Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1931, Page 2

o THE EVENING PRES"]ENI H[]UVER Dead Coach and Children EULOGIZES ROCKNE Sends Message to Widow De- 'scribing Death as “Na- tional Loss.” President Hoover today described ghe death of Knute Rockne as a “national Joss.” “The Chie! Executive dispatched the | Toiibwiaiy telegram to the -widow of the famous Notre Dame coach: i “I know that every American grieves with you. Mr. Rockne so contributed to | & cleanness and high purpose and sportsmanship in athletics that his Ppassing is a national loss. “Sigried. HERBERT HOOVER.” Officials Send Messages: Becretary of War Hurley &nd Gen. _»Douglas MacArthur, Army chief of staff, sent messages of condolence to | Rev. C. L. O'Donnell, president of Notre ; Dame. p: 1 mourn with Notre Dame the loss of her great coac) Secretary Hurley wrote. “He was more than a creaior of fine foot bail-teams. He was a build- er of character and because he was that, his untimely passing is a loss to the country. { “Notre Dame loses his aggressive | leadership, but not the inspiration of | his ncbility of character.” Gen. MacArthur's message said: “The Army extends its deepest sym- | thy in the tragic death of Knute 'kne. American sport has lost a great and beloved leader. We share with Notre Dame the inspiration of his gallantry, his vigor and his skill. The ! Army will cherish his memory.’ Wile Eulogizes Rockne. Rockne was eulogized last night by Frederic William Wile, newspaper cor- _yespondent and political analyst, who was a close personal friend of the fa- mous foet ball coach. Wile, who also is a graduate of Notre Dame, addressed his remarks over a Nation-wide network of the Columbia Broadcasting System. NAVY ORDERS Capt. Burrell C. Allen, detached Ex- “ amining Board, Navy Department about June 20, to command Squadron 4 destroyers, Battle Force, United Btates Flee! 2 Capt. William W. Galbraith, detached ; ‘he “Spirit of Notre Dame,” a fighting care for the messages. aval attache, American Embassy, Lon- / fon, England, about May 15, to com- Capt. William A. Hall, pall Of Sorrow IS BY PAUL MICKELSON. @OUTH BEND, Ind., April 1 (#).— #pirit that never before tottered, was crushed today by tragedy. Knute Kenneth Rockne, the man who mand U. 8. S. Texas. detached United States Naval Mission to Brazil, o command U. S. Relief. ! Capt, Charles M. Tozer, relieved from | active duty about March 16, to home. | . George H. Emmerson, detached U. 8. 8. Mississippi, to U. 5. 8. Mem- phis as efecutive officer. Lieut. Comdr. Anton B. Anderson, Training Station, after August 1, to as englnm ‘:mfll', George 8. Arvin, de- U. 8. S. Mississippi to 3d Naval District. Lieut. Comdr. Carlyle Craig, detached . U. 8.'8. Mexico about March S. 8. Saratoga), about June 1, to U. 8 8. Le n. . Lieut, Comdr. John S. Roberts, de- tached U. S. S. New Mexico about detached Navy Yard, W: . C., about June 1, o command U. §. §. Hovey. > lmafl;nkéln”l'.‘ ite to tem-. porary duty, U. 8. 8. Lieut. E. ord, . 8, about March 20, to connection fitting out U. 8. 8. Mont- gom and on board that vessel as ext e_officer when commissioned. Lieut. Warren S. Parr, detached VO Squadron 4B (U. 8. 8. New Mexico), to VO Squadron 3B (U. 8. 8. Pennsyl- vania). Lieut. Willlam L. Phillips, orders December 23 revoked, to continue &uty U. 8. 8. Rigel. . George Lucius Russell, de- tached office of judge advocate general about July 1, to U. 8. 8. Bass. Lieut, Warren K. Sherman, detached aide on staff Light ‘Cruiser Division 2, to Navy Yard as radio material officer, Pearl Harbor, The Hawalis. Lieut. Aaron P. Storrs, 3d, detached Naval Air Station, Anacostia, D. C., about June 1, to duty as aide and flag leutenant on staff of commander of :l.l:m“ Battle Force, United States et. Lieut. Archibald E. Uehlinger, de- tached Navy Yard, Washington, D. C, about May 29, to U. 8. tion, Pensacola, Fla. Lieut. Charles Wellborn, jr., detached T. 8. 8. New Mexico about March 20, to U. 8. 5. Nevada. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Earl 8. Cald- well, detached U. S. S. Northampton, to U. 8. S. Maryland for temporary duty. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Earl S. Cald- well, detached U. 8. 8. Maryland, to :esimuon. accepted effective May 8, 931. Lieut. (Junior Grade) William C. Eddy, detached U. 8. 8. 0-3, to U. 8. 8. R-3. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Fritz Gleim, Jr., detached U. 8. 8. New Mexico about March 20, t U. 8. S. Breese. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Emmanuel T. Goyette, detached U. 8.'S. Detroit about | March 20, to U. 8. 8. Omaha. | Lieut. (Junior Grade) Prancis Grandfield, detached U. 8. 8. S-21 about May 1, to Submarine Base, Pearl Har- | bor, The Hawaiis. Lieut, (Junior Grade) Robert H. G. Johnson, detached U, 8. S. O-1, to| Submarine Base, Coco Solo, Canal Zone. | The following officers have been de- tached from their respective vessels to duty at the United States Naval Acad- emy with authority to delay in report- (Junior Grade) John G. ., from U. 8. 8. J. Fred Tal- (Junior Grade) David R. Hull from U. 8. 8. Dupont, Lieut. (Junior Grade) Richard F. J. Johnson, jr., from U. 8. 8. Bridge; Lieut. (Junior ! Grade) Prederick Moosbrugger from U. /[ 8. 8 Lieut. (Junior Grade) War- Ten P. Mowatt from U. 8. 8. Leary, Lieut. (Junior Grade) Neill Phillips from U. 8. 8. O-4, Lieut. (Junior Grade) James M. Robinson from U. S. S. Biddle, Lieut. (Junior Grade) Sam uel D, Simpson from U. 8. 8. Wickes, Lieut, (Junior Grade) Mario G. Van- geli from U, S. S. Marblehead, Lieut. (Junfor Grade) John R. van Nagell from U. S. S. Herbert, Lieut. (Junior Grade) John T. Warren from U. S, 8. Claxton, Lieut. (Junior Grade) Homer the blow of his sudden, tragic loss, stunned everybody. It was as devastat- as it was sudden to Notre Dame and it seemed like the rude interruption to just a wonderful dream. Flags at Half Mast. University leaders, students, towns- people and even the smallest boys on the streets were grief-stricken as they d that their “Rock” had marched . A pall was cast across the shadows of his-achievement, flags flew sadly at half mast and every one who knew him nally or just by name hung their in’sorTOW. So amaved and. stricken were his friends that even wa.%, 24 hours after the immortal foot ball coach’s tragic death in an airplane criash in Kansas, funeral arrangements were far from complete. All that was fairly certain that the remains of that man, history, are lowered in the grave that flaou-ndl ‘will be_present. Funeral Saturday Likely. Pending word'from his widow, rushing back home from Miam', Fla., definite arrangements will be held in abeyance. Mrs. Rockne was expected to arrive in South Bend - tomorrow night, several hours after the arrival of the body. Most of her friends and university officials said today they believed the | funeral services would be held Saturday morning. “I want him buried from the Church of Notre Dame amid the surroundings and boys he loved so well,” was all Mrs, Rockne would say. Church law forbids requiems during Holy week and a low mass instead of a solemn high requiem was cleebrated in | Sacred Heart Church for Rockne at 6:20 o'clock today. Two thousand stu- tends and faculty attended the mass and received holy communion. Messages of condolence literally poured into the Rockne home and to the uni- versity. They came from all corners of the world and from every one who had Above is a recent picture of Krute K. Rockne and three of his children. are (left to right) Billy NOTRE DAME'S FAMOUS “SPIRIT" BROKEN BY ROCKNE TRAGEDY Its Morale Totters for the First Time as Flags at Half § They Jackle and Knute, jr. Cast Over School; taff. |known “Rock,” as he was known inti- imately to thousands. Telegraph and telephone offices worked overtime to Carideo Stunned. was mmong the members of | ne's boys,” the foot ball players | It “Rock; did more in building up that far-flung (who knew and loved him, that the cently-fired spirit than any oneé else, was dead and | crushed spirit was the most noticeable. ' other .38 caliber revolver and $3,300. | All of them were as heartbroken today | as they were joyous last fall when they | crushed Southern California’ to stretch | their string of unbroken vietories to 19 | straight. But to & man they mourned | not so much the loss of & great foot ball coach as the loss of & man. | “This thing has stunned me,” Frank Carideo, “Little Napoleon” of Rockne’s 1929 and 1930 armies, said as he cried ouiright. “I was closer to Rock than most any other of the boys, and perhaps I feel it more than most of them. To think that the man who taught me all the foot | ball in those long sessions we had in private is gone. “I don’t want to believe it. I hope that God takes care of him like he took care of us. He treated us all like a father, and we loved him all the more because he came back to us after his | illness in 1929.” | < What Carideo said was what all the ] rest of them said in different words. Anderson May Succeed Him. | What eflect Rockne’s passing will | have .on Notre Dame foot ball is hard | to say. Doubtlessly Notre Dame will | find it hard to come close to replacing his genius; never will it be able to re- place his personality, a personality set forth with wisdom, sparkling humor and sportsmanship. Who his immediate suc- cessor will be also is a matter of co jecture, although the logical choice fo®{ | the 1931 campaign falls to his chief | assistant, Heariey “Hunk” Anderson Most foot ball coaches have been signed for this year, and ‘PFighting Irish” probably will recrult another as- sistant agd work under a group of coaches headed by the redoubtable An- derson. | Plans to honor Rockne’s memory were advanced today, and there wasn't much doubt but what the new Notre Dame Stadium, the stadium “Roc) built, would be renamed “Rockne Stadium.” Such a plan was afoot last Summer, only to be cast aside at Rockne’s in- sistence. CORONER’S JURY OPENS PLANE CRASH INQUIRY; ICE THEORY SCOUTED t Page.) The edge looked ragged. It lit num- T up.” Blackburn sald he noticed no ice on the wreckage, saw some spilled gasoline, but no evidence of fire. All Passengers Identified. Coroner Jacob Hinden delayed the | inquest, awaiting the arrival of Ernest McKenzle, an undertaker, who identi- fizd the passenger list found on the body of one of the pilots and tickets which had been taken from the pas- sengers. R. S. Bridges, traffic agent at Kan- sas City for the Transcontinental & Western Air Express, read the names one by one from the tickets. “Knute Rockne,” he read, and pauled J.| a8 the little county court room instantly } became quiet Coroner Hinden read into the record evidence bearing upon identification of the victims. He said his identification of all the bodies was positive and was made chiefly from cards in their clcthing. Other witnesses called today were: Edward Baker, son of Steward H. Baker, upon whose ranch the plane fell, and Clarence H. McCracken, ranch man, who saw the liner hurtle to earth from & cloudy sky. Fokker on Way to Scene. Harris Hanshue, president of Trans- continental and Western Air Express. and Anthony Fokker, designer of the craft, which carried its crew and pas- sengers to swift death, were expected to arrive here today. ‘They were reported en route to Wich- ita, Kans., by airplane from Los Angeles. They planned to drive the 90 miles from Wichita to Cottonwood Falls. Ranchers in the vicinity of the crash said little of the plane remained for Hanshue and Fokker to examine, the | larger part of the debris having been carried away by souvenir seekers. Flying through muggy weather on a - | Jacob Hinden, B. Wheeler from U. 8. 8. Arizona (no | trip that would have placed them last | delay), Lieut. (Junior Grade) Charles | night in California, two pilots and six W. Wilkins from U, 8. 8. R-20 and ngers met instant death. There Lieut., (Junior Grade) Jack B. Wil- | was no fire, indicating the Transconti- | liams from U. 8. 8. R-12. + _ |nental and Western air pilot, Robert | Ensign Jack Agnew, detached U. 8.|Fry, had switched off the engines in the S, Mississippi about March 20, to U.|last moments of despair. 8. 8. Idaho. which had left Kansas City little more | Ensign John T. Bowers, S, Gitached | than an hour before. was shattered | U. 8..8. New Mexico about March 20, | against the ground, its motor plnly‘ to U, 8. 8. Hovey. buried. | John G. Burgess, detached U.| Jess Mathias of Los Angeles, the co- ho about March 20, to U. 8. 8. led by radio a few moments xico. i e the crash that he did not have | William A. Burgett, detached | “time to talk. U. 8. 8. Mississippl about March 20, to| “What are you going to do?” He | U. 8. 8. Idaho. was asked by an operator at the Wichita Ensign Eugene C. Carusi, detached Municipal Alrport. Navy Yard, Washington, D. C., about “I don't know,” Mathias answered, ‘" March 28, o U, 8. Yarnall, Three bodies were found in the | | wreckage. The other five were thrown iree. Christen and J. H. Happer | of Chicago, W. B. Miller, Hartford, Conn,; Spencer Goldthwaite, New York, | |and C. A ht, Wheeling, W. Va., were the others killed. | "H. G. Edgerton of Wichita, a repre- sentative of the airline, informed Dr. county coroner, there | was a possibility ice had weighed down | |the wing, causing its severahce from | the plane. Residents of the vicinity, however, | | sald ground tempsratures were above freezing, and cowboys who scanned the | clouds “said the plane wgs not fiying high. don't believe ice played a very im- portant part in the accident,” said Dr. John D. Brock of Kansas City, who | made his five hundred and first con- | | secutive daily flight in all kinds of | | weather to reach the scene of the crash. | TWO SONS ESCORT BODY KANSAS CITY. April 1 (#).—The body of Knute Rockne, foot ball wizard of Notre Dame, was escorted to Kansas City today by his two sons, Knute, jr., 12, and William, 15. The boys. accompanied by Dr. D. M. |Nigro, Notre Dame alumnus, went to | Cottonwood Falls, Kans., yesterday, upon receiving news of the gridiron mentor's death. They are students in | the Pembroke School here. The bod was met here by Father Michael Mul- | caire, president of Notre Dame; Jack | Chevigny, assistant Notre Dame Coach; “Hunk” 'Anderson, another assistant | coach; Edward Haipin, manager of: the Notre Dame team, Earl King and How- | ard Edwards. The party boarded the train which took the remains of the gridiron genius jon toward Chicago and South Bend, Ind 1 WIDOW ON WAY HOME. CORAL GABLES, Fla., April 1 (#).— | Mrs. Knute Rockne sped northward to- | day from her Winter residence here to South Bend, Ind., for the funeral of | her husband, killed in' an airplane ac- | cident in Kansas. She left here by train last night, ac- companied by Thomas O'Neil of Akron, ©Ohlo, friend of ihe family; her daugh- ter, Mary Jean, 10; her son, Jackie, 5, and a maid. She expected to reach Chi- cago at 2:35 tomorrow afternoon on her way to South Bend. Mrs. Rockne received the news of her husband’s death bravely, and helped members of her household with their packing for the trip. She had planned to leave here today by automobile for South Bend, where she was to meet her husband next Monday. —_— U. S. DISTRICT JUDGE DEAD GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 1 —Judge Clarence W. Sessions of United States District Court for West- Mie) died at his home here | surgery company, on STAR, WASHINGTO TAKEN IN CHICAGO Agents Arrest Five Men and Woman and Confiscate $25,000 in Narcotics. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 1.—Moving swifiw to round up the slayers of Max Tendler, : five men and a woman were arrested in a series of raids, who Federal and city police officials claimed today were leaders of a national narcotic ring oper- ating in New York, New Orleans, | Kansas City, Detroit, Omaha and many other principal American citles. ‘The officers said they confiscated nar- cotics worth $25,000 in the raids. Police named one of the prisoners, Dominick Condi, 39, as leader of the national ring.’ It was in his apartment, only a block from the uptown street intersection at which Tendler was shot down Monday evening, that they found & .45-caliber revolver which, they said, had been recently fired. This was im- mediately sent to ballistic experts to be checked ‘with the bullets taken from Tendler's body. Working Two Months on Case. Federal officers under Narcotic Agent | H. B. Westover of the Chicago district | have been working for more than two months on the narcotic smuggling ring. They have seized 10 ounces of narcotics bound for Detroit, 10 more ounces bound for Omaha and 25 ounces ad- dressed to Charles Haggardy, who es- caped Monday evening from & Superior, ‘Wis,, jail by carrying a 3-year-old child against his shoulder. Haggardy was being held in default of $25,000 bond on Federal narcotic charges. Police stumbled onto information which led to the roundup late yester- day while ralding a West Side flat to obtain information concerning a stolen car. There they found_Henry Carr, Higgins Dennison and William ! gerald. They also found, police, said, 10 ounces of narcotics and informa- tion ‘which led them to immediately seek Condi, one of Chicago's “public enemies.” . Condi Linked WTth Slaying. Since Tendler has been closely linked, Westover said, with the distribution of narcotics in Chicago, Condi was im- mediately linked with his slaying. The | suspect was captured on a Northside | elevated platform while talking to John Kennedy. Federal deputies immediately pro- cured a search warrant for his apart- ment, where they arrested Lorraine Kirsch, alias Lorraine Taylor, 39, and ' found two complete Oriental drug lay- outs, six ounces of narcotics, the re- 45 caliber revolver, an- Westover said he had information which named Condi, who is also known as Joseph Dominick, as the leader of a ring which has been peddling nar- cotics throughout the Nation, using the stations in principal cities as dis- tribution points. IACTRESS’ FITS OF TEMPER;” CITED IN DIVORCE TRIAL| Bert Wheeler and Others Testify for Director in Suit Against Jocelyn Lee. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 1—Corrobora- tion of testimony of Luther Reed, film director, concerning fits of rage by his wife, Jocelyn Lee, actress, from whom he is secking a divorce, were offered yes- terday by three witne: E. J. Mull, house detective at an Agua Caliente hotel from which Mr. Reed says he and his wife were ejected because of her violence, told of hearing a “racket” in Mr. Reed's room, going | there and finding “Reed covered with | blood ffom his head to his feet” Mr. Mull also said he saw the actress poised to pitch a shoe at Mr. Reed. Bert Wheeler, film comedian, testified Miss | Lee “got mad right out in the gambling | room and threw a handful of dollar chips into Reed’s face. It certainly was a mess. I saw him later in the day and Qis face looked like it had been clawed by a wild cat.” Miss Janet Spoorer, former secretary | to the late Motley Flint, financier, mur- dered here last year, said the actre: “flew into a rage and called Mr. Reed a | lot of vile names” during several bridge | games in which she and Mr. Flint played with the couple. $200,000 FIRE RAiES OTTAWA CITY HALL! Firemen Hurtled Fourth Floor Basement. Seven® From to By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Ontarlo, April 1.—The his- toric City Hal', built in 1876, was hardly more than a smoldering memory today. | Fire swept the structure last night and this morning, caused damage esti- | mated at $200,000 and endangered the | lives of firemen who fought many hours | to save it. ] The blaze started in the city engi- neering department offics on the top | ficor of the four-story puilding. The | fames dropped rapidly to the other | floors and burst cut anew as rapidly as ! they appeared under control. Seven firemen were hurtled from the | fourth floor to the basement, when & heavy vault crashed through the floors. Four were pulled fr-m the debris almost immediately, the other three several | hours later. None was serfously injured. | —_— ———— { ROCKVILLE CLUB TO SEE FLOWER JUDGING HERE Specal Dispatch to The Star. | ROCKVILLE, Md. April 1.—With Mys. J. Harry Gormley and Mrs. Win- fred E. Berty of Rockville and Miss Laura A. Wadsworth of Washington Grove, hostesses, the bi-weekly meeting of the Community Garden Club of Rockville was held at the Montgomery Country Club here, 37 members attend- | | i g. The president, Mrs. George F. Hane of ‘Alta Vista, conducted the business | sesslon, at which it was voted to di pense with the next meeting and in lieu thereof to attend the flower-judging course to be beld in Washington under auspices of the Nationai Capital Fed- eration of Garden Clubs. An_illustrated talk by Mr Guston, who s connected with a leading tree rarieties and care of trees, proved interesing and instruc- tive. Refreshments were served. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band this evening at 8 p.m., at the Audito- Marine Barracl Taylor Bran- Arthur 8. Witcomb, sec- ‘Wa, “The Bells” (“A Picture of Life") Siegfried Scharbau Principal musician, Marine Band. lute , “Concerto in D Major, Mozart ‘agner Con- einecke Overture, quering R s D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 193 IDRUG RING LEADERS || Sought Shelter From This, Found Death ROOM FROM WHICH SCHOOL CHILDREN TOOK FATAL BUS RIDE. NTERIOR view of the Pleasant Hill Scl l to death. hool House, near Towner, Colo., showing the snow which drifted in through the broken windows and cracks in the building, forcing 20 puplls of the school to leave the building and take the bus for Holly. The bus became stranded in a ditch for 36 hours during the terrific blizzard. Five of the children werp frozen —Wide World Photo. How Sight Seem Student Regaining Vision After 22 Years of Dark- ness Found World More Beautiful Than He Imagined. __ (Continued From First Page) | mother tells me that T was born totally 3 i | blind, but started to distinguish shapes at_the age of 5. ‘There is another thrill waiting me. Dimly, through my closed pupils, T could distinguish shadows—the shadows | s to Blind | SHPFRMS FIGHT 1L PROFTS ST 'Bethlehem and Others Ask ! Balance of $9,095,783 | on War Contracts. of people I came in contact with, and of Chjects around me. But that was all. I expect to go back to school after| the Easter holidays and meet my | By the Associated Press. old friends. I rather think it will be ex- | citing to see them, but I imagine they will look like strangers to me for a while. Now that T have been almost reborn, I find that I want to do a lot of things at once. I feel as though some dark veil has been lifted from before my eyes. I am going back to school and expect to continue with my studies for at_least two more years. Like Coming Out of Fog. Today all is changed. It is like com- ing out from a thick, impenetrable fog A trolley car formerly to me was a huge shadowy blackness which streaked by my eyes. Today it is real to me, with windows, wheels, and with living people in it who somehow have lost their ghostly aspect. | The operation, performed by Dr. G. H. Moore, & specialist on the staff of the Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, was full of complications. The adven- | ture, for such it appeared to me, was | the greatest thing that had ever hap- | pened in which I played a prominent art. - On February 8 I was placed on the | operating table. Two days later the | bandages were taken off and I was| given black glasses to wear. Two weeks | I have learned of a lot of distant places. later amber colored glasses were substi- | I Want to see them all, study every~ tuted and some time later ordinary col- | thing, and try to become a normal orless glasses, the kind I am wearing | uman being. This will be possible in now, were given to me. I shall never | the very near future, I believe, judging forget the biggest thrill of my Ilife, | ffom the.rapid advance I have so far which came soon after the operation | Mmade. when my mother came to visit me. I | (Copyright, 1931, by the North American had word that she was coming and was | e prepared for it. KRS agi: Mother a Stranger to Him. MAN GAINS FREEDOM Yet, when she stood before me 1| £ somehow eould not believe my, shall I | Jud, say, reincarnated eyes. Formerly she | was to me a blurred living person -with a voice. I looked at her and I saw a | stranger in front of me. I closed my | eves and heard her speak, and she was again the mother I had known all m; 1ife. It was the same with my other rela- tions and friends. I even began think- ing of myself as a stranger in the en- vironment in which I spent most of my life. [ It had frequently been described to | me what the stars, the sun, the moon, | Judge Edelman dismissed the case. the trees and flowers looked like. | Of those objects that I ecould touch I | BOWIE TAKES OFFICE was able to form definite pictures in b3 31708 e my mind. The appearance of the By aStaft Correspondent of The Star. things I couldn't touch I merely UPPER MARLBORO, Md., April 1— ing for a while, as my eyes are still under treatment. Later on, depending on conditions, I hope to abandon the Braille system entirely. Mosti¢, though, I want to learn new | things, and to travel. Eventually I | hope to go either into business for my- self or else become a traveling salesman. ge Rules It's No Crime to Try to Save Life. CHICAGO, April 1 (#).—It's no crime to try to save a man's life. Judge Leon Edelman so ruled in Y | passing on the case of Joseph Harnois. Harnois was arrested when he went through a police line and waded knee deep into Lake Michigan in an effort to rescue a man who had jumped into the water and was drowned. | Caliente Lidy unfire ... | Jane Me Soctety Talk ... aMrs. Robert n it 1n 11 11 11 11 1 ¥ Gart guessed at. | Amid a bower of flowers, placed in his Now I am convinced that T had near- | office by admiring friends, Brice Bowie ly in all cases underestimated every- |took office this morning as county treas- thing. ~Flowers look more beautiful to urer. His term is for four years. me than T had imagined them to be.| Mr. Bowie, who succeeds R. Ernest The furniture in my home and little | Smith to the post, was elected last No- children playing in the street have a |vember. He recently relinquished the more etiractive appearance than I post of clerk to the county commis- imagined. | sloners, which he held one year. He Has Yet to See Stars. | was formerly a member of the county Of course, my ideas of beauty may be commissioners. limited by my experience in seeing | things. My sight Is not vet- perfect. en gain my eyesight fully, it may be that my ideas will undergo enother | BOWIE ENTRIES change. 1 'am not yet able to judge | things from their appearances t0 me | PIRST RACE—Purse. $1,200; maiden 2 as they appear to other people. ycar-old fililes: & futlongs I have yet to see the stars in the sky, 3HoM%ick HE mne N which, I find, are too small to dis- | Marcasite Also eligivie tinguish. I think of them as resem- | Donna Dear Justamaid bling the sters on the American flags. | Sesret Sianal fiseese 1w - The moon and the sun, also, are not Bay Bloom quite clear to me. I still don't know FARS Fime - what a bird looks like. || Bt Yesterday, for the first time in my Heighe-J. Woods life, T saw a dog. Hundreds of times | entrY- before I had stroked such animals, but | , SECOND RACE_Purse, $1.200; claiming: I was amazed to find how intelligent | Jbetabit .. . 104 Ebony Prince looking and beautiful the dog is. | Pourth wer 111 *Sanpresto Ever since (he advent of the talkies | Neble Sir .. 19 hsian I used to go to the movies quite fre- | " wamp RAGE- Purse. §1a00, slairaing: 3 quently, just for the sake of hearing | year olds: 6 tuilongs: . . Z sounds. Looking at the screen I could | Friar Bacon . 118 see a series of lights flashing before my | ;5o gl eyes, but I was never able to dis- | tinguish_anything. I went to the movies again yesterday, and was amazed at what I saw. The | scene of a river especially appealed to me. Bigspring Little Gyp Justine ......0000 FIFTH RACEPurse, $1,400. Line: 4 years old and up: ‘6 1l Aziz . i 105 Pess Pride Morsel . _.l 114 Omareen SIXTH RACE—Furse, $1.200; Jears old and upi L\ miles 7 nir *Fair Foily *Fair_Beth *My Scoop, aCornish 'L Also_elly Fairdale . *Fair Bill ', John White entry. SEVENTH RACE—Purse, §1.200; claiming; 4 years old and up, m I find now that T am going to regain my eyesight fully; that I will have to| start my education in reading all over again. - I had already made a good | start in this direction. Reads French in Braille, Two weeks ago I started learning the | alphabet from, I am told, a book used by kindergarten pupils. I have al- ready learned’ the alphabet and nu- merals. Of course, at present I can only read large capital letters. Starting all over again as a little boy felt rather queer. Especiaily since I had advanced far in my education in using the Braille system of reading. I| have even learned to read and speak French in this manner. I am most amazed at the large num- ber of colors that I am able to dis- tinguish. I saw a bright, vivid color, and was told that it was red. Another color I came to know as blue, and still an- other color as yellow. There are still some colors that I cannot clearly dis- tinguish. ‘The other day somebody showed me & calendar. Learning to read it was extremely easy once I found that the week started with Sunday at the left hand top corner of the page, and con- tinued across to Saturday. Similarly it was with learning to te]l time by the clock. There is still much room for improve- ment in my vision. I cannot ses far- away objects and scenes. I have still to learn what a mountain looks like, nh.h:uih, riding through the country the other day I saw whaf{ I was told was 4 hill. When you're blind you get to know people by their voices, but mostly by their personalities, Your sense of touch is very important, as well as your sense of hi 3 I have been sort of cheerful all my life, and after a while lost all sense of. of my My claiming Royal Cha 114 *Apprentice, wiiow: raining Also “eligi *By-product ance claimed. g; track muddy. Lenten Service New York Avende Presbyterian Church 12:20 to 1:00 O’Clock Speaker Thursday and Friday Bishop W. F. McDowell Methodist Episcopal Church Auspices Federation of Churches 57 Open to All You Are Invited to Attend DIIIIII I LIS 2L LI E P LT LA LI AT I P I LI, I will use the Braille system of read- | Through the medium of my fingers ' iy, PHILADELPHIA, April 1.—A legal | battle involving $20,000,000 between the | Government and the Bethlehem Ship- | bullding Corporation and three of its | allied companies began here yesterday |at a hearing beiore. Willlant Clarke { Mason, special mast-r appointed by the | United States District Court. |~ ‘The Government is suing to recover | $11,000,000 aileged “‘excess profits” made | by the companies during the World War |in the construction of ships for the | morchant marine. " The Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corpo- ration, the Bethlehem Stecl Corpora- | tion, the Union Iron Works and the | Pore River’ Shipbuilding Corporation, the defendants, have filed counter ac- tion demanding payment of $9,095,783, | which, they contend, is the balance due lem from the Government on ship contracts. Schwab to Be Called. Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bethlehem | Steel Corporation, who was director of | the Emergency Fleet Corporation dur- | called as a witness in a few days. According to the Government’s com- plaint, Schwab is alleged to have held other shipbuilding companies to & 10 per cent profit plan in building mer- | chant marine vessels, but allowed his | own companics to work on “what was | known as th> half-saving plan.” Attorneys explained this by saying that when the Bethlehem Shipbuilding | Corporat combine contracted to build a ship for $3,000,000 and actually spent $2,300,000 in the construction, the builders got 10 per cent of the remain- ing $700,000 of the contract price as their profit, and then divided the re- | mainder with the Government. Other shipbuilders, the attorneys said, were held by Schwab to the 10 per cent | profit plan, and all of the remainder contract price was returned to the Gov- ernment. Defense Denies Charges. Schwab, in his defense filed some time ago, denled the charges of the Government and said his companies took only the 10 per cent profit, the came as the other concerns. | Harry gro vn, technical manager for the Beihlehem Steel Corporation, who | supervised the estimating for the ship | contracts, was called as a witness taday. In his testimony he defended the con- | tracts, claiming that they saved the Government $672,000 on each of the four ships in one instance. The controversy was carried to the courts originally in April, 1925, and at that time Owen J. Roberts, now asso- ciate justice of the United States Su- preme Court, was named master. | his appointment to the Supreme Court | it became necessary to rehear the tes- timony. When the hearings are com- | nleted, the ease will go to trial before the United States District Court judge, who will be given the master's report. | “COMMUNISTS” INDICTED | |71 Face Death Penalty After Jap- anese Round-up. 4 | TOKIO, April 1 (#) —Sixty-eight men cnd three women .were indicted at| Osaka today In connestion with a country-wide round-up of Communists. ‘Twenty others were held for further in- | vestigation. 168 | vestigation, Most of the arrests were made last | year, but were kept secret pending the return of indictments. During the and other centers more than 1,400 per- sons were arrested between January and November, 1930. Several policemen | were wounded when Communist cen- ters were raided. Under the revised law of 1928 Com- munistic intrigue is a criminal offense punishable by death. |ing the World War, is expected to be | With | roundup in Tokio, Osaka, Kobe, Nagoya | BROTHERS' TRIAL IS NEARING CLOSE Case Appears to Have Re- solved Into Question of Credibility of Witnesses. By the Assoclated Pross, CHICAGO, April '1—The Lingle murder case entered its final stages today, with indications that the jurors may begin deliberating the question, “Who killed Jake Lingle?” by tonight or tomorrow. Only rebuttal testimony, the argu- ments of the attorneys and Judge Joseph Sabath's charge to the jury, re- mained at the opening of court today, the defense having brought its case in chief to a sudden and dramatic close yesterday. Brothers Not on Stand. The defense finished without putting Leo V. Brothers, the 8t. Louis [uml:n&h. on the stand in his own defense and without attempting to establish an alibi for him. Instead, his attorneys luced seven witnesses who sald rothers was not the man who fled from the Michigan Avenue Pedestrian Tunnel last June 9, the day the Trib- une reporter was shot and killed while en route to a race course, Eight State witnesses accused him of being at or fleeing from the scene. The failure of the defense to go into alibl testimony and the prosecution’s omission of any attempt to show a motive for the killing seemed to allow | the case to resolve itself into a question lof the credibility of the witnesses. Among those produced by the defense 't:)al Paul Thorne, a writer of detective stories. Accused Not the Man, Thorne said he was waiting on the corner of Michigan avenue and Ran- dolph street to get on a bus when he heard a shot. | “A young man,” he said, “a | at the ?&-d‘:r ‘t‘l"fi :;.:Ino(‘ 8 sub- | way) wi e re - day sun like a spotlight shini m | of his profile and & the witness stand, Attorney Louis Piquett for the defense asked: “Is this the man you saw coming out of the tunnel when Lingle was shot?” “He is not,” the witness replied. |HYATTSVILLE MERCHANT |DIES FROM HEART ATTACK Harry A. Cooper Slumps in .Car When Sickness Forces Him | to Leave Office Early. | Special Dispatch #6 The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., April 1.— Stricken with a heart attack as he was attempting to enter his automobile late yesterday afternoon, Harry A. 51 years cld, of Baltimore street, | shortly afterward. Mr. Cooper, who was of the | Prince Georges Paint & lware Co., Rhode Island avenue near Johnson ave- nue, had started for home when strick- en. He had loft earlier than usual, say- ing that he was not feeling well. Dr. Hilary T. Willis and Dr. Th:mas E. Latimer both answered the call for aid after Mr. Cooper was scen to slump in | his automobile. He had not been m good hexlth for the past several weeks. Mr. Cooper, why was born and reared in Baltimore, had lived in Hyattsville since 1912. He was a talk’ng machine expert and traveled extensively at one time introducing s prominent make of the machine. He bec:me manager of the Prince Georges Paint & Hardware Co., when it cpened a year or so ago. At one time he was with the Hyattsville Hardware Co. i Mr. Cooper was a. -0dd Fellow, being a past grand Oriole Lodge, No. 47, of Hyattsville, in which ization he also held various other offices.. In addition, he was a meémber of Mizpah Encampment, an Odd Fellow organization. Surviving Mr. Cooper are his widow, his second wife, who before her mar- riage 19 years ago was Miss Mae King of Newark, N. J., and one child by his first wife, Mrs. Rosabella Bolen of Bal- timore. He also leaves two sisters, who live in Richmond, Va. I Arrangements for funeral services had not been completed today. |FAIR SKIES ARE FORECAST |BEFORE DAWN TOMORROW | Today's rain will continue until late | tonight and will be followed tomorrow | by fair weather with rising temperature, according to the Weather Bureau. | " The rain began about 8 o'clock last | night end .24 of an inch had fallen |at 8 ovclcck, this morning. tly more than two hours later the total | precipitation had reached .41 of an inch | and the rain was expected to continue Hnbermlrt:nfllyh throughout todsy and most of tonight. The Weather Bureau predicted the | mercury would rise no higher than about 43 or 44 degrees this afternoon, | followed by mml.mum temperature of about 36 fonight. - | Tomorrow’s maximum is expected to | be -about £0. Rainfall | , Comperative figures of the monthly | fainfall in the Capital for the first four | months against the average is shown in | the following table: verage. 1931 iy . January ..1.56 ins. . February..1.38 ins. . March ....3.50 ins, April 1 80 ins. Record rainfalls for the four months were: January, 1882, 7.09 inches; February, 1884, 6.84 inches; March, 1891, 8.84 inches; April, 1889, 9.13 inches. Bébby Jones consistent golfer he is today. times, but Robert Tyre Jones, jr., was not always the effective, For years he, too, had to plug away at the game before he won his first championship. short of championships. In attempting to overcome these few faults that kept the coveted laurel wreath of victory from his grasp Bobby in The Star He came close many seemed always to fall just learned many things about overcoming idiosyncrasies in one’s game. He will tell you about these faults and how he remedied them in a series Bobby Jones. of articles— The Firs: 3egins in the Sports Section = of Next Sunday’s Star, April § " Don't em, Star and duffer alike can profit by Bobby's experie z