Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1929, Page 2

STRUGELE IS BARED INHIX DEATH TRIAL Snook Slew Co-ed When His Advances Were Repulsed, Jurors Are Told. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, - Ohio,, August 2—Dr. Jam-s H. Snook lay back in his canvas beach chair today, almost out of sight behind the counsel's table, and listened to stories by State's witnesses of the finding of the body of Theora Hix, the girl he is charged with killing. In rapid order, th» prosecution put on three witnesses to build up the nar- rative of how the young Ohio States co-ed’s body was found last June 14, on the New York Central rifle range on the western edge of the city, amd one witness who told of seeing a man and | woman strugeling there the night the Ekilling occurred Dr. Snook submitted to another examination by two physicians before court convened trglay, but defeense ceunsel did not re‘eal the nature or purpose of the examination. He still was suffering from a spinal test made last Saturday. The beach chair was provided for him yesterday after ke complained that the upright chair he had occupled at the defense tables caused him extreme discomfort. Struggle of Two Is Described. The State.opened the presentation of its testimony today in the trial of Dr. Snook with the story of Charles R. Murri a carpenter, who told of seeing a man and a woman scuffiing near a parked automobile on the New York Central rifle range the night of June 13 when Theora Hix was killed. ' Murray said that as he drew near, the man released the girl and stepped out of sight. Murray sald he did not stop. When the State turned the witness over to the defense, E. C. Ricketts asked the testimony be stricken as there was nothing to identify the parties as Dr. Snook and Miss Hix. Judge Henry L.| Ecarlett overruled the objection. Paul Krumlauf, 16-year-old high school boy, who, with Milton Miller, a chum, found the body of Miss Hix the day after the killing, was called as the next witness and told how he came upon the bo Road Popular With Petters. Assistant_Prosecutor Paul Hicks, who examined Krumlauf, introduced as evi- dence two pictures of the body, taken before it was moved from the rife range. Ephram Johnson, 76-year-old farmer, who was plowing in the fleld adjoining the range. recounted the discovery of the body after the boys had summoned him. He corroborated Murray's state- ment that the road leading past the rifle range was a popular place for “petting parties.” Police Corpl. John May, who was gent to the rifle range with Patrolman | Emmett Cloud, corroborated previous testimony as to th» position of the body. The policeman said her wrist watch ‘was stopped about 10 o'clock. Proceeding with the identification of | State exhibits, Prosecutor Chester called | as the next witness Homer Richter, police photographer, who took pictures | of Miss Hix's body before and after it | was taken from the rifle range, Defense Wins Objections. Among them was a photograph of the right hand of Dr. Snook, on which the former professor was wearing a bandage at the time of his arrest. Dr. Snook claimed his hand was injured while re- pairing an automobile. Defense Attorney Ricketts objected to the use of the hand photograph and Judge Scarlett ruled that it be laid | éside until later in the case, Then Ricketts objected to the use of a framed photograph of Miss Hix, which the prosecutor offered as evidence to show the jury how the girl appeared before £he was slain. This objection also was sustained for the present. F. W. McCormack, newspaper pho- tographer, identified pictures he had taken showing an injury to Miss Hix's right hand. Coroner Describes Wounds. Coroner J. A. Murphy also testified to the discovery of strands of hair in the dead girl's hand. He said he con- cluded that it was Miss Hix's hair, be- cause it compared with the short strands on her forehead. The coroner related the details of the autopsy and described separately the 15 or 20 blows that had been rained on the head of the slain girl with an instrument which he thought was a hammer. Some of the wounds were inflicted with the ball end and others with the | flat or circular end of the hammer, he ! said. The State today went ahead with the announced intention of proving that the girl was killed when she repulsed the advances of her 49-year-old lover. Prosecutor John J. Chester, jr., in his opening statement yesterday, told the jury that the State would show that on the night of last June 13, when Miss Hix_was_killed, she refused to go with Dr. Snook to a room they sometimes shared, and that Dr. Snook ROBERT BARRY. —Harris-Ewing Photos. NEWS 0 GO ON AIR Price and Barry Will Make — Addresses in Forum Tomorrow Night. The collection and distribution of | news out of Washington, which has be- come the great news center of Ame! iea, if not of the world, will be di: cussed over the radio tomorrow at 3 p.m. in the National Radio Forum con- ducted by The Star. These subjects will be dealt with by two leading Washing- ton newspaper men, Byron Price, head of the bureau of the Associated Press, and Robert Barry, Washington cor- respondent of the New York Evening World. Mr. Price will speak from the angle of the press assoclation which serves hundreds of newspapers through- out this country and foreign nations, v will speak from the angle of the special correspondent. News gathering and its distribution, | giving accurate accounts of important and human interest happenings and permitting their publication in news- papers within an almost incredibly short space of time, have become highly specialized pursults in a day of special- ization. Mr. Price, who has been in charge of the Associated Press Bureau in Washington for a number of years, is a native of Indiana and a graduate of Wabash College in 1912, He was edi- tor of the college weekly and entered newspaper work immediately after his graduation. He has been connected with the Associated Press in Washing- ton for many years and for a long time was assigned o cover the White House. He has had, in addition to his Wash- ington . experience, the experience of handling the press service news from the national political conventions. Mr. Barry's experience has been that of a special correspondent since he came to Washington from Louisville, Ky., in 1915. For five vears prior to that time he had been a reporter on the Louisville Courier-Journal and he was Washington correspondent of that news- paper until 1917, when he became the correspondent of the Philadelphia Pub- lic Ledger and New York Evening Post. In 1926 he became special correspondent of the New York Evening World. At the time of the Washington Conference on Limitation of Armament, in 1921- 22, Mr. Barry had direction of press ar- rangements for that conference. Not only has he covered the news as special correspondent in Washington, but he has traveled throughout the country writing of important events, political WADS CLEAN QU OHO“TEELTOWN® Half Hundred Speakeasies Demolished, Liquor Dumped and Court Crowded. By the Assoclated Press. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, August 2.— Liquor raids exceeding in proportions any ever seen by Federal prohibition agents in Ohio cleaned out the “steel town” of Campbell last night and early today. Fifty enforcement officers de- molished half a hundred speakeasies, arrested the proprietors and cumped gallons of whisky and beer into gutters in s'multaneous appearances which crowded the Federal Building with prisoners, All the raids were made on purchases already made by undercover agents, raiders sald. Among other prisoners was & man booked as John Vansuch, former safety director of Campbell. The nts said several former policemen so were included among the prisoners. “Wettest Spot in Ohio.” Campbell, & suburb of Youngstown, described by agents as “the wettest spot in Ohio,” is populated principally by workers in the steel mills. Hundreds of these collected in the streets as the raids went on. and at one place m than 500 gathered about the agents, jeering and booing. Emergency squads of Federal men were summoned and there was no serious outbreak. Raids Last for Hours. The time set for the first onslaught | was 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and | from that hour until early this morn- ing the raids went on. Those arrested, with confiscations made in their places, were crowded into a second floor hall of the small Federal Building, where agents guarded the exits while the pris- oners were questioned by Paul Hansen, special Treasury Department investi- ator. ¢ Early today a caravan of automobiles and trucks, loaded with 49 men and| women taken in the raids. set out for Cleveland, where they will face liquor | charges. DR. J. R. ECKMAN PROBABLY SECOND | RADIO FURNACE VICTIM| _(Continued From First Page) now free of mercury. At about tils time Dr. Eckman himself turned to other work, where any contact with mercury came very infrequently. Poisonings Little Understood. | Metallic poisonings, it was said at the | bureau today, are insidious and little understood. * Since Dr. Eckman’s last contact with the high-frequency fur-| nace he has not shown symptoms which ordinarily would point to an acute case | of mercurial poisoning.. Others in the ;nme laboratory have shown no ill ef-| ects. | Dr. Burgess pointed out today that he | has repeatedly urged that a Public | Health Service physician be stationed | at the bureau, where he could carry on | experimental work connected with his | own service and at the same time keep | an eye on the dangers surrounding new | experiments. Considering the nature of ! some of the work, there have been very few accidents, but men are continually engaged in work on high and low pre: | sures, radium, x-rays, high power, me- | tallic’ sprays, etc., which are dangerous Thus far eflor(s to secure a physician | at the bureau have been fruilless, The | dangers likely to arise from any new | field of research are impossible to pre- dict in advance. Dr. Burgess pointed out. Bureau sclentists continually are branching out into the unknown, where the properties of matter undergo curi- ous transformations likely to bring with | | them hitherto unexperienced effects on the human body. With a physician al- | ways avallable competent to make blood counts and watch other physical signs in men working in new fields much of the danger would be avoided. | World Leader in Line. Dr. Eckman, it was poluted out, was | & world leader in his particular line and | his death conslitutes & great oss o sc ence. Some of his ploneer experiments | have been taken over by the steel 1 dustry, which is basic in present-day civilization. Dr. Eckman was prominent as Mason, being & member of the thirt second degree, Scottish Rite, of Pental- pha Lodge, No. 23; Columbla Chapter, No. 1, R. A. M.; Columbia Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar: Almas Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Adoniram Coun- cil and Esther Chapter, No. 5, O. E. S. | He was_also & member of the Phi| Kappa Psi_Fraternity and the Foun- dry M. E. Church school. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Helen Burnham Eckman; , his mothe; . J. G. Eckman of Leechburg, P | sisters, Mrs. Edward Bladen of Can-| THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. U, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 15%9. PRISON CONGESTION 1S HELD RIOT CAUSE Overcrowding Is Blamed by Warden for Outbreak by Leavenworth Inmates. By the Assoclated Press, ‘Thé Department of Justice an- nounced today that a rteport f#m Warden Thomas B. White said the riot in the Leavenworth Prison was due to the overcrowded condition of the prison and lack of work for the prisoner: The warden said the trouble started at the noon hour yesterday, when the convicts objected to their meal of rice. This demonstration, he advised, was Quieted, some of the convicts being sent to their cells and others to the shoe factory, where another demonstration took place, and these convicts were taken to their cells. Parts of Cells Broken. A third demonstration broke out, he continued, at early mess in_the eve- ning, when the inmates threw utensils &bout the place and were disorderly. ‘White said he tried to stop it, finally getting most of the men to their cells, where they broke off parts of the cells, throwing the fixtures and bricks at the guards. It was then, his report said. that riot guns were brought into play to protect the guards, and Mike Martinez was killed and Harold McLaughlin, John J. Jones and Fred Conners were wounded, none of them fatally. Bates Pralses White. White's report was submitted to the Department of Justice by Sanford Bales, superintendent of Federal Prisons, who in & report of his own praised White for his handling of the situation. Bates' report said Leavenworth was overcrowded. “The Leavenworth Prison was de- signed to accommodate at the most not over 2,000 prisoners and the population today is 3,770,” the superintendent said. “It has been impossible under the pres- ent law to provide sufficient work to take up the attention of the majority of the inmates. This situation, com- bined with the intense heat and the knowledge which was undoubtedly borne into some of these men of the prison riots in other parts of the coun- try, is the only cause that can be as- signed for this demonstration. “It is evident from the incomplete reports at hand that Warden White and his officers acted creditably in this emergency. What might have been a much more serious outbreak was held within the limits, the prison was not broken, no men escaped, no guards were injured, no guns were found in the possession of the inmates, and o far as anything having been accomplished from the polut of view of the inmates the insurrection was entirely futile.” Bates sald he appreciated that the Al gress realized the gravity of the situ- allon in the Federal penal institutions and appreciated the importance of securing adequate funds for relieving the congestion and of obtaining legisla- tion to permit the extension of prison industries. He regretted, he added, that 1t was necessary to use firearms, resulting in the death of a prisoner, and asserted no recourse to severe methods had been taken until all other methods had failed. “I feel it is fortunate,” he sald, “that it was no worse, thanks to the courage and resourcefulness of Warden White and his officers.” “LET BRITAIN SCRAP SHIPS,” BORAH SAYS OF ARMS CUT MOVE ___ (Continued From First Page) with principles of parity by negotiating and by reduction and limitations of armament instead of competitive butld- | couraging news" don 1o the effect that Great Britain will | not reduce its cruisers, holding that if parity were used to justify the butlding of huge armaments, it would become a menace instead of a security.” “Parity with reduction means much— means a great deal,” he said. “But par- ity, coupled merely with limitation, means very little. If I understand the | report of ‘our Navy Department cor- rectly, Great Britain now has 59 modern | cruisers, built or building, a tonnage of 375,300. We now have 18 modern cruis- ers, bullt or bullding.” FLYING DUCHESS HOPS ON 10,000-MILE TRIP Blue Plane Called Spider Leaves Lympne, England, for India, to Return in One Week. By the Associated Press. LYMPNE, England, August 2.—The ey General and members of Con- P IT RS PRV &R e Officials and sponsor of the Edison contest, snapped at West Orange, N. J., at the ceremonies incident to the con- test in which one boy from each State in the Union and the District of Columbia ashington State was the winner. Left to right: Dr. Louls Sperry, George Eastma Edison, Henry Ford and Dr. S. W. Stratton. competed for the privilege of being TO OPPOSE WALKER | Republicans Pick Fighting| Representative as Candidate‘l Against New York Mayor. | [ NEW YORK, August 2 (#).—Florello H. La Guardia, swarthy little fighting | man who grew up on an Arizona Army | post and later fought his way up from | private to major in the A. E. F., has | been picked by New York City Re- publicans to run for mayor this Fail against the debonair “Jimmy” Walker. At last night's unofficial Republican convention, La Guardla's was the only name presented to the delegates. A boom for Mrs. Ruth Pratt, wealthy and socially prominent widow who Tesigned {last Fall from the board of aldermen to go to Congress, collapsed when she | | withdrew her name, The convocation was unofficlal in that the city holds a primary election, which is expected to result merely in indorsemert of the convention's choice. | Striking Contrast. ‘Whatever sort of campaign they put up, Fiorello H. La Guardia and James J. Walker will at least furnish a strik- ing contrast in personalities, “Jimmy.” whose penchant for travel came in for a good deal of sarcastic comment from Republican speakers last night, is known the world over for his wit, his amiability, and his dapper appearance. | La Guardia also is short in stature, but heavier than “Jimmy,” square- | | shoulders, olive skinped, with a boom- | ing vuice and magnificent black scowl. | While “Jummy” Walker's speeches sparkle with humor and carry through | them all & vien of sentiment, the pub- lic utterances of “the major.” as La Guardia's friends call him, are straight from the shoulder, full of fight, and all business. Bolted G. O. P. in 1924, He bolted from the Republican party | in 1924 and got himself elected to Con- ]gress on the Socialist ticket. In 1926, | | he was re-elected as a Republican. He | | describes himself a8 an independent Republican. | He has been a consistent foe of pro- | hibition. Year in and year out in Wash- {ington he has denounced prohibition | enforcement methods. Three years | ago he publicly manufactured beer in { his office In the House Building in an unsuccessful attempt to get arrested and test the law.” | ‘With apparent relish, Republican speakers last night made much of the | contrast between the personalities of | their candidate and Mayor Walker. | “Jimmy the Jester.” { Gen. James G. Harbord, | sided, ' characterized *Jimm glorified clown” and “the most ex- | pensive court jester that ever amused a sovereign people.” Emory R. Buck- ner, former United States attorney and | keynote speaker, called him “Jimmy | { the Jester.” | And now La Guardia and the Re-| to see ‘And End Is Not Yet,’ Bulletin Says Eying Future of Aviation By the Associated Press. A peep into the future of avia- tion is contained in an Air Com- merce Bulletin, just published by the Commerce Department. “And the End Is Not Yet,” is the caption of the brief forecast, which says: “Automatic pilots may control the passenger plane in the near future, diesel-lype engines are already here, gas burning power plants are thought of, and screws adjustable in flight will provide the airplane with the equivalent of the speed-change mechanism of the automobile. “The floating airport is under construction and one can antici- pate launching devices and ar- Testing gear applied to commer- cial flights. The private pilot who flies for the fun and in the course of his daily routine is now beginning to fly here, there and everywhere, and the airplane is rapidly coming within the price range of the average wage earner.” POLICE BLOCK REDS IN MIDWEST CITIES 127 Communist Leaders Are Arrested as Officials Halt U. S. Demonstrations. AL CAPONE LINKED INBOMB SYNDICATE | Three Confessions Obtained| After Raid Result in Arrest of .17 Men. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 2—Three detailed | confessions obtained by police and | county prosecutors from members of | an alleged bombing syndicate were re- | lied upon today to lead officials to | other members of the band and to furnish much of the evidence which | | will be placed before a grand jury | early next week. Under close questioning, 3 of 17 men | arrested Wednesday night confessed | 63 PER CENT VOTE FOR HOOVER TURN A. A. A. Announces Over 2,500 Ballots Cast on Traffic Question. With over 2500 votes of local motorists now listed In the traffic poll being conducted by the American Automobile Association, the drivers of the District continue to evidence a de- cided preference for the standard Hoover left turn as opposed to the wide swinging rotary turn. Since the bal- lots are being confined to members of A. A A, the sentiments expressed therein are those of persons who base their opinion on actual driving experi- ence. The fact, association executives pointed out, makes their straw vote representative of motorists’ opinon “In the voting on the two mrthods of making the turn, the Hooover turn was favored by 69 per cent of the resi- dent motorists,” announced Charles P. Clark, general manager of the A. A. A. He 'alto pointed out that there con- tinues to be & surprising number of car owners who do not know that two methods for making left turns are used in the District of Columbia. In re- sponse to this question, there were 4.9 per cent of 2,538 resident motorists un- familiar with the fact that two methods are used. Big Majority for Uniformity. “The large number of car owners vot- ing in favor of uniform traffic rules leaves no doubt that the Nation's Cap- ital favors uniformity,” Mr. Clark said. “Out of 2,526 car owners voting on this question, there were 958 per cent in favor of having uniform rules, while 928 per cent of 2,516 motorists ex- pressed themselves as favoring one rule for the left turn at all crossings, whether controlled or uncontrolled.” The majority of the tourists visiting Washington are confused by the rotary letf-hand turn employed here at certain intersections, and would prefer too sea the adoption of the standard Hoover method in the opinion of E. C. Owen, manager director of the Powhatan, and president of the Hotel Association of Washington, D. C. “I cannot speak for the Hotel Asso- ciation without bringing the matter be- fore the members and a meeting could not be held before September 7,” Mr. Owen said, “but, when the controversy first became acute here, I instructed our office force and other employes to try to ascertain from the visiting motorists their opinion regarding the present traffic regulations and particularly the method of turning ieft. yesterday that they and the others were implicated in & bombing ring, which, for a stipulation, would make bombs and place them where directed. Patrick Roche, chief investigator for the State's attorney, announced he be: lieved that Al Capone, gang chief now serving time in a Philadelphia jail, was the real genius of the ring. James Belcastro, one of those under arrest, is known to police as a confidant of | Capone. | __Capone was interested in the bomb- ing business, Roche explained, because it “furnished an easy and cheap way “We found the great majority of the | Visilors favored a coun'ry-wide uni- form system and likewise that they | found the Washington code very con- fusing. As our local traffic rules are in uniformity with the standard prac- | tice throughout the United States ex- icepi on the left-turn point, it was ap- parent that what was causing the tour- | st trouble was with our rotary turn. | The majority of the visitors were not | hesitant” in" expressing their opinion | that Washington's peculiar rotary turn | was doing much to mar their enjoy- | ment in their stay here, of putting rivals in the alcohol field | out of business. Rival stills would be e “The fact that we have one regula- | bombed. Roche said, and firemen and | | x| 3 Ll oned, and another where | phiskiir sl there “are neither lights nor officers 'DOMESTIC RE | would naturally make it confusing to LATIONS the visiting motorists. This dual sys- tem of rules is productive of trouble for CLINICS ARE URGED BY | ihe local drivef. as & know from per- sonal observation, and 1t is bound to be U. S. CHILDREN'S BUREAU | feubly o for the driver who is using O our streets for the first time, | "It is my personal belief that due con- | (Continued From First Page.) sideration must be given to the rights b = = e L tlr?e ;:;d(-s(rlnn, but, from what I have i i i se | BAthered on the subject, it appears that |1t 1a adapted to mogern CaaDeCAUSE either turn is equally advantageous to T e supprieawith the excentionally| ST 0L IRY + ioveiturn il e ained man and woman power th v e S an ex| 1] - oy | S C3nuee B ahd e, emotionkl | alance: of the country, and will ‘work | acknowledged. Facts must be ae-ll“““ here, particularly in view of the oyt fact that’ our local motorists are mow | "The authors admit that facts are| familiar with it through using it at all | hard to find. | uncontrolled intersections at the present | “Nothing is more difficult than to get | time. I am further convinced,” Mr. | the truth in & family tangle,” they ob- OWen concluded, “that the visiting mo- el | torists—thousands of whom visit their | Research into the fleld of marital | C2pital City annually—should have | maladjustments is advised, with the Ereat consideration, and that regula- | warning that “sentimentalism is as dan- | tions should be adopted which will cause | gerous as ignorance.” ;uwrn as little trouble and confusion as | In the opinion of the authors the | Possible.” | study has shown conclusively that there S BUILDINGS DAMAGED. | can be no Nation-wide formula for the |legal adjustment of family problems, be- Pittsburgh Explosion Is Laid to Bomb by Officials. are | cause of variations of local conditions. To set up an outline of & “model court” Id be detrimental, they hold. omestic relations themselves differ with geography.” they point out, citing | fundamental differences in family prob- lems in & seaport and in an agricul- tural community. Certain standards of organization are advised, however, including specially qualified judges and prgbation staffs, adequate staffs, precourt work with a view to “unofficial adjustments,” pro bationary supervision and a complete | PITTSBURGH, Pa., August 2 (M. | —More than a score of buildings in the | “strip” district were damaged yester- | day by an explosion which police and | fire officials belleve was caused by a | bomb. | A three-story hardware establish- | ment was destroyed and fronts of build ings for more than a block were shat- then drove her in his automobile to|and otherwise, for the newspapers|ton. Ohlo; Mrs. Jack Glen, Vande: Duchess of Bedford, England's flying | publican leaders are waiting By AteAssodiatia Pres case record system. tered. v & secluded rifle range on the edge of the city. Drugged Sanfwiches Charged. He said the testimony would show that en route Snook gave her an emo- tional stimulant in a sandwich, and when the girl objected to his sugges- tions he flew into & rage and beat her on the head with a hammer, punc- tured her inner ear with his pocket knife and finally cut her throat. The sandwich, the prosecutor con- tinued. was purchased on the way to the rifie range, and was found in the girl's stomach by Coroner J. A. Murphy during the autopsy. The presence of the stimulant will be sworn to, accord- ing to the statement, by Dr. C.'F. Long, & chemist who examined the contents of the stomach. An unnamed witness was promised who would testify that a bottle of the preparation was found by county officers in Dr. Snook's desk in the Veterinary Building at the uni- versity. Defense Withholds Detalls, ‘The defense did not reveal in its opening statement any of the details of its testimony. E. O. Ricketts, one of Dr. Snook's attorneys, informed the jury only that the defénse would stand “on two propositions—sel{-defense and impaired mentality.” Insanity, Ricketts declared, removed all possibility of premeditation. It will be “necessary for the State to prove premeditation to obtain the death pen- alty ‘it seeks, Two witnesses heard yesterday were Miss Alice Bustin, who, with her sis- ter, shared an apartment with Miss Hix, and Bertha Dillon, telephone op- erator at the University Hospital, the last person to recognize Miss Hix fore her death. The defense, in cross- examining Miss Bustin, tried to pry into the private life of the slain girl. but Miss Bustin insisted that she lfau no knowledge of her acquaintance with Snook. : DEMPSEY CAR IN CRASH. Three Sue for $30,600 Damages in Los Angeles. 1OS ANGELES, August 2 (#).—Al- Jeging an automobile belonging to Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight boxing champion, and his wife, Estelle Taylor, actress, struck their automobile and injured them. recently, three persons have brought suit for $30,600 damages. The plaintiffs. Lucille and Lucy Powell and R. E. Spicer. ‘They said the i car was Dempsey ven at the time by Joe Bmith. The .complaint did not . state whether Dempsey or his wife were : in the machine. ¥ ~ which he has represented, iy RICH TOBACCO AREA 1S BATTERED BY HAIL| Connecticut Growers Face Heavy Losses, With Destruction Esti- mated at $1,250,000. By the Associated Press, HARTFORD, Conn, August 2— Growers in Connecticut’s chief tobacco- raising area, centering about this city, faced heavy losses today because of an electrical storm, accompanied by vio- lent hail and wind, affecting more than 20_villages. Estimates placed the losses through destruction of tdbacco crops at $1.250,000. ‘The storm, breaking late yesterday, lasted three hours. For 35 minutes gigantic hailstones fell. Windows were smashed and automobile tops torn and broken. At Windsor and East Windsor about | 2,000 acres of broad leaf tobacco, much | of it owned by small growers who had mortgaged their possessions for this year's crop, were destroyed. MAY FACE MURDER TRIAL AFTER 28-YEAR FREEDOM | By the Assoclated Press. | TOPEKA, Kans., August 2.—After 28 | years’ freedom following his escape, long with a score of other convicts, from the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Neal Jaco may go to trial for the slaying of a guard killed in a tempting the frustrate the wholesale Pprison ‘ delivery. At the request of Warden T. B, White, Marlin 8. Casey, assistant United States district attorney, yesterday began an in- vestigation to determine if there are witnesses alive and sufficient evidence to_make & case against Jaco. Located at Fort Worth, Tex., Jaco was returned to the Federal Peniten- t'ary. Hl the other convicts who partici- pated in the sensational delivery are! believed to have been recaptured. Gus Parker, indicted here in 1902 along with Jaco and others in connection with the laying of J. B. wndmg, a guard, re- :elzed‘: life sentence to the peniten- grift, Pa.; Mrs. Robert Raper, Vander- grift, Pa.; Mrs. J. J. Stoupp. Freeport, Pa., and a brother, Paul Eckman of Leechburg. Funeral services will be held Satur- day afternoon at Leechburg and will be | conducted by the Leechburg Lodge of Masons. ‘Will Attend Debt Parley. ‘WARSAW, Poland, August 2 (#).— Foreign Minister Zaleski announced | that arrangements had been*made for | Polish participation in the forthcom- ing reparations conference of the in- duchess, started in her blue monoplane today on an attempt to fly 10,000 miles to India and back in a week. Capt. T. D. Buarnard piloted the machine, with Bob Little acting as engineer and second pilot. The plane is called the Spider. Tonsils Taken From 7 of‘ Family. NEW YORK, August 2 (#)—Seven relatives from Cedar Swamp, near Goshen, N. Y., are in a hospitai all at once, their tonsils having been removed. Arthur Cromwell, who tended lawns, died of a sore throat. His dying wish was that his relatives be saved from the terested governments at The Hagu It is expected that the Polish deleg: tion will leave for The Hague Sunday or Monday. Fire Marshal L. V. Seib left his office 30 years of service. His successor has n Achstetter, deputy fire marshal (right) with a token of appreciation from his )'llthown;:uzn( Mr. Seil assoclates. muhl.&ml&!.h same fate. So his widow and her sister and his five children flivvered 65 miles to the big town. The wholesale oper- ations and treatment were free. at the District Building Wednesday after ot been appointed. In the phote C. G. (center) what former Mayor John F. Hylan is going to do. Having announced his | candidacy as an independent, Hylan indicated & couple of days ago that, if | he failed to get the support of the Re- publican convention, he would with- draw. ‘Today, George J. Houtain, Hylan's campalgn manager, issued a statement in which he said: “The Republicans: might better have nominated Walker last night than to have gone through all those motions.” ANDERSON WILL LEAVES HIS ESTATE IN TRUST| Sister at Danville, Va., Gets In- “come From $100,000—Other Bequests. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, August 2.—Mrs. Hen- riette A, Jordan of Danville, Va,, s to receive the income from & $100,000 trust fund for life, after which the money is to revert to her son, William 8. Jordan, according to the will of her brother, John Talbott Anderson, filed here yesterday. Mr. Anderson died July 20 in St. Louls. A son, Allan E. Anderson, 4241 Fol- som avenue, St. Louis, receives the resi- due of $500,000 in trust, and the widow, Mrs. Mattie E. Anderson of Craighouse, Beacon, N. Y., is to have a life income from $250,000, the money to go to the son after her death, GRANGE PICNIC AUGUST 17 Montgomery and Other County Rid- ers to Engage in Tilting. By a Staff Correspondent of The Sta BURTONSVILLE, Md., August The aunual grange tournament and picnic will be held here on August 17. it was announced, at whiclr there wiil be_tilting by riders from Montgomery and nearby counties, who will compele | for the crowning of the queen, The ‘Judges will be County Commissioner Lacy Shaw, Robert Altcheson, George Sellers, George W. Athey, John G. Be: Judge W. T. Wheeler and H. P. Millard. The riders will compete first for the crowning .of the queen and second for the championship cup. Supper will be served and there will be dancing in the evening. There aiso will be a baby show, in charge of Mrs. Amy.lumlnd:ynn { CHICAGO, August 2.—Attempts to stage demonstrations in observance of International Peace day yesterday re- sulted in clashes with police of several Midwestern cities, minor injuries to scores of Communists and arrest of 27 of the leaders. Banana stalks wielded by policemen routed 1,500 Reds who tried to stage a demonstration here. Seventeen persons, including four women, were arrested. In Milwaukee police arrested four ora- tors before a crowd of Communists moved to another section of the city. Five others were arrested in Ham- mond, Ind., and another in. gacine, Wis., in_minor clashes with police. ‘The Chicago Communists gathered in Union Square, on the West Side, and were met by & solid cordon of police surrounding the park. Motor cycle po- licemen drove their machines into the mob and scattered it. The agitators moved to Madison street and Ashland avenue and started an impromptu dem- onstration, Policemen, wielding banana stalks instead of their clubs, so as to injure none seriously, charged. In Waukegan American Legion mem- bers seized the ringleaders of a Com- munist meeting and started to take them to the lake for a ducking. ‘The Milwaukee demonstration was al- lowed to wear itself out as long as the orators kept away from a forbidden downtown corner. RUSSIAN CELEBRATION TAME. Gorky Addresses Muscovites and Pre- dicts Vietory Over Bourgeoisie. BY NEGLEY FARSON. By Cable to The Star and the Chicaso Daily MOSCOW, August 2.—Russia’s “in- ternational Red day” on August 1, which was heralded as a new holiday rivaling May 1 for the world revolu- tionary proletariat, was an extraordi- ily tame affair o Street demonstrations were “regional, every procession parading where it wished. Bands of Far Eastern desert representatives strolled through the streets of Moscow squealing squirmy tunes from flutes and beating tom- toms, and arrived at the final meeting place, the “Park of Culture and Rest, other bands with truckloads of sham priests, fat capitalists and Polish gen- erals were toddling home, tired, for din- ner. With an airplane making futile ef- forts to-drop red streamers, an assem- blage of some 10,000 Moscovites seated itself, some amone the branches of trees, in. an. open-air. amphitheater. The domestic relations investigators| Scores of persons were thrown from learned that every city in the countr: with a population of 100.000 or more has a specially organized children's court, and that less than half, but more than one-third, of all American divorce cases involve children. When Maxim Gorky arrived he received & terrific ovation. Gorky, clad in a freshly pressed flannel suit and well-cut rdincoat, told the modely garbed work- ers “the proletarians of Europe now are demonstrating their hate for the Bour- geoisie. Ultimately they will conquer as you have conquered. You are good teachers. You are showing the prole- tarians of the whole world how to build soclalism. Every factory and every state farm is an iron bri - e ck in the fort of so (Copyriht, 1829 ) Here are listed on featu’res—fact and “A New American Shrine—Strat An Old Washington Story—By “Those Were Dick Mansfield, and Joseph Faus. A page | their beds, but no serious injuries were reported. Tacna-Arica Treaty Discussed. By Cable to The Star. BUENOS AIRES, August 2—Thé Buenos Aires press yesterday continued editorial comment on the exchange of ratifications of the Tacna-Arica treaty between Chile and Peru. El Mundo in an editorial refers to the settlement of the dispute as a forward step in the cause of peace in South America. La Nacion, felicitating Chile and Peru on the settlement of the ancient ques- tion, warmly welcomes the announce- ment of a complementary protocol ex- pressing _satisfaction thereto, stating “the situation between Chile, Peru and bnnm-xa now remains planted on known ases.” The Complete Magazine The Sunday Star Iy a few of the many fiction—contained in The Star's Magazine for next Sunday: Arother of Those Remarkable Pen Drawin full-page picture of the First Division q\t by Will Smith. A Monument. ford,” written by Anne Hard. i “Maybe Columbus Was Late"—By Lawrence G. Holmes. “Roping the Mecanest Animal’—By John Preston, John Clagett Proctor. “Racketeers of the Tur{"—By Jockey Johnny Callahan. the Happy Days"—a full page of drawings by Fiction by Fannie Hurst, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Samuel Merwin of cross-word puzzles, a page for boys and girls and news comment by Will Rogers. Order your copy of next Sunday's Washington Star from your newedealer today,