Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1931, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast). Increasing cloudiness and warmer to- night, followed by showers and thunder- storms tomorrow; cooler tomorrow after- noon and night. Temperatures—Highest, 85, at noon today; lowest, 60, at 6'a.m. today. Full report on Closing N.Y. Markets, page 9. Pages11,12&13 No: "'31:804, ' Mnssreas tered as second class matter Washington, D D C 206 PLANES ARRIVE FOR TOMORROW'S ANTION REVEW First Contingent of 627 Craft Land at Bolling Field ‘to Await “Battle.” FLEET WILL MANEUVER OVER ARLINGTON BRIDGE Action Climaxing Two Weeks of World's Greatest Test Starts at 11:20 AM. Two hundred and fifty-cight Army | airplanes landed safely at Bolling Ficld | this afternoon for an overnight resz; preparatory to takifig part, with 369 other craft, composing the 1st Army Air Division, tomorrow in the greatest wviation review ever held by any Nation. The 627 planes left Mitchel Field, N. Y, shortly before noon today. Ninety-nine stopped at Philadelphia, 51 landed at Baltimore, and 219 pro- ceeded to Langley Field, Va. Twenty- two ships, 'comprising the division headquarters group, was the first of the tactical ccrps to land here during | the afternoon. Next came the 1lst| Pursuit Wing, consisting of 194 ships. It required more than half an hour for this unit to reach its alloted space, after landing in groups of threes. Next came 30 observers, and the rear guard Was brought up by 12 craft of thel photo-press section. ‘Ameng the first to arrive this morning | was a group of 40 transport ships, bring- ing about 100 mechanics here to aug ing about 100 mechanics here to augment the field's ground force. These big craft did not tarry long here, taking off al- most immediately for Middleton, Pa. Where they will await time for tomor- yow's big review. Also during the fore- noon Brig. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, the divisional commander, and members of his staff arrived from Mitchel Field, | N. Y. Other craft and auxiliary ships, put n at intervals and were safely in | their allotted spaces before the tactical | group arrived over the field at 1:33] o'clock this afternoon. Pursuits Arrive. This group was composed of about 230 | planes. The first to hit the ground was | the 1st Pursuit Wave, then came the ! 1st Pursuit Group, followed by the 20th Pursuit Group and the 101st Pursuit Group. | While the planes were assembling | here, and approximately 400 others walting at various Eastern points for| the general rendezvous tomorrow. thej War Department announced today ag Jast-minute change in the Memorial day program. The demonstration will start over the Potomac River at 11:30, am., instead of one hour earller, as previously announced. The change was | necessitated, the War Department ex plained, so that this program would not | interfere with the regular Memorial day services to be held at Arlington Cemetery. The review will last an hour. After assembling over Alexandria, Va the nearly 700 ships will fly up the Po. tomac and pass over a reviewing stand | on the new Arlington Memorial Bridge. “Potomac Park, between this bridge and he Highway Bridge, will be the van- *tage point for the genersl public to ‘watch the maneuvers. Will Salute Dead. After passing over the official review- ing stand the armada will swing to the left and fly over Arlington Cemetery, . where the planes will dip in respect to the heroes buried there. The review will conclude the two weeks' maneuvers | held by the division. Ships are expected 0 depart immediately for their home stations Bolling Field early today resembled an oversized foot ball gridiron. Lime chalk was used to mark off the allotted space | assigned to each air group, with the main chalk lines extending up the fleld for more than a mile. The field fire | apparatus was scattered at convenient places, while at every 100 feet a hand fire extinguisher had been placed. | Three ambulances were stationed at the | operation office. Arrangements were completed today for the housing of the men arriving at the field. Two large plane hangars will be used for sleeping quarters by the en- listed personrel and another hangar will be used by the cadets from Kelly Field, Tex. The 170 officers will be quartered in the city. Plan Accommodations. The War Department and Capt. R. C. Montgomery, U. S. A., superintzndent of the United States park police, were making final arrangements today for handling the crowds that will gather at Bolling Field and in Potomac Park to witness the spectacular air maneuvers. The War Department has decided that no automobiles will be permitted to enter the flying field from today to Monday. Spectators on foot, however, will be permitted to enter the reserva- tions. Some 500 chairs for distinguished guests, including high-ranking officials of the War Department, are to be placed on Arlington Memorial Bridge, under tentative plans made today. As a means of reducing the number of parked automobiles in the vicinity of the polo field, Capt. Montgomery said today that the parking spaces be-! hind the Navy and Munitions Buildings will be thrown open to the general public. Traffic Arranged. One-way traffic will be the order from the Lincoin Memorial to the polo field. Parking will be permitted around the polo field, provision being made so that there will.be no interference with the polo game that is scheduled for 3:30 o'clock. Capt. Montgomery estimates that be- tween 75,000 and 100.000 persons can be accommodated in the Potomac Park area. The general public wili be per- mitted on the Arlingtn Memorial Bridge as far as the bascule draw span, Capt. Montgomery has been informed. A detail of Metropolitan Police will | experienced mountain escort the War Department officials to the reviewing stand. High officials of the District of Columbia National Guard have cffered to co-operate with the Park Police in handling the crowds and a detail of 50 uniformed men will be furnished. Dressler, Uneasy or Bored. DEL_MONTE, Calif., May 29 (#).— ‘Marie Dressler, maker of funny movies, rarely goes to shows, she said today, be- cause, “If performances are better than mine, I feel uneasy—if they aren’t, I'm bored.” Radio l’rogum. on E:ge A-10 GREAT AIR ARMADA ROARS TO DEFENSE OF CAPITAL b WASHINGTON, D. C | | Fleet Flies From Long Island to Meet “Foe” in Mighty Battle Over Potomac Tomorrow. BY JOSEPH D. EDGERTON, Aviation Edjtor of The Star. FIELD HEADQUARTERS, 1st Alr Division, Mitchel Field, N. Y., May 20.— Flight by flight, squadron by squadron, group upon group, the four great wings of the 1st Air Division, mightiest air force ever assembled, took off under a sultry Sumther sky today from their temporary Long Island airdrome, bound for the Nation's Capital. Tomorrow they will close two weeks of maneuvers with a grand review of the entire division over the Potomac r between Highway and Arlington i es. This review will climax the division’s activities in one cf the greatest neronautical spectacles the world has s2en, exceeding in mag- nificence reviews of the division at Chicago, Boston and New York. The movement from New York to Washington today bad its military element. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, chief of the staff, who created a mythical enemy a week ago to keep the officers and men of the division alert, has,moved the visionary foemen into a position to threaten the Capital. Late last night, as most of the per- sonnel of the division were tumbling into their cots, Brig. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulols, commanding the division, re- celved from Gen. MacArthur by air- plane courier a message that the en- emy fleets had joined forces about 400 miles off Chesapeake Bay and an order directing the division be moved to the ‘Washington area to protect the coast and Caplital. ‘The division was aroused to the de- fense of the Capital at 5:30 o'clock this morning by what seemed to be the loud- est sunrise gun ever fired. Within a half hour slespy mechanics in greasy overalls were uncovering their planes and soon there came the coughs of pow erful motors, which merged into deaf- ening roar as the ground crews began their final tests of the planes. The general movement toward the Capital began shortly after 8 o'clock, when several staff planes took off for Philadelphia to arrange for the dem- onstration to be given there by the di- vision on its to Washington. The " (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) TRIP PROVED UPPER AIR IS NAVIGABLE, PICCARD DECLARES Thinks Science Now Can| Master Low Pressure and Cold of Stratosphere. By the Associated Press. | OBER GURGL, Austrian Tyrol, May | 20.—Recovered from their perilous | thrust into the upper reaches of the RELENTLESS VICE WAR T0 CONTINUE, MAL PRATT SAYS Reveals Probe Against Two| Police Officers Will Be Taken to Grand Jury. Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, announced today that the department would continue relentlessly | sky, Dr. August Piccard began compil- | ing his sclentific data today while| Charles Kipfer, his assistant, started| a three-hour climb to reccver their bal- | loon from the glacier on which it came to rest. | Dr. Piccard said in conversation with | newspaper men that the stratosphere, | which he claimed to have penetrated in | #n ascent of more than 50,000 feet, was the only practicable element for long- | distance aviaticn. | “This can be done, however,” he sald, | “only if the cabins are as airtight as| our gondola was.” When some of his interviewers sug- | gested that they would like to accom- pany ths sclentist to the balloon, Dr.| Piccard had a good laugh. “Have you | heb-nailed shoes?” he said. “Are you | climbers? Do you know how to operate an ice ax? No? Then you better keep your hands off.” Confronted by 50 Reporters. The two men arose at dawn and were | surprised on reaching the lobby of the little Edelwelss hotel to be confronted | by not less than 50 journalists and by | scores of tourists who used bicycles, fmotcr cycles, horsedrawn vehicles, auto- mobiles and even airplanes to reach the | two men about whom all Europe is| talking. ! Describing observations made on their trip, Dr. Piccard, Swiss, professor of physics at the—University of Brussels, said he and Charles had attained the | objectives of their ascent—a study of | cosmic ray—and in addition had estab- lished & world's altitude record—9.936 miles or more than 50,000 fect. He obtained a measurement of the | conductivity of gases generaed by cos- mic rays at the meximum height about | four hours after leaving Augsburg Wed- nesday morning, “During the first part of the ascent ith the mechani- Column 1) EARHART FLIGHT HALTED Gas Leak Delays Autogyro Trip to Coast Several Hours. PITTSBURGH, May 29 (#).—The flight of Amelia Earhart to the Pacific Coast in an autogyro plane was inter- | rupted for scveral hours today by a| leak in the ship's gas tank. Miss Ear- hart said she was nct aware of the leak when she landed at Bettis Field, Mc- Keesport, Jast night on her flight from Newark, N. J. Miss Earhart was unable to say how much the time would be required for the repairs. | speakeasies have closed temporarily to | Maj. Pratt declared there will be no to wage a campaign against gambling | establishments and speakeasies and raid every place it can get evidence against. It also was disclosed by Maj. Pratt that the department had started an in- vestigation of serious charges against two police officers, which he proposes to carry before the grand jury. The ac- cusations, it was said, are contained in & report submitted to the Department | of Justice by Mitchell Henshaw, private | investigator, and involve a police lieu- | tenant and a detective sergeant who | formerly served on the vice squad. ‘The Police Department’s sudden at- tack on the gamblers and bootleggers already has caused some consternation in their ranks, and reports coming into headquarters indicate that a number cf the bookmaking establishments and awalt the passing of the storm. But let-up. ‘The charges against two police officers allege that they concealed from their superiors, while members of the vice squad, knowledge of the existence of certain gambling houses, leaving the in- ference that there was collusion be- tween them and -gamblers. This inquiry is being made by Inspeclor Willlam S. Shelby, who reported to Maj. Pratt that thus far he has been unable to find a scintilla of evidence to support the charges. Inspector Shelby questioned Henshaw ! about the accusations and he admitted, it was said, that his information re- garding the officers was based on ru- mors and not on facts he had un- | covered. Nevertheless, Maj. Pratt in- ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) CONVICTED.MAN FREED IN ROBBERY PLOT Stumm's Sentence S\up‘.enfled in Conspiracy to Get Pay Roll of District Offices. Phillip K. Stumm, 20, Syracuse, N. Y., who recently pleaded gullty to a charge of conspiracy to rob the District dis- bursing office of $120,000, was released today by District Supreme Court Justice Peyton Gordon on a suspended sentence of two years in the penitentiary. Stumm, who has been in jail since April 17, was placed on probation and directed 'to report regularly to Probation Officer Steele. Stumm was indicted with-Arthur A. Fischer, employe of the District auditor’s office, who is said to have; planned the robbery and to have fur- nished a drawing of the District dis- bursing office to show how the robbery could be perpetrated. A third member of the alleged conspiracy informed police, who listened in from an adjoin- ing hotel room while Fischer, Stumm and the third man discussed plans for the robbery. Fischer pleaded not gullty to the :!}li’le and has not yet been called for rial. POLICE GOING AFTER FISH, FIND LIQUOR BOAT BEING UNLOADED{*f*" 7 Seize Whisky, Sailing Craft and Send Two Men to Hospital With Bruises. Two sixth precinct policemen went | in search of some fish today and seized | three jars cf whisky, broke several more, confiscated a sailing boat and sent two rum-running suspects to the hospital with numerous cuts and ruises. ‘They also got the fish. Officers W. C. Groome and W. R. Laflin, who serve as sixth precinct de- tectives and special prohibition agents, where sitting in the station house this morning with little cr nothing to do. “Boys,” said Capt. Willlam G. Stctt, “I want some fish tonight. Run down to the wharf and get me a couple of hardheads.” . Officers Groome and Laflin did as they were told. After they had bought the fish they glanced around id there, they said, in plain view of a crowd on the wharf, 3.7"5 two men unloading liquor frcm & at. The jars of whisky, Groome said, were being carried from the boat in rubber boots to & car bearing Virginia ' ’ Dropping their fish on the running board of th: Virginia car, the two offi- cials ran to the edge of the wharf. Groome jumped into the boat and lean- ed over to peer inte the hold. Some one kicked him, and he found himself: sprawled below deck. Laflin, who had ‘beenfl watching the car, then joined the ray. After the scuffie Stephen H. Davis, 40, of Alexandria, and Edward Spees, 48, of the 700 block of Seventh street scutheast, the men on the boat, were removed to Emergency ital. Later they were removed to the sixth precinct, where, police said, they would be charged with violating the prohibi- tion act. The Virginia car, meanwhile, had been driven away and the captain's fish had gone with it. Officers Groome and Laflin paused to consider this aspect of the matter. It would never do, they decided, to g0 back without the fish so two more were purchased and the captain’s dinner inj assureds ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY Mol)flllé. EDITION . . o 1 0SS IN REVENUES FORCES RAILROADS 10 SEEK REMEDIES Change in U. S. Laws Urged to Enlarge Scope of Operation. REGULATION OF BUSSES ALSO HELD NECESSARY Investors Over Nation Demand T. S. Protect Second Great- est Industry. Note—This is the first of a series of articles on the condition of the railroads and possible methods of relief. The second article will ap- pear tomorrow. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The American railroads, second great- est industry in the country and the most “regulated” of all industries, are seeking relief today from a constantly lowering return on their capital in- vestment. Executives of the Eastern railroads appealed to the Interstate Commerce Commission to begin an inquiry into what ails the railroads financially. The request has just been denled. The commissioners believed that the roads themselves knew better than any” one their needs and what steps should or could be taken to relieve the situation. And so the Eastern rallroad executives are considering a request that the com- mission grant an increase in rates “to a level which will restore the credit and the service of the carriers.” At the same time the Association of Railway Executives, representing the roads of all parts of the country, have tackled the problem of relief from an- other angle. They have filed a-brief with the Interstate Commerce Com- mission urging that the railroads be; allowed to engage in motor truck and motor bus business . on-all-fours with the motor bus and motor truck com- panies. They have also recommended Federal reguiation similar to that now imposed on the railroads be extended | to cover the motor bus amd motor truck companies. Obviously Corigress will have to amend the anti-trust laws in order to permit the railroads fully to participate in highway transporta- tion and will be called ‘upon to put through laws for the reghlation of the non-raflroad owned bus and motor truck engaged in interstate commerce. A Federal bus regulation bill failed to pass the Senate in the last session of Congress after it had been put through the House. Face Stiff Competition. ‘The railroads are in earnest in their effort to find rellef. Their problem has two distinct phases, one perhaps temporary in character and due to the present business depression and the other having to do with the compe- tition which the roads now meet, & constantly growing competition. ‘This competition comes to the rail- roads from the motor bus, the motor truck, the pipe line carrying oil and gas, the inland water transportation, including the Great Lakes transporta- tion, the Panama Canal and the ever- increasing aircraft. So far as passen- ger traffic is concerned, however, the greatest whittler away of the railroad carrying business has been the privately owned and operated automobile. But the railroads must rely for their great- est source of revenue upon freight transportation. And here is where the motor trucks, water transportation and the pipe lines are cutting in more and rallroads maintain that the fundamental basis of 3 national system of transportation for this country lies in an arterial system of railways, co- ordinated with highway, water and air transportation. They siy it is impos- sible for the country to meet its trans- portation problems without the rail- ways, and precautions must be taken to keep the railroads alive. Scorn Pessimism. At lot of the talk about the railroad situation today, in the opinion of rail- road men themselves, is rank pessimism. They have faith in the future of the railroads. But they do not deny that the pgblema confronting the roads today aré extremely serious. They saw the railroads go through other periods of depression, of receiverships and failure, as for example, back in the 90s, and they believe they will emerge from the present depression in good shape even- tually. If they do not, Government ownership and operation is the only alternative. No one will operate rail- roads at a loss perpetually unless it be the Government. In the first three months of the pres- ent year, railroads of the United States made a loss in net operating income of $69,444,415 as compared with the same three months in 1930. - Reports from railroads so far at hand show that for the month of April, the founth month, there will be a very con- (Contini Page 4, Column AUTO DRIVER KILLS SELF AFTER CRASH He Apparently Thought Collision Cost Lives of Some Occupants of Other Car. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, May 29.—After the roadster he was driving had crashed into a trailer of a car parked cn a highway near here early today, Ivan Van Tine, 22, Kansas City, stepped behind his crumpled machine, placed a revolver to his temple and killed him- Officers said Van Tine apparently believed the accident nad resulted fa- tally for some of the occupants of the car to which trailer was attached. Before committing suicide he sought . House cf Detroit, were en route to their home in De- troit, Mich., and had stopped their car and trailer t> repair a gasoline line, the vehicles being half on the pavement. Mrs. House suffered loss of four teeth, a bruise on her face and an abrasion on the left knee. The boys were only scmtched. House was not jured. Three hitch-hikers riding with Van Tine escaped injury. 4 FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1931—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. ‘v-;l-# [’\f S tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 116,285 P Means Associated TWO Press. c | 1l n- VETERANS' BUREAU {Appointment of “Key Men,” Union of Three Branches Promised. A complete reorganization of the vet- erans’ Administrator of Veteran Affairs Frank T. Hines, who said today the announce- ment of the new set-up probably would be made within a week. The position of Maj. William Wolff Smith, general couasel of the United States Veterans' Burczau, was among a great many of the positions which are under_consideration, in the reorganiza- tion, Gen. Hines admitted. What place, if any, Maj. Smith will hold -in the new line-up was not indicated. Maj. Smith, however, indicated he expected to be retained in the veterans | administration. May Abolish Office. ‘Whether the position of general counscl, which Maj. Smith now holds, will be abclished, Gen. Hines indicated, has not yet been definitely decided. Men appointed to the key positions in the veterans’ administration wiil be chosen solely on a basis of efficiency, Gen. Hines sald, and without regard to any controversy which may have de- veloped publicly over their drawing dis- ability pay frcm the Government. Maj. Smith had been criticized by members of Congress because while receiving an annual compensation of $9,000. he was obtaining, Congressmen charged, $187.50 a month disability pay on account of bronchitis. Three Bureaus United. ‘The reorganization of the veterans administration under Gen. Hines forecast in the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next. Under the | previous appropriation act the three or- ganizaticns, the Veterans’ Bureau, the Pension Bureau and the National Home for Volunteer Soldiers, had re- ceived their money under their own appropriations. Buf in the appropria- tion acts for the al year 1932, it was pointed out, the items such as salary, are all grouped together under the new Veterans Administration, of which Gen. Hines is administrator. This fiscal ai {thority will allow the general con- siderable latitude in the further reo: ganization and welding of the three veterans’ units into one. HOOVER HONORS HARDING A MARION, Ohio, May 29 (). wreath sent by President Hoover a Memorial day token of remembrance for the late President Warren G. Harding was received by the Harding Memorial Association today. It will be th> Harding tomb tomorrow. President Hoover has sent a Memorial day wreath each year since taking office. This Summer weather has brought out many shoppers, and today is a big day in the stores. Mon- day will be another impor- tant shopping dgy and most people will read the adver- tising of practically all of the representative stores in Washington in either Sat- urday’s or Sunday’s Star. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) es. The Evening Star 69,054 30,483 .13,349 11,692 8,218 63,742 2d Newspaper 3d Newspaper. . . 4th Newspaper. ...... 5th Newspaper (other four papers Total combined) Circulation Yesterday’s circulation . 116,285 Same day last year. . . . 113,454 Increase, 2,831 Two thousand, eight hun- dred and thirty-one more families in Washington and suburbs read The Star yes- terday than at this time last year. SHAKE-UP COMING ministration. with appointment | of “several key men,” is being made by | placed on | The Shopping Guide Bandit Binds Pair And Steals Gems, | But Leaves Bouquet By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 29.—An artistic sense of humor may account for the actions of the burglar who entered the apartment cf Mrs. Raymond J. Martin. He tled up Mrs. Martin and her maid and then escaped with several thousand dollars’ worth of jewels, Mrs. Martin told po- lice, but not until he had left a :vluquet of roses on a table for er. MERCHANT'S WIFE DIESAFTERPLUNGE Mrs. Dorothy Goldsmith Vic- | tim of Six-Story Fall | at Apartment. | | | e Mrs. Dorothy May Goldsmith, 34 years old, wife of Ralph L. Goldsmith, | Jocal merchant, died at Emergency Hos- | pital this afternoon, an hour after she | plunged six stories from the roof of | the Woodley Park Towers, at 2737 Dev- | onshire place, to a flower bed in front | of the west wing. | No one saw Mrs. Goldsmith after she entered the apartment building until she struck the ground, but none of the windows above where her body was 5 | picked up was open, and the only point | from which she could have fallen was | the roof. Relative in Building. Mrs. Geldsmith did not live in the ibufld.\ngv She told, her colored chauf- | feur, Alfred Perry of 1333 Twelfth street, when he drove hcr to the build- | ing, that she was going there to visit relatives. . | Mrs. Goldsmith fell feet first in the soft earth of the flower bed, breaking both legs. She was believed to have died of internal injuries. Perry explained to police that he let Mrs. Goldsmith out of her automobile at the west entrance to the apartments and then parked the machine in Devon- shire place nearby. Mrs. Goldsmitn had b2en gone only about five minutes, Perry sald, when he reard the impact of a body on the turf in the apartment court and ran around to find her lying in the flower bed. Mrs. Goldsmith was carried inside the apartment by tenants and given first aid until the Emergency Hospital ambulance arrived. She was then re- moved to the hospital where dcctors said she had compound fracture of both legs and probable internal in- juries. No Eye Witness Found. ‘Mrs. Goldsmith did not take the ele- vator unstairs and police have been unable to find any one inside the apartment building who saw her after she came in. A servants’ stairway, however, leads frcm the ground floor at the west entrance to the roof, the door to which was said to have been unlotked. When the elevator boy returned to the ground floor he did not see anything further of Mrs. Goldsmith and sup- posed she had changed her mind about entering the building. His first inti- mation that anything was amiss came when he heard the thud of her body outside the door. Mrs. Goldsmith was too badly shocked to make an explana- | tion to police. Ralph L. Goldsmith is manager of Lansburgh & Bro., department store. ST E N Santander Asks Jesuits' Exile. SANTANDER, Spain, May 290 (®).— The City Council last night voted to ask the Madrid government to exile the Jesuits from Spain. NOBLE TESTIFIES - OTHERS ASKED PAY |Calhoun Case Co-Defendants | Contradicted as Large Crowd Is Amused. | Testimony given previously by his co- | defendants was contradicted today by W. Clark Noble when he took the wit- | ness stend at his trial in District Su- | preme Court with three other persons | on charges of conspiracy to blackmail | Capt. and Mrs. C. C. Calhoun. Noble declared his fellow defendants | all demanded a $30,000 check produced | by Department of Justice agents at a | conference which resulted in the ar-! | rests. The check was to have been paid | in_exchange for an agreement by the defendants that they would not pub- lish articles defamatory to Capt. and | | Mrs. Calhoun, organizers of the Wom- | | en’s Universal AlMance and complaining | witnesses. | " “They all wanted the $30.000.” Noble | satd. gave up. I didn't think I'd get any of it myself.” James F. Bird and Mrs. Anna Hillen- brand, also defendants, testified earlier in the trial they had made no effort to have their names written on the check. Crowd Roars Repeatedly. A large crowd roared with laughter | repeatedly ‘during Noble's examination. He once was asked by Richard L. Mer- rick, his attorney, to tell of a conver- | sation with Mrs. Calhoun preceding his arrest. | “Mrs. Calhoun,” the witness related, “said her husband is a Southerner and shoots to kill. She said if I tried to collect my debt from her he would shoot me. I told her if he came to my house with a pistol I'd punch it down | his neck, and that, anyhow, he didn't look like he'd carry a very big gun.” |~ Asked by Merrick how he first learned of the $30,000 offer, Noblé replied he was told about it by Stephen A. Arm- ctrong, jr., the fourth defendant. | “Steve said,” Noble explained, “I was | going to get $30,000.” I said, “Where. in the neck?” He sald, “No, you're going to gl 30,000 good old simoleans. “Did #ou sign the agreement?” Mer- | rick inquired. | ““Yes, I signed the paper and then they gave me a ride,” Noble responded. Treasurer or No Play, Called upon to tell what office Mrs. Emma J. Krouse was to have held in | an organization Mrs. Hillenbrand sought | to form, Noble said: | _ uMrs. Krouse was to be the treasurer. | It %he wasn't she wasn't going to play. | Noble denied he ever had declared he | possessed enough information to_have Mrs, Calhoun sent to jail. He insisted he knew of the existence of no articles for publication which reflected upon the character of Mrs. Calhoun. He said he had entered into a conspiracy with no one. - Noble testified he had 2 valid claim of $40,000 against the alllance for his work in designing a proposed memorial to _motherhood which would have cost $12,000,000. He said he had actually received less than $3,000 for 18 months® work, although Mrs. Calhoun once had agreed to pay him $500,000. The witness said he had heard Mrs. Calhoun referred to as “dishonored.” He added cne of the reasons he severed his connection with the alllance was be- cause, “She was maligning me behind my back ard had an architect plagar- izing my work. John Grant, director of the mint, a) peared as a character witness for Noble. S, WRITER SHOOTS HEROINE WAUSAU, Wis., May 29 (P —With- in 15 hours after he had shot and wounded the woman he had made the heroine of his book, “The White Queen,” Walter Grunewald was on his way to prison to serve a 10 to 25 year sen- tence. He pleaded guilty yesterday. Miss Jean Zick, 27 years old, was his | victim. The shooting followed" her re- | fusal to marry him. Attaches of a hospital to which Miss Zick was taken said she might recover. | |D. A. R. PROTESTS Merchants Refuse to Take Group’s Simon Gerber, proprietor of the Na- tional Press Pharmacy and the Albany Pharmacy, Seventeenth and H strects, said today he had received a dozen or more protests, some from persons who described themselves as Daughters of the Amegun Revolution, a; A‘n dis- playing Russian-made can windows. two of the women Mr. Gerber sald had urged him to take the candy off display, claiming it was convict made. RUSSIAN-MADE CANDY SALE BY DISTRICT STORES Confection Off Display at Request. He said he had refused their request. . District- ¢f Columbia officials of the D. A. R. said they assumed this was volunteer work of their National De- fense Committee. They said protests ‘have been made to er merchants and tthn %n:m - hqutm:he ry were note o n- Slade prodifcts and are using their in- fluence against them. . The Russian candy has been under discussion in D. A. R. groups for abcut a year officials said. VICTIN-OF BULLET FROM POLICE GUN -- TAKES AL BLAME Declares Woman Shot Him on Dare After All-Night Liquor Party. ABSOLVES PATROLMAN OF DRINKING WITH THEM Father of Two-Year-0ld in Critical Cendition at Hospital, Physicians Fearing for His Life. Armed with a revolver belonging to a poilceman who, she claims, partici- pated in a drinking party with her, Mrs. Tillle Wilson, 23 years old, shot and seriously wounded Leonard Hoff- man, 25, also married, in a field near Rhode Island avenue and Fourteenth street northeast early today. Hoffman, the father of a 3-year-old son, is in & critical condition at Emergency Hospital, where he did not regain consciousness until 9 o'clock, about five hours after the shooting. Physicians at the hospital expressed fear that Hoffman's wound would prove fatal. Motored About City. Questioned at the hospital, Hoff- man said he met Mrs. Wilson at Third and E streets, in front of her home, at 9:20 o'clock lasf night by appointment. They motored about the city during the entire night and early this morning drove out Bladensburg road, turned west at the District line and started to return by way of Rhode Island avenue northeast. “We had plenty of liquor,” he told police, “and did considerable drinking.” ‘When at Rhode Island avenue and Seventeenth street northeast. on the re- turn trip, the wcunded man said, he was stopped by two policemen, each in an automobile. There was a short conversation and one of the officers went away. leaving Policeman Kimbell of the tweifth precinct with them. Says He Dared Her to Shoot. Driving to the wocds, Policeman Kimbell accompanying them, he stated, Mrs. Wilson picked up the policem: revolver and was brandishing it, where- upon Hoffman sald he remarked: “You wouldn't shoot. I Gare you to.” She fired one shot, he stated, unin- tentionally, and when she learned the bullet had struck him she accompanied him to a physician’s office. Hoffman said there was nothing said ‘ about whisky nor was there any drinking during the time Policeman Kimbell was with them, nor was there any whisky in sight. “The shocting was on my dare.” Hoffman said. “I am responsibie for everything that was done. I alone am to blame. I only got what a married man should get who goes out with another woman.” Hoffman said his wife had not been t> see him at the hospital and he would pot blame her if she never came. Mrs. Wilson's Story. Mrs. Wilson's version of the shoot- ing and the events leading up to it differed radically from the story told by both Hoffman and Kimbell. Mrs. Wilson, who Is being held for investigation at the House of Detention, said she and Hoffman were driving on Rhode Island avenue, near the twelfth precinct police station, when Kimbell, whose automobile was parked at the curb, stopped them and accused them of speeding. Says Party Was Arranged. ‘While Kimbell was interrogating the couple, Mrs. Wilson continued, ths ques- tion of liquor arose, and the policeman volunteered the iiformation that he knew where to get some. After a brief discussion, he said, it was decided to purchase a pint of liquor and stage “a little party. bell entered Hoffman's car. Mrs. Wil- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) {KILLERS DRIVE AUTO OVER GIRL VICTIM Milk Campn.ny Official Tells Police Employe Witnessed Siaying. By the Associated Press. B OLD WESTBURY, N. Y., May 29.— From two sources police tcday received information that an unidentified young woman, whose body was found on & road near Salisbury Golf Club early this morning, had been killed by an automobile which was driven back and forth over her body. ‘The manager of a large milk-dis- tributing organization telephoned po- lice that one of his drivers had wit- nessed the killing. According to tne drive story, the were several men i thc automobile. The driver declared the autome3ils wxs ruxa over the body many times, police said. Dr. H. M. Phipps, Hempstead physi- cian, who made an autopsy, said the woman was crushed from head to foot. No ordinary automobile accident could account for the condition of the body, he informed police. There were many tire marks. Detective Joseph Culkin said he had found a soldier at Mitchel Field who was with the girl early last night. The soldier, Culkin said, had seen her sev- eral times, but did not know her name and called her by a variety of nicke names, one of which was “Boots.” No 5:30 Edition of The Star Will Be Published Tomorrow . Memorial Day