Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1929, Page 1

WEAT. (U. 8. Weather HER. Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight; minimum tem- perature about 27 degrees; tomorrow partly cloudy, not quite so cold. tures: Highest, 47, at 2 p.m. yes! y; lowest, 3. 0 a.m. today. 1, at 6 Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 24 and 25 No. 30,972. post office, Entered as second class matte Washington, D.C he Fp WASHINGTON, ) k0, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION SATURDAY, NAVY ARNS PARLEY APPROVAL BY L., AND JAPAN SEEN English Election May Delay Talk of Early Conference for Some Months. DISCUSSION IS STIRRED BY HOWARD INTERVIEW Statement by Sir Esme Without Official Sanction Considered Unlikely in Extreme. ‘The United States ana Japan will both' approve an early conference on further naval limitation, it was indi- eated today, if a movement for such a conference is initiated by Great Britain. The interview given yesterday by Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador io the United States, in which he said $here was reason now to believe that further effort would be made before long to reach an agreement between | the principal naval powers of the world | for naval limitation, has given an im-; imediate impetus to the discussion in| &iis country of the possibility of such a | eonference. Just_how far the statement of Sir | Esme Howard is to be regarded as a; pronouncement of his governgent is not yet quite clear. Certainl has been so far no formal representa- tions made by the British government to the Government of the United States W regard to this matter, it was said today. The American Government is making no comment upon the matter. Rather it is occupying a position of watchful waiting. That the British Ambassador would | give such an interview, however, with- | cut the xnowledge his government was reparing to take some such step look- tation is considered unlikely in the extreme. Sir Esme Howard pointed out, how- \ever, that the English election, which is | ~ tpone any discussion of this matter ?:rs some months longer. It is under- Great Britain has a real fight on its hands. However, if it is successful, the the proposal that something be done at an c’;rly date about further naval lim- ower, it is understood that it will be clined to move in a similar directon. In some quarters in this country to be lieve that the suggestion now put for- move for naval 18 intended mewhat for home consumption. with election . The Labor party, which is attacking fie Conservative government, is promis- g 8 the matter of naval expenditures. Up to New Administration. buents, will have to deal with any pro- sal advanced for naval limitation. The cumstances would be inclined to proceed cautiously in the matter now advanced s every reason to believe that the Inited States would look with favor 1 ‘The Washington Conference of 1921- | 1922, which set a limitation for thel s to have its sequel in any event in 1931. when tlfe powers will determine be continued in effect or is to be modi- Bed in any particular. r, recently suggested that it might well to advance the date of the con- It is thought that the British govern- iment will propose a preliminary confer- phases of the agreement reached at the Washington conference in 1921 come up ships and their tonnage and armament were limited at the 1921 meeting. The g toward a conference on naval limi- Election May Postpone Talk. take place early this Summer, may stood that the present government in indications are it will be committed to ftation.” If the opposition comes into deed, there has been an inclination ward that the British ernment will bearing on the the British taxpavers a reduction The Hoover administration, at ail resent administration under such eir- By the British Ambassador. But there on a proposal for a naval conference. rincipal naval powers on capital ships, whether the present naval treaty is to Baron Tanaka, Japanese foreign min- { ference set for 1931. tnce to prepare for the 1931 parley when for review. The number of capital tonnage of cruisers was also limited to 0,000 tons each and their maximum | pj ‘mament was limited to an 8-inch gun, but no restriction was placed on the number of cruisers to be built by each nation. It is believed that at the next oon-| ference a determined effort will be made %o limit auxiliary ships and to arrive at| # different method of comparing fleet pirength other than by tonnage figures Bnd gun caliber. Willing to Advance Date. Tt was considered significant that the Bnited States in addition to outlining its Rttitude made it known that it was will- ing to advance the date of the 1931 con- &ronce in case 8 majority of the powers at ratified that pact favor such action. Sir Esme explained that his govern- ment had not indicated its attitude heretofore because the bill authorizing 15 cruisers gnd one aircraft carrier was ending before Congress. He declared hat now that this bill had become a law that therc was reason to believe “a further effort before long will be made to reach an agreewient between the principal nival powers offthe world for the limitation of naval armaments.” He called attention to the favorable attitude of the United States in the past toward such a conference and mid that the League of Nations made it mandatory on league members to teke further steps toward armament limitation, and declared there appeared & much better prespect of success than at the Geneva Conference in 1927, which ended in failure. Hugh Gibson, American Ambassador to Belgium and the United States dele- gate to the unsuccessful three-power naval parley at Geneva in 1927, is now on his way to the United States to discuss with the Washington Govern- ment its attitude in the preparatory disarmament conference which opens in Geneva on April 15. Members of the Senate foreign re- lations committee expressed their inter- est in the statement made by Sir Esme Howard. Chairman Borah, of that com- mittee withheld comment. It is under- #iood that he still feels that there must be a determination of the question of the freedom of the seas and the treai- ment accorded neutrals during the in- ternational conflicts before there can be any real advance made. He spon- sored the provision in the cruiser bill which has recently become iaw, looking to a conference on this matter. Senator Swanson of Virginia, rank- ing Democratic member of the foreign Telations committee, gave the proposal jor a further naval conference his ap- 'roval. It is his belief that there must {\F nite understanding between ued on Page 2, Column 6. MELVILLE E. SPONE. MELVILLE E. STONE P FOUNDER, DIES |Noted American Journalist Passes Away in New York at 80 Years. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 16.—Melville E. Stone, for 28 years general manager ly there | of the Associated Press and for half a | century an outstanding figure in jour- { nalism, died last night at his home, 120 East Seventy-fifth street. In his eighty-first year, he had been {in failing health for four months. { Death came quietly at 8:50 p.m. With bhim were his wife, daughter and a brother. The cause of death was arterio-sclerosis. In 1921 Mr. Stone retired as general, manager of the Associated Pres because of age and became counselor and secretary. He served as ‘counselor till his death. Career Began Early. His journalistic career, which began when he was- 20 years old, spanned one of the most vital epochs -in news gathering- and distribution and was closely identified with it. The son of a Methodist circuit rider, he was suc- cessively manufacturer, newspaper pub- lisher and banker, till at the age of 45 he began his life work in the direc- tion of unbiased and accurate co-op- erative news gathering and distribu- tion. Tributes to Mr. Stone were paid after his death by persons prominent in va- rious fields of activity. There were Telerences to him as “a true patriot.” His contribution to journalism was de- scribed as “one of ihe greatest monu- ments an international figure has ever had.”> Adalph S. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times and one of the direc- tors of the Associated Press, said that Mr. Stone, “possessing the business qualifications of a Gary, a field of an Armour, accepted an opportunity for service to his fellow man and in old age had reason to feel that he had been fully compensated for the fortunes he sacrificed.” “I have lived from the lightning rod to the radio,” Mr. Stone said last year, “and I have seen electricity change the whole business of news gathering.” Follows A. P. Activities. In retirement he kept in close touch | with the activities of the Associ Press, and he was frequently consulted for his advice. “I am an old man,” he said at the annual meeting of the members in 1925. “It is not at all unlikely that this is the last time I shall have an opportu- nity to talk to you. | “I regard the Associated Press as a public duty and every public duty is a privilege. If it were not so I should never have been with you. “Incidentally, the Assoclated Press is an opportunity for you to make money. But if money-getting and pub- lic service may be joined hand in hand as I think they have been in this in- stitution, then you have been doubly t. est. “This is a co-operative organization, the greatest in the world, and esprit de corps Is essential to success. Against great odds and by the exercise of infinite patience, we have builded a great and most useful institution—one of incaiculable ‘value, in my belief, to the American theory of = government. And I hope no one will challenge my firm conviction that our American theory of government is far and away the best ever devised by the sons of men, not perfect, I grant you, but the best existent.” Numbered Prominent Friends. In his library were autographed photographs of the great figures of the world's news from the Civil War, across more than half a century to the recon- struction period after the World War— | (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) SCIENTISTS START TRIP. Englishmen Going to Malaya to Study Eclipe of Sun May 9. LONDON, February 16 (#).—One of the most important scientific expeditions ever organized in Great Britain will leave today on a 7,500-mile journey to Malaya to make special observations of the eclipse of the sun on May 9. It consists of astronomers from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich and from Cambridge University who will attempt to make a thorough astro- relativity. Efforts will be made to ob- tain, photographically, accurate meas- urements of the apparent displacement of stars which is to be noticed during an eclipse. “The Ragged princ ESS“ THE GRIPPING NEW SERIAL By Edgar Wallace BEGINS ON PAGE 7 OF Today’s Star nomical test of the Einstein theory of | ida. DETROIT GUNMEN ARE IDENTIFIED AS MASSACRE SPIES Pictures of 3 Recognized as Men Who Rented Room Near Killing Scene. LAW-ENFORCING UNITS OF CHICAGO ATTACKED Swanson Issues Sweeping Orders. Police Set Out to Make City Bone Dry. By the Associated Press. Prohibition Commissioner Doran said today that the statement made in Chicago yesterday by Fred D. Silloway, deputy prohibition admin- istrator, blaming the police for the killing of seven members of the Moran gang was unauthorized and that prohibition headquarters has no evidence to show that it is true. Doran said he would investigate Sil- loway's charge and take whatever action he found warranted. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 16.— Three “purple” gangsters of Detroit today were thrice identified through photo- graphs as members of the gun gang hunted for the slaying of seven .per- sons here Thursday. e They were the spies, pojicé say, the “spotters”; the advance fnen for mur- der. They were planted in advance to observe the mem marked for death, note their hofirs of gathering, so that the actus killers would know exactly when ‘and how to strike. _/Two women and a man living across from the garage where the gang mas- sacre took place made the identifica- tion. From a score of photographs they picked three which they said were of men who had rented rooms overlooking the garage—rooms which they occupied during a period of days ;.‘ln‘:medmuly preceding the assassina- ns. Harry and Phil Keywell, brothers, and Eddie Fletcher were the three whose pictures were identified. Say Trail Growing Hot. Following the identifications, police announced that the trail of Chicago’s bloodiest gang murder was growing hot and that important arrests were near. But even the prospect of early and defi- nite police action was overshadowed by several sensational aftermaths of crime. * For one thing, George (Bugs) Moran was found, not by authorities. but by newspaper men. The seven who were slain were Moran mobsmen. For another, a flery shaft of censure and warning was shot by State’s Attor- ney John A. Swanson at the law en- forcement agencies of Chicago and Cook County. ‘The State's attorney called Police Commissioner Russell, other high police officials, sheriff’s officers and county police to his office, and issued this fiat: “Enforce the gambling law and the laws against vice. “Obey these orders or you'll go to prison.” Swanson told them that their depart- ments were to blame for the gang massacre. ‘Those murders, he said, and ted | the long list of unsolved ones that pre- ceded it were committed for just one reason, and that reason, he told them, was the easy money which enforcement lngetncles had permitted gangsters to col- ect. “It is easier,” said Swanson, who was elected last November on a drive-out~ crime platform, “to put a gullty police- man into prison than to put a guilty gangster there. If you have any douhts, T'll settle them for you.” bl Swift Action Follows. 2t was the strongest declaration from one enforcement agency to another that has been heard in Chicago in a long time. It was followed by swift action. The police set out to make Chicago bone dry for the first time since prohibition. Shortly after midnight a sweeping order went forth from Commissioner Russell’s office. All police captains were instructed to “close and keep closed all gambling houses, vice resorts, soft drink parlors, speakeasies, beer flats and an; place where alcohol is handled.” Frank J. Loesch, president of the Chicago Crime Commission, ~€rusader against politico-criminals and first as- sistant State’s attorney, dropped blame for the Moran mob massacre on the City Hall doorstep. The licensing of 7,000 soft drink-parlors in Chicago, he said, has the approval of city officials “who knew that the applicants were men who would sell liquor.” The Loesch statement paralleled the comment of his chief to police officers. ‘The State’s attorney had said that “there is no such thing as a soft-drink parlor.” Commissioner Russell told Swanson that the order would be obeyed; that the “parlors” would be raided “regard- less of what the courts do about war- rants and regardless of the city licenses. If this order is carried out literally, Swanson sald, Chicago will be bone dry for the first time since enactment of the prohibition law. Moran Blames Capone Gang. George (Bugs) Moran, who left a hospital only a few days ago after an attack of influenza, blamed the murder of his seven associates on the Al Capone gang. Capone himself, the outstanding figure in Chicago gangland, is in Flor- | “There is only one gang that kills like that—one gang that would line up seven men against a wall and then shoot them down through the back,” Moran was quoted by the Herald and Examiner as saying, “and that is the Al Capone gang.” “If there were any policemen in the shooting,” Moran added, “they were Cicero policemen.” Cicero is Capone’s place of residence. The allusion to policemen was in connection with eye- witness stories that two of the slayers wore police uniforms and that the escape was made in a police squad car. The theory of Frederick D. Silloway, (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Ship Picks Up SOS. NEW YORK, February 16 (#).—The steamship President Harding wirelessed today that she had picked up an§ O 8 call from the American freighter Padnsay and was going to her assist- ance in latitude 41:30 north and longitude 49:50 west, | totaled more than $200,000, most of | .'// MODERN VERSION OF AN OLD PAINTING. FEBRUARY 16, ening Star. 1929—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. service. /. ot The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated " Press news o "Yutmhy's Circulation, 109,148 (#) Means Associated Press. —— WO CENTS. SALETF OFICES N TEUASCHARGED “Enormous Amount” Col- | lected Since 1921 by State G. 0. P., Wurzbach Says. By the Associated Press. Representative Wurzbach, only Re- publican member of Congress from Texas, told the Senate patronage com- mittee today that since 1921 an “enor- mous amount” of money had been collected by the Texas Republican organization in return for Federal appointments. He declared that from May, 1921, when the Dallas headquarters were opened, to Jariuary 1, 1929, promissory notes made payable to the organization controlled by R. B. Creager, Republican national committeeman for Texas, hich was mot given voluntarily. “If this money had been paid in cash,” Wurzbach said, “these contribu- tions might have been voluntary, but the large proportion of promissory notes shows that they were not voluntary, because men do not usually go under a legal obligation to make donations of this sort.” The notes, he said, were made by postmasters, United States marshals and customs colectors, all, or nearly all, of whom were Republicans. Terms of Office Expiring. He declared that from May, 1921, to January 1, 1922, the notes totaled $66,000. This, he said, was because terms of office were expiring and new notes were being asked by the organi- zation. “Just when the pie counter opened up?” Chairman Brookhart asked. “Yes,” Wurzbach answered, “the plums had just begun to fall.” This was soon after the inauguration of President Harding. After January 1, 1922, Wurzbach said that the contributions fell off, but that they rose again in 1925. 2 “I am looking for another rise this year,” he added. Brookhart said that his committee had found 350 notes, and that the names of the signers had been sent.fo the Post Office Department for identifi- cation. The department replied that 242 were postmasters or tal em- ployes. - Of the 88 unidentified by the de- partment, “‘Wurzl identified nine, in- cluding Henry Zwelfel as Federal dis- trict attorney at'Fort Worth, 8. L. Gross as the marshal at Dallas and R. Humpl as collector of customs at Galveston. Tells of Complaints. Wurzbach said he had received many complaints about the situation in his State, among them a letter from W. E. ‘Talbot, former director of the Repub- lican organization, to J. M. Parker of Fastland County, which, Wurzbach said, corroborated his testimony that con- tributions were involuntary. Leonard Withington, the present direc- tor, has told the committee that con- tributions were voluntary. Wurzbach entered a general denial of charges that he had demanded contri- butions to aid his campaigns, in which he said he was opposed by the “Demo- cratic and Creager machines.” FAVORITISM CHARGED. Commissioners’ Inaugural Parade Regulations Are Attacked. While the privileged resolution authorizing the quartering of troops in public buildings of the District during the inaugural period was under discus- sion in the House today, Representative Lozier of Missouri, said that the regula- tions promulgated by District officials are in abuse and disregard of public rights. Mr. Lozier charged that the District Commissioners, in attempting to exercise control over advantageous positions along the line of the inaugural rade, are acting in favor of persons olding concessions. Privae 1ife of the Prince of Wales An intimate biography 1l | | | | | in 15 chapters begins in The Sunday Star TOMORROW W, | House. Food Running Low In Town Where 385 MenAreSnowbound Two Weeks’ Isolation of Colorado Miners Brings Telephone Call for Aid. By the Associated Press. DURANGO, Colo., February 16.—Cut off from the world by snowslides for two weeks, 385 miners at the Sunny- side Mine and Mill north of the iso- lated town of Silverton, near here, today had only enough food to last three or four days. By telephone, their only means of communication with the outside, the miners sent word last night that their provisions were low. A supply of meat, butter and eggs would be exhausted in a few days, they said. Efforts to move mail and provisions, to Silverton and Eureka, another lated town, on a mule pack traifi have falled. Great snow slide iween ®il- vm and Durango jifive buried the ‘tracks under snow that in some places rea depth of 200 feet. An army of lers has been at work 10 days gutting through the blockade and it<was estimated that it would take #hat much longer to get through. snow shoe runners have been given & contract to attempt to carry ‘mail into the snowbound settlement. IHLMAN PREDICTS MERGER PASSAGE , Probable strict Commit- e Head Says. Certain in Ho in Senate A Atter a legislative struggle for more than 12 years, the street rallway merger resolution will almost certainly pass the House and probably pass in the Senate, Chairman Zihiman of the House Dis- trict committee said today after con- ferences with House leaders. He expects to get a special rule giv- ing the merger resolution privileged status for early consideration in the He has been advised that nego- tiations are in progress with the likeli- hood that the identical resolution will be passed in the Senate the close of the short session. Mr. Zihlman was instructed by the District committee in reporting the bill yesterday to confer with the House leaders for special action to failitate the passage of this measure. WOMAN ATTEMPTS DEATH IN FURNACE Evanston, IIl, Case Recalls Self- Immolation Case of Elfrieda Knaak Last October. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 16.—Miss Helen Friedrich, 22, was severely burned, though not fatally, in the furnace of her home at Evanston yesterday. Much WINDOW SMASHED, - S41075 GEMS TAKEN |Boys Sleep Peacefslly Above | £ f Store While Robbers Are at Work. Breaking through a barred shed #in-, | dow in the rear of the Herman an Jewelry Co., 706 H street ,fi‘ffhmz. early today, robbers smasHed a large plate-glass window, pried off a lock.on |an iron door and eseaped with jewel vaiued at $4,075.” R Detective HoWward Ogle,Héadquarters detective, who ds investigating the case, said that €l Tobbers smashed their | way, the store two boys, whose les are unknown to the police, slept RETURN TO CAPITAL DURING NEXT WEEK Will Come to Washington Voluntarily, Officials Are Told. HER PRESENCE IS VITAL AT BURLINGAME TRIAL Reports That Hearing Will Be De- ferred Until After Blanton Leaves Congress Denied. Mrs. Helen F. Blalock, the missing Seventh street palmist, whose sensa- tional charges against Capt. Guy E. Burlingame of the second police pre- cinet led to his suspension at his own request, will return to Washington vol- untarily within the next week, accord- ing to information received today by officials who are to prosecute the case. The absence of Mrs. Blalock is the only reason for the delay in bringing Capt. Burlingame to trial, for without her testimony, it was pointed out, it would be difficult to attempt to prove many of the charges contained in the affidavit which she gave Representative Blanton at his home in Abilene, Tex. Corporation Counsel William W. Bride, who has been instructed by the Commissioners to draw the charges on which Burlingame is to be tried, de- clared today that even with the infor- ‘mation furnished by the Department of Justice, which is investigating the case, he is still unable to proceed with his work. The reports from the De- partment of Justice, lte said, contained of ‘asdistance to him in framing the | charges. ‘There have been reports that the trial would be deferred until after March 4, when Blanton will no longer be -a member of Congress, but these were denied emphatically by District officials. Mr. Bride said just as. soon as Mrs. Blalock appears and is ques- -tioned he would proceed to draw the charges. If she comes back to Wash- ington as expected within a week, he said, Burlingame's trial could be set long before March 4. pointed out, can be ordered to trial within 48 hours after being presented with a copy of the charges, but he per- sonally is in favor of allowing the officer more time to prepare his defense. The scheduled executive session of acefully in a room above. The boys discovered the thefts this morning whe: they left for work. Several nen' n: Diamonds scattered about the floor of the shop advanced the theory that the robbers had been frightened away be- fore completing their work. Two show cases containing valuable jewelry re- mained untouched to strengthen this theory. Last night, Detective Ogle said, Mrs. Korman had requested her husband to lock the jewelry in a safe, but he had sald that the shop was inaccessible. His contention, Detective Ogle says, is nearly correct, as the place is barred | from front to rear with strong iron bars. | The detective says the place could not have been entered without the aid of the crowbar and wrench found by police investigating the case this morning. W. R. Enyeart, fingerprint expert at headquarters, made an examination this morning for signs of fingerprints, but was unable to find anything. The loot consists of 18 diamond rings, valued at $600; six diamond dinner rings, valued at $700: 10 Swiss wrist watches, valued at $200; two, valued at $150, and 240 large emblem rings, valued at $2,400. The two boys, who were sleeping in the building, reported to police that at the time of the rob- | bery two overcoats, valued at $25, were | stolen from their rooms. MISS MORROW ON TRIP. Fiancee Visits Cuernavaca, Where Lindy First Paid Her Court. MEXICO CITY. February 16 (#).— Miss Anne Morrow ‘was on a week end vacation today at Cuernavaca, where Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, her fiance, first paid her cow.'. Miss Morrow left with her father, Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow, and her mother yesterday to remain until Mon- day at the Morrow country residence there. Near the residence is the Cuernavaca City Hall, an old palace of Cortez, and an old hotel which Carlota and Maxi- milian used as a residence. During Col. Lindbergh's stay in Mex- ico he and the Morrows spent several week ends there. Letters Transported by Lindbergh | Arrive in New York. NEW YORK, February 16 (#).—The “Lindbergh air mail,” which has been carried from Panama and other Cen- tral American countries to Miami, Fla., by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, arrived here yesterday. ‘The mail arrived in two planes, which landed at Hadley Field, N. J., and was the first shipment to reach this coun- try over the new international air mail the Gibson investigating subcommiitee thought to have participated in the |!o his ly anxious to cleanup the loose ends of various investigations that have been in progress so he may complete the re- port on which he is working, to be sub- mitted to the House next week. STAND ON CRUISER WORK EXPLAINED | President Believed Funds Not De- sired During Present Fiscal Year. | By the Associated Press. President Coolidge recommended $12,- 370,000 available after June 30, 1929, for construction on the ships called for in the cruiser bill because he vndsrstood that no funds were desired by Senate | and House leaders for work on the | warcraft during the current fiscal year, which ends June 30. ‘The President got this impression from conferences with legislators and ence, so far as Lhe building of the ships is concerned, whether work is postpon- ed on them until after the beginning of the next fiscal year, or not. He thinks that construction should be post- poned until after June 30 because of the condition of the Treasury. However, in some quarters the Presi- dent’s recommendation was interpreted as & move to forestall work on the cruisers during the present fiscal year, despite the fact that a time clause in the cruiser bill specified that 5 of the 15 cruisers called for should be laid down, respectively, in 1929, 1930 and 1981. The Chief Executive opposed the time clause, but it was retained against his wishes. Following the President's recommendation, the Senate appropria- tions committee voted to make $700,000 available for construction of the cruis- ers during the present fiscal year. On the House side some feel that the $12,370,000 recommended by the President is inadequate and Chairman Britten of the House naval affairs com- mittee has announced that as soon as the Senate completes work on the naval supply bill that he would inquire as to whether the Budget Bureau did not “arbitrarily” cut down the sum pro- posed by the Navy Department to get the building program under way. The Senate seems satisfled with the amount recommended by the President, but after the measure is passed there it goes back to the House for consid- eration of amendments. Chairman Britten could move then to add-to the rum.;‘ recently inaugurated by Lind- TRh. as did Elfrieda Knaak of Lake Bluff, |be: IiL, last October, she stuck her head and shoulders into the furnace and over the bed of hot coals. The pain, however, forced her to fall back and her screams brought her father to her side. “I was too much of a coward to go through with it,” she cried. Miss Friedrich's hair was burned to the scalp and her head and shoulders were seared. After treatment of her burns she was removed to the Evanston Psychopathic Hospital. Her father said she had been ill, and that she was discouraged by reason of an ear ailment. Physicians believe she was delirious when she went to the furnace room. Miss Friedrich had no love affairs, her father said, nor was there mly back- ground of psychology and cult study such - as ‘investigators found in the Knaak case. Miss died from burns suffered when she went to the furnace of the Lake Bluff police station and thrust her face, arms and feet into the furnace in what she said were self- sacrificial rites. Radio Progr ams—Page 32 amount recommended by Mr. Coolidge. By the Associated Press. A dawn-to-dusk flight from the United States to the Panama Canal Zone will be attempted March 10 by Capt. Ira C. Eaker, who was chief pilot | of the record-breaking endurance plane Question Mark. The flight will be made in the first model of the P-12, newest and fastest of Army pursuit planes delivered to the Air Corps. It will start from Browns. ville, Tex., with France Field, Panams, as the terminal. Five stops will be made in the 2,000-mile flight—Tampico and Minjtitlan, Mexico; Guatemala City, Guatemala; Managus, Nicarague, and David, Panama. Capt. Eaker is at Seattle, where his ship is being built. He plans to leave there eithér Monday or Tuesday for ' Kelly Fleld, San Antonio, making over- ' power, nine-cylinder, Dawn-to-Dusk Flight From U. S. to Canal Zone to Be Tried March 10! night stops at Oakland, Riverside and San Diego, Calif.; Tucson, Ari Paso and Midland, Tex. T! ugh flight tests will be conducted at Kelly Field, where a special gas tank and pumping gear will be installed. The plane will leave for Brownsville March 8 or 9 50 as to be ready at dawn on March 10 for the flight to Panama, if weather conditions are favorable. In event the project is successful, c:&c. a?f&'n 'wm :&-n another - race wi yl on the return by leaving Panama at dawn in :‘:pen- deavor to reach Brownsville that eve- ning and Wi , D. C., the fol- lowing day. The ship will, be named the Pan American. It is a small, fast machine, with a wing spread of 23 feet and from tip to tail measures not more than 21 feet. It is powered with s 450-horse- air-cooled motor. very liftle information which will be | Burlingame, he | T TEN MEN he feels that it will make little differ- | MRS, BLALOCK MAY [LINDY, FLYING HERE, REPORTED OVERDLE N BAD WEATHER Bolling Field Men Think He May Have Landed to Await Fog Lifting. PLANE BELIEVED HIS PASSES WILMINGTON, N. C. Left Charleston, N. C., at 6:45 A.M.—Conditions Poor Over His Entire Route. WILMINGTON, N. C. February 16 (#).—An airplane believed to be that of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, en route from Charleston, S. C., to Washington, passed over Wrights- ville Beach, near here, shortly after 9:30 o'clock today. The plane was fiying high and fast. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who took off for this city from Charleston, 8. C., at 6:47 o'clock this morning, was over- |due here at 1:30. At Bolling Field, where he was scheduled to land, mo word had been received from him. Lindbergh encountered bad weather son after leaving Charleston, and air- ways reports received at Bolling Field showed dangerous flying conditions over the greater part of his course. It is thought possible he has gone down at an emergency landing field to wait for the fog to lift. The purpose of Lindbergh’s visit hsre is not definitely known. He probably will confer with William P. MacCracken, jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics. HOPS OFF AT 6:47 AM. Lindy Faces Bad Weather Conditions on Flight Here. CHARLESTON, S. C. February 16 (#)—Col. Charies A. Lindbergh, flm& from Miami to Washington, hopped o from the navy yard flying fleld here at 6:47 this morning, despite very adverse weather conditions for flying. First reports reaching the city: of Charleston from the navy yard this morning were that Lindbergh had not taken off at daybreak, as planned. and it was some iime before it was learned that he had hopped. It was not announced when he thought he would reach Washington. A ESCAPE' {Test of New Oxygen-Inflated “Lungs” Proves Successful for 34 Feet. By the Associated Press. KEY WEST, Fia., February 16.—Ten men, the largest number ever to escape from a sunken submarine, st out |of the submarine S-4 yesterday and | made their way safely to the surface nc:lx'nh a depth d:t ::d feet. e party donned the new oxygen inflated “lungs” worn like masks and | left the submarine through the mewly ected escape hatch. . M. S. Lombard, United States Public Health officer in charge of the local Marine Hospital, who was a mem- ber of the party, said the device is satis- factory from a medical standpoint. The tests are being conducted by the Navy tender Mallard with the S-4, in an effort ‘to devise some way of saving ! crews of stricken submarines. STOCK PRICES SLUMP AFTER COUNCIL ACTION | Sharp Break Follows Statement Upholding Drive on Specu- lation. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 16.—A mad scramble to get out of the stock market as a result of the Federal Reserve cam- paign to force a reduction in brokers® borrowings brought about another sharp decline in prices in today’s brief session. Scores of active issues sank $2 to $8 a share, and a few high-priced specialties crumbled $10 to $21 under an avalanche of selling for long and short accounts. Total sales were 2,488,700 shares. Radio (old stock), which sold as high as $410 this year, and at $420 in ‘he closing weeks of 1928, broke $21 a share to $335. Wright Aeronautical, Union Carbide, Montgomery-Ward, Johns- Manville and a score of the other so- called “blue chip” issues closed at net declines of $5 a share, or more. Such popular rails and industrials as Canadian Pacific, United States Steel common, American Can, Sears-Roebuck, Ameri- can Telephone, Woolworth, Packard. Anaconda and National Cash Register lost $2 a share or more. JOHN COOLIDGE HERE. John Coolidge, son of the President. is paying a brief visit to his parents at. the White House over the week end. He arrived in Washington early this morning from New Haven, Conn., and expects to return early next week, pfobably leaving Monday morning. This will be the last visit of the President’s son to the White House be- fore the expiration of Mr. Coolidge's { term as President, March 4. HAVA}:A.d Pembl"umny mfl—wm was received yi y Milord, Cuban consul at Ifll:‘l.u‘;l‘:", that Herbert Hoover will visit Havana . The cable from the con- sul said that he had talk President-elect in Miami. s et Virginia News Pages 6 and 7.