Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast). Fair and warmer tonight, probably followed by thundershowers tomorrow; cooler tomorrow night; increasing south- erly winds. Temperatures: Highest, 86, at in Washington with the Associated Press news 12 a.m. today: lowest. Full report on pagp 6’4. at 6 a.m. today. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 he benin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 31899, ntered as seco nd class matter post office, Washington, WASHINGTON, FARM BOARD SEEKS NEW METHODS FOR BOLSTERING PRCES Members Confer After Flat Refusal to Purchase More Cotton. FARMERS AND TRADERS ASK COTTON BE HELD TU. S. Supply Held Market Menace. Williams Hints Formulation of Another Relief Plan. For the second successife day mem bers of the Cotton Advisory Committee | met today with Carl Williams, Farm | Board member for cotton, to discuss the many problems confronting producers and handlers of the new crop. | The announcement yesterday that the | board was not considering the pur-| chase of any more cotton followed a | conference between Williams and mem- bers of the Advisory Committee, Which gives the board the benefit of its knowl- edge of the cotton industry when called upon There was no disposition at the Farm Board, however, to connect the decision to buy no more cotton with the meet- | ing between Williams and committee | members May Have New Plan. Tn stating that the board had aban- doned stabilization operation _because | of continued overproduction Williams said the board was still considering | various plans to help the situation and ' that it “might have something to say | later on.” Cotton farmers snd trade interests | have urged the board to announce tha® it would not sell any of the 1300.000 bales held by the stabilization corpora- tion this year. Cotton men have char- acterized this cotton as a menace to| the market. because of the uncertainty | as to its disposition. Asserting that for two years the board had “cushioned the American farmer, particularly the raisers of cotton and wheat, against price declines that have affected other commodities and indus- tries,” Willlams said, “the board has discovered” that purchasing of the com- odities for price bolstering purposes “is not the remedy for the situation.” Board's Efforts Futile. Williams puffed thoughtfully on a!derstanding that Austria will agree to' cigarette as he made the announce-!| ment to newspaper men. He supple- mented it with a studiously phrased statement that the board's stabilization | operations in wheat and cotton were| futile in the face of continued over-!phrased to let Germany and Austria off | From cctton, he turned to wheat| with the comment that the estimated | 12 per cent reduction in th> Winter| wheat acreage “was not enough. i As & means of further reducing the| wheat acreage, Williams suggested that farmers living below the belt of 25-inch rainfall let half of their land lie idle this Fall. A E» said “Summer tillage” was prac- ticed to a considerable extent now be- Jow the Z5-inch belt. adding that “Sum- | mer tillage” was cultivating the soil and keeping it free of weeds without planting it to any crop. Draws Rainfall Line. williams sald portions of the Dakotas, the Texas panhandle, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Mon- tana were below the rainfall belt he mentioned. The clarification of a phase of the cotton situation came after conferences with Southern Senators last week and followed immediatzly a three-hour dis- n with members of the Cotton Advisory Commi This group, provided for by the same Jaw which set up the board itself. cam here today in response to a call from Williams, He said at the beginning of his press interview that it was “only one of the committee’s regular meetings,” but later added that various relief plans had been | discussed. The committee members included Bradford Knapp, chairman, of Auburn, Ala: Harry L. Bailey of New York, U. B.| Blalock, president of the American Cot- ton Co-operative Association. Raleigh N. C.. A. H. Stone, vice president of the Staple Cotion Co-operative Association, Greenwood, Miss.. and A. E. Kobs of the Oklaho na Cotton Growers' Associa- tion. In support of his assertion that the estimated 12 ction in Win- ter wheat acreage was insufficient, Wil- Jiams said the crop this year was esti- mated by the Agricultural Department at 894000000 bushels and the carry- over was piaced at 319,000,000 bushels Tha 1.213.000,000 bushels of | “(Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) RELEASE SOLDIERS i Two Freed of Alleged ‘Shakedown' | at Request of Former Justice. Freed on charges of attempting to rt $1,000 from Danicl Thew Wright, on of the former justice of the ict Supreme Court, two soldiers returned to duty at Fort Humph- defendants, Sergts. John A, and Frank Aiken, 38. were ¢ in Police Court by an assistant United States attorney. = The prosecutor ex- plained he decided not to press the charges at the request of Wright's father. He revealed he also had ques- tioned several witnesses in the case. The soldiers were arrested Saturday following an alleged attempt to “shake down” young Wright Friday night. ‘Wright told police they gained entrance to his apartment, 2401 Calvert street, by impersonating Federal prohibition agents. RUDY REFUSES GUARD NEW YORK, September 1 (#)—Rudy Vallee has retused a police guard de- spite a warning that a plot to kidnap him was overheard in an Albany-to-New York train. The singer was notified by Police Commissioner Mulrooney that a_pas- senger had notified police he overheard a p'ot being hatched by two men on the train, Valles said that friends were al- ways present at his home, when he was not at a hotel or theater, leading his orchestra. 2 | daughter of a Southern “Slaughter Farm”’ Fenced to Charge Public Admisfion By the Associated Press. CLARKSBURG, W. Va.| Sep- tember 1.—County officers ffound a board fence erected alojg the highway in front of the “glaugh- ter farm,” at Quiet Dell, when they went there this orning and a man was sclling tiRkets at the gate. ‘The fence was erected by an enterprising man who expected to profit from the curious who have thronged the plate since the bodies of two women and three children were foun. Twenty-five cents was for admission for adi cents for children. Two workmen at the f{\ they were hired by a man named “Kincaid” and the fencs completed at 4 a.m. today said “Kincaid” told them he had leased the property. Sheriff W. B. Grimm told the workmen to find the man and direct him to report for questioning. -ADVERSE CUSTOMS PACT VERDICT SEEN Geneva Expects Germany to Make Counterproposals of Larger Scope. BY JOHN GUNTHER. By Cable to The Star. GENEVA, Switzerland, September 1 —The sixty-fourth session Council of the League of of ready dead—the Austro-German cus- toms union. The verdict of The Hague court on | that scheme has been held up until September 5 on account of the techni- cal details in drafting and releasing the text. The German delegation will im- mediately present counter proposals on a larger scale if the verdict, as is generally expected, is adverse. These, it is thought, will include a proposal for a 10 per cent tariff cut in all Eu- rope, Wwith progressive regional agree- ments to replace a limtied customs union. The Austrian delegation, it is said, will “voluntarily” renounce the customs unon plan before The Hague verdict comes. Two hundred million shillings (528,000,000) have been regranted to Austria in renewed credits on the un- accept The Hague verdict quietly. Will Leave Reich Free to Act. The verdict itself, even though almost surely negative, will be very carefully as easily as possible. The verdict, it is said, will base its objections to the pact, not on the treaty of St. Germain, but on the Geneva protocol, wherein Aus- tria, on getting a ncw loan, promised not to jeopardize its independence. Freedom of action to Germany to make now proposals is thus more or less assured. If, upsetiing all the dope, the verdict should approve the union, then politi- cal action by the Council to kill it may be expected. Six Topics Are Important. As usual during League sessions, most of the work will not be done in the Kansas and | formal sessions, whose agenda is very | sparse this year, but in private conver- sations among the delegates. The fol- lowing topics are of paramount interest: 1. The Franco-Soviet non-aggression pact, which is initialed but not signed, and which Prance wants to enlarge to include Poland and perhaps Rumania. 2. Franco-Italian naval conversations whereby the London five-power treaty may finally be completed, 3. Jockeying for position in the forth- coming world disarmament conference nd the choice of a new president if Arthur Henderson of Great Britain is forced to resign. 4. The fantastic Coudenhove Kalergi may be built uncer with the end of returning Danzig to Germany fld perhaps ending Ger- many's agifition for revision of its eastern frontier 5. Financial the suffering state of and Southeastern ntral Europe, cm%u Hungary, Rulgaria and perhaps Ruania . 6. General projects for economic_collshoration, vague as ways, by lowering tariff’ barriers. (Con: 1031 POLICEMAN KILLS GIRL AND HIMSELF proposal of Sount whereby a tunnel aid for European al- Shoots Pitcher During Drinking Party in Auto. By the Associatsd Press. MOBILE. Ala. September 1.—Ed- ward Stafford, 36. Mobile policeman, shot and killea Miss Betty Owens, 21, Association base ball pitcher. and then committed suicide near here early today after an Daughter of Base Ball automobile ride, described as a drinking | party. » Stafford was married and the father of one child Roy Jeniins of Bonifay, Fla,, told police he and Stafford went for 'a ride with Miss Owens and her sister, Polly. daughter of Tiny Owens. All were drinking, he said. At Grand Bay, Ala, 28 miles from Mobile, Jenkins sajd, the car was stopped and ne and Polly Owens left it for @ moricrt. They heard shots, he added, and ran back to find Stafford and the girl dvinz. They were brought to a hospital here, but both were dead on_arrival. the Nations { opened today with the big business on hand of killing something that is al- the Polish corridor | NATON SEORED T CHECK VTN OF PONERS LUR (Clarksburg Police Doubt His | Statement That Five “Are All There Are.” |DESCRIPTION TALLIES WITH BAKER SLAYER Court Officials Discuss Possibility 1 of Special Term—Digging for | Bodies Continues. By the Assoclated Press. CLARKSBURG, W. Va. September 1.—The Nation was scoured today for trace of women with whom Harry F. Powers corresponded to learn if more yielded to his lures of wealth and social position and died as did Mrs. Asta Eicher of Chicago, Mrs. D. P. Lemke of Worcester, Mass,, and Mrs. Eicher's three children. Qfficers here checked and rechecked papers found in the possession of the pudgy. 42-year-old student of “scien- tific crime” and admirer of Rudolph valentino. In Detroit, headquarters of a correspondence agency Powers used, records of the agency were sought for further clues. Meanwhile digging progressed about the Powers death garage, near here. for trace of any further victims there riight be: court officials discussed the possi- bility of a special term of court to try | pow for the five killings he has Bd-i mitted. and_interest heightened in l.hrl suggestion that Powers might have been | responsible for the mysterious slaying | in ashington of Mary Baker, Navy| Department, clerk. Police Not Satisfied. Search of an old well near Powers'| garage revealed no further bodies yes- terday, but police were not satisfied still_doubting Powers' statement that the five he strangled and beat to death are all there are,” they discussed plans | for using a steam shovel to tear ul the acreage about the place and pre- | pared to search the bed of a neatby | creek. Wy Conferences between Criminal Court | Judge John E. Southern and Will E.| Morris, Harrison County prosecutor. | continued, the special court term in| the balance. Demands for prompt dis- | position of the Powers case poured in} Upon the prosecutor Saturday nigh after the discovery of Mrs. Lemke body. There was no indication, how- | ever, of what action might be- taken | Powers’ attorney, meanwhile, refused to { | commit himself as to the possibility of | a plea of insanity being entered when | | fhe trial s called. Attempting to com- bat any such move. the State vesterday | called Dr. Edwin E. Mayer. Pittsburgh | psychiatrist, who said he found Powers “legally sane.” May Be Baker Slayer. City Detective Carl Southern today | announced receipt of word frem Wash- ington police that Powers' description | | tallied with that of a suspect killing of Miss Baker two vears ago. In- quiries in that case followed a sugges- | tion from a Washington resident that | Powers, reluctant about telling when he was in Washington, D. C., might be the ayer. Tearning a man and two women were | at a tourlsts’ lodging house there on (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) 1 i | | | | [ 'NATIONALS LEADING A’S, 3-1, IN THIRD Cronin Slams Home Run in Upper | Left-Field Stands Off ) )‘ Walberg. | | Special Dispatch ‘o The P HIA, September 1.—The | Nationals fouid Rube Walberg easy in 'the opening innings of today's gam-~ | here and were leading, 3 to 1, in the | third inning. | Joe Cronin got his twelfth homer of | the season with a loft to the upper left-fleld stands in the thrd. FIRST INNING. WASHINGTON—Myer _singled to left. Manush forced Myer. Bishop to | Williams. Miller made a fine running | catch of Cronin's hoist to the right field corner. Harris singled toleft,, sending Manush to sccond. West | ! singled to center, scoring Manush and | | sending Harris to third. On a double | steal Harris scored and West took sec- lond. Bluege fanned. Two runs i PHILADELPHIA—Bishop went out. | Kuhel to Jones covering first. Cramer | flied to Harris. Cochrane singled to! right. Moore forced Cochrane, Cronin | to Myer. No runs. ! SECOND INNING. WASHINGTON — Kuhel _singled to right. Spencer fanned. Jones dropped | a single in right, sending Kuhel to | third. Myer fanned. Manush fouled |to_Cochrane. No runs. i PHILADELPHIA—Foxx_fanned. So | did Miller. Dykes singled to left cen- Iter. williams forced Dykes, Myer to | Cronin. No runs. THIRD INNING. WASHINGTON — Cronin dropped a | homer in the upper deck of the left field stand near the foul line. It was his twelfth homer of the season. Harris | Tined to Williams. West flied to Miller. | Bluege rolled down the third base line and was thrown out by Walberg. One Tun. \l PHILADELPHIA — Cronin went into lr.'enwr for Walberg's high one. Bishop fanned. Cramer lined to Harris. No runs. | Stafford and his wife were estranged. JOB MADE HUSBAND DRUNKARD, SAYS WIFE, PLANNING TO SUE Court Approves Action, but Says Proving Right to Damages Is Difficult Undertaking. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, September 1.— The Caiifornin Supreme Court has grantzd Mrs. Ruth Wheeler the right to sue the Shell Oil Co. for $250.000 on grounds the company made & drunk- ard of her husband, Joseph C. Wheeler, former company manager for Southern California and Arizona. mM the the court referred culties. ell nigh insuper- abl, of the plaintiff proving the facts necessary to Tecovery of damages.” Whe:ler, whese former salary was $1.000 & month, was discharged. Mrs. Wheeler sucd in Los Angeles® Supzrior Court on allegations the Gompany made Wheeler a drunkard by ordering him to entertain visitors and drink with them. The company appealed on grounds the section of the Volstead act under which Mrs. Wheeler sued was unconsti- tutionady L R ! ment and the economic depression. D. €, TUESDAY AW AN N N \\\: AN N N 4 TRRNST, RSy C7= \\BYGosH. e 1 THINK THIS DOCTOR ! \\\\\}\ : 85 Xz, 7 FH% = ~ ES SN DFFICIALS STUDY U.S. FISCAL POLICY Will Wait Several Months Before Reaching Decision on Tax Hike. | By the Associated Press The administration has reached no | conclusion concerning its fiscal policy for the next year, but is studying the economic situation to determine if an | increase in taxes will be necessary. It was said authoritatively today that Government leaders are studying the | economic outlook and will walt at least | | two or three months before reaching a { deciston as to whether the Government cen proceed without imposing additional taxation. | It was pointed out that no definite knowledge exists as to the trend of | Government income, but that financial leaders are contending that receipts might rise rapidly with a change in | conditions. Government leaders believe the pres- ent system of taxation, based in large part upon the income and corporation ! tax, falls short in the face of changing | economic conditions. \ Seasonal Improvement Seen. | The administration holds the opinion there has been some improvement in the economic situation, but that this is based in considerable part upon pres- ent seasonal factors. It does not min- imize the burden to be carried during the next Winter, due to the unemploy- ment situation. It was safld aiso the administration has been giving close. attention to the econcmic_situation in Europe, feeling | that the business outlook of the Unltedi States has been dominated for the past several months by the situation abroad. | Some of the factors upon which ad- | ministration officials are basing their | views include the actual financial bur- | den of unemployment relief and the rate of loans on bonus certificates, Relief Adds to Burden. Statistics now in the hands of ad- ministration officials were said to show | expenditures for unefnployment relief have placed an added burden upon the Government's financial machinery of about $500.000,000. Other figures were said to show that | | | { approximately 380,000 more men now | are employed directly or indirectly by the Government than was the case | ast year. If the present rate of loans of bonus certificates continues, it was said, it will require an increased expenditure | of between $200.000,000 and $300,000,- | 000 during the present year. 1 The aaministration was said to feel that it could maintain loans on bonus certificates until the opening of Con- | | gress, but that if the present rate con- tinues a considerable would be necessary. High Government officials regard the | $800,000,000 long-term loans to the | Government last June as approximate- | ly covering the deficit of last year.| ‘ihey regard the recent $800,000.000 appropriation | | long-term issue able to cover payments | on bonus certificates. | It was said the administration feels | the Government could not continue in- definitely living on what was termed its “fat,” but that if the economic situ ation improves the Government could | continue for a considerable period in | this_fashion. | The administration, it was said, in- tends to turn much of its machinery during the coming Winter toward maintaining what was termed its “so- cial obligations,” preventing in so far as possible real suffering from unemploy- RESCUED FROM BLIZZARD Three Students Safe, While Four Others Are Located. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Sep- tember 1 (#).—Three students who were lost in a blizzard on Mount Ruapehu | have been rescued and®four others in the party have bzen located. A search- ing force of 200 men is working to bring them in. The students are members of a party of 14 from Auckland University who ascended the mountain slopes Saturday and missed their way in the storm. One group of seven arrived safely yes- terday, but the other section lost their bearings a second time. DIRIGIBLE RETURNS Los Angeles Back .at Lakehurst After Flight From Newport. [URST, Septzmber1 (#).—The Navy dirig'ble Los Angeles returned at 5 am, y from Newport, R. I, where it was anchored for a time to its mother ship Patoka. _The dirigible, with Comdr. A. H. Dresel in charge, lett Newport at 10 p.m. Girl Learns to Fly With Broom Handle As Control Stick By the Associated Press NEW YORK, September 1.— Charlotte Hodgkinson, 19. who took her first flying lesson and solo flight in one day after 2 hours and 27 minutes of instruc- tion, taught herself the theory of flight with a broomstick. Her mother, describing her daughter’s “parlor flying labora- * today said Charlotte “was ys a tomboy and a dare- devil” When the aviatrix was 7, she dived into the Hacken- sack River and rescued a play- mate being swept under' a float by the tide. Three weeks ago the girl be- came air-minded and made & parachute jump at Roosevelt Pield. Then, after intensive training in her homemade cock- pit, doing banks, turns, loops and dives with a broom handle as the control stick, she went to Curtiss Afrport for instruction. ~ Only caution, her mother said, kept her instructor from letting her solo sooner. ARMY FLYER LEAPS INAIR RACE GRAS Lieut. Thayer Olds Escapes. Fighting Planes Thrill Cleveland Crowds. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, September Thayer Olds saved himself from injury when his Army plane crashed several miles north of the Cleveland Airport today by a parachute jump from a 500- foot altitude. He landed In Lake Erie and was able to wade ashore unassisted. The plane was wrecked when it hit the ground in a sparsely-built residen- tial section. Lieut. Olds, after the wreck, said he would return at once to the airport where the national air races are being held. The most serfous injury of the 1931 1.—Lieut. | DOAK FLAYS JONES AND NAMES ALPINE Supervising Director to Take Over Employment Work of Resigned U. S. Chief. service. L 4 Yesterday’s Circulation, 108,831 TWO CENTS. (#) Means Associated Press. HINT PERJURY CHARGE AFTER FIRST, PRECINCT THIRD DEGREE PROBE Some 6f Police Reported to Have Amended Statements There Was No Brutality. |ROVER ANNOUNCES DECISION TO CONDUCT PROSECUTION Inquiry Reveals Inspector Stoll Was in Station When Harker Says He Was Beaten. Perjury indictments against certain policemen of the first pre- cinct who have denied knowledge of third-degree practices in their station house possibly will be sought as an outgrowth of the grand jury investigation of five distinct cases of alleged police brutality, be- ginning tomorrow, the grand jury. | . Since four policemen are inve The policemen against whom perjury counts may develop are in addition to five officers involved in the five cases to be presented to Four Officers Involved. olved in one case alone—that of | James Henry Harker, allegedly beaten with a piece of hose until he | confessed to robbery—it appears ti individually or collectively, in sever: ! and Policemen W. C. Groomes, Wil roughs. hat the accused quartet is named, al of the additional brutality cases. The four officers cited by Harker are Detective James Mostyn liam R Laflin and William T. Bur- Identity of the fifth policeman against whom witnesses have | made charges has not been disclosed. The perjury possibilities are understood to arise from action of ~ certain officers of the first precinct -in signing statements denying any knowledge of alleged third-degree methods at their station house. | There are reports that several of f the policemen “amended” these statements when questioned by agents of the United States Bureau | of Investigation. Some of the policemen are said to have intimated they signed | Sccretary Doak of Labor said today | the statements reluctantly, fearing loss of their jobs if they did not the resignation of Francis 1. Jones as | director general of the United States Employment Service, “was demanded | for the good of the service.” Mr. Jones in his letter of resignation, which he submitted to Secretary Doak late yes- |terday, charged that the reorganized |service was “unsatisfactory and bitter- ly disappointing.” | “It is a source of extreme gratifica- | tion to me to know that I had no part |in establishing it,” he further informed |Mr. Doak. The Secretary, canceling |® trip he contemplated to his farm |in Virginia toiay, r:fused to comment \on that part of the Jetter, but said: “The fesignation of Mr. Jones was | demanded for the good of the service. The service will be benefited by his departure.” | Alpine to Take Over Work. | Secretary Doak, in discussing the | resignation_informally with. newspaper men, said that Mr. Jones' office would | be absorbed by John R. Alpine, who has | beer: supervising director of the service for several months. Jones and Mr. Alpine were $7,000 an- nually. Immediately upon placing his letter [on the cabinet officer's desk late yes- | terday, Mr. Jones was reported to have left Washington for an unannounced | destination. Mr. Doak appeared pro- voked over the attitude Mr. Jones had taken, declaring that in deciding to do away with his services, he had given | Mr. Jones. three week: notice. The | office, he added, will now function un- der ‘one head. whereas for several months it had two. Doak Cites D. A. V. Letter. | M. Jones charged in his letter that | Secretary Doak was attempting to | abolish the World War veterans' em- ployment offices. To this, Mr. Doak also refused to comment, but gave out 1 & letter he received today from E. C. | Babcock. national commander of the | Disabled American Veteran: veterans' employment offic aying the ad co-op- The salaries of Mr. ' alr races, occurred as they went into| erated heartedly with the disabled vet- fall in line.”_ ROVER GETS DATA ON BIHOP GANNON Presecutor Gives No Indica- [ i tion as to Whether Grand | Jury Will Act on Case. | By the Associated Press. | District Attorney Rover today re- | quested and reccived from the Senate Campaign Funds Committee the record of the hearings on the use of cam- paign money by Bishop James Cnnnun,; jr., in 1928. Chairman Nye of the Senate Com- mittee, in & letter accompanying the | record of the investigation, voluntesred any additional information desired the district attorney. | Rover gave whether he would go before the grand jury with the case. Senator Nye has referred to the tran: action of Bishop Cannon in handling anti-Smith campaign funds of 1928 as | amounting to “diversion.” Two associates of the Southern Meth- odist churchman, directing the anti- Smith Democratic drive, refused to test: !ty before the committee last week. They were Miss Ada L. Burroughs of Rich- mond. treasurer. and J. Sidney Peters | of Newport News, Va.. secretary. | In his letter to the district attorney, Senator Nye said “I shall be delighted to be of any no indication as to| {_ It is said that perjury counts will not be considered if policemen “tell the truth” before the grand jury. Should |evidence of false testimony before the grand jury b2 uncovered drastic action will be requested. - Stoll Was at Precinct. _Inspector Louls J. Stoll, wh> was as- signed by Supt. of Police Pratt to in- | vestigate Harker's beating, was at the first precinct on the morning of the alleged attack there, it was disclosed tod: Inspector Stoll was in confer- ence with Capt. W. E. Holmes in the | latter's office, which adjoins the room | in which the assault is alleged to have ! taken place. Capt. Holmes and Inspec- tor Stoll left the station house about noon for lunch. The beating of Harker is supposed to have occurred during the | morning. Both Capt. Holmes and In- spector Stoll have denied hearing any disturbance, and an audibility test con- ducted in Holmes office has shown that a 2-foot brick wall effectually bars | noises made in the so-called “third- degree room.” Presentation to the grand jury of the first group of five cases is expected to | require two days. and if the grand jury votes to indict, its report may be forth= coming by the end of this week, In the event of indictments, prompt trial of the accused policemen will be sought. Photographs to Be Shown. Evidence to be shown the grand jury will include press photggraphs oi Harker | shortly after his release from custody. a whip and a sledgehammer handie { found by Justice agents in the locked drawer of a desk in the room used for “sweating” prisoners and a piece of rubber hose. The rubber hose was found outside the station house after the Harker charges had been made public. Fed- eral investigators have no proof that it is the piece of hose which was seen about the station house on numerous occasions and which is allged to have been used on Harker. Apparently this hose has “disappeared.” Analysis of stains scraped from the { floor of the room in which Harker was “questioned” was not conclusive, it is their fourth day today, when Oliver | erans’ organization in finding employ- ment “for the 65,000 unemployed. but assistance to you that I can at such said. Government chemisis were un- time as you shall be in a quandry re-|able to say whether the spots* were Morard of Lakewood, Ohio, fractured employable veterans, whose disabilities one leg in the crash of his glider from | res"lll";xeld fm'ra wzr‘ur\'lges_" | “This outfit received the assistance of & height of 25 feet. | your départment in formulating t Loses Control of Glider. | bregram, not from Mr. Jones, who was Spectators said Morard lost control | | lukewarm to it, but from John R. Al- when the rudder of the eraft broke.| ®XY the Labor Department today' it | ine,” the letter said. The accident was the fourth of the|yag stated that Secretary Doak had | races, but was the first i which any | requested Mr. Jones' resignation on one was badly hurt. st 13, Fhe opening day two Marine pilots | s 1 had & spectacular escape fron death | when their planes collided in midair | all methods of handling the service. and they took to their parachutes. In| On August 13 Mr. Alpine addressed a test flight last Friday, Comdr. R. L.|the following letter to Mr. Jones: R. Atcherly, British Schneider Cup| «It has been apparent since the in- racer, suffered a cut on his forehead |stjtution of the plan for reorganization when his ship turned over in landing.|and expansion of the United States Em- Yesterday C. Shirley Reitzel of Akron ployment Service that your services crashed from a low altitude in the have been exceedingly unsatisfactory men's dead stick landing contest and and not conducive to best results as was cut above the right ear. | concerns the aforesaid reorganization strong_wind blowing across the|and expansion. It had been known for some time that the cabinet officer, Mr. Jones and Mr. Alpine were not agreed on | | garding certain testimony, and 1 want i perfectly free to confer with Mr. Basil Manly, who has been assist- ing us in this particular inquiry and who is thoroughly conversant with the | record in the case WIDOW OF T. P. 0’'CONNOR, 'NOTED IRISH LEADER, DIES | Former Wife of Washingtonian | Was Native of Texas—Wrote | Several Books and Plays. By the Associated Press. | LONDON, September 1.—Mrs. T. P. | 0'Connor, widow of “Tay Pay" O'Con- | nor, noted Irish leader, died today of A field made glider flying difficult today. Maneuvers on Radio. ‘The little monoplane Pete, built by Ben O. Howard of Chicago, in the ga- rage back of his house, qualified today for next Monday's Thompson trophy race, the fastest event of the races. The monoplane, with its weight econ- omized so greatly that it is large enough only for Ben with his shoes off (and at that he has to turn sidewisc to get in) averaged 176.679 miles an hour. The qualifying speed is 175 miles an hour. In the same Howard won third place in the Thomp- son trophy race last year. For the first time, Army maneuvers will be broadcast from an airplane be- tween 4:50 to 5:05 p.m., Eastern stand- ard time, when 72 pursuit planes from Selfridge Field, Mich., loop and roar over the stands in simulated warfare. Speed Planes Groomed. Speed also shared the program with the spectacular, for some of the fastest hm the air TaSex weed sent through tryouts for e jompson race. Entrants are determined they will break the world speed record for land planes, which was set away back in 1924 in France at 278.8 miles an tour. Since this record was set only once has a land plane ccme as close to it as 13 miles an hour. Twice since the pilots began gathering for the races here a speed of 250 miles an hour has been attained. So far at the races a woman has ained the largest share of the honors. she is Mrs. Phoebe Omlie of Memphis, Tenn., who flies a monocoupe. 1) (Continued on Page 4, little plane | “You are requested to submit your resignation as director general, United States Employment Service, Dzpartment of Labor, to take effect at the close of business on August 31, 1931. Jones Hits Service “Set-up.” Late yesterday Mr. Jones wrote to Secretary Doak that “unwittingly you have paid me a fine compliment in con- firming the fact that in no degree am I resronsible for the present ineffective set-up. As the records of the service will disclose. the present s un- (Continued on Page 5, Column 2,) pneumonia after a short illness. Her side. She was born in Austin, Tex, the daughter of Supreme Court Judge | George W. Paschall, and first married | F°G" Howard of Washington, D. C. | She married O'Connor in 1885. She s the author of several books and plays and was president of the London Bociety of Woman Journalists. Her husband died in November, 1929, after n long career of journalism and Politics in behalf of Irish freedom. Virginia on Grady L. Boatwright, Mrs. Hoover's Segret Service guard, slipped away from the White House last Friday and mar- ried Miss Mabel Craven of Sutton, W. Va. The wedding became known today when Boatwright ‘notified his colleagues that he and his blide are ho ing. He took advantage of the week end trip of the Hoovers to their Rapidan camp to “put one over” on his fellow members of the White House Secret Bosiweient. who 1s W] born in Augusta, Ga., 38 years old, , and has a neymoon- | MRS. HOOVER’S SECRET SERVICE GUARD IS SECRETLY MARRIED Brady L. Boatwright and Miss Mabel Craven of West Honeymoon. member of the Secret Service for five years. With his partner, Russell Wood, he has become a familiar figure wher- ever Mrs. Hoover fi On her trips out of Washington twright precedes the party and makes all advance ar- rangements. Before becoming a Secret Service {man he was with the Pinkertons in | Georgia, later going West to Salt Lake City as assistant superintendent for the private agency. He was special in- vestigator for the president of the Union Pacific Railroad just prior to Joining the Federal service. | | son, Francls Howard, was at the bed-‘ ! blood or some other substance. | Work on Score of Cases. | Investigators under J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Invesdgs{iod |and John M. Keith. inspector in chargé of the inquiry, are at work on mo:z |than a score of other cases in which police brutality has been charged. Some of the charges date back several years, king it cxtremely difficult to obtain isfactory evidence. It is understood Government will_continue its_in- vestigation until all charges have been thoroughly probed. Another month may be _required for this work. District Attorney Rover announced he would present the first group of | cases to the grand jury “in person,” {thus setting at rest reports that he uld ask for appointment of a_special Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) ma RAIL WRECKS ATTEMPTED Three Trains Strike Obstructions Placed on Tracks. WOODMONT. Conn., September 1 | (®).—Three trains, including the Men- | trealer, struck a series of obstructions placed on the tracks of the New Haven Railroad last night in what railroad officials in New Haven today described as_a deliberate attempt to derail trains. Engineer Nable of the Montrealer, en route from New York for Montreal, re- ported his train had run into a pile of tie plates and railroad ties near the Woodmont labor camp. The engine was slightly damaged. ‘The engineers of a railway express agency train bound to New York from New Haven and of a New Haven to Bridgeport freight train reported hav- ing run into a pile of stones in the same vicinity. Neither of these trains were damaged. TAKES OVER COMMAND Rear Admiral Taylor Takes Charge of U. 8. Asiatic Fleet. SHANGHALI, September 1 ().—Rear Admiral Montgomery Meigs Taylor as- sumed command of the American Asiatic Fleet today. Rear Admiral Charles B. 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