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LA ] MNARY FARM BILL PLAN TOLD GRANGE Oregon Senator Urges Im- mediate Action in Congress on Agricultural Proposal. Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon, leader of the farm bloc in the Senate, appeared before the convention of the| National Grange today to declare for immediate passage of a farm-relief pro- gram at the forthcoming regular session of Congress. Unlike Senator Borah of Idaho, who yesterday told the Grange masters that it would be inexpedient to rush through a farm program except at a special ses sion, Senator McNary declared. it w. his belief that wow is the time for Con- gress to act if it is to fulfill at last its promises of the last eight years. The farm leader addressed the Grange con- vention behind closed doors, but after- ward he explained that he would press for immediate action on his own pro- gram, which folows broadly along the | lines of the McNary-Haugen bill, v\'i(hj the equalization bill eliminated. i The National Grange also received | another important message affecting | agricultural _conditions today from Aaron W. Watts, recently appointed | director of parcel post, who gave the official assurances of the Post Office | Department that “there is absolutely no disposition on the part of the pres- ent administration to increase parcel | s post rates.” “I want to emphasize that Iacl."!‘ said Mr. Watts, “because of the wide- | spread newspaper reports to the con- trary. | Statement of Watts. 1 “The chief hope of the department | lies in increasing the volume and in-; cidentally the revenue of parcel .post | without proportionately increasiAg the cost of handling and transportation,” he said. “It will be the policy of the Post Office Department to get parcel post business wherever it can be found, employing every available means to that end within the category of strict business ethics. “To those who protfest that the Gov- ernment should not engage in business | in competition with private business | the answer will be that the Post Office Department is already so engaged; that Congress placed the department in direct competition with transportation systems operated for profit; that the department must employ . business methods to make the system self- supporting, and that an aggressive cam- paign for an increased volume of busi- | ness is a legitimate move designed to serve the interests of the public. “This is a new departure, but progress | demands new methods,” Director Watts declared. He said he expects to develop much |. of this.new business from rural sections in increased movement of fancy farm products and asked the National Grange 1o co-operate in this effort. Senator Outspoken. Senator McNary was outspoken in his belief that Cos should waste no time in enacting a farm-rellef pro- gram. / “If this thing is delayed until Spring, any legislation that Congress passes will not into effect until 1929 and that would be too late,” he said. “Of course, if, for political reasons, Con- gress does not get around to it this term, then it must be dealt with at an extra session called for the purpose.” In event of failure to complete farm legislation at the regular session, Mc- Nary said at least a good start could be made no the program, which would expedite matters in a'special session. Realizing the futility of trying to pass an equalization fee measure in the face of administration opposition, McNary is working out his own rlan for agricul- tural relief, which follows broadly the general program laid down by the Na- tional Grange and Secretary of Agri- culture Jardine. Such a program would put into operation machinery for a board to handle the exportable surplus, the debenture plan being regarded as having the best chances for enactment. ‘The report of the committee on trans- portation was before the Grange dele- gates today. Transportation Report. “The entire freight structure must | be investigated,” the report said in deal- ing with railroads, “with the idea of revising it to reflect absolute fairness to agriculture, before any increases in freight rates on the products of agri- culture be granted. Agriculture is not in a position at the present time to stand any increase in freight costs.” Establishment of truck and bus transportation upon highways was de- | clared in the report to be “another | economic problem for regulation” and | should remain under the jurisdiction of | State regulatory bodies. The report also recommended ex- pansion of the air service and contin- ued maintenance and improvement of the merchant marine as an indispens- able service for the marketing of farm products. Leadership Emphasized. Leadership and organization among farmers to help improve the economic status of the industry were stressed as | outstanding needs by two speakers late | vesterday before a joint meeting of the National Grange and the- Association of Land Grant Colleges. Louis J. Taber, National Grange mas- ter, declared that agriculture was in crying need of leadership, and that there ought to be “brain plus brawn” in the farmers’ efforts to help them- selves out of the present agricultural | depression. He cited the Land Grant.| Colleges as being the natural sources of such leadership. “There ought to be an efficient and powerful organization of farmers to =upplement the work of other farm in- stitutions, such as the Department of | Agriculture with its many experimental | stations and _scientific and research | \* department,” he said. Dr. A. ¥. Woods, director of scientific work of the Department of Agriculture, who addressed the convention’s after- noon session as the representative of Secretary Jardine, declared that farm co-operative organizations, when able to incorporate and issue capital stock, are thus able to do business on equal terms with other industries. Calls Organization Essential. “Sound business organization along is essential to successful " he said Jardine, who attended the convention although not making an ad- dress, presented the keys of the Depart- ment of Agriculture to J. L. Hills, president of the Association of Land Grant Colleges, who presided over the joint meeting. Hoover's Message. At the night meeting a letter from Herbert Hoover thanking the Grange for its telegram, sent last week, of con- gratulations on his election to the presidency was read by National Master Taber. The letter, addressed to Taber, follows 1 wish to thank you for your tele- gram conveyeing the resolution of the National Grange. I would be greatly indebted to you if you would transmit to your colleagues my appreciation for their congratulations and good wishes.” R. W. Dunlop, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, will give a dinner tonight at 6:30 o'clock at the Congressional FORMER ROTHSTEIN GUARD 1S SOUGHT Wanted for Questioning Aft-| er His Picture Is Identified by Mrs. Keyes. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 22.— The | police announced today they were | searching for Jack (Legs) Diamond for questioning in connection with the death of Arnold Rothstein, the gambler. He was once a bodyguard of Roth- stein’s. ¥ No charge has been lodged against Diamond. The police said Mrs. Ruth Keyes of Chicago identified Diamond’s picture in the rogue's gallery yesterday as a man she had seen in the Park Central Hotel shortly before the gambler was shot. Once Gang Leader. Diamond was once the leader of a ‘West Side gang. In 1926 he and three others were arrested during a war be- tween rival gangs, during which Albert Levy was shot. Diamond was with a notorious gang- ster, Jack Orgen (Little Augie), when the latter was killed in 1927. Diamond himself was wounded in the gun bat- tle. He was arrested but released be- cause of lack of evidence. He was arrested last February in connection with the fatal shooting of a watchman in Brooklyn during an at- tempted fur robbery, but was again re- leased. Inspector John B. Coughlin an- nounced at police headquarters that Diamond is not being sought as the actual slayer. Mrs. Keyes partly identified the photograph as that of a man she had seen with George McManus, gambler friend of Rothstein, in a room of the Park Central Hotel a few hours before Rothstein was shot there. ‘The police of Detroit, St. Louis and Cleveland—known haunts of the sus- peci—were asked to join in the search. Mrs. Keyes, brought from Chicago as a voluntary witness to aid the baffled New York police, readily identified a photograph of McManus as that of the “Mac” she met by chance on the third floor of the hotel the day Rothstein was shot. The police had previously re- ferred to this man as “Jack.” McManus has not been found by the police. Introduced to Suspect. About four hours before Rothstein was lured into the room occupled by McManus she visited “Mac” there, was introduced to the suspect and had sev- eral drinks, according to her story as told by the police. ‘The man she met in the room with “Mac" is described by police as a pro- fessional gunman and gangster, who was wounded less than a year ago in an un- derworld feud. A second gunman, police say, also was prasent in the room when Rothflflnl was shot. Due to Mrs. Keyes, the police had their first bright day in the investiga-| tion. However, a shadow was cast over it ty Mrs. Ruth B. Pratt, Republican | member of the Board of Aldermen, who | ly was elected to Congress. She Vi a letter to Gov. Smith asking the removal from office of Police Commis- sioaer Warren, citing the Rothstein case as evidence of “the shameful ineffi- ciency of the police and the demoralized condition of the department.” Mrs. Pratt listed 25 murders com- mitted in New York since the first of | the year which she said are unsolved. Hylan Hits Failure. Former Mayor John F. Hylan, who is | being boomed as an independent can- didate for mayor, declared in an address at Brooklyn that failure of the police to aiscover Rothstein’s slayer raised the | question of why big gamblers, which he | said were suppressed during his admin- istration, were permitted to operate. “Unless Rothestein’s slayer is appre- hended,” he says, “the underworld in- terests will grow bolder and bolder in their manipulations through influential channels, and others will meet the same fate that Rothstein met. The time has arrived for honest people to band together and drive from power the un- derworld interests and their political allies.” The Better City Government League is sponsoring Hylan's campaign. James J. Morgan, head of a firm of chain drug stores, is chairman of the league. 1 i A Growing -i;{ly. The population of a muskrat farm has a yearly increase of about 500 per THE EVENING MENDEZ T0 START FLIGHT TOMORROW Colombian Chief Pilot Hopes to Hop Off on 4,600- Mile Trip. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 22.—Lieut. Benjamin Mendez, American-trained chief pilot of the Colombia Air Service, has tentatively set tomorrow as the starting date for a projected 4,600-mile flight from New York to his native capital. ‘Weather permitting, he plans to take off tomorrow morning from the Rock- away Naval Station for Bogota, Co- lombia, in a Curtiss Falcon seaplane. Stops are planned en route at Jack- sonville, Fla.; Havana, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala and Colon, Canal Zone. From Colon he will start on the final 1,250-mile hop to Bogota. Lieut. Mendez, known to Curtiss Field pilots as “Benny, the Gas Boy,” came to this country four years ago to study aviation. He was given a job at which he earned his tuition and a pilot's Ji- cense and then entered the Curtiss Aeroplane factory as a mechanic. While there he bought a war-time “Jenny” plane for $200 and rebuilt it. Sells Ship for $800. “Benny” and his ship were the sub- ject of many jests among the pilots, but when he sold the plane for $800 after fying it 150 hours they changed their minds about him as a fiyer and a mechanic. Learning of his feats, the Colombiaa government commissioned him a lleu- tenant in the air service and through diplomatic channels obtained an ap- intment for him to the Army Air rvice School. He took instruction at Brook and Kelly Fields and then was assigned to Mitchel Field, where he has been }Jreparlng for the flight. A ‘few months ago the Colombian newspaper Mudo Al Dia started a popu- lar subscription to buy him a plane. It raised $25,000. The plane, built at the Curtiss plant at Garden City, has been_christened Ricaurte in honor of the Colombian patriot. Mendez, 28, is the oldest of nine children. He will be accompanied on his trip by John Todhunter, a me- chanic attached to the Curtiss Export Corporation, CAR TRACK PAVING SURVEY ORDERED J. W. Dare Assigned to Report on Condition of Surfacing Near Lines. J. W. Dare, construction engineer of the highway department, has been as signed by Assistant Engineer Commis- sioned Herbert C. Whitehurst to con- duct a survey upon the condition of street paving between and near street car tracks throughout the District. As a result of the survey a list of repairs needed will be drawn up under three heads, emergency jobs, important and minor jobs. ‘The street car companies will be re- quired to make paving repairs in the order named. Capt. Whitehurst satd that a survey, he hoped, would have some bearing on the street car merger negotiations. When the merger plan was up before the Public Utilitles Commission at the last session of Congress, Whitehurst submitted a written objection to one of the features of the plan which would place the responsibility for the upkeep of the paving between and near the tracks on the District Government. Capt. Whitehurst said that damage to the paving of these places was caused by the condition of the tracks. When the companies have to keep the paving in repair. it is to their interest to keep the track in first-class condition in order to save on their repair bills. If the District were to pay for the pav- ing, it would no longer be to their in- terest to keep their track in perfect condition, and the paving bill which would be turned over to the taxpayers would probably treble in a short time. ‘The Public Utilities Commission, how- ever, overrode Whitehurst's objections at the time, and the merger pact now before Congress still calls for the Dis- trict to assume the burden of the pav- ing repairs, $1,050 Jewelry Missing. ‘The police were today asked to scarch cent. These animals are singularly free from disease and their sustenance is naturally provided for in Summer and Winter and there is little difficulty in Country Club to delegates and officers of the National Grange in convention here this week, . raising them. The value of the pelts past decade, for jewelry valued at $1,050 that has either been lost by or stolen from Mrs. Phillip G. Mandell, 2613 Mozart place. ‘The jewelry consisted of two platinum and diamond rings, one value ding ring worth #50. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., | THURSDAY, N 29 OVEMBER 1928. GERMANYAVATS POVERS REPLE Negotiations for Reparations‘ Meet Are Delayed Pending Receipt of Notes. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, November 22.—The German foreign office let it be known today that negotiations for a reparations conference between the allies and this country had | not progressed beyond the stage of diplomatic conversations and informal memorandums. | No replies have been received from the powers to whom on October 30 German representatives abroad present- ed memoranda giving Germany's view as to the make-up of the committee of experts that is to deal with the proposed revision of the Dawes plan. It was stated, however, that both England and France had asked certain special ques- tions, chiefly concerning the powers of the experts in the proposed conference. ‘These questions were presented through conversations with the German Ambas- sadors in London and Paris and were | augmented by written memoranda. ‘The memoranda are now being exam- ined by the German foreign office. It has been reported that each of the powers to whom Germany ad. its communication — France, England, Italy, Belgilum and Japan— were trying to frame identic responses. The Berlin government, however, as- | sumes that each of these powers will reply independently. BELGIUM WILL MAKE SURVEY. BRUSSELS, November 22 (#).—While | Belgium as yet has made no nomination to the proposed international commit- tee of experts on the reparation ques- tion, Emile Francqui, minister of state and noted financial expert, has ac- cepted a governmental mission to make a preliminary survey of questions which will be discussed by that body. A semi-official statement on the sub- ject explains that although the in- terested governments have not yet reached a decision concerning the com- mittee's composition, the cabinet deemed it necessary to entrust an eminent person at once with this preliminary work. e BUILDING HEIGHT CHANGE DEFEATED Zoning Commission Rejects Plea for 20-Foot Increase on Hotel Project. The Zoning Commission today re- fused a petition for an increase in the permitted height of bulldings at the corner of Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue from 90 to 110 feet. The ap- plication had been made in order to permit erection of a new hotel on the site of the present National Hotel. Maj. Carey Brown, speaking for the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, yesterday entered a strong protest against granting the petition on the ground that na change should be made in the zoning of any property on the north side of the avenue during the pendency of the Shipstead bill in Congress to regulate the architecture on the north side of the avenue. The Planning Commission, if the bill is suc- cessful, will endeavor to restrict the architecture of buildings on the north side of the avenue along lines har- monious with those of the Federal buildings to be erected in the Pennsyl- vania avenue-Mall triangle. ‘The two-score residents of the fash- fonable neighborhood of 1601 Hobart street were successful in their protest against changing this address from res- kf;mm to commercial zoning. A change of zoning at 638 North Carolina ave- nue southeast from residential to first commercial, which met strong opposi- tion at the zoning hearing yesterday, also was refused. The commission granted a change in zoing from first to secod commercial of the rear of 1620 First street to per- mit extension of the loading sheds of that address. ‘The commission approved a change in the height limit at 208 Massachu- setts avenue northeast from 60 to 90 feet, but denied a change from residen- tial to commercial use and occupancy. HICKLING ADDRESSES PHYSICIANS’ MEETING 250 Doctors of Virginia, Maryland and District Attend Gath- ering Here. Approximately 250 physicians who gathered at the Raleigh Hotel yesterday to attend the semi-annual meeting and luncheon of the Virginia, Maryland and District of Columbia Medical Society were entertained by the Dixie sisters, Bohanon sisters, Charlotte Luber and George O'Connor. The four former are dancers and the two Jatter are singers. Miss Edith Reed accompanied the dancers and Miss Luber. Prior to the luncheon the physicians heard lectures by Dr. D. Percy Hickling, District alienist; Dr. Lester T. Gage: Dr. Danlel Davis, Dr. James A. Gai non, Dr. Custis Lee Hall and Dr. Wil- liam B, Marbury. Dr. John E. Sansbury of Forestville, Md., is president of the assoclation. Dr. Joseph D, Rogers, corresponding secre- tary, was in charge of arrangements. PREMIER POINCARE o e | Explorers Claim Manchuria Tribes Are Kin to Indians By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, November 22.—Walter Stoetzner and Frithjof Melzer, head of a German scientific expedition exploring in Northern Manchuria, have sent word that they have dis- covered that the Tungus tribes in the region are allied to the North American Indians and do not be- long to the yellow races. The expedition has been in a hitherto unexplored region in the bend of the Amur River for more than a year. It has found the land is so fertile that it may in time become a granary for distant Eu- rope. The explorers compiled a gram- mar of hitherto unknown languages. They also made a valuable collec- tion of rare Shamanist vistinents and other native objects for the Dresden Ethnological Museum. The shamans are medicine men or witch doctors of the tribes of the region. POLIGE SEEK MAN FREED BY CORONER | } Inquest Finds Child’s Death Accidental Before Driver Is Apprehended. Despite the fact that he was struck | by a driver, who has not yet been ap- prehended, a verdict of accidental death | was returned by a coroner’s jury in the case of Robert Pruner, six years old, 2421 Observatory place. The child was fatally injured when struck on Tuesday afternoon by an automobile driven by a colored man. ‘The man became frightened after see- ing that the child had medical atten- tion, and fled, abandoning his car.| Police say that the license tag on the machine were listed to Cornelius Brax- ton, 3701 Massachusetts avenue. The coroner’s verdict names Braxton as the driver, Although the verdict exonerates Braxton of responsibility for the death of the child, he is still soyght by police, as he faces & charge of operating with bad brakes. Two other inquests were scheduled at the morgue today, into the deaths of a man who fell through a skylight, and a colored man, who was electrocuted when a dirt scoop on which he was working came into contact with a live wire, John J. Grady, 35 years old, 35 T street northeast, fell through the sky- light on the third floor of 1614 Four- teenth street, where he was visiting. The man electrocuted was Thomas King, colored, 32 years old, 475 L street southwest. He was killed Tuesday. GEN. SMUTS HITS BRITISH TRADE PACT Declares Union of South Africa ‘Will Not Benefit by New Treaty. By the Associated Press. \ LONDON, November 22.—Gen. Jan Christlan Smuts, former premier of the Union of South Africa, in a speech last night said he feared the trade bonds between the Union and Great Britain had been loosened by the preference clause in the trade treaty recently con- cluded with Germany. The treaty, he declared, was not to the benefit of South Africa, and the Union had shown it did not wish to make use of assistance available in Great Britain. Dispatches from Cape Town told of serever criticism of the treaty at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. The president of the cham- ber sald that while it was recognized that Britain was South Africa’s best customer, under this agreement the South African government was not favoring imperial trade. MICHIGAN PASTOR FREED AFTER TEST OF SANITY By the Associated Press. PONTIAC, Mich., November 22.—Rev. Oren C. Van Loon, Berkeley, Mich., pas- tor, who disappeared last week for the fourth time during his ministerial ca- reer and ‘then reappeared after an ab- sence of four days, was free today after an examination to test his sanity. The examining physicians did not file a de- tailed report. They merely recom- mended release of the pastor, who had been held in jail since he reappeared Sunday at Battle Creek. Each time he has disappeared Rev. Mr. Van Loon has sald upon his return that he had suf- fered a lapse of memory. MRS. HILDA G. VOIGT TO MARY WESTERNER By the Associated Pres: RENO, Nev, November 22.—Mrs. Hilda G. Voigt, who was granted a divorce on October 8 from Edward Voigt, jr. Washington, D. C., banker, has_obtained a license to wed Harry G. Meyer, mining man and proprietor of a buffet in a Reno hotel. The wed- din(k will take place some time this week. Mrs. Voigt sued the parents of her husband for $100,000 for alienation of his affections in the District of Co- lumbia courts, and won the suit, but the verdict was later set aside. Her divorce suit here was not contested. | the general sessions. CODLIDGE GREETS -~ RAILROAD GROUP | 300 Workers Here for Con-! | ference Are Given Welcome | at White House. o noon today President Coolidge at greeted some 300 visitors representing [28 ratiroads of the United States and | Canada at the Sixth International | Younger Men's Railroad Conference, | which opened a three-day session_at | the Mayflower Hotel yesterday. The | meeting is held annually under aus- | plces of the transporation depart | National Council of the v. M. C. A" | | House, the visitors were conducted on a sight-seeing tour of the vicinity. with | stops at Mount Vernon and Arlington | Ce’;.n;wl‘v. . | e conference dinner will be hels | tonight at the Mayflower. R. V. Mase sey, vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is scheduled to deliver the | | [ | Dies in Crash i | | | Following the reception at the White | | PRESTON KUMLER. ~—Underwood Photo. principal address. Others on the pro- gram are George W. Laughlin of the | Brotherhood of 'Locomotive Engineers, | Roy V. Wright, managing editor of | the “Rallway Age” and W. Spencer | Robertson, secretary of the American Locomotive Co. and president of the Y. M. C. A. national council The delegates were occupied this | morning with a series | conferences, at which the counsel of experienced railroad executives was given the younger men in discussing business and social problems. L. L. Lee of Decatur, Ala., as presi- dent of the conference, is presiding at The convention will close tomorrow afternoon foliow- ing a social rally at the Mayflower. TILSON CONFERS WTH PRESDENT |House Leader Believes Tariff Revision Is Chief Need for Extra Session. of divisional After a conference with President Coolidge this morning, House Leader Tilson expressed the opinion that an extra session of Congress probably will be necessary, but that its principal work wonld be to revise the tariff rather than a blanket program of farm relief to | cure the ills of agriculture. . Much of the conference was spent in discussing the recent presidential cam- paign, which resulted in important in- creases in the Republican majority in both House «nd Senate. Mr. Tilson is of the opinion that the short session which is about to open and whose major duty is to pass the appropriation bills for support of all activities of the Government during the fiscal year beginning July 1 next will pass also piecemeal legislation to bet- ter the condition of the farmers. He explained that it is his view that it is not necessary to attempt to correct all of the difficulties which the farmers complain of in one blanket measure, but that relief can be given gradually by passing simpler measures covering remedies on which there is already a union of thought. By way of illustra- tion he pointed out that there was qul'.e. general agreement on the Fess-Tincher bill and on the Curtis-Crisp bill. Mr. Tilson said, however, that the Presi- dent in conference today had not dis- cussed the question of farm relief. Awaiting Hawley’s Return. Mr. Tilson is awaiting the return of Chairman Hawley of the House ways and means committee to talk over with him plans for hearings on a new {ariff bill, If there is to be a special session for revision of the tariff, the ways and means committee should begin hearings romptly at this short session so as to RIVQ the bill in shape for prompt con- sideration in the House when the special session convenes, Mr. Tilson said. The coming short session has a hard task before it, Mr. Tilson says. to hold the appropriation down to the budget figure. He pointed out that recently the House had been holding the appropria- tions under the budget estimates and anticipates a harder struggle this time to prevent excess appropriations. The House has passed at the previous session the cruiser bill on which action has not yet been taken by the Senate, so that in the coming short session Mr. Tilson believes that the House will com- plete its action on this legislation. Boulder Dam Bill. Similarly the House has acted on the Boulder Dam bill, which is still hung up in the Senate, with the result that the House will probably be called upon to complete concurrent action on the| identical measure in case tne Senate | alters the House bill. Mr. Tilson hopes that some disposi- tion may be made in the coming short sesslon of the Muscle Shoals lcgisla- tion, which has for so long consumed & great deal of the time of ihe House. On the opening day of the session, December 3, the program for the House is appointment of committees to notify the President and Senate that the House has assembled and is ready to do business. The House will then adjourn out of respect for several de- ceased members. On Tuesday the an- nual message of the President will be read. » On Wednesday the annual budget message, carrying recommenda- tions for appropriations for all activi- ties of the Government during the coming fiscal year, will be presented. Thus far no suggestion has been made of a joint session of Senate and House, as would be the case if the President intended to personally deliver his annual message to Congress. D HIS NEW FRENCH CABINET Pholo, made at the French ministry of finance in Parls, shows, left to right: F. Loucher, labor; M. Maginot, colonies; - at $750 | M. Marruad, education; M. Barthou, justice; M. Oberkirch, u has bounded upward enormously in the !and the sther $250, and a platinum wed- " Poincare, president of council; M. Tardieu, interior; M. Briani, N 4?.4- T ~_corttary for labor; M. Laurent-Eynac, aeronautics; M. £™%Tsign aflairs; M. Painleve, war; Georges Leygues, marine. i room by a procession of men, following ~—P. & A. Photo, PRESTON KUMLER 1 MLLED N CRASH |State Depariment Official Dies After Car Spins | Around in Collision. Injured in an automobile collision at Twenty-eighth and M streets, where the other machine continued for about 50 feet after striking his car and knocked a hole in a brick wall, Preston Kumler, 50 years old, a State Department offi- city, died last night, three hours after the accident, at Georgetown Hospital. His skull was fractured. J. A. Royston, 40 years old, of Oak- land, Va., the driver of the other car, told police he was proceeding at a moderate rate of speed, but his foot slipped off his brake and onto the accelerator as he attempted to slow down to permit Kumler to pass. Royston is being held at the seventh precinct police station pending a coroner’s inquest to be held tomorrow morning at 11:30 o’clock at the District Morgue. No bond has been set. Thrown From Auto. Kumler was thrown from his auto- mobile, his head striking the curb. He {never regained consciousness. His car { was struck on the rear left fender and turned completely around by the im- pact. He was drivig from the Metropolitan Club,’ Seventeenth and H streets, to cial and prominent clubman of this | OMAHA AX MURDER SUSPECT 1S HELD Colored Man Captured in Chicago by Fireman Whose Home He Robbed. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 22—A col- ored hatchet-man, beaten down by his own hand ax, was held here today as a suspect in the Omaha, Nebr, | “hatchet” slayings. The prisoner, confined to the Bride- iWell Hospital under close guard, said he was Harry Gonsha, 29 years old. He was arrested early yesterday after he had “robbed the home of Alfred Samuelson, city fireman. His descrip- tion, even to his clothing, fitted that of the man sought for the series of Omaha attacks. Gonsha carried a hatchet in his belt when he entered the Samuelson home. Fleeing, he was overtaken by Samuel- son, who wrested the hand ax from the negro’s hand and struck him sev- eral times, knocking him unconsclous. | _After questioning Gonsha, Police | Capt. James Doherty telegraphed | Omaha police: “I belive your ax man | is under arrest here.” Hazy About Movements. Gonsha. who was not seriously in- jured when his hatchet was turned upon him by Samuelson, was somewhat | hazy concerning his movements of the past week, Capt. Doherty said. “Sure, I've been in Omaha,” he said. in reply to a question, then added, “but not since about last June.” He said he came to Chicago from Milwaukee. “I think it was yesterday, I don't remember exactly.” he added. “Where did you get the ax?" the captain asked, and the answer was: “I got it next door, in a basement.” (The theft of a hand ax from some place near his victim's home was an | act of the Omaha axman-in each of | his_three attacks.) Gonsha was asked how long he had been in Milwaukee before coming herc and he said, “Four days, maybe two; 1 don't remember.” He was not sure, police said, where he had been before that, but thought it was St. Paul, Minn. Samuelson told ‘police he was awak- ened early yesterday to see the negro standing over him, hatchet in hand. ‘The negro demanded money, and Sam- uelson gave him all that he had in the house, about $25. After the robber had left, Samuelson dressed and went after him, overtaking him a short dis- tance down the street. ALL-NIGHT VIGIL MAINTAINED. [} b OMAHA, Nebr. November 22—Al- though Omaha’s hatchet slayer did not swing his weapon yesterday morning, the home of Mrs. Medill McCormick, recently elected member of the House of Representatives from Chicago, where he was to have been a guest at dinner. Every effort of four physicians at Georgetown Hospital to save his life proved unsuccessful and he died at 10:15 o'clock. The physicians were Dr. William A. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, who with Mrs. | White was to have been a guest at Mrs. McCormick’s home; Dr. William F. Burke of the hospital staff, Dr. Howard Strine and Dr. Harry H. Kerr. There were three eye-witnesses to the accident and their accounts con- flict. One said Kumler was going at @ high rate of speed. Another told police he was proceeding south on ‘Twenty-eighth street, while the others say he was driving north. The third witness did not notice his speed. Crashed Into Wall. The physical circumstances together with Royston’s story indicate that Kumber was proceeding north. He had just turned into Twenty-eighth street from Pennsylvania avenue which intersects M street about 50 yards further west. Royston was going east on M street. His car struck Kumler's machine as it had almost cleared the | intersection and spun it completely around. Then, Royston says, he lost control and crashed into the wall of the Poto- mac Tire Shop on the northeast corner of the intersection. In the police report of the accident, written by Policeman M. F. Collins of the seventh precinct, the collision is said to have been caused by careless- ness on the part of Kumler. Policeman Clarence Morgan of the same precinct, however, who arrived on the scene be- fore Collins, held a different view and said Kumler appeared to be free from blame since he clearly had the right of way and could not have reached a great speed as he had just made the turn from Pennsylvania avenue into Twenty-eighth street. Dr. White and Mrs. McCormick were among the first persons notified. They immediately went to the hospital. Served in Army. Kumler was unmarried and had no near relatives and Mrs. McCormick, Ed- close friend of Kumler, and William Hard, writer, arranged for the funeral services, which will be held at Mr. Bur- ling’s home Rock Creek drive and Benton road, at 4:30 o'clock tomorrow after- noon. Interment will be in Mr. Kum- ler's birthplace, Evansville, Ind. Kumler was educated at Yale and Harvard Universities. He was gradu- ated from Yale in 1900 and from the Harvard Law School in 1903. He began the practice of law in Chi- cago. For 15 years he lived there and was the partner of Mr. Burling, a for- States Shipping Board. During the World War he served in this country and France, first as a cap- tain of Infantry and later as a major. At the close of the war he became & member of the Hoover relief expedi- tion to Russia. As a result of familiar- ity with that country he gained his appointment in the State Department, where he was in charge of the investi- gation of Russian Communistic activ- ities and proaganda in the United States. NEWMAN IS APPOINTED Rover Names Washingtonian to| Fill Vacancy in Office—Delays Picking Bruce's Successor. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover today announced the appointmént of Hobart Newman, 25 years old. 2600 Tilden street, as an assistant United States attorney to fill a vacancy that has existed in the office several months. The prosecutor declared he has not reached a decision about filling the vacancy caused by the promotion of Joseph Bruce to succeed Ralph Given as_chlef prosecutor at Police Court. . Newnian is a native of Washington, being a son of Enos S. Newman, a law graduate and real estate agent, with ward B. Burling, a local attorney and |2 mer general counsel of the United|; ASSISTANT U. S. ATTORNEY | - as he had for three previous mornings, bringing death to three, seriously wounding another and injuring a fifth, police and citizens maintained another all-night vigil. The only development in tracing the colored man, hunted as perpetrator of the three crimes in as many days, was the report that a man, hatchet in hand, attempted to stop an automobile driven by Frank Spiker in the northern part of the city last night. Police Are Called. Spiker sped by the man and called police. A posse was organized and o search that lasted far into the night failed to locate the man or reveal any clues as to his whereabouts. The man threw his hatchet at the car, but Spiker was unharmed. Mrs. L. T. Hankins also reported to police that a man who somewhat re- sembled the slayer appeared at her door a few hours after he had freed Mrs. Harold Stribling Tuesday morning, one of his latest victims, and refused to leave until she produced a gun. After he fled, a small ax, believed to have been taken from the wood-shed on her place, was found leaning near the kitch- en door where he had been standing. Stribling, husband of the woman the killer had abducted from their home and held captive from three hours, after slashing Stribling with a hatchet, is im- proving at a hospital where he under- went an operation yesterday to relieve pressure on his brain, caused by four fractures from the hatchet. Funeral service arrangements are going forward for the three other vie- tims of the slayer's hatchet. Mrs. Waldo Resso and her sister, killed in their beds Monday morning, will be buried tomorrow at Weeping Water, Nebr. The funeral date of Joseph Blackman, 75, drayman, killed Sunday morning, remains indefinite. Rewards totaling $1,175 have been posted for the killer's arrest. BOWIE ENTRIES TOMORROW. RACE_Purse, $1,300; maiden 3- 7 furlongs. 3 { FIRST year-olds; A Legend . . ‘Transit a Bag Piper o ¢ Matin's Mini'ter a Anastasia | Hope Hampton .. King's Own _ Also_eligible— cErin Queen b Woodburn . & Salubria le. Sage Stable and Goode~ stone Stable_entry. b Nevada Stock Farm entry. ¢ Audley Farm entry. SECOND RACE-Pu 2-year-olds; 6 furlon; Miss Onine Elfrieda G. Sun Meta ' Also_eligibi athleen E. $1,300; clsiming; gling Colonel's Da Emplette THIRD RACE—Purse, $1,300; maidens; ages; 1% miles. Uncle Martin . Cottage Boy Rule Brittani *Gold Dust - +Pondy . +Gold Stat “Discovered Enforcement « Partner .. *Jenny Lind a Meown a Samuel Ross entry. FOURTH RACE—Purse. $1.300; claiming 3.year-olds and up: 6 furlon *Mordine Claptrap Prompter Also eligibie— ur Mash . & Rundale Genius Son of John b Hildreth . & Bramoiau . sican EEETETS Cor: — scot Stable bW. M. Moore entrs. ¢ H. G. Bedwell-E. R FIFTH RACE—Purse, $2.000: the Meadows Handicap; fillies and mar=s; all ages; 1 miles. Altitnde & Sistarshiy Maxiva . a Audley Farm entry. SIXTH RACE- Purse. $1.3007 clalming: 3- vear-olds and up; 1's miles. *Omar’s Do Brahman Morehouse entrs. Archduche: uble. . sl whom he has been associated for the Eut three years The new assistant nited States attorney attended public schools, Emerson Institute, Friends Select School and George Washington University, but took his law degrees was recently admitted to the bar. 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