Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1930, Page 1

WEAT HER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Occasional light ra in tonight and pos- sibly tomorrow morning: colder tomor- Tow. Temperatures: Highest, 67, at noon taday; iowest, 48, at 7 a.m. today. Full report on page 3. he FEoening Star. Wit The Star’s curr every city block a tion is delivered to as fast as the papers “From Press to Home hin the Hour” wr. nd t W system covers e regular edi- shington homes re printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 112,921 Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 post office, No. 31,591, Tntered as second class matter Washington, > .« WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1930—FORTY PAGES. *kk ) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. ~ HOOVERDENOUNCES KELLEY 01 STORY AS WITHOUT FACT Says Charges Were Attempt to Fasten Spurious Scandal Upon Administration. QUESTIONS JOURNAL!SM OF EXLOITING ATTACK Holds Such Baseless Action Can | Only Damage Public Service as a Whole. President Hoover today denounced as | an attempt to fasten a spurious ofl | &cdndal upon his administration the charges by Ralph S. Kelley, former head of the Denver field force of the Depart- ment of Interior, that oil companies were obtaining illegally - valuable oil shale lands from the Government. President Hoover added that after painstaking investigation by the Attor- ney General'soffice of every statement and implied accusation by Kelley, every one of the latter's charges was proved without fact and showed that the Gov- ernment’s interest in these lands has been vigorousiy protected. He said also that no single inquiry was made by Kelley or the agencies through which his charges were made public, to de- termine the facts before their publi- - cation. A New York newspaper carried Kelley's own story of the case. “As a piece of journalism, it may well be that the newspaper involved was mislead,” the President stated. “It certainly does not represent the prac- tice of better joutnalism. As a piece of politics it is certainly far below the ideals of political partisanship held by men in that party.” Defends Men in Service. Mr, Hoover then went on to defend the men in public service in the hope, as he feelingly expressed it, that “the American people realize that when Teckless, baseless and infamcus charges in the face of responsible denial, with no attempted verification, are sup- by political agencies, and.are » roadcast, reflecting upon the propriety ‘of public men, such as Secretary Wil- bur, the ultimate result can only be damage to public service as a whole. Such things, the President declared, the whole faith of the people office. Mr. Hoover went on to the item that this administration had ,approved old title claims for some 43,- 000 acres, arising under the mineral Jaw prior to 1920. ‘Under my orders, no Jeases or titles have been passed under the new old ;'IMmS, Kel- Jey himsel! 000 acres. ‘The eoum‘u'dend about 16,000 acres, about 7,000 acres came up on ::gell to the heads of the department for decision, only part of which Kelley | oopposed on technical grounds. Further- more, these oil shale lands have little present value end instead of being | ,worth billions can be bought from | private owners for a few dollars per _acre, | Immediately Denied. ' “There are some phases of this inci- | dent,” the President continued, “on which it is desirable in public interest “that I should cdmment. I may sav at “once that proper inquiry or proper criti- “cism by the press is a safeguard of good government. But this investiga- “tion shows more than ghis. Kelley had been called to Washington last Sum- mer to discuss with his immediate su- Pperiors questions of organization in the office of which he had charge. He made no suggestion of these charges to his superior officers during @& period of over six weeks in Washing- ston, but during this time was in nego- sale of his fabrications to ntified with the opposition political party, and they were Jaunched “in the midst of a political campaign. No single inquiry had been or was made by the agencies behind Kelley at the} Department of the Interior or any other ‘Government department as to the facts before their publication. The chafges, when first published, were in general | , but were instantly | tary Wilbur and proof | would indicate thelr | denied by Sec offered Which falsity. “Kelley was. place any par Tior officers a operate with the Department of Jus- tice for an independent inyestiraticn. | . Furthermore, Kelley himself could, by the merest inquiry in his own depart- ment, have determined the falsity of his own statements, as witnessed his assertions of titles granted, which were never granted, of hundreds of thou- sands of acres of land alienated, which never were alienated, of papers de- which never were destroyed, of which never existed, less statements pportunities to | cncies have per- ed and refused to before his supe- six weeks by d_Ke ment’ for them. or by the broadeasters of these state- (Continued on Page 2, Col 1) COL. JAMES A. LOGAN DEAD; HELPED HOOVER Banker, Veteran of Two Wars,i Had Noted Career With U. §. Missions, By the Associated Press, PHILADELPHIA, October 28.—James A an, 51, banker and former colonel in the United States Army, died Jast night at the home of his sister, Mrs, Logan Rhoads. His home was in New York, where he was associated ‘with the banking firm of Dillon, Read + & Co. He resigned from the Army in 1922 after a service record that dated back to the Spanish-American War. In 1914 he went to Prance as the chief of the | Military Mission. When America entered the war, he became assistant chief of staff, general head- rs of A. E. F. After the Armistice he was principal mssistant to Herbert Hoover in relief tions in Europe and later was representative .of the United | Maj. Augusto Ferreira. | city. Atlanta Refused t Order to Change i Population Count Siddons Declares Court Lacks Authority to Com- pel Steuart to Aet. | By the Associated Press | Atlanta failed today in the District | of Columbia Supreme Court in its effort | to have the Census Bu:eau publich its | population as 360,692. | Director Steuart of the bureau had | given the population of the borough | of Atlanta as 270,367. The city brought | an action to have included several com- | munities and municipalities which were included in Greater Atlanta by an act of the Georgia Legislature in 1929. In his opinion Justice Siddons said | that in view of the facts he did nnt‘ think the court had the authority to cqgmpel Director Steuart to fix the higher figure. He said the city and those who brought suit with it “may | have misconceived their remedy, but with that the court has no concern in deciding this case.” | “For the reasons thus stated,” he added, “the rule issued herein must be discharged and the petition of the relators dismissed.” | BRAZL 1S QUET AFTER 2H00R RT; COUNT IO NLRED Battalion Chief and Others Under Arrest in Revolt of Troops Over Food. By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, October 28.— Strong paecautionary measures were in- voked today by the provisional authori- ties to preserve calm in the city until | a new government can take charge and | bring order out of the chaos which has | succeeded deposition of President Wash- | ington. Luis. More than 100 casualties were counted | in rioting which developed yesterday when parts of the fifth, second and | sixth battalions of police, who in Brazil | serve as soldiers in time of national need, revolted at the character of food offered ‘them and attacked the Rio de | Janeiro garrison quarters, It was two hours before garrison | troops could quell the uprising and re- | store order, the situatian being greatly | aggravated by hundreds of citizens, | who, fearing a counter-revolution, broke | open stores and obtained arms with | which they joined the fray., More than | 400 shots were fired. | Col. Bandeira de Mello, commanding the 5th battalicn, led the police in their attack on the garrison. He was captured and imprisoned. Others ar- | Tested included Col. Caldeira Bastos and | As quickly as | shots were heard shops shut their doors | and fron shutters were run up, but after firing ceased the city resumed its normal appearance. Aranha Arrives by Plane. Dr. Osvaldo Aranha, Liberal leader | and acting president of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, arrived here by plane from Porto Alegre and immediate- ly began conferences with members of the military junta which deposed Pres- ident Luis and have assumed charge. | It was believed that as a consequence | of the conferences composition of a | provisional government would be an- | nounced today. | There is general acceptance that Getulio Vargas, president of Rio Grande | do Sul, rebel generalissimo, Liberal party ledaer and defeated Liberal can- didate in the recent presidential elec- tions, will be declared President, b-th to fill out Dr. Washington Luis’ unexpired term and to begin the regular new term as of November 15, It is not believed, however, that he will come here from Punta Grossa, Pa- rana, until troops which originally fought the revolution’s battles have penetrated Sao Paulo and Rio de Jan- | eiro. ‘There still is marked suspicion in the revolutionary camp, dispatches from the south state, of motives and in- | tentions of the junta, members of whici waited until the revolution was three weeks old to place themselves in line with it. ! Conquest in Northeast Completed. It is known that this suspicion was | voiced in three quarters, from the south. | where Dr. Vargas upreme: Minas Geraes, one of the original revolutionary | states west of Rio de Janeiro, where | Dr. Vargas is highly thought of, and in the north, where another man, Capt. | Juarez Tavora, is considered the logical | man to handle the situation, | Capt. Juarez yesterday established a provisional government at Bahia, or Sao | Salvador, completing _the conquest of | (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) | OWL HOOT IS DEATH KNELL Baltimore Youth Killed as He Goes | to Kill Bird. el BALTIMORE, October 28 () —The hoot of an owl was a death knell last night for Robert Macey, 19. Hearing the bird, he and Keith Radcliffe, 27, his brother-in-law, picked up a rific and a flashlight and went to the back porch of their home in the outskirts of the Radclifie told police he passed the flashlight to Macey and the other drop- | ped the rifie, which discharged as it | struck the floor. The bullet killed Macey | instantly. | | and Democratic candidate for President | based its celebrated * | been requested by the Department of AL SMITH ATTACKS G.0.P. ON PLEDGES AND JOBLESS WORK Charges Set-up Delayed Until Just Before Election in Providence Speech. AYS OWN PARTY WOULD OFFER REAL ECONOMY Appeals for Gerry and Rest of Ticket in Address to Nation Over Network. s BY ' G. GOULD LINCOLN. PROVIDENCE. R. I, October 28.— , idol of Rhode Island’s De- speaking here last night, “took the hide off” the Republican party for promising a continuance of national prespetity “when they knew they couldn’t do it.” He {urther indicted the Republican administration on the ground that it had, like an ostrich, “stuck its head in the sand” and failed to take steps to | relieve unemployment “until 10 day: before the congressional election.” | He undertook to pledge the Demo- | ciatic party to “stabilization of employ- | ment by a shorter work week"—a five- | day work week: to “real economy by | reorganization of the gove:nmental ma- | chinery at Washington” and to uniform State laws relating to child labor. The former Governor of New York in- 1928 spoke to the entire Nation through a 1adio hook-up. He was the | national leader again. It was the first of two addresses to the Nation which ex-Gov. Smith had promised the Demo- cratic National Committee to make during the congressional campaign. He strongly urged the election of a Demo- cratic Congress. The election of a| Republican House of Representatives | this Fall, he said. would be construed as an indorsement of the Republican | administration by the country. | Picks Providence and Boston. Smith said that when he had prom- ised the Democratic National Commit- | tee to make two speeches this Fall he | had insisted he should pick the cities in which they should be made—Provi- | dence and Boston, the capitals of the two New Evngiand States which stood by him in the election of 1928. Tonight he speaks in the Bay State capital. While ex-Gov. Smith came last night for the purpose of speaking to; the entire Nation, he also came to Rhode Island to arouse the masses in the interest of Millionaire Peter Goelet the Democratic nominee for | Senator, and for the rest of the party | ticket, equally Democratic, but not so| “millionairish.” | And Al did rouse them. | Amid wild applause and frequent | rounds of laughter, the only Democrat to win Rhode Island’s electoral votes| since the Civil War, save Woodrow Wil- | son in the Bull Moose split of the Re- publican party in 1912, tore into lhl,'j Republican = administration, landing | punches right and left. | Greeted by Huge Crowd. A huge crowd greeted the titular head of the Democratic party—the last standard bearer of the Democracy. More than 12,000 persons, it is esti-| mated, were crowded into the Rhode Island auditorium and several thousand waited outside. It was the same kind of crowd that gave him an ovation in Bos- ton, Philadelphia and Chicago in 1928. At the close of his address he paid high tribute to former Senator Gerry, ! declaring that “he gave one year of his life to me and to the Democratic party,” and that he had found no more valu- able adviser during the campaign of 1928 than Gen “It is a pity,” said ex-Geov. Smith, hat the Senate hasn't more Such men.” Smith’s appearance in Rhode Island had been eagerly awaited by the Demo- cratic campaign management. He has been counted upon to stir the Demo- crats to the enthusiastic pitch required to put across th the Senate, the entire Democratic State ticket and two out of the three mem- bers of the House from this State. But his speech last night took on a far wider aspect., It was intended as a campaign document for the Democrats who are fighting all over the country for election to the House and Senate this Fall, and as such it must be considered. The former Governor of New York was_accompanied by Mrs. Smith, who (Continued cn Page 3, Column 3.) MYSTERY OF SPEAKEASY LISTING IS CLEARED| Department of Justice Requested Data for Probable Study of D. C. Liquor Situation. | The apparent mystery which involved the official list of 934 speakeasies raided | w the Washington police on which the Crusaders, an anti-dry organization | akeasy map of was red up today when Washingtor revealed that the list had police official Justice. A police department clerk, it was said, obtained the list from the Crusaders brought it up to date, and turned it over to the Justice Department. The list| was criginaily compiled by the police, | and showed the places raided between the period between September, 1929 and April 1930 The Department of Justice, has not disclosed for what purpose it intends to use the list. 1t is believed, however, it is planning a study of the liquor situation- in Washington. | Early General Use of All-Me on Heels of Battl By the Associated Press. 1 PINEHURST, N. C. October 28.—A | day when skyscrapers con- | structed almost entirely of steel alloy | was predicted today by Charles N. States Grain Corporation, American representative at the sui:reme Eco- mnomic Couneil, unofl&l.n del egtumtg‘!ehe London conference of prime m TS in 1924 and the finance ministers’ con- Q Serence in 1925. ican Institute of Steel Construction. In an address to the eighth annual convention of the institute he pr the early general use of all: for tall buildings. "Our industry,” he said, “is facing & Fitts of Boston, rresldtnl of the Amer-i DAY OF SKYSCRAPERS OF STEEL FORECAST BY INSTITUTE HEAD tal Walls Predicted to Follow e Deck Flooring. tremendous transition, which is com- ing whether we will it 6r not. The bat- tle-deck (steel) floor has been Mflfelcd." The institute was told by Charles F. Abbott, its executive director, that the structural fabricating plants of the United States now have a capacity al- |;A;w! double that of prior to the World ar l “Business,” he sald, “during the past l:uwn\hh-sb::uwd. It is but a fraction under that of 1999." o HAVE., NACK £ ) THE OF GETTIN ALL THE Pusuict il A TIMES SQUAR SHOP LO0TED OF 20000 { Two Robbers Force Manager to Phone for Combination and Open Safe. . E5 the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, October 28.—Two self- assured rTobbers posing as telegraph messengers gained entrance to a Broadway jewelry store near Times | | Square two hours before it opened for | ! business today, waited until the clerical force arrived, then made the manager | open the safe and escaped with jewelry valued at $200,000. They cowed a negro watchman with pistols hefore any one else came, then as the clerks arrived lined them up against the wall beside the watchman. Half an hour later the manager came and confessed that he knew the com- bination of the safe. Combination Forgotten, But the excitement drove the combi- mation from his mind and his hands trembled so that he could not open the vault. One of the robbers, pressing a gun against the manager's side, forced him to telephone M. Rosenthal, prietor of the store, who furnished the combination without asking questions. Then the robbers opened the safe, lifted out the trays of gems and escaped in an autcmobile. Store Staff Tied. The store is that of M. Rosenthal & Sons, 1637 Broadway. Before they left the robbers took time to truss up clerks and manager with picture wire. Then they took a key from the watchman, locked the door after them and walked casually to their car, earrying the loot in a satchel. A few minutes later one of the clerks freed himself and sounded the burglar siren. It brought 10 traffic policemen and a patrol wagon loaded with re- inforcements. In 15 minutes a crowd of several thousand had gathered in front of the store, but there was no clue to the identity of the robbers. ENS SIGNS CONTRACT Coach Will Again Pilot Pittsburgh Pirates. PITTSBURGH, October 28 Former (»— National League base ball team again next season, the Pirate club officials | would tend to prevent other strikes of | announced today. g Ens, who had his first experience as a big league manager in the closing days of the 1929 campaign and during the 1930 season, signed a contract to pilot the Pirates for dne more year. He was a coach of the Pittshurgh club before he succeeded Donie Bush as manager when Bush resigned late in.| Mr. MacDonald and his ministers mere- | poundag, the 1929 season. Heating and Plfimbing When cold weather is here the comfort of your home depends upon the quality and suitability of its heating system., Develop- ments in heating science have made available the automatic coal stoker, gas and oil burners, electric and gas heaters and stoves and hot-water heaters, 1Meating and plumbing advertising in The Star during September totaled 25,130 agate lines*, which represents 64% of this class of advertising carried in all the -Washington papers. Only through careful reading of advertising in The Star can you be fully aware of offerings of local merchants. “Figures from Media Records, Inc. ‘Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) es. The Evening Star. . 32,968 2d Newspaper. ..... 9,759 3d Newspaper . . ....... 6,504 Newspaper. . ... 4,217 5th Newspaper..... 3,933 o Total Fundlsl. . 24,413 pro- | Plane Afire, Navy || Flyer Drops Mile; | Rescued From Sea | The rescue by the destroyer | | 'crever of Lieut. Felix F. Baker, | | Navy aviator, of Homestead, Okla., | | who dropped into the Pacific with | | a parachute after his land plane | | caught fire at 5,000 feet yester- day, was reported today to the Navy Department. Baker’s ship was from ' the Fighting Plane Squadrons of the Eate Fleet. He was practicing a formation in dive bombing when the piane burst into flames. When | | picked up, Baker was suffering from shock and burns about the face and neck. The plane sank about 4 miles west of La Joila, | | cant. PARLIAMENT OPENS - WINTER SESSIONS Election ~Reform and New Labor Laws Promise Con- troversy for Government. By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 28.—King George, ‘recovered from his long illness, can- vened Parliament for its Winter ses- sions today in a ceremonious setting, made doubly significant by his return to functioms of state after months spent abed and in recuperation. The House of Commons and the Lords met in combined session at noon to listen to his speech from the throne, | which he read in a firm, resonant voice. | The reading occupled only fivaminutes | both Lords and Commons adjourning | immediately thereafter, while King | George and Queen Mary returned with jall the pageantry of their arrival at Westminster to Buckingham Palace The Lords’ adjournment was until 4:15 pm. but the Commons was to meet again at 3 pm., when debate on | an address in reply to the King's speech | was due to begin. Two features of the speech from the throne were accepted | as highly controversial, projected elec- toral reform and indications of an at- election of Gerry to| Jewel Ens will pilot the Pittsburgh |tempt to nullify the law which made | the general strike of 1926 illegal and | the nature. 3 | Seen Bid for Power. The projected electoral reform rep- | resents a definite bid of the MacDonald | Ministry to remain in office as long as | possiple, since it is a measure long sought by the Liberal party. Although | 1y mention an electoral reform measure | will be submitted to Parliament. it was | understood the measure will include the | Liberal proportional representation | scheme. Such a scheme would give { tnem representation in the Commons | far in excess of their present member- ship, which is united by reason of three- corner constituency races, in which, al- | though the Liberals always poll a large | vote, they usually are behind either Conservatives or Laborites, or both. The King's message, him by his government, headed by Prime Minister MacDonald, is in part as follows: “I hope soon to welcome representa- tives of the princes and people of Indis who are about to join with members {of all parties in both houses of Ps liament to consider the future consti- |t ional. pesition of India. | _“I follow with grave concern mpathy continuance of heavy and un- | ple. Economic depression unfortu- | nately continues to dominate the mar- | kets of the world, and the accompany- ing restriction of international trade is |felt with particular severity in_those (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) NICKEL TROLLEY FARE RESTORED IN VALLEY Allegheny Towns Given Reduction by Company as “Contribution to Bring About Prosperity.” By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., October 28—A 5-cent trolley fare in all fowns in the Allegheny Valley served by the West Penn Railways and a reduction in in- terurban fares will be put into effect by the company next Sunday. The Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co. announced last night that fares in Fairmont and Clarksburg, W. Va., would be reduced to 5 cents as “a material contribution in bringing about pros- perity.” The present fare in the Allegheny Valley towns is cents. The fare in Fairmont and Clarksburg is 7 cents. ‘The West Penn Railways Co. anncunced all ticket sales would be elhnm? and cash fares would be collected. . 77 717 27747 77 7 H2 H7 drawn up for | ) | employment among so many of my peo- | SI0842 15 SPENT BYHRS.MEORMCK |lllinois Candidate Refuses to| List Detective Fees | in Nye Case. Expenditures of $10,842 were reported “ today by Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, | | Republican, in her post-primary race | | for the Senate in linois. * Mrs. McCormick, whose campaign ex- penditures in the primary have been under investigation by the Nye commit- tee, stated in her report today that she | made no accounting to the Senate for the cost of “private investigators” em- | ploged by her to shadow the Senate | investigators. 1 Contributions Listed. She listed contributions of $12,052, | | which included $10,000 from Robert R. | | McCormick, $1,000 from J. M. Patter- | 150m ahtt $10000 from M¥s. G. F. Porter Of the expenditures $6,000 was given | | to the Tlinois Republican State Central | | Committee. Mrs. McCormick said her | | other expenditures, which she was not required by law to report, did not ex- | ceed $6,000. i James Hamilton Lewis, her Defo- | cratic opponent, has reported expendi- tures of $13,877, of which $3,500 was | given to the Democratic State Com- | mittee. | Cites Legal Opinion. | “While it was intimated,” Mrs. Mc- Ccrmick said in her report, “by Chair- man Gerald P. Nye during the course | of the hearings held at Chicago on | September 16 by the special committee of the Senate investigating campaign | | expenditures of senatorial candidates, that I should account for my expendi- | tures for private investigators engaged by me during the Summer of 1930, I l'am not reporting such expenditures | herein, because of the fact, and upon the opinion of counsel, that such ex- | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4 | TWO AIRMAIL LINES | HIT BY NEW II:ONTRACTS‘l National and Boeing Firms Would | Lose, While Colonial, Western and Continental Would Gain. | By the Associated Press. Earl B. Wadswor airmail, said today tracts going into effect November 1, basing rates on space mileage instead of | uld give a decreased return to the National and Boeing Air Trans- port Cos. and increase the rat | Colonial Western Airways, We: Express and Continental Air Line, s ng Co., covering the Chicago- ncisco route, will be the biggest | Toser —about $75,000 a month—under the | Watres act, calling for the new | basis, Wadsworth said, Its rate pa | added, would drop from $1.53 to $1.20 | per mile, reducing its monthly mail pay | income from about $344,000 to $269,755. The National Air Transport, operating from New York to Chicago, he said, | wotld- lose about $6,000 a month, i ! contracts dropping from approximately | $122,000 to $116,000 a month. superintendent of | hat the new con- | _ The B Ban Fi Rabbi Wise Sent to Hospital. NEW YORK, October 28 (7). Stephen S Wise, prominent rabbi, h een admitted to the Doctors’ Hospital | for an indefinite stay. He collapsed of acute indigestion at'the Hotel Half | in Coney Island on Saturday.| e was said to be suffering from a | general breakdown brought about by | GAS STOPS RESLLF OF 29 TRAPPED 1Y TOGIVE MINE IN OKLAHOMA Hope Is Abandoned for All Others. COAL DAMP AND DEBRIS BLOCK RELIEF EFFORTS Cause of Blast Is' Undetermined. Shock Is Described as Ex- ceedingly Violent. By the Assaciated Press MCcALESTER, Okla, October Gas today drove rescue workers the lower levels of the Wheatley coal mine, tomb of 29 miners si explosion last night, and officials vir- tually abandoned hope that any of the trapped men would be found alive. One man, William Donnelly, killed at the head of the mine by the blast. Bodies of four trapped miners were sighted on the sixteenth level of the mine. Several rescue workers were overcome by the gas, known as coal damp, and one, John Moore, was carried from the mine. was Damp Routs Rescuers. The damp sent rescuers, numbering about 50, back to the tentit level of the mine, where ventilation was good. Efforts were being made to obtain brat- tice cloth to curtain off mine entries and aid ventilation lower down. Workers estimated it would require six men from five to six hours to carry one body from the lower levels, becausc of the mass of debris to be traversed. It was impossible to send a car into the affected regions. Miller D. Hay, chief mine inspector. who entered ‘the workings on his arrival here early today from Ada, Okla., was authority for the statement therc was little hope for the men trapped in the ixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth levels. The explosion, occurring near the mouth of the mine, which slapes back some 3,600 feet-into the ground, choked the shaft with recks and timbers for an undetermined distance. Blast Exceedingly Violent, ‘The mine, although on the grounds | of the State prison here, is worked by | civilian labor. 5 The blast, of unknown cause, was ex- ceedingly violent. Donnelly, who was working on the surface, was caught, by its force and hurled against the tipple, which was damaged. The explosicn was heard 2 miles away in McAlester. A, group, of T American Legion members did volunteer police duty about the mine. There was little demonstration, relatives and friends of the entombed men, for the most part standing silently about. ~Occasionally, women could be heard sobbing. W. C. Robbins, district mine inspector, led rescue attempts, All But Four Married. A few more hopeful watchers at the mine said there was a bare possi of some of the trapped men surviving if ‘they had kept their ledge doors closed. The force of a mine explosion is upward, they sa2id, and indications were that the blast occurred between the twelfth and tenth levels. No one would conjecture as to the cause of the explosion, which crushed | Donnelly against wooded struts at th mine head, ripped sheet iron housing: off the top of the shaft and shot flamnc. 200 feet into the air, casting a reflec- tion on the gray walls of the Suate penitentiary, half a mile away. All except four of the trapped miners are married. Most of them have families. MISS M'CLENNY CASE DELAYED 3 MONTHS Trial of Two Accused of Taking Richmond Girl to Waynes- boro Ordered Postponed. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., October 28.—Mis- demeanor charges against Harry Dick- enson and his brother, N. H. Dickenson, |in connection with Harry's elopement | last July with Mary Frances McClenny, were “continued generally” until the January term of Henrico Court, when called today. of the illness of Judge Gunn. Harry Dickenson was acquitted a few days ago on felony charges preferred under a rarely used statute prohibit the taking and secreting of a child without the consent of parents. Miss McClenny lacked a few days of being 21 years of age at the time she ran away with Dickenson and the definition of the word “child” was an issue in the cas The misdemeanor charges continucd today were based cn transportation of Miss McClenny to Waynesboro for im- moral purposes. N. H. Dickenson was indicted for aiding and abetting the young couple in_their elopement. Dickenson, a filling station attendant, has & wife and child in Russellville, Tenn. 'TWO AMERICANS By the Associated Press. 2 ADDIS ABABA, Abyssinia, October | 28.—Two_Americans, L. B. Roberts 011 Kansas City and David E. Giboney of Miami, Fla., left today at the head of | a large topographical expedition which will spend & hazardous year journeying through the wild Abyssinian highlands. The _expedition is financed by the J. G. White Engineering Corporation of New York, which is building a huge dam for the Abyssinian government on Lake Tsana and inténds to build a highway connecting the ' water project and Addis AbII:A ok R ‘The party accompan pack. carry.ample stocks o4 WILL CHART WILD HIGHLANDS OF ABYSSINIA Expedition Is Being Financed by Engineering Firm—64 Mules Will Carry Supplies. of arms, ammunition and food. Among other things carried are five mule loads of Maria Theresa dollars coined in 1789, this being the only money accepted by natives of the provinces to be visited; two tons of old bottles, each having a purchasing power in rural Ethiopia of four pounds of meat or five chickens: 1,000 pounds of common salt in bars, ch of salt being valued at ap- D the natives, This was agreed because | nR ) CiPBEL DREGTED YERDIT Five Are Known Dead and|Holds Prosecution Has Made Ample Showing of Venue in District. DEFENSE CONCEDES JURY DELIBERATION JUSTIFIED Report of Goddard on Gun Test Is Likely Lats Today or Tomorrow. ‘While an unparaileled experiment to determine once and for all the reliabile y of ballistics proceeded at the Bureau J dards, Justice Jesse C. Adkins this_ afternoon turned down a defense motion for directed verdict of ac- quittal in favor of Herbert M. Camp- bell, on trial in the District,Supreme Court for the murder of Mary Baker. | In refusing the plea of Defense At- | torney Lucien Vandoren, the court held s there had been a sufficient showing by the Government of venue in the Dis- a 4 trict to warrant giving the case to the |Jury and gained from the defense law- { yer an admission that ecnough suspicton |had_been directed on Campbell to the jury in weighing the evi- against him. doren conceded, in response to from the bench, that, “if the mony of Col. Goddard and Souder is to be taken into consider- ation,” there was cause for trial of his client on the murder charge, | Justice Adkins remarked that there had been some Government testimony concerning a pair of glovés, that also had been directed agamst the defend- ant. The court had reference to a pair of pigskin gloves, which hte Govern- ment showed were found with articles of Mary Baker' lothing after her murder and whic ampbell is alleged to have claimed his own early in the investigation. > defendant later | repudiated ows Defense Notes Exception. The defense noted an exception to the court’s adverse ruling on the mo- tion to acquft and then began presenta- tion of defense testimony. The first defense witness called to the stand was Gwendolyn Parsons, woman companicn of Campbell on an automo- bile ride in Arlington County on the afternoon of Mary Baker’s death. When | originally questioned by police as to { his ‘whereabouts that afterncon, C bell fafled to tell of his ride with Mrs. Parscns. It was only when confronted with the fact thai investigators knew of the incident that Campbell admitted he had lied concerning activities that afternoon, according to Government - estimony. Prosec esse: declared’ Campbell admitted parking with the young woman near the culvert in which the Baker girl's body was | found. In denying the motion of the defense, Justice Adkins said he thought the evidence was clear that Mary Baker came to her death .“by .one of two means, choking and shooting.” The question in the court's mind, it was ex- plained, was whether the evidence had shown the choking and shooting to have occurred in the District of Columbia. Contention Is Conceded. “In my opinion,” the justice declared, “there is sufficient evidence to indicaie the crime occurred in the District of Columbia.” Addressing Attorney Vandoren, Jus- tice Adkins said he presumed the de- fense conceded thcre was a sufficient [showing of evidence against Campbeil to warrant sending of the case to the jury. The attorney conceded this to be true providing the ballistic testimony of Government experts was to be con- sidered. The judge then announced of the motion for a directed After noting an exception, Vandoren asked the court which count, that of or that of shooting Mary Government elected to g9 to Prosecutor Collins contended Jovernment should not be restrict- ed as to but that the jury should be left to decide this point for | itself. The court agreed to the prose- | eution’s argu The jury returned to the ho the defense then launched its testimony. A jury which had heard Col. Calvin i Wilmer Souder of the Bureau of Standards, declare that Campbell's .32- caliber revolver was used by the slayer of the k last April watched tensely today the opening phases of the crucial trial of the reliability of ballistics. Bullets Fired From In a guarded room across the street from the District Supreme Court Build~ (Continued on page 4, column 1) 'LIPTON TO CHALLENGE AGAIN IN TWO YEARS iNew Shamrock to “Make Ameri- Sit Up,” Says Sir Thomas. 1 cans By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 28.—Sir Thomas Lipton, entraining today for Southamp- ton to take the Leviathan for America, stated that he had determined to have another Shamrock ready in two_years to race for the America’s Cup. It will be one, he said, that “will make the Americans sit up.” “Am I going to contest for the America’s Cup next year?” said Sir Thomas. “I don't think so, unless I have a boat like the Americans have,” he laughed, “but by the following year Tl have a Shamrock ready that will make the Americans sit up. “We Scotch-Irish don’t easily give up,” Sir Thomas said as his train moved away. “I'm going to have another ' smack at the cup, but this time I'l win.” ‘The merchant-sportsman evidently was in high spirits. He looked bronzed and fit and said he was killing two birds with one stone this time, com- bining business with .a holiday over: seas. Y Argentina to Pay on Loan. JUENOS AIRES, ‘ 28 (#).—The finance m m‘o&y forwarded instructions to the embassy at Washington to y ccupons due November 1 on nu $20,000.000° and $21,260,000 jssued in 1927. The interest amounts to §1,442,~ DRI RFFISES. ™ - o