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Evening star., 1932-08-03
WOMEN RUSH TO ENLIST.
Demand Right to Be Sent Into
Front Line.

Front Line.
AsUNCION, Paraguay, August 3
Up Hundreds of excited Paraguayan
wonen-society bellies, debutantes and
farm yiyes-besieged the government
TODAY. demanding the right to go to
war.
They came by dozens, hanging on
trucks and wagons, crowding out OF
trains. and rushed for the stadium
where recruiting activities looking
toward war with Bolivia were centereo
The unexpected rush perplexed the
government, already overwhelmed after
President Guggiari signed the decree
last night mobiliZing the country's
armed forces.
The women demanded active service
on the battle front. This the govern
ment regarded as impossible. In the
deep Chaco wilderness even the mtlcest
non -combatant service is considered toe
severe for women.
The beleaguered officials tried to sug-
gest service in civilian capacities at
home, filling positions vacated by the
men. But the women scoffed. If Para
quay goes to war, they shouted, theil
place would be in the Chaco, not tbs
home.
In a proclamation President Gug-
giari called upon the army to prepare
to achieve deeds of proves"
"As before" he said, when Para
guayans gave the world an example oi
astonishing vigor and valor which com
manded the worlds admiration, so now
we must demonstrate that our race re-
tains these virtues Of our fighting fore
fathers and we must repeat history"
The general staff announced last
night it was responsibly informed that
600 Bolivian troops in Southern Chacc
had deserted, crossing the Pilcomayc
River into Paraguayan territory.
One battalion of specially recruited
troops from Conception already is under
orders to proceed to the Casado sector
Continued on Page 2. Column So
Evening star., 1932-08-03
Offices Must Close December
81 Unless Action Is Taken
on Economy Law.
FUNDS ARE IMP0UNDED
BY FURLOUGH RULING
Situation in Board Develops as
Another Result of McCarl
Decision.

The Federal Farm Board. already hit
hard by the governmental economy
wave, faces further curtailment of its
force right now or virtual cessation Of
operations after December 81 as the re-
suit of the ruling by Controller General
McCarl requiring Federal establish
mentS to use up the 24-day legislative
furlough, before invoking an additional
administrative furlough to keep within
appropriations.
This became known today as Thomas
E. Campbell, president of tho Civil
Service Commission, to whom the Nc
Carl decision was given, filed an ap-
peal with the controller general on be-
half of the Commission. This was
bolstered with a statement of conditions
in the Farm Board, which is being used
as an added example Of the hardshipS
visioned from the controller generals
ruling.
When the appeal was received at the
controllers Office, Mr.. McCarl took the
unusual action of having it delivered di-
rectly to his desk.
OtNNS ~AS~NJ
The Farm Board situation is further
complicated by the fact that already
an administrative furlough of 10 DAYS
has been applied to about 40 per cent
Of the force-some 140 employes-and
this saving, approximating $4,000, as
1t is viewed at the board, now will be
1mpounded instead Of being available
for salaries.
E11rthar offarfiva nf
these same workers were put on an in
definite leave basis under the admin
istrative furlough, to produce a saving
approximating $3.50, 1000, which it is sup
posed will be cut into if part of me
money must be considered as subject
to impounding under the legislative
furlougf1, unless the employees were
taken of the pay roll entirely. This
impounding then, it is pointed out,
could be waived by executive order.
In addition, other employees, whose
number is not known, also would have
to be dismissed in order to bring about
additional saving of IS per cent. The
board has about 210 workers now.
The alternative would be TO keep on
the present force, excluding those who
have been put on indefinite furIough,
until the end of the year.
As 1t is pointed out, If the admins
trative furlough may not be invoked at
the discretion Of the employing agency,
the idea behind it-that of preventing
dismissals and at the same time keep
ing within appropriations frustrated.
Five-day Week Upset.
The McCarl ruling also has upset a
plan under way at the Farm Board
since the start of the new fiscal year, by
which conditional f1ve-day work week
has been followed in order to comply
with the legislative furlough.
Because some agencies of the board
must work on saturday morning, it has
not been possible to put in flat FIVE
day week. but these employees have re-
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1932-08-03
Climbing of Tree
Brings Conviction
To Bonus Marcher

1t probably will cost Walter
Flicker, New York bonus marcher,
$40 for climbing a tree in the
small Government park at Thir-
teenth and E streets. He was
convicted on the tree climbing
charge this afternoon in Police
Court and will be sentenced by
Judge Ralph Given later.
Flicker mounted the tree a week
ago last Monday to speak to a
group of so-called radicals, who
had been driven away from the
White House by police.
Defense Counsel Irving Schwab
and David Levinson, New York,
argued the statute under which
he was tried was unconstitutional,
in that it was promulgated by the
Office of Public Buildings and
Public Parks and not Congress.
Judge Given, however, ruled Con-
gress had authority to give the
park office the right to make
needed rules and regulations.
The Judge found Flicker guilty
on both counts and will pass
sentence as soon as other cases
growing out of the attempted
picketing have been disposed Of,
he said.
Evening star., 1932-08-03
s54,0 900 LOOT CAPTURED
WITH BANK FUGITIVE
New York Man, Held at Staunton,
Va, Believed to Have Spent
$3.50 Missing From Trunk.

BY the Associated Press.
STAUNTON, Va, August 3.-Police
here today recovered $54,795 in cash,
part of fund of $4,000, which 1t is
charged was obtained by w. j. Pender
from a New York bank by impersonat-
ing messenger.
A complete check by local police
showed a shortage of $3.50, which
Pender is believed to have spent.
The money was found in two trunks
in the home of W. B. Tuffy, relative
of Pender's wife, with whom the Pen
ders had been staying. Directions for
finding the money were given police
by Pender's wife following the arrest
at Selma, Va, early this morning.
Pender, 80 years old, is being held
in the Staunton Jail and will be re-
turned to New York tonight by A. ].
Bayer. representative of a detective
agency.
Bayer said he traced Pender to
Selma by means Of a trunk he had
shipped from New York.
Oficers said they had q complete
confession from Pender.
Evening star., 1932-08-03
GOVERNOR ORDERS
TROOPS TO QUELL
COAL MINE SIEGE
Leslie Acts After One Is
Killed and Eight Shot in
Indiana Disorder.
PEACE OFFICERS FAIL
TO HALT HOSTILITEES
Sixty Workers, Hemmed in by
P.ckets, Return Fire of
Attacking Force.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, August Gov
Harry C. Leslie today ordered Indiana
National Guard troops into Vigo Coun-
ty, where union pickets have beSieged 60
non-union miners in the Dixie Bee
shaft.
The decision was reached after con-
ferences with several advisers. The
Governor said he had ordered troops
into the mine field because the situa-
ton has gotten beyond the control of
anyone but the State"
II cannot permit this guerrilla war
fare to continue in our State" he added.
The troops to be sent, the Governor
said will be picked men of experience.
force of 1000 will be ordered out.
Adjt Gen. Paul E. Tombaugh received
the order for troops from the Cover
nor at l2:45 pm. The adiutant general
said the first men would be on the way
in a few minutes.
The Governor had been importuned
by Joseph Dreher, Vigo County sheriff,
to send troops to prevent disorder at
the Dixie Bee mine. Last night, after
the first exchange of shots between
the union pickets and the non-union
miners. the sheriff sent a frantic mes
sage urging the sending Of National
Guard airplanes equipped to make a
gas attack.
The Governor directed that martial
law be proclaimed in the affected area.
He left to the determination of Nation
al Guard officers the extent Of the area
to be placed under military control.
Six airplanes of the 113th Observation
Squadron were included in the contin-
gent ordered to the mine area. The air
force will include IL pilots and a ground
crew.
Evening star., 1932-08-03
GIVEN
TO EMPIRE WHEAT
Bi-LateraI Trade Pacts Also
Hailed by DominionS at
Ottawa ParIey.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Ontario, August 3.-Bi-
lateral agreements between the do
minions and preference rates for en-
pire wheat in Great Britain were set
up today as two of the most important
possible results of the Imperial Trade
Conference.
This program, which includes four
other major items, appeared to have
grown out Of an interview granted by
Premier Bennett of Canada yesterday
and a session of the British delegation
which lasted we'll into last night.
The other four objectives are:
l. A curb upon Russian trade with
Great Britain.
2. Creation of an empire bank to
clear empire trade balances.
3. Freer dominion markets for British
products which do not compete with
home industries.
4. Lower preferential tariffs within
the empire
U. S. Trade in Balance.
Some observers interpreted Premier
BENEFITS interview, which was some
thing of a surprise, as an indication
that he might have given the British
delegation, which went into its con-
ference almost at the same time. the
direct reply it has sought for two weeks
as to how much of an opening Canada
is willing to give British steel and cot
| ton manufacturers for a market In
Canada.
A large part Of any such advantage
| would be at the expense OF United
States steel and textile interests.
Although he was somewhat evasiVe
as to whether he preferred a wheat
quota or a preferential tariff on wheat,
| the premier was regarded as having
made it pretty clear that Canada ex-
poets one or the other / nthe British
market. He said both had been dis
| cussed, but no conclusion reached.
A quota system would mean a
definite allotment Of the British wheat
trade to grain producers in the en-
guarantee, while a preferential tariff
| would seek to guarantee the world
price, plus the amount Of the tari1 on
non empire grain.
Referring to a preferential tarlH sys-
| TEN within the empire, the premier
pointed out that the situation is olHer-
ent from that in the United States
where none Of the States raises tarifi
barriers against the others. The pre-
vailing condition, he said, necessitates
an alI-around readjustment Of import
duties.
Own Interests First.
! Canada is not so much concerned, ne
said, about the effect CT British prefer
entail tariffs on competition from for
eign countries as she Is with her own
interests. Me made it clear, however
that he believed the conference should
steer clear of any restrictions equiva-
lent to an embargo, since the question
of world prosperity revolves around
revival Of international trade.
Citing Canadas private trade agree
ments with Australia, New Zealand
Newfoundland and the prospective one
with South Africa, he said the con-
ference probably would develop many
such bi-lateral treaties, some OF which
might or might not develop into multi
lateral agreements, with the blessing
CT the empire.
Evening star., 1932-08-03
q DAYS OF RAIN INUNDATE VAST
AREA IN CENTRAL MANCHURIA
Thousands Flock Cities Waters Destroy Crops and
Stores; Miles Hit by Disaster

branches of the Chinese Eastern Rail
way are paralyzed and all communica-
ton with Siberia is cut of.
1t is possible to travel by boat from
Harbin to TSitSihar. distance of 1900
miles, over a route much of which was
once land. Considerable loss Of human
life and livestock has been reported
from many districts. Several hundred
square miles in the Nonni River area
are under water and the floods have
raised a problem which the new Man
! choukuo Government has found beyond
its capacity to handle.
The floods show no signs Of abating.
| Imienpo is threatened with inundation
as a result Of 13-foot rise in the Sun
gari River since yesterday. Three
thousand cars Of grain and 1000 cars
of timber were flooded at Fuchiatien
| a suburb of Harbin. The Sungari here
is 9 feet above its normal level,
Evening star., 1932-08-03
GARNER EXPECTED HERE
TO PREPARE CAMPAIGN
Democratic Vice Presidential Nom
inee Probably Will Be Back
in About Two Weeks.
Ru Nh. Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Speaker John N. Garner is expected
by friends here to return to Washing
ton in about two weeks to prepare tor
his campaign as Democratic vice presi-
Dental nominee. He has been resting
ct his Uvalde, Tex, home since Con-
gress adjourned.
NAlthough plans of the Speaker for
stumping the country are indefinite, II
is certain that he will make an extend
ed speaking tour. Tentative plans call
for several speeches in New England
and in Atlantic Coast and Eastern
States. In addition. serious considera-
ton is being given by the Speaker to q
Western tour to include California and
other Pacific Coast States.
other tentative plans call for visits
and speeches in the North and Middle
West, particularly the Dakotas, Colo
rado Illinois and Iowa.
Evening star., 1932-08-03
MORTGAGE FIRM FILES
CLAIM FOR $1,325,568
Cues Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety of New York After Pur-
ported Sale of Assets.
BY the Associated Press.

ported Sale OF Assets'
BY the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Iowa, August 3.-The
Collins Mortgage Co. of Cedar Rapids
yesterday filed suit in District Court
to recover $l,325, ,56s.5s from the Equit-
able Life Assurance Society of the
United States of New York as the
result of the purported sale OF its
bnsiness 10 the New York corporation
last November /. 49,.
It is the second suit filed within
a month by the Collins Co. as part
of its alleged claims against the de-
fendant. An action is pending IN the
Winnebago County Court in which a
Judgment of 1882, ,637.78 is asked by
the Cedar Rapids firm.
The Collins Co. alleges the deten-
fant agreed TO purchase the bust
ness. records, assets and good Will OF
The plaintiff for an amount left to
be determined as fair and reasonable. y
The petition states that the agree
xnent was carried out, but that the
defendant has refused TO pay for any
fart Of the property.
Evening star., 1932-08-03
BUSINESS BETTER,
j. s. REPORT SAYS
Commerce Department Cites
Several Factors Rejecting
Improvement.

The Commerce Department today is
sued its most optimistic statement in
more than a year, saying business is
looking up.
Thus did 1t summarize improved
bond prices, an advance in prices Of
a number of important commodities,
halt in the urgent liquidation in the
stock market. a cessation of the out
ward gold flow and a moderate return
movement.
In July, the department said, these
things among others contributed TO
an improvement In sentiment" that
improvement necessary to full restora-
ton. The favorable factors were con-
sidered especially interesting since they
followed further recessions In June.
Makes No Predictions.
While the department made no pre-
dictions, business and financial experts
pointed out that previous hard times
had ended during the Summer months
when gradual upward movements had
started in commodity prices, industry
had begun to manufacture and sell at
a profit, even if slight. and the move
ment of farm products had brought
about an increased buying They said
improvement in the past had not been
noticed until six or seven months after
the change had come.
The adjusted index of manufacturing
activity showed several industries re-
cording advances, after adjustment for
seasonal factors. These advances were
made by the automobiles, textile, cement
and tobacco industries.
Employment Still OF.
The report said the downward trend
in employment and pay rolls had not
been arrested and that factory employ
ment was of 3.5 per cent in June and
pay rolls, 78 to 43 per cent of the 1928
1925 AVERAGE. Foreign trade, the de-
partment said, revealed no significant
change with exports continuing to de-
cline and imports remaining close to the
May level.
OF 784 commodities reported by the
Labor Department. 296 declined, II ad-
vanced and All did not change in price.
Livestock and poultry prices advanced
So per cent and cement, 2.8 per cent.
Plumbing and heating equipment ad-
vanced 3.6.
Evening star., 1932-08-03
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HARDIN, Manchuria Anugust s.
Twenty-one days Of uninterrupted rains
have converted North Central Man
churia into a vast lake and brought
about national disaster.
Tens of thousands of square miles Of
rich harvests have been destroyed and
enormous stocks of grain and soy beans
lost Thousands Of farmers and other
residents have lost their homes and are
fiocking to the cities from the terrible
inundation.
The material damage is estimated at
several hundred million Mexican DOL
lars IA Mexican dollar Is worth ap-
proximately 2l cents) and the floods
threaten to rival even those OF 1914, the
worst in Manchuria's history.
Harbin Is isolated from the rest OF the
world by rail and mail, All three
Evening star., 1932-08-03
FORMER RUSSIAN JURIST FINISHES
PREPARING HIS OWN BURIAL PLACE
Connecticut Resident Completes Sepulchre and Monu-
ment for Elaborate Funeral.

and he decided to prepare his own rest
ing place. An orthodox Russian, he
turned to the three Saints Cemetery
as the burial place.
Sutkovoys wife and two sons are
living. One son is in Boston. the other
has returned to Russia to be postmaster
in the same town where his father
once lived.
On retirement Sutkovoy sent his wife
$4,000, and had built for her a two
story brick house The Soviet govern
ment conflscated the money and prop
erty. he said.
Contemplating his handiwork today
he said, "at least Ill be buried like a
millionaire"
Evening star., 1932-08-03
THREE ARE MISSING
IN SHIP COLLISION
Chesapeake Liner Sinks
Schooner-Four of Latter's
Crew Rescued.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, August 3.-Three
members Of the crew of the little
schooner Milton S. Lankford of Eliza
beth City, N. c., are believed to have
drowned after a collision last night
with the Old Bay Liner State Of Mary
land.
The schooner was run pdownaround mid
night about four miles of the mouth
of the Potomac River, the little craft
being rolled under the larger vessels
keel and smashed The State of Mary
land was only slightly damaged. 1t ar
rived here today.
Two of the crew of the little schoon-
er, a bugeye loaded with $500 water
melons, we're picked up by the State OF
Maryland and two more by the Chesa-
CONTINUED on Page. 2, Column o.
Evening star., 1932-08-03
Rn the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANSONIA, Conn, August 3.-Nek-
keta Radzevich Sutkovoy, who last year
dug his own grave, is now putting the
finishing touches on sepulchre and
monument built with his own hands.
Sutkovoy, 81, claims friendship with the
late Car Nicholas. He was chief jurist
of a province near Kiev, Russia, was
considered wealthy and entitled to be
addressed as Mister" A desire to
travel brought him to this country.
He was employed in a brass foundry
for IS years, and retired on pension
about five years ago. Being in poor
health, his thoughts turned to the grave
Evening star., 1932-08-03

COLORADO SPRINGS, August 3
R9.-ThomaS S. McAloney, superin-
tendent of the Colorado School for the
Deaf and Blind and nationally known
as an educator, died here late yesterday.
He was born in Ireland June 26, 1869.
He formerly served in the Kentucky
School for the Deaf and as superin-
tendent of the Western Pennsylvania
Institute for the Blind at Pittsburgh
Evening star., 1932-08-03
Running Full Time.

ASHEVTLLE, N. c., August 3 (P).-
Machines Of the American Enka Cor
poration are now being operated full
time and the plant capacity of 1000
employees is now at work.
Old employees Of the company have
been returned to work after a business
luIl of several months, during which
time several machine units Of the plant
have been idle or working part time.
Evening star., 1932-08-03

stock.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 3.-A fresh
wave of buying swept over financial
markets today, sending many leading
shares on the New York Stock Ex-
change 50 to 81 net higher and bring
ing another strong advance in wheat
and bond prices.
A number of bullish rumors circu-
lated through the financial district in
the afternoon and shorts, who had
sold the stock market yesterday on
the theory that a sharp technical
reaction was overdue, found themselves
sadly trapped when they tried to cover.
Strength in grain brought sharp rallies
by the so-called farm shares" en-
bracing those of implement manufac-
turers and mail order houses.
Bonds, after some irregularity in the
morning, reversed themselves later.
Trading in stocks was extremely ac-
tive during the last hour, when pivotal
issues pushed well above their high
prices of last week. Final quotations
were virtually the best. Total sales
approximated $500, 900 shares.
Stalwarts like United States Steel
common and preferred, American Tele-
phone, Union Pacific, Allied Chemical,
Santa Fe and American Can shot up
spectacularly as shorts hurried to exc
cute their repurchasing orders. The
final transaction did not appear on the
tape until several minutes after closing
time, 3 O'Clock.
Evening star., 1932-08-03
BANDITS TAKE AUTO
WITH HIDDEN DIAMOND
Woman's Strategy in Placing Rims
Under Seat Cushion Proves
Costly After All.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 3.-Miss Anna
Kroichik'S strategy was all right ex-
cept that it was carried too tar.
When two hold-up men forced their
way into the automobile In Whicn Sne
and her escort were riding early yes
terday, she slipped diamond ring sne
was wearing under a seat cushion.
The robbers took So from her escort
and then, dissatisfied with their loot,
chased the couple out Of the car and
drove Of the ring with them.
Evening star., 1932-08-03
Working Three Shifts.

DANvILLE. Va August 3 (SpeciaD ..
The LeakSville plant. of the Marshall
Field mill interests is working three
eight hour shifts daily in order to fill
a large order for material for interior
upholstery to be used by the manufac-
turers of the new Essex car. Each
days product is being sent by truck to
Danville, where it is shipped by ex-
press to the factory. 1t could not be
said just how long the mills would
continue to operate day and night.
Evening star., 1932-08-03
De Valera Asks Trade Fund.

DUBLIN, Irish Free State, August
R.-President De Valera today asked
the Dali to appropriate 100000 as all
emergency fund to open new markets
for agricultural and manufactured pro-
duce, to promote trade and industry
and to establish new industries. The
request will be debated later.
Evening star., 1932-08-03
MRS. GLASSFORD GETS
DIVORCE FROM CHIEF
Wife of D. C. Police Superintend-
ent Charges Abandonment
in Texas.
BY the Associated Press.

by CIIt hssUCIdIeu EItss'
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, August s.
Mrs. Cora C. GlaSSford Of Alamo
Heights, a suburb, won divorce here
yesterday from Pelham D. GlasSford,
Washington superintendent of police.
Mrs. Glassford charged she was
abandoned January /, 1927. The
Glassfords were married at Fort Riley,
Kans., in 1907.
Evening star., 1932-08-03
D. C. MAN ENDS OWN LIFE,
FACING QUIZ ON CHECK
Garry Mcleod Leaps From Four
teenth Floor Window of Toledo
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOLEDO, Ohio, August 3.-While
being questioned by two private detec-
tives, who expressed doubt of the worth
of a $50 check he wrote, Garry Mcleod,
IS, of 1901 Calvert street, Washington,
D. c., leaped from a fourteenth floor
window of the Second National Bank
Building to his death last night.
Mcleod formerly boarded at the
Calvert street address He is survived by
a wife and several children, thought to
be living in Baltimore suburb. and
sister, Mrs. Grace Woltz, who lives IN
JackSonsYille, Fla.
Evening star., 1932-08-03
STOCKS GAIN 81 TO 81
In WAVE OF BUYING
General Motors Declares Dividend.
Wheat and Bond Prices
Advance.

NEW YORK, August 3 [P).-Gen-
eral Motors Corporation today de-
clared the regular quarterly dividend
Of rs cents share on the common
stock.
Evening star., 1932-08-03
''FrOnt Press to Home
Within an Hour"

The Stars Carrier system covers every
city block and the regular edition is
delivered to city and suburban homes
as fast as the papers are printed.