Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and warmer tonight and tomor- row; lowest temperature tonight about 47 degrees. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 57, at noon today: lowest, 39, at 8 p.m. yesterday. " bullets added to the Full report on pag Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 e 4. b ¢ Foening ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington home as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 116,303 No. 31,753. vost office, Entered as second class matter Washington, D, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1931—THJRTY-SIX PAGES. ¥ (#) Means Associated press. TWO CENTS. B BL THOWPSON DEFEATEDBY 1196 VOTES BY CERMA Democrat’s Majority Largest Ever Given for Mayor in Chicago’s History. FORMER IMMIGRANT BOY WILL TAKE OFFICE SOON Retiring City Head Says He Will Continue to Work for Good of Municipal'ty. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 8—The political cer of Willlam Hale Thompson, as vor, today lay buried beneath a rec- breaking blanket of votes which elevated to the mayorship, Anton J. Cermak, one-time immigrant boy from Bohemia. “Big Bill, the Builder,” and a past master of the art of American politics, was swept out of office by his Demo- cratic opponent by the overwhelming majority of 191,916, thus becoming the worst beaten mayoralty candidate in the history of the city. The vote, Thomp- son, 475,613; Cermak, 667,529, was in sharp contrast to the previous record majority of 147,477 by which Thompson won in 1915, The result by which the “cowboy” mayor's aspirations for a fourth term were abruptly ended, was haled by his opponents as a “new deal for Chicago.” Says City Redeemed Self. “Chicago,” said Robert Isham Ran- dolph, president of the Chicago Associ- ation of Commerce, “has redeemed it- self. We've had enough of Nero fiddling while Rome burned. We had told the warld that we are prepared to regain our business level and restore our good | gu name.” The mayor-elect, Who expects to take office soon—possibly within the next week—tock his elevation to the mayor- ship of America's sccond city quietly, declaring the “whole world would not be disappointed in the new administra- tion. He took a nap after the close of the polls, awakening to find himself winning. 5, ,” he sald, “will find no | Gty streets will be | iding place here. Our :IUe. glgduatry and commerce will find the highest encouragement. We shall at once set ourselves to the task of g o iucy of progres ex- visit us at cent of - hibition. This truly begifis & new day ereflm broke loose in the streets of downtown Chicago as shouts of fi Cermak supporters haled his vic over the mester showman. Bombs an din, but they were fired harmlessly into the heavens. The outburst of enthusiasm wu‘c&e o‘t rge oudest since the signing o e s :m:m There were no disorders last night or during the day's balloting. _“Big Bill” Smiles. But for “Big Bill.” who entered the campaign after a bitter partisan cam- mi paign fight announcing he would never seek public office again, there was no cause for rejoicing. He smiled, con- gratulated his victorious opponent and then served notice that the vote that reduced him to the rank of a private ciuuncmwwld not deter him in efforts to aid cago. “T will,” he said, “redouble my efforts | for completion of the waterways to bring to Chicago a greater prosperity and to this end 1 have chartered the Missis- sippi River steamship Cape Girardeau and will leave on a tour of the Illinois, Miss pi, Ohio and Tennessee Rivers April 9. * * * I love Chicago and believe in the destiny of our city.” Thus the man who once said he would “bust King George of England on the &noot,” grezted the result of the Demo- cratic boom which not only removed ‘Thompson, but apparently swept into the council chamber enough Democratic councilmen to give Cermak a working majority. The returns indicated the ratio would be 26 or more Democrats to 24 or less Republicans. It was the second big victory for a Democrat within the past year the other having been that of James Hamilton Le elected to the United States Senate last November, over Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republis FOREIGNERS ASKED TO LEAVE MADEIRA Lisbcn Acts to Safeguard Visitors Before Acting Against Rebels. By the Associated Press. LISBON, Portugal, April 8.—Evacua- ton of foreign residents of Madeira was provided for and closing of all ports of the island group was ordered in an| emergency cabinet decree published to- day. The decree intimates that all resi- dents of the island who have accepted posts under the rebel junta set up there will be dismissed and tried in special courts, ‘The decree affirmed intention of the government to suppress the revolt which, 2pparently instigated by political de- portees, has overthrown the Lisbon zuthority in Punchal. An offer will be made the garrison at Funchal and the military junta there to allow them to return to the government fold, where- after, in the event of its refusal, mil- itary measures, made possible by a large expeditionary force sent to Ma- defra, will be undertaken. AR PR BANDITS ASK $20,000 of Missionaries in China. PEIPING, China, April 8 (®). tiations for the release of Rev. Bert jelson, formerly of Minneapolis, and Rev. K. N. Tvedt, American Lutheran bandits in Honan were proceeding The bandits are their release. ::ounz might be reduced. Bere, seld y. demanding $20,000 It was hoped the A m; §27 pRotive d | to look into racketeering last year. to lay a punch on Acuna's nose. Former Los Angeles Skipper Regarded as Foremost U. S. Zeppelin Authority. Is Ranking Officer to Survive Destruction of Shenan- l doah in 1925. I ' By the Associated Press. Lieut. Comdr. Charles E. Rossndahl,; who knows more about airships in fair | sailing and disaster tban any other : American, today was named the first' skipper of the Navy's new queen of | the skies, the dirigible ZRS-4, better | known as the Akron. Rosendahl was ordered to the nava! {air station at Lakehurst, N. J., Apri 15, to begin assembling a crew for th= new alrship from the personncl trainec aboard the Los Angeles, the dirigib: given to this country by Germany u der the treaty of Versailles. Trial fligh are to be conducted in July. Rosendahl is a survivor of the Shen- andoah disaster, and was for threc years captain of the Los Angeles. The Akron, named for her birth- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) | ROSENDAHL TO BE COMMANDER OF NEW NAVY DIRIGIBLE AKRON LIEUT. COMDR. CHARLES E. ROSENDAHL. CRAIN FAGES PROBE IN'NEW YORK- CITY District Attorney Takes Stand | to Fight Charges of Inefficiency. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 8.—Thomas C. T. Crain, Manhattan’s silver-haired distriet attorney, took the stand today to fight charges of inefficiency on wkich the City Club demands his removal. He be- n immediately to answer questions about his investigations of racketeering. Commissioner Samuel Seabury, hear- Ing the charges for Gov. Roosevelt, pref- aced the proceedings with a statement that the accusations “do not in any | respect call into question the honesty | and integrity of the district attorney.” Hearing Formal and Dignified. ‘The atmosphere of the hea room was formal and dignified. Both Sea- bury and Crain wore frock coats and striped trousers. So did John Kirk- land Clark, inquisitor for the commis- sioner, and Samuel Untermyer, attor- ney for the district attorney. Attorney Clark’s first questions laid the groundwork for getting into the record details of mfilflo’x‘xs ':!:‘mru}; leged racketeering at the ish | Disinces enictorises, and. ihe ‘organc 258 en! , and the organ.:- tion by Crain of a citizens’ committee Grand jury minutes in the Fulton Pish Market investigation were identi- fied and placed in the record. An investigation of all municipal affairs_has been voted by the Legisla- ture. The members of the Investigating Committes were appointed yesterday. Mayor Walker is continuing prepara- tions for a vigorous defense of his ad- inistration in reply to charges filed against him with Gov. Roosevelt by the City Affairs Committee. Legislative Probers Named. The legislative committee to investi- gate the city government from street sweeper to ju and the mayor was named yesterday. The blican leaders of the Legis- lature selected Senators Samuel H. Hofstadter, New York, and Leon F. Wheatley, Hornell, and Assemblymen William J. Lamont of Orange, Abbott Low Moffat of New York and William F. Potter of Suffolk. The Democratic leaders chose as their two appointees the youngest and oldest Democratic members of the Legislature in point of service, Senator John J. McNaboe, serving his first term in the Legislature, and Assemblyman Louis A. Cuvillier, who began his service in the Lower House in 1907. Both represent | New York districts. Ex-Informer Threatened. An attorney threatened to punch Chile Acuna, ex-police informer, on the nose. The trial of four vice squadsmen was going on. Samuel Liebowitz, defense | attorney, became angered at Acuna’s| actions and declared himself of a mind Nelson Ruttenberg, fourth deputy po- | lice commissioner conducting the trial, | promptly told Liebowitz any more such | threats would result in Liebowitz's be- | ing ejected as counsel. | 'BUTLER WOULD LIKE | T0 BE U. S. SENATOR Has Not Had Time to Think It Over, Marine Corps Gen- eral Says. * PHILADELPHIA, April 8 (#).—"1 would like to be & United States Scna- tor from Pennsylvania,” said Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps here today. “But,” he added, “I haven't had time to think seriously about running for the Senate, and will not give the matter any consideration until my lec- ture tour is over on April 15. “When I retire from the Marine Corps, around the end of September, GRIFFMEN RETURN; PLAY HERE TODAY Earl Clarke to Be Honored in Contest With Braves. Sam Jones May Hurl. ‘The Griffmen are home. Washington was to have its first glimpse today of the ball team Walter Johnson confidently predicts will win | the American League pennant. A long and unusually successful | training grind at an end, it was a cheer- ful band of athletes that filed through | Union Station shortly before noon out into a winey Spring day, to be greeted by a sizable group of the “faithful.” 'Will Play Braves. At 3 o'clock they were to mect the Boston Braves of the National League | in an exhibition contest that was to fea- tuer Earl Clarke, a Washington youth for whom many have forecast a bril- liant career. In honor of him it has| been dezignated “Earl Clarke day” at | the ball park and many of his old play- | mates of the sandlots were expected out | to give him a “hand.” Clarke is a center fielder and holds the all-time major league record for chances accepted in one game. He made 12 putouts and 1 assist to beat a mark which had stood since the early days of the American League. Sam Jones was the probable Wash- ington pitching choice. ger Bill McKechnie of the Braves uncer- tain who would be his selection. Charley Wilson, the Boston third baseman, got to town a day earlier than his mates to undertake a bit of serious business. Charley was mar- ried here yesterday. The bride was Maureen Collins of Rochester, N. Y. Tomorrow the Griffmen will the Philadelphia Nationals here. though not counted among the stronger teams of their league, the Phillies have | been making it hot for the world cham- plon Athletics in the annual Phila- delphia city series, having won two games to the en’s one. President Gets Pass. President and Mrs. Hoover will be on hand at Griffiith Stadium April 14 to see the Washington and Philadeiphia clubs open the 1931 American League | season. Assurance of this was given by the President today to Clark Griffith, president of the Washington club, who called to present to the President a season pass contained in a morocco wallet with the President’s initials on the cover in silver. Mr. Griffith also left with the President a handsome wallet for Mrs. Hoover, made of alliga- tor leather, highly lacquered and trim-| med in silver, containing an annual pass. President and Mrs. Hoover have not missed an opening ball game have occupled the White L5 each year have attended one of the world series. 3,000 REDS DRIVEN OUT OF CHINESE CITY Bombing Planes Dislodge Invaders. Hwangchow Is Reported Virtually Destroyed. game By the Associated Press. HANKOW, April 8—Three thousand Reds who attacked and captured Hwangchow, 50 miles east of here, were driven from that city today. Hwang- chow was reported virtually destroyed. Six thousand Reds attacked Fungkou, 80 miles west of Hankow, but the mil- {itary detenders there repulsed them. ‘The invasion of Hwangchow was short | but violent. The attackers began an | orgy of looting as soon as the city fell early in the day. Government bombing planes were sent from here to dislodge the invaders. Hwangchow, situated on the north oank of the Yangtse River, is considered my future plans will be definite. There is nothing to stop me from seeking the nomination in the 1932 Spring pri- mary, if, after consideration, I decide that is the thing I want to do.” an important center because of its proximity to Hankow, Hanyang and Wuchang, the tri-citjes of Central gfl?’l“ t had'a population of 30,000 SING SING CONVICTS DESCRIBED AS PROLIFIC LOVE-LETTER WRITERS Negotiations Conducted for Release; Parole Commissioner Asserts They Give Only Street Address and *“Develop By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April' 8—Convicts at Sing Sing are prolific and in some cases excellent writers of love letters. Bernard J. , ner of * the State division of parol>, told about it 2t 2 meeling of corres! o The convicts get the nam: Genius for Expression.” lorn from matrimonial bureaus and, in give only the street address of the in Ossining. themselves on paj lem"“' cmetimes eveiop & genius FIAL BREAKDO N NAVAL PARLE SEEN I LONDON Intense 5-Power Rivalry Ex- pected Unless France Yields in Demands. GREAT BRITAIN LINKS ARMS WITH ITALY Failure of Conference May Give Rise to Friendlier English Feel- ing Toward Germany. BY CARROLL BINDER. By Cable to The Star. LONDON, England, April 8.—The Anglo-Franco-Italian naval agreement, which raised the hopes of peace lovers throughout the world, is admitted even by the British to be dangerously near final breakdown. Unless the French admiralty ylelds—and there is not much reason to expect this—naval rivalry may burst out intensely and the United States and Japan, as well as Great Britain, may lose the laboriously- achieved limitations and economies of | the London Conference. | The rapprochement between France | and Great PBritain, which prospered during the first days of the mutual re- sentment at the Austro-German Cus- toms Union, has withered startlingly, and Great Britain is linking arms with Italy in stiff resistance to the French naval demands. Great Britain more- over is showing a friendlier eye to Ger- many, whom she momentarily disliked for the secrecy over the Austrian pact. Sharp Contrast Shown. When this correspondent first dis- closed that the French policy was threatening naval agreement, the Brit- ish deprecated the report and en- deavored to persuade the correspondents that the drafting was progressing nor- mally. The Labor government's passion for successful conclusion of the pact, for which Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson, Pirst Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander and Robert L. Craigie have striven so hard, sustained them | through many deys of wrangling with the French. Now faced with failure and the pos- sibility of being cbliged to spend large sums for additional armament to keep pace with the FPrench, the British reveal the real situation from their standpoint, which sharply contrats with the French presentation. The London version portrays the French navalists as not only seeking to scrap the preliminary agreement but dooming in advance the forthcoming disarmament conference by striving for a fleet which in all but capital ships would be almost equal io the British and in submarines would be superior. Not even the Labor ern- ment 1s willing to abandon Great Brit- ian’s historic naval supremacy in that fashion and the admiralty would not permit any governenmt to do so if it wished. See Claim for Free Hand. ‘The British consider the French de- mand nothing less than a claim for a free hand for construction in the years 1935-1936—the last two years of the London Naval Treaty. The United States, Japan, Great Britain and Italy would thus be restricted by the treaty terms for six years, while France would be limited for only four. Great Britain has flatly notified the French that it will not entertain such a project. There must be a six-year agreement for all or none whatever. Italy shares this British view. The British refute the French con- tentions regarding over-age vessels with the allegation that the British fleet will also comprise a large proportion of over- age vessels in 1936, which will be re- placeable gradually by building started after that date if necessary. ‘Would Open Escape Clause. Should the French persist in build- | ing, the British will be free to do like- wise under the escape clause of the Lon- don treaty. But then the United States |and Japan would be free to increase | their navies proportionately and the | situation would be as inimical to peace | and economy as it was before London, save for Anglo-American parity. The government organ, the Herald, editorially warns Paris that the “agree- ment must be based on the priniciple of applyin? to Prance and Italy the limita- | tions already accepted by Great Brit- ain, America and Japan or it cannot be signed by Great Britain.” And with- | out agreement, the Franco-Italian po- | | litical strife will be resumed. | _All of which intensifies interest in the visit of German Chancellor Hein- | rich - Bruening and Foreign Minister Julius Curtius to London early in May. (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) _———— WUPPER SENTENCED T0 210 YEARS IN JAIL| $1,000,000 Bank Embezzler Also Fined $500 Each on 20 Forgery Charges. By the Associated Press. WEST POINT, Nebr., April 8—Paul Wupper, who embezzled $1,000,000 from his bank at Beemer, today plead- ed guilty to 20 counts of forgery in District Court, and was sentenced to a total of 210 years in prison. He also was fined $500 on each count. He was arrested in Philadelphia a few days ago for bigamy. District Judge Clinton Chase sen- tenced the former mayor and bank president, on his plea of guilty, to 20 years in prison on the first forgery charge and 10 years on each of the other 19 charges. The sentences are to run consecutively. The charges in- volved forgeries totaling $35,000. ‘Wu , who 1s 54 years old, also was cl with the embezzlement of $67,000 from the bank, which failed in September, 1928, but this count was not pressed by County Attorney Harvey e e will_be THE END OF THE SHOW. FARM AD FALURE SAYSGRAN LEADER Program Menaces Coming; Crops, Chicago Trade Board | Head Declares. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 8.—President James C. Murray of the Chicago Board of Trade declared today that the stabili- zation program of the Farm Board “has failed completely in the attempt to maintain the markets on any satis- factory level” In an address before the Chicago Association of Commerce he said the Farm Board's operations “have only resulted in accumulations which are a menace to the coming crops.” “Passage of the agricultural market- ing act, intended to be of benefit to the farmer, has admittedly failed of its pur- pose. Ably managed by honest men interested in the work out of a definite scheme of farm relief, the op- eration of the act has again demon- strated the futility of interference with the normal action and reaction to supply and demand,” he declared. Others’ Experiences Cited. ‘Through the act, he said, the Gov- ernment has advanced “large sums for the purpose of building up co-operative companies, under obligation to market their grain through the single channel approved by the Parm Board.” But it has been clearly demonstrated in the experience of other countries that “the unit system of marketing through one national channel is not a success, and that a free and open market, one carry- ing a wide public interest, is the only sound and safe means of disposing of staple crops.” Mr. Murray said the Board of Trade strongly recommended the following: “First, that the Government should at the earliest possible date divest it- self entirely of the business of mer- chandising grain, to the end that the marketing of the surplus already stored up shall be handled by the regular dealers in the domestic and export trade with the least possible disturb- ance to the marketing of the coming crops. Open Market Held Essential. “Second, that in assisting the devel- opment of co-operative marketing, as required under the terms of the act, Government funds should not be used at lower rates of interest in the mer- chandising of commodities in competi- tion with the established trade. “Third, that the maintenance of a free and open market for grain, with a wide public interest, is essential to the best interests of the producer and consumer. “Fourth, that the market should be relieved of unnecessary detalled gov- ernmental supervision and bureaucratic control.” TWO KILLED, 3 HURT IN AQUEDUCT BLAST' Explosion 60f Feet Below street! i Level in Bronx Entombs Men. Sixty Others Escape. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 8. —Two men were killed, three seriously injured and 60 escaped death last night in an explo- sion in a part of a 22-mile aqueduct be- ing constructed from Yonkers to Long Island City. The dead: Edelmino Fernandez, 27 years old, su- perintendent. ‘Welman Moffett, 30, superintendent in charge of blasters. The aqueduct, being constructed at a cost of $44,000,000 and with Patrick J. McGovern as contractor, has been called “the Black Luck Tunnel,” because a dozen workers have been killed in its construction. The explosion occurred in the Bronx portion of the tunnel, 605 feet below street level. . Scventy charges of dyna- mite had been laid. The dead and injured were buried un- der tons of rock and dirt. Other work- ers were blown from their feet. The uninjured quickly dug out their com- panions. The Bronx homicide squad and other police officers began an investigation. Chile Has Light Earthquake. er bank pmt taken to the State penitentiary, at Lin- coln, r:dy soon as his commitment papers are E ‘When asked by the district fudge if ra » Nine to say, Wupper Cow Saves Own Life By Flashing Light To Call Assistance By the Assoclated Press. SAYRE, Pa., April 8—Dellzs, a Holstein cow, owned by George Smith of Ulster, was recovering today from an attack of indiges- tion because she summoned a doctor in time. Every day when the time for rations arrives, Della pulls an electric light cord tied to a stanchion of her stall. Early to- day the light flashed on, and when Smith hurried to the barn he fcund the cow suffering from indigestion. He called a veterina- rian, who sald Della would have died had she not received prompt treatment. COUNTERFEIT BILL SUSPECTS ESCAPE Two Wanted for Flooding Cumberland Valley With Bogus $5 Currency. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., April 8.—Two men, thought to be counterfeiters, who have literally flooded the Cumberland valley section with bogus $5 bills, es- caped arrest by a Department of Jus- tice agent by a margin of about 5 minutes here today, when they left their rooming house just before the investigator arrived to take them into custody. Authorities say the men made their escape in an automobile bearing District of Columbia tags. ‘The men, who arrived at the home of Mrs. Bertha L. Finfrock several days 0, driving a car with Ohio license plates, registered under the names of A. M. Kilburne and PFarnham Kil- burne, father and son, respectively. ‘They at first had refused to registes at rooming house, but at Mrs. Fin- frock's insistence they did so, adding they were from Baltimore. ‘The $5 bills, nearly $100 worth of which have been turned over to police, have been in_ various towns throughout the Cumberland Valley, starting at Harrisburg, Pa., and includ- ing Frederick and Westminster, Md. Complaints continue to flow in from all sections of the counterfeit money. Mrs. Finfrock informed authorities that she noticed during the stay of the men that they kept in their room sev- eral bottles of different colored ink and what appeared to be dies. The counter- feit bills are very poorly executed, poiice say. The landlady at the boarding house said the tags on the machine the men drove evidently were changed during | their stay at the house. ey LAWLESSNESS SPREADS Palestine Government Believes Crimes_Political in Nature. JERU_%CAILEM, hmAprfl 8 (A?d—m Jewish legrap! Agency said today that lawlessness was spreading in the neighborbood of Yaggour, near Haifa, where three Jewish workmen were shot and killed Sunday night as they were returning home from a nearby cement ractory. Reports here sald that unidentified persons were demolishing telephone stations and cutting wires between Acre and the Arab village Shefaram. The agency said that the Palestine government was more and more in- clined to believe the crime political in nature. NEW CLUE FOUND * N MURDER PROBE Bloody Handkerchief Discov- ered Near Grave of Slain Marine. A bloody handkerchief found in the woods in which the bullet-riddled body | of Pvt. Emanuel Thorne, 25-year-oid | Marine, was buried in a shallow grave dug by his slayer, was expected to be turned over to Prince Georges County investigators today. ‘The handkerchief, considered the most important clue thus far in the in- vestigation of the mysterious murder, was picked up by a man who was dump- ing rubbish in the woods on March 15. He communicated with Constable Earl Blackwell of Capitol Heights, Md., who already had found an automobile be- | lieved to have been used by the killer. Both car and the handkerchief were fcund on the same day, causing Black- LONGWORTH, ILL WITH PREUMONIA, HAS “C00D NICHT” Wife Arrives at Curtis Home in Aiken, S. C., Where Speaker Is Guest. . PHYSICIANS TO ISSUE TWO BULLETINS DAILY President Hoover Assigns Personal Physician to Keep Him Informed in Case. By the Assoclated Press AIKEN, S. C, April 8—Nicholas Longworth, for six years Speaker of the House, lay seriously ill here today from pneumonia. Mrs. Longworth was at his bedside. The former Alice Roosevelt, daugh- ter of President Roosevelt, arrived here to be with her husband this morning at 10:20 o'clock, She was summoned last night after physicians attending Long- worth revealed a heavy cold he had had for 10 days developed into pneumonia Monday night. Dr. R. H. Wilds of Aiken, said there had been no change in Longworth's condition since late yesterday, but added that Longworth had a “good night.” Confer With Mrs. Longworth. The physician and his assoclates on the case, Dr. Thomas G. Brooks of Alken and Dr. V. P. Sidenstricker of Augusta, conferred with Mrs, Long- worth soon after her arrival. Although they had said there would be an officlal bulletin on Longworth's condition after the conference, none was issued immediately. Later, Dr. Wilds announced the first formal bulletin would be issued at 9 p.m. today. He said bulletins would be léss:ed tomorrow at 9 a.m., noon and .m. He said Longworth rested comfortably during the morning. Longworth’s pulse, he said, was 110, his temperature 101 and his respiration 23. He said the ggzm’s blood pressure was satisfac- Dr. Wilds sald Longworth had lobar ?neumunh. Only the right lung is af- Crisis in Three to Five Days. “A crisis, if there is one,” Dr. Wilds said, “will probably come in from three atrs Longwortn Miss Elizm. 3 ht - beth Nelson, a num%nmmm with :zr from Washington this morning to Mre. Jnmes ortls of Washington, He ;um'herem “for a vacation when he be- e il well to place the time of the murder as about midnight, March 14. Brawl Is Reported. At that time, Blackwell declared to- | day, a drunken brawl in which several | shots were fired is known to have oc- curred' in a garage not far from the woods in which Thorne’s body was found. Blackwell heard of the shooting at the time, he said, and rushed to the garage, but was told nothing had hap- pened. On the night of the battle in the garage an ambulance was summoned to Greater Capitol Heights, but the crew was told alarm was a false one, according to Blackwell. The ambulance returned to Washington, ing at Fifteenth and H streets northeast, where the driver told a curious bystander of the call to the Maryland town. Black- well has talked with the man who saw the ambulance, he said, but has been unable to learn whether the vehicle be- longed to the various Washington hos- pitals or was privately owned. Since discovery of Thorne's corpse, however, Blackwell has investi- gated the disturbance in the garage. His probe, he asserted, has convinced him Thorne was slain in the garage and that his body was placad in the auto- mobile, carried to the edge of the woods and dragged from the machine to the place of burial. “Only a drunken man would have made such a botch of disposing of his victim,” Blackwell declared. Stain Found on Car. “The layer of dirt covering the body was only an inch or two thick and a sober man certainly would have buried his victim deeper than that.” ‘The automobile, found abandoned on Crystal Spring road, about two blocks from the improvised grave, bears a dark brown stain, believed to be blood, B;‘ndckwlellucanur&xoegih The stain, he said, “looks as somel tried to wash it off.” e Blackwell said he has the names of several persons who witnessed the fight in the garage and that he plans to question them today. He also plans to interview the man who found the hand- kerchief, which bears no initials or other mark of identification. The man claims to have scen an au- tomobile near the woods early on the morning of March 15, however, and Blackwell is endeavoring to learn the identity of the occupants. The machine, Blackwell said, probably was the same one which he is now hoiding in a Cap- itol Heights garags Vincent Selbicky, a member of the Marine Band, in the rear of whose home Thorne’s body was found, was question- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) COLLEGIAN MORE *“HIPPEROUS” THAN DAD, SAYS RENSSELAER HEAD Declares Student: of Today Drinks No More Than Fathers Did, But Must By the Assoclated Press. TROY, N. Y., April 8.—After 56 years’ observation of college men, Dr. Palmer Chamberlain Ricketts, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, finds students ul:.‘u;day more ;‘hipperous” than Carry Liquor/on Hip. Dr. Ricketts entered Rensselaer as a student and remained as an instructor, eventually to become a directdt, and finally president. At 75 he works 10 hours a day. His relaxation is the reading of ‘who have names of learned €5 Of wi s oo et A he cx; these The roster of engineers achieved eminence in their includes the the fund their cs pim. b $15,000,0 h upon buildings “agd isselaer was - donal Anmgenhnkwuuudhmunfl him yesterday. His physicians said Longworth, a Republican, began his service in Congress in 1903. He repre- sents the first Ohio District. HOOVER SHOWS CONCERN. Assigns Personal Physician to Keep Him Informed. President Hoover, in his concern re- garding the condition of Speaker Long- worth, be kept has ng:sud that he posted as to progress of the lat- ter's illness. This morning Mr. Hoover had his personal physician, Capt. Joel T. Boone, make inquiries by long-distance tele= phone regarding Mr. Longworth's con= dition. Capt. Boone reported that his advices were that the Speakers’ iliness was substantially as reported in the papers today. MACHADO MOVES TO AVERT CRISIS Grants Three Important Conces- sions to Opposition Trying to Qust Him, By the Assoclated Préss. HAVANA, April 8—Presidens Mach- ado, in an effort to avert wha' appears to be an almost unavoidable .frisis in the Cuban political situation, has de- cided to make three important conces- sions to the opposition which is trying to oust him. They are: First—Agreement to permit return to Cuba of more than 60 political prise oners recently transferred to the Isle of Pines Prison from Principe Fortress here. Second—Granting of liberty to Col. Aurelio Hevia, Nationalist chieftain, who has been held somewhat as hos- tage by the government for many weeks. Third—Agreement to liberate Maj. Manuel Espinosa, former presidential aide de camp, who was court-martialed on charges of an attempt against the President’s life, and reaccused yesterday by a palace guard as having been an anti-administration plotter. ‘The first concession is expected to placate the students, and the second is considered a compromise move in the direction of the Nationalist Union, principal organized body seeking Gen. Machado’s removal. The third is ex- pected to block criticism of the public, which- has been given to- -understand that the court-martial trying Espinosa found him..innocent. the press ln.nmat election judges of the :lsetonl W, MURDER I§ MYSTERY Doctor Called to Office—Finds Man Stabbed to Death. CHICAGO, April 8 (#).—Dr. James an evening home answered. “There’s an accident case in your of- fice,” said the caller, who failed to reveal his identity. - to his office he found sit- dead from a knife wound in his mymu 7