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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Increasing cloudiness followed showers late tonight or tomorrow; not much change in temperature. ‘Temperatures: peral Hig] p.m. yesterday; lowest, 47, at 6 day. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 o No. 31,053. post office, by hest, 68, at 5:10 @h ¢ Foeni ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION: q Sfar as fast as the papers “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 110,350 Fintered as second class matter Washington, D, C. WASHINGTON, , D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1929—FORTY-TWO PAGES. * (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. SENATE APPROVES DEBENTURE PLAN BY VOTE OF 47.44 Coalition of Democrats and Western Republicans Goes Against Hoover. HARD FIGHT NOW SEEN Decision Comes in Upper Chamber After Debate Was Limited Today. By a vote of 47 to 44, the debenture plan was today retained in the Senate farm bill. By this narrow margin a coalition of Democrats and Western Republicans turned down the recommendation of President Hoover, who is strongly op- posed to the debenture plan and who so announced to the committee on agri- culture before the bill was reported to the Senate. There is every indication of a hard fight over the debenture issue with the House. Threats have already been made by Republican leaders in the House not to receive the debenture plan from the Senate on the ground that it has to do with revenue, and under the Constitution could only originate 1n the House. The House did not vote directly on the debenture plan when it had the farm bill before it. A point of order against the amendment proposing the debenture plan was sustained. Contest in Conference. If the House receives the Senate amendment for debenture and sends the bill to conference, there may be a long contest in the conference stage. The vote in the Senate on debenture was regarded as a first real test of tslze administration’s strength in the nate. Senator Pat Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi, when his attention was called today to the possibility that the House might decline to receive the de- benture plan from the Senate, sald: “It is inconceivable that the House of Representatives, which thought so much of the farm relief subject as to number its farm relief bill No. 1, should reject a farm relief plan incorporated by the Senate, simply because it differs from the views of the administration and those who direct legisiation in the gestions to the winds. The action of HEFLIN HITS F. Sinclair's prison house, was attacked Alabama, who said it was “time for tho: lionaire eriminals.” Heflin declared. our authorities will stop this deference to millionaire criminals. Let them wear the stripes like any other prisoner. “Don’t you approach the cell of Sin- clair, these reporters are told. You will disturb him; he’s taking & nap.” Although officials explained the un- precedented news blockade was insti- tuted solely because jail business was being impeded by “so many people com- ing into the jail during the last two days,” the censorship prevented report- ers even from obtaining information re- garding Mr. Sinclair over the telephone. Reporters who sought admission to the jail building today were turned away at the outer door by a guard, who said he had orders to allow no newspaper men lo venture beyond the outer vestibule. Those who called Maj. Willlam L. Peake, superintendent, on the telephone were informed by him that he had been forbidden to give out any in- BARRING NEWS OF SINCLAIR Millionaires Should Not Be Protected, Says Senator, Charging Author- ities Truckle. The order of Washington jail officials barring newspapermen frcm Harry Heflin declared Sinclair, whom he described as “this thief who stole from the Government,” should be accorded no special privileges. “The press will not be permitted to go to his cell and write about him.” “But a poor boy would not have such protection or such a shield thrown about him as has been thrown about this millionaire prisoner. “Oh, when will the day come when | RULE AT JAIL| THREE GANESTER FOUND MASSACRED ASTRUCEISENDED fwo Capone Aides Among Trjo Siain in New Gang Warfare. in the Senate today by Senator Heflin of se in authority to stop truckling to mil- formation to the press about the oil magnate. Saying he did not wish to “pass tle | buck.” George S. Wilson, director of the board of public welfare, assumed full responsibility today for the bar on the press. He added that he issued the order “with the advice and approval of the penal committee of the board | of public welfare.” This commitee consists of Judge M. M. Doyle, Dr. George M. Kober and John Joy' Edson. Mr. Wilson declared he acted after | M. M. Barnard, superintendent of ail | District penal ‘nstitutions, and Maj. | Peake had advised him that the affairs of the jail were being seriously inter- ferred with by the aggregation of new: paper men in the jall office. Maj. Peake, speaking for himself, said later | he had made no _complaint about the newspaper_men, but that he thought ( Continued on Page 5, Column 1.), HOOVER T0 DISCUSS DIRIGIBLE AIR MALL Plans Call for Service to Eu- rope, Hawaii and South American Points. By the Associated Press. AKRON, Ohio, May 8.—President Hoover and Paul W. Litchfield, presi- dent of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corpo- ration, will discuss plans for trans- oceanic dirigible air mail lines to Hawail and London, it was sald here today. ‘The possibility of such lines was gone over by postal authorities and officials of the airship company in Washing- ton last week, it was sald. Original pro- posals for a dirigible line from Los An- geles to Honolulu have been expanded to include similar service between New the majority members of the ways and means committee formulated in_their proposed tariff bill is the worst ever. It adds confusion of , adds burdens upon the eountry instead of relief. MIAMI CLUB GOLFER LEADS TOURNAMENT James Herrman Newcomer Is Ahead With 75—Shipley Next With 77. James Herrman of the Miami Valley Club of Dayton, Ohio, & newcomer to golf around Washington, took the lead earl ythis afternoon in the qualifying round of the Town and Country Clul Invitation Golf Tournament. Herrman, who is secretary to Repre- sentative Roy Fitzgerald of Ohio, reg- istered a 75 for the double circuit of the nine-hole course to go into the lead by two strokes. Just behind him at 77 was M. A. Shipley of the Argyle Club. Frank K. Roesch of the Washington Club had turned in a 75 yesterday to lead the field over the first day’s play. Herrman had nines of 37 and 38 for his 75. Other scores today follow: S. H. Buttz, Indian Spring, 83: Thomas Pitt, Argyle, 84; George C. Gist, Indian _Spring, 8 Jack Wessels, Beaver Dam, 87; E. P. Hair, Washing- | ton, 87; Don Dudley, Argyle, 87. THREE DROWNED IN RIVER. | Men Were Workers on Dam Near Pittsburgh. PITTSBURGH, May 8 (#).—Three men were drowned in the Ohio River at Sewickley last night when a small boat capsized after siriking a barge, county authorities were informed today. Eight other occupants of the ecraft escaped. The victims, workmen on & dam at Dead Man's Island, were Robert Min- nick, 23, Hyndman, Pa.; Samuel Gray, 42, Negro, Mount Airy, W. Va., and | Henry Fuller, 43, Negro, Braddock, Pa. | BIBLE GIVEN HOOVER. Photostatic Copy of Jefferson Edi-| tion Is Handsomely Bound. President Hoover today was presented | with a handsomely bound photostatic copy of the Jefferson Bible. The pres- entation was formally made by Mrs. Marijetta Minnigerode Andrews, Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes and Miss Flora | Mason Nicholson, representing the com- mittee for the preservation of Monti- | cello, Jefferson’s Virginia home. The Bible was bound in red moroceo and tied with red, white and blue ribbons. York and London, according to infor- mation here, ‘WIDE Sl!m PLANNED. Far East, Europe and South Ameriea Are Included. NEW YORK, May 8 ((#).—The New York World sald today that an all- American project to link Hawaii and the Pacific Coast with regular dirigible air mail and passenger service is under consideration by Government officials in Washington. Eventually the plan is to extend opera- tions across the Pacific to Tokio and other fmportant centers in the Far East, and also establish service to South America and Europe. It involves two New York banking houses, both already deeply interested in aviation, and the Goodyear-Zeppelin Co. of Akro, Ohio. ‘The Wali Street bankers concerned are Grayson M. P. Murphy, represent- ing the aviation interests dominated by C. M. Keys, president of the Trans- continental Air tTarsport, and Lehman Bros., representing the Aviation Corpo-~ ration, $200,000,000 holding company. Negotiations at present are only in | the “conversation” stage, a spokesman for the New York interests said, and the plan hinges upon the action of Government officials. STUDENT AT HARVARD FOUND DEAD ON ROAD Youth Killed by Bullet, Carried to Highway—Motive Is Veiled in Mystery. By the Assoclated Press. WINDSOR, Conn., May 8.—Willlam Treadway Huntington, a junior at Har- vard University and the son of ‘Mrs. Mary Clark Huntington and the late Henry A. Huntington, was slain some time after midnight last night. His body was found this morning with a bullet wound in his ‘head, in a lot about & quarter of a mile from the standpipe of the Windsor water works on a farm commonly known as the Murphy farm, which. was the boyhood home of Gov. John H. Trumbull. The body was found lying 15 feet from the highway and from the early investigation it is believed that it was placed there. The body was lying flat on the back with hands folded. No motive could be determined, as a diamond ring was on the young man's hand when the body was found. ‘There was no weapon in the vicinity. Former Convict Takes Wide Lead in Rac;i For Mayor of Gary By the Associated Press. GARY, Ind, May 8.—Roswell O.| Johnson, recently released from Fed- eral prison, where he served time for liquor law violation, had a lead of more than 2,000 votes today over Floyd Wil- liams for the nomination of Mayor cf Gary, on returns from 46 of the 57 precincts, His lead was regarded as sufficient to insure his victory, and nomination on the Republican ficket in Lake County is equivalent to election. ‘The vote for Johnson, who served a term in the Atlanta Penitentiary, while mayor here a few years ago, was 10,391, That for Williams, present mayor, was 8,189, President Coolidge pardoneg in Vindication Fight Johnson after he had served sevzm!] months f his sentence. The primary ends a bitter race, filled with personalities and villification. So |intense was the campalgn that there | were 152 candidates out for 15 alder- | manic jobs. Johnson sought election | on a vindication platform. At Hammond, with returns virtually complete, the race for the Republican nomination for mayor was extremely close and a recount loomed as likely. Only 12 votes separated Charles O. Schonert from his opponent, Dan Brown. | 'R. P. Hale, mayor of East Chicago, | had 7,355 votes to 5,193 for Frank Cal- fahan, former mayor, \mu!nlly assuring | Hale of another term. 7 [71 for Second, as Other U. S. BRITISH PRO SETS RECORD BY 69 CARD Diegel Holds Stride, Scoring Golfers Keep. Pace. By the Associated Press. GULLANE, Scotland, May 8.—While most of the galleries following the first round of championship play for the British open golf title trailed with the Americans, Percy Alliss, young English pro from the Wannsee Club, Berlin, playing with only his partner and their caddies as spectators, scored a 69 to take the lead for the first round away from Leo Diegel, who a few minutes before had returned a score of 71. Jim Barnes, who has held both the British open title and the open cham- plonship of the United States, finished with a brillilant 71, equaling Diegel's score. Barnes went over par only on the fif- | teenth, where he took 5 on the par 4| ;ml:, :'. '('he‘ l:;;enlce’nth his brassie wa: ust short of the green and he chipped dead for a birdie 4. g After going out in even fours, the professional champion of the Urtited States came back one stroke better, re- turning a card without a single 5 on it. He had eight 4s and a 3. Jolly and Mitchell Tie at 72. Herbert Jolly, British pro, who played with Diegel, returned & score of 72, equaling the count of his fellow pro, Abe Mitchell. Diegel and Jolly went around in sensational style in almost stroke for stroke. Allis slipped into the title quest from the qualifying round with the ties at 162. Although a member of the British Ryder Cup team. he did not play against the Americans, so his appeal to the golf enthusiasts was not enough to draw them to his banner when he started this morning. His score of 69 broke the Muirfield course record. which smashed by Diegel with 70 yesterday in the second qualifying round. Alliss Takes Seven Birdies. Several thousand followed Diegel and Jolly, but Alliss, on their heels, played an even better game. His card showed seven birdies. He took 3 putts on the fifth, sixth and seventeenth greens. His brassie to the seventeenth hit the flag and then he took 3 putts from 18 feet. He found a bunker at the home | hole, but got his 4 in spite of it. Diegel's round was featured by his brilliant second shots. He was on every green except the seventeenth in 2, and there chipped from just off the green and dropped an eight-footer. He took 38 putts and 13 were from a foot or even less. At the short sixteenth he tried to get a long putt down, over- ran the hole and missed coming back. | _Early finishers among the America: " ¢Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) B | MEN “TAKEN FOR RIDE” IN MURDER REPRISAL Pair of Bodies Discovered in Stolen Car Abandoned Across Illinois Line. By the Associated Press. HAMMOND, Ind, May 8.—A treble slaying today sundered the brief truce of Chicago gangland. The three men, identified by Deputy Police Commission- er John Stege of Chicago, as John Scalisi, Albert Anselmi and Joe Guinta, were found shot to death on a rural roadside early today and the forfeit of their lives was seen at the retribution of their underworld foes for the massa- cre of George “Bugs” Moran's seven clansmen last St. Valentine's day. Scalisit and Anselmi, a dread duet of killers with whom police have often had to conjure, were regarded as aces of the Capone staff, and their execution today was seen as the stroke of avengers for ‘the seven followers of “Bugs” Moran, the North Side chief, who were lined up against the wall of a North Clark street garage three months ago and swept with machine-gun fire. Scalisi Free on $50,000 Bond. | Thrice have Scallst and Anselmi been | tried together for the slayings and two policemen, only to win acquitals be- cause they professed to believe the de- tective squad that chased them was a group of their underworld foes. Scalisi had been freed under $50,000 bond only a week ago pending trial as one of the Moran gang executioners. The pair were found heaped in the back seat of a coupe that had been nosed into a ditch, their bodies cov- ered by a blanket. Twenty feet away officers found the third body. Guinta, a West Side tobacco store owner, also had been questioned in con- nection with the Moran gang killings. I a pocket of the man's coat police found a card bearing the name of Joe Berardi, official of a cigar shop. Repcrters, ‘however, belleved this was not the dead man's name. All other marks of identification had been removed from the bodles. Finger Prints May Give Clues. ‘The men, police said, were probably taken for the familiar gnghnd “ride,” shot to death with pistols or machine guns and the car ditched on the lonely prairie road. The cusl been removed from the back seat and the bodies dumped in its place. Many fingerprints were found upon the car, and police believe these will af- ford them a clue to the slayers. Police said the autotmobile in which the bodies were found was stolen June 28, 1928, from a Chicago department tore buyer. License plates on the car had been issued to a Berwyn contrac- tor, who sald his automobile had been stolen last March. When it was re- covered the license plates were missing. Scallsi and Anselmi first broke into the limelight in Chicago four years ago. Policemen Michael J. Conway, ‘William Sweeney, Charles B. Walsh and Harold F. Olson were touring their dis- trict in a detective bureau car the morning of June 13, 1925. Another automobile approached, car- rying Anselmi, Scalisi and Mike Genna, one of the notorious Genna brothers, who made fortunes in illicit liquor traf- fic and all but two of whom were killed by rival gangsters and the. police. ‘The police car started in pursuit and the fugitive automobile soon crashed into a post. The policemen leaped out and were met by & volley of shotgun slugs. Walsh and Olson fell mortally wounded and Conway also was shot. Sweeney pursued Gena into a basement and killed him. Anselmi and Scalisi fled, but were captured later. Win Acquittal on New Trial. ‘Their first trial was for the slaying of Policeman Olson. They werc sen- tenced to 14 years in prison in a man- slaughter verdict. At the second trial, for the kililng of Policeman Walsh, they were acquitted. Then the State Su- preme Court ordered a new trial for the Olson slaying and Scalisl and Anselmi were found not guilty and set free. Scalisi and Jack McGurn, “Machine Gun” Jack, were the only two indicted CONVICT ADMITS PRISON FIRE PLOT Recorded as Among 14 Who Per- ished in Blaze Started to Make Escape. By the Associnted Press. HAMILTON, Ohio, May 8—Ivan Pickering, 24, recorded by Ohio Peni- tentiary officials as having burned to plant fire last October 7. was captured by police on a farm near here today. He confessed that he and two other prison- {ers set fire to the prison, causing the death of 14 men. Official records of the fire stated the blaze started from an unknown source. Police received a tip through an insur- ance company that Pickering’s mother was trying to collect $500 life insurance on the strength of the State's claim that Pickering had burned to death in the fire, and that he vas hiding near ere. Police found Pickering hidden under a bed at the home of his aunt, Mrs. | Anna_ Huddleston. Police said Picker- ing confessed that he and another con- | viet, John Tillotson, approached Elmer | Whiting two days before the fire and Inid plans to burn the institution. Whit- ing, Pickering charged, actually star(- ed the fire by making a torch of hi blanket. | Pickering told police he believed the State's ectimate of the death toll was altogether wrong. He said he never knew what became of Tillotson—proo- ably burned to death, he supposed— but that Whiting and four other pris- oners escaped with himself through » prison gate. Pickering and Whiting remained together for almost nine days close to Junction City waiting for of- ficers to give up search for inmates who might be hiding near tke scenc. After the excitement died down, Plcker- { H death in the Junction City prison brick | (Continued age lumn RAIL CLERKS TO ASK 6-HOUR, 6-DAY WEEK Relief Sought From “Serious” La- bor Situation Caused by Mer- gers, Says Grand President. By the Associated Press, SPOKANE, Wash.,, May 8—Estab- lishment of a six-hour day and a six- day week will be sought by the Brother- hood nf Railway Clerks to relieve the “serious” labor situation caused by rail- road mergers, George M. Harrison, | grand president, said here yesterday. | Harrison, in company with other offi- cials from headquarters of the unlon in Cincinnati, came here to confer with local members on the labor phase of the proposed consolidation of rafl- way_companies. ‘Such consolidation undoubtedly will vesult in many thousands of railway employes being without jobs,” Harri- son asserted. “In the past seven years the rallroads of this country have re- duced the number of their employes | by about 390,000. To relieve this sit- uation, we propose to establish a six- | hour day with a six-day week. Also we will urge our members to participate actively in increasing our membership.” PILOT D!ES IN CRASH. Mail Plane Wreckage Found Near Cheyenne. CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 8. (#).—Ivan Heuston, Denver piiot on the Denver- | Cheyenne air mail route, was found dead amidst the wreckage of his plane 10 miles south of here today. Heuston had been missing since 7 o'clock last night, when he passed over the local air field. He was unable to make a landing because of dense fog. ing said, he went to Warren County and had been there practically ever since, until captured today, State News, Pages 10 and 11 ! THIS EVERY (BE~Y/ TARIFF FIGHT (s DEMocRacy y "3 5‘| Y, 7 REPUBLICAN PLAN CAUCUS ON TARFF Meeting Tomorrow Will De- termine Procedure for Bill in House. B the Associated Press. A caucus of Republican House mem- i bers today was called for FPriday to determine procedure for consideration in the House of the new tariff bill pro- posing upward revision of import duties on sugar, & wide range of agricultural products and on a host of other com- modities. ‘The call was igsued by Representative Tilson of Connecticut, majority leader, and about the same time senta- tive Garner of Texas, Democratic lead- er, announced that members of the minority party would meet late today to discuss their position on the measure. Garner and other Democrats have declared opposition to suggestions from Republ sources that the bill might limiting the offering of amendments. holds all members should be given op- portunity to propose changes. Members Study Bill. Meanwhile members were poring over the 85,000 words contained in the new bill, many giving particular attentdon to schedules affecting products of their districts. Among the schedules coming in for most discussion were those on sugar, textiles and farm commodities. the Democrats have little hoj of making any changes in the bill before it is formally reported by the commit- tee, they E.n to determine the position they will fake toward any rule sponsored by Republicans which would restrict the offering of amendments. A meeting of the full luember.!hlg of the ways and means group will be held tomorrow to vote on formally reporting the bill,-but as the Republicans are in the majority the Democrats have but little chance to make any revisions, in the measure. ‘Wonder About Hoover View. As study and discussion went for- ward at the Caplitol, there was conjec- ture as to how President Hoover would view the bill in the light of his ex- pressed desire for a “limited” revision of customs dutles with the lesser rates h;g. for the tariff commission to con- sider. While Chairman Hawley estimated that the actual changes in protective rates would not exceed 20 per cent of the total dutiable items, only one schedule, that dealing with tobacco. was untouched, while an entirely new sched- ule was created embracing manufac- tures of artificial silk, officially termed “rayon” in the bill. One surprising development was the action of the committee in reporting out an entirely new bill as a substitute for the existing Fordney-McCumber act. Unless the Senate finance com- mittee completely rewrites the House measure, as it usually does, eve?' com- modity embraced in both the dutiable and free lists would be open to debate and amendment on the Senate floor. Bill as Amendment. ‘To avold such a contingency, Presi- dent Hoover suggested, informally at least, that no general tariff revision law be placed before Congress, but that a bill in the nature of an amendment to the existing act be reported. Chariman Hawley and his Republican.) colleagues of the ways and means com- mittee contend that a whole new statute (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) HEAVY FIGHTING CLOSES RAIL LINE TO CANTON City Defenders Said to Be Retieat- ing Before Kwangsi Forces in. South China. By the Associated Press. HONGKONG, May 8 (#).—Heavy fighting was in progress today along the railway from Canton to Kowloon between Kwangsi forces under Gen. Hsu | King-Tong and Cantonese generals. Railway service from Kowloon to Can- ton was suspended upon orders from Canton. ‘The native newspapers here said the Kwangsites had captured Shiuhing, west of Canton, and were rapidly ad- vancing on Canton, with the Canton- cse troops retreating before them. Chinese firms at Hongkong are not exporting cargoes to Canton for the present. Bank Statements Washington clearing house, $5,281,- 193.36. Treasury balance, $201,962,349.57, New York clearing house exchange, $1.387.000,000. New York clearing house balance, $148,000,000. 8. LIEUT. APOLLO SOUCEK.' COURT REFUSES. “MCHAELSON PLEA Representative ‘Loses Move to Have Baggage Checks - ‘Ruled Out as Evidence. By the Associated Press. KEY WEST, Fla, May 8.—Attempts by defense counsel for Representative Michaelson of Illinois to have ruled out as evidence the testimony as to baggage and customs checks and numbers on six trunks seéized at 'the Jacksonville ter- minal station, in which he was alleged to have brought liquor into this country, failed in Federal Court here today. Judge Halsted L. Ritter, before whom the trial is being heard, ruled that the testimony would be admitted as sec- ondary evidence hecause the defendant | & could not be forced to produce primarv evidence against himself. He noted an cxgeygon Bol;gn tg: defense. . R. tt, deputy customs inspec- tor, then took the stand to testify lpsflio his part in checking the customs rec- ords of the baggage. Judge Ritter, however, halted the wit- ness, saying he had heard enough testi- mony to identify the inventory sub- mitted by the Géovernment. MARTIN MALONEY, 82, PAPAL MARQUIS, DIES Catholic Leader and Capitalist | Came From Ireland and Started Career as Mine Worker. PHILADELPHIA, May 8 (#).—Mar- tin Maloney, papal marquis and one of the foremost laymen of the Catholic fi'fifl:"'& mmAncnlelrlca. capitalist and nthropist, died here today. e uuyurs old. i L artin Maloney was one of that of immigrant boys who forge their 2:‘3 | g;’ p[cf:':u{’m;‘el wn‘;: tgm1 ald of America’s | g 'S an eir own 1 and industry. fistenoe He was born in Ballingarry, Ireland, of poor parents, on November 11, 1847. His parents came to ‘America, settling in Scranton in 1849, but.they left the ' baby behind with his grand parents, and it was not until he was 6 years old that he crossed. the ocean. The boy attended public schools and then went to work in ‘the coal mines. Two years later he began an appren- | ticeship to learn the trades of tin- | smith, coppersmith, plumber and gas- fitter and entered business for himself in 1868 before he was 20. In 1874 he organized the Hyde Park Gas Co. and built a plant which was the nucleus | of the present extensive system which furnishes the Lackawanna Valley with gas.” Later he organized the Maloney Gas & Manufacturing Co., and with the | aid of the late Henry H. Rogers, an as- | sociate of John D. Rockefeller, devel- oped a system for using naphtha for | street lightng. Within 10 years 12 cities and towns were under contract | for lighting by the Maloney system. YUKON ICE BREAKS. DAWSON, A. T., May 8 (#).—The ice in the Yukon River in front of Daw- | son ‘moved out at 2:33 o'clock yesterday afternoon, heralding the advent of Spring and Summer. First prize in the f\lellinl contest of the movement of the ice was divided between Thomas Leach NAVY FLYER MAKES 40,000-FOOT CLIMB Lieut. Soucek Believed to Have Broken World Alti- tude Record. ‘What may prove to be a world alti- tude record was made at the Anacostia Naval Air. Station today when Lieut. ‘Apollo’ Soucek ‘of the Navy Bureau of Aecronautics” climbed to an indicated altitude of more than 40,000 feet. The present world altitude record (38,418) Wwas made in the same plane at the local station Jess than two years ago by Lieut. C.- C. Champion. Lieut. Soucek was in the air only 1 -hour and 14 minutes and, except for severe head. winds encountered after climbing more than five miles, reported that he had suffered no great hardship. At the top of his climb his goggles froze over and after vain efforts to clear them he finally pulled them off, though the temperature then was approximately 70- degrees below zero. ‘Two barographs, placed in the plane by the Bureau of Standards the National Aeronautic Association, were removed from the plane immediately after it landed at 12:24 this afternoon, and will be calibrated at the bureau to- night. Whether he broke the present world record probably will. be known sometime tomorrow. H. R. Henricksen, Burcau of Stand- ards barograph expert, said that Sou- cek’s altimeter, which went just cver the 40,000-foot mark at the of his climb, had not been especially cali- brated for extreme altitudes and might prove to have been in error as much as 4 per cent either way. ‘The plane used by Lieut. Soucek is a ‘Wright Apache with a Pratt and Whit- ney Wasp motor. It was built more than two years ago, and was equipped for altitude flying with a motor super- charger, special oil cooler, oxygen tanks and a number of special gauges and instruments, The motor flew apart and caught fire after Lieut. Champion had established a world record in the plane, nd he made a forced landing near the Naval Air Station after diving and side- slipping several times to blow out the flames. Lieut. Soucek encountered no motor trouble during the climb, and brought the little ship down to a perfect land- ing. Owing to the west wind he en- countered, he was blown far to the east of Washington during the climb, and was flying west during most of the period he was in the air. He took off at 11:10 a.m. and pulled the ship immediately into a steep climb. He was climbing at an esti- mated speed of 2,000 feet a minute when he disappeared from view into the blue sky after about seven minutes of flying. After being In the air about a half hour, the plane began to leave a trail of white smoke, which could be seen from the ground, although the ship itself had long since passed from view. The smoke trail could be seen for nearly 20 minutes, finally disappearing at about 12 o'clock, when the fiyer throttled down and began to spiral down to the field. He was not sighted again until about seven minutes before he landed. CONSIDERATION DELAYED. Study of Hoover's 0il Conservation | Policy Urged by King. A meeting of the Senate judiciary committee to consider the resolution of Senator King. Democrat of Utah, for a Senate investigation of President Hoo- ver's oll conservation policy today was postponed indefinitely. Chairman Nor- ris of the committee deferred the meet- ing until the Senate gets through its work on the farm relief bill. ROUSE EXONERATED IN'SMOKE SCREEN KILLING INQUIRY Grand Jury’s Refusal to Indict Automatically Reinstates Policeman. SALARY HELD BACK NOW WILL BE PAID Rum Chase April 24 Resulting in Death of Herman Fleming Echoed in Congress. The grand jury today exonerated Po- liceman Clyde O. Rouse of the eleventh precinct, who April 24 shot and killed Herman Fleming, 300 N street south- west, during a spectacular chase through a dense smoke screen of a sus- pected rum-laden car. A coroner’s jury which conducted an inquest into the death of Fleming held the policeman, but when the testimony was lald before the grand jury it re- fused an indictment. ‘The killing of Fleming created a sen- sation in the House, where it was both lauded and condemned, some members approving the action of Policeman Rouse by applauding and others seeking t have the notice of the applause ex- punged from the records. Considerable public sentiment also was aroused for and against the officer. Restored to Duty. 3 The grand jury's refusal to return an Indictment against Rouse auto- matically restored him to duty, from which he was suspended April 25. Salary which has been withheld during the period of suspension also will be given to the officer. Rouse, however, will have to bear the expense of his attorney’s fee as well as the premium on the $1,000 bond he posted following the action of the coroner's jury in hold=: ing him for the grand jury. The pre- mium on the bond, it was said, amounts by Rouse and Policeman B. R. Camp- bell, also of the eleventh precinet, when he_was shot and killed. [ Pive shots were fired by Rouse through the heavy smoke barrage that was to have been laid down by the car Fleming was driving. of them were grouped in a small circle on the left rear fender. The fifth pierced the canvas top of the machine, passed through Fleming’s head and dropped spent on the floor of the car. Companion Arrested. John Stevens, 27 years old, who also 400 N street southwest as his address, who was Fleming’s com, it Tlcgai possession and. fan ession and tran: - tion of liquor and with use of lm screen. Sixteen cases of liquor was found in the car, according to police. The killing of Fleming was the first to follow the revival of the smoke screen, which rum runners have used extensively since the passage of the drastic Jones-Stalker law. The smoke screen was used success- fully again last night by a suspected rum runner to escape capture, Motor Cycle Policeman Ralph E. Burton of the eleventh precinct pursued a car on Benning road northeast, but the operator pumped out a smoke barrage and forced him to abandon the chase. Burton sald he started in pursuit of the car near the Benning power plant of the Potomac Electric Power Co., and when the driver observed him he in- creased the speed and laid down the :;;oke barrage. The officer did not use gun. MILLER IS hELEASED FROM ATLANTA CELL Former Alien Property Custodian Declines to Talk Other Than He Is “Going Home.” By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., May 8 —Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custodian, was released from the Federal peni- tentiary here yesterday on parole. Mil- ler, who had been in prison for over & year, looked well upon his discharge. He went by taxicab to the home of a friend, where he declined to discuss his sentence and merely said that he was “going home.” He said he would not discuss anything concerning his im- prisonment on the case for which he was convicted at New York in 1927 and sentenced to serve 18 months and pay a fine of $5,000. Not until his complete sentence time has expired will he talk about the case, Miller said. Under “good-time allow- ances” he would have been eligible for discharge July 7. College Plans Aviation School. RALEIGH, N. C. May 8 ().—Dr. E. F. Brooks of North Carolina State College left last night for New York to confer with interested parties in re- gard to plans for an aviation school or department at the institution here. He would not reveal the parties with whom he is to confer. By the Associated Press. May 8.—It could be nstable George yesterday in a tractor.” But that isn't the half of it, dearie. ‘The constable specializes in replevins. to replevin a tractor. He had never driven a tractor, but he once pumped the pedals for the fam- ly sewing machine. So it ought to be easy. He got the tractor going. So smooth his to town that the con- with himself. Glancing ahead, he saw of Dawson and Kenn-dy and Grace Stewart of Anchorage, Alaska. The ap- proximate amount of the prize was $7,200. 4 Y him. He pulled a few levers and pushed a few dinguses, but the tractor moved steadily on. Two motor .eycle policemen came Harrison went for a ride about town | His job yesterday, it so happened, was | was progress stable began to feel thoroughly satisfied | Tireless Tractor Tortures Constable pilot: “IKnew I'd Stop It)” He Shouts as Gas Fails bearing down on the constable and his untractable lractor. They told him to pull over to the curb. “'Twould do no good,” said Constable Harrison, “and it would be fatal to the | curb. What 1 need is information on how to stop this thing."” No one seemed to know, so the tractor moved sedately along, now convoyed by two motor cycle officers. Round and | round the city they went. | The constable finally had an idea. “I'll run ‘er into the lake.” he shouted. “I can't make riding on this thing my | life work.” At the edge of the lake the tractor ran out of gas and stopped. The con- ‘su::le dismounted and pointed with pride. “I knew I'd stop her,” he beamed. Radio Prog_rams—f;age 30 | L