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WEATHER. W. B. Weather Buieeu Porereef.) Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight Temperatures—Highest. 84. at noon today; lowest. 62, at 6 am. today. Pull report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 Knterrd as Hass matter post office. Washington. i>. No. 31,007. MOYLE AND ALLEN UNHEARD FROM AS SAFETY DEADLINE FOR FLIGHT NEARS Have Gas Enough to Carry Them Until 2:30 O’clock This Afternoon —Weather Conditions Are Favorable. LAST SIGHTED HOUR AFTER LEAVING JAPAN flyers Had Expected to Make 4.465-Mile Journey Across Pa cific in 44 to 47 Hours —Little Apprehension Felt by Friends Waiting in Seattle. 3 he Associated Press. SEATTLE. Wash., September 9. •—Under clouded skies Seattle m atched today tor Don Moyle and C. A. Allen. California flyers, who left Japan almost two days ago on a non-stop flight from Samu shiro Beach to this city. The aviators had not been re ported since they were sighted 70 minutes after leaving the beach, but in view of the isolated terri tory over which they would fly .. and the slowness of communica tion from those parts, this was not t'onsidered alarming. Scores of cars and hundreds of people crowded Boeing Field, where the flyers are expected to land. They had hoped to reach Seattle by noon today. At 12:30 p m. 1 3:30 p.m. Eastern standard limei they will have been in the air 48 hours. Because of a tail wind, aviators here vere hopeful their gasoline supply would last longer than the allotted 47 hours. Weather is Favorable. A plan" reported seen over Port Townsend, near the head of Puget Sound, late this morning was a ship carrying news photos, it was learned on its arrival here. It was first believed to b? th? Moyle-Alien plane. Weather reports had indicated favor able flying conditions over 'he latter part, of their route. Knowing Moyle and Allen had pnough gasoline to lemain in the air 47 hours cr until 2:30 pm.. Eastern • standard time, the watchers at the airport here c..d not voice any anxiety for their safety. , Fid ’ lights and beacons were turned fkvward from Boeing field here, and from the county airport at Tacoma in the early hours. Ships and radio sta tions from the Aleutian Islands to Seat tle were on the alert, eager to witness the latter phase of what started out to be the first non-stop airplane flight across the Pacific's breadth. Crowd out at Dawn. Interested citizens began to stir here a dawn. A few had arrived at the air field soon after midnight, determined to miss nothing in the event Moyle and Allen sailed in ahead of schedule. Friends of the fliers refused to interpret . the long absence of news as ominous. ’ They declined to imagine that iil luck Fad overtaken the former washing-ma cnine salesman and the erstwhile mo torcycle sales agent who left Japan in s; plane that had been all but declared luiairworthy. Moyle and Allen carried no radio and they essayed a course north of the great circle steamship lane. They had ex .pneted to fly northward of the Aleutian I lands for a considerable distance, then ci oss the island group and head straight for Seattle while still some dis trnee from the American mainland. The islands are sparsely inhabited And the fliers might h'vr passed over tiny spots of land without being •cm. Had Good Weather. Weather conditions were favorable • long the latter portion of their route. There was cloudiness and some rain south of the Aleutians and prevailing winds were westerly and southwesterly cf from 12 to 28 miles an hour ve locity. Such breezes would serve as tail winds and step up the spe’d of the plane. > . light headwinds faced the flyers Upon their turning down the Alaskan Coast. . Aviators here said that if Movie »nd Allen got into a tail wind they would be able to conserve thpir gaso- j line supply by "nursing” the motor (Continued on Page 2. Column 7.) DIVE FROM BUS FATAL t an Believed Despondent Plunges i Head First From Machine. TAMPA. Fla.. September 9 <A>). — David E Jordan. 49. of Detroit died in a hospital here last night of in juries inflicted as he plunged from a bus near Tampa yesterday. The driver and fellow passengers j told authorities he opened a door and leaped head first to the pavement, frac turing his skull. Me was en route from Detroit to Tampa with his family. Hospital at tendants said he apparently had been respondent over ill health. »* » GAR WOOD IN TEARS AS HE DENIES TRICKERY IN RACE WITH KAYE DON Contradicts Statements Published Yesterday Saying He Merely Tried to Be First to Cross Line. Jy the Associated Press. DETROIT. September 9 —Gar Ifr’ood. pilot of Miss America IX in the Harmsworth Trophy Races, today con tradicted statements attributed to him Monday to the effect that he had de liberately drawn Kaye Don, British j challenger, in Miss England 11. over the starting line, disqualifica tion of both boats. Deeply affected by comment which I followed the second heat of the race on Monday, in which Wood and Don ■were disqualifira for beating the start er's gun. Wood said the only thing he had in mind was to "beat Don over the line.” "W r wanted to get over first,” he i MRS. G. BRYAN PITTS ARRESTED ON ASSET-CONCEALING CHARGE Freed on s£o,ooo Bond After Arraignment in Atlantic City. Hart. Confidential Agent, and Clancy Also Given Liberty. Mrs. Glady§ T. Pitts, wife of G. Bryan Pitts, former head of the local F. H. Smith Co., was released in $20,000 bond today after she had been arrested in Atlantic City. N, J., for al alleged at tempt to conceal her husband's assets in an effort to avoid payment of $2,000,000 in back income taxes. Henry O. Hart, Pitts’ confidential agent, and Patrick J. Clancy, a chauf feur, arrested with her on the same ciiatge, were released under similar bond. The arrest of Mrs. Pitts, who was long prominent in Washington society, followed the seizure yesterday in an At lantic City hotel of $500,000 worth of (Continued on Page 2, Cclumn 2.) MEXICO ACCEPTS LEAGUE INVITATION Formal Reply Dispatched, Although Senate Must Ratify Proposal. By tho Associated Press. MEXICO CITY. September 9. - Mex ico's acceptance of thp invitation to join the League of Nations is being cabled to Geneva today by Foreign Minister Gernaro Estrada. The proposal must also come before the Senate for ratification inasmuch as membership in the League implies adherence to the covenant and the treaty of Versailles. Canada for Disarming. GENEVA, September 9. —Canada's support for the principle of "arbitra tion. security and disarmament"—the French formula —was announced to the Assembly of the League of Nations to day by Hugh Guthrie. Canadian dele gate, who is making his first appear ance at Geneva. This support, he said, would be in the nature of sympathetic co-operation in whatever plan may finally be agreed upon. Canada is in nowise a militaristic nation and Canada's armaments are practically negligible, he said. "Canada has no need for Riealer armaments," he told the Assembly. , ' She has but one international boun dary. The Uniced States of America, a gr'-at friendly country, is our only immediate neighbor and we are con vinced that the peaceful aims and aspi rations of that great country both rival and support our own.” Sees Absolute Security. While accepting the traditional French position, as expressed in "arbi tration. security and disarmament " that disarmament follows rather than precedes security. Mr. Guthrie also ex pressed the beiief that "general dis armament upon a very extended scale may take place within a reasonable time with absolute security to all na tions concerned. He based this belief upon treaties and covenants looking to security which already exists between various countries. Referring to the work of the Euro pean commission, the Canadian dele gate indicated that he would at some future occasion set forth Canada's op position to proposals for tariff pref erences for European countries export ing wheat. Canada, as one of the world's great exporting countries, is known to object to any such pref erential system as an infringement of her right to an open market in Europe. Rumania Adds Support. Demctre .1. Ghika. Rumanian foreign minister, also regarded disarmament as the most pressing problem before the Assembly. It is futile to argue, he said, over the question whether security should pre cede disarmament or vice versa, as if they were two separate and independent conceptions. He said, however, that “after such a great war as the last one. it is useless to expect a nation to give up its arms without the establishment of security.” Until a real restoration of confidence is achieved, he said, non-aggression (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) SPEED CRIMINAL CASES Four Judges From South and West Sit in New York. NEW YORK, September 9 t/P>—Four i judges from the South and West sat in criminal parts of the United States District Court here today in an effort to clean up the clogged calendar. Ordinarily there are two judges sit ting on criminal cases and sometimes ; three. It has been five years since 1 lour judges devoted their time ex clusively to criminal cases. The visiting jurists are Judges T. Blake Kennedy of Wyoming. Harry B. Anderson of Tennessee. John E. Mar tineau of Arkansas and Halstead R. Ritter of Florida. said. "I had ridden in Don's wash for 30 miles Sunday afternoon, and I knew what it was like. We felt if we got away first we’d have a chance to keep the lead.” Wood said that he instructed his me chanic, Orlin Johnson, who handles the throttle, to ‘ watch Don and beat him i over the line, at any cost.” When they saw’ Don make a start for the line, he I said, they speeded up the boat and passed him before the starting line was reached. "It was this earnest desire on Don's part to get the lead and our determina tion that he would not get the jump that caused this unfortunate mixup,” Wood said. Wood wept as he discussed the state ments attributed to him after the race i Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) m SUNDAY MORNING WASHING TON, I). C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1931— I THIRTY-EIGHT :PA(JES. *** i /jlr i jjH jM BIS, ■ f W —jm MRS. B. BRYAN PITTS. HOOVER SEEKS WAV I TO EXPORT COTTON __ (President Turns to Credit in Effort to Increase Foreign Sales. By f.h* A-socmtrrt Pr<*ss President Hoover i.« holding a series i of discussions with bankers and cotton ; brokers over the possibility of creating 1 banking ciedits for exports of cotton. At the same time the White House » and the State and Agriculture Depart -1 ments are considering the possibility s and advisability of calling an interoa e tional conference on the subject of cot ton production. The President believes, it was said at the White House, that, so far as this s country is now concerned the necessity . of establishing credits for exports is , paramount rather than talk of control . or restriction of acreage. I.eaves Acreage to Growers. The President was described as of the , opinion that the Federal Government , had no agency through which it could i restrict acreage and believing that such action was a matter for the producers themselves to handle. . The President conferred at length yesterday with W. L. Clayton of Hous . ton. Tex., head of one of the larges! cotton firms in the country, and with ( Eugene Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve Bond, and George R. James, a , J member of the board. It was said at tthe White House to- ! . day that the conferences yesterday did i not develop any specific plan and that the discussions would be continued either through meetings or correspond ence. ( The Agriculture Department yester , day estimated this year's cotton crop at 15.685.000 bales, the highest September j ( estimate In 16 years. Several Southern Senators have . brought forward plans for bolstering the ! price. They called for the Government j , carrying over several million bales of j ! | this year's crop for those farmers tvho j i would agree not to plant any cotton 1 5 next year. j i Senator Caraway. Democrat. Arkan- | sas. came to Washington Monday to . press such a plan upon President Hoo ver. He had an appointment at the ! White House for today. Senator . Smith. Democrat. South Carolina, also . 1 is known to favor such action. Caraway wants the Government to > buy 8.000.000 bales at not less than 8 ; cents a pound to be allocated to farm ■ era who would agree not to plant next ' y car. The farmers would collect the difference between the 8 cents and’ih? prospective higher price in 1931!. The Agriculture Department's Au gust estimate was 15,584,000 bales. It i caused a heavy slump In cotton prices NATIONALS LEADING MACKS, 1-0, IN THIRD Joe Cronin's Double in Second In-j fling Gives Griffs Chahce to Score. j Special Dispatch to The Star. PHILADELPHIA. September 9—Joe i ; Cronin’s double in the second inning . paved the way for the Nationals to lead the Athletics, l to 0. In the third in -1 rung of the final game of the series here this afternoon. FIRST INNING. WASHINGTON.—Simmons got Myer’s i foul. Walberg tossed out Rice. Man ush took a third strike. No runs. PHILADELPHIA.—Cronin threw out! McNair. Cramer tripled to center. | Dykes fouled to Kuhel. Myer threw out Simmons. No runs. SECOND INNING. WASHINGTON Cronin doubled against th" left field fence. Williams threw out Harris. Cronin going to third. Foxx took Kuhpl's grounder and threw to the plate too late to get Cronin. Bluege filed to Rommel. Spencer got a single on a grounder to Williams in back of second. Kuhel stopping at that base. Williams had a chance for a force play on Kuhel. but umpire Hilde brand got in his way and the fielder ! could not make the throw. William;, threw out Crowder. One run. PHILADELPHIA—Foxx filed deep to Rice Myer threw out Williams. Heving took a third strike. No runs. THIRD INNING. % WASHINGTON Williams made a flashy stop back of second and threw out Myer. Rice doubled to left. Manush fouled to Dykes. Cronin filed to Rom mel. No runs. PHILADELPHIA Rommel walked. Walberg filed to Manush. McNair flied ■i to Rice in left center. Cramer sin , gled to center, Rommel stopping at sec j ond. Dykes flied to Rice. No runs. Fire Destroys Apartments. ISTANBUL, Turkey. September 9 (/P). i! —Two blocks of apartment buildings i and eight houses were destroyed by fire today at Pera. Radio Programs on Page C-5 'MACDONALD ACTS 10 GIVE MINISTRY POWER TO GOVERN House Speeds Economy Bill Which Would Block Oppo sition in Parliament. \ iLABOR ATTACK ON PLAN SEEN IN DEBATE FRIDAY Baldwin Proposes Resolution to Enable Government to Monopolize Session. By the Associated Press. LONDON. September 9.—Prime Min ister Ramsay MacDonald, getting down ' to the business of forcing his economy program through Parliament, today pre i sented to the House of Commons a "na , tional economy bill," which would em- I power the cabinet to govern by orders ; in council issued by the King without j the sanction of Parliament. He explained none of its provisions, j and the, House passed It on the formal ; first reading. On Friday it will reach ■the debate stage and the Labor party : will marshal its strongest opposition. j Stanley Baldwin, as leader of the government in the House and the prime minister's right-hand man. then pro- ‘ posed resolutions which would give the j government additional emergency pow- ( crs. enabling it to monopolize all the I rest of the session to the exclusion of . j private members' bills under the so- ! called 10-minute debate rule. His resolutions also would provide ■ : for disposal of the necessary budget discussion by midnight tomorrow in ' the Committee of Ways and Means. i * Gains Second Victory. I The House gave the government a majority of 94 this afternoon on a ; I closure motion. Tile vote was 306 to 212. It was the second parliamentary vie- , tory since the special session began yes- ! terday. Last night a vote of confidence ' went to the government by 309 to 250. the Labor party voting almost solidly in j opposition. » Today's vote was on a motion to end debate on Stanley Baldwin's proposal ; that the government be permitted to ! i monopolize the time of this session for ' | its emergency economy program. ! The Labor members protested loudly < when the vote was called, but It passed j and debate was closed, j In citing a precedent for the gov ; ernment talcing all the time of the ; i session for its bills. Mr. Baldwin said ; that the last time Commons met for | a specific purpose it was to deal with the Irish crisis in 1922. The present i government, he said, intended to follow 1 ! the pxample of the 1922 administration ' in getting through its business with the : 1 utmost dispatch. I'nemployed Dispersed. A crowd of unemployed was dis- j persed by police today in front of the Bow Street Police Court, where charges , ; were being beard against 17 persons ! arrested as a result of a demonstra- j tion outside the doors of Parliament ; last night. j Sixteen men and one woman were charged with assault and disorderly! ! conduct. Fines for obstructing police! I were imposed in some cases. Other j ! prisoners were sentenced to a month at ; I hard labor. The woman. Muriel Guest ' j was bound over for 12 months. I Prime Minister MacDonald's ministry | I called for and received from the House j 1 us Commons last night a favorable vote i on a motion to resolve the House into 1 u committee of ways and means to con-1 sider speedy enactment of its proposals. J Labor Forms Opposition. I The government found its support in the ' I complete roster of the Conservative and! ! Liberal members, supplemented by 12 I ! labor delegates and three Independents.! 1 The great bulk of the labor membership j I formed the opposition together with the ■ four members of the Moseley party and j (three Independents. Including Oliver! i Baldwin, son of the Conservative leader. j Coming after an eight-hour debate, i ■ led bv the prime minister and former ' | Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson. 1 the result was heard with a few cheers | from ministerialist benches, but mostly , i with silence in the rank and file of the j House. 1 i In the later stages of the debate i l Mr. MacDonald told his hearers of the \ i utmost necessity of stemming the! ! ' financial typhoon.” "I appeal to all, classes and conditions." he said, "to j I accompany the government on the hard ( ! and broken road along which our sc- [ curity and honor and well-being have to be found." Mr. Henderson threw down the j gauntlet to his former chief by say- ; ing that the crisis was not as serious j as the nation had been led to believe. ; and that, in any event, the great bank- I i ing powers would not have permitted I the pound sterling to fall, i "In their own interests those elements i would never have dared to let British j credit fail.” he said. Papers Support MacDonald. London and provincial newspapers, i ! with one exception, supported the prime , ! minister’s views on the situation, stress- I ing his point that while the formation I I of the national government has gained | a breathing space for the nation the emergency will continue until a program ( 1 Is put into effect. But the Daily Herald. Labor’s mouth- | niece S3ld Mr. MacDonald had com- | mitted himself and was trying to com- , mit the country to a "banker’s policy j whieh is r ot only one of class injustice. I but of na ional disaster. He failed to! show that -apttulatton to the demand of I British and 'oreign bankers was the only ; possible em rgency measure.” CONFIDENCE REVIVED. Commerce Department Reports No Basic Change in Situation. By the Associated Press. The Commerce Department reported today that the establishment of the re cent credit to Great Britain and the announced intention of the new govern ment to balance the budget '’has re vived confidence somewhat.” Its weekly review explained, how-ever. that "no basic change has occurred in the British situation.” The review said no signs of a gen eral recovery were shown in other sec tions of the W'orld. Continuing its discussion of the Brit ish situation, the department said un employment has continued to increase and the only Industrial betterment is a slight gain in shipbuilding. Ihere was no sign of recovery in the Irish Free State, the report added. Amy Johnson Lands in England. LYMPNE. England. September 9 (/P). —Amy Johnson reached here today from-Berlin, completing a round-trip flight in her own plane to Tokio. đsďfsdfd POLITICIANS WATCH | HOUSE ELECTIONS Congressional Fights in Ohio and Missouri Seen Straws in the Wind. t i BY G. GOI LI) LINCOLN. Forerunners of the national political campaign of 19112. two congressional campaigns in two great States of the ' Middle West to fill vacancies in the H vU.se. are getting under way actively now that Labor day has come and gone, i These campaigns are in the first dis i trict of Ohio, so long represented in the House by the late Speaker Long worth, and in the seventh Missouri dts ! trict. to which the late Samuel C ! Major. Democrat, was elected in 1930 Six other vacancies in the House exist today, but none of them will be as i keenlv contested as the Ohio and Mks i sourl elections. If the Democrats would be gratified | by a victory In the Cincinnati district, so long a Republican stronghold, the Republicans would be greatly encour aged If they were able to win in the I seventh Missouri district, which ha.; 1 been a real battle giounrt fct a num i ber of years. The Democrats do not admit there is the slightest chance of i the Republicans regaining the seventh Missouri district, however. On the I other hand, a wet Democrat, Collins ov j name, has indicated he will run as an I independent candidate, against Robert .J. Johnson, the regular Democratic j nominee and a dry. and the Republl- ' ; can candidate. John W. Palmer It is 1 possible that as many wet Republicans j will follow Collins, it his name goes to | me voters, as will wet Democrats, but the Republicans rather think that they I may gain by the entrance into the rat*' jot an Independent Democrat. Jahncke Is Speaker. | Out in Cincinnati last night the As | sistant Secretary of the Navy. Ernest I Lee Jahncke. was a principal speaker In j an opening rally of the Republican ' drive to elect John B. Hollister. Repub | lican. to fill the Longworth vacancy. If : there was the slightest doubt that the I campaign in the first district of Ohio I is to be fought along the lines of na ! tional politics, Mr. Jahncke's address I dispelled that doubt. He urged the elec- j ! tion of the Republican candidate be ! cause he was needed in Washington, j With the House divided 218 Republicans ; to 216 Democrats and 1 Faimer-Laborite , in the last election, it is clear that the | lass of a single Republican seat might I mean an upset in the political majority • of that bodv. | Mr. Jahncke also discussed in great i detail national issues as between the ! two parties, asserting that the Demo j cratic leaders were seeking to force on the country a ••dole" system at the I very time that Great Britain and Ger j many w ere breaking down under such a system. He pictured the Hoover ad- j * ministration, on the other hand, as j constructively aiding to deal with the j unemployment situation.. The tariff I was the subject of a large part oi tContinued on Page 2. Column 6 > CHIEF AND EX-MAYOR ! DIE IN CLOSE-UP DUEL I __ Hartford. Ala.. Sidewalk Tragedy Follows Argument and Years' Bad Feeling. ' By the Associated Press. i HARTFORD, Ala., September 9 ; Chief of Police J. C. Road.v and J. H. ■ Radford, former mayor of Hartford, shot each other to death on*the main street htfe today after an argunfent over operating a road scraping machine In front of the former mayor's house.. | Witnesses said the men met in front , of Roady's office and after exchanging a few words, each placed his left hand ! on th? other’s shoulder and began fir ing pistols in their right hands About 50 persons ,g>aw the shooting. Radford was shot five times and four bullets entered Roady’s abdomen. Roady , died immediately and Radford lived but a few minutes. Friends of the men said ill feeling had existed between them for several years. Roady was active against liquor law violators, while Radford had been arrested twice, authorities said, on charges of violating the prohibition laws. A piece of curbing was broken by the scraping machine in front of Radford’s home and it was while they were arguing over this that the shoot ing took place. Both had been active in political and civic affairs here. Radford is survived by his widow and two children. James and Emma Kate, who entered the freshman class at the University of Alabama yesterday. Roady's survivors are his widow and four children. 1 Soiiiiianil>iilant Wife Draws Insomniac Husband Off Roof B.v the Associated Press. NOBLESVILLE. Ind.. Septem ber 9 —Because Emerson Isgrigg is a light sleeper and his wife a Somnambulist, both were suffer ing from painful injuries today. Isgrigg heard a noise in the early hours yesterday and upon investigating found his wife about to step onto a veranda roof, walk ing in her sleep. He rushed to her, reaching her just at the edge of the roof. His touch wakened and startled her She stumbled and fell off the roof, pulling her husband after her. SMITH WONT RUN. WRITER DECLARES Baker Boom Gathering Force From Anti-Roosevelts, Report States. NEW YORK. September 9—The New York Evening Pa*t said today in a copyrighted story from Washington that former Gov. Alfred E. Smith cf New York will not be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932 and will not allow his name to go before the Democratic Conven tion. ' In the same dispatch, written by Clinton W. Gilbert, it was declared the anti-Roosevelt forces are concentrating on Newton D Baker. Secretary of War in the Wilson administration, and that it is probable thaj Baker’s speech be fore the American Legion in Detroit m about two weeks will mark the be ginning of his candidacy. The dispatch further predicted that former Gov. Smith will make a fight in the Democratic National Convention for a straight out wet plank. $150,000,000 POSTAL DEFICIT FORESEEN > Revenues Drop as Savings Double. Indicating Hoarding, Says Coleman. By the Associated Press. A postal deficit of $150,000,000 for the current fiscal year was foreseen to day by Acting Postmaster General Cole man as postal savings mounted to the new high record of approximately $400,- 000.000. While hard times were affecting the postal revenues. Mr. Coleman said the savings had doubled, indicating that hoarded capital to some extent was re ; sponsible for the existing business con dition. | He predicted the tide would turn to j economic normalcy "when employed people, fortunate enough to have a much decreased cost of living, quit i piling up savings in fear of the future and begin to purchase things they nor mally desire.” To shrinkage of orders and shipments he attributed the present low volume of mail. Postal receipts, after 15 years of steady acceleration, have dropped $50,000,000. The decrease is expected to bring reverberations in the next Con gress. The latest estimate for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1932. puts the receipts as $656,000,000, as against $705,000,000 last year. Postal savings increased from $175.- 000,000 to $350,000,000 in the year end ing June 30, 1931, and now are about $400,000,000. 8,000 MEN STRUGGLE FOR JOBS IN DITCHES Construction Relief Program Cause of Disorder at Cleveland. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND. Ohio. September 9. Eight thousand men pushed' and struggled to become the first to register today for between 1.000 and 2.000 jobs digging ditches as part of Cuyahoga County’s $255,000 highway improve ment program undertaken as unemploy ment relief measure. Windows were broken in the two county storehouses where the registra tion was conducted, shrubbery was. j trampled and police squads were called to maintain order. Half a dozen fainted In the line at * one storehouse. “From Pre»g to Home Within the Hour ” The Star's carrier system covers every city block am! the regular edi tion is delivered to Washington homes as last as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 109,321 (0) Meant Associated Press. RED CROSS TRIBUTE PAID BT PRESIDENT t Clara Barton, Who Founded First Chapter 50 Years Ago, and Others Praised. By the Associated Press. • President Hoover turned aside from Government business today to pay trib ute to the Red Cioss as part, of the celebration of the foundation of its first chapter at Dansville. N. Y.. 50 years igo. by Clara Barton. Speaking over a nation-wide tadio hook-up from the cabinet room of the l White House executive offices. Mr Hoover said the organization “proves | the ability of a democracy to create from the people themselves the agencies for 1 heir service.” The Dansvii'e Chapter, known as the J Clara Barton Chapter, No. 1, was or ganized by Mia- Barton herself in 1881. Os that th* President said: "The 50 yea it •• hich have passed since that pioneer bginning have written a chapter in the world-wide relief of human suffering which is a fitting me monal to Miss Barton and a proud tradition to her countitymen.” Head of Organization. 1 The text of the President's remarks 1 follows: [ "The law provides that the Chief Ex ■ ecutive of the Nation shall also be the president of the American National Red j Cross. This fact adds to the sense of personal pleasure in the privilege which I have today of greeting by the radio those who have assembled at Dansville. N. Y.. to commemorate the fiftieth an niversary of the founding of Clara Bar -1 ton Chapter. No. 1. the first Red Cross i chapter in America. This chapter lias I tile distinction of being organized bv Clara Barton herself in 1881. It is a great distinction which your chapter enjoys both tor the association with Miss Barton and as the beginners of one of the most beneficent institutions of our history. 1 "The beginnings of human enter prises derive their significance from the service which time proves their ability to perfotm for humanity. The Nation .loins in your celebration breause of the success of the great, humanitarian agency which sprang from the mind of Clara Barton and the spirit of your | community. “The establishment of the pioneer chapter in the village of Dansville the forerunner of 3.500 chapters now m existence throughout the United | States, enrolling at times of national need as many as 20.000 000 members. In its lifetime the Red Cross has raised and expended nearly a billion of money in the relief of human distress, r | (Continued on Page 3. Column 2.) AMERICAN FREED . Paraguay Court Releases Brook lyn Mau Held in Murder. - By tlie Associated Press. ASUNCION. Paraguay. September 9 I —The Appellate Court today sustained 1 a motion of counsel for release with -1 out costs of John Francis Wright, an 1 American, whose prolonged imprison 1, ment awaiting trial in a murder case • ‘ has b;en the subject of diplomatic ' intervention. The ltiling awaits review. 5 1 John Francis Wright, described as ‘ a former iesident of Brooklyn. N. Y.. - was arrested after shots had been fired 1 in November. 1929. at the automobile 1 of an Asuncion business man, whose ■ companion was killed. The American charge d'affaires re r cently reported to the Department of 5 State in Washington that Wright's at ) torney had presented a motion which w’ould give his client complete liberty - and would be equivalent to dismissal of ■ the case. VINTNERS MAY HONOR HOOVER BY GIVING NEW WINE HIS NAME i Americans at Picturesque Grape Harvest View ''Dry” ' ; Vintage Designed for Honorary Label. * ®y the Associated Press. COBLENZ, Germany, September 9. The picturesque tradition surrounding lithe gathering of.wine grapes is in full " • swing throughout this valley of the * Rhine. Thi;, year many foreigners, particulrly ■ Americans, are making this city their headquarters for short journeys into ] the celebrated vineyards which criss , cross the slopes of the hills on either l side of the river for miles. j Particularly are the foreigners ex t ! hiblting interest in the so-stvled "dry ! wines" in view of the fact the Alsace TWO CENTS. OTHER BRUTALITY INDICTMENTS SEEN BE END OF WEEK Rover and Hoover Confer on ! Plans for Further Crim inal Action. PRESENTATION OF CASES MAY BE MADE MONDAY Langdon Offers to ‘-Tell In* and Outs of Rank and File" of Police. Indictment of a number of additional policemen on charges involving alleged u>e of the third degree will be sought before the District grand jury late this week or early next week, it was learned today. United States Attorney Leo A. Rov*r. I who secured the indictment last week of five policemen of the first precinct on evidence presented by the United j States Bureau of Investigation, was in conference today with J. Edgar Hoover, director of the bureau. Plans for fur ther criminal action were discussed, it is understood. John M. Keith, inspector in charge of the Federal inquiry, is said to have made rapid progress with other third degree cases under investigation. An unannounced number of these are vir tually ready for grand jurv action and may be given to the inquisitorial bodv | Friday, it was indicated. Presentation i of the cases may be delayed until Mon day or Tuesday, however. Langdon Offers to Tell All. Robert F Langdon. former policeman who was dismissed from the force fol lo'A ing an investigation of the slaving of Beulah Limerick, today offered to go before the grand jury or anv congres sional committee and tell the ins and outs of how the rank and file of the Police Department conceal embarrass ments that have never been exposed.” 1-angdon was held for grana jury ac tion by a coroners jury investigating me death of tile Limerick gill. How c\ci. lie was not indicted in connection witli the slaying. He was dismissed Horn the lorce when he refused to testify betore tile Trial Board regarding a dismantled still tound in the base ment of his home by detectives working on the murder case The lormer policeman's offer to tell i " ilat be knows about the department. was contained in a letter mailed from . Lynn. Mass., on August 1* fast, to Mai. Henry G. Pratt, Superintendent of Police. Refer* Letter to Rover. i Piatt referred langdon '* letter to > Mr. Rover, who said he would call Langdon before the garnd jurv if rhf former policeman was found to have in his possession tarts sufficient to war ia nt such a step The Police Depart ment was requested to make an investi gation of Langdcn's offer, and to re port back to Mr. Rover. Langdon* letter also contained a re quest that he be reinstated and allowed to resign immediately afterwards. This was refused. Hts communication follows Writing you this letter may aerm unusual under the circumstances of oc currences in the past. After consider ing every tiling, I feel that my dismis sal from the Police Department wa* unjust in that a higher tribunal cleared me of all charges of guilt. Cites Marine Record. It seems unjust for a man who served '-■4 mouths overseas and who was picked as one of the best men in the Marine Corps to fill a position of trust and honesty, guarding confidential and *e -1 cret codes, listening to secret discus sions among ranking Government offi i cials, to b? forced into breaking up hi* home, unable to secure employment and i at present financially broken owing to the judgment passed by men who are ■ afraid to give a man a fair trial be cause they fear the newspapers. "With the exception of one man Capt. O. T. Davis. I feel that I am morally superior to the men who tried l me. as I may be forced to divulge if I , must enlist the aid of newspaper articles to give me a living. ! "I was charged with aiding a crim*' that God knows I am innocent of by a few men who blundered on othe* homicide cases, through their neglect of duty while seeking pleasure while on | duty. ‘ I never felt that I would ever reach the level of being a squealer, but rather than do dishonest acts for subsistence. . I will have no other alternative than to become one. but in my case I will not have resort to stories of fiction, but to realities, being unafraid to go before any gmnd juiv or congressional com mittee. and will tile ins and outs of 1 how the rank and hie of the Police De partment conceal embarrassments that 1 have never been exposed. " "Keeping my mouth shut while * member of the Police Department didn't seem to help me much, for once you ’ i (Continued on Page 2, Column 8 j 1 m .. r * j Child's Body Is Recovered. ; DETROIT. Mich.. September 9 i>P». — • The body of 3-vear-old Nelson Patti son. who drowned in the Detroit River - at the foot of Motor Boat lane Mon t day. when.a dock collapsed, throwing ■ nearly 100 spectators of the Harms i worth race into the water, was recov • ered today. [ The Pattison boy was the only mem ber of the crowd who was not rescued. , growers are reported to consider naming the 1931 vintage wine after President Hoover. The new wine, if named for the American President, isn't causing the growers of the Moselle and Rhine Val leys much consternation, for their products have endured throughout centuries. Among the cheaper wines Lieb fraumilch is enjoying much popularity, vintages as old as 10 years costing but $1.50 a bottle. As long as business continues good fdr the wineries, it is said, there is litt’.e chance of them invading the concen trate held in the United State*, now largely controlled by California growers.