Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast. Fair tonight and temperature about 40 warmer Tem) q 43, at i ‘report on page Closing N.Y. Markets itered ms second class matter Washington, g t ofce, tomorrow. peratures—High tomorrow; lowest degrees; somewhat est, 46, at noon 7 am. toda; Pages13,14& 15 The Zo WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION T; € WASHINGTON, 1. HURSDAY, ening 9 APRIL 1931 —FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. Sta E Ll The only evening paper in Washington with the Augcilted Press news service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 117,461 UP) Means Assdtiated Press. 'WO CENTS. 31 BODIES TAKEN FROM WRECKAGE OF LINER AFTER CRASH French Vessel Collides With British Aircraft Carrier in Mediterranean. VICTIMS (—)F DISASTER STEERAGE PASSENGERS Four Planes, Unable to Land, Fall Into Sea, but Crews Are Saved. bodies were recovered late today from | the wreckage cf the French steamer | Florida following her collision with the British aircraft carrier Glorious in a dense fog 60 miles off Gibraltar yes- ! terday | Authoritics were continuing the | search for additions] bodies, but because | of the confusion it could not be defi- nitely established whether cr not others | were missing. The bodies which cluded 17 Italiar 1 Russian, 3 Slavs and 1 Spaniard. All| of them were steerage passengers, chiefly | cmigres returning to their native coun- | tries i The Florida was struck between the | bow and bridge. It was here that the majority of the casualties occurred. This section of the steerage was oc- cupied chiefly by Italian emigre: In spite of mist, planes from the air- craft carrier flew overhead and witnessed the accident. The flying deck of thel carrier was littered with debris follow- ing the crash so that the planes were forced to alight on the mainland. Four of them failed to reach the shore and | sank in the sea, but their crews were! saved. MINE RIOT BROKEN | BY GAS AND WATER, i Police €311 on Firemen When 600 Workers Refuse to Disperse. | were identified in- | 5 Syrian, 4 Po#s. | By the Associated Press. SCRANTON, Pa., April 2.—Police and firemen were called oyt today when a clesly occurred between mime workers tnd officers at the Docge tolliery of Guides River Boats Through Channel | By Dishpan Bealsi Widow, 75, Has Kept 40- Year Vigil at Mouth of San Joaquin. By the Associated Press. STOCKTON, Calif., April 2.—Wh:n night and fogs hang thickly about the mouth of the San Joaquin River, | where it rushes into ‘the Sacramento | River and pllots grope for the chan- | nel, there comes a “beat-pause-beat, Dbeat” and skippers know they are safe. Once sgain in the channel rivermen steer stern-wheelers close to the ship's cebin home of Mrs. Kate L. Nevins, 75, and shout a “Thank you.” Like a monotonous tom-tom the “beat-pause- beat. beat” then echoes across lonely ‘Winters Island, wher> for 40 years Mis vins has kept vigil. The river light house is thout a foghorn. To warn mariners Mrs. Nevins takes her dishpan and stove oker to the pier and beats out the signals. Shs has been the keeper since r husband’'s death 10 years ago. GRAND JURORS HIT PRESSURE SYSTEM OF REALTY SALES Finds Evidence Against Country Club Properties, Inc., Insufficient, However. | | SRR S, Decrying the. absence of a District | law to curb real estate sales promotion | by the “lunoheon-lecture” system, which | system it declares “merits our fullut’ and strongest condemnation,” the Dis- | trict grand jury today filed a special | report with District Suprime Court | Justice Peyton Gordon earnestly recom- | mending the desirability of corrective | legislation. | The estabilshment of some sup: FARMERS WILL CUT WHEAT PRODUCTION Tour of Kansas and Okla- homa Convinces Him Grow- ers Will Heed Warning. NEW CHAIRMAN—MAKES FAVORABLE IMPRESSION Declares Board Saved Hundreds of Midwestern Banks From Failure. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘Wheat has been a foot ball of politics | long enough, in the opinion of James C. Stone, new chalrman of the Federal Farm Board The wheat farmers themselves are coming to that conclusion, Mr. Stone | believes. He has returned from a visit to Kansas and Oklahoma confident that the farmers this year will heed the ad- vice that acrcage should be curtailed in | the interest of better prices, and that | the farmers are more and more inclined | to co-operation and co-operafive mar- | keting. As a matter of fact, Kansas, the greatest State in the Union today, assert em- phatically that the new chairman of the Farm Board made a favorable impres- reports from sion on his Western trip, and that the favorable toward the board, Hears Nothing of Ol Plans. Chairman Stone sald today he had heard no one in Kansas or in Oklahoma demanding either the old equalization fee plan of the original McNary-Haugen bill nor the debenture plan, which was advocated more recently by some of the Progressives in Congress. “I have no doubt,” said Mr. Stone, “that these and other remedies will be urged by some of the political leader. Wheat has for years been a foot ball of politics. The wheat farmers are told wheat-growing | STONEIS CONFIDENT i ! | | attitude of the farmers generally is more | A | board, | its advices! | and its operations than it was a yelrE EJustice Department Makes | Announicement After Com- | missioner Employs Pepper. Justice Department officials today served notice they would support “as | “igorously as they knew how” the ap- | pointment of Chairman Smith of the visory real estate board by the District |as regularly as a campaign comes around | Power Commission, whose confirmation Commissioners is also suggested. This | board, the report says, should be em- powered to investigate the character cf ‘ all new promotions of real estate and | with the wheat which it boul’l}v. |g!me ic,eor" ‘Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania es Mr. Stone would be a “source of protection to the public against high-pressure methods very often employed in these promo- tions.” Salesman Accused of Larceny. The court is fequested 10 send copies’ of the repoit to the Congress and to the District Commissioners. 4 | that something is going to be done for them, and promises are made by those who are seeking to be elected.” Just what the Farm Board will do market to help stabilize pric is not saying at present. He insists, however, that éventually this wheat will be sold, but not in a way to depress prices. Holds Board Helped Price. The chairman_does not admit that the cffort of the board to stabilize the Senate attempted to recall. Thé announcement followed closely | the statement that former S:nato: would represent Smith in the legal con- test. The Senate appointed John W. Davis, | former Democratic presidential candi- | date; 10T t it in the test of its | Tight fo Tecall confirmatipn. President | Hoover declined to return Smith’s name | President Lauds Marines for Aid During Disaster BY JOSE M. MONCADA, President of Nicaragua. By Radio to The Star. MANAGUA. Nicaragua, April 2. (N.AN.A) —During the worst moments of our catastrophe here the United States Marines under the cornmand of Col. F. L. Brad- man and Col. Sultan, have helped in a splendid and efficient way, for which the people of Nicaragua ;n'd my ‘government are grate- ul. The capital of Nicaragua has been almost destroyed by the earthquake and fire, and we do not know yet how many lives have been lost and how much property ruined. Copyrisht. 1931. by No: Newspaper Al STREET CAR TRACK American e NN \\‘,\\\ N N N Ly MARCH TAX DROPS | Total Collections on Incomes | | for Month Are Only | ; $334,830,214. | By the Associated Press | Income tax collections for the month of March were the lowest for that month in recent vears, totaling $334,- 830,214, as compared to $559,503,703 in March of last year. 4 The Treasury statement showing the | total collections for the month reported | that for the first nine months of the | fiscal year income tax had amounted to | $1,506,261,238, as compared with $1,812,- | | 137,844 in the same period of last year. | Not more than $350,000,000 is ex- | pected from this source in the last quarter, which would bring the total | income tax for the year to $1,856,000,- QUAKE DEATHS MOUNT TO 5,000 AS TREMORS CONTINUE INMANAGUA ‘Troops Busy Excavating Bodies From Ruins of Nicaragua Cap_ital—Regort to Cremation. SUFFICIENT MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND FOOD BELIEVED PROVIDED American Women Help Surgeons Treat Injured—Refugees Search City’s Ashes for Personal Goods. W. €. Kelly, Associated Press correspondent at i hex Just returned to His dispatch follows: Juan-Del-Sur. Niearagua, an Juan after a visit to the stricken City of Managua. BY E. C. KELLY. SAN-JUAN-DEL-SUR, Nicaragua, April 2 (®.—It will require many years to rebuild Managua, which was virtually destroyed by Tuesday’'s earthquake. There is no exact information on the number of dead, but it s believec that it may reach 5,000 or more, as many bodies are still under the ruins. Survivors are leaving the city by every available means, some walking and others making their way to railroads. The city looks nearly deserted. The roads around Managua are crowded with crying women and children, half starved, as they have no food and their only water comes from Lake Managua. The city is controlled by United States Marines, the Nicaraguan National Guard and a few armed civilians. The Marines are concen- trating refugees at the base in Campo de Marte, where food and bed- ding are heing supplied. Truckload after truckload of dead were taken from the market place. A Guard officer said that he estimated the death list in the market place alone as over 1,000, as the quake occurred in the middle of the busy hour. The hospital and penitentiary collapsed, killi which numbered about 700. President Moncada is In Granada at present, el it st o ety ng all the inmates, BY WILLIAM H. EWING, Associated Press Staff Correspondent. (Copyright, 1931, by the Associated Press.) MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 2 (#.—With 600 bodies recovered from the ruins, Col. Frederick L. Bradman, U. 8. M. C., in charge of the relief work, today estimated the total dead from the earthquake at 2,000 persons. ‘The excavating of bodies continued throughout the day and more were being taken out hourly. - o Meanwhile, new shocks occurred. Two temblors during the night WL BE REMOVED | 000, as compared with $2.410,986,977 in |shook down a number of rickety houses still standing. The hardest 4 | wheat prices by purchases of the 1930 |one appeared about 4 a.m., awakening outdoor sleepers who had scat- the Glen Alden Coal Co. I West| crop have shown the board a failure. Ceranton. to the Senate. Promises Attention. ‘The grand jurois have just completet an investiga Trouble occurred at the mine, where a crowd of 600 men had gathered, when pickets of striking miners from Wilkes Barre came here to request local work- ers to join thelr strike, which is not sanctioned by the miners’ union. When policemen employed by the coal company -and -the city attempted to disperse the crowd several officers were battered about the head. Tear gas was resorted to, but this failed to break up the crowd. A call was sent for firemen and they | brought hose and played water on the ! crowd and dispersed it No arrests were made. A number of | persons suffered cuts and bruises. | ONE IS KNOWN DEAD IN FIRE AT ROANOKE ! Twe Missing and Several Persons| Injured When Hotel Is Destroyed. ROANOKE, Va.. April 2.—One person was killed and a number injured in the | burning of the Clark Hotel here this i Two oth accour - © for. At .oon, about 60, was killed in Jumpiag from the top floor of the three- story building. Jesse McGhee, farmer, has his back | broken in two places, and an ankle and | elbow fractured when h: jumped from the third floor ! The names of the two guests unac-| counted for were not immediately avail- able. A number of others suffered| ses I gutted the brick-faced | cture. was of undetermined | entire building was in n firemen arrived. POLA NEGRI IS GRANTED D!VORCE IN FRANCE! m persons w:re un- | i wooden crigin flames Actress Wins Decree From Prince. | Bails for United States to Make Hey First Talkie. RIS, April 2 —Pola Negri, moving picture actress, was granted a divorce | by the French courts today from Prince | Serge Mdivani. She sailed yesterday for America Before sailing. the actress said. “I am 5oing to make my first talkie. I want; 1o be free and stay free.” | Prince Serge. a member of the former Russian nobility, and Pola Negri were married at Serraincourt, France, in 1;2;; She sued for a decree in October, Prince Serge is a brother of Prince David Mdivani, husband of Mae Murray, . French Airmen Land. ORAN, Algeria, April 2 (#).—The French aviators, Paillard and Mermoz, Janded at dawn today after having been 59 hours and 14 minutes in the air in flight over a closed circuit. They be- lieved they had bettered the distance mark of 5,625 miles set by the aviators . Boussoutrot and Rossi on March 1. - $2,000 Violin Reported Stolen. SAN FRANCISCO, April 2 (#).—The theft of a 200-year-old Italian violin, assertedly valued at $2,000, has bzen by Miss Clementine Chappel, 18, acholarship student at the San Fran- cisco Conservatory of Music. Her father, PR S the girl's practice hours. |to disembark so hurriedly ufn into” the conduct and operation of an organization- familiarly known as Country Club Properties, Inc., which had bzcn selling lots at Country | Club Park and Argyl Park, at Silver | Spring, Md. They 1eport they were un- able to find suficient evidence upon which to predicate criminal charges, except in one instanc: against a plr-{ ticular salesman, who is accused of | larceny after trust. He is said to have Tecelved $400 from a client to invest in | the propertizs, which he is charged with | appropriating to his own use. i Th» indictment is against C. H En- nis, who is accused of receiving $50 October 16, 1930, from Elizabeth R. Holmss; $50 October 29; $75, Novem- ber 20; $100 December 12 and $125 January 21, 1931. Purchasers’ Testimony Conflicts | The grand jury tells ths court that the testimony presented by Assistant United States Attorney William H. Col- lins developed a sharp conflict. Some purchasers claimed they were guaran- teed resale at enormous profits and 2t early dates; some purchasers merely claimed that representations were made of future resale value: some claimed that no suggestions were made to them as to the possibility of resale; most of the purchasers signed deposit contracts in which was the epecific provision in- dicating that no guarantee of resale was made: most of the purchasers were, as of the time tl estified, enthursias- tic about the lots they had purchased; and more than three-fourths of the buyers have to datz renewtd their con- tracts for the purchase of their respec- tive lots. ‘The special report follows. in part ere recently submitted to this “(Continued on Page 2, Column 4) STEAMER GOES AGROUND | Passengers Absndon Ship in Night Clothes Near Port Jackson. SYDNEY, New South Wales, April (#).—Passengers of the British steamer | Malabar, which went aground on a reef ncar Port Jackson last night, had that most were put ashore in their night cloth: A calm sea enabled a safe and quic It was belicved that the ship, holed, would sink. | The acci- K | transfer. which was badly There were 27 passengers | dent occurred in a dense fog. | mocr, | champicon and winner of the av Far from it, although the board has announced it does not plan to go into the market and buy wheat of the 1931 crop for stabilization purposes. He contends that by its purchases of wheat the Farm Board did actually help to maintain a higher price for wheat to the American farmer during an emer- gency. He insists that if the Farm (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) PRIZE WINNING DOGS DIE IN KENNEL FIRE National and International Bench Show Champions Among More Than 40 Lost. By the Associated Press SHREWSBURY., Mass. April 2.— Between 40 and 50 dogs, among them | national and international bench show champions, were lost when fire de- stroyed the Welwire Kennels, on the estate of Dr here carly today. Only three dogs escaped the flames They were in the home of the kennel master, Joseph Booth. Brandy Snap, valucd at $4,000, world | champion, recently imported from Eng. land, was one of the three. Another was Ace Encon, holder of the record for winning the largest numbcr of prizes. The building was about 200 feet long Pand one story high. One end housed the kennel office. The wire-haired terriers, for which the kennels were kncwn throughout the world, were of great value, and many of them were prize-winners in dog shows throughout the countr. value of the medals and ribbons the flames was upward of $5,000. Among the dogs that were lost were Dusinog. Duplicator, Wizard of Earls- Diamond Merchant, all Welsh erricrs and_international | champions: Wycollar Wonder, an Intcrnational rd for the best wire-haired fox terrier. Wel- wire Wizard and Welwire Waterman were also lost in the flames. Former Luray Prisoner Testifies to Remark Alleged to| 'STATEMENT OF MURDER SUSPECT 'MADE IN SLEEP OFFERED AT TRIAL Have Been Made by Defendant in Jail. Special Dispatch to The & LURAY, Vi April 2.—A statement in his sleep at the jail which David | Sours, on trial here on chargs of mur- deri: Edward Burracker, whose body was found on a mountain trail March 5, is said to have made was introduced by the prosecution yesterday in the second day of the trial in an effort to pin the erime on the d:fendant. George. Cave,’ released from jail & week ago, where he had been serving a sentence for a prohibition law violaticn, was placed on the stand by the prose- cution. Cave testified that on March 17 he was awake In the jail about 3 o'clock in the morning and heard Sours, aslesp in a bunk across the corvidor, say “Johu, we got him this time and he won't gc back no mcre.” ‘The trial yesterday opened before packed court housc despite heavy rains which made it difficult for the moun- | tain folks to g°t to town. Six witnesses | who testified in the morning session said they had heard Sours make threats against Burracker’s life. Among these witnesses were Burracker, Schuyler. Dodson and Zella Burracker. One of the witnesses, Elvip Broyles, sald that threats by Sours against Burracker had been heard on March 4. the day before the murder. Broyles and Zella Burracker were firm in their assertions of the threats by Sours. The overalls, shotgun, gun wads and other items found at Sours’ home were presented in the afterncon session of the trial and Dr. Howell Grady Pichett, chemist, of Harrisonburg, Va., to whom {the articles had boen = submitted for analysis, testified that no blood was found on the overalls, although a part of them was damp @s if washed. Dr. Pichett steted in answer to a question thet it was possible to wash blecd from » garment The gun wzds found near the crime were the same size and from shelis found in Sours’ home. but it was admitted that shells of that make cre all similer in texture. Rev. Radford, owner of the blood- hounds which zre said to have trailed to Sours’ home, did not arrive during the day and the afterncon session was curtailed. Rev. Radford is & witness in another case in layed his arrival. testify todads He is expected ta and Mrs. Homer Gage | Bath County, which de-* Attorney General Mitchell said the impression had galned credence that, because Smith would employ a counsel of his own, the Justice Department had | placed entirely upon his shoulders the burden of defending the validity of his appointment. The .Attorney General said this was not the case, but that Federal attorneys | would “give to the case the thorough |attention which its importance de- serves.” Earlier word had come from the i Justice Department that its attorneys would appear in the case as “friends of !the court.” Mitchell said this plan | would be followed in supporting Smith, { due to a technical question as to the | authority of the Attorney General to appear as attorney for a Federal offictal | in such litigation. ! Won't Discuss Fees. would serve without a fee. His answer was that the Pennsylvanian accepted | the case as a “public service.” In a formal statement Dr. Smith said { Pepper, had *consented to act, rec- | ogrizing the case as one of great pub- !lic importance in the issues involved.” Pepper had praviously refused to serve | as Senate counsel in the proceedings, {and later Davis and former Gov. Alex J. Groesbeck of Michigan, were chosen as Senate counsel Mr. Pepper appeared at the request “friend, of the court” to present the | constitutional questions involved in the | celebrated case of Myers vs. the United | States several years ago. In that instance, Myers, postmaster at Portland, Oreg., was removed from office at the direction of President Wil- son and fought his ouster, contending the President could not act without | consent of the Senate, by which his nomination had been confirmed. The Supreme Ccurt, however, upheld the Government. Case Without Parellel. ‘The Smith case is without parallel The Senatc instituted court action when President Hoover refused to re- turn for reconsideration the nomina tion of Chairman Smith after he al- ready had been sworn in. The fight grew out of the action of Dr. Smith and Commissioners Draper and Garsaud in dropping from the commission Charles A. Russe.l, solicitor, and William V. King, chie{ accountant, | | their vigorous fight on power concerns in valuation cases. King later was re- stored to the commission. The Senate called for the return of the nominations of the thrce commis- sioners, and when “the President held the request was without merit, pro- ceeded to vote on them again. Drapsr and Garsaud were “reconfirmed,” but the vote was adverse to Chairman Smith. An_appropriation of $2,500 was made for Senate counsel and after Pepper and others had revealed their inabllity to press the case for the Senate Davis and Groesbeck were chosen. It theén developed that, though the action of Presidenit Hoover in upholding his commissioners was based on an opinion from the Attorney General, the Department of Justice could not furnish | counsel for Df. Smith, but could only | Ret as it would be neccssary for him to obtain his own counsel. The dats when the litigation actually will be started remains in doubt. has been ], and it was said this morn ing at the office of Senator Norris, Re- i tion of obtaining counsel, that nothing definite is known. Radio - Programs OI’PI'G D-4 ! 11930, Busses 0. K.’d for Route on, Other Revenues Drop. 1 | ‘The collections for the last day of | Fand G Streets—Potomac |marcn were 53,093,463, as compared " vith $3,523,172, } Park Coach Change Denied. |Ts30. | decline in i | | . d A |tion was that the total revenue to be The Public Utilities Commission to- | collected by the Government for the | day gave the Capital Traction Co. per-| fiscal year would amount to probably mission to tear up its street-car track- | | age and abandon trolley service on F| | and G streets between Seventeenth and | Twenty-sixth streets. The company also was granted the Government would end the year with a deficit of $700,000,000 or more. Increasing expenditures, which for | nine months amounted to $3.126,540,319, Jeave | 8 compared to $2.932,209,145 last year, indicated the Government would have tered to the outskirts of the city to rest on ccts, benches and on the ground. | Refugees for the same day in | At daybreak, hundreds of natives into the hills. Salvage Property. who precipitately left the city yesterday | "Other revenue kept pace with theTeturned and poked through the ruins, salvaging their personal belongin d | ncome taxes. The indica- [ household furniture and carrying them by mule, ox- -r': automobile muu?m The Marines appeared to have the situation well in hand. An abundance not more than $3,250,000.000 and that | of food and medical supplies was arriviny and doctors to care for the injured. Ernest J. Swift, Red Cross official, |Is expected during the day from Miami in an amphibian plane, and wili over- Dr. Smith declined to say if Pepper | of the United States Supreme Court as | | to provide bus service for this loop, as | a substitute for the present car service. The text of the order putting the new scheme into effect will not be written until after conferences with the | company to straighten out certain de- tails as to routing of the busses, still | | left, undecided. In general, however, the busses will fcllow the same routes as the trolleys, and the fare and transfer arrangements | will be the same. At the same time, the Commission | denied an application of the Washing- | ton Rapid Transit Co. to change the | route of its Potomac Park line so as to go south of the White House, instead of making the trip by I and K streets as at present, from the terminus Eighth street and Pennsylvania avenue. | Both petitions were heard at & public | | hearing last week. to raise funds through substantial se- curity sgles. It certificates of indebtedness on March |16 and $100,000,000 of Treasury bills | this week. Must Refinance Debts. The demand of the Veterans' Bu- reau for more money to meet loans to | veterans than had been expected would | make it necessary for the Treasury to | raise another $100,000,000 before April 11. 1t might take advantage of that necessity to offer an even greater block of securities to meet its requirements before June 15. In_the meantime several blocks of | T (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) THOMAS J. FANNON QUITS COUNCIL AT ALEXANDRIA sold $1,500.000,000 of bonds and | |take relief workers who have already | started from several points. Amphibians from the U. S. S. Lex- ington arrived yesterday and last night; bringing six surgeons and supplies and promising more today. The U. S. S. Rochester, steaming up the west coast from Balboa, is expected tomorrow with a cargo of fdod supplies. Expect Hospital Ship. | A Navy hospital ship will arrive in Corinto today and dispatch loads of focd and medical supplies through the hills to the stricken city. A supply |of several hundred blankets is expected from this source to provide for refugees ‘who are sleeping outdoors in the ex- |tremely chilly weather caused by cold | winds off the lakes. ‘ Virtually all of the injured have been | treated through the heroic work of the |Marine, Army and Navy forces, who | have worked unceasingly since the first | shocks on Tuesday. Ten minutes after the city fell and 8. There seemed to be enough surgeons |of Tex., wife of a captain, and | . _Jackson of Boston, wife of Ser- geant Jackson. All of the trained nurses carried on through the day and night, doing un- selfish service. Another baby was born early today, making a total of three in the field hos- g‘i:lu wl’:lchl ;‘u de.recttd a:. Campo de on the edge of the city, the American headquarters. o The operating was carried on under the most adverse conditions because |tremors continued as the surgeons worked. During the 15 hours the five |men performed more than 150 major | operations. ~ There was no time for sterilization other than chemical. | Bradman Carries On. | Lieut. Comdr. Hatfield and others | were high ‘n their praise of the enlisted men. Much speculation arose as to what might have happened if the mili- tary forces had not been on hand to take charge. There now is plenty of food in the city. Seven thousand natives were given breakfast by the Marines today. Col. Bradman, with his head still ban§sged from a falling timber, was busy giving personal directions wherever possible, intent that every one’s needs Dalla: Mrs. who had come into prominence through | Resignation Is Second Submitted | to City's Governing Body Within Eight Days. ATTORNEY IS INDICTED ' ON BRIBERY CHARGE """ 2o > | resignation of Thomas'J. Fannon as a | member of City Council was pres at the regular meeting toda the second within eight days, Carroll Pierce having tendered his resignation | as mayor rnd a member of the council | at last Thursday’s meeting. Mr. Fannon gave as his reason for | was indicted | resigning his long service and a desire | by the grand jury today for alleged |fo Tetire Ee L beshaon et | since September, . He stated he [ bribery of a guard at the District Jall. | i¢€, BOPUETION 1 oC esighing July The indictment charges Siegal with 1, put suddenly decided to do so now. giving $250 to Guard H. S. Deane in | His term expires September 1, 1932. an effort to establish an alibi for a| Council received both resignations to- client awaiting tria on murder charges, | 423 but deferred action. The true bill was returned after : : United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, Aviator Seeking Ref""» |moving with unexpected speed, pre-| KHARTUM, Sudan, April 2 (P).— i 5y . Glen Kidston, wealthy British sporis- | |sented the Government's case o the |map and aviator, who is attempting a | {jurors this morning. Siegal was ar- |record flight {rom England to Cape | rested two days ago. | Town, passed here at 1 o'clock this a: | Mr. Rover said he was anxious to dis- Grand Jury Action Comes Two Days After Abner Siegal's Arrest. Abner Siegal, attorney | while clouds of dust were arising from the debris, American doctors went into the business section and took the dazed, wounded natives in charge. Hospital tents were hasitly erected, operating instruments were laid out and the work of treating hundreds began. A steady stream of wounded natives nted | was coming in by noon and the most | It is | serious operations were begun at once. For 15 hours, from noon Tuesday until 3 o'clock Wednesday, fiye surgeons stood over their tables, amputating arms and | legs and treating fractures and internal | injuries. Women Helped Surgeons. ‘They were Lieut. Comdr. W. B. Hat- | fleld, "Lieut. Comdr. W. T. Brown, | Comdr. G. D. Hatle and Lieut. Comdr. H. R. Boone, all of the Navy, and Maj. | Hawley of the United States Engineers attached’ to the Nicaraguan Canal !uge.\'. ithout interruption they plied their instruments while enlisted men of the | Medical Corps and personnel of the Marines stood by and sterilized their tools. Indispensable aid was given them by Mrs. H. E. Mauldin of Detroit, wife of a Marine lieutenant; Mrs. F. B. Blanton “friend of the couri,” and that | Davis | publican, of Nebraska, chairman of the | subcommittee which handled the ques- | | | ernoon, fiying to Juba. [ pose of the cese and have it set ior trial this month unless Siegal, by at- tacking the validity of the indictment, should necessitate a delay. Siegal was taken ‘Into custody at his offices in the Shoreham Building after an extensive investigation of the al- leged bribery. ‘According to allegations by the Gov- ernment, Siegal gave Deane $250 in cash after the guard told him a card had been inserted in the jail file show- | ing that one of the lawyer’s clients was in jail here when he is alleged to have killed two men in Pennsylvania. Siegal was arrested on a bribery warrant iréued by United States Commissioner | Needham C. Turnage. | Weather Postpones Flight. NEWARK, N. J., April 2 (#)—Fig and sleet 6ver the Penusylvania moun- tains today postponed for 24 hours the inauguration of the 31-hour coast-to- coast air service to be operated from the Newark Alrport by the National Air Transport Co. By the Associated Press. I WATERLOO. N. Y. April 2-—-1t Byron Smith wi'l rctire in a dark room without looking carefully under the bed, and more particularly—in it. Smith was exhibiting a face and {hands swathed in bandages today as | proof of the unwelcome bedmate he found after he had undressed in his home at Dublin, near here, and clambered into bed with a sigh after a hard day's work. 1t was bly the shortest sigh on record, for 3 had hardly begun when TRIES TO SLEEP WITH WILDCAT; DOCTOR BELIEVES HE’LL RECOVER Man Gets Shortest Nap on Record When Feline Hides | in His Bed. |20 pounds of animal dynamite in the | form of a wildcat went into action with | probably will be a long t'me before |all four .claws and a good set of teeth. | The mclce was fast and soon over, Smith reaching the kitchen just a little |ahead of the wildcat, which escaped where it ntered through a hole in the ‘hich Smith had cut f¢ 0 enter when he_wj b doctor tches and ought to heal in two Weeks. two weeks,” sald Smilhp the shotgun from the my turn.” - co 1 be cared for. On one hill, overlooking the city, & giant fissure opened by tie quakes of Tuesday, is being used as an improvised crematorium to which most of the | bodies recovered are being takes MWs |soon as they are extricated from the | fallen masonry of the ruined city. There probably will be more dead than injured, Marine Corps officers be- lieved, commenting that most of those caught indoors at all by the quake were killed outright. Doctors Handicapped. More than 300 serious injuries have been treated at the marine barracks | at Campo de Marte and more than 70 persons are confined there with in- Jjuries which in many cases will prove (Continued: on Page 3, Column TONS OF NARCOTICS SEIZED IN NEW YORK Contraband Valued at More Than $1,000,000 Per Ton Sets Record for Metropolis. | | | By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 2.—Federdl At- torney Medalie announced today » squad of Federal agents had raided an office in Greenwich Village, seizing be- tween one and two tons of narcolics. The contraband was valued roughly at $1,120,000 per ton. The seizure wes believed to .be the largest ever made in this district. Abraham Gcodman, allezed proprietor |of the A. B. Trucking Co.. on Hudson | street, in whose cffices the narcotics | were found, was arrested. Agents said | they believed he was connected with thy | same ring as Al Spitzer and Abe Stein, who were indicted last month. The raid was the culmination of a fll‘g! Maj. J h A.lm ‘head of office. Maj. Josepl the bureau, led the raiders.