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“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. WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and warmer tonight and tomor- row; gentle winds, mostly south and southwest. Temperatures—Highest, 80, at noon teday; lowest, 61, at 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 he #p No. 32,227, Wa Entered as second class matter post office, shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JULY enin ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star. Sunday’s Saturday’s Circulation, 112,249 Circulation, 122,567 25, RADICAL VETERANS CLUBBED BY POLICE; Street Fights Mark Attempt to Picket White House. DETECTIVE CLIMB TREE AFTER LEADER| Pace, Chief of “Red” Forces, Held on Charges of Inciting a Riot A series of street fights that | began at Fifteenth and New York avenue and continued intermit- tently down to Thirteenth and E streets, climaxed an unsuccessluli effort of radical veterans to picket the White House this afternoon. Nine men, including the leaders | of the attempted picketing expe- | dition, were arrested by police as a result of the disturbances which assumed near-riot proportions, as the streets were filled with curious spectators, and traffic was dis- | rupted. John Pace, Detroit, and Walter Eicker, a New York veteran, both leaders of the radical contingent, were charged with inciting a riot and disturbing the peace when they were booked at the first pre- ! cinct station. Thirty minutes after the demonstra- tion started the police had booked three others at the Third Precinct station. ‘They were: Frank Thomas, a logger of Portland, Ore,, who said he came here with the bonus army's commander in chief, Wal- ter W. Waters. Albert Guershowitz of New York City, a tailor. George Represas, a dishwasher, a na- tive of Spain, who gave no address ex- cept the Communist camp at Twelfth | and B streets southwest. All were | charged with disorderly conduct. Ciubbed by Police. In the first fight, in front of the Na- tional Savings & Trust Co. Fifteenth street and New York avenue, a vet-| eran fought desperately with police and | had to be clubbed into submission. | ‘The fight started when police, under command of Capt. W. E. Holmes, first precinct, attempted to divert the march- | ing veterans east on New York avenue away from the White House. Eicker | and Pace led their men across New York avenue, and as the about to cress Fif ~ (Continued on Page 4, VON GRONAU FLIES OVER GREENLAND, Column German Pilot Takes Six Hours to Traverse Ice Field to Ivigtut. | Lowell, Mass., and Nashua, N. H., plants. | and the Pontiac Mills of the same firm | are providing work for about 200. JOHN PACE. THOUSANDS REGAIN! Factories Rcopen Through- out New England, With Big Volume of Orders. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, July 25.—Business condi- tions are looking up in New England. ‘The New England council reports closed mills re-opening, laid-off em- ployes going back to work and sufficient orders coming into several industrial plants to warrant capacity production ! in the near future. The good news is probably best in Pittsfiela. Mass., where the Berkshire Woolen Co. and Glix Underwear Co. plants are working at capacity. The| Silver Lake Woolen Mils in the same city are employing day and night shifts and | the Wyandotte Woolen Mills expect to mv: a full force operating within two ‘weeks. Two thousand have gone back to work in American Woolen Co. mills at Lawrence, Mass., and another 2,000 have been taken back by the reopening of the Nashua Manufacturing Co.'s The Nashua company manufactures blankets. Seven hundred workers are celebrat- ing the re-opening at River Point, R. I, Connecticut’s velvet miils are enjoy- ing a streak of good business. At Mys- tc the Rossie Velvet Co. is operating on full time with a full force and has By the Assoclated Press. | COPENHAGEN, July 25. — Capt. | Wolfgang von Gronau, German aviator | who is flying from Germany to Chicago, arrived at Ivigtut, in Southwestern Greenland, after a six-hour mghl; across the inland ice fields, advices | reaching here today s2id. | Capt. Von Gronau took off from | eykjavik, Iceland, yesterday. | H> started from List, Isle of Sylt, Germany, Friday, following the north- | ern route by way of Iceland, Greenland and Labrador, which he followed on his previous two flights to the United States. FRANCE AND JAPAN HELD FIGHTING SLASH IN ARMS View of Soviet Russia on Results of Geneva Conference Is Ad- vanced by Pravda. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, July 25.—The reaction of Soviet Russia to the close of the dis- armament conference at Geneva found expression today in & message from Geneva to the newspaper Pravds. The main results, as listed by the correspondent, were: Prance and Japan head the opposi- | tion to any diminuflon of armaments. The Americans, by associating them- selves with the Anglo-French “anti- of questions of commercial interchange | left here a week ago today, declaring disarmament resolution” themselves ex- posed “the real meaning of the ostensibly pacifist pre-election gesture of the American President.” Germany refused to participate in the Geneva combination until the principle of its equal rights is recognized. encugh orders to keep its employes busy for six months, and at Norwich, Taft- ville and Montville, where J. B. Mar- tin’s velvet mills are located, full forces are working on a 50-hour week sche- | dule. { Night Shifts Started. CINCINNATI, July 25 (/) —Officials of Remington Rand, Inc, sald today the Powers Accounting Machine plant of the company at Norwood has been operating on a full-time schedule for the past six months and now has in- creased its force and started working nights. Increased orders, they said, would keep the factory running on this | schedule until December. Plant on Full Time. WEBSTER, Mass., July 25 (#).—The Tiflany woolen plant at Berryville started full time today, giving work to at least 200 people of Webster and Dudley. 500 Looms Started. GROSVENORDALE, Conn, July 25 (/). —More than 500 looms were started here today in Grosvenordale mills. Offi- cials said they expected a night force would be added soon. U. S. TRADE SOUGHT Argentina Studying Means of Pro- moting Commercial Ties. BUENOS AIRES, July 25 (#).—For- eign Minister Saavedra Lamas said to- day Argentina is making a broad study with the United States and Great Bri- tain, but that the projects had not yet achieved definite form. He said a conference was held with Ambassacor Robert Woods Bliss to de- termine what overtures to the United States might be practical. CONSUMER COMMITMENT PLAN FOR PROSPERITY TO BE STUDIED U. S. Chamber of Comme Advanced by Milwaukee By the Assoclated Press. MILWAUKEE, July 25.—Milwaukee’s idea for prosperity—that every worker promise to buy something he needs, but only on condition he keeps his job— will be considered within two weeks by the Executive Committee cf the United States Chamber of Commerce. Proposed by the Milwaukee Associa- tion of Commerce, the plan_ attracted the interest of Henry L Harriman, Boston, president of the naticnal chamber = He assured the Milwaukee assotation it will be passed on to the chamber for possible adoption. Meanwhile outlines of the plan, dis- tributed by the Milwaukee association, are peing studied by commerce associa- tions throughout the lend. Unorgan- ized citizens, too, have been pondering the suggestion apd the Milwaukee association has become, unexpectedly, & clearing house for grotperlty plans. A “consumer-purchase-commitment” program, the economists call the Mil- vaukee suggestion. rce Will Consider Program Body to Boost Purchases. | “More simply,” said Harry B. Hall, | presicent of the association and head | |of a firm of appraisers, “we propose to ask every employed American to! promise to buy something he needs, and promise to buy, it is important to note, only on condition that he will keep his present job, or get a better cac | “Take out of the mind of the worker | the numbing fear that he will lose his employment, and you will find the worker is willing to spend a dollar. | That dollar will make itself felt | throughout the ecoromiz structure and in the end it will create a new job.” /LINKED T0' SILVER ML ENPLOYNENT | | EMPIRE BANK PLAN MONEY ATTAWA Advocates of Bimetalism Urging Scheme—Both in Tentative State. MEAT SALES NOW HOLD DELEGATES’ ATTENTION Want Trade Now Given to U. S. by Britain—Borah Proposals Considered Significant. By the Assoclated Press OTTAWA, July 25.—Advocates of | remonetization of silver at the Imperial | Conference today linked a bi-metalism scheme for the British Commonwealth | of Nations with the idea of a super-| empire bank. Here, as in the United States, silver has its champions as a medium of ex-| change and it is considered certain that the silver question will be presented to the conference in connection with a plan to stabilize the unit of exchange within the empire. ‘The question involves many intricate ! angles, however, and is still in the un- official stage. The Committee on Cur- Tency had no official statement to make regarding the progress made with either the silver or the super-empire bank ea. Meat Issue Is Raised. Delegatcs had practically given up | today the notion of an inter-Dominion wheat tariff preference and were cen- tering their attention on meat. South Africa has joined Australia in a plea for a larger share of the British meat trade, only 51 per cent of which is now with the Dominions. Much of the other 49 per cent is with Argentina | and the United States. “Ge?raphlcu!ly." the Scuth African delegation pointed out in a statement, “there is no reason why the Union of South Africa, together with Southern Rhodesia, the protectorates and South- west Africa, should not produce a suffi- cient number of good quality cattle for the regular supply of chilied beef to the British market.” Inter-empire trade in minor commod- ities now supplied by the United States and Argentina also figured prominently in the schedule for this week’s work. Empire Has Meaf Surplus. In the case of wheat, the empire pro- duces more than it consumes and any tariff treatment would be likely to have small effect in a commodity subject to a world price level South Africa, Australia and New Zea- land virtually decided over the week end that more advantage could be gained by centering on meat, fruits and produces less than it consumes. By readjustments in crop production | in these items, their representatives urged, the empire might be made self- sustaining and the surpluses of other crops neutralized. The departure was initiated by Pre- mier Bruce of Ausiralia, who ~dropped the major crops of wheat and wool to discuss development of Australia’s meat industry as replacing British purchases abroad. Canada is highly interested in a larger share of the British - meat, fruit and dairy products.market, but | had come into conference, as Premier Bennett said, prepared to make conces- | sions to Britain on the theory that the great basic industries of both countries should be the ones selected for prefer- ential treatment. | On the welfare of the major indus- | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) MELLON REPORTED ABOUT TO RESIGN Wants Debt Parleys in Hands of Younger Man, London Declaration. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 25.—The Daily Herald said today Ambassador Andrew W. Mellon “is expected to resign” when | he arrives in Washington on his present | trip to the United States. “It is be- | lieved he will tell President Hoover the | coming negotiations on war debts should | be in the hands of a younger man than he,” the Herald added The London newspapers have been making something of a mystery of the | Ambassador’s trip home ever since he he was going to the United States for a holiday, taking advantage of a dull period in embassy work. He himself said the trip had no political significance Today, however, his leaving was' coupled with the departure of the Brit- ish Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, from Washington and other newspapers besides the Herald printed dispatches from New York and Washington specu- lating on the coincidence. Before he left here the Ambassador indicated to his associates he intended to remain in the United States two or three weeks and be back in London before the end of August. So far as ws known in official circles here today his_plans have not been changed. There has been no official intimation | whatever that he had any intention of relinquishing his post. The visit is purely personal. it was said, and was planned some time ago. REPORTS DISAVOWED HERE. Mellon Coming Home on Leave, Says State Department, By the Associated Press. The State Department said today it had no knowledge of reports from abroad that Andrew Mellon plans to re- his post as Ambassador to Great | Britain, Mr. Mellon asked for permission to come home on leave, the department | The Milwaukee association asks that the Chamber of Commerce use the machinery of its organization—tempo- | rarily dropping every other actlvity if | necessary—to haul prosperity back into the American picture. would have business associations every- door visits if necessary, to make a list of commodities he would buy if the future' were bright. said, and it knew nothing of any al- teration in his plans. Rumors from London that Mr, Mel- lon would not return have been eircu- lating for scveral days. Secretary Stim- son denied knowledge of any such in- The Milwaukee prosperity planners | tention on the part of Mr. Mellon last | ernment week. where ask every worker, by door to| The department does not know exact- gression. ly when Ambassador Mellon will come to Washington. He is now en route to the United States. other products of which the empire - BORAH IN MINORITY ON'WAR DEBT PLAN, LEADERS HERE SAY Congress Believed Against His Revision Ideas—Hoo- ver Silent on Proposal. FOREIGN VIEWS, EXCEPT PARIS, FAVOR PARLEY Tariff Cut More Important, Asserts French Spokesman—Official Berlin Tone Cordial. By the Assoctated Press. Animated discussions of war debts today found some congressional leaders predicting that if past commitments are to be considered Senator Borah may find himself in the minority. The debts question was_revived by the Idaho independent Republican’s speech in which he said “cancellation of the debts in connection with, and as a part of a program, including the set- tlement of other war problems” would be in the interest of the United States. There was no intimation of how the administration had received Borah’s suggestion. President Hoover refrained from commenting after reading the pro- posal. The State Department, too, was silent as to its reaction. Lewis “Astonished.” But congressional leaders who were in town talked the question over. They conceded the proposal was important because Borah is chairman of the Sen- ate Foreign Relations Committee and generally is rechgnized as an outstand- ;’ng spokesman on international prob- ems. Senator Lewis, Tllinois Democr: Borah's committee, found himself less than astonished” at the idea of placing the war debt question before a confererice controlled by debtors to the United States. Senator Smoot, Utah Republican who at on “litlle heads the Finance Committee, expressed | an inability to see “why we should make further sacrifices.” “I can't sce what we could gain and I think our sacrifices have been all that the other countries could ask,” he added. Rainey Sees No Change. Others, including Representative Rainey of Illinois, House Democratic Jeader, stuck to their positions that the attitude of Congress has not changed. They held that failure of President Hoover's appeal for recreation of the Debt Funding Commission to meet even partial success in the seven months' session just ended still reflected Con- gress' attitude. This group predicted that the ldlholnn "ouldm:n ull:llkel);l:o find muéh Sup) plan When u&n-w.-m—- Congress as against further reduction or_cancellation of debts. Because of the big majorities in both House and Senate that approved that expression, said some members, it might be some time before Senator | Borah would find himself with a ma- Jority. STIMSON SILENT ON PLAN. State Department Makes No Comment on Borah Speech. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. The State Department refused to state | today whether Secretary Stimson's pol- icy of “no discussion of reparations, debts, disarmament and tariffs at the coming International Economic Confer- ence” still held good, in view of Senator Borah’s radio address Saturday. As- sistant Secretary Rogers, at the press conference this morning, was asked whether Secretary’s Stimson’s policy, announced three weeks ago, would be affected by Senator Borah's statement. He replied that the department had no comment to make. It is known that the personal rela- tions between the Secretary of State and the chairman of the Senate's For- eign Relations Committee are very cor- dial. But whether in the matter of cancellation of debts the two men see eye to eye nobody knows. Secretary Stimson's statement three weeks ago opposing 2 Wiscussion of the debt and disarmament questions, referred to the economic_conference to be held, pre- sumably in_London, some time in the Fall. Whether Senator Borah had the same conference in mind when he spoke last Saturday, or whether he thought of some other conference, is not clear from his speech. In any case, in the light of Senator Borah’s tpeech, this refusal to com- ment on the Secretary’s previous un- equivocal statement might give rise to varied interpretations. It is natural, however, that the State Department should try to avoid during the electoral campaign anry controversial topics such as the advisability of considering can- cellation of the allied debts. Whatever the thoughts of the high officials on this subject may be, they are bound to remain secret, at least until the presi- dential election is over. Senator Borah's address has caused a deep impression in Washington diplo- (Continued on Page 4, Column 7.) WAR FEVER SPREADS AMONG PARAGUAYANS People Ready to Die in Defense of Rights Against Bolivia, De- clares Leader. By the Associated Press. ASUNCION, Paraguay, July 25.—The war fever against Bolivia continued to spread throughout Paraguay over the past week end as political leaders de-' fended, over the radio and in the press, the Paraguayan stand in the recently inflamed Gran Chaco dispute. “Although I have a horror of war” said Minister of Finance Justo Benitez, “rather than see Paraguayan soil defiled we will defend to the end. Paraguayans are not warlike, but they do not fear death. The profound spir- jtual unity of the nation has been re- vealed anew in these solemn hours.” Manuel Burgos, leader of the Gov- party, said Paraguay would not attack, but would repulse any ag- Radio Programs on Page B-14 % 9 \ > \ $ N NS —_— VON PAPEN UPHELD BY SUPREME COURT Prussian Plea for Injunction Against Commissioner Is Denied. By the Associated Press. LEIPSIG, Germany, July 25.—The Supreme Court today declined Prussia’s request for an injunction restraining Chancellor Franz von Papen, as com- missioner, from interfering with the activities of the state government. The request for the injunction was made last week after President Paul von Hindenburg, by an emergncy decree, had installed the chancellor as commissioner. The members of the Prussian state ministry were ousted fol- lowing the chancellor's taking over the‘, control. The court stated granting of an in- junction would mean dividing the au- ‘has| thority p Prusisa between the fed~ eral commissioner and the cdeposed Prussian cabinet. This the court held to be obviously impossible. As the court is nmot in position to suggest how the affairs of Prussia should be regulated pending litigation, it recommended proceedings be speeded to the utmost in determining the legal- ity and constitutionality of the emer- gency decree under which the federal authorities took over the power in Prussia SEES END OF ARMY RULE. Berlin Observer Predicts Early Return to Normal. BERLIN, July 25 (#).—The newspaper Mittagzeitung said today it believed the state of martial law which was clamped down on Berlin and Brandenburg by President von Hindenburg last week would be rescinded soon. A dispatch from Stuttgart quoted the Deutsches Volksblatt of Wuerttemberg, newspaper organ of the state president, as saying danger of revolution “from above” had been averted. At last Saturday’s conference with the heads of the South German gov- ernments, it said, Chancellor Franz von Papen “succeeded in committing the government of the Reich on important points to a-policy which is not the policy of the National Socialists.” Three Killed in Riots. Satisfaction resulting from a week end in which it had been believed no persons were killed in political crises was wiped out when belatea reports reachd Berlin telling of three deaths One person was killed in Juelich, one in Trier and one in Elbing. In Brunswick the police arrested 84 Communists and Reichsbanner members who were holding a secret meeting. There were many scattered outbreaks throughout the country, in spite of the drastic orders issued to police to main- tain order, and many were injured. The effect of the iron rule was seen chiefly in the districts where rioting has been most serious. Most of these sections were quiet over Sunday. At Altona, where a score were slain and nundreds injured a week ago yesterday, quiet prevailed. Five were hurt in a clash at Augs- burg when a cavalcade of Nazi trucks passed through the laborers’ district and was met with jeers of “Hail, Mos- cow!"” At Mandelsloh 15 were hurt when Nazis routed 200 bill-posters for the war veterans “iron front” organization. Red Leaders Arrested. At Neumuenster six Nazis were in- jured in a free-for-all, and at Bobelin- gen six were hurt in a clash in which members of various political organiza- tions took part. A number of Communist leaders were arrested at Essen when they threatened a counter-demonstration following an address by Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader. Gen. von Rundstet, commander of the police in Berlin and Brandenburg under the new martial law decree, for- bade the use of loud speakers on mounted trucks during the campaign for next Sunday's elections. SWEDISH BANKS WIN RULING ON INTEREST By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 25.—Federal Judge Julian W. Mack today granted permis- sion for immediate payment of $1,005,- 000 to two Swedish banks as interest P.|on $33,500,000 of German bonds owned. by Kreuger & Toll, but pledged as coi- llienalaw the two banks on a loan made in 19 Judge Mack refused to grant a 48- hour delay to counsel for American creditors, who asked time to prepare a valid case for an injunction against payment of the money. The bonds are on deposit in $he Chase National Bank here and the interest coupons were pre- sented by the two Swedish banks, the Skandaniviska Kredit Bank and the Sveriges Riksbank. 1932 —TWEN TY-SIX PAGES. Hokokk (P) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. \\ N\ b \ VN Destroys Own Beauty As Husband Resents Glances of .Admirers By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 25.—Where beauty brings happiness to most women, it brought only bitterness to Mrs. Virginia Rae, 27. Her husband Henry was an- noyed by admiring glances she Teceived from other men and told her, “You're too beautiful.” Yesterday she smeared a strong caustic on her face. The police surgeon who attended her said the 'dlanzuxement will be perma- nent. BUS CONGERN BUYS ANAPOLS HOTEL ;Ofistreet Terminal to Be Es- tablished, With New Set-up in Management. Negotiations for the establishment of an off-street bus terminal in the rear of the Annapolis Hotel; at Twelfth and H streets, involving a new set-up in the control of the hostelry itself, will be completed within the next 48 hours, it was announced today by Rob- ert V. Fleming, vice president of the Riggs National Bank, which controls the Washington Annapolis Hotel Cor- poration, owners of the hotel. | Under the new plan, contracts for | which already have been signed, the hotel actually is being purchased by the Hotel Annapolis Bus Terminal, Inc., a Delaware corporation, which received its charter Saturday. F. J. Scarr of New York, transporta- tion engineer, who operates a bus ter- | minal in conjunction with the Dixie | Hotel in New York, is president of the new corporation, whose directorate in- | terlocks officers of the Washington An- | polis Hotel Management Corporation, managing body of the hostelry, and the terminal group. Six Bus Lines Sign Up. | Contract for the remodeling of the | hotel to incorporate the bus terminal already has been let to the Charles H. Tompkins Co. of this city, Mr. Fleming said today. | Negotiations are under way with the receivers of the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad to acquire on a lease basis an additional strip of property bordering on the hotel on the north side, which would give an addi- tional traffic lane for the busses be- tween Eleventh and Twelfth streets. Six bus lines already have signed up with the new terminal, according to Lester A. Pratt, vice president of the terminal corporation. They include the Washington-Luray Line, Washington Rapid Transit Co.,, Lincoln Lines and | the Altman Line. Other bus companies (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) OFFICER ENDS LIFE ABOARD NAVAL SHIP | Lieut. .Edgar W. Hampson Be- lieved Despondent Over Charge of Overstaying Leave. By the Assoclated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif., July 25—Edgar 'W. Hampson, a lleutenant, junior grade, attached to the submarine tender U. 8. S. Holland, ended his life aboard the ship late last night by swallowing poison, naval authorities reported. Hampson recently had been arrested on a charge of over-staying his leave from the ship, and despondency over | this was belleved responsible. Navy Department records show that | Lieut. Edgar Wilson Hampson's home | was given in 1928 as 1868 Columbia | road, here, but he never had duty in i the National Capital. He named as his | beneficiary Mrs. Kathryn Coggins Hampson, his wife, officials said. Lieut. Hampson was born in Chicago, IIL, on January 26, 1899. He entered the Naval Academy from Missouri In 1917 and was commissioned an ensign in June, 1920.° He was qualified for commanding submarines and had com- pleted a course in submarine instruc- tion. He was on duty at the Naval Academy and served on the Navy rifle team. A course at the Naval Air Sta- tion at Pensacola, Fla., was taken be- fore he returned to the submarines. Prior to going aboard the U. S. 8. Holland, Lieut. Hampsan served aboard the U. 8. 8. Bonita, a submarine. He had some 10 years’ duty at sea during his naval career. ‘ % RSN SN WRLR | napolis Hotel Corporation, the Anna- | |PIT” OPENS FIGHT Dy U Yo7 %&%@ SOAY WEEK PLAN 15,532 Empioyes Are to Be Furloughed 48 Saturdays by Doak’s Order. After having been rejected by all of the other executive' departments, the adopted today by the Labor Depart- ment. The plan becomes effective on July 30 in all of the bureaus of the depart- ment and affects 5532 employes. of which 958 are stationed in Washington. Only the field service of the Navy Department, the Government Printing Office and the per diem workers of the District of Columbia are now on the five-day working week. ‘The nine other executive departments of the Government and several of the independent bureaus have rejected the plan. After an Investigation they an- nounced it would not only be impracti- cable, but would not be in the interest of good public service. Vacations Impossible. The Labor Department's move will mean that its 5,532 employes will be cut off from all cumulative leave and vacations will be impossible. Other de- | employes to work on the half-holiday Seiurdays and to allow this to accumu- late for leave pu: : Secretary of Labor Doak, in announc- ing the department’s adoption of the plan, made no reference to_how he plans to distribute forced furloughs caused by the drastic reduction in his department’s 1933 appropriation _bill. ‘The forced furloughs are better known as administrative furloughs and are not to be confused with the five-day- week plan which comes under the heading of legislative furloughs in line with provisions in the economy bill. |, In to the legislative fur- | loughs, the Secretary said: “Having in mind the appropriations made available for the present fiscal year, the nélwre of the work of the de- partment, dhd all other factors, the de- partment staff after a most careful and painstaking survey reached the unan- imous conclusion that the Department of Labor best could meet the reduc- tion of the salaries of the employes re- quired by Congress through decreas- ing the hours of service one-half day ’elch week. Therefore, the following | instruction to employes of the depart- ment were issued toda, Text of Instructions. of paragraph ‘B,’ section 101, of pub- lic bill No. 212, all of the officers and | employes of the Department of Labor in the District of Columbia will be furloughed on Saturday of each week Xor] 4; weeks, beginning with Saturday July 30. “This method of carrying into effect the provisions of this act will be applied to field service so far as practical, but shall not apply to officers or employes while under travel status.” Secretary Doak has always been a stanch advocate of the five-day plan, both In Government service and in private industry. Hotel Guests Routed by Fire. DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky, July 25 (). —Between 15 and 20 guests fled in night clothing: early today when the Phillips Hotel was destroyed by fire here, with loss estimated at $10,000. The local fire department, aided by the Outwood Veterans’ Hospital Fire De- partment, was unable to save the threc- story frame building, but saved the Niles Hotel and nearby residences. LABOR UNIT ADOPTS five-day week for Pederal employes was | if partments are inclined to allow their | “In accordance with the provisions | - AGAINST CLOSURE ORDERED BY U.S. 4 Chicago Board of Trade Pre- pared to Fiie Briefs Re- sisting Order. |“HOOVER’S JOBHOLDERS” | ARE ACCUSED BY CAREY “President’s Pet Farm Board” Is Cited by Head of Suspended Organization. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 25.—The Chicago Board of Trade today began a deter- mined battle to the last legal ditch against Federal closure, but was unde- cided as to the course to follow if it should lose. Whether to lock its doors for 60 days or to surrender by admitting the Farm- ers’ National Grain Corporation to trading privileges will not be dis- cussed until recourse to courts of law has been exhausted, President Peter B. Cn}r{eey x:l:l:\ed the closing order, issued | §nturd.ny by three cabinet meml'm's. on President Hoover's job holders, who naturally would not decide against the ss'}‘;.mm lary of the President’s pet Farm " Order Effective August 8. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, Sec- retary of Commerce Lamont and At- torney General Mitchell said their or- der would be effective August 8. George S. Milnor, general manager of the Farmers' National, said today the Government-sponsored co-operative had bee& finn:i clearing privileges in “every other important trading mart in the United States.” “In all their hue and cry about being closed up,” Milnor- said, “President Carey and others of the board overlook that part of the Government’s decision that would set aside the closing order the Farmers National were given ng association privileges. It's just a plain case of Carey trying to lead the board to suicide.” Through the Hall-Bsker Grain Cor- poration, a subsidiary, the Farmers Na- tional has clearing association facilities on the Kansas City Board of Trade, and has, in itself, been admitted to such clearing membership in the Minne- apolis, Duluth, Seattle and Portland ex- changes, Milnor caid. ‘It seems.” or added, “that the Chicago Board was the only one out of step.” Denies Right to Membership, Members of the board insist the cor- poratiorr is not a true co-opsrative and as a corporation bas no right to mem- “We'll appeal the matter ciear up to the United ‘States ‘Supreme Court. and win our contentions,” said Carey. board has 15 days in which to file its appeal and lawyers already are pre- pngr(},'to file briefs. “There need be no fear,” he sal “that the board will close its dwnd‘ under the order of the commission. We intend to take every legal step available before accepting the decision.” Were the board closed, he asserted, grain markets would be thrown into chaos, since the Chicago mart handles about 85 per cent of the wheat crop. “Hedging,” he said, “would be impossi- ble and the milling industry would be seriously injured.” A properly constituted co-cperative. | he said, had rights of membership in contract markets and the Board of Trade started investigation to determine the status of the corporation when it originally sought those rights. “When we started our investigation,” he said, “the Farmers’ National refused to permit an examination of its books.” KANSAS CITY PROTESTS. KANSAS CITY, July 25 (#)—W. B. Lincoln, president of the Kansas City Board of Trade, said last night the Federal closing order issued against the Chicago Board of Trade would be pro- tested by grain men, milling representa- tives and banks of this section. “Responsibility for such a drastic move should be too great for any one man or group of men to assume,” Lin- coln said. “Markets have already become im- perilled by farm board policies and by the recent impostion of a heavy tax on commodity trades which reflect injury back on the farmer. The farmers in the Southwest are now getting little more than 20 cents a bushel for their wheat on the farm. “With the movement of the new Win- ter wheat crop at hand, the Spring wheat movement just starting with a heavy crop, the secretary of agriculture might well stop and consider the effect on the produce TROOPS SENT TO MINE Arkansas Governor Acts | Sheriff's Fear of Outbreak. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 25 (#).— Sheriff Pred Russell of Clarksville tele- phoned Gov. Parnell today that he an- ticipated an outbreak between union and non-union coal miners and the Governor ordered a company of Na- tional Guardsmen there to prepare for eventualities. on | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 25.—A storm of con- tradictory comment has followed a de- cision by Circuit Judge Daniel P. Trude, in which he gave the first judicial ap- proval of birth control ever expressed in Chicago. The decision was given in the ease of Mrs. Gertrude Bemis, Who was granted rate maintenance from her husband, T. “It is evident to me” the court said, “that too many children have been born to this couple. The mother rebelled at motherhood. The job was too much for | In granting the separate maintenance, | sepa Walter J. Bemis, a consulting | of her.” | to ARGUMENT RAGES OVER RULING IN FAVOR OF BIRTH CONTROL Chicago Judge Cites 5 Children as Cause of Strife and Grants Wife Separate Maintenance. Judge Trude specifically cited the couple’s five children as the reason for their marital discord and ignored Mrs. Bemis' charge that- her husband cen- tered his attentions on another woman. Commenting on the court’s action, Dr. Rachelle Yarres, a woman medical z:crilht ::‘d she can care for, without injury to her health.” b Judge Joseph A. Graber of the Court Domestic - Relations, the other hand, took an opposing view. “I have found that children do more to patch up hnk!nhhm than any other le factor, Jua.:n,rnm told Mrs, Bemis to go California en a vacation, away from her five children.