Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1932, Page 2

HILER FORECASTS DEATHOFREPURLI Nazi Leader Says 13 Years of “Decadence” Are Near- ing Their End. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, July 28—Democracy In Germany was given only a few more days of life today by Adolf Hitler, flery notional Soclalist leader. Winding up a dashing airplane cam- paign for next Sunday's elections with 2 speech at Berlin Stadium last night, Hit'ar brought thunderous cheers from 100000 of his followers when he said: “July 31 must remove the ru'e of dcmocracy and of Marxism and its vassals from Germany @nd restore a regime of discipline, national conscience, honor and power. Sees End of Republic. “We aim,” he continued, “to sweep the 30 political parties out of the eoun- try. We Germans must be a united ple. We are on the eve of great istorical decisions. The 13 years of decadence (the life of the republic) are nearing an end. “We don't believe in the possibilities for .international aid, :mt ‘l;nlv in aid founded on our own strength.” The Tuesday night radio speech.of Gsn. Kurt von Schleicher continued to | kick up a furore throughout the coun- | tr; The Bavarian Couricr, powerfu’ | organ of the Southern Volkspartel. said the general’s reference to strengthen- ing Germany's military wer was hardly reconcilable with Chancellor von Papen’s efforts for conciliation with France. 3 von Schleicher's indorsement of Adolf Hitler's theory that the Reichs- wehr (army) alone is responsible for Germany's defense also brought down & crash -of criticism. “Take Away That Bauble.” The Munich Post, Socialist newspa- per, observed that the day might soon come when Von Scheleicher would be | “woerully disillusioned.” | Hitler's campaign posters today set him up as “Germany’s Oliver Crom- Well” and referr.1 to Cromwell's words, uttered as he closed the British Parlia- ment and establi-hed his dictatorship Tearly 300 years ago, “Take away that | bl%z‘ce National Socialist Premier Roe- ver of Oldenburg. where a Nazi state government is in control, went one bet- | ter than Hitler, who has said that “heads shall roll” when the Nazis come | o power in the nation. s speech at Kassel, referring to the opponents of the Nazis, Roever said: | “1 guarantee that these schwein-/ hunde will be hanged and we'll leave their bodies swinging until the crowd have finished with them.” Nazis Score Victory. The Nazis scored a considerable vic- tory yesterday when they succesded in 1 having the Prussian state ministry, now under the dictatorial control of Chan- cellor von Papen, repsal the long- standing order which barred flmmu Bocialists from holding civil offices. The success followed a couple of pot shots which the Nazis and Nationalists fired at the Von Papen government, In- dicating the government was having a difficult time with its strongest right wing support on the eve of the elections. Hzns Kerrl, Hitler leacer and presi- dent of tae Prussian Diet, demanded that the chancellor's decree of June 8 | taxing civil servants 2% to 5 per cent of their salaries bz rescinded. Dr. Alfred Hugenburg, Nationalist | leader. called for the repeal of the| emergency decree of June 14 taxing| every German with a job. In political circles these demands were upon as an attempt by the Hitlerites and the Nationalists to square themselves with thelr own fol- lowers, many of whom have asked for an explanation why they have supported | the Von Papen government in financial | m:asures rated just as drastic as any mposed by former Chancellor Bruening. Von Papen Reply Guarded. Chancellor. von Papan’s reply to the demands was guard=d. He pointed out that far-reaching financial reorganiza- tion would take place after the elec- 'Agns and he slig the administrative apparatus would be simplified. i Trree deaths and a number of in- uries were recorded in political clashes | jast night. Police shot and killed one men in & group of unemployed at Ruhla after & battle in which three police- men were stabbed. One Nazl was stabbed to death and | another mortally wounded in a political | argument at Oberwiehl, near Cologne. Three persons were seriously wounded in a gun battle between Nazis and Iron Fronters (war veterans) at Boinsdorf, npear Brunswick. HERRIOT PROTESTS SPEECH. French Premier Objects to Von Schlei- cher Threat to Enlarge Army. PARIS, July 28 (#)—Premier Herriot filed a protest today with the German | Ambassador zgainst the recent radio ad- dress in which Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, | German minister of the interior, | threatened to strengthen Germany's| military power unless other nations scaled down their arms. The premier called it tactless and in- | opporture, particularly since Germany | signed the agreements at Lausanne and |{ adhered to the Anglo-French consuita- tive pact. Later M. Herriot told the press his ccnversation yesterday with United | States Ambessador Edge convinced him | the American people appreciate the im- | ortance of the results achieved at usanne. ONE FATALITY MARKS CAPITAL HEAT WAVE Two Prostrations Recorded as Mer-| cury Soars After Shower—Relief Due Early Saturday. One fatality and two prostrations | was the toll of yesterday's heat, which drove the mercury to a maximum of 90 degrees shortly after 2 pm. A heavy thundershower in the late afternoon | sent the temperature down, but the | humidity rose at the same time. The dead man is Steve Carrol. 43, of | 729 North Capitol street, who was | stricken while engaged on a construc- | tion job at Twenty-fourth street and | Benning road northeast. He was taken to Casualty Hospital, where he died | several hours later. He was a roomer at the North Capitol street address, and police are seeking relatives. ‘William Crown, 30, of 2812 Connecti- cut avenue, was overcome while at a car barn at 3222 M street. He was treated by an Emergency Hospital phy- siclan, and later returned home. Kennedy Mitchell, colored, 29, of 919 W street, was found unconscious in maximum temperature probebly would Tegister as high as yesterday's. but because of much lower humidity, it would not be so uncomfortable, A cool air area, moving in from the northwest, is due late tomorrow or early Saturday. - “Cheese” Protects Stowaways. P:n officer of ‘the steamship Carnia who thought *eheese” were unusually bu?y ordered the cases opened and found' two aways in each. - - NG STAR, WASHINGTON, APT. WOLFGANG VON GRO! right is Von Roth. his pilot. Albrecht, radio operator. They started Pacific Ncrthwest. IVON GRONAU DENIES GLOBE TRIP 1S PLAN German Flyer Will Leave Montreal for Chicago on Saturday. By the Associated Press. MONTREAL, July 28.~Capt. Walf- gang von Grenay, flying from Germany to the Pacific Northwest in stages, an- nounced last night he did not plan & trip around the world. 8hown a dispatch from New York to the effect that a British oil company had said he planned such a flight, the German said nothing of the sort was the case and that he knew ncthing ;1)( refuel; d laced for him on the Rl apireast e - Reaches Montreal. Capt. von Gronau and three com- panions arrived here in a flying boat Tuesday night after a four-and-one- half-day dight from List, Germany. On his arrival he announced he was mapping an afrmail rcute from Europe by way of Iceland and Greenland to the Pacific Northwest. Tke captain said he would go to De- troit, Chicago, Milwaukee and Winni- peg after he took off from here today. The fartherest Northwest refueling dé- pot_establiched for him is at Prince Ruppert, B. C., on the Pacific midway between Washington and Alaska. To Ottawa Tomerrow. to morrow to discuss Northwestern fly- ing conditions with aviation officials, and they will return here tomorrow night 10 prepare for Saturday’s trip to Chicago Capt. von Gronau said he apd his companions wanted to spend a few days in_Northern Manitoba some- where in the wilds After reaching the Pacific Coast, the captain indicated that he might go down to Hollywood to see how the movies are made and to look over the Olympic Games, but he would not be certain. He declined to name any cities | through which he might pass BOMB GYMNASIUM Building Occupied by Vincent Mar- tino in Atlantie City Wrecked. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, July 28— | Two explcsions and a fire early today wrecked an Atlantic avenue building oc- cupled by the office and gymnasium of Vincent Martino, once a Georgetown University star athlete. The blasts, believed by police to have been caused by bombs, threw the neigh- borhood into a near panic and police reserves were called out to control the crowd that gathered. Explosion Mystery. Martino, promoter and ward politic- ian, was in bed at his home a few blocks away at the time. He was awakened, with hundreds of others, by the ex- plosicns and hurried to the building. He said he could offer no explanaticn. The building, which also houses the office of Edward Nappen, a magistrate, and the Paddock Club, a social organi- zation, was empty at the time of the blasts, so far as police could learn. After the fire had been extinguished a search of the ruins was started. The first explosion was in the rear of the building. It lifted the roof off the gymnasium and the brick wall buckled. Two automobiles, parked in an open lot slongside the wall, were buried in the debris. Man Knocked Unconscious. The second explosion a few minutes later blew out the front of the build- ing and Elzces of doors and windows and sections of the brick wall were hurled across Atlantic avenue. Harry Van Dexter, 57, of Margate City, was driving a truck along the street when the second explosion oc- curred. He said that after noticing the blast he remembered nothing until he awoke in his truck alongside the curb. He was taken to the Atlantic City Hospital suffering from shock. THOUSANDS SPURN OLD JOBS IN MILLS 23 Hosiery Plants at High Point, N. C., Offer Places to 6,000 Strik- ers, but Less Than 100 Back. By the Associated Press. HIGH POINT, N. C, July 28— Twenty-three hosiery mills opened their doors today to 6,000 striking workers here, but less than 100 took advantage of the opportunity to return to' work. opened under police protection and ! higher wage than offered stznding at the nose of his huge flying boat, Gronland Wal, just after he brought it down on the St. Lawrence River cff Montreal, Canada, after a 900-mile flight from Cartwright, Labrador. ‘The German flyers will go to Ottawa | OF EX-G. U. ATHLETE| There was no disorder as the mills the situation remained quiet, the owners asserting the strikers could return under the manufacturers’ offers and that two crates labeled the jidle workers hol out for & e oo o e T e - ferences between ves and mill offictals. < NAU, intrepid German airman, To Von Gronau's and on the left of the picture is Fritz from Germany and ale en Toute to the —A. P. Photo. WATSON AROUSES DEBTS CUT TALK WITH ARMS STAND (Continued From Pirst Page.) to trade debt reduction or cancellation | for_cisarmament. He said: “It is not up to us * * * to call & conference for the purpose of cancel- ing the debts the other nations owe us. *"¢ .1t is their first move on the checkerboard, and that move should be one of actual disarmament.” The view that debts revision might be to- the interest of this country was expressed today by Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, in discussing the meonl of Senator Borah, Repub- 1 lican,” of Idaho, for a Wworld conference | to consider debts and other post-war | problems. Talking informally with newspaper | men, the former Secretary of the | Treasury said he had stated “explicitly” |in the Senate a few weeks ago that he “dissented from the view that there was to be no readjustment of foreign indebtedness.” “I pointed out,” Glass said, “that | aside from sentimental aspects of the | question it might come to our own es- | sential interests to readjust the in- | debtedness. “I made a speech three or four years ago that was widely printed in’ this | country and in Europe, when we were | considering the settlement with Great Britain, in which I protested that we | were playing a shylock game. | "~ “Those people paid in blood and we | paid in money. They lost 16.000,000 | men in dead and wounded and we lost 200,000. They were fighting the same battle for years before we got in | ““Those peaple fought for the preser- | vation of civilization three years before | we went in. It was just as much a | war for the preservation of civilization | before we went in as after we got in.” Mellon Sees Hoover. Watson's pronouncement was issued a while after Ambassador Mellon talked with President Hoover, and Secretary | of Btate Stimson with Senator Borah who suggested that a trade of del cancellation for disarmament be con- | sidered at a world conference. Watson said he had not discussed the Borah plan with Mr, Hoover. But it was believed the Senator’s announce- | ment would prevent very speedy prog- | ress toward a world meeting uniess Eu- rope first does something about arms. | And no official #s yet has finally and | | definit=ly opposed a World Economic Conference to talk about debts—pro- vided arms are reduced. Only yesterday, Ambassador Edge in Paris informed Premler Herriot that the basis for co-operation hetween the | countries lies in disarmament. Administration interest in the inter- | national situation and Borah's pro- | posal for a world economic parley, was manifested further by the conference between Secretary Stimson and the Idaho Senator. Stimson called the meeting and Borah's proposition was discussed. While there was evidence that he had received encouragement, Borah declined to comment on the talk and so did Stimson. Meanwhile, Ambassador Mellon reached | the White Hovse from his London post. | | His visit coming at the time of the disrussion over debis and reparations | added significance to tke talk. He em- phasized that an international confer- | ence would be almost impossible before Autumn because of the British Im- perial Conference now in progress at Ottawa. He declined to comment on the proposal otherwise. The former Treasury head delivered | & first-hand report to the President and f‘:s:eury Stimson on the European | | tion, including the recent Lausanne | conference which reached an agrec- ment for the virtual elimination of | reparations. The statement of Senator Watson on the debt situation fcllows: “I stated on the floor of the Senate | that I thought it would be entirely | proper to call an international cm(erJ | ence to discuss the further use of silver \m the world. but I do not believe it is up to us in the first instance to call | such a conference for the purpose of | canceling the debts the other nations | owe us. | _“In my judgment. it is their first move on the checkerboard and that | rnovi lh:ld be one of actual disarma- ‘mn, not mere expressions of inten- tions to dismantle shi Z | mobilize armies D s | further e; tary or not to indulge in xpenditures for enhrn:'rennh ‘amlleq:mfm' but one in which they | ul agree rOogr " unthinkable that we should permit them to keep the money they | owe us to enable them to build up a| | larger military establishment on the | | continent and s far as we can see that | | s their plan and purpose. i SHOT KILLS LIEUTENANT | | Robert D. McKnight Apparent Suicide in Manila F MANILA, July 28 (#).—An suicide victim, Lieut. lobm‘lgwlzzlf in 1895, was found dead of a pistol wound today in o y his quarters at Fort He was single and was the nerhev t¥e Canal Zonse, “ubaut it -— PUBLIC LEARNS TO SHOOT Sao Paulo Society People Taking Target Lessons, Engineer Says. i BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, July 28 (®).—Mark Lamb, a New York engineer, arrived today from Brazl with news that society people in Sao Paulo, where & Tebellion s reging against the Federal government, are taking shooting lessons. The rebels, Mr. Lamb said, have issued inued Sursency to the equivalent of A Knight, Who was born in San Prancisco | tpe D. THURSDAY, PEPC) LOSE ST OVER RATEMAKING Justice Luhring Upholds Power of Utilities Commis- sion to Order New Soale. (Continued From Pirst Page.) tained in the court's decision, the amount wculd have been $945,071. Similar calculations for the 12 months ended June 30, 1932, show the amount available for reduction in rates under the commission's order is $1.- 082,396, under the old consent decree, $505.061, and under the modification ordered by the court, $837,701. Difference Is Explained. The explanation of the difference be- tween the sliding scale ordered by the commission .and the modification or- dered by the court, according to the commission’s statement, is as follows: “A modification of the sliding scale fixed by the commission was made in accordance with that recommended in the commission’s brief, so as to result in the application of ope-halt the ex- cess above 7 per cent of the rate base when the return was between 7 and 8 per cent, and additional amount of three-quarters of 1 per cent of the ex- cess above 8 per cent when the return was between 8 and 9 per cent, and a | further additional amount of five- sixths of the excess above 9 per cent when the return is above 9 per cent. “This should be compared to the com mission’s sliding scale in order No. 919 of one-half of the total excess above 7 per cent when the return was between 7 and 8 per cent, three-quarters of the total excess above 7 per cent when the return was between 8 and 9 per cent and five-sixths of the total excess when the return is over 9 per cent.” Order to Be Entered. An order will be entered in accord- ance with these findings, the court said. The memorandum opinion reads: “This is an appeal by the plaintiff from order 919 of the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia entered on the 8th day of June, 1931. This order 919 modifies a sliding scale arrangement promuilgated by decree of this court on the 31st day of Decem- ber, 1024, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 18 of section 8 of the act creating a Public Utilities Commission. “The latter was then before this court on appeals from two orders of the commission, one fixing a valuation of the plaintifi’s property, the other establishing rates. Pending these ap- peals, the commission and the plain- 1iff agreed on a current valuation of the latter’s property in the amount of $32,- 500,000, including property in Mary land and on a sliding scale rate ad- justment under which one-half the ex- cess earnings on the agreed rate base above 7', per cent thereof were to be considered as equal to the amount available for reduction in rates each succeeding year. It was agreed that the rate base should be increased by the net cost of property added, that no depre- ciation should be deducted therefrom, that annual charges for depreciation | should be accrued at such a rate as to eventually approximate 20 per cent of the current rate tase. There was a pro- vision under which rates were to be ad- justed upward if the return fell below 715, per cent for five consecutive years, 7.per cent for three years, or 6!z per cent for 12 months. Right to Issue Questioned. “The decree of December 31, 1924, embodied this agreement, and it is now insisted by the plaintiff that the com- mission was without jurisdiction to issue order 919 and thus after the agree- ment, as the agreement was a con- tractual arrangement made before a court of competent jurisdiction for the purpose of terminating suits then in | progress, and, further, that the court alone can modify or revoke the sliding | scale in this consent decree, and that the commission should have applied to the court originally and sought the de- sired modification.” Here Justice Luhring refers to the action of Chief Justice Wheat. and sets forth his own accord with the opinion of the chief justice. Continuing, the memorandum reads: “This court is not required nor is it permitted to usurp the functions of the commission. As was said by the Supreme Court in Kellar vs. Potomac Electric Power Co., Congress contended that the court shall revise the legis- Iative discretion of the commission by considering the evidence and full rec- ord of the case and entering the order it deems the commission ought to have made. Jurisdiction Is Upheld. “I therefore find that the Public Utilities Commission had jurisdiction to issue order 919 and to alter or amend the existing sliding scale arrangement. | “The plaintiff further contends that the sliding scale in order 919 is un- reasonable and confiscatory. It will serve no useful purpose here to review the evidence on which this order is based. The plaintiff appeared and was accorded a fair hearing before the com- mission. I have carefully considered the evidence and full record of the case before the commission and am of the opinion that the yield under the sliding scale prop:sed in order 919 is reason- able and not confiscatory. However, it was shown that the percentages used in the said order were so devised as to re- sult at certain particular intervals in a greater reductjon re'atively when a larger sum wzs earned than if a smaller percentage of profit had been derived. During the course of the argument counsel for the ccmmission stated that such an overlapping method involved a forecast of future conditions and on brief there was recited on behalf of the commission an adjustment of the sliding scale In order No. 919, known as the step-up method, under which no over- lapping condition occurred. “It lies within the power of this court, after full review of the evidence on appeal, to enter an order modifying or appending that of the commission. In view of the great desirability of re- taining in effect the sliding scale method and of avoiding further delay in accomplishing the reductions of rates thereunder, I am of the opinion and s0 find that the commission’s order zlshltlmld be amended s0 as to read as ollows: Adjustment Is Provided. “‘4.If the rates hereafter yield more | than 7 per cent in any 12-month period on the rate base for that period, de- termined as aforesaid, the excess over and above the said 7 per cent shall be used in a reduction of rates to be charged the public for electric service hereafter as follows: If the amount earned is above 7 per cent and less than 8 per cent of the rate base, rates for the following 12 months based upon in which said execess occurred shall be adjusted so that the gross receipts of the company shall be reduced by one- half of such excess; if the amount of the return is in excess of 8 per cent and less than 9 per cent an additional amount of three-fourths of the said excess above 8 per cent shall be used for the reduction of rates. If the amount earned 4s in excess of 9 per cent, a further additional amount of five-sixths of the excess above 9 per cent shall be used in like manner for the reduction of rates. “I find that the rate of return which would be yielded by such a modification of order 919 would be somewhat in ex- cess of the yield under that order, would avoid confusion due to the over- lapping method and would constitute a fair and reasonable return upon the e ny. value of the property of the ‘A"nmmder will be entered in umm | mer British premier The Latest Thing in Japanese Evenin JAPAN'S OLYMPIC TEAM PREFERS CUSTOMARY DRESS. and Hatsuko Matsuzawa. U...TO JOIN NAVAL PARLEY N LONDON Reconciling of Hoover and British Proposals on Reduc tions Object of Powers. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, July 28.—Important naval negotiations prescribed by the Geneva disarmament resolution will begin al- most immediately in London. The date fixed is August 4. Hugh 8. Gibson, Ambassador to Bel- glum and chief of the American dele- gation to the arms parley, and Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn will repre- sent the United States. Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy also will par- ticipate. The primary purpose of the London meeting is to find a way to conciliate the Hoover and Baldwin naval reduc- tion proposals in a manner acceptable not only to Great Britain and the United States, but also to Japan, France and Italy. In a sense, therefore, it may be said that the fate of the entire naval aspect of the Disarmament Con- ference depends on these London talks. Difficulties Are Cited. What difficulties are to be confronted can be gauged from the following com- parison: President Hoover proposed to scrap immediately one-third of the existing hips. Stanley Baldwin, for- Ty i ylnd now lord president of the council, proposes merely smaller capital ships, begin- ning with 1941, of either 22,000 tons, with 11-inch guns if cruisers are cut to 7,000 tons. with 6-inch guns, or of 25000 tons, with 12-inch guns it cruisers remain at 10,000 tons, with -inch S. & President Hoover proposed to scrap one-fourth of the presentl;u?ned treaty rs. Baldwin proposes tons, with 6-inch guns. President Hoover proposed to reduce destroyer tonnage by one-fourth. Bald- win proposes to reduce it slightly more, but only on_the unlikely condition that submarines be abolis! Differ on Plane Carriers. President Hoover proposed to scrap one-fourth of the airplane carrier ton- nage. Baldwin does not mention this category. oSiient Hoover proposed to scrap one-third of the, existing tonnage of submarines with no country to have more than 35000 tons or any unit more than 600 tons. Baldwin pro- poses to abolish submarines, or if kept, that there be no unit of more than 250 tons. Studies made of the two plans indi- cate that no serious reductions under the British proposals are possible until after 1941. By 1936, under the British plan, 67,700 tons of ships would have been scrapped provided submarines are abolished, whereas under the Hoover plan, nearly 140,000 would have been scrapped unconditionally. Compromise Plan Suggested. One suggested Anglo-American com- promise, at least in the battleship and cruiser categories, is that within an equal global tennage, should be allowed to build either larger or smaller units, as it desires, pro- vided, however, the gun caliber is the same for larger as for smaller craft. The United States, lacking naval bases, could thus build big ships for larger cruising radius, while Great Britain could build smaller ships in 'order to have more units, yet each | would have the same total tonnage and business done during the 12 months | to the same gun power. (Copyri GAMBLER ROUND-UP CONTINUED BY POLICE More Information on Background of Henry Slaying Object of Quizzing by Officers. Headquarters detectives expected to- day to continue their round-up of gamblers for questioning in connection with the recent gangland slaying of Milton W. (Milsie) Henry, former em- ploye of a notorious Bladensburg road gaming establishment. The object of the round-up, according Inspector Frank 8. W. Burke, chief of detectives, is to give police an in- sight into the d of the murder, which occurred last April 21 Thys far nine men have been taken into custody in the round-up and ques- tioned regarding Henry's connection with gambling activities here. Among them was James A. La Fontaine. 62, described by police as the proprietor of the Bladensburg road resort. LaFontaine and five other men were picked up Tuesday, but were released a short time later. Three others were taken to headquarters for questioning yesterday. but also were freed. leged Philadelphia gangsters, are held Charles Harris and Henry Davis, al- in the District Jail charged with the slaying. Police are attempting to ob- tain evidence the pair was hired by & :pool" of local blers to put Henry von the mpot” becsuse he had engl- jeered a es hold yj gaming each country | JULY 28, 1932, LY gWear\ OR evening, girls on Japan's Olympic team dress in their best kimonas. Here several are shown displaying the latest thing in Japan for evening wear. Lcft to right: Hatsuko Morioka, Yukie Arata, Yetsuko Kamakura, Kazue Kojima —A. P. Photo. Olympic Queen PIES;DES AT CELEBRATION FOR MEXICAN ATHLETES, | i ‘. | ) JOSEPHINE OLEA, Formerly of Sonora, Mexico, but now living in Los Angeles, who has been | selected as the gueen of the Mexican | Olympic team. She is shown wearing | her crown at a celebration honoring her | country’s visiting athletes. | Photo. AMERISANS MOV T0 PROTECT TRADE !Drafting Unofficial Statement to Offset Ottawa Parley Disadvantages. __(Continued From Pirst Page) in debt to gold standard creditors would take the lead in opposing any move- ment for inflation. | No monetary reform is expected by most delegates without an international iatgreement including non-empire na- ons. Agreement Hits U. S. | A program which would reserve the | market for dairy products and meats in Great Britain to the British Domin- ions, and would divert millions of dol- lars in trade from the United States, Denmark, Argentina and Russia, was | agreed upon yesterday. Under this plan the tariff wall around | Great Britain would be raised against | non-Empire imports and loopholes | would be provided for the entry of dairy products and meats from the other nations of the Empire. The program resulted from a series of conversations that have been held by | members of the various dominion dele- | gations. Now it remains to be submit- | ted to the British representatives after examination by economic experts. The scheme entails a 50 per cent boost in tariffs. Empire dairy products now enter the British market free from duty, and foreign goods are assessed about 10 per cent. The dominions, it is | understood, desire t ohave this 10 per | cent preference maintained as a mini- | mum, with increases to 15 per cent on | certain products. | Increased Preferences Offered. | Southern Rhodesia, which produces | live stock, agricultural products and citrus fruits in considerable quantity, today followed Canada's lead by offer- ing Great Britain increased tariff | preferences. | be to Similar advances will made such other empire countries as are will- ing to reciprocate. The proposal was | made by H. W. Moffatt, head of the Rhodesian delegation to the Imperial | Economie Conference. There was another statement today from Stanley Baldwin, head of the | delegation from the United Kingdom, | but it contained no indication of what | Great Britain's policy on tariffs will be in_the future. “Representatives of the United King- dom have entered this conference with the intention of making their full con- | tribution to further extension of em- pire trade” said Mr. Baldwin. “They have put frankly to the dominions the articies on which they will welcome an equaily jull statement of the corre- sponding advantages which the domin- ions seek in British markets.” BOND THIEF SENTENCED NEW YORK, July 28 (#).—Louis Gemeiner, 26, formerly employed as a messenger by Ernst & Co., brokers, was sentenced today to 5 to 10 years in Sing Sing Prison on a plea“of guilty to theft of §36,000 in bonds from the ; He had worked for the firm only & | day and a half, was given the bonds to | deliver, énd nothing was heard from him for months. One June 28 last his mother recelved a :lteu"far 'Lreom him from Chicago and not et ipany which s i es o ‘s cago, 10.000 of the bonds in hhe’mon.' The ;lrzhléfl:fl ot said it was believed he an organized group of RENTAL PROBERS 10 GALL RICHARDS District Assessor to Be Sum- moned to Fix Real Value of Properties. | District Assessor Richards is to he | summoned before the Capper subcom- | mittee, which held hearings yesterday |on the rent situation in Washington in | response to protests from more than 1,000 persons against alleged extortion- |ate charges, in an effort to determine |the real value of the properties and | band. | whether charg afl | Utal The subcommittee also promised a special study of conditions surrovmding rental of alley dwellings. Senator Cope- land, D2mocrat, of New York declared: “These alley dwellings are an cutrage against decency. They all ought to be dynamited.” This was provoked by & recital of condijtions by J. C. Holden and R. A. Ellis, officers of the Better Citizens’ Bureau, a colored welfare organization, who charged landlcrds step-up rents to colored tenants 25 per cent above those | charged white occupants. Appointment of Oscar H. Brinkman, a Washington attorney and former clerk of the Senate District Committee, who several years ago made a special study of real estate conditions in the Dis- trict. as attorney-investigator for the Capper Subcommittee on Rents, will probably be made at an executive con- ference this afternoon, Senator Cap- per said. ‘Wil Make Intensive Survey. The entire fleld is to be covered in an intensive and comprehensive survey to which Mr. Brinkman will devote him- self for the next three or four menths execssive rents are being ed. This decision was reached a proposal by Senator King of if not sooner. At the hearing yesterday both real estate owners and tenants presented their side of the case, after Chairman Capper had read excerpts from many petitions signed by 40 to 60 to 100 residents of varicus apartment houses. Senator Capper stated that during the past month more than 1,000 letters on the subject og excessive rent charges becn received by the Senate com- mittee and that approximately 80 per Cent of these were from Government €S, Senator land emphasi: g salaries, that prices of all other essen- tials of life have been very materially reduced and that “every one has shared Senstors Copeland and King prowised s and and King that testimony regarding the value of the properties would be recorded 5o as to establish a basis of fact for comput~ ing profits reaped by landlords. Charles L. Goodrich, residing in the Alabama apartment house for'24 years, who was retired on July 1, under the so-called economy bill, said that he started in paying $37.50 a month 24 years ago and that this rental had been increased until he now is paying $60 & month and has been paying that for the past 10 years, while the building has been running down and the service as well. This witness said that he is now looking for another apartment, as he cannot afford to pay more than $40 to §50 a month. “Letter of Eviction.” Mrs. Nellie T. Dunn, an employe of the Post Office Department, living at 1620 R street, laid before the committee a “letter of eviction,” which she said she had received from Baskin & Co., Inc., requesting her to vacate within three days the apartment she occupies. This apartment comprises one room, kitchen and bath, for which she pays $32.50. This action by the landlord was taken after he had learned that she and some other 15 residents of the apart- ment were drafting a letter asking for rent reductions. A copy of that letter from the 15 residents which crossed en route the letter from the Baskin Co., was also presented to the committee. In reply to questions from Senator | Copeland, Mrs. Dunn said that after | withdrawals from her salary under the economy program and for her retire- ment pay she now receives $120 a month to support herself and child. Fulton R. Gordon, developer of a Chevy Chase subdivision, testified that he had been forced to take over on sec- ond trusts 220 pieces of property abandoned by purchasers and had suf | fered a loss of half a million dolla: through being forced to buy the fir HELEN e — COBS WINS WAY T0 NET FINAL Will Meet Josephine Cruiok- shank for Title of Sea- bright Tourney. By the Associated Press. SEABRIGHT, N. J, July 28.—Helen Jacobs, number two ranking tennis star of the country, today won her way to the finals of the Seabright tennis tournament with a hard-won 3—6, 6—0, 6—3 victory over Caroline Babcock of Los Angeles, who left several defeated favorites in her path to the semi-finals. Josephine Cruickshank of Santa Ana, Calif. won the finals’ berth alongside Miss "Jacobs as she defeated Virginia Hilleary of Philadelphia, 6—1, 4—6, 6—2, in the other semi-final. The final will be played Saturday. The Jacobs-Babcock match was a puzzling display, with Miss Jacobs win- ning the first three games, Miss Bab- cock taking the next six for the first set and Miss Jacobs then winning 11 in a row to take a lead the Los An- geles “giant “killer” couldn't overcome. Miss Babcock was just enough off the game which gave her victory over Joan Ridley, Brit! ace, Mrs. Dorothy Andrus Burke and Mary Greef, to spell the difference between victory and de- feat. With a break in the luck here and there she might have defeated Miss Jacobs. Many of her losing shots just failed to clear the net or were out- side by inches. A double fault in the final game, after she had pulled up from love-5 to 3-5, cost her the game, the set and the match. Miss Cruickshank outsteadied Miss Hilleary to take the second semi-finai. Neither player went to the net and it was & match of long rallies from the baseline with Miss Hilleary faulting the more often. The Californian broke Miss Hilleary's service to start the first set and was never headed. She started the second set the same way, but then dropped five straight. She regained her steadiness in fing Pate mpmm.flu al to outdrive the et e WIFE REPORTED MISSING Police Searching for Mrs. Hazel Bowers of Reservoir Road. Police today were searc! Hazel Bowers, 36, Teporicd meissing. st night by her husband, Charles Bowers, 4768 Reservoir road. He sald she may have suffered a lapse of memory. When last seen, Mrs. Bowers was wearing a light blue dress and a white broad-rimmed straw hat with a black CHARGED WITH FIRE YORK. Pa.. July 28 (#).—Samuel S. Rude of Baltimore was arrested in Shrewsbury yesterday on a charge of setting fire {0 a tract of timber land near Shrewsbury on May 19. Prosecution was brought by Distriet Forester Thomas G. Norris of Fayette- ville, after an investigation of the blaze that destroyed wood land owned by J. W. Davis and Albert Worley cf Shrews- bury township. Rude owns a tract of land adjoining that burned over by fire. ANTHRACITE MINES REOPENING, 2,000 MEN RETURNED TO WORK (Continued From First Page.) of next year, The Dalles Co-operative Growers announced that women aod girls would be put to work this week pitting 8,000 barrels of sulphur-brined white cherries. The cherries will be shipped to maraschino manufacturers jon the Atlantic Coast. H e Colorade Salaries Raised. DENVER, July 28 (P).—Colorado’s pay roll will be increased $20,000 through increases in voted to State employes by the last Legislature. The law provides that every State em- ploye receiving less than $125 monthly shall receive $5 a month increase each year until his salary reaches $135. Two hundred State employes are affected by the law. Cherry Concern Reopens. WEBSTER, Mass, July 28 (#).— Work for 20 persons has been provided by the reopening of the Superior Cherry Co. a preserving concern. Steady employment will be provided for several months, the officials said. Mill on Full Time. MIDDLETOWN, Conn., July 38 (A)—The Middletown Silk Co. will operate on a 24-hour basis starting August 1, officials announced today, because of increased orders. One hundred employes will be added to the 30 now working. Fisheries Plant Opens. GLOUCESTER, Mass., July 28 (#).— \With the statement that they antici- pated “an early improvement in busi- ness,” the Gorton-Pew Pisheries of Gloucester yesterday opened a new canning plant to be devoted entirely to production of codfish cakes. The new plant has a capacity of 50,000 cans per day. Hundreds Put to Work. NORRISTOWN, Pa. July 28 (#).— Lewis Y. Smith, president and treasurer of the Isaac Smith Woolen Mill in Bridgeport, near here, last night an- nounced that, effective Monday, several hundred employes at his plant will be returned to full time shifts, after a four-month lay-off. Edwin and Louis Bry, Inc., woolen manufacturers, at the same time said had put 50 extra persons to work, and would work two hours overtime each night from now until Labor day in order to catch up with back orders. Pig Iron Orders Gain. CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 28.—Cin- cinnati pig iron concerns report a gen- eral spirit of optimism prevalent in the industry. An increase in orders and inquiries was noted, with actual busi- ness gain placed at from 20 to 25 per cent over recent weeks. 1,000 Men to Get Jobs. trusts. He now holds 170 of these properties and estimated his return on rentals is approximately 4 per cent. Senator Capeland read from the record of the 1924 hearings to show that Mr. Gordon had bought the 99-acre tract of land for $1,000 an acre and charged $2,500 for each lot. Mr. Gordon ex- ained that one-third of the property to be given for streets and that he had al: & large amount for grading. Mrs. George W. Levy, owner of prop- erty at 69 New York avenue n« - west, asked the Capper subcommittee “to correct a mistaken impression.” She explained that prospective tenants of moderate-priced apartments are hold- off because they expect the Capper subsommistee will force rentals down 50 per cent. W. T. STOTT DIES Former Chicago and Portland Edi- tor Expires in Indiana. LIN. IND, July 28 ‘T. Btott, about 65 formerly city editor of the mo‘lelrld' bune and managing editor of the Port- ) LINCOLN, Nebr., July 28 (#).—Cgn- tracts for six Government construction projects on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers have been received by Woods Bros. Corporation of Lincoln. The work, in connection with projects to make the streams navigable, represents an aggregate cost of $431,000 and is ex- pected to give employment to approxi- mately 1,000 men. The contracts were awarded by the St. Louis and Memphis, Tenh., offices of the War Department. Work will be started at two sites in Illinois and at Carruthersville, Bell's Point, Pinkney Bend and Herman Beach, in Missouri. South Carolina Plants loo.;m DARLINGTON, 8. C., July 28 (®).— The Darlington cotton mill, closed for several weeks, is now running foyr days & week. The Darlington veneer plant also has opened. The two plants have large numbers of employes. Youngstown Mill Resumes, YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. July 28 (). —Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. today announced that small orders will enable Tesum, tomorrow of one of Its seamless tube mills, which -have been idle “since June 11. The tion of