Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Buresu Forecast.) Pair today and tomorrow; somewhat ‘warmer tomorTow. thest, 67, at 2 pm. ‘Temperatures— !ester&‘;‘ lowest, 55, at 7 am. yes- terday. Full report on page 4. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every cvening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by ‘The Star's exclusive carrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. The Sundiny Stae WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION (#) Means Associated Press. No. -+ 1,360—-No." 31,757. Entered as second class matt er post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, . -0, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 1 9 1931 —114 PAGES. * FIVE C IN WASHINGTON ENTS TEN CENTS AND SUBURBS | ELSEWHERE LONENORTH PAD FINA HOMAGE Y NATIONS LEADERS Burial Beside Father in Cin- cinnati Follows Simple Rites at Church. PRESIDENT AT BOTH FUNERAL SERVICES Townspeople Gather for Tribute at Residence—Bishop Hobson Officiates. i By the Associated Press CINCINNATI. Ohio, April 11 Leaders of the Nation paid silent tribute to Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House, as he was buried here today beside his father in Spring Grove Cemetary. Funeral services at Christ Episcopal Church were simple. The Right Rev.! Henry Wise Hobson, bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Southern Ohio, read the service which lasted less than a half hour. No words of eulogy were!| spoken At the cemetery with a short ritual Bishop Hobson committed the body to the earth President and Mrs. Hoover, Vice President Charles Curtis and members of the congressional delegation. repre- senting _the Government, paid _their tribute by their presence at the church among Mr. Longworth's friends and Telatives. The President, Mrs. Hoover and the Vice President also attended services at the grave. Shortly afterward the Chief Executive and his party boarded their special train for Washington. Mr. Longworth, who had just com- pleted his third term, as Speaker of the National House of Representatives, died in his sixty-first year Thursday at Alken, S. C.. after a short illness of pneumonia. His body was brought here on a special train from Sout Carolina, arriving early this morning. | Crowd Awaits Body. For hours people stos outside on the lawn of the Longworth residence atop a hill on Grandin road, awaiting the arrival of the body. Many of these remained until the funeral cortege left shortly after 1:30 o'clock, President Hoover along with natiorial and local friends called during the morning. The home was opened to the townspcople. A soldier stood guard at the head of the casket. When the cortege left for the church, a distance | of more than 4 miles, thousands who had waited for the y to pay tribute stood along the route. 1n the procession from the home were Mrs. Longworth, Mrs. Theodore Roose- velt, sr., her stepmother; Mrs. Ethel Roosevelt Derby. her sister; Archibald and Kermit Roosevelt, her brothers: their wives, Miss Mildred Reeves, Mr. Longworth’s _private seeretary, the servants of the Longworth household. and the honorary palibearers, who were some of the outstanding leaders in all walks of American life. President and Mrs. Hoover and the congressional delegation and local leaders had already taken their places in the church when the body arrived. This arrangement, at the request of the President’s aides, was to keep the Presi- dent from being forced to make his way through the huge crowd. Procession Into Church. The active pallbearers, Kermit and | Archibald Roosevelt; B. A. Wallingford, | sr., and his three sons, B. A. Walling- ford. jr.; Landon snd Nicholas. took the body to the front door of the church, where Bishop Hobson and Rev. Bernard Hummell, assistant rector, led the pro- ! cession to the chancel. | Members of the immediate Longworth family followed the casket. Behind them came Miss Reeves and servants. The vested choir came next and took their places to the right and left of | the bishop. The Psalms and the Epistles to the Corinthians and the Romans and the Gespel of St. John provided the prayers | for the funeral service. | Because of the Speaker's love for | music. & string quartet from the Cin- ein Symphony Orchestra . played melodies from the masters and the parting dirge. Burial followed. Christ Church chancel was a bower of roses, lilies, snap dragons, daisies and a dozen other flower: Among them was a huge wreath of holly and fern, from the President. ice President Curtis sent a large spray of roses and lilies of the valley. That of the House of Representatives, over | which Mr. Longworth presided, was a | pillow of roses, snapdragons and lilies. | Ot floral tributes came from | embassies at Washington, the | ticnal Press Club, the Gridiron Club, ! American Society of Composers, | hors and publish Mr. and Mrs. | Continued on Page 3, Column 1) | “ | TWO FROM RUM BOAT | HELD FOR $1,000 BAIL { { i Men Captrred, One Wounded, by Coast Guard After Cargo Is Sunk in Bay. | i | | | | April 11.~Two | men who stayed aboard the rum-run-| ner 868-G, one of them wounded .by A machme gun-bullet in a chase by a| Coast Guard boat in Mount Hopc Bay rcarly today. were arraigned before a| Federal commissioner here this after- | noon. They were held in $1,000 bail on charges of transporting and possess- ing liquor. 5k | The pair was captured after one had | cut loose two small tow boats laden with liquor and the larger rum-craft, the 868-G, blew up just as a member of the Coast Guard crew was clambering aboard. Two other members of the crew escaped by swimming ashore. Leopold Musseau of Fall River, was shot in the right leg by machine gun fire from the Coast Guard boat. His ccmpanion, Warren Mosh:r of ‘Tiver- | ton, staved aboard to cut the tow boats loose and sent their cargo of 600 cases of liguor to the bottom. Chief Petty Officer Ellsworth later boarded the rum runnner and removed Mosseau. Charles F. Beaumont then boarded the rum craft within a minute there was a deafening roar and flames Brother Asserts Longworth Widow Is Not Candidate By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI. Ohio, April 11.— Archie Roosevelt, brother of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, said today that his sister “has never and will not seek political office.” Mr. Roosevelt made this state- ment at the Longworth home and added that “my sister will, or course, go back to Washington where she has a residence but Cincinnati is her home and she intends to make it such in the future.” this, he said, Further than Mrs. Longworth has no future plans. FLECTIVG SPEARER MAYBEHARD TASK FOR REPUBLIGANS 1G. 0. P. Insurgents Will Have Balance of Power That Must Be Becoghized. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Republican members of the House have not only'the job of selecting a new candidate for Speaker in place of the late Speaker Nicholas. Longworth, they have also the job of picking a candidate who can be elected Speaker. The chances are that when the House assembles next December the Repub- SHARP MEASURES PLANNED FOR CURB OF TAXI CONGESTION | Utilities Body Aroused by In- crease in Number and Sporadic Rate Wars. [UNIFORM FARE RATE t AND INSURANCE SEEN | Bitter Competition Unimproved After Warnings and Hands- Off Policy. BY JAMES E. CHINN, Thorcughly aroused by the ever-in- creasing number of taxicabs and the sporadic rate wars between independent and organized taxi companies, the Pub- lic Utllities Commission, it was learned yesterday, is planning drastic steps to put Washington taxicab business on a sound, well regulated and economic basis. A limitation on the number of cabs, & uniform rate of fare and compulsory | liability accident insurance are the | three cardinal features of the taxicab | control program under consideration. Legislation will be required to compel the operating companies to carry la- bility insurance, but the commission thinks it can bring about a reduction | admittances have been reduced by 10,- licans will still have a nominal mu-}ln the number of cabs by abolishing Jority of one. It is true there are va- | the so-called flat rate service and order- cancies in two Republican congressional | ing a meter rate. This plan also would districts today, the Longworth dLstricL:flubomaflcllly establish a uniform rate ! the House. in Ohio and the old Cooper district in Wisconsin. There may be vacancies in other Republican districts before Con- gress meets. But the chances are that Republicans will bz elected to succeed to these House seats. The tide ran strongly against the G. O. P. in the elec- tion last Fall. It is not likely to run any more strongly in the by-elections which are to be held. But when the House is called to order with a majority of one for the Repub- licans, the fight is by no means won. While the insurgent Republicans in the House have not created as much stir in recent years as have the insurgent Re- publicans the Senate, it was princi pally becaulp they did not have as gre: an opportuhity to causs trouble. last House, for example, was overwhelm ingly Republican. The Progressives or insurgents among the Republicans did not hold the balance of power as the Progressive Republicans did in the Sen- ate. Next December, however, the pic jture will be entirely changed. The in- surgents on the Republican side of tie chamber will have the balance of power, and one or two of them, declining to follow their party leadership, could bring about the election of Representative “Jack” Garner of Texas as Speaker. Can Tilson Be Elected? The Republicans, therefore. are faced with the conundrum, “Can_Represent- ative John Q. Tilson of Connecticut, the majority leader, be elected Speaker under such circumstances?” Mr. Til- son appears to be the logical selection for the nomination for Speaker. If nominated by the Republicans in the last Congress he could have been elected overwhelmingly. But how do the pro- gressive Republicans look upon the pro- posal to elevate Mr. Tilson to the speakership? Some of them are strong- ly opposed to such action today, al- though they may in the end come to support the Connecticut man if he is the party candidate. Committee as- signments have their meaning for pro- gressive members of the House as well as for Republican regulars Tilson was an important member of the Republican triumvirate in the last House. Many a clever political play was handled, in the vernacular of base ball, “Snell to Tilson to Longworth.” Representative Bertrand Snell of New York, as chairman of the powerful Rules Committee, brought in the special rules for consideration of legislation following consulation with the leaders Tilson lined up the forces and the late Speaker wielded the gavel This triumvirate was in the bad books of the progressive group. It was learned yesterday from a progressive Republican source that enough votes had been pledged by insurgents against the late Speaker Longworth to make his re-election impossible. This was contrary to the general supposition which has been to the candidate who could have been put for. rrnrd for the speakership by the Repub- icans. . Progressives Are Factor. 1f the progressives were counting on “stopping” the late Speaker, will they not also_count on preventing the clec- tion of Mr Tilson or Mr. Snell should they be nominated? This is a question which some of the Republicans of the Houe already are considering. Undoubtedly under_ ordinary circum- stances the majority leader, Mr. Tilson, could have the nomination’ for Speaker i he wanted it. He is popular and well liked by his colleagues. But, as it was put by one Republican yesterday, the G. O. P. in the House must determine when it meets in caucus next Fall whethe: it will go to the mat with a candidate who may not be elected be- cause he cannot recejve the support of the entire Republican membership of or with a candidate who can receive that support This raises the question, which Re- publican members of the House if nomi- (Continued on_Page 5, Column 2.) effect that | Speaker Longworth was the strongest | of fare. | The commission has been tolerant of | the taxicab situation for a long time— partly because of the unemployment situation and partly because it believed the problem would adjust itself in the | course of time. Instead of improving, conditions have grown worse. Now the commission means business—threats are to give way to action. Resistance Is Expected. The taxicab confrol program will not 4be put into effect without some re sistance. Taxi owners, particular] | those operating on a flat Tate basis, are | expected to strepuously object, but the! chief oppesition is coming from Rich- mond B. Keech, people’s counsel, who is pposed to Testricting competition and limiting the number of cabs. | Keech, however, believes in reason- | able regulation and compulsory acei- | dent liability insurance, but he points | out that Washington is enjoying lower taxi fares because of the influx of the independent operators, providing a low | flat rate service. | “The number of taxicabs in actual operation is not definitely known. The | best gauge available are the records in | the office of Wade H. Coombs, superin- | tendent of licenses, which show that | since January 1 registration tags have | been issued for 3,515 public vehicies— an increase of approximately 1,200 over | the number issued in the first three | months of 1930. | Actually there may not be 3,515 pub- | lic_vehicles in operation at this time. | Trafic officials and members of the | commission, however, are confident | that at least 3,000 are plying the | streets. Whatever the number, the commis- sion feels there are too many for public convenience and necessity. In fact, Washington is sald to have more taxi- cabs per capita than any other city in the country. New York, which has never complained about a taxi short- age, it was pointed out, has cne cab for every 3,000 persons. The ratio in Wash- ington is thought to be about one cab per 300. Excess of Competition. The worst evil of this excess of taxi- cabs, in the opinion of the commission, is excessive competition and its attend- ant ills—unfair methods and recurring rate wars. A number of such instances already have been reported. The commission looks upon the tai- cab operations as a big business which should be properly regulated, and con- | siders the unrestricted ccmpetition now existing in Washington as a blessing neither to the companies nor the pub- lic. ~And it also regards a uniform rate of fare as a necessity in view of Wash- ington’s large floating population. The zone system adopted by independent operators, it was declared, gives drivers | (2) that he has become dependent upon an opportunity to victimize strangers. The corporation counsel's office al- ready has been called upon by the com- mission for a ruling as to its authority (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) MARINE OFFICER KILLED Capt. Harlen Pefley Dies in Cl With Nicaraguan Rebels. The Navy Department was informed last night that Capt. Harlen Pefley of the Marines had been killed in a clash vesterday between a Nicaraguan Guardia detachment and insurgents in North- eastern Nicaragua Capt. Pefley, a native of Idaho, was leading the Guardia detachment, dispatch to the Navy said, when the insurgents were encountered. An en- listed man was wounded, but the Navy wes not advised whether he was a Ma- | rine or guardsman. The clash occurred near which is about 12 miles from Puerta Cabezas, base of the Guardia patrol There were about 50 in the insurgent | band and the dispatch made no men- | tion of its casualties. Legtown, | WOMAN WHO K OUT OF CUBA Mrs. Jeannette Ryder, an People From President Machado on Down. EPT BULL FIGH’I: DIES IN HAVANA American, Is Mourned by the| By the Associated Press |among those to whom the bull fight HAVANA, April 11.—Mrs. Jeannette Ryder, the American woman who kept | ' > ® National sport, but in the years the Dull Aght out cf Cupa. died at her | Since then she had become a person home here today of spinal meningitis, revered and beloved throughout Cuba. and Cubans, from President Machado | ‘Elimination of the bull' fight was one to the most humble citizen, mourned of her major objectives early in her her passing | crusade. By one means or another she For 30 years she had dipped into her | blocked such spectacles, enduring the considerable fortune to improve the lot | ridicule of promoters and enthusiasts of homeless children, the aged and in- | until eventually public opinion bega firm, and the abused Anjmal. At a to lean her way and legislation W little sanctuary in Paula street she had | enacted making the bull fight in Cuba from gasoline tanks ignited by the departing rum runnears enveloped the craft. Beaumont was burned on the face and was forced to jump overboard. collected dozens of mistreated animals illegal. for which she provided a home. | . The funeral services will take place Three decades ago when her crusade | tomorrow and burial will be in Colon began she was the h‘u of ridicule . Cemetery. ALIEN DEPARTURES FROMU. 3. SURPASS NUMBER ADMITTED) | | Tide of Immigration Turns, for First Time in History of Nation. GOVERNMENT TO ASSIST FOREIGNERS TO GO HOME Labor Department Officials to Con- fer Tomorrow to Aid Flow to *‘0ld Country.” In the administretion's aggressive ef- fort to reduce alien population and un- employment, it was disclosed yesterday that the tide of immigration has been | turned for the first time in history, so that more persons now are leaving the United Staes than are entering it. In addition to steps by which alien 000 & month and illegal aliens are being deported at the rate of 1,500 a month a new and unexplored outlet for aliens is expected to take 200 a month out of the country. A conference of Labor Department | officials has been called for tomorrow | morning toward the end of stimulating a homeward flow of aliens who volun- teer to go at the expense of the Federal! Government. Under the terms of an obscure clause in the 1927 immigration law the Government has begun pay- ing the way for destitute foreigners who | want to go back to “the old country.” One of Four Methods. 1t is virtually the first time that the United States has resorted to this prac- tice. With nearly 6,000,000 enemployed in the country, it is one of four meth- ods to which the administration has lz';snrud to decrease the alien popula- ion. Under this procedure the action is entirely voluntary on the part of the aliens, It applies primarily to foreign- ers who have entered the country law- fully, whereas the deportation drive is directed against about 100,000 aliens estimated to have slipped in unlawfully during the last five years. The voluntary emigration plan is based on a clause in the law which was intended to cover the case of an alien who became disabled or otherwise a public burden within three years of his arrival in this country in the regular way. The Labor Department was au- thorized to transport such persons back to_the country from which they came. Willlam N. Doak, the new Secretary of Labor, conceived the idea of using this authority to help relieve the un- employment situation and individual distress. Labor Department officials sald he had in mind the fact that a large proportion of ihe unemployed persons now dependent upon public charities throughout the country are aliens who have a right to be in this country. but, in their present predica- ment, would prefer the protection of relatives abroad. 200 Ask Transportation. Announcement in foreign language | newspapers of the Government's de- cision to use this power o transport destitute allens who volunieered has | brought nearly 200 applications, it was | estimated yesterday by Harry E. Hull, commissioner general of immigration. The applications are being forwarded largely through charity organizations. | More than 50 have already reached the | desk of Commissioner Hull. i It is to consider how far the Lahor Department may go in this direction | that tomorrow’s conference has been | called. The law 1ustricts action to| cases meeting three requirements: (1) that the applicant has been in the country not longer than three years; public aid and (3) that he has other- wise fallen into distress. An important question to be discussed is whether tie | clause can be stretched to cover those | who have become discouraged or home- | sick and want to g0 home. Several of the applications are said | to be based ou that condition. Depart- | ment officials, while disposed to con- | strue the law liberally with an eye to | the main objective to reduce alien pop- ulzetion, point out that precautions m: be taken to exclude the alien w merely seeks a “‘free ride” home though | able to take care of himself here. | Reverse of Deportation. Commissioner Hull thought it likely | that applications would run well over 200 a month once the policy was well established and advertised in the for- eign quarters. It was emphasized that the policy is the reverse of deportation and that this point was being im- pressed upon lawful aliens, many of | whom would forego thelr desire to go home rather than return in the dis- grace of having been deported from the United States. | At no_other time has the United | States Government proceeded so ag- | gressively to cut down the nropm‘non" of allens in the country. The admin- | istration is employing four principal | methods, as follows 1—By _ withholding (Continued on Page consular visas Column 2) | LISBON IS QUIET UNDER MARTIAL LAW President Issues Statement Saying; Loyalty of Home Army Was Never Questioned. By the Associated Press LISBON, Portugal, April 11.—Mar- tial law enforced quiet in the Portu- guese capital tonight. Also strict cen- sorship of communications from Madeira and the Azores made it extremely difficult for citizens here to follow de- velopments in those islands, where a military revolt has been in progress for several days. Amusement. houses in Lisbon are closed. Private citizens find themselves accosted in the strects by soldiers with fixed bayonets, intercepting passersby afoot and in sutomobiles to examine their papers. From the 3d_ Artillery barracks, where President Carmona and his cab- inet have taken shelter, there came a statement today that the Portuguese interior was quiet and that loyalty of the home army had never been ques- tioned. There were unconfirmed re- rts also that numerous arrests had n made in an effort to block the island rebellion from spreading to the mainland. 3 1TSS HARD To KEEP MY MIND ON STATE AFFARRS WITH ALL THIS INTERFERENCE! GOTHAM VICE CASE SHAKE-UP HITS 300 Plainclothes Police to Be Put in Uniform and Replaced by Others From Force. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 11.—Every one of the 300 plainclothes patrolmen at- tached to the various inspectors’ offices of the Police Department were ordered to resume uniform duty by Police Com- missioner Mulrconey today. They will be replaced by men drawn from other assignments in the department ‘The order goes into effect Tuesday It was designed, the commissioner said. to effect a new procedure in the han- dling of vice cases. Probe Principals Busy. ‘This week end is no rest period for investigators planning to find out what, if anything, is wrong with New York's complicated governmental machine. Samuel Seabury, counsel to a legisla- tive committee which will probe the city government from top to bottom, prepared to confer with Samuel Hof- stader, chairman of the committee. As soon as Hofstader comes here from Al bany they will discuss prelimina arrangements and methods of proce- dure. Crain Maps Defense. Meanwhile, District Attorney Thomas C.'T. Crain prepared his defense against charges of inefficiency filed with the Governor and turned over to Mr. Sea- bury for investigation. At hearings this week Chief Counsel John Kirkland Clark adduced testimony to show_that extortion flourished in Ful- ton Fish Market under the guise of “protection.” Crain has insisted he could not act because witnesses were afraid to testi- | fy, but the City Club, which filed the removal charges agaiist him, says there was ample evidence. Besides preparing his own defense, Crain must decide whether the evidence produced by Clark warrants a move by the district attorney's office to obtain indictments against the alleged racketeers. Police Vice Trials End. The last of a series of departmental trials of plain clothes policemen sus- pended as the result of revelations by “Chile” Acuna, former vice squad stool pigeon, ended today. Four policemen figured in this trial. They were accused of “framing” 10 women in vice cases in which Acuna said he was the “unknown man” who always escaped when the police made their raids. Today's session was enlivened by a defense witness who hoppsd from the | stand to_ confront Acuna menacingly. Deputy Commissioner Ruttenberg, who presided, threatened to arrcst the wit- ness. TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—26 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page B-4. Marine Corps Notes—Page B-6 Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page B-6. Disabled Veterans—Page B-8. D. A. R. Activities—Page B-8. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. At Community Centers—Page 5. News of the Clubs—-Page 6. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 6 American Gold Star Mothers—Page 6. PART THREE—12 PAGES. Society Section. PART FOUR—12 PAGI Amusement Section—Theater, and Radio. In the Motor World—Page 4. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 5. District _of Columbia Naval Page 5 Aviation—Page 6. Organized Reserve . C. T. U. Notes Fraternities—Page 7 American Legion—Page 9 Serial ~ Story—"Mysterious Page 9. Army and Navy News—Page 12, PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Sports Section. PART SIX—12 PAGES. PFinancial News and*Classified Adver- 1 and Screen Reserve— -Page 6. Page 6 Waye'— ising. The Home Gardener—Page 12. Spanish War Veterans—Page 12. District National Guard—Page 12. Public Library—} 12. PART SE 24 PAGES. Magazine Section. Notes of Arts and Artists—Page 19. News of the Music World—Page 20. Reviews of New Books—Page 21. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 22. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. | World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTH 8 PAGES. ‘Tarzan; Moon Mullins; Mr. and Mrs.: Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers: High- lights of History; the Smythes; Little Orphan Annie. public | Wife Who Balked Husband’s Suicide Hangs Herself Chinese Woman Feared Deportation Would Send Her From Children. Mrs. Minnie Moy, wife of an Inter- state Commerce Commission engineer. yesterday accomplished what she had prevented her husband from doing five months ago. She ended her life by hanging, according to Assoclated Press dispatcnes from Bostcn last night. Advised that she was in the deport- able class and might have to leave her (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) CAPT. EAKER FAILS T0 S NEW AR Army Flyer Forced Down in Columbus, Ohio—Abandons Attempt for Present. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 11.—Capt. Ira C. Eaker, noted Army pilot, forced | down by motor troubls here late today when he was within easy reach of & | new transcontinental speed mark, to-| night had abandoned, for the time being, his attempt to wrest the record from Capt. Frank Hawks. Flying a low-winged monoplans cquipped with retractable landing gear, | Eaker put down at Port Columbus at 5 p.m., after a flight from Burbank, He said he made the fiight in Calif. 9 hours and 40 minutes, with a 10- He esti- minute stop at Wichita, Kans. mated he could have made New York in an hour and 45 minutes, which would have bettered Hawk's record of 12 hours. 25 minutes and 3 seconds by ap- proximately 50 minutes. The fiyer said he encowntered ideal fiying conditions all the way. and that he maintained a speed well over 200 miles an hour, his air speedometer a: times registering as high as 230 miles an hour. He said he flew at altitud close to 13,000 feet more of the way, with slight cross-winds. LINDBERGH IS SORRY. Was Pulling for Eaker and Expected Him to Set Record. PRINCETON, N. J. April 11 (#).— Regret over the failure of Capt. Ira C. Eaker, Army test pilot, to set a new West - East _transcontinental specd record was expressed tonight by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. “I am mighty sorry to hear that,” said Col. Lindbergh ~when informed that Capt. Eaker had been forced down by motor trouble at Columbus, Ohio. | “I was pulling for him and expected to see him make it." | Col. Lindbergh denied he and Mrs. | Lindbergh would attempt to break the West-East record on their way back | from a trip to Los Angeles which they plan to make soon. The colonel said he would fly to the coast to obtain new equipment for his | | low-wing monoplane as soon as possi- | | ble after taking care of important busi- ness next week. | "Plans to make stops on the way back | preclude apy opportunity to break | speed records, he said NEW ROCKET MOTOR DEVELdPING | 400-POUND RECOIL DEMONSTRATED Inventor Claims It Is Capab to Any Point in Europe in 12 Minutes. By the Associated Press. | BERLIN, April 11.—Paul Heylnndl‘s!‘new one is to be mounted on a larger | Catette palace. | latest rocket motor, developing & recoll | | of 400 pounds, and claimed by the in- | | ventor to be capable of hurtling itself DEMORATS MEET WITHOUT BIG THRE | Smith, Walker and Roosevelt Fail to Attend Jefferson Club Session. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 11.—The National Democratic Club celebrated the 188th birthday of Thomas Jefferson tonight without the presence of Alfred E. Smith, the party's candidate for President in 1928; Mayor James Walker and Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, rated the “big| three” of local and State Democratic politics. Smith wrote officers merely that a previous engagement would not allow him to attend. Mayor Walker did like- wise. Gov. Roosevelt pleaded an en- | gagement with the State officers of the Odd Pellows at Schenectady, N. Y. made, he said, several months ago. Senators David Walsh of Massachu- setts and T. P. Gore of Oklahoma and Miss Mary Eunice McCarthy of Los An- geles, a national committeewoman, were the speakers. Hit Hoover Administration. Senator Walsh charged the Repub- lican administration with “abdication of leadership” and complete failure to fulfill its campaign promises. He called upon the Democratic party to present a constructive program for eliminating the Nation's economic ills. Senator Gore attacked the administra- | tion for iis handling of lAbor, agricul- | ture, taxes. tariff and crime. “Has labor prospered?” he asked. Let the unemployed answer. Listen to the voice of 6,000,000 workers out of work. “Ave our farmers prcsperous? Th Republican platforms promised once, twice, thiice to place agriculture on a footing of economic equality with all other industries. That is the one prom- ise which has been kept—not by restor- ing prosperity to the farmer, but by de- stroying it for everybody else. He declared the Republica tration “had solved” the problem of taxetion. “Today one-half of the peo- ple haven't anything to pay taxes on and the other half haven't anything to pay taxes with.” He sald Democrats who supported Smith in 1928 and Democrats who tory in 1932. He proposed a short plat “less taxes, more trade, no Miss McCarthy joined the others in attacking the Hoover administrafion | and said, “California is going to be- come a Demoeratic State in 1932.” She asked that Democrats be pledged anew to principles which shall not con- fiict with present conditions, “which have resulted from the wilful ignoring |'of the principles of the founders of this republic.” | MOTHER AND 3 DIE. Train Shatters Auto of Tllinois Woman and Daughters. MOUNT CARROLL, 1, April 11 (). —A mother and her three daughters were instantly killed today when & train struck their automobile. The victims were Mrs. Stephen Mitchell, 55, and her daughters, Dora 24; Ruby. 18, and Alta, 8. Their bodie: were strewn for 200 yards down the track. ‘The motorists apparently waited for a passenger train to pass, and were ! struck by an unobserved freight on another track. le of Traveling From Berlin| auto chassis 60 miles an hour. The racing chassis for public demonstration on May 3. The terrific roar of the new motor, which shoots a tail like a comet, is adminis- | w from Berlin to any point in Europe in | almost unbearable at a distance of 100 12 minutes, was shown to newspaper | feet, and when the power is shut off it men today. | gives a parting shriek like the passage Although the motor, which looks like | of a high explosive shell. | a small cannon, weighs only 15 pounds| Its fuel is liquid oxygen and alcohol, and could easily be adapted to projec- ' which are mixed and ignited in t! tile shape, the engineers declared they, cannonlike muzzle. The mounting of | were more interested in perfecting it as| the motor on an auto chassis, it was a “vest pocket” airplane motor. Hey- | explainediwould be for test purposes landt himself sees it as the logical mo- | only. " |tive power for airplane fiights from | next step, it | Europe to America, through the strato- | would be to fit it into an | sphere. ped with a hermetically announced, plane equip- aled cabin, CIANT RUM I DEALT EATHBLOW N NEW ORLEAS Federal Agents Arrest Eight Men and Seize Radio Station. AL CAPONE BELIEVED LINKED WITH GROUP Syndicate Thought to Be Largest Tllicit Liquor Band in World. | BY the Associated Press | NEW ORLEANS, April 11.—The Fed- eral Government struck a death blow today at a gigantic band of bootleggers and rum smugglers with the arrest of eight men and the seizure of a radio station here. Authorities said they had evidence the ring was supported by interesis having millions of dollars and cperated from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Canada and British Honduras. Flushing of the band after weeks of {Investigation by a large corps of Fed- eral agents has uncovered, in the opinion of prohibition cMcers, the largest existing illicit liquor ring in the world. It represented, they said, s curious liaison between the underworld | Canadian distillers and Mississippi offi- cials and business men. Seize Radio Station. Pcised for several days, the agents sprang out today in New Orleans and simultaneously ~seized the = powerful radio station In a dwelling in Gentilly, a suburb, and arrested the eight men on charges of conspiracy to violate the Federal prohibition law. Other arrests were prcmised by Monday. Before the sweep is over District Attorney Edmund Eléo’l‘llbot said the arrests may reach Some of the prisoners admitted the; | had given wrong names to the auth | ties, and the records officially were cor- Irected to list them as Albert Morrison, | Alber Haim, Al Hart, Joe Miller, Ceeil Squires, M.: D. O'Neal,. Charles Andres and Harry Golden. Golden was ar- rested after being caught tapping the syndicate’s telephone wires to get in- formation, officers said, which he ad- mitted would be used by a gang of New Orleans bootleggers in a scheme to hi- jack the syndicate’s liquor. Shipped from Vancouver. Morrison and O'Neal were described by officers as representatives of Van- couver, Canada, distillers, who -handled the ring's orders. Haim, Hart and Miller, the authorities said, ' were Chicago and took charge of the .distribution of the liquors. Squires arrested as he walked into Mol 's quarters in a Canal street apartment as the officers made fhe arrest. ; District Attorney Talbot said the Ting brought liquor from Vancouver distillers by boat to Belize, British Honduras, where it was reshipped on steamers to the Gulf Coast to be met outside the 12-mile limit by luggers, which weuld slip around the Gulf Coast and up the Pearl River. On Pearl River, he said. the ring had leased a pecan orchard and several lum- ber plants that were used as a base for the liquor supplies. The liquor then would be moved by motor truck to freight cars. where it would be shipped out, Jabeled “lumber” or “cross tles.” Link Al Capone With Ring. “We can't very well prove it said District Attorney Taibot, “but evidence onvinces the investigators that Al Ca- pone furnished much of th: money for the importation of rum through this syndicate for Chicago and New York consumption.” Federal agents obtained complete evi- dence, the district attorney said, by tap- ping telephone wirss used by the syndi- cate's managers. By listening to con- versations, he said, they had a sound case | involving ‘rum running, bribery and | operation of illegal radios. An agent. he aid, heard Morrison talking by long- idistance to a representative of a Van- | couver distillery: “I have just forwarded fifty grand $50,000) to headquarters. This is the I net profits for the last few months,” | Morrison was quoted as saying. | “Smaller Fry” Confess. | Authorities said they had obtained | confessions from some of the “snaller {fry,” who had involved the “higher- jups.” H er Talbot estimated that at times as | many as a hundred rum ships wsuld lay |off the Guif's rum row at one time and that well over a million dollars worth of whisky had passed through the Pearl River base. After they had given names, the commissioner warned that if any of !them gave fictitious names they would | not be entitled to bail and 'soon several of them announced new names. All of jthem wer> charged with conspiracy ‘and all held for $25,000 bail excep’ | Andres, the radio man, whose bond was (Continued on Page 2, Column &» ENGLISH PRINCES LEAVE RI0 TODAY [ Will Receive President Vargas' Farewell as They Sail for Home. i | | | By the Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO, April 11.—Con- cluding a triumphant visit to South America, the ince of Wales and | Prince George will sail for England to- morrow evening aboard the steamer Arlanza. President Getulio Vargas will motor i from Petropolis here to receive the Brit- ish princes in a farewell audience At They will touch at Bahia and Pernambuco on their home- ard journey. When the princes leave they will | have the satisfaction .of feeling that what designed as a strictly com- mercial mission became a brilliant social excursicn. While the purpose of the t+ip was the opening of the British en- pire trade exhibition at Buenos Aires by the Prince of Wales, the royal visi- tors were acclaimed at every stoppinz voint and made friends with notable and commoner alike. After opening the exposition with an address by Prince Edward, they eame here by easy stages. During their The rocket motor demonstrated by\’!o flight through the stra | Heylandt and the late Max Valier last | vlandt, who is German! year would seem a toy alongside this|expert on liquid gases,, will successor, The old motor drove an|the United States. * here. Jeading n visit P hegira, they touched the following countries and islands: France, Spain, Bermuda. Jamaica, Cuba, Panama, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. S