Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1931, Page 4

A-4 =» CANDHI WILL FIGHT | ON IF MILLION DIE Prepared for Any Sacrifice to Free India, He Says in Bombay Address. ted Press India, December 28 Mahatma Gandhi, in his first speech after his return from Lo; told a crowd of 50.000 white-capped National- y he would not By the Assoc BOMBAY, lives of a people as the price of India's In the last fight members of the Na- tionalist Congress had to face lathis staves), he said, but the next time they may have to face bullets | If the fight is inevitable, I will ex- | pect every son and daughter of Mother India to contribute his mite.” he said “However, I will not abandon attempts to save the nation from a flery ordcal If, on the other hand, there is no single 8y of hope, I shall not hesitate to call upon you to bear any amount of suf- fering.” Fights With Conscienc: .Hv\nl fr las took where a huge ¢ landing {rom the About 1,000 black flags, had gathered for Gandhi demonstration and to rush the pler. Crowd Finally Dispersed Delegations of the National Congress | caught the rush of the moo. Police, with the assistance of the congress ad- herents, fi dispersed the crowd The injured included the captain of the Bombay volunteer organization and the | secretary of the local organisation of | the National Congress The Mahatma also heard news of ee- | rious riots in other parts of India, | which have taken 12 lives in the last two days. At Lahore four Hindus and four Moslems were injured today and | taken to hospitals. The city was alarmed and a curfew order was issued | compelling all_citizens to remain in- | doors between 8 pm. and 7 a.m | E]s\m persons orted killed | y at Pe: (mo;»s 1 & group ish “red A general strike and the clos- | ing of shops was proclaimed here today | in protests against the arrest of Jawa- harial Nehru, president of the All-Indi Congress. | Mahatma Hailed as King. “ Among the first to meet the Mahatma | at the pler was his 60-year-old wife She was followed by the “untouchable” boy he adopted some time ago. | Some groups of women admirers placed garlands of flowers around his | neck. To the greetings Gandhi re- ! mained mute, because his day of sllencc| does not end until noon. He gathered | his spinning wheels, bed. his pots pans and leincloths and walked the gang plank amid a wave of salaams and a thunder of “long live Mahatm Gandhi, our king." British police and customs officers | frowned doubtiully | As he rode through the streets to the home of a friend, Nationalists | saluted all the way | Fears Trouble Ahead. As he rode up the harbor before landing, Gandhi, still observing his day of silence, wrote on a plece of paper “It's & d il feeling to be home again. But happiness is tempered with the sober realization of the days that lie a "flnv that \u*- d Gandni's Pilsna. | carrying an anti- they tried a, as the V\mnmn of for which we hunger, not sad people her STRICKEN IN BATH, SHIP CAPTAIN DIES By the Associated Press NEW YORK, December 28.—The steamer Charles H. Cramp, Baltimore to Portland, Me., put into New York last night with her captain, Ole Olsen 64, of Sea'tle, Washington, dead in his cabin Other yesterday the boat Guard, wh New York geney tre 1 collapsed g a bath abe Assistant Secretary ter Stop at Anderson, & C. ANDERSON, 8. C. December 28 (P »an here today forced dc ing Ernest Lee J woula lea s00n a An Eastern Air plane with 1 forced down by passenge the fog Detective Terror Of London Slums 27 Years Retires December By the Ass LONDON r nderworld breathec fllh of relief Inspe Keen was one the best known sleuths Scotland Yard has produced and he made him- self & terror to evildoers in the vast glum area of Bouthesst Lon- don, of which he hnd ch Unlike 1 but in keeping n'l‘; the heroes of fiction, he was a great believer in disguise and had the ability to it & different voice to each of the many roles he assumed One of the most famous of his exploits was recovery of a string of pearls bought in London for the Queen of Siam at an esti- mated price of £10,000 and stolen | |ed National Zoological Park and up to | 30, and Florence Gaillegas, 21 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, Di MBER 28, 1931 Prince in Miner’s Clothes GEORGE OF ENGLAND VISITS FIELDS IN WALES. nee George (left), son of the King and Queen of England, donned the a n when he made a tour of the coal flelds in South Wales. He | was accompanied by a lszp 0( miners, —vA P. Photo. ‘PRESIDENT GOES BEAR HUNTING WITH PEGGY ANN AND PETER Good Time at Zoo Recalls Visit of Youngsters to White House Year Ago, When They Heard of Bruin in Cellar. poken gued by stories of a bear which took posed to live in a cellar at the Whlr House, the two little Hoovers went on a real bear hunt yesterday, this yvear. But so often was he of that their th T them to see rm\ one Although | with President Hoover as guide. Their grandfather led the children, | Mr. and Mrs one on either hand, through the crowd- |ing the three-qu | there were many afternoon n-hour trip, more in the usual crowd who didn't, 1 party enjoyed com- p freedom in animal to animal. At Quaker Church Service. Earlier Peggy Ann attended one of Story of Bear in Cellar. | her first Quaker church services with When Peggy Ann and Peter, then |her grandparents aged 4 and 3, respectively, came to the | She came skipping out of the low White House 'last Christmas, some one | gray stone Frie wrch, on Florida told them of a bear that lived in the near Co 1t, as though she | cellar of the executive offices and that had enjoyed the experience it would get them if they didn't watch | Also accampanying the Chief Execu- out tive and PFirst Lady to church was Not even a reminder of the “big |their younger son Allan, for whom a bear” was needed when they returned THREE FOUND SLAIN | Suicide the bear cages. They also saw the | monkeys, the elephants and the sea | lions But it was the bears they enjoyed most And the President seemed to have as much fun as the children. | FOUR DEAD IN RIDTlNG Double Murder and Christmas Suspected. LARAMIE, Wyo., December 28 () — { What officers believed was a double murder and suicide is being investi- gated here Alfonso Mendez was found dead in a rooming house. He had been shot through the head. A gun was beside the body. Officers investigating his death went to his residence, in another | law part of the city, where they found the bodies of two wom=n, Lolita Archuleta, on | syrian Election Disorders Are Re- | sumed at Aleppo. JERUSALEM, December 28 (#).—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from | | Befrut said yesterday that four per- sons were killed and scores injured in a renewal of rioting at Aleppo, Syria, which has been virtually under martial | for four day: Four persons were killed and many wounded in rioting at Damascus a Miss Archuleta had been shot through the body seven times and Miss Gellegas was shot once. An examination of the bodies indl- cated the shooting occurred late Christ- mss night, officers said to the Syrian Parliament. The rioting was attributed to par- tisan bitterness and not to anti-French sentiment. The French have a man- ate over Syria. 1325 F STREET Semi- _Annual Clea of Our Entire Stock of , kuppenh \SUITS an Group One: Reduced Other (n oups in I),-oporiwfl $ szi-A anwal Sale HABERDASH % »X]AMAS NECKWEAR o] /! 7 Reduced! Reduced! R Now reduced to 3 for §2 NECKWEAR $1.15 Jormerly $1.50 Now reduced to formerly § $3.45 st Low iy v _',_,_'1_’— NECKWEAR §1 .65 ROBES Now reduced to 3 for $4.50 Reduced! BROCADED ROBES p:\JA“A“ Jormerin §3 Xow reduM 73 tor #1 PAJAMAS formerly $3.50 Now reduced 10 in transit to Bangkok. He ar- rosted the thief in London on a tip from Singapore after police of two continents had searched NECKWEAR $2-45 M"SS\.&' © s for §1 the stroll from week ago in connection with elections | T NIERS rance eimer & Grosner d OV LRCOAT " |||l|l||l“l“m“m“mm““m“““““ HOOVER HOME PLAN MEETS HOUSE SNAG Democratic Opposition Grows on Bill to Put $150,000,000 in Loan Discount Banks. Mayor 28 Years NEW BEDFORD, MASS., CHIEF IS 73 YEARS OF AGE. | By the Associatea Press House Democrats are going to ex-| amine President Hoover's recommenda- . | | tion for 12 home loan discount banks closely before they give it their legisla- ¢ tive blessing ’ | They approved the debt moratorium > . | {in a burry and right efter it the bill {to increase the capitalization of the | Federal land banks by $100.000,000. | They have promised to pass the bill| for the $500,000,000 reconst : " poration. | : : 3 | fter that, however, they expe | in rushing through 1y : 2 ation recommended by nt. and the home loan dis come in that category ER ASHLEY, L’"J begins as or Rainey Plans Close Scrutiny. Oppo o the Dropos emong the House Democr e Rainey of Il leader. sald today others recommended by the adm | tration would be closely studied b-fore | | betng brought up for action, if at all | | The measure to establish the hot y fifth term and is expected to be a candidate ft nother term in Decem- ver, 1932, despite the fact he is 73 hley is a native of New Bedford. | AA P. Photo. | qux ban k; was_introduced by Repre- |- | ‘“K ative Luce, M el : T r of the Hous x I.anguage M l trsfied by Eugene -Aangt ‘Pl ( l Cl)."'l’ of the Federal Reserve B v P amed or d Bilt Calls for $£150,000,000. Bld . Reiney said “the Government failed | ‘& s Qilencine ‘ to meke a success of the Federal land | () ‘H b ’ll( n( I"r‘ ‘/\“ banks and we have to give them $100. ~1 e | 000,000 ndr?ltlnnal for capital ‘ > l“‘l l we create the home loan bank :\dv‘m i 4 i | We can expect the same result. RadioProgramsHaltWhi "‘ owever, Luce said, once the system Tot . 15 eatabished. van mporan omiee| Vain Search Is Made to the resumption of home building N . activity will have been cleared out of for Periled Ship. e way.” Under the Luce measure $150,000,000 would be appropriated for the bank’s | capital. As outlined, the system would | finan almost $2,000.000,000 for bor- ing institutions by means of bond or note issues By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 28.—A lin- | guistic mix-up was believed responsible for veported S O S calls which caused | . a furry of excitement all slong éhe‘ ’ South and Pacific Coasts early today TUNNEY’S PLEA GRANTED |ond cicared the air of radio entertain- | ment for 15 minutes while & check was | IN $900 YACHT DISPUTE{ being mace | | "The naval radio station NAX at Colon first reported receiving the S O S | d believed it to be from the filibus- fering ship Superior of the Mexican Gulf Navigation Co., on its way back to Vera Cruz from Venezuela Other stations were ordered to clear the air at once and operators listened WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., December | for further calls. Various reports were 28—Gene Tunney foday won the firs | received tending to confirm the first round of a battle over a yacht. distress signal, but none of them tallied Supreme Court Justice Joseph Mor- | on position, and when the Superior re- | w(‘hauscr granted an application of the | ported safely on its course it was de- | former boxing champion to compel |cided some one had misinterpreted a Henry Bacon of Scarsdale to arbitrate | Spanish weather message. [ a dispute over how much rental Tun- s ey . | L L DL DR R Jncendiariem fs so prevalent on Tyne- | Tunney signed a_contract -agreeing | ow oy dogs have been stationsd. and to rent, the TACht for ‘ohe most fas | TR and dogs feraiicecs aticiad (nd | $900. " "Thon, "he said. he gave moties | Man-traps established. he would not need it. Bacon insisted he pay the full $900. Tunney pointed to a clause in the contract providing for the appointment of three arbitrators "if'a disagfoement arose. Bacan ratved | to arbitrate. Tunney went to court Now the arbitrators will be appointed, one by Bacon, one by the former cham- | pion. and the third by the two thus | chosen. They will decide how much | of the $900 Tunney must pay. |ASKS ARCHBISHOP S EX1LE MEXICO CITY, December 28 ().— | Immediate expulsion from Mexico of | Archbishop Pascual Diaz was asked of | President Ortiz Rubio last night in an open letter sent to him by Senator | Manlio Fabio Altamirano of Vera Cruz. | | Achbishop Diaz addressed an open letter to President Ortiz Rublo last week, | asking reconsideration of the proposed | law which would limit the Catholic | Arbitrators to Decide if Ex-Cham- pion Must Pay Full Month’s Rent for Boat He Didn’t Use. By the Assoclated Press. Matrimonial Clubs List 100,000 Women For Marriage in *31 By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 28.—More than 100,000 lonely women sought husbands during the last year through matrimonial clubs and bureaus in the United States, it was revealed by a survey made by Charles E. Miner, general di- rector of the Committee of Fif- teen, a Chicago civic organiza- tion “That more than 100,000 wom- en can be identified as holding membership in such clubs as were found during the investiga- fion 18 chalienging évidencs of need for social contacts.far wider DRYS EXPECT 1332 | Strategy confidently expects the coming | | cause, it said in a statement last night 10 BRING VIGTORIES Raskob Ousting and Defeat of Wets at Conventions Predicted by Board. The National Prohibition Board of year to be a good one for the dry| citing four major reasons for this opinion. They were “1. There is a growing conviction in Congress that no snap action should be taken upon the eighteenth amendment in a so-called referendum, for which there is neither constitutional provision nor precedent. Wet Defeat in Congress Seen. “2. There is an equally widening conviction that taxing the vices of a | people to raise revenue is the resort of bankrupt statesmanship | “3. The dry majority in America Is | getting aroused. Before the party con- ventions next June Congress will have voted down—if & vote is reached—all repeal or modification proposals, and | neither party will dare write such & | plank into its platform, not even a | referendum plank. | W. C. T. U. Claims Gains, | “4. John J. Raskob will be retired | from his overlordship of the Demo- | ratic party with the nominations of | andidates in June. No Democratic nominee for the presidency will retain | Raskob as chairman of the party’s Na- tional Committee ” A statement from the Woman's Chris- | tian Temperance Union called 1931 “a | high-water mark for prohibition so | far,” citing fatlure of the wets to gain | any ground in 44 State Legislatures as one of the outstanding developments. THe HecHT Co. 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