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By the Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS, August 4—Two men were shot and wounded by an jce cream truck driver today in an- other outbreak of violence in the truck drivers’ strike Leo Holscher, drtver for an ice crzam company, reported to the National Guard that he had fired a shotgun at strike pickets stoning his vehicle. One of the stones, he said, struck him in the back. The pickets escaped Twenty pickets, defying the Na- tional Guard stationed only three blocks away, swarmed over the truck while Holscher, the driver, was in & nearby bullding He returned to seize a shotgu?, squeeze the trigger, and drive the at- tackers off, Earl Collins and George Schirts, with minor buckshot wounds, later were admitted to a hospital they were treated WI’_F:; brlcyka had been hurled through the windshield of the truck, ice cream containers were scattered on the street and the pickets were jerking out wiring in the ignition system when Holscher appeared to drive off the marauders, Injured Man Dies. It was the first outbreak of vioience in the several days, sporadic dis- turbances the previous days being con- fined to stopping trucks, overturning them in a few instances and some- imes ting drivers. 4 'rheb:xu:r‘nk followed the death Jast night of Alfred Israelsen, 25. He died from injuries suffered when the car in which he was riding was struck by & squad car of the National Guard. The Guardsmen, answering & trouble ran through a triffic signal last The driver of the car in which Israelgen rode, Carl Wallin, was killed utright, i TT.h was reported shortly after word that Federal mediators ‘were nearing a settlement of the truck drivers’ strike prompted Gov. Floyd B. to rescind an order closing streets to all commercial trucks except those carrying necessities. Olson's action followed a raid on offices of the Citizens' Alliance by National Guardsmen under his ex- press command. The chief executive said afterward he was going “to investigate reports thet the Citizens' Alllance had im- ported agents provocateur” in connec- tion with the drivers’ walkout. Threatens New Order. Evidence seized in the raid, Gov. Olson said, would be studied to estab- lish, if possible, the truth of these reports. Papers and records were taken from the offices. He issued a statement declaring the evidence “corroborates my charge that a Citizens' Alliance clique dom- inates and controls the actions of the Employers Advisory Committee—that it maintains a considerable number of stool pigeons in various labor unions.” Though the Governor rescinded his street restriction order soon after it was to have become effective at one minute past last midnight, he quali- fied his withdrawal by announcing if “final settlement is not reached by Sunday night I will issue the order effective Sunday night at midnight.” PEACE NEARER IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, August 4 (#).—Peace seqmed nearer in the Chicago stock yaid strike today 1}muh S. Johnson, N. R. A. admin- ator, remaining here to work on a plan until “some com- is mediation posure” is attained, said the prospect | for settlement 1s “hopeful ” For five hours yesterday Johnson studied a file of proposals and counter proposals made during the 11 days of the strike. He would not discuss his conference with principals in the con- troversy. Persistent reports came from the conference room thst Johnson had attempted to communicate with Fred- erick H. Prince of Boston, principal stockhoider of the Union Stock Yard & Transit Co. Prince is reported on a yacht cruise in the Atlantic. Earlier he had ex- pressed his confidence in the ability of Jocal officials of the company to “han- | die the problem.” No violence arose as commission merchants resumed the sale of com- mercial cattle. They had to handle their own stock, as their 400 employes members of a union affiliated with the striking stock handlers, had walked out in sympathy. Yesterdsy's shipments, however. {200,000 Expected to of German President—Arrangements Made for Impressive Rites. By the Associated Press BERLIN. August 4 —A death parade in which more than 100,000 persons may have a last look at the late Presi- dent Paul von Hindenburg is being planned as a part of the funeral exercises Tuesday at the Tannenberg Memorial Monument The march, which possibly will last | all through the night, will pass through the “Hindenburg Tower"” of the monu- ment, where the coffin will be placed following the official exercises More than 200,000 spectators are expected to attend the services, but officials regarded it as doubtful if all of them, even if they march three or four abreast, can be accorded an op- portunity to pass the bier, Every Section to Participate. Every city, town and village of the | Reich 1s expected to participate in the services at Tannenberg. The fu- | neral oration to be delivered by Chan- world-wide. Throughout the country, moreover, Nazi Storm Troopers will engage in tion's activity will be slowed down to a virtual stop. There will be a com- plete one-minute pause at 11:45 a.m. In the Tannenberg Monument, the | President’s coffin will stand during the services in a room, the floor of | cellor Adolf Hitler will be broadcast | | the solemn funeral parade bezween; 11 am. and noon Tuesday. The na- | Hindenburg Death Procession To Pass Throughout Night Clamor to Pass Bier | which will be covered with white sand sprinkled with oak twigs in accord- ance with Prussian custom. In the inner courtyard, fronting a high eross which designates the burial place of 20 soldiers who were killed in the battle of Tannenberg in 1914, will be massed 50 old regimental flags. Before these flags will stand the regi- mental guard of honor. Three sacrificial fires, billowing out clouds of black smoke, symbolic of grief, will burn steadily in front of the monument, the eight towers of which will be covered with pine and oak branches as well as draped in black flags. Several of the nation’s foremost artists are supervising the | decoration of the monument for the | occasion. Four thousand privileged guests, in- cluding foreign diplomats, will have places inside the monument during the funeral services. Because of a lack of hotels, they will be accommo- | dated overnight—as will many other | spectators—in hundreds of special trains. Meanwhile, thousands of workmen were hastily deployed at Tannenberg to increase the telephonic communi- cations, set up radio broadcasting ap- paratus, end erect the black-draped tribunal from which the final rites | for Von Hindenburg will be conveyed to the whole world. VONPAPEN PUTS FATTH N HILER Germany Assured by Atti- tude of Conservative and Hindenburg Friend. By the Associated Press. NEUDECK, Germany, August 4— Confidence in Adolf Hitler as “the {leader of new Germany” was ex- pressed today by Franz von Papen, until recently vice chancellor and a critic of extreme Nazism, after a visit to the deathbed of President Paul von Hindenburg. Von Papen said Hitler would serve as “a trustee of President von Hind- enburg’s noblest tradition and his- tory, who will continue the work to which the life of the sainted dead devoted.” . The statement was regarded as re- assuring to Nazis, since Von Papen had been considered a leader of con- servative Germany. He was named special envoy to Austria by Hitler last week. But a note of apprehension was sounded today as Germany, irrespec- tive of religion and race, mourned her | beloved Paul von Hindenburg. Johannes Adolf Cardinal Bertram, in a message at Breslau ordering | dead President, said: | “In this exceedingly grave hour our prayers that gracious God may grant our people and our fatherland days of happiness and inner and outer | peace are more earnest than ever.” A death mask of Von Hindenburg was taken by Prof. Joseph Thorak of Berlin. The body of the old warrior- statesman lies in a huge room of his estate here, awaiting burial. Body to Rest at Tannenberg. The German government decided finally today that the late President will be entombed in the memorial at Tannenberg instead of on the grounds of his estate at Neudeck, where he had expressed the wish to lie. Until today the authorities in Ber- lin and members of the household at Neudeck have been in disagreement as to the final disposition of the field | marshal’s body. Berlin heard rumors that inability to find Von Hindenburg's will was | responsible for the uncertainty. | _The body may be brought back to Neudeck after the services at Tan- | nenberg, where Adolf Hitler will eulogize his predecessor. All church bells—Catholic as well as Protestant—are being tolled through- {out Germany for an hour each eve- | ning until the day of the funeral. The first Jewish newspaper to ap- | pear since the President’s death, Judische Rundshau, paid tribute to (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) AIR MANEUVER CURBED Communists Defy French Police During Fake Plane Attack. . VILLENEUVE - LES - AVIGNON, { France, August 4 (# —FPrance's air | maneuvers above this city were halted last night by a crowd of demonstra- |tors ied by Communists, who were protesting against war preparations. | When the signal came for all the lights in the town to be extinguished, | 8s though air raiders were attacking, | the crowd lighted big bonfires in the church bells rung it tribute to the | AGTING WITH U. S DENIED BY BRITAIN Reports of Combining Pa- cific Forces in Event of Break Hit. By the Assoclated Press. | LONDON, August 4 —A government spokesman stated today that there can be no question of any united ac- | tion by Anglo-Saxon nations before or after the 1935 naval conference. Inquiries at the foreign office brought an official denial to reports published in America that the United States and Great Britain were nego- tiating on the possibility of combin- ing their Paeific Ocean forces in the event of a breakdown of the naval conference. Confirming that Great Britain in- tends to issue the invitations for the conference, the spokesman stated: “You cannot expect nations to ac- cept invitations to a conferefice if there are any separate arrangements made or even discussed between any two parties beforehand. Reports Unfortunate. “It is unfortunate that reports of such prearrangements are circulating because it directly conflicts with the policy Great Britain is pursuing. We are going into the conference.hoping | it will succeed, and we will leave th2 whole conference to decide what wi happen afterward.” A source close to the admiralty de- clared there was no possibility that naval authorities could be undertak- ing even informal arrangements along the line suggested without the knowl- edge of their governments. It was recalled that Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, who recently returned to England from Washington, where he conferred with American naval chiefs, stated, “The two navies are complementary rather than competi- tive,” but then he added: “That Anglo-American co-operation will ever take the shape of a formal agreement is, to say the least, unlikely.” Sliding Scale Suggestion. A government spokesman indicated that Great Britain is not as firmly op- posed to altering the 5—5—3 ratio as wag Secretary Swanson of the United States in his speech this week, adding, nevertheless, “But we do not see what we can substitute for the ratio unless some sort of a sliding scale | can be created which would remove | the so-called stigma Japan attaches | to the 5—5—3 agreement. There still must be some way found to keep | navies within certain bounds.” | | LeniEE 'REVOLT SMASHED, SAVING FOOCHOW | Fukien Province Reds Subdued ‘ Says | Second Time, } Shanghai. By the Assoctated Press. | SHANGHAI, August 4—The Chi- nese government claimed today its troops had smashed a Communist re- | bellion in Fukien Province and saved the city of Foochow from threatened capture. Censorship, however. was sharp and were light, as is normal for the end| square and defied the police to extin- | details of the fighting were not avail- of the week. The first test of the ability of non-union men to handle the work will come Monday. Reports are current that union men gave consideration at a meeting last uight to a request of the commission men that Federal Judge Philip L Sullivan be asked to construe an eward he made in a similar con- troversy in the yards last year. A minimum wage guarantee is re- rt-d to be the principal stumbling lock to settlement. Guide for Readers Amusements Churches Comics Features . Financial Losdt1 and Found Serial Story Service Orders . Society ...... guish them. The police fatled. e More Quintuplets Born. BUENOS AIRES, August 4 (f.— 'Dlspnlches yesterday from Iriville, | Argentina. said Mrs. Teresa Muscoloni | gave birth to quintuplets, four girls | and & boy. All died within two hours. | able. Earlier unconfirmed reports received at Hong Kong said the Communists had broken through government | forces to capture the city of Shuikow and were menacing the important port | of Foochow | The British warship Witch arrived at Foochow this afternoon. | { By the Associated Press | SPOKANE, Wash.. August 4—The sheriff’s office last hight disclosed that | a sack of dynamite was found four miles southwest of here, over which President Roosevelt's special train was scheduled to arrive from Portland, Oreg The discovery was made after a a package. Detonating caps were with the ex- plosives, sheriff’s deputies said. -4 days ago near the right of way 213 | DYNAMITE FOUND NEAR TRACKS TO BE TRAVELED BY ROOSEVELT | | An armed force of county officers and secret service department guarded the spot. “We thought possibly the dynamite might have been intended for the President’s train,” said Sheriff George Miles, “and we were taking no chances. We kept the guard there to capture | the men if they returned for the ex- watch-tower operator for the Union | plosives.” Pacific Railway had seen men deposit | At the time of the announcement last night of the discovery the Presi- dent’s train was at least 100 miles to the soutd N ROOSEVELT VOWS 11 WAL CONTRL PONER RESDURCES Visits Bonneville Dam and Moves on to Grand Coulee Site. W |OUTPOURINGS OF PEOPLE HAIL HIM ALONG ROUTE | Projects Are Intended as Yard- i sticks for Electricity Prices, He Says. ! By the Associated Press EN ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO WASHINGTON; August 4 —President Roosevelt crossed the Pacific Northwest today with an announced policy that the Govern- ment is going to control natural pow- er resources and expand this section. Hailed home along the way from his American territorial sea trip by great outpourings of people, Mr. Roosevelt proceeded with his imme- diate aides to the Federal projects of the Columbia River basin. Today he approached the keystone of the Northwest development—the Grand Coulee power and navigation plan. In this, he expects the giant of the Northwest, the Columbia, to be thoroughly harnessed and brought under Government control. First Talk Since Return. On the lower banks of the Colum- bia late yesterday, overlooking steam shovels and trucks at the Bonneville Dam site, the President made his first talk after returning to United States soil. “I don’t believe that you can have enough power for a long time to come, and the power that we are developing here is going to be power which for all time is going to be controlled by Government.” The President conceived the power projects as “yardsticks so the people of this country will know they are paying the proper price for elec- tricity of all kinds.” One yardstick, Mr. Roosevelt said, already hgs been started on the Colo- rado River. The Tennessee Valley | and the Columbia River are numbers two and three. “And the fourth, the St. Lawrence is going to be started,” the President promised. Room for Vast Increase. President Roosevelt pointed out that in the Northwest there is room for a “vastly increased population,” which hé thought would be required in the country’s progress ‘Traveling last night among the peo- ple of this frontier section, Mr. Roose- velt was at the back platform to say “Hello.” Talking with the folk at Arlington, Oreg., he asked how the fishing was, and added he had snared a “pretty good haul” in the Pacific. Indians in war paint and feathers doing a snake dance around a huge bonfire welcomed Mr. Roosevelt as his train crossed over the Oregon boundary into Washington. Following is a court reporter’s trans- scription of President Roosevelt's ad- dress: My friends of Oregon and Wash- ington: There is an old saying that “seeing is believing” and that is why I came here today. Until today I had never been familiar with more than the lower course of the Columbia River, but as far back as 1920 I had the privilege of coming out through these States, through all the great Northwest, and I conceived the great belief that this wonderful valley of the Columbia was one of the greatest assets that not only the Northwest, but all of America, had. Fourteen years ago I determined that if I ever had the right or the opportunity to do the develgping of this grand river and the territory surrounding it, I would do my best to put this great project through. Yes, seeing is believing. Over a year ago, when we first established the principle of commencing great public works projects in every part of the Union, I became firmly convinced that the Government should immedi- ately take up construction of Bonne- ville and the Grand Coulee Dams, and so we got started. I am also reminded that it was on the 26th day of September last year, 10 months ago, that the allocation of money for the Bonneville project was made by the White House. I think we have gone a Jong way in less than a year. Visions of Future. It has been my conception and my dream, that while most of us are alive, we would see sea-going vessels come up the Columbia River as far as_The Dalles. It was only this morning that the Secretary of War told me of a new survey that is being made by the Army engineers. Prom that survey, we hope that it will be found to be wisdom to enlarge these locks here, so that ocean-going ships can pass up as far as The Dalles, and I hope that we can enlarge the navigation needs from The Dalles up, so that " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) DROWNS IN CHANNEL Colored Lad Dies While Swim- ming—Body Recovered. Walter Butler, 13, colored, 132 D street southwest, was drowned yes- terday afternoon in the Washington Channel at the foot of Tenth street southwest. He had been swimming with several companions. P. W. Martin of No. 3 Engine Com- pany, recovered the body in about 40 minutes, and members of the fire rescue squad made an unsuccessful !effort at resuscitation. |SCHOOL CONTRACTS LET Contracts for improvements to the heating plants of the Douglass- Simmons School and the Shaw Junior High School were awarded by the Commissioners yesterday to D. D. Cofidon Co. The price for the alterations to the Douglass-Simmons plant was $4.360 and for the Shaw Junior High Job $4,351. [ (#) Means Associated Pre TWO CENTS. | DONT_KNOW WHETHER To SHOW THis OR HIDE IT! PENNSY FREIGHT LOOTED BY GANG Cigarettes Thrown From Train Near Lanham. Detective Fires. Using a rope ladder to lower them- selves from the top of a fast freight train on which they are believed to have secreted themselves at the Ben- ning yards, a gang of robbers early today broke into a sealed box car and tossed off more than 16 cases of cigarettes before being discovered and fired upon by a railroad detective. Balked in their attempt to load the cigarettes into two automobiles which were waiting for them on a dirt road that crosses the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks about a mile south’ of Lanham, Md., the thieves fled after leaping from the train. The cigarettes were recovered and turned over to railroad officials. Jobbery occurred about 5:45 am., the train sped toward Baltimore, The gang, police believe, is the same one that has been t trains in the vicinity of the yards for the last sev- eral weeks. License Tags Checked. ‘The license numbers of the cars in which the robbers made their get- away were obtained by the railroad detective, who turned them over to police of both the District and Mary- land. Two men are said to have been riding in one of the machines and an undetermined number in the other one. A quick check-up of the license numbers disclosed, police said, that one of the automobiles was listed to a resident of Darlington, Md., and the other one to a Baltimorean. Prince Georges County police, after a conference with the railroad de- tective, whose identity was not re- vealed, reconstructed the robbery at- tempt as follows: ‘The robbers, after parking iheir curs near the Lanham crossing, where they had planned to throw off their loot and flee, boarded the train as it pulled out of the Benning yards. They rode on top of one of the cars, or between two of them, until the train had left the yards. Then they lowered themselves down the side of the car containing the cigarettes, using a rope ladder brought along for that purpose, broke the seal on the door and went to work. While they were at work, however, they were discovered by the railroad detective, who fired three shots at them as they leaped from the train. The _attempted The detective also jumped from the | train, but the thieves scrambled into their cars and sped away. The de- tective flagged another freight and rode to Lanham, where he instructed Mrs. Hilda Wiser, crossing watch- woman, to notify police. Woods Are Searched. Officers, arriving a few minutes later, made a thorough search of the woods in the vicinity, but failed to find any trace of the fugitives. A hunt along highways and side roads also was fruitless, The cigarettes were found at the foot of an embankment beside the tracks. A number of empty cases also were found, but police said they appeared to have been there for sev- eral days. The time of the attempted robbery was established by police and resi- dents of the section after Pennsyl- vania officials denied it had occurred today. Cigarette robberies were one of the specialties of the notorious “Tri- State” gang, recently rounded up by police of Washington, Baltimore, Richmond, New York, San Francisco | and Johnson City, Tenn. The “Tri-Staters,” in a truck held- up near St. Petersburg, Va., obtained cigarettes and cash with a total value of approximately $60,000, according to police. They also made a large haul in a similar robbery in North Carolina. COLORED MOB LYNCHES MEMBER OF OWN RACE By the Associated Press. SHREVEPORT, La. August 4—A | colored man was lynched last night by | members of his own race because, officers said today, he had insulted a colored girl. A group of-about "0 colored persons | tied Grafton Page. 30, to a tree limb | near Bethany, stripped him and then bent him to | 22 miles “rom here; death with pine knots, otficers re- ported. Page, described as a “bully” in the community at Bethany, was seized by the group after the automobile in which he was driving the girl away had collided with a truck, knocking the girl unconscious. No arrests have been lflifi. pu ASSET OR LIABILITY? Three Male Mayors Find Job too Hard; Woman Appointed By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, August 4 — The three last mayors of the city of Calera were men, as all mayors of all cities in Chile al- ways have been. But the three last mayors resigned, complain- ing that the post was too diffi- cult. So today the ministry of the interior named Senora Lily Wal- lace de Duus as mayor of Calera. Senora de Duus is 35 years old, the daughter of English parents, the granddaughter of the founder of the Valparaiso Gas Co. and the wife of Juan Duus, a prom- inent sportsman. BORAH'S DEFIANCE SPIKED BY N.R.A. Official Denies Authority Is Given to Maintain Bread Prices. By the Associated Press. Senator Borah's offer to defend an Idaho baker for violating a code au- thority’s price order drew from the N. R. A today » statement there was no authority, national or local, to compel higher bread prices. Walter White, N. R. A. deputy ad- | ministrator, formerly in charge of the | baking code, said: “We are co- ioperlung to stabilize the price struc- jture in areas where we know little | bakers are hard hit.” He asserted, however, there was no official author- ity to maintain fixed bread prices. White also said the local code au- thority, whose order Borah had ad- vised the baker to ignore, was not recognized by the National Bakery Council, the code authority for the industry. “While there is no N. R. A. author- ity behind baking prices, we want the small bakers to know we are going to help them compete with chain stores and larger bakeries,” White said. His comment was in ccnnection with the case of E. W. Nestor, Glenns Ferry, Idaho, baker, who was advised by Borah not to raise his bread prices in accordance with an order issued by Sid Graves of Twin Falls, Idaho. SENATOR BACKS BAKER. Approves Opposition to Price-Raising Order. GLENNS FERRY, Idaho, August 4 {#).—A baker, who defied an N.R. A. code authority administrator’s order, | has won the support of Senator Wil- liam E. Borah, Republican, of Idaho. Ordered by the bakery code au- thority of Southern Idaho to increase the wholesale and retail price of un- shiced bread 1 cent, E. W. Nestor, the only baker here, complied and then sought the Senator’s advise as to the (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, August 4.—The name of George Raft, movie bull- fighter, was linked today with an impromptu Hollywood fist fight. The embroglio was accompanied by accounts of a bloody battle and a denial that there had been one. ‘Those who said there was a fight— they included William Sharples, ra- dio announcer, and Les Mawhinney, former newspaper reporter, as well as a dozen or more others—said Raft, Much “Killer” Grey, his bodyguard, and Sam Satz, Hollywood man-about- town, were the principals. The scene, they said, was an alley or parking lot. The cause was laid to an asserted quip by Satz anent | other day on Raft's left ear, split in a boxing match. Satz reportedly landed a clean clip on Raft's rejuvenated ear and in re- turn was knocked down four times by the actor. Satz's nose, those telling the story said, appeared badly bat- tered, possibly broken. Raft denied he had fought. Satz denied he was in the neighborhood of the supposed battle. Grey said he had done the fighting with a “guy who passed a remark at me the other night in a club.” Witnesses of the between the patent-leather- l some plastic surgery performed the DAVIS SAYS FARM AID MUST GO ON Administrator Tells West- ern Conference Drought Emphasizes Need. By the Associated Press. RENO, Nev., August 4—Chester C. Davis, farm administrator, told the Western Farm Bureau Conference to- day that the drought “all but places beyond argument” the necessity for continuing Government aid to the farmers, “The Government has gone into active partnership with the farmers,” to help them and this change in atti- tude is “so great as to overshadow all of the A. A. A’s detailed farm- plans,” Dayis declared. Hitting critics of the A. A. A, Davis declared: “In reality, the opponents have only one idea. That idea is that the Gov- ernment should get out of efforts to help agriculture and stay out. It is the same idea that prevailed in Wash- ington prior to March 4, 1933. “It is the identical thought * * * that led {Inally to depression—the de- termination that the leadership and power of government should be denied the farmers and workers in their ef- forts to solve their own problems and guide their own destinies. * * * “Those who stand for a Govern- ment hands-off policy apparently ex- pect that farmers should be exposed unprotected to the worst hazards of weather as part of the normal risks of their trade, or that if made penniless tirey should rely on private alms.” He sald the crop adjustment pro- grams “are proving of incalculable benefit” by giving benefit payments to drought-stricken farmers. Contracted acres planted to pasture and forage crops were also supplying Winter feed which will be “desperately needed,” he added. Some people are using the drought as an argument for abandonment of crop control, Davis declared. “But the fact is that the surpluses were built up by known causes, none of which had anything to do with the drought”—the transition of America from a Hebtor to a creditor Nation, trade barriers and motorization of American farms. “Not one of these causes has been affected in the slightest by drought. were again, with prices at the bottom and ruin staring them in the face.” —e N. R. A. FILLS VACANCY The N. R. A. yesterday announced appointment of Charles B. Barnes as chairman of Division 1, North, of the Bituminous Coal Labor Board, to suc- ceed John Carmody, who resigned. Barnes, alseady chairman of Divi- sion 1, South, at Cincinnati, thus be- comes chairman for the entire divi- sion. The area includes Ohio, Penn- sylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Tennessee, { Michigan and Maryland. RAFT WINNER OF FISTICUFFS, PROVIDED THERE WAS ONE actor and Satz, nephew of a chain drug store operator, said it started in a popular film restaurant after Satz remarked: ““There go a couple of boys who just had to be beautiful. Raft had his ear decaulifiowered, and Grey had his nose remodeled.” Raft and Grey, the witnes¢s said, told Satz to “shut up,” and one thing led to another until the trio decided to go outside and do something about it. Among witnesses said to have been at the informal ringside were Carole Lombard, Judith Allen, June Collyer, Mona Maris, Jack Haley and William Frawley. It was said Raft smashed Satz’s glasses after they had been removed and led with a left, which missed fire and connected with the chin of a “woman from Des Moines." Satz, the blow-by-blow account con- tinued, landed on Raft's bandaged ear, and the actor countered with a series of one-two punches which put Satz upon the ground four times. the %me, six of them arriving in time find a great crowd collected, but_no signs of a fight or fighters. “I was the one who fought,” Grey aald, “not Raft. Lucky for me I didn't get punched in the jaw, for I Jjust had my nose lifted the other day. It all isn’t very important. The other guy passed a remark at me the other night in a club.” NEW ORLEANS WAR TONE TAKEN OVER BY WISECRACKERS Citizens in Kidding Mood as Tramps Sleep in Park Through “Battle.” MAYOR SAYS GUARDS ARE ERASING NAMES Books in Registration Office Being Protected, Says Long-—Allen Refuses Demobilizing. By the Associated Press, NEW ORLEANS, August 4.—No man’s land in New Orleans’ political war zone 1s in the hands of the spec- tators today, with the only exchanges the repartee of passersby about the “terrible bloodless war." Swords rattled in their scabbards. Machine guns and rifles remained mute. Generalissimo Huey P. Long gravely announced he was going “on @ fishing trip.” There was grimness in the machine guns of National Guardsmen called out by Senator Long and Gov. O, K. Allen, and a potential menace in the rifles of Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley's special police, but the martial at- mosphere ended there. The troops were fortressed in the martial law sone of the city registra- tion voting office. The mayor's forces swarmed In the city hall just across the street. Wisecracks by Citizens. Derelicts still slept peacefully on benches in quiet Lafayette Square, and broadly smiling citizens moved up and down the battle zone in the street making derisive wisecracks But all the time, Walmsley said. the Guardsmen were busy in the regis- tration office scratching from the books the names of citizens who would vote in the September congressional primary, ih which both he and Leng are supporting candidates. Long countered simply by protect! ing that he was the vot: books from unlawful m:."ny w.n:..: ley and cleaning up the city's “vice and corruption” at the same time, Meanwhile, Walmsley forces delayed an attempt to secure contempt of court citations which would send to Jail Genator Long and Adjt. Gen. Ray- mond H. Fleming, commander of the militia. ‘The District Court order issued yes- m;mvz'dmu :n':in' Tong and Ham’-- xaru.butwm:lb'n'\;;a.“nmm Demobilization Requested. Senator Long sald he iad gone to Baton Rouge in accordance with the order had bilize the h “Governor Allen told me to go to h:al.lln the Senator laughingly ex- ed. Trucks bristling with arms thun- dered up to the registration office last night, adding steel helmets, gas masks and gas bombs to the machine gun and rifle equipment already there, Playing the game according to the rules established in the last six days, Mayor Walmsley countered by rushing 300 special police into the City Hall, CROWDER IS SOLD TO DETROIT TIGERS Veteran Nationals’ Pitcher Goes by Waiver Route, Griffith Announces. and commanded Gov. Allen, his lieutenant, to demo- Ruardsmen route, it was announced by Clark g]ngnh. president of the Washington lub, The waiver price in the American League is $4,000. Crowder, who annexed 24 games last year to tie Bob Grove in the Jjunior circuit in games won, has been the Nationals’ biggest disappointment this season with only four victories as against 10 defeats. He was never able to hit his 1933 stride at any time, The “General,” who is 33 years old, was purchased by Washington in 1926 from Birmingham of the South- ern Association. In that year he won seven games and dropped four and in 1927 he was traded to St. Louls for Pitcher 'Tom Zachary. The Nationals reacquired Crowder, along with Out- fielder Heinie Manush, from the Browns in 1930, giving up Outfielder Goose Goslin in exchange. Crowder, who served nearly three years in the United States Army prior to taking his first fling in professional base ball in 1922, enjoyed his biggest season in 1928 when he won 21 and lost only five games for the lowly Browns. In 1932, hurling for Wash~ ington, he pitched most innings, won the most games (26), and allowed the most hits in the American League. In his lone world series start against the New York Giants last Fall Crowder was beaten. During his eight-year career in the American League Crowder has won 143 games and lost 101 for a percentage of .603. S SLAYING CONFESSED Oklahoma Prisoner Said to Have Cleared Mystery. OKLAHOMA CITY, August 4 (®) —Andrews Suggs, 25 years old, col- ord, was quoted last night as con- fessing the slaying of A. N. Ledger, 45, insurance agent, last Tuesday hullabaloo somebody thought to call | While on a picnic. Detective Clint Miers made the police announcement. Shoes taken from Ledger were found in the prisoner’s home by offi- cers who arrested Suggs as a burglary suspect. A .45-caliber pistol found in his possession was identified as the death weapon by ballistic experts. Mrs. Walker, 49, Ledger's picnic charged