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FA-2 =x BOLIVIAN THRONG DEMANDS BOMBING: Air Attack on Asuncion Seen Way to Check Paraguayans as Lines Yield. BY the Associated Press. LA PAZ, Bolivia, September 17.—An gerial bombardment of Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, was demanded to- day by crowds of people here after rc- ports caid Paraguayan troops were bayonetting Red Cross stretcher-bearers in the battle at Fort Boqueron, in the Chaco. The battle entered its ninth day to- day and officials said the Bolivian flag was still flying. The Bolivian defend- ers of the fort, a high official said, numbered about 2,000, and they were faced by between 8,000 and 10,000 Paraguayans, soldiers and civilians, armed with all kinds of weapons. (Reports that stretcher-bearers were being bayonetted were denied by Para- guayan officials at Asuncion.) Great crowds surged through the streets last night shouting their de- mand that the Bolivian air force wreak retribution by bombing the Paraguayan capital. ‘The reascn for the difference in num- bers of troops in the Fort Boqueron battle, officials here said, is that Para- guay can transport troops from Asun- cion to the battle ground in four days, vhile Bolivia requires a month to move men across_the Pilcomayo River, which s impassable for trucks because of the deep sand. BOLIVIAN LINES BROKEN. ASUNCION, Paraguay, September 17 (#)—Reports from Formosa today said the Paraguayan cavalry had broken the Bolivian line near Fort Acre in the Chaco region, where a bitter battle was in progres for the ninth consecutive cay Other reports said the Bolivians at- tempted twice during the night to break the Paraguayan blockade at Fort Boqueron without success and they added the Bolivians now had been en- tirely surrounded by the Paraguayan forces. Reports from La Paz that the Para- guayans were bayonetting Red Cross stretcher-bearers and wounded soldiers of the cnemy were regarded by officials Lere as an inventicn intended to justify a Bolivian aerial bombing attack on Asuncion which, they said, was planned some time ago. CURTIS WOULD CUT DISTRIBUTION COST OF FARM PRODUCTS (Continued From First Page.) are upon products of agricultural origin measured in vawe, as distinguished from 6.25 per cent upon commodities of strictly non-agricultural origin. “The average rate upon agricultural raw materials shows an increase from 38.10 per cent to 48.92 per cent in con- trast to dutiable articles of strictly other than agricultural origin, which® shows an average increase from 31.02 per cent to 3431 per cent. * * * “Out of 31 leading products of agri- culture our Democratic friends fixed a duty on only eight of them and left the others on the free list, while Re- publicans in the act of 1930 placed a duty on each and every one of the 31 products.” ROOSEVELT SPEECH HIT. Jahncke Attacks Farm “Promises” Democrat. of By the Associated Press. McCLURE, Pa., September 17.—Dis- cussing Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt's farm relief proposals, Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, said in a campaign address today that the Democratic presidential nomi- nee “has pledged himself to fulfill what no one on earth could fulfill.” “The other day in Topeka, Kans.” Jahncke said, “he told the farm belt that he was going to cure all the ail- ments of agriculture. He said that we must have a plan which will do this and that and the other thing. * * * Holds Task Impossible. “The Governor has promised to agri- culture everything it could conceivably hope for. He has pledged himself to fulfill what no ome on earth could fulfill. “He said ‘the plan must provide.’ And he enumerated the blessings and benefits which the plan must provide, but he totally and_absolutely fails to provide the plan which is to provide all these gifts from Heaven. “The Democratic platform reads, ‘We advocate a competitive tariff for rev- enue, * * “Speaking of this document, Gov.| Roosevelt says (and I quote him), am for this platform 100 per cent. Promises About Tariff. “But in Topeka he declared that he would give the farmer ‘a benefit equiv- alent to a tariff.’ * * * Willfully or not. what the Governor has promised agriculture is that he will put the farm products upon the same tariff basis as were the aforementioned prod- ucts six years ago—that is to say. he will give them no protection at all.” Jahncke said the campaign is “not a contest between the Republican and Democratic parties,” but “a struggle between the Republican party and de-! pression.” 1 HOOVER IS INDORSED. State Committee Backs His Repeal Plan’ With Additions. ALLENTOWN, Pa., September 17 (). —The Republican State Committee to- cay adopted a platform for the Penn- sylvania campaign, which contained a plank indorsing “President Hoover's pronouncement upon prohibition en-| forcement and its evils in his master- Tul speech of acceptance.” The plat- form advocates the immediate modifi- cation of the Volstead act. The State Committee meeting was held prior to the Republican rally at Fogelsville, near here, where Vice Presi- dent Curtis was ]::n the program as the principal speaker. “The Republican State Committee is convinced.” says the plank on prohi- bition, “that the conditions resulting from the ecighteenth amendment and | enforcement laws are intolerable, but is unanimously agreed that the evils/ which it was intended to correct never be permitted to return. “The State Committee heartily en- dorses President Hoover's pronounce- ment upon prohibition enforcement and its evils in his masterful speech ol acceptance, and believes that the true solution of the liquor question lies in the practical application set forth in the program by the President, and therefore, pursuant to that conviction, favors the repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the return to the States of the power to deal with the liquor question as the majority of voters of each State shall decide. “The committee advocates the imme- diate modification of the Volstead act.” The platform also says: “The wise, courteous, patient and courageous effort of our great President has kept the United States steadfast in times of political upheaval and unfest in other nations of the world. We have main- tained our high credit, and both our moral and financial obligations. “The President has mustered, trained and directed the American pecple as a 1 nese during the day of national humili- % | betore 1940. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17; 1932. EORGE REIS (left), defender of the President’s Cup, is shown above greeting Horace Dodge, millionaire sportsman, his lone rival in the motor boat classic on the Potomac. but his speedy craft, El Lagarto, was disabled today and forced out of the last two heats, leaving only Dodge’s two boats in the race. Reis won the first heat yesterday, —Underwood & Underwood Photo. SHANEHA ELARDED BY MARTAL LAW Action Taken to Prevent Dis- orders on National Hu- miliation Day. By Cable to The Star. SHANGHAI, September 11.4M:nm‘ law was declared this evening in Shang- hai, extending to Monday afternoon, | as a precautionary measure to stem| possible anti-Japanese demonstrations resulting from the Chinese observance of Sunday as & national humiliation day, so proclaimed because it is the| first anniversary of the Japanese seiz- | ure of Mukden, heralding the long | Manchurian campaign. While special police precautions, with increased patrols, were taken in the | French Concession and the Internation- | al Settlement, these areas are not in- cluded in the zones under martial law. ‘With the prospect of continued heavy rains, the Chinese authorities are not anticipating serious disturbances over the week end. At Nanking, China’s capital, the Nationalist government has ordered all officials to remain at their desks as another preventive influence against _outbreaks, while even the| schools have been ordered to remain | open, foregoing the usual Sunday holi- | day. Flags to Be at Half-Mast. Tomorrow flags will be flown at half- staff, factories will operate, amusement places will be closed and the Special School of Government Exercises has in- structed its speakers in orating on the significance of the day to dwell on the subject of the violation of Chinese sov- ereignty in Manchuria. Chinese police officials in the native Shanghai_districts of Chapei and Nan- tao told this correspondent today that they were well prepared to keep the situation in_hand, provided the Japa- nese themselves did not start anything provocative. In the contrary event, they said, they supposed matters must take their course, since only 4,000 troops were available in the Shanghai area to preserve order. Japanese nationals, on the other hand, have received orders from their | officials here and in the home country to watch their step and refrain from unduly celebrating or antagonizing Chi- ation, Manchukuo’s anncuncement to the effect that henceforth China shall be considered a “foreign nation,” with the same obligation as other countries in contending with a Manchukuan tariff, serving to militate against Chinese trade, comes as the bitterest pill of all for China to swallow in the Sino-Japa- nese controversy climaxed by Japan's recognition of the new state Septem- ber 15, Canton May Secede. China’s first retaliation to Manchu- kuo's action comes from the Canton faction, with its determination to can- cel existing Manchurian bean and other orders and its refusal to enter into any trade relations with the new state. In taking priority in this move, Canton also serves to accentuate its split with the Nanking government, for while the nation is confronted with the necessity of presenting a united front, the Can- ton and Nanking leaders are giving ab’undnnt evidence of lack of co-oper- ation. Canton, from its position sufficiently far from the northern front, is insisting that Nanking launch a punitive expadi- tion into Manchukuo. Canton in the meantime also is doing all in its power to boycott Japanese goods. The presence in Shanghal of C. C. Wu, former Chinese Minister to the United States, who has come from Can- ton with the intention of visiting the northern cliques and possibly also the famous “Christian” Gen, Feng Yu- Hsiang with a view to affecting new al- liances, has done much to lend color to reports of Canton’s eventual secession from the national government. (Copyright. 1932.) sk i It is estimated that 2,400,000 new households will be created in Germany 1. Class C, Division 1. lass C, Division 11 14. 225 H. P. Class G_Runabouts. .. . All Washington Sweepstakes. . Stock Runabout, Pree-for-All great army facing a relentless enemy and victory is about achieved. We confidence in Pgesident War College dock is as follows: 10 a.m., returning at 1 p.m.; i 17. Potomac Grand Free-for-All.. Heads Auxiliary KENTUCKY WOMAN NAMED LEADER OF LEGIO MRS. S. A. BLACKBURN Of Versailles, Ky, was elected and in- stalled as president of the American Legion Auxiliary at the national con- vention in, Portland, Oreg, Thursday. She was unopposed. —Harris-Ewing Photo. HURLEY STATEMENT BLAME IS ACCEPTED Gen. O’Neil Declares He Dis- tributed Franked Envelopes at Legion Convention. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Oreg., September 17.— Responsibility for placing Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley's statement on “Bonus Marchers in Washington” be- fore American Legion delegates at their recent convention here, had been ac- cepted today by Brig. Gen. Joseph P. O'Neil, retired. The convention had censured the War Department in a resolution, the impression being it was responsible for delivery as the statements were in en- }/elo;l)(es bearing the War Department rank. In an interview last night Gen. O'Neil expressed chagrin his action had served as a boomerang against his friend, Sec- retary Hurley, and the department. He said the statements were mime- ographed at his own expense. and a clerk had erroneously placed them in War Department envelopes instead of plain ones which were provided. They were not mailed. “The War Department didn’'t know a thing about the coples of that speech that were distributed to the delegates at the Legion convention,” Gen. O'Neil said. “Neither did Pat Hurley.” {MRS. BORAH IN HOSPITAL SUFFERING WITH FEVER Wife of Idaho Senator Is Believed Victim of Influenza Attack. By the Associated Press. BOISE, Idaho, September 17.—Mrs. Mary E. Bcrah, wife of Senator Borah, was taken to St. Luke's Hospital here yesterday, suffering from a high fever and congestion in one lung. A state- ment by her physician said: “Her illness probably is due to influ- enza, but the diagnosis should be defi- nitely established within 24 hours upon completion of laboratory tests that are under way.” e e Graf Zeppelin at Rio. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, September 17 (#).—The Graf Zeppelin arrived from Pernambuco today, completing a trip from Germany. Today’s Regatta Program 10:50 a.m. 11:10 a. 11:30 a - RETFERRGURRERER BHE B BEEH 089 03189 8 1t €0 4 B B3N B9 8D 1 1t BRI AN BN IR 5885885888858 ©UTUEYTTOUYD BEEEE Today's boat schedule for officials, guests and contributors leaving 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm. and 2:30 p.m., returning at 4:30 p.m, R 10:30 am.| 5 EXCHANGE STUDES STOLK TELEGRANS Probe of Broker Messages Aims to Discover if Politics Was Factor. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 17.—The New York Stock Exchange was today study- ing the telegraphic communications of large brokerage houses sent and re- ceived between September 12 and Sep- tember 15, inclusive, to discover what, if any, political subjects were discussed in connecticn with the movement of stocks. It is not known whether the exchange officials will make public their findings in connection with the messages in question. All New York members were ordered to submit copies of their wire communications yesterday, while out-of- town associates were given until Mon- day to send in their copies. While the object of the exchange in calling for the telegrams was not ex- plained, it was recalled that the Maine election took place within the dates specified and it was reported the cfficials wished to determine whether members used the political situation to influence stocks The market declined sharply at that time. BROOKHART MAY ASK PROBE. Sees Stock Market “Rigged” for Po- litical Purposes, By the Associated Press. Senator Brookhart, Republican, of Iowa, who as a member of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee par- ticipated last session in an investigation of stock market activities, said today he was inquiring into the recent move- ments in the stock market with the in- tention, if results warranted, of asking investigation by Senate committees be- fore the elections in November. “I feel convinced the boom and re- action was a rigged game of crooked gambling pools, such as those disclosed at our hearings,” he stated. “It has not been an honest market in any sense. There is no doubt the market is being rigged at this time for political effect. It is a confidence game to deceive the public.” Brookhart is not a member of the Special Subcommittee which was given charge of the stock market inquiry dur- ing the recess of Congress. REIS BOAT BREAKS DOWN IN REGATTA; DODGE BOATS REMAIN (Continued From First Page.) the heat that was run yesterday afternoon. Dodge to Join Race. Horace Dodge announced that he would race both his Gold Cup craft, driving one himself and placing Bill Horn, Newport News, Va. sportsman, in the other. Water whipped to a dangercus chop- piness by a stiff breeze that quartered across the regatta course carly this aft- ernoon presaged bother for the Dodge boats in the President’s Cup race. Throughout the morning the little outboard motor boats slithered and sucked the choppy waters of the George- town Channel, and half a dozen of | them were forced out of races. Balky | motors, too, marred the merning races. standings with the Race Committee aboard the Coast Guard cutter Apache only one boat competed in a race. Shortly before noon race officials were notified that President Hoover, who had been invited to attend the running of the final heats of the President’s Cup race, would not be able to attend to see the finish of the classic for the cup donated in 1926 by President Coolidge and now a yearly fixture in Potomac River boating Lewis Carlisle Wins. Lewis Carlisle of East Islip, N. Y., in a class C outboard, won the first heat of this event for amateurs, managing to get around the course ahead of S. D. Hardy, jr. of Norfolk, Va, in spite of motor trouble. Two other starters were forced out by motor trouble and were towed to their pits by Coast Guard patrol boats. Car- lisle’s speed for the 5 miles was 34.615 miles per hour. In the second event, the only starter was Gerald E. Reed of Fishers Land- ing, N. Y., who raced around the course alone when other contestants misunder- stood the starting gun for the five- minute gun announcing the race. Other starters tried to get into the race when the finish gun sounded as Reed flashed across the finish line, but they were waved back after going half way around the course. Reed's speed was 33.935 miles per hour, At the time of today’'s mishap, El Lagarto had been favored to repeat its victory of last year in the final two heats today. However, Dodge had both his big gold cup boats in shape and had hoped to make a real race of the second and third heats. While his Delphine IV, winner of the gold cup off Montauk Point, Long Island, earlier this year, gave El Lagarto some competition yesterday afternoon in the first heat, the boat Dodge put most store by, Delphine V, which he drove himself, was unable to get going in the first heat, lagged far behind the other two boats and did not cross the finish line. Before the first of today's races, at 10:30 am, there were hundreds of spectators llmng the south seawall at Hains Pojnt at the point where loud- speakers, operated from the officials’ boat, the Coast Guard cutter Apache, anchored midway of the course, were watching the little outboard boats tuning up. Hundreds more were on river steamers, Go:x-nment craft and private pleasure craft inside the course and fringing its outer edges. Secondary features of today's program include the running of the final heats in the 225-horsepower class runabouts, the biggest of the runabouts; the final heat of the hydroplane class, the final iheat of the All-Washington Sweepstake, the first heat of which was won- yes- terday by Gardner Orme, and the last race of the day, the Potomac River Grand Pree-for-all. Regatta Summaries N Y. per hour, 2—Midget, 8. D. Hardy, jr.. Norfolk, Va. Other two starters forced out by motor trouble. C. outboards; professional division; i E. Reed, Fishers Laniing. N. Y. Speed, 33.935 miles per hour. Time, 8:! Only finisher. Class C. outboards; amateur division; sec- e In one instance only two of four start- | ers managed to limp across the finish | line, and in another, due to misunder- | r Above is shown a policeman standing in the hole in the cellar of the Dubois cottage at Plymouth, Mass., where | the body of Mrs. Edith L. Dubois was found yesterday, five hours after her husband, Charles E. Dubois. committed suicide | crossed Pennsylvania. by shooting himself in a Quincy, Mass., rooming house. o 9 il i d —A. P. Photo. ECONOMY LEAGUE VOICES OPPOSITION Holds Immediate Bonus Pay- ment Would Cause Intol- erable Burden. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 17.—The National Economy League last night sald immediate payment of the bonus “would impose an intolerable financial burden on the country” arnd declared itself “unequivocally opposed” to the demand of the American Legion. In a statement issued by Archibald D. Roosevelt, secretary, the league said its position in opposition to immediate payment of the adjusted compensation certificates was based on “three funda- mental reasons.” Fundamental Reasons. “Pirst, because the raising of the approximately ~$2,300.000,000 ~required for immediate payment would impose an intolerable financial burden on the country, which would prolong the de- pression and unemployment. Second, because the demand s without fair basis or right on its merits. 1t is, in effect, a demand for the im- mediate payment of-that position of the certificates represented by the in- terest on the credits allowed for home and overseas service. This interest, in greater part, has not yet been earned and its payment at this time would in- | crease the cost to the Government by about $1,600,000,000 over the amount originally voted by Congress to be paid. “Third, because a yielding to this demand would mark a surrender of the interests of the public at large to the dictation of an organized minority.” The league said that the adjusted compensation certificates constituted contracts with the Government and must be honored and that the ques- tion was not whether the bonus should be canceled or repealer, but “whether the holders of these contracts shall receive payment 13 years before ma- turity.” Sum Already Paid Out. “It should be understood,” the state- | ment read. “that there has already been paid out in settlement with beneficlaries of deceased holders of ‘adjusted compensation certificates’ the sum of $175,363985. In addition, 81,- 455282229 has been paid out upon | loans on the certificates. This leaves about $2,000,000,000 to be paid in L “The premature payment of the cer- tificates, as compared Wwith payment at maturity, would, according to a recent official estimate, increase the cost to| the Government by about $1,600.000,000 over the amount originally voted by | Congress to be paid. and thus impose an entirely new burden on the Gov- ernment.” The league declared the bonus ques- tion was only “part of the vast and increasing expense of veterans' bene- fits,” with $5.728,000,000 already paid out from the Treasury for veterans of the World War alone and with annual charges “now reaching the $700,000,000 mark.” “About half of the current annual| appropriation of $928,000,000 can be eliminated,” the league said, “if benefits | are restricted, as they should be, to the ‘dependents of men who lost their lives in service and to veterans who actually suffered disability through the war. . Another Deficit Certain. Asserting that the operating deficit of the Federal Government for the last | two years was $3.788,079,144 and that another large deficit “is virtually cer- tain in the current fiscal year” the statement added: “In the face of these conditions it is apparent that a new burden of over two billions would | further impair confidence and prolong he depression.” b ;t?ep'uunkm points” which the league said the public should under- stand were these: “First, that the de- mand for full payment of the bonus is a demand for payment of an cbligation not due until 1945; second, that nearly one-half of that obligataion has already been loaned on a 50 per cent basis; third, that to pay the full bonus now weuld require the raising of $2,300,- 000.00{0 t:xndbe‘.oul? vt.l:n’ k;;’ere.‘lu the cost of the bonus to the people. Declaring the League g.mpoled to “fight this issue to a finish,” the state- mer'nlghcontmgedm: ly of citizens who are “The ci being i::‘:‘md on are at last being aroused from their apathy. The ma- jority of the veterans themselves must again hear the call of their country and rise in protest against the present bur- den, and the still greater costs. To surrender to the the organized minority which is seek- ing to impose this demand on the country would be a confession of im- potence on the part of the electorate and a betrayal of the principles upon which this country was founded.” RESIGNS FROM LEGION. Convention Treasurer Cannot Stand Bonus Action. . Time, 7:43. | Ame 's III, le. H s . D, Hardy, jr. 761 i points; is Carlisle, 7 winner on. Class C, outboards; professional division; T re Jamés Baden. Washington. Tim jowers, James Baden. ngton. Time, . Bpaea, 35,643 miles per hour, l——flhco:gimk. Ken MacKenzie, New Haven, ’—0'51";‘ Reed. tanding_—Gerald Reed. 734 points: o) e s Cparate; en Mackensie 361 points. J. R. Price has just been elected chyrchwarden at Gurig's Church, Lla- gurig, Wales, for the fifty-seventh year. points ~ (Hardy | troit, prob! ospecti Ltation of | deman U.S. EXPECTS ARMS | PARLEY TO PROCEED | DESPITE GERMANY (Continued From First Page.) | | the German reparations, certainly dldi: not justify any apprehension of a new | | armed conflict in Europe. Poland Is Not a Menace. ‘The German demands for equality in | armaments are responsible for the new | war rumors in Europe, but all things | considered, even in such a case Ger- | many has nothing to fear from her most aggressive neighbor on the sea— | Poland. The Polish Navy is eight de- stroyers strong; considering the pres- | ent German naval force they cannot constitute a menace to Germany. | The decision of the German govern- ment to increase its naval strength, to- gether with its decision to organize Ge man youth as trained reserves, is in- terpreted in many quarters in France that Germany is getting ready to de- molish the Versailles treaty by the force of arms, if necessary. Naturally, no- body expects Germany, the French say. to do this within a few months. It will | take years before that country can or- ganize its national forces to compete with the highly efficlent French war machinery. But by the present mani- festations the German government in- :reeses the suspicion of the French gen- | eral staff and of those who think like the general staff that Germany is pre- government, disposed it y be toward Germany, is rendered extremely difficult. | Revision to Be Discussed. | The French government, when ap-| proached for the first time by the Ger- man government about the revision of the military clauses of the Versailles treaty—that happened this year at Lau- sanne—indicated its willingness to dis- cuss this question in the near future. Premier Remsay MacDonald went a step further and assured Baron von Neurath, the German foreign secretary, that Britain sympathizes with Germany on that point and that he will see that this matter is opened up some time in the course of this Fall. But both Herriot arnd MacDonald thought that Germany would g> slowly on this question and would try and re- vise at most some of the more irksome clauses of the Versailles treaty by com mon agreement at the general dis- armament conference with all the other | nations, including the United States. It was understood by most of the foreign offices and the State Depart- ment in Washington that all that Ger- many wanted was the right to have some tanks and military airplanes to satisfy the demands of the army, which felt humiliated when it had to use | cardboard tanks in the maneuvers. It | was also believed that Germany would | demand and obtain the right to in- crease her fortifications on her Eastern frontiers, possibly, reduce the term of enlistment of the Reichswehr troops. |and be allowed to organize certain of her most vociferous athletic societies, such as the Stahlhelm, in a kind of a reserve corps controlled by the govern- ment, in order to facllitate the of the cabinet to maintain order in Germany. Considered Reasonable. These were considered reasonable de- mands, and both MacDonald and Her- riot thought that they could be grant- ed Germany without much trouble. Furthermore, it was thought that a reduction of the French military effec- tives would satisfy the German peo- | ple and gradually, by Germany being permitted to increase slightly her arma- ments, and France by reducing hers, a solution to the European disarmament question would eventually be reached. The attitude of the German govern- ment, which appears to have decided to proceed with its military reorganiza- tion plans without awaiting for the other signatories of the Versailles treaty to give their consent, appears to have ufiut all the carefully thought out | plans of the British and the French, and has sounded the death knell of the Disarmament Conference, HENDERSON OPTIMISTIC. LONDON, September 17 (#).—Arthur Henderson, who left for Geneva today armament Conference Bureau next week, said he was not disposed to over- emphasize the importance of Germany's refusal to participate in that meeting: “The fact that the German govern- ment concluded its recent letter to me with the statement that it will follow the work of the conference with_inter- est and decide its later attitude atcord- ing to the progress made is evidence that the door is not absolutely closed,” said. “I am not disposed to overemphasize the serious nature of the situation.” disarmament plans in accordance with the decisions of the general commission of the conference must be formulated at once. “Any unnecessary delay could not bu arouse suspicion and seriously - dice any chance of subsequent suc- cess,” he said. “This would not only be a bitter dis- appointment, but would undoubtedly tend to create a serious situation for mg;n and zh:h;orld at h‘ue “If we miss opportunity to carry the world' well along the fllhtnrmw% to preside at a meeting of the Dis. |24 DUBOIS LETTER TOLAWVERFOUND Attorney Withholds Contents| of Note Written Two Hours Before Suicide. | standard time, RAIL RELIEF PLAN Salt Lake City Speech To- night Likely to Favor Wider 1. C. C. Co:i~al, By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, September 17.—Checking off the eighth of the States he has crossed on his presiden- tial campaign to the West, Gov. Prank- lin D. Roosevelt left behind Wyoming, with its cheering crowds, and reached Salt Lake City, where tonight he will advance proposals for relieving the Na- | tlon's railroad situation. Mr. Roosevelt arrived in Salt Lake City, one of the important railroad centers of the West, about midnight Friday. He will remain Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday night his special train will head north for the’ Pacific Northwest. Most of today was given over to conferences with delegations from Utah, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada At noon there was a break in the dis- cussions of party possibilities in the normally Republican Rocky Mountain region. = Mr. Roosevelt haa scheduled an appearance at a Chamber of Com- merce luncheon. Since leaving Albany last Monday night, Roosevelt has Ohio. Indiana, Tllinois. Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming. Speech to Be Broadcast. Mr. Roosevelt’s railroad speech will be delivered in the I:.\mnuspcMfi.'mon Tabernacle ai 7:15 pm., mountain A double radio hook- up has been arranged for the address. The speech, it is understood, will take up 45 minutes. It is understood that the Democratic nominee, among other things, will ask for a broadening of the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission to include jurisdiction over bus, truck and airplane service. Mr. Roosevelt's own home State of New York, at the last legislative ses- sion, raised the taxes on busses and trucks, The New York Governor has had a railroad background, his father having By the Assoclated Press. | QUINCY, Mass, September 17.— Charles E. Dubois, Tuckahoe, N. Y., | jeweler, slipped a letter into the desk of | his lawyer, Jeremiah J. MacAnarney, two hours before he committed suicide yesterday, MacAnarney disclosed today. MacAnarney admitted the letter dealt with the predicament of Dubcis, whose wife's body was found buried in the’| cellar of the Dubois’ Summer home, at | Plymouth, five hours after the suicide, but said it contained no admission of guilt that Dubois had slain his wife. | The lawyer said he would confer with | an associate regarding the letter and, if | it was determined the contents of the missive could be made public “without | harming any one,” he would make it | public Monday. MacAnarney said he conferred with | Dubois in his office at 9 o'clock yester- day morning. He said he noticed Dubois pick up two sheets of corre-| spondence paper and then move a pen | toward himself. The lawyer was caficd‘ from the room for a short period and when he returned Dubois bade him | good-by and left for the rooming house | where he had been living for three | | days as “Ralph Anderson” and where he shot himself. After the suicide and the finding of Mrs. Dubois’ body last | night, MacAnarney discovered the let- ter in a drawer in his desk. Leaves Mother Property. The lawyer also said that Dubois’ | mother, Mrs. Cecile Dubois of New York City, was left all of her son’s property in a'will which MacAnarney and Dubois | drew up earlier in the week, shortly after the police had been refused a murder complaint against Dubois be- cause the body of the woman he was | charged with slaying had not been found. The cellar crypt that concealed the | corpse of Mrs. Du Bois was built, police | suspect, at a time when the graying housewife was still alive and grieving— in a room above her future tomb— about her husband’s affection for “that other woman.” After the body was placed in the con- crete crypt. Du Bois entertained at gay parties in a bottle-strewn room only 8 feet above his wife’s body, detectives said, as they cast new light on the case. Immediately Assistant District Attor- ney John V. Sullivan had sent 10 men with pickaxes to the Du Bois Summer cottage near Great Herring Pond, with orders to demolish it if necessary in the search. New construction there had aroused his suspicions. A few blows of a sledge laid open the funeral vault, a strong concrete box in the cellar. The body lay inside, wrapped in black cloth, a pillow underneath the head and a window cord about the waist. Medical examination showed Mrs. Du Bois died of a bullet wound about August 10, the day when police had figured she disappeared. Declared to Have Worried. Detectives said they learned from a Mrs. Gillott, wife of a New York jew- eler, that Mrs. Du Bois had been worry- ing before her death. She had Writ- ten Mrs. Gillott, complaining that her husband was acting queerly, spending nearly all his time in the ceHar where he would “dig for days,” and lapsing into strange silence when he came up. She wrote also, police were told. that Du Bois, only one year younger than his wife, but much more youthful in demeanor, apparently no longer loved her and that he was “like a crazy man over that other womah.” After Du Bois was released last Mon- day police questioned Miss Grace At- wood of Middleboro, blonde and youth- ful daughter of a wealthy manufac- turer. They said she told them she had been friendly with Du Bois. He informed her, she said, that his wife was killed in an automobile acci- dent in Montreal. Authorities absolved Miss Atwood of any knowledge of the slaying. 3 Chauffeur Helped Du Bois. Lawrence Frasier, former chauffeur for the Du Bois family, was brought here from Braintree for questioning. He told police he assisted Du Bois in laying a concrete layer in the cellar, but he said Du Bois informed him it was a foundation for a pump and washing machine. Sullivan said Prazier was in New York when the tomb itself was built. It was neighbors’ curiosity over Mrs. Du Bois' absence that led to the wide- spread hunt, in which were called to assist police. Police said Du Bois told conflicting stories, one that she was killed in an auto accident and again that she ran away with $25,000 of his_money. Du Bois and his wife were considered well-to-do. They had homes in Tucka- l'lnenl:e Y., and Braintree, Mass., as well right. been a vice president of the Delaware & Hudson. Traverses Cow Country. After leaving Denver morning, the Rocsevelt sp eled all day through the Wyoming *cow country—the last frontier. Mr. Roos velt made seven appearances as train threaded its way through the sage brush prairies and swung_around broad topped mountains. Between Rawlins and Green River, the laboring locomotive reached the Continental Divide. At Cheyepne, Mr. Roosevelt left his train to address a crowd and go for a motor trip through the Wyoming capital and to Fort Warren and the Veterans' Hospital near the city The other stops where Mr. Rooseveit appeared on the back platform of his private _car were Laramie, Rawlins, Green River, Rock Springs and Evans- ton, Wyo. Classes at the State Uni- versity at Laramie had been dismi for the day and many studen wel at the station to see the Democratic candidate. Gov. George H. Dern of Utah, who rode with Mr. Roosevelt from Cheyenne, was on the rear platform at several stops and taiked to the crowds. LOS ANGELES WINS SPEECH. LOS ANGELES, September 17 (#) Besides a speaking date previously ai ranged in San Prancisco, Gov. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, Democratic presi- dential nominee, has agreed to deliver an address here September 24, local Democratic headquarters announced to- night. The speech will be delivered in the Hollywood Bowl at 2:30 p.m., and wil be broadcast. et SOMERVILLE SINKS 50-FOOT PUTT TO G0 ONE UP ON 18TH __(Continued Prom Pirst Page) | { another birdie. his fourth in five holes | and went 1 up. Eleventh hole, 424 yards, par 4—Both were well short of the ditch from the | tee, Somerville again being about 30 |vards in front. ~ Johnny's approach | stopped just short of the green. He | chipped close, for a winning 4. Som- | erville, well on with his second. rolled | his 35-footer three feet past, but rim- | med the cup. Somerville Squares Match. Twelfth hole, 388 yards, par 4—Som- erville pushed his tee shot, barely clear- ing the foul water ditch. He reached the green easily, however, just inside Goodman's pitch, stymying Johnny's ball. From 40 feet, Goodman chipped over his rival's ball, but stopped six feet | short and missed. Somerville got down }m two putts to win. Goodman was up. Thirteenth hole, 141 yards, par 3— Johnny took time to light a cigarette after hitting his niblick shot into a trap short of the green, then came out seven feet from the cup. Somerville was on a sloping part of the green, 10 feet away. He missed the putt by inches, stymied Johnny and won the hole as Goodman missed. It was all square again Fourteenth hole, 600 yards, par 5— Somerville used a No. 2 iron out of the rough for his second shot, carrying farther than Johnny did with a spoon. Ross chipped poorly, however, and was 25 feet short of the cup after Johnny hoisted his third hole high, 12 feet to right. Both missed and it was a half in 5s. Somerville Takes Fifteenth. Fifteenth hole, 425 yards, par 4—The Canadian slugged his drive over the hill dipping toward the tree-guarded green. Johnny was on top, then slash- ed a low spoon that kicked out of the rough 20 yards short of the green. Ross pushed his iron to the right, finding a trap on the right corner. Goodman's chip bounced off a bunker to within 12 feet of the cup. He missed the putt. Somerville got down his 4-footer after = great recovery and went 1 up. Sixteenth hole, 422 yards, par 4— Both cleared the rise in the middls of fairway with good drives. Johnny's No. 4 iron shot rolled high to the right. Somerville’s dropped five yards short of the green, but he had an easy chip which he laid four feet from the hole. Ross rimmed the cup, being partly stymied and lost the hole to Johnny's four. (All even.) Seventeenth hole, 155 yards, par 3— To the elevated green, set in thick woods, both carried well on, Johnny about 20 feet away and Ross 15 feet to Goodman'’s putt trickled inches put,'m was a foot over and they f | haved. ‘woman) Bois of New York” with the consent of Pulp Wood Mills Busy. MONTREAL, 17 = Col. R . MoGormiek, pusiisher of ihe Tribune, said today the pulp controlled by his Eighteenth hole, 385 yards, par 4— Goodman fired his second into a trap at the left corner of the green. while Ross was on, 50 feet beyond the pin He puted in, the ball bouncing against the back of the cup and dropping for a spectacular birdie 3. Johnny came out short from the sand and Semerville - was 1 up. Morning round Par, in