Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1930, Page 2

- WAR SERVICE WINS AID FOR CANPS ELL V. F. W. Post Retains Counsel for Baker Murder Suspect on Eve of Hearing. His military service on the Mexican border in 1916 and in France a few years later has won for Herbert M. Campbell the legal aid of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, with which organiza- tion the indicted suspect in the Baker murder case is affliated Mary Herbert 5. Ward. co-resident in Ar- | lington County with the accused war veteran snd practitioner of law in the ' District, has been designated by Fed- eral Post, No. 824, Veterans of Foreign | ‘Wars, as “special advocate” to assist in Campbell's defense. ‘Ward has conferred by telephone with Charles Henry Smith, attorney retained who is by the Campbell family, town. mysterious mission out understood _the veterans® make his first appearance in th when Campbell f counsel on & It is will e case United States Commissioner J. Barton Phillips in Alexandria tomorrow ing at 10 o'clock. Lively Battle Expected. morn- The preliminary hearing in the com- missioner’s office is expected to develop | into a lively legal battle between OD- | w.chinzton Chamber of Commerce: E, W ing counsel, with the Government r:khl\zg Campbell's immediate removal to the District Jail and the defen posing the move with every power means. Should the defense succeed in se op- in 1ts turn- ing the hearing into a virtual prelim- inary trial on the merits of the case against the real estate man. Federal counsel are said to have “something up the sleeve” intended to prove a surprise to the defense. The nature of the “sur- prise” was not disclosed, although it is understood to affect several of Camp- bell's alibi witnesses. In the meantime Albert H. Hamilton, Auburn, N. Y., criminologist, who is re- ported to have offered his services as a ballistics expert to the defense, in- jected an element of mystery into '._hls phase of the case today by advising The Star of activities of “a str interested Baker probe. anger” in ballistic angles of the Answered Specific Questions. According to a telegraphic ex ton of his connection with the case, Hamilton said that “s scientific questions in ballistics™ plana- Baker pecific in- volved in the case had been submitted to him by the “stranger.” He sald he had replied to these questions, but he failed to divulge the name of the stranger, the nature of the queries made and the reply submitted. If Hamilton is retained as a defense expert, he will meet with opposition from the Government in any move to examine in his New York laboratory Campbell's gun and the fatal bullets: Assistant United States Attorney Wil- liam H. Collins said today the prosecu- tion would never consent to this evi- dence leaving the Government's posses- sion. If Hamilton is willing to exam- ine the gun and bullets at the Bureau of Standards in the presence of Dr. | Wilmer Souder, the plan will be con- sidered, he said. It is thought unlikely Hamilton would consent to examine the weapon with any instruments but his own, however. Attorney Ward said today that Camp- bell enlisted July 8, 1916, in this city with Company C, 113th Field Signal Battalien, serving on the Mexican bor- der until March 12, 1917, and cf uing in the service until May 16, when he was honorably discharged as | During this enlistment he ontin- 1919, tion. over- seas in the World War. After the war he again enlisted and was finally is- charged January 1, 1925, as corporal, the attorney stated. 10 BODIES ARE FOU IN BLAKEBURN M ND INE Rescue Squad to Continue Search Where 45 Workers Were En- tombed Last Wednesday. By the Astociated Pri BLAKEBURN, British Columbia, Au- 9. gust 1 ‘Ten bodies were foun: ht the Blakeburn Mine, d last ‘where nig 45 workers were entombed in an ex- plosion last Wednesday. Three previously had been recovered. Rescue workers returning to the pit the bodies were located on No. 1 bodies «head just before midnight announced atore. Other bodies had been found near the pit_portal. Rescuers had penetrated quite tance from where they were porarily halted by Friday's fire. attempts were made to identif, dead men. Workers said, with ins blocking * the stope, it mig! geveral days before the bodies co brought out. GLADYS O'DONNELL STILL IN LEAD OF a dis- tem- No y the cave- ht be uld be WOMEN’S AIR DERBY (Continued From First Page. ) Meoney and Earl Rowiand of Wichita, Tace entrants, had not appeared The race was for class B planes of *less than 500 cubic inches piston dis- placement, flown from Los Angeles to New York last year and won by Livin, ston. Rowland won the class A ev 1928. The itinerary and schedule: £ vent Departure from Brownsville at 9 am., refueling st Corpus Christi and H and night stop at San Antonio; ouston Wed- nesday. refueling at Waco, night stop at Fort Worth; Thursday, refuell Wichita Falls and Oklahoma Cit night stop at Tulsa; Priday, refuel Springfield, Mo., and night stop ng at S with ling at at St Leuis; Saturday, refueling at Aurora, I, and finish at Chicago. BIG ARMADA TO FLY. Eighty Chicago From St. Louis. CHICAGO, August 19 mada from the South and Sou! will fiy from St. Louis Priday fe welcome to famous fivers entes the national air races. A squadron of 80 planes, pri owned, will gathes day for the meneuver, due over Chicago's Loop at noon, it will_join squadrons of Army, and Marine Corps ships. Belo Planes Will Swoop Down on (#).—An ar- thwest or the red in ivately in 8t. Louis Thurs- The armada is where Navy the visiting famous flyers of America and Europe will be escorted down tape lanes. Maj. R. W. Schroeder, contest ticker- direc- tor of the races, said three entrants were assured for the take-off tomorrow of the men's derby for 200 horsepower planes from Miami. Maj. Schroeder also announce -cff for the non-stop rac d that e from les to Chicago would be made any day of the race after Sunday, de- pending upon weather conditions. cém’; Radio VI: 0. K LE BOURGET, France, (#).—Diéudonne Coste, French & ace, in a flight over Le Boury this morning tested his plai wireless equipment himeelf fully satisfied. ready to set out on his and pron: August 19 viation Field s new ounced He said he was projected At- lintic flight to New York ai the m parti ety weather reports ang favorsl Athl | of them thought that with their victory ! Holyoke College, i responding to the is arraigned before Left to fight: Freitag, also of the Chamber of Commerce. transport at Washington Airport yesterday morning. ichmond, being run by the Eastern Air Transport. Washington and WOMEN IN POLITICS DISAPPOINT MRS. BLAIR. SUFFRAGE LEADER | Views of Notables, Gathered for Anniversary of Bal- lot, Vary. Many Feel Neither Highes!‘ Hopes Nor Worst Fears | Realized. By the Associated Press. Emily Newell Blair, who campaigned for suffrage in Miksourl back in 1914, is “frankly Qquite discouraged about women in politics.” She made this known loday in her contribution—the first pessimistic one—— to a fat compendium of opinions on women and the ballot gathered by the League ¢ Women voters to mark the tenth birthday of feminine suffrage in America, Views Gathered for Anniversary. All these views, gathered from no- tables of both sexes, are to be published for the anniversary on August 26 of the | signing by former Secretary of State Colby of the proclamation that actually culminated the movement. “I am afraid,” Mrs. Blair said, “the suffragists have made the same mis- take as the temperance group. Both they had only to defend their position; | and 50, just as the Women's Christian | Temperance Union stopped its educa- tional work for temperince and devoted itself to claiming the eighteenth amend- ment worked, so the suffragists stopped their educational Work of convincing people that women had a right to equal ity and devoted themselves to other in. terests.” Mary E. Woolley, president of Mount league’s query, said: women has not brought about the mil- lenium, but it has meant a decided step toward better _government. * - ‘There are indifferent citizens among women as among men, but the addition | of women certainly has meant a large !Increase in the number of citizens who are both conscientious and intelligent.” Educational Processes Lauded. Sald Newton D. Baker, former War Secretary: “The years of experience under the nineteenth amendment are not enough to enable me to express any positive judgments as to the use which women in general have made of their suffrage privilege.” BLACK, WORLD FLYER, MISSING FROM YACHT | OFF JERSEY COAST' __(Continued From First Page.) crossed the Pacific on shipboard and then flew to Baltimore from San Fran- an “ear Black was known inter- nationally as an aviation enthusiast and there were many places in far- flung parts of the earth that he and his plane were known. He was not a fiyer himself, but used passenger planes and had his own pilots and mechanics. Cruising by air, much as yacht own- ers cruised by sea, Mr. Black traveled thousands of miles over Europe, Africa and Asia during the past few years and probably held the world record for | miles flown ss a passenger. He was intensely interested in the commercial possibilities of aviation and on his trips carefully studied the progress of air travel, Although he had traveled thousands of miles by air, his trips were singularly free from trouble or accident. In all he had two crashes. One in Genoa in April, 1929, and the second at Calcutta in June of that year. Began Globe Trip in 1928. His first well known flight was from Holland to the Dutch East Indles in 1927. In 1928 he began a world flight, but gave it up in Egypt when trouble developed. He then returned to the United States after having toured 20 nations by air, Later in 1928 he again started on an African air jaunt from Europe and flew to Nairobi in Kenya Colony, then re- turning again to Europe by air. It was while on his way back to London that he had his first forced landing at Genoa. In May,. 1929, he started on a flight from London. to Tokio, this trip ending when his plane was cracked up on landing Caicutta. Undaunted, he started again this year and this time sueceeded in flying to Tokio. From Tokio he sailed for S8an Francisco and arrived back in Baltimore on May 19. TORIES ARE EXPECTED TO SEIZE JOBLESS ISSUE ! By the Astociated Press. LONDON, August 19.—Well informed | Sunday lying in the car which was hid- | The marked money, police said, was political circles assert that Tory poli- ticians are preparing a heavy campaign against Remsay MacDonald's Socialist government, basing their chief talking point on the failure of the Laborites to solve unemployment. With 2,000,000 workless clamoring for relief, the Conservative leaders are undersiood to be planning to strike while unrest is high. The present un- employment figures break all previous British records and word has been passed around Conseivative strongholds to try to force a general election before the tide turns, Next month will see the beginninj the Tory bombardment and Iiament s ai of when Par- e s are ely prepar or & vision, “The granting of the suffrage to? It was the first ship on a | NEWELL BLAIR. .ie added, however, that educational processes women have set up to train themselves seemed to him “admirable | in spirit and accomplishment” and that “a great question of political right was | settled.” Mrs. Raymond Brown, editor of the Woman's Journal, gave as her opinien | that “both men and women are ques tioning Government processes and are watching the actions of elected officials | as they used to do” and that “political | party committees and candidates have | irequently been embarrassed and some- | times incensed at the ‘questions women have showered on_them.” { Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt sald women had made “a contribution to better government” and that “wherever they | bave taken part in local politics there {18 no question but what the general standards have gone up.” She con- stended “the percentage of those who use their suffrage is probably about equal now to the percentage of men who use theirs.” Neilson Speaks for Many. Dr. W. A. Neflson, president of Smith | College, put into words what many who were consulted seemed to feel. He sald “jt is & commonplace that no great po- litical change produces all the evils its | opponents predicted or all the good its supporters hoped for.” In his obser- vation, he added, fears of the opponents of woman's suffrage “have been realized hardly at all,” while the high hopes of its supporters “are being gradually but | steadily fulfilled.” PEPCO BUILDING | agents used | played displeasure at the stand taken WASHINGTON D. AUGURST 19, 193 | | | | C. H. Frame, Paul J. Leverone and Lieut. Walter Hinton, chairman of the aviation committee of the | Parker, pilot; Thomas Carroll, vice president of Washington Airport, and C. W. | The picture was taken shortly after Pilot Parker had set down the big Ford daily plane service between New York, Star Staff Photo. VETERANS OF 18%8 | HEAR NAVAL PLEA Men of Spanish War Urged to Support Present Build- ing Program. By the Assoclated Pri PHILADELPHIA. August 19.—A plea for support of the Navy's building pro- gram was made today before the thirty- second annual encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans as the “boys of '98” gathered at their head- | quarters in preparation for the military parade later in the afternoon. Capt. W. C. Watts of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and who for two years was in command of the U, 8. 8. Colorado, | was the speaker, He sketched the prog- ress of naval affairs from the time of the doughty old Olympia, Admiral Dewey's flagship, to the present. He urged the veterans to support the build- ing program of the Navy, declaring that its importance could not be overesti- mated. A group of Spanish War nurses ap- peared on the platform at the conclu- sion of Capt. Watts' address to_present & bouquet to Fred W. Green, Guvornnr’ of Michigan and national commander of the veterans’' organization. Among the nurses were Miss Rebecca Horn, Los Angeles, and Mrs, Elizabeth E. Denming, | Long Beach, Calif. PROBE IN IMPROPER RAIDS IS ORDERED BY CHIEF OF POLICE| (Continued From PFirst Page.) 11 people, papers were refused because of ::rrplntlgsl raids, while in the other two papers were refused because of in- sufficlent evidence. Hart has consistently refused to countenance cases in which the charges grew out of warrantless raids and has also discouraged the use of ‘“stool | pigeons,” special informers and similar | in gathering prohibition violation information. The protecutor has made every effort, he said, to com- pel officers to secure warrants before attempting to enter any premises. Several of the police who had papers refused by the prosecutor yesterday dis- by Hart, but the attorney remained firm in his refusal to make out cases against persons seized on insufficient evidence VALUE IN PARLEY - ‘ Conference Held on Rating of Property Bought by Fed- | eral Government. Qfficials of the Potomac Electric Power Co. met with the Public Utilities | Commission today in an effort to iron out a difference which has arisen over a figure at which the power company's office bullding and power station at Fourteenth and B streets, which heas been bought by the Federal Govern- ment, shall be retired from the com- pany's valuation. The property was bought Government last January for $3,600,000 Its “book cost” is slighily in excess of $2,400,000, and the company proposes to_ retire it at this figure. In 1924 the commission and the com- pany compromised over value by taking a figure of approximately 25 per cent more than the book cost, represent valuation. The commission’s conten- tion i1s now that the property should be retired at at least this increase over book cost, which would make the re- tirement in round figures $3,000,00 Otherwise, the commission argues, ther will be left in the valuation figure some $600,000, not representing any property on which the public will be required to & reasonable return in | . Blee Even if the | | the way of electric rates. commission's figures prevail, there would still be left some $600,000 as the dif- ference between their figure and the price at which the property changed | hands. The conference was held behind closed doors and after it was over it was announced that no decision had yet been reached. “ELOPEVRS" FOUND DEAD !Mnrried Man and Girl, 15, Missing ! Bince Last October. MEDICINE HAT, Alberta, A (P).—Adam Snyder, a married ! 15-year-old Minnie Sturm disappeared | last October in Snyder's car and were | thought to have eloped. Their bodies were found by a rider st 19 | den from view in a mountain coulee. A | note beside them said they took poison | together. ICE HOLDS PATROL SHIP \ i Progress of Bteamer Blocked 50 Miles From Far North Post. NORTH SYDNEY, Nova Scotis, Au- |gust 19 (#).—The steamship Boethic, | Arctic patrol ship which left North Sydney at the end of July, is fast in the ice about 50 miles from Boche Peninsuls to receive the yearly provisioning. Further progress is 1 lme until the ice loosens, & radio m.fi'.’un said. by the | n, and | or during an illegal raid. Two Dry Cases Reportéd Today. | The smallest number of liquor cases |in recent weeks was reported to ifart's ' | office today, when only two alleged vio- | lations of liquor law cases were brought |to the attorney’s attention. Hart Te- | |fused papers in one of these cases be- | cause of insufficient evidence. Following a raid on premises In the 400 block of New York avenue, Hunter Lee Jenkins, colored, 39, of the above | address, was arrested and charged with | possession of half a pint of whisky. Jenkins pleaded guilty and was sen- tenced by Judge Robert E. Mattingly to | pay a fine of $50 or to serve 60 days in jail. The raid was conducted by Po- licemen E. L. Sheiton and C. N. Strange of the second precinct. Attorney Hart refused papers in the case of Ernest Womack, colored, 32, of the 600 block of O street, after he was arrested yesterday on charges of | possession of liquor. Police said they had a “tip” that liquor was being de- livered at Womack's home. Police said they looked through a keyhole and saw Womack filling a bottle with colored | |iiquid. They waited until Womack | came out and asked him what he was | doing with liquor. Womack is said to have answered that it was for his own | use, but refused to tell police why he | had extra bottles and a funnel in his | room. ORMER WILL TESTIFY. The usual custom of virtually disre- | garding evidence collected by prohibi- tion informers in liquor cases at Police Court will undergo a change today when Assistant United States Attorney David A. Hart places an informer on the wit- ness stand to testify against Ernest Mc- Call Jeffries of the 1300 blo.k of Massa~ | chusetts avenue. | “The prosecutor placed Joseph Burke, informer, on the stand to testify that he { made & “buy” from Jeffries at his home May 6. Jeffries, who is chargea with main- taining a nuisance and two counts of | | secona-offense possession of liquor. was | first arrested on a liquor law violation in 1928, On April 16 an informer went to Jeftries home and made a “buy” with marked money. A raid followed and | Jeffries was arrested on liquor charges. | found on his_person Attorney Hart said that on May 6 Burke was sent to Jeffries home and succeeded in making a liquor purchase. ‘A second raid followed and a quantity of liquor was seized. Attorney Hart said that Burke will testify to the effect ! that he was successful in making a par- chase at Jeffries’ home. 1 re conducted by Lieut. O. J. Letter- man of the sixth precinct, who at the | time was head of the police vice squas Second precinct police, headed by Capt. O. T. Davis of the second pre- | i fries’ home.. Both Capt. Davis and ugxt. Letterman will testify against Jefiries. | Farrand Sayre, RETIRED OFFCERS GVEN WAR RANK Bliss and March Become Full Generals as Result of Re- cent Legislation. In accordance with the provisions of the act of Congress approved June 21, last, the War Department today an-| nounced the advancement of all the officers of the Army on the retired list to the rank in which they served &elfl—-l porarily during the World War. Heading the list are Maj. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss | and Maj. Gen. Peyton C. March, former chiefs of staff of the Army during that period, who consequently have been ad- | vanced to the rank of full general | There are about 700 names in 'h:-! list of retired officers thus advanced in- | | cluding more than 100 who have been advanced to the ranks of | general. various No Pay Change. Gen. Bliss and Gen. March will re- ceive the retired pay of $6,000, the luw‘ having authorized no change in pav with the advancement in rank. Of the various officers who served as full gen- erals during the World War, Gen. Per- shing was the only one who retained that rank after the armistice. Gen Bliss succeeded Gen. Hugh L. Scott, as chief of staff just before the cutbreak of the war. Brig. Gen. John Biddle, who has| been advanced to the rank of major | general, retired, was acting chief of staff until the appointment of Gen. March, who served from March 4, 1918, | to 1921, Aside from his military dutles, Gen. Bliss was & member of the Ame: ican Peace Commission that met | Versailles and concluded the terms that ended the war with Germany. Others Are Listed. Other general officers on the lst were advanced as follows: ‘To the rank of lieutenant general— Maj. Gens. Hunter Liggett and Robert L. Bullard, To the rank of major general— Brig. Gens. George T. Bartlett, Richard M. Blatchford and Augustus P. Block- som, Col. Beaumont B. Buck, Brig. Gen. William P. Burnham, Cols. George H. Cameron and Guy Carleton, Brig. Gens. Edwin St. J. Greble, Henry C. Hodges, jr.; Henry Jervey and Chase W. Ken- nedy, Col. d Brig. Gens. Willlam A. Mann, James Parker, Frederick S. Strong, Eben Swift, Peter E. Traub, Charles G. Treat and Edmund Wittemyer. To the rank of brigadier general— Cols. Frank H. Albright, William H. Allaire, Edward Anderson and Edward D. Anderson, Lieut. Col. Lincoln C. An- drews, Cols. William H. Arthur, Chaun- | cey B. Baker and Frank E. Bamford, Maj. Charles W. Barber, Cols. John E. Bennet, Luclen G. Berry, Henry P. Birmingham, George Blakely, John J. Bradley and Robert A. Brown, Lieut. | Col. Beverly F. Browne, Cols. Edward Burr, Vernon A. Caldwell and Edward R. Chrisman, Lieut. Col. Marlborough Churehill, Cols. William B. Cochran, Charies Grawford, James J. Hornbrook, Harold P. Howard, Ora E. Hunt and George K. Hunter, Maj. Charles C. Jamieson, Cols, Arthur Johnson, Jeffer- son R. Kean, Charles Keller and Daniel W. Ketcham, Lieut. Col. John W. Kil- breth, Cols. Albert D. Kniskern, Francis J. Koester, Charles W. Kutz, James R. Lindsay, P. D. Lochridge, Rufus E. Longan, Thedore C. Lyster, John S. Mallory, William F. Martin,’ Frank G. Mauldin, Nathaniel F. McClure, George W. Mclver, Charles H. Mc- Kinsiry, Clarence H. McNeil, Rob- ert W. Mearns, Edward A. Mil- lar, Samuel W. Miller, Jay J. Morrow, Benjamin C. Morse, Peter Murray, Henry C. Newcomer. George O. Cress, Marcus D, Cronin, William R. Dashiell, Willlam C. Davis, Frederick R. Day, James T. Dean, Da iel B. Devore, Charles B, Drake, Luclus L. Durfee, Frederic D. Evans, William M. Frssett, Adrian S. Fleming, Freder- ick S. Foltz, Joseph A. Gaston, George W. Gatchell, Charles Gerhardt, Robert N. Getty, Thomas G. Hanson, John D. L. Hartman, Everard E. Hatch, John L. Hayden, Charles A. Hedekin, Gordon G. Heiner, Robert. N. Noble, Joseph P. O'Neil, Julius A. Penn, Frederick Per- kins, Charles L. Phillips, Palmer E Guy H. Preston, Wiiliam C. Raf- y, Thomas H. Rees, John H. Rice, Charles Richard, James A. Ryan Benjamin T. Sim- mons, Alfred A. Starbird, Henry D. Styer, John T. Thompson, Orval P. Townshend, Robert C. Van Vieit, Charles C. Walcutt, jr. and Frank D Webster, Lieut. Col. William I. Wester- gelt, Cols. Charles B. Wheeler, Henry H. Whitney, Harry E. Wilkins, John 8 Winn and Francis A. Winter, Maj. Rob- ert E. Wood and Col. William T. Wood. | Chess Champion Plays 23. LIEGE, Belgium, August 19 (#).—Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris, chess champion of the world, played against 23 volunteer players simultaneously yes- terday in the formal opening of the In- ternational Chess Congress. After three { hours and a half, the champion wound up with a score of 21 wins and 2 losses. Crooner to Wed Wwilllam C. Langfitt and | | By the Associated Press. | TOP-GRADE AIR PILOTS When Miss Olive Hatch, swimming gathers together all the cups and medals for a jewelry store! Among other distinc the national championship women's 880, new world’s record. PERILS OF RESCUE FROM TAHITI TOLD Passengers Praise Captains for Seamanship in | Trying Hours. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, August | 19.—First stories from passengers of the ill-fated Pacific passenger liner Tahiti, | reaching here today from Pago Pago. | indicated that masterly seamanship on the part of the captains of both the | Tahiti and the rescue ship Ventura pre- | vented an appalling disaster. Ordered to Lifeboats Twice. Twice before the Ventura arrived, | when there seemed no hope of rescue at | hand, the Tahiti's captain gave orders | to the passengers to take to the life- | boats. | All aboard the Tahiti were grateful | for what appeared to be their deliver- | ance when the freighter Penybryn hove | above the horizon and made her way to | & point near the distressed Tahiti, but although she stood by and was willing to do all possible to succor the disabled and sinking craft, the Penybryn lacked | equipment to transfer the Tahiti’s com- | pany. Fear ruled the Tahiti for three days, but throughout their harrowing experi- ence the passengers were orderly and | obedient to the dictates of wiser minds. When the great good fortune of rescue | came to them the woman passengers first were transferred, then the men and finally the crew. Attempt Made to Save Mail. When all hands were aboard the Ventura, an attempt was made to save | the vast quantities~ of mail in her | holds. With some of the bags already taken off, ship'’s boats were returning for more when the Tahiti lurched and took another roll. The waves swept over her bows, which failed to rise again from be- neath the water. Then the doomed | liner straightened on an even keel. | Her stern rose and she disappeared in | & boiling white whirlpool. | There was a mass of splintered up- | per works still floating as the Ventura steamed away. . | | Americans Due at Pago Pago. | PAGO PAGO, August 19.—The liner Ventura was due at this American naval base at 1 p.m. today (5:30 p.m., P.S. T.) with the 317 persons rescued from the British steamer Tahiti, which went down in the South Pacific yesterday after being in distress for three days. Of the 317 persons rescued, 149 mem- bers of the Tahitti's crew and 16 pas- sengers will disembark here. The other passengers will continue to San Fran- cisco aboard the Ventura. | RESCUE SHIP ENDANGERED. | WELLINGTON, New Zealand, August 19 (#).—The Norwegian freighter Peny- | bryn, which sped to aid the distressed liner TaRiti in the South Pacific this week, was itself in danger today. The freighter, carrying sugar from Cuba to Auckland, is now running short of coal and is afraid to face an on- comi sgnouthsedT)at a shr ¢ mfw rd coming southwest gale it must battle to reach the New Zealand port. The vessel is endeavoring to reach Suva, in the Fijis, for recoaling. EARN $550 PER MONTH Aeronautic Officials, Commerce De- partment Report Average Paid in Mail and Passenger Service. By the Associated Press. | Average wages now being earned by | airplane pilots of the highest capability | | class range around $550 per month. | [ pay rolls of air mall and passenger- | carrying enterprises for the first six The aeronautic branch of the Com- merce Department ascertained the flight pay as a result of & survey of months_of 1930 and the last half of 1929. The pilots in this service are holders of the highest class of license, obtained only after much experience and training. In almost all cases, earnings of such pilots are based upon mileage flown. The compilations indicated the aver- age pilot in these services received the straight salary averaging $189 pe: month and, in addition, 5 cents per mile for day flying and 10 cents per mile for night fiying. The top wages of $850 were received by a group of mall pilots regularly flying ta night. Mechanics ~servicing planes and engines on air routes, the compilation also showed, average during the same | period $157 per month, the average Wwage running around 74 cents per hour. | - | BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Military Band, this evening, at the bandstand, at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. Zimmermann, hgndmaster; Anton Peint- ner, assistant: March, “The American Army” Insilli Overture, “Les Huguenots”..Meyerbeer Entr'acte— “8Song of the Boatmen of the Volga." “La Bella Zingara”. .Roberto Excerpts from comic opera “Boccacclo,” Suppe Fox-trot, “Sweeping the Clouds Away," Will Oshorne, the crooning orchestra the farthest northern post | cinct, also figured in the raids on Jef- | leader, and Margaret Ekdahl, beauty contest winner, have taken friends by surprise in' the announcement of their intention to marry. Coslow Waltz suite, “Pleasures of the Past.” Waldteufel Final ‘Give Yourself a Pat on the Bad 3 “Walla Miss Hatch is competing next month in the Far Western A. A. U. swimming championships at San Francisco. ated in the Pennsylvania field. he operated in Southern Illinols, then ing ear’ cure the i catters’; and cw wealtfedt world. - star of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, | she has won they make a fair nucleus tions as a swimmer, she is a mcmber of rd relay team, which recently set a -Associated Press Phcto. GOV. RITCHIE CALLS DROUGHT MEETING Banking, Railroad and Farm-! ing Leaders to Consider Re- | lief at Parley Friday. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, August 19.—Repre- sentatives of Maryland banking, rail- road and agricultural fields have been called into conference by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie to discuss means for allevia- tion of drought-stricken sections of the State where a survey shows crop losses ranging from 50%per cent to total loss. The meeting of industrial leaders was | set for Friday. At the same time it became known President Hoover had replied to Sen- ator Phillips Lee Goldsborough's plea that Maryland be included in Federal relief plans, declaring the State would be welcome to participate with others in the program outlined at a conference of Governors to which the Maryland executive was not invited. Gov. Ritchie had proteste¢ Maryland’s exclusion. The State Industrialists will meet following a drought conference of the Maryland State Grange set for Wednes- day. Out of the two meetings is ex- pected to come a definite program for aid to the affected sections. e el HOOVER APPOINTS HYDE CHAIRMAN OF DROUGHT RELIEF (Continued From First Page) ing to and from drought rones will be sent to railroad officials for final ap-| proval before establishment of the emergency rates. A list of counties in four States was added those in which emergency rates have been authorized. These counties includes | growing {office and warned him not to interfere INQURY REVEALS FOOD RACKETEERS Reluctant New York Wit- nesses Tell Death Threats of Profiteers. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 19.—Evidence that widespread organization of “racket- eers, guerrillas and gangsters” is using “strong-arm” methods in New York City to boost the cost of living was be- fore State investigators today as they {)ursued their inquiry into food profiteer- * ing. Despite reluctance of witnesses to testify, and their stories that they had been threatened with ruin and death if they refused to comply with the man- dates of the racketeers, Assistant Attor- ney General Willlam B. Groat, jr., pre- dicted more sensational revelations. “You've heard nothing compared to the exposures that are coming,” he said Milk Ring Rejuvenated. Testimony elicited from two dozen witnesses indicated the old Larry Fay * milk ring had been rejuvenated, and that a “mysterious” organization wi threatening ruin to a large wholesal business able and willing to lower egg prices here 5 cents a dozen. Groat asked Police Commissioner Mulrooney to supply protection for the Utah Poultry Producers’ Association after Benjamin Brown, executive di- rector in New York City, testified its business was being ruined by the food combination because it cut prices, Egg Warning Revealed. Brown testified that his association had been delivering three carloads of eggs a day in New York until a month ago, and that its business was steadily until a stranger visited his with “our market.” He identified the visitor as a Mr. Capelowich of the Vine- land Butter & Egg Co. “You better get wise and not butt into the regular set-up in New York by selling direct to retail grocers,” Brown quoted Capelowich as saying. “‘Remem- ber. you havs been warned.” Several witnesses told of threats and vandalism by which they had been in- duced to quit trading with the Utah association. SR TARIFF IS ISSUE OF FALL CAMPAIGN; SHOUSE OPENS FIRE _(Continued From First Page.) of consumers, it developed, have been astonishingly few. In the 60 days which have passed since the enactment of the new tariff law they have amounted to only 21; and of these 21 there are orobably half which are directed toward revi- sion upward rather than downward. Among them, further, in spite of all the emphatic protests made zgainst the new law by foreign governmenis and by foreign associations of prod icers, there is only one which represents for- eign complaint and foreigzn effort toward revision downward. That is an application on flaxseed by the Na- tional Agricultural Society of Argen- tina. The President still has 30 days, under the law, to appoint or reappoint the six members of the Tariff Commission, It is known that he has received severa] refusals to serve from distinguished private citizens and it is believed with some reason that it is doubtful it he has so far secured a single firm accep- tance. For reappointmen: from among the present members of the commission ! strcng public support has developed for Alfred Pearce Dennis, Democrat, of Maryland, and Edgar B. Brossard, Re- | publican, of Utah, both of whom, before they entered public life, were by occupa. tion economic students and college pro- fessors, (Copyright, 1930.) BATTLE ON IN EARNEST. Shouse Attacks Business Depression. Tilson Predicts Overthrow. ‘Wyoming—Campbell, Johnson, Sheri- dan and Weston. Louisiana—Avoyelles, Bienville, Bos- sier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula, Clai- borne, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, La Salle, Lincoln, | Madison, _Morehouse, Natchitoches, Ouachita, Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Helena, Tangipahoa, Tensas, Union, Washington, Webster, West Carroll and Winn. Montana—Big Horn, Blaine, Carbon, Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Gallatin, Garfield, Golden Valley, Hill, Judith Basin, Liberty, Madison, Musselshell, | Park, Petroleum, Phillips, Powder River, Rosebud, Stillwater, Sweetgrass, Treasure, Valley, Wheatland and Yellowstone. Oklahoma—Atoka, Choctaw, Coal, Johnston, Latimer, LaFlore, McCurtain, MclIntosh, Pittsburgh, Pushmataha and Sequoyah. FAIR FORECAST HERE. Middle West to Get Showers as Drought Continues Near Capital. Continued fair weather, with coel tion of any rains, it was said, during the next few days to relieve the effects of the drought in Washington and neighboring Maryland and Virginia dis- tricts. Other sections, however, will fare bet- ter. Showers over a large portion of the Middle West were reported to the Weather Bureau today, with predictions of further rains in the northern por- tion of the dry area tonight and to- morrow. Bureau officials said precipitation of the last 24 hours had extended over areas not previously touched by rains since the drought became acute, in- cluding Southern North Dakota and most of South Dakota. Rains were reported general over Eastern Kansas and extreme Eastern Nebraska, extreme Western Iowa, | Southern' and Western Missouri, Mis- sissippi_and most of Arkansas and| Louisiana. | Showers also were reported in West- | ern Alabama and Western Tennessee. Additional rains in Iowa and Minne- sota and North Dakota were forecast | for tonight and tomorrow. Bismarck, N. Dak. and Huron, S.| . reported 0.3¢ and 0.98 inches of | respectively, in the last 24| h a, Nebr, had 0.56 inches, Sloux City, Iowa, £.34; Kansas City, | 0.92, and Springfield, Mo., 0.74. SLICK 'FUN.ERAL HELD The battle for control of Congress was on in earnest today with the leading spokesmen of the Republican and Dem- ocratic parties recording their views of the general issues on which the con- tests is to be decided at the Noverhber elections. Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Dem- ocratic National Executive Committee, placed the Democratic side before the country in a radio address last night, in which the administration was charged with errors both of omission and com- mission. An immediate defense and counter attack was issued in a state- ment to the press by John Q. Tilson of Connecticut, Republican floor leader in the House of Representatives. Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the Re- publican ' National Comimttee already was on record with condemnation of the Democratic position. Hoover Drawn Into Blame. Shouse’s attack centered on the tariff bill, farm relief and business depression. President Hoover, in his speech, was made to share responsibility with Con- irene for the form taken by the tariff ill. He was singled out also for in- dividual criticism in connection with the farm relief legislation adopted and for failure to check in advance the depres- sion which set in last Fall. Tilson termed the Democratic speech “an amazing collection of half truths, misstatements, abuse and criticism.” Shouse, said Tilson, “failed to suggest a cure for a single thing vhich he criti- cized. Instead of offering a construc- tive program as his listeners had every right to expect him to do at this time, he presented the regrettable spectacls of the at least verbal leader of a politis cal party literally gloating over the economic distress of the country.” The Democratic leader asserted the people of the country “are arising to & political overthrow that may assure the proportions of a cataclysm.” Tilson replied that overthrow of the Repub.llcln party would be a ‘“cata- clysm,” because the party had “a def- inite. well considered administrative and legislative program which it is car- rying forward to completion despite the determined obstructive tactics of the Democrats.” Draws “Stolen Horse” Parallel, Shouse said farm products had de- clined in price steadily since passage of the farm act. He contrasted the Hoover 1928 campaign speeches assur- ing continuation of prosperity under Republican rule with the unemployment and depressed business obtaining within the year. He blamed the President for Dot warhing against speculation while Secretary of Commerce and President- elect. Conceding that after the crash Mr. Hoover “did perhaps all any man Many Oil Operators Attend Rites Held at Clarion, Pa. CLARION, Pa, August 19 (#).— | Thomas B. Slick, millionaire independ- | ent ofl operator of Oklahoma Oity, | Okla., who died Saturday at Baltimere | at the age of 46, was buried yesterday in the family plot in the Clarion Ceme- tery after funeral services at the home of his mother, Mrs. Mary Slick. The services were conducted by the Rev. P. A. Galbraith, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and many oll operators from the midcontinent fleld were present. Slick was born here and once oper- Later | in Oklahoma and Texas. He had gained | the reputation of “King of the Wfld-] was_reputed to be the ndent operator in the et could to try to effect an adjustment of conditions,” Shouse observed . that “history is apt to record ‘that he locked the barn door after the horse was stolen.’ " He said President Hoover could have checked the tariff “raid” at any time during the long period the revision was under congressional consideration, but had failed to speak the word which would have ‘“corrected the intolerable features of this unholy and excuseless piece of legislation.™ Pointing to Shouse’s assertion that the Democrats would endeavor to re- srond to the people's “cries of despera- tion” for relief from present condi- tions, Tilson challenged the opposition leaders to show how they would en- deavor to respond.” “Will ‘a sympathetic and understand- of which Mr. Shouse complains?” he asked. “If s0 how?" “These are pertinent questions which the voters eertainly have t to an answer in this campaign.”