Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair ond colder with lowest tempera- ture about 32 degrees tonight; tomorrow cloudy and warmer. Highest, 64, at 1 pm. yesterday; lowest, 46, at 7:40 a.m. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 mostly tures—! ‘Tempera- today. b No. 31,683. post office, Entered as second class matter Washington, 2 - WASHINGTON, D. ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 7 ’ n Star. . C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY BITTER CONFLICT ARISES IN' SENATE OVER $25,000,000 RED CROSS RELIEF Payne’s Statement Opposing Federal Fund Releases Storm — Organization Ac- cused of Politics. CARAWAY SAYS HOOVER SHIRKS RESPONSIBILITY Robinson Declares Congress Will Form Own Agency for Admin- istration of Aid for Sufferers if Present System Will Not Work: Many Criticisms Made. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The American Red Cross and the Senate came into bitter con- flict today over the proposal of the latter to appropriate $25,000,- 000 out of the Federal Treasury for the relief of suffering in this country. John Barton Payne, chairman of the Red Cross, before a sub- committee of the House today de- clared: “It was unanimously voted that it is the sense of the Central Com- mittee that the Red Cross is in a position adequately to complete the task it has undertaken in the drought-stricken areas, and it hereby assumes responsibility of completing said task without pub- lic appropriations.” “And it was further on action’ unanimously voted that it is the sense of the Central Committee that the Red Cross canfhot ac- cept the administration of funds for general relief purposes as pro- vided for under ghie terms of the bill which has. passed the Senate and is now pending in the House of Representatives.” further delay. Senator Caraway charged that the B e oremaliasin af mercy sad it has become a political asset of the President of the United States.” ‘The Democratic leader of the Senate, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, author S oviding. 55,006,000 ' pe Expend- bill provi ,000,¢ & ed b‘;flt,h! Red Cross, declared that “the policy of the President of the United States and of the Red Cross implies that no measure of relief, appropriated for by Congress, is to be carried out, no matter how bad conditions may be- come. “I call upon the members of the Benate,” continued Senator Robinson, “to repudiate a policy which implies that the men who are in charge of the executive branch of the Govern- ment and of the Red Cross decline to take any steps to relleve suffering, ir- yespective of how bad conditions be- come. “If the Red Cross refuses to measure up to its standards of the past and refuses to administer appropriations made by Congress, the Congress of the United States will find its own agents to administer these funds,” said Sena- tor Robinson, pounding his desk. Importance Is Stressed. ‘The D:mocratic leader declared “that 4 the administration had exercised ordinary intelligence and had acted mptiy, it would have required far less money to relieve suffering than will mow be the case.” “It is far more important than the ge of appropriation bills and & m prohibition enforcement bill to put through this measure of relief for the suffering in this country. Th: ac- tion of the Red Cross in refusing to inister funds provided by Congress done more to discredit that organ- ization than anything else possibly could do. I know that Mr. Payne has said that Federal appropriations of this kind are a blow ll:.%z Red Cross which relles upon voluntary contributions.” The Democratic leader sald that if the matter were allowed to come to 2 vote new in the House the appropria- tion would pass by a two-thirds vote. He sald that the hearings before the House subcommittee on appropriations were for the purpose of delay and pre- venting favorable action on this ap- opriation. And, with great emphasis, e repeated the warning that Congress would find “a better agency than the Red Cross if that organization persisted in its present attitude.” Hoover Said to Be Shirking. When Senator Caraway brought up the statement made by Mr. Payne before the House Committee, he charged Pres- ident Hoover with seeking to hide be- bind the Red Cross, while he was shirk- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) VOLCANOES ACTIVE Flame and Smoke Pouring From Alaskan Mounts Described. BEWARD, Alaska, January 28 (). ‘Word of renewed activity among vol- canoes of the Aleutian Islands. and Alaska peninsula has been brought here by Capt. C. E. Anderson of the steamer Mount Shushalton, Anderson said, ‘was hur] sheets of flame and dense clouds of smoke at five-minute inter- vals. Mount Cleveland, on the Island of Four Mountains and heretofore in- ot sent forth great clouds of YOU I Judgeship Nominee ' JAMES M. PROCTOR. JAMES M. PROCTOR 10 GET JDGESHP Nomination to Succeed Hitz Expected to Go to Senate in Few Days. ‘The nomination of James M. Proc- tor, an attorney of this city, to be associate justice of the Supreme rt of the District of Columbia, to sugCeed Justice Willlam Hitz, who el elevated to the Court of Appeals of the District, will be sent by ,President Hoover to the Senate probably within the next few days. ; Mr. Proctor is a native of Washing- ton, and has been a practicing attorney here for more than 25 years, during which time he has served a number of years as assistant United States at- torney. Besides occupying an eminent place in thé bar of Washington, Mr. Proctor s a distinguished military recotd, having risen from lieutenant to major4n the A. E. F. during the World War. Recommended by Mitchell. President Hoover's appointment of Mr. Proctor to the local b:nch is under- stood to have been made upon the recommendation of Attorney General Mitchell. The latter is known to have been greatly impressed by Mr. Proctor's record, both as a practicing attorney and as an assistant United States attorney. Mr. Proctor was recommended for this judicial appointment by the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, by the Republican State Committe> in and for the District of Columbls a number of prominent individual citizens and business men. His appoint- ment to this bench will, the White House and. the ent of Justice elleve, be looked upon with great favor by_the_citizens of this city, ‘Mr, Proctor was born here 48 years ago. He was graduated from the Dis- trict public schools, and studied la: the e Washington University, from which he was graduated in 1904. He was at once admitted to the District bar, and has since practiced continu- ously. He served as an assistant United States attorney for this dis- trict from 1906 to 1913, and during four years of that time was chief as- sistant United States attorney. Served in Army. Leaving the District Attorney's office in 1913, Mr. Proctor has since engaged in the private practice of law in Wash- ington gton. When the United States entered the World War Mr. Proctor was married and the father of two small boys; there was no probability of his being called into military service and he was en- joying a lucrative practice in his pro- fession. Nevertheless, he immediately entered the first officers’ training cam at Fort Myer, Va, and in May, 1917, was commissioned a lleutenant of in- fantry. GRONER REPORT FAVORABLE. Senate Subcommittee Takes Action on Court Nomination. The nomination of Judge G. Lawrence Groner for the District Court of Appeals was given favorable report today by the Senate subcommittee handling the ap- pointment. The subcommittee was com- posed of Senators Borah, Republican, of Idaho; Blaine, Republican, of Wiscon- sin, and Bratton, Democrat, of New Mexico. At hearings on_the nomination last week, two former Department of Justice attorneys appeared in opposition basing their protest on a decision Judge Groner rendered seven years ago in the trial of a case in Federal Court in West Virginia, Those who testified at the hearing were Charles B. Brewer and Richard L. Merrick. The trial was a conspiracy case, and at the conclusion Judge " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. .. FIVANCE PSET BY BONUS PAYMENT FEARED BY MELLON Says Certificate Cashing Would Retard Business and Prolong Unemployment. |DISASTROUS EFFECTS OF BILL ARE FORECAST Mills Says Treasury Can Judge What Is Best for Veterans as a Whole. | By the Associated Press. Secretary Mellon appeared before the Senate Finance Committee today to warn that cash redemption of the sol- | diers’ bonus would upset the Nation's financial structure and “greatly disturb world equilibrium.” ‘The veteran Secretary of the Treas- ury said the cashing of the adjusted service certificates, which has been urged as a relief measure, would “se- riously retard a business recovery, and so prolong unemployment.” Treakury Shows Deficit. He testified the Treasury will close the fiscal year with a deficit, according to present indications, of not less than $375,000,000 and that cash payment of the face value of the certificates would T | cost about $3,400,000,000. “I can say without qualification,” he said, “that the Treasury Department could not sell $3,400,000,000 of bonds at the present time except on terms which it would be very hard to justify and without complete disorganization of the Government and other security markets, with the most serious consequences not only to the public credit, but to our entire economic structure.” Continuing, he said: “But serious as would be the direct consequences to the Treasury and to the public credit, the indirect consequences to the country would be even more serious.” Among the “indirect consequences” he listed: Immediate deprecation very ma- terially of the price of all United States bonds. The effect of which would be “equivalent to a capital levy on the holders of all United States Govern- ment securities.” Destruction of capital values running into hundreds of millions of dollars. Greater Depression Feared. Death of the bond market for any other kinds of securities. Destruction of the market for foreign securities, which, he said, “not only would interfere with the marketing of our surplus products, but would also greatly disturb world trade and world equilibrium.” Eventually a deeper depression than the one from which the world is suffer- ing today. “There is no economic merit in the proposal,” Secretary Mellon testified. “From the point of view of stimulating business, it is a plan for unmitigated inflation, with the disastrous results of which the world is only too familiar. “On the investment side it means the exhaustion of the security markets and the creation of a serious impediment to business recovery both here and abroad. “To the unemployed it spells further retardation of the day when normal employment will be available. “Prom the point of view of the United States Treasury it represents complete disorganization of an orderly program for the refunding and retire- ment of our war debt and a tremen- dous increase in interest charges. Not Advisable for Taxpayer. “To the taxpayer it means the de- struction of all hope of the lightening of the load of taxation for years to come and a probable increase in taxes in the very near future. “How the veterans and their fami- lies, who, after all, are an inseparable part of the American people and whose prosperity and welfare are inextrica- bly bound up with the prosperity and { TWO SHIPS IN DISTRESS Coast Guard Aiding One as Help Is Sent to Other. BOSTON, January 28 (#).— One Coast Guard cutter today was fighting head winds toward Halifax with a dis- abled steamer in tow and another was speeding to the assistance of a second steamer helpless in the North Atlantjc. ‘The cutter Tampa, pulling the dis- abled Effingham, was creeping toward Halifax at a speed of three knots an hour or less, while the cutter Cham- plain was hurrying to the Shipping Board freighter West Kyska, which lost her propeller 1,000 miles out from Halifax HERBERT HOOVER, ]R., ISSUED . LICENSE AS Broadcasting and Aviation RADIO OPERATOR Form Irresistible Forces in Life of President’s Son. Radio is an irresistible force in the life of Herbert Hoover, jr., eldest son of the President. Although under the doctor's care at Asheville, N. C, he just can't keep away from his headphones and key. Tuesday he telegraphed the Federal Radio Com- mission for a license for an amateur | radio staticn in his name at Asheville., Today he was notified that the license has been issued. Radlo, coupled with aviation, is the | younger Hoover's life work. In his iwenty-seventh year, he 1s president of Aeronautical Radlo, Inc., the Public Service Aviation Radio Ccrporation, as well as technical assistant in charge of communications of Western Air Express, Inc., of Los Angeles, one of the largest of the national air transports. When he became ill several months ago and left for Asheville, where the cli- mate was better suited to his health, the younger Hoover did not relinquish his duties, Almost every day he talks | via long distance with Paul Goldsbor- ough. vice president of Aeronautical Radio, in Washington, discussing the affairs of the new communications net- work. With his new amateur station at Asheville, Mr. Hoover will be enabled to “talk” with his friends numbered among the nearly 18,000 amateurs of the country, and perhaps with amateurs of foreign countries, for it's an easy mat- ter to maintain world-wide communi- cation on the very high frequencies. The license is for both radiotelephone and radiotelegraph contacts. Since he attended grammar school young Hoover has heen intensely inter- ested in radio. A graduate of Leland Stanford University, the alma mater of his father, he holds an engineering de- gree. Prior to his association with West- ern Air on February 1, 1929, his experi- ence in radio had been of an amateur nature, (Copyright. 1931.) ITELLSQUIZBROTHER OF RUM CARTAIN SWORE VENGEANCE Cook Testifies Threat Was Made as Cluett Was on Way to Hospital. DECLARES COMMANDER OF CUTTER WAS SOBER Members of Board Ask Speed Test of Josephine K Be Made at Once. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, January 28.—A board of inquiry investigating the shelling of the Canadian rum-runner Josephine K by the Coast Guard Saturday night was informed today that one member of the crew threatened vengeance for the killing of the master, Capt. Wil- liam P. Cluett, who was slain by a Coast Guard shell. The threat, the board was told, came from Alfred Cluett, cook aboard the Josephine K and brother of the captain. Bennett Walker, cook of the Coast Guard cutter 161, which arrived at the scene of the shelling in the wake of Cutter 145, the boat which made the capture, told the board the threat was made while Capt. Cluett was being taken to a hospital on Staten Island. “If our captain dies, your skipper will die too,” Walker quoted the brother of the mortally wounded captain. Walker was the first Coast Guards- man aboard the Josephine K. He was crew He was equipped with a re- volver, he said, and so far as he could tell there were no firearms aboard the rum-runner. Says Schmidt Was Sober. He added to evidence educed at yes- terday’s session seeking to establish that Karl Schmidt, boatswain in command of Cutter 145 and the man who fired the shot that killed Capt. Cluett, was sober. Walker said he saw Schmidt a few minutes after the shelling, and he was sure the boatswain had not been drink- ng. Testimony that Schmidt was intoxi- cated when he boarded the Josephine K., after its capture Saturday and that he continued to drink during the night in the forecastle of the Josephine K., was given before a Coast Guard in. quiry today by members of the crew of the Canadian vessel. Sevep_members of the crew of the Josephifié K., accompanjgd by counsel and a representative of the British con- 2ul general, appeared before the inquiry rd. “Seemed Very Intoxicated.” | Willlam Selig, the first member of | the crew questioned, a seaman of Hali- fax, Nova Scotia, said he saw Schmidt shortly after the Josephine K. was boarded. “He seemed to be very intoxicated,” Selig testified. It was brought out that Selig was in the forecastle at the head of a small table when he saw Schmidt, and at no time did he get close enough to the boatswain to smell his breath. “Schmidt staggered,” he said in re- Ply to & question. “Much?” he was asked. “Quite a bit.” Selig said later that all members of the crew of the Josephine K. were in the forecastle at one time or another during the night, that all saw Schmidt “drunk,” and that he saw Schmidt “a couple of whiskies.” Asked where the liquor came from he said the crew of the Josephine K. had a case of ale and a bottle of whisky in the forecastle of the ship. Members of the board asked Capt. Cecil M. Gabbett, commander of Base 2, Staten Islang, where the inquiry is bemng_held, to Tun off a speed test of the Josephine K as soon as possible. The speed of the rum-runner is an im- portant point in the proceedings be- cause Gerald Campbell, British consul general, in New York, has asked wheth- er it would not have been possible for the cutter to capture the rum ship without resorting to shelling. Under Suspicion Since 1928. Coast Guard records produced as evi- dence showed the Josephine K had been under suspicion as a rum-runner since 1928. She was trailed by patrols 20 times and twice, the records said, was seen by Guardsmen in the act of trans- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) SENATE PLACES PAY CLAUSE IN NEW BILL $631,640 Added to Measure of Four Departments to Care for Salary Incren\les. Another chaptcr in the dispute be- tween the two branches of Congress over Government salary increases was written today when the Senate Appro- priations Committee inserted in another appropriation bill the additional money required to begin a three-year program of promotions for employes in under- average grades. “This latest action came on the appro- priation bill for the Senate, Justice, Commerce and Labor Departments, to which the Senate committee added $631,640 for the salary increases. ‘The Senate committee also added to this bill small amounts for various bureaus, aggregating $20,000, to take care of salary adjustments authorized last year under the Brookhart law. These Brookhart increases are entirely separate from and merely incidental to the main question of whether a start is to be made this year on gmmotlom in the under-averag cases ghout the Government service, assigned to guard the members of the | drink “six or more” bottles of ale and | 28, 1931—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. ##» (®) Means Associated “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s cairier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion i5 delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 118,473 Pr TWO CENTS. TTORME! éfiNERM oFFICE DARKEST MOMENT! GANDHI CARRIES ON * FIGHT FOR LIBERTY {Declares Right to Make Salt and Picket Liquor Shops Must Be Recognized. By the Associated Press. BOMBAY, January 28.—Leaving be- | hind him a message to India's Nationalist millions that their fight for independ- ence must go on, Mahatma Gandhi today speeded by train toward Alla- habad, central Indian city, where are gathered most of the Nationalist Work- ing Committee. At Allahabad, India's “City of God,” located on the sacred Ganges, he will visit the bedside of one of his dearest friends, the aged Pandit Motilal Nehru, father of Jawaharlal Nehru, president of the all-India National Congress, and discuss with him Britain's offer of afn eventual qualified dominion status for India. Faces Great Welcome. He faces in Allahabad, when he ar- rives there tonight, a welcome prob- ably as enthusiastic and frenzied as that which tens and hundreds of thousands gave him . here yesterday upon his arrival from eight months in Yeroda Prison. In the crush which centered about his frail 96-pound body, one woman was trampled to death and 31 persons were sent to hospitals, “We can suspend judgment on Prime Minister MacDonald’s statement to the round table conference at London,” he declared just before parting from Bom- bay, “but we cannot suspend the activi- ties of the All-India National Congress (the organization which has sponsored the Nationalist civil disobedience move- ment). Will Continue Picketing. “Even if after our conference with the delegates coming home from the round table conference it is found that the prime minister's statement affords suffi- clent ground for the congress to sus- pend its non-co-operation movement, the party cannot abandon its right to picket liquor shops and drug shops and those selling foreign cloth,.nor can the right of India’s starving millions to make their own salt be given up. “The execution of these three funda- mental rights is not intended to register the resistance of the Indian nation to British rule. It is intended to achieve these ends for all time, regardless of the outcome of the forthcoming peace conversations.” But even after the government has accepted this program the end of civil disobedience and non-co-operatign de- pends, Gandhi added, upon settlement of India's other grievances. BRITISH PRESS DOUBTFUL. Conservative and Liberal Papers Deplore Freeing Gandhi. LONDON, January 28 (#).—A section of the British press assumed an “I told you so” attitude today in commenting upon disorders in India coincident with release of Mahatma Gandhi and other political prisoners from jail. The Conservative Post considered re- newed rioting as a matter of course, and said: “Gandhi evidently thinks him- self the master of the situation and India assumes more and more a de- pressing likeness to a school that has fallen completely out of hand under a weak schoolmaster.” The Daily Mail said: “The result of releasing Gandhi has simply been to encourage lawlessness. The effect of the gas and gush of all our sentimental- ists will certainly be disastrous.” ‘The Liberal News Chronicle sald: “The result of granting Gandhi's de- mands would be to reduce to instant bankruptey all Indian provinces and so cripple the central government that it would be practically impossible to carry on at all” Railroad Fare Reduced. CHICAGO, January 28 (#)—Passen- ger rates at 2 cents a mile, a 45 per cent reduction from the regular 3.6 rate, will go into effect on seven sections of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Feb- ruary 1. C. A. Cairns, passenger traffic manager, said the three-month trial on certain Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska branches “‘undoubtedly will be extended ;4‘.:] other parts of the system if success- Radio l’rnlnm. on Page A-11 21 Men Feared Lost As Two Avalanches Overwhelm Patrol By the Associated Press. BARDENECCHIA, Italy, Jan- uary 28.—Three army officers, two non-commissioned officers and 16 soldiers in an airplane detach- ment were feared lost today in two avalanches which overwhelm- ed the patrol in the valleys of Dora and Riparia. Rescue parties were searching in the vicinity, but this afternoon they had found no trace of the missing men. MACDONALD FACES VOTE CONFIDENTLY iLabor-Liberal Alliance Ex- pected to Pass Trades Dispute Measure. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 28 —Britain’s sec- ond Labor government, approaching its | third year, today faced a critical Com- mons vote with confidence that its master politician, J. Ramsay MacDon- ald, had maneuvered the ministry to another victory. Promised abstention of the rank and file of the Liberal party from voting in the division on the second reading of the trades dispute bill made it pretty certain that the government would bs upheld by a majority of from 15 to 30 votes. The simplest and most plausible ex- planation was that David Lloyd George, Liberal leader, considered that, however bad a Labor ministry, it was to be preferred to a Conservdtive government, and would lend his aid in keeping the Labor government in power until the new electoral reform measure, which would increase Liberal representation in the Commons, can be passed. In the face of this MacDonald-Lloyd George alliance, a mighty effort of Sir John Simon, leader of one wing of the Liberal party which is not abiding by the decisions of Mr. Lloyd George, appeared today to have been futile. Sir John, in what was characterized as one of the great speeches of his career, last night condemned the trades dispute act as “a thoroughly worthless bill.” The trades dispute bill, one of the most bitterly contested measures in recent parliamentary history, defines as illegal a strike ar lock-out “of which the primary object is an object other than that of furthering purposes con- nected with the employment or non- employment, or with the conditions of labor of any person whether or not emrloyed in the trade or industry in which the strike or lockout takes place.” The bill also restores to civil servants and municipal employes the right of joining a political trade union, a right which was taken from them after the general strike of 1926. CIVIL WAR V.ETERAN DIES MERCED, Calif,, January 28 ().— James L. Pool, 89, said to have been secretary to Gen. U. S. Grant -at the close of the Civil War, died last night. Pool came here six months ago from Shelbyville, Ind., with his wife and daughter. He enlisted in the 49th Reg- iment, Company K, December 5. 1861, and was mustered out in July, 1865. COURT DISMISSES GAMBLING CASES Failure of Police to Appear as Witnesses Given as Reason by Judge Given. Negligence on the part of policemen in falling to appear as witnesses for the Government in their cases was the reason given this morning for the com- plete dismissal of six “clean-cut” gambling cases by Judge Ralph Given in the jury branch of Police Court for lack of evidence. Five of the cases had been continued five times on account of the absence of officers when the cases were called, and the other case had | ben continued four times for the same reason. Written Notices Sent. Assistant District Attorney John R. Fitzpatrick told the court that two written notices had been sent to the officers on each of the last two occa- sions when the cases were to have come up, but that they had made no appearance to fille their papers at his office at the appointed hour. The cases date back as far as December -29. Inspector Thaddius Bean, in cl{lue of the vice squad, appeared at Police Court shortly following the dismissal of the cases to ascertain on what grounds they had been thrown out of court. He told Mr. Fitzpatrick that the officers. were engaged in District Supreme Court, which was the reason they failed to put in an appearance. Fitzpatrick's notices, however, specified that the officers should be available in the Police Court at 9:30 a.m., while Supreme Court does not convene until 10 am. Fitzpatrick said the officers did not put in an appearance at Police Court at the appointed hour. Attached to Vice Squad. The officers involved, all attached to the vice squad of the Metropolitan Po- lice Department, are: F. D. Hilllard, F. A. Truscott, F. O. Brass, N. O. Holmes, J. K. Baker, Arthur Ralph Wil- liams, E. C. O'Mera and H. G. Bauer. The defendants in the cases were Mary Ware, colored; Tillle White, colored; Pear]l E. Stevenson, colored; John In- nocenti, Joseph and Philip Savia and Peter Mantos and Louis Pentos, Judge Given, following the court’s recess, had no comment to make other than that he had acted in accordance with the wishes of the assistant dis- trict attorney. Judge John P, McMahon last week failed to call cases on the assignment list when officers failed to appear to prosecute their cases. Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, saild he had not been ad- vised of the action of Judge Given and declined to make any comment until he gets an official report from In- spector Bean. Petty Racketeer Slain. CHICAGO, January 28 (#).—Morris Berkowitz, said by police to have been a petty racketeer, was shot and killed in the Maxwell street district early to- day. His slayers escaped, presumably in an automobile. Detectives said the slaying apparently was connected with a recent series of killings of minor hood- lums on the West Side, but added that :Pey had no idea of the particular mo- ve. By the Assoclated Press. BRIDGETON, N. J., January 28.— Gloom as thick as pea soup hung over the farm of Bill Mattox today, for Bossy, a favorite cow, lay dead and Farmer Bill was out $350 in cash, plus Bossy’s value on the hoof. This is the story as gleaned from Bill himself: ; He drew $420 from the bank to pur- chase supplies and, for a day or two, carried the money in a canvas bag in his hip pocket. Then, after feeding Are Needed More Than Ever Before This Year in the OPERATION ON COW’S STOMACH YIELDS §70 OF $420 DEVOURED Veterinarian Called Too Late and “Bossy’s” Death Under Khnife Is Nearly in Vain. his stock, the bag was missing. His search was without success until he focused his gaze on Bossy, placidly chewing her cud. He saw a part of what had been a $20 bill protruding from Bossy's mouth and sent a hurry call for a veterinarian. In a little while Bossy's spirit was on its way to the happy grazing ind §353,000 15 PLEDGED ON OPENING DAY OF CHEST'S CAMPAIGN Fund Surpasses That of Last Year Reported at First Luncheon Meeting. GOVERNMENTAL UNIT LEADS ALL DIVISIONS Playlet to Be Given Over Radio Tomorrow to Stimulate Interest in Drive. Substantial increases over reports for the first day of last year's Community Chest drive were announced at an or- ganization luncheon today as the fund approached the $1,000,000 mark. A total of 5,029 pledges were report- ed today for an aggregate of $221,- 549.82, which made the grand total so far $95,000, as compared with $832,000 the first day after the beginning of the campaign proper last year. ‘The governmental unit made the best showing with donations aggregating $100,342.45. The unit's representative, &':g; C.“Kt?ug&u)brficlflckd the OZ?O‘OW allotte s up would be fully subscribed. s Additional Subscriptions. ‘The metropolitan unit took second laurels with pledges totaling $48,000. The special gifts unit, headed by Newbold Noyes, gained $45,325. E. C. Graham, chairman of the group solicitation unit, announced gifts of $33,872.25. The schools unit reported $432. The largest contributions of the day included those of the Potomac Electric Power Co., $15,000; the Capital Trac- tion Co., $3.000, and the Washington Rallway & Electric Co., $3,000. ‘The extraordinary needs of the Chest were outlined last night in radio speeches by Frederic A. Delano, Edward F. Colladay, Joseph C. McGarraghy, Harlan Wood d Mrs. Leonard B, Schloss. Tonight’s speakers will include Newbold Noyes, chairman of the Special Gifts Committee, over WRC; Mr. Street over WMAL, Rabbl Abram Simon over WOL and Joseph D. Kaufman over ‘WJISV. A playlet in behalf of the drive will be glven over WOL tomorrow night at 8:15 by a group from the Community Drama Guild. The cast will include Lillian Spector, Oscar B. Glick, F. B. Barrett and Harry M. Gwinn. Leslie Burroughs, assistant Chest director, will be the announcer. J 5 ecutive director and Herbert L. Willett, Jr., as executive secretary, Other lead- "fi"m t of Labor—Rol Car] nf - g 1 " ; Samuel J. 3 v{,c‘:’chnmln: Jesse C. Watts, section cl 3 Department of Justice—C. E. Sf chairman; J. er, vlc.":'“t'mx. man. Department of State—Wilbur J. Carr, ‘hairman; E. J. i chairman, chiefs: W. H. Perry, H. T. Tal Blanchard, G. R. Marble, E. tern, J. R. Lee, Mrs. R. L. C. Noell, Alvin C. Walters, Mullican, J. T. Skinner, F. A. De Grott, A. T. Marlowe, Miss M. A. Howarth, Daniel Masterson, E. K. Feltz, H. S. Robinson, Miss J. E. Rankin, James H. West, J. C. Wallace, J. Walter Peed. Bureau of Engraving and Printing— Clarke R. Long, assistant .vice chair- man, with the following section chiefs: Adam P. Ruth, Joseph T. K. Plant, Mary Harper, George S. Dodge, Julie H. Hutchinson, J._ A. Farrell, . D Clark. Bureau of Internal Revenue, Treasury Department—Joe N. McCollum, assist- ant vice chairman, with the following section chiefs: Ralph D. Toll, Donald L. Kester, Harry J. Bruch, Joseph M. McKenna, John E. Lynch, Edwin R. Connor, «Charles A. Drake. Department of Agriculture—R. W. Dunlap, chairman: R. M. Reese, vice chairman, with the following section chiefs:” H. T. O'Neale, Zebedee La Pelle, Richard T. Umhau, Mrs. D. K. Murphy, Mrs. L. B. Fuller, William Weber, Harry Goding, J. M. Kemper, William E. Taylor, Claude Ballard, A. G. Rice, Charles §. Menagh, Mrs. Bur- netta E. Muth, George P. Wolf, Miss Emily Clark, Miss M. G. Coburn, Albert Strack, L. M. Clarke, Mrs. Mamie F. Mystrom, R. L. Crim. Navy = Department — Ernest Lee Jahncke, chairman; Frank S. Curtis, vice chairman, with the following sec- tion chiefs: Roy H. Moses, Theodore T. Snell, John T. Cuthbert, Harry W. (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) 11 RIOTERS ESCAPE FROM. REFORMATORY Fifteen Boys Injured in Free-for- All Fight Blamed on Racial Antagonisms. By the Assoclated Press. ANNANDALE, N. J., January 28.— State police sought 11 boys today who escaped from the Annandale Reforma- tory during a free-for-all fight in which 15_were injured. Between 50 and 60 boys, ranging in age from 15 to 24 years, engaged in the fight, which occurred during the study hour last night in one of the cottages known at the “Lower Camp.” ‘The boys fought through the building, breaking doors and windows, throwing bricks and chairs. Four guards, who were unarmed, were helpless against the rioters and sent for State Police. A score responded. After the fight the boys ran out of the cottage. All but 11 of them were rounded ug by the State police. One of the injured suffered a fracture for cows and the veterinarian had oper- ated. In one of Bossy'’s stomachs they found all that femained of Bill's bank roll—a badly mutilated $50 bill, a $20 bill and a tattered canvas bag. of the wrist and another a fracture of the ankle. The others were treated for cuts and bruises. Reformatory officials said racial an- tagonisms were behind the outbreaks. Community Chest nd . Red Cross