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A2 THE EVENING WASHI) STAR, NGTO! D. 0., 'FRIDAY, APRIY 18, 1930. MACHINE CUDES BOMBING AIRPLANE Feasibility of Air War Without Human Pilots Proved in California Tests. By_the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, April feasibility of waging war in the air without the use of human pilots and of sending huge planes, niloted only by machinery, on cross-country trips, has been demonstrated by the Army Afr Corps. A big Army bomber took off from Mather Field, Sacramento, last night bearing four men and & queer-looking machine about the size of a hat box. when the plane was well in the air the pllot, Maj. Hugh Knerr, turned the controls over to the little machine, which flew the ship straight as an arrow to San Francisco, Course Precise Mechanically. Over the bay city Knerr touched a button and the machine guided the 18,000-pound plane in circles for 20 minutes and then headed it back for Sacramento. Except for the take-off and jamding, the machine did all navigatihg, keeping the plane on an even keel through the rough air and maintaining the course with mechanical precision. Besides Knerr the plane carried Hans Adamson, representing the Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation; Lawrence B. Sperry, inventor of the sutomatic pilot, and Master Sergt. Budofl, radio operator. PThe purpose of the fiight, Army officials said, was to prove the feasibility of using automatically piloted planes as huge instruments of destruction to be hurled against an enemy without the #id of human hands. While the flight was in progress Budoff sent a message L) Mltge:flField that the automatic PR was “giving a perfect demonstra- Hon of its usefuless.” Just before land- fhg the plane radioed that the experi- ment had been “highly successful.” Two Gyrescopes Used. #'s inwention consists of two 'yr.(;.s!cmes e instrument weighs less than pounds in and was installed in the forward cockpit. Delicately gensitive, it detects every movement of the plane and : itomatically rights the ship whenever it strays from its course. When Knerr left the control of the plane to the automatic pilot he retired 1o a rear cockpit of the ship, and except for going forward to press the buttons for turns, remained away from the instrument. T $222.50 IS RAISED FOR YORK FAMILY IN FUND CAMPAIGN | (Continued From t_Page.) of Charles Irving’s stay in the hospital ater, his funeral. ey told me I ought to try cover something for my 'boy's | Mrs. York said, “but I'm afraid that would - be hard; there a 50 many stories about accidents, and then a judgment mightn't be collectable any- how. Mrs. York wasn't sure just what she would do, Wi er. to keep the little house or per] g0 live with relatives. ‘There was 8- -old Robert Lamar to consider, and James Henderson, who s just 9 months old. The agent, too, had been forced to borrow some on his life insurance. Mrs. York wasn't sure just how much, but | expenses had been very heavy last year, she said, with a sigh. Pleads for Bereaved. Washingtonians would almost pear to participate in the crime were we to allow the widow and children of this noble officer to suffer want and privation,” wrote J. Maurice Bird, prominent merchant, in contributing $20 to the fund. His letter follows, In art: PiWe welcome the opportunity through your initiative in testifying to the heroic integrity and valor of one of the finest. “Officer York proved a concrete evi- dence of the herolsm our sometime maligned police force produces; like- wise we voice our appreciation to Lieut. Kelly and his efficient aides in so quickly apprehending a murderous group of poison bootleg venders. “We pause to view the grief, hard- | ship and suffering entailed on those left behind. We should almost appear | to participate in the crime were we lo‘ allow the widow and children of this| noble officer to suffer want and priva tion. to re- death, | For Advanced Provision. “There should be advanced provision provided through the appropriation for prohibition enforcement to avoid jeopardizing dependents and loved ones of the growing number of martyrs.” Frank V. A. Brown of the Auth Pro- vision ‘Co., another supporter of the | movement, advanced the suggestion that the public pay off the $3,500 mortgage | on the York home. He wrote: i “Please find inclosed a check for 810‘ to help the fund for the York family. What more appropriate gift could the Washington people give at this Easter time than enough to pay off the mort- gage on the home and a little surplus to help them carry on until better days meet them? Best wishes for a huge success.” 18.—The | | formed that the rental is between $8,000 Three young women from North C: IWET SEES HOOVER arolina who were among the 150 night school pupils of North Carolina who called on the President yesterday. —Star Staff Photo. NEW COURT ACTION NANES SHITH 0. Firm Is One of Defendants in Suit for Jefferson Apart- ments Receivership. Application for the appointment of a receiver for the Jefferson Corporation and the Jefferson Apartments, Inc., Twelfth and M streets, was made today to the District Supreme Court by Miss | Grace Cauldwell, 1519 Oak street, | through Attorriey W. Gwynn Gardiner. | Miss Cauldwell owns one of the first mortgage bonds of a total issue of | $665,000 secured on the property. She also asks that the F. H. Smith Co. | which distributed the bonds, be required | to deliver to the Southern Maryland Trust Co. all monies received by the company since December 20 last on ac- | count oOf interest payments on the nds. Joined'as defendants in addition to the two corporations and the Smith Co. are G. Bryan Pitts and Henry C. Mad- dux of this city, Jobn R. Thomas of New York City, Charles H. Wiltsie of Rochester, N. Y. and the Southern Maryland Trust Co. Miss_Cauldwell tells the court that the Jefferson Apartments are valued by Willlam P. Richards, district assessor, | at only $626,025 and has secured on the property & first mortgage of $665.- 000 and & second mortgage of $350.000, making a total idebtedness of $1,015,- | 000. She attaches an affidavit fram the assessor in which he values the ground at $15 per square foot for 11,735 square feet, making a valuation of $176,025 to which he adds, $450,000 as the value of the building. The plaintiff reviews the litigation | over the affairs of the Smith Co. and charges that security of the bonds of which she owns one, is being jeopard- ized by the publicity given the matter in the halls of Congress and elsewhere. | | Occupied by Pitts. Miss Cauldwell declares that the Jeff- | erson Apartments are being managed | by Henry C. Maddux, who has been in- | structed and directed by the F. H.| Smith Co. to send all coilections from | the property by way of rentals or in- | come to the New York office of the Smith Co. She says she has been in- and $10,000 monthly, but that one- | eighth of the entire building has been for a considerable period of time oc- cupled as a private abode of G. Bryan Pitts, former chairman of the board of the Smith Co. for which he owes a balance of $17,000. He has recently removed his belonging to & place un- known to the plaintiff, it is asserted. The property has been sold for non- payment of taxes, it is declared, to | Charles H. Wilsie of Rochester, N. Y., who is also made a party to the suit. Thomas is sued &s & trustee under one | of the mortgages placed on the prop- " ader the first trust, it is pointed out, payments from income are required to be paid to the Southern Maryland Trust Co., and it is charged this has not been done since the last interest period. | Washington. NTATIVE LEE. Harris-Ewing Photo. | R. 0. LEE OF TEXAS OIES FROM STROKE: Representative Suffered Pa-: ralysis Five Weeks Ago. Hope Given Up Yesterday. Representative R. Q. Lee of Texas| died at 10 o'clock this morning at Emergency Hospital, after an illness of five weeks. Physicians abandoned hope for his recovery yesterday. He was 61 years old. Mr. Lee was stricken with paralysis five weeks ago and it was thought for some time he would recover. Wednes- day night he suffered a relapse. Mr. Lee was born near Coldwater, Miss, January 12, 1869, and moved with his father to Fort Worth in 1886, then to Caddo, Stephens County, Tex., and finally to Cisco in 1913 He was a merchant, farmer, rancher and banker and was elected to the House in 1928 without opposition. Mrs. Lee and their children are in ‘They make their home at_1851 Irving street. Besides his widow, Representative Lee is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Leonard Simon of Cisco and Mrs. Har- old Ochler of Dayton, Tex., and three sons, Edward, Robert Stein and R. Q. Lee, jr. The body is to leave Washington to- night for Cisco, where the funeral will be held, probably on Monday. A con- gressional delegation will accompany the body, along with the members of the family who have been in Washing- ton during the illness. Mr. Lee succeeded former Repre- sentative Tom Blanton from the sev- enteenth Texas district and had an- nounced for re-election. Mr. Blanton also has announced his 1 By the Associated Press. | votes.” | Civic League. DRY VIEW CHANGING Stayton Letter Expresses| Belief President Begins to Doubt Enforcement. An expression of belief by W. H. Stay- ton, chairman of the board uf the Asso- ciation Against the Prohibition Amend- ment, that President Hoover “is begin- ning to doubt whether prohibition can be enforced” was received today B% the Senate lobby committee. The opinion was contained in a letter written last February by Stayton to Charles S. Wood of Philadelphia, a vice president of the wet organization. It said: “My own feeling, as I talk to Sena- tors, members of Congress and public officials here, is that Mr. Hoover is be- ginning to doubt whether prohibition can be enforced.” It added that Mr. Hoover “wants to take plenty of time to consider it, but he is being abused a little too much.” The Stayton letter was introduced into the voluminous lobby committee record while Henry H. Curran, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, was testifying for the third day. Curran had said a while before that the “tide is turning” against pro- hibition in Congress. Refers to Graham. The letter by Stayton said Chairman | Graham of the House judiciary commit- tee, which has been holding prohibition | hearings had urged him to ask W. W. Atterbury, Republican national com- mitteeman from Pennsylvania, and a wet, to testify before the committee. “I belleve,” the letter added, “that if Gen. Atterbury should take the stand it would cause a great many people to be more generous as to Mr. Hoover's at- titude. “I think there are thousands of peo- ple—and especially prominent people here—who would at once say that, if Gen. Atterbury, with his strong con- victions on this subject, is willing to wait for Mr. Hoover's calm considera- tion, then the rest of us ought equally to be willing to wait, and I believe that a real service would thereby be done to the Republican party.” Curran was not questioned concerning | the references to President Hoover in the Stayton letter. Marked Letter Confidential. ‘The letter from Stayton to Wood said, t par “Failure to enforce prohibition dur- ing the last 10 years (which failure | was inevitable from the beginning) has been accompanied by an orgy of graft, corruption and lawlessness such as our Nation has never seen before. In my | opinion, this can only be ended by an |, adequate expression of the will of the | people impressed upon Congress by in A similar letter was sent by Lammot | du Pont to 240 Republican campaign | contributors and it brought in 5 con- | tributions totaling $2,125. Senator Robinson, Republican, Indi- ana, read from records of the asso- | ciation that $17.017 had been spent in | Massachusetts recently by the Liberal | The records included $5000 for a | meeting addressed by Gov. Ritchie of Maryland. “This is absolutely confidential. “Judge Graham, who is, I suppose, thinking not only of the wet and dry is- sue, but also of the Republican party, which he very dearly loves, has shown that these matters are so close to his heart that he has personally urged me | o three things: To ask Gen. Atterbury to come down and go to the stand for a few minutes on Wednesday or Thursday Way will be made for him instantly and | he will not be detained. | “2. To put Judge Graham himself in | touch with Mr. Pierre du Pont, in Flor- | ida. Mr. du Pont went there yesterday | to stay until the 27th of this month, but Judge Graham is going to ask him to | come back here and testify on the 19th | or 20th 3. The judge is also going to reach Senator Wadsworth, in Cuba, by phone | and ask him to break up his vacation | and come back for the same purpose.” Important to “Cause.” “I cannot ask you too strongly to im- press upon Gen. Atterbury that Judge Graham thinks the three above-men- | admit that 'some | far overstepped the bounds of decency, | ing that some sort of remedial legisla- THREE GIVE VIEWS ON FREE PRESS Senator Vandenberg Hits Re- striction in Address Be- fore Editors. Three views of the freedom of the | press were presented today to the Amer- | ican Society of Newspaper Editors in | convention here. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, himself a former editor, told the con- ference that a throttled press was a | prophesy of democracy’s disintegration. Justice Ernest I. Edgecomb of the sSupreme Court of New York said the courts could not interfere with the legi- | timate sphere of newspapers. | Joseph - Hostetler, an attorney of | Cleveland, told the soclety the press | was in danger only from the newspapers | themselves, and that its liberty ended | where license begins. Hostetler, who | defended the famous Cleveland Press contempt case, described the case and declared the public at lerge does not look on a judge sitting in his own case | as a good sportsman. Question of Immaunity. “The public doesn’t belleve in a man sitting in his own law suit,” Hostetler | said. “I don't know how a judge can | immunize his own feelings. The people | are just as much for freedom ef the press today as when the Constitution was drawn.” Liberty is purchasable only at the price of eternal vigilance, Hostetler said, | urging that the editors watch every | move intended to take away liberty of the press. He told the association that its members should not consult a law- yer when they intended to write articles ‘More editorial emotion has been stified by lawyers than by any other mean: he sald. “Call your lawyer after you have published your article.” Senator Vandenberg, in urging the passage of his bill to restrict the power of a judge to cite & person for contempt and then try the case, asserted that a throttled press is a prophecy of de- mocracy’s disintegration. The bill, now before the Senate ju- diclary committee, would give a person cited for contempt the right to have the case heard by another judge if the contempt arises from an attack upon the character of the conduct of the Judge who brings the action. Vandenberg, a former newspaper man, referred to the recent action against editors of the Cleveland press, in which the decision of 8 judge who convicted them of contempt was set aside by a higher court. Discussing the action of courts in citing persons for contempt and then “sitting in judgment, the Senator said: “Mingled powers are the formula for tyranny. Powers thus mingle when the same judge acts first as complainant, then as an umpire, in a proceeding which primarily involves his own per- sonal status and his own personal feel- gs as differentiated from the status and authority of his court.” TImportance of Criticism. Justice Edgecomb sald he knew of no reason why a judge was immune from criticism any “more than any other official, asserting that he could con- celve of nothing so conducive to mak- ing & public official arrogant and over- | bearing as the knowledge that he would never be called to account for his conduct He told the editors that all censor- ship of the press was prohibited by the Constitution, but said that they must “publishers have so and have so flagrantly abused the privi- leges granted them by the fundamental law of the land, that it is not surpris- tion is frequently suggested.” Attempts to curb the press through the courts were deplored by Marlen Pew, editor of Editor and Publisher, in an address before the soclety yes- | terday afternoon. Pew reviewed efforts of certain financial interests to control newspapers in widely scattered sections of the country and of efforts of some interests to spread propaganda through use of the press. The first, he said, had been exposed, and of the second class of press agents he said: “With cash to burn, the power agents made & poor showing. They did much bragging in letters and to each other, | | tioned things of vast importance to the cause.” Questioned about newspapers which used publicity of his organization, Cur- ran named two in Montana—the Butte | Miner and “the Anaconda something.” | The Butte Miner went out of exist- | ence several years ago, Senator Walsh, | Democrat, commented. Several in the audience applauded. Curran also named a number of pa- pers along the Atlantic seaboard which used the publicity. Many of the small town papers “ditched” the publicity, he said, adding: | “The editors would have to leave| town if they used it." Curran predicted that the Sheppard bill to make the purchaser of liquor equally guilty with the seller and the ‘Wickersham, proposal to “abolish trial by jury in contravention of the bill of rights” would not be passed by the present Congress. Two years ago, he added, the Jones bill to increase penalties for prohibition violations “passed with a*whoop.” Senator Blaine, Republican, Wiscon- sin, the only wet on the committee, asked Curran if his organization had taken any action on the prohibition bills now before Congress. “We haven't lifted a finger,” the witness replied. but the net stuff they got printed wauldn't_influence anything.” Pew also warned the editors against shrewd press agents. He said he had been told that more than $25,000,000 “of newspaper advertising is given away annually by grafters of editorial space.” DISBARMENT PLEA IS FILED AGAINST R. G. DONALDSON | ___(Continued From First Page.) _ made to the contractor and $7,500 each out of the fourth and fifth payments. Again, shortly before January 11, 1926, the committee reports that Don- aldson offered to obtain for the con- struction company a contract to erect an apartment house to be known as the Fifth Avenue Apartments, in Pitts- burgh, for which the Smith company would have control of the letting of the contract. Under date of January 11, 1926, Donaldson, it is reported, accepted an offer of the construction company to pay him $35,000 to secure the new Pittsburgh contract. He was to be paid $5000 out of each of the first three payments and $10,000 out of each of QUESTIONED IN MURDER MYSTERY MISS OLGA SKINNER (left) ‘Who occupled the home at Iyon Park, V: Washingion last night and were again q Baker, who was murdered last Friday night. and MISS MILDRED SPERRY, a., with Miss Mary Baker. They returned to estioned concerning the friends of Miss —=Star Staff Photo. TRAIL 3 WHO MAY OLVE BAKER GASE Probers Closing In on Sus- pects in Virginia and Washington. | ___(Continued From First Page) ington yesterday when newspaper re- porters located them. One of the girls telephoned Gloth that the reporters were harassing them, Sheriff Howard Fields of Arlington County went to Fredericksburg to meet them and escort them back. Gloth and Fields questioned the girls on the motor trip from Fredericksburg and continued the interrogation im- mediately after their arrival at the Arlington Court House. While both are satisfied that they have drawn all in- | formation from the girls which will be helpful in solving the crime, they will be available for further questioning should the need arise. While Miss Skinner and Miss Sperry were in Fredericksburg the authorities learned that a telegram was sent to Miss Skinner's brother in Mooreland, Towa. . The wire was surrendered to the officers on an order of Judge S. W. Coleman in Fredericksourg. It read “Mildred and I are domng well, but hounded by reporters. If they should locate you, answer no questions. And givé no pictures. Please get in touch with #Hugh Sperry and tip him off. Olga.® Capital Police Busy. While tne activities of the investi- gators centered chiefly in the vicinity of Warsaw, the Washington police were busy today running down new leads which they believed might throw further light on the crime. I and a group of detectives and Depart- ment of Justice agents also were closeted for more than an hour in the office of Supt. Pratt, plecing together the evidence aiready in their possession. One of the developments was the finding of the colored man who Sherift | Fields of Arlington County was told | | yesterday had purchased a gray top | coat and a watch from a man near Highway Bridge last week. The Ar- lington County police brought the coat and watch to police headquarters, but detectives declined to indicate whether they attached any importance to,this find The blood-stained clothes uncovered by the Investigators yesterday which Inspector Shelby said he considered of | “much value” developed upon investiga- | tion to be the garments of a man who had been injured in a fight in a Wash- ington apartment house. The_clothes were found in the room of a Baltimore hotel, and because the authorities were at that time search- ing for the traveling salesman suspect, it was believed they finally had found the clothes of Miss Baker's slayer. The detectives located the men who had been in the fight, checked thoroughly their movements in Washington from last Friday to yesterday, and found that they had no connection whatever with the Baker case. Check Up on Policeman. The investigators also checked the reports that a park policeman had been seen around the home of Miss Baker and her two friends in Lyon Park and learned tfiat the officer had been there prior to the time the three girls took possession. The policeman said he was looking at the house for the purpose of renting it if he found it satisfactory. After investigating the housewarming and he and| spector Shelby | the motive. Without it they are left floundering in the midst of a seemingly impossible situation—that of a crime without reason. But when it is known, they say, the baffling riddle will be answered and the way to the identifica- tion of the slayer unerringly indicated. As a result of their week of investi- gation the police have been able to establish definitely only the most meager details of the murder. They know Mary Baker was killed sometime after 5:40 o'clock Friday evening. They know she was brutally beaten and criminally assaulted and they know how her death was effected. They know the murderer drove her blood-soaked automobile to a point nearly a mile distant from the place where the body was found and aban- doned it there. They have good reason to believe she met a man in a gray cap at Seven- teenth and B streets and that the couple qummeq,tbemre driving_away in her car, but they have no clue to the identity of this’ man. Several Purzling Aspects. As for the rest, the exact place and time of the slaying, the motive, the whereabouts of the pistol and the identity of the killer, they know little or_nothing. There are several singularly puzzling aspects to the crime. First, there is the strange disap- pearance of the young woman's coat, hat and pocketbook. She had these articles with her when last seen by her friend, Miss Inez M. Eyre, but an in- tensive search of the vicinity where the body and automobile were found has failed to reveal any trace of them. It is incredible, the police say, that the slaver would have taken these arti- cles with him when he abandoned the car and fled on foot and left a more valuable wrist watch and ring on the body. They point out that he made only the most casual effort to hide the body and no effort at all to the car. The police attach considerable im- portance to the finding of these articles. Unless they have been carried away by someone who had no connection with the crime, they believe their lo- cation will tend to establish more defi- nitely the place where the murder oc- curred. Two Theories About Keys. Another development, as yet unex- plained, is the finding of the keys to the young woman’s automobile and house alongside a lane leading from East Cemetery road, beside which the body was found, into the Government Experimental Farm Two theories to account for the keys being there have been advanced. One, that the slayer and girl parked their car at this point before the mur- that they were dropped there by the on foot across the farm after aban- doning the car. Neither theory is regarded as highiy probable, however, for it has been point- ed out that even had the car been parked there, the keys were found nearly 20 feet from the side of the lane. The police also doubt that the slayer escaped on foot in that direction, pointing out that the route he would have. been following could have taken him only into a swampy region bounded by the Potomac River, East Cemetery road and the town of Rosslyn. Betfer avenues of escape, they say, lay in other direc- tions. Still another factor which police can- not explain is the report by a night watchman on the Arlington Memorial Bridge that he heard three shots and a woman's screams about 2:30 o'clock Sat- urday morning. The watchman, who was stationed only a few hundred yards from the culvert where the,body was found, sald the sounds came from that direction, and were clearly distinguish~ able. The amount of blood in the car, however, Indicates, according to the police, that the young woman was car- ried some distance after she had been " mortally wounded. | | | | | | | | dispose o{( der had been committed and another | murderer as he was making his escape | EGG ROLLING DUE ON EASTER MONDAY White House to Throw Open Gates to Children as Usual for Fete. President and Mrs. Hoover will throw wide the gates of the White House on Easter Monday for the traditional Easter egg rolling of thousands of Washington children. The rolling is expected to start at 9 o'clock in the morning. It will be a day for children only— as Easter Monday has been in the past Adults are to be permitted, as the Capital has come to phriise it only if ‘a little child shall lead them.” At least this restriction will be foi- lowed between the hcurs of 9 o'clock in the morning and 3 o'clock in the afternoon. At the later hour the gates will be thrown open to the general public and the United States Marine Band, attired in its colorful dress uni- forms, will give & concert for the next two hours. President and Mrs. Hoover will go to the rear portico to look on at the chil- dren at play probably twice during the festival. Mrs. Hoover has invited ladies of the cabinet and the cabinet children and the children of George Akerson, the President’s secretary, and the chil- dren of other close friends. This annual Easter custom seems to increase in popularity with the years. More than 47,000 persons passed through the White House gates last year, and it is expected that this record number will be broken on Monday unless the weather mars the day. Allan Hoover, the younger of the Hoover boys, who is taking a course in business administration at Harvard, will not be with his parents during the Easter holidays. Both the President and Mrs. Hoover, who have been suffering from colds, were reported to be con- siderably recovered and Mrs. Hoover's back, which was wrenched painfully as & result of a fall in her bedroom several days ago, was sald to be greatly im- proved. “SECRET SIX” OPEN GANG MERGER WAR Randolph Says Chicago Alliance Is Simpler Object of Attack. By the Assoclated Press CHICAGO, April 18.—From Houston, Tex., today came word from Col. Robert Isham Randolph, president of the Chi- cago Association of Commerce, that the association’s “secret six” already has taken steps to meet and defeat the new alliance of Chicago gangsters under the leadership of Al Capone. “The secret six is fully cognizant of the situation and is operating,” Col. Randolph said. He is touring the Southwest with a Chicago “good will” group “These organized enemies of society are no more formidable as a single unit than as scattered outlaw bands,” he sald. “In fact, the new alliance may make them a simpler object of attack.” ‘The secret “committee of six,” whose members are serving without knowledge even of each others’ id°ntities, was | organized several weeks ago for the pur- | pose of wiping out organized crime in | Chicago. Col. Randolph, its organizer | and spokesman, expressed _th: belief that the “secret six” would be success« ful in its mission within six months. Under the agreement of gangsters, as reported in the newspapers, the princi- pal gangs of the city cast aside their rivalries, blamed for most of the gang slayings of recent years, and pooled their outlaw Interests in the liquor, gambling and vice traffic. It was de- scribed as a “peace pact” to end machine gunnery, the “rides” and the | death device known as “putting on the spot.” FrE— AIRMAIL ROBBED, DRIVER KIDNAPED IN CHICAGO HOLD-UP (Continued From First Page.) McGeoghegan, pal of the notorious “Midget” Ferneckes and once convicted and sentenced to hang for murder, had said on a former arrest: “I'm going to pull one more good job before I'm through.” Lyons declared the boldness of last night’s robbery was characteristic of all three, while the description Stehna gave of the man who jumped onto his truck would fit either McGeoghegan or Keat- ing, the inspector said. Bad flying conditlons balked the rob- bers’ scheme to get a larger loot, postal inspectors said. At Milwaukee two mail planes of the Northwest Airways meet, one from Min- neapolis, the other from Green Bay, Wis., picking up sacks from Appleton and Oshkosh, Wis., en route. The Min- | neapolis plane fiies the load into Chi- cago. | The Minneapolis plane was forced | down by bad weather yesterday at La-- | cross, Wis. A. R. Mensing of Oshkosh, pilot of the second plane, was unable to fiy to Green Bay because of fog and brought only the Appleton and Oshkosh sacks into Milwaukee, He flew into Chi- cago without waiting for the Minne- apolis cargo to arrive by rail. There were 10 donations in addition to | candidacy. After reading a news story published at the Lyon Park home of the three| Even the day-by-day developments as RECEIVERS NAMED. HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES the that of the Evening Star Newspaper Co. within less than 24 hours after the fund was launched, while others were believed to be in the mails. Mean- while, The Star was informed that em- ployes of the Postal Telegraph Co. were | Taising & purse to be added to the fund. Officials of the Anti-Saloon League announced they would make a substan- tial contribution soon. Donation List Grows. The first donations follow: Evening Star Newspaper Co.....$150.00 P.E. B.. 20,00 1.50 20.00 3.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 1.00 2.00 5.00 Guy Clinton. . E. Hol BB W oo Frank V. A. Brow Cash Anonymous Union Coal Co. ek '$222.50 Future contributions will be published as they are received. Checks, money orders or cash may be mailed to the cashier of The Star. Donations in any amount will be acknowledged. Meanwhile good news came to the family today in the announcement by the United States Employes’ Compensa- tion Commission that compensation of $96.25 a month would be paid the widow and her children. The first check will go forward May 1. However, friends of Mrs. York pointed out today that the family is in desperate need of ready cash. Former Miss Klotz Declines Trip. SIOUX CITY, Towa, April 18 (#).— |Great Britain, landed at the air station | Mrs Auston Pardue, formerly Dorothy Klote or golfing fame, has turned down an_invitation to accompany Glenna Collet and the American golf team on an invasion of land this Summer because of maternal duties. Her chil- dred are less than 2 years of age. ¢ Buffalo Supreme Court Acts After Bond Issue Ruling. Special Dispatch to The Star. BUFFALO, N. Y., April 18—The F. | H. Smith Oo. of Washington and the Fairfax Apartment Corporation of Buf- | falo today were in the hands of re- ceivers appointed yesterday by Supreme Court Justice Samuel J. Harris, who ruled last week that a $1,500,000 bond | issue floated by the two concerns to re- fund a first mortgage on the Fairfax | Apartments here was fraudulent and a violation of the Martin act. The receivers are George D. Crofts, | treasurer of University of Buffalo; Wil- | liam J. Hickey, State Senator, and Stanley G. Falk, Buffalo attorney. Each | receiver 1s required to deposit a $100.- 000 bond, while the receiver's fee al- {lowed by law in such cases will be di- vided among the three receivers by a | court_order. Frank G. Raichle of New York, who has been retained to defend the Smith Co. mn_the Buffalo action, said yester- day that he had appealed Justice Harnis’ decision to the appellate court of Buffalo. “It is my understanding,” | he said, “that pending decision of my | appeal, ‘the receivers will be appointed | but will not function. In other words, | the assets of the Smith Co. will not be | liquidated until the appellate court nas | passed on the ruling by Justice Harris." 32 TAKING | BrUSSELS, Apri 18 gayly painted airplanes, | party of 32 Easter holi AIR TOUR P).—Twenty carrying a tourists from | near here today. Later they continued | to Germany. The flight was the first continental air tour by a fleet of rrlvnuly owned light machines and will last 11 da; The House adopted a resolution of sorrow over the death of Representa- tive Lee and adjourned out of respect | to his memory. The announcement of the Texan's death was made by Representative | Garrett, Texas, who attributed his col- | league’s death to his devotion to duty. Speaker Longworth appointed a committee of 24 members to attend the funeral at Cisco, including the 18 members of the Texas delegation, Rep- resentative Parks of Arkansas, McClin- tic and McKeown of Oklahoma, Sand- lin of Louisiana, Democrats, and Knut- son of Minnesota, Underhill of Mas- sachusetts and Curry of Califosnia, Republicans. Favorable Weather For Fashion Display Here Easter Sunday The Weather Man took a peek at his thermometers, barometers and kindred gadgets today and decided Easter Sunday will be a day of days. Unless his instru- ments lie, the sun will shine and there won't be any clouds except the flufly white kind that look like vanilla ice cream and don't drip raindrops. All of which may mean that Washington, what with these new style flowing dresses, will see an Easter fashion parade such as it never Fas seen before. There may be so much color aboard, in fact, that the men about town who know their F street will find it necessary to wear shaded glasses, To add to the indications of what the Weather Man termed a | It _brought “big and constructive Easter,” flower stores reported a big busi- ness today. Clothing stores also covering_ Brussels, Bologne, Vienna, Prague, Berlin and Amsterdam. were rushed. in 1927, which said the country was d Walsh asked the witness o you still think tI tide is turn- ing against prohibition?” “There is no doubt of it insisted. “The pendulum has a long. wide swing.” he added, “and it is a tide of opinion that cannot be stopped.” Raskob Letter Entered. Robinson placed in the record a let- ter sent by John J. Raskob, chairman oi the Democratic national committee and a director of the association, last December to 494 persons who contrib- uted to the Democratic campaign fund. 12 contributions totalling $875 the records showed. The letter said in part: “I am writing under the assumption that with many others of our citizens, you are in favor of a change in the prohibition laws and in sympathy with Curran the next two payments received by the company on the contract. Demand Called Unjustified. The committee calls the attention of the court to the fact that the Smith company was already dealing with and knew of thesreputation and qualifica- tions of the construction company as a builder before the contracts of July 8, 1925, and January 11, 1926, were made and had invited bids from the construc- tion company for the erection of the particular buildings. The committee charges that Donaldson- performed no services of value to the construction company in connection with the build- ing contracts and was not entitled to charge or justified in demanding and accepting $100,000, or any sum what- ever, but the officers of the construc- tion' company were induced to enter into the contracts because they were given to understand, although not ex- pressly told, by Donaldson, that if they the sound, progressive, energetic and highly successful measure that our asso- ciation is taking to remove them “From my observation of conditions throughout the country it is my opin- fon, and probably yours, that there ex- ists a clear majority of voters opposed to the cruel and absurd laws on the statute books. “Final success in our great enterprise can be achleved when it is possible to unite all our members and those of our citizens who indorse our view of pro- hibition in elections or other political contests untrammeled by any other issues.” The committee adjourned until Tues- day. Curran was directed to reappear then for further questioning. Schooner’s Crew Held. NEW YORK, April 18 (#).—Six mem- bers of the crew of the auxiliary schooner Alamac were held by Treasury officials today after a cargo of liquor had been discovered in of the boat. . refused to do so he was in a position to and would influence the officers of the Smith company to let the contracts to one or more of the construction com- pany’s competitors, Donaldson, it is stated, did not dis- close to the Smith company or to any responsible officer, his agreements with the construction company for the $100,- 000 compensation, or the fact that he was to receive or was recefving such | compensation and the officers of the Smith company did not learn thereof until some months after the respective dates of the agreements and until after | a large part of the payments had been made. Slayer Gets 21 Years. BATESVILLE, Ark., April 18 (#).—J P. Barber, 22, formed high school ath- lete, was convicted of second-degree murder by a jury in Circuit Court here today and his sentence fixed at 31 years' imprisonment for the slaying a year tom of Maurice Osborne, a young merchant of Cord, Ark. | girls held March 31, the officials satis- | fied themselves that Miss Baker's suspected slayer was not present at that affair. The officers learned that it was a quiet, orderly party, attended by | friends of the three girls, among whom wer ates in the legal division of Veterans' Bureau where she works. Miss Baker it was sald, was not the center of attraction at the housewarm- ing as has been reported, but spent most of the evening in the kitchen preparing food for the guests. She was not ob- served throughout the party with any male companion. Mystery Proves Baffling. The murder of Mary Baker, com- mitted one week ago tonight, is begin- ning to assume the proportions of a major mystery. To all outward appear- the from the Department of Justice, the local Detective Bureau and Arlington County. In the six days which have elapsed since the young Navy Department clerk left a Lenten service to .aeet a man who beat, criminally assaulted and then killed her with three bullets from a pistol, the best criminal investigators of the city have made every effort to solve the murder. Some suspects have been eliminated, but otherwise, appar- ently, they are no nearer a solution than when they started. Mary Baker's was an ordinary life, according to the testimony of her friends, her correspondence and her family. clerks do. the movies with a girl friend. attended church regularly; she was considerate of her parents, and her em- ployers speak highly of her character, her integrity and her ability. Every hope of solving the murder, ve, upon learning a group of Miss Skinner's associ- | ances a crime which should be simple | of solution, it has baffled investigators | She lived, apparently, just as | thousands of other young Government | All day in the office and | quiet evenings at home, a routine broken | gecasionally by a “daie.” or & trip to | e investigation of this crime pro- | gressed have been surprisingly few. | Every possible clue has been run down | by the investigators without any tan- | gible results, so far as is known. | | Male Friends Questioned. at 10:30 o'clock in Rosslyn, Va., based on reports by residents and night watchmen that they saw a small sedan being driven rapidly away in the di- rection of the culvert after hearing two shots, has been virtually discarded, the police having received other in- formation which leads them to believe that the crime was committed and the car abandoned before 8:30 o'clock that night. Every known male acquaintance of the young woman has been questioned, but little information of value has been secured from them Several individuals, whose ‘ actions custody, only to be thorough questioning. Miss Sperry and Miss Skinner have been questioned on two occasions, but if they divulged any information of value, it is being closely guarded by the police. Other minor leads have been run down, but the net result has been neg- ligible, The police are back where they started. And fo, the murder of Mary Baker begins to resemble the perfect crime, which criminologists say does not exist released after young woman was killed by any master criminal, but rather that the perpetra- tor of the crime was extraordinarily lucky. The near perfection of his act they believe, is due more to a fortu- nate avoidance of blunders than to careful planning. As the investigators begin to go back A theory that Mary Baker was killed | aroused suspicion, have been taken into | ‘The investigators do not believe the | FOR TOMORROW. FIRST RACE—The Climax: purse, -year-olds: 4's furlongs. . 101 d Totem ¢ Farr 0 e Fourth' Ward 2 £1.200: vdka . Madeiyn leidoscope . Exalt Dinwiddie . v Scot .. a Hieaway eMina F. .. a Elliott & Jones entry. b Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords entry. ¢ Rancocas Stable entry. dH. P. Whi tney entry eJ. H. McGovern eatry. maidens: 1 mile Mombasa ........ | Politen King's Crier FOURTH RACE | olds and up: 1. | *Reform *Blan Jane 109 Rea 105 *Fair ‘Argument. 104 Prickl>y Heat .., 110 FIFTH RACE—The Philadelphia Handicap $10,000 added: 3-year-olds and up; 1.s miles Annapolis (no body) & Beacon Hill (R. Wo! Inception (C. Quilien) Bob, Claiming; $1.200: 4-year- n 105 *Turquoise 104 *Ruban Rouge sciste 108 o Rinehart rkman) a Frumper (Herbert) 5 Molasses Jane (G. Arnoid) Dinah Did Upset (Le Blanc) P_ Whitnev entry. 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