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& THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATUR APRIL 12, 1939 TEXT OF HOOVER’S 12 CRASH VICTIMS T0 BE IDENTIFIED Bodies So Mangled in New| Mexico Disaster Work of Inquiry is Slow. By the Assoclated Press. ISLETA, N. Mex,, April 12—Efforts were being made here today to com- pletely identify 19 victims of a bus- train crash here, whose bodies were so terribly mangled that some uncertainty still exists regarding names of 12 of the dead. g ‘Ten other passengers aboard the Pickwick-Greyhound bus, en route from Los Angeles to Denver, were in- jured. Bits of wreckage and bodies were strewn for 200 yards by a Santa Fe mail train that struck the bus yes- terday at a crossing near the ancient pueblo of Isleta. After the collision blazing gasoline burned the clothing from some of the bodies and consumed inflammable parts of the wrecked bus. Inquiry to ©s Monday. State officials here have moved investigate thoroughly the cause of the crash. District Attorney Lujan an- nounced an inquest would be held at 10 a.m. Monday in Albuquerque. Attaches of the district attorney’s of- fice interviewed the 10 shaken sur- vivors and rounded up witnesses for the inquiry. Officials of the Santa Fe Rail- road, members of the Pickwick-Grey- hound Co. and members of the train crew are to be summoned. Ot the 29 persons in the bus when the crash occurred, not one escaped death or injury. Nine of the injured, serjously but not fatally hurt, were in Thospitals here and one was able to g0 to a hotel after treatment. Homer Stein of San Francisco and Conrad Heubers of Los Angeles, injured, said the driver of the bus, F. D. Wil- liams, who was killed, failed to stop at the grade crossing, but merely slow- ed down. Brakes of Train Applied. The engineer of the mail train saw the crash was inevitable, he said, and put on his brakes at once, but even then the train ran half a mile before it was brought to a stop. The known dead: Mrs. Ellis Huff, Los Angeles, “ormerly of Oklahoma City; Kenneth Huff, aged 8, her son, Los Angeles; Corpl. Roland Anderson, Merril], Iowa; F. D. Williams, bus_driver, Albucuerque; Potacio Torel- to, Indian, Santo Domingo, N. Mex.; R. C. Stevens, Kankakee, II.; Willlam Mickle, Santa Monica, Calif. Probable dead (identification made from personal letters and effects): Miss Cartula M. Maurer, Huntington Park, Calif.; Miss Henrietta Robbins, Ramsey, N. J.; Richard Childers, Ar- tesia, Calif.; Thelma Luft, Denver, Col.; or Los Angeles; Mrs. Mona Utter, Mar- vin, Mo.; T. F. Feeley, Hollywood, Calif.; C. E. Mallory, address unknown; Alice Stanglan, Los Angeles; Orla Barber, ad- dress unknown; two unidentified bahies; one unidentified Indian. PRESIDENT HOOVER =~ - DETERMINED TO LET ¢ PARKER CHOICE STAND (Continued From Pirst Page.) Senators from Northern and border States, which have a large number of colored voters, are alarmed. The subcommittee of the Senate judi- ciary committee, in charge of the nom- ination, will report to the whole com- mittee Monday. Senator Overman, North Carolina, the chairman, favors Parker, and a favorable report is expected. Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, a member, has not announced any de- cigion. The Idaho Senator made it clear to those interested in the case that he is confining his interest to a study of the Parker decisions respecting the labor cases. The American Federation of Labor has protested that his decision uphold- %lln injunction restraining the United le Workers from attempting to solicit membership under certain circum- stances amounts to a decision in favor of “yellow dog contracts.” Cites Cause for Fight. ‘Through Walter White of the Asso- ciat.on for the Advancement of Colored People, the association’s objection was specifically made to a statement pub- lished by a North Carolina newspaper in which Judge Parker was credited ‘with being opposed to the colored race in politics. A prominent Republican Senator sald the disclosure that Judge Parker was against the colored voter and as a participant in politics has brought 50 many protests from States where there are large groups of colored voters that the control of the Senate next November must well be upset by his confirmation and Republican sway over the chamber lost. He said that it had created a dan- gerous situation for Senators Guy D. Goff and Henry D. Hatfleld in West Virginia, for Senator John M. Rebsion in Kentucky, for Roscos C. McCulloch in Ohio, for Senators Arthur Capper and Henry J. Allen in Kansos, for Dwight Morrow in New Jersey, for Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick in Illinois and for other Republican candidates in States with heavy colored votes. Senator Goff of West Virginia, who indorsed Judge Parker in the first place, is said to have withdrawn his indorse- ment. Denial by Parker Suggested. ‘The possibility that Judge Parker will repudiate the newspaper statement at- tributed to him in 1920 was suggested by Republican leaders in the Senate. One story is that he said in 1920 he did not want the election as governor if it was to come to him through col- ored .votes. This, however, has been denfed by his friends. The suggestion was made today that Judge Parker might be asked to appear before the Senate judiciary committee. It was recalled that, years ago, when the fight was waged on Justice Louis 7)., Brandies, he appeared before the committee and made a statement in his own behalf. Debate on the floor will take a wide range. It will concern the attitude of the Supreme Court itself on the in- junction in labor cases and on the “yellow Dog” contract, Judge Parker’s attitude on these matters and his at- titude toward the colored voters. To make the case sun‘ m&x: wtmruclmd. Judge Parker participated not long ago indgedecmon ‘against an ordinance of Richmond which provided for segre- gation of colored people. This decision | to against zoning has aroused Southern Democratic Senators. ; FLYING TO NEW YORK Count Henri de la V: president. of the Federation Aeronautique Inter- tionale, whn'-l-llu.‘b:en .'l‘ l:mmr ;n .%e tional Capit ice ursda; - :" is lgavlni Bolling Field this to] PARLEY STATEMENT President Hoover's statement on the London Naval Conference is as fol- lows: “I am greatly pleased with the final success of the Naval Arms Conference in London and I have today telegraphed the delegation expressing my approval of the result achieved and my admira- tion for their ience and determin tion in an arduous and difficult nego-: tiation. And I wish to congratulate the delegations of the other govern- ments for their constructive and cour- ageous action. “The most vital feature of its great accomplishments for peace is the final abolition of competition in naval arms between the greatest naval powers and the burial of the fears and suspicions which have been the constant product ot rival warship construction. It will be recalled that prior to the three- power conference at Geneva in 1927, which France and Italy felt obliged to decline attendance, there was naval competition in all craft except battle- ships with constant international fric- tion. Consequently upon the failure of that conference the rival expansion re- celved even new impulses and resulted in increased international suspicion and ll-will th;cuih the world and a steady drift to greatly increased navies. Profits by Genva Expegience. “When I initiated this negotiation it was after a critical examination of the experience before and after the Geneva Conference and a determina- tion ,that the causes of that failure could be met with adequate preparation and preliminary negotiations. At that time we realized, and have realized at all times since, that the particular set- ting of the continental nations, ber cause of the inseparable importance of land armies in their bearing upon naval strength, together with the political agreements that reduction of such arms implied, made a_five-power agreement extremely improbable, as the United | States could not involve itself in such agreements. The French and Italian governments have shown the utmost good will in this conference in endeav- or, in the interest of world peace, to support the present solution just as far as they could do so, and they have joined the present agreement in im- portant provisions. “It is difficult to estimate the precise reductions in war craft tonnage which has been brought about by this sgree- ment because of the factor of normal replacement and additional tonnage authorized but not yet constructed. Nine battleships are to be scrapped of a total of about 230,000 tons, the re- placement of 16 or 17 others to be deferred for 6 years. The various navies in the agreement are to reduce some 300,000 to 400,000 tons of other catego- ries in the next few years as they be- come obsolete, but some categories of some of them must be increased in order to come up to the standards set. The net balance will be a very consid- erable decrease in the world's actual tonnage as it stands today. “The economic importance of the accomplishment can best be measured in terms of the situation developed at the Geneva conference. 'That confer- ence broke down upon the feeling of the British represéntatives that it was necessary for them to create or main- tain a navy of a total of nearly 1,500,000 tons, Their pre-war navy was much larger tham this. The American dele- gates were_mot able to agree to this basis, as it implied such a huge amount ot navabseonstruction in the United | States-that- it was hopeless to expect public rt and it meant a per- petually inferior navy. Britain’s Plan at Geneva. “The British suggestions at Geneva were approximately: “1. Maintain the battleships as pro- vided in, the Washington treaty, ot which the British battle fleet then stood at 606,000 tons and the American battle fleet of 525,000 tons. “3 ~ Aircraft carriers as in the Wash- ington treaty at a maximum of 135,000 tons, “3. A cruiser tonnage of about 450~ 000 tons in 70 cruisers. “4, Although actual figures were lit- tle discussed, the conversations appear to have indicated a destroyer tonnage of about 225,000 to 250,000 tons and a submarine tonnage of about 75,000 tons, or a total fleet of nearly 1,500,000 tons on a British basis, or 1,420,000 Amer- ican basis, owing to our inferiority in battleship mcm'{e through the Wash- ington arms treaty. E’fi this fleet had been adopted as the basis of parity it would have cost the United States somewhere, upon differ- ent calculations, from $1,400,000,000 to $1,750,000,000 for replacements and new construction to attain it with greatly increased maintenance costs. “The present agreement calls for parity of Amei'icm and British fleets of approximately: 1. A battleship basis to each of us of about 460,000 tons, but no replace- ments for next six years on either side. 2. Afrcraft carriers as in Washington arms treaty at a maximum of 135,000 tons. 3. A cruiser basis of 339,000 tons if the United States exercises the option of the same types as Great Britain, but if the United States builds a larger ratio of the large cruisers, our tonnage would be 323,000. It represents a reduction of about 20 ships in the basis of the Brit- ish cruisers fleet. "1. Destroyer tonnage of 150,000 tons and a submarine tonnage of 52,700 tons each. Reduction of 364,000 Tons. “THat is a total fleet basis of, wu&hly, about 1,136,000 tons (slightly less if we build the larger cruisers) as compared with about 1,500,000 tons British basis of the Geneva Conference, shows a reduc- tion of about 364,000 tons below that basis to the United States and Great Britain and a proportional reduction to Japan. In bringing this about the British scrap four 8-inch-gun cruisers and five battleships, while we scrap three battleships, thus bringing about parity in battleships which was not at- tained in the wuhlna'wn agreement. The Japanese navy, under the proposed agreement, will amount to something near 800,000 tons. These results are to be arrived at by scrapping, by obso- lescence and by copstruction in some categories prior to 1936, when a re- newed conference is to take place. “The cost to the United States of re- placements and new construction during the next six years, until the further conference, will be (unter various esti- mates) from $550,000,000 to $650,000,- 000, as compared to & sum, as I have sald, of gt':e'n u.mogon.oogh to gém,- 000,000 to attain parity on the Geneva basis. To this latter would need be added the additional cost of mainte- nance and operating which would make the saving upon the present basis as compared to the Geneva up to $1,000,- 000,000 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, below the Geneva basis to which the world was steadily drifting. This sum devoted e Rl great s us to warl 3 “There are no political unde:glunn Murphy Death Report Issued. Coroner .J. Ramsay Nevitt issued a certificate of death from natural causes this morning in the case of . James Murphy, 68 years old, who was found in his room at 2146 Florida BILLIONS SAVED BY NAVAL PACT President Hoover Cites Ben- efits Resulting From Three- Power Agreement. (Continued From First Page.) the figure given if the Wasl n Government exercises its option of building larger cruisers on a basis of 30,000 tons of big cruisers equalling 45,000 tons of the smaller type. 364,000-Ton Cut for U. S. Summarizing his analysis, Mr. Hoover sald, the London agreement led for a fleet basis of approximately 1,136.000 tons, as compared with the 1,400,000~ ton basis of the Geneva Conference, This, he continued, shows a reduction of about 364,000 tons for the United States and Great Britain and a pro- vortional reduction for Japan. “In bringing this about,” he added, “the British scrap four 8-inch gun cruisers and five battleships, while we scrap three battleships, thus bringing about parity in battleships, which was not :tm.ned in the Washington agree- ment.” In conclusion, Mr. Hoover pointed out that “there are no political under- takings of any kind in the present treaty exceft an agreement for the regulation o is a great step in world peace and an as- surance of American parity in naval strength.” DRAFT IS BEING PREPARED. May Be Submitted to Five Naval Dele- gations Tonight. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, April 12—The first draft of the London naval agreement was being prepared today with a view to its submission to the five delegations before midnight. Progress was made by the drafting and expert committees this morning and it was indicated at St. James’ Palace that it would be possible to conclude & rough draft for considera- tion by the various delegates over the week end. Several points of difference are yet to be cleared up, including tlie so-called safeguarding clauses to protect the navies limited under the treaty in the event that neighboring nations whose navies are unlimited should begin what might be regarded as excessive building. Approval Is Forecast. While only the experts’ reports, not yet approved by the conference, are being used as a basis for the pact, there is no doubt on the part of the drafting committee that these reports will be ap- proved at Monday's session and the work can proceed over the week end in the assumption that it will be approved by the plenary session Monday. Dwight W. Morrow is serving as chairman of the drafting committee. Interest was centered primarily todsy on completui% the treaty draft for signa- 0 ture next Thursday and in departure for home. In not one of the other four delega- tions was the spirit of home-going so marked as with the Americans, who are intent upon catching the Leviathan at Southampton April 22, The line has offered to hold the vessel 24 hours; Sec- retary Stimson has asked for a 48-hour extension. Wishing to sail on a liner of the United States Lines, the Americans must either catch this boat or wait a week for the George Washington. Reservations Sought. The section of the treaty, however, dealing with all five powers represented at the conference may be made diffi- cult. Although involving much less than the three-power limitation agreement, the confiicting national viewpoints of Italy and France were expected gener- ally to clash somewhat, possibly causing some delay. Both nations were reported today to be seeking certain reservations hitherto unconsidered. According to those close to the French delegation, Aristide Briand, French for- eign minister, in signing that part of the treaty relative to a battleshi y will reserve the right to build 70,000 tons of capital ships which were granted France under the Washington treaty and which thus far have not been buili. Italy was sald to wish to make a similar reservation with regard to 85,000 tons of capital ships, thus continuing the demand for parity with France. Some naval experts in commenting on these projected reservations said that since the war Italy has built ship for ship with France, and that there was no_certainty she eventually would not build up to equality with her northern neighbor. Plenary Session Monday. Col. Stimson and Prime Minister Macdonald, greatly fatigued with the long grind which the partial success— as it is generally regarded—of the con- ference necessitated, probably will rest over the week end, leaving the treaty draff to subordinates. Monday the conference will meet in plenary session, receive the -reports of the committee and prepare the way for the final plenary session and sign- ing of the treaty Thursday. Monday's session probably will be brief and with few speeches. It will be held at 12:30 pm., which, with British Summer time becoming effective tomorrow, is 6:30 a.m. Eastern standard time. The speeches and statements of na- tional positions probably will come Thursday in connection with the for- mality of signing the treaty and just prior to the dash for boats. It was be- lieved these speeches would be toned down and would contain little which might embitter feeling between the non-agreeing nations. s Atiitude of today's press was onie of cheerfully accep W] been hoped would be more, and of welcome for the substantial gains toward naval disarmament. The Times said: “Though oppressed, as were the delegates to the Washing- ton Conference, by a sense of failure, the London delegates have every Teason to be satisfied with what actual- ly was accomplished.” e Herald, Labor organ, said: “It would be folly to overvalue the gains. The conference neither achieved dis- armament nor assured peace and the peoples looked to their statesmen for far more.” ¥ CHEST URGED TO KEEP WORK BEFORE PUBLIC , Constant reiteration of the purposes of the Community Chest throughout the year was urged by Joseph D. Kaufman at the meeting of the chest publicity at the Y. W. C. A, ‘When Threatened By the Assoclated Press. EVANSTON, Ill, April 12—A thief with a gun held up John Hunton last night, whereupon aul-llton yawned and went back leep. The gunman had entered Hun- ton's bed room, where Hunton ‘WaS doflnfi ‘The poke of a pistol barrel in his ribs aroused him. “Keep still,” said the thief, “or I'll blow your head off.” Hunton pulled the covers over his head and went back to sleep. An hour and a half later, in a weary voice, he reported to po- lice that he had been robbed of articles worth $200. He promised more details today, after he had had a good n‘lght’s rest. b ARMY PLANES SEEK ALTITUDE RECORD 20 Pilots Ordered to Make Effort Today Over Ma- ther Field. By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif, April 12.— ‘Twenty pllots of as many Army air- ships today were under orders to at- tempt to establish a new record for altitude flying by pursuit planes. ‘The effort will be made in connection with tactical field exercises being held at Mather Field by the 1st Provisional Wing of the Army Air Corps. The ships, belonging to the 95th Pur- suit Squadron from San Diego, com- manded by Capt. H. M. Elmendorf, were | instructed to climb as far beyond the 5-mile limit as possible before subzero temperatures and lack of air forces them back to earth. ‘The purpose was to ascertain how high pursuit ships can climb and still be maneuverable for combat and wheth- er they can maintain radio communi- cation” with each other and a ground station throughout. A specially equipped plane, piloted by Lieut. Guy Kirksey, also was assigned today to fly over the Stanford Univer- sity campus, at Palo Alto, to take pic- tures of President Hoover’s home. The negatives will be developed aboard the the ship and dropped at the Presidio of San Prancisco, taken downtown, and sent by telephoto to various parts of the country. President Hoover is expected before nightfall to have a copy of the picture. NEW D. C. HEADS PUT IN BUSY DAY AND VISIT CAPITOL lcorg!nued From Pirst Page.) and M streets replacement sewer, $21,- 05.37. NEW HEADS SEE PRESIDENT. Reichelderfer an¢ Crosby Told Work ‘Will Not Be Interfered With. Dr. Luther Reichelderfer and Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, the two new civilian members of the Board of Commis- sioners, are starting to work with the President’s good wishes for a successful administration. The two Commissioners called upon the President yesterday afternoon and were with him 15 minutes. They said afterward they were not summaned, but called merely to pay respects and let the President know they had taken over their new offices and were ready, to the best of their power, to give the city good government and satisfactory administration. Both Dr. Reichelderfer and Gen. Crosby stated that no directions was given them by the President in the mat- ter of the conduct of the District gov- ernment. local affairs were naturally touched upon, the two Com- missioners said, but the President made it apparent that while he was deeply interested in the Capital City and the management of the local government ¥ | he had no intention of interfering with the administrations of the two men he appointed to the board. The President thanked each for tak- ing up this civic work and concluded the interview by extending his cordial Through its dent, Charles W. Darr, the Wi rgton Chamber of Commerce has extended invitations to Dr. Reichelderfer and Gen. Crosby to be the guests of honor at thé next regular meeting of the chamber May 13, “It is our earnest desire that your administration may be of the greatest benefit to Washington and the cham- ber's facilities are freely extended to you, Mr. Darr wrote. He extended the “igreetings and congratulations of the officers and members of the Washington Chamber of Commerce.” TAXIMAN IS JAILED AS DRUNKEN DRIVER Fare Draws Fine for Rowdy Con- duct That Disturbed Suit- land Worshipers. By a Staff Cerrespondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md. April 12. —A Washington taxieab driver and his companion, who disturbed a church congregation at Suitland last Sunday by drunken driving and disorderly conduct, victed by Police Court Judge J. The cabman, Leon J. M is alleged to have collided with three parked cars before being arrested by Constable William Boone, was sentenced to three months in jail and fined a total liam Naecker. . Fred Stroebel of Baltimore, who was arrested by County Officer Robinson near Bowle.(wl:l fined 1-‘11’:0 tvrmflmx- tion of liquor. com| 5 lmfl'.).a:on e, also of Baltimore, was fined $50. Miss Taggart Listed For Radio Address On D. C. Suffrage - | above the average in ablity. | [V et =7 DON GIVES UP HOPE | THLL LATE SUMMER Will Return to England and Await Better Climatic Conditions. BY KAYE DON. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. DAYTONA BEACH. Fla, 12 (N.ANA).—It is no use barking my shins against a brick wall. For five weeks I have waited here for a good beach to make an attempt in the Silver Bullet to break the world automobile speed record and, except for two occasions during early days, this has not been vouchsafed me. I feel that the dice are loaded against me and that I am faced with the alternative of waiting an indefi- nite period for suitable conditions or of abandoning present arrangements with a view to returning here at a later date. Many rumors have gained currency and, though these have been disturb- ing and grossly unfair, they have not in any way influenced me. The position is this: Daytona Beach fis contrary. It is as fickle as a woman and I cannot spare the time to wait on Dame Fortune. I have engagements in England. and if I wait now it means sacrificing participation in British and European motoring events. Not Affected by Rumors. It seems to me that contrary winds have set in and that there is little likelihood of the beach being in con- dition for attacking the world record until the end of the Summer. There- fore I think I am doing the right thing in returning to England and walting better climatic conditions. I should like to say that I have no complaint to make with the more responsible authorities at Daytona and that the unfounded rumors have not affected me other than to tend to give me a wrong impression of American fair play. But, honestly, I think that the only people who have given voice to and believed these rumors are those people who are common to every nation and who are disappointed at being deprived of a Roman holiday. It is not my place to deny my detractors. My reputation stands for what it is and I am not concerned with any calumnies as to my personal cour- age, because only those people who do not matter can possibly give credence to them. Of course, I am disappointed and I am not blaming it entirely on the beach. The car may have been a little too experimental, but that can be remedied. "New gyrangement Urged. My point is that a more seasonable period should be arranged by the Day- tona authorities for the record trials and t those questing for records should not be regarded as circus per- formers, who serve the purpose of ex- tending the holiday season, but as indi- viduals who are engaged in interna- tional sport. ‘The world land speed record is some- thing which transcends parochial in- terests. I would suggest that the of- ficials at Daytona Beach permit the use of the beach during a season which is more likely to offer a suitable track, and not during a season which is in effect an extension of the holiday sea- son. Then the beach is not so well suited to prime considerations as other periods, which, though they might not assist local interests so well, certainly would be better disposed toward the required conditions for beating the land speed record. In my opinion Daytona Beach is, at its best, the finest avenue in the world for this purpcse, but if a season is chosen when the likelihood of a good beach is very small, then Daytona is gambling away its finest asset for the sake of parochial interests. (Copyright, 1930.) MISS MARY BAKER FOUND MURDERED NEAR ARLINGTON (Continued From Pirst Page.) were told she had not been there last night. They were just preparing to go to police headquarters when they learned of the discovery of the blood-stained car. Miss Eyre and the roommates of Miss Baker were interviewed at the Navy Department this morning by Common- wealth’s Attorney William C. Gloth of Arlington County and Washington de- tectives. Mr. Gloth brought to the depart- ment a fragment of the covering of a blue silk parasol which was believed to have belonged to Miss Baker. Believe She Jumped. The strip of silk had blood on it and was found some distance from her automobile. This, police believe, indi- cates that Miss Baker jumped from her car and tried to escape on foot when she realized her assailant’s in- tention. They reason that she must have snatched the parasol as she jumped from the car and then, when over- taken, used it as a weapon in a futile attempt to defend herself. The torn fragment was found trampled in the mud, but the rest of the parasol had not been located. Friends of the dead girl sald the torn strip _resembled in color a para- sol which Miss Baker habitually carried on the back seat of her machine, Miss Baker entered the service of the Navy Department in 1918, being_trans- ferred several years ago to the Bureau of Aeronautics. She was one of the most popular employes in the bureau, and was regarded by her superiors as She was rated as a numbering clerk. Miss Baker lived for two years at the Evangeline Hotel, 1330 L street, where she became acquainted with a number of young women working in the Govern- ment departments. The slain woman left the hotel here March 31 to live in her new home. Other close friends included Miss Fan- nie Pitzer of 2308 Ashmeade place, em- ployed by the Southern Railway, and Miss Georgia Alles of the Evangeline, with whom she roomed. ‘The rector and Mrs. Baker were prostrate when informed by The Star :tzy this afternoon of their daughter’s ate. The Bakers have resided in Oak Grove for 10 years. Held in High Esteem. Oak Grove citizens informed The Star this afternoon that the entire community was well acquainted with Miss Baker and that she was held in the highest esteem. ‘They said she visited her parents Rey. Mr. Baker told The Star over the long-distance telephone that his daughter came to Washington in April, 1928, She lived at the Evangeline Hotel, conducted by the Salvation Army, at 1330 L street, until March 31 of this , when she moved to Lyon Village. Rev. Mr. Baker said he and her mother had received a letter from Miss Baker last week—her usual week- 1y letter. —_— Lady Diana’s Husband Candidate. ‘WINCHESTER, England, April 12 (#)—A. Duff Cooper,is to run for Parliament as a ryative. He is | stagé beauty. April | | office T i e | WHERE DRY AGENT MET DEATH | Above: Brooks court, an alley in the rear of Armstrong High School, Where Prohibition Agent Lamar Watson York was shot to death early this morning. Below: Capt. O. T. Davis of No. 2 precinct (left) and Lieut. Edward J. | Kelly of the homicide squad inspecting the murder scene. DRYPLANKPLEDGED BY MRS. MCORMICK lllinois Nominee Promises to Have “Plenty to Say” in Race Against Lewis. By the Associated Press. Ruth Hanna McCormick, the Repub- lican nominee for Senator from Illinois, ' will run for that office as a dry. A question concerning th stand of her Democratic opponent, for- mer Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, elicited the response: “I have always been a dry, and there is no reason to change.” She promised that she would have “plenty of say” on the prohibition sub- ject when the campaign gets into full swing next Fall. Mrs. McCormick was interviewed last evening after she had engaged in a long conference with President Hoover. She sald she was “entirely with the Presi- dent on his law enforcement program,” but that they had “most amicably agreed to disagree” on the question of American adhesion to the World Court. In her primary campaign, which end- ed this week in a victory over Senator Charles S. Deneen, incumbent, McCormick made the World Court her principal issue. She repeatedly at- tacked Deneen for his vote for Amer- ican adherence when the issue was be- fore the Senate several years ago. ORDERS TRAIN SEIZED UNTIL TAXES ARE PAID Florida Sheriff Given Writ to At- tach Railway Loco- motive. By the Associated Press. AVON PARK, Fla., April 12.—Sheriff Oscar Wolff today held a warrant from Controller Ernest Amos to attach the first Atlantic Coast Line railroad train entering Highlands County next Tues- day unless the road has paid $40,502 taxes in the meantime. L. C. Pearce, chairman of the County Board of Commissioners, secured the order in Tallahessee yesterday and de- livered it to the sheriff today with in- structions not to serve it until Tues- day, s0 as to give the railroad sufficient notice of intention. Chairman Pearce said the action was taken on reports that the railroad did not intend to pay its taxes this year. “Mr. Amos advised us that lieved we had been misinformed, so we gave the railroad company until Tuesday to pay up,” he said. PRESIDENT TO REOCCUPY HIS FORMER OFFICES A small. army of workmen was busy yesterday and today moving the execu- tive office from its temporary quarters on the second floor of the State, War and Navy Building to the repaired and renovated west wing of the White House, which. had to be temporarily abandoned, following the fire last Christmas eve, and President Hoover was due to leave his office in the tem- porary quarters this afternoon. It was planned to move his desk and other ture some time during the afternoon and to have his old office in the west wing ready for his occu- pancy Monday morning. All of the executive staff will be working in the renovated office by noon on Monday. Officers to Hold Meeting. ‘The annual meeting "'3: banquet of et e be- | Beated. sion Co, —Star Staff Photos. LAMAR WATSON YORK. TWO COLORED MEN SOUGHT IN SLAYING OF DRY AGENT HERE (Continued From First Page.) O streets, going into the alley on foot when the lead automobile, a high- powered touring car, turned off the main street. When York walked into the alley he came upon the rum car which had halted to make a delivery. «| Two colored men leaped from the ma- chine and fled up the alley, whereupon York went up to the car and sounded the horn in an attempt to lure the customer to the car. Investigators were told that York kept the siren blowing for almost 20 minutes, while a throng of people collected about the automobile. Trying to locate the owner, York ac- costed an elderly colored man and was conversing with him at a distance of about 20 feet from the abandoned auto- mfle when another colored man shot York was set upon so suddenly he failed even to make an attempt to draw his gun. The prohibition agent fell flat on his back under a lamp-post at the curb and the murderer fled. After the shooting, York’s assailant leaped into the rum car and drove away after he had been joined by his companion. When Sergt. J. L. Norris and Pvt. W. ‘W. Whitemore of No. 2 precinct arrived in response to the telephone call from Guy, they found York still lying in the alley. They picked him up and rushed him to Freedman's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Suspected Car Found. The automobile partially identified as the one which the rum runners were driving, was recovered by police of No. 6 precinct this morning near the home of one of the suspects. Witnesses told police the car was equip with a smoke screen and contained a load of whisky at the time of the shooting, but neither whisky nor the smoke ap- tus was found when the car was Guy said he had contracted for the liquor at about 4 o'clock yesterday aft- ernoon. The two men knocked at the door of his house, two doors from the alley where York was shot, at about midnight, Guy said, and one identified himself. He started downstairs, he said, and heard a spirited tooting of an automobile horn before reaching the door and did not go out just then. From another recalcitrant witness the police learned that the two rum runners talked in muffled tones as they ap- proached York from P street, through the alley. This witness said he heard one of the men say, “Let's shoot him and take his car.” A few seconds later York fell, his revolver still in its holster. The alley in which York was killed was described by police as a “tough spot.” It had been York’s custom to work with his partner on similar cases, but the prohibition agent presumably broke this practice when the suspected rum car appeared. ‘York was rated as an able :gent by the Prohibition lent, an ‘n’l": hu man y. He sf w? tncnzls'fn ‘height and weighed about Borm in_ Lobelville, Tenn., August 1, 1894, he came to Wi fl” ago and was first employed at Navy Yard. At different times from then on, he worked at the City Post Endowment, Star National Federation of *American Railway Laundry, Federal Washington Co. CLEMENCEAU BOOK HOLDS U. 3. GREEDY “Tiger” Scores Pershing and Foch—Assails America’s Separate Peace. P By the Associated Press. 5 NEW YORK, April 12.—George Clemenceau’s last sharp retort to his late antagonist, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, will be published in book form here today under the title, “Grandeur and Misery of Victory.” . Writing beside his death-bed, the French tiger has taken the ghost of the allies’ generalissimo to task for “re- criminations and abuse” and accused America of greedy materialism. The treaty of Versailles, to the war- time Minister of France, who died only recently on completion of this final book, was mutilated by America's “separate peace.” Sees Wilson as Visionary. President Wilson is seen as a vision- ary, with an insufficient knowledge of Europe.1o carry out his ideology. Gen. Pershing comes ins for comment for what Clemenceau called a “fanatical determination to delay the arrival of the g!?;-spnnglld Banner on the battle- eld.” For this delay in the employment of the American forces, Jlemenceau large- ly blamed Foch's “hesitancies and tem.- perings of authority.” “The marshall,” he wrote, “had the power to command. On his own admis- sion he preferred to ‘suggest.’” Of the “rather serious disagreement with Gen. Pershing,” Clemenceau said: “The American trcops in the first rank as far as bravery is concerned were first and foremost excellent soldiers in a state of mere improvisation.” Tells of Pershing Disagreement. During the Spring of 1918, Clemen- ceau said, he importuned Gen. Pershing to send into action in the French ranks “the first American contingents that were considered sufficiently trained so as to relieve us as much as possible st the sharpest pinch of such a crisis of’ manpower as our armies had never known_before. But Pershing “owed it to the romantic side of America’s intervention to form a self-contained American Army, a duty I never failed to acknowledge. “His Government, his country, his Army even, kept him in suspense, and the more I insisted the more the Amer- ican general resisted.” As for President Wilson, “he acted to the very best of his abilities in cir- cumstances the origins of which had escaped him and whose ulterior develop- ments lay beyond his ken.” Col. Edward House he saw as “a super-civilized person escaped from the wilds of Texas, who sees everything, who undertsands everything, and, while never doing anything but what he thinks fit, knows how to gain the ear and respect of everybody,” and “Mr. Hoover, who was conspiruous for the stiffness of the man whose nerves are at the end of their tether.” Vital Spark Gone in France. In France, Clemenceau concluded, “the vital spark is gone. “Our allies, dis-allied, have contrib- | uted largely to this result and we have never done anything to deter them. England in various guises has gone back to her old policy of strife on the con- tinent, and America, prodigiously en- riched by the war, is presenting us with a tradesman’s account that does more honor to her greed than to her self- Tespert, * ¢ ¢ “Grown rich in the war, America is, if we can believe the experts, setting out to ruin us by intercepting, for the ex- travaganres of her budding nouveaux riches, the sums that we are to receive s reparations for the damage caused by Germany. Sees U. §. as Thorn to England. “At the same time she is a thorn in the side of England, who can no longer aspire to the dominion of the seas un- der the pretext of ‘freedom.’ All the new Central Europe is in a state of turmoil as a result of the rerrulescene of violent activity on the part of a Germany, who, with the unwitting help of the English and Americans, is pre- paring to start on another criminal }'er;ture before she has expisted the “Above all,” he warns America, “do not be so ingenuous as to believe that you will disarm, by methods of persua- sion, the powers who see you strength- ening against every eventuality your means of defense, which might turn into men(;u ofd aggression.” “Grandeur and Misery of Victory” is published in this country by Hnrc{:un, Brace & Co. and was carrled in part by Collier's Weekly, which holds joint copyright for the United States. o PITTS INDICTMENT COPY TO BE SENT F. H. Smith Co. Defendant, jn Florida, Expected to Post Bond for Trial, The district attorney’s office was pre- paring today to forward a copy of the * indictment charging G. Bryan Pittg . with embezzling more than a muu%.n dollars of the funds of the F. H. Smith, Co. to the proper authoritles at Paligi Beach, Fla., where the accused is ex- pected to post bond pending his trial on the charge in the District of Co- lumbia. It was understood the amount of the bond had not been fixed. In a telephone conversation last nlghg with his attorney, Wilton J. Lambert. Pitts denied the embezzlement charge” and expressed his willingness to come here at any time for a hearing. Ac- cording to Lambert, Pitts characterized the indictment as a “parcel of infernal falsehoods.” Mr. Lambert, senjor member of the firm of Lambert, Yeatman & Horning, said he had communicated Pitts’ state- ment to the district attorney, but as yet had received no relplyA The indictment, which was returned yesterday by the nd jury, charged Pitts with converting to his own use $1,156,809.84 belonging to the Smith Co. while he was chairman of the board of directors of that concern. Pitts re- signed from the company after the De- cember grand jury had returned an in- dictment against him and other officials charging conspiracy to use the mails llegally. ‘ashington many | in ‘Wi & Waidermann, Provi- tion Terminal Former Mrs. Rudy Vallee Wed. YORK, April 12 (#)—The former Mrs. Rudy Vallee is a bride again. She .is now the wife of Lieut. Howard N. Couilter, U. 8. N, who is stationed at Lakehurst. From May 6 till May 29, 1928, when she obtained an annulment, she was Mrs. Vallee. Prior to that she was Mrs. Frank McCoy and Miss Leonia Cauchors. and Casualty Hospital. From Casualty Hospital, where he had been in charge of medicinal alcohol and narcotics, he amle S8, PO S, Sk was_then called, as a prol n agent, in September, 1927, % Pursing his education further here 'ashi York attended McKin- ley High for three 1807 to 191 l:u'l‘!m'gle 18.?;001 u% mhnm Pranklin U ] ; ice of Deputy Prohibi- trator Willlam R. Bland- ford, in charge of this area. agent in the ‘Adminisf