Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1931, Page 2

" BECLOUD POLTIS Reapportionment Bringing . Strife of Uncertain Outcome in 32 States. By the Associated Press. Geographical strength are increasing difficulties of party leaders in solving the 1932 presi- dentisl pusale. Both electoral coliege and nationai party conventions are affected by the congressional reapportionment involving 27 Representatives in 32 States and the comspondinf vote changes in nomi- nating and electing the next President. that internal quarrels over redistricting may force a large number of Representatives to run at large in important States further cloud the olitical horizon. In these States pro- leuon and rumbles of insurgency fore- cast added complications. If the national committees decide that the next convention delegations shall be chosen on the basis of the recent apportionment, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Messachusetts, New York and ‘Minnesota y bring new influences to the nominating assemblies. Pennsylyania Deadlocked.. Pennsylvanis, dropping from 36 to 3¢ Representatives. is dead! A aver e- districting. Failure to reach sn agree- ment before the next election would |- force all 34 to campaign the entire State. Likewise, it probably would | mean election at large of delegates to the party conventions. In Republican ranks it is conceded Gov, Pinchot, should he run on an in- dependent progressive platform, would have more chance of taking a “Pinchot” to the Republi- xan convention if the were elected at Jarge than if they ran in ‘congressional districts. . New York's redistricting resolution, passed by the Republican Legislature without Gov. Reosevelt's approval, must {ptand court examination. If declared valid, the alternative of passing = or running Representatives at large ould remain. Representatives be forced %o run at large, it would have to be de- i¢ided whether this rul H;Jn representation and fail to re- :district only the mew members run at ¥ Prohibition Looms in Missouri. ‘Missouri’s Republican Governor ve- the redistricting measure of & mocratic legishatare. Unless a new 1 i8 agreed on, the delegation of 1. ] run at large, foretelling a prohi- tion fight betwen St. Louls and rural It may mean also wholly dry delegations. 5 owing New ‘ork’s example, some leaders claim the of vetoed bill is valld. Pending 1 Failure to act might mean delegation controlled by tic, anti-prohibition Boston. shifts - of political VIVIAN GORDON REGULATION DRAFT| | Billboard Foes“Seek Clause to Prohibit Repairing. Hearing Wednesday. ‘With a public hearing scheduled to open Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock on the proposed new set of sign regu- lations for the District of Columbia, it was expected that the billboard section would become a target for sharp criti- cism. Dissatisfaction with this partieular section of the proposed regulations, which, it is believed, virtually would | leave the situation as it now stands, has been veiced in some circles in the belief that it would niot go far enough in pro- | tecting the city from an abuse of out- door advertising such as the District | i wider powers of control. Would Prohibit Repairs. Leaders in the civic campaign, which resulted i Congrgss giving the Com- missioners power to write new sign regulations, appeared today to be unanimously agreed that the regulations specifically should prohibit repairs be- ing made L any existing billboards rather than leaving the matter to the diseretion of the Commissionars. In this respect the billboard section proposed is practically identical with the existing law on the subject. signs says® “No sign erected before the adoption of these regulations shall be repaired, be brought into compliance with the requirements of all applicable regula- tions. “No billboard may be erected or re- aired within the District of Columbia, Trespective of location, uniess the ap- plication for permit be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Co- lumbia.” Davison Defends Draft. Maj. Donald A. Davison, Assistant En- gineer Commissioner and chairman of the committee that drafted the regula- tions, defended the billboard section today. Under practically the same regula- | tions during the last dozen years or 5o, 'he declared, the District Commission- ers never have authorized & permit to allow the reconditioning of a billboard. Belleving that the Commissioners should be free to exercise their judg- ment in that respect when the orderly appearance of otitdoor advertising signs might require certain repafrs to be made, Maj. Davison said he did not see why @ specific prohibitive clause should be included in the section. The door to the spread of signs has been shut, he pointed out, by prohibit- ing additions to the authorized list of billbeards. Would List Existing Signs. “On and after July 1, 1931," the pro- posed regulations add, “all outstanding authority and permits for the erection and maintenance of billboards, fence signs and wall signs are hereby reseind- ed, and in lieu thereof the appended list of billbcards, fence signs and wall signs is hereby established and made a part of these regulations.” The “list of billboards” is being com- piled from & survey of all existing signs, checked to see if there are any for which no permits had been issued in the past. Failure of the Sign Committee o { have this list completed tn time for the public hearing and included with copies of the regulations sent to all interested persons and assoclations has been the cause of numerous complaints. When it finally is checked, it will be an exact guide to the building inspector, who is to administer the sign.1aw, show. ing the site of every sigl} ‘authorized S MURDER IS SOLVED Death Car Driver’s Confes- sion Names Harry Stein as Actual Slayer. police, for {hree months, was marked as solved- toddy by Commissioner Mul- Iations from Mayor Walk- i6n, an- Commissloners sought to curb in ask- | ing from Congress the right to exercise | The proposed new section on existing | altered, repainted or moved unless it | | ORYS RAP FIGURES | In Memory of a Great Flyer ONL..LIQORBL | Methodist Board Says Con-, sumption Cannot Be Esti- mated Reliably. By the Associated Press. ‘The Board of Temperance, Prohibi- tion and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church said in a statement teday that neither the Association Against Prohibition nor any one else knew how much liquor was consumed by the American people, “There are no statistics in regard to the consumption of liquor in the United States and can be none with any re- llability whatever,” the board said. “The Association Against the Prohibi- tion Amendment has released a state- ment slleging that the people of the | United States are now consuming $2, 848,000,000 worth of intoxicating bev- erages annually. Assails Gullibility. “It is surprising that this anti-prohi- bition - body would risk its reputation for sincerity by the publication of a story which can appeal only to the gul- | je.” The Assoclation Against Prohibition hed said it believed its estimate ‘‘con- | servative.” The Temperance Board said | there were many indications “that the consumption under prohibition was very much less than it was when the liquor trade wat untrammeled and aflorded | | every facility for trade promotion” | “That is all that can be caid; definite | | establishments are merely ridiculous,” it | | added. | " “It 15 absurd to say that a trade which has been deprived of the oppor- | tunity of establishing public places of | sale, deprived of the privilege of adve: tising, deprived of unhindered transpor- tation, has yet been able to bufld up a | lquor bill in excess of that of the pre- | prohibition period. The opinion of any one who belleves anything so incredible must be discounted by serious thinkers.” The Association Against Prohibition estimated people in the United States are spending upward of -$1,000,000,000 & year more for liquors than in 1914. The assoclation’s research department concluded yesterday the “illieit liquor | business has become one of America’s | major industries.” It said the people | {are spending $2,848,000,000 annually | for intoxicating beverages, compared | | with tke $2,793,166,812 wholesale figure | | for passenger automobiles in 1929. The expenditures were divided as fol- lows: Spirits, $2.200.000, as against $663.000,000 in 1914; malt liquors, $395.- 000,000, compared ‘with $1,032,000,000, \and wines, $253,000,000, against $124, 1000,000. Believes Estimate Conservative, Comparatively little weight was given {in the calculations, the association said, | |%0 “prices paid for liquor in speakeasies | or to the fancy liquors purchased from | city bootleggers.” “The make-up of liquor consumption | has shifted" considerably under prohi- bition,” the report continued. “We have greatly increased our per capita con- | sumption of spirits. The per capita | consumption in 1914 was 1.44 gallons. In 1929 it was 1.65. Beer consumption has been reduced from 20.69 gallons in 1914 to 6.5 in 1929. On the other hand, wine consumption has increased from 53 to .90. In other words, prohibition can be credited only with a reduction in_beer consumption.” “It is impossible to conjecture how | much of the present drink bill goes to | excessive profits of gangsters and' gun- | men and how much of it is pajd in| wages and salaries to the unlawful op- erators,” the statement said. | M SUT T0BARHEAYY TITLE BOUT HEARD Stribling in Court as Writ‘ Case Opens—Carnera- Sharkey Fight Banned. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, May 25—Hearing on | the injunction to stop the Stribling- | Schmeling chamglonship bout st the| Cleveland Municipal Stadium July 3, | began in Common Pleas Court here | today. Attorney Joseph H. Mellen, who brought the suit for David Fisher, tax- payer, declared the match a prize fight and as such is illegal in Ohio. Assistant Law Director Henry 8. Brainard in defense of the bout, sald 1t is & “boxing contest,” since both par- ticipants are to receive a stipulated sum regardless of the outcome. W. L. “Young” Stribling, contender for the heavyweight crown, was to ap- pear as one of the first witnesses. After the case was presented by the aticrneys the hearing was adjourned until late today. Stribling, as he appeared in the court- “The drink bill would be much higher | Topm: #o3 besieged by & croud of Ad- but for the fact that the manufacture len to testify were Ed Bang,. sports of liquors is largely a home industry, | 8 2% 4T Cleveland News: Stuart | with, pracnc-fi,yflr;:!;:bo:rx;!:d soverhead | Bell, sports edifor of the Cleveland | | however, Press, and Charles P. Murphy, secre- FLOYD BENNETT AIRPORT DEDICATED BY HIS WIDOW. ) RS. FLOYD BENNETT, wife of the man who piloted Admiral Byrd over the North Pole and who later died of pneumenia which he contracted while endeavoring t) rescue the crew of the strande Island, speaking at the dedication exercises of the Floyd Bennett Airport Saturday. Mayor James J. Walker, who officially accepted the airport on behalf of the city. Shortl: of the fleld over 600 planes of the Army Air Corps passed in review before high eivil after one of the greatest aerial demonstrations ever witnessed by the citizens of New York. led Bremen from off Greenly At her left can be seen ly ‘nnl:fl the dedll::ldhn military lers —Wide Warld Photo, 1 | CLINTON J. BROWN, JR., Sixteen, instructor and leader of the Washington Boys’ Independent Band, | | who will direct the 65-plece band in a concert at the Eastern High Schootl | auditorium on Tuesday, June 2. This concert was postponed from Tuesday, | May 26. | ILLNESS 1S FATAL MELLON PREPARING EDUCATION DRIVE Laying Groundwork for Change in Tax Policy When Congress Is Ready to Act. BY PAVID LAWRENCE. Seeretary Mellon is talking about re- Vvision of the tax structure, not because he expects Congfess to do anything about it right away, but because he feels it is not too early to educate the country on what he believes to be sound fiscal de‘:ly Mr. Mellon did not go into detail or give any recommendations as to the kind of taxes he thinks ‘'should be im- posed, but it is known he believes come taxes should be borne by every- body, even though the annual contri- bution is small. Less than 4 per cent of the total pop- ulation of the United States pay taxes to the Pederal Government. the exemptions have been applied so more and more people do not have to pay the tax, but the State governments | have gone shead with their taxation | just the same, and in general the net tax burden has been increased. What Mr. Mellon is advocating, how- ever, is not alone a possible ch in the number who are exempt from eral taxation, but the itroduction general or indirect taxes. He com- Gradually | 'KEY BRIBGE RITES HONOR WAR AIRMEN Memorial Services Also Held at Hospitals and- Cemeteries. femorial services for altmen, who IDA their lives in the World ‘War, were held in the center of Bridge yes- terdqy, wken gn Army plane and two Navy planes flew over the bridge and Arling on National Cemetery, dropping Ted payples: Two services also were held at St. Elizabef\)'s Hospital, one in the morn- ing and the other in the affernoon, in memcry \! veterans who have died at the institdtion-and services also were held at oth'er cemeteries. At the K\'y Bridge seryice two dozen homing pigdins were released by Boy Scouts as a xymbol of the men of the air who have died. The service other- wise consisted of a massing of colcrs by members A the Women's Relief Corps and the ,Daughters of Veterans. Chaplain C. R. WNeyman, U. . N., de- Jivered the invodation, and the bene- diction was givers by Chaplain Ralph C. Delbert, U. S. A. Others taking part. itchie, U. 8. A., a roll call by Lang Scibbet, chief” bugler of the Boy Scouts: “America” by of “The nette B-ini Star Spangled Bannex” by M Baker and a poem dedicated’ to déceased ai men, read by Mrs. Mary M. North and another tribute by Mrs. K. Helen Temple. Speakers at Hospital. Dr. Willlam A. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital: J. G. Yaden of the United Spanish War Veterans and Benjamin principal services held in Hitehcock Hall, at the hospital. Musical selections were played by the Marine Band and songs were rendered 3 affrey. incoln’s Gettysbu addreas was read by Gerald P. = Gillicuddy, commander of Miles Camp. The services at the cemetery were marked by decoration of graves by mem- bers of the Nelson A, Miles Camp, United Spanish War Veterans. “Taps™ were sounded by Patrick MeMahon of Miles Camp. ‘The spirit of Memorial day will cul- minate in the ofeial TVance at Arlington National Cemetery next Sun- day, but yesterday services were held at a number of other cemeteries where former service men are burled. Exer- cises were held at Mount Olivet, Har- mony, W wn and Payne, and graves were decoraged at Cedar Hill, Fort Lin- coln, Rock Creek and the Hebrew Cemeteries. 8 Services at Mount Ofivet. John H. Byers made the address at Mount Olivet Cemetery, the being under the auspices of the of Union Veterans of the Civil War the American Legion. Rev. Hurney, chaplain of Vincent B. Costello Post of the Legion, gave the invocation. Jacob N. Halper, commander of the | post, and Comdr. ,Willlam L. Jenkins of coln Camp, No. 2, Sons.of Unien Veterans, spoke.. . ‘Washington High School Cadets fired three volleys over graves in Harmony . Where J. 8. Coage, recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, made :.he -da;:s& aen.“mmm mnrb’-hh- lishing Memorial day was read Mrs. Julia M. Hamilton, president. of the Charles Sumner Women’s Relief Corps, and Rev. R. W. Brooks, pastor of Lin- coln Congregational Temple, opened with prayers, 3 Pl “ FOUR-DAY “BATTLE” er for outitiiing the earifest e giss 3 R4 choated Ta mends the tobaceo tax as a stable op- | PLANNED: OFF C'APES | under the existing Jaw. {tary of the Cleveland Boxing: Com- eration. There is also the entucky, on , two. New York's action as con- SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE TOLD GRAND JURY c | a5 material wilnesses—for the death of - | murder, as the actual killer and Samuel nouticed ‘thatfour men were under ar- i Test-—tWo charged with murder and two | the red-headed béauty, who offered to give information about police graft from vice. ‘The arvest of Harry Schlitten, a| chauffeyr of Newark, N. J, was kept | secret three days. | TImplicates Harry Stein. Schiittén, the police said, implicated | Harry Steln, ifeady indicted for th Greenberg as Stein's accomplice. Isi- &ore “English” Lewls was named as the men who helped hire the automobile used on the death ride to Van Cort- landt Park, where the botly was dumged. ‘Commissioner Muirooney in repeating Schlitten’s confession said the four men | planned the murder and lured the | woman on the ride by telling her that | Greenberg had $250,000 worth of dia- | monds “that he was generous with " She went. along, and there was a terrific struggle, but finally a rope was| | permit signs to project 42 inches from | regulations believe that | Committee had sought to preserve the ! business properties and hotels the signs | should be made to hang along the As a safeguard against new billboards | being erected, the proposed regulations | further add: *“No billboard, fence sign or wall sign site shall be l&d to this suthorized list, and any bil rd, fence | sign or wall sign abandoned for any | cause whatsoever shall be permanently | stricken from said list.” Projections Wrangled. Several other features of the bill, chiefly those affecting projecting signs. probably will be criticized at the hear- ing. The proposed regulations would uildings. Some of the critics of the if the Sign best appearances of necessary signs on facades of buildings rather than project 80 much as 42 inch H Horace W. Peaslee, local architect, wrote to Mzaj. Davison, explaining that, in his opinion, the proposed changes o not estabiish any limitations for pro- jecting signs on shop fronts which, as now in use, he declared, certainly dis- figure the appearance of the city. | expenditure was reached by figuring the | strong and dangerous industry.” | The assoclation explained the total | Mission. costs to the public of 50 cents a gallon C— » llSTlMNED- for beer, $2.20 & gallon for wine and ! $11 for spirits. Bout With Jack Sharkey June 10 Banned by Federal Judge. | NEW YORK, May 25 (P).—Primo Carnera today was restrained by Fed- | eral Judge John Knox from fighting | Jack Sharkey at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, | June 10. The injunction action was| brought by the Madison Square o-mnl Corporation of Iilinois. | The judge’s order also restrains Car- nera from meecting any other leading boxer pending trial of the garden’s suit to force Carnera to carry out a| contract with it, which calls for him to meet, in September, the winner’ of the July 3 bout at Cleveland between By the Assoctated Proms. Max Schmeling and Young Stribling. COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 25—Prof.| Jimmy Johnston, co-promoter of the Herbert A. Miller of the soclology Ce- | Carnera-Sharkey fight, said the deci- partment of Ohio State University will sion caught him entirely by surprise be dropped from the faculty next year, | and had no idea what his next step it became known today when the uni- | would be. versity failed to rencw his contract. | It had been suggested that Toramy Officlals of the university and Prof. Loughran, the Philadelphian, who has Miller refused to comment. | won nine straight fights since Sharkey | = STUDENT DRILL FOE DROPPED BY OHIO U. Professor, Opposed to Policy of Mil- | itary Training, Loses Re- newal of Contract. TOR. K. CANPBELL Was First Commissioner of\ Naturalization Bureau, Retiring in 1922. Richard Kenna Campbell, former comumissioner of the Bureau of Natu- ralization, Department of Labor, died at his home, 1977 Biltmore street, yester- day afternoon after a long illness. For many years in the Government | service, Mr. Campbell was first chief. of the division of naturalization of the old Bureau of Immigration and Naturaliza- tion at the Department of Labor, He was appointed by President Roose- velt as a member of a commission to study and revise naturalization laws. As a result of the report of this com- wound round her neck and Stein, Mr. Peaslee Urges Exception Rule, Mulrooney said, pulled it taut. “Since projection beyond the property | Recently Prof. Miller came into the |knocked him out two years ago. might | mission legisiation was enacted creating =| ibility of taxes on bank checks as well as taxes on automobile sales. Mr. Mellon was very much opposed to the removal of the sales tax on auto- mobiles. He at the time that Congress would regret the day when it discarded this form of taxation. ‘Opposition Is Fereseen. ‘What the Secretary sald in his Radio Forum speech Saturday night will un- doubtedly be cpposed by those who feel the Government should increase taxes on those with high incomes. This is a favorite point of attack, but Mr. Mel- lon has the figures to prove the high taxes have resulted in, less income from the wealthy people than when the lower taxes were in effect. In other words, the moment the tax rates on persons of. high income get prohibitive they start lnve‘gng their money in tax-free bonds of States and municipalities or clse they fail to sell properties or stocks to take a profit when the norma: operations of business would seem to be benefited by such activity. Indeed, there are many who argue that the stock market collapse in 1929 never would have occurred if the normal Coast Artilhry. to : Defend Bay From “Enemy” Navy Trying. to Force Way to Capital.’ limelight when he opposed compulsory | be substituted for Carnera if the latte: the Bureau of Naturalization as a spe- | 1aws had been in operation and if the The commissioner refused to disclose military training for students. The ' as not permitted to fight the Boston | ob. Ten Witnesses Are Presented to Body Probing Death in Accident. ‘The District grand jury today heard festimony in connection with the col- Iapse May 15 of a scaffold at the Stuart Junlor High School. whith resulted in the death of Nathaniel Mogon, col- gred, one of the workmen. Ray N. Rouse, superintendent for the W. P. Rose Co., contractor for the erec- tlon of the buliding, and Orbia L. Bor- deaux, foreman of carpenters, were held by the caroner’s jury as responsible for the death of the workman Assistant United States Attorney Mil- ford F. Schwartz presented today's wit- cluded John W. street; Benjamin Pleat, 1108 Qucens street northeast; Peter M. Hart, 215 ‘Third street; Bmmitt H. Pope, Bladens- burg. Md.; Charles E. York, Goldsboro, N. C.; Ike F. Rocheill, Kingston, N. C.; Raymond Harris, 1221 Linden street northeast; Ernest E. Kanode, 604 street northeast. 13 Beventh street southeast, and Dr. A Magruder MacDonald, deputy coroner. ROOSEVELT CONFERRING ON PORTO RICO AFFAIRS Dscussion With Officials Will Con- tinue for Balance of Week. By the Associated Press. Gov. ‘Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico today continued his conferences with Government officials - concerning island affairs, He conferred during the week end vith President Hoover at the latter's ;-l The Governor came to this country primarily, however, Lo iscuss business projects with & grouj New Vel Bs expecta o be in Washington for The remainder of the week and then ! to New York He will return to gflo Rico late in_June. Mrs. mul‘tulko“:“u a 5\1“! of t s, er at cam WHM they are L e . Pope Blesses Priests. VATICAN CITY, May 285 (@) Pius-tofisy imparted & Bralin, the vies Teewer. 2 line may be made only with the con- sent of the Commissioners,” he said, “it | doesn’t seem to bz necessary that the consent be given for elements which do not add to the appearance of the Wash- ington streets. The | could be lodged as in the case of pro- | the motive. A Bronx grand jury has already in- dicted Stein. Schlitten was arrested once before, but released for lack of evidence. Two detectives shadowed him until his re-arrest last week, same discretion | | trustees, in a statement, decided to con tinue compulsory training, and Pre: dent George W. Rightmire sald the j ulty members and students who were REPOR | criticizing certain conditions were not | T OF PRICE FIXING under any obligation to remain at the E Charles E. Mansfield, | Jewels and Coat Traced. Policé sald they had traced jewerly end a.mink coat belonging to Miss | Gordon, and had found the garage where the death car was hired r Walker rushed to headquarters arning of the arrest and criticized | newspapers for printing editorials at | the time of the murde: “asserting that | Vivian Gordon was murdered by the| | Police Department to elose h:r mouth i8s & witness against policemen appear- | fing in the magistrales invesilgation.” | Miss Gordon wiote Samuel Seabury, | to give information about framing of | women by policemen. The letter was disclosed after she had been slain. | | TWO EXECUTED FOR FOUR| DEATHS IN DYNAMITING i Pair Convieted Nearly Year Ago for Blowing Up Mine Pay Car Carrying $32,000. By the Associated Press. | BELLEFONTE, Pa, May 25.—Sigis- | mund Szachewicz, 25, and John Nafus, 28, convicted of murder in the first de- { prove the regulations, they will have | | jections in “height above _established | ifmits which are not supposed to be permitted except for sound architectural Teasons. “If a regulation were adopted forbid- ding projecting signs unless of unusual merit, the usual box contraptions gaud- ily flluminated would disappear quickly, and well designed signs would take their place.” Mr. Peaslee's suggestion in this re- | spect, it was said, would be brought to the attention of the Commissioners at the hearing. All the provisions of the proposed Views pro and con were invited at the hearing. Once the Commissioners ap- | the force and effect of law. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Lecture, Dr. Charles G. Abbot, Mount | Pleasant Congregational Church, 1410 Columbia road, 8:15 p.m. Beck Circle, Ladies of | Card party, 2146 Georgia avenue, 8 the G. A. R, pm. | Meeting, Midcity Citizens' Association, | Thomson Community Center, Twelfth | and L streets, 8 p.m. Play, Luther League. Parish House, | structor nesses 1o the grand jury. They in-| Yeferce of the appellate division's in- ! regulations will be subject to the ap-| URiverst Hunt, 5713 Fourth | Quiry into Magistrates’ Courts, offering | proval of the District Commissioners. lm« for the killing of four persons in Church of the Atonement, Rhode Island | the avnamiting of a coul company pay | avenue and North Capitoi street, 8 p.m jcar at Warrior Run in January, 1930, | - | Were electroeuted in the Rockview Peni- | Meeting. North Capitol Citizens' Asso- tentiary today. | ciation, McKinley High School, Second | w2 -t w-fif.?&“i-: e _ Neither of the men showed any emo- tion as they were Jed into the death | room. Szachewicz lived in Wilkes-Barre and Nafus in Plymouth Township, Luzerne | County, They were convicted nearly a | year ago for blowing up & Glen Alen | Coal Co. pay car carrying $32,000. The four men who met instant death were Arthur Webb, paymasier: James Shovlin, section foreman; Martin Bruns, | section foreman, and Frank Brezinski, a miner. The crime for which the two were executed was one of the daring ever perpetrated In Luzerne County. ‘The paythaster and others | were traveling in an old box freight car fitted up as @ temporary office. At & point where the railroad entered the mountsins there was a terrific double explosicn. The car was blown to pleces antl the pay roll scattered. The ex- such havoc that the rob- ‘were frightened awsy without pioking ‘up any of the scattered money and most of it was recovered. men most and T strects northeast, 8 p.m. { Meetipg, Beta Gamma Phi, Hamilton Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, Georgetown Citizens' Asso- | clation, St. John's Parish Hall, Potomac | avenue and O street, 8 p.m. | FUTURE. Luncheon, Washington Round Table, niversity Club, tomorrow, 12:30 pm. Luncheon, Civitan Club, La Fayette | Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Advertising Club, National Press Club, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Robbers Take Royal Trophies. BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 25 (#). —After serfously wounding the keeper, | U Gl {ON FEDERAL JOBS PROBED Prof. Miller recently returned from | | abroad. where he was closely associated | Facts Surrounding Letting of U. §. | Mary C. Campbell. with the non-violence camy hatma Gandhi in India. Prof. Miller, a native of Tuftonboro, | N. H. was educated in Dartmouth, | Harvard and the University of Chicago By the Associated Press. He married Elizabeth Northway Cra- | virth ‘ot Nashyille. Tenn., in 1008, | _ An investigation is under way by the Sthos 1985 hi el hesi Tote ¢ | Pederal Trade Commission to determin: soclology at Ohio Bthte - He previousyy | Whether there have been any price-fix- had been an instructor at Oberlin Col- | i'< 8greements or illegal combinations | lege, Olivia (Mich.) College and an in- | SMODE manuacturers and salesmen of Latin and Greek in Fisk | Material used in Govern pent buildings. | ‘The announcement by the commission | today said preliminary work in the in-' quiry was going on and that H. L. An- | derson, chief examiner, had been in- | stucted to report the results of the in- | vestigation to the commission. Pacts surrounding the letting of Gov- | | ernment contracts will also be included | |in the scope of the inquiry, the com- | | mission said. The source of the com- | | plaints which caussd the investigation | were not maade public. FORCED WIFE TO WALK ’35 MILES, HELD AS SLAYER | By the Associated Press. ‘ FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. May 25.— Pclice today arrested Kin Lewis, 40, and charged him with murder, saying he | forced his wife to walk 35 miles from | Sanford to Fayetteville. She later died Mrs. Lewis was the mother of & two- week old baby. As officers sought to arrest Lewis, he { drew o knife and stabbed himself. He was placed in a hospital. Physiclans said he may not live. Sanford police, who issued the war- rant, said Lewis walked here from San- ford to escape a vagrancy charge an made his wife accompany him. paign of Ma- | Contracts Also Included in Inquiry's Scope. | May Queen HOLY CROSS ACADEMY HOLDS EXERCISES. 30 GOUCHER COLLEGE GRADUATES TO MARRY Spectal Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, May 25 —Thirty mem- bers of this year's graduating class at Goucher College are to be married s0on after they receive their diplomas, It was learned today. The first ceremony probably will be that of Miss Margaret K. Geis, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hammond Geis | | four robbers yesterday forced their way into the shooting box of Prince Nicholas Icnflthz Moldavian Mountains and carried number of hunting hies and other valusble articles, o A MISS FRANCES WILSON of this city, and Midshipman Douglas J. McFarlane of Baltimore, Who yesterday _was be solemnized Lutheran of Their wedding cr May queen at Holy Cross June 18 at First Church here, . | clal and separate bureau. Mr. Camp- bell was made the first commissioner of the bureau and served until 1922, when he retired. Subsequently, he was ap- pointed a member of the Immigration Board of Review, serving for a. year. Mr. Campbell was born August 7, 1853, in Lynchburg, Va. the zon of the late N. Henry Campbell and the late He received his early educatin at Norwood, a private school, and then at Baltimore City Col- lege and the University of Maryland. He was a meniber of the Maryland Bar. He was married to Miss Fanny G. Cabell of Nelson County, Va. He is survived by a son, Phillip B. Campbell. The funeral was to be conducted at the Church of the H:ly City, Sweden- borgian, this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. | Interment is to be at his old home at | Bremo, Va. | Mr. Campbell had been active in church work for many years. Widow, 71, Is Buried. HYATTSVILLE, Md., May 25 (Spe- cial).—Services for Mrs. Marguerite Lillian MacNeil, 71 years old, widow | of Frederick E. MacNeil, wro died last Friday at her home, 44 Wine| avenue, here of a heart attack, were held this morning. There were cnm-’ tian Sclence services at the home and Rev. Clyde Brown, rector of Pinkney | Memorial Episcopal Church, next door | neighbor of Mrs. MacNeil, conducted services at the grave. [ holders of securities had not been in- clined to keep those stocks to avoid paying taxes on the large gains they would have made by the sale. Low Taxes Aid Trade. The Treasury always has argued that with a low tax business goes on ag- gressively and the Treasury in the end gets more money out. of the sales and exchanges that are made. ‘The Government faces a deficit of nearly a billion dollars and some in- crease in tax revenues is going to be necessary. The burden of proof will be on those who thihk all the Treasury has to do is to increase the tax rates in higher brackets and it will get the necessary income. Actually, Treasury officlals, including Mr. Mellon, beleve the Government makes more money when the tax burden ls spread more evenly, so everybody pays either directly or indireet: port of the Government. (Copyright, 1931.) something Six New Towns Planned. New conl mines being opened in the Kent district of England are expected | when the process is reversed-—that is, | ly for the sup- Virgini at Washington will be sf ‘The battle, annual between the Army and under way tomorrow £ “Black” Fleet in command of Rear | miral O. G. Murfin and the land forces directed by Brig. Gen. Sttanley D. Em- | bick; commanding Fort Monroe. ‘The maneuvers are based upon .the assumption that the Panama Canal has been destroyed.. While the battle fleet is racing around the Horn, it is the enemy's purpose to level Fort Mon- jroe and Fort Story and steam om to | strike at Washington. ‘The attacking fleet, led by Admiral Murfin's flagship, the cruiser Omaha, will consist of the ecruisers Mil and Cincinnati and 3and 7, Light naval craft in this. area will combine with and airplanes from Langley Pield to assist the in repelling the attack. TERMINAL GROUP TAKE STAND ON LIGHTERAGE Representatives of Operators at Port of New York Back Free Rate Opposition. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, May 25.—Representa- tives of the four contract terminals operating in New York began testimony today in the New Jersey lighterage and freight rate case, tending to supplement the contention of Irving T. Bush, presi- |dent of Bush Terminal Co.,- that re- vision of the unit freight charge and elimination of free lighterage would be harmful to the Port of New York. R. E. Simonds, vice president and treasurer of the Bush Terminal Co., gave a picture of the operation of the Milwaukee Squadron land forces | eventually to employ 180,000 people. | Bush facilities and the extent of in- Some of these will be housed in present | vestment. towns and villages, but about 150,000 will live in six towns to be established. Each of these places is to have a popu- lation of between 25,000 and 30,000. RICHEY DENIES AMOS "N’ ANDY WILL AID IN HOOVER CAMPAIGN| Radio Stars Entertained at His Camp, But Politics Was Not Discussed, Participation by “Amos 'n’ Andy” in President Hoover's campaign for Te- election, plans for which were discussed with Lawrence Richey, one of the President’s secretaries, at his fishing camp, Catoctin, Md., acccrding to a story published this morning, was em- phatically denied today by Secretary Richey. When asked about the report of these two radio stars compaigning for the President, Mr. Richey replied that such a thing was ridiculous on its face; that nothing of it kind had been contem- plated. Mr. Richey stated that these two radio entertainers were guests at his camp yesterday, but they came merely for the pu ing themselves, of enjoy} fishing, and polf 'u':’l | itie: one subject not d Ahol’n party at Mr. Richey's camp were 8 He Declares. H. Aylesworth, president of the Nation- al Broadcasting Co.; Charles Francis Coe, magazine writer; Thomas Shipp of this city and Frank Russell of National Broadcasting Co. Mr. Richey explained that several weeks ago he invited Freeman Gosden and auflu Correll, who to millions of radio fans are “Amos 'an’ Andy,” to visit him at his fishing camp. 'y were unable to do s0 at the time. While at the Presi- dent's camp at the Rapidan Saturday, Mr. Richey received word that these radio stars, who were broadcasting in New York, had arranged to come to Washington immediately after their broadcast Saturday night to visit his mlnl camp yesterday. Mr. Richey left, He said the assessed valu- ation of the terminal real estate and improvements was $38,943,500. e TN BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Army this evening at Lincoln Park at o'clock. William Stannard, T, con- ducting; Thomas Darcy, second leader: March, “The Cathedral of g." Overture on “How Can I Bear to Leave Thee”. Lata Polonaise, “On M March, “Curro Cuchares”. Selection from “‘Sweethe ...Herbert Fantasia, “The Evolution of Dixie,” Lake March, “National Emblem”’ .Bagley “The Star Spangled Banper.” By the United States Marine Band this evenin 8 o'clock. Taylor Branson, thur Whitcomb, second leader Overture, “In Bohemis, Romance, “Opus 5", Cornet solo, “Fantasia Caj Band 7:30 Vollstedt Musician Wi Grand fantasia, “Loh phonic Fani “Jupiter,” from the sulte * » Matines' hyus, “The ‘Halls et Monte: it Zuma. Y *