Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1929, Page 1

WEATHE! (U. 8. Weather Bureau Showers today: cooler R. Forecast.) imllith!: tomor- row mostly cloudy and cooler. Temperatures: Highest. 74, at 4:40 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 43, at 2:30 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page 10. he Sundiy WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Sl N “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone Main 5000 to start immediate delivery. (/) Means Associated Press. No. 1,2 31,050. Entered as sacond class matter post offic: vashington, D, C. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY .5, CAPPER CONDEMNS DEBENTURE ON EVE OF SENATE BALLOT Lines Scem to Be H‘ofding Firm. Although Shifts Are Rumored. SM - | R Runners um | The smoke screen. discovered recent weeks as more effective tha OKE SCREEN DEVICE EASILY OBTAINED HERE| 5 ’ Latest Weapon of De- fense Creates Plenty of Work for Maryland Garage Man. by Washington rum runners in n bullets in sseaping capture, can | be bought in the District with nearly as much ease as an ordinary garden sprayer, which is its principal unit. The apparatus is sold in a large and well stocked hardware store' 0.S. OFFICIAL HELD | N FLIGHT PLOT OF REBEL PAYMASTER Immigration Officer and For- mer Federal Worker Ar- rested in New York. i | ATECA HAD $700,000 CASH LAK| 1920 —122 PAGES. FIVE CENTS TEN CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS ELSEWHERE DEBENTURE € WiLL BE 12 BALLOONS ALOFT IN" NATIONAL RACE DRIFT OCEANWARD Several Bags Forced to Drop Ballast After Speedy Take-offs. ‘NAVY ENTRY PREPARES | FOR MOUNTAIN PASSING TARIFF BILL MAY GO ! with all of the necessary accessories, ready for installation, but it ! must be taken out of the District and installed, due primarily to, TD HOUSE TOMORROW nle 1§axf of Wasbingmn mechanics e General Debate Expected Few Days Later—Passage Without Dif- | fieulty Held Likely. { i EY G. GOULD LINCOLN.. On the eve of a vote on the debenture plan in the farm bill. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas. who headed the farm bloe for several vears attacked the de- benture proposal yesterday. and said it | ghould not be included in the bill | With the vote in the Senate over the denbenture, which is opposed strongly by President Hoover. so close that both sides claim victory. the address of the Kansas Senator came at an opportune time for the administration. The lead- ers were still anxiously counting noses when the Senate recessed last night until tomorrow. There were rumors of a shift there, but the lines seemed to be holding firm. The oath of office was administered fo Senator Shipstead, ill in a Baltimore Tospital, in the hope that it would be possible to obtain a “pair” for him so that his absence from the Senate would not militate against the supporters of the débenture plan. He is for it. Ob- taining a pair for the Minnesota Sena- tor, however, may not be easy of accom- plishment. House Awaits Tariff Bill. | * While the Scnate was preparing to go to the mat over the debenture plan early this week possibly tomorrow, the POLICE FUND RAISE: WILL GET SUPPORT Senator Capper Favors Sum Officials Hold Is Needed. ven to handle the illegal. device. | The spraver adopted by the boot-! leggers is of the two-gallon size and manufactured for use of farmers in destroying insects and other pests com- | mon in fruit orchards. A copper tube | connects it to the exhaust manifold of | the automobile motor. A small petcock | on the tube near the sprayer controls | the flow of vil and other ingredients ! used to produce the dense smoke barrage. | Reporter Investigates Business. | With the aid of the Washington po- ! lice, a Star reporter set out yesterday | to learn the underlying principles of the | | comparatively new business created as | WHEN SEIZED IN HOTEL ~ Quartet, Charged With Conspiracy in Attempted Escape to Spain, Freed on Bond. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 4.—A former pay- master in the Mexican rebel army and his secretary, who slipped through the | fingers of the law in Kansas City, were | arrested here today in possession of a | black bag containing _approximately | $700,000, with which officials believed | | Veer in Wind Might Carry Craft Toward New England, Officials Say. i | By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa.. May 4—Floating eastward through a drizzle of rain and before a fairly stiff breeze, 12 balloo carrying 24 men, were in the air tonight after their take-offs in the Natianal elimination balloon race from Pitt Sta- !a result of the widespread use of the | they were absconding to Spain. Against Gas Tax. Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis- irict committee announced last night that he would support whatever in- crease in appropriations for police pro- tection that District officials deemed | necessary shortly after Representative | Holaday, Republican, of Illinois had declared that the Police Department had information indicating fhat per- sons other than rum runners are using cars equipped with smoke screens. Rep- reséntative Holaday, in a speech in the House last week, defended Policeman Clyde O. Rouse of the eleventh precinct, who was held to the action of the grand jury for killing the driver of a liquor car. Senator Capper also announced his vigorous opposition to the suggestion of a Migher gasoline tax. | “Washington is the Capital of the smoke screen. It was found that the business is yet in its embryonic stage, | but sufficiently well organized to mees, all current demands for the necessary equipment, and mechanical labor. Converston of the sprayers into smoke producing machines appears to be only a special and sideline service of the hardware store, which seems to have a monopoly on this business. This is due probably to an arrangement between the store and the mechanic who likewise appears to have an exclusive trade among the rum-running profession of installing these weapons of defense. The actual search for a smoke screen device started at a garage in Southern Maryland, where the reporter was ad- vised it could be produced and installed within a half an hour. Unfortunately, the mechanic at the shop where most of the Washington rum-running cars were understood to have been equipped had none in stock—the demand for the apparatus in the last week had ex- hausted the small supply he kept on hand. The mechanic, profusely apologetic, announced he could procure “a good screen” by the following day. A much better plan, he suggested, was for the { them were found a United | | States Government official and a former | United States official, who were charged | | with conspiring to assist the flight. | | The one considered the biggest catch | !is Salvador Ateca, the former rebel pay- | |master, who until recently held the gambling concessions in the Mexican | ————— HIT BY PASSENGER | His secretary is Antonio Maques. The others were Russell Mathews, as- Sailors Fought for Life Belt {sistant_director of immigration at EI |Paso, Tex., and W. H. Fryer, former nited States attorney at El‘ During Gale, He Says, but Praises Officers. | assistant U THE PRESIDENT | Paso. Ateca and Maques were arrested in Kansas City Wednesday by secret serv- | {ice operatives as fugitives from justice |from El Paso. Their bail was set at 185,000 each, which they promptly paid jout of the big black bag, and kept on | traveling. | Thinking. officials believe, they had | |outwitted the secret service, Ateca and Magques, with Matthews and Fryer, took | quarters in a Broadway hotel awaiting | a chance to leave the country. | ' There are two charges against Ateca | ‘ln El Paso. He is charged with violat- | ing the presidential neutrality procla-|BY the Associated Press. mation by smuggling an airplane to the CLEVELAND, May 4—That the Teporter to go to a certain Washington | orld’s greatest Nation and should be o) hardware store, purchase the “spray Mexican rebel forces across the border, House was in recess, waiting for the maintained as such.” Senator Capper| tarife bill. This measute has been com- caig “Its highways and its police de- pleted by the Republican members of Dortment should be maintained of | the ways and means committee and prought to a point equaling the best in sent to the printer. 1If it is printed in | the world. If further funds are needed. | time, it probably will be introduced in | the Federal Government should con-| the House tomgrrqw. I not. It will walt tribute its fair and equitable share of | is a huge bill, esti- | the cost.” mated 2t some 85000 words, and with | The Senator said that whether the| the changes fromthe present law indi- | District should have 100 additional po- | cated, has proved a big job t6 print. | jicemen and 80 additional detectives as | Majority Leader Tilson said last night | just recommended by Maj. Pratt “is, of that the House members may be given ' course, a matter that will have to be de- | two ‘or three days to digest the bill and | termined by the Commissioners and the | the report on it, before general debate | members of the House and Senate ;a- is begun. It is expected to limit the | propriations committee, after oareful general debate to a week and that it will be possible to put the bill through the House with another week of debate under the five-minute rule. The House is’ overwhelmingly Republican and the leaders believe they can pass the bill without much difficulty. | ‘The House committee is about two weeks late in completing the bill. It is ggnerally understood that the battle over the rates to be fixed in the bill has been brisk, with a huge number of de- mands for substantial increases. The desire of the President has been to limit the tariff revision so that it will merely supplement the present law. While the details of the bill now drafted have been jéalously guarded, it is un- derstood that many changes in the existing law have been made. An effort “has been made, generally speaking, to give the farmers all they want in the | matter of tariff revision in the agricul- | tural schedule, although in some quar- ters there are complaints that the farmers have been slighted. Debenture Inclusion Talked. “There is talk about seeking to piace | the debenture plan for farm relief in | the tariff bill. Indeed, the Democrats | hold that practically every member of | their party in the House would support | such a proposal, on the theory that if | the protective tariff theory is to be maintained, the debenture plan designed e give the farmers the benefits of the | tariff_should be carried out. However, | the Republicans have a lead of ap- proximately 100 votes in the House over | the opposition, and there is practically | no chance that the debenture plan can | be incorporated in the tariff bill there. 1f the debenture is offered as an amend- ment to the tariff bill in the Senate, | the vote will be close. One Republican consideration.” . Favors More Funds, If Needed. “However,” he continued, “I believe that those who are in charge of the Police Department and in daily contact with its work and problems are in the best position to advise as to the make- up and size of thé force required to | give the Nation's Capital adequate po- lide protection.” 1t more money is required for better | police protection it should be given promptly at the regular session in D cember, said the chairman of the Dis- trict. committee.* | “But, in no event,” he added, “should | the necesgity for additional expendi- tures on this account from the general | funds of the District be made an excuse | for increaging the gasoline tax and thus. fuvln;' part of the general fund now spent_for street repairs and_main- tenance. The motorists of the District are now paying all that they justly can be charged for street work. 3 “Through the presgnt gas tax of 2 cents a gallon, they paid to the District | more than 1,142,000 during the last| fiscal year. Total street expenditures | were less than $3,000,000, including the | grading and paving of new streets, | repair and maintenance work. Through the operation of the Borland act, the property owners of the District paid an | additjonal sum last year of $260,000 for | street work, and many of such taxpay- | ers are also contributors through the gas tax to street upkeep expenditures. “There is no justification in theory or fact for increasing the gas tax, what- ever the needs of the general fund may | be for increased police protection.” | Need for Protection Increased. Referring again to police problems, | Senator Capper pointed out that it is | easler to prevent criminal elements of | Senator, who is to vote against includ- | {ne country from gaining a_ foothold ing the debenture in the farm bill. is | here than to eradicate that class after saying privately that if it is offered | it has been permitted to establish itself., when the tariff bill comes up, he will | “We should move vigorously now to vote for it. However, if the debenture |xeep Washington from becoming & Ioses definitely in the present effort to | haven for criminals,” he went on, “and incorporate it in the farm bill. it. 15| if more police are needed for that pur-| likely to fail also to be included in the O & %an well afford to spend the tariff bill. | money required for thelr salaries. Wash- Even should the Senate by a narrow | ington has been growing at a tremend- | vote, keep the’debenture plan in the |ous rate. It is a city of wealth and farm bill. the House will not agree to it | easy of access. Therefore its need for have to go out of | police protection has increased greatly on Page 6, Column 1.) |in recent years. I am especially im- s | pressed with Maj n. for bet- | " (Continued on Page 2, mn 6.) MALONEY GETS 14 YEARS. : Chicago Policeman Only Eye-Wit- | | MAN WITH AUTOMOBILE ness in Murder Case. MARGO COUZENS STRIKES & CHICAGO May 4 (P).—The testi- mony of an eye witness and a ballistic expert were sufficient to convict George Maloney today of the murder of Hugh “Stubby” McGovern, slain during a New Year eve revel in the Granada Cafe. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison. The State could produce only one wit- ness. a policeman, from among the crowds who saw McGovern and William “Gunner” McPadden fall dead at their cafe table. willing to tell the jury he saw Maloney fire the shot. Maj. Calvin gun” and return to have it installed. Little Difficulty Experienced. In accordance with the suggestion, the reporter drove back to Washington, went into the hardware store, sought out the employe he was advised to call on and asked for a “spray gun.” With only a few preliminary and in- troductory questions the hardware clerk proceeded to assemble and connect the copper tubing, nuts, bolts and other ac- cessories essential to efficient operation of & smoke screen. He made little ef- fort to conceal his activities from other customers, Finally came the time to select the “spray gun” and remove from it the spray mozzle and other attachments necessary to the proper functioning of the sprayer when used for the purpose for which it was manufactured, but non-essential in a smoke scréen. The clerk led the reporter to & counter where on conspicuous display were two of the large orchard sprayers—not radically different in outward appear- ance—but different, in price. ‘The cheaper sprayer, the clerk ex- plained, was not copper lined like the one resting beside it which sold for sev- eral dollars more. The reporter did not know which one to choose, for he had not been informed as to which type the bootleggers had adopted. The clerk observed the reporier's puzzled expression. “This is the one generally used,” he volunteered, point- ing to the cheaper sprayer. “It will do the work.” The cheaper sprayer was ordered. The clerk took it, disconnected the nozzle and other non-essential gadgets, attached an adjustment on the hose which would fit a screw from the three feet of copper tubing and wrapped the complete outfit. The price was $10.50. There was nothing else to buy, not even a bolt or a screw. Back into Southern Maryland to the garage went the reporter with his smoke screen. The mechanic stopped work on (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Ship Is Reported Afire. NEW YORK, May 4 (#).—Harbor au- | thorities were notified tonight that the steamship Cabo Santa Maria, which left Seville. Spain, April 16, was ap- | proaching quarantine with a fire in her No. 3 hold. The municipal fire boat Willlam J. Gaynor was awaiting heri TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—28 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page 21. PART TWO—12 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Features. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Review of Spring Books—Page 4. . A. R. Activities—Page 5. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 9. PART THREE—16 PAGES. y. PART FOUR—22 PAGES Societ and’ Turning Amusement Section—Theater, Screen Accident Occurs When | and Music. and there is a civil action filed in the Texas city by the Republic of Mexico | and the State of Chihuahua seeking to regain funds allegedly appropriated from the Juarez city treasury. | Pending hearing bearing on extradi- | tion to face these charges, the gambler- | rebel and his secretary were held with- {out bail by a United States commis- | sioner. The two Americans were per- mitted bail of $2.500 each on the con- | spiracy charge, but this time no hand { was allowed to reach into the bulging i black bag to pay bail. Besides the bag with its golden cargo a. mass of documents was seized, in- cluding a notebook bearing references to J. Gonzalo Escobar, former Mexican Tebel generalissimo. United States At- torney Charles H. Tuttle told the com- missioner before whom the four pris- oners were arraigned that Ateca was charged with violating the neutrality proclamation “in that he sought to im- port into Mexico munitions of war with- out the consent of the Secretary of State of the United Staes.” Tuttle said he had also been in- formed by the Mexican consul general, who joined in this additional charge, that ‘Ateca and Maqueo had looted banks and the public treasury of the State of Chihuahua. It was not said whether the pair had taken this money with the sole intention of fleeing to Spain with it, or whether they had taken it, with or without rebel assist- ance, for the purpose of buying muni- tions for the rebels in the United States and, when they found them- selves hampered in this design, decid- | ing to use the money themselves, Big Roll of U. S. Bills. Among the items in the black bag were a roll of United States bills totalling $76,497; a bag of Mexican gold coin of a large but not immediately determined amount; 21 certificates of deposit on the First National Bank of El Paso, drawn to the order of Leo P. Shuster and indorsed by him and | Ateca, amounting to $104,098.27; a check to Ateca’s order on the Cana- dian Bank of Commerce for $14,661. and another on the same bank cf $750, and a certificate of deposit on the First National Bank of EI Paso, (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) { | | | | | DESTROYERS RECALLED FROM DUTY IN MEXICO {0 8. Is Confident That Revolt Is Erided, Clark, Undersecretary of State, Says. the west coast of Mexico during the recent revolution have been withdrawn, the Government feeling that they no linger were needed to protect American lives and interests in the neighboring republic, J. Reuben Clark, Undersecre- tary of State, announced vesterday. ‘The two destrayers were the Selfridge and Moody. The former was at Ma- | 7atlan, which was beseiged by the | Mexican rebels for several days, and the Moody at Guaymas, several hun- dred miles north of Mazatlan. The Selfridge was ordered back to its base at San Diego, Calif., several days ago. | The Moody received similar ~orders vesterda | efforts of officers of the ship to restore | order were frustrated by the crew. The Both destroyers which were sent to | Into Rock Creek Park—Victim 1 Not Hurt Seriously. An automobile driven by Miss Margo | Couzens, daughter of Senator Couzens of Michigan. struck and injured a 53- year-old colored man. shortly after noon vesterday. while turning into the entrance of Rock Creek Park from Mas- sachusetts avenue. The injured man, George Brown, 1912 Thirteenth street, was taken to Emergency _Hospital, where he was treated by Dr. C. B. White of the staff for bruises to his body and scalp lac- erations. His condition is not serious. Riedi Wikiskewad Russioher s Beasd Blovn, | Head Shaved When Trapped by Ruse Goddard. ballistic_expert, testified the fatal bullet was fired from Maloney’s gun The shooting was believed {o have been a part of the war for control of the southside beer trade. Br the Aseociated Press. MAGDALENA, N. Mex.. May 4.—Ray Morley's whiskers, which attracted much attention when he was in Washington D. C.. during the Hoover inauguration have been the victim of a conspiracy Morley, New Mexico rancher, equip- ped with an abundant stock of red whiskers) and wearing boots and a 10- gallon hat, went to Washington to Uy War Finance Corporation Yesterday Morley received a telephone call from District Attorney Fred Nichols {o come to a Magdalena garage. Mor- ley said he responded and was seized and bound while a barber shaved his iead and cut. off his whiskers. : Morley declared he would “get even’ with the district attorney, whom he charged with being the master mind back of the whisker conspiracy, v < to get $18,000,000 for stockmen from the | | In the Motor World—Pages 5. 6 and 7.' Aviation Activities—Pages 8 and 9. Praternal News—Pages 10 and 14. News of the Clubs—Pages 12 and 13. Army and Navy News—Page 14. Marine Corps Notes—Page 14. District National Guard—Page 15. Organized Reserves—Page 15. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 15. Veterans of Great War—Page 16. Radio New: ges 18 and 19. Serial Story—"Wolves of the Water- front”—Page 20. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 20. Spanish War Veterans—Page 20. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page PART FIVE—10 PAGES. Sports and Financial News. PART SIX—10 PAGES. ed Advertising. T. U. Activities—Page 9. At Community Centers—Page 10, Around the City—Page 10. | PART SEVEN—S PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Humor. | GRAVURE SECTION—S8 PAGES. \\K’nrld Events in Pictures. | COLOR SECTION—R PAG Moon Mullins; Somebody's Stenog: Or- phan Annie; Betty; Mutt and Jeff: Reg'lar Pellers: Mr. and Mrs.; High Lights of Histary. 22. Classifi w. C the Mexican revolution is over and that | | the main force of revolutionists was { crushed by the Mexican federal army. | desperate fight of the steamer City of Buffalo to avoid disaster on Lake Erie | | during the terrific storm of Thursday, | was handi- | sailors who | | Friday and Friday night capped at one time by | fought for life preservers was the story |told by Willlam Gibney of Buffalo, | were landed here safely today. | Gibney, vice president of the Bing- | ham Taylor Corporation, said: “A narrow escape from death by drowning was made worse by an unruly crew. At one time three of the crew | fought among themselves for possession | of a life preserver when passengers | still were waiting for theirs.” ! Gibney said, however, that the officers | “showed remarkable calm and force fulness in dealing with the crowd of in experienced youngsters who made up the crew.” Others Praise Officers. Other passengers were almost unani- : mous in praise of the splendid con- | trol of the situation by the ship's| officers under command of Capt. Allan | Strachan. “It was a terrible experience and au} | i crew was inefficient and unruly, and only through excellent work by the offi- cers was_a_panic prevented,” D. L. Cheney, Buffalo representative of the Marion Steam Shovel Co. of Marion, Ohio, said. The City of Buffalo tonight was awaiting repairs at a dock in harbor | at Conneaut, Ohio, where it was towed by three tugs after the passengers had gegn transferred today to the City of rie. The steamer’s battle against the storm | began shortly after it left Buftalo for | Cleveland Thursday night. Almost at the height of the storm, Friday morn- ing. it burst a cylinder head on one | of its engines, and then, drifting with- out power, lost its rudder. Rescue Attempts Balked. Distress signals were sent out and | the freighter Franz, two tugs and a | Coast Guard vessel answered. The Franz got a cable aboard the passenger | boat, but after towing it a short dis- tance the cable broke. Other attempts to give succor failed, and the City of Buffalo drifted mile after mile toward shore. Finally Capt. Strachan put his last hopes of saving the vessel into the chance that an anchor would hold. He won. The City of Erie arrived this morn- ing and took off the exhausted and | nervous passengers | Then the City of Buffalo was towed into the harbor. | " Both of the boats are owned by the Cleveland-Buffalo Transit Co. E. C. Wollaeger of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, said that “remarkable seaman- ship 'was shown by the crew. I was frightened when we lost our rudder. | but my confidence was restored by the | ship’s officers.” There were only three woman pas- sengers aboard. Two of them became | hysterical for a while when it seemed Mr. Ciark said there is no doubt that | that disaster was certain. Some of the passengers tried dancing Friday morning to keep up their spirits, " (Continued on Page 6, Column 4) Will Be Found Six Pages Are De In the section, designate More Sports News in This Issuc of The Sunday Star voted to the Latest Developments in the Athletic World d “Sports and Financial” also will be found news of the general trends in business-and on the stock marts. |N. Y., one of the 25 passengers who | Roger Vincent of Paris. who crossad it ! in PREFERS TO PICK HIS PISCATORIAT. PONDS. KLEIN AND FESS T TRADE WASTE Radio Speakers Cite Need for Unification of Commer- cial and Industrial Effort. {President Motors Through Maryland | With Mrs. Hoover |Trip to Annapolis | cludes Picnic Lunch by | Side of Road. In- | By the Associated ‘ess. President and Mrs. Hoover following a custom of years of spending in the country as many Saturday afternoons as possible, motored -through Maryland to = Annapolis yesterday afterncon lunched beside the.roadway and re- turned to the White House at 8:30 o'clock last night. Accompanied by Mark Sullivan, ncws- paper writer, and Mrs. Sullivan, who have gone on such trips with them One of the gravest problems peren- nially confronting the American tax- payer—how to make the dollar buy more—was attacked last night by two | experts in the National Radio Forum arranged by The Evening Star. Dr. have BONe on such trips With them | Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of efore, the President and Mrs, Hoover left the White House shortly before 2 | Commerce, and Senator Fess of Ohio o'clock. Plans for the trip had been |discussed two outstanding aspects of carefully guarded and the whdue House | the Nation's business in addresses | correspondents_were requested to stay | behind as the President was anxious to | Proadeast from station WMAL over the avoid crowds and curious spectators. | Columbia Broadcasting System's net- The }nrty re|tuhmefl u}: Wlsh{ngquby work of stations. The Forum, a weekly the Defense Highway. En route to An- i i napolis they stopped for a few minutes | '<P% 13 $PO by the Golumily at an old stone house at Brookeville System. where President James Madison and other Government officials were shel- | mree, Dr. Klein addressed himself to tered After the British burned the Gov- . ernment buildings in Washington. [ what' ne’ deseribed as “perhaps the The party stopped about 2 miles from | gravest aspect of the Nation's business, Annapolis, where a picnic lunch Was namely, the urgent need for revitahz- caten beside the road, after which they ino the entire system of merchandise lis. G e S | distribution in the United States.” Commercial Progress Stressed. Commercial progress, as indicated by the development of steam transporta- tion, with special reference to the prob- lem of railroad unification, was the burden of Senator Fess' address. He gave a comprehensive outline of the advantages to be derived from reducing the nearly 2,000 steam transportation companies to 20 systems. | In behalf of the Depariment of Com- CONCRETE WORKERS o o ! was the keynote of Assistant Secretary Strike, Threatening Federal Xiein's remarks. “In the opinion of trained observers g . and economists,” he pointed out, “there Building Projects, Ends |is not less than 8 to 10 billion dollars |of waste in the conduct of American | business every year. And there is as Accord Is Reached. | D™ oY to” Seiieve that highest ’smgle percentage of this waste arises in | the field of distribution.” The strike of reenforced concrete| He described this waste as “the rodmen and journeymen which brought | 8ravest lssue mow before the industrial this type of ‘work to a standstill on |Sod commercial community of the the Internal Revenue Building, part of | The Nation's prosperity, he said, is the Government's $50,000,000 public | €xplainable largely by the increase in building program, was brought to a | PUYIDE power. Achievement of national close last night by an agreement grant- ing wage increases and embodying other minor concessions which was | lowered. This is accomplished, he ex- signed by representatives of the union and the contractors following a pro- | pinined, by reducing the cost of making longed djscussion. 200ds and reducing the cost of getting | them to the consumer—that is to say, Even miore important than the sfl-idistrlbutlon. tling of the strike and the granting of the increased wages, according to| Trade Surveys Seen as Aid. the conferees, was the insertion in| “One major effort to curtail distri- |the agreement of a clause designed bution losses is through trade survey: |to make further strikes of this char- |of commercial areas of the country, acter impossible. :ee said. ";F:Vt:’ of the;se surveys have en completed—covering, respectively. Arbitration Is Provided. the six Southeastern States and {he The agreement, which becomes ef- | New England States. Others are in | fective as of May 1, is of three years' progress. duration. expiring May 1, 1932. A new == clause has been added, it was an- nounced last night by Francis F. Gillen, head of the conferees representing the | | contractors, providing for submission of | future disputes to arbitration. Under RAYON MILLS TO OPEN. | the new agreement it is proviaed that SR = | e e eme yenss"cnbion: pacty | TeUnessee Company Head Sets To- |may reopen negotiations regarding | morrow—Unions Hint Trouble. wages or any clause in the agreement | which may lead to dispute. If at the ELIZABETHTON. Tenn. May 4 (#). |end of 'six months no agreement is | —Dr. Arthur Mothwurl, president of | reached, last night's agreement pro- | the American Bemberg and American vides that the matter shall be submitted =Glanzstoff Corporations, whose rayon it | Blants near here have been closed since April 15 by a strike of the 5,500 em- | ployes, announced today that operations would be resumed Monday. Union leaders announced that if the | upon making the dollar buy more, and it follows necessarily that prices must " (Continued on Page 14, Column 1.) 1t is provided that a board of arbi tration shall be set up composed of member to be elected by the local | union, one member by the contractors | and a third member to be selected by Plants chose to reopen Monday they thete. two: | would cease their efforts toward an “We feel that this is an important |Amicable settlement and “would not be step forward in the relations between Iesponsible for anything that might oc- the reinforced concrete workers and CUr.” They expressed doubt that enough e coatiac s i e it workers could be obtained to enable op- are hopeful that it will work out in erations with even a skeleton crew. practice, and believe that in allowing | ) 3 a year in which to conduct the nego- tiations we will make it possible for a complete agreement to be reached (Continued on Page 6, Column 4.) FRENCH GIRL PEDALS WAY | ACROSS ENGLISH CHANNEL | His Ivory Fan By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 4.—The liner Bel- genland sailed today with the mess boy | suspecting the second engineer of hav- ing waltzed off with his kimono and the carpenter feeling quite sure that some grimy member of the black gang | had filched his ivory fan. DOVER, England, May 4.—Mile.| It all began yesterday when a cus- Almee Pfanner. a 22-year-oid manne- toms searching squad seized a truck quin, reached Dover at 6:05 p.m. to-load of souvenirs the crew had col day. having crossed the English Channel | lected during a world tour. Officis from Calais on a hydrocycle in 9 hours | later ruled that the mer were entitled and 19 minutes. to their purchases even though they The record for a crossing of the|had not been listed on the ship’s mani- Channel on a marine cycle is held by | fest. And so the packages, suitcases and Mannequin Goes From Calais to Dover on Hydrocycle in 9 Hours 19 minutes. By the Associated Press 5 hours and 35 minutes on April 17. fl ~ | progress, in a material sense, depends | Then there are a number of | ‘Carpenter Sure That dium here late today. Race officials believed that if the wind drift continued from the west the bags would float toward the Atlan- tic seaboard. A slight veer in the wind might take the balloons toward New | England, they said. Airmen termed. it “good balloon weather, guaranteeing Wi High winds, reported over the possi- ble course of flight, caused a one-hour postponement of the take-off. When the winds died down the pilots decided to start on the flight that will determine the American entry in the international balloon race. Promptly at 6 p.m. Easi- ern daylight time, the first bag was sent aloft, and at intervals of from two {o six minutes the others went up. | Given Pass Over Apollo, Pa. Seven bags, none of which was | identified, passed over Apollo, Pa.. ai ! & o'clock daylight time tonigit. Apolly is some 25 miles northeast of Pitts- burgh. The balloons were reported fiy- ing about 400 feet in the air. At an_earlier hour, 17 miles north- east of Pittsburgh near New Kensing- ton, Navy No. 2 was reported to have | come close to the earth. A resident of the vicinity phoned balloon head- quarters that as the craft swept pasi | him he talked with Lieut. Jack C. | Richardson, pilot. ~ Richardson was quoted as saying he was flying low in an effort to keep in a northerly wind current. He added that he was expect- ing a westerly wind later in the night. | The Navy bag gained greater altitude. | headquarters " was told, immediately after the pilot's conversation. A report from Indiana, Pa., 45 miles northeast of Pi h said a ‘was sighted there about 8 e'clock daylight time. The airmen were dump- ing ballast,- apparently getting ready to take & high altitude over the Allegheny Mountains. It was not identified. Army bags Nos. 1 and 2 were sighted at Leechburg, in the same county as Apolio, several hours after the take-off, balloon headquarters was advised. Capt. E. W. Hill, pilot of Army No. 2. dropped a mote which said he was traveling befween 10 and 12 miles an hour to the northeast. Rise From Inclosed Stadium. For the first time in the history of American balloon racing the bags wen® up from an inclosed stadium. Several of the pilots failed to gain altitude quickly and were forced to drop hallast before they had proceeded far. A ma- Jority of the racers made good altitude within a few minutes. After stud: those who preceded him aloft, H. E. Honeywell, pflot of the St. Louis Cham- ber of Commerce entry, discarded many ballast bags, and he shot higher than any of the others. When the first bag went up, the wind was north-northeast. By the time the sixth balloon was released, ‘Ithe wind had veeered generally east. | Race officials figured that at least 12 | hours would pass before any of the | bags reached the Atlantic Coast. | _Among the pilots was Wade Van | Orman _of Akron. Ohio. a_survivor of i (Continued on Page 6, Column 3. FORMER JUDGE SLAYS YOUNG SON-IN-LAW | Texan Explains Shooting by Say- | ing He “Had to Protect Family.” | By the Associatea Press. AMARILLO. Tex. May 4—R. M. | Hamilton, a former judge on the Com- | mission of Appeals of the Texas State Supreme Court, today shot and killed his 21-year-old son-in-law. Thomas Waiton, jr., and explained the slaying only by saying, “I had rather be dead than kill & man, but I had to protect my family.” The shooting occurred in Hamilton's law office, where the boy was reported |to have gone to disclose that he had married Hamilton'’s daughter Theresa. 19. Both Walton and his young wife formerly attended Texas University. Although Mr. Hamilton. after the shooting, denied that his daughter was married, records in the county clerk’s office at Georgetown. Tex., near Austin, | site of the university. Tevealed that Theresa Hamilton and Thomas Walton, jr.. were married last February 10. Jus- tice of the Peace Bryan Blalock said. he had performed the ceremony. Mr. Hamilton was released today on | $20.000 bond, after waiving preliminary hearing. | | | Stol(er F;lchccl in Souvenir Scramble ! land before it sailed today and dum; 1ln & heap on the aft deck. the crew being invited to dive in and help them- | selves to what belonged to them. Many of the crew were ashore when this invitation was extenc ~ and they | found little to retrieve when they res turned. A bellboy burst to tears jover the loss of two walking sticks | bought in Rangoon for his grandfather. There were numerous silk kimonos, fans and combs and shawls bought in the East for mothers, wives and sweet- hearts which apparently changed ownership without authority. Thus the Belgenland sailed with the crew divided in dark suspicion against itself and unanimone in what it said boxes were taken back to the Belgen- |about the customs agents.