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“From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s Carrier system coversevery city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and not quite so cool tonight: to- morrow fair and warmer; gentle variable winds, becoming southwest. Tempera- tures—Highest, 70, at 3:30 p.m. yes- terday; lowest, 46, at 7:00 a.m. today. Full report on page B-15. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14&15 ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @he Zoening Star, Yesterday’s Circulation, 119,355 e No. 32,294, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON BREAD-LINE VOTE PUTS MICHIGAN IN DOUBTFUL COLUMN Democratic Hopes High, but; Hesitate at Claiming State for Present. G. 0. P., FULLY ROUSED TO PERIL, FIGHTS HARD Dry Element's Influence Uncertain, With Leaning Seen to Hoover Position. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent of The Star. DETROIT, September 30.—The Dem- ocrats are hoping great things in Michi- gan in the November election for their | ational and State tickets. But even | he Democrats are hesitant abouf | Tlaiming the State—vet. There has been great distress here because of the depression, which has been followed by resentment against | the Republicans in power and a de-| mand for a change. It is estimated| that Michigan and Michigan people | have contributed $25,000,000 to aid the unemployed and destitute. These conditions have put the voters | in a rebellious frame of mind. Unless | the Republicans are able to check this | yevolt in the next few weeks, Michigan may be lost to them. If it is, there| would seem to be no checking the| Democratic tide. For Michigan has been a rock-ribbed Republican State| for years. It has not gone Democratic | in a presidential election since before ! the Civil War. Even in the Bull Moose | split_of the Republican party in 1912 the State did not give its electoral votes o to Wilson, but to Roosevelt. | G. O. P. Majorities Large. | The Democrats realize the size of the | task before them when it comes to up- setting the Republican majority in this | State. President Hoover carried it against | Alfred E. Smith four years ago with a | Jead of 568.634 votes. Coolidge in 1924 | had a clear lead of 600,000 votes over | the combined votes for Davis and La | Follette, and in 1920, Harding won by | 520,000 votes. The plea “he kept us out | of war” failed to win the State for | Wilson, Democrat, in 1916, and Hughes | had the State with a lead of 54,000. That was before the women had the | ballot, otherwise the Hughes lead might e been more impressive. These fig- ndicate the magnitude of the Re- | lican lead in past years in Michi- pub gan While the Democrats are pinning | their hopes particularly on Wayne County, which includes Detroit, they ! are looking for big gains out in the | e. And, indeed, the polls and straw s taken by a number of newspapers | hich are Republican in their politics | now that the Democrats will make t gains all over the State. A poll n by the Adrian Telegram, for ex- ole, a Republican newspaper in the | best agricultural county and a strongly Republican district, gave Roosevelt a 3-to-2 lead over Hoover. Where there | is so much smoke there must be some fire. the Democrats say. The State-wide primary elections for the nominations of Governor and other | officers, held recently, showed the Re- publicans polling 66 per cent of the vote cast in_the State and the Demo- crats, 34. In Detroit, the Democrats yolled 5115 per cent of the vote and the Republicans 48!. per cent. De- troit cast about 40 per cent of the entire vote of the State. On the face of it, the Republicans still look to have the better of the argument. Primary Not Sure Guide. But primary returns are not always a safe basic on which to compute the Teturns in the general election which | follows. The Democrats are today claiming they will carry Wayne Count by anywhere from 100,000 to 150,000 votes. This would mean that the Re- publicans must carry the out State by 125,000 to 175.000 to give them a SB!E} rgin of victory. Ordinarily, it would be safe to claim the out State {,- the Republicans by far greater | vo -5 than these. But these are no' ord:nary times. § The feeling of resentment in De. troit against the Hoover administra- tion because of hard times is bitter. | It has been estimated that there are between 100,000 and 150,000 persons out | of work here. Thousands of iamilies are receiving_welfare aid. Only a few | nights ago the police had to climb a | (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) PRIVATE GROUP IN CHINA | READY TO BUY WHEAT | Transaction Held Hinging on Ac- tion of Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Py the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Ore., Scptember 30.— The Journal says word has been re- ceived by the Portland grain trade that private interests in China are prepar- ing to purchase 11,000,000 bushels of wheat immediately on the cash basis of the world price. The transaction, the Journal says, would not be carried out in_event the Reconstruction Finance Corporation agrees to finance the sale of 25,000,000 bushels of wheat to China, as proposed by Northwest grain growers. BOMBER TO BE EXECUTED Kcrean Sentenced for Attempt to Kill Japanese Emperor. TOKIO, Friday., September 30 (®).— The Korean, Li Ho Sho, who attempted to bomb the carriage of Emperor Hiro- | hito on January 8, was convicted today | of attempting the life of the sovereign and sentenced to death by the Tokio Supreme Court. The Japanese government of Premier Jnukai resigned over the bombing in- cident. CORN USED FOR FUEL Tremendous Consumption Indicated by Crop Experts. CHICAGO, September 30 (P)—A tre- mendous consumption of corn as fuel is indicated, crop experts in Chicago #ay. Corn in Western Towa, on the basis ©f yesterday’s quotaticns, is selling at sbout $2.65 a ton, and the State College * at Ames, Iowa, is getting out a bulletin 90 the use of the grain as fuel, What a Difference 12 Years Make in Roosevelt Welcome FARM AID PLAN IN ATTACK ON HOOVER [Pledges Mortgage Help in | Charging Do-Nothing Policy to Republicans. By the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis., September 30. —The welcome Wisconsin planned for Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt today was a bit different from that” given him more than a decade ago. Twelve years ago, when he ar- rived in Milwaukee as a candi- date for Vice President, he might have lunched alone at a Mil- waukee club if it had not been for the hospitality of a Madison man. Rev. Francis J. Bloodgood, pastor of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, recalling the incident, said he saw a guest siting alone in the club lobby. He invited the stranger to lunch without know- ing who he was. The guest ac- cepted gladly, and introduced himself as Franklin D. Roose- velt. TAX AND TARIFF CUTS ADDED TO RELIEF AIMS - ‘Speeds to Milwaukee After Ad- | dressing Crowds in President's | Native State. | Gov. Roosevelt today crossed Towa, the | birthplace of President Hoover, his RU""Q Spurs Tammany Hall| rival for the presidency, whose admin- ‘ktrntion he accused in a Sioux City as Former Mayor Speeds | speech *of being the greatest spending Home From Europe. By the Associated Press. ABOARD ROOSEVELT SPECIAL, en administration in peace times in all our histor ‘The special train of the Democratic | candidate, on the last lap of its 8,900- By the Associated Press. | mile journey through the Middle and NEW YORK, September 30.—On the | par West, was scheduled to reach Mil- heels of a court decision calling for & | waukee at 1 p.m. eight hours later. mayoralty election in November, the | e Roosevelt will be in Chicago for name of former Mayor James J. Walker | ¢ne Jast week end before he returns to was mentioned in political circles today | the New York State capital. as a possible candidate for Te-election.| - Roosevelt, speaking at the stock The Herald Tribune said Tammany | yards base ball park last night in Sioux Hall had revived its plan to support | City, discussed taxes, the tariff and Walker, who resigned following an in- | WOrtgages and thelr relationship to vestigation into the city administration, : and had timed a convention of county | Adequate Return Denied. “We are not getting an adequate re- ems n ComtEE e .““?Ed foRncmiogiogs iurn tor the money we are spending in | candidate, to coincide with the return | washington.” the nominee declared. c ms former mayor from a vacation | = The administration, he added. “has | abroad. il Cebia N dispatoness from il Glbeattax | b ed bureau on bureau, commission on D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1932—FIFTY-SIX PAGES. ##% (®) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. ROOSEVELT WIDENS | NEVER DREAMED | COYLD EVER LOVE AGAIN! CUBAN STUDENTS AND POLICE BATTLE Gun War Waged on Streets Follows Slayings Three ‘ _from commission, and has failed to anticipate | quoted w“:]“"' s 53)‘,"@ e ‘E“kimbgfla' the dire needs or reduced earning power | tive that he reach New York before of the people. Bureaus and bureaucrats | the opening of the convention, sched- jave been retained at the expense of | uled for October 6, as “my political { . the taxpayer.’ | career is at stake” Xpayer. | . Continuing, Mr. Roosevelt said: “I| Walker was getting ready, the dis- 5 | patches said, to leave the liner Rex, read that the President is at work on B leyedl for wepsits anitakeithe tyurd 1o s to consoHdateand s by the r | cania, which is scheduled to reach here A bt e L Aot TR candidate proposed to do this. Today, The Tribune said it had learned John Chice more ' candidate, he is stll pro. | F. Curry, leader of Tammany Hall, “has 9oct MO § (RACEaS B8 08 SO0 SO0 assurance of enough votes in the con- | POUnE 0 Jead ¥ { vention to nominate Mr. Walker, pro- . vided he obtains assurance from former Farm Mortgage Relief. [ Gov. Alfred E. Smith that he will NOt | Taking up the farm mortgage situa- | oppose the choice.” T ; tion, Mr. Roosevelt asserted: “Today . erhe actlon of the appellate division 1 read in the papeis that for the first yesterday in reversing the recent de- Jerdy e e et e, | Ume the administration of President : Hoover has discovered the fact that E McGeehan, continuing Mayor Joseph 5 Mckos 1a aiice il the enfliad 1053, || oo 1sauch aithingias & fam mott- | was the development which renewed %%, «ou 1 deplore the inexcuseble | both by Tammany and the Republicen | designated to fill now is held by Samuel‘ | th!kTflmmBny hoped of re-electing Walker, the paper said. « t An appeal will be taken immediately not for months alone, but for years. All ~ (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) | DRY AGENT SLAIN, ANOTHER MAY DIE Raiders Shot at! on behalf of Mayor McKee to the Court of Appeals, highest of the State's ju- dicial bodies. State Senator Samuel H. Hofstadter, Republican chairman of the Legislative Committee whose investigation of the city administration was followed by the ' resignation of Walker, has been indorsed organization in Manhattan for a place on_the Supreme Court bench. Four places are to be filled in an election in November. | The place Senator Hofstadter was Two Federal Proebstel, Wash.—Posse Formed. I. Roseman, former counsel to Gov. Roosevelt, and appointed by him to fill a vacancy on the bench earliev this year. The New York Times said that nomination by Temmany alone in the district is equivalent to election. Another ncminee to receive the in- dorsement of both organizations is Aron Steuer, son of Max Steuer, an adviser By the Associated Press. VANCOUVER, Wash., September 30 —Ballard Turner, Federal prohibition | agent of Seattle, was killed and a fellow | agent, Ed Vlasich, was wounded serious- | ly while they were launching a raid at | Proebstel, Wash., 20 miles northeast of to John F. Curry, leader of Tammany. Vancouver, police here reported today. ‘Turner, Vlasich and two other Seattle FINNISH LIQUOR LAWS MAY UNDERGO CHANGE Bill Would Permit ‘Um’estricted Sale of Medium-Strength Malt Products to Caterers. Federal agents had arrived at what is known as the Cousen's Place, police said, and started to move in on a suspected still. Suddenly shots rang out and Turner | and Vlasich dropped. The other two | agents hurried them to Vancouver, | where Turner died in a hospital of two bullet wounds. Vlasich, with three bullet wounds in his chest, was operated on, but hospital authorities held little hope for his re- covery. The sheriff’s office here joined the uninjured agents in organizing a posse to seek the assailants. GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE. Ev the Associated Press. HELSINGFORS, Finland, September 30—Further changes of Finland’s liquor laws is provided in a bill sub- mitted by the government to the Diet today. IL would permit unrestricted sale of medium strength malt liquors to cater- ers, co-operative establishments and private individuals under supervision of the government alcohol company. Sale and serving of these liquors Slayer of U. S. Agent Pleads Guilty at Aitkin, Minn. would be permitted in the larger coun- try towns instead of only in the cities, as at present. Sale of liquors other than malt liquors also would be allowed in these places, and the bill proposes that tke hours of sale be extended to 5 pm. instead of 3 p.m., as under the present law. CHICA(;O TEACHERS STICK Refuse to Quit Because of Missing By the Assoclated Press. AITKIN, Minn., September 30 —Harry | Hedtsrom, 42-year-old Tamarack. Minn., farmer, today was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Stillwater State Prison on his plea of guilty to a | | second-degree murder charge for the | slaying last Friday of James G. Harney. | Federal prohibition agent. He had been | indicted earlier in the day for first-de- gree murder and had entered a not | | guilty plea to that charge. Salaries. CHICAGO, September 30 () —Pay-| less or not. Chicago’s school teachers refuse to quit g Proposals for a general strike unless they are paid their back salaries were | Wife of Ex-Treasurer of Democrats Dies in Train-Auto Crash. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Septem- |MRS. C. A. WALSH KILLED 3 voted down last night by the High School Teachers' Association. Earlier similar proposals were rejected by the delegates from 100 schools on the West and North Sides. Nearly $13,000,000 is due the teachers. ber 30 ().—The wife of C. A. Walsh, former treasurer of the Democratic Na- | tional Executive Committee, was killed by a Seaboard Air Line passenger’ train 1that struck her automobile on a grad: crossing near here today. T = CROSS-CURRENTS OF POLITICS G. Gould Lincoln The Star's political writer, is beginning a tour that. will take him into many of the “doubtful” States whose votes may decide the election in November. Follow in The Star his daily reports of the conditions he finds and his analysis of what they mean. Days Ago. | By the Associated Press. HAVANA, September 30.—Police and students engaged in & gun battle today on the street in front cf the residence of a Cuban senator, just three days aft- er the assassinations of four premirent political leaders by gangs of gunmen. Two woman bystanders fainted, but no one was injured. The shooting broke out in front of the home of Sen- ator Wifredo Fernandez and became a running battle along the streets. Spread of rumors that schools were to be bombed today caused numerous parents to keep their children at home. It was recalled that today is the and reprehensible delay in Washington ' second anniversary of the death of the | so-called student “martyr,” Rafael Tre- jo, which was marked on its first an. niversary in 1931 by various bombing Official denials were issued to news- | papers that the assassins of Dr. Clem- ente Vazquez Bello, president of Cuban Senate, had been captured. Four unarmed men were being held in con- nection with the slaying. and it had been previously said that indentifica- tion of the slayers was being concealed pending the capture of accomplices. Dr. Octavio Zubizarreta, secretary of | the interior, who announced last night the arrests’ had been made, said the men would be accused of having as- sassinated the prominent Liberal leader. who was shot down by bullets from an automobile which roared past his car last Tuesday. The names of the men were withheld. The police previously had arrested Luis Arturo Belt, son of Jorge Belt. register of deeds of Havana, and it was understood that Belt gave information that led to the arrest of the others. Asks for Passports. Carlos Manuel de la Cruz, leader of the opposition to President Machado in the Cuban House of Representatives, asked for passports yesterday following upon the outburst of political violence Tuesday which resulted in the assa: natfon of one government and four op- position leaders. Meanwhile police asserted they had uncovered a huge dynamite bomb capa- ble of inflicting wholesale death, in Colon Cemetery near the spot where it was originally reported that Dr. Clemente Vazquez Bello would be buried. Had he been buried in Colon Ceme- tery there would have been a large| gathering of high government officials | near the place where police said they found the bomb. Cemetery Employes Arrested. The reported plot to bomb govern- | ment officials in Colon Cemetery re-| sulted in the arrest of all employes of | the burial grounds. ever, the prisoners were released. with the exceptions of Enrigue Martinez, en- gineer; Alfredo Peia, supervisor, and | Manuel Escarza, a watchman. Explosive experts said they had un- covered 23 separate mines containing more than 300 pounds of dynamite, all controlled by an electrical switch hidden eight blocks away in a Chinese ceme- lel’]}_h"s set-up was sufficient to blow the ntire funeral cortege to death, the ex- perts declared. They said they had found evidence that the mines had been | 1aid for some time, and on this evidence they predicated a theory that the killing | of Dr. Vazquez Bello was part of a| plot to wipe out at cne blow most of the leaders of the government who would have been present at the grave- yard ceremony. sa;dhe body );f the President of the Senate was taken to Santa Clara, in- stead of to Colon Cemetery, for burial. o “TAFFEY,’ FIRE HOUSE PET,‘} ANSWERS LAST CALL Brother of “Laddie Boy” Crushed Under Engines as He Missed Accustomed Jump. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, September 30.— Taffey, Airedale dog of royal lineage. | who forsook a pampered existence to| become a fire laddie, has answered his last call. The dog, brother of Laddie Boy, pet | of the late Warren G. Harding, was accustcmed to riding the Oakmont Borough fire truck on all occasi-ns. He | lay in front of the engine house Sunday | ac the truck rumbled past. The dog tried to jump on the vehicle and was crushed beneath its wheels. As mute testimony to the place he won in the hearts of the firemen, a granite marker in the rear of the engine hcuse bears this inscription: “Here lies Taffey, beloved dog of fire- men.” D. A.R. Denounced For Planning Trip FIVE MEN BOUND On Fenct el gy STORE BN 2555 Pilgrimage Plans Bring U. S. Lines’ Protest Against Action. Youthful Pair Get Small Loot. Two Victims Left [ in lce Box. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 30.—The selection of the French liner Champlain bv the Daughters of the American Revolution as their official ship to carry a delegation to France and back was “0Ur this momning, binding and gagging criticized todsy by Basil Harrls, vice fve men, one by one, as they entered Dresident of the Roccevelt Steamship the store and throwing two of them into Co. agent for the United States Lines. an ice box, where they remained im- Tn & telegram to Mrs. David D. Cald- risoned for 45 minutes, well of Washingten, chairman of the ps D. A R. pilgrimage, Harris protested For all their pains the two hold-up the action as a blow to the efforts of men were rewarded with only a small Axlnl;xlran l}imi to maintain an ade- amount of cash, believed to be not more quate merchant marine. Mrs. Caldwell replied that the Cham- :::';:;C‘l'"-‘:’;“" '";"“"d‘ fm;:'ul s : y company refused to divulge (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) The pair started the hold-up of the store at 4883 Conduit road at 7 o'clock. but it was not until nearly an hour later that they escaped with the money. Kent R. Copper, grocery manager, was | ‘Two youthful bandits took possession of a Sanitary Grocery Co. store for an SAD HOME COMING PUBLICITY OFR.F.C. REPORT ON LOANS House Clerk Acts After Ob- jections Made by Chair- man Pomerene. BAD RESULTS TRACED TO FIRST PUBLICATION Final Decision on Intent of Law! Promised by Official as Soon as Possible, By the Associated Press. South Trimble, clerk of the House of Representatives, today postponed a ' decision on whether to make public the | Reconstruction Finance Corporation’s | report on August loans, in view of ob- | jection to that procedure made by Chairman Atlee Pomerene of the cor-| poration board. The corporation’s contention against | publication of the report was released by Trimble. Chairman Pomerene said in his Jetter that “Neither the secretary of the Sen- ate nor the clerk of the House has any | | such right without being thereunto es- pecially authorized by the Senate orj the House.” Bad Results Charged. | “The publication of the July report.” he said, “caused serious embarrassment It gave r e | 0 much unjust criticism. “Reports were circulated that some of the institutions borrowing were not in good financial condition when they were perfectly sound. This resulted in| withdrawals from some of the banks| and other institutions. A number of | them have said that, while the loans were of great benefit to them, the good was largely undone by the pub- lication.” Pomerene referred to Trimble's de- | cision in August to make public the re- | ! port for the last 10 days of July, the first period in which the law containing the publicity provision was in opera- tion. Pomerene wrote: | Objections Are Stated. “Our objections relate to the publi- | cation of the names. addresses and amount of the borrowings of the banks, | building and loan associations, life in- | | surance companies, mortgage and credit | companies and other similar financial | institutions, because it handicaps them | In serving their depositors and borrow- ers and particularly in making loans to | firms desirous of putting their employes | to work; and for the further reason | | that no good purpose is served by the | publication of these names at this time, | | 'TRIMBLE HOLDS UP | | three-minute the | Ask Price of Sugar. “What's the price of 10 pounds of | sugar?” Copper said one of them asked. “Then, suddenly, they pulled guns on me and one of them came behind the | counter and grabbed me by the arm.” | the manager said. “I knew then it wasn't sugar they wanted.” i With their guns leveled at his back. the bandits escorted Copper to the smali wash room in back of the store ana| bound and gagged him, using clothes line from the store’s shelves. | “They were plenty rough” Copper continued. “They stuffed my mouth, full of rags, then bound my face up | with cloth. They pulled the cloth so | tight my face still hurts.” 3 Ng sooues had the pair locked Copper : ¢ wel. | in the wash room before Harry Mundy, from New York to be nolsily wel- o il me in. They stepped comed home by a crowd of 2,500 to out of the back room. pointed their 3,000 fans. | guns atl !\;ll\mdy and tied him up with | | ) —_— | more clothes line. | BY EDWARD J. NEIL, | “Who's the manager of this store?’ | SFACEDBY I Dejected by Yankees’ Two Defeats, but Determined to Carry On. CHICAGO, September 30 (#).— ‘The Chicago Cubs, twice beaten in the world series, returned at 12:45 pm. today on their special train the bandit’s first victim. Just after he | when, in a very short while, the House had opened the store the two men came | of Representatives can order it done | in. if its members so wish. Trimble said in a statement that in | view of the corporation’s stand “I feel justified in withholding publication of the report until I have had an oppor- tunity to carefully consider the opinion. I will as soon as possible make known | my decision.” He had the consent of the corpora- | tion to make public Pomerene’s letter, he said. Supporting Pomerene's objection was | a brief signed by Morton G. Bogue, gen- | eral counsel of the corporation. When he made public the corpora- tion’s Teport covering the last 10 days | of July—the first filed after enactment of the publicity clause in the relief law —Trimble ruled: “It appears from the explanatory statements made by the committee members in charge of the bill in course of passage that it was the intent and | purpose of Congress that the reports submitted by the _Reconstruction Corporation under 201 (B) are, Assoctated Press Sports Writer. | ABOARD CUBS' SPECIAL TRAIN, to be made public. It is, therefore, my | duty to permit the reports filed With me to be open to public inspection.” Mundy said they asked him. “Mr. Copper,” the meat manager an- | twice-thwarted Cubs rose today from En Route to Chicago, September 30.— | jumie b’ s oo ond lone o Speeding toward old familiar fields, the | tied*his mouth up. As Mundy was being dragged, pro- d testing, into the icebox, Claude Mc- their Pullman berths more concerned | npyap the clerk, entered the store. | with the problem of facing the home The men seized him at pistol point folks than with the outcome of the world series with the New York Yankees. In every mind was the thought of the 100.000 rabid faithful who lined the streets of the home town two days after | the Cubs won the National League pen- nant, frantically velling their names, showering with confetti the open cars | they rode in triumph to the civic recep- | tion in their honors. The mayor was there in the reviewing stand and all the notables of the city, proud of their champions, absolutely certain they could not be beaten. No | city in the base ball world reveres its diamond heroes, worships them quite | tied him up and tossed him into the icebox with Mundy. But their work was not done yet. An " (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) ECONOMY PL.AN TO OUST PRUSSIAN OFFICIALS Seven Ministers Will Be Reduced to Four in Move to Prevent Overlapping. Subsequently, how- | so intimately and volubly as Chicago. | "1t is the kind of feeling that through | the National League season, when the fight was still to be won, made 50.000 | housewives glad to let dinner spoil on the back of the stoves in as many house- holds if the head of the household were | out to the ball park, helping root the Cubs home. Nothing mattered but that they won. | to the heights the heroes ultimately | would achieve. So it’s not difficult to imagine how | the rank and file of the Cubs, from And when they did there was no limit | By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, September 30.—All the of- ficials of the Prussian departments of | trade, agriculture and public welfare were informed today that they will be dismissed as of next April, in accord- | ance with a plan by which overlapping | departments will be merged with federal | ministries in the interest of economy. | It was said unofficially that some of | the discharged functionaries may be | re-engaged, but the intention is to re- ?uce the seven Prussian ministries to our, Manager Charley Grimm all the way down to the bat boy, felt coming home | to that kind of fandom, beaten in both | the first two games in New York, hav- | ing in their own eyes let down the most | loyal, most enthusiastic, most believing U. S. CONSUL GENERAL IN LONDON RETIRES fans in all the base ball world. “It_gets you down,” one of the reg- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) | DUCE MAY TAKE CHARGE ROME, September 30 (#).—Uncon- firmed reports today said Premier Mus- solini had decided to take over the min- istry of defense himself, including un- der it control of the air, war and navy departments, all of which posts he pre- LONDON, September 30 (#).—Albert | Halstead, American consul general in London, retired today, having reached the service age {imit of 65. He has been i, the consular service | since 1906, when President Roosevelt | appointed him consul at Birmingham. | Before that time he was a Washington | | newspaper man, editor of the Spring- fleld (Mass.) Union for three years and a political writer for his father's paper, the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. He plans to return to the United Monthly Reports Ordered. Under the publicity provision in the Garner-Wagner relief act, the corpora- | tion is required to file monthly reports 1 of its activities with the President and | both branches of Congress. When Con- | | gress is in recess, the reports are filed | with the Secretary of the Senate and | | the House clerk. On August 17 Trimble | ruled that it was the intent of Congress | the reports should be made available | for public inspection. The Reconstruction Corporation and ! the administration opposed the inclu- | sion of the provision in the relief act before its passage, but consented after various Senators asserted in debate that the language of the provision would not authorize publication. Ac- ceptance of this view was made known at_the White House. Trimble, however, in making public the first report. handed down a brief in which he said he had no discretion other than to make the reports public. Trimble referred to debate on the! provision, which was sponsored by | Speaker Garner and the Democratic| leaders in the House. as the basis for determining the intent of Congress. Trimble's counsel, who advised him on the legal phases of the question,| is his son, South Trimble, jr. The Logical Season Autumn is the logical season for replenishing household sup- plies and gear; for laying in stocks of staples and delicacies against the approaching hospi- | talities of Winter. The careful housewife makes inventory of her provisions, kitchen utensils, linens, house- hold drugs. She knows that the best, which in the long run are the cheapest, are ad- vertised fully in The Star. She viously has held. He has often been reported consider- ing such a move, but always has post- poned it. States to continue his writing and will live in New York. POLICE CASE CLOSED Grand Jury Refuses Indictment of Nine in Fatal Beating. MINEOLA, N. Y., September 30 (#). —Criminal prosecution of nine Nassau County policemen accused of participat- ing in the fatal beating of Hyman Stark, a prisoner, ended yesterday whien the grand jury refused to indict them on third degree assault Sports News Will Be Found in Section C Pages 9-10-11 Zander and Leslie Pearsall, will be reinstated October 1. Zander and after two manslaughter { charges. All except two have been restored to duty, and those two, detectives Harry Pearsall were among the five cleared trials, knows that prices are lower than they are likely to be in the near future; that buying in reasonable bulk is economi- cal buying. Yesterday’s Advertising Local Display Lines. The Evening Star. . . 53,958 2d Newspaper. . ... 21,053 3d Newspaper..... 8,895 4th Newspaper . . . .. 5,993 Sth Newspaper. . . . . 5,475 Total ¥ibaderss 41,416 GLASSFORD QUSTS BURKE AND NAMES KELLY SUCCESSOR Chief of Detective Bureau Applies for Retirement Upon Request. CRIME PREVENTION FORCE TO BE CUT Reorganization Also Calls for In- creased Personnel in Hack Inspector's Office. Inspectcr Frank S. W. Burke, chicf of detectives, applied for retirement from the police force today, four hours after Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, superintendent, gave him the choice be- tween making this move or accepting demotion. At the same time, Gen. Glassfcrd re- vealed that Capt. Edward J. Kelly of the third precinct will be promoted to succeed Burke as head of the Detective Bureau. The removal of Inspector Burke came as the latest move in the plans of Gen. Glassford for a sweeping reorganization cf the police force. Inspector Burke had been given 24 hours to make a decision, but after s conference with Gen Glassford about 12:30 o'clock today an- nouncement was made that he would ask for retirement rather than take a demotion. Burke's Letter. In applying for retirement, Inspector Burke wrote the following letter to Supt. Glassford “To the Major and Superintendent: “Guided by your memorandum of this date, giving me the option of re- tiring or being reduced. I hereby for- mally apply for retirement. I have ap- vroximately 30 years of service in police work, records for all of which are avail- able in your office. “It is most gratifying to know, as you said in our conversation at noon today, that you considered me an excellent officer and a capable one, and that there had been no complaint of any kind against me. You say that in your judgment you believe that the efficiency of the Detective Bureau can be in- creased by the change and I bow to vour judgment and appreciate your permitting me to retire at my present ade. “I cannot help but observe that dur- ing my year and a quarter as chief of detectives, during which period I be- lieve we have had the greatest volum. and variety of crime in our history, our bureau has functioned more than rea- sonably well, which fact is probably gauged best by the fact that during that period there has been no adverse criticism of the manner of conducting the office, whereas, prior to my assign- ment here, there had been serious and continued criticism. This in spite of the fact that, too, that I inaugurated a series of changes in operation. which was distasteful to many members of the bureau, but which changes I feel satisfied, have resulted in a more effi- cient detective service, and in spite of the fact also that for some months p: the personnel of this bureau was ¢ siderably reduced by details to other services, Expresses Surprise. “As T told you many months ago. if for any reason you did not have full confidence in me, then I could be of no use to you or our department. I still feel that way about it, and since you have indicated that you probably have lost confidence in me here, then I can realize that my usefulness to you and the department is at an end “I cannot help but feel surprised. however, at the very apparent change in attitude since day before yesterday when you came into my office to dis- cuss certain things you had in mind. You surely indicated nothing else but that my bureau. as well as myself, was functioning excellently “With best personal wishes for your success., permit me to remain, “Respectfully. “(Signed) FRANK S. W. BURKE, “Assistant Superintendent “Commanding Detective Bureau.” Simultaneous with Gen. Glassford's disclosure of his plans to remove Burke as chief of detectives, he issued a formal order transferring Capt. Kelly from his command of the third precinct to the Detective Bureau, where temporarily he will supervise the Crime Prevention Bu- reau pending the retirement of Burke. Capt. J. A. Sullivan, assistant com- mander of the Crime Prevention Bu- reau, was transferred in the same order to command the third precinct. This change will take effect at 8 a.m. tomor- Tow. Personnel to Be Cut. Gen. Glassford also announced that his reorganization plan contemplates a reduction in the personnel of the Crime Prevention Bureau from 25 to 16 members and an increase in the hack inspector's force from 4 to 10 men. The Crime Prevention Bureau, it was indicated, ultimately will be ab- sorbed by the Detective Bureau snd the activities of the two units more closely co-ordinated. The proposed increase in the hack inspector’s force, it was said, presages a rigid campaign of enforcement of the taxicab regulations of the Public Utili ties Commission, promulgated August (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) SERUM RUSHED BY PLANE FAILS TO SAVE LIFE Theft of First Supply Not Be- lieved Responcible for Death of Man. By the Associated Press. ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., Septem- ber 30.—Serum brought to Albuquerque from Rochester, Minn, by airplane, after theft of a supply from attending Rochester physicians, today faiied to save the life of Richard Spahr, 25. Spahr, suffering from an intestinal ailment, died after several doses of the serum. Physicians said delay in the treatment, because of the theft, was not responsible for the death. Jack Bence of Roswell, N. Mex., was arrested last night for investigation ‘n connection with the theft of the serum, which was taken from & motor car parked in frent of a hospilal. Radio amnm on Page D-S