Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1931, Page 5

.. TRADE HEADS | DEBATE J0B PLAN 1 Chamber of Commerce Board! Studies Proposal for i | Stabilization. Culminating months of study, a group | of business leaders representing thou- | sands more gathered here today to write their formula for stabilizing industry and protecting workers agalnst unem- ployment. Embodying the ideas of some 200 ex- | ecutives from representative concerns, | a report on continuity in business and \ employment, compiled by a special com- | mittee headed by Henry I. Harriman of Boston, chairman of the New England Power Assoclation, constituted this pre- | scription which was before the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Com- | merce of the Unitea States for approval. | Referendum Considered. | Approximating 20,000 words in length, | and viewed as one of the most impor- | tant matters ever brought before the chamber, the report, if it gets the an- ticipated sanction of the board, will be embodied in a referendum to the cham- ber membership, in which Tepre- sented more than 880,000 corporations, firms and individuals b While individual study will' be gi g1 in the meantime. tfe board will §st take action in the report until tomor- Tow. The details of the plan have been withheld prior to the action of the board, but the principal feature is un- derstood to be the establishment of an economic council, with both business and Government represented, which would direct the efforts of the partici- pating groups. ' It is further intended under the plan as written, it is said, that adher- ence by industries would be optional, rather than mandatory, as proposed in the much-discussed proposal covering the same field which was recently put forward by Gerard Swope, head cf the General Electric Co. Hits Anti-Trust Laws. ‘The report, it is understood, raises the question of amendment of the anti-trust Jaws, which, it has been asserted, is & necessary preliminary to any regulation | of production which would be implied in this movement While it had been expected that linked in with this subject would be a recommendation on unemployment insurance, it was said that nothing definite was put forward in the report which only urges adoption of some plan of privateiy-financed unemployment in- surance, without giving an opinion as ! to whether it should be financed as the joint effort of employer and em- loye, or by employer. Another report attracting attention came from a committee which urged the chamber go on record as favoring a change in the immigration laws to put both Japan and China on a quota basis. Urged as Friendly Mgve. Designed principally as & gesture of good will toward the Japanese, it was | set out that such action would remove a cause of friction and ill-feeling. A quota law would only allow 185 Japanese to enter this country annually, the re- port says, adding that the yearly exodus from the United States is in excess of | this num China, under the quota | law could send 105 nationals over here yearly, it is brought out. Commercial treities, inland water- ways and the barrier against the prod uct of indentured labor are other mat ters treated in reports. Another com- mittee put forward a program for active participation in relief mezsures by local chambers, The board will be in session two days. TURKISH PREMIER ESCAPES ASSASSINS! Police Capture One Suspect, While Second Commits Suicide in Wash Room. By the Associated Press ISTANBUL. October 2.—Police Te- vealed that Premier Ismet Pasha es- caped an attempted assassinati~n on his ceparture yesterday for Greece. Suspicious of two men who arrived from Greeze by steamer, the police ar- rested one of them who gave the name of Agopi. but the other locked hims:1f in a wash rccm. When the door was broken down it was iound the fugitive was hali-choked. This attempt at sui- cide wes successful as the man died gever3] hours later. Agopi told police that he and his comrade, whose name was Verant, had been commissi ned by the Armenian Society, “Tashnak.” to murder the pre- mier i Greece. They feared the Greek police would be too watchful came to Ist.nbul, the police said Verant was identified by police as a | n-torious criminal whom the Tashnak ' Society sent to Ru a 8 year ago to assessinate Lew Mikbailoviteh Kra- khan. Soviet diplomat. That attempt was never carr.ed out, and so | COSTUME COIMMITTEE i AIDS HALLOWEEN FETE | Community Center Head Names 2, Members and Expert on i Float Building. { A committee on costumes to advise boys and girls on fancy dress for the city-wide Hailloween celebration ha: been appointe¢ by Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peeples, director of the Community | Center Department, which is taking prominent part in the affair. i This committee, consisting of Mrs. | Louise B. Brightwell and Miss Dorothy Croissant, will give suggestions and ad- vice on carnival attire on Tuesd from 10 o'clock to noon and Thursdays from 3.to 5 o'clock throughout this month. Its headquarters have been set up in the Community Cenier Depart- ment. Franklin Administration Build- ing. Thirteentn and K streets. Harold Snyder, the department's float-building expert. was assigned by Mrs. Peeples to advise all those wish- ing to construct floats for the Hal- loween parade. Snyder will be available for interviews on Tuesdays and Thurs- days between the same hours. EDGE INVITES LAVAL TO STAY AT HOME HERE American Ambassador to France Offers Washington Residence to Premier for U. 8. Visit. | The Washington residence of Walter E. Edge, American Ambassador to Prance. has been offered for the use of the French premier, Pierre Laval, on his forthcoming visit to the United States. i Ambassador Edge is expected to ac- company Premier Laval when he sails from Prance October 16. State Department officials said the Ambassador had invited Premier Laval to be his house guest, in view of lim- ited accommodations at the French em- | bassy here. The Fdgh home. at 1520 Eighteenth street. is commodious and is not far from the White House and State Department, F THE EVENING STAR, WASHIN( Visits Indian Reservation MRS. RUTH BRYAN OWEN HAS POW-WOW NEAR EVERGLADES: medicine man. MRS, COLLINGS OFF 10 VIEW SUSPECTS Murder Victim’s Wife Goes to' See Ritchies in Florida. | “Dead Man” Is Alive. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 2.—Before an- other day dawns, Mrs. Benjamin Collings will have & chance to say def- initely whether the two men being held at Daytona Beach, Fla.. have any- thing to do with the murder of her hus- band. With her lawyer, William A. Kelly; her sister-in-law, Miss Helen Collings, | and Fred Gunder, assistant district at- torney of Suffolk ‘County, Mrs. Collings left last night for Daytona Beach. She is due to arrive there late tonight. Be- fore deciding to make the journey, Mrs. Collings studied photographs of the two men—Dr. Leslie D. Ritchie, 51, and his son, William, 23. She sald, after looking a telephotoed pictures, she could not be sure, but that she doubted if the Ritchies were the men who boarded her husband’s cruiser Penguin the night of September 9, killed him and then abducted her. “Dead Man"” Found Alive. Suffolk County auihorities wired Day- tona Beach police to detain the father and son 24 hours more to give Mrs. Collings a chance to see them. One lead in the murder. investigation ollapsed late yesterday when it de- veloped that a body washed ashore on Long Island Sound Tuesday was not that of Willlam Smith, as” had been supposed. Willlam Smith was an ac- quaintance of the Ritchies. He was located in Bloomfield, N. J. and said he knew nothing about the Collings case. Tug Boat Captain Quiszed. A new witness, described as “highly important” by Assistant District At- torney Joseph Arata, was being ques- tioned last night. He was Halvar Hal- varsen, captain of the tugboat Henry Steers, who told of being hailed by man in a power boat on Long Island Sound the night Collings was slain aboard his yacht Penguin. The man’ asked Capt. Halvarsen di- rections to Oyster Bay or Huntington, he said. He returned some time later for some more detailed directions. Halvarsen was taken aboard the Penguin in an effort to determine whether that was the boat he en- countered. Arata declined to say whether the identification was made, but brought Halvarsen back to Hunt. ingten for further questioning. Ritchies Deny Part in Case. The Ritchies, at Daytona Beach, maintained they had no part in the c:se, the elder Ritchie saying he was “75 or 80 miles from Collings’ yacht when the tragsdy occurred.” RITCHIES DENY PART IN DEATH. Wife of Elder Suspect Reveals Burning Letter From Smith. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., October 2 (#).—L. D. Ritchie, 51, held here with his son Williamn for questioning in the . pirate murder of Benjamin Collings off | Long 1sland Sound, said last night he | ! had no connection with the case and was 75 or 80 miles from Collings' yacht | when the tragady occurred. Chisf of Police Luke quoted th Ritchles as saying they knew nothing | aoout the Collings case, except what they had read in the newspapers, and also knew nothing aboutthe false re- port of the “death” of Willlam Smith, Norwalk, Conn., mechanic. Tell Conflicting Stories. Father and son, Luke said, admitted they knew Smith. L. D. Ritchie and his son have lived here at various times for the past 12 ars. Questioned, the elder Ritchie and his wife told conflicting atories as to wheri they had last seen Smith. | ! Ritchle said he last saw Smith about | April 1 last, when Smith left here for | New Jersey. Mrs. Ritchie said she and ! her husband had seen Smith at Nor- August 20. H The nignt Coliings was slain, Ritchis said he and his wife visited his wife's sister, Mrs rian E. Milis, in N and that they had gone to a mo gave West Port, .. as his ome. and said he had been “doing very Jittle" there. He admitied he had a boat which he usad to dig clams. Wtfie Burns Smith's Letter. Ritchie left Westport in an expensive | automobile last week and arrived here Saturday in_company with his wife, Mrs. Julia Ritchie; his scn, Wiliiam, and the latter's wife, Alice. Mrs. Ritchie said they had two other cars which were driven here at th> same time by William Daskan, Westport rail- road man, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Richmond. Mrs. Richmond is a sister of Mrs. Ritchie. Ritchie asid he was a veterinary sur- geon, licensed in Vermont and Fiorida, but that he had not practiced that pro- fession for about 12 years. He had operated a wood yard at various times | with his son, Willlam. He said he has another son, Stanley Ritchie, in | Norfolk. | In an interview, Mrs. Ritchie aaid ' she had received a letter from Smith | vesterday, that was mailed from Sio | field, N. J., September 27. The loi>r she added, was personal, and - she burned it. i il R Commissioned in Reserves. Lewis A. Jackson, 1323 Massachusetts avenue southeast, has been commis- sioned by the War Depsxtment a sec- ond lieutenant and quartermaster in the Reserve Corps of the Army. Held in Slaying L. D. RITCHIE. WILLIAM RITCHIE. Investigation into the “pirate” mys- tery slaying of Benjamin Collings in Long Island Sound took new turns yes- terday, when New York authorities or- dered Daytona Beach, Fla. officers to hold for another 24 hours the two men shown in the above photo. The men are L. D. Ritchie (left) and his son, William Ritchie. Mrs. Collings, after inspecting two old piciures of the Ritchies, declined to say definitely whether they were likenesses of the men she accuses of killing her husband and kidnaping her. She-is now en route to Daytona Beach to view the Ritchies. —A. P. Photo. Strikers Delay Ships. STETTIN, Germany, October 2 (#).— Water front workers, who are on strike. today put out the fires in two freighters and prevented their saiing on schedue. Greater Va Fall Q-Pants SUITS 29 Beau Geste Felt Hats $5 Last Year, $6 tern edge of the Florida Everglades. hnny Tiger, Seminole subchief; Mrs. Owen; Johnny Tiger g-wvife: Miss Elena Higgins, teacher at the Indian school; wife and daughter of Billie Jumper, and Billle Jumper, Cow Creek LORIDA'S woman Representative, daughter of Willlam Jennings Bryan, visits Seminole Indian Reservation, lying in her district west of Dania, on the e States Ind'an commissioner for Florida: Left to right: J. L. Glenn, United —Underwood Photo. NEW ENVOY TOU.S, LEADER IN MEXICO Dr. Jose Manuel Puig Known as Brilliant Writer and Politician. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, October 2.—In Dr. Jose Manuel Puig Casauranc, who has been appointed Ambassador to Wash- ington, Mexico is sending to the United States one of her most brilliant public * leaders. It is Dr. Puig's first venture in the diplomatic field, but he has & suc- cessful medical, journalistic and po- liticz1 career behind him and a fluent knowledge of English to back it up. He is expected to be & worthy suc cessor to Manuel C. Tellez, who was recalled after serving 10 years and becoming dean of the diplomatic corps. Prominent in Politics. Dr. Pulg has been prominent in poli- tics since the administration of Gen Alvsro Obregon. He resigned as sec- retary of education early in September to head a committee appointed by President Ortiz Rubio to reorganize the federal government offices and in turn gave up this post to accept the diplo- matic assignment He is a native of Campeche and graduate of the University of Mexico Medical School. Prom 1915 to 191 he practiced medicine in Albuquerqu~ N. M. and prior to that time prac- ticed in Tampico. where he was con- sulting physician for several American oil_compantes. In 1919 he turned his attention to journalism and it was then that he laid the groundwork for his rise to po- litical prominence. He took an active interest in political writing as_editor of El Universal from 1919 to 1921, and as editor of El Democrata in 1924 he wielded a pow- erful pen in support of the presidential candidacy of Gen. Plutarco E. Calles, who made him his campaign manager. His first political post of importance was as & member of the Chamber of Deputies under the Obregon adminis- tration. Later he served as Senator for Campeche and, after bringing the Calles campalgn to a successful con- clusion, he was made secretary of edu- cation in 1925. He is the author of several books and is an officer of the French Legion of Honor. He is married and has five children. = . 2 Girl Wife Found in Net. In the net of two fishermen at Birui- pur, India, when they hauled it in re- cenily was a 10-year-old girl, who was gagged and bound. After regaining con- sciousness she said that she had been | thrown into the water by her husband | and a woman companion when she had attempted to get back to her mother because of the ill treatment of her hus- | "band during her six years of married life. D. €. FRIDAY, LABOR SESSIONS ON AT VANEDLVER Senator Davis Wires Accept- | ance to Address Federa- tion Tuesday. By the Associated Press. VANCOUVER, B. C. October 2.— | The resolutions and other committees of the departmental preconvention gatherings of the building and metal trades and the unfon label divisions of the American Federation of Labor were 8t work here today after organizing ses- sions. The departmental meetings are pre- liminary to the fifiy-first annual con- | vention of the federation, which opens | here Monday. Resolutions proposed by the com- | mittees are expected to be voted on in the departmental meetings today. Senator James J. Davis of Pennsyl- vania, former Secretary of Labor, lel!-{ | graphed Willlam Green, president of | !the federation, that he ‘would address | | the convention next Tuesday. Secre- | !tary of Labor W. N. Doak also promised | to speak during the convention. | | Senators Robert F. Wagner, New | York. and Robert La Follette, Wisconsin, also have been invited to address the convention, 25 well as Henry L. Stevens | newly elected commander of the Ameri- can Legion. and Gideon Robertson, minister of labor in Canada. Session to Be Important. The ground work for what is ex- pected to be one of the most impor- tant conventions of the federation in many years is being laid by President Green and_Secretary Frank Morrison. | Means of combating unemployment looms, in President Green's mind, as the most important matter to come before the convention. The Executive Committee of the | federation, Green said, has evolved what it believes would be a solution for both national and international unemploy- ment problems, if adopted. The report of the Executive Committee will' be made public with the opening of the | convention Monday. Full development of the domestic market will do much to put the idle workers of the Nation at work, Green ‘hrough all the years, genius, science | and managerial efficiency have con- | stantly increased productivity,” Green | said, “increased the use of power, sub- | stituting power for human effort, and while all this has been going on, there has been too little thought about the market Home Market Greatest. “The greatest market is at home. The workers need and want more for their homes It is my honest opinion that managers of industry should devote their best thoughts to the development of the home market in line with the constantly _increasing power of pro- ducing” Green said abandonment of the gold standard by Great Britain and other nations was bound to affect the worker. “Any disturbance of monetary stand- ards affects commodity prices. and these naturally affect wages.” he sald. “We can't tell just what will happen.” Doubt that the federation would go bevond its advoeacy of modification of the Volstead act to permit the manufac- ture and sale of 2.75 per cent beer was expressed by President Green. “There is some sentiment for out- right repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment,” he said. “but I expect the fed- eration to maintain its vosition taken <ome years ago that modification of the Volstead act can be accomplished by without repeal of the amend- ment. Green sald holding of the convention in Canada is for the purpose of promot- ing the harmonious relationship between the United States and Canada. GREEN FORECASTS BEER ACTION. Definite Steps in Favor of Retrun Ex- pected in Congress. SEATTLE. Wash., October 2 (). — Definite steps to obtain the return of beer through congressional action wiil be taken by organized labor, William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, sald here yesterda The labor chief, on his way to couver, British Columbia, for the an- nual convention of the federation next week. sald the organization will “em- phatically reafirm” its stand for mod- ification of the Volstead act to permit the sale of beer containing 2.75 per cent alcohol. Repeal of the eighteenth amendment. however, is not urged by the federation, he stated. The federation will go on record Green said, against wage cuts and for allocation of idle workers to public and private jobs as “temporary relief in an acute situation.” Expressing opinion there had been a decided change in public opinion on the prohibition question, Green dis- closed the federation is “planning to call upon its friends in Congress to | fication.” “The federation is firmly convinced Well, Folks: Fall “am firm”y came’—time to step out and “‘doll 1.4[)." Here's some good news—smart goods. lower prices, great- er va’ues. lue Pay Balance 10 Use Your Credit DRESS WELL HEAD TO FOOT Only V4 Cash Weekly or 5 Semi-Monthly Payments Lowest Cash Prices Money’s Worth or Money Back DJ.Kaufman: 1005 PENNA. AVE. BOUTHEAST CORNER ne. 1744 PENNA. AVE. 14TH & EYE OCTOBER | ince also lies support legislation to bring about modi- | Gr.eater Value TOPCOATS 2 1931 Kane at Death Hearing WIFE MURDER SUSPECT HELD TO JUR LISHA KENT KANE, Tennessee University professor, shown in a Hampton, Va., court room during hearing on charge that he drowned his wife in Chesapeake Bay. held in bail. RO0AEDERD IN YONNAN FLOOD Engineer of Relief Commis- sion Also Reports 300,000 Persons Destitute. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI October 2 (Friday).— The natioral flood relief commission at Shanghai was adviced today that 25,000 persons have perished in flocds covering 5.000 square miles of territory in the Yentsing district of Northern Yunnan Province. The casualties were set by B. L. Pond, resident engineer of the Chinese inter- national famine relief commission at Yunnanfu. who telegraphed the flood relief commission that & continual rain was resp.nsible for the catastrophe. Crops Entirely Destroyed. Pond's dispatch read “A continual rain_has flooded 5.000 square miles around Yentsing. Twenty- five thousand people had drowned and 300,000 persons are affected. Crops are entirely destroyed. The rain is con- tinuing in some districts.” Yentsing lies south of the Yangtze River's great horseshoe in Northern Yunnan Province. For the past three ears the district has been suffering from a famine, from which it was pre- viously estimated that it would re- quire 20 years to recover. Floods Worst in 500 Years. Flood waters still cover vast areas of the fertile Yangize Vallev in Cen- tral China, particularly in the region of Hankow. Northern Kiangsu Prov- buried beneath a sea of yellow water from the Grand Canal It was estimated floods have claimed 250,000 lives in the Hankow area alone. Tens of millions of Chinese are desti- | tute as a result of disaster. The floods have been described as the worst in the last 500 years. modification of the Volstead act will serve to promote true temperance,” added. “Modification is necessary help _economic conditions throughout the Nation by stimulating production enterprises in many lines—reconstrucs tion of breweries, greater demand for farm products and by stimulating transportation.” Turning to wage reductions Green said, “They add to the seriousness of an already serious situation.” “We feel that in the present emer- gency corporations should find other | means to economize than by attacking the wage structure.’ ABDOMINAL SJUPPORTS EXPERIENCED FITTER LADY . ATTENDANT PEUCH I.E_R'I 1224 147w Sr. Smart 75 ,Stetson Fall Hats $7 ¢ The case was sent to the grand jury and he was ordered STUDENT NEWSPAPER BANNED BY FACULTY Michigan U. Subscriptions Canceled Because, It Is Said, of Edi- torial Policy. By the Associated Press. ANN ARBOR, Mich, October 2— University of Michigan authorities to- day canceled faculty subscriptions to | the Michigan Daily, student newspaper, which heretofore have been paid by the university. Disagreement with the paper’s edi- torial policy was generally accepted as the expianation for the action and for the withdrawal of the official bulletin, published daily by the university Richard Tobin of Niles, Mich. man- aging editor of the Daily, said the loss 10 the paper would amount to about $3600 & year, but thst much of would be ‘recouped from subscriptions by individual faculty members. An editorial in today's issue of the paper announced that “the Daily will continue to print news of interest to students.” and stated that “the editors of the Daily wish to state at this time that they never have, and never will, permit the paper to be guilty of sensa- tionalism. The Daily has the best in- terests of the University of Michigan at heart, but does not believe that such interests can be fostered by suppression of facts.” 1 exw A—S JAPAN IS UNABLE TOATTEND RALLY |Gives Chinese Situation as Reason for Absence From Pacific Conference. | By the Assoclated Press. | SHANGHAI October 2—Japanese | members having given notice of their | inabllity to participate in the Fourth | Biennial Conference of the Institute of Peacific Relations because of strained relations between China-and Japan over the Manchurian situation, the Pacific Council, the institute’s governing body. | today announced a revision of its plans ‘fol' the meeting. Jerome D. Greene of New York, chair- | man, said the council had voted to | “proceed for arrangement of the con- | ference but in modified form, emphasiz- ing the scientific research aspects of | the_institute’s work.” The council did not state whether the | modified meeting would be held at Hangchow, where the original confer- |ence was tr have convened beginning October 21, or 3% S'Atg .. The Program Committee already is revising the agenda, seeking to elim- inate subjects of immediate political 1 terest. especially the Manchurian con- troversy. Todey's decision of the Council was unanimous, despite & previous proposal of Chinese members that the confer- ence be postponed. The Chinese finally concurred in plans for the revision, Greene said, because abandonment of the conference would create the er- roneous impression that the principal business of the institute was to deal | with current political issues, and also tant countries already have arrived in | the Orient “In no sense” said Greene, “is the institute an internstional tribunal, pass- | ing judgment upcn particular issues.” SZE REFUSES POST. Declines Foreign Minister Office to Remain at Geneva. GENEVA. October 2 (#) —Dr. Alfred Sze. Chinese Minister to London, has deciined to accept the post of foreign minister, it was learned in authorita- tive quarters today, and will remain here to urge the settlement of the Sino-Japanese conflict by the League Council. 1932 Grain Show Delayed. 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