Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1930, Page 2

AX INCREASE MAY NOT BE NECESSARY D. C. Officials Make State ment in Answer to Foes of 10-Cent Boost. Although the District's 1932 budget f= predicated on a $1.80 tax rate, it is possible that the Commissioners may not be forced to raise the current $1.70 levy, District officials hastenkd to point out yesterday, in answer to opposition | that already has developed to the pro- posed 10-cent increase. ‘The tax rate will not be fixed un‘fll next Summer, it was explained, and by that time the Commiissioners will know definitely how much money will have to be raised by taxation to support the appropriations made by Congress for the 1932 fiscal year. The amount needed cannot be accuratelv estimated now, since both the approp ‘iation and the extent of the contribution by the Federal Government are unknown quantities. The budget, as it went to the Bud- get Bureau, called for an amount in éxcess of $48,000.000. The Commis- sioners were satisfied that the current tax rate of $1.70 would not be suffi- cient to finance it, and worked out a formula by which tife necessary funds could be raised. This provided for a 10-cent increase in the tax levy and a contribution of $10,000,000 by the Fed- | eral Government—an increace of $1,- 000,000 above the amount appropriated from 1925 to 1929, and $500,000 more than allowed for the current fiscal vear. Formula Is Tentative, This formula, however, is purely ten- tative and may be changed in two dif- | ferent ways, it wae said, thus obvi- ating the prospecti¥e tax increase. In the first place, the special House sub- committee appointed to study the prob- lem of flscal relations between the Fed- eral and District Governments, it was explained, may recommend a higher contribution than the $10,000,000 which the Commissioners have used in their formula. Secondly, the Budget Bureau may eliminate some of the items in the budget. In either case, the officials said, it probably would make a higher tax rate unlikely. No one at the District Bullding ap- rs to know the attitude of the udget Bureau toward the large budget recommended for 1932, in view of the mew policy adopted this year which eliminated the submission of tentative estimates. But if former procedure is followed the officials believe there most likely will be a reduction in the total amount sought. $2,000,000 Cut From Estimates. In past years, it was explained, the Budget Bureau made it a practice (o cut about $2,000,000 annually from the amount sought by the Commissioners in the tentative estimates. This is the Teason the District found itself several years ago with more than $6,000,000 in sccumulated revenues to its credit in the United States Treasury. Last year was an exception, however. The Com- missioners asked for $48,315.620 in the tentative estimates, and the Budget Bureau allowed $47,880,220—a cut of enly $435.400. Since the 10 cent raise in the tax rate would yield approximately $1.300,000 in additional revenue, & re- duction of this amount in the total ‘would make it unnecessary said, the obviated if the House Fiscal Relations should recommend & Federal contribution of $12,000,000—the amount which the Senate insisted the United States should contribute during its battle with the House at the séscion over the 1931 appropriation bill. A $12,000,000 contribution by the United States, it was explained, would be $2,000,000 in excess of the figure used by the as & basis for formulating the 1932 estimates. With this amount, the officials said, the posed tax increase not only ' woul unnecessary, but the budget could be enlarged about $700,000 to provide for needed municipal improvements cmitted from the 1932 estimates. SLAYER OF OFFICERS SOUGHT IN FOREST Baying Hounds Lead Rangers and Posse Over Uninhabited Regions, By (he Associated Press BUGENE, Oreg., August 30.—Led by ba; hounds, forest rangers rein- by volunteer possemen today séarched & vast uninhabited forest re- glon near here for Vic Sutherland, 67, sought for the murder of two officers. Joe Saunders, 37, a deputy game war- den, and Oscar Duley, 35, a deputy sheriff, were slain yesterday in two gun battles after an effort was made to question Sutherland in regard to his slleged moonshine activities, One posse is beating the high ridge Between the McKenzie anc Santiam Rivers leading to eastern Oregon. Be- eause Sutherland s known to be an Tt woodsman, autherities said they beliéved he would follow the high ridge and emerge in eastérn Oregon unseen/| Sutherland is said to have left Mar- eola, nesr where the gun battle ocd) curred, carrying a rifie and threatening %o kill pursuers, Sutherland’s_ won. V. (Stew) Suther- land was questioned Aoday in the Eu- r&;‘ jall concerning the habits of his A T » Lée Bown and Rodney Roach, depu- ties woundéd in the second gun battle with Sutherland, were recovering. LIQUOR SUSPECT CRITICALLY SHOT By the Associated P CHICAGO, August 30.—Alfred Gostel, 30, believed by police to be a beer run- mer, was_shot and eritically wounded late today as he stood in the lobby of # west side hote! The only available witness, a hotel guest, told of hearing several shots and € & Man run to & car and speed away. The witness, Louis Raymond, said he ran outside and saw a woman jump into & small sedan and start after oowm:“i in the hip and abd , shot in the hip and abdomen, tused to guests said confidential manner that beér runner. 1 KILLED, 5 HURT IN BUS YOUNGSTOWN, Ohlo, August 30 (P.—One man was killed and five other persons were injured here late today when the transmission and fly- wheel of a municipal bus crashed through the floor. All victims lived here, Smashing of the floor was preceded by a terrific pounding, followed by & “ Joud bang when the bus suddenly stop- he was & O ey ano"s fro | designated position, the cén- their seats, and before many ‘ooting < OFFCIALS SUPPO ! stepdily In District since 1922, the In 1923 the District went on full-v for the sudden rise that year. Assessment figures by years: Land. $224,333,810 335,538,710 355,657,562 385,752,085 402,848,044 400,882,730 532,986,068 531,211,850 ),605,846,055 548,021,373 634,441,970 Figures for present fiscal year Year. 1922% 1923 1924 1028 1926 $248,540.399 387,660,540 423,203,111 463,873,517 | 407,001,706 585,107,102 fiscal year. PER CAPITA TAXES ARE SOARING HERE i Present Course of Appropria- tion Bills Shows No In- dication of Let-up. The pér capita tax burden in the District is increasing by leaps and bounds, figures available at the District Building show. In 10 years it has more | than doubled. In 20 years it has more | than tripled. The present course of | appropriation bills bears no indication of any let-up. The figures from which these state- ments are drawn are the annual col- lections as reported by the collector of Taxes, which represent dollars paid in by taxed and licensed citizens, and include nothing by way of contribu- tions from the Federal Government. These are divided by the population of the city as counted by the Census Bu- f'reau each decade and as estimated dur- ing intervening flve-year periods. During the past fiscal year the tax cellector took in $34,834,276.25 in cash. The Census Bureau reported a popu- lation of 486,869. Dividing the first figure by the seeond, the conclusion is that for each man, woman and child in the District during the past fiscal year the sum of $71.61 was paid to the Distyict in taxes. The same figure for 1920 was $29.31, and for 1910, $22.30. Taking the average family s consis ing of five persons, it can be seen that for each family in the District during the past fiscal year the sum of $358.05 was paid in to the collector of taxes. Although the per capita burden has been soaring of recent years, there were times in the earlier bistory of the city. when the burden was actually declining. In 1890 it was $15.90 per capita, and in 1895 this rose to $18.63. Apparently the city heads then decided to cut down, as in 1900 it had been reduced to $16.60 and by 1905 it had only gone up to $18.02, still less than in 1895. The table appended shows that from that time it has risen steadily, and that the rate of increase has stepped up con- Per Capita Tax $15.90 | siderablv of late f§ars. Year Populatin i 1900 1905 486861 . RT REPORT ON ANDREE Responsible Persons Answer Rumors That Message of Discovery Is Untrue. . By {he Associated Press. ¢ TROMBOE, Norway, August 29.—Re- ports published in other countries, to the effect that Capt. Gustav Jensen's story of the discoverins of the Andree Arctic Expedition on White Islands by Dr. Gunnar Horn was untrue, and that Jensen admitted it, met with wide- spread and indignant denials in all quarters of Norway today. Government officiali and other re- sponsible persons quickly expressed their bellef in Jensen, and several concrete prodfs were tendered. A. Bivertsen, owner of the sealing vessel Terning which Capt. Jensen commands, declared that Jensen was thoroughly reliable and that the message which he brought back from Dr. Horn, telling of the finding -~ Andree’s party. bore Horn's own signature. . Jensen Shows His Log. Jensen himself showed the Associated Press his log, telling of meeting the sealer Bratv carryir the Horn Ex- pedition, and Herr Krane, a partner of Bivertsen, said Capt. Jensen told him that the find had been made and that the original message from Dr. Horn telling of the discovery had been de- lvered to British Vice Consul SBaether This message and two others—one to the Spitzhergen mission office in Oslo, which backed Dr. Horn, and one to Horn’s aged mother in Oslo—were taken as additional proof of Capt. Jensen's veracity The mother. Mrs. Kathinka Horn, hitherto had regarded 1his letter as con- fidential between a mother and her son, but after the controversy Aarose today she gave it to tie world. through the Associated Press and the newspaper Aftenposten. Letter to Mother. ‘The letter bore the date, “Between Victoria Island and Franz Josef Land, , 11 p.m.” The letter reads: Dear Mother—In haste. ‘These line: sent with Terningen of Tromsoe. Up to now everything has gine according to program, “We have found Andrec on White Island. Further inforraation about this and about expedition I have sent to the office. “With many greetinys from Gunnar." The office to which Dr. Horn refers is that of the Spitzbergen mission to which he is attached. ‘The Norwegian naval vessel, Michaels Sars, which expects to go into the sealing regions of ths Arctic seas to locate the Bratvasg and take Dr. Horn and the bodies aboard, is expected to reach here Mon- | day. It will take o na, group of phy- | siclans and sclentists and will steam | out as soon s possible. i Expected Back Soon. | 1t is believed that the Michacl Sars | will be back in five or six days with | the Horn expedition, although this s | problematical since the whereabouts of the Bratvaag 1s uncertain. The iittle sealer has been wirelessed to come in | or to meet the naval vessel at a but since it ha: apparatus and no 1 way of knowing up the messagos. only radio receiving transmitter there is .T whether it has pick Improvements. 545,484,703 - table, but assessor estimates total assessment'of land and im s now is approximately $1,200,000,000, cr an increase of lltm,o&“;ver last il SUNDAY Real Estate Assessment Climb Since 1922 Is Shown Following tablt shows how astessment of reil estate has ellmbed last year under the two-thirds bssis. alue basis of assessment, accounting Totz] $472,874,209 723,199,268 778,860,673 819,625,572 900,749,842 946,367,442 1,118,093,162 1,138,057,995 1,182,463,345 of 1931 have not been added to the veme: Tax rate, $1.82 17,034,614 19,007,584 19,346,084 20,101,877 DISTRIGTPROPERTY ASSESSHENTS RIS | Total of Estimated by Richards, $17,500,000 Gain. (Continued From First Page.) and Uncle Sam is certain to be an im- portant one again at the coming ses- sion, with a special committee created to study the problem for the Hou and with Chairman Bingham of t Senate subcommittee on District e | penditures already taking steps to | gather the latest available data for his | colleagues. | 200,000 Pieces for Taxing. | There are nearly 200,000 pieces of | taxable property and approximately 75,000 taxpayers. It is estimated by | the assessor's office that about one- fifth of the individual taxpayers will | find increases in their assessments on this year's tax bills. Many tax bills alre: have been ob- tained by owners and assessor’s of- fice will mail to those who make writ- ten request, sending in the lots and square numbers. Assessor Richards has assembled fig- ures to show that District real estate assessments today are between 90 and 100 per cent of a fair full value.. Mr. | Richards points out that in residential sections, homes are not assessed up as ear to scale prices as in business areas and he contends this is a fair pro- cedure' in the process of equalizing as- sessments. The same rule is followed in all | cases, the assessor pointed out, namely, | of taking the land values plus the bare cost of construction. He pointed out, however, that in business sections the bulk of the value of & property is in | the land, which goes up in value while | the building is depreciating. In a resi- dential section, he said, the bulk of the value is in the house instead of the land, and this depreciation is a greater factor than the increase in the land value. Area of Highest Land Value, A circle drawn around the center of the city a mile in diameter, with Four~ teenth and G streets as the center, contains one-sixteenth of the area o the city and one-half of the land value, according to Mr. Richards. Sometime ago the assessor’s office prepared a set of figures for certain areas to ®how how assessments com- pare with sales. Pive areas were taken, as follows: From Third to Twentieth, B to M streets—In 427 cases sales amounted to $37,233,657 and the ssscasments totaled $32,023,331, the ratio being 86 per cent. From N to 8, Pifteenth to Eighteenth streets—In 56 cases sales aggregated $1,049,391 and assessments $944,840. Ratio, 90 per cent. In Columbia Heights between Florida avenue and Girard street—In 240 cases sales amounted to $4,617,110 and as- aessments $3,855,619. Ratio, per cent. South Washington in the vicinity of Tenth and P streets—In 77 cases sales amounted to $384,264 and assessments were $282,000. Ratio, 75 per cent. In the viginity of the Congressional Library—In 247 cases sales amounted 9,253 and assessments $2,340,- Ratio, 83 per cent. Richards Explains Statistics. In explanation of these statistics, to make them applicable at present, Mr. Richards, said: “These sales were during' the period of high prices. On aecount the downward trend it is doubtful whether | such prices could be obtained at pres- |ent within 10 per cent of what has | been used; so this office contends that the assessment today is between 90 and 100 per cent of a fair full value.” Asked if a slackening of eales this year would be reflected in the asses: | ments made next yeaf, Mr. Richa said that to feel the pulse of the mar- ket it is necessary to §0 over a period of four or five years. In discussing the extent to which the | total assessment of Teal estate increased | trom time to time during the seven years since the full-value basis was adopted, Mr. Richards sald: | “Although the actual increase in the | value of land and buildings was about 2 {or 3 pet cent a year there was in addi- tion an actual increase due to the lower | purchasing power of the dollar, which | was scattered over several years and | which, added to the natural increase of |2 or 3 per cent, made an apparent in- create of 6 or per cent during the past seven yeat Detalls of Assessment. In an accompanying table the detailed assessment and taxation figures are shown by years since 1922, which was the last year under the two-thirds | basis, down to the last fiscal year, 1930. The figures for the current al year have not yet been added to the table. | One of the marked increases in the table was in 1928, when the total as- sessment reached $1.118,093,162, an in- crease of $171,725,720 over 1927. Mr. | Richards pointed out that in 1928 the | District was directed to change from | biennial to annual assessment of real | estate, He said that when assements | were being made biennially the District |'was behind in valuations and in 1928 | picked it up in land values. | "In_discussii.g the relation between | growth of population and increased total | assessment. Mr. Richards believes that | the growth of population in the met- | ropolitan area just outside the Dis- | trict has some effect on values in the | District and he contends that the pop- | ulation of the met: litan area should | be considered in determining the ratio between growth of population and the increase in _the total assessment of property in Washington. ROME HIT BY FIRES to g 971, of the Andree party | Heat Wave Causes Dryness, Which Results in Frequent Blages. ROME, August 30 (#).—Numerous fires occurred here today in conse- quence of everything being dry during the heat wave that has ted Ronie this week. The beautiful French Acad« emy in Vila Medici was damaged hy flames which started in the studios and were not quenched by firemen before they had burned two i~ E* A series of fires started betw2en noon and 1 o'clock in apartment bulldings s afternoon here. g;’n 25 acres of a cork forest near Bt Paul's Gate was burned, As were séveral acres of woods in n‘:'c‘c'-pmuin reahed 92 degress iere todags i $1,200,000,000 Is| STAR, WASHINGTON MEMORY REVEALS BANK BANDI RO Fingerprint Expert’s Shaip Mind Led to Death of Fleagle Gang. BY REX COLLIER. How the “photographic” memory of & fingerprint expert of the United States Bureau of Investigation finally bhas brought to justice three perpetraiors of the Lamar, Colo, bank robbery and murder, in 1928, has just been revealed " by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the | bureau, The trio of bandits, whose crimes at- v!,rltltd Nationwide attention and led to formation of vigilante groups in the { West, was executed a few days ago, but, ironically, the man whose peculiar finger | mlrkmg “broke” the case had suc- | ceeded in el | luding capture. The fugitive, whose index finger + pointed the way to apprehension and conviction o. his companions, is one Jake Fleagle, alias wfl'llam Harrison Holden, He is the object of an intensive | search. | The fingerprint examiner, whose un- | canny memory of the distinctive twists | on the automobile of a murdered victim of the gang resulted in solution of the crime, is Alvert B. Ground, employed in | | Director Hoover's National Division of Identification and Information, The story of the Lamar outrage and its solution is one of the most interest- ing ever to come to the attention of the Federal Bureau. The robbery occurred on May 22, 1928. National Bank of Lamar, killed president and two employes, looted the vaults and fled into Kansas. Arriving in Dighton, Kans., the bandits prevaliled upon a Dr. Wineinger to treat the wounds of one of their party who had been shot during the hold-up. In re- ward Dr. Wineinger was “taken for a ride,” brutally murdered, and his body thrown over a cliff, near Liberal, Kans. The bandits took the precaution to push the physician’s car over the cliff also. Officials believe it was during this | shoving process that one of the gang left his tell-tale fingerprints on the | plate glass of one of the doors. The latent print was carefully brought out clearly with the aid of fine powder dusted on it, and photographs were taken. The prints were sent to all po- lice departinents and Federal agencies. One of the photographs came to the division of identification, located in the old Southern Railway Buildin, It was to lay eyes scarcely more than a dark smudge. Part of the print was oblit- erate together, but some of the curv- ing ridges made by the skin were dis- cernible to trained eyes. Here was a puzzier for the Federal experts. One partial print to be com- pared with more than 2,000,000 finger prints on file in the bureau! Manifestly | an impossible undertaking with the lim- | ited force available. The problem was put up to Hoover. He saw only one possibility. If the Government exam- iners could impress indelibly on their minds some characteristic distinguish- ing the Lamar case print, perhaps in the course of their daily routine exam- ination of thousands of prints they might run across one with the same peculiarities. Almost a Forlorn Hope, It was more or less of a forlorn hope, | but Hoover felt it was worth a try. He | issued instructions, accordingly, that| the print be memorized by the exam- iners to the best of their ability. | The | A year went by without success. examiners did not forget the peculiar pattern nor relinquish vigilance, how- ever. In the meantime several suspects had been arrested and “positively identified” | by witnesses as the bank robbers want- | ed in Lamar. None of the finger prints | of the suspects tallled with that found | on the doctor's car. The “identifications | of the suspects had been 5o definite, however, that investigators decided the finger print was irrelevant. Four bandits swooped down on the First | the | D. C, AUGUST 31, 1930—PART ONE.’ | | and whorls which Fleagle's finger left| the part played by the Government in | | | | | right), wanted for murder and robbery center, “photographed” itself on Ground's mind. Searching for more than a year through thousands of fingerprints added to the Government’s 2, tion, the files of which are shown above, Albert B. Ground, fi ngerprint expert of the Division of Identification, United States Bureau of Investigation (lower left), finally recognized, fro mmemory, the fingerprint of Jake Fleagle (lower The peculiar design of Fleagle's print, shown in lower in Colorado and Kan sas. 000-0dd collec- HOOVER ASKS SPEED IN CONSTRUCTION | Aims to Improve Empioyment | Conditions—Orders Red Tape Eliminated. | By the Associated Press. | AIRSICK, CARAWAY DONE FLYING UNTIL HE BECOMES AN ANGEL Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway, Ar- kansas, Democrat, sald yesterday: “I'm through with flying 'til I get to be an angel.” < He reached this conclusion, he said, By the Associated Press. | LURAY, Va., August 30.—Presiden | Hoover today asked Post Office and | Treasury officials to hurry slong public | building projects now under way and | to fiziish as soon as practicable 250 sur- veys proceeding under the 13-year con- struction program. His mquest was made with & view to improving em- | ployment conditions and was similar to | & decision to speed up flood control | work made at a conference at, his lodge hear here last week. With Ferry K. Heath, Assistant Sec- | retary of the Treasury, and John W. Examiner Ground learned of the ar- rest of the suspects, but he still con-| tinued to look for a print to match the | one’ sent in to the bureau. So firmly | had he impressed that smudge on his | mind that he could not forget it now, 4f | he tried. “It was like nothing I had ever seen | before,” Ground explained later, “It was easy to remember. There were three ‘deltas’ several recurving loops one or two other ‘distinctive meark- that were unusunl. I could see the | design with my eyes shut. T was looking over prints sent in to the bureau when one of them seemed to hit me right in the eye. It had three ‘deltas,’ the recurving loops I had noted in my mind and the other whorls. I looked at the notation on the card. The print was that of Jake Fleagle, alias Holden, who had been arrested on a minor charge by a sheriff in Stockton, Calif., but later released. “I got out the print in the Colorado case and compared it carefully with the one that had attracted me. There could be no doubt about it. Jake Fleagle's finger had made the print on the car of the murdered physician.” Ground was too modest to add that the Fleagle print was but one of about six thousand that had passed through his hands that day. Some days he aver- ages jnore than ten thousand prints, ‘The thagnitude of his feat of memory thus becomes apparent. Brother Names Accomplices. ‘The authorities in Colorado and| Kansas were advised hy wire immedi- | ately of the discovery. Police in Garden | City, Kans, promptly recalled that Fleagle had iived there. A local investi- gation ended in the arrest of his brother Ralph, The brother confessed to com- | plieity in the crime and named two| others as accomplices. The latter two, Howard L. Royston and George J.| Abshir, were taken in custody the next | day. The trio was returned to Colorado, tried, convicted and executed., Although rewards offered by officials of the bank, police and private agencies totaled thousands of dollars, Ground | could not accept a penny, under Govern- | ment regulations. Hoover saw that he | obtained promotion, which, though small, was the best that could be ar~ ranged under civil service rules, Ground declined a handsome reward | recently in another case, the solution | of which was possible through his| identification work. Many of his cu-‘ | workers also have been unable to ac- | | cept _money offered for the clearing up | of crimes. “These men, | while unable to take| money from outside sources, are | wrapped up in their work,” Director Hoover stated today, “They gain the intense personal satisfaction of know- ing they have helped to clear the inno- cent and apprehend the guilty. Even money could not give them that sort of satisfaction.” The remarkable resulls daily bein obtained in the Government's little-ad- vertised identification division are | amazing to those unacquainted with the | accomplishments, During the past year alone A total of 1,363 fugitives were lo- cated as a result of identifications by the division. At present thefe are 32,- 132,534 finger-print records on_ file, ‘as weli as 3,058,011 alphabetical index cards covering those prints, including | the correct names and aliases of their owners. Hoover tells an amusing incident that | was reported to him recently by the United States attorney of a Midwestern | | ‘A colored defendant in the district attorney’s jurisdiction,” Hoover states, “was confronted with one of the long criminal records which our finger- rint division had furnished against im after he'had denled having had a ‘record.’ When the xrmoner wis shown our report on him, his eyes bulged and he addressed the court as follows: " ‘Boss, what do you say we just lef th‘:‘n and you go ahead and give me ;rhn ’ml”a to give me in th Philp, Assistant Postmaster General,in | charge of bullding projects in their re« spective departments, Mr. Hoover dis- cussed the status of the $673,000,000 10-year program initiated two years ago and found it could be hastened considerably by eliminating red tape. Hoover Orders Short Cuts. Although the Government is ahead of the $47,000,000 original an-. nual expenditure planned for construt- tion in and out of the National ‘Capital, Mr. Hoover was understood to have in- formed the two officials to take as many short cuts as possible. By such action he hopes the Federal Government will set an example for States, ' municipalities and individual builders to follow. Mr. Hoover also made it plain that extensive leasing of bulldings through- out the country has been and will con- tinue to be regarded by him as a waste of public money. To put the Govern- ment in its own quarters as far a7 | feasible was said to be one of his chief | ambitions. In line with this policy, it was said, the Post Office Department is terminal ing leases throughout the country as rapidly as possible and is looking for its own quarters. No new leases will be entered into. $60,000,000 Expenditure, New projects are under way in the Capital contemplating an additional ex- penditure this year of $60,000,000, the President was told. Already $50,000, 000 has been expended in the Capital | City in 1030. A total of $30,000,000 is involved in projects being bulit outside of Washing- ton. This, it was said, is three times the normal expenditure planned under the 10-year program for the period cov- | ered in the contract. Out of a total of more than 500 projects in as many cilles ancd town: embraced in the 10-year program, 84 were said to be completed, 78 additional | in the course of construction, 77 or | more sites have been acquired with | building designs adopted, but no con- tracts let, and 45 cities chosen with de- signs yet to be approved. ‘The whole program is divided into two parts, with $363,000,000 contem- plated for outside and $310,000,000 within the National Capital. During their first day of the week- end at the Rapidan River lodge. the Executive went: for his usual stroll | through the mountain trails, while Mrs. Hoover and the women guests took to the bridle paths. . Four-cent street care fare on Sunday in Summer are being advocated in Lon- don. Sh | By the Assbeinted Press. KENVILLE, N. C, August 30.—For 15 years Pryor James, colored laborer, kept telling the neighbors the Almighty was going to send another flood. Nobbdy believed him, but James went | ahead and bullt himself an ark, high| and dry in the front yard of his home | Long hours he spent, fitting the bars, | painting, tinkering. Occasiol he would t the sail to make sure it was in working order. | AERIAL MANEUVERS on an air voyAge from Washington to Sedalia, Mo, and back. Traveling in a small land plane with an open cock- pit, he was airsick before he reached | St. Louis. He hoped it might be dif-. ferent in another plane. But it was not. “Before we got to St. Louis, on the. Senator Tells of Changing Planes on Missouri Rotind Trip in Vain Effort to Avert Illness. way back, I was just as sick.” he said, | “But I got another plane here.” “I was sick,” Caraway added, “all the way here.” The Senator sald he addressed a meeting of farmers at Sedalia. “There were several ‘hundred farm- ers out for the meeting,” he said, “the same farmers I talked to back in 1922, and again in 1924 and again in 1928 (PENBALLOONRACE SCREAMS OF GIRL BRING MOTHER AID, BUT MAN DROWNS (Continued From Pirst Page.) | side of the river. They took with them | Mrs. Goodman’s daughter, Ada Prances, and Margaret and Katherine Bowers, Belgium' Germany' France | 7 and 5 years old, respectively, of 3627 | ter and Leon Coeckelbaergh, who will | area now centering over Manitob: 'SNAKE BITE REMEDY ABOARD ARK RESULTS IN DEATH OF BUILDER | Colored Laborer Killed by Police Bullet as He Steps From anty With Gun and U. S. Will Compete for Bennett Trophy. By the Associated Pre CLEVELAND, August 30.—A two- | day carnival of thrilling aerial maneu- vers will begin here tomorrow as an introduction to the international Gor- don Bennett balloon race, which is scheduled to start from Oleveland adunlclpll Airport at 4:30 p.m. Mon- ay. The six balloonists and their_aides, representing Belgium, Germany, France and the United State, who are plan- ning to use every resource at their command to win the race, even to the discarding of food and most of their clothing toward the end of their flights, learned tonight that good weather con- ditions are expected for the start-off. All of the contestants were to attend an honorary banquet tonight and then resume their preparations. The for- elgn entrants are: Dr. Hugo Kaulen, jr., and his aide, Carl Goetze, with the German balloon; Capt. Ernest de Muy- pllot the Belgica, and Albert Boitard and his aide, Jean Herbe, who will seek honors for France. The balloonists who will try to win a second leg for the United States on the third Bennett Cup, are: Ward T. Van Orman, who won last year'’s event, and his alde, Alan McCracken, in the Good- year VIII ; Edward J. Hill and ‘A, C. Schlosser, who will ride the City of De- troit, and R. J. Blair and F. J. Trotter, who will be in the basket of the City of Cleveland. Van Orman also won the race in 1926. Hill was winner in 1927, and Capt. W. E. Kepner's victory the following year gave the second Bennett Cup to this country. De Muyter of Belglum who is looked upon as a strong contender this year, won in competition for the first Bennett Cup in 1920, 1922, 1923 and 1924. A flower pageant and parade, with airplanes stunting overhead, welcomed the visiting balloonists today. Comdr, C. E. Rosendah), United States | Navy, will be chief judge of the race. | | | Lieut. Charles E. Bauch will be referee. Capt. William J. Flood, operations offi- cer of the race, sald the expected start of the race Monday will depend en weather conditions and that the referee will decide at that time. ‘The balloonists, after further study of | the weather outlook, said they expect to be blown eastward: somewhere between | Maine and North Carolina, depending on the movement of a high-pressure | in Hand. read any of Marc Conhnelly’s works, he apperently was wholly in.accord with onnelly's Noah, who insisted there shauld be some antidote for snake bites aboard. Checking over the stores in James ark Thursday night, police found sev- eral bottles of home brew. Now. home brew is fllegal, so the police advanced on James' shanty. He barricaded him- self inside and fired through the door The siege lasted all part of . There was cargo to be stored, t00, |} and while James undoubtedly never | By the Associated Press. Canal road. Leaving the children playing on the bank, the man and woman went into the water. Neither could swim. The river is shallow just off shore at that point, but it drops off sud- denly into deep water a few feet out. Residents of the. community: heard the man and woman laughing glee- fully as they splashed each other with water. The children on the bank were making mud pies. Hears Scream of Fear. Suddenly @Gill, who was standing nearby, heard a child’s voice screamin in ua;on He ns to the scene -na saw the man and woman struggl desperately in the water. They wml only about three feet away from the safety of the shallow water, but being unable to swim, they couldn’t lbzt back. Gill dived in, but was grabbed by both the man and woman. With an effort he broke loose, but was so nearly exhausted that he had difficulty in_swimming back to shore alone. Follis, whose home is only about 100 yards away, by this time had reached the point, attracted by the screams of the girl who continued to cry that her mother was drowning. An expert swimmer, Follis dived into the river and brought Mrs. Goodman ashore. Turley, however, before he could return and ‘st him. Insists Father With Them. Mrs. Goodman was placed on a float and revived by C. L. Clark and Earl Nash, employes of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. After being resuscitated, Mrs. Goodman was taken to Emergency Hospital and treated. She remained there last night. At the hospital Ada Frances was un- able to tell officials her name or ad- dress, but insisted that her father had also been with them and had drowned. While physicians in the next room worked over the mother, police and newspaper men tried to console the child, She would not be comforted, however, and was finally taken away by a poiice woman. Police, after a further investigation, said they did not believe the father had been a member of the party. ‘Turley, wWho worked as a painter, is survived by his mother and two broth- ers, Maurice and Harry, . DETROIT GANG WARFARE i BLAMED FOR SHOOTING' Admittel Beer Bunner Critieally | Wounded in Lobby of Chicago Hotel. i CHICAGO, _August 30.— Warfare among rival Detroit gangsters was be- lieved by police to be responsible for the shooting of Alfred Dostal, 30, who was taken to & tal in eritioal con- dition after he had fallen in the lobby of & West Side hotel, shot in the hip and abdomen. Police said Dostal admitted he was in Chicago soliciting business and that he was & beer runner Detroit. The wounded man refused to discuss the shooting, however. A witness told of seeing the assailant escApe in an automobile driven by & woman, although another witness was certain the gunman fled In & car alone and that & woman had - pursued him. Police sald they had information link- ing the shooting with the recent out- break of gang warfare in Detroit, where several have been slain in the last few TWO GOVERNORS TOVIEW PARADE 100,000 Persons Expected to Witness Firemen in Annual Spectacle. The annual Fire Department Labor Day parade, promised for this year as bigger and better than ever, will as- semble at Peace Monument and get under way at 11 a'clock = tomorrow morning. It s estimated that it will take two and a half hours to pass. A throng estimated at up s of 100,000 persons is expected 0 congre- gate on Pennsylvania avenue to see th- marchers, with their accompanying foats, clowns and bands make th- progress up the Avenue and past th~ reviewing stand a little east of Four- teenth street. There Governors John Garland Pollard of Virginia and Albert Ritchie of Maryland, guests of the Dis- trict ners, will view the pa- rade. In another stand 95 judges will undertake the task of fudging the en- tries for 51 trophies offered. Horses Get Honor Place. An honor place in the line of march has been reserved for Barney, Gene and Tom, the last of the District's fire horses, now living in retirement at Blue Plains. Stations WOL and WJSV will both carry a broadeast of highlights of the parade for those un- able to be present. The parade is expected to be over shortly after 1 o'clock. At 4 o'clock the bands and the drum and fife corps will repair to the Ellipse and compete for cash prizes and trophies offered for the best and second best in the re. spective groups. The music will prob- ably be broadcast by station WOL. The Bedford Band, from Bedford, Va., will play a concert on the Capitol steps at 7 o'clock tonight. Other bands will render serenades at .| various points around town today. Annual Ball Game. Next Saturday, the Policemen and Firemen will clash at Clark Grifith Stadium in their annual base ball game, The proceeds from the game are split evenly among the retiring Relief Asso- ciations of the two departments and about $25,000 is expected to be taken in tickets for the game. The Police Depjartment has already sold 5,716 tickets and the Fire Department 7,765. The ";n;n'-:& ‘alA tga parade, as an- nouns y . A. J. , d marshal, is as follows: Bll'lllnl g Police escort, United States Navy Band, marshal of parade, Sergt. A. J. Bargagni; Commissioners of the Dis- trict of Columbis and Chairman Odell 8. Smith, Vice Chairman Rudolph Jose . (Citizens’ Committee); escorting Gov. Ritchie of Maryland and Gov. Pollard of Virginia, Federation of Oitizens’ Assoclations, evolution of fire depart- ment, hand-drawn pumper, Barney, e, Tom, modern pumper, airplane, United States Marine Band, hostess to volunteer firemen, Miss Mildred Bar- Virginia volunteer companies, music; fraternal organisations, music; West Virginia volunteer companies, music; Pennsylvania volunteer companies, music; New Jersey volunteer com- panies, music; Delaware volunteer coms panies, music; business and civic or- ganizations, music; 40 District of Cos lumbia department floats (interspersed along the line), 25 business and civic floats (interspersed along the line), 18 comic floats (interspersed along the line), 100 clowns, jesters and funmak- ers (interspersed along the line). OYSTER INDUSTRY T0 EMPLOY 15,000 'With Season Opening Tomorrow, Reports Conflict on Crop Outlook. The opening of the oyster season Monday, September 1, for which Washe ington dealers and boatmen of the Chesapeake Bay are preparing, is ex pected to give employment this year to 15,000 men in the coastal States. Reports conflict at to the crop out- look. Oystermen of the Lowgr Potomac and tributaries say rain is needed to | fatten the bivalves, and that the quality may suffer because of the drought. On the other hand, the General Foods Corporation, one of the country's larg- est ucers of oysters, announced h;(l:‘m ts Ne: Sr!arkh»hudaunmn that “the prospect of a bumy © 1s ex- ceptionally good this yeE:.'" S lany boats are being conditioned on Chesapedake Bay to tong for oysters after the usual Summer employment of renting to fishing parties or hauling produce to the local market from truck farms on the lower bay. Although tonging is not allowed on the open waters of the bay between the last of April and the last of August indications are that small quantities of both siucked and shell stock will be - available on the local market tomorrow. Dealers here have little advance in- formation of the season’s supply. Initial shipments are expected from the vi- ?:flt{‘ of Hampton, Va,, and Blackistone sland. The American people consumed 180, 000,000 pounds of oysters last season, & bulletin from the General Foods, Cor- poration estimated, or a fifth of all the sea food consumed. This year, it was predicted, large quantities of oysters will be preserved by a quick freezing process and mark- eted next Summer. = Dealers at the Municipal Pish Market soon will bring to a close one of the most successful crab seasons in the last ten years. Crabs have been partioular- 3} plentiful and of good quality, and e prevailing price was unusually low. Hard crabs have sold during the cur- rent season at from $3 to $7 a barrel, while soft crab prices ranged from 75 cents to $1.20 for the choicest variety. EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS FELT IN LOS ANGELES By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August §0.—An earthquake of approximately 30 teconds duration shook Angeles and adja- cent citiés at 4:30 p.m. today, causing slight damage in some outlying com- munities, No one was injured. The fuake seemed to center in the aistinet shocks From &l parts In were felt. all of the bay district householders reported clocks stopped and pictures turned e i : Angel n e, part of Los les, & bridge spanning the speedway and con- ecting two buildings, large portion of one of the walls fell, narrowly missing & bus loaded with passengers. The speedway, main traf- fic artery, was roped off to all traffic. The tremor was felt as far north as Ventura, but not in Santa Barbara, nor to the south in Imperial Valley. ‘The metropolitan district was shaken K office bulldings badly. Che higher swayed visibly, while telephone wires up and down violently. Chimneys in several districts were shaken down.