Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1929, Page 2

2 ok WILLIANIS' PLANE ESGAPES DISASTER Speed Craft Almost Is Sunk While Being Groomed for Taxiing Test. ANNAPOLIS, Md., August 9.—Follow- ing a narrow escape from what might have been a serlous accident to his Mercury racing plane just before dusk yesterday, Lieut. Alford J. Williams, COMPANION SAVES GIRL SWIMMER FROM DROWNING Nathan 0’Brien, Evening Star Employe, Rescues Pupil Who Became Exhausted. Couple Were Members of Group on “Watermelon Party” Below Great Falls. While practicing the overhead back- stroke a companion was teaching her crack Navy pilot, today was grooming the little ship for its first taxiing and flying tests in event the present weather conditions continue this afternoon, ‘When the wind died down shortly be- fore sunset yesterday Lieut. Williams decided to attempt a taxiing test on the Severn River in front of the Naval Academy. His plane was lowered off the Santee Wharf by a crane aboard the U. S. S. Sandpiper, Navy aircraft tender, and was run up against a barge upon which electrical starting apoaratus had been installed. Mechanics Shift Weight. While two civilian mechanics were ‘busy making last-moment adjustments on the plane’s oil line the nose of the little ship was fitted against the elec- trical starting apparatus aboard the barge. The 1,100-horsepower motor is too powerful to permit installation of a starter aboard the plane. Just as the adjustment was com- pleted. however, both mechanics aboard the plane moved to the right pontoon. he shift of weight sunk the pontoon and the plane was torn loose from .the barge, threatening to turn over. The tight wing went three feet into the Water and the tail was sinking. One of the mechanics lost his hold and fell overboard and Lieut. Williams, directing operations from the Sand- piper, shouted, for the second mechanic to drop overbdard. The $175,000 plane appeared to hesitate for a moment, on the verge of rolling completely over, and then slowly righted itself. Quadruple Starting Gear. Hasty examination revealed that there had been no damage except the loss of a small piece of metal cowling over the gaso, me tank filling tube. Attempts ‘were being made this morning to re- cover the cowling from 35 feet of water, while mechanics started work in the Naval Academy shops on construction of a substitute fitting in case the origi- nal cannot be found. The starting gear to be employed for turning the motor over is composed of four automobile starting units coupled together. A slot in the end of the air- plane propeller shaft is engaged with a spring coupling attached to the motor. There is some fear on the part of Navy people that when the powerful motor_starts the plane will be pulled into the barge on which the starter is mounted. It may become necessary to tie the plane until the barge can be moved away, they believ ‘Water Is Calm Today. Lieut. Williams has been waiting two | days for favorable weather conditions for the initial test of the plane. This morning, although the sky was over- cast, the water was calm, and there was little wind. Four mechanics were turned loose on the ship and it prob- ably will be lowered overboard for the taxiing test early this afternoon. Lieut. Williams wishes to leave An- napolis as soon as possible for Cowes, England, where the plane is to be en- tered in the Schneider trophy race Sep- tember 7. The trial flights here will be held as soon as the taxiing tests are ov;r and flying conditions are favor- able. DR. HOWARD DENIES GARFIELD EPIDEMIC Says Only One Staff Member Is Ill, in Answering Reports of Impure Food. In response to reports that seven internes and two nurses at Garfield Hospital were stricken with a “mys- terious malady” following their Sunday night supper, Dr. D. C. Howard, super- intendent of the institution, said this afternoon only one member of the hos- pital staff is ill and his sickness can- not be traced to any food he ate at the hospital. “Monday, five or six of the young doctors reported to me that thev had stomach pains Sunday night,” Dr. Howard declared. “I immediately in- stituted an investigation. The food in the kitchen was analyzed and found to be pure. With the exception of one of the internes who two days ago was admitted to the hospital for treatment of a skin disorder, none of those who reported the ailment had to be relieved from duty, either then or since. “More than 48 hours after the supper one of the nurses told me that she had suffered a slight attack of indigestion following the meal. None of the other nurses was afflicted. « “Iwo nundred people are fwi the same food from the same kitcheh ..nd it is ridiculous to say that because one man is sick the food is impure or that an epidemic has struck the hospital.” After reading an account of the con- dition at the hospital in a local news- paper, Dr. William C. Fowler said that he would send a man to the institution to make an investigation. e STOCKS COLLAPSE IN FRENZIED TRADE; BILLION IS LOST| (Continued From First Page.) from $1,885,000,000, for the account of out-of-town banks from $1,528,000,000 and for their own account from $860,~ 000,000. This enormous increase non-member bank loans has provided the chief obstacle to Federal Reserve authorities in their efforts to regulate the flow of credit into the securities markets. Similar recessions in prices took place on the stock markets of Boston, Phila- delphia, Chicago and other leading financial centers. Wall Street was taken completely by surprise by the rise in rate, which was simed primarily at securities specula- tion, as the retention of the 513 per cent discount rate by the Bank of Eng- land yesterday was accepted as assur- ance that no change would be made in | leaves for Tokio on the second lap of its circumnavigation of the globe. as she swam in the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal just below Great Falls about 10:30 o'clock last night, Miss Marcie Dunsworth, 19 years old, of 1620 I street, became exhausted and was saved from | drowning by Nathan O'Brien, 23 years old, of 4602 Fourteenth street, who was | swimming beside her. O'Brien is em- El‘v,ayed in the composing room of The ening Star. ‘When brought to shore the girl had lapsed into unconsciousness. She was treated at Emergency Hospital for ex- haustion and shock and this morning about 5 o'clock was returned to her home. Miss Dunsworth and O'Brien were with a party of 11 other young men and women who had left Washington about 6 o'clock yesterday evening on a water- malon party. Miss Dunsworth is em- ployed at the American Security & Trust Co. “We had all been in swimming," O'Brien explained today, “and then had returned to the shore. Miss Duns- ‘worth wanted to go back in the water to practice the stroke I had been teaching her. We were about 20 feet from the bank when she asked if we could touch bottom at that spot. A minute later she repeated the question afd then ap- parently her strength gave out, “I seized her arm as she sank and towed her almost to land when Alfred ‘Tugman, who is 23 and lives at 8 Towa Circle, and another man I did not know camé to my assistance. To- gether we pulled her out of the water. She was unconscious, but after a few minutes she came to and began to talk. All her strength seemed gone, however, and she wanted to sleep, so I drove her to the hospital.” GRAF APPROACHING Eckener Hopes to Reach| Home Port Tomorrow Eve- ~ ning or Sunday Morning. (Continued From First Page) stay of the Graf Zeppelin before it | Expected Tomorrow Evening. It was expected the dirigible would arrive here Saturday evening or Sunday morning and would remain | until Tuesday or Wednesday before | taking off for the less than 5,000 miles | which Dr. Eckener, the dirigible’s mas- ter, has described as the hardest of the entire world flight. Butchers and bakers are working overtime to prepare supplies for the in- flux of guests to hotels, inns and pri- vate houses. ‘The Zeppelin works here were the center of activity preparing gas, oil and | supplies for the ship. Five pasengers so far have been book- ed at the Hambur-American offices in Berlin for the Graf’s world flight. The complete passenger list, however, has not yet been made public. WELL AHEAD OF STHEDULE. Graf Over Half Way Across Ocean Less Than Day After Start. NEW YORK, August 9 (&) —At'ed | by favoring winds, the German dirigible, Graf Zeppelin, was apparently well ahead of schedule today on the trans- atlantic leg of her globe-circling flight. ‘The fact that Dr. Hugo Eckener, com- mander, was taking full advantage of the propitous weather conditions was indicated in the progress and speed of the airship reported in radio messages to the United States Navy Department. Less than 24 hours after she left the naval station at Lakehurst, N. J., for Friedrichshafen, Germany, the airship was more than half way across the At- lantic with the prospect of several more hours of flight with a fresh west wind to add 20 to 25 miles an hour to her normal speed. Making 70 Miles an Hour. The Graf Zeppelin left Lakehurst with 22 passengers, 21 men and one woman, at 11:40 p.m., Eastern standard time Wednesday. At 11 p.m, East- ern standard time, yesterday she re- ported to the Navy that she was in a position 1,500 miles east of New York and was making 70 miles an hour. At 6:30 p.m. she had reported a po- sition 1,025 miles east of New York, indicating that she had covered 475 miles in 4 hours and 30 minutes. ‘The Weather Bureau forecasts the following eonditions: “Relatively low pressure north of Belle Isle with high pressure south of COAST OF BRITAIN | of her flight wae relayed by ships which THE EVENING Abm; .-.\IISS MARCIE DUNSWORTH. Below: NATHAN O’BRIEN. ~—Star Staff Photo. Log of Graf Zeppelin By the Associated Press. (Time is Eastern Standard.) ‘Wednesday. 11:40 pm-—Left Lakehurst, N. J. Thursday. 12:40 a.m.—Sighted over New York. U 5:30 a.m.—Off Georges Bank, 100 miles east of Boston. 6:12 a.m.—Reports position to Portland, Me., naval station as 160 miles east of Nantucket, Mass. 7 a.m—Notified Navy Depart- ment she was at 40.38 north, 65.43 west, approximately 380 miles due east of New York. 11 a.m.—Notified Navy her po- sition was 40.12 north, 60.35 west, about 630 miles east of New York. 3 p.m—Graf reported to Navy it was 900 miles east of New York. 6:30 pm.—Navy reported mes- sage from Graf giving her posi- tion at 41 north, 52 west, 1,025 miles east of New York City. 11:00 p.m.—Notified Navy De- partment her position was 42.20 north, 45.05 west, 1,500 miles east of New York City and making speed of 70 miles an hour. Zeppelin in the next 12 hours at least. Such conditions should add 20 to 25 miles per hour to her normal speed.” In addition to the messages to the | Navy Department news of the progress sighted the air liner along her course during the da; Among the ships that either sighted the Zeppelin or communi- cated with her ‘were the liners President Roosevelt and Rochambeau and the freighters Commnercial Trader, Tomalva, Benrinnes and. the Express. KILLS INVALID WIFE. Kansan, 75, Shoots Mate of Same Age, to End Suffering. LAWRENCE, Kans., August 9 (P).— Fred Erb, 75, shot and killed his bed- ridden wife, also 75, here yesterday, ex- plaining he could no longer bear the thought of her suffering. They had been married 58 years. Relatives took a revolver away from Erb after he attempted to shot himself following the slaying. He was arrested and lodged in jail. Hearry Frazee, county attorney, said a charge of first degree murder would be filed. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Army Band, at the Capitol Plaza, tonight at 7:30 o'clock: March, “The Conqueror”. . Teike Overture, “Midsummer Night's Dream,” Mendelssohn Solo for saxophone, “Llewellyn,” ‘Wit Eugene Hostetter, soloist. Selection from “The Singing Girl” Herbert American sketch, “Down South,” Myddleton Waltz, “Wedding of the Winds"....Hall Southern tone poem on “Carry Me Back to Old Virginia”.. .Hosmer Suite, “Ballet Egyptien”. Nova Scotia will cause fresh west winds and mostly fair weather for the Graf the New York rate on the theory that Federal Reserve officials would not want to embarrass British bankers in their efforts to conserve the dwindling English gold supply. Extent of Recoveries. The following table illustrates the ex- tent of the early recovery in a few of the active issues: American & Poreign American Telephone Kennecott Copper /Atchison At 11:15 the stock tape was 19 min- “ytes behind the market. Total sales in ¢ the first half hour fell just short of ~3,350,000 shares, b These 24 us:uu and bacl -Lilly May Freeman, Ercel Bowen, March, “Gentry’s Triump! “The Star Spangled jedoeft | tax STAR. WHEELER LAUDS HOOVER ATTITUDE: Montana Senator Indorses Suspension of Work on Three Cruisers. President Hoover's decision to suspend temporarily the start of construction of three of the new cruisers author* ized for the Navy, until after discus- slons with the British regarding further naval limitation, meets the approval of S n:w Wheeler of Montana, Demo- cra “I do not agree with those who criti- cize the President because of the stand he has taken with regard to the cruisers,” said Senator Wheeler today, when ‘questioned about the cruiser sus- pension. It is likely that the action of the President will come up for discus- slon in the Senate when that body ts again. T think that the President has taken an_absolutely correct position,” con- tinued the Montana Senator, who 13 one of the Progressive group in the Senate. “Since the new government h's come into power in Great Britain and it has shown a disposition to mect us half way and suspend the building | of some of their ships, I think it only | proper Mr. Hoover should have taken the action he did. “I am not & pacifist and never have | been, and I think the United States should have an adequate Army and Navy. But surely there is no reason why we, because of the fact that we have the power and the wealth to keep up the largest Army and to build the largest Navy in the world, should do so. “While Mr. Hoover may meet with opposition in Congress from those who [ live in States interested in ship build- { ing, yet he will find a great deal of sup- port from members of the House and Senate who represent States which nr(“ not looking at the problem from their | own selfish standpoint.” SENATE WILL_START TARIFF BILL BATTLE ON SEPTEMBER 3 (Centinued_From First_Page.) part of the bill before the measure is | taken up on the floor. Proceeding with their revision work | yesterday, the majority committeemen approved the retention of crude oil and | all its by-products, including gasoline, on the free list, but revised the House measure to permit American automo- biles purchased abroad to be returned to this country free of duty. ‘The proposed automobile tariff amend- ment_was designed to save American travelers and workers abroad who pur- chase cars shipped from the United States froma paying the double duty should they desire to return to this country and bring the machines with them. The decision to keep petroleum on the free list, as does the House bill, was & defeat for independent oil producers of Oklahoma and Southwestern fields, who advocated a duty to cut down im- portation of cheap oil from Colombia, Venezuela and other Latin American countries. This foreign ofl, they con- tend, competes keenly with coal for fuel on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. Tragasol, a new chemical made in this country for use in the paper and textile industries, was taken by the committee Republicans from the free list and given a duty of 20 per cent. Paper and Books Schedule. The committee tariff-framers have yet to act on some items in the paper and books schedule, and the _entire sundries, wool and sugar schedules be- fore reaching the administrative sec- tion. " The controversy over the House | provision transferring hides, leather and shoes from the free to the dutiable list is involved in the sundries sched- ule, while Chairman Smoot's sliding scale sugar tariff also has to be con- sidered by the committee. The Utah Senator announced today that he was preparing another scale plan with the duties based on raw sugar prices, instead of refined, as provided in his present proposal which met with widespread opposition from the industry’'s representatives at yester- day's public hearing. Smoot said he saw little difference in basing the fluctuating rates on raw prices, except that under this kind of 2 scale the refiners’ margin would be kept more or less stabilized. While not discouraged over the unani- mous opposition of a dozen witnesses to his plan, the Senator said there was a possibility that no sliding scale would come out of the committee. “We may act on a rate without a sliding scale,’ e He added, however, that he still was convinced this was the only way to meet the situ- ation, and that he would press the pro- posal if a majority of his Republ committee colleagues indorsed it. Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, announced during the day that he would press his amendment to the bill when it reaches the floor providing a on stock transactions where the securities involved are held less than 60 days. A prediction that the export deben- ture plan which failed of incorporation in the farm bill would not figure to any extent in the tariff contest was made by Senator Fess, Republican, of Ohio. Senators Brookhart of Iowa and Norris of Nebraska, Republican independents, have announced their intention of of- fering a debenture rider to the bill. WASHINGTON, Upper: Lower: Members of the crew. BUS SYSTEM ASKS Greyhound and Mitten Lines| Secure Lease on Citizens’ Savings Bank Property. An application has been received by the Public Utilitles Commission for per- mission to change the bus terminal of the Greyhound and Mitten interurban bus system, now located at 1412 Penn- sylvania avenue, to the former home of the Citizens' Savings Bank, 1332 New York avenue. The application was made by the Motor Transit Management Co. of Chicago, which is the company op- erating the Greyhound lines, affiliated with the Pennsylvania Railroad. The prospective change, which will be considered by the Public Utilities Commission at its executive meeting to- morrow, will mean a change in the cen- tral terminal for busses to Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. New York, Chicago and way points, and is regarded as an important develop- ment in the bus terminal situation here. It is understood that the Motor Transit Management Co. has executed a five- year lease on the New York avenue property. Recent developments in the long-dis- tance bus fleld have indicated that the Pennsylvania Railroad and affiliated interests have been playing an im- portant part in the bus travel situation in Washington. The Grevhound Lines are a subsidiary of the railroad system, and the Mitten System is said to be also affiliated with the Pennsylvania. Recently the Richmond, Fredericks- burg & Potomac Railroad, which operates between Washington and Rich- mond, started a bus line to Richmond in competition with the Richmond line of R. L. May. Later the line bought out Mr. May's interest, and now there is only one line operating to that city. The R. F. & P. Railway is owned 51 r cent by the State of Virginia, the lance being owned by the Seaboard Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line, which belong to the Pennsylvania system. ‘The Mitten lines also recently bought out the interest of Leon Arnold in his bus line to Baltimore and Annapolis, so that the Pennsylvania Railroad and systems affiliated with it appear to have a tight control over the long-distance bus operations centering in Washington. Mr. May still operates busses to Alex- andria and Barcroft, Va, and Mr. Arnold to Arlington, Fort Myer and other points in nearby Arlington and Fairfax counties, Va. There is another line in operation to Baltimore, however, the Nevin lines, “;“hz headquarters at 212, Thirteenth street. Lo FIRST FARM LOAN GOES TO FLORIDA Board Allots Money to Citrus Ex- change to Aid in Preparing Crop for Market. By the Assoclated Press. Agriculturists of the South, rather than those of the great wheat regions, are the first to get a share of the Federal Farm Board's $500,000,000 re- volving fund. Recognizing the menace of the Medi- terranean fruit fly and the need for emergency aid to minimize the loss from depredations, the board's first loan has been allotted to the Florida United Growers and the Florida Citrus Growers the preparation of this year’s crop so it can be marketed. The money is to be used to equip distribution plants of the organizations with heating and pre-cooling facilities to meet Government requirements for treatment of fruit which has been ex- to the fly to prevent spread of the larvae into unaffected regions. ‘The request of a group of Florida citrus marketing associations for several million dollars for organization pur- poses, meanwhile, has been held up pending the working out of a perma- nent, more unified co-operative by them, and the board turned its at- tention today to the problems of cot- ton ornnmum.u W] have asked for ‘The cotton growers’ marketing prob- lem is regarded in mmf quarters as urgent in view of the 15,543,000-bale ), indicated in the Agriculture De- s A report. After consides the cotton growers’ appeal, the board plans to take up the problems of wool producers. o POLICEMAN RESTORED TO DUTY ON ACQUITTAL Libby Freed by Jury of Charges, of Driving Car While Intoxicated. L. A. Libby, 8 member of the Un e of the United States Pa today was to duty by Capt. Ray C. e -l:xpem}tmagn : ng’l. ot o i y 8 yester: driving s “auiomovlle while: Sotors: cated. !mn&i.l:;ely after charges were preferred, Libby was suspended. ‘While Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, di- of the Office of Public FRIDAY. AUGUSY TERVINAL CHANGE Exchange to help those co-operatives in | ja5¢ 9. 1 1929, The plane, Land of the Soviets. Left o’ right: SERIES OF OCEAN HOPS FOLLOWS IN (Continued From First Page.) lantic despite their few years of ex- perience in fiying. Nothing has been heard of the Swiss aviators since they left late yesterday afternoon for Lisbon, which they should have reached early this morning. No French radio station reported their passage or landing, and it was learned from Madrid that they had not been reported at Lisbon. Officials here as- sumed they had stopped in some small town for fuel or perhaps had been forc- ed down in a plane without adequate communication facilities. SWISSFLYERS ARE YOUNG. Pilot Only 22, and Backer and Me- chanic Boasts of 20 years. BERN, Switzerland, August 9 (#).— ‘The three Swiss aviators who left Le Bourget Flying Fleld yesterday for Lis- bon on the first leg of a transatlantic flight to New York are young in years as well as in experience. Oscar Kaeser, pilot of the Farman alrplane in which the trio will try to cross the Atlantic from East to West, is only 22 years old. He was brevetted a pilot in 1926 at the Alfred Comte School, in Zurich, and has done a good deal of flying since 1927. In 1928 he flew to India with Lieut. Imhof of the Swiss air service as relief pilot. Kurt Luescher, who is financing the transatlantic flight end acting as me- ¢’ anic, is only 20 years old and has no brevet. He is a graduate of the air- plane construction section of the Zurich Polytechnic School and recently studied at the pilot school. Alfred Tschopp, navigator and me- chanic, is an expert mechanic. attached to the Gnome-Rhone motor factory, in Paris. The Farman plane is equipped | with Gnome-Rhone motors. INDIAN PROBLENS SUBJECT OF FORUM Senator Wheeler, Recently Returned From Reserva- tions, Will Be Speaker. The American Indian and the Gov- ernment will be the subject of an ad- dress which Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana will deliver at 9 p.m. to- morrow_over Station WMAL on the National Radio Forum, conducted under the auspices of The Washington Star and sponsored by the Columbia Broad- casting System. Senator Wheeler is a member of the committee on Indlan affairs of the Sen- ate, which is engaged in making an ex- haustive investigation of the conditions of the Indians. He has recently returned from a trip to Indian reservations in Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Montana. The committee has also made investigatiops in Wash- ington, California and Arizona and later will go to Oklahoma. Senator ‘Wheeler is convinced that the Govern- ment can improve conditions for the Indians on reservations and that it should do so. The Montana Senator is a Democrat. He is a native of Massachusetts, where he was born in 1882. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and in 1905 he began the practice of law in Butte, Mont. He has won for himself, both in Montana and in the United States Senate, a reputation as an in- vestigator and prosecutor. He served in the State Legislature and also for five years as United States district attorney before coming to the Senate, to which he was elected in 1922 and re-elected year. It “was Senator Wheeler who had charge of the senatorial investigation of the ent of Justice during Harry M. ugherty's term of office as | g Attorney General. Mr. Daugherty was eventually forced out of office. In 1924 Semwr| heeler, h‘:h& be!leu:ga w”me rogressive grouj e Senate, was a gmdld.lte for Vice President of the United States, running on the Progres- sive ticket with the late Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin. Will Talk on Indians Philip Bolotof, Semyon Shestawof, D. B. Foofayer and Boris Sterligof. WAKE OF ZEPPELIN' START MOSCOW-TO.NEW YORK FLIGHT | i i | —A. P. Photo. —Underwood Photos. MRS, WILLEBRANDT ASKED TO EXPLAN Senator King Would Know More About $250,000 De- posit Fund Exposure. ‘The statement of Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt in a signed story appearing in The Star that $250,000 was found in a safe deposit box of a Senator after he died and that the money was turned over to another political leader today drew a reply from Senator King, Democrat, Utah, who said that if any evidence can be submitted that the fund was used in the 1926 Pennsylvania primary he would favor an investiga- tion by the Senate committee which inquired into the campaign in that year of Senator-elect Vare of Pennsyl- vania. In her statement Mrs. Willebrandt did not mention names or States. Senator King is a member of the Vare investigating committee, of which | the former Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, was chairman. The Utah Senator said he saw no reason for in- | vestigating Mrs. Willebrandt's assertion | unless evidence is submitted that the | | money was used in the campaign over which the committee has jurisdiction. EIGHT DRY LAW AGENTS DROPPED FROM ROLLS By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 9.—Di missal of eight agents from the pro- hibition service was the first official act of Willilam G. Walker, former Fresno, | Calif.,, chief of police, who yesterday took the oath of office as prohibition administrator for Northern California. The eight agents, indicted on charges | of stealing sugar from raided still su) | plies, were under suspension by the d | partment and Walker formally dis- them from the service on orders from Washington. The men are L. A. Werley, J. J. Schreiber, E. C. Parrish, Thomas Zim- | merman, Henry C. Matthias, Andrew | Holm, Herman Kruithos and Charles McVeigh., CONSPIRACY STORY IS GIVEN TO JURY BY MRS. CALHOUN (Continued From First Page.) jurors of an incident sald to have oc- cured in the Munsey Building while he and Deputy Marshals Clarkson and Ceremile were awaiting the signal from Sam Hardy to make the arrest. Ac- cording to the story, Bird came out of the office during the conference and, seelng Swann, inquired if he were not a private detective. After Bwann assured he was not, Bird is said to hgve looked up and down the corridor before returning to the conference room. Maintaining secrecy as to their plans, Noble, his wife and three other pe: sons conferred with several lawyers to. day in preparation for a preliminary hearing before United States Commis- il‘oxm* Needham C. Turnage on August Mrs. Hillenbrand remained in the District Jail, having been unable to make $5,000 bond. Case in Hands of U. S. Intimations that the Calhouns might snnounce at the preliminary hearing a decision not to prosecute the charges were disclaimed today by Capt. Cal- houn, who said from his residence, in Chevy Chase, Md., that the case was in the hands of the Department of Justice, and that he and Mrs. Cal- houn were prepared to attest to the charges contained in warrants sworn to by Department of Justice agents. Mrs. Calhoun was out of the city to- ay. Miss Hilienbrand, who is described as the head of an organization whose in- terests are similar to that of the ‘Women'’s Universal Alliance, which the Calhouns formerly directed, has re- tained Paul J. Sedgwick as counsel. In- dications today were that one law firm would represent Mr. and Mrs. Noble, Bird and Armstrong. Bird Makes Statement. ‘The charges grew out of a supposed connection Noble had with the Cal- houns, by which his work in sculpture would be used by the Women’s Universal Alliance. Bird said in a statement the day arrests were made that his connec- tion with the Nobles was one any rep- utable lawyer might have in the interest |of_his clients. Bird, who maintains offices in the | Munsey Building, was a special agent for the Department of Justice from July, 1923, to October, 1924, when he resigned. Armstrong’s connection with | the case has been described as that of & business agent for Mrs. Hillenbrand, SR R BANK MAY PAY IN PART. Clarke Depositors Expected to Get 20 Cents on Dollar. NEW YORK, August 9 (#).—De- itors of the defunct Clarke Bros. i te bank may realize 20 cents on a dollar, the Irving Trust Co., receivers, ‘The closed {lnk'l liabilities _total $4,972,147.97, with the estimated deficit 46, according to a new tabu- inted by the receivers. The Clarke Bros.’ bank at the time of f{ts fallure had several thousan: depositors representing the rer paae ; lost. the&mmo tion crashed. classes, many of whom savings when the instituf INRAID FORLIQUOR Maryland Avenue Southwest Couple and Three Others i [ | Arrested. i | Russell Murray, 32 years old, and | Jane Elizabeth Enke, 3i, were arrested |in & liquor raid in the 400 block of i Maryland avenue southwest early today and charged with sale and possession, officers from the fourth precinct and a Federal officer, Paul Dodson, staging the raid after a “buy” had been re- ported. Six quarts were reported seized. Murray immediately put up $2,500 cash collateral for the release of his companion and remained in custody himself until a professional bondsman had been obtained to procure his free- dom. Five persons were arrested and more j than 300 quarts were seized by Sergt. George Little and his liguor squadron last night and today. Man and Woman Taken. While cruising in the vicinity of First and M streets Sergt. Little and other members of the squad, including Policemen Leo Murray and T. O. Mont- gomery, arrested a man and woman and seized their expensive roadster, which was said to have contained®120 quarts of corn whisky. At the sixth precinct station the man sald he was Harry James Brennan, 29 years old, and the woman Eva E. John- son, 26, both of the 900 block of Fifth street. Both were charged with trans- porting and possession. At Fifth and Franklin streets the squad observed an automobile and fol- lowed it to New Jersey avenue and L strect, where they arrested Donald E. Johnson, colored, 26 years old, of the 800 block of Barry place on charges of transporting and possession. Police said the machine Johnson was driving contained 18 quarts of corn whisky. Following a machine late yesterday afternoon from Georgia avenue and W street to Georgla avenue and Howard place, Little's squad arrested John Francis Goddard, 24 years old, of the 500 block of Eleventh street southeast, and seized his machine, which, they said, contained 170 quarts of whisky. Goddard was taken to the eight pre- cinct station house and charged with transporting and possession. Two Packages Abandoned. Two packages which William Pratt, 34-year-old colored laboror, of the 1300 block of Ninth street, was carrying through Naylors court this morning be- came suddenly “hot” when Sergt. Little and his squad approached. William is said to have taken to his heels at the sight of the officers, dis- posing of his burden. One package is said to have broken, while the other re- mained intact and revealed four quarts of corn whisky. He was charged with transperting and possession. . RANDLE’S ESTATE VALUED AT $144,000 Col. Arthur E. Randle, prominent land developer, who committed suicide at a ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., July 3, left an estate in excess of $144,000, according to the petition of his former secretary, Margaret R. Sharman, nee Biddle, and his adopted son, Ulmo &. Randle, for the probate of his will. He owned real estate of the assessed value of $115541, and had personal property estimated at $28,756.78. Mrs. Sharman is named as executor of the will, and Randle is named as the sole heir and next of kin of the deceased. Attorneys Walter B. Guy and Frederic B. Warder appear for the estate, ILL HEALTH PROMPTS MAN’S SUICIDE ATTEMPT ‘Worried over ill health and the death of his wife, which occurred about three months ago, is reported by the police to have prompted Thomas Dore, 48 years old, to attempt his life this morn- ing by slashing his left wrist with a razor. The wounded man was found in the rear of a vacant house at 402 Nineteenth street northeast, and taken to Casualty Hospital, where he was treated by Dr. Philip A. Stebbing, who reported his condition not serious. Dore, who is employed as janitor at the Henry T. Blow School, at Nine- teenth street and Benning road north- east, resides at 1649 Gales street north- east. Yesterday morning Dore suffered an attack of nervousness while at work and was treated at Casualty Hospital. BRITISH DELEGATES EXPECTED TO QUIT WAR DEBT PARLEY (Continued From First Page.) of the British. It was possible, it was sald, for the remainder of the govern- ments to go ahead without Great Britain, effecting a separate agreement with Germany and leaving Great Brit- ain to do the same. The principal objection to this i- rangement was that it was not con- ciliatory and that while it settled Eu- rope’s difficulties in one direction it raised other difficulties in another. It was also pointed out the proposed in- ternational bank required British co- operation. The head of the national delegations resumed their conversations. Arthur Henderson, British foreign minister, called on Aristide Briand, French for- eign minister and premier, but it was understood they discussed political as- pects of the conference rather than its financial problems. Mr. Henderson later went to Schev- eningen to see Gustav Stresemarh, German foreign minister, while Emile Moreau, governor of the Bank of France, met Dr. Rudolf Hilferding, Get- man minister of finance. Chancellor Snowden resumed his of- fensive against the Young plan yes- terday and for the third time in as many days declared that Great Britain will not accept shares in the repara- tions annuities accorded by the com- mittee of experts, will not consent to the division of the annuities into con- ditional and unconditional parts and will not approve continued payments by _deliveries in kind. Snowden’s attack provoked sharp answers from French, Italian and Bel- gian delegates, who declared they are equally as determined to maintain the Young plan as the British seem to be to revise it. Undoubtedly the committee is in ;ilnm ":( deadlock, but ntobodm esses see any way of sal British demands. ‘The British chancellor said his gov- ernment regarded its demand for an increased share of German reparations as a fundamental point and that the question must be settled before the con- ference proceeds to other matters. Mr. Snowden introduced a resolu- tion in the committee providing for the nomination of a subcommittee of ex- perts to examine the objections made to the Young plan and to draw up and present a scheme for the revision of that plan as concerns the method of payment and the reparation between the creditors. The committee would d | be eompou& of delegates from creditor m!vlq'nl. with the Germans efi;lude& “We cannot " Mr, - den reiterated. s Soow