Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1928, Page 1

WEA' (U. 8 Weather Showers tonight row morning; sligh cooler tomorrow. ‘Temperature—Highest, lowest, pm. yesterday; today. Full report THER. Bureau Forecast.) and possibly tomor- htly warmer tonight; 81, at 4:30 60, at 6 am. on page 9. ¢ Zoening Sta WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrie T system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 r 90 702 Entered as s No.: BOTIB. Tosrthas " cond class matter ashington, D. ¢ COOLIDGE SELECTS “NEW ENGLAND MAN FORHOOVER'S POST Accepts Secretary’s Resig- nation and Names W. F. Whiting of Holyoke. APPOINTEE IS PLEDGED TO PRESIDENT'S POLICIES i Tong Active in Massachusetts Pol-| itics, but Has Never Held Public Office. | August 21.—Presi- Coolidge accepted today the resig- of Secretary of Commerce Hoover | from the cabinet and appointed William | F. Whiting of Holyoke, Mass, to suc-| ceed him. | President Coolidge accepted Secretary H resignation by telegram, ad-| dressed to Washington, in which he praised the Commerce Secretary's ef- fort in promdting the commercial busi- | activitios of the Nation. The knowl- | edge acquired by Mr. Hoover of busi-| ness and government while in the cabi- | net was “unsurpassed,” President Cool- said our resignation as Secretary of | Commerce, tendered some time ago, is | her accepted.” President Coolidge ‘1 wish to express to you my ap- ion of the character of the serv- ice you have rendered in that office. It hes been of great benefit to the com- mercial life of the Nation and has given a new impetus to our entire business structure. Hoover Is Praised. { “You have gained a knowledge of the mechanies of business and government that is unsurpassed. It will always be a satisfaction to me to have had the benefit of your wise counsel in meeting the problems which have arisen during | my administration. My best wishes will always attend you in the broader field to which you have been called.” Mr. Whiting, who has been a friend snc_political supporter of President | Coolidge for many years, arrived in! Superior this morning and was ad- ministered the oath of office, in the Chief ecutive’s room at the executive offices Mr. Whiting is head of the Whit- inz Paper Co. of Holyoke, Mass. He has never previously held politi- cai _office, but has been very active in| %, Btate politics, especially in western Massachusetts. He was a delegate to the Republican pational convention in 1920, 1924 and He is about 65 years of age.| Whiting Ouffines Policies™ | After 'his appointment Secretary Whiting said that in his new office he would endeavor to miaintain the policies h the Commerce Department has been carrying out under Mr. Hoover. These policies, he said, were in accord- ance with Mr. Coolidge’s political pro- gram and would therefore be adhered to by him. “The new Commerce Secretary said he would leave Superior temight for usetts to straighten out per- sonal affairs before going to Washing- | i ton next week. Until then he said he f&m"' ferred mot to discuss matters con- ted with his department. PRESIDENT NAMES FRIEND. pre: nec Paper Manufacturer Prominent in State | and National Polities. , Mass., August 21 (P)— m’fion‘gt)rx.!wmmm. one of the best Xknown manufacturers in the Connecticut Valley and one of the stanchest Republicans of this State, is 2 native and lifelong resident of this city. He is the son of the late Repre-; gentative William Whiting. A strong friend of President Coolidge, he was outspoken in his wish that the Presi- dent would consent to stand for re- jomination. PShortly after his graduation from Amberst College Mr. Whiting entered his father’s paper business and on the death of his father became president and treasurer of the Willlam Whiting Manufacturing Co. | He has attended State and national | eonventions of the party and was a delegate to the Kansas City wnvenllnna that nominated Mr. Hoover. He has in’ recent years declined 1o allow the | uee of his name for the local mayoralty. COOLIDGE TO VISIT DULUTH. | ! SUPERIOR, Wis. August 21 (®)—A 4sit to Duiuth has been arranged today for President Coolidge, who in his two months in Wisconsin never before had found the opportunity to motor the seven miles round the bay to the Minne- sota City. Mr. Coolidge had accepted the invita- %o see Duluth only on condition hat there would be no speeches and that the visit would enable him to re- wumn to Cedar Isiand Lodge in time for cheon after ordinary routine busi- ai50 had been included in the day's A. McGonagle, president of the luth, Missabe & Northern Railroad, d a committee of other Duluth citi- were detailed 1o act as an escort- g committee to the Chief Executive d his party. They were told to hold themselves in readiness at 10:30 this morning to accompany the President. instructions from the House, t morning's program had been so arranged that the would make no stops for in- troductions or speeches. The Chief Executive was to meet at his offices in Buperior members of the escorting com- mittee, who were % form, with mem- bers of Mr ge's own party, thg of the principal streets = were erected to allow the President and the regulations of the city iree | The climax of the ar- Duluth consisted of a broad highway which ymmit of hills on whos des Duluth is bullt, Pr e had thereby the oppor- of seeing the famous “Duluth with the city at his feet and e broad expanse of the lake beyond, detalls of the harbor and the ore conl docks streiched at his feet, Becomes Kingdom Saturday. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, August 31 (&) —Balurday has heen selected as the gate for changing Albania from a re- end @h T WASHINGTON, D. 'C., TUESDAY, Hoover Returns { To Birthplace to Renew Friendships Breakfasts With First Teacher, Then Visits Graves of Parents. By the Assoclated Press. WEST BRANCH, Iowa, August 21— Herbert Hoover is back today in this cross-roads village of his birth, cares of the campaign forgotten as he re- news old friendships and revisits scenes of his childhood. Arriving early in the day, the Re- publican candidate drove directly to the little house where he was born to have breakfast as the guest of Mrs. | Jennie Scellars, the present owner. With him were Mrs. Hoover and their two Herbert, jr, and Allan. The only other guest was Mrs. Molly Brown Carran, who Mr. Hoover's first school teacher. Color ran high in the cheeks of the white-haired, motherly woman whe owns the homestead which Jesse Hoover built for his family more than half a century ago, as she shook hands with Mr. and Mrs. Hoover and their sons and invited them into the living room, where a table had been set with white sons, was | china. The only decoration was a small bowl of marigolds. Typical Towa Breakfast. The breakfast menu was typical of Towa, consisting of peaches and cream, ham and eggs. fried potatoes, rolls and honey and coffee. In order that there might be no doubt of the newness of the potatoes she dug them herself in the garden. As the visitors ate the crowd which had followed the automobile procession from the depot overran the lawn and practically destroyed the flower beds. Others gathered around the. front porch, which had been leased to a con- cessionaire, who did a thriving business lselling pictures of Hoover and the birth- place. Before the call to breakfast the Re- publican standard bearer visited the kitchen where he once helped his widowed mother with the chores, and then stepped out onto the back porch, which overlooks a small garden. Some distance away Hoover saw the well from which as a boy he drew water. ‘Weather Is Perfect. A crowd of more than a thousand cheered the Republican presidential nominee as he stepped from his train. An American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps was on hand. Among the first to shake hands with ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) HAITI DESOLATED BY TROPICAL GALE| Storm Killed 200, Left 10,000 Per- sons Homeless and Razed Towns. By the Associated Press. PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, August 21. tion was widespread today over the southern peninsula of Haiti, where a tropoical storm early last week wrecked whole towns, killed 10,000 homeless. Only one of the 200 buildings in the town of St. Louis remains M%A fishing craft, stranded three city blocks from the water front, is mute testimony to the force of the tidal wave that ac- nied the storm; 80 per cent of buildings in Grand Boucan and Petit Trou were demolished and at Aquin half of the structures were wrecked. The hurricane first hurled itself over an area 20 miles wide, from Cavaillon to St. Louis and then to Aquin. It spread fanwise northeast and northwest, cover- ing an area more than 70 miles wide on the north coast. The inundation in most of the towns ranged from 8 to 20 feet in depth. Ther: was 4 feet of water in the gen- darmerie building at Barraderes, 20 feet above the level of the town. Officers of the United States naval tug Woodcock, which returned yesterday after a second relief trip to the stricken area, said the material loss would ex- ceed $1,000,000. The coffee crop was badly damaged, they said. Medical officers examined the bodies of 42 persons drowned, treated 80 in- jured and distributed four days’ rations in all of the small towns. They say there is little danger from starvation or epidemics. The American and Syrian colonies of Port au Prince and the municipality are raising a relief fund, which will be added to an appropriation of $100,000 voted by the government. CONDOLES MRS. HARVEY. President Sends Message on Learn- ing of Editor’s Death. SUPERIOR, Wis, August 21 (#)— President Coolidge has sent the follow- 24 W] {ing telegram to Mrs. George B. Harvey, whose hushand died yesterday Dublin, N. H.: “I have just learned with profound sorrow that Col. Harvey passed away,” said the message. “My close acquaint- ance with him for man: years brought home to me his real abilities. His dis- tinguished career as a journalist and as a diplomat will long be remembered by his countrymen. Mrs. Coolidge joins me in sending sincere sympathy to you and to the other members of his family.” at LITHUANIA SEEKS DELAY. WARSAW, August 21 (#).—Lithuania wishes to postpone further conferences with Poland over the frontier and other disputes until after the next meeting of the League of Nations, said a report re- ceived here today from M. Szumlakow- ski, counselor of the foreign office He visited Kovno to deliver to the Lithuanian government the Polish note | suggesting a conference at Koenigsberg, Germany, on August 23, or at Geneva on August 25. 200 persons and left | his COV. SMITH SCORES | 5. 0. P. COMMITTEE | INREPLY TOWHITE Calls Editor’s Charges “Vile, Cowardly, Slanderous and Unfair.” REPUBLICAN PUBLICITY DIRECTOR IS ACCUSED | Nominee Cites Legislative Record | in Defense—Lists His Votes on Many Bills. | Staft Co ALBANY, August!21.—In a state- ment fairly sizzling with indignation, Gov. Alfred E. Smith, Democratic nom- inee for President, today hurled back | at Willlam Allen White, Kansas editor, This record, Mr. White claimed, linked i the charges the Kansan recently made against the governor’s legislative record. “Assemblyman Smith” with the liquor the gambler and organized | interests, vice, at the behest of Tammany. Gov. Smith at the same time charged | the Republican national committee | with complicity in the personal attack | made upon him by Mr. White. | Smith supporters are asserting today | that the governor’s statement has blast- | ed the charges brought against him | by Mr. White, and, inferentially, those | made also by Rev. John Roach Straton | of Calvary Baptist Church, New York, | although no mention is made of Dr.| Straton in the Smith statement “Slanderous,” “vile,” “cowardly,” “un- fair” and “un-American” are a few of the blistering adjectives which Gov. Smith hurled at his attackers. He | handled the Republican national com- | mittee and its publicity director, for- | mer Gov. Henry J. Allen of Kansas, | without gloves. He said: “No one in all the 25 years of my | public life has ever dared to make the | vile suggestions which emanated from Mr. White, with the approval of Henry J. Allen, publicity director of the Re- publican national committee. What | a cowardly course the Republican na- tional committee pursued. Called Slanderous. “It issued a slanderous statement | through its publicity bureau, and then, | after its general publication in the press, attempted to evade responsibility by the childish claims that it had been given out by accident. That is not fair play.” There is every evidence in the state- ment by Gov. Smith that he did not take the White charges lightly. He says that he has spent much time going over the records of his votes on legislative measures referred to by Mr. White in his original statement. The governor makes no attempt to deny.that he cast | vote on these measures. He does explain the votes, however, and his rea- sons for casting them. He admits that he voted against local option bills in the Assembly. He admits also that he voted to give longer hours ul) open ;ll:cmm in cx{mx of the third class an jes of over 5000 in- habitants, - In his defense of his votes on these bills and his votes on the other bills cited by Mr. White, Gov. Smith refers again and again to the fact that the New York Assembly in those days was strongly Republican and that many of the Republican members of the body voted as he did. He clearly holds it unfair that Mr. White should have singled him out as a special henchman of the saloon, the gambler and vice under those circumstances. Fight With Allen. It is no longer a figtht with White now, but a fight with the Republican national committee and its Ppublicity di- rector, former Gov. Allen, The governor in his statement de- clares, however, that he has said the last word he intends to say on the sub- ject. In his concluding paragraph Gov. Smith says: “From now on I shall re- fuse to be drawn into any further dis cussion of these matters.” He says, oo, earlier in his statement: “I am glad to have this matter taken out of the whispering stage and put into the open. Once and for all I shall meet it ni)w, “I regard it as purely political, and when the campaign begins I do not pro- pose to have the issues of that cam- paign belaiged by controversy over irrelevant things, such as the discus- sion of my votes as a legislator some 20 or more years ago.” It is expected by Republicans here, however, that when Mr. White, now in Europe, gets the text of Gov. Smith's reply, he will have something more to say, and that former Gov, Allen is likely to make & reply. Both of the Kansans are old hands at political rows. Calls Record Secure. Gov. Smith points to the fact that the late Rev. Canon John J. Peters, when chairman of the Committee of Fourteen, leading anti-vice society of New York, “repeatedly thanked me for my co-operation with that organiza- ton,” adding that he has many let- | ters in his possession to show this to be a fact. “My record as an oppo- nent of tmmorality is fixed and secure,” says the governor, Particularly and with the vigor for which he is famous does the governor lambast Mr. White for attempting to Jink him up with support of prostitution. “Mr. William Allen White,” he says, “salled for Europe with a happy and contented mind, 1 hope, and I would not disturb it by attempting to describe to him the heavy weight that he lald upon my family when he accused me of being a friend of prostitution. Ap- parently he was ashamed of himself, as (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) spondert | | | ‘Stenographer Whom By the Associsted Press to follow the fortunes of the late Al- {a job | Albert Emanuel & Co., ban ers, last public 10 & kingdom, according to dis- patches from Scutari. The advices state that Sunday is to be & national Geast diy in Albania. » here ! several brought times and although he several A From New York Is Back Seeking Job NEW YORK, August 21.—A Wall Street stenographer who quit her job {tred Lowenstein was hack home again | today—just & stenographer looking for Miss R. Van Name was employed by May, when the Belgian millionaire came He visited the banking offices had secrelaries with him | Lowenstein Took he found himself in need of one more He was pleased with Miss Van Name's work and offered to take her with him to Europe. There followed & short perlod in which she accompanied him about Europe in automoblles, trains, yachts and airplanes It all ended, however, with the death of Lowenstein from an airplane Miss Van Name said she was not a passenger in the Lowenstein plane at | then on will be mapped out SPEAKING Hqfif\ X OoF ROCKVILLE FAIRS, ETC. MY W SHoW Bogyy — BLADENSBURG JAIL DESCRIBED AS "BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA™ Prisoners Herded Together Under “Un- bearable™ Conditions—Filt}\y Water Flt; Conditions rivaling those in the Ol are alleged to exist today in the little or Bladensburg, Md., just across the Distri quently are herded together in the struc! vacy as to race or age, under conditions ‘Twice during the past 10 days the forced to wade around in dirt-laden wal floated into the jail and deposited on t atmosphere within the jail during the unwholesome. When the jail was visited vesterday oners, two white men and the rest color portion of the jail. They protested bit CURTIS COMES BACK FROM KANSAS TRIP Friends Stage Rousing Greet- ing as He Arrives to Prepare Opening Speech. Bringing with him. optimistic reports as to the party outlook on the farm question, Senator Curtis of Kansas, Republican vice presidential nominee, returned to Washington today for a brief stop before setting out tomorrow on a campaign speaking tour. Washington, which has come know Senator Curtis intimately through his long career in Congress, gave him a rousing welcome as he stepped from the train and for fully 30 minutes close personal friends and a host of other admirers crowded about him to shake his hand. Going to his office at the Capitol later in the morning, Senator Curtis said he was ready to start the campaign, with Rocky Point, R. I, as his first speaking place Thursday. His itinerary from by the national committee. Sees No Revolt. In answer to newspaper men, Senator Curtis sald on his trip to Topeka for the notification ceremonies he had seen no evidence of a farm revolt. He pre- dicted Kansas would go Republican by the usual majority and added that re- ports from other States in that section were all favorable, The presence at Unlon Station of a group of Pueblo Indians from New Mexico, in their brilliant native dres gave a colorful touch to the receptic accorded the smiling, rugged Kansan, who himself i a descendant of the Kaw Indian tribe. Accompanied by his sis- Edward E. and Mr. hington att Senator for pictures ~with the orney Curtis posed W Pueblos Outside the station the vice presi- dential nomince accommodated the cameramen once more and then walked the short_distance to his office in the Senate Office Bullding. He will spend part of today preparing the speech he is to deliver in Rhode Island Thursday. Leaves Tomorrow. The candidate will leave Washington tomorrow morning on the Colonial Ex- press for Providence. He will travel in @ parlor car, accompanied only by Mrs. Gann and newspaper men, He will be (Captinued on Page 2, Column 6.) SEE MILLION MONTHLY IN BORDER LIQUOR Make Estimate After Testimony That One Windsor Firm Makes $100,000 for Period. Canadians By the Associated Press. WINDSOR, Ontario, August 21 The lquor trade of exporters operafing along the Detroit River front here i estimated by government authorities at $1,000,000 month ‘Their esfimates are based on_testi- mony at the trial of the Erie Trans- port Co., charged with illegal storage of ltquor, which showed thal company alone had been doing A business of $100,000 a month. The Erle company in only 1 of 40 operating docks along ¢ front. 16 company dock was one of recently on complaint that heavy accumulations of liguor stocks the time of the financler’s death and koew nothing of the clrcumstances. to | ods Cells. ld World dungeons of the Middle Ages ne-room jail maintained by the town of ict line. As many as 20 prisoners fre- ture without the slightest degree of pri- described as “unbearable.” jail has been flooded and the prisoners ter. Water-borne flith of all kinds was he walls and floors, it is alleged. The rainy spells is described as damp and by representatives of The Star 10 pris- red, were crowded together in the front terly against the condition of the jail, one of them holding up his filthy bedding to the bars in protest against lack of sanitation there. County Has No Funds. Despite recent flooding of the jail and admittedly unsatisfactory condi- tions in the structure, there is no rruspecv. of providing better jail facile ties for the town for at least another vear, it was indicated today during a meeting of the Prince Georges Board of County Commissioners at Marlbore, Md. Though the commissioners are aware of conditions at the jail, it is sald, they can do nothing toward remedying the situation because of a lack of funds for the purpose. “The Bladensburg jail situation was discussed by the commissioners some time ago,” one of the board members said today, “but we cannot do anything about it now. The county made an " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) o |PRESIDENT DELAYS | NAMING POLICE JUDGE | Successor to @. H. MacDonald Will | Not Be Considered Until Return to Capital. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star, SUPERIOR, Wis., August’ 21.—Presi- { dent Coolidge will not fill the vacancy | on the Police Court bench of Washing- | ton caused by the recent death of Judge George H. MacDonald until after he | returns to Washington from his vaca- tion. In making this known the President indicated today that he has given no consideration to the matter and will not do so until he gets back to the White House. He was represented as having received several names to be considered in the filling of this post, and that these were properly referred to the De- partment of Justice to investigate and report upon when he returns. ‘The Republican State committee of Washington already has been notified of the President’s intentions regarding the filling of this bench position, and for that reason the committee has withheld any suggestions or recommendations. KNOX FORFEITS BOND IN TRAFFIC CHARGE Philander C. Knox, jr., 38, son of the former Setretary of State, failed to ap- pear in Trafic Court this morning to stand trial for reckless driving, and Judge John P. McMahon ordered his collateral forfeited and an attachment issued for his arrest. A friend informed the court that young Knox was “not feeling well.” Judge McMahon asked for a doctor's certificate, The charge agamst Knox is the re- sult of a collision between his machine and thav of Willlam J. Patterson, a chief quartermaster of the Navy, on Bowen road southeast yesterday. According to Policeman A. J. Gib- bons of the eleventh precinet, Knox's car meeting Patterson, struck the rear of Patterson's machine and then cross- jed the sidewalk and stopped in a ditch. Knox gave Thirty-fourth was $40 C.w. FEAR.S UNHURT. An official version of the attack last Saturday night on the Pledrabola mine, near Ahualulco, State of Jalisco, Mexico, eived today at the State Department, id that Charles W. Fears, superin- tendant of the mine, was captured by the attackers, but escaped unhurt. Fed- eral troops were sent to support defend- ers of the mine enlisted by the Amparo Mining Co. Consul Lowry, at Guadalajara, who sent the report, sald no Americans or B(rllfllh were killed on injured in the attack, his street address His as 2705 collateral heyond the needs of the province were conlrary to law, - Radio l;rngf;m;:i;nte 32 where h: ?I:ed. tgm AUTO PASSENGER SLAYS PHYSIGIAN Slugs Victim’s Father After Calling Pair Out on Sick Call. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, August 21.— Lured from his office in Carrick, a suburb, last night, ostensibly to minister to a sick woman, Dr. Hagry R. Dapper, 30, prominent physician, was shot to death, according to the physician’s father, by a man who egcaped in the doctor’s car. Henry J. Dapper, 55, the father, who accompanied his son and the unidenti- fled stranger on the trip, was slugged acros§ the head with a blackjack. He is in a hospital where his son died early today from a ot wound. Police were mystified by the killing Because of the fact that the young physician had no known enemies, they ‘were at & logs to ascribe a motive. The doetor's widow and his father told police the stranger appeared at home was in the country, several miles from the physician's home. Unable to understand why the caller would ask the aid of a doctor so far from his home, Dr. Dapper asked his| {:ltger to accompany him, police were *“You sit in the front with your son,” the elder Dapper said he was instructed by the stranger as they were about to enter the physician’s automobile. The father said he became suspicious and re-entered the office and obtained a revolver, which, however, was not load- ed. He insisted on sitting in the rear seat. Dr. Dapper drove, and the stranger sat in front with him. Arriving at a secluded spot in the country, the caller said they would go the remainder of the way on foot. As they were about to leave the machine, according to_the father, the stranger shot Dr. Dapper with a revolver equipped with a silencer. The elder Dapper said he grappled | with the man and was slugged across | the head. ‘The father said he regained conscious- ness in time to see the machine being driven away by his assailant. His son was lying mortally wounded in the road beside him. A passing motorist took the pair to a hospital. FASCISTS RIDIC PEACE PACT SIGNING| Roman Paper Compares Kellogg's Trip to Wilson's—Cites U. 8. Navy Bill. By the Assoclated Press. ROME, August 21.—Under the head- ing, “The Great Hypocrisy,” the ex- treme Fascist newspaper Il Tevere to- 1ay ridicules the forthcoming peace pact signing at Paris on August 27. “The arrival of Secretary Kellogg much resembles that of President Wil- | son, a poor prophet abroad,” the news-{ paper says. | | | “Very probably the crowds | which were the protagonists of the| famous Wilsonian intoxication will be | lacking. The crowds learned much during the past 10 years and prefer a good game of foot ball or a good drink- Ing bout outside the walls, * * ** Il Tevere says there is a big Navy bill pending before the United States Senate and then jeers at the pacific sincerity of France, Great Britain and Germany. JUDGE PRAYS IN COURT BEFORE SENTENCING MAN Mattingly, Close to Tears, Asks Di- vine Guidance Before Sending Veteran td Jail, Deeply stirred by the nature of the case before him, Judge Robert E. Mat- tingly today prayed in open court for divine guldance in making a decision He asked that he be allowed a moment “to take counsel” and then bowed his head on his hands and prayed silently for a few moments, The incident occurred at the con- clusion, of the trial of Thomas Quinn, Apartnfent 296, 1620 R street. a war veteran, whom the judge reluctantly sentenced to 180 days in jall for as- sault on 8-year-old Donald” Soper When all the testimony had been taken and both arguments of counsel | LI:\!: been coneluded, the judge sald: () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS.—— 27 Couples Ready To Be Married in Plane Over Airport By the Associated precs. SELINSGROVE, Pa., August 21.— Twenty-seven couples today had an- nounced their willingness to be mar- ried in an airplane Friday after- noon at the dedication of the Zim- merman Afrport, and thereby quali- fy for t" -~ $100 offered by the local aeronautic club and several hun- dred doliars worth of household furnishings. donated by Selinsgrove merchants. J. W. Smith and J. Howard Burns, in charge of the dedication, listed the betrothed in order of their ap- plication and advised them to be on the field with their marriage licenses. A local couple was the first to regis- ter. In the event they should de- cline at the last minute, the names of all other couples present and qualified to be married will be placed in a hat and selection made by a drawing. PISTOL CLUE FAILS INHUMMER DEATH Gun Taken From Prisoner Not Weapon Used to Kill Officer. With their failure to show that the gun taken from Thomas Vance, col- ored, after his arrest by ninth precinct police Saturday was the same weapon used in the slaying Saturday morning of Sergt. Elton B. Hummer, Alexan- dria policeman, officials of the Virginia city were at a standstill today, without & single new clue to aid them in solv- ing the murder. Vance was absolved of any connec- tion with the killing today when Detec- tive John Fowler of headquarters here returned from New York and reported that Maj. Calvin Goddard, firearms expert, had found that Vance’s gun was not the one which fired the bullet taken from Hummer's body. Alexandria police are still holding Carl Crockett, 20-year-old foot ball star, and Graham White. colored, for questioning. Crockett. who was ar- rested in Washington Sunday morning, has not been questioned as yet, police said. Try to Locate Pistol. Police Chief W. W. Campbell said White would be held until efforts to locate a .45-caliber automatic pistol said to have belonged to him have been successful. The police also are seeking a white man, described as about 30 years of age and wearing horn-rimmed spec- tacles, who ran into the Alexandria Hospital a short time after the Hummer shooting and shouted that a colored had been shot. He left without % his identity, and the Alexan- dria au ties want to know why he has not presented himself during the investigation. Police now have as their only clues two bullets taken from Hummer's body. These bullets are of a little-used make, police say, and their only hope now is to find the gun from which the cart- ridges were fired. A new element was injected into the case as police worked on the possibility that the slayer of Hummer is the same man who fatally wounded State Traffic Officer Neville Hatcher at ‘Warrenton several days ago. Frank Ludlow, who saw the slayer of Sergt. Hummer run from the scene of the murder last Saturday morning at 1 o'clock, says he believes the man he saw is Charles Henry Shepherd, the volored man sought for the shooting of Hatcher. Called Same Man. “I have studied the description of Hatcher’s slayer and I am positive he the spot where Hummer's bullet-ridden body was found,” Ludlow said today. “He was a colored man, wearing dark clothes and a light cap, and his size tallies with the description of Shepherd. His coat was especially long. and he wore metal heel plates that clicked loudly as he ran. A gun was clasped close to his right side.” Capt. Leo McKenney, 1646 King street, told a representative of The Star today that the man he saw sneaking around his garage 20 minutes before the shooting is the same one described the assailant of Sergt. Hummer. His description of the man corresponds with that of the slayer of the traffic officer. “I had closed my garage for the night and was preparing to go to bed when 1 heard some one walking around out- side,” he said. “I went to the window and saw he resembled in all details the description given me later of Hummer's slayer. Called Policeman. “He circled my garage five times and then disappeared. I called a special policeman, gave him a description of the man and cautioned him to keep a lookout. Twenty minutes later the officer returned and told me Hummer had been killed. My description of the prowler, he said, tallied with that of the murderer.” The man who killed Hummer also was holding his side as he ran from the scene, and showed a perceptible limp, according to witnesses, and it is considered significant that Hatcher's slayer also had a limp, and was thought to have been wounded in the side by victim. These last two angles are brought out in the “lookout” for the Hatcher slayer, issued in Warrenton, coples of which were received Dby Alexandria police today Both killings also were with a 45« caliber revolver A bullet mark, believed to have been made by the only shot fired from Sergt. Hummer's gun before he fell, was found on a fence about 25 feet from the scene of the shooting today by James F. Fearson, 226 South Alfred street. ‘The bullet apparently had hit the fence a glancing blow, and could not be found. About 500 persons attended funeral services for the murdered policeman sterday at the home of his parents 8068 Duke street. Those in attendance included members of fraternal orders to which Hummer belonged, high city officials and brother officers. Turkey Seeks Balkan Amity. LONDON, August 21 (#.—An Ex- change Telegraph dispatch trom Con- stantinople says that a cabinet council has decided that Turkey will work for the conclusion of a Balkan treaty along is the same man I saw running from | HUNT FOR HASSELL MADE BY ESKIMOS AND DANISH SHIPS Arctic Parties Explore Fjords of Greenland for Lost Plane. AREA NEAR MT. EVANS SCOURED BY SEARCHERS | Trading Boats Alert at Sea and | Natives Watch on Land for Airmen. By the Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark, August 21.—The Danish inspection ship God- thaab, now in Greenland waters, has been instructed by the gove Tnment to begin immediately a search for the missing American airmen Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer. | Eskimos, sweeping along t coast of (}!‘eenllx‘:’ld8 in gvges?::ite;: their kaiaks, or hunting canovies, today were searching for Bert Hassell ang Parker Cramer, missing American flyers Paties of Arctic hunters were ex- ’ ploring the fiords between Cape Fare- well and Holstenborg in the hope that the fiyers may hav where in thm.y lave come down some- TERRAIN _MAY BAR RESCUE. | | Land Between Mount Evans and Suk- kertoppin Wild and Unexplored. S BY PROF. W. H. HOBBS. eader of University of Beyed Michigan Greenland By Wireless to The Star and the New York Times. ! _MOUNT EVANS, Greenland, 21.—If it be true that Hassell m: lg‘;:s: down within the area separating Suk- kertoppin from Mt. Evans, his case is well nigh hopeless. The reglon is quite unexplored and the most inaccessible on the entire Greenland west coast. It has been cntered by Eskimo caribou hunt- ers, who tell me that several long lakes and turbulent rivers extend in east and west lines, barring progress from the north, and the long glacial arm which pushes out from the inland ice on the southern border of the district is just as effective a barrier from that quarter. My own explorations with Fotter and an Eskimo made last week within the region are, so far as I am aware, the first by any white man. I discovered a beautiful lake 30 miles in length, walled in by precipitous mountains at least 3,000 feet in height and probably much higher. It across my routc, and to have pushed beyond we must have had a boat and have taken it over a p"fi,:'m fead [Eskimos their are able to go over the puswn?"ktm: this lake and others beyond it in search of , which in’ mare accessible places they have already exterminated. If Hassell and Cramer have come down in this wild region and escaped from the crash with their lives, there is a pos- sibility of their discovery by ibou hunters, for six Eskimo hunting parties are kuown to be far back in the district. From a peak 2,460 feet high I was able to look out on the ice arm of the southern border, and, as expected, it was so crevassed that no aircraft could land anywhere uj it without crash- ing. This condition also characterizes the great area of the inland ice within a marginal zone at least 40 miles in width. It is not possible that Hassell could have come near the head of this fiord and not be discovered by us. Visibility was especially good on Sunday, and we could look down the flord agamnst a clear sky for 60 miles. Moreover, the keenness of vision of our Eskimo helpers is amazing, and they were ¢n watch with us. Nevertheless, Potter, instead of returning with me from the landing field to spend the evening hours here, did not return till midnight. He is off tonight on a trip to the inland ice, re- turning Wednesday morning. Belknap and Stewart start tomorrow morning for another section beyond the landing feld. Anything like a systematic search is, of course, impossible away from the flord itself because of the nature of the terrain. (Copyright, 1928, by New York Times Co.) U. S. ASKS AID IN SEARCH. Canada, Denmark and Newfoundland Urged to Join Hunt for Hassell's Plane. By the Associated Press. The United States has asked the ald of Canads, Denmark and Newfound- land in an effort to locate the plane, Greater Rockford, last reported off the coast of Labrador on August 19, and has divected the Coast Guard cutter | Marion to look for the plane and its passengers, Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer. __The ald of the three governments was (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) ENGLAND ANSWERS U. S. ON NAVAL PACT Compromise With France Held Straightforward in Every Way by Officials. By the Assoctated Press. LONDON, August 21.—The British government is stated in authoritative quarters to have returned answers to the United States regarding points on the recently announced Franco-British naval compromise on which the Ameri- can Government requested elucidation. What is characterized as the distort- ed significance which has been placed in some xunen on the compromise is strongly deprecated here, it baing em- rhuucnll_v stated that the compromise s perfectly straightforward in every way. That it.can have no ulterior motive is declared obvious from the fact that it 1s not an agreement between Great Britain and France alone and can be- came operative only if the other pow- ers who are members of the naval dis- armament commission also agree. Publication of the terms, it is stated, the lines of Locarno. The decision was veached on the return of Tewfik Rushdi er, let this cup pass from my lips,” and then, very close to tears, prayed before imposing sentence. 1 Bey, Turkish forelgn minister, who has been visiting in Europe. N have been deferred to avoid making them too rigid and to permit a certain elasticity which would be impossible mfiluy are known definitely to the