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WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Local thundershowers tonight and to- morrow; not quite so warm tomorrow afternoon; cool tomorrow night: Sunday fair, Temperatures—Highest, 92, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 76, at 5 am. to- day. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 enin i 5 l ; E ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s Carrier system coversevery city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 117,040 No. 32,224, [5if"Uhnée, Fntered as second class matter Washington, C. D C WASHINGTON, D. ¢, FRIDAY, JULY 29 1932—TWENTY -EIGHT PAGES. ) Means Associ TWO CENTS. BERLINPUTS PRICE OF EQUALTY UPON FUTUREARMS TALK Geneva Conference Warned to Concede It or Germany Will Not Take Part. ‘ADJOURNWENT IS NEAR AS THREAT IS UTTERED Declaration of Points So Far Agreed Upon Advances Toward Adop- tion by Parley. B the Associated Press. GENEVA, Switzerland, July 22— Count Rudolf Nadolny, Germany's dele- gate. informed the World Disarma- ment Conference today that his country will not participate in further L deliberations after this Summer’s recess } unless the conference clearly recognizes | [ Germany's right to a position of equality | among the other nations of the world. “The right of equality,” he said, “is a fundamental principle on which !hpl League of Nations rests. “If this conference wants to estab- fish the rules and principles of general disarmament and at the same time ex- cludes Germany or other states from these rules and principles, subjecting any state to discrimination. such an at- titude would be incompatible with senti- ments of national honor and interna- tional justice. Omission Is Noted. The draft gesolution with which the conference pgpposes to terminate the first phase of its work takes no account of the German position, he said. “The work of this conference has given the impression that this neces- sary condition is not vet understood or not vet admitted by all the participat- ing_governments. “The German government considers that this uncertainty regarding one of the fundamental problems of disarma- ment makes any useful work impossible. ‘Wants Doubts Removed. “Therefore, my government insLsts; that these doubts be eliminated by rec- ognition without delay of the equality of all nations in the matter of national | security and in the application of all disarmament provisicns.” In crder to make certain that the! German demands shall be understood, the German government is ready to be- | gin immediate negotiations with any interested states. “My government,” said the spokes- man “must make it clear that from to- day on it cannot Ppledge itself to con- tinue collaboration here unless a satis- factory solution of the decisive point is found before the conference resumes its activity Action on Draft Statement. The general commission of the con-| ference today adopted by sections and without change the draft declaration | with which the conference will adjourn for & recess until Autumn. The resolu- tion as & whole will be discussed this afternoon. During the debate Edouard Benes of Czechoslovakia made a public retraction and apology for his assertion two davs ago that bombardment from the air is barbarous and inhuman. He did so on the complaint of the British air ministry, which asserted British flyers never had been guilty of barbarous actions. Referred to Civil Side. M. Benes explained he had meant to} refer specifically to the bombing of civil populations. Sir John Simon, head of the British delegation. said he was sat- isfied with the explanation. A session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in the next room to the World Disarmament Conference broke up to- day in a violent row between the French and Italians. The controversy arose over who knew the most international law. The police were called in to restore order. HEAT WAVE ADDS 36 FATALITIES TO LIST 27 Other Deaths Laid to Drownings and Lightning—Appalachian Range Swelters. B the Associated Press The Appalachian watershed smoked like a furnace tody, its residents still awaiting the showery weather such as relieved the Great Lakes region and | the Southwest recently. Temperatures ranged from 100 de- grees at Charlotte and Raleigh, N. C., down into the 90s. High humidity abetted the oppressive heat. causing Washington to swelter at 92. New York at 87, Baltimore at 91, Pittsburgh at 83. Cumberland. Md., at 98. and most of West Virginia at the same broiling point. Deaths due to the heat totaled 36 throughout the land. Lightning and drownings claimed at least 27 others, while rescue workers at Pontiac Lake, Mich,, feared they would never find 10 to 14 persons missing from boats over- turned during a_squall. The Upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes region, assuaged by thun- dershowers yesterday, suffered an im- mediate renewal of the heat wave. Readings there, like those in most States, were above normal last night, but Federal observers promised temper- atures “not so warm” in most of the Midwest today. The Missouri Valley was slated to be an exception. A hot week end was its prospect. Unlike Pittsburgh, no other cities reported new highs for the season. St. Louis, customarily hot, said it was 97, Louisville 96, Milwaukee and Des Moines 96. Showers brought readings in Chicago down from 95 to 77, in Lin- coln, Nebr., from 99 to 78, and in St. Paul from 88 to 76. | CHILE BANS CHAPLAINS | mechanic and radio operator. i will be substantially the same as that éfiMANY TO CHICAGO FLIGHT BEGUN BY CAPT. VON GRONAU Aviator Who Twice Hopped| to United States Takes Off in Seapiane. Carries Crew of Three—Ex-| pects to Make First Stop in Iceland. By the Assoclated Press LIST, Island of Sylt, Germany, July | 22 —Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau, Ger- | man aviator and hero of two previous transatlantic flights from Germany to | the United States, took off from here again at 11 am. today for Chicago. He was accompanied in his selplane.; known as the Greenland Wal, by & crew | of three, including a, second pilot, a His route followed in his two previous flights in | 1930 and 1931, by way of Iceland, Greenland and Labrador | His first stop was planned for Ice- land. His first stop in North America was scheduled to be at Montreal The tea was fo calm at the takeoft that he was obliged to launch another | plane to churn the water so his nenvuy‘ laden machine wou!d lift from the surface. Franz Hack, the mechanic, and Fritz | Albrecht, the radio operator, partic- ipated in Capt. von Gronau's two pre- VETERAKS FLOC 10 6T FARE HOME Hundreds Line Up After City Heads Order Evacuation of All Public Property. | | | | Notwithstanding the edict of thelr‘ commander to remain here and resist passively the police order to evacuate théir camp sites on Government prop- erty, hundreds of war veterans flocked to the Veterans' Administration today to secure transportation to their homes The first of the evacuation orders submitted to Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, superintendent of metropolitan police, | by the District Commissioners late yes- terday, applies to the camps along Pennsylvania avenue and will become effective at midnight tonight. The | other camp sites will have to be evacu~ ated by August 4. Promptly this morning Walter W. Waters, commander in chief of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, informed his men not to move “an inch” but to remain on Government property, for which they risked their lives to pro- tect during the Worid War. “Fight or Frolic.” Promising a “fight or a frolic,” Waters early this afternoon temporarily shifted his headquarters to a camp site at Third street and Pennsylvania avenue to await the arrival of police. He said his men stood for law and order, but if the police got rough forcing us to move off public property—our prop- erty—we can get just as rough.” A sweltering dawn found two lines at the administration building, in one of them were men anxious to get back home on transportation loans on their bonus certificates, and the otner of veterans | eager to be among the first to draw 50 | per cent of the face value of their | bonus. | In the latter line was about 350 vet- | erans who learned late yesterday that | President Hoover had signed a bill authorizing the loan of half the value of the adjusted compensation certifi- | cates to those who had failed to obtain | these certificates prior to last year. 4.223 Get Transportation. | The transportation line had about | 200 veterans when the building gates | were cpened at 9 o'clock. At that time | cfficials said that 4,223 men had applied for transportation since July 8, when | President Hoover signed the bill pro- | viding for loans to veterans at one- third the regular railroad rates and | subsistence to their homes. Officials put on extra clerks and mobilized all facilities in order to take care of the greatly augmented demand. | Arrangements were made to keep the | :;‘;Lfi"}? open tonight and tomorrow | necessary. i DIEhL If necessary. “This act explres at | The men in the bonus line were coomed for disappointment, for the | Veterans' ~Administration announced | that, while the veterans could file their applications, the machinery for the actual paying of these loans would not ,bni‘ggln to function until Monday morn- | Gen. Frank T. Hines, administrator of veterans' affairs, estimated that ap- | proximately 215000 veterans through- out the United States would be ben: fited by the new bill, which also re- duces the interest on such loans to 3'%¢ per cent from 4'; per cent. ; The bill will place in circulation in all sections about $75,000,000 should all of the 215,000 apply for loans, officials estimated. ] With regard to the evacuation from the Avenue, Waters said in his state- ment_that the contingent there, the " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) YOUNG 0 CONFE | Governor cought to prompt Walker by GANG = | VON GRONAU. | | _CAPT. WOL. vious flights. The second pilot on this | trip is Gert von Roth Capt. von Gronau's first flight to New York was made in a five-year-old plane which once had served Capt. Roald Amundsen in the Arctic and which had drifted in the Atlantic for four davs two years before when Capt. Frank P, Courtney, English aviator, was forced down 1n it near the Azores Von Gronau covered the estimated distance of about 4,670 land miles in a WIH ROLSEVELT National International | Problems to Be Discussed Tomorrow. and By the Associated Press ALBANY, N. Y., July 22—Owen D.| Young and Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt | will weigh national and international | problems at a conference in the Roose- | velt Hyde Park home tomorrow. Young, an industrialist. reparations expert and prominent in the affairs of | the Democratic party, is scheduled to | meet the Democratic nominee tomor- | row for the first time since Mr. Roose- | velt became the candicate. Discussion Scope Wide. Asked if the meeting would concern politics or the problems of industry, the Governor replied: “We will discuss a great many things, including the foreign situation.” Young's one-time post as head of the Reparations Commission in Germany | and his long contact with diplomatic | figures and foreign affairs brings to the Democratic candidate at this time his | most_direct contact with the problems which may confront him in the event of his election. A probability that the need for rehabilitation of railrcads, a national | problem, would figure in Mr. Roosevelt's | campaign was seen in the visit last night to the executive mansion of Carl | Gray, president of the Union Pacific Railroad. A number of other rail offi- cials have met with Roosevelt during recent months, he said, and he added | that in the near future he expected to confer with representatives of the rail- road brotherhoods to get their version of the railroad’s problems With Gray, the Governor talked over the general situation of the carriers, especially as regards consolidations. At the time of the conference neither the Governor nor Gray had been informed | of the consolidation of the leading Eastern lines authorized by the Inter- state Commerce Commission yesterday. To Study Walker Reply. A week of ccnferences over, Gov. Roosevelt arranged today to go to his residence at Hyde Park, where he ex- pects to receive and study the Walker reply this week end It has now been several weeks since | the Governor asked the mayor of New York fo reply to the charges of Samuel Seabury that he used his office for per- | sonal gain. Two weeks ago, before de- | parting on his coastwise cruise, the| reminding him his answer must be delivered aboard the exccutive's yawl| at one of his overnight stops in New England. Roosevelt has waited all this week. ! and Seabury postponed a European trip to see what action he will take The capitol now has heard the mayor's communication will be deliv- ered at Hyde Park. Round of Heavy Business. ‘The Governor yesterday went through another round of heavy business, but ! had time to hear encouraging news from two national committeemen about his campaign for the presidency. Joseph Wolf of Staples, Minn., told the Governor the Northwestern State which has never supported a Demo- cratic presidential candidate will be his with a margin of 100,000 votes. Mr. Roosevelt captured the fancy of the| State on his trip to St. Paul last April, Wolf said. Committeeman W. A. Julian of Cin- cinnati predicted Roosevelt would carry Republican Ohio by 300,000 votes. “It looks so good I would almost underwrite it.” he added |WOMAN ADDS TO COURT WOESH BY TRYING TO Frances Price, Colored, Resents Testimony of Neighbor Accusing Her of Drunkenness and Draws Fines. There was just enough ink left in Judge Ralph Given's inkwell, after it was hurled over the judge, the specta- tors and complaining witness in Police Court today, to write up a couple of additional = charges sagainst Frances Price, colored. Disorderly conduct was the charge when Frances was brought before the court and she made an impulsive effort to refute it by attempting to throw Judge Given's inkwell at the complain- ing witness, Maggie Fields, colored of the 900 block of R street. The Fields woman had taken the stand and was saying that Frances *“came home drunk and raised a fuss” when the defendant took ¢xception to this chargh. before the | Army Seeks to End Privileges Held by Church Over Soldiers. SANTIAGO, Chile, July 22 (P).—Al chaplains in the Chilean army were suspended from duty today by the min- istry of war pending a decree abolish- ing the rank. Minister of War Lagos said the ruling was made to eliminate privileges held by the church acting through the chap- lains over soldiers of all faiths. Relig- jous services in the army will be per- mitted when desired, ‘The prisoner was sundmf bench and before attendants could move THROW INKWELL to prevent her, she stepped to the wit- ness stand, slapped at her accuser and then reached for the court’s private inkwell. Judge Given thrust out an arm as Frances wound up to hurl the missle. The ink splashed over the judge’s clothing, over the book on the bench and spattered spectators in the front row. Pvt. B. A. Die ofsNo. 2 precinct, who received some of the stains, grasped the RAIL CHIEFS BACK | . C. PLANS, BUT DELAYS FORESEEN Tedious Negotiations Likely to Consolidate Lines Into Four Systems. {GROUPINGS OF ROADS REPRESENT COMPROMISE Security Holders May Object to Selling at Present Low Prices, Observers Feel. By the Associated Press The four great Eastern trunk line railways authorized to consolidate Eastern carriers, today faced long and arduous negotiations and legal formali- ties before they can bring the proposed four unified systems into being. The action of the Interstate Com- merce Commission in modifying its 1929 consolidation plan did not in any way consolidate the railroads. It merely gave permission to bring them together into four systems instead of the five originally planned and speci- fied a line-up it believed best in the public interest. The commission action, however, came in for almost unanimous favor- able comment by railway executives Officials here asserted the commission action was “probably the best that could be expected.” Willard Is Favorable. Daniel Willard. president of the Bal- timore & Ohio, in New York expressed satisfaction with the commission’s line- up. R. D. Starbuck, executive vice president of the New York Central, said he believed the plan “upon the whole” met the spirit of the consolida- tion provisions of the transportation act. Pennsylvania Railroad officials refused to_comment. Negotiations for the sale or exchange of railroads and parts of railroads and trackage rights approved by the com- mission now must be resumed if the plan is to be carried out. The Baltimore & Ohio must arrange with the Pennsylvania for transfer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad: the New gotiate with the New York Central for the Shenango Forks-Oswego division of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western chase the extremely valuable United States Steel Corporation railroads; ne- gotiations must be carried on for di- vision of a portion of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia between the four systems; negotiations for trackage rights which would let the Chesapeake & Ohio reach Heboken, N. J.. and the Pennsylvania Station on Manhattan Island must be resumed, and a score or more of other ceals must be consummated. Much Time Required. After these agreements are concluded, | the next step will be for the systems (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) ROOSEVELT MEETING PROMISED BY ELY Party Unity Seen in Conference With Democratic Candidate. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mass.. July 22.—Gov. Joteph B. Ely, leader of the nti-Roose- velt force Massachusetts, agreed today during a two-hour conference with James A. Farley, Roosevelt cam- paign manager, to meet the Democratic presidential nominee in Albany next week. In a statement issued at the clcee of the conference Farley said: “Gov. Ely and I have gone over the situation very carefully and I have arranged for Gov. Ely to meet Gov. Roosevelt in Albany scme day next week and after that visit Gov. Ely will issue a statement.” Farley declined to amplify that state- ment and G:v. Ely made no comment whatever. However, it appeared that an accord between Gov. Ely and the Roosevelt forces was imminent. Farley, in Gov. Ely’s presence, read a statement in which he said “I am_satisfied the New England States will give to Gov. Roosevelt their wholehearted support and we lock for an entirely satisfactory result in every State.” A Regarding _the national campaign, Farley said the only definite appearance Scheduled for Gov. Roosevelt was for Governors' day, August 27, at Seagrave, N. J. Today's conference has been in the making for some time. Ely strongly opposed the nomination of Gov. Roose- velt and one previous effort has been made to placate him. Recently, when Roosevelt was in Massachuseits en route to Albany from Portsmouth, N. H. efforts were made to bring the Governors together. The inability of mutual friends to locate Ely prevented the meeting. JAPAN WILL BARGAIN ON HOOVER ARMS CUT Ready to Abolish Bombing Planes if U. S. Will Drop Aircraft Carriers, Tokio Says. By Cable to The Star. TOKIO, July 22.—Japan's support of the five-power resolution on the subject of arms reduction, or President Hoover's one-third cut plan at Geneva, depends on the inclusion of the provision abolish- ing aircraft carriers or landing stages on cruisers, the Japanese foreign office ined today. ex‘s’:ofif: the disarmament conference ling to adopt this provision, which gea:alxln cgmiden essential to its insular defense, the Tokio government would agree to the abolishment of bombing prisoner and recovered the inkwell. Shortly thereafter the judge sen- tenced Frances to a $20 fine for con- tempt of court or 30 days in jail and a similar penalty on the disorderly con- duct charge. Attendants then wrote an additional charge of assault on the complaining witness and Prances was still in Police Court dwaiting trial count, under guard. on the latter nes. plgmnusho‘ foreign office spokesman, said that no additional instructions had been sent Japan's delegates at Geneva, t.heyd already knowing their countty's stand. lezl does not attach undue impor- tance to the confergnce, characterizing the Hoover proj as part of the American election campaign, (Copyrisht, 1932.) York Central must try to buy the Vir- | |gian; the Chesapeake & Ohio must ne- Railroad; efforts must be made to pur- | WONDER iF LL CHARLIE To LEARN Z Z U HE'S BEEN PICKED To SToP * & Wl % JACK GARNER PROPOSAL IS HIT | South Africa and Irish Free State May Balk Plan for | Empire Preference. By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Ontario, July 22.—The Irish Free State and the Union of South Atrica gave indication of balking at the principle of preference tariff dealing as the tmperial conference settled down to work today. | In the objection of the Irish Free | | State, as volced by Sean T. O'Kelly, | head of the delegation, there was an | echo of the brewing tariff war between the Free State and Great Br*:ain over President de Valera's refusal to pay land annuities. “Special difficulties,” O'Kelly said, | “have recently arisen which affect about i 85 per cent of our external trade.” N. C. Havenga, South African min- ister of finance, emphasized that South Africa could not subscribe to the theory | of an isolated empire. i “None of its members.” he said, “can | exist by trade within the commonwealth | alone. If our industries are to survive, ! tarift walls are inevitable, but it is our | duty to see how far they can be low- ered.” Other Dominions Approve. For the rest of the dominions the pro- posal of Prime Minister Bennett of Canada, made in opening the confer- | ence, to lower Canada’s own tariff walls for British Empire products, was re- celved with approval. Stanley Baldwin, head of the British delegation, warned that Great Britain | would have to keep world trade in mind, and that “however great our resources, we cannot isolate ourselves.” The heads of delegations decided to appoint five committees to map out the | work of the conference. They will deal with promotion of trade within the commonwealth, customs administra- tion, foreign commercial relations, monetary questions and economic co- operation. Last night Canada entertained at a great state dinner. Bennett’s Change Noted. American observers noted with par- ticular interest Mr. Bennett's change of | front since the 1930 conference at Lon- don, which broke up when he refused | tariff preference proposals which would | have permitted Great Britain to cut in | on_Canadian industries. Now, however, with great Britain equipped with a tariff policy of her| own and able to dictate terms, Bennett | seemed ready to offer to make indus-| triale sacrifices to save the Canadian farmers, who, even with the present | low prices, accounted for 36 per cent| of the Dominion's entire income from | exports during the last fiscal year. One note which was sounded by vir- tually all the delegations in the key- note speeches yesterday was the influ- ence which the present conferenee will have upon the ecenomic structure of the whole world. The point was made that | the empire represents one-quarter of the world's population. FATE OF PARLEY AT STAKE. Paris Press Holds World Conference | Depends on Ottawa. PARIS, July 22 (#).—Today's news- papers, commenting on the British Imperial Conference at Ottawa, said if that meeting should fail to accom- plish its aims it would mean failure of the projected world economic con- ference even before it is held. Le Journal said the Ottawa meeting will show how much cohesion there is behind the brilliant facade of the British empire and whether it is pos- sible for a p of nations accustomed (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) 220 ALIENS ARRESTED OF 530 TO BE DEPORTED Federal Agents in Detroit Btart Campaign to Rid Cities of Un- desirables Here Illegally. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, July 22—Federal agents, holding 530 warrants for aliens accused of being undesirable or in this country lly, had served 220 of them today. Raiders moved through coffee houses, restaurants and other haunts of the East Side last night, taking 81 prison- ers. Thirty-four more arrests were made in suburban Dearborn, which had yielded most of the 105 prisoners taken yesterday in the oppening offensive of what immigration officers described as a campaign to be waged in nine cities. Murray W. Garsson, special assistant to the Secretary of Labor, is directing the . he said, is di- | lake | leaders | o campaign which mv&mu 2 at alien criminals and PROBEPISON FOOD MAKING 40 1L 0 PONC DOWN R Deviled Egg Salad Believed Cause of Ptomaine Attack at Dairy Outing. HOSPITALS OVERTAXED AMID EXCITED SCENES Ambulances, Patrols and Autos Rush to Steamer Carrying Victims. B. E. F. Members Stricken. Health Department officlals today were making an intensive investigation of an outbreak of ptomaine poisoning that sent approximately 400 persons, including 25 members of the Bonus Ex- peditionary Force, to hospitals t night following a picnic held at Mar- shall Hall by employes of the Chevy Chase and Chestnut Farms Dairies. Specimens of the food eaten on the outing—some of which was turned over to the veterans when the dairy ‘work- THAT SWEEPS CANADNSTARRF 147,14 IE N SUDDEN STORM One Body Recovered as Search for Other Victims of Overturned Boats Is Pushed at Pontiac. By the Associated Press : PONTIAC, Mich.. July 22—A placid transformed suddenly by high winds into a death trap was being drag- ged today for the bodies of at least 10 persons believed to have perished as they sought relief from sultry Summer heat. One body was recovered last night before darkness, which could not be relieved because the storm had dis- rupted electric lines and routed the searchers, The body was that of William Burns, about 28, of Detroit. Nine Negroes, two of them women, ere missing and be- lieved to have perished. There was no assurance that the list of missing was complete, and estimates of the dead | ranged as high as 14. | Storm Breaks Suddenly. | The storm, bringing relief to a swel- tering community, but peril to those caught on the lake, descended sud- denly. Occupants of the 100 rowboats dotting the water pulled frantically for shelter from the waves, ‘which dashed six feet high. The small lake, known as Pontiac Lake, is seven miles from here and draws crowds from the De- troit erea. Before sheets of rain and hail shut ers found they had an oversuppl was being analyzed by Health Depa ment bacteriologists. Analyses also | were being made of the contents of the stomachs of some of the poison victims. Hospitals Taxed. After a night during which half a ; dozen hospitals were taxed to the limit by an unprecedented rush, most of the ptomaine victims had recovered suffi- ciently to be permitted to return to their homes. By noon today the hos- pitals had discharged all but about 50 of the tainted food victims, and more were expected to be sent home during the course of the day. No deaths were out the scene from witnesses on shere, | considered likely. ; fhey saw several persons struggling tn| Dr. Willlam Fowler, District health the water—four from one boat. The | ©fficer, ordered the investigation to de- screams of the drowning rose above the | termine the cause of the outbreak a howling of the wind. | short time after the Mount Vernon and ‘When it was over, two boats were | Marshall Hall Steamboat Co. excursion MICHIGAN LAKE | found battered to pieces against the! boat Charles Macalester pulled into the dam which widens the Huron River Seventh Street Wharf with the 400 ill into the lake, three-quarters of a mile | Pichickers aboard last night long and a half mile wide. A dozen or| FHe assigned his assistant, Dr. Ed- more boats were beached and others| %&rd J. Schwartz, and Dr. John E T Bt b f e {Noble, Health Department bacteriolo- Some of the boaters who saved them- | Bist, to make the investigation selves said they abandoned their craft Dairy Officials Silent. as i > 3 they meared land and swam Of| hough officials of the dairies de- 5 clined 10 issue any statement regarding Refuge on Small Island. i the case, Dr. Schwartz announced = A few caught near the middie of the | had been informed the food had been lake found refuge on a small island. | prepared in the Chestnut Farms plant Still others rode out the storm by lying | I intend to trace the food as f in the bottoms of their boats. back as possible,” Dr. Schwartz de- A sedan, found abandoned near one | clared today. “We want to find out not of the boat liveries, is believed to have | only who prepared it and under what brought five Detroit negroes to their | circumstances. but also where it came deaths. The license was issued to | from originally.” Samuel Jackson, Detroit. This investigation, together with the The others who had not returned to|analysis, will require “two or three thelr homes last night are: Mr. and |/ days at the least.” Dr. Schwartz said Mrs. Green Scales, Mrs. Esther Mc- | Meanwhile, he said, Health Department Kinjey and Abbott Mayberry, all of | Physicians plan to question victims as Pontiac. to what they ate. Until the inquiry is The same storm cost the life of | completed. he added, “all the food is Ralph Soper, 12, of Fenton, member of | under suspicion.” Deviled egg salad is a Sunday school picnic party, who was | regarded with the most suspicion, how- overwhelmed by the waves in Taylor ever. Lake, near Holly. Ambulances Await Steamer. HOOVER T0 OPEN CAMPAIGN AUG. 11 Acceptance Ceremony Will Be Held Here Day After His | 58th Birthday. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Before party leaders from all sec- tions of the country Herbert Hoover will formally accept the Republican presidential nomination Phursday night, | August 11, in Constitution Hall. | Here the opening gun of the Re-| publican campaign will be fired. The President in his acceptance speech will, it is expected, outline the issues of the campaign. At the same time it may | be expected that he will deal with the | achievements of his administration during the last 31, years. The notification of the President that he is the choice of the Republican Na- | tional Convention for Chief Executive will be ~delivered by Representative Bertrand Snell of New York, Repub- lican leader of the House and chair- | man of the. national convention which | made the nomination. | President Hoover and the Republican | generally have planned this | notification ceremony. with its | stinued on Page 4, Column 5. | When the steamer docked at 6:30 pm. every available amublance, tc- gether with a large number of police patrols and private automobiles, wes at the Seventh street wharf. | Running his boat close to the shore at | Alexandria, Capt. Willlam Turner | shouted to bystanders on the wharf, telling them of the plight cf his pas- | sengers and them to notify Washington police immediately. The fire rescue squad and ambulances tIx'l)m Emergency. Casualty, Freedmen's jand Navy Hospitals responded to the alarm. The vessel was sighted a short time after the arrival of the ambulances steaming toward the dock as rapidly as her whee's wculd carry her. Scenes of Excitement. ‘Their faces drawn, those pissengers well enough to sit up lined the decks, while many others, fously | lay here and there | interspersed with the moans of adults, jcould be heard as the steamer pulled into the wharf. It was apparent that the vehicles on hand would not be able to convey the sick excursionists to hospitals as quick- 1y as the situation demanded and police began commandeering passing automo- biles and taxicabs. They also called for additional patrols, as well as other police cars. Physicians and nurses who had ac- companied the ambulances immediately began treating the more seriously ill | Meanwhile, a crowd had gathered— some relatives of passengers and others merely curious. One young woman, who said a member of her family was among the passengers. became hysteri- cal as the boat neared the wharf. She FUNDS FOR NEEDY READYATRE.C. Relief Bill Law as Appoint- ment of Meyer’s Successor Is Awaited. . By the Assoctated Press A mighty Federal hand holding food for the hungry, work for the jobless and new energy for business extends today into every corner of the land— the new relief bill is law. It was signed yesterday by President Hoover, without comment, 5o the Re- construction Pinance Corporation im- mediately could begin placing its $1.- 500,000,000 in new funds where the money would do the most good. Mr. Hoover delayed final approval of the bill several days after he publicly called it a “step toward recovery.” One reason for the postponement was to let the corporation prepare for a flood of loan applications already on the way to the Capital, promising that before long money would begin to be spent|was given emergency treatment by one on the things that the President lof the waiting physicians e and Congress alike thought would bei Stretchers Carried Aboard beneficial. The corporation was ready today for! As the gangplanks were shoved out | stretchers were carried aboard the ves- its new work, and it was indicated i be Unconscious _excursionists were the f_Executi sel. "~ (Continued on | | carried ashore. while otheres, less seri- cusly ill, were helped down the PROPOSE LAW AGAINST CAPTAIN WHO DELAYS SHIPS BY YARNS | Passengers Just Listen to Thrillers on Dock, Ignoring Steamer’s Blasts for Start. By the Assoclated Press. | PROVINCETOWN, Mass., July 22— They're thinking of passing a law agin’ Capt. Manuel Enps spinning yarns on | the Provincetown dock. At least the operators of the ex- cursion steamer Dorothy Bradford are going to post a sign prohibiting “lying on this wharf between the hours of 3:45 and 4 pm.” Officers of the Dorothy Bradford re- last night that they had diffi- culty getting the passengers aboard at sa time and as usual Cap'n Enos, former master of a Provincetown fish- erman, was to blame. He was perched on a barrel, puffing at a black briar pipe, calmly spinning his afternoon yarn, oblivious to the worried shrieks of the Bradford's whistle as her sk;g:e; tried to stampede his passengers al rd. A crowd of loyal listeners refused to ascend the gangplank until Cap'n Enos had reached hair-raising climax of his® unl le yarn. When the whistle gangplanks by relatives, friends and strangers. The ambulances, with sirens shriek- ing, sped away as quickly as they were filled, and private automobiles and taxicabs quickly followed, their horns blowing constantly. _By this time the sirens and horns (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) CITIES IN NEW YORK SEEK R. F. C. LOANS, IF LEGAL 'Ruling on Issue Required Because of State Constitutional Limita- tion Upon New Debte. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., July 22 —New York State is going to ask the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation whether any legal obstacles stand in the way of loans to New York municipalities. At a conference yesterday of legisla- tive leaders and members of the State Relief Commission with Gov. Roosevelt, “As 1 was saying,” he resumed, “I want _to see this writing fellow from New York who's going to try trawling for mackerel from an airplane next Saturday.” ‘The whistle blew again. Cap'n Enos took time out to fill and stuff his pipe. “Yes sir. some people think fishing from the sky is new sport. Nothing of the kind. I remember my old friend Cap'n Isiah Prouty went fishing from a balloon. That was back in the year of the Chicago World Fair.” Again the whistle blew and Cap'n Enos lit the pipe he'd filled and stuffed. His audience wanted to hear of Cap'n too insistent, Cap'n Enos puffed "his pipe and waited for the futile screams to subside, _ | “right good Prouty's experiences and Cap'n Enos told the story of how his friend tied a seine to a parachute and how the rope of the seine got caught and the x;.u leaked from the balloon and how, fin- ally, the mdckerel towed Cap'n Prouty “right up to the fish pier at Boston.” When the whistle of the Dorothy Bradford gave a hoarse. despairing shriek, an officer of the ship leaned over the rail to yell “all aboard that's ming aboard,” and Capn Enos fin- col | ished his yarn with the information that Cap'n Prouty sold the catch for & it was decided to investigate fully the proposal that large cities might borrow rellef funds from the Federal corpora- tion and indirectly benefit the State. The State itself, the conference de- cided, is barred from participating directly in the Federal relief loans be- zause of a constitutional provision which requires approval of the voters at a State-wide referendum for any legisla- tive or governmental plan to increase the public debt. Radio Programs on Page BQ %