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“From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s Carrier system coversevery city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, continued cool tonight and to- morrow;, gentle north winds. Temoératures—Highest, 82, at 1 p.m. yeste. y; lowest, 65, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 he Foening i AT, Yesterday's Circulation, 114,869 No. 32,245 ¥ntered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ~ WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1932—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. k% kK (P) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. COURTS MAY HOLD UP WALKER CASE RULING UNTIL FALL ELECTION Roosevelt to Delay Action Pend- ing Decision on His Powers to Remove Mayor. EORDER IS 1SSUED FOR HEARING ON AUGUST 19 RESTRAI City Executive Wins Right to Cross- Examine Witnesses—Denies He Influenced Bus Franchise. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y. August 12.—Poscibility decision on the ouster charges against Mayor James J. Walker of New York City may be delayed un developed today when Roosevelt announced he would withhold his action until after the question of courts. Shortly after the morning ses: in its second day, the Governor st determine the legality of a writ of Donnelly, secretary of the Bronx Chamber of Commerce. The Supreme Court does not meet until August 19. . Donnelly, rebuffed in three courts, today obtained from Justice Harold J. Hinman of the appellate order instructing Mr. Roosevelt to explain his jurisdiction. The Gov- ernor directed Attorney General John J. Bennett, jr., to prepare argu- ment on the legality of the action. Mr. Bennett, leaving Gov. Roosevelt's office after a five-minute conference, said: “The Governor sent for me immediately and told me to notify Justice Hinman that he would show no discourtesy to the court and would withhold his decision until the courts had passed upon his authority.” The Supreme Court is the trial court of N:\vs S;)ork and corresponds to Dis- ourts in most States. ‘ngixf\:.\ld either party to the lmg-tmn‘ dispute the_action of the Supreme| Court, and that likely would develop no | matter what decision was given, the way would be open for appeals to the | appellate division and finally the coufl.Ai of last resort—the Court of Appeals. | Before final word came from that court | it is possible that Mr. Roosevelt's candi- | dacy for the presidency “'lll have bcen" assed upon by the people. P oth The appellate division and the Court of Appeals now are in recess.| They may, however, be called into spe- | cia! session at any time by the presid: ing_judge. | The surprising court action entirely | Fubordmlgd the events of the he‘fingl session. o Resuming his role as witness in the ouster hearing, Mayor Walker today dis- claimed any financial benefit from the- anting of the franchise to the Equita- ie Bus Co. and disputed the testimony of Park Commissioner Walter R. Her- Tick that he had bought for the mayor 300 shares of stock, later used as cal- Jateral on a loan by Equitable officials. Obscures Tammany Influence. ‘Tossl the dispute over Mr. Roos2- velt's pnglzr to remove Mr. Walker into the New York court machinery to the extent of the delayed final action, nb~‘ scures the Tammany influence in his election. Should the removal or cxon- " eration of the mayor go over until after | the November election, the factors for and against the Democratic presidential mnominee that depend upon ouster 8c-| tion, would be non-operative. It is generally believed removal of | Walker would alienate some Tammany support and also the support of friends of the mayor in certain Democratic bailiwicks. On the other hand, ‘it is conceded by some party leaders, a re- { moval order would make {riends for the | Governor in the South and West, where Tammany is not particularly popular. | Retention of Walker would have the | reverse effect, it is held. Some political | commentators believe that New \ork‘ State's 45 electoral votes might turn on | the Governor's action in the Walker | case. Whereas yesterday the mayor was ex- cited and emctional when he testified, ¢ he was calm and answered :ihn e- wor's questions siowly and Jiberately. During John J. Curtin’s argument against the Governor having jurisdic- tion to consider evidence bearing upon Mr. Walker's first term as mayor, he intimated that Walker, removed, might seek exoneration by again run- ning for mayor He contended that if the mayor was yemoved and “again ran for office and was elected—and 1 have no doubt he vould be—it would be possible again him and remove him on the same would be defeating representation,” concluded Mayor Faces Governor. The mavor yesterday testified from a seat at his counsel table. Today, at the Governor's request, he moved his chair 1o an open space facing Mr. Roosevelt. Before Mr. Walker was interrogated on the fifth and sixth counts of Samuel Seabu conclusions, Curtin took exceptions to Roosevelt’s rulings that the Hoistadter Legislative Committee evidence can be considered and that alleged misconduct during Walker's first term are involved in the deliber- ations s s To the Governor's question. “Senator ¢ s is an old friend of yours, isn't The mayor replied as old as many of my other I met him in the Legislature I have many friends of legis- ays." “Not friend: to the Governor's » to a party as one “celebrat- granting of the Equitable Bus was miserable misrepresenta- he mayor said, glancing at Sea v a few feet away. “I attend- ed no celebration 1 did attend a party. it was a costume party, but no one who knew about bus transporta- tion was there. It was attended by theatrical people, who didn’ know any " (Cantinued on Page 2, Column 1.) —— REBEL LINE BROKEN RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, August 12 (#).—Pederal troops operating against the rebels of Sao Paulo reported today they had broken the rebel line at four places in the southern sector. Every coastal state is represented in the federal forces now, with the addi- tion teday of battalions from the equa- torial states of Para and Maranhao. sion of the Walker hearing, now ated he would not pass upon the ! mayor's case until the Supreme Court had had an opportunity to that Gov. Roosevelt's til after next November's election his removal powers went to the prohibition, demanded by George division of the Supreme Court an Al Smith in Albany, But Declines to See ' Walker or Governor| By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., August 12.—A river steamboat brought former Gov. Alfred E. Smith to Albany today, but he did not go to the Capitol, where Gov. Roose- velt was holding the hearing for Mayor James J. Walker. Smith went directly to Saratoga Springs. Tomorrow he will go to Schenectady to be present at the wed- ding of his son Walter J. to Miss Flor- ence E. Watson of Schenectady. “I'm here on private business,” the former Governor said. “I won't see | ‘Walker; I won't see anybody. I'm go- ing to Saratoga and I'm going to stay there until Monday, except for the wedding.” OSCAR CINTAS SELECTED AS CUBAN ENVOY TO U. S.| Will Succeed Orestes Ferrara in Washington—Other Changes HITLER-BRUENING COALITION LOOMS IN GERMAN CRISIS Hindenburg Awaits Arrival of Nazi Leader—May Name Him Chancellor. CENTRIST PAR;I'Y HOLDS KEY POLITICAL POSITION Nationalists Reject Proposal to Share in Responsibility of Government. By the Associated Press BERLIN, August 12—A possibility that Germany's next government may be dominated by a coalition of Adolf Hitler's National Socialists and the Centrist party of former Chancellor Heinrich Bruening emerged today as Berlin awaited Hitler's return for con- ferences with President von Hindenburg. The Telegrapher-Union said Hitler would not arrive today and the con- ferences would not be held until to- morrow. Tre Centrists. although their repre- atation in the new Reichstag will be | mparatively small, occupy & pivotal position. They have made an emphatic demand the new cabinet be formed on strictly constitutional lines with the Nazis bearing a great share of the re- sponsibility. The same applies to the new cabinet which must be formed in the State of Prussia to replace the present dictator- ship under Chancellor Franz von Papen. The Nationalists, under Alfred Hugenberg, also are a factor in any such coalition, however, and they re- jected the Centrists' proposal yester- day. But the offer probably will be renewed next Monday and there is some cause for believing it might be accepted then. Political Line-Up. the line-up today was this: The Nazis were demanding that Hit- ler be made chancellor as & matter of party prestige. The Centrists were favorable, as they believed Hitler's power would be broken cnee he surrendered his opposition role. Chancellor von Papen and other members of the cabinet—with the ex- ception of Defense Minister Kurt voa Schleicher, whose role was enigmatic— were ready to yield to Hitler, but they considered the experiment dangerous. | Industry, the business world and| Hugenberg's Nationalists were opposad | to & Hitler chancellorship. The President was known to be per- sonally disinclined to appoint the Naz | leader, although the strength of the! party in the Reichstag elections July 31 | impelled him to the belief the Nazi claims were strong. It was assured the Presiden§ would ask Hitler for assurances that legality and constitutionality would be main- tained. The Prussian police struck simulta- neously today in Berlin, Hamburg and other cities, raiding meeting places of the Communist party and allied or- ganizations. The action followed their discovery that the Red Front Fighter | League, long forbidden, had become ac- tive again. THREATENS NAZI FOES. HANOVER, Germany. August 12 (#). —Karl Roever, National-Socialist pre- mier of Oldenburg, in a speech today at a meeting held in protest against the opening of a Woolworth & Co. in Diplomatic Posts. | By the Associated Press. HAVANA, August 12.—President Ma- ! chado today approved a recommenda- tion that Oscar Cintas be appointed Ambassador to the United States to suc- ceed Orestes Ferrara, who resigned in May to enter the cabinet. It was announced that Manuel de Cespedes, now Minister to Paris, will be transferred to Mexico City, and that Riccardo Herrera, now secretary to the President, will be sent to Paris. Senor Cintas’ friends said he was cer- tain to accept the appointment. It was reported the government had queried Washington yesterday as to his ac- ceptability. MOSCOW DENIES AIM T0 SELL BONDS IN U. S. Soviet Won't Try to Float Issue in Absence of Recognition, Says Statement. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, August 12.—Soviet Russia has not attempted to market any of it domestic loans in the United States or other foreign countries, nor does it in- tend to try to float a bond issue in America, especially as long as the pres- ent absence of official relationship be- tween the two countries continues, it was said authoritatively today. Reports published in New York that such action had been taken or was con- templated in anticipation of eventual recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States were described here as inaccurate. The supposition was that these re- ports arose from the fact that the latest domestic loan, recently issued to the amount of 3,300,000,000 rubles (nomi- nally $1,600,000,000) to finance the last year of the five-year plan, contains a provision that the bonds may be pur- chased in foreign currency and draw interest in the same currency at the regular rate of 10 per cent. WASHINGTONIAN FREED IN PHANTOM CAR HEARING Against William Bogge Dropped at York, Pa., After | Radio Control Crash. Charges Special Dispatch to The Star. | _YORK, Pa, August 12— William | Bogge, Washington, and J. J. Lynch charged with assault and battery and | aggravated assault and battery, the | outgrowth of a radio controlled auto- mobile demonstration at the Hanover Alrport on July 31, when the phantom 16!!’ got out of control and crashed into the crowd assembled on the field, injuring 11 persons, several critically, | were given a hearing today before Jus- tice of the Peace L. D. Sell, Hanover. | ““The charges againtt Bogge, Lynch's business manager and advance agent, were dismissed, while Lynch’s case was | held under advisement. Lynch was | ériving the control car at the time of | the ent, whi'e the phantem ma- | chine was traveling at 35 milgs an hour. branch store here, threatened dire pun- ishment against opponents of the Nazis. “Whispering campaigners in the Third Reich,” he said, “will be hanged until the crows have eaten them.” Opposition to chain stores is one of the tenets of the Nazi creed. INDIANA CONSIDERS DRY LAW REFERENDUM By the Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS, August 12—By a vote of 33 to 14 the Senate aof the In- diana General Assembly today passed a bill providing for a referendum at the Fall election on two phases of the liquor question. 1 Under the provision of the bill the ! voters would be given an opportunity to | express their desires as to repeal of the Wright “bone dry” law, the State en- forcement act and the question of making any national enforcement reg- ulatfons applicable to the State. KIDNAPED BANKER FREED Abductors Release Nebraska Cash- jer in Kansas. SILVER CREEK, Nebr, August 12| ()—W. C. Logan, bank cashier ab- ducted yesterday by robbers, telegraphed his wife from Wichita, Kans., last night he had been released near there and was safe at the police station. He planned to take an airplane to Omaha and return home. The abductors took $5,000 from the bank. Apparently they made Logan prisoner as he slept in his home, forced him to open the bank vault and to get into an automobile with them. PIONEER GOLF PRO DIES David E. Miner, 64, of Deland, Fla., Succumbs. BETHLEHEM, N. H,, August 12 (#).— David E. Miner, 64, of Deland, Fla., who claimed to be the first American to take up golf professionally, died here last night. He was employed at the Beth- lehem Golf and Tennis Club. He made his home in Deland, where for 31 years he was professional at the College Arms Golf Club. He had been employed in a similar capacity here for 12 Summers. Relief From Heat Is Afforded Washington. Relief from the heat came today, with the temperature droppl;xe{ to 65 degrees at 5 a.m. a degree low the normal figure. Although the mercury had risen to 76 by 9:35 am. Weather Bureau fore- casters predicted tonight and tomor- row would be “fair and continued cool, with gentle north winds.” Today’s minimum temperature Was 7 degrees below yesterday's low of 72. ‘The normal mean temperature for to- day, it was said at the Weather Bu- reau, is 76, with a minimum of 66 and & maximum of 86. After days of political maneuvering | FAIR AND CONTINUED COOL | FATAL RIOTS RAGE | N SOUTHERNSPAIN Death Penalty Demanded for| San Jurjo—Slayings Follow Revolt. By the Associated Press, MADRID, August 12—Rioting and | burning reddened much of Southern | Spain today as the government laid | plans to punish Gen. Joce San Juro, | leader of Wednesday's ebortive rebellion, | and his followers. One man was killed and three wounded at Santa Fe when civil guards dispersed a group which burned the Agrarian Casino. One workman was| killed in a political fight between labor- ers and employers. A civil guard was killed at Seville when a mob attacked the jail. | At Seville cordons cf soldiers were | posted around religious houses and heavy guards patroled the streets. Mobs Fire Churches. In the towns of San Lucar and Aznal- collar mobs sect fire to the churches, but the fires were put out by citizen volun- teers. N In Santinponce a m:b attacked the mayor, seized his cane and beat him with it. He was rescued by a group of ‘Town Hall guards. A line of guards was stationed around the building of the newspaper Las Provincias at Valencia to protect it from mobs and Gen. Liquelme rushed from Switzerland by airplane to take charge of a menacing situation. Mobs burned a convent at Albacim and a church at Santotomas, uear | Granada, and afterwards stoned and set | fire to a factory. | The death penalty was demanded | today by some Southern Republican | leaders for Gen. San Jurjo Director | of Public Safety Mendendez announced a special judge had been designated to preside over the trial. Police throughout the country con- tinued arresting prominent Monarchists accused of implication in the rebellion Col. Enrique Varela was. arrested at| Cadiz. During the monarchy Varela was granted two of the highest honor medals in the army. Newspaper Plants Seized. Gen. Gomez Sanchez, commander of | the Civil Guard, was arrested at Cor- | doba and taken to Seville. Police at Jerez de la Frontera arrested Miranda | de Santa Cruz, and two newspaper | plants were seized there. A Catholic | (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) KING VICTOR OF ITALY WILL REVIEW FLEET War Games Prove That Landing Troops Would Be at Prohib- itive Cost. | By the Associated Press. | TARANTO, Italy, August 12—King| Victor Emmanuel is coming here to-| morrow to review the Italian fleet, which has just concluded the most im- portant maneuvers held since the war. | The war game proved it would be| possible to bring transports to the Gulf | of Taranto from the colonies of Tripoli | | and Cyrenaica, but only at tremendous | lcost Theoretically five out of fifteen transport ships steaming from Tripoli under strong escort were sunk. The “efemy” also sank a dreadnaught, a | 10,000-ton cruiser and numerous smaller craft. The realistic maneuvers employed spies, hidden wireless apparatus and false convoys. | |A group of Russian rived today to investigate conditions in | i ’/,‘ " Wi AT j My /// AUGUSTO ROSSO. ITALY PICKS ROSSD FOR AMBASSADOR Mussolini Makes Known Changes to Be Made in Diplomatic Service. By the Associcted Press ROME, August 12.—Augusto Rosso, girector general of League of Nations affairs at the foreign ministry, was named Ambassador to Washington to- day in a far-reaching shake-up of the diplomatic service by Premier Benito Mussolini. The principal other appointments were that of Mario Arlotta, Minister at Budapest, as Ambassador to Argentina, and Raffacle Guariglia, director of political and commercial affairs for Eu- rope and the Near East, as Ambassador to Spain. Count Pignatti, Ambassador to Argen- tina, was transferred to Paris, Orazio Pedrazzi, Minister at Prague, was made Ambassador to Chile. Guido Rocco, who accompanied Dino Grandi to the United States, was named Minister to Czechoslovakia. Grandl. formerly the foreign minister, already has been appointed Ambassa- dor to Great Britain. Signor Rosso occuried a minor post in the embassy at Washington in 1910 and was counsellor to the embassy in 1922. He is 47, comfortably wealthy, and a bachelor. Sometimes he is called the “Uncle from America,” for he has many American habits. He smokes a pipe and speaks English fluently. RUSSIA TO EXPAND Technicians, Eye Conditions for Factories in Turkey. ISTANBUL, Turkey, August 12 (#)— technicians ar- Turkey with a view to establishing fac- tories in Anatolia. They have opened a credit of $8.000,000 to finance the building of factories, the purchase of machinery and the development of agriculture. | Beautiful i of heber, who has Rotogravure Section of The Sunday Star The drawing is by Joseph B. Himmel- through his drawings of beautiful scenes about Washington. Drawing the James Cardinal Gibbons Memorial Statue Appears next Sunday in a half-page reproduction on the first page of the won distinction and | STOGKS I SLUNP Heavy Selling Results in Losses of $4 to $5 in Leading Issues. | By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, August 12.—The stock market went into a precipitious decline in the late trading today. Shares were again sensitive to trends in the wheat market, where losses of more than 2 cents a bushel were re- corded. Cotton was also lower. The late decline in shares followed 2 midday recovery from a morning set- back, in which some of the public utility, alcohol and specialty stocks had sold $1 to $2 above yesterday's close. United States Steel dropped $3. to close to $39; American Telephone about $4, to $109; Santa Fe $5, to about $43; American Can about $5, to around $51; International Harvester $4, to close to $28: Case $11, to $49; Union Pacific about $4, to around $63. Losses of $1 or more appeared throughout the list. Selling was in large volume in the late dealings and the ticker fell a few min- utes bebind the market. In contrast to the wide slump in shares, bonds held up comparatively well in the last hour. Losses in cotton ounted to more than $1 a bale. rm implement chares broke widely along with the slump in wheat. GLASS SAYS HOOVER ADOPTS HIS WET PLAN | Denies Writing Part of President's Speech, but Calls It Identical With His Views. By the Assoclated Press. LYNCHBURG, Va., August 12.— United States Senator Carter Glass to- day said, “I positively deny having written that part of President Hoover's speech relating to the amendment. However, the President’s speech is identical with the proposal offered by me in the Senate and voted for by every Democratic Senator ex- cept four and opposed by a majority of the Republican Senators voting.” ‘The Senator said that in view of this resolution which textually pro- posed a constitutional prohibition against re-establishment of the saloon and was supported by Democrats in the Senate, “It is futile for thc President to suggest that the Democratic party is in favor of return of the saloon. “Senator Bingham, one of the Presi- dent's chief spokesmen in the Senate, violently denounced my resolution, the very substance of which the President | has now adopted, and vehemently de- manded straight repeal, which the President now affects to think neces- sarily would mean return of the sa- loon. Had President Hoover sooner | made known his views on repeal of the | eighteenth amendment, the likelihood |is that Congress would have adopted my resolution and would now be on the way to a solution of this perplexing problem.” GERMANY IS HEARTENED BY HOOVER VIEWPOINT By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 12.—Official circles | declined to comment at any great length today on President Hoover's speech of acceptance, but they indicated special satisfaction at the intimation of a possible revision of war debts. “Mr. Hoover's address may be taken a5 evidence of the realization that inter- continental co-operation is necessary to overcome the world depression,” said a government spokesman, “and that | America is calling upon the public opinion of the world for a common ef- fort to overcome the economic crisis on the basis of peaceful friendly relations. | “We can only acclaim and support this viewpoint.” LIEUT. C. W. SMITH HURT NORFOLK, Va., August 12 (#.— Lieut. C. W. Smith of the Bureau of | Aeronautics, Washington, received minor | injuries when the plane he was pilot- ing today nosed over while landing at the naval air base here. Seaman W. E. Bly, a passenger, was unhurt. The plane sustained minor damage. Lieut. Clyde W. Smith, U. 8. N., who is in charge of the instruments’ section of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy De- partment, left from the Naval Air Sta- tion this morning on an official flight. He has been on duty in Washington for nearly two months, having previously served aboard the U. S. 8. Jason, with the Asiatic Fleet, and for a time being attached to the American embassy in Radio ;’miran-s-;n‘ P_age B-5 3 v N MA@BLUSE% eighteenth | “Intolerable” legger and “Recovery May Be Succeed,” He Dec Republican accepting his party’s nomination 1. amendment and recounting what {of the country. The President admitted that failed, in spite of the efforts of the speakeasy and bootlegger an under prohibition, he would favor the States, Opposition to R In making this declaration Mr. sition to the return to the evils Drys and Wets Give Praise and Blame to Hoover’s Liquor Stand ‘While most wet and dry leaders to- day were preparing formal statements on President Hoover's prohibition ex- pression in his acceptance speech last night, from both camps today cime pralse of the President’s stand. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohlo, leader in the prohibition movement, gave full indorsement to the Hoover i speech, as did Dr. F. W. Buck, execu- | tive secretary of the Federal Dispen- sary-Tax Reduction League, an anti- prohibition organization. In a statement, Dr. Buck said: “He has come around at last to ac- cept what we have been advocating for the last nine years. “He seems to understand perfectly that no amendment can be ratified that does not protect against the saloon and fully protect the States which wish to remain dry and at the sante time elimi- nate politics from the issue. Question of Ratification. “We are satisfled that any resolution passing Congress that didn't include these three protective points couldn't be ratified by the required 36 States. “Any resolution that couldn’t be rati- fled would delay solution of this prob- lem at least 10 years.” Senator Fess said: “It was a great state paper covering every problem with 1 for a sane solution, including lon. It will grip the American people as few utterances of public lead- ers have dope.” Senator Smoot of Utah, another pro- hibition stalwart: “The whole statement was right to the point. It was just what was need- ed for America. That goes for prohi- bition and all.” Dr. Edwin C. Dinwiddie, secretary of the National Board of Prohibition Strategy, said he did not feel warrant- ed in “expressing a hurried opinion,” but would make a statement later. Henry H. Curran, president of the Association Against the Eighteenth Amendment, said he probably would issue a statement. Bishop Cannon Abroad. Deets Pickett, research secretary of the Methodist Board of Prohibition, Temperance and Public Morals, said he might have something to say next week. Bishop James Cannon, jr.; Dr. Clar- ence True Wilson, Dr. Ernest H. Cher- rington and Dr. T. Scott McBride, all prominent in the dry cause, were out of town, Bishop Cannon in Geneva, Switzerland. Rufus Lusk of the Crusaders, an or- ganization opposed to prohibition, said there would be a meeting of the leaders of his group Saturday in Cleveland and D}I;obflb]y a statement would be drawn up then, Dr. Dinwiddie said in due course a meeting of his board “may be held, but that will probably be subject to the decision of the Executive Committee, which meets early in September, unless circumstances should warrant a previous call by the chairman and officers of the board.” i Canon Chase Critical. Some of the disapproval in the dry ranks to President Hoover's latest pro- hibition expression was contained, how- ever, in a statement issued this morn- ing by Canon William Sheafe Chase, superintendent of the International Re- form Federation and a member of the Prohibition Board of Strategy. He said: “The President has weikened and surrendered to the lawless liquor traffic at the very time when renewed de- termination” was all that was needed to assure the successful enforcement of national prohibition. “The tragedy of his statement is that it will make enforcement more difficult for the next four years if he is elected. “The Republican substitute, if en- acted, would embody in the Constitu- tion a recognition of the legality of the beverage alcohol liquor traffic, which the common law, the Supreme Court and the eighteenth amendment have declared an outlaw. “Mr. Hoover defends the Republican wet plank, which proposes to amend the eighteenth amendment on the grounds the latter cannot be enforced. Yet the proposed substitute of return- ing to State control will be 10 times more difficult. The President must know the liquor traffic has never obeyed any restraining law.” Southern Educator Dies. DURHAM. N C. August 12 (@).— HOOVER BANS SALOON IN FAVORING LIQUOR CONTROL BY STATES Failure of Prohibition Seen in Evils of Boot- Speakeasy. iNATION HELD READY TO ABANDON DEFENSE AND ATTACK DEPRESSION Slow, but We Shall lares in Accepting Nomination. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Herbert Hoover stands before the American people today as the Republican candidate for re-election after formally ast night at Constitution Hall with an address placing himself on record for a change in the eighteenth his administration has done and proposes to do to combat the depression and speed economic recovery the prohibition amendment had his administration to enforce it, and declared that rather than permit a continuation of the evils of d other bad conditions grown up return of the control of liquor to eturn of Saloon. . Hoover also emphasized his oppo- of the saloon. He repeated his opposition to this several times during his discussion of this sub- ject. Also, in advocating returning the liquor question to the States, he demanded constitutional safeguards to protect them from each other and a guarantee against the return of the open saloon. wants to see a constructive change and not a destructive one, and not a “blind leap back to old evils.” He This declaration for a change in the prohibition amendment, which is con- sidered as a step further than the sub- mission plank in the Republican plat- form adopted at the recent convention, is looked upon today as the outstanding feature of the President’s speech of ac- ceptance. At least, because prohibi- tion is destined to play an important part in the forthcoming cnmp:l&‘fl. that section of his address treating the sub- ject for the moment is overshadowing everything else. This is substantiated by most of the scores of telegrams and other messages received at the White House today congratulating the Execu- tive upon his stand. There is still the question of how the bone-drys will take his position and how the ardent wets in his party will feel. Enforcement to Continue. Mr. Hoover did not entirely turn his back on the drys. Not only does he take a position as being unqualifiedly opposed to the return of the saloon, but he made it plain that he is against “nullification” as long as the eighteenth amendment is in effect and that he will enforce the law as I as there is Federal law to be enforced. Mr. Hoover did not discuss prohibi- tion reform until near the end of his long address. He approached the sub- Jject quite casually by saying: “Across the path of the Nation's consideration of vast problems of economic and so- cial order, there has arisen a bitter controversy over the control of the liquor traffic.” He then quickly added that he had always sympathized with the “high purpose of the eighteenth amendment” and had used every power at his command to make it effective over the entire country. Also, that he had hoped prohibition was the final so- lution of the evils “against which our people have striven for generations,” and that while it had succeeded in | great measure in communities where | majority sentiment was favorable, it | had failed in an increasing number of communities where majority sentiment was unfavorable. “Laws oppesed by majority sentiment create resentment,” Mr. Hoover said, “which undermines enforcement and in the end produces degeneration and crime.” Audience Eager for Views. There had been frequent applause during the part of Mr. Hoover's re- marks before he touched upon this sub- ject, but there was a-hush throughout the hall as he started his reference to prohibition. It was followed by a faint mumbling, laughter and then an out- | burst of handclapping. The President, too. smiled. ‘When he mentioned during this sec- tion of his talk that the party platform merely recommends submission of the uestion to the States, that the people themselves may determine whether they desire a change, he was loudly ap- plauded. There was much comfort to the drys when the President declared that “our (Continued on Page 8, Column 1.) Full text of President Hoover's speech appears on Page A-4. BURKE IS BURIED BESIDE HIS MOTHER Leaders of Industry, Commerce and Government Pay Last Tribute to Lawyer. By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, August 12.—Amid the flowers and greens of Calvary Cemetery, James Francis Burke, lawyer and orator, was buried today beside his mother. High Government officials and leaders in industrial and commercial centers of the Nation attended the funeral. There was a solemn requiem high mass in St. Paul's Cathedral and then the cortege moved to the cemetery fol- lowed by a detdil of 75 policemen and plain clothes officers. Hundreds visited the residence last night and early today. Many of the leaders in public life who knew Burke through his legal and po- litical associations served today as hon- orary pallbearers. Burke, counsel for the Republican National Committee, died Monday night in Washington. G. 0. P, Pays Tribute. ‘The Executive Committee of the Re- publican National Committee at its meeting here yesterday took formal rec- ognition of the long service rendered the party by James Francis Burke, gen- eral counsel to the National Committee, who died early this week. Dr. George W Lay, Mary's School at Raleigh, died “icopital here todey from can: esophagus. He was 72. of the | Postmaster General Brown went to t-brrsh 1otz 12si night to atiend the funeral. " ¢