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TWELVE THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER. CWructiT. Frleu Independent MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1931 Believe It Or Not HOTEL TO PROTEST Amzi Barber Sprouts Wings AsCzarOfAir By Ripley (Keg. TJ. S.

Patent Office) OH FILLING STATION COmIKIOII plan I I im i' I s.xy if m-fi 1 SC-TV ,11 (fo J. I ymtMmm PMVED 7 GAMES 2 PAYS a- all Championship marches Vs Professional championship Service, US W. 45th St, New Turk City. Klaf FfMhi SraOalk Ik. Gnu trlufe itt Man Alleged To Have Annoyed Girl Is Killed TURRET ARK, Aug.

2. IP) Seated beside the 17-year-old girl he had been accused of paying unwelcome' attention, J. B. Friedberg, 42 city marshal, was shot through the back and almost Instantly killed today by Nathan Baer, 45, father of the girl. Baer surrendered to Magistrate Joe Fonda, who turned him over to Sheriff Howard Curlin.

Curlin placed his prisoner in the Crittenden County Jail at Marlon. Baer was charged with murder preliminary hearing set for Tuesday. The slaying occurred In Baer's home. Al rv yi-uay ireasurv duis To Be Offered Thursday WASHINGTON, Aug. S.

(flV-Acting Secretary Mills announced today the Treasury would sell $80,000,000 in 91-day treasury bills to the highest bidder on Thursday, Aug. 6. The bills wiH be dated Aug. 10 and will mature Nov. 9.

The proceeds will be used to retire $50,000,000 in Treasury bills which fall due on Aug. 10. One Killed, Three Hurt When Truck Overturns EUFADLA, ALA, Aug. 2. (Special.) Jack Murray, 20, Richland, Ga, was Instantly killed and Alton Harvey, Richland; Miss Rosalie Roberts and Mrs.

M. T. Brldger, of Springvale, slightly injured when Murray's truck overturned on a curve five miles from here In Quitman County, Ga. The two women are in a local infirmary. COCA-COLAS GAIN ON IDLE ROOFERS The first half champion Coca-Colas gained a half game over the idle league-leading Acme Roofers yesterday afternoon by defeating the persistent West End Cubs in a hard-fought game, 6 to 2.

The Dopes are now one full game behind the Roofing team. The work of Ernest O'Connor, skipper of the Dopes, who covered the second sack In the absence of Tommy Overton, was especially commendable. He stabbed a hot liner in the ninth inning from Brown's bat that looked good for extra bases. Lester Watts made a beautiful running catch of Wilson's liner that was labeled for a hit. Score by innings: Coca-Cola ....002 000 102 5 12 0 Cubs 000 030 0002 7 3 Birchfleld and Brannon; Soder and Wilson.

7,000 CANDIDATES 3 MAKE LA PLEAS Bilbo Will Answer Attack Administration By Senator Stephens On JACKSON, MESS, Aug. 2. WV Optimism prevailed in 7,000 political camps tonight as that many candidates for pub-lie office In Tuesday's Democratic primary prepared for -last minute appeals to the 250,000 voters tomorrow. A campaign that started months ago and waded through calmness until near the end when usual charges and counter charges were shot back and forth, became a sizzling affair, as a United States senator issued a burning statement from his sick bed in a Memphis hospital and the Governor of the State broke a weekend rest from a strenuous speaking tour to prepare an answer. States Senator Hubert Stephens in a statement last night severely criticized the administration pf Gov.

T. G. Bilbo, and charged that "such conditions will continue if the people elect his puppet to office George T. Mitchell." The Governor winds up a series of 72 speeches in behalf of Mitchell tomorrow night at Grenada after speaking in the candidate's home at Tupelo in the afternoon. Mitchell by some sort of coincidence closes his campaign in the home town of Stephens New Albany.

Senator Stephens said the other gubernatorial aspirants Hugh White, Mike Sennett Conner and Judge Paul B. Johnson were his friends and would make good governors. Gov. Bilbo tonight said he would await a copy of the Stephens statement be-. fore answering it, but that "I will an swer It then." Meanwhile the four candidates for governor buckled themselves for lmpres- -slve final day addresses with the hopes of convincing enough voters to then-causes to enter the run-off primary three weeks later, Aug.

25. Unless one of the candidates for gov ernor receives a majority of the votes cast Tuesday, the two high men enter the second race. World Wholesale Prices Are Lower WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. lPi Whole sale prices throughout much of the world were held today by the Commerce De partment to have dropped to pre-war levels or lower.

In making public a study of the foreign price situation by E. Hundley Omohun- dro, of the statistical research division, tne department said food prices were below the 1913 price level in Italy, Chile, Latvia, Denmark and Belgium. In Australia, Czechoslovakia, the United King- aom, Mance and Norway they were higher. Prices of industrial products were lower In the United Kingdom, FranBe and Italy than In 1913, but higher in Czechoslovakia, Canada, Chile and Germany. "The most drastic change In whole sale prices since the postwar deflation of 1920-21 began in 1929," said the study.

wice declines have been worldwide and have attracted considerable attention by reason of the uncertainty engendered by such changes, their r'fect on long-term obligations and Investments and the disturbance of purchasing power. in loreign countries price drops since 1929 have ranged from 18 to 33 per cent Only a few Individual products escaped this sharp downward movement. In many countries prices are now lower than before the war. Owing to differences in methods used In con- structlon price Indexes and the type and number of commodities Included, however, price changes between different countries are only roughly Children Tested On Lessons In Movier WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.

P) Child ren of 47 states and the District of Columbia who recently viewed educational sound films here were reported today to have gained 38 per cent in their knowledge of the subjects shown. The demonstration occupied four days. On the first the pupils answered questions on toads, monarch butterflies, volcanoes, glaciers and river valleys. During the other days they saw films on the same subjects, answering the same questions immediately afterward. Fifty boys and 47 girls narticmated in the tests, which were conducted by a com mittee composed of Assit Commissioner Bess Goodykoontz of the education office: Jessie LaSalle superintendent of Washington, D.

schools: Elsie S. King, natitonal education asso ciation representative: Mina M. Lang-vlck, representitng the interior depart ment, and Dr. J. Orin Powers, representing George Washington University, Washington, D.

C. The committee's report said the bovs had higher scores than the girls in the first tests, that on volcanoes, on each final test the boys and girls averaged a gain of about 19 gain of 38 per cent on the toatl of 50 questions. Law Dealing Adequately With Red Groups Asked NEW YORK, Aug. 2. UPt The Vn.

tional Civic Federation today sent letters to 10,000 men throughout the country urging their support of a nationwide campaign for legislation "to deal pdequately with revolutionary elements." With the letters, signed by Matthew, Woll, acting president, were coDles of a statement by Ralph M. Easley, chairman oi tne executive council. Easley charged that Department of Justice machinery has been "padlocked" by the stand of "red groups" and that the Federal Government has no right to use federal money or power to Interfere In any way "with the subversive forces within the states, since the antisyndicalist laws are state and not federal statutes." MacDonald Will Visit Stimson In Highlands LOSSIEMOUTH, SCOTLAND. Aug. 2.

(JP) Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald admitted tonight that Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson has invited him to spend two days with him "somewhere in Scotland," and that he had accepted. The Prime Minister refused to reveal where the meeting would take place. It Is known that Secretary Btimson rented a house In the Highlands for pert of the grouse-shooting season, but the location of the house is not known. It is understood the Prime Minister will Join the Secretary there Thursday, when it Is expected they will resume discussions of International affairs, King Features Hit Fish Rodeo Prizes Placed On Display A large number of the prizes which will be awarded during Alabama's third annual Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo, which will be held at Fort on Dauphin Island, Aug.

17, 18 and 19, are being displayed in the window of Alex Rice. The prizes range from complete deep sea outfits to tackle boxes and special suits for fishing and boating. The prizes are attractively displayed in the background of the window, while in the foreground Is a large pond around which an electric train runs at intervals. The train represents the Rodeo Special. The many people in Montgomery who are interested in the rodeo should see this window.

Lea, Three Others Go On Trial Today ASHEVTLLE, N. Aug. 2. (IP) Introduction of the evidence on which the State bases its charge of conspiracy to embezzle $1,300,000 against Col. Luke Lea, of Nashville, and three co-defendants will start in their trial in Buncombe Superior Court tomorrow.

Indicted with Lea are Wallace B. Davis, president of the defunct Central Bank and Trust Company, Luke Lea, and P. Charlet, officials of Lea's Tennessee Publishing Company. They are alleged to have defrauded the bank-and to have misappropriated $1,300,000 of its assets. The bank failed last November with deposits totaling approximately 000.

After three days of motions, the tedl ous task of selecting a jury from spe' clal venire of 125 Haywood County men started Friday morning and was com' pleted yesterdays Twelve regular Jurors and an alternate, whq will serve if any member of the regular palen becomes incapacitated, were chosen from 79 veniremen examined. Postoffice Official Will Visit California Session WASHINGTON, Aug. Postmaster General Brown plans to leave New York Aug. 8 o.n the steamship President Hoover to attend California conventions early In September of Post Office employes. Brown said today he would stop one day at Havana, and another at Panama City to confer with American and native officials.

He is to attend the'postoffice supervisors' convention from Sept. 1 to 3 In San Francisco and the carriers' in Oakland Sept. 7 to 10. Brown said he would return from Oakland to Washington by plane. New Delayed Parachute Opening Record Claimed TAMPA, Aug.

2. WV-Clarence McArthur, 21, claimed a world's record for delayed parachute Jumping here today by leaping from a plane 18.500 feet in the air and dropping at least 13,500 feet before opening his parachute. He said the present world's mark was made by Jack Dare, of Birmingham, with a delayed leap of 10,500 feet. McArthur left the plane at 18,500 feet and had not opened his parachute when he passed another plane flying at 5.000 feet. It was not determined how much farther he went before opening the parachute, He landed In a maun several miles from the field and was unhurt.

Florence Starr Appears On Paramount Program Florence Starr, who recently completed a concert tour of Europe, appeared at the' Paramount yesterday In "Ten Minutes of Modern Song." Miss Starr has a soprano voice and rendered her tongs In an original man ner. He act was well received by the audience. EXECUTIVE DIES DERRY, N. Aug. 2.

A-William B. Reynolds, 80, executive of the 8clls-PToto Circus, died today at his Beaver Lake home. He formerly was associated in the thesb-r with the Frohmana, Bam Harris and George M. Cohan. 1 a k-V flfi s.

I i sr jfk. of The U.S. f-nSFn Supreme court Tennessee Congressman Asks Probe Of Cove Creek Dam By Shoals Board KNOXVTLLE, TENN, Aug. 2 JP) Congressman J. Will Taylor said today be bad written members of the Tennessee Muscle Shoals Commission protesting against what he said he had learned was a plan of the Joint Alabama ana lenes see Commission to make recommendations for disposal of the Muscle Shoals prop erties only.

Be charged that no plans had been made to consider development of Cove Creek Dam in East Tennessee, which he termed "an interest and indispensable nart of the entire tarogram." His letter was addressed to Mercer Reynolds, of Chattanooga, W. A. Caldwell, of Jackson; and J. Frank Porter, of Columbia, members of the Tennessee Commission. "I have learned with very great astonishment and larm," his letter said, "that, at your meeting in Florence, Ala-, July 18.

which was attended by Secretary of War Patrick Hurley, the Secretary Indicated that the joint Commission should confine its deliberations and recommendations to a disposition of the Musle Shoals properties only. "If the Cove Creek Dam is to be eliminated from the picture, why the necessity or propriety of a Tennessee Commission at all? For everyone knows that the Cove Creek Dam and the Tennessee projects that will naturally follow constitute practically the only Interest that our Commonwealth has In the problem. "If It is to be side-tracked. It will Imply spell the dismal failure of another effort, begun in good faith, to solve this problem that has sorely vexed the American people during the last decade. Two U.

S. Members, Leave For Florence By BUS SELL KENT Advertiser Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Col. Harley B.

Ferguson, of the Engineer Corps, and Col. Joseph McMullen, of the Judge Advocate's office, appointed by President Hoover to represent the War Department on the Muscle Shoals joint Commission, left this afternoon for Florence, Ala. where the organization meeting of that body will be held Monday. By coincidence, former Senator W. E.

S. Brock, of Tennessee, who has been In Washington several days, left on the same train for Emory, Va, to attend a meeting of trustees of Emory and Henry College before returning to Chattanooga. Senaotr Brock, who during his term was active in efforts to secure legislation to dispose of Muscle Shoals, expressed much interest in the' Commission's work and reiterated his position that no disposition of the Shoals should be proposed which does not include with it the construction of Cove Creek Dam at the headwaters of the Tennessee River, to double the capacity of Wilson Dam and open for coordinated development hydro-electric sites between Knoxville and Chattanooga. While the principal object of the meeting at Florence is to organize the Commission, general plans for future work will be discussed and the members may be in session two days. Hearings In Washington are planned later in August.

It is reported that either Judge Samuel F. Hobbs, of Selma, or. W. F. McFarland, of Florence, of the Alabama Commission, or Mercer Reynolds, of Chattanooga, of the Tsmnaeeaa OAmmlntnn wH 11 Via no moil chairman.

An outsider probably win be named secretary, as much detailed work will be connected with that office. The influence of the American Farm Bureau Federation In connection with the joint Commission's work promises to be substantial, a third of the membership being officers of that agricultural organization. E. A. O'Neal, of Alabama, named by President Hoover as the third of his appointees, is president of the American Farm Federation.

J. Frank Porter, of Columbia, founded the Tennessee Farm Bureau and has been its president continuously. William H. Smith, of Prattville, is vice-president of the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association, a subsidiary of the Alabama Farm Bureau of that State. The American Farm Bureau Federation, at its convention in Boston last December, adopted a resolution favoring organization by agriculturists of a corporation to lease and operate Muscle Shoals on a cooperative basis to produce fertilizer ingredients primarily, CoL Ferguson is familiar with the Muscle Shoals territory, having been district engineer at Montgomery from 1907 to 1910.

GREY SOX SPLIT WITH GIANT FOE The Qrey Sox broke even with the tittle Rock Giants in a doubleheader yesterday afternoon at College Hill Park, the Sox winning the first, 7 to 5, and the visitor! the second, 3 to 1. The two teams will play again at the College diamond today at 3:30 p.m., and at Cram ton Bowl tonight at 8 o'clock. First game: Little Rock 000 500 0005 1 6 Orey Sox 010 003 20x 7 6 J. Johnson, Wilbourae, Jackson and Hawkins; Nelson and Hardy. Little Rock 002 000 14 1 0 Orey Sox 000 100 01 8 4 Wllbourne and- Hawkins; Calhoun and Hardy, Three Die, 90 Hurt In Communist Disorders BERLIN, Aug.

3. UP) A dispatch to the Wolff Bureau from Warsaw today said three persons were killed and 90 Injured In various parts of Poland yesterday in clashes between police and Communists which accompanied Communist Anti-War Day demonstrations. By the Amoclated Tmm ROME RUNS YESTERDAY Ooslin, Browns 1 Simmons, Athletics 1, Kress. Browns 1 Ferrell. Indians 1 Mitchell.

OlanU 1 Jackson, Giants 1 Verges, Qlants 1 Bcbulmerich. Braves 1 Richbourg, Braves 1 Frederick. Robins 1 Cuyler, Cubs 1 The Leaders Gehrig, Yankees 30 Ruth, Yankees 33 Klein. Phillies 23 AverllL Indians 30 Foxx, Athletics 20 Ott, Giants 17 Ooslin, Browns 17 Lef Totals American 392 National 344 Total 738 Jefferson Davis Stockholders Contend Service Firm Will Damage Business Stockholders of the Capital City Hotel Company, owners of the Jefferson Davis Hotel, will meet tonight with prop erty owners who have real estate hold' ings In the vicinity of the hotel to to cuss contemplated Improvements In that vicinity, It was announced yesterday by Dr. S.

D. Suggs, who owns a large portion of the hotel stock. The contemplated con struction of a filling station and auto tire service station across Montgomery Street from the hotel is the cause of the meeting. It is. general Information, Dr.

Suggs states, that the property has been leased to an oil company for the purpose of erecting a filling station, and that this property has been sub-leased to another party who is planning to operate, in addition to the filling station, an auto tire service station. It is claimed by the hotel people that a tire service that close to the hotel will materially affect the hotel business by reason of the excessive noise of changing and repairing auto mobile tires at all hours of tne nignt. Dr. Suggs points out that several years ago the property owners In that vicinity reached a "gentlemen's agreement" that they wouloT not petition the City Com mission for the establishment of a gaso line filling station or auto repair station at any point on Montgomery btreet Between Catoma Street and Court Square, He also cited the removal of such a sta tion on the corner where the Paramount now stands. The meeting tonight will be held at 7:30 at the Jefferson Davis Hotel on the caU of the Capital City Hotel Company's president, who has Invited otner property owners in that, vicinity to attend the meeting.

The question of a permit is al ready before the City Commission and ac tion has been delayed in oraer mat iur-ther information may be obtained and also to give the property owners to prepare argument against the petition. The matter is scheduled to come up before the City Commission at 11 a.m., Tuesday. Persons who are protesting against the granting of this permit charge that the establishment of such a service station would materially Increase the traffic has- zard at this corner due to the fact that it is on the main streets traversed by through travel to and from Birmingham and points to the Westward, and the claim is also set up that the traffic at this corner is already congested at times. Pilots Of Race Planes May Seek Speed Record CLEVELAND, Aug. 2.

(IP) The trans continental speed derby of the 1931 national air races, starting from Los Angeles and ending officially at Cleveland Airport, may develop into an assault upon Capt. Frank Hawks's record of 12 hours and 25 minutes from Los Angeles to New York. Headquarters of the air races, which will be held here Aug. 29 to Sept 7, tonight announced the free for all speed race will start from united Airport, Los Angeles, and that irom four to six planes capable of making more than 225 miles an hour will be entered. The race carries a purse of $10,000.

E. W. Cleveland, race contest chairman, said It is possible some of the pilots might register here and continue to New York if they had a fair chance to beat Hawks's cross country mark. Board Will Decide On Loan To Grape Industry WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.

(P) The question of loans to the California grape industry for assistance in marketing the 1931 crop probably will be settled this week by the Farm Board. The grape control board originally sought $14,000,000 of which $9,000,000 was to be furnished by the board. The remainder was to be supplied by Intermediate credit banks. Heat damage early in July, however, seriously reduced the prospective crop and the amount required to operate a raisin pool for controlling the surplus. It was understood the loan now asked from the board Is -in the neighborhood of $6,000,000.

An extension of credit and loan of about $350,000 has been agreed upon for the Sun Maid Raisin Company, the marketing agency. The Fruit Industries, manufac turers of a grape concentrate would share in the board loans. Go Soviet, Young Man, Bernard Shaw Advises LONDON, Aug. 2. (IP) George Ber nard Shaw came home from Russia to day, said he was sorry to be back and that he would advise young men to go to Russia and settle there.

Russia is putting her house in vor- der," Shaw said. "All the other nations are playing the fool. I can not speak In detail about the great experiment I have seen, for what I have to say must be carefully thought out and written and I have made arrangements to do this. Meanwhile, all I can add Is this we had better follow Russia's example as soon as possible." Shaw chuckled when he was asked whether he and the other members of his party, Including Lord and Lady As-tor and the Marquis of Lothian, were treated welL "Treated well?" he said, laughing. "We were treated like kings and the food we bad was very good." Asked whether the cost of living was high, he said: "Well, it's like everywhere else.

You can live expensively in Russia if you want to, but you can also live quite cheaply." Rain Causes Change In Glider Contest Program ELMIRA, N. Aug. i.JP) The opening day of the Becond annuad National gliding and sot ring contest here was dampened by rain most of the day, followed by a calm which caused the contesting pilots to confine their events to the Elmlra airport. Edwin P. Warner, of New York, an aviation editor and former assistant secretary of the Navy in charge of aeronautics, made a brief address, in which he predicted benefits to aviation resulting from the study of air currents to be made by the pilots at the meet, Capt Frank M.

Hawks, who was to officially open the two-week air meet today, was unable to attend. Thirty-one pilots with 14 gliders were on the field today. The latest arrival wai Capt Thomas Phillips of the United States Army, representing the Panama Canal Zone Ollder Club. Several thousand pernons witnessed L. T.

Ross, of Cleveland, referee, give Junior pilot tests for licenses, "Gimme a shot, Harvey," called out Buck Doe as he entered the Tavern late Sunday afternoon In search of his usual decoction, Harvey was quick to furnish Buck with the fluid which always causes a response from his Adam's apple. "Harvey, Jedge Miller has signed that there bill glvln Alabamy an aviation commissioner. And he has done named Amzi Barber uv Birmlnham to the Job. Ef ever there wuz a flyin fule' that there Amzi is one uv them things. He thinks about aviation so much It is a wonder to me that he ever finds time to practice law.

He'd ruther fly than to eat. He'd ruther fly than to fish and he'd ruther fly than to legislate. "That there aviation commissioner about the only thing aviation gits out uv payin a gasoline road tax. Think uv an aviator payin a gasoline road tax! Now the Guvner alnt a goner give Amzi no salary fer actin as aviation commissioner. The Jedge alnt so hot with this here salry bizness but the Jedge knows aviation is goner be the thing purty soon and he's reddy fer Alabamy to be In the van uv the States in this matter.

-Aviators In Alabamy and those interested In aviation air glad Jedge Miller has rec ognized Amzi's ability fer the Job he's got. Amzi has made a study uv it and not only did he git the aviation bill through the legislater but ef it hadn't been fer Amzi there wouldn'ta been no law which keeps the 106th Observation Squadron at Bummingham. Amzi worked hard fer that bill and got it through and Amzi worked hard to git Jedge Mil ler to sign it which keeps that there big squadron in Alabamy whut would have went to Georgia. "Now Harvey I got a sneakin notion about goto to that there rodeo of T. Quinn's.

That boy has got Alabamy advertised all over the United States with that thing. Ef I don't go it will be-be- cause I dont want to win all uv them there prizes. I want sum uv them Yan kees with money to win 'em. Ef me and Haygood Peterson went, er ef we tuck Jedge McCord with us, there wouldn't be enuff prizes fer the Yankees and they might stop comln down." GRAND JURY MAY UNCOVER VARIETY OF IRREGULARITIES (Continued From Page 1) records is a felony in Alabama punishable by not less than one or more than five years. Section 3207 of the code which makes It a penal offense to deface or destroy a public record reads in part as follows: 'Altering, defacing or destroying public record Whoever wilfully, maliciously, or fraudulently alters, defaces, injures, mutilates, or destroys the whole or any part or any authorized to he made by any law of this State shall, upon con viction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years.

Penalty Provisions The penalty for attempted bribery of an officer of the Legislature ranges from two to five years. Section 3467 of the Code defining the penalty for such an act reads as follows 'Attempt to bribe or corruptly solicit public officers to influence political actions: Any person who shall corruptly solicit or attempt to solicit or Influence a member or members of the Legislature, or any public officer. State, county or municipal, or any person who engages in the occupation or practice of solicit ing such members or officers to Influence their official actions, shall be guilty of an attempt to bribe, and upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment In the for not less than two nor more than five years." Section 1527 defines the clerk of the Senate as a subordinate officer of the Legislature. The slot machine bill for which the alleged bribery attempt was made was designed to outlaw slot machines, punch boards and "similar games of chance. The act, which becomes effective Oct 1, authorizes confiscation of the machines or punch boards, and permits the officer to receive half of the cash contents, while the remaining half goes to the county treasury.

Naval Plane Will Equal Foreign Ships In Speed WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. VP) An improved type of fighting plane which Rear Admiral William A. Moffett believes will equal the performance of the speediest foreign model is now under contract for the Navy. In announcing this today, the chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, indicated that the new fighter not only would rival the 214-mile an hour speed of the British "Intercepter" plane but would exoel it in cruising range.

The new plane is an improved type of Boeing fighter and will be produced by the Boeing Airplane Company of Seattle, Wash. Detailed specifications bearing on its probable performance are being withheld. Prince To Resume His Work In Auto Factory BERLIN, Aug. 2. VP) The administration of the House of Hohenzollern here announced today that Prince Louis Ferdinand, second son of the former Crown Prince, left here yesterday on the steamer Europa to resume bis work at the Ford factory at Detroit.

Before sailing the Prince visited his grandfather, the former Kaiser, at Doom, Holland. The Prince recently received his doctor of phllosphy degree at Berlin University. Bankers To Aid Uruguay If Reserve Approves Loan MONTEVIDEO. URUGUAY, Aug. 5 lPtJt was announced In official circles here today that American bankers have expressed a willingness to lend Uruguay $20,000,000 for financial relief for a term of one year provided the loan Is guaranteed by the Federal Reserve Bank.

British Wheat Acreage Is Lowest In History LONDON, Aug. 1. (m The lowest wheat acreage recorded in the history of Great Britain is announced in the annual return Just submitted by the ministry of agriculture. The total for 1931 la 11, (70.000 acres as compared with 13,460,000 teres last year. YOiiest Joly -12, 1931 Several Die When Ship Breaks Lock MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Aug.

2. -Several destitute men were believed to have been swept to their death when the S. S. Rapids Prince crashed through I lock gate in the Lachine Canal here to day, releasing a 35-foot wall of water. About 40 unemployed men were gath ered on an embankment in the center of the canal.

Some were sharing a frugal meal, -others were washing their tattered clothing. When the ship broke through the gate a number were trapped by the sudden rush of water. Some managed to cling to supports until the flood subsided. One of them, George Sevec, said about 12 3re swept away. Boats were put out to search for the bodies.

All the canal department sheds and offices in the path of the flood were carried away, except two. Damage was estimated roughly at $300,000 and It was believed traffic on the canal, which adjoins the St. Lawrence River, would be tied up for two or three days. The S. 8.

Rapids Prince was swept back through the lock to the opposite gate, through which It had just passed, but was virtually undamaged. Birmingham Presbytery To Discuss Resignation BIRMINGHAM, ALA, Aug. 2. CP) The Birmingham Presbytery of the Southern Presbyterian Church will meet in special session here tomorrow to discuss the pastoral relations of Dr. Trevor Mordecai and the First Presbyterian Church, the oldest and one of the most influential in the Birmingham district.

The board of deacons of the church recently adopted resolutions setting forth the opinion that the best Interest of the church would be served by the resignation of Dr. Mordecai. Later the congregation voted 260 to 101 requesting Dr. Mordecai not to accede to requests for his resignation. The pastor was charged with failure to cooperate with the board of deacons in the life of the church.

Final action will be up to the Presbytery. 1 8 Are Injured During Communists Disorders HALLE, GERMANY, Aug. 2. (P) Communist demonstrations last night re sulted in the stabbing of one policeman and serious injuries to 17 others. Fifteen arrests were made.

a youth of 18 years by enlisting with the volunteer forces in the Spanish-American War. His Interest in flying, he said, "started like any boy's in watching the birds In flight," but became an acknowledged reality when, in 1907, he wrote a thesis for graduation from the Army Signal School on the military value of flying machines. When, the next spring, the government Contracted fnr a Wrlcrhf nlsna Foulois was assigned with Lleuts. Thom as js. ueimage and F.

P. Lehm to aviation duty. -He operated the flint rilrdrlhl hrtrmn purchased by the army In 1908, and iwo years jaier uugni nimseil to be an airplane pilot after only an hour and a half of instruction, whirh elude landings or take-offs. Left alone with a single plane that was always in need of repairs and with eight mechanics, he stayed with flying even when he had to dip Into hit own pocket to meet deficits. Overseas In War As commander of thm firt om ton.

he joined the Mexican punitive ex- peaiuon in jvio, oiten serving as a personal airplane courier for General Pershing and numbering among his experiences arrest and near mobbing in Chihuahua. When America entered the World War he drew ud dUiu fnr onnnMns h. service and sailed for France as chief of the air service of the A. E. F.

In 1918 he personally led the first all. American souadron of Amninn i and pilots over the German lines. oince juiy, wo, he has been as-slstant chief of the air in of the plan division. Army's Incoming Aviation Chief Taught Himself To Fly In 1908 By OSCAR LEIDING Associated Press Aviation Editor WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.

Next to the "joy stick" of an airplane, the new chief of the air corps likes the feel of a squash racket Brig. Gen. Benja min D. Foulois, who will become a ma- tor general and head of army avia tion Dec 20, says his main hobby is keeping physically fit. 'I am particu larly Interested In he said, "because I believe it is the Ideal exercise for flying men.

It gives us three things, coordination of eyes, hands and feet. "My hobby Is to keep fit and now. verging on 62 yean of age I've never had a waver yet. The general weighs 140 pounds, slight ly more than he did 23 years ago when he became one of the first trio of otiv- cen assigned to aviation duty. Bull Flic Alone He likes to fly as much now as he did then, usually spending from 10 to 12 hours a month In the air.

He is wind-tanned from hours aloft, and when he goes he Is alone at the controls. His is the longest flying career In the army, starting In 1908 when the government contracted with the Wright brothers for a biplane. General Foulois started soldiering as.