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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy, continued warm with risk of local thundershowers late tonight or tomorrow; moderate south and south- west winds. Temperatures—Highest, 90, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 64, at 6 am. today. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14,15&16 Full report on page 9. ah ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. “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. Yesterday’s Circulation, 113,748 NO. 32v259 post office, Entered as second cla Washington, matter D. C. WASHINGTON, D. ¢., FRIDAY, AUGUST HOOVER DECLARES CRISIS IS OVER, URGES DRIVE TO RESTORE TRADE; MILLS OFFERS President Seeks New Initiative of Leaders. EXTENSION OF CREDIT ASKED Suggests Creation of More Jobs by Shorter Hours. By the Associated Press. President Hoover today told America’s business chieftains he was convinced the Nation had overcome “the major financial crisis” and asked that they as- sume new initiative and responsi- bility to restore labor and agri- culture to higher levels. Speaking to an audience com- posing one of the most inclusive gatherings of national banking ard business leaders in history, the President proposed specifically that credit be extended to vital points and that arrangements be made between employer and em- ploye for shorter hours and wider distribution of jobs. 3 A program looking to the stimu- lation of business activity and em- ployment was brought to the con- ference by Secretary of Treasury Mills from yesterday's session of an Executive Committee composed of Government officials and the chairmen of the 12 Banking and Industrial Committees of the Fed- eral Reserve System. Proposes Central Commitlee. Secretary Mills recommended for con- ference approval the creation of a cen- tral committee of business leaders to take command of a fresh drive to lead the Nation farther along from the eco- nomic slump. In the furtherance of business re- covery President Hoover said it is clear- 1y necessary that there be co-ordination | of effort in hastening the return of un- emplcyed to employmerft in their | natural ind PSS | “It is doubtful,” he added, “whether any action we could take at this time | would so greatly accelerate our progress, serve the welfare of our unempioyed millions, or so quickly give us as a Na- tion the benefit of a widespread spend- ing power as further spread of equitable plans for sharing the available work. “As a matter of national policy, the shortening of hours is necessary, not alone to meet the needs of the move- ~ (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) RECEIVERS NAMED FOR INTERBOROUGH Equity Proceeding Based on Claim of Brake Shoe and Foundry Concern. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 26—Equity re- ceivers were appointed today for the Interborough Repid Tran:iz Co.. which s subway and elevated lines con- s five boroughs. T. Manton of the s Circuft Court of Appeals former Justice Victor J. nd Thomas E. Murray equity ted Tne application for the receivership de by at‘orneys for the Ameri- ake Shoe & Fouadry Co. a nd was consented to by the orough. I R. T. is the largest subway tor in New York, but not the The Brooklyn Manhattan 50 Operates a SUDWAY sys- g Kings, Manhattan and opera P | President, Addressing Conference, Likens Victory to Chateau-T hierry, but of Soissons” Is Yet to Come. FTSIDENT HOOVER'S address, | | o,.2ning the conference of Fed- | | eral Reserve District Banking | | and Industrial Commiitees to- | foilows: | We have acked you, the members of the 12 Federal Reserve District | Banking and Industrial Committees, to confer together and with the offi- cials of the Government agencies which are engaged in the problems of the depression. The purpose of the conference is to better organize private initiative and to co-ordi- nate it with governmental activities 50 as to further aid in the progress of recovery of business, agriculture and employment. The committees of the different Federal Reserve districts _were created some time since and have already been of great service in the solution of many local problems. Many constructive projects have been advanced by them. We wish to expand the ideas and solutions developed in the dif- Text of Hoover’s Speech Warns That “Battle ferent districts over other areas Where they may be adaptable, to co-ordinate private and govern- mental agencies, to initiate steps for organization of groups to un- dertake special and immediate prob- lems in credit, in industry, in agri- | culture and in employment as they | arise in the different districts. In other words, this is a meeting not to pass resolutions on economic questions but to give you the op- portunity to organize for action. It is not proposed that you shall have authority from the Government, but that you should join in stimulation of organized private initiative of America. The reason for calling this con- ference at this particular moment is that we are convinced that we have overcome the major financial crisis—a crisis in severity unparal- leled in the history of the world— and that with its relaxation confi- (Continued on Page 4, Column 5. IS, ORDERS HALT 0N FORECLOSURES IN OWNERS, BEHALF Controller Tells National Bank | Receivers to Delay Action for Sixty Days. By the Associated Press. | Steps to have receivers of national, State end other banking institutions grant a 60-day moratorium on home fcreclosures have been taken by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Chairman Franklin W. Fort made the announcement to the national confer- ence of business and industrial commit- | tees that Controller of the Currency | Pcle had.issued. orders to every national | bank recelver to ruspend loreclnsures‘ for 60 days. Later Fort made public a telegram dispatched to State banking authorities | requesting them to instruct receivers or other liquidators of closed instituticns to grant a similar respite. Many Banks Affected. Fort said hundreds of closed banks would be affecied and probably hun-| dreds of millions of dollars would be | involved. Tie telegram sent to State banking commissioners and supervisors follows: “We hope to have Federal loan banks | cpen and doing business on or before October 15, after whicn date substan- | tial relaxation in the mortgage loan | market should develop speedily. In the meantime, we feel thai foreclosures should be prevented wherever possible. “We, therefore, request you to in- | | strucy the receivers or other liquida- tors of closed institutions under your jurisdiction to withhold or delay fore- closure proceedings for at least 60 days, thus offering chance of preserving equity of owner of rcal estate. No Delay in Dividends. | “Dividends to depositors or credi- tors need not bz delayed s the Re- truction Finance Corporation is au- zed to loan to receiver: | “Controller Pole of the curvency is issuing instructions in accorcance with | this telegram to ali receivers of na- | tional banks. We earnestly request your concurrence in your State. Fort sald at the present time there | was no mortgage money in the market, | but that he was convinced that at the | end of 60 days when the home loan| banking system begins to function that | | there would be a market for real estate | | mortgages. He said the 60-day mora- | torium would save the homes of thou- | sands of persons, many of whom had " (Continued on Page 5, Column 8.) | mittee. Former Mrs. Marcus Daly Wed. DINARD, France, August 26 (®).—| LAUD OTTAWA PARLEY YOUNESAYS COAL OF TRADE PARLEY 5 CREAT 1085 Hope of Results Before Win- ter Expressed—Task Called | Non-Partisan. By the Associated Press Owen D. Young, New York industrial | leader and a prominent Democrat, told the National Economic Conference today that the prime purpose of co-ordinated drive of business and government was to make more jobs. | As chairman of the first of the bank- ing and industrial committees formed | last Spring to bring together the (oru-s“ of economic attack, Young related in| detail the organization of that com- “We have all learned,” he explained, | “that it is quite impossitle to deal with this depression in insulated compart- ments. It is cbviously hopeless for us to accomplish much in this country | unless we can unifv and co-ordinate the | action of these groups in several dls-‘ tricts.” Hopes for Early Results. He joined emphatically in the decla- ration to, the Nation’s business leaders that it was to their best interest to see | that the human family had a livelihood. “If we succeed even in small meas- ure in this undertaking and can do it | before the Winter comes, Mr. Chair- man, I think these committees will have rendered a very great service to busi- ness in the United States. “And not only to business, because that is secondary, but to men and women who need food and shelter, and most of all who need to retain their own self-confidence and _self-respect. Indeed, not only their self-confidence and self-respect, but what is even more important than all, to cnable them and us to retain the confider.ce of the chil- dren who are coming on. Problem Is Non-Pariisan. “A father’s job lost does more than humiliate the parent. It does more than weaken the self-respect of the child. It | threatens that stability and that op- portunity for the future which is the basis of our hopes and the impulse of our accomplishments. “That is our problem here. It is no$ one of partisan politics. It is a prob- lem of the perfection for the future of a social and economic system which is the only one having back of it the hu- man experience of thousands of years and, however faulty, it is the one into | which is welded the evolutionary back- | grounds of the peoples of the world.” | TRAPPED ON ICE PACKS, | | and such voluntary groups as may asso- | adequate functioning of the new home 6-POINT PROGRAM Six “Specif ics” Suggested to Conference. CENTRAL GROUP TO BE SET UP Secretary Tells of Progress to Recovery. Six specific endeavors for pro- moting economic improvement, co-ordinated by a Central Com- mittee of business leaders, were recommended to the President’s conference of banking and busi- ness leaders today by Secretary of the Treasury Mills. He told the assembled commit- tees that this program had been! presented to their chairmen in yesterday's all-day meeting of Federal Reserve Bank officials and believed “worthy of considera- tion” by the conference. “We are not setting ul(l an eco- nomic council to endeavor to di- sect the economic policies of the | country,” the Treasury Secretary | assured the gathering. “We are creating a central crganiza- tion for the purpose of contact and co- operation to assist in the task to be performed by the Reconstruction F nance Corporation, Federal Reserve Banking System, the Home Loan Banks, the Banking and Industrial Committees ciate themselves with the latter with a view to developing helpful steps looking to gradual economic rehabilitation and more immediately an increasing in em- ployment.” Six-Point Program. The six-point program as outlined by Mr. Mills is as fcllows: “1. The problem of making avail- able credit affirmatively useful to busi- ness. “2. To increase employment by the railiroads and stimulation of industry through expansion of maintenance of equipmert and purchase of new equip- ment in co-operation wilh the Inter- state Commerce Commission and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. “3. Increased employment through the sharing work movement. | “4. The stimulation of the repair and improvement of home movement. “5. Assistance to home owners with | maturing mortgages. “6. Active co-operation of all bank- ing and industrial committees with the | Reconstruction Finance Corporation in working out the problems incident to the making of self-liquidating loans for public and semi-public projects and for slum clearance and housing projects as provided in the emergency relief act; in the riding of live stock loans by the Reconstructicn Finance Corporation and agricultural credit corporations; in assisting the establishment of agricul- | ture credit corporations provided for in the relief act and in facilitating the | loan banks.” Mr. Mills sald that since first discus- slons of a central clearing house organ- ization and a definite plan for business and employment betterment, progress already had been made. He cited as examples creation of the commodity finance and American securities cor- porations and the development of a capital-expenditures movement among corporations. Text of Mills' Statement. The full text of Secretary Mills' statement follows: “Some four months ago, at a time when the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was already actively engaged in the protection and strengthening of our banking structure and the Federal Reserve system, with its vast resources made fully available by the Glass-Stea- gall bill, was, through a vigorous policy, stemming the tide of deflation and credit contraction, but when dark clouds still hung heavily over our finan- cial horizon, there came into being in! each of the 12 Federal Reserve dis- tricts a banking and industrial commit- tee composed, generally speaking, of six leading bankers and six leading in- dustrialists and business men. The first one of these was created in the New York district under the leader- ENOUGH "TO 26, 1932—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. skxx% (#) Means Associated Pr TWO CENTS. D'fe KNow | EVEN TURNED N IELT A HEART OF STONE. WOMAN DISCLOSES SHERWOD CHECKS Successor in Office Admits She Deposited His Funds in Her Account. By the Assoclated Press. ALBANY, N. Y, August 26.—Miss Mildred Day, office secretary for the law firm with which Russell T. Sher- wood, missing accountant, formerly was associated, testified today at the hear- ing on removal charges against Mayor James J. Walker that since Sherwood left, about a year ago, she has de- posited in her ovn bank account about $2,000 in dividend checks that have come in for him. She said she deposited the checks‘ in her account in a bank in East Orange, N. J., ~here she lives, and that it is a1l there now, part of it in a safety deposit box and part.in her account. “Mr. Sherwood had a bank account in New York, didn't he?" asked Martin Conboy, special counsel to Gov. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, before whom the hear- ing is being conducted. “Yes, he did," Miss Day replied. “Why didn't you put the money into his account, instead of in your own?” Conboy asked her. “I never thought of that,” was Miss Day's reply. Property Sold for Fine. Sherwood, for his failure to return to New York and appear before the Hofstadter Legislative Committee, was held in contempt by the Supreme Court last Wirter and was fined $5$0,000. Since then some of his property has been sold at a sherifl’s sale to meet the fine. Seabury asked Miss Day if the sheriff had ever asked her for the $2,000. “No," she replied. While Miss Day was on the stand Seabury handed her a check book. “This is Mayor Walker's check book," | feet and demolished the car, which later | he said. “Do you see on the stubs there any handwriting except that of Mr. Sherwood ?" “No,” Miss Day answered. “The mayor | never makes out his own checks. I make them out for him now and have since Mr. Sherwood left.” Miss Day testified that, following an attack of tonsilitis and influenza in the Spring of 1931, Sherwood appeared to| oner's jury was impaneled by Justice | be “on the verge of a nervous break- down.” Saw Him Year Ago. “The last time I saw him,” she said, “he came into the office. That was about August 7, a year ago. 1 urged him to take a vacation then, because he looked so miserable. He said he might.” Miss Day identified severay type- written letters, dated May 23 and early in June, this year—just after Mayor Walker was 2 witness before the Hof- stadter Committee—and signed “Russ."” Mussolini Cheered Threatening Sword For Fascism’s Foes | By the Associated Press. | PERUGIA, Italy, August 26— Inaugurating an aqueduct and new fountain here, Premier Mus- solini described the significance of the ceremcny thus: “Water and welfare for the people who work, and the sword for the enemies of the regime.’ The crowd cheered enthusias- tically. CRASH KILLS THREE - ON CRAIN HIGHWAY ID. C. Girls and Hyattsville Man Are Victims Near Millersville, Md. Two persons were instantly killed and a third fatally injured when a sedan in which they were riding col- | lided with a truck on the Crain High- | way near Millersville, Md., early today. The dead are: | Ellis Umberger, about 21 years old, of Hyattsville, Md., driver of the sedan. Miss Yolanda Sorivi, 16, 1745 Eight- eenth street, Washington. Miss Ada Murray, 18, 1919 Nineteenth street, Washington. | State police said the sedan in which they were riding was in collision with a truck cperated by Milford H. Melling of Severn, Md. The accident occurred | at the intersection of tne Crain High- way and the Fort Meade road, just over | the top of a hill | Umberger's car was coming out of the | fort road, while the truck was traveling | south on the highway. The impact threw the driver and Miss Sorivi 20 caught fire. It was extinguished by | neighbors. Miss Murray was rushed to Emer- gency Hospital, Annapolis, in the West Annapolis ambulance. She died an hour later. Melling was arrested on an investiga- | tion charge by Corpl. James O. Shock: ley' of the State police force. A cor: of Peace Lester L. Disney and will hold ‘an inquest at Anderson's Corner, the scene of the crash, Monday night. Mrs. Francesca Sorivi, mother of one of the dead girls, said this morning that MEXICAN PRESIDENT'S 'BROTHER QUITS POST NEBRASKANS JON OMARA BLOCKADE |New Picketers Take Posts as| | lowa Farmers Cut Strike Forces. | By the Assoclated Press. OMAHA, August 26.—Highways into Omaha were picketed today by Ne- braska farmers participating in the | farmers’ holiday movement to force| higher prices for farm produce. Pickets were posted on the road from Blair, Nebr.,, just across the Missouri River from Missouri Valley, Iowa, to Omaha, | the main route here from the north- east section of the State. The pickets stopped all trucks, but allowed all to proceed into Omaha after warning the drivers that “this is the last time we'll let you through— after this we mean business.” The picketing was orderly and the strikers said they would keep a con- | stant vigil on the highway with in- | creased numbers on the lines tonight. Next Tuesday a mass meeting of | Douglas County farmers will be held and plans will be discussed for picket- ing of roads leading into Omaha from the south apd west. Omaha is the county sea Douglas County. Towa Lines Reduced. On the Iowa side of the Missouri River leaders of 2,000 strikers decided that picketing of Pottawattamie County roads intc Council Bluffs would be| done with smaller forces. A committee of eight who said they represented strikers from Woodbury, | Piymouth, Sioux and O'Brien Counties issued a statement criticizing Sheriff | Lainson ard declaring that the large group would leave the Council Bluffs area at once. | " *“These 2,000 men came down here to get the boys out of jail. We were victors in a way,” the committee said. ‘They referred to the 55 strikers who had been arrested on charges of un- lawful assembly and who were released on bond yesterday after threats to storm the jail. Meanwhile some Pottawattamie Coun- " (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) MRS. PUTNAM SWIMS AFTER LONG FLIGHT Dives Into Long Island Sound Day After Dip in Los Angeles Pool. By the Associated Press. RYE, N. Y., August 26 —Amelia Ear- hart Putnam went swimming in a Los | Angeles pool Wednescay, before setting out’ on_ her non-stop transcontinental HOPE GROWS DIM FOR OCEAN FLYERS OVERDUE N 0510 Lee and Bochkon Unreported Since They Left Harbor Grace Yesterday. SHOULD HAVE PASSED IRELAND LAST NIGHT Thick Weather May Have Forced’ “Green Mountain Boy” to Fly at High Altitude. By the Associated Press OSLO, Norway, August 26.—Hope that Clyde Lee and John Bochkon might suc-~ ceed in flying their “Green Mcuntain Boy” across the Atlantic began to dim today as afternoon faded into evening and there was still no word of them. It was feared that the bad weather which prevailed over the Eastern At- lantic might have spelled failure for their aspirations. ‘There were -lying clouds and some fog over the water to Great Britain from noon on and because of those con- ditions it might be that the fiyers had flown over England without being seen. HARBOR GRACE CONFIDENT. Believed to Have Been Forced to Fly Above Rain. HARBOR GRACE, Newfoundland, August 26 (#).—From the vast Atlantic came no word today of the Green Mountain Boy, but there was confidence the big plane bearing Clyde Lee of Oshkosh, Wis, and John Bochkon of Brooklyn was nearing Oslo, Norway, #ts goal. When the flyers hopped yesterday morning at 5:02 o'clock (Eastern stand- ard time) on the second leg of their journey from Barre, Vt, toward the land of the Vikings, they said they hoped to make it in 30 hours. That would put them in Oslo shortly after 11 am. today. Some slight anxiety was felt because no vessel reported sighting the plane, although it was presumably flying in the path of many ships, but it was believed possible the flyers might have climbed high to avoid a rainstorm they expected to meet 600 miles off New- foundland and thus would not be easy to sight. Should Be Over Europe. Flying the great circle, the red mono- plane, according to its plotted course and estimated speed, should have hit the Irish coast near Galway at about 11 o'clock last night The airmen plan- ned to fly over blin, Southern Eng- Jand and Cuxhaven, Germany, before coming down at Kjeller Field, Oslo. Galway is on the West Coast of Ire land and about 1,800 miles from Har- bor Grace. Flying at night over Ireland, Lee and Bouchkon would not stand much chance of being sighted. Several fly- ing expeditions have made the last stages of an Atlantic crossing at night and have been unreported until their safe arrival. Allowed Margin for Safety. The airmen had allowed a comfort- able margin for safety in their tanks. They carried encugh fuel for 37 hours’ flying. They were also prepared for a sea landing. The plane’s coors were sealed to make room for extra gas tanks and a hole was cut through the roof as an emergency exit. In the event of a sea landing, it was hoped to cut the motor away so the empty tanks could keep the craft afloat. Lee is 24 years old and has had ex- tensive experience as a barnstormer, Bochkon is 29 e2nd a former member of the Norwegian Flying Corps. MOLLISON'S AIDES DOWN. ST. JOHN, New Brunswick, August 26 (A —Two mechanics fiving from New York to Harbor Grace to prepare for Capt. J. A. Mollison's arrival on his (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) B. & 0. OFFICIAL LEAPS 11 STORIES TO HIS DEATH Assistant Valuation Engineer Plunges From Offices at Baltimore. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, August 26—William C. Coles, assistant valuation engineer of | the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., | late yesterday plunged to his death They were brought to her by Sherwood's | Resignation as Head of Lottery| e ly, widow The former Mrs, Marcus Daly, Sl This com- | Yesterday she swam in Long| from the eleventh floor of the com- EBriiish Del nounce It Success. SOUTHAMPTON, England, August| 2) British delegates returning 1 the cnomic Conference at Otta- upon their arrival today the mecting with the dominions | been successful from every stand- | t gates, at Home, Pro- 26 1rc had of the son of the American copper man, was married today in a_ relbgious cere- mony to George John D. Djamgaroff. A civil service was performed last month, in London. They will live in | New York. — e ——— Quake Rocks Austrian City. KLAGENFURT, Austria, August 26| ibinet members in the delegation | (#).—A slight earthquake rattled the| d up to London for a meetirg to | crockery in this Corinthian city today, |but did no serious damage. BLONDE OR BRUNETTE, IT’S LIKE TRANSFORMING WATER INTO GAS Scientist Decides Atoms Simply Rearrange Selves to| Produce Different Characteristics. By the Assoclated Press ITHACA, N. Y, August 26.—The t blonde to appear in a race of nettes resulted from a process much er into ga a scientist's new 1 like changing w revealed today )y picture of how ev 1o daughter, was presented before the International Congress of Genetics by Dr. N. TimeofeefI-Ressovsky of Ger- many. He said experiments show a gene is probably a large molecule, or bundle of atoms, a single physico-chemical unit like a molecule of water. The change, or “mutation,” such as would be necessary to produce the first blond in a race of brunettes, would be a rear- rangement of the atoms in the gene- molecule, just as atoms in a water molecule are rearranged when the water <eanges to gas. | Ressovsky is contrary to the old idea The new theory of Dr. Timeofeeff- of many scientists that genes are par- | tially or wholly destroyed in the pro-| cess of mutation. Instead of being destroyed, he holds, their atoms are merely rearranged, thus producing some new characteristic in the next | generation. Such a rearrangement of atoms, perhaps, gave early fish their first air-breathing apparatus and helped turn flippers into legs for walking on land. Use of X-rays to cause artificial mutations in fruit files is the basis of the German scientist’s new theory. Genes causing certain characteristics, such as eye-color in the flies, “disap- peared” under bombardment of X-rays, but also reappeared under the same kind of treatment. A “family tree” of the animal king- dom that shows by blood tests how closely dogs, horses, sheep, pigs and cattle are related to each other was | exhibited by A. A. Boyden of Rutgers ESKIMOS REACH SAFETYi Party of 28 Caught on Drifting | Float While Visiting Abandoned Fur Ship, Baychimo. By the Associated Press. POINT BARROW, Alaska, August | 26.—Carried 30 miles from shore on an | Arctic ice floe, a party of 28 Eskimo | men were safe ashore today after spend- ing four days on the ice pack, and on the abandoned fur trader, the Baychimo. After reaching the Baychimo safely last Sunday, they said an easterly wind | sprang up, breaking up the ice on| which they had reached the vessel. Only by splitting up into small parties and hunting for seal and bear when their food supplies were exhausted, and | waiting for the wind to die down, were they able to return to shore. The Baychimo, although nearly a year in the ice now, is little damaged, they said. $400,000 EMBEZZLEMENT IN ROME BANK REPORTED Police on Lookout for Offenders Believed Headed Toward French or Swiss Border. By the Assoctated Press. | ROME, August 26—The newspaper | Corriere Della Sera reported yesterday that $400,000 had been embezzled from the Rome branch of the Bank of Sicily, and Milan police were on the lookout for the offenders, who were be- lieved to be headed toward the French or Swiss border. Rome police have not confirmed the |tees was “to discover ways and means ship of Mr. Owen Young. mittee served as a model for the com- mittees_subsequently organized in the| other districts. In the words of Mr. Young, the objective of these commit- of putting cxcess banking credit to work affirmatively to stimulate employ- ment and business recovery.” Mr. Young is here to tell you in person how the New York committee has been or- ganized, how it has tackled the prob- lems in the second Federal Reserve dis- trict, and what it has been able to accomplish. The chairmen of the committees in the other districts are also present, but for the purpose of discussion this morn- ing the story of the York commit- tee may be taken as typical of the work (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) COOLIDGE WANTS TO AID HOOVER, TILSON SAYS! Leader Says Former President Is Still Undecided on Whether He Will Speak or Not. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 26.—John Q. Tilson, director of the Eastern Republi- can Speakers' Bureau, today tele- graphed Eastern campaign headquar- ters that former President Calvin Coolidge is willing to do anything he can to insure the success of the Re- publican campaign, but whether he will | make any speeches is still undeter- mined. Tilscn lunched with the former Presi- dent yesterday at Plymouth, Vt. “Former President Coolidge,” the message from Tilson said. “has ex- pressed a willingness to do whatever he can to insure the success of the Republican campaign. The Guestion of report nor has the bank made an an- nouncement. The newspaper pointed out silence may be observed for a time | Untversity. 50 as not to jeopardize the chanoces of | cal the criminals. just how Mr. Coolidge can best help in the Republican campaign is yet to be determined. Mr. Coolidge, however, made it clear that he was deeply in- terested in the success of the ticket.” ~ sister, she said, and she turned them over to the mayor. “I don't think the signature is in (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) BOLIVIAN NOTE BACKS OCEAN OUTLET CLAIM Tells League of Nations It Has Right to Go Through Chaco. Plans Military Hospitals. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, August 26.—Bolivia sent the League of Nations another note today in connection with its dispute with Paraguay over the Gran Chaco. The communication reiterates that Bolivia seeks an outlet through the Chaco to the sea, not only as a neces- sity, but as a right. “Bolivia never upheld the theory that necessity creates the law,” said the note. “It is the law which creates and im- peses upon a country the right to pos- sess what belongs to it. That is Bolivia’s case.” LA PAZ, Bolivia, August 26 (#).— ‘The Senate yesterday recommended im- mediate construction of three military hospitals which would be used in the event of military action on a large scale with Paraguay in the conflict over the Gran Chaco. A law was adopted to give public em- ployes called to service 50 per cent of their regular salaries. The general staff annocunced that “Paraguayan propaganda” accounted for reports that Bolivian tronrl in the Chaco were suffering from yellow fever and smallpox. A denial also was is- sued of reports that a Paraguayan pris- oner had been lynched, Charitable Agency Follows Hospital Controversy. By the Assoclated Press. MEXICO CITY, August 26—Presi- nounced the resignation of his brother, Francisco, as president of the Benefi- cencia Publica, government charitable agency financed by the national lottery. Simultaneously it became known that all the department heads and many of the federal district employes had hand- ed their resignations to the President as the latest manifestation of discord in national political affairs. The chief of the federal district gov- ernment, the equivalent of mayor of Mexico City, resigned recently with the explanation that he had incurred the President’s disfavor by intervening in the General Hospital dispute. The hos- pital came under Francisco .Ortiz Rubio's jurisdiction. The chief of the health department stepped aside in the argument. Since the disagreement occurred there have been rumors that the President and Plutarco Elias Calles, the “strong man” of Mexico, were not in agreement in the matter. GREEN ASKED TO SPEAK Labor Leader Invited to Pulpit of Pittsburgh Cathedral. PITTSBURGH, August 26 (#).—An invitation to speak from the Trinity Cathedral pulpit Sunday, September 4, | has been extended William Green, presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor. Green studied for the Baptist min- istry in his yorth. He will be the Labor Day speaker here. Radio Programs on Page B-4 | dent Pascual Ortiz Rublo last night an- | hop. Island Sound “It seems a little queer, even in these i times,” said George Palmer Putnam, | her publisher husband. | Though she was in the air several hours longer on her latest flight than | when she crossed the Atlantic in May, | Mrs. Putnam said at her home here she | | was “a little tired, but not so very.” pany's central office building. Employes said Coles had appeared nervous and finally went to the win- dow and leaped out, saying: “This time I am going to do it.” His body was found in a small alleyway. He had been in the employ of the railroad 28 years and recently was chief engineer of the valuation department. So, after a few hours' rest, the Put- | He was born in St. Louis, Mo, July 9, nams went for a swim. | T R Stamp Convention Elects. | WARREN, Ohio, August 26 (®).—The | Universal Stamp Association concluded | its two-day annual convention here yes- 1886, and is survived by his widow and two sons, one six weeks old. . Ambassador Sherrill to Return. ISTANBUL, Turkey, August 26 (#).— United States Ambassador Charles Sher- terday after electing Camille Lacomb, rill will leave for Washington August Syracuse, N. Y., president. 31, returning at the end of October. |PRAYERS FOR RAIN ANSWERED AS HOPI MEDICINE MEN DANCE Torrential Downfall Breaks Long Drought in Arizona, Washing Out One Bridge. By the Associated Press. |snake dance of the Hopi was carrea GALLUP, N. M, August 26.—Prayers | out alll;m&gh nix; h;d l:lllen. The se- of the chief medicine men of the Hopi|crets of the tr ziude a strazgcly | efficacious antidote for bites of the Indians for rain were answered yester- | venomous snakes t.sed by the dancers. day. The snakes, in the Hopi legends, carry * While the medicine makers were %hf"m“‘ll lWi?gy';"d ;"‘GFS’P“;’“W‘: ’g ntercessions wi e of rain, chanting their ceremonial prayers at|¢n. ungerworld abode of the snake peo- Toreva, Nesa village, thunder crashed |ple, upon whom in ages past, so the from the lowering clouds and rain fell stories go, the Hopl visited an insult, in torrents, breaking a long drought. | and_suffered seasons of drought in ® retaliation. The rain area extended throughout| “pew students of Hopl lore ever have the Hopi country and as far south as|been able to agree upon the real sig- Winslow, Ariz. One bridge was washed | nificance of the snake dance, and its at- out on the main highway 70 miles west tendant secret rites, or settle upon any of Gallup. one of the many legendary tales as the A crowd of visitors witnessed the an- | of the nual inter-tribal ceremonials. The | rain authentic story of the beg! Prayers. 1