Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast). Cloudy and continued cold tonight: tomorrow partly cloudy and warmer; moderate northerly winds, Tem- peratures—Highest, 66, at 4:30 p.m. yes- day; lowest, 57, at 7 Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 No. 31,816. post _office, Entered as second class mattes Washington, slightly am. today. “ D, =< @h WASHINGTO WOONALD DENIES INTENTION TOCALL AR DEBT PARLEY Action Toward Cancellation Unsuited to British Plans, He Declares. GERMANS’ CONFERENCE WITHOUT CONCLUSIONS Bovernment Accepts German Bid for Return Visit by Henderson and Prime Minister. Br the Associated Press. LONDON, June 10.—Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald told the House of Commons this afternoon that the gov- #rnment has no present intention of aking any moves toward an Inter- fpational War Debt Conference. Asked by a Conservative member | Whether he considered “calling & con- | ference of the powers interested in in- | ternational settlements with a view ! to mutual cancellation of obligations on the largest possible scale” the; prime minister replied: “The attitude of this country in regard to war debts | 1s well known and action on the lines | suggested would not in the present | circumstances serve any useful pur- pose’” No conclusions or decisions were feached in the British discussions with ! Chancellor Bruening and Dr. Julius! Curtius, German foreign minister, dur- | ing the visit that has just ended other than those set forth in the commu- nique issued after the Chequers Con- ference, Mr. MacDonald told another questioner. “These discussions took, as always had been intended, the form of a; general exchange of views,” the prime| minister said. i He added that the government had | great pleasure in accepting the invita- | tion of the Germans to himself and to | Arthur Henderson, foreign secretary, to pay a return visit, the date for which has not yet been fixed. Despite | pressure from various sections of the | House of Commons, the prime minister | declined to go further in elucidating | ths Chequers discussions. He was reminded by one member, that there had been no general discus- | sion of inter-allied - debts or Tepara-| tions during the present parliament | and was asked if he did not think the| matter of such importance that it| ought to be considered by the House. “Yes, when the time comes,” Wwas his laconic reply. MOB HECKLES BRU NING. i BREMERHAVEN, Germany. June 10| {#)—Chancellor Bruening's political op- | nents met him at the pler today as e"and Forcign Minister Julius Curtius | arrived from England and police had to | use their clubs to_disperse a mob of | shouting Natiopal Socialists. “Down with the hunger dictator, they shouted as they massed under the Nasi flag with its Swastika emblem, “Down with Bruening, down with Curtius.” The statesmen, accompanied by Am- | bassador Sackett of the United States, boarded a special train for Berlin with- ut appearing to notice the demonstra- lon. N | The police waded in, swinging their | lubs, and arrested four men, including the editor of the local National So- gialist newspaper. BERLIN STUDIES BRIAND RAP. BERLIN, June 10 (#).—Political cir- les here believe Aristide Briand had domestic political exigencies uppermost 4n his mind yesterday when he told the French Chamber of Deputies that the recent “steel helmet” disorders at Bres- Jau had made it difficult to continue peaceful relations with Germany. No representations have been made by | the French government to the German authorities, it was recalled, with the exception of some more or less informal remarks which M. Briand made to the German Ambassador at Paris. The only editorial comment on M. Briand's speech was in the Nationalist Der Tag, which referred to it as an “impertinent interference in Germany's internal affairs which should call for a gebuke from the German government.” HEAVY RAINS SWELL NEW ENGLAND RIVERS ¥armers Face Big Losses if Storms Continue—Coast Is Swept by Gale. B7 the Associated Press. BOSTON, June 10.—Four days of| driving rain out of the northeast had brought New England rivers up almost to the flood stage today, and it was predicted that, if the rain continued another 24 hours farmers would suffer heavy losses to crops and live stock. ‘Along the coast the storm developed into a 50-mile gale. A yacht and a sloop were torn from their moorings in Boston Harbor and a freighter with 35 men aboard was blown ashore just outside of the harbor at Portland, Me. A 35-foot cabin cruiser in Portland Harbor broke loose and was pounded to pieces on the rocks. Inland the most critical condition existed along the Hoosac River, which in 1927 caused one of the worst floods ‘Western Massachusetts ever experi- enced. The river was 4 feet above normal today and was rising rapidly. CONFESSES HE KILLED WIDOW AND SHOT GIRL Blew Woman in Quarrel Over Friend’s Return to Husband, Machinist Says. By the Associated Press. CAMDEN, N. J,, June 10.—Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin today said he had obtained a confession from Willlam Russell, 40, of Camden, in connection with the slaying of Mrs. Ella Wood, 60, and the serious wounding of Mrs. Ruth L. Day, 21. Russell admitted, Baldwin said, that he shot the women in the home of Mrs. ‘Wood, & widow, here yesterday during a quarrel over Mrs. Day's announced intention of returning to her husband, Millard McClure Day, whom she left a year ago. Russell, a machinist, was arrested yesterday and was identified by Mrs. Day as the assailant, { marine crews only Denies Parley RAMSAY MACDONALD. RESCUERS HOPING 0 SAVE 8 ON SUB; 0 FEARED DEAD 133 Escape in Wreck of Brit- ish Craft, Six by Use of “Lung.” By the Associated Press WEIHAIWEI, China, June 10— Twenty fathoms under the Yellow Sea, cight men in the sunken British subma- | rine Poseidon waited helplessly today, while cn the surface desperate efforts to rescue them proceeded. The parent ship Medway was able to maintain communicaticn with the sub- mersible while the naval vessals Hermes and Cumbcrland worked with a Japanese salvage ship to raise the hulk off the bottom. Naval officials be- lieved they could do that within a few hours. The eight men still living were be- lieved to be tne only ones of the 18 missing after the submarine collided with the Chinese stcamer ¥uta 21 miles north of this port, shortly after noon yesterday. Two Die After Rescue. The other 10 were believed to have been trapped in one of the compart- ments from which rescue would be vir- tually impossible, even if they were still alive. Five officers and 30 men were saved, six of them popping up through the water within four hours after the dis- aster. They had used the Davis es- cape apparatus, issued to British sub- recently. Two of fter they were taken and one of the re- them died shortly a out of the water, maining four is still in eritical condi- | tion., “Last Word in Submarines. It was uncertain here whether the Peseidon was cruising on the surface or partly submerged when the collision oc- curred. She was one of the largest and finest f Great Britain's underseas fleet. Built in 1929, she and her sister ships, Perseus, Pandora and Proteus, repre- sented virtually the last word in sub- marine construction throughout. Unescorted, the four vessels made a 15.000-mile voyage to China last Win- ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) e S TAKE STEPS TO BALK MINERS’ OUTBREAKS Machine Guns Mounted at Colliery to Guard Property From Violence. 10,000 MASSACRED AS BANDITS DRAFT FARMERS AS SHIELD Chinese Troops Charged Aft- er Helpless Non-combatants Are Slaughtered. {3,000 SOLDIERS SLAIN; | ATTACKERS’ LOSS SMALL | s {Ten U. S. Missionaries Report Safe Arrival at Foochow After Leaving North Fukien. By the Associated Press. i NANKING, June 10.—Advices from { Nanchang, capital of the bandit-in- | fested Kiangsl Province, today said | 10,000 persons had been slaughtered near Kianfu in & clash in which out- laws, farmers and soldiers figured. The reports said the outlaws suc- ceeded in isolating 3,000 soldiers, but, due t> the latters’ supply of machine | quns end rifles, did not dare attack them directly. ‘ The bandits then rounded up 10,000 non-combatant farmers, according to | the report, and drove them against the soldiers. Using the heloless mass of humanity as & shield, the bandits were said to have waited while the soldiers mowed down the farmers with machine guns until thzir weipons were ocver- heated or otherwise out of commission. Then the outlaws charged, annihilating the troops. The bandits ‘were sald to have escaped virtually unscathed. U. S. Missionaries Safe. The American Methodist missionaries evacuating Northern Fukien Province reported to their headquarters here that they had arrived safely at Foo- | chow and added that the country about Yenping was bcing overrun with Reds. Forty thousand Communists were re ported by the missionaries to be ap- preaching Yenping from the northwest, driving soldiers before them and forc- ing missionaries to flee. Among the refugees arriving at Foo- chow were Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Skinner | of Topeka, Kans.; Mary Eide, Des Moines, Iowa, and Dr. and Mrs. Fred- erick Bankhardt of Berea, Ohio. In an effcrt to strengthen its drive agzinst outlawry and communism, government authorities today an- nounced they were planning to inaugu- rate political, economic and educational programs to supplement their military campaign. Chiany Forming Committee. Government officials sald Chiang Kai- Shek, head cf the government, is or- ganizing a committee composed of ex- pert political scientists and economists who will accompany him when he leads the anti-lawless campaign Wwithin Hunan and Kiangsi Provinces shortly. These experts will undertake the rehabilitstion of the captured areas, consolidating the acccmplishments of | | the government forces through educa- tion.” The government military reported its troops in Kiangsi Province were making | progress againts Reds and bandits, | scattering the outlaws and breaking their hold on the gentry. Chiang is expected to_establish campaign head- | quarters at Nanchang. i i | 'BORDER GUARD'S GUN " HELD DEATH WEAPON | | Manslaughter Charge Expected to | Result From Killing of Rum | Auto Driver. | By the Associated Press. WATERTOWN, N. Y, June 10.—A | bullet fired from the gun of Harold G. | Markham, border patrolman, the dis- | trict attorney's office here said it was ¢ Foeni ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION , D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1931—FORTY PAGES. %#% AN W AR \ 3 K R Y & \, AN NN AN TR AW 'FALLING METEOR OR BLAST SHAKES OHIO AND INDIANA {Explosion Which Awa]:e;eci ;I'housands of Persons and Shattered Windows Mystifies Investigators. y the Associated Press. meteorologists said such lack did not TOLEDO, Ohio, June 10.—Heavy : disprove the belief that a falling meteor | earth shocks caused by the falling of a | caused the shock large meteor or by the blast of some| papcock, only 600 fe:t from the center powerful explosive shook Northwestern | of the shock, was undamaged except for Ohio and Eastern Indiana early today. Oroken windows, the shocks were of such Although the farm house of Charles | Thousands of persons were awakened by the shock and windows were broken in houses at a considerable distance from the place where either & meteor struck the earth or where an explosion ji- occurred. The center of the shocks was at a large hole, 10 feet in diameter and 5 feet deep, on the Henry Pohlman farm, one-half mile north of Malinta, Ohio. No Evidence of Heat. The heavicst damage was within a 300-foot radius of the hole. In this cir- cle four telephone poles were broken, wires were down, small trees knockcd over. A field of oats was crushed to the ground. But there was no evidence of heat or fire around the hol, but great intensity they were felt at Find- | | lay. Fostoria. Blufffon. Continental, Na- poleon, Columbus Grove, | Ohio, and in several towns in Indiana The shock occurred about 2 a.m. and no one was found as an eve witness of Police at Findlay said there ap- | parently were three “shocks, the first one light, the second heavy enough to disturb_persons asleep and the third | one light. There was no m:teor visible |in the hole in the ground. It was pointed out that if a meteor had struck there it probably would have covered itself with dirt. M. J. Tobias of Grelton, who exam- | ined the hole, sald the earth was loos- {ened as if by a nitroglycerin explo- | sion. ‘There were no caches of explo- sives reported to have been at the place, | however. | _An fnvestigation of the -hole-in the | ~"(Cobtinued on Page 2, Column 1.) BOY EXPLORERS, AIRPLANE CRASHES Youths Escape Injury When Ship Falls in Studying Peruvian Ruins. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, June 10.—It learned today that one of the planes of the Shippee-Johnson €xpedition which is photographing the lost cities of the Incas in Peru has been wrecked in a| crash but that the occupants escaped without injury. ‘The accident was revealed in a letter | was | MRS, MLEAN HERE TOFIGHT POST SALE Silence Follows Talk With At- torney—Petition to Court Being Prepared. Following her statement that she op- posed the prcposed sale of the Wash- ngton Post to David Lawrence, pres dent of the Consolidated Press and publisher of the United States Daily, Mrs. Edward B. McLean, wife of the publisher of the Post, arrived here this morning and conferred with counsel as to action t> be taken. ‘Wauseon, | DIRECT CONTROL ~ OF CHURCH GLUBS 'Papal Undersecretary Quits Action Society Board at Pope’s Request. B the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, June 10.—With- drawal of the Vatican from direct con- rection with the Catholic Action So- ciety was indicated today by resigna- tion of Archbishop Giuseppe Pizzardo, papal undersecretary of state, from the organization’s board of directors. He acted on a request, which was virtually an order from Pope Pius. The archbishop, one of the best known prelates below the rank of car- dinal in Rome, is secretary of the Con- gregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiasti- cal Affairs, and many believe that eventualiy he will be mace a cardinal. The Fascist newspaper Lavoro Fas- cista, which recently printed an account of what it described as a secret meeting | of the Catholic Action, mentioned the | archbishop as one of those who at- | tended that meeting and quoted him as | voicing anti-Fascist sentiments. Control Is Shifted. ‘The pontiff’s previous order bringing the Catholic Action Soclety under the direct jurisdiction of the diocesan bishops, coupled with today's order, re- | moves that organization completely from direct administrative control by | the Vatican. Last week the pontiff forbade the | customary outdoor religious processions of Corpus Christi day, instructing that | throughout Italy the services should | be held inside the churches. It was a | retaliatory move against the dissolution | by the government of Catholic clubs | for laymen. | Women Go Over to Fascists. A few days ago a group of Catholie | women at Campo Basso voted a reso- lution of protest against the Catholic | Action organization which the Italian | | government accused of participation in | politics, and voted as a body to go over to Fascist organizations for women. Under the order of interdiction the church bells may not be rung and the | functions of“the priests are limited to | such imperative needs as the admini- “From Press The tion as fast as the pap to Home Within the Hour” Star's garrier every city block and the regular edi- s delivered’'to Washington homes system covers ers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 115,854 TWO CENTS. WOULD PAYNATON 5100000000 TAX | Representative Dyer Bases Estimate on Statement of Treasury Official. HOOVERTOLDBEER [CASES ON GAMING DELAYED AS . §. FORBIDS GAMBLING Schafer’s Complaints Caled to Attention of Heads of Departments. | | | SEES 100,000 WORKERS - HIRED ANEW TO BREW Late Joseph 8. McCoy, Actuary of | U. 8., Cited in Forecast of I Benefits on Return. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Hcover was told today by | Representative Dyer of Missouri that | the restoration of the manufacture and | sale of beer would add $1,000,000,000 a | year to the income of the United States | and would go a long way toward reliev- | ing the unemployment situation. Mr. Dyer, a member of the House Judielary Committee, based his state- | | ment upon the testimony of the late | Actuary Joseph S. McCoy of the Treas- | ury Department before the Ways and | Means Committee of the House of Rep- | TEST IN EJI_.EE“COURT TO DECIDE CAMPAIGN Arrests in Gaming and Liquor Places Made Under Broad In- terpretation of Law. Arraignment of 13 men arrested on vagrancy chgrges yesterday as a part of the Police Department’s war eon bootleggers and gamblers was postponed today for a week. The delay was granted aftor attor- neys for the men, who were scheduled for arraignment in Police Court this morning, informed Judge Robert E. Mattingly they had not had sufficient time in which to prepare their cases. At the same time Representative John C. Schafer announced receipt of a letter from Lawrence Richey, one resentatives. He reminded the President | of the President's secretaries, saying that there was no better authority than Mr. McCoy. He also reminded the Pre: ident that of this $1.000,000.000 in re:- | enue, about a fourth weculd go to the | Federal Treasury and the balance to ! the States and countles and munici- | palities. Held Jobless Aid, Mr. Dyer declared that the unem- ployment_situation not only would be | relieved but confidence throughout the | country would be restored regarding! the eighteenth amendment. | ‘I told the President,” Mr. Dyer said, | hat not only would the restoration ! of beer do all this but that a beer prop- | erly brewed would take the place of | home brew now beirg made in mil-| lions of homes and which is under- mining the health and the morals of ! | the people. I said that legally-made | beer would very greatly minimize the! crinking of strong alcoholic stuff, in- cluding poisonous beverages. | “Prohibition was passed,” Mr. Dyer | continued, “evidently to protect the drunkards and weaklings. It has failed in this respect because it is easy to get | all kinds of concoctions that are worse | for those who drink them than the so-| " called intoxicating liquors obtainable before prohibition. | Brewers Employed 77,364 Men. | “Before the Volstead law, we had | revenue for the Federal Government, | the States and municipalities from the | | manufacture and sale of beer, but now | this money goes to the bootlegger and his associates. In 1914 there were | | manufactured some 66,000,000 barrels | ot beer. At present more than this amount is | consumed in the United States, count- | ing the home brew and illegally made | In that year | 000,000 in the maiting industry. | industries employed at that time 77.364 | men, and paid them in wages more | than $83,000,000 annually. | “The beer industry, if restored, would | | give employment not only to men em- | ployed in the breweries and the malting | | industry, but to thousands of others| in the railroads, the coal industry and | anufacturers of brewers' materials | and machinery. A splendid market would be made for the farmers' grain automobiles, cooperage, building ma- terials and for promotion of real es-| tate. T believe that the moment beer | |is authorized to be manufactured and |sold the effect will be felt upon the | | unemployment situation. It would | {mean the immediate employment of | more than 100,000 persons.” Holds Dry Law Failure. The Missouri Representative said | afterward that he also pointed out to | the President some of the more glaring | features regarding what he referred 1o | |as the fallure of prohibition. He said | he told the President that every pos- | sible and reasonable effort has been | informed, killed Donald Tremont, rum- B the Associated Press. lrunner, near Lafargeville yesterday. PITTSBURGH, June 10.—Fearing | mpe jnformation came from Assistant violence at the Crescent mine of the | pyctricy Attorney Carl J. Hynes, who Pistsburgh Coal Co. at Daisytown, mine | yens to New York yesterday to confer from Robert Skippee, the youngest of | the five young Americans who set out | last December to spy out from the air the sccrets of the anclent civilizations | which once flourished in the wilderness | behind the Peruvian Andes. Afterward. it was sald on her behalf by Albert W. Fox, a member c¢f her counsel, that “nothing can be said now.” Fox added that Mrs. McLean, who has been at her Summer home in Newport, R. I, was just “geiting the made to enforce it and that theré is no evidence of any succass. He pointed out that millions of dollais of the tas- | | payers' money has bean wasted. He | said that in his opinion the eighteenth ; | amendment and the Volstead act have ! stration of extreme unction. The congregations in the two towns | held their Corpus Christi processions in | public in direct disobedience to the | papal order. The priests, it was ex- plained, took no part in the ceremonies. guards mounted four machine guns at | the mine today, but the Southwestern | Pennsylvania mine strike area Wwas quiet. Only a few minor demonstra- tions were reported. | Several hundred miners paraded near | the Mountour mine No. 10 of the Pitts- | burgh Terminal Coal Co. at Library | this morning, but the parade was orderly. Attorneys for the Butler Consoli- | dated Coal Co. were expected to seek another court injunction today to re-| strain strikers from interfering with| its Wildwood mine. Judge Samuel H. | Gardner yesterday refused to grant an injunction because no specific persons ‘were named in the petition. SIX MINERS KILLED Four Réscued and One Is Missing in German Shaft. NEURODE, Germany, June 10 (#). Six miners were known to be dead and | one was missing today as the result of | the infiltration of carbon-dioxide gas | into the fourth level of a coal mine at Kohlendorf, near here. | Rescue squads took four men, slightly | injured, from the mine and recovered the bodies of six others. They were still searching for the missing workman. | | special Dispatch to The Star. | Monday evening, when the Italian giant with ballistics experts. The office of the district attorney also | said that there was a probability that | warrants or a warrant charging man- slaughter would be issued in the case.| The office, however, was unwilling to say who these warrants would name. Tremont, whose home was at Rices, near Watertown, was killed while fleeing in an automobile from two United States customs border patrolmen in the early morning yesterday. In the car was found 20 bags of Canadian_ale. The officers were Markham and Perl Lewis, stationed at Claytonville. The assistant district attorney took with him to New York the bullet that was alleged to have killed Tremont. He wanted to know, said the office here, whose gun the bullet was fired from and whether it had struck any object before entering Tremont's body. BOUT POSTPONED NEW YORK, June 10.—The Primo Carnera-Pat Redmond bout scheduled for Ebbets Field tonight has been post- poned because of the weather until next and the Irishman will have their 10. round go, according to an announce- ment made at noon today by Pro- moter Jimmy Johnston. CHICAGO WOMAN GOES TO COURT, NOT DOCTOR, FOR CHANGE IN DIET Family and Neighbors Had to Eat Chicken and Rabbit Because of Brother’s Action. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, June 10.—Most folks go to a doctor or dietician for a change in diet, but not Mrs. Anna Fry. She went to court. “We've had chicken for three days.” | o she complained to Judge Alfred O. Erickson. “All the ncighbors have had chicken for three days. Now we've got to have rabbit stew for three days. The neighbors don't like it so well. Neither do we and w2 want Joe put in jail.” Judge Erickzon was aston! He told she lars and was asked for particulars erd was complaining about Joe Pokower, brother. “But I can't put a man in jail for be- ing a good provider,” the judge pointed ut. “I know,” said Mrs. Fry, “but Joe and I had an argument and he went out in the back yard and W necks of my 30 chickens and 11 “I understand now.” said the court. “In that case Joe will have his meals for the next week in the Bridewell Jail.” Shippee, who is only 20 vears old, and | Irving G. Hay. a former New York tug- boat captain, were in the plane when it crashed on a take-off at Cuzco. The accident was a climax of sev- eral days of comparatively minor mis- haps, any one of which might have seemed exciting in itself, but-for being | overshadowed by the final. On May 20, Shippee wrote, the expe- dition set out in its two American planes from Arequipa for Cuzco. The | personnel was_Shippee, Hay, Vaientine Van Keuren, 30, vice president of the Red Bank, N. J., Airport; George R. Johnson, 30, former New York camera- man, and Max Distel, 24. The plane named. the Lima arrived, but the one called the Washington got lost, ran out of gas, and had to make a forced land- ing on the desert, breaking off the left wing. The Lima fiew back the next day and located their companions but in landing damaged the tail skid and rudder. After repairs, all but May flew to Cuzco in the Lima and Hay managed to pilot the broken Washington there alone, although the rudder was broken in landing. BANDITS WOUND EIGHT Three Women Reported Kidnaped in Looting of Bus in Mexico. MEXICO CITY, June 10 (#).—A dis- patch to Excelsior from Torreon, Du- rango, today said that eight passengers of an automobile bus, including two children, had been wounded by bandits and three wcmen kidnaped near there. The bandits looted the bus and escaped near Estacion Simon. Troops were sent in pursuit. SCOTLAND IS LOSING ecretary of State lepoéu .8 Per Cent_Decrease in Population. LONDON, June 10 (#).—Scotland has been losing population for the last 10 years. William Adamson, secretary of state for Scotland, wrote in a reply to ques- tions from the House of Commons that on April 26 the census stood at 4,842,- 554, a decrease of 39,043, or 0.8 per cent under the figures for 1921. He said these figures were subject to correction, but were substantiallygcorrect. facts,” and that she would “act care- | fully” in reaching a cecision He expected that whatever she de- cided would be announced by Frank J. Hogan, or his associate, Nelson T. Hart- son, who also are representing Mrs. | McLean. Out of Touch With Details. ‘To the suggestion that Mrs. McLean might herself take over the paper, inasmuch as she has expressed a desire to hold it fcr the children, Fox replied that “that would be a pretty big propo- sition.” He explained that, being away from the city, Mrs. McLean had been out of touch with the details of the negotia- tions, and that she had come here so she might be fully conversant with what is being dcne. ‘The petition for the sale, that must be ratified by the court,-now is being prepared. Mrs. McLean, who now is estranged from her husband, made her views on the sale of the paper known to the Associated Press in Newport last night. Has Faith in Paper. According to the Newport dispatch, Mrs. McLean said: “I have great faith in the Post and expect my sons, who are now doing so well in boarding school, will be anxious to get into the work. “All the paper needs is a new build- inf. I do not want to see it sold and will necessarily have to object to its purchase by Mr. Lawrence.” The boys are John R., 2nd, who is 16, and Edward B., jr. 13. There also is daughter, Emily, 9. They are being representéd in the nefiomtlons by Lucien H. Mercier and Ralph K. Quinter, guardians ad litem, whose recommendations would go to the court whenever the trustees peti- tioned for sale of the paper. The American v FECHET LEAVES PANAMA PANAMA CITY, June 10 (P).—After a two-day inspection of the Canal Zone air defenses Maj. Gen. J. E. Fechet, chief of the United States Air Corps, left France Field utgd.l.y on a_ return to stop at Managua. He major changes in the Canal defenses were plann Campo Basso has a ulation of 116,000 and Capanzaro, S%OOFM‘I Police protection has becn reinforced to pre- | vent any demonstraton. | had more than a fair trial, and that the | people_of this couniry can now pass| ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Baseneit | REPLY DISAPPOINTS POPE. Three Slayers Hanged. | LETHBRIDGE, Alberta, June 10 (#).— | | Rome Declares Action Society Units Mike Radko and Bertram Jones, slayers i Violated Lateran Treaty. | of a Calgary t;xlub driver, and Fred | Baldwin, who shot and killed Miss Maud ROME, June 10 (#).—Premier Mus-| Law of Calgary after she had altempted solin¥s answer to the Vatican's notes | ¢ break his engagement with her half- of protest concerning the dissolution of ' sister, were hanged in the jail yard " (Continued on Page 2, Column’ 2.) _ here today. i 1 hat Key Log Everybody is hunting for the key log. When it is knocked loose the business jam will end—the flood, long held back, will be released. Some alert Washington merchants say they have found that key log and pried it loose. They know of no jams. Business is flowing. stores are filled, goods are moving, clerks are busy. The secret? Retall prices have dropped with commodity and wholesale prices. The margin of creased volume of sal cleared and replenished, the dollars moving the j YESTERDAY'S (Local The Evening Star 2d Newspaper....... 3d Newspaper. 4th Newspaper. 5th Newspaper........ ‘Total (four other Yrom, in ‘whole or part, has been made up with n There is news in how these prices are being knocked down to increase the volume of sales—and it is being spread before the Washington public every day through the advertising columns of The Star. It is worth watching for. newspapers)...........26,962 les. If the shelves are the wheels turning and m is broken. ADVERTISING Display) Lines. J9am 9,200 | remedial suggestions of Representative Schefer with respect to gambling among Government employes have been brought to the attention of the heads of the various Government departments. The Richey letter was in reply to one written by Schafer to Walter Newton, another of the President's secretaries asking for such action. At the same time, the police appar- ently were preparing to continue their campaign against “vagrants” in an effort to rid the city of bootleggers and gamblers. Meanwhile, it was learned at police hcadquarters that several “big shot” gamblers, who the police planned to arrest on vagrancy charges, have left town, Duck Vagrancy Arrests. Some of these men, it was said, are “well fixed” financially, and probably decided to absent themselves rather than risk the embarrassment of being arrested as “vagrants.” The explana- tion offered the policemen who have been seeking them, it was added, was that they were “on their vacations.” Although more than 20 men were arrested on vagrancy charges only 13 are known to have been taken into cus- tody as a result of the drive on boot- legging and gambling. The others, it is understood, are men who probably would have been arrested as vagrants, anyway. ‘ Cunnnund!ion o; the attack on boot- egging and gambling via the vagran law, it is believed, will depend upocz what disposition is made.of the Police Court cases scheduled for next Wed- nesday. Because of his criticism of gambling activities among Government employes, Representative = Schafer :eceived & threatening letter, he said today. Letter Was Unsigned. The gist of the epistle, he explained, was that unless he discontinued his efforts to preven: gembling on the Government’s time he would be “taken for a ride” and the Pclice De- partment would be powerless to do anything about it. Representative Schafer did not turn the letter over to the police, he added, because it was unsigned. Most of the men arrested on vagrancy charges had no difficulty in raising the $500 bond necessary to obtain their re- leass. In fact, police said, many cf them “flashed” bankrolls of impressive sizes. The connection between the vagrancy drive and the war on bootlegging and gambling, Capt. Frank S. W. Burke, first precinct commander, explained, is that most of the men arrested have been watched and sre known to be connected with bo:tleggers or gamblers in one way or ano.her. Secret List Prepared. As a result of the watch kept on habitues of the various drinking and gambling establishments raided here re- cently, a “confidential list” of men eli- gible for arrest has been compiled, it was said. This list. it was added, con- tains names of a number cf men yet to be taken into custody, presumably as “vagrants” . The vagrancy arrests, it was explain- ed, are being made under a broad in- terpretation of the District Code, which defines persons without visible means of support as vagrants. Under the code, those convicted are liable to not more than a year's imrprisonment in the work- house. The “vagrants” arrested yesterday were taken into custody by Detective Sergts. D. J. Murphy, H. K. Wilson and J. G. Dalglish of the headquarters squad, H. G. Bauer of ths vice squad, and Detectives J. A. Mostyn and A. D. Mansfield of the first precinct. THIRD-ROUND MATCH Miss Fishwick, Defending Cham- pion, Also Eliminated in Brit- ish Women's Golf Meet. By the Associated Press. PORTMARNOCK, Ireland, June 10. —Maureen Orcutt of Englewood, N. J., only American challenger for the Brit ish ladies’ golf championship, was elim- inated in her third-round 18-hole match today by Miss Elsie Corlett, 4 and 3. Miss Diana Pishwick, defendng champion, also failed to survive the third round, bowing to Miss D. Pimm on the nineteenth green. Miss Enid Wilson, who won the qualifying medal, easily defeated Miss Coats, 6 and 5. Miss Pishwick had an easy time with her second round opponent, Miss Bab- bington, winning 6 and 5; Molly Gour- lay won from Mrs. Kidd, 7 and 6, and Wanda Morgan defeated Miss McCul- loch, 4 and 2. Miss Orcutt had advanced to the third round, defeating Kathleen Garn- ... 5,690 ham 1 up. Miss Enid Wilson, champion of Eng- land and medalist in the current tman;ment.- won from Mrs. Marks 3 and. 2. Radio Programs on ;ue C7