Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1930, Page 2

A2 e REPORT CRITGZES 15 DRY ACENTS Prohibition Officials Disagree With Survey Made by Board of Trade. Pederal prohibition agents have pre- fpared less than 1 per cent of the liquor law cases tried in the District courts, iofficials of the Prohibition Bureau ‘pointed out today in reply to the report ‘of’a subcommittee of the Washington Board of Trade to the National Crime Commission, in which the Washington %olice force was given a clean bill ‘of on “lawless practices in law forcement” and the Federal agents eriticized. Pointing out that the Federal agents concentrated upon vfil‘:&{ and arrests under the liquor law are made by Wasl policemen em- gend to act as prohibition agents, it wcases and that the vast ‘working under the authority of the icials of the Police Department, the hibition Bureau disclaimed all blame Hor “lawlessness in law enforcement.” ’ Dry Officials Disagree. : The Prohibition Bureau officidls also Rook the view that conditions as pic- fured in the Board of Trade report do ot reveal the situation today, some of conclusions drawn in the report deing the result of conditions existing B long as four years ago. ¢ Prohibition officials admitted that %here nave been cases prepared by the %ureau in which the testimony of in- Formers or “stool pigeons” has been Anadequate, but added that the practice of using informers has been largely dispensed with. i Some informers are still used, the Bureau says, because, “if nobody tells “us about the activity of a liquor ring or “a narcotic ring, or an alcohol ring, such ‘as the Federal men broke up last week, how in the world are we going to find ‘out about it?” Concentrate on Maryland. ‘The bureau said most of the work of District prohibition agents is_concen- trated on the liquor traffic in Southern Maryland, which, it is claimed, is the center of a large liqror-making indus- try and the source of supply of the District. The bureau officials had no_criticism to_make of the liquor law enfcrcement officers of the city Police Department. It was emphasized, however, that any eriticism of dry law enforcement in the Capital should be directed at the men who do the work, namely, the Wa" ington policemen, under orders fr'@ the heads of the Police Departmen., who make the raids and arrest under the dry law in the District. We work.” an official sald, “in cb- operatio. with the Police Department in a friendly and effective manner, but the details of method and conduct in doing their work are those of the police- men, not the Prohibition Bureau.” Find D. C. Police Blameless. ‘The subcommittee finds the Washing- ton police practically without blame in THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON AN R ADDED| TO LENGTHY LIST OTHER HONO o 2 : " Congress. With the President and Col. C. B Hodges, naval and military Following the preseniation today by President Hoover of the ENDURANCE PLANE ADDS T0 RECORD Jackson and O’Brine Start 26th Day Aloft With En- gine Working Well. By the Associated Pre ST. LOUIS, Mo., August 15.—The endurance plane Greater St. Louls| rounded out 600 hours and started it.s; twenty-sixth day of sustained flight today above Lambert-St. Louis Field. The plane and pilots, Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine, had been up 605 hours | at 12:11 a.m. Central standard time. | Having announced “Well be down when the motor stops running,” the fly- ers today continued to circle leisurely over Lambert-St. Louis Field. Skilled mechanics turned knowing ears skyward, but refused to hazard a guess on “when the motor stops run- ning” will be. They said they were un- able to detect the slightest trace of & faltering in the engine. Manager Examines Offers. ‘While Jackson and O’Brine continued on_and on, their manager, Wil- to its investigation of third-degree Prac-|j,m g Pickens, was making plans to tices, police brutalities and general | Lserige ‘while the iron is hot.” illegal enforcement of the law. “I'm going to take the boys on a On the other hand, the prohibition | giate Pair tour within two or three agents are accused of employing dis: | days after they come down,” he said, as reputable persons as ‘“stool pigeons,” | he Jooked over a deluge of offers, which some of them actually in jail when cases | will spell financial reward to the air- in which they were used are called; of | men. Offer to exhibit at State fairs, making unlawful entry and seizure, and | theatrical offers and offers to write of making away with liquor seized as | testimonials for manufacturers whose evidence in cases which have been dis- missed and the liquor ordered returned. “Stool Pigeon” Use Charged. ‘The report declares: 5 “Since the enactment of the eight- eenth amendment certain lawless con- duct of law enforcement officers of the Fed Government has prevailed in this district. One of the most danger- ous ces was the employment by the agents of disreputable per- sons as stool pigeons and informers for the making of cases. The condition became so notorious that several of the informers were for perjury, and in other instances cases were call for trial and the informers were found to be in jall, having been convicted of other crimes. In some instances the informers were men with criminal rec- fuse prosecute any cases based u evidence of these stool pigeons or in- formers. 5 “In other cases the courts were com- pelled to suppress the evidence bécause of the unlawful entry and seizure by Pederal prohibition agents. In some of these cases, when the evidence, which consisted of liquor, was ordered returned by the Government to the defendant, it was found that the pro- <hibition officers were unable to groducz it, 1t having disappeared while¥in the possession of the Prohibition Depart- ment, Some of these practices have been discontinued because of the posi- tion which the United States attorney ‘was forced to take.” ‘The subcommittee is a part of the Public Order Committee of the Board g&&m. and is headed by John Lewis In passing upon the police and pro- hibition agents, the report states: Police Given Clean Slate. “Investigations indicate that there are no wless practices peculiarly prevalent in this locality, the metro- politan police force being particularly free from such practices. Our police force, as a whole, is composed of men of excellent character, diligent in the performance of their duty, with a fine sense of theiy responsibility, both to the Government and the individual citizens. ‘There have been certain lawless prac- tices of law enforcement officers in this district, but these have been by the Federal enforcement agents and not by the Police Department here.” ‘The subcommittee, the report states, went deeply into the grobe of third degree methods here. he report de. clares: “The records of the SBupreme Court and the Court of Appeals have been examined, and it appears that these courts have been very careful to scru- tinize confessions and to determine, before they are admitted in evidence, ‘whether there had been any lice brutality, coercion or third-degree methods used. While in a few isolated cases the courts have held that the confessions were involuntary, in prob- ably from 90 to 95 per cent of the con- fessions passed upon it was held they were, in fact, freely and voluntarily made. The three leading cases in this jurisdiction in which it has been necessary for the “appeliate court to uestion the voluntariness of the con- jession are the cases of West vs. the United States, 20 Appeals; Perrygo vs. the United States, 55 Appeals, and Wan vs. the United States, 266 United States. Court Rejects Confessions, “In the West case it appeared the prisoner was arrested and in_custody, and was being questioned in the police station by the officers when one of the officers said: ‘You have been telling fhe pack of lies; now you had better tell truth. The court held the state- ment made by the prisoner was not a free and voluntary one. “In the Wan case, the Supreme Court of the United States said, in holding the confession involuntary and im- ucts were used in the flight poured on Pickens. Today Pickens will con- fer with committees from the Illinols and Iowa Fair Boards. The flight already is paying financial returns to the pilots. An oil company is paying them $100 for each hour they remain aloft longer than the previous record, but this offer will end after 70 hours. Recelve Four-leaf Clovers. Co tulatory messages continued to , the r{endeu including well Eno'n fiyers, Elinor Smith, women's altitude champion, hoped “you stay up till the ship separates,” while Mrs. May Halalip, aviatrix, sald she regarded Mrs. O'Brine and Mrs. Jackson, who have cooked the meals, as “deserving no less than a citation.” An Alton, Ill, fan sent 24 four-leaf clovers, six for each member of the en- durance and refueling crews. He did the same thing last year, when Jackson | and O'Brine broke the endurance rec- ord, ‘which they later lost to the Hunter | brothers of Sparta, Ill. . D. C. WOMAN ELECTED BY PYTHIAS SISTERS, Mrs. Elsie Vandevort Unanimously Chosen Supreme Chief at Bi- ennial Convention. By the Associated Press. TAMPA, Fla,, August 15.—Mrs. Elsie Vandevort of Washington, D. C, was unanimously elected supreme chief of the International Pythias Sisters at the biennial convention of the order here today. She is a member of the Grand Tcm- ple of Virginia, but resides in Wash- ington. Mrs. Addie B. Kemp of Adrian, Mich,, retiring head, becomes a past supreme chief. Miss Mary Terwilliger of Livingston, Mont., was made supreme senior, the second highest post in the organization. MRS. EWALD’S $10,000 LOAN STILL SUSPICIONED By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, August 15—United States Attorney Tuttle indicated today he was not through investigating a $10,000 loan made to a city official by Mrs, George F. Ewald four days before her husband was appointed a city mag- istrate. A county grand jury refused yesterday to indict anybody. Mrs. Ewald, Thomas J. Healy, sus- pended officlal of the City Department of Plant and Structures, and Thomas F. Tommaney, chief clerk in the sheriff’s office, appeared hefore the jury. ‘The story Tuttle had was that Mrs. Ewald had given $10,000 to Tom- maney for Healy, a Tammany district leader. All three witnesses said the loan had been made to enable Healy to buy a house, and d no connection with Ewald's appointment. the defendant was the victim of alleged police brutalities or third-degree meth- ods has been made by the defendant and his attorney at the trial. In prac- tically every instance in the District of Columbia these charges have been proved to be unjustified. In no single instance which has come to the atten- tion of the committee, except possibly in the Wan case, has there been any substantial showing of such methods in this district.” The re) quotes at length a report of the District grand jury in January, 1925, foremaned by George O. Vass, vice president and cashier of the Riggs operly admitted to evidence, ‘a con- [ National Bank, in which police aiso fession is voluntary in law if, and only | were cleared of any stigma of brutal 1f, it was in fact voluntarily made. The | practices, third-degree methods or other undisputed facts show that compulsion | lawless enforcement of the law. ‘was applied’ ‘The Board of Trade subcommittee's “In the Perrygo case the confession | report was the result of a questionnaire ‘was _thrown out for the same reason as sent out by the Crime Commission's sec- Pilots of St. Louis Endurance Airplane Changed by Nudge Jackson and O’Brine De- cide Against Regular Periods at Controls. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, August 15.—A nudge changes pilots of the Greater St. Louis, champion of all endurance planes, which today had been in the air for 25 days. When Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine went aloft in the Greater St. Louis to regain the world's endurance flight record, they decided against reg- | ular periods at the controls, except when refueling contacts are made, when Jackson takes the stick and O'Brine handles the gasoline hose and the oll cans. The pilot at the controls stays at his post until fatigued, or he becomes uncomfortable, when he nudges his companion. The plan was agreed upon to prevent either of the pilots from attempting to complete a specified trick at the controls when drowsy, with the probability of an accident resulting. ‘When not on duty at the stick the flyers sleep, clean up or read. They receive the daily newspapers and occa- sionally a magazine and personal mail. Fan mail is not sent up to them, it being read by the ground crew. Preparing for bed, the flyers remove their shoes and don a leather jacket. They sleep on an air-inflated mattress on top of a large gasoline tank in the fuselage. As the gasoline tank is less than five feet long, a small ham- been fitted into the fuselage to complete the length of the bed. BANKRUPTCY GASES SHOW INCREASE 61,410 Pending in Court, Representing $948,257,731 Debts, U. S, Data. mock h Bankruptey statistics showing 61,410 undisposed of cases pending in the courts on June 30, were made known by the Department of Justice yesterday in connection with its investigation into the operation of the Federal bankruptcy laws. Of these cases 45,168 were vol- untary and 16,242 involuntary. On June 30, 1929, there were 59,113 cases pending, of which 42,688 were voluntary and 16,425 involuntary. Dur- ing the y: 62,845 cases were filed, of which 57,299 were voluntary and 5,546 involuntary. Of the cases concluding during last year 4,472 were farmers, 29,067 wage earners, 13,580 merchants, 1,386 manu- facturers, 1,378 professional men, and 10,665 unclassified. The total labilities involved was $948,257,731, a slight increase over the preceding fiscal year. The total amount realized from the cases was $118,572,- 409 and the net amount collected after deducting expenses was $106,245487. ‘The survey of the bankruptcy loss is being conducted by the department in co-operation with the Department of Commerce.. Its ultimate purpose is to recommend to Congress changes in the present bankruptcy code. DIXON DENIES PARKS CLOSE AFTER LABOR DAY Assures National Playgrounds Will Remain Open as Long as ‘Weather Permits. Assurance that the national parks would remain open as long as weather permits this Fall was given yesterday by Acting Secretary Dixon of the In- terior Department in denying the play- grounds would close shortly after Labor day. “The national parks are made avail- able for the use of the visiting public just as long as weather conditions permit, Dixon said. “In case of the Yellow stone, for instance, experience shown that this park fis freely acces- sible to visitors up to September 19, and the public utilities catering to the comfort and convenience of visitors are not_closed until after this date. “Even after the closing date of the hotel, lodge and transportation accom- modations, private automobiles carry- ing camping equipment are permitted until snow closes the roads, usually about the middle of October. During this latter period informal living ac- commodations also may be obtained by motorists not desiring to camp.” The Acting Secretary added that several of the parks, including Yosemite, Sequola and General Grant, in Cali. fornia; Mount Rainier, in Washington, and Rocky Mountain, in Colorado, are open throughout the Winter for snow and ice sports, and that the south rim of the Grand Canyon National Park, in Northern Arizona, is accessible the year round to rail and motor travelers. Robbers Steal Warning Siren. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., August 15 (#).—When there’s & will there’s & way. Balked seven times by a pesky siren in their attempts to rob a garage in Ar- monk, robbers finally solved their prob- Wan case, tion on lawless enforcement of the law, h"?:enmn instances the charge that 74 Trinity place, New York Oity, 4 £ lem by steall the 150-pound siren ’ special medal conferred upon Col. Lindbergh by Mre. Hoover and Col. and Mrs, Lindbergh are (left) Capt, H. C. Train, and (right) i“es to the President, —Star Staff Photo. |INDBERGH GIVEN CONGRESS MEDAL Hoover Makes Presentation Recognizing Flyer’s Many Contributions. In the presence of a distinguished gathering, President Hoover today per- sonally presented to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh the special medal awarded by Congress in recognition of his many contributions to the advancement of the science of aviation. In placing the medal in the hands of the fiyer, the President congratulated him for his achieverents and reminded him that Congress, in awarding this medal, did not signal out any one air feat, such as the memorable New York- to-Paris flight, but intended it as a recognition of everything he has done for aeronautics. Mrs. Lindbergn Present. The presentation was made in the President’s office at 12:30 o'clock. In the group attending the ceremonies were: Mrs. Hoover, Mrs. Lindbergh, wife of the aviator; Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Secretary of War Hur- ley, F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Sec- retary of War for Aviation; David 8. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Charge of Aviation; Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Com- merce in Charge of Aviation; W. Irv- ing Glover, Assistant Postmaster Gen- eral in charge of Airmails; Robert Grant, Director of the Mint, and Col. | Campbell Hodges and Capt. Russell Train, presidential military and naval aides, respectively. ‘The act of Congress extending this honor to Col. Lindbergh authorized an expenditure of $1,500 for the making of the medal, which is of gold, and also gave authority for the minting of bronze | replicas, which may be purchased by the public from the Philadelphia mint for $1 aplece. Group Photographed. Following the ceremonies the Presi- dent and Col. Lindbergh, with others of the group, went to the rear grounds for a group photograph. Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh arrived in ‘Washington late yesterday and will be 1“!." of the President and Mrs. Hoover oday at luncheon and at the Rapidan camp over the week end. HUGE POTTERY PLANT DESTROYED BY FIRE Hews & Co. of Cambridge, Ma: Suffers Loss of $500,000—Fac- tory Founded in 1765. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, August 15— Flames that destroyed the buildings of A. H. Hews & Co,, Inc, owners of one of the country’s largest and oldest pot- tery plants, were brought under control early today by the combined efforts of OCambridge, Boston, Belmont, Arlington, and Somerville firemen. Loss was esti- mated by Dunbar Lockwood, treasurer of the company, at $500,000. Heat and hot-air explosions kept fire- men well back from the plant buildings. Outside help was called for when near- by tenements seemed endangered and all of Cambridge's apparatus had failed to make any noticeable headway. Thou- sands of gallons of ofl stored in the building added to the terrific heat and roar of the flames and low water pres- i sure hindered the firemen during the early hours of the fire, which started shortly before 11 o'clock last night. 11;(‘5he pottery plant was founded in POLICE FREE MAN IN BURGLARY PROBE James B. Williams, Jr., Attended Banquet at Hotel Where Entry Occuxred, Is Explanation, James B. Williams, jr., of 4115 Wis- consin avenue, arrested in connection with a burglar's entry into the apart- ment of Clarence Roderick at Ward- man Park Hotel Wednesday night, was released by police of No. 14 precinct yesterday. Williams was freed when he explained to police that he was attending a ban- quet at the hotel at-the time. His story was substantiated by several per- 501 ns. A taxicab driver who saw Willlams drive away from in front of the hotel and turned his license number over to police set in motion the investigation that resulted in Williams' arrest at his home. Police are continuing the search for the intruder whom Roderick found in his rooms and who made his esca| before Roderick could recover from surprise of finc®og the man in the apartment. Political Leader Reported Dying. ASHEVILLE, N. C., August 15 (#).— Thomas R. Rollins,’ 58, for years a leader in State Republican circles, was reported near death here today follow= ing a heart attack. i e | Herbert Campbell at that time for 10 D.. €, RRIDAY, CAPBELL NDGTED BYD.C.ERANDJURY Move Interpreted as Assur- ing Suspect’s Return to Capital for Trial. (Continued From Pirst Page:) attention to the fact that these per- had they ‘heard three reports which sounded like pistol shots a short time after the car was driven away. ‘While more than a half ‘dozen men have been in custody in connection with Miss Baker's death at one time or an- granted his liberty. iy The 1ndintmm? follows: ) “District of Col l;l:l:’bh Suprsme Court, trict of Columbia aforesald upon their oath do present: “That one Herbert M. Campbell, Jate of the District of Columbia aforesaid, on, to wit, the eleventh day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty and at the District of Columbia aforesaid, contriving and intending to kill one Mary Baker fe- loniously willfully and purposely and of his deliberate and premeditated malice in and upon the said Mary Baker, then and there being did with force and violence make an assault; and that in making the said assault as aforesaid, he, the said Herbert M. Campbell, so contriving and intending to kill her, the saild Mary Baker, then and there feloniously, wilfully, purposely and of his deliberate and premeditated malice with both his hands about the neck and throat of her, the said Mary Baker, then arid there feloniously, wil- fully and purposely and of his delib- erate and premediated malice did fix and fasten and that he, the sald Herbert M. Campbell, with both his hands so as aforesaid fixed and fastened about the neck and throat of her, the said Mary Baker, then there feloniously, wilfully and purposely and of his de- liberate and premeditated malice did choke and strangle the said Mary Baker, of which said choking and strangling she, the sald Mary ker, then and there did die. Premeditation Charged. “And so the grand jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say: “That the said Herbert M. Campbell, the said Mary Baker in the manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously, will- fully, purposely and of his deliberate and premeditated malice did kill and murder; against the form of the statute in such case made and provided | and against the peace and Govern- ment of the said United States. ‘Second count: '‘And the fu“d jurors aforesaid upon | their oath aforesald do further present: Premeditation Charged. “That the sald Herbert M. Campbell on, to wit, the said eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and at the District of Columbia aforesaid, contriving and intending to kill one Mary Baker feloniously, willfully and purposely, and of his deliberate and premeditated malice in and upon her the sald Mary Baker, then and there being did make an assault; and that in making the assault as aforesaid, he, the said Herbert M. Campbell, so con- triving and intending to kill her the sald Mary Baker as aforesaid, a certain firearm of the kind commonly known as and called a pistol, then and there loaded and gun- powder bullets, and in the right hand of him, the said Herbert M. Campbell, then and there had and held feloniously, will- fully, purposely and of his deliberate and premeditated malice, did discharge and shoot off at, against and upon her, the said Mary Béker, and at he, the said Herbert M. Campbell, with two of the metal bullets aforesald by | him out of the pistol aforesaid then and there by force of the gunpowder | aforesaid discharged and shot off as aforesaid, then and there feloniously, | willfully, pur ly and of his deliberate and premeditated malice did strike, penetrate and wound her, the said Mary Baker, in and about the back of her, the sald Mary Baker, and with one of the metal bullets aforesaid, by him out of the pistol, aforesaid, then and there by force of the gunpowder, afore- sald, discharged and shot off as afore- said, then and there feloniously, will- fully, purposely and of his deliberate and premeditated malice did strike, penetrate and wound her, the said Mary Baker, in and about the neck of her, the said Mary Baker, and that he, the sald Herbert M. Campbell, by such striking, penetrating and wounding of her, the said Mary Baker, in and about the back of her, the said Mary Baker, and in and about the neck of her, the sald Mary Baker, did thereby then and there feloniously, wilifully, purpose- ly and of his deliberate and premedi- tated malice give to her, the sald Mary Baker, in and about the back of her, | the said Mary Baker, and in and about the neck of her, the sald Mary Baker, three certain mortal wounds, of which said mortal wounds she, the said Mary Baker, then and there did die. | Wean “And so the grand jurors aforesaid upon their oath afordsaid do say: “That the said Herbert M. Campbell, the sald Mary Baker in the manner and by the means aforesald feloniously, willfully, purposely and of his deliberate and premeditated malice did kill and murder against the form of the statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and Government of the sald United States. (Signed) “LEO A. ROVER, “Attorney of the United States in and for the District of Columbia.” Tells of New Witnesses. Frank G. Campbell, brother of the defendant, issued the following state- ment concerning new alibi witnesses: “Two new witnesses, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Green of Murray avenue, Vir- ginia Highlands, to whom Herbert Campbell sold a house, state that they moved into their new home on April 12, 1930; that Mr."Campbell had prom- ised to get new elect: light bulbs for the house; that they went out to their new home late Friday afternoon, April 11 (the day of Miss Baker's death) to make sure that the paper- hanger had finished his work, and tHat the house would be in readiness for them to move into the next day; that they went from there to the home of Mr. Herbert Campbell, a few blocks distant, to see about the light bulbs; that they were there between 6 and 6:15 pm. (Miss Baker was seen in her auto with her assailant at 6 p.m.); that the husband Went into Mr. Camp- bell's house first to see about the lights: that Mr. Campbell advised the purchase of flame-colored lights instead of white lights because they gave a softer light and that the husband then called to his wife (who was in her auto out- side) to come in and see how she liked . the flame-colored lights in Mr. that they were in- to Mrs. Herbert Campbell and that they talked to both Mr. and Mrs. minutes or more.” Risks Life for Keg of Water. | NEW YORK, August 15 (#).—Samuel Qordon sighted a beer keg 200 yards off Rockaway Beach and al it lost his life attempting to bring it in. When revived he tapped the keg. It was filled AUGUST 15, 1930. l On their way to a celebration in ; T Grand Pre, Canada, from where their forebears were exiled 175 years ago, 25 young women from the Evangeline coun- try in Southwest Louisiana passed through Washi In this group Front, kneefing, Mildred Dessens, Corinne Braus- House during their stay. Comeaux and Mae Trahan. sard and Rose Simon. Ington today, visiting the White are, standing, Hazel Samson, Ganelle —Star Staff Photo. HOODLUMS SEEKING NEW RACKET AREAS Rockford, Ill., Bootlegger Is Latest Bullet Victim. Others Reported. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 15.—The sinister shadow of gangland spreads over the Middle West. . Three dead near St. Paul, Minn,, an- other dropped by machine gunners at Rockford, 111, and new slayings at De- troit and Chicago add weight to the be- lief that the hoodlum element is scat- tering. The first tangible evidence that or- ganized outlawry is seeking new terri- tories' for its rackets—liquor, gambling and vice—is the usual symbol of the! | gangsters—a bullet-pierced body, shot from kehind. Wrong Man Believed Hit, The latest vietim is Joe Giovingo, | Rockford bootlegger, killed instantly by the stream of bullets that poured from an automobile speeding through one of the town's main streets last nignt. Eleven bullets were fired into Glovingo's body, but police felt sure they were in- tended for Tommy Abbott, well known Chiecago gangster, who stood nearby. Abbott, described by police as one of the chief executioners for the Moraa gang, was one of the many suspects in two of Chi 's recent gang killings— the slaying of Jake Lingle, Tribune re- porter, and the subsequent killing of Jack Zuta, vice overlord. The three men killed near St. Paul Wednesday night were positively identi- fled as bank robbers and gangsters of Kansas City and Minneapolis. Police knew little of their recent activities, however, and could only guess at the motive for the assassinations. ‘The theorles ranged all the way from the conjecture that the robbers had quarreled over division of their loot to the belief that they interfered with an attempt on the part of the Chicago gang leader, George “Bugs” Moran, to organize the Twin City area. Bankers Identify Two Bodies. Officers of a Willmar, Minn, bank yesterday identified two of the bodies | as those of members of a robber gang that held up the bank July 15, took $142,000 and shot two passers-by in making their getaway. One of the men thus identified was Harry Sllverman, alias Sammy_Stein. Another was identified as Mike Rusick, Kansas City. The body of the third slain gangster, Frank Coleman, had been started for Kansas City and the bankers did not see it, but they said his description fitted that of another member of the robber gang. Finding of four straw hats in the car in which the men were killed led to reports that a fourth man had been slain, but an extensive search failed to reveal any more bodies. Girl Proves Poor Witness. Little progress was made by Chicago authorities investigating the slaying esday night of Danny Vallo, St. Valentine's day massacre suspect. Th chief witness at the inquest, a girl, who was with the gunman when he was killed, said she could not see the killers, who fired from ambush, and that she knew of no reason for the killing. Detroit’s latest gang slaying, the fatal shooting of Cicero Mangiapani, alleged river liquor operator, was added to 14 others for a special grand jury to con- sider. Manglapani was killed Wednes- day night in an automobile. CONFESSES DESERTING FOUR ILLEGAL WIVES Michigan Prisoner to Divulge De- tails of “Other Cases” at Trial, He Tells Police. By the Associated Press. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, August 15. —-J. W. Orton, held here on _charges of bigamy and embezzlement, has con- fessed to four bigamous marriages and told authorities he has figured in “many more” similar cases. He refused to di- vulge details of the “other cases,” prom- ising a full statement when rle is brought to trial. Supt. of Police A. A. Carroll said Orton, also known as John W. Sher- wood, confessed that he married the four women, got possession’ of their money and then deserted them. The women named were Mrs. Addie Grewett of Pellston, Mich., who died a year ago; Mrs. Clara McIntosh of Denver, Mrs. Rena Felger of Chicago and Mrs. Mary Lonjin of Philadelphia. Orton was arrested here three weeks ago o. warrants sworn to by Mrs. Grewett several months before her eath. Carroll sald Orton indicated his in- gn{.lrm of pléading guilty when brought Cholera Bann' in Afghanistan. TEHERAN, Persia, August 18 (#).— Reports from Kandahar say 'that the entire population has evacuated the city because of a cholera epidemic which is hanistan. ing in b is Efa % be sbrcading daily 1n Kabul the PESHAWAR ATTACK * AGAN THREATENS Fight—Situation Is Re- ported Grave. SIMLA, India, August 15 (#).— | Martial law ‘was proclaimed today | in Peshawar and the surrounding districts, which for a fortnight have | been beleaguered by Afridi tribes- men, By the Associated Press. PESHAWAR, India, August 15— | Threat of a tribal attack against Pesha- | war persisted today with new and dan- | ation. Older heads among the Afridis, who during the last fortnight menaced the city, have gone back to the Tirah vil- lages, but they have been replaced by new arrivals, principally young men. The internal feud between the Musa Khols and the Mohmands has been settled and the Habi of Turangzal is attempting to raise men among them to attack Peshawar. A small Lashkar of Sunni Oralzais is reported to be ering on-the Khanki River, about to attack Kohat, which is strongly defended. A foreign and political department communique at Simla today described the situation of Peshawar, where raid. ing Afridi tribesmen have been en. gaged in an attack on the city, as se- rious and one of considerable gravity and danger. The raiders’ total strength about Peshawar was sald to be about 1,200 now. “They move about rapidly in gangs of 50 to 100 among the ravines and walled gardens and villages,” the communique said. The communique said that a number of the hostile tribesmen had left the district and returned to the Tirah vil- lages, but that reinforcements kept ar- riving and “the situation must be re- g:‘rcll;d -l.: crm;:el un‘;.u mz‘he last of the emy have 'n definitel; lroAl:l the district.” T . & precautionary measure one Brit- ish and three Indian battalions are be- ing moved up from Jhansi in the united provinces to Rawal Pindi, 100 miles “‘#”’h’nfillfie’h- ar. e ns are under the i mand of Brig. Gen. Robertson. e GANDHI EXPLAINS STAND. Letter Is Sent to Viceroy Lord Irwin After Conference. POONA, India, August 16 (#).—Ma- hatma Gandhi and his congress fellow prisoners in Yeroda Jail have written a letter explaining their position regard- iag the civil resistance campaign, which ;odnly was forwarded to Viceroy Lord rwin. The letter was directed especially to Sir-Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar, the moderates who instituted peace overtures among the Gandhi volunteers and who have been meeting with the mahatma for & few days in his prison quarters. No hint of the contents of the letter was given by the conference partici- pants. Yesterday it was stated the Mahatma Gandhi had refused to con- sider a truce in his campaign until cer- tain assurances were forthcoming from the government as to India's future. WOMAN IS ACQUITTED OF SLAYING SECRETARY Mrs. Allen Testifies Murdered Man Took Her Home Following Quarrel at Club. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ga., August 15.—Mrs. Olive S. Allen last night was acquitted by a jury of a charge of murder in connection with the mysterious deat of Anthony B. King, secretary of the local Elks Lod, July 14, Mrs. Allen's own unsworn statement was her only defense, She admitted she was with King in his private quar- ters at the club house late on the night he was killed and that she fought with him then after a quarrel, She main- tained, however, that he took her home. Mrs. King found her husband un- conscious on the floor of his club house apartment when she went in search of him, she said, after becoming alarmed over his failure to return home. King died at a hospital a few minutes later wifhout regaining consciousness. Autopsy surgeons announced he died from a fractured skull. DR. HOLLIS DIES AT 73 CAMBRIDGE, Mass., A it 15 ().— Dr. Ira Nelson Hollis, 73, former presi- dent of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, died at his home here today. He was a graduate of Annapolis and while a rofessor of engineering at Harvard University directed the construction of the Harvard Stadium and the laying out of Soldiers Field. Young Tribesmen Take Up| gerous elements entering into the situ- AMERICAN DAMAGE INCHINA REPORTED Looting and Burning by Reds in “Chaotic” Changsha Made Known Here. By the Assoclated Press. The State Department today received a partial report upon the extent of the damage to American property in Changsha as a result of the recent Comumunist disorders there. ‘The report said “chaotic conditions” made a complete summary impossible at this time. Pel hurch and residente of the Evangel- ical Mission and the girls’ school, but the buildings were une ml{:fl Other buildings of these organizal , how- ever, were torn down to avold & con- flagration. The American iscopal Mission Church and its 1 buildings were looted and badly damaged, the mission school being burned. ‘The four buildings of the Fuh Siang girls' school were looted and damaged and the Chen Chin school was looted, but the unfinished church was not touched. The Chinese-controlled Y. M. C. A. was not molested, but two for- eign residences of the Y. M. C. A, near the Honan Bible Institute, were thor- oug:iy looted and the buildings dam- aged. . % The American Presbyterian Mission residence of William Lingle of Salis- bury, N. C,, and a part of the Issiang school were looted and burned, while the residences of Willlam H. Clark of El Cajon, Calif., and those of Ethel L. | Davis of Harrisonville, Mo., and other women of the Pres! rian Mission | were looted and badly damaged. ‘The residence of Walworth Tying, 281 Fourth avenue, New York City, was looted and partly burned. Yale Hospital Ransacked. Yale Hospital was ransacked and the building damaged. Residences were un- damaged and the Yale Mission was un- touched, but the Medical School suf- fered from petty thieving. Offices of Liggett & Myers Tobacco and the Texas Oil Co. were thoroughly looted. The warehouse of the Texas Co. was slightly damaged. The buildings proper were damaged some 20 per cent by the fire of Chinese gunboats di- rected upon a machine nest situated under cover of the . . Buildi the Standard Oil Co. of New York, and L. E. Gale Co. were not touched nor were | residences situated on an island in the river near Changsha, MWNARY URGES BAR T0 ARGENTINE CORN Senator Wires Tariff Commission Northwest Feeders Would Use | Wheat and Barley. | ! By the Associated Press. | DLETON, Oreg., August 15— United States Senator Charles McNary o1 Oregon urged the Federal Tariff Com- mission yesterday to adjust the duty on oorn to shut out importations from the | ‘Argentine. N | He telegraphed the commission that Northwest stock feeders would use wheat and barley if Argentine corn is cut off. At present, he said, 30,000 tons of - | tine corn’ are used monthly {n Northwestern States. Corn duties may be increased under the flexible provisions of the tariff act. The Senator's action resulted from a recent conference with Alexander Legge, | Federal Farm Board's chairman, MEARS WILL SAIL SOON TO PREPARE FOR FLIGHT | Will Study Russia and Siberia Be- fore Starting on Globe- Cireling Trip in 1931, By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, Aug t 15.—John Henry Mears, be girdler, and his pilot, Henry J. Brown of Cleveland, will sail for London within 10 days to fly in a Moth plane across Russia and Siberia and familiarize themselves with condi- tions which they expected to confront in an attempted around-the-world flight in the Summer of 1931. Mears and Browr ‘urned yesterday by ship from Harbo. “-race, Newfound- land, where their pk cracked up on August 3 as it took oft .or Dublin on & flight in which they hoped to traverse the globe in 15 days or less and to bring back to Mears the globe-circling record, which he lost last year to Graf Zeppelin, Mears said they would attempt a rec- ord flight again next Summer and that their impending trip to London would made in preparation for it. UNFAVORABLE WEATHER DELAYS YOUNG FLYER By the Assoclated Press. ALTOONA, Pa., August 15.—Eddie Echneider, youthful Westfleld, N. J., pilot, attempting to set a new junior transcontinental East-to-West flight record, was awaiting weather reports at his hotel here today before resuming his trip. Schneider, forced down by fog and rain at Water Street, Pa., yesterday, sald that his plane was ready, that he had had a good night's. rest and was anxious to go, but that he would not attempt to take off unless conditions. between here and Columbus, Ohio, his next stop, were better than unofficial reports early this morning indicated. BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Army Band | Orchestra this evening at the Capitol Plaza at 7:30 o'clock. William Stannard, leader; Thomas Darcy, second leader. March—"Sons of Veterans”.......King Overture—"Four Ages of Man".Lachner Solo for euphonium— “Corinthian Polka”. sesieans Descriptive—"“A Hunting Scene,” Bu “Echoes from the Metropolitan House” T Excerpts “Coconut Dance” Popular—*Song of “Hawaiian Selection”. ‘The Star Spangle 1Y vening . Weaington Bark at evening rk af T7:30 o'clock. James Miller, leader. March—“American Cadet”