Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1931, Page 1

WEAT. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Foreci Partly cloudy and not quite tonight and tomorrow, preceded by local thundershowers this night. p.m. yesterda: Full ‘Temperatures—Highest, lowest, 75, at 6 Teport on page 3. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 HER. ast). 50 warm afternoon or to- at 6 No. 31,866. post office, Enfered as second class matter Washington, i n. @he 1 4 /41 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated service. Press news * Yesterday’s Circulation, 107,663 WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, JULY 30, .1931—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. BOARDMAN AND POLANDO| LAND AT ISTANBUL FIELD; OTHERS OFF TO MOSCOW Cape Cod Sails Over Europe Without Being Sighted. DISTANCE RECORD CLAIMED ON FLIGHT Journey to Turkey From New York Made in 49 Hours 20 Minutes. By the Associated Press. ! ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 30.— | Claiming a ncw world non-stop dis-‘ tance record, Russell Boardman and | John Polando brought their transat- | lantic monoplane Cape Cod down at| the airport here at 1:20 p.m. (6:20/ am. E. S. T.) today. i In the 49 hours and 20 minutes since they took off from Floyd Bennett Field, | New York, on Tuesday morning they had been sighted only once, and that was over Newfoundland just before they headed across the Atlantic. Grinning broadly and shaking their | own hands above their heads, they climbed out of their sturdy plane while & great crowd, among them most of the members of the American colony, | cheered Greeled by Ambassador. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew gave them a hand out of the cockpit and introduced them to the Governor of Istanbul. A squad of Turkish police presented arms during the brief cere- mony. i ‘We are very happy at having accom- plished our purpose of beating the world non-stop record,” Boardman told the Associated Press correspondent. “It was a fine trip.” | “The hardest part of the trip was | last night, flying over the Alps,” he said. | “The Atlantic passage was fine, with | no bad winds or storms, but it was very foggy. We saw the water only once, near Newfoundland. After that the fog was so heavy we never caught a glimpse of the ocean.” Both men were in fine spirits and in good physical condition. They seemed 1o be momentarily stunned when the drone of the motors, to which they had | listened for so long, stopped, but they | recovered quickly. Their steady voices gave little indi- cation of air deafness as they talked to officials of the American embassy | (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) MARLBORO BANK ROBBER al | el Today in the Air 13th and 14th Planes Safe In Europe After Atlantic Flights. By the Associated Press. ‘The second plane from New York in two days landed in Europe today, bring- ing the total of plancs which have flown the Nortl: Atlantic from America to 14. | Russell Boardman and John Polando | landed at Istanbul, Turkey, non-stop from New York, bringing back to America the world record for distance ying. Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, | who left New York 18 minutes after Boardman and Polando and flew non- stop to Wales, where they landed yes- terday, continued their race around the world in an effort to establish a new speed record. With these two planes safely across | the ocean, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh | and his wife hopped off from Maine on their 7.000-mile vacation flight west- | ward to Japan. ‘The German returned to Berlin from the Arctic. { Amy Johnson, British aviatrix, was Is0 in Russia, landing at Sverdlovsk, on r way from London to Tokio. BETHLEHEM STEEL DIVIDEND REDUGED Quarterly Payment of 50 Cents Ordered Instead of $1, Former Rate. By the Associated Press. { NEW YORK, July 30.—Directors of | Bethlehem Steel Corporation today re- | eastward. dirigible Graf Zeppelin | |Pangh | Visit Croydon on Way to Berlin. TRANSATLANTIC HOP | REQUIRED 32 HOURS World Girdlers Still Hope to Beat Time of Post and Gatty. | BERLIN, July 30 (#).—Clyde Pang- born and Hugh Herndon, jr., fly- ing around the world in their red monoplane, landed at Templehof Airdrome this evening at 7:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m. Eastern standard time) {from Croyden, England. Pangborn said they would go on to Moscow at 9 o'clock (3 p.m. Eastern standard time) regardless of stormy weather which was threatening over about 70 miles of the route. By the Associated Press. | _CROYDON, England, July 30.—Clyde | Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, jr., who; lanced their transatlantic monoplane in Wales last night and came on here this morning, took off for Moscow, their original objective, at 2:13 p.m. today (8:13 am. Eastern standard time). They are flying by way of Berlin. The take-off was nearly six hours ter their arrival from Wales. They expect to make Berlin within four or five hours, stop there to refuel | and continue to Moscow if the weather is good, arriving there some time early Friday morning. Leavs for Berlin. | supervised the here this morning, while Pangborn | caught up on his sleep. Then they had | ! luncheon together, with Dixon Board- man, Herndon's stepfather, “as their | guest. After luncheon they posed for the movie men and were off. The red plane circled the fleld once and darted | | | afl Herndon refueling orn-Herndon! ) Mears Associated Press. + + TW(O CENTS Nobody (an Take Offense at This as a Yorktown Pageant Feature. Ford to Suspend Work for August. In Main Plants ALIEN ENTRY PLA FOLED BY DOA Exgess of Parts Given as Role in Breaking Up Wide- spread Racket. semblers to Continue. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July, 30.—Officials of the Labor Secretary Doak today admitted Ford Motor Co. announced today that he personally had gone into breaking | the company will suspend manufactur- i 5 1l | ing operations August 1 and will not up a “racket,” reluctantly taking fu Tesper dliFtg the Tonk ; | ““Both fiyers during the luncheon ex- duced the quarterly dividend on the | . o cod their determination to beat the common stock to 50 cents a share from | post-Gatty round-the-world speed rec- credit for urearthing a scheme in New The announcement sald that oper: $1, thus cutting the yearly basis to $2 : ord, but they agreed their forced land- from §4. ‘The regular quarterly payment of $1.75 on the preferred issue was voted Profit for the second three months | of this year was equal to $1.45 a share on the $7 preferred stock. In the first ing last night in Wales had robbed them of their chance to circle the globe n six days, as they had hoped to do. Exocpt for the fog, they said, the { trip thus far had been pleasant. Not once after they left the Newfoundland 1931 quarier Bethlehem earned 6 cents coast had they been able to penetrate a share on the common and in the | the gray “floor” beneath them, but at June 30 quarter of last year eirnwngs | last through a hole in the clouds they were equivalent to $1 a common share, | spotted what they_thought was a ship. After saying that there was no an- | Coming down for a better look, they nouncement on salaries or wages, Presi- | saw thai it was a cottage near the dent Grace explained that salary and | Irish Ccast, its sides covered with wags bases had been maintained. Hefrosebushe.s in full bloom. For four added, however, that not all salaried | hours after that they floundered around |in a milk white sea of fog and firally York City by which thousands of allens tions would be continued on the assem- not entitled to be in this country have | bly line in Detroit and 11 of the 36 a. been admitied under forged re-entry :;;}"hb' branches throughout the coun- permits, | A large bank of parts has been built Mr. Doak said two arrests have been up at all plants and outside parts pro- . but because of the plot's ramifi- | ducers have been notified not to make s w | shipments after July 20 and during August,” the announcement said. COLORED BANDITS cations the trué story of how the Labor | Department, under his personal super- | vision, had uncovered the plot could | not be told for at least another four | days. { Those under arrest, Mr. Doak sald, | were a trusted cierk in the New York | immigration office and the alleged pro- | moter of the scheme, who obtained the SHORT WORK-DAY " 4 |Secretary Plays Leading| g ¢p1anation—Some As- (Labor Proposes Plan as| | Means of Combating | Unemployment. | Growing azitation for inauguration of a shorter working day and week !wlt‘n present wage scales maintained, today marked the efforts of labor to | combat unemployment, as prospects for ! jobs for the unemployed next Winter | appeared more remote. | From the three-day conference of | organized railroad labor, concluded here last night by the representatives of 31 unions, came word that efforts wouid be continued 1q arrange a meeting with | heads of railroads.from throughout the'l country, to take up the question of | srowing unemployment in the ranks of | rafiroad labor. Linked with such a discussion would be the institution of thelnx-hour work day and five-day week. ICANNON ASKS WRIT 70 BAR QUIZ O . TINKHAM CHARGES {Bishop - Questions Authority of Nye Group to Probe | Such Allegations. | ACCUSED OF*CE%RUPT ACTION IN ’28 RACE, Petition Claims Judiciary and \I Grand Jury Alone Are Empow- ered to Hold Inquiry. James Cannon, j bishop of the | Methodist Episcopal Church, South, today applied to the District Supreme Court for a writ of prohibition against five United States Senators comprising (the select committee of senatorial campaign expenditures, known as the Nye Committee, to prevent the com- | mittee from proceeding with the hear- ing of witnesses in an inquiry into charges made by Representative George H. Tinkham of Massachusetts that Cannon had violated the Federal cor- irupt practice act in the 1928 anti- Smith campaign in Virginia. ‘Through Attorney Robert H. McNeill, the bishop charges the committee in {attempting to carry out resolution 403 introduced by Senator Carter Glass of | Virginia is usurping the functions of the judiciary and infringing the duties of the grand jury, which body is alone authorized "to inquire into the alleged commission of a crime. Authority Challenged. Justice James M. Proctor of the Dis- trict Supreme Court, to whom applica- tion was made for a rule to show cause against Senators Gerald P. Nye, North Dakota; Robert F. Wagner, New York; Porter H. Dale, Vermont; Roscoe C. Patterson, Missouri, and Clarence C. i Dill, Washington, declined to issue the | writs until notice had been served on | the Senators and they had been given |an opportunity to present their views as to the court’s authority to entertain the case. Bishop Cannon asserts the Senate Committee is without authority to hold | the inquiry because in the couris of proper jurisdiction alone are vestet the judicial powers of the United States end the committee lacks any right to inquire into any violation of any erim- | Inal statute by any individual acting | {in a non-official capacity; that Con- gress has no power to enact legisla- | tion concerning the manner of chooe- | ing electors who are officers of their | 1espective States and not subjsct to | contro! or direction of the Pederal Gov- ernment, and that if he is to be charged | with a crime such inquiry should be | before a grand jury and not a sena- | torial committee. i | WILKERSON BANS COMPROMISE MOVE AT CAPONES TRIL Sentence to Be Based on Results of Evidence, Court Declares. STATEMENT DISCONCERTS FORMER GANGSTER CHIEF Withdrawal of Guilty Plea on Charges Rumored if Leniency Conditions Are Hard. CHICAGO, July 30 (&).—Protest- ing that the Attorney General of the United States had sanctioned an agresment between Alphonse Capone and the Government that leniency would be recommended if the gang chief pleaded guilty to income tax evasion and prohibition conspiracy, Attorney Michael Ahearn moved in Federal Court today to withdraw Cepone’s plea of guilty. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 30.—Government and defensc were ordered by Judge James H. Wilkerson today to present their evidence in the prohibition and income tax cases against “Scarface” Alphonse Capone at a hearing begin- ning at’2 p.m. The judge said that “any agreement the defense and prosecution might have | mace” had no binding influence upon the court, and asserted that’tne power to compromise in a case involving criminal liability was not vested in the courts, 5,000 Dry Offenses. Judge Wilkerson explained that he | knew nothing of the facts in the cases, which charged the gang leader with 5,000 separate offenses against the pro- hibition act and evasion of taxes on an income of more than $1,000,000. He could only perform his duty, he said, by hearing fully the evidence and de- termining the degree of guilt. Only the reading of the indictments occupied the brief morning session of court during which the corpulent boss of Chicago gangs sat mopping his brow nervously in the crowded court room. Capone himself may be required to testify du:ing the hearing. “If the defendant asks leniency, Judge Wilkerson, “he must be ready to answer all proper questions concern~ ing himself.” 34 Years Possible. Prior to the gangster's befor(ehFedel’ll Judge James son there was considerable lation 4s to the length of ummu’p:em-m’ receive. He is subject to a maximum penalty of 32 years and fines of $80,000 on the income tax charges and twe years and a $10,000 fine on the con- spiracy indictment. The highest sen- tence of record in income tax case. pearance . Wilker- GIVEN YEAR TO LIFE| o Yotke 9 Bishop Sails for Europe. { e A e e oIk |risked & hazardous landing in s hill. ey 29 | where “the defendant pleaded guilty. Lanigan and Companion szmenced} After Pleading Guilty in Illinois. | By the Associated Press. WATSEKA, TIL. July 30.—Pierce | Lanigan, 33, identified as one of the Marlboro, Md.. bank bandits, and Ed- | ward R. Felder, 35, were sentenced to | terms of one year to life in Joliet Peni- | tentiary today when they pleaded guilty | to robbing the Buckley State Bark July 17. | Judge Frank L. Hooper pronounced | sentence in Iroquois County Circuit | Court after the pair admitted guilt on | five counts of an indictment returned yesterday. Felder wore a bandage over the wound received in a gun battle | during their flight from Buckley. With Joe Jazorak, who was jointly indicted with them they held up the bank and fled with $5200. Officers | pursued them, rounding up all three | after Deputy Sheriff Henry Ennin had been shot to death by Jazorak, who was to be arraigned later today on a murder charge. The trio were accused of an exten- | sive series of post office robberies in Middle West, South and East. . AVIATRIX DISCOVERS FIRE | Mrs. Keith Miller Escapes as Blaze Destroys Hotel. | FORT PLAIN, N. Y., July 30 (#).— Fire discovircd by Mrs. Keith Miller, | aviatrix, when smoke filled her room, ' today destroyed the Grant Hotel, | largest hostelry in this village. The! loss was_approximately $150.000. Mrs. Miller was appearing at a Chautauqua here. The fire started in a stere room next to her room in a hotel. She was awakened by the smoke and aroused the hotel management and the other guests. Fifty of the 54 rooms were occupled. All the occupants escaped. ers have w g ereen working part tme for | i ¥ tela 5 miles from Cardigan. Action of the directors of the second | Flyers in Good Trim. largest unit in the industry comes on' The farmers of the neighborhood | the heels of the reduction in the quar- | helped them find lodgings for the night | terly common dividend cf the largest |at a nearby mmn, and at dawn they unit, the United States Steel Corpora- | came on to Croydon, tion, on Tuesday, to $1 from $1.75. After leaving Moscow, they said. their route would depend largely upon the weather and other circumstances. Bo'h flyers seemed to be in good physical condition when they left here. Herndon's first words as he stepped | to the ground here were: “What hap- pened to Boardman?” | The faces of the two airmen fell! when they were informed that no definite news had been received then about the Istanbul flyers—Russell | Boardman and John Polando—who | took-off from New York zbout the same | time they did. Herndon and Pang- born said that although they flew BILLION-DOLLAR OIL MERGER APPROVED Stockholders 0.K. Combination of Vacuum With Standard Com- pany of New York. SURRENDER IS PRINCIPAL SCENE IN PROPOSED BRITISH PAGEANT Celebration Planned at Ancestral Home of Washingto Family—Yorktown Commission Defers Action. BY REX COLLIER. England wants to stage a pageant next year in honor of George Washing- ton, and if advice it seeks from the George Washington Bicentennial Com- mission is followed, the principal scene will depict the surrender of Lord Corn- wallls at Yorktown. ‘The British pageant is to be the high- light of a celebration to take place at the town of Washington, County Dure ham, which is the ancestral home of the Washington family. ‘The town of Washington originally was called Wess) n and was the es- tate of the de Wessyngtons, a Norman family, according to historians of the commission, In planning the pageant its sponsors have turned to the Bicentennial Com- mission for assistance. Frederick Hill, headmaster of a large school at Wash- ington, who is arranging th: celebra- tlon, has written to Representative Sal Bloom, associate director of the com- mission, for information concerning pageantry planned for the American celebration, Bloom will send to England the com- plete program of pageantry outlined by the commission. This program has as ' {clded to defer final action pending a poll of the membsrs of the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Association, a citizens’ organization, of which President Hoover is honorary head. Dr. W. A. R. Good- By the Associated Press. planned by the others, they saw noth- merger of the Standard Oil Co. of New | fog most of the way, but lost our bear- | down.” said Pangborn. cient proxies had besn sent in by stock- ' {act we were actually not so tired when uum_stockholders will receive two and | 32 Hours in Crossing. their present stock and Standard of New woulan't vary & IRItE” e share-for-share basis. | Blve Bad to 1and I 1 hadat Beaa ot | just about the location, so we came NEW YORK, July 30 (#).—Sixty-six | we had to fly at about 14,000 feet most reported to the City Health Depart- | the wind with them during much of new cases nud to Croydon was made in almost ex- ‘There were only a handful of news- ‘[luge Junkers and Imperial Airways ;VSqu-z Bellanca which had just com- The fiyers' first landing on this side | Cardigan. Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission | "4, Colu troversy which the Yorktown Commis- | argus that it might offend British visi- | ault Killed body, of which Senator Swanson of Vir- | BERRE, France, July 30 (#).—Lieut. while testing & new plane which was o B s Ve The propeller broke while the ship somewhat the same course as had been NEW YORK, July 30.—Stockholders |ing of them. of both companies today approved the | “We had a nice trip and flew above York and Vacuum Oil Co. to form the | ings a little bit toward the end, which billion-dollar Socony-Vacuum Corpora- | made it necessary for us to come The action was forecast earlier in the | “We had a good rest at Cardigan week, when it became known that suffi- ' he explained. “But as a matter of holders to assure the consolidation. | We reached there. It was a nice trip | Under the terms of the merger Vac- and we enjoyed it very much.” { one-half shares of the capital stock of | The two pilots set the time of thei o e Stondard of New | transatlantic filght at exactly 33 hours. York stockhclders will receive new cer- | | pangborn. “We estimated the dista tificates for their present shares on a RSBt 3950 e e oanmes Tt | the fog. We were unable to tell exact- PARALYSIS CASES GROW |lv where we were, although we knew | down. "In order to get above the fog new cases of intantile paralysis, 10 |of the way.” more than on any day previously, were ‘ Pangborn explained ~that they had ment today. the crossing. The Health Department reported- 54 The lap of their flight from Cardigan Assche actly two hours, a tallwind helping them. paper men and Croydon officials on hand to greet the flyers. Two or three Handley-Page planes about the field | made interesting contrast to the small n Pleted a most grueling flight across the ocean. iof the Atlantic was made at Moyle- | grove, Wales, 5 miles muthwes;m;t Proposals that this sccne be elimi-| “That farmer sure was surprised nated from the psgeant planned by the when he told him who we were and (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) for the anniversary of the surrender | B R next October have precipitated a con- ! FRENCH AIR STAR D'Es slonhvllnly snud;m u‘;: sfiue :‘z h‘ meet- | a e scene | D T oo o Lieut. Bougault Killed in Testing tors to the celebration. The Yorktown Commission, a Federal New ' Plans. ginia, now in Europe, is chairman, de- | Bougauit, one of the best of the post- war aviators in France, was killed toda; to have been entered in the Schn Cup races. Sk was in_ths air and it craghe who is president of the association. | pend. Lieut. Bougault flewa::o}: nl:nf op- posed the surrender scene as "lndé.g-. cate” at yesterday’s meeting in Senator | Swanson’s office. Dr. Goodwin prevailed upon ths com- mission to delay definite action until his association has had an opportunity | B e thadliion. of the military | i the tradition of e _military ’ not to present the fallen foe,” Dr. Good- | dren’s Dental Clinic. win explained afterward. “What we BERLIN. July 30 (P).—A gift of want to emph-size is the birth of a $1,000,000 by Julius Rosenwald of Chi~ seille to Madagascar five years ago, MILLION GIVEN BERLIN Julius Rosenwald Fund for Chil- its grand climax a scene re-enacting the historic_occasion when the treops of Cornwallis laid down their arms before | Washington and his army 150 years| ago. \Tated surrender sceae. ration, not some one's defeat. It would | cago to the city of Berlin for a chil- be impossible to depict the surrender dren’s dental clinic was announced to- scen> as it actually occurred, and it day by Lord Mayor Heinrich Sahm. would be indelicate to e an emascu- | It is understood Ambassador Sackebt acted a3 intermediary, i mit to aliens who were here illegally. Rodle ald of the trusted employe in forging permits sold to aliens. Pizzalo Under $10,000 Bail. ‘The clerk, Simon Rothberg, was ar- rested Tuesday and held in bail of $2,000 on a charge of knowingly receiv- ing and accepting fraudulent re-entry permits. Lino Pizzalo, the alleged pro- moter, was held in bail of $10,000. Evidence against these two men, the secretary said, as well as others who are expected to be arrested shortly, will be turned over to the United States ' District Atorney’s office in New York | for prosecution. . | ‘The method was described as follows: an alien resident of this country who desires to go abroad fills out an appli- cation blank for re-entry -into the | United States and sends it along with | two photographs of himself to the Commissioner General of Immigration in_this city. i The applications are obtainable in New York City. When the return per- mit has been issued the applicant is notified by mall to appear at the point | where he obtained his application to | prove his signature. Returned Without Difficulty. Rothberg and his accomplices, it is charged, filed applications, using the names of aliehs who “were in this country legally, but then sold the per- signature of the innocent alien having been forged. b Aliens who had no official standing in this country obtained these fraud- ulent permits and traveled to Europe and back without difficulty. It was even possible to use these permits in smuggling aliens from foreign countries. Immigration officials said more than 90 per cent of the forgeries were made for Italians. They also said used pass- ports had been bought in large quan- tities for about $5 a piece from-aliens who did not need them any longer. CHIEF FINED $100 AND DISMISSED Campbell Given Suspended Sentence in Alexandria Vegetable Theft. Special Dispatch to The Star. DRIA. Va., July 30.—Capt. W. W. Campbell, deposed chief of Alexandria police, pleaded guilty in Police Court today to charges of petty larceny. He was fined $100 by Judge ‘William S. Snow, and a jail sentence of gix months was suspended by the court on recommendation of Commonwealth Attorney Albert V. Bryan. He was im- qudhuYy dismissed from the 'force. Campbell was arrested last Thursday night for stealing vegetables from the stand of Julian F. Chauncey in City Market. Al:nm request of the Chauncey Snow stated he had been lenient in the case on the recommenda- wealth attorney and Juse ;an'nwrdo} 15 ment. Campbell has been captain six years. : . s Smuggle Rum. . Sats. prombition e prol n-portr:dm to be a trust to reg- ulate their activities. ~One Mfimu said to have imported 265,000 gallons of contraband into Finland this year. Tun- SOUGHT IN KILLING Witnesses Tell of Seeing Two Runnning Near Place Where Cab Driver Died. Two colored bandits who were thwarted when they tried to hold up a South Capitol street grocery last night were being sought today in con- nection with the slaying of Mannie Solomon, 29-year-old hackman, who was shot about two hours after the attempted robbery. Search for the pair, begun when it was learned that they used the same |kind of pistol as the one with which Solomon was killed, was intensified they saw two colored men running near the intersection of Union and O streets southwest, where the murder was com- mitted. The new witnesses—Mary FElizabeth Gray, 30, colored, 1230 Four-snd-a-half street southwest, and Evelyn Hall, also colored, 429 O street—said they saw the fleeing pair a few moments after hearing the report of a revolver, fol- lowed by a crash. Saw Two Men Running. southwest—had told the police that he saw two men running through an al- ley in the rear of his home a short time after he had heard the shot and the crash, & Although Henderson gave the police a partial description of the clothing worn by one of the men, he was unable to discern the color of either of them. After being questioned by members of the homicide squad, the new wit- nesses were taken to the Woman's Bu- reau, where they are being held for fur- ther investigation. * Two Others Held. Two other persons—a colored man and his wife—also are being detained in connection with the shooting. but the ?:hce hl\"ednot mfi“fl:\n ul et‘hr;ll:’l. g any evidence either of 3 The man, John Barber, 26, of 712 Ninth. street southwest, is locked up at the third precinct police station, while his wife, Bessle, 27, is being held at the Women's Bureau. Both were ex- pected to be questioned by members of the homicide squad today. Me2nwhile, no charge has been placed against either of them. Solomon, who lived at' 707 Quincy Street, was bound south cn Union street et the time he was shot. As he slumped forward in his seat, his taxl, which is believed to have been traveling at a good rate of speed, crashed into a tree near the corner of O street. Victim’'s Neek Broken. The bullet, fired from s .45-caliber automatic, pierced Solomon’s neck, en- tering the left side and emerging from According to the Casualty physician who pronounced Solcmon dead, the hackman's neck was &k&n and his jugular vein severed by slug. ‘The ‘report of the pistol also was heard by John Gale, an employe of the Capital Traction Co., whose southwest barn is near the scene of the murder. Gale police he heard the shot at sbout 10:55 p.mm. The report, he sald, was followed a moment or - later by the ncise made as the crashed into the tree. 5ot "Sl!a ran to the wrecked automobile wheel, apparently dead. - mm police and summoned an ambulance. - Solomon was dead the doctor who accompanied the ambulance to the scene. Programy on Page C:4 Henderson told the police he was in (Continued on Page 3, Column.l) | when two new witnesses told police that | Previously, another witness—William | | D. Henderson, jr., 18. of 425 O atreet | At the same time, President Green |of the American Federation of Labor, | | issued a statement predicting that the | unemployment _situation _ this _coming ‘Wlnler would be worse than last, and | adding that shorter hours constituted “the only permanent solution to the | unemployment _problem.” | _ Bolstering these expressions from | labor was the reiteration by Secretary |of Labor Doak of his indorsement of | the shorter work week. There was no further word from ad- ! ministration circles on the situation | since it developed yesterday that Presi- dent Hoover has started a study de- signed to co-ordinate the various relief agencies to ccpe with unemployment problems. However, some Red Cross chapters have indicated to headquarters here ! thai they are planning to co-opeiate with other agencles in relief work, in- cluding unemployment, this Winter. ‘They are consulting with national of- ficials of the American Red Cross on | the matter. Up to Local Chapters. ! Chairman John Barton Payne sald today that while no decision had been reached, he fit that in the instances reported it was a matter for the local chapters to decide. Under its charter national headquar- ters of the Red Cross is barred from as- | sisting in unemployment relief. but this | is not regarded as extending to co-| operation by local chapters. Payne said, however, that in any event officlals would insist that local chapters should not pledge the national organization in any steps toward co- operation they may take. He said that if appeals were made after local resources of the chapter were expended they would probably be denied. “We are making no hard and fast rule, however,” he said. “Our action will depend upon the circumstances i which may develop.” Fifty cents from each membership goes to national headquarters. The re- mainder, varying according to the " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) OWNER PREFERS DOG TO LOST AUTOMOBILE | Man Held Here for Taking (!u-.I but New York Woman Would Rather Have Pet. The Washington detectives who re- covered her automcbile and arrested the alleged thief, further obliged Mrs. Greville Trench of New York yesterday when she indicated by telephone she was less interssted in the machine than in a dog taken along with it. The officers, Jacob Wolf and Hugh D. Robey, reopened the investigation and learned the man reputed to have driven the car here dispos:¢ of Mrs. Trench's pet for $2. : They traced the dog to his new owner and were holding the animal today, further word from New York. e fll"l-flhhln:elefi‘lh:z + California, .crossing e country ae.w York, where he was befriended by have come to W: with Wel- msn—] John Mochini, 29, of New Rochelle, N. Y., and Frank Burton, 18, of Oalifornia. Imi tion authorities in New York ‘were when, police say, Welman admitted to them he made an illegal | 15. ,family. |7l Police arrested two others said to|in ‘ashington . Welman is be! 1 ‘i'.&’x?'#?-"?:&”m' e Attorney McNeill will serve notice on the Senators for a hearing before the court August 12. The senatorial com- mittee is expected to meet during the end of August. -Bishop Cannon sailed yesterday on the Aquitania for Europe.” He brought | suit some weeks ago against Repre- | sentative Tinkham for $500.000 damages | for statements in the public press by Tinkham of the charges made on the floor of the House. OHIO BANK ROBBED OF $40,000 BY TRIO Bandits Armed With Machine Gun Escape With Bonds and Rail- i road Pay Roll. By the Associated Press. CANTON, Ohio, July 30.—Three un- | masked robbers, attired as railroad workmen, robbed the Brewster Banking | Co. In sguthwestern Stark County af | $40,000 in cwrrency and bonds today. Two of the men were armed with pistols | and the other carried a machine gun. ‘The bulk of the loot was in cur- rency. George Bixler, cashier; Miss Odes: Moser, a bookkeeper, and Wil Youngman, a customer, were lined with their faces to the wall while the rob- bers looted the cashier's cage and vaults. Officials said that none of the safety deposit boxes had been opened. Included in the loot was money brought in by the bank to cash pay roll | checks for the Wheeling & Lake Erie | Railroad shops and offices at Brewster. A posse armed with shotguns started | pursuit of the robbers as they speeded away in an automobile. however, was (wo years. If precedent is followed it is possible he will receive no more than three years for both ef- fenses. Officials pointed out that Capone. Hke any other Federal prisoner, may apply for a parcle after he has s-rved one- third of his sentence. United States Attorney George E. Q. Johnson, how- ever, has ceclared he would never rec- ommend a parcle for a gangster. Capone is already under a six-month sentence for contempt of court, imposed for his failure to respond to a Federal grand jury summons. He appealed, and unless the wppeal is withdrawn by his attorneys. he will not be subject to ac- tion on the contempt charge by Judge Wilkerson today. Unless the matter Is disposed of. Capone may be subject to an additional six months’ term after he is liberated from Leavenworth, Capone Disconcerted. Capone appeared disconcerted at the court’s attitude and the rumor gained circulation that he might withdraw his guilty plea and stand trial rather than make a personal plea for leniency. The hearing lasted less than 10 min- utes. The big gangster, weighing 250 pounds. stood before the bar with his hands behind his back. twisting & white handkerchief. He teetered a bit on his toes as he continued his methodical gum-chewing. The jurist read his remarks rapidly and forceful shaking his head for punctuation. s he looked straight.at Capone and said, “the defandant must understand he can have no sgreement with the court,” the gangster ceased his chewing. Enters Court Alone. The gang leader mads his entry alone, driving from a hotel to the Federal Building without his usual bodyguards. | Cordons of uniformed and plain clothes det>ctives cieared his way to the court room. Avid throngs on the street pressed toward the four entrances of the build- ing. but mounted police outside and (Continued on Page 2, Column ; 25,645 WORKERS’ WAGES REDUCED IN JUNE, LABOR BUREAU LEARNS: Number of Cuts Shows Drop From Figures for May. Forty-five Industries Involved, Average Is 10 Per Cent. ‘The Labor Department’s Bureau of Statistics today made available figures showing that 25,645 persons recelved reductions in pay in June as against a total of 46,377 in May. The figures, compiled by Commissioner Ethelbert Stewart, revealed that 210 establish- ments throughout the United States had reduced their wage rates during the last month, which was a decline of 28 per cent, as compared with 293 in May. Commissioner Stewart’s report showed that 45 industries were involved in the wage cutting for the month ended June ‘The decreases averaged 10.8 per cent and affected 67 ver cent of all the employes in the plants concerned. A total of 20 wage decreases were ported by ‘food establishments; 34 the textile group; 39 in iron and steel and 27 in lumber. Nineteen fertilizer plants cut wages averaging 14.9 per cent, affecting 462 employes, 7. per cent of those in the establish- merits reporting to the bureau. PReduction in the paper and pul] dustry averaged 9.8 per cent, an 4,880 employes., In May, 93 w—r were divided p in- af- among 46 industries and averaged 10.4 per cent, affecting 73 per cent of all employes in the establishments in which the reductions were effected. Thirty-three cuts were reported hy plants in the textile industry, 53 by the iron and steel group. 60 by the lumber group and 50 by the stone-clay-glass industries. There was also a decline in the num- ber of establishments reporting wage rate increase. Five increases were re- corded in June, averaging 123 per cent, and affecting 182 employes. In May, seven plants in six indus- tries reported increases affecting 743 employes, 49 per cent of the tatal num- ber, and averaging 3 Mr, Stewart recent! ges upon. 13,887 identical establishments in of the principal manufacturing indus- tries in the United States, having in June 2,798.185 employes whose ~com- hlne.d‘ 5e-rnnw; in one week was $64,- He also reported employment ip- creased in June in 18 of the 64 sepa- rate manufacturing indusiries sur- veyed. and inc earnings were reporied in 13 industries. 'y