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WEATHER. (G. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, with local tomorrow; slightly cooler tonight. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 75, at noon to- day; lowest, 52, at 7 a.m. today. 1l report on page 6. Late N. Y. Markets, showers tonight or Pages 13,14 & 15 — No. 31,394. vost office, Entered as second class matter Washington, D. C. b ¢ Foen ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ing Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1930—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. SLAYER OF MISS BAKER BELIEVED NEAR ARREST AS HUNT IS NARROWED Mystery of Motive Puzzles Police Probing Death. SCRATCHED HANDS MAY INVOLVE MAN New Clothes Seen as Pos- sible Clue—Several Heard Shots. Identification of the man re- sponsible for the brutal murder of Miss Mary Baker, 28-year-old Navy Department clerk, whose bruised and bullet-riddled body was found under a culvert near Arlington Cemetery Saturday, ap- peared just beyond reach of po- lice today. Of one thing investigators are convinced—that the young wom- an was slain after she had been criminally assaulted by a man she knew and trusted. They have established through near- ly a dozen witnesses that she was shot and her body disposed of on a road at 2 time when it was traversed by five cars a minute, according to a count made by a watchman the following night. Motive Still Ts Mystery. Inability to establish a definite mo- tive for the crime has hamvered in- vestigators, but many of them believe the slayer was a married man actuated by fear of exposure. They do not belizve, however, that the crime was planned in advance, pointing out that a murder- er would normally choose a more se- cluded spot in which to commit such a crime. Police are puzzled by a report from & night watchman on the Arlington Memorial Bridge that he heard three shots and a woman's screams near the culvert shortly after 2 o'clock Saturday morning. This was nearly four hours after other witnesses reporied hearing shots and screams. Scratches on the hands of a murried man with whom Miss Baker is believed to have associated during the last two years were among the clues police were running_down today. Miss Baker and the man were seen Thursday afternoon standing under a tree near the Navy Department by Park Policeman Oren Spears, who said they were conversing amicably at that time. The police also asked this man to| explain a new suit, new hat and new | shoes which he wore yesterday. He also is understood to have told investi- gators he “couldn’t be sure whether he had a date with Miss Baker last ‘Tuesday.” Policeman Knew Girl. Policeman Spears occupies an apart- ment adjoining the one at Eleventh and K streets where Miss Baker formerly lived. He knew the girl well and fre- quently would drive her to and from work, he said, until she started meeting the other man about two years ago. Investigators als. are still trying to piece together fragments of a letter found near the young woman's abandon- ed automobile and turned over to them by The Star. So much of the letter was missing that the pieces found were virtually unintelligible, but police hope other fragments may be turned up later. Other angles of the case which the police are running down are reports from residents of Rosslyn, Va. that they heard shots and a man and wom- an quarreling in an automobile A woman living near Alexandria avenue and Albemarle street, told of hearing a man and woman quarreling heatedly in a machine parked near her house. She went to the window, she said, just in time to see a young woman leap from the car and run down the road. Not at any time did she see the man in the car, but his language, she said. was extremely profane. He started the car in pursuit of the girl and a few seconds later the two pistol shots were fired. The shots were heard by at least nine residents of that vicinity. Search for the slayer seemed defl- nitely centered in Washington today when Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad; Commonwealth’s Attorney William C. Gloth of Arlington County and two Department of Justice Agents went to the Bureau of Aero- nautics at the Navy Department, where the slain girl worked, and again ques- tioned friends there. Question Baltimore Man. A headquarters detective also is ex- pected to go to Baltimore this after- noon to question Jasper L. Harrell of 4250 Nichols avenue, who yesterday was seen about the Baker home questioning bystanders &s to the manner in which the girl met her death. Questioned by newspapermen at Baltimore todey, Harrell said that he had known Miss Baker and that during the years of 1920, 1921 and 1922 he called on her frequently, On learning of her death, he said he borrowed an automobile yesterday and with his wife and baby left Baltimore (Continued on Page 5. Column 1.) e DIES SEEKING TRUCE Man Falls to Death in Call on Estranged Wife. SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 (P).— See! a_reconciliation with_his es- tran| wife, George Owen, 30, rang the doorbell of her apartment here yes- tes . Mrs. Owen did not answer, Owen started to climb up the front of the building to her quarters. At the fifth floor he slipped and fel] to his death. THREE BANKS CLOSE LETTER CLUE ozt g w fiwg_ X Above: Scraps of a letter found near the spot where the body of Mary Baker was discovered Saturday, which the police are attempting to piece together. Below: Fred Wilson, an architect and friend of Miss Baker, who was ques- tioned by the police yesterday concern- ing the identity of other friends who might throw some light on her move- ments fast Friday night. —Star Staff Photos. PITTS IS RELEASED ON $100000 BOND Former F. H. Smith Co. Chairman to Answer Embez- zlement Charge Here. By the Associated Press. PALM BEACH, Fla., April 14—G. Bryan Pitts of Washington, former chairman of the board of the F. H. Smith Co., a bond firm, was at liberty under $100,000 bond today following his arraignment before United States Commissioner Robert L. Earnest, jr., here on a Federal indictment charging him with embezzlement of $1,156,000 of the firm’s funds. The bond was made returnable in Washington. ARRESTED BOARDING TRAIN. Pitts Taken Into Custody in Florida on Embezzlement charge. G. Bryan Pitts, former chairman of the board of directors of the F. H. Smith Co., who was indicted Friday for the alleged embezzlement of $1,156,- 000 of the funds of the company, was taken into custody yesterday at West a train for Washington. Assistant United States Attorney Nu- gent Dodds stated today that he had been informed of the arres; and de- clared that the reservations which Pitts had made on the train had been issued in the name of his butler. United States Attorney Rover said he had been ad- vised of the arrest, but that the matter was in the hands of Mr. Dodds. Attorney Wilton J. Lambert {alked over the long-distance phone with Pitts and was advised of the arrest. Pitts told his lawyer that he had purchased his tickets and had his reservations to come to Washington, according to the purport of his telegram of Saturday. ‘WHeri he afrived at the station at 11 o'clock yesterday morning to board a train which would have brought him here at 11 this morning in time to give bail, he was not allowed to depart. Pitts informed the lawyer that he had been treated with courtesy by - the Florida officials, a deputy marshal stay- ing at his home with him. He com- plained to his lawyer that he was pre- vented from carrying out his intention to reach here today. . 30 PLANES HUNT STUDENT MISSING IN HEAVY FOG Fear Is Expressed Amateur Flyer May Have Been Forced Down in Atlantic. By the Assoclated Press. VALLEY STREAM, N. Y., April 14— Thirty planes were ordered out from Curtiss Field today to search for Ralph J. White, 29, of New York City, student fiyer. who disappeared in a foggy sky late yesterday. ‘White went up solo after 10 hours’ flying experience, just before a thick fog settled over Long Island. Frank Ambrose, T, Illinois State Institution Failures Now Number Six in Fortnight. 'MARION, 111, April 14 ().—The Marion Trust & Savings Bank, the Carterville State & Savings Bank and the First State Bank at Pittsburgh, all in -Wil- lamson County, failed to open their doors today. This followed closing of three' other State banks in this county within the last two weeks. All Curtis said he feared the student had come down on the Atlantic or the woods of Long Island. White's plane was sup- plied with only enough gasoline to fly for four hours. -— Vatican to Free Last Prisoner. VATICAN CITY, April 14 (#).—The one remaining “prisoner of the Vati- were affiliated. endiol’umul’mm can,” Giuse) le Paolis, condemned by the Papal State tribunal to serve three months in prison for sacrilegious theft from a poor box in Basilica, will be released- | | Palm Beach as he was about; to board | TWO BANDY BLAME FOR YORK MURDER | Colored Prisoners Charge Each Other With Firing Fatal Shot. Following up the arrest of two colored men captured yesterday, police today were grilling them and additional wit- nesseés in an effort to fix the blame be- tween the two for the actual shooting of Federal Prohibition Agent Lamar Watson York early Saturday. The two men were booked on murder charges as John Borum, 19, 2500 block of Sixth street, and John Logan, 24, 400 block of First street. They accuse each other, police say, of having firéd on York after the agent refused to accept a bribe to release & rum car he had seized in an alley behind First and O streets. Police, however, said they are inclined to believe Borum was the “trigger man” room, Admit Running Liquor. The men are said to have admitted they were rum runners and that they were returning from Baltimore with 34 cases of whisky in Logan’s touring car. After disposing of the cargo the two turned into the alley, Brooks court, and there pulled up to detach the smoke screen apparatus from the machine. At this juncture, according to the statement they made to police, they saw York coming into the alley after them (Continued on Page 5, Column 5.) IEESEN JAPAN IS GIVEN COPIES OF EARLY U. S. TREATIES American Envoy Presents National Library With Facsimiles of Docu- ments Lost in Catastrophies. By the Assoclated Press. ‘TOKIO, April 14.—William R. Castle, ir, al Ambassador to Japan, was the prin speaker today at a ceremony at Tokio Im| Uni- versity in which he presented on behalf of the American Government, copies of the earliest Japanese-American treaties. Japan’s copies of these treaties have destroy rious ‘The treaties will be placed in the Na- tional Historical Library. The docu- ments formed Japan's earliest links to the Occident and were the St. Peter's | subsequent Japanese- tions, 3 1053 BY HOOVER LIFTS BASE BALL LID AT 3 TODAY Marherry Assigned to Mound for Opening Game, With MacFayden for Red Sox. PLAYERS EXPECTING TO UPSET PREDICTIONS Band Provides Program 'lo: the Early Arrivals at Griffith Stadium. Washington. West, cf. Rice, rf. Goslin, 1f. Myer, 2b. Cronin, ss, Judge, 1b. Bluege, 3b. Ruel, c. Marberry, p. Boston. Barrett, rf. Narlesky, ss. Oliver, cf. Scarritt, 1f. Regan, 2b. Sweeney, 1b, Reeves, 3b. Heving, c. MacFayden, p. ‘With a triple play, “Hoover to Con- nolly to Ruel,” which won't go down in the officlal scorer's book, Washing- ton’s Nationals and Boston’s Red Sox this afternoon will lift the lid off the | 1930 base ball season, a day in advance | of the official openings of other teams | in both the American and National Leagues. | His “salary wing” well limbered by many months of medicine ball tossing, President Hoover is not expected to strain himself tossing out the first ball | of the base ball season at 3 o'clock this afterncon. The ball, provided the Chief | Executive is not too wild, will go to Tom Connolly, dean of American League Iumplru, thence to Harold Ruel, Wash- ington’s little catcher, and then be put in play as Umpire Connolly gives the words, “Play ball,” for the first official time this year. Senate Quits Work. ‘There was such a prevalence of Sen-: ators mourning ‘“dead grandmothers” this afternoon that the Senate quit work at 1:40 o'clock, just in time to allow those who were unable to sup- press the boy that remains within them to go to the opening ball game at Grif- fith Stadium. Senator McNary succumbed first to | the itch of the base hit and the swung | strike. He moved adjournment this {afternoon, stating that “certain mem- | bers were not prepared to go ahead with the discussion of immigration.” The adjournment motion was met with a roar of “ayes.” Senator Cope- land, amid the uproar that accompanied the adjournment, shouted he was “sus- piclous of that statement.” Fred Marberry, Washington's leading moundsman last year, has been assigned the pitching duty for the Nationals’ gn game, Opposing him will be bespectacled Danny MacFayden, youthful ace of the Red Sox mound | corps. ‘Washington will present a veteran team this year with not a single man in the line-up who has not had at least a year's work with the Nationals. | Consigned by sport writers generally | to a place in the second division, the | Washington club opens the American League season with a record of 17 wins and 2 losses in exhibition games played along the tank town circuit from Mis- sissippi to Washington, and with new hope that the predictions of the diag- nosticlans may be knocked into a cocked hat. Included in their list of victories | during the Spring exhibition season is| a string of 11 straight wins against major and minor league opposition, | ‘The Goslin hold-out incident is closed | and the Washington club enters the 1930 pennant race hopeful that the pace set by the team during the closing weeks of the 1920 season may be main- tained and carried through the entire season of 1930. Manager Walter John- son and his ball hawks believe the team will start this year where they left off last October, when they staged a late- season rally that brought them from seventh to fifth place and promised, for a time, to put them in one of the first division “money” positions. ‘Tradition decrees that the President of the United States shall toss out the first ball of the season when the club opens in Washington. During the day word came from the White House that if rain seemed probable the President might not attend the game. The sun shone during the morning, but a grad- ually thickening haze gave promise of an overcast afternoon. Fans in Line Early. Grouped in boxes, in the grandstands and onpetgw bleachers surrounding the (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) The Star Supreme This is attested by the large volume of classified advertising published Sun- day and daily in The Star. Frequently The Star pub- lishes more classified than all the other local papers combined. An outstanding example is yesterday, when the number of lines of classi- fied advertising appearing in the Washington papers was as follows: Classified Advertising Yesterday The Star.....23,234 lines 2d Pager..... 5683 lines 3d Paper..... 5609 lines Star’s excess. .11,942 lines The Star leads so over- whelmingly ° because its classified advertisements produce results. Your classified advertise- ment in The Star is also in good company, since every effort is made to exclude undesirable as well as fraudulent and misleading Associated service. B¥¥ (A Means Associated The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Saturday’s Circulation, Sunday’s Circulation. .. Press. TWO CENTS. AMERICAN IDEALS DEFENDED ASDAR. CONGRESS OPENS Mrs. Hobart, President Gen- eral, Scores Foreign Attacks PERSISTENT PATRIOTIC PICKETERS. APRIL 22 NOW SET FOR PAGT SIGNING Americans Probably Will Be-‘ Ready to Sail at 6 AM. | April 23. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, Apri' 14.—One week from tomorrow, barring mishaps, representa- tives of the five great naval powers will affix their signatures to the historic pact which has evolved from the Lon- | don Naval Conference, after long weeks | of difficult negotiations. | Announcement to this effect was made | at & 24-minute plenary session of the conference in Queen Anne’s drawing | room in old St. James’ Palace this noon, | Prime Minister MacDonald officiating | as general chairman of the conference. His announcement was the prinicpal development in the whirlwind session, the first complete meeting of the con-| ference since Fbruary 11. It originally | was planned to try to get the treaty drawn up so that it could be signed next Thursday, but the prime minister announced that this was impossible of achievement. ~ As it is it will be a race against time for the drafters to get the document ready for the meeting Thurs- day, so that the Americans may catch the Leviathan immediately afterwards | for New York and home. Differences Remain. The treaty to be signed will be a three-power agreement between Japan, America and Great Britain covering | limitation and reduction of naval craft, | and agreement between the five POWers, | France and Italy included, on such points as humanization of submarines and capital ship holiday. Important French-Italian limitation differences are left unsettled subject to subsequent | negotiations, and there will be a clause | allowing any of the three powers sign- ing the limitation section to depart from its terms if the building of a non-sig- natory nation endangers it. ‘The American delegation tentatively notified the United States Lines they would be ready to sail for home on the Leviathan by 6 a.m., April 23. The liner is due to sail about noon, April 22, but it was indicated last week that if necessa: he would be held 24 hours for the naval delegation. It is understood that if the delega- tion cannot catch the Leviathan Secre- tary Stimson may take the Acquitania April 26, Today's plenary session lasted only 24 minutes, and was merely for the pur- pose of getting final formal approval of committee reports, which constitute the “raw” material for the treaty itself. Mr. Macdonald, an old parliamentarian, wasted no time, but rushed the busi- ness so fast that at times he and the official interpreter fell over each other’s words. U. S. Delegation Jubilant. ‘There was one interesting break, when the prime minister asked Secre- tary Stimson to announce an_element of further agreement between him and Rijiro Wakatsuki, head of the Japanese delegation. Secretary Stimson arose and said that he and the Japanese had agreed that exchanges might be made between the light cruiser and destroyer category not to exceed 10 per cent of the category to which the change is made. The Japanese had asked for a 15 per cent differential. The American delegation was jubilant over the prospect of being able to catch the Leviathan next Thursday or thereafter for their homeward trip after more than three months away from the United States. It undoubtedly will be necessary to delay the liner’s sailing a few hours, but if a treaty is signed by mid-day Tuesday the ricans should be able to get to Southampton later in the Afternoon. £ The fleet limitation agreements are held by Secretary Stimson to have reached a lower level “than any of us on any delegation felt confident could be attained when we came here.” “We have reached the lowest level that I have ever heard seriously dis- cussed before,” he told a_world radio (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) CIVILIAN HONOR GUARD WATCHES TAFT GRAVE On orders of the War Department, a civilian guard of honor is being main- tained throughout the day in Arlington National Cemetery at the grave of the late Chiet Justice William Howard Taft Autoist, Stalled On Rails, Saves 3 Sons, But Is Killed By the Assoclated P CHICAGO, April 14—A freight train was bearing down on a suburban crossing yesterday when the motor of the automobile of Everett J. Dean stalled. Dean kicked open the car door and pushed his son Martin, 7, clear of the rails. Then he threw his son George, 3, to safety. Picking up his son John, 9, Dean hurled him out of the car just as the crash came. John was hurt, but slightly. Death for Dean was instan- taneous. SENATE CANPAIY FUND PROBE BEGUN Nye Calls Meeting Wednes- day—McCormick-Deneen Race to Be Reviewed. By the Associated Press. | _ Accepting the chairmanship of the | Senate campaign funds investigating committee, Senator Nye, Republican, North Dakota, today called a meeting for Wednesday and announced he meant to have the committee “go to the very bottom” of cases coming be- fore it. Nye said the recent Illinois senatorial primary contest between Mrs. Ruth Mc- Cormick and Senator Deneen ‘“offers the first invitation” for the committee. ‘The Pennsylvania primary contest next month between Senator Grundy and Secretary Davis for the Repub- lican senatorial nomination will be one of the campaigns the committee ap- pears certain to investigate. Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, author of the resolution ordering the Senate inquiry, has stated he has r ceived complaints from Illinois, Pen: sylvania and Nebraska. He is a ca didate himeslf for renomination in Nebraska. The North Dakotan, as chairman of the lands committee, headed the in- quiry into the naval oil leases. He is associated with the Western inde- pendent group in the Senate, thus mak- ing the committee composed of two regular Republicans, two Democrats, and an Independent. Other members of the corimittee, are Senators Goldsborough, Maryland, and Patterson, Missouri, Repubii 3 and Pittman, Nevada, and Wagner, York, Democrats. NANCY BOWEN TO FACE MARCHAND DEATH TRIAL Indian Squaw, Accused of Murder- ing Artist’s Wife, Will Not Plead Guilty to Reduced Charge. By the Assoclated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., April 14—Nancy Bowen, aged Indian woman under in- dictment for murder, first degree, in conpection with the slaying of. Mrs. Clothilde Marchand on March 6, will not plead guilty to a reduced charge, but will go on trial in the near future, it was announced today. While the exact date of the trial has not been set, it was expected that trial of the case would be started April 21. Lila Jimerson, Indian woman, who pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of murder, second degree,’ in connection with the death of Mrs. Marchand, and whose trial was halted suddenly by her collapse through illness, still is° in clz Hospital suffering from tubercu- P — MEXICAN FLYER LANDS Sidar at Nogales After Report of Disappearance on Way to U. 8. NOGALES, Ariz, April 14 () —Capt. Pablo Sidar, Mexican army aviator route from Mexico City to Los Angeles, arrived at Nogales at 9 a.m. today after a flight from Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, where he spent last night. SOVIETS SEIZE BOATS MOSCOW, April 14 (#).—Under a new order issued by the central execu- tlvle mmlul’ m:‘ot the Soviet Unkm“.”* rivately owns lflrfoh'l‘ vessels go tons, lake and river boats above 25 and motor boats -hvv'e"l: horsepower PARKER APPROVED BY SUBCOMMITTEE |Final Action on Report on Supreme Court Nominee Delayed to Monday. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The nomination of Judge John J. Parker of North Carolina to be an asso- ciate justice of the Supreme Court was reported favorably by a subcommittee to the Senate committee on judiciary today. The vote of the subcommittee was 2 to 1, with Senators Overman of North Carolina and Hubert of Rhode |1s1and voting for Judge Parker and | Senator Borah of Idaho voting against | him. | While the nomination was reported favorably by the subcommittee, it made no further progress today in the Senate. The full committee, on motion of Senator Overman, postponed action on the nomination until next Monday. The purpose is to give the members ot the committee an opportunity to examinc the printed record of the hearing before the subcommittee and if necessary make further testimony. Norris Joins Opposition. Serious opposition to the confirma- | tion of Judge Parker's nomination was developed. In aMdition to Senator Borah, Senator Norris of Nebraska, chairman of the Senate judiciary com- mittee, has declared his intentions of voting against confirmation of the nomination. Senator Blaine of Wiscon- sin, Senator Dill of Washington and some other members of the judiciary committee also are expected to oppose confirmation. Following the meeting of the com- mittee today, it was intimated that action by the full committee was post- poned because there was danger that if A vote had been pressed at this meet- ing, the majority of those present might hnvle‘ been recorded against Judge Parker. * Opposition to the appointment of Judge Parker to the Supreme Court has developed from two angles. The first is found among the ieaders of organized labor through an attack on Judge Parker because of a decision he rendered in the case of the United Mine Workers of America versus the Red Jacket Con- solidated Coal & Coke Co. in West Virginia. The case involved the so- called “yellow dog” contract, which companies had with their employes to pr?_vcm the employes from joining a union. Race Question Raised. The other attack has come from Tep- resentatives of the colored race, who W | have charged that Judge Parker, when a candidate for Governor of North Carolina, had made disparaging re- marks concerning the colored people. Senator Norris said today that he was opposed to confirmation of Judge Parker because of the decision he rendered against organized labor in the case al- ready .referred to. It is understood that Senator Borah's opposition is based on the same grounds. When the nomination is reported to the Senate from the judiciary commit- tee it is likely to lead to a hard fight on the floor of the Senate. This is the second nomination to the Supreme Court which President Hoover has made. The first was that of Chief Justice Hughes, -which was .opposed also by Senator Borah and Senator Norris and others because, it was charged, Chief Justice Hughes was not progressive enough. In the end the Hughes' nomi- nation was confirmed by a 2-to-1 vote. Administration Stands Pat. The administration is standi squarely behind the nomination o Judge Parker in opposition to the ob- jections of orga: labor and grow- ing antagonism in the Senate. The position of the President and (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) PAPAL PAPER MISSING Document Intended for Commis- sion on Russia Reported Stolen. pril 14 .—An liglous activities tod e anti-rel a ay was re- ported to have been stolen either from the Vatican or en route. ‘The document was understood to have been intended for commission on Russia headed by Bishop D’Herl y which 18 under the direct supe: n %tmuu Pope with its seat at Vatican — $950,000 Gem Theft Reported. BOGOTA, Colombia, A — Jewelry vn‘}ued at _more fllf.omfioo F‘I (about $950,000) has been m‘d lost by an American named in the town of Andagoya. Foster, who is % bave boen carrying e voms & valise. police are investigating $he, possibllity, of & robbexy. on Institutions. 6,000 DELEGATES MEET IN CONSTITUTION HALL American People Declared Easy Victims of Shrewd Radioal Lead- ers, Who Rule by “Sarcasm.” Calling for defense of the Re- public and loyalty to its ideals, Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, president general of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, in convening the thirty-ninth Continental Congress, called upon the women of America to refuse indorsement of “will of the wisp doctrines” which she asserted are promulgated to lure them into the morass of doubt as to their country's past, present and fu- ture. g Assembled for the first congress in the great “temple of patriot- ism” newly dedicated to the Con- stitution, fully 6,000 delegates and alternates, representing the 170,- 000 members of the national so- ciety, heard Mrs. Hobart warn the country against the forces of rad- icplism from without. “America Needs Americans.” “America needs Americans,” she de- clared. “Defend it in your thinking, in your conversations, in your writing, in your daily living.” “Never has America faced the situa- tion that exists today,” she added. “Across the sea is a d com] one-sixth of the world's surface, and that land has sworn deflance to God, has completely disorganized customary principles of family relations, and has brought about an upheaval in industrial conditions.” The congress will remain in ses- sion for the rest of the week to stake out new fields of patriotic endeavor and review - the accomplishments of the so- clety during the past year. At 10 o'clock the note of a trumpet, sounded by Arthur S. Witcomb of the United States Marine Band, marked the colorful entrance of the president gen- eral, vice presidents general and na- tional officers. They were attended nearly 300 young woman pages, in white, and the whole Mflls pre- ;e‘rll_:ed & profusion of flowers and ban- Amplifiers were installed in Mem gg;lélnentxl.l gflg for the procndlnflm.ll on of which were broadcast t N.an&] Brol:’gclsnng Co. el n the midst of the pra chaplain general, Mrs. pwfl{l!:mwno":: | Painter, the radio went “out,” and & delay and some confusion occurred for neerly 10 minutes before the appa- ratus was ready again. The delegatés, led by Mrs. Charles Brand, national chairman, demonstrated the correct salute to the flag, and then the notes of “The Star Spangled Ban- ner,” led by Rub; the great hall, S EerG Page Leads in Creed. ‘The purpose of the patriotic gather- ing was expressed in thz ‘words o""’rhe American’s Creed,” which the author, | William Tyler Page, clerk of the House of Representatives, led in repeating. The presentation of the great ceilin; {flag for Constitution Hall by Mrs, J. | Charles Linthicum of Maryland pre- ceded the greetings of Dr. Lnther H. |Relcheldeflcr. president of the Board | of District Commissioners, and greet~ ings also from the honorary presidents | general, Mrs. Willlam Cumming Story, Mrs. George Thatcher Guernsey, Mrs. George Maynard Minor, Mrs, Anthony :::‘i'ne Cook and Mrs. Alfred J. Bros- Then followed greetings from Ma Gist Blair on behalf of the ldml’jy board and the national presidents of the various atriotic socleties affiliated in the general work of the D. A. R., as 101}12"5: rs. Percy Edwards Quin, Children of the American Revolution; Mrs. Henry T. Kent, Daughters of the Revolution; Howard C. Rowley, Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution, and Brig. Gen. George Richards, U. 8. M. C, Sons of the Revolution. Reviews Volunteer Service. In her annual message to the Daugh- ters, which featured the opening ses- sion, Mrs. Hobart spoke on the theme, “Indomitable Americanism,” and re- viewed the magnitude of the volunteer (Coritiusd on Page 4, Column 1.) TELEPHONES POLICE HE MURDERED WIFE Jealousy’ Blamed in Alleged Con- fession of East Orange Realty and Theater Man. By the Assoclated Press. EAST ORANGE, N. J, April 14— Frank D. Crawford, 45, real estate operator and theater owner, was in jall today charged with mutder, after he called police and told them he had strangled his wife, Loulse. Two policemen, who responded to & telephone call in which a man’s voice said there was “plenty the matter” st 5 Harvard street, early yesterday, found Crawford waiting for them in the hall- way. He led them to a bed room in the apartment, where they found Mrs. Craw- ford’s body lying across a bed. 9 “I choked her to death,” the officers e e m O'Neill, Crawford signed a eontsulnr in which he blamed jealously for his act. OCraw- ford told police the killing was climax of & T‘x:ml. which began dinner time Sat . He said he taxed his wife with rumors he had heard tha she was accepting the attentions of another man. Her replies infurlated him, he said, and so he choked her. A 19-year-old daughter slept.