Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1924, Page 2

MASTER MIND NAMED i IN BIG MAIL THEFT Max Greenburg, Notorious St “Louis Gang Leader, Said to Be “Brains" of Huge Robbery. CONFESSIONS GIVE DETAILS Police Able to Trace Crime Plot to " Saloon Parley. B the Amociated Prass. CHICAGO, June 19.—Search for the *Mastér mind” who planned the hold- p of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. T'aul mail thain near here a week & wwhen eight bandits obtained $2.075, Q00 in cash and securities, extends throughout the country today, while fédcral authorities prepare evidence for the grand jury against four men tn custody. Max Greenberg, ®xan’s Rats of St. tigators said, .proposed the robbery &t East St. Louis, is at large. Ernest Fontano, Chicago: Samuel Grant and Blackie Wilcox, escaped convicts from the Huntsville (Tex.) penitentiary, gre wanted as the remainder of the band. Confessions solving the robbery have been obtained from three of the four alleged actual participants under wrrest, police sayae Willis Newton, | who first gave his name as J. H. Joe Newton. ulias John and Willie Newton, who said John Wayne, seriously wound- ng the robbery, all brothers, and Carlo Fontano, brother of Ernest, wre held. Political Leader Held. A federal warrant charging James Murray, prominent politician, with heéing an accessory to the robbery, was fssued last night. His bon were fixed at $100,000. Also held as accessories are Walter McComb and his wife, in whose flat the Newton hrothers were found, and Anna Mead $otf Milwaukee,+who came here with £20,000 to effect Willis Newton's re- Jease. | + Only $500,000 in non-negotialle se- | :furlxles. found in an abandoned au- ¥tomobile near Jollet has been recov- cred, in addition to the $20,000 seized | when the Mead woman was arrested One missing package contains $500, f00 in liberty bonds, postal author- Hiies say. From the confessions and from other evidence, police and postal in- spectors have reconstructed the de- tails of the crime. Bandits Carefully Drilled. In an East St. Louis saloon a month ago the plan was broached by (ireenberg, police say, and the other freven members of the band selected | and drilled in their parts. Last Thursday, while all but Grant and Willis Newton went in two stolen tautomobiles to Rondout, IiL, the scene of the robbery, the pair hoarded the train and rode “blind baggage” until they reached Rondout, thirty-two ;miles north of Chicago. At the point where their confed- ferates were waiting, Grant and Wil- lis Newton crawied over the tender | and compelled the engine crew to &top the train. The others surround- ed the cars and threw bottles contain. ing formaldehyde into tkem to force the clerks out. The clerks subdued, the registered mail car was looted of sSixty-two pouches, which were piled in_the waiting automoblles. Willia Newton, stationed as a look- out, was mistaken for a mail clerk by “Lrant, who shot him five times be- Tore he recognized him. The wound- i#d man was stretched on top of the piles of pouches and the robbers pro- veeded to near Joliet, where the bags were rifled and discarded and one au- mobile was abandoned. former leader of | Louis, who, invés- | Shooting Upsetx Plans. Later, aceording to the police story, the four men held returned to Chi- cago, where they were arrested on a tip supplied by one of a group of sus- pects taken shortly after the robbery, ‘and later released. o The bandits had first arranged to escape to East St. Louis and divide the loot in the saloon where the rob- bery had been planned. The shooting of Newton marred the otherwise care. iully planned and executed robbery, the police say, and led to the subse. quent capture of the four and the so- ,Jution of the crime. /SHEET METAL MEN : FAVOR D. C. SUFFRAGE ‘Contractors Reccived by President Coolidge After Busine Meeting. Delegates to the convention of the ational Association of Sheet Metal Contractors were received by Pres- ident Coolidge at the White House ‘today. § Previous to the reception at ithe White House, the association jwent on record as favoring na'tional |suffrage for the District of Co- Jumbia. A resolution was adopted \/to that effect at their regular ses- .sion in the Raleigh Hotel. Other ibusiness transacted consisted of the passing of several resolutions per- taining to methods of procedure and «certain rules of the organization Yesterday the aseociation adopted a resolution to work on an “open- /=hop” basis, independent of the vari- ©ous labor 'organizations. Another resolution was adopted opposing the five-day working week. It was {stated in the resolution that there |is a tendency to eliminate work on |Saturday, which, it was pointed out, would mean an’ increase in the cost ljof production. 4 Municipal Architect A. L. Harris idescribed to the sheet metal contrac- fitors yesterday the problems existing +in_relations between contractors and {architects, and in a brief technical talk he asked for greater co-operation. & Talks on Salemanship. || Warren Carter delivered a talk on Jmpplied salesmanship just before [iArchitect Harris took the platform. {Tt won for him a vote of apprecia- dition, { Two resolutions were reported out jof committee and given favorable in- fidorsement by the convention. One is ffor appointment of a special repre- sentative to the National Warm Air Heating and Ventilating Association, “‘with the object of attaining greater (harmony. This is part-of a movement J/for co-ordination of thought &nd uni- !lana ventilating game. Another resolution was a requekt or the federal board of vocational education to take over supervisory Jiwork In outlining courses for voca- #lional schools in_the trade through- ut the country. —_— {{iBr the Associated Prese. i CANTON, June 19.—Three were {ixilled when an unidentified assassin threw & bomb among the guests at a jreception this evening at the Vie- oria Hotel, in Shameen (the forsign ‘Governor General Merlin 1n80-China.- -The bomb. Flowers Brought Daily Planes Stir Berlin Poor By the Associated Tress. BERLIN, Jure 19.—Fancy flow- ers plcked in the morning in Hol- land are on sale in Berlin soon after noon every day, the blooms being brought here by airplane from Amsterdam. Another attrac- tion advertised by the Berlin lux- ury florists’ shops are flowers from southern France and Italy, brought here by express, packed in fce. The importation of these expensive blooms has brought an outburst of indignation in the press from let- ter writers, who refer to the city's slums and the great numbers of children going daily without the proper food. Some propose that if the flowers must be brought in to satlsfy the wants of the ultra rich they be taxed to aid the poverty- stricken. APARTMENT HOUSE EXCLUSION ASKED Home Owners in Several Sections Protest to Zoning Body. Erection Is Defended. Apartments versus residences was the basis for most of the arguments presented to the Zoning Commission today at a public hearing at the District building on sixteen proposed rezonings. Home owners in general opposed encroachments of apartment houses, declaring them « deleterious in- fluence to the community, while those favoring apartment houses based their contentions on the good apart- ments accomplished in relieving housing :hortage. Plea From Georgetown. Led by John Ihlder, Georgetown residents asked for restricted zoning in B area of the residential prop- erty bounded by R street on the north, M street on the south, Rock Creek Parkway on the cast and 35th street between I’ and R, and 37th street between M and P on the west. A | number of members of the George- town Citizens' Association requested this change. Owners of property in the vicinity of 2Tth and Q streets objected to two parcels being in- cluded. These parcels are the apart- ment house group surrounding Kew Gardens. The commission had covered about half a dozen of.the sixteen topics at noon time, and indications were that they would continue at the hearing throughout the afternoon. Decision will be announced later, after the commission holds an executive ses- sion. nges Under Consideration. The following changes are being considered: Macomb street between Idaho and Massachusetts avenues northwest— frontage on both sides from mmercial “C" area to residen- A restricted” area. The Georgetown tract ubove de- seribed—Change from “B” area, which permits apartments, to B restricted” area, virtually prohiviting them. Property located on both sides of Harvard street between Mount Pleas- ant street and the Zoological Park— Change from B and areas to “B restricted” area. On this prop- erty_Percy S. Foster. as trustee for the Roger Williams Memorial Baptist Church, in & vigorous protest against apartments, pointed out that erection of one would hurt the appearance of the main approach to the Zoological Park. Two squares bounded by Cathedral avenue, Woodley place and Calvert street, and abutting squares facing the west side of Woodley place, be- tween Cathedral avenue and Calvert street, change from “B" and 2 area {o “B-restricted” area. Guy S Johnson, speaking to this point, rep- resenting eighteen of twenty-three home owners on Woodley = place, stated that permission to erect an apartment house in their neighbor- hood would shut of light and view from homes and destroy the beauty of the cmmunity. Lots Are Taken U Two lots located on the east side of 23rd street, between Bancroft and California street, change from “A restricted” to “B restricted” area. This was just reached about noon “T‘:l 97, Square 2530, located on_ the east side of Phelps place, near Cali- fornia street, change from “A re- stricted” area to “C area, from resi- dential to commercial. Lots in square 2098, located on Woodley and Klingle roads between d and 3ith streets—Change from “A restricted” to “A" area. Square 811, bounded by 4th, 5th, E and F streets northeast—Change from second commercial “D" area to resi- B’ area. depin sauare 463, located on south west corner of 6th and Maryland ave- nue southwest—Change from second commercial to residential. The following proposed to be changed from residential to first com- mercial—Three lots located at the northwest corner of 6th and Mary- land avenue southwest; lots in square 1860, located in line of Northampton street between Connecticut avenue and 39th street; frontage on both sides of Sth street northwest between O and P streets, Seek Change to Commercial. The following proposed to be changed from residential, “B" area, and 40-foot height, to first commer- eial, “C’ area, and 60-foot helght— Lots located on north side of Rhode Jeland avenue .between 2d and 3d streets; lots located on south side of same strect between same blocks. 1A small triangular area in lot 801, square 2957, near Kalmia road between Alaska and Georgia avenues, proposed to be changed from residential “A-re- stricted” and forty-foot height to first commercial “C” and sixty-foot height. Lots 15 and 16, square 69, located on southwest corner of Half and K streets southeast, proposed to be changed from second commercial to industrial. Ninety-two parcels located in vari- ous squares near Rock Creek, and else- where, which were originally exempted because of objection from the allot- ment in “A-restricted” area when that was created on October 31, 1923, in which a number of large operators are interested, proposed to be changed from “A" area to “A-restricted” area. Other items coming before the board include the proposals to amend zoning regulation so that consents for fra- ternity houses will not be required in the “C” area; to amend the regulations to change definition of “B-restricted” area in a technical manner. RIGID OFFICIAL CANVASS OF MAINE VOTE ORDERED Gov. Baxter Calls Executive Conn- cilors to Review Result in Gubernatorial Race. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Me.. June 19.—Gov. Baxter today called a committee of the executive council into special session tomorrow to make a prompt official canvass of the vote in the Re- publican primaries of Monday for the gubernatorial nomination. With two of the smallest towns in the state missing this vote in un- official figures now gives President Frank G. Farrington of the state Senate a lead of 338 votes over Sen- ator Ralph O. Brewster, whose candi- was indorsed by the Ku Klux The missing towns together twenty votes. = Kian. cast onl Instea of review, the councilor committes -will spend -eight days under the gov. ernor's instructions so that the can- vass may be thorough. (\ of the customary day or two | i LETTER GIVES CLUE IN MATTEOTTI CASE Unknown Writer Says Socialist Deputy Is Buried in Village North of Rome. FACIST EDITOR ARRESTED Paper Will Suspend—Entire Party to Bring Suit. Dy the Associated Press. ROME, June 19.—Nation-wide search for the body of Glacomo Matteotti, socialist deputy, alleged to have been kidnaped and murdered by political adversaries, today centered around the little village of Mentana, about IXW miles northwest of Rome, as the | result of an anonymous letter pub- |lished by a Naples newspaper and transmitted to the crown prosecutor | at Rome. The letter stated that Matteotti's body was buried near Mentana, three kilometers from the main road lead- inE to San Quirico. The letter stated that the body contained fourteen knife wounds and will be found wrap- {Ped in a black cloth, buried five | meters deep. In connection with reporty of im- pending sensations in the Matteotti case the newspaper Corriere Italiano announced that it would cease publi- cation with today's issue. Signor Filippelil, former editor of this news- paper, is under arrest in connection with Deputy Matteotti's aisappear- ance. The newspaper was founded after the succession of the Fascisti to power as a_Fascist organ. The entire Unitarian Soclalist party has decided to constitute itself as “parte eivile” in the Matteotti case. This means that it is entitled under the rules of Itallan jurisprudence to sue for damages in commercial cases, Such an act does not necessarily mean that the plaintiffs have any chance or hope of collecting mone- tary compensation. but it always has the effect of accentuating the gravity of a crime and the penalty to be in- flicted Confession of Chirszel. The newspapers are stressing the alleged confession of a man arrested by the Milan police who said his name is Otto Chirszel and who de clares that he was employed by the political opponents of Matteot follow and spy upon the Soc deputy. The prisoner, who d | that he is a Russian and admits that he betrayed both the Socialists and Fascisti, saild that he had learned a | crime was being plotted against Mat- | teotti and that he went to the| deputy’s wife and informed her that her husband’s enemies were planning to steal important documents from him. Chirszel, who has already given the police several fictitious names, said that, although he warned Signora Matteotti of the danger faced by her husband, he continued to spy upon the Socialist deputy. He denies that he was personally implicated in the kidnaping, but has given the police| the names of a number of prominent politicians, who, he says, were respon- sidle for the crime. The Milan prisoner says that the original intention of the plotters was not to murder Matteotti, but to im- prison him in a solitary village near Fiuggi. where they intended to keep him during the entire parliamentary session, thus preventing him from de- livering a speech in which he w expected to read documents {ncrimi- nating high Fascista. Chirszel car- rled in his pocket numerous letters signed by several persons who are already under arrest in conpection with the alleged crime. Letters, papers and documents seized by the police in the homes of suspects under arrest are being sub- Jjected to minute examination. and it is _expected that they will lead to other sensational arrests and further startling revelations. WORD FROM BELGIUM. S o Senate Votes Condolences in Mat- teotti Case. BRUSSELS, June 19.—After a stormy debate in the Senate last night it voted favorably a motion introduced by the Socialists to send a telegram of sympathy to the Italian Chamber of Deputies on the disappearance of Signor Matteotti. DEFENDS PARTY ACT. MacDonald Says Labor Message to Italy Not Offensive. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 19.—Premier Mac- Donald, questioned in the House of Commons today concerning the reso- lution of the British labor party, passed vesterday, which expressed profound detestation of the kidnap- ing of the Itallan deputy Signor Matteotti and expressed sympathy with and support of the Socialist party of Italy, argued that the reso- lution could not be offensive to a triendly foreign power. The resolution, far from being a consure upon the Italian premier, sald Mr. MacDonald, only followed Premier Mussolini's own statements and the political movements in Italy since the crime against Matteotti was com- mitted. MINNESOTA PRIMARY RESULTS STILL IN DOUBT Official Count Needed to Deter- mine Schall and Hallam Sen- atorial Race. the Associated Press. B: ST. PAUL, Minn., June 19.—The of- ficlal count will be required before winners in the Republican senatorial contest and the Farmer-Labor gu- bernatorial race in Monday's state primary are determined. Returns available today gave Rep- resentative Thomas D. Schall a lead of 600 votes over Oscar Hallam for the senatorial nomination, with only 145 _scattered precincts missing. The unofficlal returns gave Tom Davis a slight lead over Floyd B. Ol- son for the gubernatorial nomination on the Farmer-Labor ticket. Theodore Christianson is the Re- publican gubernatorial candidate, his two nearest opponents having wired him congratulations. Senator Mag- nus ,Johneon, who had a walk-away on the Farmer-Labor _ticket for United States senator, had & plurality of more than 147,000 over his two op- ponents. 3 KILLED, OTHERS HURT IN TRAIN COLLISION By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Gs., June 19.—Thres men are known to have been killed and probably many others injured in a collision between southbound pas- senger train No. 3 and a freight on the N. C. and St. L. railroad early today near Adairsville, Ga., accord- ing to information received here. The dead are Engineer H. G. Rob- inson of Kennesaw, engineer on the freight; A. L. Lockridge, Dalton, G: fireman on the freight, and Fairley ‘Tomlinegon, Adairsville. mechanic. Among those injured were Conduc- tor H. J. Dyar, Atlanta, on the 5 senger, unon-!g injured, and W. C. Chastain, also of Atlanta, slightly in- jured. The wreck occurred about one and = half miles south-of Adairsvills, and the track was torn up for a conside able distance. ¢ Maj, Gen. Lanxing H. Beach (left), who reached the age of sixty-four years yeterday and wax lor, who succeeded him omatically retired, y an chief of emgineers of the Army. nd Maj. Gen. Harry A. Tay- Long, Weary Hours End for “Shut-In” Given Radio Through The Star’s Funds Letter From Daughter Tells of Joy Instru- ment Assures. Contributions Bring Total to $522—148 Sets Now Received. ‘The gratitude of an invalid who has received one of the radio sets donated to The Star's “shut-in fund” is expressed in a letter received today by Thomas A. King, assistant deputy Boy Scout commissioner, who is supervising the activities of the scouts detafled to install the ap- paratus. The communication came from the daughter of the “shut-in,” and read: “We Ywish to acknowledge the kindness tendered my invalid father by the installation of the radio which was so quickly erected on Saturday by two of your most worthy scouts, William Dukes and Master Bruce, who Were very courteous and energetic their mission, Relieves Dreary Hours. “I assure you we are very grate- ful for this pleasure offered us gratis My father and I will enjoy many hap- hours of otherwise long, long dreary days, due to his invalidism and my incessant attendance in the sick- room. “We heartily appreciate the gener- ous deed of the donor of the radio. also all those interested in the serv- ice of so noble a cause in behalf of the ‘shut-ins’ Wishing you success, always, in your field of endeavor. Work Is Aecelerated. The scouts, free from school, re- sumed with ‘a new impetus today the tremendous task they have un- dertaken voluntarily to install all of the sets donated to The Star's “radio shut-in fund.” The boys will devote virtually all of their time during the day to this work until it is com- pleted. Contributions of $44 fund iwithin the last twenty-four hours brought the total to $522.75. Of the $44 the S. O. S. Club of McKinley Technical High School donated $25. and the Manor House Chapter of the D. A. R. $10. The t and equipment fund also has grown in the last twenty-four hours to a total of 148 sets, 34 pairs of head- phones and other equipment. includ- ing 162 crystals donated by the Star Radio Company and pipe for 30 ground installations, donated by the Sidney Hechinger Wrecking Com- pany, 6th and C streets southwest. TWO FINED $1,700 ON DRY CHARGES Thomas Chappelear and Edward Duckett Given Record Sentences. to the cash The largest aggregate fines as- sessed against two-co-defendants echarged with violating the national prohibition law—$1,700—were ,placed on Thomas J. Chappelear, white, and Edward Duckett, colored, by Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court late yesterday. The defendants were convicted and fined just one month after their arrest by Buck Berry, Sergt. Frank Dent, Sergt. Ryan of the eleventh precinct and Revenue Agent Fred T. Rose. The evidence Sywed the raiding officers had taken 2 complete modern 200-gallon still, 700 gallons of mash and 350 gallons of finished whisky. Chappelear was charged with posses- sion of intoxicating liquor, for which he was fined $500; manufacturing, $500, and using the Chappelear farm of thir- feen acres, known as No. 107 Ridge road northeast, for illegal purposes. On this latter charge he was sentenced to serve six months in jall, but sen- tence ‘was suspended and he was a on probation. ket ‘was charged with making two sales, Tor which he was fined $100 each: possession, $250; manufacturing Whisky, $250, and using the property o manufacture whisky. He, likewise, received a suspended sentence of Six months in jail. Duckett paid his fines and was released, while Chappelear as given until June 28 to settle his 1. P ssistant District Atiorney Thomas £ Podge handled the case for the gov- ernment, for which he was compli- mented by Judge Mattingly. ‘The Judge also commended the officers Ihaking the case, adding it was one of the most complete ever presented to court. the Smes Hughes, local attorney, and State Senator Walter Mitcheil of Maryland represented the defendants. Wife Leaves Deaf Cripple. . B. Rouse, legless and deaf, who ml‘r{mgnas to move about on a 'four- wheeled board, asked police headquar- ters to find his wife and automobile. His wife, twenty years old, left home in Wake Forest, N. C., two weeks ago, in his car with another man. Munich - Subscribers Opera by "By the Associated Press. MUNICH, June 19.—Telephone subg scribers of Munich will be able to hear opera performanceg of the Mu- nich National Theater in their homes as the result of an invention by the federal ministry of posts, telegraphs and telephones. The invention con- sists of a new transmission device which can be attached to a regular telephone receiver at small cost. The initial experiment was made with several hundred micrphones dis- tributed Gver the stage and in the of- chestra pit of the National Theater. I Radio Fund Receipts l Cash contributions to The Star's “Radio shut-in fund" received during %the last twenty-four hours follow: Previously acknowledged $478.75 McKinley Technical School 8. O. S. Club street northeast Mrs. Charles Graves 1500 16th street Manor House Chapter. Emogene B. Gehret. . Total Crywtal Sets and Equipment. Crystal sets and equipment receiv- ed during the last twenty-four hours follow Previously acknowledged—144 sets, 34 pairs of headphones, 60 aerial posts, crystals, antenna and lead-in wire and other equipment for in- stallation. N. E. Pumphrey, crystal set. dney Hechinger Wrecking Com- pany, 6th and C_streets southeast, Dpipe for 30 ground installations. tar Radio Company, 162 crystals. W. Whittaker, 1706 T street, apartment 25, crystal set Mrs. A. M. Rodgers, 1223 Maryland avenue northeast, crystal set. T. I Veeder, 1817 16th street south- east, crystal set Total—148 sets, 34 pairs of head- phones, 60 aerial Posts, crystals, pipe for 30 ground intallations, antenna and lead-in wire and other equipment for installation. - BRITAIN BREAKS OFF MEXICAN RELATIONS (Continued from First Page.) Mexico has striven in all its actions to demonstrate that on this occasion Mexico has only defended its dignity as a sovereign nation.” EXPLAINS CAUSE OF BREAK. MacDonald Cheered for Action To- ward Mexico. By the Aseociated Press. LONDON, June 19 —Prime Minister MacDonald, in a statement to the House of Commons today, said the United States had made arrange- ments by which the withdrawal of Herbert C. Cummins, the British charge des archives in Mexico City, from Mexico would be effected. Mr. MacDonald defended the action of Agent Cummins in connection with the safety and well being of a British subject, Mrs. Evans, and read the letters regarding which the Mexican government had complained. The premier declared the behaviour of the Mexican government, however regarded, had been inexcusable. This evoked cheers from the House. Mr. MacDonald indicated _there would be a cancellation of the British mission under Sir Thomas Hohler, which was about to proceed to Mexico to make inguiries with a view to Great Britain's formal recog- nition of the Mexican government. Cause of Letters. Detailing the egents leading up to the present relations of Great Brit- ain_with Mexico, the prime minister said that in April he decided to send the Hohler mission to Mexico in order to improve relations, and he informed the Mexican government that with the arrival of the mission Mr. Cum- mins would be withdrawn, on May 13. The Mexican government replied that Mr. Cummins must be withdrawn im- mediately owing to insulting letters from him to the Mexican government. The letters were written, the premier said, because the government of Mexi- co was trying to dispossess Mrs, Evans of her farm. The proceedings, as reported to him were irregular and illegal, the pre- mier declared, and Mr. Cummins would have Ween lacking in perform- ance of his duty if he had not made representations on her behalf. This brought cheers from the house. Holds Letters All Right. Mr. MacDonald said he saw noth- ing objectionable in the letters and remarked that if forelgn offices ob- jected to such communications there ‘would soon be no diplomatic relations at all. After various attempts had been made to get the Mexican government to stay its hand, a message came to the foreign office last Saturday stat- ing that if Mr. Cummins did not sur- render himself the British legation would be broken into on June 16. “The consul general was warned by me of the gravity of the step,” con- tinued the premier, “and I made a final request to the government to take no further action until the ar. rival of Sir Thomas Hohler's mission, which I was still prepared to send. The next day I recefved & refusai and therefore requested the American government to arrange for the with- drawal of Mr. Cummins and see to his safe conduct and take charge of the legation and the archives meam ‘while, “1 have just heard from the Department in Washington that ore rangements for Mr. Cummins’ with- drawal have been made. I hope I have made It clear that we have shown every desire to study Mexican susceptibilities compatible with the dignity of his majesty’s government and WIBU:NX:G pbl;nncuon to which every British eubject is m?hl receive.” SuHiisainny ere were more cheers fo) 3 pression by the premler. D' to Hear Phone Attachment It was pronounced an unqualifi success. , The transmission device el: 80 adjusted that contact with the opera is broken when an outside party calls a listening subscriber. Another feature is the combination of the microphones in such a way that a unified tonal entity results, the volume of which is further strength- ened by electrone pipes. The fact that the complicated Wag- nerian opera “Walkyrie” was success- fully transmitted, is considered proof that this system can compete with the radio. The inventor is the Minis- terial ~Counselior Dr. ‘who noted for his werk In connection -n‘: automatic telephony, BABY GIRL DESERTED IN HOTEL BEDROOM Month-0ld Child Brought to City by Womar Registering From Hagerstown, Md. BALTIMORE BIRTH RECORD Police Trying to Locate Mother by Clothes Clues. A month-old girl baby was desert- ed early this morning in one of the bedrooms of the Harrington Hotel here and a woman, apparently its mother, who brought the child to the hotel early in the evening, van- ished, leaving the baby stranded in the middle of a big double bed to the care of whomsoever might find her. The woman registered at the hotel as Mrs, J. E. Carroll, Hagerstown, Md.. but detectives searching the bed- room found torn up and thrown away into a cuspidor a birth certificate issued by the Baltimore health de- partment for Dorothy Eley, dated May 21, 1924, and the police of Wash- ington 'and Baltimore have begun a search for the parents of the aban- doned .walf. Find Baltimore Certificate. According to Dr. C. Hampson Jones, commissioner of health of Baltimor. the_ birth certificate recorded as C- 65959 of Dorothy Eley shows her father and mothér to be Hugh Eley and Eva Bridges Eley of 212 Frank- lin street, Baltimore, but as yet the police have not been able to locate the couple. Baby _Porothy, who is a picture of heaith and plump prettiness, was taken immediately to the Foundling Hospital. In the room was found a bag well stocked with clothing for the child, ameng which was found a University of Marvland pin, which the police are keeping as a clue, About 6:40 o'clock yesterday after- noon, an hour after the severe storm, a4 young woman carrying the child and a leather handbag, accompanied by a young man, appeared at the hotel. “The woman' registered as Mrs. Carroll, and the man. saying he would see her later, left the hotel by a side entrance and disappeared. The woman was escorted to the room on the second floor, that being the last seen of her by hotel employes. Awakened by Cries. Edmund J. Brennan, manager of the hotel, was awakened by the cries of the hungry baby this morning about 12:30. He went on an investi- gating tour, and the infant's demon- stration of lung power made it an €asy matter to locate the room from which the sounds came. There, lying on a big double bed, with a bottle of milk nearby, the manager found er. Lieut. Beckett of the first precinct and Policewoman Helen Stanberger were summoned. They took posses- sion of the waif and effects left in the room, and soon had the little one in the hospital. where she was fed and put to sleep. The woman was described ad being about twenty-eight years old, weights about 138 pounds, tall and slender, with light complexion and dark- brown hair. She wore a dark blue skirt, light, tan waist, short, light coat, broad brim horse-hair hat and high black shoes. The woman's companion, about her age, also was tall and slender, dark complexion, black halr and side whiskers. He wore dark trousers, Palm Beach coat and soft brown hat. The name of Mrs. J. E. Carroli does not appear in the eity directory at H: gerstown or Baltimore, according to in- formation received from those cities. GRIM WRANGEL ISLAND TO BE CLAIMED FOR U. S. (Continued from First Page.) rigors of an Arctic winter. Still, the party which established itself on Wrangel three years ago, headed by Alar Crawford of Toronto, was well equipped, and of the four men and one Eskimo woman, the woman alone survived to greet Capt. Noice when the relief party landed last summer. Crawford Milton Galle, of Texas, and Frederick Maurer of Ohio died in an attempt to reach Siberia across the ice pack, and Knight, an Oregonian, succumbed to scurvy in his hunger- stricken camp on the island. If the Russians reach Wrangel before Capt. Lane. the chances are that Wells and his Eskimos will be prisoners and their winter’s fur and ivory catch confizcated. Capt. Lane is instructed to continue occupation of the island if conditions warrant it. Whether he will leave another party is problematical, but it is certain that he will leave.the Amer- ican flag flying_where the Canadian flag now flies. The Herman will also leave a memorial on the grave of Knight. (Copyright, 1824, in Uaits N tain, South, Americe and Japen, By K erh American Newspaper Alliance. ~ All rights Reserved. Reproduction Prohibited.) BEAR TO, WRANGEL. Cutter Ordered to Seek Party of Fox Farmers. Orders went out from Washington today to the United States Coast Guard cutter Bear, in Alaskan wa- ters, to proceed, if weather conditions permit, toward Wrangel Island, with a view to finding a party which went to the island to attempt fox farming, and which has not been heard from since last summer. The Bear is the oldest ship in the Coast Guard service, a veteran of many years, and was the vessel which touched at Wrangel Island years ago with a party of Americans, including the former commandant of the Coast Guard, Rear Admiral Reynolds. — Coast Guard Ship Escapes Ice. NOME, Alaska, June 19.—The cut- ter Bear of the United States coast guard, which Sunday was reported drifting through Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean in an ice pack, has freed herself and taken refuge be- hind the Diomede Islands, said re- ports today. A message from the Bear said she would re-enter Bering Sea when the ice permitted. Food Price Rise Continues Through City and Nation Food still is going up. The bu- reau of labor statistics, govern- ment agency reporting on figures relating to living costs and busi- nees conditions, announced today that the cost of food to the ave- rage family in Washington rose 1 per tent in the period between April 15 and May 15, 192¢. In- creases wers shown in the same period in thirteen other citles, While thirty-eight cities showed decreases or no change in prices. Food prioes in_the Capital, how- ever, in May, 1934, were lower by 2 per cent than in May a year ago, forty of the fifty-one cities from which prices were obtained show- ing & decrease last month as com- ed with May a year ago. The Brishington consumer, however, still paid prices for food 47 per cent higher than in 1913, with the Jargest increase—50 per cent— over the pre-war year shown in cago. Chior™ine _country as a whole eleven articles on which monthly Qecrensed. whils twenty creased In price and twelve showed no change. {und TWO KILLED, 5 HURT IN DAKOTA TORNADO Property Loss Put at $500,000 in Wind-Swept Region—Homes, Barns, Officc Building Hit RAINFALL SETS RECORD Inch and Quarter Falls During Thirty-Minute Storm. By the Associted Press. NSON, N. persons are dead, five seriou jured, several others with minor in juries and a property loss in Dickiaso surrounding communities esti mated at half a million dollars as the result of a tornado which swept thi | section shortly after 4 p.m. Wednes- | aay. GEORGE A. MILLS. ;;. A. MILLS, MANAGER OF HOTEL HERE, DIES Conducted Burlington for Three ‘Years—Long Resident of ‘Washington. George A. Mills, 1800 Connecticut avenue, manager of the Burlington Hotel here, died yesterday following an jliness of two days. Mr. Mills was well known in hotel circles through- out the country and the National Capital. He was fifty-five years of age and had been manager of the Burlington | Hotel for three years. Prior to that he was manager of the Highlands and Grafton hotels here and the White Sulphur Springs Hotel, in Vir- ginia. Born in_Baltimore, Mr. Mills en- tered the hotel business as a young man. _After occupying several pos tions he came to Washington, where he bas lived for thirty vears. He was a Mason, though not a member of any Washington lodge. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Dollie De Wolfe Mills: a sister, Mrs. Eliza Peace of Baltimore, and a brother, Harrington Mills, The funeral will take plaee tomor- row_afternoon at 2 o'clock from W. R. Speare’s undertaking parlors, 1208 H street. Interment will be in Rock Creek cemetery. ASKS MORSE ACQUITTAL IN LUMBER FRAUD CASE Attorneny Says No Evidence Has Been Entered Against Former Official. Attorney Frank J. Hogan, repre- senting Ernest C. Morse, former di- rector of sales of the War Depart- ment and named as one of the al- leged conspirators in the lumber case today argued before Justice Bailey in Criminal Division 2 of the District Supreme Court a motion for a di- rected verdict of acquittal as to his client. Mr. Hogan insisted that the government had not offered a word ! of evidence and had not made any contention to show that Morse at any time directly or indirectly profited by so much as one cent out of the lumber contract or had any private, business or social relations of any kind with the contractors or with the concern which bought the govern- ment lumber. In response to a suggestion from Justice Balley vesterday the prose- cution this morning pointed out the evidence on which it will rely fin opposition to the discharge of Morse and John Stephens, who was a part- ner of John L. Philips in the con- tract with the government. Counsel for the other defendants will argue for instructed verdicts as to each of their clients, and will present other motions to strike out certain portions of the record. ———e FLYERS REACH BANGKOK. Army Airmen Make One Stop From Saigon. By the Associated Press. BANGKOK, Siam, 18.—The United States Army aviators en- gaged in a flight around the world arrived here at 4 o'clock Wed- nesday morning from Saigon, French Indo-China. They made one stop on the way. June BAND CONCERTS. Tonight at Mount Alto Vet- erans’ Hospital, at_6:30 o'clock, by the United States Army Band, W. J. Stannard, director. March, “Admiral Farragut,” Losey Overture, “Ruebezahl”..Flotow Popular ballads, (a) “Hula Lou’ Yellen and Ager (b) “Twelye o'Clock at Night,” Rose, Ruby and Handman Ballet music from “William DRI Rossini (a) Allegretto. (b) Bolero. (c) March and Soldiers’ Cho- rus. Fox trots, (a) “Big Boy,” Yellen and_Ager (b) “It Ain't Gonna Rain No More" . Valse de Concert, “L/Estudiantina” . . Waldteufel Favorite melodies from “The Red Mill'. . Herbert Song Hits of (a) “Jealous, Little, Maine and Finch “Maybe She'll Write »....Snyder and Ahlert characteristic for “The _Golden .. Eilenberg March, “Th Jewell “The Star Spangled Banner.” Tonight at 7:30 o'¢lock at Du- pont Circle, by_the United States Marine Band, William H. Santel- mann, leader; Taylor Branson, second leader. March, “Loyal Comrades,” A ture, uryanthe”. ‘eber S aAe, “Midsummer NIEhUS Dream’ The' B d Albeniz l, e Serenade,’; Selection, THER “Praeludium’ .Jarnefelt ‘Waltz, “Artil ..Strauss Toaoipaa Sibelius “The Star Spangled Banner.” Tomorrow evening by the United States Soldiers' "Home Band_at _bandstand at b5:45 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmer- mann, “bandmaster, , “Flag ol ctory.” March, 8 . V%r; filofl verture, “Lurline”....Wallace Srseriptive, “English Milltary Tattoo” ....... ...Rogan Synopsis—Brand tattoo will commence by the buglers soundin “First Post": 7um and fie will then play a_quickstep, “Gun Fire”; “Tattoo,” gun, signal call, assembly march; trumpets sound ~ "“Grand = Tattoo”; “Creation Hymn" (Beet oven), call to prayer, even- ing hymn, “Abide With Me"”; order arms; “Lights Out” _“Rule, Britannia,” “Last Post.” Scenes froma somic opera “The ‘Bohemian Girl” (requested), Baife ‘Shine"” (re- .Ford Dabney nvitation to .Von Weber Fox trot, popular, quested) Concert waltz, the Dance” Finale, “Where the Lazy Dalsiés Grow" ...Frien The storm struck at an estimated velocity of ninety miles an hour SWeeping streets and dwellings clean before it. Virtuully every business block in the city was damaged All electric light and power wires are down and telephone service hadly demoralized. Many barns were hlown down and hundreds of trees uprooted Meager reports reaching here from outlying districts indicated that great dumage was done in 11 directions Telegraph and telephone noles alons the Northern Pacific right-of-wiy he. iween Dickingon and Belfield, twenty five miles west, fell ac the track holding up traffic eeveral hours At South Heart, an intermediate s and in Belfield, heavy damage wa ported to the buildings. Storm Extends to Montana. The storm extended west to ( dive, Mont. Considerable damage in this territory was reported. Damage to crops is believed to be heavy i these localities. Fear was expressed that later re ports would bring word of more los< of life, as the storm is thought to be the severest in the history of wester: North Dakota. From there the tor nado swung abruptly south, An inch and a quarter of rain fr during the storm, which lasted thirt minutes. oss Cloudburst for Minnesota. ST. PAUL, Minn., June 10.—Sw ing down from the Dakotas a sever: wind, rain and electrical storm struch Minnesota early today. The down pour approached the proportions of cloudburst. Wire communication disrupted. PARTY ORGANIZED, REDS DEFEATED AT - ST. PAUL SESSION tinued from Organization of a political part representing the interests of we ers and farmers was declared only method by which this cond might be changed. Would End Explolting. The Farmer-Labor party decla its purpose to take over the go ment in the interest of the fa and workers and end exploitation the producing classes,” said the do. ment. Public ownership was advocated “nationalized industries.” includir mines, power plants and transper tion. The organization of workers manage such industries was also vocated “We demand repeal of the feder reserve and banking acts, ol thereof declare for govern ownership and operation of all bank ing institutions,” was & plank which brought a vell of approval Under “organization of labar. platform advocated protection to (I right of workers to organize unions abolition of injunctions, and declare against “use of military forces against worke: A federal law for the eight-hour day andl federal amendments to pre- vent chila labor and to provide gen- eral compulsory education were ad- vocated. Other social legislation fa- vored_included minimum wags acts. old a fisions and insu e funds for which would be raised by profit, inheritance and income taxes Compensation for prospective moth~ ers was favored S Under “farmers’ program” the plat- form advocated legislation for “loans to farmers in distress without interest to government or banking institutions, and to finance and insure the products of the jand.” “Pyblic ownership of the means of marketing farm products” was linked with this Equality for Negroes. The platform also declared for bolition of racial restrictions” and giving the negro equality at the polls. Under “foreign relations,” the plat- form called for immediate recognition of the soviet government in Russia. a declaration which caused a big demon- stration of approval. It also declared for immediate independence of the Philippines, Porto Rico and other in- sular possessions of the United States In connection with this, the docu- ment demanded removal of marines from Santo Domingo and Haiti, and the right of those countries and Nica- ragua and Cuba to govern their own affairs. “The absolute non-interference in any other country for the purpose of safeguarding investments or collecting debts of the financial interests.” was the final plank. ATTITUDE UNCEANGED. La Follette Has Not Been in Com- munication With St. Paul. Senator La Follette has authorized no one to communicate with the pro- moters of the national Farmer-Lal Progressives _convention, now in ses- sion at Bt. Paul, “nor concerned him- self in_any manner with its proceed- ings” Robert M. La Follette, jr., said in a statement issued today on behalf of his father. “"There is nothing to be added to_the statement contained in Senator La Fol- lette's letter to Attorney General Ekern, in which his position was com- pletely and emphatically stated re- garding the St. Paul convention.” the statement said. “Since the Ekern let- ter was published Senator La Follette has authorized no one to communicate ‘with the promoters of that convention nor_concerned himself in any mannet with its proceeding: DEGREES ARE AWARDED. ‘The eighteenth comméncement of the Riley School of Chiropractic and Allled Selences was held at the Play- house, 1814 N street northwest, last night, when twenty-seven candidates for the degree of doctor and philoso- pher of chiropractic were awarded diplomas, Representative B. J. Lowry of Mis- sissippi made the principal address Invocation was given by Rev. Joseph T. Herson. The address of welcome was made by Edgar H. Fortney, pres- ident of the class. Dr. C. Richard Smith, dean of the school, presided and presented diplomas to the fol- lowing: Omer L. Arbuckle, Josephine Llewella Bliss-Bates, Carrie Bodmer Chiswell, H. Emmett Corrick, Charles F. Duff, Agnes Eunson, Rose B. Forte. Madge Forte, Edgar H. Fortney, Mat- tie N. Gideon, W. D. Havens, S. M. Hill, Robért H. Johnson, Eugene M Langdon, Lois Lyerla, Anne Maloney Kenneth Davies Marks, Roy Mead, Jane C. Mitchell, John Welford Payne. Rilla Mari¢ Payne, Myrle J. Roberts. Benjamin William Reed, Arthur L. Simpson, Hardld Daniel Turnbach, “The Star Spangied Banner.” Lawrence J. Voitk and Lorie Gen vieve Yeager.