Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1930, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight and ut:‘nrmw: not much: change in rature, Temperatures—Highest, 91, at 2:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 50, at day. "Full report on page 16. 'Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 7, 8 & 9-B No. 31,392 post office. Entered as second class matte! Washington, 6 am. to- r DC LAIN WOMAN'S BODY FOUND 1 @h WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, MISS MARY BAKER HAD BEH OSSN SINCE ATTENDNG CHURH YESTERDAY Victim- of Murderer Shot Through Neck and Ear and Head Was Crushed—~Found Near Arlington Cemetery. BLOOD-STAINED AUTO LEADS TO POLICE SEARCH Co-Workers in Navy Department Started Inquiry This Morning When Government Employe[ * Failed to Reach Office. The body of Miss Mary Baker, 28 years old, 217 Beech street, Lyon Park, Va., an employe of the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy Department, was found shortly after noon -today lying at the mouth of a culvert near the Sheridan gate of the Arlington National Cemetery. The body was lying face down- ward in the water and sand with the head crushed and a bullet hole through the neck and ear. Miss Baker’s body was discov- ered about three-quarters of a mile from the place where her blood - stained automobile was found this morning. Policeman Ray Cobean of the Arlington County force found the body dur- ing a search along the roadway over which the automobile, judg- ing from the way it was headed, had evidently been traveling. Upon the arrival of B. H. Swain, coroner of Arlington County, it was found that in addition to the bullet hole and crushed head her neck was bruised, indicating that there had been a struggle before! the firing of the shot. Her wrist watch, which was lying in the water, had stopped at 9:15 o’clock. Miss Baker is the daughter of the Rev. Thomas P. Baker, minister of an Episcopalian Church at Oak Grove, Va., 90 miles from Washington, in ‘Westmoreland County. w Attends Church Service. Miss Baker left her office at the usual time yesterday afternoon with a friend, Miss Inez M. of the Evangeline Hotel, to attend a service at the Epiph- any Church. The service did not start until 5 o'clock, so the two friends de- cided to walk to the church, on G street near Thirteenth. Miss Baker’s car was parked at Sev- enteenth and B streets, but she told Miss Eyre she preferred to leave it there because of the difficulty of parking up- town. After the services were over the two women separated. Looking her wrist watch, Miss Baker sa ‘It's only 20 minutes of 6. 1 guess I'll walk down and get my car, ‘because I don’t have to meet Mildred until 6 o'clock.” She was referring to Mildred Sperry, with whom she shared a bungalow, whom she was supposed to meet in front of Kann's department store. Last Time Seen Alive. Miss Eyre said she watched her com- panion for a moment until she turned the corner at Fourteenth street. That was the last time she was seen alive by her friends. Miss Sperry waited in front of the store until 8:15, and when Miss Baker failed to arrive she started home with another occupant of her home, Miss Olga Skinner. According to Miss Eyre, the slain girl was in excellent spirits when shei last saw her. “She wasn't the type of girl to Tun around,” Miss Eyre said, “and so far as I know she had few men friends.” Detectives investigating the case are puzzled by Miss Baker's failure to arrive at Kann's to keep her appointment. They point out that the 35 minutes from the time she left Miss Eyre until Miss Sperry left their meeting place was more than sufficient for her to have reached her destination unless something intervened to delay her. May Have Been Kidnaped. They are considering the possibility that she may have been kidnaped when she returned for her car, or that she may have met a friend who had ac- companied her on a ride. When Miss Baker did not come to her office this morning, Miss Eyre be- came worried, knowing that she had not planned to stay away from work. ‘With Mrs. Pauline Ford, 1575 Spring place, she decided to search for her. They called their friend’s home and (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) CANNON IS WILLING TO APPEAR IN PROBE Bishop Notifies Caraway He Would Be Glad to Go Before Lobby Committee, By the Associated Press. Cannon, jr., of the Temperance and Social Service. The letter was written Caraway after BB emuactis, had given notice tha. he lven nof e lobby mit investigate Cannon and '.hew:ulrm of which he is chairman, Can the Me ist Board of Tem- rance and Soclal Service, leff Wash- Kmm today for Durham, N. C. MARY BAKER. PRESIDENT IS FIRM FOR JUDGE PARKER Despite Opposition, Senators Have Not Urged Nomina-' tion Be Withdrawn. President Hoover has not been urged | by any group of Republican Senators, or even any individual Republican Senator to withdraw the name of Judge John J. Parker of North Caro- lina, whom he recently nominated to be assdciate justice of the United States Supreme Court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Sanford. ‘This was learned from an authorita- tive source today and at the same time At is well established that regardless of the organized opposition to Judge Parker’s confirmation in various quar- ters, President Hoover has , not the slightest intention of withdrawing the name. It is true, however, that Mr. Hoover has had his attention called by several Republican leaders to the nature of the opposition to Judge Parker and espe- cially the propaganda which has been started by those opposing him. Curtis Discusses Parker. Vice President Curtis is known to be among those who have discussed the matter with the President. He has laid before the latter the facts as he knows them to exist regarding the most recent propaganda, which is being circulated under the name of the Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Other opposition to Judge Parker’s fl:soflmtlon comes from organized T, The President is understood to have not yet been advised whether or not there will be any formidable opposition to Judge Parker when the time comes rort:he Senate to vote upon his confir- mation. Opposed by Colored Unit. To the opposition of organized labor to Judge Parker has been added that of a large number of colored voters in the Northern States, based on the alleged assertions of the nominee that a colored person is unfit to take part in politics. As the result of the opposition from colored voters, Senators -are being flooded with more telegrams and let- ters of protest than they have had from labor. In consequence, . Republican (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) e STRIKE PARLEY FAILS Students’ Demands at Harrogate, Impossible, Says College Head. HARROGATE, Tenn., April 12 (Q.— A conference between student leaders and Judge J. H. S. Mo , acting g‘r:sld:nt, has failed to end a strike of ys and girls attending Lincoln Me- morial University. The u:tk‘x‘, cgruldent sald demands were made wl he had not the authority to grant. —_— Jugoslavia Greeks Elect Patriarch. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, April 12 (#). --Mgr. Banarde, Archbishop of Skoplje, today was elected patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jugoslavia. %J“m the late Patriarch Dimitrie 2. ¥ - SUED FOR $200.000 {Miss Hopkins’ Reason Shat- tered by Fatal Crossing Crash, Is Alleged. ‘The District of Columbia and the | Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. were | sued separately today for $200,000 dam- ages by Miss Edith Hopkins, through her committee, Elizabeth F. Campbell, on the claim that she has been ren- dered insane and 1§ now confined at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital as the resuly of a collision between a train of the railroad company and an automobile in which she was a passenger October 26, last. The collision occurred at the ghe.stnut street crossing near Takoma ark. In two other separate suits, Elizabeth { F. Campbell, as administratix of Ida | M. Hopkins, mother of Miss Hopkins, | who was killed in_the collision, asks |the 1legal limit of $10,000 damages against the District and the railroa | company. Through Attorneys Crcmelin & Laws, L. N. Coe and Joseph C. Bruce, the committee of Miss Hopkins seeks to hold the District of Columbia respon- sible for the injuries sustained by the young woman and which are sald to have resulted in the loss of her reason, for alleged failure by the city fathers to take steps to eliminate this grade crossing under authority’ of an Act of Congress of March 3, 1927, for erection of an overhead crossing and for which $405,000 was authorized to be appro- priated. The District was also at fault, she claims, because it did not require the company to erect proper safety de- vices, or did not itself erect such pro- tection. = Negligence is charged against the railroad company. On Saturday night, October 26, Mrs. Hopkins and Miss Hopkins, residing at 1517 Gales street northeast, were guests of Mrs. J. A. Johnson of 1521 Gales street northeast for an automobile ride and a visit among relatives in Takoma Park. After leaving Takoma Park with Mrs. Johnson driving, the machine was struck by a train at the Chestnut street crossing. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Hopkins were killed instantly. Miss Hopkins was treated at Emergency Hospital and later committed to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for observation. SECRETARY HURLEY ILL By the Assoclated Press. Secretary Hurley of the War Depart- ment was confined to his home today by the recurrence of an old digestive ail- ment. Although it will be several days before he can return to his desk, he is not in danger and no operation is planned. He Is being attended by Dr. James F. Mitchell, who performed an operation um:: him before the war. The physi- cian says that his patient is doing well and that there is nothing dangerous about his condition. Juries Believed Favoring Women. NEW YORK, April 12 (#)—Selah ustice of the State Su- pre: of juries in New York vote a thetic verdict for a voman in a divorce action. He so remarked in censuring one jury. DEATH CALL AT YORK HOME IS SECOND IN FOUR MONTHS Dry ‘Agent’s Wife, Mourning Loss of 7-Year-Old Son, Not Told Peril Death this morning paid a second call within four months to. the home of Mrs.. Helen ‘York, at 1244 C street. frien policeman from No. 2 precinct utlgxlymehontmamoimmut. home at about 2 o'clock this morning, m' fumbling his hat and telling Mrs. York as gently as possible that her husband, L. W. York, prohibition agent, had been d killed in a dark alley a short who is chairman of | injuries suff A | his work Husband Faced. ki Hz?figggg ks & CAPITAL ANDB. &0, d He left his partner, Federal Prohibition ¢ Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TWO COLORED MEN SOUGHT IN SLAVING OF DRY AGENT HERE Suspects Wanted in Connec- tion With Murder of Lemar Watson York, 36. | OFFICER SHOT TO DEATH AFTER CORNERING AUTO Admitted Consignee of Cargo Helps I Police Reconstruct Crime in Alley. Police and Federal prohibition agents were combing the city and nearby Vir- | ginia and Maryland today for two col- ored men identified as the driver of a rum car which Prohibition Agent | Lamar Watson York, 33 years old, fol- lowed into Brooks court, an alley near First and P streets, shortly before he was shot to death there early this morning. ‘The police announced that they were searching for John Logan, alias Roy Logan, 22 years old, and John Bur- roughs, alias John Burham, whom they wished to question in connection with the killing. A clue led to Calvert County, Md. where the headquarters of an illicit liquor ring is reported located. The | two suspects are said to have been em- | ployed by this ring to liquor into | Washington. Still another scent led | |into Virginia, and a headquarters de- tective was dispatched there. Meanwhile the police investigation, under direction of Lieut. Edward J. Kelly of the homicide squad, had dis- closed the names of the two men be- lieved to have been the drivers of an | automobile which York had followed iinto the alley and had seized a car found before the home of one of the suspects. Witnesses virtually identified the machine as the one which entered the alley. Testimony Conflicts. Police heard conflicting stories from a dozen men and women held for questioning. Header by Lieut. Kelly, who had been summoned from his sleep after the first flash on the murder, a squad of police- men barricaded half a dozen houses in | the immediate vicinity and located Mil- ton Guy, colored, who told them that the driver of the liquor car were de- livering a case of whi to him. Guy called the police after the shooting and said he had seen the shooting, but did not know the suspects. Guy furnished the names of the two men, described the events leading up to York's sudden appearance and re- called other detalls that the policemen pleced together. York, the father of two small children, was off duty at the time of his death. i Agent Eugene Jackson at a downtown garage sometime around 12:30 o'clock and drove off in his automobile pre- sumably on his way home. York is believed to have sighted the suspected rum car sometime later, which he fol- lo'll?erd ng‘ the l'lle}h om that point the police pieced to- gether this story: e York parked his car near First and (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) FRENCH CONSULATE RAID IS REVEALED Letter Says Europeans, Aided by Chinese, Slew 500 Communists in Battle. s By the Associated Press. SHANGHALI, April 12.—Chinese press dispatches from Canton today reported that “a private Lungchow (Kwangsi province) letter stated that since Jan- uary 1 Reds have been scourging dis- tricts along the French Indo-China border, climaxing their activities March 25 by raiding and burning the French consulate at Lungchow, driving away the French consuls and occupying the Lungchow customs offices. The letter continues: “The raid re- sulted i the French sending 300 sol- diers and five airplanes, assisting Kwangsl (Chinese) troops in defeating the Communists of whom 500 were slain. ve Russians were captured with many Chinese Communists. The Chinese soldiers executed the Russian and China prisoners with machine guos Permanence Preference for The Star by both readers and ad- vertisers is established by its permanent leadership in both fields. The Star’s daily circulation of 110,000 papers in the city and sub- urbs includes an increase of 10,000 reader homes in the past two years. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) Lines. ‘The Evening Star. .83,976 ..37,308 2nd Newspaper. - . 7,691 3rd Newspaper. 4th Newspaper.... 7,341 5th Newspaper.... 3,623 Total other 4 papers, 55,963 Star Exccss.a. ....28013 !ing, which closes at 3 Star, The Star’s carri tion is delivered to “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ier system covers every city block and the regular edi- ‘Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 114,173 1930—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. &% () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. l“;'\“‘\\”‘\\\\ 2 i " N CULVERT [HOOVER SAYS NAVY NEW D. C. HEADS PAY CAPITOL ISIT Commissioners Have Busy| Routine of Duties—Brief | Call on President. The new District Commissioners went | through a stiff workout today and dis- | patched an enormous pile of business | early in the morning before calling at | the Capitol to pay their respects to the men who dictate the legislative and fiscal destini~s of the District in Con-| gress. | Although Saturday is usually regard- | ed as an off day at the District Build- pm., the new | Commissioners called an extraordinary | board session a few minutes after they got to work at 9 o'clock. At 20 minutes after 10 Daniel E. Garges walked out of the office of Commissioner Luther H. Reichelderfer with a mountainous load of board papers representing actions taken on various routine matters and the Commissioners left in an official autcmobile for the office of Representa- tive McLeod, Republican, of Michigan, acting chairman of the House District committee. They also had appointments with Representative Simmons, Republican, of Nebraska, chairman of the District sub- committee of the House appropriations committee; Senator Arthur Capper, Re- publican, of Kansas, chairman of the Senate District committee, and Senator | Hiram Bingham, chairman of the Dis- trict subcommittee of the Senate appro- priations committee. These calls were intended as courtesy calls and complete the usual round of such calls, which began with a visit yesterday afternoon to President Hoover at the White House. Burke Restored to Duty. One cf the first actions taken by the new board was to restore to active duty Pvt. William F. Burke, precinct detec- tive at the third precinct, who recently was acquitted by the Police Trial Board on a charge of taking undue interest in the affairs of a proprietress of an alleged disorderly house. The Commis- sioners relieved Pvt. Roy B. Wolfe from his motor cycle assignment at his re- quest and replaced him by Pvt. Roy N. White. Turning to the Fire Department, the Commissioners ordered Inspector L. A. Ratcliffe retired on account of physical disabflity with a pension at $90 a month. Ratcliffe was 62 years old and had been a member of the department 21‘! years. He was in the fire marshal's office. A temporary stand for licensed public vehicles was ordered established on the south side of C street between Seven- teenth and Eighteenth streets. This is for the purpose of furnishing trans- portation of the annual congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, W] will be in session from April 14 to April 19, inclusive. Conradis Resignation Accepted. The resignation of Louis Conradis as, a member of the plumbing board was accepted, and he was replaced by Rob- ert J. a local master plumber, who_was recommended for the job by the Master Plumbers’ Association of the District. Four sewer contracts were awarded as follows: To the M. Cain Co., Incorporated, East Brightwood service sewers in the vicinity of Peabody and Eighth streets, $11,827.77, and the Juniper street sani- between Sixteenth and Four- teenth streets, $2,360.37. To Peter D'Adamo Construction Co., North Shepherd Park sanitary sewer in the vicinity of Sixtcenth street and Lo- cust road, $6,273.33. - To Logan Pingree, Incorporated, Sixth (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) STORY OF KIDNAPING IS RELATED BY YOUTH Boy in Maine Says He Was Thrown Into Auto in Detroit. By the Assoclated Press. Ibe! today. The lad, who gave the name of Leon- Hannp, said he was thrown into an automobile in it by two men taken to New Talkies For Deaf Will Be Equipped In Chicago Section By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 12.—Three Chicago moving picture theaters, including one in the Loop, have advised the Chicago League of the Hard of Hearing that they will install equipment that wiil enable the 300,000 deaf people in the Chicago area to hear the talkies. A campaign was started last year among the deaf, calling upon the public places to install electrical hearing aids. Several churches already have made such equipment available. ARSON SUSPECTED IN FAGTORY FIRES Two Youths Held After | Flames Damage Box Plant | and Iron Works. ‘Two fires, apparently of incendiary origin, early this morning swept through Langhor box factory at 1369 One-hali street southeast, the adjoining Slattery Iron Works and the Clarence Silver junk yard at 1010 First street southeast. ‘Two youths arrested in the vicinity shortly after discovery of the fire Were held at No. 5 precinct for investigation. The blaze at the box factory, owned by Theodore L. Langhor, is estimated to have caused $500 damage. It started in the rear yard and demolished many completed boxes and lumber. The fire was carried by the wind to the adjoin- ing Slattery Iron Works, where it de- stroyed the roof and the heat damaged several windows. Clarence Silver, owner of the junk | tin yard, said the blaze at his establishment started in the rear of the building on the ground floor, where bundles of old paper were stored. He believed a win- dow was broken and the material ignited. He listed damage at $1,000. Fire Inspectors J. R. Gray and E. L. Jones upon investigation of the two fires, said that they could find no material in the box factory yard that would have caused spontaneous combustion, and there was no electrical wiring. Although the stored paper in the junk yard might have fired itself, it was deemed im- probable. TWO AT SCRANTON CONVICTED OF GRAFT Former Mayor Jermyn and H. J. Friend, ex-Civil Service Commis- sioner, Found Guilty. By the Associated Press.” SCRANTON, Pa. April 12.—Former Mayor E. B. Jermyn and Harry J. Friend, ex-civil service commissioner, were' found ‘guilty of conspiracy in Criminal Court here today. They have been on trial the last week as a result of charges that graft was paid to them by heads of a stot machine syndicate. which operated in an open-handed man- ner in this city for many months dur- ing the Jermyn administration. » ‘The xnd.(ctm:na wel: r;tn:nnle;ir:‘y‘ J.gxe‘ fanishea"them during the siot machige robe conducted by President Judge E. 5 Newcomb. _Sentence was deferred. The Paris Gun The first authentic story of the German long-range gun which fired upon Paris 12 years_ago on Good Friday. Stranger Than Fiction This article, by Lieut. Col. Henry W. Willer, is in three memu installments, the i The Magaz;;ne of i{ Tomorrow’s Star CYANAMD SHOAL | LOBBY PITIRED jLa Guardia Statement Pre- dicts Big Scandal if Bid Is Revived. By the Asroclated Press. Asserting the Senate lobby committee “hasn’t scratched the surface” in its| | investigation of Muscle Shoals, Repre- | sentative La Guardia, Republican, New | York, today in a public statement pre- | dicted the “biggest national scandal ever broken in Washington” if an at-{ | tempt were made to revive the Ameri- can Cyanamid Corporation’s bid for the Alabama_project. tfined all the facts,” the New Yorker |'said in a statement, “and startling as | their disclosures may be, they haven't | scratched the surface of the activities their bill through Congress.” A large number of witnesses, includ- ing Chairman Huston of the Republi- can national committee, have been heard in recent weeks by the Senate committee in its inquiry into activities | year-old Muscle Shoals problem. of the property are now before the | House military affairs committee—one the Norris resolution to authorize gov- | ernmental operation, which has been | adopted by the Senate, and the other the Wright bill to lease the project to the Cyanamid Co. for 50 years. ‘The pressure of the Cyanamid Corpor- ation on House members in the last Congress was “tremendous,” La Guardia said, adding that “it was even able to get the House military affairs commit- tee to hold a rump meeting.” that they never dared to call up the bill on the floor of the House,” he con- ued. “The lobbying activities of this com- pany included every bit and kind of lobbying that is often told in fiction. There wasn't a thing with which men may be tempted that wasn’t invoked to make friends for their bill. “Thousands of were induced to buy land down at Muscle Shoals. People who sunk their money there are now being canvassed and told that their investments de- pend on the Cyanamid bid going through. “They in turn naturally become ex- cited and write letters about this bill. As a matter of fact, if the Cyanamid bill would pass there would be less men employed on the project than under any other proposition. “If there is any attempt to revive the Cyanamid bill, I predict it will be the biggest national scandal ever broken in Washington, and will be so far reaching that it will affect both political parties.” COMMUNISTS PLAN MARCH ON CAPITAL Foster Says 10,000 Will Stage Parade After Meeting of 100,000 in Chicago. NEW YORK, April 12 (#).—Plans for an unemployment demonstration march of ‘workers” from Chicago to Washing- ton were announced here today by Wil- liam Z. Foster, Communist leader, who is in jail cwaiting sentence on a charge of unlawful assembly growing out of the Communist demonstration in Union | Square last month. ‘The March will start on July 5, Foster said, after “a col mass meeting” in Chicago July 4. More than 100,000 “workers” and members of the Com- munist party will participate in the Chicago July 4 demonstration, he said. 20 WOUNDED IN RIOT BUCHAREST, Rumania, April 12 (#). | —Twenty ‘were wounded severely today when veterans of the World War and widows of the war dead in the center of the city. The riot was suppressed with diffi- eult{. ‘The invalids and War Mothers boml the gendarmerie and police troops with stones and clods of earth, the constabularly retaliating by cl =) with batons and swords. Several icers were among the injured, who included many more than the 20 severe cases W] were taken to The ringleaders of the arrested. | | “The Senate committee has not ob- | of the Cyanamid Corporation to jam | surrounding the legislation on the 10- | ‘Two measures proposing dispos:tion! “But the background was so rotten | innocent investors | lice clashed with disabled | P! PLAN BLOCKS RACE AND SAVES TOTAL OF §2500,000000 Approval of Delegations’ Work at London Given in Cabled Message to Ameri- cans. BURIAL OF SUSPICIONS IS SEEN BY PRESIDENT Calls Agreement Great Step in World Peace and Assurance of U. §. Parity—Estimates Billion Economy for This Government Under Treaty. By the Associated Press. The abolition of competitive naval building and a world saving of approximately $2,500,000,000 are, in the opinion of President Hoover, the important accom- plishments of the London Con- ference. 2 With the termination of inter- national rivalry in warship con- struction, the Chief Executive foresees “the burial of the fears and suspicions” which have been its “constant product.” He pre- dicts that the money saved will be devoted to reproductive enter- prise and result in a greatly stimulated world prosperity. The President has cabled to' the American delegates at London his ap- | proval of the agreement reached there and his “admiration for their patience and determination in an arduous and difficult negotiation.” In addition, he | wishes to congratulate the representa- tives of the four other powers which participated in the conference for their “constructive and courageous action.” Billion U. S. Saving Estimite. In estimating the financial saving. {Mr. Hoover compared the sums to be spent under the accord with what would have been expended on a basis of the fleet strength proposed at Geneva in :?2; "f]he saving tg the United States one, he estimated at approxim: one billion dollars. o as { “The cost to the United States of re- | placements and new construction dur- | ing the next six years * * * will be (un- | der various estimates) from $550,000,000 | to $650,000,000, as compared to'a sum * of between $1,400,000,000 to $1.- 640,000,000 to attain pariy on the Geneva basis,” the President said. *“To this latter would need be added the ad- ditional cost of maintenance and op- erating which would make the saving upon the present basis as compared to | the Geneva basis up to $1,000 002,000 in |the next six years. | “The savings are not alone to the United States, but to Great Britain and Japan as well. The total savings to the world is perhaps $2,500,000,000 be- low the Geneva basis to which the world was steadily drifting. This sum devoted to' reproductive enterprise, will be a great stimulus to world prosperity. * The net result of the London agree- ment Mr. Hoover expects to be “a very lcons!dernble decrease” in the world’s :Clunl naval tonnage as it stands to- ay. Nine Warships to Be Scrapped. “It is difficult to estimate the precise reductions in war craft tonnage which has been brought about by this agree- ment because of the factor of normal replacement and additional tonnage authorized but not yet constructed,” he said. “Nine battieships are to be scrapped of a total of about 236,000 tons, the replacement of 16 or 17 others to be deferred for six years. The vari- ous navies in the agreement are to re- duce some 300,000 to 400,000 tons of other categories in the next few years, as they become obsolete—but some categories of some of them must be in- creased in order to come up to the standards set.” Analyzing the London agreement, Mr. Hoover said that it calls for Anglo- American parity on a basis of a bat- tleship fleet for each of about 460,000 tons, with no replacements for six years; a cruiser tonnage of 339,000, a destroyer tonnage of 150,000 and a sub- marine tonnage of 52,700 for each. In connection with the cruiser figures, Mr. Hoover pointed out that the Ameri- can tonnage would be slightly less than " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) BOMB PROBE GOES OVER TILL MONDAY Marlboro Grand Jury Puts Off Questioning Herman Brady, Brother of Accused. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., April 12: —Investigation of the Se: Pleasant. bombing by the Prince Georges grand jury was suspended today, the jury having recessed until Monday morn after hearing ten witnesses yyuurdl:ly.. Several of the witnesses already heard may be recalled and there are others who' have been summoned - but not heard as yet. As a result Government rosecutors do not ex an _indict- ment, if one is returned, re Tuesday. Among those scheduled to be heard Monday is Herman Brady, whose wife, Naomi Hall Brady, was one of the vic- tims of the bomb, and whose brother, Lawrence Leroy Bl'ldf. is accused b police of being responsible for her deat and that of her younger brother and sister, who were killed when the bomb went off in the home of John Hall on New Year day.