Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1930, Page 1

Bureau Porecast.) tonight and tomorrow, change in temperature, Fair Temperatures—Hig! pm. yesterday; lowest, 66, at 6:30 a.m. today. Fuli report on page 9. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 little hest, 89, at 5:30 @h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. ever; “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers city block and the regular edi- tion 1s delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 107,899 No. 31,502, PFrerohss "W Entered as second class matter shington. D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1930—-FORTY- EIGHT PAGES. HOSPITAL PAY ROLL. OF §7.000 STOLEN BY BANDIT HERE: Robber Kn&cks Down Girl| at Children’s, Seizing | Cash She Carried. ESCAPES IN CAR Held Up WITH CONFEDERATE Attempt to Grapple With Hold-up Man Is Balked—Other Employes Distanced in Chase. An unarmed bandit threw Miss —Star Staff Photo. Eleanor Page, assistant treasurer of the Children’s Hospital, to the sidewalk and grabbed a $7.000 pay roll as she was | about to euter the hospital shortly be- fore noon today. ‘The bandit escaped in a light road- | ster manned by a confederate. $4,000 | of the payroll was in cash, the re-| mainder in checks. ! Miss Page, who lives at Clarendon, | Va., had just returned from the Riggs National Bank with funds to meet the semi-monthly payroll of the staff | and attendants. She was accompanied in her auto- mobile by Miss Margaret Ansdale, die- | tician, and when Miss Ansdale alighted at the V street entrance, Miss Page drove on around to the W street entrance, near Twelfth street, parked and locked her car and stepped onto the sidewalk. Hurls Her to Walk. As Miss Page crossed the sidewalk on | W street a roadster halted in the middle of the thoroughfare and a young white man leaped quickly out and ran up to her. He seized the young woman from | behind, locked his arms about her throat and threw her to the sidewalk. Miss Page grappled with the robber, but was unable to retain her grip on & brown brief case in which she was carrying the money. Attendants in the main offices of the | hospital heard Miss Page’s screams and dashed out, but were a moment too late to see her assaillant, who had obtained possession of the bag, and Jeaped to the running board of the waiting automobile, which had drawn te a halt with its motor running only | & few feet from the scene. The driver of the car sped off west on W street and then turned north on | Fourteenth street. Two colored. attend- ants at the hospital arrived on the| scene just as the robbers started their | car and pursued them in a second auto- | mobile for almost a mile. Eye-Witness Describes Robbery. An eye-witness to the robbery, Cyrus | L. Bruner of 2232-A Eleventh street, said he was standing near the corner of Eleventh and W streets when he saw Miss Page pull up before the hospital and alight. A moment later, he said, | the roadster containing the robbers | came to a halt almost abreast of Miss | Page's car, as if they had been trailing the young women, and one of the men | jumped out ‘and grabbed her. Bruner, wever, was too far from the scene to be of assistance. The headquarters detectives who inves- tigated were given the license number of the fugitive automobile by Bruner.| Inquiry developed the fact that the li-| cense plates were dead, but police sought to trace them through head- quarters. The man who seized Miss Page was described as being about 30 years old and of a medium to heavy build. He stood about 5 feet tall and was wearing a light gray suit and a straw hat. Wit- nesses did not get a good look at his companion, who remained inside the roadster. Miss Page's assailant did not utter a word during the robbery, although the young woman's screams were heard by several people in the vicinity. Robbers Observe Lights. Pursuing the fugitive car in a second | automobile which they borrowed from | s passerby, Varney Wilson and John Brown, colored attendants at the hos- ital, were able to keep in sight of the gnmg roadster along W street to Con- necticut avenue. | The robbers evidently were not aware that they were being trailed and, while | they drove at a high rate of speed, they observed the traffic lights. At times the light automobile in which the col- | ored men were riding could not keep the pace and dropped behind. other | cars heading in between the two ma- | chines. | When the lead automobile turned | around Dupont Circle and started west on P street the two colored men found & policeman who climbed onto tne run- ni board of their automobile. The fieeing roadster turned into Twentieth street from P street and then whipped into an alley near the intersection of M street, where the pursuers lost sight of their quarry. The policeman alighted and stopped & passing fellow officer, who joined the search. ‘The automobile, abandoned, later was found in the 2300 block of Champlain street. A false mustache and clothing, apparently part of a disguise, were in 'LOWMAN TO DESCRIBE U. S. BORDER SERVICE KING GEORGE SIGNS LONDON NAVY PACT British Monarch Departs From 400-Year-0ld Custom of Giving Royal Assent. By the Associated Press. | LONDON, July 31.—King George has signed the instrument of ratification of the London naval treaty, which now has been ratified and signed by both Great Britain and the United States. ‘The announcement of the King's sig- nature was made by Philip Snowden, chancellor of the exchequer, and was greeted by cheers in the House of Commons. Chancellor Snowden said the ratifica- tion will be deposited simultaneously with the ratifications of the Dominions and India and the ratifications of the United States and Japan when all three parties to part three of the treaty are in a position to bring the treaty into force in accordance with articles 24. A traditional form of royal assent which has existed some 400 years had been expected to put into effect the naval treaty bill, The King, after reading a copy of the measure, was to have signed a royal commission, which authorizes three or more peers to give his assent. The ceremony itself would have been held in the House of Lords. At the time set the peers designated, garbed in scarlet and ermine robes, have taken seats before the and in- struct the “black rod,” an official, to summon the House of Commons. Then the bill would have been read | and the clerk of Parllament say, in old Norman Prench: “Le roy leveult” (the King wills it) ‘The quaint procedure was instituted in the reign of Henri VIIL . Assistant Secretary of the Treasury to Speak Tonight in Radio Forum. “How America Guards Her Borders” will be the dramatic story which Sey- mour Lowman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, will tell the radio public tonight during the National Radio Forum period arranged by The Evening Star and sponsored by the Columbia Broadcasting System over its coast-to- coast network. Mr. Lowman will begin speaking at 9:30 o’clock through WMAL. Mr. Lowman's Treasury duties place him in charge of the United States Coast Guard and the Bureau of Cus- toms. 1If the new border patrol bill now in the Senate becomes a law he will be- come administrator of this combined new service which will control Amer- ica’s far-flung border lines. 16 DEATHS IN HEAT WAVE GOVERNOR ORDERS ALL FOREIGNERS T0 LEAVE CHINESE CITY Will Not Be Responsible for Their Safety at Kiukiang After Three Days. REDS ADVANCE AFTER FIRING ON U. S. WARSHIP Five Sailors Wounded in Exchange of Shots—Fifty Communists Are Killed. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAL July 31.—Intensive Red activity sweeping Middle China today threatened to engulf Hankow, Wuchang, Hanyang and other important cities in the Yangtze Valley, following the attack on an American gunboat yesterday. Dispatches from Hankow said Reds captured and looted Hwayuan, 50 miles north of Hankow, and advanced to Siaokan, 25 miles from the Central China metropolis, looting and burning and cuttf the Peiping-Hankow Rail- way. ive fears for the safety of Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang, the tri-cities on the Yangtze, were ex- pressed. Additional Nationalist forces north ot Hankow were said fo have joined the Communists and the Middle Yangtze s reported swarming with bandits and Anti-Foreign Wave. Marauders at various Yangtze points, said dispatches, erected large notices bearing strong anti-government and anti-forelgn slogans similar to those flaunted in the ravaging of Changsha, Many Yangtze villages were reported looted and burned. British official circles in Shanghai heard foreigners were evacuating Kiu- kiang. Efforts to communicate with Kuling, famous foreign health resort, failed and telegraph lines in the Yang- tze Valley were reported interrupted at various places. ‘The British gunboat Aphis reached Hankow from Changsha, bringing 50 foreign refugees, including 7 Americans. The others were British, French and Italian. A report that M. Borodin, Russian Communist leader, who organized the Soviet program for China in 1926 only to be deported later when the National- ists repudiated Russian connections, had returned to Hankow was widely cir- culated there. Americans Reach Hankow. Among the Americans arriving at Hankow were Helde, Y. M. C. A.; Miss Russell, v. H. W. Lingle, Northern Presbyterian missionary, and Miss Louise Farnam, physician of tis Yale-in-China Hospital. ‘The Kuomen News Agency, a reliable Chinese press service, said tonight the Governor of Kiangsi Province notified municipal authorities at Kiuki instruct foreigners at Kuling to “evacu- ate immediately.” The governor was quoted as saying: “Foreigners must quit the Summer resort within three days or the Chinese authorities will not hold themselves re- sponsible for unforeseen trouble.” The American gunboat Monocacy is { actually engage in the traffic of liquor at Kiukiang with several British and Japanese warships. ‘The Japanese Rengo News Agency re- ported a majority of the Japanese refu- gees from Changsha arrived at Hankow aboard a Japanese steamer without be- longings and in a disheveled state. They were housed in a Japanese pri- mary school at Hankow. Saw Ghastly Speetacle. Rengo's dispatch said the refugees described the ghastly spectacle which occurred after the Reds entered Chang- sha as follows: “The day before the entry of the Reds, July 26, it was rumored Col munists pl clothes agents were e ter Chi a in great numbers to cre- ate disorders. “The !ollovll.n&dly at 9 a.m. fire, a| parently incendiary, started in the of- fices of the provincial bureau of con- struction. The flames served as a sig- nal fire for Reds outside, waiting to enter the city walls. “Vanguards of the Red Army imme- diately entered the city, which was at once thrown into a state of anarchy. A reign of terror ruled over the entire city. “Incendiarism, pillage, murder and other acts of violence were carried out District Fatalities for Week Laid in Whole or Part to Weather. Deaths occurring in the District of Columbia for the week ended July 26 show 16 cases in which “excessive heat” was one of the contributing factors, ac- cording to the weekly statistical report of the District Health Department. Of this number, three were babios only a few days old and one 5 months old. The remainder of the heat deaths were in the age group from 54 to 92 years, except for one, in which the age of the victim was 20 years. NOD AT WHEEL FATAL FAYETTEVILLE, N. C., July 31 (®. (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) PRESIDENT TO FISH . FRIDAY TO MONDAY Expects to Go After Bass Shenandoah River Near Luray, Va. in With no business of an especially pressing nature confronting him, Presi- dent Hoover is going to indulge in an- other Friday-to-Monday holiday at his —Jesse Wellons of Fayetteville went to sleep at the wheel of his automobile early today and it crashed into a con- crete pillar near here, fatally injuring his 6-year-old daughter, Drosey. PR r the car. No one saw the car aban- doned, 5o far as investigators were able to learn, ‘Wellons was brining the little lh‘am Norfolk, where she lives with her mother, to Fayetteville for a visit. FIREMEN BLOCK E FFORT TO GARB VENUS DE MILO IN POISON IVY Police Chief Supports Use of Hose, for if Statue Is O. K. With Billy Sunday It’s O. K. With Him. My the Associated Press. WINONA LAKE, Ind, July 31.—The fire department has come to the rescue of the Venus de Milo, and a scheme to clothe the goddess’ statue in poison ivy been thwarted. h.;(rl. Mary Schell Starr of Chicago, Summering here, holds the opinion that the statue, which has been a figure of artistic pride for 20 years, should wear something. Yesterday the statue was moved to a location near the fire de- partment and the circumstances gave Mrs. Starr an opportunity to put her idea into action. ;;ouon ivy was planted around the|with me,’ base of the statue. Mrs. Starr expressed the hope, according to the firemen, that the ivy grow and grow unti] finally that “indecent figure shall be all covered up. The firemen, who are really art lovers at heart, decided to foll the scheme. They did not want to touch the ivy with thelr hands, so they turned the hose on it, Tooting it up. Police Chief Frank C. Edington, uj holding the firemen, said Winona e is the home town of Billy Sunday, the evangelist, and that Sunday never had become publicly exercised about the statue. e 0. K. with Eilly, it's O, K. the chief concluded. ‘ fishing camp in the Virginia mountains. The Executive, with a small party of friends, expects to leave the White House tomorrow and will not return until the forenoon Monday. = Mrs. Hoo- ver, with Mrs. George Akerson, wife of one of the President’s secretaries, and | her 7-year-old son Charles will motor to the camp this afternoon. President Hoover anticipates some enjoyable bass fishing in the Shenan- NEW DRY POLICIES UNDER WOODCOCK HELD SIENIFICANT Stand of Director Seen as| Result of Careful Planning to Improve Enforcement. DRIVE TO BE CENTERED ON LARGER OFFENDERS Supreme Court Ruling on Pur- chaser of Liquor Regarded as Influencing Position. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘The outline of policies by the prohibition administrator, A. W. ‘Woodcock, is of more than passing sig- nificance. It is not merely the trying out of a new method by a man who faces large responsibilities, but it is the result of careful planning on the part of the administration to make iaw enforcement as efficient as possible. It has all along been the objective of the prohibition offices to disrupt the commercial traffic in liquor, but there has crept in nevertheless so many in- stances of interference with personal rights in the home that now it has become necessary to announce definite- ly something which Government offi- rllll.s have hesitated heretofore to de- clare. new . W. Argument Used in Past. One of the arguments made in the past against saying that the individual would not be molested in his home or if he toted a flask was that the Gov- ernment would be making a distinction between different violators of the law. The illegal possession of liquor even in! the home violates the Volstead law just as carrying a container of any kind from place to place constitutes transportation. There is a recognition now, however, that the whole cause of prohibition has been damaged by the emphasis .lven‘ to insignificant violations. In an effort | to concentrate public sentiment on the | bootlegger and racketeer, the Federal Government hopes to be able to mar- shal the help of all law-abiding citizens. The recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that it was not illegal to purchase liquor has aided in developing a policy of differentiation between the individual who buys and the bootlegger who sells. ‘The announcement by Mr. Woodcock of his plans to avoid picayunish cases will be welcomed by the Federal courts where many a bootlegger has been able to get his case delayed indefinitely be- cause of the congestion in the courts. This frequently means a loss of time in getting or preserving evidence. It is also believed that the courts and the Juries will be more sympathetic toward Government prosecutions if are centered on bootleggers and those who rather than upon individuals who hap- pen to imbibe, Policy Significant. The significant thing about Mr. ‘Woodcock’s program is that it repre- sents such a definite and outspoken policy. This has led to the belief that the administration was waiting until a new prohibition administrator was aj pointed before giving to the public r!; matured conclusions on the best way to enforce the liquor laws. The consolidation of the prohibition units which used to be in the Treasury Department with the bureaus of the Department of Justice means a central- ization of all detection and prosecution in one department of the Government. It is considered that the Department of Justice has always been less sensitive to political pressure than other depart- ments and that its detective personnel has usually been of high standard. All this is expected to produce a combined ;fi:leuflt in the attempt to enforce pro- ion. (Copyright, 1930.) FIGHT BIG BOOTLEGGERS. Woodcock Says Agents Will Not Seek Small Cases. Minor violations of the prohibition laws, which have resulted in thousands of cases crowding court dockets throughout the country, are not to be the concern of the reorganized prohibi-{ tion enforcement unit under Amos W W. Woodcock. Announcing yesterday that mainte- nance of “steady pressure” against the larger violators of the dry laws would be his guiding policy, Mr. Woodcock said, “I will not have our agencles fol- lowing the course of least resistance and wasting their time upon pitiful, pica- yunish, non-commercial cases.” “I think the prohibition laws can be successfully enforced against commercial operations. I propose to make that our objective and not, to dissipate our en- ergies in other flelds.” Mr. Woodcock's statement was his first, public utterance since his appoint- ment by President Hoover to dir.ct, the reorganized it, i (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) WARRANT iS TAKEN IN BUCKLEY DEATH Man Found in Hotel Where Radio| Man Was Held Formally Accused of Murder, By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July 31.—Angelo Livecchi, alleged to be connected With the slay- ing of Radio Announcer Jerry Buckley, doah River in the vicinity of Luray, which by road is about 30 miles from the camp. He probably will devote the greater part of tomorrow to this outdoor sport. He has had no fishing fun since the closing of the trout season at the beginning of July. During the last week end party at the camp, the Presi- dent went on a reconnoitering trip to get the lay of the bass pools in that section and he seemed to decide that the Shenandoah in the neighborhood of Luray would afford him the fun he was looking for, Others in the week end party will be Secretaries Akerson and Lawrence Richey; Capt. Joel T. Boone, the White House physician; Edgar Rickard of New York, for many years a business as- soclate of Mr, Hoover, and Mrs. Rick- ard; Mr, and Mrs. William Hill of Bing- hamton, N. Y., and Mr. and Mrs. Albert F. Dawson. Mr. Dawson is the execu- tive secretary of the Senatorial Re- publican Campaign Committee, in the La Salle Hotel, early July 23, was formally charged with murder in a warrant signed by Recorders Judge Thomas M. Cotter today. Livecchi, who has been under arrest ever since the killing, was found in his room in the La Salle Hotel shortly atter the three gunmen had fired 11 bullets into Buckley's body as he sat in the lobby. The police suspect him of hay- ing been the man who pointed out the announcer to the gunmen. Livecchi is the first man to be for- mally charged with murder as g re. sult of the killing The warrant was sworn out against Livecchi shortly before he Was sched. uled to appear at a hearing on a wrjt of habeas mrg‘ul. Meanwhile the police continued thejr the three gunmen who qig shooting. Police Commissioner Thomas C. Wilcox has announced that they are known to the Lot o UP) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Pr /OLD MAN RIVER AT MEMPHIS | SAYS FAREWELL TO PACKETS, When Valley Queen Puts in Today Last of Romantic Mississippi Boats Will End Service of By~Gone Days. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 31.—Down on the Mississippi River front this morning they sald the Valley Queen was due. They said it would not leave again. An epoch will end as the Valley Queen 1 swings around the bend and glides into the shadow of the Memphis skyline. It is the last of the Memphis packets. The Valley Line Steamers, Inc., goes out of business today, closing the last of the packet lines, which have sent boats from Memphis to the ports and landings along the big river for more than a cen- tury. The docking of the Valley Queen leaves no packet on the river between Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Memphis. A few boats run from New Orleans to and beyond Vicksburg, Miss. A few operate far to the North. But today landings dotting the banks immediately above and helow Memphis no longer know the sound of a packet's whistles, summoning farmers and their colored workers down to the water's edge to attend the arrivals and departures, which in others days were part and par- cel of their lives. G. Peters Loe, Not long ago Capt. prlnclgll owner of the Valley Queen, sold the Harry Lee, the last boat bear- ing the Lee name. He is the grandson of James Lee, who ran the first Lee (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) KEECH-WINS PLEA FOR REVALUATION Utilities Commission to Issue Official Order Soon, Paving Way for Action. ‘The Public Utilities Commission today granted the petition of Peoples’ Counsel Richmond B. Keech to revalue the properties of the Capital Traction Co. and the Washington Rallway & Electric Co. ‘The revaluation will begin as soon as an official order on the subject can be prepared. Revaluation is one of the methods being pursued by Mr. Keech in his effort to obtain a reduction of street car fare. The revaluation will take about 18 months before the case is ready for public hearing. Public hearings will occupy not less than three or four weeks after the conclusion of the valuation work. The commission will set up a ff of engineers who will examine and appraise every item of property owned by either company and used by them in the public service. This wiil be the first search proceeding to be undertaken in the case of the street car companies for 16 years. The first valuations were started in 1914 and completed in 1919. Since then these valuations have been litigated inter- minably and no very satisfactory state- ment is possible as to just what the valuation of either company is. Fare Is Directly Connected. | It was because of this unsatisfactory condition that the commission last Fall refused to increase the street car fares. ‘When this decision was taken to court, Justice Jennings Balley ruled that the companies had made a sufficient show- | ing of a minimum valuation in order to_justify the increase. Street car fares are directly con- nected with valuation. Public utility llowed to earn a “rea- on their valuation. The on, the higher is allowed to earn to obtain a ‘“reasonable return,” and the higher the allowable income, the higher the fare becomes. ‘The cost of revaluation will be borne by the street car companies. Under the law, the commission is allowed to assess such cost against the companies under- going valuation; the companies are al lowed to charge this cost of operating expenses over & number of years, vary- ing with the amount charged. Although no estimate has been made of the cost of this proceeding, some idea may be obtained from the fact that the recent valuation of the Washington Gas Light Co. cost $70,000. Since the properties involved in the street car case are far Jarger, it would not be surprising if the cost of the present und ng would be two or three times greater than that. higher the income they MEXICO BANS PISTOLS Stops Customs Agents at U. 8. Bor- der From Carrying Weapons. MEXICO CITY, July 31 (#).—Mexi- can customs agents along the American border have been ordered to leave off their pistols, the government holding that tourists get an unpleasant impres- sion when armed men go through their bagg: SOVET BETS TIHE TOFGHTEMBARED i Treasury to Receive Proof Pulpwood' Was Not Con- vict Product. By the Associated Press. Further evidence will be introduced by Soviet representatives before the ‘Treasury makes its final decision on the embargo against Russian pulpwood. The pulpwood was barred after re- ports to the Treasury that convict labor entered into its production. Repre- sentatives of the Amtorg Trading Cor- poration and the Spanish-American Steamship Lines protested and were heard. They did not, however, intro- duce evidence to show the pulpwecod was not handled by convict labor and Assistant Secretary Lowman promised to give them an opportunity to ao so and ample time in which to arrange their data. Three Senators, Reed of Pennsyl- vania, Black of Alabama and Oddie of Nevada have urged embargoes on lum- ber, ahtnracite and manganese. The Government, however, has indicated that no action would be taken unless it was snown convict labor entered into their production or the goods were being dumped here. BRUNDIGE CHARGE HIT BY GRAND JURY Chicago Evidence of Reporters En-| gaged in Racketeering Held Based on ‘‘Hearsay.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 31.—The charges of Harry T. Brundige, St. Louis newspa- per man, that Chicago reporters have been engaged in racketeering were de- scribed by the county grand jury to- day as “founded on hearsay and con- taining nothing of an incriminating character.” ‘The July grand jury ended its inquiry into the crime situation and the mur- der of a Tribune crime reporter, Jake Lingle, which crystallized sentiment om Justice Denis J. Normoyle of the Crimi- nal Court. Judge Normoyle, who had instructed the jurors to investigate the widespread rumors of the affiliation of certain newspaper reporters with gang- sters, received the report with thanks and offered no comment. Publication of Brundige's articles re- sulted in an invitation to present his’ evidence before the jury and he was brought here 10 days ago. His testi- mony was not made public. ‘There followed a procession of news- paper publishers and reporters, the cor- poration counsel of Chicago and the former police commissioner and detec- tive chief, friends of Lingle, who gave their accounts of the situation. The Jurors then heard a report yesterday of the progress of the Lingle murder in- vestigation. With its final report today the jury went out of existence. Bandits Rob Polish Train. LWOW, Poland, July 31 (#).—One bandit and one policeman We‘l‘z killed R customs department also has ordered the discharge of agents who are not polite to tourists. Radio Pm(uu on l’_ue C. in a battle when bandits held up and today | e that subject, with this report to Chief | UPO) GODDARD TESTING CAMPBELL PISTOL Bullets Fired Into Special Target to Be Compared With Fatal Slugs. _ BY REX COLLIER, Staff Correspondsn. of The Star. CHICAGO, July 31.—The expert eye of Col. Calvin H. Goddard, world renowned pioneer in the new science of forensic ballistics, today was focused on two grimly scarred bullets in a critical test to determine if a fellow scientist could have erred when he de- clared the slugs removed from the body of Mary Baker came from the revolver of Herbert M. Campbell, Arlington County realty dealer. Campbell's .32-caliber gun and the two small leaden objects were turned over to the noted ballistics authority this morning by Samuel W. Hardy, special agent of the Bureau of Investi- gation of the ent of Justice. Col. Goddard, who is managing director the newly .established scientific crime detection laboratories of Northwestern University and occupant of a specially created chair of ballistics there, lost no time in proceeding with his_examination. The outcome of the new test is being awaited with unusual interest in na- tional police and scientific circles, for on Dr. Goddard’s verdict hinges not only the future status of Campbell, who is charged with the slaying, but the prestige as a whole of experts on gun identification. Check of Souder Findings. The examination at the university here is really a check on the iindings of Dr. Wilmer Souder, ballistics author- ity of the Bureau of Standards, who declares the bullets which ended the life of Mary Baker and precipitated an extraordinary murder mystery were fired from the barrel of the real estate man’s weapon. Protestations of Camp- bell and his attorney that the Govern- ment expert must have made a mistake led to the decision to submit the gun and bullets to Col. Goddard for another 3 Col. Goddard was out of the city yes- terday afternoon when the justice agent arrived from Washington, but he re- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) PRISON KILLING PLOT BLOCKED BY MEXICO Federal Penitentiary to Have Been Burned in Outbreak After Slaying of Guards. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, July 31 —A plot to incite 1nmates of the Federal district penitentiary here to kill their guards and burn the establishment has been frustrated by prison authorities. Officials who late last nl!ll‘.l! con- fiscated a quantity of handbills inside the prison, believed that a group held on charges of being Communists planned to distribute them to the other prisoners. Senora Maria Trinidad Sandoval, a frequent visitor to the WAS ar- rested on a charge of .lnéol go-be- tween of the suspected ymmunist prisoners and the outside world. The suspected inmates number about 15. They were arrested May 1 after a Com- munist manifestation. ‘The handbills also called for attacks n President Ortiz cution of Communists in Mexico. Rubio, Gen. | received reports today that a Plutarco Ellas Calles and Dwight W.|early today had blown down Morrow, American Ambassador, charg- |trees and buildings at Teacheys, small ing them' with responsibility for perse- | village near Kenansville, but that no one was injured. R-100 DUE T0 REACH MONTREAL AT 7 AS HEAD WINDS SLOW SPEED ALONG RIVER Dirigible Averages 40 Miles Per Hour to Mount St. Louis Bay on Final Leg of Voyage From England. COMMANDER REPORTS CRUISE “UNEVENTFUL” Dominion Officials Prepare to Greet Airliner at St. Hubert Field, With Troops and Police on Hand to Keep Crowds in Or- der on Ship’s Arrival. By the Associated Press. ST. HUBERT, Quebec, July 31.— The R-100 passed Father Point, Quebec, on its flight up the St. Lawrence River at noon (Eastern standard time) today, according to a report from the signal serv- lice. Father Point is about 175 miles east of Quebec. The R-100 wirelessed at 11 |a.m. today it expected to arrive at 7 o'clock (Eastern standard time) tonight. The progress of the dirigible to Mount St. Louis Bay, where she was at 8:30 am, indicated an average speed of approximately 40 miles an hour since 1 o'clock this morning. While the dirigible was flying into a headwind of approximately 22 miles per hour, weather con- ditions were favorable for the flight up the St. Lawrence River. The forecast for the district read: Moderate to fresh westerly winds; mostly fair with not much change-.in temperature. Follows South Shore of River. The R-100 'd over the liner Em- press of Scotland off Mount St. Louis Bay at 8:30 am. The airship was fol~ lowing_the south shore of the St. Law= rel;_e; River. vy Fwiich e m W] Squadron Leader R.muu commander of the R-100, kept the world informed of his pfl:fia were terse notations of the airship’s position given in terms of longitude and latitude with laconic com- ments such as “All well” or “Unevent- The ship left Cardington with 44 persons. Passengers Want to Smoke. ‘Those aboard the dirigible wanted a good smoke more When the great craft Duchess of York in e Gulf of St. Lawrence at 12:25 a.m. (E. 8. T.) wd-s A radio message from the airship said: “Everything O. K. Shall be glad to ru:{:lmflmnndpnrnkgolnm ‘The R-100 left Cardington. England, at 9:45 p.m. (E. 8. T.) Monday and at 9:39 last night made its landfall at Belle Isle, an island off the coast of Labrador, having traveled 2,278 miles, most of it over the ocean, in a few min= utes less than 48 hours. At 12:25 a.m. today the airship passed the steamship Duchess of York in the Gulf of St. Law= rence. Its speed then was 70 knots. Tts course from Belle 1sle to its desti- nation at the airport here, a_distance of 948 miles, lay in a direct line over the Straits of Belle Isle, which separates Newfoundland from the Province of Quebec, over the Gulf of St. Lawrence and up the St. Lawrence River, over the City of Quebec to the airport of St. Hubert, outside Montreal. Airport Prepares for Arrival. Elaborate arrangements were made at the airport for the arrival. A tall moor- ing tower with movable arm cables and winches was carefully tested by the crew of 12 men. A small army of soldiers and police was encamped within the airport in- closure to guard the R-100 and handle QR’Q‘! crowds gathered to view the ar- rival. Arrival of the R-100 by 4 p.m. today would give her, the biggest airship, the record for East-West crossing of the Atlantic by a dirigible, as sne would consume 64 hours on the 3,200-mile Journey. The British dirigible R-34, which crossed from Scotland to Mineola, N. Y., in 1919, took 108 hours. The Ger- man Graf Zeppelin required 95 hours on her last Westward transatlantic trip, which was over a southerly route about 500 miles longer than the great circle course followed by the R-100. On its voyage across the Atlantic the dirigible was reported at intervals by ships in the steamer lane beneath her and by direct radio communication from the airship to shore stations on both sides of the ocean. GALE IS REPORTED North Carolina Village Hit, No One Is Injured. WALLACE, N. C. July 31 (#.—H. L. Oswald of the Wallace Enterprise, mm but By the Associated Press. Henry Janvrin Browne, whose lang- range weather forecasts have brought him into conflict with the Weather Bu- reau from time to time, today said the present break in the heat was only tem- porary and there would be no definite end to the wave until after Labor day. Months ago, Browne sald, he was con- robbed a mail train near Bobrka. The robbers secured about $3,500. a part of which was found in the pockets |said a persual of weather records, dating of the slain man. Police said t! five in the band. - e wary 4 vinced a sunspot cycle, coupled with a lunar cycle, had dnune; that the Summer of 1930 be hot and dry. He back through the centuries, had con- vinced him unusually hot and dry Sum- di vailed ‘The said traveled so far north it waters of the Atlantic westward, 4 glg‘u'"h them the heat of the Gi SUNSPOT CYCLE TELLS EXPERT HEAT RESPITE IS TEMPORARY Records of 1818 and 1874 Show This Year Was Due Long Dry Spell, Says Forecaster. mers came every 56 years. Similar con- Summer tions to those of in 1874 and in forecaster this . 1818, Browne :"Id the moon had had pulled the m, under which the Mississippi Valley has sweltered. Similar conditions, he said, prevailed in 1874 and 1818, when records kept in the Middle West showed Lakes sun conditions then same a3 this receded m'nl(' m: greatly. Moon an were much the ummer.