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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain today; tomorrow generally fair. ‘Tem| yesterday; lowest, 49, at terd: ay. Full report on page 7. atures—Highest, 54, at 2 p.m. 6 am. yes- 1,362—No. 31771, No. to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by ‘The Star's exclusive carrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. (#) Means Associated Press. Entered r3 recond class matter post office. Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D, €., SUNDAY M( APRIL. 26, IS JRNING, 931—-108 PAGES. * FIVE CENTS | TEN IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS | CENTS ELSEWHERE FOR FINSH FIEAT ONLAND MEASURE i Accepts Challenge of House of Lords in Feud Over Utilization Plan. BILL WOULD AUTHORIZE ALLOTMENT TO JOBLESS Labor Press Intimates Members/| Fear Playgrounds Will Be Turned Into Farms. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 25—The House of Lords has thrown down the gauntlet in the latest, most bitter crisis of the age- old feud between the two houses of Par- liament, and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald has accepted the challenge | eagerly, saying it will be a fight to the | finish. i During the past week the Lords have | been working overtime blunting the ! sharp edge of the government land-| utilization bill, which many Lords con- | sider to be a Socialist measure designed | 1o separate landowners from their vast eatates. The bill would authorize a $5,000,000 fcderal farm corporation and empo the minister of agriculture to acquire land without permission of the owners for allotment to the unemployed. Lords Revise Measure. It slid casily through the House of Commons, but when 1t came to the up- per hcuse the Lords went to work on it. They labored for hours, and when they v through the bill was only a ghost | of its original form—a ghost unable to sand the slightest tremor of fear down the spine of the landowners. The bill had 26 clauses, and 21 of these were attacked in amendments, the most important being killed. the government was left with the ciple but no means of putting it into action. ‘The labor press raised a protest, inti- mating that the lords acted in this manner because they feared their hered- itary playgrounds, shooting preserves and fox-hunting land would be snatched away and turned into little farms. Foes Charge Faulty Reasoning. ‘The opponents of the measure asserted this reasoning was faulty, and said the Upper House disapproved of th: bill merely because it thought it was an un- wise form of legislaticn. This argument was met by the statement that a tiny minerity of gentry own hi of mmudaf‘:fllnmemded country where persons are un- cmployed, and other millions live in direst poverty. 1t 1s a foregone conclusion that unless the lords relent, the Commons will in- voke a Parliament act to pass the bill over their hft‘n‘;‘e'fln. ‘That c:ml'_h mgtm: a slow process, over the next two sessions of Parliament, but barring a crange from the Labor Government in ths meantime, it probably will bs done. Only then will it be revealed whether the Government actually intends to lelmtrutnr?nothndlmmeold aristocracy 1o attempt to stem the ever-rising tide of unemployment. i STOCK POOL FRAUD SMASHED IN RAID| Prizes From $25,000 Down Award-% ! ed to Fictitious Persons, Charge New York Officials. B the Associated Press, HARRY N. DOUTHITT. COUZENS AND REED DIFFER ON FINANCE Pennsylvanian Defends Tariff Rates; Michigan Senator Wants Higher Taxes. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | Douthitt’s assaflant or assailants pre- | ! i { cal policies were attacked and defended last night in statements made by two | | prominent - Republican members of the | Senate, Couzens and Reed, !member of the House, Representative | | Will Wood. HARRY N. DOUTHITT | Iron Pipe, Used as Weapon, Left | ing, The Republican administration's fis- | jeast once in his swings at Douthitt. and a | poration Counsel Thomas F. Cameron, SEVERELY BEATE N HS APARTENT Editor of “Bluecoat” Found in Critical Condition From Mysterious Attack. WAS FORMER CRUSADER | FOR DRY ENFORCEMENT | Behind by Assailant, After Terrific Struggle. Harry N. Douthitt, former dry in-] tigator, and editor of the Bluecoat. a weekly publication devot=d to the ac- tivities of the Metropolitan Police De- partmeilt, was beaten into unconscious- | ness last night and left lving on the| floor of his apartment in the Portne:| apartments at Fifteenth and U strects., A few fect from Douthitt's limp form | police found an iron pipe, covered with, wrapping paper and stained with blood sumably had beaten him with the pipe. for he was suffering from a pessiole fractured skull and numerous cuts about the head and face. Apparently he had gone down fight- for chairs were overturncd and a Jagged hol2 in the wall indicated the man wielding the pipe bad missed at | i | Discovered Through Groans. “The discovery that Douthitt had been beaten was made after Assistant Cor- who was visiting the adjoining apart- ment, heard groans. He summoned L. P. Allwine, manager i{Exacting Ceremonies Senator James Couzens of Michigan, | of the apartment house, who cntcred old antagonist of Secretary Mellon of | Douthitt's apartment and found him the Treasury, came out flat-footedly in | YIng in & pool of blood besid= a sofa., | Allwine notified the police, who im- | favor of an increase in Federal taxa- | mediately began in investigation. Mean- tion at the next session of Congress, n which is staring the Treasury in the face at the close of the present fiscal | i year. law. | He would also have a new gift tax imposed by the Federal Government. Senator David A. Reed of Pennsyl- vania, who like Senator Couzens is a | member of the Senate Finance Com- tion, redu have been suggested by such eminent Republicans as Gen. W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Representative Bertrand H. Snell of New York, chairman of the House | Rules Committee, and an active can- didate for the Speakership in the next Congress. Sees Menace in Cut. ‘The proposed reductions in the tariff rates imposed by the Republican tariff | present economic situation, with for- | eign countries raising tariff walls of their own against American products. “I cannot see,” said Senator Reed, “that the tariff has anything to do order to meet the $800,000,000 deficit ambulance, which took Douthitt to Cas- | ualty Hospital, where his condition was | termed critical. | The Michigan Senator would have | ® | the surtax rates on incomes increased | oy at least to the level of the 1924 tax|evening. | he said. | detafled descriptions of the two men, | and all precincts werc asked to be on| | the lookout for them. | the police were told. | quarters, where it was to be examined | for_fingerprints. law have been advanced to meet therohhery was the motive for the while Allwine also had summoned an | 1 He partially regained | onsciousness at an early hour today. Elliott Smith, colored elevator oper- tor, told the investigators two strange , en had inquired as to the whereabouts | f Douthitt’s apartment earlier in the | Walked Downstairs. ! Smith took the men to the fifth floor and directed them to the apartment, About two hours later, he| Douthitt, whose wife is dead, lived alone. While he had many visitors the two men whom Smith took up on the elevator had never been there before, The pipe was taken to police head- Detective Sergis. Chester C. Step, Van Doren Hughes and Robert J. Bar- rett and Detectives J. E. Kenney and M. J. Mahaney, who investigatzd the case, declared there was no evidence attack. | The apartment showed no signs of having been ransacked. they pointed out, " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) CAPITAL ARRANGES PROGRAM FOR KING Will Mark Official Visit of Siamese Royalty. Plans for an audience for the Su- preme Court, cabinet, diplomatic corps and the highest American officials by the King and Queen of Siam were an- nounced yesterday as a part of their official program while in Washington. The royal party will be mect upon their arrival at Union Station Tuesday at 6 pm. by a group of American offi- cials headed by Vice President Curtis and Secretary of State Stimson. They will be accompanied from New York by a group of officials headed by Un- dersecretary of State Castle, represent- ing President Hoover. ‘Their visit to Washington will be an official one and will be surrounded by the most exacting ceremonies possible, including royal salutes and full guards of honor. Call to Be Returned. The official call by the King and| Queen upon President and Mrs. Hoover will continue until 10:15 am. Wednes- day. As is customary, the President and Mrs. Hoover, accompanied by mili- tary and naval aides, will immediately return the call. | Later the King and Queen will re- | ceive the Vice President and his official | hostess, Mrs. Edward E. Gann; Chicf | Justice and Mrs. Hughes and the asso- ciate justices of the Supreme Court | and eir wives. The audience for | with our present problem. To reduce members of the cabinet and their wives T Your BAD MISTAKES V'MTRYIN TO Virginian, Puzzled By Parking, Forgets Where He Left Car For R. K. Quesenberry of Vi ton, Va. the metropolitan pas ing’ question constitutes a two- fold problem. It is one thing, he avers, to find a parking place, but quite another ‘to find the parking place afterward. Mr. Quesenberry came to the city erday morning to view the sights of the National Capital, and parked his car—somewhere. One Government building after another he visited in the course of his tour, finally winding up toward dusk in the vicinity of the National Museum. He had planned to return to R. F. D. No. 1, Vinton, Va., last night. At 7:30 he appeared at the Traffic Bureau. hopelessly at loss as to the whereabouts of his automobile. and asked police aid in locating it. A lookout was flashed over the city for the ma- chine, but at a late hour it had not been located. FARD PLOT VICTIM IDENTIFIES PERRY Man Slain in South Bend En- gineered $50,000 Swindle, Says Mrs. Blacklidge. n- By the Associated Press. SOUTH BEND, Ind. April 25.—| MARITAL CASES CEJRT | draft AUTOS TOBE GVEN MECHANIAL TESTS Officials Working Out Plans EPISCOPAL DIVORCE BUTLER ‘IMAGINES SANGTION IS ASKED HOW HAITIAN FORT IN GHURGH REPORT. WAS TAKEN BY TRI Commission Redrafts Canon But Whenr M;rine Quotes on Matrimony to Provide “Hell,” Radio Man Cuts Remarriage by Clergy. Him Off Air. GENERAL GIVES JOKING VERSION OF EXPERIENCE |Says He Was “Third in Hole” in Incident Involved in Diplo- matic Tangle. 1 | 1 FOR DIVORCEES 30UGHT All Pleas to Rewed Would Be Tried and Second Rites Different Under Proposed Plan. A proposal that the Protestant Epitcopal Church lift its ban against the remarriage of divorced perso: and no longer limit the conditions under which divorce is held justified provided in a proposed tentative | of a new canon of matrimony to be presented at the Fiftieth General | Convention of the Church in Denver, Ca_]ro.. ?eptr:r}t]ber 't‘lfii 3 - Eplscopal Churcs attitude toward tho | “HE was rambling along in jocular divorce problem, the proposed canon ! fashion” the Record says, “picturing contemplates, in addition to sanctioning | the scene in detail, when he used the divorce, recognizing any legal grounds| word ‘hell’ as part of a quotation. divorce and empowering its minis- | Promptly he was cut off the air by By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, April 26-—Maj. | Cen Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps. speaking in numorous vein to- ht, told members of the 312th Field lery Association hi: story of the tuking of Fort Riviere in Haitl in 191 But the Philadelphia Record that he “ran into radio censorship™ while his story was being broadcast. ters to administer matrimony to di- | vorced persons. The drastic changes suggested in the: laws of the church have been drawn | as a result of a six-year study of the whole problem of matrimony by a | sspecially appointed joint commission | of distinguished clergy and laity of the Episcopal denomination, headed by the | Right Rev. Herman Page, Bishop of | ! of the station. Howard Miller, owner and announcer He was kept off the air about five minutes. “Later. when he found it out, a storm broke. The 300 men at the dinner, in- cluding Judges Harry S. McDevitt, Otto R. Helligman and Prancis Shunk Brown, flared into indignation. What roused their ire was that the announcer, im explaining the silence to the radio audi- ence, had said: | Michigan. ~ It _was_made public here “We are sorry If you | yesterday by Rev. D. Wellington Cur-| have been offended by Gen. Butler's use to Remove Menaces to Safety From Streets. | of Washington. Marital Court Proposed. ‘The tentative draft of laws is ex- tariff rates on articles which we our- selves can produce would increase un- employment rather than diminish it. | 'DECISIVE BATTLE will be held immediately afterward. | Ge0T8¢ “Big” Perry, siain last night During Wednesday and Thursday the | in an ambush at his home, was identi- | past that an increase in Federal taxes, SEEN IN HONDURAS Articles which we cannot produce come in free of duty under the present law “It is not going to help America to closc our factories in order to give work to Torelgn factories.” | Government Hopes Loyalist Troops ‘Senator Reed, like Secretary Melion | i and other prominent officials of the ad- | Wil Crush Rebels and End Revolt. ministration, including the President himself, has taken a position in the NEW YORK. April 25 —Smashing of | such as suggested by Senator Couzens, a fraudulent stock racket pool which| was nct necessary at this time, but has cost the public hundreds of thou-|that the Government could for a time sands of dollars was announced today | at least continue to mect its obligations by Attorney General John J. Ben- | with its income under the present tax nett, jr. |laws plus such money as it was found Thousands of tickets in the pool.! necessary to borrow. which operated on the basis of total| changes in_prominent stock quotatio: were seized in a : office Officials said #bout the pool to indicate that the weekly winners of the Jarge prizes, which ranged from $25,000 aownward, were fictitious persons. _Tickets wers distributed through the East and Mid- die West, raiders szid Four persons found in the raided of- fice were subpoenaed for questioning. Those subpoenaed were Jerome Pom- eroy, stock racketeer now on _parole from State Prison; Dr. Leonard Hirsch- berg, who the attorney general said was sentenced to Atlanta Penitentiary for stock frauds nine years ago; George Smith and Leonard Golub. Officials #aid the latter was associated with Pom- eroy i the operation of a securities office in Syracuse, N. Y. which was closed at the direction of Attorney Gen- cral Bennett about two weeks ago. WAGE “CUTS” ON U. S. JOBS DRAW PROTEST Kansas Labor Commissioner Tells Doak Contractors Cause Tur- moil Among Idle enough was learned e Ariociated Press TOPEKA, Kans, April 25.—C. J. 3~ckman, Kansas commissioner of complained t-day to Secretary Doak of the Poderal Departrent of Labor, that contractors on Govern- ment _construction projects in the id on 2 Broadway < KANSAS WOULD OUST Demands for an increase in tax rates 1 by Senator Couzens and other Repub- “(Continued on Page 3, Column 1, | - | FARM CORPORATIONS, i 1 Proceedings in Cases of Profit Crops. | guard, had been killed. | By the Associated Press. | TOPEKA, Kans. April 25.—Roland { Boynton, State attorney general, an- {nounced today he would bring ouster proceedings against all farming cor- | porations in Kansas engaged in the | raising of crops for profit. | "Th- action, he sald, would be brought {in conformance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, which directed the suit. The resolution was passed during a recent legislative ses- sion, which also saw a law enacted prohibiting insuranc: charters to cor- was charged today by Honduran Con- porations “farming for profit.” { was whether the law under which the corporations |granted “any authority ' of corporations for fari decided | i 1 State had “created turmoil among un- | | Yement not far from San Pedro State Attorney General Threatens, p, Mr. Boynton said the question to be | placed upen the shoulders of “Com- PILSTXND MECHANIC RiSK LIVES 7 TO SAVE CHILEAN PASSENGERS (Coprright, 1931. by the Ascociated Press.)! TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, April 25.| —A decisive battle, which the govern- | ment hopes will break the back of the | Honduran revolution, is_expected soon, the war office announced tonight. | The revolution, the official announce- | ment stated, cannot be considered ended | as long as the main rebel army under Gen. Ferrara remains unbeaten. It is| the Joyalist troops soon to clash and it is hoped a decisive defeat will bring the revolt to an end. | Gen, Ferrara’s army, believed to con- sist of 500 men, was reported earlier : teday to have reached Rodeo, a hill set- | ‘The rebel army, which fled into the ountains after having been repulsed at Chamelecon, was still in retreat today with the federal troops pressing it hard. It was reported the rebel Gen. Mariano Gonzalez, covering the rebcl's rear Pederal troops which arrived to rein- force the small detachment at San Pedro today found that the rebels had looted all the stores and that the mer- chants . were preparing to file vig 5 protests with the government. Rein- forcements were also sent to La Ceiba and Trujillo. A government decree published today placed all national funds at the dl"y-[ posal of an executive committee for the | purpose of waging war against thel Tebels. Responsibility for the rebellion, it gressman Plutarco Lunoz, should be munists moving in from Cuba’ He (the Nicaraguan Insurgent | Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page 6. King and Queen, accompanied by Sec- retary and Mrs. Stimson, will visit Ar- | (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) DRY REPEAL VOTED Alaska Territorial Senate Acts; Congress Must Approve. JUNEAU, Alaska, April 25 (#).—The Alaska Territorial Senate late today passed a bill to repeal the bone dry law. The vote was unanimous, 7 to 0. An amendment will send the measure back to the House, which also ap- proved the proposal by a 10-to-5 vote last week In addition to requiring the signature Gov. George Parks, should the | | | | | of | with this army the government expects | Fouse concur in the Senate amend- ment, the measure must be approved by Congress because of the territorial status of Alaska. TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—24 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Forelgn. i Schools and Colleges—Page B-4. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Featurcs. D. A. R. Activities—Page 5. Disabled Veterans—Page 5. Spanish War Veterans—Page 5. The Home Gardener—Page 7. PART THREE—12 PAG! | ! Society Section. PART FOUR—I12 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater and Radlo. In the Motor World—Page 4. Aviation—Page 5. District National Guard—Page 5. Screen Army and Navy News—Page 6. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 6. Marine Corps Notes—Page 6. ‘American Legion—Page 8. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 8. W. C. T. U. News—Page 8. News of the Clubs—Page 9. At Community Centers—Page 9. Fraternitics—Page 10, Serial Story, “Mysterious Page 10 Radio—Page 11. Waye'— | of $50,000 from fied tonight as the ringleader m the mysterious Springfield, Ili., faro swindle | Mrs. Myrtle Tanner | Blacklidge. | Mrs. Blacklidge, former collector of internal revenus for Chicago, was un- able to come here because of illness. But she lcoked closely ai photographs of Perry in Chicago and said: “That’s the man—that's the one who enginecred the whole faro plot!” i And from information given by Perry's | wife, police formulated the theory he had been slain for failure to pay his confederates their share of the money mulcted from Mrs. Blacklidge and Ed- ward J. Lysinger, wealthy Chicagoan who loaned her the $50,000. Alleged Associates Sought. They started a search for Roy Burgess and Roscoe Reynolds, alleged associates of Perry in_the “big-money’ game which electrified Illinois when word of it _lcaked out. They were informed that Perry father-in-law. John Caniff, was an old friend of Mrs. Blacklidge's late hus- band: that he used to play cards in the rear of the Blacklidge drug store a few | years back. | "“They followed a theory that this friendship had been used by Perry to | strike up acquaintanceship with Mrs. ‘B‘acklldgr—m interest her in the faro | game for high stakes. | "Here they had aid from Mrs | riage. | I remember.” she said, “that Caniff used to play cards in the back room vith my husband. I can remember Caniff’s daughter, who, they tell me, married Parker—the name under which I knew Perry—recently. “Now I begin to sec how Parker ¢ 50 much about my family his- Black- Mysterious Citizen. Forty years old, expensively dressed, Perry was a mysterious character in South Bend. He had married his wifc, | who is 26, a year ago. Since then, ac- | cording to her story, he was never with her long. She continued to stay with her parents in South Bend while he went_about the country ‘on advertis- ing_business,” he told her. Shot _down as he stepped from the door of Canif’s garage, he told police “a friend” did the shooting. He would not amplify that statement. His wifc told of secing the flash of a single shot. | the decision is the car is not mechan- Kans to require a check-up of the mechanical condition of automobiles as | a prerequisite to allowing them to be| titled under the new registration of | | titles act, which becomes effective as | | part of Washington's traffic code July 1, | are being made by traffic officials. The law requires that before automo- | | biles are registered for 1932 the owners must produce a certificate of title, a precaution basically aimed at assuring security of legal ownership of automo- | | biles by making it difficult to trade in stolen cars. Washington has the unen- | viable reputation of being a mecca of | stolen cars on account of the fact nmo | registration of title has been necessary here in the past. Must Pass Inspection. Although the mechanical condition has no direct connection with legal ownership, Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby is engaged in working out the details of the check-up on the theory | | the registration act will give an oppor-i tunity, not heretofore presented, for a ! mechanical check-up of all cars. i | Tentatively, the plan is to have lll‘ | those applying for registration of titles | instructed to report with their cars at | the police precinct nearest their resi- dence for an inspection by specially detailed police officers. In case the brakes do not meet the specifications |set out in the traffic code, or the headlights are not adjusted properly, be required to pro- cure the adjustments at his own ex-| the owner would In doubtful cases the disputes would be settled by reference to some central bureau to be established, probably in connection with the Police Traffic Bu-| reau, whose decision shall be final, If | ically safe, the owner would be denied registration of title unless he corrects by repairs or readjustments the condi- | tions declared faulty. In this case he | might apply for a re-examination. Rejected Private Check. | In this way Gen. Crosby expects to | remove from the streets a number of | cars whose continued presence is deemed a menace to public safety. An| effort in the same direction was made | recently under the auspices of private interests, who sought to secure the| Commissioners’ approval of a check-up | week for automobiles 2t specified ga- rages and service stations. The Com- missioners, however, turned down the proposal. It would have been a purely volus tary matter on the part of the motor- | ist whether he wanted the check made, and the Commissioners did not believe it would serve a useful public purpose. | Since under the new proposal, how- | ever, it would be compulsory for all | motorists to submit their cars to in- spection, Gen. Crosby believes the ex- periment would be worth while. The detalls of the plan are being worked ‘n‘lt by Assistant Traffic Director Mau- rice O. Eldridge CHILD LABOR BILL PASSED | Colorado Is Eighth State to Ratify Constitutional Amendment. DENVER, April 25 (#).—Colorado to- day joined States ratifying the pro-| posed child labor amendment to the|. United States Constitution when the State Senate adopted a resolution ap- | proving the amendment. | The House of Representatives pre- viously had adopted the resolution gi | ing Congress the power to enact legis- |Jation regulating labor of children under 18 years of age. Officials believe Colorado was the cighth State to ratify the amendment. pected to provoke Nation-wide dis- cussion and its sponsors openly invite full and free criticism of the innova- tions. That the door for remarriage of divorced persons may mnot be thrown wide open, the new canon proposes also the creation of an Ecclesiastical | Marital Court to pass upon the right | of divorced persons to contract second marriages. It would also prohibit the performance of the second marriage ceremony within the portals of the church or with the use of the approved service of the Bock of Common Prayer. Public and private instruction on the nature of Christian marriage would be made compulsory under the revised laws, together with a written pledge signed by the contracting parties to conform to the doctrine of the church regarding marriage. Unless these re- quirements were filled, the new canon would prohibit a minister from perform- ing a marriage ceremony. ‘Would Give Nine Grounds. Nine grounds upon which a marriage may be annuled are set forth in the propcsed revision of the canon, which contains seven sections, as contrasted with the present canon on matrimony, which has only four sections. A sec- tion which would prohibit a minister of the church from solemnizing a mar- riage unless the parties thereto had been married first by a civil magis- trate was propoted by some members of the commission, but was voted out largely because of the legal problems involved. The section of the proposed new canon, under which marriage of di- vorced persons would be sanctioned, reads as follows: “Any person to whom divorce from a former marriage has been granted for any cause by a civil court may, after the expiration of one year from the granting of the divorce, apply | to his bishop or to the Ecclesiastical | Marital Court of his domicile for per- mission to marry another person. The bishop or court shall thereupon inquire into the characters and personalities of the parties to the previous and to the proposed marriage, and determine whether the purposes of Christian marriage will be best served by the pro- posed marriage. “If the bishop or court permits the proposed marriage, a minister of the church may solemnize the marriage: provided, however, that he shall not solemnize it in the church or by the " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) PRESCOTT IS FINED | IN ROCKVILLE COURT States Attorney Pays $10 for Con- tempt Before Judge Weoodward. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., April 25—State’s Attorney Stedman Prescott in the was ad- | judged guilty of contempt of court by | fired blank: | Judge Charles W. Woodward | Plice Court herc this afterncon and!that he wished to be careful “to testify ran. cxecutive secretary of the diocesc | of profane and obscene language. It is a strict rule of this station that no profanity shall be broadcast.’ Feared Obscenity Report. “Immediately after this announce- ment newspaper offices were flooded with telephone calls from indignant listeners who had heard it. What Gen. Butler feared most was that there would be a misunderstanding of what he said. He was afraid listeners would think he really turned to obscenity, he said. “Told what had happened, he left the speakers’ table and sped to the con- trol room. There newspaper men were questioning Miller. Butler, flanked by | several friends, came in trembling with anger. 2 ' ‘Did you cut me off?’ he demanded. ‘Did you say I was obscene?’ “Miller became flustered and finally said he had done what he thought wa: The Federal Radio Commission’s regulations ban the use of ‘c Y profanity,’ he said. He had decided the word ‘hell’ was obscenity, he admitted. “Butler finally stalked out of the room, and later Judge McDevitt, clcse friend of the fighting Marine, explained to the radio audicnce: ‘At no time did Gen. Butler use profane or obscene lan- guage. The only use of the word ob- jected to was in quoting a top sergeant, | and I need not explain to you what the :chnnc‘e istic_language of a top ser- {geant is’ He then presented the | apologies of the station and all con- | cerned in the muzeling.” Tells His Story. In the course of his speech, referring to the diplomatic tangle that has arisen over the incident as the result of re- lmnrn attributed to Minister Bellegarde of Haitl that he had never heard of the | fert, Gen. Butler remarked: “i suppose something is being done I don't want to make too many remarks. Things usually come to an end. “In recent days an embarrassing in- cident over the capture of a fort in Haiti has come up,” Gen Butler said. “I may be imagining what happened there—I don’'t know. “Anyway, there was an old brick fort {on a hill 4,000 feet high in Haiti. The {last of the rebel element that had not | been licked got in this fort. I, (in my imagination) was given the job of tak- ing it. “There were four companies of about 23 men each—I want to get it exact v—and they approached from four Three companies could not get fort because of tangled trails: Our detachment of 24 men arrived at 8 am. stopped about 200 yards from the fort, and divided into two partie:. Twelve men laid down with machine |guns and 12 advanced through bushes and a moat to the fort. “We found the entrance to the fort had been bricked up, and the bandits had been in the habit of going in and out a drain about 3 by 312 feet and 20 feet long.. Two citizens of the fort were shooting through that drain. There were three of us there, a sergeant of Marines, a private and myself. It was my job to go in the hole. I didn't feel like going in there. It took some time to get up my courage. “I looked over to the sergeant. He gave an cxpression that as much as said: ‘I'll go in.’ The private went in after him. When I saw the hole plugged by the other two, I went in too. While we were crawling through, two constituents fired—maybe they for none hit.” Here Gen. Butler paused to remark | about it. orcered to pay a fine of $10 which he | correctly. Jid immediately. The incident occurred followis other with assault. Judge Woodward acquitted one and found the other guilty. whereupon, it is stated, Prescott suggested to the lawyer of the convicted man that he take an appeal. Judge Woodward ovcrheard the re- mark and promptly informed Prescott that he was guilty of contempt and im- posed the fine. SOL BLOOM CLEARS WASHINGTON] OF CHOPPING DOWN CHERRY TREE ! g the | trial of two men who had charged each | Investigation Must Determine. “We got into the fort,” he went on, “and it seemed like a long time until anybody else came through, although it really was only a short time. There were 150 buzzards in there and only three capturers—that is I suppose it was that way. I don’t know whether the fort ever existed. That has to be determined by investigation. “I recommended those two Marines for medals. They recommended me. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Rouse- velt came to Haiti to look into the recommendation. He climbed up the hill. It's an eight-hour climb. I sav him a couple of days later and ne was still tired. He said he did not knuw . Organized Reserves—Page 12. what we did there, but that we deserved employed” by cuiting prevailing wage | scales. The Kansas labor commissioner cited three post office projects, at Topeka. Pittsburg and Wichita, where he said =ontractors_had made wage cuts. “While they have placed a certain amount of unemployed to work,” Com- missioner Beckman said, “the attitude of the contractors in creating turmotl among the unemployed in the locality where the work in being perforred has had a much worse moral eflect upon 1he situation and caused the State Do- partment of Labor more real concern than wculd have been the case had the projects been delayed until prosperity vas here.” Another Gold Shipment. CHERBOURG, France, April 25 (®). —Four hundred and sixty-cight barrels containing $15.000,000 in gold were lh\pfid from Paris to New York today » Aen the liner Europa. Capt. Sergievsky and Aide Continue Swimming When, Rescue Boats Lack Room for All. By the Associated Press. [ Fishing hoats spotted the 11 men In{ SANTIAGO, Chile, April 35.—Capt. | the water and came to the rescue, but ;sky . and his hanic, | Sergievsky insisted that the Chileans Borls Serglevsky . and his mechanic, | Serglevsky insisted that the Chilcans Voldemar Ekohok Rodoff, naturalized | ¢inee there was no room left in the American aviators. arrived here tonight. | boats, he and his mechanic would keep | suffering from exposure and injuries, | on swimming. | and told of honor among air navigators| Moter boats which finally set out on the sca. The American flyers' plane | from the shore, 31, miles away, eventu- | sank oq Quintero, near Valparaiso, yes- | 21ly rescued the swimmers. Sergie terday. | body was still black and blue tonizht The plane, with nine Chileans, the ' and physicians said there was danger pilot and mechanic aboard, broke up|from pn:umonia and went down in five minutes wmle‘ Asked why he and his mechanic took | making a test alighting on the water. | the chance of death, Sergievsky said: ! There were nine life preservers aboard,| “They were my passengers, 1t was which Se vsky handed to the my duty to save them first. The Chileans, while he and his mechanic | bolsheviks nearly killed me three times' he zhore in the cold cur- | in Russ 30 I was confident my luck struck out for t! rent, sw ing. weuld continue e hold good.” PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Sports Section. PART SIX—12 PAGES. | | Pinancial News and Classified Adver- | tising. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 12. PART SEVEN—20 PAGES. Magazine Section. The Bridge Forum—Page 14. Reviews of the New Books—Page 15. Notes of Art and Artist:—Page 16. News of the Musiz World—Page 17. Cross-werd Puzzle—Page 18, Boys and Girls' Pa; Page 19. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. ‘World Events in Pictures. COLORED SECTION—8 PAGES. -rzan; Moon Muilins; Mr. and Mre.; Reglar Fellers; the Smyihes: Little Orphan Annie; m.w.m of History: Mutt and Jeff. ] INDI(ETE[TFDR SLAYING {Cuban Official and 14 Others Are day by the Santiago Court of Instruc- tien on two charges of murder. The indictment charges that Ortiz, with his son and several aides, took tw men, suspected of attempting to as- | s3ssinate him, out along a lonely road, lined them up and shot them. One of the other men indicted is alleged to have been Ortiz’ chauffeur on the occasion mentioned in the charges and another is Sergt. Felipe Valle, former Santiago jail supervisor, who found dead shortly after the investigation into the case opened. Arsenlo, jr., were formally indicted to- | None on Farm During His Boyhood, Planted 60 Years [ Later by Exploiters, He Learns. Charged With Two Murders. | SANTIAGO, Cuba. April 25 (#).— Comdr. Arsenio Ortiz, former military supervisor of Oriente Province, and 14 other persons, including his son, |, The real inside story of George |girl and asked to see the cherry tree: ‘Wmfihlngwn and the cherry tree is out | She was told by the family then on at last. | the farm, who had occupied it almost Representative Sol Bloom, director of | ever since the Washington family left, the George Washington Bicentennial | that there was no such thing. Commissicn, has unearthed it Disillusioned, she told Representative tells it with especial relish, because he | Bloom, she suggested to the occupan | thinks the story has done more hurt to | that it would be a good stroke of busi the reputation of Washington than all ness to plant some, can the cherries he scandals that ever have been un- carthed about him. There were, Bloom says, no cherry and sell them for an extra price by ad- vertising them as coming from the scions of the very tree that Washington trees on the Ferry farm, opposite Fred- ericksburg, where the event is supposed to have happened, for at least 60 years to this day can find descendan alked with A old | -actial hopped dowg b e talked wi an ol actua cho yJ cOrge the farm as a young | Washington. o £ o chopped down, Her advice, she told" cepted. Sofvisitors to th lady who W medals for climbing the hill. “The identity of the fort might be further established by asking Capt. Boone, the White House physician and | doctor of our outfit in Haiti.” MINISTER DENIES INTERVIEW. Declares He Had No Intention to Cast Doubt on Honor to Butler. Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler became involved again yesterday in a diplomatic tangle and presented the State Depart- ment with a problem for which it could find no_precedeny The flery Marine protested remarks attributed” to Minister Bellegarde of Haiti that Fort Reviere in that coun- try, for the capture of which Butler was . was ac- |AWarded a congressional medal of honor, did not exist. embodied in a let Y ms of the Nl!l. " (Continued on Page zfcomm;c.)