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*okk A2 T HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1930. FOREIGNERS TOLD Governor Says He Wil Not: Be Responsible for Their Safety. (Continued Prom First Page) uncontrolled in absence of established authority.” Five American sailors were wounded as the crew of the United States gun- boat Palos successfully fought off an at- | tack of Chinese Communists near | Changsha yesterday. About 50 Com- | munists were killed any many wounded | s the bluejackets returned to fire of | the Reds, who raked the ship with machine guns and rifles. 7 The Reds attacked from the banks of the Siang River as the Palos was epproaching the Communist-ravished city to make a survey of the ruins Opening fire with 100 rifles and 10 | “3achine guns the Communists show- ered the Palos with bullets. Caught in close quarters and unable | to turn back the Palos brought her | AMERICANS W Above is the Educational Association Building in Changsha, China, ene of the argest cities in the Chinese imterior, which is reported to be in the hands of Communists who are sacking the city. Lieuf. Comdr. R. D. Tisdale (at right) Is in command of the Ar-~ric-n gunboat Palos, aboard which f .- -ailors were 3-inch rifles and machine guns into action firing into the attackers at close | range. | Battle Rages an Hour. | The battle raged for an hour before ( the Communists were silenced. The | sttackers had taken up positions be- | hind shacks and in undergrowth along | the bank. Heavy fire was necessary to | clear the shore. | The five sailors received flesh wounds | only Although the Palos was hit| hundreds of times she was not materi- | ally damaged. Her steel armor plate | turned the Red bullets, Commanded by Lieut. Comdr. R. D. Tisdale of Baltimore, the Palos, which previously had helped to evacuate foreigners from Changsha just before the Reds overran the city, sought to approach and survey the damage. An unexpected rise in the river enabled her | to_get near the city. The attackers were believed to be a part of the Communist rear guard, patrolling the northern border of Changsha on the lookout for possible, Chmese military opposition. | After the baitle the Palos withdrew | down the river to an installation of the | Standard Oil Co. of New York, and was | moored. The Palos is one of the six | of 12 ships comprising the American | Yangtse patrol, headed by Rear Admiral Thomas Craven. Names of the sailors wounded were Dot immediately available. Japanese press dispatches from Han- kow today said refugees arriving thera expressed the belief that some foreign- ers had been murdered when Com- | Munists ravished Changsha. The refu- | gees said ail foreigners not rescued were in_the hands of the Reds. The Hankow refugees, all Japanese, | stated the Communists aiso had abduct- ed 300 wealthy Chinese merchants of | Changsha and were holding them for | fansom. | Another report said two Germans had fallen into Communist bands. i Admiral Craven is in the vicinity of Kiukiang secking information concern. ing the extent of Communist depreda. tions in Kiangsi Province. Unconfirmed Teports yesterday said Communists have occupied Nanchang, Kiangsi and were viewing Kiukiang with envious eyes. Mo new fires were reported today, but numerous foreign properties to which | the torch had been applied still were | burning. Inspection of the city by for- | eigners still was impossible because gun- | boats could not approach within five | miles of Changsha, due, to the low river vel. Although foreign properties on the ixland opposite the city had been looted. the majority of them were not burned. The reds apparently had been anxious to destroy - Japanese property, having burned the Japanese club there. The Communists alo looted and burned the Japanese consulate and the Japanese hospital on the mainland. The British Jardine Matheson Steam- ship Co’s wharves were burned last night A slight rise in the river enabled gunboats to reach the vicinity of the Standard Oil and Shell Ofl properties on the outskirts of the city, and it was believed these would be saved unless & receding river level forced the gun- boats to withdraw again. The ofl prop- ertios are valued st about 45,000.000 each. The foreign gunboats appreciably im- proved their positions as a result of the river rise and reached the environs of the city. GUNBOAT AID REFUSED. Two Missionaries Said to Object to! Such Protection. PEIPING, July 31 (4. —Naval radio | messages sent to the American legation here today saic the two Americans still In Changsha, the city over-run by Com- munists armies, remained behind be- cause they had conscientious objections against accepting protection from gun- boats The two Americans are William Lingle of Salisbury, N. C., member of the Presbyterian Mission. and Allen Cam- eron, Lawrence, Kans, of the Human Faith Mission. Others of the American Mission organizations were evacuated by United States river gunboats. wounded when Comninists attacked the vessel as it approached Changsha. About 50 Reds were reported killed and many wounded in the attack. —Associated Press and Underwood & Underwood Photos. 5. WILL NOT ADD 10 FORCE IN CHINA Protection for Americans| Held Adequate Now, With 8,400 Effectives. By the Associated Press. | American naval forces in China will not be augmente for the present. but | should Communist depredations spread the danger to American lives and prop- | erty the detachments probably will be speedily increased. A careful consideration of the situa- | tion caused by the increased Communist | and bandit activities in the provinces of Hupeh, Hunan, Honan and Kiangsi led officers in charge of the Asiatic | squadron to conclude the present naval | force there adequate. Secretary Adams | concurred in their decision for the | present. Ask All to Leave. F Meanwhile cables to the State Depart- | ment report continued efforts by Ameri- | can diplomatic and consular officers to obtain the withdrawal of Americans living in remote spots where protection is not available. A general warning was | sent out early in July bv Richard P.| Butrick, American consul at Hankow, | and new urgings have just been ordered. | Reassurances came that except for | two men who refused to leave, all| Americans were out of Changsha, capital of Hunan, where the Com- munists have been seeking foreigners to hold for ransom and have engaged in wholesale looting and burning. No word was obtainable, however, of the fate of the two who remained, William Lingle of Salisbury, N. C., and Allen Cameron, Lawrence, Kans. Foree Totals 8400, | The entire Aslatic force of the Navy consists of 6,000 saflors and 2400 | Marines in Shanghai, 500 at Peiping, while 650 more stationed at Guam could be conveyed to China on short notice. A considerable number of the sailors | are on the patrol boats which operste on the rivers of China's interior, and 969 are at Tsingtao aboard the cruiser Pittsburgh. The remainder man 19 destroyers, 12 submarines and a dozen auxiliary craft which operate out of | the Philippine Islands base. Twenty- eight airplanes are with the fleet. LAST PACKEVT' TO END SERVICE TODAY WHEN VALLEY QUEEN DDCKS: (Continued From ¥ in 1867, and founded the now legendary Lee Line. The Lee boats were typical of the packets which ran in “hoss” days. White _superstructures, topped by great smokestacks, Tose above gorgeous passenger and dining quarters. Below the best engines to be bought drove | stern and side wheels, which beat an incessant tune in the river's waters. Wharf Now Parking Space. Colored _roustabouts, captains and pilots of the sort “Mark Twain” chro- nicled, belles and gamblers and tower- ip piles of cotton—all rode the river then. Today the cobblestoned wharf, where | once cotton lay piled by the thousands | of bales, now is used as an automobile ONE AMERICAN IN PERIL. All Others Evacuated From Changsha, Says State Department. By the Associated Press The safety of all Americans at Changsha, China, except Allen Cameron of Lawrence, Kans, was reported to the State Department today by Rich- ard P. Butrick, the American consul &t Hankow. The consul, in forwarding & list of Americans evacuated from Changsha, said only Cameron remained and that all American residents not mentioned in his report had left Changsha prev- jously, some being abroad the U. S gunboat Palos and some going to Han- | kow Those evacuated were Wiiliam _Lingle of Salisbury, George Helde, 347 Madison New York City; Gibhon, Neb.; Lester Ind.; Roy Worley of Walkersville, Md.; Mr and Mrs. Tudor Cower of Boston, Maud Russell of Hayward, Calif parking ground. | Long tows of barges carry most of the | | treight hauled on the river. Railroads and busses carry the pas- | sengers. There are no more slaves, The gamblers no_longer flaunt their pres- | ence. The belles have emerged from pantalettes and bustles, Still, there are survivors. Forty years ago Capt. Gus Phillips, pilot, rode the first Lee boat which went {into’ New Mndrid, Mo., the northern terminus of this last trip. He left here with the boat Monday. He was on the Valley Queen today. | GEHLBACH AGAIN | ka by motor trouble. first fiyer to leave Ogden, was forced to | Valse de concert, D AS REDS RIOT LEADS DERBYISTS Flyers Begin Lap to Chicago, | Starting From Lincoln, Nebr., at 9:01 A.M. By the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr., July 31.—Lee Gehl- bach, Little Rock, Ark., airman, leader | in elapsed time in the All-American | Air Derby, went aloft from the local | port this morning at 9:01 a.m. on the next lap to Chicago. Bayles in Second Place. Lowell Bayles of Springfield, Mass.,, who was the second pilot to reach Lin- | coln on the flight from Ogden, Utah, holds second place in the Derby. Bayles was forced down three times in Nebras- At his last stop, near New York, he borrowed some wire from farmers who were bailing hay, and made temporary repairs to & broken rocker arm bracket on the motor of | his small ship. On his arrival at Lin- coln, the motor was repaired. Charles Meyers of Cleveland was in third place. He also was the third contestant to ar- rive at Lincoln. The fourth fiyer to check in here after the flight of ap- proximately 900 miles from Ogden was Henry Ogden of Inglewood, Calif. Herman Hamer of La Salle, Iil, the land near Doniphan, Nebr., by a broken fuel pump on his ship. His plane was not damaged and & new pump was sent to him from Lincoln. Order of Arrival. The other fliers arrived in the follow- ing order: W. H. Cahill, Cleveland; Ce- cil Goffrin, Brooklyn; Larry Brown, Los A!;Zflen. and H. W. Holladay, Los An- geles. The race will end at Detroit Friday. The total elapsed time for the leaders | as announced by Lee Shoenhair, air Derby official, follows: Gehlbach, 38| hours 14 minutes 35 seconds; Bayles, 42 hours 28 seconds; Meyers, 44 hours 45 minutes 21 seconds; Ogden, 47 hours 10 minutes 50 seconds, and Cahill, 49 | hours 23 minutes 57 seconds. Mexican Deputy Arrested. MEXICO CITY, July 31 (#).—An Agua Calientes dispatch to the news- paper La Prenza today said Erneto| Fagoaga, a State deputy, was arrested | while hiding, a gun in hand, at a cor- | ner where Gov. Rafael Quevedo was| due to pass, Fagoaga was said to be intoxicated. The State Legislature met in extra | session to consider the case and turned over the evidence to the grand jury. BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Marine Band, this evening at 7:30 o'clowk, at the Syl- van Theater, in the Monument Grounds. Taylor Branson, leader, and Arthur S. Witcomb, second leader, who | is_conducting. The program: Overture, “Ruy Blas" 1dyl, “Shepherd Boy”. . Wilson Excerpts from “Rio Rita .. Tierny “The Bachelors,” Santelmann Hunting Scene” Bucalossi Novellette” (Opus 22, No. 2), Glazounow Finale, “Fourth Symphony.” Tschatkowsky “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Soldiers’ Home Military Band, this ‘evening at 5:30 o'clock, on the Soldiers’ Home band- Mendelssohn Wil | sistants, in addition to the staff of ex- Log of R-100 By the Associated Press. (Al times are Eastern standard.) Meonday. Charles Talbott of Jones of Lynn, Vernon Farnham and two children of Portland, Oreg.; James Pates, route 1, Washington, Pa.; Edward and Buchan Parker | 9:45 p.m—Left home base at Car- dington, England. Tuesday. 9 8.m.—Thirty miles at sea, off coast Northeast Ireland. 7 pan.—473 miles west of Ireland. |of stand. John 8. M. Zimmerman, band- master, and Anton Pointer, assistant. ‘The program: March, rades of the Legion™ Sousa Overture, “L'Enchantresse.” Gabriel-Marie Suite romantic, “Woodland Sketches,” MacDowell (g) “Told at Sunset" h) “By a_Meadowbrook.” “From Uncue Remus.” Scenes from the opera “Maritana.” Fox trot, “Weary River" Waltz suite, “Mia Bella”.. GODDARD TESTING CAMPBELL PISTOL Bullets Fired Into Special} Target to Be Compared With Fatal Slugs. (Continued From Pirst Page.) turned here this morning and was at | his laboratories early. | After receiving from the agent a| sketchy outline of the Baker mystery, | Col. Goddard took the carefully guard- | ed articles and began his study of them. | His first move was to insert several | shells into the revolver and fire them | into a container of waste material in the unique firearms range installed in | his_“crime clinic.” The waste pre- vented the bullets from becoming dis- torted by the impact. Placed Under Micrescope. The test bullets then were removed from the strange target and one of them was placed beneath one of the two high-powered lenses distinguishing the Gravelle Ballistic microscope, an instrument largely developed as a result of Col. Goddard's researches. Under the second “eye” of this microscope was placed one of the slugs taken from Mary Baker's body. The two images were merged by the | insirument so that what Col. Goddard | saw was a greatly enlarged bullet, half of which was the front portion of the test bullet and the other half the butt end of the fatal slug. ‘The bullets were mounted on axes so that each could be turned by the motion of a finger. On each slug were curv- | ing grooves and masses of scratches and | other blemishes made by the rifling of | the gun from which they were shot. B ht thus together these marks were | to tell the story of their origin. Dr. Souder has reported the grooves and scratches merged with one another in such a way as to convince him that the test bullets and the fatal slugs | came from the muzzle of the same gun, viz, the revolver voluntarily turned over to police by the accused man. Remarkable Success. ‘The curious workshop of Col. God- dard and his assistants is located in a university building overlooking Lake Shore drive. In the seclusion of these laboratories Dr. Goddard has brought his art into play with remarkable success. Just re- ently he conducted gun tests that aided materially in establishing owner- ship of the gun used in the slaying of Jake Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter. Associated with Goddard in his work are a number of internationally famed crime experts, including Inspector Ferdinand Watseek of Vienna, author- ity on , or the science of using plaster casts in police identification; Dr. Clarence W. Muehlberger, toxicolo- | gist; August Vollmer, adviser to the President's Law Enforcement Commis- sion, and Leonarde Keeler of lie detector | note. The laboratories are equipped with | the latest devices known to science in its war against crime. The rooms for the study of forensic ballistics—which is the science of "ullet identification as | it applies to jurisprudence—occupy ® | major part of the space. At the rear of the suite is a firearms testing range, its walls lined with steel, where test bul- | lets are fired from suspected guns. Ad- | joining this range is & bullet store- | room, in which are kept the gruesome bits of evidence pending examination. There is a safe for these bullets, and tal"lerdcomblnl'.mn is known only to God- Along the north wall of another room, advantageously situated with regard to daylight, are the curious microscopes, of Goddard's own design, used in exam- ining the tiny grooves and scratches imprinted on the leaden slugs by the “fingerprints” of the barrel. Near the center of the suite is what appears to be a sort of “torture cham- ber,” where every conceivable type of | criminal weapon is on display for study and comparison. Guns of all descrip- tions from cruel-looking submachine guns to sawed-off shotguns are there. ‘There also is a library on crime, con- taining books and treatises on e in many languages, and two chemical lab- oratories for the toxicologist, Dr. Muehl- | berger. Souvenirs of Cases. Along the walls of the laboratory office | are many photographs of guns, bullets and criminals—souvenirs of cases upon | which Goddard has employed his highly specialized science. The laboratories have a considerable staff of clerks and non-technical as- perts. Col. Goddard is a reserve lieutenant colonel in the Ordnance branch of the Army, but during the World War was a surgeon with the Army Medical Corps. He graduated from the Army Medical School in 1917 and served as & major in Prance, Poland and Germany until his resignation in 1920. He was director of the Bureau of Fo- rensic Ballistics in New York and is a members of numerous scientific so- cleties, including the Institute on Criminal Law and Criminology, the In- | ternational Association for Indentifica- tlon, and so forth. His home is in Richmond, Va. YOUNG GIRL QUESTIONED. . Stepdaughter of Campbell Interrogated | on Knowledge of Baker Case. An 11-year-old girl, Lenora Callahan, stepdaughter of Herbert M. Campbell, accused of the murder of Mary Baker, was the central figure in today's inves- | tigation of the case. William C. Gloth, commonwealth's at- torney of Arlington County: John Flah- erty and Carlton Talley, headquarters detectives, questioned the girl at length | at Campbell's home. | The outcome of the examination re- | mained to be determined early this aft- | ernoon. as the young witness still was | closeted with the officials. i Await Pistol Test. | | Meanwhile authorities anxiously | awaited word from Chicago, where Col. Calvin Goddard, managing director of the scientific ‘crime detection lab- | oratories of Northwestern University, | was busily engaged examining the | bullets which passed through Miss Baker's body in an effort to determine | whether they were fired from a 32- caliber revolver owned by Campbell. Tests previously made by Dr. Wilmer Souder, fire arms expert of the Bureau of Standards, and Lieut. John C. Fow- ler, ballistics authority of the Washing- ton police force, had indicated that the slugs had been shot from Campbell's gun. Today's examination of the Callahan Finale, “Sixteenth Regiment” girl was the second to be made In less PROHIBITION ADMINISTRATORS CONFER HERE : . Discussion of plans for law enforcement work and to familiarize each other with the problems encountered in their work is the purpose of a conference of 12 prohibition administrators of the various districts, which met here yesterday. The dry officials met with Col. Amos W. W. Woodcock, direc tor of prohihition, who is shown sitting. Others in the picture are, standing, left to right: . 8. Lewis, Boston; Howard T. Jones, assistant prohil St. Paul; G. H. Wark, Kansas City; R. Q. Merrick, Richmend; J. F. Vivian, Denver; W. G. Walker, Sai d W. N, J. F. J. Herbert, Chicago: J. S. M. L. Harney, Francisco; Carl Jacksom, Seattle, WOODCOGK LAUDED FOR SUSPENSIONS Head of A. A. A. Commends Dry Chief for Stand on Stop- ping Legitimate Car. Commendation of the recent action of Prohibition Commissioner Amos W. W. Woodcock in suspending twe prohi- bition agents who recently stopped a motorist in the middle of the aight without due cause is contained in a letter addressed to the commissioner by Thomas P. Henry, president of the American Automobile Association, made public today. Charging that “there have been too many instances where the use of hatr- trigger methods have resulted in the death of law-abiding citizens,” the head of the A. A. A. declared that ‘he hold~ ing of prohibition agents to strict as countability for interference with in nocent users of the road would restore “a much needed measure of confidence among the millions of motorists, who in these days of crowded highways, use the roads more and more at night time.” Mr. Henry's Letter. Mr. Henry's letter fellows: “1 have read with great interest the press reports of your action in suspending prohibition agents Charles R. McCartney and John T. Weigel, for purtuing and stopping, without due cause, an automobile in which a citizen was_ driving at the dead of night on lawful business. “The American Automobile Associa- tion, representing the organized car owners of America, has consistently and persistently maintained that the exigencies of law enforcement per s |woodooe cannot be permitted to abrogate the rights of innocent users of the com- mon_highway. “There have been far too many in- stances where the use of hair-trigger methods has resulted in the death of Jaw-abiding citizens and in endanger- ing the lives and outraging the rights of others. Will Aid Co-operation. “The prompt action you took in the recent incident, while in no sense an assurance to iaw violators and | racketeers, is calculated to promote a very much needed measure of confidence among the millions of motorists, who in these days of crowded highways, use the roads more and more at night time. “Such a policy will inevitably result in a larger measure of co-operation be- tween the overwhelming law-abiding element of our population and our duly constituted officers of law enforcement. Two Die in Bus Plunge. BERLIN, July 31 (#).—Two persons were killed and 36 rescued yesterday when a motor bus plunged into the Time River from a bridge between Erfurt and Weimar. The rescues were made by four members of the Maccabean Sports Club of Tel Aviv, Palestine. than a week. She was questioned re- cently by Licut. Edward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad. The child con- vinced Lieut. Kelly that she had no actual knowledge of the slaying, but merely was inclined to suspect Campbell of most anything because of a childish dislike, It had been intended o question the girl again last night. Mr. Gloth post- poned the examination until today, how- ever, when he learned the girl was in a highly nervous condition as the result of an automobile accident ir which she | figured recently. Grocer Denies Report. Harry Taishoff, a Virginia Highlands grocer, today denied published reports that he had sald Mrs. Campbell had requested him to swear to an amMdavit that he had seen her husband in his store about 5 o'clock on the afternoon of April 11, around which time Miss Baker was slain. He sald Mrs. Camp- bell had asked him whether her hus- band had been in his store on the afternoon in question and that when he replied he was unable to remember she had thanked him and closed the inter- | view without making any mention of an | afdavit. Taishoff was among the persons questioned early in the case. He said | At that time also that he was unable to say for sure whether Campbell had been | in his store at the hour mentioned. Judge Walter McCarthy of the Six- teenth Judicial Circuit Court today re- ceived a letter from Hermann Barrere asking that he grant Barrere a personal audience. The judge said he had sent word to Barrere, former suspect in the case, now being held as a material wit- ness, that he should communicate with him through his attorney. J. D. Pennington, Philadel, director ‘Woodruff, Cincinnatti. WO00DCOCK PLANS TO CONCENTRATE ON LARGER VIOLATORS | | (Continued From First Page.) 4‘ July 1, passed from under the Treasury Department to the Department of Just- ice. The statement was issued at the close of a meeting attended by 12 ad- ministrators, who in as many districts t.h;fiughaut the country, have charge of enforcement work in the field. This meeting, called by Mr. Wood- cock for the purpose of acquainting the administrators with matters of pol- icy and studying common probiems, was in progress today. Supervisors of in- dustrial alcohol permits also met here today under Dr. James M. Doran, in charge of this branch of enforcement. The 12 administrators and special agents were addressed this morning by Assistant Attorney General Youngquist, in charge of prohibition in the Depart- ment of Justice. Mr. Youngquist, who holds the same relative position in the reorganized prohibition unit that As- sistant Secretary Lowman held when the unit was under the Treasury Depart- ment, discussed the obtaining of evi- dence and made suggestions with refer- ence to the subject of prosecutions. The more effective control of indus- trial alcohol was the subject of a gen- eral conference which Dr. Doran held with his subordinates, with the budget of that division of the prohibition or- ganization also coming in for discussion. The supervisors summoned to Washing- ton to meet with Dr. Doran were: Philip Hamlin, Boston; W. D. Moses, | New York; 8. O. Wynne, Philadelphia; Thomas E. Stone, Richmond; O. D. Jackson, New Orleans; R. E. Joyce, Cin- | cinnati; E. C. Yellowley, Chicago; S. B. Quale, St. Paul; 8. 8. Haley, Kansas City; G. E. Ellsworth, Denver; William R. Woods, jr., San Francisco, and F. R. McReynolds, Seattle. ‘The establishment in Washington of a school for traininrg enforcement agents, and an effort to obtain uniform sentences for approximately similar violations, also are to be undertaken, k announced. School Opens September 1. A school will be opened here Sep- tember 1, he said, and 24 special agents called in for instruction. When the |agents have finished a course of in- | struction, two will be sent into each administration district to organize and conduct similar schools. The aim of the reorganized bureau, ‘Woodeock said, is not the number of people sentenced for violating the law, “but a decrease in the consumption of intoxicating liquor in the United States.” Asserting that “this is the real meas- ure and test of our work," he added that he disapproved of ‘“sensational methods.” “I propose,” he said, “to make a gen- eral and, I hope, intelligent effort to- | ward encouraging State and local offi- | clals to assume their proper share of the burden of enforcing the prohibition policies of the United States.” Com menting that the policy is not a mew one, he added that it is one he hoped to develop more effectively. A system of daily reports from all en- forcement districts will be instituted, to furnish “a graphic picture of our ac- tivities throughout the land,” he an- nounced. Woodcock sald it was in- tended that a newly created division of research and public instruction shall “gather sufficient facts from which an intelligent opinion can be had as to whether the consumption of liquor” is lower than before prohibition and whether it is increasing or decreasing from day to day. A “tremendous lack of uniformity” in sentences for what are essentially the same offenses was noted by Wood- cock, and he suggested that judges throughout the country confer with a view to proposing remedies, “This is not justice. and without justice we do | not_promote respect for law.” Of his own task, Woodcock said he proposed to spend a great deal of his | time in visiting and inspecting the work of various administrators and deputy administrators in their territories. “I do not propose to busy myself with the details of this bureau so that I will not have an opportunity to see, to hear and to_think,” he declared. Before issuing the statement, Wood- cock conferred with President’ Hoover and with Attorney General Mitchell. MRS. WALTER JOHNSON PATIENT IN HOSPITAL TEXAS VOTE SHOWS Tht «cepted as valid for other States. The meaning is that a State which will cast | g | in an official election. more in accord with the common ment of politicians and political servers. hia; Andrew McCampbell, New York; ibition: R. F. Tuttle, New Orlean: —Underwood Photo. DIGEST POLL ERROR Issue in Sheppard’s Race for Senate Clear Cut, With Dry Victory. BY MARK SULLIVAN. Politicians who follow the current primary elections for indexes of public sentiment find in the Texas this week an indication about the fu- ture attitude of Congress on prohibi- tion. In Texas, one of the strong neer dry Senators, Morris Sheppard, ran for renomination. Senator She; d can be described as an uncompromisi dry. He is as far as possible from being willing to have any modification of pro- hibition. So far as Senator Sheppard contemplates any change, it is in the direction of more drastic enforcement. He has a law making the pur: chaser of forbidden liquor guilty with thg::l]eh ator Sheppa running as this kind of strong dry, received 430,050 votes. His wet ent, Robert L. Henry, recelved 140,008 and & minor third candidate received 33,227, Only Issue in Race. In making inferences from such a re- sult, inquiry must be made as to whether there were other issues or other circumstances acting as a_qualification. Washington persons familiar with the Texas primary say that modification of prohibition was the principal or only is- sue put forward by the wet candidate who contested Senator Sheppard's seat. The same persons say that some portion of 'Senator Sheppard’s large majority may be due to the esteem in which he is held, regardless of his position on prohibition. The net of the judgment of persons familiar with Texas condi- tions is that Texas is dry in proportions not far from those indicated by the proportions are roughly 3 to 1. This Texas outcome is chee; to the drys. By open-minded or deliberately middle-ground politicians or candidates for office the Texas primary is accepted as_evidence against any likelihe early change in the present status of prohibition. ‘The Te: result is especially illumi- nating in its bearing on the Literary Digest poll on prohibition, which was completed so recently as May 24. The ordinary interpretation of that poll at the time was that prohibition sentiment is receding. In the Literary Digest _P:ll Texas reg- istered 133,062 ballots. ey were dis- tributed as follows: For enforcement, 58,824; for modification, 87,565; for re- peal, 36,673. To reduce the figures to two columns there were only 58824 ballots for enforcement of prohibition as it now is, while there were 74,238 ballots favoring change. Accuracy of the Poll Cited. At the time of the Literary Digest poll many Senators, Representatives and other politicians recalled the strik- ing accuracy of former polls by the same periodical as forecasts of election re- sults. The question was whether such @ poll was equally accurate as a test of public sentiment on & statute such as Erohibfllom To political ways of thinking, the Texas outcome is a suffi- clent answer. date for office in almost any State should have risked his fortunes on the mumguon of the accuracy of the Lit- erary Digest figures, he would have lost. outcome for Texas will be ac- its ballots in given proportion in an informal poll on prohibition will not | pea: necessarily vote in the same proportion ‘This has really been the conviction of politicians at the time of the Literary Digest poll and since. If the Literary Digest poll as a whole had been ac- cepted as an accurate index, it would have been necessary to conclude that only 6 States out of the 48 remain dry. ‘Te every politician familiar with ac- tunl conditions, that is preposterous. ‘The outcome of the Texas election is far udg- ob- As against what is here said, the out- of distress were still outlying farm sections o | Virgini. 1 outcome of this senatorial contest. The{‘ of | It means that if a candi- | o | Wite of Manager of Base Ball| gr Team Regarded as Not in Alarming Conditi Mrs. Walter Johnson, on. wife of the come in New Jersey in June may be cited. In New Jersey Representative Fort, V. ot roughly, 20 per cent of the | vote, as against Ambassador Morrow and the other candidate favoring re- peal. This was in practically exact ac- cord with the Literary Digest poll. The better interpretation of the New Jersey immlg_er of the Washington base ball club, is a patient at Georgetown Uni- versity Hospital where, it was learned | today. she was taken last nigat. | ‘There is nothing at all alarming in | Mrs Johnson's condition, it is under- | stood. _ Since her return to Washington | from St. Louls where she went with her primary, however, is that Ambassador Morrow, though he favored re) ce e respects. 1, re- ived a very large number of votes cause of his eminent standing in all (Copyright. 1830.) FOREGASTERS SEE CONTIUED ARIDITY Neighboring Towns to Draw on D. C. Water at Least Until Next Week. Forecasters at the United States Weather Bureau today were unable to | predict an early end to th ! drought whieh still | ing Maryland to e oppressing compels neéighbar- s to draw heavily Columbia water ‘While Washi ‘were continu- ing to enjoy the experience of lowered temperatures after a period of the hot- test_weather ever recorded here, signs A?Dlmnt in the Maryland and o the Weather from the District | system. According | Bureau, there will be no change in the situation this week. Low humidity rec- ords counterbalance temperatures that hover near 90 degrees during the peak 10 fthe afternoon periods. 66.4 Degrees at Sunrise. 1t was e(neflgd the temperature wouid reach the same maximum of 89 degrees reported yesterday afternoon, dropping steadily “through the night. At sunrise this morming it registered ing no wish to. eh- courage pessimism, it was reported at the Weather Bureau that the present “cool” weather is not likely to tinué uninterrupted for long. August will usher in many het, uncomfortable days, :;“1 it was doubted if the record 06 di on July 20 would be reached this Summer. At 11 o'clock this the ther- mometer at the Weather u istered 84 degrees and the hi was re| 'd as o'clock. than usually recorded during the last week or so. Day Without Prostrations. Although the maximum temperati was officially 89 degrees after- noon, with the kiosk on Pennsylvanis n & peak of 100 about 5 o'clock, yesterday was the first day dui the at wave that was conspicuous for its abgénce of het prostration cases. ughout. country which is suffering from the worst drought in many years. DROUGHT WORST ON RECORD. Stll No Relief in Sight for Farmers Througheut Nation. By the Associated Press. The sea ht which for weeks and mmtml! baked areas be- tween the Rocky Moun and the | Appalachians was listed yesterday as the worst the country has experienced | since State-wide weather records bfi‘ J. B. Kincer, meteorologist of the De- partment of Agriculture, described it as unparalleled in the records, which reach back 40 or 50 years. Farmers who have watched their | crops wither under almost unprecedent- ed temperature records accomj moisture deficiencies, ptrm:nhrmw | pastures and Fall truck crops, Tecelved no encouragement. The forecast division of the (Weather Bureau said mo relief was in sight. “Every additional day without rain,” Kincer said, “notwithstanding cogler weather, necessarily will further reduce crop prospects.” ‘Winter wheat harvest, however, is nearing completion without appreciable damage. Table deteriorati'n to the late Spring wheat was reported, but harvesting of the early crop is well ad- vanced. Cotton’ has suffered in some sections. Seven Months in Some States. The drought has existed in some States since last Dzcember, in others smc:hulmh lru:n in ':!un others the dry weather began L wing months of n.{u:n;d fim July. Sht ition to the scanty rainfall"in July, increasing drought conditions al- ready prevalent over large areas, three hot waves followed to intensify them. During July, temperatures of 100 de- grees or higher were reported on four to six days in the middle Atlantic area and from 6 to as many as 15 days from the northern portions of Alabama, Mississippl, Louisiana and Northeastern Texas, northward over the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys and Plains States to_Eastern South Dakota. ‘While cooler weather now prevailiny throughout most of the dry area wil check the rapid deterioration of un- matured crops, a generous and general rain is necessary for widespread im- provement. Corn has been particularly hard hit in some sections. The abnormally high temperatures and lack of moisture has prevented the pollenization essential to production. crop in was ruined to such an extent that :W used even for silage. “Serious and irreparable injury” was reported to the crop in most of Ohio; “decided “de- terioration™ in Indiana; losses ‘ serious” in Tllinols, with terioration; Iowa, “hot and dry”; much upland corn in Oklahoma “burni " but damage has been July Rainfall Deficiency. Kincer said Kentucky has received only 50 per cent of normal rainfall from March to June, with July rainfall 14 inches against the next previous lowest of 1.7 inches in 1801. In Ohio every month since March has been marked by deficient rainfall, with nofmal. " Juiy preliminary” hesocs to. 3 ly pré Ary rej to- taled 1.4 inches, breaking all ?l?l:v rec- :Inrd.i..'l“ith the next nearest 1.6 inches West Virginia had the dryest Winter since 1901 and the dryest Spring- of record. From December to June only 66 per cent of normal rainfall fell. Pre- cipitation continued deficient through- out July. In Maryland, the rainfall was below normal every month from December to June with only 70 per cent of normal months’ periods of record in State. July continued extremely 3 In Indiana, rainfall was 58 per cent 1 from March to June, 10 per cent less than the next lowest record. July mnu&-fionfim;lm prelimi- nary reco wing 1.18 inches—drye since 1901 when the July record was l.;' It the ' v LETTER SAYS LEOPOLD TO SUE ROYAL FAMILY | Former Archduke Informs Ex-Em- press Zita He Wants $50,000 for Tmprisonment. and Dr. Louise Farnham, whose ad- sses were not given and of whom thi l Wednesday. department has no record. | 2:15 am.—About 900 miles west of The telegram from Hankow was dated | Ireland, nearly halfway between that July 30 at noon. country and Newfoundiand. At the same time the Navy Depart- | 1 p.m.—About 265 miles off Belle Isle, ment announced that another United | which is at the northern tip of New- | States gunboat today on her way | foundland. to the area near Changsha, China, fo | '9:39 p.m.—Passed over Belle Isle. £rcten tne lives and property of for etgners from Communist oops. Thursday. The Panay, which previously had been | 12:25 a.m.—Passed over steamer Duch- anchored at Ichang, was ordered 1o | ess of York in Gulf of St. Lawrence. husband and the ball team, she has been_indis] by the extreme warm weather of the last few days. It was| thought she would be more comfortable at the hospital. Preliminary reports of rainfall from Illinois fix ‘its July average at mot quite one inch, the lowest in half a century. The average for March through July was the lowest in a sim- e average for Missourl for July was less than an inch, .the bext lowest in more than 40 years. - The June and July deficiency in rainfail was | exceeded only once in’ that period, in VIENNA, July 31.—A letter published 1901. in a local monarchist nnuglwr today | July gave Oklahoma, on basis of pre- intimates that former Archduke Leo- | liminary reports, six-tenths inch of d, now accused in New York of grand | rainfall The previous low July record arceny in connection with the sale of | Was eight-tenths inch in 1916. While the famous Napoleon necklace owned |the Southwestern of Jowa was ex: by the former Archduchess Maria The- hot and , the N i By o e v g e SR e S 5 r - The letter was written by Jacob Gil- | leading. bR man, New York attorney for the former archduke, and was addressed to the for- mer Empress Zita. In it a claim for $50,000 is made for the alleged wrong- | ful imprisonment of Leopold. CHARGES ABDUCTION CHAPEL HILL, N.C,, July 31 (M).— Mrs. Mary Graves Ree; reported to police today that her divorced husband, Arthus B. Rees, 96 Clarkson avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., & public lecturer, had abducted their 10-year-old son, broke. rs. Rees, an artist whose pictures have been exhibited in metropolitan | alleries, met Rees while an art student fn New York. They were married in 1919, separated in 1923 and Iater were divorced. T T s R custody Ir cl i Do, i, R L | (B for & and, Mrs. Rees said, abduc The lawyer added that if the ol vere hele the ehild. was.not satisfied claim | were held up here again by unfavorable B8.30 AM. TODAV 300 By the Assotiated Press. MILES FROM QUEBEC POSITION 3 P, Weather Holds German Flyers. KI » Orkney mnm-nay 31. Hirth and Oscar Weller Chinglingfow, aboul 100 miles from | 1 a.m.—Passed over Anticosti Island Thangsha, where the Palos yesterday | At mowth of St. Lawrence River. #ngaged in a fight with Communists. | 8:30 am.--Passed Empress of Scot- Low river levels have handicaped | land 300 miles from Quebec. naval forces in their efforts to aid for- PR a8 eigners, Only gunboats mounting 3-inch | MOFFETT TO GREET R-100 guns are able to reach Changsha, but e e s hatore thay eae | Navy Aeronautics Chief Is on Way maneuver efficiently, naval officers said to Montreal Today. tod: Destroyers cannot proceed further up | Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, the Yangtze than Hankow, about 200 | chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronau- miles trom Changsha, The peven avail- | i ,om his way o Montreal today able gunboats which can operate * to greet - upon her val. The ung Arche abnuv.é;\elr feet e!;uur must m-_ Navy sald Admiral Moffett m'g:: Mrs. Rees uhn sister &l hfi H. | aspirant to the Bnygz‘r!ln mfluk? e 'fim lulnnda‘gnmm.mmx'm'm own stream whem the weker Jevel Son Bay Oy, Mich., Graves, &yndicate editar ’Lhmwumu his ma- t to the Ui