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53 CANPS SLATED FOR ABANDONMENT " Army May Add Others to List as Program Progresses, MacArthur Says. By the Associated Press. Congress will be asked to approve complete or partial abandonment of some of the 53 military posts the War Department. plans to dispose of in the administration's effort to prevent further inroads on the taxpavers' pocketbook. And before December, economy plans will bs laid for other governmental de- partments. At his Rapidan fishing camp this week end, President Hoover will consider the Post Offize Depart:xent with its prospective $140,000,000 deficit. In the campaign the President and cabinet members hope to save from $125.000,000 to $150,000,000. Mr. Hoo- ver has contended expenditures must, be reduced to prevent tax increases in the face of decreasing receipts and an ex- pected deficit of $700,000,000 or more this year. Interior Cuts Planned. The Interior Department alreads making plans to cut expenses $17,00 000 or more in the next three year: the coming week end conference, the President and Postmaster General Brown will see what, if anything, they can do to_cut postal expenses. While they are discussing this ques- tion, the War Department wili continue with its arrangements for abandcnment of the 53 posts enumerafed yesterday in a memorandum from Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Army chief of stafl, to Sec- retary Hurley. Posts the Army now occupies and | plans to abandon include: Forts Brown and D. A. Russell, Tex; Eustis_and Hunt, Va.; Camps Harry J. Jones and Stephen D. Little, Ariz; Fort Lincoln, N. Dak.; Miller Field, N. Y.; Fort Mis- soula, Mont., and Chanute Field, III. Camps, landing fields and harbor de- fense establishments, now occupled only by caretakers and suggested for aban- donment, include: Forts Dade and De Soto, Key West Barracks, Carlstrom | Field and Dorr Field, Fla.; Fishermans | Jsland and Camp Lee. Va.: Fort Wade and Willapa Bay, Wash.; Fort Morgan, Ala.; Camp Upton. N. Y.: Camp Eagle Pass, Tex.; Camp Furlong, N. Mex., and Park Field, Tenn. Others May Be Added. For partial disposal Gen. MacArthur listed Forts Levett, Me.: Stark, Fos- ter and Constitution. N. H.: Heath, An- drews, Revere, Ruckman, Strong, War- ren and Rodman, Mass.; Getty, Greble and Wetherill, R. I San Jacinto and Travis, Tex.; Baker, Barry, Rosecrans and Miley, Calif. Casey, Canby, Columbia, Whitman and Flagier, Wash. The ‘general said as disposal plans | progressed it might be possible to add other establishments to the list. He added that in many cases Congsess al- | ready had spproved sales or transfers, Shfle “in other cases congressional st réhority must be secuged. ; In his deliberations with the Post- fmaster General the President is ex- !pected to hear again the suggestion that postal rates be increased. Brown {has advocated this step, but the last Congress turned down his suggestion, 1, The Postmaster General has advoeated ;an increase in first-class postage rate ffrom 2 to 2! cents per ounce and i parcel post zoning and ge size adjustments, which would raise the | fevenue about $12,500,000 annually. BY WEALTHY GOLFER Young British Millionaire Who Learned to Play in U. S. Wins in Semi-Finals. By the Associsted Press. WESTWARD HO, Devon, England, May 21.—Syd Roper, the young insur- ance clerk who eliminated George Voight, last American Lope, in the fiff round of the British amateur yesterday, today was defeated in the quarter-finals by Johnny De Forest, young English millionaire, who learned bis golf in America, ‘Weather conditions were anything but Pleasant for the eight survivors as ti played out the quarter-finals today. strong wind, which played havoc with many good shots, was sweeping West- ward Ho and the temperature was t00 low for comfort. With ail the better known golfers— Voigt, Toliey, Roger Wethered, runner- up last year: the Fiddians and others— out of the tournament, the galleries to- day had shrunk to only a fraction of their former size. Deforest’s margin was 2 up and 1 to play, and served in part as a vindi- cation of American golf. He spent most of last Winter in the United States taking lessons from the leading professionals, including Horton Smith and several others, and picking up all the tricks he could from Ameri- can amateurs. William Tulloch, Glasgow business man and Scotland’s sole remaining rep- resentative in the tournament, elimi- nated John Morrison, former Cam- bridge all-around athlete, 3 and 1: Dr, John MacCormack, Dublin physician, defeated Capt. H. C. C. Tippet, con- queror of Cyril Tolley, 2 and 1, and Eric Smith of Cambridge University eliminated Peter Miller, 2 and 1. CHEVY CHASE HEARS PLEA FOR D. C. VOTE George Adams Addresses Associa- tion—Local Man Favored for Bicentennial Post. National represenfation for the Dis- of Columbia was advocated in a | c speech before the Chevy Chase Citizens Association by George Adams of the Citizers’ Alllance of Washington at a | Wheetldg of the Chevy Chase Citizens' | ssoclation in the E. V. Brown School ast night The association went on record as| favoring the placing of a local man in charge of the Capital's arrangements for the celebration of the George Wash Ington Bicentennial next year. Rumors that an outside man is to receive the post prompted the action In snother resolution the association | asked the District government for more | ad:quate lighting on Fessenden street from Connecticut avenue to Thirty- eighth street, on Reno road from Ben Murch School to Chevy Chase Parkway and on Nebraska avenue from Connec- ticut avenue to Reno road. A committee was appointed to work with the Federation of Citizens’ Asso- Clations to request adequate funds for the Community Center work. It con- sisted of E. S. Hege and A. Adelman. Named to Dental Board. The District Commissioners today ap- pointed Dr. Harry E. Osbo ber of the Board of Dental Examiners for a term of five years, to take effect today, vice Dr. Thomas J. Rice. Gethsemane, the in the New Testament as the scene of the betrayal of Christ by Judas, is now the property of the Franciscan Fathers. Schuyler and | Terry, N. Y.; Mott, N. J.; McRee, Fla.; | Orator . Courts Luck HEN Jimmy Moose goes into Saturday night, he will Jimmy let out a secret. under his dress shirt and wing collar. shoe is just another plea to Lady Luck M'NAMEE SUED FOR SEPARATION BY HIS "SEVEREST CRITIC" Radio Announcer’s Wife Praises Him in Cur- rent Magazine. Charges Not Disclosed, Though Papers Served About st of Month. By the Associated Pres: NEW YORK, May 21.—A separation suit brought by Mrs. Josephine Garrett garden mentioned) McNamee against Graham McNamee. lar radio announcer, was revealed today. ‘The charges in the complaint, which has been on file in Suprem= Court for several weeks, were not disclosed. McNamee said he had been served with the papers about the first of the month. He denied that the action was by mutual consent and said it would not ‘be: contested. Masical Program Romance. ‘They were married 10 years ago after meeting at a concert in the Dutch Re- formed Church, in Bronxville, N. Y., ‘where both ‘were on a musical program McNamee was a baritone singer before he became an announcer. Disclosure of the separation suit came as & surprisé to their friends, among whom they were described as an ideally married couple. McNamee has often been severest critic, who sat at one of their five tadio receivers at home and lis- tened to events, political meetings and other doings. Comment in Magazine. In the current issue of Radio Digest Mrs. McNamee has an article describing the life of a radio announcer’s wife: “I make it a point to keep the hours he keeps and to entertain our friends| when it is convenient for him. Many & | pancakes and fried | time I have egg sandwiches at 4 o'clock in the morn- “Although Graham's work takes him away a great deal, I have one advan- tage over other wives. I can always hear him. The first thing he does when he finishes a broadcast is to telephone me and say, ‘Did you hear the program? How was it " McNamee is 42 years old. In 1912 he became a choir singer in s New Jersey church and was with various musical organizations. He be- came a radio announcer in 1923 and soon was the best known member of his profession Alope in Penthouse. In his penthouse apartment on Riv- erside Drive, McNamee, looking haggard and nervous, said he had been alone for zeveral weeks, although even his nearest friends knew nothing of Mrs. McNamee's intentions. “I haven't seen her application for a settlement,” he sald, “but I have becn served with the necessary papers. I don't know where Mrs. McNamee is now, but T do know that the statement that the separation is by mutual con- sent is false. I don't even know what charges she makes.” In 1923 McNamee was doing jury duty at $3 a day. Dur- ing lunch period he walked into the American Telephone & Telegraph Bullding and asked for a job. He got it—as announcer, handy man and s00ther of nervous entertainers in the radio ststion in the building At first McNamee was t00 poor to have a radio set in his home, so his wife used to stand in front of a radio store on the street listening to her husband's broadcasts |PARK BOARD OPENS THREE-DAY MEET Monument Development Be Subject of Discussion by to Commission, The future of development around the Washintgon Monument, so western terminus of the Mail may be sultably completed, was to be discussed by the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commisison at its three-day meet- ing_ starting todsy Yesterday a special engineering ad- visory board, including Lazarus White and J. Vipond Davies of New York, met to consider the probable results of excavation of large masses of earth from about the monument. Borings re- cently taken around the base of the monument also were discussed and the | board prepared to make definite recom- mendations to the commission. ‘The commiesion is directing attention to roads in the Mall, as Lieat. Col. U. 8. Grand, 3d., director of public build- ings and public parks, will have $100,000 available on July 1 for road construc- tion in that area. The commission also was to have be- fore it a request from the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission for funds to assist in the . national commission will tribute one-third of the cost, while the Maryland group will furnish two- thirds for the purchase of land for e rn Branch valleys, take with him the Dorothy Skirm, a fellow student of Western High School Miss Skirm who last year posed with the trophy which another class- mate of her's, Edmund Gullion, actually won in.the finals a Vear ago and it was she who today showed off this year's trophy to best advantage The necktie he's wearing in the above photog: has been worn in every contest he's entered this year and he's going to wear it— in Saturday night's contest TWO HELD TO JURY quoted as saying his wife was his| him broadcast descriptions of | | was not getting along so well |CHAIRMAN FESS SEES e | crats next Fall will fight it out for the | House seat held by | Longworth. | does 1t carry with it, if the Republicans | Republican vacancy in the House in | Wisconsin | expected, will be filled by the election | Justice Taft, now a State Senator, | being strongly urged p-!: dzvmmenl program near Wash- | abl in_Rock Creek, Sligo and the ' THE EVENIN ! the National Oratorical Contest finals “good luck” of Miss It was aph The hcrse- —Star Staff Photo. GRAHAM McNAMEE. IN SCHOOL DEATH AT CORONER’S INQUEST| __(Continued From First Page.) ter, and Ike Rochelle, who described himself as a general utility man John W. Hunt of 5712 Fourth street, general superintendent of the Rose Co. for its Washington jobs, was the first witness called this morning. He testi- fled he had inspected the scaffold in question four or five hours after the accident. ~At that time, he said. it} appeared to be in good condition. The District building inspectbrs previously | had told the jury that the damaged | boards had been removed immediately following the mishap and that old boards had been “covered up.' Hunt was asked what he meant by a statement he made in the presence of Benjamin Pleat. Peter Hart and George Warren, District Builing inspeciors, that they need expect “no more trouble from Bordeaux.” Pleat and Hart had | said they were unable to “get along” with Bordeaux. By that I meant ] was contemplating removing Bordeaux from the Stuart High School job to another job in Alex- andrfa,” Hunt said. “He had com- | plained that the building fnspectors | had been hard on bim, and I knew h;;; wit them.” Instructions “All Wrong.” Hunt was asked by Coroner J. Ram- say Nevitt if Bordeaux customarily car- | ried out the instructions of the Dis- | trict building inspectors on the job. i “Sometimes he did end sometimes he | didn't,” the witness replied. “Some- | times it was not possible to carry them | out.” “Why not?” asked the coroner | “Because they were sll wrong, that's | why,” returned Hunt York, who followed Hunt to the| stand. sald he had assisted in replac- | ing the scaflold following the accident. He did not remember at whose in-| structions the work was done. “You would not ordinarily undertake the work unless instfueted?” asked the district attorney. | The witness replied that he would not. “Then some one must have told you to do it,” sald Swartz. “Yes,” T guess some one did. don’t remember who it was Pleat testified Tuesday that he had ordered Rouse to have certain boards of the scaffolding replaced. That was Thursday, the day prior to the accident. On Friday morning he noticed that his instructions had not been carried out| and he again approached Rouse. The | superintendent told him the work would be done, Pleat said, but later the same morning, about two hours before the | accident, he noticed the boards had not been changed. His testimony was cor- roborated by Hart, who was present at the interview with Rouse Work on the Stuart job was suspend- ed Saturday morning by Warren, chief building inspector, who forbade con- tinuation of it unthi all the scaffolding was reinferced. But I OHIO OUTLOOK FOR REPUBLICANS BRIGHTER (Continued From First Page.) the late Speaker Much will hinge on the special election for this seat. Not only are successful, a majority in the House | itself, but also the psychological effect will be considerable. There is one other That seat, however, it of a Republican to succeed the Henry Allen Cooper Taft Urged for Congress. Robert Taft, soi of the late Chief is to run. for ‘the Longworth seat in the House. Mr. Taft is understood to have ambitions to eventually enter the Senate. Some of his friends are urging him to make the race for the House seat as a prelim- inary step. He has served with some distinction as a member of the Staie Senate and is the author of a State tax bill which has received very favor- G | might | the approval of the presiding judge of STRCT VAGRANCY LAV HERE ASKED Crosby, in Prepared State-| ment, Denies Gangsters Are Operating in City. (Continued From First Page.) a bill which met his approval ‘was in- | troduced in Congress, but died there | because of vigorous opposition, The opponents fought it on the ground | that it would interfere with the liberties | of law-abiding citizens. ~Gen. Croshy | belleves that a vagrancy law can be | drawn which will accomplish the desired | object, and at the same time protect the | law-abiding citizen, i Crosby Statement Quoted. | Gen. Crosby's formal statement was issued at police headquarters, and not from his office in the District Building. | 1t follows H “The recent succession of shootings | that have occurred in Washington are | of great concern to me and to our| Police Department, as well as 0 our | citizens 1 “My iavestigations and those of the Police Department show that these shootings are in no sense an expression of gang warfare, but are & succession of unrelated events that have occurred | oyer a brief period. One of them, for | instance, was a_watchman employed to watch cars outside a gambling place in | a neighboring State, who was killed as the result of a quarrel with an ac- | Quaintance. Another grew out of what now appears to be a labor dispute which originated in another city. Will Press All Charges. “If. as is alleged, a policeman is in- volved in one of the shootings, the public may be assured that every effort | will be made to cure the necessary idence to secure & conviction. This statement holds true with refemence to any member of the police force who may be involved in any manner with law violators or law violations. “As evidence of the determinmation of the department to rid itself of such members as have failed to maintain the required standard of service and con- duct, 63 have been dismissed fram the service in the last two years. It is my personal opinion that we have an effi- clent and honest police force. of course there are exceptions, but I| know of no walk of life in which this 1s not true “For example, the percentage of ar- rests for murders is an evidence of the activity of the police. All but two of the 27 murder cases occurring since the first of the year have been cleared up by the arrest or establishment of the identity of the individual committing to | two instances have citizens | been killed by persons engaged in the | commissicn of crime. Refers to Twe Cases. “One of these was Mrs. Lizzie Jaynes, shot April 3, in the Garden T Shoppe in the course of & hold-up, for which no arrest has been made “The other was James H. Lane, shot March 18, on a street car at Nichols avenue and Clinton street, when he re- sisted two.men robbing the street car receipts. Two men have been arrested and are awaiting trial for this erime. “Nineteen persons have been killed by relatives, friends or acquaintances with whom they engaged in altercations. “Two deaths resulted from family quarrels between husbands and wives. ““Thre persons were killed in obviously insane outbursts “The motive for the shooting of John Cunningham has not been ascertained. | Gang War Not Involved. “Of the 27 persons killed, colored and 11 were white. “This brief analysis demonstrates that these killings are not the result of gang warfare. “Washington can rest assured that no effort being spared to keep the city clear of the gangster. He is not here now. Aside from declaring that he sub- seribed to Commissioner Crosby's state- ment, Maj. Pratt declined to comment further, on the crime situation. 16 were WITNE>SS UPHOLDS- MIDDLETON ALIBI IN SHOOTING CASE (Continued From First Page.) that he be held. Middleton was quizzed at considerable length, and probably will be brought to headquarters from | his cell at No. 5 precinct tHis afterncon for additional guestioning Cunningham made his dying state- ment with great reluctance, police said, while he was near death and almost too weak to be lucid. Capt. Kelly had gone out to bring Middleton face to face with the police informer when he learned of the lat- ter's death. Police Search Room. Middleton occupies & small Toom at the Ambassador Hotel. Police searched the premises, but found nothing which connect the policeman in the Cunningham told police she asked her husband who shot him as they were on their way to Emergency | Hospital in a taxicab, but he only closed his eyes and shook his head. Detective Joseph Waldron of the homicide squad tried repeatedly to wring from Cunningham's reluctant lips some information helpful to the inves- tigation. Thousands Ar;nml, Though Only Three Have Legal Pc'rmils“ xteen .\lomhs'Rm'ordufE Purchases Checked Fol- lowing Shootings Here, Coincident with the current “epl- demic” of shooting here police officials have announced that only three private citizens in the city have been granted the legal right to carry firearms during the past 16 months, although Washing- ton residents have secured thousands frcm local merchants and through the mails Records of Frank A Sebring, Police Court clerk, who issues permits with the court, show that Charley Soo and George Wen, Chinese, and Wash B. Wil- liams, ccal merchant, have obtained | the permits recently fssued. Sebring sald there are in all hardly a score who have been given the permission and who are now using the privilege. Reports of the Police Department show local dealers sold 3,304 pistols in 1930 and the first four months of this year. It was estimated approximately twice this number were brought into the city through the mails, Dealers in firearms are required only to obtain the name and address of the le comment. He is a wet, but is not offensive to the drys. Republicans feel fairly confident, it is sald, of carrying this Cincinnati dis- trict, provided they can avoid factional rows. It is said that the nomination of Mr. Taft would avoid a party split, a r purchaser. Many of the buyers give fictitious names and addresses, it is be- lieved. To secure a permit to carry & gun a private citizen must give a luri’u- ble reason, accompanied by affidavits of three reputable citizens and the postiny of a real estate bond for $300. The bon must be rencwed each 30 days, When Madrid Was in Grip of Rioters FIRST PICTURE OF RECENT DISTURBANCES IN SPANISH CAPITAL. The Jesuit Coliege In the Gran Via, Madrid, burning after it had been looted and fired by anti-religious mobs SHEENEY 1 HELD N DAY INOLES {Man Claiming Self-Defense Bound Over in Slaying | southpaw of the Argyle Clul of Racketeer. Elmer “Bulldog” Sweeney. charged with the fatal shooting Sunday night of Tally Day, small-time racketeer, was ordered held for the grand jury by a coroner's jury today. | Sweeney, who surrendered to police two days after the killing and admitted | he shot Day in self-defense during an | algument in a “speakeasy” at 1523 M street, did not testify before the coro- ner’s jury on advice of his lawyers, Capt. Bertram Emerson and Harold R.| Stephens. John Kelly, colored, who described himself as a waiter at the M street establishment, told of evidence of “hard feeling” between Sweeney and Day. Describes Card Game. He said Sweeney and a companion known &s "Andy Gump.” first came to the place about 6 o'clock Sunday night. He said a card game in which Day, “Andy Gump” aend iwo persons un- | known to him participated, began | shortly after the arrival of Sweeney | and his companion. | “After the game was over,” Kelly | testified, “ ‘Gump’ told Day that if he couldn't pay off his gambling debts not to play. At this point Day threw the contents of & glass of gin in Gump's face. A little while later they made up, and everybody in the pace except me went out.”’ Kelly further testified that Day came | back.at 9 o'clock, and about an hour later Sweeney and “Gump” returned. Locked Self in Bathroom. “Sweeney and 'Gump’ were standing at the bar when ‘Gump’ sald, I took & gin bath early tonight and liked it. Sweeney said, ‘You don't have to like it Then ‘Gump’ threw a gin buck in Day's face and an srgument ensued. “A little while later ‘Gump’ sald something about Day being & poor loser. Day pulled out his gun and shot @t ‘Gump' and I ran out and locked myself in the bathroom. Before I ran out I saw Sweeney with a gun in his hand. When I came out of the bath- | room I saw some men carrying Day out | of the place.” Joseph Demar said he was present when Day pulled his gun and shot, but | that he ran out and did not witness the | gun fray. Proprietor Was Asleep. George Carlton Williams, alleged pro- prietor of the establishment, testified he was asleep in the front room when | ke heard the shot. He said he investi- | gated, found Day lying in a pool of | blood in the rear of the bar, and with | Demar took Day to the hospital Sergt. John Flaherty, chief of the homicide squad. merely told the jury the stories later told on the witness stand by Demar, Willlams and Kelly. Detective Charles Mansfield said that while investigating the alleged liquor es- tablishment, he found several boxes of 32 caliber cartridges in a can near the bar. He described the place, the posi- tion of the body and the place where the pool of blood was found in back of the car. He said there was a quan- tity of iced beer in crates in the place and a small quantity of liquor. . | {FAVORITES SURVIVE FIRST-ROUND GOL Herrman Defeats McAleer on Final Green in Indian Spring | Feature Match. | Favorites survived the cpening round {of match play in the Indian Spring in- vitation golf tournament foday, and as play moved into the second round only three youngsters were left to fight off the attack of the old guard. The feature match of the first round was that between Earl McAleer, star and James D. Herrman, Washington, winner of the | Chevy Chase tournament last week. Herrman took 75 and managed to beat the left-hander on the eighteenth green. Other first-flight results follow Leroy Sasscer, Indlan Spring, defeated J. M. Hunter, jr, Indian Spring, 3 and 2; John Tierney, Congressional. de- feated Ted Burrows, unattached, 2 and : Thomas P. Bones, Columbia, de- feated Vincent Wilder, Georgetown University, 3 and 2; Martin McCarthy, Beaver Dam, - defeated John Holzberg, Columbia, 5 and 3; Harry G. Pitt, Manor, defeated J. W. Harvey, jr.. In- dian Spring, 2 up: M. P. Nolan, Con- gressional, defeated John Britton, Chevy Chase, 5 and 3: W. J. Cox, Beaver Dam, defeated Charles Morrow, Indian Spring, 2 and 1 Second flight—Lindsay Stott. Beaver Dam, defeated Jack Biggs, Argyle, 1 up: T. M. Belshe, Indian s&nnx. defeated H. K. Cornwell, Columbia, 2 and 1; J. B. Robertson, unattached, defeated Leo F. Pass, Indian Spring, 2 and 1; Rob- {ert L. Wintringer, Steubenville, Ohio, defeated V. G. Burnett, Beaver Dam, 1 up; C. H. Phipps, Beaver Dam, defeat- ed E. 8. Smith, Chevy Chase, 6 and 4: Charles W. Cole, jr., Indlan Spring. de- feated John W. Merritt, Columbia, 4 and 3; L. T. Harrison, Argyle, defeated John M. Downey, unattached, 1 up. Garden Party Planned. A garden party, under the auspices of the Potomac Palisades Garden Club, will be held Saturday afternoon from 3 to 5:30 o'clock at the home of Mr. lnd"lln. Bernard Lane, 5327 Condult roa Ca Prank E. Langdon union official, who was critical wounded by a gunman's bullet as sat at lunch yesterday, and International Unicn of Operating En- gineers, whose life was saved by & Bulky | pa wopecrcq and ot o see A w | pocketbook in his vest which stopped a | Ppe bullet headed for his heart. CRAZED BY LIQUOR, - MAN KILLS THREE Wife and Two Sons Die in| Shooting—Holds Others Terrorized. By the Associated Press. MEDFORD, Wis, May 21.—Joseph Flelschmann, 35, shot and killed his wife and two small sons last night and for five hours held his two daughters, another son and three adults in a state of terror while he talked inces- santly of firing deer rifie bullets at them. . The three adults, one a Catholic priest. escaped from the Flelschmann farm home amid a burst of bullets They called officers, who arrested the man before he harmed his other chil dren. Was Twice in Asylum. Fleischmann, an assistant buttermaker at & creamery, was crazed by liquor, Sheriff George R. Baird said. He said Flelschmann had been confined at the Winnebago Asylum twice for alcoholic insanity The sheriff said Fleischmann began | drinking home brew yesterday. In- | fiamed, he shot his wife and two. young- jest sons and talked to himself about taking the lives of his other children. | Finally, he telephoned Anton Kum- | mer, & neighbor, and invited him to his | home. Kummer walked into the house {and found himself covered by Fleisch- {mann's rifie. Threats of death con- | tinued. ! "Kummer was forced to drag the bodies of Flelschmann's three victims into another room and cover them. Priest Made Captive. Fleischmann ordered Kummer to telephone Rev. Father Gregory Reu- |ter, his parish priest, and ask him to |come to the home. The priest arrived |shortly with Otto Huber. They were made captive and, with the other four, were marched into the room and forced | to view the bodles. The crazed man continued to mutter | threats against their lives, At Kum- | mer’s suggestion, he, Father Reuter and Huber fled. Fleischmann shot at them as they climbed .into the p:‘xlu'.'l automobile, d. ke, 'l{uy summoned the sheriff and his deputies, who found Fleischmann had escaped to a nearby woods. A few min- utes later he returned home without his rifie and offered no resistance when placed under arrest, .he gun was found in the h. (upper), hhor“number of articles on alleged gang and lly he (lower), Arthur M. Huddell, president of the reported to police that shortly after A. P. Photo. CRUSADING EDITOR AND FRIEND SLAIN | Politician, Shot on Eve of| E Vice Expose, Dies Before [ He Can Name Killer. b l By the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, May 21.—Assassina- | tion of Herbert Spencer, magazine edi- {tor and crusader against organized | gambling, and his friend, Charles Craw- | ford, wealthy politician, started police today on one of the greatest manhunts | ever undertaken in Los Angeles. On the eve of a projected expose of gambling by Spencer’s magazine, the editor was shot through the heart and the politiclan was mortally wounded late yesterday in the latter's office by an unidentified man whom Crawford had received. Officers said the cir- cumstances indicated gangster revenge. | Crawford died, refusing to name the | killer, although previously: he had in- | dicated he might talk. The slayer escaped in an automobile. Apparently confident that he would live, Craw- ford told detectives before he un- derwent an emeregency operation that he would tell only “if I'm due to go.” He died three hours after being | wounded. Wite Telis of Threats. Early today detectives, spurred by a statement from Spencer's widow that threatened to get Herb,” searched haunts of gamblers and gangsters for & “swarthy man about 35 years old of heavy build.” An hour befare the tragedy, Spencer, formerly city editor of the Los Angeles Evening Express, left his office, telling an assoclate that he was going out to get some more “underworld stuff” for the magazine, which had published a | vice acitivities here, | Ray J. Radke, secretary to Crawford, | Spencer entered Crawford's office a ford. | Crawford greeted the visitor at the | door of his private office and asked him to enter. ke said the men talked (about an hour. Suddenly two shots | rang out. Radke heard a scream and |& yell from Spencer: “Get that fellow.” | The door burst open and the gunman | fled to the street. Radke rushed into the office and found Spencer dead. ‘melnrd‘ sitting in his chair, arose and collapsed. Information Sought in Safety Box. Recently Spencer had written of | threats on his life. As though he feared they might be carried out, he |added in these stories that there was |“in a certain bank” a box containing the names and full information about those who had been touched by the ex- posures. Police began a search for the box. Among those questioned was Guy McAfee, who, detectives said, was identified with alleged gambling ac- tivities. McAfee established that he | was mowhere in the vicinity of the | crime at the time, but admitted that he was an_“enemy of Charlie Crawford.” Crawford was in the real estate busi- | ness. He was indicted in the Julian | 0il scandals, but never prosecuted. He ! caused the arrest of Morris Lavine, & | reporter, who was convicted of an | attempted extortion of $300,000 in the | Julian” case. | Another Ts Threatened. Crawford, who for years wielded a strong influence in local politics, was said o have furnished Spencer with “inside” information for publication. | “Joe Butcha, until recently business | manager for the magazine, told officers an_unidentified man telephoned him shortly after the shooting and said: “Now that Crawford and Spencer have got theirs, you'll be next.” | "In Crawford's office was found a news- paper clipping declaring that attempts | had been made to tamper With pros- pective members of the new county grand jury. Crawford, one time saloon keeper, | | was acquitted in 1927 in connection | with the alleged frame-up of Council- man Carl Jacobson on a morals charge. More recently he joined the St. Paul's Presbyterfan Church and gave it $25,000. _ Banker, 70, Kills Self. BETHLEHEM, Pa., May 21 (#).—EI- mer Funk, 70, cashier of the Hellertown | Trust Co., shot and killed hims¢If at the bank today. Authorities said they learned no reason for his act. China Egg Placed In Looted Nest Is Found Inside Snake By the Associated Press. PETERSBURG, Ind., May 21.— ‘The joke, Mrs. Salina Gladish re- ported, was on the snake. For two weeks, she said, she had been missing eggs from her hens' nests. Last Tuesday a nest egg was gone. .. PRESSES PITTS - PERIURY CHARGES |Evidence Seized in Palm Beach Raid Taken to Grand Jury Room. The | effort | based Government today to secure on resumed fta perjury indictments the slleged intreduction of spurious evidence in the recent P. H Smith Co. conspiracy-embezzlement trial Indictments are be G. Bryan Pitts assoclates.” 1g sought against and “certain of his The substance of the perjury charge | Is that Pitts. while on trial, on a charge of embezzling large sums of money form the Smith Co., and its subsidiaries, in- trcduced as a defense certain requisi- tions and receipts, allegedly fraudulent, in 2n attempt to show he was entitled to the money allegedly embezzled The recelpts _intro- on the Beverly rporation and the Montelair both Smith Co. subsidiaries. ey _were signed by Pitts and Emory Coblentz, prominent Frederick, Md., Former Officials Questioned. Witnesses before the grand jury today included Coblentz and John H. Ed- i wards, jr. and C. Elbert Anadale, for- mer officials of the Smith Co., who were | convicted with Pitts on the conspiracy- | embezzlément. charge 3 The Government presented its case to the former grand jury, but withdrew it. it was said, upon overing addi- tional evidence. This evidence, consist- ing of seven trunks of documents and two typewriters, was taken into the grand jury room toda All of the material was seized by Internal Revenue Burcau agents several months ‘ago when they raided Pitts® home at Palm Beach. Fla, during an investigation of his income tax returns for the past several years, Will Present Expert Testimony. The Government will attempt to prove the requisitions were prepared on the typewriters found in Pitts' home. 1In support of this contention they will | present testimony from Justice Depart- ment typewriter experts, who claim the product of any given typewriter can | be identified by its individual peculiari- ties, | Jt was also alleged that a number of | work sheets used in preparing the requi- number of requisitions | Which were not introduced at the trial | were found in the Florida home. | pAbout a week ago, John R. Thomas, | Pitts’ brother-in-law, testified. He fs | understood to have given evidence per- | talning to the preparation of certain | Tequisitions and receipts which were | not introduced at the trial, | Presentation of the case s in the hands of Nugent Dodds, Assistant At~ | torney General of the United States, Burkinshaw, a special as- sitions and a and sistant. i : S e "ARLINGTON COUNTY OFFICES OPENED TO U. S. WORKERS. (Continued From Pirst Page.) are employed in the Government serve ice; that service as local officers in such | county should in no way involve general { partisan political activity, and that the | principle of local home rule and self- “the overlord of gambling here had!8Overnment justifies such participation, ‘The permission granted by this order may be suspended or withdrawn by the Civil Service Commission Wwhen, in its opinion, the activities resulting there- from, or may become, detrimentalto the public interests or inimical to the Proper enforcement of the Civil Servies les.” (Signed) “HERBERT HOOVER.” The petition asking this privilege wag prepared and presented by the Civil Service Committee of the Arl County Civic Federation, of ich Hugh J. McGrath is chairman. Ac- companying the petition was consider- able data as to the number of Federal employes living in the county and as to the necessity for this privilege, which was occasioned by the change in the form of county government. Provides Board of Five Members. The new government, which will be~ come effective on January 1, 1932, pro- vides for a board of five members teo replace the present board of county supervisors of three, and it was prin- cipally this office that Federal employes living in the county had in mind when the petition was presented. The orders of the new board will be carried out by & county manager, who will be selected by the board. The move for participation in Tocal politics received the support of most of the local officeholders, and also that of Representative Howard W. Smith, State Senator Frank L. Ball and Delegate Hugh Reid, all of whom appeared be- fore the Civil Service Commission when a hearing on the matter was held by that body. It is expected that the order will im- mediately enliven the Arlington County political situation, there having been a considerable lull in the announcements of candidates for various offices for the election which will take place in the Fall. It is known that there are a number of Federal employes who desire to announce themselves as candidates for the county board While the order does not confine the holding of office to the board, it is be- lieved that there will be few if any other offices which could be handled on part time, justices of the peace be- ing abolished as of January 1, 1931. TWO ARE DISMISSED Married Woman Says She Was Into Car—Attacked in Arlington. “Forced” A warrant charging Edwin Brocks well and Morris Lennox, both of Wash- ington, with a criminal assault on Mrs. May Flood, 20 years old, also of Washington, on Tuesday night was dismissed by Police Judge Harry R. Thomas of Arlington after & heas today. Authorities were told that the two men “forced” Mrs. Flood into their car, took her‘m Arlington County, where she claims the attack took place, and then returned her to a certain corner in Washington designated by her. Upon their arrival there, it was ciaimed, the woman’s husband was waiting for her. The complaint followed. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at the bandstand at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant, March, “The "American Trumpeter,” Lal Berlin in Joy and Sor- Conrad} “Sextet From Lucia,” Donizettl the Loreley,” Nesvad Overture, row" Entr'acte, “Paraphrase on Selection from light opers, of Normandy” . Fox trot, “A Little Waltz suite, “A Bower of Love".Bratton china Yester she saw a large snak barn yard. She d was sur- Finale, “Archduke Albrecht”.. “The Star Spangled Banner.” Aot % "he population of Greater © .mated at over 4,000,000, Berlin i