Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Falr and somewhat warmer today, showers tomOTTOW. Temperatures—Highest, 69, at 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 45, at 6 a.m. yes- terday. . Full report on page 11. he Sn WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION No. 1,386—No. 31, Entered as second class mattar post office, Washinaton, D. €. - CARDS TAKE SERIS BY BEATING MACKS, AT02, N TTHGANE Grimes and Hallahan Turn Back Athletics, Defeating George Earnshaw. WATKINS' HOMER PROVES DECIDING HIT IN BATTLE Receipts for Seven Contests Total $1.030,723. But Last-Day Crowd Sets Low Record. SPORTSMAN'S PARK. ST. LOUIS October 10.—In a finish that alternated thrills and chills for the home forces 13 recaptured the banner of base ball championship to- it back to the National League and Louis after a lapse of five lean The 2 1 League champions. in spirited cdmeback, conquered _their is. none other than George Earn- snd whipped the Athietics, 4 to venth and deciding game longed battle. It gave the inals the decision, four games to tharee, duplicating their margin of tri- umph over the Yankees in 1926. ©ld Burleigh Grimes, the 37-year-old masier of the spitball was the hero of the final victory for the high fly- ing Red Birds. He scored his second triumph of the series over the Mack- men to avenge his 1930 setbacks, but weakened in the ninth and was re- Sports Summary Foot bal! yesterday was marked by Maryland's victory over Navy here, the defeats of Yale by Georgia, 26-7; Princeton by Brown, 10-7, and the scoreless game between Notre Dame and | Northwestern on Soldier Field in i Chicago. Army Took Michigan State for a ride, 20-7, | One of the big surprises was H th> score by which New York University defeated Georgetown, 34 to 0. George Washington won over Boston University, 14-0, but American U, the only other local team to play, was badly beaten by Hampden Sidney, 49-0. In big intersectional tilts Vanderbilt beat Ohio State. 26-21, and Stanford conquered Minnesota, 13-0, On the West Coast Oregon de- feated Washington, 13-0, and Southern California defeated Washington State, 38-6. TERPS GAIN FIRST VICTORY OVER NAVY Pass From Chalmers to Pease Sinks Middies, 6-0, | i Before Colorful Crowd. BY JOHN B. KELLER | A burly but speedy team made foot ball history for the University of Mary- land yesterday In Griffith Stadium by scoring the Old Line institution’s first | gridiron victory over a Navy eleven in a flercely fought 6-to-0 encounter. | Maryland went into the air for its | tallying about midway of the third yperiod. A 30-yard pass shot by Shorty | Chalmers to Al Pease, and the latter's 20-yard dash after grabbing the pic- | skin, accounted for the touchdown. | The brigade of midshipmen, with WASHINGTON, GRAND JURY TURN T0 POUEE ABLGE CASES TOHORRON Twenty Officers Face dictments by New Fed- eral Venire. In- 200 WITNESSES CALLED FOR SECOND INQUIRY Prosecution Will Reintroduce Tes- timony Which Resulted in Previous Charges. Grand jury investigation of third- @gree charges sagainst Washington police will start all over again tomor- row, with a score of policemen Iac- ing indictment for alleged brutality. A new grand jury, whose 23 mem- bers have been thoroughly examined for eligibility, will hear a repitition of testimony which resulted in the indict- ment last month of five first precinct policemen and the proposed incict- ment of about 15 more. Just as the previous grand jury was about to hand down the additional in- dictments, the proceedings “blew up” with the belated discovery that a mem- ber of the inquisitorial body was in- eligible to serve because he was a pen- sioner. Impending as well as com- pleted indictments in the police and various other cases thereby were in- validated, necessitating rehearing of all affected cases. 200 Witnesses Called. Approximately 200 witnesses have been subpoenaed by the Government o testify concerning police brutality lieved by Souirpaw Bill Hallahan. The | scuthpaw, who twice had whipped the | Athletics, came to the rescue with two . the tying run on first base. and ended the game by forcing Max Bishop to fly out to Pepper Martin. Burleigh Kept Fighting. It was an exciting climax, as the A's put on a belated drive with two out, due mainly to the wildness of Grimes, whose strength was fast ebbing and who appeared to ieel the strain of hurling ‘with a battered little finger on his right hand, hurt by a line drive in last Mon- day’s game. Old Burleigh, fighting every step of | the way, outguessing and outsmarting the A's with his spitter, yielded only | five hits and no runs whatever in the first eight innings. He had the big sluggers, Al.Simmons and Jimmy Foxx, looking foolish at the plate as he fought to keep the four-run lead that his mates, led by little Handy High and George Watkins, had piled up off Earn- ahaw in the first three innings. Watkins had driven the small crowd —numbering only 20,805 and occupying | barely half the stands—into a frenzy with & home-run drive over the right- field pavilion in the third inning. It was the last hit off Earnshaw, but it was the blow that decided the game and gave Grimes the courage to bear down with all the cunning and curves in his repertoire. Macks Fill the Bases. But old Burleigh was feeling the weight of vears as the game drew to- ward its close in somewhat drab fas] jon. His control began to slip and it took all his craft to pull himself out of a hole in the eignth, after he had reached his peak in the seventh by striking out Simmons, Foxx and Dykes. s wasted two passes in the hth, and then Simmons, first up in the ninti. drew another walk. It ap- yected all over when Foxx fouled out to Wilson and Miller rapped a double- piay ball to Gelbert. iorced out, but Umpire McGowan, at first, ruled Miller safe on a close pla and the Cards were checked staried to gallop off the field Victory they thought was won. This “break” was the signal for a bricf but exciting revival of the A’s cagging hopes. Dykes walked and Wil- ams bounced a single over High's head, filling the bases. Hallahan was warm- ing up furiously on the sidelines Pennsylvania Bank Closes. UNIONTOWN, Pa., r 10 ().— The National Bank of Fayette County failed to open tonight. A notice posted on the door said the closing was ordered by the board of directors following heavy withdrawa TODAY'S STAR PART ONE—28 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign Serial Story, Eden"— Page A-15 Community Centers—Page B-4 Kathleen Norris Article—Page B-4. Schools_and_Colleges—Page B-4. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page B-5. Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page B-5. News of the Clubs—Page B-6. The Home Gardener—Page B-8. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. District National Guard—Page 4. Organized Reserves—Page 7. D. A. R. Activities—Page 8 Disabled American Veterans—Page 8, PART THREE—12 PAGES. Bociety Section. PART FOUR—8 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and Radio. In the Motor World—Page 3. Aviation—Page 4 W. C. T. U. News—Page 4. American Gold Star Mothers—Page 5. Spanish War Veterans—Page 5. Marine Corps News—Page 5. Fraternities—Page 5. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 5. Army and Navy News—Page 5. American Legion—Page 6. Radio—Page 7. Public Library—Page 8. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Sports Section. PART SIX—12 PAGES. Financial News and Classified tising. PART SEVE! Magazine Section. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 14. News of the Music World—Page 15. The Bridge Forum—Page 17. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 18. ’ ‘The Boys' and Girls' Page—Page 19. Those Were the Happy Days—Page 20. GRAPHIC SECTION—S PAGES. ‘World Events in Pictures. COLORED SECTION—8 PAGES. Moon Mullins; Terzan; Mr. and Mr The Timid Soul; Reg'lar Pellers: Lit- . tle Orphan Annie: . Histery, and Mut{ and Jeff. and “Outlaws of Screen " Adver- 20 PAGES. i} their parade before the game and their charges. The Department of Justice, through United States Attorney Leo A. 7 ¢ SPITE oF 3 F?:rnzssnou EVERYTHING 1 BELIEVE SCHOOL SITE DELAY IS BLAMED | ON MYSTERIOUS "AGREEMENT" Gotwals Said to Have Urged Reno Highf Plot Favored by Senator. But Simmons was | (Continued on First Sport Page) | | brightly-tinted cardboard pictures pre- | sented between the halves. did much to | entertain a crowd of 16,000, which in- | cluded Secretary of the Navy Charles and Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of Maryland, in addition to many naval and governmental digni- taries. But it was a hard-battling lot of Old Liners that gave the foot ball | fans their greatest thrill. | Maryland found the Midshipmen a gallant and scrappy crew and had to struggle all the way to stave off well- | intended Annapolis drives. Three times Navy went down the field under full sail and threatened to breeze across the Old Line goal. Once before Mary- land got its points the Midshipmen were hammering at the opposing line close to the final stripe and twice after they were on the verge of scoring. Maryland Checks Drives. to wrest the ball from Navy on downs and once a gold-jerseved Old Liner leaped to grasp a Pdss intended for a Navy player that might well have earned a tie at least for the Annapolis tesm. . The Old Liners, too, were deep in Navy territory on several occasions other than that in which they passed the final line. At the outset of hos- tilitles Maryland launched a drive that carried it to Navy's 22-yard stripe where the Midshipmen braced and gained possession of the ball when a fourth- | down forward pas went awry. Twice Maryland endeavored to kick field goals from placement. Just before the end of the second period Chalmers attempted to boot the pigskin across the bar from the 33-yard line, but the kick was short and the ball went to a Navy player five yards from goal. Again in the fourth period Chalmers tried from the 38-yard line. This time Elliott, Navy end, blocked the ball, scooped it up and legged it 27 yards before he was hauled down from behind by Al Woods. Much of Maryland's mastery Navy lay in its fine forward wall. Old Line ends and tackles -especially | were strong and also alert. They man- aged to capitalize on nearly every Navy y over this quartet that " (Continued on First Sport Page.) (Additional descriptive matter and pic- tures on Page A-5.) JAILED IN SMUGGLING OF ALIENS AS SINGERS Chicago Doctor and Five Held on Charge of Bringing Italians in as Opera Artists. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 10.—Dr. Carman Ferraro was under arrest today as the alleged head of a conspiracy to smug- gle allens into this country from Italy under the guise of opera singers. Five others, their vedled, were also in custody as the re- sult of an investigation conducted by immigration agents under M. W. Gars- son, special assistant (o the Secretary of Labor. Dr. Ferraro was held under $10,000 band for hearing October 21. Government men said Dr. Ferraro conducted a music school as well as a steamship ticket agency, and obtained from $300 to $13.000 for smuggling the aliens. Garsson left for Washington to- day to confer with'Secretary Doak. as in Rover, will ask for indictment in nearly a score of unrelated cases alleging use lof third-degree methods in virtuslly Opposed by Board. ‘Twice, though, Maryland stoutly held The Midshipmen made little | identities unre- | every precinct A Most of the alleged offenders are pri- | vates, but a number of headquarters detectives and one lieutenant also are | said to be included in the list. No in-1} dictments will be sought for any officer | | of higher rank than lieutenant, it is| understood. The first case to be given to the grand jury will be the beating of James Henry Harker, young baker, | whose testimony, supported by that of | others, resulted in indictments, since | invalidated, against four policemen of | the first precinct. Harker's charges, | first through the press, precipitated the | sensational Federal inquiry into the| third degree situation here. | Accused Police Listed. i Policemen named in the nullified | indictments were Precinct Detective | James A. Mostyn and Pvts. William R. | Laflin, Willlam T. Burroughs and Wil- liam C. Groomes. They were charged with feloniously assaulting Harker | with “a certain dangerous weapon, to wit, a piece of rubber hose, d wit a simple assault by fist. Because of threats made on Harker | before he was summoned before the July jury, the Department of Justice | has kept the youth under close surveil- | |lance and has thrown a shroud of secrecy around his whereabouts. It is understood the witness has been living out of town pending his reappearance | before the grand jury. | It is reported that Harker was taken | quite {1l several days ago, but has re- covered sufficiently to enable him to | testify tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. | | Witness Threatened. | The threats on Harker were made by two men who advised him to “lay off”| the police if he knew what was good for | him. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Investigation, ordered an im- mediate investigation, which resulted in issuance of a stern warning to a| so-called “racketeer” and his compan- jon. Harker at the time was not un- " (Continged on Page 3, Column 2. SPANISH TROOPS SEEKING CROP-DESTROYING REDS 11,500 Armed Agrnr{nn-Cnmmlmi!'s Reported Fortified in Hilly Part of Country. { By the Associated Press. CORDOBA, Spain, October 10.—Hun- | dreds of government troops were sta- ! tloned tonight around the towns of | Pazo Blanco and Montoro. near Villa-! nueva and Villar Del Rio, about 90 miles from a hilly area, where 1,500 armed agrarian Communists were re- ported concentrated and destroying crops and live stock: Dispatches reaching here from the area said, however, it was improbable any clashes between t! troops and Communists would occur tonight. Government airplanes flew over the area and located the places where the agrarians were concentrated and re- ported the main group was fortified in the hilly region. Cordoba townspeople lent automo- biles and motor cycles to the authori- ties to assist In the round-up. The | country people, terrified, were said to be i 2,000 Workers By the Assoclated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, October 10.—Ac- companied by the roar of gas, a flood of ofl gushed again from flush flelds of Oklahoma today as Gov. W. H. Mur- ray reopened wells throughout the State that have been dormant since August 5. A smile lighted faces cf oil operators as valves turned. Hundreds of spec- tators crowded about the great wells in the Oklahoma City field, but were kept back by barbed wire barriers. Approximately 2,000 workers refurned to their jobs in the field here after an enforced idleness of two mont! About 200 men resumed work at Semiuole. Martial Law Remains. The State is allowed to produce 546.~ 000 barrels daily under a tri-State agreement with Kansas and Texas. The gigantic Oklahoma City may flow 5 per cent of its potential’ or 180,000 barrels daily. The greater Seminole area will be al- lowed 150,000 barrels daily, and Chand- ler and Tatums pools will be under for- Highlights of " OIL WELLS ROAR IN OKLAHOMA AS MURRAY ALLOWS REOPENING {Crowds Are Kept Back in Giant Oklahoma City Field. concentrating in Villanueva. Return to Jobs. | Guardsmen patroled the Oklahoma City | area. Meanwhile the Texas Railroad Com- missicn reduced the per well allowable in the east Texas fleld from 185 to 165 barrels daily effective October 13. The order will make the field's produc- tion about 363,000 barrels datly. Texas to Cut Quotas. C. V. Terrell, Texas Commission | chairman, announced an order would be forthcoming soon reducing all West ‘I:xas allowabies except in, the Pan- ‘handle area by 10 per cent. | Muiray said he agreed to reopen the | fields because operators promised to | ald in curtailment of production and | because he desired to relieve unemploy- ment and aid banks holding oll cper- ators’ paper. ‘The executve had closed the wells under martial law in an effort to force the price of crude to $1 a barrel. Al- though he permitted the reopening at & top price of 70 cents per barrel, he retained martial law. He said if prices; dropped further he could order another s A purported “gentlemen’s agree- ment” between a member or members of Congress and MsaJ. John G. Gotwals, U. 8. A, Engineer Commissioner of the District. to locate the proposed Reno Senior High School on a site rejected | by the public school authorities was advanced in three separate quarters {eslerdly as the reason why the land as not yet been purchased, despite the fact that the appropriation for it became available last February. Senator Gerald P. Nve of North Da- kota, whose Washington home at 3802 Grammercy place is in t immediate vicinity of the three sites|under con- sideration for the school.'was named as the member of Congress most promi- nently active in the agreement with Commissioner Gotwals. This explanation was secured by The Star yesterday concurrent with the conference between the Commissioners and the School B s Committee on Buildings. Grounds and Eguipment in which the school authorities outlined to the municipal heads the extreme urgency of the immediate purchase of & site for the sorely needed school While the conference between the two groups of municipal authorities yesterday was executive, it was learned that the school board members ad- vised the Commissioners that unless sixth white senior high school was constructed soon the Western High School faces an indefinitely long period of part-time education for its excessive enrollment. Following the conference, Dr. Luther Reichelderfer. chairman of the Board of Commissioners, announced that the parties had “come to rather prompt agreement” and that definite action an_the hase of a site would be forthcom “early next week." _ Meanwhile The Star learned from (Continued on Page 2, Col 8. * CAPONE AIDE HELD FOR“GUN TOTING” Judge Wilkerson Has Him Seized Leaving Court Room—-0rders Trial. By the Associated Press. FEDERAL BUILDING. CHICAGO, October 10.—Philip D'Andrea. personal friend and constant companion of Al Capone at the Scarface gang chief’s income tax trial, was ordere by Fed- eral Judge James H. Wilkerson today to stand trial for carrying a pistol in the court room. D'Andrea, suave, nattily dressed and secretive appearing, was seized by three | deputy United States marshals as he left the court room after today's ses- sion. The marshal found a .38-cali- i bre pistol tucked under his belt. Capone and his attorneys pleaded unsuccessfully ‘for his release and he was taken away to jail. Judge Wilker- son called his court into special session again this afternoon and ordered D’Andtea to be arraigned before him Monday morning on a rule requiring | him to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of court. “I had been informed that men with | pistols were coming into the court | room during the trial” Judge Wilker- son announced, “and it was I who ordered D'Andrea arrested.” To Prevent “Gun Toting.” The judge then ordered Government | officials and court officers to take striet precautions beginning Monday to pre- | vent “gun toters” from entering ‘the court. Any person bringing a gun into the court room should be brought be- fore him immediately fgr sentence for contempt, the judge said. "The?e is a rule in the Federal court of long standing that any man who comes into the court armed should be punished,” Judge Wilkerson said. ““The offense is so flagrant and the affront to the court is so serious that no ap- plication for bail for this defen it will be considered until Monday morn~ ing. Take him back to jail.” D'Andrea first told Federal officials he is a deputy bailiff of Munlclpall he had a_permit , Column 3.) Court, and declared (Continued on Page TEXAS GUINAN CASES OF 1928 ARE QUASHED Prosecutor Decides Raided Night Club Hostesses Are Not'Sub- Jject to Another Trial By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 10.—Proceed ings against Texas Guinan, Helen Mor: gan and other indicte in June, 1928, were quashed today b, the United States district attorney’s of- fice. Miss Guinan and Mjss Morgan, hostesses of two of the places raided, were acquitted on superseding indict- ments, t United States Attorney Arthur N. Schwartz said, explaining they could not be tried again. ‘Their defense n‘s that :fl? ‘were ol w receiving a salary and having no financial interest in the enterprises. on liquor law | violation charges after night club raids | th BRITISH CAMPAG [ NOW FREE-FOR-ALL Election Oct. 27 to Decide Government’s Fate Amid Confusion. | | By the Associated Press. | LONDON, October 10.—The cam- paign for the general election October 27 has developed into a free-for-all fight unparalleled in the nation's his- tory. Bewilderment existed in scores of constituencies today as party groups pressed ahead with their plans for two weeks of high-pressure electioneering to determine the fate of Ramsay Mac- Donald’s national government. Despite party confusion, however, the opinfon—backed by money on the |stock exchange—prevailed that the | national government should have al | majority of about 150 in the House of | Commons wkich will meet November 3. | Fight on Government. The campaign is settling into a fight | for or against the national government, with free trade or tariffs as the main | immediate issue. In the background is | | the struggle between capitalism and the British Labor party’s brand of so- | cialism. | One of the important developments | today was the refusal by conservatives | to withdraw their candidate at Dar- | wen In opposition to Sir Herbert Sam- | uel, leader of the National Liberals. | This action is likely to precipitate | more three-cornered fights among Conservatives, -~ Liberals and _Labor. | Such contests are looked upon as seri- | ously weakening the national govern- ment’s appeal for national unity. Mr. MacDonald goes to Seaham Harbor Monday to pen his campaign to be returned to the House of Com- mons. David Lloyd George denied that his rich “war chest” has been locked up. Liberals who stand for free trade with- out quibbling or reservations will have his financial support, Henderson Sees Ex-Premier. Arthur Henderson, Labor leader, went |to church today and had a long “cor- dial” conversation with Mr. Lioyd George. The Welsh veteran's entire campaign is based on free trade and labor. Likewise he is strongly opposed to tariffs. J. H. Thomas, dominions secretary in both the Labor and National govern- ments, issued a manifesto stressing the need for empire development and for remedying Britain’s adverse trade bal- ance. Capt. Anthony Eden, undersecretary for foreign affairs, said in a speech at Leamington the general election was n to prove to_ the that Britain is su) g the na gov- ernment and is ready to do her share 4n solving international lems ol th> gravest -complexity, which d“:k"lllg next few months will test the of statesmen of all nations. MacDonald Opponent. SFEAHAM HARBOR, Durham, Eng- land, October 10 (#).—William Coxon was selected today to wfia Prime Min- ister Ramsay MacDonal the Labor candidate in this district for the gen- eral election. He is secretary of the divisional Labor , Which recently diated Mr. finuwu’ as its wflfim. in the Commens, Fouze of Y Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by ‘Th= Star's exclusive cartler service. Phone Natfonal 5000 to start immediate delivery. #) M Associated Press. , SUNDAY MORNING, OCTQBER 11, 1931—108 PAGES. =* FIVE C IN WASHINGTON ENTS |TEN CENTS AND SUBURBS | ELSEWHERE PARLEYON SLVER VOTED BY LATAS Senator King Joins Appeal for Conference in Radio Forum. An international conference to see what must be done to rehabilitate sil- ver was recommended last night by the fourth Pan-American Commercial Con- ference. Of the 21 nations of the two Ameri- cas represented. only the United States and Brazil did not vote. A unanimous vote of all the other countries repre- sented at the meeting carried the reso- lution. About the same time, Senator King of Utah, speaking in the National Ra- dio Forum,arranged by The Washington Star ana broadcast by WMAL and a coast-to-coast network of other Colum- bia Broadcasting System stations, joined ih the appeal for an interna- tional conference to restore silver to its monetary status in the world. Cites States' Requests, Senator King pointed out that 11 States already had asked President Hoover to call such a conference and that the American Federation of bor and various other organizations have adopted resolutions of indorse- ment. He warned that continuance of the gold standard will mean a further decline in commodity prices and dis- aster in the economic fleld. (Note—The full text of Senator King's forum speech may be found in the editorial section of today's Star.) Combine Second Resolution. The United States failed to vote on the silver question at the Pan-American Commercial Conference, according to Assistant Secretary White of the State Department, the American delegate. because the terms of the resolution had been found too uncertain. The conference combined with the silver resolution another recommending | that “the American countries adopt a monetary standard which will assure to the _circulating medium _the _stability " (Continued on Page 4, Column 1. JOHN D., Jl{, STUDIES SITE OF PROPOSED U. S. PARK Rides Pack Horse Through Wyo- ming Region Projected for ‘Wilderness. By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Wyo., October 10.—John D. Rockefeller, jr., made a trip by pack horse through some of the wilderness of Grand Teton National Park today. Mr. Rockefeller is sponsoring a plan to give the Federal Government a vast area in the Jackson Hole region, which will be permitted to revert to & primi- tive wilderness, ‘With his wife, Mr. Rockefeller was the guest of Sam Woodring. superin- tendent of Grand Teton Park, He was expected to go from the park to Victor, Idaho, leaving Victor tomorrow by train. SEES LOAN SPAIN'S NEED. Minister of Finance Holds Borrow- ing Is Only Solution of Problem. MADRID, October 10 (#).—Indalecio Prieto, minister of finance, asserted to- day that only a large foreign loan would solve Spain's financial problem. 0. . HELD READY 10 REDUCE ALLIES' PAYMENTS ONDEBT |Europe, However, Must First | Promise to Put Political House in Order. {HOOVER WILL CONSULT LAVAL BEFORE ACTING | Plan Will Mean Revision of Debt Problem on Basis of “Abil- ity to Pay.” | | | BY DAVID LAWRENCE. | | | Acticn has replaced mere talk and optimistic pronouncements. From now | on events will move swiftly so far as | the Government of the United States | 18 concerned in protecting the economic | situation at home and bolstering up | confidence, in financial relationships with the rest of the world. The most sensational development has not yet been made the subject of an official statement but has been au- thoritatively outlined to the press. It is that once the extension of the war| United down- annual debt moratorium is settled, the States stands ready to revise ward for a pericd of time the payments by the allied countries. This literally means revision whole reparation and war debt probl on the basis of “capacity to pa: he | yardstick used before when the debts were funded, but which must now be applied to & new set of circumstances of the .5 INTERVENTON N SINO-APANESE CRISIS IMMNENT |State Department Prepared to Remind Nations of Their Pledges of Peace. STIMSON-KEEPS HOOVER INFORMED OF SITUATION America May Use Kellogg-Briand Pact or Nine-Power Pacific Treaty to Halt War Threat. BY BYRON PRICE, Oniel of Washinyion Bureau the Associated rese Soft-spoken but forceful American intervention to still the rumblings of a Japanese-Chinese war in Manchuria ‘lthlYCd last night to be but a question of hours. | The State Department was fully pre- ipared to invoke before world epinion the promises of peace and fair-dealing made so often by Japan and China in a long succession of treatles. Secretary Stimson awaited only a final report on the latest turn of affairs, hopeful, but not optimistic that an appeal already | made by the League of Nations would | end hostilities It was disciosed officially that once ‘w:fh lo;l d:“ convinced that inter- national pledges were continul to be | broken, action would follow. e le Actual War Going On. | Aside from her League commitments, Japan has promised under the Kellogg- | Briand treaty not to use war “as an in a world economic upheaval. instrugent of national policy,” and she President Hoover will take no steps ! stands pledged under the nine-power and make no proposals about the debt ! pact of 1922 “to 1espect the sovereignty, problem until after he consults Premier | the independence and the territorial Laval and learns the wishes of France But in principle he knows now that France believes in some revision. Neither Mr. Hoover nor M. Laval will bring up eancellation of war debts That would not be approved by Con- gress of the French Parliament. Readjustment Forecast. The moratorium announcement last of war debts. It was impulsively as- sumed by some Europeans as well as Americans that the moratorium meant cancellation. Leaders of both the Re- publican and Democratic parties here frowned on such an idea. But moratorium did mean that if Germanyv could not pay $400.000.000 this yea she could not pay it next year and now that Britain has had trouble with sterling exchange the usual payments from London in gold must be reckoned as out of the question Nearly a billion dollars in short term credits advanced by American banks is tied up for a year or so in Germany and Britain. With such a vast sum hanging over the American banking situation, the President views the whole situation realistically as a practical problem of doing at once the things that will build and restore confidence. Mr. Hoover has been advised by the bankers, who recently have been con- ferring with him, that with the debt problem hanging over Europe and the United States something to clear the air is abeolutely imperative. The Presi- dent has been in touch with Ambas- dor Edge at Paris by telephone and as obtained some informal ideas of what M. Laval has in mind. Billions Tied Up. The new National Credit Corporation with its pool of $500,000,000 which may reach to a billion can function effec- tively only if the larger situaticns do not impair its usefulness. Thus the small banks of the country with siow (Continued on Page 4, Column 8.) DEBT CANCELLATION HIT BY BAINBRIDGE COLBY Former Secretary of State Says Plan Would Force U. S. to Pay Cost of War for Europe. By the Associated Press NEW YORK. October 10.—The theory that cancellation of war debts to the United States would be a good business licy was assailed tonight by Bain- | bridge Colby, former Secretary of State, |in a radio address. ' “The remission of the European world situation, nor will it benefit us. ‘The money we forego would be quickly {swallowed up in the race for armaments and other forms of national waste.” Colby charged that bankers and “tariff protected” manufacigirers were responsible for agitation to cancel the | debts. Such a step, he asserted, would | force American taxpayers to pay “a | great part of Europe’s war costs in ad- dition to our own.” = —_—— Rains Flood Vera Cruz State. MEXICO CITY, October 10 (#).— Dispatches from Jalapa today said train service with Vera Cruz was suspended by torrential rains which damaged rail- way lines and flooded an extensive area |in lower sections of Vera Cruz. | heavy rains are still continuing, the | dispatches said. UNIDENTIP:IED DIRIGIBLE REPORTED D()SWN IN Searchers Scour H\ills for BLAZE IN WEST VIRGINIA Possible Survivors; Known Craft ‘Accounted For. By the Associated Press. POINT PLEASANT, W. Va., October jundgy) . -— Searchers were pene- the isolated and woody hills quest burst 1 trat! south of here this momlng in of a dirigible reported to have f | into flames and dropped to the country- side yesterday. Reports by some of the persons who said they saw the airship drop were to the effect' that men para- chuted from the eraft as it e in two_pleces. ‘Those who sald they witnessed the fall of the dirigible were for the most part from Ga''inoli- Obhio, just across the Ohlo River ..o the objective of the searchers. Checking In an effort to establish the Identity of a craft which might have been in this section failed to bring any definite result. The Goodyear Zeppelin tion, at Akron, Ohlo, i reported all of their blimps accounted | for, and various Army posts and the Nn‘\'y made known their airships were safe. United States Senator H. D). Hatfield of West Virginia made known at Hunt- ington that he had asked the Navy to send an airship’to Huntington on Sat- urday during the Washington and Jef- ferson-Marshall College foot ball fi;n 3 but that the request had been declined. Robert P. Henke, Gallipolis contrac- tor, said he was watching the craft through fleld glasses when it fell. Dr. and Mrs. Claude Carter of Gallipolis also said they saw the dirigible, which was described as soaring at a height of 300 feet-when it dropped. Dr. Charles E. Holzer, owner of the Gallipolis Airport. said he would send an lane to aid the search as soon as it was daylight. June foresnadowed some readjustment | the | Vi vitho tak- | assets have not been able without lak- {0 debts,” Colby sald, “will not cure the |~ The | 1and administrative integrity of China.™ { For nearly a month now, Japanese { troops have been in control of Mukden, capital of the Chinese province of Manchuria. Almost every day brings news of fresh movements against mew !Muuchux’mn territory. Actual, if not technical, war is taking place over & large section of the countryside. China, on her side, is pledged to pro- vide adequale protection of Japanese nationals and property, lawfully within her borders. This, the Japanese protest. she has not done with respect to the Japanese controlled railway in Southern Manchuria. ‘The American Government believes this greatly beclouded situation can be dealt with effectively massing of | world opinion behind an appeal to the sanctity of treaty obligations. Most of the nations of the world are parties to the Kellogg-Briand pact against war. | All of the great powers. including the United States, signed- the -nine-power treaty of 1922. Both Japan and China are members of the League of Nations, ! committed by the covenant sgainst ag- | gression. | There is no authoritative talk of any {but peaceful methods to enforce these promises of peace. The United States no present intention of brandish- ing a big stick. Its whole effort is to bring home the responsibilities of those who accept membership in the family tof civilized nations. Secretary Stimson yesterday devoted 1 most of his time to the problem, keeping ! President Hoover advised of latest de- velopments. The atmosphere about the gray old State Department was one of |a tightening expectancy. There was no | pretence of concealing the deep concern jof officials, who were uncommunicative and eager for news. | The department’s own dispatches as | to the military situation in Manchuia | were fragmentary and almost worthless. Americrn agents are in the war zon | but for the most part they are inquiring | into the origins of the trouble, rather ils present ramifications. They | are sending in many rumors, all quali- fled by the statement that ther mav be propeganda emanating from ry sources on the opposing sides. ‘ Americans in Sector. | About 100 Americans are in the trou- | bled sector, and American investments run into several millions, but none of | these appear to have been harmed. ;'rhr\- do not constitute the immediate concern of the Washington Govern- ! ment That concern is rather for the | integrity of the whole fabric of inter- | natfonal treaties to which these Orien- | tal nations have subscribed, and which | are the bases of American trade and | good will in many parts of the world. | So meager are the reports which have | come out of Manchuria that it still is | unclear just how the trouble started. {is known that on September 19 (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) = . 'LITTLE HOPE IN SIGHT TO END MILL STRIKE well milita: Ranks of Textile Workers creased After Week Away From Spindles. In- By the Associated Press. | LAWRENCE, Mass, October 10.— | Thourands of striking textile workers |today reached the end of a week of |idleness in protest against a turers reiterated their first announce- ment, that the cut was necessary to | meet competition. The strike, which spread from mill to mill until it included approximately 23.000 workers today, appeared far from settlement as the strikers' ranks grew steadily. The ranks of the strik- ers were augmented by 200 more today as the employes of the Osgood Mill in North Andover, a part of the Lawrence manufacturing district, left their tasks. This is one of the mills controlled by the Stevens Co. which already had strikes in progress in another mill in {North Andover and in Dracut, Mass. The managements of mills involved issued a statement saying that their announced 10 per cent reduction was “really not enough” and that other mills in New England now had an ad- vantage of 5 to 10 cents a yard. Robert Watt, president of the Lawe rence Central Labor Union and secre- tary of the Massachusetts Federation of Labor, has taken the position that the workers will fight “to the bitter end.” Leaders of the United Textile Work- ers of America which is affiliated with Il,he American Federation of Labor, are co-operating in (hc organization of a committee of wor: - before the Stat: | (0 lay their case =4 of Arbitration next Tuesday. Members of the National Textile Workers Union, a Communist organiza-. tion, today said they were planning action to be put in effect 'hleJl!’. 3