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4 “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star’s carrier system covers every oty block and the regular edi- tion 1s delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. - WEATHER. (U 8 Weather Bureau Foreeast.) Mostly cloudy and cooler: probably showers tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures—Highest, 82, at 4 p.m. yesterday; Jowest, 59, at 3 a.m. today. Full report on page No. MOBS OPEN DRIVE AGAINST CHURCH IN MADRID; MARTIAL LAW 1S DECLARED Jesuit Headquarters and Nine Other Catholic Insti- tutions Burned as Troops Take Over City. Fintered as meco: 31,786. GOVERNMENT BLAMES RIOTS ON COMMUNISTS Minister Manra Announces That @ity Will Be Turned Into Armed Camp, With Barbed-Wire En- tanglements, and MacKine Guns Placed at Strategic Points. | | W the Asgoriaied Press. MADRID, May 11. Defiant of svery effort to restore order. mobs aurged through the streets of | Madrid today burning 10 ©ath- | olic institutions and attacking| numerous others in anti-cgurch demonstrations. | The Republican . government. which blamed the roting on the| aytreme lefts or Communists, de-| elared martial law and announced that it would maintain the repub- lic by force if necessary. Shortly before 4 p.m., regular army infantry and cavalry marched into the streets and began taking over the work of the civil guards. Despite this show*of force, with its threat of open street warfare, the mobs continued their attack on Catho- e institutions. which began yestel ial demonstrations, iting Joss of two lves, de - ‘!?M‘buuu-church ‘demonstra. veloped tions early this mornin; o then the mob 'to s church ad- . n, and this also rday re- et ?’al! ‘burned. Pour Gacoline on Ifruetures. LOSr @MO0T WAre Sllack-, >s.cnolie iasun tiont ane brickosls sad viislo- ‘While firemen were pouring Waier od | port of him. Tuins of Jesult head- As twilight gathered smoke was ris- Ing from 10 Catholic bufldings fired by the infurigted mob. ‘Miguel Maura, minister of the in- terior, came out of the cabinet meeting. which had Jasted sll day, and announced | that the government would turn the rity into an armed camp with barbed | wire entanglements stretched in the | streeis and machine guns set up where they would do the most good. Troops called into action todsy would be reinforced by soldiers brought in | from the , he said. "The cabinet sent word to all the pro- | vinclal governors directing that they | take such steps as sre needful in| maintaining order. The message ip- vested the governors with the power 10 prociaim martial in _their own dis- ~7Continved on Page 2, Colimn 5) . TROOPS KILL 7,000 | OUTLAWS IN CHINA| Capture of 800, Including 100 Women, Reported by Nanking. 1,000 Soldiers Slain. By the Associated Press. NANKING, Chins, May 1! - Nation- alist government, military headquarters here issued a statement saying troops Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 post office; Washington, 'erisis, #nd every one realized thi nd class matter D. C. @he WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., MOS.DAY. MAY 11, 1931—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. Foening Star. Sunday’'s Saturday’s Circulation, 112,776 Circulation, 123.435 * ¥ TWO CENTS. POST-W BLAMED FOR CUSTOMS PACT Author of Plan Say bors Curtailed Austria’s Trade and League Fdiled to Help. m3 Union Dr. Johann Schober, as o foundeti of the Austro-Germa regional agreement which the following of the customs union. meets at Geneva Mey foreign ministe ustos P! on he fir BY DR. JOHA Poreign Minister and Vic VIENNA, May 11 (NANA..—B Europe's states to 27, and by the establ safeguarding measurer, especially by the newly created s Iife was disorganized and demoralized Of this chaotic condition Austria * lar was a victim, because through the t. lost the greater part of what before the war was her home market and found herse ent primarily on an export trade, which in turn was _extraordinarily curtailed by the tariffs of her immediate neighbors. The League of Nations showed itse)f inca- pable of helping Austria to surmount the trade barriers erected against her, and finding itself in a position where it could not honor the promise given in the 1922 Geneva protocol to assi in rebulldln, limited itself to a recommendation in Austria’s neighbors adopt a friendly economic atti- | tude toward her, a recommendation whi time went unheeded. : As a result business conditions in Av from bad to wofse. however, had begun meanwhile to feel th ther found some way of effecting a customs A sconomie co-operation which would in no way in- §§ fringe on the sovereignty of the Europes: Gradus! Progress Required. This way seemed. opened by the Pan-Europe (Continued on P BRIAND ANNOUNCES FOR PRESOENCY Decision Is Given French Delegation Calling to Ask Him to Enter Race. By the Associated Press. PARITS, May 11.—Anstide Briand an- nounced himself s candidate for the presidency this afternoon He made his announcement to 30 representatives of the JTeft Republican groups, who called upon him to ask that he become their candidate in the presidential elaction on Wedneedev ‘The Democratic left, Jergest group 'n the Senste, decided thet its members might, vote for whomever they pleased on the first ballot in the election Wednesdey, but that their second bal- lot should be cast for “a candidate of the left.” ‘The sctlon was interpreted as favor- able to Briand and unfavorable to Paul “Doumer, M’e:l:n ’o‘t. ut.t:c somu' the p.mm% e 4 e 3 e m:p!:“u‘:mnb)a favor Briand's candi- May Aonounce Tonight. ‘Briand probably will say this evening whether he is to stand for the presi- denev. ¢ - d 16 ¢nogse hetwsen fne com 0ai2Mve 0gsciity ©f “he premoenc? #no con iquarion in ine joreign office, 8 'ano 0ss wijaheld = @ecision woul po7 s 104f he covid aee Just bow uviled vali- ©u3 Paiiy gioups would be in Bup- Royalists, participating in Sunday's national Joan of Arc fete day celebra- tion, staged a street demonstration against M. Briand, hissing and booing whenever his pame was mentioned. FARMER'S SUICIDE FOLLOWS SLAYING North Carolina Man Takes Life After Two Women Are Killed on His Land. OONCORD, N. C, May 11 /#.-R. L. Barrier, owner of the farm on which Mrs. Chris Starnes and her daughter Anna were slain early Saturday, was found shot to death near his home to- dav. A shotgun was by his side Deputy sheriffs sald Barrier apparently | committed suicide. Early today Barrier appeared at the home of his brother and borrowed 2 | good A few minutes later & shot was hesrd. ‘Barrier's nephews investi- gated and found their uncle’s body. Relatives sald- he had been in a highly nervous state since the bodies of Mrs. Sarnes d her daughter were found on his land. Police meanwhile continued their in- vestigation into the double slaying They said they had a definite clue, but declined further comment, - Duchess Wins Divoroe. LONDON, May 11 (#).—The divorce court today granted a decree nisi with costs to the Duchess of Manchester, opposing bandits along the Honan, Hupeh and Anhwel provineial borders had killed 7,000 outlaws and captured 800, including 100 women, in the last fortnight, The military reported it had lost 1,000 men in the engagements. Bandit activities in the central prov- nces have resulted in much bloodshed in the Jast five weeks. Communists seized the town of Patung, Western Hupeh, April 4, killing and looting in- discriminately. All but 20 of the 200 residents of “Tenghsien, Shantung, were massacred by bandits as a Yevenge measure in mid-April. On a previous occasion the outlaws had attacked the town and had been driven off by residents. ‘The bandits returned with a larger force Xilled Ocm- formerly Miss Helena Zimmerman of Cincinnati. The case was undefended st, he descr! r which he will battle When the League of Netions Council her economic structure, the league The other Furopean sfates. au | Native of Germany and Dan- AR TARIFF WALLS| ! s Policies of Neigh- d vice chancelior of Austria is authot and also the creator of the so-celled n for Pen Europe. In thres articles, of ibes in detal]l the hirth and significance NN SCHOBER. e Chancellor of Austria y the peace treaties, which mcreased shment, Just after the war nf high-tariff Europe’s buziness | n particu- reaties she 1t depend- protective ist Austria 1925 that ich at that istria went e economic e must, be nd general ] n states. Dr. Scheher, age 3. Column 2.) £100.000) Mansion Moved Five Miles at. Expense of $150,000 By the Associated Prese LOS ANGELES, Calif.. May 11. -—Mrs. James C. Drake js moving her mansion and landscape at & cost of $150,000. The house cost oniy $100.000 when built 20 years ago. The neighborhood has changed since and Mrs. Drake decided to trans- plant the house and grounds to an_exclusive residential district. Moved five miles in four sec- tions, the statelv merble, brick and stone structure already is in place at the new site. Now landscape artisis are af work. FEvery tree. shrub and vine | is to be transplanted. the topsoil taken up and relaid. It cost $2.000 to move one tree alone. 11 STODENWARK FIGHT IS PLANNED ish Pilot Fix May 17 as Starting Date. | ed Pross . | TY, N. V. Mey A wure n-norn. American wno feund gooo | forune jn ine Tniae Sraies snd At | Dii-a piior 97e Wacing Boxl PLep ion3 here 20r 108 @and agvenWe Of e Lves—a ®ip by au fiom thew sdopted lsnd across tiae AUantic Qcesn to the countries of their birth. For Otlo Hillig, wealthy Tiberiy pho- tographer, it s jong sirelch of years back to Steinbrucken, Germany, where he wes born. Millig, now §5. left the German city 40 years ago. He mever | has been back. . |, Holgar Hofrils, his Danish pilot on i | By the Associat v 19% i v Hof the contemplated transatlantic hop, lett Denmark seven years ago. He is now 27. He has been a pilot for six years. ‘The Hillig-Hoirlis argosy commences on May 17, when the two in their Bel- anca_sirplane sail away from Roose: | yelt Field for Harbor Grace, Newfound- |land. When the weather is right they | will take the air at Harbor Grace, with Copenhagen, 3,100 miles away, their | estination. They expect to see the Danish capital 28 hours after leaving Newfoundland. No rransatlantic fiver | has ever reached Scandinavia. Plane Named Liberty. This week, Liberty will bid its name- sake, the single-motored Liberty, and its crew of two good-by. Hillig has lived here 34 years. He came here & poor itinerant picture taker. He made photographs and the wealthy re- sorters paid well for them, Otto saved and invested. The two men mer last year when Hoirlis came barnstorming to Liberty. ~(Continued on Page 3, Column -4.) | Dean of Pacific Shippers Has Se- rious Kidney Ailment. SAN RAFAEL, Calif, May 11 (P. - Physicians #aid the condition of Capt. Robert Dollar, 87, dean of Pacific Coast shipping men, who has heen seriously 11 with a kidney ailment the last five Asvs, Temained ninchanged todav CLEAR X-RAY PICTURES MADE OF CHEST BETWEEN HEART BEATS Scientists Also Announce Instrument Assuring Certain Density in *‘Shots.” By the Associated Press. SYRACUSE, N. Y. May Jl—A mechanism for use in taking unblurred X-ray pictures of the chest between heartbeats, just as a machine fires between the blades of a com plane’s propeller, was announced today at s meef of the American Sana- torium tion. Charles Weyl of the Moore School of i 5 of the University Pennsylvania made the t air- | the exposures between the beats of the heart so as to produce a clear, compo: site negative, thus avoiding the obsouri: ties, or blurs, according to its designe: that hnve‘b:;n r}?r;ceamheremlo:de as a result of e 5 17 ng cal A:Plhfl,’l Mbkm.' ; o other instrument, the comparator densitometer, announced by the same after several {Beaten Editor Fails to An- ! port to the court the failure of the wit- {4n"fail. CAPT.DOLLAR UNCHANGED | % | Léfic called st her home and CONTEMPT CHARGE 1S FILED AGAINST | DOUTHITT IN PROBE swer Grand Jury Summons to Tell About Gambling. PROSECUTOR WAITS HOUR, THEN ASKS FOR ACTION - Missing Witness Said to Have Gon:: to Philadelphia After Recov- ering From Assault. Horry N. Douthitt, 43-vear-old editor of the Bluecoat, unofficial organ of the Police Department. who was beaten into unconsciousness by two men recently, was cited for contempt of court today when he failed to appear before the grand jury end tell what he knows, if anvthing, about charges he is- alleged 1o have made about corruption in the | Police Department Donihitt, was siubpoenasd fo wxm---.-y hefore the grand tury after he had de clared he believed he was aftacked be- cause of remarks he had made about gambling activities. Assistant United States Attorney Wil- liam H. Collins was ready to proceed with an examination of the witness at 11 o'clock, the time mentioned in the , and waited nearly an hour sting the grand jury fo re- | | | ness o appear Svecial Report Made "The special report of the grand iy contempt proceedinge against uthitt reads: “The grand jury of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for the April term, AD. 1931, now in ses- sion, reports to the honorable court as follows: “That the grand jury this day was o begin An investigation in_ the case of the United States versus John Doe, #n investigation into the alleged cor- ruptive conduct on the part of mem- bers of the Metropolitan Police Depart- ment of the District of Columbla. “That in connection with this inves- tigation one Harry Douthitt, until re- cently a resident of the District of Co- lumbia. and now located at 327 East Sharpnack street, Philadelphia, Pa.. was subpoenaed on May 5, 1931. at Philadelphia, by the TUnited States marshal in and for Philadelphia, for appearance here this day before the grand jury at 11 a.m | The grand jury desires further to, report that, at the appointad hour of 11 a.m. this dev, ths said Harry Douthitt, | who had been personally served for ai parence #5 aforeseld, was called| throughout *he halls of this court, and at the grand jury room, and did fail to respond, and did thereby ignore the g:oeu of this honorable court for the efit of this body. o Ask Contempt Ciiation. “Wherefore the grand jurors of the Supreme Court of the let_of Co- lumbia, for the April term, A. D. 1931, reporting the above fact to the court, respectfully pray that this honorable | court, direct a rule to be served against | the said Harry Douthiti, wherever he ! mzy.be found, requiring him to show | cause, if any there be, why he should not he held in contempt of this hon- | crable ~ourt * T'pon iac ne granc ! 0oys Jucrice Goroon immeaiaisi~ 3ees 8 ¢i'auon #gainy Doutally ‘n tne Dol oring 1 * Upon consiGeia oo of ne (2OQLI and periidon fled this day by the graoaj i;:‘y for tne Apill teim, A. D, 19.7, and for the District of Columbia, it is by the court this eleventh day of May, 1931, ordered, adjudged and de- creed, that the sald Harry Douthitt be, and he is hereby ordered to appear before this court on or before the nine- teenth day of May, 1931, to show cause, it any there be, why he should not be held in coniempt of this court.” ‘The penalty for fallure to obey a summons to the grand jury is in the discretion of the court, for a term of imprisonment not to exceed one year ‘The highest penalty recently exacted in such a contempt proceeding was a term of 45 days in the Districti Jail, Jmposed by Justice Gordon on| ::r::&:lpfipfi reporters, who declined questions propounded to them before the grand jury. Beaien With Pipe. Douthitt. was severelv beaten on the night of April 25 by two men, who left him unconscious in his apartment. af, PFifteenth and U streets. He remained in Emergency Hospital for almost a fortnight, undergoing treatment for bruises and lacerations about the head inflicted by an iron pipe On_ his discharge from the hospital Douthitt told newspaper men he was going to Philadelphia for an indefinite stay with his daughter and son-in-law. ‘The only forwarding address he left when he gave up his apartment in the | Portner was n general delivery post of- fice box number in Washington. Re- porters were unable to locate him to- | . Douthitt charged thaf, the first pre- cinct was the “center of vice in Wash ington” and his statements precipitated an investigation by Police Commission- er Crosbv. The victim of the attack said he be- lieved it was prompted by gamblers who feared he “knew too much.” BROKER IS ARRESTED IN GRAFT BRIBE CASE | Woman Witness Against Gotham Policemen Says Man Insisted 8hé Leave Town. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, May 11— A man who said he was Robert J. Leik, a stock broker, was arrested today charged with having threatened and tried 1o pribe Mrs. Genevieve Polocki, who re- cently testified at the Seabury investi- ation of magistrates’ courts, to leave ew York. ‘willlam B. lewis and Edgar P, Mc- Farland, former police detectives, went to trial today on assault charges as a result of Mrs. Potocki's testimony at the Seabury hearings. She is to ap- ainst them. pe;:.:.‘vomu said that on April 13 seld to M‘I‘-i nn&foz&!flend:‘:’n‘ym"h b’i take vice, everyl Iwm testity it ARGENTINA UNREST SEEN THREATENING ANOTHER REVOLT Many Predict Early Downfall of President Uriburu Unless He Changes Policy. - By Cabie to The Btar MONTEVIDEO, Urugusy, May 11 The. provisional government of Argen- tina, which under the presidency of Gen. Jose Francisco Uriburu has ss- |sumed power amidst unprecedented | | popular rejoicing following s one-day | the district of | revoltion overthrowing the regime of | Hipolito Trigoyen Jast September, dur- ing the Jast month hes developed into » weak military dictalorship which har groused opposition s0 hitter snd so widespread that it is threatened with serious trouble, if not revolt. ‘The situgtion was admittedly crtical 2ll week, with rumors of plans for & counter-revolution appearing to have some foundation. President Uriburu called a meeting Friday to consider the crisis. as & re- sult of which he issued & call for elec- tions six months from now. Few peo- rlo in touch with c_opinion be- lieve that he will still be in the presi- dency on the date set for the elections, unlese he makes a radical change in his policy. One of the most prominent men in Ar- gentine public life has said he felt fain_fhat public ooinien veuld ®iesiden, Uripuin 014 of office = s mon.p. Pr W b'e6i7 ne wouid be yeslisved .of alz auiles by olher means. Werslea Refiecied fn Liaikel Nervousness over the political situa- tion was reflecied last week in the widely fluctuating exchange and new low records for government securities. Student riots and clashes with mount- ed police in the principal streets of Buenos Aires occurred almost daily last week, They were similar to the dis- turbances which brought the Septem- ber revolution to a head. President Uriburu has ‘closed the newspaper Critica, which, more than any other facior, created the popular backing which made the September revolution auccessful and in whose editorial offices the revolutionary leaders met, to lay their plans. Critica echoed the popular opinion and criticized the provmonll President for his refusal to recognize the result of the elections in the Province of Buenos Aires, which the radieals won. President Uriburu also threatened other newspapers, including La Nacion and La Prensa, with closure if they |eriticized him or printed news he thought alarming. Consequently reports of student, riots‘were not published and all newspapers, with the exception of La Prensa, are refraining from unfavor- sble comment on presidential policy. Tiriburu Losing Influence. 1a Prensa, however, continues to insist in its editorials that as provisional head of the government, President Urlburw’s first duty is to his country and not to the Confervative party, which he is stubbornly trying to put into power again in the face of tremendous opposition. President Uriburu’s loss of influence dates from the cabinet crisis a month ago, when prominent and highly re- spected men, who accepted ministhies at, personal sacrifice to help him carry out the program of the revolution, re- fused to hack him in his refusal to permit Honorio Pueyrredon, former Am- bassador to Washington, and other radical candidates to assume the provincial offices which they had won in a fair election. President Uriburu hed promised to abide by the result of the ballots but, when the ccunting of the votes fore- told a radical victory, he canceled the call for elections in other provinces and declared that he would not allow the radicals to return to power. New ministers, subservient to his will, but not enjoying the public’ confidence bestoged upon the former cabinet, were appointed. Then-Presjdent. Urlburu be- 3, Column 7.) LIPTON TO TRY AGAIN British Sportsman to Issue Sixth Challenge in Septem) LONDON, May 11 (#).—Sir Thomas Lipton's sixth challenge for the Amer- jca's cup will issued in bhe told the Daily Mail todey in eighty-first birthday anniversary. inter- view given aboard yacht, the Brin, 2t Southampton. The race, he added, mww 13 months of [Hoover Gets Boat | For Official Use | In Capital Waters | Motor Craft 30 Feet Long, | Disearded by Navy, | Reconditioned. BY. REX COLLIER. President, Hoover, who has been a commander in_ chief without a flagship for several months, is to have a dis-| carded naval motor boat for his use, | it was learned today at the Navy De- partment. The boat. removed recently from the 1. 8. S. Arizona during reconstriction | operations, is & neat little 50-footer with | | special improvements for the comfort | of presidential passengers. ' Tt will re- | | place the resplendent presidential barge | removed ‘from the U. 8. 8. Mayflower | after President Hoover decommissioned that, celebrated vacht from the White | House service. Nearly twice the length of the Mav- flower's harge. the new presidential hoat ‘(Contmued on Page 2, Column 8) RUM BOARD READY | Curran Hits Woodcock Plan for Probe by Graduates in | Social Research. B 'ne Awgriaien Prae A new Organizetion was iegov o uonagiiise 8 sudy of voe oosiznoa ol tue ctigaieentn ancndment fom soclological and economic points of view. Close behind the announcement by Prohibition Director Woodcock that it had been formed to conduct research in the graduate schools of varionus uni- versities, there came & statement from Henry H. Curran, president of the As- sociation “Against the Prohibition Amendment, describing it as just an- other commission to “investigate the bedtime story known as national pro- hibition.” ‘Members Named. The organization, to he known as the Bureau of Prohibition Advisory Research Council, has the following persons As members: Richard C. Cabot, chairman of the social ethics department at Harvard | University: Samuel M. Lindsay, pro-| fessor of social legislation at Columbia University; Willlam 8. Carpenter, pro- fessor_of politics at Princeton Univer- | sity; Roderick D. McKinsey, chairman | of the sociology department at the Uni- | versity of Michigan; Charles W. Pip- kin, professor of comparative govern- ment and dean of the graduate school | at Louisians State University; Charles Emerson Gehlke, professor of sociology &t i Walter R. ~(Contifued on Page 3, Column 6 FISHERMEN ARE FOUND i ade e | Twenty Men Lost in Fog Near Hal- ifax, Nova Scotia. HALIFAX. Nove Scotia, May 11 (& -—The crew of 20 men of the Yarmouth fishing schooner Grace and Ruby, who got Jost in fog while operating from dories Saturday, were all accounted for Sday by the vessel's captain, William u; rphy. Capt. Murphy reported he had picked | Young Woman Declares Pilot| | held today in connection with the dis- TO STUDY DRY LAW =5 [MAYOR WALKER H TWOGRLS ANDNEN QUIZZED IN PROBE OF RIVER DROWNING, Struck Victim Before He Fell Overboard. Two men and two girls were being | appearance of Irving D, Gregory, 22 years old, of 3121 Mount Pleasant street, who is believed to have been drowned in the Potomac River after he either fell or was knocked from a speed boat anchored off Fort Foote, Md. Gregory plunged into the water after what, other members of the party de-| serihed o5 a quarrel between him and Monts de la Vega of Alexandria, Va., 30 vears old, piiot of the craft. De la Vega, it is said, struck Gregory when h: -8 street. De 1a Vega was being held at Blad- ensburg jail, Walsh at the sixth pre- cinet station and the two young women at the House of Detention Talking through a barred window of the Bladensburg lock-up, de La Vega, an employe of (ne Semmes Boal Ci whicn onstales sneed hos's from Hains| g3ve his version of the inciden®. 3 s3id Gregos, wAaied oy jae 170 gisle, hivad his v { eoout 12:15 "m'oififi?;fiof?" & taem 10 & point , nd he was to anchor the cratt. Says He Heard Shouts. ‘The retired to the cabin, but Gremp:trgped outside a few minutes later. The other members of the party | followed, leaving de La Vega in the cabin. “Suddenly T heard the others shout,” de La Vega said, “and T ran outside, They told me Gregory had fallen over- (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) TS SCHOOL BOARD CRITICS “Pick on Me, Leave Board Alone,” He Tells Attackers in Address. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 11.—Mayor Walker defended the Board of Education today, attacked its critics and asserted, “if they must; criticize somebody, let them pick me out and leave the board alone.” He called attackers of the school sys- tem “an enemy of the municipality and the peace and security of the home,” in speaking at s gathering of several thousand persons in Central Park, which met to indorse the second Suv- day of May as “Parents’ day,” instead of “Mother's day.” He cited discipline and conduct of puplls and sacrifice of parents as “the answer eternal to detractors of the City of New York.” — el 2 Oldest Mayor to Visit Paris. NEW YORK, May 11 (#).—Mayor Alvin Parker Gray of Pasco, Wash., 78, who claims to be the oldest active city head in this country, arrived here yesterday on his way to he is to attend the Fren Exposition. Mayor Gray said New York was nice po! up 12 of the 20 men and the others had rowed ashore. I and he liked Mayor Walker. He sails on the Tle de France Friday. ‘Wdward B, Bowen and his wife, Hen- vietta, aat with their little girl | Catherine, 2, in the front room of their apartment over a restaurant af 1027 Seventeenth street this morning. ‘The Bowens are ;un_; oung couple, per PARENTS HEAR BOY, 3, SHOOT SELF WITH UNEMPLOYED FATHER’S GUN|, | Edward Bowen, Jr., in Critical Cohdi\tion at Emergency With Wound in Side. Af. Emergency Hospital tfii say that Edward’s condition is critical. ‘The bullet struck just below the ribs and passed out through the back. The mother found the pellet in ‘The wound in front there g g f ) g3y gi: i E E £ B i sks i | penditures and military efctency Paris, where | tit ich Colonial ARMY POST SLASH T0 HELP ECONOMY SOUEHT BY HURLEY Consolidation Planned to Aid Efficiency as President Studies Departments. WORK ON WATERWAYS WILL BE UNIMPAIRED Interior Admimstration Cost Cut Next for Hoover to Consider in Reducing Deficit. Abolition of some Army posts and consolidations of others was indicated by Secretary of War Hurley today as one of the methods whereby the Army hopes to effect economies without detri- ment to efficiency. Remarking that the general stafr already had made a study of isolated Army posts and their effect upon ex the Secretary said 51 such posts had been | 2bandoned since the World War. ‘The study, he asid, was not connscted directly with President Hoover’s Rapi- dan conference over the week and with Army officers and War Department heads. Secretary Hurley declined to discuss in detail the resuit< of the conference, but asserted he could see “no prospect of any cut n s r r;md!-ms appropristions hudget” as s part Army economies, He indicated cconomies would have to be another direction. ‘Wood Favors Post. Chairman Wood of the House Appro- priations Committee, who alio took part in the conferences, said the tra- tion's plan to curtail the next budget x;‘{gm weu’o:'nn with abandonment of ‘Wood said drastic economies must be effected if increassd taxes were to be avoided. He said 2bous 40 forts now mi ed, principally on the coast lines, were “absolutely useless, and the only excuse for them js the fear of war. “Abandonment; of the historic fort: he added, “would not only effect a sa ing in maintenance charges, but the ‘b‘e‘é:ler could be sold when prices are Sees Ruilding Cost Savings. “T am satisfied we will have the co- ilding = a substantislly by reeson cf the reduced costs 6t materials, which range from 15 ““The expenditures of moneys to place routes for water-born commerce into of yamoying militer copgscrion wita policiesl Hop. ‘Lhe Auny Wit exRemely 8o ne addad, {o co-ooetsie witn oens saa kecue value for “every dollar hile, President wunmun into with War Depart- ment officlals at his camp, ths Presi- dent returned to the White House con- vinced substantial =savings could be nnga in t.ht& “55?:"""3: - e expec ing the Summer have officials of all executive branches at the camp to study ways of cutting down: expenses. Seeks 10 Per Cent Cut. T is the President’s hope to pare down the Government's expenses to a point where a substantial saving may be effected without impairing efficiency. These savings are imperative, the Presi- dent believes, if the Government is go- ing to weather the more than $800,- 000,000 deficit it is now faeing. Althoug] Hoover has not said fecting reductions in the various de- partments, it is understood that one plan he has in mind is to bring about & 10 per cent reduction in govern- mental cost, which in the end would means a cut of about $400,000,000. It has been explained, however, that it is extremely doubtful if a general saving of 10 per cent could be made effective in ea department, without eliminai- ing certain necessary and important activities, At the War Department. conferencs there were present the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of War, Maj. Gen. MarArthur, chief of staff; M: Gen. Mosely, assistant chief of sta Maj. Gen. Brown, chief of enginee: Mn{. Gen. De Witt, fiuntermuter general, and Col. Campbell B. Hodges, chief mil- itary aide to the President. Representa- ive Wood slso attended. - - PRUSSIAN PROTESTANTS SIGN PACT WITH STATE Separation of Church and Govern- ment Guaranteed—Waits Coun- cil Ratification. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 11.—Representatives of themmtelndflu?rvtv a tion for many months. Its most im- portant feature is definite separation of chyrch and state. The agreement must be ratified by the state council. Agitation for this concordat began