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WEATHE (U. S. Weather Bureau Rain and colder today. Monday. Temperature- at 4 p.m.; lowest, 56, at R. ¥ Full report on Page 6 e No. 30,27, BALLOTS 1,148— No. (ROERED ~ SEIZED AS BARRY |Urged <o Put Aside Gares for Several | Weeks in South—Invited to North : Carolina and Florida. DEFIES PROBERS Reed Committee Names Spe- cial Deputy to Get Boxes in Pennsylvania. AUTHORHtY (iUESTIONED BY SERGEANT-AT-ARMS Refuses to Follow Instructions of Slush Investigators Without Legal Advice First. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN Brushing aside all obstacles and op position, the Reed slush fund com mittee late yesterday ordered Jerry South, a special deputy, to seize the ballots ¢ in four Pennsylvania counties in the Vare-Wilson senatorial election. This action was not t committee and the sel of the Senate, David S. Barry, had come to the parting of the ways. Mr. Barry virtually defied the committee, replying to a peremptory order to im- pound the ballots that he would not act until he had time to “consult with those whose opinions should have legal weight.” The Reed committee is driving shead, ignoring the challenge of its authority by Senator Keyes of New Hampshire, chairman of the commit- tee in control of the contingent fund of the Senate. Senator Keyes has questioned the legality of expendi tures of money from that fund by the committee since the expiration of the Sixty-ninth Congress, during which the special committee was appointed. Committee to Put Up Money. ntat-arms aken until the | 1d matter Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 19 WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION 97 unday Star, —118 PAGE 'PRESIDENT CONSIDERS SPRING ' VACATION SOMEWHERE IN DIXIE BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. | | his mind where he s going to spend | his vacation this coming Summer he must decide whether or not he will leave Washington for a two or three weeks' visiwthis Spring at some spot |in the South. | Close friends and associates of the President have been urging him to put aside the cares of his office, if only for a fortnight, in order to get a vest after the heavy strain he has | been under during the past Winter. | Mrs. Coolidge is understood to be among those trying to prevail upon the President to take a brief vacation of this sort. She and the others are known to have been insistent, and | they have succeeded in getting | promise from the President that | would go on a little excursion of the ort suggested if he could do so con- | veniently. Florida and | Asheville, N. C., were the two places that appealed to the President for a Spring trip, but as late as yesterday he was represented as saying that he had been unable hus far to make a decision. Added t | argument: Before President Coolidge makes up | rest becaus | has been bothering him to some ex- such as a much needed of his lame wrist, which tent, have failed to influence him. | Inasmuch as Mr. Coolidge has never had any flificulty saying “no” when he thought it necessary, and as he al-| ways has been a difficult subject to | move by persuasion, his friends are still hopeful that he will accede to their wishes. They feel sure that he is still pondering over the proposition, | even though the real season for & journey South is fast drawing to @ close. Because of the lateness of the sea- son, it is feared by those who have been urging a Florida trip that the chances of the President going that far South are decidedly slim. Senator Fletcher of Fiorida recently talked to the President about going ta that State and among other things is| known to have given assurance that | Mr. Coolidge would find Florida just as charming and attractive in the Spring as in the Winter, . George F. Bean, Republican nation- al committeeman, also has been to the White House several times within the past few weeks in an endeavor to prevail upon the President to visit " (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) 21 DEAD, 100 HURT INSECOND TORNADO 133 Killed in Two Storms in Northwest Arkansas Within 24 Hours. By the Associated Press. GREEN FOREST, Ark., March 19.—~Twenty-one persons were Kkilled GIRL “VICTIN FREES ALLEGED SLAYER Returns After 19 Months to Aid Man Convicted by Woman Scorned. By the Associated Press. WILLIAMSBURG, Ky., March 19. —A woman scorned, a girl dissatis- | | sistance. 60 cents (#) Means Associated Pres: The Star is delivered every evening Sunday morning to Washington homes at r month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” and CANTONES CLEAR ROAD T SHANGHA OF CAANG TRODPS Invaders Only Two Days Away as Result of Sung- kiang Victory. WEATHERTJONDITIONS MAY DELAY ADVANCE Defenders Outgeneraled by Flank- ing Movement—Unrest Grips Foreign Quarter. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, March 19.—By Shanghal has been opened to the at- tacking Cantonese armies, and mili- tary authorities here anticipate they may reach the prize city within couple of days. Their advance, how ever, may be delayed by adverse weather conditions, such as have been responsible for the delay in the Nationalists’ operations for the cap- ture of Soochow, about 50 miles west of Shanghal. The collapse of the Northern line | at Sungkiang, which had been de- fended by about 7,000 troops of the army of Gen. Chang Tsung-Chaig, was brought about through an out- flanking movement by the Southern, or Nationalist, forces. This maneuver rendered untenable the Northern posi- tions at Minhang and farther east- ward. Northerners Retreat Hastily. The Northerners retreated hastily without the slightest attempt at re- Two thousand of them had arrived in Shanghai tonight. The collapse, though not unexpect- ed, as the Northerners had been heavily pressed on all fronts the past week, was not looked for so quickly. It had the | {collapse of the Shantungese defense | {on the Sungkiang front, the road to} a VLLBET . DD (oDFIs {2y FER SAFETYJ SQUASH CENTER COMME - A 1 BY HECK CAL WASNT g 'AMAN OF o A i GUESS HE'S GOTTA DICTIONARY TS ON McNARY-HAUGEN V LA PLATA SLAYERS 10 DIE FOR CRIE Youths Convicted of Killing Worker Are Speedily TODAY’S STAR 'ART ONE—48 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page 18. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 30. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 31. Boy Scout News—Page 34. Around the Ci At the Radio News and Programs—Pages 38| and 39. Army and Navy News—Page 42. CTIZENS, COUNGIL CENSURE URCED Clayton Asks Federation to| | Protest Action in Indors- d | | | BANKERS CONSIDER AID FOR VIGTIMS OF “LOAN SHARKS Move Initiated for Creation of Agency to Combat Usurious Lending. ASSOCIATION TO DISCUSS IMPROVEMENT IN' LAWS Corporation Counsel Plans to Start Prosecutions in Several Cases Simultaneously. As the corporation counsel's office moved swiftly forward yesterday with its program of searching out violat ors of the “loan shark law,” a move ment was initiated among leading Washington bankers for the creatioh of a legitimate source where needy persons might contract a necessary loan on collateral that the banks can not now accept. Although no plan looking toward this end has yet assumed shape, sev eral bankers declared that if a re- lable agency, working under the pa tronage of the city's banks, were es tablished and loans made to persons of proven honesty at a legal rate of interest, it would drive “loan sharks out of business and would prove a profitable business enterprise, too. Changes In Law Considered. As a further step in support of the campaign initiated by The Star to drive money lenders who charge ex orbitant interest rates out of business the District Bankers' Association will be asked at its next meeting to con sider the possibility of improving ex isting laws to bring within jurisdic tion loan companies which may have succeeded in evading the “loan shark ey Regularly established banks and trust companies cannot make loans on such hazardous security as auto- Financial News—Pages 43, 44 and 45 mobiles and household furnishings, and more than 100 injured by the & tornado which struck this region late ing Fleharty' last night. Seventeen were killed at Green The committee itself will put up the money, Senator Reed of Missouri, chairman, declared. It is understood that the Missouri Senmator will ad- fled with home and a tight-mouthed mountaineer formed the “etarnal tri- angle” in a case which resulted in the mountaineer being sentenced to been generally believed the National- ists eventually would gain control of Shanghai by some sort of political bargaining. Naturally there is some iexcept in rare instances, to persons of unquestionable standing. This, it was pointed out, compels the man or woman who must have several hun- PART TWO—16 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society Sentenced tb Hang. anxiety | BY @ Staff Correspondent of The Star. The “formal censure” of the Federa- vance the §1,000 needed to begin the work of impounding the desired ballots. ; “The committee is unanimously of the opinion it has every authority to act it ever had,” said Senator Reed Jast night. *“The adjournment of Congress s in no way impaired its uthority. i Yesler)‘:hy was a day of note writ- ing. The committee met in the morn- ing and gave verbal direction to Mr. Barry to proceed to carry out its order ‘of March ;" to impound the ballots in Delaware, Lackawanna, Luzerne and Schuylkill Counties in Pennsylvania. It followed this up with a formal note of instruction to the same effect and gave the sergeant- at-arms until 5 p.m. to answer. When the committee reassembled at that hour, Mr. Barry’'s reply was before it, declining to move in the matter until he had opportunity to btain legal advice. O fhen the committee proceeded to write another note, this time to Jerry South, former clerk of the Hou: ne @ Democrat, who had been previously employed by the committee to aid Mr Barry in impounding the ballots in Philadelphia and -Pittsburgh, which already are in possession of the com mittee. This’ final note gave Mr. South full authority the ballots. Prompt Action Expected. Mf. South, it is expected, will pro- ceed to the Pennsylvania countles at the earliest possible moment and de- mand the ballots for the committee. Pennsylvania authorities in charge of ‘some of the ballot boxes have in- Sicated they will resist the demand of the committee, on the ground that it Jacks authority. Court action will fol Jow, and the committee is prepared for that course. It is expected that en effort will be made to get the mat ter into the Federal courts, and if necessary, to the Supreme Court for to seize final determination s soon as possible. | The committee had before it ye day Vance C. McCormick, one chairman of the Democratic national committee and prominent in the Wil won senatorial campaign last Fall a representative of Will the Democratic candidate who is con testing the election of Mr. Vare. David Wallerstein, a Philadelphia attorney, counsel for Mr. Wilson, and Edward Thurdber Paxton, director of the com: mittee of Seventy of Philadelphia, a reform organization, also appeared. Mr. Vare was invited by the com mittee to be present or to send repre- sentatives to the committee meeting. Mr. Vare ignored the invitation. He has held that the con without authority since the adjournment of the 8ixty-ninth and_ so notified the comy X ago. days Reed Issues Statement. Commenting upon the course ed by the committee, Senat said after the final meet.r . business of the to act or its adopt Reed as legal committe nizes the r 10 take suc Meantime, ht of the ser h ad S the commi wdvices of the ser of the 1o act in place im Reed announc committee o Mr of Mr. Barry in pounding the ball continued “We will whe ties of Pennsylvania v refuse to turn pallot boxes, & papers in the fo tion. If they do ter will g0 10 the ¢ tion. If th papers over will be bre tody for such 1ee may take Senator R nad been instruc Vare and Mr. Wilson and the Pennsyl vania authorities every opportunity to see that the ballot boxes were care- fully sealed and safeguarded “The committee is proceeding 1 these four counties because it nator see authori se or not Senate the ists and other ild do kept in cus as the commit future id that Mr. Soutl to give both Mr. re 1 ion ght b in in Reed ewhere nor them 18 be Mr im ballots there,” said Senator s not impounding them cause neither Mr. Wil Vare has asked to have commi since o4 1 1o ask, but the nothing _from him time | m B. Wilson, | was | asked by Mr. Wilson to impound the | Forest and four at Denver, eight miles northeast. The injured included 57 at the emergency hospital here, 27 housed in homes around the town and 15 to 20 taken to KEureka Springs. Two of the latter died today and one other person was in a critical condi- tion_tonight. Added to the fatalities caused by the storm in Saline County on the preceding night, the 21 deaths in this region bring the two days storm toll of Arkansas to 33, Thursday’s Victims Buried. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 19 ®).—The tornado-swept communities in the Green Forest section counted their toll of dead tonight, while work- ers searched the wreckage. Red Cross workers and National Guardsmen from Harrison were tak- ing relief to the stricken area, in the northwest section of the State. Meanwhile, 11 victims of the storm in Saline County Thursday night were buried today. Relief measures there were well organized under local con- trol at Benton, soythwest of here. The known dead in the Green For- est, Eureka Springs area are: Will Canafax. Mrs. J. H. P. Jones, 65, wife of Methodist minister. Polk Jones, 40, son of Mrs. Jones. Mrs. R.'D. Galloway, 65. Mrs. Susan Hulsey, 60. Mrs. Fannie Norris, 80. Price Stacy, 50. Robert McKigney. Milton Norton. . James Woods. . Woods' baby. Mrs. Woods' 2-year-old child. Vernon Van Horn, 1 year old. Robert James Wood, young child. Nettie Marie Wood, young child. Two Tornadoes in 24 Hours. The two tornadoes, approximately { 24 hours apart, dealt destruction in line County and in_Carroll County, more than 100 miles to the northwest, | and rolled up known fatalities to 31 | persops. The injured were estimated lat 30 in the first storm, and 50 or more were hurt in last night's dis- turbance. Destruction graph_lines of telephone and tele- delayed reporws of the lives lost and the property damage in Green Forest. The property loss was believed to have exceeded $200,- 000, Eighteen of the dead had been counted tonight, and two others died after they had been removed to the | Bureka Springs Hospital. Nearly a score of the injured were in the hospital Hail and wind storms in Missouri, across the Arkansas line, did consider- (Continued on Page 5, Column 6.) 'FLYERS COVER 300 MILES. 1 AL Sl [ | Good-Will Airmen Unable to Reach | Pernambuco Because of Darkness. NAMBUCO, Brazil, March 19 he good-will fiyers of tbe United Army landed at 5:55 p.m. today Pedras, belng prevented by darkness from completing their ccheduled hop from Bahia to this city. They covered about 300 miles of their northward journey along the coast PEF ) Stat at Porto de | girl and saw me attack and kil 1 | !lhn’ authorities to hold the Vickery | girl, life imprisonment for a “murder” that was never committed. Two of the three principals today disclosed the circumstances under which Mary Vickery, 16, disappeared; some bones were found later in an abandoned mine shaft and a woman's revenge sent Conley Dabney, 33, to the Frankfort Reformatory under life sentence. The third figure in the tri- angle, Marie Jackson, 27, was in jail as a sequel. Her story has not heen told. 3 Mary Vickery appeared at her for- mer home here today after being missing and believed dead since August, 1925, and broke a silence that | has kept Dabney in prison for more than a year. 3 Unhappy at Home, “I disappeared from home because I was not happy with the home life with my father and stepmother,” she said. “I had Conley Dabney take me in an automoblle to a country railroad station. He left me there | and drove away. I took the train to Cincinnati, where I worked in a wool- en mill. | “I heard about Dabney being charged with killing me, but I didn't want to be taken back home, so I kept still and did not reveal that 1| was still alive. T stood it as long as I could and then decided to make it known that I was alive, so Dab- | ney could be set free. I dldn't want | to go home, s0 I came to Willlams- burg, where I formerly lived." A From his prison cell in the reform- atory Dabney told his story. He at- tributed his predicament to a chance acquainance with Marfe Jackson, chief prosecution witness against him athis | trtal, with whom he had several e Marie Jackson swore against me because 1 would not leave my wite and go with her,” he declared, as he recited the story of the girl's disap- pearance, his arrest and conviction. “The Jackson woman at the trial| testified she was with me and the he said. HEnaE | Wife Always Loyal. “You could not make any of my family believe I am gullty,” he con- | qu(’d‘ and then the one bright spot in his luckless career appeared to him and he added: “My wife has stuck by me throughout this trouble. She certainly has been loyal.’ Several months after the Vickery girl disappeared, prohibition agents found a body 100 feet from the en- trance to an abandoned mine. Charlic Vickery, a painter, identified it by a hat and clothes as that of his missing daughter, and Dabney was brought to | rial. The report of Miss Vickery's return created a stir in Harlan, Ky. Miss Jackson was arrested and held on a minor charge, pending an investiga- tion. Sheriff ‘George S. Ward asked and G. G. Rawlings, counsel for began steps to establish Miss s legal identity and to obtain of his client. The corpse found in the mine wa nothing but bones.” i This statement by Dabney is the only thing definitely known about the the Assoctated Press. ID, Okla., March 19 rates, Dave Brown, 19, today at Cherokee voluntarily accepted tence of death for bank robbery. This was the first time that the death penalty has been assessed in Oklahoma for that offense, although there has been a law for some time making robbery with firearms a capi- tal crime. The youth admitted his part in the robbery of the Farmers' Bank at Jet last vear, in which $1,100 was taken, but positively refused to name the other two youths who were with him. Charles Swindall agreed to the sentence if he would tell ywn's mother was in court and .4 for him, declarng that he mentally unsound. Execution s set for May one was killed o injured in the Ba;ndit of 19 Accepts Sentence of Death In Bank Caf»e Rat}ier TIEE Tell on Pals -Rather | sen- | | robbery. The young men held up the officials of the bank and escaped | '\1\ m; the money without a shot being | | fired. The bank ‘was robbed by three young men December 16, 1026. Find- | fing Mrs. C. R. Pucker, wife of the assistant cashier, alone while other employes were at lunch, the trio en tered the bank, gathered up all money in sight and were leaving the institu- tion when S. F. Randolph, president |of the bank, appeared. The youths | then forced the two bank ofcialg at pistol point to enter the vault and escaped in an automobile. _Brown was arrested recently in Newkirk and brought to Enid to face | charges of motor car theft. While | being held in jall he sent for County | Attorney Mitchell and told him he had | decided to confess to the Jet robbery, take his punishment and then try to reform. s Mundo, El Heraldo and El over the possibility of clashes when the Nationalist troops arrive in Shanghai, but the foreign communi- ties feel quite secure with nine battalions of British troops and ar- tillery strung around the settlement, with™ the forces of other nations within call, and strong naval forces avaflable In case of emergency. British Troops 'Ikld:. British troops were ready tonight to oppose any invasion of the interna- tional settlement, whether by North- ern or Southern t In the sec- tions of the city under Chinese con- trol the streets were deserted and the houses were closed. Here and there groups of policemen and soldiers were seen. Gen. Sun Chuan-Fang, whose army collapsed several weeks ago through the onslaughts of the Nationalists, is reported to have fled to Yangchow, north of the Yangtse River. He had been held a virtual prisoner at Nanking since the break-up of his forces. . CONSUL DESCRIBES FIGHTING. State Department Gets Report on Nanking Situation. Consul John K. Davis at Nanking reported Nationalist troops at Lishui, 40 miles southeast of Nanking, at noon Friday, when a message from him to the State Department, received yesterday, was filed. There was fight- ing at Lishul and_to the west, the nearest point to Nanking being ap- proximately 80 miles. “The northern fores were reported to be heavily reinforced and seeming- ly recovering ground,” the State De- partment’s summary of the message sald. ~“Nanking was anxlous but quiet.” The dispatch also said that two students at the Southeastern Uni- versity, a Chinese institution, had been executed, but gave no details. HOTEL CLERK HELD FOR FORD THREATS Man Admits Demanding Cash From Auto King’s Son for Data on Baby. By the Associated Pre GULFPORT, Miss.,, March 19.— Edmund Grant Goodwin, 84, hotel clerk, was held here tonight follow- ing his confession that he had been {the author of a serles of letters to Edm(}l Ford, fnuwlnublle magnate, de- manding various sums, ranging from $8,000 o $100,000, for Information concerning the date upon which Ford's 6-year-old son would die. Goodwin, a native of Portsmouth, N. H., was arrested at a Biloxi hotel, where he had been employed as a clerk for several weeks. Little information concerning the letters was available. Whether the pretended knowledge came as a result of clairvoyancy or from knowledge of some plot against the boy's life was not revealed. Warrants for Goodwin's arrest were issued after he had been trailed here by private detectives. They were based upon affidavits made by L. P. Harrls, assistant superintendent of the New Orleans branch of the Ford Motor Co., after a conference with attorney. rs were said to have been' mailed from Detroit, Toleds, New Or- leans and Gulfport, and dated back to early last Summer.' Guodwin was said to have written them under the aliases of Paul W. Gibson and Ed- mund G. Day. MEXICO CURBS PRESS. Three Papers Suppressed in Guada- lajara, Says Dispatch. MEXICO CITY,.March 19 (P).—A dispatch from Gudalajara to El Uni- versal reports that the civil authorities have closed the plants of three news- papers which are charged with publish ing antl-government propaganda in connection with the religious ques. tion in Mexico. The newspapers are glven as El Mercantile, { FREDERICK, Md, March 19.— Less than half an hour after a jury had convicted Arthur Swann, 20-year- old colored youth of first-degree mur- der for the slaying of J. Edward Car penter early on the morning of Janu- jary 7, near the road from Indian Head to La Plata, Judge Hammond Urner in Circuit Court here late this afternoon sentenced him and Ottie Simmons, also colored, convicted yes- terday, to death on the gallows. The two will be hanged in Balti- more City jail on a date to be set by Gov. Ritchie. They will be taken trom here to La Plata tomorrow and later will be removed to Baltimore. The end of the case came with dra- matlc suddenness after a long day filled with surprises, bickerings of counsel and general upsets. The jury was given the Swann case at 4 Ten minutes later the foreman, Daniel H. Buckey, sent word that a verdict had been reached. The jury returned and waited in a hushed courtroom for 12 minutes while the bailiff located the defense attorneys, Milton A. Dashiell and George Fornoll, and brought them i in. While Swann sat slumped in his chair with his chin in his hands, an attitude he had kept throughout the trial, Mr. Buckey announced the ver- dict: “Guilty of murder in the first degree.” up. New Trial Refused. Mr. Dashiell made a motion for a new trial, which was denied in two minutes. He then made a plea for mercy on the grounds that the evi- dence showed Simmons did the shoot- ing while Swann waited on the road. After another wait for Joseph C. San- try, Simmons’ attorney, who had not the court then listened to a on behalf of Sim- victed, plea for mercy mons. As soon as Santry had concluded Judge Urner passed the death sen- tence. The trial of Simmons and Swann lasted three days. They were accused of holding up Carpenter, who was the father of seven children; as he was returning from work at Indian Head shortly after midnight January 7, of robbing him of $37 he had made work ing overtime, and leaving him mortal- ly wounded near the road to La Plata. They were arrested the next day and later removed to Baltimore because of | fear of violence. A change of venue to this district was granted on the grounds that they could not receive an impartial trial in Charles County. State's Attorney Willlam M. Storm of this county conducted the prosecu- tion of both cases, assisted by Ferdi- nand C. Cooksey, State's attorney of Charles County. Storm had a com- | paratively easy time with Simmons, bullding up a strong circumstantia) case and topping it with a confession made by Simmons the day after he { was arrested. Simmons was con: { victed yesterday afternoon. Battle Over Swann. But with Swann, Storm found his every step fought bitterly by Dashiell. Swann's confession, in which he ad- mitted suggesting the hold-up, but sald he took no part in it, was assailed as coerced, and Dashiell in his cross- | examination, treated the officers to whom it was made to an exhibition of withering sarcasm and caustic com- ments. In the same manner Dashiell attacked practically every witness the ! State put on the stand. | Simmons, testifying in Swann’s de- fense, sprang a surprise by declaring that Swann fired the fatal shot while he was struggling with Carpenter on the ground. Swann followed and de- nied everything Simmons had sald, in- ! sisting that he was 200 feet away, and | had pleaded with Simmons not to hold the man up. In his final argument to the jury i Dashiell pleaded for acquittal on_the grounds that Swann went with Sim- mons with no intention of taking part in the hold-up. Storm followed him, and in a flery talk demanded the death | penalty' 'in_justice to the people of Charles County. His argument was conclue at 4:30, and the case was given to the jury lmmodhmt 1{.\; nter was present through- ‘out the s. h | Swann did not even look | been present since his client was con- | Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Reviews of New Books—Page 4. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 10. D. A. R. Activities—Page 11. News of the Clubs—Page 14. PART THREE—12 PAGES. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 and 7. Civililan Army News—Page 8. Spanish War Veterans—Page 8. Fraternal News—Page 10, District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 11. PART FOUR— PAGE Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—$ PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea-| tures. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—12 PAGES. Classified Advertising. W. C. T U. News—Page 9. Veterans of the Great War—Page 10. Girl Scouts—Page 10. District National Guard—Page 11. Y. W. C. A, Notes—Page 11. ‘The Gray Page 11. Serial, mance Phantom's GRAPHIC SECTION—14 PAGES, World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION— PAGES. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; and Mrs.; High Lights of Histor: STONE DRY A 500 Pieces and Attack 16 Hunting Beer. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., March 19.- While a squad of 16 prohibition agents were conducting a raid in South Bal- mob of 500 persons One machine had been hacked and chop- | axes | timore today a descended on their motor cars. knives and attracted by ped to pieces with vhen the agents, th slamor, made a sortie from the build- be and | were raiding to flying stones ing which they met with freely paving bricks. Casualties were few, however, police riot squads dispersed the c without arrests. Only three agent: were struck, two by ston third by a bottle of mayonnaise, appearance. Agents Depart for Police. Some of the agents departed hur- riedly in one machine to summon po- apparent that the crowd was seriously infected They drove through back alleys in a rain of missiles, among which ripe toma- lice help when it became with the destructive fervor. toes played a spectacular part. ‘When the bluecoats appeared the crowd fell away with little show of resistance, contenting itself with hoots and jeers. Found Nothing in Raid. The machine which fell the rioters’ knives ing. The proved vacant. scene for possible use in 8. Rebel Band Wiped Out. MEXICO CITY, March 19 UP) call It nd was wiped out. Ro Mr. GENTS INBALTIMCRE RAD in Mob Cut Auto to| nd and the | which | broke and injured chiefly his personal vietim to and axes was a transfer car used to haul away seized apparatus. The agents were on the scent of haogme brew, but found noth- ouse they had entered Part of the axes used in attacking the car were those the agents themselves had bmua::t to llhe roying .~The ‘War Department announcéd today Velasco, describing ebel leader,” was killed in h federal forces in the says tion of Citizens' Associations would be branded upon the action of the Citi- zens' Advisory Council in addpting a resolution by Harry N. Stull, indors- ing Ralph B. Fleharty for people's counsel of the new Public Utilities Commission, according to the provi- sions of a resolution introduced at the federation meeting at the, District Building last night by Willlam McK. Clayton and referred to a special com- | mittee of seven for investigation and report. The matter was Introduced early in the session and provided the most tense and personal matter before a meeting which wrangled from begin- | ning to end. | tion by calling up a resolution from the Brightwood Citizens’ Assoclation, | from which he is a delegate to the federation. This resolution asked | the recall of Mr. Stull from the | council and authorized Mr. Clayton | to request such action by the federa- tion. Mr. Clayton, however, plained that he would not consider | the recall matter, but would present | the resolution of “formal censure.” Demands Council Be Censured. Mr. Clayton, who 'had been promi- nently mentioned for a post on the | | new Public Utilities Commission and | insisted that his presentation of the | matter was not “personal,” but that ‘;ms association demanded that the | He spoke with deep feeling. There were many interruptions to his }px'esen!unun of the case and his| | argument prior to his resolution was | | finally cut short by demand that he | present his resolution. | " The vote was 49 to 13 to refer Mr. | rlon's resolution to a special which President J. G. the federation appointed as follows: H. M.| chairman; Mrs. F. H.| les 1. Stengle, William V. > J. Brennan, G. W. Ayres ham Powell. H The Stull resolution indorsing Mr Fleharty for people’s counsel, which | took place after the President had | sent the nomination to the Senate but | |before nomination 'had been con-| firmed, was formally brought before | tederation upon demand of Mr. when President Yaden read a council meeting | of mmediately Framptor | Snell, Char! wis, F Mr. Clayton at some length | | from the constitution of the connci |to show it was a creature of the| federation and must report back to it, | (Continued on Page 6, Column 4.) —_— | RAIN PREDICTED TODAY | MAY HIT BLOSSOMS Police Are Ready to Handle Crowds Planning to See Cherry Trees in Bloom. Rain, predicted last night by the! Weather Bureau for today, may spoil the plans of the usual throng of s who seek the Speedway and in during the blossoming of 'y trees. ““Considerable rainfall, accompanied by a falling temperature, the lugubrious chant of the weather fore- caster, who further decla.s that the map indicates generally unsettled con- ditions. Park police, however, are ready t take care of the crowds if they The Washington Rapid Transit Co, announced last night that they will run double-deck busses from Seven- teenth and B streets, beginning today, for sightseers. The busses will be operated on a half-hour schedule, but will not start operation until Monday if it rains very hard today. The Cap- ital Traction Co. also is operating busses from the rear of the Treasury Department. With the cherry blossoms in bloom, the office of the park police states that all of Potomac Park will be thrown open to the public tomorrow, includ. ing the inlet bridge, which has been closed during recent reconstruction ‘work. There will be one-way traffic, westbound, around the Tidal Basin. Motorists from Virginia may enter the park by wai' of Fourteenth street. A detail of policemen will be on duty to direct the crowds. e Mr. Clayton introduced the ques- ex- | | also for the post of people’s counsel, | | council be properly censured for its| “unauthorized and non-legal action.” | | city. dred dollars for a limited period to appeal to the loan shark—and pay the usual penalty. Many times, investigation has dis closed, the amount of the loan means the difference between recovery or death to a sick member of a family. or the money with which to provide a tamily with food during a temporary spell of unemployment. Bankers to Consider Problem. It is ‘to assist cases like these that the aid of the allled bankers of Wash- ington was enlisted in the search for a remedy. The entire problem will be laid before the members of the Dis- | trict Bankers' Assoclation at their | weekly luncheon at the Willard Hotel Jon Wednesday. It is expected that |some more definite action will be taken then. The question of improving the Bis. trice code covering interest rates | however, probably will be left to the | consideration of the executive board of the association, which will not meet until Friday. Any effort to amend these laws, it was said, would neces sitate careful preparation and, prob- |ably, hard work to get the amend | ments through Congress. Corporation Counsel Stephens does not anticipate any trouble, however, prosecuting money lenders now unde investigation by his office | present law. He said yesterday he already has obtained what appear to be three clear-cut cases against as many alleged loan sharks. Mr. Stephens sald that he would walt | however, until his investigation is complete and institute all prosecu- tions simultaneously. Pawn Brokers Filter Back. Half a dozen persons called at Mr Stephens’ office yesterday in answer to his appeal for informants, as pub- lished in The Star on Friday. Two of these supplied evidence indicating that during the years that have elapsed since the prosecutor com pleted his drive on pawnbrokers even a number of these establish ments, or at least their equivalent in tactics, have filtered back into the | ‘Although I have not as yet dis covered any companies that lend money on watches and what-not: Mr. Stephens said, “I have evidenc enough to convict one firm, I am sure, for making a loan on some fur niture. This company used exactly the same methods as the old-time pawnhrokers. The victim was loaned $156, and had to sign a note to pay back $§250. “I find also that several companies are making a practice of selling such notes immediately to another com- pany. The second company will plead, of course, that it legitimately dis counted a note. That same stunt was trled with us when we opened up on the loan sharks in 1913, however, and it falled to work. I am sure it will be no more successful this time. One Paid 300 Per Cent. here is no doubt at all that these cases are usurious. I want every per. son who has dealt with loan sharks of any character—whether the loans were made on automobiles, house fur- nishings or anything at all—to get in touch with me if they feel that they have been fleeced. They may either write or call in person. One man even called at my home last night. I think he gave me a sure conviction, to.” Another man has written to The Star furnishing an example of the in terest the loan shark exacts. He paid about 300 per cent interest. The let- ter, together with the name of the company that loaned the money, had been turned over to Mr. Stephens. The letter follow: “I have just read your interesting article relative to the borrowing e. money on automobiles - and the usurious rates imposed, and wish to commend you on the situation. Per- sonally 1 have not an auomobile, but recently in need of money as a result of continual {liness in my family and desiring to have an operation per- formed on my mother, I visited an office. $63 Interest on $62 Loan. “There I was informed I could ob- tain a loan on furniture of $§125 on very similar conditions as on an au- tomobile, as stated in The Star. I was to pay for interest, commission, no- tarial fees, etc., the sum of $63, which would be deducted from the loan. In other words, I would pay $63 for . a loan of $62. were kind (Continued on Page