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The Washington times., 1932-06-17
HOPES REVIVED
FORLOST ACE
Staff Photo

MANILA, P. l., June II (N.SJ.
That a mysterious figure seen
signaling from the remote Yami
Pagan Island in the northern
Philippines may have been Glenn
Brophy, English airman who dis
appeared in March, 1881, while
en- route from Shanghai to
Manila, was the weird hope
raised here today.
The crew of a Japanese fish
ing boat was reported here to
have sighted a man and a dog
on the isolated Island Of Yami,
north of the Batanes group.
Brophy's only companion when
he disappeared, was a pup.
The report was relayed here
from the Batanes constabulary.
The fishermen feared to go
ashore, however, because Of the
strong currents and the savages
on the island.
The Washington times., 1932-06-17
POOL IN FOX
STOCK NETS
Sl,90O,00O
John J. Raskob and Other
Big Operators Linked in
Short Syndicate

A charge that William Fox,
John j. Raskob, chairman of
the Democratic national COM
mittee, Walter P. Chrysler and
other prominent financiers re-
ceived $1,9O0,OOO in profits
during April, 1929, through a
short pool in Fox Film stocks,
was made today before the
Senate Banking and Currency
Committee, investigating mar
ket speculation.
According to William A. Gray,
special counsel for the commit
tee, this transaction was han
died by Michael j. Meehan &
Co.. New York brokers. Gray
said:
AMOUNTS PUT UP
"RaskOb took $75O,OOO, Mrs.
Elizabeth Nee chan $25O,OOO,
Bradford Ellsworth $25O,OOO,
Walter P. ChrysIer S75O,OOO,
william Fox $75O,OGO, William F.
Kenney S75O,OOO, Joseph E. Hig:
gins $780, 900, and Nicholas F.
Brady $75O,OOO.
Gray explained the foregoing
figures are the liabilities the
members of the pool pledged
themselves, adding:
Michael J. Meehan was paid
S215,OOO in managing fees, Els
worth was paid $25,OOO for
some reason not known. Net
profits were $1,9OO,OOO.
Gave Away Bonuses
This was only one of numerous
bear pool operations in which
Fox participated, Gray declared,
adding:
"FOx was paid $15.OOO,OOO by
Harley Clark for his B stocks
in Fox Film and Fox TheaterS.
His council was given $1,OOO,OOO
and friends and associates got
big bonuses. Fox has been un-
der contract to receive $5OO,OOO
salary annually since $780,"
Fox paid nearly $1,000,000 to
New York brokerage firm for
doing nothing" Gray charged.
He declared Fox ISSUED Fox film
stock as he pleased and used it
as he pleased"
According to Gray. the broker
age firm of Hayden-Stone was
paid $375,000 as commission "for
doing nothing" by acting as
agents in the sale of 125,00O
shares of Fox film in 1925. He
continued:
"At the same time Hayden
Stone started a short sale of
Fox film, notwithstanding
they had a contract with the
underwriters. The total amount
paid to Hayden-StOne was
nearly $1,000, ,OOO."
Illness, developed overnight.
prevented Fox from appearing
before the committee today.
The Washington times., 1932-06-17
c. 0. P S|DETRACkS WET ISSUE
Blast
Kills 13 In
Montreal

MONTREAL, Quebec, June II
0N.SD-Thirteen persons killed.
IS missing, and So injured was
the toll taken today in a triple
explosion which wrecked the dry
dock of the Canadian Vickers
Company and the oil tanker
Cymbeline..
The known dead: aoul
Gauthier, director of the Montreal
fire department; Firemen F.. Hen
richon, H. Hamelin and L. de
Brienne; A. M. Mirleau and
James Wilson, Vickers employees;
four unidentified firemen apd
three unidentified Vickers en-
ployes.
District Fire Chief Lefort is
dying of burns in Notre Dame
Hospital.
At least Is bodies, including
that of the fire director. are
buried under the burning debris
between the smashed wall of the
dry dock and the twisted steel
sides of the ship.
Many persons in the hospitals
are so severely burned they are
not expected to live.
The Washington times., 1932-06-17
DRY LAW DYING,
SAYS BINGHAM

CHICAGO, June II QN.S),
The twilight of prohibition is here
and within two years the Eight,
eenth Amendment will be re,
pealed outright, Senator Hiram
Bingham of Connecticut, who led
the wet fight in the Republican
national convention, declared to-
day.
Before entraining for Washing.
ton to continue his efforts for
outright repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment and modification of
the Volstead law, Bingham said:
"The next election will return
a wet majority in the House.
The Senate will have a wet ma
jOrity within two years without
a question. Then we shall have
outright repeal"
Although opposed to the vague,
ness of the Administrations
modification plank and the fact
it declares against repeal, Bing.
ham said he was gratified with
the results achieved at the con-
vention for a change in the exist
ing prohibition law.
The Washington times., 1932-06-17
BOTH HOOVER
AND CURTIS
AVOID It
Stump Speakers to Keep
Strictly to Other
Subjects
By GEORGE R. HOLMES

CHICAGO, June II (I.N.S0,
The Republicans went home to-
day to face the campaign
probably the hardest they have
confronted since the gre t
sehism of 1912. =
They renominated Hoover
and Curtis and selected Everett
Sanders Of Indiana to re-elect
them, but a great many Of them
returned to home ties with
deep misgivings in their hearts.
The drys went home to explain
to dry constituencies how it
happened that Mr.. Hoover and
Mr.. Curtis are wetter in 1882
than they we're in 1928. The vets
are going to have to explain
to their friends why the plat
form. adopted here stopped short
of recommending actual repeal
of the amendment.
Scars Are Souvenirs
Despite the unanimity with
which the nominations were
finally accomplished, this con-
vention left some scars-partic-
ularly with regard to prohibition.
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler,
the scholarly president of Colum-
bia University, and Senator Hiram
Bingham of Connecticut, who
went down the line for a frank
repeal plank in the platform. still
maintained stoutly they didn't
know what the prohibition plank
finally adopted meant.
A good many of the delegates
were equally at sea. They read
and re-read the language, with
one eye on the explanations they
will have to make later.
To the vets, it is "a straddle";;
to the drys it represents a con.
cession that something is wrong
with prohibition, and a tacit
admission that something is
going to have to be done about
it. So constituted, it pleased
neither group, although there
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
The Washington times., 1932-06-17
Mayor BGLks Plan
Of "Fatty" to Wed

ALBANY, N. Y, June II Q.N.S0
Roscoe CFatty') Arbuckle, whose
plans for being married here last
night went astray when Mayor
Thatcher declined to officate. to-
day said that he and the leading
lady of his vaudeville sketch. Ad-
die McPhaill, will wed in Cleve-
land next Wednesday,.
Thatcher said he refused to per
FORM this ceremony because he
considers marriage too solemn a
matter to be ballyhooed.
The Washington times., 1932-06-17
100 POLICE
ALERT FOR
UPRISING
ON PLAZA
Sudden Siege Inspired by
Orders of Commander
George Waters

Developments moved swift
and fast today in hte siege Of
Washington by the Bonus Ex-
peditionary Force. They in
cluded the following:
I Four thousand veterans con.
l. verged on the Capitol today
from every camp in Washington,
to be on hand for the Senate vote
on the bonus. The halls sWarmed
with them and thousands camped
in the plaza.
3 Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glass
n ford, superintendent of police,
went in person to the Capitol,
and the police guard there was
increased from 35 to more than
100 mn.
. Comdr. w. w. Waters, of the
- B. E. F., urged every veteran
here to go to the Capitol, if not
otherwise engaged, but to remain
orderly under all circumstances.
A Senator Smith w. Brookhart
# CRD of Iowa, Representative
Thomas L. Blanton CD of Texas
and other advocates of the bonus
spoke to the men outside the
Capitol. and received ovations.
2 Announcement was made by
- Senator Elmer Thomas CD
Of Oklahoma that if* the bonus
bill fails, he will introduce amend
ments to provide prompt aid to
the needy, and to have the bonus
handled by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation.
e Check-up of veterans in camp
u here gave their number as
22,581, with 365 trucks and auto
mobiles on the way. in addition
to a W0t coast delegation Of
1000 or more. Six men were sent
home today to recruit new forces.
y George Altman, deposed billet
ing officer. was to be given
a hearing by the veterans execu-
tive committee this afternoon on
the matter of his run-in with
Capt. William G. Stott, Of the
police. He demanded a military
trial of the B. E. F., but this his
companions denied.
O Establishment of a hospital
Q for veterans at Fort Hunt,
completion of plans for a post
office near their headquarters in
Eleventh Street S. W., and an
nouncement of General Glass
The Washington times., 1932-06-17
Chaplin Back, Ready
To Make NeIU Picture

HOLLYWOOD, June 17GIN.SO
After a 16-month trip around the
world, Charles Chaplin, film
comedian, was back in Hollywood
today ready to start production
within six weeks on a new pic
ture. which will be silent" He
said:
my screen character is fam
Gus In PantOmine, so why should
talk? I'll never make a taIkie,"
The Washington times., 1932-06-17

sThey nominated hoover DuC AFTER
tough fight.
Eighteen thousand out of nineteen thou
sand yelled for repeal Wednesday night,
but the one thousand had votes.
Curtis beat three good men, all of 'em.
MacNider is especially promising young
fellow. But he's got plenty of time.
Wednesday night was real session. Tt
sounded like something, but that's be.
|cause there were 10000 Democrats in the
galleries.
Democracy and the right of free speech
that you hear so much about had a set
back yesterday. Elk Senator France
wanted to withdraw his own name and
propose the name of Calvin Coolidge for
President.
Well, that machine lust bundled him
The Washington times., 1932-06-17
Check, Safety Box
Tax Begins June II

Banks and trust companies
must start the collection of the 2
cent tax on checks, drafts, or
other orders for the payment of
money on June 81, Commissioner
of Internal Revenue David Burnet
announced today. The tax of 10
per cent on safety deposit boxes
also starts June 81.
The Washington times., 1932-06-17
Hoover and Curtis
Pose for Pictures

President Hoover and Vice
President Curtis had their pic
lures taken today on the White
House lawn.
Both we're Swamped with tele-
grams following their nomina-
ton for reelection. The White
House said Mr.. Hoover'S tele-
grams would not be made public.
The Washington times., 1932-06-17
FrUStrGte
AmbGsh of Miners

ATHENS, Ohio, June II GN.S0
An apparently planned attack
upon miners going to work in the
Ohio and Pennsylvania coal mine
here was frustrated today when
200 alleged strikers were routed
from a woods near the mine by
soldiers menacing automatic ri
files,
The Washington times., 1932-06-17
I8 Firen1en Injured
In S2OO.OOO Blaze

ERIE, Pa. June IT G.N.S0.
Fire that swept through the State
Street block in the downtown
business district. sending 18 fire
men to hospitals and necessitat-
ing firSt-aid measures for 80
more, was brought under control
early today.
Loss was estimated at 100000.
The Washington times., 1932-06-17
THE WEATHER

Partly cloudy and . slightly
cooler tonight; Saturday fair;
gentle west and northwest
winds.
Temperature yester lay
Highest, 81; lowest, 66. (l931'
Highest, 80; lowest, 63.)
Humidity yesterday-Highest,
"a; lowest, 81.
Full Weather Report on Page 8.
The Washington times., 1932-06-17
G. D. P. Platform offers No
Drinks; Says Rogers
Only Arguments
By WILL ROGERS

CHICAGO June 17.-Wel the old Republican convention of
1882 into either history the ashcan at $3.50 yesterday
afternoon.
And say, saved my Injun Charley Curtis for the vice
presidency.
So it's the old vaudeville team of Hoover and Curtis
The Washington times., 1932-06-17

right up and threw him into the alley
That the real sensation of the convention The only
you could have got Calvin Coolidge before that convention
would have been to have it under assumed
During all the rawlings of the accomplishments Repub-
can party not mention made of Coolidge
when Smell and his Srongarm stopped France and bodily
threw him off, there possible Cabinet job be
high for them.
Continued . PGss 10. COL -
The Washington times., 1932-06-17
(Continued on Page 2, Col. y
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance as of June IS,
1864, ,485 ,055 90; expenditures, So
664, ,886.28; customs receipts, 3d.
905, 1886.
Evening star., 1932-02-15

There will also be very Illuminating 32-page Magazine
Section including such articles who Carries the
Name of Washington' ''Washngton to Gandhi-2OO
Years.; Colonial Atmosphere Mount Nernon
birth Night Balls at Old Gadsby's Tavern; George
Washington as Sodier' and many other fascinating
topics all brilliantly written for this
Evening star., 1932-02-15

Indies until the acts Of Parliament
blockading the port of Boston should
be repealed In ITS he was a member
of the Maryland Convention and a
signer of the Association of the Free
men of Maryland approving the use OF
arms to repel British troops. For a
time he was chairman of the Commit
tee of Observation, first of all Fred
erick County, subsequently of the Mid
die District. He also was treasurer OF
Frederick County and held other local
offices. He was active in the enlistment
of two companies of rif1emen to join
Washington at Cambridge. These men
marched $50 miles in less than % days
and were the first troops from the South
to arrive in New England.
Elected by the Maryland Assembly a
delegate to the Continental Congress.
he took his seat on June IA, 1780. AT
this time the Maryland delegates were
alCne in refusing to ratity the Articles
| Of Confederation. They had instruc-
tions not to ratify until Virginia and
other States had relinquished their
claims to the unsettled territory eX-
| tending westward to the Mississippi
| River John Hanson and his colleague
! Daniel Carroll labored successfully for
! this REIMBURSEMENT. The ratification
of the Articles of Confederation was
completed March /, 178l."
On November 5, 1881, Hanson. ac-
| cording to some authorities, was elect
ed president OF the Congress of the
Confederacy";; according to others,
President of the United States in
| Congress assembled: according to still
others. president of the Continental
Congress" 1t is probably upon the
second of these descriptive titles that
! his followers base their claims for him.
The Encyclopedia Britannica says:
| Because he was the first President
under the Articles of Confederation, he
Evening star., 1932-02-15

the limited circles of their personal in
fiuence Guides in the building say
they are but rarely asked for informa-
ton about him. If they are asked,
there is little enough that they can
tell.
Mysterious Figure.
Hanson is a somewhat mysterious
figure. Authorities disagree in their
reference to him. For example, the
date of his birth is a matter of debate.
Some writer's say that he came into the
world in IT'S, others say 1921. The
recently issued Dictionary of American
Biography prefers April 13. 1921. Most
reference works are content to mention
Charles County, Md, as his birthplace
The Biographical Directory of the
American Congress specifies: near Fort
Tobacco, Charles County. His parents
were Samuel and Elizabeth (Story)
Hanson
Some authorities claim that John was
eucated in England; others simply say
that he pursued an academic course.
Attaining manhood, he is supposed to
have engaged in agricultural pursuits, .
but he seems to have had little time for
anything but politics after 1857, in
which year he went to the Maryland
Assembly as representative of Charles
County. He remained in the Assembly
House and Senate-until 1779. when
he was elected a delegate to the first
Continental Congress.
Leader of Democrats.
About 1773 he had settled in Fred
erick County, then a frontier section
Of Maryland. There he had made HIM
self leader of his intensely Democratic
fellow settlers In 1774 he was chair
man of the Frederick County meeting
which passed resolutions to stop all
trade with Great Britain and the West
Evening star., 1932-02-15
SEEK RECOGNITION
FOR JOHN HANSON
Memorial Association Holds
He Was First President
of u. S.

Was George Washington the first or
only the second President of the United
States? The average American believes
that he was the first: a minority dis
sents from the average to the extent
of believing that he was but the sec
ond and that the first really was
John Hanson of Maryland.
The John Hanson Memorial ASsocia-
ton has recently been organized in
New York ito carry on the fight for
recognition of John Hanson as the
real first President of the United
States" Hal F. Lee. executive chief
OF the association. has issued state
ment declaring that: John Hanson
was elected first President on Novem-
Der ). 1881. That was the day the
first Constitution of the United States.
the Articles of Confederation, went
into effect, eight years before the cleo
ton of George Washington under the
second Constitution
Seek National Recognition.
Lee and his friends will campaign to
win national acknowledgment of the
claims of the President we forget"
The association they have founded was
originally planned by the late Sey-
mour WemySs Smith editor of the
Financial Digest, who devoted many
years of his life to research in prep
aration for a biography of his hero,
recently published.
According to Smith, John Adams
and others referred to Washington as
first President under the new Con-
stitution." and it was not until some
years after Washington's death that
it became general practice to say SIM
ply the first President"
Smith raI1e6 attention IN the fart
that Washington and Hanson were
friends. and insisted that recognition
of Hanson would not in any way
diminish WaShRgtOn's fame"
But the average American will ask:
who was Hanson? What did he do?'
1t is safe to suggest that not one per-
son in 10000 on the American conti
nent has ever heard his name.
Hansons effigy, with that of Charles
Carroll, stands in the Hall of Statuary
in the Capitol. Thousands of visitors
see it every year. But there is little
curiosity about the man. save such as
has been stimulated by his partisans in
Evening star., 1932-02-15

is sometimes referred to as the first
President of the United States al
though he had none of the powers of
the first President under the COnstitu-
tiOn."
Whatever his actual position, he was
leading character of his time He
represented the Congress as it's chair
man in presenting its thanks to Wash
ington for the victory at Yorktown.
But his health was uncertain, and
at the end of one year he resigned to
seek rest and quiet at the home of
nephew at OXon Hill, Prince Georges
County, Md.
His life closes in mystery, like that
with which it began. The date of his
death is variously given in different
reference books. Some say November
%, 1888; some. November 81. He was
buried at OXOn Hill.
The John Hanson Memorial Associa-
ton. it would seem, has at least one
function: 1t may aid in restoring to
public memory the name of a man
who was a devoted patriot, and who,
whether first President of the United
States or not. is richly deserving of a
just share of the gratitude and ap-
probation of his country.
Evening star., 1932-02-15

first swallow-I began to get better.
The soreness in my head, nose and
throat disappeared-and very soon l
stopped coughing altogether. Smith
Brothers is great stuff for coughs
and colds all right" J. V. Ahlquist,
Rockford, Ill.
Evening star., 1932-02-15

Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey. the
famous American institution, educates
TOO boys from 20 different nationalities
Turk, Greek. Bulgarian, Persian,
Syrian, Rumanian, Serb, Russian, Ar
menian and all the tribes from the
Caspian to the Mediterranean. Chris
tian and Moslem live here side by side
in perfect amity and all use English
as their common speech.
Evening star., 1932-02-15
COP CURBS COUGH
Gets quick relief thru
Triple Action

During arecent
blizzard l caught a
beauty. What a
cough! l was mis-
cradle. The drug
gist on my beat
gave me a bottle
of Smith Brothers
Cough Syrup. In
less than no time
in foot oftor tho
Evening star., 1932-02-15
184,757 POOR AIDED
New York City Committee Reports
Spending $825,284.

NEW YORK, February IS (P).-The
mayors official committee yesterday
reported a total disbursement of 1925
28487 for unemployment relief from
November l to January 81.
James F. Higgins, executive secre-
tary, said total of 40,015 families, or
l84,757 persons, had been aided since
November.
Evening star., 1932-02-15
AWFUL GAS WON'T LET
HIM EAT OR SLEEP

Stomach gas crowded my heart.
Was restless at night. Ate only milk
and crackers Adlerika helped. Sleep
good now, nervousness gone. H.
Cassidy.
Adlerika brings out poison which
you never thought was in your sys-
tenn. If you are nervous, can't sleep
and full of gas, it will surprise you.
Get Adlerika today; by tomorrow
you feel the wonderful effect of this
German doctors remedy. Peoples
Drug Stores.-Advertise
Evening star., 1932-02-15

Great Britain's latest pocket" subma-
rine, Sturgeon, was launched recently
Evening star., 1932-02-15
WASHINGTON

magnificent collection in Is pages that is be pre-
served souvenir OF the Bcentennia Included
full page reproduction OF the Gilbert Stuart portrait of
Washington; unusual collection of historical places
surrounding Virginia and Maryland: interesting old
photographs and views of early Washington and many
other memorable reproductions in this
Evening star., 1932-02-15

.. He milI take a,rhy all Of your
laundering WOrries fOreuer
giring You hours more OF freedom
each ,ueek trith the assurance
that euen your daintiest, frailest
personal things are SAFE -. that
they'll come back to you ON
TIM E-a II SCIENTIFICALLY
CLEAN and freshly fragrant.
Phone Potomac OO4O NOW!
Evening star., 1932-09-10
AUTOMOBILE TRADE
IN HOPEFUL MOOD
Executives Relying Upon Re.
placement Demand for
Increase in Sales.
BY DAVID J. WILKIE.


DETROIT. September 10.-Proceedinc
IN low gear, the automobile industry Is
picking It's way along with it believes
70 pc tne last stretch of the bumpy road
IL mas Travelled for many months. with
all the curtailments of production. oner-
atlng economies and the reduction of
factory inventories that the last two
years or more have brought, the indus
try has not endangered its future nro-
auction capacity in any way.
Relerrlng to the manufacturing econ
om1es that have been effected. plant
executives explain they have been the
result mainly Of the elimination of
much duplication Of effort, a more
practicable distribution of assembly on
erations and generally of the discard
ing OF many practices that grew up
with the flush times of 1929. So far as
practical facilities are concerned. they
say, none have been eliminated that
are essential to meeting an expected
upward trend in demand.
In 1929 the motor car industry turned
out more than 5,60o,000 cars and trucks.
Although this was far in excess Of the
markets capacity to absorb. the pro-
ducing division was inventoried at the
time to turn out probably twice as many
vehicles had there been occasion for
such activity
The industry, if the opinion of many
OF its leading authorities correctly ap-
praises the prospects, will have no coca
sion for many years to produce $780,
600 cars again. At the time this figure
was reached the industry already was
on the edge Of the period In its history
where replacement alone had to be re-
lied upon for its market.
Sales executives generally concede
that replacement must furnish most of
the future demand for the industry's
product. They are disposed to believe,
however. that once the fear complex"
has been shaken off by the potential
consumer, they may reasonably expect
more than normal replacement de-
mand to develop for some time
These executives, although they ad-
NIT their predictions regarding stored
up buying power" went awry on pre-
vious occasions, are depending heavily
upon this delayed buying to restore ap-
proximately normal activity to the in
dustry. Just how large a volume of
distribution will be considered normal
is the subject of no little conjecture in
trade circles.