Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forec Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature, Temperatures: Highest, 81, at 2:50 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 63, at 6:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. = The Ty et WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION n Star “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes @s fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 105,793 Entered as second class ma nost office. Washington, D. No. 31,196, tter G WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, SEP IMBER 28, 1929—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. *% &) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. Denver Man Is Killed For Using Fountain To Wash False Teeth DENVER, September 28 (#).— John Stoltz 67, is dead because H he chose to wash his false teeth | at a public drinking fountain on | a downtown street. James D. De Losier, 66. who saw him, became angered and struck Stoltz in the face, knocking him down and fracturing his skull. | | De Losier is held by police. ARREST SUSPECTED SLAYEROF LAWYER | AFTER LONG HUNT J. A. Wood, Missing 6 Weeks, “Startling Developments”” Are| Taken as He Applies for Hinted by Official—Mrs. Brown | Compensation Check. Gives Version of Her “Quarrel” DRIVER IDENTIFIES MAN HE SAYS WENT 10 PARK LANE ON NIGHT NURSE DIED Garnett M. Frye, Taxi Chauf-" feur, Goes Before Grand: Jury to Support Affidavit, Concerning Charges. REPORT EBE MADE SOMETIME MONDAY/ MDONALD BOARDS LINER FOR AMERICA: GETS BIG SEND-OFF Demonstrations Given Pre- mier at London and Again’ at Southampton. GOOD WISHES E_XPRESSED IN MESSAGE FROM KING Hopes to Be Able to Do Something to Narrow Atlantic, He Declares. BY HARRY HOUSTON ROMER, Associated Press Correspondent. S. S. BERENGARIA, September 28.— Ranisuy MacDonald, prime minister of Great Britain, sailed into the West from With Husband and Reported ““Screams.” The grand jury investigating the mysterious death of Mrs. Vir- ginia McPherson called a halt to- day in its questioning of witnesses | and prepared to make its repoit | Monday, after receiving last-min- | ute testimony reputedly of a most sensational natur The sensation was provided by | a surprise witness, | Garnett M. | Frye, youthful taxicab driver, who last night signed an affidavit iden- | tifying a man, already known to| police in the case, as a passenger | he drove to the Park Lane Apart»‘ ments late on the night Mrs. Me- | Pherson strangled to death there with a pajama cord Kknotted around her neck. Frye was closeted with the grand jurors for nearly an hour, this morning, and he is under- | stood to have repeated to them | startling statements made in a paper sworn to before Assistant! District Attornev Collins. The affidavit was introduced as evi- dence today. d shS(;(u‘il;t o wg:}:i“.gzm:: C‘}::_lp_:fl‘:{ | Southampton this morning on & mis- Joscel 68 yekrsold UATIDRtEn b County sion of peace and good will. His Ph)‘hi-‘ 'lm;v il Uity api b nld,‘ul destination is Washington. His ‘allvé#d to have shot Jn)‘t"! WR; arrested | 2:‘;‘;,“1‘:‘1:; “lhlhe'“‘cm'::'::‘:“g‘h‘ s i s 1 Ve e two sh- at the Veterans' Bureau this mnrr::ml | speaking peoples which fnrum lay the | when he called for & compensation | ro nqation for a really universal era of check. !peace and good will among all the na- Although admitting his name, Wood refused to answer any questions con- | cerning the shooting of the lawyer, who had obtained his release ' from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and then had let him have a room at his home in Claren- don. Wood said he would return volun- tarily to Arlington County. ! Wood. who is an ex-Army officer, | | came to the Veterans’ Bureau about | 10:30 o'clock this morning from Roan- oke, Va. where he had been staying at the Salvation Army. He was dressed in a chauffeur’s uniform. He was rec- ognized by a man who saw him come in the I street entrance. Detective 1. P. McInerney, assigned to the Vet- erans' Bureau, was summoned. Mc- Inerney walked up to Wood and in- quired if he could assist him. ‘Wood replied that he came for his check. The detective escorted him to his office, where he left him. telling him-that he would go for the check. Find Pistol in Pocket. Instead Mclnerney hurried toward the street, but found Policemen James P. Miller of the Trafic Bureau and W. T. Tafl of the third precinct before he reached the door. Miller and Taff placed Wood under arrest and took him to the third precinct, where he was lodged in a cell to await the tions of the earth. MacDonald’s barque is the palatial Berengaria, formerly the liner lmperl-‘ | tor, upon which the British messenger | |of peace occupies the imperial suite i originally intended for the use of the | | war lord who is in exile at Doorn. The prime minister, his daughter and his official party spent restful hours | aboard the liner after being the center | of farewell demonstrations in London and again in Southampton. “I am off in the hope of being able | to do something to narrow the Atlantic,” | Mr. MacDonald sald. Great Day in London. It was a great day in London, where rrivals and departures of notable mis- | slons and royal envoys are not unusual. | ! But rarely has the departure of a Brit | ish statesman on a mission abroad ever | attracted such widespread attention or | evoked such universal approbation as | the journay of this Scots Labor leader, whose rise from obscurity to the most | powerful political post in the empire is | [one of the romances of modern Eng- land. Shortly after 10 p.m. last night the | busy program of the day ended as the special train bringing the prime min- ! | ister and his party rolled into South- | THIS 1S-ALL £ Clocks Go Back Tonight for End Of Daylight Saving By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 28.— The daylight saving time, which has been in effect during the Summer in this and hundreds of other cities in the country, will end at 2 a.m. tomorrow with a return to standard time. Under daylight saving timepieces have been an hour fast since April 28, Most persons will set their clocks an hour back as they go to bed. WATER BIG ISSUE IN CONSERVATION KEY WEST REPORTS WIND OF G0 MILES; CENTER OF STORM SOUTH OF MIAMI Expected to Pass Midway Between Island and Main- land; Matacumbe Message Tells of Velocity of 90. i f | | Secretary Wilbur Finds Old HURRICANE TAKES TOLL Covered-Wagon Region | OF 20 LIVES AT NASSAU Awake to Progress. | e West Coast Warnings Ordered From Tampa Southward—Storm Un- abated After Raging All Night BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. “Economy as & watchword for the| country seems to have served its pri-| N NATS BEAT YANKS, 5704, IN1ST GANE Myer Knocks Home Run With Two On in Fifth to Take Decisive Lead. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ‘Washington defeated the Yankees in the first game of the double-header here this afternoon. ‘The score was 6 to 4. FIRST INNING. NEW YORK—Combs flied to Goslin. Cronin threw out Lary. Ruth singled sharply to right. Gehrig forced Ruth, Myer to Cronin. No runs. WASHINGTON—Judge walked. Du- rocher got Rice’s low liner and doubled Judge off first. Sherrid tossed out Gos- ‘U. S BEAUTY DISAPPEARS | Mrs. May France, London Husband | Fears, Victim of Tragedy. | BRIGHTON, England, September 28 ().—Mystery surrounds the disappear- jance of Mrs. May France, beautiful American wife of Ernest France, an | antique dealer, after her return to Eng- land from America recently. | “She landed at_ Liverpool from the liner Scythia on September 6, bringing with her more than $5.000 worth of jewelry and money. Since then noth- ing has been heard of her and there are no clues to her whereabouts. In the United States she visited her parents in South Richmond, Va. “I'm afraid something_terrible has ‘n)ndpwned to her,” her husband said ay. HOOVER APPROVE PARTAL BUDGET | FLENBLE TARKF VOTEDUE TUESDAY Ballot by 4 0’Clock to Be | Sought by G. 0. P. Leaders, in Senate. A vote by 4 pm. Tuesday on reten- tion of the flexible principle in the pend- | ing tariff bill will be sought by Senate | Republican leaders. Chairman Smoot of the finance com- mittee said it was present intentions |to carry out this plan if all absentees could be rounded up by that time. | " The prospect of a vote on the flexible | issue made today’s recess merely an op- | portunity for leaders of the contending | sides to work harder than ever to line | up their forces. mary purpose. The people have set their | eyes in the direction of constructive| progress. They demand an economic status that would have been luxury to| a king of a hundred years ago.” Such is the impression gained by Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the | Interior, who has ' just returned to Washington after practically an all- Summer survey of the transmississippi | country. He spent his time studying at {close range the vast variety of probiems | which lie* within the sphere of the In- | terior Department. All and sundry connected with_oil conservation, the public domains, Indian reservations, na- | tional parks, reclamation and irrigation ! !engaged his attention. Secretary Wil- |bur declares water is the overwhelm- | at Miami—Train Marooned at Homestead. MIAMI, Fla., September 28 P.—The hurricane will move across the straits north of Key West, R. W. Gray, Miami weather man, said at 10:45 a.m. Mr. Gray said gale winds would continue here for two more hours, after which there would be an abatement at Miami. By the Associated Press KEY WEST, Fla, September ingly_outs s | i . | e paaistanding question confronting| 23 __whipped by a wind that in- He found it responsive t | “forward-looking progressive measures for the common good” and ready to practice “communal living and think- | ing” in a spirit of “rigid co-operation | and fair play.” Building Spirit Omnipresent. } “You cannot help but be struck,” said | | Secretary Wilbur in a special interview ! with this writer, “by what may be called | the ‘building spirit’ now omnipresent | throughout ~ the old covered-wagon | country. It is. of course, nothing else | than the traditional American pioneer- | | bent finding new expression. To no| | other problem is the constructive spirit | { being applied with more determination ' {than to the West's water necessities i There has been a good deal of con- | servation. The real conservation prob- |lem of the West is the conservation of | water. Plant life demands water. We creased from 40 to 60 miles an hour between 8:30 and 9:30 o'clock this morning, a heavy sea was breaking over the sea wall here, endangering small craft anchored close to shore and flooding the lower end of the streets running to the waterfront. The Govern- ment barometer reading at 3 o'¢tlock was 29.42. ‘The wind was reported as shift- ing slowly from north to west. lindicating that the storm center would pass approximately mid- way between here and the main- land. The center of the disturb- | ‘After four @ays of debate, enlivened | must have plants suitable for our own | with vigorous attacks by Democrats ana | Uses or we can have no civilization. Republican independents upon the ad- | From Nebracka west, water and water | ministration’s proposal to continue the | alone is the key to our future. We need ampton. Almost immediately the travel- jers came aboard the liner, and soon | - NO runs. SECOND INNING. | sought their cabins after a gratifying | but trying day. All day long at No. 10| NEW YORK—Durst took a third| The jury also questioned Ed- | arrival of Arlington County authorities. ward Dyer, Frye's employer, and | The policemen found a 32-caliber Mrs. William Brown, occupant of , automatic pistol of foreign make in ance at 9 o'clock was placed by H. B. Boyer, Government mete- 1$656,571,234 Allowed for, afifiapartment: in ithe Tbmbardy, | Wooaswprate pocket. THIHe R Was just across the areaway from the Wit | otined today of Wood's ar- McPherson apartment. Mrs. BrOWD | rest, Commonwealth Attorney William €grrtoboratcs previous testimony 'g. Glmhv‘vmn::ed{lat:ly hsdm’d .dwa".n'; at a woman’s screams WerC |charging Wood with murder and turne heard between 2 and 3 o'clock the |it over to County Policeman Raymond Downing street_the pri) m T " (Continued on Page 2 | night of the tragedy. Crack and.- Deputy Sheriff Archie After summoning ne#fspaper men to whom Frye first made his disclosures | the grand jury decided it would not | need their testimony and indicated that no more witnesses would be questioned unless there were further developments. ‘The jury must hand down its report some ‘time Monday, as its term expires automatically Monday night, | Tells of Passenger. The affidavit by Frye alleges he took the man in his cab at Fifteenth and New York avenue after midnight and carried him to an alleyway between the rear of the Park Lane and the Westend Market. _The man_alighted, pai (Contin 'age 2, Column 17 CONVICTS ESCAPE. Texas Prison Farm Inmates Dig Tunnel 75 Feet; Hounds Trail. HUNTSVILLE, Tex., September 28 (P).—Seventeen convicts at the Wynne State prison farm for tuberculars near here, escaped last night, Warden G. F. Hanell reported today. The men dug out through the kitchen | floor 6 feet into the ground and tunneled 75 feet to the surface behind a building outside the confines, and, out of sight of the guards. Fifty men, every guard and prison official . available in this section, fol- | lowed a pack of ploodhounds today on the trail of the escaped convicts. ADM. ROBERTSON ILL. 11th District Commandant Is Con- fined in San Diego Hospital. SAN DIEGO. Calif., September 28 (®)—Rear Admiral Ashley H. Robert- son, commandant of the eleventh anval district, is seriously ill at the local naval | hospital. Admiral Robertson was successfully | operated on recently, but complications subsequently developed. Richards for service. Return Wood to Arlington. Crack and. Richards, accompanied by | E. Bruce Green, Gloth's associate, went ; to the third precinct shortly before noon to return Wood to Arlington County. | An effort will be made to talk with him as soon as he is safely lodged in | the Arlington County jail. Because of the fact that Wood was formerly an inmate of £t Elizabeth’ Hospital, it was considered doubtful whether he would ever be tried on the murder charge, even if he confesses to the shooting. Authorities consider it | probable that he will be examined by | a sanity commission, and found to be insane, returned to St. Elizabeth's Hos- pital, from which he is now said to be on parole. BANDITS GET PAY ROLL. | Dash Into New Orleans Office and Escape With $8,500. NEW ORLEANS, La. September 28| (®).—Three hooded raincoat bandits | with pistols and sawed-off shotguns today dashed into the Todd Shipbuild- ing Co., Howard avenue and Fulton street, and robbed the paymaster of the weekly pay roll, amounting to $8,500. The robbery was carried out so quietly that a score of workers in the office | section hardly knew that the bandits | had jammed a gun into the side of Raymond Kirkpatrick, the paymaster, until the trio had made their exit. Getting the money, the robbers es- caped in a stolen automobile. Fare Jumps Taxi on Long Ride. ROCHESTER, N. Y., September 28 (A).—W. J. Ewen, Detroit taxi driver, is disillusioned. It looked like velvet when a fare in Detroit ordered him to drive to New York. The fare jumped the cab in Yonkers, near the largest city in the country. Ewen, doublin, back home on his 700-mile trip, stoppe: here to wire for money. HOOVER’S OWN PICTURE GALLERY MAY GIVE MACDONALD CHUCKLE Naval Conversations Expected to Take Place President’s Study. By the Associated Press. Full masculine prerogatives at the ‘White House will mean for Prime Min- ister Ramsay MacDonald a glimpse of President Hoover's own, very individual art gallery. Reflecting a very hvman side of Her- bert Hoover, the little gallery, a very recent growth, is fast gaining fame in high official circles. It gives a whim- sical flavor ‘o that mellow after-dinner moment while the men have their cigars in the President’s study. The same quiet humor which prompted the President to make his speech on how humble a man must be in the eyes of a fish also prompted the picture gallery. It covers the walls of a small room adjbining the study, and | 1, d oll portraits, | consists of pencil, pen an: POt the | will be the scene of many of the Presi- sepia studies, and etchings of U President as conceived by widely scat- tered artists, mostly amateur. Posed for None of Group. All have arrived at the White House as gifts since Mr. Hoover took office in March. None was posed for, and sev- eral apparently had none too lifelike photographs as inspirztion. Several, done with Impressionistic flourish and little attempt at likeness, are excellent. o ‘| old-fashioned medallion, Appreciating the work that went into them, and the spirit in which they were sent, President Hoover accords equal honor to all. It is not a gallery where ; .;lurn Judge decides before a picture ung. The largest canvas, from South America, depicts a full-length President standing behind four conventional flower pots, equally spaced along the front foreground. ‘The smallest is an framed in woven raffia, red, white and blue. As Others Ses Him. The President walks into his gallery and chuckles to see himself as others see him. The gallery may thus become his Winter-time substitute for Rapidan fishing, which gave him opportunity to see himself as he must appear in the eve of fishes. He tells his-guests it is his “one-man show.” B It is probable the President’s study dent’s conversations with Mr. MacDon- ald. If so, the adjacent gallery may afford & few light moments in a very serious talk. . Announcement of a formal dinner the night of the T7th is taken to indicate that the men will, as usual, have their cigars in the study, with the picture gallery providi that after- dinner chuckle prescril for good digestion, in; FIRE COUPAAY 2 NS STARTROPHY No. 5 Truck Also Fastest in ! Its Division in Annual | Speed Tests. ! Supreme in their respective classes, | No. 21 Engine Company and No. 5 Truck Company were adjudged the win- | ners today of the annual speed tests of the District Fire Department. Its record of 645 seconds, made yes- terday, untouched by 14 other com- panies competing early today in the | concluding tests, No. 21 company comes | into permanent possession of The Eve- ning Star Cup by reason of previous victories in 1926 and 1927. Although several other companies gave it a close call, No. 21 came within two-fifths of a second of equaling its 1926 record of | clearing quarters on a fire alarm in 6 seconds flat, the greatest burst of speed ever shown by a District englne com- pany during the five years of the of- ficial tests. Wins Merchants’ Cup. In establishing a time of 72-5 sec- onds also yesterday No. 5 Truck is the winner of the cup awarded annually to the fastest truck company by the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Associ- ation. This snappy outfit from George- town crushed the hopes of Truck No. 14, winner in the two preceding years. | Offcial confirmation of the records set in this year's tests will be forwarded to Chief Engineer Watson by the com- mittee, of which Chief Engineer Thomas O'Connor, drillmaster of the Fire De- partment, was chairman. Today's sharpest competition was turnished by Engine Companies No. 14, No. 2 and No. 4, the latter a colored company. . They tied in the fast speed of 7 seconds flat. Although it had little hope of win- ning, the steady fire tug cleared the mark at the stroke of the gong 23 2-5 seconds. Considering the climb that Pilot J. B. Raleigh had to make into the pilot house and the difficulties of starting, this time was considered nearly a record. Makes Perfect Start. No. 14 Engine crew dashed clear across Eighth street in is effort to set a new record. Except for a slight skipping motor, it is believed the com- pany would have succeeded. Lieut. H. Buhler was in command. Driver F. Litteral, and W. P. Bateman at the crank, performed an excellent job in getting under way. No. 2 engine, Twelfth street between G and H streefs, got away to a perfect start. Sergt. N. S. Bradford was in charge of the crew. The driver, J. H Hennig, pressed his foet on the self- starter and the engine roared imme- diate response. These two companies easily demonstrated their superiority in the speed tests involving half a dozen companies today, Truck Company Leads. While tests conducted yesterday aft- ernoon at 14 engine and truck houses failed to smash any of the records made earlier in the day, No. 11 Truck Company came very near doing it. It showed the greatest speed of the after- noon, 73-5 seconds, just a fifth of a second behind No. 5 in Georgetown. In a number of cases in the afternoon, when the men had done their utmost, the motors fafled, with a result that an otherwise good job was spoiled. Among the engine companies No. and No. 22 were the stellar performers " (Continued oa Page 2, Column 2.) strike. Koenig doubled to right center. | Dickey took a third strike. Cronin threw out Durocher. No runs. | WASHINGTON—Koenig threw out | Myer. Koenig went back for West's | looper. Lary threw out Tate. No runs. THIRD INNING. | flexible principle in effect with little change, the issue appeared so closely drawn that leaders of each group, while claiming a majority, predicted a very | close vote. Both Sides Confident. Senator Simmons of North Carolina, Executive and Independent Functions in 1931. ‘The first 1931 budget figures to be | the mouém‘;mskand the hills and a great | orologist, as 95 miles east north- | protected_back country, or we cannot! .. . | Rave summclent water for our valleys, | st of Key West and 80 miles due |We must replace homestead-thinking south of Miami. | with watershed-thinking. since water-| Unofficial reports received here by sheds are primary to Western homes. the Pan-American Airways said an esti- | We ean no longer afford to think only | mated wind of 90 miles an hour was lin terms of immediate uses and selfish | sweeping across Matacumbe Key, 80 | revealed show estimates of $656,571,234 | ranking Democrat of the finance com- ' interests. There must be a great West- miles northeast of here. The report NEW YORK-—-Jones tossed out Sher-| for expenses of the executive and in- | mittee and leader of his party's attack | ern strategy for the protection of our| did not state whether there had been on the Republican proposal, expressed | watersheds and the plant life on them. |any damage to the fishing camps located rid. Coombs singled to center. Lary doubled down the right-field Coombs stopping at third. Ruth singled to right, scoring Coombs; Lary trying | dependent establishments of the Fed- | by President Hoover. | “In announcing these partial estimates | before the week end recess was taken, | but Chairman Smoot, leading the ad- to score from second was out at thelate vesterday the White House called | ministration forces, preferred to have plate, Rice to Judge to Tate. singled to center, sending Ruth to third. Gehrig overran first and was retired, | West to Cronin to Judge. One run. WASHINGTON—Cronin walked. Lary made a fine one-handed pick-up of Hayes' grounder and threw him out, Cronin taking second. Jones walked. Durocher picked up Judge's grounder and threw wildly to second trying to force out Jones. Cronin scored and | Jones stopped at second. Rfce grounded | to Gehrig. both runners advancing. Coombs came in for Goslin’s high one. | | One run. FOURTH INNING. NEW YORK—Durst flied to Goslin. | Koenig walked. Dickey forced Koenig, Cronin to Myer. Durocher singled past | Hayes to left, sending Dickey to second. Sherrid walked, filling the bases. Coombs singled to center, scoring Dickey and Durocher, while Sherrid stopped at second. Lary forced Coombs, Cronini to Myer. Two runs. WASHINGTON—Durocher threw out | yer. He glso threw out West. Tate M filed to Durst. No runs. FIFTH INNING. NEW YORK—West got Ruth’s hoist in deep center. Gehrig popped to Cronin. Cronin threw out Durst. No runs WASHINGTON—Cronin lined a single | over Lary's head for the first hit off Sherrid. = Hayes grounded to Gehrig, Cronin going to second. Jones singled to left, scoring Cronin. Judge singled to center, sending Jones to third. Rice singled to right, scoring Jones with the tying run and sending Judge to second. Ruth came in for Goslin's hoist. Myer hit a home run to the angle back of right_center, scoring Judge and Rice shead, and putting the Nats in front. Heimach, a lefthander, relieved Sherrid for New York. Koenig threw out West. Five runs. SIXTH INNING. NEW YORK—Koenig took a third strike. Dickey popped to Cronin back of second. Durocher flied to Goslin. No runs. WASHINGTON—Spencer batted for Tate and Koenig threw him out. Cronin singled to center. Cronin tried to steal, but was turned back by Dickey's throw and was retired, Dickey to Du- rocher to Gehrig. Hayes fled to Coombs. No runs, SEVENTH INNING. NEW YORK—The crowd has now grown to 10,000. Spencer now catching for Washington. Jones out Helmach. Combs walked. got a single with a bounder that Jones knocked down, Combs stopping at sec- ond. Ruth singled to right, scoring Combs and sending Lary to third. Geh- rig fanned. Cronin got Durst’s liner with one hand. One run. ‘WASHINGTON—Jones double to cen- ter. Judge dropped a single in short left, sending Jones to third. Rice was hit by a pitched ball, filling the bases, Goslin’s looper aws dropped by Koenig. Jones tried to score, but was forced at the plate, Koenig to Durocher (o Dickey, and Rice, trying to go to second, was out, Dickey to Durocher. Goslin was caught stealing, Dickey to Durocher. No runs. EIGHTH INNING. NEW YORK—Myer-threw out Koenig. Cronin threw out' Dickey. Cronin also threw out Durocher. ' No runs. WASHINGTON—Myer popped to Koenig. Koenlg threw out West. Heimach threw out Spencer. No runs. NINTH INNING. NEW YORK—Paschal batted for Heimach and grounded to. Judge. 26 | Cronin pulled down Combs’ high bound- er and threw him -out. Lary flied to ‘West.. No runs, 5 represents a decrease of less than $1.000,000 from the appropriations for | the current fiscal year ending June |30 next. No Farm Estimate. The total does not include any esti- mate for the Federal Farm Board, for which $151,500,000 was included in the | current appropriations and _which brought the total expenditures for the current year to $808.689.123. explained by the President that the Budget Bureau did not include an esti- mate for the Federal Farm Board for next _year because the board has been it will need to operate. The largest item in the estimates for | next year is $606,225,000 for the United able for the current year. Executive Office Slash.. The amount estimated for the execu- tive office is $402,320, compared with | $611,944 for the present year. This re- duction, however. is brought about by several special items, such as the re- building of the interior of the execu- tive office, $43,000 for remodeling of Mount Weather, to be used as a rural retreat for Presiderts, and $5.000 for the purchase of an oil portrait of Calvin Coolidge. - THREE ARE ACQUITTED IN MINE MURDER TRIAL Former Coal and Iron Policemen Were Accused of Beating Borkowski to Death. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Sepember 28.—Three former coal and iron policemen today were acquitted of a charge of murder in connection with the death of John Borkowski, a miner. The death of Borkowski last Febru- ary, which the prosecution claimed re- sulted from a beating given him by the officers at the private police bar- racks at Imperial, brought about wide- spread protests against the private police system that had their echoes in the State Legislature. A measure was intro- duced in the Legislature to abolish the private police, but the move was not successful. ‘The defense contended Borkowski was beaten by one of the defendants, Harold Watts, in selt-defense. The other offi- cers, Walter Lyster and Frank Slapikis, had no part in the beating of the miner, the defense asserted. charges of involuntary manslaughter, and the defendants were taken back to jail pending arrangements for ball. LADY MURRAY IS SLAIN. to Have Been Shot Accidentally. INVERNESS, Scotland, September 28 (#)—Lady Murray, widow of the first Baron Murray of Elibank, was found It was unable to determine how much money | States Veterans' Bureau, which is about | $8.000,000 more than the amount avail- The prosecution refused to quash | Scottish Baron's Widow Believed | Gehrig | attention to the fact that this total it go over. Countering Simmons’ dispiay, of con- fidence in the result, Smoot said he | believed at least six Democrats would vote with the Republican regulars for | the amendment he sponsors, under | which the President would continue, as | he desires, to hold authority to raise | or lower tariff rates as much as 50 | Tariff Commission. | * ‘Whether the Smoot proposal will be given priority in the voting was not | clear today. Simmons, who had an | amendment looking to repeal of the | flexible provision of the existing law | pencing. " has introduced a_substitute with @ view to having it brought to I a vote first. His substitute amendment would take away the President's power to change rates and authorize him merely to transmit recommendations of the Tariff Commission to Congress. some of the Republican regulars gt- tach to the outcome of the issue. mean- | while, has been given by Senator Sack- ett of Kentucky. Saying he would rather see the rates of the present law continued than have a new law en- policy, he predicted: | 7“5’ goes the flexible provision, so | goes the bil ; Norris’ Contention. His objection that the Simmons sub- stitute proposal, if adopted, would open up the whole tariff question every time 1 rate change was recommended to Con- gress by the Tariff Commission was countered with a suggestion by Senator | Norris, Republican, Nebraska, that the could be introduced under such circum- stances unless they bore directly on the rate or rates under consideration, The Norris suggestion made a favor- able impression on Senator Gillett, Re- publican, Massachusetts, who had been arguing in favor of the Smoot proposal on the ground that “some machinery is necessary to correct inequalities in- herent in every tariff law,” a point stre in President Hoover's statement on_the subject. Support of the flexible principle by Gairying interests, which the President cited as having obtained valuable re- lief under its operation, has been called to the attention of Senators, meanwhile, )y A. M. Loomis, Washington repre- sentative of the American Dairy Feder- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) per cent upon recommendation of the An idea of the significance which | acted without continuing the flexible | law be made to stipulate no amendments | | some of it may seem to be.” i Importance of Water. | 1t is because of water’s paramount importance to the West that Secretary | Wilbur approves of the public land pol- | licy advocated by Presicont Hoover. A | commission is to consic~r a plan where- | by there will be transferred to those States willing to accept the responsi- ! bility control of the surface rights of all | | public lands not included in national parks or monuments or in the national “These States of the Wes says Secretary Wilbur, “are water-con- | scious, They can more readily build up thcse- wise water conservation measures upon which their very life depends than can the distant Washington Govern- | ment. It would be fair, too, for the cit- izens of Western States to have the [ privileges already in possession of those of the East. With sound State polic based on factual thinking, it may event. ually develop that it is wiser for the | | States to control even the present na- ional forests. Such a policy will need to be worked out so as to hold the ofl, coal and mineral rights of public lands. subject to some form of proper Federal prospecting law. with developm a ntinued on Page 2, Column 6.) LOS ANGELES POLICE GRAFT QUIZ STIRRED Returned New Indictments in ! County Grand Jury's ‘“Protec- tion” Probe. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 28—In- ! vestigation of charges of corruption and | bribe-taking by Los Angeles policemen | was stirred up yesterday after the re- turn of additional indictments by the county grand jury. The jury yesterday returned indict- ments againsz M. B. Sheffield and A.! T. Lanahan, colored police lieutenants. | They were accused of taking protection | money from_ bootleggers. The grand jury also returned addi- | tional indictments against W. E. Evans, M. H. Ledbetter, H. M. Hill, O. L. Peter- | son and L. F. Sale, vice squad_police- | men, who previously had been indicted | for bribe-taking. W. B. Westman, con- | fessed bootlegger, told the grand jury he had paid protection money to offi- cers for six years. | east coast line, | eral Government have been approved |a willingness to have the roll called | nowever undesirable and unimportant on the key. Shortly after the receipt of the mes- sege from Matacumbe Key, telephone communication between Key West and the mainland was cut off at No Name Key, 40 miles south of Matacumbe. All telegraph lines were out with the excep- tion of the cables from here to Havana, Miami and Punta Rassa. HURRICANE WARNINGS RENEWED. Storm Is Unabated After Raging All Night in Miami. MIAMI, ' Fla., September 28 (#).— Southeastern Florida today renewed its vigil against approach of a furious West Indian hurricane in the face of renewed hurricane warnings from the United States Weather Bureau at Wash- ington, extending from Miami to Key West. The westward movement of the storm brought for the first time since its approach was indicated the direction of northeast warnings on the west coast of the State, from Key West to Tampa. The threat of the storm, which thrust its fury upon Nassau during a 48-hour period to exact a toll of at leats 20 lives and unestimated property damage was felt in winds of gale force and moderate gale force along the lower from West Palm Beach south. With Key West cut off from tele- phonic communication in the face of murky weather and a 7:30 o'clock read- ng of 29.49, accompanied by winds of moderate gale force, United States Weather Forecaster H. B. Bover pre- dicted an increase in wind velocity up to hurricane force there unless the ¢is- turbance changes its direction within | the next few hours. Richard W. Gray, United States mete- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) MAN RACERS TAKE LEAD. PHILADELPHIA. September 28 (A). —Speeding up their slow pace of the past two days, the men swung into the icad in the six-day endurance race be- tween man and beast at the arena here today. As the contest entered the 103d hour, the team composed of Joie Ray, Chi- cago, and Johnny Salo, Passaic, N. J.. led the horses by almost 6 miles with a score of 440 miles and 2 laps. The score of the leading horses, Red- Jrood and Fleetwood, was 434 miles 9 aps. {SAAR PARLEY TO OPEN IN PARIS OCTOBER 17 | Return of Mines to Germany or Economic Collaboration to { Be Determined. 1 By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 28.—Formal ne- gotiations between France and Ger- many over the future of the Saar Basin and its important coal mines will begin Paris on October 17. The discussions, which are expected to be long and intricate, will seek to determine whether the mines which are now held by France shall be re- turned to Germany at the valuation collaboration can be worked out be- price or whether some sort of economic | While Government workers today were bidding good-by to the last Sat- urday half holiday for this year, Luther Steward, president of the Na- | tional Federation of Federal Employes, | came forward with the promise that his | ©' organization will make a determined effort at the next session of Congress GOVERNMENT WORKERS TO ASK YEAR-’ROUND HALF HOLIDAYS Today Marks End of Short Saturdays, Granted Employes During Summer. President Steward today, “will only be following the trend in' industry and business and we expect to see & bill | introduced early in the regular session to bring the Government into line with the progressive movement in the world f affairs.” The Saturday half holiday was estab- lished several years ago as a three- month proposition, but about two years dead with a gunshot wound in her head | tween the two countries so that the on a hillside near her home at Easdale, | products of the basin shall be available ATE3ay Mirray had been in the hanit | B0t t00d ly lurray n in to be of frightening off & herd of goats WhICh | askieg Tae mmaacaiate. yeturn of the i sometimes strayed into her garden, and| mines, while the French take the posi- in doing so traversed a treacherous and | tion that unless collaboration can be slippery path, It i belleved that she | worked out. the interests of France shot herself accidentally. demand that the status quo remain n o until a plebiscite, which is scheduled Radio Programs—Page 38| I, 1935 under the treaty of Versaille e he half holiday all the year 880 President Coolidge extended it so ‘:' the v © YEAT a5 to run through the entire Summer round. | from the first of June to the last of Backed by a resolution passed unani- September. It formerly extended from mously by the federation at ils bi- | the middle of June to the middle of ennial convention at Sault Ste. Marie, | September. Mich,, this, month, the national omcersl Government workers planned to take here are determined to push their cam- | full advantage of the last half holiday paign for legislation to accomplish the | today and there was an early exodus from the city to the Capital's play- grounds at nearby golf courses, beaches and mountain resorts. - grant the short Saturday all year to Government workers,” said