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WEATHER. (U.8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Bhowers this afternoon and tonight: tomorrow fair, tufe; moderate soutl wihds. Temperatures slowly rising tempera- h and southwest : Highest, 87, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 68, at 8 a.m. to- day. ~Full report on Closing N. Y. Markets, page B-6. , Pages 14 and 15 he WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¥ pening Star. service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 116,273 Entered as second class matter Washington, . D G WASHINGTON, D. (., TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1932—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. FRkk (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. BONUS GUN DRAWN FIRST, JURY HEARS N HUSHA PROBE Rioter Aimed Pistol at Police, | Financial Agent Says at | Coroner’s Inquest. | TWO MARCHERS’ DEAT! IS UNDER EXAMINATION Scope of Hearing Broadened to In- clude Slaying of Carlson During Disorders. | Policemen Miles Znamenacek and | George W. Shinault were exoner- ated by a coroner’s jury this after- noon ‘after an inquest into the fatal shooting of two bonus marchers here Thursday. Znamenacek took the witness stand, but Shinault declined | to do so. | Testimony that a bonus army rioter | aimed a pistol at invading police before | the latter drew their guns and fired | during the height of last Thursday's paitle was given this afternoon at a coroner’s inquest into the fatal shoot- ing of two B. E. F. members. This version of the riot was re- | lated to the jury at the Morgue by | Stephen Armstrong, 1410 M street, | | financial agent for the Miller Magnesite Co. Scope of the inquest, originally called to probe the death of William Hushka of Chicago was broadened to include the shooting of Eric Carlson of Oak- land, Calif., who died early today from | 2 bullet wound. As the jury assembled, | the body of Hushka was being buried | in Arlington National Cemetery. | A Casualty Hospital surgeon testified | that Carlson died from a bullet that| entered his back near the left side and punctured the intestines. The bullet | Was fired by Policeman Miles Zname- nacek. Armstrong declared Znamenacek Wwa: descending the stairs of a partly wrecked building in which some of the bonus | marchers had taken refuge, when a | man, obviously a member of the B.E.F., | pointed & gun in the general direction | of the policeman. Tells Story of Clash. His account of the clash follows: “I noticed a large crowd of men that 1 would call ‘roughnecks’ gathered near the rear of the vacant and partially razed building. One big, burly fellow, who looked like he hadn’t been shaved for a week, moticned to the others and shouted, “You guys come upstairs.” “First a few went in response to his command and then there was a rush of men up the stairway. Suddenly, Znamenacek appeared .at the top of the stalrway and started down, passing the oncoming bonus marchers as he went. When he was about one-third of the way down, I saw a roughly clad man on the second floor pull an auto- matic pistol from his pocket. This Weapon was pointed in the general di- rection of Znamenacek, but I did not see the man fire. “The officer, | however, suddely ap- peared to be stunned, and grabbed his right arm as though it had been struck. Then the policeman drew his own gun and pointed it down the stairway. “I did not see it fired, but I heard two shots, and then two more. “At that point the crowd of civilians began to break. ‘My God,’ I said to a man standing nearby, ‘is that mob com- ing over here?’ “I jumped up and ran across the street shouting to the people, ‘They're going to blow up that building over there. You-all run up Third street.’ The people turned back at that and soon were going in the opposite direc- tion on the run.” i Under cross-examination by Assistant United States Attorney William H. Col- | 1lins, representing the Government, Arm- strong sald he was positive he saw a man on the second floor with a gun in his hand. He said this man was not a policeman and that he thought he | was one of the leaders of the bonus | marchers. He said he did not actually | see any shots fired at any time. Making United States Contracts. Jesse C. Duke, an attorney for the | American Civil Liberties Union, asked | ‘Armstrong i he had any contract with | ihe Treasury Department or District | of Columbia government for his com- pany. Armstrong replied that he was | Just beginning making such_contracts. | Dr. McDonald read the police report | of the shooting of Hushka, which said | that Officer George Shinault fired while g0ing to the assistance of Znamenacek. (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) HEBERT DUE TO OPEN G. 0. P. HEADQUARTERS ated Press. YORK, August 2.—Plans_for campaign in the East apace today. Senator 2hode Island, newly ap- manager of President Hoover's the East, was due here to open campaign headquarters with important Republican James Francis Burke, counsel to the al Commi , and Representa- John Q. Tilson, chairman of the rs’ B were expected to ar- e with Hebe UPTURN IN BUS | he was. The colony is a private insti- | while, was organizzd to prepare the | | Harbor, N. J., as camp commander and LARCENY OF U. S. TENTS CHARGED TO BONUS ARMY ‘D. C. Policemen Help Serve Warrants at Johnstown—M’Closkey Resists Seizure of By the Associated Press JOHNSTOWN, Pa., August 2.—The Federal Government and the State of Pennsylvania stepped in today to un- scramble complications vhich rave thrown the Bonus Expeditionary camp into confusion. While virtual sanitary “martial law” was set up by the Pennsylvania' Health Department at the camp, a deputy| United States marshal and Washington police officers are serving warrants in ! connection with a charge that tents| loaned to marchers in Washington were | stolen. ‘Deputy Marshal J. G. Lowers of Pittsburgh read a search warrant to Camp Comdr. William Waite in the| office of Mayor Eddie McCloskey and | another warrant charging larceny | against Isadore Kanner, formerly of | the staff at Camp Bartlett, where it is alleged the tents were stolen. | Kanner was taken before the United | States commissioner for a hearing. J. Don O'Connor, World War veteran 1and Johnstown attorney. was retained | were searching. Property. as counsel for the marchers The officers also have warrants for Frank Muggie and Buck Reynolds They have not been served. Lowers and the Washington police said they also were secking Doak A. Carter, chief of staff, but Carter did not come to staff headquarters. The offi- cers were told Carter had gene to the Johnstown Airport and that he con- templated flying to Washington. Deputy Marshal Lowers and the police said after they visited the camp that they had identified some of the tents there as those for which they Mayor McCloskey said he would take the matter into court if an attempt was made to seize the tents. There was no disorder during the search. Many marchers pressed about the headquarters tent as the officers conferred with the B. E. F. leaders. Military police kept the main road of the encampment clear. Meanwhile speakers from among the " (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) B. E.F. CHIEF SEES. GOV RTCHE DAY Maryland Executive Issues Statement Disapproving Proposed Colony. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., August 2.—Fol- lowing his disapproval of the Bonus Expediticnary Force establishing a per- manent colony near Waterbury, Gov. Albert C. Ritchie consented to confer | today with Walter W. Waters, the | archers’ leader. The conference was arranged last | night after Waters telegraphed Mary- | land’s chief executive, requesting an in- | terview. Gov. Ritchie accepted the re- | quest, setting the meeting for 2:30 | o'clock this afternoon in his office here. Pointing out the distress and neces- sary relief work among the residents of the State and the disadvantages of the proposed colony site to support the B,! E. F., the Governor said in his state- ment: “Under these conditions the settlement is totally inpracticable and should not be established.” William Preston Lane, attorney gen- | eral of Maryland, he added, was con- | sidering legal means of preventing the bonus-seekers from entering the State. | Previously he had said he would not | summon State troops to stop them or | drive them out. | Mrs. Edgell Disappointed. | ‘The Governor's statement brought a retort from Mrs. Maude Edgell, who sold the 25-acre tract to Waters for a dol- lar, that she was “bitterly disappoint- ed” with his announcement. | “It certainly doesn't reflect the char-| acter and the type of man we thought tution and I can't see what objection Gov. Ritchie can have to Comdr. Waters and myself inviting any men | we choose to be our guests.” Members of Waters' staff sald 250 | men of the Colorado unit now at Johns- | town have bzen ordered to Waterbury. | where the temporary bivouac has | been christened “Camp Walter W.| Waters.” The small detail of marchers, mean- wooded haven, located 11 miles north- | west of here, for the coming of the| main group of the force now encamped | at Johnstown, Pa. | Waters, during a visit at the camp | yesterday, named J. G. Bullion of Egg issued orders that no more veterans be | admitted except bona-fide members of | the B. E. F., stranded in the vicinity with their families. | Waters told_the 30 men and women “(Continued on Page 3, Column 2) CHINA TO PAY JAPAN | BOXER INDEMNITY DUE| Decision Follows Remittance of | Former's Part of Seized Man- | churian Customs. | | a fugitive from justice in Federal court By the Associated Press NANKING, China, August 2.—The Japenese portion of China’s present installment of the Boxer indemnity, which has been held up because of seizure of Manchurian customs re- ceipt, was released by the Ministry of | Finance today. The order to release the money was given when it was learned that a rTe- mittance of 343.675 taels (about $254.- | 000) had been received from Darien by Sir Frederick Maze, inspector of Chi- nese customs This sum represented cne-third of the Manchurian customs revenue seized. INESS IS REPORTE IN FLORIDA AND NEW YORK STATE Delaware and Hudson Co Many Textile B the As a | JACKSONVILLE, Fla, August 2.— Business is on the urgrade at the P of Jacksonville. Figures just made public show July imports of 26,665 net tons and exports of 30862 tons. The June total was: Imports, 23,403 tons, and exports, 19,51 tons. ALBANY, N. Y., August 2 —August brought encouraging news to factory and railroad workers in Eastern New York State. Coupled with the announcement that th> Delaware & Hudson Railroad has completed an agreement that will guar- entee monthly employment to its 2.850 operating men, many of them at a slight increase in salary, came word that five mpletes Wage Agreement; Plants Open. upstate industries were reopening. Five qundred factory workers will he recalled. At Thompson the Irioquois Pulp &| Paper Co. recalled its full force of 100 | men. Kaylon, Inc, a shirt-manufac- {uring concern at Troy, recalled a full force of 250. The Falcon Shirt Co, | Troy. recalled 70 full-time employes. | At Fort Edward the Gold Dress Co. | recalled more than 50 and at Me- | chaniesville 50 men we{n t!nck to the | lain Brick Co. plant. | Clg;'n & movel wage agreement the Dela- | ware | regular | men wi | tween | hours ho run trains on its lines be- Pennsylvania and Canada—240 of work each month. The re pal jcan roads, where employ “(Continued on Page 32, Column 3.) | that | liberty under $15,000 cash bail, was de- | mileage basis employed by most Amrr»‘ County Board Backs Ritchie’s Opposition To Colony of B. E. F. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., August 2. —Anne Arundel County's Board of County Commissioners does not want the Bonus Expedition- ary Force in this neighborhood. The board this afternoon adopted a resolution placing their faith in Gov. Albert C. Ritchie and his stand against permitting a colony to develop in Maryland. BORAH HAS PICKED NOMINEE 10 BACK Withholds Name, After Elim- inating Roosevelt, Upshaw and “Third Party.” i By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 2.—Senator Wil- liam E. Borah has decided whom to support in the coming presidential elec- tion, he said today, but he was not ready to announce his choice. The Idaho legislator restated his cam- paign status as he passed through Chicago en route to his home as fol- lows: He will not support President Hoover on the Republican platform; there (is “no pcssibility” that he will come out for Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Demo- cratic nominee; he will not back Wil- liam D. Upshaw of Georgia, the prohi- bition candidate; there is “no third party” as far as he is concerned.” “I will take an interest in my State election,” he said. “My position is the same as I expressed it in the Senate recently on the Republican ticket. I don't think any more of its economic planks than I do of its prohibition plank.” Informed that a second member of the bonus army had died in Washing- ton during the night of gunshot wounds incurred last Thursday, Borah said he considered the march was a ‘mistake in policy to attempt to force Congress to pay the bonus now,” but that there was 1o legal reason why the veterans should not be there.” He voted against the bonus. Borah said he would not visit Re- publican National Headquarters and he “absolutely” would hold no political conferences here. EASTERDAY RUSHED EAST BY AIRPLANE Former “Nicky” Arnstein Asso- ciate Was Declared Fugitive From Justice in June. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 2—W. W. Easterday, former associate of Jules “Nicky" Arnstein, and who was declared June 15 last, was brought back from Los Angeles by airplane today. Easterday was convicted with three | others in March, 1931, on a charge of using the mails to defraud in connec- tion with a bucket shop scheme, and | was sentenced to three and one-half years in the Federal penitentiary. In addition. he was sentenced to five years, to be suspended during good behavior. The United States Circuit Court of Avpeals upheld the conviction and sen- tence April 4 last, and Easterday, at| clared a fugitive when he failed to sur- render to Federal Judge F. G. Caffey June 13 last U. S. RELEASES 289 Finds No Basis for Deportation of Suspected Aliens. DETROIT, August (#).—Only 51 of the 340 persons arrested in recent Immigration Department raids in the Detroit area remained in custody to- P they have documents not immediately available which will prove their right to be in this country. | Immigration officers found mno basis for holding 289 persons and released them. Either they were legally en- tered or had been here so long statutes | of limitation prevented deportation. | REDS ROUTED IN VIENNA ;Pollce Use Pistols When Com- ' munists Throw Stones. VIENNA, Austria, August 2 (P).— | & Hudson guarantces all of its| Communists attempting to demonstraie lumbia University was his father's best operating employes—that is, the in various parts of Vienna yesterday man, | were dispersed by police, whom they pelted with rocks. In a few cases the police to pistols. One woman was rted ous disturbances were reported. !or permitted to be taken until the legis- | day. and @ number of them claimed | BY the Assoclated Press. CAMPBELL T0 ASK NEW 5DAY WEEK RULNG BY AR Controller’s Decision Compli- cates Plan of Civil Service to Change Schedule. LEGISLATIVE FURLOUGHS MUST BE TAKEN FIRST Difference in Pay Deductions Also Involved—Reconsideration to Be Sought. Faced with a decision by Controlier General McCarl, which mitigates se- verely against the five-day week, Presi dent Thomas E. Campbell of the Ctvil Service Commission today decided for- mally to ask McCarl to reconsider some of the questions involved. Informal conferences on the matter took place this morning between repre- sentatives of the Civil Service Com- mission and the General Accounting Office. Gov. Campbell anounced an- other series of questions would be sub- mitted to McCarl, but he was not yet ready to disclose them in detail. Two outstanding features of the Mc- Carl decision were held by Gov. Camp- bell seriously to affect operation of the five-day weck. Would Cut Pay More. In the first place, it has been figured, | he said, that the McCarl decision would penalize Government workers under the five-day week by about three-quarters of 1 per cent of their salary more than the Government worker on a legislative furlough. The five-day week worker, McCarl held, must have his pay cut by cne-eleventh, as compared to the smaller 8'3 per cent deducted from other Government workers. In the second place, McCarl held that all legislative furlough must be taken | before any administrative furlough. This complicates the five-day week sit- uation, because the five-day week, which is a substitute for the legislative furlough, runs throughout the entire year, leaving no time left to lay on an administrative furlough. The five-day week thus was brought to a sharp issue again. The Civil Service Commission asked McCarl if the legislative and admini- strative furloughs could be taken at the same time to run concurrently, but Mc- Carl denied this. He held that “no ad- ministrative furloughs may be required lative furlough of one calender month or 24 working days hes been completed and the amounts so saved impounded.” No Time for Furlough.. - . Employes on a five-day week basis, McCarl held, should have their pay re- duced, according to the economy act, the same as persons on a per diem basis five-day week. They receive ten- elevenths of full pay, making the pay cut one eleventh. This a greater than the 8!3 per cent which is taken from annual employes who are taking the 24- day compulsory payless furlough at various, odd times throughout the year. The law permits either the five-day week, or legislative compulsory fur- lough. Ancther important question raised by McCarl's ruling on this five-day-week pay deduction, according to Gov. Camp- bell, is whether the administrative fur- lough may be applied to the Civil Serv- ice Commission and other groups in the Government on a five-day week, while the deductions are being made for the Saturday morning off duty. In other words, McCarl held that the legislative and administrative furlough could not be applied concurrently. But if the five- day week is substituted for the legisla- tive furlough, the five-day week runs throughout the year. If, therefore, a Government office waited until the end of the five-day week at the end of the year to apply the administrative fur- lough there would be no time left to apply the legislative furlough. Gov. Campbell said he had taken up the questions involved in McCarl's de- cision, especially as applied to the five- day week, and had decided to submit further questions to the controller gen- eral, especially on the question of ap- plying the administrative furlough on top of the five-day week. In his pre- vious letter, Gov. Campbell indicated the Civil Service Commission contem- plated applying 42 days’ administrative furlough on the employes on a five-day week in its own establishment. As Leaves Without Pay. The Government units on a five-day week now include the Department of Labor, United States Employes’ Com- pensation Commission and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. In addition, per diem employes of the Government Printing Office, navy yards and some field services are on a five- day week. Per diem people in the Bu- reau of Engraving and Printing are not on a five-day week, but on the legis- lative and administrative furloughs. In his decision to the Civil Service Commission McCarl brought up a new point of accounting. to decide that the pay deduction for a legislative furlough day and an administrative furlough day will be different. Under the economy act and the McCarl decisions, when an employe is off duty one working day under the legislative furlough he is deducted 1'% days’ pay, but under the administrative furlough, this new decision holds, he is to be deducted for only one day’s pay, but must include Sundays and holi- days. Administrative furloughs will be administered, the decision said. simply as leaves of absence without pay. | | | I DR. ANGELL IS MARRIED AT HIGH NOON IN MAINE PORTLAND, Me., August 2.—Mrs. Katherine Cramer Woodman of Ard- more, Pa., and Dr. James Rowland An- gell, president of Yale University, were married today at high noon in the chapel of St. Luke's Cathedral. The ceremony was performed by Bishop Benjamin Brewster of the Prot- estant Episcopal diocese of Malne, in the presence of the immediate families and relatives. Stuart W, Cramer of Cramerton. N C., father of the bride, gave his daugh- ter in marriage. Caroline Woodman, her oldest daughter, was her only at- tendant. Prof. James W. Angell of Co- A wedding luncheon for the party was served at the home of Edward Woodman, father of the late Paul sughtly Woodman, Mrs. Angell's first husband. cussion of problems of interest to the | wounded by a bullet. Otherwise no seri- Dr, Angell's first wife died more than a profession of architecture and to the year ago, .| American EMPIRE HITS SNAG IN'BIG UL 5. TRADE Britain and Canada Would Retain American Business Connections. By the Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario, August stupendous portion of the trade ofi Great Britain and Canada which is| with the United States proved the | greatest stumbling block today to all negotiations for intra-empire trade deals at the conference here. With all its dominions and colonies, the British Empire handied only about 28!, per cent of the world's trade in 1930, while the United States alone handled 12'; per cent, almost half as much. In the United States was sold, in 1930, more than one-third of all the linen manufactures exported by the United Kingdonr; 43.2 per cent of all M“un_ux .19 per cent of all exports” of Jeather and leather goods, other than wearing apparel. Buy Heavily in U. S. On the other side of the ledger, the United Kingdom ook one-sixth of all the imports from the United States, | some of the outstanding items being | four-fifths of the American exports of | hams, more than half the tobacco, | worth $79,400,000, and 30 per cent of | the total exports of motion picture sound equipment. The United States bought more than 90 per cent of Canada’s total exports of fresh fish, hides, skins and pulp wood, and between 80 and 90 per cent | or]her exports of newsprint and wood | pulp. America. in turn, sold in Canadai more than half its total exports of | corn, vegetables oranges and crude petroleum, nearly half its iron and steel and a third of its foreign sales of radio apparatus. Although With other parts of the | British commonwealth the trade figures | were not so striking, more than 65| per cent of India's exports of gunny cloth. worth about $48,000,000, went to the United States. along with 433 per | cent of all the rabbit skins shipped from Australia and 274 per cent of the sheep skins exported from South Africa The United States bought 15 per cent | more of Canada’s exports than the entire empire did. 50 per cent more than the United Kingdom and 28 times | as much as Australia and New Zealand combined. About cne-third of the total long term foreign investments of the United States, amounting to more than $5,000,000,000, are in the British Em- pire, most of them in Canada and New Foundland. but nearly $700.000,000 in the United Kingdom itself. nearly $500,000,000 in Australia and New Zea- land, and several millions in British Africa, the West Indies and Malaya. Action Expected Soon. The prevailing belief in circles close to the conference was that this week should see the preliminaries cleared away and something tangible done. There was a report that the Union of | South Africa and the Irish Free State | have been conducting negotiations for a bilateral agreement, but members of the latter delegation today denied it. South Africa, they sald, exported | nothing that the Free State would buy, and the Free State’s exports comprised mainly commodities which the union it- | self produced. | The Free State is interested in get- | ting some outlet for its malt beverages | and liquors, and is prepared to give markets for coal and wheat. D. C. ARCHITECT INVITES FRENCH TO SESSION HERE George Oakley Totten Urges Pro- | | 2.—The ; fession to Show Faith in Prosperity’s Return. By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 2—Convinced that prosperity is coming soon, a number of American architects, headed by George | Oakley Totten, of Washington, D. C. | have come to France to boost the next world congress of architects scheduled for Washington in 1933. Many American architects _have studied for their profession in France and are particularly hopeful that lead- ing French architects will decide to go to Washington, despite hard times, be- lieving that if the leaders make the trip the others will follow. Several architects plan to make French delegates their house guests. The Americans are vigorously combat- ting & move to have the congress post- | pored because of economic depression, feeling sure that world conditions are improving and that architects would be setting a good example by recommend- | ing_architectural developments. The object of the congress is a dis- | | | public in general, |Expected to Summon Lead- Pinchot Is En Route To Washington to Speed Relief Loan By the Assoclated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa. August 2. —Gov. Pinchot today left for ‘Washington to press Pennsyl- vania’s claim for $45,000,000 of Federal relief money from the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion. “I am very keenly anxious to avold any delay in securing the money for Pennsylvania’s unem- ployed,” he said before his de- parture. “I am going down to ‘Washington to learn if there are any obstacles to immediate action and if possible to help remove them.” HOOVER MAY CALL 1BS CONFERENCE ers for Discussion of Five-Day Week. By the Assoclated Press. ‘The administration is on record today for a plan to give jobs to more people by letting all work less and may pre- sent the idea to business leaders in a national conference shortly. The likelthood that President Hoover will call such a conference stands out clearly as an aftermath of his talk yes- terday with a group of New Englanders who presented a work-shortening plan. Gov. Winant of New Hampshire said: | « “We made some progress in the meet- | ing with the President.” The “New Hampshire” plan would spread employ- ment through a five-day week, shorter | work days or any other method found advisable. Other Parleys Promised. “We have been assured that further | consideration is to be given this and| other means for spreading employment | and that there will be other conferences | and other discussions along this same line,” Winant said. Administration leaders also are con- templating even the four or three day week, the six-hour day, staggering of working kours and flexible work weeks depending upon the volume of business. Application of these plans, they say, while reducing incomes of employed | workers, would giver much-needed jobs to_others. President Hoover in his recent nine- point rehabilitation program indicated he favored a plan of this sort when he said, “I have under discussion with various agencies the question of a movement to further spread existing employment through reduction of work hours.” Survey Completed. He has available for study before calling the conference a survey of shorter employment hours made by Secretaries Doak and Lamont and cov- ering 6,551 companies. Doak predicted, after meeting the New Englanders, who came to the Cap- ital to carry out plans advanced at their recent economic conference, that | industry would adopt the shorter work | principle generally. He indorsed this| trend. | He did not specifically approve of | the New Hampshire idea, but indicated belief that acceptance of a shorter week | could be expected in many industries |the United Mine Workers' Association, | they had borrowed from the REICH MAY REVERT T0 BISMARCK PLAN Von Papen Declares Readi- ness to Rule in Defiance of Reichstag Parties. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 2—The German Re- public, as a result of Sunday’s election, faced a situation today resembling the days of Bismarck, with Gen. Kurt von Schleicher in the role of iron chancellor. Chancellor Franz von Papen, head of the present cabinet, the power behind which is the affable but decisive Junker- Gen. von Schleicher, informed the As- sociated Press last night his govern- ment intended to stay in power, defying the Reichstag if necessary. Referring to the post-election Tiots yesterday, which were attributed to the National Socialists and in which four were slain, the chancellor said whoever is found responsible for the “regrettable events” would find the cabiret “deter- mined to deal swiftly and summarily with them.” Offenders Sternly Warned. Dr. Franz Bracht, dictator of Prussia under Von Papen, warned that the limit had been reached and that swift retribution would be meted out to of- fenders. The chancellor made it clear that he, and the general at his back, would con- tinue to rule Germany without party support. any significance,” he said, “it was the indorsement. by the German people of the government’s effort to rid the coun- | try of party control.” “My colleagues and 1" he continued, tend to go before the Reichstag with our program of constructive ef-| fort and dare the members to unseat | us in the face of the crying need for | objective, non-partisan work.” The power of Prince Bismarck was founded on a similar situation, a cabi- net set ug independently of the Reichs- tag which carried on the government with responsibility only to the Kaiser. ‘The Von Papen-Von Schleicher cabi- net was sent into power by order of President von Hindenburg alone. In political circles the opinion today was that Sunday's elections resulted precisely as Gen. von Schleicher ex- pected they would and that the general (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) R S R PENNSYLVANIA RATIFIES ‘LAME DUCK’ AMENDMENT | Would Provide for Inauguration of President in January Instead of in March. By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa. August 2—The Pensylvania Legislature today com- pleted ratification of the proposed amendment to the Federal Constitu- tion to eliminate the “lame duck” ses- sion of Congress. The amendment would provide for the inauguration of the President in January instead of March 4. The House passed the ratification resolution today. It previously had been passed by the Senate. e Miners' Leader Dies on Train. NEW LONDON, Conn., August 2 (#). —Willlam P. Delaney of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, secretary and treasurer of “If yesterday's election had | PARAGUAY RUSHING T0 ARMS AS NATION MOBILIZES TROCPS |General Concentration Or- dered as Government Acts to Oppose Bolivia. INOTE OF COMPLAINT | FILED WITH LEAGUE Reports Say Second Fort in Gran Chaco Region Menaced in Border Dispute. By the Associated Press. ASUNCION, Paraguay, August 2.— Hundreds of Paraguayan youths swarm- ed around army headquarters today and clamored to be the first enlisted in the general mobilization against Bolivia, authorized by Congress last night. The young men, eager to join the armed resistance decided upon as a re- sult of Bolivian attacks on Paraguayan forts in the long-disputed Gran Chaco region, refused to await the govern- ment's call upon them for service. Thousands of trained troops were |moved from their barracks to other | quarters to make room for the new en- listments. ~ Military cadets marched through the streets, lined with huge, | excited and milling crowds, demanding to be sent to the “war” area. They filed up to the residence of President Jose P. Giggiari and cheered his action in deciding to defend the country. Note to League of Nations. Events moved rapidly after the deci- sion of Congress to mobilize the mili- tary and economic resources of the country last night. Plans to call the army and navy re- serves were rushed. In the meantime, Foreign Minister Higinio Arbo sent a note to the League of Nations Council declaring Bolivia had violated Artisles 10 and 11 of the League covenant, which requires members to respect the peace a nd territorial integrity of other members. Besides the news of the attack on Fort Bogueron, one of Paraguay’s im- portant strongholds in Chaco territory, the government also heard that the Bo- livians were marching on Fort Islapol, which also has figured in the 60-year- old dispute between the two nations over the wild, swampy, mostly un- mapped territory which' forms their boundary line. “As a member of the distinguished international institution,” minister said in his note to the League, “Paraguay calls attention to the com- mission by Balivia of hostile acts, with. out “explanations or a declaration of Denies Bolivian Charge. | “When the attack on Fort Bogado bg the Bolivians was repulsed on July 25 the Bolivian chancellor falsely al- leged that Paraguay had attacked (the Bol.lsltvun) Fort Florida, which does not Reviewing the attacks on Forts Cor- rales, Toledo, Martinez, Islapoi and Boqueron, the note added that “such conduct does not become a nation be- longing to the l&lflle." Paraguay was willing to submit the controversy to arbitration, the foreign minister said, and accepted an offer of neutral nations to make an investiga- tion of the Midjuly incidents, but military hostilities developed in the meantime. Economic pressure and the need for both nations to expand have aided in bringing the old issue to the danger point again. Although the Chaco is a vast jungle, consisting of thousands of square miles between the Pilcomayo and Paraguay Rivers, it is also poten- Mnlll% one of the richest areas in the world. Bolivia Land-locked. Bolivia has been land-locked ever | since she was pushed back from the Pacific by Chile. The Paraguay River, along the west bank of which Paraguay has built her settlements and strung her forts, is navigable, while the Pilco- (Contintied on Page 2, Column 2.) C—— e $28,388,464 IN LOANS PROMISED TO RAILROADS Figures on Carriers Are Reported to Interstate Commerce Commission. By the Assoclated Press. The railways' own relief agency, the | Railroad Credit Corporation, up to yes- terday had promised loans to carriers totaling $28,388,464. This figure was reported today to the Interstate Commerce Commission. ‘The monthly statement showed that of the amount obligated, $20,445441 actually had been advanced and $7.- | 943,023 promised. The money is be- | ing used to meet fixed obligations. Collections from recent rate increases, the corporation said, totaled $26,034,210 the first five months of the year, the May return reaching $5,250,961. In July carriers repaid sl.oafo,o%o und, now even though a new national con- |died suddenly of a heart attack *his | while up to August 1 the amounts ap- ference were not held. FARMERS SHOW MORE INTEREST IN BUREAUS | Increased Co-operation Reported Despite Decline in Their Profits. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, August 2—Fifty Farm Bureau executives from nine Midwest States decided at a conference in Chi- | cago today that farmers were more interested in organization than ever' before. Delegates reported Farm Bureau | memberships as either increasing or| “holding up surprisingly well.” Dele- gates attended from Missouri, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana, II- linois, Kansas, Michigan and Wis- | consin. | “Farmers generally have about $1 income where formerly they had $3," said L. J. Melrose, a director of the | Minnesota Farm Bureau, “but they are | prompt in going into their reduced morning on the Colonial express at the lecal railroad station. plied for were reduced more than $47,000,000 London Pol By the Associated Press. OXFORD, England, August 2.—Two| American tourists, Mrs. Annie W. Fisher of Lyndhurst, N. J., and her sister, Mrs Elizabeth Walsh, appeared in police | court today to charge false pretenses against a debonair chance acquaint- ance. The acquaintance was Robert Arthur Cooper, well dressed man of about 40, whom they accused of obtaining $311 of their money and running off with | earnings for organizing purposes. That can mean only one thing—the farmer | Mrs. Fisher’s daughter Kathleen. According to the testimony, the three | MAN TOOK DAUGHTER AND §311, AMERICAN WOMAN TOURIST SAYS Chance Acquaintance Accused of False Pretenses in lice Court. he was permitted to handle considerable of their money for them. Cooper, she said, traveled with the party from London to Oxford, and en | route informed her he had fallen vio- lently in love with her daughter. “In view of what he had sald about his financial position, I consented to their engagement,” Mrs. Fisher said. Cooper left them at Oxford with £85 of their money to be changed to Amer- ican currency in don. Kathleen ac- companied him, and the testimony was that the two were to have returned to Oxford the same afternoon. That was on July 6. “Today,” added Mrs. Fisher, “is the is becoming more anxious to protect | women had met Cooper by chance in | first time I have seen him since, and I | ms business by co-operating with his | neighbor.” Radio WPI’O[I’II!I on l’—ue B-1 F'S ‘Winchester Cathedral last month. Mrs. | Fisher testified he represented himself | as a_well-to-do army officer employed | in the war office. He so Ingratiated | himself with the party, she said, that didn't see my daughter until July 26 at_Tramore, Ireland.” Cooper was arrested in Ireland last month and brought back here. No de- cision was immediately b a