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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy; showers late row; somewhat cooler ‘Temperatures—Highest, 76, st 4 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 55, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page Closing N.Y. Markets, tonight or tomor tomorrow. 3. Pages13,14&15 @b ¢ Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ed_as seco office, Wa No. 31,766. Enter: pos nd class matter C. shington, D. WASHINGTON, P> C,, TUESDAY, APRIL HOOVER CONFIDENT SANDINO MENACE WILL BE REMOVED Hope for Capture Based on Nicaragua’s 1,300 Guards- men in Field. REVOLT IN HONDURAS QUELLED ALONG COAST Attack on San Pedro Sula, 25 Miles Inland, Reported Imminent. Loyalists Prepared. | i President Hoover said today Gen.! Sandino, the leader of the Nicaraguan insurgents “p'aced himself outside the civilized pale” by the muraer of Amrcrican civilians and Nicaraguans. ‘The President said he was “perfectly eonfident the Nicaraguan bandit, Gen. Sandino, will be brought to justice.” | Mr. Heover bases his confidence upon | years for robbery, were chased through | the advices he has received from Nica- ragua to the effect that the Nicaraguan government is fully cognizant of fis re- sponsibilities and is moving vigorousl to meet the situation. “Our advices,” Mr. Hoover sald, “are that the Nicaraguan government has now placed in the field a total of over 1,300 men of the newly created Na- ti-nal Guard in a drive to clean up Sandino and his fellow bandits.” Sandino Far Outnumbered. “Our representatives advise that this| force is several times that of Sandino and his bands. His raids upon impor- tant points have been frustrated by the dispositions of the guard and protection of our citizens on the coast is made doubly sure by the presence cf our naval vessels. “Sandino has placed himself,” Mr. Hoover continued, “and hs band out- | side the civilized pale by the cold- ‘blooded murder of eight or nine Amer- jcan civilians and many Nicaraguans at isolated places in the inierior. “The Nicaraguan government has shown itself fully cognizant of its re- | eorsibility. It is moving vigorously despit> the difficulties created by the earthquake., While it may require some | tms to accomplish its purpese due to the mountainous and jungle charac- ter of the country, am confident Ezndino will be brought to justice.” This opinion of the President was made at his biweekly newspaper ccn- ference following his Tuesdzy cabinet on. It is understood that the Nic- araguan situation as well as that in Hcncuras were the principal topics at this cabinet meeting. Regarding the recent disturbance in | Honcuras, the President said that this overnment . bad little inf cest what had appeared in Mezanwhil?, 8 T from Rear Ad- miral Arthur St. Clair Smith to the Navy Department listed total deaths of foreigners in Nicaraguan attacks at 16, | including 8 American civilians and 1| Marine officer. Complete List of Deaths. Deaths not previously reported were: | Lucian May, Walter Manning, E. Rod- | ney, Henry Roper, all British subjects from Jamaica; M. Sagastume, a Guate- malan; A. Viskaino, a Colombian: the Rev. Carl Bregenzer, a Moravian mis- | sionary, & German subject, who took out first American papers in. 1921, but | did not complete naturalization. { Previous reports had listed the deaths | ©f the eight American civilians, all em- | Dloyes of th= Standard FruitCo., s fol- jows: W. H. Selser, W. H. Bond. | Percy Davis, Rip Davis, H. O. Wilson, | J. H. Oryan, J. L. Pennington and J. D. | Phelpe. The Marine officer was Pefley. ! Admiral Smith's dispatch said the | situation at Puerto Cabezas was quiet, with no insurgents in the vicinity and | work beinz resumed. He reported, t0o, that conditions in Bluefields also were quiet “Bandits first appeered in this vi- cinity at Logtown, about 60 miles in- | on about April 11.” his dispatch | ®aid. “Nearly all the deaths occurred | in this vicinity and between April 11| and 13. Those killed were overseers or workers on the fruit farms of the Bragman Bluff Lumbcr Co., and they | were surprised and killed without | chance of escape. The bandiis who | were not known to be in the area num- bered in all about. 150. Captr Pefley ran into an ambush of them and it was from men who escaped from this patrol Capt. Harley | \ i | | Humphreys, Va. Two of Youths Captured by Hounds Within Few Minutes. Who Robbed Bank Run- ner Here. With bloodhounds and a posse of | armed guards on his trail, Paul Calvin Embrey, 20-yeer-old bandit leader, is at large today after a sensation?l escape from the District Reiormatory at Lor- ton, Va.. with taree other prisoners. Guards _ tralling Embrey ~reported shortly after noon he was possibly them. William Beavers, a guard de- clared he shot at kmbrey just as he disappeared into the woods near Fort He thought the shot found its mark. . Half an hour after Embrey and his ! companions raced from the grounds of the reformatory in the autorhobile of Jobn Bischoff, official of the jail and former husband of the slain Vivian Gordon, two of them were c2ptured in the woods. Willfam Wright, who was serving 18 months on a charge of grand larceny, and Robert Wells, sentenced to five Posses Hunt Calvin Embrey| wounded by & stot fired by one of | D. C. BANDIT AND THREE CRONIES ESCAPE LORTON PRISON IN CAR PAUL CALVIN EMBREY. | the wcodland section for half a mile |before they were overtaken by _the | bloodhounds and taken into custody by guards. K The quartet destroyed telephone communication from the jail to Wash- ington by cutting telephone cables at the institution Officials were forced |to journey half a mile to a neighbor- ing home in order to send a lookout to Washington for the escaped prisoners. | { _A cordon. of armed guards was " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) FRANCE PRESENTS TERMS FOR JOINING FINE.POWER PACT Rights, but Would Agree to Four-Year Accord. Ld BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. Sy Cable to The Star. PARIS, France, April 21.—France's terms under which it is willing to join a five-power naval agreement, have been communicated formally to Great Japan. The terms, fixed at a meeting of the | Council of Ministers yesterday, are as follows: France is ready( to carry out the Paris accord and limit replacements to 136,000 tons in all, provided the other powers consent to a new mn2val con- ference prior to January 1, 1935, in 66,000 tons of additional replacements. This means that Prance, while re- serving all replacement rights at the future conference, would agree for the present to a four-year, instead of the six-yeac treaty foreseen in the London negotiations. As for the question of size and gun power of capital ships, Prance con- siders that 1t will be definitely settled ome way or another next year at the General Disarmament Conference and hence will not raise it again for the present. These terms are understood to be the result of a compromise between | Foreign Minister Aristide Briand on the one hand and President Gaston Doumergue and Minister of Agriculture Andre Tardieu on the other, M. Briand representing a policy of concessions and President Doumergue a policy of the strong defense of French interests. According to the information thus far avaflable, it is considered unlikely that Great Britain and Italy will ec- which, however, represent Prance's final word. (Copyright, 1931.) PARIS TAKES FIRM STAND. Instructed Not to Yield on Replacements. PARIE, April 21 (#) —Count Rene Mascigli, Prance’s chief naval negoti- ator, went to London this afternoon with precise instructions not to yield the nation's right to replace superannu- ated units of her fleet. He was charged by Premier Laval and Aristide Briand to maintain that France has just as much right to cub- stitute new tonnage for old as the Massigli that first alarm was given United States, Great Britain, Japan or Britain, the United States, Italy and which France can present a claim to | | any other nation, and that any agree- {ment made now cannot affect what is | to be done after 1936. | The foreign office spokesman who | disclosed the count’s instructions em- phasized, however, the belief that there Took Advantage of Quake. “The best opinion hereabouts is that all the present activity is similar to that which has occurred at this time in previous years and is for the pur- WALKER, REPLYING TO CHARGES, ASKS * THEY BE QUASHED Insists on Replacement Urges Roosevelt to Drop Re-l moval Proceedings Brought by Critics. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 21—Mayor Walker, denying he “condoned incom- petence and encouraged corruption” in | the municipal affairs of New York, has asked Gov. Roosevelt to dismiss the re- moval proceedings against him. City Affairs Committee, Walker called the committee “an annex to the Social- |1t party.” | “I declare I have adequately and | consistently done my full duty as mayor of New York,” said the reply, delivered | to the Governsr at Albany yesterday. | Denies Ignoring Conditions, The mayor denied he had_ignored “shameful conditions” in the Board of | Standards and Appeals. He denied | there had been corruption in the De- rtment of Licenses. He described as idiculous” the charge that the city is losing $33,000,000 annually in con- demnation awards. He claimed there had been marked | improvement in_ hospital _conditions, | defended the police and said he ha |no control over Magistrates’ except to appoint magistrates. | *" Assatling the City Affairs Committee ihe made caustic reference to the two members who signed the demand for | his removel—John Haynes Holmes, its | president, and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. | He declare Mr. Holmes to be a “recog- | nized leader in a group of agitators and Soviet sympathizers” and quoted a plece of doggerel which described Rabbi Wise as a man of “vasf misinformation.” ‘Won't Sacrifice Men, In his reply to charges filed by the | Courts, | DAR CANDIDATE OUITS AS CONGRESS TURNS TO POLITICS Nomination by Alabama for Vice Presidency. WEST VIRGINIANS DENY CANDIDATE WITHDREW Session Considers Finances, Then Adjourns for Mount Vernon Trip. Night Meeting Called Off. | Politics held the major attention for | the Continental Congress of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution today, accentuated by the withdrawal of 1 of |the 10 candidates in the spirited race | for vice president general, Mrs. Watt T. | Brown, retiring State regent of Ala- bama. . | Mrs. Brown caused some consterna- tion in the ranks of her supporters when | she announced, unexpectedly, that she | has never been a candidate for the office of vice president general, although her name had appeared in the advance slate for those running for this office. “While I have the indorsement of mvl State and have been urged to allow| | my name to stay in th: race, I have ! never offered to do s0,” the Alabama regent announced. “My name appears on the list of candidates of the soclety, | {for when a candidate of long service is | |indorsed by her State, it is generally understood that she s a candidate. Be- cause of personal affa‘rs and duties, I | could not do justice at this time if I | were elected.” West Virginia Spikes Rumors. Leading in the race for election to the seven vacancies occurring in the office | of vice president general are Mrs. | 21, *1931 —THIRTY-EIGHT N ing Star. wme— The only in Washin, Associated service. evening paper gton with the Press news " Yesterday's Circulation, 119,660 PAGES. FAH @ M s Associated Press. TWO CENTS. BE A SPoRT, JOUETT, AND HELP A POOR RUTH NICHOLS PLANS SOLO HOP | OVER ATLANTIC IN TWO WEEKS {Flight Will Be First of Kind Attempted by Or> of Her Sex. Chamberlin, Flyer’s Adviser, Rgveals Noted Aviatrix’s Project. James Bliss Crankshaw of Indiana, Mrs. Charles F. Bathrick of Michigan, | | Mrs. William H. Pouch of New York, {Mrs. James Thomas Roundtree of | | Texas, Mrs. Willlam Hendarson Vaught of West Virginia, Mrs. Herbert Fay | | Gaffney of Georgia and Mrs. Charles E. | | Herrick of Illinois. | Rumors that Mrs. Vaught had with- | drawn her name as candidate were in- | dignantly denied by her and members | of the West Virginia delegation. She is retiring State regent of her State| and has valuable service to her credit. | Following Mrs. Vaught's statement that she had not withdrawn her name, | the president general, Mrs, H Fletcher Hobart, announced from the | platform that no candidate who had! !announced for the office of vice presi- | {dent general had, or would, withdraw | | her name. This statement had no ref-, | erence, however, to Mrs. Brown of Ala-| | bama, who had not announced herselfy as candidate, according to her claim. I l H Election Tomorrow. ‘The oth-r candidates in the “run- ning” are Mrs. James Franklin Trott- {man of Wicconsin and Mrs. Walter | Christopher Jornson of Tennessee, | " Election by secret ballot will take p:ace during tomorrow afternoon’s ses- | sion. No other candidate for the coveted | | lifetime office of honorary vice president | | general has been announced to date, | leaving the field clear to the only an- nounced candidate, Mrs. Alexander Ennis Patton of Pennsylvania. Unless “dark horse” is put forward Mrs. | Patton will be elected unanimously. | committeemen were rendered at lhe; | morning session, featuring the an- nouncement that $1,143220 had been | ‘Madrid Moves to By the Associated Press NEW YORK, April 21 —Ruth Nichols within two weeks will attempt the first woman's solo flight across the Atlantic, Col. Clarence D. Chamberlin, her aero- nautical adviser, said today. There have been rumors for several weeks that Miss Nichols was planning a solo flight to Paris. Not long ago her press representative said, “She'd do it in a minute if she could get the ship " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7. ~—A. P. Phot 'TH NICHOL. TRIAL OF ALFONSO REPORTED SOUGHKI Seize All His Property Considered Owned by Nation. By the Associated Press. MADRID, April 21.—The Republican government is moving rapidly to seize t and varied | While reports of national officers and i for the nation all property of the exiled King Alfonso which can be con- sidered the property of the nation “As to my positicn on the question | collected to date in efforts to pay off | rather than of the man, Alfonso de of official corruption or wrong-doing. the mayor said, "I have said rep:atediy and I again assert, that I will defend no one #nd protect no one, but, on the other hand, I will sacrifice no innocent man to preserve my position as chicf executive of the City of New York, for any reason, personal or political.” He added no elected official could be held to the measure of responsibility which the petitioners demanded. “A reasonable measure of regulation and supervision,” he said, “is- all that is humanly possible over the personnel of a vast machine of government which numbers more than 130,000 employes.” Walker branded as ‘“untrue” the allegations against th> Board of Stand- ards and Appeals and said he had directed two examinations of the board’s methods. Calls Charge Unjust. In his defense of James F. Geraghty as commissioner of licenses, he declared the charge that “the public has been seriously menaced by cab drivers’ | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) the debt on Constitution Hall, the ses- sion adjourned st noon to enable the | delegates to make their annual pil- { grimage to Mount Vernon |~ Electioneering, however, continued | spiritedly at luncheon and individual | chapter meetings. | Will Honor Washington. | At Mount Vernon, whence they will leave from Constitution Hall, at 3| | o'clock, Mrs. Hobart, president general, | |and others, will pay tribute to the | “Pather of His Country,” and will place wreaths on the graves of George and | Martha Washington. The ceremonies | | will be held at 5 o'clock by courtesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association | of the Union. Mrs. Charles J. Livingood, honorary chairman, and Mrs. Eliza Ferry Leary, | chairman, headed the committee in | charge of the Mount Vernon pilgrimage. | Other members of the committee in- |cluded Mrs. Nathan‘el Beaman, Mrs. Willoughby S. Chesley, Mrs. G. B. Puller, Mrs, Harry Lee Rust, Mrs, Prank H. Towner and Mrs. Willlam D. West, vice chairmen. and Mrs, pose of raiding for supplies and stores. Raids are made just before the rainy season and furnish the supplies needed for the ensuing mobths. “The earthquake, while it helped the | situation by engaging the activities of | the Guardia, otherwise seems to have | “(Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) is plenty of opportunity for negotiation in the drafting of the final version of the tripartite accord among France, Italy and Great Britain and that the French delegation would approach its task in a conciliatory spirit. LONDON AWAITS ALL DETAILS EXPLOhER W|LL géARCH gnemle Efforts to Save Accord From Failure Expected. FOR COL. P. H. FAWCETT, vronpoN, April 21 (. —Reporis to- {day from Paris that Count Massigli was returning here with definite in- structions not to yleld on the French | policy regarding naval replacements be- {yond 1936 left British official circles | uncertain as to the future negotiations for the tripartite naval accord. ‘The position cannot be analyzed fully 21.—Julian until the French case is completely er not |stated, but it is virtually certain that Duguid Believes Missing Man Is Captive of Native Tribe in Wilds of Brazil. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, April Duguid, an_author and explo; long out of Oxford, will York Friday to search for C-l. P. H. |ticn of the French alternative proposals, Fawcett, who was lost With two com- | and it was expected that heroic efforts panions in the wilds of Brazil six years | would be made this week to save the ago. | accord from faflure. ve New | Great Britain will insist upon examina- | WEALTHY WOMAN IN JAIL ON CONSPIRACY CHARGE |Mrs. Laura B. Price, Wife of Chi- cago Manufacturer, Convicted of Theft Plot. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 21.—Mrs. Laura B Price, wife of Edwin Price, wealthy woodware manufacturer, has been in jail since Saturday, it was learned last night. She is under six months' sen- | tence on a charge of conspiracy to have her jewelry and furs stolen to collect $17,745 insurance. Her attorneys are preparing an appeal to the Supreme Court and said they hoped to have her | freed soon, Joe Baum and Ben Levine, who said | they conspired with her, turned State's evidence against Mrs. Price, Maurice | Barnett, a jeweler, end Max Krakow. The latter two were convicted earler. Duguid. who has traversed parts of | ——— HECA the 3Jflunmxle ung\fichcd by a ‘imw man | for 300 years, believes that Col. Fawcett | Lo e heia capsive- by vac o e ma: | MACHINE CAN PA| tive tribes. Some years ago, he said, a! German explorer was held prisoner. l(inurrflnnket Hit Jugoslavia. BELGRADE, Jugosiavia, April 21 (®). —In the last few days more than 400 minor earth shocks have been regis- tered in the Gfievgeli district and re- ports from there today said 2,000 chil- dren have been evacuated by govern- ment order until normal conditions are restored. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 21.—One of these days when you park your car you may come back to find it swinging In a cage 100 feet above your head. ‘The situation is foreshadowed by the development of a vertical chine, announced by the Electric & Man Maryland Bank Robbed. RISING SUN, Md., April 21 (#).— The Rising Sun branch of the Elkton Banking & Trust Co. was held up snd robbed of between $2.000 and $3,000 shortly after opening for business ay by two men who escaped in an auto- ‘mobile. Westinguouss hich RK TWENTY CARS VERTICALLY IN SPACE FOR TWO Series of Cages on Endless Chain May Be Operated Automatically by Key or Coin. The machine consists of a series of cages carried on endless chains run- ning over sprocket wheels at top and bottom, in the manner of a conveyor. An automobile is driven into one of the cages and hoisted high in the air, there to remain until the owner calls 'rhde lwgmu hudmb';ukle’ l;l,hmllll: and can operaf 'y push- ines use in East Pittsburgh for several ‘months. Lindley H. Hadley, Mrs, Howard L. Hodgkins, Mrs. | Ellis S. Pepper, Mrs. J. Morgan Smith, i Miss Jessica Randolph Smith and Mrs. | | Cabot Stevens. B Session Called Off. The night session of the Continental | Congress will be discarded for the an- nual reception of the president general, vice presidents general and national officers, assisted by the State regents. This will be held at 9 o'clock with a concert by the United States Navy| Band. Following this function the president general and national board of (Continued on Page 4, Column 1. petinaii’> il |HISTORIC DOWER HOUSE SOLD TO MRS. PATTERSON Famous Colonial Estate, Scene of Many Society Functions, Changes Owners. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., April 21.—The Dower House, historic’ Colonial estate at Mount Airy, near Rosaryville, Md., was sold to Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, editor of the Washington Herald, last night by the Dower House Corporation. The sale was made by J. Frank Lil- lard, Hyattsville attorney and president of the corporation, with attorneys John and William Stanley of Laurel repre- senting Mrs. Patterson. The considera- tion was not made public. According to Mr. Lillard the new owner will take possession at once. For the past several years the Dower House has been the scene of many exclusive society events staged under the management of Mrs. Matilda Du- :fi' @ director in the Dower House poration and occupant of the estate. The historic structure was partially swept by flames a few man"m ago. o Radio Pmrr on Page C4. | ene Bourbon, aside from his titles. A rteport was current that a demand for trial of the exiled King, Alfonso, on political and general charges, was contained in a manifesto issued by the headquarters of the Republican and Soclalist organization. A special judge has been appointed to investigate reports that valuable jewels and documents relating to the Moroccan wars have disappeared from a showcase at the royal palace, which has been sealed by tne government. The disappearance is attributed to some of the highly placed members of the palace staff. British Mediation Sought. The mediation of the British embassy was understood today to have been sought in connection with thansfer of | money deposited in the Bank of Spain by Alfonso XIII, the bank deciding mm; | | a lengthy conference to turn over par of the deposits, which run into a high | figure. The minister of finance denied, (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) IREVOLT IN PARAGUAY REPORTED BLOCKED Army Refdses to Join Movement to| Overthrow President | Guggiari. By Catle to The Star. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, April 21.—Opposing parties in Paraguay a! tempted to start a revolution Sund night and yesterday, but failed because the army refused to join the movement. Groups of armed civillans gathered at several small towns near Asuncion, the capital, by a prearranged plan, and sent a delegation to Maj. Franco, com- mandant of the troops at Campo Grande, to inform him he had been re- moved from his command and super- ceded by & junior officer. The delega- tion asked him to join the movement against the government of President Jose P. Guggiari, but Franco and of- ficers at other garrisons refused. That the leaders of the Liberal and Colorado parties, to President Guggla: who are oppose ri, had laid plans for & nation-wide movement is apparent from the fact a group of Paraguayans residing in themA';gmum town ca! For- mosa crossed Paraguay and cap- tured the town of Villa Alberdi. T also tried to kidnap the new minister of interior Sunday night while he was on his way back to Asuncion from his country piac Dispatches from Asuncion today said movement has been completely and that the ringleaders were (Copyright, 1991) ° crushed under a AUTOGIRO 10 LAND NEAR WHITE HOUSE “Windmill” Craft to Attempt | Feat at Ceremony for Pitcairn. The first attempt in history to land | an aireraft in the White House Grounds | may be made tomorrow as a part of the | ceremony of presentation by President | | Hoover of the Collier Trophy to Harold | F. Pitcairn and his associates for the | | development and demonstration of the autogiro, or “windmii plane.” / The attempt is to be made in an| autogiro by James G. Ray, vice president | of the Pitcairn-Clerva Autogiro Co. of | America and chief test pilot of the revo- lutionary new aireraft, which has been | judged by the Collier Trophy,Com- | mittee to be the greatest advance in | aviation during the past year, it was | sald by Senator Hiram Bingham of | Connecticut, president of the National Aeronautic $ssociation, which has cus- | tody of the trophy. | Will Be First Attempt. Aviation records at the Department of Commerce areonautics branch fail to show any previous attempt to land in the White House grounds. The clos- est approach was a landing in West Executive avenue between the White House and the State, War and Navy Bullding about 1910 by Claude Graham White, ploneer fiyer, in the first mono- plane ever seen in the Capital. This was made possible by the extremely low landing speed of early airplanes, The attempt depends entirely upon | weather conditions, it is said. There is | an open space of only about 100 by 300 | | feet, surrounded by high trees, availa- |ble in the White House grounds between | the fountain in the south grounds and | | (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) e . STOPS HIS OWN SALARY NEW YORK, April 21 (#)—David A. Schulte, $45,000-a-year president of the Schulte Retail Stores, has cut himself off the pay roll. He told stockholders about it at their annual meeting yes- terday. Mr. Schulte ordered his salary dis- continued last September and he doesn't intend it to be resumed until business warrants it. The company, he make a “satisfs | | | said, probably will howing” this r. ‘No Possibility Left Uncovered 1 as Regulars Seek to Retain Power. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. ‘ With both Republican regular and ’progreslve leaders, today discussing | compromise candidates for the Speaker- | ship of the House in the incoming Con- | gress, Chairman Snell of the Rules | Committee continues to gain pledges of support and was said today by some of | his lieutenants to be making inroads | into Tilson’s own territory in New Eng- land The arrival of House Leader Tilson o take p-rsonal charge of his campaign ~s normally heir to the Speaker's chair has been delayed until Thursday, but his supporters claimed that they are working persistently in his absence. t With strong support already prom- {ised in the New York, Pennsylvania and {New Jersey delegations, those who are | working hardest in the Snell campaign have turned their attention to New | Fngland and have made ‘amazing” | headwav there, they say. Reoresenta- | tive Allen T. Treadway of Massachu- setts, ranking_Republican on the Ways | and 'Means Committee, who has de- | clined to sav openly whom¢he will sup- rort, is quoted 2s being on the list of those pledged to Snell. Progressives Must Be Courted. However, party strategists in their ex- | change of views today expressed the | opinion that neither Tilson nor Snell can win. becauss they will kil! off each other’'s chances by dividing the party vote which must be united—and even more are they to be counted out be- cause nefther of them will be acceptable to the Progressive wing, which must be | reckoned with. | It was admitted by those who help | to guide the policies of the old line Republican group that they realize they must compromise with the Prcgressive group. The Progressive group, some of their closest adherents admitted, appre- ciates that it is to be dealt with and recognizes that it must not insist on one of its own group being the party candidate, but that it will insist that the party candidate be some one not offensive to it, as THlson and Snell are, they emphasize. In this situation—with a crass table give-and-take discussion looked for- ward to confidently—both sides are casting about for & compromise candi- date. The name of Representative Purnell of Indiana, s meMmber of the H-use Rules Committee, has been most prominently mentioned. Representative Homer Hoch of Kansas, a member of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce committee, is said to be “strong” with ‘Western States and at the same time “fundamentally sound” on regular Re- publican policles. Other Names Are Checked Over. Representative C. Willlam Ramseyer of Iowa, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, is quite friendly with _and at the same lumn 6., ART WORKS STOLEN $300,000 in Paintings, Sculpture and Jewels Disappear at Turin. TURIN, Italy, April 21 (#).—Works of art valued at $300,000 have been stolen from the villa of Ricardo Gualino, insolvent financier, who is mrving_h five-year sentence at Lipari Island. e loot includes one Titian and works of Fontanesi, Fattori and Spadini, some E‘{puln sculpture and Oriental jewels. Police have arrested a watchman as al accomplice. - The entire collection, valued at $10,- INEW U.S. WORKERS FACE FINGERPRINTS INDRIVE ON CRIME Civil Service Commission to Inspect 40,000 Appointees Annually After July 1. ONE OF 13 APPLICANTS HAS CRIMINAL RECORD Prospective Employes of Every Description Included Classification. in BY REX COLLIER. Aroused by the disclosure that one out of every 13 persons applying for Govern- ment employment has a police record, Uncle Sam is preparing to raise a for- midable fingerprint barrier against crim-~ inals seeking jobs in the civil service. Fingerprinting of prospective ap- pointees has been limited since 1927 to the prohibition, narcotic, customs and postal services, but beginning July 1 next the Civil Service Commission will extend the system to all of the approxi- mately 40,000 appointees selected an- nually for the varled branches of Fed- eral service. : With the start 2, every file clerk, s::n?:n';:r;rfufy'n'u’: ot other prospective Government employe of any description must submit to fingerprinting before his appoints 1s approved. i i Funds Appropriated. A special appropraition obtained fron the last Congress will enable the Civil Service Commission to double the sizz of its present fingerprinting staff, so the thousands of additional prints may be classified and filed. Th: com- mission now has four fingerprint classi- fiers and four more will be added. The work is in charge of Caleb Hughes, chief of the fingerprint division, The commission already has on file more than 100,000 prints of employes in the several law enforcement services | under civil service control. Lack of | funds heretofore has restrict>d the fin- gerprinting to persons seexing positions . 1 of “special responsibility and trust.” | The finger printing of all appointees after July 1 will be in addition to the regular ‘“character investigation” con- ducted by the commission in its exam- ination of applicants, it was pointed out today by E. C. Babcock, assistant secre- | tary of the commission. Justice Department Helps. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bu-~ reau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, has Been co-operating with the civil service officials in their check- up on applicants, and will turn over to them two of his experienced finger- ‘print classifiers. The civil service fingerprints are sent to Director Hoover’s national division of identification for comparison with the more than 2,000,000 fingerprints of criminals on file there. The commis- sion so far has found that approxi- mately 1 out of every 13 applicants for Pederal service has a police record of some degree. The finger-printing policy will apply not only to original appointees, but even persoms seeking reinstatement in the Government service, it was stated by Herbert E. Morgan, chief of the editing and recruiting division of the commission. Fingerprints will not be taken of employes already in the serv- ice, or those who are promoted or transferred, he said. Commissioner Jessie Dell said the fingerprinting_of temporary employes in the New York Post Office resulted in a 50 per cent reduction in “losses” during the Christmas holiday rush. “If there was any doubt as to the value of fingerprinting,” she said in a recent report, “it was dispelled by the commission’s experience in fingerprint- ing all applicants for positions in the Bureau of Prohibition. “A choice lot of crooks attempted to obtain employment in the prohibition force for reasons best known to them- selves. Pingerprints, however, kept them out.” FRENCHMEN PICTURE GERMAN WAR DEVICE at { Photographs of Maneuvers Koenigsberg Result in Orders to Leave. By the Associated Press BERLIN, April 21.—Three French officers who took pictures of a military fleld at Koenigsberg have been instruct- ed by the French embassy, Telegraph- enunion today sald, to leave Germany immediately. The three officers, who were accom- anied at the time of their alleged of- fense by the French consul at Koeni berg and the assistant military attac! at the French embassy, appeared their Koenigsberg hotel at 7 o'clock last night and a little later left hastily on the Berlin express. It was believed they would leave the train at the Polish * corridor. The three officers were arrested w; photographs taken by the Frenchmen were said to be of & drill in which new German devices for aim- 00,000, was given the ernment when | , Gualino failed recently. CHERRY TREE—S TO BE LIGHTED FOR NIGHT CROWDS IN U. S. TEST Engineering Arrangements Expected to Be Completed by Tonight in Vicinity of Hains Point. ‘The Japanese cherry trees in E-.stl Potomac Park, long considered a Spring- time spectacle in the National Capital, will be given a new setting tonight, when the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks attempts to illuminate three or four of the trees in the vicinity of Hains Point. First Lieut. F. B. Butler, assistant di- rector of public ings and public parks, sald today that wiring is being pected to be in working order about 10 o'clock tonight. If the plan proves feasible, the -single blossom cherry trees around the 11 Basin will be illuminated next year at night as a feature of the George Wash- ington Bicentennial celebration. Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director parks, e cherry trees. W th of the bloom ofh'-hl gle now passed, the di s, located for the most of Hains Point, are bu artillery were being tested. No de- talls were disclosed. UNIVERSITY TO OPEN PROHIBITION. COURSE Both Wets and Prys to Lecture at Ohio Wesleyan After Next Fall. By the Assocated Press. DELAWARE, Ohio, April 21.—Pro- hibition as a governmental problem will be the subject of a new course in the Ohio Wesleyan University political science department next school officials announced today. “Both sides of the issue will be clearly broug! pus. It will be a two-hour, one-semester course, open to juniors and seniors. The new course is believed to be ever offered in = |34