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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 & Weather Bureau Forecast.) Local thundershowers this aftern * Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 ben ’ ( : ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNI NG EDITION No. 32,229, post office, Wa LS FIGTORES INCAVDA ERLE BY PR PARLEY Standard of Labor Content| in Articles Admitted to Customs Is Weighed. SPECIAL RESTRICTIONS LIKELY TO BE EVOLVED American Business Leaders Are Quoted as Advising Cauticn in Eranch Plants. By the Associated Prese. OTTAWA, Ontario, July 27.—The futuré of more than 100 American branch plants in Canada, representing an inyestment of about $500,000,000, was in the balance today as an Imperial Trade Conference Committee took up the question of “empire content.” “Empire content” is the percentage of empire materials or labor which an erticle must contain to qualify for customs entry under empire preferential tariff rates. At present, with certain exceptions in individual instances, the standard of empire content now is 50 per cent in Canada and New Zealand, 75 per cent in Australia and 25 per cent in the Irish Free State, the United Kingdom and South Africa. ‘What the conference may do about a blenket increase in the required per- centoges or in special restrictions on selected articles is of very real con- cern to the American branch factories in Caneda and to American business interests supplying products to bs fin- ished by Dominior. or other concerns within the empire. For Uniform Percentage. There is a notion among the dele- gates that the psrcentage of empire content should be uniform among the dominions and colonies with excepted items where necessary A subcommitte¢ was appointed yes- terday to consider the comparative ad- vantages of: (1.) High Empire content with ex- ceptions downward. (2.) Low Empire content with excep- tions upward. British indi lists want an in-| crease in the British Empire content rate. They argue that it is not high encugh to prevent American manufac- turers sending parts to Canada, assem- bling them in a Canadian branch fac- | tory, and chipping the finished prod- uct to Great Britain under British preferential rates. And if the British rate of 25 per cent were increased to the Canadian rate of 50 per cent, they h.:nv:ngohted out, Canadian labor would in | | American ess leaders were quoted here as advising caution in Ca- factories lest - those g or their Jjeapar- lized by the possibility of an economic conference putting into effect lower American-Canadian tariffs as a result, perhaps, of a generally lower tariff structure among Erapire nations. U. S. Steel May Expand. In conflict with this view, however, was & report in conlerence circles that the United States Steel Co. plant at Ojibway had instructions to expand its capacity in the event Canadian and British steel interests successfully con- clude negotiations looking toward the latter supplying materials not conspic- uously manufactured here now. One observation was that Canada fol- lows American steel patterns rather than British and that a change might entail essential failures. Purthermore, it was said, the United States, or Amer- ican plants in Caneda, have a greater ~ (Continued on Page 3, Column 3) CHIRZ2E FAIL TO FREE KIDNAPED JAPANESE | Bituation in Jehol Province Grows More Tense as Army Represent~ ative Is Held. By the Assoclated Press. TOKIO, July 27.—The Sino-Japanese tension in Jehol Province, Manchuria, which recently appeared to be lessen- | ing, grew tense again today when Chi- | nese military authorities failed to ful- | 1ill thei~ pledge to secure the liberation of Gonshiro Ishimoto, Japaness army representative, who July 19. A dispatch to the Rengo News | Agency from Chinchow said Japanese | military offictals announced they had identified the captors of M. Ishimoto | and they were volunteer allies of Mar- | hal Chang Hsiao-Liang | For this reason serious trouble was | expected unless the captive were treed) s0on. Three Chinese railway workers who | were captured with Ishimoto returned to Chinchow, the dispatch said, and rzported that ‘their captors were moving their base of operations frequently to prevent a rescue of the Japanese official A small Japanese army detachment 15 remaining at a railway station in- side the vehol border east of Peipiao, but the majority of the expedition was | reported to have returned to Chinchow | > await the rescue of Ishimoto by Jehol ! euthorities. | | | Entered as second class matter shington, D. WASHINGTON, GERMANY SOUNDS WARNING OF ARMS REORGANIZATION] Von Schleicher Demands Relcase From Limita- tions of Treaties. HITS DICTATORSHIP Security and Equality Must Be Granted, Powers Are Told. By the Ac-oclated Press. BERLIN, July 27.—The voice of Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, veteran of the brecker of wild 25 ¢nd power behind the thronz of the Von Papen government, in | the open in the Reichstag election cam- paign today with a note of defiance for the world. In a radio address last night he served virtual notice on the world powers that unless Germany is granted equality and released from the limi- taticns of the post-war treaties she 0% GEN. VON SCHLEICHER. will proceed to establish her own se- curity by a reorganization of her armed forces. Security for Germany, he said, could onlflnbe attained by the other powers scaling down their armament to Ger- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) POVERENE DENES 1B 1S POLTICL New Head of Relief Agency Says Partisanship Has No Part in Appointment. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, July 27—The new head of the giant Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation today promised there would be no politics in it so long as he is at the helm. Former Senator Atlee Pomerene of Cleveland, appointed to the board of the $2,800,000,000 corporation by Presi- dent Hoover, said “so far as I am con- cerned, there is no politics in it. Presi- dent Hoover asked me to take the ap- pointment and I accepted yesterday afternoon. “It is a_tremendous task and I am | going to Washington to do my very | best. No man can avoid responsibility today. I feel as if I had been drafted in this cace. Business Must Ald. “Much has been dohe by the Recon- struction Finance Corporation to im- prove business and improvement will continue to be made, but the Govern- ment cannot do it alone. The bankers z;i business men, big and little, must e quiet, deliberate but vigorous Clevelander, who into one of the country’s most mpor t financial jobs, has been honored by a Republican ad- ministration for the second time. Pres- ident Cool appointed him special prosecutor for the Government in the Teapot Dome ofl Jease cases. BURDEN PUT ON DEMOCRATS. Rainey Holds President Cannot Shift His Responsibility. Atlee Pomerene, former Democratic Senator from Ohlo, was appointed chairman of the Reconstruction Pinance Corporation yesterday by President Hoo- ver, who thereby placed responsibility for operation of that relief agency upon the shoulders of his political opponents. The appointment of Pomerene brings to four the Democratic membership on the board of the $3,800,000,000 Finance Corporation. Two of the remaining three seats on the board are filled by Republicans, and under the law Presi- dent Hoover must appoint a Republic- an to fill the one remaining vacancy. The Democrats, however, will have a | majority of members and the chair- manship, which formerly was filled by Eugene Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Rainey Hits Hoover. Commenting today on the appoint- ment, Representative Rainey, Demo- cratic leader of the House, said the President “‘can’t dodge responsibility” for the new relief law by giving the Democrats control of the Finance Cor- PO There tan't “There isn't any question about responsibility for the existing relief law,” Mr. Rainey declared. “The Presi- dent has had his own way about the kind of relief law we should have. If it fails, the responsibility will be his. was kidnaped | He can't dodge it. He vetoed the Garner | relief bill.” Although 'the President's action in giving control of this important relief agency to the Democrats was received generally with surprise, there had been rumors that the chairman of the board was to be a Democrat. It was under- stood consideration had been given to the appointment of other prominent Democrats, including Alfred E. Smith, Owen D. Young and Newton D. Baker. President Issues Statement. At present the only Republican mem- bers of the board are Secretary of the Treasury Mills and Gardner Cowles, sr., Des Moines, Towa, publisher. The Demo- crats are Mr. Pomerene, Harvey Couch of Arkansas, Jesse Jones of Texas and Wilson McCarthy of Utah __In announeing the new appointment (Continusd on Page 2, Column 3.) MYSTERY VOICE CHANTS IN LATIN | AT GRAVES OF JOLIET PRISONERS Skeptical Officials Suspect Hoax, but Songs in Cemetery Remain Unexplained. By the Associated Press. JOLIET, I, July 27.—A graveyard singer is playing to a packed cemetery, but whether he gets anything for his trouble no one kmows. No one has seen him, but his tenor voice, described as high-pitched and clear, is attracting hundreds of persons to the Potters’ Field, in which are buried the convicts who die in the Dlinols State Peniten- & ht or sfter the singer be- gins :’h‘g-:an%um Latin. Crowds of how the curjous have n staying up all nm;} question, to see what it's all about. Some them have hurried to the section of the graveyard from which the volce seems to come, only to hear the chant A majority of the persons who have been listening believe the is the work of some fanatic who is enj a hoax, but the superstitious recall thal murderers executed in the State prison lie buried in the graveyard. There are others who say they believe a phono- grach is being used. ‘The graveyard songster's work was first noted by a fisherman. His story was that a voice asked him if he “had any luck” as he walked through the cemetery at night. He didn’t stop to answer, but hurried away with details voice, after asking him the DEMOCRATIC PLANS ARE TAKING SHAPE Chairman Farley to Report to Gov. Roosevelt With- in Day or Two. G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The Democratic campaign is shaping up rapidly. Today in Albany, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the party nominee for Presi- dent, has as his guest, Gov. Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts, who placed Al- fred E. Smith in nomination at Chicago for the presidential nomination. The meeting is designed to bring harmony and co-operation between the Roosevelt forces and those which backed Smith in the pre-convention campaign. ‘Within a day or two, Gov. Roosevelt will get first hand from Chairman James A. Farley of the Democratic National Committee a report of Mr. Farley’s conferences here yesterday with a num- ber of Democratic membzrs of Congress. ‘The Democrats are centrate their fight for victory largely in the big industrial States of the East and in the Middle West. Furthermore, will make as much use as possible of the prohibition issue in the big States of the East and in New England. Going to Middle West. Mr. Farley, after his conference here, announced that sometime after Presi- publican presidential nomination on August 11 and prior to Gov. Roosevelt’s sgeech at Seagirt, N. J,, on August 27, the New York Governor would go to a Middle West city to deliver a political address. Just where the speech would be made, he said, would be announced later. Speculation placed his speech g;obubly in Ohio or Indiana, but it may mags further West. But it is evident (he Democrats are not going to let ths grass grow under their feet. Senator Pat Harrison of Miseissippi, one of the Democratic big guns in national campaigns, is to speak over the radio Friday night, and a little later Chairman Farley will go on the air and talk politics. Gov. Roosevelt's determination to get underway with his campaigning at an early date already has been manifest. He has behind him his acceptance speech, which might have been delayed until next month Now, with two speeches planned for August, one in the East, in New Jersev, and the other in ihe Middle West, the Demozratic candicate is seiting a brisk pace. Against Coast Trip. Just how much traveling about the country Gov. Roosevelt is to do is a question still to be determined. The Democratic members of Congress who conferred with Mr. Farley yesterday were, in the main, of the opinion that he should not attempt to cover the whole country, with a swing to the Pacific Coast, but that he should make 8 number of speeches at set points and rely largely upon the radio. Gov. Roosevelt himself was pictured as de- siring to do a lot of travelirg if it ba- came necessary, with 2 possible trip to the ccast. Mr. Farley’s own views ap- peared to coincide with those of the congressional advisers, who held that there should ke no Pacifi~ Coast trip. The Democrats se=m to have lost their earlier fear that the anti-prohibition plank adopted by the nationai conven- the South. The vote on the prohibition question in Texas, which shui‘ed a pre- ponderance of the voters wet, was & sanltal;lbutmg‘ x‘n:w&eappnrentiy in the lecision n« 0 attempt to s pedal l.h:tt issue. . ? et & conference With the pre yesterday before returning to New Yok Mr. Farley was asked Low much money the Democrats would need for the cam- paign. His reply was: “We need all the money we can get,” | He added, however, that they were | planning a modest campaign, South for Platform. Senator Cohen of Georgia, a vi chairman of the Democratic Nanoxtac:l Committee, was asked how the South .wm:}d sltaln‘d in regard to the Demo- cratic platform pledge of elghteentn Smeddment_ TPl of the “The South will stand on th: - al platform and for it, and ;'mlm (Continued on Page 2, Column 7, BLAST, HEARD 35 MILES, KILLS TEXAS BROTHERS Two in Auto Approaching Torpedo Company Magazine When Ni- troglycerine Blows Up. By tho Assoclated Press. ELECTRA, Tex., July 27.—) Pat Kent, brothers, 'ly;re kllll:;l“hw:l:; by an explosion which wrecked nitroglycerine magazine of the Uniu: States Torpedo Co. three miles east of Electra. The brothers ‘Were approac! mi in an automobile at the '.l';lhl: of f the explosion, the , the ca ™The Blast shook th o nlm-m‘:: s ast the coun and the report was heard in Wichita Falls, die awsy. are checking any of them mve a flajr that's sung m Latin. 35 miles away. planning to con- | dition. dent Hoover's speech accepting the Re- | Ja; tion in Chicago would be a handicap in | D. C, PLOT OF RADICALS 10 WRECK BANKS UNGOVERED IN RAID 1Sought to Stir Up Revolution by Destroying Big Institu- tions, Letters Reveal. WEDNESDAY, LEADER IN DETROIT AREA BEING SOUGHT Planned to “Strip Petty Bourgeois of Faith” to Bring About Nation-Wide Unrest. By the Associated Press. PONTIAC, Mich, July 27.—State police sent out orders today for the arrest of George Rowland on a charge that he acted as the Detroit agent of a radical group which planned a social revolution by the circulation of rumors attacking & number of large banks in the country. The officers sald that a raid on Rowland's hotel room here yes- terday revealed the ramifications of the | plot. Capt. Ira H. Marmon of the State pclice, who directed an investigation of Rowland's activities here for several days and who led the raid cn his room in the Roosevelt Hotel yesterday, said that letters and telegrams seized in the raid established that Rowland had directed the circulation of rumors against banks in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan and that he had been instrumental in attacks against the First National Bank here. Believed to Have Fled. After Rowland's room was entered and the documents seized Capt. Marmon gave orders for the arrest of the man, but he did not return to the hotel. Marmcn believes he was warned by a confederate and fled. Marmon said that the letters showed that Rowland was one of several regional directors of attacks against banks and that a number of subordi- nates were working under his direction in the Middle West, particularly in Chicago and Cleveland. ‘Telephone conversations from Row- land’s Hotel room, which were tapped by detectives, Marmon said, showed the method of operation of the ring. Agents of the ring, going into a new city, se- cured the names of prominent business men from the city directory, called them by telephone and warned them that the banks in which their money was deposited was in an unsound con- . Some of the calls were made frcm pay stations, the State police captain said, so they could not be traced. The receipt of a number of such calls were reported to the officers by men to whom they were made. The nzmes of firms and individuals having large accounts in the Pirst Na- tional Bank here were found in lists seized in the raid on Rowland’s room. ‘The letters seized, signed with initials only, included some commen Row- nd for his campaign against banks in Chicage, Marmon said, others reported on the progress of work in other cities, and some told of the difficulties in carrying through a program elsewhere. Unmailed Letters Seized. Letters written by Rowland but not yet mailed also were taken. These, Marmon said, esked for vepcrts on the progress of campaigns and suggested means of procedure. Advertisements assuring depositors of the soundness of the Pirst National Bank here recently were placed in a Pontiac newspaper after officials of the institution said they felt that pressure had been brought to bear inst de- positors, One letter, which had been written to Rowland by “Comrade HG" at Cleve- land, read: “Following your Instructions to me, I am writing to give you as clear a pic- ture as possible of our campaign against the benks in this district. “You know it is a slow proposition to get people steamed up for a run. However, your telephone program seems to be working cut fine. There is con- siderable unrest here and we are in- formed by clerks in both the Union Trust and the Cleveland Trust that the depositors are very nervous. We have tried to keep up the good work, Hope for “Lot of Trouble.” “We note here with great satisfac- tion that you are making considerable progress in Pontiac and that you are taking a good crack at the one jug (bank) which is there, the First Nation- al, and it seems to us if you can put that over a good dent will be made in the bank at Detroit end it won't be long before our combined efforts will make a lot of trouble there as well as here, Chicago and élsewhere. “I did not have much trouble in con- vincing the Agitation Propaganda Bu- reau that this was important work and the sooner we strip the petty bourgeois (Continued on Column 8.) THOUSANDS DYING IN CHINESE SCOURGE Alarming Spread of Chclera Dis- closed as U. S. Places Quar- antine on Oriental Ports, 1 | | | By the Associated Press. MANILA, July 27.—Returning from a survey trip, Dr. R. W. Hart, chief of the American Oriental Quarantine Service, today said Teports from inte- ror China indicate thousands are dying daily in wn;:’-nyl every province from & cholera epidemic. Drastic restrictions have been insti- tuted by American examiners in Chi- nese ports to prevent spread of the disease by carriers to the Philippines and other American territories. All passengers entering these territories from the Orient are examined and many are isolated on arrivel at Manila. “At least 20 out of every 100 persons contracting the disease are dying,” Dr. Hart sald. “I saw 20 fuverals in 20 minutes at Amoy, where in four days 396 new cases were recorded while many ‘are_unrecorded. «Because of limited facilities for iso- lation and vaccination in China, no Jetup in the epidemic is expected until cold weather sets in, although there may be & gradual decline in a few ks.” WS E. Hart sald the present epidemic is possibly the worst that has ever oc- Curred in China and extends into Man churia and Indo-China. Radio Progrgms on Page B-7 ny Star. JULY 27, PROSPERITY JusT ARoUND THE WINGS|" =8 1932—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. *%¥* () Means Associated Press. Yesterday’s Circulation, -115,967 TWO CENTS. LISTEN, 0L GIRL, DoNT You COME ON LITEL By the Associated Press. Kansas widow, who bared a brawny arm to prove she isa real “dirt farmer,” told the Shannon House Committee to- day the only thing that would help the farmers of her State “is to kick the devil out of the Farm Board.” The witness, Mrs. Ida Watkins of Sublette, early in her testimony, sought to impress members of the committee investigating Government competition with private business they were listen- ing to the words of the actual‘operator of a 4,500-acre wheat farm. She rolled up a sleeve of her black KANSAS CITY, July 27.—A militant | arm, KANSAS WHEAT QUEEN FLAYS | “DOGGONE U.S. INTERFERENCE™ Only Aid to Farmer Is “to Kick Devil Out at Hearing. dress, disclosing a bronzed, muscular “Gentlemen, if you don't think I'm a wheat shoveler, look at this arm, or ask any man in my county,” she challenged. Having thus qualified herself as a witness, Mrs. Watkins, sometimes called the Kansas “wheat queen,” launched a vigorous attack on the agricultural mar- keting act and the Farm Board. Asked by M. W. Borders, sr., attorney who is conduc the examinations of many witnesses, where she drew the line in co-operative marketing, she replied: “At the doggone, damnable Govern- ment interference in our affairs and our business, I want the members of this committee to understand that the Farm (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) SWEEPING VICTORY IS GIVEN ROGERS Oklahoma Contest for New Congressman at Large Post Draws Heavy Vote. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, July 27—Wil Rogers, the schoolmaster, swept into the Democratic nomination for Congress- man at large by an avalanche of votes today had the laugh on the folk who asserted he made the race as a coun- terfeit of the well known comedian of the same name. Will Rogers, the actor-writer, who left his native Oklahoma to first win fame on the New York stage with his homespun wit, has completely indorsed the congressional aspirant. While tabulators still checked the amazing majority compiled in yester- day’s run-off primary by the country teacher, he took his victory over Mrs. Mabel Bassett, State's charities com- missioner, with complete u'l;mnzss, He said he was “much obliged” to Okla- homa for the nomination. Post a New One. The Congressman at large post is 2 new one, created by Oklahoma's in- crease in population at the 1930 census. The Democratic nomination is gener- ally considered equivalent to_election. And the claim that Will Rogers, the candidate, achieved the nomination that probably will send him to Washington from an electorate unaware of his true identity may well be disputed in view of developments since the first primary. One of the 24 candidates he de- feated in the first primary—former Rep- resentative E. B. Howard—went into the Supreme Court with the claim the candidate actually was William C. Rogers, a Republican, but the court wouldn't take jurisdiction. The action was given wide publicity. Not Regular Republican. “I never voted a National Republican ticket in my life,” said Rogers, who also has contended he was christened “Will.” “The only time I registered as a Repub- lican was in Washington County, and that was 8 years ago and purely for county political reasons.” Elmer Thomas, the State's senior United States Senator, known for his leadership of the oil tariff and soldiers’ bonus legislative fights, won Democratic MELLON IN CAPITAL FOR SERIES OF TALKS Confers With Mills and Stimson on His Return for Va- cation Here. By the Associated Press. Andrew ' W. Mellon, Ambassader {o Great Britain, returned to Washington today on a vacation from his foreign post and immediately began conferences with his former cabinet associates. First he went to the Treasury Depart- i 1 with | at least two months before other t| CAMDEN, bell's Soup STOCKS REACH NEW Advance Resumed After Slight Setback Yesterday. Jobs on Increase. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 27.—The stock market surged up to the best levels of the Summer recovery today, resuming the advance which had proceeded for five consecutive sessions until yester- day's slight setback.- Bullishness was stimulated by a brisk upturn in the wheat market, and a weekly electric power production report showing a little improvement over the previous week. Brokers reported a | marked increase in public interest in the market, and a number of the long deserted Commission House Board | rooms were again well filled. | . United States Steel preferred, which | had dropped $4 in the morning, recov- ered, and several issues pushed up around $2 to $5 a share, including American Telephone, American Tobacco B, Consolidated Gas, Public Service of New Jersey, Case, Auburn, United Cor- poration preferred, Commonwealth & Southern preferred, Radio preferred B and Union Pacific. Olils recovered after a morning setback.. Advances of $1 or so were numerous throughout the list. Trading was active toward the close. ECONOMIC GAINS SHOWN. HARTFORD, Cenn., July 27 (#).—Im- provements in seven important eco- nomic fields were noted today by the Connecticut Chamber of Commerce in ite June survey of the State's 16 largest cities. Increases were shown in postal re- ceipts, bank debits, electricity consump- tion, bales of cotton consumed, number and value of automobiles sold and life insurance sales. The number and gross liabilities of bankruptcies decreased. Mill Forces Increased. BOUND BROOK, N. J., July 27 (#).— The Middlebrook Woolen Mills increased its force from 20 persons to 175 this week and expects to hire about 50 more to keep pace with orders for goods. The 20 had been working irregularly. The increesed force will work full time. Virginia Plants Resume. WINCHESTER, Va., July 27— | Several of the textile plants here and nearby, which had been on curtailed g.h‘e’gull;s for 1sm:ne months, are ally resum lar operatin fime. with the Tecelpt of mew orders for woolen cloth. The plant of the Virginia Woolen Co., one of the largest cassimer mills in the South, is working from five to six days a week, instead of four, as heretofore, and is understood to have orders sufficient to continue at this pace for some time. The Winchester Woolen Co., Inc., in addition to mak- ing cloth, is turning out samples for the Spring of 1933. The Brucetown Woolen Mills, Inc., operating at Clear- brook, north of here, is making a gen- eral line of woolen fabrics, in addition to large quantities of institutional cloth, in which it had specialized ex- clusively many years. lants of the Dunn Woolen Co., Martinsburg and Bunker Hill, W. Va., are operating day and night shifts on orders for motor cars, which are ex- pected to keep the machinery moving orders are started. 200 to Be Placed Soon. N. J., July 27 (#).—Camp- Co. will recall a number of «conum-? on Page 2, Column 4.) HIGHS FOR SUMMER GRAIN PAT APPEAL SLATED NEXT WEEK Chicago Board Will Ask U. S. Circuit Court to Set Aside Closure Order. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 27.—The Chicago Board of Trade stood committed today to a last-ditch legal battle against Fed- eral closure. Its directors voted to appeal to the United States Circuit Court the 60-day order to close issued last Saturday by three cabinet members in Washington. Attorneys said they would act next week and appeal to the United States Supreme Court if defeated here. President Peter B. Carey of the Board of Trade said the question of solvency had caused his organization to refuse membership privileges in its clearing house association to the Farmers’ Na- tional Grain Corporation. The refusal resulted in the closing order which was made at the request of the corpora- co-operative and to consider before granting clearing house privileges.” The cabinet Grain Putures Commis- ;l:en Ioun,d the P;rmzn'tg:u:nmil had n “unjustly” denied vileges. The board continues to operate under a 15-day period of grace until August 8, but its officials say it will stay open until the legal battle is decided. DECISION PERMITS U. S. PAY INCREASES McCarl Rules Reallocation of Em- ployes to Higher Grade Not In- cluded in Promotion Ban. Increases in pay for Government workers were made possible, despite the sharp restrictions of the economy act, due to a decision given today by Con- troller General McCarl to the Secretary of War, The opportunity for such raises ap- pears to lie in the action of the Per- sonnel Classification Board at present, and after October 1 with the Civil Service Commission, in the reallocation of an employe to a higher grade. In his decision, McCarl drew a sharp distinction between the fleld service of the Government and employes in the departmental service, the latter group constituting most of the workers in Washington. While such increases in pay on a re- allocation were prohibited by McCarl in the fleld service, because it is considered “an administrative promotion,” the - sibility of increased pay is open to those in departmental service here because, the controller holds, in this service such a change in grade “does not constitute an administrative promotion.” The question arose on a specific case in the War Department. The Secre- tary of War said the case had been pre- sented last “April to the Personnel Classification Board in the form of an appeal of an employe for reallocation of | his position 10 a higher grade. The board approved the appeal on July 11, thus taking action in this present fiscal year under the jurisdiction of the econ- omy act. DISTRICT HEADS DENY AUTHORITY INBONUS EVICTION Glassford Refuses to Use Police “lliegally” to Re- move Veterans. | ISSUE AGAIN IS PUT UP TO TREASURY Contractor Dismisses Force of Men Who Were to Have Begun Razing Work. The District Commissioners decided this afternoon they had “no legal au- thority” to evict some 2,000 bonus marchers from their billets on lower Pennsylvania avenue. This left the long-deferred task of evacuating the veterans up to the Treasury Depart- ment, Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, su- perintendent of police, said after a five- hour conference with the Commission- ers that “there will be no illegal use of the Metropolitan Police Department,” adding that any action to be taken against the veterans now is “up to the After the conference, it was an- nounced the Treasury Department would have to go through “due legal process” to evacuate the veterans, who had been ‘“ordered” to leave the premises on Pennsylvania avenue, be- tween Third street and John Marshall place on three previous occasions, Glassford Wants Orders. The Treasury Department late yes- terday requested the Commissioners to remove the veterans so contracters could begin demolishing buildings pre- paratory to carrying forward the Fed. eral building program. Gen. Glassford was ready to clear the area, but can- celled his plans when the Commission- ers failed to transmit orders to carry police,” Gen. Glass the conference at the District Build- ing. “I have no legal authority to evic the veterans.” Asked when the veterans would be removed, Glassford replied: “I just don’t know.” Must Get Orders. Legal counsel are understood to have advised the Commissioners the only lawful way in which the bonus seekers could be removed from the Federal wmbh through a court order, car- before 8 a.m. Glassford had dismissed some 25 cemen detalled at the bonus ¢amp to aid in clearing the veterans Commissioners in the long drawn out fight. Crane Arrives on Scene. Meanwhile, Walter W. Waters, com- mander of the Bonus lonary Forces, reclindl _comfortably in . sn abandoned bullding near Four-and-a- half street and Pennsylvania avenue. ‘Waters continually told his men ear- lier in the morning not to get excited about anything that might happen, but to_stay in their billets. ‘When a crane, equipped with a two- ton metal swing, used in knocking over the walls of buildings, arrived at the :ue?e this meNn‘b, it ’l;;: ly surroun y 8 group of muttering veterans. The tor of the crane. however, ass the vet- erans he would not go to work until all persons were out of the buildings. Comdr. Waters came up and asked the men to get away from the crane and return to their billets. They com- plied with the request. Throughout the morning the veter- ans sluiced the streets with water from a fire hose to relieve the intense heat. Radical Is Arrested. One of the members of the radical group of bonus marchers encamped in another part of the city was arrested when he came to the Pennsylvania avenue billet this morning and tried to make a speech. He was seized by the bonus army military police and hauled away in a patrol wagon. A total of 5¢ policemen had been held in reserve this morning for the expected evacuation. They were dis- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) AARON FOX SURRENDERS Former Official of Movie Firm Held in Child Abandonment. NEW YORK, July 27 (®)—Aaron Fox, brother of Willlam Fox, former head of the Fox Film Co., surrendered at the district attorney's office today under an indictment found last March charging him with abandonment of his two destitute children. Aaron Fox, who has been a patient in a Hartford, Conn. sanitarium since last October, was formerly treasurer and vice president of the Fox Film Co. He gave his address as a New York ho- tel, where his wife, Mrs. Alice Fox, lives with their children, William, 5 years old, and Ann, 3. s Manitoba Wheat Yield Slightly Off. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, July 27 (#).— Grain experts who have just returned from a crop inspection tour of Western Canada said today conditions as of July 20, indicated a prairle wheat crop of 430,000,000 bushels, slightly below the 10-year average of 450,000,000 bushels. THREE CULTURES Thousands of Years By the Associated Press. inary examination of a “cave of bones,” discovered near here last week by four boys, discloses evidence of three cul- tures of antiquity, and that the mam- moth mastodon Were contemporary with man. Prof. William S. Webb, head of the Department of Archeology of the Uni- versity of Kentucky, announcing the bones were found imbedded in onyx below more than 100 feet of lime- stone, said “formation of a deposit of onyx like that takes tens of thousands of yeers.” - b Prof. Webb will lead a party which | CAVE CITY, Ky., July 27.—Prelim- OF ANTIQUITY TRACED BY KENTUCKY BONES Mammoth Mastodon and Man Contemporaries Tens of Ago, Signs Disclose. will extensively explore the cave after he returns from Hickman, Ky. where | he has gone to supervise excavations in | an Indian burial ground. Skulls of human beings were found in the same strata with animal bones five feet long and eight inches in diam- eter. Prof. Webb said he expected to find bones of the sabre-toothed tiger, the Arctic fox and the polar bear. The cave of bones, described as “a find of vast importance to the scientific world,” is in the Kentucky region which famed Mammoth Ca