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WEATHER, (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) with occasional light showers oon or early tonight; ‘tomor- fair: not much change in Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 he No. 31,517. post office, MORE RAIN NEEDED 10 EASE DISTRESS IN DROUGHT STATES Showers of Week Declared Inadequate to Relieve Farm Suffering. Wa. EASTERN RAILWAYS FILE | Entered as second class matter shington. D. C. mately $40,000,000 BY WILLIAM HARD, | One of the most instapt possibilities of drought relief, growing out of the President’s conference yesterday, was developed today in the strong chance | that on the first of next month the Fed- eral Government, through Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, and | LOWERED SCHEDULES PThomas H. MacDonald, chief of the Bu-g4 Freight Rates Cut 50 Per Cent on | Feed and Live Stock in Desig- nated Parts of Country. By the Associated Press. Purther co-operation by the weather with drought relief plans is needed. Showers have fallen during the week In many of the affected States, but the ‘Weather Bureau said today Arkansas, Maryland, Virginia, Mississippi and portions of Louisiana, Missouri and Montana still were badly in need of more moisture. Administration officials today said any State in need of relief could take advantage of the set-up agreed upon at the Governors' Conference. The an- nouncement was made after Gov. Ritchie of Maryland had complained that his State was ignored. Eastern railroads today filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission the expected schedules, which reduced by 50 per cent freight rates on live stock moving out of designated drought areas and hay, grain and feed moving into the same territory. Southern and West- ern roads are expected to take similar action soon. Before departing Governors who at- tended the meeting here discussed again with Secretary Hyde the feasibil- ity of providing employment. Urge Road Money Allocation. Govs. Leslie of Indiana, Caulfield of Missouri and Cooper of Ohio talked with the Agriculture Secretary. They urged the date for allocation of Federal road aid money to States be advanced. Ordinarily the allocations would not be | made until late in December. Leslie said his State had no unap- proj ted funds to build roads, but ad the State - Finance Committee | was empowered to borrow money. He suggested that if a loan of $1,000,- 000 could be obtained from the Federal Reserve Board at 2 per cent, prelimi- nary work of grading and other main- tenance work could be started. Gov. Caulfield said his State had | funds with which to start highway con- | struction work. After the cnnfmnce 1t 'ln‘: sald slgc- | retary Hyde, wi reserving decision, | thought the plan was practical. ! Erickson Approves Program. “I think it is a very good program,” Gov. Erickson said on leaving the White House. ‘The Montana Governor said while he would have liked a “more specific” reau of Public Roads, will allot to the | principal drought-stricken States a sum | of money amounting to approximately 35 or 40 million dollars in anticipation | of the costs of Federally aided highway | construction in those States during the ! |Government May Distribute Approxi- by First of Next Month. WASHINGTON, EARLY RELEASE OF ROAD FUND SEEN IN DROUGHT RELIEF PLAN to Stricken States Federal fiscal year, beginning July 1, 1931. This anticipation and acceleration of | Federal assistance would not bring the money immediately to the States, but would enable them to finance an im- mense amount of emergency road build- ing and to furnish a corresponding amount of employment to sufferers from the drought and also to sufferers from the general business depression in full assurance of reimbursement of the Federal part of the expense from the Federal Treasury. Federal Road Chief MacDonald states that additionally in ready cash the principal drought-stricken States have standing to their credit in the accounts (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) FAILURE TO INVITE MARYLAND SCORED Ritchie Thinks State Should Have Been Represented at Drought Parley. By the Associated Press. i BALTIMORE, Md, August 15— Maryland, in the opinion of Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, should have been repre- sented at President Hoover's drought relief conference. “It is a known fact that Maryland is included among the States most seri- ously affected by the continued dry weather,” he told a farmers’ picnic last night at Willlamsport, “and I cannot understand why the President should ignore our State and its farmers.” A light rainfall, which started yes- terday, continued today over much of the State, but was so small in volume farmers said little relief was given crops. SLIGHT NOT INTENDED. Maryland Not Classed by President as Seriously Affected. No_comment was forthcoming from the White House today when it re- ceived information of Gov. Ritchie’s speech of resentment. It was said, how- ever, that President Hoover, while not e intendedno" gm0 the M no - lan;' executive by not-including h(n.lr{n the invitations to the 12 Governors in- invited to attend his drought confer- It is understood that the President did not class Maryland as one of the issued his_call for the Governors’ con- ference. It is set forth in the Presi- dent’s official statement announcing his intention to call such a confercace that credit relief plan he. was satisfled the general program would prove satistac- tory. Irisl.ie and Goys. Weaver of Nebraska and Hammill of Iowa said they were (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) DEATH PLOT IS SEEN AS HOME IS BLASTED Fine Residence of Brother of Two Shain in Corn Sugar War Is Demolished. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, August 15.—The pre- tentious home of Raymond Porello, who has seen two of his brothers meet death in the strife over control of Cleveland's corn sugar trade, was demolished by & terrific explosion early today. Porello, however, escaped the death which police believe was marked for all | seven of the Porello brothers. He and his family were at the home of his mother. The explosion was caused by gas, Sec- | ond Assistant Fire Chief James Nimmo said. He expressed the opinion some he was inviting the Governors of the 12 States which up’ to that time had been hit hardest by lack of rain. It has been pointed out that the fact that the President did not include Gov. Ritchie in his conference does not indicate that the latter is not ex- pected to set up a relief and rehabilita- tion organization in his State to work in conjunction with the general pro- gram of relief as agreed upon as a result of yesterday's conference. MENINGITIS |.S BLAMED ON PHILADELPHIA POOLS Bath Houses Will Be Analyzed as Three Boys Die and Three Others Are Stricken. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, August 15—With three boys dead from :fflnll ‘meningitis and three others ill with the disease, water from municipal swimming pools ! was to be analyzed today, and the De- tment of Health was speeding its ef- orts to examine all Eubnc bath houses. The dead boys, who are believed by some authorities to have contracted the disease while at city-owned pools, were Thomas_Staples, 8; Willlam Hofelder, 10, and Edward Jaroszeuski, 13. Dr. John A. Kolmar, professor of | pathology and bacteriology at the Uni- | versity of Pennsylvania, said he doubted one might have opened the gas mains | and left a candle burning in the attic. | Porello, the youngest of the brothers, told police he was certain the explo- sion was a plot to kill him, but de- clined to name his enemies. Only last week, he said, an attempt was made to kill one of the two other surviving Porello_brothers. The Porello home was shattered into HELD IN TORCH SLAYING Man Charged With Burning Com- panion on Drinking Party. ‘HOT SPRINGS, Ark., August 15 (®). —John Outler, 24, was burned to death last night and Dave Golden, a com- panion, was in jail here today, accused by officers of throwing gasoline upon Outler and setting him afire during a drinking party in an automobile near Cedar Glades, 25 miles north of Hot Springs. Officers who arrested Golden said witnesses told them both men were drunk and that Golden threw the gasoline upon his friend and ignited it before ald could reach Outler. Coroner J. P. Randolph said an in- quest will be held late today. the boys contracted the disease from the water, and Dr. Charles J. Haines, chief of division of communicable dis- eases of the Department of Health, said ithere was the possibility the disease {came from contact with a “carrier | outside of the pool while the boys were | waiting their turn for & swim. 'HANDCUFFED POLICEMAN FOUND SLAIN ON BEACH Body of Officer With Wound Above Eye Is Discovered Face Down in Sand. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Me., August 15.—Hand- cuffed with his qwn “bracelets,” Patrol- | man Michael T, Connolly, 49, was slain ‘carly today and his body thrown face | down in the sand on the beach below the Eastcrn promenade. There was a hole above the right eye, | but whether it had been made by a bul- |let or a blow from a sharp instrument could not be détermined pending an examination by physicians. Connolly’s uniform coat was buttoned, and his revolver and club were in the usual pockets. i"LANE WITH FI:l—EXIBLE WIi\IGS TO AID SAFE FLYING DEMONSTRATED| Inventor Says Device Makes Quick Stop After Lending, Possible. By the Assoclated Press. uselage and o) demonstrated here yesterday by the in. ventor, Waldo Waterman, who claimed special safety features for his device. The wings, he said, flexed automati- cally in response to aif currents, made | e tited in flight to increase ecls are attached dikectly to quick stop] altéer landing and could the plane’s The Wl L | the lower wings and’a skid drop from LOS ANGELES, August 15.—An air- | s Jae with flexible witws hinged fo the | Lo fiont of the fuselags rated by air drums was | D pestor * |an hour. in_Chicago. Glenn H. Curtiss. this | Stressed the beauty of the as the the Belle Ixle seriously affected sections when he | Waterman flew his ship at a specd of 140 miles He sald his device would be demonstrated at the National Air Races Waterman who has been flying since 1914, was once assoclated with the late Radio Programs on Page B-12 RI00S RETURN TR REPORTED SMIOOTH Damaged Engine Not Missed as Giant Craft Sails Over Atlantic. By the Associated Press. CARDINGTON, England, August 15.— | The R-100, Britain’s giant dirigible, | cruised steadily eastward today across the North Atlantic on its trip back home from Montreal. Seeking the Great Circle route, and with hardly any deviation from it, the ship sped toward its hangar here at a speed of about 62 miles per hour. If this speed is maintained the dirig- ible might be expected to reach Car-| | dington in about 53!, hours after de- | parture from Montreal, or at about 2 |am., Eastern standard time, on Sat- urday. Such a crossing over a distance of 3,287 miles would compare with the Graf Zeppelin’s record of 4,200 miles from Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen in 55 | hours 24 minutes, an average speed | about 75 miles per hour. " Newspaper Man Describes Beauty. Radio messages from the dirigible, both to stations in Canada and to the air ministry at London, said that all was well aboard. A newspaper man Gulf of St, Lawrence and Straits were passed. Sn!{e wmez:m that the veled smoothly that as they gmer theey :Vexrz:: hardly o~ e jovement. printed menu and the excellent cuisine, the .&2!| phere, he said, was much more like that ?kr‘nglcc‘ndmfi‘ggcmmor Fifth avenue han of a T-than- out.A ove{flthe Atlantic, B ias radio message from the 8. 8. Empress of Australia said flnt!th!t ~100 passed above that ship at 1:30 pm. Eastern Standard time, yes- terday when the ship was 100 miles east of Belle Isle. The dirigible re- mained in sight for two hours, Visibllity Declared Perfect. tra ) 6 heni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION FRIDAY, TSINAN RETAKEN BY NATIONALISTS WITH HUGE STORES Northern Army Reported Flee- ing Important City Occu- pied Few Weeks Ago. U. S. ASKS CHINESE TO PROTECT BISHOP Foreign Representative at Nanking Active in Behalf of Those in Zone. | BY the Associated Press. HANKOW, August 15.—An official Natlonalist government communique to- day sald that Nanking troops this morn- ing recaptured Tsinan, important North China city. The northern army was reported fleeing northward and leaving behind large quantities of ammunition and supplies. Northern rebel forces occupled the Shantung capltal several weeks ago, forcing the Nationalists to the southern part of the province. Since then the government has been making”strenuous efforts to recapture the city. Nationalist military officials here also claimed they were holding Kweiteh, im- portant city in Eastern Honan. Yester- day’s advices indicated the northern rebels had withstood Nationalist attacks on the Eastern Honan front. BISHOP'S PROTECTION ASKED. United States Makes Request to China in Behalf of O'Shea. Further protection for Bishop J. A. ©O'Shea and any other Americans who may have remained in the city of Kan- chow has been asked of the Chinese government by the United States. Bishop O'Shea of Connecticut is with the St. Vincent's Seminary at German- town, Philadelphia, Pa., and head of the Catholic Mission at Kanchow. He elected to remain after his colleagues at the mission had left for a point of safety. § ‘The American legation at Pieping ad- vised the State Department today it has requested Dr. C. T. Wang, Chinese minister for foreign affairs, to permit American citizens who have r at Kanchow to accompany Nationalist troops from the city if they have not yet withdrawn, MOVE TO GUARD FOREIGNERS, Foreign Representatives at Nanking | Said to Have Instructions. | PIEPING, China, August 15 (lP).—l elgn diplomatic representatives at Nanking were understood today to have been instructed to make representations to the Nationalist government in behalf of foreigners living at Tsinan, important North China city. ‘The diplomats, it was said here, had reminded the Nanking foreign office of the considerable foreign colony at Tsinan and to have asked consideration for them. The action was in conse- quence of the bombing raid by Nanking | aviators yesterday, in which a score of Chinese civiliars were Kkilled. ‘The Northern headquarters today The ship’s master radioed: “Visibilit; was perfect. There was a cluul&nl‘kl; l’l’("i:lt br\lllunnl; su”nzhlne, There was a westerly wind. No message received from the airship.” Bis The air ministry, reporting position as G. ™., 7 p.m. Eastern Stand- ard time, said the dirigible Was cruising on three engines in longitude 44:10 west, latitude 52:30 north, a position which was 1,385 miles east and north of Montreal, and represented an average speed of 61.3 miles per hour. At midnight there was a westerly wind of about 12 miles per hour helping the craft along; it was flying at a height of about 1,700 feet, with the overeart and fhe skies vaply choaii an ies T | with cirrostratus, pEY o Damaged Engine Not Missed. ‘The ship, using only three of its six engines, apparently did not miss its one g::;nged engine, which could not be The R-100 left St. Hubert Alrport, { Montreal, at 8:28 p.m., Eastern Stand- ard time, Wednesday. It had remained in Canada 13 days afier a crossing of |78 hours and 51 minutes from | Cardington. \U. S. OFFERS EVIDENCE | IN 5 AGENTS’ TRIAL %Seattle Former Dry Director and Others Charged With Con- spiracy and Bribery. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash,, August 15—The Government began presenting evidence today in the trial of Roy C. Lyle, former prohibition director, and four other Fed- eral officers, charged with conspiracy to violate the national prohibition laws and bribery. Lyle, Earl Corwin, former chief fleld prohibition agent; Willlam M. Whitney. Eyle's former chief assistant: K. L. Bryant, former fleld agent, and Clifford T. McKinney, former United States at- torney, were specifically charged with dealing with Puget Sound and Gray Harbor liquor smuggling gangs, leaders of which they sent to prison. FOOD CARGO AWAITED | BYEAGER ALASKANS Antiquated Ship Making Way From Seattle to Point Barrow, ‘With Shortage Acute. By the Associated Prese. POINT BARROW, Alaska, August 15. —With heavy ice grinding menacingly on the beach, Point Barrow was hope- fully awaiting today the arrival of Ez antiquated windjammer, Holmes, frora Seattle with fresh supplies. claimed an important advance along the Lunghal iway during which Kueiteh fell before them, and the Nan- king front in Shantung retired as far south as Talanfu. —_— AERIAL BOMBING HEARING DELAYED Question of County or Federal Jurisdiction Raised in Kentucky Case. By the Associated Press. DIXON, Ky., August 15.—The exam- ining trials of Paul Montgomery, Essell Grant and Ewing Riley, charged with having dropped nine bombs on the coal flelds here last Monday, were postponed if County Court today. Montgomery, who confessed that he piloted the plane, still is held at Murphysboro, Ill., and Grant and Riley, two striking miners, are at liberty in $5,000 bond each. In Iliinois it has not been decided whether Montgomery and James Malone, another aviator, who is sald to have introduced Grant and Riley to Montgomery, are to be prosecuted in the BState or Federal AUGUST g Star. 15, - AR FUNDS SAVING | Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce 1930 —TWENTY- EIGHT PAGES. PRESIDENT SEEKS Waste Due to Lack of System | in Government Branches Subject of Parley. Preparatory to adopting a definite | policy of effecting economies in the vam~ ous aviation -activities of the Federal Government by eliminating the duplica- tion of effort on the part of the several departments engaged in the promotion of aviation and by bringing about a bet- ter co-operation, President Hoover will hold a conference on the subject at his Rapidan camp over the week end. ‘To discuss this subject with them, the President will have as his guests at the | camp Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, F.| Trubee Davison, Assistant Secrctary of ‘War In Charge of Aviation; Clarence M. in Charge of Aviation; David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Charge of Aviation; W. Irving Giover, | Assistant Postmaster General in Chaxge | of Airmails; Capt. Russel Train, chief naval aide to the President, and Col. Campbell Hodges, chief military aide to the President. Waste of Funds Seen. It has been revealed that President | Hoover has come to the conclusion that there is an unnecessarily large amount | of public money wasted because of the lack of co-operation and the duplica- tion of aviation work by the several Government departments. He is anxious to improve this and is hopeful that suggestions to be made by these experts who will be with him at his Rapidan camp will be helpful in the formulation of definite policy to improve condi- ons. In this connection President Hoover already has made his first move by delegating the Bureau of Efficiency to sturdy the economic feature of the long-standing row between the Army and Navy regarding the jurisdiction of the Nation's coast defenses in the air. Others to Be Guests. ‘The other guests of the President and | Mr, Hoover over the week end include Mrs, Lindbergh, Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times; Will Durant, author; Everett Sanders, who was sec- retary to former President Coolidge, and Mrs. Sanders; French Stother, one of the President's secretaries, and Mrs. Stother; Mrs. Dare 8. McMullin of Palo Alto, Calif.; Lawrence Richey, one of the President’s secretaries, and Capt. Joel T. Boone, White Hous\]phys;cmn. ‘The President and “his guests will leave for the camp st about 5 o'clock this afternoon and it is understood he intends to remain until early Monday ISR BISHOP MRZENA GETS | TERM IN WINE CASE Head of Czechoslovak Church in courts. ‘This left indefinite for the g:uent the time for further court action Te. James Harvey, 33, a miner, was ar- rested here today in connection with the bombing and it was announced that Noble Harris, also of Providence, also would be arrested. 5 County Judge A. L. Hall announced last night that he had received word from Cass Walker, county attorney of ‘Webster County, ordering the arrests of the two men. Authorities at Providence are busy. investigating a fire which destroyed the tipple of the No. 3 thine of the Provi- dence Coal Co., with loss estimated at $50,000 Deputy Sheriff Wayne Crow expressed the opinion the fire was started in reprisal for the arrests of Essell Grant and Ewing Riley, Providence miners, in connection with the bombing. GIRL DROWNS IN BARREL Child Topples Into Water Hauled Miles tosHome. HUNTINGTON, W. Va, August 15 (#).~Little Mabel Romine drowned last night in a barrel of wvater members of the family had hauled miles to their home, where the drought has dried up all the wells and streams. The barrel was placed near a porch. The child, 1 year old, crept too close to the edge and toppled into the barrel. ! The shortage of staples has been jacute among the natives for months and the reserves of the whites are also running low. The safe landing of the cargo aboard the Holmes is the only hope for relief from food shortage this year by water. If she fails in her attempts to land this year, supplies probably will have to be brought overland. ‘Women Leap to Safety. MOUNT OLIVE, N. C., August 15 (#). —Their auto stalled on the track, Miss U. 8. Convicted of Plot to Divert Beverage. By the Associated Press. i NEW YORK, August 15.—A sentence of a year and a day in the Atlanta| Federal prison was imposed in Federal Court today upon Bishop Charles Mrzena, head of the Czechoslovak Orth- odox old Catholic Church in America, who was convicted yesterday of con- spiracy to divert sacramental wine o bootleg channels. Father John Petrykanyn, stor of the Lithuanian Orthodox Church of Youngstown, Ohio, was given a sus- pended sentence of a year, on recom- mendation of Federal attorneys, and was told he need not even report to probation officers. He pleaded guilty before the bishop's trial to charges of conspiracy to violate the prohibition aws. Victor Dumbra, wine broker, was sen- tenced to four months‘ servitude, and another wine broker and four truckmen, all found guilty with the bishop, were given brief or suspended sentences. $150,000 Fire in Arkansas Town. ARKADELPHIA, Ark., August 15 (#). —Fire of undetermined origin early to- day destroyed the plant of the Arkadel- phia-Siftings Herald, daily newspaper; the Citizens’ National Bank, a grocery store and newsstand, with a loss esti- mated by firemen at $150,000. Plan to Join Against Kurds. ANGORA, Turkey, August 15 (P).— Annie Sutton and Mrs. Joe Smith, the latter with her 20-month old baby in her arms, leaped to safety here to- day a few moments before a train de- molished the . Both are from Wilson, N. C. . Negotiations designed to bring about co-operation between Turkey and Per- sia in repressing rebellious Kurdish tribesmen on the Persian-Purkish fron- %:5 are proceeding at an eran, . itz d | William H. and fixed Kissing in Public Jails Couple, but Term Is Suspended By the Associated Press. FLORENCE, Italy, August 15.— Kissing and petting—under some circumstances—have become ex- pensive in the city made famous by the romance of Dante and Beatrice. A city judge with an austerity reminiscent of Savanarola sen- tenced Bruno Irmini to three months and 10 days in jail for kissing his fiancee, Letizia Ma- meni, in a public park, and the latter three months for accepting his caresses. Both sentences were suspended later. The penalty in Rome for ; similar offense is & mere dollar ne. ARRESTS DESTROY ALLEGED RUM RING $10,000-a-Week Alcohol Trade Charged in Holding of Two Men. Prohibition authorities today declared that an alcohol racket that grossed a turnover of about $10,000 a week in Washington and furnished numerous bootleggers with ingredients for bath- tub gin had been broken up by the arrest of two men. James Clark and Jack Pirone were arrested by deputy United States mar- shals, who acted on information fur- nished by Warren A. Heddens, assistant director of prohibition enforcement for the Washington division, under the Department of Justice. Woman and Four Held. Five persons, including a woman, were arrested yesterday by the agents in the same case and arraigned before Needham C. Turnage, United States commissioner. Milton J. Lerner was described as the leader of the ring. The arrests yesterday and today were said by the Federal agents to be the gathering up of “loose ends” left over from a similar operation last June when 22 persons, including some of those arrested yesterday, were indicted. Agents said that Lerner, Frank Smith and his wife and Belle Calhoun were doing a business in alcohol which gave them a turnover of about $10,000 a week. The alcohol was being brought in from Marylano, either from stills or industrial plants, the agents said, and was being sold around the city to boot- leggers by the three ring-leaders. Source Not Given. ‘The source of the alcohol in Mary- land was not made known by the agents, but it was intimated that de- velopment of the case might result in proceedings against certain Maryland residents. It was indicated that evi- dence had been developed that alcohol had been removed illegally from indus- trial plants in Maryland and sent in the District for distribution and sale, A hearing on the charges preferred against the seven men and women already under arrest and efght others whom the agents announced they would apprehend in a few days will be held August 21. ESTATE OF SAMUEL ROSS EXCEEDS $4,000,000 Daughter Sole Heir to Property Left by Prominent Business Man ‘Who Died Recently. Samuel Ross, chairman of the board of Barber & Ross and local turfman, who died from a heart attack while bathing at Atlantic City August 2, left an estate valued in excess of $4,000,000, according to the petition of his daugh- ter, Mrs. Rebecea Ross Lipscomb, for the granting of letters of administration on his estate. Mrs. Lipscomb, who is the sole heir of her father, tells the court she has not been able to locate the will ‘and requests that letters of administration be issued to Attorney Bates Warren and her husband, Wfl~| liam H. Lipscomb. Mrs. Lipscomb in her petition tells the court that her father owned real estate in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia estimated at $1,250,000. His personal property she values at $2,799,382.74. This includes stocks valued at $2,350,000; bonds, $15,000; notes, $130,000; accounts re- ceivable, $33,000; race horses, $200,000, and cash, $71,382.74. At the request of Attorney Willlam Sholes for daughter, Justice Wil- llam Hif ited Bates Warren and pscomb as administrators thelr bond at $75,000. L) ¥ Associated service. NEWS CAMERAMAN QUTWITS ATTACKER ‘Wrong Plate Destroyed as | Man Tries to Prevent ‘Shots’ | at Gambling House. A notorious gambling house just across the District line, in Prince Georges County, Md., doesn’t like the spotlight of publicity, even though it be free. A | newspaper photographer learned this to his surprise today when he went to the place to make some photographs. ‘The photographer, accompanied by Charles B. Calvert, Mount Rainier at- torney, who recently flled a complaint against the gambling house, had made several “shots” of the palatial - ing old home and had f his view of the entrance to it delib- the man ran up to her, grabbed a plate from his hands, broke it and threw it at him. The broken | plate struck the cameraman on the leg |and dropped on the road. But the photographer got a “break.” The man had destroyed the wrong He had broken one which had P | returned with not only the pictures of the house, but a photograph of the man who broke the plate standing be- side the machine he was driving. ‘The gambling house received some other unwanted publicity the other day when Calvert made his complaint against the establishment to the coun- ty commissioners and they then called State’s Attorney J. Prank Parran, who promised” the board that he would file Calvert’s charges with the October grand jury. Calvert charged that during the past 10 years operation of the gambling house has been possible “through the general corruption of police officers and others charged with law enforcement.” Parran told the Commissioners that repeated efforts to prosecute the alleged proprietor of the gambling house had failed either because witnesses could not be compelled to appear or because enough evidence could not be obtained ;o secure an indictment from the grand jury. HOPE ABANDONED FOR 46 IN MINE in British Columbia Shaft Hampers Workers in Rescue Effort. Gas By the Assoclated Press. PRINCETON, British Columbia, Au- gust 15.—Although hope virtually was | abandoned today for the 46 men im- prisoned by an explosion in the Blake- burn mine, at Coalmont, since 7 o'clock Wednesday night, rescue parties worked strenuously today to reach the en- tombed miners, While the main fan broken by the blast had been repaired and put to work, air in the tunnels was so laden with poisonous gases that the rescuers were able to work only in short shifts. ‘The bodies of two hoist men, Albert Cole, 19, and Clifford Smith, 40, were brought out shortly after the explosion. Their deaths were pronounced due to “after damp,” a deadly mine gas. One man was rescued alive. ‘The entoml ‘men were believed to be nearly 1,800 feet down a 21-degree slope, which starts about 3,500 feet from the mine portal. ‘orkmen had pene- tr-t:: 2,900 feet from the entrance last ! . A. McKengie, provincial minister of mines, mobilized all available rescue resources and was en route from Vic- toria to Coalmont. () Means Associated Press. The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 106,619 TWO CENTS. CAMPBELL INDIGTED AFTER GRAND JURY HEARS MORE THAN DOZEN WITNESSES Charge of Killing Mary Baker, Is Made in District Body’s Report in Effort to Speed Removal Here. COLLINS PLANS ACTION AT HEARING WEDNESDAY Will Move for Transfer of Defend- ant to Washington at Quiz Be- . fore Commissioner—Fight Just Begun, Declares Accused Man's Attorney. Herbert M. Campbell, Virginia Highlands real estate man, was indicted by a District of Columbia grand jury today on a charge of slaying Mary Baker. The indictment was presented to Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat of the District Supreme Court shortly before noon. The grand | jury had spent two days in ex- amining more than a dozen wit- nesses. ‘William H. Collins, assistant United States attorney in charge of the case, announced the next move would be to seek the removal of Campbell from the Alexandria City Jail to Washingtori for trial at a hearing Wednesday before United States Commissioner J. Barton Phillips, in the Corporation Court room in Alegandria. Campbell has been held in the Alexandria City Jail more than 10 days and prior to that was incar- cerated several weeks in the Arlington County Jail. ‘The indictment was obtained in an effort to accelerate removal of the de- fendant to Washington. A strenuous legal battle to prevent extradition of Campbell has been conducted his attorney, Charles Henry Smil of Alexandria. i Attorney Plans for Fight. “The fight has only begun,” Smith declared when informed of the grand jury action. He added he would seek to prove at the fortheoming hearing | that his client could not possibly have slain Miss Baker in the District as charged in the Federal warrant under which Campbell was arrested alter a State warrant cha him with the murder was nolle prossed some 10 days 0 when he gave his first indication planning to oppose extradition. As now constituted, the. Government's case consists to a great extent of state- ments by ballistics experts that -the bullets which killed Miss Baker were fired from a revolver voluntarily turned over to police by Campbell. Such re- ports were agreed on by Col. Calvin Goddard of Northwestern University, Chicago; Dr. Wilmer Souder of the Bureau of Standards and Lieut: John Fowler, firearms authority of the Wash- ington police force. Smith said several days ago that he would be prepared in the event of a trial to produce his own ballistics ex- perts as witnesses. He asserted these men would uphold his contention that the Campbell gun did not figure in the murder. John Flaherty, a headquarters detec- tive, who was the principal witness to- day, told newspaper men he expected to be questioned concerning investi- gations he had made which established the hour of Miss Baker's murder as around 6 o'clock the night of April 11. He pointed to statements of passers-by that they had seen the girl struggling with %n unidentified man who they thought resembled Campbell in an automobile at Seventeenth and B streets shortly before 6 o'clock. He also called (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) of 'NYE CALLS MEETING OF BALLOT PROBERS Receipt of Numerous Complaints of High Expenditures in Colorado Race Announced. By the Assoclaled Press. FARGO, N. Dak., August 15.—Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota has called a meeting of the Senate Elections Investigating Committee for August 23_ “at some place central to committee members,” he said today. Immediately after this meeting, called to lay plans for investigation of various elections, the committee will make an effort to complete the Nebraska and Illinois inquiry at once. The Nebraska primary probably will be taken up first, he said. There is a possibility both in- vestigations will be carried on at Chi- cago. Senator Nye said numerous com- plaints of exorbitant expenditures in the Cclorado campaign had been re- ceived from both sides, but no an- nouncements of the committee’s inten- tions would be made until investigators now in that State make their reports, Fifty or More Apartments 1ty "eaturane ot the GeRY mewshapers clety columns Tnewspaj to ‘when their pro kumm are away is believed responsible for the series of a) ent and hous¢ rob- beries perpetrated here during the Sum~ mer vacation season. Police sald this morning that nearly half of the 50 or more apartment rob- berles have occurred while the owners were away on vacations, time the occupants of a certaln apart- ment are expected to . < It is belioved that the robber band SOCIETY NEWS BELIEVED GUIDE FOR ROBBER BAND IN CITY Looted While Owners Are Away on Vacation, Records Disclose. gl'n"mth“;r" fl;;:;‘hmd ln{ormllflon and n their robberies lccord.mg 4 There have ieen at least & apartment robberies in the fashionable upper Connecticut avenue section, near ‘Wardman Park Hotel, within the past two months, police records at the bu- reau reveal. And in nearly every in- stance the departure and date of return of the occupants has been announced in the society columns of the dally papers. Most of the robberies have been per- petrated by “ji y” thieves, who - i Sori the Sely hotie”et the en ler occu

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