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Evening star., 1932-02-26
'BEARRA|DERS' FACE
CALL BY SENATORS
Banking Committee Expected
to Question New Workers
on Short Selling.

BY the Associated Press.
President Hoover was informed to-
day the Senate Banking Committee in
tends to call in several New York bear
raiders" for its hearings, beginning to-
morrow, on short selling.
Senator Walcott, Republican, of Con-
necticut said after a conference with
the President that they had discussed
short selling He declined, however to
name those who would be called to
testify.
Walcott said he had gone over the
list with the President.
President Watches Trend.
The President has kept close track
of the effect of bear raiding upon gen.
eral market prices and has kept up to
date in his office large chart of short
selling ramifications. ...
1t was stated in usually authorita
tive quarter recently that the President
has obtained the names of a group
of bear raiders, but was refraining from
publication because he had received
them in confidence.
Sees Danger to Market.
Meanwhile, Peter Carey, president Of
the Chicago Board Of Trade, told the
House Agriculture Committee it might
just as we'll close the country's grain
markets as give the Secretary of Agri-
culture power to stop short selling. He
said there had been no abuses. Millers
~ nf rrofV tF0d q lCn
before the House committee opposing
restrictions on commodity future trad
ing.
The committee is considering legis-
lation to give the Agriculture Secretary
this restrictive authority.
Asked about President Hoover'S state
ment last June that few traders were
driving the wheat market down, Carey
said:
II came to see the President and after
talking to him he said nothing in his
message to Congress about short selling.
He said he had charts and graphs and
we asked him for them, but have never
seen them yet"
Questioned About President.
did you get any information on
why the President issued this state
ment?" Chairman Jones asked.
No" Carey replied, "and have had
none since"
Jones asked if Carey thought the
Presidents statement had been politi-
cal, but Representative Clark, Republic
an, New York, objected and the ques-
ton was not pressed.
Personally" Carey said, IT think
giving the Farm Board $500, 1000 900 and
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1932-02-26
Chinese Surprise
Movement DriUes
Enemy Force Back
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI Saturday, February
27-In a slashing counter attack just
after midnight the Chinese army drove
the enemy out of the Miaochangchen
sector this morning and held on against
desultory machine gun fire.
I'VE can't claim any great gain" said
Gen. Tsai TingKai in an early morn
ing communiQue, "but we have sue
ceeded in ousting the Japanese from
the Miaochangchen sector during
counter attack. The outcome of Fri
days fighting was more than graft
flying"
When the fury of the attack had
spent itself the sector subsidized into
relative quiet and on the Chapel front
there were only occasional outburstS
of artillery and rife fire as scouting
parties stalked each other in no mans
land.
Chinese Hold Kiangwan.
On the Kiangwan front, where the
japanese have threatened to bomb
them out or starve them out" the be-
leaguered Chinese we're holding the
town against the greater part Of the
attacking army.
Yesterdays advance swung the jap
anese line around the walled village,
but volleys of rifle and machine gun
fire spiked an effort to close the bottle
neck west of the town through which
the defenders were receiving food and
ammunition.
The japanese themselves confessed
that there was not the slightest indica-
tion that the defense had weakened
under the mercileSs pounding of the
past week, but they said it was only
a matter of time before the ancient
walls would crumble under the persist
ent bombing from the air and shelling
from artillery.
Japanese troops, advancing against
machine gun fire, surrounded Kiang-
wan a few minutes before midnight.
The spokesman said the japanese
losses in the past "a hours of heavy
fighting were 120 killed and wounded.
Artillery Moved Up.
Fresh Japanese troops began bring
ing up various additional light artillery
equipment suitable for the low damp
terrain networked by canals. This
swampy ground has seriously handi-
capped the japanese in bringing up
equipment, including airplanes, which
lldNC UCGIl Cl1CGb1NC I1IdAA I4AC
artillery in blasting out Chinese ma
chine gun nests and the Chinese sup
port trenches.
The Japanese, it was understood, will
launch a big drive in the Kiangwan
area. to push in wedge. They hoped
to separate the Chinese forces definitely
by flanking the Chinese in the
the Kiangwan area and definitely cut
the Woosung end of the front from the
Chapel end
Heretofore the japanese strategy has
been to cut the line and swing double
gate, one end hung on Woosung and
the other on Chapel
May Try Flank Drives.
Now the strategy appears to be either
to bottle up both Chapel and WooSung
by various flanking movements or
finally by sheer force to compel gen.
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1932-02-26
HOUSE ASSURES RIGHT OF WAY
TO Sl32,5OO,OOO RELIEF BILL
Garner to Sidetrack All Other Legislation Tomorrow to
Permit Quick Action Measure.

to the committee The bill provides
that the emergency fund be repaid over
a period of 10 years beginning in 1888
from regular Federal-aid allotments.
Chairman Almon Of the Roads Com
unittee which previously reported the
measure, explained many States were
unable to draw Federal aid allotments
at present because of the $3.50 re-
quirement.
Warren told the Rules Committee
many of the States which had been
unable to take advantage of their regu-
lar Federal aid allotments would lose
them at the end Of a two-year period
and that the emergency measure would
not only aid employment, but the
States.
Representative Cotton Of Utah, rank
ing Republican on the Roads Commit
tee. said that while approximately 300,-
600 men would be. employed on the
roads, it would require twice that
many to transport and prepare mate
rials for the road construction, bringing
the total to approximately $l,000,000.
Representative Warren made public
today the Federal bureaus proposed al
lotments to each State under the $12O,-
100000 emergency road fund. They
included s1,0l5,2s6 for Maryland.
Evening star., 1932-02-26
GARNER DENOUNCES
HOOVER AS LEADING
NATION INTO PANIC
Speaker Makes Attack in
Conference With News
paper Men.
HURLEY SAYS RASKOB
ISLANDERS PRESIDENT
War Secretary Replies to Demo
cratic Chairman's Address in
Political War of Words.

Charges and counter charges followed
each other in quick succession today in
the political arena here.
Speaker Garner asserted President
Hoover had led us into the greatest
panic the country or world has ever
known"
Almost simultaneously a charge that
John j. Raskob chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, "and his as
sociates" were Slandering and misrep-
resentinr President Hoover was made
by Secretary of War Hurley in reply
ing to an address last night by the
Democratic chairman.
Garner, who is being pressed to be-
come an avowed candidate for the Dem
ocratic presidential nomination, made
the remark concerning Mr.. Hoover at
a conference with newspaper men this
morning.
Asked for Comment on Address.
He had been asked to comment on
the speech of Assistant Secretary OF
the Navy Jahncke, made last night at
Wooster, Ohio, in which the little cab
met" member said President Hoover's
leadership had made the Democrats
''just a little bit dizzy"
Referring to Mr. Hoover's request for
authority to create several assistant
secretaryshipS of departments, by way
of reorganizing the Government in the
interest of economy and efficiency,
Garner said "the President had better
keep the assistant secretaries he now
has at home.
They had better stay here and do
what they are supposed to do under the
law and not run around the country
making political speeches"
Hurley Flags Raskob.
Secretary Hurley said Raskob land
his associates" were not in position
to give the Presidents prohibition
views. The Hurley statement was made
in reply to a speech by RaSkob last
night in New York, in which the Demo-
cratic chairman said he had good in
formation that President Hoover will
run on a prohibition referendum plat
form If his party should adopt such a
platform" Newspaper men had asked
for comment.
Mr.. Raskob is in petition to speak
much more accurately of the amount
of money that he and his associates
have spent slandering and nisrepre-
senting the President Of the United
states than he is as to the Presidents
views on the eighteenth amendment"
the Secretary replied.
TT appears a little far-fetched for
the chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee to attempt to in
terpret the views of the President on
the subject"
Asked if he was speaking for the
Continued on Page 2, Column A.
Evening star., 1932-02-26
SANDING PREPARING
TO STORM U. S. TROOPS
Agent for Nicaraguan Rebel De-
clares Several Towns Have Been
Captured in New Uprising.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, February 26.-Dr
Pedro Jose zepeda, foreign representa-
tive Of Gen. Augustine Sandino,
Nicaraguan insurgent leader, said today
a force of Sandinistas, under Gen
Francisco Estrada, took possession of
Bella Vista, is miles from Chinandega,
Nicaragua, and were prepared to storm
the Chinandega garrison, which las
been reinforced by troops in command
of Capt. T. R. Hamblen, an American.
He said other Sandinista troops cap
tured Sauce and Villanueva.
zepeda said President Moncada Of
Nicaragua declared a state of siege
existing In the states of Chinandega
and Leon, and that complete censorship
over telegraph and telephone in these
provinces has been declared. He re-
ported the populace of Leon was highly
excited by the reported decision OF
Moncada to attempt to retain the
presidency two more years.
Zepeoa declared that at time when
the whole world was sympathizing with
China for attempting tc defend herself
against Japan, it was time for the
United States to clean her record" on
the American continent by ceasing i'm
perialisuc activities" in Nicaragua,
where withdrawal of American
Marines would be in keeping with the
Ideals expressed by the State Depart
ment In the Chinese situation.
Evening star., 1932-02-26
Chang Kai-Shek's Army Moves
Forward to Reinforce
Cantonese Troops.
JAPANESE PLANES DESTROY
CHINESE AIR BASES In RAIDS
Toxic Commander Sends Artillery Up
as Plan of Battle Is Changed, With
Woosung and Chapel Targets.
BY the Associated Press.

fighting Kiangwan sector tonight brought the
entire town
Kangwan where resistance left the Chinese control
The town surrounded but there indication that the
would better than they
their unsuccessful of the past several days
On the other fronts planes bombed Chinese airport
Hangchow reporting they Chinese
ships in their hangers shot plane in flames
ports from Moscow that the Soviet had demanded
explanation
Chinese Eastern Railway Moscow charged that the
being moved the Siberian frontier
Evening star., 1932-02-26
RE|CHSTAG REJECTS
DEBT REPUTATION
Defeats Communist Motion.
Bruening Wins Votes
of Confidence.
Rv the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, February 26.-By vote OF
368 to rs, the German Reichstag today
defeated a Communist motion to stop
all payment of tribute based on the
Versailles treaty and annul all private
debts to capitalistic countries"
Adolf Hitler's National Socialists, the
Nationalists and the Populists, all num-
bered among the opposition to Chancel-
lor Bruening, voted against the mo-
ton, but they said afterward they
would have accepted the first part of
the proposal had it been offered
separately.
In other words, they said, the defeat
of this motion does not mean that there
is in the Reichstag a majority favoring
continuation of reparations payments.
Bruening Wins Four Times.
This vote came after the government
had won by substantial majorities in a
series of votes.
Thereafter the House defeated Ma
ticnal Socialist motion to rescind Chan
cellor Bruening's emergencies DEGREES
for the duration of the presidential
campaign.
Thereupon the "Nazis" walked out
lot of them, their leaders shouting
this is monkey show"
Four times today the government
turned back the opposition in the
Reichstag, winning against success
sion of no-confidence motions.
The chancellor had majority OF 25
on a Communist motion declaring nom
confidence in the whole cabinet. There
were larger margins to defeat no-con-
ndence motions against two members
Of the cabinet, and Nationalist mo-
ton to dissolve the Reichstag lost by
II votes.
With these assaults disposed of, the
Reichstag set the date for the presi-
dental election at March 13 and provided
for a second ballet on April 10 in case
none of the candidates should receive a
clear majority on the first.
Marx Pleads for Peace.
Before the votes were taken there
was an impressive moment when VIII
helm Marx, who opposed President Won
1ulOGnUuIR
pleaded with the opposition to forget
their personal differences and emulate
the "chivalrous, honorable tactics OF
the campaign of seven years ago.
The confidence vote came as climax
Of four days Of debate on the presidential
election situation and gave. the govern
ment 10 more votes than it had expect
ed in predicting a victory for Bruening,
That prediction was based on 15-vote
margin.
The attempt to unseat the Bruening
government was on a combined motion
BY the Nazis of Adolf Hitler, the Ma
tionalists. the Populists and the Com
muniSts.
DIR. Curtius Absent.
DR.. julius Curtius, who is Popu-
list, declined to support his own party
in its attempt to unSeat the cabinet
and risked being read out of the party
by absenting himself The Vice Presi-
dent of the Reichstag, Siegfried Won
Kardorf also a Populist also declined
TO vote against the cabinet.
Evening star., 1932-02-26
Bandit Threatens
To Blow Up Bank;
Seizes SlO0 Bill
Note Presented to Teller
Says He Has Explosive
to Wreck Institution.

Threatening to blow up the Franklin
National Bank if teller did not turn
over all the money in his cash drawer
to him, colored man seized 500 bill,
when his demand was not complied
with, and escaped about noon today.
Police say the man entered the bank,
at Tenth and Pennsylvania avenue,
shortly before noon. He stood in the
lobby for about 20 minutes. and then
walked up to paying teller and pre-
sented a note. The note, in substance,
directed that all the money be turned
over to him or the bank would be blown
up
Il have enough nitroglycerin to blow
up the whole bank" the note read in
Continued on Page 2, Column D.
Evening star., 1932-02-26
HALF THE GIRLS AT BRYN MAWR
FAVOR COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE
Majority of Them Set Love Above Wealth and Prefer
Marriage Career.

edge of birth control and an acceptance
of divorce by mutual consent where
there are no children"
Love. the girls voted, is based on both
physical attraction and companion
ship, defined in the questionnaire as
mental, social and esthetic compat-
ibility." Thirty-two per cent favored
compatibility, while per cent insisted
on the physical attraction as loves
basis.
When it comes to children, the vote
showed the average 80 as the ideal
number envisioned by the Bryn Mawr
girls, although one individual answered
she would like 20 children, 10 boys and
10 girls. Sons are favored. the vote
resulting 81 boys TO I.s girls
Evening star., 1932-02-26
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, February 26.-Com-
panionate marriage is favored by more
than half of the Bryn Mawr College
girls comprising So per cent of the stu
dent body who answered a question.
naire on marriage.
Answers published yesterday in the
College News, weekly student publica-
ton, disclosed a majority of the girls
who filed in the blanks prefer marriage
to career, would marry against the
wishes of their families. and set love
above wealth, but demand their hus-
bands be socially eligible.
as legal marriage entered into with a
view to permanence, but with knowls
Evening star., 1932-02-26
Mrs. Coffin Dies
On Eve of a Visit
From Mrs. Hoover
Wife of Capitalist Expires
on Sea Island After
Heart Attack.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUNSWICK, Ga, February 26.-Mrs.
Howard E. Coffin, wife of the capitalist,
died at the home of her nephew, Arthur
w. Jones, on Sea Island, today following
a heart attack yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Coffin were personal
friends of President and Mrs. Hoover
and they had expected Mrs. Hoover for
a visit at their Sapelo Island estate
tomorrow.
Mr. and Mrs. Coffin formerly lived IN
Continued on Page 4, Column A.
Evening star., 1932-02-26
DOG" LABOR
BAN IS APPROvED
|Nss4el
Senate Votes to Outlaw Contracts
Which Prohibit Member
ship in Unions.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate voted today to outlaw the
so-called yellow dog" labor contract.
Without a record vote. the Senate
retained the provision of the Norris
anti-injunction bill denying leeak re-
course to parties to such cnIatrArts,
under which membership In iEbof
unions Is denied.
The action was taken shortlx after
the Senate had retained in the biff the
declaration of public policy supn0Ftirk
the right of labor to organize
Evening star., 1932-02-26
HITLER MADE A CITIZEN.
Becomes Councillor of Legation in
Berlin.

BERLIN, February 26 (P).-Adolf
Hitler, leader of the National Socialists,
was admitted to German citizenship
today by his acceptance of an appoint
ment as councillor to the Brunswick
legation in Berlin
Evening star., 1932-02-26
WORDS CAPTURE MEN

for Leap Year Use.
NEW YORK, February 26 (P.-Four
woxds of leap year advice for girls came
yesterday from DR.. Boris Sokoloff, the
Russian scientist
Any girl can marry any man in the
world" he said, IF she repeats very
often to him these four word: You
are %. wonderful
Evening star., 1932-02-26
70 FEARED DEAD IN RIVER

80 Rescued as Motor Launch Cap
sizes in India.
CALCUTTA, India, February 26 (F1.
Seventy persons were feared drowned
today as result of the capsizing in the
River Hooghly of motor launch carry
ing 100 factory workers.
Up to this afternoon only 80 had been
rescued alive.
Evening star., 1932-02-26
"FrOm Press to Home
Within an Hour"

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star., 1932-02-26
WEATHER.

~ 8 weather Bureau Forecast
Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much
change in temperature; minimum tenn
perature tonight about 38 degrees.
Temperatures-Highest 81, at noon
today; lowest, 35, at am. today.
Full report on page 9.
Evening star., 1932-02-26

Continued on Page 2, Column So
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-09-30
Rockville Jail Poll
Shows Roosevelt A
46 To l FavOrite

j. Lloyd Whip has been work
ing around the county Jail at
Rockville. In his spare moments
he conducted a poll of the At
prisoners confined in the Jail, of
whom SO are colored and IL
are white. All were asked to give
their reasons.
The results of the poll showed
Roosevelt to be favored by 46,
Hoover counting but one lone sup
porter. The Hoover adherent, sad
to say, will not be released in
time to vote.
One of the prisoners, charged
with entering a grocery store,
blamed his incarceration on the
present administration, claiming
he stole because he chad to eat"
Still another, slightly mixed in
his genealology, boosted that his
father had aft for old man
Roosevelt" Several others, World
War veterans, were sore at
Hoover because he had blocked the
bonus.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-09-30
Rockville And Gaithersburg Again
Sighted In Price OF Gasoline

Rockville, Gaithersburg and other
northern and western points in Mont
gomery County have again been dis
eliminated against by corporations
selling gasoline and motor oils. This
week the price of gasoline in the Dis
trict of Columbia and throughout SUI
burban Montgomery County as far
west as Montrose 1.-TWO miles east Of
Rockville) dropped 3.2 cents per gal
lon. At the same time dealers in Rock
vile, Gaithersburg and other towns in
the county were permitted cut Of
only 2.2 cents per gallon.
Several weeks ago many of the
dealers in these towns agreed with
the distributors to accept decrease
Of one cent in their profits in order to
sell gasoline at D. C. prices. Having
secured the signatures of these deal
ers to contract whereby the latter
accepted the one-cent cut in profit.
prices were lowered over night and
many of the dealers were left with a
large supply Of gasoline in their tanks
for which they must take further
cut in order to meet the new rates.
1t now behooves the dealers of Rock
vile and Gaithersburg to take this
additional cut of one cent in order to
offer gasoline at Washington and SUI
burban Montgomery County rates.
This means total loss in profits of
two cents for these harassed dealers
who generously meet the public pat
ronage more than halfway.
The Sentinel believes that this prac-
! tice of big corporations is manifestly
unfair. We believe that great num-
Der of gasoline consumers in the ter
ritory Disseminated against are get
ting a raw deal. We believe that the
dealer in Rockville and Gaithersburg
is being unjustly treated. We believe
that the spirit Of the antitrust laws
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-09-30
County Woman Shot
By Negro Farmland
N ear LaytOnsville
Assailant Claims He MistOok
Victim For Intruding
Chicken Thief

A 29-year-old woman, Mrs. Bertha
Count was seriously wounded Wednes
day night by a negro farmland on the
farm of L. R. Sabine, near Laytons-
vile, as she returned from an or
chard near the Sabine house.
Kirby Brent, the negro, told Coun-
ty Officers Paul Watkins and John
Butt that he mistook the girl for a
chicken thief in the fading light of
early evening. Police said there was
no chicken house near the scene of
the shooting. The story is being in
vestigated by the Rockville police
who are holding the assailant.
Mrs. Count was taken to the Mont
County General Hospital
where her condition was reported i'm
proved yesterday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-09-30
Damascus Citizens
Discuss Lowering
OF Electric Rate
Association Also Takes Up
Traffic Situation In First
Meet OF Season

A meeting of the Damascus Citizens
Association was held in the school
auditorium on Monday night. The
meeting was conducted by the presi-
dent, A. W. Souder.
E. Guy Jewell, on request of the
president, presented a resume of the
September meeting of the Montgom-
cry County Civic Federation, of which
this association is a member.
County Commissioner Sherwood
Duvall was requested to confer With
Mr., Reynolds relative to the placing
of walk to Left" signs on road be-
tween school and Damascus corner.
Mr.. Woodfeld, reporting for the
committee on Public Utilities stated
that the matter of effecting an enlarge
ment of the Damascus Telephone Ex-
change had not been pushed during
the summer, but that it would receive
the attention of the committee this
month.
At the request of the chairman Of
the committee on Public Utilities,
Leslie Woodfeld reported the present
state of the effort to effect lowering
of rates by the Potomac Edison Com
pany, furnishing electricity to the
community.
The Public Utilities Committee was
authorized to write to the Public Ser
vice Commission endorsing the atti-
tude and activities of the peoples
council, Mr.. Levin, and asking that
rates be adjusted in accordance with
the valuation placed on the Potomac
Edison Company's property by the
Commissions engineers.
1t was ordered that the association
go on record as favoring free trans
portation for all public school pupils
outside of the half-mile limit set by
the Board of Education, and that this
action be communicated to the Board.