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LONG STANDS PAT | {ON'32 COTTON BAN .Seoond Statement Reverses| | Self on Voiding of . | oY srvere s menE, 5 Louisiana Law. By the Assoclated Press, NEW ORLEANS, La., September 17/~ After issuing a statement today that he would repeal by proclamation within a few days the Loulsiana cotton prohibition act, Gov. Huey P. Long later changed | his mind and said he had decided to “stand fast” in the event other States might wish to pass cotton relief| measures. The Governor -issued the second state- ment after the first had been published in the New Orleans Item and sent out over press wires. He waid the first statement was due to & “misunder- standing.” Gov. Long said he had until January 15, 1932, to repeai the statute by procla- mation if other States did not concur with similar legislation and added that he was in “no hurry to do so right now.” Gov. Long's first ctatement today said: “Proclamation Mandatory.” “It is mandatory on me to issue the proclamation under the las- guage of the law, which provides that unless three fourths of the cotton pro- ducing area of the South ratified Louisiana law, I must issue a proclama- tion declaring the Louisiana law ineffec- tive. It doesn't say I shall do it right away and I'm going to delay a few days. However, only a miracle, it seems now. could accomplish the things we sought to do when we passed the law.” ‘The Louisiana law was passed unani- mously at a special session of the Legislature when Texas refused to pass similar legislation, the law became in- operative since Texas produces approxi- mately one-third of the total domestic REDUCTION MOVE ADVANCES. Crop Representatives Decide on Plan at Meeting. OKLAHOMA OITY, 17 (@) —A definite move to bring about a reduction in cotton and wheat acre- age by limitation of planting and en- forced rotation was under way in Okla- homa today. Representatives of wheat and cotton growing counties, meeting at the call of Gov. W. H. Murray, agreed yes- terday upon a plan to confine 1932 cot- ton acreage to one-third and wheat acreage to two-thirds of the State's tillable land. Limits Successive Planting. iThe plan provides that farmers could not lawfully plant cotton on the same land two years in succession. Wheat could not be planted for more than %ea successive years on the same d. ‘The Governor said the proposal would become effective when enacted into law and three-fourths of the other cotton or wheat cing States adopted At his request the conference left the question of whether the plan 1d be made law by a session the Legislature or the ive and referendum route. The e zilkhed to learn what Texas may take toward acreage legislation. Representatives Split. tatives of the wheat growers accord with the COTTON BAN VOTED. South Carolina Senate Passes Bill on Final Reading. COLUMBIA 8. C., September 17 (#). —ncmmm-’nflpl proved on final reading the to wing in 11932 and ‘The vote convened Charges that newspapers of the State, which almost unanimously op- nd the Long “northern - were in . Several in urging adoption of the * day,” attacked the press. Both Houses received resolutions to Legislature acts before considering legislation for re- lietf of the cotton situation, but neither ‘was acted upon. Also introduced were resolutions calling on the Federal Gov- ernment to extend a moratorium for 18 months or two years on obligations due it, including farm bank loans, BILL AMENDMENT REFUSED, Texas Representatives Decline 25 Per Cent Cotton Acreage Limit. AUSTIN, Tex., September 17 (#).— ‘The Texas House of Representatives t an amendment to it cofton acre- to 25 per cent of the cultivated An amendment providing for this limitation has been approved by the Senate. The Oilsen bill limits cotton planting to one-third the. cultivated area. Actlon of the House was made final when a motion to reconsider and table prevailed. The motion to cut acreage to 25 per cent was defeated. 57 to 47. Failure of the House to limit cotton acreage to 25 per cent will make it necessary to throw the acreage control bills into a free conference committee g the Senate stands by its former ac- on. It s argued the one-third ¥mita- tion would not reduce cotton acreage ! 50 per cent, but only about 40 per cent and that 25 per cent restriction would insure a reduction of at, least 60 per cent. An amendment to permit one-half the cultivated land to be planted in cotton was defeated, 63 to 37. Defeat of the plan of Gov. Huey P. Long of Louisiana for prohibition of cotton planting in 1932 has been con- eeded s result of ive opposi- tion in the Texas Legisiature. A resociution adopted by the Texas Senate yesterday termed the Louisiana executive “a consummate liar” and test votes demonstrated the ability of the acreage reductions to eliminate his program at will. A ey DETROIT STATEMENT IS DENIED BY FESS i summoned to leave it for the still un- i leged to have jumped out on some flats 1 speakers, | holi- Famous Crime Solver of Killed Collings, Blaming Rough Characters or Escaped Maniacs. 1 Other studies of crimé and crime, Special Dispatch to The Btar. OYSTER BAY, N. Y., September 17 (N.AN.A.).—Face down on the beach at Caumsett, 1,600-acre show-place estate of Marshall Field, 2d, on 's Neck, the body of a murdered man was found | p. at 6 o'clock yesterday morning — the tides of Long Island Sound having dis- gorged as bizarre a mystery as ever “Craig Kennedy” tackled in 8 score of | ears in fiction. H A week ago llnstt {fl‘:mlt w-ynllzmk;{ e midnight electricity in m; g&rbor Pozlnt, Center Island, that looks aeross at Clgm‘g‘e‘b‘; I ul:ndhjulfionflnll. shed t the fini g touches A ?l“:)u:l‘chipler e“x;‘tmed‘ “America leads the world in crime,” a revision: “Crime is not something merely statistical today. At any mo- ment it may thrust its grizzly head 'l,nto your own peaceful, law-abiding life. I was tired. I looked out across at the light haze that shrouded what should be Lloyd’s Neck, turned oq the light and went to bed. ‘Within an hour there was being en- acted, out on that haze-ridden water, a graphic confirmation of my own oft- Tepeated cynical observation that we may look forward now to bigger and better murders. At the beginning of the Summer and of the book, I was £xlved Starr Faithful case in the dark- sone surf of the ocean. Now, at the end of the Summer and of L2 book, it is the Benjamin Collings murder in the murky vlackness of e Sound. Call From cr:m Heard. Last Wednesday night the Collingses, husband and wife and 5-year-old daughter, lbarbara, lay peacefully at anchor in their cabin cruiser, the Pen- guin, off Frices Bend, in the harbor of Northport, perhaps 10 or 12 miles away from my home. They were about to retire wien they heard a canoe scrape the side of the cruiser and a call Coilings slipped on & suit of cover- allz and went on deck in his bare feet, to find a man whom Mrs. Collings de- scribes as about 50 and & boy of about 18 demanding ‘that they ferry & wounded or injured companion Across the sound to & hospital at Norwalk, |bi Conn. Now, there is an excellent hos- pital in Huntington, only & few miles from Northport, on Long Island, to the west, to say nothing of the great New York State Hospital for the Insane a few miles to the east. | That's the last we shall hear of the | “wounded companion” in this story verging on insanity, for when Collings refused because of lack of running lights, the older man offered $100 for | the job, climbed on the deck and a few moments later apparently fimn' ceered the Penguin and st well, where did he go? Mrs. Colli says she heard her hus- band say finally, “That's not Norwalk: that's Stanford” Getting mcre and more confused, the story, as she tells it, recites that she heard from the cabin a blow, a scuffle on deck and her hus- band’s voice: “They're tieing me up!” A few moments later she heard his shout: “They're throwing me in the ‘water!”—followed by & splash. Galvanized Into Action. Then for the first time she seems to have been mfird into action. She seized air mattress and shoved tl?uut through & porthole as a possible life-raft for the bound man. One of the sc-called “pirates,” she says, fished the mattress from the water with 2 boat hook and deposited it in the | tender of the Penguin. Just then, she says, the lights of an "%prvu:h.lu boat appeared in the haze. e two pirates forced Mrs. Collings go over the high sides of the cruiser W canoe, 2) to. into the lo , she continues, nselves got in, together with a duffle- at Jeast dozen blankets. That's no mean seamanship. Now, all this time on board the Pen- guin 5-year-old Barbara was sleeping, or waking and sleeping, apparently un- afraid. Mrs. Collings in implicit obe- | dience to the behest of her husband, | she tells it, followed his words: * whatever these men tell ycu.” She left her child, left untouched a .32-caliber automatic and two boxes of as well as a bowie knife—all of ich lay within easy reach in the cabin | throughout the enactment of = the tragedy. The two “pirates” d away from the approaching boat in the haze unob- served by those on the boat. Approach- ing Oyster Bay, the younger man is al- bhalf & feat and waded ashore. Mrs. Collings de- scribed what happened variously, as pothing at all, then as having been offered indignities by the then as having been mistreated. Lett Alone on Boat. ‘With the denouement of this strange interlude she was left alone on the| Bo-Peep, a small motor boat belonging | to a prominent resident of Cove Neck and anchored off that point. In a most kindly manner, it appears, | the elderly pirate left her six blankets | and paddied off. Later the canoe was picked up and found to have been stolen | off the beach of Miner Crary, on Duck | Island, near the point of the beginning of this narrative in Northport. A bay- man of Oyster Bay heard Mrs. Collings call for help at dawn and the mystery . was on the front page. Now, weird as the story of Mrs. Col> lings 18, it is surpassed by the grimness | of the discovery yesterday morning of the body of her husband trussed up h2nd and foot with a half-inch rope that| g};l:ed hands angd feet together behind , making even treading water almost impossible; with head bashed in, with | wounds on the throat and lacerations on the forearm and elsewhere, | Collings was clad in the brown over- alls just as she related. In fact just about what must have happened to him was indicated by her story, except that it is difficult to believe that a man with a head blow like that would still have | been conscious enough to talk when he was thrown in the water. Howaver, we will let that pass for the moment. | Two Leading Possibilities. ‘What took place on those silent black waters of the sound a week ago last | night to help America lead the world in crimes? Well, there are two outstanding possibilities pending the scientific fina- | ing of Dr. Otto H. Schultzs, medical adviser to the district attorney of New York, who has been retained in this | caze both by the authorities of Suffolk County, where the murder seems to have taken place, and of Nassau County, where the kidnaping, if such it was, oceurred. However, these possibilities | may be expanded or modified by Di | Schultze, who I consider a great medi- co-legal expert, He is the greatest au- | topsist in the world, and no celebrated case can be even remotely complele | without him, | Pirates?” I do not think so. To| ke the first theory, it looks more like | 8 sadistic murder than anything else. | That opens two further possibilities. Either they were two rough characters | attracted to Northport, which is in the | grip of numerous gravel companies, | most of which are magnates for rough | characters, or they may have been a| couple who have escaped from the | Kings Park_Asylum for the ‘ American Legion, in convention 1r | Detroit, called for modificaticn of the Not “One Jota of Truth” in Report Quoting Him on Dry Issue, He Says. Senator Simeon D, Fess of Ohio not “one fota of Volstead law, Congress would act ac- cordingly in 60 days. | Senator Pess said the story, which | was published in the Detroit Free Press | and carried extensively throughout the | country, was entirely without founds- | tion. 'He said he had meade no such | ctatements publicly or in intérviews with | members of Legion Star newspapers regrets was among the report and it As “Craig Kennedy” Sees It |U. S. BAR ASSOCIAT;ON then | trust las tington, of |W. Va, vice president of the Island = ’ THE EVENING Fiction Doubts “Pirates” where escapes are of alinost daily oc- Dependin fsel; Just nding more precisely on what words mean, did they have as their objective the apparently inoffen- sive engineer and yachtsman, Collings, himself, or did they just decide to steal & canoe, row out to one of the boats, throw the guy on it overboard and grab is woman? / There is at least some plausible ex- planation of the apparently iliogical lequ‘;nce of events in this line of rea- son! 8. But it does nothing to remove the {llogical events from the picture, except on one characterization of the Col- lingses. They may have belonged to that class whick believes we are living in a state of law and order, where the cop is at least around the corner and some one will come to aid if a thug appears. They may have trusted hu- man nature, forgetting we are scarcely ten thousand years from the Stone Age and seemingly heading right backt to it. They lived a quiet, even studi- ous, frugal family life on the Pen- guin. That, in itself, stamps them as as throwbacks in these jazz days. They might have trusted human nature un- 31 it was too late. That's one explana- lon. On the other hand, in spite of all the outward marks of living the hermit life on a boat, was there something in the past in the life of the Collingses that has not yet been disclosed or even hinted at? Mrs. Collings more than implied that Collings recognized the ‘“pirates” or they would not have got aboard. The “wounded-man” story is quite fishy. The injunction, “Do whatever they say,” calls for further explanation. “They're tying me up” and “They're throwing me in the water” wouldn’t even be necessary as a sound effect in a talking picture. Why, in the name of movies, were that little .32 automatic and the bowie knife which were on the Collings boat left out of action? With such tragic events stirring it seems impossible. Calling out with his head bashed in in a manner that would have seemed to have stilled his tongue at least for a time needs explanation. Above all, there seems to be a strangely one- sided distribution of wounds and ruises. Last night my own little girl was drownln% over a story book. I read to her: “The bad man put my daddy over- board.” At once she roused herself. All sleep was gone. The answer to that question is: “Oh, Barbara will say anytung that is sug- gested.” Oh, yes? Then perhaps Bar- bara és saying something that was sug- | gested. There have been times in the last seven days that I have looked out over the waters of Cove Neck and Lloyd's Neck and across the sound to Stam- ford and wondersd whether there were | any “pirates” at all. I would say that | Alexander Blue, District Attorney of | Suffolk County, is now about to deal with a diff t kind of fiction than often emanates from those Long Island county seats, Riverhead and Patchogue. right, 1931 by North American News~| (CopTmiEht, e "Ruinitce. Tne.) BACKS DRY REPEAL vt BY 13,779 to 6,340 (Continued From First Page.) attacked present conditions in the utili- ties securities field, warning that the investor must be protected, perhaps by State regulation. Ross C. Butler, chairman of the| Commerce Committee, 2ssailed the anti- | , charging they ignore “eco- nomic considerations.” James D. Francis of Huni Creek Coal Company, raised a dissent- ing voice in arguments against the anti-trust laws. ‘William J. Donovan, former Assistant United States Attorney General, argued that Federal regulation of public utiji- ties was wrong because, only 13.1 per cent of the total electricity is in inter- | state commerce. He advocated State compacts to govern this current. g to crime, Col. Joseph A. Gurk, chief of the St. Louis police and presi- dent of the International Association of | pr Chiefs of Police, said obstructionists tactics of defense attorneys in criminal trials was one of the most serious ob- by Joseph O. Smith, prosecutor for Bssex County, N. J., who objected to the committee's condemnation of “third- " methods. Sgoith said the Wick- ersham/report gave criminals confidence the police no longer could obtain con- fesslons Joel H. Mooype, supervisor of the United States, urged wider use of the probation system for certain offenders and protested against misuse of the prison for social revenge. 1 Newspapers were gf:u«! by Judge Eugene O'Dunne of Baltimore Su- preme_bench, as bel close allles the judiciary in the ts of justice. LONDON FETES WALKER Gotham Mayor Honored on Eve of Europe Departure. LONDON, September 15 (#).—Mayor | & ‘Walker of New York took public leave of Europe today at a luncheon at the American Club in London, where he was guest of honor with Ambassador Charles G. Dawes and Sir Willlam Jowitt, British attorney general. He will embark on the Bremen at South- ampton tomorrow for the homeward passage. | cinct, testified against the pair LAWYERS DISGUSS PLANS FOR INQUIRY Board Meets to Determine Course From Findings of Grand Jury. The special board of 5 prominent ‘Washington lawyers appointed by the District Commissioners to investigate the chardes against the police depart- ment in the recent grand jury report met today in the office of Henry P. Blair, and discussed the procedur® to be followed in its inquiry. The organization meeting of the board lasted for several hours, but Mr. Blair, who served as temporary chair- man, declined to reveal the course of action decided upon. He announced, however, that the board intended to send a letter to the District Commis- sioners some time this afternoon, out- lining its program, and that any in- formation in connection with it would have to come from the District Building. The Commissioners, in the an- time, continued their efforts to select the ’ personnel of an extraordinary civilian trial board to be set up and held in readiness to act in the event the board of lawyers finds, in its in- dependent _ investigation, that any members of the police force should be prosecuted. Thirty Names Submitted. The civilian board will be picked from a group of 30 representative citi- zens whose names have been submitted to the Commissioners by presidents of Washington's five major trade and civic organizations. Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, president of the Board of Commissioners, an- nounced after a conference with Police Commissioner Crosby and Corporation Counsel Bride, that progress is being made toward the selection of the trial board, although he did not believe the entire personnel would be chosen for several days. Members of the board will not be disclosed, it was said, until all of the persons requested to serve, have notified the Commissioners of their ac- ceptance. Albert W. Jacobson, attorney for Policeman Joseph H. Hunt of the second precinct, who the grand jury said should be dismissed for the part he is alleged to have played in the “framing” of former Policeman Orville Staples, called at the District Building to renew a request that his client be suspended immediately and placed on trial. Angry With Brookhart. The lawyer conferred briefly With Corporation Counsel Bride, but indica- tions are that no action will be taken on his appeal until the board of law- yers completes its investigation. Jacobson has been assured, however, that Hunt will recelve justice. The same assurance has been given to other members of the Police Department who had any connection with the Staples case. Jacobson said he was perticularly | irked by the action of Senator Brook- hart of Jowa in writing to the Com- missioners, inquiring why Policeman Hunt had not been suspended after the grand jury report. He declared he con- strued Senator Brookhart'’s move as an effort to threaten the Commissioners. THIRD-DEGREE PROBE BELIEVED EXTENDED TO HEADQUARTERS (Continued From First Page.) ~ arrested in connection with another charge. Court house recopds show Policemen Rosen ! Ferdinand P. Martin, Ii rving berg and Rupert McNeil, all of Nc. 3 pre- during & grand jury hearing last May. Sullivan was sentenced October 11 Jast to a five-year term for housebreaking and larceny, on five separate counts. Court records show testimony against him was given before the grand jury by Headquarters Detectives A. T. Fihel- ly, N. S. Hopkinson, B. C. Kuehling. Charles E. Warfield, Michael Dowd and Leo Murray, and Policemen Elmer L. uuul:ler?m and Harry A. Reed of No. 7 ecinct. Bellowe is gerving a year and a half at the District Jail for false pretenses, forgery and uttering. He was indicted December 12, 1930, after Lieut. E. W. Thompson of police headquarters had testified against him. Jackson Serving Larceny Term. Jackson - is three years for grand larceny. Court records give the name of the arresting officer as Frank E. Dodson of No. 4 precinct. Strange was convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon upon Policeman Henry C. Houck of No. 2 precinct last August. The officer tostified that Strange stuck a pistol against his abdo- men when he attempted to make the arrest. . Approximately 75 witnesses, mostly to | colored, were on hand when the grand Jury began its deliberations today. U. 8. Attorney Leo A. Rover said there was a possibility criminal aspects of the in- quiry would be concluded late this aft- ernoon, but that indictments would not be returned before next Wednesday. In view of the indicated desire of the grand jury to make an exiensive in- vestigation of third degree abuses, re- ardless of incictment possibilities, evi- dence will be presented in many cases regarded by Department of Justice au- thorities as lacking conclusive proof, The inquisitorial body is desirous of obtaining a broad picture of the thir degree. situation, with a view to-ascer- taining how long brutality has been in use in the Police Department, and the cause for its existence. Fire Wrecks Historie Structure SERVED AS WASHINGTON’'S HEADQUARTERS. arm -house which was used S of the Colonial {s z%fim as_headquarters duting 'ds Ford, Pa., near Philadel site yesterday, toric ‘were destroyed. It contained many Gen. George the Battle of Bunbd’ywlm in 1771, , after flames destroyed the his- historic relics, some of which ~—A. P. Photo, First Low Wing Monoplane Bomber for Army PLANE HAS TWO 575-HORSEPOWER HORNET ENGINES. H ERE s the first photograph of what is' said to be one of the deadliest Weapons of aerial warfare man has yet devised, low-wing, heavy-duty bomber capable of speeds up to exact performance figures are guarded as military secrets. One of the big ships has completed months of gruel- ling I:x‘ghc tests at Wright Field, Ohio, n‘\)x;;i s‘ev;ehn r:ore have Jfist ]been or_ggredhhy the War De are being built by Boeing, builders of mx of e Army pursuit planes. ey have two 575-horsepower Hornet . motors built into the wing/ retractable landing gear and machine-gun nests which cover every angle > from the Russian steamer Buriat, saying carry a crew of four and 2,300 pounds of bombs. 180 miles per hour, it is claimed, though nt. NAVY STRIKE HALTS PENDING PAY PROBE British Atlantic Fleet Headed for Home Ports Under Promise of Relief. (Continued Prom First Page.) and igndred orders. The officers de- cided themselves to weigh the anchors, but the leaders warned them as soon as they raised one the men would drop another. Describing how the strike spread to other ships, the dispatch said: “The | Valiant remained at anchor. Soon the sallors came from below decks and crowded forward. The cheer they raised was taken up on the other ships and the strike was on.” One sailor spokesman, spiking re- ports of Communist influence, said: “There is nothing of Bolshevism about this protest. Ninety per cent of us have seen Russia and we are not hav- ing anything like that here.” Another said: “We are fighting for our wives and children. aboard ship. But our wives, after the | rent is paid, have only a pound left. How can they stand a cut of seven shillings and sixpence?” (About $1.87). “INTENSIVE PERSUASION” USED Threats of Disciplinary Action Succeed in Getting British Fleet Under Way. INVERGORDON, Scotland, Septem- | ber 17 (#).—His majesty’s Atlantic fleet, disturbed by virtually unprecedented disaffection among the enlisted fl"" sonnel, separated today and the ships steamed for their home ports, but oniy by threats of disciplinary action were the officers able to get the vessels under way. men, grumbling ‘over pay cuts dictated by the emergency government, refused orders even after they had been assured that their grievances were to be considered by the admiralty, and the | officers were obliged to employ what was described as “intensive persuasion.” A message explaining the Goven ment’s promise to investigate allega- tions that economic hardships would bs imposed upon the families of en- listed men if the pay-cut schedule be- comes operative was circulated among all the ships, and on cvery vessel the | officers appealed for acceptance of the admiralty’s terms. But in many cases the men were hard | to convince, and it was two hours fore all the ships had weighed anchor. Even then specific promises be iven that the ships were indeed headed / crtheflrhnmewru and would not be | separated to isolated ports. . ACCEPT WAGE CUTS. Officers and Men Off South Ameriea Make No Protest of Lower Pay. RIO DE JANEIRO, September 17 (#). —Officers and men aboard the British cruiser Dauntless were said today to be accepting wage reductions without pro- | test, believing that the navy, like public servants throughout the aempire, must | help the government in its economy program. PECK DISQUALIFIED BY GAS FIRM AFTER TALK INJURES CASE| ) (Continued From First P | control stations where readings are | taken by the commission, gas pressures |Jast December had undergone a sub- | stantial increase. Mr. Allen denied this, (and to substantiate his statement that |the pressures were not higher in De- cember than in October, November and January, he reached behind him, and with the air of a conjuror. produced a | pile of pressure charts abouf* three feet igh. This unexpected move threw the | cedate hearing into the utmost confu- sion, and Mr. Roberts sought valiantly to have the exhibit excluded on the theory that it was too bulky to be filed as part of the case. Mr. Allen said that the clerk, who bad taken the readings had assured him that they showed pressures in De- cember had notedecreased. This was stricken from the record as hearsay, but apparently the charts remained in | evidence although they were not marked for identification. They were taken at 32 ‘statidéns throughout the city. Mr. Allen next went on to discuss the make-up of an estimate design to show that if the commission insists on a pressure limit of two to six inches | the company must immediately embark on the expenditure of $600,000, of which $450,000 will go for improvements of the transmission system and $150,000 to distribution system improvements. Russell Cross-Examined. At yesterday afternoon’s session, Mr. Rol , cross-examining = Walter M. Russell, the company's chlef engineer, sought to show the economic motive behind the request for higher allowable pressures. Mr. Russell said it would take a capital expenditure of $600,000, as calculated by statisticlans in his office, to carry an expected 50 per cent increase in the gas load this Winter at the allowable maximum of inches. All of the money must be expended for this heating season, although some of the improvements would serve to carry further increases in succeeding years. He also produced a report prepared independently by engineers of the U. G. 1. (United Gas Improvement of Philadelphia), showing that it would costy $429,000 for installations to carry 39 per cent increase in load over the next five years at present pressures. Part of the U. G. 1. recommendations have already been carried into effect, he testified. ‘These figures are to be examined much more closely as the hearing progresses, to lacwhlch items going to make up the $600,000 budget have al- been installed, and therefore just how much cash difference installation ch maximum allowable pres- sure. Much interest The cuts cannot hit us | | | | when _tere were any, were insufficient Husband Held WIFE'S DROWNING IS MYSTE! Kl 7 :/3 \ MRS. JENNY KENT KANE. Whose husband is suspected by Norfolk, Va., authorities in connection with her death from drowning. —A. P. Photo. DESTROYED NOTES BELIEVED MOTIVE IN KANE DROWNING (Continued From First Page.) presented at the inquest last night was favorable to the professor. Other Letters Read. Comrmonwealth’s Attorney Cocke, on the other hand, said: “As the case now stands, I would have no hesitancy in presenting it to the grand jury, and 1 believe I would obtain an indictment.” The coroner said that a number of letters exchanged between Prof. Kane and his wife were read last night and that they indicated complete and mu- tual devotion. Kane has held to his statement that his wife slipped from a wock while they were swimming and drowned, despite his efforts at rescue and resuscitation. It was learned yesterday that Prof. Kane came nere to the home of his ‘wife’s parents immediately after he left a Summer Reserve officers’ camp at Fort Bragg, N. C. Authorities of the county are checking his move- ments closely in the search for a pos- sible motive for homicide, and they are taking verbatim statements of witnesses at the inquest. . WARDMAN NAMED IN $760,000 SUIT BY FIRM RECEIVERS (Continued From First Page.) est. H. L. Stuart and Charles B. Stuart are identified only as bankers. It is charged the defendants, without regard to values, conspired and fraudu- lently agreed to exploit the properties concerned for the purpose of selling bonds to the public, knowing that the | true earnings of the properties, if and to justify compliance with the require- ments of the blue-sky laws, Properties Listed. ‘The properties involved were 2700 Connecticut avenue, Department of Jus- tice Building, four buildings at Con- necticut avenue and Davenport street, Boulevard Apartments, ~ Stoneleigh Courts, Wardman Park H the Chas- tleton, the Highlands, Noi *nd Cen- ter Cathedral Mansions, Carii n Hotel ;ln(: lthe addition to the Wardman Park otel. It is alleged the bankers connived and conspired with the other defend- ants to remain in the background and appear to be innocént purchasers for value of the refinancing mortgage bonds which subsequently were publicly sold. ‘The suit said the profit to the bankers amounted to $1,372,000. The bankers, 1t is alleged, have remained in the back- ground, but have nevertheless actively directed the affairs of the several Ward- man_corporations. most of the things its experts have been saying about pressures and their effect on the working gas appliances. This demonstration has already been given for the newspapermen, and was very effective. It showed, for instance, that pressures ‘are meagured by the numbper of inches of water in a tube of uniform bore that the pressure will support. Two inches, the present legal minimum, will be supported by the lightest of Spring zephyrs, or & baby's breath. The' normal person can blow in a tube and push the pressure read- ing around to about 8 to 10 inches. Late yesterday afternoon the company called as & witness in favor of hfir pressures Bert.H. Peck, formerly '3 engineer of the Public Utilities Commis- sion and now assistant to the president of the company. Mr. Peck had hardly spoken in favor of the higher pressure sought when People’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech greeted him with an extract from Peck’s now famous Teport of Oc- tober 4, 1930, on that subject. In his report Mr. Peck had written: “The most satisfactory pressure from a consumer’s standpoint is undoubtedly from 4 to § uwhumy o{d w-t:;m ThhMuvu reasonably rapid se ai s him the maximum burner effi- e . This . Teport o{n cokine e written when was employ of the co! alt thereafter , although he transferred to the gas company at & higher salary. hi gives SHUTE BEATS PAR 10 LEAD ARMOUR Young Pro 2 Up on Defending Champion at End of 18 Holes. By the Associated Press. PROVIDENCE, September 17~ Young Denny Shute of Hudson, Ohio, today clipped two strokes off the Wan- namoisett course's difficult 70 par o gain a 2 up lead on Tommy Armour, defending champion, for their first half of their 36-hole Professional Golfers' Association quarter-final match. It was the first fracture par had suffered this week. Gene Sarazen, me: year's runner-up, was 2 Smith of Detroit. Sarazen,” outstanding competitor on the three previous days, played spotty golf against his young rival and trailed for the first time in the it. Smith had a three-hole lead the fifth, droppsd it when Sarazen took three consecutive holes with two pars | and a birdle, and pulled on‘the ninth green, where a and last to Horton Gene Squares Match. Gene squared with a par 3 on the fifteenth, but dropped right back when £mith won the seventeenth, jumping a dead stymie with a mashie-niblick. This | amazing shot evidently rattled for he drove out of bounds on the eighteenth, which Smith annexed with & par 4 to go to lunch with a 2-up lead. Cyril Walker of Ridgewood, N. J., even at the eighteenth. Walker had 71 and Creavy a pair of 36s, one over par on each nine. Billie Burke, open champién, finished his morning round 2-up on Abe Espinosa of Chicago. Neither was impressive, Burke carding a 74, after going out in par 35, and Espinosa had a 77. Armour, playing par golf, found him- self two down after three holes, for Denny collected birdies on the second and third. The latter continued his sensational play and made the turn in sixth and eighth to become 4 up. . Puts Up Brilliant Rally. ‘The “Bl Scot,” out in 37, put up a wonderful rally. He 3s on five of the first six im holes and cut Shute’s lead Shute needed only a par 5 and 4 the last two holes for a 66, which woul performing the seventeenth for a 6. a hole. | a birdie on three consecutive holes and pulled up even as they came up for the [ turn. The ninth hole has given Sarazen troubl: on almost every round, and, after trapping his second and making a yielded the hole to Smith’s par 4. NEW GIGANTIC PLOT TO SMUGGLE ALIENS INTO U. S. IS FOUND (Continued From First Page.) arrest of a prominent Washington at- torney, whom the secretary with having taken part in a plot to se- cure legal entry papers for & wealthy woman who had entered this country illegally six years ago. “We have given this fellow a good scare,” Mr. Doak said, “and I think he understands that we are watching nim very closely.” The Secretary added that while this attorney merely gave the woman letters of introduction to & man to whom she was to marry as part of the plot, further developments may eventually lead to his arrest. Part of the alleged perpetrators of this plot are now under arrest, depart- ment officials said. Until other arrests have been made, they indicated they would not make public their names. - ‘Will Seek Canadians. Garsson came to Washington this morning after hafing supervised the issuance of warrants for the arrest of day. c second drive within 10 days agains Nation-wide ring accused of smuggling u.qg allens into the United States. e be an attempt to extradite Canadians, one a Montreal Warrants have been issued an already sent to Canada for Solon Eliasoph, at- Howard ‘concerning which they ar Th after his Doak. GUGGENHEIM ARRIVES day by the ofler'o.t. m»wm; demonstrate by practical -experiments People of the Middle . seized u’pon any event mmm reasonable excuse for a feast. M.gohk‘ flight. | 33, cutting two off par and winning the ' L attorney. | cue by a wfluh; et '}‘:N Ymi;qmmedhhl;e ning return few ly { B.nd_this eve: at the bandstand s conference with Secretary |at 5:30 :;«;Ihek. MOYLE AND ALLEN READY T0 CONTINUE Pair, Found Alive on Siberian Island, Await -Passing of Storm. By the Assoclated Press. SEATTLE, September 17.—Turning up safely aboard a little Russian ship In the Bering Sea after having been missing nine days subsequent to their take-off on a projected flight from Japan to Seattle, Don Moyle and C. A. Allen, California_fiyers, today radioed a call for the services of a publicity man and annotnced they were ready to fly' some more. The United States naval radio sta- tion on St. Paul Island, in the Bering ‘They | Sea, late last night received a wireless h. o‘l]lvpm rm Moyle and Allen had landed on Na- varin Island, Siberia, when their fuel and oil gave out. The message said neither the fivers nor their plane was hurt when t’hey landed and that they were ready to fiy out of the Siberian area as soon as a current storm subsided. Their big monoplane, the message said, had been refueled and was ready for flight. It saild Moyle and Allen might start for Seattle, t added the; toward "Tokio, Y B e Tk Reach Tilgino Island. Neither did the message say whef the plane was brought gn fl’lye :fielt::: to Miano, on Tilgino Island, where the little ship set the fiyers ashore yester- day after having picked them ‘up at - Nanmn.m avarin Island is off C: varin, Siberia, about 2,200 miles north. of Samushiro Beach, Japan, from w] the fiyers took off ber 7 on & projected 4,465-mile non-stop flight to Seattle. It is several hundred miles. north of the circular route which they l;'l.%. mm‘::d :t thel; course to Seattle. west and sligh No,l?ble- Aty lightly south of message telling of their safety, sent from the Buriat yesterday lnyd addressed to Miss ‘Frances Bresson, &l‘ldl?!e of Moyle, at Riverside, Calif., “Landed on uninhabited island. Ev- o, all right. h}{-w‘g‘!uink put ly man on 3 g‘ellme September 22.” by The reference to hiring a publicity ?r.'rl:nk“v'"themt clear hmh&nt by fiyers meant Frank Bresson, hmtwufll Bres- son and one of the sponsors of the At the take-off the ship 1,020 gallons of gasoline, which was considered enough to the plane in the air about 47 hours, Just when %&! re::hed Navarin l;hnd.l. which direct flylng would have required only about 22 hours out of Samushiro, ‘was not stated. Buriat Furnishes Gas. and Tom Creavy of Albany, N. Y., were | Alle pla; good _condition. H ever, it reported high winds and heavy seas at Navarin. In Riverside Miss® Bresson, fiancee of Moyle, was overjoyed when the first brought to her by the As- T h 'm:mw “ wve 0 was hard To believe Don ana Cecil had 1cst in their eflort to span. the Pacific and T X exchanged befcre Allen left Japan, ‘Waiting for Cecil. = “I am waif for Cecil to come home S said. Friends of Flyers Rejoice at News of Safe Landing. TOKIO, September 17 (#).—Japan was happy to learn of the safety of Don Moyle and C. A. Allen, the American fiyers. Most Tokio newspapers issued extras when the news of the discovery of the fiyers on an' uninhabited island off the Siberian Coast was flashed from the United States. Allen and Moyle made many friends poor cut, he got down in 6 and | among the Japanese during their stay at Tokio, at wa Airdrome and at Samushiro Beach, about 300 miles north of Tokio. Friends Kept Hopes. Many of their friends here had re- used to believe them lost. Amorg them # were Mr. and Mrs. Koku Nakamura, keepers of the inn at Tachikswa Air- drome, where the fiyers spent more than a hl:wntb putting their big monopiane in b , \pe. Allen presented Mrs. Nakamura & bronze Buddah, about the size of two fists, in appreciation. of their friendship. The Nekamuras are devout Buddhists. “They were very fine young men,” m. Nakamura told her Japanese nds: “My husband and I admired their courage and determination very much. ‘We prayed each night before the Buddha Mr. Allen gave me. I think this has much to do with their rescue.” Another who refused to surrender hope was Kenzo Kodama, chief of the mechanical department of the Imperial Aviation Bureau. Kodama, only a few days ago, said he believed the flyers ‘would be found alive somewhere along their route between Japan and the United States. Pangborn Explains. Clyde Pangborn, who ‘witi Hugh Herndon, jr., is awaiting permission of the Japanese government to af the same flight on which Allen and Moyle failed, thinks the flyers, after passing six persons in New York City yester-| Cape Erimo, Japan, decided on & oncluding the Labor Department’s .,1'; course, - g eading for Nome, and Japanese officials of the Russian Wa- ters Pishery Association advanced the t a| were forced down by motor trouble. next move, it is uhderstood, | opinion Moyle and Allen subsisted on and aosslbly fish before their res- ussian ship. Vet bR Chain Stores Founder Dies. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Y S. M, Zimmer- . Anton Pointner, mann, assistant,