Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1931, Page 2

THE EVENING GRAND JORY FREES THREE POLIEME Extortion Charges Against Two Ignored—Three Cleared in Tea Shop Murder. Three policemen were exonerated u:-' day by the grand jury of charges pre- ferred against them, none of which had | to do with the brutality investigation ! by the Department of Justice. A liquor ( law violation charged against Mrs. Ann | Elizabeth Jett, 32, former police tele- | phone operator, was also dropped w' the grand jury. ! Alexsnder D. MeKinnon, whose re- moval trom the force was recommended Wednesday by the trial board, was| exonerated by the grand jury of an; embezziement charge growing out of a shortage in the funds collected for the Police Relief Association. Capt. Plemmons and Inspector Burke, on be- half of the assocation, told United States Attorney Rover that the money had been repaid and that the associa- tion was “not inclined to prosecute. Extortion Charge Fails. ward Willis Gore and Frank J. ni‘;mm. fourth precinet _patrolmen. were freed by the grand jury of charges of extortion. They had been indicted by the previous grand jury, on which there was a pensioner, but when the matter was presented to the present grand jurors they declined to indict. The policemen had been charged by Lieut. Oscar J. Letterman, night ln-' pector, of extorting $10 from Frank | Adams colored, to protect him from a | f bootlegging. e it Wi boen arrested with her husband, Jay Franklin Jett, 54, and John Tyler Gill, 37, a roomer in their home, 3701 Seventeenth street north- east. when police claimed to have found ~n still on the premises. Mrs. Jett was suspended and later dismissed from her dtion. The grand jurors also re- “Pised to indict Gill, but reported an “indictment against the husband. Jett is mccused of possessing articles in- “tended to be used in making whisky, Zwith the manufacture of alleged ‘whisky and with possession thereof “October 10 last. Twenty-eight Charges lnwr:'d. L : he grand jury presented to Jus! Pr:fcun"rl indictments and ignored ~charges against 28 persons. Among the “indictments were several that had been reviously reported by the illegal gran fury and had to be again presented. = The grand jurors jgnored a charge “of conspiracy to rob which police ha “preferred against Thomas Jorhn,gagh F. Alkin_and Edith “aworth, who had been under investiga: tion in_connection with the hold-up at the Garden T Shoppe, lA’le:“ 3, when t - woman cashier was . ’wflmma Owens, 70, river captain, “was reindicted for first-degrce murder “4n connection with the death of Eisie Jouise Bryant, 14 years old, at her Thome, 456 N street southwest. The girl s reported to have spurned the atten- “tions of the elderly man, which resulted in the tragedy. The girl was shot July 2 last and died six days later. First-degree murder charges are also made against Willlam Watkins and ‘Alonzo Dunbar, both colored. Watkins is accused of stabbing to death Wesley Phillips, also colored, in & fight in front of premises 1611 Sixth street, October 25, Dunbar is alleged to have shot and - killed Cicero Dodson, also colored, Sep- * tember 19, in Bchott's alley: Physieia; Acigred. Violation of i u-l-c law is charged against. D Bittie'C. Kelster, a tich physician, !v{l'.:el n’!e was arres! by Federal agents September 4 and it was at he ha e ete between July 11 and September 2 The agents reported that they had bought 186 tabletd’Septeriiber 3 and 833 - on Septerber 4.7 When a doctor is #aid to have had in his pos- i 1,232 tab] .u:/l‘r]? Ruth ‘her husband, vens, i and John Hays Hammond. committee’s first meeting yesterd: MADODCATIGZES HOOVER WAR FANE Says President Got Distinc- tion “Distributing Free Food,” but Spread Alarms. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 6.—Herbert Hoover is criticized for having “greatly alarmed” the ccuntry during the war by “dire prophecies” of a food shortage in an autoblography of William G. Mc- Adoo, Demccratic Secretary of the Treasury from 1913 to 1918. ‘The son-in-law of Wocdrow Wilson, in a book being published tomorrow which he calls “Crowded Years,’ also says of Mr. Hoover: is chief distinc- tion had been acquired in distributin free food to the Belgian people in 191 and 1916—a celebrity easily won, I fancy, as I judge from long observation that the job of giving away things re- | quires very little wear and tear cn one's abili ity. After this accomplishment, Hoover was appointed Federal focd adminis- trator by the President, and that started him on his road to the Whife House.” ¥ British Shortage Kept Secret. * another reference fo Mr. Ver; McAdoo tells how the adi - , during 1918, was keeping from the public, “for fear of its eflect upon the In Mr. tion, ‘was only a two-week supply of food left in England and that rations had been reduced all over Europe. In it Mr. McAdoo says Mr. Hoover declared the shortage was extremely serious and blamed the railroads. “At that time" the book continues, LIOT WADSWORTH of Boston, former Secretary of the Treasury (left), famous mining engineer, chairman of the five-man grcup named by President Hoover to inquire into charges made against his navel pclicy, leaving the Metropolitan Club here after the ay. —A. P. Photo. BANS PRICE FIXING - IN DRY CLEANING Court Injuncti | on Against 5 Firms Here Prohibits | | Customer Division. ‘ = (Prom the 5:30 Edition of Yesterdav's Star.) | Chief Juctice Wheat in District Su- | preme Court yesterday signed a perma- nent injunction prohibiting five master | dyeing and cleaning companieg in Wash- ington from further price fixing and division of customers. An appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States was | noted. The injunction, bringing to an end a suit brought by the Government under the Sherman anti-trust act in February, 1929, applied to the Atlantic Clean- {ers & Dyers, Inc.; Globe Cleaners & | Dyers, Arcade-Sunshine Co., Vogue Dry | Cleaning_Co, Samuel Rubenstein and | Charles Rubenstein, John F. McCarron, | Samuel Grozbean, Harry Viner and | Bamuel Goldenburg. The Government charged in its suit that the defendants held meetings and agreed to raise the prices being charged for cleaning, ' dyeing_and renovating clothes; that they have since been charging and receiving such increased d purchased 5,000 morphine | morale of the allies,” the fact that there | Prices, and have refused to clean or dye | for prices lower than those fixed. | ""The companies also agreed, the Gov- | ernment alleged, that any dealer trad- | ing with one of their number should be | regarded and designated s the customer | of that defendant, and that in this | manner they alloted the retailers to one ¥ Robert: Willlam I. Green, Clarence B.| «the railroad administration (of which |another as exclusive customers. i kenbaugh and Robert Ely, were re- : filO:lcwd oln a charge of assault in * connection with the wielding of & horsewhip on a member of the Inter- national Union of Operating Engineers. An assault cnage (-l.;uz Charles E. Haury, the viet of e 3 wnl?gnmed by the grand jury. This attack was alleged to have been made on @ man at a meeting of the union. Others Are Cleared. The grand jury refused indictments in the following cases: George H. Cash, non-support; George Pressley, Joseph : S. Warren, Carl Cook, George W. Pat- ten, Clarence Millner, Hoyt Arnold, James A. Hallman and George W. White, joy-riding; William Winslow and ‘Wibur ~Jones, grand larceny; Austin Carrilo, housebreaking; Chester Hard- ing, carnal knowledge; Chilton C. Dil- lon, manslaughter; James M. Tanner- hill, liquor law; Percy Hammock, rob- bery: Alphonzo Srhith, assault with & dangerous weapon: Qeorge V. Brene- man, impersonating an officer: Mark Kobiegard, jr.. forgery; Luigi Polisello, false pretenses, and Henry M. Ray- mond, embezzlement. Others indicted. . an@ _the charges against them, inciude Anthony J. Si- rock, Lonnie L. Haley and Joseph A. Pesavage, joy-riding; Theodore H. Younger and Harold T. Howland, em- bezzlement; Isaac Mostow, _perjury Walter H. Schiott, forgery: Prank W. Bailey, violating anti-narcotic Jaw: Ber- | nara Simpson, sale of copyrighted song | sheet; Robert F. Allen, manslaughter: James F. Butler, Julius L. Lohoefer Paul F. O'Connell, George L. Sweeney, Isaac F. Greene and Malcolm H. Wil- | mer, non-support; Joseph L. Mundy. Albro L. Stewart, Paul Pratt. Philip Pratt_and Olivia Pratt, housebreaking: Joe Dyer, grand larceny: Benjamin L Sfieeds. Floyd_Robinson, Samuel L Thomas, Leon N. Sutton and Arthur E. © French, joy-riding: John A. Woods, as- sault with dangerous weapon: James A. carr, assault to rob; McKiniey Baxter, Milton W. Thomas, Nellie Thomas, Jo- seph Cittadino and Harry A. Sweeney. violating liquor law: David L. Russell and Hazel M_ Chinn, abortion: Irvin Abrams and Wirt R. Douglass, embez- * zlement. THIEVES STEAL GEMS OF INDIAN POTENTATE Delegate to Round Table Parley in London Reports Loss of $40,000 Stones. By the Associated Press. LONDOYN, November 6-—Emeralds. diamonds and rubles valusd at about $40,000 and about which the legends and traditions of Hindustan have built an atmosphere of romance have be:n stolen from one of the Indian poten- tates attending the round table confer- ence. The youthful Maharajadhiraya Kam- | eshwar Singh of Dharbhanga discovered the loss Wednesday night when he went to his paratial suite in his hotel over- looking the Thames. Police were notified and a consder- able squad of Scotland Yard's most apt young men were assigned to the case. The Maharajadhiraja, who is 25, is the biggest land holder in “Bihar and Orissa. ‘Will Discuss Personality. Dr. Frank 'W. Collier, head of the McAdoo was the head) had the matter well in hand, and the proplem was being solved rapidly. Hooter must have known of this, as ke had every opportunity to be well informed. After declaring the interview alarmed the country, Mr. McAdoo says: “No doubt his (Hoover's) statement was promptly communicated to Ger- many, through the secret news service of our encmies, and gave comfort to their waning hopes.” Then he relates that after an un- tions Mr. Hoover appeared at his office with “his legal adviser, Mr. Glasgow, of Philadelphia. Hoover Sat Silent. “Glasgow did all the talking” Mr. McAdoo writes. “Hoover sat with down- cast eyes, like @ diffident schoolboy. Beyond the greeting when he came in and his gooa-by 1 do not recall that he had anything to say. Glasgow told me, on Hoover's behalf, * * * that Mr. Hoover regretted his statement. * * *." McAdoo says he told the attorney Mr. Hoover should make his complaints to the proper suthorities and not to the public. “Mr. Glasgow sal made & minute id, while Mr. Hoover examination of the in the futur- . Glasgow finished his say, Mr. H spection of tae their departure.’ The book describes the late Warren G. Harding’s Senate speeches as “an army of pompos phrases moving over the landscape in scarch of an idea.” Opposes Deht Cancellation. Mr. McAdoo takes & firm sgainst cancellation of the debts. Amplifying an idea advanced by Lord Rothmere in 1919, he suggests England_and Irunce turn over to th United States tneir possessions in_the West Indies and French Guiana. That would pay about half their debt, h> Says. The balance he would have liquidat=d by having the 1wo countries buy. with government bonds, stock in their own steamship, ‘elcohone and telegraph lines, railroads and manufacturing in- dustries and tu:n them over to this country. To prevent a crippling flow of gold he would have tic United States agrec not to accept any dividends fcr 10 or 20 years, the :z.urn instead to be re- invested in the iadustries. HOLDS WOMAN CAN LIVE ON 31 CENTS Ill'nois Teacher Reveals She Ac- complished Feat During Course at Michigan U. floor, and they took By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 6.—A woman can live on 31 cents' woith of food & day and remain in good he°lth At least Miss Jeanette Chesbro. & teacher of economics. succeed~d in do. ing 8o, she revealed yesterdav at « State conference of vocational home- making teachers. “1 know you would expect me to be rather emaciated.” she said. “but I' here to prove that I'm well fed and ha been all Summer.” She added that she accomplished the feat by department of philosophy of American University, will discuss the motivating forces of personality before students in the ¥. M. C. A. personality develop- ment course tonight st 8 o'clock at ;!‘I: “compzratively intelligent buying.” by purchasing foods in season, and by a conscientious use of left-overs. Miss Chesbro spent the Summer at Ann_Arbor, Mich.. attending the Uni- versity of ‘Michigan. Her home is st satisfactory cxchange of communica- | floor, that Mr. Hcover would do that | | The master companies based their de- ‘I!nse upon a legal contention that the | anti-trust laws were not applicable to their business because of the peculiar | nature of the trade. This plea was over- | ruled in July, 1929, by Justice Jennings | Batley and again today by Chief Justice Wheat. {OWNERS SWAP EUMPED CARS AND GO HAPPILY ON By the Associated Press. | SPOKANE, November 6—Martin | Schroeder and C. W. Bond did not fuss | when thelr automobiles collided; they | traded cars “as is” and went happily on | their ways. An agreement for the trade, filed with | the county auditor, stated each waived claims for damages, and each must stand for his own repair work. T needed a light car, anyhow,” Bond sal “And T can fix up that heavy crate of yours for $75 and have a fine big car,” Schroeder said. JOBLESS AID PLANNED CHICAGO, November 6 (#).—Ivan Elliott, commander of the Illinols Amer- ican Legion, announced last night a State-wide employment and relief pro- gram, including the establishment of job-finding bureaus in 600 or more | towns and cities. Working with the Federal and State ver completed his in- | stand Departments of Labor, the Legion pro- | War and saw active duty at the front gram provides for campaigns to obtain Jobs for all applicants, ragardless of war service. The Legion's membership of 85,000 in Tilinois will be requested to aid in the plan. October Circulation Daily...113,543| Eunday, 120,987 rict of .. | LEROY W HERRON. Advertising M of EVENING AND SUNDR does solemnly swear thot the acian n | ¢f coples 1 the paper namea”sold and i h uring the mont o 1931, was as follows: Of OClober. A.D. anager BTAR, | 1im pies Days. 18 13092 | Less | To! sdiustmenis. ! dallv ret eirenlstion daily nct paid cireulniion » number of copies for te. Daily average net circustion.. ‘M | Less adjustments. Total Bunday met circulation.. Average net paid Sunday circilsiion Average aumber of t coples for serv- ice, erc ? | Average Bunday net slation LEROY W. HERRON. Advertigine: Manay Subscribed_and aworn to 'fil UNT. #th day of November, AD TAR, WASHINGTON, IFVE KILLED WHE | AIRLINER CRASHES Four of Victims, Two of L Them Pilots, Were Resi- dents of Capital. ___(Continued From First Page) was Mrs. Francis Ehle, wife of one of the victims, who was waiting at the a'r- port to take her husband home to dinner with their two children. She bscame hysterical and required medical atf ll-; fon. The fast low-winged monoplane was running on one of the fastest passen- ger schedules in the United States. Its scheduled time between Washington and New York was 68 minutes and on Sep- | tember 21 Cox made the trip from Washington to New York carrying six passengers and baggage in 57 minutes | 33 seconda, smashing two records of | Capt. Frank M. Hawks. This flight still stands as the official speed record be- tween the two cities. The first word of the crash was Te- celved here last night a few minutes after the accident by officials of the Ludington Line at Washington-Hoover Alrport over the line’s teletype service. The news was broken to Mrs. Evelyn Cox, wife of the iil fated pilot, who was waiting at the airport for her husband. Crew Leaves for Scene. Within a few minutes after the news was received Collins, one of the Nation's senjor pilots in_length of service and fiying time, loaded five Ludington me- chenics into a single-motored tranport plane and took off for Cemden. The crash was the first in the his- tory of the Ludington Line to involve | passengers. In th: 14 imonths since the line opened hourly service between the National Capital and New York its planes have established a_world | record for safety. Flying 1,841.081 | miles on hourly schedules, the planes had carried 85,156 passengers and com- pleted more than 10,000 flights with- out injury to & single passenger. Floyd Cox, whose first mecident in eight years of flylng was the one in which he lost his life, took great pride in his safety record. When he jolned the line before his inauguration he wrote: “I have had a little over 2,000 hours in the air. Most of that time was spent more than a mile above sea level. 1 am truly proud of my record of never having an accident with & plane.” Cox was known as one of the best transport pilots in the East. He was | selected for the first transport filght over the Washington-New York line when, on the day before its formal in- auguration on September 1, 1930, he | carried 10 West Foint cadets over the | ine. He was selected because of his splen- | did record as pilot of the express plane and has flown it since the 68-minute schedule was inaugurated. | Learned to Fly in 1923. Cox learned to fly in 4923 while em- ployed in the composing room of the Sfoux City (Iowa) Journal. He also worked for a financial paper in Florida and in 1925 joined the staff of the Den- ver Pest. In 1927 he “barnstormed” the West in his own plane. In addition to flying, he worked in | the composing rooms of two Florida papers and two New York papers be- fore coming to Washington to work for the Washington Daily News. His wife also is a linotype operator, em- ployed at the Government Printing Office, and both are members of Co- lumbia Typographical Union. Though Cox had at first taken up flying merely as a sport, he finally decided to take it up as a career and for many months flew passengers on sightseeing flights from Washington Airport as pilot for Universal Flyers. He went over from this service to the Ludington Line, and was one of its senior pilots. Vernon Lucas had completed a run to New York earlier in the day and was returning to Washington as a pas- senger in Cox's ship in preparation for his regular run today. Like Cox, Lucas ‘ad been with the Ludington Line since it was inaugurated and was a no.ed pllot. He had 3.200 hours' flying time to his credit and had been flying since he joined the Army Alr Service in 1917 while a student at Minnesota State; College. After learning to fly at an Army school, Lucas took up radio and proved so efficient he was assizned by the Army as a radio Instructor and went through the war in that capacity. Lands Plane in Blizzard. After the war Lucas spent several years in the West and Northwest barn- | storming and later became a pilot on one of the transcontinental air lines. One of his experiences while on that line was to land his plane with a full load of passengers in a blizzard in New Mexico He landed by the light of a parachute flare, which he released to plerce the blinding storm and, though his plane went through a concealed fence, none of his passengers was seri- ously” injured. Last_Sunday Lucas made an emer- gency flight from Washington to Phila- delphia in an effort to save the life of a 3-year-old child who was choking to death on a bean, which had lodged in | her bronchial tubes. Though he hed only a tri-motored transport at his dis- posal, Lucas flew the child and her father, J. B. Cohen of Orlando. Fli, from Washington to Camden in 62 min- utes. A successful operation was per- | formed. but pneumonia developed and | resulted fatally. | Lucas is married and is survived by his widow and four children, who are with his mother at Oakcrest, Va. Smith Served in France. | Elmer Smith served as a captain in the Army Air Service during the World |In France. He was born in Tennessec, /but was taken by his parents to live in Boston and was educated in Boston. | Later he came to Washington as a stu- | dent at Georgetown University and dis- tinguished himself there as a foot ball player and member of the track squad. He left Georgetown to enlist in 1917 |and was commissioned while serving in France. He was wounded in action and confined to a military hospital for sev- eral months. Mr. Smith was well known as an ad- vertising executive. He began his news- | paper career on the Boston Herald and later became identified with the Zane Advertising Co. While with that or- ganization he worked for newspapers in 30 different citles. For several years he was financial advertising manager on the New York Times. | Mr. Smith came to Washington in | 1929 to serve for a year as advertising director of the Wachington Herald and | then returned t) New York for a time. He came back to the Herald last February ard had boen here as ad- :ti-'ng manager since that time. He W.s not married. Taylor Widely Known. Mr. Taylor wes a widely known mem- ber of the Internaticnal Association of Milk Dealers and was returning to Washington from a convention cf the association in_ Atlantic City when he was killed. The flight wais the first Mr. Taylor had made, though he had €poken frequently to associates at the lChef;x ut Farms Dairy of his desire o fly A native of New Orleans, Mr. Taylor had been connected with the Ilccal dairy for 11 yeors. He was chief of the laboratory section of the international associaton and was chairman of the Committee on Arrangements for the conventicn here last year. In 1928 he represented the ass-ciation World Dairy Congress in London. He was a member of the Abstracting Serv- ice Editing Committee and the Labo- ratory Methods Committee of the in- ;em ional sssociation. He is survived "RIDAY, lost nighi as it was nearing the them residents of Washington. I Ehle, was well known a rong radio man- | ufacturers, according to an Associated | Press dispatch from Riverton, and | served during the World War as & radio ( operator. When the war closed he ac- companied Admiral N. A. McCully on a | Government mission to Russia. | Born in Montpzlier, Vt., in 1897, Mr. Ehle had made his home in New Jersey for many years. He was president of | the International Resistance Co. and vice president of the Durham Radio Co. of Riverton. Express Service Closed. Yesterday's crash puts a close to the Ludington Line express service, since the burned plane was the only one of its type on the run. Regular hourly | service with trimotored transports was not interrupted and the schedules were flown by fellow pilots of Cox and Lucas | as usual today. | The crash had no apparent effect on passenger traffic today, it was reported | by officials of the various lines operat- | ing out of Washington. There were | one or two cancellations of advance | reservations, but no more than the | normal number and passenger traffic apparently w-s entirely normal on all lines. Advance reservations were being made af heavily as before the crash. A Ludington plane figured several months ago in a crash at Baltimore but on that occasion the pilot, Ear Smith, suspecting motor trouble, had put off his passengers until he could make a test flight. While taking off alone in the piane for the test run, the faulty motor quit and Smith crashed injuring his back. His action in putting off his passengers when he suspected the trouble succeeded in prolonging the line's record of never having injured a passenger until last night. During its 14 months of operation the Ludington Line has established world records for volume of passenger traffic. Its average has been built up to more than 5000 passengers per month. The line on October 15 in- augurated passenger service between the National Capital and Norfolk and | also operates lines from Philadelphia to Atlantic City and a subsidiary line from Washington to Hot Springs, Va. GARDINER ATTACK INQUIRY IS LIKELY TO END LATE TODAY | _(Continued From First Page.) ] W. Greenslade, members of the General | Board of the Navy. | Secretary Adams' statement, released | several days ago, reproached the Nav: League for its personal attack on Mr. Hoover. | U. 8. Navy Review's Editori: Asserting that “the Navy League's hope of & general investigation is sunk | before launching.” because of the per- sonnel of President Hoover's commit- | tee, an editorial in today's issue of the United States Navy Review, a service publication, has this to say: “It appears as though the Navy League took in ‘too much territory. The issue probably could have’ been covered without a direct attack on the President of the United States. Thus, the league’s fine intentions probably injure the Navy's side of the story. Already some of the leading members of the league, while not receding from their stand in favor of the Navy, have expressed disapproval at the attack on Mr. Hoover. i The fact that the professional paci- fist factions have taken sides in no| small way with Mr. Hoover s none too welcome by the President. Mr. Hoover had some nice things to say for the Navy on Navy day. The peace fa tions jumping in’ against the Navy League do not make the Navy day state< ments sound at bit better. “Had Mr. Hoover ignored the Navy League pamphlet entirely, the issue for | and against the Navy would have af tracted considerable less attention than | it now has. Commitiee Personnel Analyzed. “It will be difficult to keep the in- quiry within the bounds contemplated by the President—at least as far as the public press is concerned—that is, an inquiry to demons of statements mar~ in psmphlet, “Three of the five members of the committee are in the Hoover cabinet. That, fact certainly does not bespeak the impartiality fair observers had ex- pected. Admiral Rodman, it is under- stcod from reliable sources, was inter- viewed before he was appointed to the committee. One of the committee mem- bers recently made his now well known ‘Battleships Are ‘Luxuries’ address in Boston. “The limitations imposed upon the committee would seem to prevent a gen- eral investigation of the Navy, its strength and pagity. Priends of the hed hoy such an investigation | { | “\HE smoking ruins of a Ludington Iine plane, bound from N NOVEMBER 6. 1931. Camden, N. J., Airport. ew York to W-shington, which crashed and burned Two pilots ard tares passc Tnset, upper right, Floyd Cox, the pilot. tising manager of the Washington Herald; Vernon Lucas, air pi'ot for the Ludington Line, returning to h's home here, and Gecrge B. Taylcr, director of Chesinut: Farms Dairy laboratory. ers were killed, four of Below, left to right: Elmer Smith, adver- Prosperity Signs NEW YORK.— More building in New York. lans for more thah $5,000,000 worth of new consiruction filed in October, or 25 per cent increase over last October. TORONTO, Ontario. —Four- cen favorable factors listed by Canadian Bank of Commerce in commercial letter, which says “Canada’s business structure has been strengthened during Octo- PHILADELPHIA. — Increased orders, lengthening of hours or addition ot labor reported nearly’all of 34 industrial plants in Middle West visited by R. Har= land Horton, executive director of the Philadeiphia Business Prog- ress Association, MINNEAPOLIS.—Butter, milk, eggs and poultry commanding better prices in Central North- west, statisticians of Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank say. HAPEVILLE Ga—Evans- Inman Lumber Co. plant resumes operations, employing 50 men, while 500 more will be affected by opening of 40 logging camps controlled by the company. PANTAGES’ COUNSEL BLOCKED BY COURT Judge Forbids Questioning Dancer Regarding $1,000,000 Civil Suit. of By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, November 6—De- fense counsel for Alexander Pantages, theater owner charged with attacking Eunice Pringle, young dancer, will not be able to interrogate the girl about the $1,000,000 civil action for damages she fiied “against Pantages after his conviction at the end‘of first trial. Superior Judge Clair 8. Tappaan ruled late yesterday the suit had no part in the present trial. The defense sought to question the girl about the suit. Miss Pringle has finished her cross- examination. She denied any improper conduct in her past life. Pantages is accused of having at- tacked Miss Pringle when she went to his office to solicit employment. The first trial resulted in his conviction and a sentence of from 1 to 50 years' imprisonment. The new trial resulted from tre failure of the judge to allow the defense to go into the past life of the complaining witness. $8,000,000 IS RAISED IN CHEST CAMPAIGNS Report of 32 Cities Reveals Total to Be 12.8 Per Cent Greater Than Last Year. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 6.—Nearly $8,000,000 has been raised by Com- munity Chest campaigns in 32 cities, the Association of Community Chests and Councils reported yesterday to Walter S. Gifford and Owen D. Young, heads of presidential relief and unem- ployment committees. Tbe total was 12.8 per-cent higher | than the amount raised by the same Cities last year. Twenty-four of the 32 communities exceeded their goals. Reports on 18 of the cities previously were made g'ubllc. The otter 14 follow: ‘Albany, N. Y. Community Chest raled $454,195; goal, $454,053. Batavia, N. Y., fund reised $30,500; goal, $35,000, Aurora, 1I, Community Chest raised $126,491; goal, $125,100. Beloit, Wis., Community Welfare Association raised $102,500; goal, $75,000. Joplin, Mo, Community Chest raised $48,500; goal, $58,280. Kansas City, Mo., City Councii of Social Agencies raised $1,500,000; goal, $1550,000. Kenosha, Wis., Com- munity Chest Association raised, $168,- 057, Eon\, Weltare Pederation raised 1t elfare erat raised o qoal, | $10,180, o, $2: 2301 goai, mfl. Brockton, Mass., Social jce Council raised $115,591; goal, $147,- 000. Nashua, N. H., Community Chest Taised $36,000; goal, $39.900. Honolulu United Welfare Fund ’:auod $540,000, 150,000. . 8491, $586,219. MRS. LUCAS HEARS COOLIDGE NAMEF FOLGER CHAIRMAN Succeeds Morrow as Head of Scope Committee of Shakespeare Library. Calvin Coolidge has become chafr- ! man of the Plan and Scope Committee of the Folger Shakespeare Library, and will have an active part in the direc- tion of the library's affairs. He suc- ceeds his friend, the late Senator Dwight W. Morrow. This announcement, made today by William A. Slade, librarian, is taken as an indication that, in connection with his duties, Mr. Coolidge will be & far more frequent visitor to thg Capi- tal than he has been since his retire- ment from the presidency in 1929. Under the will of Henry Clay Folger, donor of the Ii the trustees of herst alm: ibrary, Am] , a mater of Mr. Folger himself and of both Mr. and of the valuable collection of Shakespeare books and relics. Plan and Scope Comm! h X Coolidge at its head, will be, in effect, the managers %f the establishment, the a8 supervisors college trustees of the committee’s labors. The office which Mr. Coolidge has accepted is, therefore, no sinecure. It will require his constant and active attention. Other members of the committee are: Stan]ele!nfi. Edward T. Esty and Louis G. Cal Dr. George A. Plimpton, publisher and bibliophile, is chairman of the board of trustees. GUN BLAST KILLS FOUR AND INJURES NINE ON WARSHIP (Continued From First Page.) U. 8. N.; next of kin, father, Ernest Btover, 712 Lenore street, Lansing, Mich. Herbert E. Lutz seaman firsi-class, U. 8. N.; next of kin, wif, Mrs. Nola M. Lutz’ 1133 Thirtieth street, San Calif, illam H. Duval, seaman first-class, U. S. N.; next of kin, mother, Mrs. Ella ‘Duval, Idah Hoover 5 0. ed to the U. 8. 8. Schnur was attach Oklahoma, but had been detailed as an observer to make the trip with the two_dreadnaughts. The victim aboard the Maryland was J. J. Plummer, a gun captain. He was under the gun instructi a crew in firing when he was caught in the ma- chinery. Piummer’s home is in Win- chester, Ky. Alr Officer Killed. Another fatality was suffered by the Pacific Coast naval forces wl!e’r in tke day, wnen Lieut. Comdr. Oscar OF FATAL CRASH Wife of- Pilot Had Driven Family Car to Airport to Meet Husband. Mrs. Leds Lucas, the wife of Vernon | Luces, Ludington Line air pilot killed yesterday, had driven the family auto- mobile to the airport to meet her hus- b:nd and wes among a little group watehing the darkensd sky f:r a glimpss of the expected plcne's wing lights when news of the tragedy arrived with overwhelming euddenntss. Field attendants broke the news as gently as possible and Mrs. Luces was itccompamefl to her hcme in nearbr | Oakerest, Va., where she had to explain | the circumstances of her husband’s death to their young children, Harold, 9 years old; Ear), aged 8, and Ltwell, & yesr younger. The baby of the family | is Venada, 18 montks old. Came Here Year Ago. Lucas had been employed formerly by’ | the T. A, T. in the West and come here | about A yo:r ago with his family to eccept a posil with the local air line. He was a first lieutenant in the Army Alr Corps Reserves. The femilies of Lucas and his wife | owned adjoining f:rms near St. Venson, Minp. Most of the fiyer's relatives live in the West, and Mrs. Lucas, although on the verge of nervous collapse, spent most <f last night communiceting the news to them. Under Care of Physician. Mrs. Lucas was placed under the care of a physician early today and was re- g::ud restifig in the hcme of a neigh- Other neighbors took the ‘Lucas children home with them for the night. In addition to his wife children, Lucas is survived by three brothers, Norman Lucas, now living in Cali- fornia; Reno Lucas cf Calisville, Mont., and Lyndon Lucas of W'anipeg, Minn,, and a sister, Mrs. Will .«m Turner of Everett, Wash. Funera. arrangements have not been completed. TAXIS ORDERED T0 ADOPT METERS AFTER JANUARY 10 (Continued From First Pa ) increase crulsing and keep cabs in the congested area. It is specifically found that the aver- . age cost of operating a cab is 10 cents per mile, and that approximately M)l per cent of all mileage is not productive of revenue. The order then sets up certain stand- ards as to equipment, its mechanical condition, cleanliness and so forth, substantially equal to the present re- quirements. One of the that each cab shall be equipped with at least two doors for the entrance and exit of passengers, in addition to the door to the driver's seat; another that every cab shall bear on each passenger door in letters 3 inches high the name of the company operating it and the word “taxicab,” or an identifying design approved by the commission, llef for the victims of too much broadcasting is promised by one sec- tion of the order, which prohibits the operation of any radio in any cab while the cab is in operation. A number of sections in the order relate to the reports to be filed with the commission relating to all traffic ac- cidents in which the cabs are involved and also to financial matters. Every driver is required under the order to keep a manifest which will show the trips he made each day and the revenue derived from each trip, W00DCOCK TO ADDRESS CRUSADERS ON WORK ‘The local chapters of the Crusaders, militant anti-prohibition organization, has invited Amos W. W. Woodcock to tell it how he enforces: prohibition. The Federal enforcement ch - plied he would be “most happy” to do 80, and expressed great a iation. that refnains is seti the date 1 All for the address. William Erickson, 35, commander of a pursuil squadren on the airgraft car- rier Saratoga, died after Ris plane plunged over the side of the ship as he was attempting a landing. The Saratoga was 10 miles off sinre. His companion, ~George H. Cuwwings, aviaticn pilot, escaped injury. Local Navy officials clam; strict censorship here and the tragedy came from Washington when. the Navy Department revealed the accidents. Admiral Richard H. Leigh, com- mander of the fleet, annbuheed & Navy Eoard of Inquiry would meet aboard SeEidenta e fadings ot the. sosrd A e of the will be forwarded to Washington. Ships Return to Port. The Colorado and Maryland were due to return late last nigm, but they put in the harbor at 8:15 p.m., ahead of y:hclauhedule as & result of the accl- en! |~ Admiral Leigh's account of the Colo- rado’s accident was brief and with de~ tail. His statertent read: ;imnn :15 p.m. an anti-aircraft gun e: ed.” "He then listed the dead and in- Jured. The injured officers and men were tra »d to the h immediately on arrival naughts at the local harbor. Orders Court Inquiry. Vice Adm'ral Luke McNamee, U. S.N., | commander battleships, battle force, United States Fleet, aboard his flagship, U. 8. S, California, at San Pedro, Calif., this afternoon informed the Navy De- partment that he has named a court of inquiry to meet immediately to in- qulcr:pm afit uficldm& A orris, command! f- ficer of the U. S. S. Maryland, hmn‘l'e:l- dent of the court of inquiry. The other llel';mmbfi? are Comdrrtgzll‘l;m T. Smith, e officer o . B, - tornia; Lieut. Comar, Saymond B, et Inne icer of the U. 8. S. Cali- {"{{lllh. Ifl& lt‘!l\imv Jghns F. Crowe, jr., mgéhad.d 2 ey i . 8. 8. Maryland as e court of Inquiry was directed to investigate all circus inces - ing the fatality. v e DENY SABOTAGE RUMOR. down & lod- Navy Officials Refuse to Link Blast = With Previous Trouble. Navy Departrient today de- nled that alleged u°m°"".nur§ ggl battleship Colorado while she was un- dvimmtol ‘x;e:‘anl;- s th:n New York Navy re in Panam: lotting room, could have had a:nm o y oft P! nection with th San Pedro. T Sonm They said that in the desire to gun expertly and quickly it is 922 sible that some members of the gun crew overlooked a necessary safety de- * tail, thus causing the injury. NAVAL FLYER KILLED. ron Commander Dies When Plane Misses Carrier. SAN DIEGO, Calif., November 6 ). —Lieut. Comdr. Oscar William Erick- son, 35, commander of a Pursuit Squad- Squad The officer's companion, George H. Cummings, aviation pllot, was uninjured. Erickson was attempting to land the plane when the landing hook caught in the arresting gear on the deck &nd the plane swerved overside. Erickson and Cummings freed them- selves and started swimming, but be- fore a rope could be thrown to them, Erickson sank. Two sailors dived over- board to assist the officer, and he was taken aboard the Saratoga a few min- utes later unconscious. All efforts to revive him failed, The only apparent injury Erickson suffered was a slight laceration on the forehead. Comdr. Lieut, 3 was trans- ferred to Coronado from Philadelphia 10 months ago, and until recently was in command of a scouting at North Island naval air station. He was born in Oklahoma City and grad- uated from the Naval Academy in 1916. He is survived by his widow, Constance E. Erickson of Employes Invest and Hold Pay. ition w money, :fi it dtdl n:; want to cut ‘wages. ip! earning Tent of "thel g g L bonds -