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NATION-WIDE ‘PLOT’ TO RUIN BANKS PROBED Traylor Says Campaign to Destroy Confidence Known for Months. RED LINK IS CHARGED Detroit Police Hunt for Alleged Communist Head of Drive. fill I ii 1 1 "I Press CHICAGO, July 27.—Melvin A. Traylor, president of the First National bank of Chicago, chargedtoday that a nation-wide plot to j destroy public confidence in banks has been ;n operation for many weeks. Meantime, George Rowland, alias George. Salzman, wanted by Michigan police in connection with a reported communistic plot to blast the banks of the middle west through destruction of public confidence, was reported either in Chicago or en route here. “There is not the slightest doubt that persons seeking the overthrow' of the American banking system have carried on their attacks in all parts of the country,” Traylor said. I "They have worked through anonymous letters, anonymous telephone calls, false rumors and in other ways. "I believe the recent runs on the First National and other Chicago banks were caused, at least in part, by this destructive and subversive campaign.” ‘Red" Leader Sought fill I hited Press DETROIT, July 27.—Hunt for George Rowland, alias George Salzman, wanted by police in connection with a purported Communist plot to disrupt confidence in American banks, centered in Chicago today. Rowland left his hotel in Pontiac, Mich., Saturday noon to meet William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for President, on his arrival in Detroit, police say. Word was left with the hotel management to forward mail or parcels to him C. O. D., care of general delivery, Chicago, Captain Ira H. Marmon of the Michigan state police, said. Marmon was to begin a series of conferences today with Commissioner Oscar Olander of the state police. Prosecutor Clarence Smith of Oakland county, and officials of the First National bank in Pontiac, Mich., to determine whether federal aid would be sought in the case. Phone Wires Tapped Following a series of false rumors concerning banks in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, Howland arrived in Pontiac two weeks ago and began a campaign to discredit the solvency of the First National bank there. Marmon said. His activities were revealed by listening to his telephone conversations at a hotel. Seized documents told of ‘‘considerable run on jugs ibanks* in the Chicago loop. Big accounts, nervous and soon will be panicky. Rowland signed his correspondence “G. R., director of education and propaganda." Marmon declared. Faces Felony Charge In event the federal government does not intervene, Marmon said, Rowland would be returned to Pontiac. if captured and charged in two counts of syndicalism, and the spreading of false rumors, a felony in the state of Michigan. Rowland divided his scene of operations into districts, Marmon claimed. Illinois was district 6; Ohio, district 8 and Michigan, district 7. False telephone calls made under fictitious names played a major role in the campaign to undermine banks, Marmon said. DRINKS NO WATER IN 50 YEARS: DIES AT 94 Civil War Veteran Was Active Until Time of His Demise. By United Press SEA CLIFF. L. 1.. July 27.—William B. Draper, who boasted until his death in his ninety-foucth year that he lived so long because he hadn’t taken a drink of water in fifty years, wilt be buried Thursday. The Civil war veteran, in the Mteen years before his death Tuesnight, built himself a bungalow-, irned to drive an automobile, and ook his first ride in an airplane. Incidentally, he married a second time, v

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Wheat Queen Threatens Farm Revolt in Kansas fiy t. sited Press * KANSAS CITY, Mo.. July 27.—The people of Kansas will revolt “if something is not done about this farm board,” wheat queen told the congressional committee, investigating government interference with private enterprise, Her sleeves rolled above bare arms, tanned and strong. Mrs. Eda Watkins of Sublette, who seeds 4.soo’arres f wheat ec.cn season. pounded the table as she emphasized her remarks. “I just want to kick the devil oi!t of the farm board.” she said to Representative Josfeph B. Shannon <Mo., committee chairman. A large group of wheat growers, who had come to the hearing with Mrs. Watkins, nodded approval. "No matter whether Hoover or Roosevelt is elected, if something is not done there will be a revolt," Mrs. Watkins continued: “That is what the people of Kansas are talking about. • “I don't want the government in any line of business. The farmer will presper if those devils in congress will cut out having farm legislation,” she said. ' Shannon asked if the wheat farmer, in her opinion, was capable of taking care of himself. "You bet your life he is,” was the reply. Mrs. Watkins, asked what she blamed for the farm depression, said: “The doggoned. damnable interference of government in business. I am holding around 40.000 bushels of wheat from last year's crop and the mortgages are going to take every acre of my grain land if something doesn't happen soon."

WHEAT PRICES ' BOUND UPWARD Public Buying Is Seen in September Deals. fiy I ii tied Press NEW YORK, July 27.—Stocks, bonds and grains resumed their advance on a broad front today, prices in many instances exceeding the highs attained early this week. Stocks and bonds rose 1 to more than 4 points. Wheat rose more than 2 cents a mushel. fill I nilrd Press CHICAGO. July 27.—September wheat prices boorfied 2' g cents today on the Chicago Board of Trade with indications that the public is beginning to come back into the market. September fr,lures closed at 51' 2 cents per bushel, almost a nickel higher than the low of last week. Persistent buying by commission houses and professionals boosted the price to the high and held it within a fraction oi lhat mark until the close. i The commission house activity indicated the public's money, so long absent from the pit, was beginning to flow- back, which was in turn heralded as another bright .spot on the business horizon. Most observers are agreed that a Pam •away from the depression will come first- in rising commodity prices. Recent rises in livestock prices, and today’s spurt in wheat, were hailed by market optimists as a turn for the better. The prices swept upward despite the stop-loss orders of short sellers, who had figured the market to go dow'n. '

ATLEE POMERENE, OHIO DEMOCRAT, NEW HEAD OF RECONSTRUCTION BOARD

BY HENRY F. MISSELWITZ United Tress Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 27.—President Hoover's bombshell action in giving Democrats control of the $3,800,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corporation was hailed by - Republicans today as smart political strategy, tending to remove the reconstruction corporation from the political arena, and spike some of the Democratic campaign guns.

The President Po m trene, i p r om in ent Ohio Demo- i crat, as new -Hair man of j the corppra■t i o n directorate. This gives | the Democrats four of the ! even places on the board, reversing the previous lineup. Some Democrats had inj tended to cen- | ter the campaign fire on

i the reconstruction corporation, arguing that the administration chiefly was aiding bankers and big ‘business rather than the “man in the street.” Speaker John N. Garner, Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee, has stressed this contention. Now Mr. Hoover, at the outset of • the campaign, has put on the Democrats the major share in managing the government’s far-reaching unemployment relief and business stimulation drive. Democratic congressional leaders were dazed by the President's surprise move, but professed to be unworried by its political aspects. Henry T. Rainey, Democartic leader of the house, said it showed the Republicans did not have a man

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REVOKE CHURCH RADID PERMIT Utility Wins First Battle in Broadcast War. First skirmish in the battle of the Rev. Morris H. Coers, pastor of the Thirty-First Street Baptist church, to establish a radio broadcasting station has been won by the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, Mr. Coers’ multi-million-aire opponent. This w ; as learned today with receipt of a message from James W. Baldwin, secretary of the federal radio commission at Washington, which states Mr. Coers’ station permit had been revoked. This was done automatically, according to Baldwin, under rules of the commission and"after the objections of the Indianapolis utility were filed. Mr. Coers’ petition for the station now stands as it did two weeks ago. before the commissioh had. issued an operating permit. Officials of the church and hundreds of persons and musical organizations, interested in Mr. Coers’ proposal to broadcast only religious and the higher grade of musical programs, are supporting the 23-year-old pastor in his battle to establish the station. Letters have been received by The Times from several north side persons stating their desire for a station which would transmit something more than “advertising and jazz programs.” Mr. Coers believes he will be able to enlist sufficient support to regain his permit at a hearing before the federal commission.

good enough to head the corporation. Rainey insisted the Republicans Still would have to stand responsible for the relief program, because “the President had his own way about the kind of relief law we should have. If it fails, the responsibility wilL.be his. He can’t dodge it.” Pomerene. former United States senator and government counsel in the Teapot Dome oif cases, succeeds Chairman Eugene Meyer of the federal reserve board as head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation board. Pomerene is 69. He retired from the senate in 1923. ROBS HOTEL GUEST Bandit Uses Pillowcase to Silence Victim. Harry Yunghaus of Vincennes reported to police today that nis room in the Claypool hotel was entered by a bandit Tuesday night, who robbed him of about $35 at the point of a Revolver. The bandit tied Yunghaus 1 hands and feet, drew a pillowcase over his head, and escaped, he reported. GARBO ~READY - TO~ SAIL sll,ooo-a-Week Job Awaits Return From Sweden, Says Gossip. By United Press fJEW YORK, July 27.—Greta Garbo, film actress, will sail Saturday to spend the summer in Sweden, but will return to the United States in the autumn and resume her motion picture work. 1 According to Broadway gossip, she already is under coitfract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Tor continued production, at a reputed salary of SII,OOO weekly.

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LEADER SAYS GERMANY KEY j TO PROSPERITY Von Papen Urges Restoring of His Nation to ‘Place in Sun.’' EQUALITY IS DEMANDED ‘Speediest-Road Back to World Recovery’ Mapped by Chancellor. The first Interview Chancellor Franz von Paoen of Germany has given since he assumed virtual dictatorship of Germany. was granted today exclusively to tße United Press. In a straightforward, outspoken talk, the man who wields the power of a Bismark or a kaiser, told of his views of the way to world recovery. BY HUGH BAILLIE Executive Vice-President. United Press Associations (Copyright. 1932. in all Countries by the United Press, Reproduction in Whole or in Part Prohibited.) BERLIN, July 27.—The speediest road back to world recovery of prosperity is to restore Germany’s place in the sun. Chancellor Franz von Papen said today in an exclusive interview with the United Press. The world’s prosperity, he said, never will be restored until Germany resumes her place among the nations as gi moral, political and economic equal—a buyer, manufac- 1 turer and seller of goods and a big ucstomer in the world's market. “My government,” he said, “is convinced that its primary task is to recapture the economic and political placq in inernational life to which Germany is entitled. “By fulfilling this function, we would not only enable Europe to cope effectively with its tremendous difficulties, but would also go far toward solving the world's economic crisis. “This means, of course, that monstrous discriminations imposed upon I us on the basis of the Versailles ] treaty must be rectified in the inter- ] est of the world. Assails “War Guilt Lie” “For instance, the treaty’s moral j discriminations against Germany as exemplified by the ‘war guilt lie, and seizure of our colonies on the supposition we were worse colonizers than anybody else must be abolished. “Germany’s struggle against the ; discriminations of the so-called peace treaties will be carried on re- j lentlessly. “In order to hasten the rehabili- I tation of Germany and the world, | besides the essential removal of tariff barriers obstructing world commerce, the European powers can help greatly by meeting President Hoover’s suggestion for reduction of armaments.” The interview was given in the new chancellery building in historic Wilhelmstrasse, where the chancellor received the writer and Frederick Kuh, central European manager of the United Press. He replied candidly in fluent, arresting ] English to questions asked by both, j His Manner Is Informal The chancellor bears no resem- | blance whatever to the monocled junker figure sometimes depicted. Far from wearing a monocle, he | used horn-rimmed spectacles. He has a stooped, studious air of a professor rather than that of a bristling army officer. <He bears the title lieutenant-colonel.) His manner is informal and he j has an easy way as he answers j questions in a disarmingly frank, | (Turn to Page Three) ORDER FOR EVICTION OF BONUS CAMP FAILS Washington Police Head Refuses to Eject Crusaders. fijl Uniter! Press WASHINGTON. July 27.—The expected eviction of 1.800 bonus army' veterans from government buildings j near the capital failed to material- j ize today when Police Superintendent Pelham D. Glassford said he was without orders to clear the grounds. Glassford permitted the men to remain in their billets. Wrecking contractors, scheduled to begin razing the buildings after they had been emptied of the veterans. abandoned plans to proceed; immediately with the work. The peaceful and inconclusive j climax to the government’s attempts to get the veterans out of, the ramshackle buildings left the next move up to the treasury, which thus far has been unsuccessful in finding an agency to enforce its decrees. Hoover Headquarters to Open By United Press NEW YORK, July 27.—President I Hoover's eastern campaign headquarters will be opened next Monday in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel i here.

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Mrs. Theodore Eviston. her daughter Barbara. 3, and Kiup, pet police dog, which attacked the child.

COURT MAY USE PATERNITY TEST Blood Anaylsis Proposed in Support Suit. Whether a father, who denies parentage, must support a 6-year-old daughter today caused juvenile court authorities to turn to medical science for a solution of the case. Confronted with the mother's petition for support and the father’s denial, the court, for the first time in its history, may resort to a blood test to determine parentage. Howard Griffin, 37, of 319 Cleveland avenue, declares “the child ig net my own.” • The mother, Mrs. Margaret Griffin Horn, 24, of 3525 Roosevelt avenue, after fighting for support money in three courts, has reopened the battle in juvenile court. Barbara, the daughter, was born while Mrs. Horn was married to Griffin, she says. They were divorced in October, 1926, four months after the child's birth. In court, Griffin testified he “did not want children” and that he “will be glad to submit to a blood tst to prove I am not the father.” Since the divorce, Mrs. Horn has remarried and has another child by the second husband. Continuing the case until Monday, Russell Newgent, judge pro tern., declared he might? demand the blood test. Two Die in Dynamite Blast fill Ini ted Press ELECTRA. Tex.. July 27.—The dynamite plant of the United States Torpedo Company, three miles east of’ here, exploded today and two men were killed.

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Wife Took Husband’s Child by Young Girl Into „ Home as Own. A deception carried to her grave by a wife, to protect the name of her husband, was bared in juvenile court today. So well did she achieve her purpose that even her immediate relatives believed until today that she was the mother of a child which, in reality, belonged to a girl whom her husband had wronged. Attempt of the mother of the year-old baby to claim him revealed the deception. And in juvenffe court the child was adjudged that of Theata Harris, 16-year-old student in a Negro high school in St. Louis. Miss Harris produced a birth certificate to prove that she is the

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A DISILLUSIONED little girl with a bandaged head is quiet today in her home at 620 Fletcher avenue. She may be wondering why Kuip, the police dog with which she had played since her crawling da5 r s and through the toddling stage, turned on her Tuesday, inflicting deep gashes on her face. There is one cufc three inches long above an eye. n # THE child is Babara Eviston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Eriston. She was playing on the floor of her home Tuesday when she was attacked by the dog, which is owned by her uncle, Edward Eviston. Kiup, who is 10 years old, always had shown a protective attitude toward the child, Mrs. Eviston said, and she is mable to explain the sudden, savage change. After the attack, Mrs, Eviston had difficulty in getting to the child, the dog threatening to turn on her. a tt it BARBARA'S condition is good today. Kiup is chained back of the house. He will be a prisoner ten days while he is watched for symptoms of rabies. Two other children were injured slightly by dogs Tuesday. They were Annajean Cowdill, 328 Parker avenue, bitten by a dog owned by Thomas 'Posey, 418 Parker avenue. A dog owned by Raymond Hixon, 1514 Fletcher avenue, inflicted wounds on the face of Mary Elizabeth Pettison. 8, of 1548 Fletcher avenue. T Both dogs will be confined ten days for observation. STIMSON. MELLON TALK British-American Relations Are Subject at Conference. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 27.—The entire field of British-American relations was canvassed today by State Secretary Stimson and Ambassador Mellon in a conference lasting one hour and thirty minutes.

! mother and declared that the father is Will Jones, resident of St. Louii His wife, Mrs. Louise Jones, several months before she died, took the child into her home and called it Jier own, to hide her mate’s misdeed. So well did Mrs. Jones keep the secret, one of her brothers said at the hearing today that he never doubted the baby had been born to his sister. When Mrs. Jones died, she gave the baby into the care of her sister, Mrs. Mamie Jarrett, 619 Fayette street. When the girl appeared at the Jarrett home Tuesday to claim the child, her request was refused. An altercation followed, resulting in a police call. Russell Newgent, juvenile court i referee, ordered the baby to remain temporarily in custory of Mrs. Jarrett, but said the child would be • turned over to the mother when she proves she can provide a home for it.

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INCOME TAX LEGISLATION WILL BE VETOED, WARNING OF LESLIE, IN ‘MESSAGE’ Governor Appears Again Before General Assembly; Urges Action, but Offers No Definite Program. CALLS FOR GOVERNMENT COST CUT States Chief Executive Assails Measure to Limit Property Levies to $1.50 as ‘Chaos Breeder/ Governor Harry G. Leslie, appearing before a joint session of the legislature today, told statfc lawmakers that he , would veto any income tax legislation and the bill to limit property tax levies to $1.50. Aside from telling them what they couldn’t do, the chief executive, in his “second message,” left the legislators with no more administrative program than he presented when the session opened. “Pass legislation which will reduce governmental expenditures, and nothing else,” was the theme of the Governor’s talk.

69 GO DOWN ON CADET SHIP Four-Master, Overturned in Squall, Is Lost. # By United Press KIEL. Germany, July 27.—Warships. submarines and airplanes searched in vain today for sixtynine German naval cadets and sailors who went down with the fourmasted barque Niobe, which sank in the Baltic within four minutes after a sudden squall. Keepers of the light on Fehmam lightship, only witnesses to the disaster, told how the barque was caught with full .sail and laid on beam ends before the cadets or crew could right her. If the masts had broken, seamen believed, the Niobe would have remained afloat, but the top-heavy weight dragged her down, once she went over. The practice of oldtime sailors was to cut away the rigging and let the masts go by the board, thus enabling the ship to right itself. The freighter Terese Russ, the nearest ship to the Niobe, rushed to the scene and picked up the only survivors rescued, numbering between thirty-six and forty. They were brought here by the German cruiser Koenigsberg. Among those known to have been saved were Commander Ruhfuss of the Niobe, eighteen midshipmen and seventeen of the crew. Count Felix von Luckner, famous German seamon, was first commander of the Niobe when she was commissioned after the World war. PLAN NONSTOP HOP Mattern, Griffin Will -Seek to Circle Globe. By United Press PARIS, July 27.—The first nonstop flight around the world will be attempted next summer by James Mattern and Bennett Griffin, the American fliers told the United Press today before starting for London on their way home. Mattern and Griffin, whose attempt to beat the Post-Gatty around-the-world record ended in a crackup at Russia, said they would start preparations immediately on their return home for their sensational project. ‘SAFE HARBOR’ PROVES SPOT OF HIGH PERIL Speedboat Beats Storm. Then Explodes in Port. By United Press WILMETTE. 111., July 27.—A. F. Eiser and How r ard Barker had successfully piloted their speed boat through a heavy rain squall to a safe harbor here. After resting a few minutes, the pair returned to the craft to bail out water left by the beating of fifteenfoot waves. As Biser started to turn on the motor a terrific blast came. Biser and Barker felt themselves lifted high in the air. They dropped to earth twenty feet away, unhurt. Flames destroyed the launch. Hourly Tempertures 6a. m 76 10 a. m,...7"7? 7a. m 71 11 a m 78 Ba. m 74 12 <noon> — 79 9 a. m 75 1 p. m 81

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He named none of the dozens of measures now pending which, in his opinion, meets this qualification. For the most part, the message was clothed in generalities similar to those in his opening address. His mentor, Henry Marshall. Lafayette publisher, was in Leslie’s office when the speech was prepared today. Leslie was specific only on income tax and levy limitation bills. Views With Alarm “There is cause for genuine alarm in the proposal recently advanced to enact a law fixing the limit of $1.50 on SIOO as the tax levy on property,” Leslie declared. “Such reduction in the tax rata would be desirable if it could be brought about with safety. Under present conditions, the plan would not work. It would bring chaos and a collapse of government.” He continued his assault on the tax limitation measure by pointing out that 1933 budgets could be balanced only by an income tax, which might be declared unconstitutional. “In view of the fact that income tax measures can not be depended upon to provide revenues in 1933 to make up for the deficit which would be created that year by the proposed $1.50 tax rate limitation bill, and, in view of chaotic conditions bound to result from enactment of this ill-advised measure, which already has been tried and found unworkable, it perhaps is timely to. state frankly that the $1.50 lax limitation bill will not receive executive approval,” the chief executive declared. Veto Is Promised Any income tax law, personal or corporate, will meet a similar veto fate, on the ground that such legislation can not be enacted without a constitutional amendment, he stated. In opening his address, Leslie stated the time appeared propitious when he called the special session, and some geenral agreement on tax relief legislation was apparent among legislators. “You know’ how much or how little has been accomplished up to this time,’-’ Leslie continued. "You know whether the rising apprehensions of our people are justified, and to what degree the taxpayers are entitled to hope for substantial results from your activities thus far in the session. “The executive department 13 waiting for those enactments which shall prove to the people the good faith and capacity for service of their legislative department.” Says Way Is Clear Dwelling at length on the necessity for cutting governmental cost3 and speeding up action to avoid a ! “legislative jam,” the Governor concluded his “second message” thus: “The way out of our present situation is clear. Early and decisive action on constructive lines and in I accord with the agreed good faith (program of economy and taxation relief announced at the opening of the special session will be alike creditable to your honorable body and pleasing to the people who now look to you for relief.” The speech was received with slight applause. Politics grabbed the stage in the house when the Republicans, with fingers crossed, demanded adoption of a 20 per sent slash in state departmental budgets and the Democrats held out for 15 per cent. The latter group w-on by a 65 to 28 vote. Politics to Fore The battle began when the ways and means committee reported out of the Crawford budget slash bill on divided recommendations. The majority asked for the lesser reduction. while the minority demanded it be 20 per -cent. Governmental economy then became a mere excuse for political tilting, with the G. O. P. adhering to its decision in caucus to advocate the larger reduction, reached when it was learned that the opposition majority was determined on the lesser reduction. The bill, as introduced by Representative Earl Crawford (Dem.), Milton, called for reductions in budgets of all state departments and institutions, ekeept benevolent, correctional and penal, of 20 per cent. The excepted departments were to be slashed 10 per cent.