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2 = METHODIST BOARD SEIRES T PRESS Research Secretary Denies Reports That Killings Were Approved. By the Associated Press. The clip sheet issued by the Board of | Prohobition and Public Temperance, Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, today contained a summary of recent killings by Prohibition agents and declared pions” had run the “gamut of abuse and sobs” in regard to the “outrages of officers of the law who are attempting to suppress eriminal bootlegge: At the search secretary of the board, said that published reports that the board official- 1y approved the killings were untrue, “We simply called attention,” Mr. Pickett said, “to the cases in question | and to the disposition made of some | of them by authorities. The board did rot attempt to pass judgment on any of them, since we have “inyestigated only two. The statement was also in the nature of a warning as to stories | appearing in the wet press.” Lack of Convictions. The cases referred to were the sen- tencing of a man to life in Michigan for the sale of a pint of liquor, the kill- ing of Mrs. De King in Aurora, Ill.; slaying of Jacob Hanson in Northern v ' the I'm Alone case, the slaying by Patrolman Rouse of the Dis- trict of Columbia of Ottmer Herman, alleged rum runner, and the shooting of J. W. Kendrick by officers at Abing- don, Va. The board emphasized that in none of the slayings had the officers involved been convicted by a jury. A charge that the Methodist board had violated the corrupt practices act of 1925 in failing to file a report of its expenditures in the last presidential campaign was made yesterday by Rep- . Tesentative Tinkham, Republican, of Massachusetts. The allegation was embodied in & letter addressed to Clarence True Wil- son, secretary of the organization, the second that Tinkham has addressed to him in a week. In the first he asked whether such a report had been filed. Declares Reason “Apparent.” Yesterday he declared he had received no answer and, aserting that the reason was “apparent,” said that Wilson “could not deny” that the board “had violated the corrupt practices act of 1925, a criminal statute which requires that any organization of whatsoever character making expenditures in two or more States in behalf of presidential or con- gressional candidates shall make a sworn Teturn to the clerk of the House of Rep- resentatives of such political expendi- tures.” In addition, Tinkham said that Wil- #on had “told a falsehood” when he declared April 30 “ ‘we have no lobby here; we have no lobbyists.’ " “The issue for the American people to settle,” Tinkham said, “is whether ¢ any church as an organization in the United States is to be allowed to assume political authority and to usurp tem- poral power. CHILDREN'S PARADE JULY 4 FEATURE “wet journalistic cham- | me time Deets Pickett, re- | Rough Riders of the Air Mail “Smiling Jack” Webster Almost. Got “His” Right at Start of Career as Flyer, When Plane Started Burning After Crash Had Left Him Senseless in Wreckage. National Air Transport mail pil My worst experience as a mail pi career. dark one evenine~. of a fleld, otherwise conscious. he w i There York City - |mountings drift wires Anoth 81 got to WEBSTER. The & o about. At the mail into a truck to carry it to a trai I felt dissatisfied. I telephoned Had- ley Fleld, the Eastern terminal at New Brunswick: N. J., and H. G. Harrison, in charge of the meteorological station, told me it was clear around Hadley, with a 700-foot ceiling and no prospect of fog. I decided to fly on through the bad stuff and depend on its being clear enough to land my mail at Hadley. 1 told the Kyletown people to take the | mail out of the truck and reload the | plane. I Storm Was “Interesting.” y I took off again. The way was clear for a while. Then I ran into another thunderstorm. I tried to climb over it, | but couldn't. T started pushing through. 1 was bounced around badly. Once it | was so rough that when I straightened | out I found myself headed back toward Cleveland. It was interesting for a while. | T had seen a glow in the clouds from | the lights of Sunbury on the Susque- hanna River, but after that I couldn't | identify apything. 1 was already over- due, and I realized something had gone wrong. I was flying in what I though was fog, at about 1,000 feet, when tree- tops began to brush under me. I pulled the stick back and banked to the left. The undercarriage caught in the trees, the nose plunged in and the ship went to pieces on the side of a mountain. I was hardly scratched. I began to storm at Harrison for re- porting ‘a clear ceiling, until I realized that I was on the mountain and that it was not fog but a cloud which had obscured it. Mistaken for a Bandit. I started walking down a fence line and came to several houses, but no one would answer when I called. I walked on to a road and started into the valley. Auwed.lmtwhen 1 tried to hall it the driver stepped on the gas. He thought I was a bandit. Finally I got down to a village and found a telephone. Harrison at the fleld was consclous stricken. He thought he had given me a bad report. He and ihe il clerk came on over in a truck and we started hunting for the plane af Residents of Michigan: Park Plan All-Day Observance of Independence Day. An all-day celebration, marking the second annual observance of Independ- ence day by residents of the gan Park section of Washington, will be held under auspices of the Michigan Park Citizens’ tion. Completed arrangements provide for a patade of the children of the neigh- borhood along Michigan avenue in the morning, te: ating at the pla; d, where there wWill be patriotic exercises. refreshments and a series of games and athletic contests for men, women and children, under the direction of Ed- mund R. Lafond, assistant to the di- Tector of athletics at the Catholic Uni- versity of America. It is planned to conclude the celebration with a display of fireworks. The executive committee in charge is composed of Willlam M. Deviny, chair- ‘man; John J. Callaghan, Lewis 8. Trun- ! dle, Roger A. Hoyt, S. Henry Hoddinott, o'cloek in the morning. But we didn't it untll 6.. Then we carried the out in the truck. last adventure I will tell about befell me when I had to make a para- hute jump to save life, thus join- terpillar, mme Ca g December 1 started one after- noon from Bellefonte, after flying from Cleveland with the mall for New York. The fog and clouds were so thick that BY “SMILING JACK" Written Exclusively for The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliauce. 1 was practicing night fiying off the Chicago airport. I went up just after At 100 feet, while I was in a climbing positon over the edge I had no chance to control the ship. wrecking A workman, risking his life, slashed with a ket knife to cut loose my didn’t know how to unfasten the catch). s burned, he dragged me to safety before the gasoline {ank exploded. | _|broke while I had my wife on a fiight over New unbalanced propeller tore the engine from but I managed to glide down to a safe landing n the New Jersey side of the Hudson. @ >or occurred Jast August. the madl for New York at 3 o'clock one afternoon. {{there X ran into a’thunderstorm at Kylertown. two red flares, meaning “danger, come down.” THE EVENIN \ WEBSTER, ot on New York-Cleveland run. ! \ lot was right at the beginning of my | the motor failed. | It itself, fracturing my skull, injuring me and knocking me un- ‘Then it started to burn. afety strap (he Although was & time when a propeller blade | The tewrific centrifugal force of the and it hung swinging, with only tw holding it in the plane Fire starte er adventure I will always remem- I left Cleveland with Bellefonte, FPa., about dark. Leaving “Danger, Come Dow i ir was awfully rough anq bounced me the landing field near there they burned I did, and they started unloading | n. after flying two_hours I tried to come down and find out exactly where 1 was. There was hardly any visibility. When I got down I saw trees slipping along hardly 50 feet from my wings. climbed back and repeated the perform- ance several times with the same results. Runs Out of Gas. A little later I came down to 400 feet and saw water. I decided it must be Long Island Sound and I flew on | for 15 minutes on the same course. | Then T came down again. There was | still water under me. 1 finally returned north and started climbing. At 4,000 feet I cleared the ! clonds which had obscured my view of | the ground. I continued fiying over the | clouds at 4,500 feet. I hoped to find an opening through which I could get| down, i 4:25 o'clock my main gasoline tanks went dry. Switching on the small emergency tank I started climbing, at the same time fastening my parachute and gathering up helmet, goggles, ctc. Waiting until the propeller stopped, I shut off the navigation lights, ignition switches and instrument board lights and wound the stabilizer back so the plane would have the best chance of | gliding down. .The . ship was then 5,200 feet up. Crawling out of the cockit and climbing down to the bottom step I pushed myself away, plunging through space. Wind Tears Off Helmet. At that time I didn't know whether I would fall into the ocean, against a mountainside or what. The wind tore off my helmet and goggles and I lost em. I pulled the parachute ring and the chute opened| I saw nothing until I was 200 feet from the ground. Then treetops appeared. I fell into them. Extricating myself from the trees I walked to a gas station nearby and | called the field manager at Hadley. I learned I was down near Suffield, Conn. I located the e across the Con- necticut River, near Thompsonville. The postmaster there had already got the mail out and put it on a train. It is evident that I had been out over the Atlantic when I sighted water, It is a good thing I got a glimpse of what was below me and turned back, as I was hardly prepared for a transat- lantic hop. - (Next: Harold L. Knoop, “Racing the Lightning.) (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- paper Alliance.) MRS. 1. M. HAYNES “LEADING WITH 84 Former D. C. Title Holder Plays Best Golf in Qual- ‘Thomas C. Barr, Robert V. Montgomery, Stanley F. Kederski, Joseph W. Con- nally and Emmet J. Brennan. TELEVISION INVENTOR, HONORED BY COLLEGE C. Francis Jenkins Receives Degree of Doctor of Science From Indiana Institution. €. Francis Jenkins, television inventor of this ecity, who piloted his Flying Laboratory to Richmond, Ind., last Fri- day, today received from Earlham Col- lege, in that city, the honorary degree of doctor of science. The award was in recognition of Dr. Jenkins' contributions to science in the realm of visual radio. He is the in- ventor of the Jenkins process of broad- casting motion pictures and life scenes by radio and of the first commercially practicable motion picture projector now in general use. Earlham College is Dr. Jenkins' alma mater and is located near his boyhood home, in Indiana. It is a Quaker insti- tution and among the founders was Dr. Jenkins' maternal grandfather. Mrs. Jenkins, wife of the inventor, and Albert Jenkins, his brother, ac- companied him on_the hop to Rich- mond t week. Dr. and Mrs. Jen- kinz will fly back here tomorrow. The brother, a resident of Richmond, will remain there. The Flying Laboratory is a special Stinson-Junior four-place cabin plane in which is to be installed shortly an “aerial radio eye,” through which per- sons are expected to be able to see the countryside beneath the plane, many miles away. Preliminary experiments with the device are to be made in the near future over Washington. COMI;.ETE AIR OUTFIT. An aerial office plane, complete to & dustproof clothes cabinet, has been re- ceived at Bolling Field for the use of F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of ‘War for Aeronautics. It is a tri-mo- tored all-metal monoplane, powered with three radial air-cooled engines of 425 horsepower each. ifying Round. Scoring an 84, which is two over women's par for the course of the Co- lumbia Country Club, Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes of Columbia, former women's District title holder, today led a field of nearly 50 contestants in the qualify- ing round of the women's golf cham- plonship of the District of Columbia. Mrs. Haynes was out in 40 and back in 44, missing two putts, which, had they dropped, might have enabled her to ual par for the course. Mrs. Dorothy hite Nicholson of the Washington Golf and Country Club, who is defend- ing the women's champlonship she has won for the last three years, scored 86 to finish in second place in the qualify- ing round. Mrs. Nicholson started with & seven on the first hole and took eight on the fifteenth hole. Mrs. Betty Par- ker Meckley of Beaver Dam was 1 third place with a score of 87. L. ©O. Cameron of Chevy Chase, who re- cently set a new women's record for the Chevy Chase course, scored an 88. The scores made In the qualifying round to- day are the lowest marks ever recorded in the women’s District gol( champion- ship. The course was fast and there was no wind to bother the players. Other early scores follow: Mrs. 8. F. Colladay, Columbia, 91; Susan Hacker, Chevy Chase, 92; Mrs. J. M. Hodges, Army, Navy and Marine Corps, 92; Mrs. Alma Von Steinner, Beaver Dam, 92; Mrs. Perry B. Hoo- ver, Indlan Spring, 93; Mrs. E. R. Tilley, Indian Spring, 83; Mrs. Norman 5 , Columbia, 93: Mrs. H. A. Knox, Congressional, 10 Mrs. Wil- liam S. Corby, Columbia, 100; Mrs. C. I | Putnam, Columbie, 102; Mrs. 5 ler, Columbia, 103; Mrs. H. K., Corn- well, Columbia, 105; Mrs. L. L. Steele, Indian Spring, 108: Dorothy Hunter Indian Spring, 108; George H. Parker, Columbia, 109; Mrs. J. F. Gross, Indian Spring, 116. Pairings for the match play rounds are to be made later in the day. with the first match round scheduled for to- morrow morning. SLAIN BY BAILIFF. Sawmill Operator Shot When He | Refuses to Halt Auto. TALLAPOOSA, Ga., June 17 (#).— Grady Phillips, young sawmill operator, was fatally wounded near here last night when he did not heed the com- The big plane carries the insignia of the Capital Detachment on the sides of the fuselage. It was flown here yes- terday from Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, by Capt. Robert G. Breene, Army Alr Corps, with his father as s passenger. Secretary Davison will use the p trips to flying fields and parts of the country. Sees Trotzky Kept Out. LONDON, June 17 () —The Daily Oketch today said Prime Minister MacDonald had refused Leon Trotzky, former Russian war chief permission 1o enter Great Britain, requested =y hicn | ball mand of Balliff Luke Ballenger to stop his automobile. Phillips lived four hours after being admitted to a hospital, but was unable to make any statement. llenger thl‘ll "d"'l'fmu b‘unt connec- tion with ' death, was re- Ewrwd on nominal reported to- was firing at it was being of Corinth, here. The | completed. ] NAMEd TOH | THREE BEATEN TO DEATH. | SIR A MAURICELOW, JOURNALIST, DEAD Correspondent of the London Post, Il Month, Fesident Here 15 Years. 8ir A. Maurice Low, chief American correspondent for the London Post, with headquarters here for many years, and widely known author of a number of books, died in Garfield Hospital after an illness of about a month. He had re- sided here for the past 15 years. Mr. Low was a brother of Sir Sidney Low, noted writer and biographer. Born in London in 1860, Mr. Low was educated at King's College, London, and in Austria, and later obtained an M. A. degree from Dartmouth College. Widely known as a journalist, he was for a while correspondent for the Boston Globe. He also had done important work. for the United States and English gov- ernments. In 1900 he investigated for the United States Department of Labor certain phases of English labor legisla- tion, and several years later Investigated and reported on the functioning of English trade unions and industries. Mr. Low was knighted for valuable services to the British government. He was a member of the Chevaller Order of Leopold, the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun and the Order of the Redeemer, the latter of Greece. Among the books of which he was author are “The Supreme Surrender,” written in 1901; “Protection. in the United States,” 1904; “American Life in Town and Country,” 1905; “A Short History of Labor Legislation in Great Britain.” 1807; “The American People, A Study in National Psychology,” 1809, and “Woodrow Wilson, An Interpreta- tion,” 1918. Mr. Low resided here in the Connecti- cut Apartments. He is survived by a son, Phillip Low of Los Angeles, Calif. Funeral arrangements have not been EAD BAPTISTS. Alton L. Miller, Boston, Candidate for Convention President. DENVER, June 17 (#).—Alton T. Miller of Boston was the choice for president of the Northern Baptist convention announced today by the nominating committee. Mr. Miller is a candy manufacturer, Rev. Dr. David Jones Evans, Kansas City, Mo., was selected for vice president. Heads of Woman and Two Children Crushed by Hammer. DETROIT, June 17 (#).—Mrs. Anna Podolski and two of her children, each less than 4 years old, were found beaten to death in their home at River Roi today. A third child, also beaten, is a hospital and not expected to live. The heads of the four had been crushed by a hammer, which was found in the rear of the house. Police are searching for Mrs. Podolski's husband and a man to whom she formerly was Nearly 500 bran being grown in the tobacco are now itish emplre. G - STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY; JUN 11T 1929. Victim and Suspect DR. JAMES H. SNOOK. SNOOK'S COUNSEL GRANTED RIGHT TO INTERVIEW CLIENT (Continued From First Page.) severe injury when the body. was found Friday on a rifle range near here. Working on the theory that she might have been injured by a slammed auto- mobile door, detectives examined the attachments on the doors of four ma- chines today, and announced that the marks of the injury fitted the jamb of Dr. Snook’s machine. The marks are to be analyzed. Wife Taken for Conference. Mrs. Snook, wife of the professor, was taken to the police station today to participate in a general conference of city and county officials, at which it was expected some decision would be reached as to whether more serious charges would be filed against Dr. Snook or his release ordered. ‘The county prosecutor at the confer- ence this morning expected to receive all the evidence police and county in- vestigators have gathered in the case. Dr. Snook may face a more serious charge, county authorities said, as the result of the disclosure that he had been intimate with Miss Hix for months and had shared a small apartment with her. Unmoved except for a slight shudder when he looked upon the blood-stained grass where the body of the girl was found, he lccom;-nud detectives yes: terday morning first to the rifie range and then to the room where he ad- mitted holding trysts with the young medical student. He has denied all knowledge of the slaying. Stains Found on Clothing. Evidence gathered Saturday after the professor’s arrest included a variety of erticles and feminine effects, some of them stained, recovered from Dr. Snook's machine and from the furnace of his home, where a fire had been built Pri- Police also recovered from a dry cleaning establishment the suit which Dr. Snook was wearing the night Miss Hix was slain. It had been sent to the cleaners Friday, but still has several spots, police said. X ‘Through her husband's attorney's, John F. Seidel and E. O. Rickett, Mrs. Snook said that the articles found in the Snook home were of no conse- quence. She said rubbish had been burned there and attributed the stains to the blood of animals, calling atten- tion to her husband’s profession. CHURCH GROUP TO GIVE OPEN-AIR PERFORMANCES Pageant, Acrobatic Feats, Vaude- ville and Music Programs on Schedule for Presentation. The Men's Club of Transfiguration will present open-air performances on the grounds of the Transfiguration Episcopal Church, Fourteenth and Gal- latin streets, for three days, beginning at_7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening. The Daughters of Job will present an elaborate pageant on Wednesday and an acrobatic performance will be given by the De Molay boys. Others scheduled to participate in the performance are Willlam H. Trantham, rope spinner; Howard Wentworth, with his vaudeville and side show, “The Pirates,” from the -Smithson-Hodgson School of Dancing, while the Hawaiian Guitar Players, the midgets, and Buddy Beers' Orchestra will provide music for the occasion. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band, Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur 8. Wit- comb, second leader, at Marine Barracks at 8 o'clock tonight March, “Lorraine” .Ganne Overture, “Academic Festival”.. Brahms “In & Monastery Garden”... “Al Fresco”. Cornet solo, * ‘Weldon Second Leader Arthur S. Witcomb. “Keltic_Suite” Foulds (a) “Listen to My Tale of Woe," Sousa (b) “Pastimes on the Levee,” Tschalkowsky ymn, “The Halls of Monte- rum; ““The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Soldiers’ Home Military Band, John 8. M. Zimmermann bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant leader, at the bandstand, tomorrow eve- ning at 5:30 o'clock: Merch, “The Aristocrat”. Overture, “Czar and Zim: Entr'acte— (a) “Evening Moon". (b) “Columbine”... Selection from grand opers atore”. ... Cline ann,” Finale, u . Pre! “The Ster Spangled Banner.” s P g Nearly 20.000,000 Chinese have left hina for Manchuria 15 the last 20 8. ol DETROIT BELIEVED DRY “TEST" CITY Auto Metropolis Presents All Prohibition Problems Confronting U. S. [} present included Seymour Lowman, As- sistant Secretary of the Treasury, in charge of prohibition enforcement; Dr. James M. Doran, national prohibition commissioner; Bernard Wait, chief of special customs agents; Thomas E. Stone, Michigan prohibition administra- or, and Capt. Martin W. Rasmussen, in harge of this Coast Guard district. The battle ground studied by these chiefs is 100 miles of border, extending from & point above Port Huron on Lake Huron to Lake Erle with the St. Claire River, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River intervening. It was decided that there should be an immediate increase in the dry army's three units, the prohibition, customs and Coast Guard branches. Mr. Lowman stated he had ordered every cusioms officer who could be spared to report | for duty at Detroit. Several hundred | additional men were available and will be mobilized here, he said. More Autos and Boats. More automobiles, the Treasury’s pro- hibition chief said, would be supplied to take the army of enforcement agents at Detroit, as well as more speed boats and cutters. Mr. Lowman has ordered Capt. Rasmussen, whose headquarters are at Buffalo, to send 27 more patrol boats to the west end of Lake Erie and to the Detroit River to augment the land forces. Ten of these boats are fast 75-footers, whose normal complements are eight men and a rapid-fire gun each. The other 17 are patrol vessels carrying six men and a rapid-fire gun each. Just what proportion of the dry forces of the Government is to be in- | cluded in the Detroit concentration the Federal official refused to reveal. An estimate may be afforded by the num- ber of customs border patrol agents used in Detroit in a drive a year ago. Testifying in Washington before the House appropriations committee, E. W. Camp, commissioner of customs, and Dr. Doran revealed that 34 per cent of the entire customs border patrol was then stationed at Detroit, or nearly four times the number of men stationed at any other point. Twenty-seven per cent of the total funds allowed for the patrol was ordered to be spent in the Detroit district. Thirty-nine per cent of all the automobiles and 61 per cent of all the boats operated by the patrol were in the Detroit district. Exports of Liquor Heavy. Despite that concentration of a year ago. it was stated by Mrs. Mabel Walker | Willebrandt, former Assistant Attorney Feneral in charge of prohibition en- iorcement, . in her report to the Attor- ney General, submitted to Congress last December, 1,109,002 gallons of whisky alone, vaiued at $18,883,541, were ex- ported from Canada to the United States in 1928. Her authority for the figures was statistics issued by the department of trade and_commerce of Canada. “These figures cover the exportation of whisky only,” Mrs. Willebrandt said, “and the same records show that the total of all alcoholic beverages exported to the United States from Canada dur- ing the year ending June 30, 1928, amounted to $24,397,956." | " Mrs. Willebrandt added that it was believed a “substantial amount of |liquor enters the United States across the northern border of which the Can- adian customs has no record.” The total given by observers here is $35,000,000. (Copyright, 1029, North American Newspaper ance.) DOUTHITT INDICTED (ONBRIBERY CHARGE Accused by Judge of Offering Him $500, in Letter, to Rule in His Favor. Harry N. Douthitt, former chief in- vestigator of the Citizens’ Service League of Washington and more re- cently the owner of the Clarendon Chronicle, which he has just sold, to- day was indicted by an Arlington | County, Va., grand jury on a charge of attempted bribery, the complainant be- ing Judge Howard W. Smith of the Circuit Court. ‘The indictment grows out of a letter which was written several weeks ago to Judge. Smith, offering him $500 to de- cide in Douthitt’s favor in a suit insti- tuted ‘against Douthtt by Morris A. Beale, formerly part owner of the Chronicle and now editor of the Inde- pendent at Rockville, Md. The letter, which was written on a typewriter and which contained many grammatical errors, not only offered Judge Smith $500 to decide the case in Douthitt’s favor, but stipulated that the money was being furnished by E. Brooke Lee, Montgomery County, Md., politicel leader. Following an investigation of the af- fair, Douthitt was listed as complaining witness in a warrant charging Beale with forgery. When he learned of it. Beale appeared at the courthouse and was released in the custody of his at- torney. No further action ever has been taken with regard to the warning. Douthitt is claimed to have admitted o Commonwealth Attorney Willlam G. Gloth that the signature actually was his, but that he was not the author of the letter above it. Following the return of the indict- ment, Judge Smith announced that he will ask Gov. Byrd to designate another judge to try the case and Gloth said that he would ask the judge who is ap- {nmud to designate a special prosecu- or, since both will appear as witnesses. MRS. R. W. LUSBY DIES. Lifelong Resident of City Will Be Buried Tomorrow. Mrs. Mary H. Lusby, a lifelong resi- dent of Washington, died at her resi- dence, 5707 Fourteenth street, yester- day. Born at Fitzburg, Md., February 9, 1889, Mrs. Lusby was brought to this city by her parents when 3 months old, where she had since resided. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Surviving is her husband, Roger W. Lusby, and her mother, Mrs. David Shank. Funeral services will be held at her residence at 2 o'clock tomorrow. Interment will follow in Glenwood Cemetery. HOME INMATES FEAST. A banquet was served inmates of the Home for the Aged and Infirm at Blue Plains yesterday when several hundred members of Columbia and Temple Lodges, 422 and 85, paid the home a visit. Speeches were made by several 0| members of the order and confections 155 | and_tobacco wtre distributed, The affair nas conducted under supervision of Arthur Ci:mber and Parthenia Owrtis. Frank B, Haskell, superintendentof the home, thanked the order at lusion of the banguet. | fired unintentionally when he fell while RUM CHASEDEATH | TALES FAL T0 JBE Slaying of Youth While Run-; ning Beer From Canada Perplexes Officials. By the Associated Press. 1 PLATTSBURG, N. Y., June 17.—The | death of Arthur Gordon of this eity, 22, | shot while running 27 cases of beer from | Cenada in an sautomobile, presented ' problems for county officials today. John C. Tulloch, collector of the port of Ogdensburg, sald the shooting was | “accidental” on the part of the customs border patrol men. | County authorities said that the five | shots which persons reported to District | AttorneyB. Loyal O'Connell fhey had | heard did not jibe with the statement of Border Patrolman Cheatham that one shot from his rifle fatally wounded Go? don. This shot, ihe officer said, Wi chasing Gordon and his elbow struck a stone, causing him to tighten his grip on the rifle and discharging the shot. Time of Chase Is Disputed. ‘The statement of the border patrol that the chase took place in broad day- light was another disputed point. The | prosecutor's men said hospital attend- ants told them the border patrolmen left Gordon's body at their instituion abou 6 o'clock Saturday morning. This, they said, would indicate that the chase took place in the early morning hours. Tulloch sald Patrolmen Coveney and Cheatham tried to block Gordon's car with their two machines after they had sighted him coming down one of the “booze trails” not far from the border. ‘The officers reported that Gordon's au- tomobile took a wheel off the first car, careened into a ditch and was just straightened out when the second car loomed before him. They said Gordon stopped, jumped out and ran back toward the border, ‘Within Few Feet of Border. ‘The custom collector's statement quoted Cheatham and Coveney as say- ing that Gordon could distinguish their uniforms and that they ordered him to stop with the customary command of | “United States Customs, halt!” Gordon was within a few feet of the$ Canadian border when he was brought down. Cheatham sald that when he approached Gordon, the youth said: “You got me.” Gordon died while being taken to & hospital by the patrol. Cheatham, according to his report to the collector, asked Gordon just before he died if he had anything io say. sorry for all am not boot- legging for myself, but for a New York man” “John Doe” Is Charged. After a conference with District At- torney O’Connell, Sheriff George Bru- nell swore out & warrant charging “John Doe” with murder in the first degree. At the same time the district attorney prepared a number of sub- poenas which were given to the Platts- burgh police chief and Sheriff Brunell for service. It was the intention of the district attorney to open a hearing here this afternoon. Witnesses will include the authorities of the hespital to which Gordon’s body was brought Saturday morning by two men wearing the uni- forms of border patrolmen. The sheriff also was instructed to serve subpoenas upon all the customs officials and border patrolmen attached fo the customhouse at Mooers, and, if it was deemed necessary, upon John C. Tulloch, collector of customs at Ogdensburg. The district attorney had not re- ceived any official report this forenoon irom Collsctor Tulloch. U. S. OFFICIALS SILENT. i Pending receipt of official reports, Assistant _Secretary Lowman of the Treasury Department in charge of pro- hibition enforcement and Acting Com- missioner Dow of the Customs Bureau declined today to comment on the shooting of Arthur Gordon by customs border patrolmen while Gordon was attempting to smuggie beer in from Canada. Neither indicated when reports might be expected but ordinarily such reports are transmitted within a few days. ASH LAWN CLAIM IS BRANDED FALSE Monroe Family Says President Did Not Write Doctrine There. The reporfed claim of the owners of Ash Lawn, near Monticello, former home of James Monroe, that the Mon- roe Doctrine was written there, is char- acterized as “ridiculous” by mémber: of the Society of the Descendants of James Monroe. Monroe lived at Ash Lawn when he was a ‘“very young man,” it is de- clared, whereas his famous doctrine was written when he had been Presi- dent six years. h Lawn, in Albemarle County. just two and a half miles from Monticllo. the home of Thomas Jefferscn, is in the hands of private owners, but Monti~ cello has been dedicated to the pub- lic by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. “Monroe was a very young man when he went to Albemarle County to Le near Jefferson,” according to & state- ment of the Soclety of Descendants of James Monroe. ‘“Besides, his life at Ash Lawn was short. “The doctrine was written in 1823. Monroe then was an old man. He had been President six. years when he sent his famous message to Congress, and at that time owned and occupied trom time to time the princely estate, Oak Hill, in Loudoun County, Va. “‘A letter dated Oak Hill. October 17, 1823, written by Monroe to Jefferson, asked his advice in connection with the Monroe Doctrine, and in thjs letter the whole doctrine was outlined! There also is & copy of Jefferson's reply to this le‘n,er. dated Monticello, October 24, 1823. “It seems that Monroe was on a vaca- tion at the time he wrote Jefferson and the space of time was too short to con- sult his cabinet. There is certainly one fact in connection with the authorship of this doctrine which stands out in bold relief—John Quincy Adams makes no claim to its authorship in his diary or any other of his writings.” ‘The society defends the distinguished statesman {rom the late Theodore Roosevelt’s assertion that his ‘“great- s was thrust upon him.” ‘His greatness was not thrust upon | he earned it.” the statement says. “'At the age of 18 Monroe joined the Revolution, shed blood upon the battle- field of Trenton and was a lieutenant colonel before he was 21. He was four times elected governor of the State of Virginia. He served at the same time under President Madison as Secretary of State and Secretary of War. Finally, he was elected President for his second term by prac unanimous vote. Only one member voted against him, not because he was opposed to Monroe, but because he did not want any man to be elected unanimously except Wash- lnlqwn. 1s this ‘greatness thrust upon D2 PSRRI ‘The Queen of Norway has senc $500 to the thankofferig fund for tas As covery of Deo@s. ! Receives Medal HERBERT PUTNAM. PUTNAMTOGET ROOSEVELT MEDAL Librarian of Congress Among Three for Distinguished Service Honor. ‘Herbert Putnam, librarian of Con- gress, is one of a trio of noted Ameri- cans who will receive the 1929 Roo: velt gold medal for “distinguished serv~ Ice,” the Roosevelt Memorial Association | announced yesterday in New York City. Mr. Putnam will share in the annual | award with Owen D. Young, chairman of the Paris debt conference, and Owen Wister, novelist,. who wrote “The Vir- ginian.” The head of the Library of Congress was chogen for his achievements in ad- ministration of a public office, Mr. Young for his work in international affairs and Mr. Wister for his contri- butions to American literature. The medals are awarded each year to three men who have distinguished themselves in three of 11 flelds of endeavor. Among | previous recipients are the late Gen. Leonard Wood, Elihu Root, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Gen. Pershing, | | passed STAR MODEL HOAE 1S SEEN BY THRONG |Steady Stream of -Visitors Passes Through in Shepherd Park; "’ That there is an alert public interest i in Greater Washington in modern heme planning, construction and decoration was demonstrated yvesterday when a great throng of visitors selzed the first | opportunity to make an inspection of The Star model home in Shepherd Par which yesterday morning was opened for a month of exhibition. An almost continual stream of visito: through the house and its grounds, at 1349 Iris street, during its urst day of exhibition, and between 11 am. and 12:30 p.m. about 200 persons inspected the house. It was estimated that n]pproxlml!kly 1,500 passed through the place between the hours of exhi- bition, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. ‘This dwelling, the fourth of the series of homes being sponsored this year The Star and the Operative Builds Assosiation, will remain on . exhibition each day during the ensuing month. The public is cordially invited to in house any time during this Unusual Features Noted. The house wes built for the demon- stration by L. E. Breuninger '& Sons {rom plans approved by The Star model homes committee and the dwelling was furnished for the exhibition by W. B. Moses & Sons. Visitors yestérday found.a number of unusual features, which attracted spe- cial attention. x ‘The simple lines of dignity of this Colonial brick dwelling and the lack of “gingerbread” ornamentation, the nice landscaping treatment, the color scheme with the white trim, green shutters and slate Toofing against the rich red tones of the brick walls, attracted at- tention. ‘Then there wes the unusual appeal nf the informal library. This room has an entrance from the landing of the main stairs. Secluded from the rest of the house, the feeling of the coziness of a den of smaller size was enhanced by the informal furnishings. | _The garage is on the ground level o | this wing, with entrance from the r ‘The garage is reached by a blue grave: driveway from the rear of the property. There is an entrance from the garage | also directly into the main hall of the | house. : Kitchen of Commodious Size. President Hoover, Charles Evans Hughes, Charles W. Eliot, Gifford Pinchot and Col. Lindbergh. Librarian 30 Years. In a statement issued by the associa- tion it was pointed out that Mr. Put- nam “has for 30 years served the Na- tion as librarian of Congress.” “During that period,” the statement says, “he has developed the library from an inadequately organized collection of little more than local importance into an institution national in its scope and international in its renown, whose con- tents place it beside the largest libraries of the world.” Mr. Young, it is stated, “has played the leading part in the solution of the most grave and delicate economic prob- lem which has followed the World War, the problem of reparations. As a mem- ber of the first commission of experts appointed the reparations commission under the treaty of Versailles, known as the Dawes’ commission, Mr. Young was largely instrumental in devising the Dawes’ plan, which Mr. Charles Evans Hughes described as the ‘best security since the armistice for the peace of th: world." Central Conference Figure. “In the conference of the committee of reparations experts, which lasted over three months, Mr. Young was the cen- tral figure, trusted alike by both sides as a leader on whose fairness they could rely. His sagacity, his vast knowledge. his fecundity of ideas, apparently limitless resourcefulness and his simple and straightforward diplomacy again and again saved the conference from disaster and dissolution.” Mr. Wister receives the medal as “a | historian who has recorded for all time the character and atmosphere of the ‘Wild West' during the last quarter of the nineteenth century,” and who “caught for posterity the passing figure of the cowboy as Bret Harte caught that of the forty-niner.” “What no traditional historian could ever do,” the association states, “Mr. ‘Wister has lmghhtd through his tales of cow hands and soldiers and border ruffians and high-spirited wom- en. They live in his books and the age of which they were the expression lives with them and will continue to live.” The Roosevelt medal is 3 inches in| diameter of solid gold. It bears on one side the head of Theodore Roosevelt and ! on the other a flaming sword with the | inscription: “If I must choose between righteousness and peace I choose right- eousness.” ‘The medals will be presented at a banquet at the Roosevelt birthplace, 28 East Twentieth street, New York, Octo- | ber 27. the seventy-first anniversary of Roosevelt's birth. { | CHURCH MORTGAGE - WILL BE BURNED Full Gospel Tabernacle's An- niversary Marked by Rais- ing of Fund. Members of the congregation of the Full Gospel Tabernacle, North Capitol and K streets, celebrated the second anniversary in their church building yesterday by raising more than enough money to pay off a second mortgage indebtedness of $3.000 on the edifice. The mortgage will be burned at a special service to be held soon, it was announced today by Rev. Harry L. Col- lier, pastor. More than $7.500 has been raised for the building fund since the church bought the K street property, he said. Approximately $1700 in cash and $1,300 in pledges to be paid by July 1 were recelved in the “collection at | the special morning communion serv- ice yesterday, and $300 additional was received at the afternoon and evening | services of the all-day ‘“convocation,” it was stated. At the communion service 30 persons were consecrated for missionary, evan- gelistic_or other religlous work. Miss Marie King was appointed & home mis- sionary and Miss Bertha Milligan was assigned to home missionary work in Massachusetts. Miss Mary PFinch, one of four foreign missionaries supported by the church, told of her work in China. Dressed in native costume, she sang a number of Chinese songs. Many friends of the local congrega- tion, including a number of clergy- men from Baltimore, New York City and other points, assisted in the con- vocation program. Artists at Azstuai Picnic. ‘The annual Underwood & Underwood artists’ pienic was b’y in Rock Creek Entering through the Colonial front entrance, visitors found th ves in |an entrance hall of comfortable size. { Back of the living room was found a | dining room with windows in & bay on | the side and with an entrance through | French doors upon: a stone terrace at iihe rear. | _The kitchen at the. right rear is of jcommodious size and' is fitted with | many modern conveniences. Opening | off the kitchen are a neat’ breakfast nook and a pantry. On the second floor visitors found three bedrooms and two tile baths, an amply large spectal linen closet and cupboard space in the three bédrooms jand on the finished third floor was found a large clubroom. £ The house may be reached ‘by driv- ing out Sixteenth street to Walter Reed Hospital grounds, then half right into Alaska avenue to Morningside drive, then left into the drive to Iris street and left to the house. It also may be reached by busses operating on upper Sixteenth strect. ; {DAWES IN ACCORD WITH MACDONALD ON NAVAL ACTION :(Continued From First Page.) | Dawes couldl be seen puffing away con- | tentedly at his pipe. . | _The conversation between the Am- bassador and the prime minister tracted the ‘R’rutcst attention from morning_papers. The Conservative Daily Telegraph | gave the main credit,. editorially, t President Hoover and Gen. Dawes, marking: “Under the influence of the dynamic personality of the new Am- bassador the first and greatest of in- ternational affairs confronting Mr. MacDonald’s government is already in swift development. ‘The independent Daily Mail paid tribute to “Mr. MacDonald’s excellent idea in holding the conference at the earliest possible moment, thus setting an example in the art of getting things done without waste of time. “The meeting of these two repre- sentative men should do much to im- prove relations between Great Britain and the United States and they shoula be able to get rid of the absurd com- petition in armaments between these two powers on whose friendship the peace of the world largely depent MACDONALD PLAYS GOLI LOSSIEMOUTH, Scotland. June 17 (#).—While Ambassador Dawes in touches night ' béfore the Pligrims’ Club, Premier MacDonald, higin spirits, shouldered his golf bag and started his first day's recreation since he came to Lossiemouth’ a week ago. - The prime minister's party. tnoluded the Earl and Countess de Law :Warr, Malcolm MacDonald, his son, and Der- went Mallcaine, Labor member of Parliament. s DEVELOPMENTS AWAITED.! London today put the fini on his speech tomorrow By the Associated Press. Official and diplomatic Wishirfgton were looking today toward Londes in anticipation of further develophepys in the Anglo-American discussiofis® initi- ated tnere by Premier MacDonatd:and Ambassador Dawes. . No surprise was expressed over fifllure of the conversations Sunday to result in an immediate invitation to Ma ald to visit the United States to-comnfet.with President Hoover on Anglo-Ame¥ican relations. s rs It had been understood here that the two statesmen first would want-4e<hold preliminary conferences he question before definitely contemplated trip. Indications in the prime min statement that the “mm of. ductions was disct ned surprise, although it was said in diplo- matic circles that the intimatlons that “‘other naval powers” were expected Lo participate in the negotiations was con- sidered as an unusual development. ‘There had been no_doubt here that the first question Mr. Dawes would dis- cuss with the prime ministér wolld be that regarding navies. MRS. ;MCMURRAY RITES. Services Held for Mothet. Minister to Chin Funeral services for Mip: 3 lfl'_engc!t. Van Antwerp MacMurray.smgfber of John Van Antwerp MacMuiray, Juited States Minister to ‘were con- ducted at the residence, chusetts . James W. Church of the Covenant hole ig the TI¥ T Park sta':umfin ‘L."’. ts of the com- pary attendiag i program, arran, by Lawrerce };‘.el and Leo P&!?:l‘" consiste} of 4mse ball games, athletic events, a_pasket dinner and cooking cont Prizes were awarded winpers et clasen, " A | terment will be in Albany, N. Y. Mrs. MacMurray died of heart disease at her residence Saturday morning. Mrs. MacMurray was socially promi- nent in this city, where she had Te- sided for the past 25 years. She was active in church and philan ‘work here.