Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (0. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in perature. v 2 Temperatures—Highest, 55. at noon toda, Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 5. v: lowest, 37, at 1 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. y WITH SUNDAY MORNI NG EDITION ¢ Foening Stat. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’'s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- Yengmhy’l Circul tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. lation, 105,220 @b Entered as seco post offica, Wa BOMB MISSES KING BY T0 MINUTES, BUT KILLS 14 TALIANS; TWOSCORE. INJURED! Victor Emmanuel Goes on| With Ceremony of Opening Milan Fair, Then Hurries to Hospital to See Victims. No. 30,662 MUSSOLINI GIVES STRICT ORDERS TO CATCH GUILTY Explosive With Clock Mechanism | Placed on Route Ruler Was to Traverse—Bomb Also Reported Found on Track Premier, Traveled. By the Associated Press. MILAN, Italy, April 12.—King Victor Emmanuel narrowly escaped death at the hands of assassins this morning when a powerful bomb exploded in the Piazza Giulio Cesare. The King was on his way to inaugurate the Milan Fair, but owing to 8 slight delay did not reach the spot where the explosion occurred until 10 minutes later. Fourteen persons were killed, most of them blown to pieces, and about 40 dnjured. The infernal machine, com- posed of a tube filled with high explo- sives and controlled by a time clock, had been concealed inside the base of a lamp-post. The mechanism of the clock ‘was imperfect, as it doubtless had been | set to cause the explosion at the very moment the King was passing. The Toute hed been published in the papers Terrific Havoc Wrought. nd class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON i) D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1928 —FORTY-SIX PAGES. % KING VICTOR EMMANUEL. . MAYOR THOMPSON As soon s possible the injured were removed 1o the hospital. The King dis- wonderful uoha:“‘m | | | BOME ON DUCE'S ROUTE. Dispatch Ssys Explosive Was Found | on Track During Mussolini’s Trip. LONDON, April 12 (#).—A Reuter's @ispatch from Lugano, Bwitzerland, quotes a Como dispatch to the Cor- riere Del Ticino as stating that a| powerful bomb was found on the rail- | way line over which Premier Mus- solini’s train was 1o pass on his re- oent return o Rome from Milan | A mas hiding near the track was ar- | rested. MUSSOLINI ACTS QUICKLY. | Prevention of Bombers From Leaving | Naly Sought, | ROME, April 12 () —Premier Mus- | solini personslly supervised measures | for discovery of those responsible for | Wodsy’s bomb explosion st Milan as soon ss he received word of the out- | n l%‘! premier had just finished an | sudlence with Prince Potenzianl, Gov- ernor of Rome, when bis direct wire oonnecting him with Milan brought news of the tragic explosion Acting with the promptness which has characterized bim i emergencies be gave Instructions himself for the captire of the perpetrators of the bomb- ing and 1o prevent thelr escape from Jualy. He also announced the dispatch of various inspectors genersl of police from Rome o Milan The premier sent Warmest congrati- lations o King Viclor Emmanuel on bis escape from the boml The Queen snd other members of the royal family were immedistely informed of the outrsge and the King's escape and his eool sttitude in the face of the bomb atipck .t Border ¥ight Reported KOVNO, Iithusnis, April 12 (&) Eeversl srmed men ris received st Kovno as Polsh par- isans, attempted Lo cross Lhe boundary Vine neer Trumpaila last night. When , | Thom) | the mayor wiil retain REFUSES TO RESIGN Three Investigations of Chi- cago Vote Conditions Un- der Consideration. 4 was ht of returns which m’:lfi added to the unexpectedly large pluralities of their opponents. Mayor Thompson, although not s candidate, was given a thumbing- down even more positive than his most optimistic enemies predicted. Gov. Len Small, who headed the slate and sought renomina- tion for a third term, suffered one of the most devastating defeats ever recorded in an Illinois gubernatorial primary. Louis L. Emmerson, secre- tary of State, won by more than 400,000 votes. Prank L. Smith, seexing to retravel the road that took him to the doors of the United States Senate, only to find them closed and bolted, went down with the Small-Thompson or- ganization, the nomination going to mately 227,000, Crowe found the term piled high with his opponent, Circult Judge John A, Bwanson, to the nommation. Keeps Party Control. the election of several * ward committeemen wo volce in party affairs, marked defection among his sup) power, preference, all h he was unopposed. The “draft Coolidge” movement Mayor Thom) Lowden cal ends by victory in the | gates to the Republican convention, Ask Seaplanes to Seek Tug. TAMPA, Pla, April 12 | era |for the | Thursday. tug Leader, missing seas yesterdgy, without result. Mrs, renl estule broker New York court tion for & new trisl Ralph A 1 ithusnisn police offered resisiance, the yaidets thyew grenades, fired several re- weiver shots and then withdrew #hie was not given & far trl Otis Glenn by a plurality of approxi- th to a third liots that lifted Thompson's position as mayor and "America first” indicate that authoritative although any riers | might lead to & new alignment of party More than 868,000 votes were cast for former Gov. Lowden for the presidential of on, which opposed the cy, sought o attain its election of dele- P)~Navy | seaplanes have been asked by the Fed- Yriuv(-mmr.m to ald in the search since A tug, four Coast Chuard essels and twe alrplanes scoured the Woman Asks New Alimony Suit Trial, Charging Jury Foreman Was Prejudiced IAlllan B. Coles of Katonsh, N, ¥, wdsy ssked the District Supreme Court for & new trial of her sult for 89,060 back wlimony against her former hushand, Nethaniel C, Halstead, » loca) A jury recently re- | ported in favor of the husband because descrined in te-|the wife had weiled six years before seeking W enforce her decree from s In an afdevit in lflgzflrl of the mo- Cusick attorney for Mrs. Coles, charges that | diced the case of the woman an ulmv because | vented her from having & felr W GERNAN ARPLINE ISBELEVEDFARAT SADNHOPTOUS +Irishman Aboard as Co-Pilot When Ship Leaves Dublin Early Today. | —_— iDUE AT NEWFOUNDLAND AT 11 0’CLOCK TONIGHT Craft Sighted Once by Coast Guards 135 Miles From Start. Weather Here Unfavorable. By the Associated Press. Three dauntless airmen following a | trail on which all their predecessors, { five men and two women, died, were presumably more than half way across the ocean this afternoon on the latest | attempt to traverse the western air lane | of the North Atlantic, never yet spanned | by an airplane. | The Junkers monoplane Bremen, | with its crew of two Germans and one | Irishman, took off from Baldonnel air- | drome near Dublin at 12:38 o'clock Eastern standard time this morn, and when it was last seen over the western ! | coast of Ireland, it had maintained a | speed of 90 miles an hour. | It this speed, the most economical | for the German ship, was continued | over the ocean, the Bremen would have | been at just about midocean at 12:38 o'clock this afternoon, 12 hours after the take-off. | Under normal flying cofditions, the | sllver-gray monoplane should reach the | vicinity of Harbor Grace, Newfound- land, at 11 o'clock, Eastern standard time, tonight, and its objective, Mitchel | Fleld, New York, shortly after noon to- | morrow. | Irishman in Crew. Two Germans, Capt. Herman Koehl, pilot, and Baron v?n "rllguenehld. s o a young pilot, Col. James Fitzmaurice, com- mandant of the Free State Air Force, TWO COUPLES DROWN i| Car Believed to Have Plunged Into Water During Snowstorm Near Wilmington, Del. By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del., April 12.—Two young men and two young women were drowned when their coupe plunged into a mill race that parallels the Bran- dywine River here. The men were identified as Ernest Scott, Wilmington, and Bernard Jack- son, Newark, Del. It was belleved the car plunged into the mill race during a snowstorm a few hours earlier. Police and firemen pulled the wrecked automobile out of the water. The door of the coupe Was open an the bodies were found huddled inside. It was said the four had been dead several hours. COLORED BANDIT GETS $10 FROM GROCERY STORE Woman Is Alone When Man En- tered and Faints After He Departs. A nonchalant colored bandit_strolled into the grocery store of Mrs. Beatrice Hein, 1037 Becond street southwest at 12:30 today, walked past her to the cash register, removed $10 and walkéd out, Mrs, Hein stood b ,until his exit and then fainted. . Mrs. Hein sald that she had been left alone in the store while her hus- band, Max Hein, took the.children and went to market. The bandit, she thinks, was aware of her husband's absence, Mrs, Hein does not know how long she lay on the floor, but thinks it was not more than 10 minutes before recovered and called police headquar- ters for assistance. BULLET FATAL TO JUDGE. ATLANTA, Ga., Afi:ll 12 (#).—Judge L. P, McClelland of the Atlanta Mun! pal Court was found In his room early today with & bullet wound through his head. A pistol was on the floor nearby, He died an hour later at Grady Hos- pital. ; ‘The dead man had been judge of the Municipsl Court of Atlanta since its establishment in 1014, He had also heen prominent in fraternal orders, hav- ing at one time served as exalted ruler of the Georgia Elks, of the alleged conduct of Richardson A, Baker, foreman of the jury, Bel they were wnmd the lawyer Jurors were as it an; or were now psying ali such admission was mad been divorced, 1t s usserted, and did not make the fact known, but when the jury had retired to consider its verdict Baker 15 alleged to have made known his prejudice and to have re- C Erwnll experiences. This conduct, the afdavit declares, preju- | AS COUPE OVERTURNS £ d | Rheinstrom have tried . | the federal government will hasten to he | oMcials d | vesterday that the three American war- < ;7 o : TR, g gy News Note—Gov. Alfred E. Smith leaves today fon a month’s vacation in the South. BOY. 3. IS KILLED IN PLUNGE FROM SEVENTH-FLOOR WINDOW ONLY ONE ANSWERS INRHEINSTROM QUIZ Nine of 10 Called in Social Guide Inquiry Fail to' Go to Grand Jury. Only one of ten subpoenaed witnesses appearéd before the grand jury today to testify against Joseph Rheinstrom, charged with conducting a fraudulent scheme to solicit names for the Social ted heretofore that she paid Rheinstrom $100 to have her name included in the social register. 4 “I seem to be the only one who was brave enough to come here,” said Mrs. ‘Waller as she ran the gantlet of news- paper men outside the door of the gran jury reom. ; Indictment Is Asked. of El' York, manager of the same pub- lication, appeared as voluntary wit- nesses. grand jury was asked by Joseph , assistant United Shl::‘:l- A. Rover, for the indictment of Rhein- strom on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, based upon the testimony of Mrs. Waller, Miss East- mond and Mr. 3 latter two were able to show that Rheinstrom had no_connection with the Social ter. None of the other Washin, men and women who paid money Rhein- strom for having their names included in one of the two publications, or who were solicited by him, put in an appear- ance today. Another effort may be made to compel those for whom sub- poenas were issued to appear before the grand jury later. Will Press One Charge. In the meantime, however, Mr. Rover will go ahead on the one charge which was presented today and which he re- ds as sufficlent to hold Rheinstrom for trial, All those who were Arpm‘ched by heir best to. keep their names from being mentioneg in connection with the case. They re- fused to appear voluntarily as witnesses and It was for that reason that sub- were issued. / The authorities declined o state to- day how many of hte stbpoenas had been actually served. At is understood that some of the men &nd women whom it was desired to summon have left the city purposely to avold having their names brought into the case. s BERLIN TO WELCOME "KELLOGG PEACE PLAN Exchange on Details of Anti-War Proposal Seen, but Final Accord Expected. By the Amsoclated Press. BERLIN, April 12.—Anticipating presentation within the next few days of Becretary Kellogg's proposed anti- war pact as reported from Washington, the Mittag Zeitung says that Germany cordially welcomes this action by the United States. ‘There 1s not the slightest doubt that apprise the American Government of ts assent in principle and its readiness to co-operate actively in realization of the plan, the paper says. ‘There ma an exchange of views hetween Berlin and Washington on de- talls of the proposal, but Foreign Min- ister Stresemann, adds the E-‘Jm- cer- tainly will give the Uni States ready lum;:rl innsmuch as no oppor- tunity is being neglected in CGermany to build up a system of arbitration treaties, SHIP SOUGHT IN VAIN. Navy Fails to Find Trace of Ves- sel, Overdue at Yokohama, HONOLULU, April 12 (#),—~Naval at Pearl Harbor announced -mr Ludlow, Burns and Whij e will, sent out to search for the missin British vessel, Asiatic Prince, coul find no trace of her after covering # wide ares north of the Hawalian Islands, The Asiatic Prince s several days oerdue st Yokohama, Radio Programs—Page 41 Frank Munn, Jr., Fails as Screen in Apartment Gives: Way. Mother,.-H‘ears Noise Too Late to Save Youthful Victim. Three-year-old Frank H. Munn, jr., was killed instantly this morning when | e fell seven stories from his apartment window to a court below at the Brad- ford, 1800 K street. ‘The child was playing about the room as his mother was dusting. He climbed () Means Associated P Nats’ Ball Game In Boston Called Off, Due to Cold| Cold weather today caused post- ponement of the game scheduled for the Washington American League club at Boston. The teams are scheduled to meet there tomorrow and Saturday, the starting time be- ing 3 o'clock. ASK INDICTMENTS Assistant Prosecutors Call on Jury—New Arrest Hint- ed in Lehman Case. One or more indictments against Louis H. Hoffman, physiotherapist, are AGHNST HOFFAAN TWO CENTS. OIL MEN TESTIFY OF THEIR INABILITY 10 BID ON TEAPOT Lease Given to Sinclair With- out Competition and in Se- cret, They Say. TRIAL KEEPS UP RAPID PACE SET AT BEGINNING Ex-Secretary Accused of Implying Case Was Open After Lease Was Signed. Moving on at the same rapid pace expected to be drawn up by United States Attorney Leo A. Rover follow- ing presentation to the grand jury to- day of evidence regarding the sudden death in Hoffman's office, March 3, of Eleanor M. Lehman, 23-year-old typist. Assistant United States Attorneys Pearl McCall and Willlam H. Collins asked the grand jury to indict Hoffman for first degree murder and performing a criminal operation. After hearing all the evidence, the more than an hour, not adjourning for lunch until nearly 2 o'clock. It is ex- that an indictment will be re- turned Monday. arrest was hinted this afternoon. The principal witness against Hoff- man was Mrs. Dolores Monroe, also {known as Dottle King, who accom- Miss Lehman to Hoffman's office. She stated after she was.taken ‘| into custody last week that Miss Leh- up on the window sill and leaned| | against the screen. The screen gave way. The mother heard the screen rip and turned around just in time to see The father, Frank H. Munn, is in charge of the Washington office of the Motor Accounting Co. He was on his way to Philadelphia this morning, but HEALING PASTOR FAILS T0 APPEAR Minister Said tq.sé Figure in Slander__sfiit Missing a§5roup Meets. While members of his healing mis- sion” class waited in vain for him to gonduct his usual Thursday morning Service at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, ‘Twenty-third street, the Rev. W. T. Reynolds, who is said by attorneys to figure in the slander suit filed by Mrs. Maude B. Ford, real estate dealer, against Mrs, Marguerite du Pont Lee, without any explanation, failed to ap- pear for the class. Mrs. Ford is seeking $50,000 damages from Mrs, Lee, both of whom are inter- 2sted in the mission class, because of the latter’s alleged statements reflecting on her conduct. Shortly before 11 o'clock this morning 8 or 10 women had assem- bled for the usual Thus service in the rectory hall. When 0 olds falled to appear, a telephone chn Was made to his home In the Boulevard Apartment, 2121 New York avenue. The only answer was that Mr. Reynolds prob- ably was on his way to the church. Class Disperses. At 11:30 o'clock some of the women were still walting. Finally the arrival of guests for a fashiondble noon wedding convinced the members of the class that Mr. Reynolds would not arrive and the last of them deserted the hall. Mr. Reynolds is not officlally con- nected with St. Paul's Church, it was explained today by the rector, the Rev. Dr. A. A. McCallum. For nearly a year he has been granted the use of the church to hold Sunday evening healing services. The Thursday morn- ing services were begun with Lent. Dr. MeCallum could not say whether the clergyman was supposed to have been in attendance this morning, but at least no word had been left that a service was not scheduled for today ‘The rec while expressing his regret for the “exceedingly unfortunate incl- dent” that has brought the church into the limelight since the filing of Mrs, Ford's suit, made no other comment re- garding Mr. Reynolds, Members Resent Scandal. Members of 8t. Paul's Parish, it was learned, are much exerclsed over the scandal that has burst upon their quiet "All’llll community, Mr, Reynolds, who s reported to have denled the charges, is not without stanch defenders lmnn, members of his class. Only about hal )f the usual number of attendants, how- ever, were walting for the servive this mornlnfi' Rev. Reynolds formerly was a rector at Grace Church, CGeorgetown. He came back to Washington al A year nfi:, and, according to Dr. MoCallum, his mission work at 8t, Paul's Church has been unusually successful. !'llu‘ Po(l;g ':lld :I;Itd n llul l{hal'% upreme Court yesterday agains Lee, who i & member :{ the Delaware d at _the . Attorney Edward L, Marthill,_counsel for Mrs, Ford, stated (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) little fs New York, where Mr. Munn was sta- tioned in the office of his company. PROVIDES INCREASE IN NAVY STRENGTH Senate Report on Fund Bill Would Add 2,750 to Personnel. By the Assoclated Press. man went to Hoffman's office to have an illegal operation performed and that while Hoffman was for the operation, the girl went into convul- | sions. According to Mrs. Monroe's statement, Hoffman then broke Miss Lehman’s neck in order to cover up his | attempt to operate. Testifies Before Jury. . Monroe is understood to have ] % E ief ; f : i # : i gfi 2% B 5 | g i g g3 gk g8 ] &g ! ; E ] i i ig 55 i : i ¢ i i the Corporation, picture concern, was present witness room during today, but was not to have b en the girl’s neck. who gflormed the first autopsy on Miss ‘hman's body and reported at grand jury deliberated on the case for | Possibility of another | Increase in the enlisted strength of | the inquest that she died of a broken the Navy from 83,250 to 86,000 would be provided in the Navy appropriation bill reported to the Senate today by the lp‘gmprhuom committee. his increase in personnel over that provided in the measure passed by the House was favored, the committee re- ported, in order that the ships of the Navy may be “efficiently manned and a greater number of enlisted personnel assigned to aviation duties.” About $2,000,000 of the addition of $4,318,780 voted by the Senate com- mittee over the amount carried in the House bill was accounted for by creased funds necessary to meet the pay and subsistence of the new per- sonnel. The bill now provides $363.- 000,000 for next year's expenses of the Navy. All provisions of the House bill re- lating to appropriations were retained by the Senate committee, which also voted to add to the House measure $635,000 for procurement of 23 air- planes to be used by the Reserve Avia- tion Corps. Other Increases were: Bureau of Yards and Docks, $222,000; Bureau of Naviga- tion, $71,255; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2,865,025; Bureau of Ord- nance, $24,000; Bureau of Consrtuction and Repair, $102,000; Bureau of En- gineering, $48,450; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $39,250. Senator Hale, Republican, of Maine, in reporting the bill, sald he would call it up for consideration in the Senate at the first opportunity, probably tomor- neck, was one of the witnesses today. body after it was exhumed Monday. Other witnesses before the grand jury today were Policeman Phillip K. Clark, who was the first to arrive at Hoffman's office after Miss Lehman's death. and Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad, who had been investi- ting the case for the United States o l'.m‘nrna" i . Weinberg, manager of the Artists” tion here, was United summoned as a -lA but was, ex- To Defend Hoffmaan. Hi W. Nice, former State attorney of Bal County, Md., called at the office of Mr. Rover this afternoon and stated that he had been retained by Hoffman's father, who lives in Balti- more, to assist in defending the physiotherapist. Although he had been served notice to hold himself in readiness as a wit- man, was informed Call that he would not coroner’s lnaul Lehman had dl ard knew some of the facts in the case through his relations with Hoffman. When he received the jury summons, he advised Miss McCall t he would gl place himself at the d! osal of the district attorney's office. to.lofl by Miss Me- oW, Ex-Tampa Detective Indicted. INVERNESS, Fla, April 13 (#).— Gus C. Echols, former Tampa detective, was formally charged with murder of Mrs. A, F. Oarselle, Commerce, Ga., in a first degree murder Indiotment re- turned by the Citrus County grand jury here today, TUNE IN ON Station WRC, when Washington's base ball team is playing week-day games out of town, and then him his presence before the grand jury probably would be required between 11 and 11:30 o'clock today and promised to notify him at his office. When 12:30 o'clock arrived and no word had come from Miss McCall, he telephoned her and was informed that he was not need- | ed. Mr, Howard later issued a statement | explaining the facts and adding that he | was Jnrm‘\ly willing to go before the grand jury at any time. THE RADIO ness before the grand jury, Attorney | Campbell Howard, counsel for Hoff- that Mr. How- | aq j features of Sinclair's proposal which has characterized the presenta- tion of its case since the proceedings | began, the Government today laid be- | fore Justice Jennings Bailey and the | jury sitting in the Sinclair conspiracy trial testimony and evidence tending {to show that former Secretary of the | Interior Albert B. Fall favored Harry F. | Sinclair above all other applicants for a | lease on Teapot Dome; that the lease ! was granted Sinclair without competi~ tive bidding, and that an atmosphere of i secrecy and evasion surrounded the ne- | gotiations leading up to and even after m;e consummation of the agreement. veral oil operators of inence in the industry were phmdp;:mmz stand {by the Government prosecutors, Owen | J. Roverts and Atlee Pomerene. These | persons, having learned unofficially of | possibility of leasing the reserve be- and after” Sincialr was granted privilege on April 7, 1922, testified of their unsuccessful efforts to obtain &g)er.pomonoxuzbuuvflnfln- the fore the ¥ Beaty testified al held with Fall in , March 31. se ‘Teapot Dome lease asked f a conference latt ] e b Dr. A. M. MacDonald. deputy coroner, | Rock, adjoining Teapot Dome. Fall brought up the matter of exchanging crude oil for fuel oil and Beaty stated his com- pany could make such an exchange a pipe-line condition was mot im | s being necessary for Beaty to obtain | the lease. Likewise, Fall told him nothing about the requirements from the lessee of erecting storage tanks at strategic | points from which the Navy could be | supplied with oil. Fall told Beaty, it | was testified, Sinclair had obtained quit !claim deeds on most of the property and had pald $1.000,000 for them. Beaty, at the close of the conference, informed Fall he was going to Ashe- ville, N. C,, and at that place on il 4 he received a telegram from the In- terior Secretary making inquiry about of an ofl transaction in Salt Creek. Several telegrams between the two were introduced and it was plain | there was a misunderstanding on just | what each other meant. Saw Secreey. | Beaty finally cleared the matter up with a telegram on April 3 in which he made it plain he would give a cer- tain grade of fuel oll in connection ith lease on Teapot Dome, and asked that the matter remain in status Quo_until his return to New York a Wweek hence. He heard nothing from Fall or any one else after that until he learned that the lease had been flven to Sinclair. Under cross-exam- ination by Martin W, Littleton, Beaty admitted that his yF did not want to be ted to build storage ‘"‘h‘\“l‘ér line at the outset. but if operation the Dome warranted at & later date his concern might have undertaken to construct the tanks and the pipe line. He said he saw no evi- dence of secrecy about the lease when he conferred with Fall. but at the same time declared Fall did not discuss any He Added he was “much impressed with what Fall said abo Sinclar's pro- Posal belng ‘satisfactory.' ™ Helms then followed on the stand and told of a conference with - T with Fall about three Get the Base Ball Final Edition of The Star and you will have every detall of the Natlonals' contests. Boston Games The Star's base ball exper Start 3 P.M. ts are furnishing you graphic descriptions by air, wire and preass,