Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1928, Page 1

P | WEA WS Weather Showers late thi night; and cooler. Tempes yesterday. cooler tonight; THER. Burean worecast ) is aiternoon or to- tomorrow fair rature—Highest, 93, at 3 p.m. . lowest, 60, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Shat. The Star's as fast as the paper. carrier r every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to W “From Press to Home Within the Hour” system covers hington homes s are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 106,904 — New York Stock Market Closed Today No. 30,685. post office, Entered as second class matter Washington. D C WASHINGTON, l Joy D. SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1928 —THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. FIGHTING N TSINAN HALTED, BUT TENSE SITUATION PREVAILS All Americans Reported Safe in Battle Between National- ists and Japanese. FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS CONCERNED OVER CRISIS| Casualty Estimates Vary From 10, to 300 Because of Lack of Communications. Br the Asso. N formed & protective cordon around foreigners concentrated there today in- gicated that the situation continued to be extremely serious. Word was received at Shanghal from the Tsinan consulate that all Americans were safe. Firing Ceases. The firing which continued all day vesterday, however, ceased at 7 pm.| Four hours later a message from Tsinan | said there was no more firing at that| hour. Advices said several Japanese women were assaulted and killed by the| southerners (Nationalists). The Japanese captured from the tionalists two mountain guns shells, 2,000,000 rounds of munition and 2,000 hand grenades. | The last information put the Jap-| anese military casualties up to 10 am. | yesterday at 10 killed and 32 I‘oundtd.i The northern government protested | to the Japanese legation against the sending of Japanese troops into Tsinan on the ground that the Chinese auth- orities were able to maintain order. The Japanese and foreigners at Tsinan were still beleagured and semi-( isolated today. Japanese reinforcements | were heading for the city from Tsing- tao and Manchuria. ‘The defeated Northerners were sirag- | gling through eastern Shantung. Japa- nese civilians evacuated Weihsien, abcut | 150 miles east of Tsinan. Japanese Marines landed at Lungkow, on the eastern coast of Shantung. Foreign Officials Confer. e Na- | 20,000 | The American, English and Japanese | eonsuls and naval officers at Chefoo | conferred on methods to be used w0 maintain order there. Nationalist sources at Tsinan- | rotecting otber nationals. From this was assumed that the two American ., Edward P. Stanton and Ernest B. Price. and the American residents, mostly missionaries, were in- ide the Japanese cordon. The Ameri-| can jon at Peking has had no re-| mfls rom the Tsinan consulate since | y 1. The troops fi ¢ifficult march of some 200 miles be-| fore them, since the railway between n and Tsinan had been system- stically destroyed at a dozen places. | Advices from Tokio said the Japun\:sc‘ military stores at Tsingtao were wm-l cient for only a few days. Serious _international _complications | were forecast as the result of the fight- ing. There was much conjecture as to| the effect of it on the rorthward cam- | lists and experts believed it would be checked until the snari with Japan was straightened our Japan has virtually free hand to deal with the situation. Deelare Attack Premeditated. | ‘The Jaj command at Tsinan | said that the attack by the Nationalis's | was premeditated. They asserled that) 4t began simultaneously at many peinte. that the railway had been «ut to yre-| vent the movement of reinforcements | and that the Nationalists had crevious- | ly issued grenades in anticipaidon of | street fighting. The Japanese commander said that the situation was apparently beyond | control of Chiang Kai-S8hek, com- mander-in-chief of the Nationalists. It was believed that his subordinates were trying to discredit him as they did at the time of the Nanking affair} of March, 1927. The first aggressors | were stated to be Hunenese troops! under Gen. Ho Yao-Tsu and it wgs re- | called that Huna were respodsible | for the Nanking | The ¢; ese got | beyond control commanders was indicated In a t from Tsinan todsy. It sad that Col aki, the who had been conduct- ionalist commande torn from b and bound i was_robbed 00d egainst the wall | officers from Chiang's beadguarters rescued him Truce Broken. reached under which ndraw from A truce had been o'clock yesy Chitnes: forelgn the | the later dica that mat were beyond contn a west o have Lieut 1 report wce Gen the dete by Nationals made & 1 n ecause the rallway had been cut were calied upon copuinuously for 36 Bours W meel continual eiiscks by enormously superior forces of Chinese "The Juphnese Lroops were dsolawd in wwo groups w the Esst and We the ciy. IL was with great giffic that ey it Nationslists il use e guns placed on hastily flung \ip berricades of sandbags st key points Jepunese wcoounts of Lhe fighting were summurized ss follow ang Kal-Shek wirived wt Tsinan on the morning of M He pleaged the msintenance of order and de manded witharawal of Japanese Uoope The Jupaneoe ed 1 bist ricades end withdrew the cordon around the &l quarter, Contentrating s 6l Lhe consulste he next morning the invaded the forelgn quar smulia Jy from seversl pointe W0 seemingly by & prearrapged plan Jupusiese and e 1 " aoukiuued ou Fage b, Coluwa 6., w reacn Tsiba They SEAPLANE BREAKS ENDURANCE| RECORD. CARRYING FO [ | ‘PN-IZ. Piloted by Gavin and Soucek, Stays Up 36 Hours 1 Minute. | | | | | | Unannounced Flight at Phila- delphia Made Without Incident. By the Associated Press ! PHILADELPHIA, May 5.—The world flight endurance record for seaplanes was bettered by 7 hours 25 minutes 46 1-5 seemnds today by the PN-12, which landed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard ter a flight of 36 hours 1 minute 13 4-5 seconds. The old record was minutes angl 27 seconds. Lieuts. Arthur Gavin and Zeus Soucek | piloted the PN-12 with a crew of two, | J. C. Proley, aviation mechanic, and H. F. Daytongwho is associated with the W t Aeronautic Co. The PN-12 took off Thursday after- noon at 2:50:16 1-5 Standard time; at | 43 pm. Friday the old record, set May 1-2, 1925, Lieuts. C. H. Schild- | hauer and J. R. Kyle in the PN-9, went | by the boards. A half hour later thel 28 hours 35 UR LIEUT. ARTHUR GAVIN. new record was established, and the plane kept its course until it landed today at 2:51:30 am. The international code for holding such tests and flights provides that when the flight is more than 48 hours in length the old record must be ex- ceeded by one hour. When the flight (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) | | OPEN PIPE EASES PRESSURE ON DAM Engineers’ Action May Avert| Break in Dike Across South Carolina River. | | By the Associated Press. GREENVILLE, S. C, May 5—Hope | of saving the Table Rock Cove Dam, | 31 miles north of here, grew today | when engineers succeeded in opening | the flood pipe, thus taking the pres- | sure off the breaks which developed under the dam late yesterday. | The gate to the drain pipe was opened | by means of a long key taken to the | scene from Greenville and the flow of | water out of the dam immediately in- | creased, swelling the South Saluda | Creek below the dam to bankfull. ‘Water still poured out of the break | around the pipe where seepage started its first leak. Torrents also came out of the fissures which have been created to the left of the center of the dam by the geyser-like action of water escaping ugh leaks. and the lowered through this hole without fur- ther bre: aks. The valley below the dam was quiet and deserted. Every one in the prob- able path of waters should the dam break had moved to the hills. On hilltops and mountain sides the refugees set up temporary abode. There was no suffering and no aid was asked. Reports that the dam had gone out | were attributed to the fact that slough- ing on the back side of the structure, | away from the lake had carried off | about half its width. The sloughing | had not reached the lake at noon, but | had about 350 feet more to go before creating a gap in the dam. Water Begins to Fall Water in the dam stood at 10 feet below the crown early today, but after the floodgate was unlocked the water began falling perceptibly. From a tiny leak around the drain pipe laté yesterday afternoon, the water this morning had eaten large fissures into the south end of the dam, more than 300 feet of earth and rock having been torn away by the force of the im- pounded lake. | The dam, 700 feet long, 145 feet high | and 750 feet thick at the base, with AE 50-foot crown, held back 5,000,000,000 gallons of water intended for use in the waterworks system of Greenville. B. W Andere, Table Rock innkeeper, broadcast a warning that the water was pouring through a big leak around the outlet valve at the bottom of the dyke. The inn keeper's warning was carried by courfer and telephone and the tholi- sands left their homes to the mercy of the floods, taking only what pos- sessions they could carry, Throughout the night the river rose rapidly, as waters poured through the leak which gradually grew, while other sections of the dam showed signs of weakening. (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) BODIES OF TWO MEN AND WOMAN FOUND Note in Bottle-Strewn Room Indi- cates Double Murder and Suicide, 1 By | PLATTSMOUTH, Nebr., May 5.—The bodies of & young woman and two 70- | men, each with a bullet| emple, were found last | ¢ woman's Husband | were lying in the bottle- | strewn dining room of John Varada's | hom Varada was one of the dead. | Hans Tams and Mrs, Pear] Enbury, 23, | were the others, A note signed by Varada indicated it had been a double murder and a sul- ‘ cide. “They were golng to get me, but | 1 got them” the note sasd. I am rid- | ding Enbury of his wife” There was | W the note, but it was not made ury, & railrond worker, became alarmed on returning from work to find | no one st the Tams tome, where En- | bury and his wife lived He crossed [ the street 10 Whe Varada residence and torced his way through & screen door FLIES TO BREMEN CREW. MADISON. Wis ay b (A) A cabln pussenger plane provided Gov Zimmerman of Wisconsin woday for his flight 1o New York to extend officlal of his Btate 1o the German- uf the Bremen one-sop fight was planned, the governor hoping o reach New York be- fore sundown Puel was to be taken on elther st Bryan or Cleveland, Obilo. “The governor plan o confer with | | the fiyers concerning thelr proposed visit | o s Blate May 13, ) M. \ | Area of Dam Danger Map showing area of Saluda River Val. ley, endangered by threatened collapse of . Crosses indicate approximate location of dam. REED T0 CONTINUE NOMINATION FIGHT Observers Speculate Over Parley of Mrs. Shaver With Borah. By the Associated Press. The impending Hoover-Watson battle for Indiana's delegates to the Republi- can convention was of secondary Inter- est to Washington political observers today as a result of important develop- ments forging to the front in Demo- cratic ranks. Withdrawal of Senator Walsh of Montana from the race for the Demo- cratic presidential nomination; the de- cision of Senator Reed of Missouri to continue in the fight, and the signifi- cance of a half-hour political conver- sation between Senator Borah, Repub- lican, Idaho, and Mrs. Clem Shaver, wife of the chairman of the Democratic national committee—all were subjects of lively discussion among those look- ing forward to the big convention next month. Meanwhile, the new Senatorial cam- paign expenditures investigating com- mitee moved forward with iis prepara- tions for starting Monday the examina- tion of the first group of 14 presidential candidates as to their pre-cunvention money outlays. The committee also was expected today to make ceptances to appear 1% ceived from nine of the candida.es. Smith Seen Victor. MEN | | | | | | | Senator Walsh, perhaps best known as the {)roucumr of the Senate ofl in- vestigation, formally withdrew from the race yesterday with the declaration that the results of the Callfornia primary “quite clearly indicate that the Demo- crats desire Gov. Smith as their candi- date.” Walsh ran third in that primary and up to the time of his withdrawal had captured no delegates to the Houston conclave Reed, who ran second to Bmith in the California scrap, was quick to follow Walsh's announcement with the state- ment that he would carry on his cam- paign w the finish. Declaring he was glad Walsh took himself out of the picture because it ‘clarifies the situation and emphasizes the issue” the Missourl Senator sald only wished the Montanan had a rived at his decision “before he mud- died the waters by entering the Cali- fornia primary.” Apparently directing another verbal dart at Walsh, Reed added “If T were & general in a war, 1 would not surrender my army because I had lost a skirmish " Writes McDowell, Walsh's announcement was made in a letter to former Lieut. Gov, W, McDowell of Montans, who headed & movement o bag Montana’s eight dele- gates for the Benator in the Btate con- vention May 15, It was made public after a visit o Walsh's office by Wil- liam G. McAdoo, lender of the Mon- tanan’s Callfornia drive, but friends of the former Becretary of the Treasury sald this meeting had nothing to do with Walsh's decision, as it was reached beforehand. The text of Benator drawal letter follows “The result of the primary of Tues- Walsh's with- | day in Calitornia quite clearly indicates that the Democrats desire Gov. Bmith ws thelr candidate. 5o decisive is It following like action in States tha might be expected W send delegates o the convention out of harmony with s candidicy, as Lo demonstrate W my mind the futility of sdvancing the clatms of any other to party leadership I the ensulng campaign. Whatever (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) Radio l‘rokl&(fi ;Faue 34 | | | | | | | | | | | | Nobile Indicates Italla Will Take Off o5 010 IO SHETAXPLEAWON BY COENS EROLP ‘,Board of Appeals Sets $10,- 000 Share Value—Govern- ment Value Was $3,000. ROPER DECISION HELD OUTSIDE HIS DUTIES Dispute Hinged on Sale and Profits by Former Stockholders of Ford Company. By the Associated Press. Former stockholders of the Ford Motor Co. today won their appeal from tax assessments involving approximate- ly $35,000,000. The Board of Tax peals held for the protesting former 'stockholders in the suit, which grew out of the dispute as to the value of the Ford stock and what these minority holders should pay the Government after its sale. Hinged on Sale and Profits. The case hinged on the value of the | stock at the time of its sale and.the profits made by those who sold it back 1o Ford. The board held that a fair valuation was $10,000 a share, against | the Government’s contention that $3,000 was the correct figure. The minority group, including Senator ! Couzens of Michigan and the Dodge | estate, contended for a valuation of | $9,000. The opinion of the board was con- tained in a 219-page document, which | held that the value of 2,180 shares held by Couzens on March 1, 1913, was $21,- | $00,000. The gain upon the sale in| 1919 was fixed at $7,505,857.50. Two Assessments Made. The Government in March, 1925, made two assessments against Couzens aggregating $10,909,588.08, which the board held were to some extend based upon a new computation of gain de- rived from the sales, which would make the stock gain $21,574,406.70, thus in- creasing petitioner’s income by $12.- 952,310 and bringing about an increased tax. Couzens contested this, not only be- cause he insisis that the true value of the stock on March 1, 1913, was at least $9.489.34, as stated by former Commissioner Roper of the Internal Revenue Bureau, but also because, as he argued, the Government was with- out power to make the 1925 assessm:nt (Continued on Page 5, Column 7.) ol WILKINS DECLINES Polar Flyer Busy Writing Ac- count of Hop to Green Harbor. By the Associated Press. GREEN HARBOR, Spitzbergen, May 5.—Gen. Umberto Nobile has invited Capt. George Wilkins to accompany him on his three trips in the Italia to | Greenland, the North Pole and Nicholas II Land, but Capt. Wilkins has refused, | it became known here today. Capt. Wilkins is working day and night on his new book describing his polar trip, and is hoping to get it ready prior to his departure. This was ac-| cepted here as the basis for his refusal. The steamship Hobby, which will take the Wilkins plane and possibly the pilot, Elelson, to Norway, is expected at Svalbard Wednesday. In the meantime, the weather condi- tions show increasingly unfavorable for the flight of the Italia here. A snow- storm from the northwest prevailed today. WEATHER HOLDS ITALIA. Airship's Propellers Kept Turning as * Storm Hits Norway Town. VADSOE, Norway, May 5 (#).—Un- favorable weather held the dirigible Italia here today. The weather yester- day was fairly calm, but at midnight 4t changed and today a storm from the northwest was raging. The airship was in no immediate danger, but fits t)rnpell(-r- were kept going to prevent it from breaking away | from the mooring mast. | The thick weather and the snow which was falling made it uncertain as to when Gen. Umberto Nobile would be | able to make the flight to his base at Kings Bay, Spitzbergen Gen, Nobile appeared most anxious regarding weather reports from Spitz- bergen, which indicated a lively breeze from the northwest, cloudy skies and a temperature 4 degrees below zero. Bear Island reported a storm during the night, although it was somewhat calmer at dawn. Ice surrounding Spitebergen is reported thus far to have prevented tihe supply ship Citta di Milano from entering the harbor there, MAY LEAVE TONIGHT, for Spitzbergen. OBLO, Norway, May 6 (#).-Reports from Vadsoe this afternoon indicate that CGen. Nobile 15 making definite preparations to take off with the dirigible Italla for Spitzbergen tonight. “THE PENALTY” “Golden Rule” Film Produced by The Evening Star To further traffic safety is being shown today along with the regular program at The Howard Theater 7th and T Sts. N.W. 10 JOIN NOBILE s Associated CAPITAL INVENTOR SHOWS } RADIO MOVIES TO EXPERTS| C. Francis Jenl(ins‘ Macl\ine Wins praise Of Gen. Squiers After Demonstration in Laboratory. Members of the Federal Radio Com- mission and public and private scien- tists and engineers today witnessed what was described as an “epochal” demonstration of motion pictures by radio in the laboratories here of C. Francis Jenkins, well known local “radio vision” inventor. After seeing a reel of motion pictures in silhouette form broadcast from one side of the laboratory building at 1519 Connecticut avenue and reproduced faithfully in a mirror on a smali receiv- ing cabinet at the other side of the building, the officials were told by the inventor that they were witnessing the “birth of a new industry.” Gen. George O. Squiers, former chief signal officer of the Army and himself a noted radio inventor, joined with bodles an “en! new principle” in radio transmission of pictures and Gen. uiers expressed the opinion that the invention was “a marked improvement over all existing machines.” Mr. Jenkins predicted that “within a” short time, perhaps a few months,” the commercial production of home | | radio-movie sets will be begun. { | ‘They will be sold at a price “about | | equal to that of a good audio receiver,” | he declared. Among those who saw the demonstra- | | tion today were Ira E. Robinson, chair- | man; Carl Butman, Sam Pickard and | Capt. 8. C. Hooper, all of the Radio| | Commission; Capt. Guy Hill of the | Signal Corps of the Army: Dr. Henry | | F. Hubbard, secretary of the Bureau of | Standards; Gen. Squier and a few other invited guests. | The demonstration was conducted in ia dark room, with the small receiving cabinet at one end and the spectators sitting in front. The cabinet, of pol- ished wood, about the size of the usual home radio, differed in rance only because of a concave m! . about 10 T, which surmounted it. A small knob on the :t'nnt of the tand “framing” the at the out- | set of the The cabinet was connected to the | loud-speaker jack of a commercial 1adio receiving set. In the 12%0m | the aj tus was more ted. | It included a motion_picture Ppro- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) | BOY, 17, ADMITS SLAYING OF SEVEN Confesses He Killed Parents, Brothers and Sisters, Then Set Fire to Home. By the Assoclated Pre EL DORADO, Kans, May 5.—Owen Oberst, 17-year-old farm boy, has con- | fessed that he shot and killed his pa- rents and his five brothers and sisters at their farm home near Burns the night of April 20, County Attorney Stanley Taylor announced today. After slaying members of the family, Oberst set fire to the farm home in an effort to destroy evidence of the crime. The confession related he had planned the deed only two hours before it was carried out. “Got Mad” at Father. He “just got mad” at his father be- cause he would not allow him to use the family automobile, Oberst said. He insisted that his mother had “nothing to do with it” and that he planned and carried out the killings unaided. Taylor obtained the confession late yesterdav but withheld announcement antil today. Oberst is held in the county jail here without bail. A first degree murder charge will be placed against him dur- \m'z the day, Sheriff E. E. McKnight | d. sald. Officers had questioned Oberst re- peatedly concerning the tragedy, but until yesterday the boy had stuck to his origina! story that he was in Flor- ence, Kans., attending a picture show when the fire broke out. He made his confession voluntarily, breaking under the strain of continuous quizaing Set Fire to House. The killings took place about 6 pm. April 20, the confession states. Oberst admitted he had been having trouble with his father, Willlam F. Oberst, for some time and finally decided to end it ! all by disposing of the family His father being away from home, the boy got the family rifle, called the younger children, Herbert, 6; Hugh, 10, Ralph, 14, and Edith, 8, into the kitch- en and began shooting. He shot his mother and other sister, Dorothy, 16, as they came into the room to learn the cause of the children’s screams. He then walted for his father to come home, and shot him ‘The confession then relates how Oberst poured keérosene over the bodies, changed his clothes, threw a lighted newspaper into the kitchen to set fire to the house and then left for Florence In the family automobile, - TWO REBELS SLAIN. Marines Suffer No Casualties in Nicaraguan Skirmish, MANAGUA, Nicaragua, May 5 (4 First brush with Marines in more than a week, two rebels have been slain and two wounded. A patrol of 12 Marines, led by Lieut. Edward Francis O'Day of New Hamp- shire, one of the many Marine patrols tracking down the rebels, encountered the men near Teltaneca and a sharp skirmish ensued, There wore no Marine caaualtios, e bl PEASANT REPUBLIC FEARED N RUMANA Proclamation of Transylva-| nian Nation Anticipated at Huge Meeting Tomorrow. | | | By the Assoctated Fress. BUDAPEST, Hungary, May 5.—Dis- | patches from Alba Julia say that the | whole of Rumania is alarmed in antici~ pation of the proclamation of a Transyl- vania republic by the Peasants congress, | which convenes there tomorrow. The government is said to be taking desperate measures to counteract this move. Seventeen airplanes circled over the Cluj district yesterday, the dis- patches add, distributing thousands of handbills warning the peasants against ‘Communist trickery” and urging mz-mI not to attend the congress. { At the same time it is said contact | nas been preserved between the peas-| ants leaders and the government, al-| though there is no concord of ideas. ‘The cabinet is expected to decide to- | day whether or not it will allow & mass | | meeting of peasants at Bucharest to- | morrow, | Aroused from their Eastern lethargy, | a vast horde of peasants was plodding | |into this city today to volce a wide- | spread demand for a change in the regime at Bucharest. Many of them are illiterate, the ma- | Jority know nothing about polities or government, but they are keenly sensi- tive to wrongs and eager to participate in the great national referendum of the national Peasants' party tomorrow, which will express the will of 15,000,000 peasants who constitute the backbone of Rumania. This meeting will protest against the Liberal government of Vin- tila Bratianu, and Juliu Maniu, leader of the Peasants' party, has promised to | give them a better government Such a tremendous meeting is un- parelleled in the history of Rumania, but | neutral foreign observers believe that it will be a long time before the Peasants’ party realizes its atms. The Bratianu regime exercises complete political mas- tery and has tronclad control over the nation's productive life. TIts firm grip grasps all the treasures of the country, including rich oll flelds, coal mines, forests, eries, foundaries and factor- | tance of approximately 50 feet. BANDT CORFESSES 5 STORE HLDAPS M. C. Bowling, Arrested in Hospital, Admits Sani- tary Thefts. Escaping after he was shot on April 14, during a running gun battle with Headquarters Detective Prank M. Alli- good, Milton Charles Bowling, 20 years old, 4447 Conduit road, was uwmedg here today from a Pittsburgh hospital to answer charges of having held up five | Sanitary grocery stores and the theft of the automobiles used in the hold-ups. Police say he has confessed. While Washington police were search- ng for Bowling and his two companions, 1t was revealed today. the youth was h hospital recov- bullet wound in the leg the Pes as a store name In his cap. Thefts Declared Admitied. Bowling is said by Alligood to admitted during the return that he and his companions four stores, one of them twice, between March 23 and April 6. On April 10, four days after the last hold-up, the trio is said to have stolen a_green automobile belonging to C. Whitson Harvell, 3051 Porter street. Four nights later Alligood spied the car at Twelfth and M streets and gave chase in the old Ford touring car fur- nished him by police headquarters. The chase, a losing one because of the superfority of the stolen car, went to Ninth and M streets, up Eleventh street and back on N street to Vermont avenue. There the pursued car dis- appeared. Shots Exchanged in Flight. Later that night, Alligood, accom- panied by Harvell, again saw the car, this time at Pennsylvania avenue and Twentieth street. Again they G and H streets, a shot was fired from the bandit car. Alligood fired one shot in return. The chase then continued on G street, and between Ninetenth and Twentieth streets three shots were fired from the bandit car at the detective. Alligood fired once, this time at Both shots fired by the detective were from the left hand. as he leaned around the appeared, and was found a short time later abandoned. Located in Pittsburgh. dits until Pittsburgh police notified the local authorities that a wounded man there and refused to give any inf tion concerning himself other t his name was “Charles Brown. man had a cap bearing the name of a Washington merchant. ‘When Alligood arrived at the hospital he found Bowling recovering from bullet wounds in the right hand left leg. The first shot fired by the detective had passed through his hand and the second shot through the leg grazing the bone. Bowling is badly crippled but manages to hobbl long. Bowling is said to have told Alligood that his companions, whose names he has furnished to police, placed him in an old automobile belonging to one of them, took him to the hospital in Pittsburgh, and then left him Bowling enjoyed the publicity untll Alligood arrived. From A‘\fll 17, until arrival of the loca! detective, under the guard of the police. List of Thefts. The crimes to which Bowling is said to have admitted are the hald-up of the Sanitary Grocery stores at 3132 Eleventh, where they took $75 from Henry H. Gill. the manager: two rob- berles of the store at 1901 Twelfth street, where they robbed the manager Wilson Osborne. of $23 on the first oe- casion and $13 on the second: 1311 Fourth street northeast, where they took $20 from the cash register and (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. Read the famous Magazine of Tomorrow’s (Continued on Page 2, Column 8 “Concerning Butter and Egg Men” Will Rogers Says the importance of the hen is recognized, and he discovers a tribute to cold storage. morist’s article in the Star nn- the have trip here held up save pant chase, and on Twentieth street, between | g windshield. Again the bandit car dis-| Nothing more was heard of the ban- was held under guard in a hospital| TWO CENTS. Press. CONGRESS' POWER T0 FORCE MERGER 1S BEING STUDIED Zihiman Asks Corporation Counsel for Opinion on Possible Changes. REPLY FR‘OM BRIDE IS EXPECTED MONDAY Members of Committee Foresee Ruling as Giving Them Right to Alter Pact. The question of just what Congress can do to force a merger of the street railway companies in Washington is being given serious consideration by members of the House District com- mittee. Chairman Zihlman has already asked Corporation Counsel Bride, by direction of the committee, whether the House District committee has authority to change in any respects the unification agreement which is part of the merger proposal now under consideration. A formal reply from the corporation counsel is expected Monday. It is un- derstood by members of the committee that the opinion will be that the Dis- | trict committee can make any change it desire: in the u but there is no ass the companies will be w cept such changes and carry out the merger along the lines provided | by such changes. | i Counsel's Opinion Sought. | This question was brought up at a recent hearing when a doubt was raised {as to whether the commitiee had any |authority to amerd the unification | agreement in any respect. As a result | of the difference of opinion, Chairman | Zihiman was instructed to ask for & | formal opinion by the corporation counsel. Some members of the com- mittee believe that when this opinion has been received the question of & compulsory mergsr will be again vigor- ously discussed. Col. Harrison Brand, ir., of the Pub- lic Utilities Commission explained to the committee today that the stock and | bond issue ot the new company under | the proposed traction merger would be |oniy $94,000 in excess of those out- | standing in the two companies. Demands Valuation Dispute End. | _ Confronted with a charge by William | McK. Clayten that the excess violated {the law to the extent of approximately $7,000,600, Cl d _the | | |said he was not prepared now to state j what bonds of the Washmigton Rail- | way & Electric Co. should be omitted jfront the estimate without further { analysts. Mr. Clayton offered as the basis for { his figure of $45,000.000 as the combined | stock and bonds of the two | the statement made by Harley P. Wilson, | & director of the North American Co. and sponsor of the merger plan. Brice | Claggett, one of the attorneys for Wilson, denied this and explained that Wilson was fully in accord with the capitaliza- tion figures of the Public Utilities Com- mission. 1. Most of the day’s session was devoted to a wide-ranged discussion of the cap- italization. At the outset Chairman Zihiman read { from the record that the Public Util Commission chart had placed the bined stock and bonds of the two com- it $51.756,000, a difference of | Brand said the d sented in bonds of th | way & Electric Co. |stock of the Poto |Co, on which the {pay interest. Clayton | bonds, he said. from Brand gave as th 756,000, aga Clayton. gotten his figure from { ment. In an explanation to the as to whether the pi actually exceeded ¢ stocks and bonds. Cg that depended ent to be tssued for net |the $2.400.000 cover track charge: assumed it was, Br: and | ¥ peared evident to b terests should have consideration. Flehart that their right: d made necessary Wikon Be Call v A lod. sumed Monday Both morning and & of the hearing on the are to be In“\! Monday by the House District con the request of Chalrman House today granted per District committee to sit du {of the House. This is dox o expedite committee consi the merger proposal in an o it passed before the o o ent session, which is about May 26 | ADMITS TAYLOR KILLING. Letter Says Prisoner Confessed Movie Director's Murder. LOS ANGELES. May § (#).—4 letter | stating that J. Q. Barnelt, a prisoner | at Folsam Prison, California, had con~ fessed the Killing here several years ago of Willam Desmond Tayior, motion pic- ture divectar, was turned over to the district attorney’s offive today. The name of the man who received the log Was Dot divuigeds