Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1935, Page 6

A—6 » MUNITIONS BILL DRAFT IS BEGUN Measure Will Provide Strict Peace-Time Control Over Manufacture. By the Associated Press. Drastic peace-time regulation of the munition makers—backing up even more close-hauled wartime control—is being written by the Senate Munitions Committee into & bill for introduction this session. In discussing the committee’s ac- tion, Chairman Nye said its aim was to put into effect such strict regula- tions that this country would be ac- cepted as a model for foreign powers ‘which are being invited to accept the American draft convention for arms control, announced last Fall in Geneva. Other military legislation before Congress was advancing on three fronts. Naval Bill Vote Due. ‘The $460,000,000 naval appropri- ation bill comes up for passage by the Senate tomorrow. The subcommittee of the Senate Military Affairs Committee arranged to begin consideration next Thursday of the war profits control bill drafted by the Munitions Committee with John T. Flynn, economist advisor of the Munitions Committee, and princi- pal draftsman of the war profits bill, as a witness. The Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee indicated it might take up this week the three neutrality resolutions introduced by Senators Nye and Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, of the Muni- tions Committee, which have the pur- pose of keeping this country out of conflict if other nations should go to war. Would Prohibit Loans. One resolution would shut off Amer- {can money from belligerent nations. A second proposes to keep American neutrals out of danger zones by deny- ing them passports. The third seeks to keep United States munitions from warring nations. The Munitions Committee’s licens- ing bill follows the general program of the American draft of the arms convention which called upon all signatory powers not only to regulate the manufacture of munitions within their borders, but to let all other na- tions know where munitions were be- ing shipped so as to apprise the world of any preparations for war. BARGE FOR KANSAS CITY LEAVES NEW ORLEANS First Boat on New Through Route Starts Trip—Channel Made Deeper. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, May 18.—The first through all-water barge service be- tween New Orleans and Kansas City was inaugurated today, when a barge | left the Gelvez street docks. It was laden with burlap, canned goods, coffee, sugar and other commodities. The barge, pushed by one of the company's towboats, is scheduled to arrive at St. Louis on June 4 and | there await other barges from Chi- cago and Minneapolis. On June 7 the entire fleet will proceed to Kansas | City. ‘This new through water service to Kansas City was made possible by the Tecent completion of a 6-foot channel between St. Louis and Kansas City. Resort Hotel Burning. SPECULATOR, N. Y., May 18 (®). —Fire late today was sweeping through the 67-year-old Lawlor's Ho- tel, in this Adirondack Summer re- sort, 50 miles north of Gloversville. Only a few guests were reported regis- tered at the time the fire broke out. A RINEY g’l"‘(" enoLess CAVERNS The Quick Way to Sure Results Upper: P atdal THE SUNDAY STAR WASHNGTON. Named in Lorton Break Plot ]3] BUUN"ES I.EH John Kendrick (left), tri-State gangster, now in Alcatraz Prison, and Charles Henry Odell, now in the Federal penitentiary at Milan, Mich., who were disclosed yesterday by the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation as printers of fake credentials of the bureau and of District of Columbia drivers’ permits that were to have been used in & wholesale prison break that never came to pass. Lower, left to right: Clarence Back, Archibald Lyles and William Tierney, Lorton convicts, who escaped last August with the fake cre- dentials, spoiling plans for the general break. The identification cards were found to have been printed in the shop at Lorton. FAKED JUSTICE CREDENTIALS BARE LORTON BREAK PLOT (Continued From First Page.) last year, Hoover said. Prisoners en-| listed in the scheme were given take | cards identifying them as special agents of Hoover’s bureau, in addition to drivers’ permits with the name of | William A. Van Duzer, traffic director, forged to them. The counterfeited Justice creden- | tials were a poor imitation of the real thing, but the permits were excellent | reproductions The wording on the credential cards differed from that on the genuine credentials in that State and local police were asked to give “the bearer” co- operaucvn in carrying out his “mission Instead of waiting for the general break for freedom, however, three prisoners double-crossed their com- rades in the plot by effecting a pre- mature escape in a guard's automobile | on August 11. The eonvicts who fled | !and thereby spoiled plans for the wholesale delivery were identified by Hoover as Clarence Back, Archibald Lyles and William Tierney. Col. William Peak, superintendent of | Lorton, said last night that this trio | dashed out of a side exit of the din- ing hall, started the guard's car by | short-circuiting wires and succeeded in getting away down a country road. | Three days later a sedan, owned | by Jobn J. McGarvey, 610 Rock Creek | Church road, professional instructor of | candidates for driving licenses, was re- ported stolen. Police in Baltimore found the car, abandoned, on August | 18. In the car were found several of the spurious agents’ cards and drivers’ permits, which were turned over to| Hoover's bureau. Information tending to show that | Back, Lyles and Tierney stole Mc- | Garvey's car and left in it cards they | 1001 Historic Spots in Maryland and Virginia await your visit | by Convicts Back and Lyles, who had received from Odell will be turned over tomorrow to United States Attor- ney Leslie C. Garnett for presentation to the grand jury. Back and Lyles were recaptured last September and returned to Lorton. Tierney. also recaptured, is serving a two-year sentence at the Maryland House of Correction. All three have long criminal records. Hoover said the bureau will seek indictments against the quintet under & Federal statute which makes it a crime to counterfeit official badges lor other credentials. Other charges | | also may be brought. | Since the finding of the fake cards the local field office of the Bureau of Investigation has been conducting an intensive investigation tc learn where the printing was done. The varieties of type used on the cards were classi- fied and a systematic search was made |of all printing shops in Wn.sh'ngmn; | and vicinity in an effort to find one which had all the kinds of type in- dicated. This inquiry was still under way when experts of the bureau's techni- cal laboratory, after careful micro- | scopic study of the paper used in the | cards, reported it had been identified | as of certain weight and texture used in manufacturing a special brand of cardboard. Further investigation dis- | closed that this brand of paper was used at Lorton Reformatory, a dis- covery of ‘significance #h view of the stolen car episode and its near-coin- dence with the escape of the trio at Lorton. Special agents went to Lorton Pri- day afternoon and conducted a thor- jough search of the print shop. Col. Peak said they found the forms of type, still in condition for further printing of spurious cards, in an un- disclosed hiding place in the shop. There is no evidence that further use of the type had been contemplated are still at Lorton, or by other pris- oners, unknown, who may have been | | was torn to pieces. The bodies were | year-old daughter. | Texas, ravaged the town of Teague. ON DROUGHT LIST Area of S|x States Still Affected, U. S. Analysis of Conditions Shows. By the Associated Press. A report by the Department of Ag- riculture yesterday showed 131 coun- tles In six States listed as “drought counties,” although good rains were said to have provided relief for most of the dry West and Southwest. A revised list of drought counties will be prepared by June 30, the de- partment sald, and hope was ex- pressed that additional rains may cause a shrinkage in the number of counties by that date. ‘The report said the area of severe continuing drought is limited to a narrow strip extending from the Rio Grande through Western Texas and Eastern New Mexico, northward into the southern edge of Nebraska. Other areas which were severely affected by the drought in 1934 were said to have received rainfall sufficlent for crop growth, “aithough in some sections subsoil moisture is still deficient, and frequent and timely rains will be nec- essary for crop production this year.” Sixty of the 131 drought counties are in Western Texas, 10 in Eastern New Mexico, seven in Western Okla- homa, 36 in Western Kansas, 14 in Eastern Colorado and 4 in South Cen- tral Nebraska. The department announced that all of the 1934 county drought designa- tions are now canceled, and the rec- drought counties are confined to the new list. Earlier in the day the department issued & report in which the market supplies of beef were sald to be above normal, despite drought conditions. The report said cattle and calves on farms January 1, 1935, totaled 60, 667,000, compared with the 10-year average of 61,257,000, and compared :o ;O;I”‘l of 56,701,000 head January ) NINE DIE IN FLOODS IN OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS AREAS (Continued From Pirst Page.) From black skies the wind also struck Weldon, Bellot and Cadmor, south- | west of Crockett. | Phillips and his wife were in their | home six miles west of Timpson, Tex., when the tornado struck. Their house found 100 yards a . “We All Went Down River.” ‘The story of the rushing water near Altus was told by Lesliz Reid, colored farmer, who was caught in the swirl | that left seven unaccounted for, five of them members of Reid's family. “The house commenced to give” Reid said. “Then pretty sbon it went | ‘crash!’ and we all went down the | river.” Among the missing were Carl Mc- Alpine, 40, white farmer, and a 10- Before striking = Crocketit, the “twister,” which accompanied rains in Dan Dobbs, ice plant employe, suf- fered a broken back when caved in. One hundred homes 'm tively by officials of Hearne, south- west of Teague. There a Negro suf- fered inguries expected to prove fatal, The flooded areas sre south and east of the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle —parts of the Nation'’s f've-State dust belt. The dust country, however, was benefited by lighter rains which beat t wrecked. Mayor 8. W. Robertson estis o vn > prmam s D. C, Ethiopian Ruler Sweepmg Decree Haile Selassie Also Or- ders Equalization of Land Taxation. By the Ascoclated Press. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 18.— In“a sweeping decree Ethiopia’s mon- arch, Emperor Haile Selassle, abol- ished serfdom today throughout the nation. ‘The ruler also ordered a program equalizing the system of land tax- ation, which an official announce- ment said would advance the country 1,000 years in civilization. Ethiopia, now embroiled in a bitter dispute over boundaries with Italy, long was a center of the African slave trade and retained the institution sven after sdmission to the League of Nations. HIJACKING END SOUGHT JACKSONVILLE, Pla, May 18 (#). —Three men were held here today as officers moved to stamp out a wave of hijacking in dry Georgia. Sheriff Rex Sweat of Duval County said six reports of liquor robberles had reached his office in recent weeks. He blamed them on “two or three Most of the liquor, u;ht legally here, was ‘consigned Savannah, where State pmhlbltian still is in force. One load was en route to Co- lumbia, 8. C., then dry. Long . stretches of lonely road through sparsely settled regions give the hijackers a fertile fleld. down upon Southeastern Colorado, Northern New Mexico and Western in on the delivery plot. Kansas, as well as the Panhandle. ) LivTLESTOW™® A THATTeoRE = YO\WESTMINISTER Washingtonians are indeed fortu- nate. Not only is this a city beautiful “drives”. . of -but 10 min- utes to an hour finds one in the heart of historic sections of nearby Maryland and Virgihia. GET READY FOR THESE SHORT TRIPS...BUY A GOOD USED CAR. See Section 5, Pages 11-to 13 USED CAR BARGAINS Advertised in for Buyer | A MD. o puitane Sl 1 HADE I WA WA A T Ffl | 4 BALTIMO! é g and Seller Frocks 79- Prints in stripes, plaids and checks in percales and sheer fabrics. All are new fashions with short sleeves or sleeveless! 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Nice of Maryland and Gov. Peery of Virginia also will be guests- of honor, A chartered steamer will leave Washington at 1 p.m., arriving at the Marine base at Quantico at 2:45. There will be a military parade and aerial demonstration at 3 o'clock, followed by the ball game at 3:35. Dinner will be at 6 o'clock, followed by box- | ing contests, and at 8 o'clock the | steamer will start back to Washing- ton. The Navy Band, under direction of Lieut. Charles Benter, will accompany the legislators and newspapermen on the boat, and the Quantico post band will greet them. Mark Foote, presi- dent of the National Press Club, has designated Fred W. Perkins chairman of arrangements for the outing. Fishing on Horseback. Fishing on horseback is now popu- lar in Italy. W. F. PURDY FUNERAL HELD TOMORROW | Former Commander in U. 8. Naval Reserve to Be Buried in Ar- lington Cemetery. With Capt, Sydney K. Evans, chief of Navy chaplains, officiating, War- | ren F. Purdy, former commander, | United States Naval Reserve, will be buried tomorrow at 11 am. in Arling- ton National Cemetery with full mili- tary honors. The Navy Department announced that honorary pallbearers will be: Gen, R. C. Marshall, jr.; Capt. Charles P, Macklin, United States Naval Reserve; Col. Donald H. Sawyer, United States Army; Comdr. L. R. Rutter, United States Naval Reserve: Lieut. Comdr. F. G. Blasdel, Lieut. Comdr. W. B, Rogers, Victor Saad, W. F. Paige, Wil- lam L. Slattery and George L. Sawyer. Purdy died suddenly on Thursday at his residence, 1515 Twentieth street. The body is at the W. W. Chambers Co. funeral home, 1400 Chapin street. ve Optics Shah’s Registered Optometrists Se- lect the Proper Style Glassesfor You Modern Methods in E\e Examination KRYPTOK Invisible Bi- focal Lenses. One pair to see far and near. $12.00 Cylindrical or Tinted Not Included Octagon Rimless Fine quality 35.85 clear Ienses. One pmr to see .r or near. $13.50 Use Our 812 F x%. 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