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Evening star., 1934-08-26
R|OTING CONV|CTS
AWAIT TRANSFER
200 Will Be Moved From
Graterford After Loss
of 100000.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
COLLEGEvILLE, Pa, August as
Two hundred rampaging convicts
were corraled in a wire-inclosed
freight siding at the Graterford
Prison Farm Of the Eastern Peniten-
tiary tonight to await transfer to the
Cherry Hill branch of the prison
in Philadelphia. State police, high
way patrolmen and guards kept watch
over them after a riotous three hours.
Fires started by the prisoners and
other destructive tactics caused q
loss of 100000, 1t was said officially,
but not shot was fired. There were
no serious casualties, and none Of the
cQnvicts escaped.
Warden Is Awaited.
DR.. Guy T. Holcome, president Of
the prison Board of Trustees, said he
was awaiting return of Warden Her
bert Smith from Quantico. Va, be-
fore the transfer from the model
prison" at Graterford to the old
Cherry Hill institution.
Rev. Joseph Kenny, acting chap
plain, approached the inclosure this
evening and asked the prisoners to
join him in prayer.
Their only replies were cries of I'VE
want food and tobacco
DR.. Holcombe said he did not know
what started the outbreak, but added
an investigation is beginning with
out delay.
Although the expansive prison
grounds confines more than 1900
convicts, only a small fraction Of
them participated, he said. The
Graterford Prison was built q few
years ago to relieve crowded condi-
tins.
This thing broke at S:45 am" DR..
Holcombe said. For what reason
we do not know yet.
LAS near as we can find out, one of
the trucks inside the prison wall
pulled up to the kitchen platform.
The truck was loaded with 40 men,
The trouble started inside the kitchen
and thousands of dollars worth Of
damage was done.
Kitchen in Terrible Shape.
Everything is broken and smashed
and the kitchen is in terrible shape.
The rioting spread to G, D and E
cell blocks and more damage was
done in those blocks.
In the industrial plant, operated
by the welfare department, was thou
sands of dollars worth of new ma
chinery that had never turned a
wheel. That has been wrecked.
Then a barn inside the wall,
known as No. II, was set on fire.
About noon 200 of the prisoners,
armed with clubs and bars of iron
and tools, who apparently are respon-
sible for the riot, after doing all the
destruction they could in the cell
blocks, got on a hill and defied the
guards to come and get them.
"At this point, Capt. Leitheiser
deputy warden in charge) called on
Maj. Adams of the State police for
reinforcements. Forty State police
men arrived in 10 cars and more are
being held in reserve nearby.
THE rioters on the hill were cowed
by machine guns and rifles in the
hands of the State police, searched
for weapons and then were locked up
in cells for such desperate characters.
Evening star., 1934-08-26
BANKHEAD JOINS
.SPEAKERSH|P RACE
Representative Formally
Announces Candidacy
at Birmingham.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, August as
Representative William B. Bankhead
today entered the lists for Speaker Of
the House with formal announce
ment of his candidacy.
His statement, which included an
assertion of confidence in his chances
of election, was issued on his return
from the funeral of the man he will
endeavor to succeed, the late Henry
T. Rainey Of Illinois.
Bankhead's formal entry completes
the roll Of major candidates for the
Office from the South, list which in
cludes Representatives Joe Byrns of
Tennessee, Democratic floor leader;
Sam Rayburn of Texas, John E. Ran
kin of Mississippi and Lindsay War
rem of North Carolina.
Friends Of the Alabama candidate
who was beaten for the floor leader
ship by Byrns by 141-to-140 vote
last year after Rainey had defeated
Bankhead's colleague and supporter,
Representative John McDuffie for the
Speakership, say his chances hinge on
the number of votes he can get from
she Northern group.
They profess to believe his support
N Southern delegations will be strong.
Bankhead himself, in making his
announcement, said he had been
given many assurances of support. 4"
A comparison Of Bankhead with
Byrns, admittedly the man to beat
for the Speakership. shows many
similarities.
Byrns was a member of the Ten
nessee Legislature and was Speaker of
the House of that body in 1899. Bank
head was a member of the Alabama
Legislature in 1900.
Each was born in the State he
represents in Congress, Byrns IS years
ago at Cedar Hill, Tenn, and Bank
head in Lamar County, Ala, so years
ago.
Both were members Of Congress
during the World War, Bankhead as
a new member and Byrns as a veteran
serving his fourth term.
Evening star., 1934-08-26

Foster recounted with considerable
venom the booriShneSS OF various
Congressman.
One, a Philadelphia butcher, he
asserted, sent his underwear home
under frank to be laundered by his
wife. He was assured that the weight
made little difference.
Another replied to President Madi-
sons invitation to dinner: Il won't
eat with you cause you won't eat
with me-"
He found one relief from the
monotony Of Washington at the
Georgetown race track. Farmers
fairs were held at the track. Once he
met Mr.. Madison walking back with
a new waistcoat he had purchased.
Descriptions of
Indians a Classic.
His description of the Cherokee
Indians is a classic of its kind:
II had some opportunity of getting
acquainted with Indians during my
residence in the Federal City Mr..
Jefferson was as much attached to
them because they were savages as If
they had been his own children. He
paid them infinitely more attention
than he ever vouchsafed foreign
minister.
when I went to visit party of
Cherokee they all rose from the
ground where they had been seated
in conversation. They had the ap-
pearance of coachmen, each being
dressed in a blue coat with a red
collar, and gold lace about the hat.
They had also pantaloons and moe
casins, and one was smoking a pipe
that served on occasions as hatchet.
They had by them some blow-guns,
about seven feet long and very thin,
through which they can blow with
great force an arrow ID inches long
and kill a squirrel with it. They use
a reed for the purpose, hardened in
fire at one end, the down of thistle
being fastened to the other"
Evening star., 1934-08-26
NINE ALASKAN FLYERS
REACH PACIFIC BASE
10,0OO-Mile Flight Ended Save
for Single Lap to New Per-
manent Station.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RIVERSIDE, Calf, August 25.-
Lieut.. Col. Henry H. Arnold, COM
mander of the 1o,0o0-mile Alaskan
flight of the United States Army
Corps, and his squadron of pilots who
few the nine giant bombers on the
trip were welcomed by the air base
personnel and throngs Of citizens as
the armada returned to March Field
here today.
Lieut.. Col. Arnold, commanding Of
ficer Of the air base, directed the
training and mapping Of the flight to
Fairbanks, Alaska, and return.
Tomorrow the bombers will be flown
TO Rockwell Field, San Diego, where
they win be stationed permanently.
Evening star., 1934-08-26
SPIDER SCORPION FIGHT
TERM MINATED BY S.P. c. A.

BY the Associated Press.
LONG BEACH, Calf, August 25.-
The Society for Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals ruled today a fight be-
tween a deadly black widow spider
and a poisonous scorpion constituted
cruelty ana brought an end to the
four-day battle.
Both insects were put to death with
chloroform.
The society complained to the city
prosecutor. He telephoned the C. A.
Pastorious garage, where the battle
has been going on In dark corner
Mr.. r. Patterson, q painter, dropped
chloroform on the foes.
Evening star., 1934-08-26
PRESIDENT SILENT
ON RUSSIAN DEBTS
Moore Explains Deadlock
Over Payment of Amer
can Claims.

President Roosevelt got the Inside
story" of stalemated Soviet-American
negotiations for settlement of To-
year-old debts and claims yesterday
by r. Walton Moore, acting Secre-
tary of State. The President withheld
comment.
Moore, with Secretary Hull. has
been representing the United States
in the negotiations with Alexander
Troyanovsky, Soviet Ambassador.
1t was disclosed that payment OF
approximately s40o, 200, 900 in claims
of American citizens for property al
legedly confscated by the Soviet was
responsible for the disruption of
efforts for a settlement.
Negotiations Break Down.
The negotiations, after seven
day when the State Department made
known that It could not accept the
proposal submitted by Ambassador
Troyanovsky.
State Department officials declined
to clarity the situation. It was not
denied, however, that the American
and Russian viewpoints were far
apart.
The claims involved have been filed
than 1000 American individuals and
corporations. When combined with
debts, including the Treasury's loan
to the provisional Kerensky govern
ment, the total involved surpasses
$500, 100000. No oficial figures, how
ever, have been announced.
Outstanding Claims.
The State Department has never
made public the names of the claim
ants against the Soviet but it is un-
derstood some of the outstanding
claims are: International Harvester
Co., 6o,00o,0o gold rubles; Westing-
house Electric & Manufacturing Co.,
400, 100000 gold rubles; Singer Sew
ing Machine Co., $25, 900 900; Vacuum
Oil Co., $4,500,o00.
Other claims are understood to have
been made by Babcock & Wilson
Corp, Otis Elevator Co., New York
Life Insurance Co. and the Equitable
Life Insurance Co.
The Soviet Union is understood to
have sought long-term credits or q
cash loan as an integral part of the
debt agreement. Secretary Hull has
opposed granting any extensive credit
arrangements until the debt agree
ment became an accomplished fact.
Considerable confusion surrounds
the entire negotiations because of
the secrecy shrouding both Russian
and American proposals and because
of the refusal of officials to make def
mite statements concerning the actual
points at issue.
Evening star., 1934-08-26
PILOTS SEARCHERS SEE
SECOND BODY IN LAKE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WINNIPEG, August 25.-A second
body was sighted floating in the
waters of Lake Winnipeg late today
by aerial searchers hunting for Pilot
George Mackie and his mechanic, Len
Blackwell, Northwest Aero Marine
flyers, unreported for eight days in
Northeastern Manitoba.
Pilot C. T. Travers sighted the body.
but because of rough water on the
lake could not land his plane.
Last night searchers discovered a
body believed to be that Of Harry
Sigurdson, 35-year-old Pine Falls resi-
dent, who had been missing 10 days.
The body apparently had been In the
water some time.
Evening star., 1934-08-26
Prisoners Concentrated.

TOXIC, August 26 Sunday R.-
New arrests Of minor Soviet employees
of the Chinese Eastern Railway on
Friday and Saturday brought the
total since authorities began making
arrests, on August l3, to 72.
Those arrested charged with foment-
ing intrigue against Manchukuo and
japan, we're being brought in from
various stations along the Eastern lint
of the railway and concentrated A.
Harbin. according to Japanese dir
patches.
Evening star., 1934-08-26
CLERGY ARRESTED
IN GERMAN STRIFE
Secret Police Press Cam
paign Against Opponents ,
of Reichbishop.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, August 25.-A new "in-
QUESTION" repeatedly directed at op-
ponents of NaA Reichsbishop Ludwig
Mueller's official German Protestant
Church, tonight fed fuel to the
flames of Germany's bitter church
controversy.
Secret police are busily engaged in
arresting dissenting pastors, the re-
ports said, and quizzing them on
three issues-their attitude toward
Mueller, their attitude toward the
Nazi government and their belief in
AryaniSm.
Some of those found wanting, 1t
was said, were sent to prison.
Others were forbidden to communi-
cate with their congregations in any
way.
New Commandments Issued.
Meanwhile, Prof. Jacob Wilhelm
Hauer's revived German faith move
ment, emulating Nazi eugenists, who
issued 10 commandments rational
izing" love and marriage, handed
down an "Aryan nine command
ments," urging loyalty to the race.
Honor the Deity adherents Of
the so-called paganist movement were
told, but also honor thine ancestors
and thy people and honor the great
ones of thy people"
While churchmen hoped against
hope that Chancellor Adolf Hitler,
speaking at CoblenZ tomorrow, would
say something to clarity the church
muddle, pastors quizzed by the secret
police were reported To have defied
Mueller almost unanimously.
Held UntrustwOrthy.
They did not consider Mueller
trustworthy, many were said to have
replied; they did not believe his die
tatorial position constitutional; they
did not think his national synod"
was legal.
AS to Hitlerism, they supported its
politics and worldly measures, but
they also were quoted as saying that
Christ was a Jew before he preached
the gospel"
They have let it be known, how
ever, that they will consider no COM
promise.
Prepared to Suffer.
1--WE are prepared to endure any
hardship" the wife Of one pastor was
quoted as saying. Nothing can shake
our belief in God We know we are
in the hands of the Lord, who will
/ guide us and our followers through
the darkness of these days"
Some Catholic quarters rested easy
tonight in the belief that there would
be no interference on the part of the
Nazi party until after the Saar
plebiscite next January, lest voters
in that largely Catholic district
might cast their ballots against re-
union with Germany.
Evening star., 1934-08-26

He gives a new version Of the build
ing of the White House;
The Presidents house was erected
own the plan OF the Duke of Leinster' S
house in Dublin, which, being shown
to Gen. Washington, was approved OF
by him. The Irishman, who had been
but a journeyman under the real
architect and designer of the building
was appointed to superintend the con-
struction. He left out the upper
story and built no cellars, which Presi-
dent Jefferson, after extremely great
losses in his wines, has been Obliged
to add at a depth of 16 feet under
ground. These are so cool that the
thermometer stood two degrees lower
in them than it did in vacant spot
in the ice house early in July when
in the shade out of doors it was
at 96.
Grounds Appear
Untouched by Spade.
"The room we were shown into was
ill-furnished There were some In
dian ornaments and Hooker pipe -
ing on the table and two prints or
the walls-an apotheosis of Gen
Washington and another representing
him surrounded by his family. The
grounds about the house are surround
ed by a common wooden paling. They
seem never to have been touched by
spade or pickax To the right Is a
square, brick building in which are
the Treasury Offices and to the left
the Department of Foreign Affairs
where the Secretary of State received
US in very Indifferent little room >
Thus frankly he portrays President
Jefferson:
He was a tall man with very ed
freckled face and gray, neglected hair
His manner was good-natured, frank
and rather friendly, although he had
a somewhat cynical expression oil
couritenance. He wore a blue coat
and Q thick, gray-colored, hairy waist
coat with a red under-waistcoat
Tapped over 1t, green velveteer
breeches with pearl buttons, yarn
stockings and slippers down at the
heel, his appearance being much like
that Of tall, large-boned farmer.
Offended Moore
On Being introduced.
"He said he washed his feet as
often as he did his hands, in order
Evening star., 1934-08-26
Pastor Gets Divorce.

Ell PASO Tex, August rs P.-
DR. Elroy Jeffrey Jennings, who re-
Gently resigned as rector of the Epis-
copal Church Of the Atonement Of
Brooklyn and went to Juarez. Mexico.
to obtain a divorce from Bertha Marie
Howell Jennings, received the decree
today in the Juarez Civil Court.
Evening star., 1934-08-26
Milwaukee Vandals
Throw Numbered
Bricks Into Stores
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, August
25.-Vandals are keeping their
records straight by labelling and
numbering the bricks which they
hurl from automobiles through
windows Of grocery stores.
A missile inscribed "Scab Brick
No. 2" Tuesday night shattered
a pane in Paul Krause's store,
and "Scab Brick No. 8" was pre-
sented to Louis Zbieranek.
As yet police haven't caught up
with "Scab Brick No. l."
Authorities believe the brick
tossing is part Of a campaign OF
intimidation to stop grocers from
selling bread made by bakeries
where strikes are In progress.
Evening star., 1934-08-26
BEE STING LEADS MAN
TO SET WOODS AFIRE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPOKANE, Wash August 25.-The
sting of bee was blamed tonight for
a fire that ragged over TOO acres near
here before it was controlled by the
entire membership of the seven-mile
c. c. c. camp.
George Paige, camp superintendent,
said an unidentified man, stung by a
bee, decided to wreak vengeance on
the whole tribe of bees by wiping
them out with fire.
Evening star., 1934-08-26
Italy Feels Earth Shock.

FLORENCE. Italy, August rs C0.-
A strong earth shock was felt at s:45
o'clock tonight throughout Tuscany,
on the west central coast of Italy.
The tremor spread alarm among the
populace, but there was no damage
Evening star., 1934-08-26
DIES AT REUNION
William Ditmars, Former Ohio
Legislator, Expires.

WHITEHOUSE, N, j.. August rs
R.-William Ditmars, 73, Of Holmes
vile, Ohio, former member Of the
Ohio House Of Representatives, died
today while addressing q reunion OF
the Ditmars-Stryker Association al
the George w. Cole farm near here
Ditmars was first elected to the
Ohio Legislature in 1910 and was re
elected several times.
Evening star., 1934-08-26
Leaves From Old Diaries
An Early British ENJOY Giues His
O,Cn Version of HOlU the White
House Vas Built.
ARTICLE I

This is the first of series of
articles to appear daily under the
above title. The second tDtU appear
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1934-08-26
Hero Honored Again.

Firemen w. Patterson Of Cardii.
Wales, has received his second certif-
cate for nfe-saving from the Royal
Humane Society.
Evening star., 1934-08-26
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

Y Y YASH1NGTON was luSty,
A ! obstreperous village when
NM Sir Augustus John Foster,
Y British Minister at the out
break of the War Of 1912
and secretary Of the British legation
from 1905 to 1907, wrote a book on
the United States.
1t was never published. The manu-
script has just come into the Library
of Congress. The Englishlnan didn't
draw his punches. He portrayed men
and things as he saw them, from
Thomas Jefferson down to the Con-
gressmen who sought to ingratiate
themselves with their Democratic con-
situents by stepping on the dress train
of the British envoy's wife.
Evening star., 1934-08-26
MONEY BASE INCREASES
Reichsbank Adds to Foreign Cur.
rency Coverage.

BERLIN, August Is R.-Foreign
currency coverage increased one-half
Of / per cent to 2.23 during the past
week, the Reichsbank report today
showed.
While gold reserves declined sc, 1000
reichmarks to $4,000, 900, foreign cur
rency backing increased by 100000
reichmarks TO 3,4oo.oo0.
Evening star., 1934-08-26
REVOLT AWAITING
ORDERS BY HITLER.
VIENNA NAZI SAYS

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-08-24
PORTS ARE CLOSED
TO GAS RUNNER
Tanker Goes to Sea as Lawyers
Fail to Establish Legality
of Its Cargo.

BY the Associated Press.
AS Federal and State officials main
tanned a vigilant watch along the
Pacific Coast for the oil tanker
Papoose, Secretary Ickes was advised
today by the oil administration that
an effort of the ships attorneys to
establish legality Of her gasoline cargo
had failed.
Federal authorities said the cargo,
on the basis of available information,
was virtually all illegal.
The tanker, which sailed from
Houston, Tex, July 80, was prevented
from discharging its cargo at San
Francisco and now is on the seas
again.
Ickes said it was loaded from the
terminal of the American Petroleum
Co. and operated by that firm, with
headquarters at Houston.
Ickes said the dumping of the
Papoose's cargo in the Pacific Coast
area would destroy Immediately the
stability just established there under
the newly approved Pacific Coast
agency agreement designed to take
care of the surplus gasoline which
already has accumulated in the ter
ritory.
Il have instructed the agencies Of
the oil administration" Ickes said,
Ito take whatever steps are necessary,
in cooperation with the Department
of Justice and other Federal and
State authorities. to prevent the land
ing Of the cargo aboard the Papoose.
Evening star., 1934-08-24
S0WET-JAPANESE
SHOWDOWN NEAR
Sharp Russian Note Demands
Action on Arrests Of Rail-
road Employees.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, August 25.-Years of diff
ferences between Russia and Japan
over the Chinese Eastern Railway, key
to a great slice of the Orient, came
close to q showdown today.
Eyes Of the Soviet and of foreign
embassies here were on Toxic, to which
Moscow has addressed blunt protest
for the arrest of scores of its citizens
along the railway.
A note given to Japan Wednesday by
the Soviet Ambassador said Similar,
and of late often repeated, demonStra-
tons of the Japanese war ministry,
parallel with actions in Manchuria,
testify to the aggravation Of the ag-
gressive intentions of some official Jap
anese circles"
THE government of the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics expects the
japanese government will make all
necessary inferences."
A similar protest also has been
lodged with the independent" state of
Manchukuo. created by Japan out of
territory taken from China.
Russia demanded steps toward the
release Of 88 Soviet officials and en-
ployes of the Chinese Eastern Railway
in the note presented at Harbin.
Evening star., 1934-08-24

BY the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, August "a
Aristocratic Hungary was stirred to
romantic depths today by the mar
riage yesterday of Gen. Julius
Goemboes, the 4s-year-old premier.
He remarked his first wife and
the mother of his three children after
his second wife died.
Every one thought the country's
dictator was SO irreconcilibly grieved
over the death of his second wife,
who was strikingfy beautiful and
young, that he never would go to
the altar again, but her death eventu-
ally rekindled the premier's love for
his first soulmate, who is 49,
when I took office as premier,
said Gen Goemboes, IT said my task
was to build a new soul for the
Hungarian nation. find today that
not only nations but individuals need
new souls.
THAT Is why decided to seek
again the heart-love and comforting
presence of my first wife and our
three children. It is q case of re-
found and reunited love-"
Evening star., 1934-08-24
COED CASE GOES /
. TO Jury MONDAY
Special Session Called to
Probe Alabama Girls
Death.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. August "a
A special session Of the grand jury
to investigate the staying Of Faye
New. Howard College coed, was
called for Monday today by Judge
Russell McElroy.
AS Judge McElroy issued his call,
Police Chief Luther Hollums, who has
been directing the investigation Of
the case, said I'VE are ready to take
the affair before a jury.
Harold Taylor, the girls escort on
an automobile ride Monday night
from which she did not return. has
been charged with the crime by police.
Solicitor George Lewis Bales, with
whom Judge McElroy conferred be-
fore calling the special session. said
he would ask that the trial Of any
person or persons indicted in the case
be set for September IT.
The solicitor said his ofice re-
uuested the special session TO give
more time to prepare case If indict-
ments are returned" The grand
jury was to meet in regular session
September 4.
The solicitor and attaches of his
Office have been gathering evidence
in the case since Wednesday, the day
the le-year-old coed, was found In a
ditch, her throat slashed.
In his first interview with news
paper men, Taylor today renewed
denials that he killed the girl.
IT haven't confessed and am not
going to confess because I haven't
anything to confess" he said.
IT told the police everything know
about this case. The last saw OF the
girl was when she ran into the woods,
and would not agree to my calls TO
come back to the car.
Il told her to come back and I
would take her home" he continued
IT did not have q knife" Taylor
replied in answer to q question.
AS officers continued their search
for new evidence in the mystery, A b.
Cain, Miss News suitor, told news
paper men he followed the Taylor
automobile Monday night because I
was jealous"