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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; slowly rising temperature; gentle variable winds, becoming moderate southerly by tomor- row. Temperatures—Highest, 54, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 40, at 6:00 a.m. ‘The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. today. Closing N. Y. Markets, Page: Full report on Page A-12. s 10 and 11 he No. 32,673. post_office, Entered as second class matter Washington, D. C. ermn WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g S ar WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER - 14, 1933—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES, e GERMANY WILL LEAVE LEAGUE; QUITS PARLEY IN ARMS DISPUTE; REICHSTAG ORDERED DISSOLVED < Hitler Serves Election Set for November 12 To Learn Attitude on Regime Notice of Intention. ALLIES’ STAND CALLED UNJUST | Germany Unwilling to Carry On as Sec- ond-Class Nation. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, October 14.—Ger- many, declaring inability as a “second-class nation” to longer participate in disarmament ne- gotiations “which thereby could only lead to new dictates,” today bluntly gave notice of withdrawal from both the League of Nations and the arms parley. The German stand was made plain both in an appeal to the German people by Chancellor adolf Hitler and by another is- sued by the government. Both minced no words in expressing dissatisfaction with the unwilling- ness of the other powers to give | Germany the arms equality promised at Geneva last Decem- | ber. “As the Reich’s government | sees in this manner of procedure a discrimination against the| German people, as unjust as it is humiliating,” said the chan-| cellor’s declaration, “it deems it- self unable under the circum- stances as a second-class nation deprived of the rights to continue to participate in the negotiations | which thereby could only lead to new dictates. Notice Sent to Geneva. | The chancellor’s appeal spoke of the other nations’ demands as “humiliating and dishonoring,” but again expressed the German nation’s “unshakable will | to peace.” A government spokesman meanwhile hastened to add that “les ing the Arms Conference in nowise means Germany intends to disregard the treaties.” Notice of the German intention to withdraw from the arms parley was telegraphed to Arthur Henderson, the president of the assembly at Geneva, by Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath. “The last discussions of the parti- cipating powers anent disarmament,” the foreign minister’s message said, “have proved conclusively that the Arms Conference will not fulfill the sole task of bringing about a general disarma- went. “At the same time it is certain that the failure of the Arms Conference is due solely to the lack of the will on the part of the highly-armed states now to make good their obligation to disarm, as laid down in treaty. “Thereby, the realization of Ger-| many’s acknowledged claim to equality has been rendered impossible, and the condition under which Germany, the | beginning of this year, declared its will- ingness again to participate in the con- ference’s work has been eliminated.” | Text of Hitler Appeal. H The text of the Hitler appeal follows: “Pilled with an honest desire to carry through the work of the peaceful inter- nal reconstruction of our people and its political and economic life, the former German governments declare themselves ready, trusting they would be conceded an equality worthy of Ger- many, to enter the League of Nations to participate in the Disarmament Con- ference. “Therein Germany was bitterly dis- appointed, despite all readiness to pursue | the disarmament which we were the | Srst to execute, if necessary to its very last consequences, the pther governments | could not bring themstlves to make good the assurances signed by them in the | peace treaty. “Through the conscious denial to | Germany of a real moral and objective , equality, the German people and their | government were again humiliated. | “After the Reich’s government, in | consequence of the German equality | vouchsafed to it December 11, 1932, | again declared itself ready to participate in the discussions of the Disarmament | Conference, the official representatives | of the other states now have informed the Reich’s foreign minister and our delegates in public speeches and direct | declaration that this equality for the | time being can no longer be conceded to the present-day German. “As the Reich’s government sees in this manner of procedure a discrimina- tion against the German people as un it is humiliating, it deems itself | 2 under the circumstances as a second-class nation deprived of the rights to continue to participate in the negotiations which thereby could only lead to new dictates.” “In again expressing its unshakable | 1 the German government w_of these humiliating tinued on Page 3, Column 2) BIG GUNS AT BANGKOK GUARD AGAINST REBELS By the Assoclated Press. BANGKOK; Siam, October 14.—Pro- tected by artillery attacking forces were believed unable to match, the capital tensely awaited the next move today of rebels advancing on the city. Suburbanites were warned to seek safety as the government’s loyal army. unlimbered its heavier guns to turn back the two provincial rebel bands. One arm of the attacking force, com- manded by & member of the royal fam- {ly, worked its way within eight miles of the city. on Hindenburg Signs Decree to Sound Out Sentiment on Nazi Govern- ment’s Political Course. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, October 14.—President Paul von Hindenbarg tocay signed a decree dissolving the Reichstag, the German parliament. and announced a “pleb- iscite” will be held for the German voters to determine their attitude to- ward the new regime, and to make plain whether they indorse the Nazi government’s political course. Dr. Joseph Goebels, minister of public enlightenment and propaganda, issued an appeal to the nation on behalf of the Reich government to acquaint the man on the street with the president’s dramatic decree. The new Reichstag elections were set for November 12. Dr. Goebels also informed the statt- halters, or state governors, to dissolve the state diets, but to refrain from setting new elections for the present. By Cable to The Star. BERLIN, Germany, October 14— The Germa: ernment’s decision to ¢ | dissolve the Reichstag by a decree of | President Paul ven Hindenburg, and to hold new elections November 12, came {as a bombshell to Berlin. There was | no_anticipation of dissolution of the Relchstag. convened after the election of Chancellor Adolf Hitler on March 5, which was expected to hold office for four years. It was the Reichstag which consoli- dated and legalized the Hitler dictator- ship by voting the enabling law. It met only once after its opening ses- ! sion. The Nazis have an absolute ma- jority therein only with the co-opera- tion of the Nationalists. | The new elections present an enor- | mous puzzle. There is only one party | legally alive in the country—Hitler’s | own. " The others have ceased to exist. Either the elections must take place on the Italian model. with candidates of only one party—the Nazi party— participating, or the other parties must | be readmitted again. The future is unpredictable. (Copyright. 1931.) CERMANY PLEDGES. ACTION IN ATTACKS Von Neurath Apologizes for Keeping U. S. Ambassador Waiting Six Hours. By the Associated Press, BERLIN. October 14.— The United States had assurance today that the German government would leave no | stone unturned in prosecuting Nazis who molest Americans. In a meeting at which American Ambassador William E. Dodd cited the cases of at least 27 United States Ci‘-x izens ailegedly assaulted within the last few months, Foreign Minister von Neu- rath: 1. Apologized profusely for keeping the Ambassador waiting six hours; 2. Promised that nothing would be | left undone to handle the protests sat- isfactorily; and 3. Suggested that future mutual dis- cussions be arranged to settle the mat- ter definitely. In the future discussions, it was as- sumed, an answer will be given to Sec- | retary of State Cordell Hull's request from Washington for information as to what action has been taken in the 27 cases in which Americans have filed affidavits. Before the Ambassador finally gained an audience Von Neurath and the Ger- man cabinet considered the protests along with the disarmament question in a day-long session, It was apparent, despite the reas- surance of Von Neurath, that Ambas- sador Dodd did not ccnsider the matter | closed “The matter is in the process of a solution which I think will be satis- factory,” he said. Dodd said he had been definitely promised a written check-up from the foreign office by Monday. He was ad- vised by telephone as to the likely con- | tent of the pronwsed statement. “I would rather not discuss this until I receive the written communication,” he said. TOKIO CONCENTRATES TROOPS IN MANCHURIA Move Believed Measure in Preparation for Drive on Bandits. Precautionary By the Associated Press. TOKIO, October 14.—Authoritative sources said here today that Japanese troops were being concentrated at Muk- den. Changchun and Harbin, in Man- churia. Apparently the conceniration was a precautionary measure, ostensibly in preparation for a bandit drive. U. S. on Sidelines. The United States was described offi- cially today as entirely on the sidelines s0 far as the apparently swift increase of tension between Soviet Russia and Japan is_concerned. State Department officials said the Far Eastern situation was being watched through regular diplomatic re- ports, but that Ambassador Joseph H. Grew in Tokio was merely acting “in the role of a newspaper man” in re- porting to the department any unusual developments within view of his post. Government officials in close touch with the Far Eastern situation feel that | if any possible hostilities are averted for the next four weeks the likelihood of :d break will be considerably les- sened. CERMANY'S MOVE SURPRISE TO U. S, Hull Prepares Report to Roosevelt and Holds Hur- ried Conferences. By the Associated Press. | Germany's notice of withdrawal from the Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations sent reverbera- | tions through official and diplomatic Washington today, one immediate re- | | sul® being a hurried conference of State | | Department chiefs. Immediately on receiving the news, | Secretary of State Hull called tn Under- | secretary William Phillips and Plerre- | pont Moffat, in direct charge of Western European affalrs, and an armaments limitation expert, to discuss American | policy. | Later the Secretary expected to lay a detailed report before President | Roosevelt. First advices reaching the | White House were received without | official comment. Hull Delays Parley. To allow time for assembling all pos- sible information before speaking on | the matter, Hull postponed his daily press conference from 10:30 a.m. until after noon. | The sudden move of the Hitler gov- | ernment took American officials by | surprise. Through Norman H. Davis, chief of the American delegation at Geneva, the | United States has been striving to exert a conciliating influence in the hope of | bringing Germany and France into ! some sort of accord. i Conciliation Difficult, | | The German action was seen as mak- ing the task of conciliation difficult if | not impossible, although it was indi- | cated renewed efforts will be made to | use the good offices of the United States to move Germany from its stand. | While officials deferred statements | pending full reports from the Ambas- sador at Berlin and from Mr. Davis, they were plainly concerned and un- certain as to where the developments might lead. The action was widely viewed as a serious blow to the cause of world peace and as a seriously threatening element in an already tense European situation, | resulting from French distrust of the Hitler government. | . The German embassy received its | first news of the withdrawals through | press dispatches. Luther Sees Caffery. Dr. Luther conferred with Assistant . Secretary Caffery at the State Depart- | ment shortly after receiving the news. | Caffery said Luther had requested the appointment, but had not disclosed what he wished to discuss. In some quarters, the view was ex- pressed the German move might have beenn made for strategic purposes to gain a stronger bargaining position. One State Department official pointed to a possibility that Germany was mak- irg a bluff in the big international poker game of disarmament. It was pointed out Germany has left | the Arms Conference before and re- | turned to it. When Germany returned to the fold last December she had gained an important concession from France, a | recognition of the right of Germany to | arms equality in principle. ! It has been clearly demonstrated, however, that France is much less dis- posed to make concessions to the Hitler government than to previous German regimes since the war. e Flyer Lands at Baghdad. BAGHDAD, Iraq, October 14 (#).— Flight Lieut. Charles T. P. Ulm arrived | at noon today from Athens, completing another leg of his flight in an attempt to surpass the seven-day record from England to Australia. He left Athens shortly before midnight. GERMAN PAPERS SHY AT PRINTING, NEWS OF A.F. L. BOYCOTT PLAN By the Associated Press, BERLIN, October 14. — News of the decision of the American Federation of Labor convention to boycott German goods failed to reach the breakfast table here today. The report that the boyoott specifi- cally was directed against Germany was withheld from some of the press by the semi-official Wolff news agency, awalt- 1 A | ing instructions from responsible au- | thorities. | Even an earlier report that the A. F. of L. boycott vote was directed against | Russia and others, with Germany con- | templated, was shelved by the news- ‘nnpen themselves — although released | oy_the Wolff agency. Editors apparently considered the subject too to publish the | story without the express permission of the German propaganda ministry, {Attempt | adversely French Declare Their Views Justified. “GRAVEST NEWS IN 20 YEARS” to Curb Hotheads Held British Aim. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, October 14—A French spokesman today characterized the announcement of Germany’s intention to withdraw from the Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations as “the grav- est news in 20 years.” The news was flashed to the cabinet while it was in session discussing the armament situa- tion. A foreign office spokesman com- mented as follows: “France has done what she could to achieve disarmament. Her views are shared by the United States and Great Britain, and now it is perfectly clear where Germany stands.” The cabinet discussion of the German stand was informal because the session had been adjourned shortly before Joseph Paul-Boncour, the French for- eign minister, telephoned from Gene: The ministers themselves refrained from public comment. but privately it was indicated they viewed Chancellor Hitler's decision as grave and construed it as justification for France's firm stand. BRITAIN'S ROLE DESCRIBED. Officials Declared Seeking to Keep Hotheads From Acting. LONDON, October 14 (#).—Great Britain's role in the grave world crisis as the result of the German withdrawal from the disarmament conference and the League of Nations was described to- day as an effort to keep the European hotheads from rocking the boat. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald maintained the closest contact with Sir John Simon, the British foreign secre- tary at Geneva, and explicitly instructed the foreign office in Downing street to make no officlal comment. ‘Th2 German decision did not come as a complete surprise, however, to London political observers, who al- though not unmindful of the possibility of a clash with Germany, did not ex- pect the move before the reassembly of the full Disarmament Conference Monday. In his retreat at Chequers, Mr. Mac- Donald laid a firm hand on the British | governmental machinery as'a precau- tion against any misstep which might affect the European situa- tion. Sir John, the chief of the British disarmament delegation, will say noth- ing at Geneva without the approval of Mr. MacDonald and the national gov- ernment leaders in London. PACT MAY BE INVOKED. Rome Thinks Four-Power Treaty Must Be Called Into Play. ROME, October 14 (#).—Rome po- litical circles today expressed the be- lief that Premier Mussolini’s four- power European peace pact must now be called into play to settle the dis- armament questions, at least as they refer to Europe, as the result of the German withdrawal from the disarma- ment conference and the League of Nations. Italian circles received the informa- tion of the German action with great surprise. Article 3 of the Mussolini pact speci- fies that the four-power signatory to it (Italy, Great Britain, France and Germany) shall agree to examine the question of disarmament among them- selves if the Geneva conference fails or achieves only partial results. CONSTERNATION IN GENEVA. = l German Delegation Makes Plans to Leave for Berlin. GENEVA, Switzerland, October 14 (). —A report received here today that Germany had decided to withdraw from the Disarmament Conference, and also to resign from the League of Nations created a feeling of consternation and sadness. This report was regarded by the League and disarmament delegates as generally grave in purport. 1t was learned that the German dele- gation planned to leave for Berlin this afternoon. The members of the delegations of the other great powers immediately held consultations among themselves to consider the effect on the future of the Disarmament Conference. The first reaction heard was that it was useless to go on without the ans. (The Steering Committee has voted that the -full Disarmament Conference shall assemble next Monday.) Davis and Wilsen Confer. Another opinion heard was that the delegates should frame a convention without the Germans and then offer it to them for their signature, with the understanding that if it is refused the military restrictions of the treaty of Versailles shall continue to bind Ger- many. Norman H. Davis, American Ambas- sador at Large, held a long conference with Hugh Wilson, the United States Mli:xi:smr to Switzerland, on the situ- ation, The general opinion among the dele- gates appeared to be that the meeting of the full conference slated for Mon- day must be held so all delegates would have an opportunity to voice their views. Other delegates considered it most likely that a meeting of the repre- sentatives of the big powers would be held tonight or tomorrow. Raoul Amador of Panama, president of the League Council, announced as his tion went into a secret session _that Germany not_at- tend. Dr. Priedrich von Keller, 8 Ger- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) URE TX'&'.‘J? PAT! 1’5 THE ONLY PLACE INTOWN THAT GoT Tt POLITICAL LOOT RACKET ASSAILED Ralston Asks “No Quarter” at Anti-Crime Session. Plans Drafted. A vigorous attack on political corrup- tion, which was termed the “ugliest form” of lawlessness known in the United States, marked this morning's session of the National Anti-Crime Con- ference at the Shoreham Hotel. “The money that has been mulcted from county, city, State and national treasuries, is as bloody as the 30 pieces of silver that Judas accepted for the betrayal of Christ” the conference, which moved into its final stages today, was told. The statement was made by Cameron Ralston, field director of the National Reform Association, oldest anti-crime organization in this country. The cor- rupt politician should be shown *“no quarter of mercy,” he declared, adding a plea to “clean the whole kit and ka- boodle of them out of our Nation.” School and Church Hit. Pointing out criminal tendencies are acquired in youth, he blamed both school and church for failure to get boys and girls started in the right direction. Although the American people “expect too much” from the school. the church and the home, he said, greater efforts should be made to overcome the in- fluences of “a debauched metropolitan press, a sex-made moving picture pro- gram and the mind-conditioning bally- hoo of the advertisers.” “From these sources comes 8 great educational program of intemperance, descending morality and the ever deep- ening stream of slovenly literature,” he asserted. “This calls all the more for the education of youth, for the de- velopment of character—and we can- not begin too young.” £ Ralston was preceded by Capt. Rich- mond P. Hobson, U. S. N.. retired, presi- dent of the World Narcotic Defense As- sociation, who told the conference the “exploitation of drug addicts has an in- timate causative relation tc crime.” Hobson Sees Huge Waste. Hobson, famous for sinking the Mer- rimac, in Santiago Harbor during the Spanish War, estimated the cost of drug-inspired lawlessness at $2,000,000,- | 000 a vear. In New York. he said, 50 per cent of the persons convicted of offenses in- volving moral turpitude are drug ad- dicts. The fact that some drug addict develop a “mania for recruiting othe: he declared, is largely responsible for the “rising tide of crime in America.” “An analysis of typical cases” he as- serted, “brings the concluston that the youth of the country are being recruited into drug addiction in pool rooms, dance halls, on street corners and elsewhere.” Addicts of some narcotics, he added. would “rather kill than not, even after robbing their victims.” A resolution_setting aside Saturday and Sunday, November 11 and 12, for| special consideration by the churches of the seriofsness of the crime problem was adopted. Introduced by Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washing- ton, the resolution was indorsed by Dr. Joseph F. Thorny, S. J., professor of social economics at Georgetown Uni- versity and personal representative of the president of the institution, who said he was sure the Roman Catholic i Church would be glad to co-operate in | carrying out its provisions. Bishop Freeman declared the churches hardly can expect to survive unless they assume their responsibilities in the cam- paign against lawlessness. On the days designated, he suggested, all the churches should give serious considera- tion to the threatening condition and endeavor to awaken the people to the comparative need for action. ¢ Plans Drafted. The conference moved into its final stages today, as chairman of 14 .com- mittees, charged with formulating plans for a country-wide drive against law- lessness, prepared to submit their pro- posals to the nearly 400 delegates. The conference was addressed last night by Marcus A. Kavanagh of Chi- cago, Superior Court judge, who un- loosed a broadside of criticism of the public's attitude toward members of the underworld. ‘When criminals are placed on trial, he declared, “the sympathy is nearly always with the man accused, and there is elation if he is found not guilty.” “Your courts of final review, when they reverse judgment on a guilty man because of some technicality, are ap- (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Emergency Action Sought. HAS NT Auto Crash Vietim Unconscious After 50 Days in Hospital By the Associated Press ST. PAUL, October 14.—For 50 days, with the exception of a few brief intervals, Mrs. Dorotny Hardy, Minneapolis autcmobile accident victim, has been uncon- sclous in the city hospital. Mrs. Hardy suffered a frac- tured skull when struck by an automobile August 24. In 1930 Mrs. Max Beghtol, Lincoln, Nebr., was unconscious for 52 days at the same hospital as the result of an automobile accident. She died October 25, 1930. 3 N.R. A FACES CRISIS IN EAGLE REMOVAL | Must Make Good Its Claim That Action Results in Economic Death. ‘BV the Associated Press. A swift succession of events this week brought N. R. A. to a new turning point. at which its influence and fu- ture course appeared to depend largely upon impending decisions of its leadess |and the outcome of the re-employment {census under way today all over the Nation. The recovery unit was faced with having to make good its claim that Te- | i moval of the Blue Eagle, done now in a few instances, would be terriffic pun- |ishment, even ‘“economic death,” to chiselers, or risk collapse of the whole i voluntary movement for higher wages | and more jobs. Hugh S. Johnson and | his aides intended to make certain there | would be no public apatiy toward this { enforcement, and action was due. Retail Decision Promised. | A public pronouncement and formal decision on the minimum price control provisions of the retail codes, which are slated for drastic revision and elim- ination of “mark-ups,” was promised. | Johnson faced here a real dilemma. A | volume of farm sentiment hostile to N. |R. A. as the promoter of the fortunes |of industrial and commercial workers and higher costs.for the farmer, has been reported to him as being concen- trated against the “mark-ups,” with the idea these will increase the spread be- tween prices at which they sell and those at which they buy. On the other hand, an overwhelming proportion of the country’s 1,500,000 retail merchants, officials say, have their hearts set upon minimum prices 10 per cent or 7 per cent above the cost of goods as delivered to them. In the last analysis. the decision was up to President Roosevelt. The judicial arm of N. R. A, the Na- tional Labor Board, next week will have 1o make good also. Its chairman, Sen- ator Wagner of New York, has said fatly and uncompromisingly that Ken- tucky coal mine operators who ignored the board's summons to an arBitration meeting will be made to come in. They have challenged the industrial law al- ready in publicly refusing to deal with the United Mine Workers. The present census was to tell whe- ther the Blue Eagle did its job. Three million employers have been given cards on which they will indicate what the pay roll and number of employes is today and what it was on July 17. ‘The best guess today is 3,000,000 new jobs. If the figure drops below that, it may be necessary to revise codes to establish an average work week of 30 hours instead of the prevailing 40. It may be necessary to apply external aids of a financing nature in even greater [degree than the credit expansion and dqgom releasing program now mapped out. Yesterday’s Circulation, 115,619 (P) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. DILLON, READ PROBE BROUGHT 10 CLOSE, Couzens and Broker Engage| in Sharp Argument Over Methods. By the Associated Press. New evidence of bankers' practices | and profits, gleaned from the books of Dillon, Read & Co.. was before Senate | investigators today as they turned toward operations of the Chase Security | Corporation, which have been under | serutiny for months. g The Dillon, Read inquiry was con- cluded yesterday with a final burst of | statistics intermingled with sharp words between Clarence Dillon, senior | member, and Senator Couzens, outspok- | | en Michigan Republican. | Amid the mass of figures bearing on | the banking firm's operations was Te- corded a loan of $300.000 to Harvey C. Couch. now a director of the Recon-, struction Finance Corporation. The loan, made in 1928, was before he took | this post. It was listed as only half! paid at the end of 1931. Chase Hearing to Begin. Tuesday the committee will open its long contemplated inquiry into the| Chase Securities Corporation, affiliate of the Chase National Bank. In its final scrutiny of the Dillon, Read records the commiitee turned up Statistics showing the firm managed 64 | pools, syndicates and joint accounts during the five years from 1927 to 1931, } inclusive, and participated in almost 50 | others managed by some one else. Other figures disclosed the firm made | profits of nearly $24,000,000 during the five-year period ssues of stocks | and bonds. | H. C. Hopson, executive vice presi- | dent of the Associated Gas & Electric Co.. who for weeks was sought for questioning unsuccessigily, took the wit- | ness stand late vesterday for an inquiry into books of companies he directed. Dillon and Couzens Tie Up. | Dillon and Couzens had their argu- | ment after the banker had read an| account of investment operations, urged a free flow .of capital to meet long- | term needs and told the committee | that about $3.000.000.000 in long-term | obligations soon would have to be re- funded. Referring to evidence that the Dil- lon Banking Co. profited heavily from | foreign bonds now in default. while the books of one $60.000.000 domestic | investment trust showed a loss of ap- | proximately $26,000,000 in assets value, | Couzens asked: | “Do you expect to secure public con- | fidence after the disclosures made here not only of Diiion-Read’s handling of | foreign " loans, but domestic sales as well2” | " 'Dillon did not ref® at the moment, {but a half_hod from: the banker | indicated affirmation, and Couzens went on: Difficulty Foreseen. “I think if you are still of that view- point, after ail this testimony, you are very gravely in error as to ihe return of public confidence and that you will | have a continued difficulty, if not al- most an impossibility, of accomplish- ing a refunding of these securities that you say have to be refunded.” “I am sorry, Senator Couzens, that you feel that way,” observed Dillon. Couzens told him he was merely citing “the ‘public reaction,” and, re- ferring to a mutual exchange of ap- preciation between the committee and Dillon in their dealings, added: “I don't want this hearing to end with a_mere exchange of words, when (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Distinguished Botanist Dies. BALTIMORE, October 14 (#).—Dr. Charles C. Plitt, professor of botany at the School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, and an international author- ity on lichens, died here yesterday. He had been ill since a leg was amputated several months ago. He was 64. | The futile efforts of a youth to meet a girl with whom he fell in love from a picture published in a newspaper four years ago, were culminated in Police Court todayqwhen he was sent to jall for accosting her on the street. For the past several years, Marcell Ridgely, 25, testified he has been fol- lowing Miss Ruth Byrd, 22, 2700 Chain Bridge road, whose photographs had attracted his attention. She thwarted duction, and when he approached her at_her home yesterday, she had a policeman arrest him for disorderly |FOUR-YEAR EFFORT TO MEET GIRL! LANDS YOUTH IN JAIL 15 DAYS| his every attempt to obtain an intro- | him for a short while and released him { without placi a charge. Oddly enough, the young man’s ar- rest was just at the moment when he was, he said, about to apologize for his “shadow work.” Two weeks ago Miss Byrd turned to face Ridgely and warned him if he didn't stop following her she would have him locked up. Yesterday l&e stopped her and started conversa- ! ion. | “I'm sorry about——." But the officer was_called. “I gave up my girl, who lived in the neighborhood,” the defendant told Judge | Gus A. Schuldt, “eo that I might meet M!g Byrdt serving a 15-day sen! in jail. J A. F. OF L. BEGINS MILITANT DRIVE T0 PROTECT LABOR Call for German Boycott, Code Revision Cited as Accomplishments. STRIKE RIGHT DEFENDED; DOMINATION REJECTED Green Says Federation Refuses to Approve N. R. A. Mistakes. Council Considers Plans. By the Associated Press. The American Federation of Labor set out today upon a more militant organization campaign than ever in its history—a campaign that its just cone cluded fifty-third annual convention held necessary to effectuate the recove ery act. That, plus demands for N. R. A. code revisions and greater speed in the pub- lic works program, along with continued insistence upon the right to strike, stood out in the minds of the officials as the biggest accomplishment of the two-week meeting. Today, President William Green, re- elected and victorious in a number of brushes that tried the strength of the conservative against the more liberal element, called the Executive Council into session to plan for the future. Their problems included everything from agitation for a boycott of German goods and services to_a general revision of N. R. A. codes 50 a$ to provide higher minimum wages and a 30-hour week for all workers. Labor Keeps Reins. Green's analysis of the convention was_this: "“We have shown our own capacity and determination to run our own af- fairs. There are plenty who would guide our destinies if we would but let them. They would plunge us into one fanciful scheme after another, but we have avoided that. We remain masters of our own movement “We have voted full support to the Recovery Administration, but we have refused to extend that approval to its mistakes. We have criticized as freely as we have espoused, and therein lies the great value of our support. It is not the support of a ‘yes man’ move- ment.” He reiterated labor's insistence upon the right to strike, although Hugh S. Johnson, N. R. A. administrator. in speech to the convention called stri “economic sabotage.” “As long as there is freedom in America the right to strike must be maintained inviolate and inviolable,” Green said. urging again that arbitr: tion be tried before strikes. Representation Sought, Green planned to press soon for the equal labor representation on all N. R. A. organizations that the convention demanded. “We have demanded a rightful rep- resentation on all of the beards, com- mittees and commissions of the Ro- covery Administration,” he said. “It must be representation of our own choosing, not of the choosing of others. We want. and demand, real represen- tation, not a shadow that merely looks like it.” And as he turned to the new jobs outlined for him by the convention, he added: “We shall strive on for a better life and a better America. If we are practical in our methods, we shall the sooner achieve our aims.” By official interpretation, the con- vention late yesterday was informed that it had voted to boycott goods only from Germany instead of from Italy, Russia and China also. Green Explains Boycott. Just before the convention took & recess preliminary to a night session, President Green referred.to the boycott resolution approved earlier and men= tioning the four countries. Then he added: “The boycott declared by this con- vention is to apply only to goods from Germany and German services. It in no way is intended to affect any other country.” In its closing sessions, the federa« tion voted to protest to the administra- tion against “some officials of the . R. A" who “are attempting to undermine living standards under tha cloak of an argument that such action would stimulate building construction.” It blamed delay in the public works Prognm upon the “apparent laxity of local and State public officials in pre- senting authorization and plans for local public works” and added an ap- peal to President Roosevelt, the Pub- lic Works Administration and State and local officials to expedite the work. It said, too, that *“violations of the codes in the textile industry are be- coming more pronounced” and asked (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) D. C. WOMAN FOUND POISONED IN HOTEL Miss Dorothy Salmon Leaves Note, Contents of Which Are With- held by Police. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 14.—Miss Doro= thy Salmon, about 25, was found dead in a hotel room today, apparently the victim of poison. She had registered at the hotel Sep- tember 26, giving Washington, D. C., 88 her home city. The body, fully clothed, was found by hotel employes. 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