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CASS kel THREE MINES OPEN IN SPITE OF STRIKE National Guardsmen Stand By to Protect Workmen in Ohio Coal Field. I By the Associated Press. CADIZ, Ohio, April 19.—Three strike- ridden soft coal mines in the Eastern Ohio field resumed operations today without & semblance of disorder, as Na- tional Guardsmen stood by ready to protect the workers. Threescore diggers entered the Som- ers mine of the Goodyear Tire & Rub- ber Co, near Adena, where disorders during the past week resulted in the killing of one man and the wounding of four others. Almost normal forces were reported to have resumed work at the Tasa and Harmon Creek mines. The situation at the Somers mine was tense until after daylight. One shot was fired in the hills as the work- ing miners gathered at the pit. An unidentified airplane circled low over the mine property, dropped a red flare and then hurried away. The aerial aetivities early today puz- sled Guard officers and caused them to investigate. Before the unidentified plane appeared over the Somers mine, which s 12 miles southeast of Cadiz, a red flare was lighted on a nearby hill An officer ordered Guardimen to open fire in the direction of the flare. An attempt to find an object drop- ped by the plane near the Somers tipple was fruitless. It was first believed the plane dropped the flare, but later offi- clals said it might have been a bomb. At Tasa mine, 8 miles east of here, before daylight, a large rocket shot up from a nearby hillside and flared across the sky over the mine. Maj. E. H. Distell, Cleveland, in charge of Na- tional Guard airplanes based at Cam- bridge, said none of his planes were off the ground this morning when the un- identified ship was operating. Three striking miners were wounded in yesterday’s fight and two were killed in previous riots. One guardsman, Mike Cosmos of Akron, was wounded accl- dentally by a fellow trooper, and sur- geons had to remove his right leg. DOAK'S MOVE FAILS. Secretary Says Operators Declined to Discuss Strike. Becretary_of Labor Doak announced yesterday that Ohio mine operators had refused to accept the Labor Depart- ment's assistance in settling strikes in the coal fields of that State. “On April 13,” said the Secretary, “I tendered my good offices as Secretary of Labor to the operators and representa- tives of the miners and requested them to meet with me in the Department of- fices at Washington Wednesday morn- ing, April 20. The operators have wired me that their policy is to deal directly with their own employes and declined to meet as requested. “Representatives of the miners ac- cepted the request to attend the confer- ence.” The Secretary is said to have acted at the request of business and professional men in the coal fields. OHIO SEEKS SOLUTION. Gov. White Discusses Failure of U. S. Intervention, COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 19 (P — State officials are working out a tenta- tive program looking toward a solution of the controversy between striking bituminous coal miners and operators, Gov. George White announced toda; Commenting on the refusal of opes tors to meet With miners in Washington emnor sald the State was preparing a program which would be presented at “the opportupe time.” Although he refused to divulge his lan for settlement of the strike, which February 1, when miners in the Hocking and Sunday Creek fields quit in protest against a wage cut, the Gov- ernor saigd he felt the plan would be acceptable. Gov. White said the strike could not be settled by persons outside of Ohio. DRY NULLIFICATION FORECAST BY WuLL BEFORE COMMITTEE (Continued From First Page.) hibition hearings before the Judiclary subcommittee, Rice Hooe, Washing- ton, representing the Federal Dis- pensary Tax Reduction League, urged nfml of the dry amendment and sub. stitution of Government regulation. Hooe assailed prohibition “Pharisee, Mohammedan, Methodist doctrine.” “If the honest leaders of prohibition,” he said, “and I eliminate the merce- narfes and ecclesiastical politicians— would only get together with the forces of temperance and permit the word temperance to be writien into this com- pact, the question might easily be solved.” He sald prohibition is “pagan” and temperance is “Christian,” and held the eighteenth amendment responsi- ble for the “crime wave." Labor’s National Committee for Mod- 1fication of the Volstead Act—through John P. Colpoys, then advocated 2.75 per cent beer. Woll Heads Commiitee. ‘The committee is headed by Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor. Colpoys said legalizing 2.75 per cent T would put 300,000 men to work in three months. “1 have never seen one who has been rominent in advocacy of this law who s not a hypocrite of the first water,” Colpoys asserted Opponents of prohibition applauded. The Manufactures’ Committee spent less than half an hour in executive ses- sian reaching the adverse decision on | the Bingham bill. It authorized Hat- fleld to submit the report and Metcalf to yoice the minority position. Bingham expressed disappointment over the vote, but announced he would | make & fight for the bill on the Senate floor. After the Senate convened, Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, re- newed his appeal for a $1,500,000 pub- lic construction program financed by legalizing and taxing beer. He proposed an amendment to the revenue bill to raise the money through a bond issue and amortize it in 10 years from a tax of 24 cents a gallon on 2.75 per_cent beer. The money would be used to carry out all authorized construction projects and $400,000,00C would be allocated to road construction snd river and har- bor improvements. ‘Tydings said if this was not adopted he would move to subsutute additional taxes on luxuries to raise the funds. the Gevernment with “gharing by indirection in the prefit from the largest racket in all history” threugh income taxes on Al Capone, said “if we can do that we can raise the alcobolic content of the Volstead act. * * *" There was applause intermingled with a hiss or two as Tydings con- cluded. as & Mormon, Offered Own Jewelry. NEW YORK (#).—Daniel Mulleavy t mad when burglars stole his $1,000 wels, and madder when they offered sell to him on the installment Trim THE EVENING STAR, WILL BE USED TO DIVERT COLORADO RIVER. ¥ | 1) in the early H foreground. ERE is an interior view of one of the tunnels through which the Colorado River will be diverted around the Hoover Dam s stages of construction. Accurste trimming of the diversion tunnel is made possible by the semi-cireylar gauge shown in center while the project is —A. P. Photo. FOIBLES OF Dry Delegates Caricature Members of Congress and Others. Edison and Robinson Defend Results of Prohibition. Mrs. The foibles of the wets were put on the “toast rack” and thoroughly scorched at a mid-morning breakfast today of delegates to the three-day meeting of the Women's National Com- mittee for Law Enforcement, being held at_the Washington Auditorium. ‘To the rythm and paraphrased words of nursery rhymes, the dry women c: icatured what were seen as present-day tendencies among the forces opposed to prohibition. Members of Congress were the ticular objects of the drys' humor, though no names were mentioned | throughout the performance. The meal Was entitled a “Vll]!y Forge Breakfast” and was said to ‘“commemorate the turning point of the struggle for our Nation.” The program was concluded with singing of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Late yesterday afternoon the women drys heard Bishop James Cannon, Jr. Southern Methodist prohibitionist, deny that he had supported any resubmis- slon proposal in a speech last week at Richmond, Va. Denies Press He was introduced by Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, head of the Woman's Law En- | forcement Committee, who called on him to explain statements in the Press thal he had expressed himself in favor of former Gov. Harry Byrd's plan for prohibition resubmission. quoted at length from his Richmond speech and said: “Certainly these quotations show that | I am positively op to the resub- mission of the prohibition amendment until the people have indicated clearly in congressional and senatorial elections that the people themsalves, not the wet press, not the associations opposed to prohibition, not even the wet women, w-‘r;gl the ;{f“fi'dmd'" resubmitted, “In my Richmond speech I tive- ly declared that dry leaders hniemnever objected and do not object now to ac- tion by the people in the manner pre- scribed by the Constitution. They are ready to fight the issue out in the proper arena in the election of Con- gressmen, Benators and members of State Legislatures just as has been done in the past, and furtnermore these quotations clearly show that I went the full limit and declared that should both conventions adopt planks advocating resubmission or repeal of the prohi- bition amendment and the nominees should agree to run on such wet planks, the dry people would be obliged to de- cide whether they woula call a con- vention to determine what procedure would best promote the future of pro- hibition.” Discusses Byrd Plan. Discussing Gov. Byrd's plan, the bishop quoted again his Richmend ad- dress fo show that he had agreed with Byrd's opposition to any illegal refer- endum or to a home rule plan. “Furthermore,” he said, “I agree with the basal elements of his proposed con- stitutional amendment—namely, that | the Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses deem it necessary, shall propose any amendment or the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, pro- vided such amendment must be voted upon and adopted by a majority of the electors of three-fourths of the States before becoming a part of the Consti- tution.” He added that he said he would pre- fer to have the ratification made by State legislatures or by a majority vote of the people rather than in conven- tions, which could be manipulated or controlled. His choice was the State lelAl.stlat}.:.\r. method. the session last night Senator Ar- thur H. Robinson of lx‘:‘dhn'le and N?xr'l Thomas A. Edison, widow of the famous | inventor, were the principal speakers. Describing present economic condi- tions in England and Germany, where | liquor is sold, Senator Robinscn told the women that “bad as eonditions are, they would become infinitely worse if | the saloon came back to this country.” He charged that anti-prohibitionists, for all their attacks on the dry law, | were without a substitute for the | eighteenth amendment and without a solution for dealing with the problem of | liquor return. | “After 133 years of bitter experience.” the Senator s.id, “the American people | arose in their might and outlawed the | saloon—never to return again. The | wets suggest that the Government take over the liquor business. If the United States Government goes into the liquor business, you must hang out the Ameri- can flag in front of every groggery.” | Mrs. Ediscn, who came here from her | Florida home to attend the convention, id: “It is not the prohibition law that is rulning our country, but it is the lack of reverence and respect for all law—Ilack of the sense of responsibility to give due respect to the men whom we have placed in the highest positions filled by man. “Instead of constant ful criti- cism, we should be grate to honor those we put in high office, and have faith in them, It is for us to find the man, such as our President, whom we can honor." Mrs. Edison charged that people in| the higher social strata are living today | without thinking. “Always seeking a| good time, with no responsibilities: | they want no laws that they must obey—only laws in ecases where they discommy S ENFORCEMENT WOMEN “SCORCH™ | Haines Lippincott entitled “Fables in |U. S. DEVISES PLANS WETS IN TOASTS MRS. THOMAS A. EDISON. clared, “have had vital problems to meet they have met the issue with | good judgment. Therefore, we need not fear “a referendum on the liquor question.” Mrs. Edison said she came to the con- vention in memory of her famous in- | ventor husband, and concluded with his words: “The courageous carry on.” Sparks Explains Bill Representative Charles I. Sparks of Kansas explained at the afternoon meeting yesterday the Capper-Sparks “Stop alien representation” bill for a constitutional amendment to bar aliens from being counted as a basis for con- gressional representation. At the present time, he sald, the dis- tribution of Representatives in Congress is unfair to the agricultural districts. He explained that this situation is the result of aliens, who do not vote, being counted for apportionment of Congress- | men to the metropolitan areas of large | cities, This afternoon, in a forum session. the dry women plan to analyze the | stand of candidates for the presidency | on prohibition. ‘The following subjects were to be dis- cussed by the delegates: “The Eight- teenth Amendmenti—How and Why It Came,” “Is the Constitution the Su- " “Who Is to Blame for Lawlessness? “Can the Eighteenth Amendment be Enforced?,” “What are the Objections to Resubmission?” and “Where Do Presidential Candidates Stand on the Issue?” There will be monologues by Mrs. | Alcohol,” “The Gentleman at the Bung | Hole,” “Association Against Hypocrisy” and “Reform the Reformer.” Tonight there will be a general dis- cussion of the prohibition question by | four women. Those to speak are Mrs. Jesse Nicholson, Miss Vida Milholland, Mrs. Clayton Eulette and Mrs. Richard | Aldrich. There will be more monologues by Mrs. Lippincott at the night session. FOR WAR ON FRENCH TARIFF QUOTA SYSTEM (Continued From Pirst Page.) indirectly, upon the disposition in or transportation in transit through or re-exportation from such country of any article wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States, any unreasonable charge, exaction, regula- tion or limitation which is not equally enforced upon the like articles of every foreign counwry, or discriminates in fact against the commerce of the United States, directly or indirectly, by law or administration or practice. * * *” No further action by Congress be- comes necessary, and the President can impose as much or as little tariff as he pleases as a reprisal. The 50 per cont increase, therefore, can be followed by a complete embargo, but officials be- lieve no such step will be necessary. Just what the Prench purpose has been in discriminating against American products is not clear here, but 1t is pre- sumed the French government hopes to use its policy as a leverage either in forcing debt reductions or in cementing its ties with the smaller FEuropegn countries with which it has military and political alliances. Premier Tardieu, who was here dyr- ing the year as the head of the Frepch mission which borrowed vast sams for war use, has always been considired friendly to the United States, but in recent wecks he has been spoken of in official quarters here as having ats- tinetly changed his point of view. One explanation advanced is that he is not 50 much anti-American as he is strongly nationalist, especially in the campaign preceding the parliamentary elections which are to be held next month. The new duties will &o into effect within 30 days after ey are pro- claimed, unless, of course, diplomacy brings about a removal of the French discriminations. While there is no such purpose in mind, it is believed that tem- porarily some American manufacturers who compete with Prench products will be helped in the domestic trade, espe- cially those engaged in the making of cosmetics and other luxuries normally imported from France. A trade war is never welcomed by the United States, but the feeling among American officials is that it is time for measures of defense, lest an acceptance of the principle of diserimination should be the openin, toward a general poliey of jury American-made | i (Copyright. 1938 S IN BRITISH BUDGET| 15 CALLED TODAY westi Announcement Says No Re- ceipts Are Expected From Reparation. (Continued Prom First Page) be no relief for the income tax payer this year and that the beer tax will re- main at its present level. Thus the tax- payer will have to stagger along under his present burdens for another year. In fact the British taxpayer's position is worse than it was during the last fiscal year, since Mr. Chamberlain an- nounced & revival of an old tea duty of 4 pence per pound, with an imperial preference of 50 per cent. Thus duty on empire tea will be 2 pence per pound. Sugar Duties Changed. The chancellor announced an in- crease of 1 shilling per hundredweight in preference for all colonial sugar im- ported into the United Kingdom for the next five years. Duties on foreign and dominion sugars would be unchanged. He also proposed to grant during the same period a special supplementary preference equal to another shilling on a limited quantity of colonial sugsr to be allocated by the colonial office among sugar-producing colonies in proportion to thelr exports. The sugar changes would be operative from ‘tomorrowa All silk import duties would be on an ad valorem basis in the future. Prosaic Budget. It was one of the most prossié budgets in recent years, providing orif minor changes in British finance, aside from the duty on tea. ‘The chancellor announced, however that new import duties recommended by the Tariff Advisory Committee would be published soon and that they would yield £5,000,000 in the fiscal year. He gave no hint of the nature of the impending tariffs. Revival of trade and employment in the past few months gives Great Brit- ain reason to hope that the worst of her economic depression is over, how- ever, Chamberlain told Parliament. Debts Account Held Up. “The past year,” he said, “has been one of anxiety, difficulty and hardship. It is only in the last few months that some revival of trade and employment has led us to hope that at least the worst is over. “Coming now to the financial year 1932-1938, I am including in the bud- get no receipts from reparations and no outgoings for war debts. The two are self-balancing. “Later in the year, after the Laus- anne conference, I shall submit what- ever proposals may be necessary to give effect to the measures we agree upon.” This decision to hold both accounts in suspense for the present does not imply, he said, that any new decision has been made “on our policy in this delicate question.” CAPITAL FLOWING BACK. Great Britain May Resume Role of “World Banker.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 19.—International capital, seeking employment at a profit, is flowing back to London at a rate which some financiers say may presage the early return of London to its role of “world banker.” But today, they explain, the job of being banker for the world is a sorry one, and the three principal money centers—New York, London and Paris— appear to be asking each other to step into the position. The rise of London, however, is re- garded as the most interesting feature of the intgrnational drama because Lon- don is the only one of the three not operating on a gold standard. Recently Near Disaster, Added interest attaches to the come- back because London only recently seemed on the verge of disaster when England was shoved off the gold basis. Foreign exchange dealers report that buying of the British pound sterling, which s a necessary part of the shift- ing of international capital to London, continues to feature all foreign ex- change markets. Bankers also say the return flow of funds to London has been helped by recent action taken in Europe. Bankers in Holland and Switzerland have served notice on the world they do not want surplus capital to come pouring into those countries. Just before the collapse of sterling from the gold standard September 21, an estimated £200,000,000 or at that time approximately $1,000,000,000 of short-term foreign balances were pulled out of London. The bulk of this money is said to have fled to the continent Since England’s withdrawal from the gold standard, London has not been obliged to buy all the gold that has come her way. She has shifted this responsibility to France, which al- ready has all the gold she needs, but, being & gold country, is obligated to buy up all gold offered her. With the pound sterling quoted now around $3.79 against its January low of $335%, the flow of international capital to London appears to be con- tinuing. As & means of preventing too rapid a rise at the expense of British trade, the British government has been sell- ing sterling and using & portion of the balance thus bullt up to buy her own bonds in foreign countries. The rise this week of British 5'4s to above par is said to be due in part to this policy. NAVY SUPPLY BILL OF $326,340,000 1S REPORTED IN HOUSE (Continued From First Page.) pay for aviators and $720 for extra pay submarine officers After the bill was reported, Repre- sentative Ayres told the House the Appropriations Subcommittee was “un- willing at this time” to have the bill reduced further because of world-wide conditions. In explaining the measure, the sub- commitiee chairman said “On the one hand was the insistent urge to cut, and then cut some more, and on the other was the consclousness of our duty to provide for an estab- lishment that world conditipns pre- scribed as a minimum but at the low- est cost consistent with a& measurable degree of efficiency, “Whatever our individual convictions may be as to the institution of the war_and the further need for armed conflicts, the very fact that we main- tain military and naval establishments is an admission of its potential recur- rence. “Unhappily, the predominant senti- ment of America, which I am sure is for everlasting peace, can not be im- planted in the hearts and minds of all mankind of other lands.” ‘The Kansan said Admiral Pratt was authority for the statement that the naval operating forces had been re- duced to the “danger zone. “World conditions today unhappily are not as inspiring as we might wish," Ayres continued. “The world-wide eco- nomie depression has disturbed domes- tie tranquility in every quarter of the globe. “We have mvitnessed a conflict in the Orient, wiaich was a direct chal- lenge to the efficacy of the treaty for the settlement of international Wy peaceful methods." Case of Policeman G. E. Perry for Mistreating Col- ored Boy Opens. Another alleged “police brutality” case was called for trial today before Justice F. D. Letts and a Jury in Crim- inal Division. The accused is George E. Perry, patrolman of the first pre- cinet, who is charged with mistreating John Miller, colored, a suspect, while in the police room at Union Station and in the precinet, last August. Assistant United States Attorney Ir- vin Goldstein in opening the Govern- ment’s case sald he expected to prove that Perry arrested Miller, a bootblack, in front of Union Station August 21 and, taking him into the poliee room, struck him seversl times ingthe face, then sending him to the first preeinct. Two hours later, he said, Perry went to the precinct, and taking the colored boy to the celiar, showed him a dun- geon and asked how he would like to spend the night there. To the boy's declaration that he would not wish to do so, Perry is said to have responded, “That's what you will do if you do not come across.” i _The suspect was then taken upstairs “®© the sergeant’s room, where another assault is alleged to have taken place. Miller was released Sunday, August 23, the prosecutor said, without any charge being placed against him. Attorney James A. O'f 5 ing the officer. OFexs desaud {LA GUARDIA OFFERS BONUS SUBSTITUTE BEFORE COMMITTEE (Continued From First Page.) two years old to borrow on them, added. Under La Guardia's unemployment insurance proposal. an unemployment commission would be created to main- tain an unemployment insurance- fund by a welfare tax on employes and em- ployers, including a special tax on all incomes. Shortly before today's hearing open- ed Representative Mapes, Republican, of- Michigan, announced his opposition to full payment of the bonus on the srounds the Treasury was in no shape to pay it now and the money inflation plan was unsound. He made his views kr}‘own in a reply to the secretary of thé Michigan State Senate acknowl- edging receipt of a resolution adopted by that group advocating immediate payment. La Guardia said the committee should consider “whether the American people through Congress have properly pro- vided for the veterans.” “On the whole, I believe that Con- gress has responded since 1919 to every demand and every request of the World War veterans,” he said. The room was crowded with ex- service men when La Guardia began Representative Patman, Democcrat, of Texas, the leading bonus sponsor, listened from the first row. Exceeded All Estimates. La Guardia said the number of vet- erans who took advantage of the 50 per cent loan value authorized last year “far exceeded all estimates.” ‘As I read the history cf the treat- ment of veterans by this Congress,” he said, “I am just as certain as I am standing here this morning that legis- lation will be passed refunding the interest charges on these loans. “Sponsors of this plan frankly admit the object is inflation. I submit it is hardly fair to use the veterans for the purpose of inflating the currency—that is, deflate the dollar. We promised to pay them in good, wholesome American ‘ZSB"" and we should pay them in t.” La Guardia said another argument is that there is “a critical precentage cf unemployment and destitution among the veterans,” “If only the veterans were unem- ployed, we could deal with the situs tion satisfactorily.” he said. “But making wholly extravagant al- lowances, only 13 per cent of the un- employed are veterans “Can we take that small group and disregard the need of others? Can we go to the extent of putting printing presses to work and printing $2,000,- 000,000? Will that solve the unemploy- ment problem? % “Let us do something that will really help the veterans and at the same time took to preventing these economic de- pressions in the future. Wants Insurance Fund. “Since the war every possible prefer- ence has been given the veterans by civil governments, both National and State, “What will be the feeling of the vet- eran’s neighbor who is out of work if Congress says it has settled the un- employment ~ question by paying the bonus. “Before long, some of the people now opposing the bonus will come out for it for selfish reasons. Don't pick a small percentage of the unemployed and at the same time include a large number who are employed. “When unemployment insurance and old-age pensions come then you will see a dash to pay this bonus, “If we are going to print money let us use that money &s an initial fund for national unemployment insurance. “I say that if a secret vote were taken on this bonus plan in the House there would not be 30 votes for it. I say that advisedly after cloak-room gossip. “I am here this morning on behalf of 6,000,000 unorganized unemployed, who have no means of reaching Congress and can't understand why Congress dgesn't do something," he said. Representative Rankin, Democrat, of Mississippi, a bonus advocate, passed to the press table a statement that “this panic cannot be cured by a dole that would not expand the currency or raise commodity prices, but would take bil- lions of dollars from the American peo- ple through taxation and distribute it to the unemployed.” he HOUSE VOTES TO LIMIT ADMISSION OF ACTORS Would Bar Foreign Artists Un- less They Possess Unusual Talent. The House voted yesterday to miti- gate the degree to which this country has been a “sucker"—Representative Dickstein's characterization—for foreign actors, actresses and artists. Dickstein, a New York Democrat, Who is chalrman of the Immigration Committee, had up a measure to erect a barrier against these aliens. ‘'We've been a sucker for everybody,” he said. “England, France, Germany and most of the other nations of the world bar any American who wants to work in their country for even one hour. Yet, we let all these so-called actors and actresses come in and work for years." So, the House voted, 86 to 18, to keep :-‘l"l::] 'fll]’!::l]‘l!m D\:itfunlul they show i sua ent and are doing thi no one else can do. . Births Reported. Powey M. and Mary I. Freeman, boy, Lo0e0h, A . boy. %w. S . Ly WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1932. - ming Hoover Dam Tunnel] AR DEBT IGNORED BRUTALITY TRIAL | MRS. REMEY IS NAMED HEAD OF WOMEN'S AIR DEFENSE CORPS on Woman to Be! | | | Commander Until Next Elections. “Represents Highest Type of American Girl,” Mrs. Kunz Says. Appointment of Mrs. John T. Remey of Washington gnd New York, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Beale R. Howard of Washington, as temporary commander of the Betsy Ross Corps, national de- fense organization of women airplane pilots, was announced here today. Mrs. Remey, one of & score of ama- teur pilots, who took part in the first long distance cross country tour of amateur flyers in connection with the all-America air races of 1932 at Miami, Fla., will serve as commander until the annual elections next tember, The Betsy Ross Corps, formally dedi- | cated with impressive ceremonies held in Memorial Continental Hall last year, | is intended to provide a corps of train. ed women pilots to take over the duty of flying transport, cargo and hospital planes in case of war so as to release male pilots for combat duty. Mrs. Remey was appointed to com- plete the unexpired term of Mrs. Opal Logan Kunz of New York, who has re- signed as commander, but who will con- tinue as finance chairman and editor of the corps magazine, In announcing the appointment of Mrs. Remey, Mrs. Kunz said of the new | splendid fiyer, owns her own plane, and commander: “She has proved herself | to my mind represents the highest type both reliable and capable, is popular, & of American girl." ALIENISTS TO TAKE THREE ARLINGTON STAND FOR MASSIE, OFFICIALS INDICTED Two Specialists and Two Other Defense Witnesses Account for Money, One Called for Today. With Forgery. MRS. JOHN T. REMEY, (Continued Prom First Page.) | BY & Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT next day the whole thing was dis- | HOUSE, Va, April 19.—Indictments missed.” charging County Clerk William H. Dun- Beginning with the night of the | C8R and former Treasurer E. Wade Ball dance at Ala Wai Inn, when Mrs. Mas- | With failure to account for public funds sle was seized, Kelley asked the naval | 8nd F. J. Hallock, former clerk of the officer if he had taken any liquor to |School board, with forgery were re- the party. turned late yesterday by a grand jury “Do I have to answer that?” Massie | Nere. The indictments were accompa- said. nied by a recommendation that ouster The prosecutor insisted and Massie | Proceedings be instituted against Dun- said he took a pint of liquor to the | ¢&n at once. party, He said fie danced twice with The indictments were returned fol- Mrs. Massie and gave some of the liquor | lowing an all-day session that was de- to the orchestra, He said he saw one | voted principally to the consideration of }intoxicated man at the place. the alleged shortage cases involving “Were you intoxicated?" Kelley asked. Duncan, Ball and Hallock. One indict- “No,” said Massie emphatically. | ment each was returned against Duncan As Kelley pressed for minute details and Ball, the former being charged with {about the dance, Massie said failure to account for $7,815 and the “Mr. Kelley, I wouldn't remember an | latter with failure to account for $24,.- | earthquake that night.” | 454.20. Hallock was indicted on seven The prosecutor asked Massie how long | cases of forgery, totaling $600. :; wl;)u;‘l‘ uwm;-dd 'tohe( h.dE’—Ocn'Llaber istol Further Cases Doubtful. V] e Carries e rtescue home just before the iilling. Massie said | poommonNeRlh Aoy Lot “quite & while,” but was uncertain | mantet ot T atife offenses that about the exact length of time. e Btatn Doliores i be.sasy (o prove. Outside of court Kelley previously a5 to whether there will be further had remarked upon the fact that Kaha- | cacec presented to the grand jury de- hawal was killed with a .32-caliber | nanqs "’,po,, the final result of audit weapon, allegedly belonging ‘to_Jones, | hotty ARe" ongucteq under the super- despite the fact that Massie had brought | o0 of State Auditor of Public Ac- his own pistol. counts T. Coleman Andrews, Douglas Pistol Not Produced. said. brought his pistol to the Fortescue home | serted before he is claimed to have because he feared Kahahawai would be | had the warrants cashed. dificult to handle. The naval officer | Attorneys for the accused appeared testified, however, he had instructed before Judge Walter T. McCarthy after Jones to leave the weapon there while | the grand jury had reported and asked the four accused persons abducted the that the cases be continued until to- | native. morrow morning, at which time they The death weapon has not been pro- | are either to be set for trial or con- duced by the prosecution. Under Kel- | tinued. The request was granted. ley's questioning Massie todsy quoted While Judge McCarthy did not com- Jones as saying he (Jones) took the ment upon the recommendation that pistol to the Massie home later. | ouster proceedings be instituted against The vrosecutor asked Massie where | Duncan, it was not believed that any he had heard the “vile” rumors which |action would be taken along these lines he had mentioned Saturday as having | prior to the expiration of the 10-day been circulated about himself and Mrs. | period allowed earlier in the day by the Massle after the attack | court for Duncan to increase his pres- “My friends’ told me" Massie said.|ent bond of $8,000 to $80,000. | “They came to me and wanted to know Ball was the only one of the three what we could do.” | men indicted who was present at the “You mean they asked you what you | time the grand jury reported. He had were going to do about it?” | been in the court room all day. Hal- “No; they asked what we could all |lock was in the office of his attorncy, do about it—they end 1.” [ former State Senator Frank L. 8all, “Did you ask Mr. Beebe, your attor- | but Duncan did not appear, his attor- ney, if the unwritten law could be in- [ neys presenting a doctor’s certificate voked in Hawail?” 1shtow§jn¢ he was physically unable to Massie said he didn't recall having attend. do:le 50. . Information was furnished the grand |~ *Did you ever tell any one you ought | v by State Auditor Andrews and two | to take a gun and kill Kahahawai?” | of his deputies, R. B. Jordan and L. “I want to be accurate, Mr, Kelley— | McCarthy Downs. These were called not that I recall.” imuX v.heh [;ll’ld jury room frequently during the day. Woman Took Leadership. Efforts of Duncan’s attorneys, Leo P. Having previously testified his mind | Harlow and Amos C. Crounse, to pre- went blank as he held a pistol before | vent action en the rule recently issued Kahahawal and heard the latter confess | against Duncan requiring him to ap- the attack, Massie said he learned of | pear in court and show cause why his his subsequent actions through the |bond should not be increased failed three other defendants. }when Judge McCarthy refused to con- Massie sald when the three other |sider Duncan’s non-appearance as just realized Kahahawai was dead they|cause for continuance. It was during “were so excited they ran around in|the hearing on the rule that Andrews \ « | circles shouting.” He said Mrs, Fortescue (and Downs testified that the alleged assumed leadership in the move to dis- | shcrtage to date in the clerk’s office pose of the body, and that Jones had had reached a total of $76,755.58, of told him how the body had been re-|which $62.620.90 represents delinquent moved to the bath room. | tax collections for the county from “Did Jones tell you why he did not go | 1920, when Duncan first took office. in the car which took Kahahawal's body Duncan's attorneys had asked Judge toward Koko Head?" Kelley asked. McCarthy to permit Deputy Clerk “Yes. He sald Mrs. Fortescue told|Ralph Remington to the af- him to stay there and clean up the |fairs of the office until the former was house.” ahle to appear in court, but Common- ““Were you trying to get a eonfession | wealth's Attorney Douglas objected, to be used at the retrial of the men |claiming that while he had every con- charged with assaulting your wife?” fidence in Remington's ability and in- “I wasn't interested in any trial. I tegrity, the matter was one of policy was thinking of my wife, and so would and should be settlea. you, Mr. Kelley." Massie quoted Mrs. Fortescue as hav- ing said he “stood there like a bump on a log" after the shooting. Poultry Club to Meet. “She said she took me into the kitch- en,” Massie continued, “and tried to get me to drink some oke (okolehao, na- Itive intoxicant).” “What did Jones say about the way you acted dazed after the shooting?” “He said I acted like a damned fool.” | To Get Some Fresh Air. Kelley asked Massie why Mrs. For- tescue and Lord had taken him along when they left for Koko Head with the said the witness, but moment, he added: | _“Now I know why they took me. Mrs. Fortescue said to take me so I could get | | some fresh air." Kelley then asked Massie if he ever | had been implicated in a kidnaping previously. Massie replied negatively. “Sure?” Kelley persisted. s Massle then related the incident about the baby in Patchogue. | Shown a copy of & from Ad- miral William V. Pratt, chief of naval operations, to Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, head of this naval district, say- ing American men would not “stand for” the violation of their women, Mas- | sle said it had been a confidential mes- | sage and as such he had not been al- | lowed to see it. He said he did not re-| call having heard of it. The message, sent to Honolulu less than three weeks before the lynching, | had been in after e had been totw of six hours. The defense then CABIN JOHN, Md. April 19 (Spe- cial).—The Cabin John 4-H Poultry Club will meet at Cabin John tomor- row afternoon to consider the year’s ac- tivities. called Dr. Irvin Blom, a dentist, who had occupled the death cottage before Mrs. Fortescue moved in. Blom testified he had left the tar- paulin there which was used to wrap Kahahawai's body during the dash to- ward Koko Head. Thus the defense hoped to strengthen its contention that there was no premeditation in the kill- in Mrs. Massie after the attack, testified Massie appeared ghanged — extremely nervous and under & great strain, after the assault. He sald he had urged Massie to rest his mind, “because I was sfraid he would crack if he didn't.” L. C. Artman, chief quartermaster on the submarine to which Massie was at- tached, testified he gave the Navy of- ficer a coil of rope to tie up his dog. This was another move by the defense to strengthen its position that there was no premeditation. A length of this rope was used to bind Kahahawal's body Maj. Gordon Ross, high sheriff of the Territory, testified Massie had come to him before the slaying and had told of hearing that Kahahawal was about to confess the attack. Ross said Massie had asked for help. The high sheriff said he had told him to come back later. Ross said Massie did not return and that Kahahawal had been killed a fow g Dr. Paul Withington, former Hln’nrd{ athlete, who performed an operation on | GEORGETOWN GIRDS FOR LIBRARY FIGHT Mass Meeting Set April 27 After House Body Cuts Needed $75,000. A concerted drive to secure for | town braneh ?uhlh: library bul a the 1933 fiscal year will be llunc_ with a mass meeting at St. John's Parish Hall, 1548 Thirty-third street, at 8 o'clock Wednesday night, April 27, aecording to plans formulated by civic' groups last might The move for & mass meeting came as the ive Georgetown Citizens’ Association and the Georgetown Library Assoclation took cognizance of the fact the House Appropriations Committee had failed to report favorably on an ap- propriation of $75,000 to begin work on the building. The entire project was to have cost $150,000, and the building | would stand on land already acquired &t Wisconsin avenue and R street. Senators to Be Invited. Seeking to effect the restoration of the library item in the Distric* appro- priation bill when the measure reaches the Senate, the Georgetown organiza- tions today planned to invite members of the Senate Appropriations Committee to attend the mass meeting. Delegations will call on members of the committee prior to the meeting to urge favorable consideration of the request. Co-operation of other civic groups in the locality, including the Georgetown Citizens’ Association, the Garden Club and various women's organizations, will be sought, and the mass meeting will be fully representative of the spirit of the Georgetown area, according to its sponsors. The Progressive citizens’ group took its action on the library when a dele- gate from the Georgetown Library As- sociation presented the resolutions which the library body had adopted a few minutes before at its meeting in the home of Dorsey Hyde, president of the library association and executive secre- tary of the Washington Chamber of Commerce. Subcommittees Named. At the library association’s meeting two subcommittees were ted. J. B. Wyckoff, Col. Edward Clifford and William 8. Conant were named to in- vite the members of the Senate Com- mittee to the mass meeting. A second committee, on attendance at the mass meeting, includes Mrs. R. F. ‘Whitehead, Rev. Irving W. Ketchum, Mrs. J. 8. Gorrell and J. H. Small. Besides those already named, the library association members at last night's meeting in- cluded N. Worthington Dorsey, Lieut. Col. H. B. Jordan, Dr. Elmer S. Newton and Mrs. J. D. Sullivan. A protest was received by the Pro- gressive Citizens' Association last night asking that steps be taken to remove the ancient carriage stones angd horse blocks from sidewalk space, and brand- ing these obstructions a menace to pedestrians who are abroad after night- fall. The association took mo action, however, declaring that the picturesque quality of the reminders of the horse age justified their being left in place. The association will plant a memorial tree in Montrose Park at an early date in honor of Miss Etta Taggert, first president of the organization, aceord- ing to sction taken last night. Miss Taggert is still active in the affairs of the group. Invitations have been issued by association for a card pa: Brighton Hotel Thursday night. GEN. MARCH REVEALS HIS VERSION OF WAR'S CONDUCT IN NEW BOOK (Continued From First Page.) deal” in his recent book on the war, Gen. March, Who resides here, has handled his critics “with gloves off” in a forthcoming volume, “The Nation at War." Gen. March, who was chief of staff in 1918, had refused to write his me- moirs, it was stated, but “changed his mind on reading Gen. Pershing’s book.” Two Lively Chapters. Two “lively chapters,” the announce- ment said, describe in detail “the differ- ences between Pershing and the War Department” and reveal how the A. E. F. commander was “over-ruled em- phatically by Gen. March and Secre- tary Baker." }grsldent Wilson, it is declared, took no hand in the routine of the war ma- chine. Both the President and Secre- tary Baker acted on advice of the chief of staff, who, the announcement said, “practically ran the war so far as this country was concerned.” ‘What March thinks of the -time controversies and the men involved in them is told “without mincing words in the book. . “A feature of the March narrative, the publisher announced, “is the part dealing with the relations of Congress and the wer organization. Backed by Secretary Baker, the chief of staff paid no attenticn to demands by legislators for special favors. Favoritism Was Taboo. “Relatives of Senators or Congress- men did not receive commissions with- cut training, nor were they exempted from the draft if Manch could prevent it. Favoritism was taboo. One result of this was a cabal against March in Congress, which refused after the war to retire him as a full general. The rank, however, wes restored to him sev- | eral years later.” Under such chapter headings as “The Great Shipping Saga,” “The Western Frent and Mr. Lloyd Gecrge,” “Censor- ship versus Publicity as a Military Asset,” “The A. E. F. From War De- partment Records” snd “President Wil- son as Commander in Chief” there are anecdotes _concerning Wilson, House, ‘Theodore Rocsevelt, Foch, Petain, Bliss, Wood, Goethals, Reading and Baker. The March book, last of the impor- tant war memoirs, will bs a single volume of 95,000 s. publisher is Doubleday, Doran & C ASKS BIDS MAY 31 The Treasury Department has asked for bids to be opened May 31 for con- struction of the superstructure of the new Justice Department building, for which foundations are now under way on the site bounded by Ninth and | Tenth streets, Pennsylvania and Con- | stitution avenues. Congress has authorized the ttal | project to cost $12,000,000, but a sub- } stantial sum already has been spen: on excavation and foundations, and th.e ve- | mainder will be spread over at wo | years or more, necessary to comlete the building. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at Stanley Hall at 5:30 e'clock. John 8. M. Zimmermann, March, “ Overture, Entriacte— “Priere Tendre”.. “Pres de la Source”. Scenes from grand opera Gounod Patriotic patrol, “The American," ‘Wheeler “Danube Waves,"” Ivanovici Virginny” Zamecnik tar Spangled Banner.” Arh;nl 7l)um c-fl:d off. mm next ~Hotel has been