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(¥ THE SCHENCK CHARGES NO-PAROLE THREAT Made on Refusal to Repu- diate Frame-up Testimony, He Declares. that he has been threatensd with non- 2 parole from a 20-year prison term he i iy serving for robbery unless he con- © tradicts his testimony before the grand % jury relative to the case cf Orville £ Staples. The former policeman refused to di- vulge who had made the threats, but said they had not come from the com- mittee of lawyers appointed by the Dis- trict Commissioners to investigate the 5 grand jury's aticnal report that Staple's dismissal from the Police De- partment was the result of a “frame- up” as charged by Schenck. Schenck, who has been in District Jail since he was ght here from eavenworth Penitentiary to appear be- fore the since-disqualified grand jury, said “great pressure” had been brought to bear on him to repudiate his state- ments in the Staples case Warned of Non-Parole. “As a matter of fact” he said. “I have been propositioned to contradict | : my testimony. I hove been told that| if T did not revudiate my statements before the grand jury that Staples was framed. 1 would receive no considera- | tion for parole.” Schenck. when interviewed concern- < ing rumors that he already had con- S tradicted hic testimony before the grand jury, indignantly denied the re- port. * 7 *T have not seen any member of the Lawyers' Committee since two and a © half weeks ago, when they first asked me to tell what I knew of the case.” “ he said. At that time I told them I 2 § ex3rasreans - et = would tell my whole story in the pres-| % ence of the committee and reputable witnesses, either members of the press or persons not connected with the Dis-| trict government. The fused to abide by my request and I told nothing. “Only last weck I telephoned Henry P. Blair, chairman of the committee, asking him to come to the jail at his _ earliest convenience, as I wanted to talk to him about the Staples case. quested that he bring along & reputable witness, but he again refused and said that if I did not want to talk before the whole committee alone I need not testify at all” “Created Serious Discord.” Schenck said that in “F‘roposmonlng me officials sald that I should contra- dict the testimony, because it created serious discord ameng high officials of the District.” “They did not say they would parole me immediately if I .repudiated the testimony,” the former policeman said, “but intimated that if I did not con- tradict my statements I would never be paroled and, therefor:, would have to serve out the entirc 20 yvears.” He said he had several times re- quested that Repre ntative Thomas L. Blanton, Democrat. of Texas, be asked to com to the jail to see him so that he could tell the Representative his whole story, but that the request had been refused. CITY MANAGER FIGHT RAGES IN CLEVELAND Citizens Will Vote November 3 for Re-Establishment of Office of Mayor. By the Associated Precs CLEVELAND, Ohio, October 20.— Cleveland’s hardy perennial—the con- troversy over retention of the city man- ager form of government—is in full blcom again. Seven times since Cleveland adopted this form of government in 1921 attempts have been made to abolish or modify the system, but all such efforts have failed For the eighth time, November 3, an amendment to the city charter calling for re-establishment of the office cf mayor will be voted upon The amendment is backed by the county Democratic organization, Harry L. Davis, former mayor of Cleveland and former Governor cf Ohilo; Peter Witt, fcrmer councilman and holder of “town mectings” to criticize civic affairs, and high officers in the Police Department. Opposing the amendment are City Manager Daniel E. Morgan and his City Hall employes, the Citizens' League and the League of Women voters. Around the amendment centers the old disputed questions of whether the people should elect a mayor who will give an accounting for his policles to the people at the end of his term or whether the Council should originate policies and be held accountable to the people. with a city manager to carry out the administration of policies. COAL OPERATORS TO MEET| TO CONSIDER INDUSTRY, Eight States Will Be Represented | in New York at Conference Urged West Virginia Group. by By the Assoclated Pregs NEW YORK, October 20.—Charles E. Bochus. president of the National | Coal Association, said today a conter- ence of coal operators from eight mining States would oe held in New York tomorrow “to consider the con- dition of the coal industr “The meeting," Bockus stated, “was | requested by the West Virginia oper- ators after they had been in confer-| ence with the Governor of that State. ! Thus far no definite program or plan ! has been advanced for the session. | “There probably will be from 50 to 100 operators al the meeting. The president of the National Coal Associ ation was asked to invite the direciors of that organization and to urge each of them to bring with him any other coal operators, Tegardless of their af- filiations, who would be interested. “They are going to see if they can find something to improve conditions in the industry. I suppose a score or more of plans will be offered. The confer- ence will set up its own working organi- | zation to digest and carry out any of those plans it sees fit."” PLANE TAKES 22 OFF SHIP Vréxiel Ti Hesboind i Eadicninay. Passengers Bound for Nome WINNIPEG, Manitoba, October 20 (#)—Nine passengers and 13 members of the icebound Hudson Bay steamer Baychimo have been taken ashore by airplane, it was learned here yesterday. They hope to reach Nome, Alaska, 500 miles north of where the Baychimo is frozen fast, in time to catch a south- bound steamer for Vancouver Thur: y. Several otber members of the crew will live until Spring in a camp con- structed for them on land near the stranded vessel. '!n, H,"l‘;o&:ycuflr;dnne of Lt;‘e passen- T, W married is retur to his e Here,” fli»zmwe«lu u-l'-' ready h{d been postponcd several times, < Frederick A. Schrnck declared today | committee Te- | I re-| 1 zervices. Viplin on Tombstone - FIGURE MARKS GRAVE eminence as musicians be bur become noted as orchestra cherishing it, they were loath to accade laid it down. i Leon Brusil HEN Joseph Brusiloff, 2117 First street, died a year ago, he asked that the beloved fiddle he had used in instructing many who have attained On this instrument his sons Nat and Leon, both of whom have Instead, a bronze cast was made of the violin and this rests on & stone table at their father's grave in Adas Israel Cemetery, just as though he had Now the violin itself awaits the day when Eugene, 2!g-year-old son of ff, follows in the footsteps of his grandfather. —Star Staff Photo. OF FAMOUS TEACHER. | ied with him, leaders, had their first and, to the request. lessons, PRATT 15 GIVEN PHNSICAL TEST | Retirement Is Forecast as Stoll and Others Are Or- | dered Before Board. ! | 1 __ (Continued Prom First Page) law the Commissioners have suthority ‘o retire any officer who has reackied the age of 60, regardless of his physical condition. Educated in Virginia. Maj. Pratt was born at Passapatanzy, King George County, Va., and was ed- ucated in the Virginia Public Schools and at Bethel Military Academy in Fauquier County. His family has been prominent in the Old Dominion for many vears. He has two brothers, one of whom, John L. Pratt, 1s & vice president of General Motors, and the other, Prank C. Pratt, a physician in Fredericksburg. | Henry Pratt left the farm to accept | & minor job with an express company | here. He gave up the express job to enter the Police Department, Augustl, 1896. His first assignment of leader- ship was as drillmaster at the seventh precinct. He remained at the seventh precinct four years and then was trans- ferred to the Detective Bureau as & pri- vate, April, 1900. He v»s promoted to detective sergeant in ::76 and con- tinued detective work until July, 1915, | when he was assigned to the United | States attorney's office, to assist in | preparation of cases for the grand jury. He returned to the Detective Bureau in January of 1917, but shortly there- after enlisted in the Officers’ Training Corps at Fort Myer, Va. He was com- missioned as captain in the Signal Corps and placed on active duty in | October, 1917. Ordered to Washington. With the declaration of war against Germany. the then Capt. Prait was sent to Newport News, where he per- fected an intelligence organization there and in adjacent camps. He served as | intelligence officer at the port of em- | barkation. He was ordered back to Washington in October, 1918, and as- signed to the graft and fraud section of the intelligenc: division of the general | staff of the Army, in which post he directed activities of civil agents and intelligence police. The Army commissioned him as| major in June, 1919, and he remained | on active duty at the War Department until his discharge from the service, October 4, 1920. After demobilization | of the emergency troops he was pro- moted to lieutenant colonel in the Ofi- cers’ Reserve Corps, & commission he now holds. Returned to Police Force. Upon his discharge from the Army Pratt_returned to the police force, and | in 1922 was promoted to inspector and assigned as assistant superintendent of police. He was made chief of the De- | tective Bureau in January! 1929, and cn April 1 of that year was appointed | superintendent of police. Maj. Pratt is one of the few police chiefs who were financially independent when appointed. He is said to have a large income from stock holdings. | His record in the department is re- plete with commendations for special | He was commended by the Commissioners for the work of the De- tective Bureau, under his command, in | affording protection to the vast throngs | which attended the Lindbergh recep- | tion after the Paris-New York flight. Maj. Pratt is a charter member of George Washington Post of the Ameri- an Legion and a member of the Wash- ington Board of Trade. THEFT CASE DISMISSED Complatrant - Admits 20" Was! Tag Drunk to Identify Colored Man. | When the complaining witness ad- | mitted he was too druni when robbed October 2 to remember who the robber was, Judge John P. McMahon yester- | day dismissed a charge of robbery | against Robert L. Russell, colored, 2700 | block of Sheridan road southeast. It seems that Robert Brown nearly “passed out” on the street in front of his home & couple of weeks ago. He was unable to get into the house under his own power, 50 a “Good Samaritan” in the person of a passerby carried him in. On sobering Brown discovered the | man hadn'’t done much of a favor, after | all. Thirteen dollars was missing from | his pockets. Envoy Returning on Leave. BOGOTA, Colombia, October 20 (#).— Jefferson Caffery, United States Minis- ter to Colombia, will leave today for a vacation of thres months in the United States. He expects to arrive at Phila- delphia October 29. Dirt mo‘t;_&‘le races Have been pop- ular in Germany this year. & 'SIGNS OVER COUNTRY HIT DISCRLINATION AGAINST L. . JEWS Practice Exists in Colleges and Universities, Says Congress Resolution. By the Associated Pry PHILADELPHIA, October 20.—Reso- | lutions condemning alleged discrimina- tion against Jews in American colleges | and universities and bearing ‘on the welfare of the people in foreign coun- tries were adopted yesterday at the! ninth annual Convention of the Ameri- | can Jewish Congress. | ‘The resolution on discrimination in colleges stated that the committee studying the subject had obtained dur- | g the year additional information “substantiating further the previous | evidence of discrimination.” Urges Condemnation. | It urged that the congress “strongly condemn the present discriminatory policies by which some American col- | lege and university authorities are suided. and reiterates its former posi- tion that no consideration other than | that of merit be regarded as a standard | for admission.” The committee was asked to continue | its work. In & resolution on Palestine the con- gress congratulated Lieut. Gen. Sir Ar- thur Waucope, high commissidner of | Palestine, and Nahum Sokolow, Zionist leader, on their work, and assured ta m of support of American Jewery in the upbuilding of the Jewish National Home. Soviet Action Praised. A resolution on Russia stated the congress noted Wwith satisfaction the | Soviet government had abolished the | Jewish section of the Communist party, which, 1t stated, “had constituted a source of deep anxlety to Jews through its pernicious activities deliberately almed at the complete extermination of every vestige of Judaism and Jewish life in the Soviet Union." The congress called upon the gov- ernment of Poland to “fulfill her obli- gations under international treaties, which stipulate equality and justice to all_elements of population.” . Discrimination against Jewish ap- plications for employment in America, another resolution sald, has assumed serious proportions. The Committee on Discrimination in Employment was au- thorized to continue its efforts against the alleged practice. CARRY RELIEF APPEAL Posters Are Put Up on 35,000 Bill. boards—Materials and Work Donated. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 20.—On 35,000 billboards in half as many cities and towns in the United States a picture of & brawny, smiling American rolling up his sleeves was placed yesterday. With a smile he sald: "“Of course we can do it." The posters, space for which was donated by the outdoor advertising in- dustry, whose 2,000 plant operators and 15,000 employes prepared and placed them, carried an appeal to the Nation to “give to your local welfare and un- employment relfef fund.” They were signed by Walter 8. Gif- rd, chairman of the Presidents Or- anization on Unemplo; 1ent Relief, and Owen 1. Young, cha!'man of the Committee on Mobili: of Relief Resources. The paper stock, 100,000 pounds of it, as well as the transportation costs, also were donated. Ten lithographing companies contributed the printing. Appeals will be printed free of charge this week in nearly every periodical of national circulation. ATTACKS POLITICIANS Charles P. Gavin Says They Are Capitalizing Depression. By the Assoclated Press. NEW ORLEANS, October 20.—Criti- cism of politicians “who want the credit for rescuing the country from depression” was expressed yesterday in tx;e ‘,vn‘:ml rbeoion of ::.lnr)es P, Olvlr; of n T o the Nlflagl' Sh‘leloners' “;‘l‘;’c"l:llcn, ‘Vh&:t’;lllb l.ll: wn‘ve%bn here.l At charged the economic condi- tlon was being capitalized to furnish employment for such politicians, "I :gii Dpeople 'lru'. an mrfi:lmulccunl r fepresentatives a5 they are in selecting sal in their “‘we woul such thing as & business depressi | Doe with i her husband and to the police assump- 7Y OF ANNAPLS | SNUBS PRESIDENT Mayor Absent When Time Arrives to Greet Hoover at Naval Academy. By the Assoclated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., October President Hoover received a rousing welcome from the Annapolis midship- |men today, but- the city of Annapolis as such did not participate. Presidential salutes rang out as Mr. Hoover debarked from the battleship Arkansas and entered the grounds of the Naval Academy to pass between two long lines of midshipmen to the White House automobiles. Another salute biomed as the party left the Academy grounds. More than 2,000 Annapolis citizens made up the crowd assembled about the Academy, but when Admiral ‘Thomas C. Hart, commandant of the Naval Academy. called for Mayor Wal- ter Quenstedt just before the arrival of the President, he was informed the Annapolis executive was not present. City Abandoned Plans. Quenstedt yesterday wrote to Presi- dent Hoover protesting the failure of the Chief Executive to recognize an of- ficial welcoming party from Annapolis as Mr. Hoover traveled to that city to board the ship last Saturda: In making known that he had written such a letter, the mayor said plans for the city’s participation in ceremonies welcoming the President upon his ar- rival today had been abandoned. ‘The mayor declined to make his let- ter to the President public. but said that if a satisfactory explanation did not come from the White House he would give newspaper men both the let- ter e wrote and the presidential reply. He sald he had arranged with G. C. Drescher of the Secret Service for A napolis to take part in the exercises last Saturday, but that when the presi- dential party met his caravan on the | highway outside the city, it was not recognized. Awalits Hoover's Letter. Mayor Quenstedt. when informed that the White Hous> today explained Presi- dent Hoover’s failure to greet him last | Saturday was a misunderstanding, said: “It must have been quite a misunder- | standing.” Further than to relterate that he had made arrangements for the oficial T ception at & point on the Defense High- way at the Annapolis city limits with an official of the Secret Service, he de- clined to comment until he had received President Hoover’s letter of explanation. Mayor Quenstedt did say, however, hat. in line with arrangements for the 1-ception, he was called from the White House on’ Saturday and informed of the time the presidential party left Wash- ington, so that he could reach the des- ignated piace of meeting. | The mayor was waiting near the out- skirts of Annapolis when the President’s i party sped through. led by an escort| of motor cycle policemen that cleared all traffic. President Hoover was described as re- | gretting the incident. MAN SAYS SISTER ADMITS SLAYINGS OF PHOENIX WOMEN | _(Continued From Pirst Page.) was taken into custody with McKinnell, said: “I believe she was mentally deranged.” Two Warrants Issued. County Attorney Lioyd J. Andrews | issued & werrant today charging Mrs. Winnle Ruth Judd, John Doe and Jane first-degree murder in' the slaying of Miss Samuelson, and a sec- ond warrant charging Mrs. Judd alone With the slaying of Mrs. Lerol. Mrs. Judd at first was believed flee- ing by train from Los Angeles to Phoenix. However, a woman taken into custody aboard a Southern Pacific train today was not Mrs. Judd, police were advised after the train had arrived in Phoenix from Los Angeles. Letters and photographs in the trunks led to the search for Mrs. Judd and tion as to_identity of the victims, each apparently shot. After discovery of the bodles. one dismembered, police found the suit case in a rest room containing a portion of one of the torsos. Officers here were informed Mrs. Judd had lived with the two women or had been associated with them in Phoenix. In Mrs. Judd's apartment at Phoenix was a found a letter to her, signed W. C. J.. her husband's initials, saying: “I don't want to write a letter to lie around for Ssmmy (Miss Samuelson's nickname) and Miss Leroi to read,” sald the letter. “I hope you will let me know as soon as you can what the chances are of your clinic closing or your doctors quitting. I hate to think of you being alone. “I had supposed that you thought so much of those two girls that you would be perfectly happy with them, but if you are not it puts s different face on | matters. Taught Schoel in Alaska. “I am pot at all surprised at what you tell me. I do not care to write you freely because you are careless with letters.” Miss Samuelson taught school in | Juneau, Alaska, two vears, returning about a year ago to {"ie United States. | Priends sald she was in Phoenix for | her health. The larger trunk contained the body of one woman and the head and limbs of the other. The small trunk ylelded a portion of torso, and the sult case found later in the rest room bore the rem:!(nfltr of the gruesome consign- ment. Knife and Shells Found. In the larger trunk there were sev- eral photographs, an envelope filled with letters, a long bread knife, bent but not bloodstairied, and a woman's purse, containing pistol cartridges and exploded shells. Clothing had been packed around the bodies. The tag on the small trunk bore a note, saying: “Don’t deliver until you see me personally.” ‘The younger woman, presumably Miss Samuelson, had been shot three times-- in the breast, shoulder and temple. The other had a bullet wound in the tempie only. McKinnell said his home was in Dar- lington, Ind., wher> his parents were living. He seid the Judds were living in a duplex house in Phoenix until a short time ago, when Judd came to Los An- geles on a vacation and presumably was citranged. The two slain women salso were residing in the duplex. About 7 o'clock yesterday morning, his sister arrived here and telephoned him while he was at his classes. She asked him to meet her and told him she had a “couple of trunks at the rallroad station.” “She sald she wanted me to drive down and : 't the trunks and take them to the ocean and dump them in deep water.” He met Mrs. Judd and they drove to the station. He had become suspicious, he sald, and when he néticed insects swarming about the trunks he became frightened. Plot to Hide Woman Hinted. Authorities said an investigation of a cabin in Beverly Glen, situated in a remote and isolated section, disclosed an unusual stock of supplies and they 20— | New Hampshire Convicts Take Up Foot Ball SPORT GOOD FOR PRISON MOIAI:E, WARDEN SAYS. N. H, on October 17. So papu‘hr has the game become, and so helpful to prison morale, that Warden Charles ! FORWARD pass is thrown during a foot ball game Lotween two teams of inmates at the State Prison, Concord, B. Clarke has appealed for donations of discarded equipment from school and college teams. Vial and Apparel May Shed Light on Maryland Mystery. Special Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md.. October 20.— A small vial of dark yellow fluid dis- covered in a handbag belonging to Miss Wilma Wigginton, whose body was washed ashore at Millstone Landing last Friday, has boen turned over to Baiti- more police for an analysis by authori- ties of St. Mary's County in hopes that it may shed some light upon the man- ner in which the 33-year-old Long Island woman met Ler death, The handbag, alcny with Miss Wig- ginton's shoes. sto:: and under- tings girdle, was found late yesterday on the | beach at Point Patience. Md. Absence of the clothing had contributed one of the mysteries of the woman's death. Acting State’s Attorney John H. B coe of 8t. Mary's County, declared today that the discovery of the apparel, to- gether with the unearthing of addi- tional details as to her actions up to late Thursday afternoon, should prov: important links in the final determira tion by county authorities as to how | Miss Wigginton died. Beach Is Combed. A systematic seerch of the beach at Point Patience was started vesterday afternoon, when it was learned that a woman anawering the description of Miss Wigginton had been seen a short dictance from the shore there on Thursday. Harry Woodmean, & merchant near Solomons Island, sald the woman be- | lieved to be Miss Wigginton, purchased | rome food and left his store after mak- | ing Inquiries as to condition of the tide at Point Patience. She then dis- appeared down the road leading toward | the Patauxtent. Two other points regarded as signifi- | cant in the theory that the woman intended to end her life were uncovered | by investigators yesterd: Miss Wigginton, it was learned re- quested a claim check for her automo- bile when she left her machine at a garage at Solomons on Wednesday, and said “I will not be back for the car. Somebody else will come for it.” | Rejection Stips Found. | A search of the machine revealed a number of refection slips from publish- ers for stories and plays submitted by the woung woman. | A copy cf the minuseript of a play. “Nigger Jake with which she won the $500 Fassett-Courier-Journal prize, offered by the Louisville Courfer-Jour- nal in 1926, was also found in the ma- chine. The outcome of the analysis of the viscera taken from the woman's body for examination by Baltimore police chemists probably will not be learned until tomorrow or Thurzday, Briscoe announced today The rects of this test are expected to form an important part of testimony | to be prasented to the new coroner’s jury. which Briscoe plans to impanel. Briscoe also expressed confidence that the note indicating a desire to end her life, which was found on Miss Wig- | ginton’s body, was in her handwriting. | The acting State’s attorney made this announcement after comparing the writing with that of the dead woman's signature on a Washington hotel reg- ister sheet. _——— | | expressed a theory that a plot had been | laid to hide Mrs. Judd in the cabin. It was also disclosed by police that among the stacks of letters and mag- aziness in_the trunks, which partly cov ercd the bodies, was found & surgeon’s scalpel. PHOENIX CLUE TO MAN FAILS. Grocery Boy's Naming of Judd Is Upset | by Doctor. | PHOENIX. Ariz, October 20 (#).— A clue which police had considered promising in their investigation of the slaying of two women whose bodies were found in trunks in Los Angeles appar- ently was nullified today when a physi- clan identified himself to police as a | man seen at the women's apartment here last Friday by a grocer boy. The | boy had identified a picture of Dr.| W. C. Judd, under technical arrest in Los ‘Angeles, as the visitor. The groter boy, brought to the office | of -County Attorney Lloyd J. Andrews, picked & photograph of Dr. Judd froia | a group of pictures placed before him. Investigators found also a witness who heard shqis in the apartment of Mrs. Agnes A. Lerol and Miss Hedvig Sam- uelson Friday night and obtained evi- dence from transfer company employes of the moving of “an excessively heavy trunk” Saturday night from the Leroi- Samuelson apartment to the home of Mrs. Judd. Mrs. Jennle McGrath, who lives near the address of Mrs. Lerol and Miss Samueison, said she heard three shots about 10:30 pm. This was 45 minutes after Miss Evelyn Nace, an employe of the medical clinic at which both Mrs. Lerol and Mrs. Judd were employed, told of having left Mrs. Leroi and Miss Samuelson alone in their apartment after having had dinner with them. Richard M. Swartz, driver for & trans- fer company, told of being called to the women's apartment Saturday night to move a trunk to the of Mrs. Judd. sald Mrs. Judd, whom he identified from a photograph, met him at the door of the Leroi-Samuelson Apartment and directed him t> take the trunk in the bed room. He was forced to-eall in two hel) to carry it. Mrs. Judd said it was fl] ‘with books. Dr. Judd, in in NEW DATA STUDIED INWOMAN'S DEATH | support Maryland institutions! Los Angel as s material ad , declared he had not been in Phoeflix for several weeks. Picks Banking PRESIDENT'S SON STARTS AT BOTTOM TO LEARN BUSINESS. ALLAN HOOVER. By the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, October 20.—Allan H:over, second son of tte President has chczen banking as his profess and accepted “a low clerieal. position s0 that he may learn the prof-ssion actual experience in all deoartments. The Security First National Bank here announced the employment of young Hoover yesterday. He was grad- uatzd from Stanford University in 1929 | and from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration last June. “This 1§ my first job and it's going to bz splendid, said Allan. The young man, however, spent one vacation while at Harvard in the employ of a radia- tor company, but he said the banking position was his first “real job." The announcement by the bank stated “Young Hoover starts at the bot- tom, as all young men lacking actual business experience should. His pro-| motion will depend upon his own in- dustry and ability.” IMPORTING OF HELP T0 MARYLAND HIT Employment Director Says‘ Contractors Bring Workers | From Other States. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md. October 20.— Co-operation such as was given during the World War was urged by Raymond W. Bellamy, State director of employ- ment for Maryland, in an address be- fore the Associated Charities here this afternoon. Explaining Tesults of his State-wide survey of employment, Director Bel- lamy declarcd men in Colmar Manor, Bladensburg_and Hyattsville have re- peatedly complained they are refused work on State roads projects because ' unfair contractors are allowed to bring in migratory workers. Holds Practice Unjust. “I have adduced data which are ind ative of gross injustice to our people, he said. “The majority of these out- | of-Btate men are furnished board in tents or shacks: the commissary sup- plies are even hauled in from the South- | ern States. What little pay the worker has left is sent back home to the fam- ily left behind. Not one cent goes to Rather, on the other hand. the unemployed of Maryland, the home buyer and citi- zen, cannot get employment, yet he | wist pay the taxes which indirectly pay the pages of the fellow who is for- tunate enough to get work on these Maryland projects. “As a panacea for this ill all this situation needs is a demand by the Maryland people upon the State officials | that they protect their constituents— that a stipulation be inculcated into each contract requiring the use of Maryland labor on Maryland projects at & decent, livable wage. This will automatically settle some of our unem- ployment problems and give to the Maryland tax-paying contractor, as well | as to the wage carner, a chance to exist and be gainfully employed, a preroga- tive that is rightfully and justly theirs. Cites War-Time Efforts. “In war time our welfare agencies and Associated Charities effected a most laudable co-operative relief movement. 1 plead today for the same considera- tion for our unfortunate brothers. The United States Employment Service is at your command. My assistants will gladly co-operat: with me in any way possible to aid in the work of the As- sociated Charities, municipal and State agencies in their relief work.” VETERAN HERO DIES Oldest Holder of Victeria Croes Dies at Age of 83. BOURNEMOUTH, England, October 20 (#).—Gen. Sir Reginald Hart, oldest holder of the Victoria Cross, died yes- terday at the age of 83. During a long army service he earned a reputation of being reckless of his personal safety and won several deco- rations for gallantry in war and in peace. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for der heavy fire - u::yfl!fl un vy a ) o dis during the Afghan War, in 1879. !their way out of East Side tenement | together for —the —A. P. Photo. OLD FEUD REVIVED BY ERLANGER SUIT Steuer and Kresel Over- shadow Woman in 16-Year Personal Fight. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK., October 20—A. L. Erlanger produced. but never lived to present, what may well be the greatest drama of his carcer. The third act opened yesterday in, Surrogate’s Court. Among the players was Mrs. Charlotte Fixel, who says she was the common-law wife of the late theater magnate and entitled to dower rights in the $75.000,000 he l=ft. Hers is a minor incident in the drama. At one ccunsel table sits Max D. Steuer, at the other Isidor J. Kresel. A grand jury. at the beh°st of Mr. Steuer, is reindicting Kresel for his con- nection with the suspension of the Bank of the United States. Figured in Legal Feud. ‘The first act goes back 16 years. They have the same background. Both came from Austria as bcys and both worked qualor. Erlanger unwittingly brought them first bitter contest hich was to make history as one of the legal profession's keenest rivalries. Kresel represented Erlanger then and be now represents the Erlanger estate. Steuer again represents the woman. In this first act he represented Edith St. Clair, an_actress, and he brought suit against Erlanger and won a judg-: ment on her behalf. Kresel obtained an affadavit from her in which Bhel said Steuer framed the suit. ‘Then he filed charges against Steuer and tried to disbar him. Miss St. Clair repudiated Ler affadavit and Steuer | was exonerated. The “bad blcod” between the two men was begun. Quarrel Drew Throngs. Then the second act, numerous court room scenes in which Kresel and Steuer, representing opposite sides, hurled bitter quips at each other. Their court Toom meetings attracted crowds and there was always the tense feeling that bitterness would come to| some dramatic denouement. It did. Last Spring the Bank of United Stdtes rlosed. Kresel was a director as well as its. legal adviser. Steuer was engaged by the depositors and became a special prosecutor. He called his old rival to the witness | stand. Then he went before the grand jury and had the man who once tried to disbar him indicted. | ‘Witnesses Take Stand. The contest over the Erlanger mil- lions begins with the atmosphere thus | charged. Steuer placed several wit- nesses on the stend to testify that | Erlanger referred to his client as “Mrs. Erlanger.” Kresel subjected them to| cursory examination and the spectators looked to later stages to furnish the| sparks so many of them came to hear Among the witnesses was Mrs. Jennie Feilis; who said she was housckeeper for Mr. Erlanger and Mrs. Fixel in a River- side drive apartment. She said Mr. Erlanger and Mrs. Fixel always had breakfast and dinner there together and Mrs, Fixel siept there. She never heard him refer to Mrs. Fixel in any other way than r- " Irs. Erlanger, she testified. In cross-cxamination Mr. Kresel led her over the day of Mr. Erlanger's death in minute detail. FOSHAY TRIAL JURY ~ OUT FOR FIVE DAYS Financier and Six Co-Defendants Hopeful as Panel Seems to Be Deadlocked. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, October 20.—The efforts of jurors to reach a verdict in the trial of W. B. Foshay and six former business assoclates on mail anud charges today entered the fifth ay. The jurors, 11 men and one woman, were informed by Federal Judge Joseph Molyneaux that he was prepared to wait a week or more. if necessary, for the decision. With the panel evidently deadlocked, the trial judge said that every avenue looking toward agree- ment must be exhausted before he would discharge them. ‘The trial began eight weeks ago and .. TO FILE LIENS | FOR CAPONE TAXES Internal Revenue Bureau Or- ders Action for Payment of $215,000 Levy. By the Assoclated Press. Orders to place liens for back income taxes on the property of Al Capone, convicted Chicago gangster, have been issued by the Internal Revenue Bureau The liens will hold the property for a jeopardy assessment of $215.000 of in- come taxes, which the Government maintains that the gangster evaded. ‘The order was sent to Chicago, where Capone’s property will be attached, and from there will be transmitted to Mi- ami, where the gang leader’s palatial home will be placed under a lien. Prevents Property Transfer. ‘The action will be taken by collectors of internal revenue at Chicago and at Jacksonville and will prevent the trans- fer of any of Capone’s Droperty. ‘While the action will prevent transfer of his Florida estate, he will be able to nuse it pending determination of the case if he escapes an immediate jail term when he is sentenced in Chicago the latter part of the week. The amount of the taxes called for in the lien of $215.000, does nct repre- sent the total which the Governm:nt claims Capone owes it. Total Never Established. ‘While the total has never been defi- nitely established, it was said that Ca- pone owes the Government more than $1,000,000 in back income taxes. The penalties for failure to pay them would add 50 per cent to th= amount. ‘The liens will be filed in the Fedaral Courts in Chicago and in Jacksonvills. TROUBLES JUST BEGINNING. Capone May Face Life of Property Selzre by Government. CHICAGO, October 20 (#).—Al Ca- pone’s troubles were just beginning it was indicated today as the Govern- ment moved to seize whatever property he might own, adding financial worries to_his already numerous legal woes. He faces a penalty of 17 years prison sentence and fines totaling $50,000 on his recent income tax conviction. A constant source of embarrassment to the gang leader, if the $215.- 000 in delinquent taxes decided upon by the Government were not paid, might result, legal authorities said, be- cause the Government might attempt to zeize anything Capone might own for the rest of his life. Sentence upon the liquor. gambling snd vice racket boss probably will be pronounced Friday by Federal Judge Jemes H. Wilkerson. Cap-ne attorneys were scheduled to file motions then, asking arrest of judgment and later, if the course of events impelied, to appeal to the Federal Circuit Court of Appesls and the United States Supreme Court, Such procedure might keep Capone out of prison tw> yvears, even if the con- viction finally was sustained. Torrio Is Still Held. ‘Two Capone associates were also in difficuit; cause of the income tax trial. Johnny Torrio, his former em- ployer, brought frcm New York to tes- tify before the grand jury against him, has not been released. Prosecutors de- clined to ccmment on reports that he might be held for perjury. Philip D'Andrea, C: e bodyguard, arrested for carrying Isto! into the court rcom during his “leader’s trial, yesterday on his fifth court appearance was granted a continuance until Thurs- day on a contempt charge. WOULD PAROLE CAPONE. Philadelphia Judge Urges Freedom for $200,000 Jobless Donation, PHILADELPHIA, October 20 (#.— Magistrate Edward Carney, who sen- tenced Scarfare Al Capone here to his first prison term, v _proposed 10 years' probation for the Chicago gang chieftain on condition he donates $200,- 000 or more of “his riches” to the un- employed. ‘“The Government ought to bargain with Capone,” the magistrate said. “He was not convicted of murder or any- thing like that, but for evading income tax payments. “Make him give some of that monoy he 13 suppossd to have to the unem- ployed. Place him on probation for 10 years on condition he will give a larg> sum to thousands of men out of work who could use the sum he owes Uncle Sam. Probation for that length of time would be just thz same as being in fa’l. 1. would prevent him from being acifve in the racket. “That much money would do a lot to relieve conditions of absolute poverty and help many men to get on their feet. If 1 were sentencing Capone, that’s what I'd do.” agjstrate Carney two vears rgo sent Capone to the Eastern Penitentiary for one year on conviction of carrying & concealed weapon. FUNERAL SERVICES SET FOR MAURICE G. LONG President of Pioneer Laundry Will Be Taken to Norfolk After Rites for Burial. The body of Maurice G. Long, 53, president of the Ploneer Laundry Co.. will be taken to Norfolk, Va.. by boat this evening for burial in Elmwood Cemetery there tomorrow at noon. Fu- neral services will be held at his late ‘Washington rTesidence, 1800 Irving street, at 4:30 o'clock preceding the sail- m{{r. Long's body was found in a ravine at his farm near Ashton, Md.. Sunday when a rch party was organized after he had failed to return from & walk. He had died of heart disease. Pallbearers_at today's services were John Oliver La Gorce, H. L. Rust, jr.; ‘Hugh W. Davia, Frank C. Lewis, E. H. Hutchins and John C. Koons. Sur- vivors include his widow, & son, Maurice G. Long, jr.: a daughter, Miss Emma Virginia Long, and a sister, Mrs. Agnes ! Kilgore. INVENTOR AND WIFE DIE IN SUICIDE PACT each juror has pay dus at the rate of 84 a day for the period. A group of special Government agents worked many months gathering evidence and the total costs of the case will reach an unusually high figure, court attaches estimated. Foshay, the head of the $20.000,000 enterprises which went into financial collapse November 1, 1929, and the co- defendants were eful that the pro- longed retreat of panel will be to their advantage. BAND C.ONCEBT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at Stanley Hall at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. Zi erican Festival”. . H ‘An_American Suite.” i ‘Thurban “The Tiger's Tail.” “When Malinda glnt:! “Serenade,” “Watermelon ‘ete.” Excerpts from musical contfedy, “Coun- tess Maritza” Kalm: Couple Found Dead in Plant With Pistols by Side—TIl Health Blamed. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 20.—Jos¢i = Bijur, founder and presiient of the Bijur Lubricating Corporation, and his wife Alice were found dead yesterday in g;: company's plant in Long Island y. Police sald they had shot and killed themselves agreement. Il health was given as the probable cause. Mr. Bijur was the inventor of the , | self-starter and numerous other de- vices for automobiles, He was 57 and his wife 56. Their bodles were found slum; over two chairs placed back to back. Near each body was a pistol with one exploded shell. U. 8. Priest Heads Carmelites.