Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1930, Page 2

NURMI IN FIGHT, - POLICE ARE TOLD Man Reports He Saw Slain Clerk in Quarrel With One of Accused. Reports that Aarvi Nurmi, Census Bureau clerk, had been seen quarreling with & man before he was shot on the lawn of his Takoma Park home Wed- nesda of a neighbor about an hour before his death was bel:w in- vestigated by Montgomery County po- lice Jast night. State's Attorney Robert B. r, jr., meanwhile ordered two men who were with Nurmi the night he was killed charged with man- slaughter. Sergt. Burdine of the Montgomery oounz{l police_sald he received a tip over the uu&hnne yesterday afternoon that a man in Wi d seen a quarrel between Nurmi and one of the two men cl with his death. The details he recelved were meager and he could not say when the quarrel took elux, He said last night, however, hat he intends to request District po- lice to search for the man named. Neighbors Saw Colored Men. Joseph Wise of 111 Grant avenue, & aeighbor of Nurmi's, told Sergt. Bur- dine that & car containing more than two colored men drew up in front of his house as he and his brother, Ed- r. he did not see whether he with manslaughter are Henry W. MoGuire, 20 1400 block of Columbia road, the Census Bureau, and John J. O'Brien, 26 years old, 1400 block in his home the night of his O'Brien New Gun Theory Probed. Sergt. Burdine is seeking to develop the case on the theory that Nurmi was not killed with his own gun, which was found lying beside his body. He said he has heard that McGuire a from which the bullet vered in Nurmi’s skull could have was & .25 caliber pearl. -] le ‘The bullet which killed £ WOMAN ENDS LIFE 8 S ! 1 : i Nurmi's Shoulder Scratched. ht out s right T. Pratt, couhty health he found four liminary hearing in Polic urt. State's Attorney Peter sald he would not + hack_the recently adjourned Mon’ y County grand jury, but that :se would be presented to the grand _ ..y which will convene the third Monday in March. Funeral services were held for Nurml yesterday afternoon at 3 c'clock in the Fort Lincoln Cemetery, with Rev. G. E. Lenski, pastor of the Grace Lutheran Church, officiating. The parents of the dead man attended the funeral. The elder Nurmi is employed as a carpenter in Rochester, N. Y., but ar- rived in Washington Friday with his wife. He probably will return home Monday. ASSOCIATED PRESS AT SPOKANE, WASH., IS SENT TIME BOMB. (Continued Prom First Page.) | proached it to assure himself the fumes BY INHALING GAS Mrs. F. S. Engle, Wife of Geo- detic Survey Captain, Found Dead in Apartment. Mrs. Katherine Engle, 26, wife of Capt. Frank George Engle of the Coast and QGeodetic Survey, committed suicide by inhaling gas in the kitchen- ette of her apartment at 4701 Connec- ticut avenue late yesterday afternoonm. She had been despondent following a nervous breakdown last Summer. | Mrs. Engle's body was found lying ace down on fhe floor before the gas range, & rubber tube in her mouth, | hich spparently had been connected | wl with & jet on the stove, and gas fumes | from two open burners. In dinette adjoining the tiny kitchen of the Engle's pet Kitten, of the fumes. A framed e the body victim also doors leading to fresh air and several | notes nl(nes “Kitty” completed the | picture of a rendezvous with death, | planned in despair. | Found by Elevator Man. | ‘The tragedy was discovered at 4:20 o'clock when a colored elevator opera- tor, Fred Craney, smelled gas as he| stopped his elevator to discharge a pas- | senger on the third floor. The Engle | apartment is on that floor within 10 feet of the elevator and Craney ap- were coming from that quarter. He then summoned Mrs. Rickets, resident | manager of the apartment house, and | with her, opened the Engle apartment. A radlo was lolns full blast. Mrs. Ricketts telephoned Dr. Russell Jon Jansen of 4707 Connecticut avenue, who responded and pronounced Mrs. Engle dead. Dr. Jansen sald he believed she had been dead two hours. News Borne to Husband. | Capt. Engle, who was summoned to the apartment, did not divulge the contents of the notes Mrs. Engle left.| Deputy Coroner Dr. A. M. MacDonald issued a certificate of suicide. Capt. and Mrs. Engle, who was Miss | | Katherine Hood of Athens, Ga., were married in New York in June, 1926. They came to Washington approxi- mately 18 months ago, and since then had made their home at the °""“’°"‘i cut avenue address. Mrs. Engle is sur- i by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hood of Lake Mary, Fla, and three sisters, two of whom are Mrs, T. Philpots and Mrs. Mercer Murray M. of Athens, Ga. bore the return ldflreu.:.oflnf Stone, ttle." set. te at 3:30 o'clock Bomb experts said was powerful machine hmed the central & cle and Spokes- to suspect that inst the As- “but the 80 suspicious that we senders and addresses and found they were faked. 106 Dynamite Sticks. I shook the trunkn . It began to leak sulphuric acid. e express company flzc‘;lhned to take it back immediately. ‘We called police, who advised that it be ksmith. ic:’d '.henlocl, I threw o the lid and & suit case, & battery ‘3’5 & time clock appeared. I yanked the clock out by the roots, then took out the detonating charge which nested among the 106 sticks of dyna- mite. ““There was a card reposing among it said: set to &':0 a.m. Sunday, -time when a bomb apan is to ,000 cases. DOAK 1S FAVORED BY PRESIDENT FOR SECRETARY OF LABOR (Continued From Pirst Page) Mr. Hoover in 1928. He was Republican candidate for the Senate in Virginia in 1924. A. F. OF L. OPPOSES DOAK. ‘The appointment of William N. Doak | a8 Becretary of Labor will be opposed by the American Federation of Labor, it was indicated by officials of the | federation last night. The federation's executive council is retary of Labor should be selected from among the ranks of the federation. The organization claims credit for | the legislation creating the Departmen of Labor. Following the enactment of | this legislation the first Secretary, Wil- liam B. Wilson, was selected from the: American Federation of Labor. The second Secretary, James J. Davis, was taken from the American Federation of Labor. 8o far there has been no Sec- retary of Labor who has been taken t | from outside the ranks of the federa- | tion. Doak of the Brotherhood o{! {lway Trainmen bel to ome of | the four transportation brotherhoods ‘which are not a ted with the Ameri- | can Federation of Labor, and on this account, the federation influence is op- posed to Doak. pressed into the crevices around the = Upper left, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew G. Nurmi, parents of the slain Census clerk, rvi Nurmi, below. Center, left to right, John J. O’Brien and Henry W. McGuire, held on a charge of manslaughter in connection with Nurmi's death. —Star Staff Photo. GOTHAM FORCES UNITED IN WAR ON GANGSTERS RACKET (Continued From First Page.) in their small coupe as they were about to meet & bootlegger from whom they expected to collect the extortion money. Barth was 31 and an ex-convict. Goebel was 35. They were regarded by police as two of the most reckless and daring criminals in the city. Their self confidence, police said, was so great that they bogan to disregard gang affll- iations and ran with whatever mob was enjoying prosperity at the moment. They were known to have been suspected by former members of the Cuckoo gang of having been implicated in a machine gun attack on a Cuckoo distillery near Valmeyer, Ills., last October 2, in which two gangsters were killed, CAPONE TAX PROBED. Dry and Immigration Inspectors Used in Campaign. By the Associated Pre The income enjoyed by Al Capone, 8s well as revenues accruing to his recognized henchmen and enemles, were under the eyes of Federal tax investigators yesterday as part of the Government's drive to break up gang- ster activities in Chicago. At the same time a strengthening of the dry forces in the Chicago terri~ tory was made known by Prohibition Director Woodcock and immigration officials delineated their plan to employ the immigration laws against alien gangsters. Force Extended to Limit. ‘Woodcock sald he had authorized ex- tension of the Chicago dry force to its full limit, allowing addition of at least 10 men. He sald he also had ordered replacements for the posts left open when the Prohibition Bureau's star agent in that territory, Alexander G. Jamie, and his assistant were loaned to the Citizens’ Law Enforcement Com- mittee there, The prohibition director promised that if his Erc.mll for adding 500 dry agents to h 1s approved by Con- gress, the Chicago force would be in- creased by at least one-third and prob- ably more. He added he had issued orders for the fullest. co-operation with other Government anti-gangster drive. Agenis Are Co-operating. The decision to ‘push the investiga- tion into Al Capone's income was re- vealed today by Elmer L. Irey, chief of the Intelligence Division of the Internal Revenue Bureau. It was begun last Summer. Irey declined to say, bowever, what evidence had hbeen obtained against the gangster chieftain. At the Department of Justice it was disclosed that agents sent to Chicago were uniting with the Internal Revenue men in gangster cases despite the usual Drg‘c:luurte :gl ‘:‘}mhn'},fll:n[. umwn until sufficien ce itute prose- cution had been turned over to them. procedure the Intelli- i ':'he ‘}nurnnmnmenue vestigal all cases there 18 8 suspicion of jury indictments often wl Grand agencles in their | NATION WL WATCH F.H. SMITH CO. TRIAL Major Interest Seen in Case Involving Three Ex-Officers Set for Tomorrow. After months of maneuvering, the has been cleared for the trial e District Supreme Court tomor- Tow of three former officers of the F H. 8mith Co., charged with con- spiracy to embezzle $5,000,000 of the any's funds and to destroy al- ly incriminating records. defendants will be G. Bryan Pitts, former chairman of the Smith company board of directors; John H. Edwards, jr., former vice president, and C, Elbert Anadale, at one time secretary of the “company. Samuel .J. Henry, formerly president of the concern, was indicted with the others, but has been granted a severance. Defense Counsel Imposing. ‘That the charge will be bitterly and skillfully contested is indicated by the imposing array of counsel retained for the defense. They include the Jocal firm of Wilton J. Lambert, Rudolph ‘Yeatman and George D. Horning, )r., and Frank G. Raichle and Edmund Toland of the New York firm of 1)on- ovan & Raichle, Willlam J. Donovan, Raichle's associate, was formerly As- sistant Attorney General in charge of criminal prosecutions, The grusecuuon of the case will be in the hands of Nugent Dodds, special assistant to the Attorney General, and Neil Burl haw, assistant United States attorney. They will be assisted by a number of agents loaned to Mr. Dodds by J. Hoover, chief of the Bureau of Investigation of the De- partment of Justice. Subpoenas for witnesses on both sides have gone out, but the lists are being carefully guardsd. The Government has released a partial list containing 57 names, but it is known that a num- ber of other witnesses will be called, including several recognized leaders in national financial circles. A truckload of documents to be used as evidence was taken to the court house yesterday, and in all probability even more material of this nature will be used before the trial is concluded. Arrangements Made for Crowds. The trial will be held in Criminal Division 2, before Justice Willlam Hitz. Special arrangements have been made to chre for the crowds expected to at- d. The towering financial structure buflt up by the Smith company began to crumble in May, 1929, when Pitts and Anadale were indicted for perjury in connection with testimony given at a bankruptcy hearing involving the Ham- ilton Hotel. The Bureau of Investigation con- tinued its probe of Smith company affairs, and in December, 1929, an in- dictment charging use of the mails to defraud was returnd against Pitts, Henry, Anadale, Edwards, Representa- tive Frederick N. Zihiman ot Mary- land, Danlel R, Crissinger, former controller of the currcncy, and H. C. Maddux of the Maddux Hotels, Inc. i . In April, 1830, an indictment was re- | turned against Pitts alone, chargin him with embezzsling more than $1,000, 000 of the company's funds. A fe days later the District grand jus turned th: indictment which “will be tried beginning tomorrow. Entire Nation Interested. ‘The eyes of the entire Nation are centered on the trial, as the Smith compeny had financed buildings in Washirgton, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Albany, and had sold its bonds and preferred stock throughout the world. The Smith company had issued and sold $7,500,000 worth of preferred stock, but this sum is relatively small when compared with the total of bonds out- standing on properties it had financed. As a result of the charges brought against the company, the market value of these securities collapsed and in many cases they are now practically worthless. The first hint of criminal proceedings against the Smith Co. officers was the signal for the launching of civil suits in widely scattered jurisdictions, but centering principally in Wilmington, Dela., birthplace of the corporation. the “protection” holders and a petition for dissolution of the company is now pending in the courts of Delaware. The courts have been variously asked to cancel the common or voting stock, to appoint receivers for individual properties and for the company as & whole and to grant injunctions restraining the offi- Lcers from performing various acts. financial house, which once boasted that its investors had “never suffered & loss in 57 years,” has now several interest and dividend payments, with several of its former offcers openly stating that they are “broke.” U. 8. Prepares Outside Case. its evidence, the De- partment of Justice worked up what is known as an “outside” case. That is, all of the material which will be used against the defendants was ob- tained from individuals and sources outside the company. Mr. Dodds, who was in direct charge of the investigation, is a graduate of the University of Michigan and has acted as special prosecutor in Michi- gan. He m prosecuted with much success important bank cases on the Pacific Coast, in the Middle West and in the South. In 1928 he successfully prosecuted charges of misconduct against officers of the Kansas City Joint Land Bank. Mr. Dodds has been assisted through- out the entire investigation and prose- cution by agents from the Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Mr. Hoover. First among these was Louis Loeble, known as one of the bureau's “ace” investigators. Loeble was born in Hun- gary and is a member of the bar there. He speaks half a dozen langu fluently. He was recently a special in- vestigator for the House Judiciary Com- mittee, detailed to New York City for work in the investigation of Federal Judge Francis Winslow. Charles T. Malone, another agent and certified public accountant, hes fig- ured prominently in the preparation of the case. Malone served in the World War as & member of the famous La- fayeite Escadrille. E. T. Armbruster, an experienced agent and accountant, has figured in numerous cases in the United Stater O?ulrt of Claims, and will testify in the trial. ‘The fourth agent is Aaron W. Jacob- son, who took part in the recent Fed- eral investigation of a bankruptcy ring in New York City, which resulted in the disbarment of several prominent lawyers. He has been working on the g:l;;lh case In close association with e. Valet May Testify. | Probably one of the most sensational aspects of the trial will be the testi- mony from several men who were closely associated with Pitts while he was with the Smith Co. Among these will be Anthony Senes, formerly Pitts' personal bodyguard, and Joe Howard, colored valet, who was arrested as a material witness while hiding in the Florida Everglades. Both are expected to testify concerning the destruction of records. 1s0 Tepeal that He would testify for the Gov- ernment, but no confirmation of this was forthcoming, either from the De- r:rt.mmt of Justice or Henry. The tter, however, has expressed himself as willing to “do all in his power to hich right whatever wrongs may have been ‘The Indictment is in four counts, and o] Various committees were formed for of bond and stock | l 'Top row, the three defendants, left to right, John H. Edwards, jr.; G. Bryan Pitts and C. E. Anadale. Lower row, the attorneys in the case. Left to right, Nugent Dodds, chief ,ru- ecutor; Wilton J. Lambert, chief de- fense counsel: Frank G. Raichle, as- sistant defense attorney, and Neil Burkinshaw, assistant prosecutor. Below: A truckload of records in the case, which were delivered to the Distriet Supreme Court yesterday for use in the trial. LK RAGKE CASE FOR CRAND IR | Facts to Be Presented When Trio Appear to Answer Food Ruin Charge. District Attorney Leo A. Rover stated | yesterday be would present to the grand jury Monday the case involving three men held for pouring poisonous mate- rials over two wagonloads of milk. The men are Harry Maynard Roth- geb, dairy deliveryman and recording secretary of the Milk Drivers and Dairy Employes’ Local Union, No. 246; Elmer Carr Rayford, a business agent of th: ‘Taxicab Drivers' Union, and Richard Conte, a taxicab driver. It was incorrectly stated in The Star yesterday that one of the men held in the case was John C. Croson of ‘Thompson’s Dairy. Croson, the driver of one of the milk wagons, was in no way connected with the ruining of the milk. Croson reported the case to the police and it was information he and the other driver gave to the police that furnished the first leads in their investigation of the case. The Star sin- cerely regrets the error. Rothgeb, Rayford and Conte have confessed, according to police, to pour- ing a disinfectant on top the bottles of milk in an endeavor to force two drivers of two local dairies into a milk drivers’ union. The men now are awaiting a prelim- inary hearing on charges of throw- ing poison on food, and their cases had already been set for December 5 in Police Court. In announcing his intent, the district attorney said in a statement: “After carefully reviewing the evi- dence gathered by the Police Depart- ment in the case of the three persons who are alleged to have poured & polsonous substance over the product of a local dairy, I have decided to pre- sent the case to the grand jury Mon- day, November 24, and will ask for an indictment for a violation of section 848 of the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia, charging an attempt to injure or destroy the property of an- other of the viiue of more than $35, carrying with it the possible penalty of not less than one year and not more than 10 years. If an indictment is re- turned by the grand jury the court will be asked to set the case for trial at the earliest practicable date. Assistant United States Attorney William H. Col- anu will be in charge of the prosecu- on.” —— alleges & conspiracy to commit 95 acts of embezzlements and 5 ineidents of , destruction of records. Government Witnesses. A partial list of Government wit- nesses follows: Commercial National Bank, Murray T. Malone, Thedore L. Weed, Gerald R. Trimble, Isadore Brill, Lewis E. ‘Thomas, Edwin L. Pearce, John 8. War- rington, John F. Whaley, Clyde F. Miller, Paul J. Dundon, J. Maynard Magruder, Pearce P. Smith, Esther G. Feldman, Ada Leopold, Ellen C. Dow- ling, Charles E. Bishop, William Frank ‘Thyson, Richard A. Davis, Mrs. Anna W. Mackie, Joseph Howard, John 8. Farquhar, James R. Mathews, James Rucker Porter, Le Roy Mann, Mrs. Es- telle Ross, Charles Wolf, Hubert T. Plaster, Arthur L. Phillips, Mrs. Verona D. Rouse, Henry A. Glovanetti, Arthur N. Chapman, Jmes Albert Bundy, An- thony Senes, Merchants' Bank & Trust o National Bank, Liberty Na- tional Bank, Merchants' National Bank, ton; Federal-American’ National Bank, Liberty Bank of Buffalo, Guaranty Co. of New York, Washington Mechanics’ Savings Bank, Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, James H. BroWn, Kathleen Conlon, John W. Hurley, Charles F. Marvin, Phillip A. Jenkins, Ross Phipps, jr.; Helen L. Schneider, A. Manning Hill Trust Co.. E. J. Armbruster, Charles ( Boston; Natlonal Rockland Bank, Bos- | me! 15DEAD, TMISSING | AS STORMS SUBSIDE &= Searches in Snow Go On as Sun Replaces Clouds in Western Area. By the Associated Press. DENVER, November 22.—Fifteen lives have been claimed and seven persons still were unaccounted for tonight as frigid Winter gave way to sunny skies in western United States. The five-day storm caused deaths in seven States. Colorado, California and New Mexico led the fatality list with three victims each. The dead are: Luciano Costilio, Guy Miner and Moses Salsgrom, who were frozen to death in tne mountains of New Mexico. F. G. Evans, Mrs. Ed Robertson and Howard Rhodes, claimed by the storm in Colorado. Plane Falls in Snowstorm. Flavius A. Donaldson, George Rogers and Miss Jean Markow, killed when a Pacific Coast airmail plane crashed in | the snowstorm in California. Red Horse, an Indian, frozen to death in Arizona. | A. C. Galloway and the infant of Mrs, Charles Moffatt, dead in South Dakota. i R. 8. Byers, Nevada's storm victim. Dr. H. L. Harp, who lost his life in El Paso, Texas. Wwilliam C. Godfrey, forest ranger in Oregon, first death attributed to the storm. Search still was under way in New Mexico for Joe Norton, who is not ex- pected to be found alive; James Tilford and Willlam Blaine. All were lost in mountainous country. A 13-year-old Japanese schoolboy was reported lost near Lajunta, Colo., and no trace has been found of D. J. Bird, who was caught in a snowstorm 45 miles south of Winslow, Ariz. ‘Two brothers, Oscar Burgess of Engle- wood, Colo, and Henry Burgess of Woodland Park, were reported missin, in the Mount Herman “burn” west of Monument, Colo. They went into the district to ecut wood lesday and are believed prisoners behind a 10-foot drift. In all parts of the West warm, sunny weather prevailed today, snow was melt- ing and transportation of all kinds re- stored to normal schedules. News of the additional deaths were brought in two centers of population as outlying roads were opened. ‘Widespread checks by authorities in all States resulted in the belief that all storm casualties had been accounted for with the exception of the seven still | missing. CLOSE HOUSE VOTE MIGHT FORCE CHANGE OF REAPPORTIONMENT (Continued From First Page.) which are to lose have 210 seats, and the “neutral” States which neither gain nor lose have 74 seats. ‘The States losing Representatives outnumber in membership in the pres- ent Congress by 59 those gaining rep- resentation under the new apportion- ment. But the combined strength of the gaining States and of the neutral States would exceed that of the losing States by 15. On the other hand, if more than 15 mbers of the neutral Lofln the 210 members of the tates such a combination would possible some kind of legislation overthrow the new apportionment the substitution of & law increasin membership of the House from 435 to State from loss, at the same time pre- the | if he contifiued to UNREST REPORTED SEETHING N CUBA Manifesto Made Public Key West Says People Are in Revolt. in By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fia, November 22.—Dis- patches reaching here from Cuba assert that the political unrest in the island is seething beneath a quiet surface and that a crisis is near. The university student leaders in the disturbances which have caused Ha- vana to be placed under martial law refused to arbitrate. Senator Alberto Barreras, who re- RULE WOULD BAR SOVIET PRODUCTS Treasury Officials Refer Draft to Customs Bureau for Modification. (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) muld, and without specific discrimina- President Hoover declared last mer that the adm| against any It was considered le that any ruling such as drafted in the Treasury would be promulgated finally without presidential approval. Before that {t must receive Mr. Mellon’s ap- proval. If such a regulation should emerge from the present deliberations in the ‘Treasury 1t would place the United States alongside five other powers— France, Belgium, Austria, Rumania and Hungary—which have put restrictions on Soviet imports. In each of the other cases the restrictions were an extension of & Perm!c system to require a special permit for the importation of viet In each instance, according to unofi- cial information received in Washing- ton, the Bovlet“rmmptly retaliated under & Moscow edict ordering cancel- lation of purchases in the countries which impose ‘“diseriminatory restric- tions” on Russian lmgom France and Belglum were the last to take the step, Government quarters say. With the balance against them in trade relations with Russia, they undertook to hold down Soviet imports to & level with do- mestic e: to Russia. Within 24 hours, it 18 said, Belgium nickel pro- ducers lost an. order amounting to $2,000,000. Five to One in Favor of U. 8. In the case of the United States the trade balance is more than five to one in favor of this country. ‘Theé fact that this ernment may be unwilling to risk Soviet cessation of American purchases éut now and Soviet default of $35,000,000 in newly acquired American commercial obliga~ dlons was advanced in certain official uarters today as one reason for slowly about excluding Russian ucts. The Soviet government assumes no responsibility for Amtorg dealings, al- mmh it 18 tha direct beneficiary of em. ‘The situation has developed consider- able ggitation beneath the surface, in :hl?;n' menhtm o{' Amerlnn‘n flrmll uy! ussian products are in opposi- tion to lawyers of the American ducers of pulpwood, manganese, an - cite coal and other products who are Rgainet what they eall “ovir 0 against what call “Soviet dump- ing” in the United States. administration is between two fires in & sense, and from all indica- tions is undecided about following the five other powers which have resorted to s restrictions against Soviet | produets. Imporiers Insist on Warning. If the d regulation should go substani cently was appointed to mediate be-| tween the students and the government, has abandoned his task as hopeless and the government now has faith to & new negotiator, Dr. A. A. who 18 & member of the National l!ll;ll:;mty taculty and has great popu- arity. MANIFESTO CHARGES REVOLT. People Against “Tyrant” Machado, Says Document in Key West. KEY WEST, Fla, November 22 (). —Dr. Adolfo E. De Aragon, Cuban rep- resentative of the Key West Cuban Olub, today made public & manifesto his ce by Col. Carolos Mendieta, hme Nationalist party of Cuba. xpressed the view “'wdnh ‘y' that u; ::'xy "el:n% a considerable U easury regula- M%fldwnmwxmmwnm controlling im) from Russia. They said it would have to be drawn in such ;’ way, yho‘:lv!g. thn{ it would appear appl; ports from any souroe, although directed actually Ayc Soviet ““There exists,” says the manifesto, “s | producta. state of revolution in Cuba, proof of the protest and rebellion of the people .lla‘ldm' the political tyrant, Gen. Ma- chado.” DOOTOR KILLS SELF WHILE DRIVING CAR IN CROWDED TRAFFIC (Continued From First Page.) Sergt. Larry O'Dea, but was unable to ive any motive for the suicide. He e had talked with Buehler about 6:45 o'clock in the evening, and Buehler had indicated then his intention of visiting a friend. Wade did not know the friend’s name, ‘Witnesses See Crash. No one could be found in the crowds cn upper Fourteenth street who heard the shot. Gotthold told lice that while waiting for the c light to chanj at Fourteenth and onroe streets, he heard what sounded like an explosion, but thought several children who just erossed the street had & small torpedo of the Fourth of July variety. ‘Thomas Nesbit of 611 Morton place northeast, & messenger boy, and an eye- witness to the crash of the two cars, de- clared he did not hear an explosion of any kind. He sald he saw Buehlel car driftics through the traffic just fore it collided with Gotthold's machine. Police sald Buehler came to Wt ton from Johnstown, Pa., several years -!;7.1 :n attend George Washington Uni- versity. Police Find Love Poem. | Police on searching the Buehler apart- ' ment found on & desk a love poem sald to have been written by Buehler a few | days ago. Dr. Buehler, police were told, severed | his connectio; ith George Washing- ton University last week and expressed | his intentions of returning to Philadel- | phia, where he held a ition as elty chemist in 1924. He WAS & pro- fessor at the Philadelphia College of Operative Pharmacy and Science for several years. His mother, Mrs. Rose Buehler, of Elisa- bethville, Pa.. was notified of his death last night. His father, Dr. Willlam 8. Buehler, was said to have been political- ly prominent in Pennsylvanis up until his death a few years ago. Was City Chemist. Dr. Buehler, as city chemist in Phila- delphia, received considerable newspaj publicity in 1824 in connection h u;zunr cases in courts. Alt 't’h‘:,t time, after appearing as an analyst in many cases in which liquor had been seized by police, he was threatened with ar- rest if he carried into action his in- tention to leave P! lelphia. In June, 1924, he declared he would appear in no more liquor hea: told th % accept an official post in & ern city and that he had been issued for him subpoenas. Rumahia’s new stamp, bearifg King cml’-‘ud instead 3’&-: of th the gains made by certain States ::r:“i‘emlt of the recent census. S R It has already been established to the satisfaction of thes: officials, whom Mr. Lowman is 3 at importers of Russian lumber could not E;ov: that it was not produced in part convict labor. One of the dlm::urv..tu Mr. Lowman ran into last Summer was inability to prove that narticular cargoes which he had embargoed in- cnluded e?n"vll'ct-mldle matertals. ew regulation would aim to put shoe on the other foot. el Demoralise Market. mauudremx%rmmtdhe tests coming e Treasury against e an Rl “ dumping” or demoralizing the American market. Aside from this and similar considera- tions, the position of the United States Government as to commercial relations, a8 stated in 1928 by the then Secretary of State, Frank B. Kellogg, was that the United States would “place no ob- stacles in the way of the development of trade and commerce between the glg' ?zl':r.x‘l:k- it being u{;denwod that v or corporations availing themselves of the opportunity to engage in such trade do 8o upon their own responsibility and at their own risk.” At the same time the State ment issues visas readily to Russian nationals, even if associated with the Soviet regime, Emvidnd that the real W of their visit to the United tal is in the interest of trade and the bolshevik e. While the Treasury authorities are struggling with the problem, Senator ‘Tasker L. Oddie has served notice of intention to introduce legislation in the forthcoming session of Cony spe- cifically to exclude imports of Russian Fish, man of the House Committee Investi- Communist Activities in the is el’?c'tfl to intro- duce somewhat similar legislation, which also will directed at controlling such activities in this country. ILLINOISANS FAVOR VOTE FOR CAPITAL Petition of Bociety of Master Painters and Decorators Ask Congress Action. ‘The Illinois State Council of the In- ternational Soclety of Master Painters d itors has stron, indorsed for the District of Columbia, and tioned Congress to adopt the pend- resolution proposing a constitu- tional amendment on the inatter. ‘The resolution adopted by the coun- cil has been received by Jesse C. Suter, vice chairman of the Citizens’ Joint Committee on National itation, lmmmul T. Hatch of retary. Luray Pastor Resigns. LURAY, Va, November 23 (w.ohl). —The resignation of Rev. C. W. Oas= sell, a well-known historian ‘and pastor of Bt Mars Lutheran Church here or e ' ity e T B0 et r 31, made public &s to his future. - The . 4