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| mssociates, but to the public as well.” Times * aive activities that did not f | David Sevmour, 5, i { exan Auto Climbe Onto Tracks| © B the Associnted Press ¢ { killed at a grade crossing when their WALTER A. STRONG, | PUBLISHER, DES Heart Attack Proves Fatal to Head of Chicago Daily News. B the Associsted Prass. CHICAGO. May 11.—Stricken with heart, disease, Walter A, Strong. 48- vear-old publisher of the Chicago Daily News, died suddenly yesterday, | ghortle after plaving_a round of golf ith his son John. Death occurred in his home. in suburban Winnetka, while he was preparing to join the members of his family at dinner. Mr. Strong's 9-year-old deughter Anne found him outstretched on the fioor of his bed room. Believing he had fainted she hurried to her mother for help and Mrs. Strong. assisted by her sons Walter, jr. and John lifted him o his bed. 'He was dead, however, when physicians arrived. The passing of Mr. Strong came as a shock fo his friends and associates, Yo had appeared to be in the best of health. His son Walter.jr. however, | s8id that his father had complained of being tired on his arrival home last Saturday night and hed retired early There was an indication also that this fatigue had eontinued vesterday. ax Mr Strong plaved but six holes of golf and then decided to go home. Foover Sends Message. | “The funera) will be held from the | Strong P Wadnesday. with burial in | Rosehill Cemetery. Meanwhile mes- | mages of condolences came pouring in. | including one to Mrs, Strong PresidentHoover. “T am deeply shocked to learn of the passing of Mr. Strong.” the President Wired. 'He was an fine an American. 80 stanch in every righteous cause ¥hat his loss is & loss to all eur people. | Mrs. Hoover foins me in the expression of our greatest sympathy and our | pragers that strength may come to ¥Mir. Strong's rise to the head of the | Dailv News organization was both steady and rapid. Always regarded as a keen | newspaper worker, he began his career | when he started selling newspapers for | the News, which was founded by Vietor Lawson and Mellville E. Stone. After Mr, Lawson's death he became dictator) of the Daily News policies. He was! chairman of the board of the Adver- | tising Federation of America and & dai- rector of the Audit Bureau of Circula- tion. At one :{ue he was & director of the Associated Press. W':‘Mr A, Strong was born in 1883, | in cuafi As a boy he sold papers | on West, Madison street surface cars to earn money to finance his education at Lewis Institute, where he was taking & in engineering. Later he at- Beloit College. While there his ‘course = Hian: dled, but Walter A. supported his | mother by working on the old Beloit | Pree Press, of which he eventually be- estate. He then became ' ang president of the Daily O e at Mr. Strongs direction that the News built its massive $10.000,000 | white limestone home, into which the | moved June 8. 1929, from | the ai ted building in the Loop. The ""‘2"& erected on air rights, is flhlltadmtl‘llbfllml Ghlcml busy newspaper life. Mr.| to eontinue his in- terest in affairs at Beloit College, hold- | A trusteeship. He was also keenxyl in yillage of Winnetka, and he held s place as trustee of the ‘Winnetka Board. Wr newspaper publishers joined the, Daily News in tribute to Mr.| Strong. “Tt was & tragedy that Mr. Strong should die st the age of 47.” said Col. Robert R: MecCormick of the Daily . “It was doubly regret- table that death occurred so soon after | he came into the management of the | News." The News itself said that “his years of intense concentration on affairs of moment. of lesdership in business and civic ents placed too great a strain upon bis vital forces. His un-| timely end is a heavy loss not alone to his family, his friends and his business Newspaper Men Pay Tribute. Other tributes from Chicago news- paper men were these: Black, Chicago Evening Americari: “Newspaper men Who Te- apect, their profession will miss Walter Strong keenly. because he was always veady to battle shoulder to shoulder X, the Chicago Herald and Chicago loses a really great citizen in his deathy Knowlton L. Ames, jr., the Chicago Pvening Post: “He was an outstanding | publisher, not only in Chicago. but | throughont the United States, where he | was admired and respected.” omason, the Daily Tilustrated | ‘There are few worthy, progres- | press of his vigorous personality.” Besides his widow Mr. Strong is sur- vived by five children, Walter, jr, 16: John. 14: Robert, 11; Anne, 9, and TRAIN KILLS 6 PERéONS AS HALTED CAR STARTS Just as Locomotive Passes, Wiping Ont Family. ALVORD, Tex, May 11.—8ix per- sons. all members of one family, were mutomobile was struck by a north- bound train here late Friday night. The dead are Charles Collins, Mrs. Nors Lee Collins, Charlene Collins, Fannie Collins, Florine Collins, 'Cecil Perguson, brother of Mrs. Charles Col- Jins. Trainmen said the car stopped 10 feet from the crossing when the whistle was blown and just as the locomotive reached the crossing the car lunged MONDAY, BORAH HITS BRITISH INDA GOLD POLICY | Silver Basis Would Raise Purchasing Power of 800,- 000,000, He Says. By the Associated Press. Senator Borah thinks that since half the human family “must necessarily continue to conduct its business affairs upon A silver basis” Great Britain should reverse its gold policy in TIndia. Chairman of the last Senate Foreign Relations Commitiee. the Idaho Repub- lican sald in & radio speech last night | that adcption of the gold standard in India had “drastically lowered” the | purchasing power of nearly 800,000,000 people. | " He made no direct reference to & resolution approved Iast week by the | International Chamber of Commerce | for a conference on ailver, but two oth- er Republican members of Congress did answer attacks made at the congress on Ameriean tariff and war debt policies. . WALTER A. STRONG. HELEN FAILS FETE Hatfleld Defends Tariff. Replying to speaches by Henry Bell, Pnglish banker, and Dr. Carl Berg- mann, German delegate, Senator Hat- | field of West Virginia contended “our Albert A. Strong, a physi- | Agre been in & | sition Mrs. AS CAROL APPEARS Queen, Again in Bucharest, Absent From King After Reconciliation Rumor. Br the Associated Press BUCHAREST. Rumania, May 11 Queen Helen is back in Bucharest. in & gay and joking mood. but she has fatled thus far to give a public testi- monial of her reported reconciliation with handsome Carol, Rumania’s King and her divorced husband. Carol, accompanied by their son Michael, who is recovering from diph- theria, vesterday reviewed detachments of the Rumanian Army in celebration of the fftieth anniversary of the first Carol's coronation, but Helen did not appear at their side as had been fore- cast. The country's finest troops marched past the reviewing stand, the proces- sion lasting for an hour and a haif. The pageantry delighted the grand voivode, Michael, who looked pale after A vast crowd, many of. whom had come from great distances, greeted the father and son with great enthusiasm. ‘There was no explanation of Queen Helen's absence. It was understood an ement had been effected between her and Carol which would restore her position as his wife, but if this is the case she has given no sign publicly of its being so. Ladies-in-waiting who eeted her upon her return from a jef Belgrade visit said that she was gay and more animated than she had long while. but that her po- had changed 'in no way. RUSH TO BOY’S AID Firemen I’-k. l;:nl Run to Alexandria to Administer Oxygen. The Star. . May 11.—The rescue squad of the Washington PFire Department made a record run to this city shortly before noon today to ad- minjster oxygen in an effort to save the life of Henry Kossler, 11 years old, of 529 Oronoco street, suffering from convulsions from a nervous disorder. The lad was stricken with a reaction from the disease last night and his con- dition became grave this morning and the rescue squad was summoned. The of I boy is a son of Joseph Kossler, who operates & small store at -the inter- section Oronoco and St. Asaph streets. The rescue squad was called by Dr. H. A. Latane of this city, who is attending the lad. COLOMBIAN VOTE TIED Conservatives and Liberals Each Gain Seven Departments. BOGOTA, May 11 UP).‘—The Con- servative and Liberal parties each won seven of Colombia’s 14 departments in yesterday's congressional elections, it was indicated today on the basis of incomplete returns. Unconfirmed dispatches to Bogota newspapers said Between 10 and 17 per- sons were killed in election disorders. The government reported, however, that the country generally was calm and that the disturbances were widely scat- Mantell Costumes Burn. ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N. J.. May 11 (P).—Stage scenery and costumes used by Robert B. Mantell, Shake- spearean actor, were destroyed by fire yesterday. The properties were stored in two buildings on the Mantell estate which were burned. The loss was placed by officials at $25,000. ( | forward onto the track. Punera) services were held yesterday. ;! FIRE DESTROYS HOME $7.000 Loss Incurred by Dairyman Near Purcellville. . ®pecial Dispateh to The Btar. PURCELL VILLE, Va. May 11.—The frame residence of Mill ‘Birdsall, prominent dairyman living near here, ‘was entirely destroyed by fire early tbis morning. Birdsall, who was' living alone, was awakened by smoke Al his room. He barely escaped and but little of the contents was saved. Cause of the fire is unknown. The loss is estimated at 7,000, partly covered with insurance. AR Disappeared Three Months Ago. Diss) from her home in Capitol Heights, Md.. three months ago o " ¥¥an Durnbaugh, 41 years old, was Teported to the local police yesterday her aister, Leonora Oropper. Sere "t o mising womman a3 friends on Loog Island, N, ¥, protective tariff rates have enabled us to set the pace” in economic develop- ment. |“ “Let us continue to lead, no matter how many ask us to wait.” he said. | “Let others elimb to our level. That | ia progress. We cannot afford to go backward.” Representative Towa Ramseyer of { sajd that if our tariff protection were| | removed American prices would break to levels of other countries. He con- ! tended Democratic leaders had allied with foreign manufacturers and inter- national bankers “lo dictate to the United States what should be done for the enrichment of foreigners.” Borah held that since people are “growing dangerously restless govern- ments can at least afford to undo that which they did and which has proved to be unwise and hurtful.” ctor in Depreasion. He named the decline in the price of silver as & big factor in industrial de- pression and added that adoption of the gold standard in India increased the poverty there. | “Here it would' seem, therefore.” he asserted, “is one place where govern ments could greatly add to the pur- | chasing power of millions of people by undoing what was improvidently done. It would not be entering upon new lines or venturing upon & new experi- ment; wishes and custom and practices of these people.” Borah added it was dificult to under- stand the delay of governments in dealing with the silver problem. | FIVE MEN DIE AS GAS IN MINE IS EXPLODED | Nova Scotin Blast Hurts 8 Others. { Rest of Full Shift of 90 Escape From Bhaft. | By the Associated Press. | RIVER HEBERT, Nova Beotia, May | 11.—An_expiosion, belleved due to ac- | cumulated gas at the No. 3 Victoria mine, today killed five men and injured at least eight others, { A full day shift of 90 men had | entered the mine at 7 am® The ex- | plosion came an hour and a half later. | Most of the workers were able o get out of the mine. YOUNG COMMUNISTS | REPORTED DESERTING Anti-Soviet Campaign and Party i Discipline Are Given | By the Associated Press. | MOSBCOW, May 11.—The Young | Communists' International, composed of groups between the ages of 18 and 122, was described today in & published report to the Communist International as losing membership in foreign coun- ries. tries. The young comrades deserted the ranks in large numbers in America, England, Prance, Italy, Sweden, Jugo- slavia and Finland, it was said, “be- cause of the anti-Communist eampaign and strict party discipline which ousted many because of their failure to fol- low the party line.” Excepting Russia, China and Mon- golia, the report showed a membership of 62,000 in 16 legal sections and 36,000 in 35 gections existing illegally in coun- tries which have banned the organiza- tion. The membership increased in China, Cuechoslovakia and Mengolia, while in the Soviet state new members totaled more than a million, the report stated. Plunges Over Cliff ONE KILLED AS AUTO LANDS ON HOUSETOP. it would be conforming to the | Government Cotton Aid Given Defense In Pickard Reply Same Assistance Provided for Wool Producers, Textile Chief Says. By the Associated Press. A protest against governmental in- dorsement of National brought & prompt reply today from the Commerce Department defending its action, pattment by Representative 'Seger of New Jersey on behalf of wool workers In his district, expressed opposition to Government departments “becoming sales agencies.” Edward T. Pickard, chief of the textile division, replied that the depart- ment was acting under a specific ap- uses of cotton.” Indorsement. of Cotton wWeek was given under that act, he sald. adding that a similar appropriation was avail- able to extend the uses of wool. and his division would be glad to consider a like proposal from. the wool manu- facturers. The protest was made by Seger after Charles P. H. Johnson, president of the Botany Worsted Mills, Passaie, N. J., had sald participation of the depart- ment in the eotton campaign was “rank injustice to the thousands of wool manufacturers whose livelthood de- pends on the sale and consumption &f wool materials.” Johnson's protest was tor Morrow as well as Seger. Seger took with Secretaries Lamont and Hyde. Johnson's protest followed the indorse- ment by the Commerce and Agriculture Departments of the observance of National Cotton week, the first seven days of June, by the Cotton Institute and the Cotton Manufacturers’ Associa- tion to stimulate buying of cotton. AIR CONCENTRATION BEGINS AT DAYTON Major Part of Bolling Field’s Contribution to Movement Leaves Tomorrow. The greatest genersl movement in the history of American military aviation began today as Army-Air Corps squad- rons from various parts of the country and & number of Planes from smaller posts, including Bolling Field, began converging on Dayton, Ohio, for ma- neuvers which will test the Air Corps’ ability in its new role as sole aerial de- fender of the Netion's coast line. Bolling Fleld, in common with other Air Corps posts, was sending all its available planes and men to the Ohio concentration int from which the maneuvers of 672 planes composing the First Alr Division will begin, winding up in the Nation’s Capital on Memorial day. | Lieut. D. H. Dunton of the office of | the chief of the Army Alr Corps was | the first to get away from the Capital for the \concentration, taking off from Bolling Fleld yesterday. Most Leaving Tomorrow. Most of the command and general staff of the division will get away from Washington tomorrow, when 14 planes will leave under the leadership of Brig. Gen. Benjamin D. Poulois, first Army pilot, who will be in command. Several members of the stafl were on their way from Bolling to Dayton to- day. Lieut. Newton D. Longfellow took off with Capt. A. B. McDanlel, deputy chief of staff of the division. Maj. Ralph Royce left to assume command of the 22d Provisional Observation Wing, composed of planes from 19 National Guard squad- rons. He had as a passenger -Brig. Gen. Edward L. King. Lieut. Arthur 1. Ennis of the chief’s office, took off with Lieut. Col. Ira Longanecker, press relations and intelligence officer on the division staff. i1th Bombardment Wing of 71 planes, took off with Maj. A. H. Gilke- son for Dayton. Lieut. Myron ‘Wood. final officer, took off from Bolling for Philadeiphia to pick up Ma). D. C. Cor- diner, quartermaster. The Bolling Fleld photographic_plane left for Middletown Air Depot, Pa., en route to Dayton. Maj. Fitzgerald Arrives. Maj. S. W. Fitagerald, who will be attached o the division staff, led three attack planes to Bolling Field from Lang- ley Pleld, Va., today on the way to Day- ton. He was followed by two observation planes. Maj. John F. Curry also came up from Langley at the head of a forma- tion of four pursult planes. Bolling Field's transport planes are all to be allotted to the division for the maneuvers. The Capital will have its first taste of tbe maneuvers May 21, when 69 obeervation planes in two groups will stop at Bolling Field for refueling on the way from Dayton to New York for com- bat maneuvers in defense of the the Atlantic Coast. The rest of the division | is to go by various airways to New York. On May 20 Bolling Field will play host to the greatest force of planes ever ianded in the Capital when a total of 258 planes of the command and general staff, official observers and the 1st Pursuit Wing will arrive to remain here until the morning of June 1. The entire division of 672 pianes is to be seen in combat demonstrations and divisior. re- view over the Cgpital on May 30. GROUP LEAVES UTAH. Pursuit Squadrons to Spend Tonight in Denver and Cheyenne. SALT LAKE CITY, May 11 (#).— ‘The 20th Pursuit Group of the Army Air Corps, en route from Sacramento, Calif,, to Dayton, Ohio, left here at 8 am. (M. 8. T.) today, one squadron going to Denver, Colo., and two squad- rons to Cheyenne, Wyo, for overnight stops. The group, consisting of 56 pursuit plans and 10 transports, arrived here from Sacramento yesterday. Part of the fieet stopped at Elko, Nev., to re- fuel. Perfect weather greeted the fiyers this mornin, HITS RENO AND MOSCOW New York TU. Chaneellor r.elrl Perils to Future Motherhood, NEW YORK, May 11 (#).—Chan- cellor Elmer Flisworth Brown of New York University yesterday called Mos- cow and Reno “the two great danger centers that threaten American so- clety.” He spoke before the Newman Club of that university at its annual communion breakfast. ‘The regimes of Russia and Reno, Dr. Brown said. implied the submergence of the individual and the peril to the future of motherhood. $ L3 gontervation of the ideals of woman- —_— Two Shot in Cab Strike. LIMA, Peru, May 11 (®).—Two men This sutomebile fell 200 feet over a cliff and landed on a house in Pitts-! were wounded and eight others alight- burgh, Pa., May 8, killing one man and Injuring @ t did not seriously damage the dwelling. through the reof. bu control while backing from a garage, nother. The machine broke ly injured today: when striking cab The aflvg lost —A. P, Photo, sdrivers tried to w and police opened nr':f Bee ® hueax Cotton week | The protest, registered with the de- | propriation of Congress “to extend the | contained in communications to Sena- | up the matter directly | 99 observation | Maj. J. H. Pirie, who will command | HURCHES BURNED l Five Catholic Institutions De- stroyed as Troops Are Called to Quiet Riots. (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) | tricts without seeking federal permis- ston. Indalecio Prieto, minister of finance, signed an official communique laying the riots to the monarchists and “other extremist elements.” which was inter- | preted as a reference to the Commu- nists. The communique asserted the gov- ernment was prepared 1o restore order at Any cost and asserted that the pos- | 3ibility of recalling the monarchy had definitely vanished. It characterized the continuing dis- orders as “a perfiidious offensive against the republic an¥ a deplorable attempt to injure the republie’s eredit. It re- ferred indirectly to the mewspaper, A. B. C., which was suspended yesterday As an organ “which has been trying to poison the national conscience while it nitacked democracy.” The cabinet. ordered suspension of the Jesult newspaper, Debate, during itz emergency session. Forelgn Minister Lerroux, who left this morning for Geneva to attend the * meeting, | y League of Nations Council turned back when he received word of the disorders in Madrid. Berenguer In Jalled. Damaso Berenguer, former premier, who was released from a military prison only last Saturday. was clapped into Jjail again as the moba shouted eriticism of the Republican government’s lenieney in cr:‘u treatment. mmunists tried to promote & gen- eral strike this morning and although | the trades unions opposed them they suceeeded in paralyzing trafic and dis- ’u anizing business in general. |~ Impromptu parades formed here and | there throughout the city and mounted | police rode among the marchers break- ing up their ranks, | At noon a great crowd swarmed into | the Puerta del Sol in front of the gov- ernment. buildings. shouting demands that those responsible for riots yester- day and today be punished. | A Monarchist was beaten to death by | & mob in the Puerta del Sol last night. | Another man who was wounded by ma- chine N bullets yesterday afternoon died this morning. Offices of the ! Monarchist newspaper A. B. C. sus- . were ‘under heavy pended yesterday, guard today and its publisher was in | Jail. The most serious riot yesterday surged about the A B C building. Mobs Stone Cross. 'k on the Jesuit hea - ter;‘ c?lll unexpectedly. e rst & small group of workm stormed the old stone palace, 'Ihl:: formerly was the American embassy, beating o the doors. Then others came wi cans of gasoline. They | soaked the woodwork, smashed , windows and set fire to the place. | The mob pressed back as the flames grew hotter. The crowd increased rap- ::lyhln‘d m-auufl rocks and bricl url s headquarters and church next door, which 3‘!: ablaze. Their L was the great stone cross over main entrance to the church and whenever a missel struck it the crowd cheered hysterically. ‘Two hundred priests were in the headquarters building when the fire started, but it was believed all of them escaped. The fire raged for an hour, burning out all the woodwork and leaving noth- ing but the black stone walls. Historic Documents Lost. Hundreds of important church a historical documents were lost 'h'e‘: the old Jesuit building was destroyed. The extensive greenhouses on the church grounds, where palms and other plants used in church services were kept, were destroyed and looted by the mob. While the fire was still burning the announcement. came that martial law had been declared in Madrid and prob- ably would be extended throughout the country. Immediately afier that the Stock Exchange closed. On the hesis of the declaration of martial Jaw the cabinet, which had been in emergency session since early morn- ing, issued its first statement. “We will maintain the republic by force if mecessary.” it sald. “The ex- treme Left elements are responsible for this situation.” The extreme Lefts are the Com- munists. Communist agitators, wearing red rmbends, appeared in numbers early in the afternoon, but they had little en- | couragement. from loyal repubiicans. The cabinet’s deliberations were in- terrupted constantly as marched past shouting through the win- | dows. One detachment was led by the aviator Rada, who has been closely as- sociated with Ramon Franco. One cabinet minister received a del- egation, who demanded, among other things, that Gen. Berenguer be shot, | | that Miguel Maura be dismissed as min- | ister of the interfor and that the civil |guard be disarmed. 'ATTEMPT UPON LIFE | OF OFFICIAL PROBED Two Shots Fired at Mayor-Elect of Port Arthur, Tex., He Lay Il in Bed. | By the Associated Press. | PORT ARTHUR, Tex., May 11.— |Officers were investigating today an | attempt to sssassinate Mayor-elect J. P. Logan as be lay ill with influenss at his home last night. Two shots from a .38 caliber pistol were fired through & window near his bed. " One barely missed his head. The other passed through a doorway and struck a sofa in an adjoining room. Logan, a furniture dealer, was elected mayor May 2, defeating J. W. O'Neal, incumbent. Two years ago O'Neal wen over Logan after the latter had served four two-year term: Immediately after Logan anounced his candidacy in the last election a charge of buck- mvunnflmummnme WAR MOTHER TO CAST SEA ANCHOR FOR DEAD Poppies Tribute to Honor Officers and 64 Men Lost in Sinking of U. 8. 8. Jacob Jones. By the Associated Press. The memory of & man who died when s German torpedo sank the United States destroyer Jacob Jones in 1917 will be honored especially on Memo- rial day. An anchor of popples is to be cast into the sea in the area off the Coast of Ireland where the Jacob Jones sank with two officers and 64 enlisted men. Acting Secretary of the Navy Jahncke tomorrow will ,present the anchor to Mrs. Virgil McClure, national president of the American War Mothers. She, in turn, will place the wreath in the hands of Mrs. Flora S. Kalk, mother of one of the oficers of the Jacob Jones, who will east. the anchor into the sea, en Miss route as & Gold Star mother fo visit American cemeteries ; France. BY MADRID MOBS . MAY 11, 19 “PATRIOTISM™ TO PRECIPITATE ANOTHER WAR, SAYS CHAPLIN l | r Declares It Is Greatest‘ Form of Insanity in World. Asserts Europe Has Misun- derstood, Bullied and Mis- represented Him. | | | I By the Associated Pre | 3 The Daily Ex-| press, in a story printed as an interview | i with Charlie Chaplin at Juan Les Pins, | France, yesterday quoted the film come- | { dian as saying: | | “Burope has misunderstood me, bullied | | me and misrepresented me to such an extent thaf, being a moderately rich man, I don't care a hang whether I | ever ‘make another film.” | | Chaplin, the story said, appeared to | | be annoved by various critieisms of ‘his | { doings since he has been in Europe, | : mentioning, among other fhings, bis re- fusal to appear at today's “comman vaudeville performance here. “What's all this nonsense about my | refusing to appear at a ‘command’ per- | formance?” he was quoted as asking. | “I've received no command from the | King, merely & request from s music | ! hall manager ta appear at & charity | paraders | how. “They say I have & duty to England. wonder what duty? I sometimes | think my countrymen are the world's l:rnm vpocrites. | | “Nobody wanted me in England 17| | years ago. T was just as good sn artist | then and T slaved and starved for a few | ' shillings weekly. ‘T had to go 10 America for my chance | and 1 got it. Only then did England | ke the slightest. interest in me.” | | about EBuropean ! travels, Chaplin was quoted as saying: | “Patriotism, the greatest form of sanity from which the world ever suffer. ed. is rampant everywhere and the | | result is going to be another war. “The absurd provincialism of Europe, of London, of America, of France!” KING TO ATTEND SHOW. | Charlie Chaglin Sends Check Atter De- clining to Appear on Bl LONDON, May 11 (#).—King George | will ‘attend the royal command perform- | ance to be given at. the Palladium The- ater tonight, it was officially announced at_Buckingham Palace GANGGIRL N ASSAULT | | | HELD ™ Life Term Is Sought for “Legs” Under New York Baumes Law. | By the Associsted Press. | CATSKILL, N. Y., May 11.—Mgrion Roberts, show girl and a friend of Jack (Legs) Diamond, was indicted | for assault in the second degree today by a Green County grand jury. The 1jury returned nine indictments against Diamond and his associates. | The Roberts girl is connection with the case of Grover Parks, & Cairo truckman, who was kid- naped, beaten and tortured after he refused to answer questions about a load of cider he was hauling along a mountain road. The grand jury returned new indict- ments agalnst Diamond for carrying coercion. It was understood that these indietments were in connection with the Parks case. Miss Roberts, according to Parks, was present when he was dragged from his truck, taken to a patch of woods and beaten. John Scaccio, who has been sought | for some time, was indicted for assault | in the second degree, kidnaping on two | counts and use of dangerous weapons. Paul Quattrocchi, a Diamond lieuten- ant, was indicted for extortion and for unlawful entry of a fraternal organiza- tlon’s headquarters here. This head- quarters was reputedly ‘“shot up” by | gangsters after the members refused to patronize the Diamond gang. | Quattrocchl is in jail on an assault | charge which grew out of & beating ad- ministered to Joe Coglianese. reputed rival of Diamond in the Catskills. SEEKS GUN EVIDENCE. NEW YORK, May 11 (F).—Attorney | General Bennett today expressed hope of | sending “Lega” Diamond to jail for life | as a fourth offender by obtaining | enough_convictions. ‘ Mr. Bennett said Diamond and at least one of his cronles would be placed on trial in Greene County next month for carrying concealed weapons. State troopers are hunting for more witnesses | and friends of Diamond, whom they wish to question. The power of Diamond, Mr. Bennett said, was at an end, and his gang| showed signs of being broken up. A | Federal grand jury is co-operating with | Mr. Bennett in investigating Diamond's | bootlegging activities. | D. C. Women H doubt as to ad- ' {blame afier a lengthy investigation into and using dangerous weapons and for | | ment. CHARLIE CHAPLIN, visability of his majesty’s witnessing the vaudeville schedule, but fine weather | and his complete recovery from a re- | cent. bronchitis attack enabled de- eision to be made today: The performance is that to which Charlie Chaplin was invited—or ‘“‘com- manded”—to attend. He refused the | invitation, but. sent. a check instead for | the charity to which proceeds of the show will go. He explained that he | never appeared on the stage in public, but confined his acting to motion - ture screens. POLICEMEN FREED * INDEATHOF MAN j(:oroner's Jury Exonerates | Pair, Who Say Victim Fell While He Was Drunk. A coroner's jury after much delibera- FOUR QUESTINED I DROWNING HERE 1Girl Declares Pilot Struck Vietim During Quarrel Over Attentions to Her. (Continued Prom Wirst Page.) board while trying to pull up the ane chor. “‘We around for about an hour and = half, but couldn't find any trace of Gregory. The water was only about 8 or 9 feet deep. and we weren't more umm ’:‘l;?:: 1'::: feet from shore. I'm managed to WAy 1o safety.” . Accméfl:;o 'Ifl.-1 Schisler, howaver, la Vega quarre) while the pilot was |l\l‘fucl|nq; Pf::x the technique of steering the boat. In showing her how to manipulate the steerling wheel. de la Vega put his arm around her waist. Miss Schisler said. Gregory became angry, she continued. | and accused de la Vega of being “tao familiar” with her. The pilot then struck Gregory, she added, and he fell ov;rboard n & written statément given to Chief Deputy Sheriff 'l‘hflmml"fh?mn ‘:' Prince Georges County. who is {nvesti- gating the case, Waish described the outing as a “drinking party.” ‘De La Vega was in the eabin with one of the girls.” he wrote. T was standing with the other girl at the foot of the steps leading from the eabin. Says He Heard Him Fall. “Forward, on the roof of the eabmn I heard Gregory stumbling about, ap- perently frying to raise the anchor. Earlier in the evening, Gregory had stumbled on the deck and when 1 he"m him on the roof I came up. 1 reached the deck just in time to see him fall near the bow and drep into the water. I ran to the bhow, but he had disappeared.” After failing to find any trace of Gregory the party went to the harbor m:nh:u?.gut without success. Bf- nd Gregory's body wers son- m::gfl"m-y. however. o Garrisop, after the four again today. Annountsd A7 ik de la gnfl would be released. At the sixth inct and the House of De- ::\fl:‘ ho'l‘e:!..)'t was said no order Tel B the hea. i prisoners L] Employed by Comferenee. tion this afternoon exonerated Police- |y men J. J. Middlethon and R. J. Pe- |quette of the fourth precinct from {the death of Jacob Smith, 35 years old, colored, of 5 Crabtree court south- west. Smith died in Gallinger Hospital Saturday from a fractured skull. Evidence from Smith's companions, william Johnson and Danlel Marshall. | tended to show thas they were accosted by the two patrolmen at South Capitol |and L streets at 3:30 o'clock Saturday morning: The officers, they said, be- |gan to question them as to where they were going at such an early hour. They | said they were going home. They charged that the policemen then began to whip them with the leather straps attached to their batons, | Johnson and Marshall breaking away | and ran. After running 100 feet, Johnson | said_he turned around just in time to see Policeman Middlethon atrike Jacobs with his fist, causing the man to fall to the pavement striking his head. He sald he watched the policeman drag Jacobs from the scene. His testimony was partially corrobo- rated by Marshall, who, however, ad- mitted that when the policeman began to apply the leather to him he did not stop running until he reached his home. The policemen denied they struck the colored man. Both contended tha Jacobs was drunk, and when he started to run from them he suddenly sat down in the street, then fell backward, strik- ing the back of his head on the pave- According to Dr. Joseph Rogers, dep- uty district eoroner, who performed an autopsy, Jacobs died from a fractured skull, caused by a blow either from a fall or from being struck by & blunt instrument. ‘The prosecution was handled by As- sistant United States Attorney John M. Sirica, while the policemen were repre- sented by James A. O'Shea and Ali Goldstein, . Governop Cancels Speech. RALEIGH, N. C, May 11 (#).—Gov. Max Gardner today announeed that he had been forced to eancel an engage- ment to speak before the Institute of Public Relations at the University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., Wednesday. to Visit King MRS. CLARENCE C. DILL (LEFT) By the Associated Press. ] ONDON, May 11.—Twenty Amer- ican women will be presented to King and Queen Mary by Mrs. arles Gates Dawes, wife of the American Ambassa- dor, st the royal courts on May 19 and 320. The names announced today for ntation at the first court are Miss ise Behn, Miss Barbara Hutton and Miss Jasmin Schoel f of New York; Helen Brinton, Margaret Duane and Miss Edith Martin of Penn- sylvania; Miss Adele Jahncke of Louis- WILL BE PRESENTED AT LONDON. HOOVER GETS. BOAT FOR - OFFICIAL USE IN CAPITAL WATERS will provide & small deck space near Hoover may sit in steamer chairs under of carrying to Mount Vernon and other nearby points such presidential guests as visiting kings or princes. Lack of a suitable boat was felt during the recent visits of the King and Queen of Siam ¢ | And Japanese royalty. ‘The new boat has been fitted ‘with small galley, %M per- t. President Hoover used it but few times, one occasion being when reviewed the motor boat races in several years ago. memt‘ Hoover had to eall on of on special occa- It will be brought to the Navy Yard some time this week from Hamp- ton Roads. ENGAGED TO STAGE STAR Becret Betrothal of D'Annunsie’s Son Is Revealed. NEW YORK, May 11 (#).—The en- gagement of Medea Cols mu- sical comedy star. to Ugo V. D'Ap- nunzio, son of Gabriele D'Annunsio, noted Italian playwright and poet, which has been kept secret for a yeéar, was Tevealed today. The marriage will take place in the Morris Gest will be best man. Opera ©o.. prima donna of Al Jolson's “The Won- der Bar.” D'Annunsio is 42 and is American representative of foreign motors company. The couple met four years ago in Milan, Haly. WEATHER DELAYS DO-X Giant German Plane Ready for Hop Across Atlantie. AND MISS ELIZABETH HOWRY. (DU Photos. { 9f Bul Harris-Ewing and Underwood iana, Miss Virginia Penn of North 0:;0 Bertha Potter Palmer and Mrs. Ralph H. Booth of Michigan, wife of the American Minister to Den- ark. ‘Those who will be presented at second court are Miss Audrey Barret, Miss Mildred Hockstader, Miss Helena McCann snd Miss Maureen Smith of New York; Miss Elisabeth Howry and Mrs. Clarence Dill of W VR 5 C.; Mrs. Andrew Long of North Caro- lina, Miss Katherine d Mrs. Alfred Donovan of Massachu- before Brasil on a transatiantie flight. Liner Safe After Grounding. HONGEONG, May 11 lar liner President the | ra les of Delaware ' fog.