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WEATHER. (. 8 Weather Fair tonight; sormswhat cool: Temperatures—Highest 90 at 1 p.m. yesterd Full lowest port on Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 tomorrow increasing cloudiness, followed by showers and Buresu Forecast) in the afternoon. 68 at 5 a.m. today. page 9. h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. in Washingt Associated service. The only evening paper on with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 105,993 Entered as secos post office. No. 31,096. Washington. nd class matter DG WASHINGTON, D. (., THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1929 —FIFTY-SIX PAGES. ¥ (#) Means Associated Pres: TWO CENTS. STIMSON REQUESTS REPORT OF ATTACK ON CUSTOMS MEN Asks Treasury for Particu- lars of Firing on Boat by Rum Smugglers. LIQUOR RUNNERS FLEE | INTO CANADIAN WATERS| Arguments on Dry Killings Renew- | ed in Congress—Glass Accuses Administration. Br the Ascociated Press Secretary Stimson has asked the | Treasury Department to give him a full report on the firing on a customs patrol boat on the Detrolt River by rum smugglers. Reports reaching Washington have beén that rum runners fired on the customs patrol boat near the American shore and then fled into Canadian waters. Assistant Secretary Lowman has pointed to the incident as bearing out the necessity for having customs agents carry arms. Assistant, Secretary Lowman of the Treasury had not received a report to- day on the incident yesterday. He said he had wired officers in charge of the Detroit office of the Customs Bureau to telegraph him the corhplete report, and he expected it to be received during the day. . No Indication of Procedure. Secretary Stimson did not_indicate what disposition would be made by the State Department of the report on the shooting, nor did he disclose whether | the American Government would make | any inquiry of Canada concerning the | incident. Lowman later telephoned the Detroit office and asked for au immediate re- port. He said that as soon as the re- port had been received and studied it would be transmitted to the State De- partment. The Assistant Secretary said that | this was not the first time that rum | runners had opened fire on customs boats and that it had happened fre- quently in the past, with the aggressor escaping into Canadian waters. It was pointed out at the State De- | partment that Canada, at the Ottawa conference, indicated a willingness to prevent the smuggling of liquor into the United States, but refused to make | the export of liquor from the Dominion | into this country illegal. Meanwhile, State ent. officials declared no definite decision had been | Mother Kills Son, Three, With Bullet From “Empty” Gun Rv the Assorinted Press. CHICAGO. June 20.—"T11 show you how I'd shoot a bur- glar.” laughed Mrs, Jeanette An- zolone to & group of friends at her_home last night. Please don't,” shudderad one of her guests. Oh, it _ 't Mrs. Anzolone. But it was Her 3-year-old son Leonard dfed early tod hospital. & bullet in h O SHOOK GRLLED 2HOIRSINPROBE Professor Admits Taking Key of Slain Co-Ed Near Body, Detective Says. loaded.” smiled By the Associated Pross COLUMBUS, June 20.--A key taken from the spot where the body of Theora Hix, 24-year-old student at Ohio State University, was found last Pridav, an admission that he had burned woman's clothes the next ¢ay and inabliity to explain blood stains on his automobile. was information authorities todey had wrung from Dr. James H. Snook, dis- missed professor at the university. They were continuing their questioning Dr. Snook. questioned until 6 o'clock this morning, was brought back before Prosecutor John J. Chester and detec- tives a short time later. At noon Ches- ter summoned a stenographer into the | room where Snook was clos Srook has been under questioning almost con- | tinuously ior 24 hours. Admits Burning Clothing. Chief of Detectives W. G. Schellen- barger said Dr, Snook told him he took the key to the north side room, which he and Miss Hix had shared as man and wife, from the spot were the girl's body was discovered. It was returned to the landlady of the rooming house a short time before the slain co-ed's body was found. Authorities also said Snook had ad- mitted burning woman's clothing in the furnace at his home shortly before he was arrested for investigation, and was unable to tell how blood stains came on his automobile, The blood stains are being analyzed - to determine whether they are human or animal hlood. Attorneys Shift Plans, i Atwmiys dlflr S;&ook] Sald( thc;‘v’ }}lfl emporarily dropped plans for obtain- ing his release on habeas corpus pro- ceedings and intimated they would have a statement later. CAPITOL DESERTED - AS CONGRESSMEN START VACATIONS Senate Finance Committee, Toiling Over Tariff Figures, { Stands Guard. PROHIBITION DEBATED [ DURING CLOSING HOURS | Administration Proposal to Pos pone French War Supplies Debt ! Maturity Is Approved. Bt the Associated Prece i The Senate finance committee stood | quard at the deserted Capitol today to | toil over the mass of figures involved in | the pending tariff measure while the | other members of Congress enjoyed a vacation. For twn mohthe the committee will | hear witnesses and work the | over By the Associated Press. . EL PASO, Tex.. June’20.—Two chil- dren were dead and 16 other persons were in a hospital today from the effécts of a mysterious gas that spread without warning over a residence dis- trict here last nizht. Ten others may die physicians said. The dead—Ignacio Ceniceros, 3. and Bartolo Ceniceros, B. Those in the hospital were Mrs. Maria Ceniceros, 45: Migues Ceniceros, | voluminous tariff measure passed by | | the House, and then the Senate will | | return—on August 18—to begin con- | of President Hoover remaining to be |~ T acted upon at the special session. | Prohibition Move Is Delaved. ‘MYSTER'UUS GAS day of vigorous debate in the Senate. | | tion and a few hours of discussion in | KII-I.S 2 HARMS ]6 the House over the administration ’ | proposal to postpone the maturity date | | debt. The latter was approved by both chambers before adjournment. | | hinged _on the resolution of Senator i 3 { Bonte. Republiean: f Wacninston. pro | Warning Near El Paso Refin- ! posing appointment of a joint congres- | : | President Hoover, to study the advisa- ery—10 Others May Die. | bility of transferring the prohibition Secpve A | agencies to the Department of Justice action, and the resolution went over as | the unfinished business hefore the Sen- | | ate to be taken up after the recess. | The final hour of the session found | ‘he Senate again reverting to its dis- pute with President Hoover over the | Senators Norris of Nebraska and John- | |son of California, leaders of the Re- ! publican independent group which sup- deration of this last recommendation * The recess was taken last night after a | revolving principally about. - prohibi- | | of thef$400.000,000 French war supplies o - . Fumecs Spread Without | The Senate . prohibition debate | sional committee, s Tequested by The Jong round of discussion forestalled Debenture Plan Up Again. i | export debenture farm relief plan. | {ported the debenture proposal, assailed g:bllshed stories which they said cast | Author! had noscomment on hew | aspersions on the motives of Republic- Dr. Snook, who has maintained he was | AD3 opposing the President on tha reached jn connection with the sclec- | home the bear- | tion of an arbirator for fhis eeuntry in the case of the Canadian craft I'm |longed questioning. Alone, a run-runner sunk by an Ameri- can Coast Guard-cutter in the Gulf of | Mexico. | It was_ indicated that negotiations between the two governments in regard | o the I'm Alone were progressing sat- isfactorily and an American arbitrator would be selected probably in the near future. Glass Acenses Administration. The Senate went its temporary wa; from Washington yesterday leaving be hind a sizeable closing day bulk of de- bate on prohibition, during which Senator Glass. . Demoerat, Virginia. charged that the administration was| “submerging” prohibition in the law, enforcement inquiry. Such other stalwart drys as Senator Jones of Washington rushed to the de- fense of the President, and before the | dag’s discussion had ended there were charges from drys of both parties that shootings by enforcement officers were | being exaggerated as part of a wet, propaganda._ drive. | Senator Glass quoted from Dresident Hoover's New York speech declaring | prohibition was a “segment” of the| task. He then told the Sena’y that in | the campaign no mention was made about general law enforcement and the issue was always the eighteenth amend- ment and the Volstead act. “And I challenge any man to point to & syllable uttered or a sentence writ- ten by the President in the last cam- paign.” he continued, “which com- mitted him specifically to advocacy of the eighteenth amendment or in any wise to advocacy of the eighteenth emendment. Nowhere explicitly or im- plicitly has he said that he is an advo- cate of the Volstead act.” i Jones Defends President. Benator Jones, going to the Presi- dent’s defense, asserted that while he “may not have said to his law enforce. ment commission what I would have eaid, nevertheless he has twice before | given his prohibition views and we must give him more fime and epportunities before we can believe he has forsaken the principles he announced.” | Senator Copeland, ‘Democrat, of New York. a wet, denounced shootings by prohibition agents and deplored the “fanatical attitude” toward dry en- forcement which he contended was un- doing the law Senator Brookhart. Republican, of Jowa, an ardent dry. replied it was time 'to “stop all this gush about mur- ders and force Senators to help enforce the law.” He declared “the Senator from New York could make a Jouder speech about the 55 dry agents who have been mur- dered.” saying most the Killings by dry agents were “accidents and “some of those who were killed ought to have been killed." prohibition furore in the Senate irred up by consideration of the was Jones resolution f carry out Presi- dent Hoover's recommendation for a con; nal study of reorganizing the DroRibition agencies under ths Depari- ment of Jusiice, Senator Gless and n of Arkansas, the Demoeratic id such a recolution was un- and amounted to an attempt hift recponsinility for such a step. An amendment tn the presidential request for the joint commission pre sented by Senalor Hawez, Democi " (Continued on Page 4. Column 1.) n to t of the killing, er the strain of the ing up une tective Otto Phillips. who took part in the guestioning, sald the session that extended through the night had ended after Dr. Snook admitted taking the key. from the girl's keyring, which was found mear the body. Phillips zaid he asked Snook: ‘“Wheie did you get that key before you turned it in Friday?” He sald Snook replizd, “you know where T got it.” Narcotics Enter Into Quiz. “At the body?” Phillips asked, Snook was quoted as replying Yes.” Phillips said that Snook asked him “You believe me about the narcotics, don’t you?” Phillips said he did not know what the question referred to but that .| | answered “yes” and that Snook then said “well,”she hounded me to give them to her.” Phillips said he did not know whether Snook meant to imply that they were for her own use or for other purposes. Snook was taken back to the eounty jail at 12:45 p.m. Prosecutor Chester and police heads left the police station with- out revealing what had been the out- come. Attorney John Siedel conferred with his client at the jail for a short time then said 1o newspaper men: “They say he has confessed. Snook. however, de- nies it to me. What is the situation, anyway? Until he tells me with his own lips that he killed the girl and how he killed her, I will not believe it.” Siedel said. “When we were together in the room Snook said: ‘I got as much out of them as they did out of me.’ It looks like some inferences might have becn ta by them f: answers Snock (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) 'DENIES MEXICAN PROBLEM SETTLED Vatican Newspaper Uses “Prema- ture Optimism" in Headline Reporting on Issue. VATICAN CITY. June 20 (P.— Premature optimism"” was the headline used by Osscrvatore Romano today over an article denving that settlement of the Mexican question 2lready had been reached. For the second straight day the office of Cardinal Gasparri, papel secretary of state, refused today to divulge what de- cision—if any—the Pope has arrived at in connection with the Mexican re- ligious controversy. It was pointed out that in any event the papal decision would be announced first at Mexico City by Archbishop Ruiz v Flores. who, with Bishop Paseual D hes conducted negotiations with the Mexican President for a settlement of the problem. After the archbishop's announcement the Vatican spokesman will announce the settlement formally without com- ment, as the Pope may direct, The only deduction possible here from the delay in making his decision known was that the Pope was giving the tentative set- tlement rezched at Mexico City his ear- nest consiceration Youa ;o Get Dipl;ma in Town fi;lld As Sole Member of High School Class By the Assoclated Press. After an overture by an orchestra and | invoration by a local pastor, John Sam- | pro- i In contrast to statements that some . Senators had voted against the Presi- dent beceuse of failure to get patron- ege, Senator Norris declared he under- | stood considerable “‘pressure” had been | brought to bear on Republicans to win | their support for the Hoover viewpoint. i | Not Accusing Hoaver. The Nebraskan said one Senator had {told him he had been offered “the | world with a fence around it” if he | would oppose the debentures. How- | ever. he said, he did not make any ac- | cusation of improper activities by Mr. Hoover himself. Senator Johnson said the newspaper accounts demonstrated the kind of “propaganda” sent ot when members of the Senate attempted to act'inde- pendently. The particular story which |aroused the discussion was one pub- [lished by the United Press Association. Restriction Is Success. The determination of administration leaders to restrict the session’s work to | |the limited program outlined by the | President was _successtul |eniy ‘& few minor measures of emer- gency nature receiving any attention | 0! dhe numerous nominations sent to the one of imporiance was rejected. The confirmation of former Senator Lenroot |25 a Federal judge was bitterly op- | posed, however. | The adjournment was taken without | consideration of the conflicting reports | made by the Senate judiciary commit- {tee on the right of Andrew W. Mellon ito continue as Secretary of the Treas- |ury in the face of an old statute for- bidding that cabinet officer to be en- | gaged in carrying on commerce. A bare mafority of the committee held that | Mr. Meilon was fegally holding office. No action was aftempted in the clos- 1ing Senate hours on the resohtion of | Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon- {tana. for an inquiry into labor condi- tions in the textile industries, |H. MASON DAY JAIL | WRIT DUE TOMORROW {0il Maznate Expected to Begin : Prison Sentence on | Monday. | By the Associated Press. | The mandate of the Supreme Court | Biving effect to its decision sustaining | jail sentences imposed on Harry F. Sin- {clair and Henry Mason Day for con- temot of court in shadowing a jury in the Sinclair ecaze will be issued tomor- Tow. | Justice Sanford. at the request of [ counzel for the men, instructed that the mandate be issued immediately in- | stead of waiting the usual time pre- seribed by court rules. 1t was said that Day particularly was anxious to have the mandate expedited 30 he could begin serving a four months’ jail sentence. He is understood to have arranged to surrender himself for com- | mitment Monday. Sinclalr now s in the District jail | serving a sentence imposed for con- tempt in refusing to answer questions asked by a Senate committee. | . The zentence imposed on Sinclair for fury shadowing was six months, which | | he ‘must serve after concluding his pres- { ent sentence. : Steamer Hits Iceberg. T. JOHN'S, New Foundland, June 5 |20 (#®).—The steamer in_ general, | Senate by President Hoover, not | i Cairngowan, | 45; Julian Ceniceros, 22; Maria Ceni- ceros, 14; Librado Ceniceros, 18 month- old girl: Cecilio Villas, Emilia Villas, Francisca Quiroz, Adrian Bernales, 24, and seven unidentified. It was reported the gas was natural from a broken main and also that t was marsh gas, but the cause had not been officially determined. Rescue parties were organized soon afier the presence of the gas was known | Their work was hampered as the gas hung low over the district While the Ceniceros children played in their home the gas crept about them, | and two fell dead. The others, and members of other families who resided nearby, rushed from their houses and summoned assistance. | _Horses, cows. chickens | pets were Kkilled. | of Fssicians said the minds of some | of those overcome probably woul | affected. 3 # i Natural gas from the Lea County. N. Mex. fields was furned into the mains here only recenty. oison gas was spreading today and | thte district was evacuated. The mayor jand county authorities started an in- vestigation and called oil and gas com- | pany officials into consultation in an | effort to determine the source of the gas, and house MRS. GANN WILL SIT | AT SIR ESMES’ RIGHT By the Associated Press. Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, the offi- clal vice presidential hostess, whose zo- |clal rank was disputed several weeks | ago, tonight will be the honored guest | of the dean of the diplomatic corps. | § She will be seated on the right of her ost, Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador. She will outrank diplo- | mats. cabinet members and Senators. | Sir Esme has invited about 40 guests, in {honor of Vice President Curtis, Mre. | Gann and Mr. Gann, to the last en- tertainment at the embassy this Sum- | mer. | A social secretary at | caid that the Ambassador has not yet made known any decision as to where | Mr. Gann shall be placed. Vice Presi- dent Curtis will have the place of honor | beside the hostess, Lady Teabella. | AUGMENT SHOE STRIKE. {2,750 Employes of Five Plants | Join 1,450 Already Out. HAVERHILL, Mass.. June 20 (/) | Shoemakers to the number of 2,750 | were on strike here today, employes of | five factories joining the ranks of 1,450 | strikers of five other plants who quit | recently. | The walkout is the outcome of failure of the Shoe Workers' Protective Union | and the Haverhill Shoe Manufacturers’ Association to agree on new wage a2nd | work-week agreements. Agreements | with the plants now affected by the strike have expired and pacts with all other plants in the city will expire by July 15. Gang War—Murder | | the embassy | Implacable Hatreds—Relentless Revenge—Conflict Between Master Brains, The Treasure House of Martin Hews is the supreme masterpiece of LANCASTER, Mase. June 20—The invocation by e local pastor, John & 20, | ue ore will read the class history. Tanocastes High'School dlam of-1hab, Lancaster Girls' Glee Club will consisting of John Samuel Gilmore, it | thap sing after which Gilmore will read to be graduated tonight ih the town an cssay on chemistry. Later he will Thall, Indications are for a capacity precent the class gift which will be audience. | accepted by the chairman of the school The occasion of John Samuel being commitiee and then will be presented the lone star of his class is due to the with his diploma. fort that all his former classmates are | The cxercises will conclude with graduating from cther high scheols, | reception by the full cless memberehip, ACneipally In Leominsfer and (inten. |3 n Samnsl Gitmars himself, ST E. PHILLIPS Thrilling from beginning bound from Montreal to London with a general cargo, reported today that she had struck an iceberg. The extent of | the damage to the vessel was not re- | ported, but her commander messaged That he expected to reach this port | no mystery story has before. Begin it today on page 55 of The Star WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN? | ' Kills Man in Prison | CARL PANZRAM. e {4 CONVICTS FLEE; - KONAP 3 GUARDS Prisoners Release Them Later—Two Shot as Three Fugitives Are Retaken. A | Py the Ascociated Press BRAZORIA, Tex.. June 20.—Forty- four convicts kidnaped three guards at the Clements State Prison Parm near here early today and escaped. | A few hours later three of them had been recaptured. two of them after they had been shot by a cattleman | living in this vicinity of the farm. | The others are believed to have seat- | | tered and fled through the denze un- derbrush of the Brazos River bottoms. The abducted guards were released about 10 miles from the farm. One was forced to change clothes with a con- viet. | About. 150 convicts, not regarded as being dangerous, refused to join in the break, although urged to escape by the ring leaders of the dash for liberty. Those who fled were classed as dan- gerous prisoners. 42 of whom were housad in one barracks. One of their number obtained a pistol and about 3:15 a.m. overpowered a guard on duty in the barracks. The guard's shotgun was taken and two more guards quickly were taken captive. The 42 conviets were unshackled and the freed prisoners rushed to a sccond barracks, opening | the doors | Only two men in the larger barracks | took advatage of the invitation to | escape 3 “All right then you——." the convict | leader 15 reported to have exclaimed, | “stay here and be quiet about, it.” | “The men then fled from the farm | in the direction’ of the river bottoms. About an hour elasped before the es- cape was discovered and an alarm | given. Every town within a radius of 100 miles was notified and many of them | sent posses to aid in the man hunt.| Bloodhounds were being used to trail | the fugitives By noon five of been rounded up. A report, from Sweenev, near here, said “the wonds are full of conviets over here” and posses headed in that direc- | tion immediately | the fugitives had | i OPPENHEIM to end, it will grip you as zafely this afternoon. l | : ‘ State News, Page 17 QD o MEANEST PRISONER MURDERS FORENAN Panzram, Sentenced Here, Runs Amuck in Leavenworth Prison, Reports Disclose. The meanest prisoner ever held at the | Distriet Jail today began to make good | his vow to kill the whole human race, it was disclosed when Associated Press dispatches from Leavenworth, Kans,| !revealed that Carl Panzram, 39 years old. ran amuck in the Pederal prison there and killed the foreman of the; laundry with a flat iron. Sentenced Coy of the District Supreme Court last Movember. Panzram shrieksd: “T hate the whole human race and would like to kill every person In the world!" Confessed Other Crime. His conviction followed a series of sensational confessions to Maj. William Peak, superintendent of the District Jail, in which he declared that he had killed a boy in Salem, Mass., and an- other in Philadelphia. Details of the confessions were sent to the police of those cities and officers came here to question Panzram. In Philadelphia he | was indicted and extradicted pro- coedings started. District Attorney Rover, however, in: Panzram | be rtied here first on the housebreak- ing charge as the evidence in the mur- re was not regarded as conclusive | as that in the burglary cases here. R. G. Warnke, was the man killed by Panzram who also attempted to attack fellow prisoners with the flat iron. Panzram ran amuck shortly after re- porting to the laundry for work this morning, first attacking Warnke, whose skull was crushed. Panzram then chased fellow prisoners around the laundry. finally being subdued by a guard. He was placed in solitary confinement. Officials indicated he would be tried for_murder. While held in the jail Panzram also addressed a letter to the chief of po- lice of New London, Conn.. stating that he had killed a boy in fhat State, but that he was not sure Whether it was near New London or New Haven. He had killed so many persons he sald that he could not remember all the details of each crime. He Was Identified. Two Massachusetts women, Mrs, Ber- tha M. Luxton of Marblehead and Mrs. Teresa Parsons of Salem, identified Panzram as the man last seen with 12- year-old Henry McMahon, whose life- less body was found on the outskirts of Salem six yvears ago. The women picked Panzram _unhesitatingly from _seven prisoners lined up before them. 1In his confession Panzram sald he “enjoyved™” this murder more than any he had com- mitted At the Distirct Jail Panzram was re- garded as the meanest prisoner the in- situation had ever harbored. MELLON TO STAY IN U. . Treasury Head Does Not Expect to % Go Abroad. Secretary Mellon probably will not go abroad this Summer and much of the | time will be with President Hoover in Washington The Secretary said today he did not plan an extended vacation. but would make brief visits to his home in Pitts- burgh and might take a short rest later. {ENGINEER WHO ERECTED | LIBERTY DIES STATUE OF | Br the Associated Press. BERKELEY. Calif., June 20.—-George Paul Dussau, 73, a structural engineer, | | who was sent by the French govern- ment to America to supervise the work of setting up Bartholdi’s famous Statue of Liberty, in 1883, died here yesterday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Elsie Tolton. A native of France, Dussau stayed in this country when the work of erecting the statue was finished. coming to Cali- fornia 25 years ago. He is survived by five children. Bank Statements ! Washington clearing house, $4,700,- 756.36. | Treasury balance. $352,157,644.29. | New York clearing house exchange, $1,438,000,000. New York clearing house balancs, l $154,000,000. Radio Programs—Page 49 ¥ to 25 years for house- | ] breaking and burglary by Justice Mc- ! Judge Lauds Scot For “Bright Idea™ But Claim Is Lost By the Associated Press LIVERPOOL, England. June 20.—Although Mr. Justice Mac- Naghton sald it was a “bright idea,” the jury at the Liverpool Assizes today dismissed the claim of a Scotsman for damages for the “loss of his wife’s soclety” after an injury to her in a motor ear accident. Hiz wife had alréady been awarded damage for_the injury. The husband to'd th~ ecourt the idea of the second action was suggested by his doctor, a fellow Seot. Mr. Justice MacNaghton. himself a Scotsman, complimented the plaintiff on his business acumen, but the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. —_— CANNON STOCK DEALIES BARED | Bishop Refuses to Comment on Reports of Losses in Brokers’ Crash. Bishop James Cannon, jr. of the Methodizt Episcopal Church South was | “much too busy with other matters” |in his office in the Bliss Building to- day to comment on reports that he Joct several thousand doilars in the recent erash of a brokerage firm in New York City. The crusading bishod, who led the anti-Smith forces to victory in Vir- | ginia last, November, said he might have a formal statement on the matter later, and that any other quotation | of him 1 the press was “unauthorized.’ | _ Dispatches from New York listed | Bishop Cannon’s reported losses as | including an _original investment - of | £2,500 and profits of $8,856, and quotea | the clergyman as admitting the stock dealings. The bishop's name, it was stated. was {on'a lst of customers of the bankrupt | irm of Kable & Co.. whose partners were indicted on the charge of using | !'h' mails to defraud. ‘The books of the firm were said to show that Bishop Cannon took nu- merous “flyers” in the stock market 11928, and that on one day he sold 375,000 worth of stock and purchasea $58.000 worth. “I am much too busy here foday to comment on this matter.” Blshop Ca “Any quotation from me in the press is unauthorized. When I have some- thing to say I will say it in a written statement over my own signature. ‘I | may issue such a statement later,.but m too occupled with other matters to give consideration to it at the pres- | ent time. T g‘nnot submit to repor- torial questioning.” | The b said he had just returned | from a trip and had a large accumula- | tion of “business” to attend to in his | office at headquarters of the Anti- Saloon League, near the Capitol. BISHOP 1S QUOTED IN NEW YORK. Cannon Thought He Was Buying Stock for Investment, Story Declares. NEW YORK, June 20 (#).—New York newspapers today printed lengthy ac- | counts of dealings in stocks by Bishop James Cannon, jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, leader of the anti-Smith forces in the Democratic party and chairman of the Anti-Saloon League legislative committee at Wash- ington. The transactions were with the now bankrupt brokerage firm of Kable (Continued on Paz2 2, Column 35.) LEGALITY OF NEWS " RACKS QUESTIONED Judge Questions Privilege Agents When Colored Youth Is Brought Before Him. of The privilege of route agents of news- papers, who are'sald to own the papers ing the stands on sidewalks without li- cense was debated by Judge John P. McMahon in Police Court today. The question arose in connection with the arrest of George Pack. colored. 1300 block of Riggs street, who was charged | with the larceny of one newspaper from |a rack at Fourteenth street and Iowa | avenue today. | The compiaining witness, a route agent for an afternoon newspaper. | and pressed charges, altifough the alleg- edly stolen paper was a morning edition, He declared agents in that section had been missing papers for some time and that they were responsible for the loss, as they owned them. They pu: chased the papers from the publishers and resold them at a profit. Judge McMahon, questioned the au- thority of agents, as they owned the | papers to sell them from racks. “which obstruct every side walk in the city” without a license. | A citizen who attempted to erect-a food stand in similar spots would soon find himself in the clutches of. the law," the court declared. | ion regarding the matter and continued the case against Pack for investiga- tion to determine who should prefer charges against the youth. TS | between August 14, 1927, and April 30, | ! non told a reporter for The Star today. | placed in honor system racks, of plac- | testified that he observed the larency | The court reserved any further opin- | NINE ARE INJURED, FIVE CRITICALLY, IN TRAFFIG CRASHES Four-Year-0ld Girl Run Down by Car Not Expected to Live. DRIVER OF CAR REPORTS ‘ TO POLICE OF ACCIDENT Two Hurt on Washington-Balti- more Road Are in Dangerous Condition. A series of traffic accidents in which nine persons were injured, five of them critically, followed in the wake of & apocial safety crusade inaugurated yes- | terday by Traffic Director William H. | Harland. | Mr. Harland’s campaign is in the in- tersst of children particularly, and it was the irony of fate, perhaps, that three of the traffic victims were under 13 years of age. One, a 4-year-old girl, is not expected to live. She is Lillian Carr, 437 Massachusetts avenue. The Carr girl was crossing I street in the 400 block this mormng when she was struck by an automobile driven by Frank A. Schaefer, 33, 4108 Four- teenth street, who took her to Casualty Hospital. A preliminary examination disclosed a probable fracture of the skull and savere lacerations and bry' about the face and body. .fi Reports to Police. Schaefer told police the girl darted suddenly from behind a row of parked cars into the path of his machine. After taking her to the hospital he went to the sixth precint police station and reported the accident. He was charged with operating a car with bad brakes and_with reckless driving, and released on his own recognizance to appear in Police Court. The two other children who suffered injuries from automobiles are Charles Garfield, jr., 5 years old, 414 Columbia road, and Jack Weinberg, 13, 915 New York avenue. Garfield's leg was frac- ured last night when hit by an auto- mobile while crossing Columbia road | near Warder street, and was taken to | Garfield Hespital. Benjamin Goldberg, 27 years old, 839 Kennedy street, was said by police to have been the driver of the machine. Weinberg also suffered & | fracture of the leg when he was struck |last night by a car driven by Frank R. Saltzman. 1303 Newton street north- east, while crossing at the infersection | of Rhode Island avenue and Nerth Cap- itol street. He was treated .at Sibley Hospital. | Two Hourt Critically, One of the.ssrious sccidents, however, oceus ote ul o ohe | Hugo Brown, 28. vears.old, I | house street. and James A. Bérhardt, 31 . years old, 1203 T strest northésst, were ! injured critically in this sc An- other, Leo Clements, 21 years oit, 1677 | Wisconsin _avénue, escaped with ‘minor | injuries.. 'Brewn is thought fo have & fractured skull and internal injuries, | while. Berhardt, has a possible | of the back and severe lacerations. | Both are in Casualty Hospital. Three others were injured slightly in traffic accidents. They were: Three-yeat- | old Naomi Obstler,” 800 Twenty-sixth | street: Marguerite Cole, 1701. Six- | teenth street, and Pvt. Joceph G. Aren- | des, 36, of 610 G street southeast, | driver of the patrol attached to No. T precinct. Girl Runs Into Side of Car. The little Obstler girl was said to have run into the side of a machine operated by Anthony D. Sweeney, 20, 3139 O street, as she was crossing the | street near her home. She was treated at Ernerwenciyflmilll for slight bruises d on the Washington-] | ard, near Laurel, but. | victims were ;illd!n“ of about the body. Marguerite Cole was hit last night as she was crossing Sixteenth, at R street, by an automobile operated by Paul Tan- gora, 4502 Fifteenth street. She was treated for bruises and shock in a near- by doctor's office, then placed under the care of her family physician. | Policeman Arendes was bruised slight- ly when the patrol he was driving was in a collision with an_ autémobile z':g- erated by Charles W. Harrison of the 4700 block of Conduit road, near the | 1atter's home. Harrison was booked at No. 7 precinct on a charge of reckless | driving. BREAK IN HEAT WAVE SEEN BY WEATHER MAN e Thundershowers Tomorrow After- noon Are Expected to Usher in Cooler Period. The weather man foday promised a break in the heat of the past few days, but added that the break will not come before tomerrow afternoon. Thundershowers, expected at that time, the weather man said. will bring a_few days of cooler weather. as the “Bermuda high” of the past few days disintegrates. The mercury today was not keeping the pace of yesterday and Tuesday, the thermometer at the Weather Bureau registering but 86 at 1 o'clock this aft- ernoon. The forecaster doubted if the temperature would get much above 90 | this afternoon and predicted it would be_slightly “cooler tonight. Tomorrow will be hot until the ex- pected showers arrive, he predicted. | Following appeals from officials and | residents of Frederick, Md., and the nearby country, Lawrence Richey. of President Hoover's secretaries, is re- considering his decision to dispose of the tract of land he purchased earlier in the year near Catoctin Furnace, which has been visited several times by President Hoover as a fishing and camping spot. Secretary Richey's determination to sell the property through which Hunt- ing Creek runs for about two miles, came as a result of printed stories th: some persons were complaining thax fishing rights were being denied by th» posting of the tract. ntly twe Rickey 7Reconsi§éring Sale of Tract Where President’s Fishing Drew Fire Creek on the representation that the shing rights were private and went with the land | "'Mr. Richey's announcement caused |a flurry when it reached Frederick. Prominent citizens, heads of civic or- | ganizations and the city government | are said to have let it be known they were delighted to have President Hoo- ver fish in their section and they | deplored the criticism which prompted | Mr. Richey’s decision to sell | A group of Frederick officials and | eivic' leaders visited Mr. Richey's camp yesterday and are said to have been impressed with all that has been dene to make that section an excellent fish~ Washington citizens were fined 415 and | ing ground. Mr. Richey was not there costs each for trespassing. | In announcing his intention of selling | the property and to look elsewhere for a fishing preserve, Mr. Richey said he did not care to have the President em- barrzzsed, explaining that Mr. Hoover had no wish to fish a2t any point where | he ran be gaid to limit the rights of lo- cal fishermen. He added that he bought the property along Hunting| L o at the time, but Mrs. Richey, who was present, welcomed the visitors. G. C. Leach of the United States Bureau of Pisheries and Maj. Glenn C. Kim- berly of the Department of Commerce were on h also. These two later sentimen section re ting Creek tln.‘rwgh the of Hunf ichey property.