Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1929, Page 1

Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, slightly warmer today: to- morrow falr and warmer. Temperatures—Highest, 61 at 3 p.m. vesterday; lowest, 41 at 6 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page 13. he S WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Tar. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The 8f exclusive carrler service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. ) Means Associated Press. No. 1,281—No. Entered_as second class matter post office Washington. D. C. WASHINGTON, ,D. €., SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, 1929—-146 PAGES. 31,204. IPREMIER AND MACDONALD GOES 10 HOOVER'S LODGE IN'VIRGINIA HILLS FOR U!IEI_PARLEY! I Will Discuss Before Camp-' Fires Such Anglo-American Questions as They See Fit! During Two-Day Stay. Sitting Room of {and J. Ramsay MacDonald prime minisf history of the world. the President’s cabin at the far end of CHAT BESIDE OPEN FIRE Statesmen Are Left Alone in Private at Rapidan Camp. BY J. RUSSELL YOUN S.aff Correspondent. of The Siar. PRESIDENT HOOVFR'S CAMP, Blue Ridge Mountains, Va., October 5.— { In this remote spot, nestled upon the slopes of Fork Mountain, President Hoover | a series of conferences which are expected to leave their imprint upon the future With their big easy chairs very close together and at a comfortable distance | from the blazing log fire in the huge stone fireplace in the large living room of leading world powers began their conversations shortly after dinner. PRESIDENT Chief Executive G, ter of Great Britain, have entered upon his picturesque camp, the heads of the There was SIKTEENTH STREET Property Owners Surrounded ZONING FIGHT MAY 6 INTO COURT by Business See Impossibil- | ity of Residential Status. COMMISSION RIGHT WOULD BE TESTED i | as “rpnt [ .m‘ [T INTERNATIONAL PEACE ‘ EXPECTED TO BE TOPIC: Miss Ishbel Macdonald and Mrs.i Hoover, With Few Guests, Make Up Party in Mountain Retreat. Prime Minister Puts in Busy Day‘ Prior to Country Trip. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Hoover and J. Ram- £ay Macdonald, prime minister of Great Britain, will have full op-! portunity to discuss today such| Anglo-American questions as they | see fit, entirely undisturbed and| in the solitary hills about the| President’s fishing camp in the| Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The setting for these important| conferences has not been dupli- | cated in history. In the face of the cloudy weather, the President's party left the White House yesterday after- noon soon after 2:30 o'clock, in automobiles, to drive to the camp on the Rapidan, where the Presi- dent has spent his week ends all during the Summer. In the party are President and Mrs. Hoover, Mr. Macdonald and Miss Ishbel Macdonald, his daughter; Secre- tary Stimson of the State Depart- ment, Sir Robert Van Sittart, the private sccretary of Mr. Mac- donald and an undersecretary of state fer foreign afiairs; R. L. Craigie, chief of the American division of the British foreign office; Lawrence Richey, one of the President's secreta. 5 Joel T. Boone, U. S. N., the physi- cian to the President, and Miss Anne Shankey, one of Mr Hoover's stenographers. Talk Before Campfire. The week end trip to the rugged hills of the Blue Ridge, bringing together in most intimate personal relation the ex- ecutive heads of "the American and British gove*nments, is unique. In the twinkling of an eye, almost, the formal- ity of capitals has been dispensed with | and these two men. upon whom rests the responsibility of government of the two great English-speaking nations, have been set down.in an atmosphere as far removed from that of courts and ‘White Houses as the North from th South Pole. They began their conver- sations over international affairs about the campfire last night and will con- tinue them today under the open sky with the mountains in their Autumn garb all about them. It is expected that the party will remain at the Pres- ident’s camp tonight also and will r um o Washington tomorrow morn. ng. The President and Mr. Macdonald | occupied one of the White House cars | when the party left Washington. With | more than a three-hour trip ahead of | them, it was apparent that they would have ample opportunity to break the | ground for the conferences to come. i Attend Scout Driil. Tt was 6:15 o'clock last night when | the President and Mr. Macdonald ar- | rived at the camp. and it was an hour | later when Mrs. Hoover and Miss Mac- | donald poined them there, Mrs. Hoover | and the prime minister’s daughter did | not leave the White House, however, | *until about an hour after the President had gone. They remained until after | an exhibition by the Girl Scouts had | been completed, and then drove out of the south gate of the White House | grounds. | The weather was cold last night in | camp—as cold almost es London in | Midwinter. The distinguished campers . were warmed by roaring open fires in | the cottages and in the central dining | hall, where they all dined together at | 8 o'clock. Dinner clothes were not in | order, and the President and Mr. Mac- donald were clad in warm woolen suits | of dark blue. Mr. Macdonald had the embassy inquire whether he should take his dinner ccat with him before he joined the President yesterday after- noon. He was informed, however, that the President never wore a dinner coat | when at the camp. i Guests Are Scattered. The President and Mrs. Hoover are occupying their usual cottage, the larg- of the sleeping quarters, with big living room. It was in the latter that| the entire party assembled after din-| ner. Mr. Macdonald has a two-room | and bath cottage across the pathway from that of the President, and Miss Macdonald has a similar cottage im- mediately back of that of her father, and the Secretary of State is occupying a two-room cottage back of the Presi- dent’s. The rest of the guests are scat- tered about in the other cottages and tents. The country is rough and rugged. It may remind Mr. Macdonald of some of his own Scottish hill country. The little streams which wind through the camp are fuller than they have been in weeks, due to recent rains. The probabilities are that the Presi- dent and Mr. Macdonald will take a long walk_today up one of these streams. They could not find a more quiet or a more secluded spot in which to talk together confidentially. Guarded by Marines, The camp is guarded by United States Marines, who have been on duty there all Summer. It would be impos- sible for any one to get within hailing distance of the President and the prime minister without permission. The conversations of the President and Mr. Macdonald will never, in all probability, be revealed. But it is ex- pected that before Mr. Macdonald Jeaves Washington some statement em- bodying the results of these informal conferences will be issued by the Presi- dent and by the prime minister. It is within the bounds of possibility there will be a joint statement. Much is expected from the meeting of the two heads of their respective governments rnd_an_announcement of what has (Continued on Page 5, Column 6.) | quiet and seclusion, the only sounds other than the voices being the crackling of the fire, the light beating of raln drops upon the windows apd the sound of waters outside rushing over rocks. It was a cozy scene and an ideal occasion for just such a confab. The others in this historic week end party were enjoying themselves in a nearby cabin, although for a time Henry i L. Stimson, Secretary of State, sat in President's personal physician. on the conversation between the Presi-| The President and Mr. MacDonald dent and Mr. MacDonald. The only |had an opportunity for all sorts of other members of the party are Mrs. | conversation during the nearly four- Hoover, Ishbel MacDonald, the prime | hour automobile ride from Washington | minister's attractive 26-year-old daugh- | to his mountain retreat, but it is un- ter: R. L. Craig, head of the American | derstood that it was not until tonight section of the British foreign office; that they actually touched upon the | Sir Robert Van Sittart, Mr. Mac- |~ (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) READY NORRIS PROMISES BRITAIN IS READY T0 SCRAP 17 SHIPS. WIDE LOBBY PROBE: | Donald's executive secretary: Lawrence | Richey, one of the President's secre- | tarfes, and Lieut. Joel. T. Boone, the | Greatly Reduced Building Pro- gram Hinges on Hoover- ‘ Macdonald Parley. | By Radio to The Star. | LONDON, October 5—Impressive fig- | ures showing extensive scrappings and | greatly reduced butlding in the British | "nu\'al program, provided agreement is | reached between President Hoover and | | Prime Minister Macdonald and later | ratified by a five-power conference, were made available here tonight. Ac- }cnramg to these compilations, 17 ves- | {sels from the two cruiser classes are | | due for the scrap heap. i i Under the terms of the agreements | visualized by the Prime Minister and | | Charles G. Dawes, the American Am- | | bassador, in their preliminary conver- | sations, the British building program | to 1936 would be reduced by about two- | | thirds, one crulser a year being laid | |down instead of the three called for by the original program. All cruisers | below the 8-inch class are affected. It | {15 understood that the 15 cruisers in | i"his class already possessed by Great | Britain are satisfactory to America. The Sunday Times tomorrow will give the names of the lighter cruisers |to be scrapped first, provided the five- power agreement is ratified, as in the 6-inch class, from the British navy, | the Birmingham, Conquest, Lowestoft and Yarmouth; from the Australian navy, the Melbourne and Sydney. From the C class, the Comus, Cleo- patra, Champion, Cambrian, Castor, Calliope. Carysfoot, Constance, Canter- | bury, Centaur and Concord. The list is incomplete, because in | all 20 or 21 cruisers, aggregating a | i Walsh in Naming Sub- | committee. Senate investigation into legislative lobbying, surpassing in scope any offi- cial inquiry yet attempted in Wash- ington, was announced last night by Senator George W. Norris, Republican, | of Nebraska, charged by the upper house to interpret and act upon the Caraway resolution approved by the Senate the past week. Senator Norris is chairman of the judiciary committee which, according to his announcement, will go into the receipts and expenditures of scores of national organizations to ascertain what pressure has been brought onj| Congress in favor of wets or diys, ! pacifism or preparedness and all olheri legislative matters pending during the | past few years. Among others, church organizations which have been mctive in anti-cruiser legislation will be called. The Nebraska Senator will name a subcommittee of inquiry tomorrow com- | sed of five members, including. it is | lieved, Senator Thomas J. Waish, Democrat, of Montana, who led in ex- posing the Teapot Dome and other | naval reserve oil scandals a few years ! ago. Senator Walsh is noted for his! ability to dig out facts. No Limit to Testimony. Senator Norris stated last night that | there is to be no limit to the number | of people called before the wlnmltue} or how long the inquiry will last. “It is not to be assumed.” he said, “that all those called upon to come be- fore the committee are bad. We will call church organizations and boot- leggers alike. Perhaps the great ma- jority of witnesses will represent or- ganizations which are doing good and g tonnage of 85,000, are destined for the | have interested themselves in legisla- Records Show Views of Prominent Individuals on “Approach | to White House.” Note ~This is the first of a series of arlicles on_the peculiar efiects of zoning ax found on_Sirteenth street between H and Scott Circle. The second article will appear tomorrow. BY DON S. WARREN. The fate of lower Sixteenth street still hangs in the balance. Known far and wide throughout the country as the Avenue of the Presi- dents, but described by some owners of property there as an Avenue of Fading —_— FRIENDLY FISHING FIVE CENTS [TEN CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS| ELSEWHERE AGENTS WORK LATE INEFFORT 10 FIND MPHERSON CLUES; ALLEN BACK ON JOB Government’s “Best Brains” Go Over Evidence Before Other Investigators in Search for Murder Solution. TAXICAB DRIVER TELLS OF IDENTIFYING FARE | Policeman Whose Probe Caused In- dictment Is Assigned to Duty in Eighth Precinct—Turns Over to U. S. Men His Findings in Death Case. Full resources of the Govern- ment’s agencies for detection and prosecution of crime were at play Hopes—or words to that effect—the future character of this famous thor- | oughfare, now an embattled traffic | highway, still appears undetermined | though rigidly protected from business | during the eight and a half years since | zoning was instituted here. | This narrow island of residential | zone, surrounded by a sea of high- priced commercial area, has been the focal point of one determined, con- | certed effort of its owners to obtain for | it & commercial rating. They came to grips with an even more determined group of opponents who defeated the | proposed change. | That was more than two years ago. | The Zoning Commission then rejected | the zoning change. Rumblings still | persisted, however, and of late have in- creased. The battle is fairly drawn | between ethetics and business. One or more affected property own- ers have recently decided to carry the fight again before the Zoning Commis- sion—or to court—unless relief from what is termed an impossible economic situation is granted, it is learned by The Star from reliable sources. | Plea of Owners. Once again the Zoning Commission may turn a deaf ear to the plea of property owners on this five-block sec- tion that they are being made to pay | | injured when struck by an automobile | the cost of keeping this street in the residential classification. But inter- | ested parties may carry the battle to court in an attempt to prove that the | street is merely theoretically “residen- tial” and its zoning as such amounts, | in effect, to condemnation of private | property for public benefit. Such is the belief of several owners in the area. Thus Sixteenth street from H street| to Scott Circle again is to be placed on | trial, along with the right of the Zon- | ing Commission to determine that busi- ness shall be barred from this artery. | Because of the wide interest in the| question, The Star has set out to deter- | mine just what the existing situation is on this part of Sixteenth street as revealed by a detailed study of facts.| aside from questions of esthetics. Al mass of statistics has been gathered| not heretofore cited in arguments for or against the proposal for allowing business on this street. Facts were | sought without regard to which side of the case they supported. Because the study was technical largely, The Star sought the aid of Alton L. Wells, | WOMAN DIES AFTER TR T ——— Driver Held Pending Coro- ner’s Quiz—Week’s Toll Reaches Four. | | | 3y the Associated Press. CANON CITY, Colo., October 5.—TI Mrs. Mary Ready, 58 years old, wife of Henry Ready, plastering contractor. | 1134 Twenty-fifth street, was fatally | Penitentiary here early Friday morning a terror-numbed convict who stood nex peratéa by OHarles) W, Rieker 32| . “Atabout diorclock inthie iomin years old, of 2118 Pennsylvania avenue, | at Twenty-fifth street and Pennsylvania avenue last night. | She was taken by Rucker to Emer- gency Hospital, where she died a few | minutes after arrival, without having regained consciousness. | The accident brought the total fatali- ties from traffic mishaps in the city during the week to four, including & man 59 years old, and two other women, both 70 years old. Jimmie Pardue lay wounded. “Boys,’ he told them, (guards) get me.’ Da and Riley agreed Surrenders to Police. After taking Mrs. Ready to the hos- pital Rucker drove back to the scene BUR UU S B of the accident and then to No. 3 police | station to give himself up and was held pending investigation by the coroner. Rucker is employed by a furniture dealer in the 2100 block, Pennsylvania avenue. Rucker reported to police that he | was going west on Pennsylvania avenue when Mrs. Ready stepped from the curb. | He said he immediately applied the brakes and that the car struck her | when the rear end skidded around. Mystery Clouds Death That Followed Auto Accident in Maryland. A felt hat which concealed an identi- [PRISON INMATE TELLS HOW RIOT| |Eyewitness Says Daniel Assumed Role of until late last night in an un- paralleled effort to solve the wenrdlest“:nystery in local crime annals—the garroting of Virgini: McPherson. gl B With the young husband of the strangled nurse back in a cell at the District Jail after pleading not guilty to an indictment charg- ing willful and premediated ITHMEN HE SLEW| Executioner, Killing Whom He Pleased, Including Comrades and Himself. of horror which brought to an end the blbody prison uprising at the State, snuffed out the lives of three of his aides, and then his own. unnamed, “Danny, who had been walking up and down the corridor in cell- house number 3, called “Red” Riley and A. H. Davis to him in the cell where 're fighting a losing battle. What will we do?" “Pardue spoke up and said: ‘Danny, end it with me before the screws he first eye-witness story of the drama | came haltingly today from the lips of | t to the cell in which Danny Daniels said the convict, who desired to remain “The two stood up. Daniels went into the cell, shot Pardue in the head, | then shot Davis and Riley in succes- | upholding of his sensational murder | | sfon. They fell upon each other and | theories by the grand jury. He is Pvt. lay le. y In Shoots Himself. | “Then Daniels went outside the cell, | walked up and down for a minute and | then said: ‘Well, my pals are gone. The | screws are all dead. I'll end it’ | “He put the gun to his head and| pulled the trigger. | “All the while, Daniels was as cool as | could be. All of his kilings were delib- | erate and calculated. He talked over his killings with convicts, nonpartici- | pants, in the cells. “Once, he said: ‘We didn’t intend to | 2 pi al murder, the “best brains” of the Government's corps of crime ex- perts sought to answer the ques- tion: “Who placed a pajama cord around the neck of the wife of Robert A. McPherson, jr., knotted it at the front and back and choked the young matron to death in her bedroom at the Park Lane Apartments?” In the hope of throwing light on the baffling_ proplem the Federal agents delved first into the maze of conflict- ing evidence accumulated as the case careened its way through the official channels of the local detective bureau. the coroner’s jury, the District attorney’s office and the grand jury and into un- official paths charted by a lone patrol- man and newspaper reporters. Policeman on Duty. ‘The lone policeman, at first suspended for conducting an ‘unauthorized” in- vestigation, is back on duty in a dif- ferent precinct today as a result of the Robert J. Allen, once of the third precinct. in which Mrs. McPherson met her death, but now of the eighth pre- cinct, far removed from the scene. Meanwhile, it became apparent that the municipal inquiry into grand jury condemnation of the Police Depart. ment’s “authorized” investigators wa: about to collapse for want of witnesses. The so-called Bride-Davidson commit- | tee probing accusations of inefficiency against Inspector Shelby and Lieut. Kelly. deposed detective chiefs, was ex- pected to terminate its proceedings abruptly tomorrow with an “important” announcement . Evidence uncovered by the unofficial investigators, as a_result of which the Police reported that his brakes were in working order. Mrs. Ready is survived by her hus- band, three sons, Harry, Vincent and Frank, and a daughter, Mrs. Alice Barnes, who identified her at the hos- fication tag such as is issued to em- ployes on construction projects, it was learned last night, has been turned over to State's Attorney J. Frank Par- ran of Prince Georges County, Md., as an important clue in the apparently | mysterious _circumstances surrounding pital after being notified of the acci- ¢ ¥ grand jury was induced to overturn the kill a man when we started. If Shorty | sujcide verdict adhered to by the detec- Irwin (the first guard) had not hit|tive bureau and rendered by the cor- 'Jénéumr; lo"l_:\riu‘;:m hJeiT,':hy :)eldwg::m | oner's jury, played a major role in the e e o SR LS (CosSenerlE st imoves g enravenfhe Shorty when he resisted, and then we : didn't care. I'll kill every screw except | Frye Is Questioned. scrap heap before 1936, which is con- | sidered the “key” year of parity. The | present total tonnage in the British | and Dominion navies for this class of vessels is 385,700. The understanding here is that Prime Minister Macdonald and Am- bassador Dawes agreed upon a total of 50 vessels in this class for Great Brit- ain. Allowing for the scrapping and | for disappearance due to the age limit. | the British building program for the next seven years will amount to seven 6-inch cruisers. All four of the 6-inch British ecruis- ers listed above as the first to go to the | scrap heap in case of agreement were | built before the war, but still have sev- i eral years more or “normal life.” One | of the two Australian cruisers already has been sold for breaking up. and the other is on her way to England, pre- sumably to meet the same fate. The cruisers of the C class were laid down | early in the war period. | (Copyright, 1929 TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—50 PAGES. General News—Local, National ‘oreign. Schools and Colleges—Pages 18 and 19. | Organized Reserves—Page 23. D. A. R Activities—Page 23. Army and Navy News—Page 26, D. C. Naval Reserves—Page 26. Classified Advertising—Pages 40 to 49. Veterans of Great War—Page 49, » Spanish War Veterans—Page 49. and PART TWO—12 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Features. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Review of New Books—Page 4. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 7. Y. W. C. A. Activities—Pag: Serial Story, “Death Treasure"—Page 8. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 9. At Community Centers—Page 9. PART THREE—16 PAGES. Societ; News | y. | of the Clubs—Pages 12, 14 and 16. | PART FOUR—16 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and Music. In ldl‘lea Motor World—Pages 5, 6, 7 and 8. ° Aviation Activities—Pages 9, 10 and 11. District National Guard—Page 1. Fratrenities—Page 13. Radio News—Pages 14 and 15. PART FIVE—10 PAGES. Sports and Financial. PART SEVEN—24 PAGES. Magazine Section. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 21. Screen GRAVURE SECTION—10 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES. Moon Mullins; Mutt and Jeff; Reglai Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; Little Orphan Annie; Betty; Somebofly’s Stenog: High Lights of Historya'. o | By the Associated Press. | drives tion for good. “The purpose of the inquiry is to get to the bottom of lobbying, good or bad,” said Senator Norris. No decision has yet been made as to what organizations will be summoned first and this will depend upon the ideas of members of the subcommittee " (Continued on Page ‘olumn 8.) MRS. STONE FAINTS ON GETTING 18 YEARS' Pronounces Sentence on| Mother Held Guilty of Poisoning Son. Judge BELAIR, Md., October 5.—Mrs. Hattie | Stone was sentenced today to serve 18 years in the penitentiary for the mur- der of her 15-year-old son by poison. Judge W. W. Preston denied her peti- tion for a new trial and pronounced the sentence, given under the jury's| verdict convicting her of second-degree murder. Mrs. Stone fainted in the prisoners’ dock after hearing the sentence pro- nounced, but soon was revived. Mrs. Stone’s son George died June 4, and examination of his body by a chemist revealed a quantity of poison. In her trial the State argued that the poison of which he died was fatal with- in two hours after being administered, and declared nobody but the mother had given the boy any food, drink or medicine in a much longer time before his death. o LINER GOES AGROUND. Wind Drives Steamer Into Trouble in Cherbourg Roads. CHERBOURG, France, October 5 (#). —The British passenger liner Ausonia was driven aground in Cherbourg Roads tonight by a violent wind. Prepara- tions to disembark passengers were be- ing_made. ‘The_anchor of the liner had caught in a chain of the warship Impregnable. The Ausonia was en route from South- ampton, England, to Quebec when it put in here. HIGHWAYMEN ROB BUS. Bank Cashier Loses $2,200 When Bandits Board Car . JOPLIN, Mo, October 5 (#).—Two men held up a motor bus near Joplin today and robbed W. H. Clark, cashier of the bank of Carl Junction, Mo., of $2,200 he was transferring from a bank here to his own institution. The robbers boarded the bus at a country store and shortly afterward overpowered the cashler and the bus 7 who had been alone in the ma- chine! They escaped in a motor car which had bees following the bus. dent by neighbors. Other Fatalities. Other loca persons who during the week died from injuries suffered in financial student and an accomplished statistician, associated with Story & Co., who compiled figures on assess-| ments and other data relevant to the matter. injuries to Thomas Franklin Burroughs, | who died two weeks ago in Emergency | Hospital. | While Burroughs died of pneumonia. the injurles which induced his death | fications in particular instances in some Figures resulting from this study in | numerous cases were almost amazing to one not closely identified with real! estate conditions on the Street. What the findings were will be discussed in a| series of articles to be published in The | Star. It is axiomatic that the zoning of a| city—the best of zoning—sooner or later | must cause some monetary injury to| individual property owners while bene- fiting the city as a whole. Zoning classi- cities have been upset by appeals to| court or to a zoning board of appeals on a showing that zoning caused an un- due or unnecessary hardship on indi- vidual owners. This. was the conten-| tion of owners on Sixteenth street in the memorable case two years ago. It ikely will be the principal argument if | and when the case arises again. Two Senators in Section. Numerous prominent individuals are concerned with the Sixteenth street “approach to the White House.” Two Senators live in the section. In addi- tion a number of other prominent per- sons are directly concerned. Then there are the city planners, zoning experts, city officials, residents of other sections of Greater Washington, who are con- cerned over the matter, and Congress itself, since it has exclusive jurisdiction over the Federal City. Study of matter leads to the con- clusion that the future character of the street as yet is undetermined, not that ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 1. |of Twent H. never have been fully and satisfactorily explained. County authorities at- tributed the injuries to an automobile accident near Silver Hill, Md. Hat Was Worn to Hospital. The hat which is destined to figure | prominently in the case was worn by | Burroughs when he was brought into the hospital September 17 with eight | broken ribs and numerous bruises about his face, body and nape of his neck. Relatives to whom the hat was given | when -Burroughs died, declared it did | not belong to him, and apparently was traffic_accidents were Howard Wrighte Bell, 59 years old of the 500 block of | Ninth street; Mrs. Emma Bonar, 70 years old, of the 5500 block of Chevy Chase Parkway, and Mrs. Julia E. Clarke, 70 years old, of the 1000 block jeth street. Heisman of Woodmont. Md.. car_which po- ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) NEGRITOS AND POLICE ! BATTLE; THREE DEAD | injured. In turning it over to Parran, | they did so with the belief that he could | Danny knew about it, | had Danny take the food to put on his head by mistake after he was | pog; one or two who have been good to me. | Old Jack Shea is O.K. He can go.” 1 “Danitls was especially nice to Shea, personally bringing him his_supper of | boiled beef and bread in Shea's cell. Danny told Shea it was because Shea had once seen to it that a convict de- prived of his supper. had been fed. because Shea him. “Danny told Shea it was that one act which saved his life. Executioner Gets 4 Bullets. “Danny questioned each guard before | he killed him. He told J. J. Elles, the | first guard Killed in Cellhouse No. 3, that he was going to kill him because | he had hanged so many condemned | convicts, He fired four shots into his | | | ly. “Then he went along the cells and | vin Having received from Policeman Allen an elaborate account of his independ- ent probe and resultant findings and conclusions, the Department of Justice probers yesterday afternoon and last ere in conference with other tnesses, including Garnett Mel- taxicab driver, who had d” McPherson as the passenger he discharged in the rear of the Park Lane Apartments late on the night of his wife's death. Frye's testimony, supported by an affidavit sworn to before an assistant district attorney, helped the grand jury form its opinion that McPherson was a wife-murderer. Frye was closeted for some time in the office of Thomas J Cullen, a special agent under J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Philippine Constabulary Meet En- counter in Attempt to Capture Escaped Cattle Thieves. By the Associated Press. Manila, October 5.—The Philippine constabulary had a sharp skirmish to- day with "Negrito tribesmen in the mountains of Zambales Province, about 90 miles northwest of this city. Two Negritos and a constabulary sergeant were killed. The fighting occurred while the con- stabulary were attempting to recapture four cattle thieves who escaped recently from Iba, capital of the province. When dislodged from a precipice which they used as a natural fortification, the Ne- gritos fled to their village, but deserted it immediately carrying many wounded | with them. The constabulary did not destroy the village. The Star’s World Series Service :30, Washington Time Beginning Tuesday afternoon the world series games will be re- produced, play by play. on The Star's electric scoreboard, Eleventh Chicago Game Starts 2 street side of The Star Building. The scoreboard's operation will be synchronized with the radio broadcast, and the broadcast, in turn, will be amplified for The Star's audience through 10 large horns of With the last “out” of each game, an edition of The Star will gb to press with a full account of each inning of play. Later, the 5:30 and Sports Final editions of The Star will contain analytical ons and colorful significant points i the day’s play. Supplementing the reports of Denman Thompson and John B. Keller of The Star sports staff will be the Associated Press corps base ball writers and experts, Manager McCarthy and Outfielder Cuyler of the Cubs, Manager Connie Mack and Outfielder Simmons of the Athletics, George Moriarty, American League umpire; Grantland Rice, Bill McGeehan, Walter Trumbull, John B. Foster and others whose names have long been identified with America’s leading sports pages. 5¢e am:l Hear t’le Games at The Star $core- board—Read Aboyt locate the owner who may be able to shed further light as to the cause of the | injuries, Jesse Burroughs, brother of the dead man, who several days ago sought the | aid of the Washington police in uncov- | | ering the real cause of his brother’s| death, and other relatives believe that | Thomas was the victim of foul play during a fight in a Southern Maryland | roadhouse. All of the dead man’s rela- tives, it was said, doubt that an auto- | mobile accident caused the injuries. The relatives, it was declared, base | | thefr opinion on certain _statements | | made by Burroughs in the hospital be- | fore his death. One of these was that | he had been hit by a truck. Later he | contradicted this statement. Burroughs Talked But Little, Although_consclous at periods before his death, Burroughs, according to his relatives, never told a coherent story of 'RUSSIANS ABANDON el . Among others questioned last night told the other guards that he $oUld| by Hoover's men were Rex Collier and have enough shells. ‘You'll have to get | John Snure of The Star staff, Capt. B s " e ot hem. oad | Stott, commanding the third precinct, e hetiangheds | and two members cf his command, De- en he laughed. | e cruel in the ex- | tective Willlam F. Burke, who con- e I e ] Maforenn | ducted the initial police investigation., when his time would come and then at | and Policeman Lawrence Botts, form- N Gontiued on Page 2, Column &) | Y & “Drecinct partner” of Policeman Allen. Botts is the officer whom Allen named as being with him when, on the night of the tragedy, he allegedly saw a man moving on a roof outside the | McPherscn windows. | While Cullen and his colleagues were SEARCH FOR COSTE. autirin, Soten,and i colcager were | formation bearing on the case, other ————t— jagents in an outer office pored over columns of newspaper stories published in connection with the remarkable progress of the mystery. It was an- nounced that not a bit of information, not a clue of any kind, not even the | wildest rumor, would be overlooked in | the Government’s intensive investi- Authorities Find French Flyer Had Crossed Into Manchurian “War"” Zone. how he received his injuries, and they believe that he endeavored to shield | those responsible, confident that he would recover and seek revenge. |]| Declaring that “you cannot make a 1] | murder of the Burroughs case,” Sheriff Charles S. Early of Prince Georges County last night in effect reiterated his previous announcement that the man’s death was an accident as far as county police were concerned. ‘The sheriff revealed for the first time | that he had sought witnesses for ques- | tioning in the case, but stated “they | | will have to come to me now,” imply- ing that his investigation was finished. The witnesses sought by the sheriff were the proprietor, or manager, of the roadhouse which Burroughs visited the night he was taken to Emergency Hos- pital, suffering from injuries, which the authorities insist, were sustained in an automobile accident. Kelly Told of Witnesses. Sheriff Barly said he visited the road- house, but found nobody on the prem- 1ses and the establishment apparently deserted. Lieut, Edward J. Kelly of the Wash- ington poiice force, who was asked to help investigate the case by members of the family of the deceased, said he turned over to the sheriff the names of certain witnesses for questioning. In addition to relatives of the dead man and the companions in.the car that was wrecked, Sheriff Early de- clared he had not questioned any one TIWEW—TT the Public Address System. descriptions of the highlights and of Them in The Star By the Associated Press. | MOSCOW, October 5.—After defi- | nitely establishing the fact that the“ French aviator Coste had crossed the | Russian border into Manchuria on Sep- | tember 29, Russian aviation author-; ities tonight abandoned all search for| the missing long-distance flyer. They learned that Coste's red Breguet had passed into Chinese territory at 2 p.m. over Abagaptuevsk, 30 miles southeast of Manchuria station. This station 1s just across the border from Manchuli, eastern terminus of the Chi- nese Eastern Railway, where heavy fighting between Russian and Chinese soldiers occurred in the first days of October. ‘The Russians had no trace of Coste, who left Le Bourget flying fleld on September 27 in an attempt to set a new non-stop world’s distance record. Searching parties previously had been sent out to comb the wilderness east of Lake Baikal. Tugs Set Liner Afloat. - CHERBOURG, France, October 6 (Sunday) (#).—Tugs early today suc- ceeded in refloating the British pgs- senger liner Ansonia, which went aground a few hours earlier in Cher- bourg Roads after its &nchor fouled during a high wind. The liner was bound from Southampton to Quebec. . gation. Case Stands Out. Veterans in criminal prosecution de- clared yesterday the McPherson case has developed into one of the most noted murder cases in the history of the District of Columbia. Never be- fore in the memory of some officials long connected with public life in this lcity has the Federal Government besn called upon to take over not only the whole investigation but also the prose- cution of a murder case. Assistance may have been rendered in any number of cases in the past, but this case is |said to stand out by itself. John E. Laskey, veteran former dis- trict attorney, long experienced in criminal prosecutions, and now drafted by the Attorney General as special prosecutor in the trial of young Mec- Pherson, has laid down a set of prin- ciples by which the whole case is to be guided. As a special assistant to the Attor- ney General, Laskey has broad powers as prosecutcr, and is backed up by an array of investigative talent from Fed- eral ranks such as never before was focused on the solution of a local mur= der mystery. Laskey has established himself at the Department of Justice in a suite of rooms set aside for him and the experts of the Bureau of Investigation. “Our first purpcse,” declared Mr. Laskey. “is to develop th: facts pointin to a solution of the crime. We sh T (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) ‘