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Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 No. 31,628, WARDNAN REFUES T0 PRODUCE FIRNS BOOKS AT HEARNG Would Constitute “Unreason- Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, S D. ‘g WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION & WASHINGTON, D. ¢, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1930—FIFTY-SIX PAGES. C. Slaying Suspect Seized able Search,” He Tells Blaine Subcommittee. MAJLEE AND HEWITT TELL OF LAND SALE\CONTRACT Say They Received Down Payment and Installment on Lots Sold in Country Club Park WILLIAM JOSEPH CARNELL. 4860000 LISTED Harry Wardman, for many years the leading figure in the construction field in Washington, today refused to produce before the Blaine Subcommit- tee of the Senate books and records of the Wardman Corporation which had been subject of a Senate subpoena and| | after a brief colloquy with the chair- iy K man of the committee was warned he | Federation of Labor Figures would be recalled later for testimony . Do Not Incude Office Work- and asked to sign a waiver of immunity. ‘This development occurred at the N very outset of the new series of hear- ers or Farm Laborers. ings started this morning by the sub- = committee headed by Senator Blaine, which has been emipowered to continue | By the Associated Press. its investigations of conditions in the| American Federation of Labor esti- real estatesand realty securities flelds | mates today showed 4,860,000 laboring here. * men out of work in November. ardma; repared | This figure was given out by ‘William n:t:?n::nmnh: ::m-wpm“u Green, president of the federation, with the records demanded because he was|® Warning that at the rate of increase advised it would constitute “unreason- | 10F the past month, February would see able search,” the committee turned its | 7-000.000 Jjobless. Neither figure cov- attention to affairs of the Country clu: ered office workers or farm laborers out of work. The estimate was based on reports from unions in 24 cities, checked against statistics of the Department of Mr. Wardman and & number of his| ;op5 ang other employment agencies. associates appeared at the committee Cause for Concern. “An increase in unemployment from rdrman October to November is normal,” said ‘Wardman, tly | Green,” and the change this year has his counsel, Judge Daniel | been about the same as usual. But so tated that he had 10| many were already out of work in Octo- Dot have POS-| per that any increase is cause for con- & Construction Co,, the|cern. Estate Properties, Inc,| *“This year we enter the Winter Real Estate Invest-| months with an unem ent crisis on our hands. We should take this November increase as warning that relief measures must be and the done to hasten the and prevention already Senate, on motion of Senator cy Committee on Em- "=:E:r.r i o tf ‘:d construt xS ticism has been on the contention the help come too late to do any good the Winter when the worst con- Democratic criticism came also from Jouett Shouse, chairman of the party’s Executive Committee, who, while lg.x:l.l- said: “ it ing the Hoover program, not been for his (the President’s) pro- its he now sug- n inaugurated six months The Pa:rlthl of Labor analysis of conditions showed that while the in- crease was general, unemployment was hest in New York, alo, Los An- geles, Birmingham, Philadelphia, De- d | troit, Chicago and Denver. ~Railroad employment showed an increase so did the theaters, but building, metal and printing trades, clothing industries, manufacturing and service industries , & promise that Congress would be informed specifically how the As Senator Blaine sought again to | President proposes to spend $100,000,000 determine just where books of the |or more on public ldings to relieve itions are located at this unemplnymenzc'n ittee. ting the Treasury and Post Of- fice supply bills, Representative Blan- ton, Democrat, Texas, said he d (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) SENATORS TO PASS ON TARIFF APPOINTEES Possible Contents Involve Names of Fletcher, Brossard and Dennis. Debat no longer his former organizations and therefore could not state who had pos- session of their books, with the excep- tion of his own discount corporation the Wardman Corporation, of which he still is the head. By the Assoclated Press. 'xmAn:‘ - with Wardman were ‘The Senate Pinance Committee de- as P. Bones, Meredith M. Daubin, | cided today to examine all six members ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) | Of the new Tariff Commission Saturday. AR N DISCUSS PLAN TO AID The of three members are THomas W. Page, Democrat, Virginia, and John Democratic member of the committee, yesterday & thorough in- Possible contests have involved the 50,000 RAIL WORKERS L. Coulter, Republican, North B the Assciated Pres. A Erossard. wotid bs condcted. Some P. Dennis, 'mocrat, Maryland rrison of Mississippl, a Brossard, Republican, Utah, and Alfred Senate yesterday. 4 Senator Has by Shorter Hours. AS OUT OF WORK SUSPECT ARRESTED, /ADMITS HIS PART INSLAYING OF BUSH Carnell Tells Pittsburgh Po- lice He and Mahoney Killed Bus Magnate. SAYS HE WILL WAIVE EXTRADITION TO DISTRICT Two Others Are Under Indictment as Participants in Robbery and Death of Financier. ‘William Joseph Carnell, indicted as the suspected “trigger man” in the slaying of Louis Bush, wealthy bus line owner, here on October 6, at his home, 353¢ Fulton street, was arrested this morning in Pittsburgh, according to a telegram received by Inspector William 8. Shelby of the Detective Bureau from Pittsburgh authorities, Carnell frankly admitted that he par- ticipated in the robbery, according to Associated Press dispatches this after- noon, and said that he and Frank Ma- honey, under arrest here, killed Bush, but did not say who fired the shot. Carnell, the police wire stated, walve extradition and come to Wash- w to, answer the charge against Detective Sergt. Thomas S. Sweeney of police headquarters early this after- noon left for Pittsburgh to bring Car- nell back to Washington. Sought for Month. Carnell's arrest, after more than a month's search throughout the country, is believed by Washington police to clear one of the most difficult crimes they have been called upon to solve in re- cent years. Mahoney and Donald McKay are under indictment for murder, with Carnell in the case. They were indicted on_November 4. The other two men in the case, Mahoney and McKay, are said by police to_have implicated Carnell in the at- tempted robbery and slaying. Mahoney ‘was arrested October 21, in Pittsburgh, when he and Carnell are alleged to have tflfiltedmahulflnthltcuym flight from the Capital. Carnell eluded the Pittsburgh police at the time of Mahoney's arrest, and has been the object of a Nation-wide search by police ever sicce. Bush was fatally wounded about 1 o'clock on the morning of October 6, by the garage in the rear of his home. He had returned to his home latz from 2 meeting, put his car away, and stepped out of the garage and face-to- face with a gunman, who ordered him to put up his hands and submit A big, strong man, Bush put up & fight. b"seve'nll"shot.l were fired in vestigating cas: w-n was only playing, and had for that reason. ‘Woman Held and Freed. ‘The police gradually followed out th clues in the case, climaxing their in- vestigation with the attempted arrest of ell when he Mahone alighted from a Washington-Los An- les bus at Pittsburgh on the night of tober 20. Mahoney was taken, but the Pittsburgh police missed Carnell. A woman was arrested with Mahoney, but was released a few hours after her ar- rest and her name was withheld by the Pittsburgh authorities. On M: ey’s return, Donald McKay was arrested here. McKay, police say, secured the gun for Carnell. According to the police, Mahoney and McKay were not at the actual scene of the shooting. Carnell, they say, was the man who attempted to rob Bush and who shot him when he found resistance. Carnell's mother, Mrs. Sarah Mar- ret Sullivan, before Mahoney's arrest, alleged to have told police she lieved her son was the slayer of Bush, but had sald nothing about it for fear of what Carnell might do to her, h!(t::mell, police say, has a police record e. The wire notifying police here of the arrest of Carnell was signed by George W. Murran, chief county detective. FIRE RAZES STORE AND MENACES VIENNA Virginia Community's Water Sup- ply Gives Out and Neighbor Towns Aid. Fire early this afternoon destroyed the general merchandise store of Rob- ertt T. Ballard at Vienna and threat- ened the entire' town when the water supply in several private wells gave out. Firemen, however, looking for an additional water supply found one at Salisburk Spring, and the Herndon, McLean and C! e Fire Depart- Dakota, | ments ran a line for a distance of half a mile. The Vienna firemen asked for assistance from the other communities and also sent a call to Alexandria for chemical apparatus, which was dis- pa Several buildings, including an apart- ment near the store, it is said, were endangered because of the lack of water, but it is believedgthat they can names of Henry P, Fletcher of Pennsyl- vania, Republican, chairman; Edgar B. x) Chiefs Ho, Pro- | All six were given recess appointments. 3!‘01.!3! ot Be; b ‘Their flumln:‘flmu were sent to the vide Work for Unemployed CLEVELAND, December 4.—Execu- | Republican members also want to ques- tives of five big railroad brotherhoods | 400 Dennis. be saved as a result of supply being pumped from the spring. GIRL SWIMS ASHORE TO RESCUE PILOT FORCED The other purpose is to pkepare a common fight with railroad operat against the eompetition of motor trucks, pipe lines, waterways and business, ac- cording to David B. Robertson, presi- dent of the Brotherhood of Locomotive | By the Assoclated Press. | CATANIA, Italy, December 4—Miss Spooner, British girl aviator, seeking to make a record flight RO o e boot, sa E. § H i ! 5 i H & g Q. M| gl ; : i t : ; & | & DOWN OFF ITALY Jor| Winifred Spooner Makes Heroic Effort to Save Com- panion in Croydon-Cape Town Flight. It was deserted and she could not find any one, so she walked a short distance to a small railway station, where her mnnnnee startled ral She was exhausted, but ungef their ministrations she was re- vlved'qnwu{ and told them of Ed- SMITH CO. DEFENSE Motion to Suppress Evidence From Trust Company Fails in Court. e ‘The trial of the F. H. Smith Co. con- spiracy case was resumed in District Supreme Court this afternoon after Jus- tice William Hitz had overruled a mo- tion by defense counsel to suppress all of the prosecution’s evidence emanating from the Southern Maryland Trust Co. ‘The ruling came after three Depart- ment of Justice agents had testified that they did not secure any evidence in a raid last January on a storage loft in New York City leading to the indictment of G. Bryan Pitts, C. Elbert Anadale and John H. Edwards, jr., former offi- cers, on’ & charge of conspiracy to em- beazle funds from the company and de- SENATOR ROBERT CAREY Of Wyoming. e IRL TELLS POLIGE in_the had been transferred to his account in the trust company. Former Employe Testifies. Rouse, a former em- ormer Smith Co. official. She also stated that Howard frequently deposited money to the accounts of Pitts and Samuel J. Henry, former president of the company, who was in- dicted with the three present defend- ants, but later granted a separate trial. District Attorney Leo A. Rover was then called to the stand and testified that in May, 1929, Henry told him certain of the company’s records, for which a subpeona had been issued, could not be found. Subsequently, the SR e breal proceedings came at the opening of court this morning. , Jury Is Excused. The point made by the defense in trying to halt the trial was raised sev- eral months ago during the hearing of pleas in abatement to the indictment. The point was not settled, however, the defense being instructed to wait and make their objection to the evidence when it was introduced at the trial of the case, When the point was raised this morning, Justice Hitz excused the jury and proceeded with the taking of testi- mony. Louis Loebl, special agent of the Bu- reau of Invuuf-twn, was called to the stand. He testified that on January 33 last he and another agent, Aaron W. Jacobson, went to the s loft on West Thirty-third street, New York City, and interviewed the renting agent. He said they were taken to the loft by the agent, where the latter intro- duced them to & guard as “fire insur- ance inspection agents.” Loebl said that he and Jacobson made a brief inspection of the loft, and saw about 40 books, some of then relating to the F. H. Smith Investment Co. Ruling Is Awaited. He insisted, however, that neither he nor Jacobson secured any information which was of assistance to them in working up the evidence on which the present indictment was based. On cross examination, the witness sald he thought he had a right to enter the building as a 1 tice agent, but that was the “armed guard.” Agent Jacobson then was called to the stand, his testimony corroborating that given by Loebl. The name of Henry, former j- ident of the Smith company, was drawn _into the case for the sec- (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) RUM ROW IS CUT OFF Soldiers Patrol Beaches and Roads at U. 8.-Mexican Border. ‘TIA JUANA, Lower California, De- cember 4 (#).—Soldiers armed with rifles and sabres today patrolled the ocean shores, highways and lowlands between this city and Ensenada to prevent un- 1 of contraband liquor valued at thousands of dollars, to compose the of a fleet of ships in rum Lower California. SHESHOT ERSEF End Poverty on Houseboat With_Bullet. The faltering lips of & pretty high school girl, who lies in Emergency Hos- pital at death’s door, a rifle bullet embedded beneath her heart, framed for police today the story of a long struggle with poveréy, which, the girl said, she sought to end last night while aboard her father's houseboat on the river behind the Hoover Field hangars. The girl, 16-year-old Virginia Ann Clark, a student at Business High School, told the officers she tried to end her life because she did not have the sort of home which she liked to invite her friends to, because her clothes were shabby and, most espe- ciall, because she Igst $30 only yester- day, which her mother gave her to buy a hat and coat with. Tells Story to Police. te her story to park pol 0 after noon today. Police arrested two men friends of the girl last night, ques- tioned them and released them this aft- ernoon without bringing any charges. She felt very proud and happy, Miss Clark said, when her mother gave her the $30 and told her to go shopping. She came downtown yesterday after- noon, but somehow lost the money from her purse. en the girl returned to the house boat where she lives with her father and mother, both parents were away from home. Mrs. Clark, her daughter said, had been visiting friends in Alex- andria and did not come home until shortly after 9 o’clock last night. Mrs. Clark, Ann said, asked to see the new clothes. “I told her they were in the closet,” Ann said, “and when she went to look for them, I grabbed up my father’s gun.” The girl said she held the muzzle to her breast and fired, but that the gun _slipped downward somewhat as it (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) TARDIEU GETS PAT, ALSO SLAP, IN VOTE Sustained in Proposal for Public Improvements, but Loses Loan Amendment. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, December 4—Tardieu, “the tireless,” as they are beginning to call ‘him, got another pat on the back in the Chamber of Deputies today, when he was' sustained by 64 votes in a vote of confidence on a Socialist proposal to of | increase the huge expenditures for na- = JUDGE OVERRULES CAREY 1S NAMED T00.. COMMITEE McNary Says Vacancy Will Be Left Open—Morrow and Davis Assigned. Benator Robert Carey of Wyoming mwoinnedw« to fill one of the Republican vacancies on the Senaf District Committee. small School, on Thirteenth street, now the [ “From Press to Home Within the H The Star’s carrier system covers every ‘i‘f. block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 114,696 TWO CENTS. — GUNNEN FREE S HEADSOF DISTRET ASHLUN INVITES | WAME FOUR BASES INMATIEWAN RAD] FORFISCAL LEVES Four Employes Overpowered|No Definite Recommenda- * L2 UP) Means Associated Press, and Forced to Accompany Three Armed Men.: LEADER IS RECOGNIZED AS FORMER PATIENT “Mad Butcher,” Sent Up for Slay- ing Two Business Rivals, Is Among Those Released. By the Associated Press. BEACON, N. Y., December 4.—Three men, armed with guns, invaded Matte- wan State Hospital for the Criminal Insane early today, overpowered four employes and liberated six inmates. The leader of the gang was recog- nized as a former inmate by hospital attendants, who sald he was William Nelson of New York. The six who were liberated were: Harry Gordon, 38, Rochester; Frank Danberkeylen, 31, New York; Joseph Kaylor, 35, the Bronx; John 8. Bangill, 22, New York; John Biggins, 30, Brook- lyn; Anthony A. Elloy, 44, Brooklyn. Dr, Raymond F. C. Kieb, superin. tendent, said the three men entered the hospital grounds through the rear yard, where they encountered Patrick Mc- Grath, the night watchman, and com- pelled him to accompany them. Cook Forced to Join Gang. In the kitchen they came upon ford Cooper, night cook, forcing him to them. They continued through the | similar md.ln( w:ufl ‘:he sr‘omm' ';:urxz they picked up Josep unds man. Then they headquarters of the Board of Education. | ha ‘When Senator Carey was 7 years old, his father, Joseph Maul Carey, came to Congress 4s a Delegate from the Ter- ritory of Wyoming and served in that up-cnyw in the House from 1885 to 1890. ¢ a State, Sen- ator Carey’s father was elected to the Senate and came here with the late “1 did not know of my selection to mmmwmgmnmw nounced, dee 1 can committee,’ on ice Committee, which handles legisla- Gpiorse, wese Eiven o Béoator Jemes employes, were ames J. B-m of Pennsylvania and Senator Carey. i Morrow Gets Assignment Senator Dwight Morrow, W of New Jersey was assigned to the Committees_on uue:mn and !Pf.um In Democratic Senators are taki office at this session in places formerly held by Republicans, the Democrats were given additional places on several com- n Banking Currency there were three vacancies. The Republicans ap- pointed Senators Carey and Davis and gave the other to the Democrats. Numerous Vacancies. On Military Affairs there were four vacancies. The Refubumn appointed Senators Carey and Morrow, gave one seat to the Democrats and left one va- cant. On Naval Affairs there were two va- cancies. Senator Davis was appointed to one and the other was given to the ocrats. On Post Offices there were two va- cancies. Senator Morrow was appointed by the blicans and the other ghu e Democrats. Senator y ted to Irrigation and Recla- . There was one each on Commerce and Privileges Elec- tions, which were not filled. Senator Carey, the new member of the District Committee, was born at Cheyenne, Wyo., in 1878. He received the degree of A. B. at Yale University | ing in 1900. He was Governor of Wyoming from 1919 to 1923 and previous to that had served as chai of the State Highway Commission and as of the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Associ- ation. KIN OF JEFFERSON DIES Miss Agnes Randolph Was Found- er of Tuberculosis Service. RICHMOND, Va. December 4 (#).— Miss Agnes Dillon Randolph, 55, found- er of the Outpatient Tuberculosis Serv- ice in died at her home here early today. She was nationally known for her wuberculosis. work, having or- ganized an association in Texas in 1919 that was similar to the one in Virginia. @ great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. Funeral services will be held here tomorrow. Burial will be made Monticello. SOCIETY MATRON REFUSES RIDE TO COURT IN EVANSTON PATROL Reminds Magistrate of Husband’s Gift of Sunshades, but t | that it view of the fact that three new (mad bullets into the body of Morris Klass w.‘v’mfc%flnm king with Klass, acl , worl ‘was shot in the leg. SELLER OF MAGAZINES tions, However, Given Com- mittee Studying Relations. DR. REICHELDERFER LISTS METHODS TO RAISE FUNDS Co-operation Offered ‘Special Group in Determination of Finance Problem. ‘The District Commissioners, called today before the special committee of the House studying the fiscal relations ?1‘:1,” between the Federal and Dis- governments, failed to e definite views on the lubkc?r“. 54 Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, as chair- man of the Board of Commissioners, declared that he and his colleagues had no definite recommendations to make at this time and felt that the relation- ship between the committee and the Commissioners should be one of as~ sistance rather than an attempt to ad- vance any conclusive #heory for a per- manent solution of the fiscal relations question. Dr. Reichelderfer, however, read & prepared statement cn behalf of the “1. The method based on a tax pe. capita comparable to other clfiesp;x pulation. “2. e method based o eral Government contribuf a:h: l':t:l yer. every way in arriving at a 3 and equitable dewmmm ACQUITTED OF INDECENCY | o Jury of 6 Women and 6 Men De- cide Pictures of Partially Un- clothed Figures Not Obscene. A Police Court jury of six women and | to other six men today decided there is nothing indecent or. obscene about the unclothed or nude female res when in a magazine and exonerated Samuel Axelrod, 29 years old, charged with sell+ the magazine in the Gayety The- T, After the trial, Assistant Dis At- torney John R. Fitzpat lu.mmxmed"mt trick was unlikely that other tions. presentative Cramton of his testimony at the oul of the committee’s hnrl;z‘md tinued his defense of the ing sum plan w] he sponsored. At same time he registered his ob]eeg proposals of de fiscal relati partly | States and the ‘Three of these plans specifically cited by Mr. Cramton, who said none is as meritorious as the lump sum contribution under which, he de- clared, the lln.l:efld States is paying they | each paying its own share, and the had no apparent effect on the jury. Fitzpatrick declared that he had almost a _score of publications in his office which he had condemned as unfit to be sold and that none were as risque as the two placed in evidence today. s v i William E. Barton Critically IIl NEW YORK. December 4 ().—Wil- liam E. Barton, minister, autnor and 'l‘.lo:eoln scholar, was in a critical condi- today in Island Coll Hos- pital from pheumonia, Which deve after a heart attack. He is the fal gmnnm Barton, author and advertising (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) 122 KILLED IN QUAKE WHICH ROCKS BURMA Others Injured, Buildings De- stroyed and Scores of Persons Are Homeless. By the Associated Press. RANGOON, Burma, Tecember 4.— ‘Twenty-two persons are known to have been killed and a number of others in- Jured in two earthquakes which rocked Burma during the night. There was much material damage, the Pru district Is Told Police Have Forgotten. By the Associated Press. EVANSTON, I, December 4.—It belong to her anyway, but to a college “Wouldn't ride in it,” she said when ‘mentioned that he would