Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1932, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1932. EFFECT OF BRITISH TARIFF INU. 5. WIDE Three-Fourths of Trade In- volved—Treaty Alterations Not Certain. Witherspoon Honored SONS OF THE REVOLUTION CONDUCT CEREMONY. By the Associated Press LONDON, February 5.—One effect of enacting protective tariffs in | Great Brita as the government pro- | poses to do may be the scrapping of the most-favored clause in com- | between | country possib! be ion as exist this mercial treaties the T obse ited ers beli rations will be argely on the | to achieve one | objectives of | that of low- | ers by offering | methods Ev of the most the new tar ering foreign ram about three- total trade with tected by tarifls. | p-Ame an 000,000 nd cott prog ca's HE memory of Rev. John Witherspoon, signer of the Deciaratis pendence, was honored today when a wreath was placed on Connecticut avenue and N street. In the photo (left to rig Dr. Thomas Green, Representative Charles Martin, Dr. George E. M W. B. Witherspoon, a direct descendant, and Dr. Albert Joseph M u‘v;z : —Star Stafl Photo trrumer Also port d few months duties are T per cent ger affec to where Mrs. Rivers was f conscious. She had on a and was surrounded by b “In a minute or so s been enveloped in ti Cartain, who ought to or a medal, reached swam back to the Modestly, then rticles as pe! $30 duties “CTILISTED AS DEAD e by GARWOOD CLAIMS NEWSPEED RECORD Averages 111.712 Miles an | Hour in North and South Runs at Miami Beach. By the Assoclated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla, February 5.— boat record today with a two-way aver- age speed of 111.712 miles an kour on the Indian Creek course here with his Miss America IX. He clocked at 112434 miles an hour on a southward run over the nautical mile, and 110.989 miles an hour on a northward run. The average of the two runs, as required by Naticnal Yachtsman's Association rules, gave him the average of 111.712, as com- pared with the old record of 110.223, held by Kaye Don of England Elapsed {ime for the southward run was 3687 seconds and for the north- ward run, 37.35 seconds The average speed statute miles an hour. made over a measured course Wood's speed was 1.489 miles an hour than that of Don when he set the world's record on Lake Garda, Italy July January 27 Wood averaged 110.785 Miss America IX on the course here, and believed he had set a new record. However. international officials held his speed lacked a fraction of & second of exceeding Don’s mark by the required half mile an_hour The Miss America IX two 12-cylinder motors, developing 1,200 horsepower each. Superchargers in crease this power at high speed, making the motors capable of approximately 3,200 horsepower. Before the speed becomes an official record it must be submitted to and ap- proved by the International Association and the Yachtsman's Association of America. was figured in The run was nautical-mile faster with Gets $2,000,000 for Plays. HOLLYWOOD (P economic stress and strain this is Fox Films paid Ncel Coward hor, in excess of $2.000,000 hts' of three of his plays the biggest deals in movie In these times ot Woog claimed a new world's speed- Colored Aviator | Plans Washington To Liberia Flight $25,000 Opportunity De- |pends on Ability to Raise | $5,000, Says Skiml‘er. Plans for the first ocean flight by & colored aviator are being made here by C. Lucien Skinner, 2113 Fifth streel, director of the Crispus Attucks News from Washington to Monrovia, Liberia Skinner, who says he has been flying since 1928 and was one of the first four aviators of his race, is attempting to raise $5,000 to finance the tri He said that if he is successful in raising this amount, & backer, whose name he said must be kept secret, has agreed to un- derwrite the project for $25,000 The flight to Liberla, Skinner said would be made by way of Florida, the West Indies and South America. 'The crossing would be over the path followed by Bert Hinkler, famous British fiyer, who made the first solo South Atlantic crossing in a light cabin plane last Fall. show that a pilot’s license has been is- sued in Skinner's name, it was stated. | Skinner has magde application for a | passport and says he expects to make {he flight in the Spring INJURIES BY AUTO FATAL TO REPORTER Joseph F. Sisk of Baltimore News Dies as Result of Accident Saturday. Joseph S. Sisk, 24-year-old reporter for the Baltimore News, died yesterday evening at Gallinger Hospital from in- juries received early Saturday morning when a machine he occupied with an- other News reported, Frederick K. Long overturned on Rhode Island avente, Mount Rainier, and went through the | window of a business establishment. He was crushed about the body, and pneumonia set in. Of the 1.909.609 municipal electors in London only 597.311, or 31.3 per cent voted at the last election, the percentage being the lowest in 12 years. | | Service, who hopes to be able to fly | € A" FOREIGN SKATERS Y O GAVES Norwegian, Swedish and Fin- nish Athletes Dislike American Methods. By the Associated Press. LAKE PLACID, N. Y., February 5.— Members of the Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish speed skating delegations called & meeting today at noon to de- cide whether they will withdraw from the 10,000-meter preliminaries today and protest the American manner of | conducting the Olympic speed-skating events. Bitterness has developed in the Scan- dinavian camps over the failure of their champions and defending Olympic title holders, such as Bernt Evensen and Ivar Ballangrud, to race effectively un- der the American system of man-to- | man competition instead of racing in Department of Commerce files fail to | lanes and against time as abroad. This afternoon Ossian Blomquist of Finland, represented as the successor to the great Clas Thunberg, was to have his last chance in the 10,000-meter heats. He is the European champion at that distance, but has failed miserably in his efforts in the 1,500 and 5,000 meter events. they do Forced Rerunning of Heat. The feeling came to & head when American officials forced rerunning of the second heat of the 1,500 meters to- da because the skaters were loafing It was the silliest thing ever heard precedented and will be the talk of Eu- rope tomorrow. Personally Finnish skaters are through with skating Ameri- can style.” Jack Shea, Lake Placid boy, today flashed home five yards ahead of the field to add the 1,500-meter champion- ship to the 500-meter title he won yes- terday Shea flashed home to his double tri- umph in 2 minutes 575 seconds, five vards in front of Alex Hurd, speediest of the three Canadians who wiped out all foreign opposition in the prelimi- nary heats to qualify with three mem- bers of the United States team Two Canadians followed Hurd across the line, Bill Logan and Frank Stack, Dominion speed champion. in that order. Ray Murray of New York, fifth, and Herb Taylor, also of New York, sixth. Shea’s time was good for the course, swept by a sharp, cold wind with a touch of snow in the air. The world record is held by Charles Mathiesen of | Norway, who covered 1500 meters | against’ time in 2.17 4-16"in Oslo, in 1914, Clas Thunberg of Norway also has been credited with that time. The United States team swamped Poland 4 to 1 today in its second ap- pearance in the Olympic hockey series Shea’s second victory, and the addi- tion of Taylor's and Murray's points, gave the United States a command- ing lead in the unofficial point score The United States has 43 points, Cana- da 25 and Norway 8. Grau's Spine Broken, X-ray pictures revealed today that Fritz Grau, German bobsled captain suffered a fracture of the fifth vertebra in his spine when his sled crashed on the Olympic run Tuesday As soon as he can be moved he will be put in a plaster cast, hospital au- thorities said, and kept there for sev- eral months® Grau also suffered a fractured shoulder, and other injuries Albert Brehme, brakeman on his sled passed a restless night and today was in great pain. His injuries are so severe that complete diagnosis still has not been made. His name remains on the hospital danger list with a known fracture of the skull, possible spinc fracture, and other severe hurts, Olympic Summaries. The summaries 1500 meters Three heats, first 1 by Herbert Taylor Frank Stack. Cunuda Evensen. Norway 10 Ha nestangen, Norway. fifth. Ossian Bl Fiuland, 'sixth, Tomeyu Uruma, Time. 249 3-10, cond heut, w Un da two Japa 1500 meters States: second Uiird.” Tvar Ballar Herbeil Flack Ihiwara, Japun by Jack Lo Sho ed LAND SALE APPROVED Sennte Committee 0. K.'s Disposal of Aberdeen Tract. The Senate Military Committe today approved the Goldsborough bill to authorize the War Department to sell about six acres of land in the Aberdeen Proving Ground. Edgewood Arsenal and Fort Hyde, Md. to the Philadelphia Baltimore & Washington Railroad The land is along the rzilroad's right of way in Harford County between Aberdeen 2nd Magnolia | alienist JUDD AGCOMPLICE THEORY OPPOSED :Defense Plans Fight on Tes- timony of Alienist in Murder Trial. By the Associated Press, PHOENIX, Ariz., February 5.—A hint hat Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd had an accomplice in the gruesome slayings of Mrs. Agnes Anne Le Roi and Miss Hedvig Samuelson, her two ‘“best friends,” has been injected into the woman'’s murder trial here was no court session today - to Arbor day, but defense counsel s in conference, drawing its lines to battle the testimony given yesterday by Dr. Joseph Catton, Stanford Uni- ersity professor and alienist. For four hours, Dr. Catton was on the stand as the prosecution’s chiel He told the jury in Superior Judge Howard C. Speakman’s court that Mrs. Judd intimated to him she was shielding some one. Urged to Tell AllL don't you tell the complet Possibly 1t would do you somc ' Dr. Catton testified he told Mrs Judd during his examination of her Her reply, he said, was “I can’t see where it will do me any good, and it might harm others.” Later Dr. Catton said Mrs. Judd, re- plying to the question: “Did you do anj drinking the house the night Mrs Le Roi and Miss Samuelson were mur- dered?” said The only one who drank was Jack Halloran.” “She quickly placed her hand over her mouth,” Dr. Catton continued, ‘and refused to go into any more details at this point.” mmoned as Witness, anford professor aeclared Mrs Judd told him there would not have been “any Ruth Judd case without Jack Halloran.” Halloran, wealthy Phoenix lumber dealer, figured in the early in- vestigation of the slayings. He declared himself “innocent, though perhaps in- discreet.” He was summoned by the State as a_ witness, but so far has not been called Witnesses have identified Halloran as the person over whose aections Mrs d was jealous, and as a friend of a three women. The State contends jeal ousy was tt stive for the killings The defense has argued insanity. hy stc good ‘The ¢ INTANKER BLAST & Woman’s Life Saved by He- . roic Work, Rescuer Mod- estly Walking Away. the S HOOK. Pa. 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