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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. r Bureau Forecast.) Fair and cooler tonight and tomorrow: gentle to moderate northwest and north winds. Temperatures—Highest, 92, at 2:30 yesterday; lowest, 71, at 6 a.m. to- day. Full report on page 9. ¢ Foening SHtar. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ch Yesterday’s Circulation, 127,096 Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entered_as xeco! 29 o post office, Wa No... 32,231, nd class matter shington, D. . WASHING TON,- D. C., FRIDA JULY 29 1932—THIR Y-TWO PAGES. %xx (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENT" HOOVER DEMANDS D. C. PRESERVE ORDER SAYS OFFENDERS MUST BE TAKEN;| GRAND JURY LAUNCHES INQUIRY; REDS ARRESTED BY WHOLESALE Lubring Calls Session This Afternoon. FORCES BEHIND | SCENES SOUGHT Investigators ~ Will Hunt Instigators of Agitation. Two pages of pictures of the bonus rioting and at- tendant scenes will be | | found on pages 6 and 7. Declaring the bonus marchers “were undoubtedly led to believe | that the civil authorities could | be intimidated with impunity be-‘ cause of attempts to conciliate them by lax enforcement of city | ordinances and laws in many di- rections,” President Hoover today wrote to the District Commission- ers to inform them that resporsi- bility for maintaining order in the city still rested with them. The President said he expects the police to strictly enforce every ordinance of the District in every part of the city The President ‘also said in_ his letter | to Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, chair- man of the Board of Commisisoners, | that no group, whatever its origins, can be allowed either to violate the laws of this city or intimidate the Govern- ment. He also reminded the Commissioners that martial law has not been declared and said he considered it their duty to find the instigators of yesterday's at- “tack on the police and bring them to Justice. His letter follows: The President's ll%e\‘ur fallows: “Hon. Luther H. Reichelderfer “My Dear Mr. isdforier “In response to your information that the police of the District were overwhelmed by an organized attack of several thousand men, and were unable to maintain law and order, I complied with your request for aid from the Army to the police. It is a matter of satisfaction that, after the arrival of this assistance, the mobs which were defying the municipal government were dissolved without the firing of & shot or the loss of & life. “I wish to call attention of the District Commissioners to ghe fact that martial law has not been de- clared; that responsibility for order still rests upon your commission. The civil government of Washing- ton must function uninterrupted. The Commissioners, through their | own powers, should now deal with | this question decisively. : “It is the duty of the authorities of the District to at once find the instigators of this attack on the po- lice and bring them to justice. It is obvious that, after the departure of 2 majority of the veterans subversive influences obtained the control of the men remlrmh;la in the Dl.:!:,xecil. a large rt of whom were nol - eran? s:ured repudiztion of their respective leaders and inaugurated and organized this attack. Orders Arrest of Violators. “They were undoubtediy led to be- lieve that the civil authorities could be intimidated with impunity because of attempts to ccnciliate by lax en- forcement of city ordinances and Jaws in many directions. I shall ex- pect the police to strictly enforce every ordinance of the District in every part of the city. I wish every violator of the law to be instantly arrested and prosecuted under due precess of law I have requested the law enforce- ment agencies of tne Federal Gov- ernment to co-operate with the Dis- trict autherities to this end “There i§ no group, no matter what its origins, that can be allowed either to violate the laws of this city or intimidate the Government. “Yours faithfully, 7 “HERBERT HOOVER Commirsioner Reichelderfer was in eonference with Gen. Glassford, super- intendent of police, when reporters in- ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) U. S. FILMS DEALT BLOW IN FRANCE Decree Bars Talkies Unless Syn- chrenization in Language Is Made in Nation's Own Territory. By the Associated Press PARIS. July 29.—A decree made public last night bars from France so- called “dubbed talking films” unless the process of post-synchronization into the French language is done in French territory. American film interests de- scribed the decree as a serious blow to the American film industry in France. The decree also limits the English Sersion of films to showings in five movie houses in the Department of the Seine (Paris) and to five in the rest of France American interests also claim this affects their business. Under the decree there will be no restrictions on silent films, news-reels and “shorts” of less than 900 meters length. American interests claim that the forcing of the “dubbing. process” to be done in France is & heavy blow because few American companies have the facilities in France for the delicate process involved in post- on into the French lan- is now done in the Prench technical synchronizati guage, which language. Cit y ;)f Hovels VIs Wiped Out B y Fire and Swords of Troops Few Remaining Women Weep on Hilltop as Their Men Go Buack Into Lowlands in Hopeless Effort to Make Last Stand. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. | With fire and sword, the ragged, | hungry host of the Bonus Expeditionary Force was driven out of the District of | ramshackle, junk-pile city on the Anacostia flats to prevent it from falling into the hands of the “enemy.” Today, the veterans, driven to the Columbia yesterday. | limits of the city, are streaming out of | Washington into the neighboring States ‘Troops Mep Up Bonus Camps. RADICALS HELD IN POLICE RAIDS, i | U. S. Soldiers Move on Remnants of Host. | ing they requested President Hoover All day the battle raged and the B. E. F. died in the same confusion in which it was born. However confused it was and however mistaken, the was destroyed, but did not surrender. With its last breath it made a dramatic | Onlv a dim lantern here and there in military authorities planned 2, gesture of defiance—the burning of its GLASSFORD DENIES HE ASKED ARMY AID FOR VCTION TASK Asserts He Told Commission- ers He Could Handle Area Roped Off. Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, superintendent of Meétropolitan Police | Department, today issued a statement in which he denied emphatically that he recommended the calling out of troops to evacuate the Bonus Expedi- tionary Force from Government-owned | camp sites. District Commissioners Reichelderfer and Crosby today were quoted as say- for military aid after they had been ad- viged by Chief Glassford that the police department was unable to handle the general situation here. Glassford told newspaper men that “when the Commissioners asked me if | T could handle the situation I told them we had the area roped off. If I did not have to extend the area I could hold it without assistance.” Gen. Glassford, it is understood. had | Few of its members have any clearly | i defined destination. | The final episode in the day-long struggle came last night when the Ana- |B E. F. was valiant in its passing. It | costia camp was evacuated. | A threatening mystery of thick dark- | ness and silence hung over Camp Marks. (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) VETERANS PLAN 10 REEORM FORCE N JOHNSTONN, A |Evicted Marchers Starting | Trek Northward Still Dazed | by Evacuation. | Still dazed by the speed with which they were ousted from their encamp- ments here by United States troops, the | scattered bonus army marked time un- certainly today while their leaders sought to organize them for a retreat | to Johnstown, Pa. ! Early this morning some of the | en bonus seekers were well on | way to the Pennsylvania city. Thousands of others, however, scattered throughout Anacostia, most | of them being in Camp Bartlett. The | great majority apparently didn't know iwhlt they might do, or where they were | going. their were, Waters Calls Assembly. B. E. F. Comdr. W. W. Waters issued beat- | prepared a letter to Commissioners a statement urging the men to assemble Reichelderfer and Crosby early in the day containing this denial. He later said that he had not sent the letter to the District Building and the prob- abilities were that he would not. While the letter was being typed by one of his secretaries the Commis-| sioners called on the police chief. They | arrived at police headquarters just 2| | minutes after he had left his office to| testify in a Police Court case. They returned to the District Building. Gen. Glassford refused to go into detail on his denial of troop recom- mendations. He said he was worn “to a frazzle” from yesterday's ordeal. CURTIS DEFIANT AT BONUS HECKLING “You Cowards, I'm Not Afraid!” Shouts Vice President to Men Who Chide Him in Nevada. By the Associated Press. LAS VEGAS, Nev, July 29.—Vice | venicies | in_Johnstown. Two hundred veterans from Texas, Missouri and California moved from | the District to Maryland via Wiscon- sin_avenue today after spending the night in Virginia. ~ § State police drove the men from Vir- | ginia back into the District. They were met on the Key Bridge by police | from the seventh piecinct, who escorted | them across the line into Maryland. Their leader, R. H. Shaw of Cali- fornia, said they had been “given or- ders some time ago and knew just what to do. Our officers are getting truck- loads of food now,” he said “and we'll have plenty to eat on the way to Johns- | 1 town.” State Officers in Charge. About 100 State police were assembled in Arlington County to prevent the marchers from staying in Virginia. Of- ficials said, however, that they would be permitted to pass through the State in_small groups ‘T. McCall Frazier, director of motor of Virginia, and Gardner Waller, adjutant general, took personal charge of the police in Arlington County. “The District of Columbia drove these men into Virginia,” Frazier said, “and we are going to send them back again.” President Charles Curtis hurled defi- | 8880, o Go | vernment | ance at hecklers who chided bim about ' move to assist Virginia in keeping she { the bonus when he made a brief address State clear of veterans, beyond a con- here last night, en route to Los Angeles ference between Arlingion County ; rd Fields and Fort Myer ic games. " to open the Olympic § authorities, The usual procedure would “You cowards, I'm not afraid of any be for the Federal Government not to | of you." he shouted. Interfere in Virginia nless Gorernment But there was no disturbance further ProPerty were invaded or the Governor than an exchange of words. Ten or fifteen “courtesy” police were furnished by the railroad here, and the city had a number on duty. There was no special guard on the train other than the usual Secret Service men who accompany him. Ore heckler gave a cheer for Gov. Roosevelt. “If ycu wait for him to be elected, youw'll be an old man,” Curtis returned. The Vice President spoke chiefly about the advantages the Hoover Dam would bring to Las Vegas and the Pacific Southwest. DIVIDEND DECLARED Closed Bank to Pay Depositors 10 Per Cent More, * PITTSBURGH, July 20 (#.—C. O Thomas, receiver for the closed Bank of Pittsburgh, National Association, an- | nounced today that a 10 per cent divi- dend, approximately $2,686,000, will be paid to 15,000 deposi Last December the bank paid a 50 | per cent dividend. YOUTH FOUND DEAD Body Is Discovered B cnaath Bridge Near Rileysville. Special Dispatch to The Star. LURAY, Va, July 29.—Edward Brad- | ford, 18-year-old son of Harry Brad- ford, came to his death some time early | this morning. He was found dead be- | neath a rallroad bridge 88 feet high, | one mile south of Rileyville. Whether Bradford jumped from the bridge or fell is not known. A coroner's inguest | is being held this aftérnoon. Bradford left here last night with two companions, but became separated | trom them later, they said. His father, one brother and two sisters survive, { asked for assistance. Camp in Montgomery, Some 50 veterans left Washington last night/and camped on Conduit road near Cabin John Park and along the Rockville pike near Bethesda. They were on their way to Johnstown early this morning. A score of other veterans stayed i the old court house at Rockville, lnld‘ were fed this morning before starting on their trek to Johnstown Lacy Shaw, president of the Mont- gomery County Board of Commissioners, (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) PEACE MOVES RAISE 'HOPE IN BUENOS AIRE Neutral Efforts May Bring About Accord Between Bolivia and Paraguay. | By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, July 29— There | were indications today that neutra] ef- | torts to bring about peace beiween Para- L a result of diplomatic conferences here The Peruvian and Brazilian Ambas- sadors conferred last night with For- eign Minister Saaveira Lamas and the Paraguayan minister had a conference with President Justo. Capt. Almandas Almonacid, fiyer, who was an ace with mfi'fi'}fil‘fi air force during the World War, plan- ned to leave here with several compan- ions tomorrow for Asuncion to offer aid to Paraguay in case war developed. % | tarlly vacated waterfront billets near | guay and Bolivia were materializing as | | Wholesale arrests of radicals who have been active with the | Bonus Expeditionary Force were made by police this afternoon as | sweeping movement to “mop up” | the few remaining bonus camps on Government-owned property. Spurred to action by President | Hoover's admonition to District | authorities “at once to find the in- | stigators” of the rioting yesterday | which led to the death of one| | veteran, police rounded up 40 al- | | leged Communists as they left a | meeting in an abandoned assem- | bly hall at Fifth street and Vir- | ginia avenue southeast. Between 1‘65 and 70 others were lined up two | abreast on the sidewalk near the old church building, and it ap- | peared that police were preparing | to march them to the District line. . Those arrested were held for an investigation to be made by im- migration authorities. The same force of troops that yes- | terday scattered and disorganized the | bonus-seeking veterans and started them on a general exodus from Wash- ington, will take part in the “mopping- up” movement. The troops, in command of Gen. Perry L. Miles, intend to make the billeis at Second and A streets north- east the first objective. From there Gen. Miles plans to proceed to Camp Meigs, on Florida avenue northeast, and clear that property. In the meantime, the bonus march- ers voluntarily abandoned Camp Bart- lett in Anacostia, one of the last re- maining strongholds; Camp Simms in Congress Heights and water front bil- {lets in the vicinity of Seventh and L streets southwest. | " Gen. Miles said he had been assured by police that the veterans would evac- | uate the remaining camps before the arrival of the troops. Nevertheless, the soldiers have been equipped with tear | gas bombs, a dozen to a man, full car- tridge belts and revolver clips. The troops, now stationed around the smouldering ruins of Camp Marks on | the Anacostia Flats, are expected to be- gin their movement before 3 o'clock. Several tanks are being held in readi- ness to lead the new invasion. Hundreds of veterans, disorganized and scattered by the initial Army in- vesion, already have retreated out of Washington, and others are preparing to go. Afoot and in infirm motor vehicles, the last remnants of the bonus army in Anacoetia began moving away from Camp Bartlett about 11:30 o'clock after |a troop of cavalry had reconnoitered about the 30-acre tract. A few hours| before, the veterans at Camp Simms | pulled up stakes and departed without | the formality of a visit by the troops. A large portion of the retreating bonus force is understood to be headed for Johnstown, Pa. where Mayor Ed | McCloskey had invited them to come for refuge. Many others are reported | | to be returning to their homes; some are | going they know not where. | Shambles and the smouldering ruins | of four bonus camps bore mute evidence of the struggle that prececed the exo- | dus of the veterans—a struggle un- | precedented in the history of Washing- | | i | i | | | | | | ton and even the Nation. | Two days of intense excitement had | | been turned back into the pages of his- | | tory and the armed forces had the sit- | | uaticn well in hand. Behind them, the departing veterans left one dead and one wounded “buddie” and a number of others in police station cells awaiting an opportunity to answer a charge of creating a disturbance or assaulting policemen with broken brick. | The fate of Camp Bartlett had re- | mained uncertain. It was located on a 30-acre privately owned tract, and not subject to troop activity. Some meens of evacuating it had been discussed, but | the peaceful exodus of the veterans re- lieved that problem. | Simms Forces First Out. The several score of veterans at Camp Simms were the first to go. Then | the exodus started at Camp Bartlett, and before the last of the former sol- diers had left there 250 others volun- Seventh and L streets southwest. |~ Gen. MacArthur announced plans for | forceful evacuation, if necessary, of the | remaining bonus camps on Federal property after a brief conference this morning With the District Commission- ers. He assured the Commissioners | that he wouid use every measure to pre- vent the veterans from straggling back | into the camp areas. The Commission- ers agreed to detail additional members | ~ (continued on Page 2, Column 2.) ~ PETERSBURG, VA., TO GET CIGARETTE FACTORY By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 29.—Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation | announced yesterday it is perfecting plans to open & cigarette manufacturing plant in Petersburg, Va. in order to ‘atch up with production of their prod- uct. The new plant is expected to relieve the local plant of a part of the | night work now necessary. The announcement said the plant is being opened in Petersburg rather than Richmond because there are available in Petersburg, facilities for manufac- turing cigarettes which can be acquired at advantageous price. The number of persons to be employed and the extent of operations has not yet been an- nounced. WHo SAYS THERE'S NOTHING INA NAME 2 | Maryland Transports Vets Gov. Albert C. Ritchie today took immediate steps to transport bonus army veterans through Maryland on their way toward Johnstown, Pa The trucks of the State Roads Commission and those of Prince Georges and Montgemery Counties have been pressed into service. Veterans moving into Maryland by Hyattsville, Bladensburg and Laurel wiil be picked up by 50 motor trucks of the State Roads Commission. Veterans moving out of Washington via Wisconsin avenue will be handled by Montgomery County trucks and will be taken to Frederick, where State trucks will carry to the Pennsylvania border. State golice are supervising the movement. authorities do not anticipate trouble them Although the Maryland with the ousted veterans, no chances are being taken. The Maryland National Guard is now in camp at Camp Ritchle. Four hundred of these men can be moved to any point needed within two hours and 400 of the Maryland troops can be dispatched along the route within eight hours. off in anticipation of any danger. HEBET MADE 0P EASTERN ANAGER Senator’s Selection Announc- ed by Sanders, Who Fore- sees Big Victory. . By the Assoclated Press, NEW YORK, July 29.—Senator Felix | Maneuvers at the camp have not been called 3 VOLPE BROTHERS ARE SLAINBY GANG | ' Pittsburgh Political Leaders | i Are Murdered While ; in Coffee Shop. | By the Associated Press. GERMANY READY T0 DEFY FRANCE Entire Cabinet Backs Up Threat to Arm, Paris Envoy Warned. i i | By the Associated Press. BERLIN, July 29.—Every man in the German cabinet stands behind Gen. Kurt von Schleicher's threat to arm Germany in spite of the Versailles treaty, Foreign Minister von Neurath told Andre Francois-Poncet, the French Ambassador, today. Further than that, said Herr von Neurath, the general's viewpoint repre- J sents that of the whole German nation. ‘These assertions were in reply to the | Ambassador's protest against a radio speech by Gen. von. Schleicher, Ger- |man minister of defense, who said that if the other nations in Eu- | rope do not disarm, Germany will re- organize her defenses to obtain the se- curity and equality which she demands. Yesterday in Paris Premier Herriot PITTSBURGH, July 20.—Three Volpe | called in Ambassador von Hoesch of Hebert of Rhode Island will be manager brothers—John, Johnnie and Arthur— of the Eastern campaign of the Repub- | long political powers in the Borough of lican party, Everett Sanders, Republican national chairman, announcéd tcday. Senator Hebert lives in West War- wick, R. I. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1928 for a six-year-| term, defeating former Senator Peter | G. Gerry, who was one of Alfred E.! Smith’'s advisers in the presidential campaign that year. Coolidge May Be Active. Calvin Coolidge, who in the last three years has rarely appeared in the po- iitical spotlight, may take some active part in the drive to re-elect his White House successor. Sanders, puffing on a cigar and mop- ping his forehead, sat in a hotel room today and discussed these and other phases ot his plans. Meantime, in Pittsburgh James Francls Burke, general counsel for the national committee, spoke of “Democratic des- peration” in an attack on President Hoover’s critics. He said there was “no more amazing evidence” of such “Democratic despera- tion” than the comments of Democratic leaders on President Hoover’s appoint- ment of former Senator Pomerene to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. “Criticism in Any Event.” “No matter what the President does,” Burke added, “they are determined to criticize. s “The fact is, the appointment is an- other evidence of the President’s de- termination to lead the country out of its present dilemma, regardless of par- tisan politics.” Sanders, here to map out Eastern campaign plans, said he would spend the week end at the Coolidge home- stead in Plymouth, Vt. ‘Will_you ask the former President (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) VON GRONAU IN OTTAWA German Ocean Flyer Makes Hop From Montreal. OTTAWA. July 29 (#).—Capt. Wolf- gang Von Gronau alighted at Ottawa with his transatlantic seaplane shortly before noon today. He had flown from Montreal. | Wilmerding, were shot and killed in a/ gun battle here today. The shooting, one of the most sen- sational in Pittsburgh’s criminal history, occurred in a coffee shop in what is known as the “hill district,” not far from the center of the city. Dapper Johnnie Volpe, shot near the heart, staggered from the coffee shop and fell dead in the gutter. Brothers Die Instantly. His two brothers hardly moved from their tracks. They were dead when police reached the scene. About a year ago the Volpes, who have been implicated in liquor rack- eteering in Wilmerding, sought to ex- tend their activities to Pittsburgh. The district in which they were “put on the spot” is in the heart of the new territory they invaded. Crouched behind a counter of the coffe shop, police found Sam Zara. He babbled over and over again: “I don't wanna be killed! I don't wanna be killed!” Police arrested him. Five Men Open Fire. It was reported that five men walked into the restaurant and, without a word. began shooting point-blank at the Volpes. First reports were that another man and a woman had also been shot, but no other bodies were found. and the reports were not immediately verified or disproved. A Catholic priest, who was plssh‘lu.‘ heard the shots and administered ex- treme unction to Johnnie Volpe just be- fore he gasped his last in the gutter. Possibility that out-of-town gunmen had been imported for the “job” was seen when residents of the neighbor- hood told police a car bearing New York license plates was seen touring the dis- | trict just before the shooting. SIS Von Papen Due on Radio. CHICAGO, July 29 () —Ira Nelson Morris, founder of the International Radio Forum, under whose auspices | Chancellor von Papen of Germany will address America this afternoon, said to- day that the chancellor had informed him by cable that he would discuss the German situation up to the present moment. 3BOYS ARE DEAD. 2 MEN PERISH IN RESCUE ATTEMPT IN SHAF By the Associated Press | MINTO, New Brunswick, July 29.— Three boys, who had been told that| they could see the moon in broad day- light if they climbed to the bottom | of an old mine shaft. are dead and | two miners lost their lives trying to| rescue them. Four youngsters made the experi- ment, clambering down a rickety ladder in an abandoned shaft not far from town yesterday. The first one down choked as gas seeping from the worked- out vein overcame him. He lost his hold on the ladder and dropped 40 feet into a of water at the bottom. Two of others had started right behind him. They, too, lost consci ness and fell. Six-year-old Joe O'Leary, the fourth, had lingered a little. He saw his friends drop and fled, terrified. coming back with his father and several other men. ‘Two of the men started down the ladder. Both succumbed to the gas nd fell. By this time a crowd had gathered about the head of the shaft and a hundred men had been mobilized for the rescue. One of was Jow- ered on a rope and stayed down long enough to tie a line about one of the bodies. It was hauled to the surface, but the rescuer also was unconscious when he was lifted out. While a doc- tor revived him other men went down and by evening all the bodies had been recovered. The three boys and the two men who first attempted the res- cue were dead. They were Alwyn Gaudine, 9; Cyril Strack, 13; his brother, Vernon Strack, 10: Vernon Betts, 37, father of five children, and Thomas Gallant, 48, father of nine. Germany and filed a second protest against the general's speech, which he described as tactless and inopportune, particularly those parts of it which re- ferred to the French disarmament at- | titude as “hypocritical.” Hitler Troops Feared. Meanwhile, reports that national Socialist storm troops were concentrat- ing in various provinces of Germany caused considerable alarm in spite of | official assurance that most complete | measures have been taken to maintain peace and order during and after next Sunday’s_elections. The reports said the Hitler storm | troops apparently meant business. From | various points in Pomerania, Mecklen- | burg and Silesia the news came that local Nazi organizations had received | orders to stand by. | _There was no precise indication as to | the purpose of the concentration except that they were instructed to provide themseives with three days’ rations and sleeping equipment. Motor _trucks sufficient to convey large bodies of men also were reported | held in readiness at strategic points | throughout the country and all leaves of absence of the storm troops stafl men were canceled. It was recalled that a similar mo- bilization of the Nazi forces was or. dered just before the presidential elec- tions two months ago when there were dark rumors of a “march on Berln.” Nothing happened, however. e opposition opened a smashing Jast-minute_drive against Hitler, after |~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) ‘TWO MINERS DIE IN BLAST, TWO HURT | | | Cause of Which Has Not | Been Determined. By the Associated Press. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., July 29.—Two men were killed instantly and two ‘uthers were burned, probably fatally, | by an explosion in the Hillman Coal | and Coke Co.'s mine at Jerome shortly | after midnight today. | The dead are Harry Cirillo, 39, and | Frank Lawrence, 40, both miners. Delbert Parkins, 26, night foreman, | and Harry Geist, 28, a miner, are in a | hospital near death from burns. The blast let go in a small room in which the four men were working. Sev- enty-five others in the mine were un- | aware of the explosion until daybreak. Mine officials have been unable to determine the cause of the blast. The | workings are non-gaseous. ARG U. S. PLAYER ELIMINATED OTTAWA, July 29 (#).—Helen Fulton of Chicago today was eliminated from ‘women's singles in the semi-final round of the Canadian tennis championships by Marjorie Leeming of Victori. The scores were 6—2, 6—2. Olive Wade of Toronto defeated Jean | Burritt of Toronto, 6—1, 6—3, in the ' the railroads on waste, started Jerome, Pa., Scene of Tragedy| i IROOSEVELT WEIGHS WALKER DENIAL OF " SEABURY CHARGES Governor Likely to Decide Mayor’s Fate Before First Campaign Spesch. DEFENSE RAISES CRY OF “REPUBLICAN PLOT” Strongly Worded Document Repu- diates Corruption Accusations Against New York City Regime. By the Assoclated Press. ALBANY, N. Y, July 29.—Gov. Roosevelt had before him today the reply of James J. Walker, mayor of New York, to Samuel Seabury's com- plaint he was unfit to remain in office. It was delivered yesterday and the Gov- ernor began its perusal at once. In 27,000 words, Walker- gave his reasons why Seabury, legislative inquisi- tor into the New York City administra- tion, and others who sought the mayor's removal, were wrong in believing he had used his office for personal gain. “Since the day of my birth,” Walk- er assured Governor Roosevelt, “I have lived my life in the open. Whatever shortcomings I have are known to every one—but disloyalty to my native city, official dishonesty or corruption, form no part of these shortcomings.” Seabury Is Assailed. Denying all accustations, he assailed the ccunsel to the Hofstadter Legisla- tive Committee, inform Gov. Rocse- velt in one instance that ‘“Mr. Seabury deliberately falsifies the mennln‘or the record.” He also_accused Seabury of withholding from Roosevelt part of the significant evidence gathered by the committee. He said the investigation was “con- ceived, born and fostered in politics. The desperation growing out of the necessity to offset the faflures of the present Republican organization, city, State and national, inspired it.” (The committee is composed of four Republicans and three Democrats with | Seabury, a Democrat, as chief coun- sel.) tified to any wrongful or mine during the past six %d one-half ears.” yStlb\lry'l “conclusion,” Walker added, “is the last resort of a certain kind of lawyer without a case.” Governor Is Silent. Gov. Roosevelt had not! to say about the Walker reply, which he re- quested more than a month ago. He may remove Walker or exonerate him. The Governor last February removed Thomas M. Farley, the Tammany sher- iff of Kings County, after a public hearing. Receipt of the Walker reply meant & major obstacle which had been dela: ing the Roosevelt presidential cam- paign was about to be cleared. Walker's removal, as the Roosevelt campaign masters see it, would be a costly front to the strong Tammany organiza. tion. Exoneration of Walker, the man- agers fear, might be interpreted in the West and South as ylelding to Tam- many. Roosevelt, insisting that the impar- tiality of his action not be questioned, has threatened ‘contempt citation against any individual who attempts ! to translate his decision in terms of | political strategy. i Legal Advisers Retained. ‘Two legal advisers, John E. Mack and Martin Conboy, both prominent mem- bers of the New York bar, will help him | review Walker's answer. Walker informed the Governor that “with_sll the power of the State of (Continued on Page 10, Column 8. \CHILE CALLS OUT MACHINE GUN UNIT Rumors of Discord in Army and Political Rumblings Against Davila Rule Cause. | By the Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile, July 29.—Eight { trucklonds of machine guns bristled | around the presidential palace today, | brought there at midnight following rumers of discord in the army and political rumblings against the govern- ment of Carlos Davila. The machine gun defense was ordered out by the cabinet, which remained in session through the night Reports were in circulation that sev- eral cabinet changes would be an- nounced soon. An order was sent to the military { barracks commander that all troops | there be held in readiness. DOUBLE MURDER [;ENIED Erwin Liner, in Los Angeles Court, Says Couple Attacked Him. LOS ANGELES, July 29 (#).—Erwin Liner, accused of the murder, July 4, of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Clarke, with whom he lived, pleaded not guilty in Superior Court yesterday and trial was set for August 19. Liner asserted he was attacked by the couple following a quarrel in which Clarke, retired New Jersey engineer, accused him of seeking Mrs. Clarke's affections. Investigators said at the time they believed Liner had sought possession of & sum' of money which was found in his clothing. ‘War on Waste to Continue. NEW YORK, July 29 (#).—Announce- ment was made today that the war h:t! other semi-final. They meet for the | week at the meeting of the Association title tomorrow. Radio Programs on Page BS of Railway Executives, would be re- sumed on August 11, when the Eastern m&mu‘ conference will meet in New ‘or]

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