Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1929, Page 2

HALT IN NAVY ARMS DISCUSSIONS SEEN Adjournment Likely Monday to Permit Private Conversations. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, May 4—More and more it is becoming clear at Geneva that it | is the big naval powers who must fur- | nish both the impetus and the actual | start for a real reduction in arma-| ments. | Europe seems plainly hesitant and | fearful when it comes to the question | of genuine scaling down in land arma- | ments. 1 When the preparatory disarmament ! commission resumes discussion on Mon- | day of naval disarmament questions. | a decision will undoubtedly be taken | to adjourn the problem until an un- fixed date in order to permit the five big naval powers to engage in| private conversations. Each of these wishes .to make a| profound study of the American sug- gestions for methods of reducing navies. | When these conversations shall have been completed with some measure of agreement, the League of Nations will be notified d another on of the preparatory commission convoked. New Zest Is Added. Failure of the naval negotiations would undoubtedly prove a serious | blow to general disarmament, but the third week that the preliminary con- ference has been in session ended today with clear indications that new zest was needed. The conference failed to agree on any suitable method for limiting war material and resorted to the idea that this must be sought by publicity on expenditures. This is admittedly a makeshift meas- ure. The League covenant already obliges members of the League to ex- change full and frank information con- ! cerning the scale of their armaments| and the condition of their industries adaptable to purposes of war. Rumor Germany Will Resign. [ Germany and Soviet Russia imme- | diately proclaimed the decision of the | conference ineffectual and tantamount | to renunciation of the attempt to limit war material. Count Von Bernstorff announced to- | day that Germany would assume no re- | sponsibility for the decision of the pre- | paratory commission. An unconfirmed rumor that Germany would later resign from the commission spread tonight. Von Bernstorff admitted that an en- couraging start had been made on the | question of reduction in naval arma- ments and addressed an appeal ‘o all governments to instruct their delegates that at a later international disarma- ment conference some genuine progress | ight be achieved on reduction of land rmaments. U. S. OFFICIAL HELD RAYMOND PATTON APPOINTED 10 SUCCEED JONES Veteran in Service of U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur- vey Becomes Director. S. PATTON. Raymond S. Patton of 3920 McKinley streef, hvdrographic and geodetic en- gineer, has been appointed director of | the United States Coast and Geodetic | Survey to succeed E. Lester Jones, who died April 9 Mr. Patton is 45 years old. and has | been with the survey for 25 years, working his way from the ranks. At the time of his appointment, to succead Mr. Jones he was chief of the division of | charts in the Washington office of the survey. He' was graduated from V’es'ern Re- | serve University in 1904 wiih » Ph. B. | degree. He joined the survey tie same year and saw-12 vears' field #-rvice in Alaska, the Philippines and along the coast of the United States, where he commanded one of the survey’s ships. | In 1917 he was transferred to the Navy | Department. He was made chief of the division of charts of the Washington office in April, 1919. Mr. Patton is a member of the United | States Geographic Board, chairman of the National Research Council's com- mittee on shore-line change director of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association and a member of the American Society of Civil En-| gineers, MR. AND MRS, GARVAN| GET CHEMIST MEDAL THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. WAR DEBT ACCORD - HINGES ON ALLIES (Action on Figurcs Proposed | by Young Believed to Be | Key to Problem. ! By the Associated Press. | PARIS, May 4—Solution of the prob- |lem of German reparations seemed to- | night to depend upon decision of the | allies as to whether they are willing to | | accept figures proposed by Owen D. | | Young and accepted by the German ex- | | perts. | What those figures are remains a | strict secret between the negotiators, | | But. according to the best information. | | they involve important concessions from | | the figures p~sented by the creditor | nations in their memorandum. Figures Ready Several Days. After tentative acceptance by the Ger- mans of the figures proposed by Mr. Young, representatives of the allied | powers were assembled today in the | Hotel George V to consider them. What they concluded is not known, but there are many reasons for believing that they deferred acceptance of the pro- | posal. : Mr. Young's figures were prepared | several days -ago and, according to American sources, were the normal con- | { sequence of his memorandum which | preceded the German offer. i The best information available tos | night gave the figures as about half way | between the allied demands and the German offer on annuities. American expert. circles deny that the figures are half way and there is no way of veri- | fying them with strict exactitude. { "In any ease it is supposed in other allied circles that Mr. Young's proposal demands an additional sacrifice on_the part of France and her allies. Upon this rests the crucial point of the ne- gotiations. Accord is Possible. If France and her allies are willing | to make sufficient deductions from their | reparations claims, then an accord is | quite possible. | Further concessions from the French and the Beigians, it is pointed out. de- pend upon public opinion. The Prench delegates consider that they have gone to the limit admitted by public senti- ment in Prance, where nobody is willing to concede that payments on war debts should exceed receipts from Germany for the devastation of invaded French territories. 1 SENATORS DIFFER | ON MELLON STATUS Eight of 17 Committee Mem-' bers Uphold His Right HOW A SMOKE SCREEN APPARATUS IS OPERATED SHOKE DEVEE | ESLY OTAND Rum Runners’ Latest Weap- on Creates New Industry for Auto Mechanic. (Continued From First Page) | the timing gea¥ of another machine and | proceeded immediately to install the contraption. He drilled & hole near the first cylin- der, pointing out that the connection at this point would cause all six of the cylinders to function as smoke producers: when given & “shot” of oil from the sprayer. The hole could be placed at any other point on the manifold. he ex- | plained, but the eficiency of the smoke screen would not be as great. One end of the three feet of copper tubing was connected to the newly drill- ed hole. Another hole was drilled under the frant dashboard and the other end of the tubing was put through it and attached to the spray can which the. Dy €. MAY 6. 1 929—PART 1. { 1 | | Sextet Made Escape DEL RAY BANDITS ARE SOUGHT HERE Into District With $2,000 Loot, Pofiie Believe. The trail of six bandits who yester- day robbed the Bank of Del Ray, Va, pointed strongly toward Washington, with the few clues pieced together by District and Virginia police officials bearing out their theory that the job was accomplished by members of the District’s criminal world. Several suspects picked up here late yesterday afternoon and subjected to severe grilling were later released when | police were satisfied that they had no connection with the holdup. It 15 known, however, that the police have at least one other suspect urider obser- vation, and his arrest is expected mo- | mentarily. A check-up at the bank by Nelson T. | Snyder. jr., president: Clay T. Brittle, cashier. and officials of an insurance company revealed that the total loot | amounts to $2.808,70. including $108.18 which the bandits took from F. L. Holt, a depositor, when he walked into the bank during the holdup. The amount of the theft is fully covered by insur- ance, according to Brittle The robbery oocurred at 10:05 o'clock during the absence of Brittle. Only Charles E. Jones of Braddock. Va.. assistant cashier, and Miss Mary Ford Alexandria, stenographer, were in | the bank at the time. Jones looked up from his books to see two men covering him with pistols while three others. als> armed. were standing nearby, with a sixth guarding the door. Miss Ford was ordered into the vault and forced to face the wall where she was joined by Jones. Boy Bound by Bandit. Roy Thomas, 12. of Mount Ida. walked into the bank and was grabbed J | A Star reporter vesterday demonstrated how easily a smoke screen could be obtained. He bought the apparatus at hardware store in the District which makes a specialty of this business, obtained all the necessary attachments, then went into Maryland and had it installed at a shop which makes a specialty of these installations, Upper left: The “can,” or spray d r right: The copper tube which feeds oil from the “can” to the exhaust manifold. evice attached under dashboard. N lp‘n Below: The apparatus in actual operation. | —Star Staff Photos. SMOKE SCREEN CAR |INCREASE IN FUNDS FOR POLICE TO GET | | IRED CROSS WORK {the vault and the | by two of the bandits, who tore the | wire from two telephones and trussed him up, tying him to a chair near the vault. One of the robbers found $20 in small bills in the boy's pockets, but refused to take it when told jt was money the i boy had saved and had come to the bank to deposit. Holt entered the bank after the bandits had taken all the currency from drawer at Jones' window. Several hundred dollars in coins was passed up by the bandits. Taking Holts’ money, they added that to their haul and forced him to join Miss Ford and Jones in the vault. An attempt was made to lock the vault ° door, but a safety catch., which is kept sprung. thwarted the effort. Warning the trio to keep their faces to the wall the men walked casually into the street, crossed Mount Vernon avenue and entered an automobile headed toward Washington for a quick getaway. Hearing the roar of the bandits’ car as it sped away, Jones rushed from the bank and told his story to Mayor Wal- ter B. Fulton and Town Police Sergt. A. F. Driscoll, who immediately phoned the District, Alexandria, Arlington and Fairfax Counties’ police. Roads Are Guarded. All of the roads leading out of Del Ray were guarded carefully, but since no machine answering the description one used by the bandits was mechanic has filled with dirty crank- | case drainings. Mechanic. Insists on Test. There was no attempt at disguise of the mechanic’s operations, for there | was no reason for him to envelop his activities with secrecy. The Maryland — (Continued From First Page) ‘ CAPPER’S SUPPORT | |the bandits made their getaway into n before the watch could be Di ‘wa:ed t this point. Unusual Group of Disasters pesied at this point. = esed s Makes New Record fo’r speeding machine into Alexandria, but IN FLIGHT PLOT OF REBEL PAYMASTER| (Continued From First Page.) 1S TAKEN BY POLICE Colored” Prisoner Is Seized| After Chase Along Institute for First Time Goes Out“ of Ranks of Profession to Choose Recipients. to Office. | ter and more thorough training of re- cruits to the Police Department, and for the further development of the Detective Bureau. A policeman on duty | has the most serious responsibilitie: He not only has the duty of protecting | property, but he may be and often 1is | By the Associated Press. H ‘The right of Andrew W. Mellon to | serve as Secretary of the Treasury, al-| {108t it in the heavy trafic. The car when first observed was traveling By the Associated Press. i L directed to the International Banking Go. of Madrid, Spain, for 100,000 pesos. ¥ There weres ~eertifioates posit on the El Paso bank drawn to Ateca's credit for 200,000 pesos, for $2,978 and for 50,000 and 60,000 pesos. There were two checks on the State National Bank of El Paso to Ateca’s arder for 25,000 pesos each, and a cer- tificate for 550 thares of stock of the Altar & Cananea Mining Co. 14 Trunks to Be Held. ‘Tuttle raid he was informed last nigit that Ateca and Maqueo were on their way here and immediately posted guards at all raiiroad stations. Today he wa: informed by the guards at the Pennsyl- vania Station that the two men, with Pryer and Matthews and a woman and three children, had arrived there. Wita secret service men trailing them, the members of the arriving party took a taxicab to the hotel, where the arrests and seizure were made. Tuttle declined to identify the woman and children. There '!mno resistance to arrest. A pearl-] ed revolver belonging to Ateca and an automatic pistol owned by Maqueo were seized in their room. Tuttle was informed after the ar- rests that 14 trunks the prisoners checked in Kansas City were awaiting disposition at the Pennsylvania Station, and said he would have them im- pounded. REBELS LOSE CALVILLO. MEXICO CITY, May 4 (#).—Special | dispatches from the city of Aguas Calientes today said that Federal troops have driven the rebels from the nearby | town of Calvillo, which they had held since the Federal garrison departed nearly two months ago to fight Gen.' Escobar’s insurgents. Most of the rebel defenders were re- ported to have been killed in the fight | for the town, but the number of casu- alties was not given. DEATH ATTEMPT REPORTED. Man Holds Open Knife in Hand “'hile; Embracing General. the Associated Press. NOGALES, Ariz, May 4—Reports| were received by the Nogales Herald from Hermosillo, Sonora, that an tempt was made there last night to assassinate Gen. E. Plutarco Calles, commander-in-chief of the Mexican armies and former President of Mexico. The reported attemrt was made dur- ing a reception giver in honor of Gen. | Calles. A man se:d to be mentally unbalanced, the son of the late Rafael Izabel, governor of Sonora during the Diaz regime, embraced Gen. Calles dur- | ing the reception, holding in his hand | an open knife. ks Gen. Rico, who took an important | part in the Mazatlan siege, seized the young man, quickly disarmed him and the reception proceeded. CALLES REACHES NOGALES. Be | Mexican Leader Establishes Head- quarters in Old Rebel Stronghold. NOGALES, Sonora. May 4 (P .—Gen. | Plutargo Elias Calles. commander of | the Mexican Federal army. accom- panied by Gen. Abelardo Rodriguez, | governor of Lower California, arrived in this horder city today by airplane from Hermosillo, capital city of Sonora. | Fae Mexican generalissimo imme- | diately established headquarters in the former rebel stronghold and was busy receiving callers, both Mexican and American. 3 Gen. Calles declined to be interviewed on Mexican internal affairs, saying his | reports must be submitted only to Presi- dent Portes Gil. He smiled when he was asked if, in his opinion, the revo- Jution was over, and with a twinkle in his eye said: ‘Events speak for them- selve 10 Die in Moslem-Hindu Clash. MBAY, India, May 4 (P —Fight-| so“‘neen Moctlems and Hindus today | terday had resulted up to this evening in the killing of 10 persons and injuries to 180. The ccntinued as- eaults and etabbings led to such hig and NEW YORK. May 4.—Mr. and Mrs. Francis Patrick Garvan tonight {were presented with the medal of the Amer- ican Institute of Chemists, awarded “for noteworthy and outstanding serv- ices to: the science of chemistry® for their financial support of the Chemical Foundation. The award to Mr. and Mrs. Garvan, has gone outside the ranks of the pro- fession to choose recipients of its medal. John W. Davis, Dr. John J. Abel of Johns Hopkins University, Dr. John H. Pinley, Dr. Charles H. Herty and Dr. Prederick E. Breithut, president of the institute, spoke at the presentation ceremonies, which were held the Engineeging Societies’ Auditorium. Mr. Garvan first became interested in the chemical industry of the United States during his war-time work as head of the Bureau of Investigation of the alien property custodian's office. Since then he and Mrs. Garvan have contributed heavily to the educational program of the Chemical Foundation, of which he was the first president and which was formed after the war to take over - the seized German chemical formulas. TWO WOMEN ARRESTED ON LIQUOR CHARGES Three Men Also Taken Into Cus- tody as Police of Sixth Precinct Stage Two Raids. Five persons, two of them women, were arrested last night by sixth pre- | cinct police in two raids, on charges of manufacturing end possessing liquor. The first raid was on a house in the 400 block of G street. Police say they found a erap game in progress and 50 gallons of mash and two dozen botiles of alleged beer. Helen V. McLearen, 24 years old, and Joe L. Lewis, 23, were charged with permitting gaming and menufacture and ssession. In the 100 block of Second street, Sam Shusten, 50, was arrested on 2 charge of conducting a disorderly house and manufacture and possession of liquor. Mary A. Lagree, 28, of the same address and Alton V. Weston, 33. were charged with manufacture and posses- sion. A man and a woman were also ar- rested at the Second street address on statutory charges. They were later re- leased in $50 collateral each. after be- ing booked as Jean Perrigo, 26, and Gus Mudis, 38. Two hundred bottles of alleged home brew were seized. The raiding party consisted of Lieut. J. E. Sullivan and Precinct Detectives John Boxwell and E. C. O'Meara. ASSISTANT U.S.ATTORNEY | INPENNSYLVANIARESIGNS Franklin J. Graham Says He Wae Subject of “Unjustifiable Com- plaint,” Had Vare Support. B the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA. May 4. —Franklin J. Graham, assistant United States At- torney for Eastern Pennsylvania, today tendered his resignation to Attorney General Mitchell, declaring he would not remain in office “under suspicion of any kind.” ‘The resignation came on the heels of reports from Washington. which follow- ed upon a conference between Graham and Assistant United States Attorney General Marshall, that he had been re- quected to relinquish his post. had resigned, said he had requested the Department of Justice to make complete investigation into the ‘“unjustifiable complaint” against him, and added that such an investigation would vindicate him. Graham declined to indicate the na- ture of the complaint sgainst him. He tension that the curfew regulation to- night was placed in force throughcut the cif was appointed after he was recommend- ed by Willlam §. Vare. He is 31, and a World War veteran, ) -| were recorded last night.. They divided, S | Stefwer, Republican, of Oregon, hold- | | | i Graham, in a statement just after he | though he is a l':e:h’od!der 1';1 Mv:flog enterprises, was e] yest y 8 of the 17: unigu of the Senate judiéiary mmfium, but & pofl failed to develop & majority and three sep- arate. reportgwil be submitted to the Senate Jor {t¥ decision. Fifteen members of the committee 8 to 7, in fatpr of the report of Senator ing that Mr. Mellon's stockholdings do not violate the statute forbidding the Secretary of the Treasury from an in- | terest in carrying on trade or com- merce. Investigation Is Opposed. Sixteen members e _recorded on | the motion of Senator Walsh, Demo- crat, of Montana, proposing an open investigation of Mr. Mellon's relations with the companies in which he is a stockholder. The vote stood 9 to 7 against that course. The report of Chajrman Norris de- claring t Mr. Mellon as & stock- holder was disqualified from continuing in the post he has held for eight years stood rejected by a vote of 11 to 4. Senator Ashurst, Democrat, -of Ari- zona indicated that he would not vote on any of the feports, but that he would oppose the motion to have the commit- tee conduct hearings, thus making a majority of the committee against the ‘Walth motion. Senator Stephens, Dem- ocrat, of Mississippi. the only other un- recorded member of the committe, has been absent from the city and has not participated in the committee discus- sions. 3 With the reports coming before the{ Senate this week. Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee,” author of the resolution’ ordering the inquiry into the | right of Mr. Mellon to hold office, an- nounced he would bring the question to a decision by a motion to adopt the re- port of Senator Norris. Other Reports Being Prepared. Senator Walsh, who asked the open investigation, produced before the com- mittee testimony of Secretary Mellon relating to a visit by him to Canada in 1925 in his interests as a stockholder in | the Aluminum Co. of America. He sald he intended to put that matter before the Senate. Senator Borah, Re- pubican, of Idaho and Senator King, Democrat, of Utah are preparing a third report. The vote for the Steiwer report lines up as follows: PFor—Steiwer, Oregon; Gillett, Massachusetts: Deneen, Illinois; Robinson, Indiana; Waterman, Colo- rado; Burton, Ohio, and Hastings, Dela- ware, Republicans, and Overman, Demo- crat, North Carolina. Against—Norris, Borah and Blaine, Wisconsin, Republi- cans; Walsh, Caraway, Arkansas, and King and Dill, Washington, Democrats. The vote against the Walsh resolu- tion showed the same line. ‘Those supporting the report of Senator Norris included besides the author, Senators | ‘Walsh, Blaine and Caraway. KILLED HIS STEPMOTHER AND FATHER, SAYS TEXAN| Confession Signed After Killing Bays Stick of Wood Was Used and House Then Burned. By the Associated Press. MEXIA, Tex., May 4.—Lloyd David- son, 34, son of W. H. vidson, signed . a confession here today that he killed his father and stepmother, Mrs. Eila D. Davidson, with a stick of wood Priday at their country home and then set fire to the house. The confession, witnessed by a citizen | and the chief of police, said Lloyd Da- vidson was at his father’s home and an argument arose. The stepmother hit the youth over the head with a flash- light and he grappled with her, it con- tinued. The father interfered and Lloyd struck him with a stick of wood. After the elder Davidson was knocked down, Mrs. Davidson was killed, the statement A can of oil then was obtained the house was burned. After the confession recorded, young Davidson was taken to jail at Groesbeck to await grand jury action Meonday. The county attorney sald an axe was found near the scared bodies law, while forbidding the use of smoke screens,’ does not -make it {llegal to install orfe pn an’automobile. The in- stallation of such devices is just an- other legitimate source of income for the mechanic. ’ ‘The installation was finished in about a half an hour, and the mechanic in- | sisted on giving the apparatus a test | before accepting his fee, which was $2.75, A smooth stretch of Southern Mary- land highway was selected for the test. The reporter was told to “step on the gas” and when the speedometer flashed near the 40-mile-an-hour mark, the mechanic shoved down on the pump of the sprayer. Fire and then a huge cloud of light gray smoke belched from the rear of the car, complétely obliterating the highway behind as well as everything else within 30 or 40 feet on ejther side of the rogd: The exhayst’ muffler groaned and shrieked from fts new ex- perience. The mechanic gave the pump another push. more oil poured into the exhaust manifold and the smoke volume increased in density. The screen was | now functioning its best—the road, the trees and the surrounding terrain were thoroughly énveloped in evil smelling smoke. Advised to temove Evidence. The mechanic smiled. The test had been successful. “You should not have any troublé now,” he said. “The cops are piving you fellows hell with these | thiisgs up in- Washington, so you had better take it off until you want to use_it.” The car was stopped, the spray can be disconnected from the tubing and concealed under the rear seat. The tube also was taken off and hidden. Into the freshly drilled hole in the manifold exhaust where the oil is shot into the intense heat to be transformed into smoke, the mechanic screwed a plug which prevented the exhaust fumes from discharging prematurely under the hood of the car. The apparatus can now be put into operation in a few minutes. The widespread use of the smoke screens and the new business it has cre- ated followed the enactment of the Jones law, Only a few rum runners Tesorted to the use of smoke barrages to escape capture before its passage. 1 but police believe nearly all liquor cars | now running bstween southern Mary- | land and Washington are equipped with | in two or three decades,” a smoke throwing device. The increased use of these smoke sereens is not only endangering the lives of the police who chase the run runners, but those of the motorists who travel the southern Maryland roads. As a re- sult, A. C. Thompson, Prince Georges County constable, announced yesterday he would appeal to State authorities in Baltimore to adopt new and drastic measures to rid the highways of ths fast-traveling, smoke-belching, liquore laden cars. Eight Complaints Received. Within the last two weeks Thompson declared he "c'm& eight specific com- | ts against e E.E:nuc‘kmn".u‘l'hmll justification motor: ists on pleasure rides in southern Mar: land, while in one instance. a rum run ner. in a playful mood, laid down a é~ren smoke barrage in front of a groun o children who had just been dismissed fram s~hnol “The smoke sereen is no longer a m-nace to the pelice,” th> constable said. “but it is being used by the un- serupulous liquor runners as a plav- thing, perhaps for the want of a little more excitement. “The other dav one of the rum cars, headed toward Washington with a load, shot past a machine containing a_man and bis family near Mattawoman Swamp and pumped out a blinding smoke cloud. The hootleggers looked back and laughed as the driver strug- gled to bring his car to a stop. When it did come to a halt. rested about 5 inches from a danger: ous cuivert.” The rum cars also are a menace, [ Bidge Road. The . polics drive against operators of sulomobfles. . equipped with smoke screens bore fruit late last night when two policemen of the eleventh precinct arrested Clarence Ellis, 32, colored, after an exciting chase along Ridge road southeast. a A large automobile in which Ellis was a passenger was being chased for speeding. On overtaking the car, Police- men Charles H. Warder and D. Milstead observed that the smoke screen was fitted in the car, connected with the manifold and ready for operation. Policeman Warder in describing the chase and capture said the smoke screen was not used. The two policemen drove Ellis in the car to the eleventh precinct. He was charged with driving an automobile with smoke screen attached, and driving without an operator's permit. A few minutes after the car was 1 brought in Policeman M. Znanenacek | identified the machine as the one that “smoked” him with foul smelling gas on April 21 in the same neighborhood. “Two colored men were driving the car at that time and I noticed ecases that I supposed to be whisky in the back seat,” he said. Milstead expressed amazement that the men drove their tomobile after finding on his drive to the precinct that the machine had no brakes, either foot pedal or emergency. Ellis will be given a hearing tomorrow | morning. M. E. EISH OPS PRAISE HOOVER'S A. P. ADDRESS Conferences n Cincinnati Bishopric are Reassigned Because of Henderson's Death. the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr., May 4.—Bishops of the Mehod.st Episcopal Church in con- vention ioday commended President Hoover’s address at the recent Asso- 'd Press meeting. “It was called one of the most courageous utterances by a President said Bishop Titus Lowe of Portland, Oreg., official spokesman at the convention. As the result of the death of Bishop T. S. Henderson of Cincinnati, the con- ferences in that bishopric were reas-’ signed. The Cincinnati area was given to Bishop Herbert Welch of Pittsburgh, the Ohio conference to Bishop Edgar Blake of Indianapolis, and the Kentucky con- ference to Bishop H. L. Smith of Chat- tanooga. By . | protect other lives. bootleggers for | \ the machine | Thempson said, because of the exeessive | speed at which they operate. Traveling between 60 and 75 miles an hour even through towns and villages, he ex- | leggers are adding ingredients to the oil | in the apparatus to either temporarily blind or irritate the eyes of any one | who may fall victim to a barr: Some add red pepper or mustard to the ofl, ~ | according to the constable, while others use ammonia or turpentine to accom- plish the same purpose. Will Offer Two Suggestions. Thompson pointed out he had two plans to suggest to the State authorities to curb the rum runners and end the reign of the smoke screen's terror along the Southern Maryland highways. One is to have the police stop and search every machine ington for a smoke device as well as liquor. The other is to have the s1®ke screen outlawed as a felony like the District has done in its effort to combat the use of this comparatively new menace. While the Maryland laws now pro- hibit _smoke screens, there is nothing on the statute books, he explained, to make the sale and installation of the evice illegal. Consequently, he said, any garage owner or mechanic may in- sta interference. In fact, he declared he had been informed that one garage in Southern Maryland had been specials plained, makes it exceedingly hazardous | izing in the installation of the smoke for other machines to get in their paths. ‘The smoke alone is dangerous eno making devices on the rum cars, and gh, | in one week recently had eauioved as Thompson said, but many of the boot- many as 20 machines, caded toward Wash- the apparatus without .fear of, 7 calied upon to risk his own life to He has the power of life and death in his hands, and it needs mo argument to prove that every member of the Police Depart- ment should be thoroughly trained not only to combat the criminal element but to know:and respect the legitimate | rights of law-abiding citizens.” | Representative Holaday outlined his | views as a member of the subcommittee | handling the District budget which car- b | ries funds for support of the Police De- | imrpmenL | His statement follows: | “The Washington Police Department is maintained in part by appropria: | tions made by the Congress of the | United States. The House committee on appropriations, in making these ap- | propriations, takes the recommendations | of the subcommittee on appropriations for the District of Columbia. I am a |‘member of this committee, and, as such, | feel some responsibility for the proper | :unctmnlnl of the Washingion police orce. | “Judged on a basis of courtesy, | honesty, efficiency and devotion to duty, | I believe the Washington Police Dapart- ment, in personnel, compares favorably with that of any city in the United | States. | police force honestly performs the “As long as a member of the city duties of his position he is entitled to | commendation and I shall support him. | When an officer is negligent in the per- formance of his duties, I shall certainly recommend his dismissal. “While T was addressng the House of Representatives April 28, I did not especially direct my remarks to the rum runner who used a smoke screen. but my remarks were directed to all | men using smoke screens without refer- ence to any particular crime that may have been committed. Acording to the Municipal Code of Washington, any one using & smoke screen is committing a felony. Smoke screens are not only effective in eluding pursuit, but are dan- gerous to life and proverty. Informa- tion that has come to the police depart- | ment indicates that criminals other | than rmm runners are using cars equip- | ped with smoke-screen apparatus. It is | the duty of an officer to arrest anv one | using a smoke screen, regardless of that | person's intent. |~ “On being selected for the District of Columbia appropriations subcommit- | tee. 1 assumed certain responsibilities | incident to the City of Washington, and its police department, and I shall cer- tainly support the members of the po- lice force in their attempts to appre- hend those persons who endanger safety of life in the National Capital. “I am pleased to note a general ac- | ceptance of my point’of view in this | matter by the press of Washington. and | the,various civic, business and religious | organizations.” IDAHO BOARD HAS POWER | 70 BAN GIRLS’ OVERALLS Attorney General Supports School Authorities’ Right to Do Most Anything “Within Reason.” By the Associated Press. BOISE, Idaho, May 4.—If the board of trustees of the Soda Springs School district doesn't want the girls there to wear overalls to school, the girls can't wear ‘em, Attorney General W. D. Gillis ruled toda Myrtle R. Davis, State superintendent of public instruction, had informed the attorney general that the situation in Soda Springs was such that an opinion was needed—in a hurry. It seems that the eighth grade girls not only wore ordinary overalls, but even wore the bibless kind, much to the ‘indignation of the teacher. ! Attorney General Gillis quoted at : length from different court decisions, the general trend of which was that boards of school trustees could do al- most anything “within reason.” Dashing down & steep incline near Durham, England, recently, kept to the track for a mile, the turned a complete somersault, killing four men who were riding in the cab. | than the average. For the past five | . Far-Flung Activities. & s kb e By the Assoclated Preses -« |~ With*more than ha!lf the States in | the United States receiving aid as the result of 1929 disasters. the American Red Cross faces an unprecedented re- Hef situation. Statistics assembled at Red Cross | headquarters yesterday showed _that Cross workers are now extending relief in 25 States. Five of these States | have suffered twicé recently and two | States have suffered three times. Exclusive of the Virginia tornado of |May 2 and the New Hampshire flood |of May 3, tvictims of disaster this | Spring totaled 116,016 persons. Be- | cause their workers have entered the | fleld so recently, the Red Cross has | not vet been able to make an accurate i check on the last two of the 26 di | asters which have occurred since Janu: ary 1. One hundred and fifty-nine trained relief workers were busy yesterday in | widely-scattered fields. They were fur- nishing shelter, food and clothing to the residents of the New Hampshire village of Kidderville, virtually wiped out by the breaking of the Balsam Dam :‘nfl‘:ly night. They were penetrating | about Rye Cove, Scott County. Va., to fight the threatened tetanus aftermath of Thursday night's tornado. Making Canvass. | canvass in Dublin, Ga. to make cer- | tain that every vietim needing anti- | tetanus toxin as the result of injuries Teceive treatment. They were distribut. bama River from a relief boat preceded by a scout boat. In Seribmer, Nebr., { they were caring for the widows of | men killed in a dynamite explosion. While there have been many times |in the history of the organization when | there were more Red Cross workers in the field, due to some tremendous single disaster,” there has never been a time when Red Cross activities were so far flung as the result of many minor disasters. 1928, 88 catastrophies requiring relief measures were tallied by the Red Cross bureau of statistics. In the period from | July 1. 1928, to May 4, 1912, 116 dis- | asters had been reported. Record of Relief. Since the close of its last fiscal year | the American Red Cross has appropri- | ated $750,000 from the national treasury for disaster relief. The major portion of this amount has besen appropriated | since the 1st of January to care for the many catastrophies of 1629. If the appropriation continues at its present rate, the organization will have expended $900,000 in relisf at the end of its fiscal year, almost $200,000 more years the average has been $815,000. Statistics assembled over a. period of 48 years indicate that disastrous storms re as frequent in their visitations as res and floods combined. Mississippl, however, tallied two floods to one tornado this Spring. Georgia | had two tornadoes and one flood. Ke: | tucky, North Carolina, South Carolin: ! Tlinois and Alabama had two disasters | aplece, with floods taking precedence | over tornadoes. | The rest of the States visited by | catastrophy and which are now recup- |erating were Wyoming, Nebraska, Pen | sylvania, Florida, Towa, Montana, Ar- | kansas, Tennessee, New York, Virgini Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wis- | consin, Texas, Maryland, West Virginia and New Hampshire. Three Die at Crossing. ‘ ASHLAND, Ohio, May 4. | Grover C. Lockhart, 45, a farmer of near Pavonia, his wife, Mrs. Belle Lockhart, 45, and their 7-year-old daughter, Dora, were killed late today when their automobile was struck by wfi train at the Dyke six miles west of here. e Lockharts home. ). — - the remote mountain districts | ‘They were making a house-to-house ' received in the April 25 tornado should | ing seed. feed and mules along the Ala- | During the fiscal year ending June 30, | | toward Washington at an _excessive rate of speed. It later doubled back towards Alexandria and, taking it to be a ex driver, the officer gave chase. Mayor Fulten asserted he believed the men separated after leaving Del Ray end that the machige chased was prob- ebly trying to escape into Washington. | The theory that it might be a “decoy’ { employed to throw police off the trail | while " the actual robbers made good their escape also was advanced. | From descriptions of the men police | agree that they were “foreigners.” J. W. Stunkle, who lives near the bank, said he noticed a machine occu- pled by six men come to a halt in front | of his house shortly before 10 o'clock. The driver, he said, cut off the motor and two of the occupants got out and |walked toward the bank. Soon after |two more alighted and walked in the same direction, followed a moment later y a fifth, who carried a tan suitcas>. Observing the suitcase, Stunkle con- the men were salesmen. and {car turned round and pulled to {in front of the bank. Shortly after- | ward he heard of the robbers. The car {bore a District of Columbia license plate, he said, but he did not observe he number. TEMPERANCE PRIZE SOUGHT BY 68,624 Practicable Plan as Substitute for H Prohibition Is Aim of Hearst Contest. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 4.—Entries in the | 825,000 temperance prize contest “to | procure a practicable plan as & sub- | stitute for prohibition.” sponsored by | Willlam Randolph Hearst, stood at 68,624 today, the directors announced, | This is expected to be within a few hundred of the final number of com- petitors. 5 ‘The W. C. Durant $25,000 contest for the best plan to enforce prohibition | drew 23,230 entries. The winner was Maj. Chester P, Mills, former Federal prohibition administrator in New York, who has also entered the Hearst contest. Other entrants In the Hearst contest include: Frank C. Chavez, United States attorney, Shreveport, La.: Dr. John L. Pomeroy, Los Angeles County health | officer, Los Angeles: James W. Gerard, former Ambassador to Germany and treasurer of the Democratic nationa® committee; Dean Christian Gauss, Princeton University; Sam W. Smal associate editor, Atlanta Constitution; James E. Robinson, former chief justice, Supreme Court of North Dakota; Milton J. Helmich, district judge, Albuquerque, N. Mex.; Judge Robert W. B. Terrell, San Antonio, Tex.; Martin H. Ray, former inspector general, United States Army; Maj. William M. Connor, judge advocate, United States Army: | John Daniel Reak, president American~ | ization” League, Chicago; Max Radin, professor of law, University of Cali- fornia; Col. W. H. Pritchett, United States Marine Corps, Washington: Judge O. H. E. Kramer, Corporation Court, San Antonio, Tex.: Comdr. J. §. | McCain, Bureau of Navigation, U.S.N., Washington. Editorial readers are arranging the plans for submission to a board of Jjudges which is expected to require a - month determining the winner of the capital award of $25,000 and possible | prizes of $5,000 and $1,000 for pro- posals considered second and third best. Man 80, Dies From Gas. Found unconscious in the kitchen at 300 Vine street, Takoma Park, D. C., about 8:30 o'clock last night, with gas flowing _from two jets of the stove, Henry Willlamson, 80-year-old laborer of Blue Plains, was pronounced dead by Dr. Lewis Gordon of Emergency Hos- | pital last night when he arrived in were on their way to theu;—nfuunce. The coroner has been potifie »