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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
200 BELIEVED DROWNED
ON YANGTSE STEAMER
Fire Attributed to Chinese Soldier:
Following Explosion Which
Sank Craft.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, March 1.-TWO hundred
persons were believed drowned, when
the heavily loaded Chinese passenger
steamer Pa Chi blew up and sank in
the Yangtse Kiang, 10 miles from here
last. night
Among the 500 passengers aboard the
vessel were 100 Chinese soldiers, who
were thought to have thrown their
cigarette stubs into the cargo, which
was principally cotton.
An explosion followed, spreading fire
in the hold. Most of those on the boat
jumped over the side, where q revenue
ViVorS,
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.GANDH| WILL DEFY
SALT LAWS AGAIN
Anniversary of Arrest Marked
by New Pilgrimage to
Sea in India.
Rv the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
AIINdADABAD, India, March 12.-On
the first anniversary of the start of his
| historic march to the sea in beginning
of the disobedience campaign, Mahatma
Gandhi left Ahmadabad today to re-
trace his route and make salt once more
in defiance of British law.
His venture will mark a test of the
truce, which he arranged last week with
Viceroy Lord Irwin, one of the terms
of which was that peasants in the salt
districts be allowed to make salt for
their own use and for sale within their
own towns. though this is a violation
of the letter of the law.
1t was not regarded as likely that the
British would attempt to rearrest
Gandhi for a violation of the salt
monopoly act, with the ink of his
signature on the formal truce ending
the civil disobedience campaign hardly
dry but all India watched his move.
The Nationalist regard salt making as
| q sacred right.
Setting out from here, just as he did
| one year ago today, Gandhi went to
Borsad to address the villagers, who &C.
| companied him on the first march to
the sea. He will visit a number of
! speaking to natives who have refused
to pay British taxes, and Saturday will
60 to Dandi, where he first made salt
year ago.
After a speaking tour in the Baroda
and Surat districts Gandhi will return
| to Bombay on March Is, spend two days
there and then go to New Delhi where
| he will attempt to unite Moslems and
Hindus in preparation for the forthcom-
ing second round-table conference.
Soon thereafter Gandhi will 90 to
Karachi. where the all-India National
Congress, Nationalist organization, will
meet Considerable Opposition is ex-
pected in the congress ranks to terms
of his truce with Lord Irwin and a
split may develop. Definite opposition
manifested itself, especially among the
recalcitrant youths, who insist upon I'm
mediate granting Of independence.
Fight to Kiss His Feet.
Gandhi's followers Frustrated them
selves before him when he reached
Borsad, women fighting to kiss his feet
and children garlanding him with
flowers.
I'VE are in this fight to the finish, -
he told them. ut Is the supreme and
final struggle of my life.'
At Bombay today two groups Of Con-
gress party volunteers clashed outside
the Congress Building and a score or
more were slightly injured The ag-
gressors appeared to be a group of Pa
thans and Sikhs, who wanted redress
for grievances they have against the
main Congress body. The president OF
the Bombay Congress restored order by
promising consideration of their claims
tonight.
The Congress Building, which the
Bombay government confiscated last
october for non-payment of taxes, was
restored to the Nationalist today in
compliance with the agreement between
Gandhi and the viceroy.
COMMONS DEBATES INDIA.
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MAN HELD AS SUSPECT
IN ALLEGED DEATH PLAN
Jersey Farmer Tells Undertaken to
Prepare Funeral TO Autoist,
Back on Rent.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOclhLeu FTebs.
NEWARK, N. j., March 12-If Am
brose Tde had any plans to commit q
murder they went all awry today, when
the undertaken he had notified in adj
vance to call for the body of a man, in
formed police, who arrested the 46-year-
old Belgian farmer.
The man named in Ide's letter to j.
Steurwald's undertaking establishment
here was William Verdow, tenant In
q garage owned by Ide.
please call at my house and get the
cash for a first-class funeral and then
call at William Verdow's house for the
body" read the letter received today
by Steurwald.
Police Immediately arrested Ide on a
holding charge Of vagrancy, pending the
result Of sanity investigation by Health
Oficer DR.. John Morrisey.
Ide told police Verdon had not paid
rent for the garage In some time and
that he figured TIE best thing to do
would be to kill him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band this evening at Stanley Hall, at
$50 O'Clock. John S. M. Zimmerman,
bandmaster; Anton Pointner. assistant.
March, knights and Ladies'"
Zamecnik
Overture, "orpheus in der Unterwelt,"
Offenbach
Suite poetic, Norwegian. Schytte
Peasant Dance"
"Eventide"
"Rhapsodie"
Medley, Popular Songs from Italy,"
Langey
Fox trot, when Kentucky Bids the
World Good Morning Wayne
Waltz song, Lonesome Lover. Monaco
Finale, Crying Myself to Sleep"
Vending
THE Star spangled Banner"
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CONTINUED From First Pagel
IN noliee in a formal statement, follows
AFTER dinner my husband started
6rinkinv whisky. I undressed to go 70
he'd and returning to the salon started
to read an Italian paper. He, tnIurieteo
said that nv desire to learn that IAN
snlaRe was because had an 1tahan
lover. This started the quarrel
Had Concealed Pistol.
"I went to bed, but ! took the pre-.
caution of putting the revolver oougn'
three months ago under my pillow pc
rafse he had threatened me before. H'
was only half undressed when he start
ed taking about an italian lover.
suddenly, leaning over my neo NJ
seized me by the throat. l managed
10 escape him and seized my revolver
I fired 1t once full into his race anc
then three more times. He staggered
20 the other room, and followed MN
and then tainted beside him.
"when recovered awakened the
3anitor and told him to notify the
police"
Friends of Nixon Nirdlinger and his
wife said that he undoubtedly loved his
wife very much, but was most jealous.
Yesterday morning he engaged detec-
tives to trail her, explaining that ne
did not intend to use any information
he might get against her, but simply
wanted to know what she was doing.
Mrs. Nixon Nirdlinger before her mar
rage was Miss Charlotte Nash, the
daughter Of DR.. and Mrs. J. B. Nash OF
st. Louis She met the Philadelphia
theater man during the 1928 beauty
contest at Atlantic City and accepted an
engagement to appear in his theaters In
Philadelphia and Atlantic City.
Eloped TO Maryland.
They eloped to Hagerstown, Md, in
1925, and went abroad for honeymoon
An arrangement developed at the start
Of the matrimonial venture and she was
said to have left him, to be reunited
only after he had sent her numerous
cables. She divorced him in 1925, but
they remarked in 1928.
The dead man was, married three
times. His first wife, Tessie Burke, an
actress, divorced him more than 20
years ago after bearing him two sons
one of whom, Samuel Nixon Nirdlinger
is general manager for the Erlanger
theatrical interests in Philadelphia. The
other, Jack Nixon-Nir dlinger, lives in
New York.
His second wife was Laura McKenna,
whom he married in 1903. She divorced
him many years later in Paris In
1922 he was named defendant in $780,
900 suit brought in Atlantic City by
Franz Voelger, former secretary of the
Atlantic City Board Of Taxation. for
alleged alienation of the affections of
his wife. A jury awarded Voelker six
cents damages
PARENTS LIVE IN ST. LOUIS.
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.ENVOYS SEE BRAND
!. ON NEW NAVY PACT
Toxic and Berlin Ambassa-
doris in Paris Discuss Eff
feCts of Accord.

BY the Associated Press.
: PARIS, March 1.-THE Japanese and
German Ambassadors met separately
TODAY with Aristide BRAND to discuss
the effects of the sh-Franco-I Italian
naval accord.
1t is believed in official circles here
that Japan and the United States can
best indicate their attitude toward the
agreement by merely taking cognizance
If f. without referring the document to
the Senate or the Diet.
There will be further discussions with
Washington and Toxic before dennlte
decision is reached as to whether
brief five-power conference will be nee
essary TO dovetail the new arrangement
with the washington treaty, or Whetner
the simple signatures OF Great Britain
France and Italy will be sut1clent.
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Biscuit Maker Asks
500, 600 for Finger
Jury Awards $l,75O

CHICAGO, March IL P).-
Steve Sadler's biscuits were good,
but they're not worth 100000.
Steve told jury he couldn't
bake biscuits any more because
Peter Kostyal bit of his finger
and asked for 100000, but the
jurors figured $1,750 would be
enough.
Kostyal told the jury that his
wife used to be Mrs. Sadler and
that he was merely trying to COLI
lect some alimony Sadler owed
her when the biting incident
occurred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
COMMONS DEBATES INDIA.
Baldwin Says Conservatives Retain
Same Position.

Baldwin Says Conservatives Retain
Same Position.
LONDON, March IL R.-Parlia-
ment'S anxiously awaited debate on
India began late this afternoon as the
House of Commons convened in q
tense atmosphere.
At the start it appeared that the
scope Of the discussion might be some
what curtailed, as the speaker ruled
1t must be confined to general debate
on administration and that future
legislation could not be discussed.
Stanley Baldwin, from which the
house had expected some Qualification
of the recent resolution by the Con-
servative's India Committee, indicating
that the party might not participate in
further round-table conferences on
India, lost no time in making his po-
sition clear.
The Conservatives, he said, stand
where they have stood all along ON
the Indian problem. The cooperation
which they have given since the Simon
Commission was set up has not been
broken. but remains exactly what it
was, he declared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
PARENTS LIVE IN ST. LOUIS.
Mrs. NixOn-Nirdlinger Met Her Future
Husband at II.

ST. LOUIS. March IL up. - Miss
Charlotte Nash, a bobbed-hair girl of
II, went TO Atlantic City in September,
1928 and won the opening feature Of
q beauty pageant as Miss St. Louis, 4"
in which general appearance was the
criterion Of judgment
1t was during the pageant she met
the man she was TO marry, Fred c.
Nixon Nirdlinger, whom she shot to
death last night at Nice, France. He
engaged her to appear at one Of his
theaters. and they we're married Febru-
airy 3, 1924, at Hagerstown, Md. The
marriage was kept secret for several
months.
Mrs. Nixon Nirdlinger's parents, DR..
and Mrs James B. Nash, live in Uni
yersity City, suburb.
LETTER PRAISED HIS WIFE.
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French in Africa Mark Conclusion OF
Naval Accord.

ArGTERs Algeria, March IL P).-
r. ce1shrate conclusion of the Franco
1T,tish-Italian naval accord, French au,
thorities here today extended cordial
welcome to the italian fiotilla OF eignt
foroedo boats. which conveyed 1talo
Rsibo's air fleet between Italy ana Bra
I'll in January. "a
The commander was received ON,
Aally by the French governor general
IN this first French port the hotllia nas
touched on the homeward voyage Lhe
ships viii remain here for four or nVe
days.
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BANKER HELD SUICIDE
Stakeholder in Knoxville Concern
Dead From Shots.

Dead From Shots.
NEWPORT, Tenn, March IL (P-
w. o. Minis, 81, lawyer and director
and a large stakeholder in the closed
Holston Union National Bank, at Knox
Vile, died today from what officers said
we're Self-inflicted bullet wonnds.
Sheriff 0. l.. Hicks, who vent to the
home after the shooting yesterday, said
Minis shot himself three times Through
the stomach.
the sheriff said Minis had Worried
. great dealp since the closing the
Knoxville BANK -.
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LETTER PRAISED HIS WIFE.
Nixon NirdIinger Wrote Of Her Skating
Accomplishments.

AONOAAptAshhAChsSs
PITTSBURGH, March IL Op.-In a
letter TO a friend here, Fred @. Nixon
Nirdlinger last week expressed his pride
In the skating accomplishments OF his
wife, now under arrest at Nice, France,
IN connection with the killing Of Nixon
Nirdlinger.
The friend, Harry Brown, manager Of
the Nixon Theater, revealed the con-
tents Of the letter today. The theater
was built by the dead mans father,
Samuel r. irdlinger, and Brown
and the younger Nixon Nirdlinger have
been friends for 80 years.
Nixon Nirdlinger wrote that his wife
was devoting her time TO skiing and
neglecting skating.
Il have objected to 1t on account Of
It being so dangerous" he wrote. Il
did finally talk her into skating con-
test last Wednesday with some profess
SIGNALS, and do you know that that
little monkey ran OF with the third
prize In the Waiting, the third In fig-
ifre-skating besides capturing the dane
ing contest with Maj. Beaumont"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
EDGE TO VISIT COLONIES
OF FRANCE IN AFRICA
BY the Associated Press.

A8sOCIEVCu FTt8s.
PARIS, March 12.-Ambassador Wal
ter z. Edge will leave today for
months trip to North Africa, where he
VIII make o first-hand study of the
development and activities of Frances
colonies in Algeria, Tunis and Morocco.
He will be accompanied by his wife
and his secretary, Robert M. Scotch,
and MIS-. Scotch of Detroit.
President Doumergue will leave for
Tunis April 8, but he is not expected
to meet Mr.. Edges party there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
FRANCE MAY CUT BUDGET.
Reduction in Credits to Navy and Army
Proposed.

BY Cable to The Star.
PARIS, France, March IL (C.D.No.-
The French budget will be balanced
through a reduction of per cent IN
credits for naval constructions and land
ornaments. the Finance Committee OF
tha Chsnnber of Deputies decided today.
.S-he committee fatty refused to M
crease taxation, as suggested by the
government. The governments view
noint on the proposed reduction OF
military and naval credits so Tar Is I'M
known. .. ,o,,,
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z B0MBINGS IN HAVANA

Slight Damage Caused-5 Held in
Raid on Workmen's Center.
HAVANA, March IL [R.-Two bombs
exploded loudly In uptown Havana dur
ing the night, one opposite Havana
University and the other at San Jose
and Infanta, where another bomb went
OF Tuesday night. There was slight
damage to paving.
Two workmen and three students
were detained when police, acting on
information that subversive literature
was being printed, raided the work.
mems center last night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
NEW CANAL OPPOSED
Former Panama Official Says Chan
mel Can Care for All Traffic.

r PANAMA CITY, March IL R.-
John F. Stevens, a former chief engi-
neer of the Panama Canal, yesterday
expressed the opinion there was no ne
c,ssity for a Nicaraguan canal which
now is being studied by a Government
commission.
He pointed out that the present canal
never was used to more than one-third
Of its capacity and that extra locks
W uld be SUFFICIENT for all trafac in
sight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
PHILATELISTs TO ELECT
New Junior Organization to Out
line Program of Action.

Ofdcers will be elected and q pro-
gram outlined at a meeting of the
Capital Philatelic Society, newly created
junior stamp collectors organization,
tomorrow night at 1880 o'clock at the
Thomson School, Twelfth and L streets.
DR.. Ellis Haworth and Albert F. Kunze
are advisors of the club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
BEAUTY QUEEN OF 20
HELD FOR SHOOTING
HER JEALOUS" HUSBAND

CONTINUED From First Page.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
DENIS0N DECLARES
HE NEVER PURCHASED
LIQUOR FOR IMPORT

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
PRESIDENT PLANS
TWO-MONTHS' TRIP
TO PACIFIC COAST

Continued From First page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
ALGIERs GREETs ITALIANS.

Copyright, 1881.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12


Senator Borah. You do not desire to
see the American farmer pass through
the condition Of peasant"
Taking up the question of the de-
benture, which he has advocated for
sisted that there was no difference be-
tween the protective tariff, for the bene-
mt Of manufactured goods and the
bounty or debenture on American farm
goods. He said that it was a tragedy
while these problems awaited solution
the American Congress had been per-
mitted to go home. He urged the
members Of the conference to 60 back to
the country and formulate public opin-
ion back Of Progressive program.
The following were those in attend
ance at the opening session of the Pro-
gressive Conference here yesterday:
DR.. Peter Ainslie, Baltimore, Md. /;
Representative Miles C. Algood, Ala
bama; Mary Anderson, Department OF
Labor, washington, d. c.; Miss Arnold
Representative W. A. Ayres, Wichita,
Kans.; ]. M. Baer, Washington, d. c.;
Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, Washington,
d. c.; Miss Lydia Banning, New York
City; DR.. Charles Beard, New York
City; Mrs. Mary Beard, Washington,
D. c.; Walter Bemis, Chicago; Jesse
Ice oCAAICLC, JIp aIHuIu, Mu.J oSIdLOL
John J. Blaine, Wisconsin; Mrs. John
J. Blaine, Wisconsin; Bruce Bliven, New
York City; Gerald j. Boileau, Wausau
Wis: Prof. Edwin M. Borchard, New
Haven, Conn; Jonathan Bourne, Wash
ington, d. O.; Fred Brenckman, Wash
ington D. c.; Frank s. Bright, Wash
ington, .. c.: Joseph L. Bristow. Fair
fax, Va; Senator Smith w. Brook
hart, Iowa; Representative Edward E
Browne, Wisconsin; Senator Robert J
Buckley, Ohio; MRS. Anna DENIM:
Bursch, Washington, D. c.; Represent.
alive Edward H. Campbell, Iowa; stuart
Chase, New York City: Clarence Can.
non, Missouri; Representative Christ
gau, Minnesota; Miss Adele Clark
Richmond, Va; william r. Cochran
Baltimore, Mai Mrs. Walter Cope
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-02
RIGID POWER LINE
CONTROL PROMISED
Commission Not to Permit 0ccu-
psncy of Land Without
Permits.

The Federal Power Commission an
nounced today it would not tolerate the
construction of electric power lines
prior to application for license.
In strongly worded statement, the
commission said 1t decided ito be no
longer forced into the position of con-
sideringN with little or no discretionary
power, the issue of Federal licenses fer
transmission lines. the location of which
on public lands has already been fixed
by actual construction"
The statement pointed out that the
commission, in the early years of its
activity, necessarily issued licenses for
many transmission lines already in OPP
Grafton across the public lands
The practice of taking possession OF
publicly owned lands and some years
later asking permission for this occu-
pancy has become so much of a habit
that even now with the water power
act nearly u years old, the practice
persists, the commission declared This
disregard OF the statute, it was stated
Is bad both in principle and practice.
In view Of this situation all power
lines constructed upon any public land
or territory prior to application for
license viii be considered by the COM
mission as in trespass, unless the ap-
plicant can show it has not been guilty
Of willful disregard of law, or that II
acted only in an emergency TO serve a
present public interest,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-02
DESIGN FOR BRIDGE
AT P ST. APPROVED
Fine Arts Commission Puts
0. K. on Plans for Span
Over Rock Creek.

A design for the new P Street
Bridge over Rock Creek Valley, sub
mitted by A. L. Harris and C. r
Whyte, engineers of bridges, was ap-
proved today by the Fine Arts Com
mission, which began a two-day ses-
sion. The commission offered a few
minor suggestions for the change OF
the design
Approval was given the revised plan
for the memorial gates at the Naval
Academy. submitted by the Allied
Architects.
The commission examined plans for
the proposed extension Of the National
Museum 200 feet on east and west ends.
These were submitted by DR.. Alexander
Wetmore, assistant secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, and the Allied
Architects.
Commission Visits Bridge.
During the morning the commission
members visited Columbia Island and
inspected the progress of the Arlington
Memorial Bridge. 1t observed the prog
ress of paving on the bridge proper and
gave attention tc the proposed plaza on
Columbia Island
This afternoon, the commission ar
ranged to confer with the Committee
for the Fine Arts Exhibition of the
George Washington Bicentennial.
H. P. Caemmerer, secretary OF the
commission, said that space for holding
this exhibition has been made available
In the National Museum Building and
the Corcoran Gallery of Art. He added
that the following national associations
will cooperate in the exhibition: The
Mural Painters Society, the National
Sculpture Society, the American 1nsti-
tute of Architects, the American So
ciety of Landscape Architects and the
American Academy in Rome.
Will Confer on 25-Cent Piece.
/ Late today the commission arranged
I to confer with Secretary Mellon regard
/ ing designs for the George Washington
Bicentennial 25-cent piece, submitted
by the director of the mint.
I Edward w. Dom, Washington archt'
! tect, submitted plans for rest HOUSE
/ to be constructed at Wakefield Manor
the birthplace of George Washington
in Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-02
ARM|ST|CE DAY SET
BY HOOVER DECREE
President Calls Upon Nation
to Pledge Itself to Cause
of Peace.

President Hoover today called upon
the Nation to observe Armistice day
November IL, with appropriate cere.
monies and to pledge itself to the effort
to perpetuate peace and celebrate rela-
lions of friendship and anity with all
nations.
The Presidents proclamation follows
Whereas the eleventh of November,
1913, marked termination Of the
World War and the cessation of its de-
struction and suffering, and
Whereas, 1t is appropriate that re-
curing anniversaries of this day should
be commemorated by exercises honorinp
those who gave their lives in the serv-
ice OF the country and defeating to
the attainment of the ideals of Justice,
freedom and peace, for which they
made supreme sacrifice, and
Whereas by concurrent resolution of
the Senate and House in 1926, the Pres
1dent was requested to issue a procla-
nation for the observance Of Armistice
day,
Now, therefore, I, Herbert Hoover,
President of the United States of Amer
lea, pursuant to said resolution, do
hereby order that the flag of the
United States be displayed on all Gov
eminent buildings on November IL,
1891, and do invite the people of the
United States to observe the day in
their churches and schools and other
suitable places with appropriate cere-
monies, giving expression to Our graf
itude that peace exists and pledging
ourselves to the effort to perpetuate the
peace Of the world and to cultivate re-
lations OF friendship and amity with all
nations.
I'm witness thereof, have hereunto
set my hand and caused to be afixed
the seal of the United States.
Done at the City of Washington,
this second day of November in the
year OF our Lord, 1881, and of the tnde-
pendence OF the United States of Amer
lea the 156th.
Signed, HERBERT HOOVER"