Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1930, Page 2

IDROUGHT DISASTER TOFALL INWINTER {LAKE SHORE HONT- 1 BY BOBBY JONES e e e RS, WA 1T Fourth Major Championship| in Year, and 13th Title, Won by Georgian. (Continued ¥From First Page.) fairway. Homans putted from 20 feet, the ball rolled close. but missed, and a | wild shout went up from the crowd. Almoss wnstantly there was a wild rush for the green and Jones. For a few seconds it iooked as if the quadruple monarch of all the golfing | kingdoms would be overwhelmed, but | as if by magic command, the Marines | rose from nowhere, a score of them un- der Lieut. “Whitey” Lloyd, former An-| napolis fullback. to form a solid pha-| lanx around the Georgian. The van- guard hit Lloyd and bounded back, shaken off like he used to block would- be tacklers. Others slowed up as they saw the protective cordor and the dan- ger.of a mob scene Was avoided In fiying wedge fash'sn, the Marines escorted Jones, Homtis and officials of the United States folf Acsociation through the throngs and up to the club- house lawn where the massive cham- « plonship trophy, on a spotless table- | cloth, sparkled in the sup for the cere- mony of presentation again to this Georgia marvel. Crowd Hangs On. Twenty deep as many of the specta- tors who could jam themseives about the scene stood to watch the last act of | the great Jones drama of 4930 and| lustily cheered the quiet, stocky man who has knocked the statistics | ? golf groggy. | 3 !.gohurunprecedented sweep through | the British and American tournaments | this year, Jones today registered his | fifth triumph in the United States Ama- | teur and his thirteenth national cham- | pionship victory within_the period of | the last eight years. These achieve- | ments also stand alone as records. The | only man who has ever won s0 many as four American amateur crowns is Jerome D. Travers and np other man, Briton or American, has piled up so staggering a grand total of victories as Jones. ‘ As he accepted the championship cup Jones paid tribute to his opponcnts, to the galleries and to the Merion Club, where in 1916 he first played in the amateur tournament, and where, in # 1924, he won his first amateur cham- | - fim‘p. He has now won five of the | it seven. 'Will he continue to play or rest on Ris laurels? These qn‘a’e;cm;;: huzzz& y spectators as well as the exper m‘ ltpewu all over. Jones himself furnished the answer, so far as it may be given. Plans Are Indefinite, “I expect to continue to play golf, but when and where 1 cannot say " he told the Associated Press. “I no definite plans, either to retire to when and where I may con- in competition. I might play next and lay off in 1932. I might stay of the battle next scason and feel an tournament the following at’s all I can say about it DAILY AVERA! ° This official chart of the United of crime in general and is based These cffenses are indicated on the char of each from January through August. OF ALL CRIMES Trem‘l Of OECI‘ISES £ FRigay BY REX COLLIER. Acting for the first time in his new | role of crime diagnosticlan, Uncle Sam | has just issued a bulletin showing that crime is on the increase in America. The bulletin, compiled and published | gt , Th nce of Janes' ished much more excitement and interest than the final round match it 8°lf. That Bobby would win was ac- conclusion almost H Hoover, director of the United States | Bureau of Investigation, contains the | initial returns in the Government's first | organized. comprehensive survey of the crime situation. ‘Without attempting to draw any con- clusions so early in the undertaking or to recommend remedial measures, the bulletin presents an uncolored statistica] picture of the “volume, geographic dis- verhaps two or three lapses | tribution and periodic fluctuation” of | putting, he was never far enough | all “offenses known to police,” based his game to cause the dlgh(enl on reports from 772 cities in 44 States. | concern to his intimate followers or the conviction that this was his| . Shows Upward Climb. tournament. Alone of the favorites! In order graphically to illustrate the who entered it, he swept along without | general trend qf érime from January | and with few | through August of this year, a chart | the slightest interruption challenges to his supremacy. | is appended, showing that the total of | Homans, in the first final of his career | all reported ofYenses, ranging from | eoffered scant opposition. although his murder to petty theft, is ¢limbing couragecus finish extended the match | upward. farther than it seemed possible after During the month of August it is Bobby assumed a seven-hole lead in the shown there was an increase in every first eighteen. | type of criminal ucv.lv_ll_tg', wm;dthe single | | exception of rape. e incidence was | Homans Won Three Holes. | particularly apparent with regard to | The bespectacled New Jersey vouth & murder, mansiaughter and robbery. won exactly 3 holes out of the 20." TWo | A comparison with figures for July | previously tabulated by the Interna- | of these were on “birdies” which he scored at the 215-yard seventeenth and | tiona] Association of Chiefs of Police | indicates a net increase for August of at the Ho-;ud t.went;- venth. t’{]he third was the result of a stymie that giightly Jess than 10 per cent.” Director Jones failed to negotiate on the ssventh iogver announced in the bulietin. The hee. increese over July was chiefly in the Jones shot his best golf on the inward | peorits® SYET Y wad chlefly W the nine of the morning round. He covered essault, it was pointed out. | this nine in 33 strokes, 1 under par. | “anajizing tne totals of respective | sinking putis of 25 dnd 6 feet at the ,gonses” by percontages, the bulletin | gleventh end fifteenth holes to offSel giscicses that petty larceny is by far | a lapse et the seventeenth. These Were ' tho”moct frequent offense, with futo- 1B only '8ood sized putts he holed In | oo theft second and burglary third. | ihe entire match, but from tee o gF<€n [areeny involving $50 or less accounted | g‘; m‘;' m".f,’:e“'g::::'m': that f for 24.6 per cent of all crimes reported | The Bost 18 Tioles 1 73 2 ever par gy for ‘August. Autcmobile theft had a | Homsns' 79. Bobby wes 4 over pa - the remaining 11 holes and o was §56% 2" \er g1 per cent; Tobbery, 5.3 The Vi pér cent. aggraveicd -assault, 4.6 per | nesd " to, puct on prescure. He drove (et murder 2 non-negligént man- | frequently with his ¢ nd he +slatghter, 0.6 per cent; rape, 0. m“&‘:‘y‘:\,‘::,mi,fi,fin .’_.;‘.“,,"-,g‘-‘[f,f cent, and tr'nr.nsluugh',cr by n:[llgence,{ “ ret” ras good 04 per cen | Bin, “safety-first” golt that was good 04 B Bureau of Investigation has been | m‘:‘”‘fl, King Bobby gave the im- | engaged in the collection of the uni- | pression of just enjoying a good work- fcrm crime reports only since the 1st| t of September, acting under authority | T e et et MusRl Sty Tecent act of Congress. For that | | reason co-operation of all municipal | Foot Ball Death First of Season. |and State authorities has not been ob- tained, The August report, for_ex- PITTSBURGH, September 27 (F).— ampie,’ gives no returns for New York ‘The first death resulting from foot ball ity and only partial returns for Chi- njuries in the Pittsburgh district this | cooh " Director Hoover 4s endeavoring Seazan was reported at McKeesport. | ¢ comylete the gaps before issuance of Where Charles Carnes, 15, Monessen ¢y, gaptember bulletin, High School player. died in a hospital | “Besquse of tne fact that this work Jost night. Carnes suffered a broken p,gs just started, as is obvipus. there is g in a practice game sen}:fl?b‘er 8. no comparison with former years. eptice . % 5 e o] oty W tohies 781 Offenses in District. RENC ARMY With Chicago and New York elim- OLD FRENCH inated, the August crime totals show MAP OF WILLIAMSBURG | Dfervee, "Los® Angoles mexi. with "218%, | WILL AID RESTORATION Cleveland third with 1,645, San Fran- (Continued From First Page.) 5 2 | g% i mateh. never “down” to any of opponents in match play. Ex- {388 =§g i ent of the total, larceny of sums of | cisco fourth with 1,502, St. Louis fifth | with 1,323, Philaceiphia sixth with | |1243 and Newark seventh with 1117 | _ | All other cities have totals under the thousand marh. { grds were long since lost” Dawsonaiso| " The District of Columbia reported a | 15 searching the records of the Medical ;tq] of 784 offenses for the month, dis- | Corps of the French Army in an effort | tributed as follows: Automobile theft, | to identify the skeletons of 10 French | 377 jarcony under $50, 100; burglary, soldiers discovered while workmen were | 167° Jarceny over $50, 94: robbery, 29; | excavating under the foundations of the | 3oc AIECNY OVCE 856, 0% rawbely, BB | e once used as the home of the | PEETRVAIEH, Locok ‘ resident of William and Mary College. | "ty juded fn the bulletin is a table The bullding was used a3 a Prench |, iicUded 0 the bulletin s o table Bospital during the Revolution. It was | {h.Various cltiet, with the numher of Burned down then & & reoult Of an | policemen per 1,000 of population. ‘The t of his own funds, the only bullding | J€D for every thousand citizens, al- though the avernges vary greaty. the United Btates to be erected at| paim Beach, Fla.. seems to be the best B o g oEremice. 1. | Policed city in the United States, with ’ an average of 19 policemen to every {‘,'.:',’f,':,","’t":b‘c"n'd‘f,;;fl' Jime when hope | 1,000 citisens. The Nitle city of Kins- | ches through the national archives | 16, Kans, Whose 4,546 residents are | d records of the Various ministries i | provided With one poiiceman, trails in had vielded scanty results. It is|the list, with an average of 2 of & :leaticd that several records of im | policeman, for eve:y thou:and Gitiens Al Boston has more policemen per thou~ L N hanrid tossilabian (hat 20 b {the 200,000 or up clags. Her et o oot e Sk s 1s L It P inted ot\lu:nthll even a simple letter | is 3.3. Washington and Newark are an officer & = soigler written to | tied for second place with an average mother to tell how he was gett of 29 per thousand. Philadelphia, St. ‘would I‘::ve { capital importance if it | Louis and Jersey City are tied for third n"flm lfl? detail of a nlloe with an average of 2.8. Detroit 1 nature; or even if it was next with 250, Providence next with ‘where he lodge lew Srom| & average of 33, L. Angeles us 35, he d or & vi rom | an average .3, nge! 3 would enable mur:: and Milwaukee has exactly 2. All other over trends of crime since the first of the year. under the supervision of J. Edgar!a r bercentage. of 25, burglary was 19.9 per o 200,000 population have per. thousand States Bureau of Investigation shows The top line marks the fluctuation on monthly totals of offenses listed under what is listed as “Part 1" classification of the new uniform crime reporting system. t by individual limes, showing the trend U. S. REPORT SHOWS INCREASE DURING AUGUST {First Statistical Bulletin Indicates Upward Known to Police Throug}\out Country. citizens, New York City not being listed. Chicago has an-average of 1.9. The bulletin calls attention to the fact that in figuring the foregoing av- erages civillan employes of police de- partments, as well as uniformed per- sonnel, were counted. Chicago lived up to its reputation as crime center, the table of known of- fenses during August showing Chicago leading all cities in murder, robbery and automobile theft. It is but fair to say that New York, Chicago's population rival, 1s not shown in the table. There were 39 murders in Chicago Jast month, 519 robberies, 1,026 motor thefts and 264 burglaries. Philadelphia Second. Next to Chicago in number of mur- ders was Philadelphia, with a total of 13. Detroit and Cincinnati were tied for third place with 11 murders each. Cleveland was fourth with 10, Jackson- ville and New Orleans tied for fifth with 9 each, Chattanooga and San Antonio were tled for sixth place with 8 each and Baltimore was seventh with 7. The accompanying chart for the first eight months of this year shows a steady rise in number of all offenses for the country from January to March, a slight decline from March to June and 3 gradual curve upward again since une. Murder was on a slight increase from January to February, shot sharply up- ward in March, declined graduaily in April. May and June and has been as- cending rapidly aga: There was a stea; cline in robbery during months of the year, & slight increase in June, a faliing off in July and an abrupt Jump upward in August. Manslaughter by negligence rose sharply untfl April, started a gradual decline that continued through June andt soared again during July and Au- gust. ever since. ed de- Auto Thefts Fall Off. Larceny has béen mostly on the up- grade throughout the year. Automobile heft has a general trend downward nce March, eliminating last month's increase. Rape rose sharply from Feb- ruary to-July, but has sagged acutely of late. The bulletin explains that “offenses known to police” includes “all crimes occurring within the police jurisdiction, whether they become known to the po- lice through reports of police officers, of citizzns, of prosecuting or court officials or otheiwise.” The offenses are grouped into seven classes as provided for in the recently published Government manual for “Uniform Crime Reporting.” “All contributions of crime data to th: Bureau of Investigation,” Hoover points out, “are purely voluntary, solicit- ed solely for the purposé of making ; available statistical information con- cerning crime to those officially inter- ested organizations and individuals who desire to receive and analyze thess siatisties. * * « Every effort will be made to secure from the contributors statistics which are not only accurate, but which will become more compre- be e as time goes on and the meth- ods of compilation are more widely and theroughly understood —— BAY STATE PARTIES VOICE WET STANDS IN THEIR PLATFORMS (Continued From First Page.) orgy of crime and corruption, favor the repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act and the restora- tion to each State of the authority to deal with the liquor problem in accord- | ance with the mandate of its citizens.” Pending the repeal of the prohibition law, a redefining by Congress of the word “intoxicating” used in the eight- eenth amendment, so as to permit each State constitutionally to exercise juris- diction. within its. own borders and the simultaneous enactment of a law pro- | hibitng the return of the saloon was | asked. | As a demonstration of Massachusetts sentimert, the Democratic plank called | for repeal of the State prohibition jaw, | saying that “such repeal will certainly not result in any greater lawlessness than exists today.” | _Other planks said the Demaoctatic party regretted the present high ‘rates for automobile insurance and recom- mended a searcl investigation; con- demned' the recently enacted tariff law, demanded repeal of the “national orfgl: clause” of the immigration act of 1924, and demanded action to I our ju- dicial mlchlnery"mm Jine wi ‘uu best modern_pra . i L tlt, TN e Chief Effect Yet to Be Felt as Relief Plans Are - Continued. (Continued From First Page.) Columbia, whose parks and lawns now are suffering worse than ever from the continued ht, that it has ‘grown worse instead of better. utmost to relieve the drought-stricken sections without asking for Federal aid. The Drought Commission of Maryland has arranged for the creation of a spe- cial fund from which loans will be made to farmers unable to post collateral. Virginia, one of the worst stricken States, is attending to its own problem ade noteworthy progress. s are bending every effort to take care of their own. Thus far the economic catastrophe appears to have reached its greatest proportions in 75 courx.las in Arkansas and 85 counties in Kentucky, according to reports to one national -g'ney De- partment of Agriculture statistics show an exceptionally good crop year for the country as & whole, but the Virginia farmer’ whose corn has been burned up kets little comfort from the information that the farmer in Iowa had a fine crop and that the biggest farmer of all, Uncie Sam, has his grain and apple bins flow- ing over, Red Cross at Work. ‘Those closest to the drought situation are loath to say much about it. Pirst, they can't predict the weather for the rest of the Autumn, Secondly, the dis- iress shades off from the prospect of absolute suffering in some sections to merely relative discomfort in others. The American Ked Cross Tealizes that it has a disaster on its ‘hands. It is oragnized and waiting, which is about all it can do. Red Cross officials say it is the sort of disaster with which the organization has yet had no ex- perience. If there was a famine in Kentucky they could rush in trainloads of food and distribute it to the hungry people. If there was an epidemic in Arkansas they could have doctors, nurses, medicines and sanitary equip- ment there in a day. But there is no famine and no epi- demic. There is nothing a relief or- ganization actually can put its hands on. Yet it realizes that there is a catastrophe. For the most part, only individual cases yet fall into its scope. It has distributed, through its county units, a good deal of abruzzi rye and ‘garden seed to help the stricken farm- ers to help themselves. May Find Health Problem. ‘The greatest anxiety is felt for the health of the drought-stricken areas, Insanitary conditions, due to dried-up streams and general lack of water, have led to insanitary conditions. It is = favorable condition for any germs of an epidemic disease which may be lurk- ing in the background—and there is not much to be doue about it. Wheth- er the mild t]&phofl increase in Virginia and Maryland has any connection with the drought, according to Public Health Bervice officlals, is debatable. But it is not denied that there may be some connection. Then there is pellagra, a disease of diet deficlency which devastating results. The drought has struck hardest in the pellagra country. Yeast, con- taining quantities of a still unisolated vitamin, comes close to being an abso- lute specific. against this disease. It also is prevented by plenty of green vegetables. Farm families don't have green vegetables in Winter and many of them will have less than ever this ‘Winter. Despite the efforts of the Public Health Service and State health de- partments, the ‘use of yeast is by no means as well known as it should be. For the past three years, it was learned at the Public Health Service, hoth the sickness rate and the death rate of pellegra have ben on the increace, de- spite the scientific advances toward control of the disezse. The real effect, 50 far as this malady is concerned, will not be known until next Spring after a Winter of reduced diet. Ready to Give Aid, Another frightful malady making alarming progress just now is poliomye- litis, or infantile paralysis. It is almost &t the 1927 peak, the worst yet. Not that there is any définite connection between it and the drought, but it is Just onme of those lurking threats al- ways intensified in times of poor sanita- tion and malnutrition. The Public Health Service is ready to help in the drought area as soon as 1t receives requests from State author- ities, Thus far the only move has been the visit of a few health officers to Washington fn order to secure increased Federal funds for health work. Early in August, when the real eriousners of the drought began to be realizeg, the Federal Farm Board an- nounced that “if existing feed dis- tribution agencies or other business men and farmers in any stricken com- munity, !%dl&trlcl or State will form under th Wws of thelr own State & responsible corporation which will guardntee the pavment of notes to be glven by ‘individual farmers, a plan probably can be - quickly developed whereby the Grain Stabiiization Cor- poration can seli feed grains of any kind ‘in carload lots at market prices on easy payments of one or two years. The Grain Stabilizatios has plenty of grain and can bu to replace that sold for feed, thus keeping its own supplies intact Would Obviate Charity. “The plan,” the statement continues, “is believed *to be practical and work- able It would relieve suffering, dispose of a part of the grain surplus, and put no man nor community under the necessity of asking for charity. If local communities will do their part, no substantial farmer need lack for feed for his live stock and no stock need be sacrificed on present marksts.” The primary purpose was to enable farmers whose hay and coin crops were fallures to carry their pigs, sheep and cattle through the Winter. Unforeseen difficulties, however, have prevented the putting of this plan in operation and the Farm Board now is working out an- cther plan, which probably will be an- nounced in a few days, by which it will act through a loan to the Farmers' National Grain Corporation, which in turn can sell grain to the drought- | stricken areas on easy terms. The real need for grain will not come until late Fall. The plan now under consideration, 1t was announced, will be in accord with the act. creating the Farm Board, which can loan money to co-operatives but not to _credit associations, With th¥ coming of Fall there has been improvement through a good deal of the drought-stricken area and pas- tures in some places have recovered sufficiently ' to ford hope of late Fall grazing for the cattle. Rain, even now, would alter the situation greatly, espe- cially in the southern States, where the garden season may be extended into the early Winter. Freight Rates Cut. One specific relief measure has been the reduction of freight rates on live stock, hay and grain, by practically all the railroads operating in the drought- stricken area, under authority of &n order issued August ® by the Interstate Commerce Commsision, allowing the pl:ka’:luunn ug‘t such emergency rates without notice. Such reduced tariffs have been pub. 'd by the Central Freight Associa- lon, which comprises the roads east of the of Pittsbus mac and o Rivers; the Trunk Line Asscolation, including the roads 'zgt of Pittsburgh and of the = the Ne and | The States themselves are doing their | tional, arrived yesterday for % short visit Photo shows them at the Corcoran ton; and Karl Sterrer of Vienna, A trio of distinguished Europeans, members of Homer Saint Gaudens, director of fine arts of the Carnegle he aw several of the Left to_righ nstitute, and to view Art Gal e ard for the twenty-ninth Carnegie ‘Institute Interna- famous galleries of the Capital fipot of London, Henri Matisse of Parls, as their host and guide while in Washing- L ~—Underwood & Underwood Photo. FOR LIFE ON Fight Was to Kee By the Associated Press. MUSKEGON, Mich., September 27.— Harry Smith of Newark, N, one of the two men rescued this morning from the wreckage of the barge Salvor which sank in a Lake Michigan storm off here yesterday, described as “a tough fight” the efforts of the two men to prevent being swept to thelr deaths in the tur- bulent waters. “Our great fight was to keep from freezing in (h%t northwest gale as the glant waves rdlled over us every few seconds,” Smith said. Smith revealed that in addition to Clinton Lane, who was found dead aboard the barge, a fourth man, Clarence Brunett, had jsought to live through the storm by clinging to the derrick. After fighting several hours with the waves Brunett dropped into the water. “It was a tough fight,” said Smith. “For about three hours after midnight 11t semed the sea was breaking over us | all the time. Nedeau and I and Lane telimbed onto the frames as soon as the ship went aground. We had lashed the boy, Lornie Olmstead, and the two 'SURVIVOR DESCRIBES BATTLE LAKE MICHIGAN Newark, N. J., Man Declares Greatest p From Freezing in Northwest Gale. women (Mrs, Ida Olmstead and Alice La Plaunt) to a life raft and pushed them off. Several others went the same way. Brunett and two other -men were hlnflng&mo each other and trying to stay on deck. Brunett wanted to ¢limb up with us, but every time a big wave came along he was washed to the other e of the ship. Then he would crawl ck, only to be washed away again. “Darkness came and we could see the lights on shore. It seemed ages. About [ JOSeph, Mich., yestercay morning with dark we saw Brunett drop into the |a cargo of grapes for Milwaukee. The water. We still clung to our place, “Lane kept talking to us all the time until about two Hours after midright. About the last thing I remember him saying was thpt he wanted to come down where we were and get warm. All the poor kid had on was a bathing Suit, a vest and one gock. The sock was still hanging to his foot this morning. I went up’ there and felt of his pulse at daylight. He must have baen dead since he_last spoke at 2 o'clock.” . When Coast Guards arrived at 6 o'clock this morning Smith and Ney dropped into the lake and were picked up. Bankers Arrested By St. Paul Police As Robber Suspects {Overzealous Constable | Gives Tip Aftér Crash, but All Ends Well, | By the Assoéinted Pre. ST. PAUL, Minn, September 27.— Four bankers came to Minnesota to | inspect rural properties with a view to investment, but almost landed in jail when an over-zealous constable at Atwater, Minn, had them arrested as suspected bank robbers. The four, Robert C.:Newman and Sidney W. Sauers, St. Louls, and Mere- dith Caldwell end Brownlee O. Curry, | Nashville, had the apology of the St. Paul police department today and a Fl’omlse of greater hospitality om their uture - visits. { The suspicions of the Atwater con- | stable were aroused when the bankers hurried away in another car after their machine had been damaged in a col- lision near there. He promptly noti- fled St. Paul police, who traced the| men to their hotel where threc de- | tectives, backed by two stationed in | the hotel lobby for emergencies, entered | the room, searched the bankers for | Tm.s and placed them under arrest be- | fore they knew what was hlrpeninl.. They were hauled off to the police sta- | tion, where St. Paul -acquaintances | vouched for their integrity and con-| fArmed thelr identities. | When the error had been adjusted the bankers assured Police Chief | Thomas Brown they had nothing but kindly feeiings for the.St. Paul police | department. | GOLD SENT BY BERLIN * | 35,000,000 More Marks in France Makes Total of 140,000,000. BERLIN, September 27 (#)—Up to| the end of this week the Reichsbank | d_transferred to France a total of | | 140,000,000 marks ‘in gold of which 35,000,000 were shipped yesterday. | The Bourse closed the week uncer- | tain, but without further serfous de- | clines during the final session. Commercial Attache Quits. BUENOS AIRES, September 27 (#) —The resignation of Juan R. Mitchell, | commercial attache of the Argentine | embassy in Washington, was accepted today by the ministry of foreign affairs. | the Southern Association. Such rates | |also have been published by the Great | Northern, the Northern Pacific, the Union Pacific and the Chicago,’ Mil- waukee, St. Paul and Pacific lines. Thus all the area has the benefit of such rates, based on miles per car- loa Cautious in Predict: Nobody is willing to_predict when | there will be rain in sufficient quantity | to do any good, except that there is| certain to be a return to normal with | ) the adjustment of high and low pressure jareas in the northern hemisphere with the coming of Winter. Bul there is| no reason to belleve that this will mean a greater than normal rainfall, The Fall equinox, when the ‘sun| crosses the Equator on its southward | Journey, has generally been associated | with storms. This year it has passed without any generally distributed rain- fall. There was never lng real reason | for the association, says Prof. Willlam J. Humphreys of the United States Weather Bureau. It is just another of the weather legends, probably owing its origin to the West Indian storms which usually come in September. Normally in_this part of the country October and November are the dryest months of the year, when conditions are most unfavorable for rain, according to the tables of the Weather Burea Many suggestions still are being Te- ceived for causing rain, all of them fm- ractical. Even If everything claimed )y most of the inventors was true, ac- cording” to Dr. Hum'rmm the rain caused would be vu;m‘illhz and tremen- the most prac- proposal of all—to carry water Sltogetiier 5o cxpens a er ve. quire 113 fons of water to ‘eq! acre, mum»flmu DUTLAW CORNERED BY 150-MAN POSSE Assailant of Two Surrounded in Mountains by Police ‘Guards and Civilians. By the Associated Press. ‘WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., September 27. ~-After shooling two men and taking pot shots at two others, George Skid- more, 20, sought in connection with a robbery and murder in Pittsburgh, was surrounded tonight in the wilds of Raltlesnake Mountain, about 60 miles from this city by a posse of more than 150 men. State policemen, highway patrolmen, two companies of National Guardsmen, armed with machine gins, Corpl. J. G. Olmes, a highway fx:"‘)l_ man of Altoona, was wounded the right arm and the chest by Skidmore, and the arm of William Fox, keeper of the aviation beacon on Rattlesnake Mountain, was shattered and had to be amputated tonight in a hospital. Sergt. W. C. Bear, a State patrolman, escaped injury, although his cap was shot off. Corpl. C. 1. Gross also was unharmed, although & bullet went through his trousers. Highway patrolmen from Bellefonte went into the mountains after Skidmore and two companions last night on a ti from Pittsburgh police. Leonard Skid- more, a brother, and Willlam Dutton, @ friend, were arrested then. George Skidmore escaped, however, and shortly after daylight this morning he ambushed Fpx, Bear, Gross and Olmes_ Bear stopped a passing car and tdbk the wounded men to Philips- burg after he spread the alarm. | and citizens made up the posse. George Skidmore is alleged to be a | member of a rng which has com- mitted a score of robberies in the vicin- ity of Pittsburgh during the last week. He is known to be armed with a rifle, a shotgun and several pistols and to have a huge quantity of ammunition. SEEK TO COMPEL METERS FOR CABS IN WASHINGTON From First Page.), ___(Continue; as in the same class with the tags, as ing vehicles involved in accidents or violations of the traffic rules. ‘The news of the back-to-the-meter movement on the part of the utilities body came as a distinct surprise. At the public hearipg on the taxi situation two weeks ago its assistant engineer, Capt, Walter Dunlap, was put on the stand by the Commission. He intro- duced numerous zoning maps, and it was thought the Commission would deal with the problem of the zone cabs by setting up official zones and officlal zone rates, Their present request dicates that they have either abandoned the original idea or never held it very serfously. The proposed police regulation says nothing about rates, The project is, it is understood, for the Utilities Commis- | an assistance to policemen in recogniz- | | | sion to adopt a schedule of maximum | rates after securing the police regula- | tion, and then to seek to drive the zone | cabs back to meters or out of business by enforcement of the regulation. At the hearing on the taxi situation; the zone cabs were opposed by most of the industry, including many drivers who have been compelled to adopt the zone system on account of the competi- tion. *The owners of the many fleets of 35-cent cabs now on the streets were represented by counsel, but did not put in any evidence. CHILD KILLS FATHER MARTIN, Ky, September 27.—Day- ton Frame, 35, merchant, was dead to- day from a bullet wound Inflicted by his 4-year-old son. The boy walked into his father's at closing time = last b A parently attem) man" game Wi to pls “boogey his father, picked um tol back of the counter and mhnd Fathe r through the head. \ protec 1 Clon agatnst | o e reosings FRUTER BELIVED VITIM OF STORM North Shore, With Captain, His Bride and Crew Miss- ing Since Friday. By the Astoctated Press. s MUSKEGON, Mich, September 27. —Coast Guard crews on both sides of lake Michigan today watched in vain for thrce of the frult packet North Shore, missing since she Jeft St. | vessel, a steel hulled motor eraft, car- ried Capt. E. J. Anderson, his bride of |'four weeks, and four men. FOR FLYERS VAN Search After Discovery of Wrecked Plane. By the Associated Press. e CONNEAUT, Ohlo, September 27— Scores of men and boys, Coast Guards- men and sheriff’s duputies spent today searching the shore line of' Lake Erie from Conneaut to Ashtabula but failed to find the bodles of William MeNulty, Columbus salt marufacturer, and Wil- lard Parker of Cleveland, his pilot, Wwhose wrecked plane was found 4 miles west of here this morning. e cabin of the plane with wings and motor gone, and cover ripped from 1t, was wedged in a clump of fallen trees at the lake edge and partly hidden by an overhanging cliff. For a mile along the shore parts of the plane were picked up, but there was no trace of the bodies. Coast Guard boats went out from Conneaut and Ashtabul with their crews closely scanning the water, Three airplanes from veland made & search from overhead. W. E. Allen of the Curtis-Wright flying service, who has led the search for the men since they took off from the Cleveland Municipal Afrport at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, said the condition of the safety belt fastenings in'the plane indicated the men might have been thrown out. The clock in the cockpit stopped at 2:29. indicating that the plane hac: been in the air hardly an hour. Allen said Parker was inexperlenced as & night fiyer and expressed bellef that in the darkness the plane struck the water, hurled its occupants out and crumpled to pieces. The men had told Cleveland airport officials they were going to Miffinburg, Pa., by way of Buffalo, but it is be~ lieve¢: they had other plans, possibly to fly to a Canadian city, The wives of the missing men were disttacted when they learned of the finding of wrecked plane. Mrs. Parker, expressing hope that her hus- band was still alive, was brought here from Cleveland in an airplane, but re- fused to view the wreckage, NYE SEES BL TO REPUBLICANS IN GROCER NORRIS AFFAIR Although hope had bzen held during the day that the North Shore might have found refuge in some other port, this was virtually abandoned as the ‘l“t};: passec: without word from her cap- ain. If the North Shore went down in Yesterday's %0-mile - gale, the toll of the storm has been increased to a loss of 11 lives and 3 ships. Death List Reduced. The death list of the barge Salvor that went down at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon off the harbor entrance here was reduced to five today when two of four men who had clung to a dor- rick on the vessel were taken off by Coast Guards. Seven other persons, in- cluding two women were taken out of fhe water alive at.& point 14 miles north of here. The two men taken from thd barge this morning were Lyman Nedeau of Muskegon and Harry Smith of New- ark, N. J. They had survived 16 hours of battering by waves anc the rolling of the wreckage of their craft. Clifford Lane of Muskegon, who also sought a chance for life by clinging to the der- rick, was dead when the Coast Guards reached the barge at 6 o'clock this mornifig. They learned also that Clarence ‘Brunett, the fourth man to fry to withstand the gale by hanging to the derrick had given up and d d into the water about cusk last nigl Ee Crew of Seven Saved. ‘The third vessel caught in the sto was the old schooner: “Our Son," l:mn of her type on the lakes. She foundered off Ludington yesterday afternoon and went down after her crew of seven men had been removed by the freighter Wil- liam Nelson, Bestdes Capt. Anderson and- his wife, those abonrd the North Shore when she left St. Joseph were Josepn Tekus of Milwaukee, Royal Ritcher of ‘Washing- ten Island and two others whose names were not available. long and powered with a Diesel engine, Grape ets were being washed ashore In great numbers between Hol- land and South Haven tonight, belleved to come from the wreckag> of the fruit packet North Shore. Comdr. W. M, WOIft of the Coast Guard said this was en almost certain indication the packet went -down with the five men and one woman on board. CAPTAIN TELLS OF RESCUE. | Describes Yow Crew of “Our Son” Fought for Lives. By the Associat®d Press, CHICAGO, tember 27.—The dra- matic story of seven men, the crew of the lumber schooner “Our Son, * bat- tled against death for hours during the gale of Friday and finally were rescued |88 their ship sank, was related tonight by Fred Nelson, captain of the schooner, Capt. Nelson and his men arrived in Chicago tonigit aboard the (reigh William Nelson, which stood by rescued them during the height of t. storm. “The storm srtuck us about 8 o'clock Friday morning, a few hours after we had left Sheboygan with a cargo of ulpwood,” said Capt. Nelson. t stead- ly mounted in intensity until 30-foot waves were breaking over the cordwood piled on dec The water soon began to work into”the hold and it was nec- essary to start the pumps. “Part of the cargo was washed away around noon and the water began to rise faster. By 2 o'clock it was plain that we were losing ground, and I gave the order to hqist a distress signal— that is, an inverted flag. “A short time later the Willlam Nel- son came in sight, but the seas were so high it seemed impossible to expect aid from her. Things looked bad then.” Capt. Charles H. Mohr of the Willlam Nelson then took up the siory, telling how he circled twice around the schoon- er, asking that it be headed into ths wind so he could bring his boat near. “We then worked closer and closer,” related Capt. Mohr, “until our bow was | only a few feet from the schooner. The waves were rocking both boats badly, but fortunately they did not crash te- gether. Finally the gap became so small that the men from the schooner were able to jump across. The schooner sank | about 60 minutes later.” GAS STATION TRAP GUN KILLS COLLEGE GRADUATE ! ‘The vessel 1s 64 fect'! ..(Continued From First Page.) “it these bonds are by any chance among those which were bought with aroce" eds of the Continental Trading ‘This company, incorporated in Canada and now defunct, came into prominence in the oll lease investigation conducted by the Senate and the Federal o It developed that profits of the company were used to buy Government bonds and that Harry F. Sinclair later made a contribution to the blican Party, using some of the bon Victor Seymour, Senator Nye said, had testified before the Senate Commit- tee iast July that he had had no con- nection with the entry of Grocer ris into the senatorial primary; that had not even heard of the grocer untl he saw in the newspn&n at he had filed against Senator George W. Norris, The recent testimony given by John- m, attorney for Grocer Norris, and iss Esther Alten, secreiary to Seymoéur while he was operating an office in Lincoln, Nebr., last Winter and Spring, have shown conclusively, Sen- ator Nye said, that Seymour was the l};ufinmr of the candidacy of Groeer lorris. Charges May Be Filed. “I am confident,” sald Senator Nye, “that the United States district at- grney in Omhn‘hu. Mr. m'i"‘m’ le perjury charges aga! and o;or,e W.. Norris of Broken Bow, because of their testimony before the Senate Committee.” The chairmamw of the committee inti- already has mated that the committee publishs Pl Grocer primary was hatched. Seymour has now resigned his with the Republican Senatorial mittee, announcing that he took this step voluntarily and “for the good of the party.” He insisted, however, he had done nominwn;. Senator Nye said the Scpate imittee had no in- tention of calling Seymour before it agein; that he would be left. to the United States attorney in Omaha to deal with, and that the committee would be able, through the checks han- dled by Seymour to trace the source of the funds used by Seymour in "the anti-Norris campaign. Out in Nebraska and elsewhere, Sen- ator Nye s2id, there had been a “whispering” campaign to the effect that Senator Norris and his friends had besn at the bottom of the candidacy of Grocer Norris, merely to make capital ‘| for Senator Norris himself in the pri- mary campaign. . “The disclosures before the Senate Committee have completely given the lie to these whisperea slanders attack- ing Senator Norris,” sald Senator Nye. Senator Nye added that the $7,000 traced to Seymour's account in Lincaln, Nebr., was, in his opinion, only a small part of the money expended there to ury to defeat the candidacy of Senator Norris for the Republican nomination. “Water Power Rumors.” ‘There have been rumors that water- | power interests were strongly interested in the defeat of Senator Norris, who, as one of the progréssive leaders in the Senate, has be:n considered distinctly inimical to such interests. The Senate investigation, however, has so far not traced contributions to the anti-Norris campaign to these sources, Senator Nye said it had been reported to him in Nebraska that the plan of the backers of Grocer Norris had been to force Senator Norris to get out of the Republican primary and to run as &n indspendent, since it would not have been possible to distinguish be- tween the votes cest for the twe Norrises. When Senator Norris should withdraw from the Republican primary, then, Sen- ator Nye, said, Grocer Norris was also to withdraw. ‘- There was a plan, he sald, to Have former Gov. Samuel Mc- Kelvie, member of the Farm Board, then become the Republican nominee for the Senate. The Scnate Campaign Investigating Committee had adjourned, Senator Ny said, until October 14, when it will go either to North Carolina or Tennessee to inquire into senatorial primary cam- aigns in those States. Chlr}e{ have n_made of excessive expenditures in the Democratic primarics in both those States, The North Carol'na charges run to the introduction of sums of money to be used for Balley, the succes- ful candidate for the nomination against Senator Simmons, who was seeking re- nomination. Charles, G.McEiroi of Tampa, Fla., Victim of Accident in South Carolina After Werning. tember 27.— By the Assoclated Press. PAGELAND, 8. C. Ber Charles G. McElrol, 23, of Tampa, Fla., was killed today when a trap gun set at a filling station near here went accidentally. M uate of Was cEirol, : engineer led the full charge in Massachusetts Trip Plan. During the next week or two Senator Nye plans to, go himself to Massa- chusetts, where demands have been made for a senatorial investigation of the primary election which resulted in the nomination of Willlam M. Butler as Democratic candidate. Senator Nye sald. he hoped Senator Wagner of New York, another member of the Senate Chisets i that Loguher soay would cl g0 _over the data which have been mil A e 2 i his Massachusetts aral