Evening Star Newspaper, June 11, 1932, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) cloqu.!probably followed by showers late tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; moderate north- east and east winds. Temperature Highest, 83. at 4:15 p.m. yesterda; est. 61, at 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 12. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 he Zoening Star, Entered as second class matt er post office, Washington, D. C. 32,183. WASHINGTON, TAXICAB DRIVER DENIES HE WAS WITH SERVANT |FRPAYCITPUN| . ON NIGHT OF KIDNAPING THIS AFTERNOON Girl Who Killed Self Named Ex-Convict. DRANK POISON TO AVOID QUIZ Man Held Offers Alibi in Lindbergh ‘ Baby Case. Immigration records show that Emily Sharpe, sister of the maid who committed suicide in the Morrow home yesterday, applied for permission to leave the country the day the Lind- bergh baby was stolen. By the Associated Press ALPINE, N. J., June 11.—Ernest | Brinkert, ex-convict, arrested in New Kidnaping Figures Violet Sharpe, maid in the Morrow home in Englewood, N. J., who com- mitted suicide vesterday as she was about to be questioned in the Lindbergh case. and Ernest Brinkert, taxicab driver, with whom the servant went riding the Lindbergh case, told his story on the night of the kidnaping. He is being held secretly by New Jersey police. to State police today, and imme- —A. P. Photos. diately thereafter officers drove rapidly away for an unannounced rested in New Rochelle, N. Y. night after the suicide of iolet Sharpe. waitress in the En- 1 home of Mrs.| Morrow, grandmother SUICIDE'S SISTER early today, waiving extradition. ! Emily Sharpe Denics Knowing He flatly denied nyx\]ivantcsilmor-‘ m S en ¢ Miss arpe - tem statement by iss gl Anythmg About Case, Defends Maid. t she had ent the evening of March 1. the night the baby was stolen, with him. Alibi Ts Offered. On the contrary, ne imsisted, he and ' By the Associated Press 1 by a colored man in Brideport, —Emily Sharpe, whose sister Violet h committed suicide in the Morrow home Eiter T Bl e nade PUb- at Englewood, N. J. denied today that Cify police. who has charge of the she knew anything about the kidnap- cert examination, left the State ing of the Lindbergh baby. o station in an automobile With & | - know nothing whatever about the per and an unidentified man N ygnaping” she said as she left here as determined that this man was for her parents’ home in Beenham. jnd it was learned ‘What is more, I'm quite sure my sis- ert would be held at Alpine o st until his alibi was checked. ' ‘_fom knew nothing about it resumably he gave police the name e€ither. of the Bridgeport man, but this infor- Tells of “Badgering.” n was not made pubic. “Ever since the baby disappeared she body of Miss Sharpe, in Whom | yas badgered and questioned by police e T e ey jalth €520 there until she didn't know what she was saying or doing glewood undertaking establishment, were an autopsy was performed. A | “I used to work for Mrs. MacDow in Englewood, not far from where the 1 report on this autopsy dis- close van 5 Closed nat the servant had not been | Morrows live, but I left there to take there was no physical reason discover- & situation in New York four months t Xpl ! efore the kidnapin; S “After "the baby was stolen Violet Identified Picture. wrote to me and I went to Englewood The young woman had been ques- to see her. She was terribly upset. tioned repeatedly because her early The police had been questioning her routine exam d not fy for ho > : n police calied _“She told me that on the night the to continue their in- child was kidnaped she went out with two men whose names she didn't know. They went for an automobile ride, and she said she hadn’t seen them since. “She swore to me that she knew In ed. however. e of Brinkert had telephoned nothing about the child’s disappear- | ne on the after- ance, but she said the police wouldn't ! and whom she told believe her because she had admitted ghs had decided to that she had gone out with two boys at Hopewell instead she didn't know, that night. zglewhod Plans Return to United States. she, had zone 10| f came back to England for a vaca- O eiceening O | tion soon after the Kidnaping. I left hey had Bone and New York on the Aquitania on April 6, pin her down on | intending to return in August. o merone and | “Its all so cruel. Violet would never 1o pacipone the | have done anything to that child or hey honbone the | helped any one who wanted to harm it. ’ “The police never lev her glone. They state questioned her for hours. ey drove satement that he | Ber crazy. She knew nothing, b a major development| (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. DEATH PROVIDED FOR KIDNAPERS Betty Gow, was arrested there. v a Butler. Formerl: ¥ blished what o police factory alibi, but his { the country illegally rdered deported. He has out of the country. how- | v n | held at Ellis Island, no explanation having been offered for failure to deport Johnson was arrested because he was % a green automobile, such a car ¢ been seen leaving the Lind- estate the night of the kidnap- Brinkert also drives a green car T e st wigne- "€ | juries to modify the penalty in their in m t Brinke iven | discretion to life imprisonment. Sen- o b O oAnaert BIVEN | ator Sterner of Monmouth, sponsor of driver, who had worked at various the bill, said he believed kidnapers other minor jobs and who had a small- | ¥Ould be discouraged from preying on time police record. It was learned to- Nex Jersey citizens. : day. however, that for five months t the time of the kidnaping of prior to the day of the kidnaping he Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jr. Sen- had been employed as a butler in a Aator Sterner was dissuaded from pre- Mamaroncck, N. Y. home and quit| SCDUng the measure for fear harm that iob on the day the baby was Would come to the child or police pur- stolen. sut would be hampered. As soon as Brinkert was arrested he | Assembly approval of the measure was confronted by Dr. John F. Condon, | Was modified. Modified for Juries Favoring Life Term. By the Assoctated Press. TRENTON, N. J., June 11.—A meas- |@re to impose the death penalty in New Jersey for kidnaping was passed last night by the Senate. The bill would permit convicting loped the fact that New Jersey Senate Passes Measure | ATTITUDE OF MAD * CALSED SUSPION Police Say Morrow Servant “Fresh and Impertinent” During Probe. | | By the Associated Press D. 1 CONFEREES READY Senate Paves Way by Ap- proving Appropriation Bill Report. HOUSE ALSO IN ACCORD ON WHOLE AGREEMENT Speed Made to Take Up Immedi- ately Economy Provisions of Measure. Late this afternoon conferences are expected to start which will determine whether Government employes are to suffer a substantial pay cut, or a com- pulsory furlough without pay during the coming fiscal year beginning July 1 next. The Senate today approved the con- ference report on the legislative appro- priation bill, showing a complete agree- ment on all of the legislative appropri- ation proposals, and asking for a con- ference on the other section of the bill, which carries the economy pro- gram. House Also Acts. Senate of this action, the House also approved the conference agreement on all legislative appropriations, and ap- pointed a new group of conferees to act with the Senate conferees on the economy provisions of the bill. The House conferees are Representa- tives McDuffie, Alabama, chairman of the special Economy Committee of the House, who has been persistent advocate of a 10 per cent flat reduction in all Government salaries without any ex- emption; Representative Douglas, Demo- crat, of Arkansas, who is now favorable 10 a furlough system. and Representative Will R. Wood, Republican, of Indiana, former chairman of the House Appro- priations Committee. who introduced the original pay cut proposal, and has been advocating the highest percentage | of salary reduction that Congress can agree upon. Senate Conferees. The Senate conferees are Ser Jones. Smoot and Hale, Republic ENGLEWOOD. N. J, June 11 ——1n-‘\\‘llh Broussard and Bratton, Democrats. spector Harry W. Walsh of the Jersey! Representative McDuffie said he hoped City police said today he and other |0 et the conference started as early detectives had first suspected Violet Sharpe, Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow's ser- | agreement over the economy provisions | { vant, who committed suicide yesterday, | of knowledge of the fate of the Lind- bergh baby because she was “fresh.” “She was fresh and impertinent from the start,” Walsh said. “She told us first how she and her sister had been ‘picked up' by a man named Ernie on the evening of February 28 and how she had gone on a date with him the night of March 1, when the baby was kidnaped. “She said she and he and another couple went to a picture show, and then on the third evening, for no ap- parent reason, she said they had gone to a cabaret 30 miles in the opposite direction. “She was plenty fresh until the baby was found, and then when we talked to her she was a shivering bundle of nerves on the verge of collapse. Then we went to work. “‘We took her out for questioning and prowled her room. We found messages and address books and all sorts of stuff. We followed up every one—a long job, but we had to do il It was then. Walsh said, they found the printed business card of the taxi- cab company formerly operated by Brinkert. 'FOOD PRICES FIXED BY CHILEAN REGIME New Socialist Government to De- cide Whether to Seize For-' eign Currency. By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, June 11.—Chile's new Socialist government proceeded to- | éay to establish control of prices of grain, sugar and other foods while the question of confiscation of foreign cur- | rency in barks was still not entirely | decided. At the same time it faced a series of demands from a group of Commu- | | | i | | i | | as possible this afternoon. and that he does not anticipate any prolonged dis in the bill. He declared that the House conferees will endeavor earnestly to bring a conference report up to the House as soon as possible. AGREE PARTIALLY ON SUPPLY BILL House Members Accept Provisions' in Agriculture Measure as Conference Continues. By the Associated Press The House today accepted a partial agreement with the Senate cn the $175,671.000 Agriculture Department ap- propriation bill Representative Buchanan, Democrat, of Texas, announced on the floor that although House and Senate conferees had reached an agreement on numer- ous differences between the House and Senate bills, a further discussicn was necessary on other items. This appropriation measure. along with numerous others, must be ap- proved by both houses before adjourn- ment. IRISH PA RLEY FAILURE PLACED TO BRITISH! De Valera Newspaper Hits Creat- ing of “Fictitious” Crisis on Oath and Land Annuities. | By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, June 11.— The newspaper Irish Press, owned by President Eamon de Valera. said today it was clear that responsibility for the nist students, who last night seized the National University buildings and printed on the university presses mani- festoes demanding the right to partici- pate in the government. failure to reach an agreement on the abolition of the oath and the land an- nuities at yesterday'’s Anglo-Irish con- ferences in London lay at Great The Communists were headed by | Elias Lafferte, president of the Chilean |branch of the Moscow Communist party. They demanded that they & ‘fum]sm‘d with suitable headquarters, suggesting either the Municipal Theater |or the fashionable Club de la* Union. | The junta was inclined to treat the demands of the students with amused | toleration, but it was indicated that stern measures would be taken unless they got out of the university buildings. A series of raids was begun on shops | which have sprung up in great num- ‘bers to buy gold jewelry, watches and | plate to be melted and exported A considerable amount of gold was seized. Places of exchange dealers also were | raided and all foreign currency found in them was confiscated. (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) RS S e b ;DETECTIVE, POSING AS BRINKERT’S RevoLuTIoN IS BROKEN| FRIEND, RESPONSIBLE FOR ARREST ;rroperty Damage Atro Henvy in 50 Declared Killed in Battle When | Regulars Clashed With 600 Rebels. By the Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY, June 11.—Dis- patches received today quoted the gov- BY the Associated Press. ernment of Honduras as announcing it| WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 11— had quelled the revolution which flamed | The astuteness of a White Plains de. across the northern provinces the last | tective, Roy P. Turner, was respansible few days, for the apprehension in New Rochelle The backbone of the revolt was last night of Ernest Brinkert. broken, the dispatches said, when fed-| Turner had been detailed to 50 East eral forces under Gen. Justo Umana|Post road here, where Tommy Fay, defeated a force of 600 rebels in Bar-|known to be an acquaintance of Brink- ranca, near Copan, riddling the rebel | ert's, lives. ranks with machine guns. At 10:45 o'clock last night, when Fifty were reported killed in the bat- | Turner was at the Fay home, the tele- tle. most of them rebels, and scores phone rang. It was Brinkert calling his were wounded. friend Fay. Filiberto Diaz Zelaya, rebel luder,l “Just a minute, here’s scme one wants was said to have escaped. to speak to you,” Feg told Brinkert, | White Plains Officer, Stationed at Home of Acquaintance of Suspect, Utilized Phone Call. “Then,” sald Detective Turner to & reporter, “I spoke to Brinkert. I askcd him if he would come over and see ma. He said he would be over right away. I stalled a little on the phone, and then called the chief operator to trace the Brinkert call. The number was for a house on Sickles avenue, New Rochelle. “We informed the New Rochelle po- lice at once and told them where to go to get Brinkert.” While detectives were on the way to get Brinkert two men came running up to them to say his car was parked nearby with Brinkert in it, i Britain's door. “It was from that side the difficulties were first created,” the paper said. The British government, it created an entirely “fictiticus” crisis by claiming the right to veto a mandate of the Irish electorate on the abolition of the oath. “The British ministers know from first hand what the oath means to this country,” it said. “To have heard the Irish case frankly stated may bring them out of the land of make-believe. The solution of the Irish question is simply that Great Eritain have enough common sense to mind its own business and let us mind ours. That solution is brought nearer because of yesterday's| talks.' ONE DEAD, SEVERAL HURT IN TORNADOES IN WEST Storms That Swept New Mexico and Colorndo Towns. By the Associated Press DENVER, Colo, June 11 was _electrocuted, meveral children slightly igjured #nd heavy property damage cfused by tornadoes in Colo- rado and New Mexico yeaterday Chester Arthur (ilover, 80, line fore- man of the Colorado Hprings power plant, was electrocuted when he grasped 2 6,600-volt transmission line blown down by a tornado, which sheered & path 11} blocks long through the west- ern residential district, damaging 48 houses and demolishing 2. Ernest Langham and his 3-year-old nephew were injured in one of three tornadoes which struck Clovis, N. Mex., and the immediate vicinity. Radio l’mmm;‘u Plx‘e A y One man added, | e ———— C., SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1932—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. ¥ The only Associated service. evening paper in Washington with the Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 121,782 () Means Associated Press. —_— TWO CENTS. 10 REPLAGE CURTIS Great Difficulty of Foes of Vice President Is Finding Suitable Candidate. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Stafl Correspondent of The Star. CHICAGO. 1ll. June 11 —Agitation over the nomination for Vice President | among the members of the Republican vanguard now in Chicago for the | G. O. P. National Convention is one of the strange developments of the gathering. Until recently it has been taken for granted that Vice President Curtis would be renominated along with President Hoover. ‘The agitation for some other can- t didate came “out of the air," fostered !by less than half a dozen members of the Republican National Committee. It has become one of the main topics of conversation in the hotel lobbies. It has no real substance, but everybody is talking about the possi- bility of substituting a new vice presi- | dential nominee for Mr. Curtis. Can't Find Candidate. The great difficulty the agitators— and they exist—face is finding a can- didate they can run against Vice Presi- dent Curtis with any degree of suc- cess. It is obviously impossible to “beat Curtis with nobody Yet that is what his oppents are trying at the moment to do. As one friend of the Vice President, who expects to see him renominated, put it today: “No middleweight cham- pion can win against Curtis in the vice presidential contest and no heavy cham- pion to run agailpst Curtis is in &ight” There has been talk of drafting for- mer President Calvin Coolidge or for- mer Vice President Charles G. Dawes. That is idle. Mr. Coolidge won't run for President and is not likely to run for Vice President. Gen. Dawes said at the time he quit this post as Ambas- !sador to Great Britain that he would | not be a candidate for Vice President. |Out here it is rumored that he is to become president of a new, huge bank, |result of a merger of his own bank with another of great size. | That about disposes of the “heavy- | weight champions” who might run against Curtis. “Middleweight Champions.” The crop of “middleweight cham- pions” mentioned as possible contenders | against Curtis is more numerous. It | includes Senator Dickinson of Iowa. |the keynote speaker for the nationai | convention. “If he rings the bell” said cne Re- publican leader today, “watch out for Dickinson when it comes to the nomi- nation of a Vice President. Secretary of War Pat Hurley's name has been mentioned again for the vice presidential job. He does not want it; he prevailed upon the Okiahoma Repub- | lican State Convention (his home State the national convention to support | Charles Curtis as well as President | Hoover. Still there are those in Chi- | cago who profess to know the “inside” | of the situation that Hurley will be lhel | nominee. Another proposal is that the conven- tion shall be stampeded for Col. Theo- dore Roosevelt, jr.. now Governor Gen- jeral of the Philippine Islands. “Put a real Roosevelt in the field against Franklin D. if the latter is nominated by the Democrats” is the way the pro- posal is advanced. | Those who_ are urging the replace- | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) ‘TWO YOUTHS'SEIZED IN KIDNAP THREAT 1$30,000 Demanded of James A. Moffett, Standard Oil Official, to Save Daughter's Torture. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 11.—Two young high school graduates were under arrest today, accused of & plot to extort $30,000 from James A. Moffett. vice New Jersey, by threats to kidnap and torture his debutante daughter and her flance. ‘The prisoners, William Duff, 18, were accused of sending threatening communications to Moffett at his Park avenue home. Detectives said they arrested Duff in a telephone booth, from which he was dictating a telegram to Moffett. After questioning him they laced Gaynor under guard in 8 l’mpnm. where he had undergone an operation. Moffett’s daughter Margaret is en- gaged to marry Jay F. Carlisle, jr., stock broker and grandson of Allan Pinkerton, founder of the detective agency bearing his name. Police said ACITATION REVIVED Promptly on being notified by the| delegation) to instruct its delegates to | president of the Standard Oil Co. of | colored, and Arthur John Gaynor, 18: | Teachers Poke Fun At Finance Tangle In Chicago Show By the Associaled Press. CHICAGO. June 11 —Chicago sch-ol teachers put a tle kick into education night and thereby made $25C0. Turning actresses and chorines the unpaid teachers presented “School Scandals of 1932" a burlesque on the Chicago Board of Education &nd its financial troubles Twenty-four bespangled structors appeared in o nu ber called “Kick w Sisters were dressed as tax an- ticipation warrants, with which the teachers have been paid for several months. SENATE APPROVES SO0 L FUN in- Raises Lump Sum From $6,500.000 Allowed by DYNAMITE FOUND N BONLS CANP I Rainey Says $300,000,000 Bill Adds States to List on *Doles.” # Associated Press A dispute between House and Senate mocratic ke leaders o into the Leader Rai that “when Congress ad- Journs we will have enacted nothing but predicting Referring to the Wagner bill passed yesterday re Senate, under which States would be permitted to borrov $300,000.000 for relief purposes, R: told newspaper men ‘We have passed a dole for banks, a 1 oads. a dole for far the Senate approves a dole Our clients get bigger all the time. I'm just afraid therell be no real relief legislation before Con- zress adjourns. We'll just keep en pass- for States. | ing doles.” House Bill. | “Robinson Follows Watson.” Rainey said Senator Robinson of CAUSE OF INQUIRY | | iSmaII Quantity of Explosive Destroyed—Police and “Vets™ Seck Source. | 12,000 HERE AS &ALL FOR 50.000 IS ASSURED Government Flour May Be Given. Funds and Su |t mor bei | The a d | past few days up the neighborhood of 300. A total | cases ! Arkancas, the Democratic leader in the | for their lar The amendment in the District ap- propriation bill increasing the Federal contribution from the $6.500.000 al- lowed by the House to $8.550,000, was approved by the Senate today without a roll call vote. Two members of the Senate, Sena- tors King, Democrat. of Utah, and Mc- Kellar, Democrat of Tennessee, Dro- tested against raising the House figure Senator Bingham, Republican, of Con- I necticut, chairman of the subcommittee in charge of the bill, defended the amount inserted by the committee. pointing out that it is still 10 per cent less than the present Federal contribu- tion of $9.500.000 and “very much less than any amount that has been ap- oropriated within the last 10 or 12 years.” Delinquency Increased. ‘The lump-sum amendment had been | agreed to by unanimous consent as | soon as the bill was taken up for con- sideration, the debate taking place a | few moments later when King and Mc- Kellar arose to register their objec- tions. Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, joined in the discussion briefly to inquire how the amount of | tax delinouency in Washington com- pares with other cities, saving that would be a way of determining ca- pacity to pay. Senator King said he understood the amount of delinquency here was much less than elsewhere, | but Chairman Bingham cited the tes- timony of Auditor Donovan that the delinquent tax roll has increased in | Washington recently and that this year, for the first time, the District | Government. was able to sell very little property at the delinquent tax sale be- cause of present conditions. Senator King began by asking Bing- ham if $8.550.000 was the amount the Federal Government is expected to pay | toward District expenses for the com- ing year. Formerly Paid Half. Senator Bingham replied that from 1876 to 1920 the United States paid half the expenses of the National Capital, and from 1921 to 1924 it paid 40 per cent of the total. In 1925. he recalled. a compromise was reached on a lump sum of $9,000.000 & year and that con- tinued until 1930. when $9,500.000 was decided upon as a new compromise be- tween the House and Senate. Senator Bingham said that at the time that compromise was reached some " (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) | other branch lican leader (Senator Wat diana) and he, of course, the President Rainey said the Wagner bill probably will be sent to the House Banking Com- mittee. He expressed the hope that the committee “will attach the Garner bill to it so we can send it back to the Senate and get some real relief Representative Snell. the Republican leader, said he thought the Wagner bill “should pass as quickly as possible” and “is following the Repub- n of In- following dispatched | flung pa 1 of 50,00 officers to ize & bonus army predicted if Speaker Garner would let | No! it reach the floor votes against it." Meanwhile. the non-partisan group formed earlier this session by Repre- sentatives La Guardia. Re ican. of New York: Mead. Democrat, of New York. and Kelly, Republican. of Penn- sylvania, met on'the relief question a: agreed to exert every power to bloc passage of the $300.000.000 Wagner bill until it is included in a more compre- hensive relief measure. “there be few Can Halt Adjournment. “We have the votes to b proval and stop the adjournm Congress until some comprehensive lief bill is passed.” Le newspaper men. G “This measure must one general relief measur public works. which will be sent to President at the same time in one bii Shortly after the House convened the Wagner bill was received formally the Senate. Rainey, in the chair. said the would lie on the Speaker's table for the |0 beti tisan group would resist adjournment until Congress passes a comprehensive bill and has had an opportunity to vote on overriding a veto, should President Hoover return it without his approval. Approved by 32 to 8. The Democratic unemployment aid measure was approved by a vote of 72 to 8 yesterday. It provides for ad- vances to the States on the basis of | population through the Reconstruction Corporation Carrying President Hoover's approval, the bill found easy going in the Senate | by Senator Reed. nnsylvania, that it isintegration of the despite a prophei Republican, of passage presaged American Republic The vote by which the Democratic relief bill passed the Senate follows For: Republicans—Barbour, Blaine, Borah, Brookhart, Capper, Carey. Couzens, Cutting, Frazier. Hale, Hast- " (Continued on Page 3, Column 2) By the Associated Press. 1 BLOOMSBURG, Pa., June 11.—A novel extortion plot involving the use of an afrplane was revealed today as police and foresters combed the woods of a lonely mountain for cne or more per-| sons they said tried to get $15,000 from | Harry Magee, wealthy carpet manu- facturer. : Following directions in a note m:d' “X-X-X,” Magee piloted a chartered | | plane over a designated spot on Hurlock | Mountain Thursday and dropped an| empty suitcase purporting to contain | EXTORTIONISTS ELUDE TRAP ON PENNSYLVANIA MOUNTAIN |Empty “Ransom” Bag, Dropped From Plane, Is Gone as Troopers Rush to Spot. demanding the money on threat of bod- ily harm to Magee and his family was received April 13. Magee and his wife have two children, Joan, 8, and James, 4 The extortionists gave instructions to their intended victim to charter a plane and follow & route along the Susque- hanna River. He was told to watch out for a large white sheet and drop the suitcase with the money near it. On his first flight Magee failed to spot the sheet and received notes say- ing there had been “too much activity” for the plans to be carried out. Sheriff Rabb accompanied him on a second the accused youths ordered Moffett to | the money. Secluded police, watching |unsuccessful flight May 13. place $3.000 in each of 10 envelopes ;‘nd mail them to New Hyde Park, Long | him, raced for the spot. had disappeared. Police sald The suit case | the first of six lgtuni é The final note was received Thursday :fihn Police found the sheet, but the itcase had disappeared, { Go = {an urgent Acts on Plea Roo: {by the Di: Governors. fof transpo bick and will j ef projects, Anderson. hy red with the Disi }mt‘. f 600 men was r today 2 | La Guardia gave notice the non-par- be-turned Cross was | conferenc land repr agencies Gen Glass the District police activ connection he veterans’ occupation of Wash- "~ (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) BURNING GAS WELL " CONTINUES PROBLEM Conference Held to Devise Means of Quenching Blaze in Jack- son, Miss.,, Fields. | By the Ascsociated Press. JACKSON, Miss., June 11.—A 40.- 000.000-cubic foot gas well today shot forth a blistering sheet of flame, al- ready the cause of four deaths, as ine terests in the Jackson fields were called into conference on how to snuff the fire. George C. Swearingen, newly appoint- ed State gas and oil director, led the meeting and explained that means of financing methods of fighting the blaze had to be considered. The well’s prin- cipal owners, Laurie and Wayland At- kinson of Birmingham, Ala, were burned to death when it ignited two days ago. Two workers, Bill Taylor and J. W. McCarroll, died frcm inhaling white- hot gas. The men were repairing a leaky valve, and a spark from a tool was believed to have caused the ex- plosion. Officials have established fire lires to keep back sightseers. Experts today said it probably would be days before preparations to fight the fire can be comnleted. Boile's must be constructed and pipe lines laid to turn live steam against the blazing well, they said. {