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URIBURU BECOMES
ARGENTINA HEAD
Revolutionary General Takes
Oath as Provisional
President.
(Continued Prom First Page.)
burned by the mob. About 20 were
killed in the fighting and more than
100 were wounded. President Irlgoyen
signed his resignation, and Gen.
Uriburu formed a new cabinet, a civil
body, composed principally of members
cf the old opposition.
Uriburu was named head of the new
provisional government, which an*
nounced a* its purpose improvement of
economic conditions in the country and
a more representative government than
that of the administration just past.
Twenty-one Persons Killed.
A complete check shows that 21 per
sons. among them one cad t, were killed
in the disorders in the 1 .a/a Congreso
Saturday afternoon. There were 188
civilians. 22 cadets and 1 soldier
wounded.
In Buenos Aires three men captured
while looting during the political ex
citement were taken out and shot.
The new government believes that
many persons it wished to arrest have
escaped into Uruguay. Some of those
wanted are believed to have taken
refuge in foreign legations.
The new minister of foreign affairs,
Bosch, has sent cablegrams to all the
Argentine legations and embassies com
municating to them the principles on
which the new junta is governing and
assuring them that peace reigns in the
country.
The story of the former President’s
adventures Saturday is dramatic. He
had kept inside during most of the dis
turbed week that brought about the
outbreak and after the cabinet ran up
the white flag to the oncoming revolu
tionaries last night no one knew where
Irlgoyen was. Some reports said he had
fled to a cruiser for refuge.
Dashed From Home in Car.
eventually, it was learned the Presi
dent had dashed from his home in a
motor car after receiving word that the
revolt had triumphed, loyal police hold
ing up traffic near his home in the.
Calle Brazil for several minutes. Police
on the side of the revolutionaries pur
sued the car and Intercepted it at La
Plata, where Irlgoyen. so ill he had to
be aided to a ight from the car, was
taken • first U the provincial capital
house and the) removed to the infantry
barracks ford« tuition.
He asked immediately for a bed and
after conversing' for a few minutes with
the officers present wrote a brief resig
nation and handed it to the com
mander of the 7th Infantry, Lieut. Col.
Yrusta.
No less dramatic was the resignation
Os the former Vice President, Dr. En
rique V. Martinez, who was President
for a day after Irlgoyen had '’retired”
under a constitutional provision on Fri
day night. _ _
When Gen. Uriburu arrived at the
government house Saturday night after (
the revolutionary troops had taken over ,
the city he' encountered Martinez in
the presidential office, informed him
that the revolution was S complete
success, and demanded his resignation.
Martlnes refused.
"You may kill me, but I will not
resign,” he asserted.
"I am not simple enough to make a
martyr of you,” replied the revolt
leader, ‘‘but your resignation is neces
sary to prevent bloodshed. Resign or
you will be imprisoned.’
In a few moments Martinez capitu
lated and signed the resignation. En
thusiastic crowds swarmed gleefully
through Buenos AJres all night after
the exciting change in government.
Irlgoyen’* Heme Destroyed.
One group went to Irigoyen’s home
end removed all furniture to the street,
there piling it up and burning It. The
houses of former Foreign Minister
Oyhanarte and of other Irigoyenist
leaders also were ransacked.
Other groups raided the offices or
the executive committee of the Radical
party—the Irigoyenist faction —and
also tore up the quarters of all Radical
political clubs.
Hot-blooded youths, mostly students,
•tucked the Case Molino, which had
sheltered a group of Irigoyenistas that
opened fire on the revolutionary troops
to the Plaza Congreso Saturday night,
•nd demolished it.
Then they visited the central police
station, carrying banners and singing
the national anthem. Behind them
trailed a bust of the fallen President.
Other places destroyed by infuriated
mobs Saturday night were those of the
newspapers. La Epoca and La Calle.
Irlgoyen organs. These were burned
while the city firemen, loyal to the re
volt movement, refused to fight the
flames. The attack on La Epoca oc
curred after persons in the building
had fired on the advancing revolu
tionary troops. The soldiers soon sis
lenced their assailants with machine
guns and then the crowd rushed at
the building to destroy it.
Oen. Uriburu and the provisional
government he established now enjov
unquestioned authority throughout the
republic.
Feverish activity went on today
•round the government palace, where
the new cabinet attempted to pick up
the business of the state and carry It
forward.
PANAMA OFFICIALS RESIGN.
Three Pretest Education Secretary.
Crowd Throngs Independent Square.
PANAMA. September 8 <JP).—' The
political atmosphere here was cleared
somewhat in the forenoon today by an
nouncement of the resignation of three
members* of the cabinet, Interior Sec
retary Robles. Finance Secretary Duque
•nd the foreign affairs minister, Arose
mena.
The resignations are declared to be a
protest against Jeptha B. Duncan, sec
retary of public instruction.
Observers say the attitude of these
cabinet members reflects the view of
the Nationalist Assembly, which has
protested to the President against Dun
can appearing in the Chamber to pre
sent his report. Duncan enjoys the
•' confidence of the President, however,
•nd has paid no attention to demands
that he resign
Foreign Minister Arosemena told the
Associated Press correspondent shortly
after noon, as he was driving homeward,
that he had resigned.
"Ministers Duque, Robles and I re
signed this forenoon,” Secretary Arose
mena said. ‘ Minister Roble* presented
the resignations to the President.”
The secretary said he would attend
an important meeting of the National
Assembly this afternoon.
By midday the Cathedral Plaza,
known as Independent Square, was
thronged. Interest in the political situa
tion appeared increasing momentarily.
BMBASSX INFORMED OF REVOLT
By the Associated Press.
The new Argentine government in
formed that country’s embassy here to
day that “tranquillity and order” now
maintain through the republic.
The communication came as the
first official notification of the over
throw of the Irlgoyen administration.
Official quarters had been waiting such
word, having had to rely on press dis
patches almost exclusively to keep in
touch with developments.
The cable lined the new cabinet
formed to ai4 Oen. Jose Uriburu in his
succession to the Irlgoyen power. It
Mid the armed forces responsible foi
the overthrow of the previous govern
ment. backed by the gemra] Argentlm
pu- -, are anxious to nm>n .peace and
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ARGENTINE PRESIDENT'S UPSET
IS THIRD CAUSED BY STUDENTS
South American Press and Public Regard
as Heroes Youths Whose Activities Would
Not Be Tolerated in Other Countries.
BY JOHN W. WHITE.
By Radio to The Star.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina. Septem-
I ber B.—Hipolito Irlgoyen, who two years
ago was swept into his second term as
President of the Argentine, has been
j forced from office, the third South
j American President to be overthrown
; within 10 weeks by revolutions brought
to a head by student uprisings.
The serious attention which is given
| by South American governments, news
! papers and the public in general to
; student strikes and the participation of
students in political demonstrations 1*
• utterly beyond the comprehension of
j the Anglo-Saxon mind.
Students Overthrow Sites.
| The overthrow of Dr. Hernando Siles
in Bolivia is traceable directly to a stu
j dent uprising three years ago.
Encouraged by the slice .of the 80-1
1 livian revolution, Peruvian students
{ started hostile demonstrations against
i Augusto B. Leguia. Energetic police
i measures, which were necessary to quell
! the demon nations, brought to a crisis
i the political opposition and eventually
led to a military and civil revolution
. I which deposed Leguia and placed him
i undfr arrest on San Lorenzo Island.
The Argentine political crisis was
’ quieting down and the situation ap
peared to be on its way to returning
to normal, when students began street ;
demonstrations, at which they de
manded Irigoyen’s resignation. The
killing of a student and the wounding .
of several others during a demonstra- :
tion which threatened to storm the
! presidential palace caused the explosion j
of public wrath, which got beyond gov- j
emment control and brought about a i
military and civil revolution two days
later.
Cadets in military academies—ln
other words, students—took leading
parts in the Bolivian and Argentine
revolutions.
In all these teases the students are
GROW AND SUTTON
ORDERED RELEASED
\
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New Peru Government Wants
Americans to Stand
Trial.
Advices from Peru that Capt. Harold
Grow and Charles Sutton, American
citizens held prisoners In Peru since j
1 the overthrow of the Leguia grvent
| ment in that country, hove been or
dered released were r eceived by the
State Department yesterday.
Still Liable to Charges.
A dispatch to the department fronrv
American Ambassador Dearlng in Lima
said the release of the Americans had
been directed by the president of the
Peruvian junta, but that they were still
liable to legal proceedings on such
charges as may be made against them.
Press dispatches Saturday night car
ried an announcement by the American
Ambassador that he had conferred with
officials of the new regime and had
obtained assurances that the Americans
would be freed if they would agree to
stand trial In the courts.
Grow Was Air Service Head.
Capt. Grow formerly was a member
of the American Naval Mission In
Peru, but had resigned and taken over
the directorship of the Peruvian air !
service when the Leguia regime wus
overthrown.
State Department officials expressed
gratification over the release order, ad- j
vancing the belief that it signified the 1
t friendly attitude of the new govern-
I ment.
THIRD AMERICAN HELD.
Construction Company Manager De
tained Pending Peru Audit.
' LIMA, Peru. September 8 i/P). —J. H.
Gildred, American manager of the J. H. |
Gildred Co., an American concern
building the new Palace of Justice and j
new maiket buildings, was still detained
by agents of the new government today 1
pending an audit of funds received
j under former President Leguia’* ad
! ministration. *
I Gildred was apprehended yesterday |
; when he arrived at Callao aboard the
; steamer Santa Clara. He is the third
I American detained by the military ;
junta now ruling Peru. His friends i
! here expected his arrest to bring a re- j
j action from the United States State
Department.
Uruguayans to Withdraw.
It was learned unofficially today that |
the Uruguayan legation intends to with
draw from the country and will leave
i for Montivedeo Wednesday. The motive ]
' has not been learned. Meanwhile, the
Cuban Minister will take care of Uru
-1 guayan interests.
I The military junta which took over
the Peruvian government following upon
’ the recent revolt still is making changes
in the country’s foreign service.
. The resignation of Celso Pastor, Pe
ruvian Minister to Berlin, has been ac
cepted, while the foreign office has can
celed the appointments of Manuel Ellas
Bonnemaison. Minister to Japan, and:
Santiago Bedoya, first secretary of the ‘
embassy at Vatican City.
Promises U. S. Friendship.
I Today’s El Comercio, editorially dis
, cussing the attitude of I ieut. Col. Luis
I M. Sanchez Cerro, head of the junta,
i toward the United States, says that the
; head of the government had tald a cor
■ respondent the country would entertain
,' most friendly relations with the United
. j States “provided that the United States
, gives Peru the treatment deserved by j
, all free and Independent nations and
; provided that Peru Is treated as an
J! equal.” *
; MRS. FANNIE WALL DIES
Native Washingtonian Succumbs
to Injuries From Fall.
1 Mrs. Fannie A. Wall, a native of
I Washington, died Saturday morning at
I the home of her daughter. Mrs. Adolph
Rado, of East Orange, N. J., as the
result of injuries sustained in a fall |
j some time ago. She was 84 years old.
Mrs. Wall was bom and reared in
i Washington and lived here until about
six years ago, when she left to reside
with her daughter.
Survivors, other than her daughter,
are three nephews, Jesse L. and 1
Clarence E. Ergood, of this city, and
-, Walter C. Ergood, of Lancaster. Pa.
. Funeral services will be conducted
„ from the funeral parlajp of J. William
Lee Si Sons, 332 Pennsylvania avenue,
tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. The
e Rev. J. Manley Cobb, rector of Trinity
- Episcopal Church. Takoma Park, will
. ! officiate. Interment wfll be in Glen
a wood Cemetery.
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II 22 Flee Mexican Priion.
t HUITJ3TZINOO, Puebla, Mexico,
s September 8 OP).—Tw, pty-two prisoners
t yesterday overpowered the gustos of
r their jail and then seised the rifles
• stored in the prison and terrorised the
e town by looting houses and shooting in
d the air. They fled to the * hills and
troops were rushed la pursuit.
THE EVENING STAK, WASHINGTON, D. C„ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1930,
wild. Irresponsible youngsters, a major
ity of them too young to vote and many
so young that in any but the Latin
countries they would be spanked and
sent to brd without their supper. Here,
however, they are looked upon as he
roes.
In Buenos Aires students were plainly
looking for trouble. They shouted most.
Insulting phrases against Irigoyen and
the government. Student orators de
livered wild harangues, inciting revolu
tion, which elsewhere would have put
them behind the bars for treason. Here
their utterances were published at
length in the most conservative dailies,
including La Prensa and La Naclon,
which devoted long editorials to praise
of student activities and speeches.
At La Pas a student federation sent
a note to the military junta, demanding
that students be given two seats on the
political committee which was to select
the coalition candidate for the presi
dential elections.
While Daniel Salamanca, now presi
dential candidate in Bolivia, was being
given an ovation upon his arrival in
La Paz a student orator butted into the
program from a hotel balcony, adjoin
ing the one on which Salamanca was
acknowledging the plaudits of street
crowds, and warned him that the revo
lution was not terminated and that It
I would not be terminated until the Ideals
; for which sudent blood had been spilled
; were realised.
Crowd Cheers Student.
The crowd cheered the student
speaker until it was hoarse and the
i newspapers gave as much space to his
appearance as they did to Salamanca’s
• arrival.
What is difficult to understand is how
students get away with so many things.
soon as the revolution triumphed in
Bolivia the military cadets demanded a
vacation of two months, and got it.
They spent the time in allowing them
selves to be idolized, dined and wined
as national heroes.
(Coarrttht. imo.)
Killed by Bandit
J|^jog£gp|j/
A. PERKY PIERCE.
—Star Staff Photo.
SLAYER OF OFFICER !
DIES FROM WOUNDS
IN HOSPITAL TODAY
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States Navy from 1917 to 1924, serving
i as a first-class petty officer with the
battleship squadron. He was born in
\ New London, Conn.
The rookie officer, who went to his
death while playing a lone hand in the
capture of the colored desperado, left
i mute evidence that he was game to
i the last. When found his body was
1 lying across that of the bandit, and
both men held empty revolvers in their
hands. Pierce died within a few mo
! lrtents after he was struck, according
: U, Coroner T. Marshall Jones of this
city, from a ,32-cailber bullet which
struck him high ii* the chest.
, The gun duel, w'h.ch took place about
1 one-half mile north of the Alexandria
i City line on the Alexandrla-Washington
road, in Arlington County, but within
the 1-mile police jurisdiction of the
city, was the culmination of a night of
hold-ups here. Five men reported that
a colored man. armed with a gun, held
them up before midnight Saturday
night, and a gasoline filling station at
tendant was robbed of between $lO and
$l5 in change by a bandit who entered
the station from the rear about 2
o’clock yesterday morning.
Bandit Admit* Hold-ups.
Capt. W. W. Campbell of the local
Police Department said the colored man
admitted to him he had committed the
| hold-ups About $l4 in change and $8
I in bills were found on the man when
captured.
Pierce, who was stationed near Four-
Mile Run following an accident there
earlier yesterday, is believed by Capt.
Campbell to have seen a man answer
ing the description of the hold-up man
as he started back to headquarters in
his police car some time after 3 o'clock
in the morning. Knowing that the man
had a gun, Capt. CampbMl believes
Bierce drove part of the way to the city
and asked a motorist to follow him
back to where he had seen the bandit.
Meanwhile the colored man had
moved over beyond the city line when
Pierce came upon him. The story as
reconstructed by Capt. Campbell then
would indicate that the bandit fired as
Pierce stepped from his car to arrest
him. and that the bullet shattered the
windshield of the officer’s car. Both
I then fired at close range until their.
! guns were empty, sinking to the ground
in a final death grapple.
E. B. Higgins of 3627 Eleventh street,
| Washington, told police that shortly
latter 4‘o'clock Pierce pulled up beside
| his car on the railroad bridge on North
Washington street extended and said,
| "For God's sake, follow me!" With
that. Higgins reported, Pierce set off tt
a high speed north. Higgins followed
to Potomac Yards. where he stopped to
call local police. He then drove to the
scene of the duel, where he found
Pierce lying across the colored man.
| He kicked the gun from the colored
man’s hand and returned to Potomac
I and again called police.
Had Thrown Away Gun.
When Sergt. Heber Thompson of the
local force arrived the colored man had
j extricated himself from beneath Pierce
j and had taken off a pair of overalls
he *had on and thrown them with
Pierce's gun down an embankment.
Police believe that the man thought
he was throwing away his own gun
when he disposed of the officer’s
weapon. Pierce’s gun and the over
alls were recovered from a nearby
ditch
Jack Allen, a reporter of The Star,
and O. J. Love of 3128 M street. Wash
ington, took Pierre to the Alexandria
Hospital, where .he was pronounced
dead by Coroner Jones. Sergt. Thomp
son took Wroten In and established a
polic; guard over him.
An inquest into the affair will be held
some time this week, according to Cor
oner Jones. Funeral arrangements for
the dead policeman have not been com
pleted. *
Pierce was the fourth policeman to
have been feet in the hfittry <* the
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Financier Expires
m~
SIMON WILLIAM STRAUS.
STRAUS, FINANCIER,
EXPIRES AT HOTEL
Originator of First Mortgage
Bonds Led in Backing
Large Buildings.
Mv the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September B.—Simon
William Straus, chairman of the board
of S. W. Straus St Co. and financier of
some of the Nation’s greatest skyscrap
ers, died in his suite at the Hotel Am
bassador yesterday. He was 63 years
old.
His death was caused by myeloid
teucemia, a form of anemia. He had
been .ill for a year.
He is credited with originating first
mortgage bonds, and he won wide recog
nition through his plan for safeguard
ing first mortgage loans on improved
real estate, made available to the gen
eral investing public. His company was
among the first to underwrite large
buildings, financing, among others, the
Chrysler Building, the Chanin Building,
the Westinghouse Building and the
Straus Building.
Mr. Straus was born In Ligonler, Ind.,
the descendant of a line of continental
bankers. Frederick William Straus, his
father, who emigrated from Germany,
founded the Citizens' Bank there.
GIANT Fowl TUBE
LAUNCHED IN GULF
Cold Water to Be Drawn
From Depths to Mingle With
Warmer Stream.
By the Associated Press.
MATANZAS, Cuba, September 8
Prof. Georges Claude, French scientist,
expected today to proceed at once with
development of his scheme to produce
inexpensive power from the Gulf Stream.
Elated at success finally of launching
his 5,000-foot, 6-foot-diameter tube to
draw cold water from the depths be
low the Gulf Stream, he expected lit
tle further difficulty to attach to Ills
million-dollar expel iment ill practical
physics.
The tube, probably the most expen
sive part of the power project, was
slipped into the water off this port
Sunday, after two previous attempts
had failed because, Prof. Claude
charged, of sabotage by Interests op
posed to his idea.
A dozen tugboats, a government de
stroyer, two companies of troops and
squads of provincial police assisted in
tile gigantic task. The tugs lined the
apparatus to keep it from curving and
breaking in the Gulf Stream until the
two cables keeping it on the surface j
were cut and it slipped to the bottom
of the ocean.
It is Prof. Claude’s scheme to draw
cold water from the bottom to the sur
face of the Gull Stream, vaporize it by
submitting it to vacuum, using the re
sulting steam to operate a turbine and
in turn condensing the steam again to
maintain the vacuum.
He has the backing of the French
Academy of Science and the Cuban
government in the venture.
ROVER TO PROSECUTE
DENISON RULING APPEAL
Justice ▼'•ni.rtment Authorizes
Fight in Case of Representative
Accused of Liquor Possession.
a
The Department of Justice has au
thorized United States Attorney Leo
A. Rover to prosecute the Government’s
appeal to the District Court of Appeals
from the decision of Justice Peyton
Gordon of the District Supreme Court
sustaining the demurrer of Edward E.
Denison, Representative from Illinois,
to an Indictment charging him with
possession of a trunk containing liquor
at his office in the House Office Build
ing in January, 1920. Gordon held
that the indictment was not good be
cause it failed to meet the constitu
, tional requirements to inform the ac
cused specifically so that he might
plead an acquittal of the charge as a
bar to a similar indictment.
The Indictment is in a few lines and
merely charges that the Representative
was in possession of liquor on a specific
date in January. 1929. Rover, in asking
permission to appeal, pointed out that
every indictment reported by the grand
jury in a case for sale of liquor has
a possession count in the identical
language to which Justice Gordon took
exception.
The charge against Denison grew out
of the discovery of a leaking suitcase
at Union Station.
WIFE ASKS DIVORCE
Ruby T. Murray. 3325 O street, has
filed suit for a limited divorce from
John M. Murray, 1111 Lamont street,
alleging cruelty. They were married
May 8, 1920, and the wife says her
husband assaulted her June 28. She
charges that he called her vile names
1 and attended parties with other wom
| en. She is represented by Attorneys
James A. O'Shea, John H. Burnett and
Alfred Goldstein.
i
l local force and the second officer to
• die in line of duty within three days,
i Capt. W. W. Campbell’s father, then a
Drive t? on the force, was killed in 1919.
I Sergt. Hummer was shot to death by an
■ unknown assailant in 1928, while Bergt.
r Charles R. McCleary was killed a little
• over a year ago. Last Thursday after
noon Polfceman Whitfield W. Upacombe
> war killed when a fire engine ha was
> riding overturned on the River road.
MEMORIAL EUND
DRIVE TO BE AIDED
* t
Meeting Wednesday to Form
Executive Committee of Rap
idly Growing Dollar Club.
An impetus will be given at a meet
ing Wednesday night to the raising of :
funds for the war memorial which it
is proposed to erect here in memory
of District of Columbia men who lost
their lives in the World War.
A meeting of the Dollar Club has
been called for that evening in Typo
graphical Temple at 8 o’clock for the
purpose of selecting an Executive Com
mittee to carry on the club’s own op
erations. Membership in the Dollar
Club is confined to ex-service men. and
it is known as tire veterans’ branch of
the War Memorial Committee. The
Dollar Club has grown to such propor
tions that it was believed the time had
come when it should have its own
Executive Committee
R. A. Dickson, secretary of the Ex
ecutive Committee of the War Memo
rial Committee of the Central Labor
Union, today reported on contributions
to the general fund from several unions.
He expressed gratification that union
labor is taking such a keen interest in
the movement to honor the District war
dead.
Rodmen Local No. 201, a part of the
building trades organizations, has made
a donation of S2OO to the fund, Mr.
Dickson reported. From Hotel and
Restaurant Employes' Local No. 481 the
sum of SSO was authorized from Its
treasury, and the Plasterers’ Tenders’
Local No. 571 has levied a 50-cent as
sessment on its entire membership.
There are many hundreds of members
in this union, Mr. Dickson said, and
quite a large sum will be received from
this source.
INTER AMERICAN
FARM MEET OPENS
Delegates From 21 Nations
Meet Here for Round-Table
Study of Agriculture.
With delegates present from 21 na
tions, the first Inter-American Confer
ence on Agriculture, Forestry and An
imal Industry opened today «t the Pan-
American Union.
This conference, which wili continue
for two weeks, will consist of round
table discussions covering all phases of
agricultural science and statistics, and It
is expected that steps will be taken for
permanent co-operation between the
American nations.
At the opening session this morning
a resolution was adopted expressing the
sympathy of the conference for the
hurricane-torn Dominican Republic
Secretary Hyde said that It is de
siraWe for the nations of the western
hemisphere to attack the surplus pro
duction problem simultaneously as a
means of helping the farmer.
The program today was given over to
welcoming the delegates to Washington
and arranging the details of registra
tion and organization. The conference
was called to order at 10.55 o'clock, fol
lowing which there was an address of
welcome by Joseph P. Cotton, Acting
Secretary of State, who said the gather
ing was especially appropriate at a time
when agriculture In all the American
nations was passing through a serious
crisis, the solution of which calls for
application of the most advanced scien
tific principles and the promotion of re
search. The countries, he said, have
everything to gain by placing at the dis
pt »1 of each other the results of their
research and experiments.
Secretary of Agriculture Hyde then
addressed the conference, after which
there was an address by Ambassador
Tellez of Mexico, speaking as vice chair
man of the governing board of the Pan-
American Union. Responses to the ad
dresses of welcome were made by Pablo
Ynsbran of the Paraguay legation here
and delegate from that country; Carlos
J. Quintero, delegate from Panama, and
Dr. Carlos E. Chardon, commissioner of
agriculture of Porto Rico.
This afternoon there was a luncheon
in honor of the delegates given by the
governing board of the Pan-American
Union. Later the meeting was addressed
j by Secretary of Commerce Lamont,
after which each of the Latin American
delegates resounded to the addresses of
welcome with general statements of
some of the outstanding agricultural
problems.
The scientific sessions will start to
morrow with round tables on forestry,
soil, pasturage, plant pest, foreign crop
and statistical surveys. Visits are being
arranged during the conference for
visits to the scientific laboratories and
experimental farms near Washington.
Delegates in attendance, announced
this morning, are:
Argentina—lng. Eduardo Blanchard,
Nicolas B. Suarez. Ing. Ruben Bence
Pleres and Anibal Fernandez Beyro.
Bolivia—Alberto Mendez.
Brazil—Declo de Paula Machado and
Vinlcio da Veiga.
Chile—Dr. Alberto Graf Marin.
Colombia—Carlos Duran Castro. Luis
Cuervo Marquez and Miguel Lopes
Pumarejo.
Costa Rica—Ramon Aguilar Boldanl.
! Fernando Castro Cervantes and Mo
desto Martinez.
Cuba—Luis Marino Perez, Armando
Rodriguez Cace-ea, Augusto Bonazzi
and B. Glazier.
Dominican Republic—Persio C. Fran
co and Joaquin Marrero.
Nicaragua—Dr. Juan B. Sacasa and
I Evaristo Carazo.
Ecuador—Dr. Proano Alvarez.
Guatemala —Adrian Reclnos and Ra
mero Fernandez.
Haiti—Ulrich Duvivier.
Honduras—Ernesto Argueta and Wil
son Popenoe.
Mexico—Sergio Barojas, Julio Ri
queime Inda, Rogelio Sanchez, Pascual
Gultlerrez Roldan, Rigoberto Vazquez,
Jose V. Cardoso and Jose de la Macorra.
Panama—Carlos J. Quintero.
Paraguay—Dr. Pablo M. Ynsfran.
Peru—lsalas de Pierola.
Salvador—Francisco Reyes, hijo.
United States—Dr. A. F. Woods. dl->
rector of scientific work, Department of
Agriculture, T-. Carl L. Alsberg direc
tor, Food Research Ir 'tute, Stanford
University, California; Dr. George K.
Burgess, director, Bureau of Standards;
Dr. Crrloa E. Chardon, commissioner of
agriculture and labor. San Juan Porto
Rico; Dr. William Crocker, chai.man,
Boyi ’ Thompson Institute for Plant Re
search; Dr. E. Dana Durand, statistical
assistant to the Secretary of Commerce;
Dr. B. T. Galloway, chief pathologist,
Department of Agriculture; Dr. Robert
! A. Harper, vice president and chairman,
Tropical Plant Foundation Board, Co
lumbia University; Dr. John R. Moh
ler, chief, Bureau of Animal Industry,
Department of Agriculture; Edward G.
Montgomery, chief. Foodstuffs Division,
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce; Nila A. Olsen, chief. Bureau of
Agriculture Economics; George M. Rom
mel, industrial commissioner, Savannah,
Ga.; Dr. William A. Taylor, chief. Bu
reau of Plant Industry, Department of
Agriculture, and Leon M. Estabrook. as
sistant to director of scientific work.
Department of Agriculture.
Venezuela —Robdrto Alamo Ibarra.
Walker Get* 1 Canada Poat.
Jay Walker of this city, recently ap
pointed to m» united States Foreign
Service, has been assigned to duty aa
vice consul at Niagara Falla, Canada.
FIGURE IN LOUISIANA “KIDNAPING”
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REPORTER STRIKES
HUEY P. LONG AFTER
BEING CALLED NAME
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of Samuel Irby and James Terrell. As
Wiegand entered the room he was
seized by two bodyguards of the Gov
ernor.
Called Vile Name.
He said that as he was being held,
the Governor called him a vile name
on two occasions. The reporter said he
broke loose from the guards and struck
the Goveruor. He declared the guards
grabbed him again and stood by while
the Governor hit him twice in the face.
The Governor threatened to have the
reporter arrested for impersonating an |
officer, but Robert S. Maestri, commis
sioner of conservation, dissuaded the
Governor. Gov. Long then apologized
to Mr. Weigand for calling him the
name and Mr. Weigand apologized for
striking the Governor.
The New Orleans Item has been wag
ing a campaign against Gov. Long, who
seeks nomination as United States
Senator.
Subpoenas Are Issued.
Subpoenas were issued today by the
United States District Court at New
Orleans against Gov. Huey P. Long,
District Attorney John E. Fluery of Jef
ferson Parish and Sheriff Frank Clancy
of Jefferson Parish for their appearance
in court at 10 a.m. today to show cause
why Samuel Irby and James Terrell,
who were seized and kept in seclusion
by State officers as they planned to file
a slander suit against the Governor in
Shreveport, should not be produced In
open court.
An officer of the court left imme
diately for the Roosevelt Hotel to serve
the paper on the Governor. At 10
o’clock, the writ of habeas corpus,
issued Saturday by Judge Waybe Borah
of Federal District Court, is returnable.
In the application for the writ, Assist
ant Attorney General E. R. Schowalter
charged GoV. Long with conspiring to
kidnap the two men.
Developments around Irby and Ter
rell have created excitement in New
Orleans as Gov. Long goes Into the
Democratic primary election tomorrow
aa an opponent for the United States
Senate against Senator Joseph E.
Ransdell.
Newspapers Under Guard.
Policemen were assigned to each
newspaper plant in the city last night
and they were still on duty today. They
said they had been ordered to guard
the newspapers by the chief of police.
The newspapers have conducted an in
tense campaign against the Governor’s
candidacy and in the few days before
election they carried front page
'editorials, cartoons and outspoken news
items against him.
Gov. Long last night dramatically
whisked Into his hotel suite and placed
before a radio microphone a man who
claimed to be Sam Irby, missing after
he announced a week ago his intention
of filing a slander suit against Long,
who opposaes Senator Joseph E. Rans
dell in tomorrow’s Democratic primary.
The man, introduced to radio listen
ers by Gov. Long, read a prepared
statement in which he said he was not
kidnaped from a Shreveport hotel
early Thursday, but slipped away with
a requested guard of State policemen
after he found $2,500 under his pillow.
He said he did not know why the
money was placed there.
Mystery still surrounded the dis
appearance of James Terrell, divorced
husband of the Governor’s private
secretary, who was with Irby at Shreve- 4
port and dropped from sight the same
night.
WITNESS DECLARES
KELLIHER FORCED
ON RIDE TO DEATH
(Continued From First Page.)
that the wording of the warrant, alleg
ing that Kelliher was “thrown from
the car,” implied that he was thrown
out from the force of the collision.
The case will be brought into police
Court at Alexandria on charges of gross
negligence and wrecklessness, accord
ing to Attorney Bryan, who added that
police there had no knowledge of the
rumors that witnesses had seen the
men engaged in a fight in the auto and
Kelliher thrown from the car as the
accident occurred.
The four men were riding in a small
roadster headed toward Alexandria on
their way to a nearby beach when the
accident took place. Their car col
lided with an auto containing Stephen
Kania and Joseph Podruchny, both of
Sparrows Point, Md., a few feet south
of the “Death Trap” culvert on the
River road. Just within the jurisdiction
of Alexandria. Both autos were wrecked
and Kania and Podruchky were cut and
shaken up Both were treated at the
Alexandria hospital and then taken to,
police headquarters at Alexandria to
be held as material witnesses in con
nection with the case.
Men Refuse to Return.
Alexandria Police then sought to have
Garrison. McKeever and Shea return
here and went to Washington to bring
them back, but they refused to return.
The warrdht charging murder was then
sworn out and lodged at police head
quarters here and McKeever and Shea
were locked up at the third precinct
station. Garrison, suffering from a con
cussion of the brain, was removed from
Emergency to Galllnger Hospital and a
police guard established there.
Capt. W. W Campbell of the Alex
andria police force emphatically denied
today that he had affidavits from two
witnesses charging that Kelliher was
thrown from the car. Coroner T.
Marshall Jones of Alexandria stated to
day that no date had been set for an
inquest. Coroner Joseph Rogers yes
terday issued a certificate of accidental
death.
Kelliher, who was 38, lived at 3455
Fourteenth street northwest. Garrison
lives at 302 Tenth street southeast, Mc-
Keever at 603 Farragut street north
west and Shea at 1324 Fairmont street
northwest.
Ball Club Manager.
The dead man was manager and
first baseman of bhe St. Mary’s Celtics
base ball team of Alexandria and last
year was manager of the Hagerstown
club of the Blue Ridge League. He en
tered professional base ball from the
sandlots about 15 years ago and was
once given trial by the Pittsburgh
Pirates. During the game between the !
St. Mary’s Celtics and the Fredericks
burg Elks, played at Alexandria yes
terday, the players stood for a moment;
with bared head* In aliens tribute to I
Kelliher, who was their first baseman
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.JjpMBlflBHK. -»gfeff§k
~ J -v> *' fpF t»
Stun ui. lormer chemist of the
Louisiana State Hlfhway Department
(upper left), and James Terrell, divorced
husband of Alice Grosjean, private sec
retary of Gov. Long of Louisiana (upper
right), who were reported spirited away
by State officers before the former could
fulfill his threat to file a slander suit
against the Governor. Alice Grosjean
is shown at the bottom.
FOOD AND DRUG ACT
SEEN AS SUCCESS
Senator Copeland Lauds Ad
ministration of Law as Dis
* closed by Investigation.
Senator Royal S. Copeland of New
York, eminent health authority and
physician, in a letter made public today,
declared that in his opinion the Depart
ment of Agriculture had “come out with
flying colors” from the recent investi
gation of the Senate Agriculture Com
mittee into the administration of the
food and drug act.
The Senator’s letter was addressed
to W. G. Campbell, director of regula
tory work for the department, and was
in answer to public criticisms growing
out of the investigation in which Cope
land had taken part as a member of
the committee. *
Department Commended.
"So far as the Department of Agri
culture can make it true,” Senator
Copeland wrote, “the anesthetic ether,
the digitalis, the ergot, the Jamaica
ginger and other drugs dealt with in
this investigation and on sale in the
United States are above suspicion. I
found this statement not alone upon my
own knowledge and conviction, but upon
the testimony presented in the investi
gation.”
Senator Copeland declared that like
wise the manufacturing chemists are
"entitled to a clean bill of health in this
attack upon their Integrity and profes
sional skill."
“You and your associates brought
out what you have long known and
tried to correct, to wit, that you have
not money enough and force enough to
do all the things which should be done
if the public is to have full protection
against adulteration, substitution and
fraud,” he told Mr. Campbell.
Sees Need of Increase in Funds.
“It is perfectly clear to me that the
appropriations for your division must
be increased. You must have a large
force to accomplish everything you
desire and everything which you are
capable of accomplishing if you have
this force.”
Senator Copeland gave assurance;
that Congress, knowing all the facts,
would not hesitate to provide ample
funds.
The evidence presented to the com
mittee. he pointed out, showed that the
regulatory division of the department
has been “tremendously alert” in in
quiring into questionable commercial
practices and following up the source
of every suspicion of WTong doing.
WORLDSERIESOPENS
IN AMERICAN LEAGUE
First Two Games to Be Played in
Junior Circuit Park Be
ginning October 1.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 8.—The 1030
world series will open October 1 in the
park of the team winning the American
League pennant, probably Philadelphia,
it was decided at a conference with
Base Ball Commissioner Landis today
Games 1 and 2 will be played at the
home of the American League cham
pions. with Nos. 3. 4 and 5 in the Na
tional League champions’ park. If
sixth and seventh games are necessary
they will be played in the American
League winners’ park.
Prices will be identical with those of
1929. The prices, Including tax: Box,
$6.60; grandstand, reserved, $5.50; gen
eral admissions, $3, and bleachers, sl.
All games will start at 1:30 p.m. stand
ard time.
Ticket applications wUI be accepted
starting with next Monday, Septem
ber 15.
QUAKE ROCKS ITALY
Town in Ruined Area Is Jarred by
Earth’s Movement.
CANDELA, Foggia, Italy, September
8 (A 9 ).—A strong earthshock of six
seconds duration was felt a few
minutes before midnight. It was pre
ceded by loud rumblings which ter
rorised the people. No damage was
caused, but houses weakened by the
July quake were endangered anew.
Candela is in (he province of Foggia,
22 miles south of the city of that
name. It is in the heart of the quake
atone in which In July more than 1,000
persons were killed when scores of
towns were wiped out. • It has a
population of about 8,000.
LEAGUE SETTLES
PALESTINE CRISIS
Difficulties Over Report of
Mandates Group Are
Smoothed Out.
Hy the Associated Press.
GENEVA, September B.—The council
of the League of Nations announced to
day the amicable settlement of the
delicate situation which hacf arisen as
the result of the Mandates Commis
sion’s recent frank criticisms of British
administration in Palestine.
The situation v%s settled “wjtn peace
and honor for all.” according to a state
ment made at the opening session of
the council. *
Commission Upheld.
The Mandates Commission, In making
its recent report on Palestine, in which
were incorporated criticisms of the
British administration, was acting in
its proper function, the League council
was told by its mandates reporter, Mr.
Procope of Finland.
Procope emphasized, however, the
tremendous difficulties faced by the
mandatory power in attempting to fa
cilitate the establishment of a Jewish
national home planned, and at the
same time encourage the growth of
political Institutions for the welfare of
the Arabs.
This conciliation of a situation which
had been regarded In some quarters as
a break between Britain as the manda
tory power and the commission, which
supervises for the League the manage
ment of mandatories, was nailed as
testimony to the spirit of co-operation
and “give and take” which the League
has been working to develop in inter
national relations.
British Effort Recommended.
The reporter’s finding, after discuss
ing the complexity of the Palestine sit
uation. recommended to the council “to
request the British government to adopt
such measures as it thinks necessary to
give effect to the recommendations and
conclusions therein and to take the
action suggested by the commission on
the annual report for 1929.”
Arthur Henderson, in behalf of the
mandatory power, expressed his thanks
for the conciliatory nature of M. Hjal
mar Procope’s report, and insisted that
1 Great Britain recognizes the right of
the Mandates Commission to pass judg
ment on the acts of the administrator.
In effect, the British foreign secre
tary declared that while his recent re
joinder to the commission's criticisms
was somewhat direct in phraseology his
, government understood the commls-
I slon’s attitude and would be glad to
continue its efforts to establish condi
tions in Palestine on which the peace
and prosperity of all peoples there would
, be secured.
Will Discuss Federation.
Today’s meeting of the council
brought together again Foreign Minis
ters Briand of France, Grandi of Italy,
Curtius of Germany and Henderson.
These four were expected to take ac
tive parts this afternoon in discussion
of M. Briand’s plan for a federation
of European states.
The statesmen were to hold a con
ference at 4 p.m. at which Foreign
Minister Briand was to deliver his lat
i est views on his scheme for organizing
European states into a union to deal
with major political and economic ques
tions. The conference was to be pri
vate. but discussion of the plan will
go to the League Assembly Wednesday.
SENATOR ALLEN GOES
TO JOHNS HOPKINS
Kansan, Taken 111 in Mexico, May
Undergo Gland; lar Operation
Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, September B.—Senator
Henry J. Allen of Kansas arrived here
today from his home at Wichita. Kana.,
and entered Johns Hopkins Hospital
as a patient of Dr. Hugh H. Young,
An operation, it was said at the hos
pital, may be performed tomorrow for
; a glandular trouble. Senator Alien first
, was taken ill while visiting Mexico re
, cently as the * guest of Ambassador
Dwight W. Morrow. Upon hi* return
to Wichita he had a minor operation
at a hospital there.
With him were his daughter. Miss
Henrietta Allen; DBf E. S. Egerton, his
physician, and a nurse.
NEW TRAFFIC LIGHTS ON
Five Control Intersection at Sec
ond Street and Maryland Avenue.
Five traffic lights governing the in
tersection of Maryland fvenue. Second
and B streets northeast, were turned on
this morning for the first time.
Motorists proceeding east on B
street, who wish to turn Into Maryland
avenue, to proceed to Maryland, will
encounter one light on the near side
of the intersection and follow a line
of painted arrows to a second traffic
light at the far comer of Maryland
avenue and Second street. Thus, those
who encounter the first light when It
Is showing red will have two stops to
make at the comer. They can avoid
this, however, by entering Maryland
avenue at A street and continuing
straight through.
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Archbishop Beturni.
NEW YORK, September 8 (/PL-
Right Rev. John J. Glennon, Roman
Catholic* archbishop of St. Louis, Mo,
returned yesterday on the liner,
Carinthla, after a three weeks’ visit to
Ireland.
He said he found conditions in Ire
land “fairly good” and called attention
to the stability of the government.
BAND CONCERTS.
By the United States Navy Band this
evening at the east front of the Capitol
at 7:30 o’clock. Charles Benter, leader;
Charles Wise, second leader.
Spanish march, "La Guardia de Corps,”
San Miguel
Overture, “Bohemia” Dvorak
Solo for comet. “Swiss Song” Hoeh
Musician Birley Gardner.
Shadow dance from the opera
“Dlnorah” Meyerbeer
Suite de ballet, “Coppeila” Dellbee
Introduction and valse of the doll.
March of the warriors.
Hungarian dance.
Valse. “Southern Roses” StTauss i
Excerpts from the operetta “Th-’ Three
Musketeers" Frimlj
Czardas from the opera “The Ghost ofi
the Warrior” Grossmann]
i March, “Clear for Action,” Blankenburgj
“Anchor’s Awelgh." w .J
“The Star Spangled Banner.”
By the United States Army Band
this evening at Grant Circle at 7:10
o'clock. William Stannard, leader
Thomas Darcy, second leader.
March, “Le Regiment Sambre et .M
Meuse” Turk* I
Overture. “Poet and Peasant” Sun*
“Cocoanut Dance” ..Herman j
Suite in four parts, "Ballet Egvntiea» I
fulfil I
Selection from “R >m"o and Julie^PH
Popular, “Song of the Dawn”.... YeftZ p
Characteristic. “Juba Dance”..,. ..sE I
March, “Sons of Australia”..,.Lts2
“The Star Spangled »ann*r.^ m I