Evening Star Newspaper, April 29, 1929, Page 2

2 BRITISH LABOR HITS CONTROL OF SEAS Freedom Urged Except When International Interests Are Involved. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 29.—Complete re- nunciation of the right of private war and private blockade is advocated by the British Labor party in a pamphict on “Freedom of the Seas,” made public today. Ramsay Macdonald, leader of the Labor party, has written a foreword to the pamphlet describing the problem 28 mainly an Anglo-American one. After giving a lengthy review of the history of maritime laws and rules re- garding use of the seas both i peace and war, the pamphlet formuia: Labor party doctrine on the question. in great measure basing it upon the second | of President Wilson’s famous 14 points. | Wilson's " Stand Upheld. “What, then, is left of the old doctrine | called freedom of the seas?” the pam- phiet asks after pointing out the numer- cus changes which have taken place through the centuries. ‘“Labor believes | that nothing of substance is left; but| that the doctrine has been reborn in a | new form perfectly consistent with | modern experience and modern needs “The new doctrine has been best ex- pressed by President Wilson in the sec- ond of his 14 points—'freedom of navi- gation upon the seas outside of terri- forial waters, alike in peace and in war, may be closed in art by internationel action for the enforcement of international covenants.’ " Declaring that the stand taken v | both Conservative and Liberal govern- | ments in Great Britain has been di- rected toward the “power of keeping open the pathe of the ocesns” the Labor party says tha® this power also mea; power to close the paths of the ocean” and that this power must of the | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, APRID 29, 1929 A glimpse of the destructive force of the Mississippi, which broke through the South Quincy levee to sweep over farm | lands, leaving heavy damage in its wake. Photo shows waters as they spread over a 6,000-acre o n farm. i 2ty | VALE CONFSSES T0 POIONNG FO Servant of Kin of Rasputin’s Slayer Held as Revenge Plot Is Seen. |RAILWAYS’ PLEA TO BLOCK| /. C. C. RATE CUT DENIED| —— { Petition to Restrain Reduction of Refrigerator Car Charge Is Rejected by Court. | iny the Associated Press. | | RICHMOND, Va, April 20.—A spe- cial statutor; court here today denled} the petitien of six trunk line raflroads | | seeking an_injunction to restrain the | | Interstate Commerce Commission from | | requiring the roads to put in effect re- | duced refrigerator car charges on fruits, | ADNIT ATTENPTED MALLET MURDER Wife and Companion Get 20| Years Apiece in Jail for Slaying Plot. WEEK END TRAFFIC CLAIMS 21 LIVES Grade Crossings, Reckless- ness and Defective Bridge Take Heavy Toll. Half a dozen traffic accidents, result- ing from lessness at grade cross- ings, reckless driving and a defective bridge, claimed a total of 21 lives throughout the country yesterday. Six- teen persons were critically injured ichmond, Va., a young man w killed and two girls were seriously in- jured when two automobiles skidded and overturned. The body of Joseph C. Davis, 17, of Glen Allen, Va. was found beneath his overturned automo- bile near Greenwood Church, about 5 miles south of Richmond. Miss Flor- ence Coleman, 19, of Durham, N. C. and Miss Ruth Mende, 20, of Richmond, suffered serious internal injuries when their car skidded from the Petersburg pike, near Richmond and turned over. Nine of Family Killed. Nine members of one family were killed instantly and the tenth serious- ly injured at Middletown, N. Y., when 1 Antonio Vianchi, father of the famiiy drove his automobile into th> path of the westbound New York-Chicago ex- ress after he had waited at the cross- ing for an eastbound train to pass. Besides the father, Mrs. Vianchi and seven children, Lucy, 16; Marian, 14; | Minnie, 10; George, 8; Louise, 6; Rose, e and Helen, 10 months old, were killed. Frank, a 12-year-old son, was badly injured, but is expected to live, Mistaking the frantic signals of police and wreckers for threatening gestures of highwaymen, Eric Forcetti, 18, of Brewster, Conn., stepped on the gas and was killed when his automobile plunged through a bridge over the tracks of the New Haven Rallroad, which had been inadvertently destroyed His 22-year-old brother Fred is in a hospital at Mount Kisko, N. Y, with a fighting chance to live. The accident occurred shortly before | | | | Roman Catholic missionaries from the Passionist Order, who, according to word from the order’s headquarters in | Nankow, China, have been slain. Up- per, left to right: Rev. Father Clement Seybold of Dunkirk, N. Y.;: Rev. Wal- ter Covelyou, address unknown. Lower: | Rev. Godfrey Holdbein of Baltimore, Md. GEANTE AU G EIPSED I VA By the Associated Press. REPORTED SLAIN BY CHINESE BANDITS & 4 ~§ | .4 ADMR. TODD, NAVY et TROTSKY RANTS AT FATE'S TURN {Slamming of Door by Ger- | many Arouses Anger of Russian Exile. By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 29.—With- in the frail walls of a tiny white house | on the outskirts of Constantinople paces | the man whom not so long ago the | world seemed too small to contain. Leon | Trotsky, exiled Bolshevist chieftain, partner of Lenin, has lost another fight has heard the German door he longed to enter slammed in his face, and has nothing left but to settle down in hi | present obscure and hated corner. Time may inculcate in the flery em- bittered Bolshevist that Oriental resig- nation which permeates the land of his | exile, and the world may yet have the picture of a Trotsky dulcetly dreaming of the past over a quietly melancholy hubble-bubble and innumerable cups of | thick Turkish coffee. But the present finds him furiously unresigned. Hurl- ing invectives at Stalin, who threw him out of Russia, and the Germany that turned him down, he stares from his narrow window, not at the mansion of the Egyptian princess across the way from his little house, nor at the Turk- ish beer factory round the corner, nor at the barren, monotonous Thracian hills beyond, but upon & world grown {wild and terrible, Foresees World Drenched in War. He sees—he has told his interviewers |as much—a world drenched again in | war, a war originating in Anglo-Ameri- | can rivalries, and he gives modern civi- | lization not more than 10 years before | that war will strike. Bitterly he sees | Stalin as traitor to the principles of | Lenin, principles from which he vows that he himself has not swerved and wily never swerve a hair's breath, even necessity be challen; by othe t & v HAVANA, April 9.—An international thotigh his life hangs by that hair. munme&; ged by other grea 57 this Mesoctabet Bross: egetables and other perishable products. | n. o accociated press. gl;gglght Saturday, near Danbury, Midr: amrigwiing plbts tHvolvingRTiAHS hitterness that almost biinds PARIS, April 29.—French police have T MAD: is., April 20.—A casc i hi; e sees Germany traitor to “de- ‘What U. S. Might Do. “If we tried today to use the weapon of blockade for our own private ends,” the pamphlet says, “we should certainly have to reckon with a protest far more emphatic than any made in the last war. How emphatic and serious was the protest of America in the last war | is as yet too little realized in this coun- | try. And that protest could now be made far more effective than in 1915, “So effective, indeed, that in face of determined American opposition the ‘weapon of private blockade would al- most certainly have to be laid aside. America’s position on the high seas would be very different today and to- morrow from what it was. As an Ameri- can admiral has said, the old America principle of freedom of the seas went glimmering during the World ‘War. but American has learned her les- ity LIMITATION VOTED AS GUIDING POLICY FOR ARMS PARLEY | (Continued From First Page.) “I believe in the Chinese project be- | cause the mili- | follows: | blinded man over the head with the | two daughters, Vaughn, 19, nd Ruth, |in a Florids hotel, and a mumber of was graduated from the Naval Cites Condition of Health. mnw;rl&‘fmm opted in fl:!l.‘wre.r:a;uég::;m, and tua.:.o& ‘fig'&",.",l;’f Wilbur Ts Indorsed. }:;';"'fibsx?a Pope sald Polster Strick | 14, and Daniel Pape, 20 years old. Al | smugglers swindled a wealthy New Agfi,m \n 1866, He wes promoted {0 | (Moreover, his desire to flee Con- treaties of peace,” he declared. ‘acquiesced. The poison ed. e T P e a2 oo lived in Elkhart. - Ten passengers on | Yorker out of $70,000 in a whisky deal, ensign in 1868 and to master the fol- | Stantinople is motivated by concern A Canada States Position. A feature of the discussion was an address by Dr. W. A. Riddell of Canada, not express sympathy with the prin- Mplet underlying the Chinese amend- ment. The Chinese delegate finally yielded to President Loudon’s lrpeu not to in- sist on a vote because it was clear the been brought face to face with what may finally be revealed as a poison plot instigated by friends of the late Ras- putin, Russia's “Black Monk,” to obtain revenge for his death. The police now are inclined to scout the theory and insist they are “work- ing along another line,” but certain facts remain: First, Prince Felix Yousoupoff, who brought about Rasputin’s death, suffer- ed from what appeared to be poisoning of some sort, but recovered. Guests are Stricken, Too. Then, Count de Larentys, Countess de prince—and guests at their home suf- fered from time to time with a myste- rious illness which they believed was a kind of poisoning. valet, Baptiste Carbonnel, has con- fessed placing poison in the court's food. He says he did so because of a strange hypnotic influence which Illia Pe‘:lln. the prince's valet, had over nim., Money Is Occult Power, Pedan, he says, offered him 80,000 cult power he was P‘M der arrest. The prince and his valet are at pres- ent traveling in Austria and have not been reached by the police. Even of- ficial reticence, however, has not suc- hiding the fear of the and he was placed un- Demidoff of Russia—that friends of the mad monk have ?‘:cked out their en- tire family on which to take their re- venge. BARON NOPCSA IRED. Larentys—who is a relative of the| Countess de Larentys—who was-Princess | WHEAT APPROVED - FOR JUDICIAL POST | i | 'Senate Committee Also Acts| E Favorably on Lenroot and Others. Approval was given today by the Sen- | | ate judiciary committee to the nom- | inations of 10 Federal judges, includ- | | ing that of Alfred A. Wheat of New | And now the Count de Larentys’' York, to the District of Columbia Su- f to | preme Court, and Irvine L. Lenroot of | | wulconnn to the Court of Customs Ap- | | peals. | | . Lenroot's nomination was contested | | in committee, and is expected to en- counter opposition in the Senate: By unanimous votes the committee | reported other judgship nominations as Curtis D. Wilbur, former Secretary of the Navy, to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. George T. McDermott of Kansas, and | Oriel Phillips of New Mexico, to the newly created Tenth Cireuit Court. | _ Alfred C. Cox, Francis G. Caffey and John M. Woolsey, to the Southern Dis- | triet Court of New York. Clarence Galston, to the Eastern Dis- | trict of New York. J. Lyles Glenn, to be an additional | judge for South Carolina. | Vote on Lenroot. Lenroot's nomination was reported by | again, | and staggered into & store a quarter of A ISON, Wis rescmbling the notorious Synder-Gray murder except that a wooden mallet was substituted for a sash welght and | the victim survived thes attack, was revealed today with confessions of Mrs. Rose Pope, 30, and Phil Polster, 26, that they had attempted to kill Mrs. Pope's hushand, John Pope, 38, a farmer, last Saturday night. Mrs. Pope and Polster pleaded guilty to murderous assault today and were sentenced to 20 years each in orison. Picce Together Sordid Story. Authorities pieced together the sordid story from the confessicn of Mrs, Pope and Polster and Pope's story of lying partly unconscious after the attack and hearing his wife urge her companion to “give him one more to make sure.” Mrs. Pope met Polster about a year ago when he visited on a nearby farm. She left her husband on the pretense of shopping, she told authorities, met Polster, gave him the key to the Pope home, in which he concealed himself ait the couple’s return. Mrs. Pope said that when they arrived home she entered the house while Pope put away the automobile. Polster, armed with the wooden mallet and a bottle of acid, was inside. According to the stories of the trio, Polster dashed the acid in Pope's face as the latter entered, then struck the band's body into the farm yard, where Pope partly recovered consclousness, to hear his wife urge Polster to strike Victim Regains Consciousness. Polster, Pope said, felt his pulse and struck him again. Pope said the couple left after saying they expected to ob- tain a car to dispose of his body. After a time he fully recovered consciousness | ;a' imne away, where he notified author- les. Deputy sheriffs arrested the couple Crane Tears Bridge Away. The wreckers, officials of the railroad and police, had taken a wrecking car, with a crane, to the scene of a freight crash at Towners, N. Y. They were re- turning to Danbury when the crane, which had not been lowered, swept against the highway bridge and tore it away, leaving only the approaches at either end. The entire group hurried to the road- way above and stationed themselves at both ends of the bridge so they could signal approaching motorists, The Forcettls were returning home from a visit. As the headlights of their car flashed down the roadway several men ran to the bridge uggmuch and waved their arms for the boys to stop. Fearing bandits, Eric Forcett{ stepped | on the gas. His car struck the torn edge of the n&zmo-ch. bounced several feet in the air, feet to the rallroad. Eric died instantly of a broken neck when he was thrown against a stone abutment at the side. Fred suffered internal injuries, A head-on crash yesterday between an automobile and a passenger bus near Elkhart, Ind., resulted in the deaths of five persons, four of them of one family, and the injury of 11 others. The dead are Mrs. Ural Mabie, 41; her 17-year-old son Charles, jr.. her the bus were slightly injured and Ruby Mable, a twin sister of Ruth, is not expected to live. Say Car Hit Bus, The Mabie family, their automobile driven by Papa, a friend, were en route to Burr Oak, Mich. A. R. Williams, bus driver, sald the Mabie automobile crashed into his bus at high speed on | the wrong side of the highway and on & curve. His story was substantiated by | Ruby, the only | passengers on the bus, survivor of the arty in the automo- bile, could not ve an account of the and then hurtled down the 20| he | | | of dollars, a well organized gang of | runners through the United States and | headquarters in Havana as a centra distributing and shipping point, was | exposed here today by Cuban secret| police. Alfonso Fors, chief of secret police, | said the gang had been negotiating for the purchase of a large distillery here, | but the recent arrest of Sydney Hoff- man, American chemist believed to be its leader, exposed the entive scheme. Hoffman had made a full confession | prior to his deportation last week to the United States. Police are in possession of names of 18 Americans residing in Cuba said to be implicated in the rum-running plot. A close watch is being kept by police and Cuban immigration agents to block departure of the men, all of whom are said to figure on th~ black list of boot- leggers in the United States embassy | here, U. S. DRY HEADS KNEW OF GANG. Attempts Have Been Made for Some Time to Smugzle in Cars of Liquor. By the Associated Press. Prohibition headquarters announced today that the gang of bootleggers ex- posed by the Cuban secret police was the one in which Thomas Walsh, killed ‘The gang, prohibition headquarters -said; for some time had tried to smug- gle liquor into this country in carload lots. The cars were loaded in Ha and labeled ineral asphalt,” a cleaner” and “bones,” billed to glue factories, and carried across to Florida and started for their destination by railroad. Most of the shipments, the bureau said, had been captured as soon as they were started on their way in the United States. Names “Unimportant.” Prohibition officials said that the D | May, 1895, and to captain February 11, names of the 18 persons obtained by | Retired Officer While on Visit to Son in Washington. service in the United States N a short iliness. He was 81 years old. his birth, since his retirement from the Navy in 1902, came to this city a short while ago to visit the family of his son, | Lieut. Comdr. Chapman C. Todd, 2740 Thirty-fourth street, who is gunnery | officer on the battleship Florida. Admiral Todd had the distiaction of ced in rank ous conduct in battle” dur- ing the war with Spain. lowing year. He was made a lleutenant | March 25, 1870, and lieutenant com- | mander November, 1886. Subsequently he was promoted to commander in 1901. He was made a rear admiral and retired October 31, 1802. VETERAN, 5 DEAD - Succumbs | Rear Admiral Chapman C. Todd, U. 8. N,, retired, a veteran of 41 years | died | in Naval Hospital here yesterday after Admiral Todd, who had been making his home n Frankfort, Ky, the city of | for pilgrim Trotskyists, and none exist “for eminent | U 1 racy’s right of asylum,” as his own | phrase puts it, and raps out to the press | of the world his biting sarcasm. “Ger- | many, it appears, did not find me in a sufficiently dying condition to grant mo admission. The point at stake, appar- | ently, was not the right of asylum, but the right of burial.” That Germany's decision to debar him | was influenced by Moscow is clearly his | opinion. Moscow wishes him to remain | in Constantinople for much the same | reasons that he himself wishes to be al- vhere else, has informed his Turkish | hosts in no mincing terms that he is an unwilling guest. He might be a Robin- son Crusoe minus even man Friday on a desert isle, for all the companionship, K"“"““y speaking, that exists for him ere. Turkey, adamantly opposed to the slightest stirring of communistic propa- ganda within her borders, will never allow Constantinozls to become a mecca on the spot. Intellectually. as well as politically, the exile is stranded here because of his ignorance of the Turkish language and his imperfect knowledge of French, Turkey's foster-mother tongue. He has here neither the com- mand of the language nor the coteris f“ {1’““ Germany his preferred place of exile. for his health. While his fight for a German visa ‘was being wa, he in< structed his intermediary in Berlin, Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, to make clear his will- ingness to submit his physical condi- tion to the examination of German medical experts as a support to his His service included that of hydrog- | rapher from 1900 to 1901, commander | of the flagship Brooklyn in Asiatic wa- ! ters during 1901 and 1902 and duty at | various stations, | Admiral Todd is survived by his son, | Lieut. Comdr. Todd, and three grand- | children. claim that he desired to enter Germany not for political purposes but for urgent= Iy needed medical care. He agred also to leave Germany im- mediately upon the termination of tho necessary medical treatment. He wants to place himself under the care of the | same German specialists who operated amendment would be rejected, but only would be o | on him f 1y in R it - on the understanding that it a vote of 11 fo 4 CThis is the same | after they had returned to the farm | tragedy. | Guban police were thase of unimportant | . The body. will be taken to Frankfort, | £ hito formetly in Russia snd in Ber annexed to the draft treaty and han-| dled on its merits at the international conference. Geneva was wondering whether the | next important step would not be an| un ding concerning the freedom | of the seas, now that an Anglo-Amer- ican naval agreement is rosily antici- pated. Apparently no delegation has a mandate to open this great problem British Labor's Stand. The instructions of American Am- bassador Gibson, for instance, seem to limit his activities to preparing as| speedily as may be for an international | "3 conference for reduction of armaments and g lly to concentrate on meth- ods of reduction of naval strength. Nevertheless, the problem of freedom of the seas hovers over the delibera- tions and many delegates have done much private talking about it. One rea- son for this is that many publicists both in Europe and the United States have been debating the problem. The chief immediate reason, however, was an announcement made here by British circles of the League of Nations, although not connected with the British disarmament delegation, that the Labor party would enunciate decisive opinions on the subject. This party was described as holding to the League view, that seas can only be closed when nations by common action take blockade and puni- tive measures, against a nation which has launched an aggressive war, FRANCE LIKES U. S. STAND. Press Sees Better Chance for Disarma- | ment Progress. PARIS, April 20 (#).—French news- papers have smiled with approval at| American recognition of their claim of non-inclusion of trained reserves as army effectives. Some of the press, however, has been hard put to conceal Hungarian Geologist Angered Be- cause Government Scorned Advice. BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 20 (#).— Baron Franz Nopcsa, president of the Hungarian Geological Society, caused a sensation yesterday by tearing up his diploma of the soclety and returning the society’'s medal of honor because the government had drilled for hot springs in advice. cited by the other powers as pos- sible trained reserves. MIXED VIEWS IN BRITAIN. Peace Advocates Regret U. S. Backing by London. LONDON, April 29 (#)—British peace advocates e viewed with some regret Great Britain’s joining with the United conscription to raise their armies, Their regret been tempered, howe: with a feeling that if a general disarm: convention is the result the price will have been warranted. The Times, independent, said today trained reserves obviously ought to have been included in the estimates of mili- tary effectives, but, “since the. United States and Great Britain maintain armies which are scarcely more than police forces it would perhaps hardly become them to dictate conditions of military disarmament to the great na- tions of the continent st in dif- ferent traditions. It would be idle to challenge their outlook.” ITALY VEERS TO U. S. View on Reserves. its surprise. Matin, independent, said today: “The | atmosphere is clearing up at Geneva with the United States collaborating ! more and more actively in the technical | construction of peace.” ‘Temps, independent and semi-official, | said: “Ambassador Gibson's two decla- | rations of new United States policy | make it possible for a naval conference to be called in 1930." Excelsior, independent moderate, de- clared: ““Thanks to the new attitude of the United States delegation in the eague’s disarmament committee at Geneva, its present meeting is proving | of capital importance, One may now expect that before long a disarmament conference may be convoked with im- proved chances of success.” BERLIN 1S DISSATISFIED. England’s Support of United States| Position on Reserves Resented. BERLIN, April 20 (#).—Great Brit- ain’s support of the American attitude on trained reserves undeniably has in- creased German bitterness on the trend of the Geneva disarmament parley and official circles appear deeply despondent over the outlook for European pacifica- tion. As far as the European continent is concerned, it is felt in German cirg! land forces are the deciding factor and the French “hegemony” will be per- petuated if trained reserves are not counted in ccmputations for limitatlon | minded burglar robbed Mr. and Mrs. | | Arthur Kruger's flat yesterday, but for- of armed forces. It was said today that France has not cnly a large standing army, but re- serves enabling her at any time to mobilize 2500000 men. In addition ROME, April 29 (#).—Italian public opinion as voiced through the newspa- |3 pers expressed first its surprise and then its admiration of the new Ameri- can position on disarmament defined by Hugh S. Gibson at Geneva last week. The Giornale D'Italla today declared that “in order to emerge viclous circle wherein every year the meetings at Geneva have involved themselves on the subject of disarma- ment, naval strength ought not to be calculated on the basis of necessities of naticnal defense, but independently of | them. Mr. Gibson's attitude will be | examined by Italy with greater atten- tion and with a greater spirit of con- ciliation.” ing Mr. Ciibson’s proposals, cannot see why France should be favored in naval disarmament schemes. The entire press backs the statement of Senor de Marinis, Italian delegate at Geneva, that distinction between the mother country and its colonies should be eliminated in armaments of all kinds. certain areas against hie | States in granting non-limitation of | tgained reserves to countries employing | ent | Admiration Voiced in Press of Gibson's B from the L Il Tevere. although warmly approv-| | vote he was given by the committee | last session at the time he was nomi- nated for the same office by President Coolidge. Because of opposition, Lenroot's nomi- nation failed to get to a vote in the Senate last session. . Armenian cinrchel Closed. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 20 (#).— | Reliable information from Angora stated | today that the Soviet government had | closed Armenian churches at Baku, | Tiflis and Erivan. Police later broke | | up an Armenian meeting of protest and | arrested many persons, ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW. 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Carter entry. | FIPTH RACE—Purse, $1.500; fllies, 3-year- ‘olflm 6 furlong: RE s | » Nearby 1 Irish Morn. i) . 11 h 12 a Earl Sande entry, SIXTH RACE se. 11,300; the Chesa- ake: claiming dicap: 3-year-olds and d: 1 mile and 70_yards. 8 Harry | Das | Bn | (SEVENTH RACE—Purse, $1300: 4-year-| | olds and upward: claiming: 14 miles. *J. Omalley.. 113 a South Breeze.. 118 | Fire Chiet 123 v 120 | “Kasciusko 15| |Ella M. | *wames " version m sLetter Six *Billy Warre 13 | Forehead ... Backrope .. 18 | aGirasol *Sun Kin 115 *fir Leonid, | _amrs W, awbridee-Mrs. B. A entry. | Black ¥ :Apprentice weight 5 pounds claimed. | Wenther clear, track good. By the Associated Prass. CHICAGO, April 29.—The absent- | got to take his loot aw | signs that a thief had been there. Mrs Foland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania are cited by the Germans as France's mili- ) atellites. In eontract to this, the Germans say, the German police are al- found gems gnd other valuables wort $2,500 missing. 3Absent-Minded Bixrgla.r Swaps Overcoat With Victim, Forgets to Take $2.500 Loot " The Krugers, returning home, saw ,Ing over his wardrobe, from which a | | new topcoat was missing. Police arrived. Kruger spoke of the | jewels and the topcoat. | _“And look what he left me" Kruger | said, tossing out a ragged overcoat which the robber discarded when | he donned Kruger's natty garment. | | “Not such a bad trade” said the|sault, constituting a high crime. | tugitive. | excent in extraordinary cases, such as ! home to find their victim gone. INQUIRY ON WHISKY CHASE ACCIDENTS ORDERED BY PRATT _(Continued From First Page.) i can, New York, asked unanimous con- sent that the word “applause” be stricken from the record in two in- stances, but Representative Johnson, Republican, Washington, objected. ‘The word “applause” appeared in the record after a statement by Representa- tive Holaday, Republican, Illinois, de- fending the officer's action in the case and after the words, “this shot struck h!xm in the back of the head and killed 40 hi The word also appeared after a state- ment by Representative O'Connor, Re- publican, Oklahoma, asking whether the officer should not be reprimanded for wasting four shots before killing the Before Johnson objected, Representa- tive Rankin, Democrat, Mississippi, ob- served that Representative Cramton, Republican, Michigan, had called atten- tion during the debate that the a plause was heard only from the Re- publican side. No Curb Intended. Whether policemen should shoot to stop the suspected rum cars when they beich forth a smoke screen is a ques- tion which is puzzling both police and District officials. The order broadcast several days ago by Maj. Pratt directing all officers who use their guns for any purpose what- ever to submit a detailed report, coupled with the action of the coroner's jury in holding Rouse for the grand jury, it was pointed out, might restrain the police in their attempt to catch rum runners, Maj. Pratt, as well as Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty, who has admin- istrative supervision over the Police De- partment, explained that it was not the urfiosa of the order to curb the police. oth pointed out that the police manual is clear on the subject of when a police- man should and should not use his re- volver, and an officer who could not use his gun with discretion should be removed from the force. Rules on Revolver Use. Two_sections of the police manual, Maj. Pratt explained, deal specifically with the use of revolvers by police officers, One section reads: “Members of the | force shall not use their revolvers ex- | cept in most urgent cases and then only in such a manner as will not jeopardize the lives of innocent person: The text of the other section follo: “A policeman shall not use his pistol | in the actual defense of his own or another's life; when attacked with deadly weapons, or in pursuit of escap- | ing criminals charged with such crimes as murder, rape, housebreaking, arson, ete. Shooting at another is a crime, ex- cept when proven to be dong as author- ized by law.” The use of firearms by police officers, Maj. Pratt said, is decried #n all juris- dictions except in cases where the officers’ life is placed in real jeopardy | by one whom he sceks to arrest, or where the offender is reasonably be- lieved to have committed a grave of- fense, such A% murder, or a grave as- “As far 88 the use of revolvers by Kruger rushed to her jewel case ang | policeman as from a pocket of the old | coat into which the thisf fhad thrust Kruger began check- | them he removed the missing jewelry. members of the department is con- cern,” declared Maj. Pratt, “each case A father and his three sons, return- ing home from church services, were | killed instantly at Marysville, Ind., when the parent drove his automobile in front of the fast-traveling Cincin- nati-Louisville fiyer, The dead are Ed- gar Snodgrass, 40, and his sons, How- ard, 17; Henry, 15, and Wilbur, 5. The train demolished the automobile, hurl- ing the four occupants a hundred feet down the roadway. Charlie Yocym of Marion, 8. C.,, was killed and 1. G\ Smith, also of Marion, was badly injured when their automo- bile collided with an ambulance on a curve near Sumter, 8. C. Two men in the ambulance received broken noses, while a patient escaped injury. A second automoblile, called to the scene to carry the patient to Florence, overturned on a curve near the ma- chines. ABADIE'S DEATH HELD ACCIDENTAL| Coroner's Jury Returns Verdict in Investigation of Auto- mobile Tragedy. A verdict of accidental death was re- turned today by a voroner’s jury in the case of Eugene H. Abadie, 57-year-old consulting engineer, of 2122 California street, who was killed Saturday when the automobile he was driving crashed into a trolley pole on Wisconsin avenue near Van Ness street. Witnesses testi- fled the automobile was going at a high rate of speed. According to testimony of bystanders, Mr. Abadie was driving north on Wis- consin avenue when his machine side- swiped an automobile driven by John A. McCormick, a salesman, of 4105 Wis- consin avenue, who was backing away from the curb. McCormick said the other machine swerved as it touched his car and took away a trolley lrole in the middle of the street, proceeding to the opposite curb, where it struck a coal truck a glancing blow and then swerved back across the street. Police of the fourteenth precinet re- leased McCormick in custody of his at- torney, Austin F. Canfield, for appear- ance at the coroner's inquest today. In his statement to the jury. McCormick sald his car was less than a yard away from the curb and at a virtual standstill when it was hit from behind. Mrs. Abadie was riding with her hus- band at the time of the accident. She did not testify today. Mr. Abadle, a native of St. Louis, was one of the engineers who made a trans- portation survey of the District of Co- lumbia in 1927 for the Federation of Citizens' Associations. He was a mem. ber of many prominent engineering s cleties and at one time was general con- troller of the United States Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Corporation. will be the subject of a thorough and complete investigation to determine whether such use has been made under the circumstances as is justifiable under the rules of the Police Department and the law of the land.” Police of the eleventh precinct adopt- ed a new means of check on smoke screens late Saturday night, it was learned today. Posted along the road leading to Southern Maryland, they stopped suspected rum carriers, leaving the city empty for their regular trips to points of supply, and inspected the cars for smoke scréén equipment. They failed to locate gy of the apparatus, members of the smuggling rin, | _ Reports of the latest lctMJeu of the Cuban police had not been received in prohibition headquarters, but prelim- | inary reports told of the closing in of the Cuban police on the gang’s head- quarters. Officlals felt that the action of the Cuban officials would break up the gang and prevent further attempts | to_smuggle in liquor by the carload. Prohibition officials said that Sydney | Hoffman, whose confession exposed the plot, and three other men had been de- ported from Cuba at the instance of | American authorities. They asserted | that the gang had sought to obtain | control of the whisky distillery business | In Havana for the purpose of smugglmz: | the product into this country. Walsh Was Rothstein Associate. | ‘The plot in which Walsh, assoclate {of Arnold Rothstein, slain New York gambler, was involved, resulted in the gang making way with, schoonerload of whisky, which was taken to Nassau, | where, prohibition officials say, it was libeled by the New Yorker. | Before this, however, the gang, ac- | cording to prohibition officials, got the | Now Yorker to put up the money to pur- ciase the whisky, then stored in Ha- vana, on the pretense that it would be resold there. As soon as it was paid for | the liquor was libeled by the gang and | bought in at a marshal’s sale for a frac- tion of its value. Before the New Yorker could start action the whisky was loaded on the schooner Tres Reys and taken to' Nassau, where he overtook |G. W. U. FINE ARTS EXHIBIT TO CONTINUE FOR WEEK National Museum Presents Work Done by University's Architec- tural Enginering Students. ‘Through the courtesy of Dr. Alexan- | der Wetmore of the National Museum | the exhibit of the division of fine arts of George Washington University, now being shown in the north lobby of the museum, will continue on view through- out the week. The exhibit was to have closed yesterday. The exhibition presents work done in all branches of the division and gives a complete idea of the arts side of the work in architecture and the graphic arts. The sketches shown have been done by students in classes under the direction of Prof. Norris I. Crandall, professor of architecture; Donald Che; | oweth Kline, instructor in architecture; Eugen Weisz, assoclate in graphic art; Samuel B. Baker, associate in drawing | and painting: Frank A. Hitchcock, pro- | fessor of civil engineering, and Arthur | Frederick Johnson, associate professor | Ry., this afternoon for funeral services and burfal tomorrow. W. H. BLACKISTONE, | LONG ILL, EXPIRES | Retired Real Estate Operator, 52, Dies at Home in Capital. Funeral Tomorrow. Wade H. Blackistone, retired real estate operator of this city, died at his residence, -3626 Tenth sireet, vesterday llfler a long lllness. He was 52 years Mr._Blackistone was_the son of the late Dr. R. Pinkney Blackistone and Martha Morris Blackistone of River St. Marys County - Maryland _Agricu'tzal Coll Maryland University. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lillla Dent Blackistone; three sons, Wade H., jr.. Richard 8. and John Blackistone, _and three _daughters, Mrs. John B. Manheim, Mrs. T. V. Green, jr. and Bettle Wright Blac stone, 8 years old’)Mr. Blackistone w ; t,;w;mn of Z. D. Blackistone, local orist. Funeral services will be conducted at the V. L. Speare Co. funeral parlors, 1009 H street, tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. Rev. F. J. Bohanan will offi- ciate. Interment will be at All Saints' Church, 8t. Marys County, Md. Pallbearers will be Z. D. Blackistone, James T. Balley, Bruce Quade, J. Marshall Dent, jr.; Elliott E. Dent and Arthur Rane; COTTON BREAKS $2 A BALE Heavy Selling Is Caused by Favor- able Crop Reports. NEW YORK, Aprll 20 (#.—A fur- ther break of 2 to §2.25 a bale occurred now in the cotton market today, making a net decline of $8 to $9 a bale from April 1. The decline was caused by heavy general liquidation prompted by favorable weather and crop reports which have given rise to expectations of a large crop. — Hold-up “Booty” Cnncele& Checks. NEW YORK, April 29 (#).—Can- celed checks for $60,000 were the sole three hold-up men today from a mes- senger for the Manufacturers’ Trust ot mechanical engineering. Co. Fighting Woman Cashier, Scaling in at 120, {Collars Bandit Weighing 180 as Pal Runs By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 29.—The midnight show at a South Side theater had just started and Mrs. Leona Pearce, 28, sat nlone in the turretlike cashier's cage, with $2.500 in receipts, she told police. “Hands up!” ordered one of two men, ttepping up with hands in their pockets a8 though clutching pistols. “You're bluffing.” countered Mrs. One man ran. The other jumped for the door in the rear of the cage, only to be met by Mrs. Pearce with a right hook and a kick. He started to run, too. but Mrs. Pearce leaped after him, grabbed his collar and yelled for help. An_employe seized the hold-up man, and others helped hold him until police arrived. Pearce, who is 5 feet 2 and weighs 120 | He gave his name as Jai Prende pounds. “Besides, I have you covered | gast, two days out of jail and ni- with a gun under the counter, uezlmnmry veteran. He is 6 feeu and out!” weighs 180 pounds. - — Springs, St. Marys County, Md. He! | was edueated in the p“Mc schools of ='°r at thel contents of a leather bag seized by | lin, and he believes, probably with rea- son, that the damp, changeable, de- blitating climate of Constantinople is aggravating his {ll health, It is cer- tainly an established fact that even husky foreigners from more bracing rlimes become run down after a pro- longed stay in this city of sudden changes from biting wet North winds | to sultry southerlies and sodden down- pours, Thus menaced physically and men- tally by Moscow’s planting of him here, | Trotsky has been desperately seeking | during the last two months for a_door | of escape. Escape may come through | the attemots which he has given to | understand he will soon begin to make | to enter countries other than Germany. And it may come with a pistol shot, for despite the careful Emtzcuon of the i Turkish police and his own care to re- | main as unnoticeable as possible here, the possibility of an attack upon his person bv some one of the many half- crazed white Russian refugees in this city lurks around the corner of his present life, HOUSE FARM GROUP ADOPTS FOUR BILLS TO AID AGRICULTURE (Continued From First Page.) of the proposal must win over 13 Re- publicans to muster the 48 votes needed to win, providing all of the Senators | yote Republican leaders claim that | this many Republicans cannot be count- jed upon and also assert that five, and perhaps six, Democrats will be found in the group opposing the debenture | section. | Broad Compromise Seen. Little, it any, dispute is looked for on any other provision of the Senate bill. which in a general way is identical to the House bill. The Senate bill pro- | vides for a farm board of 12 members ! rather than 6 as is proposed in the House bill, but leaders are confident that a compromise will be reached in confer- ence whereby the board will be com- | posed of probably 8 or 9 members. The Senate bill also allocates the | 8500,000,000 revolving fund into specific sums for distribution in aiding co-opera- | tives and stabilization corporations, whereas the House bill would leave the allotment of money to the board. How- ever, there is a disposition among those interested in the legislation to believe that there would be no material diffi- culty in composing these differences in conference. MeNary Sees Action by May 10. It is the opinion of Senator McNary | of Oregon, who, as chairman of the | agriculture committee, has the Senate farm bill in charge, that if the de- benture section is eliminated a farm | bill can be sent to President Hoover | May 10. He said his alm was to get th | legislation on the statute books as early | as possible so as to give the farm board sufficient time to organize and to make the legislation effective for this year's crops. Advocates of the debenture plan plan- ned to press first for the adoption of the { Norris amendment, which would pro- | vide for a lowering of debenture rates when overproduction is forecast. This provision is intended to meet the ob- Jection of some Senators that the de- benture plan would encourage prod: tion, and is held by friends of the plan as likely to win v far the proposal. “ticut town court A judge of a Gon: decided the police fo; He ‘“df them in daily reducing eexr- s was overweight. .,