, “to| accompany the government on the hard and broken road along which our se- ! curity and honor and well-being have to be found.” Mr. Henderson threw down gounilet to his former chief by say-! ing that the cuisis was not as seriou: as the nation had been led to believe. | | and that, in any event, the great bank- { ing powers would not have permitted the pound sterling to fall. { “In their own interests those elerpents | would never have dared to let British | credit fail,” he said. Papers Support MacDonald. London and provincial newspapers, with one exception, supported the prime minister's views on the situation, stress- |ing his point that while the formation of the natjonal government has gained a breathing space for the nation the ! emergency will continue until a program !4s put into effect. : But the Daily Herald, Labor’s mouth- piece, said Mr. MacDonald had com- Ihitted himself and was trying to com- { it she country to a “banker’s policy Which is rot only one of class injustice, but of natfonal disaster. He failed to | show that capitulation to the demand of | British and foreign bankers 35 the only | possible em:rgency measure. CONFIDENCE REVIVED. | Commerce Department Reports No Basic | Change in Situation. By the Associated Press. The Commerce Department reported today that the establishment of the re- cent credit to Great Britain and the aknounced intention of the new govern- ment to balance the budget *has re- vived confidence somewhat. Its weekly review explained, however, that “no basic change has occurred in the British situation.” The review said no signs of a gen- eral recovery were shown in other sec- tions of the world. Continuing its discussion of the Brit- ish situation, the department said un- for the gov- and one woman were 1 and disorderly the | and the only industrial betterment is a slight gain in shlnbulldlni. ‘There was no sign of recovery in the Irish Free State, the report added. Amy Johnson Lands in England. LYMPNE, England, September 9 (®). —Amy_Johnson reached here today from -Berlin, completing a round-trip fight in her own plane to Tokio. 1. | many were breaking down under g Sfat. The Star's tion i “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier every city block and the regular edi- delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. system covers Yesterday’s Circulation, 109,321 (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. POLITICIANS WATCH HOUSE ELECTIONS Congressional Fights in Ohio and Missouri Seen Straws in the Wind. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Forerunners of the national political campaign of 1932, two congressional campaigns in two great States of the Middle West to fill vacancies in House, are getting under way actively now that Labor day has come and gone These campaigns are in the first dis- trict of Ohio, long represented in the House by the late Speaker Long- worth, and in the seventh Misscuri dis- trict, which the late Samuel C Major, Democrat, was elected in 1930 Six other vacancies in the House exist today, but none of them will be as keenly contested as the Ohio and Mis- souri elections If the Democrats would be gratified by a victory in the Cincinnati district, so long a Republican stronghold, the Republicans would be greatly encour- aged if they were able to win in the seventh Missouri district. which has been a real battle ground for a num- ber of years. The Democrats do not admit there i the slightest chance of the so | the Republicans iegaining the sevenin Missours district, however. On the | other hand. a wet Democrat, Collins oy name, has indicated ne will run as an independent candidat>. against Robert Johnson, the regular Democratic nominee and a dry, and the Republi- n candidate. John W. Palmer It is possible that as many wet Republicans will follow Collins, if his name goes 40 as will wet Democrats, bui licans rather think that they may gain by the entrance into the race ot an Independent Democrat. Jahncke Is Speaker. Out in Cincinnati last night the As- sistant Secretary of the Navy, Einest | Lee Jahncke, was a principal speaker in an opening rally of the Republican drive to elect John B. Hollister, Repub- lican, to fill the Longworth vacancy. If there was the slightest doubt that the campaign in the first district of Ohio is to be {fought along the lines of na- ional politics, Mr. Jahncke's address dispelied that doubt. He urged the elec- tion of the Republican candidate be- cause he was needed in Washington With the House divided 218 Republicans to 216 Democrats and 1 Faimer-Laborite in the last election. it is clear that the loss of a single Republican seat migh: mean an upset in the political majority of that body. Mr. Jahncke also discussed in great detail national issues as between the two parties, asserting that the Demo- cratic jeaders were seeking to force on the country a “dole” system at the very time that Great Britain and Ger- uch |a system. He pictured the Hoover ad- ministration, on the other hand, as constructively aiding to deal with the unemployment situation.. The tariff was the subjecc of a large part ol (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) CHIEF AND EX-MAYOR DIE IN CLOSE-UP DUEL Hartford, Ala., Sidewalk Tragedy Follows Argument and Years' Bad Feeling. By the Associated Press. HARTFORD, Ala, September 9.— Chief of Police J. C. Roady and J. H. Radford, former mayor of Hartford, shot each_other to death on‘the main street here today after an argunfent over operating a road scraping machine in_front of the former mayor's house.. Witnesses said the men met in front of Roady's office and after exchanging a few words, each placed his left hand on ths other’s shoulder and began fir- ing pistols in their right hands. Abput 50 persons 4aw the shooting. Radford was shot five times and four bullets entered Roady’s abdomen. Roady dled immediately and Radford lived but a few minutes. Friends of the men said ill feeling had existed between them for several years. Roady was active against liquor law violators, while Radford had been arrested twice, authorities said, on ltharges of violating the prohibition aws. by the seraping machine in front of Radford's home and it was while they Were arguing over this that the shoot- ing took place. Both had been active in political and civic affairs here. Radford is survived by his widow and two children, James and Emma Kate, who entered the freshman class at the University of Alabama yesterday. Roady's survivors are his widow and four children, omnambulant Wife Drags Insomniac Husband Off Roof By the Associated Press NOBLESVILLE, Ind. Septem- ber 9 —Because Emerson Isgrigg is a light sleeper and his wife a Somnambulist, both were suffer- ing from painful injuries today Isgrigg heard a noise in the early hours yesterday and upon investigating found his wife about 10 step onto a veranda roof, walk- ing in her sleep. He rushed to her, reaching her just at the edge of the roof. His touch wakened and startled her She stumbled and fell off the roof, pulling her husband after her. SMITH WON'T RUN. WRITER DECLARES Baker Boom Gathering Force From Anti-Roosevelts, Report States. NEW YORK, September 9.—The New York Evening Post said today in a copyrighted story from Washington that former Gov. Alfred E. Smith cf New York will not be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932 and will not allow his name to go before the Democratic C - tion. In the same dispatch, written by Clinton W. Gilbert, it was declared the anti-Roosevelt forces are concentrating on Newton D. Baker. Sectetary of War in the Wilson administration, and that it is probable thaj Baker's speech be- tore the American Legion in Detroi n about two weeks will mark the be- ginning of his candidacy The dispatch turther predicted ‘Lat former Gov. Smith will meke a fig in the Democratic National Convnticn for a straight out wet plank $150,000,000 POSTAL DEFICIT FORESEEN \ Revenues Drop as Savings Double, Indicating Hoarding, Says Coleman. By the Associated Press A postal deficit of $150.000.000 for the current fiscal year was foreseen to- day by Acting Postmaster General Cole- man as postal savings mounted to the new high record of approximately $400,- 000.000. While hard times were affecting the postal revenues, Mr. Coleman said the savings had doubled. indicating that hoarded capital to some extent was ro- sponsible for the existing business con- dition. | He predicted the tide would turn to | economic normaley “when emploved | people, fortunate enough to have a much decreased cost of living, quit piling up savings in fear of the futu | and begin to purchase things they nor- mally desire."” | To shrinkage of orders and shipments he attributed the present low volume of mail. Postal receipts, after 15 years of steady acceleration, have dropped $50.000,000. The decrease is expected to bring reverberations in the next Con- gress. ‘The latest estimate for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, puts the receipts as $656,000,000, as against $705,000,000 last year. Postal savings increased from $175.- 000,000 to $350,000,000 in the year end- ing June 30, 1931, and now are about "STRUGGLE 8,000 MEN FOR JOBS IN DITCHES Construction Relief Program Cause | of Disorder at | Cleveland. | By the Associated Press. | _ CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 9. | Eight thousand men pushed and | today for between 1,000 and 2.000 jobs | digging ditches as part of Cuyahoga County’'s $255,000 highway improve- ment program undertaken as unemploy- | ment reliefl measure. | | Windows were broken in the two county storehouses where the registrs ‘tmn was conducted, shrubbery wi | trampled and police squads were called | to maintain order. | Half a dozen fainted in the line at ! one storehouse. | RED CROSS TRIBUTE PAD BY PRESIDENT Clara Barton, Who Founded First Chapter 50 Years Ago, and Others Praised. By the Associated Press President Hoover turned aside from Government business today o pay trib- ute to the Red Cross as part, of the celebration of the foundation of its first chapter at Dansville, N. Y.. 50 years by Clara Barton, Spesking over & nation-wide radio x-up from the cabinet room of the White House executive offices, Mr Hoover said the organization ‘“proves the ability of & democracy 1o create from the people themselves the agencies for iheir servica.” The Dansvil'e Chapter. known as the ra Barton Chapter, No. 1. was or- hized by Miss Barton herself in 1881 Of that th~ President said: “The 50 year: »hich have passed since that pioneer b ginning have written & chapter in the world-wide relief of human suffering which is a fitting me- morial to Miss Bartop and a proud tradition to her countmymen.” Head of Orgahization. The text of the President's remarks follows “The law provides that the Chief Ex- ecutive of the Nation shall also be the president of the American National Red Cross. This fact adds to the sense of versonal pleasure in the privilege which I have today of greeting by the radio those who have assembled at Dansville, N. Y. to commemorate the fiftieth an- niversary of the founding of Clara Bar- ton Chapter, No. 1. the first Red Cros chapter in America. This chapter has the distinction of being organized by Clara Barton herself in 1881. It is a great distinction which your chapter enjoys both for the sssociation with Miss Barton and as the beginuers of one of the most beneficent institutions of our history. he beginnings of human ent prises derve their significance from the service which time proves their ability to perform for humanity. The Nation Joins in your celebration bacause of ihe success of the great. humanitarian agency which sprang frcm the mind of Clara Barton and the spirit of your community. “The establishment of the pioneer chapter in the village of Dansville was the forerunner of 3.500 chapteis now In existence throughout the United States. enrolling at times of natio need as many as 20,000.000 memisr: In its lifetime the Red Cross has raised and expended nearly a billion of money in the relief of human disirc:s (Continued on Page 3. Column 2.) AMERICAN FREED Paraguay Court Releases Brook- lyn Man Held in Murder. By (he Associated Press, ASUNCION. Paraguzy. September 9 —The Appellate Court today sustained a motion of counsel for release with- out costs of John Francis Wright. un American, whose prolonged imprison- ment awaiting trial in & murder case has been the subject of diplomatic intervention. The 1uling awaits review. John Francis Wright, described as & former resident of Brooklyn, N. Y. was arrested after shots had been fired in November, 1929. at the automobile of an Asuncion business man, whose companion was killed. The American churge d'affaires re- cently reported to the Department of State in Washington that Wright's at- torney had presented a motion which would give his client complete liberty and would be equivalent to dismissal of the case. 1g0 OTHER BRUTALITY INDICTMENTS SEEN BY END OF WEEK Rover and Hoover Confer on Plans for Further Crim- inal Action, PRESENTATION OF CASES MAY BE MADE MONDAY Langdon Offers to “Tell Ins and Outs of Rank and File" of Police. Indictment of & number of additional policemen on charges involving alleged use of the third degree will be sought before the District grand jury late this week or early next week, it was learned today United States Attorney Leo A. Rover who secured the indictment last week of five policemen of the first precinect on evidence presented by the United States Bureau of Investigation, was in conference today with J. Edgar Hoover, director of the bureau. Plans for fur- ther criminal action were discussed, it is understood John M. Keith inspector in charge of the Federal inquiry, 1s said to have made rapid progress with other third degree cases under investigation. An unannounced number of these are vir- tually ready for grand jury action and may be given to the inquisitorial body Friday, it was indicated. Presentaiton of the cases may be delayed until Mon- day or Tuesday, however. Langden Offers to Tell All Robert F. Langdon. former policeman. who was dismissed from the force fol- lowing an investigation of the slaging of Beulah Limerick. today offered to go before the grand jury or any congres- sional committee and “tell the ins and outs of how the rank and file of the Police Department conceal embarrass- ments that have never been exposed.” Langdon was held for grana jury ac- tion by # corouer’s jury investigating the death of the Limerick girl. How- Vel he was not indicted in connection with the slaying. He was dismissed irom the force when he refused to testify before the ‘I'Tial Board regarding # dismantled stll found in the base- ment of his home by detectives working on_the murder case The former policeman’s offer to tell what he knows about the depirtment, as contained in a letter mailed from Lynn, Mass. on August 18 last. 1o Maj Henry G. Pratt, Superintende; ey perintendent of Refers Letter to Rover, Pratt referred Langdon's letter 1o Mr. Rover, who said he would call Langdon before the garnd jury if the formet policeman was found 1> have in his possession facts sufficient to war- rant such a step. The Police Depart- ment was requested 1o make an investi- gation of Langdon's offer, and to re- port bick to Mr. Rover. Langdon’s letter also contained a re- quest that he be reinstated and allowed resign immediately afterwards. This was refused. His communication follows “Writing you this letter may seem unusual under the circumstances of oc- currences in the past. After consider- g everything, I feel that my dismis- sal {rom the Police Department wa= unjust in that & higher tribunal cleared me of ull charges of guilt. Cites Marine Record. It se=ms unjust for & man who served months overseas and who was picked as one of the best men in the Marinc Corps to fill & position of trust and honesty, guarging confidential and se- cret codes. liftening to secret discus- sions among ranking Government offi- cials, to be forced into breaking up hic home. unable to secure employment and At present financially broken owing to the judgment passed by men who are afraid to give & man a fair trial be- cause they fear the newspapers ‘With ‘the exception of one man Capt. O. T. Davis. I feel that T am morally_superior to the men who tried me. as 1 may be forced to divulge if I must enlist the aid of newspaper articles to give me a living 1 was charged with aiding a crime that God knows I am innocent of by a few men who blundered on other homicide cases. through their neglect of duty while sceking pleasure while on ui I never felt that I would ever reach the level of being & squealer, but rather han do dishonest acts for subsistence, I will have no other alternative than to become one. but in my case 1 will not have resort to stories of fiction, but to realities, being unatraid to go before any grand juiy or congressional com- mittce, und will the ins wnd outs_of how the rank und hle of the Police De- partment conceal embarrassments that have never been exposed “Keeping my mouth shut while # member of the Police Department. didn’t seem to help me much. for once you (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Child's Body Is Recovered. DETROIT, Mich.. September 8 (& The body of 3-vear-old Nelson Patti- son. who drowned in the Detroit River ut the foot of Motor Boat lane Mon- day. when a dock collapsed. throwing nearly 100 spectators of the Harms- worth race into the water, was recov- ered today ‘The Pattison boy was the only mem- ber of the crowd who was not rescued VINTNERS MAY HONOR HOOVER BY GIVING NEW WINE HIS NAME Vintage By the Associated Press. COBLENZ, Germany, September 9.— The picturesque tradition surrounding the gathering of wine grapes is in full A piece of curbing was broken | struggled to become the first to register - swing throughout this valley of the Rhine. Thi. year many foreigners. particulrly Americans, are making this city their headquarters for short journeys into the celebrated vineyards which criss- ross the slopes of the hills on either side of the river for miles. Particularly are the foreigners ex- hibiting interest in the so-styled “dry wines” in view of the fact the Alsace ? | Americans at Picturesque Grape Harvest View “Dry” Designed for Honorary Label. growers are reported to consider naming the 1931 vintage wine after President Hoover. The new wine. if named for the American President, isn't causing the growers of the Moselle and Rhine Val- leys much consternation, for their products have endured throughout centuries, Among the Lieb- cheaper wines | fraumilch is enjoying much popularity, vintages as old ‘as 10 years costing but $1.50 a bottle. As long as business econtinues good for the wineries, it is said, there is little chance of them mnvading the concen- trate field in the United States, now largely controlled by California growrs.