Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain and slightly warmer with lowest temperature about 45 degrees tonight. Tomorrow generally fair tures—High ; lowest, 36, Full report on page and colder. est, 57, at 5 p.m. :t 6 am. today. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 No. 31,738, post office, Entered as second class matter Washington, -3 D. iC. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1931—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. PRESOENT PRASES UNUSUAL PROGRESS MADE N PORTORID Warns Island, However, of Too Rapid Increase in Its Population. HOOVER AND ROOSEVELT ARE GIVEN HUGE OVATIONS Chief Executive Well Pleased by Reception, Reported Larger Than That for Lindbergh. By the Associated Press. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, March 24.— The rise of Porto Rico, in a single gen- eration, “from stagnation to a high place in the march of progress,” Presi- dent Hoover told a large crowd in front of the island’s new $3,000,000 Capitol Building today, constitutes “a magnifi- cent example of what a capable and in- telligent people may accomplish under free institutions.” “I know of no finer achievement,” he added, “than that of the people of this island.” He joined the praise of the island’s progress with an acknowledgment of “the grave problems” confronting it. One of these, he sald, was the danger of the population increasing more rap- idly than the means of livelihood fur- mished by available industry. On his arrival the President was Huge Ovation. the President arrived tion was presented E the Speaker of the House of Represent- President Hoover, accompanied by Gov. . Roosevelt, Secretaries Hurley and Wilbur and Prlle‘aecn- form outside the building to reply to the a different route from terday, and board Arizona for the second hfngl! his voyage to the American West Indies. Probably Back by Monday. * | Czechoslovakian representatives Sleww get ital Monday morning. route today back to Ponce lay by way of Cibra, where President Hoover inspect the isiand vocational schools, milk stations and the baby- 1 ent scl unit which originated the pres- of reform in the island. ‘The Hoover party is highly with the enthusiastic rece] pleased n given t, which they say exceeded even that accorded Col. Lind Considerable comment is heard among S Gontintied on Page 5, Column 1) SEEK TRAINMASTER IN EXPRESS HOLD-UP Police Act After Alleged Accom- plice~Implicates Railroad Employe. "ém‘&;‘A::"Ah. March 24—A warrant for the arrest of 8. J. Brock, Louisville & Nashville Raflroad train- master, for the hold-up and robbery of an express messcnger on a Loutsville & Nashville train near here Marck 14 was sworn out today by L. H. Jackson of the bergh. | ¢ MELLON BUYS FAMOUS VIRGINIA RACE HORSE FARM FOR HIS SON Former Wife of Secretary to Spend Part Time at Mansion Purchased From Grayson and Ross Estate. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon has purchased a 400-acre rage horse farm, known as Rokeby, near Upperville, Fauquier County, Va., a part of the famous Blue Ridge Farms, in the heart of the Virginia hunting and racing region, for his son, Paul Mellon, now a student at Cam- bridge University, England. The deal for the property was closed last night, the purchase having been made by the cabinet officer in the name of Paul Mellon, from the owners, Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, retired, and the estate of the late Samuel E. Ross of Washington, both famous as breeders and owners of race horses. Mrs. Mellon to Live There. In connection with the sale of the farm the interesting fact has developed that Mrs, McMullen Mellon, former wife of Secretary Mellon, and mother of his son and daughter, Mrs. David Bruce, will spend a great deal of her time at Rokeby, one of the most beautiful and oldest estates L1 the section. Mrs. Mellon, it is known, was very interested in the horse farm and is coming here soon from England, where she is re- siding at present, to take possession of the property with her son during the hunting and polo seasons. ‘The fame of the Blue Ridge Stud, founded by the late H. P. Oxnard, the “sugar king,” is known throughout the country. It was at this place in Virginia that Oxnard bred such famous racers as King James, Vulcain and Fayette. Home of Grayson Horses. Several years ago, at his death, the estate, one of the largest in Fauquier County, was purchased by Admiral Grayson and the late Mr. Ross. It comprised several farms, of which Rokeby was a part. Here Admiral Grayson kept his most famous race horse My Own, chosen (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) POLITICAL ALLIANCE FEARED AS BACK OF BERLIN TRADE PACT Austro-German Project Dom- inates Pan-European Economic Meeting. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 24.—The economic union projected by Austria and Ger- many today stole the thunder of the Pan-European Committee meeting to consider further phases of Aristide Briand’s scheme for an economic union of all Europe. Members of the Briand Committee assembled in an atmosphere of some distrust of the proceedings at Berlin and Vienna, and of suspicion that the projected Austro-German accord is the first step toward a political union of the two countries in violation of the peace treaties and the Geneva protocol of 1922. principal topic of conversation in the committee lobbles and that M. Briand and Henderson discussed it in some de- tail, M. Briand seeking to know the British attitude toward the demarche at Vienna, where French, Italian and pro- tested the union. Press comment on the accord today ‘was calmer. Matin and Excelsior looked one more blunder to add to the credit of Germany's diplomacy. Although the Austro-German project dominated the atmosphere of the Pan- tee meeting, M. Briand mous clock room of the Quai D'Orsay. M. Briand got right down to the busi- ness of the committee, which is em- powered to prepare agenda for a plen- (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) STATE OPEPE TESTIMONY IN LINGLE SLAYING | By the Associated Press. = , March 24.—Leo V. Bro- thers, St Louls gangster, remained y as the State began to out- line the case by which it hopes to con- vict him for “Jake” Lingle, crime reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Mrs. Helen Sullivan Lingle, widow | of the slain Teporter, was among the | first witnesses_ summoned. , She was called with Coroner Hermad Bundesen | to_establish the fact of death. There were indications that the pros- ecution would not require more than| e group avoided any | it. the murder of Alfred | ANGLE PARKING BAN AFFECTING ENTIRE DISTRIGT ORDERED Prohibitory Order Becomesl Effective Ten Days After Its Advertisement. ‘The District Commissioners today abclished angle parking throughout the District. The rule will become effective 10 days after it is advertised. This sweeping change was recom- mended by the traffic advisory council last year and also was supported by b Dr. Miller McClintock, Harvard Uni- versity traffic specialist, who was em- ployed by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission in connection with its parking survey of the District last year. Extend No Parking. Beveral other changes in the traffic | that regulations were also adopted by the They extended The sections in which the U turns are prohibited are Fourteenth street be- tween Pennsylvania avenue and New York avenue and between Park road and Monroe street, Florida avenue from Bixth to Ninth street, and U street from Ninth to Eighth street. U turns were also prohibited at the intersection of Thirteenth and E streets. BALTIMORE BANKER CONVICTED OF FRAUD Milton B. Delcher Found Guilty of Nine of 28 Charges In- volving $94,000. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, March 24.—Milton B. Delcher, vice president of the defunct Chesapeake Bank, was convicted today by & Criminal Court jury of nine of 28 charges of fraud and peculation total- ing more than $94,000. Sentence was postponed, and he was released on $20,000 bond. ‘The jury which had heard evidence all last week was given the case early last night. that Delcher ‘The charges were bought stock for his personal use with |, bank funds and approved loans and honored overdrafts for two Baltimore concerns with which he was connected. Nine directors of the bank, it was testi- fled, were officers or directors of one of the concerns, Young’s System, Inc., and Delcher was said to have recelved $50 a week salary from the firm, a loan agency. ‘The Chesapeake Bank, an institution with assets of approximately $5,000,000 closed its doors December 9 and its affairs placed in the hands of a Birmingham Police Bureau of Identifi- | three days to complete its evidence. _receiver. cation. i The warrant was issued after twoi other men, implicated by Arthur Bur- ve their names as J. R. B , :d Hiram F. Williams, 27, both of rmingham. mnum.w was arrested in Chicago after Be had been traced througy a rented sutomobile in which he aped after Jeaving the train with $5,000. The messenger, F. Meyer, was held as the train was leaving Magella, a m suburb. in the express car at bery, he was to the car as he unlocked into a coach. He |GIN, STORED IN RHEEM VAULTS, HAS LIABILITIES AS FIRM ASSET |It’s Pre-War Intoxicant, but Undrinkable and Unsalable Under Federal Law. Among the most disconcerting “assets” of Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey, bankrupt mortgage house, are two cases of pre-war gin which are now in the company’s vaults awalting liquidation by the trustees. done with it. The trustees, it is under- stood, ate devold of ideas on the mat- ter, and would welcome suggestions. Judge Michael M. Doyle, Who is serv- ing with Maj. Julius I. Peyser and Henry P. Blalr as trustees, today he ex- dttorneys for owners of on wi trusts were allegedly re- leased by the bankrupt to resist the ef- forts of the trustees to Teturn these LEADERS OF G.0.P. OPPOSE STAMPEDE INTO FARM RELIEF Fess States He Will Fight Both Equalization Fee and Debenture Plan. WHEAT SURPLUS INCREASE FEARED FROM PROPOSALS Foreign Market Needed Before Legislating, McNary Says in Ask- ing Increased Consumption. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Republican leaders at the Capitol to- day indicated that they did not intend to be stampeded into support of the old equalization fee for farm reliefs or the more recent debenture plan. Senator Fess of Ohlo, declaring that he was speaking as an individual Senator and not for the administration nor the Re- publican National Committee, of which he 1s chairman, insisted that he would oppose both of those remedies for the wheat situation. “While I am not expressing more than an individual opinion,” said Senator Fess, “I cannot subscribe to the equali- zation fee or the debenture plan or any other that looks to increasing the sur- plus rather than reduction, which would inevitably aggravate the prob- Production Increase Fought. ‘The Ohlo Senator did not comment on the announcement of the Federal Farm Board that it would not undertake to buy any part of the 1931 wheat crop. He made it clear, however, that he was out of sympathy with any plan of governmental aid which would tend to increase production. Senator McNary of Oregon, co-author of the old McNary-Haugen farm bill which contained the equalization fee and which was vetoed by President Coolidge, denied today that he was eq fee. ator McNary is chairman of the Com- mittee on Agrieulture. “I felt in the past” said Senator McNary, “that the equalization fee plan L i uuifi- oY N Yesterday’s Circulation, 118,072 . L L] TRPLE CARGRAS HURTS T3 PERSINS Washington Women Among Injured on Maryland Pike. Two Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, March 24.—Thirteen persons were injured in a triple auto- mobile crash today on the Washington Boulevard near Elkridge. All were brought to the University Hospital, where physicians said that ith | three were in a serious condition. Senator McNary insisted that the problem of meeting the wheat situa- tion called for increased consumption. Study Is Promised. He said that he would study the ticable under the (Continuea on Page 2, Column 1.) < POLCE RETAING AGE IS ETAT 4 Firemen Also Affected by New Order of D. C. Commissioners. District Commissioners today adopted an order making retirement for mem- bers of the Police and Fire Departments compulsory at the age of 64. The order reads: “From and after June 30, 1931, offi- cers and members of the Metropolitan Police and Fire Departments of the District of Columbia who have reached the age of 64 years shall be retired and gmnnbcd the maximum relief allowed by W, 30 Days’ Notice. “In each case the major and superin- tendent of police and the chief engineer of the Fire Department, respectively, shall, 30 days prior to such retirement, report the essential facts to the Com- missioners in order that proper pro- ceedings may be initiated. “This order shall not be construed as a bar to the retirement of any officer or-member of either of the said depart- ments under provisions of the existing Harrison to Retire. ‘The order, adopted at the suggestion of Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby, will mean that next July 1 one inspector and three captains in the Police Department will retire. They are Inspector Willlam H. Harrison and Capts. J. M. Walsh, Charles R. Bremerman and J. E. Wison, who have all now passed their 64th year. Another captain, Walter Emer- son, will reach his 64th birthday next October. Under the present rules, there s o specific age at which a pol n or fireman must be retired, although the Commissioners may retire him after he reaches the age of 60 and has served 25 years. MADRID STUDENTS RIOT Medical U. Paraders Demand Am-| nesty for Prisoners. MADRID, March 24 (#)—Student rioting broke out again y at the San Carlos Medical University. * Radio l’ryppl on Page C-3 ‘Two of the cars were from Baltimore, according to Corpl. John W. Kels of the State police, when a coupe driven by a Washingtonian veered wide on the for Washington. injured, their injuries and ad- dresses are: elghth street southwest, Wi A driver of the coupe; deepdacerations on nose, face and neck. ames Thurman, 42, 1445 Spring r?-hd‘, ‘Washington; possible internal in- Capital Women Hurt. oFthéast, Wesington: Cits and briises. northeast, ; cuts ane ; Helen Wierson, 24, 67 K street northeast; ‘deep lacerations on face around the eyes. Walter Richardson, colored, Aiken, 8. C., operator of one of the Baltimore- Bacon, colored, Bath, 8. C.; injuries. Adelaide Mobley, colored, Ardmore, Pa.; slight injuries. erson, colored, Aiken, S. C.; ht injuries. Attie Jefferson, colored, Alken, 8. C.; cuts and bruises. Oliver Mattorson, colored, Alken; slight cuts. Moses Bacon, colored, Aiken; slight injuries. St. Clair Bacon, colored, Aiken, driver of the other Baltimore-bound machine; slight injuries. Unknown colored man riding in the latter car; slight injuries. En Route to New York. ‘The two machines in which the col- ored tourists were riding originally mmdmmgenmdmmmuw by the Washingto- nians that they had visited Baltimore last night and were returning to their home when the crash occurred. A passing motorist who saw the ac- cident drove to the police station and notified Patrolmen Cornelius Scannell and Ralph W. Smith, who arrived at the bridge shortly afterward. The in- jured were taken to the hospital in two Sun paper trucks. ‘The automobile in which the two Ba- cons were was the first struck by Smith’s machine and was but_slightly . ‘The other two cars, however, were ly damaged. Police who investigated the crash said the tracks of Smith’s machine indi- cated that he had sewerved to the left investigation, it '.:l"ulfl. and he will be given a hearing before Magistrate Rich- ard Stapleton. Surrender of German Army Is Pershing's | Condition for Armistice Conference Tomorrow in The Evening Star || FRISSELL CAUGHT IN DEBRIS AND FIRE, RESCUER REVEALS | E34:.2" Capt. JacobKean Says N;.vigator Described How Viking Movie Man Was Blown Into Wreckage. By the Assoclated Press. ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, March 24.—Jacob Kean today brought home a tale of rescue on the Northern ice floes that rivals any this port has heard in the 30 years that “Capt. Jake” has skippered sealers in the Arctic waters. He plloted the steamer Sagona into St. John's Harbor early today with sur- vivors from the Viking disaster and one dead, Navigator Willlam Kennedy of the wrecked seales It was from Kenliedy that Capt. Jake heard probably the most vivid story of the disaster that overtook Varick Fris- sell, young American movie producer, o enmedy Bied early last night just picked ‘Wadham wufiex?lhl of his ROSSLYN WHARF PLANSDRAFTED Arlington County Officials and Planning Body Act to End Controversy. Plans that are expected to eliminate definitely the controversy over the Rosslyn, Va., water front and that will result in the construction of a county owned and operated wharf on the Vir- ginia shore for the benefit of the busi- ness interests of that area without in any way interfering with the Federal Government's George Washington Me- morial Parkway projects were gotten under way yesterday at a luncheon meeting of the membership of the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Com- mission and the Board of County Supervisors of Arlington County. This meeting and the business ac- complished is believed to have cemented the relations of the two jurisdictions to the extent that an orderly development of the entire Virginia water front will follow in a manner that will bene- ficial to all of Arl time as Congress ing of the first of the Lee Boule- vard. Plan to Benefit AlL It was agreed between the two bodies that the d County’s commercial water front should be taken over by the county authorities for the benefit of all instead of for one concern as was in the case of m‘?!sl‘;:‘ I?‘ s revealed by Supervisor was u B. M. dedrick, who p-mm’ bedp’n the & g would be built at about 100 feet from the shore and then a nnel would be dredged (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) Feed Men Who Ate Grass. 00‘ today m’me jovernment y o ity for f¢ repatriated Mexican workers from United States, after dispatches from border states had told of some of the returned workers being forced to eat grass to keep alive. LEITER IS UPHELD Chicago Appeals Court Con- firms Decision Refusing to Remove Him. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 24.—Joseph Leiter's trusteeship of the $30,000,000 estate of his father, Levi Leiter, pioneer Chicago tee of the family fortune. Joseph Leiter's titled sister, Lady Marguerite Hyde, Countess of Suffolk and Berks, started proceedings in 1923 to remove her brother from control of the estate, charging that he misman- aged the funds. Judges Kickham Scanlan, Otto Ker- ner and Martin Gridley reviewed the appeal of Lady Marguerite and her allies several weeks ago. “After reviewing the contentions of P S Ve Leiter as trustee.” 2 with his levelopment of Arlington | ¢hat hig te without concurrence of the others. During his 26 years of administra- tion the working capital of the estate has been increased from $12,920,200 to $17,387,000, the court stated. ‘The Leiter fortune was founded on its SIX COUNTY' POLICEMEN OFFER BLOOD TO SAVE COMRADE’S LIFE J. Stanley Gingell, Near Death as Result of Kerosene Blast, to Be Given Transfusion Today. Lawrence G. fational Training 1 Since the accident, which ocurred at the Poolesville, Md., home ‘worse morning that a On learning pital, six to give Last night he took a turn for the and decided this blood transfusion was which would save him. the report from the hos- Muwum the only thi UP) Means Associated Press. he Foening Sfar. TWO CENTS. DEAL TODAY SEN AS BASS FOR SUT N GAS FIRM PROBE Control of Local Company EXpected to Pass to West- ville Trust of lllinois. BRIDE ACTION TO AWAIT INVESTIGATION’S RESULT Procedure Contemplated Against New Owners Under La Follette Anti-Merger Act. A transaction said to be taking place today in New York and Chicago finan- cial circles by which control of the ‘Washington Gas Light Co. and its sub- sidiaries will pass to the Westville Trust of Illionis, owned by A. E. Pierce, 3 & Sav- Chicago, eontrolled by Co. of New York, is cohlndnn(tham Harris La Follette trust nor Bride against AS HEIRS TRUSTEE[2: Fo ) ':g:‘ ik iIgE§§§a§§E§ o i f i BABY SAVED IN BLAST BEFORE HOUSE BURNS Couple and Doctor Rescue Sick Infant as House Is Set Afire by Furnace. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BLADENSBURG, Md., March 24— An exploding furnace set on fire the home of August Arnold on the Defense ltwuennhped!‘h:mm . Thomas er was attending Arnold, the baby, ill with -