Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1932, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; con- tinued cool; gentle to moderate north- east and east winds. Temperatures—Highest, 83, at 2:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 66, at 7:35 a.m. today. The only evening paper in Washington with the Auo.cinted Press news service. Full report on page 12. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 he = No. 32,190, Entered_as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. benin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Sfar, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1932—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. #% DEBT SETTLEMENT TOLEAVE OUT PLEA FOR CANCELLATION, Final Adjustment Reported Agreed on by European Statesmen. WOULD BAR INTERFERING WITH ELECTIONS IN U. S. Hope for Favorable Reaction to Balance Sheets Showing Ger- many Unable to Pay. By the Associated Press. LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 18.— | b0, In quarters close to the big powers acsociated in the conferencé on repara- tions and war debts, it was said today the European statesmen ere preparing a final reparations settlement without &n American guarantee of cancellation or revision of the war debts payments due the United States. Any notion of a resolution proposing to ask the Government at Washington to cancel the war debts apparently has been given up as likely to interfere with the presidential election in the United States. The method under discussion, it was £aid, is to cancel Germany’s uncondi- tional and conditional annuities under the Young plan, to bond the German railways for an undetermined amountl and then, without a direct appeal to the United States, to publish balance sheets showing Germany uncble to pay | her debts in the hope that American | opinion would draw favorable conclu- | sions therefrom. If this procedure should be adopted | it would mean that France would have | to give up its traditional claims and | discontinue resistance to scrapping the | Young plan without previous assurance that America was willing to co-operate. The idea of a moratorium appears to have receded since yesterday's provi- | sional declaration which wiped out| about $48.000.000 in reparations ‘“re- served” for the duration of this con- ference. Today there was some dis- cussion of another loan for Germany. LEADERS CONFER AT GENEVA. Debts Delegates Visit Scene of Disarma- | ment Conference. GENEVA, Switzerland, June 18 (#).— In the week-end adjournment of the| debts conference at Lausanne most of | th> leading figures in that parley have come back to Geneva, where the Dis- armament Conference is still technically in_session. This_afternoon Hugh Gibson and Hugh R. Wilson, the American dele- 2tes. conferred with Sir John Simon and Sir Herbert Samuel, British repre- sentatives. Prime Minister MacDonald Dino Grandi of Italy also were and Joseph Paul-Boncour was on | for France. | All the disermement meetings which | lece here now are private and! , but it was understood the| negotiators have been talking about a | long armaments tr without replace- | ments and a percentage reduction in! 2rms budgets. CABINET BACKS HERRIOT. Unarimous Approval Given French | Premier's Work at Lausannme. | S, June 18 (P)—The cabinet| oted unanimous approval of lhe: of Premicr Herriot at Lausanne of Joseph Paul-Boncour, the French dclegate to the Disarmament cence at Geneva. M. Herriot, who came back from Lau- sanne for the cabinet meeting, said there secmed to be a general desire! for agreement regarding debts and | certail the tension over this| issue has d ished. He is going back to Lausanr ATLANTIC AGAIN| Asks British Navy to Attempt Res- cue of Plane He Believes Still Floating in Ocean. he Associated Press. LONDON, June 18.—Stanislaus Haus- | ner, Polish-born American flyer, who] was rescued from the Atlantic a week ago today after failing to fiy from New | York to Warsaw, plans to try the flight | again this year, he said in a message ! received from him today. message was sent from the freighter Circle Shell, which picked him | up out of the sea 500 miles off the coast | of Portugal, and which is taking him | back to the nited States. Hausner asked if it were possible for the British government to send a train- ing ship to salvage his plane, which abandoned at the spot where he was | ued. He said it would keep afloat week or more. Housner revealed that he flew 28 hours | bofore he was forced down into the | ocean, “I was forced down at 7 o'clock S: y evening, June 4.” he said, “after 28 hours of flying. My greatest suffer- ing 15 the loss of my plane. “1 hope to fly to Warsaw this vear, Is it possible for the government to send a training ship to salvage the plane? It will keep afloat a week or more, “I was not injured and have now re- | covered completely from my experiences during the week I was adrift on the ozean. T will send full details when I reach New Orleans. "HOSPITAL HOLD-UP FAILS Five Armed Bandits Leave With Empty Strong Box. NEW YORK, June 18 (#).—Five armed robbers invaded the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital today apparently in the hope of seizing a $10,000 pay roll. ‘They held elevator operators, a tele- phene girl and the office force at bay | and rummaged about the ground floor until they found a locked strong box. With this they fled in a battered, old automobile, not stopping to open it on the spot. The strong box was empty.. Dadio Programs on Page B-5 Unable to Swim, Mother Plunges in And Saves Child Unconscious but Holding to Small Son When Boat Arrives. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 18—The love of a mother for her child is the story of Mrs. Rose Hammitt. Like so many who lived on moored barges, she cannot swim. Yet when her 3-year-old son, Erich, tumbled overboard yesterday, she ran quickly to the side of the barge and leaped over- board. She could not swim; but air, trapped in her clothing as she dropped, feet first, into the water, buoyed her. Her screams brought a rescue boat which arrived, as she lay in the water, face under and slowly sinking. It appeared as though her heroism had been in vain; but when they pulled her, unconscious, into the boat they found, locked in her arms, her little y. They will live. DEMOCRATS MOVE ON'TO CONVENTION {Prohibition Battle Already HODVER WAL LT CANPAGHWORKTT MAJR ADDRESSES Statement Says Duties of Office Will Require Most of President’s Time. |CHICAGO AND NEW YORK | HEADQUARTERS PLANNED (Pressure of Business to Prevent Chief Executive’s Attendance at Olympic Games. The White House announced today that with the exception of a few major addresses advancing policies of the ad- ministraticn, President Hoover will not take part in the forthcoming campaign. In a brief statement, evidently in- spired by newspaper stories during the past few days that he would take an active part in the campaign, the Presi- dent made his position clear. Simultaneously, he announced that the headquarters of the Republican Na- tional Committee here would be closed and campaign centers established in Yesterday’s Circulation, 119,992 (P) Means Associated Pre TWO CENTS. | e > ))) ;/4/,/////// / 7 77 FURLOUGH OR CUT Will Choose Between Presi- dent’s Plan and Straight Wage Reduction. CONFEREES ARE AGREED ON ALL OGTHER ANGLES Republicans Hope to Pass Program Sponsored by Administra- tion. Secretary Mills today informed President Hoover that in responsc to a Senate request for scpecific re- ductions in Federal exp: ures, he could reduce the Treasury Depart- ment appropriation by an additional $4,367,000. The Treasury Secretary said he had “scraped the bottom of the till right down the line” to fined the ad- ditional possible savings. He said the propcsed saving could be made exclusive cf any public building items HOUSE FACES VOTE BONUS ARMY VOWS NEXT MONDAY ON TO STAY, DESPITE DEFEAT IN SENATE Only Scattered Groups Begin Trek From Camp Marke Toward Home, PATMAN MEASURE LOST BY VOTE OF 62 TO 18 All Hopes for Cash This Year Are Lost—Veterans Determined on Long Wait. The weary “army of no occupation,” composed of thousands of World War | veterans macsed here to demand ful] | Payment of the bonus, showed little | signs today of weakening in its deci |sion to remain in Washington until it obtains favorable congressional action, An avalanche of Senate votes last night buried all hopes of the army cashing in on its $2,400,000,000 claim against the Government this year. By a 62-to-18 vote the Senate rejected the | Patman bill, which had swept through and would be effected without reduc- the House, 211 to 176. Chicago and New York. He also made | it known that he probably will not make his scheduled journey to the West Coast to open the Olympic Games. President’s Statement. ‘The statement follows: “I have informed Republican leaders that except for a few major addresses | expounding policies of the administra- straggling | tion, I will not take part in the forth- Discussed as Vanguard Arrives. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Jun: 18.—Prohibition, the word that spelled rearing disputz Tor the Republicans now homeward, was first on the tcngues|COMINg campaign as my undivided at. of convention-bent Democrats. tention must be given fo the duties of Candidates, economic issues, even or- | " The ca genization, took second place in the managed entirely by Chairman Sanders discussion of newly arrived Demncrntici:’;g b:*:; Sigfigh{:fi :;gag!fl:non.’ ,{f leaders to the question: What will the | Republican National Committee :hu:xl& Democrats do about prehibition? | b2 removed from Washington and es- Jouett Shouse, chairman of the tablished at Chicago and New York Demceratic National Ex:cutive Com- | T, Sanders will be visiting Washirgton “The campaign will be conducted and | PROBERS TOLDFOK HD STOCK DEALS i Witness Says Check Was| Made to Another—May Visit Sick Man. | By the Associated Press. | Testimony that a $322.960 check had | been made out to another person to| Lindbergh Willing - To Appear at Trial Of John H. Curtis By the Assoctated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J, June 18.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has expressed willingness to ac- cept service of a cubpoena by the defense for appearance at the trial of John H. Curtis, kidnap hoaxer. Lloyd Fisher, attorney for Cur- tis, said constables seeking to serve principals in the case were informed at the Morrow home in Englewood last night that Col. Lindbergh would be available there today. Betty Gow. -urse to the murdered Lindbergh baby, mitte2, puffing at a black briar between answers to the two-score newspaper in the course of a few days to complete | conceal the fact that William Fox, for- | these arrangements. i mer theater operator, had been d=aling “In accordance with the traditions men at his first press conference, be- | since their beginning that heads o lieved the party would adopt a plank f“h‘;ds'}‘lg‘ggd 0&9&‘&2‘9{ ?nlymflic e favoring submission of prohibition 10 | pleasure and I had also noped to spemd the people to determine whether they | a few weeks at my home at Stanford want the eighteenth amencment Te- pealed. He called the Republican plank im- possible of interpretation and said that of the Democrats would be specific and brief. He expected that it would de- nounce ccnditions under prohibition in its preamble. Work to Begin Thursday. The tentative picked members of the Democratic Resolutions Committee will assemble next Thursday to begin work on that party's platform, hoping that they can saw out the rough outlines of most of the planks by the time the convention assembles. held on some of Opening _hear- | | University, but at this moment this seems improbable as my paramount | ’duty is here.” Remains in Capital. < | Anticipating the possibility of the arrival late tcday of Chairman Sanders, besides the business of his officc which required his attention today, President Hoover decided to remain in Washing- | ton this weck end, although he had | been looking forward to a visit to his Rapidan camp. | It was said at the White House that it was not known just whem Mr, | t0 put Fox Theaters stock “before the | Sanders would arrive for his first con- ference with Mr. Hoover ‘since his se- lection to taks charge of the cam- ings probably will be paign. The impression was, however, the disputad issues. The cocnvention iiself will have to ratify the make-up of the committez later. ‘While the Resolutions Committee may have a ready-made plank for the con- vention when it meets, Shouse does not believe the prohibition question will be disposed of without a floor fight such as | provided the dramatic high spot for the newly adjourned Republican meeting. The last paper from the littered work room floors had hardly bzen cleared | away from that Republican convention before Shouse and others who will help to arrange for the Democratic meeting were on the ground. Two Headquarters Opened. Already the headquarters of two of the Democratic presidentiel contenders are set up. The first on the scene were representatives of John N. Garner, the Speaker of the House. Quarters for G:lv. Murray of Oklahoma were opened today. The Democratic candidates for the presidency will all have rooms just va- cated in the Congress Hotel by the Re- publican National Committee. Around the thickly carpeted mezzanine will be big piacards emblazoned Wwith the names of the men who hop2 to iear the Democratic standard in the presi- dential joust of 1932. Through the Re- publican meecting, there was never a poster to indicate that there was a fight for either of thos> major honors that are in the power of a party to give. Many in Field. Garner, Roosevelt, Murray, Gov. Ritchie of Maryland, Gov. Byrd of Vir- ginia, Fighting “Jim" Reed of Missouri and that “happy warrior” of 1928, Al- fred E. Smith, will be the names that {1ook down upon the public from the colored posters. Most of them will be here in person for the tussle and mid- week will find them on the ground, digging in for the battle. Another dispute, too, will face the convention. Jouett Shouse faces a con- test for the permanent chairmanship from Senator Walsh of Montana. Walsh is a Roosevelt candidate and Shouse has been regarded as aligned with the Roosevelt opposition. Out of all these batties, plus the usual row over which of the cuntest- |ing delegations shall be seated, Chicago hotel men are hoping for occupied rooms for a long ti Slaying—Suspectl Body Found. SHANGHALI June 18 (#).—The body | of John M. Hansen, Brooklyn, N. Y., vho was sought by police in connection with the slaying of another American, Rodney K. Heim of Portland, Me., early today, was found tonight in a rooming house in the French concession. Police said he had committed suicide. that Mr. Sanders would present him- self either late this afternoon, tomor- row or Mcnday. Indications also were that others prominent in the high counsels of the party would confer with the President either today or Monday. It is expected that when Mr. Hoover and the new head of the National Com- | mittee and the other party chieftains | get_together, tentative plans of a gen- | eral nature for the conduct of the cam- | paign will b2 worked out. When this | has been accomplished and the general policy has been agreed upon, the de- tails will be turned over to Chairman Sanders and his associates to handle. Requested Removal. The removal of national headquarters frem Washington is understood to have been decided upon at the earnest | | though some of the party leaders had | time. i A number of reasons have been ad- vanced for the President’s desire to take the headquarters out of Wash- ington Principal among these is the left as free as possible to carry on the | work of the Government without the | interference that naturally would fol- headquarters. Another reason for the shift of head- quarters is that the political strategy of locating in the Middle West as well as in New York City cannot bz over- estimated. The Middle West is expected to be one of the pivotal sections in | November, and the fact that the party’s (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) MRS. ESLICK WILL RUN FOR SEAT IN HOUSE Widow of Tennessee Representa- tive Agrees to Enter Race for Unexpired Term. By the Associated Press. PULASKI, Tenn, Junz 18.—Mrs. Ed- ward E. Eslick, widow of the Tennessee Representative who died on the floor of the House Tuesday, may become Tennessee’s first elected Congress- woman. William Fry. Columbia, Tenn., attor- ney and ex-service man, announced last night after a visit to Mrs. Eslick that she had agreed to seek election as Representative from her husband's district to fill his unexpired term. Fry said a number of ex-service men, friends and relatives had urged her to make the race. DAWES MENTIONED AS PRESIDENT |{OF CHICAGO CIVICOPERA COMPANY Trustees Expected to Elect General to Take Place of Samuel By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 18.—Reports were current todey among backers of the Chicago Civic Opera that its trustees would elect Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes Insull, long the principal the meeting in view of his relirem=nt rests S | f hi 12 ip to Insull esidenti e, he | from all his utility interests and his | perts of his successorship to Insull and pre 2] candidate, and offered taf | e brg‘n Gongestion has completely cleared.” s expresced desire to withdraw from all other activities. “angel” | of the opera, is expected to resign at|and is an _accomplished pianist and 'nounced the group has 1 Insull. ‘ Gen. Dawes, the ‘former Vice Presi- dent of the United States, Ambassador |to Great Britain and head of the Re- construction Finance Corporation, re- turns to Chicago and private life to- ( president to succeed Samuel Insull ntfd,y for the first time in more than |a meeting next Wednesday. eight years. He is now vice president of the opera | composer. His return renswed the re- it was believed he wculd not decline the election, * request of th: President himself, al-| been suggesting such a step for some | understanding that he is anxious to be! low if Washington were the campaign | !in his own stock on the New York Ex- fi change was given the Serate Banking | Committee teday by P. J. Higgins, a partner in M. J. Meehan & Co. | Meanwhile, Senator Carey, Repub- | lican, of Wyoming, told the committes ithat if Fox does not appear Monday for questioning he will move that the committee question him in the hotel | room where the theater man is reported Ifll. He has failed to appear for three days in succession. Earlier, Bradford Ellsworth, inde- pendent operator and pool manager, told the committee he had paid $24,000 to newspaper men for publicity in crder | public.” Fox's market activities are a part of llhe extensive fincings of the committee that_have led it to decide to ask the | | Senate to extend the investigation | through the next term of Congress. Found Much Evidence. Members of the committee say they have unearthed 10 times as much evi- di n be reported during the cer of this session. The new p'an, unanimously ap- proved, is to have the crew of expert investigators, under Counsel Wiliiam A. Gray, amass material during the Sum- mer. The committee would not resume hearings until Fall, but would con- tinue them on toward the March 4 ad- Jjournment date of this Congress. At the hearing today Gray showed Higgins a copy of the check which was made out to the witness but in- dorsed to Fox. 5 Under Gray's questioning Higgins acknowledged the check was in pay- ment of Fox's interest in a pool. The witness testified the check was made out to himself for the purpose of “concealing from the clerical force the fact that Mr. Fox was dealing in this stock.” Means of Hiding Pool. Gray asserted it was a means of con- cealing from the public as well as the clerical force the fact “that Mr. Fox was in a short pool ih his own stock.” While questioning Higgins, Gray said in the case of John J. Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who, it has been testified, also partici- pated in a Fox pool, there was no need of a check “because he had another account and it was simply transferred | over to that other account.” “Why all the concealment?” Gray ex- claimed. Walter Best, an employe of M. J. Meehan & Co,, said “a man named Jack G. Leo” loaned the account 125,000 sh;;es in December, 1928, and January, 1929. Gray _described Leo as a brother-in- Fox holdings were finally disposed of to bonus for no apparent reason. In reporting Fox’s continued illness the theater man said two doctors had " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) . ARMY SUPPLY BILL SENT TO CONFERENCE Disagrees With Senate, Principally on Proposal to Drop 2,000 Officers. House By the Associated Press. Speeding’ its work so as to adjourn next week, the House today disagreed 578,513 War Department appropriations bill and sent the measure to conference. The principal point at issue between the House and Senate is the prcposed compulsory discharge of 2,000 Army officers. Representative Collins, Democrat, of Mississippi, said off the floor he would insist upon retaining this reduction, already approved by the House, but rejected by the Senate. Offer Long Candidacy. | g OMAHA, Nebr., June 18 (—Roy M. Harrop, chairman of the Farmer-Labor party’s Executive Committee, today an- dropped Col. Frank E. Webb of San Francisco &5 its lace to fo ~ Senator Huey Long law of Fox and remarked that when the | Harley Clark, Leo received a $500,000 | to the committee earlier, an attorney for | to Senate amendments on the $389,-| was served last night, and Ollie Wheatly, a Lindbergh butler, was presented with a subpoena several days ago. Fisher said a number of Curtis’ friends had expressed willingness to appear in his behalf. Very Rev. H. Dobson-Peacock was re- ported willing to appear. CHILEAN NAVY ASKS TS OWN' MINISTRY Requests for Separate Air Force and Early Elections Also Made of Davila. | | By the Assoclated Press. | SANTIAGO, Chile, | Chilean Navy, which had a part in the counterrevolt that placed a new junta under Carlos Davila in power yester- day, presented a demand for its own autonomy to the new government today. The navy asked three things—its own return to its former place in the cab- inet, with its own minister instcad of being under the ministry of national defense. The right to have its own air force and that elections be held to choose a new President 2s soon as con- venient. The new junta was completed last night when Nalasco Cardenas, a for- mer deputy, was sworn in as a member. Tha cabinet also was completed with the selection cf Carlos Soto Rengifo as minister of education, Dr. Francisco Landa as minister of health, Augusto Pinto 2s minister of labor, Arturo | Riveros, minister of agriculture, and | Alberto Veloso, minister of lands. | The censorship which was imposed |the day President Mcntero was ove: | thrown " was lifted briefly this mornin; but was re-established again in less ' than an hour. | 1t was announced this forenoon that Carlos Ibanez, the former President | who fled last July after a rebellion, vould return this afternoon by airplane | from Mendoza, the Argentine town on the other side of the Andes where he | Mas lived for the past year. He will pay his respects to the new govermment and then go to his estate outsice the city, where he will make his hcme. The government granted per- mission for his return. EX-PRESIDENT TO RETURN. Ibanez, Former Dictator, to Leave Exile Today or Tomerrow. BUENOS AIRES, June 18 (#).—The correspondent of the newspaper La Nacion, at Mendoza, Argentina, re- | ported today it was understood there former President Carlos Ibanez of Chile would return to Chile today or to- OrTOW. mIbnnez. once styled Chile’s dictator, who has been living in exile since he was ousted nearly a year ago, was quoted by the correspondent as saving he was gratified by the success of the counter revolt of Carios Davila at Santiago yesterday. “The men who form the new junta ere the best guarantors of fulfillment of a program of international order,” Ibanez was reported as saying. Tbanez has been living at Mendoza for some time. Former President Juan Esteban Montero, who was forced out by the original coup or Senor Davila and Col. Marmaduke Grove, on June 4, returned to Mendoza today from a nearby town where he had been living, the correspondent said. SPEAKER GARNER GAINS Physician Reports Continued Im- provement in Condition. Continued improvement in the con- dition of Speaker Garner was reported today by his attending physician, George Calver. His bulletin said “Speaker Garner’s condition is gradually improving. H2 will not be permitted out cf bed until RELIEF MEASURE Bill Debated—Struggle Is Anticipated. Unemployment relief swung back into the Senate spotlight today with the beginning of debate on the $2,000,000,000 | Democratic relief bill. BEFORE SEWATE $2,000,000,000 Democratic! ing personnel. Only 10 Democrats, 7 Republicans The House will be asked Monday to | 3d 1 Farmer-Laborite voted for the choose between President Hoover's fur- | legislation. Crouched around camp fires on the o lough plan and a flat 10 per Cent Pay | gy¢sof Anacostia or huddled in groups | cut for all Federal employes receiving | within buildings in other camps the more than $1200 a year. | bewildered army of mud-spattered and In discussing with newspaper men | tattered-clothed veterans took stock of 5 tween | their future during the early hours of plans to break the deadlock between | (pic cniy rain. threatening day. the Senate and the House, Ch:urman‘ A | McDuffie of the House conferees said | Scattered Groups Leave. | Before noon there was a noticeable |the furlough plan, “which is purely lexoanal fros Gamp: Matks: but it a\d speculative, is estimated to save $80.- | not assume any large proportions. 000,000 a vear, while the pay cut would | Scattered groups made their vay out | save $110,000.0% to $113,000,000.” of camp with their possessions tucke un heir 1 i He added the Senate and House con- | s eI arms or slung across their ferees had agreed on all other provi-| Comdr. in Chief Walter W. Waters sions of th> $150,000,000 economy bill | of the Bonus Expeditionary Force vis- ¢ e _lited the camp and was cheered when save that dealing with Federal em-| o toq the men they were at liberty ployes’ sala | to return home if they wished to, but Immediately after voting down the | bonus bill last night the Senate made | pending business the Wagner measure, containing provision for $500,000,000 | Submitted to House. 1 | The report of the conferees was sub- | mitted to the House teday. It pro-, posed that the House insist upon a| | provision levying a 10 per cent cut on| | for public works. ; {55 Gioesieent eutfon It ail salaries over $1, 1 . If ihe seuesl opinionfon Cxpttol | posal that will be acted upon Monda; | Hill that the enactment of any relief | Republicans, at the urging of Pres legislation this session depends largely | dent Hoover and Representative Mich- upon what action the Senate takes | ener of Michigan, acting minority et % | Jeader, will advocate the furlough plan, e which calls for a month's vacation | It was reported earlier in the week | without pay. They expect enough | by the Senate Banking Ccmmittee as a | Democratic votes to assure its adoption. | substitute for the Garner bill passed by‘D“ the flat pay cut is rejected, Mc- | uffie and other House conferees plan j those who did were certainly “weak sisters.” At the camp headquarters, it was sald about 200 men reported in overnight. One of the groups that went out today in a truck apparently feared its des parture might be misconstrued and had painted on the vehicle in huge letters Philadelphia vets not going home— going for food.” Veterans Vow to Stay. A statement reiterating the intention of the bonus army to stay here unti] its aims are accomplished and repeating that the veterans will seek the defeat June 18—The | Dr. | $1,050 fit | by the House, so as to make possible & }compromlsc in conference. The House has steadily refused to consider the Sen- ate's $300,000,000 emergency bill for re- | is expedited. Because of the administraticn’s oppo- sition to public works bond issues at this time, a feature of the Wagner over the legislation. Senator Wagner opened ths fight for the measure. He said the Labor De- partment estimated that cre than 1,000,000 families are now “eating the bread of charity” in cities in this coun- try, having a total of less than one- | third of the Nation’s population. “They are victims of a national dis- | aster,” Wagner said, “and their plight | constitutes a national problem that falls with equal responsibility cn local, State | and national governments.” In addition to the bend issue the Wagner bill provides for increasing the | torrowing_power of the Reconstruction | Finance Corporation by $1,500,000,000 | | for construction loans of a self-liquidat- | ing nature, 'MOORE MENTIONED FOR THE PRESIDENCY Jersey Governor Considered as Pos- sible Dark Horse at Chicago. | By the Assoclated Press. JERSEY CITY, N. J., June 18—The | Frank Hague, vice chairman of the | Democratic National Committee, counting on Gov. A. Harry Moore as a dark-horse candidate “for the presi- decntial nomination in the event the | Rocsevelt-Smith contest leaves the field | open. | "While Moore is what might be classed |as a cne-to-five shot, the paper, said, more than one New Jersey politician has been busy the past few days figur- ing out his possibilities. Moore, although elected as one of the delegates at large to the Demo- cratic National Convention, will not go with the other delegates. This is ascribed by some as a move on Hague's part to keep Moore from being embroiled in any of the convention complicaticns and keep him for a last- minute entrant should there develop & chance of uniting on Moore in the event of a deadlock, the Journal said. | lief loans to States until the Garner bill | |'to propose that the furlough plan be |Of those members of Congress who | emended to apply an 813 per cent re- Voted against them was issued this | duction to the salaries of all Federal morning by Comdr. Waters. employes who cannot be furloughed. | IHis statement follows: President Hoover issued an appeal for | __“We do not admit we are beaten. We adoption of the furlough plan late yes- ' fegerd the vote in the Senate as only terdar. It came just after the congres- |2 temporary setback. The determina. Slone] conferces had reported failuse to tion of the men to stay in Washington — e lure to | 2 only stimulated by the vote. We measure, a severe struggle is expectzd | | Jersey Journal said today that Mayor ' is| Text of Statement. The President’s statement follows: “I am in hopes that the conferees | and the Congress will find it possible | to accept the so-called furlough plan for dealing with Federal employes. It | is in reality the five-day week, applied | to the Government. “It will produce a larger saving in | expenditures in Federal employment | than any other plan which is likely to | pass Congress. The objection that it permits discrimination has been met by the proposal that the few employes re- | cefving over $1.200 a year to whom it | | might not be applied shall take an 81-3 | per cent reduction in pay, thus giving the equivalent reduction in Govern- ment expenses. “It avoids discharges and enables some increases in the number of peo- | ple employed by the Government through the necessity of some substi- tutions. In the large sense it main- tains the standards of pay in the Gov- i ernment. It must bs borne in mind | that Government pay has never been | on such high standards as that of pri- vate enterprise. “It has a wicer spread of importance than these immediate questions. It | shows a willingness of the Governme: (Continued on Page 2, Column 7. MRS. CALLES SPEEDING T0 NEW YORK HOSPITAL Wife of Former Mexican President Faces Possible Major Opera- tion for Meningitis. By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., June 18—A former President of Mexico sped by train across Texas today taking his wife, who is seriously ill. to New York for treatment and a possible major | operation. Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles, now sec- retary of war of the Mexican Republic, | planned to have Mrs. Calles treated under the supervision of hia,son-in-law, Dr. J. J. Eller. | Mrs. Calles is suffer- ing from meningitis. She was reported | resting easily. Two physicians are at-| tending her. | In the party is J. M. Puig Causeranc, Mexican Ambassador to the United | States, who is en route to Washington. ‘f - i By the Assoclated Press. OAKLAND, Calif, June 18.—After 54 years of exciting service and 4 years of inglorious retirement, the famous old Coast Guard cutter Bear heaves anchor here today to start what is ex- pected to be another polar epic. ‘The venerable ship, which served for nearly 40 years as Uncle Sam’s watch- dog in the Far North, was purchased recently from the city of Oakland by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd for and is going to Boston to be out- ted for the explorer's forthcoming trip into the Antarctic. After retirement from active service | in 1928. she was given to the city ct | Ozkland by act cf Congress to become o floating museum for Alaska relics. {[FAMOUS OLD ARCTIC SHIP SAILS AGAIN TODAY IN BYRD’S SERVICE Bear, Launched in 1874, Leaves Oakland for Boston to Be | Outfitted for Antarctic Expedition. In retirement the Bear became a white | elephant. Arthur B. Raymond, New Jersey naval architect, looked her over and said, “She is the only available ship in the world that will answer Byrd's pur- pose.” Launched at Greenock, Scotland, in 1874, she was designed to withstand dee:hdca of punishment in the frigid north. She was barkentine rigged, 198 feet long, with a 28-foot beam and a hold 18 feet deep. Her wooden bow was thod with steel and shaped to bite her are answering the Senate by sending men to all parts of the United States to recruit men and supplies. “We positively intend to remain here until the bonus is paid and to launch a Nation-wide campaign to defeat the men who voted against us, because we feel that they have voted against the best interests not only of the veteran: but of the common people as a whole. The Senate vote came chortly after 8 o'clock last night, after an amazing day-long siege by 10,000 former sol- diets in front of the Senate wing of the Capitol. The fateful roll call was counted out under galleries packed solid with vet- erans. Several hundred more milled about in the corridors, and from the outside were plainly audible the songs, cheers and boos of thousands who swarmed over the broad plaza, blocking all traffic, but causing no disorder and voicing no threats. Motion to Reconsider Tabled. ‘The Senate made doubly sure that the bill would not come up again at this session, its opponents resorted to strategy which is as rare in the Sen- ate as it is effective—tabling a motion to reconsider passage. This extin- guished the last hope of sponsors to bring the question up later. This move was engineered by Senator " (Centinued on Page 3, Column 2.) | AMERICA ACCUSED OF FOMENTING WAR Factions Charged With Desiring Russo-Japanese Conflict to Weaken “Enemy.” By the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, June 18.—A charge that “certain imperialist circles in the ! United States” are enccuraging Japan to make war against the Soviet Union was made today by the newspaper Pravda, organ of the Communist party. Pravda said the American effort was being made in the hope that Japan would thereby weaken itself so that America could conquer “its enemy in the Pacific” It warned that such efforts should meet the resistance cf the American working masses. Declaring that increasing differences between the United States and Japan are indicated by America's action in strengthening her naval bases in the Pacific, the Communist party organ added, sarcastically: “But this does not prevent certain imperialist circles in America from sup- plly“l‘g arms and credit to its future rival. “This policy (of encouragement of & Russo-Japanese war) hes been carried cn in connection with attempts to weaken Japan and thus allow Amer- ican imperialism to warm its hands.” Recounting phases of the economic crisis in the United States under the heading, “The United States on the Eve of a Presidential Election,” the newspaper said: “Separaticn of the working masses from the bourgeois parties is nct yet completed and the problem of the Com- munist party in America is to make a revo'utionary issue of the crisis as op- posed to the capitalistic program by way through ice or to “ride” the ice when pinched by a floe. Bear was purchated by. tI United States in 1884 and reat to the Arctic to resc the Greelev Erpedi- tion, in co-operation with her sister ship Thetis, using the electoral campaign to arganize the masses against a dictatorstip of the bcurgecisie, ag2inst new imperialistic ver and for a diztatorship of the prole- tar’at.” The renomination cf President Hooves was published without comment,