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WALMSLEY RAISES
FORCE OF 1,400 TO
FACE EOT ARMY’
Senator Pits Guard Against
Police in Battle for New
Orleans Control.
BOTH LEADERS PLEDGE
BITTER-END STRUGGLE
City Tense Awaiting First Hostile
Move That May Precipi
tate Violence.
By the* A«»oelat«l Prw
NEW ORLEANS. August 1.-Fur
ther answering the challenge of Sen
ator Huey P Long's militia mobilisa
tion south of the city. Mayor T.
Srmmu Walmsley today called 500
additional police to duty from the
civil service lists, swelling the local
constabulary force to 1,400 men.
Pull arms. Including riot guns, were
issued to the augmented lorce at
headquarters. All officers now on
leave were recalled to duty and 12
hour police shifts were decreed for
the first time here In 15 years.
The rival forces stood ready to bat
tle for control of New Orleans.
The city was tense, fearing the first
hostile move by either side might pre
cipitate an actual clash.
Long, self-titled "Ktngfish.” moved
about like a war general, “command
ing” 500 National Guardsmen mobi
lized at Jackson Barracks on the edge
of the city.
Walmsley "Army” Ready.
The embattled Walmsley. once a
friend of Long, held his 1,400 police
men in readiness to resist any possible
attempt of Long to usurp the city po
lice power.
Almost two score militiamen held
the city registration voting office
which they stormed Monday night.
Machine guns looked from the win
dows across a narrow street toward
City Hall.
Gov. O. K| Allen’s proclamation of
partial martial law, applying to the
City Hall area, continued in effect
Ward and precinct leaders of both
factions muttered. Ordinary citizens
stared wide-eyed at the fully armed
State soldiers in the voting office.
Some stopped to laugh and joke with
the Guardsmen.
Walmsley and Long lambasted each
other over the radio last night.
The whole affair pointed to the
coming congressional primary In Sep
tember. In which Watoialey and Long
are supporting rival candidates.
mayor see* wing »u*c.
Along with that Issue was Long’s |
announced determination to clean up i
the "vice and corruption” In the city,
which Walmsley interpreted as a ruse
for Long to seise control of the New
Orleans administration.
The main point at Issue today re
volved about the new police board
authorised at the recent Long-con
trolled legislative session to take the
police power away from Mayor Walms
iey.
The board, composed of representa
tives selected by various civic or
ganisations, was scheduled to assume
control at noon today, but the city
administration obtained a court order
yesterday temporarily restraining it
from taking authority pending a hear
ing Monday.
Walmsley armed his policemen and
stationed them at headquarters with
Instructions to resist any attempt to
dislodge them.
Long and Allen were noncommunl
catlve about the presence of the 500
National Guardsmen at the barracks.
Infantry, artillery and cavalry troops
were ready for action.
Walmsley in his radio address last
night described Long as a "cringing
coward.” hiring bodyguards like “an
Al Capone" and said the Senator
would “pay the penalty as other car
pet-baggers have done" if a single
life be lost in defense of the city.
Calls Charges "Lies
He branded as "lies” charges made
by Senator Long in a previous address
that the PcUce Department was thriv
ing on graft and that the city was
overrun with gambling establishments
and house* of prostitution that had to
pay tribute to Walmsley.
The mayor said. "We will never sur
render to this madman " and compared
the Louisiana Senator with “Caligula.
JVero, Attila. Henry the Eighth, Louis
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SECOND SHIP WRECKED
i All Lives Saved in Accident in
“Dangerous Archipelago."
| PAPEETE. Tahiti. August 1 OP) —
I The "Dangerous Archipelago ’—known
' in the South Seas as the Tuamotu
group of Islands—has claimed another
victim, this time the intensland
steamer Vllle de Papeete, which is a
total loss or. the reef at Haraiki
Island. 300 miles east of here.
All those on board reached shore
aafely.
The VlUe de Papeete, under charter
to the Compagnie Messagenes Mara
time* to pick up copra at various
islands, caught on the reef recently.
She was a 164-foot ship of 615 tons,
built at Troon in 1928.
RAIN-MAKING MACHINE “GETS”
MUSIC, TOO: TELEVISION NEXT
ft? th* Associated Press
BRANTFORD Ontario. August 1 —
Brantford has its rain maker, but :
unlike the Indian medicine man of
(Fairfax. Okla.. be claims he has pro- :
duced storms, not mere sprinkling
He is Frank Clark, who says he has
jaapent IS yean completing a device
Shat draws moisture from the heavens
: Clark declared he had his device
|T'on* for only four hours two days
|ag° and "brought the storm." It did
Spiortn at that time.
Clark maintains the "rain maker"
I gV> can receive music—and television
3*s the machine's next development
J 1
It will produce any kind of weather,
he says.
The "rain maker." resting in a
closet at Clark's home, is a tangle of
wins with a packing box. an aerial
and a mysterious box wrapped with
insulating tape. The box is Mr.
Clark's own little secret and when
asked about it, all he said was: "Well,
it won't hurt any one "
It is so powerful, he added, that only
one will be needed on the North Amer
ican Continent. In the Winter the
weather could be made "to order from
day to day ”
"I have made it all by myself in
my spare time," he said.
1 I
Capital Motorists Find Faces !
Red as Voice of Safety Speaks
-----. ...
WASHINGTON D 1ST. OF COL.
1 t'
Maj. E W Brown Impersonating the Voice of Safety. Capt. Milton
D Smith is shown at the wheel. —Star Staff Photo.
Today the Voice of Safety spoke.
As It did so
A woman who hfd started to park
her car abreast of another at the
curb looked up with startled expres
sion and stepped on the gas.
A barefooted boy near Peace Mon
ument halted hu> play on the street
and Jumped back on the sidewalk.
A taxicab driver who was pulling
out from the curb without signaling
his Intentions suddenly remembered
about a certain regulation governing
use of the left arm as a warning sem
aphore.
An ice man trundling a cake of Ice
across the street In the middle of
the block stopped a moment—and
then went right ahead across the
street.
And were their faces red?
Maybe the blushes came because of
(.he distinction accorded them. They
had been singled out of all the thou
sands of people in Washington as the
first victims for a gentle chiding by
the "Voice"—that mysterious direct
appeal to conscience and common
sense desired by the Board of Trade
and the Police Department.
Today the voice was that of Maj.
Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of
police. The timely admonitions came
from a loud speaker mounted atop a
dazzlingly white sedan, emblazoned
with such appropriate advice as
"Drive Considerately.” "Give the
Pedestrian a Chance.” "Take Time to
Be Careful” and "Courtesy Leads to
Trafflc Safety.”
In the car, in addition to Maj.
i Brown, rode District Commissioner
I Melvin C. Hazen and Capt. Milton D.
; Smith, the latter at the wheel.
Ahead, alongside and in the wake
of the safety car came a small mobile
army composed of Board of Trade
representatives, municipal officials,
press and movie photographers, re
porters and even broadcasters.
Hia watchword being "courtesy”
toward all Maj. Brown graciously per
mitted the cars of observers to cluster
around the white sedan as it cruised
from the Union Station plaza to
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PROBERS REFUSE
TO HEARKELLEV
Arlington County Chairman
Had Asked to Defend
Official Acts.
Br a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, August 1.—Lyman M. Kelley,
chairman of the Arlington County
Board, was denied the privilege of
appearing before the special grand
jury convened here yesterday after
it had been charged by Judge Walter
T. McCarthy to investigate and pre
sent to the Circuit Court “any cases
of malfeasance, misfeasance, miscon
duct, wilful neglect or incompetency
on the part of any officials of the
county government.”
In a letter presented to Lawrence
W. Douglas, commonwealth attorney,
Kelley asked the privilege of appear
ing before the grand jurors “to be
questioned on any matters pertaining
to the questions before them.” He
stated that he had been advised by
friends and newspaper articles that
the special grand jury had been
called “to Investigate, among other
things, act* or deeds of mine.”
homing 10 conceal.
"Being an official of Arlington
County and having nothing whatever
to conceal of any nature as to my
public or private business, I ask the
privilege of appearing before the jury
now convening to be questioned on
any matters pertaining to the ques
tions before them,” Kelley said in
his petition.
The request was denied after a con
ference between Douglas and Judge
McCarthy. Kelley was at the court
house almost all day yesterday while
the jury was in session.
After hearing five witnesses during
its all-day session yesterday, the jury
adjourned last night to resume their
investigations at 10 o'clock this morn
ing. Among the witnesses who ap
peared before the jury yesterday were
three contractors, J. E. MacPherson,
Van E. Thompson and Roger Daniel.
The other two witnesses were C. C.
Lamond, an official of the Potomac
River Clay Works of Alexandria, and'
Crandall Mackay. former Common
wealth attorney of Arlington County.
Four Must Concur.
At least four members of the Jury
of seven men must concur in the be
lief that there should be a present
ment before any charge may be
brought in. Judge McCarthy told the
jurors when they convened
The members of the special jury
are J. Thomas Manning. Harris Levy.
P E. Schaub. Walter O’Hara, fore
man: Philip M. Talbott. S. Groome
Eareckson and Louis C. Carl.
New Yorker Found Guilty of
Selling New Car Below
List Price.
By the Associated Press. /
NEW YORK. August 1.—Gordon S.
Harris, an automobile dealer, was con
victed in General Sessions Court to
day on a charge of violating the mo
tor vehicle retail code. It was the
first conviction under the code in the
State.
Harris, who lives in Ridgewood,
N. J., and maintains offices in New
York, was remanded to the Tombs
Prison for sentencing next Tuesday.
He was ordered held to enable Dis
trict Attorney William C. Dodge to
Investigate evidence of forgery ad
duced during the trial.
$500 Fine Is Possible.
The penalty for violation of the
motor retail code is a $500 fine.
Harris was charged with having
sold to Howard A. Boyd, code investi
gator, a new automobile for $50 under
the list price. There were two counts
in the complaint, one that Harris had
offered to sell, the other that he had
actually made the sale.
The defendant’s case was based on
his contention that he had turned
the transaction over to another auto
mobile salesman, William S. Willis,
part-time employe of a Haledon,
N. J. agency. He had done this, he
testified, after he had leaned Boyd
was an investigator.
Deal M' Je in Winter,
Harris had Willis deliver the «iar
to Boyd on February 5, this year. At
that time several papers covering the
transaction were signed, one of them
being a receipt for the machine.
The prosecution, through the testi
mony of a handwriting expert, at
tempted to show that on the receipt,
the name of Harris as the seller had
been erased and Willis’ name substi
tuted.
The testimony of the handwriting
expert, who declared that several of
the papers covering the sale had been
altered, caused Chief Justice Frederic
Kernochan to order Harris remanded
for further investigation.
HIROTA QUITS ROLE
OF RAIL MEDIATOR
Advises That Soviets Should Ne
gotiate Directly With
Manchukuo.
By the Associated Press.
TOKIO, August 1.—A foreign office
spokesman explained today that Koki
Hirota. minister of foreign affairs, had
withdrawn for the time being from the
role of mediator in the Chinese East
ern Railway question after advising
that Soviet Russia should negotiate
directly with Manchukuo in the mat
ter.
He said this action did not ex
clude the possibility that he would
resume the mediation should the ne
gotiators desire.
The newspaper Nichi Nichi reported
from Ksinking, capital of Manchukuo.
that the new nation which Japan
created wtU abandon the negotiations
il Hirota ceases to act as mediator.
Negotiations have been under way
for some time past toward the pur
chase by Manchukuo of the Chinese
Eastern Railway, built by China and
Russia in Cxarist days.
OLSON’S SOLDIERS
ARRESI STRIKERS
DURINGJWO RAIDS
Central Labor Union at Min
neapolis Mopped Up by
Guardsmen.
MOVEMENT OF TRUCKS
BACKED BY ARMED MEN
Guerrilla Attacks Occur After
Violence Campaign Ii
Put Down.
By th« Aaaoclated Pre»*.
MINNEAPOLIS. August 1—Heavily
armed troops In quieting striking truck
drivers today raided the Central Labor
Union, where scores of men and women
were found.
Twenty Army trucks with machine
guns lined up outside the building
within three blocks of the heart of
town, and the Guardsmen took control
of the place
An estimated 2,000 spectators, many
of them shoppers, jammed adjacent
sidewalks to watch the troops.
Some Firearms Found.
Officers said some firearms were
found in the building.
No arrests were made immediately
and several of the occupants were
released after questioning. Many were
searched.
Forty automobiles used by pickets
were confiscated during the raid.
Albert Goldman, Chicago labor at
torney, immediately began considera
tion of legal moves to obtain the re
lease of strike leaders under arrest.
Goldman expressed the belief "we
might question the legality of the
martial law order and also the legality
of the arrests.”
The raid was the second today.
Guards seized the headquarters of
the truck drivers first at 4 a.m., ar
rested the ringleaders, and smashed an
organized movement to stop all truck
transportation in defiance of military
law.
Adji. Gen. E. A. Walsh, In com
mand of the troops, said:
"The round-up of these officials
was started because they defied orders
of military rule by holding a meeting
at the parade grounds last night
without a permit. Effective immedi
ately, any pickets cruising the city in
automobiles will be arrested."
Among those marched off to the
fair grounds for incarceration in the
stockade there were Vincent Dunne
and Mose Bork. two of the strike
leaders. Books and records of the
union. No. 874, were left in the build
ing, placed under a guard selected
from the 1,000 troops surrounding
the place.
wounded Men Lett.
All were ejected from the head
quarters except a doctor, two nurses
and a few strikers still ailing from
wounds suffered in the outbreak of
July 20, in which 68 persons were
hurt, most of them shot by police.
Pour field machine guns, drawn up
before the entrance, rolled back to
the armory, the troops sheathed their
Tommy guns and gas guns, and all
except the few men left as sentinels
hiked back to the armory within two
hours after they had struck in the
early dawn without meeting any re
sistance.
Officers formed their men in a solid
line completely around the block in
which strikers congregated in a
former garage.
Marksmen, alert for belligerent
moves by those inside the place, took
up posts in doorways of a tenement
across the street. Others routed oc
cupants out of bed and peered
through windows, automatic rifles
ready.
Troops hemmed the block and sev
eral squads, in marching formation,
were drawn up in front of the en
trance to the headquarters, machine
guns ready to be swung into action.
A few early risers, on their way to
work, stopped to watch from nearby
corners as Col. Elmer McDevitt, pro
vo6t marshal, went inside to arrest
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POPE PIUS ON VACATION;
BREAKS OLD PRECEDENT
Leaves Vatican in Motorcade for
Summer Residence High in
Alban Hills.
By the Associated Prass.
VATICAN CITY, August 1— Pope
Pius XI left the walls of the Vatican
today for his Summer residence at
C as tel Gandolfo, breaking a papal
precedent of 65 years.
He and his suite made the trip
in a motorcade of four American au
tomobiles The Pope rode in the sec
ond car with Msgr. Caccia Dominioni.
The blinds of the automobile were
drawn.
The first car bore the Pope’s engi
neer and nephew. Count Franco
Ratti; the Governor of Vatican City,
wd the commander of the Papal Gen
darmes. The other cars carried other
high officials of the Holy See.
The Summer residence is near Rome,
high In the Alban Hills.
H.J. C00LID6E DROWNS
Boston Banker and Attorney Dies
at Summer Estate.
ASHLAND. N. H, August 1 (A3).—
Harold Jefferson Coolidge. 65, socially
prominent Boston attorney, drowned
in Squam Lake near his Summer
borne on Long Island last night.
He was a director of the National
Shawmut Bank and the Ipswich Mills.
Guide for Readers
Page
Amusements.B-16
Comics .B-10
Features . B-9
Financial .A-15-16-17
Lost and Found. A-9
Radio .B-ll
Serial Story.B-5
Service Orders.A-13
Society.B-2-3
Sports . A-18-19 i
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XYOUESOUTI
28 ARE INDICTED
IN DETROIT IDE
Bankers and Former Bank
ers Charged With Various
Federal Violations.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT. August 1.—Twenty-eight
present and former Detroit bankers
were charged with various infractions
of the Federal banking laws today in
22 Indictments returned by the Fed
eral grand Jury which has been in
vestigating the circumstances that led
to Michigan’s financial debacle of last
year.
The chaiges mainly are conspiracy
to make false statements and mis
application of funds.
Many of the men named today were
among the 13 indicted on June 29 by
the same grand Jury.
Among those indicted today are;
i Wilson W. Mills, chairman of the
board of the dosed First National
Bank, Detroit; John Ballantyne,
former president of the Detroit
Bankers’ Co., holding company for
the First National and other banks;
E. D. Stair, president of the Detroit
Bankers’ Co. and publisher of the De
troit Free Press; Oscar Webber, vice
president and general manager of the
J L. Hudson Co. and a former direc
tor of the First National, and Robert
O. Lord, former president of the
Guardian Detroit Union Group, hold
ing company for the Guardian Na
tional Bank of Commerce and a score
of other Michigan banks.
Others included T. P. W. Living
stone, former president of the old
Dime Savings Bank and later a vice
chairman of the Executive Committee
of the First National; John R. Bodde,
former vice president of the First
National Board; James L. Walsh,
former executive vice president of the
Guardian group; Herbert R. Wilkin,
former general manager of the
Guardian group; Donald N. Sweeny,
former president of the First Na
tion; William T. Barbour, president
of the Detroit-Michigan Stove Co.
and former director of the First Na
tional; James Thayer McMillan,
former director of the First National.
Others on List
D. Dwight Douglas, former presi
dAt of the old First National and
subsequently vice president of the De
troit Bankers’ Co.; Ralph Gilchrist,
president of the Detroit & Windsor
Perry Co., and former director of the
First National; Herbert L. Chitten
den, former chairman of the Execu
tive Committee of the First National;
W. Wesson Seybum, capitalist, for
mer director of the First National;
James S. Holden, former director of
the First National; Ralph Stone, vice
chairman of the Detroit Trust Co.,
and former director of the First Na
tional; James O. Murfin, Detroit
attorney, and active in banking cir
cles; Edwin J. Eckert, George Wiley,
John M. Donaldson. Julian P. Bowen,
Fred J. Robinson, Richard H. Web
ber, Mark A. Wilson, Robert Shiell
and William B. Mayo.
5544,221 Misapplied.
It is charged that 14 former officers
and directors of the People’s Wayne
County Bank, which merged with the
First National Bank, Detroit, in 1932,
misapplied 5544.221.35 of bank funds
in the purchase of inadequately se
cured notes. It also is charged that
11 officers and directors of the Detroit
Bankers’ Co., holding company for the
First National and other institutions,
and of the First National, had knowl
edge of these purchases.
Three former officers of the Guar
dian Detroit Union Group, Inc., a
holding company for the Guardian
National Bank of Commerce and a
score of other Michigan institutions,
are charged with having made a fa'iss
report to the Federal Reserve Bank,
by omitting 5600.000 of bills payable
in a report of the Union Industrial
Bank & Trust Co. of Flint, Mich.
Two of these men. James L. Walsh,
a former vice president of the
Guardian Group, and Herbert R.
Wilkin, former executive vice president
and cashier of the Flint Bank, were
named in State warrants issued in
Flint last week, based on the same
transaction. The third, Robert O.
Lord, former president of the Guardian
Group, was among those indicted a
month ago.
300 Die in Korean Floods.
TOKIO, August 1 (A1).—The Korean
governor general announced today
that more than 300 persons are dead
or missing following recent floods in
South Korea. The losses were esti
mated at about (9,000,000. It was
announced that 12,000 houses were
swept away, 53.000 inundated, and
more than 300.000 acres of farms had
been destroyed. t
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Gen. Johnson Rests
At Home, Head
In Mother’s Lap
By the Associates Press.
OKMULGEE. Okla , August 1.
—Gen. Hugh S. Johnson rested
last night, rested as he used to
do. his head in his mother's Up.
Stretched out on a sofa in the
modest living room of the cot
tage on South Seminole avenue,
where Mrs. S. L. Johnson—
"mom” to the general—lives, the
N. R. A. chieftain—"Hughey” to
her—sighed deeply and smiled
up at her.
And they had a long mother
and-son chat, their first since
Mrs. Johnson visited her son
several months ago in Washing
ton.
IN RACE OVER DIXIE
Lands Near Atlanta as Two
Others Are Seen—Five
Start in Contest.
By the Associated Preaa.
ATLANTA, August 1.—The Good
year VIII, one of five entries in the
National Balloon Race, landed at
Bolton, an Atlanta suburb, shortly
after three gas bags were sighted here
today.
The Goodyear entry was piloted by
Lieut Karl L. Lange and Vemer L.
Smith, his aide. The landing was
made safely. The other two balloons
drifted in a northeast direction.
Two of the balloons had not been
reported at noon.
All took off from Legion Field at
Birmingham last night to decide the
Nation's three entries in the Gordon
Bennett Trophy race at Warsaw, Po
land, September 23. The air line
distance from Atlanta to Birmingham
is 125 miles.
Change Direction.
'Ae balloons first were sighted by
Atlanta suburb residents of Bolton, 5
miles from the heart of the city, in
a northwesterly direction. The gas
bags seemed to change direction as
they approached the city and their
course apparently was directed north
east.
One of the three came near enough
for Atl&ntlans In office buildings to
see it.
Pour of the bags floated off in a
northeasterly direction into the dark
ness from Legion Field last night
while 8,000 persons cheered. The fifth,
the Navy entrant, went higher and
caught a northwest wind.
The winner Is determined by the
air line distance from the starting
field to the point where the balloon
lands.
Weather conditions were Ideal as
the entries were cast adrift.
Gets Wrong Balloon.
Six entries originally were in the
race, but the City of Chicago was
scratched shortly before the start. It
was said the gas available would not
lift the baUoon. Pilot Henry Hansen
said the wrong balloon had been ship
ped to Birmingham for the race.
The three balloons making the
most distance wUl win an opportunity
to enter the International contest,
in which the Gordon Bennett Tro
phy is the prize. In addition, first
place gets a cash prize of $700; sec
ond, $500; third, $300, and fourth,
$200.
Officials expressed hope that one
of the bags might exceed the record
of 1,072 miles established by Ward
T. Van Orman In 1924. Van Orman
took off from San Antonio. Tex., and
landed at Rochester, Minn.
None of the pilots In the race has
ever won the national event.
HOUSEMAID OF 70 HELD
Obtaining Large Sum by Deceiv
ing Art Lovers Charged.
MONTEUX, Prance, August 1 UP).—
A 70-year-old housmaid, Mine. Valo
pln, was arrested today on a charge
of having obtained half a million
francs from three Avignon art lovers,
who allegedly were deluded Into the
belief they were buying rare pictures
and royal heirlooms from the mag
nificent Paris residence of the Prin
cess Bourbon-Panne.
Mme. Valopln was taken into cus
tody In a handsome home which she
had purchased with the money ob
tained from the collectors.
Police charged she laid the ground
work for the deal by trafficking hon
estly for years.
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TUGWELL STIES
AT OBSCURANTISTS
Aims at “Tories” Who Seek
Cancellation of Social
Insurance.
By the AuocUted Press.
Rexford O. Tugwell, administration
agricultural planner, says certain
"Tories” want “nothing so much as
the cancellation of the social insur
ance” for the farmer.
These “obscurantists," the Under
secretary of Agriculture told a radio
audience last night, “have seized on
the great natural calamity of a
drought” to discredit the farm pro
gram. It was, Tugwell said, an “in
decent expression of Joy that thou
sands of farmers have been hurt by
freak weather."
“What they resent,” Tugwell said
of opponents to the program, “is the
fact that the people of ihe United
States have organized themselves to
deal promptly and effectively with
economic problems as they arise, with
out being thrown on the mercy of
those who formerly profited by de
moralization and coined chaos Into
dividends.
“They want nothing so much as
the cancellation of the social Insurance
with which we have provided agri
culture. They want the human beings
who live on the land to be subject
only to the will and convenience of
the speculators, who thrive on confu
sion and calamity.”
Control Methods Not Permanent.
Tugwell said the production control
methods were adopted with the idea
that they could be “modified or aban
doned as industry attuned itself to an
economy of abundance."
Tugwell contended that without the
new deal’s millions to aid agriculture
and drought victims and its measures
to provide against future catastrophies,
■‘we should face famine and poUtical
revolution in the Farm States and
food riots in the cities.”
Describing the Farm Administra
tion's efforts to adjust production and
consumption, Tugwell, whose address
was released through the Democratic
National Committee, said:
“I know that I am speaking for
the Department of Agriculture when I
say that It was only with the greatest
reluctance that we temporarily called
a halt to that unchecked, gigantic and
uneconomic abundance which is the
first law of nature, but we felt that
with industrial America controlling
its production in order to maintain
profitable prices with absolute indif
ference to the fate of the millions who
depend on industry for a livelihood,
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FIRST BOAT AWAITED
Churchill, Manitoba, Port Will
Open for Season August 10.
CHURCHILL, Manitoba, August 1
(fP).—Warm winds dafted across Hud
son Bay today, brightening propects
for Northern navigation which will
open at this port August 10.
Ten steamers have been scheduled
to make calls here, and it was ex
pected that more will arrive, some
to take part of the 2.500.000 bushels
of wheat which fills one huge eleva
tor.
The first vessel expected is the S. S.
Dalworth, which is bringing a general
cargo of merchandise from Antwerp
and Newcastle.
FATHER ACCUSED OF GIVING SON
WHISKY GETS SIX-MONTH TERM
Several days of grief and bewilder- |
ment had a bitter climax In Police
Court today for 3-year-old Paul
Manyette. when his father received a
six-month jail term after it was testi
fied he gave the boy whisky.
The child wept and tried to follow
his rather. Bernard Manyette, 33,
when bailiffs ushered him into the
prisoner's dock after sentence was
passed by Judge Ralph Given. Paul's
cries arose to an hysterical shriek
when he saw his father disappear and
the child was turned over to his
mother. Mrs. Helen Manyette, to be
removed from court.
The elder Manyette received one of
the longest sentences on record for a
simple charge of Intoxication. He
pleaded guilty to this offense, but
pretested innocence when Judge Given
laid:
“What do you mean by giving this
innocent baby whisky?”
Paul’s small head wits In a whirl
ana he wobbled unsteadily on his
feet when strangers noticed him Moo- •
A
day afternoon at Sixth and F streets.
Despite his objections, Paul was
turned over to a policewoman, who
took him to Emergencv Hospital
where he was found to be suffering
from the effects of alcohol. The
child's stomach was pumped out and
he was taken to the Receiving Home
for Children, where he spent yester
day.
Officials there turned the boy over
to his mother last night. The next
time he saw his father was in th«
prisoner’s dock this morning.
When sentence was passed, Paul
ran up to his father and kissed him
He tried to follow as deputies led ths
elder Manyette off to Jail.
Woman’s Bureau officials said they
would present the case to the District
Attorney tomorrow, in an effort to
have Manyette prosecuted for giving
the boy whisky.
Manyette’s wife told the court bt
gave their son liquor and that she
had smelled it on the child’s breath.
This, however, Manyette denied.
HITLER MAY SEIZE
ABSOLUTE RULE AS
HinURMS
End of President Believed
Near, With Delicate Sit
uation Arising.
REICHSWEHR LOYALTY
MAY BRING UPRISING
Government Troops Are Not Ex
pected to Submit to Chan
cellor's Domination.
BULLETIN.
BERLIN, August 1 (A*).—An an
nouncement at 8:28 pm. tonight
said President von Hlndenburg's
death agony had set in and death
was expected In less than an hour.
(Conyrlsht. 10.14. by the Asioclsted Press )
BERLIN, August 1.—Adolf Hitler
Intends to be both President and
chancellor of Germany, one of hla
close friends told the Associated Press
today.
This would give Hitler a dictator
ship as absolute as any in the world.
Hitler was busy while Germany
prayed for Von Hlndenburg, Its be
loved "sturdy oak ” He ordered the
cabinet back from vacations for a
session tonight.
The Oerman press was commanded
not to speculate on Von Hlndenburg's
successor.
Hlndenburg Near* End.
Physicians watching over the Presi
dent as he lies near death at Neudeck,
East Prussia, reported a slight Im
provement last night. But the end
of the 88-year-old leader seemed near.
Despair gripped many conservative*
who had looked upon Hlndenburg a*
an anchor against extreme Nazllsm.
If Von Hlndenburg dies, fhe Asso
ciated Press Informant said, Hltlei
would call the cabinet together and
read a brief law concentrating all
power to himself as President and
chancellor.
"The whole thing will take but *
few minutes," he said, "for the cab
inet will, of course. Indorse the pro
posal. It will simplify der Fuehrer’?
(Hitler’s) whole work immensely If
he need no| first ask somebodj
whether he may do this or that.”
An Indication of the reliability of
this source to that Runday he re
vealed Von Htbdenburg’fl turn for tht
worse and wSi the first man to tip
off the fact that Hitler was going to
Venice to meet Mussolini.
Under the constitution. Dr. Erwin
Bumke, president of the Supreme
Court, would become acting President
until an election was held to choose a
successor.
Stage Set for Hitler.
"All that has been taken care of,"
was the terse statement of the prop
aganda bureau on the matter of suc
cession. To many observers this in
dicated the stage has been set for
Hitler.
A foreign office official pointed out
"the Hitler government holds emer
gency powers enabling it to do almost
anything.”
If such are the plans of Hitler, the
time is speedily approaching when
Germany's enigma, the Relchswehr,
or regular army, will have to uncover
Itself. It has long been devoted to
Von Htndenburg, Germany's World
War hero.
Men who know the spirit of the
Relchswehr say it is possible Hitler
would not have such smooth sailing
If he seated himself in the Hlnden
burg chair.
Ever since 1919, it was pointed out,
the Reichswehr has adamantly re
fused to become the foot ball of poli
tics. The army was the chief instru
ment of the President, while police
were the agency of political cabinets
To place the Relchswehr under Hit
ler, the head of a political government
and a political party, friends of ths
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MAINE TO DECIDE CLAIM
FOR SUSPECT’S RETURN
Attorney General Will Kule on
Extradition in Michigan
Bank Hold-Up
By the Associated Press.
AUGUSTA. Me , August 1— Attor
new General Clyde R. Chapman today
was asked by Gov. Louis J. Brann to
determine whether Theodore Craig,
31, alias Bents, should be extradited
on a warrant alleging that he par
ticipated in a Grand Haven, Mich.,
bank hold-up, August 18, 1933.
Counsel for Craig agreed to abide
by his decision. They promised not
to institute habeas corpus proceedings
or try In any other way to block ex
tradition should the decision bo
against them, the Governor s office
said.
Craig is held In 850,000 ball at Port
land on a fugitive from justice war
rant pending the outcome of extra
dition proceedings.