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WEATHER. . (U. B Weather Bureau Forecast.) ‘Mostly cloudy occasional rain; ture. ,mwm—mthuk lowest, 28, at day. Full report on page No. 1,346—No. WICKERSHAM DRAFT DESCRIBED AS DRY |, INOFFIEAL CRELES| Report Said to Contain No Recommendation for Beer or Wine, BUFFICIENT TRIAL HELD LACKING BY MEMBERS 31,659, Bresident Hoover Not to Receive Bulky Document .Before End of Week. By the Associated Press. The long-awaited prohibition report ©of the Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission was described yesterday in bigh official quarters as predominatingly @y, with & majority of the members :::dln‘ little to anti-prohibition From an official in & position to be #ily cognizant of the commission's ac- @ivities came this analysis: A tentative report, agreeable to more #han a majority of the 11 commission- s, has been completed. In it is no x dation for beer or wine. ther does it urge any other major tion of the Volstead act de- Bigned to relax the enfofcement struc- fure built up around the 11-year-old dry laws. Repeal or modification of jhe eighteenth amendment did not en- the picture. In effect, the view taken by a ma- gty of the members was said to be t prohibition as such has not yet had a sufficient trial. It was this stand was based upon facts re- eual uncovered showing that enforce- ment of the dry law during at least of the past decade has been rid- by politics and surrounded at $imes by graft. “No Pussyfooting.” The statement was made emphati- feally that in the final report to Presi- dent vacr there will be “no pussy- footing™ conditions as the lon hu found them during the most extensive investigation ever made into prohibition, extending over more than 19 months of deliberation and re- search. Corruption _and lnh. lax enforce- ment and crime resulting directly or indirectly from the dry law, it was said, will be m forth llannldl the reasons why it is believed these problems can be_solved. Despite the vml completion of the authoritative word came that today -ndmmv' little change in tem- 54, at 1 pm. 'l_lum. yester- Entered as second class mthr post office, Washington, C. he WASHINGTON, TRADE WIND COMES BACK AFTER MISSING BERMUDA n Sextant and Shift in Wmds Throw Ship Off Course. HOP AGAIN MONDAY Transatlantic Flight Fails but Craft Lands at Hampton Roads. BY WILLIAM S. MacLAREN, Navigator of un Seaplane Trade Wind. HAMPTON ADS Vl Jnn\mry 3 () —A shift ln the wind knocked us off our mark and Mrs. H&l’t and I missed Bermuda today. The only course left was to return home. We hit Norfolk on the nose coming back. We got a bad break on the take-off at New York in our transatlantic adventure— | the telescope fell off the sextant just as | we soared off the ground. We're gomg; fix it tomorrow and take off aga! Monday. Mrs. Hllrt and I talked it over and decided to keep on going and hope for e best. There were three steamers in u.r path Bermuda—the Pan- America, the Bermuda and the Veen- dam. As we progressed southeastward, we passed over each of them. l.‘very. thing went fine, Visibility was good and it looked as if we would make i, tele- scope or no telescope. Then a second puce ot m-luck came. It was a shift in ‘Too, our WILLIAM S. MACLAREN. ceiling was fairly low, and composed of mist. Thus we could not fly high enough to spot the island from a great distance and have peifect visibility at the same time. It was hard to guess, but we did the best we could at gaug- ing the drift and making allowances on the compass point, After about five hours we knew we had made the 650 miles between New York and Hamilton but we did not sight land. ‘We decided to cruise as long as we dared and then streak for home. This we did, and none too soon, for we hs (Continued on Page 2, Column 4 THREAT OF STRIFE ON MANY ISSUES AWAITS CONGRESS Administration Leaders In- tent Upon Avoiding Special Session, if Possible. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Congress reassembies in Washington tomorrow with a tough two months ahead of it. Administration leaders are intent upon avoiding a special session of the new Congress in the Spring. They are laying their plans to whip the regular annual appropriation bills through as speedily as possible and to give the right of way also to any relief measures that may come up. The first of these relief measures may be taken up in the House tomorrow—a bill appropriating $45,000,000 to ald in the drought-stricken areas of the coun- bulky docu- not only a majority also each his or her concur- ring as well as nting views with the solution 0( the dry law problem presented At least one of these opinions, was asserted, will be longer than the repo't itself. Work still being done upon some of these individual docu- ments was given as one cause for the delay. Then, too, the commission will ot meet again until the middle of next wk for a final consideration of the Tepo: osibility of changes in the tenta tive report was held not unlikely. though a majority was said to be com: pictely committed to a dry stand. Within the completed document, it was intimated from various sources, there will be revived not only the much controverted subject of grape con- centrates, easily converted into wine, but possibly also the question of a Nation-wide referendum on prohibition. Deny 'Relaxation Report. An authoritative denial was given to feports that the commission would recommend a relaxation of the Volstead act in order to give full legality to the sale of fruit juices intended for the manufacture of wine in the home. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, for- mer Assistant Attorney General in charge of prohibition and now counsel for a grape concentrate concern, was said to have brought some form of state- ment concerning this product before more than one of the commissioners, and othcr grape concentrate interests filed & brief with the commission itself. Reports have been circulated that William Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, has requested the commission to approve 2.75 beer, but had met with little favorable re- wsction. MANY LIVES ARE LOST IN PORTUGUESE RAINS Worst Downpours in 75 Years De- stroy Homes; Swollen Rivers f Sweep Away Bridges. By the Associated Press. LISBON, Portugal, January 3.—Tor- rential rainstorms, the worst in 75 years, swept Portugal today, costing many lives and driving hundreds from flooded homes. The agricultural region near Leiria tonight presented a picture of desolation and misery. Hungry men, women and children, fleeing before the invasion of the waters, trudged through mud, push- ing wheelbarrows and carts piled high try. It supplies the necessary funds au- thorized' by the drought relief bill pass- ed before the Christmas holiday began. During the recess the House Appropria- | C! tions Committee, headed by Representa- tive Will R. Wood, has been working on the appropriation bill. The House Appropriations Commit- tee has ready also the War Department appropriation bill and if the drought relief measure is not taken up Mon- day, that measure is likely to be given the right of way. Senate Faces Controversies. In the Senate wing of the Capitol, however, many controversial subjects await debate, if not action. It is there- fore to the Senate that the eyes of the administartion leaders are anxious- ly turned on the eve of the reconvening of Congress. Threats continued yesterday to seek reoonsidennon of the nominations of Dr. George Otis Smith, chairman of the new Federal Power Commission, and two of his colleagues who declared “va- cant” the three principal positions un- der the power commission and thereby aroused the wrath of some of the pro- gressive Senators who favor the reten- tion of two of these officlals and the elimination of a third. Senator Brook- hart of Iowa was still planning for mo- tions to reconsider these nominations, lltbough he admitted that the invita- tion to these former officials to file ap- plications for their old jobs might mve some bearing on what is done. Senator Couzens of Michigan, chair- man of the Committee on Interstate Commerce; Senator Brookhart and others who have been critical of the President’s announcement that Eastern railroad executives had reached an agreement for consolidation into four great competiting systéems, are expected to go intd action in the Senate Cham- ber, too. There is the row over the effort of Robert H. Lucas, executive director of (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) 8 DIE OF POISON LIQUOR Omaha Coroner Reports Findings After Autopsies. OMAHA, Nebr., January 3 (#).— Eight deaths in Omaha during the past three days were attributed tonight to polson liquor by police and county au- thorities. Autopsies in each case proved the presence of poison liquor, the county coroner’s office reported. Five of the dead were “floaters” who lived in the cheap rooming house and hotel district where it is the custom to D.C.COURTO.KS NEW METHODS 10 END DOCKET JAMS Innovations Will Follow Ex- haustive Inquiry—Apply to Civil Cases Only. BY THOMAS M. HARVEY. ‘The New Year is to see the introduc- tion 0 the District Supreme Court of new methods of procedure in civil modes of trial which have obtained for more than 50 years and have been in no small degree responsible for the congested condition of the dockets in law and equity cases, “THe innovations are the result of an exhaustive ‘study by & representative committee of lawyers, under the chair- manship of John E. Laskey, former United sum attorney for the District of Columbia, and ding in its pnr- sonnel Justice Jesse C. Adkins Frank nery, H. Frank P. Nesbit, Daniel Coffin nell. Prof. Robert A. Maurer of the Georgetown University Law School served as secretary. The committee had correspondence with 17 cities, comparable in size to ‘Washington, and made personal surveys in Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and St. Paul has been under consideration by the court and has been adopted, with the exception of some minor details. Rules of court to make effective the proj changes are expected to promuuned early in the new year. The changes are described as the result of full and friendly co-operation between the bench and bar of the District, both working to simplify and expedite the business of the courts. ‘Will Expedite Cases. ‘The purpose of ths changes is to expedite the handling of cases with the view of dissipating congestion and con- serving the time of the justices, litigants, lawyers and citizens, who are summon both for jury duty and as witnesses at trials. Much criticism in the past has been aimed at the court because of the inconvenience to citizens by requiring them to attend day after day as wit- nesscs throughout protracted trials, awaiting the clll of their cases. The new methods apply only in civil hear- ings and will not affect the present order of procedure in criminal cases or in_condemnation matters. The outstanding feature of the com- mittee’s report is the establishment of a Motions and Assignment Court. Here- tu!ore the justices assigned to law and equity courts have given over four days in each week to jury trials and hear- ings and devoted Friday of each week to the consideration of motions. Under the resent procedure on each morning e four hearing days much time of the courts is consumed in the signing of formal orders and with applications for assignment of specific dates for hearing of the other cases on the call for the day, with the result that daily there has been delay before the regu- lar jury trial or equity hearing could proceed. All this delay will be obviated under the new method, which permits of the “pooling” of the time of five justices from the opening of court at 10 a.m. until the hour of adjournment through- out five trial days. All ex parte ap- pll.l:ltlnm of every kind will be heard by the motion justice, who will also hear motions every day from Monday to Friday and all petitions or other interlocutory applications requiring oral hearing of less than 30 minutes. He will also oversee the making up of the jury panels for the current period. a_motion will take more n 30 min- buy denatured alcohol and dilute it with water for drinking, police reported. (Continued on Page jumn 5.) with household belongings. Relief workers and troops were rushed fo _the affiicted area. Near Oporto, where the storm un- ’eswmolflvmmntmkunh A swelling streams. Two bridges at Am dable and Alvenaria and the massive stone bMIe at Regueira de Pontes were un-nu were reporied POLICE ROUTED AS CHICAGO MOB PROTESTS TRANSFER OF PRIEST Successor of Beloved Spiritual Adviser Is Hooted and Not Allowed to By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 3.—A mob of more than a thousand persons sur- rounded the St. Mary Magdalene Ro- man Catholic Church in South Chicago | W/ tanieht. Determined to prevent a new two little | pastor from taking over the keys to Barrosas, and rummmm“-ywmm olAmunmln at| the parish, in an ugly mood over the impending transfer of a priest, 21 years darkness flgeleclfldpl.lnt, their spiritual adviser, the crowd this afternoon routed & small police sent to maintain ord:r, s A newspaper Leave Car. cameraman was beaten and another’s camera was smashed. Reporters and cuflomy seekers were dered to “move alon, Thc trouble started nn New Year day when the veteran pastor, Father Fran- cis Kowaleski, announced at mass had been ordered by the office of the « ~hdiocese to qun the church waleski pleaded with to church and mn 7.y actions to take the ‘place of ancient |side. he | Cross-word Puzzle—Page ‘WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION D. 0, HUNGRY FARMERS STORM ARKANGAS TOWN T0 GET FOOD 500 Threaten Force Unless Their Families Are Supplied With Provisions. RED CROSS GIVES AID TO 265 FOR NECESSITIES Situation Growing Out of Last Summer’s Drought Conditions Regarded as Serious. By the Assoclated Press. ENGLAND, Ark., January 3.—Five hundred farmers, shouting “Give us food for our starving families,” stormed the business section here today and a short time later 265 of them were given $2.75 each in provisions by the Red Cross. ‘The farmers came from what was a rich agricultural region around here until ravaged by last Summer’s drought. Most of them have hitherto been pros- perous. George Morris, an attorney, addressed the farmers as they congregated in the business section with threats to take food by force from the merchants. His speech, however, was interrupted Ly the refrain, “Give us food for our starv- ing families.” Shout Demands for Food. “Our children are crying for food and we are going to get it,” one man shouted. “We are not going to let our children starve,” said another. “We want food and we want it now.” “We are not ,” another pushed forward to explain. “We are willing to work for 50 cents a day, but we're not going to starve and we are not going to let our families starve. Give us work and we'll not come back.” Business men made a hurried call to the Red Cross and obtained authoriza- tion from the Little Rock headquarters to give a $2.75 food allowance. Mr. Morris said he considered the sit- uation “very serious,” adding that the men would storm the town again as soon as their present food supplies were exhausted. He also said practically all merchants were “broke” as a reflection of the drought situation in the country- Reduced to Poverty. Financial difficultics were further in- creased a short time ago by the closing orthecmum Bank & Trust Co. here. ‘The local Red Cross, Mr. Morris ex- plained, has been taking care of local Tesidents. Mr. Morris criticized the authorities for turning away several in today’s crowd because they were warmly clothed. “These men may have been as hungry as the rest,” he said. “I know many men who until last year were fairly prosperwus farmers, but they have been nduced w poverty in these last few mucmy all in the throng were "hlhe Morris, asked if he thought the dmnflon would be repeated, said: “The merchants of England must either move their goods or mount ma- chine guns on their stores.” Depend on Cotton Crop. “We depend here on cotton for our money crop, and as is well known, the price is low and besides, the drought cut production. Then came a bank failure and any one who knows a cot- be | ton country knows the fix we are in. “These men and women who came here today just simply got hungry, that'’s all. Why, one man told me they were imposters, but when I saw those women standing before me, cry- ing openly and begging for food for their children, they can’t tell me they are_imposters. “Perhaps a few are imposters. Al- bert Walls (Lonoke County Red Cross chairman) told me he recognized some of them as imposters, and I don't ed | doubt some were.” Mr. Morris said the farmers, many of whom had been in town most of the morning, gradually assembled in large groups in the early afternoon, they talked for a time and then in large groups entered the stores. Hundreds of residents in this town of 2,000 were attracted into the busi- ness section and soon the situation as- sumed a serious aspect, he said. Morris assembled most of the men and women in the street, but, he said, “They were too hungry to listen to a epeech.” “As soon as T started out by telling (Continued on Pue 2, Column 1.)° TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—26 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign. Organized Reserves—Page B-4. 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Cotden Bawni—Page 10, | $2:500.000 B o ja8e 10.| the burea . and .verlnd Annie; Brutus; | to be ; High= ‘A CO-OPERATIVE Sy Star SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1931-110 PAGES. DREAM! SCHOONER STRUGGLES 40 DAYS ON LID OF DAVY JONES' LOCKER Capt. Nicklas Tells How Craft Was Driven 800 Miles Off Course by Gales and Waves, at Times 30 Feet High. By the Assoclated Press. FERNANDINA, Fla, January 3.— Forty days and nights Capt. Charles Nicklas and the crew of the four- masted schooner Purmell T. White struggled literally on the lid of Davy Jones’ locker. Capt. Nicklas, & mild-mannered, elderly man, today recounted the epic of raging seas, short rations, no water except rain and even exhaustion of the oil supply that had kept the mountain- ous waves from breaking aboard. He told the story as the ship rode at anchor here, safely in port after being given up for lost for the third time in its history. « The storms drove the schooner more than 800 miles off her course toward the Bahamas after she cleared Balti- more, her home port, November 23 for Georgetown, 8. C., with a cargo of cement. She was towed in here yester- day after being found is distress off Cape Canaveral, Fla. She was off the Virginia Capes when a gale lashed her off her course. days the ship wallowed in bmowlng waves, spreading oil to keep them from breaking over her decks. Te were lulls, some for a whole day at a time, before another cross gale would pick her up and shift her far from her position. Every drop of oil aboard—even the deck oil—except what was actually needed to run lights and other neces- sities, was put overboard, drop by drop, from two canvas buckets on =mm' side of her bow. “We were lashed about for fll’l flle skipper sald. “The waves were 30 high. Our food and water supply benn to run low. We caught enough rain water, however, to keep us from thirst. ‘Then one of the men became ill of (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) PRIMARY ASSAILED IN FORUM SPEECH Wood Declares Convention Election Plan Is More Representative. In a broadside attack against the di- rect primary, Representative Will R. Wood of Indiana last night charged this system of choosing candidates for public office was “destructive of repre- sentative government.” Speaking in the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over the coast-to- coast network of the Columbia Broad- casting System, Representative Wood bitterly arraigned the primary system for being the cause of many evils in the body politic today. Says Classes Rule. The speaker reviewed several “in- fluences” which he charged were at work through the primary and de- clared they were “getting their hands on the th-oat of popular government.” “There is no way to get away from this condition,” the speaker said, ‘‘ex- cept to repeal the primary laws and go back to the convention system.” Under the primary, he charged that “we do not have representative govern- ment, & government of the people, but a government of interests, or classes, or organizations, who back men to fill pub- lic offices and finance their campaigns, fully expecting to control their actions aflcr they have taken the oath of of- ice.” Convention Plan Insures Ability. ‘The old convention system, Mr. Wood said, obtained men for office who were of high caliber, but the primary, said, “has eliminated the very class of men which the American people should have in public office.” The convention (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) BUREAU OF RECLAMATION MAY HALT CONSTRUCTION Delay in Collecting Amounts Due From Irrigation Districts Laid to Farm Prices. By the Associated Press. Curtallment of Bureau of Reclama- tion construction activities was in pros- pect yesterday as the result of delay ing amounts due irriga- flnn districts in western Otates. Annual payments of the districts to reimburse the Government range from $6,000,000 to ‘7000000. Anwunu re- ceivable at p: & $2 . A wm o( $153,380,561 is. dua wu, but these payments are to be_extended over many missioner added, shleeions.” e com, ln llowly It is con- which herewton has 4 $1000.000 monthiy, wil have the burea FRANCE PREPARES T0 HONOR JOFFRE World Mourns Passing of Hero of Marne on Eve of His 79th Birthday. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, January 3.—All the world, no less than France itself, tonight mourned the passing of Marshal Joseph Jacques Joffre, savior of Paris in 1914, who died at 8:23 am, after a long and grim struggle with arteritis. His country, plunged in grief, was preparing to honor by a great national funeral the memory of one of the most illustrious soldiers of her history. Marshal Joffre—the “Papa” Joffre of the French pou and all his country- men—passed away peacefully the day before his seventy-ninth birthday. He had been critically ill for more than & fortnight and on December 19 suffered the amputation of his left leg, which had become infected with gangrene. Stages Amazing Fight. Given up by his physicians as lost, he fought with amazing vitality, and although he had been unconscious most of the time for nearly a week before death came, he was able to arouse himself at times to smile at & friend or murmur a few words to Mme. Joffre, who throughout his iliness, rx':;n“nEd almost constantly at his bed- side. Definite plans for the funeral have not yet been made known, but if Joffre's wishes are respected he will lie, not like ‘his illustrious comrade Ferdi- nand Foch, under the great dome of the Hotel des Invalides, but in a mod- he | est chapel in the grounds of his country home . at Louveciennes, high plateau overlooking the winding v-lley of the ‘Seine. Joffre's visit to the Tomb of Wash- ington in 1917, friends revealed tonight, inspired him with the desire for a simple burial on his own homestead, La Chataignerie (Chestnut Grove), which he and Mme. Joffre had built and laid out. Col. Jean ‘Fabry, the marshal’s aide during the war and his_closest friend, (Continued on Page 5, Column 6.) FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS MANY TASKS HOLD ALFARD IN GAPITAL “From Press ioc Home Within the Howr™ Sunday The Star’s exclusive carrier service. National 5000 to start immediate delivery. TEN CEN ELSEWHERE lllMERI[IK DEATH LG PROBE ROBS POLICE OF EVIDENCE Ballistic Report Fails to Con- nect Bullets With Lang« don’s Pistols. PATROLMAN CAN GAIN RELEASE IN 48 HOURS Expert Ascertains Both Shells Found Bore Identical Plunger Marks. Ballistics investigation early today was reported to have robbed police of all materiai _evidence against Patrolman Robert F. Langdon, attached to fifth precinct, leaving lutharltl& "“m‘“”:i waiting for a brn];" in mysterious shooting - year- Beulah Limerick, Capt. Edward J. Kelly, assistant chief of detectives, said meon, vho hu been held for questioning in would be detained “as long as pmlhle » But unless evidence on which to base a formal charge is obtalned within 48 lhouru, the policeman can demand re- A report on two pistols taken from Langdon after he surrendered a shell he said he found in the house where the girl was found dead last Wednesday 'was received by Capt. Kelly from Lieut. John F. Fowler, the department's bal- listics expert, and William N. New Panama President Says bet He Is Not Urgently Needed at Post. By the Associated Press. The legation of Panama was con- verted into the headquarters of Pana: ma’s new President yesterday as Dr. Ricardo J. Alfaro wound up the affairs of his ministry in preparation for his Jjourney home. At nightfall the Minister was still undecided as to the date of his em- barkation. He said that first there were numerous tasks at the legation to be finished, and that his immediate presence in Panama was not umlnt. ‘Throngs of Panamans flocked the legation to congratulate the Prul- dent-designate. With him the guests betwi Mme, Alfaro and their five children. In a newsreel interview, Dr. Alfaro said: “I have been called to assume the presidency and have unhesitatingly answered the call of my country. I have been here a little over eight The st of "!vmdomyuhnoatuuuhudot "“mm’““xfl: endihip and_good_under pro 11 and - standing bef t.hz Amerlnn ples. '.l;he d.llyi I ]elve t'hf“ l{:ited B':‘:fi my farewell mi essen one of deep f:“’:lnmmrthzwon- d:]rtul hospm ity and good will I have ‘Under wenut.lve plans, Mme. Alfaro and their two daughters, Amelita and Yolanda, will go to wit new President. Their sons, Dr. Vietor Alfaro of l’hflldelphh Ivan and Rogelio, will remain in the United States, the latter two to complete terms at the Na- tional Catholic University and Western High School of Washington. Dr. Alfaro planned to visit the State Department as early as possible to fill an engagement he was unable to keep this morning. It was understood that upon this call and the reaction of State Department officials to the new regime would be hinged the President-desig- nate’s plan for departure. Settled Conditions Awaited. ‘The question of recognition by the United Ehtu of the new governments in both Panama and Guatemala are being held in abeyance by the State De- partment pending a more settled politi- cal situation in the countries. Secretary Stimson indicated the Pana- manian situation was too complex for any immediate decision. The department has received from the (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) CHICAGO MAYORALTY VOTE SCHEME REVEALED Police Commissioner Offers Protec- tion During Campaign to Any Candidate Who Feels Need. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 3.~“I have in- formation,” said Police Commissioner John H. Alcock today, “that one of the mayoralty candidates is gof to have his house bombed, his luwmnbfle shot full of holes, and probably receive a black eye himself, for political pur- poses, in order to awny pubuc opinion in the coming primary “Any mayoralty umudm ‘who con- k'nown to me and will receive full pro- wctlbn, both to himself and to his family.” EXECUTIVE WHO FORGETS TO LOCK DOOR OF BANK CREATES “MYSTERY” Depositor Arrives, Finds Office Empty and Calls Police, Who Discover Robbery Evidence. By the Assoclated Press. KANSAS CITY, January 3.—The front door of the National s-vlnn. Building and Loan tion opcn readily this afternoon when Mrs. Bolummul arrived to make a deposlt.. expert lda-opnwr Was Ho drilled open the strong box door. m of b-nx notes were found, but 'rwenly pollcemzn guarded the build- mg while other officers sought an ex- lanation of t.be mystery. Efforts to offi of the company were lent Dale O usual Saturday was tnttrlct!d by the e ucas, en- ternoon crowd. government to further | y¢ ly waiting for a break.” Held for Investigation. 1 """ié’{? it s mght by Serer or questio night by Sergt. hn Flaherty, chief of the go cie squud Previously he had merely been marked “excused” from duty on the records of No. 5 precinct. Langdon’s wife consulted Attorney Harry T. Whelan yesterday afternoon. The ~ attorney represented Langdon when he was freed by a District Su- preme Court jury a year ago on a charge of transporting 10 gallons of mem u!?lnxd laine he had lon explained she vl:l'.ed the attorney to learn if there was some way to escape the publicity attending her husband’s arrest. Langdon’s wife expressed confidence in her husband and said she was cer- ul!fn the police investigation would clear Seek Source of Bullets. Inspector Shelby said yesterday after- noon police wanted to know whether the death bullet was fired from either of lon’s guns and whether the two shells had been exploded by the same gun or by either of the Langdon guns. One bullet was recovered from Miss Limerick’s brain at an autopsy per- formed Wednesday night by Dr. A. Mc- Gruder MacDonald, deputy coroner. Its presence was discovered by an under- taker preparing the body for burial early Wednesday night, some six hours after the girl had been pronounced dead of natural causes. The other bullet, police say, was turned over to them by Langdon him- self, together with an exploded shell. Langdon, on duty from midnight to 8 am. last week, was assigned to guard (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) INSURGENTS SHOOT TWO U. S. MARINES Privates Seriously Wounded in’ Brush With Sandino Forces in Nicaragua. By the Assoclated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, January 8.— Guerilla warfare flared again today in the densely wooded country between Totogalpa and Ocotal, and in a brush with Sandino followers < two United States Marines were seriously wounded. ‘The wounded men are Pvis. James Robert Earnhardt of Concord, N. C., and David Monroe Kirkendall of Chicago. Earnhardt suffered a serious wound in the spine. It was said Kir- kendall probably would recover, They ‘were brought here by airplane. After the battle their comrades, under command ot Capt. Ernest Russell, pushed on toward Ocotal, driving their opponents before them. When news reached Ocotal of the clash which followed closely upon that ¢ of Wednesday. in which eight Marine were killed and two wounded by il ins: out o 834 in the