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HURRICANE SWEEPS RIO GRANDE VALLEY . Fear Felt for Safety of Two- score Marooned on Islands. By the Associated Press. BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Aug. 5— ‘Wreckage of damaged homes and build- ings littered the countryside and cities of the Lower Rio Grande Valley today as residents sought to determine if there was loss of life from a brief tropical hurricane. Point Isabel and Brownsville, at the mouth of the Rio Grande, were directly in the path of last night's storm, which swept inland from the Gulf at a ve- locity of nearly 80 miles an hour, blew for two hours, then veered suddenly and lunged southward into Mexico. The principai concern was felt for 25 or 30 persons marooned M Col. Sam Robertson’s Del Mar Hotei, on Brazos Island, and for 10 or 12 Coast Guards- men at the Government station on Padre Island. Communication with both islands was severed late yesterday when the gales reached a force of 70 miles an hour and heavy seas inundated the greater portions of both islands—two long, narrow sand bars which rise a few feet above the sea level and stretch for miles along the coast. Point Isabél Hard Scarcely escaped Gamage. Most of the buildings there were of frame construction. Brownsville was hit heavily, trees being stripped of their limbs, roofs of houses and buildings torn away and light and power lines blown down. The city re- mained in darkness all night, although telephone and telegraph lines to the outside world remained intact. The barometer here dropped to 29 at 8 pm, then started rising slowly, although the gradually diminishing gale blew most of the night. Inland, Rio Hondo and Harlingen Teported no damage of conseauence to buildings. Old Theater Damaged. Residents of the coastal area general- 1y had ample time to reach safety since the Gulf disturbance had been brewing off-shore for three days and warnings had been posted along the Texas coast from Brownsville to Freeport. An old theater, the Teatro Reforma, in Matamoros. the Mexican city across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, built during the French occupation in the days of Emperor Maximilian, was dam- aged badly and many dwellings in that city were unroofed or wrecked. Damage to the lower Rio Grande Valley citrus crop was estimated at 5 per cent by Ralph Buell, managing | editor of the Brownsville Herald. Buell made a survey of a 42-mile strip from Harlingen to Mission cover- ing about three-fourths of the valley's citrus groves. BLUE EAGLE SALES | RESULT IN ARREST| St. Louisan Alleged to Have Sup- plied Employers Not Signers of Code. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, August 5.—Selling blue eagle emblems to persons unauthorized by law to use them was charged in a Federal warrant issued yesterday against Harlan French, 29, a salesman of suburban Clayton French's arrest is believed to be one of the first on such a charge. ‘The warrant, issued by United States | Commissicner John A. Burke on com- plaint of Bryan Purteet, assistant United States attorney, further charges | that French's alleged violation of the provisions of the recovery act obstructed and impeded President Roosevelt’s pro- gram for national industrial recovery and re-employment. Issuance of the warrant, Purteet said, followed complaints that French sold | the emblems to employers who have not signed the blanket code for shorter working hours and increased wages FORMULATING CODE Building Owners and Managers| Drawing Up Agreement. CHICAGO, August 5 (#).—A sub- committee of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers has begun formulating a code for submis- sion to the National Recovery Admin- istration. The committee met in closed session and no announcements concerning its progress will be made until the code is completed. The committee is composed of seven members of the association, appointed as a special group of the Stabilization Committee selected at the association’s convention several weeks ago in Phil- adelphia. N. R. A. CODES GAINING NEW YORK, August 5 (#).—After re- ceiving 15,000 more signed N. R. A. agreem:nts today, James Flinn Hodgson, regional director of the drive, predicted the total for this district would top 100.000 at the close of business today. Among the larger signers yesterday ‘were the Bank of Manhattan Co., with 2.340 employes; Standard Oil Co. of | Pennsylvania, 1,276, and Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, 14,703. SPECIAL NOTICES. 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Complete funerals as 75 up. 6 chapels. 12 parlors, 17 ca Tearses and ambulances. 28 undertakers and | assistants FURNACE furnace. cleaned by _vacuum, $2.50. Parts for every Heating_systems installed and re- paired. 24-hour service. Carl Robey. Ing 1395 ¥ e. Lincoln 1440. 5% PEACHES ARE RIPE AT QUAINT ACRES. On__Silver Spring-Colesville Pike. Route No. 27. only 5 miles north of D. C. line. ROOF WORK —of any nature capabl practical roofers. Call us for estimate. ROOFIN 33 V 8t. N G 33 . N, COMPANY NOrth 4423 Treasury Department Office of the Comptrolier of the Curremcy Washingion' D. ly performed by 1933 n to_ali persons wno i Commercial District of May Notice 18 hereby may have claims sgainst “The National Bank of Washington.” a building in Point Isabel | e COAL STRIKE'S END $8,000 RUM CARGO TAKEN l 1 i | l i l of two bridges, piled at Cherry THE EVENING Creek and Curtin street. STAR, Broken Dam—Empty Lake—Five Dead FLOOD WATERS SWEEP THROUGH DENVER, COLO. W Akl PPER: The Castlewood Dam, 40 miles southeast of Denver, Colo., which broke early Thursday morning, loosing a torrent which swept through Denver, wrecking bridges and homes and flooding part of the business district. The billicn-gallon deluge swept a 35-mile path of devastation, causing the deaths of five persons.. Lower: Wreckage —A. P. Photos. JOY T0 PICKETERS Cheer Settlement - Workers, | Out Nearly 2 Weeks, Due to Return Monday. By the Associated Press. BROWNSVILLE, Pa., August 5— Lusty cheers from the throats of '.h'cd} pickets early today greeted the ending! of the great strike in Pennsylvania’s| soft coal fields. Out nearly two weeks, some 50,000 to | 70,000 miners in Western Pennsylvania | will pick up their dinner pails and go back, probably Monday, to their jobs in the pits. John L. Lewis, national president of the United Mine Workers, telephoned William Feeney, district shortly before midnight last night, in- structing him to spread word of the truce effected by President Roosevelt and Industrial Administrator Hugh S. Johnson. Need to Approve Terms. Peeney immediately called meetings of miners’ locals to approve terms of the armistice, a perfunctory move. He president, | Old Cracker-Box Philesophers Go With N. R. A. Code By the Associated Press. MOUNT MORRIS, Pa., August 5—Compliance with provisions of the N. R. A. is sounding the death knell of an institution al- most as old as the United States —the “meetin’ place” in the town's general store. Merchants gathered last night from 16 hamlets surrounding Mount Morris and agreed to sup- port the “blue eagle” of the N. R. A. closing their stores at 6 p.m. nightly. The whittling contests, the spell-downs, the story-telling ses- sions took their last bow locally. FIRST LADY LAUDS SELF-RELIANCE | Urges Teaching Children Only | Principles and Letting Them Go Onward. issued no formal statement, but indi- cated compliance with terms of the' agreement between union chiefs and | coal operators providing resumption of | work pending adoption of the coal code. | Patrick T. Fagan, president of Dis- trict No. 5, sald officials in his area “will comply with the request contained | in the President’s statement and the | advice of international officers and have | the miners immediately return to| work.” Return of the miners will restore a weekly pay roll of approximately $750.- 000 and end hectic days of strife and disorder in one of the world’s largest soft coal mining areas. At Harrisburg Gov. Gifford Pinchot | said National Guardsmen will be with. drawn from Fayette County “as soon as conditions warrant.” The heart of the strike zone has been under semi- martial law and militia-patrolled since last Monday. “If the strike had not been settled it might easily have broken down the entire recovery program.” Pinchot said. A somber note pervaded the jubilant air of thousands of weary pickets as they prepared to attend the funeral today of Louis Padorsky, the lone fatal- ity of the strike. With all the pomp at their command, some 3,000 mine comrades will march in a funeral pro- cession to a little graveyard at nearby | Allison, Padorsky’s home. Padorsky, a World War veteran, was fatally shot last Tuesday in the picket lines at the H. C. Frick Coke Co.'s| Colonial Mine No. 3. Late in Getting News. In adjacent Washington County, where news of the truce spread less quickly, pickets from closed mines marched on four workings, closing them. About 2,200 men quit work. There was no disorder and the com- panies are not attempting to reopen the mines. Many miners, who later learned of the peace effected in Washington, said the consider it likely that the mines will resume operations next week. The mines cl today are the P. & W. mine, owned by the Pittsburgh Terminal Ccal Cordoration, but oper- ated on lease by the Avella Coal Co.; the Duquesne mine of the Duquesne Coal & Coke Co., the Leech farm mine of the Farm Coal Co. and the Bertha mine of the Bertha Consumers’ Coal Co. Beotween 12,00 and 15,000 men are out in Washington County. Federal Agents Get 155 Cases and 10 Kegs of Whisky. BALTIMORE, August 5 ().—Federal prohibition agents captured a large truck yesterday loaded with 155 cases of assorted liquors and six 10-gallon kegs of whisky near here. Two men, James Walsh, 38, and Jo- Columbis, that the same must presen| Bl ek e daior they may be disallow Oomptrolier of the Currenes. seph Likline, 25, both of Philadelphia, were arrested. the largest seizure in recent months, was valued by prohi- bition agents at $8,°29. ¢ By the Associated Press HYDE PARK, N. Y, August 5.—The folks who stand on their own feet and | learn for themselves got a pat on the| | back last night from Mrs. Franklin D. | Roosevelt. Speaking at the Institute of Euthenics as Vassar College, the wife of the Pres- ident discussed her views on family problems of the day and more particu- latly the rearing of children. She is the mother of five. “I always wanted happiness for my children,” she said. “I have come to think that people grow more through people are the people who have learned to stand on their own feet, accept the results of what they do and learn for themselves.” Remarking that this is a changing age, she urged that new values and standards be established by parents. “We must train our children to a new world,” she said. “A world which we don’t know about. We must teach our children principles and let them decide for themselves. They often don't do we believe is right. ‘We can just say keep on growing to ideals and standards. If they are sat- isfied, then we are, too. We must be patient and let them learn by their own ence. I know it is the most diffi cult thing in the world to do. HAILSTORM DESTROYS FRUIT IN NORTHWEST Irrigation Ditch Near Yakima Wash., Broken and Topsoil of Orchards Washed Off. By the Ascociated Press. YAKIMA, Wash.,, August 5. — An hour’s hailstorm and a h:avy rain yes- terday practically destroyed fruit crops on half a dozen ranches in the Pomona distrizt northwest of Yakira. Roads vers damaged, top soil was washed off portions of the orchards and the Selah-Moxee irrigation ditch below the ranches was broken. One rancher estimated his loss at 4,000 boxes of apples, another said he would lose 1,500 boxes of apples and 25 tons of pears and others estimal damage at 1,500 to 2,000 boxes of apples and various tonnages of- pears. The ranchers said the hailstones in places ground. —— Company Reports- Loss. CHICAGO, August 5 (®.—The Grigsby-Grunow Co. reported a net loss of $755,011 for the three months ended June 17. ‘The quarterly loss brought the company’s deficit for the 24-week period, ended June 7, to $1,- 455,190. Comparable figures for last year are not available. $2,236,277 was incurred ended last suffering than anything else. The big' | | ted | 8Ny speculation or purely sym VETERANS® REVIEW BOARDS NAMED New York, lllinois and Mas- sachusetts Bodies Are Set Up. By the Associated Press. The Veterans’ Administration has set up the first of the Federal boards to review the claims of 150,000 ex-serv- ice men seeking a continuation of bene- fit payments that were climinated by the economy act. They will deal with cases in New York City and Eastern New York State, Illinois and Massachusetts. Veterans’ Administrator Frank T. Hines said in a letter the duties of the members were “of the greatest importance both t«. the veterans whose claims will be reviewed and to the Government.” Establish Others Quickly. Other boards will be established as | rapidly as possible, the administration announced. - They will handle the claims of veterans whose disabilities under old laws were presumed to have originated in service and will decide whether that presumption should be granted. Each board will have five members, three appointed by the President and two from the Veterans’ Administre‘ion. Members of the boards announced to- day follo New York—Edward E. Spafford. New York City; Samuel Aronowitz, Albany: Theodore Stitt, Brooklyn; nis L. Black and John D. Darcy of the ton office of the Vetérans’ Administration. Robert E. Condon, New York City: Chester Abrams of Huntington, Douglas | 1. McKay, Westchester County, N. Y.. Dr. Samuel Tartakoff and Frank D. Tanner of the Boston office of the Vet- erans’ Administration. Boards for Tllinols. Two boards werc announced for Il- linois: Abel Davis, Chicago; Albert A. Sprague, Chicago; Lynn D. Sifford, Anna; Dr. G. W. Rudolph and John 'W. Musgrave of the Veterans’ Adminis- tration office at Detroit. Bert Massee, Chicago; Gifford Holden, Glen Ellyn; George G. Seaman, Tay- lorsville; Edward G. Brandenberger and Carroll D. Robertson of the Detroit of- fice of the Veterans’ Administration. For Massachusetts: Charles H. Cole, Boston; Dr. Thomas Flourney, Pittsfield; Timothy J. Mul- cahy, Clinton; Dr. Palmer A. Potter and William P. Greene of the New York City office of the Veterans’ Administra- tion. Function Until October 31. Under the law providing for the boards, they are to function until Oc- tober 31. The veterans will remain on the benefit rolls at 75 per cent of amounts being received up to July 1, unless they are removed prior to Octo- ber 31 by a board decision. Hines said in his letter that it was “the sacred obligation of the Govern- ment to care for those who were dis- abled in the service of their country,” but that none should remain on the rolls unless he incurred his disability in the line of duty in the active military or naval service. “Your task is a difficult one” he warned board members and continued: “If, in your judgment in any case, you believe that the condition of the Veteran is connected with the military or naval service, you should continue him on the rolls. “Your finding must not be huedm egg grounds, but must be based on the evi- dence ‘of the banked up more than & foot on the | h on the Government. Discretion Is Wide. “Your discretion in these cases is a wide one and should be carefully exer- ‘Much, in my ju ent, will depend 2B8°o] eterass in receipt ot pension roll of ve receipt of for disabilities incurred the active military or naval service honor ‘roll snd that no man should remain on that roll uniess he ASK FOREST CAMP -AS FLOOD SUCCOR, Colorado Ranchers Crippled by Great Damage Done by Cherry Creek. By the Assoclated Press. DENVER, August 5.—Denver today shoveled away the last traces of the Castlewood flood, which struck here ‘Thursday, but ranchers-along the 35- mile course of Cherry Creek said their damage was so great they will ask for the establishment of a conservation camp to aid in rehabilitation. . A commititee of five ranchers was ap- pointed to call upon Gov. Ed C. John- son and ask that a conservation camp be moved to-the Castlewood area next week. The flood ripped a path nearly 2 miles wide through the farming area and left tree trunks, the wreckage of buildings and tons of silt. Two persons were drowned in the waters which swept down the creek | following the dem break, and one in a | Creel that. were camped below been located since the flood, but police said they probably escaped. Five persons who m have not MRS COSTELLO GETS TWO DAYS' RESPITE Witness Stand Ordeal in Hus- band-Slaying Case Had Gripped Crowded Court. By the Associated Press. SALEM, Mass, August 5—Jessie B Costello today had two days of escapc ahead of her—escape from the gaze of hundreds who for the last three weeks ré;ven flocked l:o Essex County Superior urt to see her wage her g .ngh"”dom. t{ fight for life e is charged with the poison slay- ing of ner husband. Fire Capt. Wlllla{n J. Costello, who was found dead in their little vine-covered home on Feb- ruary 17. For two days and a half the buxom widow, mother of three children, had stood on the witsss stand and told her story. For two of those days she faced the grim questioning of District Attor- ney Hugh A. Cregg. an insistent and relentless cross-examiner. Closely Watched by Crowd. The jury, attorneys, newspaper men | and the crowd that waited for hours to get one of the seats available to spec- tators glued their eyes on her as she met the thrusts of the man who soughi to convict her of murder in the first degree and send her to the electric chair., As she entered and left the court house hundreds of others craned their | necks to see her: batteries of cameras recorded her appearance for the read- ing world. Yesterday she grew belligerent under the gruff interrogation of Cregg. She said her husband had been acting strangely before his death. When asked why she had not done something about it, tears that had been in her eyes dis- nfl:eued and in their place came the glint of hard steel. Remorse in Remark. “If T had done what I should have done, my children would be saying their father was in the asylum.” she said. “Now they are saying their mother is | in_jail.” { The widow was particularly bitter { when the name of Edward J. McMahon, | Peabody reserve policeman, who had testified he carried on an affair with her, was injected into the interrogation. She said he was stool pigeon in the Peabody police.” t and that the things he had said on the she had er:r:ed in intimacies with him and said the most she had ever done was shake hands with him. TAX ON DRINKS TO AID SOUTH DAKOTA'S POOR Legislature, in Special Session, Legalizes Beer and Wine—Sale to Begin Soon. By the Associated Press. PIERRE, 8. Dak.. August 5—South Dakotans soon will be quaffing 3.2 beer and wines. The State Legislature, in special ses- sion called by Gov. Tom Berry, last night completed action on a measure to legalize the beer and wine and to use the tax and license revenue, esti- mated at up to $1,000,000 annually, for poor relief purposes. Gov. Berry’s signature will make the beverage available as soon as stamps and_licenses are printed. “On sale” licenses will be $40 an- nually and “off sale” permits $25. In addition, there will be a tax and in- spection fee of $1.25 per 3l1-gallon barrel. ‘An attempt to set December 12 as the date for a special election to vote on the question of repealing the eight- eenth amendment was defeated in the House when the move failed to re- ceive a two-thirds majority. — CAN'T SEIZE CROPS Georgia Court Holds Against Land- lords for Previous Years. ATLANTA, August 5 (#)—Landlords cannot seize crops of their renters for debts of previous years, the Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled. “The special lien given to landlords upon the crops of ants for money and articles furnished to make crops embraces only the crop for the year in which such advances are made,” the court held. . BIG METAL SHIPMENT Silver and Gold Worth $30,000,000 Sent Abroad. NEW YORK, August 5 (#).—Sixty- six tons of gold and silver earmarked by the Federal Reserve Bank for the Bank of France and several private banks in England were shipped on the Olympic last night. The shipment, valued at approx- imately $30,000,000, was the largest to leave the country in many months. his disability in the line of duty in the active or naval service. “If, as & result of the action of the boards, we can be assured that ‘who properly on the rolls remain there and those who do not be- , we can CORDELL MULL. [ oot ] VIOLENCE HARKS HARLAN ELECTION Three Hurt in Dynamite Blast and Shooting. Troops on Duty. By the Associated Press. HARLAN, Ky, August 5.—Blazing guns and exploding dynamite, injuring three men, marked the start today of the primary election in Harlan County, despite the presence of four companies of National Guardsmen, who had been ordered on duty as the result of pre- election outbreaks Thursday and Fri- day when two were killed. The men injured today were Robert Gilbert, 32, who may lose the sight of one eye; Theodore Middleton, resigned police chief of Harlan and candidate | for the Republican nomination for sheriff, leg injury; and Jim Cawood, 37, of Evarts, two fingers shot off. cloudburst, which preceded the Cherry | 'k flood. Officials said they believed | the death toll would be no greater than ; the dam ha i " he had no “sand”, witness stand had been “pumped into ' She denied his allegations that ' 1 . KIDNAP INSURANCE {Prominent and Wealthy Per- | sons Are Reported to Have | Been Written. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 5.— Insurance against kidnaping up to $100,000 is being offered through a London group (Lloyds), the Tribune said today. Prominent and wealthy persons in various citles have been secretly in- sured against the menace under pre- miums of three-quarters of 1 per cent for adults and 1!, per cent for chil- \dren. Because of the greater risk in | |the case of children the maximum | principal amount in such anti-kidnap | policies is limited to $50,000, the peper said | Adults also may insure themselves in | the same policy against injuries while | in the hands of abductors for addi- tional premium payments. ‘The paper said negotiations for the policies are conducted under conditions, of utmost secrecy. Only persons of un- | questioned reputation are considered by | the insurers and they must have been free from any involvements with shady or undesirable characters. The name of the seeker for insurance is cabled London by code and only the senior Chicago representative of the insuring group knows identities of the applicant, | | the paper said. | That is to prevent possible kidnapers | from cbtaining knowledge of the trans-, actions. | Among the cities from which in-| quiries have come, the Tribune said, re- garding the anti-kidnaping policies are | Albany. N. Y., home of John J. O'Con- i nell, a recent kidnap victim. and Kansas | where two women have been ab- ducted within recent months. | Mary McElroy and Mrs. Nell Q. Don- | melly. |SUSPECT ARRESTED IN DODGE THREATS | Canadian Held in Attempt to Ex-| tort Money From New York Financier's Wife. By the Associated Press. \ GANANOQUE, Ontario. August 5.— Gordon Dignem, Wolff Island native, | Gibson. general has been arrested by New York State troopers and charged with sending a threatening letter demanding $1,000 to | Mrs. Cleveland E. Dodge, wife of the New York financier, provincial police | revealed today. | Mrs. Dodge. whose home is a River. dale-on-the-Hudson. over to Ontario provincial police. | "The menacing letter asserted tha i Mrs. Dodge’s estate on Wild Goose | Island would be destroyed and a mem- | ber of her family would be killed un- | less she paid $1.000 to the writer. | Dignem was arrested yesterday at Clayton, N. Y., and on being brought here for questioning denied any knowi- edge of the affair. i Police said the lctter was signed “Three gangsters, death, destruction and | fire.” and that it was mailed from ‘Watertown, N. Y.. July 10. | They asserted Dignem was in Water- | | town July 10. The letter called on Mr. Dodge to| {leave the money part in gold and part | in silver under a stone 10 feet from a blazed tree on Ant Island. Going to Ant Island as campers, police watched the place for several days. /At one time a boat approached the island, but headed out toward the | middle of the St. Lawrence River after | coming in near the shore. 'INFECTED ANIMALS STOLEN FROM PENS Hospital Issues Immediate Warn- ing in Theft Which Threatens Year's Experiment. By the Associated Press. { LINCOLN, Nebr., August 5.—Thirty | Tabbits and six guinea pigs which had been inoculated with dangerous in- fectious diseases, were stolen from their pens at the Lincoln General Hospital | early today, Mrs. Gladys Smits, super- intendent reported. Mrs. Smits asked newspapers to pub- lish a warning of the danger of hand- ling or eating the animals. She urged that the thief get in touch with hos- pital authorities so the health menace might be en The guinea pigs e to injections for tuberculosis and men- ingitis. The rabbits were being used in arthritis experiments. The theft was discovered early this morning when an attendant went to| feed the animals. Hospital attendants said that unless the animals were returned promptly, the value of tests made over a period of one to two years would be destroyed. Journalist m, BERLIN, August 5 (#.—Dr. Paul Goldmann, for 30 years Berlin corre- spondent of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, was arrested today on a charge of subversive activity. Because of his delicate health, Dr. Goldmann, who is 68, will probably be released soon. The Foreign Press Association has interestec itself in the case. Guards Shots Wound Several. SEVILLE, Spain, August 5 (#).—Sev- sibly when assault %“3'. fred mumu turned the letter | C | rapher. | They said they were targets of an outbreak at the precinct of the R. C. Tway Coal Co. camp, & mile south of here. Controversy Develops. Officers were told they went to the precinct with about a dozen other men 10 minutes before opening of v,hei polls to inspect the ballot box, in ac- cordance with a signed agreement of two factions, for representatives of each side to open boxes and determine if they were empty before the vote started. A controversy developec beiween the two groups and Middleton and his sup- porlers ran from tne mine ofnce build- ing, seeking cover beneath the concrete pezch, which is akout 8 feet high. Gil- bert said about 500 shots werc fired from machine guns and rifles, and a stick of dynamite atlached to a piece of coal was the porch and exploded. Guards Rushed to Scenme. Gilbert and Middleton were struck by stones hurled by the explosion. Bullets clipped off two of Cawood’s fingers. A hundred National Guardsmen rushed to the scene from Harlan, where the noise could be hear Gilbert and Tom nager of the coal company, were questioned here by Capt. Diamond E. Perkins. commarding Com- pany A, 149th Infantry. During the questioning &t th= City Hall, police stopped all traffic a bleck away. No Warrants Icsued. ‘The men were released later and by | agreement no warrants were issued. Adjt. Gen. H. H. Denhardt, who arrived early today and took charge of the | troops, said Gibson told him that about 3 a.m. an armed group led by Middleton invaded the camp and opened fire on the commissary and office in the same building and that men there returned the fire. Middleton's contention. Gen. Den- hardt said, was that he went there to inspect the ballot boxes in ccmpliance with an agreement and was fired upon. Gen. Denhardt said the soldiers’ in- spection of the ballot box disclosed no irregularities. FORT MONROE FOG GREETS GUNNERS | Battery E Group of 260th Coast Artillery Completes Practice. Special Dispatch to The Sta Through a mist and heavy fog chine gun unit of Battery E of 260th Coas'- Artillery completed its target practice at Fort Monroe last night. ‘The plane towing the target and the sleeve target at which the gunners were firing was completely obliterated at times by fog and it was only when the target appeared in open spaces between the clouds that it could be seen. The target was released from the | plane on its return to Langley field but opened the heavy gun firing this | morning with a preliminary practice | while the bursts of the three-inch shells appeared to be very close to the target, the actual number of hits cannot be determined until the ground observa- tion and aerial observation data are analyzed. Lieut. Perry C. Huff, commanding th> stated that the practice was very satisfactory, und he has hopes of C again obtaining an excel- lent rating in their practice, as during last year's encampment. A battalion parade was held this morning for the guests who arrived on the early-morning boat from Washing- ton, after which pictures were taken of the regiment by a Washington photog- Maj. James R. Lusby. the fiance officer of the District National Guard, under command of Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, arrived in camp this morning to check the pay rolls and prepared for the paying of the men at the end of their encampment. Johnson Too Busy To Pause for Party On Birthday Today Reaches 51, but Not Even a Special Dinner Will Mark Fact. By the Assoclated Press. More work was the birthday present today of Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, the industrial acministrator, on his 51st birthday anniversary. Busy with efforts to unscramble the industrial machinery of the United States, Johnson had no time for parties atter his return here by plane from :’he tHyt:le Park meeting with the Presi- ent. His son, Kilbourne, told newspaper men “everybody is too busy.” A lieutenant in the Army, John- son’s son also works for the Recovery Administration, occupying a desk in the legal division—but without pay. As an Army officer, he draws his salary from the War Department. ‘Today—30 years after his graduation from the Military Academy ‘West Point—found Johnson toiling at his task of restoring America’s earning and buying power. Born at Fort Scott, Kan., in 1882, Johnson set out from that Army atmos- ere which led to his successful mili- career. His first real e ence in organization work was in taking care of :’unea of the San Francisco earth- durin 't'r'-d vnv"fi"wlmfi ‘&W g the World War by - tion of the draft plan. Mrs. Johnson, who until their mar- riage in 1904 was Miss Helen Kilbourne, the daughter of an Army colonel, was #aid by their son today to be not plan- eraf alihough. the. wiual family good eral althoug] e amily wishes were in order. Johnson’s hard-woi office force that as a bl himself the eral would flwnflmm quit work then thrown to the edge of | |as yet has not been located. Battery | =3 IHULL BACK IN US. i GOES TO HYDE PARK- {Tells Reporters He Has No Intention of Resigning “Now or Hereafter.” * (Continued Prom First Page.) He was told that Henry Morgenthau, sr., had said on his return from London yesterday that “a town meeting” of 63 nations could not hope to be success- ful. “I should pity the future of a civi- lized world if this is the limit of our j capacity to go forward toward human i progress,” the Secretary sald. “If you j want to consider the future either view- { point is accurate in a sense. Noth! | is of more value than to have 60 or 7 i nations represented by their Ambassa- dors or neads of governments reach understanding.” Discussing that part of Morgenthau's interview in which he had said that Europe was on the brink of war, Huil asserted: “I am not qlite so pessimistic. The purpose of the conference is to meet |and constructively and resolutely deal with both economic 2nd military prob- lems. I am trying to say there is & more optimistic view that can be taken, though I say that with a great deal of respect for Mr. Morgenthau, who is a more capable judge than I. Interested in Latin Affairs. | “There is no question that if we leave off peaceful conferences and peaceful understanding there will be both eco- inomic and military chaos.” He would not discuss possible recog- nition of Russia because “it would take me hours to go into the pros and cons of the question.” On a report that he was planning to visit South American nations to arrange trade treaties he commented: “I want to get home and unpack my grip before I plan another trip. but it is true that I am deeply interested in all phases of Latin American affairs.” Issues Statement. . The Secretary's formal statement fol- lows “The chief problems of the monetary and cconomic conference, presenting as they do unprecedented difficulties, remain” undisposed of, but the present recess to permit further preparation for their solution can afford little elation to the pessimist or the defeatist or the blind and chronic opponents of mutual- Iy profitable trade between nations. | _ “The world conference has exhibited | 3ne common sense thus far by deter- mining first to diagnose carefully the deep-seated economic ills of the nations of the world rather than to rush for- ward with hasty and haphazard reme- dies. more apt to be superficial than fundamental. The future work of the conference |is organized in detail. The conference has created two permanent continuing agencies, first a bureau consisting of the 16 most important and most widely Tepresentative nations, and, secondly, |an Executive Committee consisting of the officers of the conference and the president. vice president and secretaries of the main committee. Fullest Possible Powers. “These bodies. one or both, will meet in September with the fullest possible powers to take any action necessary within the scope of the conference to advance the work of the conference, whether by calling local, regional or special meetings. by organizing studies or by reconvening the full session. “The studied purpose of the 64 dele- gations convened at London, as it will be, to develop a program of sound poli- cies and methods thus calculated to aid every part of the world in restoring business confidence, higher commodity prices. employment of idle labor and the fullet measure of stable and perma- nent business recovery. “After nearly four years of isolated and futile efforts by each nation to ex- tricate itself from terrific depression con- ditions, enlightened people everywhere must agree that there is at least room for additional and outside help, and that no such help could be more sane or practicable or valuable than the i unchoking of international finance and ‘ commerce now reduced to a skelton.” “The various nations today ought to be_producing and distributing among themselves forty to fifty billions of dol- lars worth of commodities in excess of the present nominal value, and six to ten billions of this amount should be the share of the United States instead of its present one and & quarter billion. | Talk of Failure Hit. “To preach failure and the futility of the World Economic Conference at this premature stage, would be to preach the gospel of despair both as to eco- nomic and military disarmament. It is the verdict of histofy that many de- structive wars, owing their origin to bitter trade and economic strife. could have been avoided under a policy of peaceful conference and mutual under- standing. “Had there been one week of frank | conference in July, 1914, such as the recent six weeks in London. the catas- trophe of the World War probably could have been averted. “The 64 nations which met at Lon- don prepared the way for continuing conference and co-operation, with the united purpose of liberating the world from the man-made economic shackles that now disastrously oppress all human kind. “No one can reasonably conclude that { this great undertaking has been or will | be in vain. BLOND AND 2 MEN SOUGHT IN SLAYING Storekeeper, 70, Killed When He Grabs Woman Bandit's Dress to Halt Flight. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 5—A biond gun- woman, whose two male companions shoot, stab and slug their way to free- dom, today became the object of & city< wide police search. T ‘The charge, if and when she is appre- hended, will likely be murder. Gustav Hoeh, 70 years old, owner of a haberdashery at 5948 Division street on Chicago's far west side, was thelt victim. He was shot to death yesterday when he tried to prevent the woman's escape by grasping her dress, while she and her two companions were about to flee in a motor car after an unsuccessful attempt to rob Hoeh in his shop. One of her companions promptly shot Hoeh in the breast, and he died en route to a hospital. It was, the police said, one of 50 or more crime forays in which the blond and her companion have partici- pated in the last three months, usually she carriés a pistol. Yesterday, however, she left it at home. In the shop's cash drawer there re- aune& $14, untouched by the hands hday gift to!