Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1931, Page 2

T A2 w¥¥ JURY AGOUITS TWO INCAWBLING TRAL Directed Verdict Frees Third! Facing Court in Warrant- less Raid Cases., A Police Court jury today dectinea | to give its approval to “warrantless” aMs by deciaring Thomas Simon and Steve J. Nichols not guilty of per- mitting gaming gt 915 Ninth street. Previously in another “warrantless” raid trial today Judge Ralph Given had directed a verdict of not guilty because of insufficient evidence in the Tase of Louis Palumbo, one of two other men on trial in the so-called warrantless gambling cases. The jury’s findings, which were re- turred after a deliberation of an hour, were held to be a death blow to raids conducted without permission to enter private quarters. as Simon yesterday admitted from the witness stand that he had operated a gambling house at the Ninth street address. He added that Nichols, jointly charged with him, had nothing to do with the place. Tllegal Entry Charged. Conceding that gambling was permit- ted on the premises where his_clients ‘were arrcsted, Attorney Harry Whelan had founded his whole defense on the grounds that the police had illegally entered the house. Th: officers had said they were “looking for a couple fellows” in connection with a liquor Tobbery at the legation of El Salvador last May. They were unable to agree as to whether entry was more or less forced or they were invited in. The jury’s verdict was a reversal of a decision handed down by Judge John P. McMahon yestdrday, in which he held-the police had not violated the constitutional rights of Nichols and Simon by entering the house without a warrant. The judge said the presence of peep-holes and barred doors was sufficient to furnish police with probable cause to believe the law was being vio- lated inside, and, therefore, give them the right to enter. Judge Given ordered Palumbo's ac- quittal immediately after he had fol- lowed the precedent set vesterday by Judge McMahon. A motion to strike out the evidence in the case because of illegal entry by police submitted by Attorneys Louis Whitestone and George Boden was denied by the judge, but when they made a second request for a directed verdict for both defendants, charging insufficient evidence, Judge Given ordered the jury to declare Palumba not guilty. The case of Baroni was expected to go to the jury this afternoon. Testimony Conflicted. The reason for the release of Palumbo was said to be due to conflicting testi- mony of police. one of whom said Palumba admitted them, while the other saiq that Baroni allowed them to enter the Ninth street house. On the witness stand Palumbo denied that he had anything to do with the alleged | gambling cstablishment, stating that he | just happened to be in the place at the time of the raid. Police were severely criticized by At- Whitestone in his address to the 3 nd he took advantage of the con- flict in their testimony throughout the case. Yesterday two policemen said that they could see through a window into the interior of the raided premises before they entered. Others declared that the window was darkened. One officer sald that he opened the door of the establishment by Pressing a but- ton that controlled the eclectrically operated door, while several members of the vice squad had stated that the portal was open. “Why have we any unsolved crimes in Washington.” asked Whitestone of the jury, “when we have two police- men on the force—men who can see through closed dcors and glass that is painted black and can look all the | way upstairs and see a man press a button, when the button is not in sight? POLICE FREE ROBBER ON PLEA OF VICTIM Furrier Refuses to Prosecute Be- ~cause Prisoner “Looked Down and Out.” Because a_man who had just robbed him of a 8500 fur coat “looked down and out,” Philip Shaffer, 1212 G street, prevailed upon_ police to let him go, after he had been arrested with the stolen coat in his possession, today. Shaffer, however, was more enthusi- astic about the quick work of police in catching the man, less than 5 min- utes after he had telephoned the alarm. The furrier, proprictor of Shaffer Fur Co. said the man walked in while he was in the back part of the store, unconcernedly unhooked the fur coat— NATIONAL GALLERY NOT EXCITED| THE EVENING STAR, *WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1931. OVER HENDERSON ART GIFTS Curator Dismisses Huge -~ Collection of Lugien Powell’s Works With Comment. “Just a Local Painter.” The National Gallery of Art can have the largest single collection of Lucien Powell paintings in existence if it chooses to accept all of the works of the _Virginia-born Washington . artist included in the collection of the late Mrs. John B. Henderson and bequeathed to the Smithsonian Institution in the various wills of the social arbiter, The gallery also may have any or all of the dowager's 40-odd canvasses by better known nineteenth century painters of this and other countries, which constitute an important part of the Henderson collection. And, if it wishes, it even may hang in its exhibits paintings by Mrs. Hender- son herself, for she studied art in Paris and in St. Louis. Curator Not Enthusiastic. But the fact is, the National Gallery is not particularly excited over the be- quest. No.preparations for the recep- tion of the collection are being made and Dr. William H. Holmes, curator, says nothing will be done until the can- vasses and the few sculptures are ac- tually delivered to the gallery, “and that,” he says, “won't be for a year, anyway.” The Powell collection, which includes some gigantic canvasses of canyons similar to that of .the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River, which the late Senator Henderson, _himself, al- ready had given to the National Gal- lery, is not regarded as particularly valuable by Dr. Holmes. “Just a local painter,” was the doc- tor's comment. Dr. Holmes himself has three water colors in Mrs. Henderson's collection, which he deprecates with a curt “They're nothing.” , But there is a landscape by George Inness, American artist of New York, which the National Gallery “would ac- cept in a minute, if it's a good one at all,” Dr. Holmes said. Includes Chaplin Portrait. The last of the wills leaves all the paintings to the institution, with the | asserts, “one of John B. He sr,, and the other two of myself. Two Poriraits Listed. There are “two by Gutherz, one,” the wills assert, “of my | sister, Augusta Foote Arnold, the ocher of myself.” | ‘The artistic talents of Mrs. Henderson | and her family are represented in vari- ous canvasses. There is a “portrait of Mme. Yang, wife of a former Chinese Minister, painted by myself; also child with cat, also head of model of myself,” the grand dame asscrtes in her wills, She lists also “two paintings of dogs, Coppie and Punch,” which she also did. The will names copies made by my mother, Eunice Newton Foote, one a copy of Madonna In the Louvre, the Sther a landscape by William Sontag.” The collection offered the gallery in- cludes also the portrait of John B. Henderson, jr., painted by Alice Bar- nay, the Washington artist. Another portrait of Mrs. Henderson's son in the Boundary Castle ball room, done “by a New York artist,” is included. Then there is a “Paris Street Scene.” by J. M. Barnsley. “fellow _student with me (Mrs. Henderson) at St. Louis Art School Mrs. Henderson listed many Powells, naming specifically “two pictures in our entrance hall,” and one “copy by Pow- ell, at present at the Carnegie Librar There are listed two other Venetian sunsets, one “which Mr. Powell painted for Mrs. Harriet Lane=Johnson just be- fore her last illness.” Many Works Loaned Out. Powell paintings at present loaned out by Mrs. Henderson include. the will specifies, a swamp scene, which | hangs in .the dining room 'of the Siamese house: a Virginia landscape and a_ Yellowstone Canyon scene, ih the Kenesaw Apartment, and “all pictures at present loaned to the Carnegie_Library.” Mr. Powell was Mrs. Henderson favorite artist and long a close friend. His death late last Winter was a proviso that any canvasses not accepted | severe shock to his elderly patron and, by the gallery be made a part of the | aithough unwell herself. she visited residue estate. The collection, from which the Na- tional Gallery may take its pick. in- cludes a portrait of a woman by Charles Chaplin, noted French painter, in whose Paris studio Mrs. Hendgrson studied. Carl Gutherz, American paint°r, who did some of the best murals in the Con- gressional Library, is represented by a the sanitarium where the artist lay at the point of death ta kiss him good-by. Among the sculptures in the Hender- | son_ collection are five picces of statu- ary by George Ives. There also Is a bust of “John Hen- derson, sr., by & Roman artist. Two bronze medallions. one of Sena- tor Henderson and one cf Sidney Bur- HOOVER WATING IN MINE PARLEY President Will Make Decision After Mine Operators Re- ply to Invitations. By the Assoclated Press, President Hoover will decide whether a conference of coal mine operators and labor shall be held after he receives a report from Secretaries Lamont and | Doak as to the possibilities of the meet- ing. d Secretary Doak, in making public a list of names of operators to whom he and the Commerce Secretary wrote yes- terday asking their opinion regardi such a conference, s2id today that a conference would be called ,by ident. The letters were sent o operators in all sections of the country. Secretaries Lomont and Doak dis- patched the letters to 125 operators shortly after the former had conferred with President Hoover late yesterday at the White House. ‘Through a general conference, the administration believes a pcssible so- lution of at least a part of the diffi- culties confronting the depressed soft coal industry might be found. For weeks the Government has made ef- forts to get the operators and miners together, without. success. Appealed to Hoover. John L. Lewls, presidenf of the United Mine Workers of America, ap- pealed to President Hoover on June 11 to arrange a conference, and the mes- sage was referred to Secretaries Lamont and Doak. The former met with a group of operators and Doak With labor representatives, but no progress was made. Most of the operators took the view, the letter to the select 125 said, that nothing could be accomplished at a Nation-wide joint comference of op- erators and miners. At the conference with Doak, it con- tinued. the mincrs' representatives malntained the operator group did not effectively represent the industry. Seek Practical Plan. “As it is our desire to assist in any workable and practical plan which | might off'r to contribute substantially to a solution of the difficulties in the coal industry,” the letter said, “this! letter is being sent to a representative ' number of operators located in th more | important producing district in the country for the Last Landing of Famous Aircraft ST AUTOGIRO GOES INTO NATIONAL MUSEUM. flown in America afternoon at the cle l se of its last flight. N the east hall of the Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution, there hangs today the first autogiro ‘The historic “windmill plane” is shown here as it landed in front of the building yesterday Pilot James G. Ray, hero of autogiro landings in the White House and Capitol Grounds, was forced to direct the clearing of his landing area of gpectators and ropes behind which they stood before attempting his remarkable landing amid trees and buildings of the museum group. This he did by arm signals as the autogiro hovered 100 fect above the ground. | Pitcairn and accepted by Dr. Charles G. Abbott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The machine was presented to the museum by Harold F. —Star Staff Photo. TWO DRY AGENTS SLAIN BY TRAPPED’ INDIANA SUSPECT (Continued From Wirst Page) " AERONAUTICS BODY CALFORNIANS HIT awaited before Adams will be given a | | LINDY WILL BLAZE ROUTE TO ORIENT OVER ARCTIC CANADA (Continued From First Page.) collapsible rubber boat a crash-proof hearing_before United States Commis- sioner Willlam D. Remmel. Adams_was released from the Fed- | eral penitentiary at Leavenworth last | January. He was sontenced by Judge Thomas W. Slick at South Bend. Ind. October 7, 1929, after pleading guilty to three Federal liquor law charges. set which can be operated from the water's surface with a range upward from 500 miles. l Although its principal Pacific Coa: station is at San Francisco, the Nay also has one at St. Paul Island, in the | Pribiloffl group in the middle of the | Bering Sea to the North of the Aleutian Isfand chain. This island was sect Demand for Reorganization Read at National Con- vention Here. INSANE MAN KILLS. LEGISLATURE ACTS painting entitled Spring.” George | leson, executed by Mrs. Henderson, are Boughton, English-born painter, who | among the works. Paul Akers is rgp- was raised in this country, is included | resented by a bust of Pauline Wri ght with his “La Cigale,” described as “a | Davis. dark picture of a thinly clad woman, Among other painters whose works looking at a dead bird.” |are included in the collection are Then thcre are at least four can- | Bourgereau, Roble, Edmend de Pro- vasses by Benjamin Constant, widely | ters, Julius Adam. Madrazo, William known Pfl‘nc_h painter. These include Kray, Carl Brenner and Le Grand three portraits, Mrs. Henderson's will | Johnson | FIVE, WOUNDS FOUR' IN BRIDGE DISPUTE Miner Awaiting Transfer to Gives Bridge Company Right! ¢ Asylum Runs Amuck. to Sue for Failure to Stopped by Bullet. I Fulfill Contract. By the Associated Press. MERCER, Pa., July 23.—Five persons were killed and four wounded, one probably fatally, swnen a crazed man attacked members of ris family and others in a small mining village near Governors. i Leesburg today. | _The bill. by Senator Jake Loy. would Marko Demofonti, 46, who was pro- | §7ant to_the Red River Bridge Co.| | or its receiver, J. R. Handy, permission | nounced insane by physicians yestcrday | to sue the State for alleged failure of | and was to have been removed to an | the Texas Highway Commission to ful- institution for the -insane today. shot | fill its contract with the company. The and killed his wife and her sister in his | contract, under the company’s interpre- home with a revolver and then went tation and the interpretation of Fed- to the street of the village, firing at eral Court in Houston, required the random at other villagers. | commission to pay the company an| Wife Among Slain. | amount somewhere between $80,000 and The dead: | $150,000 for the toll bridge. Mrs. Marko Demofonti, Mrs. Alfonso | ! By the Associated Press. | AUSTIN July 23.—The Texas Senate ! today passed®k bill designed to put an end to the long Red River bndflc‘ dispute which had_ resulted in dissen- | sfon between the Texas and Oklahoma pTe_bridge company Tiad_obtained OP=0 | from Federal Court at Houston a tem- {;r's"mi,;‘e" “;’:fiin’:“ f;fg"" g:r",;';;, | porary injunction restraining the High- R way Commission from opening the in- s terstate Pree Bridge, which parallels o o ths company's Toll Bridge from Deni- O D o0, getiously. | san, “Tex:,' to Durant; ©kia., until the s |State's_coniract obligations had been ) , 12, ; i | met. Senator Loy said he had been th?’mg“;‘;“o‘;::z:‘"fi;”“'{_;;‘;‘;g‘fg')"; | given assurance the company would ask of the village store. His condition was | ;“’“; e e ndition was e right to sue. Tatlalndoui and he was brought | “rne bl went to the House, and the The shooting occurred at the No. 2| ‘S';:;tor expected it to have no trouble mine of the Sharon Coal & Limestone | Co. purpose of presentin; this specific lnqmry'm i €| “Green, the informer, who helped set VAt a convenient time in the near|the trap for Adams last night, was future, will you be willing to attend a | treated at a hospital, and then tele- representative joint confercnce of oper- | Phoned officers at Portland, asking a ators and miners for the purposes guard be stationed at his home to pro- stated? | tect members of his family from pos- “In your judgment would such a con- | Sible attacks. ~ Portland records re- ference bring about the results outlined | Vealed he had been convicted on 21 by Mr. Lewis?” counts of liquor law,violation, and had A copy of Lewis' telegram to Mr.|Served the sentences concurrently. | (Continued From First Page.) i El | agencics by name. it was assumed he | had reference chiefly to the Navy De- Hoover accompanied th- letter, along with the Chief Executive’s reply that the administration desired to lend every pos- | sible assistanc® to “any econstructive rogram put forward by operators and ! min-rs. | FEDERAL OPERATION SEEN. i ] | Lobby Secretary Says It Is Needed to | Prevent Warfare. PITTSBURGH. July 23 (#).—Ben- | jamin C. Marsh, secretary of the People’s Lobby, said today that the Federal Government must take over | operation of the bituminous and anthra- cite coal mines promptly “to prevent bloody warfare and to end criminal starvation of children.” 4 Marsh. speaking before the Henry George Club here, outlined the program | of the People's Lobby, an organization | headed by Prof. John Dewey, formerly of Columbia University. He said Pres- | ident Hoover must call a special ses- | sion of Congress to appropriate $3.500,- 00.000 for public works. unemploy- ment relief and unemployment in- | surance. BUREAU CHIEF HITS OPPOSITION TO ‘ U. S. FINGERPRINTING | Government the plan. ‘While agencies opposing he did not mention the partment, which has declined to join with the' Army in having fingerprints of military personnel checked by Hoover's bureau for possible police records. | “There are still & few governmental agencies.” the justice official said, “who| adhere to the feeling that to have the! fingerprint_records of their personnel | searched in the division of identifica- tion may cause irritation and some Arrange for Purcha Green and Agent Gilbert spent an hour at Adams’ home early last night arranging_for purchase of a load of liquor. They assigned the meeting place, near Stellhorn Bridge on the lower Huntington road, a mile south of here. When Adams drove up, agents closed in. Adams drew & revolver, and the shooting began. Gilbert fired the first shot. according to Green and Gettle, after Adams said “I'm going to kill you—." Jerry Sierer, 40, of Waynedale, was | driving past the cars as the shooting | started. He turned about and witnessed most of the battle. “I saw ome man shooting at two others who were in the road,” Sierer said. One, who, I learned, was Wilson, dropped to the pavement, and as the others turned, Adams followed them shooiing. After they dropped he walk- ed back to Wilson, apparently to reload his gun, and then fired four or five shots into Wilson as he lay on the ground.” Gett'e said he tried to talk Adams out of shooting as they stood b>tween his car and their own. “He had us covered when we stepped from the car, but we | didn’t beli>ve that he would murder t We were in our shirt sleeves, and, b cause of that, our guns in the car. Wil- son never had a chance. He stood there without making a move as Adams siot him. Even after he shot Wilson we tried to talk to him, but the man seemed | to go crazy.” ‘Wilson, one of the dead agents, had ‘becn in Government service three years, and had served at Springfield, IlL.; Chicago and Detroit, Mich. Gilbert of the Cincinnati cffice was known in Indianapolis, where he testified last year in the Government's case against 10 Indianapolis policemen, charged with conspiracy to violate the prohibition, aw. U. S. TO AID PROSECUTION. Dry Director Sends Condolence to Widows of Agents. By the Associated Press. A promise that the Federal Govern- ment would insist on a vigorous prose- yesterday for an examination to de- termine whether he was insane. He was The crazed man was brought hore‘ house next door and set it afire. He | then went to the Ecillan Home farther | along the street and shot Mrs. Ecilian | sort of nebulous reflection upon the character of such employes. “I am frank to state that T have | eution of the murderer of two prohibi- tion agents at Fort Wayne, and would ‘The Southern California chapter to- day served notice upon the National Aeronautical Association of its “friendly but definite” purpose of forcing a re- organization of the association. The California organization said it prefer- red to do this rather than create dis- | sension and sever connection with the | national association. The communication from the West- ern organization was read at the close of the morning convention session of the association. No subect of dissension was men- tioned, but Senator Bingham of Con- necticut, president of the association, bad previously commented on the “deep disappointment” of Western members at the decision of the association to hold its national air races for the next five years at Cleveland. Trend From Nationdl Body. The West Coast chapter said it felt no rift should occur in the aviation in- dustry during the period of dcpression, but added “there has been a definite trend away from the national body, due 10 th» policies and acts of the national Dr. George Lewis of Washington read from the report of Contest Committce a lengthy justification of the choice of Cleveland for the air races. A perma- | nent racing field. it was said, was more | | economical and would tend also to ac- celerate rather than retard interest in sectional meets. | The governing board recommended to the convention a serics of resolutions to further aviation. They included urging upon Congress a_merchant airship act: an appropri- ation to enable the Navy to continue development of high-speed aircraft; a five-vear aviation development program for the Army; a subsidy for transoceanic airmail; Navy construction of more fly- ‘ |ing deck cruisers and aircraft carriers and extension of the meteorological | | service of the Weather Bureau. | Expressing the hope that the ffeople | of the Nation soon will be able to take | as great pride in the National Capital | airport as in Union Station, Senator | Bingham in opening the convention at | the Mayflower Hotel, declared that | much of the success of air transport | development on the coastal routes through this city has been due to the | private development of Washington- Hoover Alrport. o If the air transport industry will meet intelligently the needs of the fly- {ing public, Bingham said, “the air transport business of the future is going to surpass our fondest expectations.” Much of the future of aviation depends | on the ability of cities to visualize the aside as a protected breeding place for seals when hunters threatened their extinction. The San Prancisco station can talk to Hawail, thence by relay through a similar station to the Philippines. It reaches also the station at Cordova, Alaska, as well as the St. Paul station. Another is at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians On the North Pacific Coast. the Navy has stations at Eureka, Calif.; Puget Sound and Astoria, Oreg. The Army has coastal stations in Alaska. Of short range, compared with the Na the Army's stations in- clude Seward, Valdez, Juneau and Ketchikan. _ Other Army _stations parallel the Government railroad irom the south to Fairbanks in the north. It maintains stations east and west through the interior. Others Low Power. Alaskan _commercial stations _are largely confined to low-power sets of the salmon canneries. Officials of the Weather Bureau, con- sulting records of the North Pacific and the Bering Sea—many of them com- piled by Japan—found average condi- tlons in late July and early August to rank with the best for fiying in that region. However, Charles L. Mitchell, weather forecaster, pointed out that in_the na- ture of the region's weather, the aver- ages might be far from conditions ob- taining this year. In August, “one of the quicter months.” he said, “there are usually two or_three disturbances over the occan each day. Most, howev pass to the south of the selected course. Weather observers believe the greates hazards before the flyers lie from the sub-arctic Alaskan regions _southwest over the Bering Sea to the Kamchatka Peninsula_of Siberia and the Kuril Is- lands to Japan. Storms Start in August, The erratic Summer storms which lash the region begin in late August. | As the North's brief Summer vanes they increase in number, severity and dura- tion. To the southward, the tropical t phoon season finds its height in Augus Often hitting Jaban. these storms, as traced by-the officials. touch or skirt the volcanic ¥uril chain to the north then dissipate and veer north and castward to the sea. Throughout the route weather fore- cast stations are camparatively scanty. There is a_gap without any as wide as the North Atlantic between Nemuro, in Northern Japan, one of the stops. and Dutch Harbor, most easterly of the Aleutian Islands. Weather bureaus of Japan and the United States gather reports from ships ) \ \ AL RATEHEARING SETFORAURUST 1 Inguiry to Be Resumed, With ! Similar Sessions in Eight l Other Cities. i By the Associated Press. The Interstate Commerce Commis- | slon ‘today advanced to August 10 the date for resuming hearings upon the railroads’ petition for a 15 per cent increase in freight rates. The advancement of the date, orig- inally set for August 31, was made on a motion by carriers for earlier com- pletion than would have been possible under the original plans. It was op- posed by shippers, who asserted they felt they were entitled to the full time originally announced to prepare their case. Hearing Here August 10. The hearing August 10 will be held in Washington. Other hearings will be held in San Prancisco, Portland, Oreg.; Kansas City, Mo.; Dallas, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Chicago and at some point to be selected in New England, The San Francisco hearing will be held on August 17 and the Chicago hearing on August 31. Dates for hear- jings at the other places will be an- nounced shortly. Hearings may pro- ceed in different parts of the country simultaneously, it was said. The commission also announced it would refuse to receive evidence regard- ing individual railroads or minor groups of railroads and of th= level of railroad wages. It wishes to keep the hearings on a general basis. Oral Arguments Later. It suggested that evidence regarding the method of increasing rates be con- fined as nearly as possible to typical ii- lustrations. It also suggested a similar plan be followed in presenting evidence designed to_show the effect of higher rates on shippers and carriers. Oral srgument on the plea will be Feld about 10 days after the hearings close. The commission said requests for time aiready received exceed practicable lim- its. The examiners assigned to assist the commissioners are studying the re- quests with a view to assistng in ar- ranging for orderly presentation of tes- {timony and to avoid cumuiative evi- dence. Bancroft Sends Letter, | Meanwhile, a letter asserting com- modity price declin"s and demands for moratoria of various types must be stopped and that a general freight rate | increase would be “one of the greatest | services that could be performed in the present economic crisis,” has been sent {to the commission by James R. Ban- | croft, president of the American Insti- tute of Finance. The institute, whose headquarters are in Boston, addressed a copy of the let- ter to President Hoover. | “Bancroft said it was his opinion that |a week ago “our present capitalistic {system was closer to actual collapse | than at any other time in its modern history.” Bancroft said the railroads’ request for a rate increase presented more than a local railroad problem, adding it should be considered from the stand- point of current world-wide trends, | Earnings Law Cited. | He said there was no question of the {need for the increase from a railroad | earnings’ standpoint because the roads were not earning much, if any, more {than 2 per cent at the present time, while the transportation act entitles them to earn close to 6 per cent. | “I fully appreciate that the effect of a rate increase on general business in this country must be fully considered. he said. “Actually, the point I wish to bring out is that a careful considera- tion of existing economic conditions in- dicatss that a freght rate increase at this juncture would have a stimulating effect on business activity and that such a stimulating effect is vitally essential {in pulling out of the current period of depression. | WINCHESTER PRESBYTERY GRANTED STATE CHARTER Rev. Frank T. McFaden Is Listed as President and D. Gilkeson as Secretary. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va. July® 23—Tne Trustees of Winchester Presbytery is the style of a corporation just granted a charter here. It is A non-stock cor= poration with the Rev. Frank T. Mce Faden of Winchester listed as president and Charles D. Gilkeson of Winchester as secretary. Besides Mr. McFaden the incorporators include J. S. Haldeman, ‘Winchester; Philip Williams, Wood= stock: J. McMurray, Hedgesvil'e, W. Va.; F. B. Crawford, Winchester, and R. B. Woodworth, Burlington, W. Va. The membership is to be confined to trustees elected by the Presbytery of | importance of providing air terminals of sealskin—and started to walk out, i with the coat under his arm. Shaffer called to the intruder to stop, returned to his home and this morning | and her son with the revolver. arose from bed to attack his wife and | Mrs. Takela and Bevilaqua were in sister-in-law. His brother-in-law had absolutely no patience with this anti- | quated and, in my opinion, totally ab- surd _attitude to no that were in the area, often mONths|winchester. The trustees in turn elect aid in such a prosecution, was given | near the center of the city, Senator n f ":od-y by Préhibition Director Wood- | Bingham said. later, from which to compile charts. | ihe president and the secretary of the e said. but the man only hurried faster and was soon lost in~the noonday crowds. Shaffer hurried back to the store and called police. Less than five minutes aferward a radio scout car from No. 1 precinct had caught the man. with coat in his car. at Eleventh s'rget and Pennsylvania avenue, Shaffer said. Bringing the man back to the store, police released him, after he turned the coat back to its owner, as Shaffer said he refused to prosecute. “He looked so down on his luck,” the furrier explained. Police of the firsy precinct let the matter rest there. SUFFERS HICCOUGH By a Staff Correspondent of The Swer. TAKOMA PARK, Md. My 23— Beized with a violent attach of hic< coughs while walking at Laarel and Carroll avenues accompanied by his wife last night, Harris Taylor, about 45 years old. of 1211 K street, Wash- ington. was rushed to the Washington Sanitarium. pa according to the report re- local police, doctors at the seniterium have not been able to de- termine the cause of the attack. He was_taken to the hospiial last night by Town Officer Leo Moflutt. FOUR MORE KILLED IN SEVILLE FIGHTS MAKING TOTAL 22 (Continied From First Page.) and Investigate afterward may restore srder shortly. Director of Safety Galarza an- nounced that bombs had been found in Syndigalist quarters similar to those exploded in the streets Tuesday night, and also plans indicating where tele- phone lines vere to be cut- Forty-foyr persons were arrested. Di- rector Galarza said various letters from the Internaliona! Anarchist Federation werg Ceeu AN them. 1n conmection with the disturbances, some observers recall the republic’s be- rignant policy at the beginning of the regime, when it released some thou- sands of prisorers from jails and peni- tentiaries. In some cases former con- victs who hailed the republic are sup- poced to ‘have reverted to type as con- ‘violent * firmed malcontents- and « tatars. | the yards of their homes. Demofonti | gone to work in the mine. | killed_the woman with the revolver | Bevilaqua was shot as Demofonti | and Bevilaqua with the shotgun. emerged from his home. The next bul- | From the homes of Mrs. Takela and | let killed Mrs. Vakela. Other random | Belvilaqua the man went fo the Banan shots struck those who were wounded. |house and attacked Mrs, Banan and | Masters _halted Demofonti's mad her daughter with the knife. The child march as he obtained a revolver and | was stabbed in the abdomen. shot the deranged man. Demofonti was | = Meanwhile, the alarm was spread to a miner by occupation, but because of | the company's store. Masters and three his condition, had not been working. | other men entered Masters’ automobile He had been acting queerly, but had | to search for the demented man. They not been violent and was not regarded | met Demofonti striding down the street dangerous. | flourishing the shotgun. When they The crazed man was armed with a |approached Demofonti pressed the trig- revolver, a skotgun and a knife. After | ger of the revolver, but it did not dis- shooting his wife and her sister, with | charge. Masters fired three shots, on the revolver, he went to an uroccupied (of them striking Demofcnti in the hip. MONROE SPENT OWN MONEY FOR WHITE Old Manuscript Acquired by HOUSE CURTAINS Mrs. Hoover Reveals Former President’s Complaint Over Expenditure. When lace curtains in. the White House became torn or unpresentable during _the occupancy of President James Monroe, he, despite his rather impecunious state at the time, dug down in his packet and pvrchased new ones. This piece of news as well 2s the fact that President Monroe was forced to us> his own private funds to replace furni- ture, carpets and other household ar- ticles. necessary to the comfort and dig- nity of the presidential home, were re- vealed in a manuscript penned by Mr. Monroe when he was President, which was purchased a few days ago by Mrs. Herbert Hoover. ‘This manuscript, of 48 closely written pages, rolled and neatly tied with a led blue silk ribbon, deals with an assortment of White House matters. At the top of the first page, President Mon- roe wrote the title “Observations on Matters of Public Interest.” ‘Among the interesting subjects and incidents related were the complaints about having to spend his own money for properly furnishing the White House. Mr. Monroe's complaining tone was made all the more woeful by his men- tioning the fact that at the time he was very short of funds himself and that he needed the money for other neces- sary purposes. This prized manuscript came into the 1 hands of Mrs. Hoover unexpectedly, and | because of the author and the interest- ing subjects treated, Mrs. Hoover values the paper highly. Besides her sociel duties and interest in Girl Scouts and outdoor life, Mrs. Hoover has developed a kegn interest in the historical asso- ciations of -the Capital, especially the White House, and the families that have occupied that famous mansion. During her long residence here she has been adding to her collection of books; papers and pamphlets dealing with these sub- Jects, until she has accumulated what is looked upon as. a highly valuable col- lection. She frequently visits bookstores in quest of something worth while to add to her collection and as a result book and manuscript dealers are constantly on the lookout for things that might in- terest her. -+ A few days ago Mrs. Hoover received word from g Seven- teenth street rare book dealer that he had just come into possession of a manuscript dealing with the White House in which he felt sure she would be interested. One look at the “Obser- vations,” written in the well formed hand of the man who penned the im- mortal Monroe Doctrine, resulted in her making the purchase without hesita- tion. 1t is understood, to0, that Mrs. Hoover obtained the bargain., —~ { I can point stronger argument than that whiéh appears in the last report of the Civil| Service Commission, wherein it was stated that of 72,298 fingerprints taken of applicants for positions in the Federal service, 5037 were found to| have police records—or 1 in every 14. The offenses consisted of misdemeanors and crimes ranging from disorderly conduct to bigamy, counterfeiting, arson, burglary and murder.” Hoover said he hoped that before | long all other Federal agencies, in the | Civil Service or out of it, will co-operate in the fingerprint check-up. “I have always felt. that any person applylng for a position,” the director said, “who has a clean record and a | clear conscience would take no excep- tion to any investigation or check which may be made of his past activities. It is usually those who have something which they desire to conceal for ul- terior motives who utter the most blatant protest. United Stand Urged. “Certainly all members of this organi- zation should, not only in theory but in actual practice, stand united against any absurd or ridiculous propaganda tainted with allegedly humanitarian or fictitious constitutional grounds to dis- courage the taking and proper checking of fingerprints of persons applying for employment in any agency whicth has | to do with law enforcement or the carrying on of governmental functions, whether it is Federal, State, municipal or local.” Hoover severely criticized lawyers who oppose the taking of their clients' fingerprints on constitutional grounds. He declared there is a growing effort on Lhrvpnrt of “a type of legal prac- titloner” to prevent law enforcement officials from fingerprinting arrested persons. He said if the effort 6f “these representatives of the criminal classes” succeeds, law enforcement would be im . There should be no more reason for objection to the taking of a person's fingerptints than to the re- cording of his physical description, he R aating:t Fede: n detailing the work of the identification division, Hoover disclo;‘é that 161,325 identifications were made dll!lnsnlhe past fiscal year from 447,- 000 igerprints sent to Washington. There are now more than 2,500,000 prints on file, he said. o Raises 299 Out of 300 Chicks, Mrs. @. H. Winslow of Pasquotank at & County, N. C,, raise 500 ha yn:mmm cock. oThe Federal dry chief said he had sent messages of condolence to the widows of John 1. Wilson and Walter M. Gilbert, who were shot to death as they attempted to arrest a boot- le 8 ath Wilson and Gilbert were splen- dld types of special agents,” Woodcock sald. . “I always feel a very great shock When any one under my jurisdiction loses his life in carrying out his duty. I will take every step to see that the is vigorously prosecu A Tk aseerted that his bureau's campaign against major dry law viola- fors would not be altered in any way by | the Fort Wayne killings. He said C. E. Green of Portland, | Ind., who had aided in the attempted arrest, was a special employe, some- times hired by agents to Act as an in- | former. “We know nothing here of his Tecord, but certainly he would not have been employed had we known he had served a sentence for violating the pro- hibition laws,” Woodcock said. FOUR INQUIRIES BEGUN. Wounding of Excursionist in Lake Rum Chase Probed. DETROIT, July 23 (/) —Federal, State and private agencles last night| had begun investigations of the ‘wound- ing of Knn excursion steamer Dlfl'lngt;r during a skirmish between customs o.: ficors and rum runners on Lake St. Clair. i Four separate inquiries were an- nounced. Those in charge of the in- quiries are Walter S. Petty, assistant collector of customs: Representative Robert, P. Clancy. Herbert E. Munro of the county prosecutor’s office and Fred- erick J. Simpson, vice president of the company owning the steamer Ste Claire, aboard which the passenger Was ‘wounded. The shooting occurred Wednesday night when a customs boat encountered a rum runner near the steamer, Which had about 1,000 excursionists aboard. During the subsequent pursuit 8 num- ber of shots were fired, one bullet strik- {I‘I‘: Arthur Gajeskl, 23, a passenger, in arm. Clarence E. Fish and Arthur Weslow- 3ki, customs border patrol inspectors in charge of the Governnfent boat. were taken to the proseeuting attorney’s of- fice to make statements. Art museums invoked for as- sistance in‘ the elopment trench helmet in the World Wan Fixes Blaine for Delay. | Senator Bingham lald the blame for | failure of legislation providing for | creation of a great governmental air-| | port for the Capital at the door of the | chairman of the House committee ap- | pointed to handle the bill, charging that | he “kept the bill from being reported.” | “In the meantime,” the Senator said, | “the location which was recommended | by the Joint Congressional Committee on Airports is being developed by pri- vate lntcrcsgs_"l Senator Bingham's address was made | before aviation leaders of the Nation, | gathered for the first convention of the | soclation, national aviation govern- | | ing body. to be held in the Capital. His | address went out over a national radio network. DRY AGENT DISMISSED FOR ACCEPTING CAR Rhode Island Officer Charged With Giving Whisky to Prisoners. By the Associated Press, Alma Richaréson, Rhode Island pro- hibition agent, was found guilty of three charges today by Prohibition Director Woodcock and dismissed from the serv- ice. Woodcock said he had found Richard- son guilty “of accepting and using an | automebile from a violator of the law; The futiire of aviation as a means dispensing whisky to prisoners while of Jegular _transportation depends, | taking them to the Atlanta Penitenti- Senator Bingham said, on regular and | ary, and confiscating for his own use frequent service in close harmony with | small quantities of liquor seized from railway service, . passenger _comfort, | scientifically worked out schedules of | rates and more attention to the com- | fort of the passenger on the ground | at the airport. .| “What the- aviation of the future needs,” he said, “is not more propa- | ganda, more speeches by wartime pilots ‘and their friapds, but more in- | telligent service on' the part of the | air transport companies—service which will cause each passenger to become a | source of future business.” | Following the opening business ses- sion the delegates went to the White | House to be welcomed by President Hoover. The annual banquet is to be held at the Mayflower Hotel at 7:30 tenight. Capt. Frank M. Hawks, famous spzed fiyer, is scheduled to be the guest of honor. Jgmes G. Ray, autogiro pilot, who delivered America’s first autogiro to the Smithsonian Institution yesterday aft- ernoon, also is to speak. Charles A. Lindbergh, a member of the advisory board of the association, today sent regrets to fellow members. He would not be able to meet them at the sessions here because of his com- S TR AT Prominent London Girl Weds. LONDON, July 23 (#).—Miss Dorothy Rose Duveen, only daughter of Sir Jo- Fi58 loday ai the regitry ofce o Wi- ay af - of 8ir William Garthwalte, shin owner, violators.” BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Soldiers' Home Band this evening at the bandstand at 7:30 o'clock. John Zimmermann, band- master; Anton Pointner, assistant. March, “Admiral Farragut”. Losey Overture, “Robespierre”.. . Litolft Piccolo solo, “Through the Air”..Damm Musician John Prozioso. Excerpts from_musical comedy, “Here Comes the Bride Schwartz Novelty fox-trot, “The Punch and Judy Show” . ...Black Waltz song theme, llotto,” Frasier-Simson Finale, “Universal Freedom,” Blankenberg “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Marine Band this evening at the Sylvan Theater, Monument Grounds, at 7:30 o'clock. Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur Wit- comb, second leader. % “Inauguration March,” from the opera “Boabdil”. . Moszkowskl “Les Preludes” . Liszt Duet for flute and clarinet, Brilliant Bird’ ‘Invitation to the Dance,” ‘Weingartner-Weber Reverie, “La Voix des Cloches,” Luigini Chimes obligato, Musician Wilbur Kieffer. Andante and Rondo Capriccioso, - Mendelssohn Overture, “Rienz" ... Wagner 9 Halls of corporation. ERIE SNAKE CASE | NOT MYSTERY, BUT ORIGIN IS UNKNOWN (Continued From First Page. made by Dr. Harold L. Madison, curator of the Cleveland Museum of Natural | History. Dr. Madison declined to enter {into any controversy as to where the snake came from. but said that it showed no signs of having been hit on the head with such force as to stun it. The Indian python, he said, is im- ported in large numbers, principally by carnivals. It is non-poisonous, affec- tionate and has to be treated like a | baby. The Sandusky snake, he said, by | its tameness, evidently had been reared in captivity. It showed no signs of being excited by its capture. A carnival at present is playing in Cleveland, but the man- agement declared all its snakes were | accounted for. | Attendants of the carnival said su-- snakes are slothful and easily managed when in water, although sometimes ir- ritable on land. The only theory advanced for the snake's presence in Lake Erie, aside from that it may have escaped from a carnival, was prompted by an account of a python becoming loose.in a mail car en route from Barberton, Ohio, te Chicago some time ago. The mail clerk thought two pythons were loose, but when the train arrived in Chicago, only one was found. If there was a seconc snake that escaped, it would have had to crawl a long distance to the lake. To all that, Wilson has only to say, “I am a reputable man.” He proudly cxhibited the discovery to newspaper men and patiently repeated his story to the skeptical. Wilson and Bagenstose represented themselves as cement salesmen jor a Cincinnati firm. They were not listed .|in the Cincinnati directory, but Mrs. Fred Meir of that city said_her hus- band had employed them until this Spring as cement workers. Meanwhile, python moluius went hungry today. There was no one who cared to open the box. Curator Madi- son said such snakes are fed two small chickens every 10 days and have to be wrapped up at night like a baby. Wil- son and Bagenstose had nothing to say -