Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy tonight; tomorrow fair; little change in temperature; lowest to- night_about 32 degrees. Temperatures —Highest, 40, at 12:30 p.m. yesterda; lowest, 34, at 7 am. Full report on page 4. Closing N.Y. Markets, today. , Pages13,14 & 15 Che Foeni . ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 31,730. post office, Entered as second class matte Washington, r D. WASHINGTON, CHEVY CHASE MAN ENDS LIFE IN PACT; WIFE 15 WOUNDED W. H. Von Bayer Writes Checks for Debts Before Shooting Himself. SHE APPEALED IN VAIN AGAINST SUICIDE PLAN Failing, Asked That She Be Killed Also—TIIl Health Is Blamed for Tragedy. Convinced that he never would re. gain his health, William H. von Bayer, 50 years old, associate forester in the Indian Service, Department of Interior, early this afternoon sat down with his wife, Mrs. Grete von Bayer, well known local pianist, carefully wrote out checks covering all their debts, then rhot her and turned the gun on himself. | ‘When police broke into their fash- ionable Chevy Chase circle apm‘tm:‘nt‘ they found Von Bayer dead on the floor and Mrs. Von Bayer lying acrmsi his body with a bullet wcund in her back. i Von Bayer was pronounced dead by Dr. Thomas K. Conrad, 5904 Connecti- cut avenue. “We agreed to do it,” Mrs. Von Bayer, 40 years old, gasped to a policeman as he lifted her to a stretcher. A neighbor told how after the first shot Mrs. Von Bayer ran to the front door of the apartment and called, “I aave been shot.” Falls Across His Body. The stricken woman then shut the door and ran back to her husband, falling across his prostrate body where it lay on a rug beside a grand piano in the living room. The first policeman to_enter, Jere- | miah Mills of No. 14 precinct, found Mrs. Von Bayer, clad in negligee, sob- bing hysterically across the body of her husbend. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt issued @ certificate of suicide in the case of Mr. Von Bayer and ordered the body not to be removed from this juris- diction pending the outcome of Mrs. Von Bayer's condition. The story of how she had pleaded with her husband not to shoot himself, and of how she asked to share his fate when she saw his resolution could not be shaken, wudxlzhud i:ndn whisper to ice the ba injured wcman. DolMflhV’on Bly!lyllid her husband had | bzen Loodmo:fi wo;: !o{duhzen}lwe;‘ks past, and today tol r he made up his mind to kill himself. Mrs. Von Bayer told police that her | husband informed her this morning of his resolve to do away with himself. She told him she couldn’t go on with- out him, she said, and asked that she, 100, be @ vietim ¢ his pi Two shots were fired E caliber gun, an old “horse pistol,” be- | lieved picked up by Von Bayer on an | Indian reservation inspection trip. The pistol was picked uumm the floor beside Von Bayer's y and was S0 badly rusted from disuse that police had great difficulty in unbreeching it. ‘Was Talented Pianist. The Von Bayers apparently had spent | zone time this morning putting their 1 i i | | | afiz_.s in order. A number of checks 10 w:ms which had rendered bills were laig cut on the grand piano. Mrs, Von Bayer, wno came to the United States from her home in Ger- many to become the forester’s bride, was a talented pianist-and taught pupils | in the large living room of her apart- ment, which she u:ed as a studio. Von Bayer, a graduate of Cornell and Yale Universities, mzt his future wife while taking posi-graduate work in Germany. 71he well educated and tal- ented couple had a large number of friends in the city, and their apari- ment often had been the meeting place of a congenial group of men and wom- en in scientific and musical circles here. Janitor Summoned. } Mrs. Von Bayer was hit in the right | side of the back and the buliet pene- | trated her body and right arm. The missile which Von Bayer turned on himself pierced his right temple and later was dug from the piastering near | the spot where his body lay i When Mrs. Von Bayer called to ber neighbor the latter summoned Emmet Crawford, colored janitor. Crawford ran into the street and located Officer Mills, who was the first to enter the apartment. Dr. Thomas K. Conrad of 5904 Con- necticut avenue arrived a few moments | later and pronounced Von Bayer dead Mrs. Von Bayer was given emergency treatment by Dr. Conrad and the| physician who responded with the| Emergency Hospital ambulance, Dr.| W. Bruner. The injured woman then was taken to the hospital. Headquarters Detectives Harry Cole, | Carlton Talley and Thomas Sweeney assisted Dr. Nevitt with the investiga- tion. They were unable to find any notes or indication that Von Baycr had contemplated suicide other than the checks which he had written out. The couple had been living in their spacious and _attractively decorated apartment on the fourth floor of the ! Chevy Chase Apartment for the past three years. They both were favorites with the other tenants, and were on friendly terms with a number of them. They had no children. | At Emergency Hospital Mrs. Eayer was given first-aid treatment by Drs, Lloyd Eastlack and Thomas Brad- ley of the hospital staff, and Mrs. Von Bayer’s personal physician, Dr. Charles | Stanley White, was called to attend her. | After the first examination the hos- | Von Bayer Only one pital physicians said Mrs. has a good chance to liv bullet wound was found in her body. A bullet had gone through her body from the left arm to the back. Phys- | icians were unable to say whether the bullet had entered the arm or the back. | She remains in a semi-conscious state. MISSING TWO WEEKS, RICH WIDOW SOUGHT By the Associated Press. BREVARD, N. C, March 16.—The mysterious disappearance of Mrs. Norma Shipman, 40-year-old wealthy widow, two weeks ago, and the subsequent dis- Von | - DROWNING OF SHAMROCK AT BAR In Death Pact WILLIAM H. VON BAYER AND MRS. GRETE VON BAYER. HOOVER EXPECTED T0 LEAVE CAPITAL LATE WEDNESDAY Will Sail From Norfolk Next Morning for Porto Rico _ and Virgin Islands. While President Hoover's plans for his voyage to Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands on the battleship Arizona are not complete, the indications today are that he will depart from Washington | by train sometime Wednesday afternoon or evening for Norfolk, from which point he will sail early the following morning. Neither has the President completed the personnel of the party to accom- pany him on this brief vacation trip. However, the company will be “stag” and will be limited in number. Mrs, Hoover expects to take this opportunity to visit Herbert Hoover, jr, and his wife at their cottage on the outskirts of Asheville, N. C. Secretaries Included. Thos: who are expected to accom- any the President, according to pres- ent plans, are Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, whose department has recently, by order of the President, taken over the management of the Virgin Islands; Secretary of War Hurley, under whose department the affairs of Porto Rico come; Lawrence Richey, one of the out the details for this expedition; Col. Campbell Hodges, White House military | aide; Capt. Russell Train, naval aide, and Capt. Joel T. Boone, White House physician. Just how many newspaper correspond- ents and cameramen will be included the party has not yet been deter- mined. Because of the limited space aboard the battleship, the number of these men will be necessarily restricted. It was learned today that the Presi- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) SRR ERaF e L FAMILY OF 6 WIPED OUT Murders and Suicide by Owner of Lonely Homestead Blamed. SYDNEY, New South Wales, March 16 (#).—Police today discovered an en- tire family of six wiped out at the lonely homestead of Denman, 90 miles from Newcastle. John T. Marriott, the homestead owner, was found dead on his door- step with a wound in his head. Inside the Nouse were the charred bodies of Marriott’s wife and four young chil- dren. Police belleve that he shot his fam- ily, fired the homestead and then killed himself. President’s secretaries, who is working | VESSEL REPORTED BLOWN UP WITH 150 O FILM LOCATION |Varick Frissell, New York Movie Director, in Party on Sealer Viking. J T TWO TUGS ARE RUSHED ! TO EXPLOSION SCENE A. E. Penrod, Cameraman, and Harry Sargent, Explorer-Actor, in Newfoundland Blast. ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, March 16 (#)—Marooned on a loose ice pack in the North Atlantic, surviv- ing members of the crew of an un- identified vessel, believed to be the sealing ship Viking, were drifting seaward with the floes off White Bay, messages reaching the govern- ment from that point sald today. ‘The vessel had burned to the water's edge, the message said. By the Associated Press. ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, March 16.—Unconfirmed reports here today said the sealing ship Viking, commanded by Capt. Abraham Kean, jr., with Var- Ick Prissell, film director, and a crew of 150 aboard. had blown up at sea. The report of the supposed explosion came from Horse or St. Barbe Island, ‘White Bay, and said a blast was heard Saturday night and a ship seemed burn- ing. The Viking was the only sealer in the neighborhood. The ship’s crew numbered 138, with 2 stowaways. With Varick Frissell, pro- moter of the talking picture “White Thunder,” were A. E. Penrod, camera- man, who had filmed “Down to the Sea in Ships,” and Harry Sargent, an ex- plorer who was taking a leading part in the production. The tugs Foundation Franklin and S. 8. Sagona are being rushed to the scene. White Bay is an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the north cozst of Newfound- land and is about 60 miles long. FRISSELL PROM NT. Director Has Notable Record as Ex- plorer in Arctic. NEW YORK, March 16 (#).—Varick Frissell of New ‘York, whose chartered sealer Viking was reported today to have exploded at sea, has conducted explorations along the Labrador Coast for several years. He is a Yale grad- uate and a fellow of the Royal Geo- graphic Soclety. Last year a Varick Prissell expedition left New York in January and returned in March with a photographic and sound record of the Labrador sealers at work uinurtng seals on ice floes 100 miles off the coast of Labrador. Capt. Robert A Bartlett, who captained Peary’s ship in the North Pole expedi- tion, was captain for Frissell. It was believed in motion picture cir- cles in New York that Frissell was in | the North making another picture. Last year he exhibited “The Silent Enemy” and the year before “Vikings of the North,” both of which were made with native characters in the Hudson Bay country. He was associated with W. C. Chan- ler of New York in the production of these pictures. No American actors were used. Frissell's mother and sister live in this city. The sister said her mother would not be immediately informed of the reported tragedy. Frissell's first experience dangers that confront the sealers was in 1928. Upon his return from that ex- perience he raised sufficient capital to finance his own expedition. Most of his pictures during the expedition of last year were taken in the vicinity of Greenly Island, where the German transatlantic monoplane landed. The vessel on that trip was out of sight of land for two months. | “Bowring Bros., Ltd., received a tele- gvam from their offices at St. John's, | Newfoundland, shortly before 2 o'clock | today saying an explosion was heard off | the coast in the vicinity in which the sealer Viking was operating. New York officials of the company | said the explosion might have been | dynamite used by the ship to cut | through ice. The telegram said nothing about the fire reporied in news dis- | patches. | Lloyds Register of Shipping lists a | wooden auxiliary barkentine Viking, owned by Bowring Bros., Ltd., of St. }.vohn's, Newfoundland. Representatives | of the owners said the ship was built | for service in the sealing industry. It is 586 tons gross register, 154 feet long and was bullt in 1881 | _ “Messages from Horse Island, White | Bay, reports explosion on steamer. Vik- i only steamer in vicinity. Will ad- ‘ particulars when available.” Bowring Co. officials said the steamer would be in the thick of the ice. | “The crew could easily escape on the |ice, 1f anvthing happened,” they said. | “In addition, the whole sealing fleet is | within hailing distance and could quick- ly render aid. There is a hospital at | Glencoe, St. Anthonys, across the bay, which could be reached over the ice.” {Radio Programs on Page C-3 AWAITS IRISH L Emerald Isle to Celebrate St. | By the Assoclated Press DUBLIN, Insh Free State, March 16, -—The Saorstat may drown the sham- rock tomorrow if the Dail gives a de- cision expected some time today on a bill legalizing open public houses for a few hours on St. Patrick’s day. Otherwise only Ulster and North Ire- iand, where liquor-restriction laws are tess strict, will be the only section of Emerald Isle which can carry out the old custom with fervor. This year St. Patrick’s day promises Jed officers to make a search for them today. Sheriff Ed Patton said Mrs. Ship- man’s home had been rifled of valuables and a bloody sack had been found in it. He ordered the search for her and for Joe Bradley, 21, who had been as- sociated with her in business and had lived at her home. appearance of & youth who lived at her Thome, l to be one of the happiest in" years, de- spite the economic depression. The past year has been marked with iess of. the litical turmoil of which Ireland has nown so much In recent years and the ;;‘:;rgu of every one are remarkably There will be military parades and open-air mass in the barracks and squares all over the Free State, wifh & EGISLATURE ACT . Patrick’s Day by “Wearing of the Green” and Fetes. special services in all churches. There | Will be an imposing military parade | and review through Dublin in the fore- noon, with the minister of defense tak- ing the salute at College Green. Air- planes will circle overhead and a sprig of ghamrock will be worn by every er. | Athletic events are arranged for the | afternoon, Amusements and ceremonies will have a national character and the | celebrations will be no less ardent in Cork, Limerick, Athlone and elsewhere than in Dublin itselt Everywhere the Saorstat youth will dance the night through, In Ulster the Duke of Abercorn, gov- ernor, will give a reception at Hillsbor- ough Castle. A sporting program has been arranged for the northern coun- ties also, with the Rugby finals for the school cup as the culminating event. with the | TR e MAIL PILOT LEAPS | 10 SAFETY AS ICE DISABLES PLANE Verne Treat Drops Near | Laurel After Losing Struggle Against Night Storm. TRUCK US_ED TO BRING POST ON TO WASHINGTON Flyer Made First Jump to Save His Life Last March—Has Nota- ble Flight Record. His plane crusted over with ice, which ,put all his instruments out of commis- sion; blinded by heavy snow and clouds in pitch darkness, Verne Treat, veteran mail pilot on the coastal line through | the National Capital, was forced to: take to his parachute near Laurel, Md.,, last night to save his life. He jumped from the plane only after a long struggle during which the stag- gering plane, under a hopeless load of ice and frozen snow, went completely out of control. Treat landed safely inear a farm house; the plane crashed in dense woods a mile away. Plane Almost Demolished. Aided by Scott F. Brown, the farmer | near whose house he landed, Treat set | [out in the snow and darkness to find | his plane, but gave up the search after two hours. He set out again at day- | break and found the plane this morning |at 7 o'clock. It was almost totally de- | molished, but the mail was undamaged. Treat commandeered a truck and ?Ild the mail brought to Washington, arriv- ing at Bolling Field at 9:30. After being held at Bolling Field near- ly three hours, Treat's mail was loaded aboard another plane, and when a slackening of the worst of the storm was reported, Pilot John Armstrong took off at 12:15 o'clock this afternoon for Richmond. Armstrong faced bad going, with a “ceiling” of only 500 feet, rain and flur- ries of wet snow. Armstrong is the only pilot able to get through to the Capital since Saturday night. He flew from Richmond yesterday shortly after dawn and was held here after several attempts to break through to New York had failed, forcing him to return, Armstrong landed safely at Rich- mond at 1:30 p.m. after groping through the storm, sometimes miles off his course, in order to find a way around the worst of the storm areas, accord- ing to a report received at Bclling Field. Due to his wanderings in the storm the trip required an hour and a quarter, though it usually is made in less than an_hour. Treat's battle with the snow and ice probably will go down as one of the epics of the local mail-line. The jump ‘which climaxed the struggle was the second Treat has made while flying the mail. A year ago this month he was “pinched off” by heavy fog and was forced to jump from an altitude of 11,- 000 feet, landing at Antietam, Md. Treat left New York on the regular southbound mail run at 9:10 o'clock last night bound for Richmond, Va. with a good sized load of mail. He stopped at Camden, N. J., where weath- er reports indicated that he probably would be able to gét through to Wash- ington. Instruments Are Clogged. Near Havre de Grace, Md., he began to encounter the full force of the storm. Flying at 2.000 feet, he was belween two layers of clouds in blinding snow so dense he had to resort to his instru- ments entirely for guidance. “My bank and turn indicator began to go out,” he told George Smith, local field manager for Eastern Air Trans- port, who met him at Laurel this morn- ing, “and I knew I was beginning to pick up ice. TRen my artificial horizon began to go. With these instruments out it was impossible to hold a compass course, b;clus: I couldn’t hold the com- EYEWITNESg TELLS OF BUCKLEY SHOOTING Three Men Ran Through Lobby of Detroit Hotel Firing Pistols, He Testifies. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, March 16.—An account of how three men ran through the lobby of the La Salle Hotel early on the morning of Jul} 23 and fired pistols 5 they ran was given in Recorder's Court today by a Cleveland jeweler, called by the prosecution in the trial of three men indicted for the assassi- nation of Gerald E. Buckley. The witness was Julius Eisenberg. His story of what happened in the ho- tel that morning constituted the first eyewitness account of the slaying thus far offered. Eisenberg said he was standing with a group near the cigar counter when the shooting started. Among this group was Angelo Livecchi, who, with Joe Bommarito and Ted Pizzino, is on trial for the slaying. Anothey member of the group was Edward Rosenberg, a State witness, who testified last week. The witness said he looked around at the sound of the shots and saw three men running and shooting as they ran, One man was near the cigar counter. another at a nearby fern stand and a third between these two and slightly to the rear. Eisenberg said he did not see the faces of the gunmen, but noted that “the center fellow wore Wwhite nts.” the gunmen wore brown suits. TWO DIE AS BAGNELL, Mo., March 16 (#).—Two men were burned to death and two women were reported missing after fire destroyed the business section of this little town early this morning. ‘The bodies of two men had been re- covered from the ruins of rooming houses at 9 o'clock. One of the bodies was later identified as that of Jess Brown of Ravenden Springs, Ark, an employe on the power project. Nineteen bulldings were destroyed be- fore a fire-fighting force from Jfferson City checked the flames, Damage Was estimated at $100,000; MONDAY, MARCH 16, Other State witnesses have testified I TOWN BURNS| 1931—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. ny Star. “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 Saturday’s Sunday’s FHP (#) Means Associated as fast as the papers are printed irculation, 114,668 irculation, 124,519 TWO CENTS. Press. Ve WE@{\‘.\%‘? (5) COUNT EM! EIRT DEBEN = TURE \ PRESIDENT NAMES T. G. JOSLIN, NEWS WRITER, AS SECRETARY Correspondent of Boston Transcript to Succeed Akerson. Formerly With A. P. and| Covered Salem Fire and Titanic Sinking. ‘Theodore G. Joslin, a correspondent of the Boston Transcript in Washing- ton, was today appointed by President Hoover as one of his secretaries, to suc- ceed George Akerson. Formal announcement to this effect was made at the White House today. At the same time, it was said that just when Mr. Joslin will enter upon his new duties has not been determined, but it will not be for several weeks. The_secretaryship to which Mr. Jos- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) THEODORE_G. JOSLIN. —Harris-Ewing Photo. WIDOW, 80, BURNED T0 DEATH N HOME Clothing of Mrs. Millie Lim- erick Believed Ignited by Match at Stove. Mrs. Millie Limerick, 80-year-old widow, was burned to death this morn- ing in her home, 2018 Portner place. There were no witness:s, but the sur- rounding circumstances indicated that her clothing caught fire as she was lighting a gas stove to prepare break- fast. James M. Ryan, who occupies a room in the house, was slightly burned when he went to Mrs. Limerick's assistance. Ryan was on the second floor when he heard Mrs. Limerick screaming about 8 o'clock. He hastened down- stairs to find the dining room in flames, while Mrs. Limerick, her dress aflame, was in a smoke-filled kitchen. He attempted to extinguish the fire in her clothing while neighbors, at- tracted to the scene, were summoning fire apparatus and a physician. Mrs. Limerick was dead when a doctor ar- rived from Emergency Hospital. The blaze in the room was extinguished with small damage. Mrs. Limerick had daid out her break- fast dishes on the kitchen table, while a coffee pot was on the stove which had not been lighted. Sergt. Joseph D. Harrington of the eighth precingé, who investigated, was of the opinion that the elderly woman had just lighted a match and that when her clothing caught fire, became confused and ran into the dining room, starting the fire there, as there was no trace of fire in the kitchen. Mrs. Limerick was the widow of Sid- ney Limerick who died several years ago. She is survived by a daughter, Miss Carrie Limerick and two sons,| Julian and Howard Limerick. BANK BANDI:I:S DROP $800 Had Loot in Coal Bucket in Mary- 1and Hold-up. RIDGELY, Md., March 16 (#).—Three yeggmen fleeing as a fire alarm was sounded following the robbery of the Bank of Ridgely here early today, dropped a coal bucket filled with $80C in silver money. The money was re- covered by a group of pursuers. Lawrence Wilson, cashier, estimated the bank’s loss at $2,000 in cash and a number of securities. PERSHING’S THRILLING STORY - QF ST. MIHIEL VICTORY Tomorrow in The Evening Star J. B, ASWELL DIES; VETERAN IN HOUSE |Heart Disease Is Fatal to | Member Who Served More Than 16 Years. By the Associated Press. Jam:s Benjamin Aswell of Natchi- toches, La., a Representative from the eighth district for more than 16 years, dicd at his residence here early today of heart disease. Dr. Aswell’s death was sudden, coming at 2:15 am., a few hours before he planned to leave for his home in Lou- isiana for the Summer. As ranking minority member on the House Agriculture Committee, he took an active part in the formulation of the legislation tnat created the Farm Board, and last Fall he was the leader in the fight against the administration to in- crease the droughu loan fund to $45,- 000,000 Dr. Aswell had served continually since he entered Congress in 1913. He was elected to the Seventy-second Con- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) PERU CALMS DOWN UNDER ULTIMATUM Insurgents Accept Government Personnel—Serious Economic Problem Is Tackled. By the Associated Press. LIMA, Peru, March 16.—Peace came to revoli-torn Peru today with accep- tance of the southern insurgents of the personnel of the government organized by David Samanez Ocampo, Arequipa rancher and statesman. Faced with an ultimatum {from Samanez which threatedend blockade of their port, Mollendo, and other co- arcive measures, the Arequipa insurgents withdrew their objections to Samanez's secretary of war, Licut. Col. Gustavo Jimenez, and promised collaboration in the government. With the problem of warfare removed the new Junta could turn itself to the problems of peace—a Teturn to consti- tutionalism and meeting an acute eco- nomic situation which Saturday led to notice of negotiations for a moratorium on part of Peru's external ‘debt. i | GAS MERGER DATA DUE TOMORROW Corporation Counsel Expects Roberts Back After Re- search in Boston. Corporation Counsel William W. Bride said that he expected William A. Roberts, his special assistant in pub- lic utilities matters, to return from Bos- ton tomorrow with information concern- ing the new ownership of the Washing- ton Gas Light Co., which carries with it also ownership of the Alexandria Gas Light Co. and several other companies in the neighborhood of Washington. Mr. Roberts left last week on an in- vestigation trip following pews from Chicago that a group said to include.the Central Public Service Corporation of Tllinois had exercised an option and ac- quired control of the Seaboard Invest- ment Trust, a Massachusetts common- law trust, owning about 84 per cent of the common stock of the Washington Gas Light Co. Change in Name. Simultaneously news came of the change in name of the Seaboard Invest- ment Trust to Washington & Suburban Cos., and a group of New York finan- ciers issued a trade letter offering for sale securities in the Washington & Suburban Cos., which were stated to own equities in the New York & Rich- mond Gas Co. as well as in the Wash- ington & Alexandria Gas Light Cos. The interest of the Central Public Service Corporation has been variously confirmed, denied and reconfirmed, and the present ultimate ownership of ‘Washington’s gas-distributing companies is hopeiessly beclouded. ‘The Department of Justice has been requested to investigate the matter in an effort to decide who now owns the local companies and whether this ownership, or any of the sales leading up to it, are in violation of the La Fol- lette anti-merger act, forbidding the purchase, holding or voting of stock in local utility companies by foreign hold- ing or public utility corporations. Obtains Copy of Opinion. R. A. Van Orsdel, counsel for the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., yesterday asked for and received a copy of Mr. Bride's opinion holding the re- cent issue of $2,000,000 worth of com- mon stock in that corporation and its sale to the American Telephone & Tele- graph Co. illegal. Mr. Bride ruled that the act of is- suing the stock without first securing a certificate of authorization from the Public Utilities Commission was in vio- lation of the Public Utilities Commis- sion act of March 4, 1913, and that its subsequent sale to the A. T. & T., which is classed as both a foreign public utility corporation and a foreign hold- ing corporation was a violation of the La Follette anti-merger act above re- ferred to. Mr. Bride has pending a request from the commission on what steps to take with regard to the issuance and sale of this stock, and the opinion is expect- ed to be forthcoming toward the end of this week. . EMBASSY DEAL READY | Garrett and Fascist to Sign Title Conveyance on Rome Site. ROME, March 16 (®).—The site of the new American embassy will be transferred to the United States Gov- ernment this week, probably on Thurs- day, when Ambassador John W. Garrett and Gilovanni Giuriati, secretary of the Fascist party, sign final papers convey- ing full title. Payment of a balance of 17,000,000 lire (approximately $850,000) will not be made until next year. OFFE Washington made so good an im- pression on James J. Conlon of Miami, Fla., that when he was arraigned in Police Court today for being drunk he offered to pay twice the sum which the judge assessed, and the magistrate, not to be outdone by Southern courtesy, suspended sentence. “This is sure & swell town,” de- clared Conlon effusively. “Your honor, 1 was stopping over in the city on my way to Maine. I did a_little cel brating and awakened to find my ha shoes, « ‘at and money missing. Pollce arrestec me, but I told them about the MAN HELD AS DRUNK LIKES CITY, RS TO PAY DOUBLE FINE But Judge Reciprocates and Takes Personal Bond From Theft Victim Whom Police Assisted. theft and, by gosh, they had my olothes back the next day. Judge, this is a great town.” ‘Well,” answered Judge Ralph Given, “having such a break from the city §1.972451 L0SS LISTED IN' AUDIT OF RHEEM BOOKS Creditors to Get 68 Per Cent of Value of Holdings on Basis of Figures._ REPORT PLACES _TRUST RELEASES AT $4,895,549 Biggest Liability by Far in Sched- ule Filed by Trustees of Bank- rupt Mortgage House. Listing a total loss of $1,972,457.82, the audited report of the trustees for Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey, bankrupt mortgage house, was filed today with Pred J. Eden, referee in bankruptcy. The report, submitted after an ex- haustive examination of the bankrupt company’s books, listed the total assets of the firm at $3,149,565.85 and the to- tal Nabllities at $5,122,023.67. On the basis of these figures, cred- itors of Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey, when the trustees have liquidated the assets, will receive about 68 per cent of the face value of their holdings. The trustees—Julius I. Peyser, Hen: P. Blair and Michael M. Do)'le—'lrz understood to be pleased with the show- ing in the report, which was prepared by the accounting firms of Wayne Kendrick and William Clabaugh Co. Final adjustment of the bankrupt's affairs, it was believed, may result in some slight increase in the estimated Iase::sand @ similar decerase in its lia- bilit] Various Assets Listed. According to the report, biggest loss will result from the alleged x:‘;;ue 31 'l-rust:hwithwt COTT 3 ent to e noteholders. schedule of liabilities lists an mre:;l:: otq_s&us.sg.n in this category. various assets - port lr!dls locllmw.: N and uncashed ecks, - 41T47; bank balances, $30.83607; ot mr:"lgl:c: l'eulll'nedl u‘:rbld. $353.60; nder value of insurance poli- cies, $12383; ¢ TS" o debit balances, $20,510.40: accounts ceivable, miscellaneous, $910,986.18; ac- counts receivable from rented proper- tles, $2,325.75; accounts receivable, in- surance, $11,670.74; notes receivable, $2,691,424.99; preferred stock of the Wardman Realty & Construction Co. (1,285 shares), $128,500; real estate equities (based on assessments or total trusts,” whichever is greater), minus taxes due, $4,199,421.14. From this list of assets was deducted an item of $1,049,855.29, representing an estimated loss of 25 per cent in the liquidation. » Schedule of Liabilities. ‘The schedule of liabilitles was sect forth as follows: Customers’ accounts,” credit balance far the pany payment them), $2,907,099.47; customers' credit balances (inst 5 notes released. snd paid to . Swa 1, Rheem & Hensey and not credited to the accounts of the holders, $1,988.450; notes payable, unsecured, ,306.51; notes payable, indirect liability, $9,250; outstanding checks, $13,576.94; checks drawn and held for clients, $2,917.68; checks drawn and not sent out, $201.43; checks sent out and returned unde- livered, $2,171.65; accountants payable, miscellaneous, $155,421.54; accountants (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) EMPLOYMENT GAIN SHOWN BY w00DS you should find it easy to pay this $10 fine.” sald. do that; I'll " the judge, 1l pay $20!” the man ‘No, I couldn’t let you take your bond,” surprised, r¢ Conlon toward tended of his from grasped ind, and, still mutts praise tional Capital, walked priskly court room. d quickly o unex- ,trip to Reynosa, All Sections of Country Slowly Getting Back to Normal, Week’s Reports Indicate. By the Associated Press. Improvement in the employment situ- ation was seen today by Chairman ‘Woods of the Hoover Emergency Com- mittee in weekly reports from field agents. “There is a widespread and main- tained disposition for employment con- ditions to improve,” he said, adding it was_“proceeding slowly.” “The unemployment situation is rapidly easing in this territory with the opening of Spring weather,” Harold P. Pagan wired from Salt Lake as to the Rocky Mountain territory. Railroad maintenance and public con- struction were among the avenues of occupation described as opening. ‘Thad Holt telegraphed from Birming- ham, that “the president of the largest Southern steel plant reports operations now proceeding at 70 per cent of ca- pacity as compared with 30 per cent operation during December.” A speeding up of State highway oper- ations in Mississippi was in prospect, he said. Adoption by farming areas in North Carolina, South Carolina and Mississippi of programs to diversity crops for the purpose of local food pro- duction during the coming season also ‘was noted. Willam Phillips, committee repre- sentative at Boston, said there was “an improved employment condition in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massa- chusetts.” Phillips said silk production could be considered at normal, cotton textile fabrication was 40 per cent below nor- mal, metal working 25 per cent below normal, with no change in woolen mill- ing. These percentages, he added, in- dicated a betterment from the condi- tions of last Fall. value, the committeé- said, 000, the $48,000,000 Boulder Dam proj- ect being the largest. . TEXAN AND GIRL DIE. Shots Fired After Quarrel of Man and Foster Daughter. EDINBURG, Tex, March 16 (#).— officers her band shot the girk and then Rimself. The family had fln returned from a fexico. Mrs. Walker sald an argument between Walker and the girl preceded the shooting, but she did not know what started the quarrel.