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REFORESTING J0BS SPURNEDBY ARMY" Bonus Marchers’ Opposition * 49" Roosevglt, Offer Is Overwhelming.. {7 {Continugd_From ‘Pirst Page) #ks; in" addition to the previous resc- jons asking for repeal of the economy | act sections dealing with disability al- waices and immediate adequate re | { for farmers and the unemployed. | ese were not formally adopted yes- | ‘day, but efforts to strangle them in | :e Resolutions Comhmittee fafled. 1 Foulkrod, until recently leader of $he “right wing” minority, had his, s and downs yesterday. On a point of | er he was chased off the speakers”| atform because he is not a member | 2he . Convention Committee, Later, | when he was nominated for permanent | etary, his .name was greeted by | yes and cheers. But the audience gave | im: an ovation when he denoynced ‘he | mpocratic administration, “the same got us into the last war,” and the literative combination which he <aid | the country—"Mellon, Mills, Mor- | nd Money.” | They.” he sald. speaking of the| “got us into this war, now ( em pay the debt, and pay it now.” - - Applause Greets Sellers, Applause also greeted Albert J. Sell- #rs, fied organizer of the Veterans' Na- tion) Liaison Committee, when he told | §he '~ convention the administration wanted the veterans out of Fort Hunt reforestation camp could be started fhere. Fo.said he was told that the for veterans on reforesting work .: ild be $1 a day, and added, “to hell y%\‘ reforestation.” ! The men adjourned their convention | Vo) receive Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at/their camp. She drove.down to Fort ant accompanied by Col. Louis Mc- enry- Howe, presidential secretary, but E’swyed in the car as she tramped jhrough the mud on an inspection tour. e men were lined up when she got e, and at a given signal gave her jhieé cheers, adding to the din by best- thelr tin cups against their tin tés. Speaking briefly about her war-time ces #r hospitals here and in thern France to an assembly In the | large, cifcus tent at the camp, she a reference t6 the bonus issue as | She told the men, however, e was sure they would receive | Lc bed back into the car and drove 'k’ to the White House. GUARD TO STAY. P SRR Fécty-eight Men Detailed Around Fort R Will Continue Duty. By a Staff Correspondent’ of The Btar. ANDRIA, Va, May 17.—T. Me- 4l Frazler. head of the Virginia State ica, stated today that the. 48 men he here to protect Virginia property l::l patrol State roads in the vicinity of. Fort Hunt, would stay en duty until | the yeterans' camp is discontinued. The | men’ have been quartered at Armory | Hall here. A number haveé also been camped on State property near Fort Hunt. The snnouncement - followed Presl- dent Roosevelt's extension of the vet-| erans’ camping period from tomorrow until. Mohday. % - PRELIMINARY.KITE | M | |NANKING OFFICIAL Chinese Throws Bomb at Hwang Fu—Peace Move Near in North China. By the Associated Preds. TIENTSIN, May 17.—An attempt was made today to assassinate Hwang Fu, representative of the national gov- ernment at Nanking, by & Chinese who threw a bomb as Hwang arrived at the railroad station. Hwang, reported to be slated as minister to North China from the Nan- king government, was unharmed, but his assallant was slightly injured by | the blast. ‘The Chinese said he was a political enemy of Hwang. ‘The coming of Hwang Pu, Nanking national government representative to North China, believed distinctly friendly to Japan, coupled with a statement Monday of the Japanese military com- ESCAPES ASSASSIN |OPINION DIFFERS ON AKRON DISASTER OVER PROBE REPORT (Continued From First Page officer obseryed the weather map which showed a secon cyclone centered in the vicinity of Washington, coupled with the previous rej East—West CAPITAL GIRL TO BE WED TO INDIAN PRINCE. lightning had been observed to the southward and westward, which light- ning approached closer to the ship, the comman officer committed an error in ju ent in not setting such courses as would have kept him in the safe semicircle thereby probably avoid- ing the severe conditions finally en- countered, and that this error in jug; ment was a contributary cause to loss of the Akron.” Secretary Swanson later told news- paper men the lesson from the crash is that dirigible officlals should be more active in getting weather reports Court of Inquiry Report. The report of the court of inquiry, which was headed by Admiral H. V. Butler, commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, asserted: “The final destruction of the Akron was caused by a down current of wind of such magnitude that the lower fin struck the water before the descent could be checked. This contact of the fin with the water resulted in a progres- sive destruction and sinking of the Akron. | MISS ELIZABETH CLARA SEYMOUR, “;: view of the lack of evidence D. C.,| RS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, who drove out to the bonus seekers' camp at Fort Hunt yesterday and waded through the mud on an inspection tour, was cheered by the 1200 men assembled there, much of the applause taking the form of beating tin cups against tin plates. large circus tent, and then led them in singing the chorus of “A Long, Long The First Lady spoke to the men assembled in a Trail.” Mrs. Roosevelt is shown above standing in a circle of the bonus delegates. On her left, with the paper held in his hands, is George D. Brady, chairman of the bonus con vention. Bureau, who has charge of the Fort Hunt encampment and the arrangements for HIBBEN BELIEVED VICTIM OF STROKE President Emeritus of Prince- ton Thought Stricken Be- fore Fatal Auto Crash. By the Associated Press o N, N. J., May 17.—A stroke may have caused the automobile crash which killed Dr. John Grier Hibben, president emeritus of Princeton Univer- sity. and critically injured his wife. Dr. Hibben, who was 72, died yester- | day afternoon when a motor car he | was driving swerved into a truck near Woodbridge. Eyewitnesses believed the educator may have suffered a stroke and lost control. Messages of Condolence. As messages of sorrow came today from many parts of the world, Mrs. Hibben 1lay unconscious in Rahway General Hospital with a fractured skull Funeral arrangements for her husband and Princeton’s plans to honor him were expected to be made today. Gov. Moore said, on being informed of the accident: “That is terrible news. In Dr. Hib- ben’s passing the State and Nation have lost & man of stature.” Dr. Hibben died en route to the hos- Flower Seed Lodged In Eye Takes Root And Starts Growing By the Associated Press. SAVANNAH, Ga. May 17—A flower seek lodged in B. A. Bis- sett’s eye, took root and grew. At first he thought it was a bit of dust or a grain of sand, but a week passed and irritation grew worse. Finally he sought medical aid and the doctor found a linaria seed, which thrives in damp laces, embedded in & corner of the socket. Moisture of the eye made an ideal place for the seed to germinate. SIX ARE INDICTED ININSURANCE PLOT Physician and Undertaker Among Those Held in Death of Jobless Gas Victim. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 17.-8ix men, in- Between the two is A. J. Dawson of the Veterans' feeding and housing the men. LOUDERBACK LOSES |Senate Admits Records to Show Appointees as State Judge. By the Associated Press. Over sharp objections of the defense, the Senate today permitted House prosecutors of Pederal Judge Harold Louderback to put into his impeach- ment trial records to show that while & State judge he named W. S. Leake EVIDENGE FIGHT mander in Manchuria, led to the beliet in Tientsin that a compromise has been reached between Chinese and Japanese, with hostilities near an end. Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto, Jap- anese military overlord in Manchuria, announced Monday that as soon as Chinese troops agreed to leave the | incursion would be stopped and the | invaders would return northward. JAPAN CONTINUES DRIVE. | Chinese Retreat From Tangshan In Tientsin Area. TOKIO, May 17 (#).—While Presi- dent Roosevelt was pleading for pledges that troops would not cross the boun- darles of another country, the Japanese Army, already holding ' 3,000 square miles of territory below the Great Wall in China, plowed deeper into that country. today to were the only impediment Lwan River. and Manchukuan flags were floating from triumphal arches raised in Tang- shan and other towns before the ar- rival of the invaders. Above Miyun a lull was reported while Lieut. Gen. Yoshikazu Nishi, commanding the 8th division, reor- ganized for & fresh assault. Japanese reports said Kaiping, 70 miles northeast of Tientsin, was occu- pied today by the 26th infantry brigade {of Maj. Gen. Teizo Hiraga. Chinese troops operating in that re- ‘glon of North China were said to be retreating through Tangshan, about 5 miles distant along the railroad to- | ward Tientsin. Tangshan is the center | | region of the Great Wall the Japanese The difficulties of travel apparently | four brigades advancing west of the |and G. H. Gilbert t lace 3 =7 L 0 places s ApPraisers | ,"ipe British Kailan mining interests. and receivers, The matter was allowed to go into | the record as evidence by & roll-call | vote of 69 to 4 Gilbert and Leake are named in the impeachment charges brought by the House, involving the appointment of receivers and attorneys for receivers in cases adjudged by Louderback. Leake was identified in the House re- port as having suggested to the jurist | that he appoint H. B. Hunter as re- | ceiver for the Russell-Colvin Brokerage Co. of San Francisco Appointment of Gilbert, described as a telegraph operator, as a Federal re- ceiver in one case specified in the five House impeachment articles, forms the basis of that indictment. Advices from Tientsin indicated that { fighting had ceased and that the Jap- {anese drive on the Lwan River sector in North China had been halted west | of Tangshan. | Although the crisis appeared to have passed, thousands of persons were flee- | ing to the foreign concessions in Tient- !sin for safety. [CAPT. M. D. SMITH GIVEN VOTE OF CONFIDENCE ! Policemen's Association Takes Ac- | Debutante of last season, whose en- | gagement to Prince Mohammed Rashid of India is announced by her aunts, Mrs. Samuel Burleigh Milton and Mrs. Wil- fred Geist Fronheiser, with whom she {makes her home at 3545 Sixteenth street. The couple met in Washington. Mohammed Rashid, who resides in New York, is a lecturer —Harris-Ewing Photo. TESTIMONY FAVORS DONALDSON PLEA Slayer of Three Too Drunk to Realize Actions, Declare Three Witnesses. Air_scouts reported that Japanese | Testimony was presented in District Supreme Court this morning in tie murder trial of Charles Donaldson, 52, former night engineer at police head- quarters, supporting his contention that he was so drunk he did not know what he was doing when he shot to death his trother, niece and nephew in their home at 923 Maryland avenue southwest Jan- Three witnesses told the jury Donald- son drank with them continuousiy throughout the day which preceded the killings. During part of the time, they sald, Silas Donaldson, the murderec brother, also drank with them. Between early morning and the time the defendant went to his brother's home, the testimony showed, six half gallons of whisky were purchased and the defendant had his share out of all of them. ‘The witnesses who told of the drink- ing were Edward Green, John Mahoney and Guy Payne. Returning to his brother's home where he boarded. Donaldson is alleged to have brcken into the room where his | niece, Mary Donaldson, 15; a nephew, George Donaldson, 18, and their two younger brothers, Lauttrell. 11, and Allan, 8, had locked themselves and to | have shot the two oldest children. The | Government ¢claims Silas Donaldson presented or available as to the static and dynamic condition of the ship, or of other conditions, at the time the fin hit the water, the court is unable to express an opinion as to whether or not, had the ship started her descent from a higher altitude, sufficient time i would have been available to completely | lighten the ship—provided she was not so lightentd. nor if, had she been com- pletely lightened, what altitude would ) have been required within which the ) descent could be checked, nor further whether the descent could have been checked under any attainable condition of the ship, and existing weather con- ditions. In view of the foregoing, the ! court is unable to place the responsi- | conditions? | bility for fallure ta check the descent m"mu in the erash of the ¢ 3 ‘The court asserted that the “officers and crew of the Akron were skilled and \competent operators of rigid airships.” The court pointed out that the “error in j nt” has “been made evident to the court by its study of the testi- mony,” but it added that it “has but little direct knowledge of the consider- | ations upon which this judgment was based.” On this point the court continued: “Everything within the knowledge of Comdr. McCord at the time his decision was made might have pointed to his plan of action being justifiable. Cer- tainly we know that many conflicting considerations had to be set one against the other, and what subsequent events | show to have been an erroneous decision does not, in the opinion of the court, justify s condemnation without more | Information of the considerations upon which the plan of action was based. ’.I:;h information was lost with the | ship.” | _ Referring to the end of the dirigible, the court said that “immediately pre- ceding and during the destruction of the Akron the best traditions of the service were maintained,” and added that the deaths of all personnel were incurred in the line of duty. Further, it said, the injuries received by Richard | E. Deal, boatswain's mate, second class, resulting from the loss of the Akron, “were received in the line of duty.” 'THIRD CONCERT TONIGHT A concert will be presented at Trinity College tonight by the Catholic Uni- versity Glee Club, under the direction of Dr. Leo Behrendt | The concert will be week for the chorus. The others were | at Immaculata Seminary and Holy Cross Academy here. ‘The annual Spring concert will be conducted next Monday in the Music Bullding at Catholic University. the third this U. S. Steel Chief Sails. NEW YORK May 17 (#) —Myron C Taylor, chairman of United States Steel Corporation, sailed for Europe last Pri- day for a bricf ess_conference, it was learned yesterday. He is expected 10 return to New York early next month. READJUSTMENT eoe { DurinG this period of READJUSTMENT of NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL Affairs, have you been able to READJUST your personal financial affairs to meet changed and changing f Has it been necessary to re-arrange your Budget? { This Bank may be able to assist you with advice or otherwise. One of our officers will be glad to give you the benefit of our advice, either with regard to a Savings Account or the possibility of extension of credit. MORRIS PLAN BANK THE BANK FOR THE INDIVIDUAL Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H Street N. W., Washington, D. C. Everything in Hardware and Paints pital. Coroner Finn gave the cause of cluding a physician and an undertaker, | 'Brigt 1o the question of whether the tion Afer Hatmeny Plow was shot as he rushed to the defense | CONTESTS END FODAY Model Aircraft huue';to Spon-: sor Event on Monument Gmnn;“l. The last of the kite con- | tests, sponsored by thé Model Alrcraft | League of the District in co-operation with the Public Schools and the Play- | ground Department, was to be held at the Monument Grounds this afternoon. In the event of rain all the children | ‘who were to have entered into this con- test. will be invited to parti¢ipate in the final Such an entrance would not | confifct with the rules, as any one may | enter the finals regardless of Whether | he has been in a preliminary. The Pmals will be held next Saturday. The committee in charge of today’s eontest includes Mrs. Pauline Wood- faff, Miss Lou James. Joe Mitchell, Otto Bcheidel and Mrs. Mabel Weideman. ‘The judges for the tournament are Art—Mrs. Clinton O. Ward and Bertis Baker. Workmanship—Mrs. Le Fevre mnd Leroy Burch. Performance— lizabeth Hewston, Clinton Ward, Hugh mith and H. L. Choate. *OLD-TIMERS” OF Y. M. HOLD DINNER TONIGHT Members for 10 Years 6r More Will Attend Get-Together—Pastor to Make Talk. ~Old timers” of the Young Men’s | Christian Association will hold their | annual dinner and reunion this eve- ning at 6 o'clock in the assembly hall of the Central Y. M. C. A, 1736 G street, Men who have been members of the - association continuously for 10 years or more will attend the get-together and | exchange reminiscences of Y. M. C. A. activities of years gone by. Capt. C. O. | Howard, who has been a member of | the local organization since the early 105, will be a special guest. Rev. Dr. Allen A. Stockdale, pastor of the First Congregational Church, and himself an old-timer in Y. M. C. A. circles, will make the principal addres Leonard W. DeGast, general secretary | of the Y. M. C. A, will greet the vet- eran members and advise them of the | establishment of & historical library un- | der Capt. Howard's supervision EDUCATION OFFICIALS PAY HOWARD U. VISIT| Assistant’ Interfor Secretary and Aides Are Introduced to School Officials. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman, in charge of| Howard University affairs, visited the | university yesterday morning with Miss Bess Goodykoontz, assistant commis- sioner, ahd Dr. Walton C. John, senior specialists, bith of ‘the Office of Edu- cation. tsr iy The visitors were introduced to deans. directors, administrative officers and | members of ‘the faculty by President Mordecai. W. Johnson. | All of the visitors made brief ad- dresses of greeting. assuring the unis | wersity of thelr' interest in its con-| tinued program and in the welfare of! education. = COUZENS LOSES FIGHT Al e Fails to Prevent Confirmation of Dean Acheson. Senator Couzens, Republican, Michigan, lost a single-handed fight. the Senste yesterday when Dewn ‘G. of ‘Maryland was confirmed as ‘:fi:eury of the Treasury. o] the nominee because of | in G. Col pposed of his connections with large corpora- " Wons as an attorney. death as an internal hemorrhage brought about by a crushed right side. Peter Scivilia, the truck driver. was taken to a New Brunswick hospital. but was not serious)y injured. Dean Chris- tian Gauss of Princeton, supervised the removal of Dr. Hibben's body here. Succeeded Wilson. Dr. Hisben, who succeeded Woodrow Wilson- as_ president of Princeton, re- tired in 1932, after 20 years' service. Prior to that he had been a professor. completing in all 40 years' association with the institution. A scholarly man and considered one of the leaders of idealism in the Nation, he combined study with public service. Only a year ago. he offered to act as Col.” Charles A. Lindbergh's representa- | tive in dealing with the kidnapers of the aviator’s son. CLUB WOMEN URGED | TO LEAD ‘REVOLUTION” Mrs. Roosevelt Appeals to Them to Prove Their Power by Three Methods. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt yesterday appealed to the club women of the| country to assume their responsibility in “directing the revolution” through whi¢h this country “is now passing.” ‘The First Lady voiced the opinion 4hat the clubwomen are the articulate women of the country, and as such might prove their power through three principal avenues—interest in the child, everybody’s child watching Gov- ernmental economies to see that they take place in the right direction and | buying so catefully as to make impos- sible the sweatshop. The clubwomen applauded her en- thusiastically when she added, “Let us resolve that whatever we buy shall not be made out of the blood of others.” “Extraordinary things have come out in the past few weeks as to wages women and children are working at present for unscrupulous manufac- turers, as low as 2 cents an hour, mak- ing a wage that no one can live on, an making it almost impossible for good shops and manufacturers to live up to the standard. POLICE SEE K PATIENT FROM WALTER REED | Duplicate Key Believed to Have Been Used to Escape From Closed Ward. Police have been asked to help ‘find John Costigan, 39, a mental patient at Walter Reed Hospital, who escaped from a closed ward there. Hospital authorities said today Costi- gan was believed to have obtained a duplicate key, which he used to get out into a recreation- yard and then thought to 'have climbed over a 12- foot wall, probably with the aid of some one. ‘The man left- behind a suit of pa- jamas he had been wearing and au- thorities were puzzled as to how he got clothes to escape. Costigan, a soldier, nt to Walter Reed from Fort Thomas, . Y. W. TO GET REPORTS | Progress in Member Drive to Be Given Tomorrow. Reporis on the annual Y. W. C. A. membership enrollment, now in prog- ress, will be given at the open board and mem| -of the organization tomorrow,.at 8 p.m., at Barker Hall, venteemmh and K streets. 1 ~:.A progra be presented includes & "re?'l"'- ince of “Alice in Mod- ernland,” the original playlet by Alice Sigworth Morse, with lines brought up were indicted yesterday in the Bronx State court records should be allowed charge County grand jury's investigation of an |85 evidence to show the relations be- alleged insurance killing ring. it erback, Leake and Gilbert, Fisel were Tt milh hmnaering | s coa s eatdyaevEra oI EwIL its third day. snuffing out his life with gas, after e insuring it. | |, The sixth, Dr. Frank Manzells, a MILITARY INCREASES former alderman, was named as 8n| |accessory after the fact. for atlesedly | FAVORED AT PARLEY Bronx authorities pushed forward with their investigation into other : deaths, including that of Mabel Carl- Student Economic Conference of son of Washington, D. C.. who sup-| g g posedly succumbed to pneumonia in an | @. U. Foreign Service Ends speakeasy owner and one of the five indicted for Malloy's murder. The _investigators, however. | Miss Carlson died from the effects of [ice water. poured upon her as she lay window. This police account rivaled the bizarre methods used to kill Malloy, as related before the grand jury. Witnesses, whose names were not |had been made to poison Malloy, by wood alcohol and drug-soaked oysters. and that another time he was run over by s taxicab while drunk. The indictments charge that $2,000 | loy’s lite. | “Miss_Carlson was insured for $2.000 !with Marino listed as & substitute ibeneflcmry under the title “fiance.” == . | Merchants & Manufacturers Mem- bers to Leave at 4 P.M. for Atlantic City. Eadhasnpnde Lo nesses in the trial of the jurist, now in falsifying Malloy's death certificate. apartment kept by Anthony Marino, |in & drunken stupor before an opened made public, told that several attempts was collected from insurance on Mal- |ANNUAL BOOSTER TRIP Members of the Merchants and Man- | the annual booster trip of the organi- zation, which is to be held this year to Atlantic City, will leave Washington at 4 pm. Friday, June 9, in special cars, ‘-rnvm' in the New Jersey resort at 8 | pm. Dr. M. G. Gibbs. chairman of the Outing Committee, said plans have been completed for the trip, and a special | section of the Ritz Carlton Hotel has been reserved for the party. Arrange- ments have been made for participation in boating, bathing, fishing and other activities. 'The party will return to Washington Sunday night. The committee in charge, according | to Dr. Gibbs, includes Lewis A. Payne, | R. P. Andrews. Frederick Buccholz, J. C. | Callahan, C. H. Dikeman, P. M. Dorsch, T. R. Fitzgerald, Charles H. Frame, Franklin W. Harper, M. A. Leese, Louis Levay, Mark Lansburgh, Bert L. Olm- sted, William E. Russell, Arthur J. Sundlun, 8. M. Selinger, Dewey Zirkin, E. J. Mather, Benjamin Skinker and Benjamin Ourisman |CHINESE GIRL WINS | | Yee | Ho Lee Once Barred From Coming Back by Lobe- | less Ears. | By the Assoclated Press. SEATTLE, May 17.—Yee Ho Lee, 20- year-old wife of a Boston merchant, forbidden entrance to the United States because her ears had no lobes, won entry yesterday because of her lips. Immigration authorities here would not admit her because s picture of a 5-year-old Chinese girl, named Yee Ho Lee, who left this country in 1918, showed the child's ears had lobes, while | those of today's Yee Ho Lee did not. .The husband, Wong Shew Leung, ap- pealed to the Department of Labor af Wi , D. ‘which ruled the con- tours of the lips Sessions. by 8gt. Wilson. Capt. Milton D. Smith, former presi- dent of the Policemen’s Association, was extended a vote of confidence at & meet- ing of the association last night. The vote was extended following a plea for harmony by Detective Sergt. H. K. Wilson, who had been named to investigate an alleged statement by Smith relative to reduction of detective sergeants’ pay to bring economies with- in the Police Department. The association voted to appropriate 18200 for tickets to the base ball game {July 4 between teams representing Washington and Baltimore police. The tickets purchased are to be given to the widows and orphans of policemen. of his children. ably will not gg ! day. Henry Schweinhaut and Lucian | Vandoren, attorneys for Donaldson, said | they would complete presentation of their case today., but would request a recess tomorrow until Friday. when clos | ing arguments probably will be hear | Assistant United States Attorney Irvin | Goldstein is the prosecutor. 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