Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1931, Page 1

(U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Fair and slightly warmer today; to- in cloudiness and warm- morrow er, followed by showers. Temperature— m"ll. 63, at 6, Y, Full report on page 7. No. 1,383—No. 31,918, JAPAN ASKS PEACE AS CHINA DEMANDS TROOPS WITHDRAW T00LD POSITIONS Tokio Expresses Desire That Conflict in Manchuria Be! Kept Local—Army Victori- ous Along 693 Miles. NANKING GOVERNMENT STUNNED BY ATTACK| Declares Railway Bridge Incident Mere Pretext for Outbreak of Hostilities, Saying Aggressive Action Had Been Planned for Mnoths. By the Associated Press. . With its -troops victorious over Chinese soldiers Southern Manchuria after one day of fighting, the Japanese govern- ment has expressed a desire that the conflict should not spread to other areas. at 5 E.n yesterday; lowest, Entered as second class post office, Washington, “)‘."'C': Killed Regatta he ol WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Iy Star, WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1931—104 PAGES. #s BONUS FIGHT SEEN - BACK OF HOOVER'S throughout | CUP RACE THRILLS | ADDRESSTOLEGON Tremendous Importance || Given President’s Decision to Visit Convention. | |OTHER ISSUES APPEAR ‘3D DEGREE EXTENT TOBEREVEALED {Unbelievable Atrocities of Police to Be Shown to Commissioners. HOOVER WILL INCLUDE “ALL FACTS” IN PAPER ON VETERAN’S PROGRAM | Executive to Leave on Special Train En Route to Michigan City Today. By the Associated Press. In the face of rapidly-growing de- mands for cash redemption of the| soldiers’ bonus, President Hoover suc- ! denly decided yesterday to address t,hel American Legiori's annual convention | tomorrow at Detroit. ! The President’s unexpected decision, regarded in official circles as of tremendous importance, was announced by Theodore dJoslin, cne of his sec- retaries, as arrangements were being made for the President’s usual week end trip to the Rapidan camp. Although no anrouncement was made of the President’s proposed topic, his sudden reversal of plans was inter- preted here as a last-minute decision WILLIAM mfl"fl; The clashes between Japnneul‘ and Chinese troops, which began at Peitaying, suburb of Mukden,‘, near midnight Friday, spread rap- ; idly slong the 693 miles of the Japanese-owned South Manchu- rian Railway. Everywhere the Japanese were successful affer slight resistance. i Japanese sources said the trou- ble started when Chinese military | forces sought to destroy a bridge of the South Manchurian Railway at Peitaying, a Mukden suburb. Hard Fight st Nanking. fo throw the uzflumtmm full weight inst deman for cash payment of e World War adjusted service certificates. Faces Many Issues. His address will be made in an at- mosphere surcharged with controversial issues, including bonus, prohibition, unemployment relief and national defense. Many State delegates are going to! the conventign directed to stand for cash redempfion of the honus oor- tificates and some have been instructed AR CLNANED BY DEATH OF FRETAG Throngs See Plunge of Speed- boat, Killing Racer—One Craft in Flames. The wild plunge of a wave-tossed small. At Mukden, Casualties vmu‘ — Anacostia River two days of the most fire. Ftated as 40 nndumb':' in ‘mercy, Featiness L The Chinese government st Nanking ‘was stunned by the sudden Mug&m It's minister, C. T. Wang, sent a vigorous were Man- churia of the Japanese Capt. Shintaro Nakamura and three companions. They been suthorized by Chinese to make maps of Manchuria and Mongolia. ‘TOKIO, September 20 (Sunday) (P). from City Bank of New York by armed bank employes. This delayed dispatch and other re- ports said the Harbin situation was tense. Some anxiety was felt in Tokio for the 3,000 Japanese residents of Harbin. JAPAN’S MOVE A SURPRISE. Some, Hoping for Peace, Attribute | Blame ‘to Military Clique. H NANKING, China, September 19 (). ! ~—The Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, the most powerful po- litical body in China and the power be- hind the Nationalist regime, convened at 4 p.m. today to discuss the Chino- Japanese emergency, and seven hours later was still in session. Meanwhile, Nanking leaders awaited word from Chiang Kai-shek, aboard the cruiser Yungsui, half way between Nan- and Hankow, en route to attend & military conference called to devise a | defense against the invasion of Hunan Provinge by Cantonese insurgents. The generalissimo's absence from the capital proved that Japanese pressure in Manchuria completely surprised Nanking. Prior to the President’s de- parture Friday reports from Japan in- (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) MAN, TWO WOMEN PERISH IN FLAMES | New ¥ork Communist Sees Red President's Cup racer, which cost the | life of Willlam Freitag, veteran New | mr Hoover lef afternoon on the i, e to Detroit. - delivering his mm-wm\%mwm’m&um e the ‘tomorrow {o'be-back in the Whils Houss Tossday , apother secretary; Capt. | Russell Train, naval aide; Col. Campbell %odxnl. emfllh.gnm;. and Capt. Joel Thire have been evidencs recently of a growing apprehension administra- tion circles over the rising tide of cash- bonus sentiment among ex-service men and in . mm Hines of veterans’ af- fairs and other administration spokes- men have been urging the veterans to Forelgn Wars in Kansas City three weeks ago, said the Government's out- lay for benefits to former service men amounted to about $800,000,000 an- nually and called upon veterans to study costs before asking Congress for further relief. i Congress af the lest session passed a bill over President Hoover's veto authorizing loans up to 50 per cent of > | the face value of the adjusted service or bonus certificates, Loans numbering 2,128,097 and amounting to $819,982,850 had been made by the Veterans’ Bureau up to August 1 under this law. Deficit Has Increased. Since Congress passed that law, the | Treasury rolled up a tremendous | deficit. ~ At the close of the last fiscal year, June 30, it was nearly $1,000,000,- 000. Most of this was wiped out by issuance bf bonds and an increase in the public debt, but on September 17 the ting into matchwood. Preitag’s death cast a crowds and his fellow pi , and re- sulted in cancellation of the third heat of the race for the President’s Cup, which was awarded to El to victory in the first two 11 over the tenders from his path. Hotsy Totsy, the Presidential Cup | defender of Victor Kliesrath, Port ‘Washi, , N. Y., finished third in points for the cup this year, after be- Freitag’s mechanic, William H. Wag- ner, w2s thrown clear. of th: boat, momentarily: stunned by the impact, (Continued on First Sport Page.) MUTINY OF U. S. ARMY URGED BY CANDIDATE three times that on the same date last yeer. The defict resulted in agitation for (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) HELEN STANDLEY WEDS | Daughter of Rear Admiral Studied t i By the Assoctated Press. Art in Capital. | NEW YORK, September 19.—J. Louls| SAN DIEGO, Calif., September 19 ' Engdahl, secretary of International (#)—Helen Tutuila Standley, daughter | Labor Defense and Communist candi- | of Rear Admiral and Mrs, Willlam H. | date for Congress, suggested mutiny | Siandley, became the bride here today | of United States military forces in an | of Lieut, James I. Byrne, U. 8. N., son address at & Communist rally in Union of Mrs. Mary F. Byrne of Lowell, Mass. Square today. | _ The bride’ attended the National Art | dahl predicted that “since our , School of Fine and Applied Arts, Wash- | armed forces are made up of workers | ington, D. C., and Lieut. Byrne grad- | Flag Succeeding American Banner. give way to the red banner of the He is attached to the U. 8. ‘workers of America.” | They will live here. 8. Decatur, ihe Star Spangled Banner will in time | uated from the Naval Academy in 1'28,| i 70-Year-Old Invalid Trapped by Fire in New York Room™ ing House. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 19.—Three persons, including a 70-year-old invalid Woman and an 86-year-old man, > anmmtww:mx’l Bighiy aovents, minkt, gt y-sevent street ‘The three ‘arrested of charge w.en:m;-lpulkmymun Rea Spanish Statesman Dies. ":mm, :au 1 gl “onight, He wa T years ol o0 *MA” KENNEDY AND “PA”_HUDSON‘ REWED TO TUNES OF DYNAMITE “He’s Mine Again,” Cries Aimee’s Mother a3 Scvered Marriage Is Resealed. By the Associahc Press. # BOULDER CITY, Nev, September 19.—As a dynamite blast boomed out a . Mrs, Minnie “Ma” Kennedy and sald they would make thelr home in Las Vegas, wheie Mrs, Kennedy plans to hold revival services. They plan no second honeymoon trip. Thelr first, which followed their mar- riage on a moonlit lake at Longview, Wash., was interrupted by Mrs. Ken- nedy's discovery Hudson had neglected g‘rmcr wife, Mrs. L. garet Neaon-Hudson, whomhe had mar- e iation extendiiog ouC oves i | M. Komaady, GpIAImGd ah anmuiment n form out over the k n far below. As Ryan pronounced | and yesterday Hudson got his belated ‘married cheer: 3 di . 600 workmen along t:u‘ r;e"n n:g vm“‘;c:hnt remained today was & breach the dynamite salute was fired. of promise '1‘2: mmtma Wm 'B." ‘l:e Parker Hatbe:t, ond Hudson sald, “I feel certain Mrs. Harbert can't col- » thing.’ :: Toa Angeles. evengelst, was " son, es e 3 mfiunmanmhnnux. They | Hutton, neyed to the poinlh go_slow on for more m . Hines, m the V!(Ql‘:l‘:l" of e the deficit' was about $350,000,000, or : 70 Complaints Investigated Bring to Light Varied Technique in Extorting Confessions. A story of atrocities reading more like fiction than an official document will be revealed to the District Com- missioners this week in a lengthy re- port detailing findings of the Depart- I PRBE FEPLRT ment of Justice in its penetrating in- vestigation of the third degree in Wash- ington. The report, it is belleved by those in touch with developments of the inquiry, will draw aside & curtain of privacy that has hidden from public view a tra- ditional, city-wide system of police brutality of almost ificredible nature and extent. Pacts uncavered by & corps of 30 special agents of the Bureau of In- vestigation in an intensive three-week inqui under White House sanction are belleved to substantiate completely charges that tbe third is pre- | valent in the Capital's Pol Depart- | ment. H ‘Wide Variance in Technique. Evidence amassed in approximately a sl water cure and impregnation of clothing | with gasoline. If all these disclosures are unfolded in the report which J. Edgar Hoover,| director of the bureau, is for the Commissioners, the contents of the document undoubtedly will create a national sensation. Director Hoover has refused to give any intimation as | to the nature of his report, except to 'unph"mumnwfllmuh“mm In addition to the recital of findings in the three-score-and-ten cases, it is expected Di ot IN WASHINGTON BisHor CANNOK ) xeruRns 70 4 A DicLARES AGA/ B anniin ROOSEVELT, 4 > -, | & 0V, RITCHIE ASKS 1.5, TO FACE FAGT DRY ACTISFALURE = | Public Men’s Practice of Side- | stepping Scored in At- lantic City Address. By the Assoclsted Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, September 19.—Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, prominently mentioned as & Democratic presidential possibility, tonight urged the Natlon to face the fact that pro- hibition s & fallure and cannot suc- will givi of the investigation. ‘may contain con- clusions and i i thought. ‘Won't Name Higher-Ups. ‘The report condemn police official ‘or other “higher-up’ name, it can be stated authoritatively. The Department of Justice is said to e 8 Fhl sy presented to the grand jury evidence gathered in the inquiry and to the Commissioners a general report on the results. ‘The 5nnd Jury has heard evidence in nearly a score of cases involving about 20 or more policemen of lower rank. Witnesses are said to have told of beatings administered prisoners with | wooden clubs, rubber hose and other rovised weapons; of its of con- finement in & windowless “dungeon” in which water would be turned on, and even of intimidation of children by pouring gasoline on their clothes and threatening to set them 3 Grand jury action has not been con- cluded. There is a possibility the jurors ; may desire to_summon more witnesses | tomorrow or Tuesday with & view to getting a broader picture of the third- degree situation. Indictments _already (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) —_— CATHOLIC HOME BOMBED Family of Prominent Church Lead- er Escapes in Mexico City. MEXICO CITY, September 19 (#).— Dispatches from Vera Cruz today sald a bomb exploded at the home of Hem- ero Broissin, a prominent Catholic, but there were no casualties. Broissin shot one of the raiders of the Asuncion Church after the latter had killed a priest on July 25. TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—24 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Pages B-6, B-7, PART TWO—S8 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. American Legion—Page 6. Organized Reserves—Page 6. Public Library—Page 6. American Gold Star Mothers—Page 6./ Y. W. C. A. News—Page 6. D. A. R. Activities—Page 6. Naval Reserves—Page 7. Army and Navy News—Page 8. Spanish War Veterans—Page 8. PART THREE—10 PAGES. Soclety Section. | Kathleen Norris’ Article—Page 7. PART FOUR—S PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, Screen and Radio. In the Motor World—Page 3. Aviation—Page 4. District National Guard—Page 8. Cross-Word Puzzle—Page 6. Fraternities—Page 6. Page 7. PART FIVE— PAGES. Sports Section. PART SIX—14 PAGES. ;Fmammm News and Classified Adver- | 3 | Veterans of Forelgn Wars—Page 14. {News of the Clubs—Page 14. Serial Story—“Outlaws of Eden"— Page 14. Disabled American Veterans—Page 14. The Home Gardener—Page 14. PART SEVEN—20 PAGES. -Page 16. News of the Music World—Page 17. The Boys' and QGirls’ 19. Those Were the Happy GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLORED llc’l'lo"—l PAGES. Moon Mullins; Mr. and Mrs.; Orphan tory; .; _The d 3, Littl Timid Soul: Regler Pellers: Little Tarzan, t and Jefl, /" Addressing the American Bsr Asso- clation at its annual dinner, he related his definite opinions on important eco- .lg’y i nomic and political, national and inter- national questions, emphasizing that “the people want the truth” on all questions, and condemning the policy of public men to “sidestep” and “pussy- foot.” He upheld the effort of business to lessen Government intervention and . the “shookifig’ to- deally. of United States regulation, but assailed the “tendency | Witnesses in the g | dor to Switzerland, who is in g = Jook largely to the|® 78-yesr-old man at the caretaker’s| transmitted business man and the fnancler, as specialists, for leadership,” recalling that this depression—*“the fifteenth ma] one in the last century, we are told on high authority—caught him (the business man) unprepared.” Resolution Hits Third Degree. He realization of the economic inurdmepemience of the nations of the Western World, despite a * al- most in economic reverse” my e cause of an American tari high that it “shuts the door on some of our best nitlonlilm:uu%men l:’l‘sd invites their retaliat! and reprisals.” Meanwhile the bar association adopted a resolution, largely along the lines cfwlnh; W:;lul‘ahllm fllrlepo“i A Dt:n crime, lemning unlawi enforce- ment and third dégree methods, but adding a recommendation tors be allowed to comment on the re- fusal of & defendant to testify in his own defense, whl&l:dwu directed par- ticularly at gangsterdom. On p;ombft‘lon, Gov. Ritchie said: “If some of us in the beginning be- lieved in the eighteenth amendment as a means for temperance—which I did not happen to do—why, after 10 years delude ourselves any longer into think- ing that prohibition can ever prohibit or that it will ever promote temperance in any way? Why not face the facts that the last state is worse than the first? “The Wickersham Commission did what I regard as a stupendous piece of work thoroughly well done, and yet| they submitted unanimous decision to | g, (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) PATROLMAN JAILED IN OFFICER'S DEATH W. T. Morris Held After Fatal Shooting of Lieut. J. W. Barfield, Atlanta Police Veteran. By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., September 19.—Lieut. J.W. Barfleld, veteran Atlanta police officer, was shot and killed today and Patrolman W. T. Morris is in custody in_connection with the shooting. Barfleld was riding to police head- fi'z’:'f" with uo;‘m when shot. De- es quoted Morris fired one shot at someone who had fired at him and Lieut. Barfield. Chief of Police James L. Beavers said Efe\:fiumfleld. before the mfih;:. m relieved Morris from duty. Chief Beav- ers sald the patrolman evidently ha been or was under the influ- ence of some opiate. R i Kathleen Norris' Article Will Be Found on Page 7 BOCIETY SECTION of Today's Star that prosecu- | as saying he| Sporis Summary ‘The Nationals skidded into third place for the first time since last May when they dro} a 3-2, 13-inning decision to De- troit yesterday, while New York was defea St. Louls. Tom Creavy, 20-year-old Rhode Island golfer, defeated Denny Shute to displace Tom Armour as the American professional champion. ‘Three Whitney horses, headed iron season tered front lord defeat the West Coast team, Vir- ginia conquer Roanoke, V. M. I. down Hampden-Sydney = and the Newport News Apprentice School. QUIZFOUR CHILDREN 1IN MARR Folioe - Hold Man and Two Women for Questioning | in Slaying. | Four small children were quismed at 1:ngth yesterday and last night as key | house on the grounds of the Glebe | Club, Mount Calvert, Md., about three | miles below Marlboro. | 'The victim, Alem K. Marr, who lived !in_an ancient colonial house near by that was bullt as the courthouse of Prince Georges County in the seven- | teenth century, was found in a chair, ! shot through the abdomen. A shotgun | was standing in the corner of an ad- ! jotning room. dolph Brady, Mildred Brady, his wife and her mother, Katie Vermillion, at| ! the Marlboro Jail for questioning. Father and Four Quizzed. | George McKinzie, caretaker in whose house the body was found, was ques- tioned in the Marlboro courthouse, along | with his four children, John Henry Me- Kinzie, 11; Beckie McKinzle, 9; Joe | McKinzle, 6, and Phillip McKinzie, 5. A motive for the slaying was not |clearly established. _The authorities | were told Marr drew $10 from the | Southern Maryland Trust Company at Marlboro yesterday and it was at first believed he was slain by someone who thought he had a larger sum about iira. Later a member of the coroner’s jury e relations between a man and a ?oxs\m in the neighborhood and this | was being investigated as a possible mo- ve. Sheriff Hopkins, who together with Deputy Sheriff Thomas H. Garrison and States Attorney Alan Bowle, questioned the witnesses, had some di ty in learning jusi who discovered the body. ‘According to the story as finally re- constructed by them, a shot was heard by & member in the Glebe Club, a gun club og the banks of the Patuxent patronized by Washingtonlans. = John Henry McKingle, who was lying under @ tree near the caretaker's house, also eard the shot. h lngteld of going to the caretaker's house himself, the member of the club LEAGUE ASKS 1.5, T0 PARTICIPATE IN ARNS DISCLSSIN Eight Other Nations, Non- Members, Formally Invited ‘to Conference. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 19.—The League ! i Am! erland, Geneva, |to Washington and it is believed cer- tain the United States Government will i accept and that Wilson will | take a place in the comm! de- | bates Monday. Ask Naval “Holiday.” ‘The important question now Iu’:wull l::lflq lnmn’f for & “ e naval con- 1$nmhn until the Disarmament Con- | ference, which is scl | to convene | in February, 1932, is The int | by Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Holland and Switzerland in formal resolutions. te vitation earlier today, M. sigli made it clear that he indorsed the involved, but ted with the Danish suggested only the United States, Russia and Turkey, the three non: members of the ed in the work of prepara armament commission. Lord Cecil of England heartily in- dorsed the move. otbin arlaga, 's that all S umvmwwdjmn- lerence should be included in was told the elderly man had objected | nient conf Commit- German delegate, Switzerland for re- A lmpu;: and jwiss governmi with “the break-up of Europe.” ‘Walter Stucki, tall raw-boned young charged that Germany has been “inundating” Switzerland with “forced and that the Swiss felt the need for themselves. Switzer) , he said, recognizes Ger-" many's pressed condition, but he mmmd:zmwm‘mmm- (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) | By the Assoclated Press. ’CLARKBB’ JURG, W. Va, legmnhlr 20 (Sunday).—A mob of 3,000 4,000 ns which gathered before the jail mlcb Harry F. Powers, alleged .?h,; POLICE WITH GAS BOMBS FOIL MOB | SEEKING “BLUEBEARD" POWERS g et s1i8E a i Hi g b, g 3 K it il P) Means Asso FIVE CENTS AND . SUBURBS Salvador de Mad- | that Wimbl insisted “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by ‘The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. d_Pres: - [TEN OENT ELSEWHERE CROWDER ADMITS MURDER PLOT, BUT SAYS MRS. WIMBLEY DIED BY ACCIDENT Confesses He Upset Canoe, But Not on Pre-arranged Signal After He Had Con- spired With Her Husband. MADE TRIP TO VIRGINIA TO KILL ENTIRE FAMILY Tells Officers They Planned to Sandbag Vietims and Then Burn Home, but Got “Cold Feet.” Both Men Will Be Charged With First-Degree Murder. ? Harry C. Wimbley and John Crowder plotted the murder of Wimbley’s wife and her 3-year-old O. Canal last Thursday, claimed that it was upset acci- dengally as he got into it. £ =EF iy i L i Y e 2 'gi‘ ; B §§i§ éfi Jul b fieE ;EE i E : ¥ -4 b b 5 E i e 2 delegation, | saying, that 7/: ‘Wim! | S plot was consummated “ would take care of both of us.” Met Wimbley in Hospital. Crowder’s confession to police, a8 Tes lated by Capt. Kelly, follows: *‘Cro sald he had known Wim- 29. He said Reed (Continued on Page 3, Column HITLER’S NIECE BELIEVED SUICIDE