Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast) Cloudy, possibly occasional light rain tonight and tomorrow; slightly cooler to- night: gentle to moderate northeast winds. Temperatures—Highest. 83. at 4:30 p.m. vesterday: lowest, 64, at 5:45 a.m. today. Full report on page A-2. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Ch = an o== No. 33.20D. Joit ofice Wa Entered as second class matter ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING ED ITION shinzton, 1. C. CHINESE FORCES MASS 10 RESIT IAPANESE ARMY Crack Soldiers Moved to Tientsin, Where Crisis Looms. ULTIMATUM DELIVERED TO CLEAR HOPEI REGION Tuesday Reported Limit for Com- pliance of Japanese Mili- tary Terms. A 9 (Sunday) ociated Press.) PEIPING. .June China's 32d Army. considered among China’s best troops. today bezan mov- ing toward Tientsin. where Sino-Jap- anese relations apparently are ap- proaching some sort of crisis. | The 32d Army. headed by Gen Shang Chen. newly appointed garrison epmmander for the Tientsin area, will replace the 51st Army of Gen. Yu Hsueh-Chung. which evacuated Tient- #in and moved to Pao Ting Fu. the new seat government Hopel Province. 90 miles south of Peiping of for Japan Poised to Strike. TOKIO. June 8-—Japan's chine in Manc to have been e for an inva e Chinese government m e day China unless submitted to Tokio's ultimat Tuesday was reported to be by which China must act A Rengo d tch from Hsinking Manchukuo. said that orders to place Japan's Manchuria in readiness rol! were 1ssued today from the general head- quarters of Gen. Jiro Minami nese military chief in Manchu Midnizht Council Held. The dispatch said a midnight cil meetir that ward “imp ers” were issued The military authori reed. the dispatch said. that these orders con- cerned preparations to “assume the initiative in the unfortunate event that the Chinese fail i ay sincerity and good fa phrase goes. Vernacular cout rted Ja day b, Nanking government mu imperial government’s demand: A spokesman for the foreign office declined to comment except to say the demands still are secret and that 2 “final note” handed to Chinese au thorities at Peiping bv a Japanese army representative could not be con- gidered an ultimatum Ct orth Demands Troop Removal. The dispatch said the note dem the withdrawal from the northern Hopei Province, first. of all troops belonging to the Nanking govern- ment: second, of all units of Gen Chiang Hsueh Liang's churian armies: third branch of the National Military Coun- cil. over which Ho Ying Chin pre- sides. The note further demanded the disbanding of the Blue Shirt So- ciety throughout China and full rec- cgnition by China of the new empire of Manchukuo. (A Reuters News to London from Nanl tlement of the critica te in North reported after a Ho Ying Chin jtary authorities Agency dispatch a set- confer and Japanese m at Tientsin. The report said the ter the agree- ment were sent to Tokio, and tha the Japanese demands ded the withdrawal from the Peiping area of two central gover nt army divi- sions and the s ession of secret anti-Japanese and anti-Manchukuo organizations.) Some Tokio quarters said the note was handed to Gen. Ho Ying Chin as Chinese chief of stafl. at Peiping vesterday. but others said the note will be delivered at Peiping and Nan- king today and tomorrow respectively Dispatches from Shanghai said the Japanese Army was ready to act in China June 12 if necessary. Japanese troop replacements arrive at Tientsin on that day augment the garrison. s of will to POWER LINES BLASTED IN KANSAS MINE STRIKE Troops Patrol Lead and Zinc Area After Report of Clash—Plants Guarded. By the Associated Press COLUMBUS, Kans.. June 8 —Two lines of the Empire District Electric Co. were dynamited early today as a battalion of Kansas National Guards- men arrived here after a reported cutbreak between striking union miners and non-union men. i The lines serve the tristate lead end zinc mining area. Guards were increased at mines and plants as a result of the blasts Power and light service in Baxter, Springs, Treece and Roverton, Kans.. and Picher, Okla.. was disrupted The court house here was converted into a temporary barracks for troops | who were ordered into the field late yesterday by Gov. Alf M. Landon. BLAST KILLS TWO BOYS | Cabin Ruins Searched for Clues to Mystery Explosion. SEQUIM, Wash.. June 8 (#).—Offi- cers probed the ruins of a log cabin today seeking clues to a mysterious explosion which killed two youths. The dead were Howard Taylor, 17, and Jack Spiecker. 17. Just before the blast they had peen shooting at pigeons and police consicered the pos- sibility that a bullet had been fired into a can of blasting powder. Vessels Collide in Strait. HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 8 (#) ~—The Canadian Pacific freighter Bea- verhill and the British freighter Nu- bian collided last night in Cabot Strait. off Cape Bréton Island, said | word reczived here today. [ the WASHINGTON, D L G5 SATURDAY, Congress Setback Stirs Wrath of New D. C. Official. Medical Society Praised for Decision to Take Case to Roosevelt. Confronted by his first setback in Congress, Dr. George C. Ruhland, new District health officer, was up in arms today over the slashes made in the Health Department’s appro- priation for the 1936 fiscal year. Determined to rally public support behind a move to cut the death rate in Washington, responsibility for which he placed on Congress, Dr Ruhland said he was in accord with d on reached last night by the Medical Society of the District of Columbia that the situation creates an emergency” which that group will appeal to the White House. “ag splendid that the Medical Society supports the Health Dep: ment so loyally in this matter.” the District official said. “and it is my carnest hope that something can be done to correct the situation which so vitally affects health conditions in this city.” Examination into the effects of the budget reductions revealed that the Ruhland Angered by Slashes | Made in 1936 Health Budget | Points to Others Creating Empire DR. GEORGE C. RUHLAND. situation as it affects the District health office is even more serious than realized at first Payless furloughs for some of the full-time employes seemed a possibility The de of the $93,000 increase sought in the Health Department budget. Dr. Ruhland said, leaves two alternatives It means the department cannot (See HEALTH, Page 2, KIDNAP HIDEOUT HOUSE IS HUNTED “Two-Gabled™” Dwelling De- scribed by Weyerhaeuser Boy Held Key. (Covvrizht 5. hs the Associated Press) TAKOMA, Wash.. June 8.-—Search- and on the ground for the hideaway haunt used in the George Weverhaeuser kidnaping widened to- day as strong indications were given the identities of the abductors were unknown both to the Federal azents and police A report that 20 Federal reserve notes from the $200.000 ransom were found vesterday in bank receipts at Salt Lake City was followed by an- other that E. F. Connelly. Federal agent, in charze of officers here, was missing from his office today A Seattle newspaper, which carried the report. said it was reported he had left by airplane for Salt Lake City to direct a search there. House Holds Key. cations that names of the ab- s of the 9-year-old boy who released a week ago still were unknown to officers came when au- thorities revealed the ‘“two-gabled"” hideout house holds the key to their identities through fingerprints, The e was believed abandoned by the sters. An authoritative source disclosed the voung Kkidnap vietim had told specially what parts of the home he saw his eaptors touch with ungloved hands. The child said the house was gray with two gables and “near water and a railroad curve. When the building located, officials said fingerprints on ture and other objects doubtless reveal the identities of its oc- should they have criminal records Two theories were advanced on the identities of the extortionists. One was that the passing of $20 ran- som bank notes at Huntington, Oreg., aad Spokane indicated the abductors were not an organized gang Another theory was that most of the gang had sufficient money for im- mediate needs, while leaving the ran- som currency “planted” and lying low. Plane Used In Search. Importance of the “gabled” house in the search became known when it was learned an airplane was being used to scan the territory over an area of 10 miles square north of here in King County The woman angle in the mystery bobbed up again when O. K. Bodia chief criminal deputy at Seattle, said he was seeking a man and a woman nicknamed “Percy” and “Minnie.” The note to Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Weyerhaeuser, George's parents, manding rans sign themselves “Percy Minnie” advertising their readiness to pay Another possible clue was the dis- covery in King County of a light blanket, similar to the blanket strips in which the kidnapers cloaked George when he was released near Issaquah, Wash., last Saturday. The blanket was found yesterday in and Lake Washington. LAVAL WINS FIGHT FOR WIDE POWERS Wrings Authority From | Chamber to Safeguard Sinking Franc. By the A PARIS, June 8--The Chamber of Deputies early today grudgingly granted to Premier Picrre Laval's new limited emergency powers to safeguard the franc. The powers, withh were granted with Laval took the The premier, the third to face the chamber in eight davs. wrung decree powers from the Chamber by a vote of confidence of 324 to 160. The Senate concurred 233 to 15 Previously the Senate Finance Com- mittee had approved the decree biil after disclosing a budget deficit of 6.300.000.000 francs (approximately $£415.000.000" and the treasury faces the difficult task of finding this huge sum ociated Press cabinet eld from others, 24 hours after h Rail Debts Boast Deficit. The deficit. because of railroad obli- gations. was estimated in the Chamber vesterday at 19,000.000.000 francs. The Senate committee concluded the emer- gency powers were urgently needed to avoid devaluation Parliamentary investization of the recent “organized panic” against the franc was proposed by the Chamber Finance Committee and the prosecu- tion of speculators was started with the first indictment. The new premier succeeded where Pierre-Etienne Flandid and Fernand ouisson failed. by limiting his de- mands and promising to use his de- cree powers sparingly. Recovery Aims Dropped. Laval apparently dropped any idea of using the decrees to stimulate busi- recovery, leaving that to Parlia- Although he said in his minis- terial declaration, “We must tackle the restoration of business.” he later told the Chamber Finance Committee that the recovery of economic activity no longer is aimed at” program The government consequently is ex- | pected to confine itself to financial | measures. particularly emphasizing sharp economies in the social insur- ance system. in an effort to trim the budget deficit. His new powers, Laval said. would “permit efficacious measures to im- prove the present financial situation,” which is admittedly bad. Laval Emphasizes Cri The Chamber’s decisive action came ~hen Laval had impressed upon it that “the situation is serious.” ingle article of law read: “To prevent devaluation of the cur- rency. the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies authorize the government to take by decree until October 31, 1935, all measures which will have the force of law to combat speculation and de- fend the franc. “These decrees taken in the Council of Ministers will be submitted for rati- ness ment the “decree {on a gravel road between Issaquah | fication by the Chamber before Janu- ary 1, 1936 SOUVENIR EDITIONS Imperial Council Session of the Mystic Shrine The Evem'ng and Sunday Star From Sunday, June 9, to Sunday, June 16, inclusive, The Star will contain a complete and accurate account of the great event. In addition to regular coverage of the convention sessions there will be a special tabloid magazine on Monday, special 10-page rotogravure section of beautiful Washington on Tuesday. On Sun- day. June 9, and on Sunday, June 16, the rotogravure sections will be rich in special picture features of interest to Shrine members. Mailed anywhere in the United States and Canada—45 cents, including all special issues and features. Place your orders at The Star Office. Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue northwest, or at any Star Want Ad branch. Mail copies to your friends back home, Orders by mail with accompanying payment will be carefully handled. Phone orders not acceptable, as all mail subscriptions are payable in advance. in the emergency | [TALY WILL SETTLE AFRICAN ACCOUNT, IL'DUCE DECLARES Pointed Reference to En land Hits Criticism by Outsiders. g. “SUPREME NECESSITY” CITED FOR SOLDIERS | “Without Reference to World Opinion.” | By the Associated Press CAGLIARI, Sardinia, June 8— Premier Mussolini told soldiers de- ! parting for. East Africa today “we have an old and a new account to settle” with Ethiopia “and we will settle them ™ | Apparently referr to Great | Britain's openly expressed opposition | to Italy’s policy in Africa, Il Duce said the accounts would be settled without taking “any account of what is said | bevond the frontier " | Speaking to 20,000 soldiers of the Sabauda Division and a huge crowd of Blackshirts, the Fascist dictator made a sharp and pointed reference to England To Imitate “Teachers “We will imitate to the letter those who try to teach us a lesson,” he said. | They demonstrated that when they | were creating an empire by defending | it they never took into consideration world opinion If the Black Shirt regime caiis the vouth of Italy to urms it does so be- cause it is its hounden duty, tecause | it finds itself faced with a supreme necesity. All Ttalian people feel this | fact and the vhole people are ready to spring up as one man whea there is a question of _he power and glory of their country.’ 71 Duce began his speech immedi- ately after the troops had passed in review, saving: ‘Rlack Shirts of Gag- liari, you have witnessed a superb manifestation of force and discipline wholly worthy of the heroic and war- | like Sardinian race.” Conflict Heid Inevitable Mussolini came by gaily decorated c:ty division As the division prepared to embark the front pages of all Italian news- papers were almest wh ovoupied with the Italo-Ethiopian ronflict which was regerded as virtually inevitable. The soldiers, in full war equipment and drawn up along a 2-mile front, cheered Mussolini lustily. The city was plastered with great posters con- tamning a proclamation by the mayor which said. “Today's demonstration will show that Italy is united and will march with obedience and discipline to accomplish those ends which her King and her Duce will announce.” b plane 0 to review this the ROOSEVELT ARRIVES | AT HYDE PARK HOME Will Address Point Graduating Class Wednesday. President West By the Associated Pre HYDE PARK. N. Y.. june 8.—Pres- ident Roosevelt arrived heme early to- day for a week end visit before going to the military academy at West Point Wednesday to addr the graduat- ing class The President was accompanied from Washington by Henry Morgen- thau. Secretary of the Treasury and | Dutchess County neighbor. The President arrived with a sec- retarial staff but with no appoint- ments. A bag full of papers and letters gave him plenty of study work for the few days at home and he | was hopeful of completing this before | Wednesday | Marvin H. Mclntyre. a secretary, | established headquarters at Pough- keepsie. where constant contact was maintained with the White House and Washington. PASSEN Woman's GER FOUND DEAD Body Discovered on Ship, Artery in Arm Cut. NEW YORK. June 8 ().—A woman who signed the passenger list of the Colonial steamer Concord as Geraldine | Stone of Providence, R. I.. was found | dead in her stateroom when the vessel | docked here today. Her body hung {from an upper berth by a twisted | sheet, an artery of her right arm | cut. A blood-stained knife was found on the floor. Police found no notes or other | means of identification. . Prince Bitten by Dog. | TOKIO. June 8 () .—Prince Sumi. youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, was treated today at the army hos- pital for dog bite. The dog was ex- amined to determine if it had rabies. l Readers’ Guide | | Page. Amusements B-14 | Church News Comics % Cross-word Puzzle ‘ Editorials ....... | Finance .-... . | Lost and Found ... 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Provisions Made to Entertain 100,000, Treking from all corners of United States, from Canada and Mexico, caravans of red-fezzed nobies of the Mystic Shrinc toda were wending their way toward the Capital by special train, motor cavalcade and airplane to join the throng assemb! picturesque * for a week's sojourn of bus of jov New sphin y t golden camels over n e taken watch at the Pavilior of Omar™ before *h hite House while ama avenue 15 lined with palms. glittering with lights and waving with fla Elaborate pla entertain an e sixty-first annua perial Council forward to msted 100000, fcr the ession of the Im- oi the Shrine next But in the meantime of order the pet he here early for th Although several pected to a particul First event on the official calend of events takess »lace from 5 to o'clock tomorrow morning rem Heights, Connecticut avenue ana Flor ida avenue. where aivine services wil be conducted, to open the week with praver These services order not to in ~ (See SHRINERS. Page 3 are he THOMSON HOLDS. LEAD AT OAKMONT Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa.. Has 33 for Best Nine-Hole Card. BULLETIN, OAKMONT COUNTRY CLUB, PITTSBURGH. June 8 —Dissipat- ing his lead after a spectacular start. Jimmy Thomso), from Long Beach, Ca finished his third round with a 77, five over par. and pped into a tie for 54 holes in e United States open golf cham- pionship today with Sam Parks jr. of Pittsbureh. Each had ar aggregate of 223. Parks shot moming round in 73 Olin Dutra saw his last linger- ing chance of keepiag the t vanish when he posted a third round 77 for a total of 231. By the Aszociated Pre OAKMONT COUNTRY CLUB, Pitts- burgh. June 8.—After a spectacular start. including three straight birdies, Jimmy Thomson of Long Beach, Calif.. dissipated part of his lead in the United States open golf championship today by negotiating the outward nine of his third round in 38. one over par. This gave him a 45-hole total of 184 and kept him in front of the pack Henry Picard. Hershey, Pa. pro- fessional. who had made a disappoint- ing start. clectrified the gallery by firing the best nine holes of the tournament. an outward 33, four under par. He had 157 for his previous 36 holes and his 45-hole total still left him six shots behind Thomson He had five birdies but lost a stroke on the third. Gene Sarazen, the former British and American open champion. was (See GOLF, Page 2.) i SRR |SEVERE PENALTY ASKED | FOR ESPIONAGE IN SPAIN Tightening Seen Move Against Spies in Balearic Islands. By the Associated Press MADRID, June 8. —President Niceto Alcala Zamora today issued a decree authorizing presentation to Congress of the projected revision of the mili- tary code, which establishes a series | of the most severe penalties for espi- onage both in war and peace times. Although neither the measure nor the preamble mentioned the Balearic Islands, the proposed tightening of the laws comes at a time when there are reports of certain mysterious ac- tivities of foreigners in that area, | which is called “the strategic heart of | the Mediterranean.” Over a period of months there have been many arrests and persistent re- ports of spy activities around the | Balearics. The government maintains the utmost secrecy regarding the ques- | tion. There have been perzistent reports recently that exiled Germans. mostly | anti-Hitlerite Je have been using Catalonia as a seat for their activities | against the German regime. ” Proposed of Laws DELAY FACES PLAN 10 CURB CARRIERS Obstacles Loom Despite Roosevelt's Plea for Quick Action. peared to face some delay de: stence is high time the Nation's transportation a single, unified problem.” Members of the Senat Commerce Committee saw hood of complete congressional action before adjournment two of the six phases, man Wheeler said it how long the session las The two measures described as likely | to be passed are those enablinz the Interstate Commerce Commission to | regulate busses and trucks and exter ing the office of Transportation Co- ordinator Eastman for at least an- other yvear. day in: to deal as Measure Declared Ready. One high administration source. however, indicated the real object of the President’s special messaxe late vesterday was to break a reported stalemate in a House subcommittee on | the truck-bus bill, already approved by the Senate. The subcommittee chairman, Rep- resentative Huddleston, Democrat, of Alabama, insisted, however, the meas- ure was virtually ready to lay before the full House Interstate Commerce Committee “if we could only get an hour or two of time to give it final consideration.” Huddleston added. however, that the full committee must first act on the utility holding company bill. and said | he didn't expect that to be out for two weeks Wheeler said he thought the co-or- dinator extension bill might be passed in the Senate as soon as the holding " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. TAX CONFERENCE 10 BE HELD SOON Leaders to Review Situa- tion as Roosevelt Consid- ers Long-Time Program. program Treas in high sources to be a proposal offered earli sion by Senator Cou of Michigan. for a war-time excess profits Several ed months to the applied estate tax raise from 000 a vear. in would imated i £600.000,- He estim $300.000.000 Seen as Long-Range Program. President Roosev the Hill understand he the inheritance tax revenue measure means of di ncome Several I idea. t that some of Ircady Some other more consery lators are considered pose the tax idea if i forward. to op- be put ITALY TO DEFAULT AGAIN Will Follow England’s Example to Pass Up U. S. Payment. ROME, June 8 (# —Italy will fol- low the example of England by de- faulting a war debt pavment due the United States June 15, it was dis- closed here today. This will be Italy’s third succes default ive “Grass Roots” Conference EPUBLICANS of Midwestern States will meet on Monday in Springfield, I, to lay plans for party activity in 1936. This conference seems destined to play a large part " in the country's political future and, as a consequence, The Star's Expert Political Correspondent, G. Gould Lincoln has been sent to Springfield to cover this important party pow-wow. Watch The Star for Mr. Li: ncoln’s political dispatches. SENATE ROW SEEN ON'N.R. A PLANS TRUST LAW CURB Critics of Extension Resolu- tion, Passed by House, See Danger in Clause. RICHBERG RETIREMENT SMOOTHS ACT'S PATH Action in Upper Branch May Be Delayed Pending Thor- ough Study. Fe de C Borah Silent on Course. Repre crat r | be “based upon a lice corporations engaged in ture and production of gonds a | modities which flow into ped in m | Unie held. chere w industrial c turn of “tr trade practic sweatshop conditio excessive hou tions of employmen! ioned a re- unfair g wag: man condi Siam Names U. S. Envoy. SANGKOK. Siam. June 8 (#)— Phya Abhibal Rajamaitri, former >ign minister. was appointed Minister to the United States today and will ilea\'e for Washington in July to take up his post. for-