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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness, followed by local thundershowers and cooler today; tomor- row fair and continued cool. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 87, yesterday; lowest, 59, at 5:30 terday. at 4 pm. m. yes- Full report on page 7. No. 1,365— No. 31,792, he Swud WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION A Sta ““From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star’s exclusive cartier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. ® M Entered ag second post office, Wash WASHINGTO N, :D. -C: SUNDAY - MORNING, MAY 17, 1931—116 PAGES. FIVE IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS CENTS TEN 'CENTS ELSEWHERE RECORD SHATTERED BY TWENTY CRAND N DERBY TRINPH Outstanding Favorite of Mrs. Whitney’s Stable Covers Distance in 2.01 4-5. SWEEP ALL AND MATE RUN SECOND AND THIRD 60.000 Thrilled by Kentucky Clas- i sic—Vice President Curtis Among Spectators. | B the Associated Press. . CHURCHILL DOWNS, LOUISVILLE, | U.S. AIR FORCE HELD INADEQUATE| TO INSURE SAFETY OF CAPITAL Experts Estimate 2,400 Planes Would Be Required to Combat 650. Dayton Maneuvers Reveal Many of Present Ships Are on Road to Obsolescence. BY JOSEPH EDGERTON. Stafr Correspondent of The Star. HEADQUARTERS, FIRST AIR DI- VISION, FAIRFIELD AIR DEPOT. Ohfo, May 16.—Twenty-two years ago the first military airplane was built a few miles from here at Dayton, Ohio, home of the Wright brothers, erstwhile bicycle mechanics and fathers of hu- man flight. Today Dayton s host to an air forc beyond the most fantastic dreams of those pioncers of aviation a brief two BRIG. GE D. FOULOIS, | THREE PAN-EUROPA SCHEMES OFFERED AT GENEVA PARLEY Briand and Curtius Clash Over Proposed Austro- German. Customs Union. PONCET ALSO ATTACKS | ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS | | Grandi Says Legal Factors in Connection With Plan Are “Recognized.” By the Associated Press GENEVA. May 16.—Probing Europe’s NIGHT CLUB GUEST SHOOTS TWO; KILLS SELF POLICEMAN SLAIN, MANAGER WOUNDED BY MAN IN RAGE AT CLUB CHANTECLER Angered on Being Told No Tahles Were Available, New Havenite Leaves, but Returns to Slay. HOST, PLEADING IN VAIN, IS HIT POINT BLANK | Visitor, Rushing Out, Kills J. L. Taylor of Second Precinct, Who Seeks to Intercept Him, Then Runs Into Street Behind Taxi . — re | decades ago. There are single-seater . . May 16.—The roaring acclaim that | [URICRL SRk, "eal “dive in squadrons | could not guarantes the safety of the ongs to a super-thoroughbred echocd | a4 250" miles per hour, attack plancs | national Capital alone against a con- @vn the strefch of historle Churchill|which compose the mosi deadly instru- | contratzd attacking force of 200 enemy Downs today as the magnificent bay | economic difficulties today, the Com- | mission for European Union deveioped, | |in its discussions, three remedial schemes planes. It is estimated that a success-|and emphasized the sharp conflict be- ment ever devised for the hurling of colt, Twenty Grand, bounded in giant strides to record-shattering victory in| the fifty-seventh running of the Ken- tucky Derby. ing his name, Twenty Grand Jooked like the proverbial million as the | biz son of St. Germans-Bonus, Carrying the Greentree colors of Mrs. Payne Whitney, wealthy New York sports- woman, galloped down the stretch tol decisive victory over Sweep All, mc! West’s surprise contender, and the heavily backed Mate, Preakness winner. Twenty Grand, the outstanding fa- vorite in a field of 12 contenders, came with a smashing burst of speed to beat Sweep: All by four good lengths, going away, and shattered the Derby as well as the track record for the route of one mile and & quarter. Record on Fast Track. I The big Eastern colt, under a master- | ful ride by Charley Kurtsinger, riding his first Derby victor, covered the dis- tance in the brilliant time of 2 minutes 14-5 seconds on a track that was lightning fast under a blazing sun. This performance displaced the for- mer Derby record of 2:032-5, made by the famous Old Rosebud in 1914. It also knocked off the track mark of 2:03 1-5 credited to the 7-year-old and 1ghtly weighted Woodtrap, & half dozen years ago. It vas short of the world recerd of v ‘Whiskhroom oyl mighty A colorful crowd of nearly 60,000 spectators responded to the thrill of Twenty Grand’s great feat with an ovation rivalling that accorded the popular conguest - of Earle Sande and Gallant Fox a year ago. The West was prepared for ‘this third successive tri- umph for the East and responded with 2 spontaneous outburst of enthusiasm as the rose wreath was draped over Twenty Grand's arched neck and the gold derby trophy was presented to Mrs. Whitney by Charles Curtis, Vice President. of the United States. Strongly supported right down to post time, Twenty Grand, for cach $2 ticket in the mutuels paid $3.76 to win; $3 to place, and $2.60 to show. Sweep All Best Price. Sweep All, owned by Charles T.| Fisher of Detroit, surprised the telent | by giving the favorite a race and beat- | ing_the second choice, Albert C. Bos wick’s Mate, by three lengths. Sweep | All paid $15.58 to place and $7.16 to| show. Mate paid the show price of | 8 It was a horse race for at least a mile | of the route, until Twenty Grand took | complete command, and there was| plenty of consolation for the West in the ability of one of its hopes, Sweep | All, to split the highly favored East-| ern pair. Boys Howdy and Pittsburgher, two of | the well liked longshots among Ken-' tuckians, faded from contention, but Spanish Play came strong to finish fourth and in the money. i The race carried a gross value 6 and was worth $48, Twenty Grand. Sweep All won $6.000 for his owner, witile Mate took the third | price of $3.000, and Spanish Play fourth money of $1,000 i For the climax event of a bright, | sunshiny day that contrasted sharply | with the drab, rainy Derbies of the past three years, the field of 12 crack 3-year- | olds went to the post for the race that annually focuses national and cven | world-wide interest. As the pulses of the thousands of on- quickened and as radio broad- 1d telegraph wires flashed their | (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) U. S. AGENTS ARREST | SWINDLE SUSPECT. i of | of 5 H Man Said Be Associate “Jake the Barber” Taken in Philadelphia. to | saults on ground forces: bombers which will carry tons of explosives three miles above the earth: fighters which will climb to heights of six miles straight up | and transports which can span the| ful trial defense force must outnumber an aerial attacking force by about four to one to make certain of beating off the attackers completely. Should an enemy air force equal to striction of consumption and increase | Stone, nation from coast' to coast between | the first air division assembled here. kfast and supper time. | numbering more than 650 planes of all Tt is the most magnificent air force | types. attack New York or Washington this nation ever has assembled and yet, | in force. it is estimated that a defense in the opinion "of military experts it! ~(Continued on Page 4, Colurhn 6.) PARLEY TO STUDY ~ SENLAW DRAFTED WHEATPRODUTION FOR .. CLEANUP United States to Be ReDfe-iDrastic Regulations Changes sented Among Ten Coun- Are Urged by Engineers tries at Conference. to Commissioners. I i BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | Drastic changes in regulations gov- _|erning all forms of outdoor advertising Wheat leaps into the limelight 882in | yjinin the District of Columbia, ap- this week. Representatives of wheat-| proug) of which would make it possible expmmm &mnu:]ela 1:1:1‘::1“:0“ ;’w to eradicate the worst of the signs now United: - , will mee 0N | marring the appearance of miany sec- to discuss what .steps can b: taken | yon5 of the Capital, were recommended to remedy a situation caused by Ie- |, the District Commissioners yesterday in production of wheat. Iby Maj. John C.' Gotwa.. Engineer The American farmer and ths Ameri- Commissioner, and made the subject of can polltician are vitally interested in | a public hearing to be Neld here on the this wheat situation—a world situa- | ;.o o Moy 29, Accompanying the new set of regu- lations, based on the District sign law 000,000 bushels of wheat a year in €x- | enacted by Congress on March 3, was cess of domestic requirements. a report prepared by Maj. Donald A. The fact thit stares the wheat-ex- | Davison, Assistant Engineer Commis- porting countries in the face is that|sioner and chairman of the Drafting they are producing too much wheat.| Committee appointed under authority What they are going to do about it, or | of the act. Featured in the report are what they can do about it, remains 10 | the outstanding recommendations for be seen. These countries are Canada, | changes, all of which are responsive to the United States, India, Argentina, the unified public appeal that prompted Australia, Russia, Hungary, Jugoslavia, | the District Commissioners to petition Bulgaria and Roumania. Several other Congress for increased powers to rid countries export small quantities of | the city of obnoxious signs before the wheat, but the problem of the world | opening of the 1932 Waskington Bi- wheat situation is before the big pro- | centennial celebration. s of exportable: crops. Unlike the Maryland billboard law Here the United States, through the | recently enacted, the new District law operation of the Federal Farm Board, |would iffpose no tax on signs, seeking the Government has undertaken to help | control primarily through. regulation the wheat farmers by action of stabili- | and licensing, which is placed in the zation corporations and by the en-| hands of tne inspector of buildings, courag>m of co-operatives in mar- | under the District Commissioners. keting wheat. This year the board will | Could Revekie Mot not undertake to buy wheat of the 1931 crop to “stabilize” pricc, 85 it| To meet any emergency whereby the elimination of a billboard or wall sign did in 1929 and last vear. It will go forward, however, with its aid to co- |is desired for the public welfare, the to revoke a permit would be re-| operatives in wheat marketing. Wikaee Ples Suficted. 5 Wfr 5 the Commissioners under the | licy of the Federal Farm Board ™ Restriction of outdoor advertising 1s | ward the wheat growers in this coun- aimed primarily at reducing the number | set forth clearly in a letter just of sirns 1o a minimum compatible with e public, addressed by Chairmanu | the necds of business, and directly at Stone of the Farm Board to F. J. Wil- | the removal of all signs that do not ad- er of Rosalia, Wash. The board, Mr.| e the business conducted or prod- tone said, has decided against a Pro-|ycts sold cn the premises. This does posal by Wilmer that & nation-wide | not appiy to the ‘areanised billboards campaign be launched to sign up Ameri- | which are considered in a separate can wheat farmers to hold such pro- clags. = portions of their wheat crop as might be designated by a “National Slfi']’fl\:s C}?n- Ten Points Stressed. trol Association” and to lmit their| The committee report, to which will acreage for crops of 1932 and 1933.|pe added later a (-Q;’.‘ém“}mra of all The plan, the board held, would not authorized sign sites, made through | work, and would be Tesisted by t00 many | police co-operation, emphasizes the fol- | farmers olu 3 rme (Continued on Page 4, Coluran 4 TRANSSEA HOP FLYER MISSING ON FIRST LEG Argentine Pilot, Starts Home From France, but Fails | to Land at Santander. ! 1 along with other nations. try has been producing about 200.- important,” said Chairman than any new comprehensive plan for nation-wide adoption is that | wheat growers in all sections should | know what conditions really are. and be | in a position to take steps that arc suited to their individusl circum- ! tances and their locality.” He added that the situation would encourage liberal use of wheat for | feed, storage of wheat on farms for better markets, and would also “lead wheat growers to plan for substantial curtailment of wheat acreage.” The wheat crop in this country, de- | MADRID, May 16— spite efforts to bring the farmers to|Santander, San svbafu:)xfipc“r:fxl:::’:‘gg = Urquiza, By the Assoclated Press, |tween the French and German atfi- | | tudes toward the proposed Austro-Ger- man customs union. | The Austro-German proposal was de- | fended in general terms by Foreign | Minister Curtius of Germany and in specific terms by Vice Chancellor Johann Schober of Austria. It was attacked on legal and politi- cal grounds by Foreign Minister Aris-} tide Briand of France, and on economic grounds by his colleague, Francois | Poncet. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy approached the subject of the Austro- German accord with reserve, but he said th: existence of legal factors in connection with it was “recognized.” The general discussion of the Euro- pean economic situation, which brought out these opinions, was finally ad- journed to Monday afternoon, after the 5 session of the League of Nations Coun- cil Monday morning. Recommends Unions. Speaking broadly on the economic situation in Europe, Foreign Minister Curtius recommended the development of customs unions among groups of two or more States. This, he said, would be | the logical norkmmt of the League idea of internal 1 co-operation through regional agreements. He pointed to the efforts which have been made for general commercial agreements and which, he said, have failed. Larger economic groups, and fewer of them, he sald he regarded as the best methods of encouraging Euro- pean economic solidarity. Germany, he declared, stands ready | to negotiate customs agreements with any of its neighbor nations. Briand responded immediately, in di- Tect terms, to the Curtius proposals. Prance, Briand sald, must oppose pro- posals for German-Austrian economic unity. Such a combination, he asserted, would provoke suspicion and alarm in Europe and disturb the nations. “It is not by this route,” he sald, “that European peoples must march to- ward international amity.” Briand Sounds Warning. Briand then proposed instead that further attempts be made to reach gen- eral commercial agreements. He warn- | ed, however, that “we must avold doing what it is forbidden to do.” He was alluding to previously existing treaties guaranteeing Austria’s economic_inde- pendence, which France has claimed forbid such a combination as the pro- posed Austro-German accord. Answering Briand, Curtius declared the European commission, then in ses- sion, was without jurisdiction to discuss what is and what is not forbldden in regard to cusioms unions. This deci- "~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Flying Shears Inventor Dies. | ‘WORCESTER, Mass., May 16 (#).— | Maj. Victor E. Edwards, inventor of the | Edwards flying shears, which revolu- | tionized the steel manufacturing in- dustry, died at his home at West | Boyleston tonight. He was 68. More than 100 patents in steel manufactur- ing were credited to him. R | TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—28 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page B-4. American Legion—Page B-6. D. C. Naval Reserves—Page B-6. At Community Centers—Page B-6. District National Guard—Page B-6. Spanish War Veterans—Page B- The Home Gardener—Page B-8. Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page B-8. Army and Navy News—Page B-8. PART TWO—8$ PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 5. ! Organized Reserves—Page 5. i Marine Corps News—Page 5. C. T. U.—Page 7. and | Primate JESUT EXPULSON DEMANDED N SPAIN Radicals Press for Ousting. of Clerics as Situation Approaches Crisis. | By the Associated Press. | MADRID, May 16.—Extreme elements | are demanding the expulsion of the| Jesuits from Spain by Provisional Pres- ident Alcala Zamora, himsell a Cath- | olic, who already is perplexed over the religious situation. i The perlodical Crisol. representing | the staunchest Republican circles, joined Communist organs tonight in de- manding that the Jesuits be banished. | “The diplomatic flight of Cardinal | Segura gives the public the utmost satisfaction,” the newspaper said. “This healthy measure. however, will constitute an injustice unless the | Jesuits have the same fate, and with the Jesuits must go other archbishops | and bishops who have been distin- guished for their hostilitiy to the re- | public. But above everything. expul- sion of the Jesuits constitutes the most peremptory demand of liberal and dem- | ocratic Spain.” ‘Will Seize King’s Holdings. Meanwhile, ¢he Socialist party de- cided today to unite with the Repub- | licans in the National Assembly elec- tions wherever its interests would be Breaks Into Jail To Get His Beer; Now He’s In Jail By the Associnted Press. SEATTLE, WASH, May Charles Oskers broke into the Auburn, Wash., City Jail, re- moved beer previously seized in a raid at his home, and today was fined $50 and sentenced to 30 days in prison for being a “smart Aleck.” Judge John B. Wright, who imposed sentence, said Oskers “was .not guilty of a crime as serious as burglary, but he was guilty of trying to be a smart Aleck.” WHITEHURST URGES 16— NEWERELELAYOUT Changes at Thomas and Logan Circles Would Aid Traffic. Plans for shifting the Fourteenth street car tracks from the outer rim to the center of Thomas Circle and carry- ing Thirteenth street through the heart of Logan Circle were laid before Dis- | trict Commissioners yesterday by Capt. | | { and Commits Suicide. { Doing Away With Dry Law Would Not Cure Gangism, Says Attorney General. | Wiping out national prohibition | would not, in the opinion of Attorney | General William D. Mitchell, wipe out | “gangsterism and racketeering.” | To back up this opinion, the Attorney | General last night pointed to the fact | that in recent income tax prosecutions | brought against gang leaders by the ‘Feflenl Government, “it was developed that on an average not more than 20 per cent of their revenue came from | the liquor traffic, and this has been diminishing.” “If this be an indication of general conditions, the Attorney General as- serted, “the removal of the illicit liquor traffic as & source of revenue would not end gangsterism and racketeering.” Attorney General Mitchell's comment on prohibition was made while he was speaking in the National Radio Forum arranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over a coast-to-coast net- work of the Columbia Broadcasting | System. Discussing the problems and work of the Justice Department since the beginning of the Hoover adminis- best served in this way, and Finance | H. C. Whitehurst, chief engineer of the | tration, he took up the gang problem Minister Prieto said tonight the gov- ernment had decided to impound the personal properties of former King Al- fonso because reports from Paris indi- cate Alfonso was planning to sell them, Prieto said the government wished to keep the properties intact until the national assembly decided the issue. H= added that Alfonso, in Paris, had deeded the properties to a {riend, who was instructed to sell them and return the money to him. Prieto also charged that Alfcnso had converted virtuaily | all his holdings in Spain into foreign | securities before his flight and de- posited the securities in banks at Lon- don and Zurich. The former King left only a few pieces of real estate behind, the finance minister said. The religious situation presents con- fusing aspects. The departure of Archbishop Segura has been followed with reports that he will not return to Spain. The unconfirmed protest of | the Vatican is reported to have df"‘ manded that the government apologize for anti-Catholic depredations, - | burse the church for its losses and | punish the guilty persons. | “Real Revolution” Urged. | On the other hand, dignitaries of | Archbishop Segura’s church at Toledo have contributed about $100 to the provincial government for unemplcy- | ment relief and have pledged obedience to constituted authority within ecclesi- | astical laws. Archbishop Vidal y Bar- | raquer, at Tarragona, has promised his | loyalty to_the repubiic, as have lesser church officials elsewhere. In addition, Communist elements with increasing bitterness are attacking the Tepublic as being too conservative | nd urging that Spain have a “real rev- | olution” to abolish the army, expel re- | ! ligious orders, confiscate property and | divide the land. District. He is proposing a series of changes in streets and highways, all designed to remove obstacles to the free movement of trafic. Both circles are pomts of serlous congestion, and Capt. Whitehurst be- lleves that cutting through them, de spite the precedent it will establish in highway development, is essential to improved traffic conditions. At Thomas Circle, waere Fourteenth street, M street, Vermont avenue and Massachusetts avenue converge, Capt Whitehurst suggests that the car tracks be carried through the center of the park reservation on either side of the | existing statute so that it will not have to be disturbed. He atso recommended development of the circle by removing the sidewalk and cutting back the curb into a traffic layout similar to that at Scott Circle at Sixtcenth street and Massachusetts avenue. To Bisect Logan Circle. At Logan Circle, Capt. Whitehurst proposes to carry Thirteenth —street through the park reservation without disturbing the other intersecting streets. This plan, he said, will give Thirteenth street traffic, which constitutes about 150 per cent of the vehicles passing | praise around the circle, a rree and unob structed movement north and south. Plans for treatment of these two cir- cles are the work of J. W. Dare, veteran engineer in the Highway Department, who designed the existing traffic ar- rangement around Scott Circle. The cost of carrying them out, Capt. White- hurst estimated, will approximate $55.000—$40,000 at_Thomas Circle and | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) and organized crime in connection with | prohibition_cnforcement, expressing the | vew that dealing with organized crime | is “largely & local problem.” Federal Responsibility Met. “These criminal gangs” he sald, | “commit ten violations of State law to | one violation of a Federal _statute. Nevertheless, this department has gone | a considerable way to help break down these criminal organizations.” A considerable number of notorious gangsters, he said, recently have been centenced to Federal penitentiaries. “We are not through and there will be others to go the same road,” he added. Mr. Mitchell pointed out that “the proper administration of justice has always been a major national problem.” He insisted that under the leadership | of President. Hoover Department of Justice officials have labored hard to bring about an improvement in the ad- ministration of justice. The Attorney General, a Democrat picked by the President for cabinet | service on the recommendation of the I late Chief Justice Taft, had a word of for the Chief Executive. | It should be said,” he asserted, | “that there is no place in this admin- | istration for any official disposed to take it easy and rest on his oars. The | President does not spare himself. He | is unremitting in efforts for improve- ment in the public service, and none of his executive assistants would be happy if differently inclined. is opportunity to say to those agents Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) POLICE RADIO CAkS ANSWERED MOST OF CALLS IN 4 MINUTES| I take| Apparently enraged because there was no table available for him { and his debutante companion at { the Club Chantecler when he ar- rived there about 2 o'clock this morning, R. S. Montgomery, a registered gucst at the Racquet Club, whipped out a .45-caliber pistol, shot the manager of the night club in the stomach, sent another bullet into the heart of a | policeman responding to a riot call and then turned the weapon on himself and took his own life. Montgomery and the policeman, R. L. Taylor of the second pre- cinct, were pronounced dead when they arrived at Emergency Hos- pital. The night club manager, Charles Garbett, is in a critical condition with a bullet wound in his | stomach. | Accounts differed as to the cause of the shooting. As far as eould be learned from the garbled accounts of confused witnesses the shooting occurrec when Montgomery arrived at the club, asked for a table and was | told there were none available. Returns and Shoots. Montgomery left, later to return. | He pulled a revolver and aimed at the manager. Throwing up his hands, Garbett icried: “Oh, please don’t shoot!” Montgomery’s response was to open fire and Garbett crumpled {on the floor. Whirling arcund, Montgomery dashed down the steps. About hail way down he was met by Police- !man Jesse Taylor of the second precinct, who attempted to capture him. Montgomery fired upon the policeman, who fell seriously {wounded. He dashed into the {street, darted behind a taxicab, {turned the gun upon himself and pulled the trigger. Eye-Witness Story. | His act was seen by Leo J. Hutz & | taxi driver, who said Montgomery shot { himself twice—once in the stomach 2nd | the other time in the chest. Montgomery’s arrival at the resort, which was crowded at the time, wa: described to police by Willlam Ben- jamin, a colored porter, who said: “The man was accompanied by a woman when he walked up to me and asked me to check his hat. He asked me if he could get a table, and when I said ‘No' he asked to sec the man- ager. As he spoke. I saw a gun pro- {truding from a hostler bencath “his coat. “Before I called Mr. Garbett the man { disappeared. I think he left to take his girl friend home. He returned a short time later, however, and again { asked for a table.” Adams said it was then that Mont- gomery started the argument with Ge. bett that resulted in the shooting. Gives Another Version. ! According té Charles C. O'Donnell of 1629 Sixteenth street, a patron at the club, who was standing at the cashier’s | cage discussing his check with the ma: | ager. Montgomery stepped to the man- 1 | curtail their acreage, is likely to be in|other Spanish coastal towns reported | Disabled Veterans—Page 7. | The present prospect is that the June | ager's side and fired Without warning. Green is sald by police to be an as- soclate of “Jake the Barber" factor, ac- cused of being the ringleader in a con- fidence game that has duped hundreds of prominent person tip from Scotland Yard that his was to meet him here led to the | arrest, officials said | According to Justice officials, $4,000,- 000 of the money obtained in the swin- dles was recovered in Chicago, where it had been turned into bonds and placed in a bank. The officers said Green had assisted in duping British men and women into buying American ofl wells that did not exist, and into purchasing land near | Orlando, Fla., that is completely sub merged by water. BILBO IS INJURED Mississippi Governor Taken Hotel for Quiet. JACKSON, Miss, May 16 (%) —Gov. Theodore G. Bilbo, injured in an auto- | mobile accident a week ago, been removed from the executive mansion to @ hotel in quest of quiet on orders of his_physician, Dr. Harvey Garrison. The physician described the execu- tive as without fever but sajd he was ’mfl'nn. somewhat with his side.” to cxcess of the crop of a year ago. It has | that the Arge V been estimated that & 3 per oént reduc- | who took off fian: ,fc‘;f;‘“’;‘m“"qr‘;“"‘;‘ tion of acreage in Winter wheat was | flight to Buenos Alres today, had not ' effected and that perhaps the per cent | landed there 4 i of reduction of acreage in Spring wheat | Urquiza left i was cut 14 per cent. Spring wheat it \‘rx«gmn, and plannmlmN?rllféwn:fl:‘ about one-third of the total Wheatl coast of Africa after making a stop | crop. To bring the American wheat at Santander (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) He had not arrived late tonight Touss CALLS OUT SIX COMPANIES ISR ERR TR S | Hundreds Gather When Partition of Janitor’s Room Is Penetrated and Smoke Fills Corridors. Fire last night burned through a |Howard, extinguished the flames with partition of A janitor’s room in the |one line of hose after the Capitol po- basement of the Senate wing of the [lice had brought them partly under Capitol before it was discovered by |control with hand extinguishers. The Capitol police and extinguished by fire- | fire had burned up the wall for about men. | 12 feet when it was discovered by Po- When the firemen arrived dense | liceman L. C. Carey who was attracted clouds of smoke filled the corridors of | by a red glare through the glass of & the basement and small puffs were issu- | door. ing from a front door on the east side | of the north wing where, within a few minutes, a crowd of several hundred persons had collected. Four enginc companies and two truck companies, under supervision of Battalion Chief E. A Carey notified Lieut. James Laughlin. in charge of the night Capitol police | | detail, who sent in the alarm. The fire apparently started in » collection of oily mops and brooms and was ascribed to spontaneous ecmbustion. elections will be held without monarch- He said that there had been no dis- PART THREE—14 PAGES. Soclety Section. ist_candidates. The Republican, So- | clalist and Labor parties have agreed to | continue the triple alliance which over- | New |FIRE IN CAPITOL BASEMENT ! PART FOUR—I10 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and Radio. In the Motor World—Page 4. Aviation—Page 5. Fraternities—Page 6. of the Clubs—Page 7 D. A. R. Activities—Page 8. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 8. Radio—Page 9. PART FIVE— PAGES. Sports Section. PART SIX—12 PAGES. Pinancial News and Classified Adver- tising. : g Serial Story, “Robbers’ Roost"—Page 12, Screen I PART SEVEN—20 PAGES. Magazine Section. The Bridge Forum—Page 14. Reviews of the New Books—Page 15. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 16. News of the Music World—Page 17. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 18. Boys' and Girls' Page—Page 19. GRAPHIC SECTION—I2 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLORED SECTION—8 PAGE! Tarzan; Moon Mullins: Mr. and Mrs. The Timid Soul: Reglar Fellers Little Orphan Annie: Highlights ef in Cincinnati, where Mr, House is em- cases were. nd Jefl. History, and Mutt | turned the monarchy in the April mu- nicipal_clections. This is believed to | mean_that the new Nailonal Assembly will be overwhelmingly composed of clements supporting the provisional re- public. DENEEN'S DAUGHTER WEDS HOUSE’S NEPHEW Romance Began When Both At- tended Pennsylvania Colleges. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 16.—Former Senator Charles 8. Deneen tonight announced e of his daughter, Bina, to m Jouse, 4th, nephew of M. House, in Covington, he cul- mination of a college romance” which blossomed when House was a student in the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and Miss Deneen was a student at Bryn Mawr | (Pa.) College. | The couple plan to make their home ployed. |Capt. Edwards Reports Result of Three Months’ Experi- |zomery in his presence. | cussion between the manager and Mont- The ‘three victims were taken to ment to Maj. Pratt. Radio-cquipped police scout cars patrolling the streets of Washington re- | sponded in fouy minutes or less to 86 per cent of the calls broadcast by the Police Radio Station WPDW in the first three months of its operation, ac- cording to a report submitted yestercay to Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent. The report. prepared by Capt. L. I. H. Edwards, personnel officer, showed con- clusively by a series of. statistical rec- ords, that the radio system has estab- lished its value as an important adjuncf to_police work. In the thiee-month period, 5,374 mes- sages were sent out by the statiop, 2,587 of them being calls to the scout cars to respond to the scene of assaults, murders, suicides, robberies. explosions, fights and accidents, In 396 cases the response was made in one minute, and in 1,029 cases it took the cars only two minutes to reach the scene. The long- est time required to reach a scene was 19 minutes and this occurred in only one_case. The record of response in the other Six hundred and twenty- n three minutes, 246 times cight llm" 125 times in five min- in four minutes six minutes, 32 time utes, 48 umes | in seven minutes, 16 times in nine min- utes, 17 times in 10 minutes. one time in 11 minutes, 5 times in 12 minute one time in 13 minutes, one time in 14 minutes, three times in 15 minutes, and one time in 16 minutes. The police cruisers, stationed at hel.dq’ulmrx. also established a com- parable record of speed in responding to calls. In 46 cases the cruisers ar- rived at the scene within a minute, 98 cases in 2 minutes, 97 cases in 3 min- | utes, 77 cases in 4 minutes, 76 cases In 5 minutes, 29 cases in 6 minutes, 25 cases in 7 minutes, 15 cases in 8 min- utes, 6 cases in 9 minutes, 14 cases in 10 minutes, 3 cases in 11 minutes, 6 utes, 2 cases in 15 minutes, 1 case in 16 minutes, 1 case in 17 minutes and 1 case in 19 minutes. Edwards pointed out that in the “¥Béseut cars 40 per cent of al were gnded to within 2 migites, 24 per cent™g 3 minutes and 1} 'per cent in 1 minute, The record of t: cruisers show that in'§8 per cent of the ca pade_in 2 3) case | Emergency Hospital. where Garbett was given a blood transfusion early today in an attempt to save his life. Montgomery, it was learned later, was | accompanied to the night club by Miss | Norvel Munford. a Washington debu- tante, a member of an old Virginia | family He was identified at Emergency Ho:- pital by an identification card found in & wallet he carried. His_clothing bore labels of a store in New Haven. Policeman Taylor had been a mem- ber of the force about six years. He was 39 years old. He lives at 715 Madison street. A widow and a 16-year-oid son survive him. ‘The shooting of the night club man- Iager took place before a large crowd of the socially prominent younger set of the Capital. The Club Chantecler for several years has becn the fashion- able rendezvous on Saturday cvenings cases in 12 minutes, 3 cases in 13 min- | of scores of young men and women prominent in the Capital's social life. : g Degree for Stimson. | CHESTER, Pa. May 16 (#)—Secrc- tary Henry L. Stimson, of the Stat» Department, will reczive the degree of doctor of laws at th> annual commence- ment exercises of Pennsylvania Military College on June 9, the college announced todar,