Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1932, Page 1

WEAT (U. 8. Weather B THER. ureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy and continued warm to- night; tomorrow probably local thunder- showers. Temperatures—Highest, 91, at 2 pm. yesterday; lowest, 75 at 3 a.m. today. Full report on page 12. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 he i 5 'Y‘T,;? ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION hening tar. in Washing The only evening paper ton with the Yesterday’s Circulation, 114,727 o 99 = yr) 3 9. No. post office, Wa Entered as second class matter i shington, D. HINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1932 —TWENTY-SIX PAGES., *x* (#) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. ROOSEVELT ORDERS WALKER TOALBAN FOR OUSER PROBE Summons Accused Mayor for Hearing Thursday. Others Called. REJOINDE_E TO SEABURY DEMANDED BY MONDAY Governor Farley Case in Calling for Public Examination. By the Associated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y., August 6— Gov. Roosevelt announced today he had called a public hearing in the Walker case for Thursday, August 11, in Al-| bany Telegrams were sent to Mayor James J. Walker, Samuel Seabury, William J. Schieffelin and James E. Finegan. The hearing will open at 12:30 p.m., East- ern standard time. Mr. Roosevelt’s announcement that Mayor Walker would be given an op- portunity publicly to defend himself came after Finegan, a Brooklyn man, had made public the telegram he had received from the Governor. ‘Walker's removal was demanded after the Horsmdx Legislative Committee had investigabed the mayor's adminis- tration. Seabury. as counsel for the committee, did not prefer charges against the mayor, but he drew con- clusions from the evidence, which, he claimed, justified the ousting of Walk- er. The mayor, Seabury held, had il- Jegally used his office for private gain and had failed to explain huge bank accounts alleged to have been held jointly by Walker and Russell Sher- Wood, missing accountant. In his telegram to Walker, the Gov- ernor said: © ‘I request that you appear before me at the executive chamber on Thurs- day, August 11, 1932, at 1:30 p.m,, day- light saving time, in order that you may be heard in respect to the charges filed with me by Hon. Samuel Seabury, Mr. William J. Schieffelin and Mr.! James E. Finegan and others and your answer thereto. 1 shall expect that in accordance with my telegram to you yesterday your rejoinder to Judge Sea- | bury’s reply will be in my hands next | Monday. Letter follows.’ “You will be given opportunity to be heard in respect to your charges and the answer thereto at the time and Pplace therein set forth. “Very truly yours, (Signed) “FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.” Seabury Silent. Seabury, reached at his East Hamp- ton, Long Island, home, where he is spending the week end. declined to comment on the letter and telegram made public by Finegan, stating that | any information would have to come | from the Governor. He also declined to say whether he | had received a similar communication | from Albany, although it was under- | stood that he had. In calling the mayor to Albany to answer the charges, the Governor is Jollowing the same procedure he adopt- ed in the case of former Sheriff Thom- as M. Farley. who was given a public hearing on removal charges filed by Seabury. Farley subsequently was re- moved from the office of sheriff of New York County by the Governor on the ground that Farley did not satisfac- torily explain his large income. i CO-OPERATIVE SALES | OF WOOL MULTIPLY| 5,000,000 Pounds Sold in Market| Described as Best Since 1920. By the Associated Pre BOSTON, August 6.—The National | Co-operative Wool Marketing Corpora- tion has sold several million pounds of wool for 35 to 37 cents a pound. clean basis, aceording to L. U. Edgehill of | Draper & Co., selling agent for the co- | operative. Edgehill described the market as| “moving rapidly,” as it has not since 1920. He estimated more than 15,000, s had been sold “in the street” Others, he said. estimated | the sales as high as 25,000,000 pounds. “Tide Has Turned.” Ga., August € (#).—The J. K. Orr Shoe Co., manufacturers, to- day reported operation at full capacity and said it was “behind” on its orders yeneral Manager C. W. Butler said “we | feel the business tide has definitely | urned.” Three Lithonia granite firms have re- ceived an order to supply 40,000,000 | pounds of stone for jetty improvements | at the mouth of St. Johns River on the east coast of Florida, Fred C. Mason, president of the firms, announced. New School Ordered. LOUISVILLE. Ky., August 6 (% Several hundred persons are expected 1o be given employment as a result of «ction yesterday of the Louisville Board @ Education ‘in ordering work to be ~atted at once on a new senior-junlior Yugn school. The estimated cost of the building is $990,000 RASKOB ESTATE SOLD TO CATHOLIC ORDER Delaware lium-s o!r Vl‘;rmtr Demo- cratic Chairman Will Become Boys’ Preparatory School. By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del, August 6 —The estate of John J. Raskob, former Demo- cratic national chairman, at Claymont, Del., 6 miles north of Wilmington, and known as “Archmere,” has been sold o the Premonstratensian Fathers of St. Norbert College, Depere, Wis., it was an- ncunced today by T. B. O'Toole, & realtor. The property, O'Toole said, will be converted into’ & boys' preparatory school to be known as Archmere Acad- emy and will open September 14. The Very Rev. Michael J. McKeough of 8t. Norbert College will be the principal. ‘The Raskob home was built in 1916 $1.000,000 The Raskob family for Follows Procedure ofl Sinn Feiner Held in Assassin Plot i on British Head By the Associated Press. TORONTO. Ontario, August 6.—Daniel Malone, described by the mounted police as a “Sinn Feiner of the most radical type,” was held today by the police on suspicion of a plot to assassinate J. H. Thomas, British secretary for dominions. He was arrested last night after police had received word of a projected attack on Mr. Thomas, who was expected here for the opening_of the Welland Ship Canal. Immigration officials were investigating the man's record with a view to deporting him. AB WALKER'S BAL FXED AT 500 LBBY TOGIVE P Youth’s Father Pressed for Ready Cash—Holman Waits Daughter’s Arrival. By the"Associated Press. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. August 6.—Judge A. M. Stack announced to- day he would grant bond to Ab Walker, Winston-Salem youth, indicted with Mrs. Libby Holman Reynolds in the death of the latter's husband, Smith Reynolds, Winston-Salem millionaire. Judge Stack, at a hearing soon after- ward, fixed Walker's bail at $25,000. It was not immediately arranged. Although Higgins told the court the evidence now before him does not con- stitute a non-bailable offense, he made it piain he reserved the right to try Walker on a first degree charge in the event additional evidence is uncovered before the trial begins. Two Separate Cases. Asked if his action today indicates that he will adopt a similar attitude toward Mrs. Reynolds when her peti- tion for bail is submitted, Higgins said: “Emphatically, No. They are two separate cases. I will not cross that bridge until I come to it.” Bailey Liipfert and Oscar Efird, at- torneys for Walker, argued for a light bond. They said they had no one to look to for the money except the youth's father, B. B. Walker, described as a large owner of real estate, but with little ready cash. Libby Hclman will come to Winston- Salem in “considerably less than a week,” Benet Polikoff, one of her at- torneys, said. Meantime, he said, her father, Alfred Holman, will make no further moves to arrange bail. Libby will return “voluntarily,” ac- cording to her father, to answer the charge of husband murder. This assurance did not deter cfficers in Ohio, Delaware and New York today from pushing the search for the actress. Her Presence Necessary. Solicitor Carlisle Higgins had said he | believed bond could not be obtained without the physical presence here of the defendant. Miss Holman's illness, which has been given as the reason for her failure to surrender, was ascribed by her fa-| ther, a Cincinnati lawyer, to shock and to the fact that she is an expectant mother. A formal statement by counsel for the former actress said “Mr. Alfred Holman, father of Mrs. | Smith Reynolds, came to Winston-Sa- lem in the hcpe that he might be able to arrange bond for his daughter's ap- pearance here at such time as the court might direct and thereby spare his daughter the discomfort of an arduous journey in her present condition. She is still suffering from shock and is an expectant mother. “She will not require that the State of North Carolina request her extra- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) TROOPS PUSH BACK BRAZILIAN REBELS Federal Forces Advance Paulo After Shelling Ranches and Plan Junction Later. in Sao By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, August 6. | —Sao Paulo's rebels were driven back today, a government announcement said, by federal troops under Gen. Joao Francisco, who advanced his line by vic- tories in the vicinity of Jacarezinho, ap- proximately ' 100 miles northwest of Itarare. This column plans to advance on the railway to the northeast of its pres- ent position, efecting a junction later with the force under Gen. Waldomiro Lima. Gen. Monteira, in command of the northern_division, reported this morn- ing that he was driving toward Cruzeiro and had taken several ranches, driving out rebel garrisons with artillery. | The federals claimed to have taken 130 prisoners in that area yesterday. SAO PAULO, Brazil, August 6 (#).— The Sao Paulo rebels announced today that the federal government was be- ing steadily crippled by inability to col- lect taxes in Sao Paulo, which pays the major share of the government’s in- come. and that the situation at Rio de Janeiro was becoming steadily more JORNSTOWN CLEAR TODAY OF B, E.F'S LAGGARD MEMBERS fCompIete Evacuation of Remnant by Rail Is Ex- | pected by Leaders. |TRAIN OF TEN COACHES | DISPATCHED BY PENNSY Railrcad Officials Declare Between 700 and 800 Men Will Be Taken Eastward. By the Assoc! d Press. | PITTSBURGH. August 6.—The Penn- | sylvania Railroad announced today that a special train of 10 coaches is leaving for Johnstown immediately to transport | stranded bonus marchers there to their homes in the East. { The train will leave Johnstown this | afternoon as soon as the cars can be loaded. It will travel trom Johnstown to Jersey City, making stops at numer- | ous points along the line. | - Pennsylvania Railroad officials said | between 700 and 800 men will be taken | Eastward This would virtually complete the | evacuation of the bonus army’s camp | near Johnstown. | CONFER WITH OFFICIALS. Atwell and McCloskey Seek Train for B. E. F. JOHNSTOWN, Pa.. August 6 () — Eddie Atwell, representative of Comdr Walter W. Waters of the B. E. F.. and Mayor Eddie McClo: carried on = separate negotiations with the Penn- svlvania Railroad for a train to carry | the remnant of bonus marchers home it was learned today A check showed abou. 400 Pennsyl- vanians, 300 New Yorkers, 50 each from Massachuseits and Connecticut and a scattering from other States. them wandered about the city last night and joined thousands who watch- ed an American Legion parade. McCloskey battled vigorously with railroad officials for a train last night but failed. Offers to take the men in box cars was rejected “These men were promised they would ride on the cuchions and we're going to see that they do,” he and Atwell snapped The mayor threatened to march the men onto railroad property. The camp was quiet throughout the night, those remaining being fed from a barrel of food sent in Automobiles and trucks carried hundreds on their way yesterday and last night after McCloskey had arrang- ed gasoline supplies. KANSAS CITY SPEEDS 450. Rebukes Eastern Cities for Trying to | “Dump” Marchers. KANSAS CITY, August 6 (#).—Four hundred and eighty members of the dispersing Washington bonus army sped West, South and North from Kansas City ‘today, after a brief halt during which they were handed free trans- portation to their homes. ~Apprised of the arrival of the con- tingent aboard a special train from St Louis, City Manager H. F. McElroy last night made arrangements with the Mis- souri Pacific Railroad to carry “march- ers” to their homes. He then issued a statement in which he rebuked Eastern cities for attempting to “dump” the marchers on municipalities further West. The “army” was divided according to Gesiinations of the various groups and each member provided with a ticket. Some were bound for homes in Cali- fornia, one large group was headed for Colorado and smaller sections were sent on their way to Nebrsska, Oklahoma and Texas. want these men moved on to their homes, not just shunted to an- | other city," the city manager said in | discussing " the city’s plans lor provid- | ing transportation | be met and the city will ke responsible for the cost. We will do what Washing- ton ought to have done in the first place” Leaders of a group of 55 Kansas City men, who also arrived on the St. Loui: train, said they were “glad to get home " WALKER FACES RIVAL | R. F.C. LOAN B!D HERE City Port Authority te Ask Fed- eral Aid at Same Time Mayor Puts in Request. By the Assoclated Press NEW YORK. August 6.—Conflict was predicted today between two requests that the Reconstruction Finance Corpo- ration aid projects in the metropolitan area Mayor James J. Walker is gok Washington hext week sceking o to complete the $30,000,000 Tri-Bor- ough Bridge .which would link Man- hattan, Queens and the Bronx. He | also will ask aid for other public works. | . The announcement followed a sim- ilar statement from the port of New | York authority that it wanted a loan | for the building of the Hudson River | Tunnel to Weehawken. The New York Times said a conflict between the two requests seemed inevitable because it Most of | The situation must | HE MAY BE « ALL THEM THINGS BUT HEAINT No - ") NEAR ReLaTioN, OF MINE' — %0 B RDOSEVELTA EARER OF A FAMous Name. TWIGE (GOVERNOR of NewYork N N A SN HOOVER PREPARES | | 'Will Correct Proofs of Ac- | ceptance Speech While at the Rapidan. | President Hoover made preparations ! today for a motor trip to his Rapidan ,camp, where he intends to spend the week end with Mrs. Hoover and a smail | group of guests. At the camp he hopes | to complete the task of correcting the | proof of his acceptance speech, to be | delivered here next Thursday. | Mr. Hoover has been giving an in- creasing amount of time to his accept- ance speech. Although one proof of | the address has been printed, he expects |to revise it and White House officiels | have estimated it might not be finally | completed before next Wednesday. The President altered his daily rou- | tine this morning by not going to his desk in the Executive Office until nearly {10 o'clock. After breakfast with Roy ! W. Howard, newspaper publisher, he | went to the Lincoln study instead of undivided ottention to his acceptance speech proofs It was indicated Mr. Hoover expected to return to Washington Monday morn- ing, but this is not definite. In the event the President finds it convenient day. he will do so. it was said. The guests at the camp will be E. A. Van Valkenberg, former Philadelphia newspaper publisher, and Mrs. Van Valkenberg, Col. Hanford MacNider, Minister to Canada. and Charles Hib- bard, Spokane industrialist. Mr. Hoover made only one engage- ment today and that was for a confer- ence at 11 o'clock with Senator Howell | of Nebraska. However, soon after he arrived in his office, Secretary of State Stimson arrived for a_half-hour confer- ence, the second in 24 hours Arrangements for the lawn party at | the White House Thursday afternoon, | incident to the official notification cere- monies. are understood to have been virtually completed. In the meantime, | officials of the national committee are engaged in making preparations for the | ceremontes that night at Cemstitution Hall | The President’s 58th birthday anni- versary Wednesday, one day in advance | of his notification, will be observed | quietly. ~ Neither the President nor | Mrs. Hoover take a great ceal of notice | of birthday anniversaries, and it is unlikely the President’s customary daily routine will be altered. | “Mrs. Hoover is planning an attrac- | tively iced birthday cake, with candles, to grace the table during the evening meal on that day. When the White House today was asked for comment upon published re- | ports that President Hoover recently | has received what was described as a final plea from dry interests to com- | pose his acceptance speech so as to not alienate dry Republican votes, es- { pecially in New York State, no com- ment was forthcoming. JUNIOR CHAMBER ASKS WAR ON ALIEN RADICALS | By the Associated Press | PASADENA. Calif, August Strengthening of laws providing for the | deportation of alien Communists from | the United States is favored by the | United States Junior Chamber of Com- merce. A resolution passed yesterday at the | also recommended establishment of a bureau in the Department of Justice to | search out, scrutinize and keep under | constant supervision Communist organi- | zations and all kindred agencies. “ ” | PANTS BURGLAR™ HELD | is considered unlikely the R. F. C.|Suspect Is Identified by Baltimore would grant two large loans for work in one area. favorable te the rebel cause. | 1 | Moore’s “Little By the Associated Press SEA GIRT, N. J,, August 6.—Gov. A. Harry Moore laughed today over the tears he shed when a tricky breeze played hob with an exhibition of how tear gas can quell an angry mob { staged yesterday by Capt. Henry Decke! who told off 30 New Jersey Nationa T, 1 rades to act the part of a mob inflamed | cottage The show Wwith the weepy finale was| nets Guardsmen to represent the forces of JERSEY: GOVERNOR TEAR GASSED., “RIOTERS” THEN DRINK SODA POP White House.” | the “little white house,” the Gover- | nor's Summer cottage on the edge of the parade ground at Camp Moore. On rushed the “rioters,” clad in blue dungarees and bowling “cossacks”! To- ward them advanced the forces of the | law with gas masks and glinting bayo- ‘When Decker thought the time | was ripe, he gave the command to set | off eight tear gas candles. A great cloud of gas floated upward— 1,200 Bystanders Also Weep When Fumes Reach | Victims. BALTIMORE, August 6 (#).—The two-year activities cf a “pants burglar” in West Baltimore were believed by po- |lice to be at an end. | James Wilfong, arrested yesterday | after a chase, was picked from a police | line-up by five victims as the man they |saw rifling pants pockets in their bed { rooms, when aroused from sleep. | Scores of robberies from pants during the past two years were charged against the burglar. NIOBE VICTIM FOUND First of 69 Bodies Recovered Off | | Kiel, Germany. | | 6 (A—| It gassed the Governor, gassed at a cost said to have been more m;nl “law and order” and 200 of their com- | and blew right toward the Governor's their Maryland home, kno L Hall,” near Centerville, as “Most- more than a year has bern living at to “direct action” by soip-box oratory.| dignitari Decker bet the “mob" drinks a round of (of 50da pop) it douldn’t reach' —The “rioters” dr bystanders. Everybody wept BNk 5008 Pop. jes attending him, gassed 1,200' KIEL, Germany, August Divers brought up from the .bottom of | the sea today the first of the bodies of the victims of the sinking of naval training ship Niobe near bhere July 26. | Sixty-nine men, most of them naval cacets, went down with the ship. Radio ;l’o[l’llll é‘h;e B-4 10 WORK AT GAMP going to his office and there gave his | to remain in the mcuntains until Tues- | b annual convention of the organization | British Notables Attend Opening of Welland Canal By the Associated Press | THOROLD, Ontario, August 6. —Distinguished figurcs from all | | parts of the British Empire m- | | terrupted the Imperial Economic | | Conference at Ottiwa today to | participate in the formal opening ‘ of Canada’s $130,000.000 Welland Ship Canal, an integral part of the St. Lawrence Waterway. i The Earl of Bessborough. gov- | | ernor general. was to pull the lever which actually will put the canal into operation He will | speak, and there wjll be ad- dresses by Premier Bennett and other officials. STOCKS SWING UP Buying Pours Into Market During Two-Hour Session | of Week End. } | | e | | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, August 6.—Bullish en- | thusiasm, which rcached its crest to- | ;I‘nrd the closing minutes of trading, swept prices up from $2 to more than $12 a share on the New York Stock Exchange today. | Buying poured into the market | throughout the two-hour session, at- taining its climax in the final half hour, when it appeared that buyers were willing to pay almost any price to cbtain their favorites. United States Steel comomn reached $42 a share for an extreme gain of more than $7, while Steel preferred soared nearly $13. American Tele- phone showed a rise of over $7 from Friday's close. Railroad stocks, which had been sluggish in recent market advances, raced up rapidly. Union Pacific ad- vanced more than $9 to $63 a share. Santa Fe was up $7 to $44. New York Central stepped up $3 or so J. 1. Case was an impressive leader in the upsurge of the industrial stocks, advancing more than $5. Allied Chem- ical was up $6 to $75.25. Gains of $2 to over $5 a share were also made by Air Reduction, American Can, Americen Tobacco B, Auburn, Coca Cola, du Pont. Consolidated Gas, General Electric and Sears Roebuck. MANILA HEARS FLYER RESCUE MOVE BEGINS | Lientenant Believed Headed to Isle Where Glenn Brophy May i Be Savages' “Prisoner. i | By the Associated Press MANILA, P. I, August 6.—Despite official disapproval of a proposed expe- | dition to the Island of Yami, where | Glenn Brophy, English aviator, is re- ported held prisoner by savages, a mili- tary party may be en route to the isle Melanio Velasco, constabulary captain | who came here to seek official consent for an expedition to the island, today said Lieut. Chavez, commander at Basco, in the Batanes group, had an- nounced he would leave for Yami at once unless he received orders to the contrary. Brophy disappeared two years ago while making a flight from Shanghu‘ to Manila. Velasco's proposal for an expedition was disapproved by Col. Claude Bowers, acting chief of constabulary, who point- ed out the dangers of such an attempt Yami is unexplored and is in the center of the typhoon district. Its natives are hostile toward intruders. PRIME MINISTER QUITS Swedish Chieftain Resigns and Is| Succeeded by Finance Head. STOCKHOLM, August 6 (#.—C. G. Ekman, prime minister of Sweden, re- | signed today. P. T. Hamrin, finance minister, was appointed premier. He will also re- tain the post of finance minister. Premier Ekman went into office in June, 1930, aiter the fall of the cabinet under Admiral Arvid Lindman. le;}:;un cabinet fell whent ;;ovmul opposition developed against its pro- posal to increase the tariff on wheat imports. Fkman is leader of the popular Lib- eral party. He 1s the son of a stone- cutter and received his early training as a newspaper editor, NSO SI2 GAMS VON PAPENHITLER ACREEMENT SEEN Conference Visioned as Aides 2f Both Parties Leave for Resort. B- the Associated Press. BERLIN. August 6 —Certain devel- , opments today indicated the Von Papen government i3 engaging in active ne- gotiations with the National Socialists to arrange for the participation of Adolf | Hitler's party in the government. Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, of defense, and the most powerful fig- ure in the Von Papen cabinet, left this morning for a few days at a Baltic re- sort. At about the same time Hermann oering, Hitler's righthand man, left for the same destination. There was an unconfirmed report that Hitler him- self was going up to the Baltic. There was nothing official to indicate these departures were more than a co- incidence, but those who have been watching the political developments be- iieved reports that there were to be im- portant discussions on the Baltic over this week end. Conference Evokes Surprise. Capt. Goering had a long talk yes- terday with Baron von Neurath, the foreign minister, but neither would say what they had talked about. It was surprising to many that these two should confer, for hitherto Baron von Neurzth has kept aloof from do- mestic politics as much as possible. It was assumed that, with other things, he told Capt. Goering that the daily reports of political violence in Ger- many are harmful to the country's prestige abroad. The newspaper Tempo said this morning that Hitler had assembled his storm troop leaders at Schwerin and sued strict orders to avoid acts of violence. Nevertheless, disturbances continued today. Rioting Continues. Dynamite and hand grenades from the arsenals of political factions gave a new touch today to the violence which has swept through Germany for the past six weeks In a wave of sabotage, dynamite damaged buildings in half a dozen places, and several persons narrowly escaped injury from bombs. At Bresiau” Ernst Eckstein, head of the Socialist Labor party, was shbaken out of his bed when a bomb was thrown from a spesding automobile through his bedroom window. The room was wrecked, but he was not hurt. He told police he suspected the National So- cialists. A dvnamite explosion broke 300 win- dows and caused extensive other dam- age at Brunswick. The charge was planted in a narrow street inhabited by workingmen. There were numerous injuries from flying glass, but nobody was seriously hurt At Schwerin a building occupied by the Socialist newspaper was damaged by vandals, presumably political oppo- (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) U. S. CONSULATE CLOSED Three Others Slated for Termina- tion Beside Lausanne Office. For the sake of economy the State Department has closed the American consuiate at Lausanne and has taken steps to close as soon as practicable the | consulate at Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, and at Puntarenas, Costo Rica. Vice Consul Clifford W. McGlasson of Washington has terminated his serv- ices with the foreign service, the con- | sulate at Lausanne having been closed on July 30. Records of the office are ein; ved at Geneva. | By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, August 6.—Investigators | may use & “truth serum” on Dr. Wil- |liam A. O'Brien 1n an effort to clear up the mystery surrounding the death of his wife, Vera. Mrs. O'Brien died last Monday of ing and her husband has oeen eld since Wednesday for questioning. On the theory that with his senses dulled by the drug he will answer ques- tions truthfully, the would subject him to the drug test. Dr. O’Brien hag already submitted to a test by a “lle or” machine, He insis! his wife herself. minister | “TRUTH SERUM” TEST MAY CLEAR MYSTERY IN DEATH OF WOMAN| Chicago Physician, Held for Slaying Wife, to Be Given Drug Potion as Preliminary to Grilling. 'Rouce said they | BRITAIN NOW FACES TRADE SHOWDOWN AT OTTAWA PARLEY Dominions’ Offers in Hands of Mother Country—Reply Due Monday. TERMS CALL FOR BREAK WITH OLD MARKET TIES| Branch U. S. Factories Await De-| cision Affecting Their Status in Empire Units. By the Assoclated Press. OTTAWA, Ontario, August 6.—The plans of the dominions for trade agree- | ments with Great Britain were all in | the hands of British delegates today. | The British were expected to begin | making their decisions next week. The two exceptions were the Irish! | Free State and India, whose delegates| indicated they did not come to the| | conference to treat with Great Britain. | In each of the other instances the dominions asked the mother country | for a protected British market for their! products, chiefly agricultural. i There was a tacit promise that the British answers would be transmitted, beginning Monday, but there was no| indication that these would be made | public. Ancient Policy Involved. | It was made quite plain that to grant| their requests Great Britain would have | to forsake her time-nonored policy of | free trade in bread and meat and that | her decision would be based on wheth- er the inducements were sufficient. Those close to the British said the delegation undoubtedly would seek ma- terial compromises. As it stands, the: are asked to break virtual monopolies | for Denmark and Argentina on bacon | and chilled beef, practically to exclude Russian lumber and to raise trade bar-| riers egainst wheat from the United| States and other foreign countries. The British prefer Danish bacon, it} was pointed out. Huge English finan-| cial interests would be at stake in the! exclusion of Argentine beef. Russial pays off her commercial obligations to the United Kingdom with lumber, | amounting to $150,000,000, last year. Besides, Great Britain depends on for- eign markets, including the United States. to take more than half her | annual exparts. Revenue Question Enters. The question of revenue also entered into the consideration. The British expect to collect about $100,000.000 a year from their present tariff law. To increase its duties too high, they have pointed out, would keep out imports and defeat its revenue object. It was expected she would present | counter-proposals. Most important of these, from the standpoint of the United States, is likely to be on the question of “empire content,” that pro- | portion of home labor and materials which must go into products made in' | foreign branch plants 1n_empire terri- | tory to make them eligible to trade| preferences. | 7 1t was understood British textile in- | terests, the chief value of whose prod- uets is in cotton imported from the United States, would oppose Canada’s suggestion for an “empire content” of 60 per cent. | | CREW IS STRICKEN | BY TYPHOID FEVER » Maryland Probes Outbreak That Tent Nine to Hospital From Ship. | By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Apgust 6.—An out- break of typhoid fever among the crew | of the British steamer Victoria City to- | day was under investigation by agents | of the Maryland State Department of | Health. | Nine members of the steamer's crew were in University Hospital here under treatment for typhoid fever and two other ill seamen remained aboard the beat after she had docked yesterday at quarantine station at Curtis Bay Dr. Robert H. Riley, State heaith di- rector, saia health agents would board the steamer today to take “samples of | the Victoria City's water supply, in- oculate those members of the crew not already ill and search for a typhowd carrier or other sources of the out- break.” An ambulance, summoned by radio, took C. A. Mills, most seriously 1ll of | the crew, to the hospital. Ship officers thought he was suffezing from influenza or pneumonia, but Dr. Harry White, quarantine physician. diagnosed his fll- ness as typhoid fever. The diagnosis was_tentatively confirmed at the hos- pital to which the eight other sailors were taken later. The freighter, under command of Capt. W. A. Hann, left Nikoliadoff Russia, July 7; took on water at Alex- andria, Egypt, and stopped at Con- standza, Rumania, before proceeding on to Baltimore. It was laden with ore from Black Sea ports. 1 I J. Fordyce Wood, a handwriting ex- | pert, last night made an informal re- | port’ to Police Capt. Joseph Goldberg. expressing the opinion that a supposed suicide note found on the woman's dresser was not written by her. The note said: “I think, Bill, you can do a little BOLIVIA REFUSES CHACO TRUCE, BUT PARAGUAY AGREES La Paz Note Accuses Foes of War Plans, Blocking Way to Peace. NEW FIGHTING MAKES NEUTRALS' TASK HARDER Fort Repulses Bolivian Patrol—Asuncion Willing to Stop War, but Sticks to Terms. Border By the Associated Press. Paraguay signified her willingness to- day to declare a truce in the Gran Chaco dispute, but Bolivia declared she was compelled to go ahead with prepa- rations for armed defense “in view of | active mobilization by Paraguay.” The attitude of both nations was expressed in. replies to notes sent by the United States and 18 South and Central American nations, requesting an amicable settlement. Peace efforts were complicated, how- ever, by reports of a renewal of fight- ing in the Chaco area. A Bolivian pa- trol fired on an outpost of Fort Presi- dente Ayala late yesterday, but the at- tack was repulsed, the report said. Fort Presidente Ayala is one of 11 Paraguayan forts grouped within a 50- mile radius in Southern Chaco. Bo- livia has the same number in the same area. The Paraguayan treasury considered a plan to raise war funds by paying 25 to 50 per ccnt of its August salary roll in national cefense bonds. Paraguay’s proposal for a truce, as outlined in the reply to the 19 neutral naticns, included a provision that the truce be declared on the basis of the status of June 1, a condition to which Bolivia has objectzd. A tiousand school children asked the Paraguayan general staff yesterday for permission to form a fighting regiment. ACCEPTS PRINCIPLE ONLY. Bolivia Warns Neutrals War Prepara- tions Must Be Continued. LA PAZ, Bolivia, August 6 (#).—Bo- livia warned the United States and the 18 other neutral nations seeking a peaceful settlement of the Gran Chaco dispute today that the truce suggested by the neutrals was accepted only in principle, and subject to “subsequent emergencies.” “The country must be prepared for all eventualities,” the Bolivian “?ly sald. “In view of active mobilization by Paraguay, Bolivia must take neces- sary precautions for her own defense.” Opponents of the proposed truce held a demonstration yesterday demanding that war be declared. Students and workers discussed a proposal that the mobilization age limit be broadened to include all men from 16 to 30. President Saavedra said that unless Bolivia obtains a port on the Paraguay River near the mouth of the Apa River, Paraguay’s northern boundary, she can- not accept the mediation of neutral nations. DISCLAIMS WAR MOVE. Paraguay Assures Britain Defensive Action Only Taken, LONDON, August 6 (#).—Acknowl- edging the British government’s note supporting the League of Nations' appeal for peace in the Chaco district, the government of Paraguay today thanked Grest Britain for her interest in the dispute and asserted that meas- ures taken by Paraguay have been purely defensive. In official quarters it was sald that the British government had not yet re- ceived a reply from Bolivia. PARAGUAY GIRDS FOR WAR Government Considers Using Salary Roll for Military Expenses. ASUNCION, Paraguay, August 6 (P). —Paraguay accepted conditionally to- day proposals for peace with Bolivia but, pending establishment of a truce, she continued to lay plans for war. The government considered several ways of raising money, especially & plan for paying 25 to 50 per cent of her August salary roll in national de- fense bonds, excepting only teachers. The municipality of Asuncion began baking cheap bread. Mass was said at the Public Stadium for the conscripts preparing to go to the front. Bulletins from the front said the Paraguayan fort Presidente Ayala was attacked by a Bolovian patrol yester- day afternoon, but that the attack was repulsec. The garrison at Bahia Negra, northernmost river port, was reported “serenely awaiting the hour of test and only wishing the invader would at- tack.” “Paraguayans may be sure” the communique said, “that the officers and men will do their duty.” AMERICANS WOULD FIGHT. tne Bolivian and Paraguayan Legations Here Receive Offers of Services. By the Associated Press Both Bolivia and Paraguay are re- ceiving offers from Americans to fight in a Chaco war if one materializes. The offers are being forwarded by the legations to their foreign offices without comment. Some come from unemployed veterans and soldiers of fortune One World War fiver with the rank of captain has telegraphed both sides identical requests for service. State Department officials said, how- ever, that enlistment of Americans to fight against a friendly power was il- legal and that they would not be al- loweti to leave this country if the pur- pose of their trip were known. A treaty signed by American nations at Havana in 1928 said each country might prohibit its nationals from going abroad to fight against a friendly coun- try. In addition to offers recelved by both legations from World War pilots, ma- chine gunners and technical experts, Minister Luis O. Abelli of Bolivia said 80 Bolivian students, mostly in Cali- better without me. That is why I am doing this. I still love you.” “I am convinced the so-called suicide note was not written by Mrs. O:Brien,” | Wood told Capt. Goldberg. “There is not the slightest resemblance to her real writing.” Wood is associated with the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratogg of North- western University. f fornia, had offered to be trained in aviation in this country for service against Paraguay. Paraguayan offers include one from a titled German officer who fought four years in the World War and who said Paraguay's struggle against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay in 1865-1870 re- minded him of his own countrv's &itile ation in 1914.