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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, continued cool tonight; tomorrow Temperatures—Highest, 81, at 4 terday; lowest, 33, at 6:30 am. pera ‘winds. pm. yes today. Full report Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 12 and 13 on page 9. The ening ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 32,115. I3 omee. Wa Entered as second class matter shington, D. ¢ WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, LINDBERGH HUNTS BAY STATE COAST IN PLANE AS POLICE TURN O GLASGOW Fishermen Positive in lden- tifying Colonel as Pilot of Party of Four in Search of Yacht at Cuttyhunk. SCOTTISH CITY AWAITS MAJ. SCHOEFFEL TONIGHT New Jersey Trooper, Assisted by Scotland Yard, to Question Goes to Trial MRS. GRANVILLE FORTESCUE. MANCHURIA CLOSED Nurse Gow's Mother—Authori- ties, Meantime, Search Therel for Kidnaped Child. g By the Associated Press CUTTYHUNK, Mass., April 4— Two Cuttyhunk fishermen today positively identified the pilot of a large amphibian plane, which landed here yesterday in search of a yacht, as Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. One of the men, Charles Tilton, said he had seen many pictures of Lindbergh and| recognized him without question. Cuttyhunk residents said the plane contained four men, three of whom appeared to be middle aged, and that they were looking for a 28-foot yacht named Sallie. ‘The yacht was described as hav- ing two men and two women aboard. The men did not make known their identity, but the two fishermen said they were positive the pilot was Lindbergh. i Excitement reigned in the vil-| lage as the rumor spread that the } men were seeking a conference ! ‘with the kidnapers of Lindbergh’s little son. The four men remained on the island several hours, lunched at a small inn, and asked numerous questions relating to the yacht, which, residents said, they apparently expected to find at the island. After the party departed they flew northward and were seen by Capt. E. H. Paul of the Coast Guard station to fly low near Pen- ikese Island, near which a yacht was anchored. It appeared to the Coast Guardsmen as though the men in the plane were endeavor- ing either to identify the yacht or to drop a message. HUNT TURNS TO GLASGOW. Maj. Schoeffel to Question Nurse Gow’s | Mother. GLASGOW, Scotland, April 4 (P).— It was officially reported here today that Maj. Charles H. Schoeffel of the New Jersey State police will arrive tonight from London. It was understood he was going to interview a Mrs. Taylor, the mother of the Lindbergh nurse, Betty Gow. There was a feeling among police suthorities here that “something of con- siderable importance” may be the out- growth of Maj. SchoefTel’s visit. The city is excited about it and the guestion is being asked on the street, (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) MINE BLAST PUTS 200 OUT OF WORK Machinery and Equipment Build- ing Damaged $15,000 at Hopkins- ville, Ky., in Wage Fight. By the Associated Press HOPKINSVILLE, Ky, April 4—A/ dynamite blast early today destroyed & machinery and equipment building of the Williams Coal Co., near Manning- ton, with & loss estimated at $15.000. The building housed the generators of ) the mine’s electrical power, and caused | & shutdown which will throw 200 miners out of work. There was no one in the building at the time. A posse was formed at the mine, and the officers expressed the opinion the explosion was set off by the same per- sons who dynamited 14 power poles Jeading to the mines near Providence last week The Williams mine, with a 1,000-ton output per day, is a non-union mine The dynamitings were attributed at Providence to the shutdown of Iilinois mines as a result of a wage disagree- ment between union miners and operators Other mines in this vicinity were operated today but extra guards were on cuty. "BALANCING THE BUDGET" TONANKING ENVOYS Pu-Yi Also Protests Entry of Wellington Koo With League Commission. By the Associated Pri TOKIO, April 4—Henry Pu-Yi's new regime in Manchuria intends to order officials of the Chinese government to keep out, the Japanese consul at Chang- chun reported today to the foreign of- fice here. First, the manchukuo government of the former boy Emperor plans to pro- test the entry of Dr. Wellington Koo, former Chinese foreign minister, into the country with the League of Nations Investigating Commission when it pro- ceeds there, the consul reported. Of- ficials were understood also to be draft- ing a note to Nanking, declaring all Chinese officials unwelcome. Dr Koo is acting as Chinese assessor with the League Commission. The cause of the ban, as reported by the consul, is indignation over Nanking's denunciation of the Pu-Yi regime and anything other than part of China. More Troops to Be Asked. Meantime, Gen. Sadao Araki, min- ister of war, prepared to ask the cab- inet tomorrow to authorize sending two army brigades to Manchuria to replace Korean units sent there during the late last year. ‘The brigades belong to the 8th and 10th Divisions, parts of which went to Manchuria last November and Decem- ber as a mixed brigade. The plan is to send the divisional headquarters on and to reassemble the divisions again on_Manuchrian soil. This will give Japan five divisions in Manchuria a®d there are also several groups of auxiliaries of the Manchurian divisions. Toklo gave a heroes’ wlecome today to Lieut. Gen. Tokutaro Koto, com- mander of the 11th Division, and Maj. Gen. Mukaya, commander of the 24th Brigade, when they returned from Shanghai with their troops. Great crowds shouted “Banzai!” and waved flags for the veterans of the Shanghal battle. They were entertained at luncheon by Emperor Hirohito, who listened with interest to their tales of the “war.” Rebel Dead Put at 3,000. A spokesman for the government said in spite of the slow progress of the peace parleys at Shanghai it was hoped | further withdrawals of troops might be made, although some officials in the army have discussed the advisability of constructing temporary fortifications there to enable the Japanese to stand off any further Chinese attacks with superior guns and material. A dispatch to the Rengo (Japanese) News Agency from Changchun, said the Chinese rebel forces of Gen. Li Hai- Tsing left 3.000 dead behind them when they fled from the city of Nungan last week before the attack of the Japanese and provincial troops. Peace was restored at Nungan, the dispatch said, and the belief prevailed that the revolt was shattered. The war office said the Japanese ex- pedition to Chientao crossed the Tumen River yesterday afternoon and arrived refugees from the disturbed Paitsaokou region, the announcement said, have arrived at Chutzukai. MAJ. W. F. DEEGAN DIES New York City’s Official “Greeter” Passes Away. NEW YORK, April 4 (#)—Maj. William F. Deegan, New York City's official “greeter” and tenement house commissioner, died last night. He was 49 years old. its refusal to consider Manchuria as & FORTESZE TRIL OPENS WTHHEAVY GUARDOF POLCE Court Where Massie Assail- ant Was Seized Scene of Legal Battle for Americans. DARROW FACES HARD FOE IN PROSECUTOR Determined Official Seeks Second- Degree Murder Penalty for Four Defendants. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, April 4—With a police guard surrounding the judiciary build- ing to keep the curious away, trial of the most sensational criminal case in the history of Honolulu opens in a little court Toom in that gray stone structure today. It was from this building that Joseph Kahahawai, young Hawaiian, was lured by a fake court summons January 8. His friends never saw him alive again. Later the same day his body, shot through the chest, was found shrouded in a sheet in a motor car driven by Mrs. Granville Fortescue, gray-haired East- ern society woman and wife of the soldier-author. Also in the car were her son-in-law, Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, U. S. N, and E. J. Lord, a naval enlisted man. These three, with Albert O. Jones, another sailor who was found on guard at the Massie home, faced trial on charges of second-degiee murder for Kahahawai's lynching. Surprised on Court Visit. When the young Hawaiian was SWEEPING 4POWER PARLEY T0 INCLUDE DEBTS DISCUSSION MacDonald Announces Wed- nesday Program After Talk’ With Premier Tardieu. ARMS, REPARATIONS ALSO WILL BE TOPICSI France, Germany, Italy and Great Britain in Conference Originally Planned for Danubian Relief. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 4—It was definitely settled today that the four-power con- ference which meets here Wednesday will discuss, not only means of ex-l tending financial aid to the n&flunsl on the Danube, but the whole of Europe’s difficulties, including repara- tions, disarmament and war debts. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald made the announcement last night after a preliminary conversation with Premier Andre Tardieu of France, who came here yesterday and remained for further discussions today. The conference, at which representa- tives of France, Germany, Italy and Great Britain will sit in, originally was intended to go into the finances of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania. After the two | statesmen had talked yesterday, how- ever, the prime minister announced that the disarmament situation Geneva and the Lausanne Conference on Reparations would also be discussed. Questions Affecting United States. This opened the way for considera- tion of Europe's relations with the United States, including what will happen when the present Hoover moratorium ends, as well as the future abducted he was making his daily re- port at the judiciary building pending retrial, with four others, on charges of assaulting Mrs. Thalia Massie, attrac- tive 20-year-old wife of the lieutenant and daughter of Mrs. Fortescue. The full first week of the trial, at- torneys said, may be consumed by selection of a jury from panels on which Orientals and islanders may be ted to outnumber the whites. Each side has 24 peremptory challenges. The trial will be prolonged by the ruling of Circuit Judge Charles S. Davis limiting sessions to three hours daily in deference to Clarence Darrow, briliiant veteran of many court battles who heads defense counsel. Judge Davis, presigjng, said sessions would be (Continued on Page 3, Column 4. LITTLE GIRL CRUSHED 70 DEATH BY TRUCK Slips Away From Her Grandmother and Darts Into Path of Machine. Three-year-old Barbara Martin, 23 Bryant street northeast, was killed in* stantly at noon today when run over by a heavy truck at North Capitol and Bryant streets, half a block from her home, The child was with her grandmother, Mrs. Marion Cozlin, of the Bryant street address, who said she broke away and darted in front of the truck. The wheels passed over her, breaking her spine. A passing motorist tock the child to Sibley Hospital, where Dr. J. E. Bow- man pronounced her dead. Mrs. Cozlin told Policeman George Sorber, fifth precinct, that she was on her way to the grocery store when the accident occurred. “I was waiting for & street car and a truck to pass,” she said, “when Barbara broke away from me and ran out into the street almost underneath the truck.” John F. Courtney, colored, 41, of the 1600 block of Third street, driver of the truck, was taken into custody pending action of the coroner. The dead child was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martin. Early this afternoon police were attempting to locate the father to notify him of the tragedy. |PATTERSON CAR IN CRASH at Lung Chingtun. Scores of Japanese | Chauffeur Injured on Trip From New York to Washington. ELLISBURG, N. J., April 4 (#)—An automobile owned by Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson of Washington, D. C., was wrecked and her chauffeur was slightly irjured in a crash at King's Highway and Marlton Pike here last night. Mrs. Patterson was not in the car at the time. The chauffeur, Henry Girard La Fort, 36, was returning from New York to Washington when the car struck a drainage dip at the side of the road and crashed against a pole, SPEEDING LIQUOR AUTO ESCAPES UNDER ETHERIZED SMOKE SCREEN Pursuers Become Drowsy in Chase, But Car Is Later Found in Garage—One Man Arrested. Etherized smoke—newest weapon of sp:s;i, The officers gave chase xrmd im-} bled a touring car Mediately encountered a burst of smoke. it Bl e | Greenlow and Randall said they were heavily loaded with whisky to escape | yiindeq by the smoke, and also felt of American war debt payments. The two ministers sat together in the study at 10 Downing street. Premier Tardieu, with Pierre Flandin, French foreign minister, and other members of their party arrived at Victoria Sta- tion at 4 pm. in a drizzling rain, Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, accompanied Prime Minister MacDon- Once settied in the traditional home of Britain’s premiers, they turned their attention to the Danube, where five nations have declared in effect that unless urgent measures are taken to reconstruct their finances another financial storm such as tossed the whole of Central Europe last Summer may sweep the Continent, bringing world-wide consequences. M. Tardieu's visit was planned to turn back such a possibility by nego- tiating an Anglo-French understand- ing for extending rapid financial re- lief along the Danube. After a pre- Jlminary_surye all 2 ey the statesmen. all tended a dinner at the French em- bassy. British Intentions Sincere. “The intention of the British gov- ernment,” Prime Minister MacDonald said, “is sincere and disinterested in getting the maximum amount of good will and international co-operation |ald to welcome them. brought to bear on the solution of the | g problems before us. One country can- not do it. The policy we are working out is a policy of co-operation with everybody who is aiming at peace.” A joint declaration of the two pre- European countries. I id: “There are no agreements before- hand. There are no drafts of pro-; posals beforehand. We want an agree- ment which will be consistent with the interests and well-being of each nation concerned. Our policy is for practical steps to establish and main- tain the peace and well-being Europe and the world.” “Cabinet Room Meeting. The two statesmen began their con- versations in the big white and mahog- any cabinet room at No. 10. M. Tar- dieu sat at the long cabinet table be- side the prime minister, while Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exche- quer, and Sir John Simon, the foreign secretary, -sat in on the discussions. ‘Walter Runciman, president of the Board of Trade, also was present. Pierre Flandin, the French finance minister, was with his premier and 20 French and British experts were at the call of the ministers. The only interruption of the schedule was an official luncheon at the prime minister’s residence. The presence of Runciman indicated the importance of the tariff problems which the four-power conference must tackle in its efforts to blast out the trade barriers of Southeastern Europe. The conversations began again this morning at 10 o'clock, when Premier Tardieu and M. Flandin arrived in Downing street. M. Tardieu spent a half hour conferring with Sir John Simon, after which both went to the prime minister’s residence. FIVE-DAY SUMMER PLAN FOLLOWS RAISES IN PAY Employes of San Francisco Factory Will Be Given Every Other Saturday Off. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, April 4.—Afi.erl defying the general economic situation by wage increases for his employes, Rodman C. Pell, president of a San Francisco paper company, today went further and announced an alternate five-day plan for Summer. Pell raised wages of all his employes last May. He boosted salaries again in_January. His announcement said: “Effective of the German people. \ = APRIL 4, 1932—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. #%% () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. 3 DEAD IN GERMAN ELEGTONCANPAEN Hitler and Hindenburg Sup- porters in Bitter Run- off Battle. By the Associated Press BERLIN, April 4 —Three dead, scores wounded and hundreds arrested today marked the first day of Germany's sec- ond presidential campaign in less than & month. The election is to be held April 10. ‘While Adolph Hitler, National Social- ist leader, denounced in flery speeches the government under President Paul 'von Hindenburg his “Nazi” forces fought with Communists, Communists fought with “Nazis,” and both battled the po- lice and the “Iron Men” of the republic, leaving a trail of death and blood and broken heads. Hitler Addresses 50,000. Hitler began his campaign on the ‘of moon-yesterday, ending" the po- litical truce ordered by the government for the Easter holidays. He mounted a rostrum at Leipzic before 50,000 people and scored the government for “failing to show any positive achievements in 14 years of existence.” “I will fight to the bitter end,” he d. Preceding him on the platform was August Wilhelm, son of the former Kaiser, who declared the Nazis were not fighting President von Hindenburg as a man, but the “poltroons who mis- used his name for their own nefarious purposes. Adam Stegerwald, minister of labor in Chancellor Heinrich Bruening’s cabinet, led off Von Hindenburg's campaign. ‘The “Nazis,” he said, “seek to estab- lish a dictatorship similar to that of Italy and to create a party of the army to enforce -their dilettante views upon Such a state of affairs would put everything the coun- try has suffered in the past into the shade.” Berlin Communists Battered. In Berlin a group of Communists was badly battered by the police in the Gneisenau strasse.” One was shot in the chest and four arrested. Four “Nazis” were injured in the northern section in a fight with Communists. At Chemnitz, where Ernest Thael- mann, Communist candidate. opened his campaign, one Communist and one “Nazi" suffered bullet wounds. Com- munists fired on a group of “Nazis” at Mittweida, killing one and wounding two. A Communist was shot and killed at Kalau. President von Hindenburg led Hitler in the first election March 10 by more than 7,000,000 votes, but he fell short of a clear majority. This necessitated the run-off election. In addition to the 168 congressional | or deputy posts to be filled, 18 federal senatorial candidates were nominated and state officials, including governors, were nominated in several states. CRIPPLED NAVY BOAT IS TAKEN IN TOW | Subchaser Badly Damaged in Col- lision With Freighter Off California. By the Associated Press. SAN PEDRO, Calif, April 4—In collision with the passenger-carrying English freighter, Javanese Prince, on the high seas off Point San Vincente, the Navy subchaser No. 34 headed to this port today in tow of the Coast Guard cutter Tamora. Radio reports revealed the Navy ves- sel was badly damaged in the crash last night, but was in no apparent dan- Four “Six-Foot Mob” Suspects Are Held; Two Ex-Policemen By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 4.— Four alleged members of the “6- foot mob"—all of them more than 6 feet tall—are being held in connection with a series of hold-ups of chain grocery stores in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Police said they confessed. Two of the men are former po- licemen. MRS. R. B. FOSDICK KILLS 2 AND SELF Neighbors Find Bodies of Minister’s Sister-in-Law, Son and Daughter. By the Associated Press. MONTOLAIR, N. J., April 4—Mrs. Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, shot and killed her two children and herself at her home here today. Police found the bodies in the house ; - neighbors heard the shots at about :30 a.m. Mrs. Fosdick had been very nervous, police learned, and under the care of a physician. Her husband, a lawyer and brother of the noted New York pastor, was not at home and was believed to be in New York. \ The two children were Susanne, 15, and Blaine, 9. Fosdick 1is former undersecretary general of the League of Nations. He is a trustee of the Rockefeller Founda- tion and of Princeton University. He was assistant corporation counsel of New York from 1908 to 1910 and controller of the Finance Committee of the Democratic National Committee in {1912, In 1916 he was a special repre- sentative of the Secretary of War on the Mexican border and again repre- sented the War Department in France in 1918 and 1919. During the latter year he was also civilian aide to Gen. Pershing. Mrs. Fosdick before her marriage was Miss Winfred Finlay of Montclair. PLANE KILLS FOUR ON WAY TO RACES Minnesotans, Including Two Brothers, Crash Near Duluth, Blinded by Snow. By the Associated Press. DULUTH, Minn. April 4—Four men on their way to Detroit to compete in the National Aircraft Show, were killed this morning in an airplane crash 25 miles north of Duluth. Those killed were Herb (Dutch) Fuller, 25. pilot; H. E. Kurvinen, 35, aviator; T. J. Somero, 32, fur buyer and part-owner of the plane, and his brother, William Somero, 28. They all lived at Ely, Minn. Fuller flew into a snowstorm near the farm home of John Fjerem, who heard the plane circle his home three times and then crash. Fuller apparently was blinded by the heavy snow on the win- dows of the cabin plane. ‘The plane hit a snow fence, and all four were instantly killed, Fjerem reported.. ‘The motor was driven back into the cabin, crushing all four to death in- stantly. The plane did not catch fire. Fuller and Kurvinen, released from an Ely hospital only a few days ago still ‘wore bandages because of injuries in a forced landing on March 27. DEMOCRATS NAME KEYNOTER TODAY Senator Barkley and Jouett Shouse Candidates Be- fore Committee. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 4—The Democratic Committee on Arrangements for the national convention met today to con- summate its plans and to select a key- notér for the nominating conclave open- ing’ June 27. Senator Barkley of Kentucky and Jouett Shouse of Kansas, chairman of the party's Executive Committee, were the two candidates in the open for keynoter as the committee went into executive session. Shouse himself presided at today's meeting at the Congress Hotel, head- quarters of delegates at the June con- laws now place unnecessary < | on the | Raymond B. Fosdick, sister-in-law of }nfl‘llmflfi . ley, of the New York State Democratic Central Committee and guardian of Gov. Roosevelt’s hopes. Those present as the Arrangements Committee went to work were Vincent M. Miles, Arkansas; Mrs. John Greenway, Arizona; Maj. John 8. Cohen, ; Mrs. Florence Farley, Kansas; Jouett Shouse, chairman, Kansas; Horatio J. Abbott, Michigan; Joseph Wolf, Minnesota; William T. Kemper, Missouri; J. Bruce Kremer, Montana, Arthur F. Mullen, Nebraska; Robert Jackson, New Hampshire; Norman E. Mack, New York; Tom Taggart, diana; Judge J. R. Armstrong, Okla- homa; Mrs. Anna Struble, South Da- kota; Mrs. Clara D. Sevier, Texas; former Gov. Harry F. Byrd, Virginia, and Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, Wyoming. Shouse said he expected little diffi- culty in arranging the convention, since it would follow the Republican meeting in the same stadium and virtually iden- tical plans would be used. FLAMES DAMAGE CHAPEL OF SCHOOL Woodberry Students and Faculty, at Orange, Va., Prevent Loss of Marble Altar. Special Dispatch to The Star. ORANGE, Va., April 4—Students and faculty of Woodberry Forest School near here fought flames for half an hour this morning to save the chapel of the school. The chancel was practically destroyed, and the roof burned off. A large marble altar was slightly dam- aged, having been protected from the water and smoke by a heavy canvas sheet. Damage to the building, esti- mated at $10,000, is covered by insur- ance. Carter Walker, headmaster of the school, praised the work and efficiency of the Orange Fire Company. ‘Woodberry Forest School was found- ed in 1889 by Capt. Robert S. Walker. From an enrollment of 7 bbys it grew to one of 200 and is recognized as one of the foremost preparatory schools of the South. Pastor Dies at 102 Years. MONTREAL, Quebec, April 4 (P).— Rev. Dr. James Patterson, dean of Pres- byterian ministers of the n, died today at the age of 102 years. He reg’il;d from active church work in 1917. D. C. BILLBOARD REGULATIONS PUT |, HOOVER REQUESTS SPECIAL GROUP 10 DRAW UP FEDERAL ECONOMY PROGRAM Representatives of President Would Work With Agents Selected by Two Houses of Congress. SURPRISE MESSAGE ASKS SPEED ON LEGISLATION Further Drastic Retrenchment Held Necessary to Balamce Books—Wants Law Changed to Relieve Department of Functions Not Essential Now. BY J RUSSEL YOUNG. In a surprise message $a the Senate and House of Representa- tives today, President Hoover called for the appointment of representatives delegated by the two Houses to work with repre- sentatives to be selected by him to frame a complete national pro- gram of economy and to recom- mend the legislation necessary to make it possible and effective. The President again insisted in this message that reduction of governmental expenditures is es- sential if the budget is to be bal« anced, and again declared that properly and eflecuvel¥ to reduce expenses the present law should be amended so as to relieve de- partments and independent #es- tablishments of some of their ex- isting functions which are not absolutely essential for the pres- ent, Would Speed Bills. suc; lh“caum as message Hoover is confident, proj i con! that only such unified, non-partisan effort can this problem of reducing ex- penses be attained in the public interest. In a renova- omy . Hoover called attention to fact that the tions way by representatives of Congress and the Executive, the desired results could be readily achieved. Attention was called by the Executive ?{) meAhct Lh;tul.he Senate lndh-the ouse Appropriation Compittees have given consideration to this question of reducing expenses and that a special Economy Committee was recently pointed by the House, and that C. | Committee on Expenditures in the Ex- ecutive Departments of the House have been engaged upon this problem. Wants Unity of Efforts, these different agencies of the Congress operating independently on the prob- lem, better and quicker results could be obtained by having it done by one representative group, such as recom- mended by him. He is satisfied the seriousness of the situation absolutely mneeeaslf-ltefl better organized unity of fort. Mr. Hoover is of the opinion that more than $200,000,000, the amount es- timated by the House when il passed a revenue bill recently as necessary in governmental expenditures to balance the budget, will be needed. In his opin- ion, there must be still more drastic economies because the $200,000,000 sav- ing will not be sufficient. The text of the President’s message follows: “To the Senate and House of Repre= sentatives— “I have in various messages to the Congress over the past three years re- ferred to the necessity of organized ef- fort to effect far-reaching reduction of governmental expenditures. “To balance the budget for the year beginning July 1, next, the revenue bill passed by the House of Representatives on April 1 necessitates that there shall be a further reduction of expenditures for the next year of about $200,000,000 (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) FIVE DIE IN FLAMES AS FALL SAVES ONE Trapped Family Nearly Wiped Out Despite Efforts of Passersby to Arouse Them. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 4—Five members of one family were trapped in a flaming house in suburban Brookfield and burn- ed to death yesterday and the sixth was alive because he accidentally fell through an open window while groping about in blinding smoke. Passersby noticed the fire! early and banged a warning on the door. Walter W. Sneathen, 70-year-old owner of the house, heard the warning, but took time to dress. The flames enveloped the frame bullding rapidly and soon all exits were blocked. then with his daughter, then, 23; his daughter- BAN ON SIGNS IN LABOR PICKETING from two motor cycle policemen and a | “very drowsy” after trying to ride|the first Saturday in May half of all ger of sinking. A TIMELY SERIES ON GOVERNMENT EX- PENSES AND REVENUES By David Lawrence 1§ NOW APPEARING DAILY IN The Star READ TOMORROW ABOUT “The Need of a Balanced Tax System” radio scout car in a two-mile chase through the upper Northwest section of the city early today. Detective George C. Deyoe of the police vice squad seized the machine and arrested its alleged driver in a spirited foot race a short time later after being tipped off that the autome- bile had been driven into a garage at the rear of the 2200 block Ontario road. A second man escaped. Elmo James Johnson, colored, 29, 1000 block of Ontario road, who was said by police to have been driving the car when it “smoked” them, was booked on charges of possessing 84 gallons of whisky, possession of a smoke screen and carrying a concealed weapon, Motorcycle Policemen K. P. Greenlow and M. G. Randall were riding alorg Monroe street near First when the car, its curtain drawn and manned .by two colored men, swept by them at high through it. They were finally forced to abandon the chase. ‘The radio scout car of the third pre- cinct took up the chase several blocks away, but met the same experience after pursuing the machine down Flor- ida avenue at a 60-mile clip. Detective Deyoe learned from an un- dercover operative a short time later that the rum-running car had been “berthed’ in a garage back of the 2200 block Ontario road. Two men were un) cases of whisky when Deyoe entered the garage. ‘They took to their heels, but Deyoe overhauled Johnson and placed him un- der arrest. His companion escaped. Jo}mson, Deyoe said, was carrying & re- volver. Eighty-four gallons of whisky and a smoke screen, loaded with a mixture containing approximately 50 per cent ether, the first of its kind ever seized by local police, were found in the car. employes will be allowed to play while the other half works. The Saturday following, those who played over the previous week end will work, giving the others a chance to play. “This schedule will end on the last Saturday in August. It will in no way effect vacations or salaries.” ZEPPELIN IS DAMAGED FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germeny, April 4 (#)—The Graf Zeppelin, veteran of several nonstop flights from here across the Atlantic to Pernambuco, Brazil, was forced to postpone a scheduled flight today when, in taking off, a great rent, 35 feet long, was torn in the hull. The Zeppelin Works said that be- cause of the great difference in temperature the ship rose slowly, caus- ing the hull to swipe a radio towen ‘The Javanese ce, outbound from San Pedro to Yokohama on a round- the-world trip, was damaged slightly. Point Vincente is approximately 10 miles northwest of San Pedro. ‘The Navy boat was returning from Santa Barbara, from which point it had taken a group of Naval Reservists on a training cruise, to its base at San Ordinarily manned by a crew of 50 men, the subchaser had only 24 men aboard. A rolling sea prevented a line being put aboard the subchaser for more than two hours. Two investigations of the accident will be made, one by Navy authorities and another by the Federal steamboat inspectors. Radio Programs oa Page C-3 Public Hearing to Be Sought on Opinion of Corporation Counsel. The regulations adopted by the Dis- trict Commissioners to prohibit the erection of billboards also prevents pickets from carrying banners in labor disputes, Corporation Counsel William W. Bride ruled today. Section 16 of the sign regulations, which have been in effect since Novem- ber 30 last, provides that “no adver- tising sign or banner shall be urrhdm or nsported on or over any pul space. The provisions of this section. g on vehicles and adve: e bona fide business of the owner.” Marx Lewis, attorney for the local Pur Workers’ Union, inquired whether this would be construed to prevent strike pickets from carrying banners. Mr. ruled that it did. He rec- ommended that Lewis be advised to that effect and told that he could se- cure a public hearing if he desired to seek to have the regulations amended. Mr, Lewis said later such a public hearing would be sought. “Riders of the Purple Sage” STARTS TODAY on Page C.5