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I F. C. PRESCRIS
RULES FOR LOANS
ON PUBLIC WORKS
Fixes Regulations Governing
Advances to States, Cities
and Firms.
SETS FORTH WARNING
ON REVENUE SOURCES
Aid Will Not Be Available on
Projects Which Will Be Paid
for by Taxation.
Bt the Associated Press.
The Reconstruction Finance Corpo
ration today prescribed the rules under,
which it will make loans to States, |
municipalities and private corporations !
for financing self-liquidating construc- !
tion projects.
"New construction only is to be !
financed," it said in a pamphlet dis
tributed to its loan agcncies and Cham- ί
bers of Commerce.
"No loans may be made to refinance !
or refund the financing of projects al- j
ready constructed, as that would not j
create employment."
Advances will be made by the corpo
ration out of the $1.500.000.000 increase
in funds provided by the relief act. No
project to be paid for through taxation
is eligible for a loan. Liquidations must
b? met through tolls, fees, rents or
other charges.
To insure the maximum employment,
borrowers must agree in writing to
limit the hours of workmen not hold
ing executive or administrative posi
tions, to 30 hours a week and agree ;
not to use convict labor. Preference
also is to be given ex-service men.
Each applicant for a self-liquidating
loan must supply full information on
the project. An advisory board of five
engineers will assist in passing on con
struction loans.
Among data private corporations !
must supply in applications:
Comparative balance sheets for each j
oi the ast five fiscal years; compara- j
tive earnings statements for five years; j
the nam·», addresses, credit references, [
salaries and other occupations of all
officers and directors and the amount
of stock or securities of the company
each owns. The names of the 10 larg
est stockholders also must be given.
From States and municipalities fiscal
siatemeiiis igr uie uui> unci: lumi jwn
are required. Assessed valuation of prop
erty, the r mount of taxes, the tax rate
and a statement of uncollected taxes
must be included.
Eûch r.pplication also is required to
have attached to it an opinion of an
attorney as to the legality of the
project.
WAGNER HITS "PEI.AY."
Senator Fears Opportunities May Be
''Frittered Away."
NEW YORK. August 29 (^.—Sena
tor Robert F. Wagner, New York Dem
ocrat, made public yesterday a letter
to Secretary Mills in which he com- ,
plained of "undue delay" in making ι
available to the various departments '
the S322.0C0.000 appropriated for Fed
eral construction as a relief measure.
The Senator wrote that "if the em
ployment opportunities provided by the
relief and construction act are frittered
away » » » the present signs of recovery
may prove a delusioA."
ROBERTSON TO SPEAK.
Will Outline Plan for Revival of Pros- 1
pcrity.
PITTSBURGH, August 29 OP).—A.
W. Robertson, chairman of the plant- !
replacement subcommittee at President
Hoover's recent economic conference,
will detail his plan for revival of na
tional prosperity today.
He will explaei to 100 or more indus- i
trial leaders, from various sections of !
the country, a program which will in- I
volve $5.000.000 oi credit still available j
in the country. Plant replacements and :
improvements will be suggested.
Robertson, chairman of the Westing
houf.e Electric & Manufacturing Co.
beard, says he believes an upward trend
in business conditions is near.
Porto Rico's Plea Studied.
SAN JUAN. Porto Rico. August 29 j
VP).—R. H. Buss, representing the Re- !
construction Finance Corporation, ar- !
rived today to study Porto Rico's appli
cation for a loan. He spent the morn- '
ing conferring with bankers.
NEW STATE LINKED
TO BRAZILIAN WAR
3.000 Armed Men Reported In
volved in Rebellion Spreading
to Rio Grande Do Sul.
By the Associated Presf
MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay. August 29. j
—Rebellions involving upward of 3,000 |
armed men have occurred in several j
centers in the Brazilian state of Rio
Grande Do Sul. dispatches from that1
section said yesterday, and the situation j
with regard to the federal government j
is grave. A number of state officials j
were said to have fled from Porto Alegre. ;
Troops Capture Town.
RIO DE JANEIRO. August 29 (TP).— j
Federal troops in the field against the
rebels of Sao Paulo reported yesterday
they had captured the town of Ribei
ropolis, an important highway junction ί
60 miles northwest of Bury.
The day s bulletins also announced
capture of the railway stations at
Eleuterio, Atalivanoguerira. Prata and
Mococa, )n the border between Sao
Paulo and Minas Gereas. Fourteen fed
erals were killed and 28 wounded in
these engagements.
Belated dispatches from the town of
Manaos said federal naval forces had
won an engagement 800 miles up the
Amazon. The federals commandeered
two cargo vessels, armed them and sank
two similar ships which h'd been ccm
mandeered by the rebels at Obidos.
STERLING LEADS IN TEXAS
BY 3,429 IN RUN-OFF RACE
Noses Out Mrs. Ferguson in Close Con
test, With Returns From
State Incomplete.
By the Associated Press.
DALLAS. Tex., August 29—Gov. R.
S. Sterling's lead over Mrs. Miriam A
(Ma) Ferguson for the Democratic gu
bernatorial nomination mounted to 3.429
on additional returns from Saturday's
primary election. The latest tabulation
by Election Bureau gave Sterling 466.318
votes and Mrs. Ferguson 462.889. This
was for n51 counties of the State.
Mrs. Ferguson is the only woman who
has been Governor of Texas, a house
wife who went to Vhe hustings when
her husband, James E. Ferguson, was
barred from holding office. He was im
peached and removed from the Gover-_
nor's chair in 1917.
After one term. Mrs. Ferguson was
defeated for re-election by Dan Moody,
«ho was attorney general under her
administration and led in the proceed
I ings which persuaded the courts to
cancel Important highway construction
contracts granted during her tenure of
office. Her defeat was six years ago.
Moody was succeeded by Sterling,
who had been chairman of the High
way Commission during the former's
; term. Mrs. Ferguson ran against Ster
! ling two years ago. led at the first pri
mary and was defeated in the runoff.
The State bureau's returns indicated
the iiomination of George B. Terrell.
Joseph Weldon Bailey (son of the for
mer Senator of that name) and Ster
ling P. Strong to the three places as
Congressman at large given the State
by the last congressional reapportion
ment. Terrell and Bailey were indorsed
by organizations favoring repeal of the
eighteenth amendment. Strong for
merly was superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League in Texas.
WALKER'S HEARING
DELAYED BY DEATH
Mayor's Brother Succumbs
at Saranac Lake—Gov
ernor Calls Off Session, i
By the Associated Press.
ALBANY. Ν. Y., August 29.—Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt announced today
that the bearing of charges against
Mayor James J. Walker would be ad
journed until after the funeral of the
mayor's brother, George Walker, who
iied at Saranac Lake today.
"Because of the death of the mayor's
t>rother." the Governor raid, "the hear
ing, of course, will be postponed until
ifter the funeral."
The Governor said he did not know
ivhen the funeral was to be held.
The Governor's decision was reached
after he had conferred with John J.
Curtin, chief of Walker's counsel.
Court Ruling Due Tonight.
A second expected development in the
Walker case was postponed by a matter
sf hours when Supreme Court Justice
Ellis J. Staley said he would not make
public until tonight his decision on the
ipplication of Walker for an order to
stop the Governor deciding on the
iuster request.
The mayor's younger brother, a New
iTork City insurance broker, died in a
private sanatorium, where he had bean
indergoins treatment for tuberculosis
'or two months. He was 47 years old.
Death came with a suddenness that
s-as not generally expected. On July
!9, when the mayor visited his brother
lere. the patient's condition had seemed
mproved, but he suffered a relapse a
:ew days ago. His wife and their two
laughters, Helen and Dorothy, weie at
lis bedside when he died.
He was a member of the firm of
Hughes & Walker, insurance brokers.
Governor's- Powers Involved.
me mouon oeiore juage csraiey m
! fleet is an order requiring the Gov
îrnor to show cause why he should not
>e prohibited from giving a cecidon in
■h; case. Mayor Walker contended be
ore the court that Gov. Roosevelt had
10 power to hear the ouster charges or
.0 remove a mayor of New York. The
governor's answer, presented by Deputy
attorney General Henry J. Epstein, was
'vofold. He denied that the judiciary
:an interfere in the executive functions
)t the Governor, and he claimed full
>ower to îemove the mayor, if he felt
he charges warranted, under the Nev
i'ork charter and the State constitu
,ion.
Mayor Walker's attorney, John J.
Surtin, has hinted several times at
further court action if the decision ι
vas against the mayor.
FEE SPLITTING PROBE ASKED.
New York Committee Urges Investi
gation of Medical Charges.
NEW YORK August 29 (Λ5).—A gen- I
?ral invesigation into alleged fee-split- j
ting and bill-padding in medical work
for the city is asked by the City Affairs !
Committee in a letter to Gov. Franklin
D. Roosevelt made public yesterday.
Paul Blanshard, executive director
of the committee, said in the letter that
the Grievance Committee of the Board
of Regents has refused his request to ,
make such an investigation.
The Grievance Committee last Wed
nesday held a preliminary hearing on
the City Affairs Committee's charges
against the mayor's brother, Dr. Wil
liam H. Walker, and four other phy
sicians, and took their cases under ad
visement.
SHOT THRICE IN HEART,
BOY, 11, IS RECOVERING
Remarkable Surgical Feat by
Viennese Forestalls Fatal
Hemorrhage.
By the Associated Press.
VIENNA, August 29 — Rudolf Datel
maier. an 11-year-old boy whose heart
was pierced by three bird shot in a
hunting accident on Sunday, today was
reported recovering after a remarkable
surgical feat by Dr. Gustav Felsenreich
of the University of Vienna.
The surgeon sewed up the three
wounds in the still beating heart and
later removed shot from the wounded
lad's other organs. The entire opera
tion was carried out with the utmost
speed and a fatal hemorrhage was fore
stalled.
LINERS MAY RAISE FARES
Ocean Passenger Travel at Reduced
Rates Unsatisfactory.
NEW YORK, August 29 (Λ*>.—'The
Times says shipping men are planning
to increase passenger rates on trans
Atlantic travel at a conference in
Europe next October, to be held prob
ably in Paris or London.
Last April, rates were lowered approx
imately 20 per cent. As a result, pas
senger traffic increased on most lines,
but not sufficiently to equalize the low
ered income, the paper says.
Radio Programs on Page B-5
U. S. ALREADY FEELS
HOME LOAN BELIEF
Fort Avers Credits Eased
as Drive Opens for
Subscriptions.
By the Associated Press.
Franklin W. Fort, chairman of the
Home Loan Board, said today there
had been a noticeable easing of the
mortgage situation in the face of de
veloping plans by the board to put the
system's 12 banks in operation.
The board was working out arrange
ments today for opening th2 capital
stock subscription books in the various
districts and was considering ap
pointees fcr the 12 banks' directorates.
Fort said the hope that the setting
up of the system would revive demand
for mortgages as investments already
was materializing.
Many Still in Trouble.
"Already there has been a relaxa
tion of tension of mortgage money,"
Port said, adding, however, that there
were "thousands of casts" of mortga
gors in difficulty.
A $128,000,000 sales campaign, upon
which will depend the amount of Fed
eral subscription to the home loan
banks, today was begun by the system's
directing board.
Chairman Fort was hopeful the en
tire fund—the aggregate capital as
signed to the 12 banks in as many dis
tricts—will be subscribed by institu
tions eligible for membership in the
system. These are building and loan
associations, insurance companies and
savings banks.
But if subscriptions fall short the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation is
authorized to buy up to $125,000,000
of the system's capital stock.
The first step in the sale of stock will
be the opening of books for subscrip
tions to eligible institutions in each dis
trict. They must remain cpen 30 days.
Original subscriptions for each of the
dozen banks must equal 1 per cent of
the aggregate unpaid principal ci the
subscriber's home mortgage loans, but
not less than $1,500 to each eligible
member.
Par Value Is $100.
Shares will have a par value of $100
each. The amount to be subscribed in
each district and the headquarters of
that district are:
District 1—Cambridge. Mass.; capital,
$12,500,000
District 2—Newark, N. J.; capital,
$20,000,000.
District 3—Pittsburgh, capital, $12,
500,000.
District 4—Winston-Salem, N. C.;
capital, $10,000,000.
District 5—Cincinnati, capital, $15,
000,000.
District 6 — Indianapolis, capital,
$8,000,000.
District 7—Evanston, 111.; capital,
$15,000,000.
District 8 — Des Moines, capital,
$7.500,000.
District 9—Litle Rock, Ark.; capital,
$10,000,000.
District 10—Topeka, Kans.; capital,
$7.500,000.
District 11—Portland, Oreg.; capital,
$6,000,000
District 12—Los Angeles, capital,
$10,000,000.
To keep hard-pressed home owners
from losing their property until the
home loan banks begin functioning,
about October 15, the board has
launched a move to suspend for 60 days
foreclosures of mortgages held by
closed banks.
Banking authorities of approximately
half the States have assured the board
of their co-operation, and the suspen
sion already has been ordered so far
as national banks are concerned.
Decides District Lines.
It was the amount of mortgages held
by institutions eligible for membership
that decided the geographical locations
of the dozen home loan bank districts
and the amount of capital for each in
stitution. j
The biggest bank will be at Newark,
Ν J., serving New York, New Jersey,
Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and
capitalized at $20,000,000. The board
said that in this area mortgages held
by institutions eligible for membership
amount to $9,500,000,000.
Washington is in district 4, which
takes in Maryland. Virginia, North and
South Carolina, District of Columbia,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
MARKET RISE SOUND,
IS MELLON'S BELIEF
Official Source Says Envoy Is Con
vinced Advances Will Be
Sustained.
By the Associated Press.
Andrew W. Mellon, Ambassador tc
Great Britain and for 11 years Secre
tary of the Treasury, was described to
day in an official source as firmly con
vinced that the upward movement ir
the commodity and security markets i!
sound and will be sustained.
Mellon, in the Capital today to con
clude governmental business before re
turning to London, would not be quotec
publicly or interviewed on the subject
In sources close to the Ambassador il
was said he believed the present move
ment in stock and commodity price!
represents an inevitable swing of the
pendulum, correcting a downward trend
that could not continue bee τ use values
were below the cost of production.
ί PAPEN LAUNCHES
REVIVAL PROGRAM,
ASSAILING HITLER
Submits $476,000,000 Plan,
Continuing One Year, to
Create Jobs.
DEFIES ALL OPPONENTS
. IN OUTLINING SCHEME
Points to '"Impulsive Recklessness";
of Nazi Leader in Calling
for Support.
By the Associated Press.
; BERLIN. August 29.—Defying all
ί the political parties of Germany to
I oust his junker government, Chancellor
j Franz von Papen has laid before the
. nation a year-long resusciation prCgram
i that will risk nearly half a billion dol
j lars on the imminent return of pros
| perity.
j The chancellor launched his program
j for harassed Germany before a meet
[ ing of Westphalian farmers at Muen
ster yesterday. He gave defiance espe
cially to the outspoken Nazi leader,
Adolf Hitler, and served notice that he .
would keep the seat of power thus:
"If necessary I shall use force to !
bring about recognition of the equal j
rights applicable to all German citizens, j
I am firmly determined to stamp out :
the smouldering fires of civil war and !
to suppress increasing political unrest !
ar.d political acts of violence."
Then came the surprising junker
scheme to coax back prosperity and to
give more than 1,500,000 of Germany's
5,000,000 jobless something to do. It
was based on this premise:
"We proceed from the consideration
that important signs point to the fact
that the bottom of the depression has
been reached, hence all efforts to re
invigorate industry will contribute to
ward actual revival."
$176,000,000 Program.
The heart of the scheme itself,
rcughly, was:
More than two billion marks (cur
rently about $476,000,000) can be risked
on the program, which has been ap- !
proved by the Reichsbank, and which ;
should be financed by a system of tax
certificates.
All taxes of a nature likely to hinder
production, such as the turnover tax !
and the transportation tax, due between j
j November 11 this year and the same j
i date next year, and estimated at 1,- ;
j 500,000,000 marks, will be handed back j
to the economic life of the country in j
the form of certificates. The taxpayer j
can borrow the equivalent of these cer- j
tifieates from the Reichsbank for use i
in his business. In addition. 700,000,000 j
marks will be advanced to such in- !
duîtries as will increase their em- !
pfoyes. The government hep:s this will ι
give employment to at least 1,750,000 j
men.
The chancellor's speech was con
sidered especially in the light of the
opening of the Reichstag and the Prus
I sian Diet on Tuesday, and the rumored
Hitler-Centrist coalition.
In fact. Von Papen began his address
with a bitter attack on the "impulsive
recklessness" of Hitler and he spoke
plainly on the heavy penalties imposed
by special courts for political violence.
"I recognize no principle of justice,"
he said, "which is usurped by one class
or party as an instrument of combat.
* * * The implusive recklessness
manifested by the Nazi leader is ill
suited to his claim for leadership in
government. * * * If in opposition j
to Hitler I advocate a state based on j
justice, a real commonwealth of people
and an authority conduct of govern- ι
j ment, it is I and not he who pursues
the aim which millions of his followers \
have yearned for * * *.
"If today there is talk of a coalition ι
between the Centrists and the Nazis'
anti-parliamentarian principles — the j
cecret thought underlying such a coali- ;
tion can be only that one party seeks j
to destroy the ether."
He said he regarded it as his duty |
to ward off interference by the influence
of parties and declared the "months j
to come" would be devoted to recon- j
; struction along all lines.
Import Control Planned.
j The chancellor's program further
I promised not to risk inflation of cur
! rency or to embark on any scheme to
1 make Germany self-sufficient, although
he said continued moderate regulation
of imports was planned.
In his argument for returning tax
money to the payers he stressed thît j
the money advanced for tax certifi- j
cates would be loans to be repaid be- j
tween 1934 and 1938.
Other features were authorization for
employers to cut wages—but not below
(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.)
NOMURA'S MISSION
ONE OF GOOD WILL
Tokio's Ablest Sailor Coming
to U. S. at Time of Ten
sion in Far East.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
Admiral Nomura, one of Japan's most
popular and able sailors, is cue to ar
rive in Washington on a "good-will
mission" r.bout the time the Japanese
government announces officially its
recognition of the Manchukuo state.
Neither the State Department nor
the Japanese embassy have so far been
informed about the exact status of the
good-will ambassador.
It is not known whether Admiral
Nomura will have the status of an am
bassador extraordinary or will come
here as an ordinary citizen, as was the
case last January of the veteran mem
ber of the Diet, Count Kabayama.
In usually well informed quai'.ers, it j
is assumed the admiral will be given ι
an official status, to en?l>le him to car
ry on, at least informally, conversation
with the State Department about the
consequences of the recognition of the
new Manchunan state.
Once Attache Here.
Admiral Nomura is well and favorably
known in Washington, where he was !
naval attache during the World War, |
and served as one of the naval advisers
to the Japanese delegation during the
Washington Conference of 1921-1922.
He has formed in this city strong
friendships, especially with the present
chief of naval operations. Admiral Wil
liam V. Pratt, who considers him not
only an able sailor but also a "square
shooter."
In the last few months, Nomura has
been much ir the public eye. He com
manded the Japanese fleet during the
Shanghai incident last Spring and lost
an eye as a resulf of a bomb outrage In
that city during the military festivities
on the Emperor's birthday, when un
known individuals threw a bomb on
the stand where the Japanese military
and naval commanding officers were
receiving the parade of the Japanese
garrison.
Officially the mission of the Japanese
admiral is that of good will. He will
endeavor to dispel the present appre
hensions which exist.in this country,
due to the Japanese attitude in the
Far East and to the reports that the
Japanese arsenals and navy yards are
working overtime to prepare the Japa
nese army and naval forces for any
emergency.
These apprehensions have been te·
(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.)
U. S. IRISH LEADER DIES
BUFFALO, Ν. Y„ August 29 i/P).—
William E. Shaddock, 52, known
throughout the country as one of the
leading American agitators for the
cause of the Irish Republic, died today.
He was a close friend of Eamon de
Valera, President of the Irish Republic,
and espoused his principles actively for
the past 15 years.
PLANES AT 10,000 FEET TO CHECK
BENT STARLIGHT DURING ECLIPSE
College Craft, Sharpshooting at Einstein's Curved-Space
Theory, Take Air Wednesday.
BY HOWARD W. BEAKESLEE,
Associated Press Science Editor.
CONWAY, Ν. H.. August 29.—Sharp
shooting at Einstein's theory that space
is curved, airplanes of Northwestern
University will rise 10,000 feet during 1
the total eclipse of the sun Wednesday.
The planes will check whether the 1
strange curving of light rays from stars,
which has been attributed to their pas
sage through space which is actually ;
curved, may be due more or less to mere
distortion of light passing through the
lower layers of the earth's atmosphere.
The findings of the planes may turn
out either way, strengthening or weak
ening the space curvature hypothesis.
Three planes will rise from Freyburg,
Me., to check on the condition of the
atmosphere during the total eclipse.
One will fly at 700 feet, another at 3,000
and the third at 10,000. Each will carry
a similar set of recording instrumente.
A fourth set will be fastened to poles,
50 to 60 feet above the ground.
All readings will concentrate on tem
perature and atmospheric pressure. In
the darkness of the moon's shadow tem
peratures drop. It is thought that the
weight of the atmosphere—its pressure
—also may change.
From these readings astronomers can
calculate how much the atmosphere ef
fects the accuracy of pictures of stars !
seen near the sun durinz a total eclipse. |
It was the discovery in the eclipse
>f 1919 that these nearby stars record
>d "leir images in a different position
>n paotographic plates than when their
ight did not pass close by the sun
vhich gave relativity its first and most
iensational confirmation.
These photos showed that the star
ight was drawn inward toward the sun.
riiis shift was twice as great at New
,on's law of gravitation required, for
starlight was supposed to be bent a
ittle by gravitation even before Ein
itein's theories.
Tne doubling of the; amount of shift j
ι greed almost exactly with Einstein's
:hen new theory that space itself is j
curved, so the incredible idea of space
;aking on definite shapes began to find
jelievers.
No measurements of starlight bend
ng will be made at this eclipse because
he nearby stars are not suitably
Placed for thorough comparisons.
SCIENTISTS READY.
Equipment in Place in Fields Around
Conway, Ν. H.
CONWAY, Ν, H., August 29 OP).—
rhis town and nearby communities, for
he moment the astronomical" center of
:he United States by virtue of the fact
-hat they lie in the path of totality of j
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Red Sign Painted
On Grant's Tomb
Says Good Starve
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. August 29.—The
wall of Grant's Tomb has be
come tcday a blackboard, on
which was smeared in four-inch
letters of red paint this couplet:
"The good but starve: The order !
of the day
Is prey on others or become a
prey."
Gecrge D Burnside. custodian
of the tomb, described the van
dalism as "the most dastardly
occurrence since the tomb was
built."
Efforts to remove the red let
ters with turpentine today suc
ceeded only in making them
slightly Jess distinct.
MAN KILLS SELF
IN BRIDGE PLUNGE
-
Douglas S. Broders, 22, Tele
graph Office Manager,
* Dies in Fall.
Douglas S. Broders, 22, of 1225 Ran- ;
dolph street, plunged to his death from
Calvert Street Bridge shortly before 6
o'clock this morning.
Park Policeman Robert Howell said !
two men told him they saw Broders,
who was manager of a Western Union
Telegraph Co. office near Twelfth and
Water streets southwest, leave his auto
mobile on the car tracks across the
span climb the rail and drop to the
driveway about 145 feet below.
Broders was dead when Robert Ewell,
colored, a guard at the Zoo, found him
sprawled in the road a few minutes
later. After an examination by Dr.
John Hanby, who accompanied an
Emergency Hospital ambulance to the
scene, the body was taken to the
District Morgue, and Acting Coroner A.
Magruder MacDonald began an investi- ;
gation. Dr. MacDonald issued a cer
tificate of suicide later in the day.
Left Home "for Walk."
xcuuug jiia wmuwcu mumer, xvirs.
Sarah Broders, that he was going to
"take a little walk before breakfast,"
Broders left home shortly after 5
o'clock. Although he had complained
of nervousness during the past several j
days, his mother said, he appeared to
be in excellent spirits when he left the
house.
Despite his statement that he was
going for a walk, he left in his car,
apparently driving directly to the
bridge.
A passerby. George S. Lamay, 1800
block of Riggs place, saw Broders stop
his machine on the street car tracks,
step out and, after a quick glance up
and down the bridge, mount the rail
and plunge downward.
The motcrman of a street car some
distance behind Broders' automobile
also saw the young man climb the rail
and disappear.
Broders' machine blocked the street
car line for some time before police,
busy with their investigation of the
plunge, were able to move it. In the
car police found a few of Broders' per
sonal effects. Including a bank book.
The ignition key was still in the switch,
but the motor was not running.
No Notes Are Found.
Search of the automobile revealed no |
notes and none was found in Broders' '
home. The machine was taken to the
eighth precinct station, where police
planned to search it again.
Broders, who was graduated from
McKinley High School about four years
ago, had been an employe of the tele
graph company since he was about 13, j
when he started as a night messenger.
Officials of the company said his serv- j
ices were "more than satisfactory."
Besides his mother, Broders, who was
a member of the Sisson Bible Class of
the Fifth Baptist Church, is survived
by a brother, John. 26. also a Western
Union employe. Funeral arrangements
have not been completed.
HOOVER MINE TO CLOSE
Once Rich Australian Gold Output
Is Now Failing.
PERTH, Australia. August 29 UP).—
The great gold mine in western Aus
tralia. Sons of Gwalia. which Her
bert Hoover established in 1898, when
he was a young mining engineer, is
doomed.
The reason is that production is fail
ing and capital has been reduced by
half to $935,000. The mine was one of
the richest in the Coolgardie field.
There are etlll a dozen or εο c!d hinds
in the Gwalij» who remember Hoovei. I
60 AIR RACE PILOTS
END STRIKE THREAT
Officials Reach Compromise
on Prize Money With Dis
satisfied Flyers.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, August 29
(JP).—A threatened strike of pilots
participating in the National Air
Races here was averted today when
a compromise between them and air
race officials was reached after an
all-morning conference.
By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. August 29.—Officials of
the National Air Races and a represent
ative of 60 speed flyers who threatened
to strike for more prize money were in
conference behind closed dcors today in
an effort to reach an agreement.
The meeting apparently was dead
locked at noon, with L. M. Laird of
Chicago, iepresenting the dissatisfied
pilots, 1n session with Cliff Henderson,
managing director of the races; L. W.
Greve, president, and F. W. Cleveland,
chairman of the Contest Committee.
Laird, a non-contestant, had full
power to determine the pilots' course.
"Whatever Laird decides will go with
out question for the pilots," said Ben
O. Howard of Kansas City and Chicago,
one of the chief complainants, who
attended part of the conference.
About half of the pilots entered in the
races signed a petition demanding the
prize money for the closed course, free
for-all events be doubled, claiming that
the total for these events is only 28 per
cent of what had been previously ad
vertised.
Howard said he would lose $17,000
even if he won all of the free-for-all
events. "I entered three planes and re
ceived only six passes. If I want to get
all my men in it looks as though I'll
have to crawl under the fence," he said.
The dissatisfied speedsters said they
also had the support of the derby flyers,
although they are not demanding higher
derby prizes.
Race officials revealed their budget
tor this year is $250,000, half of last
year's.
Although a heavy rain fell through
the morning, the Contest Committee
announced today's races would be held
as scheduled.
TURNER SETS PACE.
Four Pilots Rocket East in Continent
Dasb.
KANSAS CITY. August 29 (/P).—Liv
ing up to their advance predictions of
record-breaking speeds, four pilots roc
keted eastward toward Cleveland today
at 250 miles an hour and upward in
the transcontinental air race from Los
Angeles
Unofficial figures showed that Col.
Roscoe Turner of Hollywood was setting
the pace on the first leg of the dash
with an average of about 275 miles per
hour up to his first refueling point,
Colorado Springs, Colo.
James Haizlip of St. Louis ripped off
an average of approximately 256 miles
per hour in reaching Goodland, Kans.
Lee Gehlbach, Detroit, and Jimmie
Wedell. New Orleans, were racing along
at about 250 miles an hour.
Before taking off at Los Angeles in
the darkness of early morning the pilots
had predicted that the winner would
average 2i0 miles an hour or better. In
winning the event last year when he
continued on to Newark, N. J., to estab
lish a transcontinental record of 11
hours and 15 minutes, Maj. James H.
Doolittle, former Army ace, had an
average of nearly 224 miles an hour.
INTEREST AROUSED
IN RADIO ADDRESS
Tesse H. Jones to Be First R. F. C.
Official to Make Public Address
on Forum Tonight.
The first public address by an official
Df the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration will be made tonight when
Jesse H. Jones of Texas, member of
:he board of directors, speaks in the
National Radio Forum, which is ar
•anged by The Evening Star and broad
last over a Nation-wide network of the
National Broadcasting Co. The fcrrum
is usual will be on the air from 9 to
):30 o'clock.
Mr. Jones, one of the leading build
srs in the South, and a lumberman,
newspaper owner and financier, laid
aside extensive private affairs when
President Hoover asked him to join
the directorate of the Finance Cor
poration. j
His address wfll be of particular in
terest because of the magnitude cf the
work bsing done by this great Federal
igency in fighting the depression and
:e-au*·" of the speaker'» prominence in
business.
Guerillas Concentrate Out
side City After Firing Ar
senal and Air Ba?p.
BIG BOMBERS TAKE OFF
TO ROUT CHINESE BAND
Hand-to-Hand Fighting Adds to
Panic of Residents of Man
churian City.
Ey the Associated Press.
MUKDEN, Manchuria, August 29.—
The flames and bullets of war spread
terror through this key city of Man
churia today after hundreds of Chinese
t raiders had sprung up In the night and
dea:t a swift blow at the heart cf the
Japanese military defense system.
Before daylight most of the many
small bands of Chinese had vanished,
but large concentrations of Chinese guer
rillas were reported only four miles away
; at Hun Hopu. At daylight Japanese
• bombers took the air with orders to
j "get" them.
In Mukden proper, the largest city
! of rich Manchuria, all was confusion
after a night of panic, during which
the big arsenal and Japanese air base
! were fired. The city's entire fire de
partment battled the blazes and during
j the morning succeeded in preventing
: any explosion at the arsenal and getting
ι that fire under control. The air base
blaze was extinguished after several o!d
airplanes had been burned. Other dam
age was slight.
Attack Well Planned.
The Chinese raiders obviously had a
well crganized plan of action, so sudden
and mysterious were their attacks on
I strategic defense points shortly after
midnight.
Hardly had the alarm been sounded
for Japanese troops and police, fire
broke out at the arsenal and air base,
; and the wireless station was the scene
; of hand-to-hand fighting. In one skir
mish near the arsenal a Japanese of
ficer and two soldiers wearing the uni
form of the new state, Manchukuo,
j were slain.
The chatter of machine guns and the
rumble of tanks soon aroused the popu
lace. The groups of raiders, numbering
several hundred each, continued sallies
on the Japanese defense scheme.
The Chinese penetrated the strictly
I Japanese section, and even threw their
strength against the south gate of th#
walled city. The streets seemed to
swarm with fighting men and the Japa
I nese were at a disadvantage, ior their
adversaries worked under cover of
; darkness.
Blame Marshal Chang.
Early today the Japanese declared
the sudden assault on Mukden, where
mey inemseives entered the wedge for
their own military campaign almost ex
actly a year ago, was inspired by Mar
shal Chang Hsiao Liang.
They said guerilla forces allied with
the young marshal had been reported
concentrating in nearby villages for
some time.
A group of Chinese police were ar
rested on charges of co-operating with
the raiders at the south gate. The
Chinese chief of police was accused of
communicating with Marshal Chang,
ί who is in Peiping, and helping plan the
! raids.
Timed With Muto's Arrival.
The uprising apparently was timed
to-coincide with the arrival of Ncbu
i yoshi Muto as supreme military com
! mander of Japanese forces in this area
! and Minister to the Manchukuo govern
ment, which Japan soon will recognize.
Gen. Muto was quartered in a man
sion occupied by Marshal Chang when
1 that young Chinese war lord controlled
all Manchuria from Mukden before the
Japanese came. Chang was In Peiping
then and has remained there.
Gen. Muto was protected by a heavy
guard today. Although the Japanese
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tropicaThûrricane
HEADS FOR FLORIDA
Storm Moving Toward Key West,
South of Miami—Due in
12 Hour».
By the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla.. August 29.—The tropi
l cal disturbance moving inward from the
! Atlantic Ocean is central In the Florida
straits southeast of Miami and is head
ed in the general direction of Key
West, the Miami Weather Bureau re
j ported too'ay.
Richard W. Gray, meterologist, said
ι there was indication the storm would
pass south of Miami.
A northeast wind blowing 17 miles
an hour was recorded here this morn
ing and at 9 o'clock the barometer
j registered 29.85.
Radio reports from Nassau, Bahamas,
said New Providence Island was ex
periencing easterly winds of 30 miles
an hour and a barometer reading of
129.82 at 8 a.m. Storm warnings are
displayed along the Florida Coast from
Jupiter to Key West.
Disagree on Gale's Path.
HAVANA, August 29 l/P).—Two
Cuban observatories charting the course
of a tropical disturbance moving west
ward from the Bahamas disagreed to
day as to its probable effects upon
Florida.
Officials at the National Observatory
said the storm had doubled its strength
and speed and was heading toward
Florida from Andros. They said Flor
ida probably would feel its greatest In
tensity this afternoon.
Those at Belen Observatory said '
that although the storm had Increased
In speed and strength, the center had
risen high into the stratosphere, dissi
pating the danger to the Florida coast.
42-Mile Wind Reported.
By the Associated Press.
The Weather Bureau reported this
afternoon that the disturbance moving
toward Florida carried fa wind velocity
of 42 miles an hour.
The observation was made 60 miles
southeast of Miami.
The bureau sfeid ths disturbance was
still moving toward the southern part
of Florida and should strike between
Miami and Key West some time to
night.