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A-2 e SLIM CONTRACTS ROUSE REFUELERS Pass Record 68 Hours as Manager Complains of Generosity Lack. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, August 16.—The endur- ance monqplane Greater St. Louls, in which Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine regained the sustained flight from the Hunter brothers, still was aloft at 5:11 (central standard time) today. At that time the plane had been in the air 625 hours, more than 68 hours longer than the Hunters' record. Thus far Bill Pickens, manager of the fiyers, had been able to close but four contracts, totaling about $1,800, for the fiyers, and this comprises “their sole reward,” except for $7,000 they will re- ceive from an oil company whose prod- ucts they are using, Pickens complained. Great ‘Eftorts Slighted. “Just to think,” he walled, “there are those two boys making the greatest en- durance flight in history, and a great big New York company says $1,080 is too0 high a price to advertise one of its ucts. What those boys need is & h fence around their ship, The ofher night half of the people in St. Louis came out here and we didn't col- lect & dime. A free show and they all came out. Despite all his troubles, however, Pickens is “trying to keep up the old gpirit, and so far we have not cut our price, because the one big mistake in the promotion business is to ask for $2,000 when you could have had $5,000.” St. Louis’ “lack of financial generos- ity” is no mystery to Pickens. The city 18 “too close to big achievements in avi- gh spoiled you folks,” he ex- plained, “and unless a show can be made to rival a transatlantic crossing you are not interested—at least, not financially.” One of Bt. Louis' largest theaters will give a midnight show tonight for the benefit of the Jackson-O'Brine ex- chequer, Twenty-seventh Day in Air. Today was the twenty-seventh in the air for Jackson and O'Brine in the monoplane Greater St. Louls. Appar- ently they were not nearly so worried as their mahager on the ground. The only complaint that had come from them was that “the air surely is roll- The pilots still had given no indica- tion of when they would land, but have promised to ‘give sufficient notice” of an intended | for spectators to assemble at . Lampert-St. Louis Field, over which they are flying. A note from the plane last night read: b those not to wait for us to land now. We will notily them.in mty of time for them (o get to the A tact iween the en- %’ refueler was take cigarettes and GLOBE FLYER'S WIFE FILES DIVORCE REPLY Allegations of ‘Arnold Denied in Plea for Dismissal of His Petition. \ By the Associated Press. PHOENIX, Ariz., Al Avery Arnold, Long ch, filed an answer yesterday to divorce action brough recently by Leslie around-the-world flm.d the petition be dism! L She alleged the fiyer had not been & resident of Arizona the year required law and a divorce decree obtained by him in in 1926 and later set aside was still in litigation. Mrs. Armold denied the fiyer's al- legation he never lived with her after ir marriage in 1917, but left im- mediately for Army service. She also denied his allegation that she partici- g:‘d in wild parties in New London, n., or was guilty of improper con- duct. Arnold’ recently married Priscilla Dean, motion picture actress in Mexico, but they separated when they learned his Georgia divorce had been set aside. BUILDING WAR GANG SLAYS 2 GONTRACTORS Third Wounded in Fresh Outbreak in “Little Italy,” on Upper East 8ide, New York. By the Associated Press. - NEW YORK, August 16—Two men were killed and another was seriously wounded in what police said was a fresh outbreak of a building racket ;i:lr in “Little Italy,” on the upper East e. All the men shot were in the con- ftracting business, They were sitting in the second floor office of a building in t 116th. street owned by Piletro orello when the door was flung open and two men opened fire on them. Morello and Joseph Perano fell dead and Gasper Pollaro was wounded. Police said Morello was a step- brother of Ciro Terranova, whose din- ner to Magistrate Albert Vitale last year was held up by gunmen, leading to revelations that resulted in removal of Vitale from the city bench. After the shooting yesterday the gunmen fled. and Pollaro, though critically wounded, stumbled to a window and jumped to the street. The fusillade drew an excited crowd of more than 2,000 residents of the district. FINED FOR ASSAULT 16.—Mildred Jobn J. Keane (above), who yesterday found the body of J. Benson Thomas (below), missing real estate man, while on a fishing expedition near Chain Bridge. THOMAS AUTOPSY FAILS TO REVEAL SIGN OF FOUL PLAY (Continued From First Page.) Mdeduced that Thomas had fallen or slumped forward while walking. His hat w-z lying nearby and nothing had been disturbed in the vicinity. Thomas had been at work as usual ‘Tuesday in his office, at No. 1 Thomas circle. He went out shortly before noon to make some calls, and was last seen by a business acquaintance about 3 o'clock, examining papers in the office of & title and trust company, & Car Found Parked. A search was begun by police and relatives late Tuesday, but it was not until shortly before nightfall Wednes- day that & clue to his whereabouts was found. At that time Donn Thomas, brother of the dead man, located the other’s automobile parked near Chain Bridge. ‘Throughout Wednesday night, Thurs- day and yesterday civillan and police searchers scoured the river bottom and banks for the missing mflg Keahe, who Iives at 5310 Cafolina place, had been fishing in the canal, and, getting no bites, started across the g:mm.n] dry river bottom toward the ly a Keane motified a store proprietor at Chain Bridge, who telephoned police. Officers J. G. Aremdes and L. D.| Phillips and Detective J. E. Burke re- sponded from No. 7 precinct, and later Lieut. Kelly. ‘Thomas, who had resided at 3710 Military road, leaves a widow and two young children. DROUGHT CURTAILS CHURCH CONVENTION | Meeting of Churches of Christ in Augusta, W. Va., Shortened One Day. Special Dispatch to The Star. ¢ AUGUSTA, W. Va., August 16.—The ;annual Convention of the Churches of Christ (Disciples) for Hampshire dis- trict in Augusta has been shortened be- cause of the drought, the Rev. 8. J. Good, president, of Winchester, Va. { announced today, and will close on Saturday afternoon, August 23, instead | of running !hro\lg Sunday. It opens August 21. TIra V. Cowgill of Romney | 1s vice president of the association, Miss Ruth Saville, Romney, secretary-treas- urer. The district includes churches in Hampshire, Berkeley, Hardy, Frant, Pendleton, Morgan and Mineral Coun- ties, W. Vi ACOUNTING OF HUBERT WILL GIVEN APPROVAL | Bulk of 86,000,000 Estate to Go to 34 Charities Selected by Three U. 8. Leaders. By the Associated Pr NEW YORK, Augus! counting of the will of Conrad Hubert, millionarire flashlight manufacturer, { who died in 1928, was approved yester- day by Surrogate Foley. The estate is valued at $6,000,000, of which about $4,500,000 will go to 34 charities selected by former President former Gov. Smith and Julius Mr. provided charities were to be chosen by a pro- minent Catholic, Protestant and dew. Two brothers and a sister of the deceased will receive a twelfth of the estate each. q | s t 16.—The ac- | SENTENCED FOR ASSAULT 16.— | Hosiery Salesman Pleads Guilty to Former Benatorial Candidate and! | Another Convicted in Winchester. | Bpecial Dispitch to The Star. sOVINCHESTER, Va, August ohn G. Bowman, Frederick Count i farmer, who ran for the United States Fiduspiag G1i1. Senate’ two years ago on the Socialist | MERIDIAN, Miss, August 16 (#)— ticket, and John Cain were fined $25 Jack Austin, alias Jack Lambert, hosiery each and costs in County Court today, | salesman, returned to Mississippi from ¢tharged with assaulting John Massie, | Chicago to face a charge of kidnaping parish farm superintendent. — They Miss Ann McCarley of Tupelo, Miss., noted appeals. Massle claimed Bow- and marrying her against her will, man sought to induce one of his em- | pleaded guilty in court here Thursday to ployes to leave and work for Bowman, | an attack charge and was sentenced by gnd that when he protested the sena- | Judge J. O. Fatheree to serve seven torial aspirant knocked him down and |years in the State Penitentiary. kicked him in the face. The girl charged Austin induced her to accompany him under the promise of a job on a sales force and deserted her in Mobile, Ala. WILLSON SUIT DISMISSED NEW YORK, August 16 (#).—The Supreme Court’ Thursday dismissed a suit of Mrs. Eda Turner Willson for a decree of separation from her husband, James C., Willson, millionaire aviation financier, on the ground that he is & resident of Louisville, Ky., and the New Klotk courts have no jurisdiction over im, ‘The court also denied Mrs. Willson's application for $4,000 A month alimony COLORED WOMAN SHOT By & Btaft Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., August 16.—Said by police to have been motivated by jealousy, a colored man shot and seri- the Montgomery Coun estigated and ascertain: po- and for liberal counsel fees. She asked pe ration on ound that her hi P Ceserioa er e ast Juce 17, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C, SATI’RDA{’. AUGUST 16, 1930. RUG TRAFFIC NEW CHINESE PROBLEM Anti-Opium League Wants Exports to South Sea Islands Stopped. | By the Ascociated Press, | NANKING, August 16.—Opium traffic | among the Chinese living in the South Sea Islands has provided the National government of China a new source of worry. The China Anti-Opium League, & emi-governmental _institution, wants the traffic stopped on the grounds that it is injuring the prestige of the pres- ent regime at Nanking, and is pre- | paring a protest to the foreign powers having colonies in the South Seas. Sun Fo, minister of railways~ an official of the Anti-Opium League and on of the late Dr. Sun_ Yat-Sen, is the man responsible for the agitation. the leagie, a_survey of oplum traffic in the South Seas, as well as the Brit- ish Malay Arehipelago. There are 2,000,000 Chinese living in the South Sea Islands, Sun Fo_ states, and of this number approximately 400,000 are opium users. The traffic in the drug, he claims, is enormous and is condutted largely by the Chinese | themselves, and not by foreigners, as commonly ‘supposed. In the British Malay Archipelago, the report continued, ong-third of the entire annual revenue of the colonial authorities for 1929 was derived from opium and, as in the South Seas, Chinese are the principal dealers in the drug. Similar conditions, Sun Fo says, ex- ist in the Dutch posiessthns in the East Indies. THREE AIR ACCIDENTS ENLIVEN WAR GAME Navy Pursuit Plane Falls Into Ocean and Submarine Rescues Pilot Off California. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 16— Three airplane accidents, including the rescue of a Navy fiyer at sea by a subntirine, gave a touch of reality to Army-Navy war maneuvers in the San Francisco Bay district yesterday. A near casualty resulted en & pursuit plane of the attacking “black” naval forces fell into the Pacific Ocean near the Farralone Islands, 25 miles west of San Francisco. The submarine V-2 saved the pilot's life, but failed to name him in the radio report on the plane’s fall, Jack and Johh\ Bartless fell in San Francisco Bay. - The plane sank but the flyers were rescued. An Army craft, piloted by Lieut. Willism Campbell fell near Burlingame, in San Prancisco Bay. Campbell also was rescued uninjured. SANITARY ENGINEERS ELECT W’GONEGAL Washingtonian Named Head of Association Meeting in ‘Winnipeg. By the Associated Pre WINNIPEG, Manitoba, August 16— A. R. McGonegal of Washington, D. C., has been elected president of the Amer- ican Association of Sanitary Engineers. Other new officers include: J. F. Doud, Cincinnati, treasurer; T. M, Dugan, MeKeesport, Pa., secretary, and Charles Henderson, Seattle, director. Walter Mullen, Cincinnati; George Stolz, Milwaukee: Willilam Hobro, San Francisco, and W. H. Chandler, Fort Worth, Tex., were among the vice presi- | dents named. BACKS MONE;’ DEMAND WITH BOMBING THREAT Man “Out of Work"” Makes Display of Alleged Explosive and Is Arrested. By the Assogiated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 16.—Frank C. Crane, 41, said to have threatened to “blow up”'a downtown building yes- terday unless W. S. Norblitt, vice presi- dent of the Signel Gas & Oil Co., gave him $58,000, was arrested and his re- puted bomb seized. Crane, who came here five weeks 0 from Boston, revealed three bottles which, he said, contained nitroglycerin, and handed Cranc a note demanding the money. J. H. Rounsaville, controller of the company, called police, who overpow- ered Crane. “There was nothing explosive in the bottles,” Crane said. “I have been out of work and needed money.’ ‘The bottles were turned over to ex- plosive experts for examination. TWO IN HYATTSVILLE FINED ON DRY COUNTS Croome and Marlboro Colored Res- idents Convicted for Illegal Man- ufacture and Possession of Liquor. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., August 16— Elmer Edelen of Croome and John Cur- tis, colored, of Marlboro, who were ar- rested in & raid led by Sergt. H. G. Machen on a still near Croome, were each convicted of illegal manufacture and possession of liquor by Judge J. Chew Sheriff yesterday. Curtis was fined $100 and Edelen $200. Maurice Glasser of Baltimore, who is. alleged to have collided with Constable Ralph Brown while the latter was chas- g a suspected liquor-laden car on the Baltimore Boulevard August 9, was fined $5 for reckless driving. Brown's car was badly damaged in the collision, he reported. Several other charges were placed against Glasser, but with- drawn when the case came to trial. FIGHT ON FASCIST EDITOR ENDED BY HINDENBURG German President, in Letter to Court, Says Goebbels Intended No Personal Insult. | B the Associated Press. BEBLIN, August 16.-—President von Hindenburg Thursday did what he could to nullify his defamation suit against the Pascist editor Reichstag mem- ber, Paul Goebbels. A letter from the President was read before appellate court hearing in which was stated that he is now con: vinced that Goebbels, in writing an article, captioned “Is Von Hindenbury Still Alive?” did not intend a personal insuit. “I should withdraw my complaint if it were legally possible.” he said. “Ins asmuch as it is not, I /declare that I B e e Yociannt e Sk ve In - ot Hers' Goebbeis.” i | He has just completed, on behalf of | A marine plane piloted by 8. F. | DECREASE SHOWN BY PRESBYTERIANS 1,984,108 Members in Year Ending March 31, 20,359 Below Previous Mark. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, August 16.—The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, through Rev.” Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, stated clerk of its General Assembly, announced yes- terday that the total communicant membership for the year ended March 31, this year, was 1,984,108, a decrease of 20,359 over the previous year. ‘Two factors are mentioned in the an- rouncement as mainly to account for thé decrease. One is that no Easter day, when large numbers of members are ac- cepted, was included within the last church year. The other is the increas- ingly rigid yequirements for the reten- tion of names on the communicant membership rolls. It is stated all Pres- byterian statistics on membership are based solely on communicants in good standing. Sunday School Increase. The total number of Sunday school members enrolled was 1,506,030, a net increase of 717. The actual -increase, it is stated, s much greater because of the Increasingly rigid standards adopted with reference to enrollment. The number of churches stands at 9,327, a decrease of 34. The total num- ber of ministers is 9,987, increase 21. There are fully organized churches in every State in the Union. ‘The total contributions for all pur- oses was $63.048,063, a decrease of 3,065,047. Of this total $49,296,831 went for congregational expenses. Ten Largest Churches. ‘The 10 largest churches and their membership are: Pirst Church, Seattle, Wash., 7.886; Immanuel, Los Angeles, 4,087; First, Tulsa, Okla., 3,207; Tabernacle, Indian- apolis, 3,144; Central, Denver, Colo. 3,088; Pirst, Oklahoma City, 3,050; Pas: dena, Pasadena, Calif, 2,974; Pirst, Portland, Oreg., 2,800; First, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2,736, and Madison Avenue, New York City, 2,674. The five largest synods and their membership are Pennsylvania, 368,491; New York, 261,908; New Jersey, 166,087; Ohio, 160,043, and Iliinois, 131,150. ‘The five largest Presbyteries and their membership are Pittsburgh, Pa., 68,882; Chicago. 49,418: Los Angeles, 48,097: Philadelphia, 44,176, and New York City, 36,666. ROAD-AID FUND TO BE ALLOCATED AS DROUGHT AID (Continued From First Page.) cult at this time and Secretary Hyde nalready has initiated steps to provide nid. Several million sheep and about 500,000 head of cattle soon will need feed in the central part of the State, reports indicated, and immediate ac- tivity to move the cattle to better graz- ing land or to ship in emergency food is to be initiated. ¥ Hope of general relief throughout the drought area was revived by the reports of additional rains. Secretary Hyde saw in these not only a helpful ‘psychological factor for the farmers, but sald also the rains probably would rejuvenate much pasture land. Agreeing with this view, Thom sald the cooler weather also would be n great aid as the tures would not deteriorate so fast. He added that corn that is still green, but without ears on it, would make better forage. Rains in Many Sections. Some of the Western plains States and some other States in the drought area were reported today by the ‘Weather Bureau to have had rain in the past 24 hours. States in which rains were reported included Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Western Iowa, Western South Dakota, light rains in Montana and rains In central portions of Alabama, Mississipp, Georgia and generally over South Carolina. Rains also were reported in the North Atlantic States and in some of the South Atlantic States showers fell. Birmingham, Ala,, reported the Heaviest rain with a fall of 2.24 inches. Springfield, Mo., had 134; St. Joseph, Mo., 1.12; Valentine, Nebr,, 1.50; Rapid C"J’, 8. Dak,, .78; Omaha, Nebr, .34, and Oklahoma City, .04. Fort Smith, Ark., reported & maxi- mum temperature for yesterday of 104 degrees, with .01 inch of rain. RAIN FALLS IN ARKANSAS, St. Louis Southwestern Rallway Grant- ed Rete Cut. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., August 16 (#), —Southern Arkansas today found par- tial relief from the drought which has held sway there since May 19, how- ers fell over most of Union Co However, in the Little Rock area the drought was extended to 84 cays, while in other sections it has prevailed for an_even longer period. Drought relief measures were begun when the St. Louis-Southwestern Rail- way Co. was granted a petition by the Arkansas Railroad Commission to put into immediate effect reduced freight rates on certain feeds. Drought conditions in widespread sections of Northern Mississippi have been relieved by rains of sufficient vel- ume to soak through the sun-baked soll, according to advices received here, but in Memphis and West Tennessee the dry spell extended yesterday through its eighty-ninth day. HOPE IS ABANDONED FOR MOUNTAIN CLIMBER Bits of Tattered Clothing Found by Parties Searching for Missing Educator. By the Associated Press. MOUNT ROBSON, British Columbia, August 16.—All hope for the safety of Newman D. Wafi, head master of Carteret Academy, Orange, N. J., who started out alone 11 days ago in an attempt to scale the western slope of Mount Robson, was abandoned today after searchers had founi bits of tattered clothing in a slide far up on the mountain. Swiss 1mdfl| who had been tracking the missing man made the discovery yesterday. Search for Wafl's body, believed to be at the foot of the syde, will be continued, under the direction of F. N. Waterman of Summit, N. J., & friend of the missing educator. Waffl carried food for only two days when he attempted the ascent of the 13 in the rear. PRET, “BUNGALOW” TRAILER ADDS COMFORT TO CAMPAIGNING Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida driving her campaign car which she used {o tour her State for votes. The trailer has accommodations for five people, with three lower and two upper berths and a fully-equipped kitchenette —Wide World Photos. ATTEMPT 0 ROB BANK IS CHARGED Grand Jury Given Case of Ex-Janitor Disarmed by Georgetown Cashier. Charged with assault to rob C. ‘Wendall Shoemaker, cashier of the Po- tomac Savings Bank, and Cosma Boyd, { janitor of the bank, Leroy Cooper, col- ored, 25 years old, was held for grand jury action from Police Court today under $25,000 bond after a preliminary hearing. Cooper was surprised in the base- ment of the bank bullding, at Wiscon- sin avenue and M street, Thursday morning by Cashier Shoemaker, after the former had bound Janitor Boyd. Cooper, armed with two revolvers and his face covered with coal soot and a mask, meekly allowed Shoemaker to disarm him. Subsequent to this Cooper, a former janitor of the bank, had pounced on Boyd and bound him to a bale of T, “;Ie &'5 me when the vault would be opened,” the janitor told Judge Rob- ert E. Mattingly today, “and declared that he was going to rob it.” Both the lj,:‘nl!&;lnd lhofll'l‘:.l::dm:: the court that Yy “‘were death” when they looked into the face of Cooper’s automatics. “I sensed that something was wrong when I first entered the bank,” Shoe- maker said, “I went to the basement and about the first thing I saw were the pistols pointed at my head. Some one shouted out of the semi-darkness, ‘put up your hands’ I don’t remem- ber what I did I was so scared. “You know me, Mr. Shoemak the bandit, “I was only playing’ At this juncture,. Shoemaker said that he gathered courage, walked up to the former janitor, pushed the gun sside and took them away from the man. Boyd, the janitor was untied, Cooper WAs phc;?m in - the hands of th precinct jce. s “wmn ll:t District Attorney Wilbert represented the Govern- entered a plea of not MclInerney, ment. Cooper guilty. R-100 ENDS FLIGHT, TAKING 57 HOURS AS STORMS CUT SPEED (Continued From Pirst Page.) unohenvund,t.hgb:mrmmvh-t was going on above them. Passengers and crew were unanimous in their bellef that the &Hfl had proved beyond question the feasibility of trans- atiantic commercial airship communi- cation. b That the giant ship rode smoothly through & 75-mile-an-hour gale with no discomfort to lhu:honbmmv‘v;:‘ ccemo(} passengers as the e mr stabllity. A brimming glass of water, placed on & table in the cabin of the R-100 before the departure from Montreal, did not spill a drop all the way across the Atlantic. The R-100 passengers aocquired = sense of absolute security within a few hours after the start of the voyage. The ship averaged a speed approxi- mately three times:greater than that of the fastest of liners, Once, aided by a southwést gale, she attained a pace of 92 miles per Roce. Bi-weekly Service Forecast. Officers expressed the bellef that if more prompt meteorological data had been available the navigators of the R-100 might have avoided the storm which hit the airship early Friday. By shaping & more northerly course the craft could have circled the bad area and thus made the crossing in. less time. Following the ship’s arrival the sug- gestion was made also that there might have been more co-operation between maritime authorities of Great Britain and Canada in mapping North Atlantic weather. Comdr. Colmore, Maj. Scott and other officers asserted that the R-100's success was an augury of s regular airline service between England and Canada. Sir Dennistoun Burney, the craf designer, said he looked forward to biweekly service with de luxe airships, each carrying 100 passengers and from 5 to 10 tons of mail, operating under the direction of the British and Cana. dian_governments. Meanwhile, he sald, the 00 should be used for some com- merc! urpose and be sent back to Canada for further experimental work. The aircraft, he declared, should make frequent transatlantic flights with pas- sengers and mail instead of lying idle at s“dln[lnn. Log of the R-100 On Return Flight By the Associated Press. All times shown are Eastern standard time. Wednesday, August 18. 8:28 p.m.—Left St. Hubert Alr- port, Montreal, for England. Thursday, August 14. 13,000-foot peak. Mount Robson has never been climbed by the route Waf attempted. PLAN PROPAGANDA WAR Mexican Students Will Combat “Americanization” of Territory. MEXICO CITY, August 16 (P).—Na- 10:20 a.m.—Passed over liner Laurentic in Straits of Belle Isle. Friday, August 15. 1 a.m.—Reported position 1,855 miles east of Montreal, 1,732 miles from Cardington. 10:11 a.m.—Communicated to liner Cameronia, about two-thirds across Atlantic. 9:45 p.m.—Landfall northwest tional University students have an- nounced that they would send & com- mission to Lower California to spread Mexican nationalistic &nfllllfld offset alleged “Americanization it territory. ‘The students' decision was a conse- nce of Secretary of Communications eral Juan Andreu Almazan's recent gwn to President Ortiz Rubio in whl‘:h that Americans were gain- ing control of Baja Californis, of Fasnet, Ireland; 413 miles from Cardington. Saturday, August 16. 2:30 a.m.—Passed over Newport, traveling slowly. 3:15 a.m.—Passed over Bristol. 3:40 Passed over Swin- don. 4:40 am--Arrived over Oar- dington, B 1 W SLEEPY CITY WHERE LINDY COURTED ANNE IS BOOMING Building Activity in “The Place of the Eagle" Is Partly Credited to Dwight W. By the Associated Press. CUERNAVACA, Morelos, Mexico, August 16.—This once sleepy little city, where Col. Charles A. Lindbergh courted Anne Morrow and, before him, Cortes, Maximilian, Carlota and De la Borda romanced, is awakening from a half dozen centuries of repose, its quiet dis- turbed by the hammer and saw of the builder. A tourist consciousness has brought about & building boom undreamed of & short while ago. Already there is a chamber of commerce, & tourist guide agency, & half dozen swimming pools, a hard-surfaced highway between Me: ico City, where busses and public auto- mobiles operate on hourly schedules, and a smoothly running divorce mill, where bonds can be severed in three days. Part of the boom is credited to Dwight W. Morrow, the American Am- bassador, who has a week end home here. The Ambassador fell in love with the town when he came to Mexico three years ago, and his place now is . MOI‘I’OW. a virtual museum of modern Mexican art. It was in the charming gardens of this place that Col. Lindbergh wooed his wife. Cuernavaca, one of the. oldest citieg in the Americas, was formerly known JOBLESS DECREASE SHOWN FOR JULY Wholesale Price Index Drops. Alabama and Georgi= Lead in Work. By the Associated Press. An increase during July in the d-- mand for unskilled workers and farm help was reported today by the De- partment of Labor, together with a a’hb decline in the wholesale price ex. The employment bureau of the de- partment reported outdoor labor had been increased materially by highway construction, installation of natural gas pipe lines, telephones and other utility construction as well as farm labor, but that closed industrial plants and part- time operation continued to affect many workers. Building construction work remained below the level of previous years, Price Index Decline Reported. The statistics section reported a price index decline of 2.8 from June to a mark of 8.4 for July. This flfure. based on the purchasing power of the 1926 dollar, gave the July, 1930, dollar a comparative value of $1.19. Of 550 commodities compared, 57 showed in- creases for the month, while 236 de- clined and 257 remained unchanged. Farm products and food led the de~ cline, with 615 and 4% per cent respec- tively. Lower prices also prevailed for hides and leather, textiles, metals, bulld- ing materials, chemicals and drugs. Regarding industrial unemployment the department said a majority of the plants which had not reopened during the latter of July, following shut- downs for inventory, repairs, or holiday periods, ex to reopen in August. Alabama and Georgia Lead. Meanwhile the national unemploy- ment count thus far completed by the Census Bureau shows two Southern States, Alabama and Georgia, freest from that condition of citizenry of- ficially described as “without a job, able to work and looking for a job.” by the Tlahuicas Indians as Cuauhna- huac, translated as the Place of the le. The Spaniards, who captured it in April, 1521, changed the Indian name to Cuernavaca, meaning Cow's Horn, after the manner in which Bar- rancas surrounded the town, forming roughly a cow’s horn. Corte was the original landed Baron of Cuern: ‘The balmy climate and constant sunshine appealed greatly to him and in 1530 he started building his palace, which still serves as the state government, palace. Diego Rivera, Mexico's greatest mural inter, is painting the history enacted y Cortes on the walls of the t building. Ambassador Morrow is pay- ing for the work, as he has paid for other renovation and reconstruction. BRIBERY WITNESS " INVOLVES JONES Says Dry Senator Obtained License for Radio Plant for Liquor Ring. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., August 16—The| story of alleged bribery and intrigue | told by Alfred M. Hubbard, Govern-, ment witness, against Roy O. Lyle,, ousted Federal prohibition administra- tor, and four others charged with being in league with big rum running organ- izations, echoed in political circles to- day as their trial stood in recess over the week end. Involves Senator Jones. Hubbard said United States Senator Wesley L. Jones, vigorous supporter of prohibition and author of the Jones “five and ten” law, obtained the license for a radio station, which Lyle and oth- ers had established at Grays Harbor, ‘Wash., as an official excuse to visit that district. Hubbard said the prohibition officials visited Grays Harbor to pro- tect liquor runners. Hubbard, admittedly a former rum- runner and more recently a Federal prohibition agent under Lyle, testified Lyle and his chief assistant, Willlam M. Whitney, one of the five on trial, solicited and received from Roy Olm- sted, head of a large liquor smuggling organization, and others $6,000 for use in the senatorial campaign of 1926. Admits Handling Payment. ‘The witness, presented by the Gov- ernment as the alleged intermediary be- | t! tween rum-runners and Federal prohi- bition officers, testified he himself handled the $6,000 payment to Whitney. Leslie E. Salter, Assistant Attorney Cieneral, conducting the' prosecution, then directed Hubbard’s testimony into another channel. ‘The witness testified he made several glmenu of protection money for mem- ted direct 12 June or July, 1926. ers of the Olms to Lyle SOVIET EXPEDITION DISCOVERS NEW LAND Red Flag Will Be Planted in Arctic Locality Which Charts Show as Ocean. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, August 16.—The red of the Soviet republics will be plani on a new land in the Arctic Ocean, 200 miles north of the Siberlian coastline at Yeneisel Bay. ‘The Russian Arctic expedition aboard the icebreaker Sedov radioed that it discovered new land at 79:25 north 76:10 east. The land was said to extend far to the westward, ard the message :,lld! lst :ould be claimed for the CHARGES MINORITY BLOCKS BUSINESS Lucas Says Leaders Have Opposed Hoover’s Re- lief Measures.. | ‘Taking 6fMce today as executive direc- tor of the Republican National Com- leaders with blocking administration business and unemployment rellef to preserve depression .as & campaign issue. Ve Simultaneously, David Burnet took over the post of commissioner of in- ternal revenue, succeeding Mr. Lucas. He was appointed yesterday by Presi- dent Hoover, Mr. Burnet, a native of West Vir- finh. entered the Government service 0 years ago from Ohio and was ap- pointed deputy commissioner last Win- er by Mr. Lucas. Opposed Hoover Plans, ‘““The Democratic leaders,” Lucas said, “put their party in direct opposition to every effort made by the Nation’s Chief Executive and his administration to restére business and provide employ- ment for all the people. Having selécted the natural misfortune of the Nation— the suffering of the unemployed—as a campaign issue for 1930, the Democratic leaders could not lend their support to any corrective measures without de- priving their party of a battle cry for e campaign. “And the country has continued to suffer—business is slow to recover— workers walk the streets looking for work while the Democratic strategists confer and consult and issue statements, all the while fearing an ent in business before the election. They hold to the fallacious idea that if things will just remain as they are until elec- tion day, the Democrats will secure con- trol of Congress.” Makes “Quack” Comparison. ‘The Lucas statement—the opening un of the Republican national organ- tion’s participation in the Fall elec- tion campaigns—compared the Demo. cratic party to a “quack” and the Re- publican organization to the “old fam- ily physician” needed to deal with a serious iliness. The new director, whose task as commissioner of internal rev- enue was surrendered to David Burnet of West Virginia, simultaneously with taking over the Republican office, charged the Democrats with having ‘waged campaign of misrepresenta~ tion and confusing propaganda.” “That campaign has had a demoral- jzing effect upon business,” he sald. “That misrepresentation has made its impression. That propaganda has takem hold. It is well there is yet time to get the truth to the people, * * * “The country is facing a crisis. We are in the midst of & temporary, but serious depression. If, by reason of this situation the Democratic party— traditionally known as ‘the free trade mittee, Robert H. Lucas of Kentucky | Birmf issued a statement charging Democratic | looking for By percentages, lowest to highest, un- emplo‘;emenv. in the wigely scattered States ran: Alabama,”0.8; 0.9; New Mexico, 1.3; Idaho, mont, 1.5; Maine, ; Arizol Oklahoma, 1.8; Indis 2.2; Montana, 2.2, and Minor laurels for low score went to Liberty County, Mont., where the un- employment round- g) was a fat zero, Not one of the 2,203 population com- plained of being jobless when the enu- merator called. Nor could the census takers find a single stray situation- seeking cowboy or sheep herder sil- houetted against the sky. No other county in the United States thus far yed. Liberty, a top-tier county touching the Cm{dun border, had for its near- est rival Greene County, Ala., where but two of the 19,765 population were out of a job and looking for one. g o i nsidered by ‘The rtial returns, col States -‘:d by counties, and, occasion- ally; by cities, showed unemployment to S*sE s iy he Sequestered moun: well as H - tain and rt district as well as the seaboard industrial centers. Nevada, least populous State, of far- flun{ area, with the t unemploy- ment percentage (3.1) of any State thus far reporting, came swclose -u{ to that congested center, New Yorl City, where the unem it eount totaled 3.4 per cent of the population. Alabama boasted eight counties in which unemployment was less than one-tenth of 1 per cent; 51 more coun- ties in which unemployment was less than 1 per cent and only eight counties in which more than one in 100 was jobless. In Jefferson County, where ingham Be;: two in every 100 were ‘worl 161 counties, had 131 3 rty’ ‘the party of unrestricted Viadimir Wiese, Soviet scientist, pre- B:m{tn.aun —Ahg.uld, gain control of in 1924 and explorers have been search- | Government, what chance would there ing for it since. nvallable charts show |be for a restoration of normal business? the locality as open ocean. Elect & Democratic Congress in 1930 business again for some years.to come.” Lucas concluded with a statement that he belleved voters would elect a UNDER TONS OF ROCK |Republican ¢ Celling in Quarry at Montrose, CONWCTED SLAYER'S W|FE Towa, Caves In, Burrying HELD ON- LIQUOR CHARGE By the Associated Press. MONTROSE, Iowa, August 16.—Four men were killed when a rock ceiling in | Husband Ys Condemned to Death, :.;: 1‘,’,1 yesterday .mr‘.:::.,_ ) Accused of Illegal Possession. | e victims were crushed under tons of rock loosened when the ceiling gave | Mrs. Elisabeth Gy Cagle and Cevil White, a Negro, all of | the death penalty for the slaying of Keokuk, Iowa, and Wayne Gee of |Federal Prohibition Agent Lamar W. Montrose. ‘ork on April 11, was arrested early This was the second accident at the | today by police of the second precinct onth. | and nhlrri l{*’eonnuet On July 18 George Johnson was killed |and illegal possession of ) in & rock cave-in. Previous to, that| Policemen Spotswood F. Gravely and quarry operators said that there had | G. L. Earl the Guy n-ldune:].o:v. dicted discovery of land in this region | the legislative branch of the Federal >~ and this country will not see normal FOUR MEN ARE CRUSHED Republican Congress to support, Presi- the Workers. Elizabeth Guy, Colored, Whose the McManus Rock Quarry nes , colored, 28, way. They were Clyde Bryant, Wesley | of Milton Guy, who is sentenced to pay McManus Quarry in less than a ‘with dhfll\lr :l'h been the | 207 Brooks court, shortly after 4 o no fatal accidents there in s B w3, Georgia, with in which less than one person in 100 ‘was ‘unemployed. - Chatham County, containing Savannah, had 2,895 jobless in its 105,350 population, or 2.7 per cent. In these two Southern States and in Oklahoma unemployment percen were Righest in the larger cities. County reported 11,991 unemployed in her 187,405 population, or 6.4 per cent —a higher figure than New York City. Some City Figures Low. But in Idaho, Arizona and Montana counties containing the largest cities showed less unemployment proportion- ally than some country tricts. Ada County, Idaho, which includes Boise, and Bannock County, which in- cludes Pocatello, had but 04 and 1.1 per cent unemployment, rurcunly. Ada’s figure was 169 unemployed in 37,932 lation; Bannock's 335 un- employed in 31,256 population. But Lemhi County, with but 4,613 people, had 3.8 per cent nnam&ayed. Only 8.3 per cent of the 287,644 peo- ple in Denver County, Colo., were un= emplofed. whereas San Juan County, poppulation 1,930, had the highest un- employment in the State, 8.7 per cent. r of Vermont’s 14 counties tallied less than 1 per cent unemployed, and P zona's 14 counties per cent ummgloymem and 4 tallied more than 2. Unemployment in these two widely separated and distinetly dif- ferent States thus evened up fairly well, Indiana, Midwest specimen of the oup, had 66,390 unemployed, among ,225,600 inhabitants. a) County, which ix:cludu ;;ldllnlwlu, t::ldl 4& per cent unemployment—a 16,804 jobless in a 416,250 population. BAMBERGER DENIED WRIT IN BABY ROW Circuit Court Refuses Interference in Science Tests to Determine Parenthood Claims. By the Associated Press. CHIOAGO, August 16.—Charles Bam- berger yesterday was denied a Cireuit Court injunction to restrain Mrs. Mar- ret Watkins from having further lood and other tests made in her efforts to straighten out the Bamberger- ‘Watkins baby tangle. The Bambergers and the Watkinses are involved in habeas corpus - ings which demand the Bambergers surrender the baby they received from Englewood Hospital a month ago, in re- turn for the one held by the Watkinses. Because an adhesive tape label bearing the name Bamberger was found on the Watkins baby and _vice versa, the ‘Watkinses clalm the Bambergers' child is theirs. Bamberger denied this and has refused to surrender the baby he has. In today's petition Bamberger alleged that adequate tests have already been made and that additional tests injure the child. He asked that Watkinses be restrained from bri Eastern physicians here to examine the children and this request was - wise refused. . BAND CONCERT. The United States Military Band this evening, bandstand at 5:30 o'clock, John bandmaster ' Home at. the 8. M. Anton Suite Nautical, < “To Sea,” “From a " “A. D, M. DCX: light.” Scenes from the Fox Trot, “You ‘andering X," “Star- Opera, “Attila". . Verdi & New