Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1935, Page 1

. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, possibly light rain tonight; slightly warm- er tomorrow; gentle northeast or east winds. Temperatures—Highest, 77, at 3:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 62, at mid- night. Full report on page A-3. Closing N. Y. Markets, No. 33,366. post office, W Pages 12 & 13 Entered as second class matter ashington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, D. IL DUCE ORDERS ENVOYS FROM ETHIOPIA SEPT. 15; WAR DATE SEEN Italian Minister in Addis Ababa Tells All Consulates to Withdraw in Week. GENEVA REPORTS PROMISE TO AWAIT LEAGUE DECISION Concession by Mussolini Claimed After| Five Powers Ask Delay in Hos- IN MOVE < | BREATHING SPELL PRONISE RASES BUDGET COMMENT {Demand for Balancing Is Heard From Business and in Both Parties. By the Associated Press. C., tilities Pending Debate. President Roosevelt's promise of a legislatiy : “breathing spell” for busi- The Ethiopian Situation ness met with both acclaim and criti- Z 2 % ! cism today. Mussolini ordered all Italian consulates in Ethiopia withdrawn by September Republicans said it was just a “cam- 15. Observers feared that date meant the opening of war on Ethiopia. 'Dslgn promise.” Democrats welcomed Italy and Ethiopia were asked by the League of Nations Council Committee | {17 " = “‘,o"'mle ool fort the e not to resort to force in their dispute pending efforts of this five-power | Deal. :;rug\‘x:es::dflnd a peaceful solution. Mussolini was reported to have ™o/ oo viewing the widely varied . 5 | comment, expressed th Italy's attitude toward constitution of the commission was described in re- | COEERE S0 dm_un;u"c‘;l‘;‘é""‘n‘;‘;r" liable quarters as one of complete indifference. These sources indicated Italy expected the commission to offer an unacceptable compromise, tend- ing to increase French and British influence in Ethiopia. Nevertheless, Pope Pius, addressing 20,000 former service men at St. Paul's, Basilica, told them that “from our latest information, we seem to see Roosevelt's statement to Roy Howard, publisher—would be a leading issue in the coming election campaign. The balance budget demand ran like a thread through the comments of forming on the horizon a rainbow of peace casting its rays across the ‘world.” Meanwhile, in London informed soure rious view of reports reaching the paign in Egypt. British concern for the effects o! s said British officials were taking a se- m of an anti-British, pro-Italian cam- f Egvptian propaganda was manifest as the Italian press took up discussion of the British position in Egypt. A regiment of 129 turbaned Sikh fighters arrived at Addis Ababa from India to serve as the British Legation guard. By the Associated Press. All Consulates Ordered Out. " [ ADDIS ABABA, September 7.—Italian Minister Vinci today ordered | store confidence,” he said. “I have all Italian consulates in Ethiopia withdrawn. The minister acted on orders r date for withdrawal was Septembe! Diplomatic observers feared t determined to go to war to sef of the League of Nations Council at Peace Pledge Asked. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 7.—The Five- Power Committee of the League of Na- tions Council, dealing with the Italo- Ethiopian crisis, today in effect asked the disputants not to resort to force pending efforts to solve their differ- ences peacefully. [Reuters (British) News Agency re- ported in London today that Premier Mussolini had assured France he would not resort to war as long as the dispute was under consideration.] ‘Although the words “not resort to force” were omitted from & letter sent to Italy and Ethiopia. officials ex- plained that they constittued the offi- cial meaning of the document. The letter repeated the words of an official communique issued after to- | day’s session of the committee which said in part that the committee “re- | lies upon the governments concerned to refrain from any act which n'dght hinder or compromise its efforts.” Today's session of the Five-Power | Committee was devoted to a review of the East African situation. . Premier Pierre Laval of France and Anthony Eden of Great Britain told the representatives of Spain, Turkey and Poland what happened at the Paris tri-power conversations. The committee will hold its next| meeting Monday. Laval arranged to leave for Paris this afternoon, and to return early next week. Eden will go to the country near Geneva. Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish representative and chairman; Joseph Beck of Poland and Tevfik Rustu Aras of Turkey will spend the interval studying documents concerning the Paris parley. Madariaga said no concrete sugges- tions had.been made to the committee for a solution of the controversy, as- serting the meeting was “really the preliminary to a preliminary.” The text of the official communique of the committee follows: “The committee appointe® by the council at, its meeting September 6 to examine the relations between | Italy and Ethiopia in their various espects with a view to finding a peaceful solution for the dispute sat September 7 with Salvador de Mad- | ariaga, representative of Spain, in the | chair. “The committee, deeply conscious | of the responsibility incumbent upon | it to seek a peaceful settlement, re- lies on the governments concerned to (See ETHIOPIA, page 2.) MERCY PLANE TRIO INJURED .IN CRASH Men Hugting Lost Flyer and Passengers in Alaska Rescued. By the Associated Press. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, September %.—The story of a narfow escape from death by three men seeking a clue to the disappearance of pilot Al Hines and three passengers Wwas brought out of the Chena River country today. The three, Percy Hubbard; his brother Russell and A. J. Douglas, were injured Tuesday when their plane crashed and burned 75 miles up the Chena River from here. They were not found, however, until yes- terday when Pilot Al Monsen was at- tracted to the word “Hubbard” traced on a sandbar near the scene of the crash. Russell Hubbard said they were fiying low on their daily hunt for the Hines party when the plane crashed. Hines and his three passengers, Mr. and Mrs. John Lonz and Alton Nor- dale, all of Fairbanks, have not been reported since August 19, when th left Dawson, Y. T. , Pilot Joe Crosson, “mercy flyer” of the North, ran down another false clue yesterday when he investigated s report that a number of tree tops near the head of the Little Chena River appeared to have been cut off, ) y ecelved from Premier Mussolini. The T 15. he action meant Premier Mussolini was | ttle the Italo-Ethiopian dispute, despite decisions Geneva. *Rome Expects Plan| Drawn by 5 Powers To Be Unacceptable. By the Associated Press. ROME, September 7.—Reliable sources here indicated today that Italy expects from the Five-Power Committee at Geneva, dealing with the Italo-Ethiopian dispute, a com- | promise offer which she will be un-| able to accept. She feels, particularly, according to these sources, that the commission will offer a compromise tending to in- crease British and French influence and concessions in Ethiopia to the det- | | riment of Italy. The newspaper Il Messaggero, fol- | | lowing out this line, said today: “We will not be surprised if from | the Five-Power Commission comes a ‘pmposal which will be unacceptable, or worse still a compromise solution injuring the preconstituted rights of | Italy for the benefit particularly of one or two Western powers signatory to the tri-power treaty. (The tri-power treaty of 1906 dealing with Ethiopia was signed by Italy, Prance and Great Britain.) “That country would therefore | draw the greatest profit possible from | the effort made by Italy to put order into Ethiopian affairs.” New Conterence Denied. A government spokesman said re- ports that Italy was willing to ac- cept another tri-partite conference at | | | African crisis were without founda- | tion. Premier Mussolini announced to the nation that almost 3,000,000 lire (about $240,000) has been paid in in- demnities to the families of 113 work- | men who have died in their country’s service in East Africa. With the announcement of these indemnities, the government proudly made known that sanitary measures in East Africa have restricted the death list among officers and soldiers to 93. 113 Deaths in Africa. A government announcement re- called that of the 113 deaths among about 30,000 workmen sent to East Africa, most were caused by heat and | suffocation, and not by the tropical diseases which the government con- tended it had virtually conquered by the tremendous sanitary engineering preparations it has devised. Similarly, the government pointed to a low casualty list among the mili- tary forces now reaching 200,000 men sent from Italy as proof of the effec- tiveness of Italy's far-reaching sani- tary preparations for an East African campaign. Author of “Le Feu” Buried. PARIS, September 7 (#).—Henri Barbusse, pacifist author of the fa- mous war novel, “Le Feu,” was buried here today after thousands had passed before his casket in Union Labor | Headquarters. Barbusse died in Mos- | cow recently of pneumonia. Scores of leftist organizations, head- ed by red flags, followed the hearse. | Republicans, economists and business men. Business comment was varying, but the market went up. | Senator McNary, Republican, of | Oregon, said the New Deal “breathing ispell will permit retrenchment of ex- | penditures and will ald business ma- terially.” “The country will welcome a breath- ing spell which will do much to re- | advocated it for months.” Fletcher Sees “Promises.” Chairman Henry P. Fletcher of the Republican National Committee, said: “The President has opened the 1936 | Foening Star ‘V'l!fl'l SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 4 DEAD, MILLIONS LOSTI2STATE {Maryland and Virginia Count Heavy Damage After Flooding Rains. A survey of the storm-swept sections of Maryland and Virginia today re- vealed four deaths and crop and property damage estimated to run into several million dollars. Virginia's storm toll rose to two dead | I THINK THE TIME FOR A BREATHING SPELL HAS ARRIVED! N AN \X\\\ N Z: R N RN ) W W N \ 2 = A \ N 277 Z: TR R R ok ~\:l\‘ A NN \ / SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1935—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. #% The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. UP) Means Associated P CREMATION BEGUN IN STORM AREA 10 PREVENT DISEASE Orders for Burning of Vic- tims’ Bodies Issued by Governor. DEAD, MISSING TOTAL IS 446, RED CROSS SAYS Scholtz Describes Hurricane Sec- tion Conditions as Appalling. Gas Poisoning Is Feared. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) MIAMI, Fla, September 7.—Sher- Yesterday’s Circulation, 123,145 Some Returns Not Yet Received. ress. TWO CENTS. NAZIS T0 PROTEST JUDGE'S REMARKS INBREMEN RULING Luther Will Deliver Message to State Department Today. “PIRACY” REFERENCE IN DECISION HIT Berlin Papers Assail Brodsky's Comment and See Inconsistency in U. S. Protest to Soviet. By the Associated Press. Dr. Hans Luther, the German Am- it D. C. Coleman, directing rescueibsssldor, will protest formally at operations in the lower keys, reported | noon today to the State Department to the Red Cross at 9:15 am. East- | against statements made by Magis- ern standard time today that burn- ing of bodies of Monday night's storm | victims had started. Orders for cremation of bodies which could not be buried quickly were issued by Gov. Dave Sholtz on | recommendation of State health au- | thorities as a precaution against pos- | sible outbreak of pestilence. A priest, a rabbi and a minister | trate Louis B. Brodsky of New York City in dismissing charges against five men charged with having torn the Nazi flag from the liner Bremen on July 26. Embassy officials said the Ambassa- dor would protest under instructions from the foreign office in Berlin, Reference to “Piracy.” Brodsky likened the display of the Nazi flag on the Bremen with “the 378 Gas Light Company Drivers were flown to Snake Creek by the Coast Guard to conduct burial services | same sinister implication as s pirate of the dead there. | ship sailing deflantly into the harbor Despite instruction to bury as many | of a nation, one of whose ships it had of the victims as possible, it appeared | Just scuttled, with the black flag of piracy proudly flying aloft.” campaign with a new set of assur- when Mrs. Fred Simanski, jr. died Stresa in an effort to solve the East ances and promises.” r Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio, a | Democrat, declared: “My information * * * indicates that business is all set to go if un- certainty, 8oubt and fear can be re- moved from the situation. I am happy indeed that the President has given this assurance.” Senator Black, Democrat, of Al bama described the statement as “a wonderfully clear explanation of his program, its original aims and its execution. It should be a call to those engaged in business to co-operate in further national progress.” ‘To Ogden L. Mills, Secretary of the | Treasury in the Hoover administra- tion, the statement “evades rather than meets the issue.” “If there is to be an early and| | general recovery,” he said, “the coun- try must also know how much longer Mr. Roosevelt intends to continue his | efforts to squander our way to pros- pexity” ¢ o Representative Lewis, Democrat, of | Maryland, said the President’s state- ment was “pat to the whole situation.” “I can think of no other legislative subjects left to disturb men who are not disturbed when the grand jury meets, unless it be group efforts to start a printing press money campaign which the President has succeeded in scotching so far.” The President's statement recalled that Mr. Roosevelt had scheduled but one major piece of legislation—the revivification of N. R. A.—for the next session of Congress, which convenes but a few months before the national conventions meet. Short Session Seen, Fresh in mind, too, were assurances given to departing congressional lead- ers that next Winter's session—so far as the White House is concerned— might be short, adjourning possibly in April, by contrast with the eight- month session which just closed. Talk of a balanced budget entered the observations of men of both parties. On the Democratic side, Senators Russell, Democrat, of Georgia and Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska called for such action, the former asserting that the time had come for drastic (See REACTION, Page 2.) CANAL WORK TO START ‘Workers’ Camps|Erected for Cross- Florida Project. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., September 7 (/) —Preparations for actual work on the $146,000,000 cross-Florida canal were started yesterday with erection of ‘workers’ camps. Lieut. Col. Brehon Somervell, chief engineer on the project, said as he arrived to take charge that it is the “biggest canal ever undertaken and the New Deal's ‘most outstanding project.” Initial work on the cans] will be financed by a $5,000,000 fund author- ized for the purpose last Monday by President Roosevelt, $3,000,000 to give employment to the needy. | Personin U. S., By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 7.—James ! W. Gerard, former United States Am- | list of 64 unofficial rulers of the | United States, today called the Coun- entlow “the most influential person in America.” “No one,” he said, “has done more to foment sentiment for wealth tax than this young woman.” He refered to her two marriages by which she acquired foreign titles. Gerard, returning from Europe aboard the Italian liner Conte di Savoia, gave credit to Gene Howe, designating the former Miss Barbara Hutton “most influential.” bassador to Germany and compiler of tess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Rev- Amarillo, Tex., editor, for originally Barbara Hutton Most Influential Gerard Declares Talking as he breakfasted, he pro- posed & new American motto: “Let France take care of her own teeth.” This was apropos of the foundation in Prance of the George Eastman dental clinic. Gerard sald he disap- proved of it as he does’ of the Gov- ernment’s allowing American tourists “to drop $300,000,000 into European tilis” as he said they did last year. Assailing American spending abroad, Gerard sald he spoke as chairman of the Compmittee for America Self-Con- tained. s Cautioning against sanctions aimed at Italy for her proposed Ethiopian invasion, he described the League of Nations as “a league for receivers of stolen goodsa.” ! from a fractured skull in the Southside Hosrital in Farmville—a victim of a twister which struck her farm home in Cumberland County, Thursday. Her mother-in-law, Mrs. Fred Simanski, sr., was killed by the storm. In Maryland, near the Delaware State line, H. D. Simpler, locomotive | engineer, of Golt, Md,, and Robert L. Lane, a brakeman, of Wilmington, | Del, were killed when their train| went off the tracks at a washed-out culvert. 12 Are Injured. ‘The injured list in both States stood at 12—10 in Virginia and 2 in Mary- land. | From a wide area in both Maryland | and Virginia reports of home, crop ! and farm damage, gathered over re-| established communication lines, gave a more vivid picture of the storm's damage. | Federalsburg, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the hardest hit of the flooded towns, reported that 1,800 refugees were huddled in places of safety await- ing subsistence. With all but two| stores flooded by 10 feet of water that swirled through the streets, a food shortage threatened as the Red Cross moved to aid the homeless. James River Rising. In Virginia, the James River, a whirling mass of muddy water carry- | ing logs, trees and other wreckage, was reported to be rising steadily at ! | Guardsmen marched Get Medals for Safety Records 7,179,448 Miles Without Accidents Show Results of Traffic Education—Star Pledges Signed by Employes. After presenting traffic safety med- ! als to 378 of its drivers who have completed 7.179,448 miles of driving without accident during the past four years, the Washington Gas Light Co. today enlarged the scope of its trafic safety work by getting behind the safe driving campaign of the Safety Council of The Star. Starting its own traffic safety cam- | paign four years ago among the drivers of its service trucks and automobiles, the Washington Gas Light Co. yesterday afternoon demon- strated the excellence of its*own safety work when it presented medals | to more than 95 per cent of its drivers for records of from one to four years without accident of any | kind. In' co-operation with the Safety, Council of The Star, the gas light| company officials are seeking to spread the high standard of driving safety set by the drivers of the company fleet to all company employes and members of their families who drive their own individual cars. By dis- tributing through every department of its organization safe driving pledge | cards of the type printed today in The Star, the gas light company is' carrying forward the campaign to cut down the death and accident toll| on Washington streets and high- ways. The Washington Gas Light Co. is| the second large utilities body to en- | gage actively in the safe driving cam- | paign. The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., first of the utility groups to enter, has increased its goal | from 3,000 to ledges. Within | (See SAFETY, Page 5.) TROOPS GUARDING POLLSINKENTUCKY {March Into Harlan County| to Prevent Violence at - Primary Run-off. By the Associated Press. FRANKFORT, Ky., September 7.— | Eight hundred Kentucky National into Harlan County today, took over the reins of Columbia and Richmond. The river | government in the town of Wallin at Columbia stood at 35 feet and is|and patroled voting places over the| | said to be rising 6 inches an hour. county in the Democratic run-off pri- STEAMER BURNED NEAR YORKTOWN Passenger Freighter Out of Norfolk Was at Hicks Wharf, on East River. By the Associated Press. YORKTOWN, Va, September 7.— The Munnatawket, a 120-foot steam carrying passengers and freight daily between Norfolk and Chesapeake Bay points, burned at Hicks Wharf on the East River in Matthews County, but as far as could be learned here | early today no one was injured. likely that few of the bodles would | be placed in the ground because of | difficulty of digging graves in the coral rock keys. “I think it wijll be necessary to burn virtually all the bodies in the keys.” said Conrad van Hyning, State we fare commissioner. Rellef workers in the keys wearied and sickened by sights of horror, pro- ceeded as rapidly as possible to dis- pose of the bodies, which Dr. Henry Hanson, State health officer, said were in such advanced decomposition tnat there was a health danger in handling them. Hanson said graves in the key: could not be dug without resorting 1> the use of dynamite, “and that is im- | practical.” The victims who are buried in the keys will rest in the little Matecumoe Cemetery near where the hurricane wrought its greatest havoc. Graves Dug for 125, Here in Miami, graves were dug in Woodlawn Cemetery to hold the bodies of 125 World War veterans brought out of the storm area. They were killed, with comrades | and civilians in great numbers, when | the mad storm slashed the Govern- ment relief camps where they were When the German government pro- tested against the insult to that na- | tion's emblem, the State Department informed the embassy that every pre- caution had been taken by New York police to guard against any disturb- ance at the docks, and that the epi- sode had occurred largely because of lack of co-operation with police by the steamship line officials. Fair Trials Promised. The department assured the Ger- man government, however, that the men charged with tearing the flac from the liner would be given fair trials and punished if found guiity. German Embassy officials said tnc Ambassador had received instructions from Berlin to make emphatic protest against Brodsky's declaration that the disturbance on board the Bremen was “provoked by this flaunting of an em- blem to those who regarded it as a defiant challenge to society.” Other statements also were consid- ered highly objectionable to the Ger- man government. ASSAILED IN BERLIN. | By the Associated Press. BERLIN, September 7.—The propa- quartered on Matecumbe Key. The | ganda ministry disclosed today that Red Cross said the number dead or Dr. Hans Luther, German Ambassa- missing totaled 446. dor at Washington, has been instruct- Even though President Roosevelt| ed to protest the dismissal at New at Hyde Park, N. Y., still was re-| York yesterday of charges of unlaw- luctant to take the step for cremation | ful assembly against five men arrested of the bodies, Gov. Sholtz and Dr.| in the recent steamship Bremen inci- Hanson said it was a question of pro- | dent. tecting public health, and that bodies | The protest was decided upon after which could not be buried immedi-| 8 full report of Magistrate Louis D. ately in the keys would be burned. | Brodsky’s action had reached the | Hanson, as State health officer, said | foreign office. he would not allow shipment of bodies| New York dispatches relating the from the keys unless they were in release of the five men superseded | hermetically sealed caskets. | other news in afternoon newspapers, Actual burial of the veterans was Dut Magistrate Brodsky's remarks in expected to be delayed until late today | giving his decision were not published. or Sunday, W. R. Smith, secretary to | Decision Held “Astounding.” Gov. Sholtz, said after a midnight| Der Angriff, organ of Propaganda conference attended by Federal, State, | Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, char- city, county, public health and Red | acterized the declsion as “astounding” Cross officials. “Suitable arrange- | for which “no descriptive words can ments must be made,” Smith said. be found.” The propaganda ministry spokesman said that this expressed | I Sholtz Coming Here. Gov. Sholtz arinounced he would go the ministry’s feeling. The decision was “a curious con- reduction in expenditures and the The north and south forks of the Anna River in Virginia were out of their banks, and on nearly every road in the eastern central part of the State | were washed-out bridges, flooded creek bottoms and impassable stretches. Telephone and telegraph lines were still down in some Chesapeake Bay counties. Nick's Wharf, in Matthews | County, was out of communication by telephone. Railroad tracks between Richmond | and Newport News were washed out | and heavy crop damage occurred in Pittsylvania County. Eastern %hore farmers in the vicin- | ity of FAmore,lost heavily by the| storm. ~Corn was flattened and many | head of stock. turned out of their pens to escape rising waters, are still miss- ing. A windmill at Nassawadox and the ventilators of a storage plant at Painter were torn down by the winds. | Five Bridges Out. In Southern Maryland, particularly in Charles and St. Mary's Counties, the property and crop damage is ex- pected to exceed $500.000. Five bridges along the Point Lookout Highway south of Leonardtown were washed away. Two were in the town of St. Mary’s, another crossed East Run near Great Mills and the others were over streams between St. Mary's City and St. Inigoes and between St. Inigoes and Ridge. The Point Lookout Highway also was blocked by several landslides and (See FOUR DEAD, Page 3. Pictures on Page A-14. ' MORE RAIN FORECAST FOR CAPITAL AREA Potoma¢ Running Full, -With Peak to Be Reached at High Tide Today. More rain was in prospect today as ‘Washington enjoyed a brief “breath- ing spell” from the inclement weather of the past week. ‘The current forecast is for “mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, with possible light rain tonight. Tomorrow slightly warmer.” = running full, but morning ‘The Potomac was noon at full tide. ‘Weather Bureau observers said the water would not get over the local sea walls at any point. ‘The mercury was approaching 70 at noon today. Extremes yesterday were 17 and 62 degrees. " mary election. Kentucky Democrats were balloting today to nominate candidates for Governor and other State-wide offices. The troop movement to Harlan, paral- leling a similar occurrance in the first primary August 3, which is still reverberating in the courts, and a bitter personal fight between Thomas S. Rhea and Lieut. Gov. A. B. Chan- dler for the nomination for Governor overshadowed all other aspects of the primary. Gov. Ruby Laffoon, whose admin- istration is backing the candidacy of Rhea, specified in his executive order directing troops to Harlan that they should not interfere in the voting. The guardsmen, he ordered, were to keep the peace and protect ‘“consti- tutional rights” of citizens. The Governor expressed fear of possible mob violence over the dynamite kill- ing of County Attorney Elmon Mid- dleton this week. Reports at Harlan said 15 guards- men took charge of Wallin after Na- tional Guard officers were told offi- cials of that town planned to “fix” the election there. It was charged that Rhea had “made a deal” with United Mine Workers of America leaders to work for unionization of the Harlan County coal flelds, in the event of his election as governor, in return for support at the polls. Rhea himself wound up his cam- paign by charging the assassination of County Attorney Middleton was “political,” asserting Middleton was a “Rhea man.” Chandler answered by saying Middleton was a Republican who was not interested in the Demo- cratic primary. Readers’ Guide Cross-word Puzzle Editorials Finance - Lost and Found - Travelers coming out of Matthews Courthouse said the ship, owned by the Mobjack Lines of Norfolk, caught { fire while docked at Hicks Wharf last night, away from the waterfront into the East River, and the flame finally | extinguished. Whether the ship, upon which un- official estimates at Norfolk placed a valuation of $35,000 to $40,000, was | damaged beyond repair, could nct be immediately learned. Attempts to obtain information concerning the fire were hamperec by the fact that all telephone com- munications, and a number of roads in the section, were wrecked by the storm which swept through the sec- tion Thursday night. U. S. GUNBOAT ALLAYS FEAR OF MISSIONARIES Several Remain in Changteh on Declaration That Reds Would Not Attempt Invasion. By the Associated Press. CHANGSHA, Hunan, China, Sep- tember 7.—The uneasiness gripping missionaries in North Hunan Province because of widespread activities of Communist armies, was alleviated somewhat today with the arrival of the American gunboat U. 8. 8. Monocacy. Several American missionaries, in- cluding Dr. George Tootell of Chi- cago and Miss Nettie Dejong of Hol- land, Mich, were remaining. in there gave assurance the Reds would not dare assault the city. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, September 7.—Dissolution of four theatrical organizations and “Profes- 'amid | The Association of Stage Workers was to Washington next week to hand to | tradiction.” the newspaper declared, The steamer was puled | Changteh today as the authorities| German Stage Is Nazified By Dissolution of Societies | President Roosevelt a report on cas- | ualties, property damage, possible re- | habilitation and charges that lde-l quate warning of the storm's approach | was not given by the Weather Bureau. State’s Attorney G. A. Worley, Au- | brey Williams, presonal representa- | tive of Harry L. Hopkins. Federal re- | lief administrator, and the American | Legion launched investigations into | | the disaster that overtook the three | veterans’ camps on the keys. Worley after an inquiry exonerated the Florida East Coast Railway of | (See STORM, Page 3.) WOMAN STRIKES JUDGE WITH CIGARETTE CASE| ® Sanity Hearing of Mrs. Dowling | in California Slaying Re- cessed After Scene. |By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7.—The san- ity hearing of Mrs. Florence Botkin Dowling, 52-year-old slaying suspect, was in recess today after being abrupt- | 1y halted by a well-aimed cigarette case that struck Judge Georgia Bullock in the face. ‘While under examination yesterday, | Mrs. Dowling screamed, “I'm tired of all this questioning,” threw the missile at the judge and fell to the floor in an apparent faint. Judge Bullock ordered the hearing recessed until next week. | Mrs. Dowling was arrested after the | fatal shooting of her sister, Mrs. Glena Fair, In a Long Beach apart- ment August 20. L4 the Association of German Stage Workers, the German Stage s,x.my, the German Chorus Singers’ League and the Dance League. ‘The action was announced as & “great unification of all cultural groups on the German stage,” necessi- tated by the interests of the Nazi movement. & Hinkel said that only true Nazis could belong to the new organiza- tion. The German Stage Society, founded in 1842, had an illustrious history. established at Weimar in 1871 by the in view of the recent American pro- test to Moscow against Communist activities in the United States. “Respect for the flag." the news- paper continued, “is fundamental in international relations. When such an infamous action as the Bremen in- cident remains unpunished, then it is more than a curious contradiction between the American protest in Moscow and the freedom of this Bol- shevist propaganda in an American harbor. “It further signified that a judge of a country which demands that its flag be respected in a similar case concerning another flag overlooks this principle.” Der Angriff, in conclusion, asserted that the Bremen incident was de- liberately planned to trouble German- American relations. Avoided Direct Reference. NEW YORK, September 7T (P)— Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky could not be reached today for comment on the German propaganda ministry’s in- structions to Ambassador Luther that & protest be made against the judge’s decision releasing five men arrested in the recent liner Bremen incident. The magistrate, in a lengthy deci- sion, avoided any direct reference to Germany or the Nazi regime. but ex- tensively reviewed the disorders dur- ing which the Nazi flag was ripped from the Bremen’s mast. He said: “It may well be, as was so forcibly urged on me in an attempted exculpa- tion-of the tearing down of the stand- ard bearing the swastika from the masthead of the Bremen that the fiy- ing of this emblem in New York Har- bor was, rightly or wrongly, regarded by these defendants and others of our citizenry as a gratuitously brazen flaunting of an emblem that symbol- izes all that is anti-thetical te Ameri- can ideals of the God given and in- alienable rights of all people to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that in their minds this emblem of the Nazi reign stands for and repre- sents war on religious freedom.” He then remarked that “in a large sense” that whatever disturbances marked the sailing of the liner “were provoked by this flaunting of an em- blem to those who regarded it as & defiant challenge to society.” Eighty on Trial in Albania. TIRANA, Albania, September 7 (#). —Secret trials of 80 persons accused of participation in the abortive revolt against the government of King Zog August 15 started today at Fierl. famous non-Aryan actor, Ludyig Barnay. Eleven persons have already been exe- cuted for their part in the conspiracy.