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. WEA (U 8. Weather Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably local thundershowers tomor- Tow afternoon; continued warm. Temperature —Higl yesterday; lowest, 67, at 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on’ page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 THER. Bureau Forecast.) hest, 85, at 4:05 p.m. @b WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Sla The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press service. * news Yesterday’s Circulation, 108,828 No,31,073.. ot omee. Entered as second class matter Washington, 3 D. ¢ WASHINGTON . G ) TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1929 -FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. (P) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. INCREASED TARIFFS OVER WIDE RANGE, WITH CURBING OF FREE LIST, TO WIN House Expected to Pass First Import Legislation in Seven Years Today; Sugar Charges Get Big Boost. SWEEPING CHANGES IN OPERATION PROVIDED Farm Products to Have Greater| Protection in Schedules Seen as| Having World-Wide Effect.| Measure Objectionable in Some Respects to President. By the Associated Press. Substantial increases in import duties on thousands of commodi- ties of the farm and factory are provided for in the new tariff bill which before nightfall is expected to be passed by the House and sent to the Senate. The measure, the first tarift legislation in seven years, also recommends sweeping changes in administrative provisions of the law and a reorganization of the tariff commission under a system designed to speed up its work. Every man, woman and child in the country and nearly every foreign na- tion in the world is affected by the economic changes proposed by the measure in the seven-year-old Republi- can protective tariff structure. Perhaps the most far-reaching change is the advance of sixty-four hundredths of a cent in the effective duty on sugar, raising the present duty of 1.76 cents a pound on Cuban raw sugar to 2.40 cents. Other rate advances designed to aid the farmer and manufacturer affect such commodities as wool, cattle, dairy products, meats, grains, textiles, glass, paper, furniture and clothing of all descriptions. Important commodities long allowed free entry into the United States are made dutiable, including hides, leather, boots and shoes, cement, common build- ing brick, shingles, cedar, maple and birch lumber. = The measure also sets up an entirely rate schedule to embrace manufac- " -artificial silk under the official natie of “rayon.” -goods are pro- law under the silk tected in existing schedule. Bearing on Family Budget. From a public standpoint the in- creases in the sugar rate and the boost- ing of the duty on raw wool from 31 to 34 cents a pound are regarded as more important than the others. The duties placed on shoes and raises in rates on hundreds of other farm and factory }amducts also will have a bearing. on 'amily budgets unless producers absorb the higher imposts instead of passing them on to the consumer. While the measure is understood to be objectionable in some respects to President Hoover, it meets his request for a reorganization of the tariff com- ‘misison by providing authority for him to terminate the terms of office of the present six commisisoners at his will by the simple process of sending the names of their successors to the Senate for its advice and consent. “The recreated commission would be composed of seven niembers instead of six and the President would be per- mitted to ignore political affiliations in making his appointments. Under exist- ing law not more than three commis- sioners may be of the same political party. - Salaries Are Raised. Salaries of the commissioners would be raised from $7,500 to $12,000 and thelr terms would be for 7 years instead of 12 as at present. To speed up the commission’s work in determining justification for State changes the bill proposes that it may consider differences in conditions of competition between domestic and for- eign articles in the principal markets of the United States instead of differ- ences in cost of production as provided in the present law. Experience has proved that foreign production costs | virtually are unobtainable. ‘The President in exercising his power under the flexible clause, which author- izes him to raise or lower rates as much as 50 per cent, would be allowed, if he deemed it necessary, to base rates on | the American selling price or to Tp- | classify articles in order to effect rate changes. In addition the Executive would be authorized to investigate methods for basing import duties on some form of domestic valuation instead of forelgn Jaluation as at present and report to Congress. Debate Near End. Only three hours were left today for consideration of amendments to the bill under the special rule governing this phase of the debate. which fixed the time limit at 3 p.m. and passage before 5 o'clock was regarded as practically a certainty, the intervening time being re- ~ (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) Quiet Prescribed for Balfour. 'MRS. WILLEBRANDT RESIGNS: HOOVER ACCEPTS WITH REGRET President Praises Work of Retiring Assistant Attor- ney General. Feminine. Lawyer Sought to Enter Private Practice After March 4. President Hoover today accepted the resignation of Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- brandt, Assistant Tttorney General, who has asked to be relieved by June 15. The President paid a tribute to the char- acter and ability of Mrs. Willebrandt, who has held the highest office in this Government of any of her sex. In praising her work, the President attempted to refute inferences that Mrs. Willebrandt's retirement was due to any disagreement with Attorney General Mitchell or himself. The President’ was represented as urging Mrs. Willebrandt to remain as Assistant Attorney General after March 4, when she first indicated her desire to retire. She had an offer to connect with a legal firm at that time, but re- mained on to finish certain important governmental work she was engaged in at the personal request of the Attorney General and the President. | resignation were made public today. MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT. In making official announcement at the White House today of Mrs. Wille- brandt's resignation, no indication was given that the President has any one in mind to appoint to her place. The President wrote a letter to Mrs. Wille- brandt Accepting her resignation, and in which he very strongly expressed his sentiments and his regrets at losing her services. The letter and her letter of | _ Mrs. Willebrandt is_on her_way to (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) SECRET ROLL CALL BELIEVED DOOMED Rules Committee Orders Amendment Reported to Body. 9 BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Secrecy of roll calls on nominations in the Senate appeared doomed today. ‘The committee on rules of the Senate has ordered an amendment to the secrecy rule to be reported to the Sen- ate and Chairman Moses is expected to report the amendment later today. Amendments Proposed by Two. The amendment to the rules decided upon by the committee provides that all roll calls on nominations, whether taken behind closed doors or not, shall be made public. It also provides that the Senate in closed executive session may, by a majority vote_ open the doors and “debate nominations in public.” ~The Jones amendment by Senator Jones, Republican, of Washington, pro- posed that executive sessions on nomi- nations,should be open, unless in closed sessions, the Senate should by a ma- jority vote determine to consider any nomination in secret session. Democratic members of the rules committee urged the adoption of the substitute by Senator Robinson, Demo- crat of Arkansas, for the Jones amendment, which would provide that all nominations should be considered in open executive session unless by a majority vote, taken in open session, the Senate determines to close its doors du{‘lng the consideration of the nomi- nation: Press Privileges Up. ‘The rules committee had before it the amendment proposed by Senator La Follette, Republican, of Wisconsin, granting to four press associations the privilege of sending their representatives on the floor of the Senate. The floor privileges were denied the press associations last week after a 1are-up because of the publication by the United Press of a report giving a roll call on the Lenroot nomination to the Court of Customs Appeals. By a majority_vote, the committee declined to report favorably the La Fol- lette amendment. It is expected, how- ever, that such a proposal will be of- fered from the floor of the Senate when consideration of the report of the rules committee begins in the Senate. It may take the form of authorizing the chairman of the rules committee to grant floor privileges to representatives of the press associations. Senator Moses said that he would ask the Senate to consider the proposed amendment to the rules relating to se- cret sessions one day next week. DEBENTURE DEADLOCK DISCUSSED WITH HOQVER McNary Says Afterward He Hopes for Early Adjustment of Conferees’ Differences. By the Associated Press. The deadlock in the farm relief con- ference committee over the export de- benture plan was discussed with Presi- dent Hoover today by Chairman Mc- Nary of the Senate agriculture com- mittee, who said afterward he was hope- ful the differences between the House and Senate conferees would be adjusted shortly. ‘The Senator declared the President was interested in the progress of the conference committee, and that he had informed the executive of the differ- ences in the bills passed by the House and Senate. McNary, as well as Repre- sentative Williams "of Illinois, Repub- lican member of the House agriculture WOKING, Surrey, England, May 28 (P).—A medical bulletin issued today said that while the condition of the Farl of Balfour was quite satisfactory | for the moment, complete quiet was essential. committee, predicted an early meeting of the conference committees, which | temporarily has suspended work because of the dispute between the House and Senate over retention of the debenture proposition. étop-and-Go, Hit-and-Run Automobile Battle Leads Two Chicagoans to Jail Br the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 28.—The stop-and- g0 combat of the Messrs. John Bucholz and Robert Potter was one of those hit- and-run affairs that so often, as did this, end in the hoosegow. The two were motoring in their re- spective cars down Sheridan road when Bucholz “cut in” ahead of Potter. Both had to stop for a red light, and as their cars panted side by side Potter and Bucholz exchanged dirty looks. The light turned green and they moaved along. Pretty soon another red 1'ght stopped thefh. The two men took ‘plinents. One called the other ol thing, and the other talked right back in the same language. Then the light turned green and they had to drive on. Another red light stopped them. This time Potter jumped out and called upon Bucholz to defend himself. Just as it appeared that fisticuffs were imminent the light turned green, and again the Bucholz and Potter motor cars rolled down the avenue. But there was another red light, and this time the two got out and started to brawl. A policeman appeared and | spoke to them. They got. back into their vehicles. Pretty soon the light turned this opportunity to exchange uncom- | green and they drove on (o the police t ) LINDY AND BRIDE DROP QUT OF SIGHT Unconfirmed Rumor Says He| and Anne Are Aboard | Guggenheim Yacht. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 28—The honey- moon destination of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his bride, the former Anne Morrow, like so many of the Lone Eagle’s flights, was enveloped in com- plete secrecy today. After the couple left the Morrow home at Englewood, N. J., yesterday, following their fnarriage, they dropped completely from sight. Newspaper vigils at flying flelds, steamshipf” piers, raflroad terminals and even highways leading out of New York yielded no trace of the newlyweds. There were scores of rumors and theorles, but none of them was con- firmed. One report was that an am- phibian plane had landed last night in Hempstead Harbor outside the Long Island estate of Harry Guggenheim, in- timate friend of the flyer, and that the honeymooners had sailed on S. R. genhelm’s yacht, Trillora. The t was in the harbor last night, but was gone this morning. The preparation for flight of Col. Lindbergh’s speedy biplane at Roosevelt Field was believed tq have been a blind to throw newspaper men off the scent. In this connection, it was also pointed out that an agrial honeymoon by the couple would be anything but private, what with perhaps every airport in the country beseiged by reports and pho- tographers. ‘The belief that Col. and Mrs. Lind- bergh might sail on some ocean liner under assumed names received some support. Meanwhile, anxious city edi- tors of newspapers kept their staffs keyed up waiting for the “break” when the honeymooners “land,” be that “landing” from earth, sky or sea. PLANE ON MYSTERY FLIGHT. Lindy’s Ship Is Brought Back Without Explanation Being Given. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., May 28 (#).—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's plane was taken out of its hangar for a brief mystery flight today and then returned without any explanation being given: The flight was over Farmingdale and Lake Ronkonkoma, Long Island, but no landing was made. ‘Two young men appeared here today after mechanics had warmed up the plane and flew it away after refusing to reveal the destination or purpose of their flight. | ‘The plane was dipped low over the airport at Farmingdale and then flown on to the lake resort and back here. | When the plane landed the two men in 1t climbed out, unstrapped their para- chutes and drove away after declining to answer any questions. The plane was then wheeled back in its hangar. When the engine was fully warmed up the two young men drove up in {an automobile and made ready to fly the plane away. They were not recog- nised by any of the reporters at the eld. The one who climbed into the pilot's seat answered a question as to his name, but reporters disagreed as to what it was. Some thought it was William Cos- well, some Carswell, and some Cogs- well, The pilot declined to repeat it or_spell it Neither man would say what his con- nection was with Col. Lindbergh nor what the plans for the plane were. After donning parachutes they flew the plane due east and reporters took up the trail by automobile to see if a landing were made at Mitchell Field, Farmingdale or some other Long Is- land field. FEW WITNESS CEREMONY. Informal Wedding Performed Without Best Man or Attendants. ENGLEWOOD, N. J.. May 28 (#).— Taking a waiting world completely by surprise, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his_ bride, the former Anne Morrow, (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) PHARR HELD GUILTY. Misused Funds of Memphis Bank, Jurors Find. MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 28 (#).—Wil- liam R. Pharr, cotfon man, was found guilty in Federal Court today on charges of alding and abetting J. Ramsey Beauchamp, former vice president of the Old Union and Planters’ Bank & Trust Co. in the misapplication of nearly $600,000 of the bank'’s funds in 1923 and 1924. Sentence was deferred until June 8. Stores Here to Close. foct of Washington's i be closed T J temorial day, s houses yance announced to- and Manufac- $5 m S2 as day by the Merchants' HOOVER ADDRESSES LAW COMMISSION IN FIRST MEETING Briefly Explains Reasons for Probe and Hopes for Its Success. WICKERSHAM, IN REPLY, PLEDGES OPEN MINDS Declares He and Other Members Realize Importance of Un- dertaking. Declaring that no nation can for long survive the failure of its citizens to respect and obey the laws which they themselves make P.resident Hoover to- day addressed the first meeting of the newly created Law Enforcement Com- ‘mission. At this initial meeting of the com- mission, which was held in the cabinet room, the President in a brief manner emphasized not only his reasons for calling for an investigation of law en- forcement, but prayed for the success of this undertaking. declaring “for by your success you will have performed one of the greatest services to our gen: eration.” George W. Wickersham of New York, chairman of the commission, in re- sponse to the President’s opening re- marks stated that he and the members of the commission approach their task with a profound realization of its im- portance and with minds open to con- sider on their merits all intelligent sug- gestions from unprejudiced sources and pledged himself and his associates to discharge their duties to the best of their ability. Mitchell Promises Aid. Attorney General Mitchell addressed the commission to the extent of assur- |ing them that inasmuch as the com- mission’s work will touch very closely the Department of Justice, that the latter can be counted on to co-operate to the fullest extent. ‘The President in outlining his views stated “The American people are deeply concerned over the alarming disobedi- ence of law, the abuses of law enforce- ment and the growth of organized crime, which has spread in every field of evil- doing and in every part of our country. A nation does not fail from its growth of wealth or power.” The President reminded the meeting that the problem is not confined to the enforcement and obedience of one law or the law of the Federal or State gov- ernment separately. The problem, ac- cording to his contention, is partly the attitude toward all law. Eleven on Commission. ‘The members of the commission are George W. Wickersham of New York, Attorney Geneftal in the Taft Cabinet, has been designated by the Presi- leit as chairman: Newton D. Baker of Cleveland, War Secretary in the Wilson Cabinet; William S. Kenyon of Jowa; Federal Judges Willlam I. Grubb of Alabama and Paul J. McCormick of California; Roscoe Pound, dean of the Harvard Law School; Henry W. Anderson of Virginia and Monte M. Lehman of New Orleans, prominent members of the bar; Frank J. Loesch, vice president of the Chicago Crime Commission; Kenneth R. Mackintosh of Washington State, a former jurist, and Miss Ada L. Comstock, president of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. ‘When the President met with the Commission to talk business in the cabinet room the only persons present beside himself and the members of the commission were Attorney General Mitchell and two stenographers. Plan Open Hearings. Mr. Wickersham, chairman of the commission, indicated in advance of the meeting that the body will lose no time in developing a definite program to fol- low in its investigation work. He said that one of the first things to be done would be to get headquarters in one of the Government departments here for the commission. It is understood that the commission proposes to conduct open hearings in the larger cities. It is the chairman’s intention to keep the members of the commission in Wash- ington long enough to complete the or- ganization of the body and to decide upon a program. Their work is ex- pected to require two years. As a preliminary to today's meeting, President Hoover has had opportunity 'ws of the problem in ONTINUES WEATHER € T0 HOLD UP FLYERS Green Flash and Yellow Bird Ready for Take-off When Ele- ments Clear Over Atlantic. By the Associated Press. OLD ORCHARD, Me, May 28— Continued unfavorable flying condi- tions over the Atlantic today kept the monoplane Green Flash from taking off for Rome and the French plane Yellow Bird for Paris. Roger Q. Williams, pilot, and Lewis A. Yancey, navigator of the Green Fiash, remained at the beach here to receive reports by telephone and tele- graph from Dr. James H. Kimball, meteorologist at the New York Weather Bureau. For more than a week the fiyers have hoped for a break in_ the weather which would permit a hop- off_on their contemplated 4,700-mile filght. Meanwhile Jean Assolant, pilot of the Yellow_Bird, awaited only the word from his companions, Armino Lotti, sponsor of the Paris hop, and Rene Le Fevre, navigator, to prepare the big French plane for the ajr. Lotti and Le Fevre left yesterday for New York, whire Lotti believed he could obtain more detailed weather reports than were available by wire. After notifying Assolant when the conditions clear, they will hurry back here for the take-off. Plans Amnesty for Exiles. SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 28 (P).—A cabinet council today approved a new amnesty proposal which will be laid be- fore Parliament next week. The pro- posal provides for liberation and pardon of several hundred persons, including Communists, former ministers and poli- ticians of the Stamboulisky regime who are living in exile. . Tt Lt B BYGOLLY!\‘ THEoRT N D ESTNTOR P LAY 7 SEE REPARATIONS SETTLEMENT HOPE | Proposed Change of Annui- ties Payment Date May Avoid Expected Failure. PARIS, May 28 (#). — The repara- tions’ conference, which seemed in a coma until the past 24 hours, was showing signs of reviving today and statisticians and accountants of the committee were hard at\ work figur- ing on different combinations by which it was hoped a final failure of the committee to solve the reparations problem may be avoided. It has been proposed to date the application of the annuities suggested by Owen D. Young from September instead of April. This would give the creditors five months more of payments under the Dawes plan, or 350,000,000 marks (about $84,000,000) more than under the first Young annuity, if dated from April. New Combinations Discussed. ‘Two other combinations also were being discussed and figured on, but early this afternoon nothing like an agreement had developed. Failure, in mcre or less explicit terms, would have been written into the report of the experts’ committee yesterday, but for last-minute renewal of determination by the delegates to have one more try at the problem which has baffled them for nearly 16 weeks. Ensuing efforts devolved principally around the German objections to hav- ing the settlement which this commit- tee is debating become effective now, be- fore they will have concluded their pay- ments under the old Dawes plan. Rearrangement Difficult. Inasmuch as the creditor nations had depended upon this duplicity of payment for this one year at least to cover cer- tain items in their claims for which in- sufficient alowances was made in the compromise annuity figures of Owen D. Young, American chairman of the con- ference, a rearrangement to meet the German insistent demands appeared difficult. It was exactly this, however, which was being attempted, those wheel horse delegates upon whom has fallen the brunt of calculation and compilation seeking to spread at various spots in the ‘Young figures the amounts which would have beed received in the overlapping payment. In some quarters there was optimism as to the outcome of their efforts, al- though the optimism seemed based on the necessity for an agreement for all concerned rather than on good and sound reasons why an agreement was likely fo be achieved. Complications Arise. In French circles it was observed to- day that everybody, including Dr. Hjal- mar Schacht, the German spokesman, was doing his best to avert the rupture which seemed already to beset the con- ference early yesterday when the re- newed efforts began. There was one more complicating fea- ture, however. That was the result of the Belgian elections Sunday when the Liberal government was strengthened in office and its insistence on annuities from Germany to cover the depreciation of currency due to German issues dur- ing occupation was bolstered. Visits Country. Dr. Schacht, chief German delegate | at _the conference, today went to get a breath of fresh air at the country home of a friend outside Paris. His de- parture aroused reports in Berlin that he had departed on & mission to the Rhineland. Headquarters of the German delega- tion declared that Dr. Schacht could re- turn to Paris within half an hour at any time necessary. He had found the heat wave in Parié oppressive and sought & cool spot while awaiting a call from the allied experts. | DEATHS EXCEED BIRTHS IN ENGLAND AND WALES By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 28.—Deaths exceeded births by 44.112 in England and Wales in the first quarter of 1929 and the total deaths in the period numbered more than 204,000, an increase of 68.060 over the corresponding quarter of 1928. The bitter cold spell and the in- fluenza epidemic made the first three months the second worst on record in the country so far as deaths were con- cerned, fatalities being exceeded only in 1919, w;un a great imfluenza epi- lemic raged. d The d\:uuth rate for the first quarter was 21 per 1,000 of population In the same period of 1928 births exceeded deaths by 31,011, The figures also revezled that 10,000 fewer marriages oc- in the first quarter of 1927. curred in the last quarter of 1928 than | 6 Detective’s Memory Foils Scheme to Have Double Take Penalty By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, May 28.—The scheme of a Brooklyn speakeasy proprietor of hiring a jobless man to double for him in facing vio- iation of the Volstead act failed in Federal Court, because of a detective's memory for faces. After the expose Benjamiin Flaugh told Judge Inch he had been promised a day's wages and $5 by Joseph Jarbowski in the event a fine was imposed and a larger sum if a jail sentence was given. He said he accepted the offer because he was without a job and seven months behind with his rent. Jarbowski, haled into court, admitted the subter- fuge and was sentenced to six months in jail. TRIAL SET MONDAY INSTUDENT DEATH ‘Three Vfrgini'a Officers Indict- ed for Murder After College Boy Is Killed in Car. By the Associated Press. ABINGDON, Va., May 28.—Three of- ficers of Washington County—James McReynolds, Abingdon policeman, and James Crowe and J. H. Worley, Wash- ington County deputy sheriffs—are to go on trial here next Monday, charged with the murder of J. W. Kendrick, 17, Emory and Henry College student. The Washington County grand jury indicted the three yesterday, the indictment be- ing based on a warrant sworn out by a relative of Kendrick. Kendrick was riding with Paul Phelps and Sterling Dutton the night of May 6 when he was fatally wounded, The three officers, responding, they said, to a report that the young men in the au- tomobile were “creating a disturbance,” fired “at the tires of the car.” They declared after the shooting that occu- pants of the automobile denied that they received an order to halt. Asks Special Judge. Shortly after the grand jury returned its indictment against the three officers, Judge John H. Stewart, presiding in the ‘Washington County Court, announced that he would ask to be relieved from the case, as the three men were of- ficers in his court. He said he would request Gov. Harry F. Byrd to name some other judge to hear the case. ‘The shooting aroused considerable interest in this section of Virginia and prompted students of Emory and Henry College to petition Gov. Byrd to “see that the ends of justice are served” in the case. Gov. Byrd advised with the Virginia attorney general and was in- formed that he had no authority to in- stitute & special investigation of the shooting and that it was a case for the Washington County officials alone., Warrant Is Taken. Officers involved in the shooting were not arrested until two days afterward. An uncle of Kendrick swore out war- rants charging the three men with murder. They were given preliminary hearings and released under bond. Mc- Reynolds asked to be relieved from duty pending the outcorhe of the case and shortly afterward Worley was removed to his home under the care of physi- cians, who said he was suffering from a nervous disorder. Kendrick was an orphan and a mem- ber of a prominent Southwest Virginia family. His father was killed in an au- tomobile accident in Florida in 1925. WHEAT AT NEW LOWS. Market Sweeps Downward Under Fresh Selling Storm. CHICAGO, May 28 (/).—The flood of selling swept on through the grain mar- kets today, carrying prices down to new low levels for the season. Wheat sloughed off fractionally, the May de- livery dropping 7 over night to 98 a bushel, and sales for delivery in July sinkln% fractionally below the dollar mark for the first time since 1923. All the principal North American markets showed price recessions of 1% to 15 at the opening in the wheat pits. uwashlnmn clearing house, $4,569,- 27.94. Treasury balance, $150,379,705.29. State News, Pages 10 and 11 l New York clearing house exchange, $1.564.000,000, New York clearing house balance, NINE MINERS KILLED IN DYNAMITE BLAST Two Others Burned Severely as Flames Follow Explosion 1,000 Feet Down. By the Associated Press. YOLANDE, Ala., May 28.—Nine men were killed and two others burned severely in an explosion 1,000 feet be- low the surface in the Connersville mine last night. Officials of the Yolande Coal & Coke Co., operators of the mine, said their inspectors reported the blast was caused by an overcharge of dynamite. Rescue Crews Fight Fire. The bodies were recovered early today by rescue crews who worked through- out the night fighting flames that en- veloped the workings after the explo- sion. The twelfth member of the night crew climbed from the shaft uninjured. The dead, including seven white men and two colored, are: o Grover Herring. h{.’.‘ugcne Herring, son of Grover Her- ring. Bill Kimbrel. Charley Patterson. Mitchell Turner. “Will Kelly and Harry Kelly, brothers. Phil Crees and Allen Pearson, colored. The injured: Mark Hulsey, Severe Burns, recovery doubtful. O. E. Chastaine, badly burned, but will recover. George Byron, & pumper, emerged from the mine unharmed. All Killed by Esplosion. The explosion occurred at 7 o'clock last night, and several hundred persons, miners and their familles, crowded about the mouth of the horizontal shaft, awaiting word from returning rescue crews who held hope that the men were only trapped by the flames and could be rescued. The mine officials said examination of the bodies indicated all men were killed instantly. EXPLOSION WRECKS RUMANIAN OIL FIELD Spark From Drill Spreads to Many Towers, Sweeping Entire Dis- trict of Two Companleu.’ By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 28.— Reports from Moreni state that the roperty of the Rumano American Oil ‘0. was the scene of a terrific explosion today. A spark on & drill reaching the oil strata fired the oil and the flames were carried to 21 drill towers of the Astra Rumano and four of the Rumano Amer- ican Co., all in the district of Tzuicani. By midday the workshops and worl men’s houses of the Astra Rumano Co. also were reduced to_ ashes. Firemen from all the surrounding regions were tolling late today in an effort to save the reservoirs and me- chanical shops of the Astra Rumano ©%ne damage was calculated to be enormous. RENEWALS REFUSED." Foreigners in Paris Must Vacate or Accept Increased Rents. PARIS, May 28 (®).—Foreigners holding leases on French property either for private residences or busi- ness pur] today were refused au- tomatic renewals of their leases, as has been the custom, by a vote of the French Chamber of Deputies. The vote was generally interpreted as meaning that if the lessees are at variance with the JFrench proprietors when their leases “expire, they must either vacate the premises or accept increased rents. | PITTSAND ANADALE INDICTED ON NEW PERIURY CHARGES Second True Bill Returned Against Chairman of Board of F. H. Smith Co. VICE PRESIDENT NAMED IN FIVE ACCUSATIONS Grand Jury Takes Further Action as Result of Hamilton Hotel Bankruptcy Hearing. C. Elbert Anadale, first vice president of the F. H. Smith Co., was indicted today by the grand jury on charges of perjury, alleged to have been committed before a referee in bankruptcy during hearings in connection with the bank- ruptcy of the Hamilton Hotel corpora= tion, which formerly operated the hotel at Fourteenth and K streets. With the indictment of Anadale, the grand jury also returned a separate in- dictment against G. Bryan Pitts, chair- man of the board of directors of the Smith Co., who is under $2,500 hond to await trial on another charge of perjury, alleged in an indictment re- ported against him several weeks ago. Anadale, at the time of the alleged crime, was secretary-treasurer of the Hamilton Hotel Corporation. False Answers Charged. The Pitts indictment is in two counts {and alleges that after taking an oath before Ralph D. Quinter, then a referee in bankruptey and qualified to adminis- ter: oaths, November 9, 1927, Pitts made false answers, which he knew to be false, to two questions propounded to him. The inquiries put to him were whether the books of account and eor- porate records of the bankrupt corpora- tion had ever been in his possession or under his control and whether he had any knowledge of the fact that such books and records had ever been in the offices of F. H. Smith Co. or the F. H. Smith Investment Co. on I street. Pitts answered, according to the in- dictment, that such books and records had never been in his possession or under his control and that he had no knowledge that they were in the Smith offices when the indictment alleges the facts to be that the books were under his control and in his possession at the | Smith Co.’s offices. Assistant United States Attorney Joseph V.. Connolly, who prepared the indictments, explained that the Smith Co.'s offices were temporarily in the 1400 block of I street, during the period covered by the indictment and while the Smith Building was being erected or repaired. Five Counts Listed. The indictment against Anadale is in five counts and charges the commission of “wilful perjury” in making false answers, which he knew to be false, to the five questions propounded to him at a hearing before former Referee Ralph D. Quinter, June 15, 1926, in con- nection with the same bankruptcy pro= ceedings. Anadale, according to the indictment, ‘was_asked these questions: “Did you ever have access to and supervision over the books of account and corporate records of the ton Hotel Corporation?” “Were these books and records in your possession during the period when you were secretary-treasurer of the corporation and were you familiar with the details contained in these books?” “Did you know that during the time that the office of the F. H. Smith Co. was located on I street certain books of account of the hotel company were in that office?” “Did you see any of these books of account of the hotel company at the offices of the F. H. Smith Co. or the F. H. Smith Investment Co?" “Did you ever make any entries in the ledger of the Hamilton Hotel Cor- poration or in any of the books of account of that corporation?” To each of the five questions, the indictment states, a categorical denial was made, when it is asserted, Anadale had made entries in the ledger and in the other books of account of the bank- rupt hotel company which had been in his possession at the time mentioned at the offices of the Smith company. TRUCK DRIVER IS SLAIN IN DAIRY LABOR CLASH Deputy Sheriffs Fire Into Crowd Attacking Milk Wagon in Pittsburgh Dispute. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, May 28.—Michael Rockford, 24, a truck driver, was shot to death early today, the result of a clash between deputy sheriffs and a crowd which attacked a milk wagon of the Liberty Dairy Products Co., in- volved in a labor controversy. The police said a score or more men stopped the wagon and dragged the driver from his seat. Deputies have been guarding the trucks and wagons since a number of employes quit work. The deputies ordered the crowd to disperse, according to the police, and were stoned by the crowd. Then, the police said, one of the deputies fired into the crowd and Rockford fell. ‘Twelve arrests were made. A court injunction recently was granted restraining the employes from violence. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, May 28.—Five years from now scientists at Western Reserve University hope to be able to tell you just what constitutes a “well born child” and exactly what he ought to be like at various years of his life. ‘The project was announced at the commencement week meeting of the chapter of Sigma X1 at Case School of Applied Science by Dr. T. Wingate Todd, professor of anatomy at Western Reserve. Tt is proposed to study the child in and before the nursery school period as well as to examine the growing body wm,%n, <l S i | 838 €XPROAIDE mund of boys and gislal Scientists Begin Study to Detéermine Characteristics of Well Born Child in the second decade of life in order to find out how the patterns of adult be- havior become fixed during that period. When this study is completed, Dr. ‘Todd and his co-workers expect to tell parents what their children ought to be at 10 at 15 or at 20. The investigation, to be started this Fall, will be made possible by the Charles F. Brush Foundation, of which Dr. Todd is a director. The founda- tion was established more than a year lfio when Charles F. Brush, Cleveland philanthropist, inventor and a trustee of Case, donated $500,000 which he dedicated to the betterment of human stack, .

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