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A—4 wew —— JAPANESE TROOPS SENTTOYANGSTUN Forces Are Sent on Reports Military Telegraph Poles Burned. By the Associated Press. TIENTSIN, June 10.— Japanese troops were dispatched to Yangstun today upon reports of the burning of poles of Japanese military telegraph lines, which a Japanese spokesman sald was ‘“a provocative incident, warranting our firm action.” EVACUATION REPORTED. Chinese Surrender to Japan's De- mands Is Seen. (Copyright. 1935. by the Associated Press.) TOKIO, June 10.—Chinese troops were reported in Japanese news dis- patches today to have started their evacuation of North China, signalizing what the messages described as China's complete surrender to de- mands of Japanese military authori- ties. These reports said the threat of an occupation by Gen. Jiro Minami's war machine was sufficient to per- suade the Chinese Nationalist govern- Urged at “Grass (Continued From First Page.) test the last half. I have faith that when the people have spoken we shall still have a union of indestructible States.” Lowden and the other speakers at the conference today chose to accept the issue laid down by President Roosevelt at his recent press confer- ence; the issue as to whether the Federal Government is to have more power to deal with economic and social problems national in scope. The former Governor of Illinois in- terpreted the President’s statement of the issue as a demand for a constitu- tional amendment which would vali- date the N. R. A. and other New Deal measures. He characterized it as an effort to nullify a decision of the Su- preme Court. And he added that if this course is followed to break down liberties of the people, it can be used again. Sees Corner Stone in Peril. “The very corner stone of our Gov- ernment,” said Lowden, “is the divi- sion of power between the States and the central Government. It is now proposed to strike down once and for | all that great principle.” Meeting early today in the coliseum | of the State fair grounds, more than | 6,000 delegates from 10 of the great | farm States of the Midwest officially opened thelr ‘“grass roots” regional conference. Their announced purpose | THE EVENING \Old-Time Principles for G. 0. P. Roots” Meeting ADVISORY GROUP ONLAWS PLANNED Liberty League to Form Lawyers’ Committee to Study Validity. By the Associated Press. Formation of a national lawyers’ committee to advise on the consti- tutionality of proposed New Deal legislation and ‘“contribute its serv- jces in test cases involving funda- mental constitutional questions” was announced yesterday by the American Liberty League. Such names as John W. Davis, 1924 Democratic presidential candi- date; David A. Reed, former Senator from Pennsylvania: Robert J. Peaslee. A Democrat who Is chief justice of | the New Hampshire Supreme Court, | and George W. Wickersham, one-time Republican Attorney General, were listed in the initial group of 45, to which the league said additions would | be made “from time to time.” The League, which has assailed N. R. A. and other New Deal legislation as unconstitutional, said the commit- tee “will examine important proposed STAR, WASHINGTON, ment to capitulate to the Japanesc | is to write a set of principles to | requirements for establishment of a | which Republicans, not only of this| new regime in North China. | section but of the whole country, may | As a consequence, the Japanese | Subscribe. i press said, the Japanese troops con- | In no sense, the leaders say. is this centrated in Hopel Province, although | declaration of principles to be con- ready for action. will not be called | sidered a party platform for the com- | Federal legislation and give its opin- fon as to whether such legislation is consonant with the American con- stitutional system and American tra- | conscience, the sons of the ploneer on to move southward, at least for the present. Precedent Established. ‘The reports indicated that a prece- dent has been established conceding the Japanese army the right to dic- tate who shall administer and what troops shall be stationed in Hopei Province. (This area formed the heart of the old Chinese empire and contains the ancient capital, Peiping, as well as the commercial metropolis of the North, Tientsin.) Dispatches from Tientsin to the Rengo (Japanese news agency) said the evacuation of Chinese troops from Hopei already was under way in pur= suance of the Japanese military de- mands. The army commanded by Gen. Yu Hsueh-Chung, former governor of the province, whose dismissal the Jap- anese ordered, was said to have started its long march to far-away Kansu Province. The 2d and 25th Divisions, troops of the Chinese Nationalist govern- ment, which the Japanese ordered withdrawn from Hopei, also were re- ported to be packing their equipment for removal to the south. As successor to the departing forces | the 32d Army, commanded by Gen. Shang Chen, began trooping into ‘Tientsin to take up its duties as the new North China garrison. Shang Considered Independent. Gen. Shang Chen, former governor of Hopei and a former governor of Shensi Province, i1s regarded as in- dependent of the Nanking govern- ment of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek and therefore far more acceptable to the | Japanese than his predecessor. One of the general's first official acts was to visit Umezu and promise his full co-operation to the Japanese Army. These latest developments were re- ported to the Japanese foreign officer by Lieut. Gen. Hashimoto, vice min- ister of war, who conferred today with Mamoru Shigemitsu, vice min- ister for foreign affairs. OPTIMISTIC FOR PEACE. Chinese and Japanese Officials Expect Settlement. Jure 10 PEIPING, () —Both Chinese and Japanese officiais here | said tonight they were optimistic that a peaceful settlement for the present crisis now was visible. As an indication of the lessening tension, Maj. Gen. Doihara of the Japanese Army was reported to have abandoned his in‘ention of coming to North China and to have returned to Mukden from Dairen. HONOR FOR;CATHOI.IC PROTESTED BY SCOTS “No Popery,” Cried by Protestant | Action Society at Meeting in Edinburgh. Br the Assoclated Press. EDINBURGH, June 10.—Members of the Protestant Action Society held up the proceedings today when the freedom of the City of Edinburgh was conferred upon Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General-designate of Can- ada and Prime Minister J. A. Lyons of Australia. Another recipient, the Maharaja of Patalia, was absent through illness. The demonstration was staged #gainst the conferring of the ancient honor upon Mr. Lyons, who is & Roman Catholic. Persons entering Ussher Hall were greeted by large crowds crying “No | popery.” The first disturbing note inside the hall was when the lord provost, Sir William Thomson, re- ferred to Lord Tweedsmuir, who is better known as John Buchan. A man in the gallery shouted, “Good old Scotsman. Away with papists.” Shouts of “Down with the papists” and a male and female chorus of “No popery” burst out when the lord provost requested Mr. Lyons to sign the roll. The police cleared out a score of men from the gallery and the lord provost apologized. EX-MAILMAN BURIED Edgar N. Wheat, Beltsville, For- merly of Washington. &pecial Dispatch to The Star. BELTSVILLE, Md, June 10.— Funeral services for Edgar Norman Wheat, 70, retired Washington, D. C., letter carrier, who died Friday at his home near here of a heart attack, were held yesterday afternoon at Gasch’s Funeral Home, Hyattsville. Interment was in St. John’s Episcopal Church Cemetery here. Mr. Wheat, who had lived near here seven years, leaves his widow, Mrs. Christie P. Wheat; a daughter, Mrs. Grace Elliott, and a son, Francis Ship- man Wheat, Voters’ League Picks ‘36 City. Miss Marguerite M. Wells, president of the National League of Women ‘Voters, announced yesterday that the organization will hold its tenth bi- ennia] coavention in Cincinnati April 27 to May 2, 1936. Seeks Relics at 81. Sir Flinders Petrie, the famous arch- eologist, who is 81, arrived in Northern Syria to search for the relics | ing national campaign. | A thunderstorm greeted the dele- | | gates when they awoke this morning. | | “Democratic weather,” they groaned. By 9 o'clock, however, the rain had | stopped and the delegates began troop- |ing out to the State fair grounds, | where the Coliseum is located. | | The hall, large and airy, capable of seating 6,500 persons, was decorated | ‘gaily. the Stars and Stripes predom- | | inating. A band played popular airs. | | Applause greeted familiar Republican | | leaders as they entered the confer- | ence. Nothing formal, more like an |old home week. The delegates from | Kansas wore huge sunflowers pinned |to their coats. “Jim” Watson, Re- ‘publican warhorse, was with the In- | diana delegation. Former Senator Charles Deneen headed the Illinois | contingent, some 2,000 strong. Former Governors Present. | Former Senator Glenn, also of Illi- | nois, was on hand, and also former | Gov. Emerson. Most of these Re- | publicans are “former” one thing or another. But they seem determined to stage a comeback. The Iowa delegation rose to sing its famous chant, “Iowa, Iowa, That's | | Where the Tall Corn Grows.” They | put a lot of vim into it and the crowd cheered them. i The crowds were slow assembling. ‘The hall at 10:30 o'clock was filled, {so far as the floor was concerned, | and seats in the gallery were rapidly being occupied. JOHN D. HAMILTON Of Topeka, Kans., shown with the gavel made from black walnut taken from the Ninian Edwards home, where Abraham Lincoln courted Mary Todd, which wielded today in presiding over Republican “grass roots™ convention at Spring- field, 11 A. P. Photo. ness and industry have been hobbled and obstructed, and the Government has boycotted its own citizens. “The way is being paved for an inflation, not only of credit, but of currency, to a degree which is un- predictable. if not in fact trollable. Over the possible resump- tion of industry and the quickening of human endeavor there hang the clouds of fear for undisclosed and more radical schemes: the menace of confiscation: the threat of more Gov- ernment competition: the daily pos- sibility of further debasement of our money. “The White House has become the center of uncertainty and unsettle- ment from which may be issued at any hour of the day some statement or edict that will throw whole indus- tries, the market for our goods or the condition of living into further confusion.” Plowing Under Opposed. t o Spangler declared that the people On he piatiorm were some mem- ¢ ;. pidwest ask no'special favors vfi;&;" m:;:;,g:b“&l_n g::z‘_on:;ggml | from the Federal Government. Their treasurer, had come from Chicago for | Breatest resources. he said, are their the conference. Former Gov. Arthur | [rtile lands. And he added in erit- M. Hyde of Missourl occupled & front |iClsm of the “plow-under” policy of row seat, platform. | the administration: The session was almost three-quar- | _“Thr Midwest will never achieve its | ters of an hour late getting started. | rightful place and its natural oros- But no one seemed to care. Conven- Perity under policies which subsidize tions are always late. | fields filled with noxious weeds in- When Harrison E. Spangler, Repub- | Stead of bountiful craps; policies lican national committeeman for | ¥hich turn our hogs and cotton into Towa and temporary chairman of the | Fotten carrion instead of food for the conference, rose o speak he was|Masses: policles which destroy free greeted with a cheer. His speech was | Markets at home and induce importa- punctuated with applause from the tion of products from abroad. crowd ready to hear an arraignment “To those why believe that two and of the Roosevelt administration. two make four. the agricultural pro- Harrison E. Spangler, Republican |gram of the administration does not national committeeman for Iowa, | make sense.” Committeemen on Platform. | uncon- | who has had charge of the arrange- Spangler pointed out that hundreds | ments for the conference, served as of millions of dollars are expended to | temporary chairman of the confer-|take fertile acres out of production | ence. He delivered a bristling ar- | and at the same time other hurn- | raignment of President Roosevelt and | dreds of millions are poured out to | his administration. The President, he | bring other acres 4nto production | ruddy of face, did not mince words in driving home his argument that the coutnry must combat the centrali- zation of government in Washington. I measure my words.” he said, “when I say that no crisis so grave as the present has confronted the | American people since the Civil War. | For now, as then, the essentials of | our form of government are being | | challenged in high places.” Mr. Lowden, After detailing the writing of the “bill of rights” and its pledge of liberty of action and protection of the people, continued: “Whence arises this demand for | fundamental change in our Govern- ment? We have had six years of acute depression, it is true. Many | tragedies have come into the lives of the people of all classes during the time. Is that sufficlent reason for this new attitude of defeatism which these revolutionary changes | imply? We have had serious de- | pressions before. At those times did | | we lose faith in America and Ameri- can institutions? Under our system of government we have become the richest Nation in the world. We still have unrivaled natural resources. We still have an intelligent, self-reliant citizenship. We have reached & higher standard of living than has | ever existed anywhere before in all the world. We have developed a pro- ductive power in every field of activity which should further greatly improve the standard of living. We have ac- | | complished all this under our free institutions. “The stage 1is set for Drogress | ypenever I shall belleve doing more | | greater than any we have ever seen. | What greater folly could we commit than to scrap the institutions under which these gains have been made? It we will but gird our belts and | march forward along the old Ameri- can paths we are, I believe, in the | early morning of our greatest day. | Where is the old American spirit, | | the spirit of the pioneers that braved | | hardships and privations beyond de- | | scription to help found this great | country of ours? Are we to permit ‘)slx years of depression, a depression ‘ brought about by common consent, largely through the destruction of an | unprecedented war, to cancel out all | the mighty achlevements of all the | years that lie back of this time? { Scores “Imported Philosophles.” “Are we to discard the American form of government for imported philosophies, old at the time and discarded as unworthy of the Ameri- can scene by the framers of our Constitution? There is no room on said. had promised, when he sought election, to keep the cost of Govern- ment within its means, to reduce gov- ernmental agencies and offices, to balance the budget, to practice econ- | omy in governmental thrift, to main- tain a sound and stable currency. based upon gold, to keep the Govern- ment out of competition with private | enterprise, and to keep and main- tain the merit system with govern- mental employes. He was elected upon these promises, the speaker sald. Address is Halted. When Spangler declared that the issue today was “the philosophy of Lincoln against those of Franklin De- address was halted while the band struck up the battle hymn of the re- public and the delegates sang. There were boos for Roosevelt when Spangler referred to the promises of the President during the 1932 cam- paign. His sharp declaration that Roosevelt had violated these pledges applauded and there were cries, “give it to him.” Spangler’s mention of the Supreme Court’s “rebuke’ to Roosevelt in the N. R. A. decision brought another burst of cheers and the delegates stood and waved their hats. When Spangler directed his criti- cism at the agricultural program of the administretion, most of the dele- | gates sat in silence. Only a few ap- | plauded his strictures on the crop- | reduction program, with its wheat and corn hog checks to the farmers. The popularity of this subsidy from the Government has still not waned in this great farm ares, it appeared. Their Violation Declared. “He stands today,” continued | Spangler, “before the country as a violator of each and all of these solemn pledges.” The temporary chairman said that the President and his advisers, having | forgotten the campaign pledges and the Democratic party, “began a wild orgy of experimentation.” He said that the leading legal minds in the Democratic party had warned that many of the New Deal measures vio- lated the Constitution. “Heedlessly they proceeded under the advice of Frankfurter lawyers,” Spangler went on, “only to waste two years of precious time while the country languished in distress.” Finally the New Dealers were brought before the bar of the Supreme | Court, the speaker continued. “That sturdy court, composed of liberals and conservatives alike, con- taining men appointed by five differ~ ent Presidents, selected on their dis- tinguished records for wisdom, cour- age and patriotism, has rebuked Mr. Roosevelt and told him and the New Deal party in no uncertain language that the American eagle, and not the Blue Eagle, soars aloft, keeping its watchful eye over the liberties of 130,- 000,000 people. Big Bureaucracy Claimed. Continuing his indictment of the Roosevelt administration, Spangler declared: “An immense bureaucracy has been built up; the sanctity of contracts has been dgnied; the dollar lano Rosevelt,” the crowd roared. His| through irrigation. “Their final plan.” he said, “seems to be to take over the management | of every farm in the land under the complete control of remote bureaus | in Washington.” | Permanent Measures Opposed. The determination of the Presi- dent, Spangler said, is “to make per- manent laws which were said to be temporary and needed to meet an emergency, and at the same time he is reaching out for more power.” He warned that the $5.000.000,000 lump sum as appropriated by Congress at the request of the President will be expended “at the ditection of New Deal politicians.” He charged that the administration banking bill would vest control of credit and money in “a politically-appointed and politi- cally-controlled board." “Instead of recovery promised by the New Dealers” Spangler said, “more than 10 million workers are unemployed and more than 20 mil- lion Americans are on relief rolls. The public debt has been raised to more than 28 billion dollars, an in- crease of more than 10 billion dol- lars in two years. These figures measure results obtained by the Rooseveli administration in two years.” Discussing the condition of the Republican party, Spangler said that the complete answer to the charge that it has been wrecked lies in the fact that “13,500,000 loyal Americans in 1934, leaderless, without funds, without organization, without hope of patronage or success, walked as individuals to the polls to vote the Republican ticket.” To Stick to Old Principles. “They tell us that the Republican party must be succeeded by a new conservative party,” he said. “Such 2 new party would be a disservice to America: it would divide the electo- rate, not along the vertical line of political principle, but along the horizontal line of class warfare. They tell us also that we should set up the vote-catching device of a newer new deal. To those who say we must out- deal the New Deal, let us answer that we prefer the sane principles from which recovery may come to the eco- nomic fallacies and the regimentation which can generate only paralysis and despair. Let us raise to the masthead no white flag of surrender and no jolly roger of piratical class hatred.” The delegates stood and cheered when former Gov. Lowden was escorted to the platform after Spangler con- cluded his speech. After the band had played the “Star Spangled Banner” Lowden launched immediately into his definition of the issue of the coming campaign, Lowden’s speech, 'a carefully thought out discussion of the Constitution and all its implications, was not of the rabble rousing variety. The delegates listened intently to the veteran Re- publican. “Pat” Hurley, Secretary of War in the Hoover administration, arrived late at the conference. He looked in vain for a seat in the space allotted to the Oklahoma delegatiop. Finally he found has been debased; ah orgy of waste » place with the Sogth Dakota outfit. | American soil for the dictatorship of either the Fascist or the proletariat ! type of government. There is no | proletariat in the United States. How- | ever humble the worker may be today, | his child tomorrow may belong to | | what they call the capitalistic class, | | and, no matter how proud or affluent | a member of that class may be today, | his children tomorrow may be work- |ing with their hands and without, thank God, losing caste or hope. And | so long as we maintain the American | system of free enterprise and an open | door into that enterprise to all ac- | cording to their talent and thrift, there will be no proletariat.” Gov. Lowden declared that steps | must be taken to protect the farmer | fand his markets in this country and | abroad. 8uch protection as is given | to the industries of the country must |also be granted to agriculture. His | declaration brought cheers from his audience which is intensely interested in the farm. Refers to Douglas’ Appeal. | Departing from his prepared speech. | Lowden referred to the appeal made by Stephen A. Douglas, “The greatest | Democrat of his time.” to stand by Abraham Lincoln and Union. He pre- | dicted that as the issue of the next | campaign swings into full momentum, | Democrats and men and women of all parties will stand by the Constitution, He was loudly cheered. The list of delegates to the confer- ence was presented to the temporary chairman, totaling 8.643. The convention then adopted reso- lutions providing for the appointment of five committees, with five members from each of the 10 States participat- ing in the conference. They are com- mittees on Resolutions, Future Plans and Policies, Rules and Order of Busi- ness, Permanent Organization and Credentials. The conference then took a recess until the meeting at Lin- coln’s Tomb this afternoon. While the Committees on Resolu- tion and Future Plans and Policies are at work this afternoon the dele- gates will gather at the Tomb of Lincoln to listen to an address by Arthur M. Hyde of Missouri, former Governor of that State and Secretary of Agriculture in the Hoover admin- istration. The conference will resume its ses- sion at 8 o'clock tonight. At that session John D. M. Hamilton, na- tional committeeman for Kansas and assistant national chairman, will be elected permanent chairman and will address the delegates. D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1 FIGHT FOR LIBERTY 1S HYDE'S ADVIGE Appeals to Grass Roots Delegates in Eulogizing Abraham Lincoln By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. SPRINGFIELD, IIl, June 10.—At the home of Abraham Lincoin yester- day, Arthur M, Hyde, former Governor of Missouri, called upon the delegates to the Republican Grass Roots Con- vention in session here to fight for retention of individual liberty, threat- ened, he sald, by the Roosevelt New Deal. “No life in history more ennobles the comman man than the life of Abraham Lincoln,” said Hyde. “The surroundings of his birth were as miserable as the manger.” Lincoln’s rise from humble origin to greatness and to service of the Nation, he sald, was made possible by the freedom guaranteed by the Blll of Rights and the Constitution. “Is Liberty Safe?” “What of the young man who scans the future today?” said Hyde, “Is his Iiberty safe? 1Is the door of equal opportunity held open to him?” He quoted the young American as saying: “Opportunism, expediency, political temporising—these are the policies of the day. The appetites of the mob replaces national morality in national policy. Men do not heed the voice of look not to the rock from which they were hewn; Government does not point the road to recovery through the release of individual enterprise under liberty to rebuild the Nation. Instead, | it posts its myriad of spies aad in- | spectors to watch the business and pry into the affairs of its citizens. | “Terrified, Bewildered.” “I am an American but I am ter- | rified, bewildered. In all the welter | of distress, amid all the chaos of | alien philosophies, and the wreckage | of American institutions, my feet have Jost the way. I can only hope that the just God who has never hereto- fore deserted us, may somehow save us. I am weak. What can I do?” Mr. Hyde continued that it was fit- | ting in “another great crisis in the life of America, for Republicans to gather at the last resting place of Lincoln to take common counsel. He sald: Other nations may take such action as fits the character. We do not envy and we shall oot ape them. | They may abandon liberty and fiy | to dictatorship. We do not join Mr. Roosevelt in his admiration of the | powers of Mussolini, Hitler or Stalin. | =~/ We would first of all preserve liberty. Let our single-minded rule of action be this paraphrase of Lincoin letter to Greeley: ‘What 1 do * * * I do because I believe it helps to save liberty; what I forbear, I forbear be- cause 1 do not believe it would help save liberty. 1 shall do less whenever 1 shall believe that what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall de more will help the cause.” 830 POSTMASTERS ELEVATED BY P. 0. 85 Post Offices Go From Se«:(m(lj to First Class, 271 From Third | | to Second. - By the Associated Press. The Post Office Department today elevated the classification of 830 post- masters, giving them an increased | salary as the result of what it said was improved business conditione. ‘The postmasterships are rated each | year by classes according to the| amount of business done by each! office. Eighty-five post offices were boosted from second to first class—the latter paying from $3,200 to $10,000, de- pending on the volume of business. The order elevated 271 from third to second class and 474 from fourth | to third. Second-class offices pay from | $2,400 to $3,000 and third-class $1,100 to $2,300. Fourth-class postmasters are pald a percentage of the value of the! stamps they sell and cancel. The department said the new ratings were made before the recent chain- letter flurry and were based solely on improved economic conditions. . J. E. THOMAS DIES AT SIBLEY HOSPITAL Native of City and Employe of ‘Water Department for 43 Years. James Edward Thomas, with the | District Water Department for 43 years, died Saturday at Sibley Hos- ital. NM:. Thomas, whose home was at 3905 Illinois avenue, was born in | Washington August 15, 1855, and had lived here all his life. His long service with the Water Department ended with his retirement in 1930. He was a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, the Patriotic Order of Sons of America and the Patriotic Order of America. He is survived by three scns and two daughters, E. Royce, Norval J. and Wiliam E. Thomas, Mrs. Edna L. Tayman and Mrs. Irma V. Mehlfelt. He also leaves 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Funeral services were to be held at the residence today at 3 p.m., fol- lowed by burial in Cedar Hill Ceme- tery. RITES SET FOR TODAY Mrs. Sarah L. Smith, Winchester, | Leaves Four Daughters. Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘WINCHESTER, Va., June 10.—The funeral of Mrs. Sarah L. Smith, 15, widow of Charles T. Smith, whose Report to Be Made. An address will be deliveyed by Mrs. George B. Simmons, & farm woman of Marshall, Mo. A partial report of the Committee on Resolu- tion, containing an indictment of the Roosevelt administration, will be pre- sented, it is expected, at this session. Tomorrow the conference will re- sume its sessions at 10 a.m. and will listen to addresses by E. A. Hayes, former national commander of the American Legion, and by former Rep- resentative Robert G. Simmons of Nebraska. Then will come the final report of the Committee on Resolu- tions and ‘the conference will be death occurred Friday, will be held todsy at Lamp's Memorial Methodist Church. She was & daughter of the late Benjamin and Catherine Snyder Cooper, Frederick County, Va. Sur- viving are four daughters, Mrs. Robert Knight, Mrs. Edward Clowser, Mrs. Dorsey Ritter and Mrs. Carson Dyke, and one sister, Mrs. Harry Lamp. D. C. Art Pupil Exhibits. Examples of her art work in the advanced commercial classes at the Chicago Academy of Pine Arts are being exhibited by Miss Margaret Strong, 5§12 Thirteenth street, this week at the school studios, it was an- nounced here today. | clans to the profession’s roster during 193¢ had weakened its standing. A Contraband Guns Dumped END OF CHAGO WAR LOOMS IN ACGORD Paraguay Accepts Formula for Peace—Bolivian 0. K. Also Expected. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, June 10.—And end |to the prolonged and bloody Chaco | warfare between Paraguay and Bolivia 1 was believed in sight today on the bass of a peace formula proposed by neutral American mediators. The peace plan was submitted to the belligerents yesterday and imme- diately accepted by Paraguay. Bollvia's concurrence was expected momentarily. The capitals of the two warring na- tions heard the news joyfully. Ob- servers expressed the opinion the hos- tilitles might be terminated before next Saturday. Accord Drawn Up in Parley. The accord was drawn up in con- ferences between representatives of Paraguay and Bolivia, with the United States, Argentina, Peru, Chile and Brazil serving as mediating powers. 1t provides for direct negotiations between the belligerents during an armistice and demobilization and de- militarization in the jungle battle ares. If direct negotiations fail to settle the territorial controversy responsible for the warfare, the issue is to be submitted to arbitration by The Hague tribunal. The pacification conferences have | been in progress 13 days. The United | States was represented by its Ambas- Mayor La Guardia of New York displaying one of the many contra- band pistols seized by the New York Police Department during the past vear destined for a watery grave. The barges loaded with siugs, guns, shotguns, machine guns, blackjacks. brass knuckles, knives, sword canes and other contraband were dumped off Eaton Neck, Huntington Bay, Long Island. Police Commissioner Valentine is in the background examining the guns —Wide World Photo. Government Health Insurance Fought by Medic Association By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. June 10.— | In reply to efforts of Federal and State Governments to enact medical in- surance legislation, the American Medi- cal Association today declared there | is no “cure-all for the social ills any than there is a panacea for the physical ills that affect mankind.” Meeting in its eighty-sixth annual session, with the Canadian Medical | Association holding its sixty-sixth an- | nual session jointly, the American As- | sociation reiterated vigorously its stand | in opposition to laws which it feels would Inhibit the work of physicians and hospitals. Oversupply of Hospitals. At the same time it declared the Nation is oversupplied with hospitals {and that the addition bf 5435 physi- ment, the governments of the individ ual States or by any individual in- dustry, community or similar body.” Instead they recommend encourage- ment of plans to provide medical serv- ice by voluntary budgeting of indi- viduals. Boneheadedness Disease. Discovery of a new disease, a real boneheadedness, due to thickening of the skull, was announced today at the scientific exhibit of the association. The skull thickens in patches, en- tirely on the inside. X-rays brought to light this affliction, which affects women primarily. Its existence explains some kinds other ills that lead to chronic invalid- ism, all of which have been known to physicians for years. The reason for the troubles was a mystery. The discovery was made within the last vear by S8herwood Moore, M. D, professor of radiology and director of the Edward Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louls. | plowing-under program for students in medical schools was suggested. The delegates reaffirmed their op- position “to all forms of compulsory sickness insurance, whether ad | ministered by the Federal Govern-| | of fatness, dizziness and numerous sador to Brazil, Hugh S. Gibson. While the governments of Paraguay | and Bolivia studied the proposals, | fighting and bloodshed continued | along the wilderness front, Paraguay claimed an overwhelming victory in | the Ingavi sector, where her com- munique said 350 Bolivians were slain and 1,100 captured. | Bolivia asserted the Paraguayans | were repulsed with heavy losses in a counter-attack. | Bolivians Nearly Driven Out. ‘The Paraguayan army, after a se- ries of successes, has virtually driven the Bolivian forces from the Gran Chaco area, long a point of contro- | versy between the two nations, into | Bolivia proper. The mortality rate in the bitter con- test for the inhospitable jungle srea has been termed by some military observers the highest in the history of warfare. 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