Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1930, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair Tem| 79, at 4:45 The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news peratures—Highest, m yesterday; lowest, 55, at 5:30 a.m. 2 ¢ Foening Blar. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesterday’s Circulation, 106,517 WASHINGTON Do ic, WEDNESDAY, A UGUST 13, NORRIS, ROBINSON. GORE AND BULKLEY APPARENT VICTORS N PRIMARY VOTE Nebraska Senator Who Sup- ported Smith Increases Lead Over G. 0. P. Regular. Hitchcock Likely Choice. BULKLEY, WET, AHEAD IN OHIO SENATE RACE Dry Leads for Buckeye Governor- ship—Light Alabama Vote for Bankhead, While Governor Poll Runs High—"“Alfalfa Bill" Mur- ray Leads Buttram for Governor. By the Assoclated Press. Leading figures in Tuesday's five State primaries appeared on the basis of the steadily mounting count of ballots today to have safely weathered the test. Senator George W. Norris, the Ne- braska Republican insurgent, who sup- ported Alfred E. Smith in 1928, was gaining an increasing lead over Wil- uam M. Stebbins, candidate of the| “regular” faction in the party. Gflbel’ti M. Hitchcock, former Senator, appar- ently was nominated by the D!mocl‘.'.si to oppose Norris. | Senator Joe T. Robinson, Democratic | leader and vice presidential- candidate | of 1928, had a lead of more than 3 to 1] over Tom W. Campbell in the Arkansas | Senate race. Gore Lead Commanding. Thomas P. Gore, blind former Sena- tor, had a commanding lead over Charles J. Wrightsman, Tulsa oil man. | z‘&-lu Democratic Senate nomination | e Oklahoma run-off primary. Wu-l liam H. “Alfalfa Bill" Murray was far Primary Results at a Glance Following are the latest returns from States in which primaries were held yesterday NEBRASKA—1465 of State's 2,030 precincts give Norris 80,133, Stebbins 57,674 for senatorship Bryan nominated for Governor. ARKANSAS—1,185 of 2,028 precincts give Robinson 68,813, Campbell 22,609 for Democratic senatorial nomination. Parnell leads nearest of three rivals for renomination as Governor. OHIO—8,936 precincts out of 8956 give Bulkley 80,309; Durbin, 40,251; Truax. 35,997; McSweeney, 35171; Myers, 19,124, for Democratic senatorship. ~White has 128,021 for Governor, against 75432 for Young. OKLAHOMA—2,716 precincts of 3,325 give “Alfalfa Bill” Murray 187,470 votes for governorship nomination, against 110,884 for his opponent. Returns from 2,673 precincts give Gore 146,832 for the senatorship, against Wrightman's 104,988, ALABRAMA—John H. Bankhead far ahead of Frederick I. Thompson for Memination to Senator Hefiin’s seat. The vote in 1,147 precincts | out of 1,488 was: Bankhead, 62.625; Thompson, 32,025. B. M. Miller leads a field of six for nomination for Governor. FALLOFNANKING ACKSONOBRIE FEAREDASBANDS TEAM REGAIS AR O REDS APPEAR ENDURANCE Y jCommunists Are Within 20 Greater St. Louis Has Been Miles of City Defended by in Air 558 Hours, Passing Handful of Troops. Hunters’ Record. By the Associated Pr ST. LOUIS, August 13.—Dale Jack- son and Forest O'Brine, who recap- tured the world record for sustained flight today, settled down this after- noon to the grind of piling more hours onto the new mark. At 12:52 pm. |they had flown for nearly 558 hours | and had.exceeded the old record by |3 hours. They officially regained the record at | Lack of adequate defense forces here | 9:52 a.m. when they had been up 55¢ resulted in uneasiness as it was believed | hours and 41 minutes, slightly more the city would be easy prey for the | than 23 days, [ Reds If the yattacked. The presence of | The new mark exceeded by one full | Communists was reported in several | hour the record established last July 4 nearby towns. at Chicago by Kenneth and John Hun- ML RS ter, Illinois farm boys, who after several 3 { attempts had wrested the flight cham- Nanking, capital of China under | pionship from Jackson and O'Brine. seven dynasties before being chosen as | The latter pair set a 420-hour record | the seat of the Nationalist government, | July 31, 1929, has a population exceeding 400,000. It| With the record regained, Jackson is surrounded by the 32 miles of walls, | and O'Brine had no thought of landing, By the Associated Press. NANKING, August 13.—Fears that Nanking, seat of the Nationalist gov- ernment, would fall into the hands of Communist bands arose today with re- ports from the countryside saying al- leged Reds in peasant garb and armed with rifles had appeared in large num- bers 20 miles away. Nanking was vir- tually. defenseless because few soldiers remained here. in front of Frank Buttram of Oklahoma City for the gubernatorial- nomination. | In Alabama early returns gave John | H. Bankhead a considerable lead over | Prederick 1. Thompson, Mobile pub- | in a Senate race marked for its light vote. | ‘Ohio Democrats gave leads to a wet | for the Senate and a dry for the gov-| ernorship. Robert J. Bulkley of Cleve- land, advocate of dry law repeal, was well dhead of his four ow for the Senate, while George , in- dorsed by the Anti-Salcon League, had a substantial margin over Stephen M. Young for the gubernatorial ncmina- tion. Contents Are Similar. Both in Oklahoma and Ohio the Democratic choices for the Senate will | contest in the election with Republican ts who were unopposed within y. These are Senators W. B. Pine and Roscoe C. McCulloch. In a the Democratic winner will battle Senator J. Thomas Heflin, ousted from the primary for failing to support the party's 1928 presidential beurer. Speculation developed in the State over an indicated large difference in total vote for gubernatorial over senatorial candidates in view of Heflin's appeal to his supporters to ab- stain from voting until the November | election. Lieut. Gov. Davis led five| other candidates in the gubernatorial Tace. ‘The Nebraska primaries appeared to | (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) | 2 MEN TIE WOMAN, THEN FIRE HOUSE| Victim Escapes and Is Found Writhing in Street by Neighbors. | who had taken refuge there. - | City Prepares to Make Strong Defense | who recently sacked and burned the the longest of any city walls in Crina. | but drove on toward a goal which they For nearly 300 years it flourished as | now have set at 1,000 hours, or about the seat of the {amous Ming dynasty, | six wecks. V] t cultural | under which China made grea A S DR A downpour of rain deluged the field and soaked the scant crowd of 2,000 per- sons who had assembled when the rec- a burst of sfrens, aerial bombs, au- tomoblle horns and cheers went up, Jackson and O'Brine dropped down low over the field and discha: & green . Then they came down to within a few hundred feet of the crowd and N rbed U abiout B0 crowd of al airplane factory workers paraded across the field carry- ing & banner which read, “Again Red and Obie.” Factory whistles in indus- trial St. Louls also heralded the return of the flight record to St. Louis with a chorus of shricks. ‘Wives Are at Field. The flyers' monoplane, the Greater St. Louis, a sister ship of the St. Louis Robin in which they set their record last year, appeared to observers and the ground crew to be functioning perfectly. ‘The wives of the fiyers were among those who stood in the rain to watch the record broken. They were showered with congratulations. 2 The din or noise continued about 20 minutes. teps. . March, 1927, all foreigners were | drived out of Nanking by anti-foreign demonstrators allegedly working at the | behest of Communists. The National- | government assumed responsibility for the incident and made settlements with 'l;hg gmle:.lw.:n British, Japanese, French an n _governments. The incident was featured by the act of an American gunboat, which laid down a barrage of gunfire on Socony Hill, property of the Stanard Oil Co. of New York, in order to prevent the demonstrators from reaching foreigners | HANKOW IN DANGER. Against Red Attack. HANKOW, August 13 (#).—Hankow | took on the appearance of a beleaguered | city today as authorities tightened up their defenses against the threatened Communistic attack. Sandbag defenses were erected at all strategic points in the native section and machine guns were mounted for action, giving I;II‘I l:)mflu behlie( lu":::l‘-[ antic a heav, - | l‘.l"‘l‘lfiiis?ml«hmslv St ¥ It appeared that Jackson and O'Brine Thousands of refugees from the sur- | Were attempting to speak to the crowd rounding countryside poured into Han- | over their short wave length transmitter, kow. The evacuation from Wuchang |but apparently the rainstorm interfered and Hanyang, nearby |as they were not heard. especially heavy. Hankow was con- Jackson said yesterday, however, they sidered the safest of three cities be- Would stay up 1.000 hours if the motor cause of the presence here of many |did not quit. The flyers this time were foreign gunboats. The round-up and |their own managers and masters of execution of alleged Reds continued un- | their own destiny. Last year's flight abated, Many were put to death. :ndeds:l‘l:l ?‘20 hour!i ahohrt ofughe avia- 3 ors’ -hour goal, when ey were Changsha Deserted. & y called down by the flight ‘sponsors, an Thousands of Chinese were evacuat- | 8irplane manufacturing company. ing Changsha today as Comununists, cities, was BROMLEY PLANS TO START PACIFIC HOP IN WEEK wealthy Hunan Province capital, were reported returning to the city. Threats to execute every one between the ages of 15 and 35 were said to have By the Associated Press. ERIE, Pa., August 13.—Two men | broke into the home of Mrs. E. W. Meyers, 15 miles south of here, late last night, and after tying the woman with | ropes, set her clothing afire, touched lighted matches to carpets and curtains and fled. The woman fought herself | free of the ropes and was fcund writh- ing in the street by neighbors. ‘Today Mrs. Meyers was reported in a critical condition in St. Vincent's Hos- | pital here, while authorities: scoured | Erie County for the assailants. The glxeyeri home was little damaged by the e. While their mother was being attack- ed, Mrs. Meyers' threc small children slept in another room. CRASH IN FOG KILLS FOUR Milk Truck and Auto Collide New Jersey, With 5 Injured. CRANBURY LAKE, N. J., August 13 (# —Four men, residents of Passaic, were killed and five other persons were injured today in a head-on collision in' between a milk truck and an auiomo- | bule in thick fog. Three of the injured were believed to have been f Eight highway workers w sutomobile on their way to their place of employment. The driver of the truck was among the less seriously in- Jured. WINS BRIDE WITH WAR MEDALS, BUT IS JAILED AS BOGUS HERO Detroit Theater Usher Says Wife Carried On Tales of Heroism Beyond His Control. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, ‘August 13. — Benjamin Lee couldn’t win his girl's love with his resplendent theater usher's uniform so he bought some meda'. won th girl, and today he is in jail as a bogu hero. ¥ Dined and honored by Detroit vet- erans' organizations &s one of M chi- gan’s war heroes, Benjamin, a_theater usher, appeared wearing the Croix de uerre. the Victoria Cioss. the Dis- inguished Service Cross and the Con Medal of Homor. He told preceded the Reds into Changsha. It was feared provinical forces would not be able to hold the city against the | threatened invasron. Flight Will Begin at Kasumigaura Airdrome, Where Graf Started An American Catholic bishop, four | priests and eight nuns, evacuating Kan- | Hop to V. 8 chow, Kiangsi Province, because of | By the Associated Press. Communist __depredations. arrived at| TOKIO, August 13.—All official ob- ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) | stacles having been removed. Lieut. | Harold Bromley, Tacoma, Wash., av- | iator, today said he hoped to start his non-stop transpacific flight from Kasumigaura _Alrdrome, near Toklo, within a week. Kasumigaura Pleld, a naval air base from whiclp the Graf Zeppelin last year | started its transpacific flight, has a | SCIENT_|STS FIND TRACE . OF PREHISTORIC RACE Crude Hearths, but No Tools, Indi-' 1900-meter runway. : Ay Government_officials gave the flyers cate People Lived Almost En- | yermission to fly their plane from Yoko- | hama, where it was unloaded from the | steamer President Lincoln, to the field of their choice. tirely on Snails. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif, August 13.—| Evidence indicating a prehistoric race | | of peopie, living almost entirely on a diet of snails and having no contact with the mainland, 60 miles away, once roamed San Nicolas Island, off Ven-| tura, has been found by an expedition | from the San Diego Museum. | Heaps of snail shells, regarded by the | scientists as proof of human life on the island much earlier than previously be- lieved, were found. Evidence of the 2 ALASKAN SUMMER ENDS White Man's System Follows Three Months of Daylight. POINT BARROW, Alaska, August 13 (#).—The three months of Summer day- |light here has ended, the sun dipping below the ocean horizon & few minutes each night. crudest kind of hearths was unearthed, but no implements were found. “A race too primitive to have tools of any kind certainly would not have had boats.” Malcom Rogers, head of the expedition, said. |lurid stories of his part in the war. Some of the veterans became sus- plicious. They figured out thet Benja- min was about 12 years old when the var sterted. Depsitment of Justice agenis ques- | irned Benjamin anci he confess~d that | his tales of h-r m were designed to | win the love of (h2 girl who now is h's vife He said h> puichased the medals irom veterans who were “short of cash,” and that after his marriage wife ~arried on the tales of herok until <he affair got out of his con Lights must now be used in the eve- ning and the schedule of work and play of the natives is being forced back to the white man’s system. During the Summer they sleep during the white man’s “day” and remain up all “night.” | BRIDGE IS fJYNAMITED Blast One of Series in Mine Troubles. PROVIDENCE, Ky., August 13 (4).— Coal trains were halted by the dyna- miting of an Illinois Central Railroad bridge 13 miles west of here early to- day. The blast, one of a series in con- nection with labor troubles in the mines around here, damaged the end of the trestle over a drainage ditch between Wheatcrof and Blackford. Repairs were begult at once. The dai'ge was 2d at $1.000. Kentucky Y onarchs Leave London. LONDON, August 13 (/) —King George and Queen Mary left todsy for the royal. estate at Sandringham. They will remain there until August 22, then go to Balmoral Castle, in Scot- land, f¢ , for the season, POLICE CORRUPTION SHIELDS GAMBLERS, OFFICIALS ARE TOLD Prince Georges Commission- ers Quiz States Attorney and Sheriff. RAIDS ARE TIPPED OFF TO OPERATORS OF PLACE Parran Admits Piace Probably Exists, but Tells of Difficulties in Way of Prosecution. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. } UPPER MARLBORO, Md., August | 13.—A written complaint that the oper- ation of a notorious gambling establish- ment on the Bladensburg road has been possible during the past 10 years “through the general corruption of police officers and others charged with law enforcement” will be presented to the October grand jury, States Attofney J. Frank Parran promised the Prince Georges County commissioners yester- day, after he and Sheriff Charles S. Early were quizzed by the commissioners concerning the accusation. The State's attorney admitted during the quiz that, because of public report, he believed such an establishment to be in existence, but explained that repeated efforts to prosecute the alleged pro- prietor had failed either because wit- nesses could not be compelled to appear or because enough evidence could not obtained to secure an indictment from the grand jur “Tip-offs” Invariably Received. In spite of the utmost precautions, he told the commissioners, the operators of the establishments had invariably re- ceived a “tip-off” whenever officers vis- ited the premises, and Sheriff Early con- curred in his statements. Dr. Harry M. Bowen, acting chair- man of the board, suggested that offi- cers be stationed around the premises in an effort to find out just what took place, but the sheriff “declared this had been done without success. ‘The extraordinary public quiz of the sheriff and State’s attorney by commissioners followed receipt by thei of a letter from Charles B. Calvert, Mount Rainier attorney, stating he had recently specifically complained to the sheriff, State's attorney and several police officers about the gambling es- tablishment, without result. In re- spense to Calvert's complaint, Parran told the commissioner he had invited Calvert to present his evidence to the grand jury, to which the lawyer re- plied: 15 that your conceptio uty?” n of yout Athletic Club Guise Charged. In his Jetter, Calvert cdlled the com- missioners to task for the existence of the gambling establishment, telling them it was their duty, under the con- stitution, as the governing body of the county, “to enforce the law as far as possible, to appoint constables and supervise places of amusement subjeci to business licenses.” The gambling house, Calvert declares, operates in the guise of an athletic club, and as such buys a business license. “It is a matter of public comment that if the police force were under the Jjurisdiction of the county commission- ers more effective law enforcement would result,” he declared. “It is a matter of record, however,”, he added, “that your body so far has gone noth- ing to evidence any sincere spurpose in that direction.” Threatens Election Accounting, Calvert said he was complaini in the name of all law-abiding - eitizens of the county, whom he claimed A right to expect a more definite per- formance of duty from the commis- sioners and might call upon some of them for an accounting in the ensuing elections. The attorney ’ncldentally told the commissioners two employes of the gambling establishment were held for the action of the grand jury last week for a statutory offense against a wom- an.n a roadhouse that was stlll per- mitted to operate, in spite of a serious shooting affair some months Srev\ous. which, he said, was never effectively prosecuted. He also complained against a road house on the Marlboro pike, and de- plored the lack of action in regard to charges of the existence of a “bonding racket” in the county, as called to the officials’ attention by Gov. Ritchie. After reading the letter to the sheriff and State’s attorney, Dr. Bowen char- acterized it as the most serious com- plaint received by the commissioners during his term of office, R-100 PREPARING FOR RETURN TONIGHT Designer to Propose Weekly Mail Service in New Craft to Be Twice as Large. By the Associated Press. ST. HUBERT AIRPORT, MON- TREAL, Quebec, August 13.—Officers of the R-100 were eagerly scanning weather reports today preparatory for the take-off tonight of the dirigible on the return voyage to England. It was planned to start the flight at 9 p.m. (Eastern standard time). Plans for & bi-weekly dirigible service between England .and Canada were re- { vealed today with aanouncement by Sir | Dennistoun Burney, designer of the R-100, that on arrival in England he would go befcre the government with a proposal that the (wo governments ad- i vamce 75 per cent of the construction cost of a dirigible twice the size of the R-100. Each government would contract to transport six tons of mail a week at $5,000 a ton_under the plan, Sir Dennistoun discussed the plan with Premier R. B. Bennett, Passengers for the return trip of the R-100 include a Canadian technical of- ficer and a number of British and | Canadian newspaper men. | . C | Shell Kills Six. | WARSAW. August 13 (#).—Six per- sons. including tw roolboys, killed today by explosion of a shrapi: ! shell which shepherds had picked up in the artillery firing area of Remberton military cagp near here. Several children ‘in afgroup of curious onlookers were injured Z %) 77 1930—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. N FXP Z v e~ i Militant Washington Dry Leader Succeeds Mrs. Dod- son, Huston Appointee. Chairman Fess Confirms Re- port in Dispatch From His Home. The appointment of Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, militant leader in Washington of the National Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union, as director of the woman's division of the Republican National Committee was made known here to- day. Shortly afterward Chairman Fess confirmed the appointmert in an As- sociafed Press dispatch from his home, in_Yellow Springs, Ohio. Mrs. Yost was appointed to succeed Waials £ e . i of Claudius’ who ™ her resignation to the National Commit- tee at its meeting August 7. It was at that time that Huston's resignation as national party chairman was an- nounced. Mrs. Dodson, whose resignation from the office has been interpreted as a protest against what she regards as un- fair treatment of Huston, also was not advised about the matter. She will con- tinue in the office until September 1, but hopes to be able to leave then. The resignation of Mrs. Dodson was received with regret by both man and woman members of the Republican Committee, and an effort'was made, es- pecially by the women, to prevail on MRS. YOST, W.C.T. TO DIRECT G. O. P. WOMEN'S WORK U. HEAD, NAMED MRS: ELLIS A. YOST. ‘M to retonsider. She declined, how- ever. ‘The similarity of political attitudes which characterized the association of Huston and Mrs. Dodson would prevail in the relationship of Senator Fess and Mrs. Yost, who, before becoming inter- ested in politics in West Virginia, was a studeni at_Antioch College at .the time Senator Fess was a member of the faculty there. She later became a mem- ber of the Republican Executive Com- mittee in her State and then a member of the Republican National Committee, a place she now holds. For several years sl been in umn 4.) " (Continued on Page HAWKS TAKES OFF FROMINDIANAPOLIS Hopes to Lower Lindberghs’| Pacific-Atlantic Trip Mark by Two Hours. By the Assoclated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, August 13.—Capt. Prank Hawks reached Indianapolis at 1:22 pm. (C. S, T.) on his attempt to set a new west to east transcontinental air record. He took off again for New York at 1:35 pm. (C. 8. T.). | Capt. Hawks is attempting to recap- ture the West-East transcontinental | flight record wrested from him last Eas- | ter by Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind- | bergh. | Tail Winds Favorable. | Tall winds favored the flyers and he expressed confidence that he would lower the transcontinental mark of 14 hours and 45 minutes established by | the Lindberghs. By recapturing the West-East record, | Hawks would have & monopoly on | transcontinental _flight marks. He | made a five-stop flight from New York | to Los Angeles last week, setting a | new record of 14 hours, 50 minutes | and 43 seconds. i Hawks, holder of the East-West trans- continental speed mark for airplanes, took off from Grand Central Air Ter- minal at Glendall, Calif, at 2:16:27 am. today. Takes Off at Terrific Speed. Driving down the long runway with terrific speed, Hawks' red-and-white monoplane streaked into the air and disappeared. The plane, capable of making almost 250 miles an hour, has & landing and take-off speed of 90 miles an hour, and appeared to be bettering that mark when its wheels left the ground. ‘Hawks said he hoped to complete his flight in 12 hours, or 2 hours and 45 minutes quicker than the Lindberghs. Last week Hawks made a five-stop flight from Curtiss Field, New York, to the Los Angeles Municipal Afrport in were | the head during an cxchange of shots. 14 hours, 50 minutes and 43 seconds, setting a new record under poor flying conditions. BANK ROBBERS CAUGHT Gun Fight With Officers Precedes Round Up of Two. GRAND FORKS, N. D, August 13 (#)—Two_negroes accused of robbing the Lamb National Bank of about $2,000, yesterday, were captured at Coulee, near here last night, after a gun fight with efficers. Cne of the negroes was wounded in They gave their names as George Tay- lor, Waukegan, Ill, and Herbert Wi liams, Minneapolis. Radio flonlll; on P;go B-7 PAIR RETURN HOME. DENY KIDNAPING Police May Probe Possible Swindling of Wealthy Man, Aged 70. By the Asscciated Press. ST. LOUIS, August 13.—Charles Kern, rich retired flour buyer past 70 years old, and Mrs, Kern, for whom a wide search was conducted yesterday after their strange disappearance in Ohio with a $70,000 bank cashier's check which Kern had drawn from a bank here, were back home today, but had no explanation to make. Police had heared the aged couple had fallen into the clutches of kid- napers or swindlers. Deny Swindle or Kidnaping. Mr. and Mrs. Kern returned quietly to their home here at 1:45 am. Kern said they had gone to a point in Ohio to visit relatives, but would make no further disclosures. He did deny they had been kidnaped or swindled. Kern refused to be questioned con- cerning & real estate deal which he haa told his banker was the purpose of his large withdrawal of funds and his trip to Ohio. “That's nobody's business,” he said, whon asked if he had brought the $70,- 000 cashier's check back with him. “We're back home and we're not l(l‘d- naped and that's all I've got to say." Kern made the withdrawal from the bank Monday over the protest of his banker, who then notified police, fear- ing the aged man was about to be swindled. When Kern and his wife boarded a train for Toledo, Ohio, Mon- day night, presumably to complete the proposed real estate deal, Toledo of- ficers were asked to watch for him to give him protection. Telegram Changed Destination. But Kern received two telegrams while on the train and finally left the train with his wife and some others at Deflance, Ohio, 50 miles from Toledo. The party was seen to drive rapidly away and nothing more was seen of the Kerns until they unexpectedly ap- peared at home this morning. 1t was not immediately determined whether they had returned by train or by automobile. A further inquiry by police was anticipated today. il Sedigdiiy $300,000 Blaze in Sawmill. FULTON, Ala., August 13 (9).—Dam- age estimated by company officals at $300,000 was done by a fire at the saw- mill of the Scott Lumber Co. here early today. Volunteer firemen worked in vain tc save the mills, but did prevent the fire from spreading t! gh large quantities of lumber piled by. e origin of the blage has not del FOUR-WAY PROBE INAIR BOMBING Witnesses Testify Mont- gomery Took Rough-Look- ing Man on Flight. By the Assoclated Press, MURPHYSBORO, I, August 13.— Investigators from two Federal Govern- ment departments and two States today continued to build up a case of circum- stantial evidence against Paul .Mont- gomery, Murphysboro aviator, under arrest here in connection with Mon- day's air raid on the mining district in the vicinity of Providence, Ky. The investigators announced today they had signed statements from three persons which they regarded as im- portant to their case. The statements were from Clara Firon, O e D Montgomery leave the airport at ap- proximately 2:30 a.m. (Central standard time) Monday in his low-wing mono- plane, accompanied by a strange man. Man Got Into Plane. The girls, both of Murphysboro, had “double dated” with Phifer and Mont- gomery Monday night and all accom- panied him to the airport, they sald. All three said two “‘rough-looking” men were at the airport when they arrived and one of them got into Montgomery's plane and flew away with him. The man who accompanied Mongomery, they said, carried a sack. Montgomery meanwhile denied con- nection with the bombing, although admitting he made an early morning fight Monday, but said he flew alone in the vicinity of Pickneyville, which is in the opposite direction of Provi- dence. ‘Warrant Charges Felony. A warrant charging Montgomery with a felony was issued at Dixon, Ky, byt it had not been determined today when the aviator would be taken there. Herman Goldman, a_special agent of the Department of Justice; F. Al- berry, an inspector for the Department of Commerce; Sheriff Willlam Flani- gan of Jackson County, Il., and Sheriff R. L. Overby of Webster County, Ky., were among the officials who had questioned Montgomery, the two girls and Phifer. OFFICIALS MARK TIME. Await Return of Deputies With Sus- pect in Bombing. PROVIDENCE, Ky., August 1 (#).— Webster County officials today were awaiting the return from Murphys- boro, Ill, of deputy sheriffs who went there for Paul Montgomery, aviator ar- rested as a suspect in the bombing from the air of mine properties near here Monday. A State warrant was issued here for Montgomery, charging him with “band: ing and confederating together with an unknown man for the purpose of harm- ing another. At Dixon, Ky., Sheriff R. L. Overby, learning that Montgomery planned to fight extradition, said that he had asked Gov. Flem D. Sampson for a requisition on_the Governor of Illinois. Percy D. Berry, attorney for the Hall Luton Coal Co. here, last night tele- phoned the three Providence men who went to Mu.physboro to identify the plane and told them they had dore “a splentlid piece of work and all Webster County is proud of you.” The narrow escape of a miner and his family from injury or death was revealed yesterday when an unexploded bomb was found on the roof of his house. The family was in the home at the time of the bombing. CLOUDBURST IN NEVADA (®) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. GENERAL SHORTAGE OF FOOD AS RESULT OF DROUGHT DENIED Government to Fight Attempts to Profiteer on General Damage Claims. PLENTY OF SUPPLIES FOR CANNING AVAILABLE President Confers With Hyde and La Guardia on Means of Keep- ing Prices Nom_:l. ‘There is no general shortage of food- stuffs in prospect, there is no occasion to boost the prices of canned food- stuffs and there is no reason why the housewife should overstock her larder with canned goods for fear of a rising market this Winter. profiteering in foodstuffs due to .g emergency. Just what action the Federal Gov- ‘| ernment could take against profitee: of this kind has not been determin This would be left to the Department of Justice if conditions warrant. The department can act where there is an attempt to fix prices through an agree- ment of two or more food dealers and can act where there is evidence of an attempt to form monopoly of any food- stuff. Whatever action of this kind taken by the Government would be under regulations of the Sherman anti- trust law, the Clayton act or the inter- state commerce act. Acting on_ reports that storekeepers throughout the Capital and the drought affected States are edvising housewives to lay in large supplies of canned gouds to hold against a rise in the market later on this year, both the Secretary of Agriculture and the chain store ex- ecutives said they saw no cause for alarm over the footstuff situation as a result of the drought. No General Shortage. Mr. Hyde said there was some little shortage of green vegetables in certain localities, but no general shortage, in- asmuch as some sections of the coun= try, not affected by the drought, will be able to supply the drought-ridden States with all the foodstuffs they need at prices not out of line with thcse now being received. Secretary Hyde today saw actual dan- ger in a great rush of buying of canned good encourrging attempts of individ- uals to creat “corners” in canned goods, and so raise the prices on the basis of supply and demand. general - opinion of the chlh-_; store heads here was that while soms States, particularly those in the sectfon about the Capital, will not produce their share of canning vegetables and fruit this year, the drought in this and other sections has encouraged the farmers of other sections, not hit by the lack of rain, to plant larger quantities of can- ning vegetables and fruits to compen- sate for the non-producing areas. Te a short crop in a ceriain lo- cality limits the pack of vegetables and fruit, notably in the case of cheap can- ned corn in this section, the consumer will have to pay a slightly higher price refl the added freight cl necessary to get the product into this section, the chain store men say. But, they point out, the public does not have to eat corn—there are other v?eubl. in the same class, the pack of which has been normal this year and the price of which will not be advanced. Sees No Danger. "Edward G. ¥onker, president of the Sanitary Grocery Co., Inc., today stated emphatically that he saw no reason for alarm on the consumers’ part over the foodstuff supply situation. With the carry-over of last year's heavy pack of canned goods, the vege- tables that were packed in the drought section before the drought came, and with the immense acreage to be given over to canning vegetables and fruit when the next planting is done, the situation’ offers no alarming aspect, Mr. Yonker believes. As a result he and the heads of the four other large chain store or- ganizations in the city have instructed their employes not to advise house- holders to buy up supplies of canned goods, not to give their customers any market outlook whatever. Mr. Yonker has written the man- agers of all his stores the following: “Our_instructions are that you shall | not endeavor to secure business on the | basis that there is likely to be a short- | age of merchandise on account of | weather conditions. We are perfectly | willing to sell a customer anything and | everything he wants to buy, but if you | are asked as to the possibility of a sHorte age, tell them that neither you nor my- | self are able to predict what is going | (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) | = 'AUTO CRASH INTO POLE | KILLS ONE, INJURES TWO Mother and Aunt of Helen Morgan, ‘ Actress, Are in Hospital After Accident in New York. By the Associated Press. CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N. Y., Au- gust 13—One man was killed and two women identified by hospital authorities as the mother and aunt of Helen Morgan, actress, ‘were injured when thelr motor car crashed into a tele- | | phone _pole at the bottom of & hill Three Homes and Hotel Washed Brore Powe 47, the botiom Lewis Wilk, 48, of New York, driver Away at Round Mountain. S Ik AL ol M RENO, Nev, August 13 (#).—Three | windshield and died with a fractured homes and a hotel were reported |skull. Mrs. Lulu Morgan and Mrs. washed away at Round Mountain, | Elizabeth Dillon of Chicago were treated Southern Nevada mining camp, by a ! for cuts and bruises at an Ossining cloudburst which deluged that section | hospital. Frederick Long of Chicago, last night. a fourth passenger, escaped injury. BANDIT’S SHOT SETS HIM ABLAZE AS WOMAN THROWS “GAS” ON HIM Feminine Filling Station Operator Turns Youth Into Flaming Target. By the Associated Press. | Mrs. Army Haggard, fluhg.mnon op- JOPLIN, Mo, August 13.—His own |erator, had sprayed upon his clothes. act meted swift retribution to a young | Enueloped s‘c';“}mn‘ T iihe bandit who fired & revolver at a Woman | motor car, his woman adversary pours here last night. ing revolver shots at her lumfioul As his gun cracked the robber was | arget. J shrouded in flames. The flash He was driven away in the automobjile - = ignited gasoline the intended victim, |by a compapion. ) . e