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CHAPTER 4. SNARES

Garth Agency had returned and was standing by Ryder's chair.
 If you don't mind, Vale, sug- gest I push along and get my car out. I've arranged to wait out side the Rochester Gate house for Miss Revell and drive her to the Crescendo or back to her own place according to her wishes"
 Ryder's inevitable grin appeared
 By all means, sound idea what? With any luck we'll all foregather at the Crescendo about the witching hour or earlier. Mean tmie, Miss Cinderella and I will eat your share of the ice, Won't we?"
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Only a Dream.
(New York World Telegram )

Many people are under the impression that the old Prohibition Party, which entered the National field in 1869, disappeared when the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act took the Nation in charge.
 Note quite Only four years ago, in the Presi- dential year 1928 the Prohibition Party held Ma tional Convention in Chicago at which 152 dele gates representing twenty-two States, nominated candidates for President and Vice-President Elec- toral tickets nominated in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana and West Virginia.
 Moreover the Prohibition Party's 1928 platform contained this highly pertinent and still up-to-dae plank:
 The present unsatisfactory enforcement
 of Prohibition, amounting to nuifcation
 over wide areas in great centers of popula-
 ton, is the natural result of the acceptance
 by friends of Prohibition of the false political
 philosophy of non- -partisanism Ga word sub
 stituted for the Anti-Saloon League) where
 by the voters have kept themselves divided
 between and swallwoed up in the two polit-
 ical parties, both dependent for success upon
 the votes of their wet members who see to it that the arm of enforcement IS para lyzed.
 This plank seems to us a pretty accurate, pene- tratng analysis from the dry standpoint, of the basic grievance of lot of Republican and Demo- cratic drys male and female, who have been in Washington latsly breathing dire threats of what will happen if either of the major party platforms contains damp plank
 It is of course, too much to hope-but if the die hard drys would let the major parties alone for a spell and try to build up the old Prohibition Party into a solid phalanx" until we get this particular issue settled, what relief it would be from the point of view of logic and political clear thinking
 We know this is only wild dream. Yet there is the Prohibition Party-forlorn, forsaken but con- Isistent-yearning for those who by rights, belong to it. but who are instead pervading, harassing and bedevilng the other parties!
 History will note this one of the pathetic paradoxes of American politics during the great Prohibition
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MT Hentzlemans suggestion that Alaska Cham bers of Commerce ought to press an advertising campaign for out-of-doors sportsmen-big game hunt ers fishermen, etc,-is timely While the depression continues to be handicap to industrial develop ment there are lots of with money enough to hunt and fish and the sights who have nothing else to do. Let's get them to come to Alaska.
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SPRING Is HERE

The time has come to remodel, build and to concrete. We deliver sand, gravel, lumber at reasonable rates. For estimates Phone 81. THE NORTH TRANSFER-"service with A smilen -adv.
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The Alaska commercial organizations are oppos- ing as we of course knew they would do the pro- posed legislation to transfer the Alaska Road Com mission activities to the Interior Department. May they hit often and hard
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That thunderous silence now pe.ng heard aroun the world is MT Hoovers opinion of the Pro hibtion problem Macon, Ga, Telegraph)
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THE NUGGET SHOP

By the way, the famous old ships chronometer that MT. Sharick priz- ed so many years for it's remark able time-keeping qualities, is now in the window of the Nugget Shop and you will make no mistake if you walk a bit out of your way to set your watch by it. The watch maker will touch your regulator if you desire and be very pleasant about it. adv
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CORRECT TIME

When the radio announcer says, I've will now give you the correct time by courtesy of the Goofus Watch Co.," and you compare your watch, what does it say? Those radio announcers are not always as correct as they sound but they are never very far off and you ought to average pretty close. If you are checking rather badly let us have a look at your timepiece. Our watch repair service is in the hands of a specialist and we sin cerely believe he can give you by far the best job in Juneau. It costs no more and often less to have the best so bring your watch %N
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Russians suffer much in hope of getting some thing better later Much like radio audiences. -(Los Angeles Times)
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AS furtive as dry reading the Literary Digest on a street car.-(Ohio State Journalo
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With the coal if 1t comes from our place. For our coal goes farther and gives a more even and satisfying heat. If your coal bin is running low, better have us send you new supply to prove our statement. Our draying service is always the best and we specialize in Feed.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
GRAND JURY LAUNCHES
PROBE In BONUS RIOTS
ClassfOrd Heard and Dozen Other Wit
nesses Called as Marchers Build New
Camp at Waterbury, Md.

rioter who also attacked Gen. Glass
ford. ripping the latter's gold badge of
authority from his shirt. Two other
assaults on policemen were under in
quiry today.
Explaining "I don't know what is
going to happen. and I want to be pre-
pared for anything" Glassford. while
waiting outside the jury room, put fin
ishing touches on lengthy voluntary"
report headed circumstances leading
up to the use of Federal troops in the
bonus riots" He said he would give
the statement to the grand jury ''if they
are interested in it, He refused to di-
vulge its contents.
Leaving the grand jury room after
testifying for an hour and a half, Gen.
Glassford told reporters he had made
a statement to the jury covering all
the circumstances of the evacuation Of
the bonus army. After making the
statements, he said, he was questioned
in detail concerning particular phases
of the situation. No members of the
grand jury asked any question, Glass
ford said.
The fact that Gen. GlaSsford was
examined on all the circumstances con-
nected with the bonus disturbances, in
dicates a last-minute change in the
plans of the Government, as District
Attorney Rover had announced this
morning that the grand jury would only
consider evidence bearing on the three
assault charges.
Gen. GlasSford refused to answer any
questions bearing on specific testimony
given by him.
After hearing the remaining witnesses
in the assault cases the grand jury ad-
journed this afternoon. Mr.. Rover said
he thought additional evidence would be
given the jury some time this week, but
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Evening star., 1932-08-01
HOTEL BLAST KILLS d FIREMEN.
SCATTERS JEWELS OVER STREET
Twenty-Seven Persons Injured by Elk.
plosion and Fire in Ritz Towers,
New York.

two clerks were severely cut by flying
glass and more than 100000 in gems
were strewn in the street.
Sitting in the ruins of his store. weep
ing kirkpatrick said that among other
jewels blasted from the shop window
were two diamond brooches worth
$4,000 each, an emerald ring worth
$4,000 and a pearl necklace worth
$65 900.
A special detachment of detectives
was assigned to the injured Kirkpatrick
clerks as they hunted trohugh the
wreckage in Fifty-seventh street for
the missing jewels.
The explosion cut off all power in
the hotel and elevator service stopped.
Guests were not allowed to leave and
only the police could enter.
Firemen George Lore of Engine Co
No. 8, his clothes almost all torn off by
the blast said Engine Co. No. 6 reached
the fire first and almost all members of
that company were trapped in the base
ment when the explosion occurred. He
said he and Fireman Daniel Lynch of
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Evening star., 1932-08-01

The District grand jury today launched
an investigation to fix responsibility for
the bonus army riots last Thursday
while refugees Of the routed B. E. F.
prepared new camp site at Waterbury
Nd. and considered the offer of an
other tract near Upperville. Va.
A dozen witnesses, most of them po-
licemen, told their stories of the fight
ing to the grand jury this morning, and
higher officials awaited a call to enter
the jury room at the District Supreme
Court Building. Among the latter were
Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, chief
Of police, and Edward r. Whitman, a
Treasury attorney.
BY direction of Attorney General
Mitchell, Nugent Dodds, an Assistant
Attorney General, today was designated
as a special prosecutor to assume
charge of Federal phases of the in
quiry. Dodds conferred at the grand
jury room with United States Attorney
Leo A. Rover, who is supervising cases
involving violation of District of Co.
lumbia laws.
Assignment Of Dodds to the investi-
cation was seen as another indication
of President Hoovers determination to
sift to the bottom the disorders of last
week, when Federal troops finally were
called into action with bayonets and
tear gas bombs.
The first case presented to the grand
jury by United States Attorney Leo A
Rover was that of Bernard Mccoy.
charged with assaulting Policeman
James E. Scott with a dangerous
weapon. namely, brickbat.
Mccoy is alleged to have been the
Evening star., 1932-08-01
ITALIAN DELEGATE
RAPS ARMS PARLEY
Balbo Says France, England
and u. S. Controlled High
Offices.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, August 1-Italo Balbo, who
was 1taly's delegate at the closing ses-
sion of the World Disarmament Con-
terence said today in an interview with
the newspaper, Popolo DItalia, that
the world has had general impress
sion of inconclusiveneSs" from the de-
liberations of that conference.
Also" he said, there was an at
tempt to make an atrocious joke at
Geneva and I say, without any beating
about the bush, that the ones who
would have been tricked most of all
are the Italians"
He charged every decision the con-
ference made bore the group trade
mark of France England and America -
France and England, he said, con-
trolled the nigh offices in which neither
the Italians, the Germans nor the Rus
SLAMS figured.
With a view to possible armamentS
reduction by the conference" said Bal
bo, America and England increased
their naval armaments before they went
to Geneva, and France in greater pro-
portion increased her land armaments." !"
Popolo DItalia was founded by Pre-
mler MuSsolini. The premier's brother,
Arnaldo, was the editor until his death
recently Its editorial expressions usual
ly are accepted as inspired by the pre-
mier
Evening star., 1932-08-01
BRITAIN PRESSED
HARD FOR TARIFF
South Africans Join Hands
With Other Delegates
to Force Issue.
By the Associated Press.

OTTAWA, Ontario, August HEAVY
Great Britain's delegates to the imperial
conference today to force the hand of
the mother country on what tariff
preferences she is willing to give.
~ C. Havenga of the South African
delegation, in blunt statement yes
terday, virtually called upon the British
delegation to quit talking about favors
already shown the dominions and to
get down to facts.
The statement linked South Africa
with Australia in the movement to bring
the conference down to brass tacks.
Havenga charged that Stanley Bald
win did not give true picture of the
situation when he declared last week
that the Union of South Africa had a
favorable trade balance against the
United Kingdom.
Hard Pressed For Time.
Many delegates already have begun
to talk of leaving here not later than
August IS and there was evidence today
that the subcommittees were preparing
to get down to serious trading.
Chief among the problems were:
Canada's inslstence on adequate pro-
lection for her own efficient" home
industries, and the concessions she is
willing to make in lower tariffs on in
coming British coal, steel products and
in, flrafarpnPp raTPS
for her own exports OF wheat, lumber,
copper, meats and fruits.
The reluctance of the British dele
CATION to raise a cry of food taxation"
at home by boosting the tariff wall on
imports from outside the empire in
favor of intra empire trade.
In spite of the difficulty of reaching
an agreement, most of the delegates,
except for those from India and the
Irish Free State, were reported fearful
of going home empty-handed and the
British especially were understood to
be particularly desirouS to reach some
kind of agreement with the dominions
to lower their preferential rates without
raising their general tariffs.
British Refusal Likely.
The chief question raised thus far is
how far Great Britain can go in break
ing what amounts almost to Danish
monopoly en- her bacon imports and a
virtual Argentine monopoly on chilled
beef.
Great Britain has promised nothing,
but rumors persist that she either Will
refuse entirely to shut off the South
American supply or will put Argentina
on a preferential basis in the event Of
O tariff on meat imports
Canadian copper producers are un-
derstood to have reached tentative
agreement with Rhodesian and South
African producers to ask Great Britain
for duty against foreign copper sut1l-
GENTLY high to prohibit competition.
The United States duty of 4 cents a
pound on the metal is said to have
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Evening star., 1932-08-01
BRAZILIAN TROOPS
TAKE 1876 REBELS
Sac Paulo Victory Reported, but
Enemy Forces Claim 500 Soldiers
Slain in Unnamed Location.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
RIO DE JANEIRO, August Fed
eral forces captured 126 Sac Paulo
rebels, including two officers, in a bat
tie on the eastern Sac PauIo frontier
yesterday, it was announced here today.
At the same time reports from Sac
Paulo said the rebels claimed to have
fought a battle, in an unnamed loca-
ton, in which the Federal losses we're
300 dead
The Federal troops which fought the
battle on the eastern front here crossed
the Ribeira River on the route to
Capella da Riberia, toward which they
were headed. At the same time troops
from the state of Goyaz captured
Corrientes, east of Campo Grande in
Matto Crosse and secured control Of
telegraph lines from Cuayaba, Matto
Crosse capital
Gen. Goes Monteiro reported that his
troops took the last rebel position in
the Sac Jose Do Berreiro sector near
Bananal and were advancing up the
Parahyba Valley.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
Reduction Linked With Dis
armament as Proper Ap-
proaCh to Subject.
EDGE MEANWHILE SEEKS
NEW COMMERCIAL PACT
Positive Results on War 0bliga.
tions Held Unlikely Until After
November Election.
BY the Associated Press.

6y the hSSOClaJeu FTeSSs
PARIS, August Representatives Of
the United States and France were pre-
pairing here today to lay the ground
work for understanding which would
pave the way for Americas considera-
ton of revision of war debts
Walter E. Edge, American Ambas-
sador, planned rapid negotiation of a
commercial treaty with France and it
was announced that negotiations be-
tween the two countries would be
opened soon to try to find formula
for disarmament, with special attention
to reduction of the size of the French
Army.
No Pressure Planned.
These two questions, the United
States was understood to have repre-
sented to the French government, pro-
vided the proper means Of approach to
revision Of the French debt to the
United States. but it was explained that
no official pressure would be brought
upon France to disarm.
On the other hand, France had con-
sented to let the debt question rest
for while, probably until after the
presidential election in the United
States. Her anxiety has not lessened,
however, to know whether there is a
good prospect that the debts will be
reduced to the level of the Lausanne
reparations settlement.
Effective Troops an Issue.
The immediate disarmament prob
lems is to find the basis for calculating
the limit of effective troops which
would be acceptable to the United
States, France and Great Britain and
to study the objections of Premier
Edouard Herriot to President Hoover's
plan to reduce ornaments one-third.
The premier held conference Sat-
urday with Ambassador Edge and
Norman H. Davis member of the Amer
ican delegation to the Arms Confer
ence, and after the conference Davis
and Senator Claude A. Swanson Of Vir-
ginia, his colleague on the disarmament
delegation. left for the United States.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
go HOME,' BUTLER
ADVISES MARCHERS
Retired Marine Declines invita-
tion of Johnstown Mayor to
Address B. E. F.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa, August /.
Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, retired, In
response to an invitation from Mayor
Eddie McCloskey of Johnstown to come
TO that city, today wired the mayor sug-
gesting the bonus marchers gathered
there be returned to their home States
and cared for by them.
Because of the turn of events, Gen.
Butler wired the mayor, his presence in
Johnstown would be worse than use
less"
Buffers message read:
Have Just received your invitation
to Johnstown. Am only too glad to
be of real help to soldiers, but in view
of present decided uncertainty OF food
supply to a great number In one place,
I am firmly convinced the only sure
and practical way at this time to help
them, particularly as there are many
women and children, Is to arrange
with their home States TO receive and
care for them.
I'm view of the turn OF events any
attempt at this time to keep them as
sennbled will not only discredit If not
completely wreck, their cause, but may
even lead to disaster to them individ-
ually Unless you contemplate return
ing them to the care Of their home
states fear nv presence in Johns
t,-n would be worse than useless
Rlsase advise me Of your plans"
Evening star., 1932-08-01
R|TCH|E STUDYING
B. f. .F.'S COLONY
WithhoIds Public Statement
Pending Conferences on
Gift to Marchers.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

OpCIldI DIopdlSl W 4DG StdI.
BALTIMORE, August Study of
the problem presented by the deciding
of a tract of land near Waterbury,
Anne Arundel County, for the use of
the Bonus Expeditionary Force is being
made today by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie
The Governor is in Baltimore con-
ferring with other State officials. He
made It clear today that whatever ac-
ton he might take would be taken de-
liberately after considering all angles
of the matter and after taking account
of the fact that some consideration and
sympathy is due the men.
He was not ready to make public
statement about the matter today, say
ing 1t was too important to be dis
cusSed until he had made himself mora
familiar with the plans growing out of
the gift of 25 acres and the offer of
up to 159 acres by Mrs. Maude Edgell
of Catonsville to w. w. Waters, for
merly commander at Camp Marks, on
the Anacostia fats in Washington. as
a sanctuary for the bonus marchers.
Won't Call Out Militia.
The Governor will not call out the
National Guard to have the B. E. r.
members moved on. Gov. Ritchie was
not entirely surprised by the possibility
that the marchers might assemble in
force in Maryland He has been OBJ
serving the Washington situation for
weeks. during which the camps were
located in that city, with the thought
that If those camps were broken up and
the men and women scattered, there
was considerable possibility that large
groups of them would establish them
selves in Maryland.
He is said to regard as very serious
the possibility that large numbers of
idle men, with no means of subsistence,
would establish themselves in this
State, especially at this time when the
State is faced by the problem of watch
ing the welfare of its own unemployed
The addition of the B. E. F. members
to these unemployed residents of Mary
land, who now need assistance, presents
problem which cannot be disposed of
without very serious thought, the Gov
ernor indicated.
Is CAMPED ON TRACT.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August IAN ex-
plosion in the subbasement of the Al
story Ritz Tower Hotel killed 4 fire
men today, injured 2 others so severely
they are expected to die and injured
less seriously Is other persons, includ-
ing women and 2 children.
The explosion, which occurred while
firemen were fighting a blaze in the
hotel paint shop three stories under
ground, brought ceilings on the lower
floors of the hotel crashing down and
blew in the fronts of shops which lined
the street level of the skyscraper.
Thousands of dollars worth Of
precious stones we're blown into the
debris-filled block of 57th street be-
TWEEN Park and Lexington avenues.
The fire was brought under control
after hours Of work.
One of the stores demolished was the
jewelry shop of Thomas Kirkpatrick, in
the Fifty y-seventh street side of the
hotel The whole frcnt was smashed in,
Evening star., 1932-08-01
BI IND GIRLS PASS SWIM TEST
BUT GET NO OFFICIAL BADGES
One Goes Through Rough Waves of Bay to Rescue
''Drowning" Chum.

for 80 girls. Miss Margaret Gradwohl,
herself the winner CT a life-saving GER
tificate, conducted them. Miss Grad
wohl is supervisor for the New York
Association for the Blind, which con-
ducts the camp.
A girl swan so yards out. She cried;
Help" Through the water streaked
pretty little Dorothy Curtis, IA. her
bobbed hair beating from side to side
against the rough waves of the bay
Guided only by the cries Of the girl
supposed to be in distress. she reached
her objective, secured the proper hold
and pulled back to shore with her
charge.
The girls are not allowed to dive
They must jump in at the surface, feel
the water at their feet 1t pleased them
to be told that should the occasion
arise they could save life-certicflcate
or no certificate.
Evening star., 1932-08-01
BABY GRAVELY ILL
AFTER BONUS RIOTS
11-Week-Old Infant of B. E. F.
Family Suffers Relapse-Tear Gas
Bomb Bursting Nearby Blamed.

An 11-week-old baby from the bonus
army is in critical condition at Gal
linger Hospital, where physicians were
told by the parents that the child, re-
covering from an illness, suffered a re-
lapse after the explosion nearby of a
gas bomb during the Thursday eviction.
The child, Bernard Myers. has a
stomach and intestinal disorder. DR.. j.
A. Kelk. the assistant superintendent at
Gallinger, said today that the parents,
who are from Pittsburgh. said the in
fant was on the way to recovery until
the gassing
DR.. Kelk said there was possibility
that the gas had aggravated the i'll
ness, that at any rate lit didn't do 1t
any good.''