Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1932, Page 1

WEATHER. (U8 Weather Bureau Porecast ) y warmer tonight; tomor- Puir. alightly row partly cloudy thundershowers at ni winds 3:15 pm_yesterday today. Temperatures—Highest, Full report on page 9. with risk of local ght. moderate south 88, at lowest, 65, at 6 a.m. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14,15&16 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. Associated service. The only evening 'Klp.r in Washington with the Press news Yesterday's Circulation, 113,495 e e—— No. 32,258, post office, Wa: Entered as second c¢lass matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. ., THURSDAY, A UGUST 25 1932—FORT Y-SIX PAGES. FHR P Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS 138 FARMERS HELD AS OFFICERS CLEAR HIGHWAYS N 0WA Picketeers at Council Bluffs Gone After Repulsing Tear Gas Attack. JAIL CLOSELY GUARDED | AGAINST MOB ATTEMPT Sioux City Sheriff Also Opens War,u on Blockade Lines—77 Jailed Within Few Hours. By the Associated Press. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Towa, August 25. —All highways into Council Bluffs ex- cept one were cleared of Farmers' Holiday Association picketers .shorll)'\ before noon today. At least temporary respite followed nearly 24 hours of apprenension, dur- ing which Sheriff P. A. Lainson’s spe- cial force of deputies, armed with tear gas bombs and guns, strugzled to make the highways safe for truckers. A few strikers remained, however, on Highway 34, scene of last night’s disorders. Meanwhile, Lainson, sheriffs of a few nearby counties and 50 deputies pre- pared to offer armed escort to trucks. Picketers Already Gone. Squadrons of deputies, mobilized this morning and ordered by Lainson to clear highways of strikers, found that the picketers had left. Of the 61 men in jail, 49 were ar- rested in last night's encounter. Twelve ©of them have been sentenced by Justice Jack Dewitt to $100 fines or 300 days in ail. ! Sheriff Lainson had stationed men with a submachine gun and other | weapons at the doors and windows of the jail and court house, No disturb- ance occurred last night, despite rumors that & jail delivery might be attempted. Meanwhile, at Boone, another picket- ing center during the past week, 50 farmers called upon Sheriff Moore and demanded that he keep highways open to traffic. The farmers threatened to organize an anti-picketing crew to off- set farmers' holiday activities. At Sioux City Sheriff John A. Daven- port instructed his deputies to stop picketing. Before 10 am. today 77 strikers were in jail at Sioux City. In the meantime, Pipestcne County, Minn., farmers, sympathetic with the movemeént begun in Iowa said they.i would attempt to halt marketward shipments of grain and live stock, be- ginning next Mcnday. Selling of milk, | cream and eggs will be allowed, they asserted. State-wide meetings to con- sider strike action have been called in | Minnesota, Indiana and! ‘Oklahoma. . The tear gas, blackjacks and weapons of Sheriff Lainson's deputies early today had failed to clear highways near here and the later drive was planned. Lainson, his men wounded or_tired. from last night’s encounter with the Ppicketers, pressed fresh deputies into service. At the jail and court house about 250 association members were encamped, watching every move of the officers. About 2 am. today several hundred/ icketers had moved on the court gouu and jail. Their intentions were not openly announced, but the sheriff, fearing an attempt at & jail delivery of the men incarcerated for alleged un- Jawful assembly, moved rapidly to protect the buildings. The tense situation followed a flare- up of hostilities in which four officers were injured last night. Bricks, clubs and pieces of railroad ties flew through the =air when five officers in a police car, with tear gas, drove through a crowd of picketing farm folk, some of them women and children. Shots were fired into the air by one of the officers as the car went through the crowd. Numerous strikers end onlookers were gassed Call on Troops Talked. There was talk of asking Gov. TTurner for intervention of the tional Guard, now encamped at Cemp Dodge for annual maneuvers, but Sheriff P- A. Lainson, leading the law- enforcement officers, expressed —con- fidence the situation could be kept under control by local authorities. The injured were: Lieut. Col. Henry C. Hall, chemical we:fare officer on the staff of Brig. Gen. Matthew Tinley of the Iowa National Guard who sufleret_i two five-inch gashes on_ his head; Deputy Game Warden C. H. Pangborn Who received a three-inch gash just e- | Jow one ear, and Policcmen Phil Dan | Na- | Strikers’ Airplane Drops Bills Urging Miners to Walk Out Marchers Want Workers| to Meet Them at Frank- lin County Line. By the Associated Press BENTON, 1, August 25.—Hand- bills urging union miners in this sec- ticn to cease work and meet members of the army or miners from Central and Northern Illinois were dropped from an airplane over the coal flelds and towns of Franklin County this morning. The text of the handbills: “Miners of Southern Illincis: 11 c:t today. Meet your 25000 n brothers at the Franklin County e. They have come to aid you to put n end to the gunman rule and terror- sm which is being used to force ycu to oriz under a wage scale you have twice rejected. The miners of the whole dis- trict are with you. “Down your tools today. “Meet us at the county line. We are athered at Dowell. POLICY COMMITTEE, DISTRICT NO. 1, U. M. W. OF A" TOKIO HOLDS PEACE MACHINERY FUTILE Will Recognize Manchukuo in Self-Defense, Baron Uchida Notifies World. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, August 25.—Outlining her foreign policy, Japan today declared the world’s peace machinery offered no remedy for “the chaotic condition of China,” and announced formally her intention to recognize the new Man- churian state, Manchukuo, in the near future. The declaration was made by Baron Yasyua Uchida, the foreign minister, before an extraordinary session of the House of Peers, and its text was cabled to many foreign capitals for distribu- tion. Formal recognition of Manchukuo, the foreign minister said, was “the only means of stabilizing conditions in Man- churia and establishing permanent peace in the Far East.” Sees Ignorance of Aims. “There are those in other countries,” | Uchida went on, “who do not fully comprehend the attitude of Japan toward China nor the measures she has taken. * * ¢ “It is an indisputable fact that the chaotic condition of China and the so- called revolutionary policy carried on by China under the enthralling in- fluence of extravagant political dogma have been principally responsible for the unfortunate turn that international relations have taken of recent years in the Far East. * * ¢ “It is admitted by those conversant with actual conditions in China that no remedy can be effected by having recourse either to the covenant of the League of Nations or to any other or- gan of what may be termed ‘machinery of peace.’ “In fact, it has been the practice of the powers, as has been demonstrated on innumerable occasions, to repair or prevent injuries to their important rights and interests in China by direct application of force without relying upon those instruments of peace. * * *" Held Reply to U. S. Great significance was attached to the baron’s address in view of recent pronouncements from the Washington administration that the United States would not recognize territorial changes wrought through violations of the Kel- logg-Briand and other peice treaties. Japan has interpreted these as an at- tack on her course in Manchuria. The foreign minister denied any treaties had been broken, and his as- sertions were considered repli-s to Sec- retary of State Stimson of the United States and to President Hoover, who have made statements on the point. “The view expressed in certain quar- ters,” the baron continued, “that recog- nition by Japan of the new state would constitute violation of the stipulations of the nine-power treaty is, in my opinion, incomprehensible. * ¢ * “There are those who argue as though the action of Japan were a violation of the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact. But Mosher and Watson who were cut and bn‘;‘]fifid four, with Patroiman McTwig- | gan, drove through the crowd of strik- | ers with cans of compressed tear gas| fastened on the runnin oards of their i car. Strikers ran ivon the car, gasp-| ing and choking. The police car com- | pleted & run through the crowd and an a return urip | beglrlkers then massed tbout the ma- chine throwing bricks end clubs, one of which crashed throvgh the closed win- dows of the car. hiting Mosher and resulting in cuts to the three others. Mosher later admitted firing several shots into the air to make way for the machine. The policemen had earlier denied firing the shots. imaintaining that they came from ranks cf the strikers. Among the onlookers who suffered from the after-effects of the tear gas were Mrs. Genevieve Mauck, reporter of the Counci No ell, three women accompany her, | " (Continued on P Column 1.) OFFICIAL OF MANITOBA U. HELD IN EMBEZZLEMENT Chairman of Board of Governors Faces Charge of Misappropriat- ing Total of $47,451. By the Associated Press WINNIPEG, August 25—John A. ‘Machray, prominent in religious and educational circles in Western Canada, chairman of the board of governors of | the University of Manitcba, was held in $50,000 bail today on a charge of mis- ropriating $47,451.37 of the univer- 's funds. The arrest followed disclosure yes- terday that a shortage of “several hun- dred thousand dollars” had been found in the endowment fund. It was said also that irregularities had been dis- covered in the books of the bursar's office. Dr. Machray was bursar as well as chairman of the board. He was arrested at his home, but did not appear in court, his physician in- forming the magistrate that Mr. Mach- ray was seriously ill. ie magistrate fixed the bail and re- manded the case to September 1, &l | fact. | of self-defense in such a case. such contention has no foundation in As I have stated, Japan has been forced to adopt necessary meas- ures for the prevention of wanton at- tacks upon important rights and in- | terests vital to her national existence. The anti-war pact dces not put re- straint upon the exercise of the right Self-Defense Role Upheld. “The pact does not prohibit & signa- tory power from taking at its own ciscretion whatever steps it finds im- perative in order to remove immediate menaces to its territory and its rights and interests of whatever kind. “And obviously the exercise of the (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) STOKOWSKI TO MAKE | FLIGHT THREE MILES UP | Maestro to Accompany Scientist to Photograph Moon’s Shadow Aug. 31. By the Assoctated Press WATERFORD Me,, August 25.—Plans for Leopold Stokowski, director of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, to accompany Dr. Clyde Fisher, curator of the American Society of Natural History, in an airplane flight to photo- | graph the approach of the moon's | shadow on the day of the solar eclipse, ! August 31. were announced today by Abraham Mandelstan. Mandelstan said Dr. Fisher would fly here from New York in a plane piloted by Charles S. “Casey” Jones. Stokow- ski is vacationing at a camp here. Will Go Three Miles Up. NEW YORK, August 25 (®)—C. S. “Casey” Jones, veteran flyer, said to- day that he planned to take Dr. Clyde Fisher, astronomery“‘three or four miles T0 HOMES, ROUTED BY ARMED FORGES Men Bitter and Disconsolate at Repulse by Clubbing Deputies in lllinois. MANY ABANDONED AUTOS IN FLIGHT FROM SCENE Windshields Broken, Drivers Beat- en, Tires Punctured by Shots When Officers Charge. By the Associated Press. COULTERVILLE, Ill, August 25.— The 4,000 miners, all that was left of the army of strikers repulsed in Frank- lin County last night, left Coulterville today for their homes in the Central Illinois ccal fields, after holding a mass meeting here this morning. The evacuation of the strikers marked the end of what strike leaders termed one of the largest labor marches in the history of the country. Disconsolate and bitter at the reception they re- ceived in Franklin County last night, the strikers realized they were defeated in their attempts to call fellow miners out from the tipples of the Southern Tllinois coal fields. Advised to Return Armed. Pat Ansboury, a West Frankfort miner leader, at the mass meeting here this morning suggested to the men ihat they go home and Teturn another day. “But don't come back empty handed,” he added. He advised the men to re- turn to Franklin County at a future date and use methods similar to those used by the Franklin County officexy last night. ‘We are unprepared to continue our efforts to fight the wage scale now,” he said, “but let's come back and use different methods next time.” Camera Is Demolished. The strikers were in an angry mood. A newspaper photographer was at- tempting to take pictures of the meet- ing when some one in the crowd sug- gested he was obtaining pictures for the use of the mine operators. Dozens of men ran toward him, smashed his plates and camera and rumpled his clothing. A newspaper reporter jumped on top of an automobile and quieted the men. He suggested they take up a collection to pay for the damaged camera and the men agreed. A similar incident was reported in Franklin County last night, when a group of deputies are said to have broken the camera and plates belonging to a Chicago newspaper photographer and ordered him to leave the county. DEPUTIES ROUT MARCHERS. Use Clubs on Strikers and Shoot at Auto Tires. BENTON, Ill, August 25 (#).—Be- draggled clusters of defeated men and women were all that remained tcday of the confident throng of approxi- mately 15,000 striking miners and mem- | bers of their families who attempted to invade Franklin County late yes- terday to picket coal mines as a pro- test against lowered wages. Fifteen minutes of gunfire and wield- ing of clubs by a force of approximately 600 deputy sheriffs brought an end to the attempted invasion, which leaders of the strikers had termed the “greatest labor march ever undertaken in the Uinted States.” Nearly a hundred miners suffered bat- tered heads and six persons were in- jured seriously enough to require medi- cal treatment, including two who suf- fered minor bullet wounds. Strikers Flee Pell Mell. Fleeing pell mell when the firing be- gan, the invading strikers deserted ap- | proximately 300 of their automobiles and trucks at the scene of the onslaught. In the hurry to escape, automobiles were driven into ditches or plunged into corn fields along the highway where the clash occured, near the western bound- ary line of Franklin County. Shotguns and pistols were fired at the tires and bodies of the automobiles and trucks that led the advance of the nine-mile caravan, and windshields were broken by flailing clubs in the hands of the deputy sheriffs. Some of the marchers were cut by flying glass, but the injuries of most of them were in- flicted by deputies who climbed aboard the cars and pommeled the occupants. The strikers, whose leaders had in- ! sisted that the invesion would be peace- | ful, made no resistance. Bewildered by | the din of gunfire and shouts they | " (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) RALLY AGAIN SAVES MRS. EDITH M’CORMICK Physicians Somewhat Encouraged but Still Declare She Can- not Survive. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, August 25.—Another amazing rally brought Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick back from the brink of death today. At dawn her family had been called to the bedside, expecting an end momentarily of the long iliness that is certain to be fatal. Stimulants were administered, however, and Mrs. Mc- Cormick’s heart and pulse became stronger. Her children then retired to their adjoining apartments in the Drake Hotel Encouraged a little by her astonish- ing ability to rally, Mrs. McCormick's physiclans emphasized nevertheless trat she could not survive long. LOST ON “G:HOST SHIP” 25 Eskimos Missing After Trip to Board Vessel. POINT BARROW, Alaska, August 25 (#) —Twenty-five Eskimos who went out to board the “ghost chip” Baychimo early in the week were still missing to- day, and the shifting ice has again car- STOCKS IRRECULAR IVINERS N RETREAT | 2 ! “-*'\"‘-5\—5 Q % B GOSH! DIDN'T THINK 1T WAS THAT BAD! AFTEREARLYGA Market Loses Part of Ad-] vance After Harvester Co. ‘: Reduces Dividend. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, August 25.—The bull movement in stocks was accelerated | for a time today by buoyancy of prin-| cipal commodity markets, but it ran into considerable selling during the afternoon. Reduction of International Harves- ter's quarterly dividend to 30 cents from 45 cents was accepted as a signal to take profits, and gains which had | ranged from $1 to $5 a share were charply reduced. Several issues actually sold under last night's final prices for a time, but the market was bolstered by {resh buying | in the late trading. There was a mixture of gains and losses at the fin- ish, with most changes narrow. Trading in shares reached a volume reminiscent of the big markets of 1929. ‘The turnover of around four and a half million shares made it one of the big- gest days of the past two years. A sharp rise in wheat whipped up | bullish enthusiasm in Wall Street for a time, and that staple held up well, closing at Chicago with net gains of 1% to 17 cents a bushel, after ex-| treme gains of more than 2 cents. Ad- vances of more than Sl a bale in cot- | ton, however, were substantially re- duced. Although Alexander Legge, chairman of the International Harvester Co., said that he shared the belief that the bottom of the depression had been reached, the reduction in dividend caused considerable selling. Having advanced at one time to a high price of $33.87, the stock fell to close at $29.87, off $2.25. J. I. Case, which had soared $5 a share to $62.25 broke to a closing price of $58.75, where, however, it still registered a net gain of $1.75 a | share. The market showed more net losses in the leaders than gains at the close, although most of them were of less than $1 a share and included U. S. Steel, off 50 cents to $45.12; Sears-Roe- buck, General Motors and General Electric. American Telephone was off §2. Cotton futures, in the New York Cot- ton Exchange, closed with gains of 55 to 70 cents a bale, after surging up more than §1, on top of yesterday's advance of about $2.50, and hit new highs for the season. TWO WARRANTS ISSUED | U. 8. Prosecutors Hart and Gal- lagher Alleged Parking Offenders. | Warrants charging parking viola- | tions to Assistant United States At- torney David A. Hart and William A. Gallagher were sworn out in Police Court today by Policeman J. O. Hite. | Hite said he placed tickets cn the | prosecutors’ automobiles August 22 for | parking in a restricted zone near the court house. Neither Gallagher nnr‘ Hart posted collateral, he said, and| apparently both ignored his warning. | |Lands in Newark With Title Dry Agent Ordered Sent to Workhouse In Democrat Raid U. S. Court Finds Him in | Contempt for With- | holding Information. By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del, August 25— Harold D. Wilson of the prohibition ad- | ministrator's staff at Omaha, Nebr, faces an indefinite stay in the New-| castle County work house as the result of a mandate sent here yesterday by the United States Circult Court of Ap- peals at Philadelphia. ‘Wilson, formerly deputy prohibition administrator here, was held in con- tempt of court by a Federal judge ml February, 1931, when he refused to nsme the person from whom he ob- tained a key to the headquarters of the Democratic League of Delaware, which he raided. He obtained his release on bail pending appeal of the decision of the Circuit Court, which upheld the Federal District Court's sentence. ‘While the appeal was pending he was transferred to Omaha. ‘The Circuit Court of Appeals yester- day ordered that the judgment against Wilson be put into effect. AMELIA PUTNAM SETSNEW RECORD of First Woman to Make Non-Stop U. S. Hop. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J. August 25.—Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone,| streaked out of thé west today, and with a perfect three-point landing at 10:31 a.m. Eastern standard time, be- came the first woman to make a non- stop transcontinental flight. The official time for her flight was| 19 hours, 4 minutes and 6 seconds, or | 1 hour, 28 minutes and 57 seconds more than the transcontinental record of 17 hours, 39 minutes and 5% seconds held by Capt. Frank Hawks. Mrs. Putnam left Los Angeles yesterday at 12:26:54 pm., Pacific standard time. Although failed to set a record| by bettering Hawk's time, she estab-| lished a transcontinental speed record for women, these being official classifi- cation of women's records now and set a new distance flight record for her sex exceeding the 2,000-mile mark made last year by Ruth Nichols. It “was a tired-looking blond flyer who climbed out of the crimson and! gold high-wind Lockheed Vega today at | the afrport, and was almost knocked | over by the enthusiastic crowd that rushed out to the plane to greet her. (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) BY WALTER TRUMBULL. NEW YORK, August 25 (N. A. N. A) —Alfred Emanuel Smith, now in hk‘ second day at the helm of the New Outlook, is one editor who doesn't give a stenographer much time to look out | the window. Not only does the former Governor of New York dictate all his articles and editorials, but he does so with the speed of a sprinter and the stamina of a marathon runner. When, for example, he started on the first installment of his book, he dic- tated 5000 words at a sitting. The stenographers at the New Outlook of- fice have been told of this achieve-| ment and are not urging him to write any more books. Even those famous former editors of the old Outlook, Henry Ward Beecher and Theodore Roosevelt, whose pictures hang in the sunlit office which bears now on its door in gilt letters the name Alfred | ried the vessel out of sight. Two other searching parties sent back word they up” to pictures of the solar eclipse on August 31. “We'll go just as high as we can get | chimo was 15 miles west of here and | work. without using oxygen,” he said. Radio lfu'rl- on Page C-8 ¥ had not found the ship. Last seen Monday morning, the Bay- drifting to the southwest at about three miles an hour. A strong southerly wind sprang up, pushing the ice in- shore and making search E. Smith, never bettered that record. Definite Plan of Work. Smith has a definite habit of When he has an idea he wishes he first tells it Mr. to preserve on paper, SMITH’S DICTATING SPEED TESTS STENOGRAPHERS OF NEW EDITOR Cigar in Mouth, He Launches Out, Rising Finally to} Oratorical Heights With Gestures. sons listens | ball, but rects, and from the corrected copy. which meanwhile may have been added to and amplified, Mr. Smith works. Sitting back in his chair—and his favorite work chair is the one he used at Albany—he lights a cigar and com- mences to dictate, gathering momentum as he goes along. As soon as he be- comes really immersed in his subject he doesn't really dictate at all. He makes a speech, using all his platform gestures. The only time he rises to walk up and down is when he has fin- ished a peroration and wishes to collect his_thoughts. The typed manuscript is turned over to Mrs. Moscowitz, who reads it for er- rors; but if she changes one word or one phrase the former Governor wants to know why. He has an extraordinary memory and never forgets anything he reads and likes, or doesn't like. Does Not Like Novels. Mr. Smith admits frankly that he doesn't care for novels and does no light reading. But he is an omniverous reader of newspapers, although his glance at the sports pages is brief. Boxing doesn't interest him and he ha’ no passion for base ball. One of his got him a bit interested in foot his idea of sport is fishing. to Mrs. Henry Moskowitz. She and takes notes and then dictates a synopsis to a secretary. This she cor- Py > i swimming and golf. Probably In that _(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) BUS DEAL PROBED IN WALKER CASE Delaney Denies Seabury Con- clusion That Company Did Not Deserve Franchise. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., August 25.—John H. Delaney, chairman of the New York City Board of Transportation, testify- ing for Mayor Walker today at the ouster hearing, said the Equitable Coach Co. bid for a bus franchise was the best the board received. Samuel Seabury, counsel to the Hof- stadter Legislative Committee, advised Gov. Roosevelt when he submitted his 15 conclusions that the Equitable was “not fit or qualified” to receive a fran- chise. He held it received the right to operate busses because Mayor Walker used his influence for the company, with which his friend, State Senator John A. Hastings, was connected. The Board of Transportation reported favorably on the company and the City Board cf Estimates and Apportionment granted the franchise. The mayor is a member of the latter board. ‘The hearing before Gov. Roosevelt became a “three-a-day” proceeding to- day, with morning, afternoon and eve- ning sessicns. It has continued 10 days. The morning session adjourned for luncheon shortly after noon. Delaney Resumes Testimony. Delaney resumed his testimony as Gov. Roosevelt called to order today's session. Delaney testified at length last night, describing the procedure by which the application by the Equitable Coach Co., Inc, for the much discussed bus fran- chise was brought before the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, which granted it. The franchise was later re- vom: by the State Transportation Board. Bus Deal Shown. The questioning of Delaney droned along—a highly technical and involved discussion. In reply to one question by Curtin, Delaney said: “I considered the Service Bus Co. proposition inferior to the Equitable proposition, and I still feel that way.” The Service Bus Co. was the chief competitor against the Equitable for the New York City bus franchise. Proposing to offset a report that the Service Bus had the financial support of the International Harvester Co., Cur- tin put into the record a contract to show that a large transaction between the concerns was consummated by a cash payment and not by the setting up OBt obligations on the part of the Service us. % Mayor Walker remained at the hear- ing only a few minutes. A member of his party said he had gone to another part of the buildinjg to attend to some official correspondence. Seabury Cross-Examines. After an hour of direct examination, Curtin turned the witness over to Sam- uel Seabury, counsel for the Hofstadter Committee, for cross-examination. Seabury started questioning Delaney about the Equitable’s financial backing —the discussion revolving about the re- sponsibility that devolved upon J. S. White, Inc., a New York banking firm, by the fact that one of its subsidiaries, the J. S. White Managing Co., had of- fered to take over the financial man- :’xemem of the Equitable’s bus opera- ons. Once during the discussion Delaney rose to his feet and addressed the Gov- ernor, earnestly reiterating his belief that the resources of the White bank- ing firm were behind the offer of its subsidiary. It is the contention of Seabury that the White banking firm was in no way (‘commllted to back the Equitable Coach 0. Squabble Over “Mr.” “You knew, of course, that Hastings was associated with the Equitable, didn’t you?" Seabury asked. Hastings,” Curtin corrected ing the “Senator.” “I heard he had some connection with the company,” Delaney replied. (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) e MRS. ROOSEVELT’S PURSE RETURNED, MONEY SPENT Authorities of Ohio, Refuse to Divulge Name of Finder. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 25.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's purse has been found, but police won't say where. purse, containing a valuable watch and considerable cash, was lost while Mrs. Roosevelt was here last Sat- urday with Gov. Roosevelt. Authorities said the finder had spent $26 of the money and was afraid to turn the watch back. They promised not to disclose his name. Columbus, LEE AND BOCHKON HOP OFF ON FLIGHT 10 0SL0, NORWAY “Green Mountain Boy” Has Perfect Weather for Flight Across Atlantic. HUTCHINSONS READY TO FLY TO LABRADOR Mollison and Rome Flights Still Held Up by Low Pressure Reports at New York. By the Associated Press. HARBOR GRACE, Newfoundland, August 25—Clyde A. Lee of Oshkosh, Wis, and John Bochkon of Brooklyn took off at 5:02 am., Eastern standard time, today for Oslo, Norway. Their plane, the Green Mountain Boy, rose into a cloudless sky. Weather Teports gave them a tail wind across the Atlantic and predicted clear weather on the other side except for some rain 600 miles out. The flyers expected to make the 3,150 miles to Oslo in 30 hours, but they carried enough gasoline to stay aloft for seven hours beyond that time. Their route lay via Dublin, Irelan | Boston, England, and Cuxhaven, Ger- many. Doors Sealed Shut. The cabin doors of the Green Moun- tain Boy were sealed to make room for emergency gasoline tanks and a hole | was cut through the roof as a means of entrance and exit. Lee hoped that the empty gas tanks would keep the ship afloat at least until the motcr could be cut loose with a hack saw they carried in the event they were forced down over the ocean. With the weight of the motor gone, they thought they would be able to stay above water for some time. Provisions included sandwiches, two and one-half gallons of water, a quart of milk and a pint of coffee. Concen- trated food tablets were taken in the event of an emergency. Hubert Huntington, navigator of the flight, stayed behind at Barrie, Vt., to direct the flyers. It was Huntington who gave the final O. K. on the weather this morning. Charts Ships" Positions. Huntington has charted the position of all ships along the Green Mountain boy's route and he planned to com- municate with the vessels by radio sll;c;’:xbledd Lee nx:g Bochkon fail to be E at g ic ts. Lee mefis pmmcommnnder and Bochkon as co-pilot. The fiyers arrived on the field an hour before the take-off, warmed the motor, put their rations aboard and shook hands all around. The small gathering of local folks gave them a big cheer as they roared down the airport and took the air in the center of the field. Lee, only 24, has done no ocean fly- ing, but has had about nine years' e: perience in the air. He was once as- sociated with the late “Speed” Holman !in barnstorming exploits and has en- | gaged in commercial fiying in the West and in Mexico. Bochkon, four years his senior, began his flying career in the Norwegian air forces. He came to the United States seven years ago and has continued his aviation activities as a pilot and engi- neer. Neither is married. ESCAPE CALLED “MIRACLE.” Petersen Says Plane Just Missed Moun- tain in Crash. NEW YORK, August 25 (#).—Carl Petersen, companion of Thor Solberg | on the flight which ended in a crash at Newfoundland list night, described his escape as a “miracle” in a message to the New York Times. “'Motor trouble forced a landing in the water at Paradise Sound, just mis! ing Blowmedown Mountain by a few inches, at midnight, Greenwich time," the message said. “Fog, rain and hail, no visibility. Solberg made a marvelous job and managed to avoid a collision with the ;xuvgh g\:unulns, thereby saving our es. Our escape was nothing a miracle.” pe o tia Flyer Inspects Scene. ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, August 25 (A).—Douglas Fraser, St. John's avi- ator, returned last night with the first story of the crash which ended the transatlantic flight hopes of Thor Sol- berg and Carl Petersen. The flyers lefi New York yesterday on a projected hop to Oslo, Norway, but wrecked their ship in the sparsely set- tled community on Placentia Bay, while trying to find a safe landing place. Fraser found the fiyers had escaped serious injury, but that their plane was wrecked. Solberg told him he had planned a landing due to storm and fog at Burgeo, where Clyde Lee and John Bochkon of Barre, Vt., dropped their plane, but had decided the location was unsafe. They attempted to find a more favor- able spot, Solberg said, but were over- taken by a terrific storm. The fiyer (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) i TWO MARINES KILLED I IN NICARAGUA CRASH Plane Participating in Relief of Previous Crash Victim—May Have Been Shot Down. By the Associated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, August 25 (P, —Lieut. R. P. Rutledge and Sergt. O. B. Simmons, U. 8. M. C., were reported at Marine headquarters today to have been killed in an airplane crash yester- | day while they were flying above the spot where three other Marine Corps fiyers were down in the jungle. These two had assisted in a search for the wreck of a plane which crashed several days ago with Lieut. Clovis Coffman and two non-commissioned officers. The wreck was spotted and it was thought the three men were unhurt The flying patrol remained in the vicinity, however, to guard against the possibility of an attack upon the cast- away by insurgents. It had not been determined this morn- since he drove a seam ing whether Lieut. Rutledge crashed because of a failure of the plane or whether he had been shot down by in- surgents. The bodies were sald to have absence been recovered and are expected to be brought to Managua today. 3 MILLS PRESENTS BUSINESS LEADERS WITH CREDIT PLAN Administration Chiefs and Reserve District Com- mitteemen Confer. PERFECT ARRANGEMENTS FOR PARLEY TOMORROW Session of Special Group Expected to Continue All Day—State- ment Promised Tonight. As a preliminary to the White House business and industrial conference to be held here tomorrow by administra- tion leaders and business men Secretary of the Treasury Mills this morning laid before a special committee a program for pushing national credit into the channels of business to create more Jobs. Included among those meeting at the Treasury was Owen D. Young of New York. Tomorrow’s conference, which was called by President Hoover on Au- gust 14, will be held at the Commerce Department Bullding and will be at- tended by more than 100 business and industrial ieaders. Those meeting today were the chair- men of the Business and Industrial Committees of the Federal Reserve system, together with former Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont, Mr. Young and members of President Hoover's cabinet. Daniel O. Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road, attended as a representative of the railroad industry. Session to Last All Day. Secretary Mills, acting as the ccizo mittee’s spokesman, informed newspaper men that he expected the session to last throughout the day. He said the committee will make public a state- ment when it adjourned. Mr. Mills said Henry M. Robinsor, Los Angeles banker and a close friend of President Hoover, was the presidina officer of today’s conference The cabinet official, after a lengtny conference with Mr. Hoover, sald pre- liminary plans for the conference to- morrow had been completed. The:e in-~ clude an address by the Presidmt to be broadcast nationally. Mr. Mille, upun leaving the White House, anncOnced that there would be “no ballyhoo™ about the conference, but that it would be one of constructive purposes. Early this afternoon a revision was made in tomorrow’s program, which is now scheduled to start at 10 am. Be- sides President Hoover, the néw program calls for seven other speakers. chairman of the Reconstruction Corporation; C. H. Miller, president of the Reconstruction Corporation; - lin W. Fort, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board; Owen D. Young, chairman of the Business and Industrial Committee of the President's Organiaztion on Unemployment Relief; Secretary of Commerce Chapin and Secretary of the Treasury Mills. ‘The conference will deal with specific projects where definite accomplish- ments in business, agriculture and em- plcyment can be attained and will co- ordinate the mobilization of private and governmental instrumentalities to that end. President Hoover, in calling the con- fercnce, set out the subjects to be con- sidered. Among them were a canvass of the means, methods, agencies and powers available in the country for gen- eral advancement; wider expansion of credit facilities to business and industry when consumption of goods is assured: co-ordination and expanion of live stock and agricultural credit facilities. The conference is als) expected to take up co-ordination and expansion of financial facilities for the movement of commodities into consumption; expan- sion of prcgrams for repairs and main- tenance of the railways, and creation of organization for further spread of employment. Other Subjects Scheduled. A number of other possible questions such as the forthcoming world economic conference, protection of bondholders and mortgage renewals, co-ordination with trade groups and other subjects will be explored. It has been intimated from Demo- cratic sources that some of the busi- ness leaders on the informal committees named by President Hoover had ques- tioned the value of such a conference now in the midst of a presidential cam- paign. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Ar- | kansas, the Democratic leader of the Senate, in a statement issued last night by the Democratic National Committee, charged that previous conferences had been ‘used merely as a sounding board for the Republican party.” He charged that “the inept and un- certain leadership which Mr. Hoover has given to these movements has re- sulted in Pollyanna political propa- ganda without any material step toward economic recovery.” “There has been in these confer- ences,” he added, “men of sufficient ability and force to be of patriotic and materlal service, They have been given neither director nor leadership. Given authority and supg:)n. they might have accomplished much.” While administration 1eacers have pointed out that tomorrow’s conference ‘was not to be a general economid con- ference dealing with all phases of the depression, the Senate leader sail that President Hoover had first annoinced the conference would be for orgdniza- tion of “a concerted program of action along the whole economic front,” and later had restricted it. “Which statemeris's correct or is the second merely an earnast gesture that (Continued on Page 4, Colump 5) BISHOP TO LEAD HUNT FOR MISSING RECTOR By the Associated Press. MOBILE, Ala., August 25.— The strange disappearance of Rev. Rupert G. Witt, rector cf Grace Episcopal Church and chaplain of the Seamen's Institute, brought announcement from Bishop Willlam G. McDowell of Bir- mingham that he would come here for an investigation y. Nothing has been h of the rector nto a down- restaurant Monday. Friends and alarm over his el town relatives and were unahle to advance 2s to why he should have ly without notifying them. 4 =