Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1931, Page 1

WEATH (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and cooler tonight; tomorrow fair and continued cool. tur es—] yesterday; lowest, 61, Full report on page Closing N.Y. Markets, 31,796. post_office, GOUNSEL FOR UNION ATTACKS ROVER IN LANGDON SHOOTING Col. James Eashy-Smith Points to Dismissal of Horsewhipping by Woman. CHARGES ACTION INVITED ATTACK UPON OFFICIAL| Attorney Criticizes Handsoff Policy Adopted by United States Attorney. Charges that the acticn of the office | of United States Attorney Leo A. Rover in dropping &n assault case against a woman and three men, sc- cused of attacking a union supervisor, invited the shooting of Frank Lang- don, 72-year-old union official yester- day were made today by C:l. James FEasby-Smith, attorney for the Inter-| national Union of Operating Engineers. | langdon, assistant to the general| secrelary of the Operating Engineer's) Tinion, was shot while ceting lunch with two other labor officials. The woman and three men referred | to by Ccl. Easby-Smith were charged with assaulting Charles E. Haury, a union supervisor, in front of the organization’s offices at Tenth and X streets. Horsewhipped Official. ‘The attack occurred in April, when Mrs. Robert Stephens allegedly lashed Haury with a horsewhlp. She was as- sisted by several men, who are said to have closed in on the supervisor and subjected him to a severe pummeling. Assault charges were Ehced egainst the four arrested, but they were dis- missed 3 short time later, when the United States attorney office l:g:-lned it was mot the policy of the ce to 2ir lsbor disputes in court, Col. Easby-Smith said. 3 Rover declined to comment on Col. S2:by-Smith’s essertiins. rouen 1o GLmis & sulb Wi Was W be srgued Langdon Near Death. still was in a critical con- ‘Hospital €3z2in0b tae the passed the other cut his cheek. Surgeons were forced to remove the eye in an effect Lo s Langdon ‘st the time of the a o in the Robin Litigation invol the tion, acoording o Gol, Bashysswiity begas ‘when Henry E. Fish, a former business t for one of the three locals, and th | action organization’s . A second suit was filled by Samuel ‘Untermyer of New' York in December, 1929, on behalf of several ded ‘members, Last week Harry F. Barger, ‘Washington steam engineers whose memberghips had been suspended, filed an intervening petition to join Untermyer’s suit. The motion for dismissal on which Col. Easby Smith was to argue today was in con- nection with this suit. Other suits filed aginst the union in District Supreme Court were dis-| missed, but one still is pending before the Court of Appeals. In the suit filed by Barger, Huddell | snd other officers of the union are| charged with racketeering, allegedly Laving “robbed and mulcted members.” Officers Suspended. ‘The organization’s troubles, according | to Col. Easby-Smith, begun some time | ago when officers of the local branch | of th= union sought to keep the mem- bership down to 90 . members when Those officers were suspe: Easby-Smith continued, and their places | were filled by supervisors chosen by the | national organization. Since then, he, sdded, the local membership has been ' increased to approximately 400. | HOME TO BENEFIT BY ART DISCOVERY Julins Starrett Estate Includes Ob-‘i ject Valued at Neagrly i $500,000. By the Associated Press, ‘CHICAGO, May 21.—Tbe Chicago | Home for the Priendless will be the chief beneficiary of an art collection which was discovered by art collectors and estimated by them to be worth half s million dollars in normal times The discovery was made after Alfred J. Mendelssohn, an art appraiser Te- ceived a telephone call from an offictal of & bank “We are in charge of the estate of the late Julius Starrett, retired lawyer," he was told. “Under the terms of his will some art objects are fo be sold and the proceeds given to charity. We have an offer of $10.000 for the collec- tion. Will you visit the Starrett premises and ascertain whether this is | A fair offer?” A half hour later Mendelssohn tele- phoned the bank official. “Who had the nerve to offer that for this stuff?” he asked. “The first thing 1 clapped my eyes on was an Innes paint worth $15,000. He's got one teeny little Chinese vase worth $1,000, and there are many of them.” Jintered as second cliss matter ‘Washi: C. STRICT VAGRANCY LAW ER. 84, at 4 pm. ;Il .m. today. Pages13,14&15 ngton, URGED BY IHolds Ch_ange Would Give Police Weapon to Deter Crime—Denies Gangsters Are Active Here. Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, Police and Fire Commissioner, joined today with' Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintend- ent of police, in advocating a stringent vagrancy law as a crime preventive. ‘The missioner also broks a long- standing rule by issuing a prepared statement, in which he assured the people of Washington that the city is iree of the organized gangster and that the Police Department is doing its utmost to prevent his coming. The pronouncements were inspired by the recent series of hold-ups, shootings and murders, which, Gen. Crosby pointed out, is in no sense an expres- sion of gang warfare, but a sugcession of unrelated events. @h WASHINGTON, GEN. CROSBY Gen. ONI%. however, believes as does Maj, Pratt, t & vagrancy law with “teeth,” would place in the hands of the police and the courts, a potent crime prevention weapon. What the police superintendent wants is a law em- wering the police to round up hood- ums, speakeasy habitues and the re- mainder of the lawless element in Washington before the commission of an “overt act.” “The Fire Department has a fire marshal to prevent fires,” saild Gen. Crosby. “The Police Department also should have an effective weapon for the prevention of crime. A vagrancy law, more rigid and exacting than the one now in force—one that cannot be rifled with technical avenues of escape —would certainly be of great aid.” Maj. Pratt for several years urged the enactment of a new vagrancy law, and WITNESS UPHOLDS MIDDLETON ALIBI Says He Saw Officer at Delicatessen When Cun- ningham Was Shot. Jack Cunningham'’s last statement, in which the dying police informer implied that Potrolman Wallace J. Middleton of No. 12 precinct had shot him, was dis- | credited to a certain degree today as police began & check-up of what ap- peers to be an alr-tight alibi given them by Middleton, Hesdquarters dstsctives were informed by Patrick X. Kinnon of 918 Fourteenth street, that he saw Middleton, whom he knew slightly, in front of a delicetessen negr the scene ¢ shooting when the tang cut. 13 Pslrciman, WO W =% Iov 1514 poliss e $1c0 eouid 10cats & woratl who was seated In an automoblle before the lunch room and who can say she saw him Jeave after the shots were fired. Mrs. Cunningham Held. ’s wife, Mrs. Helen Cun- being held for investi- the House of Detention today ice believe she has not told ws about the shooting. has 2 #he gation at because all_she slaying. They sdy he and Middleton were partners in a hi-jacking trans- and their victim later forced Cunningham to turn over the loot. Middleton Suspended. ‘Middleton was suspended from the force shortly after his arrest. Police say that Middleton blamed Cunningham for his transfer from No. 1 to No. 12 and that a bitter enmity existed between the two, later patched up when they took whisky from a speak- easy on I street. . With regard to this transaction, Mrs. Cunningham told police she had re- tired when her husband brought the whisky into his apartment, but that panion as “Mid.” Cunningam fell early Tuesday morn- ing, shot through the abdomen by one of five bullets directed at him from » passing roadster as he started to mount the back steps to his apartment over a lunch room at 1410 I street. | 000 in 1920, she had he2rd him addressing a com- | MILLS HINTS WAR ¢ Foen ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ol Toy D. THURSDAY, INCREASE IN WHEAT Statement Opposing McKe!- vie Plan Says Development Bars Reduction. DEFINITE EXPORT QUOTAS HELD SURPLUS SOLUTION Russians Blame Farm Crisis on “Contradictions Within Capi- talistic System.” By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, May 21.—In & formal an- nouncement issued this morning Soviet Russia’s delegates to the World Wheat Conference said they opposed a plan suggested by Samuel R. McKelvie, head ot the American delegation, for reduc- TAY 0T T0D 00N ‘M,utual Savings Bankers | Given Picture of Reasons | Behind Deficit of Treasury. Hints that some of the taxes de- veloped in the World War ‘period may have been repealed or modified a little too fast were made by Arthur A. Bal- lentine, Assistant Sccretery of the Treacury, in presenting en address pre- pered by Undcrscerctary Ogde: Ibefore the second scssion of the Na- tiong]l Associstion of Mutual Savings ‘The benkers inferred from this state- Banks, 2t ths Mayficwer Hotel todzy. | R tion in wheat acreage because indus- trial and social conditions in Russia CROP VITAL, SOVIET INFORMS PARLEY' MAY | | | | | | | | made increased wheat production im- | perative. ‘‘Vesterday.” the | which is unacceptable to Soviet Russia | the announcement, said | hecause of conditions in our soclel ays- ' | tem, with extraordinary development in our industries' and the number of our industrial workers- and in view of the increased production which is necessary to meet growing internal demands. .. “It seems advisable to us to allow each country to decide for itself ‘whether to curtail production of agri- | cultural commodities and wheat in par- ticular.” Tosists on Quota Basis. The statement said it was the Rus- sian opinion, drawn from statemei.ns fof others before the conference, that “thc prineipel solution for regulation L re-war status must be consid- eny quota scheme. ment that it may be necessary for the Govsmmen: S VAOF wez fiskal year 1801 iz Ladlca Btates Treasury will show the rirst deficit since 1919, the year in which war financing reached its peak. In the intervening period revenues have each year shown a surplus over expenditures; marked progress has been made in the reduction of the public debt; expendi- tures have been reduced from inflated war levels, and the burden cf taxes has been greatly diminished, although with- ::'e a corresponding reduction in reve- Prospect of Big Deficit. “At present,” he added, “we are con- fronted with the relatively new ex- perience of marked increase in current t. hange is so abrupt that it is and Tuture. prospects bn- ine. lighi ut pros) n the light of the experience of the past few years and from the standpoint of the course which normal expenditures and normal revenue may follow during the next few years. We have seen a tax system which produced some $672,000,000 in | 1914, expanded to produce $5,728.000,- , the peak year of war levies, and subsequently contracted through four continuing revisicns and one tem- porary reduction. “There is nothing extracrdinary in all this, for invariably our experience | with wars has been that the expendi- tures of the Federal Government mount (Continued on Page 13, Column 5.) | SEVEN INMATES FLEE VETERANS’ HOSPITAL | Two Attendants at Leeds Over- powered by Demented Patients | | revolver and drop the shell while driv- | of the | precinet, a in Scaling Wall. The fatal bullet was removed at an autposy yesterday and turned over to Lieut. John Fcwler, the department's ballistics expert, for identification tests. The bullet was of a .45-caliber, while By the Associated Press. NORTHAMPTON, Mass, May 21.— the official police gun is a .38-caliber. | Seven mentally deranged patients of | the United States Veterans' Hospital at . Four Bullets Found. Leeds, including one who is considered Four bullets were found in the alley | dangerous, escaped last night, hospital and an exploded .38-caliber shell. This | authorities revealed today. shell was not of the type ejected by an | _ Shortly after 8 o'clock last night, Dr. 2utomatic, and police doubt if the gun- | William M. Dobson, director of the man, who apparently was alone in_the | hospital, said, the men overpowered two automcbile, had time to unbreach a |8ttendents. Aficr taking keys from one endants, with which they left | | | ] | | Is Based on Survey in 51 Citie By the Assoclatad Pre prices durin? the month endsd April 15, Wt ing by. | the hul‘lsmg. they scaled a high wall The shell, however, will be tested (and fled into the woods, t5 see if it could have been exploded in | The Btate police were notified and Middleton’s service revolver. troopers were scnt out fo search the A third person was being held for | countryside. questioning today in the shooting— | 4 George W. Mattingly of 509 Sixth street. Several others arrested wita |18 PER CENT FOOD DROP Mattingly shortly after the affair were released vesterday. | SINCE APRIL, 1930 Mattingly was iaken to headquarters for questioning yesterdsy from No. f ter returned with crders Burean of Labor Statistics’ Report (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) R £ s YOUNG’S MOTHER DIES 93-Year-0ld Woman Victim of Fall Seven Weeks Ago. :e";ml"aé)i‘ N'rLGm' e April 15, 1930, was <d today by the Bures boi VAN HORNESVILLE, N. Y., May 21 | Stat'stics. it (P).—Mrs. 1da Brandow Young, mothcr | The compilation. based upon reports of Owen D. Young, did today of in- | from 51 cities, shos jurles caused by a-fall at her home |of 34 food pro:ucts an seven weeks ago. She was 93 years old. | but 6. Those n‘-\,un;",:m!".m::::' o Mr. Young, her only son, was at the | t>to:s. onions, hens, oranges, pork bedside. chops and legs of lamb, = WIVES CHARGING JOBLESS SPOUSEE WITH DESERTION TO BE JAILED 'Uniontown, Pa., Prosecutor Also Will Not Imprison Unemployed Game Law Violators. By the Assoclsted Press. | Robinson said he caught the turtle to UNIONTOWN, Pa., May 21.—Prose- | feed his wife and five ch cutor J. B, Adems went to bat for the |no job, Wit . The discovery was verified by Robert Grant, m|wukrhwmh-:fl "meh c'ol- lect! two Wi chairs, e che ‘ot Prancis Scott Key. bought 1 im collection Baltimore. other was a chalr by Chippendale himself. in Radio Pngulu. n ?;ge D4 object, he 2dded, man out of a jcb today. Adams sald that no one out of a job Pirst he served notice that, where |in his district would be jailed for viola- fects warrant, he will jail for the costs | tion of the game and fish Jaws, any woman who files desertion and non- | I have no sympathy for an officer support charges against a husband out | who invokes the law which will prevent of work. the head of & starving family from st~ Next he ordered the release of Victor | tempting to feed hungry mouths with Robinson. sentenced to 25 days In jall [fish and game that, belong to the for catehing a turtle out of season.' people,” he asserted. A decline of 2 per cont in retail food | d declin:s in prices | It discussed the necessity for financ eny surplusss which o igr surpluses 2 Russfa m q Lrediis, The statement was signed by Isidore aublmofl, head of the Russian delega- jon. Production Outlined, In a preface Lubimoff outlined the actual position of Soviet wheat produc- tion. Last year the crop totaled 29,- 500,000 tons. Allowing for consump- tion, the surplus was 6,100,000 tons. As for the new crop, the Winter wheat sowing was 12,600,000 hectares; Spring wheat, 29,700,000 hectares. The total area under wheat in 1931 is at least 42,000,000 hectares, with an anticipated a little Jess than two and a half acres. Lubimoff sald the Russians disagree ;Lh other delegates regarding the ag- ultural crisis, ‘contending that the crisis is a direct result of “contradic- tions within the capitalistic system.” BACKS SALES AGREEMENT. Saskatchewan Farmers Oppose U. S. Acreage Reduction Suggestion, SASKATOON, Saskatchewsn, May 21 (#).—The Saskatchewan section of the United Farmers of Canada has lssucd & statement favoring an international sales agreement on wheat. ‘The statement, which is by way of comment on the London Wheat Can- ference, opposes the suggestion of the United States delegates that a reduc- tion of acreage is the solution of the wheat problem. Orderly marketing con- trolled by the growers will be the final practical method of disposing of world surpluses, the organization says. FIRE CHIEF KILLED IN BLAST AT BLAZE Eight on Roof Hurled Into Flam- ing Building, but Are Rescued Unhurt, By the Associated Press. SPRING GREEN, Wis., May 21— Fire Chief Milford Graham was killed, another man was injured and eight firemen were rescued today when an explosion blew the front wall of a burning building into the street. The fire destroyed two business build- ings and caused a $50,000 loss. Chief G m and Nels Dodge, 65, were operating a pump in front of one of |tte ourning structures. An explosion on the second floor hurled the front wall into the street and buried the fire chief under debris. Pireman worked for an hour to recover the body. Decdge was struck by fl bricks and suf- fered a fractured it and bruises. Eight firemen on the roof of the i building at the time of the vxplosion were carried into the blazing structure when the roof fell, but were rescued uninjured, | ABANDONED COAL MINE | USED FOR DISTILLERY !200 Gallons of Alcohol and Distil- ling Apparatus Found in Illinois. By the Associaled Prees. CHICAGO, May 21.—After raiding | an abandoned coal mine near La Salle, {111, where distilling apparatus and 200 | gallons of alcohol were seized and one man arrestzd, Pedcral prohibition agents from Springfield taday scarched thz hill country for ad<itional outlets from the mine through which other moonshiners might flee. Last night six prohibition agents en- tzred the moin tunnel cf th: mine. A long string of clectric lights led them to the still. Carl Smith, whom they found ot the still, was taken to Ottowa 1o e arraigned. CASHIER BELHAVEN, N. C, May 21 (#).— The Farmers' Bank of Belhaven did not open today by order of the State bank department and \W. J. Justus, cashier and vice president, was charged with missappropriation of funds and A warrant was sworn out for W. C. Hagnes, essistant cashier, but he could Dot be found. Justus was jailed in default of bond. 'ARRESTED of wheat cxport ‘is Axing definitc ;x-’ uncemsnt dealt with the s regarding quotas and said | crop of 36,500,000 tons. The hectare is | Americans_submitted & proposal | ORATORY FINALISTS WILL VISIT HOOVER Entertainment for Speakers in Saturday’s Contest Is Arranged. | | | l With 2ll ssven National Orstoricel! Contest finzlists due in the National| bl ‘Liie drst snd st lmportant eveat on the young orators’ program is their %unumn to President Hoover at the ite House at 12:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. At that time, the President will pose with the six boys and cne girl for an official photograph. After the White House call, the ora- | tors will be guests of honor with Wash- ington's entry, Jimmy Moore, at a luncheon at Western High School, | where Jimmy is a student. Leigh to Entertain. Members of Western High School's ! faculty who have been active in promo- tion -of the contest and Dr. Elmer S. Newton, principal, also will be guests. Randolph Leigh, director general of the contest, and Mrs. Leigh will enter-| tain the orators at tea late tomorrow afternoon at their hime on Fairfax road in Fairfax County, Va. Then the visitors will return to Washington for & “free” evening. ‘The only event for their entertain- ment Saturday will be a Juncheon given by Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Moore, parents of young Moore, at the Willard Hotel. Speakers Saturday will test the acus- tics of Constitution Hall in prepara- tion for the eompetition that night at 8| o'clock. | Sightseeing Planned. For the remainder of the day, the orators will rest. On Sunday, the oratorical party will| be guests of The Star on a sightseeing | tour of the Capital and its environs. | The tour which will start in the mom‘| ing will include visits to the Lincoln | Memorijal, the Pan American Union, | where they will be received by Dr. Leo 8. Rowe, director general of the union, and representative residential sections. | They will go to the George Mason Hotel at Alexandria for an old-fashioned Vir- ginia chicken and ham dinner. The atmosphere there will be strictly in- formal and the young orators who will be traveling mates on the prize (Wn-i | and-one-half-month tour of Europe this | Summer will take that opportunity io| i ll i 21, 1931—FIFTY- |G. 0. P. Chairman Finds | among the leaders in the re-election ing Star. TWO PAGES. Pedestrians Safer Than Ever, Report On Survey Indicates By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 21.—Compara- tively speaking, the lestrian is safer than ever, the National Salety Council reported today. ‘The council made public figures showing that pedestrian deaths incrcased but 5 per cent sinee 1927, whereas there wes a 35 per increase for torists. id that it had been found th: mere careless cities. | Conditions Improving in Face of ‘Re-Election Year.’ BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Prospects for Republican success, ©Ohio in the nati@hal election next are improving, Senator Stmeon D. Fess of Ohio said on his return to Washing- ton today from the Buckeye State. ‘The Republican natlonal chairman said that the outlook for bumper crops in Ohio are excellent. While there is still unemployment in industrial centers, Senator Pess expressed tae cpinion that conditions were improving. Public building and development of the high- ways, he said, were going forward more rapidly now and giving employment. “Ohlo is a Hoover State and will be next yvear of President Hoover,” said Senator Pess. The confidence of Senator Fess in the renomination and re-election of President Hoover is in line with the views taken by a number of other Re- publican leaders, nctwithstanding the reports which are now published to the efiect that the Progressive wing of the Republican party will make an effort to unhorse Mr. Hoover in the presi- dential primaries next year and in the Republican National Convention, if the President is a candidate to succeed himseif. Senator Brookhart cf Jowa has re- cently declared that not only Progres- TWO HELD T0 JURY | become better acquainted. {CALENDAR REFORM PLANS FROM U. S. FORWARDED Suggestions to Be Considered by | sive Republicans but regular Republic- | ans are opposed to the renomination | of President Hoover and do not believe | he can be re-elected. Frcm Pennsyl- | vania, too, have come-reports that Gov. Pinchot has his lightening rod up with the hope that a presidential bolt will strike in his direction next year. Gov. | | Pinchot is an old Progressive Republic- H League of Nations Committee at Geneva June 8. By the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, N. Y, May 21.—More than 100 American plans of calendar | simplification, submiited in the last two years from all parts of the country, were mailed to the League of Nations jtoday by George Eastman, chairman of the Nationa Calendar Committee for the United States. They were sent for the consideration of the International Preparatory Com- mittee, which fs to meet at Geneva June 8 in anticipation of the Inter- national Conference on Calendar Re- form convoked by the League for Oc- tober 26. The material includes plans for 13, 12 and 10 month fixed calendars, “leap week” and ‘“leap month” ealendars, | calendars with six and five day weeks and various other arrangements of the !days, weeks and months. Included are 42 suggestions sent to Mr. Eastman for the name of the additional month in the proposed 13 equal months fixed calendar. AUTHOR WINS PROFITS FROM “VAGABOND LOVER” | | Court Grants Request for Account- ing With Vallee, Publishers and Recording Firms. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, May 21.—The “Vagabond Lover” was back home today, a court decided. The song, which was sung all over the country, was written, Judge Philip L. Sullivan decided yesterday, by Jesse Brown, an attorney in whose behalf he ordered an accounting from Rudy Vallee Leon Zimmerman, Leo Feist, Inc., pub- lishers, and two phonograph com- panies. Brown said he expected to realize $10,000 as a result of the decision. He said he tuned in on the radio one night two years ago when the song was a big hit and remembered he had written it ‘at a time when he was leading an orchestra. an of the Theodore Roosevelt .school.‘ Sees Hoover Renomination. 1t is obvious that Senator Fess takes no stock in this talk of the Progressives | and that he believes President Hoover will be renominated and re-elected. Republicans generally outside of the Progressive_group say Wwithout hesita- tion that they belleve President Hoo- ver will be renominated. Even some of the Progressives are convinced that the President can have the renomination if | he wants it, and not a few of the Re- publicans are convineed that they must win with Hoover or not at all. To with- hold_the presidentlal nomination from Mr. Hoover would be tantamount to re-| pudiation of the Republican administra- | tion, they say, snd the nomination | would be of no real value to any oth- | er Republican nominee, Out in Ohio, in the Cincinnatl dis | trict, the Republicans and the Demo- | v 3) 117,000, “(Continued on Page 2, Column | the Associated service. UP) Means Associ =z, N SCADOL DEATH Coroner’s Group Acts Against Officials of Construction 'm at Inquest. Two ofctals of the W. P, Rose Cen- struction Co., North Cerolina contrac- s 16 LaBITE, Lued Wl & Stal- fold collapsed &t the Stusrt Junior High School. The men ordered held are Raymond N. Rouse, superintendent of construe- The only evening in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 117,078 TWO CENTS. ARLINGTON COUNTY OFFICES OPENED T0. 3. WORKERS Press. Hoover Issues Executive Or- der on Recommendation of Civil Service Commission. STATE AND PATIONAL JOB-HOLDING BARRED Action Is Based Upon Change in Government Making Section Municipality. An executive order issued by President Hoover today permits officers and em- ployes of the executive civil service permanently residing in Arlington | County, Va., to become candidates for and hold Jocal office in that county and to actively participate in political cam~ paigns for election to such offices. ‘This privilege, however, does not | permit political activity in national er | State polities in violation of the etvil | service rules, but is confined to ths county itself. The order also specifies that in the execrcise of the privilege granted by the order offers of the Gov- ernment must not neglect their official duties. 1t is explained on behalf of the Presi. dent that this order is based upon the fact that Arlington County as now con- stitutea and objection to officers and employes the Government who live in the county local office and participating in cam| . Moreover a study of the situstion showed that a considerable number of the residents and u.xpnyfl President’s officers by no way invel "smam.rsion Males Study, | mat ceer of tne B tion, and O. N. Bordeaux, formerly|was employed by the Rose Co. as assistant foreman. A technizal charge of man- slaughter was lodged against them by Headquarters Detective Charles Mans- fleld. Bond was fixed at $1,000 in each case. ‘The verdict of the coroner’s rendered after more than half an was 's deliberation. It was the third session when the fatal accident occurred, was sald to have been twice warned that the scaffold which collapsed and resulted in the death of Mozon was unsafe. Bordeaux In Charge. Bordcaux, Wwhose employment with the Rose Co. terminated suddenly Sat- urday, the day after the accident, was in immediate charge of the hauling werk in which Mozon was engaged with two other men when the planking of the scaffold broke and hurtled the trio to_the ground. ‘Testimony &t the second session of the inquest Tuesddy by two District building inspectors was to the effect that they had warned Rouse and Bor- deaux that old and split boards on the scaffold should be replaced “before some one gets hurt.” Joseph Duncan, colored, of 217 G street northeast, one of the three men who fell from the scaffold, told the jury today that Mozon, Raymond Har- ris another laborer, and himself were engaged in wheeling a large stone down a2 runway- from an elevator to the scaffold at the time of the accident. Heard Boards Crack. “The first 1 knew of anything hap- pening,” Duncan said, “was when I heard a board crack. Then all thres of us fell to the ground with the whecl- barrow and the stone.” Duncan said the stone weighed ahout 500 pounds. It was this piece of ma- terial which, falling on his head, re- sulted in the death of Mozon. Duncan was asked by Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Milford F. Schwartz how long he was employed with th: Rose Co. “Four weeks up ’till last Priday,” replied the witness. “I'm now working with a laundry.” “Why did you quit your job with construction company?” asked Schwartz. “Well, after the accident I was afraid Td get hurt if I worked there any more.” Five other employes of the Rose Co. were witnesses at this morning's ses- sion. They were E. E. K penter’s helper; Emmett carpenter; Charles E. York, 2 i RO Sarpens (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Two Army Warehouses Burn. MANILA, May 21 (#).—A fire which authorities attributed to spontaneous combustion destroyed two United States Army warehouses here today. The buildings contained Army engineering supplies. Officlals pl the loss at DIRT DUMP ON PR IVATE LAN THREATENS TO PART FRIENDS Adjustm About 5,000 tons of red earth threat- ens today to bring about a breach in the long-standing friendship of Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, social leader, and Raymond T. Baker, former director of the Mint. Mrs. Harriman, who about & year ago moved into a historic old home on the point of land between Foxhall and Reservoir roads, returned recently from Bermuda to find a great mound of red earth dumped in the triangular valley directly in front of her handsomely re- modeled home, The earth, she found, had been dumped there by the Willlam P. Lipscomb Co., contractors, who are building a $350,000 home for Mr. Baker, just north of Mrs. Harriman’s home on Foxhall road. Inquiries made by Mrs. Harriman re- vealed that no authority has been given for the dumping of the earth on her Both Mz Baker ‘ang are promifient Democra ! close frfends for years. Mirs. J. Borden Harriman and Raymond T. Baker Seek ‘ ent of Neighbor Dispute. land and she is seeking immediate re- I mun| porated, of one what is ‘This a municipality, as in this case. May Hold Local Offices. President Hoover's order in full fol- “Officers and employes of the execu~ tive civil service permanently residing in Arlington County, Va., may become candidates for and hold local office in such county and may ite in: campaigns for election to such offices. “In the exercise of the privilege grant- ed by this order, officers and employes must not neglect their officlal dutles. and must not engage in National or State politics in violation of the Civil Service rules. If there is such violation, the head of the department or inde- pendent office in which the person employed shall inflict such punishment as the Civil Service Commission shall recommen d. and employes elected or ap-- pointad to offices requiring full time service shall resign their positions with the Federal Government. If elected or appointed to offices requiring only part-* time service, they may accept and hold same without relinquishing their Fed- eral employment, provided the holding of such part-time office does not con- fliet or interfere with their official du- ties as officers or employes of the Fed- eral Government. County Is Municipality. “This order is based upon the fact that Arlington County is substantially a municipality; that a considerable’ number of the residents and taxpavers "~ (Continu -on'hgerziicfllxmn'&) FLYERS ON WAY HERE TO PLAN WORLD HOP Seek British Ambassador’s Aid in ,Getting Permission to Traverse Soviet Territory. | By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, May 21.—Wiley Post and Harold Gatty left here at 9 am. today on a projected non-stop flight to Washington to ‘seek an inter- view with the British Ambassador re- garding Soviet permission to cross Rus- zl:n territory on an earth-girdling air Ip. Gatty, Australlan by birth, still is a British subject, and it is thought by F. C. Hall, Oklahoma City ofl man financing the attempt for the 'round- the-world specd record, that this may bear weight with Soviet authorities. ‘The flyers previously had been refused necessary permission. Following their trip @ Wsshington, the flyers will procesd to New Yark, moval of the earth. The dllmnl.ngll. taken from the excavation for the Baker mansion, were deposited upon new {op soll, which Mrs. Harriman had had placed in preparation for the plan ing of fruit trees and . Blaine Mallan, attorney to whom Mrs. Harriman referred inquiries, declared t “amicable settlement” of the prob- lem is under wi between M Harriman and Mr. Baker, but, he adde unless complete restoration of Mrs. Harriman's property is effected, action probably anunt Mr. Mallan asserted, Mr. Baker highly co-operative in his desire to see that damage to his friend’s property is rectified. Mrs. Harriman d e been B starting point of their proposed world flight. GOVERNOR’S SPEED HIT )’e‘w lene;&l'own'li_chlmber of Commerce Asks Him to Go Slow. FARMINGDALE, N. J, May 21 (. —The speed with which Gov. Mol P. Larson goes through this town on daily trips between Trenton and his home at Sea Girt has resulted in many complaints, he was told today in a let- ter from the local Chamber of Com- merce, t hh cessi lhmf';;::dm at such excessive rates of Farmingdale” in his automobile.: