Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and continued cool today; tomor- row increasing cloudiness and warmer. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 86, at 4 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 66, at 10 . yester- day. Full report on page 7. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone NAtional 5000 to start immediate delivery. he Sundwy WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION No. 31,183. SENATE LEADERS " VOICE APPROVAL OF NAVAL PARLEY Borah Urges Reduction and Not Merely Limitation of Armament. 1,278 —No. WALSH SAYS NATION WOULD WELCOME MOVE Probable Attitude of France and Italy Toward Conference Remains a Question. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, The plans of the Hoover administra- tion and the MacDonald government in England for a naval limitation con- ference, probably in December, ar: viewed with distinct favor by influen- tial members of the Senate of both parties, Senator Borah, chairman of the foreign relations committee, said yes- terday that it appeared real progress had been made toward the proposed conference. He expressed the hope that any agreement entered into by the naval powers would result in a real reduction of armament, not merely in 2 limitation. o “If the League of Nations and the ! Kellogg treaty renouncing war as a means of settling international disputes mean anything.” sald Senator Borah, “there is no need for the big navies that exist today. There is no need for the huge expenditures for naval con- struction and upkeep which grind down the people through taxation.” Walsk Favors Move. Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, Democrat, also a member of the foreign relations committee, said he believed that the country would welcome steps looking to naval limitation and naval reduction. While the negotiations conducted be. tween the British and American gov ernments, through Premier MacDonald and Amabassador Charles G. Dawes, have progressed to a point where it is believed that an adjustment of the knotty cruiser problem may be obtained, two questions were uppermost last night. The first was the probable attitude of France and Italy toward the conference and the second was the place in which the conference would be held. It has been taken for granted that | Japan would welcome an invitation to | ‘the proposed naval conference. In- deed, advices from Japan yesterday | Were fo that effect. Japan joined | with this country and Great Britain | in_the naval conference “at Geneva, | called by President ge. - But | mneither France nor Italy accepted the | invitation to that conference. | Would Limit Small Craft, i The purpose of the proposed confer- | ence is to reach an agreement limit- | ing auxiliary naval craft, cruisers, de- | stroyers, submarines, etc., thereby car- rying out the purposes originally laid down at the opening of the Washington conference on naval limitation in 1921- | 22. At the Washington conference agreement was reached and put into treaty form governing the capital ships and aircraft carriers of the five na- tions involved. But it was found to be utterly impossible to reach an agree- | ment on auxiliary craft at that time. The capital ship ratio fixed in the naval treaty of Washington was 5-5-3- 1.67-1.67, respectively, for the United States, Great lin Entered as second class matter vost office, Washington, D. C. Nephew of Mellon Injured as Car Hits Tree in Yellowstone By the Associated Pres: LIVINGSTON, Mont., Septem- ber 14—Thomas A. Mellon of Oyster Bay, N. Y., nephew of An- drew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, was brought to a Liv- ingston hospital today for treat- ment for skull and scalp injuries, suffered in an automobile acci- dent in Yellowstone National Park ‘Thursday. Physicians said he was recovering. Mr. Mellon, accompanied by his son, Dr. R. B. Thayer of New York City, and Dr. Richard Derby of Oyster Bay, was hurt when his car struck a rut and swerved against a tree. The three other members of the party escaped in- Jury. They were visiting the park after an extended vacation in the Jackson Hole County in Wyoming. NAVY “LEAK” PUT (FFICERS ON GUARD AGAINST SHEARER Testified Before Court of Inquiry in Secret Ses- sion in 1924, BY REX COLLIER. American naval observers at the tri- i partite conference in Geneva in 1927 | | were “on guard” against Willlam Bald- | win Shearer, so-called naval expert, be- | | cause of the existence of Navy Depart- ment records allegedly connecting him with a serious “leak” of highly confi~ dential naval data in 1924. The leak, involving publication of | private correspondence between the head of the Naval War College and an- other officer, resulted in the convening of a court of inquiry, before which Shearer testified in secret session. Details of this inquiry, heretofore withheld from the public, may come to light during the forthcoming senatorial investigation into Shearer’s activities at Geneva as a representatve of American shipbullding interests. Two Officers Exonerated. The irguiry directly affected Capt. Hugh Osterhaus, then head of the Naval War College at Newport, R. I, and lately in command of the cruiser Rich- mond, and Capt. Robert L. Berry, U. 8. N., retired, then in charge of naval recruiting. Both officers were exonerated after lengthy consideration of the case by Secretary Wilbur. The letters, with names of sender and addressee deleted, were published A number of newspapers late in 1924 and their sensational nature prom?tly aroused officlaldom in the Capital ‘When criticism began to center on ce: tain naval officers for being responsible for the “leak,” Shearer issued a state- ment in which he sought to assume “full responsibility.” Determined to go to the bottom of the incident, Secretary Wilbur ordered a court of inquiry convened at New York. The court was directed to in- vestigate the “unauthorized publica- tion of naval information that possibly might be of value to an enemy.” Implied Spying By U. S. The inquiry attained international im- | portance because the published matter is said to have implied that America was “spying” on the British navy. It was the opinion here that the publica- tion of such statements, however fan- tastic, would imperil friendly relations between America and England, at a time when both countries were tensely watching each other's naval develop- seyeral WASHINGTON, MOTHER IS SLAIN AS GASTONIA M0B FIRES INTO TRUCK Another Woman and a Man Are Injured—Victim Had Five Children. TWO STRIKE LEADERS BELIEVED KIDNAPED Communist = Official and Union Organizer Are Missing After Leaving South Gastonia. By the Associated Press. GASTONIA, N. C., September 14.— Mob violence again today ran rampant through the outskirts of Gastonia, and one woman was killed, another woman and man injured. ‘The violence grew out of plans of Communist leaders and leaders of the Natlonal Textile Workers' Union to hold an open meeting in South Gastonia. The meeting falled to materialize, al- though one Communist leader, Linton M. Oak of New York, publicity director for the International Labor Defense in this section, appeared, and with his| chauffeur, C. M. Greer, was arrested and held without bail. Truck and Car Hit. ‘The dead woman was Mrs. Ella May Wiggins, 29, mother of five children, whose home was in Bessemer City. She was shot and killed after a truck carry- ing 21 mill workers toward the Loray Mill strikers tent colony was stopped by a mob as it entered the outskirts of the city near the Loray Mill of thc | Manville-Jenckes Co., in Gastonia. The crowd turned the truck back toward Bessemer City and several carloads of men followed. When it had reacned a point near a bridge over the Southern Railway, an automobile turned sud- denly into the road so close that the truck driver could not avold hitting it. The cars following the truck came up and occupants of several opened fire. The 20 mill workers in the truck fled in"all directions from the fusillade. When the smoke cleared away, Mrs. Wl%glns was found lying dead in the road. While this was going on, 25 depuly sheriffs armed with shotguns and pis- tols continued to patrol the section in the vicinity of the Hanover Cotton Mill near which the meeting was scheduled to be held. Several hours afte: the scheduled hour for appearance of speak- ers who were to address the meeting | none had shown up and a crowd of hundred persons who had hered dispersed. Rumors Are Rife. Rumors flew thick and fast in this section tonight. After the mob had turned back the Bessemer City Truck and Mrs. Higgins had been killed, there were reports | that mobs intended to “clean out” Communists and union members ta- night. There also was a report cir- cumstantial enough to send newspaper | men tracing it that the Communms had transferred their meeting to Kings Mountain, 17 miles from here in Cleve- land County. The report proved un- founded. Photographer Is Detained. Members of the crowd and mill g ards were determined that there should be no pictures of anything that | occurred here. John T. Huston, pho- tographer for the Charlot: Observer and_the Associated Press, reported that he had been detained for an hour by | Britain, Japan, France | ments. and TItaly. The indications are, however, that when it comes to the matter of aux- iliary naval craft, both France and Ttaly will request a much higher ratio than that fixed for them in capital ships. There are indications, too, that | Japan may seek a higher ratio for auxiliary ships than that fixed for her in the Washinglon treaty dealing ; with battleships. Should the demands of France and Ttaly be for a very considerable cruiser, destroyer and submarine tonnage, it is possible that Great Britain may feel impelled to make a special plea for a Mediterranean fleet that would swell perceptibly the cruiser and destroyer fonnage. There have already been re- ceived here in certain quarters an inti- mation that this may be the. case. And argument has been advanced that, | in reaching an agreement with the United States, the tonnage of the Brit- ish Mediterranean fleet might be dis- regarded largely, since it would be for operation only in waters in which the | United States has no particular interest. | Unsound Argument. From the American point of view, however, such an argument, it was said last night, would scarcely hold water. | The fact that certain tonnage of the | British Navy might be designed for use | in the Mediterranean would not mean | that this tonnage could not and would | not leave those waters if there should need for it elsewhere. truth of the matter appears to be that France and Italy were not and sre not particularly interested in capi- tal ships, although Prance at one time during the Washington conference sug- that she be permitted a total ©of 300,000 tons for battleships. It was obvious, however, that if such a ton- nage were allowed to France, although it was proposed to allow the United States and Great Britain only 520,000 tons of capital ships, the Washington eonference would reach no naval agree- ment at all. France finally withdrew this request and accepted 175,000 tons of capital ships as her ratio and Italy was accorded the ‘same. In the matter of auxiliary craft, however, France and Italy are much stronger when compared to this coun- Great Britain and Japan. than they are in capital ships. It became evident early in the Washington con- ference that it would not be possible to reconcile the differences over the auxiliary craft, and the effort was bandoned, France insisted that her needs for national defense required ample cruiser and submarine wm;r Al ‘Washington conference the Brit- ish “came forward with a uugrdm that the submarine be elimina en- tirely from the navies of the world. ‘To that, however, France was e regarding the Tt is understood that t; of France and informed of the pr g.:lz&g: between But their governments are yet to be heard from "l‘m.%dy;—"‘fl (Contimied on Page 4. Colnmn 2,) | man “planted” aboard, a British battle- According to published reports, the “spying” was done by an American sea- ship. The seaman. so the story goes, reported that the British had found a secret way to increase the elevation of their guns, the ‘secret” consisting of filling “blisters™ on one side of the ship with water so as to tilt the guns up- ward. The entire “spy” story was gen- erally discredited and _would ve caused amusement in official quarters had not its possible effects abroad been considered a matter of grave concern. The inquiry was conducted by a court headed by Capt. O. P. Jackson, com- manding the Newport Training Station, and including Capts. A. M. Proctor and G. L. P. Stone. Sessions of the court were brief, insofar as the {aking of testimony was concerned, but the case dragged along for many months in the Navy Department. Wilbur Was Dissatisfied. Apparently Secretary Wilbur was dis- satisfied with the findings of the court as reported to the department, and he sent for further information, men- tioning particularly his desire that the ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) —_— GERMAN SHIP SEIZED. Trinidad Action Bared on Landing of Rebels in Venezuela. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Sep- tember 14 (#).—The German steamer i government s (he rewlt of i vernment as - 'Fu commission_appointed to in- mgs o t] lleged use of the ship ey 5™ lana " revolutionists Venezuela. (The revoluticnists said to have landed from the Falke a month ago in | Communist Leader and Union Workes guards at the Pickney mill and then bundled into a car with his camera and returned to the downtown district of Gastonia. Solicitor John G. Carpenter and Coroner -J. F. Wallace of Gaston County went to Bessemer City to in- vestigate the death of Mrs. Higgins. An aul sy was ordered and the inquest will be held at the courthouse at . tonia tamorrow morning. The physicians examining the body told newspapermen tonight that a sin- gle pistol bullet entered the woman's chest, causing almost instant death. George B. Lingerfelt, driver of the truck in which the strikers were riding, was ordered held for investigation. So- licitor Carpenter sald he wanted to question F. P. Morrow in connection with the shooting. ‘The car which collided with the truck and in which the persons said to have| fired 15 or 20 shots at the fleeing mill workers were riding, was said to_be registered in the name of Morrow. The | tag had been removed from the car| after the wreck. Truck Passenger Talks. L. J. Baumgardner, a union mill; worker, said that he was riding in the front seat of the truck, which was wrecked just before Mrs. Wiggins was shot. He said that there were 21 per- sons in the truck. Baumgardner said they had started to visit friends in the tent colony main- tained at Gastonia by the International Labor Defense of the National Textile ‘Workers’ Union on strike at the Loray and other mills, which the union has attempted to organize. OFFICIALS ARE MISSING. Last Seen in South Gastonia. CHARLOTTE, N. C., September 14 (#).—Reports that Willlam e, sec- retary of the Communist Party, in America, and Hugo Oehler, Southern nizer for the tion: ‘Tex! ol " (Continued_on Pa 400-YEAR-OLD MYSTERY FATE OF 5 MEN IS BELIEVED SOLVED Explorer Finds Traces of Gold Mine Guards Left on Kadlunarn Island by By the Assoclated Press. vered by McMillan on an island In Countess Warwick Sound, shout 50 miles from Kadluparn. INVOLVING { A and Frateeni D. C, SUNDAY MORN NG, SEPTEMBER 15, UP) Means Associated Press. 1929148 PAGES. News Note—Channel Swimming Season Is Open—American Starts to Swim Across, 21-YEAR-OLD WIFE FOUND STRANGLED Estranged Husband Discov- ers Body—Pajama Cord Forms Noose. Slumped on the floor beside her bed, | on which a ukelele, bearing the auto- graphs of many of her friends. had been carelessly tossed, the body of Mrs. Virginia McPherson, 21-year-old | nurse, was discovered yesterday by her estranged husband, in the Park Lane Apartments,” her life choked out by the | cord from & pajama suit knotted tightly at the back of her neck. On a table in an adjacent room were placed three books of mystery, contain- ing lurid tales of violent deaths and their solution. Clad in a kimono and pajamas, the young woman apparently had died more than 36 hours before her husband, Robert McPherson, 24 years old, of 405 ;Je?mr street, bookkeeper, discovered lifeless body on the floor when he came to her -pnru%nt yesterday and admitted himself with a pass key. | An sutopsy held at the District Juum;‘e late yumtifiy afternoon b; g osep) rs, acting coroner, an E A M. Hnggonlld revealed a bruise and abrasions on the girl's forehead. The liscovery led officials to order an in- quest, which will be held Tuesday. Husband Is Exonerated. The husband. previously detained at the third precinct, pending the out- come of the autopsy was released in the custody of his father, but the police announced last night that they were convinced that he had no part in her death. An investigation by Inspector William 8. Shelby and Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad disclosed, they said, that Mrs. McPherson w: o'clock Thursday night. Her husband left her atv 8:30 o'clock that evening and Inspector Shelby de- clared his movements have been traced from that time to the hour this after- noon when he found her dead. They said their investigations freed him from all suspicion. McPherson informed Lieut. Kelly of the homicide squad, ‘when questioned, that he and his wife had quarreled Wednesday night and they agreed to separate. It was the last time he saw her, he said, until he returned yester- day to adjust a joint bank account and found her body. He then notified the manager of the apartmeint house, who summoned police. ¥ Residing at an apartment in the Mount Pleasant section two months ago, the young woman attempted to end her life with gas, but was frustrated when discovered and revived by Dr. I. Rutkoski of Emergency Hospital. Blood on Bathroom Floor. A large pool of blood covered a por- tion of the bathroom floor, but there was none near the body, which lay be- side one twin bed. The woman showed (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) . 9\ TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—40 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Schools a and 22. PART TWO—12 PAGES. Editorial_Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Features. Review of New Books—Page 4. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 8. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 8. PART THREE—16 PAGES.™ alive at 10:: and nd Colleges—Pages 20, 21 Soclety. Serial Story, “The Door of Death"— Page 14. PART FOUR—18 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, Screen and Music. In the Motor World—Pages 5, 6 and 7. Aviation Activities—Pages 8 and 9. Navy News—Page 11, tioe—Pages 13 and 13, District Naf Gul.rfl—Plfe 13. Marine Notes—Page 13. Organized P#l 14, mlo‘ Columbia Naval Reserve— Frobisher in 1576. Page 14. Radio News—Pages 15, 16 and 17. PART FIVE—10 PAGES. Sports and Financial. PART SIX—12 PAGES. IMP II WINS HEROIC BATTLE 'TO TAKE REGATTA FREE-FOR-ALL |Hoyt Drives Craft Brilliantly After Making Only Mediocre Showing in President’ s Cup Race. The story of the President’s Cup Regatta, which ended on the Potomac | % FIVE 14 DIE IN SERIES OF AIR ACCIDENTS ACROSS CONTINENT Six Are Burned to Death in Crash of Canadian Plane Near Buffalo. GIRL "CHUTE JUMPER PLUNGES TO DEATH Four Perish When Two Silipl Lock Wings Over Chicago in Col- lision at 800 Feet. By the Associated Press, In the brief space of a few hours at least 14 persons plunged to their deaths yesterday in five geographically widely separated airplane accidents. Six. per- sons perished when a passenger plane crashed and burned between Meriton and Thorold, Ontario. Four died in an air collision over Chicago. ‘Two were killed at Berkeley, Calif., crashed into a house. A young woman tyro-parachute jumper died at Wichita when the ap- paratus failed to function. Near Minneapolis the piiot of a plane was killed when he lost control of it and made an unsuccessful parachute Jump. Twelve passengers in a tri-motored plane from Denver, which took the oc- cupants to McCook, Nebr., to attend an air meet, barely escaped possible death field near McCook. most wrecked. L. V. Rex of Portland, Oreg., was in- jured seriously at Medford, Oreg’, whea | an airplane piloted by W. H. Muirhead | crashed. The pilot was not hurt. | Six Burned in Crash, The ship was al- CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS when a plane took fire in the air and | or injury in a forced landing in a rough | EN CENTS l P ELSEWHERE SINLAR PARDDN PEOIHOLED,OT 10 REACH HOOVER gjustice Department Files Petition Despite Reported Favorable Indorsement. OIL MAGNATE AND DAY | BOOKED FOR FULL TIME | Senator Walsh Doubtful Whether Prisoners Will Be Called as Fall Trial Witnesses. The petition for pardon filed by | Harry F. Sinclair, oll magnate, serving |'a term in the District jail for jury ! shadowing, will not be forwarded to | President Hoover by the Department of Justice, The Star learned resterday, and the oil man and his assistant, Henry | Mason jDay, will serve their full terms | with the exception probably of time off for good behavior. It is understood that the papers will | remain in the files of the Department | of Justice. It was also indicated that | Sinclair’s petition for pardon, instead of being based entirely on his alleged | poor physical condition as the result of | confinement in the jail, pointed out that the affairs of the stockholders in I nis ofl companies were likely to suffer if he was forced longer to remain away from active direction. Two Favored Pardon. While United States Attorney Leo S. Rover and District Supreme Court Justices Gordon and Siddons, to whom the petition was referred by the De- | partment of Justice, have declined to | comment on their recommendations, it i is understood that two of them were BUFFALO, N. Y., September 14 (#).— | favorably inclined toward the pardon. last night, is not a story of the principal race of the regatta, the President’s Cup race. It is the story of a lesser contest, staged over the grueling distance of 15 miles in windswept, churned-up waters, courageously fought and adeptly won, against tremendous odds, at a speed of nearly 50 miles an hour. 8ix persons, including a woman and a | child, were burned to death shortl | after 6 o'clock tonight after a mono- | | plane belonging to Skyway, Ltd., of To- ronto, crashed in a field between Meri- | Justice Gordon was United States At- nln':,-y when Sinclair and Day were tried. As the result of the disinclination of the White House to intervene, Sinclair the best in the regatia OUSTING OF VAR FORECAST BY DILL Senator in Radio Forum Speech Also Says Tariff Bill Will Be Beaten. Predictions that Senator-elect Vare of | Pennsylvania would be voted out of the Senate in December. and that the tariff bill_unless “radically changed” would Dbe defeated by a combination of Demo- crats and Progressive Republicans, were made last night by Senator Clarence C. Dill, progressive Democrat. Speaking over the National Radio Forum arranged by The Star, and spon- sored by the Columbia Broadcasting Hoyt pitted his little Gold Cup win- ner, powered with a 250-horsepower engine, against a giant of the speed boats, the entry from Washington— | W. S. Corby's 1,000-horsepowered Jayee | III. Hoyt matched his skill with that| of one of the foremost motor boat racing drivers in the country, George ‘Wood of Detroit, hfother of Gar Wood, known wherever motor boats are raced. Accident Marks Race. An accident put both these boats in the limelight. The winner of the Secretary of the Navy's Cup, earlier in the afternoon, Carenaught, owned by C. Roy Keys of Buffalo, N. Y, and driven by Milton Elliott of the same city, got the jump on the field in the' finale of the regatta, and turned the first lap of the two-and-a-half-mile course in the fastest time of the regatta, | 51.185 miles an hour, to stretch a long lead between it and the nose-and-nose Imp II and Jayee IIL On the second lap, Carenaught, well | out in front, ran into something float- | ing in the course. There was a crash. The boat began losing power and taking | water. Carenaught limped to the Judges’ boat and left the field to Tmp II | and Jayee IIL | The hero of this classic of water speedsters was Richard F. Hoyt of New ;W" and Thorold, Ontario, York. The winner was his Imp II, winner without glory of the President’s | Cup race, but glorious victor in the Potomac River grand free-for-all, against | bodies of a woman, a child and four . | St. Catherines, where a two-t *| is expected to remain a prisoner until The plane caught fire after the | the morning of November 21, assuming crash and its occupants were burned | that he will receive 30 days off for good beyond recognition. | behavior. There is nothing about his The bodies were removed to St. Cath- | conduct as a prisoner to indicate that erine, Ontario. | he will be denied this time off. Day Chief of Police Prank Collins of Thor- | will have served his sentence in about old, who visited the place of the wreck. | three weeks and it is expected that he said he helped remove the charred | will be released on the morning of October 5, two days ~before former men from the debris. | Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall ‘The plane had taken off an hour be- | goes on trial in the oil scandal. fore the accident from a new airport in Information about Sinclair's health ay celebra- | was obtained by the Department of tion was in progress. Stunt flights and | Justice from Maj. William L. Peske, other features had attracted a big ! superintendent of the jail, and Dr. crowd _to the airport. A special rate | Morris Hyman, the jail physician, whom was offered by Bradfield to passengers | Sinclair assists as pharmacist. In a who wished to go up for a short flight | confidential report to the Attorney and five in the crowd accepted. | General, Maj, Peake advised him that Bradfield, an experienced flyer, was 2 | while Sinclair had lost weight—about war pilot and an air engineer and had | 15 pounds since May 6, when he was to his credit more than 2,500 hours in 'admitted as a prisoner—he was not in- the air. An official of Skyways, Ltd., | capacitated from his duties. Day ap- said the cause of the accident probably | parently has not suffered physically l1e‘Xe{X wou‘ld‘hl‘;: dkn(;wn‘. e | from confinement. st of ead given out at a St. Catharines undertaking room wmgm! Auto Rides Are Barred. follows: On _the afternoon of September 3, Frank M. Bradfield, Toronto. | Maj. Peake called Sinclair to his office James McDonald, St. Catharines, ' to tell him the Board of Public Welfare Ontario. | had issued instructions that he was to John Bond, St. Catharines. | discontinue sending Sinclair along Bond’s 9-year-old son, Allan. | with Dr. Hyman in an automobile to Mrs. Walter Bennett, Hamilton, On- | the Occoquan wharves at the foot of tario. | Ninth street, where a clinic had been Louis Bennett, St. Catharines Heights. | established for prisoners assigned there. was made plain to Sinclair that Planes Collide at 800 Feet. while the board did not consider the CHICAGO, September 14 (#).—Two | duty irregular, it was thought that in ‘Then began a race. On the same | airplanes collided at an altitude of 800|View of “the circumstances” he should to farmers promised by adm| tion, and as being full of “inequalitie: ‘The Washington Senator also launc ed an attack on mergers in modern | business, which he declared were cnly trusts under a less-known and less- objectionable name. If the Attorney General finds that present law does not apply to mergers, the speaker declared, the Attorney General “should so inform Congress, and Congress should pass legisiation to control and regulate these enormous organizations.” Discussing radio, he said the time had come when Congress should broad- cast the important .debates of both houses. This Government, the speakei said, had dared to encourage private ownership and development of radio while “other governments have been . Senator Dill em- phasized. however, that the Radio Co mission has full power “to break up any attempts to monopolize the air.” Tariff Bill Assailed. | “This tariff bill” he sald. “is an ex- cellent. example of the legislative injus- tices that always result when Congress passes legislation to grant special privi- | leges to any class of the people. For | years even the leaders of the protective | tariff movement have repeatedly ad- mitted that existing tariff laws place unjust burdens on agriculture. “Mr. Smoot states that tite bill as written gives only 1314 per cent of the tariff increases to farm products. The ~(Continued on Page 14, Column 1.) THREE CONVICTS DEAD IN TUNNEL EXPLOSION Gas From Burning Dynamite In- jures Nine Other California Road Builders. By the Ashociated Press. 3 QUINCY, Calif.. September 14— Three convicts were killed and nine others injured in an explosion of gas formed from burning dynamite in & new highway tunnel under construetion near y. The convicts were from San Quentin | Prison. -The dead were Charles Ed- 41, serving a seven-year term for from TLos = Al Seven years from Glenn County. More than 40 boxes of dynamite were stored in various csches or pockets in the tunnel, W. B. Stout, in charge of the camp, sald. did not. , he sald, but gas caused the faf by asphyxiation. Refueling !’l‘nrl on Fourth Day. BUFFALO, N. Y., September 14 (P).— Jack Little and Merle A. % | Htandard time, this afton. | fourth day-o their Y lap, Jayee III, under the expert hand- ling of George Wood, tore its huge bulk past the bounding Imp II, only to lose the advantage when Hoyt slip- Imp II close around the Hains int buoys and out in front as Jayee III went wide on the turn. Again Wood pushed his racer's bow past Imp II, but trailed again when Hoy slipped his racer around the buoy: close In at the bridge end of the Georgetown Channel course. Thus it went up and down the course, Jayee III gaining on the straightways, Imp II cutting the cor- ners. The corner cutting told on the big racer, and on the last lap Hoyt held his lead throughout the last straightway, cut the turning buoys close again and came on to win by more than 100 yards. Even Judges Cheer. Seasoned -race judges, who follow the motor boats around the country, year (@ontinued on First Sports Page.) OIL REFINERY FIRE LOSS IS $1,000,000 Blazing Barge Drifts Against Re- . finery Storehouse on Staten Island Sound. By the Associated Press. LINDEN, N. J., September tonight by a fire’ which swept the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey Bay- way refinery and the Swan Finch Ol Co. refinery on Staten Island Sound. The fire was started by a burning oi! barge, set afire by lightning. The craft slipped its fnoor! and drifted to a wharf near the re ies, The flames ead to the loading dock of the Bayway refinery and jumped ' thence to the main storag: se of the. Swan Finch Co. “hich contained hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil. At 9 o'clock tonight the flames were still unconquered. | feet here tonight, carrying four per- | sons to their deaths. | ‘The dead included both pilots and a passenger in each plane. They were | dead before rescuers reached the wreck- lage. The dead were identified as: Pilot Walter Meyers, licensed flyer. | Mrs. Benjamin Burke, his passenger and sister of the owner of his plane. Pilot Charles Crone, an unlicensed pilot. | William Johnson, Deerfield, Ill, his | passenger. | As the planes neared each other, the ipuou apparently sensing the danger, | endeavored to maneuver away from the | other plane. Meyers tried to sideclip Crone's ship, but was unsuccessful. |~ Crone, seen by witnesses to be work- ing frantically to prevent the collision, almost had his ship clear, but the wing | light when it appeared | MINE CAVE-IN KILLS ONE, | TWO SAVED, FOUR BURIED Pennsylvania Workers Entombed ‘When Operations Are Begun on New Section. MAHANOY CITY, Pa., September 14 (®#)—Seven men, including two en- gineers who later escaped, were en- tombed in the Buck Mountain colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal and Naviga- tion Co. near here today. Rescue crews, after several hours of digging. sighted the lifeless body of one of the miners. The fate of the remaining four was unknown. The miners were starting work on a new section when the cave-in occuirred, hugln‘ them 15 feet below the earth'’s surface. ‘The two rescued. John Davies and Edward Mockitis, both of Mahanoy City were nearer the surface than their companions and were easily rescued from the shaft. Davies was unhurt, but Mockitis suffered a fractured skull. Rescuers, reported that several tons of earth must be removed before the entombed men eould be reached. They said that they could hear the cries and moans of at least one man. not be permitted to leave the jail. | Sinclair heard the superintendent's brief explanation in silence. . He ap- | peared not to be surprised. His only | comment, made in three words, sug- gested an attitude he is said to have revealed more frequently of late, an at- | titude, of resignation to the dictates of | what he and his friends hold to be a prejudiced public opinion. i “Well, I'm in.” | i Term Expires November 21. | Sinclair entered the jail on May 6, to serve a sentence of three months for | contempt of the Senate for declining |to answer questions put to him in the oil investigation. Subsequently his conviction on a charge of jury shadow- {ing was upheld and papers committing {him to service of six months were de- i livered to the jail on June 22. The two ! sentences ran concurrently and between jJune 22 and August 5 he was serving | both sentences. With 30 days off for good behavior, both sentences shai have been served on November 21. In_all probability, neither Sinclair nor Day will be called as a witness in the Fall trial. | Senator Walsh, who conducted the | Senate’s investigation into the longe drawn out controversy, said yesterday | he doubted very much that Sinclair | would be called as a Government wit- ness. Sinclair declined to answer s question_ yesterday whether he planned to remain in Washington after his res | lease. . TEN MINERS KILLED. i Explosion in Jugoslavia Causes Serious Injury of Many. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, September 14 (#).—Ten miners were known to have been killed and many ser injured in an explosion in a coal mine today at Rtalj near Zajecar on the Bulgarian frontier. There were 1,500 miners below ground at the time, but it was believed the only dead were in & group of 20 men working in the gallery where the explosion occurred. Gas held back rescue parties for more than two hours during which crowds of relatives gathered around the pit head in great anxiety. VETERAN ASKS STOLEN WAR MEDAL REPLACED WITHOUT ANOTHER WAR Tells Adjutant’ General Croix de Guerre, Taken With ‘Other Possessions, Was Joy to His Mother. A World War veteran das asked the ‘War Department how he can get back ths Croix de Guerre he lost without .going through another war. His letter, addressed to the Adjutant uniforms and almost everything ‘wm stolen. . TEXAN SPURNS U. S. POST. Sartin of Wichita Falls to Run ror Congress in 1930. WICHITA FALLS, Tex. September 14 (.—B. D. Sartin, Wichita Falls, attorney and active among Texas “Hoover Democratic” forces in the last Sopointment ¢ Gnited appoi ent as an States Attorney General, because he e AT for ' ve from in 1930. Sartin was offered the post in a lfil;fi(nm received Thi He de- b <