Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1935, Page 4

A—4 xx» ONE DIES, 30 HURT INHARLEMRIOTING Negroes Wreck Stores in Area on Reported Slaying of Colored Boy. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 20.—Rioters raged through Harlem, the Nation's largest Negro settlement, last might and early today, bringing death to one man and injuries to at least 30, besides smashing store windows and looting them of their contents Seven hundred pclicemen broke up mob gatherings, but could not crevent guerilla outbreaks. About 100 pris- oners were booked at one station Police officials charged agitators with inciting residents of the area to violence by telling them embloyes of a store had killed a colored boy,| who was caught pilfering a pocket- | knife. Boy found Alive. In reality, the store manager had! turned ‘he boy loose, althou:n he | had bitten the two floorwalkers who | caught him, Not until 2 am. today—10 hours Lino Rivera. said to have caused the riots. T Scene Following Fatal Riots in Harlem Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. Police were guarding wrecked stores such as this throughout New York’s Harlem district today as a result of last night's rioting. A false report of his being murdered in a store theft was Inset: after the trouble began—could the police find the boy to prove he was | alive. Harlem was a Ledlam with shots, screeching sirens of police cars, clang- | ing fire apparatus called out hy nu- merous false wlarms and the ciamor of the rioters. Roving bands assaulted white per- sons or smashed windows and fled at the approach of policemen. Officers and detectives repeatedly fired into the air w disperse rioters and, un oc- casion, <hot to bring down their man. Two stores were set on fire. In each case the damage was confined to | the premises. One Dead, One Dying. Lyman Quarterman, colored, died in Harlem Hospital from a gunshot wound in his obdomen. An unidenti- fied white man, his skull fractured, was reported dying in the same hos- pital. Several others were seriously hurt. Two colored rioters were in a critical Hand on (Copyright, 1935, by the Assoclated Press.) | | LONDON, March 20.—A consensus | | of officials and public gathered from | European capitals tcday is that there | is no immediate danger of war, al- | | though the Old World is headed even- | | tually for another Armageddon unless condition. Lino Rivera was the youth about whom the storm raged. He free- ly admitted that he had taken the knife and had bitten the hands of the floorwalkers. One of them slapped his face and he was taken irto a rear room. A woman rushed from the store and said the boy was being killed. The report spread through Harlem and soon a crowd of 1,000 had gathered, convinced that the boy was dead and that a colored woman who had gone to his rescue was taken to jail with a broken arm. Jackson Smith, the manager, mean- while had taken Rivera’s name and address—getting the address wrong— the problem of national security is | solved. | Despite the ominous situation, the | opinion was that sanity holds the up- | per hand in Europe. | Maj. Alfred Duff Cooper, financial | secretary of the treasury, in a speech | | yesterday said the recent events clari- | fied the position, “making plain wi many have been thinking and belie | ing, but there is no cause for despair. Situation Not Minimized. He did not minimize the situation as the most dangerous since 1914, but asserted “four great European coun- | tries who desire peace—Great Britain, France, Italy and Russia—should | stand solid together for peace and make it plain to the world that they intend for peace to be continued.” Sanity Is Considered to Hold Upper Continent — Eventual Armageddon Feared, However. | of anything like a preventive war.” Danger of Immediate Warfare kEVlEWSifiRUWTHfl Doubted in Europe’s Capitals| ress Since Community Was Belt Manor. pends entirely on Germany. It was | declared authoritatively that no one in France had any intention of going to war because of Hitler's denuncia- tion of military clauses of the Ver- sailles treaty. French officials have demanded that Hitler prove his desire for peace through deeds rather than words, and asserted thus far “his deeds” have destroyed the reassuring tone of his words. | The German public does not ques- tion the passionate. pacific assurances from the lips of Der Fuehrer or his aides—“so long as others leave us alone.” Blomberg Favors Peace. Gen. Werner von Blomberg, minister of defense, said Sunday Europe is too small a battlefield for another world war, which must be avoided for the sake of coming generations. An Italian government spokesman said “this situation will not lead to war; at any rate there is no thought ‘The history of Chevy Chase, since | Col. Joseph Belt was granted a patent to 1,000 acres in the area in 1721 was given to the Coiumbia Historical So- ciety, meeting at the Mayflower Hotel last night, by Fred A. Emery. The name Chevy Chase is a prod- uct of England, Mr. Emery told the society members. He traced the progress of the settlement of the resi- dential and business sections of the suburb and said its fame had spread to all parts of the world. He de- scribed the suburb as the gateway be- tween Washington and the West and North. Chevy Chase first came into ex- istance, but only as the estate of Col. Belt, with the patenting of the tract of land in 1721, but the development which has resulted in the present modern city did not begin until about a half-century ago. The old Belt manor was torn down in 1907, he said and part of the imported bricks in the OF CHEVY CHASE (Fred A. Emery Tells of Prog- | SYNPHONY DRIVE 1S BEING PRESSED Campaign Workers Heart- ened by Various Sub- stantial Gifts. Solicitation went forword with re- newed vigor today as the National Symphony Orchestra’s 10-day drive for its $100,000 sustaining fund reached the halfway mark. Campaign workers were heartened at the daily luncheon meeting at headquarters in the Car'tor. Hotel yes- terday when several substantial gifts were reported. ‘The largest of these was $3,000, con- tributed by Miss Mary B. Adams. A provisional gift of $1,000 was received from Mr. and Mrs. Christian Heurich, contingent upon being matched by five other gifts of a corresponding amount. Mrs. Eugene Byrns immedi- ately agreed to provide cne of these $1,000 gifts through the members of the Friday Morning Music Club. Harold Bauer Is Guest. Harold Bauer, famous pianist, who will appear as soloist with the Na- tional Symphony at a concert tomor- row at 4:45 p.m. in Constitution Hall, was the guest of honor at the lunch- eon. He made a personal contribution of $100 to be given through the Wash- ington Music Teachers’ Associaticn, suggesting that members of that or- ganization raise the remaining $900 and thus provide a second $1,000 gift for the offer made by Mr. and Mrs. Heurich. ‘ Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is sched- uled to make a radio appeal in behalf of the drive during an interim in | | the concert program. She will speak | over station WRC. The Associations Committee, of which Mrs. Reeve Lewis is co-chair- man, reported gifts of more than $500. | The Educational Committee, through Dean Henry Grattan Doyle, co-chair- man, announced the student body of George Washington University has contributed $50 and the students at | Western High School $25. Dean Doyle said that considerable activity | is taking place among the various edu- | cational groups and that definite re- sults will be forthcoming shortly. Appeal to U. S. Workers. Mrs. Ernest Gruening, co-chairman of the Government Committee, stated that letters to 1,600 Government offi- cials were mailed yesterday. She re- ported especially fine co-operation | from officials in the Agriculture, State, | Treasury and Interior Departments. Mrs. William R. Monroe of the | Navy Committee reported an addi- tional $100, while Mrs. Oliver W.| | Strunk, co-chairman of the Business | Committee, stated that more than $500 has been received from various business men. Mrs. Strunk added that interest among business houses | is spreading rapidly and that further contributions are expected. | The National Committee, headed | by Mrs. Alice Longworth and John J. | Kennedy, reported a gift of $500 from a friend of the orchestra living in HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1935 _Fights War JOHN T. FLYNN, Economist and writer, whose 12- point program to take profits out of war may be basis for legislative recommendations of Senate Muni- tions Committee. —Harris-Ewing Photo. E‘Iusic Universal Speech of Man, Declares Thorpe Music is not on trial in the National | Symphony Orchestra’s drive for a $100,000 sustaining fund, according to Merle Thorpe, editor of Nation's Business. | “This campaign raises no question of the worth of music,” he says. “Music, as everyone knows who is de- WAR STEEL PROFIT PLAN DENOUNCED Munitions Probers Hear Company Piled Up $96,- 000,000 on Pretext. By the Associated Press. ‘Testimony that the United _smes‘ Steel Corp. had piled up $96,000,000 in surpius during the war under pre- tense that it was necessary for en- larging plants was given the Senate Munitions Committee today by John | T. Flynn, economist and writer. | A while earlier President Roosevelt sald at his press conference that the | administration and the Munitions Committee were working toward the | common objective of taking profits out | of war and that legislation this session | appeared possible. | He added that he had received a fa- | vorable report from his special com-f mittee headed by Bernard M Baruch, | chairman of the World War Indus- | tries Board, and the information would | be given Congress. ‘ Flynn, who is adviser to the com- | mittee on means of taking excess profits from war, declared the big steel making corporation put enough profit in its price not only to pay off all war- time construction, but to come out with $96,000,000 to spare. His testimony was given, he said, to illustrate his contention that price fixing was not an effective weapon against war profiteering. He declared the Government could Dot set up an adequate system of fixing prices and must in nearly all instances depend on the producing companies for information on what is a fair price. Such matters as amortization of nec- essary war-time plants, he argued, should be settled after the war—“in the same way amortization and de- preciation of the soldier is settled after the war.” A Bank for the INDIVIDUAL nied it or who has tried to live with- out it, is the universal speech of man- | kind. | “What is to be decided by the cam- paign for money is whether the com- munity shall secure the satisfaction of its need for good music through a group of musiclans identified with its own interests, or whether it is to be dependent upon arrangements made by organizations owing their first duty to the music lovers of other cities. “It is a complete misconception to believe that good music is ‘highbrow, or that it is the mere indulgence of wealth. Music is virile, red-blooded, of the people and for the people. It means far more to the American The Morris Plan Bank offers the INDI VIDUAL the facilities of a SAVINGS BANK with the added feature of offering a plan to make loans on s practical basis, which enables the borrower to liquidate his obli- gation by means of weekly, semi- monthly or monthly deposits. Amt. of Note $120 $180 $240 $300 $360 $540 $1,200 $6.000 LONG'S FRANKING OF MAIL PROBED Farley May Have Chance to Act—Censorship on Schall Denied. By the Associated Press. Postmaster General Farley may get a chance soon to crack down on Senator Long. A letter contending Long violated his free postage privilege by sending “Share-Our-Wealth Society” mate- rial through the mail under congres- sional frank to Graydon Stetson of Boston is to be sent to the Post Office Department from the Justice Depart- ment. Stetson sent what he said was Long’s publicity to Attorney General Cummings and asked if the Louisiana Senator had violated the law. Cum- mings’ aides indicated the purported evidence would be sent to postal in- spectors, who work under Farley. Post Office officials said complaints on misuse of the congressional frank have been received frequently. “Usually we report back to the Representative or Senator and he pays the postage due,” post office officials said It was said that even if Long were found guilty of sending matter other than that which appeared in th Congressional Record or is Govern- ment business—under frank, ther probably was very little that coul be.done about it “Congressional franks carry no per alty provisions,” it was explained. “About all that could be done wou' be to start a civil suit for posta due,” one attorney said. A charge by Senator Schall, R publican, of Minnesota, in the Sena | late yesterday that Postmaster Gener: Farley has been “censoring” his ma was vigorously denied by Senatc Robinson of Arkansas, majority lead It is wot meces- sary to have had an account at this Bank in order to borrow. Loans are passea within a day or two after filing application—with few exceptions. MORRIS PLAN notes are usually made for 1 year though they may be given for amy period of from 3 to 12 months. Monthly Deposit Mants $10 $15 $20 $25 $30 $45 $100 $500 and let the boy out the rear door. It remained for the London Times building were used to construct the | Butler, Pa. Mrs. Mary B. Howe and Placards Stir Throng. Police squads broke up the crowd after it had milled through the block- deep store, doing considerable dam- age, but shortly before closing time two white and two colored pickets ap- peared, with placards reading “Kress brutality beats Negro child.” That was the spark which started the evening disorders. As the crowd quickly reformed, this time to twice its former size, one of the white men climbed on a| hastily made platform and began a | harangue. He was arrested, as were his companions, on a charge of in- citing to riot. The speaker was book- ed as Daniel Miller, 24, of the Bronx. Law abiding citizens took to cover. | When a hearse appeared behind the | store—purely by coincidence—there | was no holding the crowd. | Windows in virtually every store on 124th and 125th streets between Seventh and Eighth avenue were smashed. Police, heavily armed, but | unwilling to fire, were targets for| bricks and stones. | Squads of police broke up the calmly to point out that Sunday—the | | day when the impact of Adolf Hitler’s | | proclamation was most violently felt— | |a German foot ball team played a | French team in Paris before a crowd of 45,000. | War, in French public opinion, de- | The Italian press agrees, saying the German announcement does not mean conflict. Associated Press correspondents in Vienna, after a survey of Middle Europe and the Balkans, summed up official opinion as believing no war is is prospect. ALLIES MEET SATURDAY TO END REICH ARMS RIFT; FRANCE SENDS PROTEST (Continued Prom First Page.) French Fascist and Nationalist Leagues said that their “troops,” for which they claim membership of 1,000,000 | men, will be doubled within six months because of German conscrip- | tion. The League’s leaders announced | their volume of recruits trebled on | the day following the announcement | of conscription by Reichsfuehrer Hit- ler. BRITAIN INFORMS U. S. throng, but the guerilla warfare thrived under cover of darkness. | Miss Patricia O'Rourke, daughter | of one of the builders of Radio City, | was struck by a brick while riding in a taxi. | Police said the riot was started by | members of the Young Liberators, | which they described as a Communist group. GERMANY EXULTANT ON EQUALITY IN ARMS PARLEY NEXT WEEK (Continued From First Page.) the treaty of Versailles had no effect, because Germany herself was power- less. Only if and when Germany has rearmed up to a level commanding international respect can she be a factor in insisting upon universal re- duction of armaments. As the word went forth that all German youth$ 21 years of age will be drafted for army service Septem- ber 1, a wave of enthusiasm com- parable only with that of the fateful days of mobilization in the Summer of 1914 swept the Reich. Credit Diversion Cited. Amid all the exultation, financial experts pointed to the economic sig- nificance of the diversion of credits from ordinary business to the arma- ments industry. This, the experts say, has been a heavy factor in the Reich’s raw material prices and the inability of the Reichsbank to obtain sufficient bills of exchange to pay foreign debts. 1t is estimated 15,000,000,000 Reichs- marks (approximately $6,000,000,000) have been diverted from various chan- nels into the manufacture of cannon, bombers and other war equipment and kindred military activities since Hitler became Chancellor. Five Billion additional marks, the experts estimate, remain to be used: enough to last for eight or nine months at the present rate of expendi- ture. Thereafter, they assert, some sort of inflation must be resorted to Simon Explains Situation to Ameri- can Charge. | (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) LONDON, March 20.—Great Britain, agreeing with France and Italy to a tri-power conference before opening conversations in Berlin, saw to it to- day that the United States was fully and officially informed of the new European situation brought about by Germany's rearmament. His majesty’s government will send Capt. Anthony Eden, lord privy seal, to Paris Saturday to talk with repre- sentatives of France and Italy before he and Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, go to Berlin to talk peace with Reichsfuehrer Hitler. The British informed Italy and France that they wanted no action by the League of Nations on France's in- tended ‘appeal to Geneva until after the conversations in Berlin and sub- sequent conversations in Moscow and Warsaw have been completed. Want Direct Information. They indicated that they want direct information from the governments of Germany, Russia and Poland before they can determine what should be the future of Germany's connection with the League. ‘The first British consultation with officials of the United States Embassy on the new developments took place late this afternoon when Ray Ather- ton, charge d’affaires of the American Embassy, visited Sir John at the lat- ter’s request at Sir John's office in the House of Commons. Officially it was stated that the conference was being held at the suggestion of the British government and that the decision to call the conference was made after a con- sultation with the French and Italian governments relative to their desires for such a meeting. The cabinet’s decision was made at its regular Wednesday session. Britain to Be Firm. Great Britain will deal firmly with Reichsfuehrer Hitler, it was indi- cated in official circles, when Sir John confers in Berlin Monday. unless world business improves tre- mendously. Night Final Delivery The last edition of The Star, known as the Night Final, and carrying a row o page, is city at 5! at 70c per month. rinted at 6 p.m., and delivered throughout the per month or, together with The Sunday Star, Assurance of this policy, it was said, has been given both Italy and f Red Stars down the front France in view of criticism that Great Britain’s note on the German arma- | ment plans was unduly mild. | British official quarters expressed confidence the united front of the three powers in their attitude toward the German question would be restored in consultations among their repre- sentatives and that their relations would be strengthened. The British were surprised by the French and Italian reaction to their note, being convinced that the changed situation resulting from Hit- | ler's unexpected declaration necessi- tated the form of language employed. They believed Germany's favorable reply, indicating willingness to go through with the Berlin negotiations, demonstrated that Great Britain's diplomacy in this instance was exact- | ly what the situation required. DISTRICT COMMITTEE'S WORK PACE PROTESTED | Federation Representatives Make Special References to Lunacy Bill. Protests were made to the House District Committee today on behalf churches, establishment and current progress historic reminders of other days,” the | speaker said. “Up from Chevy chase | OF BRITISH GUN WOUNDS Lake, on east side after you start up | George T. Dunlop. | the home of Parson Williamson, the | pastor *of Rock Creek parish, who | used to ride horseback over these Chevy Chase hills. By the Associated Press. | brick. one-time Oliver street home of B. W. Parker. Mr. Emery told about the one-man car line which at one time operated between Chevy Chase and Kensing- | ton. He said the owner was also the motorman, conductor and manager. | This line later was taken over by the | Capital Transit Co., he said. | The speaker said Chevy Chase is famous for its clubs, schools, churches and residences. He said there are five blocks of business houses in the sub- | urb and that there are seven churches. He outlined the history of the their organization and “Not far from Chevy Chase lre‘ the hill, there is the locally famous | Hayes manor house, on the estate of | Hayes was once Radiating from Chevy Chase Circle is Brookville pike. Following its winding stretches and turning off to where the two Jones' roads intersect, there is to be seen the ruins of Clean Drinking manor. | That, like Col. Belt's home, was of It was built in 1750 by Charles Jones, ‘gentleman.’ There George Washington was wont to visit.” — s - | Brewery Indicted Under N. R. A.; ERIE, Pa., March 20 (#).—A Federal | grand jury yesterday indicted the Bel- | mont Brewing Co. of Martins Ferry, Ohio, for violation of the fair compe- Leland Harrison, co-chairmen of the Metropolitan Committee, announced many gifts, including those from Miss Adams and Mr. and Mrs. Heurich. In closing the meeting, Dr. William | McClellan, chairman of the Men’s | Committee, said: “The drive, while | moving slowly, is on the whole satis- factory, but it is essential that every friend of the National Symphony and the members of every team exert themselves to the utmost limit dur- ing the remainder of the drive if our | goal is to be reached before March 25, which is designed as Victory day.” THREE MORE DIE IN INDIA 34 Total Dead After Troops Fire Into Mob Protesting Against | Execution. KARACHI, India, March 20.—Three more Mohammedans, injured when British troops fired on a rioting mob | of 100,000 yesterday, died today, bring- ing the number of dead to 34. Several of the injured who had been carired to their homes entered hos- pitals. The total wounded under treatment in various institutions reached 101. The Moslems had swarmed into Karachi to demonstrate against the execution of a member of their faith who had been convicted of murder. They carried the body of the dead man with them as they paraded through the streets until they were tition provision of the national in- of the Federation of Citizens’ Asso- clations against alleged inaction of the House committee in not reporting out more bills. | Mrs. Richard Sullivan and Mrs. H. F. Stiegel represented the federation. Special reference was made to the lunacy bill. New members of the committee knew so little about this subject that considerable time was de- | voted to explanations. Some of the new members expressed amazement over 667 cases of lunacy in the Dis- trict that were taken care of last year, | Representative Palmisano of Mary- land presided in the absence of Chair- man Norton, who is ill. —_— Rings Bell 70 Years. 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