Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1931, Page 1

. e —— WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forezast.) The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Fair and not quite so cool tonight, to- morrow partly cloudy and warmer. Temperatures—Higrest, 63, at 3:30 pm. yesterday; lowest, 41, at 5:15 am. today. Full report on page 9. he WASHINGTON, D. C BRUENING OUTLINES FULL PROGRAM AS REIGHSTAG OPENS New Cabinet to Adhere to Policy of International Conciliation. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening Star. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 3194, B Yesterday’s Circulation, 114,780 — TWO CENTS. DISARMAMENT HANGS IN BALANCE AS WAR MPENDS, CH]N_A—SAYS Day’s Developments In Far East Crisis a9 cred as second ciass matter Va . O, t office, Washington, D. C. SHELBY, ASSISTANTI HEAD OF POLICE, 1S ORDERED EXAMINED FOR RETIREMENT Maj. Pratt’s Aide Appears Before Board of Surgeons This Morning, but Findings Are Withheld. REPORTED NOT INVOLVED IN THIRD-DEGREE CASES TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1931—FIFTY-FOUR #PAGES. 22 UP) Means Associated Pr May Be Retired Sze Scores Japan’s “Aggression” in Plea to League. By the Associated Press. Spokesmen for China and Japan have presented their cases before the League of Nations Council, meeting in extraordinary session to restore peace in Man- churia. China demanded intervention by the League to avert “unhappy results.” Japan insisted on di- rect negotiations with China and disavowed responsibility for the Manchurian trouble. Martial law was declared at Canton as Communists took ad- vantage of anti-Japanese demon- strations, and at Hankow and elsewhere Japanese nationals were moving out in the face of hostile demonstrations. In Washington, President Hoo- ver submitted to the cabinet re- ports which were said to indicate that efforts of the League and other interested parties were |BRIAND PRESIDES REGRETS DEBTS HOLIDAY AT PEACE SESSION ONLY TEMPORARY RELIEF Sets NankingHopesArePlaced in Covenant and Kel- logg Treaty. Nationalist Opposition Members Remain Absent From Chamber s Unfll After Chancellor’s Address. —Harris-Ewing Photo. POLICE BRUTALITY i By the Associated Press. GENEVA, October 13.—The ';League of Nations Council heard | both sides of the Sino-Japanese conflict in Manchuria today and By the Associated Press. BERLIN, October 13.— Chancellor Heinrich Bruening picked up the gaunt- let thrown down by the government's Health Broken, Physicians Say, ! Since Collapse During McPher- son Probe Criticism—Strain of Baker and Limerick Investiga- tions Also Drain on Health, Inspector William S. Shelby, as- ..sistam, superintendent of police, " 'today was ordered before the Board of Police and Fire Surgeons for examination looking to his re- tirement for physical® disahility,; The Star has learned. | Inspector Shelby was examined | this morning at No. 23 engine house, but results of the exarina- tion were not available early this afternoon. The veteran police officer was ordered before the examining board by Maj. superintendent of police, who acted on the advice of Dr. John S. Reed, member of the board and personal physician to Shelby, The Star was informed. Inspector Shelby, when ques- tioned as to the examination, ad- mitted he had appeared before the surgeans’ board at 11:15 a.m. this morning, but he refused to dis- cuss any further details. He said he was not advisea as to the find- ings of the board. Efforts to reach Dr. Daniel L. Borden, chair- © man the board, were fruitless. Appears Involuntarily. Inspector Shelby indicated that his appearance before the board was in- voluntary. He is known to have ex- pressed a_desire recently to “stick by the departmert” until the Government has completed its investigation of third- degree charges against police Tt is understood from authoritative sources, however, that Inspector Shelby is not involved in the criminal charges of third-degree outrages now being heard by the grand jury, and that he will not be named for criticism in the forthcoming report of the Department of Justice. The unheralded action of the board climaxes a long period of ill health suffered by Inspector Shelby as a result | of a nervous breakdown attributed to stress of developments in the celebrated Virginia McPherson case of two years ago. At that time he was condemned by a grand jury for his handling of that mystery and was relieved of his post as chief of detectives, only to be restored t duty and promoted when a special civilian trial board exonerated him. Has Recurrence of “Nerves.” Tnspector Shelby will be 58 years old nex: January. He is known to have been under medical care for an up- | wrought nervous state since a collapse he suffered at his home during the hec- tic McPherson proceedings. Dr. Reed and other physicians were called t> treat him at that time. He was able to resume his duties after his vindication by the trizl board, but had a recurrence of “nerves” during | the ensuing police investigation of the Mary Baker murder case in the Spring of 1930, V:Ind his _conditlon was not ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) PEDESTRIAN KILLED, AUTO DRAGS VICTIM Driver of Car Which Fatally In- jured Man Held by Police. Struck by an autuomobile and dragged more than 100 feet, James F. Judd, 27 years old, of 61 Rhode Island avenue northeast, was fatally injured at Third and C streets southwest today. Judd died at Providence Hospital this morning from a fractured skull, a short time after his arrival. Robert Robinson, colored, 26 years old, of 714 Q street, driver of the auto- mobile which struck Judd, was ar- rested by police of the fourth precinct station. Robinson is being held on a charge of having defective brakes. He will appear at an inquest into Judd's death tomorrow morning at 11:30 o'clock at the District Morgue, accord- ing to Deputy Coroner Dr. Joseph D. Rogers. Witnesses told police that Judd was near the center of the street when the machine ran him down, and Judd was dragged along Third_strect for more than 100 feet before Robinson brougit his car to a stop. Judd had been employed as a driver agent of the National Laundry for about five years. He made his home with his sister, Mrs. H. Price, and three brothers, Balph, Louis and William. et i FLORIDA CROP LOWER U. 8. Estimate Puts Citrus Output at 28,500,000 Boxes. ORLANDO, Fla., October 13 (#).—! Florida's citrus fruit_crop this season was estimated at 28,500,000 boxes in & Federal Government, Tepor: made public today by H. A. Marks, agricultural statistician stationed here. Last season’s crop was around 35,000,- 000 boxes, of which 19,000,000 were oranges and 16,000,000 were grapefruit. This year's estimate placed the orange and tangerine production at about 16,- 500000 boxes and grapefruit at 12.- 000,000 boxes. The yield will be two or W three weeks late in ripening. Grand Jury Hears Complaints of Four Persons Charging Rough Treatment. The grand jury today continued its inquiry into " alleged |abuses of prisoners by policemen and heard complaints from four persons |charging that they had been handled | roughly in efforts to obtain confessions |from them. Charges of attempted in- timidation of a witness in one of the cases were also probed by the grand i jurors. The first case heard this morning in- |is accused of the murder of Irving Zir- kle. that he had been beaten by po- licemen. Martz made the statement in an affidavit given to a Star reporter at the rict Jail. Complaints of police brutality made by Robert E. Gibbs and Ralph Ware, both colored, were also submitted to {the grand jury by United States Attor- new Leo A. Rover, who is presenting the cases in person.. After recess the case of George B. Baber was called to the attention of the inquisitorial body. Baber claims to have been beaten by detective sergeants from headquarters when he was taken into custody as a suspect in the Gar- den T Shoppe killing. The Baber case of intimidation which has been lodged by Department of Justice agents against Maurice O'Connor and Cecil Mason, who are supposed to have ap- proiched Baber and to have asked him to go lghtly in his testimony against the detectives. SEASON’S FIRST FROST iLow of 41 Degrees This Morning Is Fall's Coolest—Warmer Weather Is Promised. With a minimum temperature of 41 degrecs carly this morning, Washington | experienced the coolest weather of the | present Fall seascn and also its first frost. The frost. described as light at the Weather Bureau Observatory, also visited nearby Maryland and Virginia. Neither the temperature nor frost con- stituted anything like a record for this time of the year as considerably lower temperatures and heavy frosts have occurred much earlier, it is point- ed_out. Fair and warmer weather is promised for tenight, however and the cool wave will soon be out over the Atlantic Ocean, with warmth coming in from the South and West. It probably will remain warmer for several days, according to the fore- caster at the bureau, but is not likely to-be unduly warm for this time of the year. The cocl weather of the past few days has plunged the temper- ature slightly ‘below normal for the period in October. PAN-AMERICAN PARLEYS ARE LAUDED BY CURTIS Vice President Curtis told the dele- | gates to the Pan-American Commercial ! Conference today that such meetings were “bound to bring our people clcser together and promote a spirit of good will and comprehension.” Speaking at the final plenary session, delegates upon the success of their deliberations and said the people of the civilized world recognized the need of restored confidence and loyalty to the common good. PROSPERITY IS SEEN Survey in New England Mills Shows Business Encouraging. BOSTON, October 13 (#).—Business in many of New England’s smaller mills and industrial plants has turned the corner toward prosperity, the New Eng- land Council reports. A compilation of business trends from reports of chambers of commerce and_boards of trade throughout the X New England States was character- ed by the council as “the most en- | couraging in recent months.” { PROBE CONTINUES “third-degree” | has the addition2] angle of a charge | the Vice President congratulated the | opponents and outlined a compre- hensive program of constructive:meas- ures at the opening of the Reichstag to- day, designed to solidify the ranks of his supporters. . He talked for an hour. The Com- munists continually interrupted with hisses, laughter and angry cries of “Dictatorship” and “Inflation.” ‘The Nationalist opposition members, Including the Natiomal Socialist faction of Adolf Hitler, did not enter the cham- ber until after the chancellor had fin- ished his declaration. New Cabinet Program. The new cabinet’s program, as Chan- cellor Bruening outlined it, will in- clude: | Continuation of the policy of inter- | national conciliation. debts question. |~ Safeguarding the stability of the Ger- | man mark. | Continued strict economy. Lowering the cost of production. Restricting superfluous imports. | Maintaining law and order against | all disturbers. Appointing ard. Against the anti-French utterances of the Nationalists at Harzburg Sunday. the chancellor pledged continuation of Franco-German eflorts ment. “Direct and open conversations such | an economic advisory at rapproch- | as that at Chequers are to pave the! for a solidarity of Nations,” he | way said, “for a possibility must be found to create clear and honest relationships and feeling between neighb Adjourned Until Tomorrow. |, “Germany, while fully appreciating the vital necessities of her neighbors demands the realization of the princi- ple justice and equality among Na- | tiens.” | _ After the reading of the government's | declaration, which was applauded by | the middle parties while the Social tag_adjourned until tomorrow. “I shall continue the foreign policy in the spirit of the conversation of the last few months, especially the most re- cent Franco-German | Bruening declared at the opening of the | Reichstag session. | “The Reich's government does not expect salvation solely through interna- tional negotiations, or with the aid of foreign countries, but Germany during the past decade has experdenced ‘more than all her neighbors how the unsolved | problems of the world have increased domestic distress to the limits of what | is bearable and have nourished a grow- ing dispair in all sections of our people. “That is why Germany has a right to appeal to all the peoples of the world at last to translate their efforts for an indispensable common effort into practical deeds.” Only Passing Relief. After emphasizing the interdepend- ence of nations, the chancellor said that ; “the far-seeing initiative of the Presi- dent of the United States unfortunately brought only passing relief.” However great the significance of the Hoover debt suspension and however grateful the German people are for it, | the chancellor said, “nevertheless the uncertainty regarding the question of | political payments alone continuously | halts international economic and finan- | cial interchange.” | _Reading of the governmental message was constantly interrupted from the { Left side of the house. | _A Communist speaker complained | " (Continued on Page 3, Column 4) DETROIT ACTS TO RAISE $6,000,000 FOR RELIEF |Mayor Asks Wealthy Citizens to | Meet With Him in Secret—Says $14,000,000 Is Needed. | By the Associated Press. DETROIT, October 13.—Mayor Frank Murphy announced today that he had | invited a group of weaithy Detroiters | to meet with him secretly to discuss the pledging of “at least $6,000,000” to aug- ment the $1,000,000 already pledged by Senator James Couzens for unemploy- ment relief, ‘The mayor said the $7,000,000 which the city can spend on poor relief this Winter “will be entirely inadequate.” He said that at least $14,000,000 will be required. When Senator Couzens originally | pledged his $1,000,000 he specified that |a fund of $10,000,000, including his donation, should be raised. Illinois Lawyer Also Charge | By the Associated Press. Records of the United States Su- preme Court show that Harold J. Bancy, the Granite City, Ill, attorney, had not only given it two checks total- ing $85, which were returned marked “insufficient funds,” but that he had also refused to pay the collect charges on a telegram sent him by the court directing his attention to the fact that payment on the checks had been re- fused. In ordering Bandy to show cause why he should not be disbarred from practice for giving the bad checks, the court stated that the che:‘ had besn / GIVES SUPREME COURT BAD CHECK, ATTORNEY FACES DISBARMENT Wire, Citing Lack of Bank Funds. d With Refusing to Pay for given last month, one for $10 and the other for $75 in payment of costs in connection with the petition of a Henry G. Pratt |voied charses by Bovert B Maristuny | geDchllte settlement of the political Democrats remained silent, the Reichs- | conversations,” | Chalrman Raskob will give a dinner to raise a Democratic fund of $1,500,000, of which $750,000 is a deficit. CAPONE'S GUARD RETURNS T0 JAL Judge Wilkerson Refuses D’Andrea Bail on Charge of Carrying Gun., | By the Associnted Press. CHICAGO, October 12.—The case of Philip D'Andrea, who considered it necessary to guard “Scarface Al" Capone, with a pistol, in Federal Court, today was continued until Friday, by Judge James H. Wilkerson, who com- mented scathingly and at length on the contempt charge. D'Andrea was returned to the jail cell ke has occu- pied since Saturday, without bond. * Assistant District Attorney Dwight H. Green filed an information charg- ing contempt against the bodyguard, | at the request of Defense Attorneys | Michael Ahern, who also is Capone’s lawyer,” and Joseph R. -Roach, acting only in the D'Andrea case. “Have you filed an appearance in this ca: Judge Wilkerson asked both attorneys when they started to speak, and replied promptly after they admitted they had not, “Then I wil not_hear you. “It is an established fact that the defendant sat through Saturday's ses- sion of this court with a gun on his person. He also had ammunition for the gun. Action must be taken against him for it.” The judge refused to allow D'Andrea bail or to continue the case until the Capone -trial was finished, as was re- | quested by Attorney Ahern. | " The Capone bodyguard said Satur- day he was a deputy bailiff and there- | fore entitled to carry a pistol. Later t was said the commission had ex- ired. 6.000 “Phony Badges.” The Daily News today credited an | unnamed police officer with the esti- mate that there avere 6,000 “phony” badges, stars and buttons in Chicago, 150 of ‘them 4n_the hands of hoodlum: “Chicago is full of stars,” the offic id. “What their bearers want is an se to carry a pistol. ‘here was the case of Mike Car- Continued on Page 2, Column 4) « MRS. HOOVER ARRIVES "IN BUFFALO AT SESSION | First Lady Will Attend Conven- | tion of Girl Scouts, Inc., To- day, With Luncheon Planned. | By the Assoclated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., October 13.—Mrs. Herbert Hoover arrived here today from ‘Washington, D. C., to attend the an- nual National Convention of Girl Scouts, Incorporated, of which she is honorary president. Mrs. Hoover was met at the station by Mrs. Frederick Edey, national presi- | dent of Girl Scouts; Mrs. Conrad Wet- lauffer, chairman of the Buffalo and Erie County Girl Scouts’ Council, and Mrs. Nicholas Brady, chairman of the national board of directors. She went at once to her hotel room, where she planned to remain until shortly before noon, when she is to at- tend & luncheon of the Natfpnal Execu- tive Committee. In the Shops Market conditions are such that Washington merchants are offering extraordinary oppor- tunities in every line of mer- chanaise. Advertising is the life of trade, to the benefit of both buyer and seller. Thrifty buy- ers follow The Star very closely every day for special offerings. Yesterday’s Advertising. (Local Display) The Eyening Star. . . 2d Newspaper 3d Newspaper. . . . .. Lines. 30,208, 11,306 7,539 client, Harry Blockburger, who was seeking a review of his conviction for violating the Harrison narcotic act. The court in its order to Bandy de- clared that after he had refused on September 28 to pay chdrges on its telegram its clerk had written him the next day on the subject. Failing to receive a reply, the clerk, the court stated, again wrote him. on October 7, earnestly requesting an immediate re- ply, but that none had been received up to the time its order was entered cesterdalle 5,290 3,499 ..27,634 4th Newspaper . . 5th Newspaper Total (Four other newspapers) The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning by regular carriers to the great majority of the best homes of all classes of people in Wash- ington and su”rhs. 'TWO HOSPITALS | l SICK CHILD DESPITE DEA TURN AWAY THS Catherine Zanelotti, 3, Denied Admission.| Crisis Would Sound Death | Two Other Children Have Died Within 10 Days After Being Shunted About. Less than 10 days after two children | died from injuries after twice being re- fused admission to Washington hos- | pitals, two of the institutions today | turned away a sick baby girl. Catherine Zanelotti, 3 years old, was denied admission to Chiliren’s and Gal- linger Hospitals after she became sud- denly {ll early this morning. Authori- ties at both the hospitals said the child was not an emergency case, and there- fore did not warrant immediate admis- sion. She was treated finally at her home by Dr. Raphael N. Manganaro of 1412 Massachusetts avenue. | _ Only last weck Eva Mae Dixon, 5, and | samuel Goddett, 9, were shunted from case were admitted only after being turned away twice The little girl died from burns short- ly after being admitted to Children's Hospital, having first been sent to Sth- ley. where first-aid trea:ment was ad- ministered, and then to Garfield Hos- | pital. ‘The boy. suffering from lockjaw due | to blood poisoning from a splinter in- fection, died 36 hours after being ad- mitted to Gallinger Hospital. He was first taken by his father, James W. Goddett, 424 Tenth street southwest, to Emergency Hospital, and later trans- ferred to Children’'s Hospital, irom where he was taken 1o Gallinger. In the Zanclotti child’s case, offictals | seages of Gallinger and Children's Hospital explained to be “emergency case,” " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) |one hospital to another and in each | MDONALD URGES - MINERS' SUPPORT ?Premier Carries Fight to Re- tain Seat Among Colliery Regions. | | I 13.—J. Ramsay MacDonald, three times prime minis- ter of Great Britain, stumped the coal mining region of Durham' today, con- tinuing his three-day struggle to de- By the Associated Press. LONDON, October fend his parliamentary constituency | |against a 47-year-old schoolmaster. | | He spoke to 2,000 miners and their | families at Easington last night in an| effort to justify his leadership of the| national government and his economy | | measures against the attacks of Wil- liam Coxon, secretary of the Labor ex- | | ecutive that rejected him. Reducing complex problems of na- tional and international import to “'sim- ple problems of housekeeping—govern- ment housekeeping,” he asked his hear- | ers to return him to the House of Com- | mons so that he might finish the job | |1n the sun. Speaks in Simple Terms. He tried to show them that world | confidence in the British financial structure meant world confidence in the British citizen, that the inflation of British currency meant a deflation in the individual's standard of living and that if the government did not make ends meet, the people could not make | ends meet. | “You don't eat pounds.” he said at| one point: “you don't wear pounds.| Sb{our shillings are worth only what you | uy. “Men and women of humble circum- stances, you who have never been forced to deal with these great prob lems, I want you to go out as apostles | 40 the coal pits, the street corneys and | :'llome fireplaces to explain the situa- on.” Silences Hecklers. | He silenced his hecklers with forth-| right language, and when a young blade insinuated he was getting too old for his position, he retorted: “Perhaps you would be willing to take over the job. My youth is being renewed by my reception here. During the last few weeks I have worked hard- er than ever. I have exhausted a half dozen assistants and am still going strong.” Over in Seaham, Coxon, fat and iolly, sat_before his fireplace in shirt sleeves and carpet slippers and told how he would be victorious and how the “money magnates would have to find MacDonald a safe constituency in Par- liament.” “MacDonald’s mantle will fall on Coxon,” he said. “The gu.:fl will de- throne the teacher, who grown old and perhaps decrepit.” MORGAN SEES LAVAL Nature of Conference in Paris Is Not Made Public. PARIS, October 13 (#)—J. P. Mor- g2n conferred this morning with Pre- mier Plerre Laval, who sails for the United States on October 16. There was no announcement regarding the nature of their conversation. Radio Programs on Page C-10 GANG SEIZES TOWN N BLASTS BANK < Bandits Escape With Cash and Bonds After Battle in Street. By the Associated Press. LIZTON, Ind., October 13.—Two au- tomobile loads of bandits early today | isolated this town from communication, wrecked the State Bank Building with a dozen blasts of nitroglycerine, shot up the town and escaped with cash and negotiable securities. Estimates of the loot were varied. George Huber, cashier, placed the total amcunt in cash and securities at ap- proximately $4,000. Marion Bailev, 72, president of the bank, who lives across the stroet from the institution, and who was awakened by the explasives, engaged in a gun | fight withh a bandit stationed in front of the bank. ‘The latter, crouched behind a barri- | cade of benches, emptied several revol- vers at the Bailey home. One of the bullets barely missea James Young, ng in an upstairs room. The robbers had timed the attack with the passage of a freight train through here, starting with a few low- toned blasts. After they fouhd resi- dents had been awakened they speeded up their blasting of the safe, grabbed up the money and fled, firing several volleys,in every direction. X The blasting began at 1:45 am. and lasted until 3:15 am. A double time |lock on the safe was knocked off and the heavy safe dcors were blown through a partition. The outside wall at the blfk of the building also was blown out. The robbers obtained a number of hammers, crowbars and tarpaulins from the Big Four Railroad sheds and en- tered the bank through a rear window. Cables at the telephone exchange were severed. Louis Pounds, Hendricks County sheriff, and Vernon Shields of the State Crime Bureau came to Lizton to investigate the robbery. ‘The bank’s loss was protected by in- surance. Lizton is midway between Indianapolis and Crawfordsville. Lizton has a population of about 200. Several residents, unable to communi- cate with authorities, remained in their homes rather than face the bullets of the bandits. that the child did not appear warranting of reinstating Great Britain in her place fm‘he"‘""!‘” of Bailey, who was sleep- | bearing fruit. | i FUTURE OF PEACE SET-UP HELD AT | STAKE IN GENEVA Knell of League. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. | By Cable to The Star. GENEVA, Switzerland, October 13.— | The situation in Geneva today is ad- | mittedly grave. The issue is not merely | war in the Far East, but the future of | the world's entire peace organization, | including the Kellogg and other pacts | and the covenant of the League of Na- | tions. 1 | i 4 1 Unless the League achieves success | | now, disarmament, it is widely said, will | be out of the question and the life of | = | the League itsclf will be threatened. So | far, it must be said, the League openly | encouragd and supportd by the United | is functioning normally. | The'League Council, urgently sum- | moned following the Japanese air bom- | bardment of Chinchow, 200 miles be- yond Mukden, met this morning wfl-h‘ | three foreizn ‘ministers :n attendance, | | Lord Reading of Greet Britain, Aristide | | Briard of France and Dino Grandi of | Italy, and staffs of Far Eastern experts from ‘the various European chancelleries. | From the information exchanged it appears that conditions in Manchuria | are no better, probably worse, thani they were three weeks ago when the | I adjourned to October 14, after | a set of resolutions intended to | cnable Japan to save face, but at the | same time to bring about respect for | existing pacts and treaties. | | Editorial Hits Japan. | The British report that there are still | at "least 2,000 Japanese troops outside | | the South Manchurian Railway zone in Chinese territory. The Germans re- port from Mukden that on October 9 there were still the same number of | Japanese troops there making almost | daily expeditions into Chinese terri- | tory, while Japanese airplanes flew 11 Council > sions_dropped bombs. | Opinion is now widespread here that | the Chinese thus far have tried scrupu- | lously to follow the world peace ma- | chinery, but that Japan is deliberately | ignoring it The case against Japan | is put strgngly in_today’s leading edi- | torial in the influential Journal de | | Geneve. _Herein_every member of the " ievery: micm) ~ (Continued on Page ?, Column 5.) | 'SLAYER OF WIFE KILLS HIMSELF IN JAIL CELL | |Convict in Maryland House of | Correction Had Served 5 Months of 18-Year Sentence. | By the Associated Press. JESSUPS, Md, October 13.—Peter Krawczyk, 44, committed suicide in his cell at the House of Correction here today after serving but five months of an 18-year sentence for the murder of his wife. Clarence Beasman, a guard, found the man’s body hanging from an improvised rope fastened to a pipe in the top of his cell LONGSHOREMEN BATTLE | HOUSTON, Tex., October 13 (#).— Officers on duty at Texas wharves since union longshoremen struck Octo- ber 1 in protest against a wage reduc- tion, redoubled their vigilance today as a result of a fight here in which nine non-union men were injured. C. M. Harris, 34, suffered a fracture of his right arm and head injuries, and eight of his companions were bruised in a clash with a group of men who halted their motor truck late yester- day. The laborers were hired by shippers a week ago Monday to replace the strikers. The fight was over when a police riot squad arrived. | NAVY BOMBING U. S. S. PITTSBURGH BECOMES ANOTHER SEA MYSTERY No Trace Exists of Batileship Used for Plane Tests Early in September—Officials Refuse to Talk. ‘What happened to the U. S. S. Pitts- burgh? Her fate, so far as the public is con- cerned, today ranks as nearly as pro- found a naval mystery as the disap- pearance at sea during the World War of the collier Cyclops, of which no trace ever has found. On September 1 the Navy Department announced that the Pittsburgh, decom- missioned second line cruiser, was to be used in tests to determine the effi- ciency of ordnance material. About the same time the Navy Hydro- graphic Office issued warhing 6 all surface vessels gnd aircraft to stay clear o of an area near the mouth of Tangier Sound, Chesapeake Bay, during the pe- riod from September 5 to 20, unless otherwise notified, because of tests to be_conducted there on the Pittsburgh. Early this week the Hydrographic Office sent out word that the tests had been terminated and the area no longer was closed to surface craft and planes. As to what happened to the Pitts- burgh in the prescribed area near the mouth of Tangier Sound the Navy has nothing whatever to say. It is to be presumed that certain tests were con- ducted upon the Pittsburgh, probably (Continued on Page 2, Column @) westward frequently and on some occa- | ;; adjourned until tomorrow or later without taking action. Dr. Alfred Sze, representing China, demanded that the League act against what he called Japa- nese military aggression, not only in the interests of peace in Man- churia, but on the ground that “unless we can co-operate in this grave emergency, we shall fail to instill any confidence in interna- tional security and, order.” Kenkichi Yoshizawa, the Japa- nese spokesman, insisted on con- tinuing airect negotiations with China, and disavowed his govern=- ment’s responsibility for the Man- churian troubles. Invokes Covenant and Pact. Dr. Sze, asserting that the hope for world disarmament depends upon the League's action now, demanded that the League direct immediate withdrawal of- Japanese troops from Manchuria. e in\-okedpthe League of Nations covenant and the Kellogg pact as “corner stones of world peace,” and as- serted that China has lived up to the principles of the League under “terrible provocations.” He emphasized that quick action is | essential if “most unhappy results” are to_be avoided. j While he spoke, the diminutive Ken- kichi Yoshizawa, Japan's representative, at impassively on the other side of the council table. Proclamations Recalled. “When our territory was suddenly in- vaded on a vast sgale, our towns laid waste and our peacelul citizens done to deaih, what was our reply?” asked Dr. Sze. The reply, he said, was in the form of three executive proclamations calling on the Chinese to remain calm and await the League's action. “The covenant and the Kellogg pact are our two sheet anchors to which we have moored our ship of state,” he said, “and with the help of these we belic we shall ride out this storm. “But the covenant and pact are also the corner stone of a world-wide edifice of peace, and if they crumble that edi- fice collapses. 5 “Is it likely that nations who had witnessed this tragic collapse of the covenant and pact at the first great test_would assemble quietly at Geneva in February to disarm? Would they not rather draw the conclusion that after all each state must rely on its own armed forces and on that alone? Security and Arms Linked. “And with the idea of disarmament goes the whole idea of international security, for the two are indissolubly linked. If we fail now, when America offers her co-operation, and fail in Feb- ruary with disarmament, what charce have we of working out some form of permanent association, some provision for a conference under the Kellogg pact 1o avert threats to peace? “However remote and irrelevant this disturbance in the Far East may seem to the West, engrossed in its pressing cares, the web of fate finds us all to- gether and unless we can co-operate cffectively in this grave emergency we shall fail in disarmament, we shall fail to instill any confidence in interna- tional security and order, and by the same token we shall fail to grapple with the world economic crisis. “China has put herself in the hands of the League and abides the issue with confidence in her destiny and in the moral _forces of _civilization. _ The (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) - WISCONSIN VOTES ON SEAT IN HOUSE Rally for Communist Nominee Ends in Riot, With Police of Racine ‘Holding Nine. By the Associated Press. RACINE, Wis,, October 13.—The first Wisconsin congressional district today was selecting a successor to the late Henry Allen Cooper, veteran Representa= tive in Congress. Local interest in the election was re- juvenated last night when a Communist rally in Monument Square in behalf of the party candidate, John Sikat, ended in a riot involving a score of police and abowt 300 civilians. Eight men and a woman were arrested on disorderly con- duct charges after a battle in which several persons were injured. In other quarters of the first district, meanwhile, supporters of four other congressional candi€s‘es. Thomas R. ie, Progressive Republicar, <. J. Bouma, Soc’alist; George Herzog, inde« pendent Democrat, and Henry Tubbs, independent Prohibitionist, were wind- ing up their campaigns with appeas for a large vote. ‘The disturbance at the Communis meting started when Patrolmen Wilbur Hansen and Otto Gautsche approached a man who was about to climb upon a monument in the square to address the crowd. As the officers demanded to see his speaker’s permit the man cl with lowered head toward Officer Gautsche. The policeman struck the mnn with his cjub and the crowd closed About 20 police officers, dressed in plain clothes and stationed near’the square in anticipation of trouble, ran to the assistance of their fellow officers, ho were pummeling the W itrolmen. essfyl effort on the part of the crowd to free their com- panions she rioters dispersed. !