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b 1 50 v v SHOT IN MISSOURI " Notorious Outlaw, Sought for Two Years, May Die of Wounds. v errara P { By the Associated Press. . KANSAS CITY, October 14—A man * {dentified as Jake Fleagle, long sought - a8 the leader of a gang that robbed & ‘bank at Lamar, Colo., May 23, 1928, and - killed four men, was wounded, possibly fatally, and captured today by two, - Kansas City detectives at Branson, & Cresort town in the Southern Missouri Ozarks. In a telegram to police headquarters here from Lieut. E. L. Nelson and Ollie * V. King, thé detectives said: “Got Jake Fleagle this morning. He -8 shot and may die.” Several in Party. . Police here refused to divulge the lgource of their information which “caused the Kansas City officers to go to Branson. 3 The party included E. H. Klein, postal inspector from Los Angeles: Police Lieut, Lloyd of Los Angeles and -Lieut. Nelson and King of the Kansas City Detective Department. They arrived from Kansas City this ‘morning and saw the man identified as Fleagle entering the chair car of the train from which they were about to .‘"fi:fiu&s sald the man attempted to draw # pistol and had it half way out of its holster when he was shot. Shot in Wrist. + The er was discovered to have 3 ot wound in his right wrist 'hrc‘:l:‘ :geplren:lymhlfl inflicted ‘with! 3 After an mmlnltlm the physician said he probably would live. .shot through the abdomen. Arrange: ments were made to take him to a Springfield, Mo., hospital by ambulance. TRAPPED THROUGH “BLIND” ADS. Fieagle Lured to Scene of Capture by Postal Inspectors’ Ruse. DENVER, October 14 (#).—Informa- tion gleaned from two of Fleagle's pals as they faced the noose at Canon City and “blind” want ads inserted in the classified columns of Kansas City and Wichita newspapers were the medium through which post office inspectors and lice officers lured Jake le, al- leader of the Lamar Bank hold- to his capture, it was revealed y. Griffiths, post office inspector e of the Denver office, said he er operatives talked with his mned pals, Howard L. Royston J. Abshier, for several ‘were able to obtain only the hints from the two as to where p gang hewe R. A take their of Colorado Springs, who knew FLEAGLE'S PALS EXECUTED. Brother and Two Others Hanged in Colorado Last July. LAMAR, Colo., October 14 (#).—Wil- He was hunted by police throughout the country and the search for him ex- tended into Mexico, but he managed to elude capture for more than two years, following the hold-up of the First Na- tional Bank here May 23, 1928, which Tesulted in the killing of four men. Three Executed. Three of Fleagle’s companions in the robbery of the are dead, having been executed in this State. The trio— Ralph Fleagle, brother of Jake; Howard L. Royston and George J. Ab- shier—were convicted of slaying A. N. Parrish, president of the bank, and one of the two men shot down as they at- tempted to thwart the hold-up. Jake Fleagle was implicated in the Tobbery of the bank and the subsequent murders, two of which took place in Kansas while posses scoured hundreds | of miles of Western Kansas and East- | ern Colorado “Bad Lands” for a trace | of the bandits, by his brother in a con- | fession made at Colorado Springs a | r ago last July. The confession led | the arrest of Royston and Abshier, the former in Califcrnia and the latter at Grand Junction, Colo. Sentences Upheld. Prowers County juries found the three gullty of murder in the first de- gree and sentenced them to hang a year ago this month, and the State Supreme Court upheld the convictions. ‘The murders with which the bandit quartet was charged were those of the . | Parana at J: FLEAGLE, BANDIT, | . DR. GETULIO VARGAS, Who has assumed charge of the Brasil. ian revolutionary forces marching the State of Sao Paulo, one of (I sectors of vantage in the current u heavel in this South American country. —P. & A. Photo. BRAZILIAN REBELS IN TWO SECTORS IN DIFFICULT POSITION (Continued From First Page.) which is unfolding along the Parana- 8ao Paulo frontier. Small forces of revolutionary troops, aggregating an army of many thousands, are spread all along the front, advanc- as they can toward and into Sao ulo, rich coffee-growing section, into which the government is pouring troops for its defense. Claim Federal Victories. Rio de Janeiro dispatches insist that in fighting on both the left and right of Gen. Miguel Costa's rebel forces federal troops have been victorious, in Northern , from where & federal column is advancing on Colonia Mineira, and in Southeastern Sao Paulo at Ribeira, where a rebel attack for the second time has beef dispersed. Federal sources claim important ad- vances in the State of Minas Geraes, where a government force is advancing up the nfim to relieve the beleaguered 12th Battalion in Bello Horizonte, capi- tal of the state. The regiment has sup- lies for 30 days, and is getting water from a well inside its barracks. Rio de Janeiro claimed capture of Uberaba, key to the triangular western portion of Minas Geraes. During. the fighting Maj. Moya and the 5th Bat- talion caj ed an armored train com- plete with kitchen and dinner ready to serve. He took some prisoners and rebel supplies. Plotters Arrested. ‘The government at Rio de Janeiro announced capture of a number of al- leged revolutionary plotters within the city who had planned, it was said, to create a disturbance and take the gov- rebel strategy been hours with a nation-wide uprising, that this had failed and they had next prom- ised to overrun Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro within 10 days, with !rogl soul BRITISH ACTION SURPRISING. Foreigners Sald to Have ‘Been in No Danger at Pernambuce. has been g ment at de Janeiro that the move- ment here is in character. It is pointed out that the movement having gained its desired end in deposi- tion of the allegedly dishonest govern- ment, the city has returned to normalcy, with no anti-foreign agitation. ‘The new governor is an educated man, Jor and owner of a sugar mill. Other officials have been appointed from among judges, prefects, civil en- gineers and men of means, and cer- tainly are not radicals or bolshevik, it is declared. A communication from foreign and Brazilian banks to the provisional emor and military commander in nambuco today said: “Having consented to the desires of your excellency for the opening of our banking establishments, we are glad to inform you that the services are run- ning in complete order, and we praise your excellency and the military gov- ernment for the discipline which you knew how to implant for normalization of activities of the entire state.” ‘The communication was signed by the managers of the British Bank of South America, the Bank of London in South America, the National City Bank of New York, the Royal Bank of Can- ada, Banque Francalse et Italienne, E:;Aco Ultramarino and seven Brazilian BUDGET ESTIMATES CONTROL DEBATED BY BOARD OF TRADE (Continued From Pirst Page.) biggest municipalities were so moved from the problems of con- ducting the various bureaus and de- partments of the United States Gov- ernment that the rules laid down by {the Bureau of the Budget, affecting the departments, were not ftted to meet the problems of city admin- istration. Therefore, members of the Executive Committee believe, the fiscal affairs of the Disrtict should not be complicated by bureau control over the city’s pro) budget. A number of members of the Execu- tive Committee of the Board of Trade felt that the size of the bud the im) nce of the items included were e direct responsibility of the District Commissioners. In any event, the board's official Eo‘nt out, ample investigation of the budget items and decision as to how the money shall be spent, is assured by the thorough in- vestigation made at the hearings on bank presidert, his son, J. F. Parrieh; Dr. W. W. Wineinger of Dighton, Kans., and E. A. Kesinger, bank teller, who was kidnaped to discourage pursuit. AND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Military Band this evening at Stanley Hall at 5:30 o'clock. Jol Zimmer- bandmaster; Anton Pointner, Sufte Orientale, Mandarin's _Garden, " Garden House,” “The ©Litte Laver,” “Kong Shee, the. District budget by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. ‘The problem of the authority of the District Commissioners also was dis- While no decision was made at the meeting, there was some feeling among members that the District Commissio: Bex. | erv THE EVENING 200,000 CHINESE T0 ENGAGE REDS Troops Reported Immediately Available Due to Collapse of Civil War. By the Associated Press. NANKING, October 14.—Unofficial statements from high Nationalist sources sald today the government had decided to send 200,000 troops against bandit and Communist hordes in the southern half of the Yankgtse Valley. These troops heretofore engaged in fighting the northern rebels in the Yel- low River Valley, were sald to be im- mediately available as the result of the collapse of the rebellion. Unofficial spokesmen for the govern- ment said the troops would be moved southward at once to inaugurate a cam- paign of extermination against the southern outlaws, particularly those operating in Hupeh, Hunan, Kiangsi and Fukien Provinces. Nationalist authorities said President Chiang Kal-Shek already had ordered 180,000 soldiers withdrawn from Honan, directing 30,000 to Anhwei, 100,000 to Hupeh and Hunan and 50,000 to Kiangsl. Fukien and Chekiang, it was said, would receive attention shortly. The government spokesmen said the Nationalists were determined to make & serious effort against the lawlessness which has paralyzed trade and well being in the interior and was confident of crushing the marauders. It was conceded, however, that the task was a formidable one, and that many months of hard cam ing. would be necessary to free the ected area from the outlaws’ grip. Depredations Continue. Kiukiang advices revealed Communist depredations in Kiangsi Province con- tinued practically unabated, and addi- tional up-river dispatches said the reds seemed to be shifting their major head- quarters from Hunan Province into Kiangsl. The reds were not falling, however, to maintain sufficient forces in Hunan to control that area. ‘The put of the apparent shift from Hunan to Kiangsi was not re- vealed. However, Nanchang dispatches estimated there were upward of 100,000 well armed outlaws, led Commu- nists, operating in Kiangsi, and added that it seemed apparent Kiangsl would become the home of Communist activ- ities in Central China. Offer Defense of Nanchamg. Although Nanchang, reported seriously threatened by Communists, was vir- tually evacuated of missionaries and foreigners, provincial authorities there, despite meager resources and small numbers of troops whose loyalty was questioned, were seeking to defend the city from possible attack. i ut Hunan Province the Reds continue to control the population, both Chinese and the few remaining foreign- ers, Foreigners at Changsha, Hunan s resenty vepora ey bt Te) i cided to evacuate. i Consumption of foreign goods in Hu- nan, which once amounted to a huge figure, has dwindled to a fraction of the former amount as a result of the Red invasion and the constant strain upon the mv’:l:ee'n muagm Tesources. Fore! companies operating in Hu- nan, such as ofl and tobacco interests, reported business in that province pros- trated, the Reds having severed com. munications and robbed the until the Woflwu unable to eign goods. people had quit returned to the use of native ofls. Commercial authorities believe Hu- nan, Province is .destined to many months of poverty and hardships, even if the Reds are routed immediately. Kidnapings Continue. Red kidnapings of wealthy Chinese for ransom and the p]underl':g of ships for loot which is distribu to vir- tually destitute peasants continues on & wide scale in Hunan. Shipping on the Yangtse River has felt communistic plumeflntg‘-hlrply. Prom Kiukiang to Ichang Reds are operating, sub- Jecting forelgn and domestic shipping to many attacks. Communist shore batteries, located behind river dikes, fire ‘:r”‘ passing ships regardless of nationality. More serious than the firing upon ships, however, is the destruction by Reds of the river's navigation signals over & wide area. This has included the stoppage of the river inspection service, destruction of channel buoys and the discontinuance of lighthouse ce. Chinese commercial interests of river ports are loudly demanding a clean- K of river b ds as the result of whic! ese gunboats have begun to patrol the stream and several times have Red batteries, but with- out m effect. However, if the government succeeds or even seriously attempts to eradicate the bandits, its Doflu]nrlly throughout the affected areas is assured. On the other hand, if Nanking continues to make promises without action, the gov- ernment is destined to experience a storm of protest. Report Nationalist Thrust. Another Nationalist military thrust, the campaign against the Nort| rebels nearer to a successful end, was announced today in Chinese press dispatches from Chengchow, Ho- nan. ‘The rl':gfl‘ said Nationalist troops had further routed the revolutionary army of Gen. Feng Yu-Hsiang along the Peiping-Hankow Rallway immedi- ately north of the Yellow River, killing 2,000 rebels and capturing large quan- tities of arms and ammunition. Nationalist forces were represented as attempting to occupy Tungkwan, rail terminal at the Shensi-Shansi-Honan border point, in the hope of establishing Nanking's authority as far as the Shensi boundary and reopening the Haichow- Tungkwan lel‘kd This move was gned as a measure to establish a Nationalist defense line in northwestern Honan Province which would event any possible invasion from 1 Province, the home of Yen Hsi-Shan, one of the leaders of the recent Northern uprlnnt Pelping dispatches said troops of Gen. Chang Hsueh-Liang, gove.nor of Man- churia, who recently intervened in the Civil War and forced the rebels out of their northern positions, were mov- ing southward along the Pelping-Han- ow Rail The Manchurians were said to_have almost e Honan border line, thereby forming N -Mukden combine with a of troops from Hankow to Peiping. Such a front would confine Yen within Shansi Province, dispatch Ibly ;;n hostilities were expected between g and Yen, who were allies in the recent movement against Nanking. . RACE PUT OFF AGAIN Light Winds Cause Third Post- ponement of Fishermen’s Contest. GLOUCESTER, Mass., October 14 (). —The second race of the international | Br 's series between the Nova Scotia schooner Bluenose and the Glou- fishermin Gertrude L. Thebaud mcwu’-ammmummay because of light winds. prtaaediakrmmiit - Tripping over & stone, England, y, Graves, aged 23, died from his = at_Folk- STAR, WASHINGTO. 'ment of Commerce Building. ‘Workmen fashioning the glass aquariums in which the Bureau of Fisheries will dispiay its Nsh In ihe Dew Uepart- —Star Staff Photo. CHURCH MERGER MADE OFFICIAL Presbytery Approves Joining of Church of Covenant and First Presbyterian Body. The merger of the Church of the | Covenant Presbyterian, Eighteenth and | N streets, and the Pirst Presbyterian | Church, on John Marshall place, which was ecclesiastieally effected June last, was made official today by the unani- mous approval by the Presbytery of | Washington, meeting jn the Berwyn | Presbyterian Church, Berwyn, Md. ‘The merged church is to be known from now on as the Church of the Covenant and Pirst Presbyterian Church and will use the Church of the Cov- enant building. The churches have been functioning unofficially as a mer- ged church since last June, but the action of the Presbytery of Washington was necessary, under the rules of the Church, to make the mer- ger official. Under the terms of the merger, Rev. Dr. Albert Joseph McCartney, the pas- tor of the Church of the Covenant, is pastor of the merged church and Rev. Dr. Newton T. Patterson, who was pas- tor of the First Presbyterian Church, becomes the associate pastor. Under plans made, the Church of the Covenant merged last June with the n Church, an in- corporation. corporation, the National Presbyterian Church, were authorized by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States. Under the plans for merger with the Church group, h: yte: established in the National Capital in five years’ time, under the condition that the national group raises the sum of $1,000,000 by the end of that time. ‘This sum, it is pointed out, would be raised through subscriptions throughout the Nation, and the National Presby- terian Church, which would be estab- lished, would be representative of Presbyterianism throughout the country. Rev. Dr. John C. Palmer, pastor of the Washington Heights Pres Church, is president of the board of trustees of the National Presbyterian up. .";flpth the materialization of the Na- tional Presbyterian Chruch here, the Church of the Covenant and First Presbyterian Church would contribute with the National Presbyterian Chruch up toward the erection of a National gflgywflln Church, Funds Placed in Trust. Under the plans for the merger of the Church of the Covenant and the First Presbyterian Church approved to- day, the Pirst Presbyterian urch put their funds in trust, to await the ma- terialization of the Natlonal Presby- terian Church plans. The funds of the Pirst Presbyterian Church include se- curities of $100,000, received from the sale of its property on John Marshall place to_the Government, and $25,000, represenfing the equity in a lot on Mas- sachusetts avenue and Garfleld street, upon which was erected a chapel by the First Presbyterian Church. The property of the Church of the Covenant, amounting somewhere in the neighborhood of $750,000, Wi also go toward the National Presbyterian Church. ‘With the merger of the Pirst Presby- terian Church and_the Church of the Covenant, the First = Presbyterian Church selected three of its members o serve as elders of the merged church, three as trustees and two as deacons. They are; Elders, Theodore F. Sargent, sT., B. Johnson and J. R. Van Fossen; trustees, John F. Willlams, Wil- liam M. Hannay and W. H. Fellows, and deacons, Emmet Midkiff and Guy F. Gloffbrenner. The merged church has a total of 14 elders, 11 trustees and 13 deacons. J. R. Van Fosten was chair- man of the Pirst Presbyterian Church Committee for the church merger and H. C. Davis was chairman of the Church of the Covenant Committee for | the merger. GOLDEN VALUED AT $2,700,000 ed | Attorneys File Petition in Court | at Baltimore Listing Prop- | erty Left by Merchant. | Morton H. Goldenberg, sole proprietor of the Goldenberg stores, who died sud- denly at the Laurel Race Track le- Tuesday, left an estate valued at $2,700,000, according to the petitior of his executors filed today in the r- jhans’ Court of Baltimore, where he Ead resided. The executors are the widow, Mrs. Fannie R. Goldenberg; Ieo A. Baum and the National Savings & | ‘Trust Co. The ition was filed by At- | torneys Simon, Koenigsberger, Young & | ez, ‘The court is informed that thé real estate owned by the dead merchar! is nluz:;l at $1,200,000 and .th:&' l?em had Mr. Goldenberg is_survived by his widow ll‘.ltd‘:‘ll son, 7 yenn”old(, bot'l: residis Emersonian arl ents in n-llgmon BERG ESTATE |& The terms of the will were et forth in The Star last Saturdey. 2 ; Uncovered Telephone Wire Is Discovered In Office of Nye ‘The finding of an uncovered wire on one of the telephone lines in the office of Senator Nye of North Dakota, chairman of the Senate Campaign Funds Com- mittee, in the Senate Office Build- ing, yesterday led to speculation as to the probable cause. The suggestion was advanced that rats had gnawed the insula- tion, but a member of the Sena- tor's office staff expressed the view that it looked like an effort at wire-tapping. Senator Nye is out of the city. ‘The uncovered place on the wires was found following the ap- pearance of a light on the switch- board when the receiver was nct off the hook. TWO SENTENCED 12 HOURS AFTER MURDER OCCURS (Continued From First Page.) heated and they abandoned it, start- ing by foot down a highway. The $4,000 bank loot, according to their confessions, made in the St. Joseph County Jail here, was recovered. According to their confessions, made in the St. Joseph County Jail, Martin fired the three shots which struck Trooper Burke in the neck, causing instant death. Burke, they said, over- took them on his motor cycle, They halted, Burke approached the car on foot and started questioning them. Gallagher, who was driving, drew his pistol. Burke batted it aside and Mar- tin, drawing his gun, killed the trooper. For the first time,” bank robbers matched their wits with the new State police radio system and lost. Less than four hours after the bank robbery was reported 35 police cars, receiving in- structions by radio, were concentrated in the Sturgis area. Within little more than four hours the slayers were under arrest. After shooting down Trooper Burke, uxr:n and Gallagher continued south- war Car Is Abandoned. Near the Indiana line their car be- came overheated and they abandoned it. They were walking down the road when Troopers Daniel Wurzberg of Bay City and Edward Freeman of Jackson overtook them. Martin attempted to draw his gun. One of the troopers fired, striking him in the foot and inflicting a painful but not serious wound. Then the fugitives surren- dered. The troopers returned them to Cen- terville, county seat of 8t. Joseph County, in which the slaying of Trooper Burke occurred. Gallagher saild he had worked in Bat- tle Creek three months ago and that he conceived the idea of robbing the branch bank while passing it daily. They drove to Fort Wayne, Ind., last week in a car they had stolen in Gary, Ind., they sald. Abandoning the Gary automobile there, they stole the car in which they proceeded to Battle Creek for the robbery. That car was recov- ered last night near Brighton, Ind. Yesterday they drove to the bank, covered Manager Milton Moser, a teller and three customers with higgi. scooped up $4,000 in currency, her all persons in the bank into the vauit, slammed the grilled gate and fled. ‘Trooper Burke, who formerly lived in Rington, Pa., joined the State police only about a year ago. He was assigned to highway patrol duty. He received word of the bank robbery at the Stur- gis police station shortly after it was perpetrated and immediately set out to patrol the highway which the robbers might be expected to take if they were attempting to reach Indiana. Less than an hour flmr his body was found by Richard Collins, Sturgis business man. | Burke was unmarried. His parents are believed to live in Rington. BRIDE IS EXPECTED TO URGE HALT ON BORLAND ACT LEVY (Continued_Prom Pirst Page.) may put in their annual appropriation bill an item to take care of the clatm. In the final analysis it is up to the will of Congress in passing the annual ap- propriation bills whether it desires to onor these claims or not. It is understood that Mr. Bride and his legal assistants came to the conclu- sion that the result of the four cases which the Court of Appeals has de- cided against the District under ap- peals from Borland law assessments is to remove from the possibility of as- sessment such a. large number of parcels of property that any assessment sought to & collected in future, no matter how equitable otherwise, would be inequitable on the ground of discrimination in favor of the owners of those parcels which have been declared exempt. ‘The backbone of the attack on the Borland law in all the cases thus far has been the inequity of the system of assessing one-half of the cost of road- way improvements of certain types against abutting property owners on the front-foot basis. Under this sys- tem there is undue discrimination, ac- cording to various decisions of the Court of Appeals, against rural land which is unsubdivided, against land with a long frontage and shallow depth, against land fronting on two or more streets and against land laid out in fr regularly shaped lots, caused by ave. nues, circles and the various other di partures from straight streets intersect- ln{ at righ gles. t was a ous coincidence that As- sistant Cor tion Counsel Vernon L. ‘West, who argued the case of the Dis- trict in the Court of Appeals, was the (GAROLINA PROBE GONTINUED BY NYE |Few Thousands More Than Reported Uncovered in Bailey Inquiry. | By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C., October 14.—The | Senate Campaign Funds Investigating | Committee, inquiring into North Caro- lina primary expenditures, decided to- day to hold a hearing here beginning at 111330 am. | BAILEY CAMPAIGN PROBED. Few Thousand More Than Previously | Reported Found by Nye. | _RALEIGH, N. C., October 14 (#).— The Senate Campaign Funds Commit- tee investigaitng the North Carolina senatorial primary, yesterday uncovered the spending of a few thousand dollars more than was previously reported in behalf of Josiah W. Bailey, Democratic nominee, and prepared to shift its scene of activity into Tennessee, | . From the same witnesses who told of | the added expenditures in the success- ful campaign of Bailey over the veteran | Senator F. M. Simmons, the committee | heard the contention that the official |reports covered all the disbursements | required by law. | ‘The committee apparently was not inclined to contest that view. Chairman Gerald P. Nye characterized the ing at its close as “most refreshing in | omparison with some of ‘the things disclosed in other States.” Admits Payments After Primary. C. L. Shufitn‘ of Greensboro, who managed Bailey's campaign, admitted under questioning he had paid cam- paign bills of between “five and six thousands dollars” after the primary. The total of Bailey’s campaign ex- | penditures as reported to the Secretary of State was just a few hundred dol- lars under the $10,000 maximum per- mitted by North Carolina statute. | Shuping asserted that when the report | was filed, the only bills he knew to be outstanding were the telephone and telegraph bills for the final day of the | campaign. The later bills, he said, came from campaign workers and were largely for gasoline for automobiles used *to get voters to the polls. James H. Pou of Raleigh, Bailey's | fatheer-in-law, told of spending ap- | proximately $2,500 in the campaign. Bailey's report of contributions listed him as having given $750. Pou said, however, that the $750 was | all that was spent through Bailey's headquarters. He explained his belief that the remainder under the statute was not required to be reported, and Nye interrupted: “Of course,” said Nye, “a candidate in any State is not ex- pected to report moneys expended in his behalf over which he has no control and, perhaps, no knowledge. Morrison Heavy Contributor. Cameron Morrison of Charlotte, for- mer Governor, was revealed as a heavy contributor to Bailey’s war chest and to that of Hamilton C. Jones of Charlotte, who lost the nomination as Representa- tive to Congress from the ninth district to A. L. Bulwinkle of Gastonia. In addition to the $2,000 he gave to Bailey headquarters which was reported, Morrison told of giving $1,000 to Herbert Gulley, Raleigh detective, and Balley field workers. This $1,000, Gulley later testified, was | spent in various counties “to get out the | vote” for Balley. He said Bailey head- | quarters had no knowledge of it. Morrison said the total he put Into the campaign fund of various candi- dates was $7,300. At the outset of the hearing, Nye said the committe had reports that large sums of money were spent during the campaign and many illegal votes cast. RANKIN TO SPEAK Miseissippi Representative Will Ad- dress Women's Council. Representative John E. Rankin of Mississippi will be the principal speaker |at a dinner given by the District of | Columbia Women's Educational Coun- cil, tonight at 6:45 o'clock, at the Wom- en's Democratic National Club, 1526 New Hampshire avenue. Approximately 100 persons, including a number of outstanding Democrats of the city, are expected to attend. Miss Mae Helm, president of the couneil, will preside and introduce the speakers. Representative Rankin is speaking in place of former Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross of ming, who was unexpect- edly called from the eity. lawyer who first succeeded in attacking the Borland law when in private prac- tice. He won the decision in the Knox case, in which the court ordered can- celled assessments against property on Naylor road northeast on the ground that they were inequitable. The land in that case was rural in character and the argument was made that the paving of Naylor rcad, although conceded a benefit to the Distriet as a whole did not benefit the abutting property to the extent of the assessment levied against it under the Borland law. ‘Those who took part in the conference with Mr, Bride ‘were E. T Assessor Willlam P, nd Deputy Assessor Charles b 175 WILL TESTIFY | WARDMAN NAMED IN'SMITH HEARING Quiz on Abatement Pleas Is Expected to Last Three or Four Days. It was indicated at the District Su- preme Court today that the hearing of pleas of abatement to the indictment charging four officials of the P. H. Smith Co. with a conspiracy to em- bezzle the company’s funds and destroy records would consume three or four days when more than 75 witnesses appeared in court in answer to sub- poenas. The pleas were raised by counsel for G. Bryan Pitts, Samuel J. Henry, C. Elbert Anadale and John H, Edwards, jr. ‘The witnesses include members of grand jury which returned the indict- ment, persons who testified before the grand jury at that time and Department of Justice agents. The plea expected to occupy most of the jury’s time is that which charges that the Government is basing its case largely on evidence seized illegally last January in the New York offices of the Smith Co. The Government has indicated that its answer to this plea will be a gen- eral denial and introduction of testi- mony showing precisely how the evi- dence was gathered. ‘The court was recessed this morning to give defense counsel opportunity to amend two pleas i abatement which charged that Nugent Dodds, special Assistant Attorney General, and Henry Syfrig tp&e'ned before the grand jury without it having flled their com- missions with the clerk of the jury com- e Gov is_represent e ernment ted by Mr. Dodds and Neil Burkinshaw, as- sistant United States attorney. Frank INRECENVER SUIT Six Aides Also Accused in Action Charging Stock Juggling and Fraud. (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) they announced the plan upon which stock was to be issued, to wit, that the authorized capital stock was 20,000 shares of 8 per cent cumulative pre- ferred stock at $100 par value and 20,- 000 shares of common stock of no par value, that with each share of preferred stock would be allotted one Eh e of common stock and that this unii to sell for $125. It is charged that the defendant ration should have' re- ceived from the sale of this stock ap- the | proximately $900,000, all of which sum of money should have been received while Wardman, Bones and Hobbs were in control of the corporation. In another section of the suft it is charged that one Jane Frances Rankin on March 1, 1924, at the solicitation of the defendant, Harry Wardman, purchased from the defendant corpo- ration 750 shares of preferred stock and in payment thereof exccuted and delivered & deed to a certain property owned by her. It is further charged that the woman was issued no common stock and that, although she intended to convey the property to the defendant corporation, 1t was in fact conveyed to Harry Wardman and Thomas P. Bones Ve ‘nseried I ‘the deed mitoner s leed with kn;"wl::n or consent. g turther alleged that a number of shares of stock of the de- fendant corporation were issued to creditors of Wardman, Bones & Hobbs, or some of the corporations controlled by them, and in lieu of payment for the stock, in accordance with the an- large G. Laichle, Wilton J. Lambert, Rudolph Yeatman, Edward Toland and Harry S. Barger appear for the defendants. PITTS INDICTED ON NEW CHARGE Embezzlement of Funds of F. H. Smith Co. Brings Alleged Total to $1,216,809. A new indictment cl embezzle- ment of a huge sum of funds of the F. H. Smith Co., mortgage investment cated Dere: wae tarmea. yemesasy oy ere, was ref yesf y by the District grand jury against G. Bryan Pitts, former chairman of the board of the concern, increasing the amount of the sum ly embezzled about $60,000 above the amount stated in the original indictment in this case. [Evidence in this phase of the Govern- tion of the Smith com- pany ials was resubmitted to the grand jury last Priday, cha the amounts and the dates of the em| ent of the concerns’ funds in some of the specifications returned against Pitts. The amount stated in the original indictment, returned last April, was $1,156,809.84, but on the basis of a recheck of the evidence in submitted by Nugent Dobbs, special assistant to the Attorney General and special prosecutor in e Smith Co. case, the new indictment returned to- day brings the total amount al embezzled to approximately $1,216,809. ‘The indictment charges. that Pitts secured the money by cashing belonging to the Smith Co. and that a large part of the money was de- posited by Pitts in the Southern Mary- land Trust Co., at Seat Pleasant, Md., which was closed last December by the Bank Commission of Maryland. WILBUR TO CONTINUE AS CABINET MEMBER President Hoover Announces Le- land Stanford Would Extend Leave as Long as Necessary. President Hoover announced today that Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, would remain in this position and that Leland Stanford Uni- versity would extend his leave of ab- scence as president as long-as is neces- sary. In nukl:, this announcement the President sald that Dr. Wilbur is too valuable & man to leave the Govern- ment service, and he appeared to be hlfpy at the action on part of the uln Venltybil: making his continued ser- vice possible. The President’s announcement was in response to recent articles to the effect that Secretary Wilbur’s leave of absence had expired and would not be extended. The President said that inasmuch as he himself was a trustee of the uni- versity he felt he could s) with more authority on this subject than the student daily in which the article about Dr. Wilbur's leaving the cabinet was first printed. . ASK GRID INSURANCE NEW HAVEN, Conn., October 14 (P). —Insurance for foot ball players was suggested by the Yale News, undergrad- uate daily, today, saying that the wis- dom of the principle was unquestioned. The Yale athletic management once gave consideration to a plan of foot ball insurance and dro) it. The pped News holds that it would be a good thing for an arrangement to be made to cover doctors’ bills and hospital attention up to a given maximum, even if the ath- lete paid something toward the insur- ince with the association making up the balance. MARINE’S BRAVERY MAY PREVENT HIS LEAVING SERVICE (Continued From First Page.) Marine Corps officials expect that he will sanction this course and remit the sentence of expulsion from the service. Gen. Butler secured his first Congres- sional Medal of Honor in the Battle of Vera Cruz, Mexico, on April 22, 1914, and the second was awarded him for bravery in the attack on Fort Riviere, Haliti, on November 17, 1915, when he went through a breach of the walls of an old French fort, in which bandits had their stronghold. When Guthrie's case came before Gen. Butler, he was able to look through the enlisted man’s records and see not only had he saved Antinovick from death at the local yard, but a couple of years lfo he received a letter of com- mendation from the Secretary of the Navy for his attempt to save the life L. Wi‘ut;:hwfllhm H. Wahly and Robert | restos of a colleague from the waters of the turbulent Coco River in Nicaragua, Al- though the Marine died in the current, Guthrie's attem; death was considered If Admiral Sellers acts on the case in Guthrie’s favor, as he is expected to do, the ving enlisted man will be 'to_duty instead of leaving the | service: with a blot on his record, be- cause of the charges of absence with- out leave that stand against dm nounced plan, the indebtedness of th sald defendants or corporations was canceled without the ftymfllt “of any ble considerations money or other valua into the treasury of the defendant cor- # $832,000 Loan Claimed. In 1929, it is charged, Wardman, Bones & Hobbs, acting through the Wardnian Corporation, borrowed from the defendant corporation $832,000, giving notes as security. It is further charged that a meeting of the stockholders of the defendant corporation was in Alexandria on August 4, 1930. At t time Wardman, as is t,g have advised the that $832,000 ligation of the Wardman corporaf was secured by & deposit with the Riggs National Bank, as trustee, of all the common stock of the Wardman Realty & Construction Co., and in order to had full power and au- already substituted the for the common stock the stockholders to ratify and this action. A vote taken, it is alleged, and Wardman, holding the controlling voting power, passed the resolution over the protest of the preferred stockholders present. Manipulation Charged. Further ¢l g that the officers and directors of tion, and principally Wardman, Bones and Hobbs, have manipulated for their in- dividual profit and benefit the common stock and assets of the defendant cor- legedly | poration, the suit alleges that the com- plainants have been unable at any time to secure s satisfactory financial statement of the .corporation from the defendants. The complainants allege that divi- dends at one time were id when there vunx:: surplus available for :u.ch July, 1927, ex tain favored individuals. On these grounds Judge Willlam P. Wools of the Alexandria Corporation Court was asked to grant the restraine ing order and receiver and ‘“such fure ther relief as the court may see fit.” A hearing on the petition for a tempo= rary receiver and injunction was set for PFriday morning. BOSTON POLICE CLASH " WITH COMMUNISTS OUTSIDE LABOR SESSION (Continued From First Page.) mass demonstration outside the Federa~ tion of Labor Convention Hall today. Delegates to the federation conven- tion awaited the Legislative Commit- tee’s report on anti-injunction legisla- tion as were resumed today after a three-day recess. The Executive Council, in its report to the converi.on, favored a bill pre- pared by & Judiciary Subcommittee of the United States Senate, which, the council repor.ed, would “give labor the same tion as is now given or- ganizations of ¢mployers.” Opposition to the proposed bill came from Andrew Feruseth, delczate of the International Seaman’s Union, J. Foster Smith, agent of tne Pequot Mills, at Salem, Mass., discussed con- industry in declared ditions in the cotton the that orthern were paid higher wages than those in other sec- tions of the country. A resolution, submitted by John Burns of the Rhode Island State Fed- eration of Labor, which asked the fed- eration to favor extension of the pres- ent age limit of 45 for applicants for employment in various departments of the Federal Government, was referred to the executive council. Pension Proposal Favored. A resolution supporting a Senate bill granting pensions to men who manned ships engaged in transportation of troops and supplies during the Span- ish-American War, the Philippine In- surrection and the Chinese Relief Ex- pedition was passed without opposition. Other resolutions adopted provided: Indorsement of the Welch bill, which would restrict Filipino immigration. Support of the Kendall-La Follette bill to establish shorter working hours for postal workers on a five-and-one- half-day week. Instructions to the incoming execu- tive council to draft an amendment to e law to provide that civillan ‘workels and not convict labor shall be employed on Federal institution penal construction. Instructions to the Executive Council to continue its co-operation with afli- ated organizations of Government em- ployes to further legislation designed to improve working conditions. Indorsement of the bill HF2402, as amended, which provides a $50 wage increase to postal laborers. —— HOOVER TO STAY HERE Sets at Rest Speculation as to Ex- tended Trip Before Session. President Hoover has no intention of to vent | ing of in December other iy merforious. | oocesingar