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Becomis Mere Cyclonic Dis- | turhance as It Moves on “_:_Toward Jamaica. By-the Associated Press. . HAVANA, September 29.—The trop- | 1 sto ich badly damaged San Juan and other portions of Puerto Rico night was whirling on toward but it had lost most of the Cuban National Ob- servatory said in a storm bulletin laté scal “storm’ Monds Jamaica today, its intensity, last night. At 7 pm. the storm’s center was halt | cen the eastern exiremity of way betw Jamaica and the western end of Haiti, the bulletin said, and it was moving| westward. “We now characterize it as merely a cyclonic disturbance,” it said, hich may. however, regain its force at any. moement Oth: which the storm passed felt its force only slightly. -A high wind and heavy rain swept the Dominican Republic and re w3 no lives were lost, as far as could be learn ¥ felt the wind, but the storm t its ferce in the high mountains nd the city of Port Au Prir Virpin Islaods reported no heavy dam- age. DEATHS PLACED AT 134, eriey, After Air Sufvey, poris on Storm Damage. an airplane flight over the stated area in Puerto Rico, Re- slands of the West Indies over | heavy damage to crops. but | The | fami and crew of four men B ATTERED hulk of the. Hutchinson plane, mad> shorily ceast 2fter ¢raching during their attempted flight to Scotland. THE after the “flying | ware rescued from the bleak Greenland | —A. P. Photo. ley reported to the Bureau| fMairs that he was “much | " over the situation. His « Vs | message was received at 11 o'clock last | night The Red Cross, he said, has asked the Army to cend 3.000 tents, 18,000 cots and 18,000 blankets for the storm suf- ferers on a steamer leaving New York v. Medical requirements. he said. be taken care of from local supply 5. at least for the present. Greater Than 1928, He Says. Damage to structures for several miles cn cach side cf the path of vor- er than in the 1928 hurri-| ported. banaaa crop totaliy de- Beverley said he believed ent of the coffee and to- however, were destroyed. of citrus fruit crops 1s 90 vegetables and similar crops, per cen / Police reports show a total of 134 dead and 1.355 injured, with two im- jortant cities and several country dis- tricts net yet reported. Mcdical Supplles Sent. The Governor's Committee and Red T he said, have sent food, tents ots to the areas most serjously af- ted a5 well es doctors, nurses and sh embassy at Washington ffer to the State Department the British cruiser Danac, now at Grenada, Britich West Indies, to FPu emergency The offer was turned over to the War Department. which notified the embassy that, while it was “greatly appreciated, it was not deemed necessary. STORM VICTIMS AIDED. Charges of Profiteering Probed Puerto Rico. SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico, September P)—Relief agencies went into ion today to assist the hundreds of left homeiess and without cf support by the hurricane Puerto Rico Tuesday. eariy there were com- ints to the police that some mer- ants had raised the prices of food and building materials. Goy. Beverley mmediately appainted a Price-fixing mittec headed by Federal Judge a A Wells. The island Emergency Relief Com- mittee placed $10.000 at the disposal of the Red Cross Soclety, which ap- propriated an cqual sum. The com- mittee has launched a campaign for additional funds. In towns where food supplies are still available the local authorities have been advanced limited cash amounts to provide food for the destitute Lighting service was partially siored last night in the Governor's Palace and in the offices of the news- r El Mundo, which published the paper since the storm. N ice for homes and hos- s is still out. bui thousands with buckets and cans were able to get small quantities from fire plugs. The gas service is being restored in the Tesidential section, but the telephones ars stiil_silent. Gov., Beverley announced he had re- ceived $5.000 asa contribution from the New York-Puerto Rico Steamship Co. RED CROSS ACCEPTS STORM RELIEF FUNDS Drive Contemplated to Relieve Puerto Rico Sufferers, State- ment Says. in re- could accept contribu- tions for the organization’s emergency reiief work in Puerto Rico. for a general fund is contemplated, offi- cials said A brief release from chapter read pe the District trict of Columbla Chapter of the Amer- can Red Cross that any persons who desircus of meking a contribution for Puerto Rico may transmit it through the pational headquarters or the Dis- trict chapter, 1730 E street. This s not in the nature of an appeal.” Detailed reports had not yet been re- ceived nor any requests for help of any specified nature, buf the organization, through Col. Ernest P. Bicknell, vice chairman in charge of insular and for- eign operations, announced it will take care of all emergency medical needs. ROXBURGHE DUKE DIES Marriage to’ M;;‘éc;let of New York in 1903 Is Recalled. WILTON, Wiltshire, England, Sep- fember 29 () —The Duke ot Roxburgae died_today at Wilton House, home of the Earl of Pembroke, aged 56. FUs marriage in 1903 to May Golet of M © York was a big society event of the year. He was taken ill suddenly yesterday after attending the funeral of Michael George Herbert, partner in the firm of Morgan, Frenfell & Co. of London, who died Monday. Hitch-Tikes to Enter College. HAMILTON, N. Y., September 29 (#). - y from of sleep and pounds lighter than when he started, William Summers of Brownsville, Tex.. arrived in Hamilton yesterday deiermined to enter Colgate University. He “hitch- hiked” the 2,700 miles from his home city. Summers sald he was 10 days en route, but slept only three nights and had -little. to eat. He produced a good by ersity. to Rican waters to be of service in| No_drive | has been received by the Dis-1{ 1 | ANELEIN SLAYNES ‘American Gunmen’s Methods i Used in Killing Poitical Lead- | ers, Police Theorize. | By the Associated Press. | HAVANA, September 20.—The pos- | sibility that American gang gunmen |may Lave invaded Cuba with ultra- | modern methods cf slaughter was being | investigated by police today in their effort to clear up the slaying of fivs | politice] leaders here Tuesday. | They based their theory on the fact |that Dr. Cicmente Vazquez Bello, | President of the Cuban Senate, friend of Presicent Macbado and prospective | presidential candidet> for nex: vear, | was slain very much in the Americin gang manner. He was cut cown by a rain of bullets | from an automobile which roared up beside the car in which he was riding. The fact that more than a dozen bullets penetrated ks body and more than 60 struck the side of his car indicated, | police seid, that a sub-machine gun Was | used by the killers. Other Shootings Described. The marks of modernistic crime were {not 20 clear in the slaying of the other | four opposition leaders, however. Threc brothers, Gonzalo, Leopoldo and Guil- lermo Freyre de Andrace, were slain within their residence by a gang %hich rushed into the house, shot them down, |and rushed out again. Miguel Angel | Agutar, the fourth oppositionist slain, | wes shot down when he went to the | door of his home to mest the killers. A second plot, which police said might | have resulted in wholesale deaths of | the family and friends of Dr. Vazquez Bello, as well as high government { officials, was uncovered by police yes- |terdey 'in the discovery of a huge | dynamite bomb planted in Colon ! Cemetery near the spot where it_was | originally reported Dr. Vazquez Bello would be buried. All the employes of the cemetery. | numbering nine or ten, were arrested |and held for investigation. Explosives | experts today uncovered 23 separate | mines containing *: - han 300 pounds lof dynamite, a1 controlled by an electrical switch cight blocks away in a | Chinese cemetery. There was enough | explosives to have blown the whole luxr:;ral cortege to death, the experts said. Expected Notables There. It was pointed out that the most promi- | nent figures in Cuban political life and many government leaders would have been gathered around the spot a' the funeral. There also was evidenc: the { mines had been laid for some tim> | this gave rise to a theory tha. the | killing of Dr. Vazquez Belio was part jof & plot to wipe out most of the government leaders with one blow, | Souads of police made a systematic tsearch of houses in the suburb of + Miramar when it was reported a num- be: of participants in the slayings were hidden there. All public assemblies, anludlng a play-by-play presentation of the base ball world’s series in New York, were suspended vesterday in honor of Vazquez Bello. A seven-coach military train left with the body for the famil; home at Santa Clara, where the funeral is to be held. COURT HITS SUPERSTITION {IN THIS ENLIGHTENED AGE and Gives Girl Reference to Her as Having an “Evil Eye.” ;By the Associated Press. | EDMONTON, Alberta, September 29. —Profession of belief in ck magic” was scored by Justice A. F. Ewing in | Supreme Court here today in granting an injunction against reference to Paulion Chizen, 16-year-old Ergemont, Alberta, girl, as “the girl with the evil eye.” Bellef in witchcraft in this enlight- ened age, the jucge said, was a “shock- ing state of afiairs.” The girl asked for the injunction and for $3,000 damages from Rcsie and Dymtro Tylanko, claiming they said she had “an evil eye” and brought illness upon their daughter. No damage was | awarded. Injunction Against DENIES THIEF IS RELATIVE San Francisco Mayor Terms Man Who Defrauded Woman Imposter. SAN FRANCISCO, September 29 (P —Mayor Angelo J. Rossi of San Prancisco told police yesterday he had received a letter from a Mrs. J. L. Hendry of the Hotel Olmsted in Cleve- land, Ohio. in which she said she had been defreuded of $800 in cash and jewels by a man who represented him- self as the~Mayor's neplLew. Mayor Rossi said Mrs. Hendry's letter gave the man's name as John Victor Renault, who. she added, represented himself as owner of 1,100 acres cf {grape land and a winery near Santa Monica, Calif. Mayor Rossi said he was not ac- am;?wrd and may be admitted ‘quainted with4Renault and had ho réla-|'ft permitted farmers to dis) tives by thn.nnme. Dr. | Without payment for the present, has 0.5, MAY EXTEND FARN NORATORLM Partial Suspension to Grain Farmers May Reach Others if Needed. (Continued From First Page.) been biighted for at least one or two seesons past. | Tn response to questions, Newton said | that if it was shawn that producers of | such products as cotton and tobacco ad cuffered to such an exient as soma | of the wheat tarmers. hs had no doubt the partial moratorium would be ex- EVENING STAR, WASHINGTOX, Flying Family’s Wrecked Plane SCENE OF CRASH OF TRANSATLANTIC FLYERS. MAGDONALD BEGINS D. C., THURSDAY. SE l RESHAPIG CABNET, Premier Gives Home Secre- taryship to Conservative, Sir John Gilmour. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 29. — Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, who was denounced by his Labor party col- leagues when he formed his national cabinet to face the British financial crisis last October, stood firm today despite the resignation of his colleague of 40 years, Philip Snowden, and sev- eral al cabinet membors. H> began immediately to reconstruct the cabinet on national lines. Sir John GI'mcur, Conservaiive, was moved frcm the pcst of minister of agriculture to the home sccretaryship, vacated by Sir Herbert Samuel, leader of the Liberals who refused to accept the tariff pro- posals contained in the trade agree- ments reached at the recent Ottawa trade conference. Maj. Walter Elliot, Conservative, was named minister of agriculture and Sir Godfrey Collins, Liberal, was given the post of secretary for Scotland, ated by Sir Archibald Sinclair, Liberal. Liberal Rift Widened. In the meantime the resignations seemed to have widened the rift in‘the Lib>ral party which bsgan over the | formation of the natlonal cabinet last Fall. | | “We are not quitte: ‘Walter Runci- man. Liberal and president of the Board of Trade, told & meeting of National Liberal members of the House of Com- mone, which congratulated him and Sir John Simon, foreign secretary, for declining to follow the other Liberals out of the cabinet. Thirty of the thirty- five so-called “Simon Liberals” in the House attended the meeting. A resolu- tion was passed declaring they would continue to support the MacDonald Government. Their action set at rest rumors that the Liberals would unite again on the free trade issue and oppose the govern- ment. The successor of Lord Snowden as| ldord lprn‘y scal was not named imme- | iately. Snowden Welcome Unlikely. Gecrge Lansb lcader of the Labor party. which Snowden left to follow | MacDonald into the national cabinet | last Fall, indicated Snowden would not be welcomed again into the Labor fold, although he wes one of the organize of the party. “This has been a Tory government from the beginning.” Lansbury said, “and the man responsible for its exist- ence, if there is one man more respon- sible then another, is Failip Snowden. It is very late in the day for him to tended to them. Pa:ticipation by Southern cotton and | tobacco growers in the 75 per cent sus- | pension of cicp loan payments was de- | manded by enator Smith. who charged ring sectional and partisan discrim- | e “T shell insist.” the veteran Demo- | cratic Senator said, “that the cotton and | tobacco growers, who are Gue the Goi- ernment on crop loans, shall be given | the same treatment that is now given the wheat growers, and if it is not given, public opinion, based on equity and jus- | tice, will uphold them in refusing to pay | any more and under differcnt ter than that granted the wheat growers.” | Smith. rankin3 Democrat on the Sen- | ate Agriculture Commiitee, said the | cotton and tcbacco growers were in just ' as distressing concitions &s Wheat fafm- | ers. He added | Grown in Democratic Area. | “Unfortunately these two products are grown almosi exclusively in the South and the South is almost exclu- sively Democratic. Even if it were not, the intent of the administration in making this order to co discriminate, it lays _itself liable to justifiable- criti- cism " | The administration had ann$unced that “present low price$ make it prac- | tically impossible for wheat farmers | to repay their crop production loans without incurring grave risk of need | during the Winter.” | In the cotton and tobacco areas, how- | ever, the Agriculture Department ssid, | | prites higher than last year's should | enable borrowers to meet their pn,\'-‘ ments, though from these scctions also | applications for extensions have been | received. | | The Government advanced approxi- | mately $64,000,000 in sced loans this| | year, of which' $23,000.000 fells within the susoension order. The re. ainder is | distributed largely in cotton and tobacco ' | reglons. | | _ The administration plan leaves to the | next session of Congress the decision | | upon what terms the suspended 76 per | cent of seed loans shall be repaid. The | | White House further sald the intention | | previously announced by Secretary Hyde | | not to press eollections from those in | distress “has not solved the difficulties | in all localitles.” H |, The new step, it added. was taken | “in order to clear the matter up * ¢ ¢ | | and in order to enable such farmers to provide for their families.” ‘! Demands for a farm debt moratorium long have been heard from the North- west wheat reglons, and & national | farmers’ conference, with this as the | primary goal, has bzen called to meet | here in December. | ‘The farmers’ conference, demanding primarily that farm debts be continued | been called here to mect at the same time Congress reconvenes for the ses- sion which will have to determine re- | payment terms for the sums postponed under yesterday's decision. | Crop production loans were first un- dertaken by the Federal Government in | 1921 and have been continued through | the years, with many millions outstand- | ing ‘even hefore this year's loans were | maaé. While in many_sections good crups at varying times have permitted ! 1epayment to the Govcrnment, some of the Western localities have been gotting | steadily further bchind. To avoid dis- possessing the farmers, the Govern- ment, in many instances, has renewed | the loans from year to year, necessitat- | ing maintenance of inspectors through- | out the region. Message of President. sent yesterday, follows: | “You will be glad to know that I| have secured a preliminary discussion among Eastern mortgage concerns and | | goveiTimental agencies upon the question | of farm mortgag2s. | “As a resu't, Mr. Henry Robinson, | cheftman of the Executive Committe | ths Federal Reserve Banking and I | dustrial Commiitees, has arranged for u further mesting of members of thase committees for the Midwest districts to- gether with representatives of morigage agencles in Chicago at the Federal Re- serve Bank in Chicago tomorrow. Ii is to be followed by & more extended meeting on Friday. “In order that we may have full co- ordination of governmental sagencies the Secretary of Agricuiture and repre- sentatives of the Reconstruction Corpo- ration and the Federal Farm Loan, Banks will participate in these meetings | with other mortgage agancies. I am: | very hopeful that construciive steps) | will follow from these confercnces. } SOUTH DAKOTA RELIEF. | i Sy | Farmers Would Need Free Hand in| | Disposing of Crops. | _PIERRE, 8. Dak. tember 29 (F).— ‘The new seed loan collection policy an- nounced at Washington would he of eat benefit to South Dakots poxfo:laed crop as they saw fit after jaying 25 | would weaken our natfonal influence in | 'NEW JERSEY TO QUIZ Mr. Hoover's message to Gov. Turner, | Sergt. PTEMBER 29, 1932. 1 BRI SHPSAD QUAKE SUFFERERS Part of Eastern Mediterra- nean Fleet Reaches Greece With Relief, B7 the Associated Press. ATHENS, September 29.—Arrival of part of the British Eastern Mediter- ranean fleet, bringing food and medi- cal supplies for relief of sufferers from the earthquakes that have shaken Greece since the beginning of the week, was hailed here today with great public demonstrations. In the meantime the quakes con- tinued and it was feared the casualties would be greater than originally sup- posed. The number of dead was placed today at 200 and the injured at 400. The shocks were so strong that men and stones were thrown considerable distances and the quake districts were covered with clouds of dust. Cracks more than seven feet wide appeared in the ground and water fountains which disappeared in some places re- appeared in others. Private initiative and government agencies joined in efforts to relieve the sufferers. Premier Herriot of France personally sent a donation of 50,000 erday afterncon. In the group, left to right, are: Lieut Pablo Alcnso, Licut. Col. Barton K. Yount, com- | francs (about £2,000) y manding_officer Bolling Flel ROADSFINDR.F.C. CAUTIOUS ON LOANS Security Required From Lines and Only About Half Asked Is Usually Advanced. ‘ | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 20—Study | of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- | tion's loans to railrcads has revealed | to executives in that industry, and their | banking associates, that tBe Govern- | ment-sponsored body is determined not | to be a Santa Claus. No set rule regarding loans has been publicly defined by the corporation, but dencunce its Tory policy.” Prime Minister MacDonald sald hh‘ government's task would not be finished | until the problems of World War debts, reparations and the coming werld eco- | nomic conference were settled. ! “We put our hands to a very big job 12 months ago.” he said. “We knew | what it meant. The same determination | (o disregard all ordinary partisan inter- | est which we showed then, we show | still. We make the same appeal to the ! electorate we did 12 months 2go. that the nation needs non-party government | and that purely partisan considerations | the world and bz a blow to the move- ments now at work toward werld re- covery.” ! A joint letter of the Liberal ministers | who resigned declared they regarded the Ottawa agreements ‘a danger to | the best interests of the empire, & der- cgation from the powers of Parliament, a barrier to removing restrictions on the | world’s trade; a burden upon the Brit- | ish people and a probable cause of in- | creased unemployment and social un- rest.” CANADIAN DEFEATS MAUREEN ORCUTT Ada Mackenzie Scores Major Up- set—Mrs. Vare and Miss Van Wie Win. By the Asscciated Press, FPEABODY, Mass, Sepiember 29, Ada Mackenzie of Toronto today the woman's national golf champion- ship a major upset by defeating Maureen Ovcutt of Haworth, N. J., 2 a3d 1, for a place in the semi-finals at the Salem Country Club. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, a cham- pion five timc&..gul on a great closing surge to overtake Peggy Wattles of Buffalo, and then sweep into another 2-and-1 victory. Miss Wattles matched the “»r of 38 going out and was 3 up at the turn. Virginia Van Wie of Chicago scored a 3-and-2 victory over Rosalie Knapp of Glen Head. N. Y, after outstroking her all the way. Canadian Beaten. Ei Wilson, British champion for th> past two years and one of the 1931 semi-finalists in the American play, was | eliminated by Charlotte Glutting, New Jersey titlist, 1 up. The brawny English girl, the most feared player in the title competition, lost by missing a seven-foot putt on th { home green. Miss Wilson had & two-- hole lead at the turn. LINDBERGH SUSPECT Investigator Reported on Way to Illinois, Where Photographer Is Being Held. By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, 1ll, September 29.— E. J. Gibbons of the Iliinois highway police said today he received word from Springfield, Il that an investigator was being sent from New‘, Jersey to question Dennis Lawrence, | a photographer, held here as a suspect in the Lindbergh kidnaping. Gibbons said Chief Walter Moody of the State police telephoned him. in- structing him to hold Lawrence until an investigator arrived from New Jersey. | Gibbons said he did not know where Moody received his information. Yesterday Col. Norman Schwarzkopf of the New Jersey. State police said he was not interested in Lawrence and would not send a man to question him. . Submarine Strikes Ship. HELSINGFORS, Finland, September 29 (A).—Reports here today sald & Soviet-Russian submarine had collided with the Danish steamer Pedek Maersk outside Leningrad. The steamer was only slightly damaged, but the fate of the sutmarine was not known. por cent of the loan, Gov. Warren Green said. Gov. Green has been secking for some time to have payments spread over at least a three-year period. He said modification of _the regulations which now control mortgaged crops would benefit not only farmers but {nhzr interests dependent on sgricul ure. ! were recelved from banks and other | stood here, is directors of Uncle S8am's big rellef | agency have made it clear informally that roads can borrow money from it only if they have proper security. The corporation is more lenient in the matter of security than a commercial bank could be, but nevertheless it insists upon having coliateral to back every dollar it advances. High Hopes at Start. At the start, several months ago, some | rallroacs hoped to obtain as much as | 100 per cent of their loan requests. They | soon learned otherwise, however, when, | in the case of Missouri Pacific, the cor- poration said it would advance $12,800.- 000, or half the funds asked by the car- rier to take care of a bank loan. Later, the corporation made additional loans to other roads in amounts approximat- { ing 50 per cent of the total requested Consequently, when the Nickle Plate —one of the latest roads to join the long. but gradually shrinking list of ap- plicants—recently asked aid in taking care of its $20,000.000 note maturity on October 1, there was high hope in some | banking circlss that at least half the loan desired would be forthcoming. | But the R. F. C. ;aet the optimists | down hard. It granted one-quarter of | the amount asked and made that con- | ditional on acceptance of a refunding | plan by a substantial majority of the | note holders, | Policy Is Explained. | Asked why the 50-50 rule had not been followed in this case, a man who stands high in the counsels of the Re- construetion Corporation, explained un- officially that no change in policy had | been launched | “The corporation simply advanced as | much money as it felt it could advance | in light of the security offered.” he said “The ccrporation is running its affairs like & private banking organization. It does not advance money unless there is security to back such loans, and, lnx the interest of the public welfare, it insists upon full protection. Obviously it is able to accept as security some collateral which might be spurned by banks, with their rigid requirements, but it is insistent upon having proper | coverage for all of its loans. While lenient and public spirited, the cor- poration still is guided by sound business methods ” | LOAN REQUESTS DROP. ! | | Decrease of 60 Per Cent Noted In Pleas | y¢i™y Gloy’ Dermanent c to R. F. C. for Aid. By the Associated Press. Bank loans asked of the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation dropped al- most 60 per cent from July 30 to Sep- tember 3. ‘ The corporation disclosed today !hui during the five weeks ending July 30, 1,521 applications totaling $346,000,000 | financial institutions. During the next five weeks, 1222 applications totaling | $148,000,000 were received. The average bank loan was said to | have gone to & bank in a town of 3,000 persons. | The corporation is awaiting a legal | opinion on the proposed loan to China which that nation would use to pur- chase 15,000,000 bushels of American wheat. It was stated that the board, which conferred at the White House last Sunday on the subject, is disposed to make the loan if it is found to be legal. An early opinion from the At- torney General is expected. It also was said that whether the sale would depress the world's market must be considered. The law under which the loan would be made, it was said. appears on the surface to be clear enough to permit such a lcan, but noth- ing can be done until research dis- closes the complete legal phase of the situation. Much of the wheat that would be sold is held privately. All of it, it is unde:- Northwestern hard wheat. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at 5:30 o'clock; John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. March, “Eagle .Coldman Overture, “Rienzi’ ..Wagner Suite Espagn-le, .Lacome “La.Reja.” “La Zurzuela.” Excerpts from musical “Stnny” comedy. Capt. Torres Meiner | devote. | tendent to withhold his nts from ’ In Police | Inspector O. T. Davis (above) of the Police Crime Prevention Burceu, re- moved and sent to command Ne. 2 in- spection district by Brig. Gen. Glass- ford, superintendent of police. Below: Capi. Eaward J. Kelly, mer chief cf detectives, who may be brought from the thiid precinct to police headquarters, and may be the new head of the Cri: ion Bureau. for- FURTHER POLICE | SHIFTS MAY HIT HIGH OFFICERS (Continued From First Page) the rank of inspector in order that he might take over the crime prevention post was seen in police circles as a re- sult of the removal of Davis and the failure of Glassford to name immedi- Regula- tions now call for the mandacory retire- ment of all police officers reaching the age of 64 years. | ‘The oldest inspector at present is| Albert J. Headley, who was 62 last July. However, it was pointed out, the Dis- | trict Commissioners at their discretion | can retire officers who have reached | the age of 60 and officers themselves can request retirement after they have reached 55, providing they have had 25 years' service. pector Beckett is ow abcut 55, whiie the other inspec- tors, Edwards, E. W. Brown, T. R. Bean, Burke and Davis range between 52_and 60. Beckett's new dutles will Involve the attention to police matters to which Gen. QGlassford has not the time to Beckett will be uted by Gen. Glagsford to run down immediately | such complaints and investigations as require prompt attention. He will have | “no connect; with the Crime Pre- | vention Division,” according to Inspec- | Edwards. | Beckett “Staff Officer.” Gen. Glassford, mindful of his mili- tary service, described Beckett as his “staffl officer.” He sald the inspcctor’s | assignment to headquarters was tem- porary “until we see how it works cut.” In connection with Inspector Davis' transfer, it was recalled today that he had bzen asked to explain ceriain acts iwice by Gen. Glassford since eviction | of the boous army lest Juiy 28. The | first occasion involved a raid made by | Davis and his men on a meeting of al- leged radicals in an abandoned south- west auditorium. | Asked for an official explanation, Davis, re] d to his superior that he | had in accordance with an order | issued former Supt. Henry G. Pratt calling for police officers to “co-operate to the fullest extent” with agents of the Labor Department’s Immigration Bu- reau. ‘The explanation was accepted. More recently, immediately after pub- lication of Attorney General Mitchell's report explaining the eviction by Fed- | eral troops of the bonus marchers, Gen. Glaseford called upon Davis to | explain a statement in the report in which Davis is quoted as saying he had | been ordered by the police superin- the bonus camps on the day of the eviction. His explanation that this in- | formation was contained in_testimony before the grand ]u'xzd lbnd henca h\v-u ileged was accep! Gen. - and tly &. two ‘had * apparen smoothed out their differences. Cuban flight commander; Jose T. Baron, charge d'affaws of the Cuban embassy, and Cept. Enrique A. Prieto, Cuban m! L Rodolfo Herrera; tary attache. —5tar Staff Photo. HOOVER RECEIVES 3 CUBAN AVATORS Good Will Flyers Are Being; Entertained Informally During Visit Here. 1t Dr. Three Cuban Army fiyers who arrived at Bolling Ficld yesterdsy afternoon during the course of a good-will tour of the United States were officially wel- comed to the Capital by President Hoover this afternoon. The visiting officers, Capt. Torres Nemier, flight commander: Lieut. Ro- dolfo Herrera and Lieut. Pablo Alonsc, | were presented to Mr. Hoover by Dr. Jose T. Biaron, charge d'affaires of the Cuban embassy. Foilowing the Whi'.el House reception they were the guests of Capt. Enrique A. Prieto, military at- tache of the cmbassy, at & luncheon in the Mayflower Hotel Eecause of the assassination of Dr. Clemente Vasquez Bello, president of the Cuban Senate, there will be no for- m:l social events in entertainment of the visiting flyers during their three- day stay here. A dinner in their honor at the Cuban embassy last night was| informal, as will be a dinner to be given them by Dr. Baron tonight at the May- flower Hotel. Officers of Bolling Field will entertain their Cutan colleagues at luncheon at the field tomorrow, the rest of the day being given over to sightseeing. The visitors” will take off in their three American-built fighting planes early Saturdty morning for Langley Field, Hampton, Va. They will return to Ha- vana by way of Charlotte, N. C., Jack- conville, Fla., and Miami. The good-will flight began September 20 and the Cuban officers have visited San Antonio. St. Louis, Kansas City, Tulsa, Cincinnati and Wrnght Field, Dayton, Ohio. CLUE TO JAPANESE OCEAN FLYERS FAILS | | | Radio Message Believed to Refer to American Aviators in Alaska. A radio message which yesterday gave rise to the hope that a trace had been found of the Japanese good-will fiyers, | missing since last week, is believed to have come instced from an airplane | Ro>fugees Thrcng Saloniki. ‘Terrified refugees thronged into Sa- loniki in droves, telling harrowing tales of their sufferings. They macde des- perate inquiries after relatives in other places. Most of the means of communi- cation were destroyed by the quakes and there was no way answers to their que- ries could be had. Many Saloniki people were anxious over the fate of relatives spending the holidays at the resort of Chalcidice, where the quake was severe. The road connecting the two places was filled with automobiles and ambulances seek- ing news and victims at the same time. At Saloniki itself the damage was small, but the people were relieved, nevertheless, by the arrival of five Brit- ish cruisers. Refugees said sharp lightning pre- ceded the quake. Several deaths were due, they said, to suddenly awakened Ppeople leaping from the windcws to the ground after the fiist shock. The ground sank as much as eight feet in ome places. Communication Restored. Communication with Mount Athos was restored today, and it was learned | the monastery buildings there were not damaged seriously. The first telegram which came througa today from the Chalcidice area de- scribed conditions there as “hell on earth.” Roads are almost impassable because of wide cracks in many places. Scme hours before the first shock was felt, the telegram said, the hot springs at Apelonia overflowed, and Lake Arania, 55 miles from the epicenter, disappeared. DESCRIBES CHALCIDICE AREA. Washington Artist Stzyed Year in Re- gion Hit by 'Quake. ‘The earthquake-siricken country of Greece, where hundreds are believed dead in the Chalcidice Peninsula, was described today by Ruseell Parr of 2131 O street. an artist who recently re- turned from a year's stay in the center of the area reported herdest hit by the temblor. Mr. Parr lived in an ancient Phoenis cian castie on the rocks at Pyrgos, over~ looking the Aegean Sea. He has peinted the island in the background of many pictures done during his stay there anc has m2de a deep history of the country. Mr. Parr said today there are ap- proximately 30,000 persons living in the stricken area, the entire population being made up of refugees from Asia Minor, who came into the country when 1. passed from Turkish control about 20 years ago. He lived beside the cinal cut by Xerxes, prior to his invasion of Greece in 380 B.C. through the ithmus at Mount Athos, the “holy land” of the Chalcidice Peninsula. The people who came into the coun- try. he eaid. found it hard to adapt themselves to it and did not build their homes with the strength necessary to withstand the frequent earthquakes and tremors in the country. Many times during his stay there, Mr. Parr said, there were slight tremors, but no seri- ous earth shocks. New Shocks Registered. RATIBOR, Germany, September 29 | carrying two Americans, missing from (#).—Seismographs at the university here reglstered new earthquake shocks, Anchorage, Alaska, since Sunday. | B apparently in the vicinity of Chalcidic The message. received by the Naval Greece, at 6 p.m. yesterday and 5 Fey Radio Station at St. Paul, Alaska, from | th> Japanese station at Otchishi, was relayed to the Navy Department. It| read: “Our plane at top of River Mantanu in Alaska, where signaling with gun- fire and lights.” Because the message was at first be- lieved to refer to the three Japanese flyers, who disappearad last week en| route’ from Tokio to Nome and San Francisco, it was sent to the Japanese embassy. Subseguent developments, however, dicated the message may have been garbled and referred to the American plane. This theory was strenghtened by the failure of officials to locate any Man- tanu River in Alaska. coupled with re- ports from residents of the Mantanuska Valley. near Anchorage, that they had seen flares along the route the two American would have followed It was considered probable that th= “Mantanu” in the message should have besn “Mantanuska.” The Anchorage plane, which carried Pilot Arthur Weodley and Hirry Mor- ton. an Anchorage attorney, was to be sought by other planes today. HITLERITE DEMANDS VOICED BY GOERING "Retraction of War Guilt Lie” today. SUIT TO ENFORCE LAKES DIVERSION Attorneys General of Four States Agree on Step at Columbus Conference. By the Assoclated Press. COLUMBUS, September 29.—A legal action, designad to force the city of Chicago and the State of Iliinois to make effective the decree of the United States Supreme Court on the diversion of water from the Great Lakes, was de- cided upon by the attorneys general of four lake States in conference here to- day. The attorneys general. representing the Staies of Wisconsin, Michigan, Min- nesota and Ohio, decided to enter the Supreme Court when it reconvenes next month and file an application in man- damus, asking the Natlon's highest tribunal to appoint & commissioner, a receiver or a United States marshal to carry out the previous order of the court in the water diversion case. The conference was called by Attor- Among First, Says National Socialist Leader. By the Assoclated Press. EERLIN. September 29.—Hermann | Goering, National Socialist said today the three main issues spon- sored by the Nazis for the coming elec- tion campaign would be retraction of “the war guilt lie,” thereby restoring Germany's honor; equality of Germany before the nations, and national security. Herr Goering, who made the declara- tion to a group of newspaper men, said he was speaking in behalf of his chief, Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazis. ‘There can be no argument about these demands, he said, for the whole nation insists upon them. Even the Von Papen government has indorsed leader, ' ney General Gilbert Bettman of Ohio. After the meeting, Bettman said the mandamus application would be based on the contention of the four States that the Chicago sanitary district and the State of Illinols are not carrying out provisicns of the Supreme Court's original decree, which was issued in April, 1930. 'HOOVER WRITES PRAISE OF LATE NAVAL OFFICER Letter Sent to Widow of Capt. Isaac F. Dortch, Who Com- manded Destroyer Squadron. President Hoover today sent a let- ter of apreciation to the widow of a naval captain whose destroyer squadron them, he declared, but lacks the driv- ing power to put them into effect. Hi ler alone, sid C2pt. Goering, achieve these encs. “Our gim,” he sald. “Is to déstroy Marxism and Communism. We will welcome the co-operation of the Cen- trists as soon as they disassociate them- selves from Marxism. “We are not setting one class against another—our ranks include sall, from the humblest-to the highest. We fight Von Papen begause he lacks the peo~ ple’s confidenc®” can attained the highest morit in battle cfiiclency in the Navy last year. ‘The letter recalled the excellent serv- | ice of Cap:. isace F. Dortch, who died June 4, 1932, in San Prancirco while ion his way (o Wasnington from the Orlent to serve in the Office of Naval Intelligenee. He commanded Destroyer Squadron 5 of the Asiatic Fleet, which was ¢ 3t Shanghal during the warfare be- tween the Chinese and Japanese -rs this year. OCapt. Dortch was , in Arlington National Cemetery, \