Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1930, Page 2

A2 ax RONE DENANDS | * HEARING BY JRY Cenies He Attempted to As- cault Girls Answering Ads for Models. Brought into Pplice Court today on | the complaints of several girls who| answered his advertisement for models, George Arone, 55-year-old shoe polish salesman, who aspired to be a laundry | dealer, pleaded not guilty to four (r'mlrges of assault and demanded jury trial. Jacqueline Swift, 19-year-old heiress- | model, was nct among the complaining Witnesses at court today. She became annoyed at the publicity newspapers were giving the case and was excused from testifying by _Assistant District Attorney . Charles R. Murray. Miss Swift is said to have turned in the first complaint regarding Arone’s actions . oalice. AfuiTay announced that Arone prob- ably will not be tried before April, due to the crowded conditions of the Police Court jury schedule. Arone arrested at his office in | the International Building on Friday | by Detective Charles Weber, after he is alleged to have assaulted a police- | woman who was investigating Miss Swift's complaint that Arone asked her to disrobe when the answered his ad- vertisement. The man, who was released on $500 bond, was represented in court by At- torneys James A. O'Shea and John Burnett. YARD DUG UP IN VAIN HUNT FOR HORST BOY Search Started by Charles Hanna, One of 2 Suspects, Presumably to Divert Questioning. By the Associated Press. WOOSTER, Ohio, February 17.—Ex« pectation of finding the body of Melvin Horst, 4, by digging in the back yard of the former Orrville home of Charles Hanna was abandoned at 9:35 a.m. to- day. The entire back yard had been dug up to a depth averaging 6 feet by Earl Conald on the strength of a story tald early today by Hanna, that Melvin was buried there December 27, 1928, the day he mysteriously disappeared. Both Hanna and Conald are held in jail in Wooster. They signed statements Priday accusing each other of having killed Melvin in a garage near his home in Orrville. Each of them denied the other’s accusation, and had steadfastly maintained they did not know what was done with the body. ‘Today. however, after long question- ing. Hanna told Detec.dve Ora Slater that Conald, after allesedly killing the boy, buried the body % Hanna's back yard at night, while Hanna stayed in- side the house to keep the family away from rear windows where they might witness the burial. Under supervision of Orrville officers, ‘workers dug in the back yard of Hanna's former home for six hours. Then, con- vinced the body was not there, Lee Pon- tius, Orrville deputy marshal, ordered the hole filled in. Officers said Hanna probably told the story of the burial to divert attention from himself and there- by gain temporary respite from the hammering of questioning to which he has been subjected hour after hour for most of the past three days. BYRD RESCUE SHIP ENCOUNTERS GALES Progress Is Slow as Approach of ‘Winter Menaces Party of Explorers. By the Associated Press. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Feb- ruary 17.—The captain of the ship Eleanor Bolling, en route to take Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's expedition out of the Antarctic, sent word here today that he was encountering strong rlu with heavy seas and even with avorable conditions could not reach| the ice pack before the week end. He gave his position as 440 miles south of the Otago Heads. Raymond Mercola, the Byrd expedi- tion's supply officer, here today said that barely a week remained before the ice pack was expected to freeze solid, possibly imprisoning the expedition’s 70 members. He added that the Eleanor Bolling had not a day to waste if it was to reach the group on time. —_— MAN IS ARRESTED FOR CARRYING GUN! @irl's Escort Says Salesman Threatened “to Blow Brains Out.” Theodore R. Poole, 28 years old, a salesman living on Nichols avenue near ‘Trenton place southeast, was held for grand jury action at Poljce Court to- day for carrying a concealed weapon. He demanded a jury trial on a charge of assault T. Ralph Stabler, an automobile sales- man, of Fifteenth and M streets, testi- fled in court that Poole threatened to | blow “his brains out” with a revolver while he, Stabler, was walking on Fif- teenth street northeast yesterday after- noon with Miss Audr perle, 21-year- old daughter of a naval officer. Stabler went to the twelfth precinct police station while the man was en- gaged in conversation with Miss Sperle, Policeman L. L. Clair accompanied Stabler to Poole’s car * here a revolver | was said to have been found in a pocket. Poole denied owning the gun, saying that he had found it in the car pocket Stabler could give no reason for the! defendant’s accosting him, although he | said that the man was acquainted | with Miss Sperle. SUITS SEEK $28,500 FOR WOMAN'S INJURIES Employe of Julius Garfinckel Ac-! of Lifting Trapdoor, cused Throwing Her to Pavement. Alice B. Plotner and her husband, Charles H. Plotner, shire avenue, today filed sults tof $28,500 damages against Jullus G finckel for injuries alleged to have been sustained by the wife, when an emylo}: of the defendant lifting a trapdoor the pavement in front of 1303 P street, caused her to be thrown forcibly to the sidewalk. The accident to Mrs, Plot- ner occurred November 11 last when the defendant was in charge of the premises. ‘The wife places here damages at $25,- 000 and the husband asks an additional $3600 for the loss of services of his wife and for the expense incident to her _tliness. The plaintiffs are represented by At- torneys E. B. Frey, Charles E. Morgan- &ton H. Mason Welch, | riers Lexington and Saratoga to reach | Seeks Congress Seat MRS. IDA M. WALKER Of Norton, Kans., is a candidate for United States Representative from the sixth Kansas district. She formerly served in the State Legislature. f;}galion Blasts Wipe Old Indian Village Off Map Ariz., Once Army Post, Gives Way to Lake With Few Lingerers. San Carlos, By the Associated Press. SAN CARLOS, Ariz, February 17.— Once the capital of the Apaches and again a military post, San Carlos dis- appeared yesterday in the smoke of eight dynamite blasts. When the echo of the last blast died, | San Carlos took its place with other frontier towns—in history. It had made way for progress. The dynamite charges removed the last building—the school house erected 40 years ago, when the white man brought the teachings of civilization to the red men—from the path of ever-widening Coolidge Lake. The waters, backed up from Coolidge Dam, have been encroaching upon the old town for some time. One by one the original 64 buildings have been blasted or torn down. The graves of sleeping Apache war- | riors have been opened and the nihlli bones interred upon a hillside, which overlooks the site of the anclent vil- lage, but where the rising waters never will reach them. With the recent establishment of the San Carlos Indian agency at Rice, Ariz., and with the exodus of white residents, only a few Indians living in tepees be- low the mesa upon which the school house stood, remained to watch the passing of San Carlos. The water wiil be used to irrigate more than 100,000 acres of land, most of which has been apportioned to the red men. $618,750 PROVIDED FOR DISTRICT BY DEFICIENCY BILL THE EVENING STAR, WASHIN D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1930. TENHIGHWAY PLAN CHANGES PROPOSED Public Hearing on Substitu- tions Set by D. C. Heads for Thursday. Ten proposed changes in the District | highway plan will be discussed at & | public hearing before the District Com- missioners in the board room of the| District Building at 10 o'clock Thurs- day. The changes are called for on lv"x;l:':n lroundle.dnuch as suh!u!unllal; s more suited to topography, avoid- ing demolition of houses now standing | in the line of the street and eliminat- | ing streets in lands already acquired for parks. The changes are: 1. Eliminate Forgy-second street be- tween Reservoir rond and Conduit road. This street, between Georgetown Uni- versity and Glover Parkway, will never be opened, since that section will not be developed with house: (2) Narrow Madison street between North Capitol street and Concord ave- nue from 120 to 90 feet. It was orig- inally intended to make a parkway out of Madison street, but the National Capital Park and Planning Commission has acquired all the property on the | south side of the street for park pur-| |poses, and the parkway was therefore | considered unnecessary. Save Fine Old Trees. (3) Change the plans for the sec-| tica bounded by Connectcut avenue, Rock Creek Park, Ordway and Tilden streets. These changes, made to meet | the rugged topography and to save | | some fine old trees in that section, call for elimination of part of Ordway, Rod- man and Sedgwick streets, and substi- | tuting curved roads for the eltminated { sections (4). Eliminate Elder street between Seventh street and Blair road. This is because of the location of houses on the | line of the street which would make its | extention costly and impracticable. | (5). Eliminate Forty-first street be- | tween Yuma street and Wisconsin ave- | nue. This territory is served with other streets, and Forty-first street is con- sidered_unnecessary. i (6). Eliminate Twenty-sixth street and Channing street between Bladens- burg road and Douglas street. The location of part of Twenty-sixth street will be_changed so that the new street meets Bladensburg road at right angles. The reason for this change is that the Sewer Department is planning a sewer in that section which could more easily follow the proposed location of Twenty- sixth street than the location as marked on the highway pian. (7) Eliminate Fourteenth street and Farragut street between their intersec- tion and Eastern avenue, and substitute & new street running northwesterly from the intersection to Eastern avenue to meet the Maryland road at that point. This change is also directed to securing better drainage. (8) Eliminate Q, S, T and Twenty- second streets and Montello avenue northeast in the section now taken up by Mount Clivet Cemetery, Narrow Piney Branch Road. (9) Narrow Piney Branch road from 120 to 90 feet between Butternut street and the District line. This is planned to save the District an expense of about $100.000 for condemning houses built within the 120-foot line, but not projecting as far as the 90-foot line. (10) Eliminate Shepherd street in the vicinity of Piney Branch and Six- (Continued From Pirst Page.) given $240,000 to continue the investi- gation of public utility concerns au- by the Senate two years ago. Of the $6,133,000 allotted the Agri- culture Department, $3,670,000 was for the Forest Service, to cover expenses of fighting more than 7,000 forest fires and for combatting infestation of national forest by insect pests. A total of $6434,947 wa. allowed the Commerce Department, including $5,740,000 for taking the cens: Justice Department Given $2,033,444. Although $2,033.444 was allotted the Justice Department, only $466,187 was allowed the judiciary. me of the im- portant outlays was $350,000 for the detection and prosecution of crime. ©Of the $1,161,380 for Federal penal institutions, the penitentiary at Leaven- worth, Kans, received $454,128; the Atlanta, Ga., institution, $173,615; Mc- Neil Island, Wash., $323.198: the insti- tution for women at Alderson, W. Va. $84,000 for construction and main. tenance. The Labor Department received $556,500 and the Post Office Depart- ment $356,475. Including the $1,600,000 outlay for destroyers and submarine safety de-! vices, the bill carried a total of $2.-| 184,253 for the Navy Department. The sum of $105000 was allowed for the dredging of the channel at Hampton Roads, Va.. to permit the aircraft car- that operating base; $80,000 for the proving grounds at Indian Head, Md, and $20,000 for the ammunition depot at St. Juliens Creek, Va. $2,738,116 for War Department. ‘The War Department was awarded $2,738,116, of which $1844,049 was for the National Home for Disabled Volun- teer Soldiers. The central branch at Dayton, Ohio, was given $1.475.000 for construction of a sanitary hospital, The Federal Farm Loan Board re- ceived $50,000 to cover additional ex- penses caused by increased business and the Public Health Service was given $117.753, of which $69,838 is for the new Marine Hospital at Detroit, Mich., and $47,915 for the Ellis Island Hospital, in New York. Tfin measure also provided for an in- crease in the authorizations of the cost of 15 public building projects recom- mended by the joint board of the ‘Treasury and the Post Office Depart- ments, and carried $4.000 for the reim- oursement of Lynchburg, Va., on the Federal building there and $20,000 for the mint at Philadelphia. BRITISH EXPERTS DIVIDE OVER COCKTAIL’S EFFECT Health Head Condemns Drink Seen by Medical Research Director as Aid to Appetite. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 17.—The licens- ing commission is receiving evidence from some of the most eminent medica] men of the kingdon on the effects of alcohol on the human system. Testi- mony on the cocktail seems at times to differ widely. Sir George Newman, chief medical officer of the department of health, is outspoken in his condemnation of the cocktail. Dr. Henry Dale, director of the Na- tional Institute of Medical Research, says a cocktail might give an appetite to a man laboring under a mental tension. FEARS GIRL CAPTIVE. Father Seeks Daughter Held Pris- oner in New York Apartment. NEW YORK, February 17(P).—Seek- ing his daughter, whom he believes is being held a prisoner in a New York a) ent, Joseph Boston con- teenth street. This property has been acquired by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission for park pur- poses and will not be needed as a street, The changes as made by the Commis- sioners will be discussed at the meet- ing of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission Friday and Sat- urday. SEEKS TO IDENTIFY PLANE FOUND IN SEA U. 8. Inspector to View Hulk Dis- covered Near Ensenada, Mexico. 8y the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif., February 17.— | The identity of an airplane, the hulk of | which_was found floating in the sea | near Ensenada, Mexico, probably will be established today. | C. W. Vawter, aeronautical inspector | for the Department of Commerce, left | here yesterday by automobile to view the wreckage and establish its identity. He said the markings “sounded more like a United States Navy plane than anything else.” Navy officials at the North Island air base declared they had lost no planes in recent months of the type ! described in the reports from Mexico. | | LITTLE CHANGE IS SEEN IN MOORE’S CONDITION Ambassador to Poland Has Had | Fever of 104 Degrees for 48 Hours. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 17.—Alex- ander P. Moore, recently appointed Ambassador to Poland by President Hoover, today continued critically ill, with little change in his condition. Suf- fering with an infection of the lungs and throat, he has maintalned a fever of 104 degrees for the last 48 hours, and has been semi-delirious part of the time, Dr. P. G. White, attending physician, last night issued a bulletin stating that Mr. Moore had “spent a restful day,” but described the patient's condition as.“very serious.” U. S. MINISTER TO CHINA TO MAKE NANKING TRIP Johnson Will Visit Officials at New Capital Who Did Not Greet Him. By the Associated Press. PEIPING, China, February 17.—Nel- son T. Johnson, new American Mlister to China, will leave here Wednesday for Nanking, to make the acquaintance of the Nanking government officials who did not greet him on his arrival here. He expects to return to Pelping in three weeks. The United States and other countries maintaining relations with China, have maintained their legations at Peiping instead of moving them to the seat of the new govern- ment, Nanking. Moscow Orders 9 Meatless Days In Cafes Monthly By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, February 17.—-Mos- cow authorities today decreed that all restaurants in the eity should have nine meatless days each month, it being hoped thus to save both meat and fuel. partme , & tractor, yesterday applied to police for assistance. Crimi said that the girl, Mary, 15, disappeared from her home in Boston last October 5. He showed police a let- ter written by the gifl in which she said she was being held in an apart- ment here, At the same time there is a movement on foot to exclude from all restaurants all non-toil- ing elements because of the in- ability of these restaurants to feed the thousands of workers in the city. IDOOLITTLE CRASHES WITH FAMILY IN TAKING OFF BUT NONE HURT LIEUT. JAMES By the Associated Press. MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y. February 27.—Lieut. James H. Doolittle, former crack Army flyer, and his family, were en route to St. Louis by train today, after the plane in which they planned to fly cracked up in a snowdrift while taking off. Lieut. Doolittle, Mrs. Doolittle and their sons, James, jr., 9 years old, and John, 7, escaped without injury in the accident, which prevented what was to have been the first civilian flight Lieut. Doolittle has made in 12 years. After recelving his formal release from the Army from Washington, Lieut. Doolittle loaded a Lockhecd-Vega mono- plane, owned by the Shell Corporation of ‘8t.'Louis, with household goods, put aboard enough fuel for a non-stop flight and helped his wife and sons into the cabin yesterday afternoon. With a haif-gale blowing, he taxied H. DOOLITTLE. the plane down the wind amid & swirl of snow kicked up by the whirling propeller. One of the landing wheels struck a drift larger than the others and stuck. He opened his throttle in an effort to drive the plane through, but the strain was too great, the landing struts buckled and the plane keeled over, blocking the door and imprisoning the fiyer and his family. ‘When field attendants released them, it was found that the propeller was broken, part of one wing splintered and the gasoline tank burst open. Prompt action by Lifeut. Doolittle in cutting out his ignition switch when the plane broke down prevented the fuel ‘gnwmg out of the broken tank catching | fire. | Lieut. Doolittle has taken a position as executlve director of the aviation section of the Shell Corporation. ATTERBURY FAVORS INLAND WATERWAY President of Pennsy Railway Con- ditionally Indorses Government Promotion of Intra-Coastal. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, February 17.—Presi- dent W. W. Atterbury of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Co., in a letter to J. Hampton Moore, president of the At- tic Desper Waterways Association, made public last night, said that he did not oppose Federal expenditure of money for the improvement of neces- sary inland waterways, economically Justified. Mr. Moore had asked the railroad president whether he was opposed to the proposed Federal canal across New Jersey. 1t is part of the project for an intra-costal waterway from New Eng-| land to Florida. Most of the project has been con- structed or authorized, except the “miss- ing link" across New Jersey, which would be about 33 miles long. The canal project is now before the board of en- gineers for rivers and harbors at Wash- | ington. Mr. Atterbury sald that Federal ex- | penditure of money should not be made | which, in effect, merely duplicates an existing facility and materially destroy: | its value unless it can be shown such a co-ordination of transportation by rail- road, highway, waterway or airway or any combination which will meet public demands and give the public the best service. “Unfortunately,” Mr. Atterbury says, | | “the laws are such that, while the Gov- ernment goes ahead with inland water- way expenditures, the railroads are pro- | hibited from taking advantage of them and developing co-ordinated rail and water service. “There is no doubt in my mind that the business of the Pennsylvania rail- road would be injuriously affected by the competition which it would immediately meet as & result of the construction of this deep water canal, but it is equally clear to me that the port development of Norfolk, Baltimore and Philadelphia would be so favorably affected it would eventually result in such material in- crease of business through these ports that the Pennsylvania railroad in the end would profit by it. NATIONAL EPISCOPAL COUNCIL REORGANIZED Three Departments of American Church Body Brought Un- der One Hend. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 17.--The Na- tional Council of the iscopal Church anpounced last night that a reorgani- zation affecting all the departments of the council has become effective. Under the new plan the work of the departments of finance, fleld and pub. licity will be co-ordinated under Dr. Lewis B. Franklin, vice president and treasurer of the council, while a new division, to be headed by an official se- lected later, will co-ordinate the work of the departments of missions, religious education and soclal service, NORTH CHINA PLANS WAR. Japanese Reports Say Hostile Forces Are Mobilizing. SHANGHAI, February 17 (#).— J.D‘m;::t. 'mi-officlal reports state to- said to have mobilized and to be mov- ing southward Kai- 8hek. It is repor that fighting oe- curred Saturday near Kweitch, on the Lunghai Raflway. Dominican Official Resigns. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Re- ublic, February 17 (#).—Elias Hijo rache, minister of just'ce, presented his resi tion to President Vasquez to- day, The President accepted the resig- nation, . American jazz instruments are be- coming popular in Sweden, Blonde Girl Bandit ;Provides Chicago Many Male Godivas {Taxi Drivers Without Pants Chatter Woes to Busy Police, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 17 .— The | Messrs. Godiva are becoming regular | customers at the police station, | A blonde girl and a male campanion | are back of it all. They employ their evenings by robbing taxicab drivers, taking not only the drivers’ money, but their trousers as well. The idea is to | prevent immediate pursuit, for one must g0 a long way before finding a taxicab driver who will prance forth into the glare of street lights and the bite of the night air without his clothes, It was the blonde hersef who sound- ed the Godiva note. After Roy Robbins, | & cab driver, had been robbed and then orced to disrobe in the rear of his | car, tossing his trousers and shoes out to the robbers, the young woman call- ed back, “goodby, Mister Godiva.” Robbins drove to the nearest police station as best he could. He was about No. 20 in the list of victims of such robberies within a fortnight. He stood before the desk sergeant, and his teeth chattered. “Something terrible—," he began. The sergeant spoke wearily, “Yes, I know,” he sald. “The blonde. | Gimme your name, address and how much you losf | (GEN. FRED T. AUSTIN | PUT ON RETIRED LIST Chief of Anfllery Bureau Had Held Position Here Since 1927, Maj. Gen. Fre# T. Austin, who has served as chief of Pield Artillery, Mu- nitions Bullding, since December 20, 1927, was placed on the retired list of the Army today because of disability incident to the service. It is expected his succcessor as chief of the Artillery Bureau will be appointed by the Presi- dent in a short (me. Gen. Austin was born in Vermont December 28, 1866, and was graduated from Norwich University. He served as a first llentenant in the Volunteer Army durlnr the Spanish War of 1898, and the Philippine insurrection and as & brigadier general, National Army, during the World War, for which serv- ice he was awarded the Distinguished Service Med D. C. REPRESENTATION TALKS TO G0 ON AIR V. F. W. Headquarters Urges Mem- bers to Tune In on Broad- casts on Monday Nights. ‘The headquarters office of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City has urged the members throughout the country to tune in on station WRC of the National Broadcasting Co. this evening at 10:30 o'clock and hear the first of a series of radio programs which will carry a plea for a vote for the disfranchised citizens of the Capital Capt. Harvey L. Miller, department commander of the District of Columbia Chapter, Veterans of - Forelgn Wi will deliver the first address in a of four that will be featured on succes- sive Monday nights. His topic will be, “The Overseas Veteran and Repre- sentation.” The organization’s Overseas Band, directed by Lieut. Arthur E. Harper, and Miss Elsie Jorss, soprano, the band soloist, will provide a musical back- round for the address. The program to be on the air between 10:30 and 11 o'clock, v | for bondholders in the office of Senator PLAN FOR AGTION AGAINST SMITH €0, Attorneys for Bondholders to | Demand Equity Receiver- ship at Hearing. Vigorous efforts to obtain an equity | receivership for the P. H. Smith Co., Delaware finance corporation, whose principal officials have been indicted on fraud charges, will be made at a hear- ing in Federal Court in New York this week, according to plans made this morning at a conference of attorneys Hastings of Delaware. Col. Lewis Landes, representing bond- holders in New York, acting as -pokes- man for counsel for the hondholders’ | committee, announced that decision had | been reached to subpoena both Gov- | ernment witnesses and a former prom nent member of the Smith company or- ganization to testify at the hearing on the petition of investors for receiver- | ship. | Th addition, Col. Landes said, sub- poenas would be obtained to bring be- fore the New York court government records to support the move for a re- ceiver. Witnesses desired for the plain- tifs were not disclosed. Challenge Accepted. Tt had been planned to seek hear- ing on the recetvership petition tomor- | row, but it was indicated today by the bondholders’ committee that ~decisive | action would be sought Priday instead. | Plans were lald to bring before the court all necessary records and wit- nesses necessary to the action, it was stated. “We have accepted the challenge of | the Smith Co. counsel in their opposi- tion to the receivership action.” Col i Landes said, “and with the records, Go ernment witnesses and the sworn testi- mony of an official of the Smith co., whom we will subpoena, there will be { plenty of fur flying.” His reference to “fur flying, decisive legal battle, he said, was in answer to a ‘“challenge” by Smith Co. counsel that stiff opposition would meet any move for receivership. Plans to Be Perfected. The bondholders’ committee here planned to meet again this afternoon to_perfect plans for the hearing. Frank G. Raichle, of New York, counsel for the Smith Co., who had been invited to attend the conference, was unable to attend because of illness in his family. Attending were Peter A. Miller. sec- retary of the bondholders’ committee; Herbert Davis, former auditor of the District Supreme Court here; Col. Landes of New York and Washingtor L. L. McDevitt, attorney for Phil bondholders; Representative Goldsborough of Maryland, representing bondholders in that State; E. T. Mal colm, attorney for bondholders of Cats- kill, N. Y., and Senator Hastings, who was present at the opening of the meeting this morning. ‘PEKING MAN'S’ SKULL BELIEVED WOMAN'S | Canadian Explorer Makes An- nouncement Regarding Important Scientific Discovery in China. | | By the Associated Press. PEIPING, China, February 17.—Dr. Davidson Black has decided that the | “Peking man” was probably a woman. Dr. Black, Canadian custodian of the skull which gave rise to the “Peking man” theofy and startled the world with evidence that men or menlike | creatures had lived near here approxi- | mately a million years ago, made the | new announcement yesterday after he | | had partially chiseled a the stone in which the skull was embedded. “There are many certain character- istics indicating that the skull was that | of a woman,” Dr. Black sald. “It s agp]ntrmlly that of a young female adult.” RUM CASE FRAMED BY NEWSPAPER MEN, LANGDON CHARGES ___(Continued From First Page.) teenth street address at approximately 6:30 o'clock. Dr. Rhees said O'Connell did not tell him who reported the con- versation to him or the identity of the | person making the call. | O'Connell was then called to the stand. He started to tell of a liquor in- vestigation made by his paper which had indicated to him that numerous | members of the Police Department, in- cluding two captains and one lieutenant were engaged in the liquor traffic here, when he was stopped by Justice Peyton Gordon ard instructed to confine his testimony to facts concerning Langdon. | Falls to Recall Exact Source. | O'Connell said he could not recall; the exact source of his information at this time, but that his best recollection Wwas that some man called him at the Times office and told him of the tele- phone conversation relating to the sup- posed delivery of whisky by Langdon. He sald he did not know the identity of the party making this call. Benton, when called to the stand, sald his knowledge of the case was acquired through reports given to him by O'Connell. He sald O'Connell had told him some unknown person had overheard the conversation at some unknown place. He testified that he did not remem- ber the fifth precinct station house be- ing mentioned and that the information was not gained through a telephone call made to the Times office. Defense Attorney Harry T. Whelan cross-examined O'Connell and Benton at some length, but did not succeed in learning from them the name of the person who reported hearing the tele- phone conversation. Whelan is being assisted in the do{eme by Attorney Wil- Y. M. C. A. RECEIVES MORE PLEAS FOR JOBS January Requests Double Applica- tions Filed at First of 1929, Managers Hear. | Appeals to the Y. M. C. A. free em- ployment bureau by men out of work doubled last month over those received in January a year ago, according to a report of the service department, sub- mitted this afternoon to the board of managers at a Juncheon meeting in the Cosmos Club. Seventy-nine inquiries for jobs were recorded for the month, with eight posi- tions fillled. Monthly reports also were received from other departments. These dis- closed that nearly 26,000 men used the facllities of the physical department last month, 710 men and women at- tended classes of the Southeastern Uni- versity, Washington Preparatory School and Woodward School 38 persons attended religious meet; arranged by {.’l‘: "\;." mc!nre than 2,000 lbo_vl used th‘e ys' department gymnasium and pool, and 7,626 lodgings were supplied by the dormitories, Killed in Explosion TARDIEU'S ILLNESS SLOWS UP PARLEY U. S. Delegates Turn Atten- tion to Recent Proposals Made by Japan. By the Associated Preas. LONDON, February 17.-~There was a considerable degree of uneasiness in Naval Conference circles today as the delegates of the five powers entered the fifth week of their efforts to achieve | reduction and limitation of sea arma- ments, ‘This was due mainly to the unex- LIEUT. WALTHER G. MASER. NAVAL FLYER DIES IN CATAPULT TEST Lieut. Walther Maser Killed by Premature Explosion of Dynamite, By the Associated Press. Lieut. Walther G. Maser, naval avia- tor, is dead as the result of the pre- mature explosion of a charge of dyna- mite as his plane was being catapulted from the deck of the U. S. S, Nevada at_Guantanamo, Cuba. Reports said that his plane was blown to_bits, Maser was 31 years of age, the son of Frederick Maser of Dickinson, N. Dak. His wife and 4-month-old baby live in Norfolk. Maser graduated as an “honor man" from the Naval Academy in 1918. He was an instructor in flying at Annapolis. MAJ. CHARLES WOOD IS DEAD IN DENVER Coast Artillery Officer May Be Buried in Charlottes- ville, Va. Maj. Charles M. Wood, Coast Ariil- lery Corps, engaged in recruiting duty | at Denver, Colo,, for several weeks, died | of pneumonia in that city Sunday aft- ernoon. His body prokably will be re- moved to Charlottesville, Va., for burial. His widow is in Denver arranging de- tails of the funeral. A native of Virginia, Maj. Wood en- tered the military service as a second lieutenant in, the Coast Artillery in De~ | cember, 1911, and served through the World War as a major in that branch. He was a graduate of the General Staff School and the Coast Artillery School and was on the eligible list of the Gen- eral Staff Corps. Among his surviving relatives is a brother, Waddy B. Wood, architect, of 16 Jackson place. NEW AIRCRAFT SAFETY LECTURE ANNOUNCED Lieut. Edward Rounds to Discuss Guggenheim Contest Results Tomorrow Evening. ‘The possibility of increased safety in heavier-than-air flying as a result of the recent Guggenheim safe aircraft contest will be discussed by Lieut. Ed- ward W. Rounds of the flight test sec: tion, Anacostia Naval Air Station, at a meeting of the Standards Flying Club at the Bureau of Standards at 8 o'clock loma\rrnw evening. The public is in- vited. ‘The competition resulted in the awarding of the first prize of $100,000 to the Curtiss Tanager, an American- built biplane. Lieut. Rounds will de- scribe this plane in detail. DR. GRAHAM .TO LECTURE. Oberlin College Professor to Ad- dress Group of Young People. Members of young people’s church so- ¢leties of the District will hear an ad- dress at ths First Congregational Church tonight at 8 o'clock by Dr. Thomas 'W. Graham, dean of the Graduate School of Oberlin College, lecture on religion and youth. The address, one of a series being given by Dr. Graham under auspices of the Washington Young Men's Christian Association, will be on the subject “Where Religion Comes In." Leonard W. De Gast, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A, will preside. The public is invited. STYLES IS TRANSFERRED. Consil at Antwerp Is Sent to Chihuahua Office. Francis H. Styles of Falls Church, Va., United States consul at Antwerp, has been transferred to Chihauhua, in & similar capacity; Maurice C. Pierce, Wisconsin, United States consul, been transferred from Bergen, Norway to Stuttgart, Germany; Willard Gal- braith. California, has been detalled as United States vice consul at Panama; William J. McCafferty, California, con- sul at Chihuahua, has been detailed as second secretary of legation at Guate- mala, an! Harold R. Brown, Massa- chuttes, vice consul at Georgetown, British Guiana, has resigned from the service, EXAMINATIONS ARE SET. July 14 Date of Foreign Service Written Tests for Commissions. Written examinations for life com- missions in the United States foreign service will be held July 14 next in this city and elswhere in the United States, and oral tests to complete the examina- tion will be held at the State Depart- ment beginning October 27. All ap- plicants will be designated by the Sec- retary of State, with whom applications must be filed not later than 40 days before the date set for the written ex- amination, as no_designations will be made after June 3 next. HONOR FIRST PRESIDENT. Association of Qldest Inhabitants to Observe His Birthday. Washington's birthday. will be cele- brated by the Association of Oldest In- habitants next Saturday morning with special exercises at Western Presbyter- ian Church, at which the speaker will be Representative John Gordon Cooper of Ohio. e regular monthly business meet- ing of the association will be called to order at 10:30, and will be fol' ~»d by the patfjotic address of the <. ’ | pected {liness of Premier Tardfeu of | France, which came just at a critical ! moment in the consideration of France's | naval claims and in midst of the efforts of the United States aad Great Britain 1 as conciliators to bring France and Italy together in their parity dispute. Fae pending Japanese elections also are having their effect in making it difficult to deal with problems affecting that country. On the whole it looked as though this might be one of the slowest weeks since the conference started, although there was hope that Premier Tardieu's {llness might prove short, Meanwhile the American delegates turned their attention to the recent Japanese proposals and it was hoped that progress would be made as soon as the Japanese elections are over. The elections will be held on Thursday. “rime Minister Macdonald, Secretary Stimson and former Premier Wakatsuki pianned to meet at St. James' Palace this afternoon for a conference, al- though it was not expected that any major decision would grow out of this meeting. The subcommitt~e planned to meet this afternoon to continue consideration of the exempt special classes and it was understood that a definite conclusion would be reached. During the day Secretary Stimson telephoned to Ambassador Edge at Paris to inquire into Premier Tardleu's Lealth and notify the Secretary frequeatly of his progress, SUBMARINE PLAN PRAISED BY REED “Humanizing” Described as Big Accomplishment in Radio Address. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 17.—Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, dele- gate to the five-power naval confer- ence at London, yesterday told an in- ternational radio audience that although the conference cannot succeed in abolishing the submarine, the proposed “humanizing” of submarine warfare is an_important accomplishment, Speaking from London over an American and Canadian net work of the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Senator sald that “Great Britain and ourselves had hoped that submarines might be wholly abolished, for we have feared that in any war the temptation to use the submarine in ways that kill humanity would be so great as to be nearly irresistible.” ~Our French and Japanese friends do not share these views,” he continued, “and it is evident, therefore, that this conference cannot succéed in abolish- ing the submarine. But, we were de- lighted to see the prime minister of France arise and propose that all of the nations should agree that hereafter submarines shall be forbidden to ate | tack merchant_ships." | , Senator Reed said that the American | delegation “has been unanimous in every step that we have so far taken" and that “every point of view has been considered before decisions were ar- rived at.” In conclusion he announced that when the conference “results begin to come, they will come fast and in the meantime we trust that you will not | become too impatien {NAVY PARLEY DRIVE SEEKS TO GET U. §. IN SECURITY PACT (Continued From Pirst Page.) domestic political crisis on his hands. Budget questions which may upset the Tardieu ministery are invoived. Whatever betides French big-navy plans temporarily bestride the confer- ence situation like a Colossus of Rhodes. They have already engender- ed resumption of Britain's ancient anti-French sentiment, France's cruiser and submarine plans are frankly discussed as a menace: to the security of British commerce in the waters immediately adjacent to these islands and in the Mediterranean. The American offer of parity on the basis of 1,200,000 tons is roundly criticized as :)n.l:iequnte for Britain if France stands Admonishes Macdonald. The conservative Daily Telegraph, ad- monishing Macdonald that heg"mp under suspicion ‘of wishing to bring about all costs agreement involving drastic re- duction of our already dangerously de- me_t!d strength.” warns him as follows: "The plain duty of the government is to be guided by facts, not by their own predilections, in providing for the em- Pire’s security. They will be. held to that duty by the force of national opin- fon. which it would be suicide to chal- l!gxe."' enatar Thomas J. Walsh's radio plea for American adhesion to the secur:-lh' pact on the limited lines of the four- power Pacific pact, is widely quoted in London, but commentators do not fail to observe that the Montanan admits no illusions about securing “requisite American support” for such a project. It is supposed here that Walsh has in mind the celebrated but tempera- mental body which he adorns and whose eccentricities where treaties are concerned are well known on t of the water, D. C. DRIVERS T0 GET INCREASED DOSES OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS __(Continued From Second Page) extra 20 seconds, or a full minute to get around, and the pedestrians an Aadditional 3 seconds,. for a total of 23 seconds, for crossings, This timing will stay on for a day or two, Harland says. ‘Then it will be slowly cut down to speed up the trafic until the circle is running on the same timing as Dupont Circle, with about 45 seconds for the automobiles and 20 for the pedestrians. Three Children Burned. DE SOTO, Mo., February 17 (#).— Three children were burned to death Saturday night when fire destroyed & two-story log house in which they re- sided with their r-renu on a farm six miles southeast of De Soto. They were Gerald, 14; Vernon. 9, and Roy, 7, of Mr. and Mrs. William l(c!’uln?." ;