Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast). Fair and continued cool tonight; to- morrow fair and warmer. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 73, at 3:30 pm, yestorday; lowest, 55, at 6 am. today. Full repory on page 9. e —— Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 31,815. 3 post office, Entered as second class ma: Washington, tter T C; he WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foening S, in Washing Assotiated service. Yesterday’s Circ: The only evening paper ton with the Press news ulation, 115,877 WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1931—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. ### GERMANYPLANNING DEBT SUSPENSIN, LONDON INFORMED Berlin Dispatch Predicts De- mand for Postponement of Payments to U. S. BRUENING AND CURTIUS SAILING FROM ENGLAND Pleased With Conversations at London—MacDonald and Hender- son to Make Return Call. v the Associated Press. LONDON, June 9.—The pos:ibility of ension of debt payments to the Unit~d States occupied a large part to- day in newspaper speculation over the | results of a week end conference be- tween German and British officials. | The Daily Mall featured a dispatch fr'm the Vossiche Zeitung of Berlin, predicting that the Reich would demand ; postponement of the “deferable” pay- ments of the Young plan as soon as Chancellor Heinrich Bruening and For- eign Minister Julius Curtius return frem their conference with Brit'sh officials. On, the basis of that the Mail predicted Germany might suspend reparations payments next Fal'. If this occurs, the Mail said, France | and Italy migat' feel obliged to suspend payments to the United Stat-s on their War debts and Great Britain would be placed in a difficult position in the same | connecticn. | New Issue Seen Arising. | The possibility of calling for a general | suspens;ton of payments to the Unitcd States in the event of Germany's default is occupying the minds of European statesmen, the paper said, and “it is| abundantly evid'nt that a grave new economic issue is arising.” Informed quarters are increasingly convinced that the promise of “inter- national collaboration” at Chequers and the coming visit of Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson and Andrew W. Mel- lon, Secretary of the Treasury, fore- shadow a concerted move on the part of all nations to revi‘w the general sub- ject of war debts and reparations. The political situation in France and the economic status of Great Britain and Germany. it is believed, necessitate | caution, and official action will be held | in abeyance until the purpose of the, Amcrican statesmen’s visit is definitely | determined. Significance is attached to Chancel- lor Bruening's statement before the Anglo-German_ Associaticn yesterday thzt he hoped the Chequars mzeting ! would be “not an isolated act. but a | new milestone in the development of international understanding.” Bruening and Curtius Leave. Bruening and Curtius left London | this morning for their homeland. Herr Bruening said in leaving H “We hope your prime minister will | pay us a return visit. We go away | pleased with our conversations with your statesmen. These conversations will do much. to help forward inter- naticnal co-operation in these difficult | times. We were especially gratified and honored at being received by the King Rgpresematl\'es of Prime Mlnlstfr MacDonald and of Foreign Secretary Henderson, together with the staff of the German embassy, were on the plat- | form as the visitbrs entered their train with smiles. before they left, Barcn Shortly Franckenstein, Austrisn Minister to London, arrived and engaged in_an earnest conversation with them. Ger- man Ambassador Von Neurath accom- panied them to Southampton, where a British warship will pick them up and transfer them to the liner Europa. TAX TASK FACES B-UENING. Problem Offered in Subduing Clamor | Over Emergency Decrees. | BERLIN, June 9 (#).—One of Chan- cellor Bruening's first tasks when he gets back to his office tomorrow after the week end visit to Chequers will be to subdue the clamor of various politi- cal parties for alteration of the new | emergency tax decrees piomulgated .by President Von Hindenburg last Satur- dai"&‘ is regarded as certain that he will resist all efforts to change the decrees, despite the heavy burdens they placc upon the people, and demand that they ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 1. MISS ORCUTT WINS FIRST ROUND AT GOLF | American Defeats Native Woman | in British Champion- ship Play. By the Associated Press. ! PORTMARNCCK, Ireland, June 9.—| Miss Maureen Orcutt of Englewood, N. J.. today won her first-round match in| the British women's golf champiomhlp! from Mrs. Donald Soulby, wife of the, well known golfer, 5 and 4. ! An overnight rain had soaked the Jinks even worse than they had been, if that be possible, and the sky was still overcast. Miss Orcutt started out shakily and dropped the first hole. She got it back at the second and went ahead at the third when she holed a 3-yarder.| She became 2 up at the fourth and held | this lead through the next five. Mrs. Soulby made a courageous ef- fort to even the match after Miss Or- cutt had turned the first nine 2 up. The British woman just missed a Jong putt for a half at the tenth, but | postponed the decision by playing Miss Orcutt shot for shot on_the next two. On the thirteenth Mrs. Soulby put her drive into a water-filled bunker, couldn’t recover the stroke she lost there and dropped that hole. With wvictory in sight, Miss Orcutt negotiated | the fourteenth in par figures and won the match. The first round was concluded with- out upsets, the three favored British players—Diana Fishwick, defending champlon; Enid Wilson, English cham- pion, and Molly Goulay—advancing to the second round with Miss Oreutt. Miss Fishwick won her match handi- | 1y, defeating Miss R. Rabbidge, 5 and 3. Miss Gourlay, one of the players fa- vored to take Miss Fishwick's crown, had to go to the last hole to defeat Mrs, & H. Todd, 1 up. Freak of Nature Keeping Icebergs Hidden in North ot One Has Been Sighted in Ship Lanes of At- lantic This Spring. By some strange freak of nature the frozen Northland of glaciers has just presented this Spring the prize mystery of all seafaring time, by keeping tight- locked somewhere within the vast con- fines of the Northern seas tte whole flect of giant icebergs, which every year before this had ficated with its deadiy menzace .nto the steamer lanes of the No:th Zilantic. Not a single iceberg has been sighted this year by the international ice patrol, maintained by this Government for several shipping powers of the world in the interesi of safety to human life and precious cargo. Experts of the United States Coast Guard describe this ccmplete absence " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) TWO FACE CHARGES IN CORTES SLAYING Oklahoma Officbrs Say They Welcome Trial in Slaying of Mexican Youths. By the Associated Press. ARDMORE, Okla., Jurs 9.—Murder chargss, which they professed to wel- come, were preferred today against Deputy Sheriffs Willilam Guess and Ceeil Cresby in the slaying early yesterd:y of Emilio Cortes Rubio. a kin:man of the Mexican President, and Manuel G:mez, a companion. Both officers, when informed by County Attcrney Marvin Shilling that charges were to be filed, said they wish- ed that to b: done quickly to clear | themselves cf blame. Eich officer said the shooting oc- curred after the two Mexicans, students returning home from United States schools, had displayed automatic pisiols. Shilling said his investigation disclosed Guess fired the fatal shots. Afraid to Take Chances. “We have had two of our county offi- cers slain by d-speraaces recently,” Shilling said, “and the deputies told me | they and a!l the other cflicers of South- | ern Oklahoma are afrald to take chances.” ‘Young Rubio, 18, and Gomez, 22, were shot while park>d cn a highway await- ing the return of Salvador Cortes Rubio, a cousin of the former, to their motor car. State and county investiigators were under way t) determine finally where blame lies for the tragady. Senmor H. Valdes, Mexic:n consul in Oklahoma City, was here to conduct his own in- quiry. ‘The Mexican embassy in Washington had requested the State Department to open an investigation. Embassy officials | made it clear that the request was onl; to obtain full information for trans- mission to Mexico City and was not in the nature of a protest. Suspected Students. ‘The deputies were not In uniform, but wore badges to identify themselves. They asserted they told the students they were officers and produced their badges. Both declared they thought the actions of the students suspicious and believed they were lawbreakers when the pistols were disclosed. Salvador Cortes Rublio said the pistols were purchased in the United States because they could be obtained more cheaply than in Mexico. He said neither deputy announced immediately that he was an officer. Salvador said he was out of hearing when the stu- dents were accosted and shot. Emilio Cortez Rubio was a student at St. Benedict's College, Afchison. Kans. Gomez was a student of the Rolla, Mo. | School of Mines. The bodles were pre- | pared for burial today. They will be sent‘to Mexico for services and inter- ment. Will Agree to Bond. Shilling said he would agree to a reasonable bond for the officers. Ordi- narily bond is not granted in murder cases in Oklahoma. Valdez still was assembling his re- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7. SEEK MEMBERS OF MOB WHO LYNCHED EX-MAYOR Spanish Monarchist Who Refused to Turn Over Office to Repub- lican Hanged at His Home. | By the Assoctated Press. MADRID, June 9.—Members of a mob who lynghed the retiring mayor of the town of ‘Solana at his hcme were bzing scught by the police today. Mayor Fernando Petardo, a mon- archist, who was defeated for re-elec- tion in the last electicns, refused to turn over his officz to the Republican mayor- elect when the latter appeared at City Hall. “I am a better Republican than th-se elected,” he said. | Enraged by his statement, a crowd fcllowed him back to his residence and MUSSOLINI REPLIES 10 POPE'S PROTEST ON CLOSING CLUBS | Text of Document Is Kept | Secret, but Is Reported | Conciliatory in Tone. {ACTION FOLLOWS VISIT | OF ITALIAN TO VATICAN | | Knights of Columbus Notified That : Playgrounds in Rome Can } Be Reopened. e By the Associated Press. | ROME, Jun> 9.—The Italien govern- | ment today sent to Vatican City a reply | to two notes of protest filed by Pope | Pius zgainst dissolution of Catholic clubs for la and anti-Catholic demon- strations of the past two weeks. The document was sald to be concilia- tory in tone. | 1t was delivered by Count De Vecchi, the Italian Ambassador, to Cardinal Pa- celli, the papal secretary of state. Archbishop Borgongini Duca, papal | nuncio, met the Ambassador at the Vat- |ican and the three statesmen conferred for morz than an hour. | Terms Not Disclosed. | Italy's reply to the Pope was said to include answers to saveral points raised | by the Vatican regarding insults to the Pontiff and demanding punishment of | those guilty, riparations for alleged vio- | lation of extraterritoriality and an ex- | planation for the closing of the Catholic | clubs, Its exact terms were not disclosed but | the intimation that its tone was one of conclliation came from a thoroughly | responsible source. It could not be learned immediately, | however, whether it constituted an ! apolegy to the Vatican. | As soon as Count De Vecchi left l“fr‘ delivering the note Cardinal Pacelll went to the Pope's apartm>nt. He in. terruptei audiences the Pontiff was hav- | {ing and remained there an hour. i It was assumed that the note dealt | extensively with the issue of the Cath- olic_clubs, the major material problem in_dispute. They were closed because the gov- ernment contended their members were | participating in pclitics, a charge which | the Vatican denies. Compromise Suggested. One compromise which has been sug- gested unofficially is that the old clubs be “purified” by the expulsion of mem- | bers” inclined” to take part in politics and reorganized under more direct su- pervision of the church. Scmething of this_sort has been done tentatively in Northern Italy with the organiza- tion of new ‘“congregations” whose membership is much the same as that of the clubs which were dissolved. For a time it was feared that the split between the church and the state might result in a diplcmatic | break and the recall of the papal nuncio in Rome. | Both sides indicated they were anxious to avert any break which might undo the work of the Lzteran | treaty and the concord:t between the ! government and the Holy See. Informal negotiations for a settle- | ment were conducted by Cardinal Gas- | parri, retired pap:1 secretary of state. and the Marchese Pacelli, the Pontiff's | attorney. These negotiations followed a_series | of “disturbances in which Fascist stu- | dents attacked Catholic institutions and | were reported to have shouted insulting | r'marks concerninz the Pope. | New Catholic clubs are being organ- | ized as the result of the dissolution of | the young | Action organization. i | i ecple's group of Catholic izat They are being | founded throughout Italy under the| morning and is h:lding another ses- | | name of Confraternities and they have | definite constitutions. Confraternities | | embrace practically the same members | as the dissolved clubs, except in some particular instances, but are organized on a different plan. ¥ Under Parish Priests. | Instead of being formed into immense } groups of Cetholic university students, Catholic young men’s organizations and | Catholic ‘young women'’s organ‘zations, the new groups of parochial clubs are | under the direction of parish priests | and lay presidents. The priests are the | spiritual _directors and the presidents | the administrative directors. . | " Contraternity presidents are appoint- | led by a diocesan council composed of | priests and lay lead:: Provincial gov- ernments in each district have given tacit, though not formal, approval to their formation. The confraternities give as their platform to help the poor, to succor the sick ana to assist priests in religious duties. Each confraiernity is called by the name of its parish. They are sim- ilar in scope under church law to the old congregations of piety. The Knights of Columbus were re- ported yesterday to have received notifi- cation from the government through the police departm'nt that they would be permitted ‘to reopen their seven sports fields and playgrounds in the city. Edward Hearn, director of the Knights’' activities in Rom>, declared, however, that he was standing pat on his refusal to open the playgrounds un- til the police returned the keys, which he said they carrled away from th: San Lorenzo club house. He said he also expected “an adequate explanation” of the seizure of pap:rs at the club’ house by the police. hanged him. Waking Hay A New Jersey co-operative —and hay. It does not make hay merely while the sun shines. It makes hay in all sorts of weather, by using a dehydrator. A lot of good folks are waiting now to make ‘hay—when the sun shines. But they are the sun seems to have gone into an eclipse. No sun, no hay. Others are forging ahead ing at the sky. They are using all sorts of dehydrators. Pro- gressive Washington merchants, for. instance, are adjusting prices and are rewarded with stood before. They are forgetting wholesale prides and profits per sale, emphasizing their own psices and profits from vol- ume sales. Maybe they have found the clue to the mystery of how a depression is cured. Business, for them, is certainly brisk. farm continues to make money gloomy and downcast because with their harvest, never look- two customers where only one And now is the time for the buying public to make hay. There is profit in the advertising columns of The Star. b 1 he replied in // V), // 'LINDBERGH TO MAKE GROUND LANDINGS WITH PONTOONS ;Avlation Experts Believe He Will Run No Undue Risk on Soft or Sandy Soil Without Wheels. By the Associated P.rs. NEW YORK, June 9.—Despite the possibility of forced landings, an ever- present possibility in aviation, Col. Charles A. Lindbergin will equip the plane in which he and his wife are to fly to the Orient solely for alighting on water. But this does not me2n that he has | overlooked the fact that he may very well be forced by atmospheric or me- chanical emergencles to bring the ship down where no water is available. It was learned today from one of the aviation companies with which he is affiliated that Col. Lindbergh has | weighed all pcssibilities with his usual care and decided that. if necessary, he It was understood that after discuss- | wife, herself | ing the matter with his an able pilot and navigator, the colonel decided that the added difficulty of | possible ground landings on ponioons was outweighed by the saving of weight which would be added by retractable wheel gear or the loss of time caused by changing trom pontoons to wheels for the hops overland Although admitiedly a difficult feat aviation experts who know Col. Lind- bergh's skill expressed the opinion that given soft or sandy ground to land on he would have no particular difficulty nor run_any undue risk in using his | plane’s floats as skis_and sliding hi ship to a safe halt. Confidence in his ability to do_this, felt by the colonel himself and His wife, was indicsted in the fact that, so far as could be learned today, the flyor has not felt it neces- can effect an emergency landing ‘on |sary to practice such landings before earth with pontoons instead of wheels. 'the flight begins. FISCAL RELATIONS COURT MUST PASS ARED AT SESSIONSON DEAL FORPLS Lord Presents.Data on Cities of U. S.—Hearings Slated Late This Week. The special House Committee which is studying the fiscal relations beiween the TFederal Government and the District taxpayers was in executive |rence, president of the Cansolidated | session for two and one half hours this slon this afternoon. Several new tax features are under’| consideration, and if the committee \dec)des to try any of these, the per- sons or interests or agencies affected will have an opportunity to register their objections. This was disclosed by Chairman Mapes who, by a vcte of the committee on a motion by Representa- | Demosrat, of Mississippl, | rence, said thgt Lawrence had made an tive Collins, was instructed to make all announce- ments to the newspapers regarding the work of the committee. Lengthy dearings Over. It hearings are decided upon they probably will be opened the latter part of this week, but the committee has no intention of holding lengthy hear- ings. Whoever is heard will be picked individually, by agency or by the com- mittee. There will be no general hear- ings, as the committee intends to rest on the hearings already held, Chair- man Mapes said today. It is not likely that the committee will hear more than a dozen witnesses, if it hears that many. | Chairman Mapes declined to disclose what new forms of taxation are being | considered, but said that they are look- ing toward a more equitable and logi- cal tax system rather than prompted by a desire to increase revenues. Lord Presents Data. George Lord, employed as a tax ex- pert by the committee, presented a mass of statistical data regarding taxes and revenues of other large cities through- out the country. His report was not formal or complete, Mr. Mapes said, and is being considered as illustrating the experience of other large cities, some of whose fiscal affairs at least are com- parable with those in the Nltlonl!l Capital. The committee has so much infor- mation before it, the subject is so broad and the various members have s0 many divergent views, Mr. Mapes in- timated, that it was impossible in to- day's session to reach any definite con- clusions, but was possible cnly to thrash over the matter generally. He said positively that hre does not expect that any conclusions will be reached at the | session this afternoon. WIFE SLAYEé KILLS SELF Ponca City Indian Ends Own Life After Slaying White Mate. PONCA CITY, Okla, June 9 (#).— Returning at daybreak to his home near Washunga, where last night he shot and killed his wife, a white woman, Toby Farnsworth, 35 years old, a Kaw Indran, committed suicide today. Sheriff Joe Cooper of Kay County was at the home investigating the slay- of the woman when Farnsworth returned, peeped in a window and asked if his wife were dead. The sheriff said tive and. that ‘himselt, ".awrence Purchase Offer Reported at $3,003 000, Involves Minor Heirs. With confirmation of the report that negotiations were on foot for the sale of the Washington Post to David Law- Press and publisher of the United States Dally, definite acticn tcday awaited set- tlement of details in an agreement that must be submitted to the courts for ratification. Counsel for the interested parties would not discuss the stage which the negotiations had reached, but further conversations were said to be in prog- Tess today. W. W. Spalding, offer for the property and that the trustees. who are Edward Beale McLean and the American Security & Trust Co., had not yet accepted. Sons to Be Considered. J. S. Flannery, of counsel for the no announcement was in prospect until an agreement had been placed before the court. Mr. Lawrence is out of the city, being today at Ursinus College, where he is receiving the degree of sdoctor of laws. and his plans for the operation of the paper in event he takes it over are not known. Meanwhile, there was an indication that any sale would have to take into two minor sons. Offer Reported $3,000,000. Mrs. McLean at present has & suit for maintenance nding against the publisher, and while her counsel, N. T. Hartson, an associate of Frank Hogan, would not comment on any action that might be taken, he said he “would not be surprised” if the interests into consideration. Under the terms of the will of the late John R. McLean, life interest in his estate, which included the Post, assed to his son, Edward Beale Mc- an, and thence to the lineal descend- ants of the latter. The reported offer of Lawrence for the paper is around $3,000,000. It was said to be acceptable to the trustees, but that others interested have not given their appros \SEATTLE WATER FRONT THREATENED BY FIRE Half a Dozen Buildings Destroyed as Strong Wind Fans Blaze. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, June 9—Fanned by a strong southwest wind, a three-alarm fire swept through half a dozen build- ings on the lower end of Seattle's water front early today. The fire was bre t under control after raging about two hours. ‘The fire broke out about 2 a.m., and soon a large section of the water front was ablaze. The flames endangered the lm Psograms en Page terminal of the Pacific Steamboat Co. C4 counsel for Law-| American Security & Trust Co., said that | consideration the interests of McLean's | J- | Olynthos, of the two McLean boys would enter | LOWNAN ACCUSED BY WAL CANPBELL Insincerity on Dry Law and‘ “Dereliction” Charged in Letter to Hoover. By the Associated Press NEW YORK. June 9.—Maj. Maurice Campbzll, former prohibition adminis- trator for the New York district, dis- closed today that he had, some weeks ago. filed specific charges with Presi- dent Hcover ngainst Seymour Lowman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, ac- cusing him of insincerity with regard to prohibition enforcement and of “dercliction in office.” iaj. Campbell made public his ha:gcs, wh'eh included correspondence ctween himself, President Hoover and | Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the | reasuty, written last month. In a statement today Maj. Campbell s “1 have writtsn b2fore taking action myself in the hopa that some of the ardent prohibtion.sts. whom it might | be supposed desired rigid enforcement, | would press for an Investigation. “Howcver, as this had not hap- pened ¢ 1 decided to make the | charges against Seymour Lowman my- !celf and s filed with the President on May 7. last, eight specific charges which I said I was prepared to prove.” 'CONFESSES MURDER, BUT BODY IS MISSING Man's Imrlication of Widow May Be Offset by Lack of Corpus Delicti. | | | By the Assoclalgd Press. NEW YORK, June 9.—A murder case | wth a confession, but without corpus | delicti, challenged the State of New | York today. |~ Mrs. Elizabeth Zubrisky was ordered | held without ba'l on a charge of mur- der in connection with the presumed death of her husband Andrew, a speak- easy owner. Charles es, who | roomed with the Zubriskys, confessed |lllng Zubrisky, ~dismembering the body. and disposing of the parts in various_places. |was_arra‘gned charged she conspired on March her husband. Her attorney, Joseph Solvei, indicated her defense would be that the State |prove the reassembled body at the Brooklyn morgue is that of her husband. Former " associates of Zubrisky who have viewed the body were unable to say it was his. No clothing was found, except a shirt whicn was 20 feet from i the spot where the skull was discovered. The shirt was identified as belonging to John Klein, once a business partner of Zubrisky. ANCIENT CITY UNEARTHED Johns Hopkins Archeologist Finds | Olynthos, Destroyed in 348 B. C. ; ATHENS, June 9 (#).—Prof. David Moore Robinson, archeologist of Johns | Hopkins University, Baltimore, today | informed the Greek government of | successful excavations by Americans at i in Chalkidike, which was estroyed by Philip of Macedon in 343 B. and was a subject of Demosthenes’ orations. Several houses and a portion of the ancient city were discovered. The affidavit on which Mrs. Zubrisky | 7 last with Obietes to kill | cannot prove a corpus delicti; cannot | (P) Means Associated Pre TWO CENTS. CONSENT DECREE OROERED MODIFIED BY UTILITIES BODY Reduces Pepco’s Allowable Return on Investment From 7 1-2 to 7 Per Cent. MOVE MAKES POSSIBLE LOWER ELECTRIC RATES Court Action Seen by Power Com- pany to Prevent- Change. Contending that the present rate of return of the Potomac Electric Power Co. is “excessive and unreasonable,” the Public Utilities Commission today or- dered a modification in the consent de- cree by which electric rates are fixed, reducing the company's allowable re- | turn from 713 to 7 per cent. The reduction in the rate of return makes possible lower electric rates. but | the commission, in the order, made no | | attempt to readjust existing rates. This | question, it was said, would be settled at | a rate hearing in the future. | Although no word has come from the | power company over the action of the | | commission, it was regarded in public | utility circles as a foregone conclusion | that it would appeal to the courts in an i offort to prevent the modification. Revise Sliding Scale. The new order contains a revised slid- ing scale of allowances for rat return ! under which consumers would get a| larger share of the company’s profits in | excess of the 7 per cent than und:r the | | former schedule. H | Under the tormer arrangement, one- | | half of the profits of the company in ex- | | cess of 715 per cent were divided equally | between the company and the con- sumers, the consumers getting theirs in | fhe form of a reduction in rates. In| the new plan, nowever, one-half of the excers profits vould be applied to a rate | reduciion the following year if not more | than 8 per cent is earned. Three- | fourths of the excess profit would be| applied toward a rate reduction in the | event the returns are between 8 and 3 | per cent. and 5/6 would be applied if | the company carned in excess of 9 per | | cent. Little Change in Rates Ordered. Otherwisz2, the commission ordered | little change in the existing rate ar- | { rangements which it claimed, the | power company earned an average net | Teturn of approximately 10 per cent during esch of the years from 1925 to | 1930, inclusive. The rate base valua- | | tion, approximating ~ $50,000,000, s | | unchanged by the order. | “During the course of a public hear- | ing on the 25th. 26th and 27th of May, | | "(Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) | | { i i | | '2 DEAD, 18 MISSING | ' AS SUBMARINE SINKS | f | | British Submersible Goes Down! in Collision Off China. 31 Rescued. | By the Acsociated Press. | LONDON, June 9.—The admiralty | announced today that the British sub- ! marine, Poseidon, one of the largest in | the fleet, had been sunk in a collision | near Weihaiwei, on the North shore | of the Shantung peninsula in China. Five officers and twenty-six men were | saved, but two died after they were | ’rescued, Eighteen men are still miss- | ng. The submarine collided with a mer- | chant vessel, 21 miles north of Weihai- | wei early this afternoon. | The admiralty announcement said | | vessels which had gone to the scene of | the collision included the Berwick,, Cumberland and Hermes. ‘The Poseidon was launched at Bar- row, England. on June 21, 1929. She | was 260 feet long with a 28-foot beam. The accident is the second of its kind within the past month. | A Russian submarine sank during | maneuvers in the Gulf of Finland. The Soviet government has been reluctant to | discuss that accident, but other vessels | of the fleet have been dragging the gulf wlfox;h the hull ever since the ship was los |YOST ELECTED HEAD OF SAVINGS BANK —— | East Washington Institution Also| Nhmes Other Officers for Coming Year. At a meeting of the trustees of the| East Washington Savings Bank today, John C. Yost was re-elected president. Samuel H. Walker was elected first! vice president, Lewis Flemer, second vice president, and S. Wilson Earnshaw, seg’el&ry-treuurer. alker H. Marlow, jr., was again named attorney. : i Etmployes Pass on Proposed Expense Sl ‘The Southern Railway shopmen are voting on a csal by the manage- ment to go on a five-day week working basis instead of the present six-day week basis as a plan to forestall further reductions in the force, it became' known today. Six crafts would be affected. They are the machinists, blacksmiths, boiler- makers, sheet metal workers, electrical workers and carmen. In the shops throughout the entire system several thousand workers would be involved. Alexandria would be one of the points affected. The ballots are returnable to the gen- eral chairmen of the employes’ organ- ization tomorrow at Knoxville, Tenn. Somerset, Ky.. Salisbury, N. C, and Chattanooga, Tenn. 1t was spid at the Southern offices this that any SOUTHERN RAILWAY SHOPMEN VOTE ON 5-DAY WEEK QUESTION would | union and rallroad Ineely, Action to Avoid Lay-Offs as ash Looms. H. J. Carr, vice president of the In- ternational Association ¢f Machinists, sald Southern officials had informed workers' representatives that a further reduction in expenses was necessary and that a five-day week would make it possible without laying cff additional men, Carr 'said that voting on the pro- posed five-day week began lboutp 10 days ago and the result would probably be known in another 10 days. He added that no change in the wage scale was contemplated. but said railroad officials hed intimated that the number of em- ployes would have to be reduced if the number of working hours were not. He explained the vote was necessary because the agreement between the calls for a six: | Ing_establishments POLICE WAGE WAR ON GAMBLERS WITH VAGRANCY CHARGES Confidential List of Suspects Being Used in Making Round-up. IN NEW PHASE OF DRIVE Some Gaming Places Declared Equipped With Sets Capable of Picking Up Police Broadcasts. Six men were arrested on vagrancy charges today when police, armed with confidential lists of names, launched & concerted drive against gamblers This action follow>d close upon the disclosure that at least a score of gam- are equipped with short-wave radio recciving sets capable of picking up police broadcasts. The men taken into custody today were Morris Ewalt Trwin, salesman, 44, of 1613 Allison street William Dietz, 32, salesman, 468 In- diana avenue Barney Berlinsky, 38, salesman, 5102 Ninth street. Hugh Francis G Metropolitan Hote Charles John Baker, 440 Emerson street Tony Paul Passero, alias Montana, 28, chauffeur. 225 E street northeast After being charged with vagrancy the men were released on $500 bond. List Has 10 Names. Capt. Frank S. W. Burke of the first precinct, admitted that he had a “little and very confidential list” containing the names of about 10 suspects. Hs said he expected Detectives Mostyn and Mansfield to make “a number” of arrests today. Capt. Burke said he was not in a position to name the official responsible for_initiating the drive. ‘The men arrested were taken into custody by Headquarters Detectives Dennis J. Murphy, H. K. Wilson and John G. Dalglish. It was said they trailed suspects for several days before prepering the lisr. It was expected the ar tod: would be turned over to the corpora- tion counsel's office with the request that they be made test cases. Radio equipments have been i in the alleged gambling houses purposes of recciving raids, but “just to ses e doing.” It was also learned that when a mes- sage is brcadcast from headquarters ordering a patrol car to go to the vicinity of a certain gambling house, wagers afe made by the gentry inside the house as to how many minutes would elapse before the car's siren is heard. Four minutes is said to be the favorite bet Radio dealers today said they ha allagher, 30, plumber, 38, chauffeur, nstalled on what the boys { not sald or solicited trade in these sho; wave sets, but they pointed set to receive the police activ cas’ly be made. Not Used for Round-ups. The police never resort to rounding up raid squads by radio broadcast. fact, it was explained at headquarters, the ‘police radio is morely used io in- form automobile patrols as to reports coming into the central office from c: izens. However, it was reported that a short- wave set “saved the day” for a groun of gamblers late last week, when the radio installed in th: house, lccated in the business section, announced that there had been & shooting at this pa:- ticular address. Before 20 or more occupants of the two large rooms were able to scram- ple out of the windows and make their escape over the roof tops, two patrol cars had pulled up in front of the building. When the investigating offi- cers arrived in the rooms, according to one of them. “the boys were about to sing a hymn.” It was learned that when a gambling house is raided and a police radio set 1s found, it will be destroyed. Otherwise, the police, it is understood, will not Wage any particular campaign against the sets. When the raido broadcasting station was installed by police six months ago, a study made in other cities using police 1adios revealed that it was impossible to keep the messages for police ears only. that a ties can POLICE SERGEANT IS SLAIN BY BANDIT Detective and Patrolman Wounded in Battles After Hold-uns in Harlem Cafes. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, June 9.—Polic> battles with hold-up men in Harlem early to- day resulted in the killing of a police sergeant and the wounding of a detec- tive and a patrolman. Sergt. William H. O'Slaughnessy, on the force for 35 years, was killed in a Harlem cafe when he interrupted two colored persons who had lined up 30 patrons against a wall and were rcbbing them. Four bullets hit O'Shaughnessy. The robbers dashed out, stole a taxicab at gunpoint and drove off. Other taxicab drivers took up the chase, picked up several policemen and caught up with the gunmen. In the exchange of shots Patrolman Fdward Ledden was wounded in the jaw, but he managed to wound and capture the fugutives. Several blocks away Detective Ernest Rice, 24, walked into a restaurant hold- up and shot it out with the two gun- men. His wrist was fractured by a bullet, but he managed to wound both and capture one. About the time O'Shaughnessy was killed, detectives a few blocks away ar- rested two men suspected of having murdered Patrolman Maurice D. O'Brien January 30, 1930, as he broke up a dice game in 113th street just off Fifta avenue. DOUMER QUITS SENATE French President-Elect XKesigns From Office in Chamber. PARIS, June 9 (P Paul Doumer subia from the presidency the scnatorship from Corsica at the beginning of this aftcinoon’s session of the r House. The resignat were President-elec "1is resignations the Senate and