Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1931, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and continued cold with light frost; lowest vemperature about 38 de- grees tonight; tomorrow fair, slowly ris- Closing N.Y. Markets, No. 31,772 post office, PADLOGK WARNIG MAY BE EXTENDED T0 OTHER CITES Attorney General Mitchell Told of Huge Saving in Rentals Here. 75 PER CENT OF OWNERS EVICT LAW VIOLATORS System Said to Improve Enforce- m:nt Without Penalizing Innocent Investors. An experiment begun here two years ago by the United States attorney's office, whereby property owners are given advance warning of padlock pro- ceedings proposed under the prohibition Jaw, has proved so successful that| Attorney General Mitchcll may com- ! mend the plan to other district attorneys. ! The system is credited with having | promoted better law enforcement in the | District without penalizing innocent owners of tenant-operated “speakeasies” and similar rendezvous of liquor law violators. ' ‘The Washington Real Estate Board is co-operating in the plan. Thousands of dollars have been saved owners whose properties, under a stricter interpreta- tion of the padlocking law, would have been forced to remain vacant for long | periods. i Proyides for Eviction. The plan, developed by Capt. Harold grcll“. lls‘!t!lntd“’nllefl !ll(."‘: &x,wrn&y charge of padlocking n, af- fords property owners an opportunity to evict tenants reported to be main- taining a “nuisance.” If the owners disregard the - warning sent by the the customary padlocking In a vast majority of cases, however, the notice from ths district attorney’ office. is sufficient to result in prompt eviction of the unds and istering the padlock law in the Capital has been reduced with- promising enforcement, it is claimed. Thus, while there were only 48 padlock injunctions filed in the Dis- trict in 1930, more than 800 owners, most of ejected the offending tenants without delay. Since the first of the year, only seven have been while 360 warnings have been served cn property owners. It is estimated 75 per cent of the warnings have resulted - {eration of it began immediately. | | for an ‘Washington padloc] commended officials for it. Mitchell Is Silent, In accordance with his established Entered as second class matter ‘Washington, ”, MacMILLAN TO SEEK NUNGESSER | | AND COLI TRACE ON OCEAN HOP | | | Pages13,14&15 > C. Explorer Plans Air Journey to London and Return This Summer. Believes French Flyers Land- ed or Crashed in Labrador | Four Years Ago. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 27.—Comdr. Donald B. MacMillan said today he hoped to solve the disappearance four | years ago of Capt. Charles Nungesser and Francis Coli, French fiyers, when he attempts a round-trip flight from | Boston to London this Summer. The veteran Arctic explorer said he planned an aerial survey of the north- ern_portion of Labrador and a side trip to Baffin Land. He added he believed it possible the French flyers, who h: (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) WASHINGTO DONALD B. MACMILLAN. PESSIMISM MARKS FRENCH STUDY OF BRITISH NAVAL NOTE Some Feel Negotiations Have; Broken Down, Though Con- | tinuance Possible. | By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 27.—The foreign office and ministry of marine today studied a Brit'sh foreign office note containing Downing street's answer to French pro- posals sceking a solution for Franco- Italian-British naval difficulties. While the contents of the British communication were kept a closely guarded ‘secret, there was undisguised pessimism in some quarters today and feeling that the note would mark a breakdown, for the present at least, of negotiations which had looked to com- Frightened Rabbit Spreads Fire After Forest Fight Is Won By the Associated Press. SLIPPERY ROCK. Pa., April 27.—Slippery Rock firemen vouch for this one: The fire was about out. Be- grimed firemen and volunteers ambled wearily from _the still smoking woodiands. Here and there bits of underbrush still smoldered. Suddenly from one of these streaked a rabbit, its hair afire. Somcbody tried to “shoo” the bunny into ths clearing, but the frightened animal darted back into the woods, came in contact with dried -underbrush—and the fire started all over agein. CHAIRMAN WOODS - T0COT0 EUROPE Seven Members of Hoover’s Employment Commis- pletion of a tripartite accord. The French note, to which the British note was an answer, was dispatched last week, end offered to go ahead with the | naval accord, leaving the question of 1934-36 superannuated tonnage until unti] 1935. The British answer was received hore only Sunday, but consid- sion Retire. By the Associated Press. Chairman Woods of the President’s Emergency Employment Committee, an- nounced today that he would sail next week for England and Germany study employment conditions in Europe. The chairman at the same time an- nounced that seven members of the committee would retire from active work in ccnnection with the unemploy- ment situation and that another mem- ber had been added to it. Brown of Princeton Univer- Hope for Open Door. Circles which have wislied for a naval | accord hoped that Downing street, while | thumbs down on | Franee's proposal, had offered new Brit- ish proposals, or in some other fashion | sity, Porter Lee of New York, James/ Fonenu ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C D. C, MONDAY, 3 NGH SPORTSHEN AT IN SHOWDEN'S BUDGET PROPOSAL tates Held Sure to Start Fight With Lords. REST OF CHANCELLOR’S ‘Would Use $100,000,000 From Ex- change Fund to Help Meet Antic- ipated $186,830,000 Deficit. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 27.—Philip Snowden, chancellor of the exchequer, today an- posal for taxation of land values at the rate of 1 penny to the pound, a scheme almost to & man. Compared with this, the rest of his speech was unexpectedly mild, with had been anticipated for raising the $4,016,830,000 which vear. ‘The proposed land tax, which can- not be put into force for at least two years because-of the necessity for pre- liminary valuation, would fall most heavily upon the country nobility, gen- are kept almost exclusively for sporting purposes. ‘These elements of the population are strorgly represented :n the House of Lords, where the proposal is likely to be resisted to the last gasp. Would Draw from Exchange Fund. ‘Temporary expedients pending an anticipated general trade recovery were announced in Mr. Snowden's budget i speech as a means of bridging the gap of $186,830,000 between the estimated nditures for the 1931-32 financial year and revenue on the present basis of taxation. greater part of the gan would be bridged by appropriations of 5100,060,- 000 of the $165,000,000 exchange fund kept in New York, a step made. possible by the establishment of the Bank of International Settlements. His speech was one of tiae shortest on record, lasting only one hour and nine minutes. It was cut to the imme~diate essentials out of consideration for Mr. Snowden’s health following several weeks of iliness and a scrious operation. > Verbal Review Oniitted. Normally & review of the year's | | 19| finance Is included in the budget speech. | but this t'me it was circulated among the members in the form of a parlia- mentary paper. Snowden from the ladies’ gallery high above the speaker's chair and near her was a doctor and a nurse, for the “iron chancellor” is a sick man. Only a few | days ago he underwent a serious op- Plan for Tax on Large Es-‘ BUL =T SPEECH IS MILD | expenditure for the 1931-32 financial | try with large estates. many of which | o Star. Sunday’s as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 115,165 Circulation, 125,445 o Ll i APRIL 27, 19 nounced in his budget speech a pro- 1 which is opposed by the House of Lords none of the dramatic measures which | RED LUMBER TEST CASE FALLS FLAT ‘Cargo Ordered Admitted After Hearing Fails to Show Convict Labor. : By the Associated Press. The much-heralded “test case” of Treasury regulations barring from im- HIRTY-TWO. PAGES. ##% (#) Means Associated Pr Ao The Chairman of Qhe \\'aihing'(‘*n Ri}'rfl\tflufial ('nmmiu?nn E'hnp- Down a J'r;mmnn Belief. Attack Victim FORMER SENATOR REPORTED IN CRITICAL CONDITIO!] Mrs. Snowden kept an eye on Mr.! | portation into the United States Rus- slan lumber produced by convicts fell | | flat today when it was determined that a shipload of lumber which arrived at Providence, R, I, Thursday did not | contain any convict-produced lumber and it was ordered admitted. Undersecretary Mills issued the order admitting the importation of the lum- ber after a hearing, in which the im- | porters, the A. C. Dutton Co. of Pough- | i keepsie, N. Y., and the Amtorg Corpor- | ation, business agency of the Soviet ROBERT N. STANFIELD. Government, presented affidavits that p. ... associated Press. no convict-produced (umb:r was in the | BAKER. Oreg., April 27.—A warrant cargo. | has been issued charging John Stringer, The ban on Russian lumber produced | sheep ranch foreman, with assault with { in sections of that country north of lati- | intent to kill former Senat:r Robert | tude 60 was placed by the Treasury un- | N. Stanfield of Oregon. Officers sald | der terms of the tariff act which pro- | Stringer was expected to surrender hibited importation of any goods pro- | today. Ilcfl.medoor geeking a settlement of the naval diffi- culties may continue. 5 The tendency hore is to blame the | 50 that negotiations | . . Lawrence of Minnesota, Frank Bane of Richmond, Va.; Mre, Alice M. Dick- zon of New York, Mrs. Lillilan Gilbreath of New Jersey and Bryce Stewart cf duced in_whole or in part by convict | | labor. The Treasury ruled early this | year that testimony presented it showed eration. Prolonged applause from the govern- ment benches and sympathetic cheers from the opposition greeted him as he Stringer was accused of driving his automobile into Stanfield following an altercation over the cutting of a fence near Huntington, Oreg, last Wednesday. manner in which the entire naval prob- e e PR AL Miote | New York City. who have bsen loaned | to the committee, by various organiza- to' which the negotiations have come. | It is commented widely that through acceptance of Robert L. Craigie, British | o1 | foreign office expert, as intermediary, Capt. ference, also refused to readily outlined operation fnd accom- plishments of the padiock warning lan. i “The padlock law imposes no obli- gation on us to give a warning to prop- erty owners,” he said. “Under strict interpretation of the law we do not cven have to prove an owner has knowledge of illegal use of his property by a tenant. The law requires that we padlock every property found to be a nuisance under the prohibition laws. “Believing the law should be admin- istered fairly and sanely, however, we have hesitated to penalize respectable, law-abiding citizens who are not aware that their properties are occupled by Jaw violators. “Accordingly, about two years ago, in conference with a committee of the ‘Washington Real Estate Board, an ‘un- derstanding’ or sort of ‘gentleman's agreement’ was reached, under which we agreed to send a written notice to the owner of a property threatened with padlocking, unless the case was 50 palpably flagrant as to justify us| in presuming the owner should bave known about the violation without for- mal notification from us. Praises Co-operation. | “The great majority of real estate men and property owners have co- operated splendidly.” The form letter sent to property owners cites pertinent sections of the prohibition act and states: “Please tak: notice that this office has been advised that various violations of the national prohibition act, consist- ing of illegal sales and possession of intoxicating liquors, have for some time past been committed on the premises at 1 am 2dvis:d that you are the owner in fee simple of the pzmln! of which the above-described prémises are a part, and I am taking the liberty of writing to notify you of thes: re- ported violations and the substance of the provisions of law providing for the abatement of such nuisances.” The Real Estate Board assists Capt. Orcutt in ascertaining ownership of offending properties. Its files of prop- erty owners are made available to rep- the Italian government came eventually | gcvernment another. 1 Consequently it was not until after an agreement had been initiated and an- nounced, in effect making a five-power pact of the London naval treaty, that it was discovered there were still serious | (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) i o~ STOCKS STAGE RALLY Declines of $1 to $5 in Heavy, Selling Are Reduzed or Eliminated. By the Associated Press. clining $1 to $5 in the heaviest selling of the current decline, stocks rallied | during the late trading today, reducing | or eliminating the losses. American Telephone fully recovered a $3 break and United States Steel cut a llmflll" less to about $1. | Suspension of West & Co., a promi- nent Philadelphia brokerage firm, from membership on the New York Stock Exchange did not upset prices when the | action was announced about 11 o'clock | this morning, but selling increased early | in the afternoon when many prominent issues weakened. United States Steel, at $122.50, sold | $3 under the Saturday close. Standard | Oil of New Jersey, also down $3, re- | corded the lowest price since 1924, while | New York Central’s break of $5 carried it to 1923 levels. There were declines lnl $2 to $4 in J. I. Case, du Pont, Amer- jcan Telephone and American Can. Allieduchemu:ll and Eastman Kodak lost_$5. The market had a brief upturn in the early dealings, but the improvement quickly disappeared when BURKE PLEADS GUILTY IN MICHIGAN SLAYING Managua Has Shock Recurrence. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 27 (#). ‘—A slight nocturnal earth tremor oc- | curred at 3:50 am. (E. 8. T.) in this city, which recently was laid in waste by an earthquake. The disturbance lasted about one second. No damage was done. | must return to their ! They will, however, remain with thé¢ | commiitee in an advisory capacity and ISNOW ican Telephone, Union Carbide, Amer- | Special Dispatch to The Star. tions, will return’ to their regular em- ployment. Rowlnd Haynes of the University of Chicago will become a imember of the committee in active charge of relief 0 understand one thing and the hemh‘ work During the absence of Chairman '0ods, Vice Chairman Pred O. Croxton will have charge of the committee’s | work. ‘Woods said he intended to study un- employment insurance plans and relief | measures in England and Germany and | also would look into the situation in | other countries. Woods said therc had been “‘a percep- ! tible” improvement in the general con- dition” of employment in this country, “but nct sufficient to justify discontin- uance of the committce. “The committee will continue fts work with some changes in personnel. “A large number of the personnel vas lcancd to the committee and now regular work, in that way their experience and work | will not be lost.” Woods said he was going to Europe NEW YORK, April 27.—After de- |, connection with his work &s chair- man of the committec to make a study of conditions there and that what nc would do when he came back would “depend upon conditions when I return from Europe.” IN MARYLAND ENDANGERS FRUIT Growers Apprehensive Over Heavy Frosts Predicted for Tomorrow. Mercury at 35 Today. HAGERSTOWN, Md, April 27— With a heavy fall of snow in the vicinity of Prostburg this morning and forecasts of heavy frost tomorrow by the Weather Bureau, fruit growers of iquidation | Western Maryland have expressed ap- and short selling reappeared in volume. | prehension. ‘The peaches, pears, plums and sweet cherries are in full blossom and would be an easy prey to a heavy frost. The mercury reached 35 this morning, according to J. A. Miller, Government weather observer here, who predicted it would go perhaps below 30 if the cold north wind continues. Thirty degrees is considered the dead line by fruit growers at this time of the year. Hearing to Set Sentence Begun THIRD THEFI‘ OF IDENTICAL HAT FEARED AS SUSPECT FLEES JAIL After Gangster Admits He Killed Policeman. By the Associated Press. ST. JOSEPH, Mich., April 27.—Fred Burke pleaded guilty at 1:36 p.m. to- day to the slaying of Patrolman Charles Skelly of St. Joseph in December, 1920. ‘The notorious Midwestern gangster made his plea as he was before Judge Charles E. in the Berrien Circuit Cowrt at the mae oy B 3 dncd ly sentenced and taken to prison if he picaded guilty. | i [ By the Associated Press. JURG, Ind., April 27.—OM- | cers that he cers were worrying today in fear that Sherman Johnson's smbition was get- the better of him. mlchlr&ofmfln(m- hat twic: from Dill general store i Storekeeper Warned of Man Whose Ambition Police !, of Indiana Town Think Too Strong to the charge, but he also notified offi- intended to wear that twice-stolen hat to prison. His second theft of the hat s week ago vhmhr’tl- nz six P ca] , and the hat taken from him. ‘esterday he sawed his way out of took place at Francisco, Ind., Johnson was to have | jail again, been sentenced today for Jobnson had not only burglary. | The proprictor leaded guilty | store has beem warn of the Francisco ed to guard the hat. last week. began to speak. The _chencelior, who was looking re- markably well for a man just through a siege of sickness, began in good voice. Apart_from the appropriaion *from announced. Increases Tax on Petrol. They were a 50 per cent increase in the tax on petrol, which the chancellor said he had concluded to raiss from 4 pence to 6 pence, yielding $37,500,000, and an adjustment of the times at i | tax list may make payments, a measure which would yvield $50,000,000. | With the introduction of these meas- ures, the chancellor said, the financial | year should close with a surplus of $670,000. Mr. Snowden said he was firmly op- | posed to the imposition of a revenue | tariff and that the standard rate of the income tax would not be increased. Beer and Tobacco Not Mentioned. He did not even mention beer and tcbacco on whi¢h it had been confi- dently cxpected extra duties would be imposed. | Mr. Snowden estimated expenditure (approximately $4,016,830.000). 4 This estimated deficit on the existing basis of taxation included £12,000,000 for derating operations and £8,000,000 for transitional (uncmployment) bene- fits. The chancellor said he intended to reduce the special tax on motor cycles l(l’bm 30 shillings to 15 shillings, and | added "that it would be necessary for the exchequer to come to the assist- ance of the road funds to meet the cost of schemes for unemployment. Pro- vision would be made to enable loans to be raised for this purpose. Some Stock Recovery Expected. Mr. Snowden told the House that he looked for some recovery in Stock Ex- change activity during the year. ‘The chancellor estimated the yield of revenue for the next year on the exist- ing basis of taxation at £766,000,000 (about $3,830,000,000). He said the consumption of alcoholic liquors had fallen during the past year. While there would be no increase in the standard rate of the income tax, certaln sections of income tax payers would lose the concession of paying in equal semi-annual installments, the chancellor said. They would pay three-quarters of the tax on January 1 next, with the sec- ond installment of one-quarter payable on June 1, 1932, This would give the Treasury an extra quarter of a year's revenue—about $50,000,000—within the financial year. Mr. Snowden said he rejected a reve- nue tariff proposal as a means of ob- taining the additional revenue needed. © This, he declared, was a method of relieving the rich at the expense of the poor and amounted -to an indirect attack on wages. “I shall never be & party to any such proposal,” he said. He indicated that he would meet the eficit by means of non-recurrent rev- enue and temporary expedients, owing to prospects of trade recovery. Polish Parliament Ratifies Loan. ‘WARSAW, Poland, April 27 (#).—The Senate today ratified the $40,000,000 loan which was ap- binet and fl”c Lower :rofl declared the extraordinary session Parliament ended. Radio Pugyu-n. T Page A-12 { that convicts were used in the Russian | forests north of latitude 60, and ordered | Stanficld was still in a critical comdi- 1all such lumber barred unless accom- | tion, althovgh a slight imprcvement the exzchange fund only two measures | for obtaining the revenue needed were | { which certain brackets in the income, for the coming year at £803,366,000 ; panied by evidence that convicts did | not enter in its production. Shipped Soon After Ruling. | Soon after the ruling was issued it | was anounced in Russia that the steam- | er Anversoise was salling from Lenin- grad with a cargo of lumber to test that regulation. Thz steamer arrived at Providence last Thursday, and was pre- vented from discharging its cargo pend- ing decision as to its nature. Mills instructed. the collector of cus- toms at Providence to admit the lum- ber after having heard arguments by American lumber producers against its importation on the ground there was no evidence submitted that the lumber had been produced by convicts. The importers, he said, had submitted docu- mentary evidence that the lumber came from points outside of the convict labor area. | | Issue Arose Year Ago. The Russian lumber question came up first a year ago when the Treasury tem- porarily detained six shiploads which | were brought to Providence and Pough- | keepsie, N. Y., but which were admitted | after a hearing on the grounds that the | evidence that the lumber had been pro- | duced by convicts was inconclusive. | Later the Treasury permitted about | 90 shiploads of Russian pulpwood to | come into the ccuntry, but issued regu- lations that thereafter the shippers | and importers moust prove that convict | labor had not entered into production | of lumber from Russia. The Undersecretary said that his de- | cision today applied only to the lum- | ber carried by the steamer Anversoisc and if any more lumber came the im- | porter must prove in each case that | convict labor had not entered into its: production. AIR HUNT IS PLANNED | FOR MISSING BRITON | Army Officer Will Seek Fiancee's | Brother Lost on Icecap in Greenland. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 27.—The vast wastes of Greenland's icy mountains beckoned today to a_youthful Britith army offi- cer, Capt. Raynor, en route to Norway to head an expedition which will at- tempt the rescue of his flancee's brother. lost somewhere on the Greenland ice- cap. The missing man is Augustine Cour- tauld, surveyor of the British Arctic air route expedition, who volunteered | to remain alone during the Winter at 4 central station on the Greenland ice- cap to make meteorological observations. | E. C. Watkins, young leader of the British expedition, recently cabled Lon- don that the relief party sent out last month to find Courtauld had failed to locate him because of adverse weather conditions. As the survey was due to be relieved this montn, some anxiety was felt for him. It is Capt. Raynor's plan to charter an airplane fitted with skiis and espe- uippsd for landing on ice or strong party and would make mnflmmmutm the end of the month. Capt. Raynor left Loadon Iast night | for Norway. was reported. OBSERVERS STUDY STELLAR GALAXIES Savant Tells Academy Group Superclusters of Stars Dwarf Universe. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Existence of approximately 20,000 galaxies—vast universes of millions of stars comparable in size to the “Milky Way" of which the solar system is part —was described before the National Academy of Sciences today by Dr. Har- low Shapley, director of the Harvard University Observatory. These universes were found, Dr. Shap- ley said, in an intensive survey of ap- proximately one-seventh of the sky. The Harvard astronomers arc taking a cen- sus of galaxies, including all those up to the seventeenth magnitude and to a.distance of about 5,000,000 light years —or the distance which light traveling | at 186,000 miles a second would traverse in that time. But the galaxies, Dr. Shapley said, —-or incomprehensibly vast universes of universes. Thus the milky way sys- tem itself, he pointed out, is not an isclated part of creation but one of a family of galaxies, so vast in extent that it baffles the imagination. These super galaxies range in diameter from a few thousand to many million light years. The present outline of creation, as d d by Di ists probably | 'HOOVER UNHARMED BY VIRGINIA STORM. 1 Henry Ceremony, but Panic Is Averted. | President and Mrs. Hoover arrived at | th: White House this morning showing | no ill effects from a rough and choppy cruise back to the Capital in the little | inspection boat of the Department o!; Commerce from Cape Henry, Va., where | they went to attend ceremonies on the | 324th anniversary of the landing of the first English settlers. The discomfiture Iol the drenching and the disappoint- | ment attending the breaking up of the ceremonies as a result of the storm were nothing to compare in seriousness to the narrow escape from a panic among the ithrcn( at the scene of the celebration | when a' thunderstorm broke suddenly jand the wind threatened to Mft the | ;iandstand from its frail foundation on ! the sand dunes of the cape. While the storm was at its height the stakes upon | which the stand was erected were seen tc weaken and it was thought that they would give away any minute, Rush Enhances Danger. The situation was made more serious Ly persons out in the rain moving | tcward the already overcrowded stand to seek shelter. | Mrs. Hoover and the other members of | their party stood good-naturedly and with no outward evidence of apprehen- | sion. A raincoat was thrown about the | President’s shoulders and Secret Service | men attempted to keep him covered | with an umbrella, but the high wind made this difficult. Mrs. Hoover found | a place further back in the stand where | there was more shelter. | _The President, at his desk today. re- gretted that the celebration was ruined by the rain. The journey back to Washington in the 104-foot Sequoia w | rwh, but not at all uncomfortable, a | cording to the versions given by mem- | bers of the presidential party upon their return. The little boat rode the swells in Chesapeake Bay and the lower Potomac in splendid style, and the jour- ney was in no wise a perilous one. No | one in the party was sick and every one slept well. The boat docked this morn- ing at 9 o'clock. The President and Mrs. Hoover motored directly to the ‘White House. Of course, the President’s | silk hat will never look the same and | Mrs. Hoover's new Spring hat was | ruined, but otherwise they were no; | the worse for their experience of yes- | terday. Members of the President's party sald_that the rain at Cape Henry yes- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) PR s ST {IRA COPLEY WED IN PARIS | Mrs. Worley of California Bride of | Publisker and Ex-Congressman. PARIS, April 27 (#).—Ira Copley, American publisher and former member | appear to be grouped in super galaxies | of the United States Congress, was married today to Mrs. Chloe Davidson Worley of Pasadena, Calif. After the ceremony at the City Hall in the eighth ward there was a wedding breakfast and later the couple en trained for the Riviera to begin a honeymoon on Mr. Copley’s yacht, Happy Days. They will return to the United States in June. Among the witnesses was Philip S. Campbell of Washington, D. C., w will join the yacht cruise. PARAPET FOR POLICE TO TOP ROCK CREEK VALLEY BRIDGE | Call for Bids on Waterside Overpass Reveals Plan to Give Officers a Better View. The United States Park Police, watch- ing trafic in the Rock Creek and Po- tomac Parkway in the section between Massachusetts avenue and the Q Street Bridge, will be like the knights of old, with a tower, parapet and all. Lieut.. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks, today called for bids for the construc- tion of a concrete, stone-fi bri with the parapet and tower. to be as the Waterside Drive Overpass. The prospective contracts will be opened on the morning of May 15. 0 X Xy R a comfort station, police and stor- age room, The ‘will 126 feet long and will have a clear opening of some 46 ccl. Engincess of Col. Grant's office ex- kngsencmulu plained today that the bridge is de- signed to carry southbound traffic en- tering the park at Massachusetts ave- nue, on top of the northbound lane of the main driveway in the park. The bridge will not be constructed across Rock Creek. ‘The new bridge, which is solely a traffic arrangement to avoid a grade and eliminate left hand turns, constructed on the east bank in the tower will 0 that sec- ad ug and be of Rock Creek. ill be one'yvay and top of the bridge willikewise {Party Drenched at Cape! | In the meantime tife President and | TWO CENTS. GAMBLING EXPOSE LINKED T0 ATTACK ONHARRY DOUTHITT Victim Says One of Assail- | ants Wore Gold Badge, but Not a Detective’s. ASSAILED CONDITIONS IN THE FIRST PRECINCT Gen. Crosby Said to Have Found Editor's Charges Were Baseless Harry N. Douthitt, self-appointed | vice investigator and police magazine | editor, who still is in a critical con- ‘dltlun from a mysterious beating ad- | ministered Saturday night by two un- identified men who entered his apart- yment, is reported to have told de- | tectives today that one of his assail- |ants wore a gold badge, not of the | police type. | Douthitt, it also was disclosed, re- | cently charged the first precinct was | the “center of vice in Washington,” precipitating & personal investigation by Police Commissioner Crosby, who found the charge “baseless.” Commissioner Crosby said today his attention had been called several weeks ago to charges by Douthitt that col- lusion existed between police and gam- blers in the first precinct and that he promptly made a personal inquiry and found the charges unfounded. Suspects Gamblers. Douthitt, although dazed by a brain concussion inflicted by repeated blows of an iron pipe, wielded in room | at the Portner Apartments, ith and U streets, told detectives and newspaper men he believes the attack i was instigated by gambling interests. {_ He described one of this assallants as {2 “wel! dressed man” who gave the name of Harrison and the other as a man “dressed like a rou k. gained admittance to the apa prctending to seek Douthitt's aid in or- n&xnng an insurance company, &e | satd. Commissioner Crosby said that when Dcuthitt's charges regarding vice in the first precinct were brought to his at- tention, he notified Inspector Thaddeus R. Bean, chief of the vice squad. He said police are aware of the existence 10f certain gambling establishments, but have been unable to obtain adequate evidence. : FPolice today were planning to reques- flfil.\l Douthitt, who is in Casualty Ho:- pital. | i 1 i Kelly's Quiz Fails. Capt. Edward Kelly of the homicide squad attempted to interrogate the in- Jured man yesterday, but said he was Y00 e dote quite & biv of talking Abowk “1've e quite & 3 the activities of gamblers in the |town section of Washington, | said, “and I think some of the gamblers, | fearing I might be plan: to- publish 1 an expose of their activif the Blue- | coat, decided to get me.” Douthitt 8 'z:r.mn of the Bluecoat, a police publics- ion. ! Douthitt said he had no such inten- don, denying a rumor that the latest icsue of the Bluecoat, scheduled for re- {)fins; today, contains an article on gam- i Why, I wouldn’t think of blish- irg such a story. After all, it’s the busi- ness of the Police Department to look after the gamblers. The Bluecoat chronicles the activitics of the depart- meri. but % doesn't go gunning for [agbler‘s‘.’"’ 8 cscribing the events preceding the attack, Douthitt said: P ¢ “A m3n called me up about 1 ¢'clock Friday rning and sald he had a proposition to make me. The proposi- tion, as he outlined it to me, was that I represent a New York insurance com- {pany here, selling policies on & savings | plan. | “The scheme was to distribute dime banks among propective customers. They were to deposit 10 cents a day in the bank given them. and eventually they wculd obtain a $1,000 policy. Planned Second Call. “I told the pan I wasn't interested in the proposition. He called again later in the day, however, and repeated the proposition. I told him I wasn't inter- ested, but he asked if he could call to see me and talk about it more fully. I gave him permission to call Saturday { night.” | The man. accompanied by a com- panion, arrived at the Douthitt apart- | ment. at the appointed hour. “They hesitated a moment or two.” Douthitt related, “and I started to sit down myself. As I turned my back and started walking toward a chair on the other side of the room something struck me.” “It was a terrific blow and I went down. Everything became black and the next thing I knew, I was hefe in the hospital.” Douthitt’s groans were heard by As- sistant Corporation Counsel Thomas P. Cameron who was visiting the s4join- ing apartment, and aid was summoned. Describes Two Men. Partial descriptions of the men were i given by Elliott Smith, colored elevator i operator at the apartment house. The | pair boarded his elevator, he said, and !inquired as to the whereabouts of | Douthitt’s apartment. |7“I took them to the fifth floor and | showed them the apartment.” Smith isnid. “They went in and I didn't sce | them again until some time later, when I saw them walking down the steps., I | wondered why they hadn’t taken the lelevator, but didn't think much about it.” Douthitt expressed the opinion the in- surance proposition was “just a ruse” | to gain admittance to his apartment. “‘The men didn't say a word when I let them in,” Douthitt pointed out. “The first thing they did was to smack me. When I received the first phone call I thought it rather strange that the man should be calling me up at 1 o'clock in the morning to talk about insurance, but I wasn't suspicious.” MURDER CAS.E REOPENED J. R. Thomas, Accused of Slaying Son, Faces Second Trial WALHALLA, 8. C., April 27 (P).—J. R. Thomas, 57, of Anderson County, went on trial for his life for the second time here today, charged with murder- ing his son, Maxie, as a part of a pact to_collect $33, ance. The State ‘Thomas gave his son polson whil two were on a fish. ing trip on July 30, 1929. jury in the Thomas _guilty. Court granted him a new of technicalities. i i i | i |