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TWO AMERICANS
IN AIR CRASH DEAD
Bound for Bucharest, Seven
Aboard Blazing Plane Die
in Bulgarian Forest.
By the Associated Press.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, July 25. —Two
Americans. Miss Pauline Kaat, 28 years
old, of Cleveland, Ohio, and. Rutgers
Barclay, 22 years old, of New York,
were killed with five others when the
passenger airplane In which they were
riding took fire In mid-air and crashed
Into a forest near Kurudjevo yesterday.
The other victims were believed to be
two British passengers, the Norwegian
consul general in Constantinople and
two pilots, one French and one
Turkish.
What caused the disaster was unas
certainable tonight. The plane which
belonged to the Compagnie Interna
tionale de Navigation Aeruenne. left
Constantinople for Bucharest yester
day morning with the five passengers
■nd two pilots.
It was reported to have been seen
blazing in mid-air near Kurudjevo, and
it now lies in a charred heap in the
thick forest, surrounded by blackened
trees. The occupants had no chance
to escape, it was believed.
The bodies, also charred and muti
lated. were found entangled in the
wreckage. All papers and luggage of
the passengers were completely burned,
making the task of identification very
difficult.
Bulgarian authorities have opened an
inquiry into the disaster.
VICTIM ON STUDY TOUR.
Miss Pauline Kaat of Cleveland Art
Museum Wat Teacher.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, July 25 (JP). —
Miss Pauline Kast, 28 years old, an as
sistant in the educational department
of the Cleveland Museum of Art, was
on a three-month leave of absence to
study in Turkey, Greece and Egypt
when she was reported killed in an air
plane crash In Bulgaria yesterday.
Miss Kast came to the museum in
August, 1929, and taught modeling and
conducted children’s story hours. She
also taught art subjects in Cleveland
Heights and Shaker Heights Public
Schools. She was a graduate of Mount
Holyoke College and studied sculpture
at the Pennsylvania School for Indus
trial Art. Before coming here she
taught at Briarclifle Manor in New
York.
HARRISBURG. Pa., July 25 UP).—
Miss Pauline Kast, who was reported
killed In the crash of an Istanbul-
Bucharest airplane near Bucharest yes
terday, was the daughter of Miller I.
Kast, secretary of the Pennsylvania
State Board of Examiners of Architects.
KENSINGTON PAINTER
IS SUICIDE BY GAS
Robert Rufus Currie Is Found
Dead in Philadelphia Room
ing House.
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, July 25.—Robert
Rufus Currie, 42 years old, of Ken
sington, Md., committed suicide today
by inhaling illuminating gas in a room
ing house. His body was found by two
detectives summoned by the proprietor.
The door was locked and haired by a
chair. Currie was lying on a bed near
which was an open gas heater. In his
pocket was 9 cents.
Mrs. Currie, from her home in Ken
sington, reported to police last Tuesday
that her husband had disappeared. She
left for Philadelphia yesterday after re
ceiving word of his death. Currie was
a painter.
THE WEATHER
District of Columbia, Maryland, Vir
ginia and West Virginia—Generally fair
and somewhat warmer today and to
morrow.
Record for *4 Hoars.
Temperature —Midnight, 73; 2 am.,
•72; 4 a.m., 71: 6 am., 70; 8 am., 74;
10 a.m.. 78; 12 noon, 81; 2 p.m., 83;
4 p.m, 85; 6 p.m, 84;. 8 p.m., 80; 10
p.m., 71.
Highest, 85: lowest. 70.
Temperature same date last year—
Highest, 100; lowest, 71.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today—Low tide, 12:08 p.m.; high
tide. 5:15 a.m. and 5:44 p.m.
Tomorrow —Low tide, 12:20 a.m. and
1:01 pm.; high tide, 6:08 a.m. and
6:36 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
Today—Sun rose 5:03 a.m.; sun sets
7:26 pin.
Tomorrow —Sun rises 5:03 a.m.; sun
sets 7:25 pm.
Moon rises 5:48 p.m.; sets 1:42 a.m.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Rainfall.
Comparative figures of the monthly
rainfall in the Capital for the first
seven months against the average are
shown in the following table:
Average. 1931.
January .3.55 ins. January .1.561n5.
February .3.27 ins. February .1.36 ins.
March ...3.75 ins. March ...3.50 ins.
April 3.27 ins. April 2.87 ins.
May 3.70 ins. May 4.84 ins.
June 4.131n5. June 2.12 ins.
July 4.71 ins. July 4.11 ins.
Record rainfall for the first seven
months was:
January, 1882. 7.09 inches; February,
1884, 6.34 inches; MaixSi, 1891, 8.84
Inches; April. 1889, 9:13 inches; May.
1889, 10.69 inches; June, 1900, 10.94
inches; July, 1886, 10.63 inches.
Weather in Various Cities.
Weather in Various Cities.
Temperature.—> Preclpl-
Max. Min. *ation.B
Sat- Fri. Sat. p.m. to
urday.nieht.Bp.rn.Bp m.
Asheville, N. C 86 64 72 008
Atlanta. Ga. ........ 90 78 84
Atlantic City. N. J... 8| 12 22 ‘
Baltimore. Md. Jg J 3 82 ....
Birmineham. Ala. ... 88 SB 7B ....
Bismarck, N. Dak 106 66 100 ....
Boaton. Mass. JO 66 7} ....
Buffalo. N Y !5 J 6 8
Chicago. 11l- • - •* fg fjj
Cincinnati. Ohio .... SI *• 78 . ..
Cheyenne. Wyo 06 »} 82 004
Cleveland, Ohio 84 64 83 ....
Davenport. lowa ••••92 TO ■* ••••
Denver. Colo 100 70 90 ••••
Des Moines. lowa ... 80 64 88 ....
Detroit. Mich 88 *4 80
Duluth. Minn 80 63 70
El Paso. Tex 98 78 84
Galveston. Tex 88 82 88 ....
Helena. Mont. 94 72 8#
Indianapolis, tod. ... 86 63 82 ....
Jacksonville, Fla. ... 94 76 63 •••-
Kansas City. Mo. ... 90 70 90 ....
Little Rock. Ark. ... 80 68 78 0.36
Los Angeles. Calif.... 84 72 86
Louisville. Ky. 86 63 82 ....
Marquette. Mich. ... 88 60 78 ....
Memphis. Tenn 84 70 74 0.54
Miami, Fla. 88 It 84
Mobile. Ala. 92 16 76 ....
New Orleans. Lt. ...94 7f 78 004
New York. N. Y. .*... 64 70 78 001
North Platte. Nebr. ~ 06 70 82
Omaha. Nebr. 02 70 00 ....
Philadelphia. Pa 04 72 61
Phoenix. Aris 112 04 113 ....
Pittsburgh. Ps fa *0 74 ....
Portland. Me 00 80 66 0 18
Portland. Orel 82 48 40 ....
Salt Lake City, Utah. 98 62 48 ....
ft. Louis, Mo 06 48 §6
it. Paul. Minn 98 88 44 ....
San Antonio. Tex 92 74 48 ....
San Diego. Calif. .... fa 75 fa
Ban Francisco. Calif.. 72 56 66 ....
Santa Pe. N. Mex.... 86 40 70 0-02
Savannah, oa 16 7| §4 ....
Seattle. Wash 76 58 M ....
Springfield. 11l 86 66 83
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NEW BANK FORMED
BY GERMANS TO AID
I NATION’S CURRENCY
I (Continued From First Page.)
but was confident hl> luck would hold
agAln.
I The Reich’s economic situation Im
mediately claimed the cabinet’s at
tention and ’.he chancellor was pres
ent this afternoon at a meeting of
the cabinet's commission on financial
affairs, which Dr. Hans Luther, presi
dent of the Reichsbank. also attended
with the principal object of getting the
clogged German financial machinery
back to work.
Reichsbank circles intimated this
process must be slow and gradual so
as not to encourage bank runs by re
moving all restrictions at once. In the
i course of the next week some of these
| restrictions will be taken off and nor
mal banking business will be resumed,
it is hoped, in the early days of Au
gust, now that the Reichsbank will be
relieved of the end-of-the-month pres
sure by the Boerse Committee's de
cision to postpone settling day from
July 31 to August 31.
May Raise Rediscount Rate.
Reports were current this afternoon
that the Reichsbank had decided to
raise the discount rate from 10 per
cent to 20 per cent, but no official con
firmation was forthcoming and it gen
erally was agreed that such a measure,
if taken, would have to coincide with
the removal of restrictions and not be
fore.
Banking statistics available today
showed that six leading Berlin banks in
June alone were called upon to repay
1.113,000,000 marks (about $278,000.-
000) to creditors, which was materially
increased by July withdrawals.
Next Monday the Reichbank’s board
will take important decisions on the
measures to be adopted as the next
step toward restoring normal condi- j
tions In the banking world as much as
possible.
It was understood that arrangements !
were well under way to form a German
syndicate co-operating with a I
withdrawals of credits from Germany |
■ freezing commission” whereby further
will be effectively halted.
Secretary Stimson took pains to'
point out to American correspondents
scarcely an hour before joining the i
German cabinet ministers, foreign office
representatives and the acting chiefs 1
of the German Army and Navy at Am- j
bassador Sackett'S dinner table that hts
visit was purely for the purpose of ac
quaintance and re-acquatntance with
Berlin which he has not seen since
childhood, and with the leaders of the
German nation.
To avoid any misunderstandings, the
Secretary of State put it in writing as
follows:
”1 have come to Berlin in pursuance
of my plan, announced before I left
America, of visiting the capitals of
Italy, France, Germany and England
and becoming acquainted with the
gentlemen representing the foreign of
fices of those countries.
“The unexpected call to the recent
London conferences deflected me there
when I was intending to come to Berlin
and has necessarily shortened my visit
here.
"I'm very glad to come and see Berlin,
however, as I have not visited it since I
was a child, and the pleasant acquaint
ance, which I have formed with
Chancellor Bruening and Dr. Curtius in
London makes the visit still more at
tractive. I am looking forward with
great interest to my call on President
Von Hindenburg. which honor I am to
have Monday morning. I am very sorry
that, owing to the shortness of my visit,
Mrs. Stimson was unable to come with
me. I shall have to leave for my re
turn on Monday afternoon.”
The Secretary parried all questions as
to possibility of his discussing fur
th ’ credits during his week end in
Berlin with:
”1 certainly do not anticipate that
any such matters will be brought up. j
Those subjects were fully discussed at
the London conference and by the
action of that conference agencies were
provided for In the shape of committees
and bankers, by which any remaining
questions will be dealt with on a bank- I
ing basis.”
The Secretary also refused to discuss i
disarmament or to say whether that j
subject would be brought up here.
To the general question “Are you more
optimistic or less optimistic as a result
of your experiences in Europe?" he an
swered that that question should be
saved until he sails.
Bank Looks to Relief.
The formation of the new bank, with i
a capital of 200,000,000 marks (about
$50,000,000), was announced as the
first concrete action toward bringing
about a removal of the present bang
ing restrictions in the country.
Besides restoring unhampered cur- i
rency circulation, the purpose of the ,
new institution was said to be the rein
statement of the Darmstaedter und Na
tional Bank as a properly functioning
institution.
The banks which were announced as
furnishing the necessary credits include
Deutsche Bank and Disconto Gesell
schaft, the Gold Discount Bank, the
Dresdner Bank, Mendelssohn ti Co., the
Prussian State Bank, the Relchs Kredit
Gesellschaft. the Berlin Handels Gesell
schaft and others.
FLAMES RAZE TANKS
IN WARREN REFINERY
Pennsylvania Blaze Is Quelled by
Firemen of Two States—Five
Men Injured.
By the Associated Press.
WARREN, Pa., July 25—Fire to
night destroyed three 2,500-barrel stor
age tanks of the United Refinery Co.
here, and was controlled only after
fire departments from throughout this
section of Northwestern Pennsylvania
and nearby New York had fought it
for more than four hours.
Five men were burned slightly in
seeking to check the blaze.
Refinery officials said they believed
the fire started in an agitator in the
plant.
The refinery stands in a compara
tively thickly populated section of the
east end of Warren. Occupants of near
by dwellings played water from garden
hose to protect the “structures” from
possible danger. Some left their
homes.
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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, T). C., JULY 26, 1931—PART ONE.
FRANCO-GERMAN
TENSION IS EASED
V
Stimson Hails Improvement,
But Washington Is
Skeptical.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE.
On the eve of leaving London for his
present week end visit to Berlin, Secre
tary Stimson telephoned President
Hoover that the great outstanding re
sult of the seven-power debt conference
was a lessening in Franco-Oerman fric
tion. Col. Stimson said he was author
ized to make that important statement
by no other than M. Pierre Laval, prime
minister of France. It waa not under
stood at the White House that the gun
powder has been fully extracted from
Franco-Oerman relations, but the Lon
don meeting materially relieved the
situation of explosiveness. It did not
usher in an era of final accord between
Paris and Berlin. What lt did do, in
Premier Laval’s words, was to lay the
foundations of a "reign of confidence”
such as has not existed in many a year.
France Holds Key.
The Hoover administration, having
taken the lead within the last 90 days
in the fields both of disarmament and
Oerman economic restoration, has been
brought to realize by recent events that
a Franco-Oerman rapprochement is
essential to any real results in either of
those direction*. France holds the key
to each of the two situations. She is
the strongest military power in Europe,
as well as the richest. Until the French
are willing to reduce armaments, there
is no practical use in discussing the
subject. France has just officially noti
fied the League of Nations that the sub
ject will remain undebatable from her
standpoint until the French are offered
something to take the place of fortifi
cations, machine guns, battle cruisers
and bombing planes.
Paris makes no bones about the
"guarantees” she would demand in ex
change for demolished forte, spiked
guns, scrapped warships and demol
ished aircraft. These ‘'guarantees”
center almost exclusively around Ger
many. Strange as it may sound to
American ears, it is dismembered, dis
armed and bankrupt Germany that
France fears, rather than Great Brit
ain with her mighty navy or Italy with
a formidable army and fleet. It is not
the Germany of 1931 that the French
are thinking about. It Is the Germany
of 1941 or 1951 or 1961 that they
have in mind. France's anxieties are
of the future, not of the present. The
ancient foe across the Rhine is on his
knees today. But how long will he
be there? The answer Is. just as long
as the French can keep him there.
They intend that it shall be a very
long time. France's implacable de
mand for “security” means security
against the Germany that some day.
the French are persuaded, will seek a
war of revenge.
Aristide Briand Missed.
As long as Aristide Briand was a
power in French governments, there
was always a strong hope that ways
and means would be found for adjust
ing relations with Germany on a basis
of mutual accommodation. That hope
took wings In May of this year when
M Briand was overwhelmingly de
feated for the Presidency of the 1
French republic. Looked upon for
months before as M. Doumergue's cer
tain successor, Briand was suddenly
undone by the announcement of the
German-Austrian tariff union project.
As matters have turned out, Germany
was inept in launching that scheme at
i the time she did, for it removed from
real power the one French statesman
j devoted to the cause of Franco-
I German reconciliation. Briand. after
saying he would not return to the
foreign minister's post, consented to
do so after his defeat for the Presi
dency. With that decision, his Influ
ence waned to the vanishing point.
Today it is the Laval-Tardieu-Poincare
Nationalist spirit that pervades Franco-
German relations, not the conciliatory
spirit of Aristide Briand. Throughout
the late Hoover debt-extension nego
tiations, Briand was a totally impotent
figure. He took part in conferences,
but not as the old Briand. He was a
tiger with his claws trimmed. A
Washington statesman, prominent in
recent activities, opined to this writer
that if Briand had retained his former
authority in the French government
the Hoover debt suspension accord
would have been fixed up in four days
instead of three weeks. He added that
the existing credit situation in Ger
many would be correspondingly easier,
and foreign Inclination to help in keep-
I ing with a Briand, instead of a Laval,
j were directing French foreign policy.
French Policy Clear.
France may not immediately press
her claims, but the basic items in her
disarmament and economic program are
these:
1. Germany must cease conspiring
for the abolition ot the Polish corridor
which cuts across and divides East
Prussia for the purpose of giving Poland
access to the sea. The recent demon
stration of the "3teel Helmets." Ger
man ex-service men's organization, at
Breslau, in favor of "wiping out” the
Polish corridor, gave deep offense in
France. France is Poland’s military
and financial ally. French irancs have
been put to work along Germany’s pres
ent eastern frontier just as they for
merly were put to work in Russia—to
guarantee the French a military ally in
that quarter in the event of another
2. Germany must indefinitely post
pone, if not wholly give up. the idea
of tariff Anschluss with Austria in vio
lation, as the French claim, of the
treaty of Versailles. Czechoslovakia is
the military and financial ally of
France, just as Poland is. German-
Austria tariff union threaten* the eco
nomic life of the Czechoslovakians, they
claim. France is at bat to prevent any
such calamity befalling her little entente
associate. . .. .
3. Germany must give evidence of
her peaceful intents in Europe by giv
ing up the idea of a strong navy, even
along the limited lines she is entitled
to pursue. The French specifically
object to the Germans constructing ex
pensive “pocket battleships,” each the
equivalent of any two so-called cruisers
in any other navy, while the Reich pre-
NAVY REINFORCES "GAG” RULE
TO PROTECT ITS SECRETS
Secretary Adams Forbids Officers and Employes Ex*
plaining Fire Control and Spotting to Outsiders.
Navy "gag” rules prohibiting office™
from giving out for publication infor
mation regarded as naval secrets were
reinforced yesterday by issuance of a
new regulation imposing "utmost se
crecy” in connection with all gas war
fare and gun-fire control material.
This new ordef of Secretary Adams,
adding to a long list of censorship
orders issued by the department, fol
lowed publication in The Star Friday
of an article revealing development by
the Army Chemical Warfare Service
of a method of dispersing deadly
"mustard” gas by airplane.
It specifically forbids officers to ex
?lain to persons not connected with
he naval service the system of fire
control and spotting used In firing
guns. Loaning or demonstrating to
such persons any instruments or de
scriptive matter relating to fire con
trol or gas warfare material also is
prohibited.
The restrictions apply to represent
atives of private companies having
contracts for such material as well as
to naval personnel, and can be waived
HEAT OF 118 KILLS
IT IN SOUTHWEST
California and Arizona Bake
in 15-Day Torrid Wave
Due to Linger.
By tha Associated Press.
LOS ANGELEB, July 25.—Seventeen
persom were reported dead from heat
today aa the Southwestern corner of the 1
United States sizzled in temperatures
ranging from 90 to 118 degrees.
While Southern California and Arizona
cities reported heat records, forecasters
said they saw no relief from abnormal
temperatures. The hottest spot In the
United States apparently was Needles,
Calif., with 114 degrees.
Eight deaths were reported from
Phoenix and nine deaths In the Imperial
Valley were attributed to heat. Five
of the Imperial Valley deatha occurred
In Brawley, with 108 degrees today and
a maximum of 118 yesterday.
Col. H- B. Hersey, forecaster here. I
said the heat wave haa lasted nearly j
15 days.
Yuma and Tucson. Ariz.. reported 112
degrees: Anaheim, Calif., 105: El Centro,
Calif., 113, and Los Angeles, 90.
M’KELLAR CALLS HOOVER
TO RESTORE PROSPERITY
By the Associated Press.
President Hoover was called upon
yesterday by Senator McKellar. Demo- j
crat, of Tennessee, in a public state
ment to devote his energies to “restor- :
<4ng prosperity to America.”
He described the President's move to
aid Germany as a "failure” and as- I
serted "the American people will view
with distrust any further effort bv this 1
administration to aid Europe while
American citizens suffer.”
He advocated an immediate reduc- j
tion in the American tariff as the first I
step and warned against any effort by
this Government to lend money to Ger
many.
DIES IN TRAIN MISHAP
PARIS, July 25 UP). —Mrs. C. R. Ful
lerton of Cedar Falls. lowa, died today
at Neuilly from Injuries suffered in a
street car accident Thursday.
Mrs. Fullerton, who is the wife of the
head of the department of music at
lowa State Teachers College, was spend- i
Inga vacation here with her husband
The body will be taken to the United
States for burial.
tends to be bankrupt and in need of
foreign financial aid.
4. Germany must suppress the vet
erans’ organizations which are inciting
the people at the Reich, especially the
rising generation, to pet ready for an
other war with France; to tear up the
treaty of Versailles and to reject the
Young plan.
Friction Persistent.
Premier Laval and Chancellor Bruen
ing may chant about a new “reign of
confidence” between their respective i
peoples, but both statesmen know— '
as even remote Washington knows—
that the fundamentals of Franco-Ger
man friction will persist until the
above-tabulated issues are met or com
promised. France, with 25 per cent of
the world's gold supply, is determined
to use it to the limit to promote French
international purposes. It is a nvghty
weapon. It has grappled Poland, Ru
mania, Czechoslovakia and Jugoslaria
to her side. It is even a club which
the French wield over Great Britain
because of the $750,000,000 in gold they
have on deposit there, and the with
drawal of any considerable portion of
which might produce grave effects in
London. French gold Is at Germany's
disposal, too, but at a heavy price.
Will the Germans ever pay it?
On the answer to that question de
pends the immediate future of disarm
ament and European economic recovery.
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only In the dlscrectlon of the chief of
the Bureau of Ordnance.
Adams In an order about two weeks
ago forbade all officers to reveal to the
press any matters discussed in execu
tive conference. This order wu be
lieved prompted by publication of
changes ordered in the design of new
cruisers, following detection of flaws in
eight of those built since 1929.
The Navy's efforts to prevent publi
cation of news from the department is
not a new venture. For years Its Sec
retaries have been attempting to im
pose censorships of one form or another
on the 'press.
A year ago Adams, disgruntled at
newspaper stories concerning proposed
plans of the Navy General Board to
recommend a huge cruiser and aircraft
building program, sent to each bureau
chief a letter prohibiting publication of
any news not approved by the Secretary
and issued through regular depart
mental press channels. This was com
plied with, for some time, but lately
has been more or less Ignored by high
officers.
MEXICOPLANNING
SILVER STANDARD
Gold Coin to Be Reduced to
Merchandise Status to
Boost Peso.
j By th« Associated Press.
| MEXICO CITY. July 25.—1 tis learned
from a reliable source that steps taken
by bankers meeting at the treasury
department today to settle the exchange
problem Include the abolition of the
double standard of currency. This
would leave silver the only legal tender
in Mexico, and reduce gold coin to the
status of merchandise No official state
ment has been made, however.
Under the arrangement as unofficially
repoited all bills now contracted In gold
will be payable in silver, peso for peso,
and the banks will be obliged to pay in
gold only 30 per cent of deposits in that
coin, paving the rest in silver.
The Bank of Mexico, lt was said,
would retire as a competitive bank and
berome a federal reserve with the co
operation of all other banks in business
! in Mexico.
Committee Appointed.
A committee consisting on one repre
sentative of the government, one from
the Bank of Mexico and one each from
five leading banks has been named, it
was said, as a supervising committee to
! keep a check on the reserves on hand
in the Bank of Mexico.
The reserve in the Bank of Mexico, it
was asserted, will be in gold and silver
)>ars and a large issue of silver notes is
likely to be made later, although not
| immediately.
It is learned that the plan was ap
proved by both houses of Congress
today and was made known to the
bankers at a meeting at the treasury
department this afternoon.
The plan will be published in the of
| ficial gazette Monday as a law, it was
I said, and will go into effect immediately.
The plan for curing the monetary ills
of Mexico followed close on the heels
of the appointment of Plutarco Elias
Oalles as president of the Bank of Mex
ico. Calles, who is known as a man of
action, was called to the position when '■
the silver peso was rapidly sinking and
an alarm spread through business
circles. He assumed the pc«t yesterday.
Free Gold Movement.
While the plan was expected imme
diately to remedy the falling exchange
of silver against gold, the improvement
I in exchange of silver against dollars, it
was thought, would probably be a slow-
I er process.
The plan also Includes a declaration
i for the free import and export of minted
or bar gold. Minting gold money is
strictly prohibited as is minting silver
pieces or one peso denomination. Silver
two-peso pieces are withdrawn from
circulation and holders given six months
to exchange them.
The plan, it was said, was included
in a report of banking and monetary
laws, approved by Congress today. These
reforms give the Bank of Mexico power
to Issue paper and silver currency up to
double the amount of the reserve on
hand, whereas up to now it was re
quired that the banks have a reserve
equal to the full amount of the bills
issued.
As a federal reserve institution the
bank has full rediscount powers to
which other banks have agreed.
SEEK NEW RECORD
Post and Gatty After Mark in
Speedy Book Issue.
CHICAGO, July 25 (A>).— Wiley Post
and Harold Gatty, around-the-world
speed flyers, today went out after a
new speed record.
They signed a contract to write the
story of their record world flight so
speedily that the book will be on
dealers’ shelves within three weeks
from the time they start writing. The
publishers asserted the feat fould set
a new publishing speed record.
BRITISH AIR CUP
WON BY EDWARDS
Blackburn Bluebird Piloted
Around 1,000-Mile Course
at 117.8 an Hour.
By th« Asioci.t.d Prill.
HESTON, England, July 35.—The
King’s Cup, most coveted trophy in Brit
ish aviation, was won by Plying Officer
E. C. T. Edwards, who piloted his Black
burn Bluebird around the 1,000-mlle
course at an average speed of 117.8
miles an hour today.
The race, in which there were 40
entrants, Including 6 women, was
flown in English Bummer weather at Its
worst, with rain and mist predominat
ing.'
Final Stage Thrilling.
On the final stage of the flight, Ed
wards engaged In a thrilling duel with
Flight Lieut. F. O. Gibbons, although
the weather was so thick neither airman
could see the others’ plane. Gibbons
left Bristol, the final control point, at
the same moment as Edwards.
The six women entrants fared badly,
only one completing the course and she
far behind the leaders.
One 19-year-old girl was Phyllis
Salaman, owner of and passenger In a
pale blue light plane piloted by Lieut.
Geoffrey Rodd. which finished third and
was awarded a special prize for the best
time over the oourse. Its average was
127.5 miles an hour. The race was run
on a handicap basis
During.the compulsory stop at Bris
tol Miss Salaman was too excited to
leave the plane, but, having surprised
everybody by producing hairpins and
pinning back her blond hair, remained j
in the cockpit, asking all who passed
how many competitors were ahead of
her plane.
Professional. Barred.
The comparatively low speed at
which the Tace was flown was explained
by the fact that professional pilots and
owners associated with any airplane in
dustry were debarred tor the first time
in the history of the contest.
The winner. Flying Officer Edwards,
was with Winifred. Spooner, widely
known airwoman, when a plane in
which they were flying crashed into the
Mediterranean while on a flight to
Capetown last year.
Because of the bad weather 14 of
the contestants were forced to drop out
before ret hing Leeds on the first lap.
Bern. Switzerland, is trying to stop
the tendency to build more apartment
houses than the city requires.
GROSNER'S J 3 2 5 F • STREET
Good-byes! & Good-buys!
• . y We’re bidding farewell to the balance of our Spring and
TT* Summer Stocks—complete disposal is the “buy’’ word. The
X L items below are just an indication of the complete line-up of
bargains in the “Clear-away."
August Clear-away
time throughout the Store!
Entire Stock of £52555355585&55555EE&
sport coats
This group is our a
entire stock of tine $ | /\ Jj Til /J ft I*/"/ I) /‘O
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Regular $lO and sls , .
a most important
SPORT TROLSERS Special Purchase of
Splendid quality plain
white and striped trousers. ▼ J . Braild-New
SHIRTS 1931-32 Styled
Collar attached. White and * CC V" TTPPI7XT 14 17 T \/f 17 D
plain shades. Including Gros- $ | OD IX L I T HrlN XT XL X iVX EL Xv
s’hadow and Gros-shrunk. All JL •» i ar
and GROSNER
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and GROSNER W
SUITS — actually made | I
$7950 t 0 seU at ~~
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Alterations at Cost
in tins sale at
„ Regular $1.50
NECKWEAR Q H C
Fine quality . . . hand- ✓'v X
made resilient construe- £
$1 Full-Fashioned
silk hose mtd %J
Latest shades and pat-
terns with reinforced heel, r /
toe and garter top. J J Oxford Greys, Fancies, Navy
3 for $2.00 Blues Kerseys, plain - shade #
Regular $1 and $1.25 —Boucles and Fleeces.
UNDERWEAR
Including Rockinchair ISeS
and other famous makes,
Shirts, Shorts and Union /
Suits. /
t for $ 2.00 BSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS^BSBS
1325 r STREET
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Plans Outing
MISS SUGAR HEADS
COMMITTEE.
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JEAN sugae.
Chairman of the committee in charge
of a moonlight boat trip on the City
of Washington to be given Thursday
by the Junior Hadassah Society.
—Star Staff Photo.
C. OF C. TO STUDY PLAN
TO LIFT JAPANESE BAN
Proposal to Admit Quota to U. S.
Will Be Discussed Here at
Committee Session. \
Proposed removal of discrimination
‘ against Japan as an American immi
gration policy will be discussed at a
meeting here Friday of the Immigration
Committe* v of the United States Cham
ber of Comiherce.
Proponents of the plan have advo
cated establishment of a regular quota
for Japan. The discussion will result
from a resolution presented to the na
tional chamber by the delegation from
Portland, Oreg. Individuals prominent
in the movement to lift restrictions
against the Japanese include Wallace
M. Alexander of San Francisco, Arthur
S. Bent of Los Angeles and J. J. Dono
van of Bellingham, Wash.
Officials of the State and I.abor De
partments have been favoring a Jap
! anese quota in recent years. They have
; pointed to the potential decrease in
i illegal entries as one of the benefits
, likely to be obtained from such a pro-
I gram.
STATES OUTLINE
YORKTOWN PLANS
Original Thirteen to Join fn
Sesquicentennial Cele
bration.
By the Associated Press.
YORKTOWN, Va., July 25.—Repre
sentatives from most of the 13 original
States today outlined to the Virginia
Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission
plans for their participation in the
celebration to be held here in October.
They, in turn, were told of plans made
by Virginia for entertainment of official
guests from these States and of Gov
ernors and their escorts from the reet
of the 48 States.
Memorial Arches Planned.
It definitely was reported today that
Governors, legislative commissions end
military units from New York, Con
necticut, New Jersey, Georgia. Rhode
Island and Vermont, as well as Virginia,
would attend the celebration. New
York plans to erect & memorial arch
at a cost of $3,500 as well as a monu
ment on the battlefield and will have
a pylon flying the State flag on the
Avenue of Nations. A large tent will
serve as State headquarters and a
gathering place for its delegation.
Guards to Attend.
New Jersey also will erect an arch, a
pylon and a tent, it was reported, and
Connecticut is considering similar ac
tion. In addition to the Governors and
commissioners from these States. Con
necticut will send Putnam's Phalanx
and the Connecticut Footguards, its
i historic military organizations.
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Plan* Annual Excuriion.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Dis
trict Fire Department will take its an
nual Chapel Point excursion August S
at 8:45 a.m. This outing will be fol
lowed by a moonlight excursion nine
days later. Mrs. Frank Barry, 222
Eighth street southeast, and Mrs.
Charles Weitael. 659 E street southwest,
are in charge of the ticket sale.
YOUR JEWELRY
—Should have time attention and
consideration aa your physical con
dition. ontime*. a diamond is lost
through neglect Our service wiU
Erotect your diamonds,
et Vs Look Them Over Before Tear
CHAS. F. HERRMANN
Mto. Jeweler
811 E St. N.W., 2nd Floor
Watches and Diamonds on gala