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BRTAN T0 SEEK " WAR DEBT SLASH Soeretary Hull Announces + Discussions Will Open Early in October. By the Assoclated Press. With another war debt payment of $127,670,765 due from Great Britain De- cember 15, Secretary of State Hull an- nounced yesterday, preliminary discus- sions of the subject of war debts would begin with the British early in October. ir Frederick Leith-Ross, chief eco- nomic advisor to the British govern- ment, it was said ai the State Depart- ment, would come to Washington about October 1 to discuss the obligation. Of the payment due in December, $85950,000 is for interest and $41. 785 is principal. QGreat Britain mede a partial advance of $10,000,000 in silver on its $75.950.000 installment last June, but prior to that had paid in full. ‘The Secretary of State did not know ‘whether Sir Frederick would be accom- gnmed by other experts, because the nited States had not been advised about the details of the British arrange- ments for the discussions. Was With MacDonald, @ir Frederick accompanied Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald to Wash- ington last April for the debt and eco- nomic discussions with President Roose- velt at the White House in preparation fos, the London Economic Conference. He remained in Washington for some time after Prime Minister MacDonald returned to Great Britain and engaged in extensive discussions on economic subjects with American Government experts. Great Britain will probably be the first of the European debtors to nego- .tiate for revision of the agreements under which they are obligated to pay the United States more than eleven bil- lon dollars. Britain’s total obligation to United States under its funding agree- ment is about four and & half billion dollars and it has paid in excess of two billion dollars. Great Britain and other which made ?mm payments an their gmanmenu ast June renewed their ea for revision of their agreements and asked for further opportunity to explain the impossibility of meeting their obligations under present eco- nomic conditions. the | powers Roosevelt Agalust Cut. ‘The debtor nations wrote down the amount of reparutions they were claim- ing from Germany by 90 per cent on condition that the United States revise its claims against them. While the United States has never been officially asked to scale its claims down by 90 per cent. which would re- dyce the total to slightly more than one billion dollars, that settlement has been suggested frequently in speeches of European statesmen and by the Euro- pegn prese. ongress is on record against cancel- lation or further revision of the war debts. Former President Hoover took a stand against any mass action of Euro- pean debtors and iusisted that the powers should present their arguments separately. President Roosevelt took the same stand and has repeatedly expressed a wiltngness to hear what the nations which are not in defsuit have to say individyally about the revision of their debt lements. MAY SEND BXPERTS. Bridain Will Consider Roosevelt's Wish on Size of Debt Mission. LONDON, August 18 @ .—The British government has mnot yet de- whether Sir Frederick Leiih-Ross, ohtef economic adviser, will travel alone or will be accompanied by ticas- ury experts when he goes to Wash- ington in October to continue conver- sations on the war debt. President Roosevelt's desires on this point naturally will be considered, it wae said today. It is possible that later on a mission. including some cabinet ministers, may be sent o the American Capital, “THREAT OF GANDHI TO DIE BY FASTING WINS COMPROMISE expected that he would eat as usual tl evening. The little Nationalist lender, arrested August 1 at the outset of & new dis- ‘obedience campaign and committed to Yeroda jail here for & vear because Le refused to cease political activities, threatened to start the fast unless he was given full rights as a state or pofit- icel prisoner. At present he is wreated as an ordi- nary prisoner and certain privileges heve been denied him. He had written the inspector general of jails asking for rights he enjoyed previously. Thus he would be enabled, the ma- hatma Idicated, to conduct & campaign for the regeneration of the untouch- ables, as he did while imprisoned up o May 8, when he started a three-week fast in protest against “‘untouchability.” M was believed that the mahatma’s new fast was due to the fact he has been unable to supply his usual articles to the press this week. “I might as well be dead if T am not allowed to proceed with my work, which is my very life,” said the Mahatma in a statement to the Bombay govern- ment. At that time he asked several con- cessions and dellvered an ultimatumn threatening to fast if they were not granted. This request was ignored, so he _determined to carry out the threat It was stated authoritatively that Mr. Gandhi had been offered facilities to continue his campaign against un- touchability under certain conditions. Whether these conditions were accep- | table to him was not immediately made | known. The leader of the Indian independ- ence movement has been placed in prison five times for conflict with Brit- ish authoritles. The first time, in 1907, was for passive resistance in Sou!hi Africa. Since, his attempts to induce | the British authorities in India to yleld | their position in favor of home rule have put him in jail STATUS OF BLUENOSE REQUESTED OF ‘SKIPPER’ B7 the Associated Press CHICAGO, August 16.—The status of | the Bluenote, champion Canadian | racing schouner, yesterday was asked to be clarified by Washington authori- ties. Anthony Czarnecki. ccllector of the Chicago port, made the request. He said that slthough the BEluenose | was an official Canadian exhibit at the Century of Progiess Exposition, he had received inquiries from several Amer- jcan owners of Lake Michigan passenger boats. asking whether the schooner was chartered to carry passengers. The ship has been taking excur- sionists on short trips and Capt. Angus J. Welters, master of the boat. has sub- | l What’s What Behind News in Capital.‘ Carter Glass Helps Secret Rewriting of Bank Billl. BY PAUL MALLON. of a new bank bill Grayson. He gave some advice about it and undoubtedly will handle the legislation at the coming December session. | help in the preparations. It is too early yet to predict spe- | Gefects which have developed snd Wwill develop in carrying out the law passed Jast Spring. Ungquestionably the bill will include some sort of a modification of the Federal bank guaranty law. Senator Glass never was strong for that provi- slon anyway. Diplomats Replace Marines. Our actions backstage in Cuba suggest we are embarked on & new kind of itervention—without the sword. It is the same &s the new kind of wars under the Kellogg peace pact. Nations fight without declaring war. Now, instead of sending down Marines |to clean out a situation, we dispatch diplomats. Instead of doing the clean- ing job ourselves, the diplomats en- coursge the local people to do it a good idea. It accomplishes the same results as Marines, without leveling any Woodin Avoids Hard Bargains. The administration money bags men say there is a good reason why Treasury Secretary Woodln insists on having such a large cash balance on hand He feels the bankers burned him on the first financing after he took office. He had to have the money quickly. The bankers drove a hard Largaln Now Woodin is keeping sometimes as much as & billion and a half dollars in cash lying around loosé. Distillers Laying Plans. The distillers are tryiug to make ar- rangements inside so they can step up production immediately. Government permission Is expected to be announced shortly. ‘The to distill recent permission ing. If repeal comes November 8, &S scheduled, the distillers will make g};my more than 7.000.000 next year ey are distilling 2.000.000 this year. What they want is permission to op- erate the remainder of this year on a 7,000,000 quota basls. Kendrick Blocks Sugar Quota. Senator Kendrick had more to do with blocking the new Sugar gquota plan that any one else. He made the best case for the West- ern beet growers. His srgument was that it is foolish to put restrictions on an American industry producing only 25 per cent of American consumption. He reasoned that the industry should be permitted to,grow without lmita- tlon of its market Kendrick is Democratic Senator from Wyoming and his success put the ad- ministration in & political hole. The quota market plan was fostered to help the American producers with increased prices. Kendrick assumed that benefit would be temporary. No one can tell suthoritatively now whut will be done. Braln Trust Increases Output. fessors would write their theories for thing. for any one who cared to pub- fin threm. > Now they are making more money then most of them ever saw by re- writing the same theorles. ‘The latest brain trustee to go literary is Prof. Tugwell. He will start publica~ tion shortly of dally articles. Later on, they will be cut down to weeklies. As such they will compete with the weekly articles of Brain Trustee Moley. The onmly restriction the administra- tion has placed on such articles is that they be confined to generalities and contain nothing specific about what is Feared Cespedes Was Weak. the Cuban puppet show became panicky & few duys back. o Their private advices indicated the Cespedes regime might have difficulty protecting American lives and property. { Probably the danger was overestimated, but they could not take a chance. If Cespedes could not handle the situation, the responsibility would fall heavily on_them. That is why the swift decision Was made to send destroyers. The men at the helm here are whis- pering now that they knew Cespedes was weak. They say they permitted his installation because he was one of the few Cuban leaders on which all factions could agree. They expect him to serve only & short time—until the next elec- tion. Mrs. Rumsley Treated. Mrs. Rumsley (N. R. A. consumers’ counsel) was carried to the sick bay in the Commerce Department and kept there several hours after her row with Prof. Ogburn. Employes were warned against telling about it, ‘The British diplomats privately called State Secretary Hull “Miss Priscilla Dull,” which is & high compliment coming from them. The British deride only those who have bested them. mitted to Czarnecki & photostatic copy of the charter showing he is author- jzed to sail Lake Michigan, with or without passengers, presumably. Wiley Post Continues Flight. HARRISBURG, Pa, August 16 (@ —|. . . Wiley Post, who flew alone around the world last month, streaked away in the sunshine for Scranton today. after spending ' the "night as the .guest of she State capital. Those storles about Mr. Hoover hav- ing a grouch at Palo Alto are all wrong. Recent letters from the former President to friends in Washington have contained humorous stories and are in the same spirit that made him popular ‘as Commierce Secretary. (Copyright. 103 The administration has let Senator | Carter Glass in on its secret writing His health is Dot very good or he would have remained here to|ihe squads took position and cifically what the legisiation will pro- | pose. The general purpose is to correct Most observers here belleve that is| 7,000,000 galions next year means noth-| A few years back these college pro- The administration insiders running MANHUNT RENEWE BY CHICAGO POLICE 50 Officers Rushed to Wis- consin in Pursuit of Gang That Eluded Trap. __(Continged From First Pagg) him to arrange to meet the new Te- quests, with authorities participating at the pay-off For & square mile about the, stipu- lated spot officers threw their heavily He was told all about it before he armed line of hunters, hidden by trees left for Europe with Admiral Cary and thickets, until the moment to spring the trap jaws came. With a reported $500 in marked money from Factor and additional bogus bills, & police detall disguised as | cab driver and passenger set off to the | sppointed place. Under sealed orders Army airplane from Fort Sheridan d an- other piloted by an Army fiyer, both armed with submachine guns, droned overhead. They were to give the sig- nal when the money was passed and | be ready if the kidnapess tried to es- cape by plane. Code Prearranged. A code conversation revealed to the | disguised policemen in the cab they were dealing with Factor kidnapers. The conversation had been prearranged by Factor and the mobsters. When the taxi parked, one gangster walked up and demanded: “Have you s package for Smith?" \ “Yer said officer. “‘Here it is.” The plane dipped a signal but not before the suspects realized their pre- | dicament. They wheeled off, aided a | moment by the squad car’s inierference | with police guns in the cab. The guns | soon began roaring and the quarry | vigorously returned police fire from their pistols. The chase was on, police leaped nto action and the four high- ways surrounding the wooded area were blocked to all traffic. | Seelng their path barred by squads to the north, the kidnapers with Factor’s | money in their possession turned off | the highway. Police were closing in on them when they left their machine | to scurry off afoot. The planes, mean- while, attempted to trace another car belleved carrying other members of the gung. Farmer Reports Evidence. It was sald to bear Texas license | plates issued to Mrs. Ora L. Shannon of Paradise. where four members of the Shannon family and Bailey were airested in the Urschel kidnaping case. | Both eluded the officers. One of the men is believed to have been carried out of the wouds to & city car line in the suto of John A Landall, & farmer of the vicinity. Landall said a stranger came to him, declared his wife had almost caught him in the forest pre- serves with ancther woman and paid him $10 to suve his reputation by get- ting him away. His companion hid himself In the thick underbrush. The abandoned car was carefully photo- | graphed for fingerprints | Its ownership was traced to Eugene Crotty, whose West Side beer tavern police ‘raided, but found him missing. The place, suthorities said, was recently operated as a handbook hesdquarters by “Father Tom” McFadden, one of four Touhy gungsters in Federal cus- tody for the Hamm kidnaping. “The day's work was not entirely profitless.” said Chief of Detectives Wil- liam Schoemaker. who with Melvin H. Purvis, head of the United States Bu- reau of Investigation here. and other ofticers baited the trap. “We have good descriptions of the two men and the couts they left in the car. We have other clues from which I amn almost certain they sre members of the Touhy | gang.” Defense Money Sought. A plan to raise funds for the Touhy' defense in the Hamm case was credited as & motive for the demaunds on Factor. "he men aitested at Crotty's beer tavern were listed as Hugh Bannon, William Leonard, who police said an- swered somewhat the description of the man who Tode away in the farmer’s car: Joseph Bsnuon, Hugh's brother: Albert Kirschner, Otto Pulaski and George Hansou ‘The hikers heild were Morris and Charles Endless, but authorities be- lieved they knew nothing of the kid- uapers’ plans. The farmer, Landall, wud his son also were detalued for further questioning Police continued to beat about the area for several hours after the failure of the trap. Guns were fired sporadi- cally and a large crowd gathered. All ¢ity officers were withdrawn, however, before dark to leave the vigil to a few details from suburban towns. | As a guard against gang reprisals for his participation in the affair under | compulsion of ~ wuthorities, a police guard was thrown about the hotel apartment of Fuctor and his wife. DRUGGAN IN ATLANTA. Racketeer Moved From Leavenworth After Special Privilege Charge. ATLANTA, Ga. August 16 (#).— | Terry Druggan, Chicago racketeer, got | & new prison address today. | He was transferred to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary last night from Leavenworth, Kans., where four prison officials were discharged after revela- tions that he had been accorded special privileges. ‘The transfer was made secretly. On | his arrival here, Druggan was slipped |from the train on a dark sidetrack in the rallroad yards, hurried into a prison automobile and driven to Federal Prison on _the outskirts of the city. Prison officials refused to say any- | thing about the racketeer’s future here. TOUHY DENIED FREEDOM. MILWAUKEE, August 15 (#).—Roger Touhy, Chicago gang leader, and three of his followe:s, charged with kidnaping Willlam Hamm, jr., St. Paul brewer, to- day were denied freedom on writs of | habeas corpus by Federal Judge F. A. | Geiger, who held that bond of $50,000 each. demanded by the Government for release of the prisoners, was not ex- cessive. Touhy's attorney contended that fix- |ing bail at a high figure was virtually |a denial of ball. | “The court cannot assume that be- | cause bail was not raised it is excessive,” Judge Geiger observed. The prisoners were returned to the county jail to await resumption of a | hearing Friday on their removal to St. Paul. PUERTO RICAN JAILED. Youth Accused of Attempt to Extort $5,000 in Kidnap Threat. NEW YORK, August 16 (#).—An at- tempt to extort $5.000 from Juan L. Bos- { clo. reputedly weslthy dry goods mer- chant in Ponce, Puerto Rico, by threat- | ening to kidnap one of his four young children, was charged in the police line- up msdsy against Arrolo Eugenio Ca- diz, 18. Cadiz, a former employe of Boscio, left his wife and child in Puerto Rico and came to this country within the last two months. In the line-up today he said he wrot kidnap letter to Boscio to get some “easy money” for his wife. | Cadiz was arrested last night a few minutes after he was alleged to have re- ceived a registered letter from Boscio in response to the demand for $5,000. ‘The detectives said Cadiz wrote to Bosclo August 1 demanding the $5,000, reminding the merchant of the disap- pearance of a Puerto Rican boy about | & year ago, intimating that the writer | knew the circumstances of the disap- | pearance, and warning Boscio that his agents in Puerto Rico would kidnap and if the meney was not fgrthcoming. Ry kill one of the merchant's four children, the Caribbean. JAY AUGUST 16 Defies Bandits KILLS ONE IN ATTEMPTED RESTAURANT ROBBERY. | | | ROSE RUDA | Killed one bandit snd put two others to flight when they tried to rob a restaurant in Olncinnati, Ohio. In the exchange of shots she was hit in the arm, but not seriously hurt. She is 18 years old. —A. P. Photo. DETECTIVES FREED: RETURNED T0DUTY Shimon and Christian Rein-| stated as Two Others Face Brutality Charge. Two third precinct detectives, cleared of brutality charges by the Police Trial Board yesterday, were back on duty today as a Police Court jury prepared to hear similar charges against two second precinct policemen. Detectives Joseph W. Shimen and William V. Christian were reinstated after the trial board found them not guilty of the charge of mauling Thomas B. Washington, 26, colored tap dancer, while questioning the prisoner in the third precinct station house on July 29. Arratgnment Today. ! Meanwhile, Policemen Frank Ashley and C. C. Williams of the second pre- cinct were to be arralgned in Police Court today on charges of assauliing George Mahoney. 19, colored, while questioning the latter at their station | house August 8 Warrants against the two officers were issued by Assistant United States At-| torney Milford Schwartz after Freed- men’s Hospital physicians said Mahoney had & bump on his head and an abrasion on_his wrist Schwartz said Mahoney charged that the policemen beat him with fits and clubs and used an “iron claw” on his| wrist Shimon and Christian were acquitted vesterday after Washington refused to testify sgainst them. It was brought out by Defense Attorneys Charles D. Ford and Harty Whelan that Raymond Pearson, colored, who testified he saw Shimon and Christisn beat Washing- ton. previously had denied this to the precinct commander, Capt. Edward J.| elly. Explain Swollen Eye. | The accused detectives testifies that Washiugton and Pearson exchanged blows after Pearson accused the other prisoner of “squealing’ in connection with & window-breaking snd joy-riding case. The detectives said Washington received u swollen eye and facial abra- sion before they could stop the fight in_a cell-room corridor. Previous to the Trial Board hearing Washington gave statements to investi- gators that the two detectives had beaten him. He intentified the officers from a line-up at the third precinct. CHINA IS DECLARED OVERPOPULATED Despite Large Land Area, Many Sections Held Unsuited for Habitation. By the Associated Press BANFF, Alverta, August 16—Dr. W. H. Wong, director of the National Ge- | ological Survey of China, reported yes- terday to the fifth biennial conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations that his country, despite its vast area, is suf- fering from overpopulation. Due to climatic. and topographical conditions, he explained, a large part of the country is not suitable for agri- culture, the basic industry. Less than half of the area receives sufficient rain- fall to obviate the necessity of irriga- tion while more than one-third is mountainous country not adapted to tarming, he continued. As a result, 83 per cent of the popu- lation Is concentrated in five agricul- tural district which comprise only 17 per cent of the nation’s area. The deunsity of population is 500 persons per square mile in those reglons as com- pared with 35 elsewhere. “This means emigration to Manchuria is the only solution to China's popula- tion problem,” the speaker continued. He estimated that the great plain of Manchuria can support & minimum of 20,000,000 additional people. e TONG WAR SEEN Slaying of N. G. Fong Held Start of Disorders by Police. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., August 16 (#). —The slaying of N. G. Fong, 38, was described by police as apparently the beginning of a tong war which they said had been imminent for several weeks. Fong. half owger of a cafe, was killed late last night as he prepared to enter his home. Police said an eye-witness, unnamed. told them two men fired five times at Fong and fled. | in BOND FOR BALEY Goes Home to Join Children MRS. COSTELLO PICTURED AFTER ACQUITTAL. FIXED AT $100,000 Three Others of Gang Held| in $50,000 Bail in Ursehel Kidnap Case. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., August 16.—Lee R. Smith, United States commissioner, to- day set bond of $100,000 for Harvey Bailey and bonds of $50,000 each for four other persons held on/Federal war- rants charging them in cohnection with the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel, Oklahoma City ofl millionaire Balley, attired in the dark gray over- all garb, sat quietly while the commis- sioner read the charge against him. Asked if he had snything to say re- garding the $100,000 bond, he answered: “That is plenty of bond, but I have nothing to say.” Bailey, also identified by the De- partment of Justice as one of the machine gunners who mowed down four officers and Frank Nash, fugitive con- vict, at the Kansas City Union Station Plaza, June 17, and four companions are chll’std with kmnsglnng Urschel from his Oklahoma City home the night of July 22. Urschel was returned nine days later. ‘The five have been held incommuni- cado in jail here since Department of Justice agents, aided by officers from Dallas and Fort Worth, made a quick rald at dawn Saturday on an obscure farm house in the sandy hills near Paradise, Tex., and seized Bailey as he ‘k'gi ose taken into custody along with Bailey were Mr. and Mrs. R. G. “Boss” Shannon, in whose farmhouse Balley was hiding, and Shannon’s son, Ar- mon, and his wife. Federal warrants for Bailey and the other four wete received here yesterday. It was expected Bailey would be turned cver to Kansas City officers to answer for the Union Station killings unless the kidnaping charges were pressed, RANSOM MONEY SOUGHT. DENVER, August 16 (P).—Twenty thousand dollars in marked currency from the reported $200,000 paid to ran- som Charles F. Urschel, Oklahoma oil millionaire, was sought by police here today Detective Chief William Armstrong said he had information from an solutely rellable” source he declined to name, that amount was hidden by | Albert L. Bates before his arrest Sat- urday. Bates has been named by De- partment of Justice agents as one of the actual abductors of Urschel. Arm- stiong said $700 of the ransom money had been found-iu possession of Bates, wanted in many States for various crimes. SEES NO INCONSISTENCY IN FEDERAL PAY CUTS DURING N.R.A. CAMPAIGN (Continued From First Page.) economy program was invoked He pointed out that the National Indus- trial Recovery Administration alone had on its pay rolls now more than 1.000 men aud women workers, most of whom were stationed here He declared he did not have available | the total number of workers employed in all phases of the recovery program. but intimated he would have the figures complled shortly. The cabinet officer, who is chairman of the special Cabinet Industrial Adviscry Committee, said he believed the aclivity of Johnson's organization was now at its “high water mark” due to the number of trade codes flled, and he did not be- | lieve it would be necessary o take on many additional employes Officials of the Agriculture Adjust- ment Administration. the largest of the emergency organizations. said their rolls now inuclude 300 permanent em- ployes and 1,550 temporary workers in Washington. Secretary of Interior Ickes has estimated 2.000 persons even- tually would be employed here and in the field to administer the pubiic works section of the national recovery act In the following prepared statement, Roper said “There is indication that confusion | exists in some minds over the apparent | inconsistency of the Government in re- ducing its departmental personnel and expenses while appealing to industry to increase its pay rolls. In thinking through this situation, it should not be overlooked that we are dealing in the departmenjs with s future continuing and permanent program, and under national recovery with a temporary and emergency program. Cites Economy Pledge. “This administration has promised the people that expenditures in the op- eration of the normal functions of lhe‘ Government would be reduced at least 25 per cent, or a necessary amount to keep the expenditures from the normal function of the Government within this income. This plan has been carried out. The other feature is an emergency program so recognized by the Congress the appropriations for its public works and recovery endeavors. “Beginning with the first appearance of the econumic catastrophe. industry immediately undertook to deflate its personnel and expenses, which con- tinued until in March this year, when it was estimated that there were some 13.000.000 people out of employment. as comparéd with & normal, say, of 3,000,- 000. The Government did not pursue a like policy, but, on the contrary, in- creased its expenditures. To bear this out, there was this Spring about 10,000 more governmental employes in the Dis- trict of Columbia and in the field than were on the pay rolls of the Govern- ment four years earlier. “The personnel of the Government in the District of Columbia, according to my figures, amounted to 60,954 in June, 1929, compared with 65619 for the corresponding date in 1932. This was the high-water mark, as the number of persons employed by the Federal Government in the District of Colum- bia ac¢ this time amounts to 63,067, an actual reduction of 2552 since June, 1932, practically all of which has taken place since March, 1933. These sta- tistics, of course, refer to the permanent and conunuing operations of the Gov- ernment and not to the temporary and emergency programs.” PRICE MISQUOTED The contract awarded to the Capital Cinder Co. yesterday for sale of cinders to the District was at a rate of 57'; cents a cubic yard and not 5% cents as stated in The Star yesterday. WHOLESALE ESCA PE OF CONVICTS FROM DEVILS ISLAND REPORTED By the Assoclated Press. LA ROCHELLE, France, August 16.— Wholesale escapes of desperate convicts | from the dreaded Devils Island and other ‘prison camps in French Guiana were reported today by French author- ities at this deportation base. Eighteen men recently escaped, offi- cials said, bringing to more than 100 the total of prisoners who, singly or in groups, have fled the convict colonies escapes have been within & year. Yie the connivance of a It is supposed made through secret syndicate, which has alded crim- inals to flee through jungles or across Many protests have been received | by the ministry of colonies. In the last three months of 1932 44 took lo flight. The total for last year was 79, with the high mark, 266, set in 1923. French residents at Garupano, a Ven- ezuelan port where many of the fugi- tives are rounded up before being re- turned to French authorities, declared the Venezuelan government was forced to ture the outlaws as & measure of self protection. According to figures available in May, 3,867 convicts were in al in- stitutions in Guiana, with 1, ‘more exiled to Guiana but not actually held in prisons. This convict population is guarded by 266 men. It is known that a number of es- caped men have died in the dangerous Jjungles. . REASURY T0 HALT FOREIGN DUMPING Importation of Certain Products Abread. By the Associsted Press. Action to bar from this country im- P laiteat ob veo et o sl o W dumped from abroad, to the injury of American business, probably will be | taken soon by the Treasury. | In the long list of goods now before the Treasury for decision are included steel from Germany; canvas top rubber | sole shoes. electsic light bulbs and cal- cium cerbide from Japen: stearic acld from Holland: rock salt from Canada: woven wire fencing, sulphide paper and binder twine from England. and thumo tacks from Holland and Germany. Undersell Producers Here. All of these, American producers | have charged, have been dumped in the United States—sold in this country without regard to or for less than the | price the same articles bring at home. |, There has been no intimation from {the Treasury as to what the decision in each case wauld be. But the Cus- | toms Bureau, After public hearings. {has submitted reports in which it holds the dumping of some of the for- eign articles has been established while |in other cases it has not. Just when department officials hand down final { decision depends upon how soon they complete their careful study of the reports. The investigations by the Customs | Bureau started more than a year ago. | At a long series of hearings American manufacturers testified that foreign competition, made possible by the drop in foreign money values and lower labor costs, was fast driving out of business various producers in the United States Competition Held Keen. The competition was reported espe- | cially keen in the rubber sole shoe 1 and electric light buib industries. Jap- anese producers were said to be ship- ping millions of pairs of tennis shoes to this country and underselling Amer- jcan producers. Witnesses testified | Japan had completely taken over the Christmas tree bulb business. Where the Government finds dump- ing exists, it will apply the law which | levies an additional duty of akeut 50 per cent. INEW IRISH TRIBUNAL | TO CONFISCATE ARMS | | Military Court Also Will Hear Po- litical Cases—Blue Shirts Plan Sunday Assembly. t ROUSE QUIZ HEARS Hmmmm Will Take Action to Prevemt Efforts to Trace Weapon| Handicapped by Conflict Over Caliber. Efforts to trace a confiscated gun which disappeared from police head- quarters and later apparently figured in a gang shooting at Nineteenth and K streets several weeks ago, were being made today at the police board trial of Clyde Rouse, suspended third pre- cinet detective Rouse, who faces charges of conduct unbecoming an officer, is alleged to ESSE COSTELL * FREED BY JURY Held Not Guilty of Slaying Husband and Sent Back to Children. By the Assoclated Press. SALEM, Mass, August 16. Burnett Costello awoke today in an at- mosphere of freedom, the yoke of accu- sation cast from her shoulders | extravagant.” I . |tence of not guilty and sne was re- APPY over her acquittal on charge of having poisoned her husband, Fire leased by the court she ran to an ante- Capt. William J. Costello, Mrs. Jessie B. Costello is shown being driven room and there gave evidence that she home a few minutes after she was declared innocent by a jury at Salem, Mass.,, which deliberated less than two hours yesterday. Mrs. Costello | is seen in the front seat of the car. —A. P. Photo. | | She awoke in the vine-clad stucco cottage in Peabody from which she was wrenched five months ago ander indict- ment for the poison slaying of her fire captain husband, Willlam J. Costello. Yesterday. in historic Salem Superior Court, an Essex County jury, after 1 hour ‘ard 43 minutes of deliberation, acquitted her of a charge of murder in the first degree and granted her request that she be sent back to her three chil- ren. Trial Lasted One Month. Her trial had lasted a month, during which she became an enigmatic person- age to those who watched her stand up under one of the most trying ordeals a woman has ever faced in a court room. She had been impassive as a reserve policeman related a story of illicit re- lations with her; as a district attorney termed her “profane, vulgar, lewd and Few were the times she wept, then $o quietly that nobody saw However, as James F. Campbell, fore- nan of the jury. pronounced the sen- was capable of violent emotion. Sobs for Joy at Release. e woman who failed to break down in her blackest moments abandoned herself in tears in her hour of joy. She shuddered with sobs as a friend helped her to a chair A throng had awaited outside the court house all day to hear the verdict. It was only a matter of seconds before the news reached them, and before the comely widow had been dismissed cheers of the crowd reached her ears. For weeks the crowd had gathered there to watch her enter and leave the court house. They saw a smiling indi- vidual in black trip from the jail car into the court house. They saw her wave and one time stop to pick up a rose that had been thrown to her. Yesterday, however, she could not face them. She demanded that she be taken from the court house through a rear door. William E. O'Brine, one of her defense counsel. drove her to the little home she had not visited for five months. The shades .were drawn an cnly a few close friends were allowed to enter. The widow was greeted at the house by her three children—Anna Marie, 9 Jessie, 6. and Bobby, 3. Bobby was glad his 1mo!her was “home from the hos- pital.” Andrew J. Fyfe. the widow's father, who came stoutly to her defense during the trial. ssid the family would move from Peabody. He said he did not know have given the gun in question to one | where. of three men arrested in cornection with the shooting. Conflict as to the caliber of the gun developed after Detective Sergt. Charles E. Warfield said he understood the confiscated weapon was of .32 caliber, while the gun picked up near the scene of the shooting is of .38 caliber. The number recorded for the gun confis- cated tallied, however, with the serial number of the gun found near the scene of the shooting, and subsequenigwy Sergt. Warfield said it might have been of .38 caliber. Rouse was suspended from duty by Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, on the night of July 29, after the inspector had received a statement that Rouse had given the gun to a man prior to the K street shooting Efforts to trace the gun today were hampered when Louis Levin, Louis Tap- ponier and Barney Munitz, who were arrested in the shooting, refused to testify. Ralph Freeman. one of the witnesses brought befores the board, however, pointed out Munitz as the person who had handed him a gun similar to the one in evidence, some time ago, for repair. THREE FOUND DEAD OF BULLET WOUNDS Mystery Shrouds Discovery of Bodies in Automobile Near Grundy, Va. . By the Associated Press. RAVEN, Va. August 16.—A triple | tragedy faced Buchanan County officers | today with only meager evidence to aid | them in attempting its solution. ‘The bodies of three men. all victims | | of bullet wounds, were held at Grundy awaiting efforts toward identification. | Fragmentary written evidence indicated they might all be from West Virginia and one of them a deputy sheriff. In the shirt tail of one of the victims $400 in currency was found sewed. | By the Associated Press. DUBLIN. Irish Free State, August 16. —Establishment of & military tribunal to consider political charges and con- fiscation of firearms illegally possessed began today under the direction of the Free State government. Simultaneously, a membership drive was in progress for Gen. Owen O'Duffy’'s Blue Shirt National Guard organization, which was forbidden to conduct a memorial service last Sun- day for three Free State heroes. Gen. O’'Duffy has canceled the church parades he decreed for next Sunday and announced his Blue Shirts will assemble to observe a two-minute silent period to honor the memories of the heroes, Ar- thur Griffith, Michael Collins and Kevin O'Higgins Afterward the commanding officers will read & message from O'Duffy. the nature of which has not been disclosed. It was understood that the govern- ment regarded the progress of the Na- tional Guard with considerable misgiv- ing. President Eamon de Valera plans to lead periodic campaigns to check this | progress. DAUGHTER CLAIMS FILM LIBELS LILLIAN RUSSELL By the Associated Press. ,NEW YORK, August 16.—Mrs. Doro- thy Russell Calvit, daughter of the late , Lillian Russell, has filed a $100.000 libel suit against a fllm company (Education Film Exchanges, Inc) charging a mo- tion picture groduced by the concern in which she was headlined was “shocking.” ‘The suit sets forth Mrs. Calvit agreed | to appear in the movie on the under- | standing it was to be a tribute to her mother, the famous actress. Instead, her suit states, she found herself described in the filn as “faded beauty” who was “disallusioned, defeated and a hopeless cripple living on the few dollars given her by Alex- ander P. Moore,”_ former Ambassador | to Spain and Mrs. Calvit's stepfather. Mrs. Calvit submitted affidavits of three friends who said they had seen & preview of the film and were “shocked” by the narrative. Vivisection Outlawed. BERLIN, August 16 (P).—Premier Hermann Goering of Prussia decreed today that vivisection of “all species of animals” is forbidden throughout the The bodies were found in a blood- | stained automobile about 20 miles from | Ohio prosecutor’s office Grundy by a woman who lived nearby. | A woman's dress also was in the car. Papers found on one of the bod)esj bore the name of J. H. Akers, deputy sheriff of Princeton, W. Va., and other papers were found bearing thé names of O. L. Hickman and Leo C. Webb, the former of Widemouth and the latter of Tioga, W. Va. PRINCETON, W. Va., August 16 (®). —Mercer County officers said toda that Deputy Sheriff H. D. Akers, be- AKRON ATTORNEY ADMITS POISONING FOUR IN FAMILY (Continued From Pirst Page) said, was stolen while out on bond. The 3-year-old son of the Collevs was quoted by Prosecuting Attorney Miller Halbert of Malvern as saying he saw Shank put something in some grape juice which his parents and brothers drank while they were eating a picnic lunch near Malvern yesterday. After Shank had been captured, fol- lowing a chase with bioodhounds, he took the officers to the spot where he said they had sll eaten lunch during a short motor trip There, the officers found a jug of juice, some lunch plates and nearby some crystals Which are to be analyzed There was evidence the Colleys and Shank had left the place hurriedly. As authorities reconstructed the case. thev believed the poison struck the victims there and they hurried away for medical Braucher w: aid. The spot was far back in the woods. The car finally crashed on & main high- way, with Colley slumped dead under the steering wheel. One of the boys also was dead. Mrs. Colley died on the way to a hospital and the other boy soon after arriving there. Promises Detailed Confession. Taken to Hot Springs. Shank con- fessed at 2:55 am. signing & brief statement. Police said he told them he would make a detailed confession after he had slept awhile Prosectitor Halbert of Malvern plan- ned to return to Hot Springs today to resume the questioning The Colleys had been in Hot Springs several days and Chief of Detectives Herbert Akers sald he had learned Shank had been sending htem money. Shank came here last Sunday. Akers said, telling police his purpose was to help Colley get & job. Police quoted Shank as admitting he had “Colley take some papers” from the They also re- vealed they received a telephone inquiry from Akron authorities yesterday as to whether Shank was here. FIGURED IN FORGERY CASE Shank Was Counsel and Colley Was Used in Investigation. AKRON. Ohio, August 16 (#).—Mark H. Shank, held in Hot Springs. Ark. in connection with the poison deaths | of four Ohio people. was a defense at- | which lieved to be one of three men whose bodies were found in an automobile near Grundy, Va., left here yesterday at the request of an unidentified stranger to help the latter return a demented woman to Buchanan County, Va. Deputies said a man, whose name they did not learn, came to Sheriff J. C. Fanning's office and asked if some officer could go with him to Buchanan County to help care for a woman who | suddenly had become insane. Sheriff Fanning assigned Akers to | go with the man. Officers said they saw no one else with the man and woman. Bodies were found in the car. Mercer County deputies said their information was the dead men were O. L. Hickman and J. W. Collins of Tioga, Nicholas County. Road Commission records show the car was registered in Hickman's name. PRESIDENT OF ECUADOR ASKED TO QUIT QUIETLY Soldiers Guard Palace After Re- quest of Chamber that Mera Resign Office at Once. By the Associated Press. QUITO, Ecuador, August 16.—Sol- diers guarded the presidential mands for the resignation of President Martinez Mera, inaugurated last De- cember. The head of the Chamber of Depu- ties, Dr. Belasco Ibarra, moved that the chamber demand Mera quit, but an amendment to the motion provided that the chamber will hear charges against e S nation. & vote of the sending of a comn’lll-:g‘n “in the to the president to ask him, state. Offenders face sentences in con- centration camps. name of democracy,” to let the popu- lar will rule. and | legisiative palaces today following de- | | torney in an Ohio forgery trial out of robbery charges developed against Alvin Colley, an investigator for Shank and one of the four dead. At Wooster, Sheriff Charles A. Nau- man, said he held a warrant for the arrest of Colley on a charge of stealing receipts and other evidence which was to be used by Prosecutor Lyman R. Critchfield, jr. in trying Clarence Braucher of Barberton on a forgery charge. Shank was attorney for Braucher. Attorney Fred Cain, who shares law offices with Shank, said he had seen Collex. in the offices several times and that Shank had used him in some in- vestigation, Sheriff Nauman said evidence in the Braucher case was stolen from the prosecutor’s office while Braucher was free under bond. Braucher was con- victed and started serving a peniten- tiary semtence last month. Nauman sald suspicion fastened on Braucher, although fingerprints identified as Col- ley's were found at the scene of the theft, and an indictment charging rob- bery was returned against Braucher after the forgery conviction. Warrant Was Issued. Later, however, the sheriff said, - ley's activities aroused suspicion an warrant was issued for him. Shank has been a resident of this section since his graduation from college and for a time gained wide notice as a justice of the peace in handling liquor cases. He also was city solicitor of Ken- more, an Akron suburb. The Alvin Colley family had been living with Colley's parents in Welling- ton, Ohio. before returning here last June. Colley worked & week for a mo- tor trucking concern and quit, saying he was to do some work for a lawyer. Neighbors of thg' Colleys said the family left suddenly on the night of July 27. When they did not return after a week their landlord placed their furniture in storage. Shank left Priday, supposedly to go to St. Louis in connection with a court case. His wife said she had expected him horge this morning.