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[ARREST HELD NERR FOR GIRL'S SLAYER cratches on Married Man’s Hands Draw Him Into Inquiry. . (Continued From First Page) @apecially for the purpose to call at the | Baker home to express his sympathy. Harrell said he is empleyed as a fore- man in a meat packing firm and that he was at work at 5:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. i ‘The young woman's desk was searched and papers found in it examined. 1 Fred Wilson, an architect, of Takoma Park was one of five men questioned | by Lieut. Kelly and Gloth. The names | ©of the four other men were not divulged. | It is understood, however, that he gave investigators the names of sev- eral men with whom Miss Baker has associated recently, and police are hopeful of securing more valuable in- formation from them. Wilson is said to have told police that : he first met Miss Baker two years ago | when their cars were parked side by side and that he had driven her home several times when she lived near Eleventh and K street. Miss Baker formerly llved in an apartment at Eleventh and K_streets with Miss Mildred Sperry and Miss Olga Skinner, Friends said that later the three girl: broke up housekeeping there and Miss Baker went to live at the E\'lnzelinel Hotel, 1330 L street. ‘Wife Knew of Acquaintanceship. At her home in Takoma Park Mrs ‘Wilson said that Miss Baker was one of several young women whom her hus- band had spoken of pleasantly, having met her practically every morning on the way to his office. She sald Miss Inez Eyre, who work- ed in the office with Miss Baker, knew that Mr. Wilson urually parked his car near Miss Baker's and it was for that reason when Miss Baker failed to ap- ear, that .he called Wilson to ask if e had met her that morning, where upon he answered, “No I haven't. Is there anything wrong?” and offered to aid in finding the girl. Friday night, Mrs. Wilson said, her husband returned home unusually early in order to plant sweet peas in their garden. Seek Clue Among Letters. Police hope io find somewhere among Miss Baker's effects a letter or some other article revealing the identity of the murderer and the motive. Her per- sonal correspondence was examined thoroughly at police headquarters this morning. The only development of importance in’ Arlington County this morning was the finding of blood-stained rocks on a lonely road near Syphax Station, where a small sedan was reported parked between 10 and 11 o'clock Fri- day night. The car was seen by a Mr. Wilson of Clarendon, Va., who reported the fact to Mr. Gloth. Arlington County Policeman Norman Carson, dispatched to the scene this morning, who found the stones, also found a woman’s under- garment. The stones will be brought to Washington for an analysis of the blood. Miss Baker was last seen alive at 5:40 p.m Priday by her friend, Miss Inez M. Eyre, with whom she had at- tended a Lenten service at the Church of the Epiphany, G street near Four- teenth She left Miss Eyre to get her car. parked at Seventeenth and B streets, saying she had an appointment in front of Kann's department store with Misses Olgo Skinner and Mildred Sperry. with whom she shared a bun- galow in Lyon Park, Va. Saw Her With Man. Miss Baker was next seen in her car at Seventeenth and B streets by two young men. They told police a man was in the car with her, and that he ‘was beating her. Their attention was attracted, they said, when the girl screamed. As they started toward the machine. the man, sitting behind the steering wheel, drove away. Their meager de- scription was that he was “large and wore a gray cap.” This was a little after 6 o'clock, and from that time un- Top: The automobile in which Miss Mary Baker was killed or transported after her death to the Arlington Coun- ty culvert. Center, left to right: Albin Anderson and C. D. Thompson, who heard shots Friday night near the scene. Below: Robert Howard, heard the shots. who also __ —Star Staff Photos her to return to the car, Mrs. Collins said, she refused. He repeated the request several times, Mrs. Collins said but she reiterated that she did not wish to_accompany him. Mrs. Collins said the man, whom she did not see, did mot get out of the machine. She said his language was “terrible.” She said that while this was going on a man approached from down the road on foot and as he turned the corner of Albemarle street, he shouted to the man in the automobile, “Why don't you turn on your lights.” Sh said the man replied: “Go to hell.” The automobile, she said, had been parked without lights during the argu- ment and when the girl failed to return the man started the motor and drove a few feet down the road. He backen up and down the road five times, Mrs Collins said. but the woman remained on the lawn. Intended to Call Police. Mrs. Collins said she called a roome: in her house, Travin Green, and they were contemplating calling the police when the car moved away from the street. Across the street, occupants of 1512 Alexandria avenue, a family by the name of Reeves, corroborated Mrs. Col- lins' story about the parked machine and the heated argument, and said they saw the woman on the lawn next door to their house. They said the man was shouting to her to return to the automobile, saying: “Come on, get in and I'll take you home.” The girl is said to have replied, “No, I don’t want to.” The man then asked, you_come: are you afraid “No,” the girl replied, “I just don't want to go.” ‘The man continued to appeal to her, Mrs Reeves said, saying: “Come on, get in and I'll let you drive.” The woman still refused and started down “Why won't TH CAR IN BAKER MURDER | cultural Farms and by foliage. He paid little more than passing attention | to the incident at the time, he declared, believing it “might be a bunch of | drunks down the road.” | He was positive about the time, as- serting that he had punched his time clock for the 2-o'clock round and had paused for a moment to rest. Returning to his sentry house, he deposited his clock on a table and | again went outside. He declared that while sitting a few feet away from his hut, at about 2:15 or 2:20 o'clock, he | heard an automobile running in sec- | ond gear, as though ascending an in- cline, and then speed away in high gear in a southeasterly direction. Ques- | tioned as to whether he heard a door slam shut, or a starter revolving a motor, Bright said he did not, but ad- | mitted it might be possible that the | car might have stopped in the hollow in which is located the culvert where BLEASET0 REVEAL LOGALCRIVEDATA IBa\ker Murder Spurs Senator to Renewed Attack on Police. | Returning to the Capital today, Sen- ) ator Blease. Democrat, of South Caro- | lina, announced in the Senate that he { 1s planning to turn over to the new District Commissioners all of the in- ‘!armluan he has relating to police af- fairs and crime conditions in Wash- ington. In the course of a brief speech in the Senate, Senator Blease inserted in the | record “newspaper clippings relating to the finding of the bullet-ridden body of Miss Mary Baker, the clerk who was found murdered in a culvert on the roadside in nearby Virginia Saturday. Referring to a previous speech he made recently on conditions in the Dis- trict of Columbia, Senator Blease made this comment: “I also said that while some people might not pay any attention to what I am warning them against, when some man’s wife or daughter is the victim, possibly they would change their minds. In that connection I desire to submit and ask to have printed as a part of my remarks a clipping. My heart goes out in deepest sympathy to the poor father and mother, but it is no more than I expected from conditions as I | know them in Washington.” | SNOWDEN'S BUDGET WIL RAISE TAYES British Chancellor Estimates 1930-31 Revenue at $3,945,000,000. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 14. — Chancellor Snowden in his budget speech today estimated the revenue of Great Britain for 1930-31 on a new basis of increased taxation at £789,000,445 (about $3,945,- 000,000), with an estimated surplus of £2,236,000 (about $11,180,000). Snowden announced that in his search for new duties he had looked to beer, and that the duty of the standard bar- | rel of beer would be raised from tomor- row by three shillings. He had received assurances from the brewers this would not raise the price to the public. This would produce £2. 750,000 this year and £3,100,000 in the full year. would propose legislation to prevent the avoldance of estate duties through the medium of private companies and the avoldance of the surtax by a single premium insurance. Two Questions Faced. He would also ask for legislation re- garding the liability to income tax ot | non-residents trading in Great Britain ‘The chancellor said he had to con- sider two quesilons—1) whether to make any further change in the fixcd deficit of 1929 was to be dealt with. The present position encouraged the hope of continuance of cheap money, {and he estimated a reduction of £11.- compared with last year. He felt jusii- fled in leaving the fixed debt chaige where it was. Regarding the budget deficit, chancellor said it was his intention to ing on budget deficits generally. mates for the coming year, noting & re- duction in expenditure in the fighting services of more than £7,000.000 cori- pared with three years ago. like to see. | ‘The chancellor’ announced that he debt provision and (2) how the budget | 500,000 in the floating debts cost as the | propose an alteration in the law bear- | Hie then proceeded 1o deal with esti- | This, | however, was not as much as he would He thought that every one agreed it ' GIRL FLYER LEADS SKELTON SEARCH :Six Planes Hunt Lost Aviator Around Lake . Michigan. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 14.—With Miss Betty Cook, Evanston society girl, in the i lead ship, a fleet of six airplanes yes- | terday continued without success the | search for Ralph Fisher Skelton, young { artist-aviator, who disappeared last Thursday while flylng across Lake Michigan for Chicago. Hope was still held that Skelton was able to make a safe landing in some solated section of Michigan, although searchers thought it more probable he |had been forced down in the lake, where the biplane would have sunk almost immediately. Skelton 100k off ‘from Detroit, but stopped at Ann Arbor, Mich., to refuel before venturing out over the lake. At the Ann Arbor fleld it was said the Irll;)e‘: fuel tank had developed a bad | leak, YORK MURDER BLAME CHARGED TO OTHER BY TWO PRISONERS ___ (Continued From First Page) on foot and both fled, abandoning their car. Later they said they sent an emis- sary with an offer of & $50 bribe if York would release the car. They said York refused to accept the money and began sounding the car’s siren for help. They said they then offered York $100 to give up the car. They asserted the agent replied that he wouldn't take $100. $500 or any amount. York accused the two of having “smoked” him on several previous oc- casions and declared he was going to take them into custody, police said they were told. One of the men then shot York, leaving him dying beneath a lamp- post at the curb. The two men are quoted as saying they got into the car 1 and drove off, after searching York's Dockets for the automobile keys, which he had removed from the car. Of Ardmore, Okla., was selected as the west. TESSIE MOBLEY BRAVE most beautiful Indian girl in the South- Her Indian name is Lou-schaenya, which means “The Humming Bird.” —Associated Press Photo. MENPHS FACTORY STORMED BY NOB Revenge on Foremen Clubbed by Police. | Inquest Is Postponed. | An inquest scheduled for today was | | deferred until tomorrow because of the | absence of & member of the coroner’ | ury. | | “Borum was arrested yesterday after- | knoon by detectives and prohibition agents on 1 street near Thirteenth | street_and found him clinging to a | third-floor fire escape. | v Detective Sergts. Tom Sweeney and | Joseph F. Waldron of the homicide | | squad. reinforced by almost a score of | precinct policemen and Federal dry | agents, broke open the door when oc- | { cupants of the building are said to have | | refused to open it. | Early last night headquarters detec- | tives, led by Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, and | | accompanied by three prohibition agents | land a Maryland State policeman, ar- j rested Logan in & house in'Sunderiand, | | The policeman had searched for some time when Detective Waldron heard a souna_from behind what appeared to | be a plank wall. Investigation revealed | a secret room where Logan was found. Like Borum, he offered no resistance. Neither was armed at the time of their capture. After a_three-hour grilling at head- quarters, Borum was lodged at No. 3| precinct 'and Logan at No. 5. an was to have gone on trial in Police Court Saturday on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon gro | ing out ot the shooting of Louis Mer | chant, colored, at Seventh and T streets several weeks ago. Merchant is in| Freedmen's Hospital recovering from a | gunshot wound in the leg. 552,286 VICTORIA WETS iDrys in Australian Test Run Up | 419,005 Votes. ‘ MELBOURNE, Australia, April 14 (. —The final count on the question of | By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 14.—A col- ored mob of 250, armed with guns and clubs, stormed the main entrance of | the Murray Wood Products Co. here Saturday and was beaten down and dis- persed by 48 special officers, police re- led Saturday night. Vengeance aganst three white foremen was given oy police as the cause of the Tiot. Guards at the plant said the mob de- manded that it be allowed entrance to the plant so that it might attack the foremen. When tused a riot call was turned in to po- lice headquarters and 40 special officers were sent to the plant. ‘Twenly were After order was restored the guards re- mained at the plant, armed with riot Zuns, tear gas bombs and machine guns An Investigation of the affair led to the discharge of 65 alleged members of the mob. The trouble started Friday night when | a foreman reprimanded a calored man for recklessly operating a company tram car. The man attacked the foreman and was escorted from the grounds of | the company by two guards. Denial that there had been labor | trouble and a riot at the plant here was made Saturday night by company officials. “There has been no rioting and the story is untrue,” W. H. Grenwalt, man- ager of the plant, said. STANSBURY BOYCE DIES AT RESIDENC Retired Business Man Will Be Buried Tomorrow Afternoon the demand was re- | wounded with clubs | Society of Natives To Hear of Wild Days Of Piney Branch Area How John Burroughs, the natu- ralist, once regarded the Piney Branch region as wild and savage as the headwaters of the Dela- ware and the Hudson, and how an Army engineer recommended the entire region north of Colum- bia road be a great reservoir and national park will be described to members of the Columbia His- torical Society by Fred A. Emer: president of the Society of Na tives, tomorrow night at the Cos- mos Club ‘The period from Indian village days to the present congested city on the heights will be described, with the speaker choosing “Mount Pleasant and Meridian Hill" as his_ theme. Emery will tell of the popular race courses, stage coaches, the swamps where big snakes once lived, the old bob- tail car line that stopped at boundary, and of the New Eng- land families who pioneered Mount Pleasant, with its dirt roads and cinder sidewalks, where land sold for $650 an acre. 'AIRPORT TRAGEDY COSTS THREE LIVES By the Associated Press. YPSILANTI, Mich, April 14.—Two men gave their lives in futile rescue attempts after an airplane became en- |tangled in high voltage wires while making a landing at Ypsilanti Airport Sunday afternoog. A passenger in the | plane was killed as he tried to jump (from the burning ship. I‘ The dead are Levi Keppler, 24, teller in the Farmers & Mechanics Bank of | 1 Ann Arbor, Mich., passenger in the | plane; Harry Walters, 31, superintend- ent of the airport, who sought to rescue Keppler, and W. Clawson, 60, retired farmer, who tried to save Walters. ‘The plane was owned and piloted by | Leon Henselmann, 23, of Ann Arbor. In making a landing at the field, Han- | selmann undershot the fleld and the plane struck the wires. The pilot was thrown to the ground. The plane sus- pended 20 feet above. fire flashing from UTILITY BILL GETS SENATE APPROVAL Reconsideration of Measure Cutting Court Powers to Be Sought. ‘The bill to curtail the er of District Supreme Court 1y by ewin‘. g:f cisions of the Public Utilities Commise sion, which was the center of a cone troversy in the Senate District commit- tee a few days ago, passed the Senate this afternoon during the consideration of the unanimous consent calendar, but indications are that an effort will be made tomorrow to have this action re- ('n!xl%ldvrem e Senate adjourned for the shortly after the bill passed, but I'g:l?; Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, one of the oppmuvlnbs of the measure in earned of its passa he let it be known that he Woulpd !al%: Steps tomorrow to have it reconsidered. Differ on Inserting “The.” The difterence of opinion relates to that section of the bill which provides that in appeals to the court the find- ings of the commission as to facts would be final if supported “by evi- dence” and if not confiscatory. Oppo- nents of the bill contend that the pres- ent wording of the section would mean that a fragment of evidence would be sufficient to make the findings of the commission as to facts final. The Util- itles Commission favors the bill in its present form, taking the position that if the section is changed to read Sup- ported “by the evidence” it would de- stroy the purpose of the measure. | . When the District committee met | Friday Senator Glass requested that the | bill be brought back to committee from !t‘l,)\e"Snrmu{l calendar for the purpose of ving further considera - | ion in’ question, S Pay Bill Postponed. When the bill was reached on the call of the calendar today it wi Youeh without discussion 4 e The police and fireman's pay incr bill also was reached on the call of i calendar today, but was again post- poned. Senator McNary of Oregon, as- sistant leader, asked that it go over for | Iater consideration because of the ab- | sence of Senator Phipps, Republican, of Colorado, who has taken part in pre- vious discussions of the bill e Senate passed the bill chang the name of Towa Circle to Logan Girels and sent it to the House for approval, its present form, SOUCEK PLANS ASSAULT ON ALTITUDE RECORD Navy Aeronautic's Bureau Flyers Leave Anacostia Field for Hart- ford, Conn., to Get Plane. Lieut. Apollo Soucek, Navy Bureau Aeronautics, holder of the. world n:f | plane record and former holder of the | world altitude record for planes of all types. left the Anacostia Naval Air Sta- tion today for Hartford, Conn., to bring back his Wright Apache plane, in which the record flights were made, in prepa- ration for & new attempt to reach the | greatest altitude to which man has ever gone. | _ Lieut. Soucek made the fiight to Hartford with Comdr. J. M. Shoemaker, Bureau of Aeronautics, who will return Pprobably today. The little altitude plane has been at | Hartford for several weeks to permit the | installation of a new engine at the plant | of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. Drowned Man Believed Suicide. | FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., April 14 (#).—The body of a man, found float- | ing face downward at Las Olas Bathing Beach, near here, early yesterday. was identified later by his wife as C. O. | Goff of this city. The Goffs came here several months ago from Terre | Haute, Ind. Suicide, brought on by | despondency from lack of work, was ;dv;l;l(‘ed by police as the cause for his eath. the hill by the side of the road. Mrs. | in Harmony Cemetery. Reeves said she believed the automobile | eventually left the street to the west- | til 10 p.m. the girl's movements are | unaccounted for. It was a little after 10 when resi- was deplorable that 12 years after the | whether the state of Victoria should go | the body was found. The sound of war Great Britain and the other powers ! wet or dry shtowed today that the drys | 'lhe high voltage lines. Keppler stood the shots, the womans scream and up in his seat but touched a. charged part of the ship and fell back dead. dents of Rosslyn heard the man and woman quarreling in the car parked on the lonely Government road which leads down past Arlington Cemetery. After the girl's futile attempt to| escape, the car was driven away and two pistol shots, fired in quick succes- sion, were heard. Night watchmen at oil and gasoline storage stations along the road saw the sedan round a sharp curve Lelow Rosslyn and speed -away toward the culvert where the body was found. The car was driven nearly a mile up the road toward Washington and aban- doned. The slayer apparently escaped on foot from that point. Police believe he was afraid to drive the machine into ‘Washington for fear the shots he fireu might have been heard and reported. Father Returns With Body. Most of the blood was found in the front seat of the car, but several large stains in the rear were puzzling police ‘They believe they may have been made by some of Miss Baker's garments, 1t the man .had put them in the rear of the machine. Rev. Thomas F. Baker, father of the slain girl, said this afternoon that he was returning to Oak Grove with the body and that he would not again come here unless called for by authorities. “I have every confidence in authori- ties of both Arlington County and ‘Washington, and believe there is noth- ing more I can do here,” he said. “Mi Pratt. superintendent of the Washing- tor “olice, is a cousin of mine; Dr. N t, Washington coroner, is a very el personal friend, coming from my sec..on of the ccuntry. and Common- wealth’s Attorney Gloth has evidenced | himself to be capable of handling the situation trom the Arlington County | angle in such a manner as to lead me to believe that the murderer of my daughter will be apprehended and brought to justice.” Mr. Baker stated that he was not in @ physical condition, even if he stayed. to be of any material assistance, that werd of the Albermarle intersection. Mrs. C. S. Cunningham, who resides a block north of the intersection where the car is said to have been parked, eported that her husband, returning T | home about 11 o'clock Friday night. told her he saw a car parked without lights in front of the Collins’ residence. | She said he shouted to the driver to turn on his lights. Dr. A. Magruder MacDonald, perform- ing a second autopsy for Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt, Washington coroner, because of indications that the crime might nav* been perpetrated here, declared that the three gunshot wounds bore no pow- der marks. They all had been inflicted trom practically the same distance, Dr. MacDonald said. In the event smokeless powder had been used in the cartridges, it would have been possible for the weapon to have been fired in the car, Dr. Mac- Donald declared, but said the assailant would have to have been on one side of the machine and the woman on the other when the buliets were discharged. To meet requirements should future disclosures reveal that the murder took place here and thus necessitate an in- quest by the District, Dr. Nevitt yester-- day had a jury of six men view the body at the funeral chapel in Arlington County. The men were instructed to be in readiness to sit as an inquisitorial body. Body Shows Bruises. Dr. McDonald declared “that his autopsy failed to bring to light any matters of importance not discovered by Dr. B. H. Swain, Arlington County coroner, who first examined the body. The second examination merely certi- fied Dr. Swain’s report that the girl had been attacked and had been shot three | times. Her body “from head to her feet”” Dr. McDonald declared, bore marks of violence. The bullet which was fired into the throat, slightly more than an inch be- low the ear, passing through the neck and out her right cheek, penetrating her arm, was found. The bullet which his heart was broken, and that the shock of the tragedy had left him | helpless. | Reports that an automobile resem- | bling Miss Baker's small sedan -na} bearing a District license tag, in which a man and woman were violently quar- | reling between 10:30 and 11 o'clock Friday night, was seen parked at the corner of Albermarle street and Alex- | andria avenue, and that a woman was seen to jump out of the machine and Tun across the front lawn of a house | at 1516 Alexandria avenue and pro- tect herself behind a tree, emanated from Rosslyn this morning. Tells of Argument. ‘The machine was reported seen by Mrs. B. L. Collins, wlro resides at the northeast corner of ‘the intersection. She sald she was in her bed room about 10:30 o'clock when she heard the car stop in front of her house and heard & man and woman arguing heatedly. She was unable to tell what the argument was about, but said that profanity was freely used. The. only phrase Mrs, Collins was. able to quote penetrated the left side below the eighth rib also was found, but the third mis- sile which entered in the middle of the back has not bee nlocated. After en- tering the body it took a slightly down- ward path, Dr, MacDonald advised. The throat bears more than 20 bruises and abrasions, believed to have been inflicted by the murderer’s fin- gers. There also arc abrasions on the thigh. . Four Report Hearing Shots. Four persons, one a night watchman at the N. P. Severin Construction Co.’s job on the Arlington Memorial Bridge, whose nightly rounds bring him within 500 yards of the spot where the body of Miss Baker was found, also revealed heard shots in the vicinity a night watchman of an oil company station on Military road near Rosslyn Edward Bright of 926 N street re- vorted that while making his rouna: after 2 o'clock Saturday morn- ing he heard a shot, seemingly coming from a point north of where the body was later found. He said the shot was quickly followed by two othe; in the racing automobile, Bright sald, were andible in the clear, still night. Heard Argument in Car. C. D. Thompson and Albin Anderson, who reside together on Greenlees ave- nue. about 150 yards east of Harlow avenue, declared that at about 10 or 10:30 o'cleck they heard the loud voices of a man and woman in an automobile parked by the roadside in front of their house. The voices were raised in _anger, Thompson said. Thompson said he was unable to dis- tinguish the words spoken and could not tell what the couple was talking about. Neither man paid much at- tention to the machine, parking parties being commonplace in that section, | they said. ‘Thompson, whose bed room is in the front part of the house, was about to retire a few minutes after the voices were first noticed, he said, when the | automobile was started, proceeding to- ward the cemetery. “It had gone only a few feet when I heard the loud report of a shot,” he said. “As the automobile gathered | speed, a second shot followed. I only | heard two shots and the sound of speeding car died out as it progressed out of earshot.”” Anderson corrobo- rated this, declaring that he, too, heard only two shots. Questioned as to how long the ma- chine might have been parked there, they said that they did not become aware of its presence until the voices were heard and did not hear it drive up. They did not see the car. Thorough scrutiny of the ground in the vicinity of the spot where the two men said the machine was parked dis- closed little evidence! A chewing gum ! wrapper was found in the gutter beside | the road where the automobile is said i to have stopped. In the right side pocket of Miss Baker's car two sticks of chewing gum of the same brand pre- viously had been found. ‘Watchman Tells of Shots. Robert Howard of 1224 Twenty-ninth street, a night watchman at an oil com- pany station on , Military road, just around the bend in the road from where ‘Thompson and Anderson live, declared that shortly after 10 o'clock, just after he had completed his hourly round, he was sitting on a bench in front of the yards when he heard a shot fired. He said it came from a point diagonally across from where he sat, which would place it on Greenless avenue. Howard said the shot was {ollowed by a second report as an automobile came racing around the corner and away down Military road. He fal to see what kind of an automobile it was or who was in it. The license tag was hidden from his view by the cloud of dust raised as the machine raced along n}\le t.:m road. He also heard only two shots. Three colored families located be- tween the point where pson and Anderson live and where Howard was sitting, when questioned as to whether they had noted anything unusual Fri- day night about the time the shots were reported, declared that they heard should be spending so much of their re- sources on huge armaments, “when more than 50 nations have solemnly re- nounced war as an instrument of na- tional policy and have pledged them- selves never to resort to war for settle- . ment of international disputes.” Sees No General Vote in 1930. ‘The chancellor indicated he did not ' anticipate a general election this year, saying he had not found it necessary to provide in this financial year for such expenses. He informed the Commons that safe- guarding duties would be allowed to ex- pire at their fixed rate, not to be re- | Bertrand Lees-Smith, postmaster gen- | ness, newed. Mr. Snowden said that he would abolish the last vestiges of the “in- glorious betting tax.” He asserted that abolition of this tax would be £200,000 in the full year and £180,000 for the rest of this year, The lapse in the safeguarding duties, he said. would cost £521,000 this year and £823,000 in the full year. After giving the estimated expendi- tures and receipts showing that there would be £42,000.000 less receipts than expenditures under the existing laws, the chancellor said new taxation there- fore was unavoidable. Almazan Promoted. MEXICO CITY, April 14 (#).—Gen. Juan Andreu Almazan has been named vice president of the National Railways to succeed Sanchez Mejorada, who has been elevated to the presidency. shots from an automobile which sped toward the cemetery between 10:30 and 11 o'clogk Friday night. SEE LACK OF POLICING. Highway Where Miss Baker Was Slain Held Not Safeguarded. Officials today recalled that the Federal-owned military road between Arlington National Cemetery and the experimental farm of the Department of Agriculture, where the body of Miss Mary Elizabeth Baker, Navy Depart- ment clerk, was found, is entirely with- out proper policing. A bill by Representative Moore, Dem- acrat. of Virginia, introduced in Janu- ary, is now pending in Congress, to give authority to the United States park police tq patrol this road. A hearing has been held on the measure and it is now pending before a subcommittee of the House military committee. ‘The military authorities at Fort Myer, Va. say that the soldiers are without jurisdiction to arrest civilians on the road and may only eject civilians from the military reservation for disobeying _the regulations. The sheriff o. Arling- ton County, Va., is represented as claim- lnglck of jurisdiction over the road. affic is heavy between the two fiy- ing flelds across the river from Wash- ington and this is entirely uncontrolied. A measure introduced some time ago by- Chairman Reed of the Senate fitl\'mury Leo Dorman of Cherrydale, Va., & night watchman at the yards of the Gulf Refining Co., which adjoins those Oll Co., where Howard is the statements | had 419,005 votes and the wets 552,286. ' {It was a record poll, with ballots cast by 95 per cent of those entitled to vo ‘The election, held March 29, was a compulsory referendum of extencion of the prohibition of alcoholic liquors throughout the state. which is the sec- ond largest in Ausiralia. A three- fifths dry majority would have been necessary for prohibition victory. | SHARE CABLE COST LONDON, April 14 (#).—Hastings eral, told a questioner in the House of | Commons today that the British gov- | ernment would contribute half the cost | of laying a telephone cable between Great Britain and the United States, conditional on the cable proving satis- factory ‘The questioner wished to know prin- cipally if the cable would be manufac- tured in Great Britain, but the post- master general said no order would be placed for several months. Nine Hurt in Motor Crash. VAN BUREN, Ark, April 14 (#).— Nine persons, members of a picnic party, were injured, five of them seriously, yes- terday when the driver of a truck carry- ing'the outing party lost control of the machine. at the top of a hill near the business section here. The truck, its aears stripped, careened wildly down the mile incline, jumped across railway tracks at the foot of the grade and plunged into a store, plow- ing its way to the basement of the building before it stopped. All of those injured were expected to recover. Stansbury Boyce, 91 years old, Te- ired business man, residing in Wash- ngton for the past 20 years, died yes- crday at his residence, 1443 R street A native of Baltimore, Mr. Boyce hen a child, was taken by his varents to Trinidad, British West In- dies. Shortly before the Civil War, af- ter passing his early manhood in Car- acas, Venezuela, Mr. Boyce came to the United States, where he cntered the teaching profession. In 1891 he established a large depart- ment store in Jacksonville, Fla. teen years later, stricken by serious ill- he relinquished his Florida busi- ness, and sought recuperation in two extensive European tours. Since establishing a Washington residence in 1909, his business activities | had lb!en limited to real estate invest- ment. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. | Prances Boyce. former president of the Phyllls Wheatley Young Women's Christian Association. | Funeral services will be held tomor- row afternoon at 3 o'clock at the residence. Interment will be in | Harmony Cemetery. HEARING POSTPONED Anti-Vivisection Bill Opponents to Be Heard in Three Weeks. ‘The Bowman subcommittee of the House District committee, on motion of Representative Whitley of New York, today postponed for three weeks further consideration of the anti-vivisection bill. An opportunity is to be afforded opponents of this legislation for a hear- ing at that time. THE INKWELL 1B AND THE DEVIL In the ancient Wartburg of Tannhaeuser fame they show you, the spot on the wall where Luther, the mighty reform- er, threw his inkwell at the devil. 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