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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Foree: ht; not quite so cool. v_cloudy and warmer. 71, at 445 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 63, at 8 am. Full report on page 9. y i ening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entered as second class matter post oftice, Washington, D. C. a0 30,733, WASHINGTON, D. C, i‘RII).\Y, JUNE 29 1928 —FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. HARRISON PREDICTS SYMPATHETIC FARM . PLANK AT HOUGTON D= Prohibition Not an Issue -in| DEMOCRATS BATHE HOUSTON WITH SPLASHES OF HARMONY ed, Arriving Tonight, May Sound First nting Note—Visitors Devote Conversation to Heat. Forthcoming Campaign, Senator Says. STRESSES “CORRUPTION™ AS PARTY BATTLE CRY TReed Forces Pleased at Mack's In- | terjection of Wet and Dry Question. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. :af Correspondent of The Star. JQUSTO! Tex., June 22.—Senator t Harrison of Mississippi. enveloped a cloud of D:mocratic harmony, has e to Houston intent upon avoiding, if possible, a repetition of the Madison Squarc Garden row of four Years ago. The genial Senator from Mississippl. ithout announcing himself in favor of the nomination of Gov. Smith of New York ss the Democratic standard Dbearer, said on arrival here that he saw 10 reason why Smith should not be the party nominee. He said, too, that pro- hibition was not an issue in the com: ing national campaign and mat.(}ov. Smith, as President, could not, single- handed. change the prahlbkmu_la“‘s. The great issue of the campaign, ac- cording to Senator Harrison, 1S to be +-corruption,” with the Republican party holding the wrong end of the stick, bz it well understood. The Senstor deciared that the Demo- | would be sym- tform crats in their pial poe et thetic with the farmer e put on &n eeguflxymy n 3 gd not be’ztevfn ;h;eggDex;\g; spectfically o1 This was understood to t in the national platform no indorsement of the bill or of the equaliza- and business ever, that he crats would legislation. mean that there would be McNary-Eaugen tion fee. Raps G. O. P. Convention. particularly sarcastic in his e the <A blican national , he said, Ven a raw dunenl remembered, however, that asked of the Republican convention just one thing—the tion of the cqualization fee prin- ciple. That, apparently, the Democrats are not going to grant eithe: Senator Harrison broug! to Houston—a note of harmony— that which was interjected E. i | assuming the direction of the Repub. tied amicably an ::on, He bene’;'cs that their efforts are bearing fruit. Pleasing to Reed Men. statement by Mr. Mack, there- !nr?ku with a grating sound on the ears of most of the Democrats now here. 1f it displeased many, it nt. d Mr | heads this way, Mr. Coolidge will be Mack's statement speaks for lmsxf, We have no comment to make For months, Senztor Reed has sought to impress upon his party the idea that prohibition should not become an issue in. the campaign, that it has no place nerein, but that the Democrats should confine themselves largely 1o “turning 1he Republican rascals out.” The inter- jection of the wet and dry issue in the situation here Wy a follower of Gov. Smith has not been entirely displeasing 10 the Reed managers Senator Reed 1= Gue to arrive here tonight and is expected to start things. Indeed, if there is to be anything started a2t o , it looks as though Reed to start it Other candidates are 1g harmony and saying Litt is 1o look as though this con Bmith and sidestep the prohibition and s One bit of information gleaned terday is that the Missouri delega is to be seated on the fioor of she co vention J ACTOSS aisle from the New York delegatio Another president] avy George of Geor 1 reach Houston tonight Farm Heads on Way pon the Democ such as that upon the Repub- Jicans in Kansas City; that there wil be no special insistance upon langus which could only be construed ne party o the equ Bome Democratic believes, may have something out which will be sat 10 the farm organizations which docs ot embody that language.” If they have, none of them given any indication of it. W be no “crusade” of farme the Houston conventic erusaders who & Houston are ik purticularly the Temocratic n, who are posed %o the nominetion of Smith or any other wet. Whether they will be any more effective in their crusade L were the fermers in their dr the City convention W be seen & out thet the BY BEN McKELWAY. Staff Correspondent of The Star. HOUSTON, Tex.. June 22.—Precon- |The pictures of the donkeys particu- arly | remarks of some of the natives about are in close harmony with the| with industry | He said, how- | rj will find plenty to talk about without 3 72-Year-0il‘_Dcputy Kansas | / | vention throngs, which are already be- | ginning to make life miserable in Hous- | ton, are hopefully awaiting the arrival | tonight of Senator “Jim” Reed of Mis- | souri in the fond belief that he will bring with him that lack of harmony jupon which good Democrats always ‘lhn\‘e best. To cate there has been a large amount ol harmony in Hous- ton: so much, in fact, that harmony |is dripping all over the place. o While Norman Mack of New York| | gave promise of injecting some lack of | narmony, that was rutned before it was | | well started by Mr. Mack's explanation | | that his prohibition -statement was in harmony with his own private and per- sonal views. Senator Pat Harrison of |and g bell boy took the thirteenth pic- | Mississippi, arriving yesterday after- | noon, was fairly oozing harmony from | every pore, and Clem Shaver, chairman of the Democratic national committee, | sits quietly in his office on the eighth | floor of the Democratic Building and | sces the newspaper men twice a day | and makes excruciatingly harmonious | remarks. | The decorations, which are going up 'all over Houston, harmonize nicely. | its not being so hot m Houston. Some | attempt, even, has been made to make | the lobby of the Rice Hotel resound | with harmony. On one side of the | lobby ~there are 12 lithographs of | Alfred E. Smith of New York, the pic- | tures being identical and strung side | by side. But on the other side of the | lobby there are no Smith pictures, this |side being resecved for a very gaily colored picture of Senator Reed. Gov. Smith's picture depicts the governor in a softened mood: one might believe | that he was about to smile. The pic- ture of Senator Reed, however, indi- cates that the Senator is about to ask somebody about a campaign expendi- ture. But the contrast is harmonious. ere were originally 13 pictures of Gov. Smith strung up in the lobby. Some harmonious scul counted them ture down, dozen. George N. Peek, the farmers’ repre- sentative, was extremely harmonious as he walked back and forth in the lobby of the Rice today. ers never insisted on the equalization fee principle in their demands for re- lief. And while he was talking dow stairs, upstairs, in t mporary_h " (Continued on Page 2, Column leaving an harmonious ) | COOLIDGE EXPECTS WORK RESIGNATION |Visit to President at Brule | River Not Looked For, However. | | | BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staft Sorrespondent of The Star. CEDAR ISLAND LODGE, BRULE | RIVER, Wis., June 22.—President Cool- | idge was represented today as expecting | to receive very shortly the resignation | of Secretary of Interior Work, who has been chosen chairman of the Republi- | |can national committee, but he is not | | expecting it to be delivered in person | by the retiring cabinet officer. ! When asked today about dispatches | | OF | Saturday night, having jpon t! , 15 too great to permit | | |any part in the conduct or the direc- | tion of the campaign other than to give his fullest moral support. A visit from | the man who has been chosen to direct | the battle to elect Hoover and Curtis, it is pointed out, would at this time give the impression that Mr. Coolidge is as- | suming a behind-stage leadership or | { dictatorship. Of course, if Secretary Work, being | | unaware of the President’s feelings, happy to see him and naturally enough getting his fingers in the management of the campaign. 1 There is not the slightest indication | | here that the President has any one in | {mind to appoint as Dr. Work's suc- | | cessor. The feeling, however, is that | | he has realized for some time the | | ifkelinood of Secretary Work's selection | as national chairman, and no doubt | has gone over in his mind the question | of filling his place. Very likely he hes | [se\‘cml available men in mind already. | Work's Selection Expected. | News of Secretary Work's selection | as national chairman was received at | the Bummer White House with con- siderable interest. It s doubtful, though, if it came as any great surprise, | | inasmuch as former Senator Butler of Massachusetts, the retiring head of the | committee, who conducted the Presi- dent’s own campalgn in 1924, was a | recent visitor at the President’s Summer | home and is understood to have advised the latter of the likelthood of Dr. Work's selection. Besides this, the President has long been aware of Se tary Hoover's personal regard for his cliow cabinet officer’s political sagacity and abill Later on, when the fight is getting good, the smell of powder so familiar .10 him might cause a restlessness on the President’s part, but ai the moment Lie gives the impression of being per- content to paddle along his beau- | tiful river. The look of satisfaction and | oy on his face this morning as he| tinued on Page 2, Column 3. | turned sharply toward the TWO FLYERS START AMUNDSEN SEARCH Italians Expect to Be in Air Six Hours Over lce Pack. ROME, June 22 ().—Majs. Mad- dalena and Penzo, Italian airmen, made a reconnaissance over the No- bile party off Northeast Land today, refound the six stranded men and dropped additional supplies for them, the base ship at Kings Bay radioed to the official news agency, Stefani, here today. By the Associated Press. KINGS BAY, SPITZBERGEN, June | 22—Majs. Maddalena and Penzo, Ital-| T, { t | from Washington to the effect that Sec- | jan fiyers, took off from Kings Bay to- ht a differen | re W { y in their huge naval seaplanes to Nobile party and to maintain a sharp lookout for Roald Amundsen, famous Norwegian explorer and his missing ‘The weather had improved consider- ably after the heavy fog of this morn- ing, and the two Italian fiyers expected arrived | to be up about six hours. The sealer Isbjoern The sealer left the region port traversed the waters over which the plane must have The Svalbard, which s the gwemor'l’ | boat, left Advent Bay today for South ! Cape, to seek some trace of the Amund- sen party. Now that more than 600 pounds of supplies have been drop- and his five strand- hus safety for the present, the attention of | the {ucue e here has been missing Amundsen group. Ships Plow On. ‘The radio operator of the Nobile base ship, Citta Di Milano, has been busy trying in vain to find some trace of the | huge French plane in which Amundsen | and five companions took off from Nor- way Monday night. The Citta Di Milano has communi- cated with the ice cutter Braganza, now off North Cape, and with the Russian ice breaker Maligin, which is near South Cape in a rough sea slowly making her way northward in an effort to break through to Nobile. Neither of these ships, however, had anything to re- port concerning Amundsen. ‘The Maligin is laying her course for Cape Leigh Smith and it is will be able to reach the stranded Nobile group. Lieut. Luetzow Holm and Capt. Riiser- Larsen, theN orweglan flyers who have made numerous flights over the Nobile party, again flew to the vicinity, but were unable to see the men. The party wirelessed that they had sigh the pilots. They have received ordsrs from Oslo to turn their efforts toward finding Amundsen, and to search along the west coast of Spitzbergen. Capt. Riiser-Larsen, who was a mem- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) KELLOGG TREATY NOTE IS SENT TO 14 POWERS | serns Text of Proposed Multilateral Pact Received in London and Paris, The State Department announced today that Secretary Kellogg has sent to 14 world powers a note including the terms for the proposed multilateral treaty for the renunciation of war and that notice had been recelved at the State Department that the notes have arrived in London and Parls. ‘The text of the note, it was sald, would not be made public until all of the other proposad }mnlclplnln in the | treaty recelve it, t was made clear that ~ the American Ambassadors in Paris and London have the note, but /... that they have not delivered it to the British or Prench governments. Kills Bank Robber Associsted Press , June 22.—The pis- | ar-old Deputy Sheriff Jim Rwberts, which in early days kept | law and order in Arizona mining camps | or played its part in bloody range war, | a8 not 15 dexterity. | Roberts -proved that yesterday when he shot and killed a hold-up man flee- ing from the robbery of the Bank of dale, near here, with | sult the other robher was cap'urd end their §35000 oot recov * ! bery, Still Crack Shot: Fleeing With $35.000 The credit for the shot first was glven to David Saunders, cashler. Later It was determined that it was Jim Rob- erts’ pistol that found its mark in the ead of Wilam J. Forrester as he and L Nelson, allas Paul Hauffman, fled len automobile after the rob- The car then ran wild and crash- ed, and Nelson was captured a few min- utes later. As a youth Roberts participated In the ‘Tonto Bacin range wars. Later he po- early-day mining camp of ad e Tor o He said the farm- | | interior, whom they blame for all the | attempting to halt the demonstrations PEASANT UPHEAVAL FEARED F RADTH * DESFROMWOUND Surgeon Rushed by Plane to Jugoslav Leader’s Bedside. Four Rioters Slain. jCENSORSfiP OF PRESS | AND WIRE LINES RIGID Angry Crowds Assemble Along Route of Funeral Train of Murdered Deputies. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, June 22 Gustav Singer, eminent Vienna physician, has been rushed to Belgrade by airplane to attend Stefan Raditch, the wounded Peasant leader. The condition of Raditch is understood to be causing great apprehension. A peasant up- heaval is feared if their national hero | dies. | (Latest reports from Belgrade indi- ated that inflammation had developed, Ic.lumng serious complications in the condition of the Peasant leader, whose wound is located in the abdominal! region. Further complications were feared on account of the existing dia- betic symptoms.) All telephone communication between Vienna and Belgrade has ceased, giving rise to much anxiety here concerning the situation in Jugoslavia. JUGOSLAVIA 1S SEETHING. | | | Renewed Rioting Gives Government Gravest Concern. | BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, June 22 (#). —Jugoslavia is seething with excite- ment. The riots at Zagreb, Crotia, stronghold of the peasants, which fol- | lowed the slaying of two Croatian deputies and four others in the Jugo- slav Parliament at Belgrade, proved even more sanguinary than at first | thought. Four persons have been killed, six are believed to be dying and nearly 100 were wounded. Public indignation, which had been smoldering over the policy of the gov- ernment, reached fever heat. Bel- grade and Zagreb resemble besieged cities, with military forces everywhere. | The removal of the bodies of the two assassinated deputies, Paul Raditch and Dr. Basaritchek, to Zagreb brought to- gether great crowds of angry peasants along the funeral route; they were kept under restraint only by the military. Stormy Times Ahsad. The government newspaper Edinstvoi that stormy times were | hip is bain(mi)ued w.:!'l tele censors| a) - phone and telegraph . Newspapers .p%n wlpfig‘ fiz blank spaces. e op} newspapers are savage in their denunciation of the great . They charge that the murders were not accidental, but were deliber- ately for purpose of ex- terminating the government’s chief op- ponents and obstructionists. Stefan Raditch, leader of the Croetian Peasants’ party, who was wounded by a government deputy during the ses- sion of Parliament on Wednesday, was losing ground today. His physicians feared congestion of the lungs. { way merger plan, while Dr. Milo R.| AN AN N THE NEW MAHOU TRI0 OF MURDERERS PAY DEATH PENALTY IN"ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR BUSCH SLAYING STUDY OF MERGER ASKED BY CAPPER Senator Requests Efficiency| Bureau to Make Inde- pendent Inquiry. | ‘The Bureau of Efficiency was uked‘ today by Chairman Capper of the | { Senate District committee to begin an independent study of the street rail-| Maltbie, New York expert, is analyzing | the valuations of the traction com- | panies. | In a letter to Herbert D. Brown, | chief of the bureau, Senator Capper said | the committee would be glad to have | the benefit of the research facilities of | the efficiency office, in addition to the services of Dr. Maltbie, who was ap- | pointed a few days ago as consultant | to the committee. | While Senator Capper’s letter leaves | Mr. Brown's hands free to determine | the scop&™oF the inquiry to be made by | the bureau, the Senator listed 11 sug- | gestions and expressed the belief the Senate would be able to act better on | the consolidation agreement in° De- | cember if provided with information | on these subjects. Scope of Inquiry. The particular phases of the merger problem which he indicated the bureau | might study. foliow: “1. Fair value for rate-making pur- of the properties to be merged. Physical condition of the prop- including equipment. Students Join Rioters. Students and workmen united in demonstrations at Zagreb against Father Anton Koroshetz, minister of recent bloodshed in J avia. Police were attacked and used their weapons ireely. Power lines were cut and the city was plunged in darkness. This added to | the general confusion and terror caused by the rioting and the conttnuous shooting. The demonstrators launched an at- tack on the Corso Cafe, which is fre-| quented by officials and politicians. All the windows were smashed, the furni- ture was thrown in the street and the policemen on guard were attacked with clubs, stones and revolvers. M'CN';_‘;I"I to curb the demonstration police fired, killing four civilians and wounding many others, i The students and workmen then at- | tacked the Jagerholf Cafe, which is also patronized by government officials. An- other battle with the police took place. Belgrade Crowd Orderly. Immense crowds watched the entrain- ment of the bodies of the slain Depu- ties at Belgrade last night for Zagreb, but all was orderly. The widows of the Deputies and their six children accom- panied them. Six members of the cabi- net and members of Parliament were present at the religious services held at the station before the train pulled out. The bodies were accompanied by all the Democratic and Peasant Deputies. Standing beside the body of her hus- band, Mme. Paul Raditch said: “Let Paul's life be the last sacrifice in the pacification of the Croats and he » Punica Ratchitch, the slayer, was un- der arrest today, awaiting trial on charges of having committed two mur- ders and having attempted four other murders. When charged with Lhe crimes he exclaimed: m ready to be taken out im- mediately and shot without trial. I have fulfilled my task.” FOUR KILLED AT ZAGREB. { Scores Injured and 180 Arrested in | Rioting There. ZAGREB, Croatia, June 23 (#).— After a night of ricting which followed the slaying of two Peasant Deputies in Parliament, order was restored today only after all troops in the vicinity had n mobllized. A police check-up today revealed that four persons had been slain in the riot~ Ing instead of three as previously an- nounced, Bixty-two others were injured and 180 were under arrest today. It appeared that the outbreak was caused by an announcement that the condition of Stefan Raditch, Peasant leader, who was wounded In the shoot- mg at the capital, was growing worse, t was feared that the disturbances might be renewed with the arrival to- day of the bodles of the two slain Depu- tles, Paul Raditch and Dr, Basaritchek. Bank Bandits Get $10,000. BT. PAUL, Minn, June 22 (#), men held up the Grand Avenue State Bunk, a few miles from the down- town section, here today and fled with approximately $10,000. The bandits used n‘ Jlrurlt, which, police believe, was atolen, | ‘our i - erties, “3. Condition of income and profits accounts of the carriers (whether ac- curately and uniformly kept in accord- | ance with standard practice). “4, Present depreciation reserves and provision for reserve after merger. “5. Comparison of rates of fares in other cities. “6. Comparison of operating costs ratio in Washington and elsewhere. “7. Comparison of fixed costs ratio and general administration expense in Washington and elsewhere. “g. Comparison of power cost mi street railways now and after merger. Practice of railways in other cities as | to purchase or manufacture of power. “9. Possible economies through merg- ed operation. g “10. Car miles operated per revenué passenger here and elsewhere (to deter- n:lne possible economies in rerouting, etc.). “11. Future of bus relationship to| railway operation, particularly question of transfer charges.” Study Not Limited. “In naming these subjects,” Senator | Capper’s letter continued, “it is not my intention to limit the scope of your in- quiry and report, but I should like to have your comments, in due time, upon any features of the proposed merger agreement that you care to discuss aft- er investigation. “Any constructive suggestion you may ofter as to amendment of or substitute for the proposed agreement will be care- fully considered. 1If, on the other hand, your study of the situation convinces you that the merger proposal is the best possible under the circumstances, I shall be glad to have your reasons for that opinion.” Senator Capper has requested O. H. Brinkman, resident assistant clerk of the committee, to furnish the efficiency bureau with any data the committee has on the merger subject. The Sen- ator also told Mr. Brown he had no doubt the Public Utilities Commission would be glad to co-operate. ‘The Senator expects to be in Wash- ington later in the Summer, at which time he will confer with Mr. Brown. Dr. Maltbie is expected to arrive within a few days to begin his study of the proposed $50,000,000 valuation to be placed on the merged compan; Senator Capper's letter was just re- ceived at the Efficiency Bureau today and officlals there have not had time to map out a plan of procedure. Malcolm Kerlin, an official of the bureau, sald the office would do whatever it could to comply with the Senate committee's request. | Suicide Uses Six Dynamite “Sticks” In Ending Life By the Associated Press. AKRON, Ohio, June 22—Placing six sticks of dynamite under his body, Edward Gertensohlager, .45, ‘Wadsworth, near here, lighted them with fuses and blew himself to pieces today in a barn at the rear of his house. Pieces of the man's body were found a block away from the scene. Parts of the roof were blown from the barn and the entire village was aroused. Houses for blocks around were shaken and many windows broken. HOLDS .. LAGS N ADING VETERANS Pershing Says France Does More to Find Employment for Disabled. Gen. John J. Pershing today declafed that in his opinion the United States Government could do more to help |its disabled veterans find employment than has been done. Testifying before President Coolidge’s | special committee on veteran's prefer- ence at the Veteran’s Bureau, the com- mander-in-chief of the A. E. F. :1id that France was doing more than the United States toward giving jobs to its World-War disabled. There was a very definite impression, declared Gen. Pershing, that although the law and the regulations provided for giving preference to veterans seek- ing employment that in many cases the appointive heads find ways :l;‘(‘” means of appointing others than veterans. Gen. Pershing suggested that some Government agency, probably the Civil Service Commission should be given authority to make the mandal appointment of disabled men, provided they were sufficiently capable to Gov- ernment positions. Congressional in- terference in appointments was inti- | mated by Gen. Pershing as an influence sometimes operating against the ap- pointment of veterans. Alleges Preference. metimes Senators and Representa~ sald the general, “come in and y like to have so and so ap- inted,’ and the bureau chief can al- ways see the advantage to the Govern- ment of giving so and so the appoint- | ment.” t Rear Admiral Charles F. Hughes of | the Navy told the committee that the | Interviewers. employment situation in the Navy Yards throughout the country already | | was seriously handicapped because of i | PRESCRIPTION the fact that ail efforts were being made to give preference to veterans, both in original employment and in retention of employment. John Thomas Taylor, vice chairman of the national legislative committee of the American Legion, & member of the committee, complained that a large number of delegations of veterans had come to Washington from all parts of the country charging that civilians in administrative positions in the Navy Yard had discriminated against vete- rans, partiularly when it came to dismissal. Suggests Executive Order Change. Lieut. Col. U. §. Grant, 3d, director of the Office of Public Bulldings and Public Parks of the National Capital, offered the suggestion that more ve erans might be employed by the Gov- ernment if an executive order of March 9, 1925, would permit by special pref erence the appointment of retired no: commissioned officers of the Army as guards might be amended so as to in- clude veterans of World War service with certain restrictions. Col. Grant, however, suggested that no order should issued or regulation promulgated to (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) tory | WIDOW OF BUSCH PITESSLAYERS N |Feels Execution Justified, However—Leaves Home Before Fatal Hour. | | . ) Somewhere in the seclusion of a }(ricnd's home in Washington, Mrs. | Margaret T. Busch, the young widow of | Policeman Leo W. K. Busch, received | word this morning that the three slay- lers of her husband had paid the | supreme penalty for their crime of twe | years ago. | For the widow of the slain police- | man. there was no thought of rejoicing that the law finally had avenged her husband’s' death. “There has never been any feeling of revenge in her heart,” a woman who has been one of Mrs. Busch’s closest a reporter for The Star. has felt, as we all feel, pit mothers and families, e three men themselves. But | feels also that there is a law law should take its course.” Believes Law Justified. ! While this woman explained that | policeman’s wldo;y c?uld u:" help but | feel some sympathy for three slay- | ers, she believed that, with the possible | exception of Samuel Moreno, the law was fuily justified in taking i ‘We all felt,” the friend added. Moreno was a hopeless m who was guided by stronger wills than his. He | 1 | earlier chance.” Early this morning a young man and you 'woman called for Mrs. Busch at | the Albermarle Apartments, 1700 T street, where she has made her home | | Mary M., Ruth and Mary Connelly. She left no word where she was go- ing, according to Mrs. Connelly, except to say that she probably would return | by Monday. | | Has Been Il | efforts were being made to win clemency | for Proctor, Moreno and Eagles, the | policeman’s widow had been absent from her apartment most of the time. She went out of town, it was learned, | owing to illness and a desire to escape | unnecessary publicity. . | __From her friends, it was learned that Mrs. Busch has been ill and despondent | for some time. Up-to last week, how- | ever, she attended her daily tasks as a | | clerk in the Motor Transportation Divi- | slon of the War Department except for | brief periods of illness. | “She doesn't like to discuss the case at all,” it was explained on her behalf {today, “and she has tried to evade all All she wants is to be left alone in quiet.” RUM RING ALLEGED IN LOS ANGELES Twenty-Five Physicians, Score of Druggists and Others to Be Quizzed by U. S. Agents. | By the Assoctated Press. | LOS ANGELES, June 22.—Twenty- | five physicians, a score or more of drug- gists and many others were involved in | an investigation today by Federal pro- | hibition officials of what they declare | to be a large “prescription liquor” ring. | . The physicians are declared to have ‘sold out™ to the Mquor men, turning over thousands of prescription for an average price of $3 a blank. Headquarters of the combine, accord- lng to the prohibition men, were main- tained in a downtown butlding and used as a general clearing house for the | traffic in prescription blanks. Eric Maas, said to have been in charge of the “clearing house,” and Marshall PFinn, declared to have acted as secre- tary and bodyguard to Maas, are under arrest. SHORTAGE CLOSES BANK. Bookkeeper Confesses After Deficit of $147,100 Is Found. NOBLESVILLE, Ind, June 22 (#) ‘The Citizens' State Bank of Noblesville was closed today on orders from Thom- as Barr, State bank examiner, follow- ing discovery of a shortage of $147,100, traced to Omer (. Patterson, chief bookkeeper in the institution for 28 years, Patterson was found in his room at a hotel suffering from the effects of olson. Before being removed to a hospital Patterspn confessed he had been taking money from the bank for several years covering the defaleations by false statements in the ledger. Mother-in-Law o; TwohBritish Peers Sentenced for Night Club Liquor Sales By (he Assoclated Press, LONDON, June 32.—Mrs. Kate Mer- rick, night club proprietess and mother- in-law of two British peers, was sen- tenced to six months tmprisonment to- day, without hard labor, at the con- She received a simila similar offense in | Mrs. Merrick's | Evelyn. was married to young {Clifford in 1926. Another daughter, | Mary Ethel Isobel, was on June r sentence for a might have gone straight if given un[ | since the death of her husband with Maj Mrs. Margaret Conuelly and the Misses During the past week when desperate | Proctor Collapses and Is Car- ried to His Doom on a Stretcher — Moreno and Eagles Brave to End. |NONE MAKES CONFESSION BEFORE LEAVING CELLS jExecution: Conducted With Pre- ! cision and Rapidity, Only One Shock Being Given Each Man. Whole Ceremony Is Conducted in Half an Hour. | Nicholas Lee Eagles, Samuel Moreno | and John Cline Proctor today paid so- | _ | ciety with their lives for the murder of Policeman Leo W. K. Busch. They died in the electric chair at the District jail. Eagles and Moreno went with the ut- | most bravery and composure; Proctor | was unconscious and was carried to his death on a stretcher. None of the men made formal con- fessions of guilt before leaving their cells, though Proctor, in one last mo- ment of consciousness about a half hour before the executions began, blurted out what may have been an attempt to | confess. i “I—I—the fatal shot,” he stammered Eagles, chanting the ancient “Eili, Eili,” went to the fatal chair until the life- less form of Proctor was replaced on the stretcher on which he was carried into the execution chamber. Only One Shock to Each. (}‘nly om'.he longest one, for g each man, Moreno, lasting 2 minutes uul“ 5.seconds. - dead after i i 6] ¥ Fist &% “Can I have my Bihle?” he . Willilam L. Peak, ! 14 the mask was fitted over called through it in a m “Good-by." The guards stepped aside first shock was administered o'clock. The initial shock volts, which tapered down, was brought up to full . fauies pased. ¥ . and the current i £ § 3 ot 2 g [t i Less than two the dynamo humming current was shut off. As | was_turned on the Bible slipped | Eagle's fingers and fell to the | at his feet. Pronounced Dead. As the current was shut off, Dr. Stanley C. Howard, S| |at Gallinger Hospital, and Dr. A. M. | MacDonald of Casualty Hospital: step- ped torward and in turn aj | scopes to Eagles' breast. Dr. | stepped over to the witness box and said, “I pronounce Nicholas Lee dead at 10:13 am. June 22, I The straps were quickly removed and body placed on a stretcher. Eagles went to the chair as he had neatly clad. He wore.a gray-| shirt, |open at the throat, gray trousers, and | brown leather slippers. Around his neck | was suspended a Jewish luck charm |and in the top button-hole of his shirt | was a small -red-rose. L] stetho- away. A guard gathered up the and the slipper from the floor and car- v out. | After a brief wait, Moreno, with |guard at each side, appeared {top of the steps carrying a large imht]cclsx and a lighted cigarette, v he took one last as started down the stairs. him Rev. John A. Sullivan and Rev. Ed- ward J. A, Nestor, it the robes of the Catholic Chureh, recited the prayers. | for the dying. Kisses the Cress. “Pray for us, rru: for us, for us,” n a low but xone Moreno rej of voice as he walked quickly to the ehair. He sat in the chair at 10:18 am. and as he was s in Father Sullivan took from him crucifix and held it to the condemned man's lips. Moreno tossed his clgarette to the floor and kissed the cross. ‘The holmoul“lnd mask were fitted e v e pady st . married clusion of her trail in the Bow Street | 6 to the Earl of Kinnoull. The fact that | The enn::& :u turned Court. She was charged with selling Nquor without a license and supplying “Mother” Merrick was about to come before the courts caused a brief it minutes Moreno was pronounced lquor after permitted hours at the Ce- | ponement of the latter wedding. which, | removed from the cil Olub, formerly the Forty-Three Club, near Plocadilly. Mrs. Merrick also was fined 60 gui- neas costs. Her club was struck off the reglster and disqualified for five years. however, took ace _eventually at | Marylcbone Reglstry Office in London. | | Radio vl’rogrums—-l’age 2 white shirt, open with sleeves ers and black As he sat n W {Continued on