Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1927, Page 2

MORGAN CAHO DIES - OF AUTO INJURIES Found Unconscious Five Hours After Crash—Other Traffic Accidents Reported. Found in a lot near Sixty-first and Clay streets northeast nearly five hours after he' had been injured in a traffic accident, Morgan Joseph Caho, 37 years old, of 2842 Belair place northeast, died this morning at Casualty Hospital of a fracture of the skull. Caho was unconscious when found by police. The accident occurred near Central avenue and Forty-seventh street northeast, about 5:30 o'clock vesterday morning. Caho, who works for Horace Van Tassell, 1337 H street northeast, was driving his employer's car home from Maryland and, accord- 3 to the police, was on the wrong side of the road when the car skidded 2nd crashed against a telephone pole. The car was demolished. The lot where Caho was found was fully a mile from the scene of the accident. Police, who first thought he had been assaulted, believe he wander- ed away from the place wher r crashed and finally lost cons and fell. A certificate of accidental death is expected to be given by Coroner Nevitt. Boy Dies of Injuries. Six-year-old Edwin Baker, colored, 1239 Twenty-third street, who was in- jured by the automobile of John G Hall, Berwyn, Md. last Thur died at Emergency Hospital yesterday. At an inquest today it was testifie that colored boys, schoolmates of Baker's, tried to prevent his crossing the street at Twentyfirst and M where he was struck. reported a verdict of accidental Woman's Skull Fractured. Daisy Nokes, colored, 34 years old, Herndon, Va., was brought to Emer- gency Hospital early today by Ralph Riley, colored, also a resident of Hern- don, Va., and treated for a compound fracture of the skull and other in- Juries. Riley is reported by the police to have said the woman received her injuries as a result of jumping from an automobile on the road mear her home. Her condition was reported critical. Paul E. Counts, 19 vears old, a bricklayer, residing at 636 E street southwest, the fourth precinct after his car was ulleged to have injured Irene Wil- iams, colored, 40 years old, of Ninth street southeast, at Ninth a 3 streets southwest Saturday night. Irene, slightly hurt, was treated at ¥Emergency Hospital. Counts fur- nished a bond in the sum of $500 for his appearance. Reckless Driving Charged. A charge of reckless driving was preferred against Bernard W. Downs, 36 years old, 1234 V street southeast, after his car had collided with the <car of George Walsh, 30 years old, Hyattsville, Md., at Second and D streets northeast. Walsh sustained a broken collarbone as a result of the accident. He was given surgical aid &t Casualty Hospital. An automobile driven by Hugh French, colored, 129 C street south- west, was damaged early today as a result of landing against a cement support of the railroad viaduct at Florida avenue and Second street northeast. WilLier Bundy, colored, 20 years old, 1910 Thirteenth street, oc- cupant of the machine, received in- Juries to his lip and tongue, while the driver's chest was hurt. The injured men were given first aid at Casualty Hospital: Motor Cycle Policeman Charles W. Peters of the fourteenth precinct re- ceived injuries to his face and knees early yesterday when ne endeavored 10 avoid a collision with an automo- 1 at Connecticut avenue and Daven- port street and was thrown to the reoadway. Peters, not seriously hurt, Mwas treated at Emergency Hospital, Two Hurt in Collision. A collision between the automobile ©f Charles C. O'Donnell, 1629 Sixteenth street, and a similar vehicle driven by Harry Boyd, 1209 Twentieth street, occurred yesterday afternoon at Nineteenth and R streets. Boyd, who resides at 1209 Twentieth street, driv- in: the car of Mrs, Abigail Bishop, XKensington, Md.,, and the owner of the car were slightly hurt. They were ireated by a physician from Emer- &ency Hospital. Others injured in traffic accidents Yesterday, as reported by the police, were Mary F. Cooper, 3 years old, 500 F street northeast; Edward Daly, 16 years old, 1038 Bladensburg road northeast; Charles Knapp, 16 years ©ld, 3530 Eleventh street; Mrs, Mary Smith, colored, 45 vears old, 1512 Twelfth street; Mary Norris, 7 Years old, Mount Rainfer, Md., and ‘William Lewis, colored, 73 years old, WOMAN IS KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Mrs. Kennedy Dies When Car Overturns—Husband Is Injured. Mrs. Diane Kennedy, 57 years old 1341 L street. was killed vesterday afternoon when the touring car in which she was riding overturned on the National Defense Highway, ne Annapolis. Her husband. Joh nedy, who was driving the car, sus- tained nervous shock and lacerations of the head and hand They were both pinned beneath the when the car overturned, ated by a passing mo- 1orist who drove them to the Emer. gency Hospital, in Annapolis, wher Mrx.” Kennedy was pronounced de Mr, Kennedy said that the occurred when a ahead of puddenly stopped as he was driving toward Annapolis, and in his effort to avoid crashing into it he swung around and his car rolled over three times, Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy came to Washington several vears ago from New York City. She w: iployed at FErlebacher, Ine., 12101 " He is an employe of the I Co Mrs. Kennedy leaves two daughters and two brothers, N to th of John M s. A verdict of s given by the coron is Royal married The body r, in An. ~cidental death LAWYERS DENIED REVIEW. Mzurice and Benjamin Kay, lay this city, wanted for trial at On Neb., to defraud Sarah H. Jos out of §: 0, wer the Supreme Court t order of the lo court their removal for trial. Mud Drags Duck Hunter to Death MENLO PARK, Calif., October 31 (#).—Caught in quagire trying to retrieve a duck he had shot Lester Hoff, 20, sank in mud and water n 1 of Om ordering %0 rescue him. The | was arrested by police of | R {upon them as the wil b | .xs" on a charge of using the mails | to his death ar here late yes. terday, despite efforts of a companion m EVENING STAR, WASHINGTGN D._C; MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, TAX QUESTION IS PRIME FACTOR IN PLAN FOR MARYLAND CITY Estimated $500000 of Revenue Would Cover EXPC!‘IS&S. Owens Believes—Ten— Note—This is the second article of a series on ' the. proposal . to estabiish “Maryland City” {n Prince Georges Coun- ty. combining 28 communities near the District of Columbia border. BY DONALD A. CRAIG. t in all the discussions now in progress of the proposed creation of a new munieipality in upper Prince Georges County, adjoining Washing- ton, to be known as Maryland City, is the tax question. Every resident, and particularly every property holder, in the 28 communities included in the proposed area wants to know the an- swer to this question: Will it cost more, proportlonately, to run a city than it does to run our little communities separately, and, if so, will we get our mon orth? Ivery one concedes that if a new city is crented as a separate tax dis- trict, collecting and spending money for its own purposes, the most diffi- cult problem to be met will be an adjustment of the financial relations, including, bonded indebtedness, be- | tween the county and pality. new muni Committee Wants Figures. A special committee of the Cha of Commerce of Hyattsville is strug- zling to answer questions regarding the cost of the proposed city govern ment, the tax rate that will be neces- sary and the relations between the projected city and the county. On this committee are men from various sections of the area proposed for the Rough estimates of the cost of a city government such as that proposed have been made, and the mmittee has invited criticism of the ng frank are in the nature of gue: L Itk been proposed by several members of the committee that the Hyattsville Chamber of Commerce send an expert to Hagerstown to find out what it costs to run that city, in | order that some idea may be formed of the probable cost of Maryland City. Hagerstown, the third largest city in Maryland, has a population of about 31,000. Maryland City would be the | fourth largest city in the State, with an estimated population of about 20,000, All estimates of revenue for the| proposed new city made thus far ve taken for granted that a separate tax district would be created; or, in other words, that the new municipality would be entirely divorced, at least so far as its financial affairs would be concerned. from Prince Georges Coun- ty. This is assuming more than any one has a right to expect, in the opin- ion of some critics of the scheme, who say that the Maryland Legislature would never consent to a separation of this populous area from the rest {of the county, and that, even if the | Legislature were willing, it could not be made into a completely independent city, like Baltimore, without an amendment to the State constitution. These are legal and legislative ques- tions yet to be threshed out. Tax Feature of Plan. An essential feature of the plan in the minds of most of its advocates is that the present county tax of $1.62 on each $100 of assessed valuation of real property should be paid no longer to the county, but to the city. To this tax they add 38 cents on each $100 of assessed value, which they figure as the average of the taxes now collected by the nine incorporated towns in the proposed city area. The next step in estimating the revenue which would be available for running the new city is to estimate the assessed value of property within: the area on the basis of the new assessment now in progress at approximately $25,000,000. This, say the promoters of the scheme, is a fair estimate, since the present as- sessed value of property in the area is nearly $20,000,000, which is bound to be increased substantiaily. Arthur P. Owens, chairman of the committee of inquiry, adds the present county tax of $1.62 to the average of the town taxes—38 cents—and arrives at $2 as the tax which would be avail- able for the city. Applying this to an estimated assessed value of $25,000,000, he says that the city would have $500,000 in annual revenue without in- creasing the average of taxes in the towns. It is admitted, of course, that some of the towns, which are now collect- ing for their own purposes a tax of less than the average, would have to pay more, and that Hyattsville, for instance, which collects a town tax of 55 cents, would pay less than at pres- ent. It is contended by advocates of the plan, however, that the smaller communities would reap benefits from the slight tax increases which would make them more than willing to stand the increases once the new city gov- ernment got into operation. Advocates of the consolidation in- sist, moreover, that elimination of duplicate efforts in many civic lines would result in savings, and that the benefits to be derived from a combined financial system would be greater than might appear from a superficial exam- ination of the situation. Tentative Budget Compiled. When the committee of inquiry came to consider the question of city | expenditures it had little in the nature | ot real information to base its esti- mates upon. In the course of a couple of hours the members informally dis- cussed the probable cost of various branches of the proposed city govern- { ment and made up a tentative budget. | They had no expert advice. Friends | of the proposal think that the figures are near enough to reality to warrant rious consideration. Others look st of guesses, Brice Bowie of Riverdale, a member {of the Board of County Commission- | ers, expressed the view of the most of | the committee when he remarked: “Well, these figures will serve a something to shoot at. If they are | wrong, or if we have left out anything | very fmportant, will soon find it v the. published.” tiempt to estimate in probable cost of running the but in round numbers it ifi follows: { Mayor, e e e Ir: % | Garb o, [ 3hont waverin Maintenance | e {5 £0.000 000 000 000 000 000 ele, ndent 1 seho and “taking btedness 2170 000 s o strects. | 100.000 < the estimated cost | of the city to 3,000 a year, without | eonsidering new construction of any | =ort or such expenses as those for a | court, provides city is divorced {from the county; other judicial ex | pens general | administrative | 1enses, a by tment and other thi Tumpe incidentals,” for all of which there would be available only about $147,000 a year, More Study Needed. However, it {s admitted even by the ates of the plan that it would . a3 well as unwise, 1o draw conclusions from these esti- Much more study, with accu- ta as to the cost of running city governments, must be rate d similar btained before this phase of the prob- | lem can be Intelligently discussed. There is no lack of critics of the | plan. Many assert that it will cost while | mmuch more to run the city than $500,- .|000 a year, and that taxes will have 5 or 10 the ex-| tative Budget Is Compiled. roint where it will be ready to experi- ment with a city government, or even seriously consider the idea. The warmest advo 2 of the plan admit that it will take at least a year to work it out. The present assessed value of real property in the whole county, used as a basis for the county tax levy this ar, is approximately $40,000,000. the new ci that nearly $20,000,000 of this value is in the upper part of the county and within the area which it is proposed to convert into a city, this means that about half of the present county tax is now being paid by per- sons who would become residents of the new municipality if the plan is carried out. The special committee of inquiry, appointed by the Hyattsville Chamber of Commerce, intends to go more thor- oughly into the question of cost in working out the details of the city plan. County Ievy of 1927, A recapitulation of the county levy of 1 may be enlightening in this connection as showing how the money now rajsed in the county by the tax of $1.62 for eve $100 of assessed value is being spent. The total of the county budget is §671,681. By far the largest amount is for schools, and next comes the big expenditure for roads. These are items in which residents of the proposed new cit: are vitally in- terested, and these figures will enter in 11 of the diecussions in the 28 communities from Mount Rainier to Hollywood.. The levy for public schools is $372,- 600. To this must be added $34,750 for interest on county school bonds and $15,000 for the sinking fund to redeem school bonds. The item for roads is $121,037, with an additional $10,925 for interest on lateral road honds and $6,000 for the sinking fund to redeem lateral road bonds. The amount of outstanding county school bonds is $776,500. The out- standing bond issue for general road bonds is $16.000, for county lateral road bonds 000, and for Edmon- ston road bonds §40,000. Outstanding courthouse bonds amount to $68,000. The budget in- cludes $600 for interest on old court- house bonds and the same amount for a_sinking fund on these bonds; also $2,700 for interest on the new court- house bonds, with $2,000 for a sinking fund on the same. Other Items in Budget. The other items in the county bud- ®et are: County Commissioners, $1,500; clerk of the Circuit Court, $2,784.85 clerks to the County Commissioners, $4,700; county treasurer, $8,000; coun- sel to County Commissioners, $900; transfer clerk and auditor, $1,200; physician to jall, $100; warden to pail, 2,123.99; fuel for courthouse and jail, $1,200; keeper of courthouse grounds and heating plant, $1,200; guard to jail, $1,095; Orphans’ Court, $1,728; mes- senger to Orphans’ Court, $100; regis- ter of wills, $789.89; supervisor of as- sessments, $2,500; clerks to supervisor of assessments, $2,400; jurors and bail- iffs, $7,000; lunatic paupers, $8,000: te's attorney, §$1,500; sheriffs, $5,747.80; almshouse, $3,500; secretary to Board of Health, etc., $450; con- stables’ accounts, $4,940.50; magis- trates' accounts, $1,228.35; fox scalps, $56; defense of criminals, $205; expert witnesses, etc., $525; registration of vital statistics, $779.65; out-pensioners, $1,681; jurors of inquest, $2 hawks heads, $67.80; public printing, $973.25; store accounts, $344.18; taxes refunded, $331.93; stationery, $2,297.92; burying paupers, $232; trials, removed cases, $297.50; miscellaneous, $8,083.40; coun- ty agents, $1,730; local farm agent, col- ored, $600; home demonstration agent, $1,700; State witnesses before justices of the peace, $4.9 county social worker, $2,400; elections, $2,000; pub- lic health nurse, $1,260, and Police Court, $15,000. Arthur P. Owens of Decatur Heights, chairman of the committee on inquiry of the Hyattsville Chamber of Com- merce, who is enthusiastically in favor of the new city scheme, has estimated that the city would have about $500,- 000 of annal revenue. He reaches this figure by supposing that under the new assessment the value of property in the city area will be approximately $25,000,000. He places the average of the present town taxes at 38 cents for each $100 of valuation, and adds that to the present county tax of $1,62, giving a tax for the new city of $2 for every $100 of valuation, exclusive of the State tax. It is likely that most of the items in the county budget would be found in the city budget, although some amounts would be less, as in many instances the expense would be di- vided. However, no allowances are made in the above budget for such city expenses as a fire department and a modern police department, garbage collection and disposal, ete. It has been roughly estimated that the fire department for the new city - would cost about 000 a year and the police department the same. Believes $500,000 Sufficient. Mr. Owens believes that the esti- mated $500,000 of revenue would cover all of the expenses of the proposed city. Other persons are not so sure of this, and think that a slight in- crease in taxation might be neces- sary. The prospect of a tax increase for the operation of a new and p-to- date city is scaring some persons away from the plan, but it has no terrors for others, who say they would be willing to pay more taxes if they could et thelr money’s worth in ity benefits. At present the incorporated towns within the projected city area get back from the coun about three-fourths of the amount levied for roads. This i% known as the “road rebate.” It the city should be made a special, sepa- e tax advocates of the plan ay the entire amount levied for roads in’the area would be available for ex- penditure there, instead of part of it #oing for roads in the more sparsely ‘ttled farming sections of the lower ounty. It is taken for granted that it a city should be created as a separate tax arca, it would have to assume its share of t| county honds for school- houses and roads. “Whether the lower part of the county in such an event would insist that a portion of the courthouse honds also being assumed by the new city is only conjectural. But it js conceivable that such a claim would be put forth, in view of the fact that the present courthouse at Upper Marlboro was erected for use by the whole coun 2 New Construction. provision has been made In the tentative estimates of the fact of the projected city for new construction of kind, such new roads and streets, new schoolhouses, a court- house “or municipal administrative building, a garbage disposal plant, ete. These, It is contended, could be met by bond issues as the need would se. The expense for a new court- house or city hall would be immediate. There is no structure in the proposed area now that is regarded as suitable for that purpose. . Patients Removed in Fire. NEW YORK, October 31 (#).—Sev- eral hundred patients were removed from their beds at the Methodist Epis- 1o he correspondingly increased. These | copal Hospital in Brooklyn today when crsons insist that it will be another'fira partially destroyed a four-story are before public opinlon in building on the hospital grounds., The various ¢ommunities reaches a hospital has 600 patient ince It is estimated by advocates of All that is left of craft which fell at Newmarket, N. Y. Colonial Air Transportation Co.; his flancee, Elizabeth McGowan, a yesterd: v, carrying 1 l two others to their death. v Thompson, an official of the GREEK PRESIDENT SHOT, RECOVERING Communist Round-up Ex- pected to Follow Attempt- ed Assassination. By the Associated Pres ATHENS, Greece, October 31.— President Kondouriot who was wounded in the right temple by the bullet of a would-be assassin yester- day, passed a good night and his con- dition was reported as satisfactory. No fever had set in this morning and the President appeared in his usual good humor. The cabinet council held immediate- ly after the shooting decided to adopt necessary measures to suppress ail subversiv tendencies against the state. The foreign minister advo- cated that measures be taken sembling those against anarchi in France in 1924, when subve elements were rounded up by the wholesale and many deported. The minister of war told the cahinet that the crime was wholly Communist in its inception. Communists Are Blamed. The 25-year-old youth, Zafisigs Gous- sios, who fired at the President while the latter was entering his automobile in front of the municipal building, is stated to have been tl.e Larissa cor- respondent of an Athenian Communist newspaper. Police said they had learned of a conversation two weeks ago in which Goussios told his Com- munist comrades that he intended to assassinate the President. Various Communist books were seized in his room here. He had come to Athens for an operation to cure deafness. The assassin was saved from a Iynching by a mob. Lodged in jail, he told police that the attempt was made because the Greek state refused to support him during the time he was without work. As the President entered his auto- mobile in front of the municipal build- ing, where he had juit opened for- mally the Congress of Groek Mayors, Gousslos drew a revolver and fired two shots, One of the bullets passed through the windshield of the presidential au- tomobile, shattering the glass in Pres- ident Kondouriotis' face and striking him in the right temple. As the crowd rushed at the assallant police surrounded the youth and hurried him off to jail Surgeons Issue Bulletin. After President Kondouriotis was treated at a hospital surgeons issued this bulletin: “The President was wounded in the right temple, the flone being splin- tered. The President bore a slight op- eration very well; his condition is satisfactory and he was able to return home. Ministers of state, diplomatic rep- resentatives and high officials hastened to the hospital to express their sym- pathy. Some were permitted to speak with the President, but others signed the visitors’ book. ‘When Greece hecame a republic, in 1924, Admiral Kondouriotis became its first head as provisional F dent. Gen. Theododrdus Pangalos, who is now under arrest awaiting trial on charges of treason, executed a coup d'etat in June, 1925, and Kon- douriotis was deposed. A counter- coup was carried out by Gen. Kon- dylis in 1926 and Kondouriotis as- sumed the presidency again on Kon- dylis’ request. WIFE DENIES CHARGES. Mrs. Boernstein Asks Dismissal of Mate’s Divorce Suit. Boernstein, 3100 Mrs. Louise C. Connccticut avenue, today filed an answer denying the charges of in- discretions made by her husbad, Irv- ing N. Boernstein, orchestra leader, in his suit for an absolute divorce. The wife tells the court that she separated from her husband in 1921, following an extended spree on his part, when he “almost every night, not unly came home drunk, but brough his Intoxicated friends with him.” Mrs. Boernstein, through Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert, Rudolph H. Yeat- man and Austin F. Canfield, asks dis- missal of her husband’s suit. Gasioan PAROLES RECOMMENDED. Three Sentenced in Distillery Con- spiracy May Be Released. Paroles have been recommended by the Parole Board for Daniel A. O'Neil, Morris Multin, Harry Levin and Mitchell J. Whalen, sentenced in Cleveland to Leavenworth in connec- tion with the Jack Daniels distillery case. In addition to the sentence, Whalen was fined $5,000, which he is expected 1o pay before he is released. DR. COOK WINS REVIEW. Supreme Court Grants Plea of Arctic Explorer. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Arctic ex- plorer, today was granted a Supreme Court review of the decision of the Cireuit Court of Appeals, holding that the district court in which he was con- victed on the charge of using the malls to defraud had no authority to release him on probation. o Rats are said to have consumed $350,000,000 in food in Great Britain in the past 12 months, H t PRESIDENT KONDOURIOTIS. ASSETS DIVERTED, RECEIVER GHARGES Predicts “Substantial Loss- es” Due to Kansas City Land Bank ‘“Chaos.” By the Associated Press KANSAS CITY, October 3 sion of assets and obscure dealings with interlocking directorates of allied companies placed the Kans Joint Stock Land Bank in a condition,” from which losses’ may be expected, 3 ton, St. Louis, receiver, dec a preliminary report to the Federal Farm Loan Board, issued last night. Quoting from the report of an auditing firm, which required more than a year to audit the bank, that “‘our investigation was prolonged be- cause of the thousands of obscure entries on the hooks of account,’' Compton said that due to the “in- and_complicated condition” it was_impossible to make more than a progress Walter Crave the bank; R. Harold Cravens P. Cravens, Russell C. Crav Alice B. Todd and Ralph W, former officers and directors, who also were officers or directors of allied companics, are under Federal indict- ment in connection with the affairs of the bank. The bank went into receivership un- der Compton, May 4, 1927, the imme. diate cause being inability to meet in- terest payments on outstanding bonds. BERLIN MAY APPOINT ROME ENVOY T0 U.’S. Friedrich von Prittwitz, 39, Now Counselor There, Also Is Likely Choice. By Radio_to The Star and 0 News. Copyright, BERLI October 31.—Thanks to the unwillingness of Peter Reinhold, former finance minister; State Secre- tary Schubert and Johann von ‘Welezik, German Ambassador at Madrid, the new German Ambassador to Washington seems almost certain to be drawn from the German em- bassy at Rome. Here youth and age, democracy and conservatism, are struggling. The more likely candidate is the counselor of the embassy at Rome, Friedrich von Prittwitz, 39 years old, a descendant of an old noble family in Silesia and a nephew of Gen. Pritt- witz of the Germ army. The younger Prittwitz is a convinced Democrat and is favored by German reublicans. His rival is his own supe- rior, Ambassador Constatine von Neurath, 64 years old and the sup- posed friend of Fascism, with a long consular and diplomatic career behind him. Von Neurath is favored by the Na- tionalists and the Conservatives, who tronger in the foreign offic they are throughout the country. Snatching Cigaret From Man’s Lips Fatal to Stranger 0 Daily n By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 31.—If the stranger had bought his own cig- arets with one of the three $1 bills found in his pocket instead of beg- ging Charles Bowen for one, he probably would be alive today. The man, unidentified, stopped Bowen last night and asked him for a clgaret, Bowen replied that he had none, “Oh, yes you have,” said the stranger, snatching from Bowen's lips a cigaret. They fought. The man was knocked to the sidewalk and his skull fractured, He died shortly afterward, Besides thgy three dollars, his pockets contafied several women's rings and a flashlignt, report at this | former president of | MRS. KNAPP BALKS AT PRIVATE QIZ Commissioner Requesting Appearance in Census Case Told So by Attorney. | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, October 31.—Mrs Florence E. S. Knapp today declined, through her counsel, Alexander Otis, the opportunity offered by Commis- sioner Randal J. LeBoeuf, jr., to pear before him in connection with | his investigation of the 19 state | ecensus, which she conducted as sec- retary of state, because of his refu to allow her represented by counsel, Otis made public copies of a let- ter declining the commissioner’s of- fer, which he said was mailed this morning to LeBoeuf, and which said in part: “Your letter addressed to Mrs. Knapp has been referred to me for ANSW In reply thereto, I would state that she declines to appear be- o you, either on the date sug- gested or any other date, or to request any witnesses in her behalf to so appear. This is because you have declined to extend to her the constitutional privilege of being pro- tected by counsel when charged with | erime.” The letter asked also for the re- turn of the affidavits made by Mrs. Knapp in her defense and forwarded to the commissioner if it was a fact, as stated in newspapers, that the commissioner had declined to incor- porate them in the records. M K reported at her hotel as indisposed.” The i few days was ven as the probable cause of her illness. PARIS APACHE IS FREE, YET STILL A CONVICT Prisoner Who Escaped Devils Is- land Cheered by Crowd on Return to France. to b By the Associnted Press. PARIS, October 31.—Tegally an escaped convict, donne, once notorious Paris apache who escaped from Devils Island last ence and was greeted by a huge crowd, which pressed forward and cheered him. With the greatest difficulty, he was able to reach the stationmaster’s office and sigsn the necessary papers for the polic ““The only fly in the ointment,” he said, “is not to have an official notice of my pardon.” Despite the fact that the French government announced that it would pardon him if he waived extradition and returned from Brazil, where he was captured after his escape, no official document attesting his pardon has been signed. Dieudonne finds himself in the positlon of being able to circulate freely around France and hobnob with his friends, while he is still legally only an escaped convict. DEADLOCK IS SEEN OVER ALLOCATION OF RADIO WAVES st Page.) (Continued from F listening public and the public told the cammisison so, he remained on the air His wave length might be moved around to a different place on the dials of the receiving set, but he would stil! be on the air. With that virtua’ promise by the commission, members went to work to set up a new alloca tion scheme, believing sincerely that interference would be reduced to : negligible point and that further mi nor changes would result in the wished-for millenium. han 100 changes sting wavelensths w in_October, and las mi tio made early week the com- fon announced more than i shifts i tions affected by the 150 changes means that nearly half the py broadeasters have been changed from wavelengths to which they moved un- der the June 15 allocations and subse- quent shifts, The commission is d the situation, realizing that the radio millennium has not been reached and that even more radical changes will ba necessary hefore the jumble can he so rearranged as to prevent clash- ing of broadeasters. Few stations on the air todny are operating on the same wavelenzth they used prior to June Commission members have declaved that if time permitted, some cntively new scheme of wavelerigth allocation would be devised, but they hold that the time now is too short to undertake such an extensive job as a new rearrangement. ek of knowledge of what Con- gress intends to do with the Radio Commission enters into the situation, some claiming that Congress is to consider ey on of the life of the commission her vear, and others holding that radio control will pass into the hands of the Secretary of Commerce late next Winter, as stated under the law. . Canal Traffic Sets Record. PANAMA, October 31 (P).—Unoffl- cial data showed that the commercial transit of the Panama Canal for the first 30 days of October established a new high record for a month’s period. With one more day to go, 551 vessels had passed _through, exceeding the August, 1927, high record by eight merchantm in broad- |, | taire, grand larcen; MACKEY'S TRIAL OFF UNTIL NOV. 15 | Attorney Unable to Appear in Arlington and Court Grants Postponement. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT- HOU Va., October 31.—The trial of former Commonwealth's Attorney Crandal Mackey, under warrant obtained by Hugh Reid. candidate for House of Delegates, charging Mr. Mackey with procuring the publica- tion in a county paper of a state- ment that Reid had been rejected for membership in the Ku Klux Klan, was postponed until November 15, when the case called this morn- ing befoss Police Judge Harry Thom- as. The postponement was made at the request of Mr. Mackey, who sent word to the court that he would be u t0 appear, because of ity his appearance as counsel in a case | before the District of Columbia Su preme Court. Ir. Reid swore to the warrant after had publicly called on Mr. Mackey to make a retraction of the statement which Reld declared to be false Mackey refused to withdraw his state ment, reiterating in an open letter that he had been reliably informed that Mr. Reid applied for mem bership in the Arlington County Klan and had been rejected because of the fact that he was not a native-born American citizen. A large crowd of political leaders ind others interested in pre-election controversies was on hand, but wa: doomed to disappointment. WOMAN INDIGTED UNDER MANN ACT Alleged Wife of Chinese Tong Leader to Face Court in Girl’s Case. Violation of the Mann act is charged in an indictment today against Isabe! Lee, said to be the wife of a Chir tong leader. She is accused of brir ing a 17-year-old girl from North Caro- lina to Washington for immoral pur- poses. A total of 27 indictments was re- ported to Chief Justice McCoy, and the grand jurors ignored eight cases submitted to them. Gladys E. Snow- den, colored, was exonerated of a charge of homicide in connection with the death of Edward Dudley. The man was shot at 309 R street August 7 last, The grand jurors also refused to indict Victor Nishimura, who was ac- cused of misrepresenting the age of a yvoung white woman, by means of which he obtained a license to marry her. Other cases dropped by the grand jury include Arthur Byrd, Pres- ton Henry and Frank Brown, assault; Sarah Jackson, robbery; Willie John- son, joy-riding, and Max L. Harris, non-support. Those indicted and the charges against them include: William G. Simms, joy-riding; .David L. Russell, violating _national prohibition act, second offense; Walter F. Carroll (three cases), housebreaking and lar- ceny: John J. Cush, two cases, house- breaking and larceny; Louis R. Lapo- Mack Oxi, violat- ing postal laws; Wade H. Mawver, 1 Willam H. Mawyer, three ases, forgery and uttering; Francis | John Petrie Haske and Eugene Henry Triplett, non-support minor child; Lewis A. Quirk and James Cer- reta, grand larceny; Emanuel A. Forrest, Ashby Hammond, Roy Bess, Charles R. Talbert, and Joseph Ross and Robert J. Freeman (three cases), housebreaking and larceny; George W. Spinner and Walter Garrett, as. sault with dangerous weapon; Luke Hill and George R. Hawkins, grand LOWDEN IS CHOICE OF SENATOR NORBECK South Dakotan Backs Illinoisan for President—“Economic Justice to Northwest” Is Issue. By the Associated Press. S. Dak., October 31. —United _States Senator Peter Nor- beck of South Dakota announced to- day he would support former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Tllinois for the 1928 Republican presidential nomi- tice for the North- west will be the major issue in the coming president- ial campaign,” Senator Norbeck sail in a state- ment, “The States affected must make a common cause, and for President who Senator Norbeck. 18 friendly to our paramount need. But this is not sufficient. We must give our support to some candidate who has a chance of winning. “The logic of the situation points to former Gov. Lowden among the leaders now generally considered as | i candidates for President. He has de- veloped into the foremost champion of the cause of agricultural equality. I am for him. He is strong in this and other Northwestern States. “Our position must not promote discord. It should be so taken that it will bend to assure the greatest possibile harmony among our sister States. If we hold together, we will be a strong force in the next na- tional convention and will not be ignored.” | SOVIETS RUSH CAVIARE. Paris Market Supplied in Effort to Attract Foreign Trade. Correspondence of the Assoclated Pross. PARIS,—Real, big gray Russian caviare fresh from the land of the Bolsheviks is being brought to France in refrigerated compartments. It is one of many foods the Soviet govern- ment itself is sending out to build up foreign trade. ‘The first food exhibit by the Russian government was at the Lyon trade fair earlier in the year, but an even bigger display was made at the sec- ond annual gastronomic fair held re- cently in Paris. Besides the caviare, there were shown apples from the Crimea, all sorts of candies from Moscow, many varieties of macaroni, spaghetti and noodles intended to undersell Italian products, and a number of canned fruits and fishes. | Governor COLORADO STOPS 1 W W PIOKETING Notifies Strike Leader Mine Patrol Will Not Be Tolerated. By the Assoclated DENVER, Colo., October State v for the f chall d leaders of the Colorado coal strike called by Industrial Workers of the World with an order to stop picketing tomorrow:, “P: reased 31L—T! time openly to be a vir tue chiafs thre lon. The governor's ultimatum was deliv- red to Roger Francezom, head of the " in the United States, at his snhurg headquarters by the ad- jutant general und Col. A 2 Hart, ranking officer of the Coloradn National Guard. h Adjt. Gen. Paul New Demonstrations Tabooed. In informing Francezon that governor hi keting unlawtul, th 1l wa that any intimidation of, miners wish- ing to work, any demonstrations or attempts to communicate with work- ers would not be tolerated. After several hours of consideration of the State ultimatum, Francezon said he would recommend that picket- ing cease. He said the I W. W. leaders were not in a position to an swer the governor's demands immedi ately and asked for a day at least be- fore making a definite reply Gov. Adams granted the request on condition that picketing stop tomor- row, “We have a feeling the governor message is an implied threat,” France also recognize the and if we dispense with picketing it does not mean that the strike is ove While the mili no mention of the Naticnal Guard, the adjutant general has checked troop rosters and equipment and informed Gov. Adams that mobilization could be under way in a few hours. The governor is known to have an un- signed order declaring martial law in the strike zones. This order was pre- pared last week when I. W. W. organ- izers defied efforts of county author- ities to stop picketing. 7,000 Miners Idle. Assured of State support, operators in the Walsenburg area and otherd southern Colorado flelds where the two weeks' walkout had tied up pro- duction ordered guards to keep all pickets off mine properties toda) When the strike started October 18, xuards attempted to control strikers, but recently such efforts have been ineffective, due to the large numbers of man and woman sympathizers mus- tered by the I. W. W. Unofficial surveys indicated that at least 7,000 of the 12,000 miners in the State were idle. Although the south ern part of the State was hardest hi the northern lignite flelds also are vir- tually at a standstill. Some indus- tries have laid oft large forces due to lack of coal. Upward of 1,200 miners in Fremont County have voted to quit today. They announced their walkout had nothing to do with the I. W. W. move- ment, but ‘was the outgrowth of a wage dispute starting in 1925, PLANES SEEK BODIES OF STORM VICTIMS Aviators Sweep Irish Coast in Search of Fishing Crews Drowned at Sea Saturday. authorities ma By the Associated Press. \ DUBLIN Ireland, October 31.— Two Irish Free State airplanes were searching the Galway and Mayo coast today for the bodies of victims of the Irish fishing fleet overtaken by a great storm on Saturday. It is now feared that more than fifty men were drowned, many of them within sight of their homes on the shore. Virtually every bread- nner at Lackan Bay, a village in unty Mayo, was drowned within 200 or 300 yards of his home when the fishing boats were dashed to pieces on the rocks. One family lost five men, , In Cleggan, County Galway, and nearby fishing towns 31 fishermen are missing, while eight bodies have been washed ashore, Thousands of seals driven in by the storm sought shelter in the cliffs and their cries during the gale's fury added to the eerie work of rescue parties seeking the missing men. o Sues Beauty Artist for $50,000. Miss C. R. Millstead, 1817 K street, today filed suit to recover $60,000 dam- ages from Emile, Inc., which conducts a beauty parlor at 1 Connecticut avenue. Through Attorney Willilama Wendell the plaintiff says she went to the beauty parior October 5, 1825, to have removed some surplus hair from her face. She alleges that too much electricity was used and that she was burned severely on her face and neck. FIRST RAC ton _steeplechase: . 133 o130 Liees 130 bi DR £ £ . E. DavieLattingtown Stable _entry. Ambrose Clar corge Brooke, 3d, en- tFive pounds claimed for rider. SECOND F:A(l‘lifil-'urse. $1.30 year-old > 6 furlon er ... ¢ < Hop Binnacle Kent; i D Millson Sortie asting Rosina QURTH the Riggs h: Mike Hall Nimba Handy M bSir Harry a Bostonian a Whiskery A H. P. Whithey entry. b Searam Stable entry. FIFTH RACE—Purse. $1,500: the Sout ern handicap: all ages: 1 mile and 70 ya Silver 113 Wellet Athel 110 Com Com 111 Ve Lounger Siknola. SIXTH RACE—Purse. $1,300; the Caswell: for Z-year-olds: 5 furlongs. 103 Knapsack Rostnante Night Life .. Inquisitor aSpy Gla Tuskegee I @ Pure | B Sistership "0 0111 101 aH, P. Whitney entry. SEVENTH RACE—Purse, $1.300: Gwynn "Oak: claiming; for 3-year-o up: 1ve miles. Backrope .. 113 Reneficent oyal Charge.. 108 Clinch word of Honor. 111 $Arno 112 *Euphr: *Cozwheel *Abprentics allowance claimed Weather, Clear: track fast. Horses listed onding to post positions, First race At 1:15 p.m., Eastera standard