Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1930, Page 2

-fa—2 INCOME TAX RISES * MOONEY WITNESS THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 13, 1930—PART ONE. THRONGS TURN OUT TO WATCH NATIONALS ON STAR SCOREBOARD 10 2410220888 BLANES OFFICALS| *1930 Fiscal Year Total Is $78,956,450 Ahove 1929, Despite Depression. By the Associstea Press. Income tax payments, which continue fo increase in face of business depres- sion in 1930, and the stock market col- lapse in 1929, brought $2,410,230,889 into the Treasury during the fiscal year 1930, swelling the total tax col- lections for the 12 months to $3,038,- 498,929, v ‘The collections for the 1930 fiscal Year were announced yesterday by the Internal Revenue Bureau, whose state- ment showed the income tax was $78,- 956,460 more than collected in the 1929/ fiscal year and the total an increase of $99,444,554 over the previous 12 months. Individual payments for the year were $1,146,655,782 and corporation pay- ments $1,263,575,106. i Most Districts Decline. ‘The tabulation, however, showed that 40 of the collection districts returned less total tax than in the previous year, while 25 districts showed an increase. ‘The six New York districts returned a total of $830,084,632 in income taxes, and in five of the districts the individ- ual payments exceeded the corporation returns. North Carolina had the largest amount of miscellaneous tax, which included the tobacco tax. In the year it paid the Government $257,276,180 in miscel- laneous taxes and $16,987,037 in income ta X. Tilinois pald $223,374,883 in income tax, of which corporations paid $122,- $558,093. Pennsylvania paid $230,204,814 1n taxes from all sources, which showed 3 decline of approximately $9,000,000, as compared with the previous year. Showing by States. The total tax colection by States, was: Total, fiscal Total, fiscal ar 1930. 2| he now seeks to right. Eentody Zouisiana .. Saine 0 ary) inc. D.'C.. Massachus'ts Michigan Minnesota " Mississippi. .. st Missourd MacDonald Declares False Testimpay in San Francisco Bombing Forced. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, July' 12.—Refused his liberty, though no charges are pending against him, John MacDonald, worn and broken at 58, today hurled charges that police of San Francisco were Lo blame for*his testimony which 14 years ago sent Tom Mooney to prison in Cali- fornia for life. Mooney and Billings, labor leaders, were convicted of the Preparedness day bombing in’ San Frnacisco in 1916, which claimed eight lives, on MacDon- ald’s testimony that he had seen the two plant a suit case containing the in- fernal machine. This testimony, Mac- Donald said after his arrest last night through identification by a newspaper photograph, was planned by officials, and he was coached in it by the State prosecutor. Charges Bribes Offered. Along with the story of official inter~ ference in his 1917 testimony, MacDon- ald coupled a charge that he had been offered bribes by the police and forced to identify Mooney, who, he declared, he never had seen before he was taken to the San Francisco Jail and told by po- lice the labor leader was “his man.” Now, broken and aged by the knowl- edge of what he has done, the State's key witness appeared in Circuit Court, where his attorney sought his freedom on & writ of habeas corpus. Judge Wal- ter I. Dawkins refused to grant the ac- tion sought, and ordered State's Attor- ney Herbert O'Connor to hold him until advices of what California wanted done were received® Telegram Sent Governor. O'Connor immediately wired Gov. C. C. Young of the Pacific Coast State the entire proceedings, and embraced in his message the suggestion that criminal action cosld be brought against police and other officials who MacDonald claims are responsible for the wrong But whatever action is taken by Gov. Young and ©O’Connor, MacDonald is going to return to California to lay his story before the executive. He says he wants at last to 7| officially recant the story which the 7 [ foreman of the Mooney jury sald result- ed in the conviction. 4 Will Ask Reopening. Frank P. Walsh, attorney, who for 3 | vears has sought Mooney's pardon, ar- riving here today was present in court 1] and declared that he would immediately ask the Supreme Court of California to reopen the case on the grounds of newly discovered evidence. Walsh was accompanied by Edward M. Nochels, secretary of the Chicago Federation of 2 | Labor. MeacDonald in 1921 made an afdavit in which he denied the truth of his 9138 | testimony in the Mooney case, after he 14.844.483.78 41:351,79254 2544941467 51 Dak: 13, onu 0th Ohi 1ith Ohio. 18th On had confessed to a priest, who urged he said today. For the last seven years he has been living in Baltimore, an operator of a switchboard in a large apartment house. Yesterday afternoon John C. Taeuber, with whose family MacDonald had lived for 18 months until a few weeks 053 8. ; 9 | him to attempt to set the matter right, 7 3.05 | ago, recognized a newspaper picture of 2 | 2 man sought in the Mooney case after Gov. Young had denied the most recent pardon appeal. MacDonald was ar- rested later at & restaurant on Taeu- ber’s story. Now, white haired and with a pale, wrinkled face, from which peer blood- 2 | shot eyes, he awaits his chance to re- /961'5: 35681 363.379.08 87,484,287.39 1444200794 14,178 820.37 4:261.2 35.512.826 81 9.2 752.334 55 3y 299,061.99 3 289,375.58 15.289.18 3,038, TEMPLARS’ DRILL TEAM OBSERVES ANNIVERSARY Roll Call and Response Features Dinner of Columbia Command- ary Group Last Night. The twenty-third anniversary dinner of Columbla Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar drill team. was held last night at the Occidental Hotel, at which time various speakers paid tribute to the commandery’s drill team which won the competition at Sara- Sps , N. Y., in 1907. A feature of last night's celebration ‘was the roll call and response under the direction of Capt. F. E. Gibson, Otis B. Kent made the principal speech. Those who attended included Benjamin F. Dierdorf, Charles 8, Domer, George J. Efferen, E. Richard Gasch, C. Walter Hoover, Otis B, Kent, Joseph E. Leaman, James E. Nyman, Ferdinand Waldman, Chester Samson and Charlie Piper. The victorlous drill team of 1907 brought back to Washington the first prize of the competition, & mahogany SERVICES FOR HAZARD TO BE HELD TOMORROW Widow and Three Children Survive Veteran Washington Real Estate Operator. Tuneral services for the late Carleton B. Hazard, 63 years old, who died last ‘Thursday, will be Held tomorrow morn- ing at 10:30 o'clock from the residence in South River, Md. Mr. Hazard had engaged in the real estate business in ‘Washington for more than 30 years. ..He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mildred M. Hazard, and three children by a former marriage, Martha Ann and Oliver son of the late Josiah and Sarah Hazard, a family prominent in Fred- icksburg, Va., where the father was of Acute Indigestion. Stricken suddenly {ll while in bed at his home at 923 Grant place late last tell his story. Doubled up with rheu- matism, he hobbled about the p~lice 06 station, smoking one cigarette after an- other, waiting for word from California. GOVERNOR WIRES MARYLAND. Requests Mooney Witness Be Held Pending Steps in Case. SACRAMENTO, Calif, July 12 (#). —Gov. Young tonight telegraphed Herbert H. O'Conor, Maryland State attorney, advising him California can- not now compel the return of John McDonald, witness in the trials of Warren K. Billings and Thomas J. Mooney, but suggesting he hold the man until steps can be taken. AIRPLANE KILLS TWO IN CROWDED STANDS Mechanic and Friend, Taking Craft to Hangar, Crash Through Rail and Are Arrested. By the Associated Pres VALLEY STREAM, N. Y., July 12— ‘Two persons were killed at the Curti ‘Wright flying fleld here tonight when a huge 18-passenger plane crashed into a grandstand filled with spectators watching a night flying exhibition. The victims were Hyman Kanter- man and his wife Mary, both 30 years old. They were struck b{ the whirling three-bladed propeller of the ship as A view of the hundreds who crowded into Eleventh street yesterday to waich the progress of the Nationals in their double bill against Detroit on the Star’s electric scoreboard. The board will be operated again today. JOBLESS WARNED T0 AVOID BIG DAM Boulder Dam Offers No More Work Now, Says Sec- retary Wilbur. By the Associated Press. A warning to the unemployed, against going to the site of the $165.000,000 Boulder Dam project for jobs that do not exist, was issued today through the office of Secretary Wilbur. All the available jobs for the prelim- inary work have already been filled, it was said, and it may be three or four months before contractors are prepared to engage larger forces for the con- struction work. Notice will be given at the time that construction is ready to proceed. Plans for construction, to begin as early as possible, are going ahead ine light of the $10,660,000 initial appropri- tion Congress made for the work. The Bureau of Reclamation has re- celved dismal reports from Las Vegas, Nev., a town of less than 5.000 on the fringe of the desert, and the nearest community to the dam site, Many unemployed already have spent their limited resources to get to Las Vegas in the hope that jobs could be found there at once. They have found no work, and have been unable to leave to seek work elsewhere. PACT RESERVATION NOW PIVOTAL POINT IN SENATE BATTLE (Continued From First Page.) Fess of Ohio also may speak In support of the treaty. i Fi The State Department yesterday is- sued in parallel columns excerps from the speech of Senator Hale of Maine, an opponent of the treaty, and the minority report submitted to the Senate from the Foreign Relations Committee by Senators Johnson of California, Moses of New Hampshire and Robinson of Indiana, and from the speeches of Win- ston Churchill and other members of the English House of Commons. While Senator Hale and the other opponents of the treaty in the Senate expressed the opinion that the treaty did not give the United States parity with Great Britain in naval strength and that the pact in fact “hamstrung” the American Navy, the Britishers de- clared that the treaty gave the United States superiority on the sea and “ham- strung” the British Navy. Senator Hale in his ‘address in the Senate Friday said: “The British by the terms of this treaty have us hamstrung and hogtied and there they will keep us as long as _limitations of armaments are the order of the day.” Churchill Is Quoted. Winston Churchill, speaking in the House of Commons May 15, said: “I am astonished that any admiralty baard of maval officers could have been found to accept responsibilty for such a ham-stringing stipulation * * * it is to make it certain that our cruiser forces will be reduced to inferiority be- fore the treaty comes up for revision in 1935 or 1936.” Senator Hale said: “While its proponents claimed that the treaty provides for parity with Great Britain, as a matter of fact it provides no such parity during the life of the treaty unless, which is unthink- able, we exercise the right under the option as to cruiser builiing and build ship for ship with Great Britain along the lines of her naval needs and not at all along the lines of our own.” ‘Winston Churchill said: “It is not a treaty of parity at all in the sense that Great Britain and the United States should be equal pow- ers upon the sea, but that on the con- trary it is a formal acceptance by Great Britain of definitely inferior sea o it ran through a guard railing into the | POWe! grandstand. Alfred Watts, 21, a licensed me- chanic, was piloting the ship. He was moving it from a place on the field, Wwhere it had been stationed all day, to & hangar about a half mile away. + inf He apparently lost control of shij as 1t faxied Soron e across the ground. e e onl e e diee b Ve y & few inuf after be- ing carried into han manslauzhter against Watts. The Kantermans lived in Brooklyn. FLYER FINDS WAY FROM BURMESE WILD Second Britain Lost July 3 Left Behind in Dying Condition, Matthews Reports. By the Associated Press. Col. Gretton in the House of Com- mons on May 15 said: “It (treaty) has been brought about by scaling down the British navy to the size which suits the United States.” ‘The minority report of Senators Johnson, Moses and Robinson (In- diana) said: “The treaty does not give us ity with Great Britain in naval vessels and leaves us far from parity in naval pow- er or commerce protection. Comparison Is Continued. Winston Churchill said: rficial and paper appear- ity this treaty embodies a sol acceptance by the British Em- pire of a permanent secondary position in sea power. “We are no longer to have a navy equal even for pul of battle—I say nothing of trade protection—to the other lucg‘nfi navies of the world’ Sir B. e in the House of Com- mons said: “We want real parity. If we do not get it we must be inferior and sub- servient . . . in my opinion, s0 far as our sea routes are concerned and so far as the security of the Empire is con- cerned, the Iovernmentzln this treaty have betrayed their trust.” Minority report (Senators Johnson, Moses, Robinson, Indiana) said: “We can bulld the cruisers Great Britain ‘permits’ us to build but not those we ourselves, because of our re- has | quirements, desire to build.” o inston Ch 3 Institute Selects Genoa. GENOA (A).—This city of Columbus. has been selected the of wi urchill seid: AWA) coun! y mgumene all that lity that power VERSAILLES TREATY REVISION DISCUSSIONS CAUSE ALARM Poland and Other Nations That Profited Shudder at Possible Outcome of Franco-German MOVC. By Radio to The Star and the Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1930. BERLIN, Germany, July 12.—Unoffi- cial Franco-German discussions on the revision of the Versailles treaty are bringing cold shudders to all those who profited chiefly by that treaty, and most of all Poland. The fact that France, in view of several factors, has actuially considered making political and eco- nomic concessions to Germany—has ac- tually asked the Germans to state their price for that intimate Franco-German co-operation which alone can definitely stabilize the European continent—is in one sense the greatest sensation of the last 10 years. ‘The factors which have inspired this are: PFirst, Franco-Italian tension; sec- ond, the British Empire tendency, which would take Great Britain's chief inter- est from the continent; third, the Briand pan-Europa proposal, and, fourth, the Rhineland evacuation. Germany, for the first time since Versailles, occupies the key position in the vast labyrinth of European politics. Germany’s attitude may be decisive for a decade. German Attitude Cautious. First, the Germans not only will not listen to Premier Mussolini’s siren voice to make common cause with him against the French, but they do not even wish to push their revisionist de- sires today for fear of creating the im- pression that they are trying to black- mail the French. Second, they believe that Great Brit- ain’s gradual withdrawal from the con- tinent, in the political sense, vastly in- creases their importance. Since neither the British nor the German government intends to back Premier Mussolini, the Germans consider that Premier Musso- lini will not dare to initiate any type of war. —=Star Staff Photo. ‘Third, the German answer to Briand's pan-Europa memorandum will be most conciliatory. ~With reservations that nothing be done to offend the United | States and that all the member states | be political equals, the German answer will approve the Briand proposal, but will stress the necessity for first in- creasing wherever possible economic agreements. Finally, the evacuation of the Rhine- land raises the question of how long the Germans must wait for the French to disarm, as half promised under the Versailles treaty. Conversations Broken Off. ‘Unofficial conversations between | French and German politicians were re- cently broken off, owing to the lack of | success in the Saar negotiations and | to the persecution of Rhineland Sepa-| ratists. They will continue. The Ger-| mans want an understanding with France as much as the Prench want it wA,lh Germany. The question is the price. Numerous details are being discussed. The question of the change in the status of the Polish railways in the Corridor has been raised and alarms the Poles. Questions of French loans to Germany, of agricultural agreements between Germany and Poland to help East Prussia and of an increase in the Ger- man Army are also mentioned, as well as a colonial mandate for Germany. Yet, fundamentally, the opinion is held that the great question which di- vides Germany and Poland is that of the restitution of the Corridor—that the Germans will be satisfled with nothing less. This problem remains insoluble. The only hope lies in the possibility that with the growth of the pan- | Europa idea this question will be robbed |of its emotional bitterness. GIL LEAVES MEXICO IN POLITICAL CRISIS Ex-President’s Wife May Go to Hospital in U. S., But Gossip Circulates. By Radio_to The Star and New York Herald Tribune. Copyright, 1930. MEXICO CITY, July 12.—Without previous announcement, former Presi- dent Emilio Portes Gil, the predecessor of President Ortizs Rubio, left for Vera Cruz last night, on his way to Havana and thence to New York. He was accom) Senora Carmen Gil, and their small daughter, Rosaura. Senor P;mu g)fl'l departare :ln;e unexpectedly, and caused some gossip in political circles, because of the im- portant position that he holds in the country, as head of the National Revolutionary party. ‘The actual reason of his trip is said to be Senora Portes Gil's health. She will enter the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn,, for treatment. Senora Portes Gil, who led a strenuous life during her husbangd's administration, and since then has been engaged in welfare work, was the guest of honor at a luncheon given three days before her departure to a group of American educators and scientists. Senor Portes Gil is said to have stated that he would return within 20 days, but his departure in the face of the opposition to the National Revo- lutionary party by the former secretary of industry, commerce and labor, Louis N. Moreno, has led people to attribute political objects to his trip, The real reason, however, may be purely personal. BALTIMORE HAS 801,741 BALTIMORE, Md., July 12 (#).— Baltimore's_population was announced tonight as 801,741 as the task of taking the 1930 census was declared com- The final count was revealed by Frank T. Dorton, census supervisor, at a banquet following the completion, earlier in the day, of a recheck that has been in progress for a few weeks. The figure shows an increase of 67,915 over the 1920 census. nied by his wite, | NORTHERN CHINESE FORM GOVERNMENT Early End of Nationalist Re- gime Expected by Rebel Leaders. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, July 12.— Convinced their rebellion against the Nationalist government would triumph, war lords of Northern China were reported tonight planning early establishment of an in- | dependent government at Peiping. Rebels said the republic which Presi- dent Chiang Kai-Shek established at Nanking in September, 1927, after the victorious march of his Cantonese armies, could not maintain itself. With their armies seemingly well en- trenched in Shantung and Honan Prov- inces after two months’ heavy fighting, the Northern leaders, Gens. Yen Hsi- Shan and Feng Yu-Hslang, were said to have called a conference of allles to meet in Peiping to set up a new gov- ernment. Their rallying cry was the Nanking administration, ~assertedly inefficient, corrupt and helpless against widespread banditry, must fall, and Chiang Kai- Shek, its “dictator,” must be banished. Nationalists denounced such claims. They declared Northerners had been crushed with heavy casualties in Shan- tung. Nationalist troops have covered the railway zone north of Yenchow with rebel dead, said one government report. Claims of Northerners they would hurl government forces out of Shan- tung quickly with reinforcements were characterized as false by Nationalists. Meanwhile a half-million combatants on the Northern Honan Province front, exhausted by many days of battle, held positions south of the Yellow River. Only fighting of guerilla bands testi- fied to their latent power. In the great Yangtse Valley thou- sands of bandits and Communists, born of famine conditions and emboldened by absence of government troops in civil war, scourged towns along the river. From Chungking to below Han- kow, more than 800 miles, shipping was attacked and trade almost ceased. Northern Hunan Province Communists, who raided Yochow and kidnaped the Chinese customs staff, were reported to have released officials for $200,000 Mexican (about $70,000 gold) ransos CHINESE PROVINCES DECLARED UNSAFE Americans Warned by State Department to Quit Four Areas. (By Radio to The Star and the New York Herald-Tribune. Copyright, 1930.) SBHANGHAI, July 12—In view of the conditions in the Provinces of Honan, Hupeh, Kiangsi and Huan, little surprise is caused here by the news that the State Department at Wash- ington has warned Americans in those areas that they are in constant danger and should withdraw to safer regions. Many of the Americans in question are, it is true, relatively in security because they are at seaports. Those particu- larly a subject of concern are at in- terior points, as follows: Hunan, 71; Hupeh, 106; Kiangsi, 4; Honan, 114— or a total of 355 persons. Air Ralds Endanger Honan. Hupeh, Kiangsi and Hunan Prov- inces are menaced by Communist bandits, while Honan is considered to be unsafe on account of the frequent air raids made along the Lunghai Rail- way front, where the Nationalist and Northern rebel armies are contending. The greater part of Kiangsi, apart from the local capitals, has been controlled by Communists for several months. In June the Nanking government warned foreigners not to travel in that province until conditions should become more settled. Reports of kidnapings and extortions of ransome by Communists in Kiangsi and Hupeh Provinces have been nu- merous since February, in which month three Finnish women missionaries were murdered by Communists in Kiangsi, the result being a withdrawal of all the Pinnish missionaries in the district. While the provincial military defense of Hunan, Hupeh and Kiamgsi has beén weakened on account of the with- drawal of many soldiers for use in the civil war, the Communists have been strengthening their positions in these three districts. The Communists have | their strongest foothold in Kiangsi, where thousands of square mi'es of ter- ritory are being ruled by a Communist organization on the Russian model. Soviet Survival Held Mcaace. The worst menace in Kiar ' ¢ | peasant farmer unions, whi a survival from the days . called “Soviet Republic” in China. » the Kuomingtang Nationalist organiza- tion worked hand in hand with the Soviets. This is because the Com- munist officials of today are unable to control their peasant supporters, who are perpetrating sanguinary reprisals against the land-holding gentry in the name of communism. A foreigner recently returned here after long residence in interior Kiangsi states that the life is endangered of any Chinese holding property worth more than the equivalent of $2,000 in American currency. This observer estimates that it would require three years of difficult fighting to stamp out communism in Kiangsi, whereas two years ago three months of repression would have sufficed. “In this connection, dispatches today state that the Communists are concen- trating at Shasl, a city on the Yangste River near the border of Hunan, in Hupeh province. The British warshap Cricket has evacuated all the foreign- er residents there, COLORADO BA.NK BANDITS ARE DENIED CLEMENCY Abshier and Royston to Be Hanged Next Week for Lamar Murders. By the Associated Press. DENVER, July 2.—Gov. W, H. Adams denied petitions of George J. Abshier and Howard L. Royston, Lamar bank nl)bbers lm_im:cnvlmd murderers, for clemency. y are to be han ext é’ff" at the State Pemtcnlhry‘,edc:wn y. Ralph Fleagle, leader of that robbed the First Nll!znflmglfl'l Lamar in 1928 and killed four men in escaping, was hanged ) choant ged last Thursday HOOVER, JR., LICENSED — Herbert Hoover, jr., son of the Presi- dent, today was granted a license to operate & portable radio sending sta- tion to communicate Lt Sirertt. with jtinerant the at Attention The sooner you know that you have been infected with Tuberculosis the quicker and surer can you be cured. Delay in Finding Out Makes it Harder to Cure You Do you tire easily? Are you losing weight? Do you cough persistently? Have you a poor appetite? Have you any pains in the chest? If you have some of these symptoms go at once to your doctor or havg yourself examined at the free Health Department Clinic Corner 6th and I Streets N.W., Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday at 2 o'clock. Friday evening at 7 o’clock. Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Telephone District 6883 1022 11th Street N.W, - ‘The license is for 90 da; o mits the operation of a :’?sffi’ufie *2fhe son of the Pres son of the ident is i engineer for a Western air u-m:p’;gn? tion company. Eugenia Bankhead Reported in Break With Howard Lee By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 12—The Ex- aminer says today Mrs, Eugenia Bank- head - Hoyt - Butt - Lee, much - married daughter of United States Represent- stive William B. Bankhead of Alabama, will institute annulment s00n against Howard Lee, aviator, w] she married at Reno, Nev., July 1. Te her mar! ; polnd h:dmx I’l‘e d)(n. Lee declared spouse 4] ideals. She T ol saying Lee's wealth, & 'hmous and aviation prestige “I loved him,” she is LT still do. But I can’t mmm s0 I llm. I don’t know where he is now.” Wwas his wife's third husband, Lee BEE L SR ROUSE KANSAS IRE Amount Sold Will Be Replaced at Once. (Continued From Pirst Page.) to us rather than to the dictates of certain political interests who are try- ing to make capital out of the people's tress.” disf . Chairman Legge said “Whether or not the people of Kansas will repudiate the action of the Chief Executive of that State in begging them not to make any reduction remains to be seen.” Gov. Reed, who is a candidate for re-election, opposed reduction proposals from the same platforms on which the Farm cl and BSecretary Hyde appeared during the two-day campaign in that State. DEALERS FILE PROTEST Lay Break in Price to U. §. Sales of Wheat. Special Dispatch to Thi KANSAS CITY, Mo, July 12—Grain dealers today charged the ral Farm Board had broken faith with the industry and accused the Government's control with “breach of trust” because 1t had dumped “at least 350,000 bushels of wheat” on the local market here yesterday at 78 cents a bushel. Disclosure of the sales was made through a private investigation check- ing on the activities of the Federal Farm Board after a break of 3!, cents a bushel yesterday from the top price following the sale of a huge amount of grain to the Kansas Flour Mills Co. Consternation followed on the board of trade after the drop in price. There was no outward reason for the drop in price. Due to this it was established that the Government's control board had put some of their stored wheat supply on the market. Legge Made Target. No sooner had the board opened to- day than there was open denouncement of Alexander Legge, chairman of the Farm B«}nrl?‘,r ?nflulmhur M. Hyde, Bec- retary o culture. The two have been making a tour of the wheat-growing States of Ne- braska, Colorado, Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma and today are at Enid, where they are urging the farmers to reduce th:{r wheat acreage in order to ocut down production of grain. The wheat the Government sold on the Kansas City board yesterday was part of the luprly purchased at $1.15 & bushel last Fall. ‘The grain dealers, in scoring the tac- tics of the board in selling their wheat when they promised to keep their supply off the market so as not to compete with the crop now being harvested re- sulted in conferences, most of which were bitter indignation meetings. ‘The first large concern to take action was the Mensendieck Grain Co. The concern sent a letter to its shippers, bitterly denouncing the action of the Farm Board. Quoted Message and Reply. ‘The letter first quoted & telegram sent to Legge by Louis and Max M. Levand, publishers of the Wichita Beacon, in which they ask the Farm Board chairman o resign. The telegram follows: “In saying that Kansas is the biggest hog in the trough, you have insulted 1,850,000 people, and we ask you to apologize. Since you say you are | through and the best you can do is to advise the farmers of Kansas to sit tight, we ask you to resign.” ‘Then the letter quotes the reply Legge is said to have made to the ‘Wichita publishers, which reads: 1l Max and Louls they can go to continuing, the letter states: “Something ~ developed yesterday | Which should be very embarrassing to Mr. Legge, Mr. Hyde and the Farm Board. The market was fluctuating strong on bullish cables on almost sen- sotional reports from the Northwest owing to the damage by the continu- ance of 100-degree temperatures when it was found the Farm Board was selling wheat.” Breach of Trust Seen. “It does not matter how much wheat he board sold,” grain men said today, “The fact that the board did sell is to constitute a breach of th the men whom they have been advising to sit tight and to hold onto their wheat.” The board, it was pointed out, had stored wheat in elevators, under con- tract to move it by July 10. As the date approached, it was said, the mills ordered the Government to dispose of this wheat which was occupying storage space the mills claimed to need. Having no fhu to move the wheat the board sold it to the mills in which it was stored. Under the circumstances, it is doubt- ful whether the grain trade has the board threw onto the market yes- terday. From Wichita ~and other points in the wheat-growing State of Kansas it was reported that mills had purchased thousands of bushels of wheat. This, however, has not been definitely ascertained as a fact. Added to the distressing turn in the wheat trade was the report made by the Missouri and Kansas Boards of Agri- culture which, in their July estimate, raised their figures of June approxi- mately 7,000, bushels in Kansas and almost 2,000,000 bushels in Missouri. Yield Reported Larger. Both reports indicated that the wheat yleld was showing a better average Yyield per acre than had been anticipated S R Titanes politioal aspect enters fnt strange ent 0 the Farm firfl controversy at this stage, because Kansas farmers general- the advice that Chairman Legge and Secretary Hyde are handing out. The State now is witnessing the spectacle of seeing friends of Senator Henry J. Allen, clunlgmnucned with President Hoover, agal the Farm Board's ition to reduce wheat w. w] Allen has to swallow the Further, Senator Allen is embarrasse by the action of the Levand brothers of the Wichita Beacon. Senator Allen is chairman of the board of directors of the Wichita newspaper which called upon Legge to resign. In the Farm Board meeting at Hays, Kans,, last Wednesday, Gov. Clyde M. ! Reed virtually read both the Kansas out of the Republican party by charg-| ing that in supporting the administra. tion's lfl'!lf! reduction advice they were becoming parties to a violation | of the Republican party platform pledge to really try to do something for urs cuiture. i Capper Advises Buying. At that time there was no question about Reed putting Senator Arthur Capper, Kansas’ senlor Senator, in the hole with the farmers along with Allen because Senator Capper had handed out his own signature to the al- the estima 1 Board and do what the board But y Capper over on the Reed from Was] wh sent word that the Farm Board ht to go into the market and bui.l‘oo 000 bushels of this year's wheat crop. Reed very modestly advised the buying of only 26,000,000 1s. It Capper’s latest advice should be taken—t the Federal Government would become a real Santa Claus for the actually discovered the entire amount |E. | |U. 5. WHEAT SALES |OFFICER IDENTIFIES LINGLE FUGIIVE Policeman Who Chased Blond From Shcoting Scena Recognizes Photo. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 12.—The policeman who chased a blond gunman from the scene of Jake Lingle's slaying today identified a picture at the Detective Bureau as that of the man he pur- sued. The officer's agitated exclama- tion of “That's the man! That's the man!” led authorities to belleve they had learned the identity of either Lingle’s actual slayer or a decoy who took part in the plot. The Policeman, U. V. Rutney, is the one who chased a man from the crowded Illinois Central pedestrian tunnel where the Tribune reporter was shot down amid & crowd of 300 com- muters. Announcement of the identification came from the headquarters of the Lingle investigating body, headed by Charles S. Rathbun, Tribune attorney and a special assistant State's attor= ney. The suspect's identity was not revealed, but Chief Investigator Patrick Roche of the Btate's attorney office at once sent men on an unrevealed assignment, presumably to look for the man. Rathbun offered today to describe the progress of the investigation to Frank J. Loesch and Augustus 8. Pea- body, civic leaders. The prosecutor’s offer was in answer to publication yesterday of a letter urporting to carry the request of sch, Peabody and Albert R, Brunker that & new and independent attorney, unassoclated with any Chicago new: paper, be placed in charge of the case. Peabody Denies Signature, Loesch afterward announced his nams had been signed under a misappre- hension and Peabody, denying that he had signed the appeal, said the question would be brought before the Citizens' Association, of which he is president, next Tuesday. Brunker, chairman of the Civic Safety Committee, explained that he intended no criticism of Rathbun's conduct of the inquiry, but insisted he would press for a change, believing the present set- up of the prosecution “improper.” CAPONE WINS PERJURY TRIAL. Spectators Cheer as Miami Judge Orders Directed Verdict, By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, July 12.—“Secarface” Al Capone was acquitted of perjury on a directed verdict in Criminal Court here today. Spectators in the crowded court room cheered as Criminal Court Judge E. C. Collins announced he had granted an order for a directed verdict of not guilty, following a motion by Capone's attor- neys. noise subsided when Judge Collins threatened to arrest any dis- turbance creators. The court had considered arguments of defense and State counsel on the motion for one hour. He gave His de- cision at 4:40 pm. He said he would set time for trial of other perjury charges against Capone next week and adjourned court until Monday morning. County Bolicitor George McCaskill is expected to decide whether the other charges of perjury wilf be pressed by the State before time setting of trials. RTINS YUY FARMERS HARD HIT BY LONG DROUGHT OVER TWO STATES (Continued From First Page.) located a 60-gallon still and 120 gallons of mash at the head of Big Creek, Mc- Dowell County. The outfit was located near the dry basin of what had for- merly been a small bubbling pool of mountain water. The still was de- molished and the mash poured into the dry basin. FLAMES DEFY GUARDSMEN, Dwelling and Timber Menaced Southeast Virginia, BLACKSBURG, Va., July 12 (#).— Gov. John Garland Pollard this after- noon ordered out National Guard units to combat raging forest fires destroying valuable timber lands and menacing dwellings in Southwest Virginia. Flames endangering more than » score of dwellings in this immediate vicinity were defying efforts of two Guardsmen units and every available volunteer. Two_messengers sent out from Vir- ginia Polytechnic Institute by Dean J . Willams reported more than 1,000 acres on Brush Mountain, 3 miles from V. P. I, were burned over and that flames leaping 30 feet into the air were sweeping toward 25 or more dwellings in the path of the blaze. The messengers added that when the fires reached open flelds they would travel as fast as a horse could run. Another fire was raging just north of the State highway between Blacksburg and Newport, Va, Forest Warden Sol Grim of font- gomery County was at the scene, and Te] & fire that raged last night at Vickar, Va., was brought under control at noon, after it had burned over 1,500 acres and destroyec the roof of one farm house before occupants could ex- tinguish it. ..A‘! Nl;}':‘m(::;ld }?‘:v,mhulrd sald he was continuing vestigation and had ordered out National Guard troops from Blacksburg and Christiansburg, and would call out more with the word from authorities at the scene. June Circulation Senators and the Hoover administration g « Daily... 109,531 Sunday, 114,174 District of Columbia. ss.: PLEMIN LD, Busir EVENING AND SUNDAY STAT Sser swear that the actual 1rmber of b T I R e month of June, A.D. was as follows: i Dars. 1 B Less adjustments... SEEEESoaanew Kansas wheat growers and take about | AYer two-thirds of all the wheat raised in the State this year. i Venezuela has, according to recent te, 5400,000 tons :! unmined e Sunday neg eirculation.., o AL ~