Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1932, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Cloudy, slightly warmer tonight: mini- mum temperature about 39 degrees; to- morrow partly cl and warmer. Temperatures—Highest, 41, at noon today: lowest, 34, at 4 am. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pagés 14 and 15 Che Evening The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news sevvice, tar. Yesterday’s Circulation, 125,010 No. 32;076. WASHINGTON, 1 Entered as second class matter nost office, Washington, D. € ). (.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1932—FORTY-SIX PAGES. () Means Associated Pr TWO CENTS. CHINESE OVERCOME FOES AFTER BEING SWEPT BACK IN DESPERATE FIGHTING Command Surprise Attack May Halts Advance of Japanese. GERMAN CONSUL| FLEES TO SAFETY Huge Fire Is-Raging‘ Unchecked With- in Chapei. CHIANG AND FENG FACE BIG (Copyright, 1832, by the Assoclated Press) SHANGHAI, February 25— Hammered all day long by a ter-| rific Japanese bombardment, the Chinese Army in the Kiangwan sector swarmed out of its trenches tonight, launching a surprising counter attack, and won back nearly all the ground it had lost during the day. In the afternoon the Japanese threw their full force on the handful of defenders northwest of Kiangwan village, beat back the | Chinese first line and drove it into a disorderly retreat. The attack swept forward around the village, ripped through the line and virtually surrounded the Kiangwan garrison. The ar- tillery pounded the Chinese sec- ond line and a fleet of 40 Japanese planes rained 250-pound bombs on the defenses. Then the attack halted for a time, while the heavy guns con- tinued their withering fire on the Chinese rear. Recover Lost Ground. The counter attack appeared to have taken the Japanese by sur-| prise, for it carried the Chinese| back across the shell-torn ground | and tonight Kiangwan was still in "h% hmfit‘x}g thunder of heavy e Tol crashed on pel front !av.e tonight as the ese_bom- barded the enemy base in Hong- keth“flkg-ht ared to have The a) v shifted from t! m“an sector, where the - Chinese apparently were reinforced by Chiang Kai- Shek’s 88th Division. There were reports that two to three Japanese divisions were due tomorrow or Saturday and that a big Japanese drive would begin early next week. Germany’s diplomatic represen- tatives here evacuated their con- sulate tonight in the face of the possibility that the Chinese Army would shell the Hongkew sector. First to Heed Warning. They were the first foreign diplomats to withdraw following a wnmmghbyH Ma{or Wl:n’l'eh- Chen that the Hongkew sector was b dangerous for foreigners as long| The Chinese boycott of Japanese as it continued to fl used as a €oods is spreading with rapidity to Japanese military base. practically every Far Eastern port The Japanese artillery moved forward | where Chinese merchants are engaged to two new itions during the after- | x noon and mgx? infantry had long since | I business, various departments of the left the location it occupled when the | United States Government here have battle began this morning. | been informed by their representatives The big guns poured & crushing fire | ;' 1. par East on the Chinese while the infantry ad- i vanced. Fighting desperately, the Japa-| In numerous cases the boycott has nese took Miaochungehen, northwest of | reacted favorably to American-made CHIANG KAI-SHEK. NANKING, February 25 (#) —It was today BOYCOTT ON APAN HELPS .5 TRAE Favorable Reaction Reported by Agents as Chinese Spread Campaign. i U. Letier . Held Way to | Stop Notes. REJECTS TOKIO | TN ' PLAN GENTL) een Open for S. to Inerease | Pacific Forts. By the Assoclated Press. Secretary of State Stimson's | frank letter to Senator Borah out- | lining American policy in China | was seen today as a definite effort | to inform world opinion and stop ;the barrage of notes between Tokio and Washington. The letter toSenator Borah calls for no reply from the Japanese foreign office and does not in- vite international controversy.| But it lets all powers interested in the International Settlément| at Shanghal and its perils know | that the United States believes| existing treaties sufficient, if strictly adhered to, to protect the interests of China, as well as those of all other nations which signed the nine-power treaty, framed at the Washington Conference in 1922. Rejects Japan’s Suggestion. By this indirect method Japan’s suggestions that there should be treaty revisions or at least treaty interpretations to permit of for- eign intervention because of Chi- nese inability to maintain domes- tic peace and safeguard foreign interests, are definitely rejected by the United States without giv- ing Japan a direct rebuff. Congressional sentiment is aligned strongly behind the new Stimson state- ment. Individual leanings color the in- tions upon the letter, but’ no note of objection has been voiced. The forceful reminder by Stimson that the treaties fixing naval ratios are interdependent with the nine-power pact for the preservation of China's territorial integrity and her free trade, and that this pact is threatened by the present conflict, was seized upon lg navy advocates as fuel for their e. Johnson Welcomes Implication. They saw in it an inescapable infer- ence that the United States would feel no longer bound to the treaty-imposed fleet limits or the pladge against fur- ther fortification at Guam and in the Philippines, if it decldes Japan has vio- lated the nine-power pact. Senator Johnson of California welcomed an “implication that we are free now to pursue our own course.” Strong believers in the power for peace inherent in treaties and inter- national co-operation, refused to see any such implication, leaning instead |upon the strong Stimson declaration that the United States stands firmly peace pact. and all solemn international treaties for peace. One Senator expressed a rather gen- eral gratification that the United States was through “shooting paper wads’— proposals for peace and other repre- sentations—to Japan. This was Senator McNary 6f Oregon, assistant Republican leader. Reed of Pennsylvania, high Because of the political aspects, Gov- | ranking Republican on the Foreign Re- lations Committee, expressed pleasure at the same implication. JAPANESE CHARGE ERROR. by the nine-power pact, the Kellogg | Hold Stimson Is Ignorant of History of Washington Parley. By the Associated Press. ‘was covered with smoke, which made it ' show a substantial increase. | the rising trade movement, and they $60,000,000 TAKEN by Chinese merchants in Batavia, | Campaign. AUSTRALIAN TARIFF CUT CHICAGO, February 25.—The drive against hoarding has brought $60,000,- 000 back into circulation, President () —A n:w Australian tarifl schedule Hoover informed Frank Knox, head of the citizens’ reconstruction organizat'on, today. Most of the iron and steel duties wili February 23, $60,000,000 had been lured | duced. Duties on leaf tobacco used for | pointed out that it is too early to OUT OF HOARDIN Manila, Singapore and Bangkok, Siam. | thi Most of Iron and Steel Duties Back announced today provides for requction A ‘telegram from the President said | revert to the rate in force before the into trade. | manufacture were reduced. TOKIO, February 25 (#).—A high for- eign office official after reading press dispatches quoting excerpts from Sec- | retary of state Henry L. Stimson's let- | ter to Senator Borah on the Sino-Jap- anese situation today questioned the validity of Secretdry Stimson's assump- T 2| 7 Zy, 2\ E° ORE SHORTAGES HURLEY REFUSAL EARED AS STATE 10 TESTFY 15 T HELPS ARUNGTON AT HOUSE INQURY AT Ry Wi P WILBUR ASSALS CENTRAL CONTROL Calls for More Local Govern- ment—Hutchins Asks New School Scheme. | | | | | Effective local government and local | control rather than an over-centralized government. were urged for the safety of democracy by Secretary of the Xn-’ terior Wilbur at the eighth general | sessions of the National Education As- | sociation’s department of superintend- | ence convention today. ‘ “In this era of too rapid growth, of | amalgamation, of centralized power,” Secretary Wilbur declared, “we must fight for safety through effective local | government and loca] control. It is bad enough to have more people on| the payroll than on the land without | making it worse by over-cemnuuuon| in Washintgon.” Central control as applied to the national educational was at- tacked in the same session when Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, appealed for a school scheme buflt on co-operation, in which each organization would have full independence. Complex. “The problems of education.” Dr. Hutchins said, “are more complex and baflling than they have ever been be- fore. The elaborate structure that has | been rapidly erected is in danger from misunderstanding without, and dis- agreement within. If we can envisage an educational system in the United States, built on co-operation and not on rigid control, if we can grant to| each organization that independence | which its full development requires, we shall illuminate the educational scene for our people and for ourselves, and, in the light of a new day, perform our common task " Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio paid a surprise visit to the convention's res- sion shortly before noon today and in an informal talk at the invitation of Dr. | Edwin Broome. presiding officer, assured | the educators of the Government's sym- pathy with the cause of education. He related briefly the Federal efforts to stabilize industry and end the depres- sion which, it has been contended daily in the convention session, menaces school advances. In this connection he | described briefly the operation of the| Reconstruction Finance Corporation. | Last night Senator Robert M. La| Follette of .Wisconsin, placed responsi- : bility for the training of the NBtlon'sl youth to meet changing economic forces ‘suuarely on the shoulders of the educa- tors. Closes This Afternoon. Dr. Willlam John Cooper, United | States commissioner of education, an- {other speaker at today's session, out- | lined the progress made in carrying out | the recommendations of the National | Advisory Committee on Education last (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) SECRET SIX CHIEF tion that America’s naval concessions in the Washington treaty were predi- cated on guarantees embodied in the nine-power pact The terms of the naval agreement. he said, actually were completed at the Washington conference before the powers began a real consideration of Chines: problems and Japan agreed to the naval terms, leaving many | | problems of the utmost importance to her for settlement in later stages of the conference. Japan, he asserted, accepted & 60 per had ! Kiangwan, and continued their wheel- ' products, and this country's Far Eastern (Continued on Page 5, Column 6. | determine the exact extent of the in- The American trade is being advised Hoover Informs Col. Frank Knox|the last few months of 1931 and in to Old Rate. in duties on 69 articles, an increase on $295,000,000 was hoarded when the or- | previous Scullin tariff revision, but the 2,000 CHINESE VANISH IN WAR cent battleship ratio early in the con- ference, thereby leaving the Japanese delegation open to a charge of having ing drive from there. The entire area exports for this month are expected to sy { ernment officials are reluctant to discuss | creased purchases of American goods at the anti-Japanese boycott during i (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) of Results of National CANEERRA, Australia, February 25 11 and the repail of 19 special duties. ganization was formed and that, up to | duty on galvanized iron was not re- Consul at Nogales Issues Public Statement Saying Conster- nation Exists Among Those Left in Sonora. By the Assoclated Press. NOGALES, Ariz., February 25.—Con- tinued deportations of Chinese in the State of Sonora, Mexico, and the fear of arrest and imprisonment have caused additional consternation in their dwin- dling ranks, Yao-Hsiang Peng, Chinese consul in Nogales, Sonora, said today in a public statement. Of 3,000 Chinese prior to the start of the expulsion only 1,000 now remain, the consul said. “The Sonora Chinese situation has become decidedly acute,” he said. “Hundreds of Chinese residents were “Millions of dollars have been lost by the Chinese in Sonora,” Peng said. “Property has been abandoned and business disrupted. Liquidation prior to deportation was not permitted. “Notwithstanding the fact that Chi- nese and American consular agents had arranged for steamships to stop at | Mazatlan and Guaymas for Chinese | refugees, the Mexican authorities gath- ered many Orientals up and deported them, presumably to the State of Sinaloa, where a similar fate perhaps | awaits them. “As a result of these secret orders about 700 Chinese merchants of Hermo- sillo, capital city of Sonora, were de- ported and about 30 hurriedly sent out of Huatabampo. “In Nogales, many law-abiding Chi- nese were told to report to the my&rw ;ompelled to leave their business estab- ishments, abandon their homes and fiee. Other hundreds were forcibly de- The Chinese consul said Gov. Ru- dolfo Calles of smrl" had issued secret instructions to munb\p:‘!hgflm'um to fl‘TOfl the Temaining ‘without delay. (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) GEN. MAH REPORTED ' MURDERED IN HARBIN | Hero of Nonni River Bridge Fight Fell Low in Chinese Esteem for Apology to Gen. Tamon. | By the Associated Press. SHANGHAL February 25.—Chinese | dispatches from Harbin, Manchuria, re- | ported today that Gen. Mah Chan- Shan, Chinese hero of the Battle of Nonni River Bridge last Fall, had been assassinated in Harbin. From a national hero, Gen. Mah fell low in Chinese public opinion recently, when he called on Gen. Jiro Tamon, Japanese commander at Mukden, whose forces Gen. Mah's army_ opposed at Nouni River, and said he regretted ~aused Gen. Tamon “incon- TELLS OF THREATS Randolph Says He Always Drove in Locked C:r With Gun Ready. 1 | | i By the Associated Press Robert Isham Randolph, the chief of Chicago Secret Six, told a House Com- mittee today he always drove “with the doors of my car locked and my gun in a position to shoot.” | Appearing with Representatives from | St. Louis civic organizations to advo- icate a bill to punish the senders of threatening letters through the mails. | Randolph read to the House Post Office | Committee threatening letters he had | received from racketeers and told of precautions he had taken to guard against them. Walter Weisenberger, president of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, urg- ing enactment of the bill by Repre- sentative Coc! , Democrat, of Mis- sourl, contended kidnaping was no longer a local crime, but that recent operations 1ad been national in scope. C. A. Newton of the St. Louis Cit- izens’ Committee, & former member of Congress from Missouri, said the Mid- west, “St. Louls and 'Chicago, espe- cially,” have been sorely afflicted with the racketeer using the mails for his operations and that kidnaping cases have become increasingly frequent. Kidnapings, intimidations of furors and frightening of important witnesses in criminal cases were cited before the committee as proof that the mails have become & erful influence in per- pea-;ion oh 'jnme. th resentative Cochran told of the urgent demand for a way to punish officials by citizens' cor cham- bers of commerce angd police chiefs. LIEUT. FREDERICK M. TRAPNELL. NAVY FLYER LEAPS S PLANE CRASIES Lieut. F. M. Trapnell Unhurt in Parachute Jump—Fire Destroys Craft. Lieut. Fred M. Trapnell, veteran naval fiyer, leaped to safety in a parachute today when he lost control of a Curtis scouting plane on a test flight about a mile from Oxen Hill, Md. He reached the ground safely. The ship crashed in a clump of trees and was destroyed by flames. Officials of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, said Trapnell was flying at an altitude of 15,000 feet when something went wrong with the plane. He “bailed out” at 2,000 feet. Details of the flight remained to be received at the bureau. An emergency truck was sent to the scene from the Naval Air Station at Anacostia. Lieut. Trapnell has been a test flight section fiyer at Anzcostia for three years. He was appointed (o the Naval Academy from West Virginia and was graduated several years ago. His Second Leap. The ship. a scouting type, was flown from the Naval Air Station at Anacostia this morning by the airman as part of the tests given by the flight test sec- tion there. Today's jump was the second for Lieut. Trapnell. He first became member of the “Caterpillar Club” No- vember 15, 1929, when, over San Diego, Calif., he jumped from a F4B-1 plane, which had caugnt fire. The plane that cracked up today had | been at the naval air station at Ana- costia for about 10 days, and was being put through a series of tests, pre- paratory to its official acceptance by the Navy. The exact cause of the crash was not available at the Navy Department, but_officials instituted an inquiry to de- termine why Lieut. Trapnell had to +“abandon ship.” Lieut. Trapnell was born in Elizabeth, N. J., July 9, 1902, and graduated from the Naval Academy in June, 1923. He served aboard the U. S. S. Marblehead, in connection with getting the ship ready for service, in May, 1924. Served on Lexington. He went to the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla,, for instruction in De- cember, 1925, and was designated a naval aviator in March, 1927. served aboard the aircraft carrier U. S. S. Lexington, with V-T Squad- ron 1 Lieut. Trapnell came on duty with the Flight Test section at the Naval Air Station at Anacostia in January, 1930. Orders were issued recently by | the Bureau of Navigation, Navy De- partment, ordering him to heavier-than- air duty aboard the U. 8. S. Akron. He ir scheduled to ‘teport there on July 1. MILLS DENIES RUMOR No Statement Planned on Inter- national War Debts. Vague reports that the administra- tion plans to issue a statement on in ternational war debts were said tod: by _Secretary Mills to be unfounded. The Treasury Secretary’s attention was called to the rumors, which had reached here from various sources. Me declined to dignify them in a formal denial, but declared the Government had no intention of issuing such & statement. PINCHOT DISEUSSES ANTHAOOVER DRVE |Governor Confers With Sen- | ate Leaders on Campaign | Against Renomination. By the Assoclated Press. A campaign against the renomination of President Hoover was discussed today | by Gov. Giffcrd Pinchot of Pennsyl- | vanta with Re “ublican and independent Senate leaders. Meanwhile, supporters of Speaker Garner for the Democratic presidential nomination acted to keep his name from being entered in the Nebraska presi- dential primary. ‘There was a conviction at the Capitol | that Pinchot was seriously considering | entering the presidential race himselt, but he declined to discuss politics with | newspaper men. Among those he conferred with were Senators Borah of Idaho and Johnson of California, who have been promi- nently mentioned as possible opponents of President Hoover. Neither would discuss the conferences. Takes Action in Nebraska. Representative Rayburn, Democrat, of Texas, who requested yesterday that Garner not be entered in the presidential primary either directly or indirectly, today asked the same pro- cedure in a telegram to the Nebraska Garner-for-President Club. Rayburn is expected to take the same stand in all primary States, including California, where it has been announced Garner’s name would be filed to make a | three-way race with Alfred E. Smith and Governor Roosevelt. Rayburn reiterated that Garner not an active candidate, but he did not close the door to all éfforts in Fis behalf. He said the Speaker undoubt- | edly would accept the nomination if it | were tendered him. | . Rayburn's Nebraska telegram was ad- | dressed to Mrs. Lee Edwards, secretary | of the Garner-for-President Club, or- | ganized in Omaha last night. Mrs. Edwards had notified Rayburr that the organization voted te curcu- late petitions to put Garner's name on the balict and that Arthur Mullen. na- tional fommitteeman, was running a campaign for Roosevelt, whose name would be on the ballot. Support of Delegation Promised. | “If Garner'’s name is on the ballot |he will get the 16 delegates from Ne- | oraska,” Mrs. Edwards said. Governor, Legislature and School Boards Move to Extend Aid. BANK OFFERS TO LEND THE COUNTY $100,000 Emergency’ Loan Bill Passed on Wednesday by Assembly Held Unconstitutionsl. ‘With indications today. as the Vir- ginia State auditor of public accounts prepared to take personal charge of the examination of Arlington County ac- counts of E. Wade Ball, treasurer, that the books would show further short- ages, none of which has as yet been explained. the Governor of Virginia, the Legislature and the County and State Schodl Boards moved in an effort to solve the financial difficulties in which the county has found itself. The developments today included the following : A bank in Alexandria has offered to lend the county $100,000. The County School Board, after an all-night session, decided in an effort | to keep the schools open to seek a loan | from the State literary fund, and offi cials today are in Richmond for lhlt‘ purpose. Assembly today was promptly changed in both houses shortly after they convened and returned to the Governer, who said that he would sign it. The State controller, E. R. Combs. revealed that the Arlington County treasurer owes the State treasury $24,- 472.64, which should have been paid on January 31 last. This amount in- cludes license taxes amounting to $24,- 45420 and cupitation taxes amount- ing to $18.35. “rme 'shortage orlginally alleged 1s | said now to have reached a figure ap- proximating $250,000. Action Is Withheld. No official action will be taken by Arlington _ County against County Treasurer Ball pending the outcome of the audit of his books, it was an- nounced this afterncon by Lawrence Douglas, commonwealth’s attorney. “Any action with respect to Mr. Ball,” Douglas said, “has been temporarily relegated to the background pending the results of the inv tion of his accounts now being made by the State. “After the investigation Arlington County intends to lose noth as a result of the present trouble. e ex- isting financial is merely temporary. Evidence of this is shown by the fact that financial re- county’s banking connections s R. B. Jordan and R. E. Pugh, audit- ors from the office of T. Coleman An- drews, auditor of public accounts for the State of Virginia, acting under orders of Gov. Pollard, took over Ball's books today for a complete audit. Andrews himself is coming to Arling- ton County this afternoon to supervise the audit. It is reported he will bring two additional auditors with him so as to_expedite the investigation. The auditors not only will examine Ball's books, but at the request of Roy S. Braden, county manager, will make a thorough examination of the ac- counts of all other ecounty offices. Braden requested such an audit as one of his first official duties upon taking office last January 1. Reported Shortage Growing. “In the meantime the amount of the rted shortage, according to county officials, is growing. One item, involv- ing & note for $20,000 covering a wa rant issued last December by the for- mer Board of @upervisors which went out of office December 31, it was said, has not yet been paid. The bank hold- ing this note advised county officials of the failure to meet the note soon after the alleged shortages were made public, ‘This bank, in Alexandria, has offered to loan the county $100,000 during the emergency. The offer of a loan, it is said, fol- lowed the rejection of an appeal oy the Arlington County Board for an ad-| vance of $100,000 from the Pidelity & Cabinet Member Not Co- operating With Congress, Cochran Declares. REFERS TO PRESIDENT’S | STATEMENT OF THANKS i o Becretary Declines to Discuss partment of Public Works Bill. | | By the Associated Press. Chairman Cochran told the House Expenditures Committee teday that | Secretary of War Hurley had refused | to testify on a pending bill for & De- partment of Public Works. He criti- | cized the cabinet officer for “lack of co- operation” with Congress. “President Hoover thanks us for co- operating in his consolidation plan and then Secretary Hurley refuses to come up here and testify,” Cochran said. “I think the committee should go ahead without reference to desires of cabinet officers involved.” = Before Cochran made that sugges- lon, Representative Schafer, Republi- can, of Wisconsim, moved that the com- retary either to come personally or send a representative. “I make the motion, Mr. Chairman,” Schafer said, “that we request the Bec- | retary of War to cume up here himself. | To hell with him.” Reads Hurley's Letter. Hurley had explained in a letter which Cochran read that the War De- partment opposed some portions of the | pending bills and had already expressed | its opinion. Also, Hurley wrote, “it is believed the | recommendations for the reorganiza- | tion of the executive departments con- | tained in the President’s message of | Pebruary 17 are far superior to the pro- posals contained in the two bills under consideration, and would, if enscted into law, accomplish the desired end much more effectively.” Then the Secretary said: “It is, therefore, believed unnecessary to submit any further statement in the matter as requested in your letter of February 20, or to present any wit- nesses to represent the War Depart- ment before the committee.” “Delighted,” Hoover Says. President Hoover yesterday acquiesced Democratic determin- pleasantly to the ation that shall do the econ- o s o e have | do In a formal statement the Ohief delight that Con- Executive gress was active about the sub- Ject, but pointed out that for 25 years it had been trying to do some effective reorganizing without success, always running up against too great - tion. He conceded that the present “transcendent need for economy" gave more hope that something would be accomplished. It is because of past fallures, he said, that he continues to believe the power of reorganization should be I with the President. This the Demoeratic- controlled House has refused flatly to do. Mr. Hoover made no mention what- ever of Speaker Garner’s ly criti- cal statement last ‘Sunday, refusing to give blanket authority to Mr. Hoover, questioning his motives in for it and upbraiding the Republicans for try- ing to claim all the credit accruing from 'the reign of co-operation in Congress. The President’s statement was timed | to follow yesterday's announcement by the Speaker of the rsonnel of the Democratic Economy Committee, which will report yeorganization plans by April 15, Mr. Hoover had an indirect slap at the Democratic plan to merge the War and Navy Departments in assertion that it is a difficult job to effect con- solidations and abolitions “so wisely as not to injure the morale of our Army and Navy and other esséntial Govern- ment services.” The President’s statement follows: “I am delighted that the Congress is Deposit Co. of Baltimore, which had |earnestly taking up the reorganization bonded Mr. Ball for $300,000. Harry|of the Federal machinery. 1 will be A. Fellows, chairman of the county|entirely happy if my repeated messages board, said the bonding company re- | to the Congress on the subject succeed replied Garner’s friends deeply appreciated the interest \srég:: in him by Nebraska workers and |a ? “As a friend and speaking for a host |of friends of John N. Garner, it is de- |sired that Mr. Garner's name be not entered in the presidential primary in Nebraska.” As to the Pinchot conferences, it is believed neither Borah nor Johnson offered great encouragement to the anti-Hoover campaign, taking the view |it is almost an insurmountable obstacle to defeat a President for renomination. Each has ‘been urged before to get into | the race. | _Also there was every indication that | Pinchot urged Borah and Johnson to | g0 into the campaign themselves. The Idaho Senator has taken the po- sition that he will make no open cam- paign; that if his name is put up in | States not requiring the consent of the candidate he will take no notice of it ‘The Pennsylvania primary is in April and if Pinchot is going to enter the race it is considered here to be about time for him to be making open moves. Both Borah and Johnson have been (Continued on 2, Column 6.) H fused to “advance, loan or indorse the county's note for the money.” The possibility that the schools of Arlington County might be forced to close March 1, because of the apparent lack of funds, was discussed last night at a special meeting of the school board As a result of this meeting, Fletcher " (Continued on Page jumn l.)_ (Continued on Page 2, C 0 RE-OPEN . Services to Be Resumed in 25 Mex- CHURCHES T ico City Buildings. MEXICO CITY, February 25 (#)— ‘The offices of the’ Catholic hierarchy announced today that services, which have been suspended for nearly two months, will be resumed tomorrow in the cathedral, the Basilica of Guada- lupe and six other churches, and that the remainder of the 25 churches per- mitted under the new religious law will | | of the transcendent need for economy. resume services before Sunday. Pope Pius XI recently advised “toler- in securing action in an effective fashion. “It is a most unpleasant task to abol- | ish boards and bureaus and to con- solidate others, and at the same time it is a diffieult job to do it so wisely as not to injure the efficlency and | morale of our Army and Navy and other essential Government services. “Congress has attempted repeatedly | in the last 25 years to effect reorgani- | zations and has always abandoned the efforts under a multitude of opposi tions. My suggestion for the past five years has been that the responsibility should be lodged with the Executive with the right of Congress to review | the actions taken. “I, of course, continue to entertain that belief, because of the failures of | the past, and I believé results would be most expeditiously and efficiently accomplished if responsibility is lodged with ‘some one to do it. “There is more hope now than here- tofore that Congress will act because ‘The large number of investigations and ation” of the feligious law which re- |reports which have been made over restricts the church to one priest for | the last 25 years furnish the material each 50,000 inhabitants in the federal and advice necessary for rapid action. TRACES OF OLD RACE He | DISCOVERED IN CUBA | American Unearths Many Relics. Mayan Civilization Believed to Have Spread to Island. By the Assoclated Press. district. slightly more than 1,200,000, permitting 25 Catholic priests. The district population is (I hope it will be done with such ex- | pedition as to give prompt relief to the taxpayers.” JOBLESS WILL SHARE $10,000 BOK AWARD IN PHILADELPHIA HAVANA, February 25.—Dispatches from Las Martinas, Pinar Del =X Province, said Robert R. Bernett, Amer ican scientist, extreme westerly portion of the island traces of an ancient civilization. Among articles re) found in the deserted hills of the Guanahacabibes Peninsula_were an earthen plate be- lieved by Bernett to be more than 1,000 | By the Associated Press. A years old, a stone fountain, a mortar,| PHILADELPHIA, February 25.—The | beads, spoons, whetstones and bones | unnua] $10,000 Edward W. Bok award, | The belief has long prevalled here | intended for Philadelphia's greatest that the Mayan civilization of Yucatan, | public benefactor, this year will help had discovered in the|Son of Founder Announces Decision to Unemployed Back to Work. Help Put said, “as a tribute to the courage and the loyalty to American traditions with which the community has faced the hardships of 1931 and made the best of its troubles.” Philip C. Staples, who was active in, Mexico, may have spread into Cuba. Scientists said they believed, however, that Bernett's finds probably are relics of the Siboney and Taino Indians, whom Columbus found when he first visited the island. Radio Pm; on Page D-4 pay wages for those employed on| “made” work. 4 A large audience was surprised when William Curtis Bok, son of its founder, announced the recipient this ‘yur would be “the unknown citizen of Philadel- phia,” representing the community as a whole. “The award is publicly given,” Bok L the united campaign which raised more than $10,000,000 for unemployment re- lief and welfare work last November and December, received the check on behalf of “the unknown citizen.” ‘The mouih?skn“;na “r::aw ':hgg accompany award wi Historical Society of Pen for permanent display.