Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness and warmer to- day: showers tonight or tomorrow. ‘emperatures: Highest, 69, at 4:45 p.m vesterday: lowest, 49, at 4 a.m. yesterday. port on page 13. s um WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION ay Star “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. ond class matt hington, D WASHINGTO N, DA SUNDAY " FULL APPROVAL GIVEN INTERNATIONAL BANKS TO RULE REPARATIONS 1 Main Functions of | Plan Bared for | First Time. Y HELP SETTLE | WORLD PROBLEMS Project Is Product of Three Months of Un- ceasing Labor. BY LELAND STOWE. | Br Redio to The Star. | PARIS. May 11.—For more than %0 Head of OWEN D. YOUNG, the debt experts responsihle months plans for the establishment of a new and powerful international bank- for the proposed bank of reparations. | | given approval by delegates to the | Paris reparations conference. DES MOINES U. Rt FACULTY IS OUSTED Stenes and Eggs Shatter | Windows at Baptist Institu- tion’s Board Meeting. -THUSTEES SEEK CLOSET AS POLICE ARE CALLED ‘ Modernistic - Fundamentalist Dis- pute Reported to Have Been Involved. | By the Assoriated Press DES MOINES. Iowa. May 11.—Dr. T. T. Shields, president of the board of trustees of Des Moines University, to- CLOSES COLLEGE AS | ing institution of unprecedented scope to manage and dominate all Germany’s future reparations payments have been the outstanding task of the second reparations conference. The proposed “bank for international settlements” will be inaugurated (if the | plans come to fruition) as an entirely | new financial experiment on widespread | and far-reaching lines never before at- e a3 tempted in the history of the world. It T will stand out as the heart of and by i i T stand ot e ey "emevemens o | W+ H. Cunningham of George what will one day be known as the 5 : | Young plan, but even if the experts| town Foreign Service School fail to reach an agrerme‘nt r;\l’\ the "():.al | amount, and duration of the annuities | it i by Geomany toin piosact || L0SES Life in-Potomac. conception of an international bank S will remain as the core and substance S and thg ‘most signmcgn( contribution ‘W. H. Cunningham, 24-year-old um-’ of the Young committee's report. | tor at the Georgetown School of Foreign Project Is Outlined. | Service, was drowned in the Potomac - Following is an outiine. published for | River yesterday afternoon when a canoe t time and exclusively, of the | s o e great bank project, with details of many | in whlch' he was riding with 0.\0 com- i ite mostimportant functions, wiich | PANions turned over in the swift water Il be of primary interest to bankers | sbout half a mile below Chain Bridge. the world over. This summary consti-| Cunningh cith tutes the first authentic first-hand Te- | o G o arr o i venard Burkett | port of what the experts have evolved | *nd W. W. Stevens, his roommates and | in their three months of unceasing | fellow students, started up the river for llm.‘ It nrmo:nmkm l]n nxd\;lhncoypres- | an outing early yesterday afternoon. At ent on of the kernel o e ‘oung v's P 1 plan. Emphasis should be laid on the | DcTPSeY’s boat house they were joined | point that the scheme has been drafted, | PV @ friend, George Davlin. | redrafted and revised within the 1ast| Canoe, Caught Broadside, Capsizes. | few weeks with all the painstaking care | . ®| In two canoes they started to paddle | of the world's foremost banking authori- | {1, w9, ehnoes hey Mafted to peddle | ties. As it stands it is actually part of | the bridge they came fo a swift strctch the final Young commitice report, and | ,¢'water and Cunningham and Burkett | night ordered the institution closed in- | definitely and placed it under police | protection after a mob of students dis- ! rupted the closing session of the board. | Dr. Shields action followed a con- troversy which resulted in dismissal of the entire faculty of the school, a Bap- tist institution, by the board of trustees, | A modernistic-fundamentalist dispute is | reported to have been Involved in the trouble. Students Storm Building. ‘The students held a demonstration in favor of Dr. Harry Wayman, president of the school, bringing the issue to a climax tonight when 150 of them | stormed the administration building | where the board was meeting. They | threw stones and eggs, breaking win- | dows and wrecking furniture, and were | not quelled until & police riot eall brought a dozen officers to the campus. Meanwhile, trustees sought safety in a closet. One board member, it was re- ported, was held captive for a while by students. No undergraduates had been arrested | tonight. Dr. Shields and Miss Edith M. | Rebman, secretary of the board, were taken to police headquarters for safety preparatory to leaving Dés Moines to- | night. “Spying” Is Charged. James H. Sperry, a member of the board yesterday contended the entire | BALTIMORE MAN ENDS LIFE HERE “W. Winchester” Leaves Note Offering Apology to Hotel Manager for Act. A man registered as “W. Wincheste: Baltimore, Md., leaped from the eighth floor of the Houston Hotel, 910 E street, to his death on the sidewalk below Before taking the jump, he had ap- parently stabbed himself with a 6-inch knife, found later in his room covered with blood. He was removed to Emer- gency Hospital in the MORNING, shortly after midnight this morning. | MAY 12 MOTHER TIAY, i H | oover Restores Lincoln Relics | To White House |President Finds But Fe " Mementoes Remain- { ing in Mansion. ! BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. | Shocked at the absence of reminders of Abraham Lincoln in the White House, President Hoover, a great ad- mirer of Lincoln, is endeavoring to give the mansion more of a Lincoln atmos- | phere. A search of the White House disclosed only a four-poster bed and two chairs which had been used by President Lin- coln. Only the bed was in evidence at first and it was not until after he had 1929 —116 PAGES. * FIVE CENTS 1 TEN CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS ELSEWHERE NAVY PERSONNEL 7 - LAUDED BY ADAMS Davis, Addressing National | Radio Forum, Is Hopeful of Unemployment Relief. Tribute from Secretary of the Nevy Adams to the “unconguerable spirit” and technical skill of Navy personnel, | and suggestion from Secretary of Lubo Davis that employers held an important | key to further solution of the unem- | National Radio Forum arranged by The Evening Star and sponsored by the Columbia Broadcasting System. CANETT CALLED, ' REPUBLICAN RFT_ WTH 3 THERS, N VER FARM RELIF NEWSPAPERPROBE BELIEVED HEALNG Party Leaders Use Time Dur- .ing Week End to Reconcile Differences. 1 S. E. Thomason, Co-owner in | Southern String of Papers, Also Summoned. HAWLEY TARIFF BILL VOTE MAY BE FORCED ;TWO POWER OFFICIALS | WILL BE QUESTIONED Consulting Engineer for Utilities Dehenture Plan Regarded as Pos- Tells of Articles Opposing Gov- sible Club to Put Through ernment Ownership. Rate Revision. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Republican leadership is seeking dur- By the Associated Press. Y. newspaper publisher, and S. Thomason, co-owner of tie Br Thomason Newspapers, Inc., owners of Frank E. Gannett of Rochester, N.| E. ing the week end to iron out differences which have arisen at the Capitoi eyer newspapers, were scheduled yesterday | by the Federal -Trade Commission to | appear before it Wednesday in connec- | tion with its investigation into the | newspaper financial interests of the International Paper & Power Co. The commission also announced that | both farm relief legislation and tariff revision. House leaders last night ex- pressed the opinion that the Repub- licans would be able to get together in support of the Hawley tariff bill with ployment problem featured last night's | Frank D. Comerford of Boston, vice president of the International Paper & Power Co., and N. C. Head of New | York, vice' president snd assistant to the president of that company, would | appear at hearings to'be held May 16 {and 17. | Testimony by Archibald R. Graustein, | president of the International Co., be- {mre the commission April 30 developed | that his concern had a total of $2,700.- 000 in notes and stock of four news- papers owned and operated by Mr. | Gannett. Subsequently, May 4, Mr. Gannett announced in New York that he had bought back the entire holdings from | the International Paper & Power Co. | and had given a check to that company ! (o retire all the company’s investments in the Brooklyn Daily Eugle, the Al- bany (N. Y.) Knickerbocker Press aud (he Albany News and the Ithaew (N. Y.) Journal News, Purchases in Chicage. Mr. Graustein also testified in his appearance before the commission that the Internationsl Co. had bought $1.- 000,000 in debenture bouds and $600.- 000 of preferred stock of the Bryan- Thomason Newspapers, luc., owners of they Chicago Journgl, and 10,000 shures of common stock in the Chicago Jour- nal, for which ne additional money was | paid. ! In his testimony he said’the Bryan- Thommson Newspupers, luc. “owns =l- | | & few amendments. - A general belier | spread that conciliatory tacties were having their effect. There was & lull at the Senate end of the Capitol in the: strife over the farm bill, which culminated in the adoption last week of the debenture clause despite the opposition of Presi- dent Hoover and the administration Republicans in the Senate. The bit- terness which has developed between the anti-debenture Republieans - and supporters of debenture promised - to break out again tomorrow, however, when debate on the farm bill will be resumed. Brookhart Attack Awaited. Senwlor Brookhart of Jowa, one of the insurgenis, has announced he will address the Senate on “pseudo Repub- licans.” This was the label applied by | Senator Fess of Ohio to Senator Brook- hart, Senator Borah and other Re- publicans who voted against the ad- ministration en the debenture clause. If the Jows Senator carries out his threat it is likely to lead to fireworks n a:h:fluum{ u';:orrow. ‘Whether he A 1ers of group attacked by Seuator Fess' cool off over the week end !]:fl‘n 10 _be seen. Senator Brookhart mol wagon of the first precinct, and a few min- utes after his admission. Although the case appeared clearly | been t ye fi in u;;:.g:p e':gr;l w{l}ybx;a 3.‘2“ 3‘,?:5 | tried to make their way through in their | controversy resolved about an attempt ates of all the seven nations assembled | CAN0e. ~ Unable to force their way by Miss Rebman to control all depart- re, including e of Germany and | tDIOugh the rapids, they paddled to an iments of the university. Charges that st sl of the stock &f the 'l\llr. fim. Tribune €q.. wlfl:h owis e Tampa Tribune” wnd “owns almost all searched the house from cellar to aftic i i i ‘The two Cabinet. bers, continuing | that the President discovered the | th he series of radio _messages from | President Hoover's official family to| ‘thos | Japan. It is still possible that it may be | iSland where they were joined by Ste- Teheed here and there n its wording, | Yéns and the three of them resumed the and that slight changes may be made - in very minor details, but on the whole .They had progressed about 100 yards Rat portion of he final report relative |IMfo the swift water when the canoe to the outline and functions of the in- | ¥&S caught broadside in the rapids, the | ternationsl bank is regarded as com. | WAter spinning the frail craft around plete in conference circles. It is virtual- | 80d tipping it over. Burkett, who had Iy certain that no tmportant changes in | been kneeling in the bottom of the ca- prineiple will be made in the bank's out- | I, Was nearly drowned when his leg line from now on, whether the elnrm‘w‘s caught in a seat. All three of the reach or fail to reach an accord on ::-"g‘ came to the surface and seized the 0e. rations figures. | - " Unable to right it, they began drifting It is intended that the international | , Unable to right it, they began drifting bank scheme shall be recommended in | Burkett and Cunningham continued to any case to all governments concerned 20 nat it may secve as s basis for any | Grift with the canoe, calmly discusing future settlement which may have to the best means of reaching shore with- | she sent students into classrooms to “spy” on professors were made by deans of the university. Students, led by Cedric Peterson, passed a resolution indorsing President Wayman. The Wayman-Shields econ- troversy, Peterson said, started about & | month and a half ago. when Dr. Shields | asked President Wayman to request the | resignation of Dean Bennett of th College of Education; Dr. N. T Nelson, professor of biology; Prof. E. Grimes of the English department, H. P. Chaffee, dean of men; Dr. F. B. Pearson, head of the Bible department; | Miss Carolyne Forgrave, dean of women, | and Dean E. C. Callaway of the College station for an automobile in which two women drove away from the hotel hur- riedly just before the fall. Detectives thought they might throw some lght on the case. Employes Hear Body Land. According to Frank F. Jones. hotel manager, the man registered between 1 and 2 p.m. yesterday. and was as- signed to a room on the eighth floor. Jones described him as very well dressed in a rough brown suit, medium height, weighing about 135 pounds. Hotel employes were startled shortly after midnight by a thud on the side walk, They rushed outside and found of Pharmacy. suicide, a lookout was sent to all police | chairs, Already President Hoover has re- stored the Lincoln cabinet room on the | second floor to its original uses, so far | s present conditions and possessions will permit. It was in this room that Mr. Lincoln met regularly with his | cabinet and his generals and here the | Emancipation Proclamation was signed. | This room has again become the | presidential study and reading room. | It is there that Mr. Hoover spends most of his evenings and in there he and Mrs, Hoover receive intimate friends. | When President Hoover discovered | (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) | the Awmérican people, spoke from the | studio of The Star over Station WMAL. | While the public kuows much of ships aud fightipg equipment of the Navy, Secretury Adams declared “It's the man | that counts—the combination of un- | conquerable spirit with high technical | skij. We must have the best weapons | though their cost is great, for mouey | can never measure the value of victory | at the cost of defeal. But fine weapons | alone or the most scientifically perfect | equipment in the hands of the un- | trained may be of little more use than bows and arrows.” Approves Unemployment Fund. Secretary Davis approved President {of the stook of Whe Record Co., whivh | publishes the Greensboro Record st Greénsbore, N. €. The commission yesterday ocdntinued |its inquiry into the general phases of the publicity activities of the . public power utilities, hearing Samuel 8. Wyer ! of Columbus, Ohio. He described him- self as x consulting engineer for pub- lic_ulilities. ‘Wyer was questioned _principally about -his publieation ‘of tWo' mono- graphs under auspices of tlie Smith- sonian Institution which opposed the Government ownership of electric power projects. Wyer testified that he had secured material for the two articlés beariug the portant measures of bis quite ready to give f I?e'..-wn tm s ot flmAy indicated last night whetlier Senator Borah would be drawn into’ thils discussion. After the publication of the letter written by Sendtor eriticizing the TIdaho | Senator aud the other Republican sup- porters of debenture, Senator Borah issued .a sizsling statement. Tonight he aud Mrs, Borah are to be guests of Presi@ent Hoover and Mrs. Hoover at the White Flouse. Mr. Borah did. not the body. The police were called and | had to break down the door to the | man’s room, which was fastened on | imprint of the Swithsonian while he was being paid by private utilily m- tevests. One reluted, he said, to the be made. Therefore this carefully | Ut damage to themselves or the eraft. | ~ ! Wayman, Peterson said, could find no | arafied ank pian i significant as the | Burkeit, at Cunningham's suggestion, | reason for their dismissal and so in- | formed Dr. Shields. It was then,| | Hoover's proposal of u huge revolving fund of several hundred million dol- o s S | removed the pillows from the canoe machinery unanimously agreed, UPON b3 | and seized one of the paddiies which val. | was floating alongside. With this bur- e e onges o, """ | den he released his hold and started for the Virginia shore, calling to Cun: Pian Clear and Concise. { ningham to steer the canoe into shal- The bank plan as now inserted into | 1oW water if possible. Cunningham an- the almost completed final Young report | SWered that ‘he thought he would be (only those pages relative to the | able to bring it ashore. amounts of reparations agreed to, their Tepartition and their duration ave stll| Search for Body Fails. issing) is 42 pages in length and is | Burkett. on reaching the shore, looked remarkably clear, concise and lucid. 1t | Around for his companion. He saw the may well take its place in international | €anoe bobbirg in the current, but Cun- finance as a masterpiece of banking | RiNgham had disappeared. draftsmanship. In crisp phraseology | Burkett ran back .up stream to the the experts portray the essential func- | POint where Davlin was in the other tions annuities, how it shall administer | €anoe. They paddied down the river arations shall be paid into it, how it | i @ futile search for their friend. shall place in the markets of the world | the mobilization portion of the repara- | tions annuities. How it shall administer | deliveries in kind and beyond that | what auxiliary functions it shall exer- | cise as an independent banking house, what its relations shall be with the cen- | tral banks of issue and what purely commercial transactions operations it shall be entitled to exercise, Finally the question is examined as to the ecapitalization the international | bank shall have and what the pros- | pects of very considerable profits should . These latter points relative to the bank’s banking and commercial oper- ations, its eapitalization and profits are | especially subjects in which bankers everywhere will take the keenest interest. . The experts begin with the presenta- | tion of “general reasons for the con- stitution of an institution with bank- ing functions.” For the sake of brev- ity these and the following passages | will be summarized with direct quota- | tions used only in the more important paragraphs. e o = e | afternoon ' categorically denled that he s e F“;" ::“""; blish. | 180 asked G be withdrawn from his e reasons given for the establish- | post, as the newspaper El Universal had ment of a bank of international set- | reported it had learned from reliable fiements are as follows s One, that since the general pian for | “*ppc® - » complete and final settlement of the | stanaing "erroaoo, J0id the misunder Teparations problem is primarily fnan- | soucht ® permission . for cial in character it involves Mecessari- | transatlantic avigtors to Iy the performance of certain banking | jca had been cleared up (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) fashion. 1 ual last night, expressed the bellef Cun- ningham had either been stunned by & blow against a rock or had been sucked down by a whirlpool. The drowned youth, said to have been a strong swimmer, lived in Portland, Ind. With Burkett and Stevens, he at. tended Western Reserve University be- fore coming to Washington. The three boys lived together here at 2410 Twentieth street. SPAIN’S ENVOY DENIES EFFORT TO QUIT MEXICO States Misunderstanding About Transatlantic Aviators Has | Been Cleared Up. By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY, May. 11.—Marquis De Rialp, Spanish Ambassador, the Spanish fy over Mex- in a friendly Mother Dies From Elevator Plunge, Unaware That Fall Killed Baby Son| A young mother. Mme. Marie Fiot,| Annie Stewart, colored, saw the two of died at Emergency Hospital last night, | them go up. When the lift reached the never suspecting that her only child, a | first floor, it is believed, Mrs. Fiot 11-month-old son, had plunged to his | opened the safety gate and stepped on death in the same accident in which a narrow ledge between it and the she lost her Hfe. They will be com- |outer door, when another party rang mitted to the grave together. The be- | for the elevator. reaved husband and father, Andre Fiot. | When picked up in the pit below, coding officer at the French embassy, | Mme. Fiot had a broken arm and leg was beside himself with grief and could | and internal injuries. say when the funeral would be| Mme. Fiol was a native of Montreal, Canada, where the double-funeral will Piot. Andre Fiot, jr., in her be held. She had frequently visited a arms, cn Wednesday afternoon fell 17 sister here. Mrs. J. Barbecot, secretary feet down an elevator shaft at the to the French military attache, Ritz Apartment House, where the fam- was on one of thes sions ily_lived, 1631 Euclid street. met the young Frenchman who was to 1t has never been established just how become her husband. the accident occurred, and a coroner’s The romance grew between the iwo inquest will be held, probably some time | and they planned their wedding. Fiot Monday. A jury was sworn in over the | Wished to have the ceremony performed body of the infant. whose death was |in his native country, a wish culminated almost_instantaneous. | about two years ago when he went home As police reconstructed the incident, |on leave, and was follewed soon by his Mre. Piot. whesled the baby in his car- | sweetheart. The couple returned riage through a basement and onto | America after a nc;l:nwpn on the an ayfomatic elevator, ¥ The *maid, | continent. Harbor precinct police, who were still | dragging the river for the body late | this | he | o Peterson said, that Wayman's position | was threatened. Dr. Pearson charged | | Miss Rebman with sending Canadian | students who followed Dr. Shields from | Toronto to Des Moines into his classes | to spy on him. PREVIOUS POST RESIGNED. | Dr. Wayman Had Been Head of Mis- | souri Institution. LIBERTY. Mo. May 11 (®.—Dr. | Harry C. Wayman, president of Des | | Moines University, dismissed today, re- signed under fire last June after serv- .ing five years as head of William Jewell | College here. His formal resignation was accepted | by trustees “in the interest of upi and harmony and for the good of liam Jewell College.” A series of stormy events preceded the resignation. In May. several fac- ulty heads were dismissed because of their “lack of sympathy with Baptist | wor At the later commencement ex- | ercises of the school hisses and boos | were heard when Dr. Wayman unex- | | pectedly dismissed the assembly. He | explained he had taken the action be- | cause he had learned a disturbance had | been planned. STUDENTS MAY END STRIKE. California High Classmen Offered Peace for Return te Books. SAN MATEO. Calif, May 11 (®).— | ‘Whether several hundred San Mateo | High School students, who went on | strike Friday in protest against the re- | tirement of two athletic ‘coaches, will return to classes Monday, will be de- | termined at a meeting called for to- morTow. The students walked out of their | classes when school authorities an- nounced James E. (Spud) Spalding and Geoige Reed would not return 1o | their posts next term. | Frank H. Boren, superintendent of | the district, announced today that he was prepared to punish ringleaders of the strike if the students failed to re- turn Monday. but said that if they were in classes then all would be forgiven. TWO FORMER KLAVITSMEN INDICTED IN CAR THEFTS| | Four Indianapolis Defendants In- | clude One-Time State Organ- izer and Secretary. Bs the Associated Pre INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 11.—Four men, including two former leaders of {the Ku Klux Kilan in Indiana, were | convicted in Federal Court here today lof violating the Dyer auto theft aci. They were Joseph Huffington, former State organizer for the Kian, and his secretary, Sheldon Beanblossom, both of Evansville; Louis Wilkerson of Vin- cennes and Leo Baldwin of Albany, N.Y. Baidwin was sentenced to serve two years in Leavenworth Prison. ~Sen- ing of the others was deferred until 24 at the request of their attor- neys. The four were alleged to have been connected with a_widespread conspiracy tn steal cars in Detroit, Cleveland and Chicago and trans, where they were sl o 8 i Bet! o | B the inside by a chain. In the room were found. a blood-stained shirt and the knife, covered with blood. A hand- kerchief bore the initials W. W. W. In the room were a late edition of & Sat- urday afternoon newspaper and wo current issues of popular magazines. Nete Offers Apology. A note on hotel stationery read: “To the manager and coronel “Gentlemen: This is a plain case of suicide. It will be .useless to attempt to identify me as I have given a fic- titious name and address. I apologize to the manager and request he be al- Jowed money sufficient to cover any damage 1 may have caused his prop- erty. The money remaining. 1 hope, will cover this expense. The amount of money is $98.62, I am trusting that no one will rob a dead mal The exact amount of money stated in the note was found in the man’s pockets at the hospital. Milan Has Mild Quake. MILAN, Italy, May 11 (®).—An earth- quake was felt throughout the city, es- pecially in the suburbs, at 8:30 tonight. but did no damage. Shocks were also felt in Cremona and Modena. TODAY’S STAR . PART ONE—28 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page 23. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 24. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Features. Notes of Arl and Artists—Page 4. Review of Spring Books—Page 4. PART THREE—I12 PAGES. Society. PART FOUR—22 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and Music. In the Motor World—Pages 5, 6 and 7. Aviation Activities—Pages 8 and 9. Fraternal News—Page 10. News of the Clubs—Pages 12 and 17. Serial Story, “Wolves of the Water- front"—Page 13. Y. W. C. A. Activities—Page 13. District National Guard—Page 14. W. C. T. U. Activities—Page 14. Marine Corps Notes—Page 14. Spanish War Veterans—Page 15. Cross-word Puzzie—Page 15. Veterans of Great War—Page 16. Organized Reserves—Page 16. Army and Navy News—Page 18. Around the City—Page 18. Radio News—Pages 19, 20 and 21, At Community Centers—Page 22. and Screen Page 22, PART FIVE—10 PAGES. Sports and Financial. PART SIX—1¢ PAGES. Classified Advertising. D. A. R. Activities—Page 9. PART SEVEN—$ PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Humor. GRAVURE SECTION—10 PAGES. | World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—$ PAGES. | Moon Mullins; Mutt and Jeff: Reg'lar Fellers: and Somebody's Anple; High District of Columbia Naval Reserve— | DEL RAY ROBBERS LINKED T0 MURDER | | l IBank Hold-up Was Work of | Philadelphia Gangsters, | Women Tell Police. | Special Dispatch to The Btar. | UPPER MARLBORO, Md., May 11.— | Clews indicating that the “gang” of | Philadelphia gunmen responsible for the fatal shooting of Charles Wesley Poutra in the Green Gables roadhouse, March 21, may have been responsible for the Del Ray, Va., bank robbery last week have been uncovered, Prince Georges 'County police announce. information, the authorities claim to have obtained statements from young women implicating the Phila- delphia gangsters in both affairs. Had Washington * | The women. it was said, declared it [ has been the policy of the Philadelphin | group to make periodic trips to Wash- |ington and remain there ong enough to have w good time wnd full some profitable jobs. Bolh the names of the gangsters and ke Washington snd Philadelphis ad- dresses of their “hang-outs” have been obtained and further arrests in the case are expected shortly. “The authorities claim to have learned the ‘identity of the leader of the gang | and" t have found that some of his | cause “he is too quick with his gun.” Witnesses Express Fear. Authorities admit that they have been assisted in their investigation by outside sources, but report their work | has been made doubly hard by the fear of those who could furnish enough evi- \dence to arrest and convict the gun- men. The women are alleged “to Thave stated that the “job” in Virginia was the first essayed by-the gang since the shooting at Green Gables, the Suitland, Md., roadhouse, as the members have been “laying low.” PAY ROLL VIA'PLANE. Policemen. VALLEY STREAM, N. Y., May 11 () —Delivernig pay rolls by air is the Jatest fad in fiying circle: ‘The pay roll for pilots, mechanics and employes of the Curtiss Flying Service was brought to Valley Streum today by plane from Garden City. Two police- men accompanied the pilot. Retired German Admiral Dies. WIBHL, Germany, May 11 WA 3 | Admiral Max von Fischel, | former chief of the imperial navy | dled today at the age of 79, Although guarding the source of their | two | followers are a little afraid of him be- | Pilot Accompanied on Trip by Two | lars to counteract possible unemploy- ment in the future, but he predicted that “employers who plan the iustal- lation of uew automatic machinery will | some day provide new jobs in advance | for the workers they are aboul to dis- | pluce. “They will do it for business” he said, “us well as humaniterian reasouns. Leading employers tell we now that | every worker thrown out of a job is | thrown out of the market, and we all | are in accord with this statement. | When this thing happens to several | millions at the sume time, the 10ss of | their buying power hits business & blow (hat s feltl, I? our prosperity is to con- tinue, every possible worker must be kepl at regular employment at good wages." _Concerning the general employment | situation, Secretary Davis reported: “At the present time unemployment is not such as to give us the worry it did a year ago. Eight years ago nearly 6,000,000 of our people were off the paw rolis, and since that time theve has been much discussion of unemploy- ment and how to prevent it. We had | & little Tull in employment last year, | but it is now passing away and employ- ment is on the increase. Secretary Davis dismissed as | feasible certain proposals for helping | | to_prevent _unemployment. _ The’ sug- | (Continued on Page 5, Columu 1.) | WOMAN KILLS FOUR CHILDREN AND SELF| Felt Unworthy of Husband, She! Stated in. Note Asking Forgiveness. | By the Associated Pr SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, May 11.—Mrs. Muriel Wilson took the lives of her four children and then com- mitted suicide because she felt herself | unworthy of her husband, it was dis- | covered today when a searching party | came upon ' the five bodies. | An all-night hunt had been | ducted for Mrs. Wilson, who was 35 vears old. She left her home early | yesterday with her children in the family motor car. The husband, W. | A. Wilson, upon returning home last night found a note from his wife stat- ing her intention of killing her children con- The bodies were found 2 miles from the home on the bank of the Sas- | katchewan River. The children had | been strangled to death and Mrs. Wil- son had hinged herself from a tree. The mother used her hands is chok- | Ing her oldest children, Laurs, 9 years | old, and Louis, 4'5. She tied scarfs around the necks of Marjorie, 2, and Glen Willism, 5 months old, to strangle them. Laura had put up s struggle, it _was evident from the condition in which her body was found. Mrs. Wilson had stood on a box and later kicked it from under her after tying a rope around her neck. Wilson is a salesman for the Prairie City Ol 'Co. The note he found from his” wjfe asked forgiveness and stated | that felt hersell unworghy of him. government - owned hydro - electiic project of the Province of Ontalio in Canada and the other was on the re- sources of Penusylvauia, with special altention to power possibilivies in thet State. Third - Pawphiet Propesed. A third pamphilet based on & survey of the Muscle Shoals project in Ala- bams Was proposed by the Smithsonian, Wyer testified, but it was mever pub- lished, ws its plans were upsei afier s “cub reporter” i Chatlaucogs, Tenn., had prematurely published & story re- vealiug that the survey was 1o ke made. On first being approached about the Muscle Shoals study by the Smith- sonian early in 1925, Wyer said e had suggested 1t would be extremely difficult to obtain all the facts about the project from the Army engineers in charge. Subseguently he was informed by the late Chauncey D. cott, then secre- tary of the Smithsonian, he udded, that the latter had discussed the subject with “lhe President,” who had promised o permit the engineers W co-operate. “But_the cub reporler who did not know nnewspaper ethics.” Wyer said. “upset the plan:by publishing the story of & couference between m f and the N0t | gistrict Avimy engikeer after he hud| overheard our conversatiol The Smithsonian then refused o spousor the survey, he added. sud it was later financed by the Duquesue Light & Power Co. of Pitlsburgh, Pu., for which he had made other studies. NEWS DISTORTION FLAYED. La Varre of Columbia, N, C. Says Tostimony Was Twinted. COLUMEIA, S. C., May 11 (#) —Wil- linm Lw Varre, back iu Columbis afte testifyiug yesterdmy before the Federal ‘Trade Commission on his recent pur- ctnses, with Harold Hall, of the Colum- biw Record, the Spartanburg Journal, the Spartanburg Herald, sud the Au- gusts Chronicle, has prepared the fol- lowing statement. which will sppear in the Record (OmMorrow: “A lifelong respect for the integrily of the Southern press might suffer con- siderably through reading the blatantly twisted headlines with which many publishers have sought to misinterpret the facl, and the statements as given betore the Federal Trade Commission. In the North we expect to find that the metropolitan_competition, big city cu throat practices, have led many papers | to the edge of yellow journalism. The | South. generally, has been free, thank | (Continued on Page 2, Column 8. :Will Rogers Grins as ; Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE. Md., May world-famous grin of Will Roger spread more happily than it did yes- terday when Dr. Freeland, Walter J. Salmon’s colt, won the Preakness. Almost every one within sight of the humorist-actor-cowboy knew why. For some time before the race Rogers had been exhibiting for the benefit of Gov. Ritchie, Admiral Carey T. Grayson and Samuel Ross, famous turfman, a block {of Dr. Preeland’s tickets almost an inch thic When the Salmon eolt. finished win- | ner, friends surrounded Rogers -and | ¢ ‘go his coming visit to the White use. The Democrats are watching the Lostilities i Republican ranks with | keenest mlerest. Representative Jones of Texas yesterday had inserted in the Cougressionsl Record both the letter writien by Senilor Fess and the state- JERt 8sied in reply by Senalor Borah, apparently so thal there might be a permgnent record of the row between tile Républican Senators. May Foree Tariff Revision. | The debenture plan of farm 2id may be used a5 a club (o force revision of the tariff bill 0 meet the demands of ;Rrproseumiv« and Senators ivom the farm States, even though it finally goes out of the farm refief bill. It was gen- erally admitfed at the Capitol yester- day that ihe House and President Hoover in the end would have their | way and prevent the debenture from remabiing in the farm bill when in g0es to the White House for axecutive approval. However.it is the plan of supporters of debenture in the Senaie to tack it on to the tariff bill wi that measure is taken up for considera- tion in the Senate. While most of the Republican members of the House from the farm States are prepared to stand by the President now and reject the debenture plan in the farm bill, if the | same proposal comes to them in the tariff bill wuch will depend upon whether they have been satisfled with e tariff_schedules. As oue Representative from the West id last night Wriff revision was undertaken to hielp put the farmer-on & parity with the industrisl worker of the East. The special session ol Congress was called with the needs of the farmer mn the toreground. If Congress now under- takes (0 put tirough s tariff measore which does not give: the- farmer the evén break which was promised, it is quite. within -the cards that many Re- publican Kepresentatives from the West Will be ready (o support débenture.” The record has been made in the | Senate on the debenture proposal, .in | connection with the farm bill, and. it | was predicted last night that the Sen- | ate would insert it in the tariff bill be- yond & doubt if it finally goes out of | the farm relief bill. " Rift Causes Concorn.- In some Republican quarters the rift which has arisen between the West. and the East in the consideration of -both farm relief and taviff is no little concer: Eve) |~ (Continued on Page 6 B Pk ik Smile Fades on Finding Tickets Stolen him. “Yes, indeed." Tiea for ‘his hip_pocket. * Hin reached’ for his et. s smile faded. The tickets were gone: The hip ‘pocket, it appeared, had capacious’ enough ‘to permit the felo- niols entrance of a well trained hane: A humorist is not .supposed o possess least hefore lLis public. R(mfl's,‘hol \';r, defled ':’rld‘m‘?‘t': and convention and. pr »d Tapidly to- ward the boiling po‘,lfi.mK * Eventually he extracied what liitle humor there was ‘n the situation, laughed at it perfunctorily, his plane for New York. b