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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-14

IL EFORE this year of 1882 passes on,
Kann will become much larger
store! It will extend we'll around the cor
ner on Seventh Street, adding 81 500 square
feet of floor space to the more than 3 acres
it already occupies! 1t will add number
of new departments and enlarge many that
are now much in need of space! 1t will have
entrances on all four sides of the block and
become the trul y metropolitan store that
BELTS its unique location, facing on the
Nation foremost thoroughfare!
-Saks g Co., for years one of Washing-
ton leading stores for men, is going out of
business. With the friendly relations
which have so long existed between these
two stores, it was but natural that the one
should take over the premises Of the other
Evening star., 1932-06-12
80 SAVED FROM STEAMER
BY SPEED OF OLD BOAT
Pressure Gauges of Craft 10 Years
Old Kept at Danger Point Speed
ing Through Tropical Night.

By the Associated Press.
LAGOS, Nigeria, June 11.-Ninety
passengers on the Spanish steamer
Tiede, which was wrecked Wednesday
off Fernando Po Island were saved by
the tremendous burst of sailing speed of
the 19-year-old British steamer Appam,
it was learned here today.
The old Appam, steaming through
the tropic night with flames belching
from her tunnels and the needles
her pressure guages teetering around
the danger mark, covered 104 miles In
less than 71a hours and arrived just in
time to rescue the 80 from the sinking
ship.
AS result of the old ships dash the
total casualties in what threatened to
be a major sea disaster were limited to
the loss of five natives, four of whom
jumped overheard in the shark infested
waters. The fifth died on board.
About 700 other passengers had got
away in lifeboats shortly after the ship
struck.
Evening star., 1932-06-12
AKRON UNDERWAY
FOR RETURN EAST
Giant Dirigible Follows Coastline
South to Lighted Airway Lead.
ing to Ell Paso.
BY the Associated Press.


SAN FRANCISCO June 11.-Flying
under blanket of fog, the Navy
dirigible Akron followed the coastline
to San Pedro. Calf, late today on her
way home to Lakehurst, N. j., after
spending month on the Pacific Coast.
The ship left the dirigible base now
under construction at Sunnyvale, Calf,
at 1922 a m. today with a crew of 81.
A radio message from the Akron de-
scribed the fog rolling in from Monte
rey Bay south of Gilroy, Calf.
The coaStline was not sighted. but
after determining by dead reckoning
and bearings on mountain peaks that
we had crossed the coast, we dove blind
ly into the fog and, at about 1900 feet,
found its bottom layer" the Akron told
the naval radio.
Below us whitecaps show a north
erly wind, whereas above it had been
southerly. In coming down below the
fog the temperature dropped Is degrees
and leather coats are again the uni
form"
Officers of the Akron advised that,
from San Pedro they would fly by way
Of San Bernardino to Yuma, Ariz., and
tonight I'VE shall follow the lighted air
ways from Yuma to Ell R-so."
Evening star., 1932-06-12
Hasty Arrangements Made
for Three Medical Units
With Total of 225 Beds and
Clinic at Armory.
10000 ARE EXPECTED
TO BE HERE BY SATURDAY
Vote Scheduled Tomorrow on Move
to Bring Issue Up on Floor Of
House - Additional CAMPS
Planned-Anacostia Evacuations
to Be Speeded.

Federal authorities last night
came to the aid of local officials
IN the serious problem of caring
1or the ever-growing bonus army.
The Veterans Administration
made haSty arrangements for the
establishment at nearby Fort
Hunt of a 125-bed hospital for
emergency cases, and the Marine
Reserves will augment these facil-
tiles with two 50-bed field hospi-
tails and clinic at the Goth Ma
rines Armory.
More than 200 tents, capable of
Sheltering a total of 5000 men.
were made available to the poor
ly housed veterans by Mai. Gen.
Anton Stephan, commanding the
District National Guard.
Rolling Kitchens Contributed.
Fort Myer, Regular Army cavalry
post. contributed rolling kitchens. and
there were prospects these soon would
be baking bread made from Federal
Farm Board -four, distributed bv the
American Red Cross. The fort also has
turned over several thousand bed sacks
for the men.
The governmental assistance came
almost on the eve of the long-awaited
vote in the House tomorrow on the
oonus question. The vote first will be
on the proposal to discharge the Rules
committee from further consideration
OF the Patman bill. There were indica-
tions last night that the galleries o,
congress may be closed to visitors to-.
morrow for the first time since the
World War as precaution against dem
onstrations.
With more than 1900 veterans now
engaged In the siege on the Capital and
2O.OOO expected here by next Saturday
according to police estimates. plans
were made yesterday for the opening
OF additional camps
John H. Bartlett, former New Hamp-
shire Governor, donated a thirty-acre
tract of land on Alabama avenue. be-
tween Twenty-first and Twenty third
streets southeast; and police prepared
to set up new billet there It will be
dubbed Camp Bartlett" Other ac-
commodations at Camp Meigs. Benning
race track and Fort Foote were being
held ready. Camp Sinnms was being
used as "recuperation camp" for those
with colds or other contagious ailments.
Glassford Remains as Treasurer.
Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford. chief
OF police and unofficial quartermaster
general of the bonus horde, said he will
endeavor to evacuate the disease
threatened Anacostia camp as rapidly
as circumstances permit.
He hopes to reduce the population at
Anacostia from last nights figure of
1851 to not more than 5000 within the
next few days. The camp strength was
increasing yesterday at the rate OF
about so new arrivals per hour.
Glassford remained permanent treas
urer of the camp fund at urgent re-
guest of the veterans. who "overruled"
the police chiefs decision to withdraw.
The mess fund amounts to $4,000. and
food donations continued to arrive.
About 1,500 veterans from Is States
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Evening star., 1932-06-12
BROTHER AND SISTER
DIE IN PLANE CRASH
Another Member of Family, Pilot
ing Ship at Grand Rapids,
May Succumb.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, June 11.-A
brother and sister were killed and an
other brother, their pilot, was critically
injured late today in the crash of an
airplane in a field near an airport
where the local American Legion posts
were holding an air show.
John De Meester, Is, and his sister
Lavina, 80. were killed and Peter De
Meester, jr., who was carrying them in
his newly purchased rebuilt plane, was
injured. probably fatally
Witnesses said the plane was flying
at 800 feet when the motor appeared to
fail. The ship dipped and the motor
beat regularly again. Then it stopped
entirely and the plane plunged In a
spin.
Evening star., 1932-06-12
ARGENTINA PRESIDENT
GETS REVOLT WARNING
Senator Palacios, Socialist Leader,
Regards Rumors of Coup as
Highly Important.

BY the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, June 1.-THE So
cialist party of Argentina revealed to-
day that one Of its leaders had warned
President Augustin P. Justo of "impor-
tant" alarmist rumors, from which 1t
was inferred that a coup was planned
against the government.
The Socialist party provided Presi-
dent Justo with his principal opposi-
ton in the elections last November.
which restored constitutional govern
ment to Argentina.
It disclosed that the President called
Senator Alfredo Palacios, a leading So
cialist, into conference last night and
asked his opinion regarding the coun-
try's situation. Senator Palacios re-
piled, the announcement said, that the
current rumors were really important
and he regarded it the duty of loyal
citizens to avert danger in the army.
Evening star., 1932-06-12
PROHIBITION. STORM
BREAKS ON EVE Of
C. 0. P. CONVENTION
Issue Worries Leaders and
Is Thorn in Platform
Preparation.
RELIEF PROBLEM FANS
ANTICIPATED FIGHT.
Opponents to denomination of Vice
President Curtis Pin Hopes
on Gen. Dawes.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
Staff Correspondent of The Star.

CHICAGO, June 1.-THE Republicans
will open on Tuesday morning their ma
tional convention for the election of
presidential and vice presidential nomi-
nees and for the preparation of a plat
form. Notwithstanding the fact that
the denomination Of President Hoover is
considered a foregone conclusion, the
g. O. p. convention Of 1882 may yet
turn out to be an epochal affair.
The Republican party is faced with
dealing with two questions of the great
est Importance, issues which are likely
to make or mar its campaign in the
national contest. They are relief and
prohibition; hard times and the wet
and dry issue
If the Republican leaders now in Chi
cago are correct, the G. o. P. is destined
to take its first step away from national
prohibition; 1t will place in its national
platform some kind Of a declaration for
resubmission Of the eighteenth amend
ment. Chairman Fess Of the Republi-
can National Committee today shook
his head over the problem. He is dry
and will go down fighting. But he is
also Republican, and he is clearly
worried over what may happen to the
party-whether it takes a wet stand,
dry stand or straddleS the issue
Uncertainty Exists.
With the wet sentiment mounting
higher and higher, 1t does not seem pos
sible that the Republican convention
will take the kind of a stand the ardent
drys demand-a stand merely for en-
forcement of the laws. On the other
hand, as the delegates to the national
convention come rolling into Chicago,
the chances are that the atmosphere
will become rather dryer than wetter.
Up to this time the convention city
has been lacking in convention dele
gates The members Of the Republican
National Committee have been here for
several days. They have talked to each
other about prohibition and about the
vice presidential nomination, and with
the great crowd of newspaper men who
have gathered here to cover the con-
vention until they have arrived at an
unusual state of uncertainty. With the
presence of the delegates to the con-
vention, much Of this air of unreality
may vanish.
Two Of the biggest delegations are to
arrive here tomorrow. the New York
and Pennsylvania delegations. With
the New York outfit is to come the
champion Of unconditional repeal of
the eighteenth amendment, DR.. Nicho-
las Murray Butler, who is bringing with
him his plank pledging the G. O. P. to
back repeal at an early date. The word
here tonight is that the Pennsylvania
delegation viii be minus both Senator
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Evening star., 1932-06-12
HAUSNER RESCUED AT SEA
OFFPORTUCAL LBYTANKER;
MEACER DETAILS RADIOED
U. S.-Poland Flyer Picked
Up From Plane Float.
ing in Atlantic.
TOOK OFF JUNE 3
All Hope of News From
Amateur Pilot Had
Been Abandoned.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June IA cryptic
message from ship at sea tonigh.
brought wore of the apparent safety
Of Stanislaus Felix Hausner, the Polish
American flyer who was believed lost in
an attempted transatlantic flight.
1t was the second time in 20 days
that ship had picked from the waters
Of the Atlantic an aviator with aspira-
tions to add his name to the long list
Of flyers who have completed the
perilous journey.
On May IS, Lou Reichers, like Haus-
ner, New Jersey pilot, was rescued at
sea by Capt. George Fried Of the U. s.
Liner President Roosevelt when his
plane plunked down into the ocean near
the vessels side.
Evening star., 1932-06-12
new ERNIE FREES SLOAN ADDS PLEA
BR|NKERT, HELD IN FOR SPEEDY REPEAL,
uNDBERGH PROBE WITH j. s. CONTROL
Man Appears Admitting He
Was With Violet Sharpe.
Girl Backs Statement.
BY the Associated Press.


ALPINE, N. j., June 1.-THE fabric
of an outwardly promising inquiry fash
ioned from the suicide of Morrow
servant woman appeared to be crum-
pling tonight in the hands of the Lind
bergh murder investigators.
Information supplied by loyal
friend, the Morrow butler, discredited
any link between Miss Violet Sharpe,
the waitress who drank deadly poison,
and Ernest Brinkert, an ex-convict, on
the night of March /, when the Lind
bergh baby was kidnapped.
Companions Are Found.
Further, police found an Ernest Miller
and Miss Catherine Winners who identl-
fed themselves as Miss Sharpe's COM
panions on an automobile ride that
night. Their joint statements, coupled
with an alibi from Brinkert, tended to
clear both him and Miss Sharpe of sus-
picion.
"A chap named Miller" said Inspector
Harry Walsh of the police, 20 years
old, Of Closter, N j., has told us that
with Miss Sharpe the night of March l.
He remembers the ride very well and
everything that happened on it anc
says he cannot understand why she
kept it secret from us.
'Brinkert is remaining here. How
ever, this is a peculiar turn Of events.
1t is no fault of ours. We have not
only Miller's story. but the story OF
Miss MINERS, who was on the ride that
night. She says Brinkert was not in
the car"
The suggestion that Miller was the
"Erne" Miss Sharpe knew came from
Septimus Banks, Morrow butler, whom
Walsh described as having an "affec-
tionate attachment for Miss Sharpe"
Mrs. Morrow Retains Faith.
Shortly after Miss Sharpe drank
poison yesterday because she feared a
fourth questioning by police, her en-
Continued on Page 3, Column So
Evening star., 1932-06-12
DEBTS
FRONT IS SOUGHT
Herriot Declared Supporting
Set-up Along Lines Fa-
vored by U. S.
BY the Associated Press.

Associated
PARIS, June 11.-Premier Edouard
Herriot and Prime Minister Ramsay
Macdonald began an eleventh-hour re-
port tonight to reconcile the French
and British viewpoints toward repara-
tions and other world problems in prep
aration for the momentous conference
which opens Thursday at Lausanne,
Switzerland.
Preliminary conversations between
the two premiers were held. but their
main discussion is scheduled for tomor-
row, when they are expected to slip of
to some quiet countryside to talk things
over across tea table.
A member of NJ Herriot's cabinet
said the keystone Of the French premier S
immediate policy was to unite England,
Belgium, Italy and France in a COM
mon reparations and economic front.
as the American Government desires.
The communique issued after their
preliminary conversations merely said:
m. Herriot Mr.. Macdonald and Sir
John Simon British foreign secretary
took tea and later dined with the cab
met. Very friendly conversations were
held on the problems at hand
A semi official note later said. how
ever, that while Mr.. Macdonald. like
M. Herriot, was hostile to unilateral
annulment Of international contracts,
the British prime minister apparently
would decide to accept prolonged sus-
pension, If not a definite cessation, OF
Germany's reparations payments.
Discussions Are General.
Regarding the questions Of security,
the note said it was assured that Mr..
Macdonald would try to obtain from
Germany a declaration affirming its
peaceful sentiments in order to dissipate
alarmist rumors, notably to the effect
that Poland might be menaced by Ger
man aggression in the Polish Corridor.
The note emphasized that today's dis
cussions were general and that a de-
tailed examination of the problems was
due tomorrow.
The French foreign Office announced
that in addition to reparations the two
men would discuss the proposed inter-
national economic conference, the Ques-
ton of an Austrian loan and relief to
the Danubian countries in general and
what to do about disarmament.
Evening star., 1932-06-12
EVANGELIST is WORSE,
DOCTORS CALL BARES
Aimee McPherson-Hutto Suffers
Relapse as Husband Faces
Love Balm Suit.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. June 11.-A hurried
call for a physician at the mountain
resort where Aimee Semple MCPHERSON
Hutton has gone into retreat created
the belief at Angelus Temple today that
her condition had taken turn for the
worse.
Such complete secrecy had sur
rounded the movements of the evangel-
ist and her husband, David Hutton,
that the physician, DR.. Edward H. Will
liams, did not know where they were
until he was summoned.
Hutton said his wife's condition, a
nervous disturbance aggravated by
tropical fever contracted on recent
trip to Guatemala. had been rendered
worse by excitement attending the ap-
preaching trial of 100000 breach of
promise suit brought against him by
Myrtle St. Pierre, a nurse. The trial Is
to start next Wednesday.
Evening star., 1932-06-12
General Motors Head Sees
Only One Solution of Dry
Question.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, June 1l-Alfred P.
Sloan, jr., president of the General
Motors Corporation, tonight announced
himself definitely convinced the road
toward greater temperance is through
repeal of the eighteenth amendment
MY own personal opinion is that
no law can be made effective unless
it has the support of public opinion"
he said, adding that, looking "the facts
squarely in the face as they exist today,
there can be only one answer-abolish-
ment of the eighteenth amendment as
promptly and expeditiously as possible" 1"
He advocated strict Government con-
troll of the liquor traffic.
Mr.. Sloan issued his statement in
reply to inquiries as to his views on
the position recently taken by John D.
Rockefeller. jr.. long a stanch sup
porter of the Anti-Saloon League, who
this week came out for repeal
Admires Rockefeller.
Il admire Nj Rockefeller's courage"
said Sloan. Many high minded men in
this country have undergone change
in attitude toward this question in the
last few years. Too many have re-
mained silent. My own views have
been reversed by the results Of our ex-
pertinent in prohibition.
Il am now definitely convinced that
the road toward greater temperance,
with resulting better standard OF
ethics in our country. is through
repeal"
At the time of Mr.. Hoovers candi-
dacy. in 1928, for the presidency. Mr..
Sloan said. he stated that prohibition
was one of our unsolved problems,
that it was an important one. that con-
ditionS respecting the observance OF
the law were unsatisfactory and that
time might prove the necessity for
some kind of adjustment I also
stated that in my opinion prohibition
had increased our industrial efficiency"
In the four years since, he said. "the
liquor traffic has increased in extent
rather than decreased. Lawlessness,
which developed as result of prohi-
bition, has continued to increase to an
alarming extent 1t has created a gen.
eral condition far more damaging to
the present and future stability of our
country than any possible benefits that
would otherwise be enjoyed"
Favors Quick Repeal.
Mr.. Sloan asserted he now favored
"abolishment of the eighteenth amend
ment as promptly and as expeditiously
as possible"
There should be substituted" he
said, strict control of the liquor traf-
fic such as exists in other countries,
many of which have followed the same
road that we have and reached the
same conclusions.
by SO doing, real temperance will
be promoted. Lawlessness will be no
longer subsidized and-a very impor-
tant and vital economic consideration
industry will be released from a part of
the present heavy burden of taxation
through an increase in Government
revenues made possible by placing the
sale of liquor under governmental aus
pices instead of as now conducted.
1T is my belief that our whole So
cial and economic structure will, in
this manner, be greatly strengthened
and real foundation built for renewed
prosperity"
Evening star., 1932-06-12
Hoover Reveals Facts at
Hastily Called Meeting of
Republican Pay Reduction
Conferees.
CONGRESS MAY REMAIN
IN SESSION TILL JULY
Wood, Spokesman After Gathering,
Declares Savings Must Come by
! Further Economies or Slashing
Into Pending Appropriation
Measures.

At a hastily summoned confer
ence at the White House last
night, President Hoover revealed
to four Republican conferees on
the Government pay cut section
of the economy bill that the esti-
mates for increased revenues from
taxation and Governmental econ
omy will fall short between $780,
O,O0O and S2OOOOO,OOO of balanc-
ing the budget.
The President was represented
as making it plain that he expects
this deficiency to be taken care Of.
In making the revelation as to
the necessity for raising more
revenue or engaging in more
economy, President Hoover was
represented as not specifically
naming the extra deficit. The
figure of S15O,OOO, 900 to S200,000,-
900 was arrived at by calculations
made during the conference.
Smoot Attends Farley.
The conference was attended by Sem
ators Smoot of Utah, chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee; Jones OF
Washington, chairman Of the Appro-
priationS Committee, and Hale OF
Maine and Representative Wood OF In
diana. ranking Republican member Of
the Appropriations Committee in the
House. Col. J. c. Roop, director OF the
budget, also attended.
1t is understood that the President
did not decide upon the conference un-
til late yesterday and it was not until
9 O'Clock that he sat down with the
group in the Lincoln study of the sec
ond floor of the White House, where
for an hour and half the subject of
meeting the new deficit figures was
thrashed out
These three Republican Senators and
Representative Wood will present the
Presidents wishes when the conferees
on the economy bill meet at O'Clock
at the Capitol tomorrow morning.
Representative Wood, who acted as
spokesman for the group when the
White House conference was concluded,
said that the Senate without
pay plan, was not discussed at last
nights conference.
Insufficiency "Surprising."
Mr.. Wood emphasized the fact that
the Presidents revelation that the tax
bill which only few days ago became
a law and the economy bill, which is
now in conference, would not balance
the budget came as considerable OF a
surprise to most of those whom the
President had summoned.
This money must be raised either
by cutting pending appropriation bills, y
Representative Wood said, ''or by fur
ther economy
Mr.. Wood was unable to make any
suggestions as to just what further
economies might be effected, or to make
any predictions as to what appropria-
tion bills would be pruned down to meet
the situation. He gave the impression
that it will be necessary to prolong
this session of Congress to balance the
budget.
Il think you will find us sitting and
doing business until the 4th of July"
he said.
While Representative Wood and 9TH
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