Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1930, Page 2

~ GODDARD TEST OFF, . COLLNS OBECTE Purpose” in Completing ‘ Gun Experiment. -~a r-mln-d steadily for hours i the microscope the tandards on the first ring the first few hours of that he laid aside three of the ten bullets ahd marked them as having {been fired from Clmvbells Spanish- make revolver. The other four guns 1 submitted to him were Smith & Wesson %mmehfly used by the local Police en | T Te was a report from a reliable ,Source today that the type of ammu- fnitlon chosen contributed to the delay completion of the tests. Under an et *between counsel, . §Hamilton, defense ballistics witness, was permitted not only to choose the but also to furnish the cartridges ement is said to have called v g of five shots with smoke- “less power and five with black {1t 18 reported that Col. Goddard found that uuum of smokeless powder the £ ve cartridges contained a semi- £arst trid taf Emkeleu powder, which, like black ;:vdvr, leaves a residue in the gun #barrel. 2 Fouling of several of the guns by the Apowder residue is said to have produced n markings on some of the bullets ACQUITTED REALTOR AND FAMILY ving no relaticn to rifling scratches. In an effert to make the experiment wla fired n-em the respective It was a happy gathering of (he family of Herbert M. Campbell at the Dis. difficult a entl: | trict Supreme Court yesterday after Campbell had been acquitted of the charge of usive n_ court, & varying mummber | murdering Mary Baker. He posed for the photographers with Mrs. Campbell and Edwin Callahan, his —Star Staff Photo. us, instead of ting each the nve guns twice, one or two were but once, others two or three times. % Campbell celebrated Halloween in the pflvu:y of his little home in Vir- Highlands, lurrounded only by fmembers of his f J and a few clcse Mu He reeelv numerous mes- tm wmflmflm from other ds and from several perwm {with whom he was riot acquainted. ‘ ‘Refuses to Admit Callers. ‘When reporters called at his home morning for an interview, i usal to admit the caliers. 250,000 ABYSINNIANS GATHER FOR PICTURESQUE CORONATION Mpyriad of Tents Surround Capital of 6,000~ Year-Old Empire, Where King and Queen Receive Tributes Tomorrow. H g n bothered so much By the Associated Press. 5 newspaper men that we real and get a little rest now. the same time closing the pbell was in a house dress and evidently had just pre- fact for her husband, from had been separated so long mu after a delibera- than three quarters of an jury in the court of Justice Mkm! nme lhorfly after 4 l’l. lofl w be a popul court attaches qulcuy qneued incipient dmonlm on. Verdict Comes Quickly. ‘The verdict dtting Campbell was ced at Ofi‘i’num after 4 o'clock i i gP 28, ! i rii i f N £ ¥ o-! ADDIS ABABA, Abyssinia, November 1.—A quarter million tribesmen cam| today in tents about the walls of A au Ababa, where tomorrow the Amazonian Quoen ssinia and his will be crowned King of Queen of Queens. For days the roads, lanes and cow- of N Africa have led pire. Recently they have swarmed with barefooted, black-faced humanity clad in picturesque white Roman togas, all intent witnessing bestowal _of pon inia’s ancient crown Tafari, who believes himself ant of Solomon and the Sheba, and his Queen. Perhaps never before in the hisf the greatest events of modern all the money in Al ering_here, md many are the flelds, suff slthough near the Equal mate much like that of mounu this afternoon the peror and buxom Empress the innner sanctus Church and lpend m‘mn of Arecl highest church prel taries and ruling pnnm od lowed to witness this ceremx ©. Adkins, presiding the jury reached a verdict?” a court clerk. Reply in Afirmative. " announced a spokesman the veniremen. “What is your verdict?” ot guilty,” came the reply in a wvoice. bell, who had been standing | thin the circle of jurors, was quickly ‘atulated by his attorneys, Charles ry Smith, Lucien Vandoren, and 8. Ward. A bailiff, who had previously issued a ! warning against demonstration, the detail of court attaches in stem- the wave of murmuring, punctu- | ted by eSnculwons such as “PFine.” t.” jury quickly filed out of the room | d the justice left the bench. The | tors forward and pushed the counsel rail to surround the gdefendant and his family. Many of the Sspectators shook hands with Campbell jand the latter pressed toward the de- | jurors and grasped each of | ir hands #nd thanked them as they leftt hrough a side exit. The prisoner, dressed nattily in a sblue suit, laughed and chatted exhuber- itly with his friends and relatives. H Tells Food He Wants. ; Asked to make a statement for the after he had embraced his wife, impbell said: “Now I am free to go home and eook dinn er. You can tell the cock-eyed | 'world we are going to have spaghetti.” Campbell explained this is his favor- | “Do you want your gun back?” Camp- | bell was asked. A e Y.. 1 'Int it back, and I want Col. Qodderd to report Whether he ean | mateh those bullets " The defendant then walked to the jury box and shook hands with the It was 15 minutes after the verdict announced before uw dapper Vir- was gmnwm court followed by a large men and women, many of wom hlnonmemmdnhmn of encouragement. ‘With the flashlights of photographers siers, a crucifix, shepherd's proceed majestically to the where after obeissances befos altar they will take their two golden thrones. Here the supreme event and the week of celebratios to follow occurs. & special coronation ritual plre's ancient tongue, will zling crown of gold an emeralds, l:mpero s bmw q a could not overnight provide facilities for the gath- the | e, Md.ll Ababa, tor, hes a cli- of New York in h&e Autumn because of its nmudn and ous character of the coun- | ot B, George's e enuu ni| of their wronnunn day they will receive communion from the ‘hbishop Cyrillu, coptic who wiil annoint them 'm\lo *|one except the Em Then, preceded by 200 elaborately- robed coptic ecclesiastics, carrying cro- insense lamps, the two sovereigns will coronation hall adjoining the church, Supreme Event of Program. Promptly at 9 a.m. the venerable coptic archbishop, after pronouncing a benediction and reciting , sapphires and rubles on the Kings and gme capital of this 6,000-year-old em- upon Ras lducend- Queen of in the time of mw;yh._ times. But lhepin. in frail Em- will enter ht in the hands elate, will be ony. stafts and | else. newly-bullt re the high places on of the day n which is in the em- lace a dag- diamonds, ‘With the words, “Take this symbol of imperial power and gird this sword on your loins and rule in peace,” the arch- bishop will hand the peror a mag- nificent scepter-like emblem of power, surmounted by a cross and the Lion of Judah and a superb golden sword made in France. It will be the Queen's next. The archbishop will proceed to her throne, about 10 feet distant from that of the Emperor, and taking her by hand, will lead her to the side of her lord and master, where his holiness will place upon her head a glistening high-domed crown which is only less costly and elaborate than that of the Emperor. Addressing their majesties jointly in solemn_tones the archbishop then will “God has annointed you today to rufe with justice, wisdom and modera- tion, may Lord God, the supreme ruler of men, glorify your reign and may He ever keep you in His bosom, On either side of the monarch's throne will sit foreign dukes, princes and ambassadors, resident ministers, Ethiopian princes, members of the cab- inet, the governor of British, Italian and French Somaliland, the British governors of Sudan and Aden. In front of the two sovereigns will sit memben and relatives of the royal family, the highest ruling Ethiopian princes and the Emperor's personal guests. “BLACK EAGLE” IS BANISHED. Emperor of Ethiopia Wrathful Over Wrecking of Plane, ADDIS ABABA, Abyssinia, chbtl' 31 (P).—The Emperor of Ethiopia, Ras ‘afar], has llgedmewmuo(hh ‘Black Eagle"—the one-time Harlemite, “Colonel” Herbert Julian—and ordered him out of the country in disgrace. His majesty's wrath was aroused be- cause Julian took the royal airplane into the air against orders and descended suddenly and unintent! y in a mass almost at the potentate’s feet. “Colonel” Julian was not hurt, but the plane was & wreck, and it was a plane’of which Ras Tafarl was particularly proud. His majesty had obtained the plane from the daughter of Gordon Selfridge, London department store owner, to demonstrate to foregners at the forth- | coming coronation ceremonies that an lmwphn could fly as well as any one Jullln well known among American Negroes for his parachute jumps and his 1ll-fated flights “around the world” and “from Harlem to Liberia,” attrib- uted his accident to spite work and Jealousy on the part of a French air- man. The Frenchman, a captain, until re- cently was head of the Ethiopian air forces. Jullan said the officer did not w:int im to become the “ace of Ethi- op! Up to the very day of his crack-up in the royal airplane Jullan was a daz- zling figure here. The Abyssinians, to whom flying still is a most amazing ac- complishment, were greatly thrilled by ;u.s parachute jumps and his flying eats. rcom, whether he intended to {uAUPe “That reminds me," “Listen, ‘Gus’,” he sald, want to buy a lot." ‘Three or four of them,” responded with a smile, sion promoter. He jokingly remarked he murder case. In sending the jury out, murder in the first degree, ond-degree murder, Justice degree murder or acquittal. tention, spontaneous.” leave in their hands final romise as to the time it for the test, nll examination. reurtnl u tn its on all sides, Campbell walked E nmng‘uxlab and departed for his immediate family. was in the best of humor his the oell the case, report doubt” as to Coddard funtics ‘Adkins explained v!mmn Highlands with | ence mm first md second murder, ‘dvllld the it, on eauklennc the entertained “ the gutlt of ant, the verdict should .be Pis real estate business in the near‘ " he remarked, u\ he turned to his guard, C. Cerimele, a | | d-puty United States marshal. broad as that of the erstwhile subdivi- ald Capt. Edward J. Kelly, assistant ! chief of detectives, in solving the Bush kins announced tgnt the jurors could reach one of three possible verdicts, lhz second degree or not gullty as rged. Disagrees With Counsel. In including a possible verdict of sec- it was the contention of defense coun- sel that the verdict could be only first- “1 will say to you gentlemen of the jury I do not agree with counsel's con- for 1 can concelve how the murder might not have been premedi- tated or intended, but might have been Justice Adklm told the jus to whether completion of Col. God- | dard's ballistics experiment should be awaited. The court spoke in defense or Col. Goddard, to the extent of point- ing out that the expert had made no and the justice mm | out that Goddard was called upon in this instance to examine a total of | 15 bullets instead of 4, as in the origi- e jury gave no indication before wishes regarding the resume “don’t you * the guard equally as intended to Justice Ad- murder in | Adkins said he would lecision as would uxe pointed the differ- BOY’S DEATH ON PIKE HELD UNAVOIDABLE| | Rockville Ambulance Driver Exon- erated by Court on Man- slaughter Charge. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md,, November 1.—The death of Wiilie Nichols, the 9. -old son of Willlam Nichols of near Garrett Park, who was struck by an ambulance on the Rockville Pike a short distance below Montrose Wednesday afternoon as it was responding to an emergency sall, was due to an unavoidable acci- dent, it was decided by Judge Charles W. Woodward in the Police Court here today. James Carlisle, driver of the ambu- lance, was before Judge Woodward on & charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of the boy. ‘The testimony showed that the boy ran immediately from behind an auto- mobile going toward Rockville and in front of the ambulance, proceeding toward Washington, and that the driver of the ambulance did everything within his power to avold striking the boy. Carlisle was al%w found not guilty on & charge of not having a chautfeur’s li- cense, Judge Woodward holding that as he was on an emergency mission and there was no one else available to drive the ambulance, he was justified in driving the conveyance even though he held no card authorizing him to do so. Trade Enlargement Planned. TOKIO, November 1 (#).—A number of suggestions for gradual enlargement of wheat imports by Japan (rom Canada were made yesterday at a conference of Japanese wheat importers with the Jurors uuc evidence in ‘a reasonable the defend- Dot guilty, t-'m dllmflm of the Canadian Cham- It was the Rn'rll lw thn 'm enlarging .of this IBUY-NOW CAMPAIGN GROUP IS ENLARGED Five More Names Added to Committee to Sponsor C. of C. Drive. In expanding its general city-wide committee to include representative ‘Washingtonians from all walks of life, the “buy-now-for-better-business” Cam- paign Committee of the Washington Chamber of Commerce today added five more names to the list comprising the Committee for the Promotion of Prosperity. General Committee now Commissioner Luther H. Reichelder- fer, chairman of the Board of District Commissioners; Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks; Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin, president of George Washington Uni- versity; Rev. W. Coleman Nevils, presi- dent of Georgetown University, and Wil- liam John Eynon, president of the Washington Typothetae, are the new committee members. Radio Talks Planned. Charles W. Darr, former president of this organization and a member of the committee, will outline the purpose and yrl.ncihoxthednveinandbmk wnhlnmn Qas Light Co., broadcast over the same station on the same subject at 7:15 o'clock tonight. Dr. Andrew W. Bird, president of the Federation of Churches of the District, advised chamber headquarters today that a general letter had gone out over his signature to ministers of churches of the city, urging they preach the theme of prosperity from their pulpits tomorrow. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, noti- filed the chamber that the Episcopal Churches of the city will co-operate with sermons to their respective con- gregations on the prosperity drive. 1,000 Posters Prepared. Approximately 1,000 small posters bearing the slogan, “Buy-now-for-bet- ter-business,” in red letters on a yel- low background, have been prepared by the chamber and will be distributed on street cars, buses and at prominent other places throughout the city Mon- day. The Washington Railway & Electric Co. and the Capital Traction Co. cars will ca approximately 300 of the ters, while the General Out- door Advertising Co. has placed & num- ber of display boards at the disposal of fx?\e chamber for the period of the ve, Radio talks have been arranged for each night during the campsign and a list of names has been submitted for the approval of the chamber as a speakers’ committee. Motion picture houses, urvu:e clubs, other representative organizations hnve signified their sympathy with the drive. MAYOR THOMPSON'S CONDITION DECLARED BETTER AT HOSPITAL (Continued From First Page.) tions had arisen, that the temperature and pulse were within the range or- dinarily seen in such cases and that while he was not out of danger he was reacting as well as could be expected under the circumstances. ‘The mayor's first question afier he awoke was about the speech which he had hoped to deliver on behalf of J. Hamilton Lewis, Democratic candidate for Senator, at a political mass meeting yesterday, but which was read to the audience for him. He wanted to know how his speech was recelved, and if any of the papers had printed it. When told that they did not publish the talk he said, “I didn’t they would.” The apeech was a bitter attack on the Chicago Tribune and its present and past publishers, as well as against Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican senatorial candidate. The mayor, & Republican, said he had decided to sup- Eun the Democratic aspirant because e was a wet. Not Always Certain Symptom. ‘The presence of free fluid in the abdomen gave rise to the fear of peritonitis, but this is not always a certain symptom of this complication, Dr. Milton M. Portis, one of three surgeons who attended the stricken mayor, reported. Meanwhile the senatorial rolled on toward its climax next day, with Mrs. McCormick, Jlmes Hamilton Lewis, the Democratic nomi- nee, to whose support the mayor had | turned, and Mrs. Lottie O'Neill, inde- pendent candidate, fighting it out on the Hustings of Chicago. Illinois law provides that mayoralty vacancies of less than a year may be filled by city councils, and this, if neces- sary, would apply in the case of Mayor Thompson, as his present term of office would expire next Am'fl CANNON IMPRDVED | Attending Physician Reports Spread of Arthritis Is Checked. By the Associated Press. L] Bishop James Cannon, of the ir. day was reported to have improved un- \der treatment for arthritis. Dr. R. Lyman Sexton said the spread of the disease had been checked, the bishop’s temperature was “normal and his condition more favorable, —. CUBAN ELECTION FAILS Havana Officials Quit and Voting Places Are Closed. HAVANA, November 1 (#)—The newspaper El Pais said this noon that 35 per cent of the voting places in Havana remained closed due to the resignation of officials appointed to superyise them and that the elections scheduled for today wouid have to be postponed. Cuba was to elect 58 ress- men and 18 members of the elec- toral college, climaxing a political cam- paign of bitterness unequaled in the short history of the island republic. Aithough three parties were repre- sented in the race, Populars, Con- servatives and Liberals, only one, the Liberals, were expected to make any real showing to gain an overwhelming majority. HELD ECONOMIC EMBARGO Hebrews Charge Discrimination in Employing White-Collar Workers. NEW YORK, November 1 (#).—A charge that discrimination against Jews seeking employment as white-collar workers has reached such proportions it has become an “economic embargo,” was voiced before a gathering in the H brew Tabernacle last night by Rabbi J. X. Cohen. Rabbi Cohen is assistant to Dr. !fiephcn 8. Wise, noted minister of the Free m!uu t ane investigator had = L AWXM to 100 uneu- . .vn wouuhl wutold Methodist Episcopal Church South to- | Democrats brought their campaign in Ccok County, I, to a climax with their candidate for the United States Sen- ate, Col. James Hamiiton Lewis, making a speech at the Garrick Theater with the biggest meeting held in the downtown section. mentals of liberty and State rights.” The crowd gave Lewis a great ovation when he said “I oppose the dry law because it violate’s the very funda- ~—Wide World Photo. LENGTH OF HEAT WAVES FIX THEIR PENETRATION INTO BODY Results of Experiments Made by Engdineers Reported to Members of Optical Society of America. By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., November 1—Discoveries that heat penctrates either lightly or deeply into the human body depending on the wave length of the heat rays were reported to the Op- tical Society of America here today. Some heat penetrates like a hypo- dermic without a burning sensation, while other kinds never do more than scratch the surface of the skin like pins. ‘Thus is explained the grateful sen- sation of basking in sunlight—it is a deeply penetrating form of light. Pene- tration comes from extremely hot sources, and shallow heating, which actually feels hotter to the human nerves, emanates from the cooler heat sources: Length Fixes Penetration. ‘These findings came from studies of medical heating apparatus now in com- mercial use to learn the differences in their heating values and were made by W. E. Forsythe and F, L. Christison of the General Electric Co., Cleveland. If & heat wave is much longer than about twice the length of the lo: visible light ray, which is red, they it cannot penetrate far into the body. “Heat energy of wave lengths longer than this,” they stated, “will be partly reflected from the surface and partly absorbed in a very thin layer with the Tesult that the surface tempecrature of the body will be raised. “An interesting illustration is this: If a nickel-plated electric flat iron op- within 3 or 4 inches of the face the radiation from it seems very hot, much more so than the radiation from the sun in Midsummer. Sun More Energetic. Yet the sun's seemingly cooler heat rays are much the more energetic, 107 milliwatts, as against 70 to 80 milliwatts Eer square centimeter from the electric The body, being largely water, they explained, ‘absorbs or rejects and re- flects heat much as water does. Th! explains why water screens are some- times used in front of a heater that is fi:‘\mlng tfl'fim’r‘.m'z The] w-lfi; lets etrating heat wave lengths pass tgm human body, but screens out Lhe uncomfortable ones. A “dark current” which precedes an electric flash in the air was discussed by L. B. Snoddy of the General Electric d | Co. He found that this dark current flows in & fil& between two electrodes for aufew billlonths of a second before light % rs. When the light comes | its 0sity appears simultaneously | throughout the length of the gap. TUNNEY GASE GOES T0 LARGER COURT Change Is Made in Order to Accommodate Crowds Eager to Attend. By the Associated Py NEW YORK, November 1.—The half- million-dollar promoter, was ordered into a larger | court room today for resumption of the | trial Monday to accommodate crowds eager to hear how heavyweight chu.nplom are made. Mara, who alleges Tunney broke a contract to pay him 10 per cent of his purse for the first Dempsey fight and 25 per cent of subsequent earnings, be- gan the story yesterday. He was under cross-examination when court ad- Journed. A number of telegrams and letters passing between Mara and Tunney were introduced. One communication intro- duced by Emory R. Buckner, defense counsel, written by Mara to Tunney on March 4, 1926, when the latter was at Miami Beach, Fla., read, in part: “If you can get around to being on the level with yourself and others who ve your interests at heart, you can still fight Berlenbach in June and Dempsey on Labor day. know if I were you I would run away from social engagements, lay aside the typewriter and golf sticks, sell the dress suit and get back into the game you have picked to follow.” WILL MAKE FIRST TRIP Montreal to Japan Ship Route to Be Inaugurated. MONTREAL, November 1 (#).—A Japanese steamer, the France, will sail from Montreal in November, carrying the first cargo to be shipped direct from Montreal to Jnrln. The cargo will consist largely of grain, but will include general merchandise. The France is expected here within a week from Norfolk, Va. Persistent Bad Luck Pursues Pittman in Senator’s Off Year Senator Key Pittman of Ne- vada, from a in Washington Sanitarium, is claiming the hard- luck championship of the Senate, regardless of what happens at the polls Tuesday. Senator Pm-mnnl only good luck so far this year is the fact that this is not a campaign year for him and he doesn’t have %o Here's & sample of the sort of ‘uck that has been trailing the Nevada legislator His house here was twice dam- aged by fire. His wlle ‘went out to inspect u:u work of nrpenur- repairing Imuu fell down and M ‘!‘h. Senator flew East from & committee hearing to be with his wife and as he was getting out of the plane here stepped on a loose bo‘rd fell and broke a bone in np.‘nmdhllwmwun the sanitarium battle between Gene | Tunney and Timothy J. Mara, sports | RAILPLANTO GIVE Workers to Take Pay Cut in New Arrangement at Cleveland. By the Associated Press. | ,CLEVELAND, November 1.—All em- ployes of the Cleveland Rallways Co., about 2,575, were given notices by the company yesterday of new working ar- | rangements, including wage decreases, the ‘ln order to provide employment for 728 | extra workers and to prevent further decline of the company’s reserve capi- tal. The arrangements are partly the result of suggestions by the employes for employment relief for the extra workers. Terms of the plan provide that each of the 1,775 conductors, motormen and bus drivers will Iay off work five days each month, and increase of one and two-thirds days for each man over their previous average, With other adujustments, the lay- off will represent a loss of about $7 a month to each of these employes. The plan however will provide regular work ror the 728 extra me: In addition to the lay-off or “stagger” lyswm. about 800 other employes will take 10 &el’ cent salary decreases, in- cluding esident Joseph H. Alexander and all other officlals. As their hit toward relieving unemn- ployed, all city employes of ton, ©Ohio, will give 21, per cent of their sal- arles for the next three months to a re- lief fund, it was announced today by the Cl_g:em L'nm:;:loyn:’ex;j1 Committee. e ol ee e contributios will total 81,250 a month, i — OKLAHOMA GUSHER FIRE DANGER CUT TO 36 BLOCKS’ SQUARE (Continued From First Page.) automobile and railroad traffic in the district affected. Workmen in shifts of 30, wearing slowly removing the twisted steel from about the mouth of the well. They were deliberate in their efforts to avold striking sparks as they han- dled the broken strips of the master- gate and other debris. The well has an estimated daily flow of 60,000 barrels of oil and 100,000,000 feet of gas. Eerore nightfall expert oil well tamers hoped to be able to swing new connections into place to cap the well. Residents in the lowlands near the gusher fought a losing battle with fumes and noise and mlny lefl f.heir homes during the night, carryin and other scanty household belonglnll ‘The gusher sent a fine oil spray over homes to its north all night. Abandonment of the road’s depot was planned by omh when it became evident all trains pass ing t.hrw‘h the zone would h.vu w ir fire, and proceed under ac- cumuh!ed steam pressure. Passengers will be taken bul to and from trains stopping outside the area. Cars Rerouted for Halloween. BALTIMORE, November 1 (#).—To give the Halloween celebrants plenty of room, the United n-nwlyl ordered four - car lines rerouted Iast night, so as avold congestion on Baltimore street, Muaulwo“-fivlfi-. =y erating at normal temperature is held | JOBS T0 728 IDLE - helmets and clothed in oilskins, were |(, WAR DEPARTMENT WILL HELP IDLE Soap Manufacturers Report Plan Providing 10,000 With Regular Labor. (Continued From Pirst Page.) tions to each community in which con- struction is to be undertaken under the expanded and expedited program for unemployment relief, ‘The $100,000,000 Treasury program of public bullding construction, which in- cludes all projects under way or to he inttiated before January 1, will be en- larged by pushing ahead during the Winter months the major part of re- pair work on Federal structures waich 18 | ordinarily would be spread over the entire year. Also appropriations will be sought as early as possible from Con- gress for construction of 50 building sites for which no provision has yet been made. The cost of borings and surveys preliminary to calling for constructicn bids on these will be borne by funds now available, so there may be no delay when the builaing ap- propriations become svailable, Work teo Cost Billion. An administration summary of work now under way or soon to be under- taken with Federal funds has de- veloped a total of expenditnures ap- proaching the $1,000,000,000 mark. This covers in addition to public works and naval and military construction, the Government’s loans througn the Shipping Board for constructivn of merchant vessels by many American The White House has set the total of work in these classes now under con- tract at $567,756,000, and the total of contracts to be let as soon as possible at an additional $370,660,000. On top of this there is some $10,000,000 in air- craft contracts for the Army and Navy. The same summary found that the total personnel paid directly by the Government, including the mili establishments and the Civil Service, now numbers 1,033,000, a few thousand higher than the 990,000 pay roll of last January, Repairs to Be Extended. ‘The policy against depression of cur- rent wage levels by holders of Govern- ment contracts, has been held all along by the Treasury, but Secretary Mellon deemed it wise to restate it at this time. He is considering having a clause in- serted in the Government's specifica- tions for building, notifying bidders of the disfavor with which the Treasury will lock “upon any departure by the contractor from the well known policy of the Government to maintain exist- ing rates of wages.” The repair of Federal buildings planned for the next three months will be extended to the ll.mit of funds avail- able for the& On top of the Treuury Building plans the Navy Department yesterday com- pleted a program of construction at its shore stations which will involve an outlay of $14,000,000. This construc- tion involving buildings and the util- ities essential to navy yards and other stations is to be launched during the Winter. i UNDERCOVER WORK IN SENATE OFFICES AIMED AT CASSIDAY (Continued From First Page.) Bureau t up a drive against him, which, «ithough unsuccessful in its first test, resulted, through the co- operation of Sergt. Little, in accom- plishing the result—the conviction of “The Man in the Green Hat. CURTIS 0. K'D AGENT. Approved Stationing of Dry Officer in Senate Building. HUTCHINSON, Kans., November 1 (#).—Vice President Charles Curtis, heye for & Republican rally last night, re- vealed that he approved the auuomns of an undercover prohibition agent in the Senate Office Building at Wash- ington. His disclosure followed & statement in Washington by Dr. James M. Doran, former prohibition director and now commissioner of industrial alcohol, who said he had sent an agent to the build- ing some time ago at the request of au- thorities there. “It is true” the Vice President said, but I do not understand why I should be nked to make a statement about it. lg!nl was employed by the secre- uryo the Senate, u:dhgmclveu:e statement. He simply asked val. and I.approved lt " he understood understand- ing there never was any intention of spying u members of the Senate, but merey '.he -ctmuu of ‘whose the au- thofl on In this wan! %ldgm said, he he e l(enk woul uccessful. of ‘mn 1,175,000 acres of be under the md tr, m] Scotland is td or 390,000 acres. Gets “Teeny Weenie” Exclusively. °°| e Ve b ~2 = THE EVE‘NINg STAR, WASHINGTO! 2 D. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1 LEWIS CLOSING CAMPAIGN FOR SENATE SEAT IBURIS AND anE FETED IN SOFIA Royal Couple Mingle With Revelers—Assassination Attempt Is Denied. By the Assoclated Press. SOFIA, , November 1.— Sofia, celebrating the return of Csar Boris III and his bride, Queen Ioanna, danced the night through in as heart- felt and spontaneous a ulehndvn as the capital has known in maumu The royal couple, haj the plaudits of their subjects, a nd them- selves in the plain clothes of ordinary Bulgarian citizens and, after mldnum. left the palace by its back door mingle with the merry-makers. Mingle With Revelers. They remained outside the lace grounds, dancing and l.lulhln‘ with the crowds for a long and presumably were not recognized by any one. They listened to students serenading in their honor, the students being entirely una- ware that their rulers were prescnt. Police measures were so relaxed for the occasion that children and even adults were allowed to climb the grill of the principal palace gate, a thing which old-timers said they had never of before. Four hundred pflmnm,mpohflul and some criminal, to be unconditionally by special act of royal clemency and the terms and fines of 800 others materially reduced as a sign of favor from the newly-wed King, or Czar, or Tsar, as he is known in Bulgaria. Toanna Is Very Popular. Toanna, if the ovations accorded her at her arrival are any measure of - larity, will share in the esteem her subjects hold for her husband. Sofia probably has rarely known greater re- joicing and celebration than that which atten the welcome yesterday. ‘The jpular demonstrations con- tinued far into the nl{hfi and were resumed today with celel of the feast of St. Ivan Rilsky, patron saint of those whose name is Ivan or its feminine counterpart, Ioanna, which {ovanna now bears. Assassin Attempt Denied. Official quarters denled there was any attempt against the life of Boris as the royal bridal train brought the couple from Bourgas to Sofia night. Such precautions as were taken, it was said, were at the behest of Italian police, who feared a possible anti-Fascist attempt against Ioanna. ‘The only visible police precaution here during the night was the soft- pedaling of such Fascist music as the “Giovinezza” in public resorts. The old Italian standbys, as “O Sole mo" and “Santa Lucia,” were sung all night loa:‘quet-her with the boomi ballads of Ioanna's new home- 18 EARTH SHOCKS HIT ITALY DURING NIGHT Population of Fiastra Thrown Into Panio, but No Damage or Injuries Reported. By the Associated Press. FIASTRA, Italy, November 1.—Eight- een earth shocks were felt here last t and continued intermittently untfl o'clock this mo) ‘The popula« unno!thewmwnlchumrm ta, on the fringe of .the zone shakem earlier this week, was thrown into panic, hu:uso injuries or damage was re- MAN’S WHEREABOUTS FIXED FOR SIX MONTHS George Evans, colored, m!xht hln wandered into a house to take of clothes after “receiving a bb' on tnehud."bnthawumm-mn‘ his whereabouts for the nm six mfi ny. Evans, whose home is at 20 G southwest, was arrested by sixth precinct. Nathan E sv.reet~ told officers that a ’l:un a suit of clothes mu his e. “Judge, you know these men be_telling the truth,” Evans -de police and Gediam had testified. “I wu-tmnkon'.hem-dmmhndq and have been wande: nvund daze-like ever since. kn.;km that suit of elofihn. ! 1-1 OW. “Do you know where you are ml" asked the judge. 51y “%'vufiuh pes stat “Wtell, youll know where m,: ing to be for the next half s year I'm going to give you 180 dul on this charge.” AT ——— CONVICTS SURRENDE& Hide in Mudhole Nine Days e Give Selves Up. /32 LEAVENWORTH, Kans., November 1 (B—After nine days of hl % a mudhole, two Federal peni > victs have exchanged their “HI for ths and berths in 'rhe two prisoners, sunhy Brown, sentenced from Fargo, D., foporob- bing a post office, and Hnrry Siflizan, sentenced at San Francisco for postal n;!‘vg:ry. surrendered themulvel last ni 3 0O Thomas B, White, warden, sald the prisoners had cut their way beneath a cell house nine days ago and clobed the opening with concrete. Prison ties believed the men hiding walls of the penitentiary. solitary Pt ™Y Meet First Time Since ‘Jw,%)?u. ALEXANDRIA, La. November'1 (M. —Gustave Mouton an: k’ delon, young mlaler "huddu- Army of the Confederacy, other yesterday for the first the end of the War Between the- They met here at & regimental re- union. Bordelon is 88 years Mouton 80. They were col yesterday. — b | SENATE POWERS HIT, Treaty Method Foolish With Two- Thirds Rule, Says J. P. Cotton, HAVERFORD, Pa., November 1 (#). ‘Treaty powers of the Sen- ate were critici Much of his address was devoted to the praise of Mh sald “will to international peace mmulumwhm with the international problems. MILWAUKEE, Wis,, November 1 (#), ruling