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TRAIN PASSENGER TELLS OF WRECK Gropes Way in Pitch-Black Cars to Aid Injured. Eight Killed. By the Associated Press. AMARILLO, Tex., August 30.—Eleven passengers from the ill-fated Golden State Limited, which plunged into a flood-swept arroyo near Tucumcari, N. Mex., gave vivid accounts of the trag- edy as they pessed through Amarillo early today, 24 hours after the wreck which killed 8 and injured more than 40. Thomas McGguley, Hachita, N. Mex., & passenger in the chair car, was awake when the crash came. “I first thought it was a head-on collision.” he said. “but during the next few seconds there was » succession of impacts and rolling motion “The lights went ont with the first impact. After, it w88 just blackness | and confusion. I eculdn't even feel! the sensation of drapping. although the car 1 was in dropped 45 feel. There was a fraction of a second cf silence, then came pitiful crics as the injured begged for help. Heeds Cries for Help. “I pulled myself together and looked out the wiud 1 was able to dis- tinguish a tourist car beside my own I saw that it was partly submerged and knew that its occupants probaibly needed help worse than those in my cwn car. So I kicked the window out, stepped ! through and climbed into the other car. | “When some of them realized my | presence they raised their cries and begged that I help them first. I extri- | cated several. Another man entered the | car and we workgd together, feeling our ; way in the blackness We took 12 from the car altogether. We used ropes made from blank:-ts and curtains to pull those trom the end of the car which was submerged. We didn't find any dead then, but later found two bodies in that same car.” Car Perches on Brink, Miss Maud Hayman, Tulsa, Okla., was an occupant of the Pullman which was left precariously perched on a section of the tresile which was not washed it was over, some one came 1 told the women to go quietly to the rear of the train. We did, and were locked in the observation car for some time. The man said there was danger of our car toppling over any minute, so we didn't go for our clothes for a long time. “There was only the flare of a single torpedo to work with. We couldn't see what was ing toward the front, but oceas y the flare would show some one being drawin over the bank from the swollen stream.” The Rock Island ran a special train | over the Fort Worth aud Denver line from Daliart to Amarillo to bring pas- sengers traveling East of here. TWO DEAD UNIDENTIFIED. Probe Called in Fatal Wreck at Tucum- cari, N. Mex. TUCUMCARI, N. M., August 30 (®. —In a flooded airoyo, usually dry, the ! Golden State Limited lay today, mute | evidence of the tragedy which took | eight lives and injured more than two| score. Repair crews waited for abatement of the torrent to salvage the wrecked cars while a board of inguiry was called to investigate Tuesday's early morning wreck. The board will be composed of railroad officials and members of the New Mexico State Corporation Com- mission. Physicians cared for about 35 of the injured here in hospitals or Lotel rooms. Most of those able to travel left last night for the East on a special tramn made up here and routed via Dal- hart, Tex. The revised death list: C. J. Crofts, engineer, Tucumeari; James Randall, fireman, Tucumcari: W. H. Varley, Quincy, Tll: Mrs. Varley, F. D. Cook, Southern Pacific employe, El Paso; Sis- ter Mary Cecelia, Tucson, Ariz, and | two unidentified women. Of the injured, Sister Mary Rosa of Tucson, Ariz., was not expected to live. She suffered’ a skull fracture, severe cuts and was badly scalded Mrs. Anna Heinz. 45, Los Angeles, one of the passengers who was riding in the first chair car, said: | “I never saw such heroic action in my | life as there was in our car. There} was hardly an outcry. Every one helped | every one else.” Five Die in Transport. CLOVIS, N. Mex., August 30 (P)—A tri-motored mail and passenger plane, fiving virtually blind in a fog and storm, crashed yesterday into a mountain 60 miles from here and its five occupants | died in flames. The dead are Pilot H. R. Morgan and Co-pilot W. G. Barcus, both of Kansas City; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gore of Al-| buquerque, N. Mex., and their 3-year-old granddaughter, Evelyn Gore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gore of Amarillo. Three Die As Planes Crash. SAN ANTONIO. Tex. August 30 (%) —A spectacular mid-air collision of two Army pursuit training planes sent three | fliers to death at Randolph Field yes- terday. One aviator escaped by using hiz_parachute. The dead are: Lieut. Harley R. Grater, Ind. flying instructor. Cadet William Pasche, Chicago. Cadet H. R. Sundberg, Denver. Lieut. Louis K. Vaupre. an instructor fiying with Pasche, leaped at an altitude of about 500 feet and his parachu landed him with only a broken ankle. | Lebunon, ] COMMITTEE TO PROBE | JUDGE RITTER NAMEDi House Group Expected to Hear Charges Against Miami Man Next Month. (From the 5.30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) By the Assocluted Press. The House judiciary.subcommittee to investigate the official conduct of Fed- eral Judge Halsted L. Ritter of the Southern District of Florida, was ap- pointed today by Chairman Sumners. Bepresentaiive Tarver, Democrat, of Seorgia, was named chabman. The other members are Representatives Mil- ler of Arkansas, Weaver of North Caro- #ns and Sumners of Texas. all Demo- crats, and Hooper of Michigan, Re- publican. The investigation was ordered by the House in a resolution adopted last Spring after charges were made against Ritter in connection with the handling of receivership cases in his court. Rit- ter joined in the request for the in- uiry with a view to having the inves- tigation to clear up the charges. ‘Tarver is expected to call the com- mittee to open hearings in September. In all probability part of them will be conducted in Miami, where Judge Rit- ter makes hiz home. INTEREST FUNDS LACKING. NEW YORK, August 30 () —Direc- | bookings of Westinghouse Electric & tors of the Central of Georgla Rallway Co. announce that for the fscal year | set up in the code. What’s What Behind News ‘in Capital.‘ Ford Worries Johnson. Has Perfect Set-Up for New Coup. BY PAUL MALLON. ENRY FORD has General Johnson rried. Some of Ford's adver- sing men from Detroit have been noted gumshoeing around town lately. ‘The noting was done by Johnson's pub- licity agents who formerly were con- nected with Ford and know a Ford advertising man when they see one. They ran to tell the general. He has been scratching his head and wonder- ing. The agents mever came to see him. They will not disclose their misison But the geenral has suspicions. It looks very much as though Ford is getting ready for one of his master- ful publicity strokes. He likes to hit; the front pages. The existing situation is a perfect setting for him. Not Held Up by Labor. Johnson knows the labor conditions of the code are not holding Ford up. Ford already has better labor arrange- ments in his plants than the code re- guires. Minimum wage and hour agreements could be stralghtened out easily without an argument. There might be some difficulty about Ford's many other businesses. but the N. A. R. crowd does not think so. He mines, railroads, glassworks and what nots, but the labor situation in them is fairly good, too. Therefore, the Johnson outfit figures Ford's interest lies in the control board over the automobile industry which is The logical thing to charge would be that it is controlled by New York bankers. The facts about Johnson's Detroit visit never have been published because Johnson has kept mum. He has been hoping against hope that Ford would join up However, it may be said without fear of denial, that Johuson tried to see Ford in Detroit. He got only as far as Edsel, who explained his father was il and could not be disturbed. Johnson tried to get & commitpent out of Edsel but could not. Thé son! explained he had no authority to make commitments, Runs Business Himsell. That fits in with the known inner facts. The elder Ford runs the busi- ness. Johnson _returned to Washington. Ever since he has been walting to hear trom the elder Ford. All he has heard is silence, which gets more ominous every minute. WAAT Johnson has been talking big about Ford, because he had to. Every time he turned around, someone was always asking him: “What are you going to do about Henry?" The general hit upon the stock an- swer: “He will be treated like every- one else.” It sounded good but was not very specific. The truth is the Government does not relish & conflict | Johmson once s ught to get other au- | tomobile people to put pressure on | Ford, but the other people did not like | the idea. They have found it advis- able to let Ford alone. Also, if Ford closed his plants in protest against pressure, it would throw 30.000 persons out of work in Detroit, which would not help anyone. Ogburn Tilt Explained. They have s better explanation around the N. R. A. now for the resig- nation of Prof. Ogburn. They say the Chicago University professor did not understand what was | being done for him. When he re- ceived a telegram offering him a job with the Central Statistical Board, he | thought they were sidetracking him be- | cause ©f his trouble with the consum- | ers’ counsel, Mrs. Rumsey. As & matter of fact, they were try- ing to get him to run what may turn out to be the biggest Government out- fit. It is the one working on national | planning ! He thought it soun and quit. ded unimportant | The President probably will choose 8 first-class man to head the consumers’ division of N. R. A. shortly. The price situation will be most important from now on. A Wall Street adviser recently sent out a special message to all his clients. It was typed in red ink. It warr~d that we may awaken some morning -+ ! find inflation upon us. That does - make the situation any different fro.a what it was. EMBASSY APARTMENTS SALE BRINGS $400,000 The Embassy Apartments, five-story building at Harvard and Mount Pleas- ant streets, was sold at public auction yesterday to E. Lodge Hill, Washington Tealty agent. who represented out-of- town interests. The bid was $400.000. The building, erected in 1924 by H. R. Howenstein, contains 78 residential units. It has a width of 164 feet and a depth of 111 feet. = The Union Trust Co. acted as trustee, and the sale was conducted by Vernon G. Owen, adctioneer. . ‘WESTINGHOUSE ORDERS RISE. NEW YORK, August 30 (#).—August | Manufacturing Co. will exceed those for August, 1932, says N. G. Symonds, ended June 30 there were “no net earn- ings or income applicable to the pay- ment of interest on the first preference, | second preference and third preference | income bonds. and that therefore no interest is payable on any of those !glus. - vice president in charge of sales. Al- though bookings for the year to date are about 12 per cent behind 1932, Mr.} Symonds estimates that by Octeber 1 the total for a year ago will have been exceeded. 'THE EVENING ROW OVER SUGAR ADVISER RENEWED A. A. Berle, Jr., Held Biased by Cane Refiners at Meeting. By the Associated Press. ‘The row over continuance of Prof. A. A. Berle, jr., as legal adviser to the Farm Administration on the proposed sugar marketing agreement, broke out again today in open meeting, with rep- resentatives of domestic cane sugar re- finers suggesting & recess until the matter was settled. Wilbur Cummings, spokesman for a group of domestic cane refinerles, who yesterday formally moved that Berle withdraw on the ground that he was biased and prejudiced against the cane refiners, today told Thomas M. Wood- ward, presiding officer, that “we have beenlt‘l"eflttd like Englishmen in a Soviet court. Cuban Interests Charged. Cummings had charged that Barle was counsel for Charles W. Taussig and that Taussig has interests in Cuban refineries which compete with domestic refineries, “It is not a fact,” Cummings said, “that we knew & member of this com- mission was connected with interests adverse to ours.” He referred to a statement yesterday by Berle that the . domestic interests knew he was Taussig’s counsel. Cummings said the domestic cane re- finers “were going to appeal to the Sec- retary of Agriculture to have a fair commission to hear our case, We ask a continuapce until then.” BEerle again was on the dais with other officials forming the commission which has been attempting to work out the sugar agreement, In reply to Cummings, he said he had represented various sugar interests, among them Puerto Rican. He called on Ellswerth Bunker of the National Sugar Refiniug Co. to state whether the refiners had not agreed that he serve on the commission. Held to Be Fairminded. Bunker sald objections had been raised at first to Berle's participation as 8 legal adviser to the farm admini- stration, but that the objections had been withdrawn because they (the re- finers) “had coufidence in his fair- mindedness.” One of the points at issue was a code of competition and marketing agree- ment for the Cane Sugar Refining In- dustry, which was submitted as & sup- plement to the basic sugar agreement. Objections were raised to this code and marketing sgreement, and Cum- mings suggested the continuance be given, also. to allow these matters 1o be threshed out. There were immediate protests against the recess, and the session was suspended for 15 minutes while officials discussed the situation. DAVID LAMAR FACES FUND MISUSE COUNT “Wolf of Wall Street™ Used $1,000 for Own Purposes, Complain- ant Declares. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK. August 30 —David La- mar, sgmetimes called the “Wolf of Wall Street.” was in the police line-up today, charged with receiving $1,000 for the purchase of rubber and appro- priating the money to his own use. Lamar, 59, who gave & New York address, was arrested on complaint of J. T. Connor, who charged he gave Lamar $1.000 to buy rubber and that Lamar falled to make the purchase, but used the money for his own pur- i oses. The prisoner refused to give any in- formation. “I don't want to be discourteous or disrespectful,” Lamar said, “but my lawyer called last night and advised, me to have nothing to say about the cuse.” The inspector then read Lamar's rec- ord. It showed he was arrested in 1903 for assault in Red Bank, N. J., and dis- charged; that in 1913 he was convicted in Washington, D. C., of impersonating at Congressman and was sentenced to two years in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga.: that in 1917 he was sentenced to oue year in Mercer Coun- ty Penitentiary for conspiracy to stop exportation of arms to the allles: in 1922 he was charged with grand larceny here and discharged. and in 1932 hi was arrested on a charge of grand lar- ceny in connection with & stock trans- action and dischurged. PAPER COMPANY HEAD SUED FOR $2,400,000 By the Assoclated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 30— Sixteen separate suits seeking a total of $2,400,000 from E. W. Backus, president of the Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. wvere filed in Federal District Court yes- terday by plainuffs living in New York and New Jersey. Some 50 promissory notes made prior to the crash of the paper company in February, 1931, are the basis of the suits. ‘The notes ranged from $2,500 to $1,- 000,000. Four who sued for more than $50,000 are: Grenville S. Sewall, New York State, $1,511,894; Edgar P. Baker, New Jersey, $423,158; W. Rice Brewster, New York State, $345023, and John V. Duncan, New York State, $67,500. George Earnshaw Quits for Season At Mack’s Request | Pitcher Athletics | Silent on Plans Next Year. for By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, August 30.—George Earnshaw, right-hand pitcher of the Philadelphia Athletics, sald today he had retired frem base ball for the sea- son at the request of Manager Connie Mack. “All T know is I received a letter from Mr. Mack yesterday asking me to retire for the season,” he said. "I went to Shibe Park, cleaned out my personal belongings and I'm through for the year.” The world series hero of a few years ago said he would devote himself en- tirely to his insurance business for the next few months. Earnshaw declined to state whether he planned to continue in base ball next year. ‘The big right-hander explained three weeks ago he asked rmission from Mack to leave the Athletics while they were in Cleveland. He stated he was anxious to be at home and did not care to make the last Western trip which endsd In Chicago yesterday. He expected to rejoin the A’s, but the letter from Mack upset his plans, he said. While no officia confirmation has been received, it is said Earnshaw was at odds with the club over salary terms. K ’ AR, WASHINGTON, Accused of “Bias” ADOLF A. BERLE, JR. KILL NONEY GUARD NSHOHOLDP Machine- Gun Gang Slays Policeman, Wounds Another. By the Associated Press. SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn, August 30.—One policeman was slain and an- other wounded today as bandits, hiding their movements behind a smokescreen, robbed two bank mesengers of a $30,000 pay roll. Driving center in an automobile screaming siren, the bandit gang, be- lleved to number five, killed Policeman Leo Paviek, 35; wounded John Yeaman and then fled. . | A machine gun, shotguns &nd pistols | were used in the spectacular raid in front of the post office. As the bandit car came to a quick stop iu view of the two officers and the bank messengers, Joseph Hamilton and Herbert Cheyne, a cloud of black smoke came from the rear of the car. Witnesses said the smokescreen ob- | scured movements of the bandits as they alighted The bank messengers. both 21 years old, had been at the railroad station to receive the money for the Stock National Bank from the Federa!l serve bank in Miuneapolis for distribu- tion to Swift & Co. employes. The bandit car pulled up to the curb the messengers and Paviek came | he post uffice steps, carrying the Oue bandit shouted, into the live stock market as his_gun. Two or three men hurried toward Hamilton said they One raider held | her | the messengers dropped the satchels. & shotgun agalust Pavlek and anot took his pistol from him In the meantime, Yeaman hurried toward the post office, and the shoot- ing began. One bandit, who jumped from the sedan with a machine gun, stood in the center of the street in! front of the post office, and, pivoting it, held observers at bay. The street was raked by gunfire, and several windows were broken. Paviek fell, woundtd fatally, and Yeaman suf- fered serious slug wounds. Firing continued as the bandits hur- ried to their car and sped away. CODE ADVOCATE SLAIN. Labor Racketeers Suspected In Chicago Slaying. CHICAGO. August 30 (#).—Authori- ties last night said they regarded the | Siaying of John Pippani, 35, us & retalia- tion by labor Tacketeers for his advocacy of an N. R. A, code for his labor or ganization. Pippani, secretary of the Italian Bread Diivers’ League, was shot four Limes by automobile gunmen in subur- ban Cicero yesterday Police Chief Michzel Solar at Cicero caid he learncd the slain man had been \rging & 30-hour week in an agreement to be incorporated in the N. R. A. code | between the drivers snd a bakers' asso- | ciation. Solar sald he suspected labor racketeers as responsible for the killing. Two are held. FILM COLON HOLLYWOOD. August 30 (P.— Frightened Hollywood notables were | adding_guards to their homes today while Los Angeles police declared war on gangland and named four men as the suspected assassins of Harry Mack- lgy and Frank Keller, former New Yurkl and St. Louis hoodlums, here Monday | night in a restaurant. i Officers said the double slaying had thrown a scare into many movie colony | leaders who feared racketeers urel seeking a foothold in filmland. | The detective chief said the Sla)‘lng!1 were an act of reprisal for the killing of Morris Moll in New York last June. Police Slayer Gets Death. CHICAGO, August 30 (#).—Another prompt sentence of death for a police killer, the second within a week, was fmposed yesterday in Chicago’s war on crime. The defendant, John Scheck, & young gunman, who shot and killed Officer John G. Sevick a month ago in | a court room where he had just been arraigned for the slaying of a bank cashier in a robbery, was sentenced to | electrocution by Judge Harry B. Miller. The jury deliberated only 21 minutes ober Scheck's fate. Slaying Suspect Quizzed. BUFFALO, N. Y. August 30 (®).— Seeking further evidence that Salva- tore and James Callea were killed last Friday by rival alcohol distillers from Cleveland, Buffalo police today ques-| tioned John Porello, 39, one of the surviving members of a once powerful Cleveland family of reputed illicit liquor distributors. Porello, whose flve brothers were, killed in a Cleveland gang war, was picked up in Jamestown last night. . RAINEY LAUDS SUCCESS OF RECOVERY CAMPAIGN By the Associated Pr KANSAS CITY, August 30.—Henry T. Rainey, speaker of the House, said here last night the national recovery program already has put 1,500,000 per- sons back to work, but that two or three months more must pass befare the full force of the drive is apparent. Speaking at an N. R. A. rplly, Rainey said: “Two or three months of sacri- fice and effort ought to result in re- storing I:ruym¥1 power so that consump- tion can catch up with production.” He cautioned that “recovery may slow, but from now on every day may be a better day.” Pointing out President Roosevelt has been given the power to revalue the doliar and inflate the currency, Rainey these extraordinary powers, present occupant of the White Fouse will not hesitate to do so if it does be- come necessary.” “The success of the entire m depends upon the willingness and the enthusiasm with which 120,000,000 peo- 1:‘!5 ‘fnter into the recovery program,” he | that he had been studylng them. which had a |- | he did not discuss the appointment of | portrait is being executed with the wiew | | newspaper | are naturally considerably | They pay between 31 to* 36 million | dollars & year in distinctly municipal | They have absolutely no right of suf- D. C, GRAYSN REPIRTED (FERED CITY 108 Former Admiral Declared Roosevelt Choice to Gov- ern District. WEDNESDAY, (Continued From First Page) calendar days after such transmission, unless Congress shall by law provide for an earlier effective date of such executive order. Congress is not ex- pected to be in sesion until next Jan- uary. It is apparent, therefore, that even if the President wished to make & change in the present form of the District government. and had author- ity to do so, it could not become ef- mu&e until some time after Congress meets. PRESIDENT SILENT ON D. C. PLEA. Studies Board of Trade Petition on Local Government. BY J. RUSSELL YOU HYDE' PARK, N. Y. August 30— President Roosevelt has received the communication from the Washington Board of Trade regarding the proposed one-man rule for the government of the District of Columbia, but he had no | comment to make today for publica- tion. Sitting in the library of his mother's | home here, while an artist was paint- | ing his portrait, the President told this correspondent he had not yet| studled the message from Washington, but he hoped to do so scon. He said | he would withhold any comment upon | the subject at least until he had answered the communication. The President made it obvious that he presumed it was well knoyn that | proposals for a change in the District government had been made to him and No Action on Commissioners. The President said again today that District Commissioners during the visit | here Monday of Postmaster General | Farley. With a broad smile the President | frankly wdmitted this may have been | due to the fact that Mr. Farley failed to | bring with him the papers regurding the more seriously considered candidates for these appointments. He added that| when he gets back to the White House | he will confer again with Mr. Farley, | on which occesion the papers in ques- | tion will be handy. He said that in the meantime some further study of one | Or two of these aspirants may be made. During this discussion today of the Commissionerships, the President did | ol attempt to say when he thought he would be able to dispose of this matter. The oll portrait for which Mr. Roose- velt is posing and which was begun more than & week go, is well advanced and already presents a splendid likeness of the President. However, more sitting vill be needed back in Washington be e the picture is completed. This to having t hung in the White House as the off I portrait of the President. AUGUST 30, 1933. Chess Wizard Wins 27 Games Twenty-seven out of 28 was the score of Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris in | an_exhibition of chess at the Jewish Community Center last night. | Bishop, former District champion, is seats CHESS CHAMPION | DISPLAYS PRONESS Dr. Alexander Alekhine Wins 27 Out of 28 Games at Exhibition. | Playing 28 opponents simultaneousty, Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris demon- | strated his prowess as chess champion of the world by winning 27 games in an exhibition at the Jewish Community Center last nignt. A dark horse in local chess circles, A. Lee Jones of Leonardtown, Md., with- stoud the champion and won his game after all the other contenders had been eliminated in almost four hours of play Jones iearned the game at Yale Uni- versity, he said. Best by Jomes. Dr. Alekhine, circling inside a hallow square of tables, played 26 men across the board, defeating all but Jones. and at the same time worsted two opponen! whose boards had been set in a corner of the auditorium well out of sight. These Jatter contenders Dr. Alekhine disposed of by carrying the complex | set-up of their boards in his memory. calling out his moves after those of his | rivals had been announced to him. | Two of the best available chess play- Will Attend Fair. ‘The President, with Mrs. Roosevelt | end his mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt will journey to Rhinebeck, sbout miles from here, to attend the Duchess Ccunty Fair. Thelr interest will be cerRered principally in the riding events | in which will perform Mrs. Anne Curtis | Dall, daughter of the President; John, | the youngest of the Roosevelt boys, and little “Sistie,” the daughter of Mrs. Dall This Wil be “Sistie’s” first public appearance in the show ring. She will | ! ride in one of the pony classes and drive ! in another. Mrs. Dall will ride New | Deal, the handsome bay gelding pre- sented to the President some weeks ago by some of his Missourt admirers, in which State this fine looking saddle horse was born and reared. | The Roosevelt families for many years | always have figured prominently in the Dutchess County Fair. The President’s father and grandfather were prominent | exhibitors. The fair opened yesterday and the President’s mother won 24 first prizes in the vegetable exhibits. Ready to Return. Mr. Roosevelt was especially happy | today over the cordial reception ac corded him on his inspection trip ye terday to Albany and Troy. This was the first time since he has become Presi- dent that he has visited the capital of the Empire State and where he lived during his term as Governor. Everything is in readiness for the | President’s departure from here tomor- row afternoon. He expects to go aboard the yacht of Vincent Astor, on which he will make his journey back to Wash- ington, about noon tomorrow. This early start will make it possible for the long cruise down the Hudson and through New York Harbor and out to sea before dark. The U. S. 8. destroyer, Manley, which is to be one of the con- voys on this voyage, arrived in these waters yesterday. The destroyer Twig | will pick up the curising party when it | arrives in New York Harbor tomorrow afternoon. The President today slldl he hopes to be back in Washington September 4. The text of the message sent to the President yesterday by the Washington Board of Trade follows: “The Washington Board of Trade has read with interest the recurring counts stating that you are considering changing the form of | government for the District of Colum- | bia to & one-man governorship or simi- lar set-up. The people of the District interested. taxes and Federal taxes in an amount larger than 11 of the States combined. frage nor any voice whatsoever in the disposition of the tax money so raised from them. Under the organic law of 1878, setting up the present com- mission form of government, it has been possible from time to time for the District to have one or two mem- bers of the Commission and it is our sincere hope that in setting up any new form of government what little local’ representation we have in our own municipal affairs will not be fur- ther diminished. No Opposition to Policy. “We desire to assure, you, Mr. Presl- dent, that we do not desire this tele- gram to be in any way construed 'in opposition to any change if such change is necessary. The Board of Trade rep- resenting 3,600 business, professional and civic leaders of the community, will stand committed To any needed change for the betterment of the com- munity. We express the hope, however, that you may see fit to inform us of any plans you may finally decide upon so that not only the Board of Trade, but others may have the opportunity of expressing their views. “We wish to express to you our heartiest admiration and support and to assure you that we desire to do everything we can to be helpful in the spirit of progress” and efficiency. We are hopeful, however, that we may look to you to protect even the most negligible voice we have in the aflairs of our community, affecting as it does half_million American citizens who re called upon to do their duty as such in every respect and who are, however, contradistinguished from other Americans by their complete political impotence.” James Joyce took more than 700 large es to describe 24 hours in a man’s ife. T. S. Eliot took no more 500 lines of poetry to evoke a of civilization from the ear! to the present day. orama it times than [olic priest, received a jail sentence of ~F. A. Allner of Baltim ning, who came all the way from Nor- folk. Va., to participate in the match. Dr. Alekhine, moving swiftly from board to board, paused at completion of each circuit and called for the moves of the two men in the corner. telling the referec what moves he wished to make. At conclusion of the match several score of spectators cheered Jones when he put across the winning play. Dr. Alekhine also was enthusiastically ap- plauded. ‘Wizard on Tour. The chess wizerd from France was in Washington after an exhibition tour of Puerto Rico. Recently he played the intercollegiate chess tournament t the Century of Progress Exposition Chicago, losing only 4 matches out 2 32. Dr. Alekhine appeared here at invi- tation of the chess enthusiasts of the city. He is at present engaged in com- piling a book on the differences between d in the Orien' and the at request of the Jap- anese government. DR. GAINES’ HOSTESS _ AGAIN QUIZZED IN DEATH. Widow of Slain Practitioner Who Was Shot Near His Home Held for Questioning. By the Associated Press. SPOKANE, August 30.—An attra tive young woman friend of the late Dr. James I. Gaines was questiocned by police yesterday, while the doctor’s widow remained in jail after telling her version of the slaying two weeks ago| of the wealthy sportsman and doctor. Mrs. Harriette Andrew, 26, the first person questioned, was recalled to police headquarters and repeated her earlier | story, saying Gaines visited her shortly before midnight on August 14, leaving at 1:30 am. A few minutes later he was shot by an assailant who hid in shrubbery along the driveway of his home. | Mrs. Andrew was not detained. No | charge has been filed against Mrs. Gaines, Prosecutor C. W. Greenough | , adding she was held “only fory She has not retained an questioning.” attorney. BROAD POWE;S GIVEN TO PROBE RACKETEERING New York Outlaws Submachine . Gun in Latest Drive on Gangsters. | By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y, August 30.—New York State struck two more blows at gangsters yesterday by outlawing sub- machine guns and giving the attorney | neral sweeping powers to investigate | usiness racketeering. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, who only | last week slgned a bill providing the | death penalty for kidnaping in cases where the victim has not been returned prior to the trial, yesterday signed the two latest anti-gangster bills passed at a special session of the Legislature. ‘The measures were passed at the re- quest of the Governor. PLANS WORLD FLIGHT Blanche Wilcox Noyes, Actress, to Make Venture Next Year. NASHVILLE, Tenn., August 30 (#).— Blanche Wilcox Noyes, actress and aviatrix, has just announced plans for a round-the-world flight next year “just to prove that a woman can do it.” Mrs. Noyes, here with a theatircal stock company, said last night she plans to start from Harbor Grace, New- foundland, the latter part of next May or June, and proceed by easy stages. Her route would be substantially the same as that followed by Wiley P she said. Germans Sentence Priest. DORTMUND, Germany, August $0 (#).—The Rev. August Stoecker, a Cath- 16 months today, on the ground he had diu‘%lukn;ed_ d the Nazi regime from his pul his | o George ed opposite Dr. Alekhine. —Star Staff Photo. Fire Hero 160,000 EXPECTED FOR LABOR PARADE Ritchie Among Governors to Attend and Michigan Hero Will Be Here. A number of Governors, including Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, are ex- pected to participate in and review the Labor day parade down gaily decorated Pennsylvania avenue. while officials an- nounced today that more than 150,000 visitors are expected to come to Wash- ton for the event. lans for the parade and decorations along the route are going forward un- der chairmanship of Sergt. A. J. Bar- gagni and his decorations chairman, Fireman R. A. Barton of No. 21 Engine Company. Barton has reported that stores and places of business along Pennsylvania and elsewhere along the line of march are co-operating with his decoration plans, and that the flags and other patriotic adornments to lamp posts, along the route, put up for last night's recovery parade, will remain up through the firemen’s procession. The Evening Star has offered cash prizes of $25, $15 and $10 for the three best decorated buildings along the route of march and Chairman Barton expects lively competition among merchants | and siness men for the awards. Judges of the decorations will be named late today or tomorrow by Robert J. Cottrell, secretary of the Board of Trade. 50 Floats.to Appear. | The parade, in which more than 50 | business floats are expected to appear in addition to the police and firemen's | groups and military units, is to start from Second street and Constitution avenue, march west on Constitution |avenue to Pennsylvania avenue, up | Pennsylvania to Fifteenth. and south on Fifteenth street into the Ellipse. Judges | of the float will be seated in & judges’ | stand in front of the District Building, | and Judges of the decorations will ride |in the parade. from which vantage points they may view all the decorated stores and buildings along the parade Toute. Although the prizes are offered only for stores and buildings on the line of march, Chairman Barton has urged all | businebs firms in the city to unite in decorating as a welcome to the manv visitors the convention and perade are DUES. ide World Photo. DAVIS ARMS PAHLEY7 ROLE IS LIGHTENED; HOPES HERE FADING (Continued Prom First Page.) | endeavoring to bring the principal antagonistic nations, France, Italy and many. together, but the harder she tries the less she accomplishes. 0ld Conflicts Revived. The somewhat insignificant conflict which has broken out on account of the Nazi attempt to Nazify Austria has brought out again the old conflicts and constroversies between the Continental powers. Italy is apparently supporting Austria against the policy of the Hitler govern- ment, but she is suspected by the French group of endeavoring to turn a difficult diplomatic situation to her own advantage and gain a dominant position in Central and Southeastern Europe. The reported permissicn granted Aus- tria to increase her national army is not likely to materialize because the French have realized at the elsventh hour that this would constitute a seri- ous breach of the peace treaties and add considerably to the desire of the re- visionist nations to scrap the Versail- les and the other treaties. It is argued that if the powers per- mit Austria to increase her forces for police purposes there is nothing that can prevent Germany from asking for a similar proportional increase on the same grounds. Once the precedent is established there will be no reason why the other defeated nations should not arm as much as they like under the pretext that they need more police. France Looks to Future. Furthermore the French have begun to realize the increased Austrian army might become an important asset against France should the present Dol- fuss administration be thrown out of office and another government, more sympathetic to Germany, be installed. It is under these most inauspicious circumstances that the Disarmament Conference will resume its sessions and there is a distinct feeling in responsi- ble quarters here that the reopening of that conference will be the sign of renewed armament race of all the pow- ers_concerned. Because the President and the State Department realize how delicate the sit- uation in Europe is, the American Gov- ernment desires to remain on the edge during the coming discussions at Ge- neva. Any really active participation by the United States in the Disarma- ment Conference at the present mo- ment might implicate this country in entanglements nobody here desires. The same genuine feeling for dis- armament continues in administration circles, but it is felt that it is up to the othe? nations to present wmztgmg realiy constructive before the American Government takes a more definite part in the canference. PRESIDENT CALLS DAVIS. Telephone Conference Held Just Before Latter Sails. NEW YORK. August 30 (#)—The United States liner Washington was or- dered held beyond its sailing time today while Norman H. Davis, American Ambasador at Large, waited in his Manhattan home for the President to | send verbal messages to the heads of European governments. The Ambassador received a telephone call from President Roosevelt in time to permit him to rush aboard the liner at the last minute. Sailing was delayed only a few minutes. The only indication Davis would give as to the nature of the verbal messages was_the statement: “The President is most hopeful that Europe will find the road leading to disarmament and peace.” Davis is chairman of the American delegation to the International Disarm- ament Conference which reconvenes on October 16 in Geneva. _— LINDBERGH IS SILENT Plans Unknown, but Copenhagen Stay Extension Is Seen. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, August 30 (#)—Col. Charles A. Lindburgh kept his plans to himself today, but he 15 expected to remain here at least several days more. :r well satisfled with results of the -mapping flights he and Mrs. Lindbergh made over North- ern areas before coming here and was istic regarding the possibilities air serviee along the route they foliowed. PEN . expected to bring to the cit ‘The ion’s o anding fire hero— a 23-year-old Flint, Mich. youth—will attend the naticnal conver | men opening here Satur appear in Monday parade. i Warren Dues, who saved six little chil- dren and a girl 16. from death in a fire in Flint two vears ago which re- sulted in one fatality. Dues i= rxpected to have a prominent place in the parade. In addition, it is expected Dues will be presented to the Presi is { an unemployed chauffeur an | messenger bo: Luncheon After Parade. Luncheon for the guests of honor | will be held in the Willard Hotel's presidential suite immediately following the parade, according to Odell S. Smith, chairman of the Citizens’ Committee in charge of arjangements. ® Tonight a special boxing e: | will be held at the Twin Cit- near Laurel and a portion of ceipts are to be used to help ¢ parade expenses. Bob Good | of the principals in the main b | member of the Herald Harbor partment and one of the threc light-heavies of the country. oppose Joe Knight in the mai the evening. Pvt. C. 1. Fletcher, Truck ¢ No. 7. is in charge of housing ¢ to the city, and is composing hotels and rooming houses in 1 which they may be sent on ar Washington Guides’ Associati assisting in this work, and th Utilities Commission has agreed a cab stand on E street, adi Tegistration headquarters at No. 1T Company, on New Jersey avenue the Capitol, to facilitate housing ¢ men after they are registered. ‘The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Di of Columbia Fire Department has ranged to serve hot coffee and s wiches to the men in the parade in morning before it begins. Pvt. S. Cocimano of Engine Company No. will be in charge of this detail Prt. Fletcher said many requests are coming in for rooms in the vicinity of No. 8 Engine Company. and asked that any one in that area s rooms for rent get in touch with him. preferably by writing. in care of Truck Company No. 7. No. 8 Engine Compeny is lo- cated on North Carolina avenue southe east, between Sixth and Seventh streets. Fletcher also asked that hotels and rooming houses list themselves with him so that he might know all places to which men might be sent. S {CARPENTERS SEEK | RATE RESTORATION ‘ FROM GOVERNMENT (Continued From First Page.) ibition Arena the re- v the one isa | Departments have never formally recog- | nized the existence of the $8-per-day wage, but the contractors have made the reduction on the theory they are en- titled to the benefit of an agreement entered into between the Carpenters’ | District Council and the Master Build- ers’ Association although not parties ta the contract. Up to this time, he said, the Treasury Department has tacitly | acquiesced in that course. On the question of the validity of the | contract, the petition points out that no contract may be entered into by the council &nless the locals affiliated ap- rove tfe action, and says that the ocals affected not only never approved the contract, but “on several occasions and by substantial votes refused to re- duce the wage scale from $11 to $8 per day.” Correspondence Attached. Attached to the petition are photo- static copies of correspondence passing between out-of-town contractors having Government building contracts here and i their subordinates, indicating that a | funid was in process of collection for the purpose of influencing the signing of the contract. The contribution of one con- tractor mentioned in one of the photo- static copies was $500. As to what happened to the money, |the petition states: “The Carpenters Building Council is not ready to make allegations as to how the funds con= | tributed * * * were used to bring about the said agreement of April 14, 1933, but requests the Secretary of Labor to make such investigation as may be nec- essary to elicit information as to the size of the said contributions, the names {of contributors, and the uses made of such contributions.” 1 $482 JEWELRY TAKEN FROM PARKED AUTO Baltimorean Tells Police Thieves Got Sample Case—Two Other Cars Robbed. Jewelry valued at $482 was stolen last night from ‘the car of Harry Venner, Baltimore, he reported to police. Venner, who is an agent for & jewelry firm, said his machine was parked at Eleventh and E streets when the robbery was committed. The Jewelry was in a sample case. A $15 coat was stolen from the ma- chine of Warren H. Blankenship, Ta- komsa Park, Md., and a bundle of laundry and s brief case were taken from the automobile of Pryor Hefner, 1521' East Capitol