Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1927, Page 1

‘ WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Partly cloudy row; probably morrow femperat ‘vesterday; lowest, Full report on afternoos Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 22 and 23 L T e e e e e e Entered post office, SMITH AND BRONTE “SAFE IN HAWAII AS | No. 80,391 TREE WRECKS SHIP " Silence on Damaged Radio. GAS TANKS FOUND DRY BY SALVAGING CREW Flew Whole Way Without Seeing | ‘Water—Mirages in Moon- light Misled. By the Associated Prese. HONOLULU, July 16 pleted their uncertain flig by delibegately plunzin: tree on tha Island of M L. Smith and Emory plained as they resied efter their goal today radio was silent for five | they sent out BOS calls and continued on to land without ing rescue ships that they in the air. | When still 500 miles or more from | land, Bronte revoaled. the failure of their gasoline pump led them lieve their fuel was running extremely low and it caused the plane to lose s0 much altitude that their trailing wire- less antenna struck the sea and was torn away. The decrease fect of resu pump and they Having com to Hawaii in Bronte ex- Honolulu kaiwe Ernest in why their fer 1 rm v int altitude had the ef-| the gasoline | up into the air n and headed for land without | knowing how long they would last without knowing whether their calls | had been heard and uncertain of their bearings. Motor Is Salvaged. Navy flvers announced th galvaged the motor and instruments | from the wrecked plane and had found | her gasoline tanks absolutely dry. When the initial excitement and | confusion had disappeared Smith and | ~Bronte had distinguished themselves | as being the first civilians to fly from California to Hawaii. They had won a battle avorable weather, perverse lu I the natural odds | that flyers face in crossing the sea | vith land planes. They bad out-| Bmarted fate by diving into the tree ‘when their last drop of gasoline had ‘been used, thus forestalling the possi {bility of being pinned beneath their ‘plane in an upset. From the time they left the Golden Gate at 11:08 a.m. Thursday until they were near their destinatior they lsaw nmeither land nor s Several times Smith reported seeing. beautiful /Btretches of “land” tempting enough for the exhausted flyers to alight upon, ibut the sights were only illusions— ‘mirages cast upon the clouds and fox by the light of the moon. Series of Difficulties, From the time they dived into the €og bank off the Golden Gate until ithey picked the tree as the softest ~available thing to land on, their flight presented a scries of difficulties. . The climax of their trouble came about . Honolulu time (Hono- Julu time is 215 hours behind Pacific i 61z hours behind Eastern aving time). At that mo- sent out their first SOS after having concluded they had only enough gasoline to stay in the air another hour, They presumably were about 700 miles from Honolulu and 500 ailes from the nearest land. “We are going to land in the sea. Ve have a rubber life boat. but send several ships reported them as ing. Three steamers, Ihel ; the liner Wilhel- mina, the Army transport Kenowis and the sieamer President Pierce, turned off their courses aimost imme: diately and rushed to their aid, the “Wiihelmina appearing to be the near- est of them—apparently about 200 | miles away., i Still Asked Help. T.ess than 20 minutes later they sent out a new eall for help estimating their gasoline Supply nt to last them four hours. Th &nce was continued. Soon the Wilhelmina wirclessed that e plane had settled to the water and that the ship supposedly was about 90 miles from it. Al radio stations were | silenced in the hope that further word wouid come from the monoplane’s radio. None came. Visions of pos- sible disaster forced the ship toward ocal thundershowers to- . Highest, Following ‘Frantic; SO0S Calls Blamed by Flyers to be-| ‘ Howev |Anti-Trust Prosecution of Ameriean territory? Bureau Forecast.) tonight and tomor- little change in at 4:30 p.m. 5 a.m. today. n; t page 7. Ch WASHINGTON, shington, D. 1.6 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 1927 —THIRTY-TW ¢ Foening Hlar. * O PAGES. 'ESPIONAGE WITHIN DRY FORCE | IS CHARGED BY COL. REEVES| Former Admlmstrator n New ]ersey Tells [ of Threatening to Shoot Agent in Protecting Wife. BY IRA L. hara office from Wash v > unit R | Previously T estigators, who, time really v woman clerk: as they dared to be. | 1 told Ge: irews, Assistant Sec: | prohibition enforcement, in my letter of resignatiol | these men wasted at least one-half of my time. 1 |to me that only one-third of the field personnel was really | forcement work. have mentioned appeared in my They functioned an independent and intimidated | nd stenozrapiers, annoyed m Ms and were o of med to m etar the asury in charg that i told Bim it available n, appeared for en- Agents Investigate Each Other. A third of the men seemed engaged in investigating the | thirds, and one-half of those investigated were made incapal { their duties properly because of this espions The investi who annoyed me mos summarily dismissed from the department M. Doran. Ha great deal of his influence Lepartment. Ha first about Dec 1926, and 1 permanent exit atout March 20, 1927, At that time 1 fold him 1 would shoos { him unless he ceased an attempt he had made to involve Mrs. Reeves in | | my official differ with him On the day in question 1 had tele shoned from my office to my home to Mrs. Reeves it she would zo to| the Fank and pay a small note 1 had 1 {due there. The obligation was in-| | @ 3 i . Curred in my engineering business | (5ate either my ) It ar previous 1o entry into the prohibition | that they knew of no reason for the department, and was for u sum be- (*""\"'"” therefore disregarded § s e S but Hale kept his self-made appoint: Whether v ‘telephone { ment and was much chagrined when 1 | tapped. or whether Hale w ‘1““["“>'IM‘I"' r {ing Mrs. Reeves, I nev = came stra he_telephoned (Continued on remainin > of performing or rank J who was 3 by C v was June James ohibition office | next day fe his | ion and Reeves at the office Winnie. casion? sure to be off, 1 telephoned to Mr. Winnic o they had not appeared i my f th M ternoon at the mbe of 1 United Stat id, “What is oc von b d Hale, a1 mind the ¢ there na il ed | | to Gen. Andrews both of whom & asked Hale to inves myself, and | Mr. Win Column 6.) t from Page 4, rned. to_me the IMMUNITY IN TRADE FOR ALIENS TESTED. 10 GOME MONDAY Death Toll Reaches 62—Yel- | lowstone Park Has First Frost. Foreign Governments Issue | in Potash Suit. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Can a foreign government violate | the antitrust laws of the United States? 1s a foreign government jm- | mune from prosecution if it sets up a trading corporation to operate on | i Prospect of a in the he wave which has caused 62 deaths in the Kast in the past four days, was held out for Monday or by Forcaster Mitchell of the Weather Bureau tod { Up until that time the temperature | will remain the The Department of Justice has an- ! ume except in local § swered both these questions in the |ireas. where temporary relief is g negative, replying to the petition of |PY thunderstorms. such as those the French potash monopoly, which |Which visited Washington last night. seeks to establish a sales agency in | ‘Weather telegraphed reports today the United States. Col, William Dono- \hrmu.)hfnm\fl‘n(”(Im first frost of the ‘ho | Season from Yellowstone Park. The g ‘;“‘“"‘“: ‘Ah““':e’f i‘:“:r"d‘: l:”;: ume cooling zephyrs which visited st s iy 80 ll]ll park st night are expected to one of the most significant of the re-|jring jower temperatures from the construction period, since it involves | Northwest here Monday. ¢ a conflict of economic theory between | i continental Europe and America. Standing of Toll. The French corporation is an out-| TFighteen additional deatt growth of the reparations settlement, | the heat were reported by being operated by the French govern- | cities yester The toll now stands ment to obtain revenues which are charged against Germany's account The desire to establish « rales agen is in_line with the efforts of French potash managers to their deficiencies and, of cou crease their revenues. Five . seven directors of the corpcration are officers of the French government. The Department of Justice has asked | for an injunction to resirain the French corporation as well as their| German affiliations from conducting a | Pennsylvania price-fixing proce: is held |..;hxgh. t temy be in conflict with the German anti- [readings ranginz from trust law. Humidity made le - more uncomfortable Issues Held Settled. | In New Yor ty the temper e Department of Justice argues | veached a Ximum of 90 degre m?Ahmi Jusues were settled in the re. | desree below the high mark cent_decision by the Supreme Court [hot wave. { of the United States in connection | 1IN tland, Me., the temperature with the sisal monopoly, which was |[dropped to 64 de after a heavy fostered by the Yucatan government iR Rome, experienced in Mexico. 1t was held then that the yeremlectr] accompanied fundamental object was to control the Bt e s Importation and sala of sisal and that | Ralph Miller, dris the Mexicans b; ir_concerted ac- {hicle “for the ew York, 1 4; Mas New Hampshire, 1; Pen upper New York State, 1 Temperatures throughout the KEast were slightly lower than on Thursday. but in only a few isolated sections was | there any” appreciable relief from the torrid weather Pennsylvani cported the thermometer 90 to 47 de- conditions even | ture | s, one of the r of a motor ve outhern Dairies Park road. He was taken to Emerg ency Hos 1. where ph 1he spot at full speed. Then th was a long silence. Word of their forced landing Moiokai at 9:46 a.m., Honolulu 1 then was flashed into Honolulu, s turned ack on their Army planes left from d, n 1ot them off | the leper island and bring them to Honolulu, | The little monoplane City of Oak- | Jand, which had been groomed for | weeks in anticipation of her over- seas flight, was virtually demolished, “The plane was in the air hours und 36 minutes, during which sh 1raveled about 0 miles. Smith Jiopes to salvage the engine, but no | more. Message Unread Two Hours. Still 60 miles from their destina- | tion, Smith and Bronte wirelessed | «apt. Lowell H. Smith of round-the- world-flight fame, now stationed at Wheeler d. Because Smith was ab- gent when the message arrived, it lay unread for nearly two houss | while thousands were wondering what had become of the City of Oakland Once their fate became known planes came to thei and by them to Wheeler F As Smith and B plandits of Haw credit to the ot! plane to land. De the pler ' broken do and in sy crepaneies ceived b pointed th und RBron by dead reck on me Res courses | Wheeler s recel e th fact vh! the sta ppat 1ften ind m T unerriv n far off i been guiding it on s Pump Failed. Bronte declared their flight demonstrated the practicability of transpacific air travel what was the hardest part of the t h smiled and said: "It was work all the Smith and hard through Cond way were not fight has fexsible 1o Franeisco tions th » thy hetw San said Rronte. tion | Moore, 47 year Army | pavent dis | Asekd | i all WOMAN, ANNOTED, SLAYS IN ELEVATOR noon while at Fourte ported he was not dang fected. ASHES OF HENRY WHITE Shoots Neighbor to Death in Arart- { ment House Lift Following | TO BE BURIED IN OCTOBER Misunderstanding. ! Services Over Remains of Famous| Diplomat Will Be Held at Cathedral in Fall. By the Assaciated Press. NEW YORK, July old, wa 16.—Mrs. Ollie | shot to death | Bur this morning by Mrs. Catherine Bar- | White, fumous diplom: rett, 43, while they were passengers in | occurred at Lenox, Mass, 2 descending elev saptment | Will be heid at Washington ¢ | hionme lon SE. Nictiblas T Where |Some time in October, Iev | both lived. | Phelps Stokes, cuanon of the arrett told detectives she had | | been annoyed by Mrs. Moore following | a_misunderstanding a few When Mrs. Moore upbraided h | elevator, she said she fired three shots | rrett put the revolv left the car and went to he where she was arrested by | the elevator | ! rites over the ashes of Ilenry whose death sterday, | thedral nnounced today on receipt of advic from members of the family. Mr. White was a trustee thedral and his ashes will posited in the Cathedral resting place. Special pravers White will be said row. Mrs, of the be de- their final | in memory of Mr. e at services tomor- detectives summoned by up-mmr 'RELIGIOUS | PEACE HOPE SEEN IN MEXICO MOVE | Calles’ nl Cnthnhf L:\yw Leaders Taken as Index of \ Settlement Trend. “Poor John Buckley,” was the | By the 1 statement of one of 1wo Visi MEXICO CITY tors at the Morgue yesterday when f they appeared to look at the body ot a man found dead in the weeds | near South Capitol and G streets Wednesday afternoon. 4 John,” said the second man, and the two men departed In order to make more certain of the identification the visitors |were put into effect I returned with 1wo colored men 30 | The chief of the secret police has nutes later and they also were |announced that the released Catho- n of the man's identity. {Tics will be kept under surveillance ! wour later one of the quartet |and arrested in if they continue’ returned to correct the mistake [an anti-government attitude. that had heen made. They had —_— —— DR Radio Program—Page 32 “Poor Jolm Poun(l | 1| Asleep After Four ' “Identify” Corpse Re]eus? , July 16.—The ase from prison by orders of Presi- | dent Calles Catholic lay lead: | who had been arrested on the charge {of ition, arouses hopes, vs El 1 irafico, that th controversy in Mexico may ju itholic church serv |sumed. These ice | suspended since the et- | s re- | been | | l-m.Ui | or " cer | An visited John Buckley's reom and seund bim fast asleey. HEAT WAVE BREAK. {of th [ 1hy | tion lof | aestre | potent TENION AT NAVAL CONFERENGE EAGED AS SESSIONS HALT Chances for Aqreemcnt Held \ Even as Delegates Take Week End Holiday. DIFFERENCE IN PLA‘\IS STILL 100,000 TONS ers Are Unreliable, but Discount Adjournment Talk. By the GEN As the week end “naval to hrir in which Associated P VA, Switzerland, July 16 appeared today, th he easin liday" the some of position threa ticipat in th val Profrered e were wi Thursd of up, ¥'s ple session ), althouzh there 100,000 tons di n's mini- nd the States put at still ence mum tonn; er maximum of the 100,000 more than ffer between niser United tol 1ximum ibout s between the American m and that of Japan, fled Unreli: British, in United hle b, view the and of stand he tes winten ith S-inch the and other to show that eraft lisplacement are unreliable, seaworthy, hard to equip and lor getling off the ways. Emphs placed on the fact that uisers of the Hawkins class seven rs in construction, Nevertheless, talk ot adjournment conference for a period longer over 1l sabbatl, dis- unted by all three delegations, the British attitude being, “Now, this thing started we must pu W with it Would Keep 0ld Cr Apare o of rmed the testimony ensi are of ship- builders, ers tech- of such often un- nicians e in is s are e lih e was isers, from seel hav heing united the numbes in k of 10,000~ sers of the United States and ritain Kept down to 10, the and Japanese delegates are 1zreed on a plan of not serapping all Id cruisers when they replaced new ones. contend such ves- could be for coat defense trol and convoy duty American_cire ‘e not wccept this plan, it bei 1 as po: bly involving tated kind of limi It is pointe sruisers in commission, exc f the Omaha class, will be twenty years old next yvear would be of little use under the se! en [ kept 4 disposed quies n erican )t those nd thus plan. Insists on British Concessions. The conference can said o Japanese dele respondent of the Associated Pres day, until the British delegation cepts as a basis of discussion a =onable” figure for the total tonnag cruisers and destroyers The Japanese spokesman added that his delegation was at one with the Americans in this position. e ex- plzined further details, like the sizes ships and guns, rhould be dis- cussed afterward. The Japanese delegation further announced that it was adhering to its timate of 315,000 tons of cruisers and s combined for Japan. ‘Ihis would give Japan, roughtly, 200,000 tons of cruisers, it was explained, The spokesman added that private meetings of the delegates were con tinuing, and the Japanese believed that the chances of the conference be ing successtul were about cven. He denicd the current report that the nese are threatening to leave va. Reduction Offer Reported. non-official J was circulated that the 1l proposed a slight diminution e total cruiser tonnage for United States and Great Britain. said that this proposal was made the understanding that Japan would he aceorded parity with Great Britain and the Unit ates i the matter of sulmarines, on »adition, however, that Japancse and get to nowhere the cor- to- ac- anese circle of 1he 1t is hoth the to mount eisht-inch guns eruisers. This report is the liberty on smaller not confirmed. In view of the unchans and the lack of progre ries have of leaving Geneva “or over : They are remaining wichin call of one a situation 1l the pleni Sunda 'LENGEL JURY READY T0 BEGIN ON VERDICT Canton Ex-Police Chief Likely !oi Hear Finding Today, Mellett Slaying Anniversary. o Ohio, Press July 16.—A five men and seven women in Common | Pleas Court was expected to make its | finding today as to the guilt or inno- cence of S. A. Lengel, ihe Canton Dolice Department, been on trial for one ‘v inry of wha has ek on | charges of complicity in the assassina- | | tion of Don R. Mellett. It was a year ago today that tant publisher of the Canton Daily s was shot down at his garage door, when he returned to his home with friends some time after midnight. al arguments of counsel were limited by agreement to about two hours apicce for Defense Attorney F. R. Hahn and Special Prosecutor C. B. MeClintock. Judge nk T, Clevenger had pre- pared his charge, which was to be de- livered hefore the case was given into the hands of the jury. The time set for giving the case to the jury was around noon, Lengel was suspended from office by Mayor 8. M. Swartz a few days after Mellett was kfl,lqc the British | Colorado. abandoned the plan | PRESIDENT T0 MEET [00DIRT FARMERS AT 4STATE PIONIC U. S. Experimental Station at Ardmore, S. Dak., to Be Inspected Today. 'NORBECK AND BULOW J WILL MAKE SPEECHES | ‘Blmsh Com‘,end 10, 000 Ton Cruis- | Clnef Exccutlve Wlll Travel by Auto and Train to Attend Democratic Gathering. ‘LL YOUNG. 0t of The Star, ABDMORE, noon to at *annual pienic, The Presi dent i but mere tsand the members of their not comi to mingle with agricultur famities farming experi- here at the Department of Agricul and to ingpect the dry men United 1tion tates operated | ture dent and | Japta e o 10,000-ton | 4t ONe we've | in- {5 least | | pastur { dent and This outir unquestionably the most den ffair the Presi and Mrs. Coolidge have since coming to the West, from the ze thered of the presiden ing hone nd judging of the erowd which has dvance of the arrival 1l train, the President to see the largest number of Zoodn farmers he in has ever hefore scen Tt is estimated wrmers will be the time the Cooli in least 9,000 picnic grounds by nd My farmers are not the hese from South Dakota, President’s temporary > Their number is said to well divided South Wyom and howeve hom be fairly Dakot ‘n Except for the persons on hand for the prairielike nature rounding country, the awaits t President and 1dge s very much the farmers’ gatheri he has back in New England, and similar to thousands of other ga ings held during the in the rural sections thrc number the outir of the ‘ne Mrs. Cool- sime as ttended ver and sur- zhout the Ardmore picnic is held not merely for the pur of wrs of the four States pre- mentioned, indulging in S 1’ picnic, where renewed and old: ved, and crops are give these many rtunity see what ix being done in an experimental way I|v4> dry-farm experiment station. ation was started more than » for the purpose of study possibilities and methods of crop production on the semi-arid land | of the so-called plain: The station has been very happily located at the extreme southwest corner of South Dakota, thereby making it pos- le to convenient rve the farmers in three adjacent States—Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado. er more than 400 acres of this so-called irie land under cultivation at the tion and more than 1,200 acres of Besides its periments in tation is engaged in beef cattle and hogs, Speeches Are Arranged. Probably the proudest man moving ihout the picnic grounds this morning is Oscar Matthews, superintendent of the station, who will personally re. ceive the President and Mrs. Coolidge when they alight from their train and | will be their host at luncheon at his nome and who later will escort the presidential party over the grounds and amol the gatherings of farm- crs and their families. Although M Matthews h: arranged to e the President’s and Mrs. Coolidge’s lunch- con served in his home, he can easily switch things so as to serve the meal out among the farmers i the I Mrs. Coolidge would prefer viousl zood acquaints time games al sed, but to farmers an oppo a old | W ing dairy cattle, = | that. ve- | tish | with | | arriv former chief of | | Py that t the Americans should not insist upon | ot © ! upon is scheduled 1fte The presidential party to leave the Game Lodge shortly clock this morning in motor for Custer, 20 miles away, where it will woard the train which will bring here and which is scheduled to shortly after noon. 1t his not been determine just he long the presidential party will remain out but advance indications e journey rk to the lodge will started before 3 o'clock. How. ever, much depends upon the lensth of the speeches to he made on t oceasion by Gov, Bulow nd Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota. n: retch of Prairie. When the President gets down into | this section of the State, he will look a countryside totally different from that which has zreeted his eve during his stay in the Black Hill 1 of rolling hills and tall, rug pine-covered mountains, the landscape will present an endless stretch of gently-rolling prairie land, with miles of wheat grass waving in_the breeze, (Continued on Page 4, Column Public In the interest of public safety, The Star will be glad to have its attention called to any infraction of the traflic regulations or any discourtesy on the part of its automobhile delivery drivers. The drivers of The Star’s fleet of over fifty automo- biles have been instructed in their duties with the greatest possible care. Few vcldcnls, and none of these of a serious nature, have ever occurred. To the end that this record may be maintained and improved, the public’s co-operation in reporting any case of care- less driving will be appreci- ated. » make a speech, | attended thered together | at | of | that | ummer months | each | at the | Accusation of Jewish sonal Attacks Money I By the Associated Pre CHICAGO, July 16. ron Sapiro's £1,000,000 =uit against Henry Ford was settled today, Mr. Sapiro announced. Sapiro sued Ford for libel as a ilt of articles in the Dearborn Inde- . & Ford publication, alleging was engaged in co-opgrative | marketing as part of a Jewih con spiracy to obtain control of Afe; | agriculture, he suit was settled today on the sis of a new statement which Mr. piro announced had been issued by Ford in addition to his recent apology for anti-Jewish statements ippearing in the Independent. No money settlement was involved, Mr. Sapiro said. Retracts Charges. “The Dearborn Independent wishes that the suit commerced piro for livel a tependent and on terminated parties.” snid 7ed by Mr. | pender 1piro A earborn Iord has torily ment Henry satisfae the state. prd and the SAPIRO DROPS $1. AS FORD RETRACTS CHARGES ainst the | The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 97,467 TWO CENTS. “RED REVOLUTION” INVIENNA MARKED Conspiracy and Per-; Recalled—No | BY GENERAL STRIKE nvolved. — Austrian Capital Tied Up as Rioting and Arson by Mobs Subside. @ M 000,000 SUIT ns Associated Press. | pubfication as made pubiic e | Davis. one of the men in Ford rested the final r “The cuit was based upon st appearing in a series of articles pul ‘Ha) ed in 1925 and 1926 by the Dear [ born Independint upon the ;::;,1,,".{,;";;.:s“;:;:;,::;'. rin | 12 DEAD, 119 WOUNDED s REPORTED DAY'S TOLL complained of by It with the so-called Sapiro ro-operative marketing and | {the relations of Mr. Sapiro with the | assciations organized on this plan. | They were prepared and written by a contributor to the Dearborn Ind pendent, whose works and ting have in the past appeared in various 1s in this country pted at their face value | ' DeerBorr Publl shing (o, ements Plot to Embhsh Dxctator Alleged as Demand for Resignation of Seipel Is Rumored. 1 Asso VIENNA, con e Articles Inaccurate. I "It has since heen found nur | aceuracies of facts wera pre inm articles and that erroneou fusions were drawn from i e - inac (Continued or DEFENSE HIGHWAY S OPENED TODAY cials to Take Part in For- mal Ceremonies. monies Incident to opening of the Defense improved route linking n and Annapolis, will be held this afternoon at Priests the half-way point between the State | and National Capit District and Federal { rep: sntatives of the civie organizations of the city will join v | Maryland authorities in the exercises 1t the bridge and then the en will proceed over the new r Annapolis, where the progr take the form of a jubilee, including a band concert and an old-fashioned | Anne Arundel County chicken dinner. After the oratorical fireworks at the dinner, there will be a pyrotechnic display in tha harbor. The festivities will close with a dance at St. John's | van. | Commissioner Daugherty to Speak. Troctor L. Dougherty wil| be spokes. | man for the District of Columbia at the initial ceremonies at the bridge. | John M. Mackall, chairman of the Maryland State Roads Commission, will do the honors for his State. Rear Admiral John Halligan, jr., and Em- {erson C. Harrington, former Governor of Maryland, are on the program also for shor 5. The speechmaking | will be preceded by a band concert and afterward Gretchen Hood. Wash- ington faryland, My Mary ar Span- gled Banner.” J. Hampton Magruder of Prince Gieorges County, will be the aster of ceremonies. Detachments representing the three branches of the service will fire a sa- Iute and the highway will formally be declared open. | Road Is 28 Miles Long. Three-minute speeches will be deliv- lered at the chicken dinner, Wash- m;lnn orators will include: Gra- . president of the Board of Trade; .\. Le , president of the Wash- ton Chamber of Commerce; Maj. ien. Anton Stephan, president of the | Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- tion; George W. Offutt, chairman | of the Board of Trade's committee on the Defense Highway. and Stanley Horner, president of the Washington | Automotive Trade Association. 'he new highway is 28 miles long. It is 10 miles shorter than the former route hetween Washington and Anna- polis, and has heen open to the pub- lic for several months although this is the first time any formal affair has I been held about i | _The District contingent will go to l(h(" B ial busses and van will leave from the I rict Buildlng in time to et to the bridge for the band con- cert, scheduled to begin at 2:30 o'clock. Dedicat the formal hway, s COMMISSION DENIES | Liberty Boys Are Refused Permis. sion for Street Cam- paign. | | | The District Commissioners today denied permission to the Liberty Boys | of 1927, an orzanization which de- scribed itself as “anti-snooper,” to conduct a membership drive on the public Application “for a permit to solicit ;m mbers was made to the Commis- | sioners by Frank T. Fuller, counsel | for the organization. The Commission- ers, however. held that a proposed | members ve would be in viola- { tion of the police regulations | The Liberty Boys came to life short Iy after the organization of the Citi- zens’ Service League for Law and Or- ler for the purpose of combatting “neighborhood esplonage. | ENDS POLITICAL ATTACK Stephenson Turns Ofl Supp]y of Al-| leged Evidence. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., July 16 (#).—D. C. Stephenson, life prisoner in the state prison her-, has turned off the supply of alleged documentary evndence which he claims will prove political corruption in Indiana and there will be no more disclosures as far as he can prevent it, according to an announcement late last night by Lilyod O. Hill, Stephenson’s attorney. Hill conferred with Stephenson yes- terday. Alleged documentary evidence a ready made public has Involved Gov. Ed Jnknr other public officials. District and Maryland Offi- | | officials and | | ANTI-SNOOPERS’ PLEA| NDON reports regare ¥ tlin, THO INSTRUNE USED N HURDER Detective Dissatisfied With - Story of Charles Smith’s Woman Companion. > situa way of all al | tion rehi 1g itislava, hat practicall workers of the Austrian cap ed a general strike order wi d to have been issued t party and executives of the trian trades union. The reports say t the s ent a deput to Chancel | demana his ignatic | that of the chief of police of Vi Ore report that the mil had tk in har cleared the rig had exti hed the f e of Jus which other buildings in slovakia, sta the ve ch the by al ion 1 Two different instruments « treets of were employed to snuff out the Charles Leon Smith Wednesds near the New York while he is believed to have been leep by the side of Mrs. Mary Agnes rvin, who was twice slashed across the breast, Detective Ser seph Waldron of the homicide | declared today | Detective Waldron vinced that one of the ruments, |a 30-pound iron tamp, was thrust at | Smith as he lay on the ground. He | intimated that this eonciusion ha ~‘ brought the detectives working on the | case to the conclusion that two per- | the Fenesis of the outbreak, it is still sons were mvolved in the murder. | 23CHibed to the acquittal of soldiers {of the cha responsible for { Watch Placed at Scene. the death of s and a boy in the | A watch has been posted at the |C0Urse of a riot at Schallendorf early | Camp Meigs vicinity for a man who | D the vear. was said to have been prowling about | | According to some rumors, how. | this vicinity for some time. ever, the disturbance had been long Last night Mrs. Garvin, according ring, and a_correspondent in to detectives, stoutly denicd her pre- afAlie Dally Meit sens epise vious statements that a giant colored e .h‘f“” a revolutionary man assaulted her and the murdered | ‘ouP detat. he sume correspondent man. e 2 . Plainly showing that he In Austria. and aqde satisfied with the explanatio iossed m‘,“‘"\:‘h:w”‘(’ ool oph tragedy which have been given by st i he Mrs. Garvin, Detective Waldron said [ .19 [ oiutionaties maintain them- that he would question her again at| e oue complications for the peace of length today, as well as her 14-y Europe. EH e old son, who was on the scene at least | -0 OV once hefore the murder Mrs. Garvin's latest story, according to Detective Waldron, is that she has no idea whether was white or blac that_she would po to_identify him. grilling, however, M deat fe of | me ¢ night | pary Avenue ¥ e in t b as wer Trains Are Held Up. Trains en route to Vienna held up in the suburbs, it | The Orient e was stopped at islava, while trains from Germany rvia were detained at the wers is said. ding the casualties > said 50 people were killed 700 were wounded. Pending further information as to Girls Join in Demonstration, Relating some of the incidents he witnessed, the correspondent of the Smith’s murderer | Daily Express says h 1w one sec- tall or short, and | tion of the mob chasing policemen ively be unable | down treets, and that when a Throughout the | policer was caught he was ruth- rvin stead- | lessly killed with sticks or rds. fastly maintained that while she can-|Suddenly he heard a clatter of hoofs not identify her assailant and a Jarge detachment of mounted murderer of Smith, she knows | police 1 on the scens in a reg- that he was on his hands and knees | ular c e, whirling swords when she first saw him and that he | over their had engaged In conversation with| After a Smith, which caused heér to wake up, | writer went . s which had been transformed into an Blanket Puzzles Police. er ency dressing station, How the blanket which was found As 1 entered.” he says, “a girl at the scene of the murder and used [ was led in handaged and a man was by the principals in the murder case | carried in shot through the face. The was brought to the scene. puzzled the | howls of the infuriated mob outside detectives today. | were distinctly heard within the Mrs. Garvin's son, Willam Ander- | building. & son, has only been checked up as| “The trax making one trip on the night of the | of factory gzirls who joined in the murder an dthat was at hte insistence | demonstration. It will” probably be of Mrs. Garvin, who called him up |found many of them were among the from the watchman's booth near the | Victims. They shrieked at the police New York Avenue Bridge. It is thought front of Parliament House, shak- probable that the boy brought the clenched fists and screaming blanket on a second trip and it is this | ‘Murderers | mission, if actua performed. on 2 " which the detectives are working HAND OF today. - « |tpL \\;ut]nr Emerson, acting in- | British Authe Link spector of detectives,, stated toduy y % that he is considering the possibility | With Third Internati of obtaining from the American Auto- Cable to The Star and €h mobile Association an electrical HewseCo magnet, used to pick up nails and | LONDON, other particles of metal, in the search | i outbre head: tour of the streets the to Parliament House, feature is the number 1 MOSCOW ies Outpreak ale. By British author- re: Mos July 1. vestarday ik in Vienna in. For the last few ign office has been omething ¢o happen somewhere in entral or Eastern Europe,” where complicated political conditions linked vith an unsatisfactory economic situa tion would fac work of the { Third International rord itself see in olutionary hand the at the murder scene for the razor | blade or razor or other instrument | which might have heen employed to perpetrate the murder. SHIP SUNK, SEAMAN LOST. Holland-America ag weeks expecting Liner and Freighter Collide in Dense Fog. HOBOKEN N. J., July 16 (A.— Dense fog was responsible for “I"!t'nl”h in Central Europe. The collision five miles off Nantucket light | Austrian Republic has a_population vesterday between the Holland-Amer- |0 6.000.000 inhabitants of whom o ki | per cent are concentrated in Vien an liner Veendam and tae fr its suburbs. The population agaland, in which the freighter to British experts, hetter to the game cow leaders than any other of s the 0, the hter | and was | the city which before the war w unk with the loss of one of the crew, | capital of a mighty empire of 5 pt. William Krol of the Veendam [000 people did not shrink with id today when his vessel docked. |division of the empire and the inha tants of Vienna, once the of Central Europe, have been ed into dire misery. e situation has facilitated greatly of Communist o nizations, nced from Moscow, and today na conside 1 Iritish offi ‘ml\ one of the most active Commun |ist centers of F ORDER P Pictures of Ford Jew Protest By the Ascociated Press. ST. LOUIS, July Henry Ford's recent apolog a series of articles in his De Independent of anti-semitic acter, two St. Louis the s 1 ht eliminated pictures of the automobile manufacturer from naws reels upon the complaint of four Jewish patrons. The news reels showed Mr. Ford and his son, Edsel, inspecting an airplane. The scenes were followed by a briet excerpt from Ford's statement of apology. After witnessing the reel, four Jewish patrons charged that “the pictures constituted little _more than an advertisement for Ford's forthcoming new car.” Believing that the showing of the <films might result in other com- plaints, the management ordered the views deleted from the reel. 16 July 16 (@), | the Havas Agency that the situation tal seems to | lor Seipel nej | the | ing_the tr Vienn tals of of A_dispateh tc from Vienna saye n the Austrian capi ave improved. Chancel said to have entered intc fations with Herr Seintz, head of scialist Darty, with a view to end: uble. among the stateliest capi rope, was plunged into one the worse riots of its checkere¢ sterday, but reports reach both by way of Berlin ané echoslovak frontier town of a today indicated that the | police, after fighting all afternoon, re stored a_ semblance of order late fr the evening. How many fell in the battle it was impossible fo determine, the reports were so conflicting, but 1t appears cer less_than 40 persomt "u‘onnnu 1 on Page 4, Columa a9 A