Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1931, Page 1

‘WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 No. 31,733. post office, | Entered as second class matter Washington, ;i C- he WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foening - Star. Associated service. D. , THURSDAY, The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 118,259 MARCH 19, 1931—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. FRRP UP) Means Associated Pre TWO CENTS. " RESCUERS CARRY FOOD AND MEDICINE 70 VIKING VICTIN Landing Effected by Efforts of Crews of Seven Seal- ing Ships. PLIGHT OF REFUGEES HAD BECOME DESPERATE Were Subsisting on Bread and Tea, While Injuries of Many Lack- ed Attention. - By the Associated Press. ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, March 19. ~Food and medical assistance today were landed on Horse Island, where more than 100 survivors of the wrecked sealing steamer Viking were sheltered, radio advices received here reported. The landing was effected by the united efforts of the crews of seven gealing ships, which for many hours had been pounding the ice in an effort to make way for the rescue ship Sa- gona. Wireless Operator C. King is suffer- ing from gangrene in his legs and Navi- gator W. Kennedy is ill with pneu- moni wireless reports added. The re- mainder of the survivors were in “fairly good condition,” reports indicated. The sealer Imogene reported & pro- peller blade broken in an effort to reach the island last night.' Condition Desperate. Previously doctors left'the rescue ship Sagona today with aid.,H. B. C. Lake, minister of marine for Newfoundland, ordered the Foot expedition. The condition of the 118 refugees from the Viking and the handful of inhabitants of the island became more desperate from hour to hour. They were subsisting on a scant ra- tion of Lread and tea and many of the Viking's company, including Capt. Abram Kean, ir, were suffering from want of medical attention for injuries inflicted when an explosion ripped their ship trom under them Sunday night. Scamen to Escort Party. Doctors and nurses from the relief ships Sagona and Foundation Franklin decided to attempt the perilous five-mile journey across the ice under escort of & party of experienced seal hunicrs and seamen from the sealing fleet, to carry food and medical supplies. The minister of marine sent word to Horse Island directing the abie-bodied among the men on the island to walk out to meet the relief party and help getting supplies ashore. They vcre also instructed to help any of the injured able to travel, in an effort to. get them aboard the rescue ships. Although the most task was succor of the beleaguered survivors on g:ne e1f’1|nd, search for the missing con- ued. The best available figures indicated that there were still 18 unaccounted for, including Varick Prissell, New York mo- tion picture producer,and his camera- man, A. G. Penrod. Frissell Last Seen in Cabin. ‘The tally. stood: Survivors on the is- land, 118; survivors on rescue ships, 6; bodies' recoversd, 2; unaccounted for, 18—making 144, the number supj to have been aboard the Viking when she blew. up. One of the two bodies was found amid wreckage of the Viking near the spot where she blew up. It was picked up by the sealer Eagle and was identi- “fied by papers in the pockets as that of Patrick Bartlett of Brigus, Newfound- l;ndd, The other body was not identi- ed. U. S. ICE CUTTER ASKED. Sought to Take Food and Medical Sup- plies to Horse Island. Secretary Stimson today transmitted to the Treasury a request that an Amer- jcan ice cutter proceed immediately to Horse Island,: carrying food and medi- cal supplies to the survivors of the Viking. The request was submitted to the State Department by Counsel Gen. Edward A. Dow at St. Johns, Newfound- land. He reported the 60 inhabitants of the icebound island did ot have sufficient food to care for the approxi- mately 120 survivors of the wrecked sealing ship. Dow's cable said that if an Amer- ican ice cutter was dispatched imme- diately from the North Atlantic the minister of marine at St. John's was prepared to send full radio directions as to how the ice field surrounding the island might best be negotiated. Word was received at the State De- ent that the Coast Guard had (Continued on Page 4, Column 1., YOUTH IS WOUNDED FLYER WHO SAVED NOBILE DIES AS PLANE FALLS IN SEA \Maddalena and Cecconi Killed With Companion Near Pisa, Italy. PLANNED U. S. FLIGHT Both Former World Rec- ord Holders Recently Crossed Atlantjc. S (T, By the Assoclated Press. PISA, Italy, March 19.—Col. Umberto Maddalena, famous Italian fiyer and finder of the dirigible Italia survivors, Lieut. Fausto Cecconi and Second Lieut. Damonte were killed today when their seaplane fell into the sea. Maddalena discovered Gen. Umberto Nobile and a group of other survivors of the Italia in 1928 near Spitzbergen and dropped medicine and supplies to them on the ice after the Italian air- ship had been wrecked on its North Pole flight. He and Lieut. Cecconi formally held world air records for distance and dur- ation flights and both had recently re- turned from the Latin American flight MAJ. MADDALENA. of Air Minister Italo Balbo, on which Maddalena was adjutant. Thelr seaplane was flying at a height of 1,500 feet and about 900 feet off- shore today when observers saw it dive suddenly and break toward the surface of the water. Two hundred feet above the sea one of the three fiyers was seen to detach himself from the plane and plunge out with a parachute but he struck the (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) MOTORMANIS SHOT, THREATS REPORTED Wife of Supposed Hold-up Victim Questioned About Co-worker’s Statement. Police today were questioning the wife of James H. Lane, who was shot and seriously wounded when he grappled with one of two bandits Who attempted to rob him last night, in an effort to obtain clues as to the identity of her husband’s assailants. This action was taken after police had been' told that Lane, who is in & criti- { told physicians that a fellow employe of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. had threatened to “get” him. Questioning Is Resumed. Mrs. Lane, the mother of four chil- dren, was questioned this morning by Capt. William E. Holmes and Detective willlam Wright of the eleventh pre- cinct. The officers had just wmple)::: and . Carlton . Tally 2 icide squad, arrived at the hospital. After a few minutes’ consultation, Capt. Holmes and Sergt. Taliy decided to re- sume questioning Mrs. Lanc. the officers still were closeted with Mrs. Lane. It is understood they were ques- tioning her in the hope she might be able to throw some light on the threat wmel;.her huskand declared he had re- ceivi ‘Wife at Bedside. Police at first planned to question Lane, but the idea was abandoned upon the advice of hospital physicians, who declared the conductor-motorman’s con- tioning. The wounded man's wife has been -at. his bedside since shortly after he was shot by one of two men who boarded his ‘car at Trenton street and Nichols avenue southeast, last night. Following the shooting, Lane managed to pick up a bag containing the fares before jumping from the trolley and collapsing. Although Lane, who lives at 507 Dan- iel street, Colmar Manor, Md., and has four children, rallied after receiving a blood transfusion, his condition still is considered serious, and his wife de- clared she would remaif at his bedside ! “until he is out of danger.” Two Men Sought. | Meanwhile police were making an intensive search for both the man who | did the shooting and his companion. A | battered coupe, found near the scene | of the shooting, is considered the most important clue unearthed thus far, as police believe it may have been | abandoned by the fugitives when the gasoline supply became exhausted. are no identification marks on the car. | Both its engine and serial numbers have been virtually obliterated, police said, | but an effort is being made to check- | up on the tag number, which was issued |in Virginia. A reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the gunman was offered today by the Washington Railway & | Electric Co., which also_volunteered to cal condition at Casualty Hospital, had | At the end of an hour and a half, | dition was too serious to warrant ques- | collected on his run to Congress Heights | Aside from the license plates there | him ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 1., WALKER PROMISES FIGHT LATER ON Meantime, Mayor Says He Will Continue Sun Baths in Desert. By the Assoclated Press. PALM SPRINGS, Calif., March 19.— Mayor James J. Walker plans to take sun baths here for another week and let charges against him walt until he returns. “These charges are all old stuff, ab- surd and flat,” he said at the desert estate of Samuel Untermyer, where he is a guest. “They are not basxd in any way on principles of civics or govern- ment. “The idea back of it all is the desire to have the Governor remove me from office. I have determined not to be drawn into any transcontinental con- troversy. My presence here is due to my physician having ordered me to rest and take sun baths. I shall stay out my allotted time, probably until a week from Monday. “When I do return to New York 1 will fight to a finish, 1f the matter is still in hand. That is all I can or will say just now.” Mayor Walker said his health was improving, and he has increased his sun basking to exposures of half an hour at a time. “The result is so satisfactory that, charges or no charges, I shall complete the course of treatment,” he added. DECISION IS AWAITED. Tammany Hall Said to Have Told Mayor to Stop Wisecracking. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, March 19.—The charges against Mayor Walker were swallowed in a great void of silence today as the city awaited Gov. Roose- velt’s decision. The New York Times said Tammany Hall had advised the mayor by tele- phone that the time for “wisecracking” | BU: was past, and he should refrain from all comment urtil he returned here. Tammany representatives in the city government similarly were ordered to maintain silence, the paper said. They did so. Nevertheless, the mayor was quoted by the New York American as saying in a telephone interview from Palm Springs, Calif., that the charges leveled against him by the City Affairs Com- mittee were “nothing more than were used against me in the cnx;pnl(n of 1929, when I was re-elected by an overwhelming plurality.” District Attorney Thomas C. T. Crain has again protested to the Governor the appointment of Samuel Seabury to hear charges of malfeasance against . Crain said the Governor failed to discuss, in his reply to Crain's first letter, the three grounds on which he averred Seabury was prejudiced. These were: Seabury was a mem- ber of the organization—the City Club —that preferred the charges; that he had shown bias by word and act, and that he would be required as a witness at the hearings. Seabury has summoned the district attorney to confer with him today. BY SCHOOL PLAYMATE GR ANT ABLE TO FIND ONLY 20 MEN Charles Law, 14, Is Shot Through;IN CIVIL SERVICE TO WIELD PICKS Thigh by 11-Year-0ld While at Play. Shot through the thigh by a revolver in the hands of a school playmate while they were playing near the school short- ly before noon this morning, Charles Law, 14 years old, of 115 Cockrillz ave- nue, is in Sibley Hospital. His condi- tion is reported good. Law was wounded by Pred Hinkson, 11 years old, of 512 Elm avenue, ac- cording to Deputy Sheriff Tom Gar- rison of Prince Georges County, who investigated the case, with a gun brought to school by James Nash, 12 years old, another school chum, of 35 Woodland avenue. The boys had been shooting the gun at & tree and as Hink- son was about to hand 1t to Law it went off, according to Garrison, Nash is said to have obtained the gun, a .32-caliber revolver, from his home where it was left by his father, J. T. Nash, who is a member of the ‘Washington police. force, - attached to No. 7 precinct. ° . According to Sheriff Garrison no further investigation of the case will be made unless something further de- velops, as the shooting is considered accidental. > —_—— Radio Programs on Page D-4 ‘With 50 civil service jobs open, Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, despite the “un- employment” situation, has been able to fill but 20 of them—Ilargely because of an apparent aversion on the part of the applicants to wield a pick and shovel. As director of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, Col. Grant has been endeavoring to bulld up & force of men to carry forward the next dévelopment in the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway. Part of the dificulty in filling the jobs has. resulted from the fact that many applicants did not have the neces- sary civil service status. On the other hand, however, the Civil Service Com- piyedind s S el o manual -labor, often’ with a pick and Plenty Jobless, But 30 More Who Are Willing to Do Manual Labor Are Needed on Pirkway Project. Grant, or his personnel officer, Edward W. Parenteau, are consequently looking for a comparable number of men with the Civil Service rating who are looking for jobs, even though of the manual variety. The program will entail the removal of debris and old trees, grading and road construction, so that an appro- g:l:e!: highway may link up the Rock from the Lincoln Memorial Plaza the parkway highway that will travel northward. ‘Tentative plans of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission call for a one-way, thoroughfare southward on the road t will lead down from Pennsylvania avenue into the parkway. Just south of the Pennsylvania Avenue across Rock k Valley, mission has sent 8 numbet of men down | gy -hand way 80 as to bar tra . | speed up trafic. - - STERN HAND RLES JLET AFER RO AND SO0 BLAZE ‘Officials Quiet Convicts With Display of Armed Force. One Man Slain. FIVE BUILDINGS BURNED; TWO MORE INMATES SHOT Ten Days of Bread-and-Water Diet and Close Imprisonment in Cells Present Prison Policy. By the Assoclated Press. ) JOLIET, Ill, March 19.—Officials ruled Illinois’ two State prisons with a hand of iron today to prevent a repeti- tion of yesterday'’s riot in which five buildings at Stateville penitentiary were burned by some of 1,800 milling pris- oners, three of whom were wounded, one fatally, before the insurrection could be put down. Warned that the smoldering resent- ment of the convicts might flare into & new uprising in the older of the two prisons, penitentiary authorities posted extra guards in the dining room to halt the development of any further plot. Four companies of State Militia- men were also present. They had the support of the State government at Springfield, which indicated the slogan for discipline would be “more guns and less talk.” In addition to 200 National Guards- men a like number of State highway police, under command of their chief, Walter Moody, were on duty to stop any disturbance like that of yesterday, | when property damage estimated at| $300,000 was done and three guards were beaten, Causes of Outbreak. ‘The dead prisoner, Raymond Barney, died early today. He was wounded, along with Edward Devaney and Michael Farrare, when they and hun- dreds of other convicts refused to obey immediately orders from the warden to | return to their cells after the rioting | had begun. Overcrowding of men in both pris- ons, which are separated by five miles, and resentment against Parole Board procedure were blamed by Warden Henry C. Hill for yesterday's outbreak in Stateville. Other sparks which Helped to touch off the revolt were the killing February 22 of three pris- oners as they tried to escape from the old building and the rioting there last Saturday, in which two prisoners were killed and two wounded. Another was the death of a prisoner in solitary con- finement. ‘The rioting of the 1,800 convicts be- in the Stateville chair factory by.| & prearr d signal. Stateville is the newer of the two prisons. All morn- o nkers of thelr hands, whieh pris: 0 T8 of , whicl on :utnrmu m’lfi“ afterward l)wu their method of telling each other that the uprising was to start at 2 pm. At that hour 180 convicts in the chalr factory attacked three guards, torches of inflammable material and ran | into the prison yard. Almost simultaneously’ there was an outpouring of convicts from adjoining bulldings. Seizing torches, they applied them to the laundry, shoe and carpen- ter shop, the garage and the dining rooms, and then, under cover cf the smoke, assembled in the open yard. Ef- forts of Rev. Eligius Weir, the Catholic chaplain, to stop the men resulted in nothing but hoots and cries against| the Illinois Parole Board. Fired Warning Shots. Another chorus of jeers greeted War- den Hill when he walked, unarmed, into the yard and ordered the convicts back to their cells. As he spoke, nrmed] ards from the prison walls were gathering, but the prisoners stood their ground. At the warden’s direction, two shots were fired by them over the tops of their heads, but still they refused to move. There was another order for the men to disperse. This likewise was re- fused and the guards fired. Three fell wounded. The shooting put an end to the (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) SHOCK KILLS ENGINEER IN HEAD-ON COLLISION Freight Train Runs Into Standing Passenger Locomotive—Three Men Are Injured. By the Assoclated Press. GUERNSEY, Ind, March 19, — George Marlowe of Indianapolis, en- gineer on a southbound Monon Rail- road freight train, was found dead in the engine cab this morning, following a head-on collision with a northbound passenger train here. Marlowe is believed to have been killed by the shock of collision. John Miller, engineer on the passen- ger train, was seriously injured and was taken to St. Hlizabeth’s Hospital at Lafayette. Arthur W. Robinson and T. M. Houston, the two firemen, were less seriously injured. All of the in- and_Potomac Parkway approach | with {I‘;"d enginemen are from Indianapo- ‘The senger train was not moving at the pa!me of the collision and was waiting on the freight train to go into a siding. Passengers were shaken up, but no one was injured. Officials of the railroad have begun an investigation. Pershing Describes the Beginning of the | Meuse-Argonne Battle Tomorrow in The Evening Star Gen. Pershing's Story Today May Be Found on Page A-4 SELFISH PARTISAN ATTACKS HIT BY LEWIS ON NEEDED LAWS lllinois Senator Flays Con- gressmen for Bigotry Votes. Prohibition Cannot Be Avoid- ed, He Says, in Interview. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Senator James Hamilton Lewis, newly elected Democratic Senator from Illi- nois, today condemned Republican in- surgents and Democrats alike who in Congress seek to obstruct legislation merely because it is proposed by a Re- publican President. Continuation of such tactics in Con- gress, Senator Lewis declared, will re- sult- in a situation where “there never will be any measure passed as will give the people the relief which they voted or wk.ch the President was authqrized to execute.” 3 “The end will be,” eontinued Senator SENATOR JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS Lewis, “that the Democratic party com- ing into power will be met-legitimately by Republicans with the same form of obstryction and destruction that the Republicans had to contend with.” Senator Lewis in reply to a question (Continued on Page 2, Columa 1.) MOTHER OF 3 DIES FROM GAS IN HOME Mrs. Pauline Fowler, 26, Left| Note Saying Her Life Was “Messed.” Mrs. Pauline Fowler, 26-year-old mother of three children, was found dead from the effects of illuminating gas in her apartment on the fourth floor of the apartment building at 1448 Girard street, this afternoon. She was pronounced dead by Dr. W. Bruner of Emergency Hospital, after the Fire Rescue Squad had worked over her for nearly an hour in a futile attempt to_revive her. Mute evidence of the anguish of mind through which the woman went was a red-covered book entitled ‘“Hearts Courage,” found lying on & chair in the living room, opened about the middle of the volume. A note told in detail of her despondency. Note Left to Sister. Mrs. Fowler's body was found lying on the floor by the resident manager and janitor at the apartment building, both of whom gained entrance to the apartment with ' key after someone residing in the bullding had reported smelling gas. « ‘The note left by Mrs. Fowler was ad- dressed to “Sissy,” who, it was ex- plained, is her sister, Miss Annie May Howell, an employe of the Government Printing Office, said to room with Mrs. Fowler at the Girard street address. Gratitude Is Expressed. ‘The note read in part as follows: “I am awfully sorry about this morn- ing. Maybe you will believe me now. 1 am very grateful for all you have done for me, Honey. I know I never showed it, but I am like that and please re- member that I would have done any- thing on earth for you, but all I can ever be, evidently, is a dependent, und 1 can't endure it any longer. “If you really called —— this morning and said what you claim you did, it would be a good idea if you apoligize to her, as she really doesn't drink. Neither does——. I'm awfully sorry for everything. I didn’t know ony one gel’lnn'l life could get so messed up, ut mine did. Could Have Married. “Of course, I could have got married and shed my cares, but maybe this will convince you I had better not: Tell Paul that I loved him. Please don't grieve.” Mrs. Fowler's mother, Mrs. Ethel Howell, resides on the second floor of the same apartment house. She said her daughter had been out of work and ws despondent because of that. Police said Mrs, Fowler was separated from her husband. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt issued a certificate of suicide. Dr. Nevitt sald Mrs. Fowler's mother told him her daughter had been divorced from her husband. The oldest of Mrs. Fowler's 8 years of age, it Sidney Franklin, Actor, Dies. HOLLYWOOD, Calif.,, March 19 (). —Sidney Franklin, DEFICIT INCREASED UPTO 735138022 Income Tax Collections for One Day Higher, but Receipts for Month Behind. By the Assoclated Press. Despite a - stream of income taxes pumped into the Treasury today, the suction of outgoing expenditures tugged the gauge far Below the red line. A sharp increase was shown ir income tax receipts for Tuesday over the col responding collecticn day for last yea! For this year they totaled $48,129,417; for last, $32,158,048. The month’s total still lagged behind that of the same period of last year, howevear, and rhe total of collections for this fiscal year was running far below those of last. Since last July 1, $1,277,- 685,746 had been paid. For the same period last year there was $1,352,300,152. $735,138,522 Deficit. The thinning income lowered the Treasury deeper into its deficit. A transfer of $326,660,000 to the war debt retirement sinking fund moved the deficit figure to $735,138,522 from the $437,515,713 of the previous day. As the income taxes are received they will cut down the deficit tem- porarily, but after the collections for the month are completed the red fig- ures are expected to mount again until toward the end of the fiscal year, when the second quarter’s payments of t&x on incomes is due on June 13. ‘Treasury officials declined to discuss the collections, but agreed that the situation did not present a cheerful picture. Collections Drop. The collections for Tuesday brought the month’s total to $106,254,321, as compared with $109,346,854 in the same period a year ago. The Treasury’s security sales on Mon- day- were reflected in the Tuesday state- ment. It showed $1,681,742,150 had been received from public debt transactions. Expenditures due to retirement of pub- lic debt totaled $1,007,000,000, leaving the Treasury on that day with a net balance in the general fund of $746,- £42,204.98. The total in war debt retirement sinking fund was raised to $391,660,000, compared with $299,514,950 in the fund on the same day last year. HOOVER BANISHES GARES ON VACATION|.. Chats Jovially With Party as He Sails on Arizona for Porto Rico. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staft Correspondent of The Star. WITH PRESIDENT HOOVER ABOARD U. S. S. ARIZONA, March 19.—Happy in the anticipation of the vacation ahead of him, President Hoover is today comfortably settled aboard the | he battleship Arizona, one of the largest and most formidable of the American fighting ships, headed for the Caribbean, ‘where brief visits will be made to Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. As Mr. Hoover steed by the rail on the fore- castle deck as the huge ship headed out to sea from Hampton Roads, he seemed interested in seeing the shoreline gradu- ally disappear until it finally vanished. This was the last of the mainland of the United States he will see until his return back to Hampton Roads Monday morning, March 30. With the disappearance of that thin line of Virginia shore all the cares and burdens of the President’s office which have weighed so heavily upon him seemed to vanish. Also Mr. Hoover was jovial and talked enthusiastically with g those about him of the enjoyment that was to be his for the next 10 or 12 days. Mr. Hoover’s change from a busy business man to a gentleman of elegant leisure was not only quick but quite complete. No longer is he m a drab colored office suit but n‘ is attired in cap resembling those of naval officers with the exception that it has no insignia, a blue serge suit. The very way in which he held his old pif be- tween his teeth as he looked out on the water suggested the vacationist rather than the worker. Party Boards Arizona. President Hoover and his party left Washington at 11 o'clock last nigl aboard a special train of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad, arriving at Old Point Comfort, Va., shortly after 5 o'clock this mol The members of the rty did have to arise at once. ey were given until 7 o'clock, when the litile boats arrived at the dock to take them to the Arizona, which was lying at anchor out in Hampton Roads. On the Old Point dock the com- manding gengral of the military post at Old Point, with the commanding of- ficers of Fortress Monroe, was on hand to greet the President when he stepped from his train. At the uest of the President, all the fuss and frills cus- tomary on such an occasion were dis- pensed with. However, there was a 21- gun salute. After han and an exchange of felicitations, the President and his party headed for the Arizona. The trip from the dock to the battle- ship was made by Mr. Hcover in th: private barge of Capt. C. S. Freeman, commanding officer of the Arizona. retary of War Hurley and Secretary of Interior Wilbur and Mark Sullivan, author and newspaper writer, who are (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) 14 DIE IN SHIPWRECK French Steamer Total Loss After Striking Rock Off China. SHANGHAI, March 19 (#)—The French steamer Changkiang, bound here from Hongkong, struck a rock off Heihan Island, near Haimen, March 16 w:&h 14 of those A report of Lloyd's agent said that the French boat Marne was stand- ing by and had taken off the remain- der of the crew and passengers, num-= bering possibly 100 altogether. FINGERPRINTS LINK SUSPECT IN KIRK MYSTERY SLAYING Capital Police Seek to Iden- tify George Pierce Tucker, Held in Los Angeles. PRISONER CONFESSES CHOKING WOMAN HERE Records in Washington and Den- ver Said to Confirm Iden- tification. ’ Pingerprints on the spectacles of Emma Kirk after the murder of the 70- year-old woman in January, 1926, were found this afternoon to tally precisely, police say, with the prints of a man arrested on suspicion in Denver, Colo., November 1, 1926, and now under arres! in Los Angeles. The man gave his name, both in Den- ver and Los Angeles, as George Plerce Tucker. His description was sent out to principal cities in the belief he might be wanted by police. In response to a lh T et oty W‘l‘s.‘fl:‘&'&’&f Mmuummmmm Pierce Tucker, s d Impressions Compared. After being informed tha & ‘] s tsmnm geles, Detective Sergt. Fred Sandberg, the department's ld:‘fiu.flmuon expert, compared the impression taken from the eyeglass with that supplied him Denver police and since kept on here. Sergt. Sandberg announced the' impressions appeared to him identical mPelvem 7; id by rce is sal )y Los Angcles police, according to Associated Press dllplw to have made a full confession of the 2 club here. TR- mumbling incoherently to having comm! > e tted a “murder.” At first sald latar identifying himsclf as years old, the son of well known in Wi delphia. Police Match Prints. Shortly after finding the print on the les matched the print of George Inspector the finger- print_classificatiog, wired by Los An- geles policz matches with both the Den- ver print and the print on the spece Inmcm!hclb{w.dbvofldc- immediate] }Ig orlmlmie:nurrmt m/nt of the man. He the Los An, to hold the max. they have in custody until he is called for by Washington police. No plans have yet been made for sending for Tucker. Reported to Correspond. The communication from Los An- the fingerprint responded with impressions taken of the print on the Inspector Shelby* he planned to send a man to California to return the suspect for questioning, and would seek an indictment for murder if subsequent developments bear out the fingerprint 45 deserbiig the slaying of Miss of Ki ‘Tucker is quoted as saying 'Mymifi snapped. I don't know wkhat happened. All remember is that I suddenly reached out and clamped my hands on her throat and choked the life out of ht | her. | I'm tiged and want to rest. They're kill me] I suppose. They sh ‘lel&l I u‘l;uren '.ll;m i eanwhile, police sought to learn if Pierce is known here and to trace his movements in 1926 in the event they nt!‘l: line on him. S rce's story of strangled the woman with his hm dpcsmnot check with details of the crime as reconstructed here. There were no scratches on the throat and Miss Kirk apparently died of suffocation after her own shawl had been looped about her nose and mouth. Her body was discovered January 23, some 24 hours after death. Neigh- mn mu.'t"“"?ng to thet “a’hop iby e persistent mewing of cal nj to enter through a back door. i Fear Version Is Wrong. Miss Kirk’s hands and feet had been securely trussed with twine. The crime received considerable publicity in pews- linm and varlous detective mag: es. Plerce told Detective Lieut. Frank Condaffer of Los Angeles that he was sales manager for the United Cigar Stores Co. in this the time of the crime. ‘Several ve employes of the company here said they had never heard of such a man. Miss Kirk's sister, Mrs. Harry B. Shaw, 700 block of Upshur street, did not know' Plerce, nor could police find any associates of the dead woman who ever had heard of him. Pierce told California police his wife and 10-month-old baby were in San Francisco on a vacation. EASTERN SHORE SNOW LOSS HELD $1,000,000 Telephone Line Damage Set at GOULD’S THREE PET CANARIES BAR| $500000, With 100 Lineen GLENN FROM NEW OFFICE SPACE Illinois Senator Plans to Take Over Former Colleague Suite, But Pets Keep Him Out. By the Associated Press. Three canaries are rrevenunx Sena- tor Glenn of Illinois from taking pos- f the prize room of his new suite of offices. 'rhe{nzelonl to former Senator Gould of Maine. When Glenn moved into the offices flock of canaries, an electr! = erator, a buffs mmmmd.'ml cook stove. Gould went to Florida for a month after he retired March 4 and, unable to teke his pets along, purchased a ¥ to transport them and other things to Maine upon his return. Meanwhile Glenn's office force is ess cre on 3 non-step flight for a1 unannounced destinatidp and has naot been seen since. ; Restoring Service. By the Associated Press. SALISBURY, Md., March 19.—An unofficial estimate of damage nine-county area east of Bay and the rest of the vnr%ummn demoralized todsy