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THE EVENING RAD ON AL VAN LLNG 2 PROBED Battle With Deputies Seeking Liquor Is Waged in Wilmington, N. C. By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, N. C, March 16— A coroner's jury attempted today to untangle the confused details of a Sunday morning pistol battle in which a mail truck driver and a deputy sheriff were slain as five deputy sheriffs sought & rum runner. The victims were Leopold Roberts, 29, -of Dudley, N. C, a driver unde | Government contract, and W. P, Star- ling, 35-year-old New Hanover County deputy sheriff. | The scene was at Creck Bridge, in | the outskirts of Wilmington, where the | deputies went at midnight Saturday on a police tip that a load of liquor was on its way ‘into the city. { Beginning its investigation yesterday, | the jury was told by the officers that | the mail truck stopped on the bridge | and Roberts opened fire on them as they approached after halting another machine. There was no whisky in the truck, nor was Roberts suspected as | being a rum runner, they said. ‘\ Four Deputies Escape Bullets. Two bullets struck Starling, who did not wear a uniform, and he fired twice as he fell. - The other officers, one in unitorm, then opened fire, and Roberts toppled over with four builet wounds. Both men died before they could be taken to a hospital. The other deputies—Porter Davis, E. J. Hale, L. M. Massey and A. P. Crews —were not hit by any of the bullets. From three young Wilmington women, who rode with Roberts on the truck from Goldshoro to Wilmington as pas- sengers, the jury heard a slightly dif- ferent version of the tragedy. Elizabeth Hines said she took the wheel when Roberts complained of a | severe headache at Tin City, 40 miles from Wilmington, and was driving When they reached the bridge. Roberts told her to stop when he saw the men on the bridge, she testified. Several men ran toward the truck, she said, and the shooting began. She did not know the men were officers or who fired the first shot, she added. ‘Turned Head as Firing Began. Betty Gibson, who testified she was a relative of Starling, said the officer ran up with a gun in his hand, and that Roberts said: “‘Don’t you girls got excited. I will care of his.’ " “Mr. Roberts got eut of the car,” she continued, “and Mr. Starling ran up until they were right together, and the | shooting began. “I do not gnow who fired the first shot, because I turned my head. It sounded lik= a new war had started.” Dorothy Jackson, the third girl, cor- roborated the testimony of the other two. The jury continued its investigation until late in the night and recessed un- til today. Coroner Asa W. Wells said he expected the inquiry to be completed . this afterncon. No Charges Yet Preferred. 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BAGGETT, | Staff Correspondent of The Star ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 16—A number of radical changes in the local | school system, principally affecting the high schools, have been approved by | the city Board of Education following | the receipt of the 175-page report of | Dr. W. 8. Y. Chritchley of Columbia | University, who has just completed a detalled survey of the two local high schools. Out of the report and the cuncemd‘ effort of the School Board and other school authorities has come a cam- plete amicable settlement of the whole ' school question, which has caused much civic discussion here for the past few months, it was stated today by school officials. Superintendent Vindicated. Supt. of Schools R. C. Bowton, upon whom many of the attacks were made, has been completely vindicated by the | report, and Bowton and Col. Clarence | M. Deems, Jr., professor of military sci- | ence and tagtics, have settled any per- sonal difficulties which they had and are now ready to co-operate with each | other for the benefit of the school system. One of the motions passed by the | school board at its meeting Saturday | night to consider Mr. Critchley’s re- | port was that Col. Deems immediately | be made a member of the faculty of the | Alexandria_High School, which means that he will be subject to the crders | of Supt. Bowton or of the principal of | working. Urban S. Lambert, chairman of the school board, said this morning in com- menting on the report that Dr. Critch- ley had, in his opinicn, been absolutely fair with every one, and that on the | other hand he had been fearless in| criticizing anybody and anything_that he did not think was right. Mr. Lam- bert also stated that he had received a letter from the school faculties praising Dr. Critchley for his fair treatment. George Maspn High. Concerning George Mason High | School, which this city acquired with the annexation cf new territory from | Arlington County more than a year ¢o, | Dr, Critchley stated that it is extremely | difficult for any system to incorporate another school and expect it to func- tion properly. No superintendent in| the country, he stated, could have avoid- ed a controversy over such a matter | and Supt. Bowton is to be congratuiated | that worse difficulties did not appear, | Mr. Critchley said. | George Mason High School must be closed, otherwise these difficulties will continue, Dr. Critchley reported. He urged that the school be incorporated | with Alexandria High School at the | earliest possible date. Plans of the| school board, awaiting attion of City | Council, call for the building of a new | high school to incorporate both schools | into a senior high school system, with | the George Mason High Building to be If the recommendations in his survey | are put into operation, Dr. Critchley | stated in summing up his report, and | ifea supervisor for the graded schools is appointed, as he urges, there is abso- lutely no necessity of a survey being | made of the graded system. What the Alexandria schools need, Dr. Critchley | continued in his summary, is expert help and not surveys. Recommendations Approved. ley, as unanimously approved by the | | school board at its session Saturday | i night, are that no teacher with less | nized high school be employed and that | the salary scale be based on a 10-year | tenure. Increases in salary are to come | annually for the first three years, but | no salary increases shall be ‘made be- | yond that point until research work is| uscd in future as an elementary school. | = 'RECKAGE of the mail plane p STAR, WASHINGTON, D. G, Wreck of Mail Plane illoted by Verne Treat, which Treat was forced to abandon early today when ice weighted down the plane. The pilot went over the side in a parachufe and landed safely. ‘The accident occurred 5 miles from Laurel, Md. Below, Treat. —Star Staff Photo. xD—ARKEN ED BAY LIGHTHOUSE LEADS | TO DISCOVERY OF DEAD KEEPER But Death Verdict CRISFIELD, Md., March 16®-Failure | of the beacon of Holland Bar Light House, on lonly wind-swept Tangier | Saturday night led to the discovery | yesterday of the body of the keeper, | Elmer Owens, 55, in the wreckage of .his | living rcom. Tables and chairs had been overturn- ed, drawers pulled out and their con- tents scattered on the floor. The door | leading to the outside was opzn. The clothing was torn from the keep- er’s body. There was a bruise over the left eye and nearby on the floor was a butcher knife, stained with blood I | Scenes of Disorder in Holland Bar Station on Chesapeake, | Is Natural Causes. Officials brought the body here and a coroner’s jury gave a verdict of death from natural causes. The sheriff said, |Sound, to shine over Chesapeake Bay however, he was going to investigate. He wants to know, he said, if sbme one ransacked the place. The physician who examined the body expressed the opinion the bruises were caused by the man falling when stricken with a heart attack. The keeper's assistant had been {ll | for several days and was not at the light house. The Light House Register, that by law has to be signed every day by the keeper, bore no entry after March 12. PARLEY PLANNED INTRACK REMOVAL Prosecuotr Gloth of Arlington Invites Lawyers to Con- ference on Project. B\ By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT | HOUSE, Va., March 16.—At the sug- | gestion of Representative-elect ‘Howard | W. Smith, who is taking an active in- terest in the case, Commonwealth's At- torney William C. Gloth has written to | the attorneys for Fairfax County and the City of Alexandria and to the rep- | resentatives of the Alexandria, Mount Vernon & Washington Railway Co. in an effort to arrange a_confercnce for this week with respect to the railway's difficulties in Washington. To Ask Injunction. Judge Smith has informed Gloth that ke has conferred with John S. Barbour, | attorney for the railway company, and | that the latter has advised him of the | intention to apply for an injunction to | prevent the Tresaury Department from enforcing the order to remove the com- | pany’s tracks in Washington, He suggests a meeting of the legal representatives of the secticns affected | and those of the company for the pur- pose of formulating a plan of action and announces that he will be glad to attend the meeting. He also suggests that representatives of the Washington | Chamber_of Commerce and Arlington | County Civic Federaticn be invited to | attend the conference. | Letter Made Public. | The Civic Federation today made pub- lic a letter received from the Public | Utilities Commission of the District of | Columbia, in which it is claimed that | at the present time there is nothing | before that body in connection with | the railway company and inviting the | federation, 1f it £o desires, to place its | views before the commission. The letter has been referred to G. O. | Basham, transportation chairman of | the federation, who will study it and | make his report at the executive com- | mittee meeting which will be held | Thursday night at the home of Julian D. Simpson. | | Receivers of Doles in Danzig Must Labor 4 Hours if Possible. FREE CITY OF DANZIG, March 16 (#)—The Senate voted today to make further payments of unemploy= ment doles depend upon the per- formance of work of some sort by the recipient Communities may demand that re- ceivers of doles do a maximum of four hours of work a day if anything can be found for them to do. A quarter of Danzig’s population is jobless. | this to be done under the 1931-32 term, the superintendent and direction of principal. It was further resolved that H. T. Moncure, principal of Alexandria High School, be given an immediate leave of absence, with pay, to visit other high school systems for the purpose of re- search work and that a substitute be named Ventilating Changes Favored. Recommendations concerning the im- ‘The recommendations of Dr. Critch- | ;rovement of the ventilating system at Alexandria High School were approved. The entire report regarding the de- partment of military science and tactics than five years' experience in a recog- | was adopted and will be put into opera- | tion immediately, and Col. Deems has been elected a member of the faculty of Alexandria Hign School. The question of transportation re- lative to the use of a bus carrying pupils to West End School will be taken | evening. | solo, Mrs. Pearl Haue! NATIVES T0 MARK START OF CAPITAL ‘Dinner on May 21 Will Recall Shift of Government to D. C. in 1800. The Society of ¥atives of the District of Columbia will celebrate the anniver- sary of the removal of the seat of Civ- ernment from Philadelphia to Washing- ton at the dinner of the society to be held Thursday evening, May 21, at the Shoreham Hotel, it was announced to- | jine through the National Capital since day by Fred A. Emery, president of the | organization. Plans for the commemoration will be discussed at the next regular meeting | of the soclety at the Washington Club, Seventeenth and K streets, next Friday At the meeting next Friday, in addition to the regular business and discussion of the memorial celebration, there will be an entertainment under the direction of Mrs. Ella C. Robinson, chairman of the Committee on Enter- tainment. The entertainment program will include the following: Soprano solo, Mrs. Duncan Price; bass solo, Erbin G. ‘Thomas; accompanist, R. Rapp; piano violin solo, Pritz Haver. Usual Custom Changed. For a number of years the organiza- tion has commemorated, with appro- priate observances, the anniversary of the laying of the corner stone of the District, on the Virginia corner line of what was then the south end of the Federal City, below Alexandria, on April 15, 1791, This year there will be a_departure from that custom so @s to observe the removal of the seat of Government, from Philadelphia in May, 1800, to the site of the present city of Washington. “Back in that May, that marked in history the beginning of Federal Government at Washington,” Mr. Emery explained, “the site of the present city was almost as much of a wilderness as it was when the Indians of the Powhatan tribe held councils at the foot of Capitol Hill and meandered over the elevations where Motnt Pleasant and Columbia Heights are today. Few Employes There. “So the Natives Society will meet this year to commemorate the beginning of Government at Washington. On May 13, 1800, Congress provided by law that its next regular session should be held in Washington; on May 27 President Adams left Philadelphia for Washing- ton to assume the reins of Government here. The President’s cabinet also left Philadelphia for Washington and on May 31 the citizens of Georgetown ap- pointed a committee to address the President by letter of welcome, Or? May 14, 1800, Congress adjourned at Phila- delphia_to meet in Washington and on May 15, 1800, President Adams re- quested the heads of departments to make arrangements for the removal of the public offices, clerks and papers. “The acting head of the Federal Postal Service, Abraham Bradley, Jjr., arrived to take charge of the work at | Washington on May 29, although he | was not able to commence business until 13 days later. It is interesting to note in that connection that the em- | ployes of the Federal Government in | 1802 in the new city numbered but 126, with total pay. roll of $125888. The Post Office Department had 10 em- | ployes, Treasury, 75; War, 17; Navy, 16, | and State Department, 8. “At the time the seat of Government was established at Washington _there ! were, on May 15, 1800, 109 brick houses | | and 253 frame houses.” st P 1 BRUENING DISCUSSES l | EXPORTS TO SOVIETS| | By the Assoclated Press. | BERLIN, March 16.—Soviet Russia | AL PLOT LEAS AMID NGHT STORM Verne Treat Drops Near Laurel After Losing Struggle Against Ice and Snow. (Continued From First Page.) turn indicator. Then the air-speed indi- cator tube clogged with ice and also failed.” All the while Treat was striving en- ergetically to climb above the layer of air in which the ice was forming. The plane was so weighted down, however, that he’ could not get above 4,000 feet and still was in the danger zone. Craft Goes Into Spin. At 4,000 feet the ship became so in- crusted with ice it refused to answer the controls and went into a spin. He spun down about 1,000 feet through the blinding, pitch-black storm before he was ablé to regain control. There was no sign of the earth visibie; no lights, no sky, he said. After a struggle Treat leveled the | plane off by “feel” alone, all his naviga- | tion instruments having failed, and | again attempted to climb. He was able | to get up only to 3,300 feet, he said, and | the plane fell off into another spin. | After fighting the spin for nearly 1,800 feet, Treat calmly made prepara- tions for going over the side. He opened the throttle and shut off the gasoline | feed line, so that the motor would stop | after burning the fuel out of the carburetor and so prevent a fire when | it crashed. He jammed his plane log | book between the dash and the control stick to hold the nose up so that it | would have a better chance for a good | uncontrolled landing. Drops Into Blackness. Treat then hoisted himsely up out of his seat, sat on the rim of the cockpit and feli outbackward into the storm. In one hand he held an inflated rubber | cushion, carried as a life preserver in case of landings in water, and in the other a flashlight. He had to get both articles into one hand before he could pull his parachute rip cord, which he thinks opened at an altitude of 1,000 feet, or less. | Using his flashlight, he sighted the | ground in time to brace himself and | landed quite easily. i The lights in the Brown house were | burning and Treat freed himself from | ‘his parachute and started toward the | house. He was met by Brown heard the crash of the plane. After seeing his mail safely on its| way and rescuing his log book and other records from the plane, Treat continued by rail to Richmond. He expects to take over another plane there for his regular northbound night | run tonight if there is any 1mpru\'e<‘ , who had | ment in weather conditions. Treat's jump last night makes him | one bf the few “two-time” members of | the Caterplllar Club, mythical organiza- | tion of airmen who have saved their | lives by the parachute route. | His first jump was made on March | 25 last year, when he and Henry T.| (Dick) Merrill, fellow mail pilot, were cut off by an unexpected and fast- rising fog. Treat jumped after exhaust- ing his fuel supply in & vain search for | a way down through the fog blanket. Merrill found a tiny hole just as his gas supply was nearing exhaustion and landed in a field at Appomattox Court | House, Va. On that occasion Treat's coolness in preparing his plane also, | | prevented fire, and his mail was rescued | undamaged. | Several Narrow Escapes. ! Treat has been flying the mail on the the gervice was inaugurated May 1, 1928, He has had several narrow es- | capes from death or injury in forced | landings at night, in one of which his plane was demolished, though he es-| caped without a scratch. About two years ago a piston rod in | the motor of his plane broke after he | had taken off from Boiling Field for | Richmond. Thre: cylinders were smashed to bits by the flailing rod, leaving him over the center of the Potomac River without power. . He headed for the mud flats on the Mary- | land shor, released two parachute flares and turned on his landing lights. | He selected a level stretch of shore and, | just as he was setting the plane down, | saw an iron fence ah:ad. i He pulled up into a stall, crumpling up the tail of his plane in back of his seat, and then plowed through the fence, tearing off landing gear and wings. He unfastened his safety belt and climbed unscathed out of an almost totally de- molished plane. | Two years ago this month he was | caught in a fog with a balky motor, | found an opening near Glenburnie, Md., | and let go two flares. The flares started | a grass fire in the field he had selected | for his landing. He coolly selected a | landing area between the fires and | dragged his mail out to safety. Treat is a native of New York. He| was trained as a military pilot during the World War and has been flying | ever since. Madrid Citizens to Vote. MADRID, March 16 (#).—Municipal | elections will be held in Spain April 12 | in accordance with the program of the | new Aznar government. All Spaniards have been urged to vote, and their | identification papers will be stamped as | a proof of voting. | Celebrate Golden Wedding COUPLE TO OBSERVE DATE TUESDAY. R. AND MRS. JOHN H. HOLLAND will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary tomorrow at the home cf their daughter, Mary C. Holland, 1474 Columbia road. 117, 1881, They were married in Carrsville, Va.,, on March Heads Association ELLIS PRESIDENT OF LOCAL PHI BETA KAPPAS. ‘WADE H. ELLIS, Wade H. Ellis, former Assistant At- | torney General of the United States, was elected president of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of Washington at a meeting of the group held last night at the Cosmos Club. Mr. Ellis succeeds Dr. George E. McLean in the presi- dency. Heis an alumnus of Ohio Wes- leyan, Other officers elected include Arthur ‘W. Shelton of Georgia University, vice president; Jacob M. Gichner, Lehigh University, secretary, and Dr. James M. Long, Harvard, treasurer. The three last named were re-elected. Dr. McLean, the retiring president, an alumnus of Willlams College, was elected a_councillor to serve with Allen Fisher, Cincinnati University. The address of the evening was by Rev. W. Colman Nevils, president Jf Georgetown University, on “Virgil: Poet, Patriot, Prophet.” Will Rogers BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—You read about thousands of people clamoring to see their hero, such as Mahatma Gandi or Charley Chaplin. 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LONDON, March 16.—Household ser- vants and chauffeurs in London's smart | West End have become figures not to be ignored in the by-election campaign between Capt. A. Duff Cooper and Sir Ernest Petter for a seat in the House of Commons. ‘The “below stairs” staff will be hon- ored guests in the drawing room of the Marchioness of Hartington when Lady Diana Cooper, the captain's wife and better known as Lady Diana Manners, makes her debut this week as a public speaker. The marchioness’ butler, however, has written to the papers de- nying that pressure is being brought to blt’\al:'c on the household staffs to “vote right.” The Petter forces are counting on | support from thousands of chauffeurs, because Sir Ernest is a distinguished engineer and has been emphasizing this {and their fellow interests. | Capt. Cooper is an “official Conserv- ative” and Sir Ernest an “unofficial | Conservative.” Stanley Baldwin, Con- | servative leader, will speak tomorrow for Capt. Cooper. Sir Robert Horne, | former chancellor of the exchequer, spoke for him today. Lord Beaver- brook and Lord Rothermere in their newspapers are supporting Sir Ernest. Yesterday in the pulpit of Savoy Chapel the Rev. Hugh Chapman announced it would be a religious work to support Capt. Duff Cooper. The seat is vacant because of the death of Sir Laming Worthington- Evans, Conservative and former war | minister. Yunnan Province Falls. HANOL. French Indo-China, March 16 ().—Yong Yun, president of Yun- | nan Province in South China since 1929, | today was reported to have been over- thrown by a coup d'etat engineered by four generals. The generals withdrew their troops | to a position commanding Kweiyang, | the capital of the province, compelling ; Yong Yun to abdicate. The dissension was said to have arisen over an opium | “transaction. Don't forget the address ONDAY, MARCH 16, 1 g g; SHERIFF IS SLAN, TWO DIE, N INDIANA Pair Sought as Bank Ban- dits End Own Lives After Killing. By the Associated Press. MONTICELLO, Ind., March 16.—A sheriff’s attempt to arrest two brothers for bank robbery resulted in death to all tirte from gunfire at the home of the suspects’ mother north of here yes- terday. Ray Fisher, 40, sheriff of White County, was shot in the head and in- stantly killed by Scott Talbutt, 43, as he started to & warrant of the T oe County Circuit Court. , officers said, Talbutt shot to death his brother, Willlam Talbutt, and committed suicide. Deputy Sheriff Barney Ireland, who accompanied Pisher unarmed, was shot through the hand as he fled from the scene. As he ran to a neighbor's home, he said, he heard two other shots, which bodies, one lying across the other. The warrant carried by Fisher charged participation in the $1,400 rob- bery of the Battleground, Ind. State Bank last February 6. A neighbor of the Talbutts, Willlam C. Taylor, is un- der arrest at Covington, Ind., as a suspect in the robbery, in which three men took part. At Indianapolis Edward L. Oshorne, chief of the State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, said two clerks of the Battleground Bank had viewed the Talbutts secretly and had identified them as members of the bandit gang. ‘The three men killed were hood | friends and_neighbors. Scott b'g’umtt was one of Pisher’s strongest supporters in the political campaign last ‘;lovem- ber which elected the sheriff to his second term. Scott Te 't was unmarried and lved with his mother, Mrs. Harriett Talbutt, on the farm where the shooting occur- red. William Talbutt lived with his family several miles away. Officials said they believed Willlam's presence at the farm indicated the pair were warned of impending arrest and had arranged to lay in walt for the officers. “NEW PARTY” ATTACKED Mosleyites Disloyal Element, Says British Foreign Undersecretary. 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Call us up. 119 3rd 8. 8.W. District 0933. creases will then continue for another | three years until satisfactory evidence is shown that more research has been done. It was further resolved, on Dr. Critch- ’ ley’s recommendation, that a supervisor, who shall_have entire charge of the grades and who shall be appointed for | the school year of 1931-32, be named, |and that this supervisor shall have had | not less than five years' teaching ex- perience and three years’ supervising ex- perience. An absolute reorganization of the fac- ulty upon departmental lines will also go into effect on the opening of the Council be immediately petitioned to consider the report on physical condi- | tions of the schools and that Council be llr?ed to take favorable action. t is planned to ask that a temporary building be constructed if Council does | not approve the building plan of the board, which latter plan would mean an _outlay of approximately $400,000. Dr. Critchley, who has conducted about 150 similiar school surveys, mad: the local study with the authority of the State Board of Education. He will be with the George Washington Founda- tion, connected with the Bi-Centennial Commission, for the next six months. ) departments and heard results of their investigations into such questions as| the terms on which Russia was doing | | business in the United States. | " Later he talked for the second time within a few days to the German mm-l ness delegation which returned recently from Soviet territory. At this confer- | ence the federal ministers of labor, finance and economics, the Prussian ministers of finance and trade and President Luther of the Reichsbank participated. ) A cabinet meeting late this afternoon was to discuss the same question of trade wé*) Russia. America’s richest hard coal mines. Marlow Coal Co. 811 E St. N.W. NAtionai 0311 Dependable Coal Service Since 1858 VACUUM DOES IT