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WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather Bureau Forecast) Rain tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight and colder tomorrow. perature—Highest, yesterday; lowest, Tem- 53, at 3:30 p.m 40, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 6 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 30,265. - BRTIGH DAVE BACK 500 SHANTUNGESE: INSHANGHMARC VR 7 Clash Is Averted at Entrance of Foreign Area Wheg Chinese Retreat. post_office, CHANG WORRIES CITY BY $6,000,000 DEMAND Defending General Asks Money for Military Expenses—Cantonese to Attack Soon. By the Ass I3 The first attempted invasion of the ational settlement at Shanghai y armed Shantungese soldiers oc- curred today. = A group numbering about 500 ap- proached the settlement, but 200 Brit- ish soldiers of the Durham Light In- fantry were rushed up and the Shan- ‘tungese withdrew. Guards about the international set- tlement at Shanghai were doubled this afternoon. Native Bankers Worried. Native bankers at Shanghai are worried over the demands of Gen. Chang Tsung-Chang, Shantungese leader, for money to finance his de- fense of the city against the Can- tonese. The second anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, pioneer Chinese Republican leader, was observed at Shanghai today, many factories fail- ing to open. Labor unrest there is increasing and. strikes multiplying. Big Offensive Expected. Despite the bad Aweather Chang Tsung-Chang continues to bring up reinforcements to defend Shanghai. According to reports in London the *Cantonese may start a big d to capture Shanghai within a week. Business activities are resuming at Wuhu, on the Yangtze River, where antiforeign riots occurred a few datys ago. { -'BRI’I‘ISH BLOCK SHANTUNGESE. . Durham Light Infantry Causes Chi-; nese Troops to Retire. SHANGHATI, China, March12 (#.— Five hundred armed Shantungese at- ‘tempted to 'enter the international settlement in Shanghai today, but were kept out by & detachment of Durbam Light Infantry. A 1t was understood this morning that 100 Shantungese | boil furiously. ithe White House yesterday President Wamingoen Goveramen to assist any Central American coun- % try in any way it can while at the received Der-lgyime time maintaining its own rights Entered as second class matter Washington, D. C. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicaxo Daily News. Copyright, 1027 PARIS, March ‘The European political pot, suddenly heated by the Anglo-Russian tensions, continues to Recognition by Italy of Rumanian annexation of Bessarabla from Ruesia was a decided British success. The Soviets are sending Rome a strong note of protest. But now the Russians have scored a success perhaps even more impor- tant. Dispatches from Riga annonuce that a Russian-Latvian pact is all but complete. Under this pact Latvia promises to remain neutral toward Russia in all_circumstances, thereby contravening Latvla’s solemn engage- ments under the League of Nations covenant. Effects May Reach Fir. This treaty is the first breach the Soviets have been able to effect in the ‘nited Baltic front formed _several vears ago among Finland, Esthonia and Latvia, under British auspices. The pact may have far-reaching po- litical consequences. Russia, also by way of countering Great Britain, announces it will re- sume debt negotiations with France. Great Britain's effort to reconcile EUROPEAN POLITICAL TENSION GROWS AS RUSSIA PROTESTS Note Sent to Italy on Latter’s Stand in Bessarabian Problem—Latvian Treaty Is Wedge Against League. he & WASHINGTON, D. C, Lithuania and Poland seems to have failed. Grave frontier incidents are re- ported with Lithuanian incursions over the Polish frontier, several hours of fighting and considerable loss of lite. Ll Great Britain has persuaded Ger- many to resume commercial relations with Poland, but Foreign Minister Stresemann . has safeguarded Ger- many's Russian policy by stating publicly that Germany needs to work closely with Russia. France Proceeds Cautiously. France, meanwhile, is proceedig cautiously. Herr Stresemann, at For- eign Minister Chamberlain’s request, has consented to postpone his demand for evacuation of the Rhineland until June. On the Saar issue, a compro mise is being sought. France, Great Britain and Poland are doing their best to persuade Russia to participate in" the forthcoming disarmament con- ference at Geneva. Switzerland has been pérsuaded to offer special gov- ernment protection to the Russian delegates if they consent to attend but Russia apparently means to re- fuse. France and Italy still have not been invited, even as observers, to the three-power naval conference pro- posed by President Coolidge to be held at Geneva in June. 1., FPOSES DA ON PROTECTORATE Treaty Proposed by Nicara- guan President Faces Re- jection by Coolidge. By the Associated Press. Such a treaty as that proposed by President Diaz of Nicaragua, setting up virtually an American protectorate over that country for 100 years, is not the sort desired by the United States under its policy to help stabil- ize conditions in Central America, in the belief of President Coolidge. Announcement of his position at clearly foreshadowed a rejection of the Diaz proposal. Must Solve Own Problem. Shaved, Shackled Actors, 300 Strong, Stage Soviet Showg By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, March 12.—Moscow witnessed one of the strangest theatrical performances in history today. Dressed in striped prison garb and shackled with chains and handcuffs, and with shaved heads, 300 actors paraded the streets of the capital guarded by Cossack prison wardens carrying knouts and swords. The purpose of this grim procession was to show the present proletarian public how political offenders were punished in czarist days and signalized the tenth anniversary of liberation from imperial jails of professional revolutionists. Each “convict” wore on bis back a large ace of diamonds, which in pre-revolutionary days was accept- ed as a symbol of degradation and opprobrium. The entire company proceeded to the Meyerhold The- ater, where they gave a drama The t while is prepa ission to pass through the settle-iang those of its nationals, Ni :znt. but on the provision that they:and her neighbors should be permitted first be disarmed. Later, two English guards on the; bridge leading to the settlement saw a large body of troops approaching. The guards refused passage to the Chinese, and in response to requests for reinforcements, 200 men of the Durham Light Infantry rushed up, ready for action. Shantungese Then Retire. The ‘Shantungese, apparently realiz- ing the futility of attempting to force a passage, retired. The guards at| the entrances to the settlement were| doubléd this afternoon. Gen. Chang Tsung-Chang, who is ndeavoring to preven: the Cantonese .from taking Shanghai, has managed to bring up further reinforcements despite the continued rains ‘and re- sultant muddy conditions which have brought military movements almost | to a standstill. These reinforcements | are being added to Chang's Shan- tungese forces at various points on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway be- the Yangtse River and Boochow. Meanwhile, Chinese cles here are greatly Chang’s demand for a large sum of money from the local bankers and ¢hambers of commerce to meet his} military expenses. The sum demand- ed is reported to total about $6,000,000. | NEW OFFENSIVE SEEN. 1} financial ecir- perturbed at Cantonese Expected to Attack on! Wide Front Next Week. % LONDON, March 12 ().—A new offensive by the Cantonese along a wide front with the object of captur- ing Shanghai is expected within a week by reliable authorities in Shanghai, says a dispatch to the Daily Mail today from its corre- sppndent, Sir Percival Phillips. He| asserts that the future in China is likely to be full of surprises, but gives no_hint as to their nature. Meantime the labor Shanghai apparently is furnishing cnough unpleasant uncertainties. Un- | rest is spreading, each day bringing | fresh signs of possible serious trouble, and developments are being awaited with uneasiness. { Chang’s Adviser Arrives. 4 Merkuloff, chief White Russian | er to Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, | the Northern war lord, has arrived at | from Tsinan, where he vith Mme. Borodin and the | an couriers arrested by the Northerners when they seized the | Soviet steamer Pamiat Lenina last Saturday. He is quoted by the Daily Express as ing that Marshal Chang does not consider them prisoners, as they are protected by diplomatic privileges event no d before the c ined. Merkuloff added that Mme. Borodin ad been making many voyages to nd from Siberia and that on the last occasion Marshal Chang warned her it would be unsafe for her to go again 1o Hankow because of his military movements. (Selzure of the outlook in M Pamiat Lenina and the arrest of Mme. Borodin and the | souriers led to an im- the Soviet govern- ed by anoth (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. VIRGINIAN SHOT DEAD. RICHMOND, Va., March 12 (#).— 4 R. Adams, 20 years old, of this city, was shot to death on the Midlothian turnpike at Bon ,Air early today by ¥. G. Powell, 21, an employe of a filling station, who had been placed on watch for marauders. Powell said Adams and two com conformity with this policy of letting | he had shown in_ selecting them for but that in any | stic action will be taken | ase 18 thoroughly exam. | to work out their own national prob- lems. It was explained 'that it was In the Central American States find for themselves a way out of recurring revolutjons and attendant disorders and property destruction ‘' that the United States withdrew her Marines from Nicaragua prior to the political upheaval that sprouted into the Civil War now going on between the Liber- als and Conservatives. Policy Will Stand. The Washington Government, it was said at the White House, has no in- tention of altering this general policy, but proposes to take steps to protect its own rights and the lives and prop- erty of its citizens, especially when there is evidence of interference by any other power in the internal af- fairs of Central American Republics. BAS CASE IS LIKELY T0 GET FIRST CALL Utilities -Commissioners Call at White' House to Thank President. The Washington Gas Light valua- tion case probably will be the first big case upon which the new Public Utllities Commission will @trect its ay tention. i President Coolidge was informed to this effect Yoday when the members of the commission and Ralph B. Fleharty, the people’s counsel, called at the White House to formally pay their respects and to ask the Presi- dent if he had any suggestions to make in connection with their work. John W. Childress, chairman of the commission, and Col. Harrison Bran the two civilian members of that bod. who, with Mr. Fleharty, were per- sonal appointments of the President, took this oportunity to thank the President for the honor he had ton- ferred upon them and the confidence this_important public service. President Keenly Interested. The President showed a keen in- terest in the public utjlity situation in Washington during his brief talk with these callers, and asked a num- ber of questions concerning utilities and the laws governing them, and icited features of the utilities law of Massachusetts, with which he ts very familiar, having been a member of the State Senate of that State as well as mayor of Northampton. It was indicated by the President that he was anxious to know if the Commission had arrived at any con- clusions regarding how it proposed to proceed, and especially whether or not it bad decided upon a program for taking up the more important cases that are pending. Jn answer to this inquiry, the Commission informed the President that they had mapped out a tentative program of procedure and told him that while they had not defi- | nitely decided upon the question of taking up the more important cases, it was felt that it would probably be advisable to proceed first with the Washington Gas Light valuation. The President was informed also that the Capital Traction valuation |driver's seat so that not only the based on prison life under the em- CHNE GUNS KL THO N AN WAR Chicagoans Shot to Death in Auto—Third Man Slain in Front of Home. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, March truce has ended. Two henchmen of Joe Saltis, who recently signed a peace pact with members of a rival band of liquor gangsters, were slain late last night when they were riddled with machine gun bullets poured into their autorno- bile 0 nthe West Side. A slaying earlier in the evening also was linked by police to a renewal of the warfare. Beifef existed that Saltis himself may have been an intended victim of the fusilcade, as the car in which his slain lieutenants weré riding be- longed to the South Side gang leader. Whisky Arrests Blamed. The recent arrest of four men who were siphoning whisky from a Gov- ernment warehouse holding $1,000,000 worth of pre-prohibition liquor was be- :elved to have started gangland seeth- ng. Rumors were prevalent that the ar- rests were the result of a tip-off by liquor rivals, and reprisals were ex- pected. The men slain last night were Frank “Lefty” Koncll and Frank Hubacek, who had several aliases, police said. The man killed earller in the night was Benjamin Schneider, real estate dealer and reputed com- panion of North Side bootleggers. Koncil and Hubacek were found dead near Thirty-ninth street and Ashland avenue. Nearby stood the large expensive automobile in which they had been riding. X Big Hole in Door. A hole three inches In diameter had been blown through the rear left door of the car. All the windows of both sides and the rear had been shattered with gunfire, as had.the windshield. Machine gun fire had cut through the front part of the car across the 12.—Gangland's windows but their upright supports on both sides had been almost cut away. Hubacek had fallen about 15 feet away from the limousine. Koncil, trailing blood ,had got half a block away from the car. He had plotted his escape acros sa prairie to the northeast, but was brought down by a fatal wound or collapsed from other wounds. The Saltis gang was in almost per- petual warfare with the notorious Ralph Sheldon band for months be- fore the peace past was signed. Slain in Front of Home. Schneider was shot and killed by an assailant in front of his home on the North Side. The slayer, calmly puffing a cigarette according to witnesses, approached Schneider slowly from behind, raised a pistol and fired once. The killer ran a few hundred feet, darted down an areaway and vanished. The police sent out messages ask- ing the apprehension of ‘‘Maxie"” Eisen, who was shot in the arm last December. Schneider, at that time, reported to the police that Eisen su | eign offices. 75 FLEE FLAMES SATURDAY, U. . SENDS BRITAIN AND JAPAN FORMAL PARLEY INVITATION Naval Experts to Assemble at Geneva as Soon as Pos- sible After June 1. HOPE TO HAVE OBSERVERS FROM FRANCE AND ITALY Fixed Formula for Limiting Arma- ments Avoided in American Note Delivered Today. By the Associated Press. Formal invitations for the three- power naval conference at Geneva are in the hands of the British and Japanese Ambassadors here. They were prepared yesterday as soon as Japan had advised the State Department she would accept. A similar step previously had been taken by Great Britain. Will Meet in Geneva. The invitation provides for the as- sembling of delegates at Geneva at as early a date after June 1 as is convenient. The actual time will be determined by the time required by Japan to supplement her present Qdelegation to the preparatory disarma- ment conference at Geneva and pro- vide the delegation with new instruc- o e Washington Government has taken no step to invite France and Italy to send observers to the three power conference. i Invitations to Be Sent. 1t is likely such invitations will be extended through Ambassador Her- rick, in Paris, and Ambassador Fletcher, in Rome, and that the text of the formal invitation to Great Britain and Japan also will be com- municated to the French and Italian governments as a matter of informn-: tion. 1 The text of the formal invitation | was not available today and may not | be made public until it has been re- ceived by the London and Tokio for- | It is understood not to| contain any fixed formula to guide | the negotiations at Geneva. nen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION MARCH 12, & 1927—THIRT ny Star Y-EIGHT PAGES. bt “From Press * () Means Associated Press. News Note—President Coolidge personally took his pet raccoon to his temporary on Dupont Circle. residence AMERGANCONSL INBRAZLKNFED Condition Is Grave—U. S. Citizen Is Accused of Stab- bing Official. By the Associated Press BUENOS AIRI Argentina, March ~—A dispatch to La Nacion from today said Hern- American consul 12 Sao Paulo, Brazil, don W. Goforth, | there, was still in the hospital today, in a grave condition from the knife wounds inflicted upon him yesterday. His assailant, an American giving the Stabbed name David Caffield, is 73 years old, and has been a resident of Brazil since 1871. About two years ago, the dispatch says, Caffield made an effort to return to the United States, but found that he could not obtain a passport. Re- cently he had again been pressing the consular authorities in this connection. N APARTNENTS “FOOL-PROOF” PLANE Awnings Afire in Basement Rout Occupants at 3 A.M. in Blinding Smoke. Scantily clad, most of them in their | night clothes or dressing gowns, 75! residents of the Mount Vernon Apart- | ments, 904 New York avenue, fled to the street when fire threatened the 7-story building at 3 o'clock this morn- | ing. While dense clouds of smoke poured out of the basement up the elevator shaft, the residents snatched up any garments they could get their hands on and erowded down the stair- way. The fire wds confined to a huge pile of awnings in the basement, but the smoke, which went straight up the elevator shaft in the center of the building, caused widespread alarm and made it almost impossible for anyone to remain in the house. TaxhDriver Sees Smoke. | The smoke was discovered by Sam | Davis, a taxicab driver, who aroused the janitor, James Brooks, colored, who was asleep in the basement. Brooks immediately turned in an alarm and aroused the sleeping residents. ‘While Brooks sped up and down the elevator shaft, vainly trying to get the first floor elevator door open, the residents, most of whom are women and girls, streamed down the stairway and out into the street. One woman carried her canary with her, and another had her arms full of clothes, but most of them were con- tent with what they had on. Firemen from engine companies, 2, 6, 14 and 16, and truck companies 3 and 4, under command of Battallon Chlef Gill and Deputy Chief Nicholson, and the rescue squad arrived and found the stairway packed with people. They took charge and got everybody out into the street in an orderly man ner without injuries. Mrs, George T. Dietrich, who had been ill in bed, was assisted to a nearby Junchroom, Janitor Becomes 111 Meanwhile Brooks, who had been carrying people from the top floors to the second in the elevator, hecame il from the smoke and had to be assisted to the open air. Firemen in masks entered the base- ment and soon had the flames under control. They carried the pile of burned awnings out into the street. All windows 1in the bullding were opened by the firemen, who left short- ly after 4 o'clock. All of the residents, however, were not able to return to their apartments until after 5 o’'clock. The damage is estimated at between $200 and $300 and is covered by in- surance. The building is owned by the Stilson Hutchins estate. RED CROSS GIVES $50,000. Sends Fund to Tokio to Aid Japa- nese Quake Area. ‘The American Red Cross today sent $50,000 to the Japanese Red Cross for relief work in last week's earthquake in Central Japan. f The money came from the general Red Cross relief fund and was cabled to Ambassador MacVeagh at Tokio to be given to the Japanese organization. No specific use in the relief work with the fund was made by the American organization. pected him and said he had been re- and the Potomag Electric Power rate panions, H. G. Cchneider, 17, and Martin Boritz, 20, attempted to break $ato the filling station. case as well as the merger of the local_traction panie ere_among (Contigued gn Page gu_mn 8) ceiving threats of vengeance. P Radio Programs—Page 38/ Y King Alfonso Better. MADRID, March 12 (#).—The at- tack of the grip from which King Al fonso is suffering is running its nor. mal course, says official communi- Aug. KHe passed aights | the consul several times. He called at the consulate at about 10 o'clock yesterday morning and talked violently to Mr. Goforth. Final- Iy he produced a knife and stabbed He told the he had acted in self police that defense. EDUCATED IN CAPITAL. Goforth Was Employed in Govern- ment Agencies Here. Mr. Goforth was born in Lenoir, N. C., September 2, 1884, and was edu- cated at Rutherford College and George Washington University. From 1902 to 1912 he was successively a teacher, principal of schools and school supervisor in the Philippines. [ He was employed as a clerk in the Civil Service Commission in Wash- ington from 1913 to 1916, when he was transferred to the Interstate Com- merce Commission, where he served until 1919. Mr. Goforth entered the consular service the same year, and was as- signed to Guatemala as vice consul, third class, September 27. He was transferred to Santos, Brazil, in 1921, and promoted to consul, second class. He was promoted to consul, first class, in 1922, and again assigned to Santos, March 28, 1923, and transferred to Sao Paulo, August 17, 1925. According to the State Department, Mr. Goforth’s family resides with him at Sao Paulo. BEQUEST OF DOCTOR Veteran Left Body to School, But Buddies Oppose Removal of Corpse From Grave. By the Associated Press, SI0UX, CITY, Jowa, March 12.—An armed guard will be stationed at the grave of Dr. Joseph A. B. Flageolle at Jefferson, 8. Dak., if necessary, to prevent the University of Iowa from claiming the body, members of Shull Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, an- nounced today. In a will drawn by Dr. Flageolle a short time before his death, he be- queathed his body to the University of Towa medical school to be used for experimental and scientific purposes. Whether the university would claim the body was not known. “Shull Post is ready and willing to furnish legal assistance to co-operate with the officials of Union County, 8. Dak., in preventing the disinterment of their comrade, and if necessary will place an armed guard over the grave to see that no such action is taken,” sald a resolution. Dr. Flageolle was a member of Shull Post. He was gassed .and wounded in France. Rum Treaty Ratified. , Ratifications of the liquor smuggling u;:ty with mm:e mm ht.o;mlly ex- changed today af 3 Depart- ment. It was signed in 1924 and is; similar to the original treaty of this: character with Great Britain, but has been awaiting ratification by French government. ( Kellogg Due Back Monday. from his recent indisposition, w resume his official duties at the Sta Department Monday He expected to return from 8. C., Lomorrow, evening. ‘rival of the ORDERED TO CAPITAL Fighupg Craft Built for Navy Will Get Further Tests Here Tuesday. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, March 12.—The new “fool-proof” fighting plane, built for the Navy by the Curtis Aeroplane Co., was ordered to Washington today for further tests next Tuesday. Buccessful tests of the machine, said to be equipped with every safety device possible, were made at Mitchel Field yesterday. A rubber lifeboat that can be in- flated in six seconds with liquefied carbon dioxide, a 3-inch opening that allows instant emptying of the gaso- line tank, and a motor fire sprinkling system are among the safety devices of the plane. The plane carries.two machine guns and there is space for ‘bombs. CHURCHILL SEEKS HIGH TARIFF WALL Further Direct Taxes Feared as Political Suicide—To- bacco and Wines on List. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. LONDON, March 12.—A tariff wall as stringent as that of the United States is the only solution’/Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill can see for covering the budget deficit which threatens to unbalance the structure of British finances. ' Treasury experts are unanimous in repudiating the idea of imposing new direct taxes, which would ruin com- pletely the chances of the Conserv: tive party in the event of a new election. Would Tax Tobaccos. Consequently, Mr. Churchill tends asking Parliament to vote new heavy taxes on tobacco and spirits, consumption of both of which com moditles has increased 60 per cent since the war. Consumers of good cigarettes’ and French and Portuguese wines gen- erally are people sufficiently well to |do not to give up a good glass of port followed by a good clgar or cigarette, because they cost a few cents more. Empire Products Exempt. Naturally, empire products, such as Rhodesian tobacco and Australian and South African wines, will be exempt, but Virginian, Macedonlan and Cuban tobacco leaf and French wines, at present consumed at the ratio of 10 to 3, will have to pay heavy duties. . The schancellor also intends to raise the duty on foreign cars, espe- clally American, and possibly to place ia slight tax on American cotton, favoring Egyptian production, which is almost entirely in the hands of British capitalists. NEARLY STRIPPED. TWO YOUTHS BATTLE IN HARVARD ST. CIRCLE Adjourn From Dance Hall to “Ring” Near $ Zoo Entrance for Bitter But "Squarc“ Fight—Police Adjourning from the dance floor, by mutual agreement, to an unroped circle on Harvard street, near the entrance to the Zoo, two youthful gladiators essayed 1o settle a little argument early today by staging a highly exciting impromptu fistic match, only to run afoul of unsympa- thetic police. Just what the difference was about is yet a moot point, but when Lieut. Stott and a squad of policemen from No. 10 precinct dashed up to the scene in a patrol wagon, they found the fight at its very heigl with both participants partially stripped for the fray and with punched noses and cut faces bearing evidence of the earnest- ness of the combatants. Found Lightly Clad. The principals, according to the police, were Horace Wade Trice, 22, of 122 Twelfth street northeast, and William Robert Lyman, 21, of 1312 Floral street. Both young men for- feited $5 collateral on disorderly con- duct charges in Police- Court today. From all available accounts, the set- to was a most gentlémanly affair-of- honor, with both contestants conduct- ing themselves strictly according to Marquis of Q::le’::bury rules until ar- Then the crowd of eager onlookers, some 20 30 in number, and the e tiona. Fha Jatier orsot to. top ns. 3 er forgot o for their clothes, and Lyman, police say, al - half an hour later in" a clump of bushes near the gonne A ient house—attired only in his shirt and an overcoat loaned him by a friend., 3 Round Up Several Lieut. Stott and his men encoun- tered considerable round- lady. N Halt Contest. home today and so their accounts of the fight are not available. Otie’ of the spectators, who hap- pened to drop by Harvard street while the scrap was waxing its warm- est, was enthusiastic in his com- mendation of the behavior of both amateur pugilists. ' This witness, Wil- iam Simmons of 1819 Kenyon street declared that when he appeared both Trice and Lyman were almost naked and going at each other with much spirit. “They both fought a fair and square fight,” Simmons said. ‘“When one of them would be knocked down his opponent waited until he arose again- before renewing the battle. There were no dirty tactics at all. I OF 1608 the police smivos T apeeter , as the police arrived too render a decision. s Trice Caught Nearby. “When the bunch heard the police coming ‘hey began to run. Trice ran, ‘clothed in his trousers and underwear, and was caught aboyt half a block away. Lyman got away entirely at first, but they found him in-" to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 105,086 system covers TWO CENTS. DOOMED SLAYERS SHOOT 3 IN BREAK FROM DEATH CELL Trio Flee to Chicago and Shoot Police as 3 Others Battle Joliet Guards. TEAR BOMBS END SIEGE; ALL BUT ONE CAUGHT “Cost $1,500 to Pull Job,” Says Re- captured Convict—Trusty and Taxi Driver Wounded. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March | convicts, under dea | murder in a State prison break year ago, made a new drive for liberty from the county jail at Joilet, I early today, with the aid of smuggled saws and guns. Hours later five men lay wounded, two seriously, and only one convict was at large. At a cost of “§1,500 to pull the Jjob," three of the convicts, who wer Mexicans, fled to Chicago where two of them were recaptured after a gun fight with policemen. Meanwhile, their three American companions wers besieged in the Joilet jail. The confession of Charles Duchow ski, one if the six. that $1,500 was pro. vided for the dash for liberty, led to an immediate investigation to deter mine by what connivance the prison ers obtained the guns and saws. Doomed for Killing Warden. Duchowski, Charles Schader, Wal- ter Staleskl and the Mexicans, Greg orio Rizo, Robert Torrez and Ber nardo Roa, were sentenced to be hanged for the murder of Peter Klein, deputy warden at the new Stateville Penitentiary, last May, when seven prisoners stabbed and beat Klein to death in an escape. The six had received two st of sentence by court order and a third early in the week by appeal allowed by a State Supreme Court justice. Early today the Mexicans, who sawed their way from their cell escaped into the bull pen, where the; overpowered and bound two night guards. Tossing arms and saws to the three Americans in another cell, the Mexicans then bound the night jailer and at the jail door held up two deputy sheriffs, kidnaped one and raced away in the sheriff’s automobile. ‘With three desperate men armed in it ey quick deputies for a si of the jail. Belleving the conviets were at large inside the jall, the police threw tear bombs into the bull pen and opened fire on a trusty, wounding him as he descended the stairs. Three Americans Give Up. An hour later the police advanced to find Staleski, Duchowski and Schader still in their cell and ready to give up. The three suiendered their pistols and there was peace in the jail once more. In the eantime, the Mexicans headed toward Indian, Harbor in a wild dash for apparent refuge in the Mexican colonies of the steel dis- trict, but the automobile broke down. They seized a taxi and still holding the deputy sheriff, John Krinich. started for South Chicago. But their new path was covered with thorns. They had not gone far before they met a Chicago police auto- mobile squad. Bullets began to fly and Gregorio Rizo, a convict: William Frost and George Grant, policemen and John Maroiniak, a chauffeur, were shot down. Rizo wds able to regain his feet and join his companion, Roa, in dodging away. Shortly afterward, however, Rizo was caught when he ried to break into a garage. Torrez as captured unscathed. In the meantime, Will County authorities began an investigation at Joliet, with James Burke, assistant State’s attorney, and Edwin Powers, a State investigator, closeted with Duchowski and his two fellows. Before they took charge, Duchowski had admitted that $1,500 had been spent to “pull the job. It was believed that the revolvers and saws were smuggled to the prisoners -last Saturday on visitors’ day. Sawed as Music Played. Since then under cover of prayers at an improvised altar in their cell and the playing of a guitar, the Mexi- cans are believed to have been saw- ing away at the bars of their cell. Three bars in one corner of the cell leading to the bull pen were sawed at_top and bottom. Early this morning two of the Mex icans emerged with revolvers and called to the night guards, Edward Gibbons and Alex Walker. Gibbons appeared first and was told: “You move and we'll kill you.” Later Duchowski cursed Gibbons in the jail, but offered no further explanation. Gibbons and Walker were bound by the Mexicans, ns was James Hen- drickson, the night jailer. Then the | Mexicans gave revolvers to Duchowski and the others and made their way to the entrance of the jail. There they met Krinich and another deputy, Frasco, and an_ outer guard, Frank Grein, two of whom were bound, and three Mexicans fled, taking Krinich with them in the automobile. Police Squads Arrive. Some of the guards loosed their bonds and police squads hurried uyp with weapons and tear bombs. As the police arrived, Broch Con- nors, a trusty, started down the stair- way and was fired upon by the police. later near the Argonne. I don't know | He was wounded in one leg before :Ithertol lhg men, personally, but must say they put up a while it lasted.” L e Police were put on Lyman's trail by a nervous occupant of an apart- ment in the Argonne, who telephoned that a “naked” man was running about in an alley. The officers who Were sent to investigate say they found Lyman hiding behind some bushes. He was given his clothes at the station house. ‘Trice, according to Lieut. Stott, was found down on the porch of a nearby ret nce. He was given his clothes and taken to the precinct, his identity was discovered. Hurling tear bombs ahead of them and calling to the three pris oners, who then were belleved to be free in the bullpen, the police started @ drive upstairs. “Hey, Schader,” one of them called out to the prisoners, “what do you want, to get killed? “Come on up, we won't kill any- Schader replied. e advancing policemen went slow- ly forward to find the three prisoners still in their cells. Staleski, although armed, was hiding under a cot, ap- parently seeking refuge from the tear “I.don’t know what the fight started ahout,” Lieut. Stott said today, “but it was a pretty lively one, judging from the appearance of the young men when we arrested them. There . The others were in a corner of the cell and made no effort to shoot. The break of the Mexicans and the plan to free the others came less than 24 hours after all six were to have been hanged. The execution was set erday, but a petition for a for yests writ of error allowing an appeal was rlier in the week