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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast). Fair and warmer tonight and tomor- Tow. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 75, at noon today; lowest, 52, at 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on page Closing N. Y. Markets, No. 31,809. post _office, Entered as.second class matte; ‘Washington, D. 0. Pages 10, 11, 12 r c b WASHINGTON, ACTION OF 1L DUCE AGAINST CLUBS 15 RIDICULED-BY POPE; BOTH HOLD GROUND Pontiff Says Fascist Party Has Violated Both Right of Church and Natural Law “Made for Good of Souls.” COLLEGE OF CHAPLAINS HEARS PAPAL ADDRESS Pius Sees in Stand of Mussolini| . Government Manifestation That| “Devil Has Shown Himself Dis- contended " —Grandi Issue Before Senate. ROME, June 3 (#.—The direc- torate of the Fascist party, headed by Premier Mussolini, tonight issued a call to all Fas- cists to defend their achieve- Ignores Beauty Will Marry Man Against Whom She Won Judgment By the Associated Press. . SAN FRANCISCO. June 3.— Catherine P. Quinn, 24, who was “Miss San PFrancisco” in 1926, will, marry Raymond F. Troy, against whom she won a $2,500 damage judgment recently as a result of injuries she suffered in a traffic accident. Miss Quinn, who was a guest in Troy's motor car at the time, sued for $25000. The court awarded her $2,500. She ap- peared at the marriage license clerk's office with Troy yester- day and filed notice of an inten- tion to wed. She sald she would forget about the judgment. PINCHOT GANDIDACY IN'1332 RUMORED Attack on Utilities Before Governors Thought Move for Nomination. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Talk of Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania as a possible contender for the Repub- lican presidential nomination next year increased in Washington today because of his vitriolic attack on the power trust at the Governors' conference at French Lick Springs yesterday. RITCHIE, ATTACKING GOVERNORS, URGES STATE DRY POWER Reversion of Liquor Control Might Help Taxation, He Says. WARNS UNEMPLOYMENT MENACES SOCIAL ORDER Willing Workers’ Inability | Find Jobs Called Argument for Communism. to | FRENCH LICK, Ind., June 3 (# —An invitation from Gov. John G Pollard of Virginia to hold the next annual Governors' Conference in his State was accepted today by the Conference Executive Committee. | By the Associated Press. FRENCH LICK, Ind., June 3 —Criti- cizing the annual Governors' Conference |for its policy of avoiding controversial | subjects, Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of | Maryland took control of the closing | session here late yesterday to advocate return of liquor control to the States jas a solution of taxation problems. ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION {MIACROSS ! 3 St D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1931—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. #%# HoT STUFF “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the pap: ers are printed. Circulation, 116,344 () Means Associated Press. WO CENTS. K MONTOMERY JURY 10 PROBE FUNDS PETITIONS 0 ASH | | | Court Charge Defalcations of Public Money. SITUATION IS DESCRIBED AS NEEDING QUICK ACTION Recalling of Grand Jury and Re- tention of Accountants to Be Sought of Judges. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 3.—Chief Judge Hammond Urner and Assoclate ! Judges Robert B. Peter and Arthur D.| Willard of the sixth judicial circuit of Maryland, of which this county is a part, will, it has become known, be presented with petitions soon urging them to recall the grand jury to in- vestigate slleged but unspecified defal- eaticns and other alleged irregularities on the part of public officers in Mont- gomery County. The petitions, it is known, are being | circulated in all parts of the county| GUN LINKS SLAY 0F POLCE TRSTER T0 ENVY ASSALLT | Requests to Be Presented to! Cunningham Slain Because He Knew of Hi-jacking Salvador Legation. TESTS SHOW BULLETS IN EACH CASE SIMILAR Weapon Found Near College Gets Ballistics Examination Here by Lieut. Fowler. Ar Army automatic pistol. found re- cently by a colored laborer near Trinity College, has been linked definitely with the killing of Jack Cunningham, police informet, and the attack upon Dr. Don Carlos Leiva, charge d'affaires of the Salvadorean legation, it was learned at police headquarters today. Tests conducted by Lieut. John Fowler of the tenth precinct station, ballistics expert of the Police Department, are believed by police to have revealed that Cunninghzm was “put on the spot” be- cause he knew too much about the liquor robbery staged by hijackers at ments against anti-Fascists Many rumors have recently come from | The Maryland executive, presiding at Television Shows and, it is said, are being numerously “under whatever banner,” a phrase which was interpreted as referring to the Catholic Action Organization. The directors, after a long meeting in Mussolini's office, issued a statement in which they “declared their respect for the church,” its head and its leaders, but “firmly decided not to tolerate a situation under which whatever remains of anti-Fascism should find a refuge and a protection under whatever banner, new or old.” “We order,” the official state- ment said, “the 9,000 Fascist groups of Italy to guide their action by these directions, re- membering that those who fell for the revolution demand that it be defended at whatever cost.” By the Associated Fress. ROME, June 3.—In a speech to the College of Chaplains of Immi- grants, reported today in the newspaper Osservatore Romano, Pope Pius last night heaped ridi- cule upon official statements by the Italian government in connec- tion with the dissolution of all the Catholic youth clubs in Italy. That dissolution, he said, vio- lated the right of the church to guide young people and violated also the natural law, “made for the good of souls,” under which men form themselves into asso- clations. Both Stand Pat. The Pope and Premier Mussolini to- day were adhering to their original po- sitions in the crisis without any ap- parent move to seek a settlement, al- though Cardinal Pietro Gasparri was continuing his conciliatory efforts. Beneath the surface, spokesmen on both sides say, there was some sort of activity to prepare the ground for serious negotiations, but its nature still was unknown. The Pontiff continued to emphasize his strong support of the Catholic Action Clubs and to insist they never had engaged in political propa- ganda. A number of leaders of Catholic young people’s organizations have been arrest- ed on political warrants signed by the prefect. After being questioned ~they were held for further disposition, which mean ccnfinement to the Island of Lipari. Among those arrested was Attorney Corsanego. honorary general president of the Italian Catholic Young People's Organization. He received from the preiect a “political admonition,” a measure which usually immediately pre- cedes exile to the prison island. Mussolini Silent. 11 Duce himself remained silent, but let it be known that there was nothing temporary about his acts, by a state- ment saying the clubs were closed per- manently. Directors of the Fascist party met this afternoon and Foreign Minister Dino Grandi spoke before the Senate. Grandi left the church and state issue entirely out of his annual report, con- fining himself to less controversial mat- ters. It was known beforehand that he would not discuss the conflict between the government and the Vatican at any great length, for that issue is entirely in the hands of Premier Mussolini, but it had been expected that he would touch upon it. Instead he reviewed the commercial treaty with Soviet Russia and issues involving Italy and the League of Nations. In addressing the chaplains last night the Pope ridiculed and denounced the government's official communique, as- serting that Catholic societies “not di- rectly connected with the Nationalist Fascist party” had been dissolved “with- out the slightest incident.” . The phrase “Not directly connected with the Nationalist Fascist party,” the Pope said, does not refer to organ- izations directly connected with a re- gime or with a state, “but with a party —as if a party could give that which n human regime, government state can give.” +Expression Worth Treasure.” As for the phrase, “Without the slight- est incident,” the Pontiff declared: “That expression is worth a treasure. It is enough to think of all the inci- dents, the irreverences, indecencies and vandalisms in Rome and in the smaller cities; in the edifices which enjoy extra- territoriality. It is enough to consider the offenses to the person of the Su- preme Pontiff. - “This procedure of dissolution was not taken by legal means because the Catholic _Action Society is under the “(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) —_————— Riffs Ask Autonomy. MADRID, June 3 (#).—A commission of Moors came here today to ask au- tonomy for the Riffs. They do not nt Spain to abandon Moroceo, they #aid, but they want a greater degree of self-determination, with freedom of speech and press. ori Pennsylvania to the effect that Pinchot was laying his plans to enter the race for the presidential nomination next vear. He has made no announcement | of his political plans, however. Some of his friends insist that he Is not. as has been charged in some quarte! run- chair in Pennsylvania. Speech Presidential Move. His speech to the Governors vester- day on the power question. which he insisted upon making although he had been assigned another topic. was hailed today. however, as a first tangible move toward the presidential nomination. He was elected Governor last year after making a campaign issue of the public utilities in Pennsylvania. His effort now, it is said, is to magnify this issue into a Natfon-wide issue upon which he can run for President. Progressive Republican leaders in Washington today while not permitting themselves to bs quoted, said they did not believe that Gov. Pinchot could win the nomination over President { Hoover as things now stand. The dan- iger to the Hoover candidacy for re- election, they said, ley In the possibility ithat Gov. Pinchot might enter some of the presidential preferential prima- | ries against Mr. Hoover and carry some If this happens, they ver's prestige as a votc getter would be seriously impaired. Lacks Country-wide Support. | At present, as these Progressives said. {it did not appear that Gov. Pinchot had or would have the backing of a large group of the voters out through | the country. For example, It was argued | Gov. Pinchot. although a strong dry | would be unable to draw from President | Hoover the huge dry vote in the Re- | publican party. | President Hoover, it was pointed out. | |is as strong today with the dry element in the party and in the country as he ever was, Furthermore, s0 far Gov. Pinchot makes no strong appeal to the great farm vote of the country. If he ishould enter the primaries in the | Northwestern States as a candidate for delegations to the Republican National Convention he would not make nearly s0 strong a race as would for example Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska. Norris Entrance In Doubt. | There has been no indication so far | that Senator Norris plans to enter these presidential primaries and. indeed. it is understood he has said privately that are urging him to get into the fight. |~ while labor in part is friendly to Gov. Pinchot. it is by no means certain that he could Graw a majority of the labor vote in the primary contest with Mr. Hoover. He would have against him the wets in the Republican party. who | would regard him as more fanatically ! dry than President Hoover. In addi- i tion to these elements of opposition, ! Gov. Pinchoi would undoubtedly face a | severe contest from that element in the | Republican party which is opposed to his policy toward the public utilities, | includirig the electrical power com- panies. |~ The Progressive Republicans. un- friendly to the Hoover administration, (Continued on Page 2, Column 7) MAN OF 97 MARRIES Foresees 20 Years of Happiness ‘With Bride of Only 65. LOS ANGELES, Calif.,, June 3 (#).— Patrick Henry Cofield, 97, spry in a youthful blue suit and rakish pearl gray hat, yesterday obtained a permit to wed Mrs. Etta Innona Schuster, 65. “It'’s June, isn't 1t?" said he, twirling a slender cane. “I expect a good 20 | years of happy married life. My brother i died when he was only 101 years old, jbut, he never was as light on his feet as ning for President” from the Go\‘ernm"ll he did not intend to do so, despite the | fact that a number of the Progressives | the final meeting, said were this done., the system of excise taxes which may again be built up might do away alto- gether with Federal income taxes. and “at one stroke relieve capital. labor and agriculture from the tax problems which rest so heavily upon them.” Warns of Conditions. Of economie conditions, Gov. Ritchie said, ““You cannot have from five to eight | million people wanting work and unable to get it without knowing that this constitutes a challenge to our social | order, and that it is the strongest argu- |ment for Communism unless it }solvrd." His departure from the conference agenda followod that of Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who attacked | public _utilites, | power interests are “milking the 3 | of half a billion dollars a year through | overcharges. Gov. Pinchot departed last night be: | fore receipt of a telegram in whic | Samuel M. Vauclain, chairman of the Baldwin Locomotive Works Board, ac- | cused him of misrepresenting conditions in Pennsylvania A trip to the Indiana limestone quarries »nd mills at Bedford and | Bloomington was on the Governors program today. to be followed by a car- nival dance at French Lick tonight. Parley Proves Value. | _ Commenting on the conference, Gov. Pranklin D. Roosevelt of New York said, “once again the Governors’ conference has proved its value. This conference, 23 yesrs old. atill finds its chief func- tion ‘as a round table for the inter- change of views between chief execu- tives who have common or problems.” Gov. Ritchie, complaining that the | conference refrains “from debating those questions which are the realities of our icnal life.” told the Governors that “if any one thing is clear, it is that our people are becoming tired of the old conjure words in American politics, and are concerned instead about get- ting or keeping their jobs.” “The dollars which are the profits of industry, which build up its reserves and iis surplus and its undivided prefits,” he declared, “are not made aldhe by the brains and enterprise of those who own or direct American bus- iness. They are no less due to the toil and sweat of the working man. “Should Protect Labor.” “If industry enjoys these profits and creates these accumulations when times | are good m order to have them to fall back on for interest and dividends and upkeep when times hard, should it not make some provision aiso for its labor instead of turning labor adrift when adversity comes and bidding it look to Citizens' Relief Committees for | the necessities of life? | "“This is the fundamental economic | question in America. It means far more | to the people than any subfect, yet it has ro place on our program. | "“The_conference re-clected its Execu- | tive Committee to serve another year. | The members are: Gov. Norman 8. | Case, Rhode Island, chairman; Gov. Roosevelt, and Govs. George. H. Dern, Utah; John G. Pollard, Virginia; Henry S. Caulfield, Missouri; Harry G. Leslie, Indiana, treasurer, and former Gov. Cary A. Hardee, Florida, secretary. The Executive Committee will choose the next meeting place. Invitations were received from Virginia and Arkansas. 10 DIE IN BRIDGE CRASH BORDEAUX, France, June 3 (®).— | Ten persons were killed today and & dozen were injured when a new suspen- sion bridge near Libourne collapsed during an official test. The span cracked when motor trucks loaded with sand were driving across. ‘The drivers and 10 of the passengers, including the chief engineer of the department of Gironde, were killed. 500 | By Cable to The Star. BERLIN, June 3.—A new, chemically produced “death ray” which, it is claim- ed, can already explode charges of gun- wder at a distance of 500 feet, with' he possibility of increasing this dis- tance enormously, was reported today to have been evolved by ‘a Berlin inven- tor, Kurt Schimkus, to the point where experiments open up fantastic possibili- ties for its wartime and time use. It is declared that kus has signed a contract with a Chicago ' con- sortium for the financing of his experi- ments and will leave for America in a few days. Schimkus believes his ray may be de- veloped in the form of energy sent out to airplanes, ships and other motor ap- ‘m-mu from central sending stations ocated at various points on land. In military usage the chief value of the achievement would be in the explosion of artillery projectiles at long' range and the destruction of enemy muni- tions depots. Schimkus has been working on his ray problem for six years in his sim- ple Berlin laboratory. :nnouncemem FEET CLAIMED AS RANGE OF GERMAN’S NEW DEATH RAY :Young Chemist Gains Financial Backing in Chicago and | Will Leave for America. : of his early results was met with skep- ticism in Berlin scientific circles. It is claimed that Schimkus has de- veloped both sending and receiving ap- paratus to the point today where only certain refinements are necessary to produce commercially practicable re- sults. The basic chemical material for the production of the ray is said to be found all over the world in large quan- 10 -Te] have anything to do with investigating the Schimkus discovery, declaring it is dlflnumuldn on vflncll:li;“!ne “‘death rays,” genuine or bogus, ermany is forbidden by the Versailles treaty to make any use of them. ‘The British government a few years ago was reputed to have spent some $500,000 in investigating certain alleged “death rays” without ining proof of their effectiveness. The Italian Navy Department had a similar experience with an inventor who claimed to be able to discharge submarine mines from & considerable distance by means of rays which he had discov (Copyright, 1931.) is | similar | TINHAM 1S SUED Y BISHOP CANNON ! [Church Leader Asks $500,- | 000 Damages From Mem- ‘ ber of House. " —_— bishop of the James Cannon. jr.. charging that electric | Methodist Episcopal Church South, to- | ublic” | day filed suit in the District of Co- | | lumbia Supreme Court to recover $500,- {000 damages from Representative | George H. Tinkham of Massachusetts | for alleged libel. The bishop charged | Tinkham wrote and caused to be pub- | lished June 19. 1930, an article accusing | him of violating the Federal corrupt ! practices act, in failing to account for | $48,300 of a fund of $65.300 received from E. C. Jameson. New York capi- | talist. for use in opposing Alfred E. | Smith in Virginla during the 1928 | presidential campaign. Through Attorney Robert H. McNeill. Bishop Cannon said all bix acts were {ree from the Tinkham charges and were occasioned by his conscientious be- lief that it was his sacred and solemn duty to take an active part in the cam- paign. |~ He s3id great moral issues ived in the campaign and that he { was prompted by his duties as a bishop of his church and as chairman of its official Committee on Temperance and Public Morals ¢ do what he did in that campaign. He asserts that he has always complied with all laws concern- ing any activity with which he has been connected, including the 1928 elec- tion, and has only refused to subject himself, without righteous resentment lof and’ resistance, to the unjust and unscrupulous attacks against him. Cannon declared he has been greatly injured in his good name and fame as a citizen, churchman and moral leader by the statements alleged to have been made by Tinkham through the medium of the newspaper publications, outside the halls of Congress. and free from the 1 \FARRELL IS TIED IN BRITISH OPEN Lead With American Gelfer. CARNOUSTIE. Scotland. June 3 (). —Johnny Farrell, Mamaroneck, N. Y., today was tied with Henry Cottor, 24- year-old British pro, for the lead among early finishers of the first round of the British open golf championship. scored a par 72. Playing through a strong shifting wind, Farrell went out in a par cracking 33 and staggered home in 39, a garri- son finish on the last three holes giving him his score. Cotton had 12 fours running in his 36 out and his 36 in, playing the stead- fest round of -the morning. Tommy Armour, former American open champion. came home with a 73 to take second place behind Farrell and Cotton. Close behind the leaders was Gene Sarazen with a 4. MacDonald Smith, who led the quali- fying field of 109 with two brilliant rounds of 70—71 lapsed just often enough today to pull him down to a 75 finisher. Other scores were: ‘Tony Manero, United States, 82. Charles Whitcombe, Great Britain, 79. Abe Mitchell, Great Britain, 77. Rufus Stewart, Great Britain, 76, Eric McRuvie, Great Britain, 76. John De Forest, Great Britain, 82. John Nelson Smith, Great Britain, Willie Hunter, United States, 76. Joe Turnesa, United States, 77, . Aubrey Boomer. France, 76. Larty Montez, Philippines, 82. W. G. Oke, Great Britain, 74. Archie Compston, Great Britain, 77. William Large, Great Britain, 74. Arthur Havers, Great Britain, 75, Rex Hartley, Great Britain, 80. Pilerre Hirigayen, France, 82. Ted Ray, Great Britain, 79. ROBS BANK OF $6,600 Armed Bandit Forces Cashier to Open Vault' in Chattanooga. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., June 3 (#). —A bandit .armed with a robbed the Highland Park.branch of the Hamilton National Bank here of $6,600 early today. He broke into the bank through a skylight and awaited the arrival of employes. He held them up and hand. cuffed them, one by one, as they ar- rived for work and then made Paul Northern, assistani cashier, open the vault. He took all the money he could and escaped in an automoblle. . iy e in- immunity allowed there. He asks $250.- | | 000 as compensatory damages, and an | Party would accept the tariff as an!in warrantless raids, were arraigned in additional $250,000 for punitive dam- |issue in charging the administration | Police Court shortly after their arrest, {Henry Cotton Scores 72 to Shnu‘ Entire Turf Classic Clearly in Britain By the Assoclated Press. & LONDON. June 3.—English- | | men sitting in the privacy of their own homes saw the thrills of the Derby by television today from the parade of the horszs at the start to the dramatic flash past the finish line. ‘The ‘“lerecast” was by the Baird Television Co. in co-opera- tion with the British Broadcast- ing Co. ‘The head of the Baird een- cern said the exveriment was eminently satisfactory and marked the entry of television into the | | outdoor field. 1S, HANDS OF CAVADIAN TARIT Secretary Stimson Indicates No Protest to Be Made on Higher Rates. } | | | | Br 1he Associated Pres | Secretary Stimson indicated today | that the United States would not pro- test to the Ottawa government against the new Canadian tariff rates. The American Government siders the tariff a purely domestic question, the secretary said. He added that he had not yet studied the new Canadian rates. | The secretary gave this indication ;lftcr & prediction came from Chair- ‘mln Jouett Shouse of the Democratic | National Executive Committee that his | with responsibility for “prolonging the | bussinees depression through the Smoot- | Hawley act.” | Sees Blow to U. S. | In a formal statement Shouse said American exports to Canada had been sharply curtailed since enactment of | the measure, and added: “Canada’s latest tariff increases on goods imported from the United States |is one more Blow to our industries al- | ready suffering from the ruination of | our foreign markets by the Smoot-Haw- | ley tarifr. | “The administration could mot have | inflicted greater punishment on Amer- | ican business had it deliberately sought to alienate our best customer.” Will Accept “Challenge.” Asserting the Republi were to take a stand in next year's campaign n the act, Shouse said his party would ladly accept the challenge.” “It is more than willing,” the Demo- cratic leader said, “to rest the decision of 1932 on the question of whether the Smoot-Hawley tariff was a n and a service to the country or has crippled business, ruined our export trade and added to the cost of living of a people already in dire straits.” While State Department officials awaited a report on the Canadian in- creases from Minister MacNider, Senator Goldsborough of Maryland, in a state- ment through the Republican National Committee, assailed Senator Harrison of Mississippi on his tariff stand. Hits Harrison on Cotton. Goldsborough charged that in a state- ment through the Democratic National Committee, Harrison “ignores a con- trary assertion of Prime Minister Ben- nett” that the Canadian tariff increases “are by way of retaliation against the American tariff act.” ‘He charged Har- rison supported certain increases in the tariff bill and declared the Southerner was ready to kil it “unless he obtained a duty of 6 ts a pound on Missis- sippi long-staple cotton.” Senator Harrison said through the National Committee that “Canada’s ac- tion will furtier affect legitimate Ameri- can industry,” and Senator La Follette, Wisconsin, Republican Progressive, Jolng him in labeling the action a re- Couzens Sees Farm Aid. However, Senator, Couzens, Republi- can, of Michigan described the Ca- nadian increases as an effort to aid he farmers and not retaliation. ; “Canada’s action,” La Follette' said, “will contribute.to the already alarming decrease in American In U Smoot said * di¢ations to show retaliation against the United States Canadians want to hold the present wage scale as against lower wages in other countries.” Fear was expressed in some Com- merce Department quarters that the Canadian increase on coal may turn additional business to Great Britain and Russia. In the last seven years anthracite exports to Canada have dropped nearly in half. Canada last year took nearly one-fifth of -the total American. exports, ‘are no in- con- | - [SNOLLE PROSSED Adams Dismisses-Charges on G. M. Yount Because Gam- bling Was Lacking. | | | | A warrantless raid on an alleged | bookmaking “center” in the 900 biock | of H street yesterday failed to “take” | today, when Assistant United States | Attorney Prank Adams nolle prossed a | charge of permitting gaming against | vi Grady M. Yount. The charge was dismissed. Adams ex- | plained, because no gambling was in progress when the raiders entered the establishment. Yount was arrested in a cigar store |on the first floor of the building after | members of the raiding party said that | ‘lh!y had heard him placing several ‘bflu over a direct wire connection with | | the gambling rooms upstairs. | Pair Ask Jury Trial. Jack Angel and George R. Holden, | arrested in two other raids made yes- | terday, demanded jury trials and were \held in $500 bond each on gaming| | charges. Angel was arrested in a raid on an| alleged gambiing resort in the 1200 block of New York avenue and Holden |in & rald on a similar place in the 500 | | block of Twelfth street. | Meanwhile, the office of the United | States attorney was preparing for the | arraignment tomorrow of seven men | arrested last week, when the Police | | Department opened its intensive war | to rid the city of gamblers. | "The men. all of whom were arrested but the cases were continued until to- | morrow at the request of Assistant | | United States Attorney Frank Adams. If the warrantless raids “take.” it is expected that the clean-up campaign | will be continued. | The raid in which Yount was ar- | rested was the result of a continuation of a search for “a couple of fellows” by | Detective Sergts. Howard Ogle, Arthur | Fihelly, O. W. Mansfield and Norman | Hodkinson. They began their quest for | the “fellows.” who are wanted in con- | nection with the recent liquor robbery at the legation of El Salvador, when the drive was initiated. Elaborate Set-Up Seized. In the H street establishment the de- tectives found what they described as| the most elaborately equipped gambling house uncovered thus far in the cam- paign. The place, in the opinion of old veteran raiders on the vice squad, was a ‘“cleaging house” for smaller bookmakers in all parts of the District. The three-story building contained 58 telephones, operating on approximately 75 separate lines. Only 23 of the phones were in use at the time of the raid, however. : No numbers were on the instruments. but the raiders said they were connected with the Metropolitan exchange. ‘The owner of.the establismment still is being sought, and police are confident, that his arrest will prove a severe blow to bookmaking in Washington. Coats May Give Clue. ‘The men in the place fled through a trapdoor in a wall. Their departure was so hasty. however, that several of them left their coats, through which police hope to trace the owner of the Tesort. In one of the booths, the raiders said. they found a slip indicating the booth’s profit for the past six days had totaled '$467.50. All the equipment was taken to headquarters. The trap-door through which those in the establishment made their escape opened into an adjoining building. signed. Alleged defalcations of public officers; use by the county commission- ers of proceeds of county bond issues for purposes other than those intended by the acts authorizing such bond issues; use of large sums of money from the Maryland State Roads Commission and payment by the county treasurer, by order of the county commissioners, of $278,623.42 as part of the Roads Com- mission loan, and “numerous cther ex- penditures of money belonging to Mont- gomery County,” are among the reasons assigned In the petition as warranting investigation, Described as Emergency. ‘The court is requested to “recall be- fore it the grand jury and call to their attention and charge them respecting sald defalcations,” s0 that a thorough investigation may be had. ‘The petitions represent that thete now exists in Montgomery County “a grave and serious condition which is ally affecting the morals and welfare of the people of the county and of such importance as to be a matter of emer- gency requiring immediate action.” The court is further asked to au- thorize the State attorney to employ competent and impartial out-of-the- State certified accountants, to be se- lected by the court or State attorney, to “thoroughly examine all books and reccrds of all State and county public offices of Montgomery County, to the end that the State attorney or grand jury may call before the investigating body all such accountants to testify to the conditions of the accounts of the State and county public offices of Montgomery County.” Sponsors Unrevealed. The petitions also urged the court formally to request the county com- missioners to provide for the payment of the public accounts out of the funds provided by law for use in cases of emergency affecting the general wel- fare of the people of the cqunty. The petitions do not indicate their sponsorship. but it is said a general feel- ing exists throughout the county that something should be done to acquaint the peorle of the county with the exact condition of affairs. Members of all facticns and parties are said to be signing the petitions. DIANA KANE HAS 1:WINS | Actress Is Mother of Boy and Girl Named “Pat” and “Mike."” HOLLYWOOD, June 3 (#).—Twins were born vesterday to Geg> Fitz maurice, film director. and Diana Ka screen actress. Their names will Patricia and Michael, “Pat and Mike for short the father said. There al- ready is a sister, Sheila. WALES CHEERS DANCER | Prince Stands Up to Applaud La| Argentina in London. LONDON, June 3 (#).—The Prince of Wales yesterday attended the mati- nee performance of the Spanish dancer La Argentina, buying his own box-seat ticket at the box office. ‘The prince stood up to applaud the dancer, who has been a hit in London. DEBT PACT STUDIED MEXICO CITY, June 3 (.—A com. mittee named by the Chamber of Deputies today began studying the for- eign debt agreement signed in New York last July by Luis Montes de Oca, Mexican treasury secretary, and Thom- as Lamont, chairman of the Interna- tional Bankers' Committee. The Chamber of Deputies now is in extraordinary session to consider rati- fication of the agreement providing for resumption of payments of Mex- | ico’s foreign liabilities. LOS ANGELES, June 3 (#.—A di- vorce was granted yesterday to Grace Stapp from Elbert A. (Babe) Stapp, automobile racing driver, on grounds of desertion. They were married in 1927 and Mrs. Stapp claimed he left her in 1929. CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY GETS 1,632 BOOKS OWNED BY CZAR| Volumes Acquired From Winter Palace Collection of Nicholas II—Extra Fine Work. By the Associated Press. Books once thumbed by Russian 1y | czars now rest on Congressional Li- brary shelves. ‘The purchase of 1,632 volumes from the Winter Palace Library of Nicholas 11, the late ruler, was announced tod: by Librarian Herbert Putnam. They were brought to America by a New York bookseller and acquired by the Library. ‘Though most of them bear the book- plate of the last Czar, one volume dates lb-ck to Peter the Great and several to Alexander III, his mother and other nhnv-.q P ‘The collection 1is unique, Putnam said, because almost all the volumes ‘were presentation copies, and since they were intended for the Czar's library were printed in & special edition on extra fine paper. Putnam said the collection covers Russian military, administrative and social history, as well as books on bi- ology, ethnography, rcligion, music and sport. “The collection is a treasury for the student of fine bindings,” he added. Radio Programs the legation of El Salvadcr on May 13. A bullet taken from the body of Cun- ningham. compared with a shot fired oy one of the men who attacked Dr Levia at the legation and several fired in a test on the gun turned over to police by the colored laborer have prove ed bevond a shadow of a doubt the con- nection between the two cases, police declared. Police Press Probe. With the unexpected development spurring on members of the homicide squad investigating the slaying of Cun- ningham, th~ search for several sus- pects connected with the attack on Dr. Leiva is being pushed forward with re- newed vigor. The .45 caliber Army pistol was found by Edward Grant. colored employe of the District highway department. on Lincoln road northeast, near Trinity College, May 21, two days after the fatal shooting of Cunningham, and was turned over to Theodore Richard Rham, supervisor of the road job on which Grant was working at the time. Rham took the gun to Sergt. Earl Burdine of the Montgomery County police, who brought the gun to police headquarters here and offered it to Washington detectives as a possible clue in the recent series of shootings. It was submitted to Lieut. Fowler for examination when it was found to be of the same caliber of the fatal slug removed from the informer's body. Clue to Gun Owner Found. 1t is believed the revolver, the identi- fication numbers of which had been i filed off, was tossed from a passing au- tomobile. Despite the elimination of the identification numbers, police hope to trace the ownership of the weapon through a secret number on one of the working parts overlooked by the per- son who flled the other numbers. ‘With the connection between the shooting of Cunningham and the at- tack upon Dr. Leiva definitely estab- lished, police recalled that during the questioning of Mrs. Cunningham by detectives after the death of her hus- band it was learned that the informer knew the identity of the men who in- vaded the home of the diplomat. Fatal Bullet Tested. Cunningham was shot at the rear of his home May 19 by an occupant of a rogdster which swung into an alley behind the Cunningham residence near Fourteenth and I streets. He died a day later in Emergency Hospital with a severed spinal cord. The .45-caliber bullet used by Lieut. Fowler in the tests was taken from his stomach at an autopsy. This was com- ;Dlred with a slug fired at Dr. Leiva, but which missed the El Salvadorean offi- |cial and lodged in the ceiling of the {first floor hallway at the legation. | Both bullets later were checked with i | several missles fired from the gun found by Grant and the barrel mark- ings on each slug were found to be identical, policc said. Policeman Suspect. Nearly a score of suspects were ar- rested by homicide squad detectives in- vestigating Cunningham’s death, in- { cluding Policeman Wallace J. Middleton of the twelfth precinct station, but all were eliminated after a check of the alibis they offered. Middleton, police say. has been con- nected with the hijacking of a speak- easy on I street near Twelfth several weeks ago as the result of the investi- "(Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) |FIFTH BRONX KILLING BY GANGS REVEALED Police Identify Body in Gutter, Shot Seven Times, as That of Schultz Henchman. By the Associated Press. NEW WORK, June 3.—The body of Louis de Rosa, 24 years old, identified by the police as a henchman of “Dutch™ Schultz, Bronx beer baron, was found early today in a gutter in the Bronx. The killing of De Rosa, police said, brings to five the number of gang killings within a week. ‘The latest victim had been put “on the spot” with little chance to defenu himself. The seven shots in his body all entered from the back—sthree in the * head and four in the body. Detectives did not associate the death with the running gun battle in the Bronx last night in which two auto- mobile loads of gangsters exchanged a dozen or more shots. ‘Witnesses said several persons in the cars a) to be wounded. Detectives said it was a renewal of the beer warfare which ocost the lives of three gangsters last wek. This morning a policman found an abandoned sedan, bloodsmeared and dotted with bullet holes. Blood-stained gloves, a hat and handkerchief were in the car. The car had been stolen Monday, a police check-up revealed. it B - Los Angeles Returns to Han LAKEHURST, N. J., June 3 (®).— ‘The Navy dirigible Los Angeles returned to its hanger this moming after & training cruise over Washington yestere