Evening Star Newspaper, November 24, 1931, Page 2

A2 w#¥ i, i THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESPAY, NO VEMBER 24, 1931. .. D i A e e TR GAR DONATIONS ' LISTED BY WITNESS ‘!Holland Says Dahlberg Con- i} tributed to Both Parties in 1928 Eiection. | | (Continued From Pirst Page) suggestion and Dahlberg told Robson the Republican organization in Florida |was “working along the lines sug- Wested " Holland also said he had found cor- respondence showing Dahlberg con- | ributed “indirectly” to Skipper, whom he described as being interested in IWashington in “the sugar tariff and | ood control.” Referring to Requa, Senator Blaine jeveloped that he has been sug- | sted to succeed Senator Fess of Ohio ‘#as chairman of the Republican National mmittee i Listed xpenses.” Holland sald all sums given by Dahi- g in the 1928 national campaign | cre placed on the books of his sugar | rompanies as “expenses.” | The report of the Campaign Commit- | Ree, headed by Senator Stelwer, Repub- | jcan, Oregon, showed the Dahlberg ‘eontribution as an “individual” dona- “tion, Holland said H Herbert Hoover's visit to Florida just “dbefore his inauguration caused “con- i#siderable controversy.” Holland said, Y8dding the sugar interests tried unsuc- Scessfully to get the then President- ‘Slect t> attend the opening of a Dahl- werg Co. mill at Clewiston, Fla Visited Storm Area. Hoover, it was shown in_the cor- spondence offered, visited Florida in | ebruary, 1929, a month after the mill pened, but as the guest of Gov. Carl- n, who escorted him around an area afficted by a storm. “Jealousy” arose over whether Carl- o or Skipper should conduct Mr. Hoo- er_on the tour. {o_ Dahlberg has denied to Holland that Jihe did anything to get Mr. Hoover to Lvisit Florida. !i “That came about” he guoted Dahl- Pperg as saying. “simply as a result of $Gov. Carlton wanting Mr. Hoover to I¥isit the area affected by the hurri- [“gane disaster.” Termed Private Deals. }£. Comment by the principals on ves- {ferday’s findings was that the trans- actions represented private deals, un-| ‘¥eonnected with lobbying, tariffs or any | I%other legislation. | Senator Watson said “The score is nothing to nothing in | !gnis game. The stock is of no ac-| | { i | i 1 i ount, or worth nothing, and neither s v mnote.” 1$h-mr Davis, in Pittsburgh. ob- served that at the fjime he purchased the stock he had no thought of ever seeking A Senate seat. He added: “Not one lota of evidence has been produced which connects me with any charge of lobbying or receiving cam- 4paign contributions that have not been ‘accounted for, which charges. it will | be recalled, were made by innuendo " te: I8 londa's tastimony on the tran: metfons was givea by Holland. He said the deals involving the Scnators were engineered by Dahlberg, among them the Southern Sugar Co. Whose stock Davis and Watson obtained. Davis earlier had purchased stock of the Celo- tex Co., another of Dahlberg's, but had paid cash for it. Failed to Find Record. Holland testified that in running| down charges thit an unnamed sennwr‘ Teceived $100.069 trom the sugar inter-| ekts he questioned S. S. Eveland, wce\ president of one of the Dahlberg com- | panies, and elicited that Eveland had heard Dahlberg cider $10.000 sent to| Davis. However, Holland said he could find no re¢ord of this sum being sent. | The inquiry developed also that Al- fred E. Smith, John J. Raskob and| Senator Moses of New Hampshire were | investors with Dahlberg, but that they | had paid cash. DAVIS ANSWERS CHARGE. Says He Bought Sugar Stock Before | Running for Senate. PITTSBURGH, November 24 United States Senator James J. Davis, taking cognizance of testimony before 2 Senate Committee to the effect that e had made “paper profits” on Sugar stock purchased on credit, said last night that the buying and selling of the stock was a “business trapsaction and had no connection with the Govern- ment.” “When I purchased the stock,” Davis zaid, "I had no thought of ever being a candidate for a seat in the Senate | of the United States.” His statement follows: “During_the primary campaign 8 year ago last May. a rumor was cir- culated by a discharged employe of B. G. Dahlberg of New York and Chicago, that Dahlberg had contributed to my campaign for Senator the sum of $10.- 000 and that in my report to the Senate | Commutiee, iad _omitted reporting | this contribution. The Nye Committee | investigated the rumor and found the statement was not true “Just before the Senate adjourned a New York newspaper carried a state- ment that an unnamed Senator had Teceived $100.000 for lobbying for the sugar interests. The matter was re- ferred to the Lobby Committee, of which the late Thaddeus H. Caraway, United States Senator from Arkansas, | was chairman, and which included such | distinguished Senators as ThomasWakh | of Montana, William E. Borah of Idaho, | John J. Blaine of Wisconsin and Arthur | Robinson of Indiana. : “When 1 was Sccretary of Labor of the United States 1 mvested in the Celotex Co. and the Southern Sugar Co The former stock I paid for in cash and the latter by note, with the stock as collateral. It was & business transac- tion, and had nmo connection with the Government. Because 1 was a stock- holder, it was rumored that I was the unnamed Senator. When I purchased the stock I had no thought of ever be- ing a candidate for a seat in the United States Senate. | “At the time my friends thought to dissuade me not to take any cognizance of ghe rumor, but knowing full well my | innocence of the slander thrown out by political enemies. 1 voluntarily ap- peared before the Senate Committee and urged them to make a thorough in- vestigation. 1 also appeared before the Committee on Senate Expenditures and urged them to appropriate the money to enable the committee to immediately begin work i One of the most notey Goveinment fnvestigators, Mr. John Holland. was appointed by the committee to make the | investigation. He has been at work on it since last May, and frof newspaper | yeports which I have read this after- | noon, not one fota e evidence I@s been produced which connects me with ahy charge of lobbying or receiving cam- paign contributions tha? ha®: not bean | accounted for, which charges, it will be recalled, were made by innuendo last Winter.” » DENIES PAYING DAVIS. Dahlberg Declares Gommittee *Investi- ' gntor Garbled Accounts. CHICAGO, Novembef 24 (¥ —B. G. Dahlberg, président of the Celotex Co. and several sugar concerns, declared last pight that Jokn Holland, investigator tor the Senate Lobby Commitiee, garvled his account of stock transactions be- tween himself and United States Sena- tors James E. Watson and James J Davis, in testimony before the Lobby ‘Committee. Dahlberg denied he had ever suthor- 1zed his bank t6 pay $10,000 Cash Senator Davis, as Holland said he was told by S. 8. Eveland, former vice presi- @ent of the Dahiberg Corpouno%_ 3 easons best known to Himself, p d spread # report that¥l paid | bringing the total inve | instance, | out $100,000 to certain uni®. [ Adrift in Milford Vanik Describes Experience in Balloon Thousands of Feet Above Great Lakes and of Landing in Ontario Swamps. . Milford ' Vanik, Cleveland balloonis’, who was caught in a olizeard thousands of feet sabove the Great Lakes. and who finaily came down. Inst, in the Oniario swamps, dercribes his experience here. BY MILFORD VANIK, Special Dispatch (o The Star SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Novem- ber 24 (N.AN.A).—I left Cleveland at 8:30 Thursday evening with the wind blowing from the northwest at 10 miles per hour. In 10 minutes I was over Edgewater Park and out over Lake Erie I kept my location until I passed over Sarnia at 12:30 a.m. Friday. That was the last time I saw land until I came down later that morning. After passing Sarnia I recognized by the lake traffic that I was above the clouds at 1,000 feet Fog closed in about me and I had absolutely no con- seption of direction or speed Then it started to rain and finally the rain changed into snow. It was the most terrible blizzard I ever was in. 1 tried to get above the snow, and at 8500 feet I had a big contraction of gas and lost a lot of ballast Tce Formed on Basket. Ice and snow formed over the basket The bag became so heavy I was brought low, and I continually lost ballast in my effort to keep above the clouds. I came down to 1500 feet and the snow and ice which had formed on the bag fell off and the balloon shot up to 10,000 feet. From then on I had sev- eral runs like that, losing 10 bags of ballast on 5 runs. At 6:30 1 was traveling at 10,000 feet and the balloon was riding at nor- mal I began to come down for a place to land, working slowly through a cloud strata 3,000 feet thick. At 600 feet I heard a steady roar. I thought I was safe, thinking it was the roar of a train, But when I came closer 1 found it was the Toar of waves. Water was everywhere around me. Tried to Land on Island. 1 sighted a small island and tried to land there. I let out my drag rope weighing about 150 pounds in an effort to slow up my speed. which was about 35 miles an hour. The rope. dragging in the water, dashed my bag against the waves and it bounced back up FARM BOARD 0SS 10 BF ESTIMATED Stone, Unable to Present Data Today, Promises Compilation. (Continued From First Page.) against for not adjusting production to consumptive levels was attempting to do this through edu- cation, but “farmers have not made sufficient response to these appeals. Their failure, the board held, served to defeat stabilization attempts The board has ordered cotton held for another year and wheat sold for next year at the rate of 5,000,000 bush- els monthly. The stabilization wheat was bought at the average price of 81.97 cents a bushel and cotton at 16.3 cents per pound. Loans made by the board to | the Grain Stabilization Corporation, with which to buy wheat on June 30, totaled $160,148,762. Besides this the corpora- tion borrowed irom banks $83.000,000 and had other liabilities of $4927491 tment_on_that date o $248,076253 on 257.136.571 bushels. Since then 47,500,000 have been sold to foreign governments and 20,000,000 in domestic markets at prices ranging between 49 and 60 cents. The Cotlon Stabilization Corporation had received loans of $74953.381 on June 30, borrowing in addition $35.- 707,991 and had liabilities of $8.000,000 The amount invested in cotton. there- fore. on June 30 was $118,700,000 “The full cost of the cotton opera- tions cannot be calculated at the pres- ent time,” the board said. “Short crops of cotton in this country and abroad and a rapid recovery in business over the next few years are needed to bring | the 1929 and 1930 operations to a close without loss to the revolving fund.’ Blames Severe Depression. The board pointed out that its first two years of life were marred by a general widespread business unsettle- ment when the “burden of price de- pission fell on American farmers with exceptional severity.” It thus answercd charges that its activities have dis- rupted normal export markets. Despite these handicaps, it added, co- operatives increased in numbers and the volume of produe also, nointing, fo to grain co-oneratives which handled sbout three tim much on terminal markeis as before the mark.t- ng act was passed. 'Two new national were jormed last vear, Growers' Association National Fruit and Vegetable Exchange, Inc. bringing these large central agencies to eight The following is a table of loans made by the Farm Board from its $500,- 000,000 revolving fund Loan Totals Listed. Commodity. s and soy beans raising | 20,105.361 deciduous iscellaneous frudts nd vegetables Grain Honey Live stock 34.236.294 ¢ 6.158 445.000 531.000 988:338 153141 Nuts Poultrs and eggs. o Rice Seeds Tobmeco Wool and moh®ir 18 $255.866.458 133:460.038 272972604 $662.269.100 Lists Tax Delinquents. . ARLINGION COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va. Ziovegiher 24 (Special) E. Wade Bail® county treasurer, is pre- paring the list of 19@ real estate tax delinquent® for publication. Persons Total Cotton siabjlization Grain. stabilization 506156 112.823.042 §97.202 Grand total 131 | who desire to avoid baving their prop- @®rty advertised and sold at pubMc auc- tion should eppesr and pay these taxes within the next few daysgo keep their names off of the list, he said. med Sena- tors to obtain a high duty on “sugam | prior to the passage of the Smoot-Haw- ley tarifl,” Dahlberg said. “I paid no money to any Senator He denied there was anything unu- sual in permitting Senators Davis and Watson to acquire stocks in his com- panies, giving in payment mon-interest | bearing notes, cancelzble at will. He i said he extended the same privilege | to many purchasers of his stocks in the 11929 boom days | _“T also approached every Congress- man 1 could reach on behalf of a high | sugar tariff,” ..~ continued. “The*Cuban cane growers were working for a lower duty and the domestic producers, in- cluding myself. were naturally womting for_a higher duty.” Lahlberg said he sent his_personal representative to sce Senator Davis T garding the tariff, when Davis was Secretary of Labor, only for the pur- pose of gathering information for a paper to be read before a sugar insti- tute showing the benefits to accrue from & higher tariff. The board said ft | ITRAINMEN ACCEPT | FIRST WAGE CUTS Georgia and Florida Wins Agreement Approved by Union Heads. Blizzard i 1 | | again just like a rubber ball. T cut | loose my drag rope and shot up to 15.000 feet in about nothing flat. | 1 worked down through the clouds | again and saw some beautiful patterns. 1 thought they were coral formations on the bottom of the lake, but instead it was a group of islands along the | shore Then I hit a bligzard. Everything got soggy and my balloon began com- ing down through the clouds to 300 feet, and passed over a number of | Per cent bays, islands and peninsulas. 1 de- | cember 7 cided I'd land on these isiands if I saw a big body of water coming up Water began getting less and land | more frequent. and I Kept on going | with the two bags of bailast. I finally | | ] | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 24.—Train forces of the Georgia & Florida Rail- road who are members of the “Big| | Four” brotherhoods have accepted a 10| wage reduction, effective De- | it was learned today. | Forced by Receivership. Although the agreement authorising the reduction, made through the offices of the United States Board of Media- tion. was signed by the local general chairman, it is understood to have had the approval of the brotherhoods' grand officers, This is belleved to be the figst time those officers have approved A wage | cut during the current depression in | railroad afTairs. * 2 The Georgia & Florida, under the | agreement, promises not to make a { further reduction within a year with- | out discussing the question again with | {the trainmen. The road had threat- ened *to stop operations unless a cut |'was taken. Other Employes Cut. lost “1l ballast. I got in three or four miles water and had to make & landing the most God-forsaken country T ever saw. It was all swamp, underbrush and slashings. Looked Like Monday Wash. I came down at a 35-mile-an-hour clip and knocked over 20 trees like & bunch of tenpins The bag finally hung couple of trees, with the feet off the ground. We a Monday wash I cut the basket loose with my knife The basket fell to the ground. It was and I was tired. I hadn't slept I covered the basket with | The Georgia & Florida is in rgceiver- the fabric, crawled inside and went 10 | ship. Prior to starting negotiations sleep. T woke up and heard something | for a wage reduction the receivers had walking around outside. T looked out- | cut the pay of all other employes 10 side the basket and saw what I thought | per cent, efiective October 1. The was a police dog. I yelled, in the hope | question was then taken up with the its master was near. It Was & [operating forces. The next move in the cffort of the I started walking at 3 o'clock Friday | rafiroads to obtain a 10 per cent wage afternoon and walked for two days and | reduction may bc, determined today at two night through swamps. Once 1| g conference of ‘the Eastern railroad waded up to my waist in water | presidents, to convene at the Bankers' I ended up on a high peak. Below | Glub at moon . was a little road. T walked down to the | ~ Daniel Willard, president of the Bal- road and collapsed with exhaustion timore & Ohio, whoeheaded the group A farmer picked me up and took me | of executives that negotiated unsucesss- to his home at Patton, half a mile | fully with a committee of the brotfler- away. His name was John Rutledge. | hood heads in the last four days, is ex- While walking through the slashings | pected to report to tMe Eastern execu- I injured my leg and shoulder. What | tives cn the negotiations, it- was ex- 1 need now s a long rest and some more | plained today by L. F. Loree, president sleep | of the Eastern Presidents’ Conference (Copyright, 1931. by {he North Long Delay In Frospect. | up on & basket 6 looked like wolf | | i American Newspaper Allinnce, Inc.) Long delay before binding action can BRUTAL'TY JURY be taken in the rail wage controversy, affecting 1,750,000 employes, was forecast | | by Tailroad men yesterday. At the very REPORTS DEADLOCK; earliest, no acceptance of the 10 per { cent cut could be ratified before De- | SENT BACK BY JUDGE | cember 8, when 1500 general chairmen . of the various rail unions meet in Chi- S s cago. Such action, however, seems en- (Continued From First Page.) tirely unlikely, as their representatives |in the round-table meetings of last | week were vested with full authority to speak for their associates Latter this week, probably Wednes- day, it was said tn ususlly well iniormed rail circles, the rallroads r(pl'fsl"k(; g‘!' o - [ notices of theis intention to cut labor {bate 1t nriaimgs, Finally, when 1t sp=| 5 500 oL Soet iAfter this fopmiilty. | {peared at 10 o'clock the jurors were, g 39.day period must,elapse before the | hopelessly deadlocked for the evening. | question can cOthe up for mediation. the court orderedi the group taken under | This woild be done by the permanent guard to the Continental Hotel to be | body.on mediation established by the | locked up for the night | rallroads and the railtoad unions. Final arguments by opposing correel | and the charge by Justice Proctor ton- | fumed most of the time yesterduy afternoon. Before final arguments were begun the defense was permitted to read {to the jury names of seven character witnesses whose testimony in behalf of Mostvn wes dispensed with by a stipu- lation between counsel. in order to save time The witnesses who were ready to testify to Mostyn's good character were room also decided to go to supper, and attorneys for the defense said the; would not return until 8 o'clock. Meanwhile the jury continued to de- Railway Heads Hopeful. Should either side dissent, the ques- | tion would not be left for solution to this borrd, but would be referred to the | President’s board of arbitration, as pre- | scribed by Federal law, which would | first_hold public hearings and then be | given a 30-day period in which to make its findings and announce its decision Railroad_executives are hopeful the rank and file of railroad labor may ad- vise hteir leaders to accept the cut The Ludlow Snles Corporation of | | Boston today was low bidder on 1,360, | 000 pounds of twine for the Post Office | Department with an offer of 8'; cents | per_pound | The Ludiow company manufactures | jute twine. The American Manufacturing Co. of rooklyn, N. Y. also makers of jute | string, was second with an offer of ! cents per pound, and the Dolphin Jute Hatton, John 8. Soper and Edwin B. | |in view of the difficult financial condi- the mercy of merciless policemen,” and Frank J. Kelly, attorney for Burroughs. | Post Office at 8 1-2 Cents things.” Kelly said the st#tus of Bur- | four defencants. | He sald the issue in the case was not | Submitted bids. The lowest, 10 cents | justificd a beating to make him con- | General Brown when the lowest was | Secretary |port of his Government and of this | tha~ | ¢lassue. within the nations.” | them was plaved. i warmer tonight,” the forecast said, “fol- | Condition of George Dyer, Hurt in I Semster, Inspector F. S. W. Burke, voluntarily. = Pressure of public opinion Hesse, former police superintendent, Rover Demands Guilty Verdict. | tions which the railroads are known to Rover opened and closed the ad- | face. jdresses to the jury. In his opening - i plea, he declared the case preaentedljUTE TWINE-MAKERS he demanced the defendants be found flt; counts - gullty on both counts of the indict- | SUBMIT LOWEST BlDi The prosecutor's arguments were | s s answered by James A. O'Shea, attorney | O'Shea made & vigorous defense for his | clients, characterizing the defendants as efficient officers of the law, who had | a Pound. trapped & “confessed thief.” He de- | clared Harker had lied about the beat- | roughs was different from that of the other defendants, in that Burroughs merely had arrested Harker and inves- tigated him. Rover closed the arguments with a In his charge to the jury, Justice | p Proctor gave the usual instructions about, “presumpiion of innocence” for the accused and givilug the defendants the beneft of & “reasanable doubto " | Mills of Paterson, N. J., third with a bid of 914 cents whether Harker had committed the rob- | per pound, cgme from the Highland | bery for which he was being questioned | Cordage Co. of Hickory, N. C. by the officers, but whether the defend- | _Today's blds were the second for a ants had administered a beating to the | $iX-month supply for the postal service. prisoner Harker's possible guilt of the The previous bids were confined to cot- fess, as Harker had a constitutiona] | higher than the price now being paid right to remain mute. On the other hand, the court plained, Harker's possible culpability in the robbery and his previous criminal A. D. Loffler, James J T.ake, William 8. | might bring this about, it is contended, a “sordid” picture of “a mere boy at| for Mostyn. Laflin and Grooms, and by Boston Company Offers to Sllpply: ing just as he had lied about “other | final plea that the jury convict all Cites Constitutional Right. | " Four manufacturers of cotton string robbery charge. he said, would not have | ton and were rejected by Postmaster record could be considered by the jury in weighing his credibility as a witness | against the accused and in determining any motive he might have had in testi- fving sgainst the police He instructed the jury 1o find out first whether Harker was beaten with a rubber hose in the hand of Mostyn whether the rubber hose as used was a ' “dangerous weapon” and whether Laf- lin, Grooms and Burroughs or any one of them aided and abetted in the beat- ing. If i were found Mostyn beat the prisoner with a hose and the jury be- lieved the hose to be a dangerous weap- on, then Mostyn should be found gullty of Telonious assault, the court said. The possible cormivance of the other three officers then must be weighed, he point- ed oup. Justice Proctor said if the jury thought the hose was not a dangerous weapon, a conviciion on a charge of simple assault would be possible. _CLEVELAND TO DISCUSS G. 0. P. CONVENTION BID| Directors of C. of C. Will Consider Raising of $150,000 Fund at Meeting Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, November 24 — Di- rectors of the Clevtland Chamber of Commerce will meet tomorrow to con- | sider a proposal to invite the Repub- lican 1932 National Convention to this city. One of the points to be discussed wiil be the raising of a $150,000 fund for_convention finances. | Cleveland van offer the Republicans its edeguate hot¥l facilities and the same municipal auditorium, seating 12,000. where the 1924 convention was held, and yhere the nomigees were Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes | STORM WARNING ISSUED The Weather Bureau today issned the following storm warning: | " “Advisory, 10:3 a.m. Disturbance of ;(-nns\dnlble intensity central about 300 miles northeast of Nas Bahamas: moving _northwestward, nded by | strong, shifting winds, pi ly of gale force, near center.” - ex- | for jute. | “Jite manufacturers protested against their exclusion from the former bidding, and today’s bids were the result of the | protests and the lack of sufficiently jow bids from cotton manufacturers. EASTMAN AND HARKNESS QUIT OPERA DIRECTORATE By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK., November 24 —The! resignaticns of George Eastman, manu- | | facturer, and FEdward S. Harkness, philanthropist. from the directorate of | the Metropolitan Opera Co., became known today. The resignation of Otio H. Kahn, financier and opera patrén. from the | presidepcy and board chairmanship | {was announced a short time ago. Kahn, however, remains as a member of the board The successors ' to Eastman -and Harkness will be Clarence Dilicn, senior partner of the banking firm of | Dillon, Read & Co. and Representa- tive Robert Low Bacon of New York. The pressure of private business in- terests was given in explanation of the Eastman and Harkness resigna-| ticns. as it was in the case of Kahn, GRANDI T0 LONCH WTHT. . LAMONT Engagement With Morgan’s Partner Included in Today’s Program. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, November 24.—A Junch- eon engagement with Thomas W. La- mont was an important item on the crowded engagement program of Dino Grandi, Italian foreign minister, today. Following the luncheon with the Mor- gan & Co. partner, the visiting forei, minister was to be the guest of the Casa Italiana at Columbia University. The Italy-American Society will be the host of Signor and Signora Grandi at din- ner, and there will be a theater party in the evening. i Antli-Fascists Stopped. An anti-Fascist gesture directed against Signor Grandl at the Metropoli- tan Opera House last night was quickly broken up. Leafleis saying “Down With Grandi! Long Live Liberty,” were | thiown upon the bejewelled and er. mined shoulders of society as repre- sented in the auditorium. The three | anti-Bascists were arrested quickly. Neither Signor or Signora Grandi ap- peared to notice the slight flutter cre- ated by the episode. The disturbers, arraigned for disor- derly conduct, were fined $10 each with a 10-day jail sentence as the alter- | native. Only one of the three had| the $10. Sees Disarmament. In an address at a dinner of the Council on Foreign Relations last night the {oreign minister said that his con- versations with President *Hoover and of State Btimson “have strengthened my c#Wviction that ‘the idea of disarmament has behind it the great moral authority and the firm sup- country.” - Signor Grandi cited statistics to show the armaments of 27 nations had in- creased $1,000,000,000 in outlay between 1913 and 1928. He struck at the “teaching of social hatred under the guise* of .internation- alism” and called it no less dangerous 1o co-operation between the nations to co-operation between the Given Big Ovation, Wher thr, fore'gn minister rejoined Signors@Grandi al the opera he was given an ovation. The house being darkened for stage effects, the foraign minister was not recognized until Bori and Scotti fin- ished their arias. When the lights went up and Siguor Grandl was seen the owhestra broke into the Italian royal march, followed by “Giovinezza Fascist_anthem, and “The Star Spa gled Banner.”' The audience stood facing the Grandi box and gave the | distinguished visitor a hearty greeting ‘The foreign minister raised his right | hand in the Facclst salute as the an-| HOLIDAY FORECAST IS COLDER WEATHER Noticeable Drop in Temperature Is Due Tomorrow Night and Thanksgiving. | Considerably colder weather tomor- row and Thanksgiving is expected to terminate Washington's long succession of balmy days. Tonighy, however, ' should be slightly warmer, with a mini- mum of about 50 degrees. By 8:30 o'clock this morning the sun had dispelled the last of a heavy fog which developed after midnight. While freezing temperatures have moved Eastward from the Rockles as far as Iowa and Missouri, no freezing weather is in sight for Washington. | The mercury, however, is expected to re- turn to the normal for this season. | “Increasing cloudiness and slightly | lowed by showers and cooler tomorrow. | Considerably colder tomorrow night and | Thursday, with winds becoming north | or northeasterly.” The lemperature extremes yesterday were 49 and 72 degrees, while the mer- | cury this morning was mounting well into the 60's again. INJURED HALFBACK | PUT IN RESPIRATOR| Game Here Sunday, Is Reported as Unchanged. QGeorge Dyer, 21, of 5104 Sherrier place who was seriously injured in a foot ball game Sunday, was removed from Georgetown Hospital to Gallinger Hospital last night so he could be placed In a respirator. The youth's condition remains unchanged, it was said. Dyer. & halfback on t Potomac A. C. team, suftered a dislcaated vertebra during a game with the Navy Yard A, C. on Potomac Field, He was taken to Georgetown Hospital by Arthur Knott, .zlv.:‘lm s;:"mr place. “and physicians e upper par s At ne upper part of his body was He was kept in the respirator during the night snd taken out again this morning. Dyer is conscious, BOY, HUNTING.rKH._LED Companion Accidentally Shoots | Fairfax County Youth, 15. Edward Cockrell, 15, of Fairfax County, R. F. D. No. 2, was shot and | almost instantly killed this morning while hunting in the vicinity of Ilda, 9 miles west of Alexandria. | The body was taken to the AIeVan-l dria Hospital by Charles Edward Nor- | folk, his companion, who said that he accidentally shot young Cockrell. He | was not detained by polic. | the house. | employed by Lusby. | ARMY MEN me’JAP'ANEssi FALL AWAITS FATE Ten more days and nights behind prisen bars may serve to let Albert B. Fall know whether they will confine him for eight months more. The Federal Parole Board is expected within that time to decide whether the former Interior Secretary may leave the New Mexico State Prison or serve the remainder of his term for accepting & $100,000 bribe from Edward L. Doheny, 0“}‘"}?‘{)“"‘ A ecame eligible for parole No- vember 20 and applied for it. pThe board has asked for the facts in the case. i P BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band st Stanley Hall this evening at 5:20 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, dmaster. Anton Pointner, assistant. March, ptain Betty” .. Baxter Overture, “Cosi Fan Tutti” (School for Lovers) . Mozart Morceau, “A Chinese Fantasy”. Deppen Excerpts from musical comedy, “Nina o't L Romberg Chinese oddity, Herson, Waltz suite, "“Aero . .Weiss Pinale, “Siboney". . Leguona “The Star Spai Banne; | Attaches From Tokio Embassies With Forces in Field. MUKDEN, Manchuria, November 24 (#).—A group of military attaches from the embassies at Toklo, including Lieut. Col. J. G. Mcliroy, U. 8, A, arrived to- day as guests of the Japanese army. In the group were representatives of Great Britain, France and Argentina. They planned to leave Mukden on Thursday to inspect the Nonno-Tsitsihar battle area. velers Hhopping Baps to Christmas | P Debutantp Wins Prize at Ball ISTUI]Y m: PUI_ICE MISS WYANT AWARDED HONORS AT SOCIAL AFFAIR. IS8 ANNE WYANT, debutante daughter of Representative and Mrs Adam M. Wyant, was awarded at the tacky party last evening at the Mayflower. Taylor, appeared as a country gentleman. ASSAULT SUSPECT SAVED FROM M0B Man Is Rushed to Baltimore From Easton, Md., Jail Before 800 Storm It. By the Associated Press. EASTON, Md.. November 24 —George Davis, 28-year-old colored man, was rushed to the Baltimore City Jail for safekeeping today. just ahead of a mob of 800 Kent Countians who stormed the Talbot County Jail here seeking him. Davis, accused of attempting to as- sault Mrs. Elizabeth Lusby. 25, wife of a Kent County farmer, near Kennedys- | ville Saturday, was captured yesterday in Wilmington, Del, and taken to the Kent Jail at Chestertown. Sheriff John 7T. Vickers of Kent County brought the man here last night when he was informed a mob was ap- proaching the Chestertown Jail. State's Attorney Stephen R. Collins of Kent succeeded in quieting the crowd with the assertion Davis was not in Chester- | town. The leaders of the mob learned of Davis' removal to the jail here, how- ever, and drove the 30 miles to Easton. Sherifl A. Ray Carroll sent, the colored man to Baltimore under guard of two deputies, circling the route taken by the Kent mob. Davis, Mrs. Lusby said, attempted the attack early Saturday morning while her husband, Edgar, was absent from Davis formerly had been She repulsed his attack, she told Sheriff Vickers, but was injured in the struggle. A posse scoured the territory around Kennedysville after the attack, but Davis escaped to Wilmington, where he was arrested yesterday through receipt in Chestertown of a letter requesting money from a relative. State's Attorney Collins of Kent County said a special session of the grand jury would be called within & few days to act on the charge against the colored man. Sheriff Vickers said more than 800 persons were in the mob which invaded the Chestertown Jail last night and that it split into three bodies after he had escorted a_delegation through the cells to prove Davis was not there. One party went to Elkton to the Cecil County Jail, another to Center- ville to the Queen Anne’s County Jail and the third came here. Sheriff Vickers said it was the most determined mob he had seen, and num- bered some of the most prominent resi- i dents_of the three adjoining counties. Many were armed, he said, and ropes were freely exhibited. R. L. O'BRIEN, FORMER BOSTON EDITOR, WILL HEAD TARIFF BOARD (Continued From First Page.) lishing Co.. which published the Morn- ing and Sunday Boston Herald, and the Boston Evening Traveler. He served as editor of the Herald from that date until December 31, 1928, Washington will be no new assign- ment to the Tariff Commission chair- man. He served as personal stenog- rapher to Grover Cleveland from 'the time of his nomination for President in 1892 until 1895 From that year until 1906 he was _the spondent of the Boston Evening Tran- script. For the following four and & hg)f vears he was editor of that news- . Marvard Graduate. Mr, O'Brien is 67 years old. He was born in Abington, Mass., September 14, 1865. A graduate of Harvard Univer- ity in the class of 1891, he has received honorary degrees of doctor of letters from Dartmouth, Brown, Colby and Boston Universities. In addition to being active in Repub- lican politics, Mr. O'Brien has long been & member of the Advisory Board of the Pulitzer School of Journalism of Columbia University. He is also di- rector of the Dedham National Bank and the Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Co., nis home being in Dedham, Mass. He is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and honorary mem- ber of Phi Beta Kappa in recognition of his scholastic achievements. Mr. O'Brien_married Emily A. Young of Lisbon, N. H., on PFebruary 19, 1895. Interest in the tariff has been great of 1ate, especially in, view of the imposition of fmport levies by Great Britain. It CASES NEAR END Bride Reports Opinions Writ- ten in 36 of 56 “Third- Degree” Charges. Corporation Counsel William W. Bride disclosed today that his office is near- ing completion of a study of the evi- dence in 56 non-indictable cases of al- leged police brutality. uncovered by the Department of Justice during fits ex- haustive inquiry into *hird-degree prac- tices. Records in these 56 cases were turned over to Mr. Bride about a month ago following the indictment by the grand jury of 18 police officers. At the direc- tion of the Commissioners a study of the evidence was undertaken to ascer- tain whether disciplinary action should be taken against any of the policemen involved. Chester Gray. assistant corporation counsel, who has been aiding Mr. Bride {n the study, aiready has written opin- jons in approximately 36 of the cases. About 45 of the 58 cases have been examined, BMowever. as those outside the statute of limitations, will be dropped. Opinions in all of the cases within | the statute of limitations will be sub- | mitted to the Commissioners as soon {as the examination of the evidence is completed. The Commissioners then will decide on a course of action. Disposition of these 56 cases will virtually close the third-degree episode as far as the Commissioners are con- cerned. In the meaatime, the courts | will proceed with the trial of the | officers Indicted In the third-degree cases, |TEA HOUSE SLAYING SUSPECT IS SEIZED AFTER STRUGGLE _ _ (Continued Prom First Page.) | that they had never been to the tea | house, and said that they never heard of the place until arrested and ques- tioned. . Investigators are of the opinion that | feud between rival vice gangs, and | not robbery, was the motive behind the gunplay, which claimed the life of Grover Amick, 27-year-old Washington gas station attendant, and landed five others in Casualty Hospital | It was learned today that Depari- ment of Justice agents are prepared 10 | step into the picture if the investiga- | tion disclosed that any violations of the | white slavery act played any part in the | shootings. Finger Prints Chief Clues. Police are relying upon finger prints as their chief clues in the investigation to the shooting and robbery. Four | guns found in the tea house, a .43- | caliber automatic and three .38-caliber [ pistols, and a_window sash are being examined for finger prints. Baltimore detectives have finger- printed - the five -persons in Casualty i Hn’[“g‘h“ ey are: Charles Leavitt, 36, owner | of the roadhouse; Thomas Simone, 29, of Baltimore; Mrs. Verne Edwards, 24, of the 1100 block of Abbey place north- east; Norman Carey, 35. of Baltimore, and John J. Bartlett, 24, alias Felix Bocchiochio, believed to be one of tie hold-up gang and who, Baltimore poice say, is wanted in New Castle, Pa., for murder. Little hope is held for the recovery of | Leavitt and Garey. 17 Others Being Held, Seventeen persons, in addition to the | two under arrest in Philadelphia, are now being held while police delve inio | what is regarded as the most brutal | shooting in"Maryland's hisiory. Thres of those in custody wers arrested he !last night when one of their numbe applied at a physician’s office for treat- ment for a bullet wound in the back and are being held for guestioning at the twelfth precinct station. They are Carl F. Prinkert, 25, of Takoma Park, Md., the wounded man; a_ brother, Frederick G. Prinkert, 26, 1300 bloek Rhode Island avenue, and John D. McComas, 22, of the 3500 block S street. All three told police they were taxi drivers. The wounded man told detectives he picked up two men at Twelfth and U streets early yesterday and was di- rected to drive the pair to the road house. Because of the lateness of the hour, he said, he took his brother along. Fred Prinkert dropped prone on the | floor when the shooting started and escaped the hail of bullets. Carl suf- fered a flesh wound, but did not know he had been hit until later, he said. | The two men whom they drove to the road house disappeared during the melee. first prize for the most effective costume Her escort, Waverly —Harris-Ewing Photo, | | : Taxicab Was Disabled. | Prinkert's taxicab was disabled along with the other cars parked out- side the tea house, they said, but he and his brother managed to get it started and took Bartlett to the hos- Upper—CICERC RENZULLS Lower—NICHOLAS TRONCO. was definitely ascertained today that the American Government is planning no reprisal against recent increases by the Britich government in their tariff. After extensive study, President Hoover has learned that only 1.6 per cent of th: American zoods normally imported int Great Britain will be aflected by the rates to be instituted there. The British action will weigh far more heavily upon other countries than the United States. Mr. Hoover has been convinced by his study that American foreign trade, | particularly with Great Britain. is less competitive than was generally thought. | The increases, he feels, should be considered the domestic prerogative of Great Britain and should not be criti- cized by the United States. May Increase Exports. One of the effects of England's go- ing off the gold standard m'sht be & lowering in the costs of prod.ction in that country and a conseq *nt in. crease in exports to the United States. President Hoover, however, has found no such increase ‘in British exports to the United States in the past two months and is proceeding on the theory that if, in the long run, Britain's pro- duction costs should turn out to be | pital. The younger Prinkert was driven to | the office of a private physician by McComas and his brother when he | discovered that he had been shot, police | were told. The doctor treated him for | the wound and then made a report to | police. It was on this information that | Detective Sergts. John Dalglish, Dennis J. Murphy and Floyd A. Truscott rounded up the trio. A telephone call made to the tea house less than half an hour after the shoot- | ing and answered by Policeman Wil- | liam E. Clifton of the Prince Georges | County force, led to the apprehension of Renzulll and Tronco. Trace Call o Renzulli’s Home. Police traced the call from Renzulli’s home in the central part of the city and found two men and two women at that | address when they raided the house. | On= of the men had cards of the Old Colonial Tea House in his pocket. Both | denied any knowledge of the shooting and said the call had been made by a third party whom they did not know. Among those regarded by police as uspects in the robbery and shooting !it Simone, who is being guarded by policemen at Casualty Hospital. A war- | rant charging assault with intent to kii: has been fssued against him by Judge Robert Altemus. The witnesses include nine persons. | Washington corre- | consistently lower, the United States five women and four men. who were in | could offset this through appropriate | the house at the time of the gun play. | action by the Tariff Commission, so but who were uninjured. They were far as this country would be effected. | taken to the Hyattsville jail and booked Except for an increased competition 2s Mae Dix, Dorothy Jordan, Helen | with Great Britain in the coal trade, the | Conley, Jean Gordon and Marie Wilson, President has seen no_other major ef- all of Baltimore; Samuel Kushner, John fects upon United States commerns March, Raymond Sisler and Arthur from England’s suspension of the gold Crockett, all of Washington. standard. | Anna Lecklider of the 1100 block of Mr. Hoover had many recommenda- Monrce street, with whose family Amick tions for the O'Brien appointment. lived, was released in custody of her . 2 | (afiher m;lt mgm.‘ ':';-e girl Yas arrested when police arrived on the scene of RALPH CAPONE DENIED {:fie.;mmfi and found her sitiing In ! parked in the rear of the REVIEW OF CONVICTION house: ol e | Miss u&klugerl t:ld police that she accompan mick to the road hous | Ralph Capone must stay in prison for but sat outside in the m“v‘r‘nue he | violating the income tax laws. went in. | The Supreme Court, not unexpectedly,! Puneral services for Amick are to be | declined yesterday to reconsider its re- | held at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon fusal to review his conviction for failure | at Winchester, Va., from the home of to pay the tax his father, James F. Amick, a promi- Ralph, the older brother of Al already nent Virginia cattle dealer. The body is in Leavenworth. His case was the|was shipped to Winchester last night first involving conviction of & notorious | with three sisters accompanying it. gangster to reach the high court Amick was born August 24, 1904. in The refusal to review, in effect. af-| Winchester, and had lived here about | irms conviction and is not likely to | five years at the home of the Lechlider change the somber atmosphere which |family. He was employed as an at- has prevailedgn the gang world since!tendant at a gasoline filling station the Governi began to use fajlure to at Georgia and New Hampshire sve- | pay taxes weapon of prosecution. nues.