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3 * A THE EVENI MG S TAR. WASHINGT( IN, D. €. MONDAY. AF. L SURVEY SAYS “DANIC” 1S PASSING Jobless May Reach 13,000,- 000 Uniess Relief Is Co-or- dinated, However, Is Plea. The ‘spirit of panic “is at last dying down,” the American Federation of La- bor said today in its monthly survey of business, and cited the balancing of the Federal ‘budget, the end of the doliar | raids by Europe, bond price imvrove- ment and the Lausanne agreement ending reparations as the cause for improved confidence foundation. However, labor predicts that the army | of jobless may reach 13,000,000 next; Winter unless plans for national co- | erdination to relieve the situation are perfected. In order to avold overconfidence, the federation said ‘tiere are still perils ehead, especially the problem of war debt settlements and of unemploy- ment.” Job Facts Required. As to the latter the federation said the Naticn nceds as a permanent part of the National Gevernment & councll” with power to discover.and publish the facts pertainirz to work time and em- ployment, so that the jobs can be kept in adjustment to “our economic needs and our citizens wiit have work.” “In this emergency, the creation of | such a council is urgent,” the state- ment declsred, “and labor has cllk'd: n the President to bring togethe:: ruep;rmnutms of industry m?d labor | to deal with the unempioyment crisis. | “The answer to unemployment is jobs. Yet with a Winter ofh::rsc suf- fering than last ahead, wl unem- may reach 13,000,000 we have create millions of {ubsl. Plans next Winter must start a 5 fo_;hg $2,100,000,000 relief bill can pn)flt;k(lcl?e woll:"\ll; 4 and relief for —uri mt cannot create 11,000,000 movement to sherten work hours s gaining ground, bi® zs yet is only reaching a l:.a;!! :r'.’.zitzln of our . Active vernment Bl Sk S " P could accomplish results. Rise May Not Last. The labor oryanization believes that the rise in ecommodity prices during the last five veeks is “cheerful news,” but it i tod soon to tell whether it ‘will last. “Farm this year,” et bak faimes some small hanks bebiy eannot pect of serious benk failures. “Tnere are still perils ahead, espe- cially the problem of war debt settle- is as bottom-levels, scarcely over ome- fifth the 1929 value for the first half of the year and the difficuity of obtain ing meortgage money prevents improve- ment in the near future. “It is impessible to tell whether re- cent gains will last. They are sonugh to stimulat te production activity.” BRITISH LABOR BACKS NATIONALIZED BANKS | | ineome promises to be higher according to the stitement. 1 fear caused Ly the Chi- bas quicted; although in bed condition pro- Permanent Abandonment of Gold ‘Standard Also Favored With Control of Capital Issues. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 25—A plan for na- tionalizing the banks of England, long advocated by many British Labor leaders, is included in the Labor pariy Tepo~. on currency, benking and finance issued here today. It will be presented to the party conference in October. Under the plan the governor of the bank would be appointed by the gov- ernment and be subject to the direc- tion of the cabinet. ‘The report also recommends perma- nent abandonment of the gold stand- ard and establishment, in its stead, of & managed currency which would keep the average level of internal prices stable, the pound would always buy nmngmly the same amount of goods. An international agreement is also propesed to secure, as far as pos- sible, stability of rates of forelgn exchange. Another proposal calls for the estab- lishment of a national investment board to control new public issues of capital and to direct capital in such a way as to result greatest national benefit. DUTCH WEIGH RUMORS OF PLOT BY EX-KAISER Premier Asked to Investigate Wil- helm's Alleged Political Activities. By the Associated Press. THE HAGUE. Holland, July 25— Persistent and_increasing rumors that Saging o poiitical activities Jed M. Vot, ng in . Vos, a member of the Dutch Jower house of ! Parliament, to ask the premier today what measures the government had taken to prevent his political activities. In recent montbs the names of for- mer Crown Prince Priedrich Wilhelm end his brothers have been frequently associated with a political movement of the right in Germany. The Crown Prince and Prince Oscar recently paid a surprise visit to Doorn which aroused much speculation. BRITISH CONVERT LOAN 1,587,000 Bondholders Have Ac- cepted, Says Treasury Official. LONDON, July 25 (#).—Maj. Walter dot, finarcial secretary of the treas- ury, told a luncheon gathering today that the conversion of the government’s B per cent war loan was proceeding with remarkable rapidity. A total of 1,587,000 bondholders al- ready have accepted the conversion sffer, he said, and only «13,000 have indicated dissatisfaction with it. Al iold there are 2,600,000 holders of the Jonds. DAMAGED SHIP DOCKS Blight Trace of Collision Near Boston Shown by Oneida. NEW YORK, July 25 (®.—The Plyde-Mallory freighter Oneida, which was in collision with the Dollar liner President Van Buren near Boston about midnight Saturday, docked today, show- Ing only slight evidence of the accident. iped each other not | daira, son m ! i o Sak {Dis | i ! By the Asscciated Press. | 'MEXICO CITY, July 25—Signs of civilizaton, in the form of four calves tethered to a tree. lit the first flames of hope in the dazed mind of Clarence | MCcEiroy, Medaryville, Ind., fiyer, who | was rescued, starving from the jungle over a week ago. His mind clearing after 10 days of wandering and incoherency, McElroy had recovered s:Zfiiently when he was brought here yesierday from San | Geronimo in a plane, to tell the story | of his fatel crash and the 18 days of pain, starvation and horror which fol- ! lowed it. The crash occurred at 10 am. June 27, he said. He ad his_companion, | Roy Gordon, Americen, of % Hondure., werc flying southward on | the way to Honduras, where they were to deliver the plane. They ran into a furious storm. | As he told his story, McElroy was | still half-paraiyzed, covered with in- sect bites and very weak. Crach Inte Mountain. “There was no visibility and I tried to find & spot to land. Suddenly the plane crashed into a mountainside. “I was knocked out and recovered consciousness in a_rain storm at 3 pm.” he raid. “I noted that the plane was a complete washout. My I and head pained ceverely and I was too weak to crawl out of the wreck. “I can't remember much of those first three days. Everything was hazy. I could see that Gordon was dead, but I was too weak to move. RECOVERING AVIATOR REVEALS MEXICAN JUNGLE HARDSHIPS covery of 4 Calves Tied to Tree Gave Hope to McElroy, American, Who Waited for Relief. “Three days later I had recovered ! some strength. I tried to cover Gor- don’s body and then started crawling up the mountain to get my bearings. “It was almost imj jble to mal headway in the jungle. My pains in- creased. I got water from a small mountain stream and caught & few crabs and ate them raw. | “At_night I could see the lights of | San Geronimo, but made very slow | progress, probably not more than three miles from the ship in 14 days’ ling. I was vory weak and somewhat de- lirious. i Calves Tied to Tree. “July 13 was my lucky day. That evening I came upon a herd of cows beside a stream, but what gave me hope was the sight of four calves tied to trees. 1 knew somebody eventually would come to untie those calves, so I stopped right there. 1 was too weak cven to try to milk a cow. “The next morning the Indian boy came. 1 motioned that I wanted some food. He milked a cow and gave me some milk and some cheese he had. By signs I told him of my predicament and he understood. He built a small lean-to to protect me and left for heip. “That boy did a marvelous jcb. He covered the 20 miles to San Geromino four times in a single cay, getting help and getting me out. I am going to re- 'l;: him handsomely.” soon as his physiclan gives the word, McElroy intends to start for In- THO PEDESTRIANS KILLED N TRAFFIC Hyattsvilie Resident and Hughesville Colored Man Are Victims. i | | Two pedestrians were killed and a | child and a motor cyclist injured in traffic accidents on nearby Maryiand | roads yesterday. Charles Christensen, 65 years old, of 4 Sibley avenue, Hyattsville, was fa- tally injured when struck by an auto- mobile while crossing the Baltimore Boulevard near his home last night. | He was rushed to Casualty Hospital by the Bladensburg rescue squad, but died within an hour. Death was attributed | to internal injuries. Had Visited Mayor. Mr. Christensen had been visiting Mayor Lemuel L. Gray of Hyattsville and was returning to his home when struck. Police say the car which hit him was operated by Robert Matsu- of the former mayor of Ed- onston. Corpl. G. A. Wollenburg of the State Police Force, who mv:m:d the ac- cident, gave young Ma ra & _sum- mens to appear in Hyattsville Police Court today. Mr. Cbristiansen was formerly em- ployed at the University cf Maryiand. He is survived by his widow and two | daughters. Funeral arrangements had | not been completed this morning. Colored Man Killed. Sidney Hawkins, colored, 22 years old, of Hughesville, Md., was the other pe- destrian killed. He was struck near Bryantown, Md., by a hit-and-run driver, to State police. While p on the Edmcnston road, Robert Rowens, 5 years old, of the 700 block of Jefferson avenue, Riv- erdale received lacerations of the fore- head, elbow and leg when struck by . The child was given the Bladensburg rescue squad. ‘Verncn Stores, 18 years old, of the 200 block of Channing street northeast sustained a possible fractire of the skull and locerations of the body when thrown from motor eycle on the Marloaro pike. Passing motorists touk him to the hospital. ITALIAN ‘SECRET NAVY’| REPORT HIT IN ROME| Building Program of 1931-32 Pub- lished in Parliamentary Report, Naval Experts Say. By the Associated Press. ROME, July 25—Italian naval ex- perts ridiculed reports published in London today to the effect that Italy is building a “secret navy.” There are 14 Italian naval vessels still on paper, thelr construction sus- pended under the proposal which Dino Grandi made at Geneva for a one-year butlding holiday, which the Disarma- ment Conference has extended. The building program for 1931 and 1932 has been published in the parliamentary budget report, it was said. Fourteeny warships mentioned by the London writer were said here to be two | cruisers of 6,742 tons. two destroyers of | 615 tons, four tankers and six tugs. | Contracts have been awarded for the two cruisers. The Lwo destroyers were | ordered at Naples, but work was sus- | pended before the keels were laid. | LOAN BY R. F. C. ON SPAN | OVER POTOMAC DELAYED | Question of Whether Project Is Self-Liquidating Holds Up Decision. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., July 25.—The Leg- islative Commission created at the last session of the General Assembly of Vir- ginia to co-operate with a similar com- mission appointed by the Governor of | Maryland in promoting the building of 3. toll bridge across the Potomac River from a point in King George County to some point across the river on the Maryland side met here today. It was informed that the Reconstruction PFinance Corporation, from which it was hoped to obtain a loan for the building of tne bridge, had not yet decided whether it could be construed as a self- advanced, it was pointed out. LIEUT. CHACE ASSIGNED Capital Graduate of West Point Goes to Fort Monroe. The name of Second Lieut. Edgar N. Chace of Chevy Chase, Md., was inad- vertently omitted from a list of recent The two ships sidesw: n'a fog in a Pollock rip channel. and Teports of the accident here after the Oneida docked today sald neither was materially damaged. The marine superintendent at the Dollar line offices said he had received no report of the accident. The Presi- ‘Q& Van Buren proceeded t;Boswn. graduates of the United States Military Academy residing in this vicinity who have been assigned to Regular Army duties. Lieut. Chace, & son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Chace, 6 West Virgilia street, was assigned to the 52d Coast Artillery | 300,000,000 pesos annuslly. Nearly 4,000 | could materially increase their yields liquidating project. It must be a project | of this character for the money to be | 30,000 Given Jobs Under New Regime, Davila Tells Chile| Unemployment Will Be Wiped Out in 45 Days, President Says. By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO. Chile, July 25.—Thirty thousand of the 118,000 unemployed in Chile when the socialist government of Carlos Davila took over the helm have been employed since then, Senor Da- vila declared in a radio address to the nation last night. ‘The .ddress was broadcast through five stations and comprised a complete E of the new government’s acts thus far and its plans for the future. Within the next 45 days, the provi- ional president said, work will be found for the remaining thousands who are still jobless. He said political difficul- ties had hampered the work of finding employment up to now. “When 1 took over the government,”™ he sald, “the were more than 118,000 unemployed and it was necessary to feed and clothe more than 300,000 peo- ple. This was done. “The cost of feeding the jobless was incressed from 900,000 pesos to 1,600,~ 000. “But this effort was not sufficient. It was necessary to destroy the causes of unem] t and to direct our activi- ties toward offering permanent jobs to the people. At the service of economic activities abundant credits were placed at low interest. The Central Bank was authorized to discount paper derived from economic exploitations up to 190,- 000,000 pesos. “An emergency law now ready for promulgation authorizes the investment of 164,000,000 pesos either in private or state enterprises. This will cause the disappearance of all unemployment and permit the production of merchandise which, up to now, has been imported at a cost of 200,000,000 3 “With a credit of 4,000,000 pesos, the Jumber industry has given work to 15, 000 men and 12,000 others are working in the gold mines. This number will increase until production has reached men have been put to work in the iron industry and in public works.” EMPIRE BANK PLAN LINKED TO SILVER MONEY, AT OTTAWA! (Continued From First Page.) tries, he said, depended the welfare of the countries themselves. This was taken to imply that Canada wanted the conference to make some disposition 0!‘ her annual wheat surplus problem. The | possibility has not passed, however. that | the London government may still at-| tempt an empiie wheat solution. A virtual demand has been made that the British markets boycott Rus-| sian wheat and take empire grain in its_place. Foreign countries get an annual aver- age of more than $100,000,000 of Great Britain’s total_outlay for beef. Aus- tralia now is Britain's most important source of beef within the empire. The empire has an apparent annual deficiency of 2,011,897 hundredweight of mutton and lamb, 7,504,339 hun- dredweight of bacon and hams, 2,789, 110 hundredweight of butter, 3,801,230 of apples and a deficiency of £7,000,000 worth of citrus fruits and £4,868.707 worth of canned and preserved fruits. In 1924 the United Kingdom had a per capita consumption of 100 apples, 38 of which were supplied by the United States. Foreign countries sup- plies 74 per cent of all fresh fruits consumed in Britain from 1925 to 1928. It is said that all of the dominions of one or more of the ceficlent prod- ucts if given preference against foreign- ers. In Tobacco alone, $79,000,000 worth of which was sold to Great Brit- ain by the United States in 1930, the British Empire has a deficlency of 1,- 208,062 hundredweight a year. Can- ada now is the greatest producer of the commonwealth, but Australia, India, South Africa and some of the African | colonies are potentially large tobacco regions. The unofficial British view of the British delegation was that Senator Borah's offer to support an interna- tional conference to deal with war debts involved the success of the conference here. While the delegates insisted the po- sition of the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the American Sen- | ate was a matter for London to discuss, they indicated that definite action on war debts was a necessary complement to the accomplishments of this con- ference. A spokesman said leadership of the kind Scnator Borah seemed willing to ofter should make it possible to work toward an international agreement on many major economic lems of the world. He said Europe long had hoped for some such leadership in the United States, belleving commodity price re- covery hinged on a settlement of the question which the American view so far has made impossible. FUEL FAMINE HITS AUTOS BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, July 25 (#). tl | —Highway automobile traffic was seri- ously crippled throughout Jugoslavia today by a motor fuel famine. The scarcity was ascribed chiefly to foreign exchange restrietions which at Fort Monroe, Va, make it difficult to import or pay for Rumanian or other foreign oil products. i 1.5, SEEN MOVING | OUT OF DEPRESSION Emergency Measures Be- lieved Big Factor in Slow Turn for Better. BY MARK SULLIVAN. The sum of recent developments hav- ing to do with business constitutes a new and presumably recuperative phase of the cycle. While no person having the faintest prudence is willing to say anything in this field which has the nature of prediction, it is a fact that several recent deveiopments constitute an advance over recent conditions. The emergency measures for recovery, now in operation since President Hoover signed the “home loan bank bill,” con- stitute a substantial fulfillment of a pro- gram made out some months ago. The program as originally concelved was a com~lete program, in that it was made out with careful thought and considera- tion. As planred it was believed to in- clude everything necessary, not to achieve recovery through itself, but to remove all impediments to recovery by the country and otherwise to facilitate the process, It is true that Congress did not fully enact the program. The failure of Con- gress, however, did not conmsist in omitting any fundamental part of the ! program, but rather in not making some of the steps as complete as was requested. Nevertheless, the program is regarded as substantially enacted. Veterans Burean a Factor. The principal falling short of Con- gress was in the field of economy. The President asked for some drastic cuts in Government expenditure. Congress made a smaller but nevertheless ma- terial cut and set up a committee to recommend further cuts. It is fair to assume that Congress, sitting next December, with the elections over, will be willing to approximate the full need for reduced Government expenditure. One field in which reduction is impera- tive is the Veterans' Bureau, and both parties at their recent conventions pledged themselves in their platforms to_make restrictions in this area. The matter of reduced cost of gov- ernment is important for a particular reason. The comparatively small num- ber of business leaders or persons hav- ing weight in the world of economic thought who are still a little skeptical about business recovery base their doubts mainly on the need of further reducing cost of government, Federal, State and local, as a prerequisite to a genuine and_prolonged new period of prosperity. Even these persons admit that the other steps taken by Congress, including the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the home loan banking bill and other institutions, have the effect of adequate defense against fur- ther lapse into depression. Now Up to Citizens. An overwhelming majority of the most worthwhile thought goes further and believes that the conditions have been made right, 50 far as Government can do so, for the beginning of business expansion and reasonably rising prices of commodities and securities. The most minute survey of the world, by persons made vigilant by the blows which struck us from Germany, Great Britain and South America a year ago, does Dot reveal any possible further blow from outside cur own borders. On the contcary, the belief is that in those countries and throughout the world, as in America, the ground has been cieared for better conditions. Tne Government program for recov- ery in America has followed orthodox conservative lines. There are persons who have insisted that recovery could only be achieved by revolutionary steps. One method much pressed was inflation of the currency. This has not been done. Every one of the roughly a score of measures enacted by Congress has ‘had the support and in many cases the sponsorship of Senator Car- ter Glass of Virginia, who would no more countenance flat currency than poisan! It is true that a rider jnitiated by Senators Borah on the home loan bank bill provides for a maximum of just un- der a billion dollais of new currency based on Government bonds. That would be an addition of about one-fifth to the currency outstanding. It would be no more than equal to the amount that went into hoarding some months ago. Senator Glass and the other con- servatives in Congress did not consent to this until they had satisfied them- selves that in operation it would not cause any net increase in currency, and ?;:‘ its operation is limited to three Credit Also Expanded. A very different thing from currency expansion, mainly credit expansion, having the same curative effect on busi- ness and prices as currency expansion, is frankly encouraged by the measures taken by Congress. Forces for expan- sion of credit, initiated by the Federal Reserve System and other Government ;gencxas, are in active operation every lay. Even more important are the steps being taken by private business not only for expansion of credit in use but for recovery along many carefully thought out lines. The steps taken in business, while greater in the aggregate than anything done by the Government, are comparatively unnoticed. The sum of all has created the conviction in sources hitherto skeptical that the coun- try is slowly on its way upward. (Copyright, 1922.) ROBERT J. ORNDORFF DROWNS IN POTOMAC Capital Grocery Clerk Loses Life on Fishing Trip 25 Miles South of Leonardtown. Special Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md, July 25— Robert J. Orndorfl, 26, Washington grocery clerk, was drowned in the Po- tomac River near Wynne, Md., about 25 miles south of here, yesterday after- noon. Police and crews of about 15 privately-owned boats were still drag- ging the river for the body early this afternoon. The river is abcut 16 feet deep at the point where the man was his seen to go down. Orndorff, with three companions from | Washington, had gone fishing yesterday afternoon with three men frc; vicinity. He was last seen Fi"'lr.ln"ho: themcshln :ivll:)lch l:lhclues the boat's motor, accor to the six who LheTkI‘mnl with h!un. N eir first knowledge of his I l;lle }l;ou! dcame ):";le‘l:w they he;:;m: splash and saw disappear in the 16 feet of water. i gpeane Police began a search for the body about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, but gave up at sundown and resumed at T am. today. Other members of the party included Earl Welch of Wynne, owner of the boat, and Benjamin Simms, Conrad Good and & Mr. Boyd, said to be from this city. Orndorfl lived with his wife and three children at Capitol Heights, NAIROBI (#).—Public executions have been instituted in Uganda in an attempt to check a wave of murder. The first took place at Hoima, where two natives were hanged before a crowd of 4,000 Africans. JULY 25. 32 19 Plan for Annapolis Hotel Terminal NEGOTIATIONS VIRTUALLY COMPLETED FOR ACQUISITION OF SITE FOR BUSSES. DINING RoO ™M Proposed plan of the Hotel Annapolis Bus Terminal, Inc.. for off-street facilities of interstate busses. The dotted line at the top shows additional space expected to be acquired from the Washingtcn, Baltimore & Annapolis Rail:oad, PRESIDENT RETURNS FAOM RAPIDAN TRIP Press of Business Here Is Cause for Curtailing of Stay at Camp. \’ \ | | | | | | | President Hoover returned to his desk | at 9:30 o'clock this morning after a week end of rest at his camp on the | Rapidan River in Virginia. Mrs. Hoo-l ver, who has been at the camp for the | past two weeks, did not return with | him. but expects to remain throughout | this week at least, ‘The President abandoned his plan to prolong his stay until tomorrow. It was | s2id that matters here required his at- tention today. He hopes to get back to | | the Rapidan camp next Friday, how- | ever, and remain two or three days. | | | Left About 6 O’Clock. ‘The President arose shortly after 5| am. and left his camp a few minutes past 6 am. Mr. Hoover has nct yet completed the draft of his acceptance speech to be delivered at his notification ceremonies on the night of August 11. This is understood to have been one reason fcr returning to his desk today. Besides this, the President is casting about for available material from which to select men of the proper experience and back- ground to name to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Also he must very soon decide upon whom he will select for the five places on the Home Loan Bank board. In additicn to this, the President must obtain a successor to Gen. Charles Saltzman, who last week Tesigned as chairman of the Federal Radlo Commission. On his early ride back from camp, the President had the company of Edgar Rickard of New York, a friend and for- mer business assoclate. Mrs. Rickard, | who has been with Mrs. Hoover at the camp for more than a week, remained with her. Engagement with Jones. Mr. Hoover made his ,only engage- ment for today with Senator Jones, Re- publican, of Washington. It was the President's desire to see as few people as possible in order to be able to give his undivided attention to the writing of his acceptance speech and to other important business. The President on his ride back to ‘Washington was again met at the Dis- trict side of the Arlington Memorial Bridge by three motor cycle policemen, who acted as an escort on the remainder of the ride to the White House. extra precaution, which was inaugu- rated upon the President’s return from camp last week, was taken because of the reports that some of the bonus campers in Washington were contem- plating _demonstrations in the vicinity of the White House for the President’s benefit. The ride was without incident. Instead of motoring to the front en- trance of the White House upon his arrival, the President had the car stopped on West Executive avenue, in front of the side entrance to the execu- tive office. e “PHANTOM” FIRES . ON NEW TENANT Minister's Hat Is Targst After Warning on 0ld House He Moved Into. By the Assoclated Press. HORNELL, N. Y, July 25.—A bullet hole through a clergyman’s hat today added another chapter to the siury of an old and isolated hill top house near here. Several other tenants have fled from the dwelling in terror of what| State troopers call a “phantom rifie- man.” Lieut. Gerald Vaine of the State po- lice said the rifieman, who has never been seen, apparently wanted to keep the house unoccupied, for some un- known reason. Rev. Herman Lee Henderson took it & short time ago as a Summer home. In a note he found upon the well outside the house, weighted down by a rifie bullet of large caliber, the clergyman was warned to keep away from ‘“the well.” As he read the message, which carried a threat of death, a bullet sang | through the air and lifted his hat from head. The rifle report was faint, he sald, and Lieut. Vaine suggested the weapon had been fired from a consid- erable distance by an expert marksman. Later Rev. Mr. Henderson learned that at least five other tenants had becr frightened from the premises by the “phantom.” Lieut. Vaine said he tery” surrounding the house was cleared up. KILLS TWO AND SELF Father Shoots Children and Com- mits Suicide in Home. SAGINAW, Mich, July 25 (P— James P. Jackson, 45, and his two children, Margaret, 12, and James, 11, were found shot to death in their home here this morning. The children ap- parently had been shot by the father, who then turned his gun on himself. Jackson left a note saying his wife had deserted him for another man. im Neighbors told the police that they heard what might have been shots is | balloons would stay on the case until the “mys-| oo under lease, for broadening the traffic lanes. ALBERTO SAN' BRAZILIAN ‘FATHER OF AVIATION DEAD Santos-Dumont, rary of Wright Brothers, Succumbs at 59. 'TOS-DUMONT. By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, July 25.—Alberto Santos-Dumont, known in South Amer- ica as the “father of aviation,” and ccntemporary of the Wright brothers in the early experiments of the 1890s, is dead. ‘The veteran flyer of balloons, dirigi- bles and airplanes, most of whose ex- ploits took place in France up to 1909, when he quit flying, succumbed at Sao Pauli yesterday to an illness contracted in France. He returned to Brazl over a year ago to try to regain his health. He was 59. Born in the state of Minas Geres, in Southern Brazil, he was the son of Henri Dumont, engineer and coffee planter. He went to Paris in 1891 and bougnt an automobile when he feund X beyond his slender purse. For six years, with the automobile his “lab- oratory,” he made an intensive study of internal combustion engines. In 1898 he had constructed a dirigible eand made his first flight in it frcm the Jardin D'Acclimation in Paris. In October, 1901, he won the Dutch de la Meurthe prize of 10,000 francs for the first circult flight from the French Aero Club, at St. Cloud, around the Eiffer Tower and return. He covered the distance in 30 minutes. Two years later he built the first air- port at Neuilly. It was two years after the Wright brothers made their first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C., that Santos-Dumont turned to heav- ier-than-air craft. In September, 1906, he took his box kite type plane off the ground at Bagatelle, France, and flew 350 feet at a rate of 18 miles an hour, 4 feet off the ground. Two months later he rose 20 fee: and flew 700 feet at 42 miles an hour. The monoplane was his principal contribution to aero- nautics. however. He had many accidents, but none of them resulted “seriously until he was badly hurt in 1909, just before he quit flying, He visited the United still considered crack-brained and was dubbed “the modern Darius Green” W e T T engineering services to France during n:’e! war, but turned away later, declaring he could not bear to see the machines he had envisaged as ents of better understanding between nations turned into the means of death and destruction. The Brazilian government has plan- ned a State funeral similar to those Teceived by Presidents of the republic. ::l‘:;r:" Dotlltiucll = lls Testored in the e body will be brought here from Sao Paulo for burial. ¢ RAMSEYER APPOINTED CHICAGO, July 25 (#).—Appoint- ment of Representative C, William Ramseyer of Towa as director of the speakers' bureau for the presidential campaign was announced today by Everett Sanders, chairman of the Re- publican National Committee. The epeakers’ bureau will be estab- lished August 1, Sanders said, and Rep- resentative Ramseyer will spend t intervening time at his home in Bloom- field, Towa. Ramseyer has served in gress from the sixth Jowa district for nine consecutive terms. Sanders also confirmed reports that Representative John Q. Tilson of Con- necticut wéuld be director of the Speakers’ Bureau in the East, with headquarters in New York. Sanders was director of the Speakers’ Bureau in 1924 and Walter H. Newton of Min- neapolis held the position in 1928. Both became presidential secretaries. IBANEZ STARTS TO EXILE CONCEPCION, Chile, July 25 (#).— ‘The special train urryln!l’ormn Presi- dent Carlos Ibanez bacl Argentina passed_thi before midnight last night. Althuulhmxlnel h{:l‘nll refused to about 8:30 o'clock Saturday morning and the police believe that is when ! the shooting took place. [ comment upon it, a report was circu- lated that he intends to go to Europe s so0on as he arrives in Buenos Aires. Contempo- | States in the days when flying was| WORK ON RELIEF LOANS 1S PLSHED | |Experts of Finance Corpora- | tion Not Sure When Money Will Be Ready. By the Associated Press. Experts of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation today continued their study of the gigantic relief bill with a view to expediting handling applications for funds. It has nct been determined how soon the corporation will be able to start lending money to the States and cor- porations authorized to borrow, but it | was emphasized this would be done witia { utmest speed. Secretary Cooksey of the corporation has telegraphed all Governors that a little time would be necessary to formulate policies and regulstions for handling the funds and asked them to be patient. ‘The corporation is receiving applica- | tions from States for loans from the $300,000,000 appropriated for direct re- lief of destituticn. } These were not made public in con- ‘rormuy with the corporation’s policy. A number of inquiries about availa- bility of funds have been received from States, including some that at first were believed unable to borrow from the destitution fund. Florida’s constitution forbids borrow- | ing by the State, but the Governor has written the corporation to cbtain in- formation regarding loans to cities and counties. BUS CONCERN BUYS ANNAPOLIS HOTEL; TERMINAL PLANNED (Continued From First Page.) | are at present negotiating with the new corporation. Pratt said today that in the event the alterations for the new terminal are not completed by August 1, the date set by the Public Utilities Commission for the | evacuation of street interstate bus terminals in the downtown area, tempo- rary facilities for the off-street ter- | minal will be made. Reported Fallen Through. It has been said at the office of the secretary of the commission that ne- gotiations with the Co-ordinating Com- mittee of bus lines for the acquisition of the Annapolis Hotel site had fallen through. Word to this effect was said to have been brought to the commis- sion by Edward J. Smith, Washington superintendent of the Short Lines. Mr. Smith said today he was speaking only in s0 far as his company was concern- ed and not for the co-ordinating group. Mr. Scarr, as president of the new terminal corporation, will have a con- trolling interest, having 35 and 25 per cent of the stock. Under the contract with the Riggs Bank subsidiary, drawn up by lawyers for both the bank and the terminal interests, the hotel will be purchased on an installment plan from the bank, which foreclosed on a second- trust mortgage last March and assumed & first mortgage of $770,000 held by the Prudence Co. of New York. ‘The contract provides that ultimately the hotel and terminal will be operated as separate units, with the Annapolis Hotel Management Corporation buying the hotel from the terminal corpor- ation. A, C. Torgeson is president of this group, and H. F. Neason is man- ager of the hotel. J, M. Seward is sec- retary-treasurer of the terminal group. ‘The remodeling of the lower flcor of the hotel to provide for the bus term- inal will involve cutting through an “L" wing at the northeast corner of the bullding and cutting the Eleventh street bus exit through this portion of the structure, A ballroom on the ground floor of the hotel will be converted into a large ‘waiting room, and passenger entrance will be made on Eleventh, H and Twelfth streets. Other facilities, such as check room, fountain, newsstands, will be incorporated in the plan, to be operated by concessionaires. Under original plans, there was to be a single bus lane through from Twelfth to Eleventh street, with room for ad- ditional parking of the vehicles abreast of this lJane. With the completion of the negotiations with the W. B. & A. Railroad, however, it will be possible to have three direct lanes from one street to the other. The location is just outside the zone from which the Utilities Commission barred the busses, which is bounded by H street. Scarr plans to operate the terminal under the supervision of the F. J, Scarr Transportation Co. SEVERE QUAKE FELT Shock 2,560 Miles Southeast of New York is recorded. NEW YORK, July 25 (#).—An earthquake described as “quite severe" was registered on the seismograph at Fordham University. ‘The first shock was at 4:19 am, Eastern standard time, and the last at 4:25am. The disturbance was recorded | 113 ARE ARRAIGNED INSUSPECT'S DEATH Policemen Plead Not Guilty in Third-Degree Slaying of Accused Man. By the Associated Press. MINEOLA, N. Y., July 25.—Thirteen Nassau County policemen were ar- raigned and pleaded not guilty today to indictments charging them variously with manslaughter in the first degree assault in the second degree and with being accessory to a feleny in connec- tion with the third-degree death of Hyman Stark, robbery suspect. District Attorney Elvin N. Edwaris announced the nature of the impound-u indictments & few minutes before th arraignments. The five charged with manslaughter were Deputy Chief Frank J. Tappen, Lieut. Jesse Mayforth, Detective Lectic | Pearsal, Detective Harry Zander Sergt. of Detectives Charles wuer.‘m Seven Accused of Assault, All of these, with the exception Tappen, were charged with mnd—d:f gree murder in warrants issued by Su- preme Court Justice Meier Steinbrink after a John Doe hearing. Tappen Was named as accessory in Steinbrink's ch;:gn. ven indicted for second-dey - sault were Detective Sergt. b Chagnon and Detectives Patrick Shan- ley, George Hutchison, Thomas Bo- nanza and Joseph Hizenski (son of the woman alleged to have bee; bbed | and ‘beaten by Stark and three other suspects) and Patrolmen Lanis Ra; and Harry Liljegren. i Patrolman Harold Brietenbacker, Wha had been held only for conspiracy to obstruct justice after the John Doe hearing, was indicted as an accessory (o a felony. Coindicent with the arraignments, body of Edwards announced that the Stark had been exhumed and & second autopsy had been performed this morn- i’:: ‘h!eiz said thge were three reasons new autopsy, would ot disclose. a¢ this pme. > ¢ Chemical Analysis Made. u:zh:h"o reunn’s he would give werc ! ere was only one physician pres- | ent ‘at the first one, whereas it 18 eus tomary to have three present, and a desire’ to have chemical analysis of | parts of the body made. i _He denied specifically that the third Teason was to try to determine whether | fracture of Stark’s adam's apple could have been caused by a heel. Dr. Otto Schultze, who performed the first autopsy, testified the fracture might have been caused by pressure of a thumb. Later Assistant District At- torney Martin W. Littleton, jr., testified that on the day Stark was questioned Deputy Chief Tappen said to him, with- out mentioning any name: “That's the toughest —— I ever saw. I put one foot on his neck and the other on his belly and rocked back and forth and it didn't feaze him.” Tappen denied hav~ ing made such a remark. | When Dr. Schulize performed the | second autopsy today. he was attended by Drs. Willlam Held and Arthur Jaques. 'DEATH OF CHILD, 8, LAID TO PLAYMATE | { “Clown” in Juvenile Circus Is Held for Hitting Boy on Head ' With Rock. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, July 25.—A 9-year-old boy, who p'ayed the clown so earnestly that he killed his playmate, gave Juvenile Court authorities a problem today. Last week & group of boys held & neighborhood circus. The boy who was clown, his face smeared with grease- paint, was making his playmates laugh. It cost a penny to watch. Louis Sedley, 8, stood off to cne side, watching. He' stood aside because he had no penny. ‘The clown spied Luis. “Go home and get a penny,” he shouted. Louis started away, but slowly and covertly watching. % The clown picked up a stone and threw. It hit Louis on the back of the bead. Louis sald nothing for a few days and played as usual, but yesterday he died from blood clot on the brain. Juvenile authorities said they were undecided what to do with the tearful clown they held today. —_— Gideon Women Elect. TORONTO, Ontario, July 25 (#).— Mrs. A. L. Forde, Los Angeles, was re- elected president of the Woman's Auxihary, International Order of Gide- ons, at the close of its annual sessions here. Mrs. F. A. Fulton, Milwaukee, was elected secretary-treasurer, and Mrs. J. M. Averill, Topeka, Kans., second vice president. The auxiliary, along with the Gideons, will hold next year'’s meeting at Rockford, Il BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Army Band this evening at Montrose Park at 7:30 o'clock, Thomas F. Darcy, second leader, conducting. March, “King Karl” Overture, “Raymond” . .Thomas Fox trot, “Little Sweetheart”. ... Hearon Selection from “The Desert Song,” Rombe: Novelty, “Sally Trombone”. Caprice, “Sparklets” , Ballet from “Coppelia”. Selection from “Mlle. Modiste' Fox trot, “Whistle and Blow Your Blues ++...Unrath “The Star Spangled Banner. By the United States Navy Pand this evening at the east front of the Capitol at 7:30 o'clock. Charles Benter, leader; Alexander Morris, assistant leader, March, “National Press Club”. . Filimore Finale from the symphonic Solo for cornet, “Mein Thuringen’ Birley Gardner, soloist. Ballet music, “Dances Polowitsiennes,” Borodin ‘arnival on the Plantation,” Busch Descriptive, “A Hunting Scene» Bucal Excerpts from “The Vagabond !'Iinlz.(',‘&Si Fantasia, C;\'lnlllnl from act 2 of “Barber otb;:! Overture to “Willlam Tell”. ot Rhapsody, “American Indian’ “Anchors Aweigh.” “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Marine Band this evening at the Marine Barracks 8 o'clock'.,‘ T‘lylorw = . as being 2,560 miles from New York in a southeasterly direction. e Troops Leave Mine. DUGGER, Ind., July 25 (#).—With- drawal of the last of the Indiana Na- tional Guardsmen, sent to the Hoosler Mine near here when disorder was threatened last week, was completed to- day Four civilian guards replaced the Gott.c] e solo, “May Blossoms,” E. L Sabbath™ from ue” . . Berlios “Southern Rhapsody” . " Hosmer Marines' hymn, ’l"c Halls of Monte- zum; e Star Srowgled Benner.”