Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1931, Page 2

AL BAD CHECKS BARE HONEYMOON TRAIL Counterfeited Travelers’ Drafts Paid for Trip, Sus- pect Admits. An alleged ex-convict's confession, us reported by police, of cashing coun- terfeit traveler's checks in many States, has precipitated a country-wide check-up on his activities. Arrested here last week with his 19~ year-old wife on charges of passing bad checks, by detectives attached to the headquarters check squad, William Francis Belodeau, 33 years old, of New York, yesterday admitted, police said, he had passed spurious checks in cities sl:latberedfiuvir e l:x:we ;:Ounu’y dur- %&%‘?amé’ 1o Perestive. Sergt. Will- fam Messer of the police headquarters check squad, Belodeau has passed so many of the counterfeit checks he is unable to state the exact number passed or the amount of money involved. Wife Also Held. Detective Messer said, however, that Belodeau has admitted passing checks several thousand dollars, and has declared that most of them were for $20 or more. Belodeau at first steadfastly denied connection with similar frauds else- where and it was only after his wife. Mrs. Dorothy Ann Belodeau, also ar- rested on & bad check charge here, broke cown and wept under a cross- fire of examination and pleaded with her husband to “come clean with the $800,000 in worthless mutilated in rear of a house in the 1400 block o information supplied ‘works,” that Belodeau confessed, po- lice declared. He told police how, last Fall, he met » girl and made a trip over the South, Sassing the “phoney” paper to pay ex- penses. Left Girl to Serve. In Texas, he told police, he sent the ung girl into a store to pass a fraudu- f:m check while he waited ouwside in an automobile for her. When the girl reappeared with a police officer, he said he sped from the scene and drove day and night until he arrived in New Mexico. The girl, he added, was sen- tenced to four years in prison. For the next four months, he told de- tectives, he practically lived on the money obtained by passing the spurious drafts. He said hs traveled along the Pacific Coast to the Canadian border, and finally to New York, leaving 2 trail of the valueless paper in his wake. Had Free Honeymoon. Several weeks later, he said, he re- turned to this city, where he met the woman who & month later became his wife. They were marrizd in Indiana | Porto Rico will be a busy 36 hours, the | P, Tucker, police are awaiting further and traveled about extensively, paying all Lh‘slr bills with counterfeit checks, he_said. of ammunition. The case goes before the grand jury J. MAHANEY (left) and James E. Kenney, eighth precinct detectives, are shown holding the repeating shotgun and the viclous sawed-off shctgun believed to have been carried by the robbers who several weeks o ago held up a railway mail clerk, slugged him and escaped with about by eighth precinct police in an automobile believed abandoned by the bandits' y Joseph T. McCann, 31-year-old ex-convict, held in New York on charges of participating in the robbery. With the guns was a quantity’ paper money. The guns were recovered f T street. The seizure was made on tomorrow. PRESOENT FACES % BUSY HOURS Will Disembark Early Tc:nor- row for Tour of Towns in Porto Rico. By the Associated Press. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, March 21.— | President Hoover's day and s half in| official program indicates. The U. 8. 8. Arizona will reach Ponce ATTENPT TOINDICT TUCKER EXPECTED Further Details Awaited as| Kirk Murder Suspect Alters Statement. Confident that the five-year-old mys- | tery of the murder of Miss Emma Kirk as been solved with the arrest and | confession in Los Angeles of George | details of Tucker's statement to ()Ili-I fornia_authorities before moving for a D. C, MARC PRISON JAMS SPUR NEW CONSTRUCTION $8,300,000 Program to Be Rushed in Effort to Pre- vent Outbreaks. By the Assoclated Press. Federal prison officials are at work upon plans to push to the limit the Government's building prograra to re- lleve overcrowding and prevent out- breaks like that at Joliet. | Sanfora Bates, director of the Prison Bureau, announced plans for early con- struction work upon new penitentiary, jall, prison camv and hospital facilitfes to_cost more than $8,300,000. Even upon their completion, however, Bates conceded the present overcrowd- ing problem would not be solied. He named the Atlanta and Leavenworth nitentieries, holding between them ore than 6,700 prisoners, as being over-jammed, and their inmates herded together under “great disadvantage.” Work Started at Lewisburg. “With the erection of all buildings planned,” Bates sala, “we will not have succeeded in reducing the popuation of the mamn f&nlunum to a very great extent. Within the next three or four years, however, we hope to have reme- died the most serious of the overcrowd- ed_conditions.” Records of the Prison Bureau showed work already had begun upon the huge penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., to cost more than $2,780,000 and capable of holding 1,260 prisoners. ‘Within the next week bureau officials will confer witn architects upon plans for the $2,500,000 reformatory at El Reno, Okla. Completed it will house 1,000 criminals. ‘The most minute study was being given yesterday to plans for the pro- Jjected $2,500,000 hospital for the crim- inal insane and il' at Springfield Mo. Bates sald he gnxed actual construc- tion would be sf ed within 90 days. Meantime plans went forward for let- ting contracts upon a $350,000 Federal Jail at El Paso, Tex.; for remodeling the old mint at New Orleans into a jail; for reconstructing a bullding at Billings, Mont., to hold 200 prisoners, and for completing the temporary prison camp at Camp Lee, Va, to care for 600 men. 12,300 in Penitentiaries. Notwithstanding the appropriztion of money for building or remodeling in all a total of eight Federal jails, Bates| Tul M. for penal system.” He said there were 13,- | 000 prisoners in jails who could not be sent into the penitentiary system. The prison chie: estimated that by uly 1, 1933, there would be 15,672 penitentiary prisoners, reckoned on the basis of no decrease in what he termed “the present very high proportien of liquor violations™ in our population.” There are now approximately 12,300 murder indietment. Police bulletins describing Belodeau's | at dawn Monday and.the President will| ~ Beyond an exchange of telegrams| activities over the tent to authorities ughout the Nation m an effort to locate his victims and o ascertain just how much money was | t0 San Juan, with pauses on the Way | from Los Angeles. swindles. involved in the . ‘The traveler's checks were 80 cleverly forged to represent blanks from s New York bank that it was difficult t year have been |disembark at 8 am. H: and the offi- | Thursday and Friday, no official chlpnrtywmcmuuuhndbymcwr‘l for receptions at several towns. Mr, Hoover will have luncheon with | Gov, Roosevelt and there are to be a or- | mation of Tucker's movements before | and after the crime have been received | Tucker is understood to have repudi- ated his original confession to strangling | the elderly spinster here January 23, 1926, but in the meantime police de-: " penitentiary inmates. . By that date, however, he estimated there would be sufficlent new prison fa- cilities to reduce the inmates to 2,500 prisoners at Atlanta, as contrasted with the present 3,500, and 2,500 at Leaven- worth as against the present 3,200. DRY RAIDERS CHARGED J ‘Was] said “this will not solve the problem of | chairman, Maj. overcrowding in this branch of the | Assistant Enyrfle. i Last of Six Justices Eligible to Retire USTICE WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD of the District Supreme Ccurt, who soon will be eligible to retire, is the last of the justices in the above photograph, made some years ago, still on the District Supreme Court bench. All the others are dead, with the exception of Daniel Thew Wright, who resigned to go into private law practice. The photograph was made on the first day the justices appeared in silken robes, scme years after the appointment of Justice Stafford. Left to right: Justice Wright, Justice Ashley M. Gould, Justice Job Barnard, Chief Justice Harry Clabaugh, Justice Th Hold First Meeting Tuesday Before Hearing Is Called. ;319 control of outdoor ington, under esday morninj Donald A. law is called. Clause Is Debated. recently | legislation, will hold its first meeting g in the office of its Davison, | r Commissioner. Just how far the District Commis- sioners can go in “cleaning up” the | miscellaneous outdoor signs | over ma The District of Columbia Sign Com- mittee, appointed to redraft regulations signs in plastered butldings is a matter which will be considered at this meeting be- | fore the public hearing suthorized by | the new | Corporation Counsel Edward W. Thomas {is a member of the committee and his | Buidance will be sought. Assistant Some conjecture has arisen over the | enabling clause in the bill which de: | clares the Commissioners shall regulat and centrol all forms of cutdoor signs | “in so far as necessary to promote the | public health, safety, morals and wel- are.” Ancther matter of equal importance | enacted s H. Anderson and Justice Stafford. SIGNBODY TO MAP NEW REGULATIONS Committee Wil !JUSTICE STAFFORD BECOMES ELIGIBLE TO RETIRE ON MAY 1 | | | | | From_First Pe (Continu ber of the court, as then constituted, | to remain on the bench. Daniel Thew Wright, then on the bench, has resigned and is now practicing law. All the others, Chief Justice Harry M. Cla- baugh, Justice Job Barnard, Justice Thomas H. Anderson and Justice Ash- ley M. Gould, are dead. It will be nearly four years before another justice of the court is_eligible to retire. Justice Frederick L. Sid- will be 70 years old November 21, 1934. Durinz his 27 years on the bench here Justice Stafford has presided in all the various branches of the court. He has the distinction of trying the two longest criminal cases in the court’s history—the Hyde - Benson - Dimond- which occupied three months and in which two men were convicted and their conviction sustained by the United [Statl:s Supreme Court, and the Morse | time shi) | p-building contracts, which ran for 15 weeks. The latter 50 long that Clifford K. Berryman, The Star's cartoonist, cartooned the jury climbing the Court House steps after growing long whiskers and an old-time bystander remarking “I remember when | that jury was sworn.” Justice Stafford reasures an autographed copy of the cartoon. The jurist also presided at the trial of the Terra Cotta railroad disaster c::e and any number of cther criminal cases. dons was born November 21, 1864, and | Schneider Government land fraud case, | conspiracy case, growing out of war-| case dragged | Pe! TRAINING IS HRGED 1S JOB INSURANCE Forum Speaker Declares Un- skilled Labor Suffers Most in Unemployment. Although the present unemployment situation is world-wide, it is confined almost entirely to the unskilled labor class, and trained workers are in de- mand, E. T. Franks, vice chairman of Federal Board of Vocational Edu- cg}gn, told a Nation-wide audience last night, Mr. Pranks, who was speaking in the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over a coast-to-coast hook-up of the Columbia Broadcasting system, declared the 1920 census revealed that 38,000,000 | | were in “the professional, managerial and executive classes.” Al the 1930 census figures are not available, this proportion probably remains the same, Mr. Franks added. Age Problem Held Serious. ‘The late Dr. Willlam Osler's state- ment that a man’s “days of usefulness” are over when he reaches the age of 40 is untrue, Mr. , but H 22, 1931—PART ONE. g l ’lW(l NAVY AIRMEN KILLED IN CRASH Bodies and Wreckage Are Recovered From Panama Canal Waters. By the Associated Press. PANAMA CITY, March 21.—Two U. 8. Navy aviators drowned in the Panama Canal today as their plane crashed into the water midway between b'; the de:t.‘wy"e‘: , which was pass- g e ok u"fuc‘-m-:iux:y amphibian m'x’mh“mv{nm:‘fi'l‘:am'nn Paul Avrfl Wilson, * aviation pilot (first ciass), Billings, Mont. n, seama; neapolis, Minn. S wes pilotin Mo pl g and Van Wegan Army Flyer Dies in Plunge, HONOLULU, March 21 (P).—Second Lieut. George C. Baker of the Army Alr gzrp;hl;aerlve was l:l'l:od today when e — " pu?led the ocean off versty: ‘waa anciiy s aasoed Dot ass! in a farewell wuegl‘om"umn;r anc; the Army transport Cargbral. He faled to bring his plane out of a loop and fell near the transport, NAVY MANEUVERS BEGIN. Flying Force Will Attempt to Solve Caribbean Problems. By 11_:; Associated Press. ter parts of the Navy's flying stre; will be 5 g aloft t.hh week over the will participate in s series naval aviation tl’x;tvblem: in vnm %lnu and 44 surface craft will take David §. Ingalls, Assistant Secreta of the Navy for Aeronautics, said ye:! terday the maneuvers would be “of in- finite value” in detsrmining how the y::yy‘:‘ur force hcta’mlonln‘ under the -year constru program bein; completed this mron . ticipating units, all of which were en- gaged in the recent fleet maneuvers off Pacific Coast of Panama, began yesterday through the Panama Canal and will continue today. These include the big aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, the smaller l:lrrlelra Langley, !l;: battleship Arkan- sas, cruisers, destroyers aircraft tenders. e Vice Admiral Arthur L. Willard, com- mander of the Scouting Fleet, will di- T Sianeuvering Wil occupy thres days. euve: occupy ‘The first problem, scheduled for Thurs- day, is designe of formal dinn:r and reception in the| veloped something '.:nz‘lhle in support evening. He will spend the night at La | of his first statement. and:n, the house which has been | The Pprisoner’s fingerprint classifica- | . al that of impres- | the home of island governors, for 400,"‘on Dby > e for experts to detect their falsity. Case Continued. J)x;ecn Belodeau '“m"l;ol ed on al check charges Coury g.l: case was continued. Mrs. Belodesu, wever, Under Pistol Fire, While on the criminal bench the justice had the experience of being | prominently placed while bullets were | recklessly flying in the court room. On this occasion, he disregarded judicial dignity and reverted to the first prin- | ciple "of self-preservation, when he | dodged under the bench. The example | of the court was followed by the district | | attorney and the clerk of the court, | :otg of whom sought safety under their lesks, |, A young man had been called before the court for santence and had asked asserted, industry has taken the idea “too seri- ously.” Many business concerns dis- charge employes after they attain a certal age, replacing” them with younger men, Mr. Franks pointed out. “If the age limit is to bar one class, and labor-saving machinery is throw- ing out of employment another group,” he said, “we have a serious problem confronting the blic. But old-age pensions will not solve the problem—at least, “not for -that class able to carry on,” the predicted. He cited the report of the commission appointed by the President | to the committee is the intended survey | | of all sign locations which would be | intrusted to the Police Department. In the cpinion of Donald M. Brennan, chiet clerk of the Engineer Department, another committee member, signs on many vacated preperties are illegal and there are still a number of the ‘The third will pit an flt;rrumkernflutbucmtnm Beginning in the southwestern Ca- ribbean Thursday. WITH DEATH OF TWO sion taken from the dead woman's eye- | B years. | glasses, and both identification marks By the Associated Press. was_held for the action of | Af 8:45 am. Tuesday he is to meet |are similar in character to those of a | WILMINGTON, N. C., March 21— the grand jury. the ture and thereafter to speak | George P. Tucker arrested in Denver | Four sheriff’s deputies who halted a Detectives said Belodéau has a-crim- | from the capitol steps. At 10 he will |on suspicon during Nevember, 1926. |mail truck last Sunday while seeking | jarge billboards in the District whoo inal record and was paroled two years | inspect island institutions that may in- | Identification experts here are posi- a liquor runner and caused a gun battle | permits have expired, A careful check ago from a Massachusetts prison. ol e it terest him. Thers will be luncheon at | tive that the man arrested in Denver in which the truck driver and a deputy | o an sign locations will be made with SUBSTITUTE CONVIET; pictures of | press in & Los |~ Tucker volun klzr taken for les jail. Asks Quick Action. La Fortaleza and the party will start | was the same who thumbed Miss Kirk's | were killed, were charged with murder | a view to determining those for which \back for Ponce a different route, | Spectacles. His photograph is similar in warrants sworn out today. o PChing the ariabna at sundown. |t Hie the Ro-pertuils_have begp, suthioriesd, Attorney and Two Others Face A. P. Gardner, a friend of Lupo Rob- erts. 29, the truck driver, swore out the Heavy Penalties for va{mg- ing Prisoner. g By the Associated Press. ERIE, Pa, March 21.—Three men, one an Erie sttorney, were convicted here tonight in Federal Court of con- spiracy to substitute & Government prisoner. The case grew out of the substitution of Joseph Warner of Buffalo, N. Y., Who testified for the Government that he took ths place of Stanley Wells of Colburg, Ontario, in servin; sentence for violation .of prohibi- tion laws after Wells had been arrested’ on a Lake Erie rum runner. Bamuel Y. Rossiter, the sttorney; Jo- seph Donovan, Erie automobile dealer, and Lester Beals, Erie, were the de- fendarts. Rossiter and Donovan were convicted on all six counts of an indictment and Beals on three counts. Under the convictions, Rossitsr and Donovan are subject to $40,000 fine or nine years in jail or both. Beals can be fined $30,000 and sentenced to six years. The defendants were ordered 10 appear in court Monday for sentence. Defense attorneys intimated an appeal would be taken, but made no definite announcement. ' NATIONAL GU'ARD OFFICER IS FOUND DEAD IN HIS BED| By the Associated Press LEAVENWORTH, Kans, March 21.— Lieut. Col. J. H. Larned, a member of the Army Air Corps Reserve, whose home is in Philadelphia, was found dead in his quarters at Fort Leaven- worth near here tonight Post officials believed death was from natural causes, but because of its na- ture have appointed a board of officers to investigate. Col. Larned, who was a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard, was attending a general staff school. The body will be held here until the investi- gation is completed. FOREST PAY TIED-UP Tennessee Legislature Fails to Pro- vide Fund for Fighters. NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 21 (#).— ‘Tennessee’s forestry fire-fighters may have to battle flames for at least two months without pay. ‘The Legislature took a 60-day today without providing for a of $15,000 in the forestry fun State Forester James G. Hazard said, | by the excessive cost of fire fighting during the drought of 1930 and the first two months of this year. : Hazard said fire damage to the State’s forests last year amounted to more than a million dollars and, although he could not rantee compensation, called upon assistants to remain at their posts. b e { FREED IN SLAYINGS | recess | deficit causet ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., March 21 (@) —Cabe Gilden was acquitted a ury today of charges that he ihm children whose bodies were found ins swamp near here June, 1929. At "his trial State witnesses testified a 60-day | guns SAILORS CHEER HOOVER. 800 of Them Line Up for Inspection Aboard Warship. Br the Associated Press. Cheers for President Hoover rever- berated today from the throats of 800 of the warship Arizona. ‘The President, bound on the over- hauled fighting vesstsl for Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands on an informal holiday, waved his Panama hat in a smiling response. The sailors had been grouped for a picture after an inspection of the crew by the President. Crowded into the forecastle, they covered six 14-inch and their turrets. The band Pl-yed “Anchors aweigh” as the pic- ture was taken. Then Capt. Fre:man called for | cheers for “our Commander in Crief” | and from the sailors came three lusty hurrahs. Today was the busiest of Mr. goo- ver's trip. The destroyer Dupont failed to make its scheduled contact with the Arizona because of difficuity in getting bearings and the inspection of the crew was geferred for an hour. The sailors, however, were kept lined up at the rails waiting, while President Hoover and Secretaries Hurley and Wilbur chatted, strolled or sat on the afterdeck. Pinally it was decided to hold the inspection without waiting for the Dupont. President Hoover and Capt. Preeman passed between line after line of sailers in fresh white and Marines in khaki uniforms. Health Is Improved. Dr. Joel T. Boone, presidential phys- ician, Teported the trip was benefiting Mr. Hoover's health. “No work yet,” said the President, free from the strain of his daily executive tasks for the first time since he took office. Story-telling was the order of the day. Some of the members of the party are invited to have dinner with Mr. Hoover each night, after which everybody attends the talkies on deck. side the Arizona at 2:30 pm. end passed into jon without ceremony, relieving the Taylor, which is returning to Norfolk SELLS WATER, IS FINED ARKADELPHIA, Ark, March 21 (#). —Accused of selling a gallon of water as liquar; J. A. Miller was fined $25 for fraud in'City Cpurt here yesterday. Alexander Glenn, colored, was hand- ing Miller a 85 bill for the liquor when two officers appeared, police testified. They seized the jug and arrested Mil- ler.” On the way to jail the officers stopped at a drug store to have the fuld analysed Tt was perfumed we- fr. pay the fine. ] N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N Noonday Lenten Service New York Avenue Presbyterian Church 12:20 to 1:00 O’Clock Speaker Monday and Tuesday Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo admitted to them he had slain ’L:thc‘!?nmn On the stand he denied any knowledge of the affair and con- tended the coroner's nrzlc\-,tt of accl- drowning was correct. ere Oscar Ames, Frank rth.fl:‘rex;‘:m Powels, the oldest 13 L] New York Avenue Presbyterian Church Auspices Federation of Churches Open to All You Are Invited to Attend Rz N § N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N e 27 N N N N D S777777777777 Miller went to jail upon failure to | | ing Miss Kirk d | He later denied any connection with | the murder while be! quizzed by Los | | Angeles police seeking to learn if he | knew anything about the strangling of | lapse. | years ago. Inspector William 8. Shelby said he probaby would seek an indictment next turned here for trial. |COLORED MAN DIES | OF MYSTERIOUS WOUND i r warrants. Meanwhile the grand jury reported it had insufficient evidence “Prompt and vigorous steps should be for probation. Justice Stafford had upon which to base presentments in the P. Starling, | Roberts, who apparently | held up, shot U. 8. 8. ARIZONA, March 21— an elderly woman in California two | Starling and was killed by return fire deaths of Roberts and W. the deputy. believed he was being from the other deputies. gobs in white, massed in the forecastle | week under which Tucker couid be re- THREE PAROLE BOARD MEMBERS SUBPOENAED AT JOLIET INQUIRY| (Continued From First Page.) taken for the removal of all signs on filling stations and delicatessen stores,” Mr. Brennan has recommended to the committee. “Church bulletin signs now on the public areas are, in my opinion, the least objectionable. “In view of the approaching Geor | | Washington Bicentennial Celebration in 1932,” he further recommended, “it is believed that steps should be taken to require the billboard companies to re- move billboards on property confront- ing public buildings and public parks. “In cases where the removal of such billboards would reveal unsightly con- | ditions in the rear thereof, these bill- Victim, | Clothes Covered Blood, Dies 'in Ambulance. | Five Are Held. | Police early this morning were in- vestigating the mysterious slaying of a colored man who staggered from his | house in the 300 block of Missouri ave- | nue, with blcod splattered over his body appear before the committee Monday. fnd e Paitel o rnand snd IR0 Aot | e dactined to cominent an. ehkryes the arms of two policemen ing on the corner of Missour: avenue and Fourth strect The policeman summoned an Emer- gency Hospital ambulance and rushed the wounded man to the hospital, but he was pronounced dead on arrival at_the hospital. There was nothing among the man's effects to identify him. Meanwhile police arrested five col- | ored men and took them to the sixth for investigation. They were Pack and Willlam Ford of the Missouri the 200 block of Sullivan street south- west. Y The destroyer Dupont arrived along- | | killed Miss Emma Kirk Lieut. T, N. Erickson on With | the other State penal institutions led the committeemen to pan tentatively | to investigate the Southern Illinois Pen- itentiary at Chester and the reforma- They lixewise decided tory at Pontiac. to hold a Sunday sessicn. Chairman Testifies Tomorrow. William Jones of Streator, chairman | boards could serve as fences and be | painted over. In return for the aban- | donment of such billboard sites, con- sideration could be given to the grant- ing of permits for space of comparable area in second commercial or indus- tria] districts, if the Commissioners | approve.” the public areas, notably signs of gas | deferred action on the request for a a pistol from his pocket and" | firing. s A large man sitting in the the prisoner, and, grabb him b; throat, subdued hgl T D ey had gone out with the spectators, who crowded every exit while the firing was | in progress. | Justice Stafford heard the Potomac | Electric Power Co. case which finally resulted in the consent decree concern- ing the participation of the public in | the company's profits and which now | is the bone of contention between the Public Utilities Commission and the company. People's Counsel Richmond | mission ignore the decree. numerous other equity and la: ings. He heard W proceed- Native of Vermont. week, when the prisoner whipped-out | | front row of the spectators sprang on | . The court | T8e | to be adjourned because all its d,‘gl‘l‘l‘tg B. Keech is seeking to have the com- | of the State parole board, said he would TWO HURT IN CR ASH against the board, explaining tha “what I have to say will come out when | T appear.” Capt. B. A. Davenport, who was in- jured by convicts in the riot at the old prison March 14, was called for ques- tioning as to the cause of the riot. Asked if it would not have been pos- sible to have prevented the killing of the three convicts who attempted to Davenport ex- precinct, where they were being held | pressed the opinion that prison officials Fred | followed the only course open to them. He sald the guards, outside the walls avenue address, Thomas H. Holland of | who shot the three convicts called to the 100 block of Fourth street, James |the fleeing men to halt before they fired. E. Johnson, also of the Missouri ave-|In one instance, he said, he knew the nue address, and Andrew A. Green of |guard fired over one man’s head pur- posely to bring him to a halt before escape February 22, shooting to kill. George P. Tucker ( ta:r) being questioned by the Los Angeles police after his confession several d: - - yexc:mld'u?nbulh shop proprietor, here in 1936. Detective Lieut. Paul Auto Upsets in Accident at 11th and D Streets Southeast. ‘Two persons were siightly hurt last night in a collision which resulted in | the overturning of two automobiles at Eleventh and D streets southeast. Mrs. Loretta Wallach, 19 years old, riding in an automobile driven by her husband, Harry Wallach, 19 years old, of 108 Fourth street southeast, was treated at Casualty Hospital for cuts to her arm and later sent home, Samuel Crawford, 23 years old, of Marlboro, M¢., driver of the machine which crashed into the automobile Wal- lach was driving, was treated at Cas- ualty Hospital for slight‘cuts. He was| arrested on a charge of reckless driving. | t f | | praciicing lawyer here. He was a mem- | ber ‘of the Vermont House of Repre- |OPPONENTS BOYCOTT |One Communist Spat Upon in When Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy resigned in December, 1929, the Bar | Association unanimously recommended to the Attorney General the appoint- ment of Justice Stafford to that positjpn to round out his service to the court. It considered it would be a fitting appre- cietion of his services to the District. The Attorney General decided on an- other candidate. e Justice Stafford was born at Barre, Vt.,, May 1, 1861, the son of Frank and Sarah (Noyes) Stafford, and was d- uated from Barre Academy and St. Johnsbury Academy. He took his de- gree of LL. B. (cum laude) at Boston University in 1883 and practiced law at St. Johnsbury. He married Florence 8. Goss of 8t. Johnsbury February 24, 1886, and has one son, Edward, a sentatives in 1892 and editor of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Jjustice of that court until 1904. He is the author of “North Flowe: (poems), “Dorian Days," “Voices,” a dramatic ode; ‘We Love” (poems) and “Wi For 21 years Justice Stafford was pro- fessor of equity jurisprudence at George Washington University and has lectured frequently in Vermont and in Boston and New York. Amid all his activities he has found time to contribute poems and articles to magazines. MUELLER MEMORIAL Reichstag for Failing to Honor Late Chancellor. a; o that he | at haif-stat un By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, March 21.—The gesture for | which Herman Mueller's political op- | ponents never forgave him lived after | him today as the Nationalists and Com- munists boycotted a Reichstag session paying tribute to the memory of the charcellor who signed the Versailles treaty. One Communist attended and he re- fused to rise with the other members as a token of respect for the statesman whose creed was conciliation. There was a near riot and members loyal to Mueller's memory spat upon the offend- ing Communist. Mueller’s body is to lie in state until next Thursday at the headquarters of his Social-Democratic me' and on Thursday afternoon will be 'cremated. The funerai has been tentatively set for March 29. Flags on all pmumu; buildings will fly Reichstag adjourned after its memorial session, ‘The former chancellor, who was only Vermont. from 1896 to 1900 and was a | then, and foday the | follow in prior to the passage of the vocational educational act, in which it was pointed out that “of the more than 23,000,000 employes engaged in manufacturing and agriculture, only 1 e were technically and Believes U, S. Will Meet Problems. Declaring he did not wish to be con- | sidered a pessimist, Mr. Franks said he has fa in the United States and be- es “it | lems.” Nevertheless, he said, the truth )°’ the matter is that “more people are | feeling the effects of unemployment” | because of the age limit or labor-sav- | ing machinery than ever before. And, he added, “these things will continue to grow as time goes on.” Approximately $30,000,000 was expend- ed for vocational education last year iby the Federal nt and local |and State governments, the speaker | went on. This, he explained, was nine- tenths of 1 per cent of the total spent for public education and there was a student body of 1,066,000, which meant that the cost per student was $28. It would be more economical, he de- clared, to “establish enough al -day, | part-time and evening classes” to | train unskilled laborers so they will be | able to accept better jobs when they are offered. Of course, he added, this cannot be accomplished overnight, but the sooner work along that line is started the sooner it will be completed. M:ledlcal Training Costs $19,622, . Franks quoted from an Iowa pa- per of December 6, 1928: “The Mp:f medical training at one of our State universities for four years was $19,622 per graduate” He compared this cost—which figures out to about $5,000 a year Fer student—to the $28 a year which it costs to train ‘mechanics, “;'T;tn lng ot.:xoelx& ‘workers. e speaker of a small cit; which Cgee chemical fire engine binil: down. Municipal authorities sent the plece of apparatus back to the factory —a distance of about 400 miles—to ?;g; 1t repaired at & cost of $300 or A friend advised the fir take the chemical truck to : loccx:ildm‘: chine shop and ask for “Frank.” In less than two days “Frank” had thor- oughly overhauled the equipment—and the cost was less than $20. “A mere mechanic did it,” Mr. Pranks pointed out, “but he was the biggest man in the city in his line. The saving to the company by two days’ work of one me- E}:xenc,u dv‘ncuttlgn?flymtmned, would paid for the further tra other mechanics for an entire sagrs 14 Legislation encouraging _ vocational education was d by in 1917, after 140 years' waiting on the part of workers, the speaker said. “As a result,” he added, “all of the States and the Islands of Porto Rico are co- operating in this work, and in 1930 more thal million le took . tage of it.” o e Wealth Will Be Milistone. Althought the United States, with its ' more than 33!0.000.000,0%.“ is “ths richest and most powerful Nation in the world,” its wealth some day may be a millstone to drag the country down if it ’ig not used intelligently, Mr. Franks said. | | Despite compulsory education, 10,000,- 000 cgfldnn between the ages of 5 :: are not mn&m school. ese boys 1s,” the clared, ‘“gre at work. teaches us that many of that 10, could be brought back to sci part-time wi e ,000,000 hool on' & a time, Mr. Franks predicted, when every child will be re- quired to e a course vocational guidance in order to learn for what trade or profession they are best fitted. “Real vocational guidance,” he said, "wulmmeumcgolmt.henyot&hl py solution of thei cent * gfnuuuy trained.” | the speech by P. creases for expenditures for air services an lzumcnt in favor of an increased - lish program. United States Leading World. “The United States leads the World in naval aviation,” Britten sald in a statement. “This is admitted in Eng- land, France and Italy, where they point to the progress made in this country. My '.hau{ht is we will be still further ahead of the world in aviation In the next four or five years.” ‘The next naval program, he added, will provide for not less than two air- plane lers, two flying deck crui- sers, 10 submarines and 12 destroyers. gie said if Naval experts are satisfied be four flying deck in_ac- - with provisions of the Lon- lon ity. “Any foreign criticism directed at our commercial or military aviation,” ;luemldded, “lhouéid hl;! no effect ;:n re apj ions by Congress for ucflmm" advance in every aviation di- ion.” 200 SHIP REFUGEES LANDED IN SCOTLAND Crew Remains on Canadian-Pacific Liner Montclair, Hoping to Refloat Vessel. By the Associated Press. Two hudired passengers: from the Ca- 0 hun passengers - 1adian Pacific liner Montclare, including twenty mothers and their children, were ht here tonight from the little island of Cambria after the Mont- clare ran hard aground on a reef in the Firth of Clyde. They had taken to the boats and were picked ullxx by tugs as the liner, bound for port from Montreal, listed heavily on the rocks which she had struck in a heavy fog. The tugs took them to Cambria, where they huddled together in a hunting lodge until the relief boats came. The crew stayed aboard and it was believed the Montclare might be floated tomorrow, although her bows were badly damaged. . MAN USING PHONE FLEES AS OFFICER PUTS COAT ON Stranger Deserts Auto and 25 Gal- lons at Accomodating Police- man’s House. BY the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga. March 31.—There knock today on County Policeman A. H. Stovall's front door. An excited stranger asked to use the telephone. As ‘the man took down the receiver, Stovall drew cn his coat, his mhdu. strapped on his gun and put on cap. The stranger yelled and from :.hh: ho;xbse he deserted his m at curb. Startled, Stovall followed. car were 5 gallons cf whisky, © 0 e Uruguay Seeks New Gunboats. which route to hat profes- | 2y l.hould' ‘The be fo Y8 ag! n the right and ited Press Photo. 54, died on Friday night after s long illness, e teXt of Mr. Franks will ound in the editorial lon 0 day’s Sf MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, March (#).—The President asked -u’{ gressional authority to seil the obsolete cruiser Montevideo, the gunboat Nine- teenth of July and the auxiliary Baron Rio Branco acquire thelr place three fast gunboats "