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WEAT HER, (U, 8, Weather Bureau Forecast.) PFair tonight; cloudiness, possibl; at night; not much ture. Temperaf tomorrow _increasing ly followed by showers change in tempera. tures—Highest, 82, at 3:30 1, 4:30 am. yesterday; lowest, 61, Teport on page Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 No. 31,579. post _office, Entered as second class matter Washington, > D. C. he #n THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1930—FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. WASHINGTON, D WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Star. Wi The Star’s tion is delivered to carrier every city block and the regular edi- “From Press to Home in the Hour” system covers Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 113,874 (#) Means Associated Press. CENTS. TWO HEAVY DEFECTIONS 10 REBELS' FORCES CLAIMED IN BRAZIL 60 Companies of Federals Said to Have Joined Re- volt at Catarina. REPULSE OF DESTROYER “OFFICIALLY REPORTED Government and Foes’ Concentra- tion of Troops Largest Ever Seen in South America. By the Assoclated Press, PARIS, October 16Tt was re- ported unofficially today that the Brazilian government had pur- | chased a- number of airplanes in France, which are being shipped to the aviation branch of the war ministry at Rio de “Janeiro, By the Associated Press. | PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, October 16 —An official revolutionary com- munique today reported heavy defec- tions of government troops to the in- surgents and the repulse of a federal landing force from the destroyer Parana. The communique stated that the en- tire 11th Infantry Regiment stationed at Mineiras, which has been besieged by insurgent forces, has surrendered unconditionally to the rebels. The correspondent for La Nacion of Buenos Aires was informed that greatly augmented rebel forces under the com- mand of Col. Luis Gomez had pre- vented the disembarkation of sailors from the goyernment destroyer Parana. An intense movement of troops is taking place along the Parana-Sao Paulo frontier, and observers asserted that the concentration of troops weas the greatest ever seen thus far in South America. Sixty companies of federal troops at Catarina, under the command of Capt. Mario Carvalho, were stated in the communique to have gone over to the revolutionists headed by Col. Eliziario Pain Filho. The federals handed over two machine guns and other war ma- (Copyrisht, 1930, by the Associated Press.) FIGHTING FOR SAO PAULO. ‘Rebels and Federals Reported Clashing in Parana. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, October 16 (#)—Heavy fighting, it appears here, is north of Castro, state of Parana, between the Southern Brazilian revolution army and federal forces de- fending the rich state of Sao Paulo. Thxouhomo.noru:‘ug‘m Ttarare, ulo City, | lon fli believe, Electrie BY REX COLLIER. Apparent sabotage believed to have been responsible for a disastrous fire that has disabled the U. 8. 8. Colorado since last June is under investigation by the Navy Department, it was dis- closed today by Secretary of the Navy Adams., Naval intelligence investigators have found that the fire resulted from a short eircuit of electric cables into which ordinary phonograph needles had been thrust, Secretary Adams declared. Colorado in the guise of seamen in an | effort to find the culprit thought to| have committed the depredation, The | Star learned. The investigation so far has fafled to | Teveal the person or persons responsible for what appears to have been one of the most serious acts of peacetime sabotage in naval annals. Secretary Adams denied knowledge of a report that the big dreadnaught, while still undergoing repairs recently at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, narrowly Investigators have been aboard the | 'SABOTAGE ON WARSHIP ' REVEALED IN FIRE PROBE Naval Intelligence Agents Find Phono- . graph Needles Wrecked Colorado’s Cables. |escaped being blown up in the yard |as a result of a fire discovered in or near her magazines. The second fire | according to the report, was e tinguished just in time to prevent pos- sible explosion of the powder chamber. It is said the second fire was in no way related to the alleged sabotage plot, but was due to carelessness of sailors in testing bulkhead compartments with & candle. ‘The June fire, which occurred while the giant battleship was awaiting pas- sage through the Panama Canal at Cclon, completely wrecked the “nerve | center” of the vessel and has put her out of commission until- exteensive re- pairs, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, can be made. While admitting the gravity of the damage done to the ship, Secreiary Adams was inclined today to minimize the importance of investigative phases of the case. Nothing Found Yet. “It is just possible the investigation may disclose the needles got into the cables in some natural way,” the Secre- tary said. “At the outset our suspicions naturally were aroused and the naval intelligence office was directed to make a_thorough investigation. I have not tinued B TREATY FLYERS BODY IS SIGHTED. Searching Pilot Locates Lieut. Caldwell’s Plane in Wyoming Wilds. By the Associated Press. CHEYENNE, Wyo., October 16.—Boe- ing Air Transport officials reported to- day that Pjlot George Boyd had sighted the body of Lieut. Willlam W. Caldwell in his wrecked plane between Rock River and Lookout, Wyo. Searchers left by automobile for the scene of the wreck to _bring the body to Laramie. Boyd sent the message from Rock River. It said a body was visible from the air, but it had not been positively identified as that of Caldwell. Brig. Gen. C. R. Howland, command- ln{ officer of Fort Prancis E. Warren, left Cheyenne early today in a military mbuhn‘:; ;t;r Laramie. He was ac- ‘com] a surgeon. ’flll:nbodi“flll be brought to Cheyenne in the ambulance and in charge of military officials. Caldwell's ship was first sighted by Ray W. Meskimen, fiying the Eastbound air mail. Meskimen reported the plane had crashed in the wild country, 26 miles north of Laramie. He saw no sign of Caldwell and said it was en- tirely likely the fiyer had met death been seriously injured in the ‘Woodring Continues, B, cartstog ho. foou er compa: locument, o Japan's ratification of the London naval treaty, hopped off here at 4:15 a.m. to- day (mountain standard time), on his way to Chicago. Good flying conditions prevailed over the transcontirental “air route to the east and west of Cheyenne this morning. Lieut. Woodring landed here late yes- 1| terday, but only after an early season Singues, Itarare and Itangua, or an insurgent detachment had turned the federal wing and cut off such federal forces as were last reportgd at Singues and Itarare. o At Santa Ana do Livramento, across the Uruguayan border from mv"l‘l‘xh fielg storm had twice forced him to land. He landed northwest of Laramie at 1:30 p.m. (mountain standard time), and re- mained on the ground until a lift in the storm enabled him to proceed to Lara- mie, where he again landed. Another lull and he continued here, arriving at 5:30 p.m. (mountain standard time). WOODRING LAST OF TRIO. Other Members of “Three Musketeers” Killed in Crashes. SAN DIEGO, Calif, October 16 (#).— Lieut. Irwin A. Woodring, whose com- ion flyer, Lieut. Willlam Caldwell, came lost on the flight from Victoria, British Columbia, to New York with the document attesting Japan's ratifi- cation of the London naval treaty, 1s the sole survivor of the famous Army flying trio, “the Three Musketers.” ‘The other two “Musketeers,” who, i | with Lieut. Woodring made Army avia- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) MAN KILLED IN PLANE CRASH IN BALTIMORE Companion Sustains Frnctured! Skull When Machine Overturns in Landing at Field. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, October 16.—One man was fatally injured and another seri- ously hurt today as their plane, which they had flown from Valley Stream, N. Y., overturned as it landed at the Curtiss-Wright Airport here. Nelson Johnson of Valley Stream tion history with their daring aerial maneuvers, both died literally with their boots on, while performing stunts. Lieut. J. J, Willlams, the leader, died during the National Air Races at Los Angeles in September, 1928, and Lieut. later here when his plane collided with latere here when his plane collided with another in mid: Lieut. Cornelius’ parachute caught in his plane and failed to open. Lieut. Willlams was flying in his plane in a difficult three- plane formation when his motor stalled | and he crashed in front of 10,000 per- sons watching the air races. Lieut. Woodring and Lieut. Cornelius carried on through the remaining sev- eral days of the air races under the leadership of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. £ g Two Shot in $3,400 Hold-up. NEW YORK, October 16 ().—Two men held up the office of the Icemen's Welfare Association in West Twenty- first street today, took 33,400 from Jo- seph Toto, a union official, and shot did at a hospital. Milton Weeks L’Ecluse. Huntington, N. Y., sustained a fractured skull. two men who tried to prevent their gacape. Then they fled in an automo- le. CIRCUS UBANGI RITES FOR DEA;D LEAD TO RETURN OF 12 TO AFRICA Tempcr.ament of Long-Lipped Jungle Natives Too Much for Show Men to Handle. Dy the Assoclated Press. SARASOTA, Fla, October 16.— ‘Twelve long-lipped Ubangis from Africa, ‘brought to this country for exhibition by the late Eugene Bergonier, French explorer, were on their way home today from the Sarasota Winter quarters of a circus because showmen don’t under- stand the temperaments of jungle tribesmen. Before the circus left the road for the season, Bergonier and his charges dlmeed over ncial affairs. Ber- go left the show in fear of his life, circus men sald, and came with his ‘wife to Sarasota. He became ill with an ailment which physiclans said was c pneumonia gn after the circus re here: for ‘Winter and died Jast Monday. s ‘The Ubangis claimed their tribfll‘ spirits brought illness to the explorer and staged such a noisy demonstration when they learned he was dead that the circus men were forced to place them in confinement. ‘The tribesmen would not be calmed, and finally it was decided to send them back to Africa. A special train was en- gaged for the journey to New York, and they left here last night. The group consists of eight men and four women including the kin tribe. It was a strange party of travelers that boarded the train. The women adorn their faces with discs, which are inserted through the lips, gradually stretching of the tribe's them. Several muulmfllrmm g and queen of the NVE BODY WITNESS STABBED N HOTEL James N. Cox Declares He Was Wounded in Argument on Grid Game. NASHVILLE, Tenn., October 16 (#). —The Nashville Banner today quoted James N, Cox, a telephone company executive who was stabbed last night on the eve of his appearance before the Senate Campaign Funds Investigating Committee as saying he was wounded in an argument over the approaching Vanderbilt-Tennessee foot ball game and that he would not prosecute his assailant. Cox, the Banner relates, said that while he was in his rcom with a group of friends some one brought up the subject of the game. An argument en- sued and one of the men hit another. ‘Was “Friend” of Cox. After this disturbance several of the men left and Cox was left with the man who had been struck, the paper says, adding that the latter was a “friend” of Cox. “The_next thing. remembered, he sald,” the Banner continues, “was being placed in an ambulance to be taken to the hospital.” Mr. Ccx was quoted as saying: “I have no malice toward any one and I dou?lot desire that anybody be prose- Little More Than Seratch. The wound was described by the at- tending physician as “little more than a scratch,” and Mr. Cox was said to be in no danger. Pirst reports were that he had been seriously wounded with gashes on the face and stomach. Senator Gerald P. Nye, chairman of the Senate Campaign Fund Investigat- ing Committee, previously had spiked any suggestion that the incident had any relation to the committee’s inquiry into the Demccratic senatorial primary in Tennessee. Cox had been summoned to testify before the committee this afternoon. Not Linked With Probe. " Senator Nye said he did not believe the mysterious wounding of Cox had anything to do with the hearing the committee is conducting into the pri- mary in Tennessee. “It would be hard for me to believe that the wounding of Mr. Cox had any relation to our inquiry,” the commitiee chairman said. The hearing, he added, would be resumed today as scheduled. Representative Cordell Hull, nominated for United States Senator in the Dem- ocratic primary of August 7, told the Committee yesterday that his campaign expenditures did not exceed $10,000, the limit fixed by State law. the stand when the committee opened its hearings into the Tennessee sena- torial prignary. Col. Luke Lea, Nasville publisher, took exception to a question asked him by Senator Nye. Senator Nye had in- quired about “a story” that Col. Lea had been offered $10,000 for his influ- ence in Shelby County (Memphis)® in favor of an unsuccesful candidate for the Senate. Says “Story” Apt Word. “The use of the word ‘story’ is very apt” the witness replied. “I resent that question. I think no such story was going around. It was manufac- tured. But I don’t believe, however, that it was manufactured by the com- mittee.” Senator Nye said he had asked the question to give Col. Lea an opportunity to deny it. He said he felt it his duty to give the question. After adjournment of the hearing un- til this afternoon, Col. Lea shook hands with Senator Nye and again took up the subject of the rumors: “1 dare any man to make me such an offer,” he said. He told the Senator his investigators had only associated with the “dregs of the city.” Todd to Testify Today. Senator Nye declined to tell reporters where he had heard the rumors. He said they came from “half a dozen people.” Andrew L. Todd, unsuccessful candi- date for the senatorial nomination, will appear today, Mr. Nye announced. Speaking informally, Senator Nye said &% the closc of the hearing that the in- vestigation so far had failed to develop any evidence of “lavish expenditure of campaign money.” Unmasked Bandits Get 732,365. NEW ORLEANS, La. October 16 (#). —Two unmasked bandits held up the St. Claude branch of the Interstate Bank & Trust Co. nere today, herded the tellers into the vault and took $2,365. The robbers escaped in an au- tomobile with officers following and shooting at them. Fishing Sm;ck Blows Up. ‘TAMPICO, Mexico, October 16 (#).—— h smack Anzora blew up 12 The miles ouf this today, killing two and: severely Mrmttm of her crew. Mr. Hull was the first witness to take | NS ACTOTES GREET BRUENING A RECHSTAG OPENS {Chancellor Met With Red Cries of “Down With Hunger Dictator!” CABINET FEARS FASCISTS WILL BLOCK PROGRAM Prussian Diet Defeats Effort of Communists to Force Non- Confidence Vote. | By the Assoctated Press. BERLIN, October 16.—Riotous scenes began in the German Reichstag five minutes after its opening at 3 o'clock this afternoon when Chancellor Bruen- ing attempted to deliver his address outlining the program of the govern- ment for relief of the business depres- sion. The chancellor was greeted with Communist cries of “Down with the hunger dictator!” as he mounted the rostrum. The chancellor began with a refer- ence to the economic depression throughout the world, ‘which he said struck Germany especially hard. Has Evolved Plan. “To overcome this crisis,” he said “the government has evolved a far- reaching economic and financial plan which will be submitted presently in the form of a bill to carry out this plan of salvage. The government will fight with all parliamentary means. It is essential that the emergency decrees promulgated in July under article 48 shall not be abrogated.” Amid the turmoil of Communist in- terruptions and occasional howls of derision from the Fascists, Bruening appealed to the German people to buck up, swallow the bitter medicine of retrenchm.nt, put their shoulders to- gether and get on with the hard but nlecesary work of national reconstruc- tion. He charged that many of the na- tions were continuing to increase their armaments, calmly ignoring _treaties and endangering the security and peace of the world. “That is an unbearable situation,” he said. Pledged Full Reichswehr. The chancellor pledged that Ger- many's defensive forces would be de- veloped to the limit permitted Ly the Treaty of Versailles, but served mno- tice that the Reichswehr could not be dragged into politics. ‘The chancellor closed with an appeal for unity, Before adjournment-of the - session ‘Reéichstag President Loel unngu'm‘ed that the farmers’ federation had in- troduced a motion of non-confidence against Foreign Minister €urtius. Heavy police guards were thrown in a wide circle around the Reichstag Building today to forestall any repe- tition of Monday's rioting. Indications of the cabinet’s own ex- pectation of trouble were seen in the fact that, contrary to precedent, no ad- vance text of the chancellor’s speech was given out to the news agencies, the reason being that it was doubtful whether Bruening would be able to make his speech at all. Fascists Plan Trouble. The Fascists were said to be planning to continue their obstructive tactics of yesterday in addition to carrying on a chanting of Fascist slogans character- istic of their street demonstrations. ‘The Reichstag faced action on drastic party motions, which, while not ex- pected to carry, probably will afford opportunity for political pyrotechnics. Among such were motions to revise the Young plan, to cease the repa- rations payments, and to cut President von Hindenburg's salary and those of the Reichstag deputies themselves 20 per cent or more. Most,_or all of these (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) LEAP FROM HIGH PLACES Jobless Laborer Rescued—Mother of Two Is Killed. NEW YORK, October 16 (P).—Two more despondent New Yorkers, follow=- ing the example of two who killed themselves yesterday, leaped from high places today. A homeless laborer out of a job was rescued after jumping 135 feet into the East River from Manhattan Bridge. Mrs. Rose Barnett, mother of two chil- dren, jumped from the roof of a Eronx apartment house and was killed. Department Stores ad- many profitable Department Store vertising contains interesting and shopping items. Each day it presents the story of outstanding offerings in va- rious lines of merchandise. During September, the Department Stores placed advertising in The Star to the extent of 587,509 agate lines—being 64% of the total advertising of these stores in all the Washing- ton newspapers. Only through careful reading of advertising in The Star can you be fully aware of offerings of local merchants, Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) Lines. 93,067 23,555 .14,130 5,548 3,516 The Evening Star 2d Newspaper 3d Newspaper 4th Newspaper 5th Newspaper Other * i- - Total ,'.‘::'\........ W, | | i | | | | | | | SPEAKING OF HAIRBREADTH CONDITIONS. | DISCIPLES T0 TAK STRONG DRY STAND Action on Committee Report Expected Tomorrow—Mis- sions Emphasized. While missionary extension was the dominant note sounded in addresses at the international convention of the Disciples of Christ today, the Commit- tee on Recommendations had before it as one of numerous vital problems a re- port of the brotherhood’s board of Temperance and Social Welfare as- | salling the intensified wet campaign of the past year. Coupled with a conclusion that pro- | hibition must stand the test of fire for five years more, the report found that the wet campaign “was launched to make more difficult enactment of recommendations of the Wickersham Commission as well as to increase the in Congress.” 3 T v of Wekd"" | ‘The stategy of the opponents of pro- hibition, the report said, “seems to con- sist of three elaments, namely, to cre- ate the conviction in the public mind that prohibition is a failure, and that conditions are worse than under the saloon system; to secure the repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act and to substitute therefor State control of liquor under Federal constitutional restrictions.” ‘This report along with other prob- lems dealing with the outstanding is- sues before the brotherhood sessions probably will be submitted to the con- vention for its approval tomorrow af- ternoon. While it was expected a discussion of prohibition would bring out perhaps some dissenting views on the success or failure of dry law enforcement, it was predicted that the report of the tem- perance body would be accepted in en- tirety. The discussion in the commit- tee of recommendations on the prohi- bition issue will consume most of the body’s_time tomorrow morning. W. N. Briney, vice president of the international convention, presided at today's session at the auditorium. Inertia Is Deplored. Religious observances of the present generation were characterized as “spirit- ual setting-up- exercises” in one of the important speeches delivered before the convention by Roy G. Ross of Indianap- olis, Ind., secretary of the department of religious education of the United Christian Mission Society. Mr. Ross as- serted in his address that the “Bible and the spinning wheel are both preserved as symbols of noble traditions.” The lack of positive conviction which characterizes individuals, agencies, or- ganizations and _even _educational (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) GRACE EXONERATED IN CAR CRASH DEATH Capitalist’s Son Held Blameless, but Driver of Second Machine Ordered Held. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, October 16.—A cor- oner's jury today exonerated Charles M. Grace, 24, son of Eugene G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Cor- poration, in the death of Solomon Bal- sam, 22, of Pittsburgh, in an automo- bile accident here September 26. The jury recommended that Allan Golub, Pittsburgh, be held for the grand jury on a manslaughter charge. Grace testified Golub’s car struck his and then overturned, crushing Balsam, who was riding on the running board of Golub's machine. Testimony that a bottle of liquor was found in Grace's car after the accident was offered by Patrolman C. D. Nichols, who added, however, that the bottle was not open, and that Grace appeared to him to be sobcT. Mrs. Thomas H. Tucker, Pittsburgh, witnesses to the accident, also said Grace appeared sober. Grace, testifying in his own defense, said he was driving slowly along Aiken avenue here in the early morning of September 26 when he felt a jar. An- other automobile pulled up, struck the front fender of his machine, he said, and then overturned. The car was that of Allen Golub, Pittsburgh. Balsam was sald to have been standing on the run- ning board of the machine and was crushed when it overturned. Grace has been working in the offices of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corpora- tion here. Both he and Golub had been held under $1,000 bail for the hearing today. Police reports of the accident at the time made no mention of liquor 2o Enavae of transporiing” iquor Was no quor was made against him, ' Condemned Dog And Master Can’t Be Found in City But Trial Judge Had Al- ready Decided to Grant Pet Reprieve. The death sentence pronounced in Police Court yesterday upon Fritz, a Belgian shepherd dog owned by Dr. Charles F. Mooney, late of 13 M street, will not be executed, for the simple rea- son that both Dr. Mooney and his be- loved dog, so far as police know, have vanished. ‘The home of the elderly baby doctor was empty this morning, and already a (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) BIG UNDERGROUND RUM PLANT SEIZED =5 Newark Police Arrest Four and Find Liquor Valued at $1,000,000. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J.,, October 16.—Newark police located an underground storage plant today and seized liquor valued by Louis J. Tutt, deputy prohibition ad- ministrator, at $1,000,000. Four men were arrested. Squads of firemen and police climbed into a second story window of an old building on Rome street and surprised the prisoners. The building formerly was used as & leather goods factory. YONKERS OFFICIALS CALLED., Asked to Testify in Probe of “Beer Pipe Line” Under Streets. NEW YORK, October 16 (#)- 55,000 00 DAMAGES ASKED BY CANNDN Bishop Charges Slander in| Suit Filed Here Against Hearst. William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, was named as defendant in a suit filed today in the District of Columbia Supreme Court for $5,000,000 damages for alleged slander by James Cannon, jr., bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Cannon charges that false and libelous statements appeared in the New York Evening Journal, July 22, 1930, and on subsequent dates in other Hearst wife, Charged False Statement. ening ber 27, 1930, the plaintiff says there appeared false and malicious statements concerning the employment by Cannon of C. Bascom Slemp, an attorney, and former secretary to President Coolidge, in which it was inferred that one Gold- hurst (not otherwise identified) had been charged with crime and that Can- non had secured the services of the lawyer for the purpose of preventing the prosecution and conviction of Gold- hurst, all of which the bishop says was untrue. 3 Bishop Cannon also'says that he be- lieves that Hearst stated to one or more | of his editors that in December of last year they had last a great opportunity to link the bishop conclusively with the affairs of his son in California, and that had the matter been handled properly then, it would have been of great value to Hearst in discrediting Bishop Cannon with _the general public, and that next A group of police and municipal officials of Yonkers, N. Y., were subpoenaed to- day to appear before a Federal grand Jury investigating a “beer pipe line” un- der Yonkers' streets, which Federal agents discovered last Tuesday. Subpoenaes requiring their appear- ance before the grand jury this after- noon were served on the commissioner and deputy commissioner of public works, the chief of police, the captain of the first police precinct, the fire chief and the deputy fire chief of Yonkers, - Assistant United States Attorney Watts said no accusation had been made against the officials and he did not know whether they had heard about the pipe line before Tus . “However,” he added, “we would like to know just how more than a mile of 4-inch hose could be run under Co- lumbus avenue, Elm street, Palisadc avenue and John street, Yonkers, with- out knowledge on the part of city of- ficials or employes.” ‘Watts said more than 6,000 feet of the hose, worth approximately $25,000, had been hauled from various manholes, one of them about 200 yards from the brewery of the State Cereal Co., which has a permit to manufacture near bee:. , GOING HOOVER, JR. SOUTH FOR CURE| President’s Son Acquires Property on Sunset Mountain, Near Asheville, N. C. Herbert Hoover, Jr., who has been ill at the Rapidan Camp since early in the Summer, is to be taken in the Fall to Asheville, N. C,, for treatment. Mr. Hoover has purchased a house and wide grounds on the slopes of Sun- set Mountain and adjacent to Grove Park. In announcing this at the White House today, Capt. Joel T. Boone, White House physician, said the President's camp on the Rapidan is not constructed suitably for Winter use, which neces- sitated a change of location for the young man's treatment. It is thought the move will be made about Novem- ber 1. Mr. Hoover will be accompanied by his wife, who will remain with him. It is not thought likely that the three children will be brought from their California home. {Radio m-;.on P:lq C11 (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) |FIRST COLD WAVE Rain and Snow Flurries Forecast for Midwest States Tonight. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, October 16.—The Mid- west's first touch of Winter was due tonight. Forecasts issued by the Weather Bu- reau warned that a cold wave, which started in the Northern Rockies, was moving rapidly Eastward, and that in most sections of Illinols and surround- ing States it would be preceded by rain | and possjbly snow flurries. Snow flur- ries were reported in North Dakota last night. A storm warning for the Lake Supe- rior region was issued at Milwaukee. A former Marine, charged with steal- ing milk, doughnuts and fish from a| grocery store to feed his wife and child when he was unable to get work for six months, was excused for the crime today in Police Court. Charles G. Barr, jr., 22 years old, 600 block of H street, was placed on proba- tion for a year after his trial before John P. McMahon. The court proba- tion officer is secking employment for him at the magistrate’s request, follows ing the hearing. Sy “I was discharged from the Corps in January,” Barr told Jum to. Mahon when asked to explain his ae- tions, “and came here so that my Wi expecting to become a-mother, ml.lg&ie’ near her mother. g “So far, I have been ungble o work other than when employed by a | hotel as a_substitute elevator operator | for two weeks. My wife is {ll and I had to have food for her and my 3-year~ i NEGATIVES SOUGHT BY DEFENSETOAD CAMPBELL AT TRIAL May Differ From Govern- ment’s Baker Case Pictures, Dr. Hamilton Says. LEAVES FOR OA;(— GROVE TO SEE GIRL'S AUTO Asks Analysis of Stains on Para- sol—All Plans to Exhume Body Are Abandoned. Plans to demand that the Govern- ment produce at the murder trial of Herbert M. Campbell the negatives of photographs to be used by the prosecu- tion in attempting to prove the defend- ant killed Mary Baker were announced today by defense counsel. Charles Henry Smith of Alexandria, chief of counsel for the accused, de- clared he would write a letter tomorrow or the next day to Willlam H. Collins, an assistant United States attorney, re- questing that all the negatives used in the perfection of the trial photographs and actual copies of the photographs themselves be made available for exami- nation by defense experts when the trial opens Tuesday in District Supreme Court. Meanwhile, interest in the case shifted to the Virginia village where Miss Baker was buried last April. Dr. Albert H. Hamilton and his son, Robert A. Hamilton, microchemists of Auburn, N. Y, left for Oak Grove to inspect Miss Baker's automobile ‘after complet- ing tests of the alleged death weapon and bullets shortlv before noon today. ‘Wants to Analyze Stains. Dr. Hamilton requested Mr. Collins to permit him to remove small pieces of the framework and cloth covering of a parasol in Miss Baker's n at the time of her death, in order that he might make an analysis of stains he sald appeared to have been by blood. Collins told Dr. Hamilton he the false statement made it appear a |out reflection on the woman who is now his | the The pictures involved have been made by Col. Calvin Goddard, chief of the Crime Detection Laboratories of North- ity of the Bureau of Standards. liminary reports have disclosed that the photographs show that marks on the death bullets correspond in every detail with striations left on test bullets fired from the revolver submitted to investi- gators by Campbell. Shooting in Car Quectioned. On the other hand, Dr. Hamilton re- iterated today, after three days spent primarily in - testing the weapon and death siugs, that marks left on the bul- lets which killed Miss Baker failed to match up “in any sense” with scratches left on test bullets he had fired from the pistol. Dr. Hamilton also said the absence of powder burns on the garmients of Miss Baker indicated she had been shot from |a distance of approximately 18 inches. | This revelation, he said, convinced-him MOVES EASTWARD the girl was not in her automobile when shot down. All plans for possible exhumation of Miss Baker's body were abandoned | today. Dr. Hamilton had recommended that a third bullet, known to have been & contributing cause to her death, be re- moved from her back, where it still remains, in order that it might be sub- jzcted to tests. RACE AGAIN DELAYED GLOUCESTER, Mass, October 16 (#)—The second race of the inter- national series of the champion- ship of the North Atlantic fishing fleets was again postponed today when Capt. Angus Walters, skipper of the Bluenose, found he could not have the Canadis® champion ready in time to sail a race *hat could be com- pleted before dark. It was expected the next race with the Gertrude L. Thebaud, would be sailed tomorrow. 'JOBLESS MAN’S THEFT TO FEED FAMILY IS EXCUSED BY COURT | Former Marine Placed on Probation by Judge, Who Asks Officer to Seek Work for Him. el old baby. It was a case of steal or see my wife and child starve.” Barr admitted treely taking the food- stuffs, declaring that he was sorry that he took so many fish, because his fam- 1y couldn’t eat them all, and he was afraid to take them back. Judge McMahon told the man he could not blame him for stealing when conditions in his family were such 8§ they were. While Barr was legally guilty, he said, he failed to see any- thing criminal in his action. Detective John F. Boxwell of the sixth precinet verified Barr’s story. He said he had been instrumental in hav- he Wwife, an expectant mother, sent 10, fer mother, who is also in dire cir- @Umstances. The policeman said he Barr because he was detailed the case by a supcrior officer, John Fitzpatrick, assistant district attor- ey, announced that he did not want to press the charges against Barr, byt . thought his duty was to present the facts in the case to the court and leave the to the judge. *