Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1931, Page 1

"ATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers and somewhat warmer to- night; fair and sligh! ‘emperatures—Highest, 86, at 4 yesterday; lowest, 69, at § a.m. toda; Full report on page 3. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 tly cooler tomorrow, .m. b WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. Associated service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday's Circulation, 109,389 = No. 31,91 Entered ag seco post _office, Wa ond class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, NAVY STRIKE HALTS PENDING PAY PROBE PROVISED SHLORS Disciplinary Action Threat- ened Against Further Re- fusal to Carry Out Orders. OFFICERS HAVE TROUBLE MOVING BRITISH FLEET Inquiry to Open\Tomorrow to De- termine Hardships Claimed by Enlisted Personnel. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 17 ing hulks of Great Brital The fight- restless Atlantic fleet were steaming quietly to- | ward their home ports today on the strength of the admiralty’s pledge that eny hardships resulting from wage re- ductions would be adjusted. Twelve vessels left Invergordon, Scotland, last night for Inverness, Portsmouth, Plymouth and Chatham after their crews had been told of the official decision. There was some delay in weighing anchors, until the men were assured the ships would not be yedirected to distant stations. While the passive mutiny in the At- Jantic squadron has temporarily been called off, Teports were received of un- zest in other quarters. The Daily Mail said the air force at Malta was dis- contented over pay cuts, but no trouble had occurred. The Mediterranean fleet at Gibraltar was sald to be quietly awaiting the outcome of the admiralty’s investigation. Block Labor Debate. Stme misgivings were expressed in the House of Commocns last night as to how the Navy's example would affect the attitude of the army and the police forces, whose salaries also have been veduced by the government's economy program. Labor members attempted to open debate on the subject, but the gov- crnment defeated their move ty a sub- stantial majority. Today, however, it was announced in the House that any further refusal of the men to carry out orders will be dealt with under the navy discipline act. Sir Austen Chamberlain, first lord of the admiralty, made the an- nouncement. In reply to an ironical question ‘whether the pay cuts were among those agreed to provisionally by the late Labor government, he said that when he took over the admiralty for the new Na- tional government he found instruc- tions to make the cuts in question. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald added that the labor government had been advised by the admiralty, when the cuts were under consideration, that | the men loyally would accept them, pro- vided. there were cuts all aiound in the public services and that there also was an adequite cut in the unemployment dole. Army Names Committee. As for the army, a spokesman for the War Office informed the House that all ranks had accepted pay cuts, but that the army council had set up a committee to inquire into cases of hordships imposed by reductions The Daily Herald printed a letter from the leaders of the Invergordon move- ment to the admiralty issuing a virtual ultimatum that unless the reductions were revised upward their followers would go on strike. “It is evident to all concerned,” the missive read, “that these cuts are a forerunner of {Fagedy, misery and im- morality among the families of the low- er deck, and unless a guaranteed writ- ien agreement is received from the ad- miralty, confirmed by Parliament that our pay will be revised we are still to temain as one umit, refusing to serve under the new rates of pay.” The Herald’s correspondent at Cro- mery Firth told how “the proudest ves- sels of the mavy lay idle and helpless while 12,000 sailors refused to obey or- ders™ The crews were in actual con- trol of the ships, he said, while the officers stood by helplessly. Crew Ignored Order. When the commander in chief of the fleet signaled the battleship Valiant Thurséay morning to lead the de- arture for Autumn maneuvers in the North Sea her crew stayed below decks ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) MAYFLOWER HOTEL PRESIDENT INDICTED Daniel J. 0'Brien and Six-Others LLS ENGINEER, HIS WIFE AND SON Tube Leading to Bed Room Hints of Suicide Pact—All Dead Two Days. When Found. ‘GAS KI | | | 4 | A mother, father and a 13-year-old boy were found dead in their | home at 4821 Forty-first street this afternoon, the victims of gas ! asphyxiation. | " They were: ‘ Serge Petrenko, engineer at the Bureau of Standards; his wife, a translator at the Department of Agriculture, and thelr son Vadin, a Western High School student. It is believed they have been dead for at least two days. Police entered the house after they had received reports of gas odors in the neighborhood. Police found a gas tube, connected with a stove in the kitchen. which ran through a hole in the ceiling into the room on the second | floor where the bodies were found. | Gas was flowing freely from the tube. | Petrenko was a former officer in the Russian army, having served from 1901 to 1907, leaving the army with the rank of captain. He was employed as an associate engineer at the Bureau of Standards. Two other members of the family, a son and daughter, were on a vacation at the seashore. They had been expected to return to- 0ES] NEW CLUES FOUND LNGS CASE DESTROVED NOTES - LINKED TO DEATH N 0L “E. H. D.” Urged Accused Nature of Important Infor- | Professor to Get Rid of mation Withheld Pending Wife, Coroner Says. Investigation. | By the Associated Press. HUNTINGTON STATION, N. Y. September 17—Assistarft District At torney Fred J. Munder By the Associated Press. HAMPTON, Va., September 17.—Cor- | oner George K. Vanderslice said in Cir- | cuit Court today that he believed a mo- | | of Suffolk | tive for the drowning of Mrs. Jenny | Graham Kane revealed in a letter | signed “E. H. D.” Suggestion that Prof. ;Ellsha Kent Kane of the University of Tennessee, get rid of his wife. He said | he believed the letter was written by a County announced today that the au- | topsy on the body of Benjamin Col- lings, murdered yachtsman, had fur- nished important information, which would not be made public pending in- vestigation. The autopsy was completed today Betty Dodd and that it had probably and plans were made for cremation been destroyed. | The coroner, appearing in opposition to bail for the professor, who is held for | | murder, did not explain how the con- | tents of the letter was known to officers, | who the woman was or why he identi- | fied her as the writer of the letter. He| said, however, that he had other letters | with the same signature, suggesting travel in out-of-the-way-places in Eu- | rope and the doing of unusual things. | Decision Due Tomorrow. | dge C. Vernon Spratley, (whom the application brought, said he | cision at 11.30 o'clock tomorrow. De. | fense attorneys contended that the pro- | fessor was being unjustly deprived of his liberty during a prolonged coroner’s ! inquest. | The coroner did not say where the | letters were mailed, but just before the | inquest was resumed this afternoon be | allowed newspaper men to read the sig- | nature of a jetter postmarked from the liner America on September 1. It was ended, “I still hold you very cearly in | my heart—Betty,” and was addressed to Prof. Kane. | | Believes Death Was Planned. { | | “This evidence, with other testi- mony,” the coroner said, “seems to indicate the death of Kane's wife was | of a premediated, carefully planned, | deliberate character.” | He said neither the letters he had nor their contents had been introduced in testimony before the inquest, but | were made a part of the record to be | filed with the court. | Judge Spratley commented that the introduction of such testimony was not | necessary. | The prosecution had called the cor- oner before the hearing to present to the court the grounds of the Common- | wealth for holding Kane. | Percy Carmel, defense attorney, said he was seeking bail pending the com- pletion of the long drawn out coroner’s | inquest. Hebsaid Dr. Kane, father of the defendant, would have to leave Hampton and that he desired to go on his son’s bond before leaving. Commonwealth's Attorney Roland D. Cocke told the court he had Kane ar-| rested to assure his remaining in the vicinity., When the arrest was made Sunday afternoon, he said, Kane had packed his luggage and was ready to leave for ancther State. Mr. Cocke alsc said officers found and obtained possession of jewelry valued at Brooklyn. Munder said the autopsy showed Colling's skull was cracked in eight places. Medical Examined Otto Schultz, who performed the autopsy, later took for analysis. The assistant district attorney said one of the witnesses at the inquest would be Clarence Fairchild, one of Collings’ few close personal friends. Suggesis Possibility. William A. Kelly, one of the attor- neys engaged by the Collings family, said today he was gowg to urge the authorities to search, not only for the two men Mrs. Collings says threw her husband into Long lsland Sound, but also for the body of a wounded man Mrs. Collings believes they had with them when they boarded the Collings’ cruiser, Mrs. Collings has said that when the men first approached the cruiser they offered her husband $100 to take the Wwounded man t6 the Connecticut shore. Kelly suggested the possibility that while they were talking the wounded man died. The men might then have become frightened that they would be involved in a murder case and that Eol‘h‘x:g! mlghAt ;ppee.r against them as vitness. ~ And so they might hav laul;dthm{n ‘nng thrown anlh Rhls bt‘:‘ds nd that of the wounded man into the water, he said. T Undecided on Inguest. When District Attorney Alexander Blue arrived he went into conference with Munder and the coroner, an- nouncing it had not been decided Whether or not to open the inquest this afternoon. In any event, he said, Mrs Collings would not be called to testify, ngr wo’gld her five-year-old daughter. e announced the autopsy definits established Collings died by drowm‘:x and not from the injuries to his head He sald salt water found in the lungs fhowed the yachtsman was thrown into | the water alive, although y unconscious. i Dr. Schulze found that Collings had }?een hl& on the forehead and b’:(’k by terrific” blovs. He was then bound so tightly that ropes cut into his flesh. Insists She Was Kidnaped. Mrs. Collings had told autho: she heard her husband. gry. - neres before y and funeral services this afternoon in | some of the organs to New York City | thousands of dollars which belonged to Mrs, Kane. tying me and putting me overboard | She has insisted under repeated ques- | tioning that two men boarded the yacht | Accused in Sale of Second and kidnaped and attacked her in a| Father Takes Stand. AS EXPERT ON GAS BY OWN ADMISSION {Company’s Engineer, Afler‘ Testifying on Pressure, | Refutes His Ability. lQUITS THE STAND AFTER LAMBERT’S QUERY |Had Made One Report Upholding { 5 or 6 Inches as Against Claim of | Employers for Greater Maximum. | The Washington Gas Light Co. at hearings before the Public Utilities | Commission on its request for al- { lowance of increased gas pressures in Washington today disqualified Bert H. Peck, one of its engineers, as an ex- pert witness on gas pressures and withdrew him. Late yesterday Peck had damaged ihe company's case, when, shortly after he was produced as a witness Peopie’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech read into | the record a report made by Peck to the Public Utilities Commission October 1930, saying vhat a pressure of four | or five inches was the best for gas| consumers. At the time that report was written, Peck was_chief engineer of the com- | mission. In March, 1931, he took em- ployment with the gas company and his appearance yesterday was as a wit ness in support of their petition for | pressures ranging from a 3-inch mini- mum to a 10-inch maximum, to replace the present limits of 2 to 6 inches. Shortly before the luncheon recess, 14 letters taken from the files of Presi- dent G. A. G. Wood of the local company at his home in Chevy Chase, Md., were introduced in evidence. They show gen- erally that arrangements for improving distributor and transmission lines were approved by officers of the Central Pub- lic Service Corporation of Chicago be- fore being put into effect. In one case the approval was by the Executive Commitiee of the board of directors of that concern. The documents were | identified by Mr. Wood and by Walter | | M. Russell, chief engineer of the local company. ' It is expected that these| letters will form the basis of considera- ble questioning when the matter of the | ownership of the local company is taken =up next week. | Witness Disqualified. As the hearing opened today, with Peck on the stand, Wilton J. Lambert, the gas_company’s lawyer, asked: | “Mr. Peck, are you an expert on gas| pressures? “No, sir,” replied Mr. Peck. | “That is all,” said Mr. Lambert. i Then a difference arose as to just | who had_disqualified ”Mr. Peck. .. Mr. Lambert blamed it on Mr. Keech and | cn William A. Roberts, counsel for the | commission. He said that these two by | their questions yesterday had demon- strated that the Witness was not expert. Keech and Roberts said Lambert had disqualificd him. In all events, Mr. Peck folded up his papers and left the stand, being followed there by David Allen, distribution engineer of the com- pany. Mr. Allen said that in his opinion a maximum pressure of 10 inches and minimum of 3 inches at the inlet to consumers’_meters, generally speaking, made for efficient operation of the plant. Produces Pressure Charts. He described some of the faults of the distributor system in existence when he took employment with the company last year and sald that the work in correcting these faults hid largely been accomplished, and esti- mated that it would be entirely com- plete on October 15. At one of the earlier days of the | hearing, Mr. Roberts had introduced |a chart to show that pressures at four | ~(Continuéd on Page 2. Column 5.) FRENCH TAX INCOME IN EXCESS OF BUDGET Tops by $8,000,000 Estimates for First Five Months of Fiscal Year. | | | | | | | | | By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, September 17.—Francols | cabinet today that for the first five months of this fiscal year the national income from taxes surpassed the esti- SEPTEMBER 17, !PECK DISQUALIFIED Pietri, minister of the budget, told theg, 1931 —FIFTY-TWO PAGES. FRNF P) Means Associated Press. TWO CENT | | News Note: Backwalking Texan on tour of the world arrives in Washington. BAR ASSOCIATION BACKS DRY REPEAL Count of 13,779 to 6,340 in Referendum Announced, 75 Pct. of Members Voting. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., September 17—The American Bar Association today went formally on record as favor- ing repeal of the prohibition amend- ment. The Executive Committee announced the results of the referendum last year as showing 13,779 members of the association as favoring repeal and 6,340 opposed. The total vote of 20,119 represented 75 per cent of the associa- tion's membership. There was no dis- | cussion of the report, and prohibition was not scheduled for consideration by | the convention. A preyious vote on whether a refer- endum should be conducted showed t vote the referendum on the repeal was held. Boston Discusses Question. Meanwhile Charles A. Boston, presi- dent, recalled a recommendation of George Washington for the erection of public_distilleries’ to supply spirits to the Revolutionary armies, and sug- gested that the recommendation, if it had been followed, would have saved | the country from the present prohibi- tion situation. Boston labeled prohibition as one of the four vital subjects that have emerged to interfere with “the arduous, but pleas- | ing task of attempting to make a Nation happy.” | Mr. Boston opened the fifty-fourth annual convention of the association here today with an address on the Con- stitution. Aside from prohibition, Mr. Boston found the development of the bank, slavery, and secession as the vital de- velopments in our history interfering with the Nation's progress. Slavery still casts its shadow, he said, and seces- sion appears to be dead. The bank ap- parently has finally been defined. But prohibition, though in the Con- stitution, has not ceased “to invoke violent opposition,” Mr. Boston said, and he recalled that the association by an overwhelming referendum vote found prohibition wrong. Interference Hit. Federal interference in business "nsl assailed, relaxation of the anti-trust laws urged and a detailed examination of the economic depression made yes- terday. Crime, too, was considered. One sec- tion being told the Wickersham report condemning “third degree” police metir- ods was a crime breeder. Robert H. Jackson, New York lawyer, (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) GRAF PREPARES TAKE-OFF ’il 782 in-favor and’ 5,625 against. After ' Paderewski’s Offer To Erect Shaft to Col. House Accepted | | | By the Associated Press WARSAW, Poland, ber 17.—The city council has accepted an offer by Ignace Paderewski to erect a monument here in honor of Col. E. M. House, who was President Wil- son’s close personal friend and advisor. NEW ALEN PLOT - FOUND IN GOTHAM | Septem- Gigantic Conspiracy to Smuggle Foreigners Into U.S.' Brings Garsson Here. 1 ‘The unearthing in New York of an-| other gigantic alien smuggling plot caused Murray W. Garsson, Assistant Secretary ‘of Labor, to rush to Wash- ington today from that city for a v:nn-! ference with Secretary Doak. Garsson refused to divulge any de-| tails of the new plot until after he had conferred with Secretary Doak. He in- timated that the subject they would | discuss was of such far-reaching impor- | tance that the Secretary would probably | issue a statement iTmediately. | He also refused to say whether the | new plct was revealed as the result of | a_special investigation now reported | going on in the Federal Naturalization | Bureaus in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Documents Held Missing. It became known here today that more Government documents referring to Salvatore Marahzano, racketeer, | |slain in New York last Thursday, and | properties’ were refinanced through a| other suspects in the Nation-wide allen | group of bankers, inchuding principally | WARDMAN NAMED N S7R0000 SUT Mortgage and Discount Firm Receivers Charge Fraud Against 15. = | Claiming it had been defrauded of approximately $760,000, receivers for | the Wardman Mortgage & Discount | Corporation today filed, in District Su- | preme Court, a suit allegedly describ- ing the “intricate financial jugglings™” associates. The suit asks that an investigation of the charges be made by some agency of the court and that, upon a final decree, cach of the 15 defendants be held liable for “such sum of money as shall be found to be due the plainti Named as defendants are Halsey, | Stuart & Co., Hambleton & Co., James C. Stephens, Charles B. Stuart, H. L. Stuart, Emory L. Coblentz, the Ward- man Corporation, Wardman Realty & t(:o"xeutlx;'\url‘l'.'m Co., Wardman's Real Es- a ‘0] Inc.: James B, Hobbs, ‘Thothas ?%e& Harry Wardman and Julius 1. Peyser, Joseph P. Tumulty and Thomas D. Parson, the last three being sued as receivers for the Ward- man Real Estate Properties, Inc. It is charged that Wardman, Bones and - Hobbs, by misrepresenting the true facts and conditions, sold about $900,000 worth of stock in the mortgage and discount corporation, which they controlled. ‘This money, it is alleged, was “Joaned” and diverted to the Ward- man Construction Co. After numerous manipulations, it is alleged, 72,878 shares of the common stock of the ‘Wardman Park Hotel, Inc., came to be plledzed as security in part for the Properties Refinanced. In 1928, the suit says, the Wardman BRUTALITY CASES BEFORE JURY SAD T0 INPLICATE WE AT HEADQUARTERS | [Number of Detectives Under- stood to Be Invoived in Some of Those Under Con- sideration Today. 12 OR MORE INDICTMENTS NOW APPEAR LIKELY Possibility Also Seen That Supe- riors Will Be Censured—Three “Key"” Witnesses From D. C. Jail and Three From Lorton Await- ing Call to Give Testimony. Sordid tales of brutal beatings | behind the locked doors of “third- degree rooms” in numerous police precincts were being unfolded to- day before a grand jury whose frame of mind is said to point to indictment of a dozen or more ad- ditional policemen and excoriation of their superiors. The stories of alleged viciousness were drawn from present and past | prisoners, from hospital officials, | from relatives and from other wit- ;neues subpoenaed by the Depart- | ent of Justice as a result of its three-week investigation. More than half a hundred in- stances of “strong-arm” methods by police will have been brought to the attention of the grand jury before its proceedings are cli- maxed, probably next Wednesday, by a presentment in court. Not |all of the cases will result in in- |of Harry Wardman and his w.mu.idlctmmts. but they enable the jury to draw a conclusion as to the prevalence of third-degree | practices and official responsibility therefor. Six "Key“ Witnesses Called. As the jurors began the second day of | their renewed inquiry it became appar- | ent the evidence is reaching beyond the | confines of the precincts and into police headquarters. A number of headquar- | ters detectives are sald to be involved in | some of the cases under consideration | today. Six prisoners, three from the Distriet Jail and three from Lorton Reformatory, were “key” witnesses summoned to tes- | tify today. All are reported to have told agents of the Bureau of Investiga- tion of attacks made upon them by po- lice officers. 1t is understood the grand Jjury is not confining its probe to acts of | cruelty designed to coerce prisoners into | making confessions, but is going into | cases of alleged brutality of any kind. . The prisoners brought to the grand Jjury yoom today included Francis De Sales Carman, Charles E. Smith, Wil- liam Sullivan, Arthur Henry Bellowe, Volie L. Jackson and James L. Strange. | The last two are colored. | Volunteered Statement. Carman, serving & three-year term | | inquiry now ‘being carried on by the Halsey, Stuart & Co. However, before at Lorton, Va. for housebreaking ard Labor Department, have been ab- | the bankers would consent to under- | larceny, is one of several prsioners who stracted recently from the files in these | take the refinancing, it is said, they de- | volunteered signed statements to Tha naturalization bureaus. Before Garsson arrived at the Labor | Department this morning Secretary | manded stock control of the Wardman Park Hotel. To make this possible, it is charged, | Star concerning alleged mistreatment at_the hands of arresting officers. Smith is serving a like term, having Doak had conferred with newspaper Wardman and some of his associates | been convicted jointly with Carman in men and had informed them that as far as he knew there were no new | developments in the smuggling investi- | gation. | Because of technicalities he said he | did not believe that the department, at | this time, would issue a warrant for the | (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) SRS | MILITARY ESCORT LOST | WHEN BOAT FOUNDERS |Seven Guards Were Bringing Crew of Six to La Paz on Tllegal Pearl Fishing Charge. By the Associated Press. LA PAZ, Lower California, Septem. ber 16.—A military escort of seven Trust Notes. By the Associated Press PITTSBURGH, Pa, September 17.— A special Federal grand jury today indicted six persons who were alleged to be officers and stockholders of the American Bond & Mortgage Co. of Chicago, and Daniel J. O'Brien, presi- dent of the Meyflower Hotel Co., Wash- gton, charging them with misuse of the The charges were brought in ction with promotion and sale of i mortgage bonds of the hotel ny. indicted besides O'Brien were \liam J. Moore, president; Charles Moore, vice president; Charles C. re, vice president: Harold A. Moore, urer; Kenneth W. Moore, secretary and general sales manager, and Hayden W. Ward, vice president, of the Ameri- can Bond & Mortgage Co. of Chicago. All are residents of New York and Chi- cago. ZEPPELIN AKRON A theory that heart trouble contrib- uted to the death of Mrs. Kane was set forth by Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane, father of the accused man and a surgeon, who testified at the inquest last night he had treated Mrs. Kare for heart trouble, which had bothered her for seven years. He suggested that heart trouble might have caused her to slip from a rock and drown while she was helpless. Coroner Vanderslice previously had sald that he was convinced Mrs. Kane's death was due to drowning and the only question was whether or not it was homicidal. Defense attorneys said that evidence (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Marie Faces Radium Treatment. BUCHAREST, Rumania, September 17 (/). —Dowager Que=n Maric, who has been ceriously 111 since the marriag Princess Ileana, is reported to be gain- ing in strength, but may have to sub- mit to radium treatments or an opera- tion. Her physicians have held consul- tations as to which is the better course. TURNED OVER TO NAVY MEN BY ITS BUILDERS Blucjackets Take Stations on Big Ship and Prepare to Go Aloft on Maiden Flight Mond By the Associatec Press. AKRON, Ohio, September 17.—Blue- Jackets of Uncle Sam's Navy today took the' stations aboard the Zeppelin Akron, the neviest of the Government’s air cruisers. ‘Pinal inspection of the ship, largest | of its kind, was_completed yesterday ay Afternoon. Weeks of painstaking tests have re- vealed the Akron is as nearly perfect as its builders can make it. After several days devoted to famil- larizing themselves with their duties, officers and crew will walk the ship out of its aiden fluht_flwk preparatory to its Thf‘ _Akmn will be taken aloft at 2 oAy p (farnnong small boat after drowning her husband, T Blue said Mis. Collings “would called until v s- i tomorrow for ques “I cannot say whether her story is a deliberate fabrication or the result of a wandering mind,” he added. “Her whole story is of the most fantastic nature. T still do not believe it in all respects.” Disirict Attorney Elvin N. Edwards of Nassau County, who up to yester- day had tdken charge of the case, only to lose it on grounds of jurisdiction to Mr. Blue. said the finding of the body supported his belief in Mrs. Collings’ story. Attorney Backs Story. Homer S. Cummings, attorney for Mis. Collings,” said his client was ready for more q positive her carlier stories had been proved by finding of the body. “There are always discrepancies in true stor- fes,” he ‘said. “It is omly fabricated storics that can be made to stand up.” Mrs. Collings was under the care of physicians today at her home in Sitam- ford, Conn., relieved that her husband's body had been found, since it sup- ported her story. A possible clue to two such men as described by Mrs. Collings developed in Norwalk, Conn. Several persons said two men arrived in a motor boat last ‘Thursday, took on gasoline, went into & nearby factory to dry their clothes and asked the way to New York. One was described as being 40 to 50, with a beard. The other was a blond | youth about 18, deeply tanned. | " Mrs. Collings had, estimated the age | ot her husband's assaflants as 17 and |56, years. respectively. night and that they had been soaked | by the spray. They arrived here about | 6:30 ana sailed in a westerly direction after purchasing $15 worth of gasoline. | Radio Programs on P;le C7 mate by about $8,000,000. Dr. Eckener to Stay at Home on| perished when the motor launch Gen- ioning, but that he was | The unforeseen surplus came mainly trom indirect taxes and customs, he said. In August the Increase from those sources amounted to $1,760,000, and in the same period the return from the business turnover tax, hitherto not up Third Trip to South America. | tember 17 (#).—Capt. Ernst Lehmann, | who will command the Graf Zeppelin |on her third trip to South America, to the budgetary provisions, showed |said today that if the weather is good considerable improvement. | he will Jeave tomorrow. M. Pletri said next year's budget was| There are to be 10 passengers, @ practically completed and would be laid | tentative list of whom includes Harold before the Finance Committee of the Knight of New York and a Mr. Vittie Chamber of Deputies very soon. of Chicago. Dr. Hugo Eckener will not Premier Laval informed his ministers | make this fight, for he must attend a that he and Aristide Briand. the for- | meeting next week in connection with eign minister. will go to Berlin in the | the Graf's projected polar flight next last week of this month. | year, WHAT IS THE DOLE? Is It Necessary in Periods of Degression? Or is it an economic weevil that bores in and saps the life blood of any nation? The Dole in England Is regarded as the best test of this economic and gdvernmental theory. HENRY J. ALLEN Former United States Senator and Governor of Kan-as Has written a special series of articles on the situation England finds herself in today as a result of the dole, ' This Series Will Start in The Evening Star Monday, September 21 FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Sep- | eral Bravo, which was being brought to La Paz on a charge of illegal pearl fishing, foundered in Saturday's hurri- cane off San Jose Island, it was learned here today. The crew of six managed to escape, making their way to Point San Evaristo by swimming and clinging to wreck- age. They said their guards perished because they did not know how to| swim. The packet boat, Cataluna, en route | from Rio Colorado to Mazatlan, went aground off Point San Evaristo, but its crew_was saved. Speml VWisely Slowing up of manufacturing has created shortages in many lines of merchandise. The vol- ume of installment paper is shrinking and savings accounts are increasing. Money now goes further to provide for the good things that make for contentment. Now Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) Lines. The Evening Star . .. 37,612 2d Newspaper . . . ... 15,284 3d Newspaper. . . ... 11,544 4th Newspaper . 3,090 5th Newspaper . 2,943 Total Hevsy: rrorn 32,861 | Every dollar spent wisely adds | to better business for every- | body. o . her pers) removed the stock from the safe of the Mortgage & Discount Corporation and substituted other less valuable paper as security for the loan. claimed the plaintiff company was de- frauded thereby and the court is askes by Receivers Harry A. L. Barker and Gardner L. Boothe to accord the dis- count company such relief as may be merited. The court is also asked to appoint receivers for tI Realty & Construction Co. and - thHe Wardman Corporation, and to appoint additional receivers to act in conjunction with, or in place of, the present receivers of the Wardman Real Estate Proper- ties, Inc. ‘The suit was filed through Attorneys Harry F. Kennedy and Norman F er. Affer the refinancing agreemerc had been reached, the first mortgage bond | issue of $16,000,000 was authorized. Of | this issue, $11,000,000 in bonds, secured by a group of 10 Wardman-built prop- erties, was sold to the public. The next step was the issuance of $2,500,000 of senior gold debentures, secured by a general mortgage in the same amount on the properties, and the common stock of the Wardman Realty and Construction Co. There were also issued $2.400,000 of junior gold debentures, which are said to have been turned over to Coblentz in lieu of his equities in the properties. Company in Receivership. A few months ago, the Wardman Real Estats Prcperties, Inc.. which appeared on record as the maker of the mort- gage securing the bond issue, announced it was unable to meet its financial ob- ligation and the properties were placed in the hands of receivers. The suit charges that the mortgage and discount ccmpany never engaged in any business, but was organized for the purpose of selling stock to raise capital o be loaned to the Wardman corpora- ion. Stephens is identified in the suit as an attorney working with Wardman as a_representative of the banking inter- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) connection with a filling station safe- | cracking at Twenty-first street aneé | Pennsylvania avenue last May. The is | two have alleged they were beaten an¢ kicked by policemen who arrested them | at that time and Carman also has declared he was attacked at No. 3 sta- tion house some m “(Continue CONTRACTOR HELD ON LIBEL CHARGE fAccmed of Making False Accusa- tion Against D. C. Employe. Charged with criminal libel as {ne | Tesult of an accusation that an as- sistant District building inspector re. ceived graft, William H. Pierce, colo: contractor, .1409 Morris road southeast, was held for grand jury action in Po- Hee Court today. Pierce waived preliminary heari and Judge Gus A. Schuldt fixed bon at_$500. The complainant in the case, Fred- erick A, Humm, assistant building in- spector, charges that Plerce libeled him in a letter addressed to his superior, | John W. Oehmann, inspector. Pierce | declared in the letter that Humm rs- | ceived $10 from him in overlooking his lack of a building permit. Humm later asked for an additional $5, Pierce’s letter reads, and when it was refused the assistant inspector threatened to give him “all tte trouble he could,” Pierce charged. With a superior from the building in- spector's office, Humm visited Assistant U. S. Attorney Michael F. Keogh and secured a warrant for Pierce’s arrest. on P WHO HELPED KILLS SELF AFTER NAMING SiX SET FOREST FIRES William Cothern Found Hanging by Blanket Noose in Jail After Implicating I. By the Associated Press. LEAD, S. Dak., September 17.—Wil- liam Cothern of Haywood County, N. C., hanged himself in the Lead jail last night after confessing that he helped to start 35 forest fires in the Black Hills during the last week. Police today were seeking six alleged accomplices named by Cothern. Cothern hanged himself with blankets soon after he had admitted guilt in & W. W. Companions. statement given E. A. Steinback, city attorne; Y. Cothern’s confession named six ac- complices who disappeared after his dr- rest Tuesday night, but gave only their last names. Officials said all were mem- bers of the “I. W. W.” Forest fires raged in the Northern Black Hills last week, covering 25,000 acres. The fires today were under con- trol, vut were still guarded by S{y men, 1