Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1930, Page 1

WEATHER, (U. 8. Weather Fair and cooler, with lowest tempera. ture about .45 degrees tonight; tomorrow ln’;tnnd eotnunued wl't.'ls Abiib ‘mperatures—Highest, 75, at 3:: yesterday; lowest, 55, at 2 a.m. toda; Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 No. 31,563. post office, Entered as second el Washington, Bureau Forecast.) pm. Y. matter D. C. BERMANY WARNED COUP MAY FOLLOW FORCE ON BUDGET Statement in Hitler News- paper Is Taken as Threat af Fascist Putsch. NEW PROGRAM ORDERS WIDE SALARY SLASHES Officials From President Down to Take Cuts—Halt in Upward Tax Trend Promised. MUNICH, Bavaria, September 30 (#). ~—Adolf Hitler's newcpaper, Woelkischer Beobachter, today published a warning to the government that if Chancellor Bruening resorts to extraparliamentary means to force his program of financial Teform “his government will become il- legal and thereby summon the people to similar illegality.” ‘The newspaper referred to reports that the Hindenburg-Bruening govern- ment proposed to see its reform policies even if exercise of the powers of a dictator and adjournment of the forthcoming Reichstag should be necessary. ‘The newspaper statement was taken in government circles to mean that Hitler was ready for another putsch in | spite of his promise of peace, if the le id sufficiently aders ‘The Hitler newspaper publishes a reminder to President von Hindenburg that “the constitution contains an article iding for impeachment of the Pres- t. We warn Herr von Hindenburg The #p WASHINGTO: 0. C, eNit WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION World Series Highlights First game at Philadelphia to- morrow, beginning at 1:30 o'clock, Eastern standard time. Probable batteries—First game, Grove and Cochrane for Phila- delphia, Grimes and Mancuso for St. Louis. Probable attendance (capacity of parks)—Philadelphia, 33,000; St. Louis, 39,000 Division of receipts—Players to get receipts of first four games, owners to divide remainder. Division of games—First two games to be played in Philadel- phia on successive days; next three to be played in St. Louis, with ohe day's interim provided for traveling, and remainder of seven-game series, if necessary, to be played in Philadelphia, with one day out for traveling. Award—World championship, to' be won by first team to gain four victories. Time of games—All games at Philadelphia to begin at 1:30 | o'clock, Eastern standard time; | | all games at St. Louis to begin at 2:30 o'clock, Eastern standard time, Betting odds—Philadelphia Ath- )ed‘»‘l";s rule favorites at 3-to-2 odds. Further details on sport page. TICKET LINE GROWS FOR WORLD SERIES No. 1 Man, First to Begin Waiting, Has Been at Gate Since Friday. By the Associated Press. ELPHIA, September 30.—The endurance line at Shibe Park is in- creasing. * With the allottment of 30,000 strips of tickets for grandstand seats for the ‘world series in this city almost all taken up by the holders of ticket orders is- sued by the Athletics, the line is waiting for the general admission ticket win- , | dows to open _tomorrow morning. Sullivan Stil First. . William Sullivan, Philadelphia, No. , in_line since last Friday night, and Yacovone, No. 2, were Philadelphia’s standard bearers. and fourth in line gave their names as Byron R. Anderson and his wife, Esther, 717 Warrent street, Bel- lere, L. Fifth was Wilmer Houser of Tremont, Harold Hitler, tements a his revolu- Tepublican regime had drafting of presented to the the National So- delegates to th clalists secured 107 . Relc session, and be- {(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) BARTENDER WOUNDED DEFENDING OFFICER Policeman Had Been Struck Down ‘When Robber Victim Goes to His Rescue. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 30.—A bar- fender in an alleged speakeasy on the upper west side was shot and seriously wounded today when he picked up the Pistol of a wounded policeman and at- tempted to save him from further at- $ack by four robbers. ‘The policeman, George Rouse, while mmu his beat at 120th street and ith avenue, glanced through the window of the resort and saw several men standing against the wall with their hands raised. He sounded the buzzer at the door and was feiled by a blow on the head. As he regained his he drew his pistcl and fired two shots before he fell again with a bullet 4n his right hand and two in his right As the robbers advanced upon the prostrate policeman, Tony Bastone, 40 years old, picked up the pistol and opened fire on the rol He in turn was shot in the abdomen. ‘The pair were Bill- y Yazell of Columbus, Cramer of Pittsburgh iy, NANCY HOPKINS CRASHES ‘Washington Pilot Uninjured When Plane Is “Pancaked.” AKRON, Ohio, September 30 (#).— Miss Nancy Hopkins, Washington so- clety aviatrix, who completed the re- ;e"nt Ford reliability tour without mis- D, Te 3 her plane in landing he last night, but resumed her flight to ‘Washington tocay. pal rt, blowing out a tire and damaging a landing strut. She and her co-pllot, E. C. Mummart, Ham- dsport, N. Y. GETS 3-MONTH SENTENCE Former Councilman Also Fined $600 in Dry Law Plot. CLEVELAND, September 30 (#).— Drukenbrod pleaded guilty to a prohibition laws, hl“ntd turned Govern- RARE SPECIMENS LOST ROCHESTER, N. Y, September 30 (#)—Priceless geological and anatomical 8] ens, the accumulation of more n 60 years were lost today in a fire which swept Ward's Natural Science Museum. 'he e was estimated at $200,000 the establishment. Ward’s Museum was famous through- out the world for its rare collections. Many of the most famous animal THUMB-WAGGER HAILS OWN CAR als are 4o sitend e SEEKING RIDE AFTER IT IS STOLEN it E. Randell Forced to Become Pedestrian, Chicagoan Sits as Passenger ox: Until Policeman I Reached. o became a thumb- not through choice, mindedly 9 times down at the instrume; azed. P- | coroner. charge of conspiracy against Federal | Creecy ATTACK BY CREECY | ISLAID TO INSANITY BY MARINE 30ARD Witnesses Describe Officer “Either Drunk or Crazy” on Sunday Morning. | MENTAL TREATMENTS DESCRIBED BY DOCTOR Formal Report of Findings Awaits Outcome of Mrs. Creecy’s ‘Wounds. It was a fit of insanity that led Lieut. Col. Richard Bennett Creecy, wealthy Marine Corps officer, to attack his wife with a hand ax and then turn a re- volver on himself, the Marine Corps board of inquest, investigating the officer’s death, concluded today. ' Col. Creecy brutally hacked his wife's head with a hatchet and then “killed himself with a pistol some time Satur- day night or Sunday morning in a room at the Mayflower Hotel. The board, it was announced this afternoon by, Col. Louis M. Little, chair- man, heard testimony of two persons who say Col. Creecy early Sunday morning and described him as being at that time either drunk or crazy. A third witness, Col. Little said, was a doctor, who testified he had treated Col. Creecy for years for complaints tending to insanity. No Liquor Is Found. Members of the board are certain these complaints for which Col. Creecy had been treated culminated in a fit of insanity which caused him to attack his wife with the ax and to shoot himself in the heart. No evidence of liquor has been found in the case, mem- bers of the board stated. report. Mrs. Creecy today was ing her own in a fight wil skull crushed by the ax. blows. She has not regained consciousness since she was found on the floor of the fifth- floor room of the Mayflower Hotel Sun- day afternoon. Doctors give her a bare chance to recover. d hold- death, her £ B g :§§§. wounds on her head, nor what pened before Col. Creecy leveled new pistol at his heart and pulled the f. Baward J, Kelly, chief of the cide Squad of ‘the Detective News Note: o Star. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1930—FIFTY PAGES. Gov. Roosevelt urges Mayor Walker of New York to require Tammany office holders to waive immunity and appear before the special grand jury investigating the judicial appointment scandal. PLANS BLOG TO CUT U. S. GOMPETITION English Business Men at Parley Will Try to Line Up Dominions. By the Associated Press. ber 30. — English led at the rapidly expanding export trade of the United States, are going to try to Empire into one solid economic British bloc at the imperial conference, which starts “here tomorrow. B o o e = ORD BIRKENHEAD The report urges ti imperial conference delegates the reasons for the “urgent necessity ‘which exists for this country to take all possible steps to increase trade with the dominions. 's main dificulty in the past evidences of intense istic feeling, belleve that British entirely a om-lm the posajs were not ‘non—-thn 1s, benefit of English business men. board chairman de- find any evidence that would lead them to differ from the findings of the police and the Police have discovered that Col. Creecy last Saturday morning bought an ax and pistol. Weapons Traced Easily. Because of their mnewness they were traced easily and quickly yes- terday. Late yesterday pector ‘William 8. Shelby, chief of the Detective Bureay, announced that Col. Creecy had been identified as the man who pur- chased them early Saturday morning at two downtown stores. ‘The revolver, according to police,. was purchased at ‘the Sport Mart, 914 F street, between 9 and 9:30 o'clock Sat- were in sequence with those in stock at the store, ané¢ Edgar Thomas Grigs- by a clerk at the store, identified Col. * Grighy . polke” Cot weapon. pol ‘ol. remarked, upon purchasing the istol, that he wanted “to take this pis- with me to the tropics.” He that he n‘mm:wmuhm heavy to ax, a short-handled affair, it was discovered, was purchased by a man answering the description of Col. Creecy some time Saturday at the hardware store of Barber & Ross, Eleventh and G streets. The ax, it was found, was a West Virginia concern of e local hardware store is sole agent here. Paul Helster, clerk in the store, sald he sold the ax to a man by P:‘nk Ward, director of | T} paralysis uffered three weeks When the planting season had bare) Nineteen neighbors with 13 tractors and other equipment worked two days and drilled acres of wheat on the Doherty farm. N Radio Programs on Page C6' evitably detail a large for British Py which drew uj mp-nwn Teport, admits that “it is fatal to fall into the error of V:léevlu that the dominions e ground for the try” S Linked With Immigration. It is pointed out for the delegates’ nsideration that the dolrl‘lmnn as a cor market for British EXPIRES IN LONDON Brilliant British Statesman and Lawyey Succumbs at Age of 58. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 30.—Frederick Edwin Smith, the first Earl of Birken- head, statesman, died just before noon today after an extended iliness with a bronchial allment. He was 58 years old. His crowded political life included & role as prosecutor of Sir Roger Case- ment, Irish leader, who was hanged after t- | conviction for treason; lord high chan- 3 ‘woul increased demand goods.’ ‘The Federation m:' British Industries, to serve as a dumping unemployed of this coun- % tate aided schemes of emigra- tion have largely failed, they say. Brit- ain must now turn its attention to de- veloping the prosperity of the individual M;’inmumemtwwmmuhce empire tion. Style and Quality The stocks of merchandise in Washington stores are nearing their peak for the Fall season. A great va- riety of styles, quality and sizes can now be found. And these goods are being advertised at prices that add anoth@r advantage to making your purchases at the present time, Desirable offerings in to- day’s Star include: Sports Coats, Rayon Underthings, Topcoats for Men, All-silk Hose, Hardy Evergreens, And many others. Ymm(i;e):’ll Adv?fi:.:g The Evening Star. . . 30,451 cellor, and secretary of state for India. He had been {ll for several months of & lung congestion and several times recently had been near death. He suf- fered a serious relapse and recurrence of the lung trouble Sunday and afters troubled night last night his life ebbed quickly. & Was Born Poer. A bulletin issued by his physicians to- dfl gave notice of his deEflL It said: “The Earl of Birkenhead peace- fully away at a quarter past 11 this morning. Although born & poor boy, Smith rose & scholarship at Oxford secured and rise was created a baron in ‘1910, widh 3 appointment as lord high chancellor in g:l majesty’s *°He was an acti t of Irish was an active opponen home rule, and in 1913 held a post in the Ulster Army. He was made secre- tary of state for India upon the break- up of the first MacDonald government in 1924 and held it unti! MacDonald's return to power in 1929, Lord Birkenhead was taken ill last August when a chill developed into bronchial pneumonia. After a struggle with his malady he seemed to have conquered and was pronounced on the road to recovery, although it was expezlughhe Vlo\;{: take some time to rega strength. Lord Birkenhead had not been a very ROOSEVELT NAMED Smith, in Nominating Speech, Hits Both State and National G. 0. P. By the Assoclated Press. SYRACUSE, N, Y., September 30.— Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt was unani- moysly renominated by voice vote at the Democratic State convention here today. Lieut. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman also was renominated in the same manner, garding came in the course of his criticism of the platform adopted zh?ymum State convention at “speaks of & ."Q“m’”h 1 of the cities of New &hd Alban; and stresses and corrupt tices with respect to the judiciary. Cer. tainly that plank cannot be aimed against the Democratic party as a whole nst Gov. Roosevelt York and Albany an ovation, the floor and in the gallery applauding . and ch while the band played “Sidewalks of New York.” Turning to national affairs, he sald r&mm':: give the mbfluu'g Sympa they can get administration of President Hoover.” He derided the Republican platform declaration on unemployment and said that a friend rn him a pocket piece, on one side of which was the inscrip- tion, “Hoover's Lucky Piece,” and on the other side, “Four Years of Pros my)‘ He told his friend, he , he could not t it, because if he ever tried to t it in a bank he mig! ‘The ht go to jail. Laughs at Prohibition. it plank in the Re- publican form of last week was the same as the one they ad two years ago, the former Governor de- clared. When Mr. Smith announced his next ug! e W "kraock the -mv:n the leopard,” he ‘Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde haven't got & thing on them,” he said. £ “The Republican platform provides (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROBES CRATER CASE Disappearance of Judge May Be Linked With Ewald Mail Fraud Charges. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 30—Federal interest in the dlngpe-nnoe of Joseph Force Crater, New York Supreme Court Justice, who dropped from sight on Au- gust 6, was indicated toda Mr. d Mrs. intimates well man since last April, when he | the; broke a blood vessel while Smith, were summoned Blarritz, but Lord Birkenhead short]y recovered sufficiently to return home. Noted for Brilllance. In the death of the Earl of Birken- head England loses not only one of her most turesque personalities, but a man who by common eonl;nlw one of the most brilliant in the “Brililance was the keynote of his ca- reer. It was not that he could not work ; felt ac llk& his early struggles at dustry as there ‘was nol ; plodder about mfl had !«hom! of & genius to (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) Total R0, . 51,045 STUDENTS HURT IN CLASH |definite HAVANA, _September 30 . 9).—A o] fi& e w A ONBATOONN .o i e i i snlmwd partment as to 2 th mail fraud in Federal Court and with office-buying in a State indictment. un- Orater’s is der the exha scrutiny of a county grand jury. MORROW GOES TO JERSEY Definite Announcement on Cam- paign Due in Few Days. By the Associated Press. - Mexict, et Washingicn sarly vodny for hhmhom-hwz..a. -m:'m‘uumt Toover and State Do, campaign for the Senate from New Jer- sey would be forthcoming within a few No information was either fl:.}'"‘ et et A e BYN. Y. DEMOCRA every. cit; tion is delivered to X UP) Means Associated AIMED AT WILBUR Accuser of Secretary De- clares He Is Ready to Ap- pear Before Committee. KELLY ORDERED TO FILE NAMES OF FIRMS FAVORED Accusation Hinges on Disposal of Lands Containing $40,000,000,000 in Petrolenm. By the Associated Press, A congressional airing appeared likely today for the charges of favoritism to large oil companies brought against Sec- retary Wilbur by Ralph 8. Kelley in resigning as chief of the field division of the Federal Land Office in Denver, ‘The Interior Secretary refused to ac- cept Kelley's resignation, but announced the latter’s suspension from office, wel« coming a full investigation. Kelley in New York said last night he did not regard himself any longer an employe of the Interlor Department and re- stated the charges made in his letter of resignation, which he made public Sunday. The former Land Office man added he would be prepared to amplify his charges later arid would be ready to appear before & congressional commit~ should the suggestion of Chairman Nye of the Senate Lands Committee for an investigation be approved. The I ter termed the charges amazing and sald, “Kelley will have to be heard in Congress.” Wilbur Defends Policy. Secretary Wilbur made a vigorous de- Le.nuo!hnnllhndwucym'dm:lldhe names of companies he claimed had avored, with specific details of each case. The charges hinged on the dis) of public lands in Colorado which, Kel- ley asserted, contained petrol posits in the form of oil shale which, even at present low prices, would exceed $40,000,000,000 in value. He asserted that through political pressure on the office of the Interior the made up largely of local people in immediate vicinity.” Out of Department Control. ‘Whether any of these had into the hands of the larger oil con- cerns after patent, he sald, was not known to the department and was be- yond its control. Kelley had been connected with the Land Office for 25 iem, !mldlngevlrl- ous posts at Salt Lake City and Denver, His resignation, Wilbur said, ned surprise because the official been (Continued on Page 32, Column 1.) PILOT, 16, TAKES OFF FROM ST. LOUIS PORT Robert Buck Leaves for Wichita in Quest of Cross-Country Record. By the Assoclated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 30.—Robert Buck, 16-year-old Elizabeth, N. J., aviator, attempting to set a new junior transcontinental flight record, landed here at 9:50 a.m. completing a flight from Indianapolis in two hours. After refucling he took off at 10:45 a.m., for Wichita, Kans,, his next stop. Leaves Indianapolis at 7:50. 16-year-old izal , N. J., aviator, who is attempting to set took off ay from the Mars Hill Air- m at 7:50 am. (central standard e) in resumption of his Westward ick said he planned to land at St. Louis to refuel and hoped to reach Albuquerque, N. Me The young the record set a few weeks ago by Eddie Schneider of Jersey City. Schneider's time for his cross-country flight was 29 hours 40 _minutes. ‘When Buck left here he calculated he was approximately one hour ahead of the Jersey boy's record. He said he had made good time despite head-winds met yesterday while crossing the Alleghanies. Bucking these head-winds necessitated & stop at Martins Fery, Ohio, for fuel. He stopped again at lumbus, Ohio, and reached here at 5:20 p.m. Apple Tree Half Barren. STOCKTON, Iowa, September 30 (#). —An apple tree in the orchard of H. P. Bohnncfi. near here, is bending under’| the weight of fruit on one side, while the other side is in full bloom. posal | fecl tha tak “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier block and the regula: system covers r edie ‘Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. - Yesterday’s Circulation, 1 Press. TWO CENTH. OF “SPEAKEASIES” District Attorney’s Office Files 8 Padlock Injunction Suits in Supreme Court. 600 PROPERTY OWNERS ADVISED OF VIOLATIONS Premises Involved Are Said to Be Assessed for Taxation in Ex- cess of $150,000, The United States attorney’s office today took drastic action toward drive ing speakeasies out of Washington. Coupled with the filing of eight pad- lock injunction suits in the District Sus~ preme Court, United States Attorney Leo A. Rover and John B, Williams, one of his assistants, announced that since January 1 more than 600 property owne ers had been warned that the prohible tion law was being violated on their premises. In only one of the injunction suits in~ stituted today, however, did the Gove ernment attempt to show that the prope erty owner had been previously warned. The eight proceedings started today “The great majority of the 600 prop= - | erty owners to whom we sent w: went the limit in co-operating with us,” Mr. Williams said, “and of “In the cases to padlock W been flagrantly violated on the premises over a period of months. We t the owners of the properties or should have known, what was ing place. “Our action today is not to be viewed !fi.l crusade, but merely as evidence t the United States attorney's of- fice does not to con- two-story brick building and woods] at 236 Second street northeast, the t story frame structure at 2450 Nichols avenue southeast, the two-st brick building and basement at 131 F street, the two-story brick at 26 jo man'’s ghu. the two-st brick - ing at 1623 Seventeenth and 1017 Seventh street southeast. * inson and Nancy Wheeler as tenants of 1923 Seventeenth street and Willlam Hannan as owner, Lawrence Edward White and Cora White as tenants of 26 Dingman's place and William P. Lockwood as owner, Anna Simrel, Al- bert Gaylord Smith, Wilhelmenia Mon- tague and George Wooten as tepants F street and Zelda Klatz- as_ owner, David Weathers, George Patrick Harley and Ada R. Proctor as tenants of 2450 Nichols ave- nue southeast and Harry B, Sperling as owner, Abraham Zimberg, Fred Haw- kins and Louls Katz as tenants of 236 Second street northeast and Francis P. Sheehy as owner; Winnie Carrington and Emma Hollivee as tenants of 506 First street and Charles S. Cuney and William A. Bowle as owners, Samuel Contee and Elizabeth Contee as of 45 F street and John A. Dore and Margaret M. Dore as owners, Jesse Rob- ert Spriggs as tenant of 1017 Seventh street southeast and Robert Levin, A. Wallace Levin, Maurice J. Teitelbaum and Mary Stoddart as owners, Each of the petitions was accom- panied by affidavits from police and rohibition agents that the prohibition f.w had been violated numerous times at the premises. ——— FRENCH ENVOY RETURNS Ambassador Reaches New York After Five-Month Leave. NEW YORK, September 30 ).~ M. Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the United States, returned today on the Ile de France to resume his duties in Washington after a five-month ab- sence abroad. He made a trip to Berlin to attcnd the presentation of his opera, “Chris~ topher Columbus,” which he said was well received. “America is the logical place for its presentation,” he said. “I have not 2s yet made plans for its American premiere.” He would not discuss political affairs, FROST IS FORECAST TONIGHT IN AREAS AROUND DISTRICT Temperature Expected to Aan announce- made today the Weather At the same Vmé, the buresu de- clared light frosts may be found in the Maryland !ndmvdlrflnll p:_gam casters, however, do ot a junior transcontinental speed record, for the s not Drop in Washington to on the drought today also, making it known that the District rainfall so far this calendar year is only 55 !per cent, normal. Actually, the recorded rain- fall here has been 1885 inches, come tenants .