Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER, (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast), Fair today and tomorrow; mot much change in temperature. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 81, at 2:30 pm. yesterday: lowest, 68, at 10 pm. . Full report on page 5. R he WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star's exclusive carrier service. National 5000 to start immediate delivery. (M Means Associated Press. e ey s e ered as B second class matter post office, : 207 31,897, Washington, D. C. o. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1931--104 PAGES. * FIVE CENTS | TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS 1,380— No. 300,000 Death Toll | FIFTH “BLUEBEARD” e corcen im chom MURDER VIGTIN [§ After Dies Break FOUND AS POWERS ©for centea Area Swert- CONFESSES GUILT by Released Waters. Body of Woman Believed to Be Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke, Worcester, Mass., in Grave Near Garage. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAL_August 30 (Sunday)— Gen, Chang Chi-Kiang, district com- missioner for Northern Kiangsu Prov- ince, reported in belated and fragmen- tary dispatehes today toat between 200,- 000 and 300,000 persons perished in his district since 8 miles of dykes along the Grand Canal between Kaoyu and Yang: collapsed Tuesday end Wedn: Indications were that the Kaoyu dis- trict suffered a much greater disaster than the Wuhan area in Central China comprising the cities of Hankow, Han- vang and Wychang, where thousands (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) e BAILINICK ASKS THAT HE RESIGN Human Bones Are Reported in Burned Cottage Tells Police. Near Site of Killings. 87 the Associated Press CLARKSBURG, W. Va, August P9.—A fifth body, that of a wom- Bn, was found tonight by police officers grubbing in the earth #bout the garage near here where | Harry F. Powers today confessed he hammered and strangled a Seaham Harbor Demands He_§ Quit as Representative in Parliament. By the Associated Press. {tion,” g less drastic order. IDAHO GOVERNOR DECLARES MARTIAL LAW IN FIRE AREA Proclamation Follows Out- break of Severl New Blazes Thought Incendiary. 45 FIGHTERS OUSTED IN CLEAN-UP DRIVE Forest Blazes Fought Front From Canada to Santa Bar- \ bara, Calif. on By the Associated Press | BOISE, Idaho, August Gov. C Ben Ross tonight proclaimed martial | law n three counties in South Idaho which are being ravaged by forest fires, and ordered out State troops to up- | press incendiarists. | The proclamation of marf lowed closely another statement declar- ing the section in a “state of insurrec- 29. al law fol- | Before issuing the order Gov. Ross conferred with other State ofcials, who advised that new fires were being de- liberately started in Gem, Boise and valley counties. Fires in the Boise Basin have razed two.towns numerous ranches and cabins and AR RACE CROWD Rat Trap Is Answer To Theftby Vermin Of $1,600 Cached CANNON CASERESTS i 'U. S. READY TO TAKE “THIRD DEGREE DATA BEFORE GRAND JURY Probers Said to Have Amassed Enough Evidence to Proceed This Week. HARKER CHARGES PROBABLY WILL BE FIRST REVIEWED Rover Expected .to Return for Confer- ence With Thacher—May Suggest Special Prosecutor. | The Department of Justice made preparations yester‘(lay to go i before the grand jury early this week with preliminary results of its sweeping investigation into alleged third-dégree practices of the Washington Police as District officials went forward with plans to make police stations a safe place for prisoners. Moving with a dispatch that has amazed observers, an augmented corps of crack investigators under J. Edgar Hoover, director of the :Bureau of Investigation, is said to have amassed sufficient evidence ‘in three days to warrant initiation of criminal proceedings. Despite the veil of official secrecy with which Director Hoover and his men have shrouded their activities, it was learned last night that arrangements are being made to rush at least one third-degree case before the grand jury by the middle of the week. widow and her three children to iurovefl fatal to two men LONDON, August 20.—Ramsay Mac- | In a statement, Gov. Ross said a dan- burned | | { 1S KEEN FOR SPEED WITH PROSECUTOR Since it is known that Justice operatives concentrated their probe at the outset on the charges of brutality made against officers By the Associated Press. | gerous condition would be presented PASADENA, Calif., August 20, | when the larger fires were suppressed. death last month. | Dongld was repudiated in his own con- “She’s a Chicago woman, but I|ituency today. The Labor party ex- | don't know her name,” POWers ecutive, the Sesham Harbor Division | told Sheriff W. B. Grimm when in- | of Yurham, passed & resolution de- | formed of the latest discovery. His manding that he resign as the repre statement was accepted as confes- | sentative of the division in Parliament. sion that the woman, too, was The resolution will be referred to a| among the victims of his matri- meeting of delegates at Wheatley Hill | monial agency killings | September 12, where it probably will be | “That’s the last one,” he added | affirmed as a matter of course. later. S “There are no more Out' The action was taken in the face of a | there. & 4 long letter from the prime minister, in | Officers arriving at the jail With | ynich he defended his acticn in head- | news of the discovery found ing the new n:tional government, and | Powers playing poker with other set forth his belief that only by sanc- ers, with matches for chips. | tioning a small cut in the dole was he e latest victim was stocky, able to insure its continuance at all black-haired. She had been |.p o ' Frosure Swhilh il b | killed by the twisting of webbing | yrought to bear upon me and my friends | about her neck as her hands were |in Seaham, but I place myself unre-| lashed before her to prevent re- |servedly'in their hands and am willing ! sistance. She had been dropped, |to do whatever they desire.” 3&0\1& semblance of shroud or | Gets News at Home. , into a shallow grave near i MacDonald was informed at his where were found late Friday the hcme in Lossiemouts, Scotian bodies of Mrs. Asta Eicher, Chi- he is widow, and her three chil- | party’ , d, where | the week end, of the! His only comment, Explaining that most of the fire fight- | ers were “law-abiding, industrious men,” | he declared that “firebugs among them | will get in their worst work when they | are no longer employed. | “No Misunderstanding The Governor said the s was issued “so there won't be mis- | understanding in the minds of men | planning to start fires maliciously.” | They will be hunted out and prose- | cuted if it is possible for the military | forces to do so. Any one resisting au- | thority under the order is subject to| imprisonment of not less’ than two, years. | Gov. Ross said the “drastic-measures” | were necessary to “curb the work of | men who maliciously light fires in order | to give themselves employment in fight- ing_them.” “It is not cur.plan to take over civil | functions.” he caid. “Arrests made by | State authority will be handled through | the established~criminal courts. Na- | tional Guard and forest officials and I| have agreed that nothing less than this action will control the situation. Areas | within the counties where there is ho | timber will not be included within the | eflect of the law except so far as it is d order | Dizzy Pace in Early Tests Whets Taste for National Classic. BY JOSEPH A. EDGERTON, Aviation Editor of The Star CLEVELAND AIRPORT, August 20 — “More speed” is the cry at the National Air Races, the annual classic of aviation which opened here today, and the airplane designers, builders and the country's picked pilots are re- sponding in a fashion which leaves lit- tle room for doubt that re sensations are in store for the next 10 days. For years, since the Army and Navy withdrew from Schneider competition, the developmént of racing planes has been neglected. This year the Nation's aviation industry is beginning to make up for its- past neglect. and has m. ‘Hatry, Greta and Anabel. | A book found in one of | the many trunks Powers had stored in the garage he built at Quiet Dell, four miles from here, made police believe that the nev discove: victim was Mrs. Dor- othea Pressler Lemke of Worces- | ter, ., one of the rmany women to whom Powers, describing him- self as Cornelius O. Pierson wealthy and lovelorn civil en- gineer, had corresponded through matrimonial agencies. Crowd Threatening. Digging at the scene went forward fier @ halt while the woman's body tifted from its grave, and while pushed back a crowd that, in- ngly threatening pressed about tae officials as they dug. discov- had been buried e weeks ago. Meanwhile, Powers slept—or sleep—in the Harrison Coun . heavy guards pus] the turbulent crowd that s sbout the jail doors, seeming, observers said, to lack only leadership that would hurl its force against the offiters eflort to wrest the pris 3 Demands pou Attorney W. E. term of court to v, the possible pe: ing. The attorney could not take rogratives of i John C. Southe: ‘Washington called Powers wi regular Novembe: A court orde County authoritied petition by attorney an ing that the accus permission to confe had been subjecte u Sought Weman's Prope Powers, 42, si today—urbane m respondent (Continued or MEXICO WELL PLEASED MEXICO CI’ Foreign Minister today diploma extension of the Mexican Clatms Commission were goi ndly atmosphere. He t the status of the negoti- other than that there has Tty to say ations s been a recent exchange of memoranda g between the United States Clark foreign office Ambassador J. and Reul the ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ON PLANE GIVES EIGHT PASSENGERS SCARE Man Who Caused ExplosioniSeized and Turned Over to | Berlin Police When Liner Escapes Disaster. 5 the Associated Press m-nu% August 29 * e, D 1727, narrowly escaped dis- mster today when a passenger at- Sempted to commit suicide with the aid ®f high explosives The plane was fiying at an altitude of about 1,500 feet’ when it was sud- denly rocked by an explosion. Pne of the mechanics hurried to the wash- and found a passenger trying to the contents of & bottle, said to ‘The Lufthansa 8o explosive, +the House of Lords in order to retain | d plens to return to New York by steamer | oy a, e W8S hecessary to prevemt persons making k > unncessary trips into the forest areas. s‘m‘::“ it for the moment." @ the! “Our principal comoern is ahead of prime minister of his intentions the | US, When the forest service finally sup- situation_remained obscure. His letter | Presses the fire around Placerville and imes Pas: to the Seaham executive was inter- | Orimes D preted as leaving little doubt that he |Ploved will then be released. would resign from the House of Com- mons, But the belief was general that he would wait until time for the general election. Should he resign now it might be necessary for him to accept designa- tion s a peer 5o that he might enter | abiding industrious men. But the fire ibugs among them will get in_their | worst work when they are no longer jemployed. It is their activities which {we must guard against.” Entrance Restricted. The Governor declared the order ef- {fective 8 a.m. tomorrow. After that 3 - hour no one will be permitted in the for instance—who were not members of | 4017, B0 9%e W e PEFR U n, TR the House pof Commons, but the head | i 9 | proper authorities of the government must be in Parlia- | ™ noeona) Guard troops will remain in ment. s t S {the fire area, and in the wider terri- Mr. MacDonald has represented the | tory covered e nsurrection procla- Seaham division for the past two years. | 01, SOVETeC by (he Tourreetlon proc Cabinet Continues Study. | fire danger. the Governor said Despite the sitacks of the Laborites declared the fire in on the head of the new national gov- ernment, the cabinet pressed on_today ""(Continued on Page 2, Column the post of prime minister. Britain has had prime ministers—Lord Salisbury wotild be stopped day or two. |~ Porest fires continued bumning_furi- hern and Central_Valley GRAFZEPPEL'N OFF ;‘guoflguxmm:‘r‘;) of McCall as well as in TO SOUTH AMERICA | within the to incendiaries Seven new fires were reported in the past 24 hou of them between | Placerville and Pioneerville within a - | short_distan Dirigible Expected to Make Nom-| [ncimers ¥ Stop Brazil Trip in 73 Hours. High Valley where the outbreak was laid n High Valley, in Val- x fires were started. Counties Tncapable. In his proc had satisfa the Governor ade to appear at many of the origin and that f the counties has dentify and ar- Column 4) TAR PART ONE—22 PAGES. News—Local, National for LYONS, France, August (Sunday) —The Gsal Zepp Grand Camp at 2:10 a | headed for Marseilles. The sh s | ng at an altitude of abo | FRIEDRICHSAFEN, (Continued on TODAY'S S 1, Germar left h The Graf Zeppe trotting dirigible 9:36 o'clock (4:36 3 Genera Foreign and PART TWO—8 PAGES. al Features. Naval Reserve— | Page 5 The Home Ga Veter Wars—Page 8. of Forelg PART THREE—14 PAGES, passengers aboard the ship 8. Slebel of Saginaw, Mich on the Grafl's flight to America in 1929, PART FOUR—$§ PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, s and Radio He | 15 the Motor World n was Herb Screen ond Page 3 alter his arrival at Pernambuco P War Veler veral hundred persons gathered at Ty gy $he hangar to witness the dirigible's de- | Doy 5 pzlnulr;: They chfiere as the BhiP 108¢ \~ Garden into the air and glidedl away s+ 11:55 pm. the Graf radioed M Ty o T over Basel, Switzerland { e g rigible s carrying a large cargo | Marine Corpe News—Page 6 ht and mail. There are 13 pas- | amcrican Lee Page 8 o Ko News of the Page 6. age 6. Page 5 d—Page 5 Crime in the Du P: 1bs }‘.’ W. C. A New [Fralern:l es—Page 6 | Organized Reserves—Page 6 | Disabled American Veterans—Page 6 Radio—Page 7 PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Sports Section PART SIX—12. PAGES. N/ and Classified Adver- | ' PART SEVEN—20 PAGES. | Maga. The Bridge Porum—Page 15 Other passengers went to the aid of | Reviews of oo Ronyor g P the mechanic and overwhelmed the | Cross-word Puzz! man, who was arrested when the plane | The Boys' and Girls' 19. ianded at the airdrome here. He re- | Those. Were Happy Days—Page 20. | fused to talk and police were unable 10| GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. |learn the motive for his attempt |t s I | "The plane, bound for Munich, Nurem- | bt |berg and Berlin, carried efght pas-| COLORED SECTION—S PAGES™ | sengers. Moon Mullins; Mr. and Mrs.: the Timid | The explosion did no damage and{ Soul; Reg'lar Pellers; Little Orpban the flight was continued after an in- Annie; Highlights of History; Tarzan | spectton. and Mutt and Jefl. About 700 men now em- | By far| |the largest majority of them are law | rea was well in hand | main fire area. | Jsunched & program which not only to make these races the most spectacular in the long history of the annual classic but threatens to topple all the country's previous speed records. It is 2 speed hungry crowd gathered here at the opening day. with an ap- petite whetted by trials of special racing planes during the past few days and by rumors of even faster planes which are being held under cover until the moment for their appearance on the race course. | Straight Courses Arranged. ! In response to the demand for the greatest speed man and machinery is able to produce, “Pop” Cleveland, con- test director of this show, has ar- | ranged a series of straightaway speed runs over a measured course, in which pilots will not have to worry about py- lon tums, which cut speeds, or any- thing else but getting out of their aerial comets the last notch of per- formance of which they are capable. There are, on the great Cleveland Airport today, airplanes the like of which this country never has seen. They are a foretaste of the aircraft of | tomorrow, stub-winged projectiles which | make miles look like city blocks. Lee Shoenhair'’s Gee Bee is one of them which has been seen in action. In trial {runs yesterday Shoenhair roared off {what he claimed was a 250-miles-an- hour clip and then landed, saying that he had only opened his throttle part | way so as to save his motor, which is new. “I guess my plane is s little old fashioned,” said Capt. Frank Hawks, whose speed records have startled two | continents, when he compared his fa- | mous scarlet Mystery with the new Gee { Bee and others of its kind in a conver- | sation with the writer a day or two ago. | up with the swim, but what am I going to use for money?” Doolittle Speed Startling. Cleveland was startled, but not at all incredulous, today when reports came that Jimmy Doolittle had burned up | the miles between Chicago and Los | Angeles in six hours in the new racing plane which he will fly in the Trans- continental Derby tomorrow. little short of fact, they are an indica- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) | “T'd like to have a faster one to keep | Though | the reports later were found to be @/ |likelthood that country will buy any —T, J. Wise, who banked his savings under his front porch, to- day took enough out of the Te- covered $1.600 he lost last week to buy himself one good-sized rat trap. Wise said he hid $1.600 in cur- Tency under the porch last May and last week went to add some bills to the roll. It was gone. He told his story to Fred Hilgen- feld, who crawled under the porch to search. Two large pack | | rats scurried away and Hilgen- | | feld found their nest—and the $1,600. BOARD GIVES CHINA NEW WHEAT OFFER Counter-Proposal for Sale of i 15,000,000 Bushels Made. |33 ! Cotton Senators Meet. | By the Associated Press. A new proposal to sell 15,000,000 | bushels of wheat to China went for- | ward to that country yesterday from the Farm Board. It was a counter-proposal as & result | |of China's complaints against the pro- | | visions of the first offer, but Carl Wil- liams, Farm Board member, in an- nouncing it declifed to make its details public. The stipulations of the first proposal that China buy some of the 200,000,000 bushels of wheat held by the Farm Board to feed sufferers along the flooded Yangtze River never were divulged. The Chinese government, however, was understood to have complained against the period for which credit was extended and also the interest| charges. U. §. Ships Asked in China Deal. The offer today marked the fourth exchange between the two governments on the 15,000,000 bushels \Nl]]h.l!‘\sz sald China’'s note asking better terms was received several days ago If the new offer is acceptable, the wheat may be carried to China in Amer- ican ships. Strong protests were made by shipping interests after it was dis- covered that the exchangz of 25,000,000 bushels of Farm Board wheat for| 1,050,000 bags of Brazilian coffee made no provision for hauling either the | wheat or the coffes in vessels under the | United States flag. | Chairman Stone said recently that the | board would endeavor to have a prov sion inserted that the wheat be hauled | in American ships if the deal with China went through. 1 There has been virtually no opposi- |ileved, offhand, that the Senate com- | here. tion from wheat interests to the sale| to China. If the Farm Board does not sell wheat to China, there is little| (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) | Son of Former Jurist Has | Soldiers Held as Imposters. Armed Sergeants Tried to Get $1,000 Rum Bribe, Police Say. | | An alleged attempt to extort $1,000 | from Daniel Thew Wright, 3d, son of the former fustice of the District Su- | preme Court, was thwarted by police | Friday with the arrest of two soldiers | impersonating reverue officers, the po- lice disclased last t. The soldiers selves as Sergts. Frank Aiken, 38, and John A. Velke, 31, both of Fort Hum- phrys, Va. They will be arranged in Police Court tomorrow on charges of impersonating an_officer. The police reported Wright told them the men came to his apartment, 2401 Calvert street, and told him were revenue officers and he sald, told they searched he two | men, | while which DANIEL THEW WRIGHT. THIRD. THWARTS EXTORTION PLOT identified them- 1 1928." | case demonstrated | amendment of the law so as to provide Nye Adjourns Senate Probe; to Await Action of Dis- trict Attorney. By the Associated Press. Chairmen Nye of the Senate Cam- paign Funds Committee, yesterday said he felt the suthorfties were “on notice of the apparent violations of the cor- rupt practdces act and of the contempt of the Senate developed at the hearings this week into the use of campaign funds by Bishop Cannon in 1928.” The district attorney’s office here promptly took notice of the Senate hearings. William H. Collins, first assistant, said he would discuss the cise with District Attorney Rover when the ]:ltkr returns to the city early next week. Senator Nye also said he considered it imperative to inquire into the bank account opened by Claudius H. Huston the International Germanica Trust of New York in the midst of the and from which one the anti-Smith Demo- id. This Co. 1 3 $5,000 check to crats of N Carolina was agcount ghowed deposits o between r 11 and November 1 of 1928 and withdrawals of almost $150,000 during that period. Huston later headed the Republican esident National Committee under Hoover. Senator Nye said examination of this account was vital in determining Just how much Bishop Cannon ad- ministered in 1928. Committee Hearings End. Adjourning the committee hearings definitely until October, the chairman s2id he expected “Bishop Cannon to ask to testify under oath in explanation of the record developed before us of the use of political funds made by him in He would not say whether the bishop would be subpoenaed. Two clese associates of Bishop Can- non on the Anti-Smith Democratic Headquaretrs Committee—Miss Ada L. Burroughs, treasurer, and J. Sidney Pe- | ters, secretary—refused to testify to the committee. b Nye \has directed Basil Manly, the committee expert, to draft legislation for tightening the Federal corrupt prac- tices laws. In a letter to Manly, he said the evidence in the Bishop Cannon “‘the * necessity for more definite and stringent provisions | for the handling and reporting of po- litical funds.” Cites Provisions of Law. As for’ the prosecution angle of the case, Senator Nye pointed out the reso- lution adopetd by the Senate says any violations of the law shown or any con- tempt of the committee all be pun- ished as prescribed by law Under that circumstance, the chair- | man said he did not regard it necessary for either the Senate committee or the Senate to give the record to the dis- trict attorney. “I feel,” he said, “It is up to the au- thorities 'to take cognizance of the vio- lations.” However, Collins was not sure about the authority of his office and he be- mittee or the Senate would have to cer- tify the record to the district attorney. In this connection, Robert H. Mc- Neill, counsel for Bishop Cannon, issued a statement challenging the authority of the committee and saying, “the mis- use of such funds i$ a matter solely for the consideration by the grand jury either in Virginia or in the District of olumbia and the record of the inves- tigation shows that Bishop Cannon has demanded such investigation by a Dis- trict attorney or State’s attorney through grand juries ever since the 1928 campaign.’ Interested in Letter. Senator Nye also stated yesterday he! desired to examine more closely into the letter of Bishop Cannon to Edwin C. Jameson, the New York capitalist, saying “Slemp has already paid three- fourths of the pledg Jamescn gave Bishop Cannon $65,300. Slemp said he gave nothing to Bishop Cannon and |did not know the “pledge” referred to {by_the bishop. In a statement, Senator Nye .em- phasized that the “first and perhaps only function of the committee, under ::: resolution which created it, has Te- ter $183,336 . | recently. of the first precinct by James Henry Harker, indications are that the Harker case will be the first to reach the grand jury. Rover to Return for Conference. In view of the policy of the Bureau of Investigation to delay presentation of evidence in court until an “ironclad” case has been built up, the decision to go before the grand jury this week would indicate success of the investigators in rounding up a mass of con- { vincing evidence in the Harker case. It is understoed that United States Attorney Leo A. Rover will return from his vacation for a conference tomorrow with Acting At- torney Generzl Thomas D, Thacher and Director Hoover. At that | time, 1t i§ believed, the suuutfindl‘g appointment of a special prose- {cutor to handle the case will A J:fitlce officials have declined to comment on such fmposa)& It’is known they feel that théquestion of a special prosecutor is one ct attorney should request appoint- for Rover to decide. If the d ment of someone outside his office to Preuem the third degree charges Justice undoubtedly would ac- to the grand l“me tlr'xeeq mment o | cede readily to In Line With General Polity. It is pointed out that appointment of a special prosecutor would be in line with the general policy of removing the inquiry from local District attorney’s office is under Federal supervision, als there necalta’llly‘ muy be in close touch with the police. The special prosecutor pian would relieve Rover and his H nts from any possible feeling of embarrassment it has been observed. ‘The Department of Justice would have no difficulty in finding a man to take chu}e of the Fmaecuuon. It has several attorneys on its staff who would be available, and, if necessary, could go out- side the department and appoint a special assistant to the Attorney General for that purpose, as was done in the Virginia McPherson case. John E. Laskey, former United States attorney here, was named special prosecutor in the McPherson case. His name already has been mentioned as a possible prosecutor in the third degree in- vestigation. authorities. While the Move to Tighten Discipline. Until the Department of Justice completes its inquiry District officials, it was announced, do not propose any further action with respect to the third- | degree charges, but they do intend, in the meantime, to take definite steps to | prevent a recutrence of the brutal treatment of prisoners. The first move in this direction will be to tighten discipline in the Police Department. The necessity of whipping obstinate policemen into line was impressed on Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, by Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby, who is making an independent investigation of the brutality scandal which developed while he was enjoying a vacation on the Pacific Coast, Maj. Pratt was closeted for more than an hour with Gen Crosby, Commis- sioner Luther H. Reichelderfer and Corporation Counsel William W. Bride, and the principal theme of the discussion, it is understood, was the loose discipline in the Police Department. The methods adopted for improving discipline were left entirely to Maj. Pratt, since Gen. Crosby said he would continue to adhere to his policy of non-interference with the administrative affairs of the depart- ment. | Denounces Third Degree. | G |~ Gen. Crosby, Commissioner Reichelder- PHILADELPHIA KIN fer and Corporation Counsel Bride : | were in conference continuously from DF UNDERWORLD SLA|N 0 oelock in the morning until about | |1 o'clock in_the afterncon, and at its | close the police Commissioner declared | “the Police Department can be run without the third degree and it must be »ru? that wdag m ik iad i — t was during protracted con- Mtio SIoWL-wenme Tean ference that Gen. Crosby learned first i Arr hand of the alleged beating of Harker tive Is Arrested. in the first precinct stafion house & 1 —_— week ago. ? £ Maj. Pratt, During the questioning of Maj. Pratt, By the Associated Press. Commissioner Crosby said he asked him ATLANTIC CITY, August 20.—|if pe ejther approved or condoned the Mickey Dufty, kingpin of the under- |third degree, and the police superin- world of Philadelphia and nearby, was |tendent replied that he had alvays been shot and killed late today as he slept | Unalterably oppased to the practice and in his room at the Ambassador Hotel | (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) Five bullets were fired into his | brain by unknown assailants. OIL MERGER TALKED ! Duffy had been known to police as | - {ruler of the beer racketeers of Phila- |Continental Co. and Shell Interests delphia and south New Jersey for many | May Be United. years. He had frequently been the tar- | * | oK ITY, August 20 () — get for bullets which Wounded him or | ,, OKLAHOA CTPY, Ausust 29 U missed. He had established no body- | of the Continental Oil Co. with the | guard at Atlantic City because he be- | Shell interests in the United States and Tieved he was safe there, he told friends | Canada is being discussed. | “Daniel J. Moran, Ponca City, Okla., William J. Jenks, 49, house detective ' president of Continental, is in London at the hotel, who was tfe first to find | and is reported in conference with Sir Dufly'’s body, was arrested and held | Henri Deterding, chairman of the board without bail late tonight on charges of | of the Shell companies. having knowledge of the murder and | B. H. Markham, assistant to the as a material witness. Detectives work- | president of the Continental, said to- ing with the county prosecutor’s office | night he had no information on such said Jenks refused 1o answer questions. a deal. ;Mickey Duffy Shot in Sleep in At- IN THIS YEAR’S COTTON CROP Low Prices Aho Endanger Loan Investment in Wheat; Leniency With Farmers Favored. $33,000,000 of hisy stock of agricultural credit corporations and for live stock fees . Of this sum o eaey. 84 sthke, Dncls: S a} 20C (o000 N AR OF, U0 o0