Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1932, Page 1

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ROOSEVELT BEGING T0 MAP CAMPAIGN; BACK HOME TODAY Expects to Meet Committee Leaders Shortly to Draw Up “Blue Print.” DECLARES EACH ISSUE WILL BE EMPHASIZED Prohibition, Economic Situation, Tariff and World Relations Will Be Expounded. the Assoclated Press EN ROUTE WITH GOV. ROOSE-| VELT, Detroit, Mich., July 4.—Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic pres- idential candidate, homeward bound after his acceptance speech to the na- tional convention of his party, today began consideration of the campaign which he believes will land him in the White House next March. The Governor, immediately after his arrival in Albany this afternoon, will begin to set up the machinery for the campaign. Within the next two weeks he ex- pects to meet with leaders of the na- tional committee, either in New York or at his Hyde Park home, and draw up a “blue print” of the campaign. 'Will Emphasize Each Issue. ‘The Governor said before leaving Chi- | cago that he intends to stress in each | particular section the issues in which that section is interested. There are, he explained, several issues—prohibi- | tion, the economic situstion, the tariff and international relations—to be ex- pounded. He declared that the planks of the Democratic platform all will be stressed in a series of addresses. Beyond a number of short trips from Albany, Mr. Roosevelt has not outlined the campaign he intends to pursue. It is generally believed he will go to the Pacific Coast, but when he will make the trip is not known. Before the con- vention he considered, in the event of his nomination, going to Los Angeles for the Olympic games. Before retiring last night Mr. Roose- velt held a long conference with A. Mitchell Palmer, Attorney General in the Wilson cabinet, and the man who carried his platform ideas to the con- ventior. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, who traveled on the same train with Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt, expected to leave the party at Buffalo. Their home is at Stroudsburg, Pa. Several other mem- bers of the Pennsylvania delegation also ‘were .on_the train. The Governor immediately will take up the reins of State government which he handed over to a Republican, the leader of the State Senate, George R. Pearon of Syracuse, when he boarded an airplane for the convention city Sat- urday morning. The Lieutenant Gover- nor, Herbert H. Lehman, was out of the State as a delegate to the convention. ‘Walker Case Pending. Among the immediate duties that confront the Governor is consideration of the charges brought against Mayor James J. Walker of New York City by Samuel Seabury of the Legislative In- vestigation Committee. Seabury held that Walker's inability to explain bank deposits which Seabury credited to Walker was ground for his removal. Walker, who also was a convention dele- gate, declared a few weeks ago that immediately upon his return from Chi- cago he would formulate his reply to Seabury. ‘Walker, together with all members of the Tammany Hall faction of the State delegation, voted for former Gov. Smith, an important figure in the “stop Roosevelt” movement of the Chicago convention. Members of the Roosevelt party were guarded carefully against disturbance of their sleep here. No one except pas- sengers was allowed in the train shed and even employes were shunted away | from the private car. The Governor retired soon after boarding his train at Chicago, finishing the day with a chat with Louis McH. Howe, his personal adviser. Mr. Roose- velt was traveling. in the private car of T. W. Evans, a vice president of the New York Central Railroad. Mr. and Mrs: Evans, Mrs. Rocsevelt and Howe were in the car with the Governor. Other members cf the Roosevelt part; were Guernsey Cross, the Governcr' secretary, Miss Marguerite Lehand of the Governor's sccretarial staff. Miss Grace Tully, secretary to Mrs. velt; State Trooper Sergt. Earl Miller and Gus Gennerich, his escorts Crowds lined Michigan Boulevard as he Governor rode the short distance from his hotel to the Illinois Central Station, where he boarded the Michigan Central's Exposition Flyer. Other crowds were at the station to shout a greeting to the presidential candidate. FIREWORKS CLAIM FIVE HURT SUNDAY By Eight-Year-0ld Francis Garner, With Both Hands Lacerated, Among Four Children in List. one adult were y, by fireworks over All the accidents oc- e had been noon today jured, Francis 00 block reported e Hospital this yester reported 1 The ch Morgan C of Sixth street improving at Provid morning follow treatment for seri- ous lacerations of both hands caused by the explosion of a firecracker. It had been thought it would be necessary to amputate both hands, but Providence surgeons, after operating on the child, decided not to amputate. ‘Thomas Daniels, 10, colored, and Moses Easle, 5, colored, of the 1300 block of First street southwest were slightly injured by fireworks and treated at_Emergency Hospital. Harris, 9, or the 600 block of Morton street, received a slight wound on the forehead when a fire- cracker exploded near her. treated by the family physician. Explosions of fireworks thrown from Key Bridge caused minor injuries to Milville Keer, 49, of the 500 block of 1‘wel(m“su'»tt vesterday, r She was He was they build a store of BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. | CHICAGO, July 4 (NAN.A)—They are cleaning up the stadium today. Gangs of men are sweeping out tons of paper, barrels of cigarette stumps, and drayloads of common dirt from the | shoes of thousands of people who came | from all over the United States and | have gone from tl.e great barn on Mad- ison street. The flags are coming down, the bunt- ing is being ripped off, the chairs in the pit are disappearing. The place will be ready for a prize fight, or a bicycle race, or an industrial show before midweek, for by that time the whole parapher- nalia of politics will have been carted away. The two cheering mobs recruited from | the four corners of America will not | leave one trace of themselves in the hall. On Michigan Boulevard the visiting BOTH PARTIES REVERT TO PLATFORMS OF 1912 |Campaign Envisioned as Clear-Cut Con: test Between Left-Wing Liberalism and Right-Wing Conservatism. statesmen and their womenkind have vanished. Chicago hotels are resuming their Summer calm Yet these two conventions marked the beginning of a new era in American politics, the abandonment by both major parties of Federal prohibition and | the return to State control of the liquor problem. For 30 years State pro- hibition had been growing rapidly in America before the passage of the eighteenth amendment It was the policy of the generation that fought the Spanish War. The young soldiers of that war, returning home, joined their fathers and mothers and sisters in the belief that liquor should not be controlled, that it must be prohibited. They had tried con- trol under various kinds of local option during the seventies, eighties and nine- (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) THIRD PARTY MOVE APPEARS UNLIKELY Positive Prediction Impos- sible Till Organized Drys Fix Plans. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 4.—As the shouting | dies, it becomes increasingly clear that the two national political conventions | in Chicago have forecast a campaign | cutting severely across party lines, en- compassing every section of the coun- try as its battleground, and concerning | itself deeply with prohibition and the | depression. The attempt of the Democrats to| appeal to that segment of pepum-} opinion known variously as “liberal” and “progressive” is an impressive ele- ment of the situation. So is the at- tempt of the Republicans to avoid every non-orthedox tenet, and base th appeal on a steadfast adherence to what they call “sound” and “firmly established” principles cf government. Third Party Unlikely. The likelihcod seems to be now against any major movement for a third party. If one does emerge. the prohibi- tion question s its most likely vehicle. Even the dissatisfaction of the tionists over the party planks not yet pointed to third-party ac- tion, although no positive prediction can be made until the organized drys have concluded their pondering. and Senator Borab has decided what he will do. Mr. Rooseelt says economic recovery | is the outstanding issue. Mr. Ho-ver | again and again hes said the one thing that matters is to get the country back on an even econcmic keel. Mr. Roose- | velt wants to try certain departures which Mr. Hoover does not approve, | and the detailed Rcosevelt program, | when it is produced, doubtless will be- come & most important subject of inter- | party debate. Both of the nominees appear inclined to let prohibition take a secondary place, but it is a question how far the voters will agree with them. No one who sat_through the drenching down- | pours of argument on that subject, | deluging both conventions, can doubt | that prohibition is very much upper- most in the minds of the rank and file. | It is not at all impcesible, judging | from the manifest concern of the great | mass of the Republican and Democratic | delegates, that party lieutenants may | take the ball away from both Mr. | Hoover and Mr, Roosevelt and indulge, | on their own account, in a wet-dry con- troversy that will all but eclipse every: thing else. | The East a Battleground. The Democratic nominee’s appeal to | dissatisfied Republicans was more direct | in his acceptance speech than any simi- | lar statement from the Republicans, but | the Republican call to certain old-line | | Democrats has been just as real. In the | East, particularly, the Republican man- | | agers ‘are hoping—with what justifica- | | tion no one can say—for much help | 1 from those Democratic Interests to whom | | Mr. Roosevelt has been presented as a | “radical.” | The East, certainly, will be a battle- ground for that reason. For a similar | reason, so will the West. The Roose- velt strength in the convention was pre- ponderantly Western and Southern, Already the nominee is emphasizing |the farm problem, and has shied a stray stone at “Wall Street.” Senator | 1 Norris, the Nebraska Republican insur- | ®ent, will support him. A very impor- tant part of Democratic strategy now is to strike hard at the normally Re- Fublican West and Midwest, | _Republican hopes in the traditionally Democratic South are not as high as they were in 1923, but Southern reac- | tion to the Democratic repeal plank will | be canvassed most carefully by the Re- | They are much | publican strategists, interested in the statements of Southern Democrats, before the convention itself, that_this plank will greatly weaken | the Southern democracy. Third party gossip left in the wake of the conventions mentions Al Smith. His strength was in exactly those | Eastern metropolitan sections where the Republicans hope for a rebellion from the economic policies of Mr. Roosevelt. The guess of most of the Smith men is, however, that he will go no further than he already has gone by turning his back on the convention and ignoring the nominee. Silence, and more silence, {is the general forecast for the no- | longer-smiling warrior of New York’s | sidewalks. |- i | | el | that action were opposed in the forth- SHEPPARD OPPOSES SUBNISSION PLAN Says He Will Vote Against Proposal Unless Directed by State Primary. Senator Sheppard, Democrat, of ‘Texas, author of the prohibition amend- ment, today said he was opposed to re- peal or modification of the eighteenth amendment and to modification of the Volstead act and would vote against | such action unless directed to vote for it by a referendum in his State. In a statement clarifying his previ- ously expressed views the Texan an- nounced he also opposed submission of the liquor question and would vote against it, Senator Sheppard announced last week, following adoption by his party of a repeal platform, that he would vote to submit a repeal amendment unless coming Democratic primary in Texas. In his statement today he said: “I prepared somewhat hurried the statement I issued a few days ago in reference to the prohibition plank in the national Democratic platform, and it did not accurately express my posi- e all respects. is this: I am opposed to of the eighteenth amendment. I am opposed to modification of the Vi act. I am opposed to submis- sion of the question of retaining, re- pealing or modifying the eighteenth amendment, and I shall vote against such submission unless directed to vote for it by a representative referendum in my State, Drys Consolidate Forces. ‘While wets on Capitol Hill today were | hailing the victory, by more than 100,000 votes, of Robert R. Reynolds, wet, over Senator Cameron Morrison of North Carolina in the Democratic senatorial primary, drys of the Capital | were consolidating their forces to fight | the move for immediate modification of | the Volstead law to permit 3.2 beer. ‘Two dry strategists, D. Leigh Colvin, national chairman of the Prohibition party, and Dr. Danie] A. Poling, presi- dent of the Allied Prohibition Forces, called at separate times yesterday on Senator Borah of Idaho, prchibition champion of the Senate, who has bolted the Republican party because of the prohibition plank in the party plat- form Senator Borah sald he did not discuss a third party with Dr. Poling, but was silent when questicned as to whether| there had been sny third party talk | with Colvin, “It is up to Mr. Colvin to say what “‘igf”“‘,‘,“f" he said er meeting with Poling, Sena- tor Borah told newspaper mrn‘_; <8 “We simply talked over the political situation and the outlook both as to prohibition and as to economic ques- tlons. No particular significance need be attached to meeting.” Colvin is believed to have asked pe mission to place Borah's name in nom- ination before the prohibition party's convention opening in Indianapolis to- dc'f,’{{m'”l"{l the g[(-rmcc with Borah, in left immediately - el iately for Indiana Tinkham Hails Victory. Borah has been mentioned as pos- | sible leader of a third party many times | In his_political but each time | has refus y v i ny third party The wet lina senatc Represen ham, Republica implacable foe sign that amendment “The n the North Caro- ary was hailed by ge Holden Tink- | of Massachusetts, | the dry forces, as a| of the eighteenth | to come.” League,” he de- n artificial organiza- cighteenth amend- titution. I fought | them in 1922 and have since. If the eigh- had been kept out itution there would have | ew dry States today, but, ed Massachusetts, my | s that did not want | cccept something they ade a mistake.” | of the Con: been quite when y Rains Wreck Train; None Hurt. LITTLE ROCK, Ark, July 4 (®). Seven cars of Missouri-Pacific passen- ger train No southbound from Lit- tle Rock to Orleans, were derailed seven miles south of e was injured. | nishing Material to Tur: By the Associated Press. JOLIET, Ill, July 4.—This business Grohar, brothers, who sell groceries for a living. And neither are the delinquent bills of their customers. They're using them to build a new store. The lease on their bullding is soon to expire, and Anton proposed that own. “now can we do JOBLESS MEN, OWING FOOD BILLS, | BUILD NEW STORE F | Proprietors Allow Unemployed Workers Credit, Fur- Tecession isn’t worrying Anton and John | QR GROCERS n Slump to Advantage. |12 We have been gL carrying 60 per cent o cash.” ustomers ana” we're short of “It's easy,” replied As “We'll Jet the customers dg g o0 e And s0 they said to their customers: ADJOURNING MADE DOUBTFUL BY AID VETD POSSIBILITY Word Reaches Capitol Presi- dent, After Rapidan Confer- ences, Will Reject Bill. RAINEY SEES NO HOPE OF REVISING MEASURE Outlook Complicated by Prospective Senate Tussle Over Beer Amend- ment to Bank Bill. Prospects of adjo gress this Such action would again make an adjournment date pure speculation, in the opinion of many congressional leaders. Word passed among high administra- tive quarters on Capitol Hill that Mr. Hoover, conferring at his Rapidan camp over the week end with Representative Snell of New York, the Republican leader, would return unsigned the glgantic relief measure worked out by Senate and House conferees. Also complicating the outlook was the prospective Senate tussle over pro- hibition with Senator Bingham, Repub- lican, of Connecticut, attempting to attach a beer-for-revenue amendment to the home loan bank bill. Bingham claims sufficient votes for its approval. Not to Be Rewritten. To talk of a relief veto, the confcrees replied emphatically that the bill agreed upon would not be rewritten. As for the prohibition issue, Representative Rainey of Illinois, the Democratic lead- er, said, “There is not a bit of a chance for another House vote.” Rainey insisted, too, that the con- ferees, of whom he is one, believe Mr. Hoover will sign the Garner-Wagner relief bill, R “There is not the slightest chance of the bill being revised,” he said in an interview yesterday. “We don't think he’ll veto it. “The loan provisions, under the Re- construction Corporation, give prefer- ence to the self-liquidating projects the President favors, with other borrowers coming next. “I doubt the President will find any self-liquidating projects myself, but the language follows his expressed prefer- ence. “Then there is no bond issue. Some public works are retained, but in a lump sum, for expenditure as the President's interdepartmental board shall determ- ine. “He is not going to veto this bill” Could Not Be Overriden. But should the veto come, Rainey sald he agreed with the previously ex- pressed opinion of Speaker Garner— that a vetd could not be overriden by a narrowly divided House, virtually half of whose members belong to the party | that has just renominated Mr. Hoover for the presidency. Asked whether the beer amendment would be considered by the House if attached by the Senate to the home loan bill, Rainey said: “All Senate amendments will be con- sidered, but the House won't agree to that. It already has been voted down twice.” With the fiscal year three days old, two appropriation bills still struggled for a place on the statute books—those for the Agriculture and War Departments. Speedy approval of the former is ex- pected, but the War bill remains appar- ently hopelessly deadlocked over the House provision to eliminate 2,000 Reg- ular Army officer. BOHN KIDNAP NOTE DISCARDED AS HOAX Message Found at Wisconsin Lake Not Linked With St. Paul Abduction Case. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, July 4—A new clue that had indicated possible light on the Haskell Bohn case was discarded today. An unsigned note, found in a bottle at Balsam Lake, Wis, and saying the writer was held for ransom on Carlson | Island, in Balsam Lake, was believed by | authorities there to be a hoax. The finder of the note telephoned St. Boaul police in the belief that it might offer a clue to the whereabouts of Bohn, sor. of a St. Paul manufacturer. Young Bohn was seized by two men Thursday. They left a letter asking $35,000 ran- som. Sheriff J. A. Olson of Balsam Lake went to the island, but could not find lany one who knew about the note or Bohn. Sheriff Olson said he doubted that the missive had any connection with the Bohn case, since a similar note, in the same handwriting, was found here two weeks ago, or 10 days before the St. Paul youth was kidnaped. ARSON CHARGED TO TRIO Union Official and R ed in Spartanburg. SPARTANSBURG, 8. C., July 4 (#). —A union organizer and two striking employes of the Arcadia Mills here faced ch:rgis today in connection with the | attempted burning Saturday of a ga- Tage owned by another mill employe. ohn Peel, State organizer for the United Textile Workers of America; H. F. Garmen and Tom Rapley were the accused. Garmon and Rapley were charged with firing the garage owned by R. H. Minton, who had been trans- porting textile workers to and from the mill. Peel was charged with aiding and abetting in the alleged incendiarism. No 5:30 Edition Today Becsuse Of '-l’le Holidny “You men are workers. We have material. You bufld the store. We'll | give you jobs and youll be allowed 50 | cents an hour against your bills.” | baicing 5 porbe" s 2 aiony e is going & hurry leverybody's Rapny, A men There Will be no Late Afternoon Editions of . The Star R AN \\\l INDEPENDENCE DAY, CERMANY MAY 0K, CONPROME PLAN Reparations Proposal Would| Link With War Debts | Due U. S. | | By the Associated Press. LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 4.—| A compromise plan for settlement of | the Treparations problem, including a provision which links it with war debts | due the United States, was being con- sidered today by the German delega- tion to the Lausanne conference. Predictions were freely made that the Germans would accept the new| proposal, even though it contained a| safeguard clause, inserted by France, similar to that rejected by Chancellor Franz von Papen last week. Clause Regarded Obscure. In the new proposal the clause was somewhat veiled, however. and replaced the original demand that elimination of reparations payments be made con- ditional upon America’s agreement to| revise the debt scheduies with a “zen-} tlemen's agreement” delaying the ef-| fectiveness of the plan until the United | States had been heard from on the debt question. Under the present draft, it was un- derstood, Chancellor Von Papen would be allowed to claim that reparations| are ended, while at the same time Premier Herriot could maintain that France was safeguarded against the United States on the debts. ‘The final amount of the bond issue which Germany would guarantee, part- ly to take the place of reparations and partly for economic reconstruction in Europe, was expected to be between | $720,000,000 and $1,003,000,000. The| maximum figure represents a reduction | of about 96 per cent of the Young plan | reparations figure. Three-Year Limit. The bond issue which Germany would be expected to authorize in Heu of reparations payments would have no value for three years, it was under- stood, after which the Bank for In- | ternational Settlements would decide | | when it should be capitalized. | The discussions and bickerings over | the new proposal were expected to Princeton Launches New Attack on Atom Within Intense Chill Temperature at 400 Be- low Is Expected to “Pose” Crystals. BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE. By the Associated Press. PRINCETON, N. J, July 4—A scien- tific refrigerator 400 degrees Fahren- heit below zero will be set up at Prince- ton University. Within it at temperatures close to pect means death of all matter, atoms will be chilled to make them stand al- most still for taking their x-ray spec- troscopic pictures. This is part of an extensive attack on the atom planned under Princeton’s new physics head, Prof. Rudolph Laden- burg, distinguished German scientist. Liquid_hydrogen will cool the refrig- erator. crystals of metal and minerals. The to quiet down pl children for their picture. Al ordinary temperatures the little atoms forming the crystal swirl about | with heat vibrations. But at 400 below they are expected to become so nearly | | still that sclence may get a picture of | the strange “ring-arounds-the-rosy” way | they hold each other to form a crystal. NINE DEAD, TEXAS FLOOD L0SS HIGH Rampage of Three Ranch| Country Rivers After Rains Worst in 40 Years. By the Assoclated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., July 4—Flood waters in the hilly ranch and resort country west and south of here toward the Mexican border today has taken at least nine lives and caused an un- determined amount of property dam- | last_throughout this week. | Chancellor von Papen’s first cbjec- | tions to the plan were against the| amount Germany was called upon to| guarantee, which he thought too high; against the manner of issuing the | bonds, which, he insisted, should make | provision against a possible financial crisis when the bonds were eventually | | translated into money values, and | against the fact that no provision was| f the Versallles treaty. 3 He also was reported to have com-| plained that, although tne sa{eguud‘ | demand of France was veiled, it was| still there. 1165 CUTTERS HUNT | FOR MISSING YACHT Entire Fleet and Two Destroyers Ordered Out When Curlew Disappears in Race. | | By the Assoclated Press. | The Coast Guard today ordered 165 | cutters and two destroyers to search for the yacht Curlew, missing participent in ocean races from Montauk Point to Bermuda. L & i The Coast Guard fssue orders | after parents of persons on the boat| had definitely established that she was missin, The Cutlew, the Coast Guard was in- formed, left Montauk Point June 25 and | | was at first Teported safely in Bermuda. Later advices said she was not there. The entire cutter fleet of 165 was ordered out by the commander of the | New York division of the Coast Guard. i Some of them may not have enough | fuel aboard to participate in the search. BANDIT SLAYS DRIVER Taximan Murdered and Body Thrown in Ditch for $5. 'WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., July 4 (®).—A believed t‘on have ‘Willlam age. ge’I"he Guadalupe, Frio and Nueces Rivers were slowly falling after sudden rises, caused by torrential rains. Old residents said the rises were the great- est in 40 years. The official gauge at the Kincaid ranch near Uvalde showed a precipitation of 29 inches in 30 hours. Rails Washed Away. Sections of railroad tracks were | made for annulling the war-guilt clause | washed away, highways were blocked, | communication lines were down and dozens of small communities were iso- lated. Crops were destroyed and live stock drowned. In this vast area, sparsely populated, it may be days be- fore all the deaths are known. The known dead: Charlie Freeman, Talpa; Mike Odell, 19, Houston; Charles H. Greenleaf, 50, Olivet, Mich; Miss Ida Stieler, 29, Com- fort; J. W. Brunson, Austin; Mrs. Arthur Bedman of Crane, the 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Floyd of Crane; Jesus Ozuna, 18, and Toribio Alvarez, 30. Several of the dead were reported to have drowned in efforts tc save others. Phenomenal Rises Caused. Many streams in this section run through narrow ravines in the hills, and heavy rains cause phenomenal rises. Most of the streams are dry in Summer. The rougher country is filled with cattle, sheep and goat ranches. Numer- ous Summer camps are located along the Guadalupe. Many Texas boys and girls attend camps along the upper stretches of the river in Kerr County, but reports from there said all were safe. Interspersed among the hills are stretches of comparatively open coun- try, and on the lower lying lands are popular with deer hunters. the absolute zero which scientists sus- | In it the x-rays will photograph | 1932. FARM GATHERINGS VBN RALLY CAL {Independence From “Eco- nomic Tyrannies” Plea at Federation Observances. | By the Assoclated Press. QTTUMWA, Iowa, July 4—Farmers gawnered in 10,000 rural communities | today, under the banner of the Ameri- | can Farm Bureau Federation, heard' | speakers proclaim that this day s new| declaration of independence was born. It was a declaration, they were told, | for freedom “from economic tyrannies that long have obstructed the advance of the Natlon's basic industry, agrictl- E. A. O'Neal, president of the feder- ation, addressing thousands of South- eastern farmers and to with thése words sounded the keynote of the nationwide rally of farmers and other leaders echoed him. Picnics were held wherever the Farm Bureau organization has reached in commemoration at once of Independ- ence day and as agriculture's contribu- tion to the George Washington Bicen- tennial celebration. ‘The political parties, O'Neal charged, have failed to relieve the farm situation and the farmers’ answer should be a war of ballots against forces of “organ- ized selfishness and indifference.” At both major political conventions, | he declared, “not a single voice was heard telling the parties of the act: condition and needs of the 50,000,000 | people directly dependent on agricul- ture.” The time has come, he said, for farmers to assert themselves through a “war, not of violence, but of ballots.” “It must be a war,” he advised, | “aimed to send to Congress men who will represent the interests of the farm- ers, not of campaign contributors.” GERMAN FLYERS, LOST SINCE MAY 17, ALIVE | Wilds of Australia Yield Harrow- ing Tale of Suffering and Ex- periences With Savages. By the Associated Press. SYDNEY, Australia, July 4.—Capt. Hans Bertram, German aviator, and his | companion, a man named Clausman, who have been missing since May 17, were found alive today. | ,The two aviators dropped out of sight after they took off from Kupang Island |on a flight to Darwin. The first news of their fate came in the middle of | June, when natives handed over to a | missionary a handkerchief and cigarette | case on which were the initials H. B. The natives found footprints of two | men going southward about 100 miles north of Wydnham. Afterward the plane was found and with it a message saying the flyers had gone into the |bush.” It was feared then they had | been murdered by the native tribes. | _The aviators told a tale of harrowing | experiences and suffering which beset | them since the middle of May, when ‘they landed 80 miles from Wyndham. | They were at last discovered by na- tives 12 miles from their abandoned | plane. The natives supplied them with | food and sent for assistance. Bertram, Just able to walk, was carrying a plece of cooked kangaroo in a towel. 13 KILLED IN BLAST | American Among Victims of Dyna- mite Explosion in Luzon. MANILA, July 4 (#) —Thirteen men, including one American, were killed to- |day in a dynamite explosion aboard a |small boat at Aparri, in the northern | section of Luzon Island. Under the direction of the American, Ray Hegler, the group had been blast- |farming communities. The section is!ing a sand bar. The cause of the fatal explosion was not ascertained. FIVE-MILE VERTICAL PLANE RACE | PLANNED AT CLEVELAND EXHIBIT Flyers Would Climb to Imaginary Pylon in Sky, Then Dive Straight Down. predicted the event, while to both commercial and mili would STEADY BAN RS NDEPENDENE DAY CELEBRATIN HERE Bonus Marchers’ Parade and Other Morning Cele- brations Are Canceled. PROGRAM AT MONUMENT EXPECTED TO CLIMAX DAY Exercises Scheduled for 7:30 P.M. President Spending Week End at Rapidan Camp. The Capital jolned with the Nation today in commemorating a momentcus event in the history of America—the signing of the Declaration of Inde- pendence in Philadelphia in 1776, Although rainfall forced cancella- tion of some of the outdoor events, the ardor of the majority of celebrants was undampened as they turned out to join in the noise and tumult that the celebration of the 156th anniver- sary of freedom's birth occasions. Hoover at Rapidan Camp. In the peaceful calm of his Rapidan refuge high in the Virginia hills, Presi- gent Hoover led the Nation in paying obeisance to the doughty band of Rev- olutionary heroes. Linked in with the Nation-wide ob- | servance of the Fourth of July this | year is the Bicentennial celebration of the birth of George Washington, and Bicentennial commissions everywhere {lay stress on the part he played in the independence America is now cele- brating. The only parade scheduled for the downtown section—that of the army of bonus seekers—was called off after a morning of rain, and the principal suburban ceremony, the parade and pageant sponsored by the citizens of Takoma Park which was to have as- sumed impressive proportions, also was reluctantly canceled. The main event of the day, however, the mammoth demonstration at the base of the towering Washington Mon- ument, is scheduled to get under way at 7:30 o'clock, with appropriate g:lt‘r‘l.o;m Jexercu;s and an oration by r James E. Watson, Republican leader of Indiana. Postponement Likely. Unless the inclement weather per- sists, the Sylvan Theater program and the pyrotechnics display will go on as planned. 1f, however, it is raining to- night, the patriotic exercises will be canceled and the fireworks demonstra-~ tion postponed until the first clear night. Senator Watson's speech will be broadcast In either event by the Colum- bia Broadcasting System, it was an- nounced by Thomas P. Littlepage, chairman of the citizens’ committee in charge of the Fourth of July program. Patriotic groups in the various sece tions of the city flocked to their com- munity centers and playgrounds for In- dependence day exercises, many of them mlndoon. ;.ec:uu of oma rk’s pat: scheduled to follow the parade, m in the Takoma Park School, Philadel~ phia and Cedar avenues, with Maj. Gen, Amos A. Fries, U. 8. A, retired, as the principal speaker. The assemblage was called to order by Capt. C. Leonard Boyer, general chairman. Invocation was pronounced by Rev. David C. Clark, rector of Trinity Church. The soloist Wwas Miss Dorothy Skinner, with selec- tions by the United States Army Band. Athletic Events Planned. Following this program, an athletic meet at the Whittier School Play- ground, Fourth and Whittier street, was next on the Takoma Park schedule. This, aceording to its sponsors, would take place “rain or shine” The big feature of this event is the 10-mile | marathon race, to start from the Mount Vernon Boulevard and conclude on the school playground, with The Evening Star trophy as the prize. The concluding event on the suburb’s program is the fireworks Herald Band will play. The Sylvan Theater program is scheduled to lead off with a concert by the United States Marine Band, fol- lowed by a massing of the colors. Mr. Littlepage will be presiding officer, while Dr. W. Coleman Nevils, president of Georgetown University, will pronounce the invocation. Following Senator Watson's speech and the presentation of the colors, which will culminate the program, the fireworks display will | start, weather permitting, at 8:45 | o'clock. Co-operating with the citizens’ group on this program are the Community Center Department, the District Bi- centennial Commission and the Greater National Capital Committee of the Washington Board of Trade. The fire- works demonstration is in charge of Claude W. Owen. Celebration Postponed. The home-coming celebration of East | Washington citizens, arranged under the auspices of the Lincoln Park, Stanton Park, Trinidad and Northeast Citizens’ Associations and the Northeast Business Men's Association, in co-operation with the Community Center and Playground Departments was postponed until Sate urday at 2 p.m., when the entire pro- gram will “be given as originally scheduled. The District of Columbia Depart- ment of the American Legion will hear Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, vice president of Georgetown University, at exercises in the Central High School Auditorium this afterncon. Ferdinand G. Fraser, department commander, and Gen. Fries, ;mstkdeputmem commander, also will speak. REVOLUTIONI-\RY PARTY WINS IN MEXICAN VOTE By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, July 4—Early re- turns from yesterday’s congressional elections indicated the National Revo- lutionary party, unopposed in most dis- tricts, had won overwhelmingly. Voters in the main were apathetic, although three members of the Revo- lutionary party were slightly hurt in a clash with Labor party adherents here. ‘The Labor party last night sent pro- tests to the interior and federal district departments against what it called “scandalous violations of the law in yes- terday’s farcical election” and charged that many voters were not allowed to by | cast their votes. The Revolutionary party last night said it won overwhelmingly in