Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1932, Page 2

A2 *kk TROOPS RUN TRAINS IN CHILEAN STRIKE Soldiers Displace Workers Protesting Formation of New Junta. By the Assoctated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, June 20.—Trains on the Santiago-Valparaiso Railway line ‘were operated by soldiers today, follow- ing a strike of the trainmen in protest against the counter-revolt which over- threw the junta headed by Col. Marmaduke Grove. There was an effort to start a strike of street railway employes and tie up the city transportation lines here, but 1t failed. The military train crews on the Santiago-Valparaiso line were protected by detachments of troops as they operat- ed the trains. Except for these dis- turbances everything appeared quiet at the capital today. Claims United Support. Carlos Davila, head of the new junta, declared emphatically that all armed forces and a “‘united country” stood be- hind his government, in spite of reports that a counter-revolt in behalf of Col. Grove was under waj | The junta also denied reports that rebellious aviators, acting in behalf of Col. Grove, their former chief, had captured the airports at Iquique, | Quintero and Valparaiso It announced that a destroyer was taking Col. Grove and his principal aide, Eugenio Matte, as prisoners to Juan Fernandez Island. “The world should have ccnfidence in us," Senor Davila said, “and we will merit that confidence. Peoples of all foreign nations can depend on us.” Demonstration Fails. Late Saturday night groups marched in the streets of Santiago cheering Col. Grove, the air corps, and the navy, which reported by counter-revolu- tionists as lukewarm toward Davila But rain minimized the demonstration. Otherwise everything appeared to be normal and quiet in the capital. BANKHEAD PRESIDES AT HOUSE SESSION Named by Rainey, Who Has Acted as Speaker During Garner’s Tliness. By the Associated Press. The House today had Speaker, Representative Democrat, of Alabama. The elected presiding officer, Garner of Texas, was still {ll from bronchitis end had to remain at home. Majority Leader Rainey, selected by | the House as Speaker pro tempore, was In Amherst, Mass., to receive an hon- brary degree as doctor of laws from | mherst College. He had left with the | ouse clerk a statement designating | ankhead as acting Speaker so the labaman wielded the gavel when the louse met Dr. George Calver, Garner's physi- pian, said: “The Speaker is continuing | o improve. He was allowed to leave bed today.” = P BAY STATE SWIN T0 ROOSEVELT DENIED Smith-Pledged Delegate Against Defection in Chicago Convention. another Bankhead, Warns By the Associated Press. FITCHBURG, Mass., June 20.—Re- ports of defection in the ranks of Mas- pachusetts delegates to the Democratic National Convention were dispelled last | night by M. Fred O'Connell. Smith-| pledged delegate, who sald his tatk with Gov. Roosevelt, which started the ru-| mors, was of a purely social nature. The reports brought from John F.| Fitzgerald, former mayor of Boston an delegate at large to the Democrati convention, a statement that any on who did not “carry through” for former | Gov. Smith would say “good-by” to his political future. SENATORS APPROVE OIL TAX RESOLUTION Committee to Press for Vote on Measure to Prevent Evasion of Levies. By the Associated Press. The Senate Finance Committee to- day reported favorably on a House reso- Iution to prevent evasion of the new tax levies on oil and gasoline. Action on the measure was blocked in the Senate Saturday by Senator Cope- | land, Democrat, of New York, who con- tended the committee should consider t carefully before bringing it to the floor for action. Chairman Smoot of the committee said he would press for its consideration today by the Senate. The committee increased the amount of gasoline that a dealer could hold tax free tomorrow from 25,000 gallons to 40,000 gallons. The oil minimum was left at 1,000 gallons. The resolution is intended to tax OH‘ and gasoline which the producers have been rushing to distributing agents be- fore the law becomes effective tomor- ToW FORES:I' FIRE' FIGHTERS RUSHED IN AIRPLANES Situation in Quebec Considered | Alarming as Flames Show Increase. Br the Associated Press. CHICOUTIMI, Quebec, June 20.— Forest fires continued to burn today in the counties of Chicoutimi and Lake St. John, and in some sections the situ- ation was considered alarming. A number of new fires have broken out in both counties and there has been no rain Pifty men were transported Dy airplane yesterday to aid in fighting a fire on the Mistassini River, 150 miles from the village of the same name. This fire was reported burning in brush and forest, timber over a stretch of 16 miles. Two hundred men were fighting out- breaks in St. John County. Fires dotted areas on all sides with the most serious blazes around Antoine and Hemon townships. Several fires also were burning in the Saguenay region. SIS e British Cruiser Reaches Peru. CALLAO, Peru, June 20 (P).—The British cruiser Durban arrived _here yesterday under orders to stand by in case she should be needed for protection & British interests & Chile, : THE Split Over Rule of Chile OL. MARMADUKE GROVE Carlos Davila are shown after government of President Montero of Chile. (left), head of the Chilean air force, and the coup in which they overturned the Col. Grove in turn ousted Davila, but before he could divert the government into his own channels he was captured in a bloodless junta plans to set up a socialistic government coup by Davila supporters. The Davila —A. P. Photo. CENEVA ARMS MEET NEAR FINAL PHASE Hoover and Gibson Hold Long Transocean Telephone Talk on Prospects. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN., As a result of vesterday's prolonged telephone conversation between Presi- dent Hoover and Ambassador Hugh Gibson at Geneva, it is believed in re- sponsible quarters here that the dis- armament conference is likely to enter very shortly into its final phase. What the prospects of a constructive agreement are, is uncertain. The State Department kept complete silence in Tegard to the telephone conversation The only information available was that the whole thing was “in the lap of the gods” and that things werc moving. Parley Marking Time. ‘The Geneva Conference had been marking time almost ever since the be- ginning. Delegates and experts had been losing themselves in technical de- tails from the time when it became obvious that no common agreement re- garding substantial disarmament could be reached. The British and the French expressed during the week end the de- sire of winding up the conference with some minor, insignificant agreement Some American delegates pointed out it is said, that in view of the fact that the European powers will undoubteyly ask the United States to consider some substantial reduction of the war debts as a counterpart of the French. Brit- ish and Italian reduction or cancellation of the German reparations, such a so- | lution of the Disarmament Conference would be harmful to the Europeans themselves. 3 On more than one occasion the Presi- dent of the United States and the Con- gress made it clear that as long as the European natlons were spending billions on arms there could be no reduction of | heir war debts In the light of these statements, Mac- Donald and Paul Boncour were rec- minded that the Geneva conference must yield some positive results if Eu- rope wants to ask America to reduce he war debts. ‘There are three theories prevailing at resent at Geneva for a successful con- clusion of the conference. British Urge Holiday. The British advocate a 10 or 15 arms holiday whereby the signatory powers should agree ot to replace their obsolescent armaments, especially those weapons which Germany is prevented by the Versailles treaty to possess. The French desire a budgetary cut and the American delegation insists on an all- round numerical cut Furthermore, since the naval armament question is one which interests us more than the land disarmament, the delegation would like to cee France and Italy join in the London naval treaty. These three points of view are so far apart that it appeared until yecterday that no compromise was possible. At Lausanne, however, Edouard Her- riot and Ramsay MacDonald realized that Germany will not continue to pay reparations. They are reported to be fully aware of the fact that this item must be stricken out of their respective budgets while they themselves cannot year tel! their parliaments that the British | and the French war debt was concelled. Situation Is Unpleasant. It was alco agreed at Lausanne that in view of the present electoral cam- paign in the United States, it would be most unwise to ask the President to make any statement or give the slight- est hint as to what attitude he would take should the European debtor na- tions ask for a readjustment of their debts. Consequently, the British and the French are in the unpleasant position of having to agree to postpcne indefi- nitely the German reparation without a positive counterpart from the United tates. Since no promise can be obtained from the United States at the present moment, it is likely. according to well- informed quarters, that the British and the French should be ready to come to a compromise regarding disarmament, a compromise which should give the impression that something positive has been achieved regarding world disarm- ment. SO U NICARAGUAN VICTORIES REPORTED BY MARINE eut. Col. Matthews Says Three of Bandit Forces Were Killed and Six Wounded. Two contacts with bandit groups in Nacaragua last week resulted in three irregulars being killed, six wounded and the capture of a small quantity of arms and clothing. Lieut. Col. Calvin B. Matthews, U. S. Marine Corps, commanding the Nicaraguan National Guard Detachment, told the Navy De- partment today that in the two en- counters one. guardia was slightly wounded. One patrol was under command of Lieut. Wallace D. Martin, a sergeant of Merines, whose home is in Corpus Christi, Tex. The other group en- countering bandits was commanded by & native sergeant. LAUSANNE MOVES TOTARFF SLASHES | Belgium, Holland and Duchy | of Luxemburg Sign I Customs Union. gian Luxembourg governments have draft O v af nsu! jon with the foreign minis interested a con- vention for reciprocal and prog: lowering of economic barrie which they will submit w for definite approval of th: interested. convention based on slated on differcnt i League of Na advantages granted under it ved to the participating states. The conven- tion is open to all other states.” GIBSON AND HOOVER TALK. (Continued From First Page) 1s th oc- ‘The Washington Beli Parleys. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. —Ten years of the United and Eurcpe seem to be rapidly coming to a head at the Lausemne and Geneva conferences. It is kno that Ambas: S. Gibsor, head of the American dele- gation to the Geneva disarmament parley, and President Hoover held long telephone con ons yesterday aft- ernoon. It is believed Washington is far from satisfied with the way things are reported to be going at Geneva and Lausanne. But neither is Europe sat- isfied with way things are reported to going in Washington. Some lively conversations seem likely. Indeed. they began yester- day at Geneva, where the Americ delegation made it clear to the French and British that the plan of the latter to wind up the disarmament meeting quickly, withcut consideration of the American suggestion, is by no means acceptable. The issue stands thus: Ever since the Harding acministration the United States has contirually said: “It is al- most impossible for us to co-operate with a divided Europe. But put your own house in order. Disarm. Make peace. Settle reparations. All these are issues which concern you and not us, and we have no intention of taking sides in your disputes. When you have done this, however, you can rely on us | to be fair and helpful as far as possible.” Europe now replies—and this so far is the whole meaning and purpose of the Lausanne Conference: “It is easy for you to talk thus, but as a matter of fact you are now the greatest and strongest power in the world. You are a factor in political equilibrium, in dis- armament and in the organization of peace, and you are by far the biggest creditor nation in both private and intergovernmental debts. dor Hugh | therefore Insists on Co-operation. “It is almost impossible for us to reach any constructive agreement with- |out your simultaneous and active co- | operation. All of us have our domestic politics and we quite understand you have yours. Yet the entire world. in- cluding us and you. is now in such a desperate economic plight that your re- fusal to join us here is little short of | tragedy. “But you do refuse and we have to ;n(‘ct‘pt the fact. What we intend to do, | therefore, is to take you at your word and try to put our house in order, reach |our own solution and then at some later | date tender you the result. But we warn you that in these circumstances it is | really not our fault if you are dissat- | isfied with our finding.” | “That depends on what sort of solu- | tion you have in mind,” Washington | answers. “If we cancel reparations,” Europe explains, “we expect you to cancel the war debts. The only difference among | us here is that some want to make our agreement definitely contingent on your concellation, while others want simply | to trust to your generosity. | “In_ disarmament we feel that the | best thing is to end the conference | quickly on a minimum program. for it | has dragged along so hopelessly it tends | now to destroy public confidence.” | “Just a minute,” Washington seems to say. “If you make such a reparations | settlement as that, you will appear to | be putting some sort of blame and pres- sure on us. We resent such pressure., There is no relation, either juridical or moral, between reparations and war debts. We want you to settle repara- | tions regardless of the war debts. If | Germany can pay, we have no objec- tion. If Germany cannot pay. it is no concession to cancel. Our policy is to deal with each of our debtors sepa- rately on the basis of capacity to pay. We see no reason to change this policy new. Wants a Quick Result. “Regarding disarmament, we want a | quick resuit as badly as you do. But your minimum program can scarcely | save money to a poor world, even if it |is & success. We want you to complete { the London naval treaty and do on land something as drastic as we have done |in the matter of naval disarmament. | We want you to disarm in such a way that the tension will be eased. Other- wise our public opinion will be skeptical {and it will be all the more difficult for us to> make further sacrifices in the mat- ter of the war debts. “We realize that land armaments are mainly a Eurppean affair, but it is in your own interest that we are b} EVENIXN e G STAR, WASHIN( 1.5, IN NEW MOVE 10 AID ARMS CUT Joins Britain and France in Effort to Speed Work of Geneva Parley. | By the Assoctated Press. GENEVA, June 20—The United States jolned in a special three-power effort here over the week end to reach rome plan by means of which the World Disarmament Conferegce might be brought to an end with a measure of success. ith Pres'dent Hoover in communi- cation, over the transatlantic telephone, with the American delegation, repre- sentatives of the United States, Great Britain and France laid the plans of each country on the table and sought to find some common denominator for them. No decision was reached, but ar- rangements vere made to continue the discussions, extending them to repre- sentatives of other governments, es- pecially Japan, Italy and Germany. Americans Gratified. Those who participated in yester- day's conferences said they felt & use- ful preparation had been made. The Americans said they particularly got the impression the Europeans could “really determine to face realities and do_business.” Senator Claude A. Swanson was chief American spokesman. Senator Swanson asked that the American plan, which provides for a percentage reduction for all countries, after determining their defense needs by adding pelice needs to colonial de- fense requirements, be placed on the agenda of the informal talks, which will be resumed tomorrow. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain, who came here from Lausanne for the week end, explained the British plan for qualitative disarm- ament by means of a long holday on certains arms of offensive character, and Joseph Paul-Boncour presented the French plan for a global cut in defense budgets The opinion was expressed in Amer- jcan and other quarters that some | agreement would have to be reached | within the next few weeks or the con- ference would have to admit failure. {TON MORATCRIUM MADE| | By the Assoctated Press. | rations were paid. and through i MONDAY, YEAR AGD TODAY Anniversary Finds European Nations in Conference to Solve Problems. One year ago today President Hoo- | | ver, proposing that for one year int | governmental debt payments be sus- pended, galvenizod with tremendous {new hope a world staggering under | chaotic financial pressures. ‘The anniversary of that event, hailed as averting catastrophe in Germany and throughout the rest of Europe, | finds the European governments at last launched in a conference to solve the | fundamental questions which called forth that temporary remedy— the world war's legacy of debts and repa- rations. Seeking Solution. At the conference in Lausanne the statesmen are seeking now to work out | the reparations question that lies be- tween them and which the United States insists is none of its affair. The starting point of the Lausanne meeting | was the formal declaration of Ger- many that not one more mark of repa- rations could be paid. Since Germany has been virtually the sole source of funds with which the allies have made war-debt payments to this country, the | Lausanne objective 15 some agrecment | which will persuade America to revise or cancel those debts, an act which this country has refused resolutely to con- sider up to now. The moratorium proposal last June 20 recelved immediate approval in Ger- many, Great Britain and Italy. France held_back. seeing in it the menace to the Young plan, under which the repa- the Versailles treaty of peace to w exacting terms the French Republic in- sists on clinging tight. General Agreement Reached. But by July 6 general agreement was reached after delicate negotiations. The President had canvassed Congress, not then in session, and secured wide sup- port. Details were ironed out, with some concessions to the French, and the moratorium was declared in effect as of July 1, 1931. It was not approved formally by the Drop Tardieu's Plan. The French have abandoned. for the | present. former Premier Tardieu's plan | the League of Nations, it | was learned today as the Americans. | British and French resumed their | private conversations. M. Paul-Bone made it considers tion of the plan trong police force under the League | tef period in which it is now ete Te- hat France no I to secure the a | of disarmament. 'SENATE, NEAR VOTE ON RELIEF BILL, GETS AMENDMENTS ___ (Continued From First Page) in increase in the credit power of finan- cial agencies that exploit and oppress the people. Instead of credit power in the hands of others, we demand for {the working classes immediate relief {and employment. | “There is no excuse for the Govern- | ment’s policy of delay and evasion | Roads need to be buili, public buildings | need to' be constructed, but most of all the cities of America need a housing | program subsidized by the Federal Gov- ernment.” | Senators LaFollette, | Wisconsin. and Costigan | Colorado, listened closely mony. Members of the “bonus expediticnary | {force” of veterans Applause rang t Edward F. McGrady. legislative repre- | <entative of the Amcrican Federation of | Labor, asserted, “if Congress does not do scmething to meet this situat next Winter it will not be a cry to sav will be a cry to save | the Governmen “ Dr. R. A. MacGowan of this city. a member of the National Catholic Wel- fare Conference, said “‘people are ready in many cases to commit suicide be- cause of their inabilitv to get jobs.” “Our very form of government is fac- | ing a supreme test at this moment.” said Dr. James Myers, New York, of the Federal Council of rches of Christ “If Congress adjourns without coping with this situation adequately both par- ties will be morally culpabl Dr. Edward L. Israel of Baltimore. chairman of the Committee on Social Justice of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, said “the city of Bal- timore cannot long continue, with the | resources that our city has, to cope with this situation. It becomes a national problem.” A. H. Milton of Chicago. chairman of the National Executive Board of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, told the Senators “we feel we would be traitors to the non-veteran unemployed of the country if we did not take the stand in their behalf.” “We urge upon Congress,” he said. | “not to adjourn until some form of relief is enacted.” Senator Costigan asked Milton how many veterans are out of work ““Approximately 600,000 at this time,” was the reply. The six-hour day and five-day week in industry were advocated by Fred Brenckman of the National Grange. He advised against the suggestion being made in some quarters that the unemployed be colonized on farms, say- ing they would “starve there.” Even farmers now on the land who are familiar with conditions, he said, are “sinking into bankruptey.” Dr. W. G. Bergman, vice chairman of the Mayor's Unemployment Com- mittee of Detroit, said “for the coming year, Detroit can see no possibility of preventing hurger and slow starvation threugh its own unaided resources.” Raymond Sanford of the Chicago Workers' Committee on Unemployment, introduced four unemployed workers— T. M. Forgersen, C. L. Matheson, O. W. Mason and G. B. Patterson. i “Without Fcderal aid.” said Sanford, «Chicago will face a tragic situation after August 1, when present relief funds will be exhausted.” James O'Neal of the Emergency Con- ference on Unemployment, New York, said, “We are approaching & tragedy due to unemployment.” “All relief ‘;gzncies in recent months have warned that they are at the end of their resources. There are 50,000 families in New York City that are absolutely destitute.” Republican Democrat, o to the test. to sugges{; 8 way whereby you can fairly reduce effectiveness.” “There you are!” exclaims Europe. impatiently. “We no sooner take you at your word and try to get somewhere according to our own best judgment than you object. You refuse to €O- operate with us, yet you pretend to hold a veto power over everything we try to do.” “Nonsense,” replies the United States. “All we object to is your obvious effort to settle your difficulties at our expense. Naturally we do not admit that. know our viewpoint. Forewarned is forearmed. Go ahead and good “luck. but remember what we have said.’ Such appears to be the situation here today. It is to meet this situation that French Premier Edouard Herriot I ir and his colleagues | | necessary steps to Europe, rejecting all | brother, Jacob. 16, and John Wilson, 16 You | American Congress until early this year. but debt payments due shortly before | that time had been left uncollected. In | giving the approval Congress recorded emphatic opposition to any extension of um. to cancellation or to| reduction of the debts due So this Government left the fur!herl invitations to sit in at Lausa: Ten days hence But no sizeable December 15, so its ec! d of effectiveness is close on nths id abundant time remains for Europe map a course. | MOONSHINERS SHOOT Trio Wounded While Inspecting| Mash Found in West Vir- ginia Hills. By the Associated Press, BELINGTON, W. Va, June 20— Three youths were shot from ambush by moonshiners in the West Virginia Mountains yesterday They are Woodrow Cross, 19; his The Cross brothers are in a hospital Woodrow lost his right eye and has 40 shot wounds in the body. Jacob 1s suffering ffom 19 wounds. recovering at his home, was four pellets aking a short cut through w. found two barrels of mash. As they stopped to investi- gate moonshiners opened fire on them. struck by The bo; $81,500,000 RELIEF Plea to Reconstruction Body Re- garded as Only for “Most Des- perate and Urgent” Needs. By the Associated Press CHICAGO. June 20.—The amount the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion will be asked by civic leaders and public officials to lend Chicago was set today at $81,500,000. That sum, officials roughly estimated. | was required to meet only “the most desperate and most urgent” needs of the city and county. Mayor Anton Cermak, Illinois Repre- sentatives in Congress and other spokesmen from this financially hapless community will lay the loan request before President Hoover and the R.F.C. tomorrow It was estimated $35,000,000 was needed at once to continue unemploy- ment relief work: $36,500,000 for school teachers and other unpaid pub- lic employes, and $10,000,000 more for defaulted government bonds. Indications were it may be possible Officials said it represented the maxi- mum. Cermak left yesterday for New York and from there will go to Washington. Other spokesmen leave for the Capital today. KING’S WEALTH SEIZED Spain Confiscates Alfonso's Prop- erty Valued at $3,000,000. MADRID, June 20 (#).—Three mil- lion dollars of former King Alfonso's fortune has been confiscated by the Republican government. virtually com- pleting the seizure of all his real and perscnal property. About $2.500,000 in cash and securi- ties and objects of art worth about $500,000 were taken over in this action. The cash and bonds will be placed in the public treasury and the rest of the articles will become the property of the State. About $1,700,000 was in property which did not belong to the King per- sonally, but to societies which he headed. Soon after he was dethroned the State took over the palaces and other extensiye property which the monarch controlled. CHOSEN FOR GOVERNOR New York Communists Name Am- ter, Several Times Arrested. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., June 20 (®). —A man who has been arrested several times for his Communist activities, Israel Amter, is his party's choice for Governor of New York. His running mate is a Harlem Negro, Henry Shepard. The convention which nominated a State ticket here yesterday adopted a platform demanding the State im- and British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald conferred lengthily ~this forenoon to try to find a way out and decide what the conference had better tackle next. - (Copyright, 1932, mediately appropriate $400,000,000 for unemplovment relief and ‘“social in- surance,” and denouncing t! “mass hunger, terror and war” which it said was the “bosse’s” way out of the unem- ployment crisiee ., .. J THREE CURIOUS BOYS . | himself to the President today. | capt to trim the $81.500,000 figure somewhat. w UNE 20. 1932. aker Congratulates Daughier BOTH PARTICIPATE IN COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES. EWTON D. BAKER, Secretary of War in President Wilsos gratulating his Lavrence Cellege, commencement address daughter Peggy Brc New Indictments in Arlington Are Sought Against Three Former Officials. BrastatC : ARLINGTON COUNTY HOUSE, J 20.—Evit leged shortage cases against r E. Wade Ball, former am H. Duncan and F. J. H: e clerk of the schocl board, was presented to the grand fury today uditors who have been engaged in Andrews, v Down: all. Dc e vl respect to shortage cases Reindictments Sought. was al. dictments might be sought. Upon then indictment at term of court the cases of wer definite expected that t be nolle prossed i forthcoming. Ball in Court Room. Ball was p: the court room this morning anc Hallock was in_the office of his attorney, Frank L. Ball Duncan was not seen about the court house. It was not expected that the grand jury action would be ailable before late this afternoon or ight because of the large mber of witnesses ¢ heard. The cou s the June term opened this mornis CAPT. VERNOU ENTERS WHITE HOUSE SERVICE New Chief Naval Aide Begins Tour of Duty as Capt. Train's last the Successcr. Capt. Walter N. Vernou, U. S. N who recently ppointed chicf naval aide t> the President to succeed Capt C. R. Train, whose tour of duty ends at the White House June 30, presented Capt Train introduced his successor to the President and Mrs. Hoover and then showed him about the White House and executive offices, and between now and Train's departure he will en- deav:r to famiilarize Capt. Vernou with his new duties The new naval aide at the time of his selection for White House duty was commander of the cruiser U. S. Northampton on the Pacific Coast. He was graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1901 and is the posses- sor of the Distinguished Service Cross for ccnspicuous service during the World ar. DR. HIBBEN DELIVERS HIS FINAL ADDRESS Pleads for Ideal “to Guide Us Back to Normal Basis of Existence.” By the Associated Press. PRINCETON, N. J., June 20 —Presi- dent John Grier Hibben of Princeton University, in his last baccalaurcate address yesterday, urged the members of the graduating class to tr~ to formu- late ideals “which must guide us back to a normal basis of existence which will insure a permanent and true pros- perity Dr. Hibben, who is to retire as presi- dent at the close of commencement ex- | ercises, said the period of prosperity of the last decade was structurally un- sound, “‘with not only an inflation of material values, but also an inflation of ambitions, desires and purposes.” Trap Extortionist By Silver Nitrate Stains on Hands By the Associated Pre: WYOMING, Pa., June 20.— Caught “black-handed,” J. Clar- ence Thonan, 57, faced charges of extcrtion today. The police had suspected him of trying to extort $15,000 from Harry L. Magee of Bloomsburg, Pa, carpet manufacturer. So they soaked a dummy package in silver nitrate—which leaves an indelible stain on the hands—and dropped it from a plane on Hun- lock Mcuntain. Later they arrested Thonan, a telegrapher of Beaver Springs, and said they found silver nitrate stains on his hands. He confessed six extortion plots, they said. N. after the graduat y.. Saturday. JURY REPROBING SANDERS CONFERS SHRTAGECASES WK PRESOENT Campaign Discussed at Brief Meeting, First Since Convention. 14 Naticnal Com i charge cf the campaign him, and we are going to Hoover President. Guard Against Interruptions. matters. We are it is made pos- of the hen asked speeches expounding policies that the President hin on_Saturday that he probably make, Mr. would Sanders replied that he had htest idea. 7 Hoover toda: with Representative Sne! minority leader of the H . who was permanent chairman at the Chicago convention: Representative Tilson cof Connecticut, who was a delegate to the convention: Senator Hastings of Dela- ware, one of the Hoover deiegates to the convention, and Secrctary of Agri- culture Hyde. who was a delegate to the convention and was a member of the Committee on Resolutions at Chi- cago These Republican leaders had not seen the President since the convention and took this occasion to call separ- ately for offering congratulations and to “talk over the convention” and discuss matters relating to the campaign The President held no conference at the White House yesterday, although he did not attend services at chyfch as is his Sunday custom when in Washington | He was busily engaged at his desk in | the Lincoln study, and did not leave | the White Hcuse until late in the also conferred of New York, | afternoon, when he and Mrs. Hoover | went for an automobile drive through the country in the vicinity of Rock- ville, Md. PAYNE SEES PARK AS PEACE SYMBOL Assistant Secretary of War Dedi- cates Tract at Petersburg Battle Ground. By the Associated Press PETERSBURG, Va. June 20.—As- sistant Secretary of War Frederick H. Payne. speaking today at the dedica- ‘llon of the Petersburg National Mili- tary Park, said the exercises sym- | bolized the reconciliation of the North angd South. Standing in the area where the Union blue and the Confederate gray | fought during the long. siege in the final days of the CivilWar, the speaker said this “park stands among its peers” as a monument to the past and a pledge to the future. Several veterans who had partici- pated in the siege and the sanguinary battle of the Crater were present at the dedication today. e BLAST DESTROYS YACHT Captain and Girl on Seligman . Craft Are Injured. PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y. June 20 (#).—A mysterious explosion and fire last midnight destroyed the private | yacht Chico II of Walter Seligman, member of the New York banking firm of J. & W. Seligman & Co. The cap- | tain, John A. Watts, and a young wom- an companion, Miss Audrey Cornwall, 20. of Port W: injured, ashington, were severely !‘F'.fi P NEWAGEPIREY *CALED BY LEWS Interstate Joint Conference to Negotiate Agreement to Be Discussed. By the Assoctated Pr INDIANAPOLT! { Lewis, presid Workers of a conference of of both Inciena ar June 20.—John L. the United Mine Am: | interstate a uniform wag | The cc | national h | that the stuati Text of Summons. summon rmal Parley Called. | | | i | Infor '." | Op! £ Terre Haute. preside d John H. Walker, presi- ELLSWORTH VINES WINS AT WIMBLEDON American Champion Opens His Campaign by Defeating plaix of France. u. Sr.iBArN ATTACKED Spanish Association Studies Mar- ket on Conditions Abroad. garding Spa The of the design other c | . | BAND CONCERTS. the United States Army Band t ev at the t War Me jat 7:30 oclock. Wi | leader: Thomas F. Dar ! March. “Cruz Roja"..Rodriguez (Chile) ‘O\Dr:\;xc. I{‘ Cornet solo, ictions in J B te ega_Dominican Republic) “0, Pinhal,” Cunha y Percival (Brazil) Harry W. 5 Patriotic air, “Hymno Invasor. 1er0 (Cuba) | vaise-intermezzo, “Leda.” Fons! | Bolero, “Lojanito,” a (Costa Rica) “Minuet No. 5" digena”. . Valse-criollo, suite “In- (Guatemala) .... Acosta (Argentina) “Prayer at Eventide”......Elie (Haiti) Intermezzo. “Una Noche en Honduras,” Gamero (Honduras) “Marcha Panama”.Galimany (Panama) “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Marine Band this evening at the Marine Barracks at 8 o'clock. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader: March, “The Bohemians”. . Overture, “Stradella”. “Andantino” “Cripple Creek" z Duet for trombone and trumpet, “Cousins” Clarke Musicians Robert E. Clark and John P. : White. Selections from “Rose Marie”. .. Vibraphone solo, Has Rested”. Musician ur D. Valse caprice, “La Gitapa. ... Bucalossl “Reminiscences of Tschaikowsky." 3 Godtre Marines’ hymn: * “The Halls of Montezuma." ‘The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Navy Band this evening at the east front of the Capi- tol at 7:30 o'clock. Charles Benter, leader; ~Alexander Morris, assistant leader: March, “Action Front"....Blankenburg Overture, “Sicillian Vespers” Verdi Solo for cornet, “The Three Kings," ) Smith Musicians B. Gardner, J. Walker and ] J. Courtne i Suite from the ballet “The Seasons,” Glazounow Excerpts from the musical comedy, “The Cat and the Fiddle. Kern Valse, 5" Stringfield Priml Vhere My Caravan “Thousand and One A Strauss Grand scenes from “Andrea Chenier,” Giordano Lacouna ~Wood Cuban dance. “Malguena Rhapsody, “