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WEATHER.' (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight and murrw; not much change in temperat E Temperatures—Highest, 56, at 4 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 49, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 2. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 11,12 &13 @h 4 a as d clas No. ' 31,770. ered as-second class matt Ent post office, Washington, er o5 WASHIN ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION e Foening D. TURDAY, Star. Associated service. APRIL 25, 1931—THIRTY PAGES The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 119,306 TWO CENTS. Wealthy Fire Fans Lose Out as Alarms In Homes Are Banned STINSON REGEVES BUTERS, PROTES: HATIAN EXPLNS Bellegarde Denies Telling Interviewer Fort Marines Captured Was Myth. ted Press. CHICAGO, April 25.—The mil- lionaire fire fans can't have any more fun. Mayor Anton Cermak ordered all fire alarms disconnected from private mes today. Many of them had been installed in the residences of wealthy fire fans, who would hope out of bed to chase the fleet red automobiles and follow the call of the sirens. Albert W. Goodrich, millionaire fire commissioner in the Thomp- son cabinet and former Lake transit magnate, was one of these long before he became commis- sioner. Now the fans will have to sit gp”nnd listen for the sirens and ells. SAYS HE DID NOT KNOW EXISTENCE OF RIVIERE State Secretary Promises Inquiry. Study of Facts to Determine Diplomatic Action. + N COASTAL TOWN, NIGARAGUANS FEAR U. S. Ships Fail to Land Men as Puerto Cabezas Gets Reports of New Peril. A letter of protest m Gen. Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Ccrps zgainst statements attributed to Dantes Belle- garce, Minister of Haiti, in which the Minister was quoted as questioning the basis on which a Congressional Medal of Honor had been awarded to the gen- eral, brought a promise of investigation by the State Department today and a denial from Mr. Bellegarde that he had made any statement reflecting in any way on Gen. Butler or the achievements of the Marines in Haiti. Gen. Butler's letter, sent to the Navy Department, was transmitted to the State Department as a matter of rou- tine. Secretary Stimson said it would By the Associated Press. PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua, April 25.—Persistent reports of a union of two insurrectionist armies dnd their | advance toward this little port city led be necessary for him to determine tht;w considerable apprehension and fear faets next week before he could decide ' of an attack today. REBELS 10 ADVANCE HOOVER SEES CUT O §315,7%3.083 IN FEDERAL COSTS | President Announces “Esti- mated Expenses in 1932 Will Be $4,119,230,649. !INCREASE IS $187,000,000° OVER BUDGET FIGURES {Loans on Veterans' Will Amount to at Least $1,050,000,000, He Says. | | President Hoover expects $315.799,083 less will be needed to run the Govern- | | ment next year After a cabinet meeting yesterday he said the estimated experse for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, was $4,119,- 230,649. The expected cost for the pres- ent fiscal year, which ends next June 30, is $4,435,029,732. The next year's expense estimate shows a $187,000,000 increase over bud- get figures submitted to the last Con- gress, which made appropriations for the period. At that time the Budget Bareau expected there would be a $30,000,000 surplus. Its estimate of income, however, failed to allow for the sharp falling off of income taxes shown |in collections the'last month. Certificates | SCIENCE MAY SAVE MISSIONARY | FIGHTING MYSTERIOUS DISEASE CITY PROBERS GIVEN AGCESS T0 RECORDS 10 FARO SWINDLE BY CHICAGO POLICE Victim Involved in Litsinger- | Blacklidge Affair in Spring- field, Wife Says. PRECEDED RESIGNATION OF WOMAN, U. S. AIDE Associates of George L. Perry, Slain in South Bend, Are Placed Under Suspicion. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 25—The Chicago Herald and Examiner sald today that Chicago detectives were working on a theory that George L. Perry, allas Georgs Parker, slain last night in South Bend, Ind, was put to death by two associates in the Edward Litsinger-Myr- tle Tanner Blacklidge $50,000 “faro swindle” at Springfield, Ill. Perry, or Parker, the Herald-Exam- iner said, was accused by his wife of | having been involved in the Litsinger- Blacklidge affair, which occurred sev- eral months ago. * Mrs. Blacklidge said she was swindled out of the money in & card game. Litsinger, a well known Chicago politician, said he had lent her | the money, but not for the faro game. Mrs. Blacklidge, who was collector of 04 R PLATORN OF ANERANSH CLOSES SESSDNS “Stockholders” of Govern- ment Set Against Commun- ism and for Strong Defense. | | STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL HITS RUSSIA Solicitor Hackworih amd Senator Moses Among Speakers of Fortieth Congress. Daughters of the American Revolu- | tior were preparing to bring to a close | this afternoon the week’s session of the fortieth Continental Congress, fea- tured by the declaration of a platform qesigned to accomplish those essentials {of Americanism, which their president general had cited necessary te make this a “better country,” As ‘“stockholders” in the Astbrican | Government and American bustfess the D. A. R. has placed itself on record as determined to stamp out Communism |and to obtain stronger national de- fense, the two main planks in their platform for 1931-32. Only a few minor resolutions and the ticklish matter of “unfinished business’ awaited the Congress at its cinsing ses- | sion. Safely avoiding thus fas &ny ref- erence to national prohibition, the Con- | gress had only to pass the fiudl hurdle Rev. Ralph Thurber, However, Says Faith‘ ¥ & ol | 5 igib] l 59, whether the department would act| The city had only a negligitle num- | Has Spent $3,451,159,206. 1 presenting itself in the periou devoted internal revenue for Northern Illinofs, | diplomatically. | At the close of business last Wed- The attitude of the Secretary was un- derstood to be that the question should be approached without prejudice and| without reference to a recent previous ! ber of National Guardsmen for its de- | fense, and although tLe U. S. S. Langley nesday, the Government had spent and two destroyers stood offchore, no | $3,451,159,206 for the current year, or American naval forces have been landed. | $801,167,797 more than all collections. Orcers have been issued to the blue- | It is expected this deficit by the end in God Is His Hope of Escaping Death From Korean Distomiasis. BY NAYOR VALKER subsequently resigned. Shet Leaving Garage. i Perry was shot as he stepped out of | his father-in-law's garage where he had | just parked his car. to “unfinished business” to esca] issue. i Debt Donations Announced. Cash and pledges amounti to $23, 000 contributed since muaf‘r‘mr gfl- ing off the $575,000 debt on Censtitution re | of the year will be $700,000,000 be- incident when remarks by Butler about | jackets that, if tak:cn ashore, they al Hall, were announced (toda2 by Mrs, Premier Mussolini of Italy forced the;not to fire until they are attacked and | State Department to apolpgize formally | not to pursue their attackers beyond the to ‘the Italian government. cu% limits. The instrucglons are li;: se cord with the new Washington policy of Says He Was Misunderstood. non-uss of American forc:s for protec- | The dispute is the outgrowth of &|tion of American citizens or property | cause of the increased expenses and decreased income tax and other receipts In his announcement the President seid the $4,119,230,649 estimate included | only Pest Office deficits and not the | entire working_expenditure of that de- partment. | Government costs for the last fiscal copyrighted article in the Washington | inland from the coast towns. Herald of April 12, in which Minister Bellegarde was quoted as saying that & fort for the capture of which Butler | was awarded a Congressional Medal cf A man captured by a patrol working ! year, he said, were about $3,994,000,000 ! out of here was said by the patrol to | be a spy of Gen. Augusto Sandino, leader cf the Nicaraguan insurgents | He had in his cn a Sandino pOssessi! flag, the upper half of which was red Honor did not _exist. The fort was end the lower blue, with the words known as Port Riviere in Haiti. g that| jnscribed in white upon it: “Patria In an interview with a Star today Minister Bellegarde decla; his remark concerning Fort Riviere was|y Libertad”—“Country ~and- Liberty.” made privately to a newspaper man|On the lower half were a skull and and apparently had been misunderstood. | crossed machetes. | The Minister speaks no English. { The man also carried papers, be- He said that after he thought the | licved t> be advices from the general hmrvinwm :zen cg;:cllrm;d‘ilm vni-! to h&l lieutenants, but beud fi of bt;el.r tor t out a of Butler's re- e papers were not decipherable. of the mmi%‘g of Port Riviere! Little credence is given here to ru- y_the Marines. | mors that Sandino has been captured. “I never heard of Fort Riviere,”! Many rumors exist as to his where- Bellegarde said was his response, “and | abouts, but it {3 generally believed he 1 do not think Haitiens generally have ! is s:mewhere in the Rio Coco vicinity. ever heard of it.” R tion was possible today D Not Deny Fort Exk of reports that he haa captured Cabo Grac| a Dios, moss ncrtheastern He did not deny that there was a|point in Nicaragua, which was cap- Fort Riviere or that it had been stormed | tured, lcoted and abandoned by San- and captured by Butler, then & major | dinistas a fortnight ago. The last word and his men, he declered. He said that he was ignorant of the existence of such a fort and that Maj. Butler’s report of | the capture of the stronghold was sent directly to the Navy Department and was not made known to Haitians, who | T had no knowledge of the fight Which | Natjonal Troops Chase 500 Rebels Who nu_lt'lhe; mcnbed Sack Two Towns. ing Secretary of the Navy, | Lee Jahncke, in a statement| TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras. April 25 this morning said: “A letter concerning statements at-|troops in vicinity of San Pedro Sula, wributed to the Minister from Haiti has | key point on the railway between Tegu- been received by the Secretarv of the |cigalpa and the coast, was expected Navy from Maj. Gen. Smedley D Butler, [ here today. U. 8. Marine Corps. Followipg the usual | rocedure in such cases. the letter has n_forwarded by Secretary Adams 10| detachment of 50 rebels allegedly un- the Department of State.” der Gen. Ferrera near Chasnigua, Protests Alleged Slurs. | southwest of San Pedro Sula, was ex- | pected to make contact with them at The Butler commurication was de- | b time. with the place was by radi> at 3 p.m. yestorday and the town: was tranquil then. HONDURAS BATTLE DUE. (). —Word of renewed battle with rebel | Gen. Jose Maria Reina, leading an | army of government troops against a | scribed at Marine Corps headquarters | The newspaper El Pueblo today said #s “ultra-confidential.” that the undefended towns of Pimienta Gen. Butler js onv of two members of | and Villanueva. in the neighborhood of the Marine Corps to receive two NavysSan Pedro Sula, had fallen and been Congressional Medals of Honor fo- sep- cacked by 400 rebel troops under Gen. arate and distinct acts. The other is| Roman Diaz Gunnery Sergt. Daniel Daly of Glendale, | A government decree published to- Long Island, N. Y. Gay placed all national funds at the Both Marine Corps headquarters and | disposal of an executive committee for Gen. Butler stoutly maintain that it!the purpose of waging war against the was in existence on November 17, 1915, ! rebel forces. when the general was awarded the | medal for heroism above and beyond the WILL FLY WITH ARMS, call of duty. o Protest Based on Interview. Gen. Butler's protest was based on an | interview with Minister Bellegarde, | which appeared in the Washington Her | ald on April 13. The interview said | ering’ 11 g Minister Bellegarde had returned to|ShATLSing ihree suplanes fo fiv to Washington after a tnip to Haitl and | [REUCEEPR WL MUCARC UG ARG “has pricked one of the myths about | ATITRURIL 2 Maj. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler, | "30 over whose veracity a controversy has|, W raged which shook two continents.” “M. Butler is very imaginary,” Belle- garde was quoted. The interview $aid o imen: ‘today for permission for (Contiriued on Page 2, Column 5. | fight He added he understood | rebels had taken to the bush, and t the supplies being sent 1o Honduras DAYLIGHT SAVING | /7l B STARTS TOMORROW of Brownsville, Tex The murder of John Edward Wright Clocks Will Advance an Hour at son nf Lem Wright of Alto, Tex. pv a Honduran at Lerida farm in the in- 2 0'Clock in Morning in 437 Communities. | Honduran Consul in San Francisco Plans Aid Against Rebels. Jos> Duron sald today the Hon- duran consul in San Francisco was Dr. Honduran delegate to a p onference here, said 1 erdomo of the Honduran ion would. call at the State De- terior of Honduras was reported to the State Department todav b the Amer- | icen logation at Tegucigalpa. | The legation's report said the mur- | der was a personal attack and was not nnected with the insurrection. It oc- red Friday. Honduran authorities are attempting to bring the murderer to justice. * By the Associated Press NEW YORK, April 25.—Watches and clocks of millions of persons will be an hour fast for five months, beginning TOMOrTow. 1. 437 cities and towns of the Nation, | most of ihem in the Eastern States waylight saving, time becomes effective | £ 2 am. tomorrow. At that hour, up-to-the-minute clocks, in theory at Jeast, should register 3 o'clock | Most persons will set their watches | and clocks ahead before going to bed | tonight, whatever the hour. H Daylight time will be observed in New | By the Associated Press. ™ York Clty and in 177 other communit.es | WATERLOO, Iows. April 25—Sir in tl tate, under local option. e o Jarger cities of the State two, Rochester | Reginald Beatty Wolseley, who runs an elevator in a Waterloo office building, and Syracuse, will continue on standard time. ost all communities in New | i5n't concerned, he says, about his Eng- Jersey will advance the clocks, as will many in Massahusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Transportat on com- panies in most cases will adhere to standard time, but change schedules in some respects. g The system will remain in effect until the last Sunday in Scptember, when the hour lost in slecp tomorrow will be picked up again. Advocates of daylight time argue that it provides cool morning working hours, decreases eye strain, and gives an hour more of secreation in the evening. Sir Reginald Beatty Wolsel “The lacy,” he said, in referring to Lady Marion Elizebeth Baker Wolseley, against whom he filed suit yesterday for div-rce, “can keep her title and everybody will be happy.” Sir Reginald. who is better known nere as plain Dick Wolscley, and who acquired his title last year. charged desertion. He said that his wife sug- gested marriage last May 24 after she called him up on the telephone with a message that she had nursed his mother during her fatal iliness in Eng- | 4 TITLED ELEVATOR MAN OF IOWA SUES WIFE WHO WED AND LEFT Woman and Keep Waterloo Job. lish_title, but he does want a divorce. | Relief Work Adds to Total “The budgets for all three years,” he asserted, “are greatly influenced by the increased expenditures for construction work in' aid of unemployment, for relief to agriculture and for increased service | to veterans, but it will be seen that| these increased ‘expenditures are some- | | what offset by reductions in other di-| | rections.” | " “The heading of public buildings and | public works,” Mr. Hoover continued, | | “amounting to $434,000,000 for this fiscal year, and estimated at more than ; $457,000,000 for next year, includes | | highways, but does not include con- | | struction” expenditures of the Army and Navy for military purposes, or the Veterans’ Bureau, or merchant marine rough loans from the Shipping Board, or for aviation and park im- provements and sundry other minor ' construction items. The total of aHl construction work, including these | items, is now progressing at the rate | of over $725,000,000 per annum, being about $500,000,000 per annum in ex- cess of the rate of expenditure for construction previous to the depression. “The expenditure shown as aids to | agriculture, of a total for this year of | $341,000,000,” Mr. Hoover said, “in- cludes drought relief and farm ex- penditures, together with cther ex- | penditures of the Department of Agri- culture, but does not include highway | construction. Bonus Loans Excluded. “The expenditure on veterans' relief shows an increase of about $190,000,- 000 for the present fiscal year, but in- cludes $112,000,000 of the normal pay- ! ment into the bonus fund for the next fiscal year, which was gadvanced by Congress to the present fiscal year. “This statement of the budget,” Mr. Hcover said, in concluding his explana- | tion, “does not include loans upon the | bonus, except so far as they are repre- sented in the annual payment into the bonus fund of about $112.000,000. But | loans on the bonus certificates neces- sarily affect the Treasury finance. Gen. Hines, administrator of veterans' af-| fairs, informs me that the new loans made under the recent law, together with those already outstanding under previous law, amount to about $912.-} 000.000. In addition to these amounts, | applications are at hand amounting to about $140,000,000 more, making a total cf expenditure already in sight of about $1,050,000,000.” FLAMES DESTROY RESORT Hotel Aspinwall Loss Estimated at| $1,000,000. | LENOX, Mass., April 25 (#).—The ! Hotel Aspinwall. which has sheltered | many notables visiting the Berkshires, | was destroyed by fire this morning Painters and cleaners had been work- ing for several weeks getting it ready for the opening in June. Help was summoned from Pittsfield, Stockbridge, Great Barrington and Lee, but the seasoned wooden structure burned rapidly. The isolation of the} hotel from surrounding buildings kept the flames from spreading. Firemen saved two cottages, the only adjacent structures. The value of the property was put at close to $1,000,000 by firemen. i | ley Would Leave Rank to| | land and had promised to bring hex wandering son back to England. | Lady Wolseley left immediately after | the marriage for Devonshire, England, sent of the family estate, and the Waierlco elevator man announged he wows1 soon jow. He chanfed his mind, however. and remained in Water- leo, declaring he preferred to stay here and run his elevator. At the time of his marriage Sir Wolceley sald he had a suspicion that the former Miss Baker might be more :nterested in the title than she was in marrying a man she had never seen. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, April 25—The Rev. Ralph Thurber, missionary to Korea, who is resigned to death from a tropical disease rarely found outside the Orient. has not been entirely given yp by science. Mr. Thurber has diagnosed his iliness as distomaisis, probably ccntracted by eating improperly cooked fish in Korea, and predicted his death possibly within | a month. However, from Dr. Ernest | Sarrol Faust, acting head of the tropical | disease department at Tulane Univer- ! sity, came word that there is rope for | recovery if the liver has not been de- stroyed by the parasites. Possibility of Checking. Dr. Faust, who saw many such cases in “China, sald the disease could checked if not too far advanced. Dr. Enrique E. Ecker, city hospital con- sultant, asserted it is nct necessarily fatal, at least for several years. He also | has studied the disease in the tropics. City hospital physians, who have not | vet taken any special means to treat Mr. ‘Thurber because of absence of com- plete information, said they hoped to VETERANS AIDED BY HOOVER ORDER [Civil Service Rules Amended to Give Greater Preference to Disabled. President Hoover issued an executive order today amending the Civil Service rules relating to veterans' prefersnce, which will give still greater preference to veterans who have been disabled in military service This” order was based upon rccom- | mendations made by the President’s Ad- visory Committee on Veteran Prefer- ence. which conducted a comprehensive study of this subject. The reccmmendations as incorporated | in the President order provide: 1. That honorably discharged sold- jers, sailors or marines, their widows or the wives of seriously disabled veterans, 10-point preference be granted, only where it is officially established by rec- ords of the’War Department, Navy De- partment, Coast Guard cr veterans' administration; and that the veterans found eligible have their names placed at the head of the eligible rcgister. For all other classes of veterans 5-point preference will continued to be applied, the names of cligibles with their uug- mented ratings to be placed in the order of such ratings. Applied to Others. * 2 That this same recommendaticn be applied to cover officers and enlisted men, retired from service—connected with djsability that exists at time of | filing application for examination, and also to those cfficers and enlisted meil | retired not for disability, but for age cr length of service, who establish through official sources the present existence of service—connected disability in the same manner as is required of others who are granted disability preference. 3. That any changes herein recom mended be applied to future examina- tions by the Civil Service Commission. 4. That whenever an appointing of- ficer passes over a veteran eligible and selects a non-veteran eligible with the same or lcwer rating, the reasons for such action shall be filed with the Civil Service Commission Quarterly Examinations. 5. That the Civil Service Commission be authorized to hold quarterly examin- ations for positions for which there are existing registers of - eligibles, such, examinaticus w be ocpen oniy to the men and women entitled to 10-point disability preference, the names of the résulting eligibles to be entered at the head of the existing registers in the order of ratings attained in competition with the disability preference eligibles. SCOT MARRIAGE FAILS MILWAUKEE, April 25 (#)—John Murphy today sought a divorce from his wife, Robina. He charged, among other things, that she smokes cigar- ettes, too many of them, against his iMked why he didn’t claim his tit'e | when his brother died, seven years ago, ‘h."ggt'l th ? It wouldn k¢ e use? wouldn't make me & better Lift operatar.” will. They were married in Scotland, the petition say Backs Offer to Submit Evi- dence in Department Investigations. ~ give him several mcre years of life The missionary, however, is certain that only faith can cure him. | “If faith can cure I may be cured,” | h» said, “but it remains with God and | His eternal will. If by May 12 I am | stiil spared I hop2 to go back to my | mission to complete my work. If I| am not. it is God's will.” H- offered himself to Johns Hopkins | University for examination “for the | benefit of thousands of poor sufferers |who will come after m2,” but empha- | By the Assoctated Press NEW YORK, April 25%—Mayor Walker has offered free access to all city records to the committee of the wi sized that he did not want to be . " " et Legislature which is conducting a gen | eral tn % Organisms in Water. ’;’:Nawqi;vlgkmm the municipal affairs Doctors said the discase is caused by Th = " organisms floating free in the water in e mayor's intention to co-operate e tropics or attached parasitically to | was nade clear after James A. Hig- | fish, molluscs, or vegetabl> matter. It!gins commissicner of accounts, had | is of several typss and attacks the liver, | ; k. the pulmonary systam. ar the blood,“"mnmmd to give the committes the stream. | body is ravaged. | |into city depariments. The mayor The organism ent°rs the body through Ve , N | tood "o an e s he aion | §AYe his approval to M. Higgins' ofer k. | when found floating in - water, Dr, |and sdded: Ecker said. It also can be transmitted “They can have everything we have ggflm‘ pocson to person by bodiy secre- | gathered. The only stipulation is that Mr. Thurber is in great pain and records taken for examination during suffers frequent h-morrhages, with the day must be returned each night.” intermittent fevers and chilis, ‘doctors | Rothatein Case Reviewed. reported, but he asserted he felt tranquil. — — The case of Arnold Rothstein, a | | gambler, murdered in November, 1928, ‘PRESIDEN‘I’ [E AVES has been called back to public atten- | FUR BAPE HENRY‘ minutes of the grand jury and the 400 i ’ pages of testimony taken in the inves- uel Sepbury, who is_conducting ouster proceedings against Mr. Crain, are ex- amining the records of the case, the tion thrcugh investigation of the office of District Attorn®y Thomas C. T. Crain. Members of the stafl of San. | tigation which follcwed. | _ Their purpose is not to solve the mur- der, but rather to determine whether Will Participate in Ceremo- nies Commemorating Land- | ing of Colonists. to inefficiency or negligence. Another phase of the investigation | kas revived a study of the circum- stances of the $250,000 fee paid to for- | mer County Judge W. Bernard Vause of Kings for negotiating a pier lease. When unchecked the whole | testimcny of his many investigations | | Mr. Crain's failure to solve it was due Chicago police were hurrying to Sogth Bend with descriptions of Roy Burgess |and Roscoe Reynolds. From the de- | seriptions of the ulayers given by the imdow. policz were convinced that they are involved ir the slaying. They ad- | vanced the theory thatgPerry failed to divide the cash with Reynolds and Bur- gess. Although Perry lived and was con- scious a half hcur after he was shot, he refused to divulge the name of his slayer. “He was a friend of mine,” was all he n‘o%x;‘d 58, & e widow saild tha® she and Pe | had fied to France Feorvary 19, smfi}' | after ti windle. Thelr flight, she said, was because of her husband’s partici- pation in what she termed the “Black~ lidge case.” Called Home by Wire. They remained safely hidden in Nice juntil she received a wire from her | father, John Canniff, a salesman, say- |iug that her mother had died and that | the funeral would be postponed until |she returned. They took a plane at jonce to Marseille and then sailed to INEW York. Thence they flew in a | chartered plane, she said to South Bend. Since the funeral Perry remained in the | seclusion of the home of his father-in- |law until two days ago, when they went to Detroit, where Mrs. Perry visit- |ed her 10-year-old son by a former | marriage. They purchased a car there | at the factory and drove back to South | Bend, where they expected to remain | until the weather became warmer. Then | she said, they expected to take an ex- | tended tour. Last night Perry and his wife had | been motoring. They returned to the ) Canniff home about 10 o'clock. Mrs. ‘gflw left the building from the side loor. As Mrs. Perry stepped around to join him, she saw a flash of fire, but in the | darkness was unable to see the figure | from which it came. The bullet was fired at close range, evidently by a |man who had been standing at the Russell Willam Magna, ¢rairman of the Finance Committee. This makes & grand total collected to date of $1,166,~ 000 for the hall. Strenuous efforts will be made curing the coming year to wipe out the entire indebtedness. shortly after the Congress yesterday adopted resolutions opposing recognation cf Russia, Green H. Hackworth, solici- tor, made the first pronountement by & State Department official, on the ques- tion, tn more than seven years. Russian Rule “Deficient.” Mr. Hackworth told the American So- city of International Law that “this Government has considered that the resent regime in Russia is deficient in ts observance of the fundamental cone d.\tlixsd of international intercourse.” on this &lfl'ulut- Dinlstration has o intention of FecoR- n no of - nizing the Soviet. Following the installation of fewiy elected vice presidents ral this aft- ernoon_the Continental Congress will end. Tonight at the Williard Hotel, about 2,000 of the delegates will as- semble for the annual “love feast.” There will be addresses by the president general, Mrs. Willlam Fletcher Hcbart, and all the other national officers. Moses for Adequate Defense. Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire, principal speaker on last night's program, evoked a storm of applause by appealing for adequate national defense and wlrntn{h‘ln\mt mclfl.!t attempts to block Navy ilding program. “Congress must not be permitted to whittle away the first line of defense of {our Nation, the American Navy,” he | declared. At the close of the afternoon session Representative Hamilton Pish, jr., of New York, chairman of the House committee investigating Communistic activities, deviated from a censored speech -to declare that he did not be- lieve the State Department should be immune from criticism, “especially when (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) | side of the door through which Perry President and Mrs. Hoover, accom ! Ship Officials Questioned. left the garage. Jacob Gould Schurman, jr. one of panied by a small party of friends, were . to leave Washington this fli(emoon‘houm yesterday questioning Emil Led- aboard the Department of Commerce erer, {esldeat e Hamburg- inspectiof | American Line, an istian J. Beck, i boat Sequola for CaPe|sormeryice president of the United enry, Va. to participate in the cere- | American Line, The United American monles tomorrow commemorating the | paid the fee {o Judge Vause in 1927 324th anniversary |and Mr. Crain investigated the case. anniversary of the landing at that | ™73, 4o Vause has since been convicted place of the first white colonists infor mail fraud in connection with the America. | fallure of the Columbia Finance Cor- | The ceremonies probably will be over Poration. within an hour. The presidential party | then will start on the return cruise to| DOUKHOBOR .LEADER’S ‘Washington where they are scheduled{‘ MA‘USOLEUM IS BDMBED to arrive at the White House in time | r. Seabury'’s assistants, spent several | MRS. PERRY QUESTIONED. | South Bend Police Believe She Can Throw Light on Slaying. SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 25 (#) — | Detectives investigating the slaying iher: last night of a man identified as | George L. Perry, alias George Parker, today questioned his widow concerning a remark that her husband had partici- pated in the “Blacklidge case.” Mrs. Perry was held at police head- quarters as a material witness. Officers expressed the belief she could give some definite information of the killing of her husband. Mrs. Perry told officers she and her | husband fled to France last February for breakfast Monday. | Guest List Limited. Because the Sequoia is small, Presi- | dent and Mrs. Hoover are taking only a few friends. In the party will be Dr. and Mrs. Vernon Kellogg of this city, Dr. Robert A. Millikan of Pasadena, Calif,, intcrnationally famous physicist and Ncbel prize winner in 1923; Col. | shortly after the revelations of the Ed- rd ~Litsinger-Myrtle Tanner Bla (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. 3BANDITS CAPTURE BISHOP | Seized During Trip to Consecrate New Church in China. | Dissenters Blamed for Latest of Long Series of Vandal At- tacks on Property of Sect. By the Associated Press. NELSON, British Columbia, April 25. —Procéeding on the theory that the act was motivated by strife between warring sects, provincial police today cought dynamiters who blew up the mausoleum of Peter Veregin, the elder, late leader of the Doukhobors. The mausoleum was destroyed by a blast Thursday night about an hour after the watchman at the grave left. | Veregin was killed about six years |ago in 5 train accident and his grave has been under almost constant guard. The explosion which wrecked the mausoleum did not disturb the grave beneath it. Cempbell B. Hodges and Capt. Russell Trair, military and naval aides, re- spectively, and Capt. Joel T. Boone, White House physician. Only one secret | service man, Richard Jervis, chief of the White House secret service, will make the trip aboard the Sequoia. The Navy's sea-going tugboat Kew- aydin will convoy the President’s boat | on its journey. Several Secret Service | men will be aboard. The President and Mrs, Hoover are| FOOCHOW, China, April 25 ().— Spanish Dominican Catholics here to- day received word that bandits April 22, captured Bishop Prat, Rev. Senor Andres and two Chinese priests, all of ‘whom were en route to Fengti K miles south of here, to consecrate a new church. Bishop Prat was reported in poor health and missionaries here doubted Il':lls ability to survive the rigors of cap- ure. anticipating a pleasant cruise, inasmuch | as it will afford them an opportunity to enjoy the scenery and the many places of historic interest along the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay. When the Presi- | dent found it necessary to limit the number of guests, it is understood the, absence of the presidéntial yacht May- | flower, which heé ordered out of com- ‘mlssl;)l"lt soon after he came into office, was felt. | Will Be Met by Goyernor. | According to present schedule the| Seq{on will land at the railroad docks at Little Creek, on Chesapeake Bav a By the Associated Press. | few miles west of Capt Henry, When | PHILADELPHIA, April 25—Dis- the party steps from the boat it will b2 | covery of a new method of estimating lmet by Gov. Pollard of Virginia and a the time of human evolution by the reception committee, who will escort| enamel on elephant teeth was reported them to a special train which will carry | to the American Philosophical Society | them the remainder of the journey. today by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn. | _The ceremony, which is expected to| Until a few years ago the farhous | draw thousands of persons, will be con- | ape-man; Pithecanthropus Erectus of | ducted at the cross erected at the cape | Java, was the earliest known fossfl of to mark the landing of these first pil- slightly human aspect. grims on April 26, 1607. | But’ two years ago much more The pilgrimage is being conducted humanlike skeletons were identified under the auspices of the Assembly of both in England and in the Peking ‘Tidewater Virginia Women. man. Both were estimated at 1,000,000 e e m‘zfld by mltlmgull rtne'-l'lofisi o i 3 Tn's new elephant ename ing Prince Gustave Has Operation. | “ArrinS R timates and again iden- STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 25 (#). | tifies Pithecanthropus —Crown Prince Gustave today under- million years old. Thi went a sucpessful operation for hernia., that the B { as only a half- is shows, he said, Was no ancestor 'EVOLUTION OF ELEPHANT TEETH IS KEY TO PREHISTORIC HUMANS |Dr. Henry Osborn Bares New Method of Estimating | Time of Man’s Possible Ancestors. |of modern man, though he might have “:)een a survivor of some primitive erea- | ture. | Ganometric measurement is the name | coined for the new dating method, de- |rived from the Greek word gano, sig- | nifying enamel. It Js the result of two |years' work by Edwin H. Colbert and |Dr. Osborn of the American Museum | of Natural History cf New York. | _They studied all posterior grinding | elephantine teeth in the museums of | India, Europe and North America. They found that certain enamel foldings have been growing progressively longer for millions of years., Each change in length belo to a wel n elephant of prehistofic times. "y These results will be present the cem ry meeting of the | Associat in London, before itish AN FIRE LAID TO BOMB DESTROYS MAIL CAR Rutland Railroad Train Is Saved by Disconnecting Other Coaches. Investigation Started. By the Assoclated Press. NORTH DORSET, Vt. April 25.—An explosion which fired d destroyed & | combination baggage and mail car at- | tached to a Rutland railroad passenger train as it passed through North Dor- set last night was under investigation today. It was believed that a bomb in & mail sack caused the explosion. - William A. Goddard, mail clerk, and Joseph Pilon, baggagemaster, escaped with slight burns. The car witk ite contents, including several sacks of mail and a few trunks, was destroyed. The train crew detached the burning car before the single passenger car on the train caught fire. Goddard was sorting mail while the train was en route from Troy, N. Y., to Rutland. - He said that he tossed one of the sacks of mail into one corner of the car. As it landed there was & loud explosion and the section of the car where the mail bag lay burst in flame. ‘The clerk pulled an emergency cord and barely saved himself from burning as the train drew to a stop. Pilon detached the mail car as soon as the train stopped, and Willlam Mangan of Rutland, engineer, put on full speed ahead, leaving the passenger car behind. s Mangan hauled the burning car s mile and a half down the track to Davis siding, where it was shunted un}t‘o the siding and left to burn to ashes. AMERICAN DJES IN BLAST Mine Chief in Mexico Reported One of Eight Killed—Many Hurt. MEXICO CITY, April 25 (®).—A Saltillo dispatch to Excelsior today said that eight persons, including the T ican superintendent, E. A. Manderfield, were in an explosion at the Providencio mine of the Compania de Penoles. The mining company is a bsidiary of the American Metal Co. and is located in the northern part of the State of Zacatecas. ¥ Telephone communication with the mine was disrupted and details of the explosion were not learned, although in addition to those killed there were said to be many injured. ‘The explosion was understood to occurred when boxes of te jarred while being transported. ‘was heard 15 miles away. % The