Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1930, Page 2

" up the four-day old trail of the gun-' DIANOND RALLES; “FIVEPERSONSHELD Police Seek 'Othersj in Shoot- .ing of Gangster in New York Four Days Ago. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 15.—Jack “Legs” Diamond battled to stave off death today while police strove to pick i “men who shot him. | ‘The gangster who was shot five times in his room in the Monticello Hotel Sunday, rallied someWhat early today after surgeons had issued a bulletin saying his condition had been com- | plicated by a ‘pulmonary collapse. At the time the bulletin was issued little hope was held ‘for his recovery. Four persons were held as material witnesses today in addition to John M. | Ginsburg, manager of the Monhccllol Hotel. The others were Miss Marion Strasmick, show-girl companion of Dia- mond in the hotel; Joseph Goldie, as- sistant manager; mas Marshal, clerk, and John Hughes, bell boy. Surrenders to Crain. Ginsburg, who disapparead imme- diately after the shooting, surrendered yesterday while police were seeking him, He walked into the office of District Attorney Thomas C. T Crain, accom- | -panied by his wife and child, his at- torney and Wallace D. Bennett, a real | estate operator of Edgewater, N. J. Ginsburg said he was preparing to! take his family to Bennett's home mi Edgewater Sunday when he heard “a | lot of noise—it sounded like a lot of shots.” He sald he opened the door of his| suite and saw Diamond coming out of his room, holding his head and stag- m‘l“fig hotel man repeated his conversa- tion with Diamond as follows: ““What happened?’ I asked him as I ran up to him He said, ‘I'm hurt. Please get your doctor right away. ‘Take me to your room and please get me t'k!.a doctor in a hurry. I'm badly Asked for’ Drescher. Ginsburg said Diamond went into his suite and lay down on 8 bed and asked for whisky. called a doctor and sent for the as- sistant manager. Diamond then asked for Harry Drescher, a friend, who lived in 3 . Ginsburg said Drescher “4n and asked Diamond who shot him. “Don'tdllf me :Dy ql?eed’_mng; Gins- ‘burg said Diamond rep] *Somebody rve it to me, I don't kmow who family in Bennett's car. b, o visit bia. mother, then ‘mother, Mhl‘:ld surrendered at the sugs gestion of his attorney. He was held in $25,000 bail, and b i the others was fixed at $5,000. Others Being Sought. Police are seeking Drescher, who from tge hotel after RATIO OF DIVORCE IN DJSTRICT LOWEST IN ENTIRE COUNTRY (Continued From First Page) ~ the sea of matrimony. The ratio of divorces to each thousand persons was only 24. There was a total of 562¢ marriages during the year, an increase of 6.3 per cent over 1928. The ratio of marriages per 1,000 persons was 11.7, Increase In Year. In 1929 there were 115 divorces here, of 139 per cent over the ‘There were 27 annul- 21 the year Matrimony claimed 1,232,559 in the United States last year, while during same 201,475 divorces ‘were rgded. ‘was an average of 10.1 for every 1,000 of popu- hm divorces totaled 1.66 per thousand. For the country at large, the mar- riages recorded one of the largest yearly numerically and in percent- age, exceeding the preceding year’s total by 50,062, or 4.2 per cent. There had been & decrease preceding year of | 1.5 by com) uzhnsh“:h mzvt.n divorces, althot owing an increase of 28 cent over 1928, could not keep with the growth in marriages. YBme ratic of divorces to marriages, computed by the department in re- to numerous requests, showed for each 6.1 marriages performed one couple was dissolved. The year be- fore the ratio was an even 6 to 1. Nevada Double Leader. Nevada was the outstanding leader among the States both in marrisge and | divorce. Divorces totaled 2533 and ‘were 28 per 1,000 of population, but the rate of marriages per 1,000 was| 63.7. This was attributed largely by the Goverenment stayisticians to the adoption of strict marriage laws by its | neighbor, California. The same reason was given for Arizona’s ratio of 17.3 per 1,000, the second highest. Across the continent, Delaware had the lowest figure on marriages, only 5.2 per 1,000, with North Carolina close it with six. North Carolina ed a considerable decrease from | the preceding year, the statisticians | said, because of a law requiring days’ notice prior to issuance of licenses to those under 21. Georgia had the lowest proportion of divorces to -nnugu .one being ted only to each 13.3 mew unioms. | fi‘nNevm there was one diforce to each 2.3 marriages. More Than 10,000 Divorces. THE - EVENING {BROKEN ENGAGEMENTS COME AS SURPRISE TO D. C. SOCIETY Miss Charlotte Childress and Miss Barrine Drake Were to Wed Soon. Prospective Brides Active in Junior League and Social Activities. Society, both official and residential in Washington, as well as other East- ern cities was surprised today at the news of the dissolving of the engage- ments of two of the Capital's most at- tractive and talented young women, both prominent members of the Junior League, Miss Barrine Drake and Charlotte Childress. In one instance the date of the wedding had been set and announced, and the prospective bride has selected practically all of the fur- nishing for her new home in Boston, in addition to having purchased an elab- orate trousseau. Miss Drake's engagement to Dr. Charles W. Bowers of New York was announced in June, 1930, by her parents, Col. and Mrs. Charles B. Drake of 1909 § street, and Washington so- ciety looked forward to a brilliant wed- ding. It was stated at the time of the announcement that the wedding would take place in the early Autumn, after Dr. Bowers returned from a visit in Austria, his former home. Col. and Mrs, Drake have been prominent in society in the Capital for some years. Miss Drake is a gifted musician. She is a graduate of the Holton Arms School and also attended Miss Irwin’s School in Philadelphia. She had been a leader in soclal and philanthropic ac- tivities of the Junior League and is one of the most popular members of the g‘c\mxer set.in New York, where she as spent much time, as well as in ‘Washington. Reason Not Announced. He then said he |, Conference Here Seen for | Purpose of Getting Ex- “ “change Background. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Although the White House is nat- urally reluctant to discuss conferences dealing with operations on the New York Stock Exchange, there is no doubt now that President Hoover wanted to get the background of what is happen- ing in, the securities markets when he conferred here on Sunday with Richard Whitney, president of the Stock Ex- it dlhlfit, t"‘fdthm L. Lindley, vice resident of the 3 " ‘The whole mbm ufla’ is gne mzul:. 1t first lm:e‘n%!aouum for some time, ] A in connection with the selling of wheat by the Soviet government on the Chicago grain exchange, and now that the stock market has been to depress Government officials are whether the practice can really be de- fended. Denounced Short Selling. 5 had made a speech in Chicago last week in which he said that short selling was legitimate, though he denounced the practice as improper irn'xammzrxflyrormzmot manipulaf prices. The n that bothers officials hfll:(l is gu;r even what is eonlm;‘eod' a legitimate hedging ce does take on the aspect of & psychological impairment of values when it comes lttlllg’e':leeruhmmmmmlent- uation callm-? . ‘While brokers and bankers have from tinte to,time argued that short selling was a corrective measure and had its economic function, the legislative mind has not been able to grasp the point so readily. If Congress were in session today there is no doubt that an investi- gation of short umn'!l in all the im- portant exchanges of the country would be fully under way, with proposals to legislate against such practices. Can Discipline Members. Stock exchanges are well organized and regulated to discipline their mem- bers, but nevertheless there has been & movement in recent years in the direc- tion of curbing the extremes of such mflllth Only in the last session of gress a bill was seriously pressed to tax speculative transactions. It is the kind of measure which can be rather easily passed because most members of have little or nto know!e:n .:'l Stock Exchange operations an quite ready w'lcx‘m the view held i smaller communities of the country to the effect that the New York Stock Ex- change really is only & glorified gam- 3 | bling - institution. the most mar- Illinois had 84,09: Pennsylvania 70,507; Ohio 65,679; Texas 63,173, and California | completed the more than 50,000 class with 51,866. Coatless Witness Fined. %‘UIYICHHW' ch:lobzr 15 w&i t roper for a man ar E:‘egmntn’m Germany in his & Vithoas 'n a case at Dartutady whs itness in a case af fined 50 marks. The Court of Appeals Under the circumstances, the inquir- jes made by Mr., Hoover are in line with a desire to determine whether the gest something which would avert a more serious interference with its oper- ations. Likewise it is understood that the President, who has known Mr. Whitney for some time because of the latter's 8t Munich reduced the fine to 15 marks but censured the witness. Kills Husband, Wounds Self. e Ferris, shot. R. E. Ferris, 41, at fatally wounded herself at d | Twentieth_street. merly chairman MISS CHARLOTTE CHILDRESS. —Underwood Photo. MISS BARRINE DRAKE. —Harris-Ewing Photo. Mr. Childress, for- of the Public Utilities is an offical of the Commission, now , | United States Shipping Lines. Made Debut in 1925, ° Miss Childress made her debut in 1925, She is a striking blonde and popular in the younger residential set. She is a graduate of Holton Arms, and figures actively in the work of the Junior League. Lieut. Wood has been popular in the t | Capital since his graduation from the Naval Academy, in 1924. ™e had pre- viously -attended Friends School in Baltimore. He was on duty with the battle fleet and in the Orient, and has been taking a' post-graduate course in radio engineering at Harvard Uni- versity. Lieut. Wood and Miss Childress had planned to make their home in Miss Childress’ sister, Miss Adair Childress, made her debut in Wash- 0 ington two Winters ago. PRESSURE TO CURB BEAR RAIDS SEEN “IN_MEETING HERE (Continued Prom First Page.) with ¢ to the stock market col- lapse. nt Hoover long has been a leading advocate of the principle of “less Governmen business. ce: Meeting Regarded Significant. The fact that Mr, Lindley was in- cluded in the White House conferench | gre: seems significant. merely wished to inform himself garding conditions on the market, Whitney, who is an old friend of tI President, could have given the ad without assistance. Since Mr. Lindle is head of the committee of the ex- change which is charged with keeping tab on the conduct of its members, it is probable there was a discussion of meas- ures the exchange might take to meet the problem. Mr. Whitney himself is on record as any move to prohibit short I.nt as a general 'g-eopommn, In a recent address on subject, how- ever, he declared it was his personal belief that it is not wo?er “for persons to sell stocks in a volume and in a manner which is calculated to depress prices artificially.” He added that the exchange does not defend nor look with favor on short selling “of this char- vt Normal short sel ,” he asserted, is an essential part of a free markel in securities. The prohibition of all short selling, which might result in the destruction of the market, is too high 8 price to pay for the elimination of the few who abuse this legitimate practice.” Investigation May Result. Numerous suggestions have been ad- vanced from time to time as remedies for the abuses mentioned by the Stock Exchange president. Legislation by Congress to curb short selling entirely is one proposal that has not met with success because of the strong opposi- tion aroused in financial circles. It seems not unlikely, however, that a congressional investigation of the mar- ket depression may result from the present agitation. A tax on short sales so heavy as to discourage this type of speculation has been suggested. A drawback to this plan is that, to avoid charges of dis- crimination it would be necessary also to tax bull excesses, Application to stocks of the cotton market rule which suspends trading for a day when prices have broken a speci- fled number of points also has been proposed. A drastic cure, but one that the Ex- itself would vigorously oppose, Mr. itney indicates, is elimination of all marginal trading in favor of strictly cash transactions. Had Mr. Hoover Has Salutary Effect. Reports from Wall Street today were that a salutary psychological reaction will result from the news that the ‘White House has interested itself in the market problem. This is possibly exactly what_ the President wishes to a lish. It was recalled that when exchange last November asked its ‘members to supply information designed to show the extent of short selling, & beneficial effect was immediate. ‘That the exchange, or at least some members of it, already taking steps to curb short selling was indicated in hes telling of the policy of cer- tha might contribute to the artificial depression and thus dis- courage legitimate investments. ernment that are tima able to i legitimately that the Department of Justice makes an investigation does not hat prosecu- said at the moment is that Mr. Hoover wanted tn get all the facts so that he could make up his m}ldxd n'dhe!.:nuprn’w%k Exchange officers coul vent- manipula in arket by tion the or individuals interested in BT e ¥ STAR, WASHINGTO IBETHUNE NAMED TARIFF DELEGATE mmission Secretary Will Go Abroad in Interest of United States. kCo John F. Bethune, a native Washing- tonian, who has served the United States Government in many important | positions for the past 28 years and who last month completed 11 years as | secretary of the Tariff Commission, has | been signally honored in being selected as the first European representative of the commission, a sort of good-will am- bassador to straighten out tariff mis- | understandings, with headquarters in, Brussels, Belgium. The appointment was made yesterday. Mr, Bethune is a product of the Wash- ington public schools, graduating from the Eastern High School in the class of 1898 as lieutenant colonel of the High School Cadet Regiment. Immediately upon the declaration of war with Spain he volunteered and served with the 1st Regiment of District of Columbia Vol- unteers throughout the campaign lead- ing to the siege and surrender of San- tiago. He subsequently served for 10 years in various capacities with the Sen- ate and House of Representatives and later became identified with the exec- utive branch of the Government. In 1929 and 1930 he was named by the Governor of Virginia as delegate to rep- resent the commonwealth at the an- nual sessions of the Institute of Public Affalrs. For the last three years he has been mayor of Falls Church, He has been commended personally by Presidents Taft, Wilson and Coolidge. Importance in Position. It is held evident that the reorganized ‘Tariff Commission intends to attach great importance to the foreign aspects of the tariffl. The first evidence of this was seen in the selection of Leland Harrison as chief of the international relations division of the commission in Washington. Further evidence is found in the promotion of Mr. Bethune to serve as European representative. “The commission,” it was said, “re- gards Mr. Bethune as one of the best equipped persons in the United States for the mission to which he has been assigned, and expects through his work abroad to accomplish much in remov- ing misunderstandings on the part of European countries concerning the American tariff and its operation, and in securing foreign data for th: use of the commission. It is believed that Mr. Bethune's long experience with, tariff matters will prove helpful to the diplo- matic and consular representatives abroad in their discussion of American tariff relations with foreign govern- ment officlals and business interests. “Mr. Bethune will maintain head- quarters with an adequate staff in Brus- sels, and will visit the capitals and im- portant industrial centers of other countries as occasion may require. He will carry out such inquiries as to production costs, wholesale prices, etc., as the Tariff Commission may find necessary. He will also be charged with the duty, in co-operation with other representatives of the United States abroad, of reporting all changes in foreign tariffs, and especially such 1 impositions or discriminations as may adversely affect American trade. He will be in a position to explain the new American tariff, the meaning and purpose of the flexible tariff provisions and the rights and privileges extended through them to the nationals of other countries £0 as to avold the cgmplica- tions which sometimes arise through 1::11‘( of adequate or accurafe informa- tion. May Begin After New Year. xpected Mr. Bethune will It is e: that e e year. Bethune is a graduate of the Colum- H (now George Washington Univer- sity) Law School. He became an assist- ant in the office of the official reporters debates in the Senate, where he re- ined through three sessions of Con- . In 1902 he was appointed confl- dential stenographer to the secretary of the Senate, which position he resigned in 1907 to accept employment with the Senate Judiciary Committee. He also served in 1908 as 1al assistant to the Joint Congressional Commission on Re- vision of the Postal Laws. After the nization of the Senate in 1911, Mr. Bethune was appoirited in the office of public buildings and . In 1913, when the con- struct of the Lincoln Memoria] was begun, he was appointed chief clerk of the Lincoln Memorial Commission, in | which position he served until appointed secretary to the Tariff Commission. For five years, 1914-1919, he served in a sime ilar capacity for the commission on the Memorial to Women of the Civil War, which is the headquarters of the Na- tional American Red Cross, to the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater Com- mission, and the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission. New Buildings Accountant. Another notable job well performed by Mr, Bethune was between 1917 and 1919 when he was chief accountant for the Government in the construction of the vast bulldings in what was Henry Park for war-time use of the War and Navy Departments. For some years he also had direct supervision of all recreational facilities in the public grounds, and ler him there was developed a system for their operation which has been a source of health and pleasure to many thousands of persons. For some .years a resident of Falls Church, and now mayor, he taken a_strong interest in local and State affairs and done important work on several State commissions. Practically every member of Congress comes into personal contact with Sec- retary Bethune, and it is a substantial tribute to his diplomacy as well as to the efficlency with which he does his work that they all speak praise of him as an exceptionally hard-working and able Federal employe. of MARYLAND CENSUS GROWTH IS RECORD Greater Increase Than in Any Decade Shown—Population Is 1,631,526, By the Associated Press. ‘The final 1930 population bulletin for Maryland, issued today by the Census Bureau, showed the largest numerical growth of any decade in its history with the increase most marked in areas close to Baltimore and Washington. The total population was 1,631,526, an increase of 181,865, or 12.5 per cent over 1920. Fourteen of the 23 counties cent. Montgomery snd Prince Georges countles, adjoining the District of Columbia, increased by 40.9 and 38.6 per cent, respectively. Alleghany, Washington and Wicomico Countles, containing, respectively, the cities of Cumberland, Hagerstown and Salisbury, also showed marked in- “Five Maryland cities had populations ive ot than 10,000, timore’s State because of increases in suburban arees. Seventeen Maryland towns were”in- corporated during the last 10 years. — A movement has been started in England to supply radio sets to the 18,000 blind who have none, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER __ 15, _1930. MORROW CLEARS The fingerprint in the center, a blurred reproduction of which was found on the door of an automobile in which a doctor was pushed over a cliff to his death in Colorado, Fleagle, who was shot by detectives in Missouri. print_expert in the National Bureau of Identification, whose alerts sheriff solved the case. FLEAGLE, BANDIT, DIES OF WOUND Notorious Murderer, Shot by Posse When Captured, Pleads for Mother. By the Assoclated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., October 15.— Jake Fleagle, notorious bank robber and murderer, shot yesterday at Branson, Mo., when captured by a posse of of- ficers, died in a hospital here today at 9:55 a.m. Fleagle, shot through the abdomen when he was surprised by the posse of officers as he boarded a train at Branson, was brought to the hospital here at 4:30 p.m. yesterday. Conscious, but weak from his wound and the trip from Branson to §pring- fleld in a private automobile, Fleagle grew steadily weaker through the night and physicians early today said he had o chance to live. A blood vessel had been ruptured by the bullet. Pleads for his Mother. Officers sought to question him about various crimes throughout the night, but, due to his condition, little informa- tion was cbtained. Fleagle, dying, pleaded for his mother, but no word irom her had come this morning when he died. The bandit last night had reporters send a wire to his mother's home at Holcomb, Kans., asking her to come to his bedside. Officers said she could not possibly arrive until late today and they doubted one message would bring her, expressing belief she probably would fear a ruse by officers. Fleagle, rallying briefly, early today told officers in the guard about his hos- pital bed that he wished they would urge his mother to come to see him, | saying, “I'm afraid I'm going to die.” ‘To one officer he said: “I don’t know who shot me and it don’t make no difference, but I wish they had a good job of it.” . ‘The wounded outlaw found sufficient strength to plead with H. D. Harper, chiet of police of Colorado Springs, to “do something for Fred,” his brother, on trial for a Larned, bery, Fred, he said, was innocent. Traced Through Letters. Plplhl inspectors, searching relent- lessly for the desperado in belief he had a bhand in the robbery of a Southern Pacific mail train at Pitts- burgh, Calif,, traced him to the Ozark h letters he had mailed it section. An impressive array of officers as- sembled in the region and secretly combed the eo}xnntrnlde x%r the ol‘xtlu‘w. Although a trap een set for mhu le, the meeting yesterday was by chance. Reached for Revolver, Five officers noticed him on the platform at Branson, although they had expected to encounter him farther South. As Fleagle boarded the train he was covered by the officers, Instead of obeying a command to raise his hands, the bandit reached for his re- volver, One of the officers fired, wound- ing him. After a tigerish fight, Fleagle was subdued and admitted his identity. A telegram to Los Angeles detective headquarters indicated Lieut. Harry Wilde of that department fired the shot which ended the bandit's life. Offi- cers, however, refused to say who shot Fleagle. In the holdup of the Lamar bank, A. N. Parrish, president of the bank, and his son John, cashier, were slain. E. E Kessinger, a teller, was kidnaped, used as a shield by the bandits and later slain. Dr. William Wineinger of Digh- Kans., who treated one of the wounded robbers, was shot down, to prevent identification of members of the gang. Ralph Fleagle, brother of Jake; George J. Abshier and Howard Royston were executed at the Colorado Peni- tentiary after confessing participation in the robbery. Joe Miller, one of the Fleagle gang and close associate of the dead outlaw, was captured at Las Vegas, N. Mex., yesterday, Federal officers here revealed today. Miller was taken by officers at Las Vegas a_short time after Fleagle. was shot at Branson. Miller had been under close surveillance for some time, the officers said, and Fleagle's capture was the signal for his arrest. FINGER PRINTS FIGURED. Memory of Expert Finally Identified Men in Bank Robbery. A blurred fingerprint of unusual de- sign found on a murder car in Kansas and traced to its owner through a re- markable memory feat on the part of a fingerprint expert of the United States Bureau of Investigation led to solution of the Lamar bank robbery case and the capture yesterday of Jake Fleagle, “master mind” of the two-year-old crime. Smudge on Car Side. The smudgy finger mark which Jake unwittingly left on the side of an auto- mobile in which the body of a murdered physician had been sent over a steep cliff near Dighton, Kans,, not only be- trayed Fleagle and his three accom- plices, but cleared of suspicion several innocent men who had been “positively identified” as the bank bandits by eye- witnesses. The memory feat which resulted in identification of the smudge as the distinctive fingerprint of Jake Fleagle was performed by Albert B, Ground, fingerprint examiner of the national division of identification of the United States Bureau of Investigation. Ground memorized the peculiar markings and nearly & year later picked one exactly like it from among the thousands of prints handled daily. Brother Arrested. ‘The identification caused the arrest- of Jak: 3 brother, Ralph, who confessed, implice ing two ers, Howard L. Royston and George J. Abshir. Ralph Fleagle, Royston and Abshir were executed recently for their in the atrocity, but Ji had elu ‘eapture until yesterday. Divector me!trda the work of Kans., bank rob- | International BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. News thac the French government proposes to build in 1931 50,000 tons of warships anu begin construction of three “pocket battleships” for the Med- iterranean fleet has caused considerable apprehension in political and diplo- matic circles in ‘Washington. It is fully realiized that France is today sufficienty yich to build almost any sized navy it wants to, but the wisdom of doing so is doubted here. It is belleved here that the Freneh govern- ment must be fully aware of the re- percussions of such and Germany and the possibility cf throwing Germany into Italy'’s arms. Should such an eventuality materialize, France will have to facs that new bloc by herself, May Be Bargaining Move. Well informed quarters, however, are | inclined to think that France’s naval | program is nothing but a last attempt | to obtain a Mediterranean pact from | Great Britain and possibly a consulta- | tive pact from the United States. This matter was discussed at length in London during the Naval Conference. | It is true that the Prench never asked Constantine Brown, Competition Seen. led to the execution of three men and the final capture of Jal Fleagle's picture is at the right. On the left is Albert B. Ground, finger- Tecognizing a print.sent in by a Western Affairs As Seen in Washington French Naval Expansion Plans Disturbing to Wash- ington and London—DPossibility of Renewed the American delegates directly for a consultative pact, but they did suggest a Mediterranean to the British in- exchange for a “substantial reduction™ in tonnage. The British, after consider- ing the proposition and after being told by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson that such a pact could not be accepted by the United States, refused to discuss any further the Mediterranean pact proposition. ‘The assumption here is that on the eve of the meeting of the Geneva Pre- paratory Commission for Geperal Dis- armament, France may try to force Great Britain and the United States into discussing privately at least the possibilities of such a pact. The rea- soning seems good. Might Start Competition. Both Great Britain and the United States desire to reduce armaments. Great Britain, if France puts actually into effect her huge naval program, will be forced to take advantage of the escape clause inser! in the London treaty, and the prcbabilities are that the big naval people in the United States will clamor for an equal read- justment of the American naval pro- gram. The British cannot easily afford an increase in their naval estimates and the United States does not want to zper::o lmgerle money on the Na absolutely necessary. situation, it is belleved in all well in- formed quarters here that the Prench consider this the psychological moment to bargain with Great Britain and the tes to obtain the much- desired security pacts. TWO WIVES IN JAIL Htinbnnd Gets Black Eye Acting as Peacemaker. | EL iDORADO, Ark, October 15 (NAN.AD le . marital - affairs of willie colored, of El Dorado, Ark., are gef complicated. | Both his t and past wives live | in El Dorado, Walking down the main | street recently ‘with his incumbent wife, | his former wife decided she wanted him | back again. She tried honeyed words, dazzling smiles and a sturdy right uppercut. All failed. h wives are n and Willie a eye, received when he essayed role of peacemaker. (Copyright. 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) ESCAPED BOY SLAYER OF FOUR EVADES NET Police of Two States Seek Fanatic ‘Who Fled Asylum With Pal. By the Associated Press. TALLAHASSE, Fla, October 15.— Frank McDowell, the boy fanatic, who killed two sisters and his perents as “atonement for sin,” was a fugitive to- , | day from the State Hospital for the In- sane at Chattahoochee, with authorities of two States on his trail. He and John Pruitt, another inmate of the hospital, obtained a gun, over- powered a guard and fled from the hos. pital Monday night and thus far offi- cials have found no trace of them. McDowell shot his father and mother to death at St. Petersburg, Fla., in 1924. At his trial he confessed that he killed them and his two sisters at Decatur, Ga., a year earlier because he thought their deaths would atone for his “un- pardonable sin of blasphemy” committed when a child. He was sentenced to life imprison- ment in the State penitentiary, but soon thereafter he was declared insane and transferred to the asylum. the Division of Identification in the Lamar bank case as one of the out- standing achievements in the history of criminal identification. ‘The Lamar bank robbery occurred May 22, 1928. A quartet_of bandits stormed the Pirst National Bank, killed its president and two employes, robbed the vaults and fled into Kansas. At Dighton, Kans, they stopped at the home of a Dr. Wineinger to have the wounds of their party dressed. When the surgeon had completed his work they drew their guns, ordered him into his car and pushed the car over a cliff, killing the doctor. Print Is Different. Examination of the car revealed a fingerprint not the physician's. A et:gy of the print was forwarded here in the forlorn hope that, somehow, w& be identified. But there are than two million fingerprints on file at the bureau. Since it was I.mgoflllhle to com- pare all these ts with the one found on the car, Director Hoover instructed his experts to impress the design of the rint on their minds and endeavor to Eeep watch for one like it during their daily routine. Ground noted that the print had several twists and “whorls” unlike any he had seen before. He fixed a pic- ture of these markings in his L Months went by without result, but one day Ground was startled to see a print with the same twists as the one he had remembered. The t, sent in by a California sheriff connection with a minor cl was that of one Jake Fleagle, who been released. It was the first definite clue fo identification of the real culprits in the Lamar case. Ground was offered a large reward been posted for solution of TROOPS RECALLED IN RACE FLARE-UP = Missouri Town Again Under Military Control—Most * Colored Citizens Leave. By the Assoclated Press. STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo., October 15.— Ste. Genevieve was under military con- trol today for the second time this week after troops had been recalled when new threats of mob violence be- came evident, resulting from the failure of a colored mail carrier and his two brothers to heed a warning to leave town. Practically all other colored citizens left here after the slaying early Sun- day of one white man and the fatal | wounding of another by three colored persons, two men and a woman, in a robbery. Sheriff Asked for Aid. ‘Troops were rushed here from De Soto and Festus after Sheriff Zeigler had appealed to Gov. Caulfield for aid in_preventing race rioting. troops, who had left for their homes only yesterday: after .danger of trouble appeared over, arrived at 1:45 aum. today. They immediately sur- rounded the court house and mounted machine guns at vantage points around the building. ‘The request for troops was made by Sheriff Zeigler after the arrest of nine men, part of a lrcm? of white men who visited the home of Louis Ribeau, col- ored mail carrier, and ordered Ribeau to “get out of town at once” or suffer the consequences. Feared Rescue Attempt. Rumors that+efforts might be made to free the men caused the sheriff to request troops. Renewed feeling it the colored people flared up last night after the death of Paul Ritter, 38, second victim of the attack by the three colored Yer- sons Sunday, in a St. Louis hospital. Harry Panchot, service car driver, who bad been engaged by the colored trio, ‘was instantly killed. The colored assailants of Panchot and Ritter are being held in the city jail at St. Louis, having been taken there by Sheriff Zeigler as a precau- tionary “measure. FUNERAL RITES SET FOR STAMP EXPERT Percy W. Gibbon Will Be Buried Thursday Afternoon—Long in Postal Service. i Percy W. Gibbon, assistant superin- tendent. Division of Stamps, in charge of redemption, Post Office Department, died yesterday morning at his residence, 1531 Park road. He was 59 years old. Mr. Gibbon, a native of Philadelphia, was appointed to the postal service ¥ 1890. A leading authority on the his- tory of United States gtamps, Mr. Gib- bon prepared a ulusb‘e booklet on the subject in 1927, his with the During hC service department mu&fibbm had seen the issues of stamps and other stamped r Inerease from a total of 3,183,000,000 to more than 21,250,000,000 anni He was & member of the than | ing the G. 0.P. SITUATION President Hoover Certain M Renomination, Says Po- litical Expert. BY MARK SULLIVAN, Ambassador Dwight Morrow's elithin- ation of himself as a possibility for the Republican presidential nomination t Hoover in 1932 clari- fles the Republican situation. Prac- tically every Republican leader takes rr.‘Morm‘l elimination of himself as nal. The expectationis that having men- tioned the matter once, and having done so in his 8] , e will never allude to it again. This is inferred both from Mr. Morrow's character as man and from the nature of the natioral political picture. It is like- wise inferred that he will never permit any person or any condition to move him from the stand he has taken. A Complex Hypothesis. ‘The theory upon which some Eastern Republicans entertained the thought of Morrow as a possibility consisted of a complex hypothesis. The fyndamental factor in this assumption was that by 1932, the Republican party would have ne measurably wet, and that, there- fore, Mr. Morrow as an advocate of repeal of prohibition would be an ac- ceptable candidate. As a second ele- ment in the hypothesis, the advocates of Mr. Morrow looked forward to two wxml: which in their opinion might e from the election on the. fourth o!Tx;;xt mox;tn 'y considered first the possibi that the Democrats might come for'mll’% to victory in the congressional elections on a strong tide. They considered; second, that Mr, Morrow as Republican candidate for Senator in New Jersey would run counter to the presumed Democratic tide and win a spectacular vigtory in New Jersey, Anticipation of this particular double o¥tc;‘me of the ‘;l'ecnm constituted most of the reasoning of those. ve entertained the notion of .u'&‘b)-b Morrow forward for the presidentiaf nomination. The idea is now negatived. It is negatived in part'by the expec- tation that the November election will not show any Democratic trend strong enough to be called a landslide, although it is admitted the Democrats will make gains. The outcome of the election fs, of .course, still to be seen. The other negation of the Morrow possibility, how- ever —namely his own elimination of himself—is regarded as final and com- plete. ‘Today there is practically no Republican leader, and probably no Democratic one either, who'does not expect that President Hoover will be nominated to succeed himself in 1932, Pinchot Proposed as Candidate. Simultaneously with Mr, Morrow’ elimination of himself from the Mub: lican ntial race came from Sen- lerpreted a8 sugpesting thar the pagri: sive Republicans might put g’oflnni Gifford Pinchot for the Republican presidential nomination in 1932, assum- him not support him for the presidency, especially in sition. to Pr-u‘fa’m Hoover. .- when Governor before triediin 1924 to be & delegate to the convention thss nominated Mr. Coolidge, but- was. lefi’ mo ette, is and would have little appetite for back- lnf the almost fanatically dry Pinchot. t is quite possible some of the West~ ern ves fight put Pinchot for- re is little reason to anticipate gn would do mue)l;r beé:r mnmflm Jnhmg? and his friends mobilized con- If the Republican presidential situation is now clarified, the Democratic ane is more confused and more a matter of concern_to national leaders: of that party. It can be stated as a certainty that national leaders who siv mon ago entertained the expectation of nom- inating Gov. Pranklin Roosevelt of New York do not now do so. They are &s confident as ever that their party has a good chance to win, and they are diligently surveying the field to find the best possible candidate. (Copyright. 1930.) GARFINCKEL DENIES STORE IS TO BE SOLD Reports That New York Interests Have Acquired Property Are Emphatically Denied. R.egom that New York interests had acquired ownership of the business of widely cireulated 1n Weshingle widel , but were emphatically dmiedmnmmdly."‘rhm utely no truth in these re- ports,” as Mr. Garfinckel declared. “It is true that several parties have made overtures to me, but I have been and will remain deaf to any proposal to sell my interests. They represent a lifed time of work on my part. I feel that it is due to the pet‘)glg of Washing- ton, to whom I owe this business, that I should remain its sole owner and director, as I have always . You cannot state to emphatically that no one has acq or will acquire my business.” COMPANY REQUESTS MORE POWER LINES Asks 50-Year Franchise for Exten- sions in West Virginia County. Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘WINCHES' Va., October 15.— ‘The Northern V! la Power Co. here, 2 Potomac Edison Co. sul has year electric power sions in almost every section of county not served by its lines. Lines would be along many of the important State highways county roads. A hearing will be held Tm— for Isolated Fly MILAN, Ttaly, October 15 ().—A 102 pound hammock-tent which folds up ‘war