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y. Full report on page e Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers tonight and tomorrow; cooler tomorrow lmmrnoo';}‘ ;x::’t pam. mfily; Towest, 50, at 5:30 am. oISk 0t 4118 Entered as sec post office, No. 31,781. ‘Washington, ond class matter D, ah ¢ Foenir WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, IRREGULAR WAGES HELD WEAKEST LINK IN ECONOMIC FABRIC Gerard Swope, General Elec- tric Head, Says Steady Work Is Depression Cure. INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER HEARS PLEA FOR PEACE Steel Cartel President Advocates New Living Cost Scale—Free Trade Policy Is Discussed. | Regularized employment, pay that s governed by living costs and con- fidence in peace among nations today, were held out to business men from many lands as the aims which must be | followed to rescue the world from de- pression. ! In succession leaders from this and| Furopean countries presented their; erguments before the International Chamber of Commerce-in behalf of the measures which they see necessary for the permanent betterment of the s ¢ which universally affect their lands. | Hitting at irregular employment as “tragic and demoralizing,” Gerard Swope of New York, president of the General Flectric Co., said that this weak link in the economic fabric .must be strengthened. Aloyse Meyer of Luxemburg, president of the European Steel Cartel, called for “real” pay. governed by living costs, rather than “nominal” pay which does Xnaott i:ke into account the standard of living. Makes Plea for Peace. or maintenance of peace pbuilding of peace senti- ment came from Oskar Sempell of Ber- 3in, industrialist, and Sir Arthur Salter, until recently director of the economic and financial section of the League of Nations secretariat, cn whose behalf in his absence a paper he had prepared ted to the congress. Women’s Sea Hops To Be Discouraged | By Weather Bureau | | All Projects for Money or Self-Glorification Disapproved. BY ;‘Ex COLLIER. Reluctant to lend its ald to “fool- hardy” projects, the United States Weather Bureau will do all in its| power to discourage such hazardous aviation enterprises as solo transatlan- tic flights by women. Ttis policy applies to all transoceanic { flight attempts, regardless of pilot's sex, | that are for self-glorification or mone- tary considerations rather than ad- | vancement of the art of oceanic flying. Solo flights over hazardous stretches of ocean appear to fall in the disapproved category. While Government forecasters in the past_have expressed such views in an unofficial way, a definite decision sup- porting this practice officially has just | been reached by Dr. Charles F. Marvin, chief of the Weather Bureau. Advised that several women are pre- paring for sofo_Atlantic _flights this " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) ECKENER T0 START FORPOLE N JULY Zeppelin Flight Will Clarify Question of Airship Versus Submarine. By the Assoclated Press. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, May 6.—Dr. Hugo Eckener, master of the Graf Zeppelin, announced today he will start for the North Pole in his big ship about the middle of July to meet Sir in a submarine. This attempt to make a contact with Sir Hubert at or near the Pole, he said, should clarify the question as to whether the airship is the most ap- propriate means for landing polar ex- peditions near their destination, pick- Hubert. Wilkins, who is going up there KIDNAPED GIRL, 16, /15 BELIEVED SLAIN BYFUGITIVEKILLER {Francis VCrowley, Wanted in| Dance Hall Hostess Murder, | and Captive Hunted. |[POLICEMAN SHOT DEAD QUIZZING MAN IN CAR | Youths Describe Seizure of Auto With Helen Walsh on Long Island. By the Associated Press. H NEW YORK, May 6.—One hundred | Nassau County police were ordered out today to hunt for- Helen Walsh, 16-, year-old Brooklyn girl, who accom- | panied Francis Crowley on the auto- mobile ride in which Patrolman Fred- erick Hirsch was shot and killed last | night. She is belleved to have been murdered. | District Attorney Elvin N. Edwards said he believed the girl, who has been | missing since the shooting, was killed | either by Crowley or by bullets fired at | the automobile in which Crowley drove | |off after the killing :of Patrolman Hirsch. Bloody Auto Traced | The Walsh girl was brought into the | | case unexpectedly when police found | |an abandoned automobile, its front, | cushions splashed with blood, and traced | ownership to John McCahill, 19, of | Roosevelt, Long Island. ~McCahill told | police that he, Miss Walsh and Clinton | Davis, 19, had gone out for a drive last | night and parked the car along a road at North Merrick, Long Island. Shortly after they had stopped, | crowley, who was known to both Mc- Cahill and Davis, approached the car. | “Why not give me a break with the girl friend?” McCahill quoted him as saying. Abparently frightened by Crowley's | reputation, both boys got out of the | | car. Crowley crawled behind the wheel | and drove off. It was not long afterward that Pa- | | trolman Hirsch and Patrolman Joseph | Yodice, looking for a truck load of | stolen automobile tires, came upon car, parked in a dark lane. Hirsch | | asked to see the driver's license, and | WEDNESDA MAY ) AN EXTRA, GuARD AROUND CANNON PROBE SET TOMORROW BY NYE Bishop Must Waive Immunity E | | | Lion Slain by Bull - In Second Battle, | | ()wn'erhArrested | INV[]LV First Victory by King of Beasts in Mexican Arena Big Alcohol 6, 1931—FORTY PAGES. o Star. ¥ — “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 as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 118,299 CENTS. » P) Means Associated Press. TWO RUM RING INGUIRY if He Wishes to Testify, | Nulled by Quick Horns. ' Drawn Into Federal Probe Senator Declares. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, ‘The Nye Scnatorial Campaign Ex- investigation of the handling of funds | contributed to th: anti-Smith Demo- the | cratic campalgn in Virginia by Bishop | his claws into the bull's face and lal James Cannon at a hearing at 10:30 am. tomorrow. . ing them up later and providing them with supplies during their stay in the Arctic. The Zeppelin expedition is to be financed by William Randolph Hearst, whose newspapers also are backing the ment Swope said: “It is only compara- tively recently that ‘management has e iBe Tundsmaenial addition to the 1 Jabor are also, such as con- tion of employ- bility of continuity of t was some years the introduction of pension plans the retirement of superannuated employes, life insurance, etc. The basis for the introduction of such plans has been to reduce labor turnover and in that way reduce costs. “It is only recently that industry has n to consider other aspects of this voyage. ‘The Graf will carry 45 the Arctic fll{vht, inclug n? Lieut. Comdr. Smith, U. 8. N.; Prof. Samo- lovitch, who was aboard the steamer Krassin when it rescued the Nobile ex- pedition, and Lady Drummond Hay. It will take along complete Polar equipment, including sledges, boats and Arctic clothing. The time of the start will depend on the progress of the Wil- kins expedition. Because of her greater speed, the Graf will not leave Franz Joseph Land ns on | | the man whij t twe n | the man (Whipped out two guns and| genator Nye of North Dakota, chalr- | {man of the committee, announced the | Believes Fugitive Hit. | purpose of th. committee to go ahead | Patrolman Yodice had stopped some | lOMOrTOw with the Cannon matier, fol- | distance from the automobile and by | lowing & full meeting of the committee | the tims he could return fire the ma- | in executive scssion. Two witnesses wul‘ chine had started down the lane. Yo- | be heard, C. D. Stevens, a business man | | | dice, however, was certain some of his !o( Charlottesville, Va., and Miss Ada shots hit it. ¢ Burroughs of Richmond, who is report=d The intensive search for Crowley has | 10 have been connected with the anti- been going on for 10 days—ever since | Smith Democratic Committee in Vir- | the body of Virginia Brannen, a “taxi ginia in 1928. Other witnesses are to | dancer.” was found behind a hedge sur- | be heard in the Cannon case at a | rounding " St Joseph's Seminary at later date. | Yc;:ke‘n. P i | Must Waive Tmmunity. | nie 18 aiso being sought, for theshool. | Bishop Cannon Teturned to Washing- | Wito ‘was wounded when he. attempted | o Teore o eyl e o et Senator 've saild, woul glad to hear the | o talk to Crowley in Lexington avenue | pishop if he wished (o testify tomor- | | last March. | row, provided Bishop Cannon waived em. Never before in economic erises has there been such an awakened consciousness, not only from the t of the community, but also , in the neognmkmon e(h this responsibility, which es one hope- ful that as a result of all this thought and experiment, better methods of study, analyses and approach, and, finally, the solution of this serious prob- Jem will be found.” Mr. Meyer told the that the | general tendency “may and lhogxlld be directed toward high. real pay.” He| added however, conditions in European | countries differ from those in, the| TUnited States, and to introduce the | American system of high wages in most | of them would be “an extremely dan-, gerous undertaking.” Say Limit Reached Here. Meyer agreed with the report of Gino| Olivetti, Ttalian delegate, that the limit | of high wages has been exceeded in the | United States and that this “explains the attempt on the part of industrial| interests to obtain an increase in cus-| toms duty." | Citing the cases of England and Ger- | many since the war, Mever said their | policy of high wages although in miti-| gated form compared with those in | ‘America has not given satisfactory re-| Fults. { “Without pretending that their d:-! presion is the exclusive result of high wages” he sald, “nevertheless it can- not be denied that they have been im-{ portant_contributing factors. vl He blamed part of Great Bruama! troubles on the fact that while she has | Iree trade the cost of living and vages | are high, and added: “Free trade and low cost of living must ?0 side by side. | One without the other leads to a dis-’ turbance in the economic equilibrium.”; Great Britain, he said, had been con- wdering abandonment of her free tra (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) S!AMEéE KING UNDERGOES | EYE OPERATION SUNDAY Right Optic Nerve of Visitor, How- ever, Said to Have Respond- ed to Treatment. Re the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. May 6— King Prajadhipok, who has traveled from Siam to America to have a cata- rart removed from his left eye, will be operated on Sunday morning at Ophir Hall, by Dr. John M. Wheeler of the New' York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Wheeler sald today the right eye. | which was slightly affected, had re- sponded to treatment and would not! require an operation. The royal Siamese visitor and his Queen will attend a reception Thursday noon of the New York State Chamber of Commerce. After this the King will yest in preparation for the operation. He must stay in a darkened room for two or three weeks after the operation, his physician revealed. FOG DELAYS LINERS Thick * Screen Enveloping New York Harbor Hinders Docking. tion which has been in preparation for GOLD STAR MOTHERS At the same time that the police were | ordered out to search for the missing | Walsh girl, an airplane under sealed orders took off from Roosevelt Field. It carried Detective Sergt. Kearney of the Nassau County police, John Quirk, | ! chief of police of Yonkers, and Seward | Spoor, assistant district ~attorney for | Nassau County. T was admitted that | the party was hunting Orowley, but mei destination of the plane was not | revealed. i until Sir Hubert's submarine Nautilus | is within two days of the Pole. ‘The rendezvous with Sir Hubert will be part of the Zeppelin Arctic expedi- some time. SAIL TO WAR GRAVES Washington Woman Among Trio Given Awards Before Ship Leaves Hoboken. FLYERS FOUND DEAD IN MAIL TRANSPORT Wreckage of Pacific Plane Located; on Mountainside Near | Burbank, Calif. ! By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 6.—After being told the whole Nation was proud of them and their sacrifices, 150 Gold Star Mothers safled for France today on the liner George Washington They comprised the first 1931 con- tingent to depart on a pilgrimage to the graves of American World War dead. In a bon voyage ceremony before the vessel sailed from Hoboken, N. J., Frederick *H. Payne, Assistant Secre- tary of War, told the women their trip | was as idealistic in conception as that of their cons. “The spirit in which this opportunity is proffered by our Government and is By the Associated Press. i BURBANK. Calif. May _ 6.—Art | Starbuck and Charles R. Parmalee. | pilots of a Pacific Afr Transport mail | plane, were found dead in the wreckage | of their plane on a mountainside eight | miles north of here today. Flying the northbound night airmail from San Diego, the alrmen met, death ! xcr‘\nfivhea\y fog that shrouded this vi- Officials of the Pacific Air Transport | Co. here said they were in touch with the ship by radio shortly before it crashed. ,The plane was flying &t about e of thoae L cet, they said, and the pilots did American soldiers who slecp eternally | ‘l‘f,fid';i'?"m'fiey vfl;e e e beneath the sod of foreign 1ands, has | gance fop " 2Ithough there was a| ts root deep in the hearts of sll our| '~ Parmaice was a fiyer for the Pan-| people,” Mr. Payne sail .o | American Airways for four years. | Their pride in you and thelr love | “Both piots were married and each for you are equalled only by their Nope | had one child. Starbuck lived in Los that in this journey you will find 8| angeles; Parmalee in Oakland. comforting peace of mind to case the | " The plane left San Diego at 10:15 burden you must forever carry. | o'clock last night for Los Angeles. Among those at the ceremony Were |Shortly before midnight officials at the representatives of the Army and Navy. | company’s airport heard the drone. of State and muncipal governments &nd | one engine as the plane circied. But- Paul W. Chapman, president of the|bank. Because of the fog, scouting United States Lines. | planes could mot take off to lead the Certificates and medallions were given | lost ship to its base. At dawn two three of the mothers, Mrs. Mary L. planes took the air. The fog had lifted Bentley of Cincinnati, Mrs. Annie P.|somewhat and shortly afterward the Morsted of Prankforts, N. Dak. and Mrs. | mail planc was sighted on. the moun- Mary K. Bayley of Washington. Other | tainside, a complete wreck. Both pllot certificates will be presented en route | were found strapped in their sea to Europe. The ship did not catch fire. : i MODERN POETRYV'(IS HE TO WORKS LD SUPERIOR IN ELIZABETHAN DAYS)| Businessman-Poet Makes Light of Poems of Shakespeare | and Swinburne in Comparison With Millay’s. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, May 6.—In support of 't theories—that more good verse is be! written now than during | Millay's sonnets and put them up be- : side two of Shnke!pel:re's"'eflr. Feunk | said today. “If the authorship is not known I'll def% any to tell which | atorial immunity. “If he does not waive immunity.” said Senator Nye, “the committee probably | will go ahead with the development of | the case without Bishop Cannon as a witness.” The committee decided at its meet- ing today, after thoroughly canvassing the situation. that its power of investi- ~ gation in the senatorial elections of 1930 in Alabama and North . Carolina were limited to the sole question of the use of money. The Committee on Privi- | leges and Elections, Senator Nye said, | to which contests in the Alabama and | North Carolina electi-ns have been re- | ferred, will have sole jurisdiction in in- vestigating all matters relating to bal- | loting and the elections. Will Probe Heflin Defeat. | Chairman Nye sald, however, that | it wes the purpose of his committee later to conduct hearings in Alabama | regarding the use of money in the Sen- elections in which Senator Bankhead defeated former Senator Heflin. The committee also may in- vestigate further the use of money in North Carolina elections, Former Sen- ator Heflin was before the Nye com- mittee for a few minutes today. In the past, Senator Heflin has strongly urged the Nye committee to go into bis State and investigate charges of fraud which he brought against the Bankhead cam- paign management. ‘The Nye committee will hear also tomorrow Prof. Charles E. Merriam, who holds the chair of political science at the University of Chicago. Prof. Merrfam has been asked to appear be- fore the committee to discuss proposed revision of the Federal corrupt practices act. Prof. Merriam is a recognized au- thority in political science. He was formerly an alderman, representing the seventh ward of Chicago, and was publican candidate for Mayor of Chicago in 1911. He formerly was president. of tTe American Political Science Associa- tion. Bishop Cannon said today he expect- ed to be present at any hearing of the Senate Campaign Committee fnw his cgn;plign expenditures in Virginia in 1928. The Southern Methodist churchman returned to Washington yesterday from 2 church meeting in Nashville, Tenn,, and entered Sibley Memorial Hospital. “I said previously,” Bishop Cannon said today, “that I did not think a matter of such importance to me as the committee hearing should take place without my presence. My physical con- dition is not good and I require diet and treatment that best can be obtained in a hospital. That is why I entered the hospital, but I expect to be present when the hearing takes place.” Bishop Cannon previously had chal- lenged the authority of the committee to inquire into the disposition of the $65,300 he received from E. C. Jameson, New York capitalist, to oppose Alfred E. Smith in Virginia during the 1928 presidential campaign. Chairman Nye, | however, decided the committee had the necessary authorization. A resolution giving it the power to inquire into vio- lations of the Federal corrupt practices act was introduced by Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia. It passed the Senate. body are Miss Millay's - spe;.r Yy y's and which Shake “I think Hoff It is a guessing game. favorably with i{ne!\'fum .e:an pz'nree:e: "-i It consists of reading aloud the work | much bite and satire in Dorothy Par- of the Elizabethans and Victorians and | ker's verse as there is in Pope's—and the verses of contemporary poets, with- a lot more beauty. any of the so-called golden ages of literature—Wilfred J. Funk, business man-poet, has devised a new game. NEW YORK, May 6 (#).—A thick fog enveloped New York harbor carly today, | guessing delaying incoming ocean and coastwise liners from docking. French liner Prance, Quaranting at 5 am. was forced to ichor off Ambros: Light. “The linsr M2nuel Arnus and the n liner *Western Oce~n made avarantine, but could proceed no fur- due at|ral out revealing the auth , and then | “Among readers of 2 who wrate what. much name worship. p&e:rzolg'fi; :: “There is, for instance, this line: our knees at the mention of Words- “Qld sounds born of the gossamer of | worth’s name. Yet some of the finest in—-" | poetry that hag ever been written is Swinburne might have written it, but | appearing all tfe time in' nowspapors, he didn’t. It appeared the other day in | It was contributed, a good deal of it, the light verse column of a magazine by business men, who had to get it with a large and non-literary circula- | out of their system:. They didn't get tion ny money for it. They only wanted W0 dabe im0 of Rdod\Sh WOCOMHG seo b D BRDMA . .. PACIFIC HOP DELAYED NEMURO, Japan, May 6 (#).—8elji Yoshihara, Japanese aviator, postponed his take-off from here today for Toko- tan Island on_a scheduled flight from Tokio to San Francisco because of bad weather. . g ‘Weather permitting, he will resume his fight tomorrow, stopping at Muro- fon Bay of Simusir Island, one of the Kurile group, instead of Tokotan, as originally scheduled. He left, Tokio May 4 and planned to i 10-26 dogny By the Associatad Press SAN LUIS POTOSI. Mexico, May 6. —The licn may be the king of the jungles, but the bull is monarch of the arena when they meet in mortal | penditures Committee will resume its | combat. A lion called Prince won the first | him low majestically cut of the ring. But the second round brought dis- aster. Prince got in the way of the| bull's horns and was gored to death. The lion's owner, Luigi Fernandi, later was arrested fcr having objected to the beast’s return to the ring after the first encounter. A SALE OF HAY CONTENTS ASKED Trustees Under $110,000 Chattel Mortgage Petition Court for Permit. | Legal steps preliminary to a public sale of all the furnishings of the lav- ishly appointed Hay-Adams House, Sixteenth and H streets, were taken today in District Supreme Court. The petition for an order permitting the sale was filed by Hugh H. O'Bear and Edmund D. Campbell, trustees un- der a chattel mortgage for $110,000. ‘The trustees, members of the law firm of Douglas, O'Bear and Douglas, alleged there has hgen a default, in pay- | | ment by the present operators. The | mortgage notes are held by the Ward- man Realty & Construction Co. Management of Hotel. ‘The three men now serving as trust- |ees for the bankrupt Swartzel, Rheem & Hensey Co., recently assumed super- | vision of the management of the hotel. | This action was taken while they were | | serving as receivers, when it was found the hotel was indebted to a consider- | able extent to the mortgage house. | Justice Jesse C. Adkins gave the trustees for Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey | ‘ | to show | and M. M. Doyle, until Monday | be | cause why the petition shculd not granted. The trustees for the bankrupt mort- gage house announced several weeks ago they would supervise operation of the hotel in the interest cf the creditors of the bankrupt. Rheem Examination Friday. 1If the petition filed today is granted, the hotel will be stripped of all furni- ture and other equipment covered by the chattel mortgage. ‘The creditors’ examination of officials of Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co. will be resumed at the concern’s office, 700 nocn at 1:30 o'clock. | 'MANY STOCKS HIT BY BEAR PRESSURE United States Steel Goes Down 33,} Reaching Lowest in Seven Years. | | By the Associated Pre: | NEW YORK, May 6.—The stock ‘market, with occasional interruptions, drifted quietly lower today, as bears, concentrating their attention on United States Steel common, depressed that prominent issue to the lowest price in seven years. | United States Steel wasg sent down more than $3 a share, going below $111. It went below the 1927 minimum of $111.37 for the first time, and to a record low since the number of shares was increased by 40 per cent in that . In 1024, the smaller capitaliza- tion sold at $94.25 a share. ‘The market rallied for a time around midday, and losses of $2 to more than $3 in such jssues as American Tele- phone, Johns-Manville, Case and Allied Chemical were about canceled. Fur- ther selling pressure appeared as trad- ing wore on, and ‘the rally failed to block of Fifteenth street, Priday after- | I - G i by Baltimore Jury. By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, May 6.—Several large manufacturers of industrial alcohol, Federal officials said today, are involved | round in a match yesterday. He hooked |In the investigation being made by a | id Federal grand jury here of an alcohol | distribution ring sald to have Nation- wide ramifications. . More than a score of witnesses from | | several sections of the country of the approximately 200 summoned had testi: fied today, among them two women ed rom New Jersey and two men from | Lansing, Mich.; several from New Yorl and paints and chemicals. « James M. ;"Iofll. assistant district al torney, in ¢ urdertaken by the Government. FINANCE FIRM HEAD LABOR ASKS CAPPER HT AND ROBBEDTO PUSH INQUIRY ESINDUSTRY Manufacturers OF 9600 IN GARAGE, Harry S. Marine Loses Day’s Collections as He Prepares to Leave Home. MYSTERY PHONE CALL YESTERDAY REPORTED ;Lnan Official's Assailant Waited Near Car—Early Start Saved Daughter From Attack. Harry S. Marine, 38 years old, presi- | dent of the District Finance Corpora- | tion, was robbed of approximately $600 today by #n unknown assailant, who Jeft him lying unconscious on the floor of the garage in the rear of his home | at 4920 Ninth street. Only the fact that Marine left his house earlier than usual prevented his ! ! 14-year-old daughter Emabel from be- g attacked by the robber, who is be- — lioved to have used a blackjack or some other blunt instrument as a weapon. Ambushed in Garage. Marine, who maintains an office at 516 Eighth street southeas AS AS- saulted as he entered the garage. He had opened the door far enough to reach into his automobile and place his brief case on the batk seat when he was struck over the head. “I don't know who hit me” Marine declared later, “and I don't know what xind of weapon was used. All T know OF SCHOOL CRASHES |Central Union Wants Senate Investigation of Municipal Architect’s Office. THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN DECLARED IN DANGER Attempts to Fix Responsibility De- clared to Have Developed Noth- ! ing of Constructive Nature, | Organized labor of the District, | ihiough its mouthpiece, the Central 1 Labor Union, prepared today to urge the Senate District Committee to make a thorough investigation of the munic- ipal architect’s office in an effort to get at the root of the controversy over con- | struetion of public 'school buildings. The union's action was precipitated by the dispute between District officials i and building contractors which grew out of attempts to fix the blame for the | collapse, April 28, of a large section of conerete being poured into forms on the second floor addition to the Stuart | Junior High School and the recent i crash of steel framing for the Roosevelt { High School auditorium. Draft Request Today. Frank J. Coleman, secretary of the union, was directed to prepare the re- quest for an inquiry. He said the letter i would be drafted today and sent im- mediately to Senator Capper, chairman jof the Senate District Committee. School construction and the contro- i t something struck my head with | t:tr!r?(;c!?nrce O of ‘& suddsn’ sund: 3 | 1oarKEwen | DINEEE J UNMS & u v i f an hour | - y the union at_its | e, “Asearch of his pockets revealed | (SOe A2 the acopuon of b Teeoles | the money, most of which he had col= | it oo 7, Bare o ot e | ecied Trom clients vesterday, was gone. | % CRPPEL BommLe to FERestents. Only about $8 of it was his own. | Mr. Coleman, “feels that a cor Man Phoned Yesterday. of this kind should mot be igmored Marine staggered into his house and | 0" Schoot :)hm.r‘e’:f :lz":ufi Mm told his wife, Mrs. Rebecca Marine.|spongibility for the two crashes should | what had happened. She summoned | fixed, and the union believes Sen- | o2t TS Arnold, 5000 Tilinois avenue, | ator Capper's committee, because of its Who ireated her husband for & SeVETE ! vital interest in the public schools, i |later that Mar i ‘ nd one each from Chicago and Boston. | Marine usually AU AMSijc of the witnesses were dealers in | fariand Junior | arge of the investigation, | said it was the largest of the kind ever | zcalp wound. " According to Mrs. Marine, a man - | telephoned her yesterday and question- her as to her huspband’s income. “I think the man was planning fo rob my husband then.” she said. The attack occurred about 8:15 am. takes Emabel to High School, where she |is a student. He had to leave e than usual this morning, however, and Emabel did not go to the garage with k | dren, Ruth, 11; Shirley, 7, and Her- The inquiry was opened in August.' perr s, 1929, after a squad of prohibition agent. found a 5,000-gallon still and 40 drum: of lacquer thinner in an old distillery plant here, and later two 3,000-gallon plants and more lacquer thinner. A year ago 28 persons were indicted by the Federal grand jury and officials | caid they expected 125 additional in- dictments when the grand jury ends its present sitting, probably next week. Acting with Hoffa is John F. Colderon, Special Assistant Attorney General, and among other officials who have been | working in the investigation are H. L. Duncan. agent in charge at Kansas City; Willlam A. Page, special investi- | gator from New Jersey: Charles M.| Forbes, New York investigator; D. W. Griffin, inspctor of the Bureau of In-* dustrial Alcohol at Cincinnati; Charles S. Trump, Baltimore investigator, and Joseph Tatlow, special agent from Nek | Jersey. | SAGLE RECOVERING FROM BULLET WOUND Man Who Killed Wife and Shot Self Still in Critical Condi- tion, Doctors Say. Special Dispatch o The Star. | RICHMOND, May 6.—The condition of Donald W. Sagle, 26, of Washing- ton, who fired a bullet into his al Co., Julius I. Peyser, Henry P. BIAir | after fatally wounding his 18-year-old | was cha bride of four months, Mrs. Agnes Jenkins Sagle, is improving steadily, physicians at Memorial Hospital saic/ today. Sagle is not yet out:of danger. how- ever, the doctors explaining that the crisis in such cases usually occurs the third day after the patient is operated upon. Sagle submitted to the surgeon’s knife Monday, the day after the shooting. ‘When first questioned by detectives, Sagle readily admitted killing his wife and attempting to end his own life, explaining she had refused to live with | | m. “I'm glad she's dead.” is said to have been his rejoinder when informed his bride’s wound had proved fatal. Mrs. Sagle was buried in Riverview Cemetery yesterday. | Sagle and his wife, whom he mar- ried after a five-day courtship, for- merly lived at 213 H street, Washing- ton. His father and stepmother, Mr. | and Mrs. John W. Sagle, livg at 827 Fifth street, Washington. s s YANKEES TAKE LEAD, 3.2, IN THIRD FRAME Cronin's Homer With Manush on Offset by Twd: Doubles in Second Scoring Three. BY JOHN B. KELLER. NEW YORK. May 6—New York was leading the Nationals here this afternoon 18 the third inning. The score was 3 to 2. FIRST INNING. WASHINGTON—Myer fouled to Geh- rig. Recse tossed out Sam Rice. Ma- nush walked. Cronin hit a homer into the l-ft field stands, scoring Manush ahead of him. West flied to Ruth. TWo Tuns. NEW YORK—Combs walked. Reese drove into a double play, Cronin to Myer to Kuhel. Ruth bounced a singl2 oft Kuhel's glove, Gehrig lined to No runs. SECOND INNING. WASHINGTON — Kubel fanned. Dickey threw him out after dropping third strike, Bluege dropped a double in right. Spencer walked. Pischer fanned. Myer fanned. No runs. NEW YORK—Chapman got a single Cronin. bdomen | back of second. Lazzeri walked. Bluege | rged with an error when he muffed Lary's foul. Lary Dickey doubled to left center, scoring Chapman and sending Lazzeri to third. Johnson doubled to left, scoring Laz- zeri and Dickey. Combs flied to Manush. Reese grounded to Kuhel, Three runs. | THIRD INNING. ‘WASHINGTON—Sam Rice hoisted to Chapman. both went after Manush's fly to short right. Ruth made the catch, but fell, and time had to be taken out until he recovered his wind. Play resumed with ! | Ruth returning to his position in right. Cronin fouled to Dickey. No runs. NEW YORK—Ruth fanned. Gehrig, lined to Manush. Chapman flied to Sam Rice. No runs. Dediscount Rate Reduced. The Federal Reserve Board an- nounced today that the Federal Re- serve banks of Boston and Philadelphia had lowered their rediscount rates, Philad and Boston from 2!, to 2 per cent. BULLET IMBEDDED IN HIS HEART KILLS MAN AFTER TWO MONTHS Arkansas Legislator, Shot in Hotel Room, Succumbs to Pneumonia Resulting From Wound. By the Assoclated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark, May 6—W. U. McCabe, representative of Baxter Coun- ty in the Arkansas Legislature, died in a hospital here today from the effects of a bullet imbedded in his heart under mysterious circumstances in a Little Rock hotel nearly two months ago. Surgeons never succeeded in remov- ing the bullet, but McCabe recovered sufficlently a few weeks ago to leave the hcspital and return to his home. Last week, however, he contracted pneumonia and was returned to the hospital in a critical conditicn.. Doctors | ia developed a8 & woupdy | Lonsdale’s room_which bore ev] 4ab having been fed McCabe was struck by a bullet fired through the door of his hotel room last March. H. G. Lonsdale, a traveling salesman of Atlanta, Ga., who occupied a room across the hall, was charged with assault with intent to kill and was released under bond. Authdrities said today he would be charged with murder. Lonsdale denied he fired the shot. A hotel clerk told officers, however, he complained previously that McCabe was intoxicated and was creating a disturbance. The clerk quoted him saying, “If you can't stop him, I will.” Police said they found a pistol in idence Tier The Marines have three other chil- | fanned. | Ruth and Reese collided as | elphia_from 31> to 3 per cent the agency which should make the in- vestigation. Controversy Deplored. “Attempts made. to fix the blame thus far have led to a controversy be- tween District officials and the econ- tractors—one other. and there’s been only a Jot of smoke. And the union believes in the old that ‘Where there’s is smoke there must be fire’ We want Senator Capper's committee to find the fire.” Mr. Coleman vointed out that the Washington Building Trades Counell, which is represented in the uniom, % particularly interested in school house | construction. and is anxi to have | lous | fixed through an investigation. ! District officials did not appear great- | Iy exercised today about charges of | Heron Todd, local contractor. to the i effect that the roof of the mew Mc- . Kinley High School is sagging and in a dangerous condition. The roof was inspected Monday by George Warren, chief of the inspectors of the municipal aschitect’s office, and was pronount in good condition and perfectly safe. This inspection was made at the re- quest of a Washington newspaper, t> { which_information had been conveyed | that the roof was in dangerous condi- tion. The inspector and a representa- i the responsibility for the two crashes tive of the newspaper were satisfied that the report was unfounded and no mention of tbe report was made. To Investigate Again, Nevertheless, to allay fears some ' parents may feel a second inspection | will be made, this time by Assistant | Municipal Architect 8. B. Walsh and | Assistant Engineer Commissioner H. L. | Robb. This second inspection will prob- ‘ ably be made this afternoon. | Engineer Commissioner John C. Got- | wals, commenting on the situation, said today: “Prima_facle, of course. T would say that the roof was in good condition. It was inspected during construction. and before acceptance But this is an extremely serious charge and we can- not do otherwise than =atisfy ourselves absolutely as to what the condition of that roof is.” Mr. Todd is engaged in a contro- versy with the District as to the fall of 70 tons-of steel being put up by Mr. Todd's - construction company as part of the structure of the new Roosevelt High School, he and the District blam- ing each other for the fall. Charges Referred to Board. | The Commissioners have organized & I board to determine the general question of whether steel construction such as that designed for the Roosevelt School is safe during construction and also after complgtion. Maj. Gotwals said today that the charge as to the McKin- | ley Toof would not be referred to this | board. Maj. Donald A. Davison, | of the board, said that one of its mem- | bers, Edward W. Donn, jr., was out of the city, and that the board would not meet until his return. He declined to { comment in advance of the first meet- |ing as to what the course of its pro- | ceeding would be, whether by public hearing or otherwise. Meanwhile, numerous inquiries con- cerning the safety of the building were being_ received at the Franklin Admin- istration Building. Dr. Frank W. Bal- lou, superintendent cof schools. in- structed thegtelephone operators to in- form anxiou¥ mothers they should use their own discretion in deciding whether to send thelir children to the school. Officials indicated the matter would be dicussed at a meeting of the Board of Education later in the day. chairman MICHELSON IS WEAKER Doctors Fear Distinguished Scien- tist Will Not Recover. PASADENA, Calif, May 6 (#).—Dr. Albert A. Michelson, 79, distinguished physicist and the first in this country to win the Nobel prize for scientific achievement, is growing- gradually weaker. Attending physicians have ex- pressed a fear he may not recover. Overwork in his final experiment to eliminate a slight error in his determi- nation of the speed of light brought a nervous collapse a month sgo. It was disclosed today he could move his limbs only with difficulty. Radio Progams on Page 1 !