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NOTORMANHELDUP B ARMED BANDITS iPair Escape With $1,436.51 in Stolen Taxi After Binding Driver in Chevy Chase. (Continued From First Page.) the trip. he placed the bag at his feet, expecting to deliver it t» the Capital | Traction Co. office. Two passengers, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Streng, were on | th> car. At Connecticut avenue and Aspen street the bandits walked to the front, of the car and seized the bag. Mangum ‘was ordered to halt the car at Thorn- apple street, where the men commanded him not to move. They entered the ‘waiting taxicab that had trailed them from Chevy Chase Lake. | License Tag Is Noted. Police were told the car headed for ithe District of Columbia at a fast rate ©f speed. The license tag numbers, however, were noted and later were found to correspond with the number issued Jordan. Jordan escaped from his bonds when a colored laborer on his way to work passed through the woods and saw him. The rescuer, Richard Ellie, sum- moned his son-in-law, Preston Davis, and they freed Jordan, who immedi- ately went to Bethesda substation and Teported to the police. Policemen J. S. Oldfield and James McAuliffe said they thought the men had loitered arcund the Chevy Chase L: car barn on previous occasions had learned that a large amount of mouey was carried on car No. 81 every Monday morning. The money bag, containing only street . _was recovered near Quantico, Va., early this afternoon, ac- cording to police. The bag is said to have been found some distance off the main highway. Police of surrounding counties in Maryland and Virginia and detective bureaus of Philadelphia and other large cities have been warned to watch for the taxicab, a large blue sedan bearing tag number “H-535." It is thought, Thowever, @abandoned the machine. Thought They Were Students. Maryland police were informed by Jordan that he was hailed by the two men carrying a small handbag in the 600 block of Third street southwest and ordered to drive to Chevy Chase Cir He thought they were college b On arriving at the circle, Jordan 1 FOoR Thik KVENING L, — ¢ CHEST CAMPAIGN | IS FACING FAILURE Drive Is Doomed at Present Rate of Progress, Lead- ers Fear. __ (Continued From First Page) of great service in the final drive, Chest officials were aware that the $60,000 or more expected from this source must be quadrupled by other citizens if the goal is to be reached on scheduled time. Chairman Poole accurately sized up the situation by saying that at least 20,000 more gifts are needed, of less than $500 down, as well as more gifts of more than $500, é‘ the existing emergency is that the robbers probably |to be passed. With offers of assistance coming from all sides, Washington centers of finance and business began today to take on the aspects of open solicitation. Members of the Junior League began active morning, establishing Community Chest stands at a number of the downtown stores and banks. Practically every said, the men commanded ‘him to drive | out Connecticut avenue. A gun was | thrust in his back and he was ordered to drive to a spot on the new Silver Spring-Bethesda road, approximately a mile from Connecticut avenue. They reached a spot known as Calhoun's ‘Woods at 4:40 o'clock this morning. Ordering Jordan to remain silent, the two men informed him they were awaiting a load of whisky, but at 6:15 o'clock a third man walked up to the car from the rear. After conversing in low tones, the men ordered the taxicab driver out of his machine and tied a Tope around his leg, forcing him to walk into the woods, Jordan said. ey had a bottle of whisky #sked me if I wanted a drink,” Jordan | lold police. “But I didn't want any. -y shoved the gun into my side and | told me to drink anyhow, and I did. “One of the me nput his handker- chief in my mouth, tied me to a tree lngh!.hfix !he{a}efl ortly after noon today Detective J. B. Billman of the fourteenth police station found the taxicab used by the Tobbers abandoned in the 5800 block of Chevy Chase parkway. Clerk Beaten and Robbed. Shortly after police received the Street car robbery report’ they were notified that Joseph Hirshman, 62- Yyear-old clerk at a variety shop at 1248 Seventh street, had been beaten into unconsciousnes: by an unidentified man | at_the store and robbed of $10. i He was found lying behind a counter by Ernest Fields, colored, 618 M street, a trash man, who entered the store half an hour later. Hirshm2n was taken to Emergency Hospital, treated | for severe cuts and bruises to the head | and released. He told police his assailant sneaked up behind him and struck him with a blunt instrument. Using an iron bar, an unidentified in- dividual smashed a rear window of the place of business of the American Stores Co.. 2008 Rhode Island avenue north- east, between closing Saturday and opening time this morning, and stole $388.88 from the safe. John A. Carter of 3515 Thirty-sixth| strect, Mount Rainier, Md.. manager of | the store, reported the robbery to police | of the twelfth precinct. Eizht Other Robberies Reported. | Eight other robberies, all trivial, were | Teported to police, among them being the case of James B. Ciretta, 23 years old. of Capitol Heights, Md., who told lice of the seventh precinct that he d been attacked in an automobile by two men at Potomac and M streets and Tobbed of $13. He said the robbery grew out of a gambling game. His identified attackers accused him of un- fair means in the game in order to win, he told police. After beating him, he said, the men threw him out of the automobile. and | bank in the city to receive and handle pledges to the Chest. Thousands of success pledge cards are being circulated by Protestant, Catholic and Jewish pastors in an effort to arouse the citizens of Washington to the critical situation that faces the Chest in the closing hours of its 1930 campaign. U. S. Employes Mail Cards. Many Government employes are using the mails in sending their pledge cards to the Community Chest head- quarters, 1418 I street, and numérous telephone calls resulted in campaign volunteers being sent to various parts of the city to collect other cards from persons anxious to give toward the deficit. The committee in charge of the mili- tary exposition and carnival, given last Spring by the Army, increased its gift ;(; Dt’gl‘;: Community Chest from $500 to Chest officials, who are confident the job of raising $293,835.15 can be done if the members of the community real- ize the economic advantage of giving “‘Once for All,” declared today that no gift is too small if it really represents the person’s ability to give and good will toward the 75 appeals. “If any one who is not seen by the Community Chest workers will mail or bring or telephone his pledge to the Chest, at 1418 I street, Metropolitan 2284, it was said, “and if many who have already given, but who have not given as much as they might, thinking, haps, the Community Chest would ily s goal this year, as it did last year, the gap between what we have and should have may be closed. It must be.” Stand Staffs Work in Relays. Junior League stands were estab- lished at the Palais Royal, Garfinckel’s, Lansburgh & Bro, S. Kann's Sons, Woodward & Lothrop's, the Hecht Co., the Mayflower Hotel, the Willard Hotel, Federal-American National Bank, Riggs National Bank, Metropolitan Bank, American Security & Trust Co. and the Union Trust Co. In charge of the stands at these lo- cations and working in relays were Mrs. Lewis Arthur, Mrs. Claude Lang- {lais, Mrs. Richard Dunn, Miss Emily | Mackall, Miss Margaret Boss, Miss Elizabeth Dunlap, Mrs. Frank Harmon, Miss Anna Southard Larner, Miss Anne Butler, Mrs. Rodney Dean, Mrs. Owen Albright, Mrs. Herbert Clarkson, Mrs. Gadwin Moore, Mrs. Charles W. Eliot, Mrs. Thomas Lattimore, Mrs. Reeve Hoover, Mrs. Maurice Crumpacker, Mrs. Blaise DeSibour, Mrs. Theodore Gill, Miss Louise King, Mrs. Dean Acheson, Mrs. Benjamin Weems, Mrs. Samuel Beach, Miss Alice Parker, Miss Suzanne Bradley and Mrs. John R. Ewell. Banks and their “Community Chest tellers,” who will receive pledges be- ginning today are as follows: Relative Kills Mexican Deputy. MEXICO CITY, February 10 (P).— | Fernando Escamillo, deputy from the | f Quertaro and one of the leading | in the Naticnal Revolutionary | died today from a bullet wound | inflicied by his sister-in-law. He had | fused her permission for his estranged fe to see their childre — SPECIAL NOTICES. LONG-DISTANCE MOVING, SATISFACTION in every detall our first cate: part load and one way rates to or from any point. Aero Mayflower Transit Co.. Dist. 6448. NTEENTH QUARTERLY DIVI- d of one and one-half per cent (1':%) | Wi the 6% Beries of 1925 Preferred Stock. the eleventh quarterly dividend of one and_ three-eighths per cent (133%) on the 52% Beries of 1927 Preferred Stock. of the ver Company. have been March 1. 1930, to D ferred stockholders of record on February 13, 1930. 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Harman, jr.; Morris Plan Bank, Mr. Barker; Mount Vernon Savings Bank, Mr. Highfield; Munsey Trust Co. Mr. Ratclifie; National Bank of Washing- Whits National Capital National Metro- politan Bank, Mr. Jacobson; National Savings & Trust Co., Mr. Lamborn; North Capitol Savings Bank, Mr. Michael; Northeast Savings Bank, Mr Lewis; Park Savings Bank, Mr. Stunz; Potomac_ Savings Bank, Mr. Shoe. Phi- | maker; Riggs National Bank, Mr. Vass Second National Bank, Mr. Marlow Second Savings & Commercial Bank, Mr. Leith; Seventh Street Savings Bank, Mr. Howard; Union Trust Co., Mr. Zirpel; United States Savings Bank, Mr. De Lashmutt; Washington Loan & Trust Co.. Mr. Endicott; Washington Mechanics’ Savings Bank, Mr. Groom; ‘Washington Savings Bank, Mr. Leonard. There was no meeting of campaign team workers today, though many of the divisional secretaries of the Metro- plitan Unit will submit partial reports of their activities during the day. The public has been invited to the meet- ing in Constitution Hall tomorrow which begins at 8 pm. The United States Marine Band has volunteered its services for the meeting. British Flyers Seek Record. CROYDON, England, February 10 () —In an attempt to set & new rec- ord for the flight from England to Aus- tralia, Flying Officers H. Piper and C. Kay of the Royal air force took off from Croydon yesterday morning. A tele- ofering, exceptional factlities for ‘s discriminating clientele. National Capital Press The h-nu D ST. N.W. Phone National 0650, 19: gram last evening reported that they had landed at Dijon, France. The British airman Bert Hinkler m;gc the trip in 15 days in Pebruary, solicitation of funds in any amount this | has appointed a “teller” | Atlanta Truck Sent 727 Miles to Florida To Carry Hoover Mail BY the Assoclated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., February 10.— A mail truck from the Atlanta post office yesterday was some- Where on the 727-mile trip from here to Miami, to handle Presi- dent Hoover's mail during his fishing trip off Long Key, Fla. Rostmaster E. K. L.>rze said his instructions from Washmgton did not say why the truck was sent from so far away. He understood the President's mail would be handled through the Miami post office. RUM FLEET LEADER FEARED AT BOTTOM Rumor Has It Boat Seen Fast in Ice With Man Frozen to Wheel. By the Associated Press. ‘l ‘WINDSOR, Ontario, February 10.— The fate of the motor boat Grey Ghost, !known as the flagship of the rum fleet on Lake Erie, was in doubt today, with conflicting rumors that she had gone down and that she was in drydock somewhere along the Lake. Ten days ago word was received here that hte Grey Ghost had been sighted fast in the ice off Pelee Island, with the body of a man frozen to the wheel. The man was supposed to be Leo Leon- ard, soughtf by Cleveland police on a rum-running charge. Nothing definite has been heard of the Grey Ghost since she cleared from Erieau, Ontario, just before Christmas, bound for Cleveland with a cargo of liquor. CHURCH ESTABLISHES Judges, Serving Without Pay, Will Endeavor to Settle Differences Between Individuals. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, February 10.—The Com- munity Church, of which John Haynes Holmes is the pastor, yesterday announ- ced it had established a ‘“good wil court” to settle differences of all who appear before it. ‘The “court” have no legal stand- ing, but will aim to adjust disputes between individuals so that recourse to the civil courts will not be necessary. There will be no fees and all the “judges” will give voluntary service. The court will meet once a week. ‘The court, it was explained, will deal with four types of cases: employment disagreement, strained social relations, general financing and business differ- ences and mental conflicts. WOMAN SEES HUSBAND KILLED BY EX-SPOUSE Fist Fight in Streets Ends Fatally With Firing of Six Shots. By the Assoclated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn.,, February 10— Whil> his wife anc a _crowd of chil- dren looked on, John Temple, 32, was shot and killed in a street fight here last night by Joe Groons. Mrs. Tem- ple formerly was Groon’s wife. ‘Temple and his wife were taking an early evening stroll when Groons met them. Previously, police said, friends had told Temple Groons was “out to get you,” and been informed by Temple that “I will meet him man-to- man with my fists. Soon after the two met, a fist fight was started. Groons drew a pistol and fired six shots into his adversary’s side. Groons walked into a nearby cafe and telephoned police. He was locked in jail on & charge of murder. g = JERICHO RUINS FOUND. Expedition Reports Finding Town Believed 4,000 Years Old. LONDON, February 10 (#).—A Jeru- salem dispatch to the London Daily Ex- press today said that Prof. Garstang, who is leading Sir Charles Marston's ex- pedition to excavate the ruins of the ancient city of Jericho, reported the discovery of the tower of that city. Ac- cording to the dispatch, it is built of brick walls 12 feet thick, rising 27 feet above the foundation. Prof. Garstang believed from the pottery he unearthed that the tower was erected about 2000 B.C. SAMARITAN, 7306, BEATEN. May Die From Injuries Inflicted by Man He Befriended. OMAHA, Nebr, February 10 ()— Badly beaten by a man he said he had befriended by giving him a room with- out charge, Willlam Everitt, 106 years old, aha's oldest resident, was in a local hospital last night suffering from injuries which hospital attendants said they feared would cause his death. He sald the man struck and kicked him yesterday when he reprimanded him for refusing to work. Will Rogers Says: NEW YORK.—Changing prohibi- tion enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice is just like & dog scratching his fleas from one part of his body over to another. He has relocated ’em, but as long as he is a dog they are going to be bothering him some place. ‘When this shift is made I'll bet that Mr. Andrew Mellon will feel like a man that's been lying in a ditch by the roadside and somebody come along and removed a loaded truck from off his chest. l STAR, “COURT OF GOOD WILL”| WASHINGTON, SN HOPES HELD TO BAN SUBVRIE French and Japanese to Hold Craft Indispensable at Parley Session. l ; BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, Staft Correspondent of The Star. By Radio to The Star. LONDON, February 10.—This is sub- marine week at the Five-Power Naval| Conference. It will be a highly critical week, with France primarily and Japan secondarily cast to play the decisive roles. It can be foreshadowed with full assurance that the desire of America and Great Britain to abolish the “as- sassin of the sea” is doomed not to be fulfilled. This will be made plain before to- morrow’s submarine plenar+ session is many minutes old. Premier Tardieu of France and former Premier Wakatsuki of Japan are primed to declare that undersea craft are regarded as indis- pensable by their governments and can not be done away with under any cir- cumstances. The only prospective sub- marine development on the horizon is France’s belated readiness to_join with America, Britain, Japan and Italy in “humanizing” submarine warfare. Having refused for eight years to ratify the Root resolutions against sub- marine attacks on merchantmen, Tar- dieu now is prepared to come forward with warm adherence to that principle. As the French alphabetically always are second to get the floor at the ple- nary sessions, Tardieu is known to relish the opportunity of putting the French humanitarian viewpoint into the record ahead of anything that Great Britain can say. Britain Displeased. Within the past few days the British have not concealed their displeasure at Tardieu's attempt to steal the thunder which, they say, really was sounded first by Balfour in 1922 at Washington. The gravity of the submarine contro- versy lies in its possible effects on the whole naval limitation and reduction scheme. France has a gigantic pro- gram calling for the eventual flotilla of 115 submarines, 67 of which would be ocean-going craft of great cruising en- durance, and 48 smaller-type vessels, nominally for coastal defense, but quite capable of operating on the high seas. ‘The United States, which now is the leading submarine power, has only 111. Great Britain already is considerably inferior to France, with only 66 subma- rines built and building, against the | French total of 99. France's full pro- gram calls for 96,000 tons of subma- rines, which is nearly 40,000 more than the United States and Great Britain propose for themselves, and in that event the submersible craft cannot be abolished. If France insists on the vast sub- marine tonnage Great Britain will re- quire heavier tonnage in light cruisers and destroyers. This automatically will upset the Anglo-American plan to confine the gross tonnage of the British and American fleets to 1,200,000. It is not going to be easy to argue Tardieu out of his demand for the big sub- marine fleet. Hope of French Navy. “Submersible,” as the Prench call it, is now the crack branch of the French navy. On it the nation pins its chief hopes of permanent ability to ward off an attack from an overwhelmingly .n?pcrlar surface fleet of perfidious Albion. ‘The Frenchmen are of rock- ribbed opinion that their submersibles always could keep open the sea lanes leading from French Africa across the Mediterranean, especially for the trans: port of colored troops for use in the next European war. The French spokesmen at London point out that thé only reason their term of compulsory military service in | France has been reduced from thrce | years to one year is the republic's ex pectation of being able to replenish the army from the African colonies in case of need. This cannot be done unless the French navy is invulnerable in the Mediterranean, the French spokesmen say. In the estimation of the French strategists, the word “sub- marines” is synonymous with invul- nerability. Japan is hardly less wedded to the idea of the vital value of the submarine for defense purposes. Wakatsuki has has not yet produced any figures, but he is believed ready, when the time comes, to ask anything up to 80,000 tons, as against the maximum of 60,000 tons in the proposed Anglo-American quotas. The Japanese contend that the main function of their navy is to protect the ! routes of their supplies of foodstuffs and | raw materials. | 0il Imports Stressed. Ol1 imports from the Dutch East In- cies are stressed in this connection, as well as food supplies from Korean fields of China. Control of the China Sea, therefore, is described as essential to Japanese existence and resistence in time of war. For performance of all these defensive duties, Japan thinks she must have an adequate number of sub- marines, destroyers and small cruisers. Some of her strategists believe she ought to put most of her naval funds in sub- marines. They assert that with a couple of hundred of these craft as defense, no foreign battle squadron ever would likely to approach her coasts or attempt to enter the Yellow Sea because Jap- B, s | anese waters are peculiarly well suited { to submarine operations. These waters are of great depth, which precludes the possibility of the submarines being mined in by such devices as the great North Sea mine barrage laid by the American Navy in 1918. In this regard, the Japanese state- ments published in London depict Tokio’s naval scheme as contemplating a fleet that never would menace the United States fleet, but would be so formidable that no American fleet ever could undertake the long cruise across the Pacific with any prospect of de- feating the Japanese navy. Japanese Standing Pat. This is the whole spirit of the Japa- nese demand for 10-7 relativity with the United States and the philosophy underlying her actions at the confer- ence. If Wakatsuki eventually can be brought to accept the 10-6 cruiser ratio ) Secretary of State Stimson is likely to be found amenable to something more than the 10-67, submarine arrangement with Japan, or even a little bit better than that. At present the Japanese are standing pat. They resent the slightest suggestion that they are bluff- ing or that they will recede as soon as their parliamentary elections are over. Yesterday Wakatsukl broadcast a message to the Japanese people over the Beam system. He registered the hope that the conference would succeed, but didn’'t say how or when it achieved. (Copyright, 1930.) .. COL. DICKSON TO SPEAK.I Grand Lodge of Virginia Masons to Meet Wednesday. Lieut. Col. Thomas J. Dickson, U. 8. A, retired, president of the Masonic Club of Sanzey, France, will address the annual conference of ‘he Grand Lodge of Virginia Masons in the Ma- sonic Temple, Richmond, Va., Wednes- day, which is Lincoln’s Birthday. Under the title of “Where Masons Made History,” Col. Dickson, who was chaplain of the 6th Field Artillery, will recite an eyewitness narration of Masonic activities on the 250-mile battle front occupied by the American troops. MONDAY, Two Sisters Wed In Early Morning Rite at Rockville A double wedding, in which two :mmsd bect}me brides, was per- lormed early yesterda; at_Rockville, Md. et The newlyweds are Geo: Watson Hill, 26, and Cnherrtg: Mary Penalla, 25, and William H. Reeves, 22, and A. Penalla, 22, all of this city. The licenses were issued b Clayton Watkins, deputy clerk 0¥ the Rockville Court, and the ceremony was performed by Rev. Bertram M. Osgood, pastor of the Rockville Baptist Church. AMERICAN PROPOSALS ATTACKED IN JAPAN Called Plan for Expansion Instead of Naval Curtailment in Editorial, By the Associated Press. TOKIO, February 10.— The English language edition of the Osala Maini- chie yesterday editorially assailed recent American disarmament proposals, de- claring that “a proposal for expansion has been offered a conference ostensibly convoked to seek naval curtailment.” ““We register hearty disapproval the Mainichie, terming the propos: “sweeping and revolutionary.” The edi- torial asserted Hugh S. Gibson, Ameri- can Ambassador to Belgium and a con- ference delegate, remarked in Geneva that America would be satisfied with between 250,000 and 300,000 tons of cruisers. The paper pointed out Amer- ica now is asking 327,000 tons. Referring to the American suggestion that America and Japan be allowed to build one new capital ship to offset the British vessels Rodney and Nelson, the editorial said: “We do not know the British re- sponse to the proposal, but we defi- nitely say: ‘No, thank you!" “We entered the conference because we_thought its purpose was reduction.” ‘The editorial concluded: “We regret the American attitude, which is unworthy of the noble prece- den: established at Washington 1921." 917 ARE ARRESTED IN CHICAGO CLEAN-UP Few Crimes Are Reported, as Po- lice Push Drive to Bring in All Hoodlums and Guns. sai By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. February 10.—Not a shot was fired and only half a dozen minor crimes were reported in Chicago last night. The newest campaign by Chi- cago’s payless police was working. The drive began Saturday night and its success surprised even Commissioner William A. Russell himself. By last midnight 917 persons had been arrest- ed, and 271 of the number had criminal records. Acting Detective Chief Egan called it a “raid for guns,” orders being given particularly to bring in men found armed. ‘The effect of the Saturday night raids was especially noticeable to Egan early today. Whereas when the raids started police came upon men in the actual act of robbery, and found “wrong guys” in every part of town. suspicious charac- ters were missing when police continued their forays last night. The town had suddenly gone quiet. A new measure of handling criminals was announced by the detective chief. Men found carrying pistols, he said, will be held for the grand jury, instead of being turned over to Municipal Court. { Indictments are to be asked and the gun toters will be tried by jury. RUSSIAN TENOR GIVES SERVICES FOR ASYLUM Maxim Karolik to Sing Thursday Evening at Benefit for Exiles in Bulgaria. Maxim Karolik, Russian tenor, will give his services for a benefit copcert to be held at the home of Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, 1301 _Sixteenth street, Thursday evening, March 6 at 9:30 o'clock ,for the purpose of raising funds for a general hospital and small orphan asylum for Russian exiles situated in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, ‘Among the patronesses for the event will be Mme. Debuci, Viscountess d’Alte, Mrs. Patrick Hurley, Mrs. John Jacob Rogers, Mrs. Charles James Bell, Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Princess Cantacuzene, Mrs. Charles Denby, Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, Mrs. Gibson Fahne- stock, Mrs. Stokes Halkett, Mrs. Robert ‘Whitney Imbrie, Mrs. George Tench Marye, Mrs. James Southworth Parker, Mrs. Thomas Wharton Phillips, jr., Miss Janet Richards, Mrs. Lawrence wn- send and Mrs. Walter Tuckerman. MAN ADMITS .FLOGGING FORMER MATE OFTEN Confession Follows Detectives’ In- quiry Into Death of Woman Thought Murdered. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, February 10.—Continued grilling by detectives resulted today in a confession by Charles D. MacKenzie that in the last year he frequently had flogged and beaten his estranged wife, Mrs. Anna Nelson MacKenzie, whose body was exhumed Friday for exam- ination three days after her burial. MacKenzie, however, emphatically denied he had beaten his wife 10 days ago when she was found dead in her apartment, although he admitted he knew she was dead when he left the apartment and told the landlady that a doctor should be summoned. ‘The coroner said that an autopsy re- vealed she died of a hemorrhage and that she had been beaten on the head. “SWEETHEART BASKETS” A Blackistone Conception of a Charming Valentine Selected Spring Flowers are arranged in a decorative Bas- ket, with the proverbial Red Heart supported by a Trellis at the back. $3.50—$5.00 Our assistants are particu- larly clever at building such picces. (Our New Address) 1407 H Street 3 Doors West 14th St. National 4905 FEBRUARY. id | of only 34,000 will not be sufficient to al | get the full value out of the experiment, n | will be 10, 1930. U. 5. WILL ASK NEW GIANT BATTLESHIP: Wants Privilege in Order to Put Fleet on Parity With Britain’s. (Continued From First Page) ’whnb knotty cruiser problem be taken up next week. Principally the heavy! | cruiser question seems to be mweeni i America and Japan, the latter de-; manding & 70 per cent ratio with, America and Great Britain, a/point which the United States is posed to concede. | Generally it is believed the issue will | be compromised with Japan getting somewhere between 63 and 662; per cent of the individual cruiser tonnage of America and Great Britain. L S and Mr. Wakatsuki probably will get together one day next week for a talk on cruisers. ‘The American delegates are standing pat on their claim for 135,000 tons of aircraft carriers as opposed to the Brit- ish proposal that tonnage be limited to, 108,000 for the United States and Great Britain. The United States possesses 66,000 tons now, and her position is that air- craft carriers are in the experimental stages and that an additional tonnage | CHORAL MUSIC LEADER T0 ARRIVE TOMORROW Frederick Alexander to Direct Re- hearsals of New Washington Festival Chorus. Frederick Alexander, head of the music department at Ypsilanti Normal College and & recognized authority on choral music, will arrive in Washington tomorrow to be present at the organ- ization meeting and direct the first rehearsal of the new Washington Fes- tival Chorus. The organization meeting held at o'clock tomorrow night at Thomson Community Center, ‘Twelfth and L streets. The new choir will rehearse under direction of Mr. Alexander every two weeks until the week of May 7, when the organization will give a choral fes- tival concert as a speclal feature of music week here. Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard, Miss Grace Durham Guest and Mrs. Gertrude Lyons, leaders of the movement to or- ganize the choir here, will have charge of registration tomorrow night. All 'singers joining the choir must agree to attend all scheduled rehearsals, it was announced. BANDIT RECALLS LOSS OF $80 TO HOLD-UP MEN | Kansas City Youth, Quizzed About| Own Methods, Learns of | Squirt-Gun Robbery. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, February 10.—Bad, bold bandit that he is (he admits it Garnett “Curly” Petro still has things to_learn about his chosen profession. Facing » possible death sentence for participation in a series of armed hold- ups, Peiro was being questioned about his methods when he exploded resent- ‘Say, I was held up myself about a year ago at St. John and Hardesty ave- nues by three toagh eggs!” ‘The address brought memories to a detective. He looked up the record of a confession signed by three youthful robbers who confessed a holdup on the night named by Petro and at the same spot. To Petro he read: “We used a squirt gun on that job as we couldn't get a real rod. “An’ they got $80,” moaned Curly. {MRS. ARMOUR TO BUILD ON ORIGINAL ESTATE Retained Part of Tract Sold to Meet Late Husband’s Obligations. By the Associated Pr rua; Farm, the beautiful Lake Forest estate in settlement with her late husband's creditors, is to see her again as mis- tress. A comparatively small part of the estate was saved by Mrs. Armour when Mellody Farm was sold. On this she plans to build an English farm house in which she will lve. FIND BONES OF SLOTH. Explorers Also Discover Trace of Early Race in Southwest. RENO, Nev., February 10 (#).—An expedition from the museum of the Southwest yesterday announced the finding of bones, claws, hide and hair of a giant ground sloth, a prehistoric beast which once roamed through Nevada and the Southwest. M. R. Harrington, head of the party, | also reported finding fiber string and feathers bound with sinew. His theory is that a race of people inhabited the | district at the same time that the huge INo charges have been placed against 10.— Mellody which Mrs. J. Ogden Armour sacrificed | MOTOR CYCLE RIDER HIT BY MILK TRUCK Missouri Nursery Firm Em- ploye Suffers Serious Skull Fracture. E. W. Roland of East Falls Church, Va, an agent of a Missourl nursery firm, is in Georgetown University Hos- pital suffering from a fractured skull and internal injuries as a result of be- ing struck by a milk truck as he was emerging from a driveway on the Lee Highway on a motor cycle early today. His condition is said to be serious. Harry Payne of Purcellville, Va, driver of the truck, is being held pend- ing an investigation of the collision. him. Roland was entering the highway from the driveway of the home of Dr. M. F. Graham on the Lee Highway when the accident occurred. Mrs. Louise Gallagher brought the injured man to the hospital. Pedestrian Injured. A pedestrian, William J. McAtee, 60 years old, of 308 East Capitol street northeast, was the victim of a collision between two automobiles last night when one of the machines overturned on him at Third and East Capitol streets. His injuries are not expected to be fatal. McAtee was crossing the intersection when an automobile, driven by Robert M. Westmoreland of 1409 Chapin street, was said to have been struck by a car operated by Milton M. Huism of 226 C street northeast. The force of the crash up Westmoreland's machine and pinned McAtee beneath it. He is in Casualty Hospital. | Albert Smith, 23, of Kensington, Md., | was treated at Emergency Hospital for shock early vesterday, following a re- ported collision at Twentieth and Q streets between automobiles driven by Charles L. Cooley of Bethesda, Md., and Paul W. Fletcher of Kensington, Md. Miss Ada Connor, 28 years old, of 218 Spring street, Chevy Chase, Md.,, was bru about the face when her ma- chine on Jenifer near Forty-second street plunged into a tree. Fire Truck Damaged. A hit-and-run car bested a parked fire truck of No. 2 Truck Company in front of 2424 Pennsylvania avenue last night, striking the fire apparatus and ruining several hose couplings. The damage was placed at $22. Members | of the company, engaged in extinguish- | ing a minor chimney blaze, could give police only a meager description of the machine. PITMAN DEFENDS SELF IN LIQUOR CONSPIRACY Oklahoma County Attorney on Stand for Grilling by Own“Counsel. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, February 10— After a day's respite spent largely in| further co-ordinating his defense pians, | Randall Pitman resumed the witness| stand in United States District Court here this morning in a final effort to| refute Federal charges which link his| name with a mammoth liquor con- spiracy. Pitman, county attorney of Pottawa- tomie County and one of many public officials brought to trial by the Gov- ernment, charged with playing more or less important roles in the big “liquor racket,” has denied cha accepted money for official “protection” of “the line,” as the alleged liquor syn- dicate is referred to by witnesses. 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