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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy; probably occasional showers tonight and tomorrow; sligh{ly warmer tonight, Tfimpentures—fll%hest. 77, at 4 pm. yesterday; lowest, 5¢ Full report on pag Closing N. Y. Market: at 6 e 9. s, Pages 14 and 15 am. today. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION -“From Press to Home Within the Hour” ; The ‘Star’s carrier system covers every city block- and the regular edi- tion is deliveréd 1o Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, Sunday’s Cire 99,388 ulation, 108,474 No.. © 31,184, s S Entered as second shi WASHINGTON, = SEPTEMBER - D. ¢, MONDAY, 16, 1929—FORTY PAGES. () Means. Associated Pre . TWO. ‘CENT *ONLY 3 BINCH-GUN CRUISERS STAND IN' "~ WAY OF ACCORD ON . SBRTISH NAVES Statement Issued in London Reveals That British Also Would Cut American Total by 15,000 Tons. ENGLAND’S SECURITY DECLARED ESTABLISHED MacDonald Proposes Dividing Cruisers Into 8-Inch and 6-Inch| Categories, Seeking 15 in For-’ mer and 35 in Latter, Making 339,000 Tons to 300,000 for U. S. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 16.—Great | Britain desires from the forthcom- ing naval negotiations at Wash- ington between Prime Minister| MacDonald and President Hoover | that her total cruiser strength of" 50 units be divided into two cate- | gories—namely, those of 8-inch| guns and those of 6-inch guns—it | was authoritatively stated this| evening. She maintains that her require- ments compel her to divide her 50 | cruisers into 15 with 8 inch guns! and 35 with 6-inch guns, making a total tonnage of 339,000. The United States proposal is for 21 eight-inch-gun cruisers and 15 six-inch-gun cruisers, totaling 315,000 tons. The margin of dis- sute is at present three 8-inch-gun cruisers and a tonnage of 15,000 as Great Britain suggests the United States tonnage should be; 300,000. These facts emanated from 2 source in intimate touch with Prime Minister MacDonald. Paves Way to Genev. Great Britain_feels that if a world agreement _on_ shipbuilding can be se- | cured it will then be possible to go to | the preparatory disarmament commis- sion at, Geneva. In this commission the powers could deal with land and air arms and in the end cover the question of armaments throughout the | world. : It was pointed out by this spokesman | close to the prime minister that British | security was considered absolutely guar- anteed under the negotiations thus far. It is felt in authoritative quarters that the proposed five-power . confer- ence possibly may be unable to meet as early as December, but it is hoped that it will be held no later than the middle of January, 1930. It has been suggested that the meeting should be a session of the adjourned Washington conference, which i scheduled to meet in 1931, but Great Britain and the | United States feel that it is time td| consider the naval problem as a whole. Statement on Negotiations. An authoritative statement on the lpo.qmon of the negotfations was as fol- lows. “A total cruiser strength of 50 is de- ,sired for Great Britain. The cruisers, however, are divided into two categories, namely, 8-inch gun antd 8-inch gun ca riers. ~ Britain maintains her require- ments compel her to divide her 50] cruisers into fifteen 8-inch and thirty- five 6-inch cruisers, making a total ton- nage of 339,000. “The United States proposal is for twenty-one 8-inch and fifteen 6-inch cruisers, But these latter vessels would have a larger tonnage than the corre- sponding British cruisers. The United States total tonnage claim is 315,000. “The disputed margin at present be- tween the two countries is three 8-inch cruisers and a tonnage of 15,000, as Britain suggests the United States total tonnage should be 300,000.” This statement was generally in line with the expressed requirements of the two powers, namely. policing cruisers for Great Britain and fewer but more power cruisers for the United States. On both sides there has been irom the first meeting betwcen Prime Min- ister MacDenald and Ambassador Dawes a desire tc open negotiations by exploring the .osition from the bed- rock, and if these nac¢ not been con- ducted in the most formal and tenta- tive way they migut have bioken down from the start. A word of gratitnde was uttered con- cerning the patient manner in which the British home and overseas press had consented to wait for informatioa. It was suggested the new government had inherited two or three pretty Lad failures on the matter of disarmiment and, therefore, when the latest discus- sions opened there was a general de- sire to make an entirely fresh start. - YALE PROFESSOR’S SON GIVEN UP AS DROWNED Parents and Friends Despair of Finding William Reed, Who Disappeared in Boat. By the Assoclated Press. HANCOCK, Me., September 16.— Hope of finding Willlam Rzed, 19-year- old son of a Yale University professor, who has been missing since he left Little Gotts Island in a small sloop last Tuesday, was practically abandoned by relatives and friends today, but ‘the search by water and air continued. A duffie bag waslied ashore at Winter Harbor on the easterly entrance to Frenchmans Bay was identified by Prof. and Mrs. Elmer Bliss Reed, the boy's rents, as the one he carried when he ft for the. visit to Little Gotts island The number of boats joining in the search was estimated at. 160, most of them fishing craft. aumented by two private yatchs and Coast Guard boats and revenue cutters, Two commercial seaplanes also circled the waters and scattered- islands. Goldwyn Plans Movie Award. NEW YORK, September 18 (#).— e, o e ducer, inning a yes v the best motion picture }i’om original materisl, similar to the Pulitzer award fos drams, § : | pected to grow out of negotigtions be- Above: Mrs. Marion Waugh, shot down on the street by her husband. Below: Barbara Waugh, 8-year-old daughter fo the couple, who witnessed the shooting. —Star Staff Photo. Stimson Believes Delay of | Month in Convening Con- ference Is Certain. ‘The naval limitation conference ex- tween the United States and Great Britain, may not take place until Janu- ary, Secretary Stimson of the State De- partment said today. It had been gen- erally reported that the conference would probably take place early in De- cember. Secretary Stimson pointed out that | the mere mechanics required for or- | ganization of the conference and neces- | sity for thorough preparation by all the powers would probably require more time than the interval between the present and December. It also pointed and that the Christmas holiday would make it difficult to keep a conference together for part of December. The proposed conference, it is hoped, will include the five naval powers which entered into the naval limitation treaty of Washington, dealing with capital ships, negotiated in 1922. In addition to this country and Great Britain they are France, Italy and Japan. Up to the present the negotiations have been between this country and Britain, large- ly to find some common ground for set- tling the controversy over cruiser strength which caused the failure of the three-power conference in Geneva in 1927, Others Kept Informed. While the governments of the three other nations have been kept fully in- formed of the progress of the negotia- tions between this country and Great Britain, and while they have indicated no objection whatever, but rather ap- proval, they have yet to accept an in- vitation to the conference after it shall have been extended. Press reports from France and Italy indicate a certain uneasiness in those countries over the prospect of the com- ing parley. In these reports it is in- dicated that in Paris the approaching agreement between the United States is looked upon as & possible Anglo- American entente, which might be a dominating factor in world affairs. There_also is fear expressed that the two English “speaking nations- might fix upon a formula for the limitation of tonnage of all naval auxiliary craft, crusiers, submarines and destroyers, call upon the other nations to accept this formula. ‘There are twb angles to the matter. One has to do with the willingness of France to accept naval parity with Italy, The other has to do with the acceptance by these two countries of & nava! strengih ratio to that of Great Britain and the United States which would be satisfactory to the latter. Japan also doubtless will have its claims to present reyarding the ratio of naval strength which it will have in any treaty growing out of the conference. National Security Is Question. conference necessarily will depend largely upon an' ability u{ get all the nations to sign a naval limitation treaty and to have the treaty ratified.in con- stitutional manner after it' shall have been negotiated. It may be necessary, therefore, after the United States and Great Britain shall have ironed out all their differences over naval parity and limitation, to gain a very distinct un- derstanding as to the attitudes of the three other powers and their demands for naval strength. France in the past has insisted upon ‘lcm’mfi__uea o-i Page 2, Column 2.) IRISH MISSION TO SAIL. DUBLIN, September 16 (#).—It was announced today ‘that a' mission . of five representative citizens of the Irish Free State would leave for the United States soon in response to an. invita- tion from influential Irish Americans. The mission will remain in America several weeks. 3 e It will be headed by D smond Pitz- gerald, saorstat minister of .defense, and will include Thomas O’Higgins, brother of the late Justice Kelvin O'Higgins; Gen Sean MacKeon, Senator Mac- Laughlin and L. Burke, s=cretary of the vernment party. O'Higgins and urke will sail September. 18 and the others on a later date. . AS PARLEY DATE | 1f he did not dispose of it I would call The success -of 'a five-power mnaval { BIRL SEES FATHER SHOOT MOTHER AND HINSELF ON STREET Man Is Reported Dying at BORAH DENOUNGES TARIFF MEASURE: - PLEADS FOR FARMS | Bill Gives Insufficient Protec- Hospital—Wife Hit by Bullet in Face. SEPARATED COUPLE FALL AT K AND 14TH STREETS Discussion as to Future of Child, 8, Angers Man—Woman Tells Her Story. | Shot down by her husband, who later ‘;nrrd a bullet into his own head; Mus. { Marion Waugh, 30 years old, of 1366 L street southeast les at Providence Hos- pital suffering from bullet wounds in | her face and neck. ‘The husband, John ; William Waugh, 34 years old, was taken | to Casualty Hospital, where physicians reported his condition as critical. The shooting occurred on’the corner | of Fourteenth and K streets southeast and was witnessed. by the 8-year~old daughter of the coupje. Barbars, who told the police their first account of the shooting. Mrs. Waugh, diminutive in statue snd | weighing scarcely 100 pounds, ‘related the story of the shooting as she lay in bed at the hospital after physicians | had dressed the bullet wound which had | plerced her face The bullet entered the left side .and came cut throngh the other side. She is expected to recover. Separated Several Times. “My husband and I have always been quarteling, ever since we were married, and have been separated several :imes.” she said. “I.have been living with my sister, Mrs. Pauline King, u«t the L street house since our last separa- tion, and he has beer living with' his mother and father in Chevy Chase, about & mile this side of tne District line. knew that my little girl had to have shoes and stockings with which to begin school, 50 I called him up last night, thinking I could persuade him to give me the money. We arranged a meeting place and I told him on the phone that if he had a gun with him I would not meet him. He had flashed a pistol several times before, during previous arguments, “I met him this morning on the street corner at Fourteenth and K streets, in back of my sister's house and he ap- proached carrying a bag. 3 asked him what he had and he it was his lunch. I felt the bag. however,” and found that it was a pistol. I told him I the police and have him locked. uj gun me to wait for him while he went to & pawn shop to sell it. I waited for hearly & half hour for' him and when he re- turned to' all appearances he did not have the gun with him. “We_began discussing ‘the future of little Barbara and I told him that I RO 5 seemed to enrage him and the argu-! ment started. started down the | street and told him I was going to leave him and would not talk to him, and told Him to go on about his busi- ness.“He followed me, shouting all the while he was trailing me, ‘I'm g die right here.’ I did not think he had the gun with him, however, so I paid vo attenticn to it. The. next thing I knew I heard a shot fired and I wheeled quickly around. As I turned a bullet struck me in the face and I must have fainted .and fallen to the ground, be- cause I don't remember anything else. I am sure, though, that he fired three times at me because I heard two shots fired before I was struck. I think what made him s0 mad today was the fact that I told him he could | not come in my sister's house, because she would not tolerate having him | around. We have been rooming around | different places and would have our:| own furnished rooms while he was work- ing. But he got out of a job s0 often that little Barbara and I always went | back to my sisters. I think he's dtld"" A police guard is being ‘maintained over the husband at Casualty Hospital and Headquarters Detectives Joseph Waldron and Howard Ogle, who investi~ gated the case, declared that the man would be charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and assault with in- | tent to kill in the event of his re- covery. 1 “Did Him Dirty.” ‘Waugh admitted readily to police| that he had shot his wife and himself. He declared he shot his wife because she “did him dirty.” Operated on at Casualty Hospital by Dr. Louis Jimal, a steel-jacketed .32- caliber bullet was abstracted from his brain. It would be a miracle if he lived, according to doctors. ‘The gun is in the possession- of Joseph Russell, policeman attached to No. 5 precinct, wWho is working on the case. It is a .32-caliber revolver with & five-bullet chamber. Four of "the shells had béen ex and there was ?n; undischarged- cariridge in the cyl- nder. The . scene of the shooting. was ' on Fourteenth street. just south of K, on a portion of the street still unimproyed and nothing but a dirt road. It is abont a block from the street car stop, where, Barbara says, they got off the car, and about one block from' the home which, the little girl claims, was first bruken up when the father went awav about a month ago. Little Barbara, who had been -with her mother all the time, saw.the whole affair. “She ran screamin, of her voice to the neighbors, crying, “My daddy’has killed my mother.” - e FOREIGN COURTS TO GO, CHINESE MINISTRY WARNS By the Associated Press. i'for. the farmer. 10, less ordered to do 50 by the committee, | oving by Austro-Hungary and Bulgaria | | “tion to Agriculture, Inde- pendent Leader Declares. CHARGES BOTH PARTIES WITH LACK OF FAITH . - —————— Senator Says United States Is Liv- ing “Practically Under an Embargo.” By the Associated Press. ‘The Republican tariff bill was assailed in the Senate today by Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, as giving insuffi- clent protection to agriculture and “not in" accord with the pledges of either party in the last campaign.” ‘The Idahoan’s speech was begun with- out advance notice, and immediately at- tracted attention as coming from one of the leaders of the Republican in- dépendent group which appears to hold the balance of power in the tariff framing. Urges Farmers Take Stand. “This bill,” Borah said, “is not executed in justice to the agricultural | interests. Some of us believe the time is at'hand when sgricalture must take | a stand if it is (o benefit from the! Protective tariff system.” ¢ | He explained he had in mind both | the agriculture schedules and some duties fixed for industries in denouncing the tariff bill s inadequate protection “Live Under Embarge.” Declaring that manufactured imports were less than 4 per cent of the total domestic manufactured goods, Senator Borah asserted that the Iinited States was Jliving “practically under an em- baryo.” He said the present tariff law had held “practically stationary” the im- ports of manufactured goods since its | enactment in 1922, and that exports were greater in 1928 than_any other year since 1920, increasing 39 per cent in the last six years, Such figures, he added, disclose that “it 15 no .longer. necessary to impose additional duties to protect the manu- facturing interests, “‘Where . exports are .increasing and | imports are . decreasing—and we are importing less than 4 per cent of our manufactured stuff,” he said, “'I cannot see where we should apply any further increase in rates.” i He alsg cited statistics of the Natior~ al City Bank of New York, which, he id, showed 375 Egnn(ucwnn. cen- | ;rnl n&’&m the first haif of 1929 of %37 per cent greaier than in 1928, and many had earned more in the first half of this year than the | entire year of 1928, U. 5. Has Greatest Market. “The manufacturers of the United | greatest market in the world—and they | are taking possesion of the markets of | the world and challenging every com- | petitor upon the face of the earth.” Chairman , Smoot of ‘the Senate| finance cominittee said today that, un- | | he wauld ndt make public the names of the c rations and individual - tax- payers about whom Democratic commit- members have asked the Treasury information as to their income tax returns, The list of 187 taxpayers who were | active in seeking tariff rate changes! was compiled by the committee minority | under authority of the recently adopted 8 immons resolution. ‘The Democrats are expected soon to submit another list of names to the committee chairman asking income tax dsta about other corporat! and in- dividuals not active in seeking tariff in- creases, but who mevertheless would benefit by the pending bill. DEBT:CONFEREES . BEGIN FINAL WORKE ‘Three Comnifteel Meét to Deal With Unsettled Details of Conferences. tee for' By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, September 16.—Preparations for the final act of The Hague confer- ence on reparations, which adopted the Owen D. Young reparations plans and | substituted it for the Dawes plan, ve- gan here today when three committees of experts met to deal with unsettled details of the parleys and odds and ends | hanging over from reparations opera- | tions between Germany and her cred tors. ‘The countries interested in German reparations — France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Portugal, Jugo- slavia, Rumahnia and Greece—are rep- resented -on' the first and second com- mittees. Austria, - Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechosloval Rumania, .Jugoslavia and Greece are represented on the third committee. - Edwin C. Wilson, first nmur{ of the Americin embassy at Paris, will act | as American observer. The work of ail the committees chiel is technical, with no possibility of important develop- ments except, perhaps, in the third committee, which. is to find & way finally to settle the complicated tangle in the accounts for reparations, and value the state property ceded by Austro-Hungary: and owed by cersor states. NANKING, September 16.—China in- tends to keep up her fight for the aboli- tion of extraterritoriality, but if by the’ end of 1929 the world powers have not- récognized the claim, the Nati gov-' ernment will issue a declaration . pro- claiming to.the ‘world thut extraterri- torlality has been abolished. anyway. it was authoritatively stated: today at the ministry of foreign affairs. The “present efforts to bring about cancellation of what China’ maintains: are unequal treaties ‘will be at the League of Nations and elsewhere. ‘The United States and Greit Britain recently ‘declined 'China's" petition. on the e W, Miniater L . 4 biic At Geneva ast thwarted Radio Program—Pag MAN.KILLS CHILDREN “AND TAKES OWN LIFE Sets Fire to House After Wound- ing Wite and Slaying Son and Daughter. By the Associated Press. ‘VANCOUVER, Colunibis, of the sea: States,” be continued, “have the home o) | market—they are in: control of the | British September 16.—William Campbell Phil- lips, 37, » machinist, ran amuck with a hatchet in his home here today, killed ‘his daughter, old son Erie, Joan, 10, and his 4-year- slashed. at his wife's head then, to wne:;l all traces of his 'SENATE NAVAL . COMMIT - OF INVESTIGATION BEGINS, FREEDOM OF SEAS U. S. However, Demand Right to War on Kellogg Pact Violators. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. On evidence bearing every sign of be- ing indisputable, it is affirmed that the | United States s no longer insistent upon its " in time of war. | PRESIDENT NAMES GUGGENHEIM McCracken and Dr. Klein. | Clarence M. Young Will Be in Charge of Aeronau- tics. arry E. Guggenheim of New York clent demand for “freedom ', esident of the Guggenheim Founda- tion for the Promotion of Aviation, has America’s “ readiness to reverse her been selected by President Hoover tu traditional position is directly due to the “implications” of the Kellogg- Briand pact. | Believing that the pact’s | House toda; succeed Noble B. Judah, who recently resigned as Ambassador to Cuba. In making this known at the Whit¢ it was stated’ that Mr controlling idea is world-wide peace | Guggenheim's nomination will be sent against all disturbers, American states- | {5 “the Senate for confirmation very men sibilities which the pact imposes upon all its signatories. As one of the world's foremost two naval powers, it has com to be realized that these responsibilities in our case call for a new kind of “freé- dom of the seas”—viz., freedom to use our sea power in suppression of any vio- lator of the war-renunciation treaty. The Freedom Issue Held Vital. The issue on which the United States and Great Britain have radically dif- fered since time immemorial has been cuously absent from the Hoover- MacDonald parity negotiations. It is Washington's desire and purpose t have that thorny problem out of the ‘way before confusing it with any other. But there are the strongest possible in- | dications that not many more months will elapse before “freedom of the seas” becomes an earnest theme of Anglo- American discussion. It is agreed on all hands that its settlement is even more essential to peace than equality in tons and guns. Premier MacDonald does not have to await his arrival in Washington to discover how the American wind is now blowing on the question of war-time rights at sea. With America’s historic views ‘the British Labor party has al- ways been in sympathy. During its late campaign for office, Mr. MacDonald ex- pressed his readiness to negotiate with the United States along such lines. But when Ambassador Dawes initiated the present naval discussions, the Brit- ish prime minister discovered, some- what to his consternation, that opinion on “freedom of the seas” is not the unanimous and fervid American senti~ ment which Great Britain supposed it 1 Mr. MacDonald learned that re nowadays “two schools of on the subject in the United Borah Heads Old School. One school is the old one, for which Senator Borah is now the Erlnclpll and ardent spokesman. It adheres to the theory that lhlpglllu rights of are sacred from intereference by bellig- erents. ‘The other school of thought is the one into which Mr. MacDonald is undoubtedly destined to/run if and when either he or the United States Government raises the guestion. What may be described as this modernistic school is .the one which holds that enactment of the Kellogg-Briand pact has produced an entirely new inter- national situation. Its cohception is that . the. signatory nations—especially NEW YORK PRIMARY SET FOR TOMORROW Municipal Officers Are to Be Nomi- nated—Four Oppose Mayor James J. Walker. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 16.—Candi- dates for ‘mayor* and’ other municipal offices will be nominated at a primary in New York City tomorrow. Mayor James J. Walker and Lis slate lof Tammany Democrats are unopposed for renomination. Among the four other candidates for mayorally nominations the only con- test is between Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia, fusion-Republican, and William M. Benett, Republican, who has made liquor his sole issue. Richard Enright, police commissioner e | | | o | country and other parts of President - Hoover today sent to the | Senate the nominations of- Clarence M. | | | ! naval nations—cannot consistently . be desire | ) i British Monarch Takes Up Litetary Diet to' Help Him!'® have had to consider the respon- | shortly. Mr. Gugnnl;dm Is 48 years qld and is & member of the Guggenheéim prominent in the mining- and ‘smelting industry in. this country. World War he was & Naval Air Corps and was lleutenant commander, has been promirently ayiation. The uu:unhe sponsored the Lindbergh United States, good-will Central and South Am Charles A. ‘harged as m m b‘;fl’oulh TO BE AMBASSADOR TO CUBA MAY BE DISGARDED sucess rs Are Chosen for: family | the | merce, to the Commerce in Charge of Aeronautics, to succeed Since then he | has resign fied with | New York, now' commercial atf ndation | the foreign service of the Department over the | Lindbergh and" has becn ment. to P g ARRY F, GUGGENHEIM. nautics of the Department of Com- to be Assistant Secretary of d William P. McCracken, who ed. and William L. of Commerce at London, to be director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domesii> Col. Commerce of the Commerce Depart Dr. Julius Klefn;, who ! otherwise active in nmnn\&ci in this | I8 nOW Assistant Secrétary of Com- ¢ world. | merce. Mr. Young was born in Iowa in 1889. He was; graduated from Drake Unive Young of Iowa, now director of sero< |~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) MDONALD COMING York, Buffalo and Canada Later. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September Minister MacDonald, according October 4 for conversations with Presi- dent Hoover, regarding the naval dis- _Armament problem. It was stated in well-informed quar- 16.—Prime | T5HURT, 4MISSING DIRECT T0 CAPITAL ~ IN SEWER BLASTS | Will Visit Philadelphia, New Stores' in Newburgh, N. Y., { Are Wrecked by EXplogions and Fires in Mains. | By the Associated Press. NEWBURGH, N. ably fatally, in & series of explosions | Water street here today. ‘Two men and two women, employes | at-the book store of Willlam S. Greene, | were missing an hour after the blaste ters this afternon that the prime min- |and firemen were searching the ruins of ister probably will spend several days | the building in the belief that they had at the Capital and will then go to | been burned in the wreckage. Philadelphia on October 7 to meet the doctors who attended him during his iliness there on his last visit to the United States. On Thursday, October 10, Mr. Mac- Donald will go to New York where he will remain until the morning of the fourteenth when he: will go to. Buffalo where, it is sald, he has-expressed- the to see the American side of: Ni- agara Falls. On the 15th he will cross to Toronto. where it is thought he may meet Pre- mier Mackensie King of Canada. On the . following night he will go to Ot- tawa and may remain with the Cani dian premier. for three days. ‘The_British prime minister later will g0 to Montreal and Quebec, from which port he will sail for home on the steam- ship ‘Duchess of York on October 25. ‘These plans call for three days more than .had .been intended. Four stores burst into flames immedi- ately ‘after the explosion. They were | those” of -the -Lawson Hardware Co., | Kresge's’5:and 10 cent store, Greene's book store ‘and thie Moe Myers ladies’ | turnishing store. > Fronts of buildings were blown out, -and the streets in the vicinity of the biast were strewn with wreckage. “'Today's explosion s believed to have originated -from the same cause that resulted in & similar explosion on Au- gust 24; 1928. ‘At that time an abnor- mally high tide in the Hudson River backed the water up in the sewer mains and gasoline fumes were ignited -by a spark. ‘Williani 8. Greene, proprietor of the book store that was destroyed, was re- moved to a hospital in a dying condi- in | tion. the" Parliament on October. 29, but - will be n, a tailor, was blown . Logen. Robinso through -the side of his shop and in- jured seriously. present the following Monday. DETECTIVE YARNS AND MYSTERIES HELP' KING GEORGE TO RECOVER “Regain'His Health. By the Associated Press. < ' LONDON, September 16.—King George under Mayor Hylan, entered the race | is fighting his way back to health on a for mayor as an independent on What | jjterary -diet of detective yarns ' and is called the square deal ticket. ‘The Socialist candidate for mayor Norman 1as. ‘The hottest primary fight is the con- test for nomination for borough presi- dent of Queens, where both Republicans and Democrats have several candidates. QGeorge U. Harvey, Repubiican, who was elected after his part in exposing & $6.000,000 sewer scandal, is seek ing | his Summer a rgnmh:uon. State hihnutar John ;‘. nunal.z 'l;m yi flx: " have three 1 News today reported the health of the British ‘monarch is extruordinarily re- assuring after his long siege of IM Iast Wintér. g z At Sandringham, estate in Norfolk, m:‘lflhl‘ counts spending 15 | thrilling mystery stories. The Daily| ! World War subjects still are being pur- ‘His whole existence at Sandringham is simaple, There are none of the great | house ies' which in former days Y life at his country seat. And wfim 'zanotlnflleltlnn }he I:E:I;'fllflhe o engage in [avorite pastme of shooting. = His physicians 1cel it would not do to make undue de- mands on:his majesty’s reserve strength and., he W prepare to, spend the inter x future ~ Winters quietly and | September 16— | to Fifteen persons were hurt, one prob- present plans, will go directly to Wn-lh~4 ington . after landing in New York on |and fires originating in a sewer in| “RED" CONSPIRACY CHARCES DROPPED INCARDLIACOUR iTextile Union Workers Win Opening Skirmish in Strike Flogging Case. MOB VIOLENCE HEARING RESUMED AT CHARLOTTE Seven Men Held for Slaying Wom- an at Gastonia—Mass Funeral Planned for Victim. By the Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N. C., September 16.— The charge of conspiracy to overthrow the State government preferred last Fri- day against eight textile union workers and Communists was nolle prossed when they appeared in City Recorder's Court today for preliminary hearing. J. Frank Floyers, one of the inter- national labor defense attorneys, and his associate, Tom P. Jimison, appeared in Recorder’s Court in behalf of the | eight men, but before they had an i opportunity to speak the case had been dismissed. “Just a subteriuge to hold these men and try to keep them from the meeting set for South Gastonia on Saturday,” Flowers said afterward in commenting on the proceedings. “It was plain that these charges wouldn't stick.” Mob Hearing Resumed. Two Loray mill employes took the witness stand today and gave testimony in an effort to establish an alibi for their night superintendent, C. A. Jolly, one of the 14 men arrested in Judge Thomas J. Shaw’'s inquiry into “anti- Communist” mob violence in three counties on the night of September 9. Judge Shaw's hearings were resumed today after a week end recess. The two witnesses, W. A. Walfer and E. E. Roberts, testified that thev saw Jolly several times during the night of | the mob activities. Walker said he saw the superintendent on three occasions, several hours apart, and Roberts said Jolly passed through the weaving de- ! partment of the mill in which he was employed at half-hour intervals on the night in question. Six other Loray mill employes took the witness stand in rapid succession and *substantiated the testimony of Walker and Roberts regarding Jolly's whereabouts. One of the six was & brother-in-law of Mrs. Perry Lodge, & | State’s witness and _the woman from | Whose home C. D. Sayler, C. i and Ben Wells were kidnaped and the | Iatter flogged by the mob. Plummer Stewart, attorney for the 14 men, indicated that he would continue + his practice of presenting testimony by i | 1] oF | several witnesses in_behalf of each of { his clients. An effort was made to | establish an alibi for C. M. Ferguson, | one of the accused men, at Saturday’s { hearing. Others Testify. have heard these men " Mr. dressing Judge Shaw, “we want to take the testimony of 2 more of the ¢ defendants, Horace Lane and Oscar Goodman, and 10 others wno know ;nbout their activities on the night of September 9." Lane was sworn and said he and Goodman started early in the night to |a schedulea speaking at the Pinckney imlll. but that their car broke down. | They were later deputized, he said, by |a Gaston County deputy sheriff to as- |sist in patrol duty at the Pinckney {plant, where “trouble was expected.” He aded that he armed himself with a pistol. Lane testified that he did not know | Lell or Wells. | “Were you acquainted with Saylor?” he was asked. “Yes, Saylor was working for me and I fired him when we found out he was trying to organize our help,” Lane re- plied. Lane is an overseer in the spinning rooms in the Myers mill. He declared that the expected “troti- ! ble” did not materialize, and that Mrs. Lodge's home was approximately three miles from the place where he was on duty. Slaying Brings Complication. The siaying of a woman active in strikers’ relief work during Saturday’s mob activities against Communists and labor organizers, with the subsequent arrest of seven men, has brought further complications to North Gastonia courts, which now have before them five trials and hearings growing out of violence in textile mill strikes. Officials and workers of the Com- munist party and the National Textile | Workers Union, who stated after the {mob flogging and kidnaping of some {of their members that they had heard threats against their livec from self- styled “anti-Communists,” have adopt- ed a policy of shifting from hotel to {hotel ~or elsewhere, keeping their whereabouts secret. Several attorneys active in the strike cases have moved from their homes to hotels, where they shift their rooms from night (o night. Mass Meeting Planned. Considerable attention was drawn to- day to the announcement that the in- | ternational labor defense would hold a mass funeral for Mrs. Ella May Wi gins, who was shot to death during the mob frenzy Saturday. Liston M. Oak of New York. pubicity director of the (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) ® —_— POLICEMEN ARE BLAMED IN AUTO CHASE DEATH Companion of Slain Man Says Of- ficers Failed to Identify Selves Before Shooting. y the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla.. September 16.—Edward Walker today told a coroner’s jury that police failed to identify themselves be- fore firing on his automobile and killi his companion, Bernard A. Davis of Hialeah, Fia., Saturday night. 4 ‘Walker was among the first witnesses called by the coroner investigaiing the, slaying that followed & chase from Miami to Hialeah by local policemen. W. D. Holloway, motor officer who fired the shot that killed Davis, and V. E. Hart, driver of the pursuing police car, have been suspended pending out- come of the hearing. ‘The officers said they had seen Davis come from a place suspected of selling liguor and that they ordered his car to halt. When the car failed to halt, the officers sald, they gave chase and fired twp shots at the tires of the fleeing ma-