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Evening star., 1932-08-07
ARMIES Of 1900
WOULD WAGE WAR
Fiqht on Chaco to Engage
Strength Equal to Four
U. S. Regiments.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, August 6.-BoliVia
and Paraguay. principals in the threat
ened war In the Grand Chaco OF South
America. have active armed forces
amounting together. to fewer than
$4,000 men, according to the most re-
cent information tabulated here on
their military strength.
Bolivia has the larger establish
ment, with 7,100 men and 20 airplanes.
It has twelve infantry regiments, six
of cavalry. one of field artillery, three
of mounted artillery, six battalions of
engineers and two aviation Squadrons,
and is forming a regiment OF light ar
tillery and another OF mounted artl-
lery.
Paraguay IS credited with 4,500 effec-
tives. six airplanes and eight river pa
troll boats of which several are small
gunboats. 1t has four infantry regi-
ments, one of cavalry. company OF
engineers. one aviation squadron, a
corps of IL officers and 100 men for
its fiuvial navy, two batteries OF
mounted artillery, machine gun sec
ton and 1,040 federal police who are
available for army duty.
Both armies have modern rifles and
both have had German training, not
ably the BolivianS, whose tutor and
chief of staff until his expulsion in q
revolutionary movement two years ago
was Gen. Hans Kundt Of World War
experience. Recently Paraguay has
had a French and now an Argentine
military mission.
Bolivia requires Of every male resi-
dent two years of military service and
availability in the reserve corps to the
age of 40. Paraguay requires year
of service and the reserve age limit
is as.
Exact size of the two countries is
hard to determine since the largely
unsuryeyed Chaeo region itself COM
nrises roughly as much territory as
illinois but Bolivia is considerably the
larger. about twice the size of Texas
and Paraguay, including the Chacc
territory it claims, is slightly larger
than California. OF BoliWa's more
than 3,0O0.O00 inhabitants more than
half are Indians and another third
have mixed Indian blood. Paraguay
has less than a million people, mostly
Indian or Of mixed blood.
Evening star., 1932-08-07

ana 90 years olo. 0ne was looking Ior
a JOB: .r. ..,,
to all the large hotels and left appli-
cations for work. I'm a good seam
stress and maybe they'll hire me.
kind Of work. I don't want charity
here, because know there are others
that need it more"
She was told that the committee did
not provide jobs, but that she could
have food or shelter II she needed it.
Up to another clerk came an old man
with cane, carefully tapping the
floor in front as he moved ahead. There
were tears in his sightless eyes as he
pleaded for "a little something" for his
children. Carefully the clerk guided
him to a long table, behind which other
clerks filled in the answers for blind
and those who could not write them
selves.
And so all day long the procession
movNl Weary women with thin babies
in their arms; -muscled laborers out
of work and hungry.
High above this suffering throng
there is a great white scar in the
masonry, halfway between the Lords
prayer and Ten Commandments, which
appear on the wall back of the pulpit
in golden letters.
In the days when the wealthy and
socially prominent worshiped there,
this spot was filled with key stone.
now in the new church, which had
been brought from the ruins of Solo,
mons Temple and bore the Hebrew in
scription Jehovah Jireh," which means
"The Lord Will Provide"
Now the stone and inscription are
gone but the spirit of that ancient
Hebrew adage still pervades the old
church, which can truly be called q
mother Of men.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
UPSHAW SAYS u. S.
/ WANTS PROHIBITION
Law Must Be Enforced, Even at
Cost of $1OO,OOo,OoO a Year,
l. His View.
Nv fhA Associated Press.

BY tnb Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 6-The leader of
the National Prohibition party-a
slight, partly crippled, little man Of 66
years-outlined today program which
he said would make the word alcohol
obsolete in the American vocabulary.
His eyes shining with the intensity
of a zealot, William D. UpshaW, the
Prohibition party's candidate for Presi-
dent of the United States, declared the
eighteenth amendment is the most no.
BILE part of the Constitution, and the
Volstead act the greatest law on the
statute books.
America needS-and wants-prohibl-
ton" UpshaW declared.
Prohibition must be enforced. Even
II we used S100,000,000 a year, the
Navy, the Army and the Marines, the
enforcement of strict prohibition would
be cheap"
UpshaW served four terms, from 1919
to 1927. in Congress-and has devoted
the whole of his life to the cause of
prohibition.
While still young man. he injured
his spine in a fall on his farm in
Georgia. The next seven years Of his
life he spent in bed-but during those
seven years he wrote book on prohi-
bition which, together with funds de-
rived from lectures delivered from a
wheel chair, paid his way through col
lege. It'll,
IT can answer every argument which
any wet can make against the merits
of present prohibition laws" he said to-
day. And my answers will be sum
cient to convince any impartial
listener"
Evening star., 1932-08-07
METEOR DISPLAY
|SDUE THURSDAY
Scientists Ask Public Aid In
Counting Shower of Fall
ing Stars.
BY HOWARD w. RLAKESLEE,
Associated Press Science Editor.

Associated HTeSs oClenCe EultoE.
PHILADELPHIA, August 6.-Astron-
omers predict the best shower Of shoot
ing stars In several years after midnight
Thursday, August IL.
These flaming stars are the perseid
meteors, which have been visiting the
cart hannually in Midsummer for 1,1oo
years Usually they have to compete
with moonlight, but this time the moon
will be out of the way, for 1t sets around
midnight. For this reason more than
usual are expected to be visible.
The perseids are vast, elliptica1 ring
Of particles of cosmic dust and stones,
two or three billion miles long and abuot
so 600, 900 miles wide. This great stream
Of dust circles the sun in comet
shaped orbit.
Each year from mid-July to md
August the earth cuts through the
tration at one place, which the earth
passes about August II, accounting for
the shower" The fiery drops are
rather scattered, averaging ordinarily
from IS to so per hour,
There Is some doubt about the precise
position Of the dense portion Of the
stream, SO that observers are warned to
be on the lockout also after midnight
the nights before and after Thursday.
Most of the perseids are estimated to
be about the size of grains of wheat
with an occasional larger particle, big
enough to leave behind it a brilliant
incandescent trail of glowing gas.
They travel about 1,200 miles an hour
and flame into the brightness of rockets
at about so miles altitude. They
come from the northeast, from the posi-
ton Of the constellation OerSeuS.
There is no record Of perseid ever
falling to the earth's surface. They
seem to be either consumed before
getting that low, or to pass out OF the
atmosphere back into space.
The public Is invited to count the
perseids this year. The counts are
wanted by astronomers. They are a
real aid in study of meteors, says DR.
Charles P. Oliver, director of the Flower
Astronomical Observatory Of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. The counts
should be mailed to him.
I'VE are anxious TO have accurate
counts" he says, made by one person
(not by two or three per hour or PEI
half hour, at as many stations as pos
sible. The American Meteor Society viii
undertake to reduce and publish al
counts submitted. Directions for OBJ
serving may be had by writing Flower
Observatory, Upper Darby, Pa, in
closing a stamped addressed envelope
We want counts on the nights Of Au-
gust 9-l0, 10-11 and 11-12."
Evening star., 1932-08-07
ARMY ORDERS

Brig. Gen. George H. Estes, Col. Fitz-
hugh Lee, Cavalry; Col. William L.
Reed, Infantry; Col Thomas S. Moor
man, Infantry, and Capt. John B. Dins-
more, judge advocate generals depart
ment, are appointed to meet at 4th
Corps Area headquarters to consider
classification cases.
Lieut.. Alexander A. Dobak, Infantry,
from Fort Howard. Md, September 8;
to Holabird QuartermaSter Motor Trans
port School, Baltimore.
Lieut.. Frank Clarence Hilberg Chem
ical Warfare Service Reserve, from
Washington to Massachusetts, Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, Mass, for
training effective August 27.
Maj. Thomas S. Pugh, finance depart
ment, will be retired october 81, on his
own application, after more than 80
years service.
Maj. Albert S. Peake, Infantry, from
Army War College. Washington, to
Georgia National Guard, Macon, Ga, as
instructor.
Lieut.. John B. Luscombe, Quarter
master Corps, from Philippine Depart
ment to Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyo
Capt. Fred w. Fallin, Quartermaster
Corps, from Philippine Department to
Fort George G. Meade, Md,
Maj. Hans r. w. Herwig, Quarter
master Corps, on temporary duty In
China, to Fort Bliss, Tex.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
POLICE AND FIREMEN
PLAN JOINT BALL
Auditorium Event September 5
Will Be First in Labor Day
Celebrations.

For the first time in the history Of
Washington's Labor day celebration,
police and firemen will hold a joint
ball at the Washington Auditorium on
the night of Monday, September S.
R. N. White, traffic officer, and chair
man of arrangements, said the dance
would be sponsored by the Police and
Fire Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Supt. of Police Pelham G. Glassford
will be asked to act as master of cere-
monies. Professional talent will be
hired, and the Overseas Band will sup
plement a well known dance orchestra
in furnishing music.
Efforts are being made by White and
others to have the awards Of trophies
in connection with the Labor day
parade made at the ball. Police will
march in the parade this year for the
first time, and, according to Traf1c
Of1cer James z. Bennett, q member
of the Parade Committee, many out
of-town police forces have signified
their intention Of coming here for the
celebration.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
DRY LINEUP WAITS
ON HOOVER'S TALK
Anti.SaIoon League Leader
to Define Stand After No
tification Speech.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Two days after President Hoover!
acceptance speech, the attitude Of the
Anti-Saloon League in the 1892 cam
paign will be discussed publicly for the
first time by r. Scott Mcbride, general
superintendent.
League officials said yesterday that
Mcbride will speak at Winona Lake
Ind, on Saturday, August Is. They ex.
pect him then to give an Interpretation
Of the prohibition issue as outlined ir
the party platforms and statements oi
the respective candidates.
While board action would be required
to put the league formally on record
McBride's utterances largely will sounc
the keynote for whatever position may
be taken officially.
Backed Hoover in 1928.
The league supported Mr.. Hoover In
1928. But since this years conventions
its public views have been confined tc
concurrence in two statements issued BY
the National Prohibition Board oi
Strategy analyzing the platforms and
records Of President Hoover and Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
During the presidency Of Mr.. Hoo
ver," one of the statements said, Fed
eral enforcement of the prohibition
laws has steadily advanced and has at
tained higher degree Of efficiency
than in any other period since the
adoption Of the eighteenth amend
ment."
DR.. Edwin C. Dinwiddie, executive
secretary of the Board of Strategy. has
said his group also may take more
pronounced stand between the parties
after the Hoover speech.
Meanwhile, he made public an analy-
sis of New York's wet and dry votes
during the past IL years, covering
presidential, gubernatorial and United
states senatorial elections.
Sees Mistakes by G. o. p.
1.-THE most significant fact about the
the sorry showing made by the Repub-
licans for the past IL years in almost
exact harmony with the weakness OF
the Republican nominees and the Re
publican Legislature" Dinwiddie's sum-
mary said.
League officials are looking further
ahead than the election. Both party
planks would have any new amend
ment submitted to State conventions
instead of Legislatures for ratification
Edward B. Dunford, league counsel, is
making an exhaustive legal study and
analysis Of this method Of ratification
one which never before has been tried
This question may end up in the
Supreme Court some day" Dunford
said today. Most every other consti-
tutional amendment. II ratified. has
gone there"
Evening star., 1932-08-07
Old Church Haven for Poor

RESIDENTS of the United States
no longer worship God In the
Metronolitan M. E Church, but
the barren walls of this famous
cid structure now shelter q
work which embodies the very eoSen0o
of christianity.
Across the floor where Gen. Grant
knelt in prayer more than hall cen
tury ago there now moves weary
acknowledgements Of men ana wom-
en- seeking food and place Oh smell
ter.
They are the city's pOor-white and
colored, old and young. They come
to The old church In their hour OF
need. and their appeals do not go un-
answered.
When the Government purchased the
property at John Marshall place ana
c street as part of its building pro-
gram, plans for razing the church were
made. The congregation decided 10
build a new church and the famous
relics in the old structure were re-
moved These include marble tiles
brought from the debris OF Solomons s
Temple in Jerusalem and the pulpit
and alter rail made Of olive wood from
the Garden of Gethsemane and ceoar
from Mount Lebanon.
For some time the old church stood
empty, but last week the District Of
Columbia Committee on Unemployed
moved in and prepared to carry out
their relief program.
From the very beginning they were
deluged with appeals for aid. but the
work had been planned carefully and at
the end of the first five days more than
$500 applications had been received
and in a large measure answered.
Appeals we're received with very real
consideration for the feelings OF those
who had been forced to make them.
Chairman Leroy A. Halbert and his
principal assistant, Mrs. Florence HUFF,
know that many of these people ask for
and they believe in treating them with
every consideration.
One woman-stark agony in her eyes
pushed through the throng and up to
an incredibly busy clerk. She spoke
in a strained but cultured voice, MY
baby" she said, sis dying. am in
desperate need" The clerk dropped
her other work and it was but matter
of minutes before that mother was leav-
ing. her most pressing needs supplied
quietly and with human sympathy.
At one table sat an aged colored man
in tattered overalls. He was filling
out an application blank. The slender
pencil looked incongruous in his huge,
work-scarred hands. Slowly and la
boriously he filled out the answers.
When he was finally through his appn
cation was read and stamped "emer-
gency." His relief will come quickly,
for his need was acute.
One woman was there who had been
employed as a seamstress in local de-
partment store for 13 years following
the death of her husband. Two weeks
ago she was laid off. She Is destitute
Evening star., 1932-08-07
Marine Corps Orders

The following changes are announced:
Mai. Wilbur Thing, detached, First
Brigade, Haiti, to Paris Island, S. G,
via the September trip Of the U. S. S,
Kittery.
Mai. Raymond R. Wright, detailed as
assistant paymaster, effective october l.
First Lieut. william H. Hollingsworth'
August Is, detached, Washington, D. c.,
to Paris Island, S. c.
First Lieut. Orin H Wheeler, August
1s, detached, Wakefield, Mass, TO Guam
tico. Va, to report not later than Au-
gust %.
First Lieut.. Francis B. LOOMS, jr.
detached, air squadrons, San Diego
Calf, to Naval Operating Base, Sar
Diego, Calf.
The following named officers have
been promoted to the grades indicated
Lieutenant colonel, Ross E. Rowell
captain, Raymond T. Prosnen, James d
waller and Clifford Prichard; first lieu
tenau3, Raymond E. Hopper and Rranci
h Goomis. jr.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
TWO-YEAR SEARCH
FOR JUDGE FUTILE
Second Anniversary Of Dis.
appearance of Crater Marked
by Absence of Clues.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 6.-Two years
ago tonight, at $50 o'clock, a man who
had just attained his life ambition
stepped into a taxicab in the theatrical
district, waved to friends on the side
walk, and rode off into oblivion.
Neither cab, driver, nor passenger
has been traced since.
Although a fortune has been spent
on the search and some of the country S
shrewdest brains have taken part in it,
police admitted tonight the case was
just as much a mystery as it was two
years ago.
The man was Joseph Force Crater, a
justice Of the Supreme Court. His ap-
pointment to the bench by Gov. RooSe-
welt a few months before had marked
the fulhllment of his ambition; he was
inordinately proud of his appointment
and looked forward to full l4-year
term.
No Motive Found.
Careful, painstaking investigation has
failed to disclose motive for his dis
appearance, or whether it was volun-
tary or by force. The trail long since
has grown cold, but Capt. John Ayres,
FClCl oil OAllC1 VA I14C AAAAcSohAb PSAOSAAS
bureau, said the search goes on.
In all my IS years in charge of this
work" he admitted, II have never
known of more battling case.
Consider the facts. Here was an
outlander who came to New York, be-
came active in Democratic politics, and
by sheer force Of character rose to q
position of distinction among lawyers
and was selected for preferment by
political leaders. His ambition in life
was to go on the bench Of the Supreme
Court. He repeatedly said that was
the highest honor that lawyer could
desire. Then, after he had been ap-
pointed to the Supreme Court by the
Governor, and had been assured OF
denomination, he suddenly disappears
There is no obvious motive for his de-
parture, not even a near obvious
motive"
Wife Losing Hope.
Crater's wife, Mrs. Stella Wheeler
Crater, is losing hope that she will
ever again see him again. She has beer
appointed administrative of his affairs
and for eight months has been paying
off debts and collecting what was due
| him At present she Is at their Sum-
mer home in Maine.
Curiously, Crater's name still Is LISTED
| in the Manhattan telephone directory
The law firm where he formerly hac
Offices explained the telephone COM
pany merely had neglected to change
the listing, and denied the circumstance
| had any significance.
On August 6, 1880, Judge Crater
spent the morning in his chambers al
the court house, putting his papers ir
order. He sent his attendant out tc
| cash checks for $500. That evening
! he bought one ticket for musical SHOW
and dined with friends at a grill. Ther
! he got into the taxicab and there thu
| trail ends 1t has not even been de-
termined whether he used the theatel
| ticket.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
TWO KILLED BY PLANE

LOUISVILLE, KY, August 6 (P.-
An Army Reserve officer and his stu
dent pilot were instantly killed late
today when their plane went into a
220-foot nose dive and crashed near
Bowman Field.
The dead are Lieut.. Earl c. Gibson,
%, Kenton, Ohio, a Reserve ofhcer OF
the 325th Observation Squadron, Army
Air Corps. and Sherley Pope Monroe
23. of Lebanon Junction, KY, a civil
engineer for the Kentucky highway de-
DArtnef1t
Evening star., 1932-08-07
CONTEST IS OFFERED
IN TENNESSEE VOTE
McAllister Charges Gel. Luke Lea
With Authorship Of Re-
count Threat.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, August 6--Jin
McAlister, State treasurer, who led the
field In the Democratic race for Gov"
ernor in Thursdays primary, issued q
formal statement today charging that
threats Of a contest originated in the
fertile brain" of Col. Luke Lea.
Previously Sam Csrmack, campaign
manager for Lewis S. Pope, a close sec
ond to McAlister in unofficial returns
had said Pope would present charges
Of fraud to the State Primary Board
when it meets here August "a to certl1y
nominations and would ask that the
board throw out the vote in all pre-
cincts tainted with this revolving
fraud"
McAlister's statement said that Mall
colin r. Patterson of Memphis, who
finished third in the race, had been
deliberately betrayed" by Lea. Pat
terson yesterday said he would support
Pope in a contest.
II am not in the least disturbed and
shall not be intimidated by Luke Leas
threats to contest Democratic nomi-
naticn which 1 have fairly and hon.
estly wen" McAlister said.
The statement claimed a plurality
over Pope of approximately 10000 and
one Of more than $4,000 over Patterson.
Guatemala expects to sell more Of
its higher grade 1882 coffee in the
kak1 F1,-
Evening star., 1932-08-07
5000 VETERANS PARADE

EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, August
R).-Praise for members Of the Amer
ican Legion, who built citizenship for
our people and have come back home
to do the same in times of peace" wa;
expressed today by John A. Eden OF
Cleveland. past Ohio commander, be-
fore the Tri-State Reunion OF Legion
naires from Ohio. Pennsylvania and
West Virginia.
Gov. George White tonight reviewed
n narade of S nnn veterans.
Evening star., 1932-08-07

abusing the prisoners is Mack Hines,
the other a guard named Floyd, 'lied
to me" about the way Hines acted,
Mayo added, and he, too, was ousted.
In addition, Guard L. Stewart, who
was accused in the shooting of J. J.
Dennison, a prisoner from Philadelphia
resigned during the investigation as did
a guard named Gafford
Evening star., 1932-08-07
Virginian Found Dead.

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va, August 6
G,.-Robert L. Carter, deputy con-
stable and for 40 years a Charlottes-
vile business man, was found dead in
the bath room of his home here yester-
day. The coroners verdict attributed
his death either TO heart failure or a
fractured skull received when he slipped
in the bathtub.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
PRISON GUARDS 0USTED
FOR BEATING C0NVICTS
Others in Florida Service Resign
as Investigation of Abuse Is
Carried On.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, August up.
Dismissal of two prison guards. one
for beating and cursing convicts and
the other for falsifying about attacks,
was announced today by Nathan Mayo.
head of the Florida Prison Bureau.
The dismissals came with far
flung investigation of deaths and
stories of cruelty in State Penal Camps
that started soon after Arthur Maille-
fert. youthful convict from Westfleld,
N. j., was found strangled in sweat
box" with q chain harneSsing his neck
and his feet bound in stocks.
Mayo said the guard dismissed for
Evening star., 1932-08-07
Murder Suspect Released.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, August 6 tP1.-
Joseph Stevens, Buffalo N. Y, was re-
leased today by police after being ques-
toned in connection with the recent
killing here of Abe Wagner, New York
bootlegger, and AL Gordon, former
convict.
Evening star., 1932-08-07

Guatemala expects to sell more OF
its higher grade 1882 coffee in the
United States than for several years.
Evening star., 1932-08-07

- RESIDENTS of the United States
no longer worship God in the
Metropolitan M. E. Church, out
the barren walls Of this famous