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The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy and continued cool tonight and , with showers tonight, possibly ending tomorrow morn! ‘Temperatures—! No. 31,787, post office, ing. -Highest, 74, at 2:15 pm. yesterday; lowest, 54, at 9 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 Entared as xecond class matter Washington, . n 15 C. RIOTERS CONTINUE| T0 BURN CHURCHES AS 105 IN SPAIN REACHES $30,000.000 Check Shows 21 Buildings in Nation Razed and 10 Others Damaged—Few Monks and Priests Beaten. TROOPS RESTORE ORDER IN MADRID DURING NIGHT 50,000 Religious Workers Flee City—Nuns Escape Fury Mobs—Disorders Are Blamed on * Communists and Monarchists by | Government. | By the Associated Press. MADRID, May 12.—Jeering, cheering mobs whith swept po-| “Yce, civil guards and soldiers aside. attacked and burnedi churches and church buildings: in the cities of Spain today as the month-old Republican gov- ernment strove with all its re- gources to restore order. Five churches and convents were burned before dawn in Seville. Martial law was de- clared and troops were placed on| the streets in an effort to con- trol the throngs which ranged the city, destroying monuments which marked the centuries of Roman Catholicism in Spain. Similar conditions prevailed in Malaga, where two churches and church buildings were burned during the night; at Cadiz, where four churches and con- vents were burned, and at Ali- cante, where four churches and convents were partly destroyed by fire and looting. Mobs at Zaragoza, Cordoba and Bilbao at- tacked and wrecked church build- ings in those cities, but did not burn them. Squads Patrol Madrid. With -cavaly, . ipfantry, tanks and machine-gun = squads patrolling the| streets of Madrid, the capital was re- stored to tranquillity during the night, but not before 10 churches, convents, monasteries and other ecclesiastical | had been burned to thef ground, while the mobs held off fire- MAYFLOWER BONDS EDMUND D. RHEEM. J. NEWTON BREWER. —Harris-Ewing Photos. MOVE TO PROTECT i Mrs. Willebrandt Named| Counsel—Committee Urges United Action. Formation of a committee to protect “the interests of holers of bonds and other securities sold by or through the American Bond & Mortgage Co.” and the employment of Mrs. Mab:l Walker ‘Willebrandt as general counsel was made known today in a letter to bondholders | of the Mayflower Hotel Co. b WASHINGTON, RHEEM AND BREWER INDICTED IN CRASH OF MORTGAGE FIRM Embezzlement and Conceal- ing of Writings Charged by Grand Jury. NAMING OF LATTER PROVES UNEXPECTED Decision of Panel Viewed as First in Series of Fraud Returns in Bankruptcy Probe. The District grand jury today in- dicted Edmund D. Rheem and J. New- ton Brewer on charges growing out of the bankruptcy of Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co. The indictment is in two counts, one charging them with taking away and concealing writings, and the other with embezzlement. Rheem was first vice president and executive head of the concern, while Brewer was second vice president. ‘The case was presented to the grand jury by Assistant Attorney General Nugent Dodds and special Assistant Attorney General Neil Burkinshaw. The offenses charged in the indict- ment were allegediy committed on Jan- uary 13, last. At that time, it is said, the Washington Loan and Trust Co., trustee for the estate of Clarence B. Rheem, father of the indicted official, learned that approximately $162,000 in; notes, comprising part of the estate, were secured by deeds of trust which had been released. The bank, it is charged. then notified Rheem that he must either pay the face value of the notes or replace them with properly secured notes in the same amount. Rheem, according to the in- dictment, then instructed Brewer to bring him from the company's vaults $162.000 in notes on the Shoreham Hotel, which had been left with the mortgage firm for safekeeping by pur- chasers. ‘These notes, it is charged, were then turned over to the Washing- ton Loan and Trust Co. to replace the released notes in his father’s esta It is charged this was done “with tent to defraud and injure the Swart- zell, Rheem and Hensey Co. Other Indictments Expected. About 10 days ago, Rheem, as bene- ficiary under his father's will, and his mother, Mrs. Eulaiie Rheem Rowe,| executrix, signed an authorization | whereby the bank was authorized to; return the notes® to the trustees of | Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co. This step, it was pointed out, will make the $162,000 avallable for pay- ment to creditors of the bankrupt firm. The indictment was returned by the jury to Justice Peyton Gordon shortly after noon today. It was understood this is one of a series of indictments the grand jury is expected to return in the case. Noteholders Listed. ‘The indictment charges the notes embezzled were the property” of: H. Barnette, ¢ Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C., TUESDAY, g,(l MAY 12, 1931— '"HIRTY ing Star. -EIGHT * PAGES. ##% service. (#) Means Associated Yesterday’s Circulation, 117,423 TWO CEN Pre: AH ,HE'. THERE'SP/ A NEW, IDEA To W — Foufip INTERSTATE CURB ON FUNDS URGED Nye Would Confine Expendi- tures to States Where Election Is Held. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Da- kota, chairman of the Senatorial Cam- paign Expenditures Committce, which is expected to draft a new corrupt prac- tices bill for submission at the next session of Congress, sald today he be- | lleved the proposed new law could well carry a provision that in Congressional elections, the money used must come from within the State and must not be imported from other States. Senator Nye said such a law should apply to both senatorial and House elections, and to the general eleciions as | well as to the primaries. ‘Would Confine Funds. “Since Senators and members of the House are representatives of - the! States,” Senator Nye said today, “I see no good reason why they should be nominated or elected with the aid of campaign funds sent into their States from outside. Indeed, there is very reason to confine the contribu- tions to the congressional campaigns | to the States within which those cam- paigns are fought out.” | | George V Laughs As Chewing Gum Ensnares Pianist By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 12.—It took chewing gum, a grand plano and the American comedian, Al Trahan, really to make King George laugh at the “command” performance at the Palladium Hall last night. His majesty sat with Queen Mary in an attitude of restrained kingly pleasure through most of a long charity bill, but when the American comedian involved himself in chewing gum, which stuck his fingers to the piano keys and himself to the stool, he appeared to be delighted. Charlie Chaplin turned down his “command” invitation on the ground that he was a motion picture actor, not a vaudeville performer. STALIN ABOLISHES RATION SYSTEM Decree Held Effort to Place Stores on Basis of Those in Capitalist Countries. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, May 12.—Premier Molatov BANDITS ABDUCT CAPITAL WOMAN |Mrs. Grace S. Partridge Held Up While Visiting Friends in Alabama. | Special Dispatch to The Star. SELMA, Ala, May 12—Mrs. Grace | S. Partridge of 1361 Connecticut ave- | nue, Washington, D. C., and her hosts, Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Ralford of this | city, were abducted by bandits last | night and forced to drive in an auto- | mobile 50 miles to Montgomery before being released. Mr. Raiford is pub- lisher of the Selma Times-Journal. ‘While Mrs. Partridge was seated in | an automcbile in front of the news- | paper office, waiting for Mr. and Mrs. {R‘lffll’d. she saw her hosts being led from the plant by two armed men. The publisher was forced to keep his arms raised above his head. Mr. Raiford announced that “we are going to Montgomery” and was pushed into the machine by one of two men. Mrs. Raiford then calmly infofmed Mrs. Partridge that the two men were ban- dits and before ordering them into the automobile, they had attempted to open a safe in the office. Mrs. Partridge, before one of the men was able to get the machine started. offered the robbers $5 from her purse. Ths men refused the offer on the ground they would not rob a woman. The Washingtonian, who is | the mother of Daniel Partridge, 3d. an | ARMY TO ABANDON 20 OR MORE POSTS, HOOVER DECLARES Concentration Is Necessary for Economic Operation, He Asserts. 'U. S. BUREAUS MAY USE STATIONS LEFT VACANT War Department Has Quit 13 Sites for Troops in Past Year, Presidept Points Out. By the Associated Press. President Hoover said today that the general staff of the Army planned to abandon between 20 and 30 Army posts in various parts of the country. Post concentration, the President said, was necessary if the Army obtains the maximum use cf its facilities and oper- ates in the most economic manner possible. The Army, he said, has abandoned 13 posts during the last two years. May Use Posts for U. S. Mr. Hocver said he would appoint a committee from the Army, the Justice Department, Agriculture Department, and the Veterans' Bureau, to investi- gate the possible use of the abandoned posts by those departments. This, he said, should effect economies in the work of those departments. Some of the posts, he added, might be of great value to the States as insti- tutions, educational or otherwise. Such use of the posts he believed would relieve the feeling of deprivation which local communities have when Army posts or other Government ac- tivities are moved elsewhere. Expects “Real Saving.” ‘The President said that about a | month ago he had called on the gen- | eral staff for a renewed study of Army | post concentrations and that he ex- | pected a “real saving” to result from the move to concentrate the Army in & number of large posts, most of them on | the coasts. Some two-score forts, mostly scat- tered along the coast, are said to be on the list of consideration in connec- tion with the administration’s plan to reduce military expenditures by elim- inating useless Army gon: Many of these forts are rich in historic lore, but few of them are used for any purpose other than to .garrison troops in need of housing facilities. Fort Hunt and Fort Washington, on opposite sides of the Potomac a few miles below the Capital, are understood to be on the “doubtful” list. Fort Hunt, with its 8 officers and 64 men, is on the Virginia side, and is considered typical of posts no longer having value from a military standpoint. Fort Washington. it was built Washington from an invading fieet. Its defenses are obsolete and some of its equipment is in decay. A crumbling wooden wharf, reached by a precarious road, harks back to better days. ‘The_suggesticn has been made that Fort Hunt, at least, could be aban- to_ protect | jay DRASTIC REDUCTION IN DISTRCY BUDGET SEEN AT HEARING Schools, Libraries and Other Municipal Agencies to Be Affected. INCREASE IN SALARIES | AND PERSONNEL BANNED Donovan Says Estimates of $57,- 097,384 Must Be Cut to $45,618,140. Drastic and unprecedented reduc- {tions in the expense of operating the public schools, public libraries and other municipal agencies in he 1933 fiscal year appeared immiment today as the District Commissioners resumed econ= sideration of the budget estimates for that year and found themselves con- fronted with a perplexing economie problem. Data prepared for the Commissioners by Maj Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer, showed the revenues in 1933 would fall far short of the amount i previously estimated, owing to general conomic conditions and other unex- pected developments, with the result | that operating expenses would have to | be “cut to the bone” or the existing tax | rate of $1.70 materially increased. Tax Rate to Be Retained. The Commissioners, however, have virtually decided to keep the tax levy at $1.70 in 1933, and the only alternae | tive is to lower the municipal costs. ‘The conditions facing the Commis~ sioners are due to the large appropria- tions in 1930, 1931 and 1932, coupled with falling tax receipts and the ex- pectation of continued difficulty in the collection of taxes, owing to the eco- nomic situation. ‘The Commissioners today summoned the newspaper men to their estimates hearing and frankly laid the facts be- fore them. Dr. ther H. Reichelderfer, president of the board, outlined the “dilemma” in which the city heads find themselves, and then Auditor Daniel J. Donovan went into an exhaustive dis- cussion of the figures, which lasted about an hour. Outlines Reductions. Pirst he set up the estimates submit- ted by the department heads of their 1933 needs, amounting to $57,097,384 (ncluding trust and special funds). Then, by a detailed series of estimates based on the expérience of the 1930 fiscal year and the first 10 months of the 1931 (the current) fiscal year, he showed that these estimates must be cut to $45,618,140 if the District is to keep its $1.70 tax rate and maintain its credit at the Federal Treasury by keep- ing its cash working capital fund up ! to the $3,000,000 mark, as required by w. He showed that the appropriation for 1932, already enacted by Congress, will impair this fund to the extent of ap- proximately $1,700,000, and this figure must be replaced in 1933, thereby low- ering to that extent the amount other- wise available for regular municipal — p ‘their he bt} Mary M. Baily, Evelyn et sy s ey Ella R. Bates, Caroline M. Blackburn,| Chairman Nye said, however, that in | attorney with office in the Woodward | doned or 'possibly consolidated with flames. A nation-wide check-up showed 21 ehurch bulldings destroyed by fire, and perhaps 10 more badly dawmaged. but Dot burned. Inmates of the buildings in every case fled, and while a few monks and priests were beaten, there ‘were remarkably few casualties among them. Nuns in almost every case were; respected by the crowd. Estimates on the number of religious workers ficeing Madrid alone ran as high as 50,000. Efforts to estimate the physical dam- age were mers guesswork, but some calculated it as high as 150,000,000 pesetas (normal _ value, $30,000,000). This did not account for priceless manuscripts, church services, paintings and vessels, which were destroyed or stolen, Police arrested several looters, on whom they found gold and silver | altar ornaments, chalices and can- delabra taken from the churches. Blames Reds and Monarchists. In a radio broadcast, Don Niceto Alcala Zamora, President of the repub- Jic, called upon the nation to put down the discrders. The government charged Communists and monarchists with re- sponsibility for the disturbances and de- | clared they were in connivance to em- | barrass the new regime. The charge was echoed in other quarters and what- | ever may have been the part of mon- archists, Communists with red erm- bands were numerous on the streets, stirring up the crowds. Casualties in the day and night of | disorders in Madrid were estimated at| 35 injured, most of them slightly. Tvo | hundred persons, including many prom- inent monarchists and a large number ©of Communists, were arrested. ! The-government _was hopeful that | employment of the military would per- mit today to pass tranquilly but de- | termined that outrages against the church and church property would not | be permitted. A strict censorship on outgoing news prevailed and the mon- archist newspaper A B C and the Ro- ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 1. DYE RACKET THREAT LAID TO AL CAPONEi: Institute Head Says Promise of Protection for Half of Profits X Was Refused. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 12—Alphonse Ca- pone, the gang chief, was accused today of threatening to seize control of the cleaning and dyeing busincss in Chicago. The accusation was made by Dr. B. M Squires, chairman of the Cleancrs and Dyers Institute of Chicago, who said Capone had offered to police the in- dustry and wipe out competition in ex- change for one-half of the industry's annual receipts, but that the offer was rcfused. The refusal to accept any such condition was announced follow- ing a meeting yesterday of 86 of the institute’s members. Dr. Squires sald a committee of his prganization had obtained promises from Mayor Anton J. Cirmak and other offi- cials, assuring protection from the Ca- pone organization. He added that a group of the cleaners and dyers had called on Capone in rug:nu to an in- vitation from him and that Capone had asked for 75 per cent of the profits, later reducing the figure to 50 per cent. “Either you accept my proposition or 11 take charge of the cleaning and m b.:luxu, .nfi‘."“ Capone was o The letter, addressed to holders of Florence R. Boyd, Alice V. Bunker, second mortgage bonds of the hotel| Mary A. Chute, Elizabeth Clapp, Emma Claxton, Mary Colgan, national elections where the presidency and the vice presidency were at stake, he did not think it would be advisable | and Joseph Staln, head of the Com- | munist party, issued a joint decree to- day abolishing the card-ration system ‘um:m denal was published here today ccmpany, urged “the necessity for united action through the medium of our independent protective committe.” “Every day’s delay permits the ‘prin- | cipal stockholders’ to consolidate an advantage which only the most vigorous | action on our part can overcome,” it | said. The Mayflower Hotel is one of the several large properties located in vari- | ous big cities which were financed by the American Bond and Mortgage Co., whose activities are now under investi- gation by the Department of Justice. The Independent Protective Commit tee is headed by Ernest C. Mulvey, chairman, a Brattleboro, Mass., banker. Harry A. Brown of Boston is secretary and John D. Colgan is in charge of the | New York office. | Methods Assailed. The communication assailed | financing methods employed in connec- | tion with the Mayflower project and | said: “At the request of many bondholders of the above issue (second mortgage | bonds of the Mayflower Hotel Co.) the Independent Protective Committee has studied the reorganization plan pro- pesed by certain ‘principal stockholders’ of the Mayflower Hotel Co. under date of March 25, 1931. We advise its re- jecticn by all bondholders. you to deposit your bonds with our committee for the concerted action which the amazing proposals in the (Ccntinued on Page 2, Column 7.) | the | WITH KING OF RUMANIA| Official Denial of Reconciliation Is Published in Bucharest After Current Rumors. By the Associated Press, | BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 12.—An | that Queen Helen and King Carol, estranged monarchs of Rumania, had become reconciled. It was said that no reconciliation even was contemplated, despite reports current here, with Queen Helen's sud- den return from Belgrade, that she and Carol would resume their domestic life, interrupted by his romantic interlude in | Paris with Mlle. Magda Lupescu, red- haired caughter of a Rumanian scrap iron dealer. |8. Fall, | transactions. He is now at liberty under O. Clark, J. Harry P, Conover, Sue E. Crump, Flor- ence Cutcheon, A. C. Daniel, Elizabeth 8. Davis, Irma M. Davis, Virginia I avis, F. A. Denison, Marie D. Dill H. M. Dod H. C. Donohue, Robert L. Ettinger, ichard T. Evans, Carrie Alice Findley, Lena FPischer, Alice M. Fogg, James Fox, Elizabeth Rice, Annie M. Smith and the estate of L. Pearl Ward. Brewer Charges Unexpected. Rheem was arrested several months ago in connection with his alleged bond. Brewer's alleged connection with the deal, however, is brought out for the first time in the indictment. Inasmuch as Rheem has testified at bankruptcy hearings that he was the sole head of the firm and that the other officers acted under his direction, Brew- er’s indictment was unexpected in many quarters. BOY ADMITS 2 MURDERS Quoted as Saying He Slew Couple for Holding Out Part of Pay. CANTON, Ohio, May 12 (#)—Author- ities announced today that Ray Wilt, 17-year-old farm hand, had confessed he killed Edward B. Thomas, 46, in- valid farmer, and his wife Ethel, 44. Officers said Wilt, who had worked for Thomas, claimed he killed the couple because Mrs. Thomas made him mad “by holding out part of my pay for an old sult Thomas gave me.” The bodles of Thomas and his wife, slain with a hatchet, were found in a small clothes closet in their farm home near here Sunday. They had been dead about a week. Wilt was captured late yesterday. SPECIAL ELECTION SET Choice of Longworth Successor to Be Made November 3. COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 12 (#)—A special election will be held in the first Ohio congressional district, November 3, to select a Representative to succeed the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth, Gov. White announced today. Candidates will be nominated at the regular primary A 11, BRITISH CONTROLLED COMPANY GETS U. S. NAVY OIL CONTRACT| Shell Corporation to Supply in United States By the Associated Press. ‘The Navy Department today awarded contracts for 4,620,000 barrels of ofl at a cost of $2,260,100 to the Shell Oil Co., an American offshoot of the British- controlled Royal Dutch Shell Co. In addition, contracts for 216,000 bar- rels at $204,620 were awarded the Union Ofl Co. of California and 160,000 bar- rels at $95,250 to the Associated Oil Co. The contracts stipulate that the oil must be produced in the United States or its possessions. The figures were for m B fuel ofl for delivery at West navy yards and stations. Contracts for Diesel Oll were awarded s 4,620,000 Barrels Produced or Possessions. the Union Oil Co. 158,750 barrels at $143,280, and the General Petroleum Co., 250 barrels at $357. Royal Dutch Shell has long been an important competitor of American com- panies in the world fleld. A few years 2go it expended its activities to enter into direct competition with American concerns in this country. ‘The Shell Oil Co. is'a subsidiary of the Shell Union Ofl, a holding com- p.n( consolidating the Royal Dutch Shell and Union Ofl Co. of Delaware. thn;. :h“ ln:ld at }hed Navy Department at the law required the awards to made to the low bidders. e lo stempt, to prevent, the interstate | for practically all, commoditles except, s of campaign funds. | ¥ that in States where one political pmyi;";’l‘:' Sl L was so far in the ascendency as to| make it a one-party State, such a rule| This system has been in operation more than a year. Due to a purporied amg};z break down all chance of lmel evelopment of any other political e 3 party within that State. He said this SCArcity of comodities workers were re- was true of both strongly Democratic|quired to obtain orders from their and strongly Republican States today. unions or factories to purchase shoes, May Attack System. | clothes and other necessities from gov- In view of the statement ¢f Chair- ' emment co-operative stores. man Nye, it appears a serious attempt | may be made to break down a system | which has developed whereby campaign | Cree as having caused a growth of | funds are shipped by national and con- gressional campaign committees into States where it seems necessary to build up the war chests of that particular | party in question. More and more the | practice has devloped of bringing such | of the private traders does nmot mean aid Into States regarded as real battle- | that trade will be abolished, but on the grounds, as well as into those which |contrary that government and co- are regarded as little better than hope- | operative trade must increase.” Jess for victory. This statement was interpreted as ‘The Republican National Committee, | meaning that light industry will be for example, has raised funds for cam- | greatly increased and that there is no paign purposes and has turned those | shortage of goods. Therefore under funds over to the Senatorial Campaign | the new “khozraschiot” system, for Committee and to the Congressional | which factories and other organizations Campaign Committee for use in various | are made resp:nsible; the government bureaucracy, an accumulation of large | quantities of goods, maldistribuiion of products and an artificial shortage. ‘The decree declares that “the ousting States and districts where the battles | will make an effort to place shops and | have been particularly bitter. This hap- | stores on a basis similar to that exist- The scheme was described in the de- | | Givbs, Coiumbia, 89. . pencd during the 1930 congressional | campaign. Democrats Also Hit. ! The Democratic national organization has functioned pretty much the same | way, sending meney and speakers into States and congressional districts where | they seemed to be most needed. The demands made upon the national com- | mittees by campaign managers in many of the districts and States have been | very large in the past, and treasurers | of the national committees have had | to Tesist these efforts to obtain funds | on more than one occasion Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, in | a letter sent vesterday to Chairman | Nye, an amendment io prchibit the contributing of funds by a person liv- ing in one State to be used in another. The Virginian was hitting particularly | at Bishop James Cannon, jr. who was | head cf the anti-Smith Democratic | campaign in Virginia and other parts of the South during the 1928 cam- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) EYNON LEADS GOLFERS AS RAIN HIKES SCORES Columbia “ountry Club Champion Shoots 77 in Qualifying Round of Tourney. Everett Eynon, Columbia Country Club champion, took the lead in the qualifying round of the Chevy Chase Spring invitation golf touvnament to- day with a card of 77. About half of the field was out. Eynon went out in 38 and took 39 on his last nine holes. A drizzling rain the scores up. ‘h;t. H. Burroufi:l.. “ummhed, was 1l on Wi 3 tnot‘:e‘r‘lyanw scores in the qualifying 'e‘;':lomu Pitt, Argyle, 82; R. P. David- son, Chevy Chase, and R. M. Gray, T 1. C. Bogert, Army and . 8. Lyon, Toronto, 86; L. Congressional, 88, and M. Foley, Chevy Chase, and W. F. | cities is ordered by the decree. Radio Programs on Page C-4 A » ing in capitalist countries. Opening of 200 new shops in Mos- cow, 150, in Leningrad and from 80 to 100 in each of a number of other In additi-n to having their salaries in- creased, clerks and szlesmen will re- e commission on goods sold. celve U. S. WILL ADMIT ONLY 100,000 ALIENS IN 1931 Immigration Officials Make Predic- tion, Citing Lowest Record Since 1862. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 12.—Immigration officials today predicted that only 100,- 000 aliens would be admitted to the United States this year, thus setting a record low for admissions since 1862. ‘That figure is 10,000 less than the number of aliens to enter this country in 1918, when war measures made im- migration almost an impossibility. Consular officials now have the power to deny alien application on various grounds, the chief of which is usually the contract labor law. S ige NATIONALS RAINED OUT Rain Prevents Opening of Series With Indians. CLEVELAND, May 12 (#)-—Rain to- day prevented the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Nationals from opening the first serles between these two teams (his season. The Nationals will be here until Thursday, after which they will move gn to St. Louis to open a series on Fri- ay. Teachers Face Pay Cut. AKRON, Ohlo, May 12 (#).—Board T. | of Education has voted to cut two weeks’ pay from the salary of each teacher in the city school, and from every employe of the school system, in an effort to make up an estimated shortage ef $500,000 in taxation revenue, Building in the National Capital, in- s'sted the robbers take the money and free her hosts and herself. They ac- cepted the money, but not until they | expleined they would use it for gaso- line for the trip. During the long ride the three cap- tives conversed freely with the robbers. | When informed by Mrs. Partridge that | “guns make cowards of people,” one | of the robbers replied: “Yes, we know.” | The men declined to give any informa- tion about their familles after being | informed by Mrs. Partridge she would | like to help them. “We can't get intimate in our busi- ess, lady,” she was advised. | The men left the party upon arrival in Montgomery. They commended Mr. | Raiford, who had driven with a pistol | against his back for his excellent driv- |ing. Mr. and Mrs, Raiford and Mrs. | Partridge, after reporting to police in | Montgomery, returned here early today. AMERICAN IS SLAIN Samuel Prais, Address Unknown, Killed in Tampico. MEXICO CITY, May 12 (#)—Dis- patches from Tampico to the news- paper El Universal today said an Ameri- can named Samuel Prais, whose address | in the United States was not given, was | murdered by several unidentified 'men in his home on the outskirts of Tam- pico yesterday. | n Fire Sweeps College. KINGSTON, Ontario, May 12 (#).— | Fire of undeterminea origin today | wrecked the left wing of the adminis- | tration building of the Royal Military | College. The loss probably will exceed | $100,000. School Contests Postponed. Because of the rain the Eastern- Western base ball and tennis public high school championship contests scheduled this afternoon were postponed until tomcrrow afternoon. Both will start_at 3:30 o'clock, the ball game in |the Eastern Stadium and the tennis Fort Washington, where there are now on duty a score of officers and more than 500 men. Abandonment of Fort Hunt undoubt- edly would be protested by persons who are reluctant to obliterate points of his- toric interest near the Capital. President Hoover's plan of using as many of the abandoned posts as pcssi- ble for other governmental purposes will serve to forestall much of the op- position, it is expected. He belleves |some of the posts may be of value fcr veterans’ hospitals, experimental farms or prison camps. AIRSHIP HALT RUMORS REVIVED IN BRITAIN London Daily Predicts Announce- ment on Abandoning Construc- tion Thursday. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 12.—Rumors that the government intended to abandon air- ship construction which have been in- termittent here ever since loss of the R-101 are again current. As far as can be ascertained a final decision has not yet been taken, but the Daily Mail claimed to have learned today that the question would come be- fore the cabinet Wednesday and that Prime Minister MacDonald probably would make an announcement in the Commons during debate on the air es- timates Thursday. ‘With loss of the R-101 work on air- craft was suspended and only skeleton staffs since have becn maintained at the Cardington airship base. Doubt as to value of the airship as compared with their immense cost is supposed to have had considerable weight with |some of the government's advisers, while insistent necessity of economy in public expenditure is believed also to have had a strong influence toward | match on the Monument courts. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. ‘The Government at last has paid a llfl-yem' debt to a man who stopped a | | revolution. The strange story of Ahpeahtone, a Kiowa Indian, is revealed in the last issue of the American Journal of An- who at the time of his death early last fall was & collaborator of the Smith- sonian_Institution. Dr. Smith interviewed the Indian at his home near Carnegie, Okla. Back in 1891 Ahpeahtone was the principal influence ‘among the plains tribes in stopping the spread of the wierd ghost dance craze which was running like wildfire over the prairies and threatened a “holy war” of the first magnitude. At that time he was presented a spe- thropology by Dr. Maurice O. Smith,|bY I | abandonment of the craft. [U S. PAYS 40-YEAR DEBT TO INDIAN WHO STOPPED CULT REVOLUTION | Ahpeahtone Receives $500 for House, Promised to Him by Government During 1891 Uprising. cial silver medal for his services by President Cleveland and was promised a house to cost not more than $500. Year after year he waited for the house. Dr. Smith quotes his own letter. writ- ten_last Summer to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: “I am a Kiowan Indian going on 73 years of age. I was selected as chief by my people many years ago and have loyal to the Government and worked for many years for the uplifting of my people. I have encouraged them to put their children in school and take up their work in farming and other things, the same as white people. “In 1890 the doctrine, or teaching, known as the Meslah craze, spread among the Indians of the United States, as you have no doubt read. False teachers among our people were’ telling the Indians that J (Continued on Page 2, was_com- luma 8.). purposes. Of the $45.618,140 appropriation pos- sible in 1933 on the $1.70 tax rate, about $6,000,000 will be available for what is termed capital expenses, in- volv{nfi new buildings, new street work, and the like, and the balance will go for operating expenses. The enormous cut which this will entail is shown by comparison with 1931 (the current year) when $15,000,000 is being spent on cap- ital improvements, and 1932, for which $12,500,000 has been appropriated. In introducing the subject, Dr. Reich- elderfer said this was a poor year to talk about tax increases, which are na- tionally unpopular. The District is further embarrassed by ignorance as to what will be the outcome of the study of the congressional Committee on Fiscal Relations between the Dis- trict and Federal Governments, headed by Representative Carl Mapes of Mich- igan. Bans Salary Increases. If we are to have no tax increases, he said, that probably will mean that all salary step-ups for 1933 must go, (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) MEXICO CITY-TEXAS HIGHWAY IS OPENED | Mexican Official Blasts Last Ob- struction in Ribbon of Concrete. By the Associated Prass. TAMAZANCHULE, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, May 12.—The United Statss and Mexico were connected today by an in- ternational ribbon of concrete. ‘The Laredo, Texas, Mexico City high- way was op:ned last night when Secre- tary of Communications Almazan ex- ploded a dynamite blast which removed the last stone obstruction separating the northern and southern links near here. ‘The first car, occupied by Senor Al- mazan and other government officials, passed northward over the route a few minutes later. It was met by a second car containing the Governor of San Luis Potosi and other state officials, passing southward. An American tourist partv which ar- rived from Laredo eight days g, Jrove the second automobile toward Mexico City. The spot from which the obstruc= tion was dynamited is at an altitude of 7,000 feet. JURY OF MEN IMPANELED FOR KIRKLAND’S RETRIAL Prosecutor Dismisses First Twe Counts of Indictment in Arlene Draves’ Death. By the Associated Press. VALPARAISO, Ind., May 12.—After 332 men and women had been chal- lenged or excused, a jury of men was impaneled today to retry Virgil Kirk- land for the murder of Arlene Draves, his companion at a Gary liquor party. Prosecutor John _Underwood im- mediately dismissed the first two counts of the indictment, charging murder by blows with a blunt instrument. It was on the latter of these that a jury found him guilty at a former trial and fixed life imprisonment as the penalty. Judge Crumpacker allowed a new trial be- cause of insufficient proof of the