Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1932, Page 1

\ WEAT (U 8. Weather Bu Falr tonight and warmer tonight; gentle westerly winds becoming variabie. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 86 yesterday; lowest, 66, Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 HER. reau Forecast.) tomorrow, slightly t 4:30 p.m. at 5 am. today. @h ¢ Fhening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated service. * Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 117,579 No. 32,291, Entered as seco nd class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. JULY 19, 1932 —THIRTY PAGES. #x%x (®) Means Associated Pre: TWO CENTS. ARNS BODY NEARS RECESS WITH PART OF IS ATTANED Americans Pressing for Aboli- tion of Heavy Mobile Guns at Once. GIBSON IN AGREEMENT ON TROOPS STATEMENT Adjournment Will Provide for| Further Negotiations Before Next { Meeting at Geneva. By the Associated Press. | GENEVA, Switzerland, July 19.—| Delegates to the World Disarmament | Conference today were close to agree- | ment on the resolution to be adopted | before the first phase of the conference ends and the deliberations adjourn. “The problem of heavy mobile guns and land artillery is not yet solved, however. The Americans insist that these heavy guns be abolished, but the French and British demand that reduction or elimi- mation shall apply only to naval guns.; Accord on Effectives. | Overnight. Hugh Gibson, head of the | American contingent, and Premier Her- riot of France reached an understand- ing regarding declarations as to the treatment of the question of effective troops. The proposal substantially to yeduce effectives will be made the sub- gect of intergovernmental conversations | during the conference recess, but no definition of effectives will be laid down. This last clause obtains the French | support, for it leaves open the question | as to whether Germany's Brown Shirt Fascisti and Italy’s Black Shirts shall | be included among the effectives to be | reduced. In its present form the adjournment | declaration has five parts. (1) In a preamble it welcomes the ‘Hoover proposals for reduction of “’°‘mmee and the Massachusetts Commis- | that 30 States intended to seek loans| | sion on the Stabilization of Employ- from the $300.000,000 fund established world's arms by one-third and recog- nizes the desirability of strengthening | factors of national defence against | those of offense. | Points to Agreement. (2) Tt lists the points on which the confcrence is belicved to be virtually in agreement. These probably will in- clude prohibition of gas and bacterio- | logical warfare, perhaps restrictions on | 2ir bombing, heavy mobile artillery and | tanks, and a provision for an interna- tiona] disarmament commission. (3) 1t provides for continuation of | naval negotiations during the period of adjournment. & (4) It declares that the adjourn- ment shall not prejudice the future work of the conference and that in Septem- ber or whenever necessary before the parley is resumed the conference bureau shall meet. (5) It provides for renewal of the existing armaments truce. A date for resumption of the confer- ence protably will not be set, but this is_expected in January or February, 1933. PENNSY TO REPLACE CANTON PIERS SOON #Modern Unit” Will Be Built by| Railroad Following $1,500,000 Fire. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. | BALTIMORE, July 19.—George M. Smith, superintendent of the Balti-| more division of the Pennsylvania Rail- road, announced today the Canton plers destroyed by fire Sunday “prob- | ably will be replaced at once by a modern unit.” i « Detalls of the “modern unit” will be fixed at a conference, probably in Philadelphia. The fire, which destroyed piers 2, 3 and 4 and badly damaged pier No. 1,/ caused a total damage of $1.400,000. Meanwhile special investigators are secking to determine the origin of the fire. It was reported they were work- | ing on a theory of incendiarism. 450 Employes Replaced. ROANOKE, Va, July 19 (®).—Four | of he Jury and = A1 Nuhgred and fiffy)semployes! of the | R O e cout? at | Curtis Back in Norfolk. Viscose Corporation will be back work tomorrow after having been off for more than a month. The company early in June laid off about 4500 workers and of this number, 10 per cent vecurn to regular duty status. Glass Plant to Reopen. PITTSBURGH, July 19 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. announced today that it will resume operations at another of its Ford City, Pa. plants next month. The plant, equipped to make mirror glass end large plates, has been closed for two months. 600 Assured Steady Jobs. FLORENCE, Ala., July 19 (#).—There will be no enforced vacation this Sum- mer for 600 employes of the Gardiner ‘Warring Knitting Co. ’ Jewett Flagg, president, announced tocay sufficient orders are on hand 1o assure full-time operations throughout the Summer and Fall, with prospects for steady work during the Winter. LORD LYTTdN STRICKEN Head of League Commission IIl in China. TSINGTAO, China. July 19 (®).— Lord Lytton, head of the League of Na- tions commission' investigating condi- tions in the Far Eeast, was carried ashore on a “stretcher when the ship taking the commissicn from Japan to Peiping arrived here today. At the British consulate it wes said he had an intestinal chill and was run- ning a slight fever. He left tonight with his colleagues, but at Tsinanfu he will leave the party and go on by airplane to Peiping to enter the Rockefeller Hos- pital. Lord Lytton is 56 years cld. . 300 Box Cars Burned. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 19 (#).— ‘Three hundred box cars were destroyed or damaged by fire in the Southern Railway yards here early todsy. Fire- men battled the flames seven hours. ‘The cause of the fire has not been de- termined. | detectives. (#).—The “ | 3,000,000 Jobs GOV. JOHN G. WID COUNEL PROEET RS FOR 300010 Governors of New England and Industrialists to Con- fer Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, July 19.—A plan which its sponsors believe would add 3,000,000 persons to the Nation's pay rolls on the basis of the current business vol- ume, will be projected for Nation-wide discussion at a meeting to be held here tomorrow, the New England Council HOOVER SIGNATURE | EXPECTED SOON ON EMERGENCY RELIEF President Finds Some Fea- tures Still Objectionable, but Unworthy of Veto. EXECUTIVE AND RAINEY ARE SPLIT ON PUBLICITY Thirty States Indicate Intention to Ask for Leans—Two Will Request Maximum. By the Associated Press | A plece of parchment, promising [32.0\70.000 worth of stimulation for business, today awaited President Hoover's signaturs, the last necessary !step. Mr. Hoover vas expected to sign the $2,122,000,000 relief bill within a short time. There were some features of the relief effort that the President found objectionable, but in his own words “they are not so great as to warrant refusal to approve the measure in the face of the great service that the major | Provisions will be to the Nation.” Rainey and Hoover at Odds. As the time for the executive approval, ‘he President and Representative Rainey of Tllinois, House Democratic leader, | Still were at odds over whether it would Ibe necesary to make public details of 1all loans by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. | Mr. Hoover said “no,” holding they i could be given to the Senate and House |in_confidence: Mr. Rainey said "y | insisting that if Senate and House | clerks did not give them out they would be called “on the carpet when Congress | convenes again.” i The Reconstruction Corporation. | which the measure gives an available to i 2277 2 ", TUESDAY, < O\ BOARD 0 DIRECT ST.LAWRENCE WORK fJoint Commission to B¢ | Named by U. S. and Canada announced foday. The meeting Is to capital of $3800.000000 instead of a! fOr $543,000,000 Project. be held under the auspices of the New Hampshire Unemployment Relief Com- mert. ‘The meeting is to be called the joint Goernors of the New England States | and nationally known industrialists and | tion's directorate, as provided in the educators. | They will discuss & plan known as| the New Hampshbire pian for re-em-| ploymsnt, deve'op>d by Harold M| Davis, industrial engineer ot Nashua.| N. H. It involves application to all units | of government and business of the; principle of flexible working hours. The | | objective, according to its sponsors, is to put into practical application an| idea long discussed by economists and | business men. of apportioning availab { work among available workers so far as racticable. np ‘Estimating that of the current total number of unemployed soms three mil- |lion are idle tecause of technolcgical reasons, the plan sets out to provide the | working basis on which these may be set to work again. The committee in charge of ference is heaced by Gov. Winant of New Hampshire the con- | Jobn G.| \CONTESTS VERDICT | IN CURTIS TRIAL t Counsel Alleges Members of Jury Were Shadowed by Detectives. By the Associated Press. \ FLEMINGTON, N. J., July 19.—Lloyd | Fisher, attorney, announced today that | he would apply immediately for an or-| der to show cause why the verdict of | guilty against John Hughes Curtis, who was convicted of hindering capture of the kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby, | | should not be set aside. | He said he would charge that prose- cutor Anthony M. Hauck had been guilty of contempt in permitting mem- bers of the jury to be shadowed by “This action,” he said, “was a direct | insult to the intelligence and integrity of the jury and a d.rect affront to the NORFOLK, Va., July 19 (#)—Johnt Hughes Curtis arrived in Norfolk today to assist in raising funds for an appeal from his sentence on conviction of ob- structing justice in the Lindbergh case. | Curtis was released on $10.000 bail, furnished by a surety company yester-, day afternoon. The guarantee for the! bond was arzanged by eight Norfolk | citizens and signed by Mrs. Curtis. LABOR TO REMAIN | | NEUTRAL IN FIGHT| A. F. L. to Maintain “Hands-off” Policy in Presidential Campaign. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 19.— The American Federation of Labor will | adhere this year to its usual policy of non-partisanship in presidential cam- paigns. i The decision to remain neutral in the coming campaign was reached yes- terday by the executive council. Only once in its history, when it supported the late Rcbert M. La Follette for the . presidency, has the federation departed from this’ policy. Careful ~ consdierations, William Green, federation president sald, was given at the meeting to the planks of both major parties. ¥ He said the exccutive council had found the Republican and Democratic platforms clear cut on only one issue— modification of the Volstead act. Kill: Wife, Neighbor, Self. CLARKSBURG, W. Va,, July 19 (). —In a fit of fury today, C. Walker Bender, 45, and unemployed coal miner, shot and killed his wife. Lona, 45, and a neighbor, William Hill, 38, a farmer, and then committed suicilé, All three died almost instantly. . | approval. Se-retary of Lebor Dcak mere $2,000.000.000. was ready to carry | out the provisions of the measure { “YAlready the corporation had heard | for direct relief of destitution. From at least two—Pennsylvania and Illinois | —came reports that they would ask the | conference on the flexible work day|maximum $45,000,000 allotable to any | and week and will b2 attended by the | State. There had been no definite word about reorganization of the corpora- bill, which called for retirement of Eugene Meyer, governor of the Feceral Reserve, and Paul Beslor. farm loan commissioner. The vacancies must be filled by presidential appointment The corporation als) was ready to consider applications from States and municipalities for loans with which to build public works and toll bridges and | from corporations for money to be used in building homes. § Despite the increased business. a gen- al reorganization was not immediately | ontcmplated. Officials incicat-d they | thought things would just go on about as before, the 33 branch offices investi- | central | gating apolications and the boerd of directors meeting twice a day to act cn them. | 30-Your Week Begun. While the bill let |it be known that the five-day week, six- hour day. already is being enforced on £o°n may be genera.. He referred spe- cificially to a post office at Portland, Oreg., where, he said, workers have been | on_that schedule since February 19. The new relief measure specifies that ;the hours of labor on all public build- ings outside the District of Columbia chall be only 30 a week. taticn applies to Federal works as well as those constructed with money bor- poration. Executive, administrative and supcrvisory positions are exempted. Preference on the new w-rks is to be given to veterans, with direct convict labor barred. THREE-STORY FALL KILLS SEAMAN AT PORTSMOUTH Police Naval Authorities Launch Separate Probes in Sailor’s Death. By the Assoclated Press PORTSMOUTH, Va, July 19.—P. J. Simpson, seaman, second ciass, attached to the battleship Mississippi, was killed today when he was thrown, jumped or fell from a third-story windcw of the Missy Club here. Police and naval authorities launched separate investigations of the death. Simpson’s home address was listed by naval records as 202 Howerton avenue, Nashville, Tenn. The bedy was discovered by Detective W. J. Morgan and two patrolmen. The skull was crushed and the body badly bruised in the fall. The corcner per- mitted removal to the Naval Hospital, where an investigation is being con- ducted by a special naval board of in- quiry. Six men found asleep in the club were taken into custody for questioning, but civil authorities released them to Capt. W. D. Puleston, commanding officer of the battleship. All were seamen. Police were seeking to ascertain whether Simpson had bcen robbed. There was only 64 cents in his pockets when the bcdy was found. MRS. TOMMY MILLS DIES AT HOSPITAL Wife of Director of Athletics at G. U. Succumbs After " Operation. and By the Associated Press. OMAHA, July 19.—Mrs. Alma 8. Mills, 40, wife of Tommy Milis, direc- tor of athletics at Georgetown Univer- siiy and former assistant at Notre Dame to the late Knute Rockne, died at hospital last night after undergoing an | operation. Death was unexpected, as Mrs, Mills had been apparently recovering irom the operation performed Saturday. Bocides her husband, she is survived by three children, Thomas, jr.; Maura, and Bobby. Burial probably will be ac Beloit, Wis. d Mrs. Mills made many friends in Washington in the past two years, since her husband became athletic director at Georgetown University. Since the Summer of 1930, when the family moved here from South Bend, Ind., she had made her home at 3514 Rodman street By the Associated Prees The great St. Lawrence seaway is to be constructed under the supervision of a sort of super-government commission and on a strictly business basis. | | The ponderous name of the organiza- | :!lcn. specified in the treaty signed yes- | terday between the United States and | Canada, is the St. Lawrence Interna- i tional Rapids Section Ccmmission. Its work on the $543.000,000 project | will be just as ponderous as its name, | but the plan is to let it be &s free from | governmental red tape as the ordinary { contractor. Seriously 11 VIRGINIA REPRIJENTATIVE IN CRITICAL CVYNDITION. HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER, Representative from the tenth Virginia Five to Be Named by Each. ct, was in a critical ccndition at Fi be bey inted by his home in Lexington today. He has e members are to be appol bY | been in ill health for several months each country as soon as the treaty is and was sbsent for a large part of the ratified by the United States Senate, |Tecent session of Congress. His children awaited presidential | some Federal construction works and| This limi- | rowed from the Reconstruction Cor- | | which meets in December, and the Canadian Parliament, which convenes early next year. Because of subsequent necessary de- lay in obtaining appropriations, work, | of course, cannot begin until some time after that. But the 10 men named to | the commission will have ample author- ity to push the project for a 27-fool channel from Montreal to Lake Ontarlo. They will have authority to make con- tracts. sue and be sued and employ all i the help they need. They will see that | wages paid workers equal those preva- lent in the community. | They will not, however, have the right to direct construction of the power plants to develop 2,200,000 horse- power, although they can co-ordinate | these with the seaway. They can order deferred any works. When their job is done, they cease to exist as a com- mission. | Agreements of Governments. | To show that they mean these com- missioners to do business, the two gov- were called to his bedside today. e PROSPERITY HOPE IN OTTAWA PARLEY Baldwin Believes Conference Effects Should Reach Be- yond British Probiems. By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Ontaria, July 19.—Stanley Baldwin, former prime minister of Great Britain and leading delegate to the Im- | perfal Trade Conference, which opens ernments have agreed: To waive immigration laws so far as they otherwise would affect those in the employ of the commission. To exempt from all tariffs and cus- toms and taxes supplies bought by the commission in either country. To keep the commission free, gener- ally, from legislative or executive di- rection. 5 : | To make the commission subject to the federal courts of the countries in which suits originate, with the proviso that if any claim exceeds $50,000 either { government may sppeal it yo arbi- tration. 'FUNDS FROM R. F. C. URGED IN NEW YORK Mayor Walker Asked to Move for| Money for Construction Projects. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, July 19.—Willlam J. Pedrick, president of the Fifth Avenue Association, anncunced today that the association Wwill ask Mayor James J.| Walker to call immediately a meeting | of the Board of Estimate and apportion- | ment to consider making a request to | the Reconstruction Finance Ccrpora- tion for a loan te continue work on the Tri-Borough Bridge and to start work on a vehicular tunnel under the East River from Thirty-eighth street, Man- hattan. The board recently voted not to make any further appropriations at preunt} for the bridge, work on which was be- | un late in 1929. No contracts have lg:een let for the Thirty-eighth Stfeet mnel. Tu'rhe Tri-Borough Bridge, which is to cross Hellgate Channel parallel to the estimated at $80,000,000. In addition, Pedrick said, the City of New York might ask for a loan to Start work on a proposed $100,000.000 funnel under the Hudscn River from Thirty-eighth street, Manhattan. Napoleon Gems Unsold. NEW YORK, July 19 (#.—The Napoleon necklace, which the “Little Corporal” is said to have presented to the Empress Marie Louise, is on its way back to Austria after an unsuccessful attempt to sell it here for $500,000. Its nt owner, Ar Marie Thursday, believes the ccnference should not confine itself to the British empire, but should point the way back to prosperity to the world. “The delegates at Ottawa,” he said at Montreal yesterday, as he boarded the special train prepared to bring the | British delegation here, “can reacn | agreements which will increase lrldei between different parts cf the empirc and so promote the well-being of every unit of the empire. But we also believe that by the | methods we adopt we can set an ex- ample for the whole world in breaking | down obstacles to commerce. in aiding | a revival of agriculture, industry and | trade and so bringing peoples safely t}n-ough the tragic depression of recent times.” | Greeted by Crowds. | Delegations docked at 5 p.m., yester- day at Montreal, delayed by a collision and a fog in the St. Lawrence. They | were greeted by shrieking whistles and | great crowds. | They were brought here on special trains last night. There were here statesmen from South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, In- di, Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State, Australia, New Zealand and other sections of the Brit- ish Empire. Dairy products and tea, wheat and | gold, rubber and wool, pigs and cattle, Manchester textiles and Canadian furs all became grist for the mill that is ex- pected to grind out a specific for the ills of the empire’se-and perhaps the world’s disorder. ‘The government of Manitoba at Win- nipeg urged the conference 1o make | provision for free entry of Canadian dairy products into the United King- dom. It advised, however, that it saw no ldvlnu‘le in a United Kingdom quota for wheat, since Great Britain's total imports of wheat are less Canada’s average exportable surplus. Stabilization of Exchange. It also urged stabilization of ex- change within the empire and negoti- ations to establish ocean cattle freight ratés from Canada based on weight rather than number of head. Premier George F. Henry of Ontario told an audience at Toronto that Canada must be prépared to lower her tarift 1l to — our old benefits,” he said. The Winnipeg declaration that no advantage would be derived from a British quota on wheat was the prairie country’s first indication of its attitude on this question, one of the prominent agricultural matters that will be before the conference. The Manitoba govern- ment’s suggestion was based on two w - > ) e (\W’%fi HOME BANK BILL Report From Controller on Borah-Glass Amendment Is Awaited. President Hoover, it was reported to- day. is still considering whether he shall sign the home loan bank bill night. controller of the currency for a re- port on the Borah-Glass amendment, which would increase by more than a billion dollars the national bank notes which may be issued by national banks against Government bonds. 'HOOVER TO RECEIVE NOTIFICATION WEEK Date to Be Fixed Soon, With | White House or Constitu- tion Hall as Place. CURTIS MAY REPRESENT PRESIDENT AT OLYMPICS Representative Snell Hits Garner as “Straddler” in Speech on Relief Measure. Lhis official notification ceremonies in | Washington some time between August 8 and 15, it was disclosed today after he had conferred with Representative Snell of New York, Republican leader of the House. The exact date and place will be decided within a few days. Snell said the notification would be staged either at the White House or in Constitution Hall. This announcement was made almost immediately after Mr. Hoover's return to the White House today from his Rapidan fishing camp. Mr. Hoover ! made known his decision through Srell, who was permanent chairman of the | Republican convention, and who will i make the notification’ speech to the | President. | Conference Lasts Hour. | The New York Representative was ! closeted with the President for more ihan &n hour. During this time, besides | discussing the notification details, Snell | indicated they discussed politics gen- 1 erally ! Revived reports that the President is | reconsidering his previous declination of an invitation to go to Los Angeles to { opsn the Olympic games on July 30 and on the same trip hold notification cere- monies at his home in Palo Alto, Calif,, received nothing in the form of con- firmation today. On the conirary, Mr. Hoover's asso- | clates said that there was not the | slightest likelihood of his being able 0 get away from Washington to go to Los | Angeles for the Olympic games. | announced the President’s decision to | be notified here. | Curtis May Go West. | __There has been some talk of Mr | Hoover having Vice President Curtis | represent him at the Olympics. It is understood that the Vice President dis- OF AUGUST 810 15 President Hoover has decided to hold | . As for which was put through Congress just |the report ebout his selecting Palo Alto ! P before that body adjourned Saturday ! for his notification, this was thrown into ' the polic The measure is before the | the discard when Representative Snell jas the scare was over. ordered the IWHITE HOUSE SCARE IGAUSED BY MOVING OF VETERANS' UNIT jlron Gates Are Closed and 100 Police Called Out to Guard Mansion. PRESIDENT, AT LUNCH, UNAWARE OF INCIDENT Group of 40 Bonus Marchers Are Transferred to 21st Street and Virginia Avenue. The big iron gates to the White | House grounds were closed this after- | noon and more than 100 police called iout to guard the Executive Mansion fol- lowing reports that a delegation of bonus-seeking veterans were en route to picket the White House. The reports grew out of a move- ment of about 40 veterans, who were being transferred from former billets in Southwest Washington to new quar- |ters in tre vicinity of Twenty-first street and Virginia avenue. The vet- jerans, however, skirted the White ,Eg;x:ecxmu[nds, folded the flags they arrying and ma |5 picker de no attempt {1 - Flurry at White House. Le episode caused a flurry of ex- citement at the White House, where jexire precauflons had been taken | carlier in the day. due to persistent | rumors that the veterans proposed to | picket the White House. As soon as ;lh? Teports reached officials that a | delegation of the vetcrans were headed ir. the direction of the Executive Man- icion the iron gates were shut and | Buards took up previously assigned sta- | tions inside and outside the grounds. Only persons who could satisfy the ig‘x,:'l“rlds ;ihu they had business at the € House were permitted to the grounds. ’ dis President Hoover had left his offi [ to 80 to ‘the White House for lumcheon, when the alarm was broadcast of the !‘ps%“:“}k‘l of bl!he veterans. He ‘ll | sal 0 have €Nl unaware - ,mémem outside. e a apt. Edward J. Kelly of the third recinct took personal command of e arrangements and as soon men back to the station house. Escorted by Officer. | Capt. Kelly said the veterans were | orderly when they passed around in {the rear of the White House and showed no signs of having intended to | picket. A policeman, he said. was es- Senator Watson of Indiana, Republi- | cussed this with. the President (o\low-}cofi.ml the men to their new billets. can leader of the Senate, who sponsored the bill in its passage through the Sen- ate, was & guest of the President at Rapidan over the week end. The Indi- ana Senator today. however, was re- ported to be in New York. The echoes of the Watson-Couzens row in the closing our of the session continued to reverberate in Capitol corridors today. Friends of the Repub- lican leader made it clear they resented the attack made upon Senator Watson by Senator James Couzens of Michigan, when it became apparent to the latter that he would be unable to block the passage of the $250,000 appropriation for the operation of the home loan sark bill. Senator Couzens was a stron, and unyielding opponent of the bill. He charged on tre floor that a “trick” had been resorted to in order to get action on the appropriation bill, and expressed the hope that the Democrats in Indiana would “take care of” Senator Watson in the senatorial election next November. A Republican friend of Watson said today of the controversy: “Senator James E. Watson, Republi- can leader of the Senate, never dis- played his patience and kindly nature to better aavantage than he did when Senator Couzens, the multi-millionaire Republican insurgent, displayed his wrath in the Senate in his failure to defeat the Watson home loan bill at the closing hcurs of the session. Sen- ator Couzens had fought the bill sav- agely and bitterly at every point.” He quoted Senator Watson's reply to | Senator Couzens as follows “I am not going to get into a per- sonzl encounter with the Senator. Never in my political experience as a campaigner or on this floor have I said anything derogatory to the character of any man. I do not believe in the argu- ment of slander or in the logic of vilifi- cation. I try to keep above the low miasmatic swamps of personal defama- tion and conduct my argument from the high plateau of principle and logic: and I have never at any time indulged in slander of any of my colleagues or of any of my opponents or of any of my fellow citizens, and I do not intend now to indulge in anything of that character.” THREE MORE KILLED IN GERMAN CLASHES' Two Die in Nazi-Red Battle at Wesseling—Cardinal Appeals to Von Papen. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, July 19.—Three persons were killed and a number seriously wounded in a series of political clashes | which took place throughout Germany last night in spite of the decree promul- gated by the government against out-‘ door meetings yesterday. Two pedestrians were shot and kflled! at Wesseling, near Bonn, during a bat- tle between National Socialists and Communists who interfered with the Nazis while they were posting election notices. One Nazi was killed at Striegau in another battle there. Other bloody clashes were reported at Schneidemuehl Schloppe, Prechlau, Hindenburg and Krefeld. At Fulda, Cardinal Adolph Bertram of Breslau sent an urgent appeal to Chancellor von Papen, in the name of the Conference of \Bishops in session there, asking the chancellor to suppress radical terrori with the utmost severity. Meteorite Falls in Germany. HEIDELBERG, Germany, July 19 (#)—What was presumably . a large meteoric fragment fell in this vicinity early this morning with a bright flash, a crash as of thunder and a shock which was felt for several miles around. chess eresa of Austria, ed its return, conferences called last M: Premier John Bracken. S Radis Prégrams on Page B-8 ing the cabinet meeting today. When the Vice President left the executive soon as the veterans had pa: | beyond the limits of the White 'ilosu.'s? office after the cabinet session he said | 8Tounds the gates were reopened. A he had discussed with the President| Dumber of motor cycle officers re- plans for the official notification cere- | mained in the vicinity, but the re- | monies. but would not say he was Serves and other policemen who were | scheduled to represent the President | called out returned to the third pre- ; at the opening of the Olympics. | The President arrived back from his| The arrival of the policemen, who camp appearing greatly benefited as Came in patrol wagons. private auto- | fhe result of his two days’ rest. While mobiles and on motor cycles, attracted | at the camp Mr. Hoover held a series .3 large crowd of spectators, who loitered | of conferences with Senator Watson of | around in Lafayette Park for about 15 | Indiana, the Republican leader. No an- minutes. ! nouncement was made at the White, No attempt was made by police to | House or at the camp that Senator | CATTY out the plan of isolating the Watson was at the President'’s camp: White House from pedestrian and ve- | yesterday. This information was ob- | hivular traffic, adopted Saturday night tained today at the Capitol. after a group of veterans had made an | Snell Hits at Garner. | sttempt “to 'stage a demonstration in | Representative Snell. after his con- Execative Mantion, | ference with the President. said he was | 400 More Get Loans. !cmereste: tosr!ldkin the morning news More than 3.200 members | papers that Speaker Garner “was up to | bonus army today were headed for his old tricks again by straddling his =ty & y 8 D15 | home or seeking to get out of the “Speaker Garner's straddle in this, Capital the past 24 hours having seen instance,” Representative Snell pointed | about 400 started on their way by the out. “was in connection with his telling | Veterans’ Administration. a Texas audience that the President| "\ ");" o1 this morning, the ad- cinct station. of the thad opposcd- Garner's $100,000,000 item for direct charity relief. whereas | Garner knew perfectly well that the President’s opposition was to the mil- ministration officers reported, there had | been more than 3,200 applications for help. At 9 o'clock this morning. with lion-dollar pork barrel provision in the | the veteran offices ready to open for Garner bill. “Moreover, the people of Texas as well as elsewhere were just as much opposed to the pork barrel provision as was the President. I happen to know that one of the longest telegrams in the history of the telegraph was re- ceived at the Capitol expressing oppo- sition to this pork barre] legislation.” Trip Home Uneventful. | The President’s ‘trip back from the Rapidan camp was uneventful. { For the first time in the recent his- [tory of his journeys to the csmp he | was picked up by sn escort of motcr cycle police as he crossed the Arlington Memorial Bridge and guarded closely en route to the White House. Extra , police patrolled all sides of the Executive | Mansion as he reached it. entering by a side door. as a precaution against possible demon- strations by bonus-seeking veterans. Mrs. Hoover, who went to the Rapi- dan camp more than a week £go, re- mained there. He was accompanicd on the return trip only by Mr. and Mrs. Mark Sullivan, the cnly guests at the camp. | THREE TOWNS ARE TAKEN FROM BRAZILIAN REBELS Gains Made by Federal Troops Under Command of President Getulio Vargas. By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, July 19.—Federal troops under President Getulio Vargas carried the fighting into the rebels’ | territory in Sao Paulo State today. In an advance begun yesterday three towns were taken and airp’anes bombed the air fields of Sao Paulo City. There was still no sign of a “big ush” against the rebels, however. The atter were reported to have evacuated the captured towns yesterday without resistance. NO TRACE OF ALCOHOL Negative Results Found in Death of Mrs. Nona Lorenz. NEW _YORK, July 19 (®).—Dr. Alex- ander Goettler, city toxicologist, today reported negative results for alcohol in his chemical analysis of the viscera of Mrs. Mona Lorenz, 36 years old, former manufacturer of cosmetics, who was found dead in her penthouse apart- ment last Saturday. Dr. Goettler said he was now making a chemical analysis for narcotics. Mrs. Lorenz, divorced wife of Parker Lorenz and native of Des Moines, Iowa, was found dead in bed by her 14-year- old daughter, Julia. She had been sick the nignt before but had declined to have a doctor. The guard was stationed | the day’s work, something more than 100 of the bonus army were lined up repared to file their applications. It was said the departures totaled j £lightly over 2.700, 2.275 having gone [nut by train and 443 by automobile. | There” were about 200 more for whom <:1c)§;u had been acquired waiting for rains. Food Situation Worse. In the meantime, with this excdus in progress, the food situation became increasingly difficult. Supt. of Police Glassford this morning purchased $238 worth of food for the veterans to tide them over the emergency and at the | same time said that this was the last | help that they could expect from him. He added that something might be done for individual cases or small groups because he did not want to see anybody starve, but that no more large-scale assistance would be given. Glassford had to charge the food that was obtained today because contribu- tions have fallen off. only $60 being reported in the last 24 hours and he said that he was now about $1.200 in the hole as a result of aiding the men. Commenting today upon published | allegations that a “racket” exists among the B. E. F. veterans in regard to ob- " (Continued on Fage 2, Column 3.) . “FLAME IN SKY” SEEN BY YOUTH MAY BE LINER Report From Mendoza, Argentina, May Reveal Fate of Plane and Nine Passengers. | By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, July 19.—A youth's tale of seeing a “flame in the sky” Saturday afternoon came to La Nacion today from Mendoza, Argentina, and gave a possible hint to the fate of a missing air liner and its nine passen- gers. ‘The youth could make no accurate estimate of the distance threugh the mountains at which the flash occurred, nor did he investigate. The air liner disappeared Saturday while en route from Santiago, Chile, to Mendoza. QUOTA SYSTEM ENFORCED Italy Moves in Reprisal for French Action, g ROME, July 19 (P).—Italy today in- augurated a quota system for French imports in reprisal for a similar system j established by France against Italian e 3 | s t sets mlauc lim:ts i u);mcm. in- cluding wool, paper, glass, the and-dfy goods. o o