Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather Bureau Porecast. Pair and cooler tonight; tomerrow y; Jowest, 7, st 4 p.m, yesterday. . report on page 9. 5 Closing N.Y; Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 e office. L d THURSI)AY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1931—KIFTY PAGES. LABOR PUBLICATION DENOUNCES WAGE CUTS BY INDUSTRY Leaders “Morally and Intel- lectually Bankrupt,” Paper Declares. n?fill \ ¢ Yesterday’s Circulation, 111,623 TWO CENTS, POLICE BRUTALITY GASES 10 BE HELD FOR A NEW JURY, ROVER INDICATES Hearing of Evidence Probably Will Be Delayed Until In- quisitorial Body Is Sworn in on October 6. The WASHINGTON, D. C, | No. : P (P Means Associated Press. LEGIONN RES BACK RODY DESCRIBES HORROII{V DRY LAW VOTE BY "SLoWLY SINKING PLANE SIATES,L[I]S 10 394;?Freez.il_1g, Starving, Thirsting Flyers Sec BUNUS EA—N I_[]SES Ship Pass by as Waves Tear at Frail | Craft—Then Came Rescue! This is the personal marrafive of the three flyefs who hovped off from Portu- gal. mear Lisbcn, September 13, to fiy mom-stop to New York, and whose plane, ita tugl eshausted, came ‘in ‘th Atlantic Ocean 97 lond miles from the New- land Coast. ‘here {Il’ml clung to their land plane, d by the seas and slowly sinkine, until, after more than seven days, they were rescued dy o steamship. They whi arrive in New York today. BY “WILLY RODY, Owner and Co-Pilot of the Esa. (Copyright, 1931, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. By Radio 1o The Star. : ABOARD § S. STAVANGERFJORD, September 24 —I shall tell here, with what ability T have, of the adventures and the misfortunes of my two comrades and myself in our 2itempt to fiy non-stop from Portugal to New York. I 'shall tell my story chronologicslly. The desperate climax, therefore, will be related last—the chronicle of that long and mad and weary week during ! | which, tnirsty, starving, death closing in upon us, we clung to our slowly sinking N * Members in Debate Call on; Organization to. Take LeadI in Fight for Change in Pro- hibition Act. | : ISSUE 4§ UP FIRST TIME IN 13 YEARS’ HISTORY ADMINISTRATION WAITS FOR REACTION TO MOVE Il i VW”‘« ) ‘World rights reserved.) 4] Stock Market Watched to See if Yesterday's Rise Indicates Return of Confidence, U. S. ATTORNEY WOULD AVOID FURTHER DELAY " 0’Neil, Backing Procedure, Thinks Other More Important Matters Should Have Been Considered. Shouts of “We Want Beer!” Are Heard Before Discussion. ctood ready and fueled on the runway Lisbon. ¥inal prenarations had been m: On that day, Sunday, the 13th, the AT PG | weather reports had arrived. They were DETROIT, September 24 (). | fairly satisfactory. We got them very «The American Legion Nation- |early in the morning, and decided to | al‘Convention togay rejected a !‘" away at once. . We planned to head + direct for the Azores and from there to resolution ‘indorsing the Im- |90y “the great circle course. to our | mediate payment 0f bonus cer- |distant goal, New York City. tificate at face value. | land plare 92 miles at sea from Cape Race, Newfoundland. My companions on this flight. in case you do not know their names, were my lellow German, Christian Johanssen, and Fernando da Costa Viega, a Por- tuguese. Our plane was a Junkers W-33, with an L-5 motor, six-cylindered. ‘We hed intended to start opr flight on Saturday, September 12. Our plane ldt Juncal do Sol, about 30 miles from ade. “ Bt toward 11 o'clock that evening, when we went to the marine bureau | Scribed as “the heaviest blow ever dealt for the l2test weather reports from the Azores and North America, we learned, to our regre:. that there were no late reports, Atmospheric disturbances had pre- ventad. So we had to wall another day. to the take-off point. biles followed ours to the field. Many automo- And surrounded by friends and relatives who wished him and his comrades well on the long air journey over the sea. We tested the engine and measured our fuel for the last time. Practically ""(Coptinued on Page 5, Column 1) At 6:30 that morning we went out By the Associpted Pres:. | EEE e HOE SRS EACTS ON BEER' RETUR | wvention today asked Congress 10| sfibmit repeal or modification of | |Rumors Stirred Up by New Inquiry—White ' House the present prohibition laws to the | . States, with the request that each| State submit the issue to its voters 394. Ignores Them. that much of the ‘which had nioved because general agreement, had been lost in the published accounts of the convention. | paq bis ruling on the point of | source, ‘grave of taking up “this | fore prohibition. ¢ prejudice of our | ‘The Agriculture Secretary said he and‘its efforts toward at- | had received many for infor- objectives.” mation on the much. ted point of went on record asbeer as & measure of farm relief. None reorganization of the Council | of the requests, he said, came from the National Defense, which was used | White House The mcmfi: Just before h:nd during the World War. | learn of the result, he continued. ‘The resolution by the Legion ca L o8 by, the Leglon | ™ (Continued on Page 7, Column 2) requests it i make use of this existing instrumental- S S L JURY FIXING CHARGE attention to the consideration of the | £ f-mu :‘Lhe nm:nl emz‘r,ll:n‘co; 3:; 1 HALTS LIQUOR TR'AL 1Wu'l’rm: Says Man Approached of the means to be adopted for their amelioration, both for the present and Her—Federal Judge Or- ders Inquiry. the future.” Loud Demonstration. ‘The referendum yesolution, read by Dr. Nell D. Willlams of Miscouri, chair- | man of the Resolutions Committee, was received with a loud demom".‘tluon‘ in | vm:!!\' weke mingled cries of “We want - B roce: Reversing the rulings of command-| PHILADELPHIA, September 24— ers of other years, Comdr. O'Neil ruled The trial of eight men charged by the thet the issue e&\fld %lmperlam{{,n: bfi- | Government with a conspiracy to {gt" sl-u .C;;fi"o?n&a: Was raised, in | divert $1,000000 worth of.aleohol into which it was maintained that the issue | bootleg channels, which began here 1. | Monday, came to s sudden end today of the Resolutions | " | when it was alleged an attempt had Geclared that the Le-| peen made o tamper with one of three women jnembers of the jury. Federal w William H. Kirk- patrick dec! & mistrial and ordered | . oL e, W o O |city, who was y .- Y Dational judge 4d- | woman juror as the man who first ap- candidate for United States Senator, Droached her in the corridor of. the A e —— " | Foderal Dullding terday. The juror (Continiied Gn Page 2, Column 4. |1y irs. George Merkel ‘of = NORMAN RUMOR OFFSET | cighi detendants. tncluding two former | Federal prohibition sgents, officials of ville, Pa, Bank of England Denies Knowl-| i:"'?'l;a“:f? Distiling Co. ‘:E: i ign. en pl on trial. The edge Governor May Resign. |00 Bci Preeraent of the Jury after LONDON, September 24 (#).—Rumors | it had been out 49 hours. that Montagu Norman, governor of the | Judge trick told the jurors Bank of England, resi ‘were | and attorneys report of the incident | made by Mrs. Merkel was substantially would current in financial circles y, but it was said at the bank that nothing | correct. “As there are eight defendants in id, “I do not know was known there of such Tts. the case,” he sal but an immediate made.” A gion should not take a siand on the ftion question was read by Lloyd of Nebraska and received an un- friendly demonstration. Scott W. Lucas of Havana, Ill, who Mr. Norman, who retus to London from Canada yesterday, was at his desk | which is to blame, investigation will be GIRL IS SLAIN BY STEPFATHER AS SHE SEEKS TO END QUARREL! Foster Parent Then Fires Five Shots in Suicids Attempi as He Flees Scene of Fatality. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, September 24.<~A 20-year- It was the second time in a year the | U. 5. APPEAL SENT CHINA AND JAPAN Stimson Asks Both Nations to End Hostilities in Manchurig. TOKIO, September 24 (#).—The Japanese government issued a state- ment tonight explaining to the world its position in Manchuria, and eth- phasizing that Japan entertained absolutely no territorial ambitions -in Manchuria. This position, said the goyernment, it had often stated previously. By the Assoclated Press. ‘The weight of the American Govern- ment has been thrown against further hostilities in_ Manchuria. Secretdry Stimson not only has urged & cessation of fighting between Chinese and Japanese troops, but has This action of the Government, pre« sumably through the diglomatic repre- sentatives in Washington of the disput- ing nations, was made known in a note to the League of Natfons expressing sympathy with its stand on the Man- churian situation. American Deaths Denied, Ambassador De Buchi of Japan in- formed Secretary of State Stimson to- day that published reports of Japanese activities in Manchuria have been, in part, exaggerated and incorrect. So far as he has been able to learn, there is no truth in reports that Americans have boen killed there and he is at a Joss to understand how the Tumor was started. The Ambassador Japanese ti important assured that have not occupied thge d city of Harbin, and have not advanced north of Chang- chun, Assures U. S. Support. The League, in a resolution, had called upoft Japan to halt the advance of troops into the disputed territory. It asked at the Unif St lk;g;}' e . tates take a ng yesterday to the resolution, the American Becretary of State as- sured the League of this Government's “wholehearted sympathy.” P T have already urged cessation of (Continued o 2, Column 3.) \EMERGENCY POWER President Vested With Right to Take Any Economie Measures, By the Associated Press. BOGOTA, Colombia, September 24— Piesident Enrique Olaya Herrera was vested with power to “take any eco- { nomic or financial measures which are indispensable to assist the country in | the present economic erisis” in an emergency law passed by the Colombian Congress today, The law provides the President may Taise tariffs on foreign Juxury and agri- cultural products to whatever level he considers necessary, or bar them alto- gether. The authorization extends to | December 31, | . The sole modification of the Presi- dent's new power is a clause prohibiting the establishment of new monopolies not already authorized by law. A con- sulting board of three Senators and !h[‘e"e‘ Relpreunutlvu also is O'l‘lb“::‘d‘ e legislation speedily followed & gflhu;egl 35-100 of & cent in the value ombian peso yesterday. Con- | Bress met shortly after midnight and | the emergeney law was signed by the | President an hour later in his private ofce. adjoining his bed room in the palace, | BANS LOANS FOR DOLES | Costa Viega, being a Portuguese, was | 1 withdrawal “from the present situation | of danger.” | PASSED IN COLOMBIA| BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Wage cuts announced several days 2go by the United States Bteel Corpo- ration and General Motors were de- to our present industrial system” in an editorial prepared today for publication in Labor, & weekly newspaper®sponsor- ed by the five rallway brotherhoods. “If this is the best our captains of dustry can do,” the editorial declared, they are morally and intellectually bankrupt and it is time to look for guidance elsewhere.” Statement is Quoted. The statement follows: “When President Green of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor declared that the wage-cutting campaign launched by the steel.trust is “morally wrong and economically unsound,” he was s with almost painful restraint. Julius Klein of ‘the Department of Commerce sald there wouwa “oe heil to pay all over the country if this peticy is persisted in,” he knew whereof he | B spoke. “This is the heaviest blow ever dealt to our present industrial system—and it was dealt by that system’s pampered favorites. “‘Consider two faets. U. 8. Steel, whicn led 0ft in the wage cu., is op- erating at 32 per cent capacity. Tne :;w'nh:ndunry is running at 4§ per u‘nl: three-year average ending wit] 1929, and General Motors, whica 1ol- lowed steel i the wage slash, is prob- aoly about on a level with other com- panies. Eoss Put at 68 Per Cent. “This means that the employes of the ' steel wusi, taken iogeincr, aave al- reaay lost 68 per ceny of tneirr income tarough lay-ons and part time, and tnat workers for (iemeral Motors have lost 55 per cent of their income in the same fashion. “Anese wage lotses bave slowed up all business i 20 broken thou~ sanas of storekeepers, driven lens of \ndusanas of peopie W0 Deg the breaa they would be glad to earu. Yet now we are told by uhe high priésts of in- dusiry that a aureher cyt of 10 cent in toese pay a ve move,” anu Will try Lan wo, invelleciually o look 10r ed is much people are hungry:. that folks are nalf paked. So much housing ihat in Chicago women are sleeping in parks, “Too Much in Hands of Few.” “The explanation is that too much of tne nawonal income goes into the hanas o1 & few. ln 1¥29, according to Government figures, 36 men had & net income greater by many millions than the entiie sum paid that year to 428,000 workers in the mills producing cotton |decided within a month or six weeks. WHY NOT TH E THIRD DEGREE 1IN JUROR CALLING? TREASURY EXPERTS STUDY TAX PLANS Decision on Whether Revision | Will Be Asked Is Due in Six Weeks. By the Associated Press. \ ‘Whether the administration will rec- ommend tax revision is expected to be This became evident in high Treas- ury quarters today. Progress is being made on the study being conducted by the department’s economic experts, but the stage has not yet been reached when the final verdict has evi itself. If the decls;:n turns out to be that vislon for another year. Treasury experts have for several | months been canvassing possible sources | of new revenue to replace or supple- ment income taxes, becausc of the tre- in that source of reve- ckbone $233,000,000, or nearly hal & quarter of the year as was shown in the entire preceding year. goods. In the same year, 50s men— including the 36—made enough clear | profit to buy the entire wheat and cot- won crops of the Lnited States in 1930 | at farm prices, “A handful of men, with their spare cash could buy toe output of all the gold and silver mines o. North Amei- | , and many a sovereign State has a malier income than the nei profit of ! ln&l; industrial magnate. “Human beings cannot spend such incomes. They pile up to clog the eco- nomic circulation, ana to cure this con- gestion economic _doctors propose | (Con 1 { on Page 5, Column 3.) | MEXICAN GOVERNOR'S REMOVAL REQUESTED | Expenditure of $7,000 for Monu- | ment Which Lasted Three Days Charged by Deputies. | i | Yt By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, September 24.—The| Chamber of Depuz}u last night request- ed President Ortiz Rubio to remove Carlos Trejo- y Lerdo de Tejada from | the governorship of the northern dis- trict of Lower California. ther things, | He was among of , of spending $7,000 on a monument, which fell to pleces three days after| its unveiling, and of using money u-[ |n(ned to road construction for plant- !ing cactus in Tia Juana. | Deputy Braulio Maldonado, unudgr -} Go Lower California by aj street dressed so ridiculously as to call to mind the legendary Aztec god Quet- zalcoat], known as the plumed / ground for the scym of the Aralpiauuoflhcmm\hu See The Evening Star Next Monday {NEW YORK-HAVANA HOP Secretary Doak at War! The . Department of Labor is waging a merciless campaign against the evils that have been practiced by racketeers in human lives who have flaunted our im- migration laws and made the United States a dumping Collections Drop Off. At the close of business September 22 income tax collections for the fiscal year since July 1 have amounted to $305,594,578, as compared with $538,- 353,014 in the same period of the pre- vious year. For the first 22 days of this month the collections have amounted to $259,- 015,112, as compared with $482,488,190 for the same number of days last year. With the chief source of Federal rev- crue dropping off at an amazing rate, it seemed to officials that the Gov- Cotton Diet Saving Life of Girl With Nail in Stomach By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 24.—A diet of raw cotton dis- guised in spinach, the X-ray at the General Hospital nformed sicians today, is sa the ife of 5-year- Marvella van, who swallowed a nail last Saturday. She finished her fourth day of cotton diet and the latest pic- tures, attendants at the-hospital :aid, l-‘;)' the cotton has encased e nail. PEPCO SEEKS RULE N CONSENT DECREE Utilities Body Notified Court Will Be Asked to Con- tinue Effect. nually, based on a revaluation of $32,- 500,000, plus net ccst of betterments, wzighted but undepreciated to date. ernment would have to find some source loss. At the close-of | tember 22 it had a deficit | of $364,258,237, having collected from all sources only $549,962,780 this fiscal | year and having spent $914,221,026. | ‘The hope that had been held out that tnll:“ldu.'uu in b\llfi"lfl in the y‘::nmi calendar year might bring greater re- turns from income tax now seems for- lorn because of the continued busimess depression. Secretary cf the Treasury Mellon and (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) FOR RECORD CANCELED; Reichers and D'Annunzio Find Plane Tail Skid Broken at Miami. By the Associated Press. s MIAMI, Fla, September 24.—! Reichers, " aviation editor of . Liberty e, and Capt. Ugo V. D'Anunzio, of the Itallan poet, 8iscov ] tall skid of their airplane was broken here at 9:40 a.m. E. 8. T. and canceled | their attempt to lower Capt. Frank Hawks' speed record from New York to_Havana, Reichers said the skid probably was damaged in taking off at Newark, N. J. earth, Under the scale estal by_the 1, llfl':; commission, effective Janua: the power company was & charge a g'llmuy rate of 4.2 cents per ll.l:)u r with various secondary rates. - After a public heari Utilities Commf er watt o the 10 per cent or meore 7% per cent clause in the consent decree. Dissatisfied With Order. The notice filed today read: “The ic Power Co. n8w gives with order No. 919 of the Public Utilities Commis- sion of the District of Columbia passed June 8, 1931, in the matter cf the result of operations under the sliding scale arrangement by which rates of the Potomac Electric Power Co. have been fixed since January 1, 1925, and of its from to the of the rights of the El Power Co. under the Constitution of the United sum."’ CENSORSHIP PLACED . ON COLOMBIA NEWS ’Comnhu a: New York Unable to ‘Explain Action at, Bogota. By the Associated Press. BOGOTA, Colombia, September 24.— st OR. SHELTONTAKE STAND N DEFENSE ! Accused Pastor Refuse§ New Pastorate Before Clearing of Charges Here. he would make a vigorous denial of the claim that he was guilty of any mis- ot Pronti Reyal and’ Hervert Byoem stricken of Roanoke. Treaty Negotiations Progress. PARIS, September 24 (#)—Negotia- Justice Department Officials An- noyed by Collapse of Proceed- ings—Two ‘New Jurors Selected to Fill Vacancies Left by Ousted and Excused Members, ; The rehearing by the grand jury of third degree and other cases voided by disqualification yesterday of a jutor will be post- poned until a new grand jury is sworn in October 6, it was indi~ cated today. L A definite decision in this con- nection is expected shortly from the office of United States Attorney Leo A. Rover. Possibility of a postponement in the re-presentation of invalidated cases arose when a suggestion was ?uld; lnm quarters that g re- ng esent would be mem‘.,t praeiy Rover sald he “three or four anglest before mak~ ing up his mind on the question. It was apparent he intends ta e leave loopho! @mw;é}umqu’?—;m mm'm"'-—un- "-mmw-“!&ntu:-&.h" ] plainly annoyed by the collapse frane ey clnet din \vlmnl\vmu-hcmll.=;-1 T T s e ey Sresiting | REPRESENTATIVE TAYLOR - IN NERVOUS BREAKDOWN Tennessee Congress Member to Re- main at Home for Week or Two of Rest and Quiet. WIN DRIVER'S CHARGE DISMISSAL Street Corner Survey Made by Mototist Arrested for Left Turn Softens Heart of Police ]udge.