Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1931, Page 1

WEATE . wes Pair tonight and change in temperature tures—| Tempera! ‘hll repor Closing N.Y. Markets, ther Buresu Porecast ) Highest, 59, at 5:30 a.m. today. t on page 9 1ER. tomorrow; little 77, st noon to- he Pages13,14&15 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION pening Star. Entersd as sec post_office, No. 31,801, Washington, nd class matier e WASHINGTON, Associated service. Yesterday’s Circ The only evening in Washington wit R the Press news ulation, 117,210 D. 'C., TUEBDAY, MAY 5, 1951—FORTY PAGES. " RED SOX DEFEAT NATIONALS, 6704, IN SERIES OPENER Bunch Blows Off Jones in Early Innings to Gain Lead. RUSSELL HOLDS NATS SCORELESS UNTIL SIXTH Hits by Cronin, Myer and West Aid Griffs to Tie Score in Seventh. BY JOHN B. KELLER. BOSTON, May 26.—The Boston Red Sox defeated the Nationals here this afternoon in the opening game of a series. The score was 6 to 4. FIRST INNING. ‘WASHINGTON—Myer filed to Oliver. | 8am Rice flied to Webb. Rothrock threw | out Manush. No runs. | BOSTON — Jones knocked down Rhyne's grounder and tossed him_ out. Rothrock singled to center. Van Camp singled off the left field fence, sending Rothrock to third. Webb fled to West, Rothrock scoring after the catch. Van| Camp stole second. Pickering got & single with his slow grounder, when | Jones fell as he checked the ball. Swee- ney fanned. One run. SECOND INNING. ‘WASHINGTON—Rhyne _threw out ! Cronin. Russell tossed out West. Blue- | ge doubled to left center. Kuhel fouled to Ruel. No runs. BOSTON—Oliver flied to West. Ruel hoisted to Manush. Myer threw out Russell. No runs. THIRD INNING. ‘WASHINGTON—Spencer singled with & grounder to deep short. Jones walked. Myer forced Jones, Rhyne to Rothrock. Spencer going to third. Sam Rice hit | into a double play, Rothrock, Rhyne to Sweeney. No runs. BOSTON—Kuhel made a good catch | of Rhyne’s foul. Rothrock hoisted to Manush. Van Camp singled to center. Jones tossed out Webb. No runs. FOURTH INNING. WASHINGTON—Rhyne threw cut Maiush. Cronin put up a high one to Van Camp. West singled to center. Bluege singled to left. sending West to c2cond. Kuhel popped to Rothrock. No run: BOSTON—Pickering doubled off the lelt field fence. ' Sweeney sacrified ! t3 Jones. Myer covering . first. Oliver | fii22 to West and Pickering seored after | the cotch. Jones knocked down Ruels | grounder and thrcw him out. Ome run. | ' FIPTH INNING. | ‘WASHINC TON—Spencer flisd to Vam | Cemp. Jones singled to ¥ight. Myer hoisted to Ojiver. Sam Rice forces Jone:, Rhyne to Rothrock. No runs. BOSTON—Russell fanned. threw out Rhyne. Rothrock sing right. -Sam Rice Jost Van Camp’s hoist in the sun, the ball falling just back of him for a triple, scoring Rothrock. Webb doubled down the right-field line, scoring Ven Camp. Pickering fanned. Two runs. SIXTH INNING. WASHINGTON—Manush got a sin- gle with a liner that Rhyne knocked | down. first ruled Manush ont. crediting Rhyne with ihe catch, but when Manag:r Johnson proiested the chief umpire called Pirst Base Umpire Owens into conference and ihe decision was reversed. Cronin uripled over Oliver’s head to the fencz,ack of cun- ter, scoring Manush. Rcthrock hrew out West. Cronin scoring. Biuege flied to Vancamp. Kuhel beat out & ground- er off Russell’s glove (0 Rhyue. Spen- Myer ingled to | DOPE PEDDLER'S REVENGE SEEN IN CUNNINGHAM CASE Box Score E. Rice, rf. Man Said to Have Threat- ened Police Informer Who Trapped Him. 3% 413 rave Natted for Jones in BOSTON. AB. R. H. o 2 \TWO ARE HELD FOR JURY IN MURDER OF ZIRKLE Rhyne, se o Rothrock, 2b. . Van Camp, It. ‘Webb, rf Pickering, 3b. Sweeney, 1b.. Oliver, cf. Ruel, c. Russell, ?Manz Says He Shot Victim Acci- dentally—Middleton Indicted in Hi-jacking. 3 g | | | A dope peddler who vowed ven- geance on Jack Cunningham, slain po- |lice informer, after the latter helped {“frame” him here nine years ago, was | being sought for questioning today as | police began a systematic elimination of Cunningham'’s enemies in their effort | to solve the murder. | While police were looking up the {man's record. with a view to querying | police of several cities for information { on him. a coroner’s jury held that Cun- | ningham came to his death at the {hands of persons unknown to the | urors, snume~aan® 4 3 4 4 4 o 34 6102713 SCORE RY 1T s TS 000002110~ 0012002 = GS. — R 4 L] SUMMARY. in — Webbh (%) Ofiver. nin, West. E. Rice. s — Bluexe. Plekering se Camp. Ct ases—Van Camp, West, e—Sweenes. piays—Rothrock to R Two Held for Jury. Later the same jury held two men for | action of the grand jury for the murder of Irving Leroy Zirkle in a pool room, on | Ninth street, Saturday night. Those | held were 20-year-old Robert Emmett | Martz and Harry Burch of 928 New York avenue. Burch accompanied Martz into i the pool room a few moments before | Zirkle fell mortally wounded from a bul- |1et from & gun in the hands of Martz. ; The hearing was enlivened by a sharp clash between Defense Attorney Denny ! Hughes and Assistant United States | HOOVER CABINET STUDES ECONOMY { T! President Receives Depart- ment Hzads’ Reports on Thrift Program Surveys. | President Hoover and his cabinet at | their regular bi-weekly sessioh today | #gain devoted mcst of their attention to economic matters. Various members of the cabinet re-| ported additional rzsuits of surveys being | conducted in ther respective depart-! ments, following the adoption of the President’s economy program. uzmbeni' of the cabinet also discucsed business| conditions throushout the couniry and | were egrced that reports of conditions | are more f: | It is understood that Sccretary Mel-, lon’s suggestion of a revision of the| tax system, to provide a regular flow | of revenue, which was made in the' National Radio Forum, arranged by = Star last Saturday night, also was discusred. Hoover Sees Improvement. It was said in_behalf of the President after the esbinet meeting that “many factors in the eccnomic situation found to be of a favorable nature. ampl! of this explanation was made, however. The cabinet scssion | wa3i necessarily” prolonged longer than | vere | To | necessary to call cff his usual bi-weekly conference with newspaper corre- Epondents. The taxation speech of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon Saturday night| in the National Radio Forum. arranged ! cer flied to Vancamp. Two rins. BOSTON—Sweensy ‘iad to Mzsush. Bo did Oliver. Ruel flied to West. No runs, SEVENTH INNING. 1 WASHINGTON—Rothrock threw out Jones. Myer got a doible on a fiy 1o | left center when Vancamp just failed | to make a dazzling catch. Sam R.ce | singled through the box 1o center, | scoring Myer. Sam Rice was caught | stealing, Ruel to Ro‘hrock Manush bounced a single off Sweeney's glove. | Cronin forced Manush, Rhyne to Roth- | rock. One run. BOSTON—Ruszell took 3 trird sirize. Rhyne filed to S8am Rice. Bluege threw out Rothrock. No runs. EIGHTH INNING. WASHINGTON — West dragged a! bunt by Russell for a single. West stole second and took third when Ruel's throw went to center. Bluege flied to Van Camp and West scored with the tieing run after the catch. Rothrock went into short right for a good catch | of Kuhel's ‘looper. Spencer popped to | Rhyne at line. One run BOSTON 7 Camp walked. Webb ! bounced a double off the lefi-field fence, | zcoring Van Camp. Jones tcok the re-| turn throw and tried to get Van Camp at the pate Spencer let the ball go | through for or that let Webb reach third g doubled to left, | scoring Webh Blurge fumbled Sweeney's grounder. Pickering g3ing to third. Oliver ferced Eweenev, Jones to Cronin, Pickering being held at third. Oliver stole second. Ruel tock a third strike. Russell flied to Manus. Two runs. NINTH NG. WASHINGTON—Hargrave batted for | Jones and fanned. Myer walked. Roth. Tock threw out Sam Ricz. Myer stop- | ping st second. Manush bounced a sin- g'e off Russell’s glcve. sending Myer t third. Cronin flied to Oliver. No runa. EXECUTION OF THREE DELAYED BY COURT| John Berum n lecgan lnd‘ Milton Guy, all colored. s°nuen~ed to | be clectrocuted June 9 for the killing of Lamar_ Watson York, prohibition | agent, in Brooks Court April 11, 1230, today were granted a stay of execution until September 2 by District Supreme Court Justice Jesse C. Adkins. An appeal from the'r sentence is pending | in the District Court of Appeils and may be passed on next Monday. As the mandate would come down afier the date set for the electrocution the y. The alleged confessions of the three men, each of whom accused one of the others of the crime, were admitted in evidence at the trial last July and were claimed by counsel for the de- fense to have violated the rule laid down in the most recent decision of the Court of Appeals that the repu- tation of a defendant may not be « ‘estioned by the prosecution. Assist- ant United States Attorney William H. Collins, who conducted the prosecution, defended the admission of the tonfes- sions. The appeal was argued recently in the appellate tribunal. n by The Washington Star, continues to | stir_interest and evoke comment, espe- | cially from the Senate Republican in- dependents -and Democrats. * Sapator Borzh, Republican, Idaho. | 'aaw fn Mr. Mellon's discussion a move | toward extending the income tfax to income brackets now untaxed. He de- clared this ciple as the lowering of wag Couzens Sees Political Move. Senator Couzens, Republican, Mich- ‘gan, of the Finance Committee, said the Mellon speech was “an obvious at- tempt to sustain tne evigent intention of the aiministration not to have a tax raise at the next session.” He celled for a balancing of the| budget end said nothing can stand in the way of & tax increase next session “excepl playing politics with Treasury.” Senator Hull, Democrat, Tenn. a veteran on, revenue legislation, took the Treasury fo task for falling to take steps for revision of the taxes when the business depression first set in Both Senators Hull and Couzens predicted the Goi.ernment would reach $2 000,000 by the end of another year Meanwhile, 00.- Secretary Mellon ‘Treasury bill: would be received by the Treazury pext Thurcdar, bringing to $2,690,000,000 the amount of securitics issaed by the Goveinment since March 15. The bills will be sold to the highest bidder and redeemed at face value in 91 day:. Mr. Melicn, in the speech suggested that the tax system should be reviced to provide a more regular flow of in- come. Indications grew today that Tre sury officials were watching cicsely the Government's finences and probably ould determine late next Fall whether to ‘recommend to Congress that the revicion be undertaken at that time. Borah Scents “Wage Cut.” Senator Borah said in his statement “IL seems to be under<tood that the Secretary has in mind the broaden ng of the bae for tne income tax, tne lowering of the exemptions. That sup- po-ition is based upon the staiement in his sdaress calling attention to_the fact that out of 120,000.000 people, 380.- 000 pay 97 per cent of the total amount received from individual income taxes “In my judgment. the lowering of the exemptions and the taxing of the smaller incomes is on the same piin- ciple as the lowering oi wages. Both would ha'e the effect of reducing rtill further the purchasing power of the great body of people. “We are committed to the proposi- tion, and wisely so. against lowering the wage scele. We believe that to do so would still further reduce the purchas- ing power of our psople. This would be equally true in the matter of lower- ing the cxemption and laying a tax upon small inccme . ‘The searchlight of economy has been turne¢ by Secretary Hyds on- Agricul- ture Department expenditures, erable cut is In prospect rmination of two emergency ied on Page 4, Column 3.) to be “on the same prin-| the | the sccumuiated deficit for | fiscal | i an- nounced that tenders for $80,000,000 in | Attorney John Serica over the latter’s method of cross-questioning Burch. Burch mzaintained he had "no reason at all for going ‘into the pool room™ end in:isied on this statement, al- though it was vigorously challenged by Eerica Hughes then instructed his client to refuse to answer further ques- tions and Deputy Coroner Joseph D. Rogers excused Burch from the stand. Hughes dic not place the other defend- ant on the stand. Intimation of what prompted the two young men to el the pool room was (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.)° CORN ELL TRIO JAILED IN RED FLAG HOISTING: Card Protest Action in| Banner and Omitting German's Name From War Dead Roll. | Br the Associated Press ITHACA, N. Y., May 26.—The run- ning up of a red flag and a piacard on the flagstaff of Cornell University's ‘World War Memorial in protest against the omission of the name of Hans Wag- ner, German soldler, from the honor roll, today resulted in the arrest of three {is usual and the President found it |siudents at the university. The men arrested were I. E. Light- bown, a senfor, of Fall River, Mass.; Jefferson Weed, special student, of Gar- den City, Long Island, and H. B. Shoe- maker, senior, of Bridgeton, N. J. They were charged with disorderly conduct. The placard bore the ‘Inscription in serman, “Im Erinnerung,” which was transiated “The unremembered one,” and the name “Hans Wagner." The three stud-nts sald they were empting to haul down the flag and placard They were relsased under bail of $25 each 4 sode climax-d agitation to add name to the list of the 264 killed in the World War. of the university was that name had no place on an { honor. A movement was 1 the co-operation of the for a separate memorial to att Cornell The view Wagner's allied rol started universit | Wagner Wagner {1912, was' k {the German ber, 1914 membzr of the class of lled in the first thrust of toward Paris in Septem- 'INDIANAPOLIS DRIVER Car Loses Tire in Trial for An- nuizl Speedway Classic. B the A INDIANAPOLI |cia, 31, Byrn Maw Pa. race driver, | bis mechanic. were killed here today while practicing for the 500-mile au- tomobile race to be run Saturday. Their car, running at high speed out of the second turn into the back | stretch, lost a tire. careened up the | track and over the retaining wall, strik- |ing a tree before hitting the ground | many feet below The men were der the machine flames {ently died imme cxpired a few m and other persons reached the wreck- °g" | LIQUORS DESTROYED | Shipment partially caught un- which burst into tely, wkile Caccla From Florida to Michi- gan Is Seized. | ATLANTA. May 26 (. —A carload of licuors en reute from West Palm E-ach, Fle., to Monrce, Ml'.h.a"uPdC' in the railroad yards here early today. Federal, county and combined in _sma-hing which were billed as tomatoes. city officers the bottles 300 crates of — Soldiers Kill Four, BRATISLAVA. Czechoslovakia, 26 ().—Four persons were killed a numerous othe: including the Com- munist deputy mayor, were serfously wounded at Kothuth today when gen darmes turned thelr guns on & threat- ening crowd at & Communist meeting. ‘AND MECHANIC KILLED! 26.—Joe Cac- | ,and Clarence Grove, 23. Haverford, Pa., | Phy:icians said Grove appar- | after firefighters | | 1 AR ARMADA FLIE " OVER BUNKER HL of Stand Against British Shows War Contrast. Br the Associated Prass NEW YORK, May 26.—The main group of the first provisional air division of the United States Army poured out, of the northern skies over New York today, returning from ma- neuvers in New England. The planes came down the Hudson and reached tre Battery at 12:28 p.m. Eastern standard time. They headed for the Long Island air fields, where they will be quartered overnight. l { | i 1 | BY JOSEPH 5. EDGERTON Aviation Editor of The Star, FIELD HEADQUARTERS. 1ST AIR DIVISION, BOWLES, AIRPORT BPRINGPIELD, Mass, May 26.—Bun- ker Hill has witnessed a battle which would have seemed utterly fantastic | to the vangusrd of American libertics which battled there against the British Redcoats. Above the slopes down which Ameri- can farmers drove the reeling waves of their veteran foemen three bloody times, descendants of those fighting farmers hurtled vesterday afternoon from rain-heavy skies to repel the on- slaughts of a mythical aerial foe called into the picture by the general stafl of the Army to test the mettle of the 1st Air Division, assembled here from every corner of the country. Contrast in Warfare. On_the slopes of the low green hill the Natidn's first soldiers lay in wait- ing behind their hastily constructed | breastworks to meet the enemy's charge. ‘The aenal soldlers of today did their waiting in banks of dark clouds—be- hind the cover of which they circled alert and watchful. On the day when Bunker Hill was engraved on the tablets of history the waiting soldiery received orders to “hold your fire until you see the whites of their “eyes” directly from the lips of i their leader. The orders received by the circling aerial warriors yesterday afternoon came crackling .through the ether on radio waves from a leader who rode the sky-ways in a fleet fighting plane miles aw; Four and 180 M. P. M. Those heroic New Englanders who (manned the breadtworks at Bunker {Hill moved Into battle on their own fieet at the dizzy speed of some four miles per hour and were armed with long-barreled smooth-bore muskets, if they were lucky. have been perhaps a shot a minute Later, history tells us, their ammunition exhausted, they used stones and club- bed muskets Today's fighting men moved into {battle formation over Boston from Springfield, miles away, at a speed of Inearly three miles a minute. They were armed with machine guns capable jof spitting streams of steel-jacketed bullets, a single one more deadly than A hundred of those carried by their military precedecessors. Had they ex- | hausted tbeir - ammunition, they still could, by the flick of a finger, relcase powerful bombs. The original battle of Bunker Hill confined to a very small area on th safety by those on the housctops (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) 47 DIE, SCORE MISSING IN GOLD MINE BLAZE 39 Workers Rescued From Burn- ing Shaft—Rescue Squads Working. 1 By the Associated Press OORGAUM. India, May 26.—Forty- seven miners are known to be dead and more than a score are missing as the | result of a fire in the Nandydroog gold ! mine, in the Kolar Ficlds. About 39 miners were rescued and | groups are still working strenuously in " an effort to save additi.nal lives. Thr | shaft yard of the mine was filled with ! knots of weeping women. DEPORTATION DELAYED NEW YORK, May 26 (#).—A writ of habeas corpus, argued by attorneys for the International Labor Defense before Judge John M. Woolsey, to stay the deportation of Tao Hsuan-Li, Chinese student and Communist, has been dis- missed by the court. Judge Woolsey granted a stay of de- portation for 30 days, as the case will be appealed to the Circuit Court of | Appeals. Affidavits were presented that *Li would be killed in ?)m\l if deported. Their rate of fire may | the slope of the hill and was witnessed | S | .ewis Proposes | System of Loans . ByU.S.to! ates Fundless Towns and Cities Battle Above Historic Scene Also Could Get Money Crew of Chicago Daily News ‘ Under His Plan. | By the Associated Press CHICAGO, May 26.—8enator James Illinois State Bankers' Association to. day. recommended that a system be de- viced whereby the National Government could loan money to towns, cities and States to tide them over emergencies. | The City of Chicago confesses,” the | Senator declared, “that the united debts | of the city and county exceed $300,000.- 000. There are no securities of the cit: which can be taken by the bankers further collateral for further loans and, as to the county, there is no security | which it can issue in its present state (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) | MRS HAYNES WINS Defeats Miss Hunter at 20th| Hole in D. C. Women’s Tournament. | Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes of the Colum- bia Country Club. former District women’s golf champion, was forced to | 80 to the twentizth hole today in the | ovening round of the women's District ' champlonship at the Chevy Chase Club | to defeat Miss Dorothy Hunter of In. dian Spring. | . Tiéd With 85. Mrs. Haynes tied yestziday at 88 with Mrs. Betty P. Meckley of Indian Spring, present holder of the title for the quali- fying medal. Mrs. Meckley was forced the full distance of 18 holes to win from | Mrs. L. O. Cameron of Chevy Chase, | another former women's title holder. Mrs. Meckley won on the eightsenth hole, 2 up.” Summaries of the first round follow Miss Katherine Loman, Congression- al, defeatcd Miss Winifred Faunce, un- attached. 4 and 3. Mrs. Perry B. Hoo- ver, Indian Spring. defeated Mrs, Frank R. Keefer. Chevy Chase, 2 and | 1: Mrs. S. F. Colladay, Columbia, de- feated Mrs. C. Hill, unattached, 3 and 2: Mrs. Harrlscn Brand, jr., Chevy . defeated Mrs. John F.’ Dryden Chase, 2 and 1; Miss Virginia Williams, Congressional, defeated Mrs Indian Spring. 4 and 3 Hume Wrong, Chevy Chese, de | feated Mrs. Frank Tomlinson, Colum- bia, 4 and 2 Score Sumniary. Second flight: Mrs. Gerome Meye Woodment, defeated Mrs. 0 r 5 and 4; Mrs. L, Navy, defeated Mrs. Army-Navy, 7 and 5; Mr: W. Beller. Chevy Chase, defeated | Mris H. A Knox, Congrass'onal, 4 and | 2. Mrs. Ora Emge, Beaver Dam. de- feat~d Mrs. Tom Moore, Indian Spring, 2 up; Mrs. H. R, Quinter, Columbia, de- feated Mrs, H. B. Hird, Manor, 3 and 1; Mrs. Alma Von Steinner, Beaver Dam, | defoated Miss Florence Scoit, Indian Spring, 4 and 2; Miss_Susan Hunter, Chase, defeated Mrs. William E. shington, 5 and 4; Mis. J. W. . jr. Indlan Spring, defeated W. R. Busn, Congressional. 1 up. Mrs. J. R. De Farges, Columbia, de- feated Mrs. F. J. Godfrey, Congres- sional, 3 and 2. in tre third flight. | Otber winners in the third flight were Miss Elizabeth Brawner, Chevy Chase; | Mrs. J. P. Daudell. Congre:sional, -and Mrs. W. 8. Corby, Columbia. i JAIL HANGING HELD SUICIDE BY JURY v laen Life by Using His Belt as a Noose. Prisoner Found to A coroner's jury this afternoon re- turned a verdict of suicide in the death of Joseph Alovsius Welch, 32, of the | 1100 block of Park place northeast, who hanged himself by his belt Satur- | day night in his cell st No. 9 precinct. | where he was being held on a charge | ¢ intoxication. Officer E. R. Shoemaker testified that the top of Welch's trouser; was rolled down over the belt and ihat he missed it when he searched the pris- oner. Regulations provide that the belts of prisoners be temoved before ar: taken to the cel's. Shoemaker arrested Welch about noon Saturday in an alley near E and Sixth sireets northeast. He had a gash over one eye, and the officer took him to Casualty Hospital for treat- ment. He was found about 7 o'clock Saturday night suspended by his belt. ?{' ‘was pronounced dead by Dr. Louis m () Means Associated Pre Lake Fisher Nets 239-Lb. Sturgeon —Then Proves It By the Associated Press PIKE CREEK, Ontario, May 26—Ulric_ Suzor, a fisherman, came home here today with A whopper of & fish story. and, just 1o back it up, he brought the fish along. Ulric found & 239-pound stur- geon, believed to be largest ever caught in Lake St. Clair. in one of his nets off Pike Creek. He towed his prize catch to the dock and moored it. The whole town came down to see it today Ulric was so proud of his catch that--with Sturgeon selling at 20 cents_a pound—he offered it to {he Detroit Aquartum at Belle <le. OFFICIALS CALLED N UNIOK SHORTAGE ) Huddle and Possehl Before Grand Jury in Sequel to Labor Shooting. Two officials of the International Undon of Operating Engineers who es- caped a gunman's bullets last week have been summoned to tell the grand jury about internal troubles of the union, notably the alleged embezzle- ment of $36.000 by a former official The two union executives, Arthur M. Huddell, president, and John Possehl, general secretary of the international body, were making a private inquiry into the financial tangle when attacked last Wednesday by an overall-clad FOUR FLYERS DIE IN RECORD TRIAL in a public lunchroom. Langdon Loses Eve. Frank Langdon, luncheon companion of the pair and editor of the official Plane Killed Speed Test. in | of fire and fell with a bullet through his eye. He is recovering at Emergency Hospital, but lost an eye as a resuit of stranger who emptied two guns at them | magazine of the union, got in the line | By the Associated Press CHICAGO. May 26.—Four men, com- prising the crew of the Chicago Daily News plane Blue Streak, were killed to- day when the speclally designed sesqui- the shooting. i Huddell, Possehl and other witnesses have been subpoenaed to appear belfore | the grand jury Thursday. Among other witnesses, it is understood, will be rep- plane fell while attempting to set a | resentatives of a Washington bank in | 2,000-kilometer speed record north of which the union deposited its funds and inuusw‘m STAONL CHANGES OROERED FORADDED ST ;Higher Standard Is Set on | Advice of Building Inspector. = B 2 CONCRETE TO SUBSTITUTE FOR 18-INCH BRICK WALL | | Report of Board Approves Plan but Requests Alterations as Precaution. 1 The District Commissioners today crdered the plans for the Roosevelt High School auditorium changed as a meas- | ure of greater safety. The steelwork for | the auditorium was blown over by a { brisk wind last month. and the accider ;,rflvllvrd In sending of the plans to & board of Inquiry to report on their ! safety. The report of the board. made i public today. finds the plans safe both as to safety during construction and safety after the building is completed. iOn recommendation of the building in- | spector. however, a higher standard of safety was set, and the change ordered { by the Commissioners on recommend: | tion of Engineer Commissioner John C. Gotwals, The change consists in substituting for the 18-inch brick wall, proposed to be built around the steel columns, & wall { of reinforced concrete. This could be faced on the outside with brick so as to achieve the same architectural result. Affords Greater Support. The concrete work, according to Building Inspector John W. Oehmann, will afford a greater support to the steel beams than would the brick wall. The steel, he found, was safe, as, in- closed in a brick wall it would ppor an allowable stress of 16,000 “pou;laj pt: square inch, whereas the load actually imposed on the columns is approximate- | response to the announcement, . made of the Casuaity Hoepital staff. on lnlvrw Glen Ellyn. Il | The _dead: Shirley J. Short, chief pilot; Richard K. Peck, co-pilot; Lewis S. Rice, radio operator; Robert Gormley, | mechanic. It plunged into the ground while| flying at a low altitude. A farmer who | ran to the ship soon after the crash | peen credited to the account of the Wrote: reported that a man whose description | fitted that of Gormley was still alive, | although badly hurt. The first doctor | 1o reach the acene, however, said llli four men were dead. | The plane was of an unusual type, with practically tail and with two | motors, one ing and one pulling the ship. Shert and the members of his crew | were attempting to set a speed record | for 2,000 kilometers with a 5,000-kilo- grem load. Thcy had charted a course between Curtiss-Reynolds Alrport and Serena, 11, 60 kilometers apart, and planned to shuttle back and forth be- | tween those two points. Short was one of the Nation’s vet- | eran pilots. In 1926 he was awarded | the Harmon International Trophy for ! his record in flying the mail between | Cleveland and Chicago. i Farmers who saw the accident said | the right wing ed to shake loose | from the ship. ot Short dumped the gasoline, cut off the motor and tried to glide to a landing, but the wing dropped off when the ship was about | 35 feet from the ground, and the plane | nosed into a field. | STEEL HITS EIGHT- YEAR LOW AT 93 1.4, Bears Take to Timber on An- nouncement of New Ex- change Probe. | By the Associated Press | NEW YORK, May 26.—Bears grew | uneasy in the stock market today, after | murder announcement that the Stock Ex-| change was once more checking up on thelr activities. Although there was no immedhte' l | just before the marxet opened, a mark- ed upturn finally developed after mid- day. y. United States Steel, after sinking $1 to a price of $93.25, an eight-year low, | rebounded $3, and miscellaneous issues | rising $2 to $4 included American Tele- phone, American Can, Allied Chemical, Woolworth, Bethelehem Steel, du Pont and Westinghouse Electric. The market was heavy at the start, rallied for a time, then went into a fresh decline just before midday. But by early afternoon losses of $1 to $5 had been recovered or greatly modified PAPER MILL TO CLOSE LISBON FALLS, Me., May 26 (#).— | The local mill of the Pejepscot Paper | Co. will be closed permanently July 1, | Supt. Pred Hall announced today. | Unfavorable market conditions and | Canadian competition were given as | | reasons for the shutdown, which will | Rumania on June 1. affect 100 employes. The company’s mills at Topsham and Pejepscot will not be affected. | GRAND JURY QUIZZES SCHWARTZ ON CHARGES OF possibly representatives of & Chicago ba United States Attorney Rover is in! possession of photostatic coples of checks said to have been cashed by the former union official, who is in Chicago. The checks, it is claimed, should have union. Originals of the checks will be shown the grand jury. May Probe Horsewhipping. Investigation of the alleged pecula< tions may pave the way for sweeping inquiry into the union's troubles. in cluding the recent shooting nn? L mysterious horsewhipping incident that occurred in April. The horsewhipping victim was Charles Haury, union super- visor, who was brought here by the in- ternational officers to assume charge of local union affairs after the ouster of | several officials. A lottery is reported to ! have been conducted in connection with the whipping. Rover has been supplied with a ticket said to have been sold prior to the whipping with the repre- sentation that it would entitle the holder to a chance on “the horsewhip that whipped Haury.” The wiclder o the horsewhip was a woman whose identity is known. Rover declined to issue a warrant for her at the time, however, as he was reluctant to “‘meddle in troubles of the union.” Identity of the gunman remains a mystery, although police are running down several clues. AY ADMIT CONVICT M FIRING OHIO PRISON One of Two>Chlrged \‘Nith Murder in Burning of 320 Likely to Plead Guilty. By the Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio. May 26.—A plea of guilty to a charge of second degree may be entered by Clinton Grate, Montgomery County convict, in connection with the Ohio Penitentiar fire of April, 1930, in which 320 con- victs perished, it was indicated by court officials following conferences of the court with counsel in the case at noon today. Court attaches were uninformed as to whether the court would receive the for first degree murder. The State heard the testimony of three newspaper men, two telling what Grate and his alleged co-conspirator, | Hugh Gibson, Cuyahoga County, told them aiter they had made formal con- fessions of starting the prison fire. Gibson is awaiting trial on the murder charge. TERRORISM PLOT NIPPED Bucharest Police Report Finding of Reds’ Plans After Raids. BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 26 () —Police today reported they had dis- covered a plot to inaugurate a wide- spread campaign of terrorism through They sa‘d they had made their discovery after Satur- day's raid cn Communist meeting places in Bessarabia and elsewhere $500 SLAYING FEE Disbarred Attorney Gives Name of Lawyer Accused in Atlanta Prison Gossip. Sidney A. Schwartz, a disbarred law- yer, who recently returned from At- lanta, where he had served a sentence, was summoned today before the grand jury to explain an alleged statement made at a recent session of the Wash- Open Forum to the effect that is “a Washington lawyer who for will produce a gangster to kill| in this city or vicinity. 1 hwartz told Assistant United States ! Attorney Willlam H. Collins, who ex- amined him before taking him to the | grand jury room, the name of the law- yer he had in mind, but declared he | had no facts fo substantiate his state- | ment. which was predicated, he sald, given him by a “fellow | L S convict at Atlanta." He is supposed to have made a similar statement to the grand jurors. Collins explained that a citizen had called to the attention of United States Attorney Leo A. Rover the statement of Schwartz as it was given in the p‘resl in a report of the forum's ses- sion. Schwartz was indicted December 2, 1924, with three alleged accomplices. on a charge of highway robbery and was convicte: 925, and sentenced to servg” penitentiary. They pwing John Wor ng pighyye theater |‘o was ‘gobbed of 1 lv 3,600 pounds per square inch. As- suming that the brick walls give na sup- port to the columns the allowable stress is 5.600 pounds per squatre inch. In recommending.the change to his {fellow ‘Commissioners, Maj.. Gotwals | “As pointed out by the inspect | bulidings, the design originaity used by e municipal I.N:hw n consid- ered safe. "It is' to b:' negu‘ahmz these columns is more than rry the upon them. .If the brick | them does mot surely l_!:nh meeting the con o e ra of | to rad SYTR-- tion, the remedy fiflm ¥ {ard set ip by the board wall | 'This remedy is to change the mate- rial in the wall up to a height of 31 feet above the stage elevation to re- inforced concrete, either in part or in whole, as may be most. economical. The columns so supported will have their | free standing lengths reduced to con- f“mwg‘u.‘ !sliandlrdl, i le 1 feel the municipal architect followed good principies and safe prac- tices in assuming that the heavily and carefully built brick walls do support the columns, I feel that it is adding one more precaution toward safety to meet u;:'e "“%"‘“‘Tfi' llmst h:nunud. The change is so simple that it is readily Justified.” P & Two Questions Asked. The two question which the speeisl board was asked to answer as well as the answers of the board were as foi- ows: Question 1. “Is the type of constrie- | ton, _irecstanding steel columns em- bedded in brick walls as proposed sound | beyond question? “The board believes that the method of construction referred to in question 1 | i= sound beyond question, provided: (A) The steel columns are of such design as to carry all vertical loads, including those of the roof independently of the inclosing walls: (B) The steel columns | b2 50 designed and so braced as to carry | all lateral loads. including winds pres- | sures without dependence on the inclcs- ing walls. Qu:stion 2. “Was it practicable to erect this steel without hazard of col- i lapse? "It is the opinion of the board thatf it is practicable to erect this type of construction without hazard of col- lapse.” The board was composed of Assistant | guilty plea. Grate is under indictment | Engineer Commissioner D. A. Davison, | chairman: Edward W. Donn, jr.. a local i architect in private practice, and Lester { G. Wilson. a civil engineer, also in pri- vate practice. 'NEW HOUSE MEMBER FROM NEW YORK DIES Matthew J. O0'Malley's Death Equalizes Democratic and Republican Losses. By the Associated Press NEW YORK. May 26.—Representa- tive-elect Matthew J. O'Malley, Demo- crat, of Brooklyn, died suddenly today O]Idl heart attack. He was 53 years ol A decision as to the selection of O'Malley’s successor rests with Gov. Roosevelt, who returns from Europe to- morrow. The opinion was expressed in j political circles that the Governor i would call a special election. The seve | enth district is considered solidly Dem- oeratic. Party Losses Now Equal, Republictn _and Demoeratic par! today had suffered equal losses to dea trom the membership of the closely di- vided Heuse. The political division now stands Republicans, 216; Democrats, 314, and Farmer-Labor, 1 B 1 of office. s i Representative-elect M. J. died before taking the oath of He was elected to the vacancy in the seventh New York district caused by the death last November 27 of Repré- sentative John F. Quayle. The Democrats also lost Representa- tive Aswell of Louisiana. The - licans lost Speaker- ungonh and resentative Cooper of Wisconsin. "John Overton hes been nominated by Louist- ana Democrats to succeed Aswell. adio Programs om qu B-1