Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1932, Page 2

ELLERS SUCCEEDS - ADMIRAL PRINGLE Appointed by Secretary Adams to Command Battle Force. Becretary Adams today announced that Rear Admiral David P. Sellers, U. 'S. Navy, Division No. Admiral Sellers, who served in Wash- ington until recently as judge advocate general of the Navy, will have the rank of vice admiral and succed the late Vice Admiral Joel R. P. Naval Hospital on Sunday. Secretary Adams likewise announced that Rear Admiral Prank H. Brumby. commandant of the Norfolk. Va. Navy Yard, will relieve Admiral Sellers having as his flagship the U. S. S. Texas. Judge Advocate Here. Vice Admiral Sellers served here as Judge advccate general from June 4.| He is| { | ship U. S. 8. Wisconsin and later the | 1929, until September 5, 1931. a native of Austin, Tex. where he was born, February 4, 1874. During the World War he commanded the battle transport U. S. S. Agamemnon, which carried over 36.000 troops to Europe.. Those services brought him the Navy Cross and he was then attached to the staff of the president of the Naval War College. In June, 1920, he came tc! ‘Washington anr:d served in the Bureau of Navigation. He was aide to the Sec- retary of Navy from September 1921, to February, 1922: later co manded the U. S. Meryland: com manded the Naval Training Station at ! San Diego: was chief of staff of the Scouting Fleet, and in 1927 he became commander of the Special Service Squadron, serving for two years. He! holds the Distinguished Service Medal. the Medal of Merit, given by Nicaragua, and the Gold Medal of Merit, bestowed by the President of Nicaragua. Admiral | Seller's home address is 1618 Eighteenth street. Brumby Georgia Native. Rear Admiral Brumby was born in Athens, Ga., September 11. 1874, and was appointed to the Naval Academy from Georgia in 1891. During the Span- ish-American War he served on_the U. 8. S. New York, the flagship of Rear Admiral Sampson. In 1917, he was in command of the U. S. S. Cincinnati, cruiser, and in 1918, was ordered to duty at the Norfolk Navy Yard. In 1920, he commanded the U. S. S. Kansas, battle- ship, and in December, 1921, was trans- ferred to duty as captain of the yard. Navy Yard, Washington. Admiral Brumby commended the U. S. S. New Mexico from 1924 to 1926. He attended | the Naval War College from July, 1926. to June, 1927, -when he was ordered to command the Control Force, with addi- tional duty as commander, Submarine Division, Confrol Force. He served in that capacity until May, 1928, when he was 8] nted president of the Board of Inspection and Survey, Navy Depart- ment. In June, 1929. Admiral Brumby was detached from that board and or- dered to command Chuiser Division 2, Scouting Force, and on May 31, 1930, assumed the duties of commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard. ADMR. PRINGLE’S BODY TO REST IN ANNAPOLIS Funeral Services to Be Held in Chapel of Naval Academy on Sunday. By the Ascociated Press. SAN DIEGO. Calif., September 27— The body of Vice Admiral Joel Roberts | i commanding Batticship | 1 of the Battle force. | has been ordered to command the, Battleship Divistons of the Battle Force. | who died at the San Diego, Calif,| 4 { | Promoted | | |ings Bank Asscciation of New Yo EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1932, IRAIL COMMISSION REPORTED PICKED Coolidge, Smith, Baruch, Howell and Legge Said to Be Personnel. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 27.—The Herald-Tribune says that Coolidge, in accepting the chairmanship of the non-pariisan Railrcad Comm!s- ,sion today or tomorrow, will be_joined by Alfred E. Smith, Bernard M. Baruch, Clark Howell and Alexander Legge. Sponsoring the ccmmission in ils ef- forts to obtain legislation which will bulwark the financial foundations of the railroads, the newspaper says, are the following organizations and insti- tuticns: Groups Backing Board. American Bankers' Association, In- vestment Bank Association. Associa- tion of Life Insurance Presidents, New York Chamber of Commerce, Chicago Association of Czmmerce, United States ssociation of Commerce, National As ciation of Mutus] Savings Banks, N ‘ork State Bankers' Association, Sa State, Railway Labor Executives’ sociation. Also Columbia, Yale, Chicago, Prince- ton and Harvard Universities, Security Owners’ Association and National In- dustrial Traffic League as well as indu trial organizations, such manufac- turers’ assoclations and shippers’ con- ferences. Only One Railroad Man. Baruch, the only railroad man on the commission, is a director of the Baltimore & Ohio Rallroad: Howell is editor of the Atlanta Constitution. and | Legge is president of the International | REAR ADMIRAL BRUMBY. WORLD BUSINESS REPORTED BETTER Improvement Is Noted by1 U. S. Commercial Attaches Throughout Globe. ‘The spread of confidence looking towerd an early recovery of business condidons in various sections of the | world was noted today by the Ccmmerce | Department in a composite report re- | ceived from #s staff of commercial attaches. Some slight indications of recovery begin to be discernible in Great Britain. France and Germany. the department | was advised, and the forward move- | ment in late sessions of the respective | securities markets was aided by such | indications. Henry C. McLean, acting commercial attache at Berlin, cabled the depart- ment that one of the favorable elements | in the German situation is improvement | in the position of the Reichsbank. Bank’s Holdings Increase. He said that during Augu:t the bank's holdings cf gold and foreign exchange increased by 31.000.000 marks and call Harvester Co. and a former chairman of the Federal Farm Board. Former Gov. Smith is expected to attract the attention of the layman to rallway problems. DENIES BEING SPONSOR. Mutual Savings Banks Are Making Study of Own Investments. PROVIDENCE, R. I, September 27 (#).—The Providence Journal quotes ! Wilson G. Wing. president of the Na- | tional Association of Mutual Savings | Banks, to the effect that the assoclation is not sponsoring the proposed National | Railway Commission of which Calvin Coolidge is reported to have accepted the chairmanship. The commission, to be composed of business leaders who seek a salvation for railroad’s difficulties, is separate, Mr. Wing said, from a committee named September 7 by him to study statistics and facts by which savings banks may protect their large investments in rail- road securities. 'R. F. C. RAIL LOANS CONFERENCE TOPIC, Result of Meeting With I. C. C.! Members Not Disclosed by Participants. Officials of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Interstate Com- merce Commission yesterday discussed policies to be fcllowed in making loans to railroads, but the meeting, held at the commission, broke up without any announcmeent by its participants. The sessio.. apparently. was to con- ! tinue discussions started by the two gToups several months ago. All members of the Finance Corpora- tion Board and Commissicners Meyer, | Mahaffie, Eastman and Brainerd took | part in the conference, Examiners | Haley and Burnside of the finance divi- | Calvin ! Home Bombed | JUDGE WEBSTER THAYER. Presiding judge at the celebrated Sacco- Vanzetti triel, whose home was bombed PRESDENT URGES |Hoover Asks Railroads to Defer Negotiations to End of Year. A suspension of rallway wage negotia- tions during the rest of 1932 is favored by President Hoover. The Chief Executive feels the eco- nomic situation after the first of the year will afford a clearer background for discussing a proposed additional 10 1 DELAYINPAY TS WASHINGTON SUPPLY T0 BE CUT Montgomery Producers Take Steps to Avert Price War in Capital. ___ (Continued From First Page) “and T intend to see that there is no the Hea!'h Department.” MOVE TO PROTECT SUPPLY. Cities Act as Farmers Push Efforts to Ralse Prices. By the Associated Press. ‘While cities prepared to protect their necessary milk supply, dairy farmers over & wide-spread area continued yes- terday their efforts to obtain higher prices for their product. tion against violence, angry farmers barricaded roads and dumped hundreds of gallons of milk into the highways to prevent its reaching the market. In upstate New York farmers in coun- ties who usually are not called upon to fill the New York City milk nexds pre- pared to join dairymen in the New Yerk milk shed should the latter de- cide on a strike and the least make & living.” Farmers Canvass Omaha. In the Middle West 400 farmers pa- raded in the interest of co-operative marketing and canvassed Omaha in an effort to urge customers to patronize a “friendly” dairy. Meanwhile, In New York City, Dr Shirley W. Wynze, commissioner of thc Department of Health, warned he would rot “tolerate any interference with the !city’s milk supply that might in any | way affect the city’s health.” | And in Georgia, the Pedigree Dairies, big distributing company of Atlanta, let-down in the standards required by | In Gecrgia, despite & Federal injunc- ! -ices offered | do not assure them of a “chance to at ! per cent pay cut. asked Federal Court contempt citations His position was made known yester- | against farmers for violating a tempc- day by Secretary Doak. After confer- |rary injuncticn against interierence with ring with Mr. Hoover, Doak said in a the movement of milk to Atianta. formal statement: Agreement Ends February 1. “In the matter of the railaay wage discussion now going on, the President last week expressed the view, both o the representatives of railway labor and to the leading railway presidents who have conferred with him, that he feels that it is desirable that this question should be deferred at the present time. “The present agreement does not ex- until February 1, next. The Presi- dent’s view was that it might be well agreed to defer further discussions until the end of the year, as the general economic situation would be much clearer at that time and negotiations could be based on a better realization of the actual circumstances existing.” Mr. Hoover's intervention had been sought by the Railway Labor Executiv Association zfter this group refused 40| | subject of another wage cut. year 10 per cent reduction was agreed to last year. Gets Court Order. The Pedigree Co. also obtained = lcourt order restraining agents of the | State Department of Agriculture from lenforeing & ru'e prohibiting sale of | milk more th hours old in Atlanta. 1 This move was Interpreted as paving | the way for distributing plants to bring tin milk from other States. In Nebraska, the David Cole Cream- ery Co. of Omaha, one of two dairi which refused to accede to price d | mands of the Nebraska-Iova Co-Opera- { tive Milk Association, cbtained a cour. order restraining members of the asso- ciation and others ficm interfering with the company's busine:s Meetings Are Continued. Despite a temporary court restraining order against waging its campaign s'| against one of the large Toledo dairy | tUrD. but dropped b: companies, representatives of the Confer with railroad presidents on the Northwestern Co-operative Sales Co., | The A one- | with a membership of about 5000 farm | €leventh but then won four stra‘ght milk producers in Ohio and Michiga: | continued its program of meeting Confer on Rail Loans. ! “W- desire to suzgest,” the labor ex- | utives had sald in a statement left with the President, “that when the vernment 15 called upon to lend pub- | lic money to the railrcads, the Govern ment can at the time probably insist that the railroads shall refrzin from starting or from joining in any suicidal | program to requce wages and to curtail | services and thereby to nullify the ef-| forts ot the Government to promote economic recovery.” At about the time Doak Issued his rural_communities lest night. E. D. Waid, manager of th> co-oper: tive, spoke at Delta last night, and to- day is scheduled to speak in Lime City. As a precaution againsi possible viola- tion of the injunction, stencgraphic riports of the meoting are being taken Gov. F. B. Olson of Minnesota yester- day ordered an investigation of milk- distributing costs in the Twin Citles, fol- lowing a reguest for it by the Twin Cities Milk Producers’ Association and the Washington County Farmers’ Holi- day Association. H. E. Leonard of Min- Left to right: the Indian " egislative A | of India, ans Miss Ann RS, WECKLEY OUT *OF GOLF TOURNEY mbly. wrence. Silver Spring Woman De- feated by Virginia Van Wie in First Round. By the Assoc!ated Press. PEABODY. Mass., September 27— Maureen Orcutt of Hawerth, N. J., won her opening 18-hol> match from | Frances Snyder cf Rye, N. Y., by a § {and 3 margin. in the women's national golf champicnship todsy. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, who has | dominated this play for the past 10 ! years, gained 2 7 and 5 viclory o Mr;s Karl Scheidt of Norristown, Pa. Mis: Orcull wes 3 up making the ack a hole when her (rival gained a birdie 4 on the tenth. New Jersey girl also lost the | boles with pars to end the match on the | fifteenth green. H Mrs. Vare was 4 up on Mrs. Scheidt | at the ninth 2nd efter halving the tenth | wita par 5s, she put tcgether three win- nicg holes with par golf to run out the maich on the thirteenth green. | Mrs. Leo G. Federman of Lakeville, 'N. Y.. defeated Mrs. R. C. Lake, Flush- ying. Ni Y., 3 and 2. The victor was 2up | {at the turn and gained her third hole | when Mrs. Lake missed the green with ! | her drive on the short thirteenth. They : halved the next three to wind up thne ! match at the sixtcenth hole. Edith Quier of Haverford, Pa., who picked up seven holes against Mrs. N. M“.K ‘Gandhi’s Confidante in D. C. V. J. Patel, former Lord Mayor of Bombey end president of Mrs., Mayadevi Gangulee, leading feminist Siar Staff Photo. CANDHL 3 TODAY. GANS AFTERFAST CANDA ADE ER HALSHSTRUNP Ex-Lord Mayor of Bombay Likens India’s Revolt to 1776. Mahatma Gendhi's hunger strike was | hatled as a triumph for the cause of | Indian independence on the arrival here yesterday of his closest confidante, V. J. Patel, former lord mayor of Bombay and president of the Indian Legislative As- sembly. Patel, in the course of a world tour to tell the siory of India’s rebellion of non-violence against British rule, re- ceived word through the newspapers on his arrival st the Willard Hotel that Gandhi had terminated his fast on win- { ning his conditions, The victory, Patel said. is wider in scope than the mere granting of rddi- tional privileges of representation to In- dian untouchabies, since it represents a breach in the British policy of dividing constituencies to destroy Indian unity of action for independence. The visiting statesman was to be & guest In Baltimore today of Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, and on his return to Wash- ington tomorrow will address a special luncheon of the National Press Club in his honor. Visits Washington's Tomb. Patel, before leaving for Mount Ver- non yesterday to place a wreath on the tomb of Washington, ceclared that the First President of America had furnish- ed inspiration for his own followers, and that the presen: revalt in India was dif- ferent only in method from America's ruggle for independence . JOurs is a new idea.” he said— passive resistance. civil disobedience, the boycoti, picketing. Millions of the revolutionicts have taken the oath of non-violence. _»'n was taken in the faith that the will 1s nrnn,er than force, that the spirit is proof against guns or bayonets and that the highest coursge lies in the man who faces brute force with- out fiinching, rather than in the man | with the gun | jailed, but e noi_erough jails for cur millions. “Candhi 15 a great leader bec:use of iritusl force. He undoubtedly ouid have died for the cause | i {ezample unified Indian_cpis ed the hand cf the British Zo-operation With Govsrn-'?; ment to Solve India’s Problems Favored. Br the Associated Press. POONA, India, Scp‘ember 27.—Ma- hatma Gandhi was prosressing favor- esly today, his physicians said, after breaking his “death fast” yesterday. His diet today consisted of grapefruit | Jjuice and sugar, and tomorrow he was expected to be able to take some barley water and milk whey. He was vidted in his quarters at Yeroda Jail this morning by the noted Indian poet, Rebindransth Tagore; Pandit Madan Mohan Mal an several other prominent indian leaders. His Sixty-third Birthday. ‘This was the Mahatma's 63d birthday anniversary, acccrding to the Hindu calendar, but there was no special ob- cervance he: This even.ng he s2id he would indorse “any worthy suggestion for co-opera- tion by the National Congress with the governmeat ani the Round Table Con- ference.” When the (me ccmes, he said, he will throw his whole weight in support of such co-operatlon. During the tedious hours just before he released himself from his fast the Maha'ma was in a piteous condition. al ‘We are determined to win o | dependence. "It isa test be force and sheer sirength o 1 Candhi's power is purely spiritual h no personal! ambition: his fondest dream is to rid the world of violence: he believes in every religion and his creed is ecceptable to every religion. Jail Yawns for Him. “When I rewurn to India I shall re- tur:: to jail. I was ‘requesied’ to leave, In every country I am free, except my cwn. But I shall retutrn.” Patel, a_vigorcus figure of a men, spoke with quiet detarminaiion. Bearded, almost bald, his large dark eyes flashed as he warmed to his ject, and he beat his brown fist today in the preserva- | bis_chest. ! "“We are happy tion of G!nngl,' he cried; “our cause | could not spare him, not even we'e it strengthened by the moral vic.or; of his death.” With Patel was Mrs. Mavecevia Gangulee, Indian feminist leader: her secretary, Miss Anna Law: Sailendranath Ghose, pres India National Congress which is arranging Pate 5 Patel expects to rem in America until the first of the year before be- ginning the homeward Journey. tou MRS. M’'LEAN SUED FOR LEGAL FEES statement. Interstate Commerce com- |neapolis, general manager of the pro- misisoners and Reconstruction Finance | Gucers’ group, declared the producer re- rforation directors were conferring | Ceives 2 cents a quart and the distrib- over roalrcad loan policies. Two months utor 8 cents. ago these officials held a series of dis- | Geverner Refuses Embarge. cussfons and plans were worked out for N Poinsett Pringle. 59, who died here Sun- sGay night, will be sent to Annapolis. 'Md. Funeral services will be held there :Sunday in the Naval Academy chapel. { ‘after which the body will be buried at ‘the academy cemetery. | Friends gathered about his cot in Yeroda compound dld their utmos! to relieve him. Resorts to Massages. He received frequent massages. He | sion of the commission also were present. | Two months ago plans were worked out in conjunction with 1uilroad of- | ficlals whereby so-called “work” lcans deposits by 28,000,000 marks. The gov- | ernment’s plan to stimulate business. according to this agent, and combat unemployment hss had a very favorabie | reception in business circec. though it | | Albert W. Fox Seeks Payment of $33,002 for Series of Court Actions. green to win by the decisive margin of and 7 Miss Quier won the firs four | oles with 4s, halved the fifth with a | ., gained the soventh with a par 3, The only loan Admiral Pringle, who graduated from | Annapolis in 1892, succumbed to ane- ‘mia within only a few months of the time he was to have assumed duties as chief of naval operations at Washing- ton, D. C, BOMB HURTS WIFE OF SACCO JUDGE AS HOME IS WRECKED (Continued From First Page.) Thayer said, “that because a man does ‘his duty before mankind and God his penelity is_ this. A little latr, in a slightly more smil- ing manner, he commented: “They can't kill me that easily.” Home Had Been Watched. * Judge Thayer's home, at 180 Institute road, has been under the watchfiiness of the police many times since August 23, 1927. ‘The maid was hysterical and penned in by wreckage on the top floor. Fire- thien took her down a ladder. She was @en taken 10 a hospital A feature of the explosion was that no fire followed the blast. An‘automobile standing in the garage was covered with 2¢ feet of wreckage. June Home Damaged. Across the street, the home of Merrill 8. June was badiy damaged by the blast. Every window in the street side cf the house. meny of them plate gless, was Shattered and several of the Tooms were littered with heavy splinters and shat- tered boards whith had been blown from the Thayer home. It was the first action of violence against Judge Thayer since he s°n- tenced Sacco and Vanzetti. Several “parades” kad heen staged in front of This home by Communists in the pas: who carried signs but made no effor: to mclest the judge or anyene in the home. The last one was about four | years ago. SEVERAL HOMES GUARDED. | One Believed That of Former Gov. A. T. Fuller. BOSTON, September 27 (#).—Boston 'ic» today placed guards about the of several persons who were con- with the Sacco-Vanzetti case, but refused to make known the names of _those they were protecting. It was generally assumed that one of fhose guarded® was former Gov. Alvan “T. Fuller, who was in office during the _Arial of Sacco and Vanzetti. : NEW CHAPTER FORMED ~ 'The sixth Delphian Chapter in Wash- ington will be organized at a meeting .at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Weshington Hotel. This will be the second chapter “organized during the Bicentennial year. . Mrs. Eleancr R. Wilson. resident sec- Tetary of the National Delphia Society. aill have charge of the meeting. Guest ~:privileges have been extended to m>m- Ts. 50 ACRES GIVEN ELWOOD, Ind., September 27 (P.— has been severely criticized by the labor | unions, which fear both interference | with their authcrity and a lowering of ! commercial existing wage levels. Jesse F. Van Wickel, attache at The Hzgue, reported a cer-| tain measure of returning ccnfidence 15‘ evident in the Netherlands under the influence of a strong stock market ad- | vance and the firmness in certain com- | modity markets. Czechoslovakia is ex- | periencing a more optimistic sentiment after stock quotations were up 15 per cent after a financial and industrial lull | during August, Don C. Bliss, commercial | attache at Prague. reported. Trade Commissioner Leys A. France at Toronto, has advised the department | that for the first time since Novembe: 1931, there was a slight rise in Cana dian commodity prices. He also report- ed there was a noticeab's improvement in the wholesale trade in the Montreal district and also a more opt mistic feel- ing in general trade circls in the maritime provinces, though there has been little actual improvement there. Employment conditions in Winnipeg were reported improved. Italian Business Better. Mowatt M. Mitchell, commercial attache at Rome, advised the depart- ment that notwithstanding the Mid- summer lull in retail trading, the tone of Italian business has improved slight- ly. Bank depcsits in Poland, accerding to a repor. from Commercial Attache Clayton Lane at Warsaw, rose by 21,- 726,000 ziote to 135,579,000 zlote. Some slight improvement has appear- ed in the trade position of the Union of South Africa, according to a cable- | gram received from Commercial Attache S. H. Day at Joh-nnesburg. Gold pro- duction, the mainstay of Transvaal business, has remaired at a high figure he said and crcp prospects continued satisfactory. The department reported mild im- provement continues in Australian trade and finance. Imports are steady and| exchange is becoming more favorable, it wos sald. While there has been no | improvement in the g-neral trade in India, commodity nrices in Calcutta | have been firm during the past week, | proving a hopcful factor in the situa- | tion, a radiogram i:om E. C. Howard, trade commissioner, said. A general feeling of confidence has prevailed in Shanghai during the past week and the Chinese stock and bon market reacted favorably to the I proved outlook, according to a radio gram from Commercial Attache Julezs might be applied for. coming directly under this heading | thus far was a $2000.000 allowance ' made to the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. last week to build box cars. The Cen- tral Railroad of New Jersey has an ap- plication before the commission and corporation for a loan for repairing | equipment. Prior to the cc - “>rence Fred W. Sas gent, president of .ne Chicago & Nortl western Railway Co., called on mem- bers of the Finance Corporation Board, discussing the possibility of loans for the purchase of materials while prices are low. — CRISP APPOINTED TO TARIFF POSITION BY PRESIDENT HOOVER (Continued From First Page) mentarian of the Sixty-second Congress under Speaker Champ Clark. He served as parliameniarian at the Democratic convention in Baltimore in 1912, The following year he was elected to Congress, where he has since served. He was appointed by President Harding as 2 member of the World War Foreign Debt Funding Commissicn, on which hody President Hoover served at the time he was Secretary of Commerce. Term Expires in 1937, The unexpired term of the late Com- missioner Dixon will not expire until 1937, Within an hour after the announce- ment of his appointment Crisp called at the White House to thank the Presi- dent and to discuss briefly matters re- lating to the commission. After his talk with Mr. Hoover Crisp sald he thought he would be in a posi- tion to resign his seat in the House and present himself for qualification on | the Tariff Commission within the next | 10 days. Mr. Hoover made it evident during their conference that he would ' like Crisp to take over the commission dutles as soon as possible, especially 5o since tha commission is a bi-partisan body and should have full representa- tion of both parties. Crisp said his hesitancy in res | immediately was due to his desire to clean up several matters affecting his d | State. When this is accomplished, he said, he will then be ready to qualify. e said that in the meantime he would | endeavor to familiarize himself with tgning | Three gifts, totalling 50 acres of land, -have assured a vegetab'e supply for the . Salvation Army relief kitchen here, “this Winter. * 'The township trustee cupplied work- ers, and 114 men arc helping raise keans and potatoes to stock the kitchen. Arnold. | the Tariff Commission work. Trade Commissioner E. D. Hester ai! Crisp said he assumed that B. T. Manila cabled that the general busi-; Castellow of Cuthbert, Ga., the Demo- | ness tone in the Philippine Islands is | cratic nominee for his congressional; slightly improved, due to the steacy!seat, wculd be named at a special elec- condition of the native crop market. | tlon, to be held on election day, No-; Just 24 hours before the West Indian | vember 8, to fill out the unexpired term hurricane struck Puerto Rico, the de- | in the House. partment was advised by Trade Com- | miscioner J. R. McKey at San Juan| that although there was no visible change in economic conditions on the | island, the excolient grape fruit crop | ard good coffee crop now coming onto ! market promise some immediate im- provement. PRODUCE DRIVER ROBBED Bound and Relisved of $45 by Four Men in Maryland. With a good crop outlook, the general | Jesse Alen. colored. 39, driver for a situation in Argentina is improving ! produce company, reported to police <lightly, acccrding to a cablsgram from | today he had been bound and robbed Commercial Attache Alexander V. Dye.|of $45 by four men at Largo Sta- A slight recession has occurred in Peru- | tion, Md. nowing to the renewed contraction in | After the robbery. Alen told police. ccmmadity prices, but the situation re- | he was roiled into a piece of canvas, mains better than in the early part of | placed in the truck which he been the year, the department reported. driving, and driven into an alley in A’slight degres of hopeiulness is ap- | rear of the 90 block of B street north- parent in Cantral America with cus- |east, where he was found by police- toms collections better than at this time | men early today. The police recog- last year in El Salvador and trading in | nized the license number oa the vehicl2 low-grade Guatemalan coffee is brisk, [ from a lookout broadcast. His hands according to cables from these two coun- | were bound with light cord at the time. tries. Good coffee crops prospects in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, with comewhat ices, constitute an element of stre , it was reported, thorities who will investigate. lives in" the 5800 block of Glenwood place northeast ) the extension of so-called “work" loans. uncer which the Pennsylvania Railrcad has since received a $2.000,000 advance for building bes cars. BANKERS DECLINE COMMENT. Financial Houses Have Nothing to Say On Deferring Wage Problem. NEW YORK, September 27 (#).— Leading railroad bankers declined to comment for publication on the Wash- ington report yesterday that President Hoov managements to discontinue u end of the year. Informally, it was said railroad ex- ecutives were reluctant to open the wage question, bu. felt that they should take it was pointed out, before any solution could be reached, and the executives de- sired to have the question settled before the existing wage agreements expire. The present agreements, reached last Spring. instituted a 10 per cent reduc- tion under basic wage scales in effect in 1931 and run until Pebruary 1, 1933, The managements of the roads had indicated their intention to ask for a further reduction, amounting to 10 per cent, which would bring the present wage rate to & point 20 per cent below the 1931 Jevel. Executives in the transportation in- dustry have contended that further op- erating economies are mandatory if the railroads ere to operate on & profitable basis. Current traffic statistics, show- ing an average of about 550,000 to 590,- 000 cars loaded weekly, are running ap- proximately the levels. Expenses have been slashed drastically, but a majority of the roads have reported heavy losses. one-half 1929-1930 MIX-UP SMOOTHED OUT Gov. Ely of Massachusctts to For- mally Open Ohio Campaign October 14. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 27.—Robert Jackson, chairman of the speakers' bu- reau at Democratic national headquar- “{;’h issued the following statement last H “The mix-up in a speakers’ situatioh at Cleveland hes been straightened out satisfactorily. “The campaign there will be formally cpened under the auspices of the regu- lar Democratic orgznization on October 14, with Gov. Ely of Massachusetts as the principal speaker. “Mayor James M. Curley of Boston will speak at & dinner on September 27, for which I understand 1,200 tickets already have been sold. Senator Rob- ert J. Bulkley wiil also be a speaker.” II\LEXANDRIAN'S BODY IS FOUND IN POTOMAC Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA. Va. Ssptember 27. The body of William R. Beeton, 74, a salesman, living at 611 Quesn sirect, wes found floating in the Potomac River between two wharves at the foot | of Prinzess street by Robert Pcsey and Clarence Nathan while fishing today. T. H. Barrows, with whom Beeton was living, had reported him missing Local police notified Maryland au- | since Saturday night. He is believed by | “since some to have accidentally fallen cver- from one of the wharves. ‘Two sons and a daughter survive. police Gov. G. F. Shafer of No:rth Dskota, yesterday again refused a request to|hrlved the next one and then put on | declare a State embargo on farm | #nciher four-hole streak to end the products znd _enfcrce it through mar- | h i tial law, saying that such steps wou'd | Vare. who lost th= title a vear had severel injections and submitted to | 2 native treatment of mui plasters ap- plisd to the head. Bui food he would not take until word came tifat the Lon- | (From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) don government had approved a voting| M:s. Evalyn Walsh McLean, who re- hed requested railway labor and | fon of wage reductions until the | such action because of the time element. | A pericd of several months might elapse, ' “involve serious consequences.” He expressed sympathy with “every sensi- increase in the price of our farm products,” drive must be carried on by and peaceful methods.” Farmers' holiday groups. meeting Watertown and Siouz Falls, S. recommended that authority for con- cessions for emergency marketing (a plan for the exchange of commodities among farmers) resis with a county board and that perishable commodities should be marketed during the holiday period. SETTLEMENT PLAN ADVANCED. “lawful g in D., Five-Point Program Proposed in Georgia Milk War. ATLANTA, Ga., September 27 (#.— A five-point plan for settlement of the Georgia milk price war was advanced today with approval of Atlanta milk distributors, but it drew prompt dis- approval from an official of the pro- ducers’ organization, who said it would “put the producers in the hands of the distributors.” The plan. which would provide for & of present and future disputes between dairymen and distributing plants, was made public by a_ publicity agent for the distributors, who said it was sug- gested by a “prominent producer” whose name he was not at liberty to divulge. The distributors, the publicity man said, approve the plan “In its entirety.” Sent by Dairy Head. H. H. Hardin, vice president of the Georgia Milk Producers Confederation, Inc., which recently called a holiday on milk shipments to Atlanta from 29 countles, said the plan was sent to him by B. B. George, head of Pedigree Dairles, large distributing p'ant. “It is not acceptable to the pro- ducers,” Hardin sald, “bccause it would give the distributors four men on the ccmmission end the producers two. Such an arrangement would put the producers in the hands of the distrib- utors from here on out.” He said one parzgraph in particular is not acceptable. It specifies that picketing of roads and the use of armed convoys for milk trucks be stop- ped and that milk be shipped to At- Jenta as it was prior to “the so-called strike.” Hardin interpreted that as implying the confederation hss sponsored the picketing of roads, which he denied. “Also, we feel that there should be an agreement now as to the price for milk, before the holiday on shipments to Atlanta is ended” he said. “We Would be wiling to e ;::nv:;:;st price arrangement un! agreement on the price paid for milk should be reached.” Tha five-point plan would create 8 commicsion of six members vested with the duty of discussing and settling all issues that might arise between pro- ducers and distributors from time to time. Three members would be se- lected by the distributors and three by the producers, with provisions that two of the producers representatives be ed by the confederation and one by independent _producers not affiliated | with the confederation. All distributors, iall producers in the confederation and also non-members would be bound by the commission’s decisions. Harding said the arrangement would give the distributors four men on the commission and the producers two, independent producer who is friendly to the distributors could be chosen for the place on the pr ble movement intended to secure an; but added that any such| permanent commission for settlement | Holen Hicks, matched par going sie had to snare (wo tions against perpetuating the great t. She made the turn gulf which sep:rates caste Hindus frem | the 60,000,000 members cf India's de- pressed classed. And even then he de- layed further in order that he might pray. The news of the action in London caused great rejoicing in India. At Simla the halls of the Indian Legisla- tive Assembly echced wity loud cheers end there was a similar demonstration in the council of state. Bombay Honers Gandhi. BOMBAY, September 27 (#.—The Stock Exchange and the cotton, bullion end other markets were closed today in honor of the birthday, according to the Hindu calendar, of Mshatma Gandh. . & 3 eagles to do il 4 up. Mrs. Meckley Beaten. Virginia Van Wie, the Chicago co- | medalist, gained a 5-and-4 decision over | Mrs. B.' P. Meckley of Silver Spring. Md. Miss Van Wie had a 3-hole lead | | making the turn and after halving the | | tenth. gained the next two holes with ! ! par golf. Each wert on with 5s on the | thirtesnth and again on the fourteenth, | | where the match ended. Ada Mackenzie of Toronto had to go| | to the home green to defeat Jan> Brooks of Sparkill, N. Y., 1 up. The | former Canadian champion had a 2-hole !‘ead going to the seventeenth, where | her rival hcled a 10-foot putt for a| | P e s e ek R ) | footer on the ei~hteenth to square the mateh, but she ~abbed it and matcred| REPORTS TEXTILE TRADE Miss Mackenzie's 6. | Miss Orcutt {-itered at the start.| pritish Delegate Calls Montreal hocking her drive into the rovgh. while | Miss Snyder's tee shot carried :trzhzhl.‘ Competition “Simply Furious.” LONDON, Scptember 27 (£ —A. Hep- They halved th~ first with 5s and Miss Orcutt beceme 1 up at the second with | a par 4. Miss Snyder took a 6, Both| Worth, British Chamber of Commerce trapped their drives on the 140-yard | delegate to the Ottawa Imperial Con- third and went two over with 5s. They ference. prasented his report today in halved the feurth with regulation 5s. ~ | Which he said the Canadians were de- Mrs. Vare, who has held this title ! términed to keep their textile trade ir- | five times. made a sensational start | tact, but “appeared not unreasonable in | against Mrs_ Scheidt. Glenna dropped discussing other commodities her second wood 15 feet from the pin| . and holed an eagle 3. They halved | did not seem to be a profitable indus- the par 4 second with 5s and Mrs, | try and he found competition in the Scheidt squared the match by playing | Woolen worsted industry in Montreal the short third as it should be played. | “Simply furious.” Glenna's iron from the tee was off | — S | RECEIVER IS REQUESTED and she took a 4. Another eagle 3 on | Stockholder of Insurance Invest- the 388-yard fourth, which resulted | from another spoon shot dropping close | | ment Corp. Charges Insolvency. | ~WILMINGTON, Del. September 27 to the pin, gave her back the lead. | (®.—Appointment of receivers for the Miss Orcutt won three of the lost Insurance Investment Corporation was { four holes on the outward nine and asked in a bill filed in Chancery Court {reached the turn in 41, 3 up. The cards: Miss Orcutt— | out.. . 54556345441 system designated to meet his objec- | He said the Canadian clothing trade | Miss Snyder— Out........ 56555455545 Mrs. Belty P. Meckley is a member of the Indian Spring Golf Club, Sil- ver Spring, Md. She is the former District woman's champion and Wash- %fwn‘x only entrant in the champion- ship. DICTATORIAL BLUE SKY COMMISSIONS URGED By the Aszoclated Press. CINCINNATI, September 27 —Prof. A. A. Behrle. jr., of Columbia Univer- sity, adviser to the Ohio Division of Se« curitles and to the Wisconsin Secur- ities Commission, believes blue sky com- missions should have almost dictatorial powers in saying what securities may and may not be sold in their respective States. He believes, too, that officials of cor- porations, responsible for _corporate manipulations, should be made person- ally and financially liable should their companies fail. Prof. Behrle declared his beliefs be- fore the National Association of Secur- ities Commissicners meeting here. The time may soon come, Prof. Behrle said, when, before a security is allowed to be sold in any State, it will be asked whether the company issuing the bond is needed in the world; wheth- er there arc not already more plants of its type than this country can take care of. and on some such basis the security will be disqualified. yesterday by Alban E. Reid of Tulsa, Okla., who stated he was a stockholder and creditor. The bill alieged the cor- | poration was insolvent and unable to pay its debts. Reid stated in the bill | the concern was indebted to him to the | extent of $30,000. ‘ Counterf;lmBill | Is Passed in Paying Finein Police Court Clerk’s Fears Allayed, but He Finds They Were Well Founded. (Prom the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) Justice was short-changed today. J. Senford, financial clerk in Police Court, hesitated es he took a $5 bill frcm a mzn in payment cf a fine Ji Ralph Given had imposed for a mino: violaticn. “What's the matter? Do ycu think it's counterfcit?” the defendent asked. Sanford’s doubt> were allayed. He it the bill that ‘had appeared rather aded in with the rest of the court money. | _Adding up the day's receipts later, Sanford found the note was counterfeit. ‘The case was turned over immediately to a Treasury Service man. r cently figured in the trial and convio- tion of Gaston B. Means for obtaining from her $104,000 to recover the Lind- | bergh baby, was sued todzy in the Dise trict Supreme Court for $33.002.01 by her lawyer. Albert W. Fox, Munsey Building. for legal services. 7 Through Attorney W. C. Sullivan, the lawyer claimed he was retained by Mrs. McLezn April 15, 1932, and repre- sented her fn her suit for maintenance against her husband Edward Beals Mc- Lean, former publisher of the Wash- gton Poet, obtained for her an injunc- n against McLean suing her for di- | vorce in Mexico. and leter an injur tion against similer action by her hus- band at Latvia. He also succe-sfully prosecuted, he says, a proceeding by which her husband was ousted from the management of the Post. as well as the praceedings leeding up to the indict- ment and conviction of Mean: He cays he has been paid only §2,500 and has received a promissory note for $10.000, ayable on demand. which, when he presented it at a bank July 15, was not honord. He wants inters est on the note as well as the balance {of $33,002.01, for which he sues. 120 BELIEVED DEAD IN BALKAN QUAKE |Earth Shock Hits Macedonia and Chalcidice—Felt Yugoslavia. in | BY the Associated Press. ‘ VIENNA, September 27.—Dispatches from Athens said today that 120 per- jsons were believed to have been killed in an earthquake which struck last night In Macedonia and Chalcldice. Most of he victims lived in the villages of Ierisos and Stratoniki. The quake was felt in Yugoslavia, where there was considerable damage but apparently no loss of life, and in Bucharest, where the tremors lasted 12 minutes. The observatory at Belgrade estimated the center of the quake in Southern Serbia, where there was a disastrous earthquake several years ago. | BELGRADE Yugoslavia. September 27 (P)~—A severe e>rihquake which caused considercble property dsmage and much panic amang the people was described in reports reaching here to- day from Valandoio Kavadar, Demir- kapu and Gewgeli, South Serbia. No loss of life was reporied, but it Wwas said residents of the towns spent last night in the cpen sir. Quake Registered Here. Instruments at the Georgetown Uni- versity Observatory yesterday registered | @ rather revere earthcuaks Leginning at 2:32:14 p.m. Eastern standard time. reaching its meximum intensity at 3 pn.. and ending abcut 4:15 pm. The , distance was about 5,000 miles with the direction unknown e RECAPTURE TOWNS _RIQ DE JANEIRO, September 27 (#).—Federal troops recaptured the towns of Mococa and Sao Jose do Rio Pardo from the Sao Paulo rebsls, the government announced todey.