Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1935, Page 2

DISMISSAL FACED INENVOY'S ARREST Two Elkton Officers Seen Headed for Ouster After Joint Parley. BACKGROUND— Hurrying by automobdile from Washingron to New York last Wed- nesday, Ghaflar Khan Djalal, Iranian Minister to United States, and Mme. Djalal were hailed by an Elkton, Md., police officer, told they were going too fast. Taken to Elk- fon police station, they were re- leased after some delay. Minister subsequently protested to State De- partment, complained of rudeness @ officers; charged he had been handcufied and manhandled, that Mme. Djalal had been insulted. He @sked disciplinary action against officers. Diplomatic code extends {mmunity jrom arrest to foreign government representatives. By the Assoclated Press. ELKTON, Md, December 4—Two Elkton officers, who arrested and handcuffed the Iranian Minister to the United States appeared due for dismissal today. The envoy, Ghaffar Khan Djaial, was arrested on a speeding charge last week by Town Officer Jacob Biddle. When' the Minister allegedly began an argument, Constable Clayton Elli- son snapped the handcuffs on him. Demanded Punishment. Diala] made a formal complaint to the State Department, and demanded the two policemen be punished. At the conclusion of a meeting of thé town council and the Cecil County commisisoners here last night, it was understood the pair would be asked to resign today. However, members of the two groups would neither deny nor confirm the report. Gov. Harry W. Nice conferred with county officials in Baltimore yester- day. At the conclusion of the meet- ing, he said he had acted solely as an adviser. He added, however, that in the event the officers went unpunished, proceedings could be instituted against them under a Federal act passed in 1790. » Felony Under Law. The act makes it a felony to arrest 2 Minister or representative of a for- eign government. “The Minister in this case demands punishment,” the Governor said. “The State Department must make amends to the Persian government. If amends are not made, the Department of Justice might easily be forced to institute proceedings against the Cectl County officers involved.” The whole case, he asserted, was “axceedingly delicate and serious.” He said he would unquestionably be called upon to write a letter of apol- ogy to Djalal. Trial (Continued From First Pag States Attorney Léo A. Rover, repre- senting Nelson, and former Assistant United States Aftorney William H. Collins, representinig Hardgrove. De- fense counsel exercised many chal- lenges, removing from the jury box Government employes and persons having relatives employed by the Government. - First Panel Exhausted. The first panel of prospective jurors was exhausted by 11:30 o'clock and & new panel was brought in so the process of choosing the jury could be completed. Goarnett and two assistants, George E. McNeil and Louis Whitestone, rep- resented the Government. At the outset of the case the de- fense asked for a continuance on the ground that an article in a morning newspaper stating the Department of Justice had instructed Garneti to re- move McNeil from the prosecution was prejudicial to the defense. The re- quest was denied by the court. Eaglier Garnett had branded the story as “a fabrication.” The case grew out of conversations allegedly had by the defendants with McCarter more than a year ago in connection with an added assessment of $150,000 in an income tax matter. McCarter told Secretary Morgenthau he had been offered a “settlement” in return for a 20 per cent commission. The indictment charged that the defendants conspired to defraud the | Government by impairing the func- tions of the Internal Revenue Bureau. Pwenty-two overt acts were cited In furtherance of the alleged con- spiracy, these acts having to do 1 ly with telephone and other con- versations. " TAX DEADLINE Penalty Effective in Fairfax After Tomorrow. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. (FAIRFAX, Va., December 4.—To- norrow will be the last day for p ing State and county taxes without the imposition of a penalty, Dr. F. W. Huddleson, county treasurer, an- What’s What Behind News In Capital Fletcher’s New Finance Committee Drawing Boos of G. O. P. BY PAUL MALLON. OME high orthodox Republican Congressmen are hissing behind their hands at Chairman . Fletcher's new national finance committee. They have not started booing it in public yet, but they will at the first opportunity. The feeling is particularly strong among Westerners. They did not expect Fletcher to go among the unemployed for his money-raisers. But they did expect others than directors of corporations to be rep- resented on the committee, for the sake of appearances if for mo other reason. Something will be said to Mr. Fletcher about this at the coming Na- tional Committee meeting. Also, & statement from & Republican con- gressional leader is highly probable. Digest Poll Spurned. President Roosevelt’s political ma- chinists may be fooling themsilves and him, but they continue to turn their noses up at the Literary Digest poll. They are clinging to their original ex- planation that the framing of the question encourages votes against the New Deal. TAKE A SLANT AT THIS, e fR5)SISTER. £ o NoT 4‘;{5 INTERESTED Py } A cabinet officer, for instance, maintains that he would have voted “No” if a ballot had been sent to him. He says he thoroughly disapproved of the subsistence homestead policy, which now has flopped; also many other relatively minor things which have been done. This attitude might sound very much like an advance official alibi, except for one fact. Double Chairman Gen- eral Farley has returned from a shoot- ing trip and radiated the sunniest confidence via telephone to the top circle here, and as far South as Warm Springs. Alliance of Lion and Mouse. Certain of Senator Borah's play- mates have been complaining (ap- parently also to him) because he lent a hand to help Representative Hamil- ton Pish get up on the Borah presi- dential coat tails. They call it “the alliance of the lion and the mouse.” The inner explanation seems to be a simple one. Borah has been GEORGIA FARMER VISIT ROOSEVELT Land Bank Interest Rate Reductions Asked—Mes- sage Is Started. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star. ‘WARM SPRINGS, Ga., December 4. —1In the library of the Little White House here todey President Roosevelt sat down with a dozen well-to-do farmers of Meriwether County, in which Warm Springs is located, for a \heart-to-heart talk dealing principally with farm problems. Like all farmers, whether well-to-do or poor, these Georgian agriculturists came to the President seeking a favor. Many of the farmers owning land, this delegation pointed out to the President, are struggling today under burdensome debts- contracted during the prosperous years of unrestrained expansion. Their in calling upon Mr. Roosevelt was to tell him of the necessity of further reducing in- terest rates on Federal land bank logns. In their opinion these rates, which now average 6 to 5 per cent, should be reduced to 2 per cent. They admitted, however, that they would be very happy to get a reduction to 3 per cent, as that would help them ma- terially. They pointed out to the President that their interest rate trou- ble could be remedied by changes in the Prazier-Lemke farm mortgage bill. No Promise Given. These well-to-do farmers were with the President an hour. They found him very agreeable, attentive and sym- pathetic, but. according to their spokesman, received no definite prom- ise from the Executive. 1t is understood that the President took the occasion of the call of these large land-owning agriculturists to question them about various agricul- tural problems, which subjects he will discuss in the forthcoming address he will make to the American Farm Bu- reau Federation in Chicago next Mon- day. The President has started the writing of his speech and hopes to have it completed end ready for the press next Sunday. He admitted yes- terday that he expects to devote con- siderable portion of it to the discus- sion of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. At the President’s biweekly confer- ence with newspaper correspondents yesterday afterncon he appeared greatly emused when asked if he'd be | & candidate to succeed himself. “The convention will decide,” he smmnglyt responded. | When asked if there was anything | to reports out of Washington that he | favored holding the next Democratic National Convention in some Eastern | city, preferably Philadelphia, so thni he might attend personally, the Presi- | dent, assuming a most innocent look, replied to the effect that the selec- tion of the convention city remains under attack by some good ladies who are calling him a Red. Mr. Fish is the beau ideal of all anti- Reds, masculine, feminine or neu- ter. An O. K. from him is equivge lent to acquittal by a fury. AWo-Mr, Pish is:supposed.fo have developédl latély & vice presidential Teceptivity, Banker Quotation Keph An official who locked over Mr. Roosevelt’s shoulder at the writing of the Atlanta speech advised him | to eliminate the line abodt the bank- ers telling him in 1933 that the debt could go to 50 or 70 billion dollars, He declined to do it. The remark is supposed to have been left particularly for the eflect it might have on the heavy Treas- ury financing placed in the hands o} the bankers the following Mon- day. 1t is true some financial authorities had fantastic notions two years ago about the possible ceiling of the debt. Some published guesses ran as high as 50 billions at that time. Such entirely with the committee. He jok- | ingly suggested that Warm Springs or | Pine Mountain Valley, - near here, would be ideal for such a gathering. | William Jenbings Bryan was present | for his nomination as presidential | in Chicago, in 1896. Theodore was in icago when the Bull Moose hominated him in 1912 to run against Taft and Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt flew to the Chi- cago convention in 1932 just after he had been nominated to deliver his acceptance speech. \ Origin of Report, Talk of Philadelphia as the next Democratic convention city emanates, 00 doubt, from the remarkable showing | made by the Democrats in Philadel- phia in the elections last month and the optimism on the part of Senator Joe Guffey, Democratic leader in Pen- sylvania, and other prominent Demo- crats in the State regarding the pros- Ppects in their State for next Fall. Mr. Roosevelt is known to have looked upon the Democratic gains in Philadelphia in the elections last notions are now generally recognized to have been foolish. All that the best authorities seem to know about it now is that the cur- rent height is somewhere above the chandelier. Further confirmation of the theory that the technological phase of un- employment has been overplayed can be found in a new study entitled “Ma- chinery, Employment and Purchasing Power,” made by the National In- dustrial Conference Board. This re- port shows that during the long range 1870 to 1930 period of machine and technological improvements, the proportion of gainful workers to the total population rose from 32 per cent to 39 per cent. An eraggerated but simple exam= ple is the development of the auto. It threw all the horse and buggy boys out of work, eliminated the vast livery stable business. During nounced. After that date a 5 per cent Penalty will be effective. In Elizobeths time an arrow waos always a good messenger 18 IFE had its more tender side, too, in medieval times. Many a maiden inaccessible bower re- SHOPPING DAYS O CHRISTMAS ins il ound th thefefitmy was attached to the shaft. the transition period, the number of jobless in the old industry out- numbered those employed in the new industry, but not now. If you count all employed in build- ing better roads, bridges, direct auto- mobile manufacturing employment, gas, garage and filling station and even “hot dog” stand employment, you will reach a sizable figure. Congressmen Groaning. Returning Democratic Congressmen are” also groaning. They say they cannot get anything out of the sun- shine dispenser, Mr. Farley. For one ing their troubles to W. Forbes Mor~ gan, secretary of the National Com- mittee. He is thus growing iz faver as a fixer of political matters for the administration. There is some sus- picion that he was put into the na- tionsl organization for this purpose, but not by Mr. Farley. (Copyright. 1935.) month as being of the greatest signifi- cance. Postmaster Jim Farley has no hesitancy in claiming this State, at this early dete, for Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelf is not ready to make public the names of the bankers referred to by him in his Atlanta speech last Fri- day, as proposing to him, early in nis administration, that the Nation could stand a public debt of 55 to 70 billion dollars to meet the emergency prob- lems without injuring the national credit. Mr. Roosevelt could reveal these names if he wanted to. Maybe he will later on if pressed hard enough. When asked directly who these bankers were the President said he had a list him- self, as well as some letters, but that he had received no requests for mak- ing the names known and indicated that he was not proposing to do so. HARVARD PROFESSOR KILLED ACCIDENTALLY Pistol Fires When He Opens Suit Case on Arrival to Settle Estate. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 4.—The accidental discharge of a pistol, police said, caused the death yesterday of Milman Parry, 32, associate professor of languages at Harvard University. Detective Lieuts. Ed Romero and B. L. Jones said the weapon was dis- charged wHen Parry reached into a suitcase. The professor’s wife, Marion, 33, was in another room of an apartment where the accident occurred. Parry and his wife had arrived here by airplane to settle an estate in which Mrs. Parry’s mother, Mrs. Mil- dred Tanhauser, Los Angeles, is inter- Mrs. Parry said she did not hear the discharge of the pistol. ACTOR AND DIRECTOR FRIENDS AFTER FIGHT By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., December 4.— Borer-Resisting Corn Is Developed After Six Years Sweet Variety Fails to Satisfy Larvae and They Starve. By the Assoclated Press. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.,, December 4—Prof. C. H. Mahoney, Michigan State College vegetable specialist, said today he believed a variety of corn had been developed to resist the rav- aging corn borer. He told members of the Michigan Horticultura! Society the product re- sulted from crossing & strain of Golden Bintam sweet corn with a South American field variety known as Maize Amargo. “We have been working on this corn for six years,” he said. “We have placed as high as 90 borer eggs on each plant and as the eggs hatch the larvae crawl off the leaves and starve to death searching for edible corn. “We don't know just why the borers won't eat this corn, but there is something very distasteful about it.” ‘The new corn is just as sweet as the golden bantam and the ears are larger, he said. The new corn re- quires two years more of breeding be- fore it can be released for commer- clzl production. HAZEN SEEKS DATA ON HIGHER TAXES Special Committee Will Be Asked to Study Revenues Likely to Accrue. The District Special Tax Commit- tee will be asked to figure what addi- tional revenugs would come from a variety of proposed upward revisions of present levies, Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen said today. He said he wished to have the in- formation before holding a public hearing on data showing the need for increased revenues. Hazen’s implication was that the committee would be asked to recon- sider the financial problem and to offer for public discussion something definite in relation to the suggestion for increased appropriations for Dis- trict Government growth and opera- tion. Hazen has promised a public hear- ing before formulation of any tax pro- posals to be sent to Congress. No date has been set, however. The committee was instructed to posed inheritance tax, increased levies on utilities, the v :bilities of an in- come tax, a weigi' ax on automobiles :und & l-cent ir:~.:se in the gasoline X, e 'HIGH SCHOOL FIRE SHIFTS 35 PUPILS Armstrong Students Study in Auditorium With Frame Unit Wrecked. Thirty-five Armstrong High School students were forced to do their study- ing in the school auditorium today after fire wrecked the portable frame building in which their class room was located. An overheated stove caused the blaze. Robert E. Howard, & laborer, was working in an adjoining portable when he discovered the flames. He ran to School Engineer Henry Adams, who sounded an alarm. Howard and Taylor Ford, attempted to extinguish the fire, but strong winds soon whipped the flames over the interior and roof of the structure. No students were about at the time, but crowds gathered to watch firemen fight the blaze. The flames broke out about 8 o'clock. The colored high school has four other similar one-room buildings, each housing 35 students. No addi- tional study space being available, the pupils were directed to take up their work in the auditorium of the large, new brick bullding, at First and O streets. JAPAN SPECULATES ON SUBMARINE BAN Envoy to Naval Conference Says Security Is Main Object of Nation. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 4—Admiral Osami Nagano, chief Japanese dele- gate to the forthcoming International Naval Conference, stated today that, under certain conditions, Japan would be willing to abolish her submarines. Outlining the Japanese attitude prior te the opening of the conference December 9, Admiral Nagano said his delegation’s primary consideration was security for Japan. He salg he believed battleships, air- craft ers and large offensive-type cruisers should be abolished and that Japan should be given naval parity with the United States and Great Britain. The admiral said that if “certain conditions” were met, Japan would even abolish submarines, adding: “But we think Russia, Germany and other countries would have to enter into any agreement involving them.” (The coming conference of United States, Great Britain, Japan, Italy and Prance does not include Russia and Germany.) ——— FARLEY ISSUES PLEA “Postmaster General Farley, in & Natign-wide hook-up of the National icasting Co,, urged again last t that persons “shop early and mail early” for Christmas. “Your individual co-operation is most essential” Farley said. He cited the increased business during this period, asking the citizens to “do your part by helping in this way.” PUPILS TG STAGE PLAYS PLAN STILL HAZY Employers Show Concern as Date of Taxation Draws Near. ‘With effective date of the taxation provisions of the District unemploy- ment compensation act less than four weeks distant, local employers are be- coming increasingly concerned as to what sort of records, reports &nd ac- counting methods must bé provided to meet requirements of the law. Thus far, the local administrative board, “authorized to prescrive all regulations which may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act,” has not yet done so. By terms of the District law, every employer of one or more persons, wWith a few specific exemptions, becomes subject on January 1 to a 1 per cent tax on his total pay roll. Levied on a monthly basis, the tax must be paid by the fifteenth day of the following month, thus making the first paymaent due on February 15, 1936. Proceeds are to be placed in a single District pooled fund from which all benefit payments eventually will be paid. Tax Jumps to 3 Per Cent. In 1937 this pay roll tax jumps to 2 per cent and in 1938 it goes to 3 per cent, this rate to stand indefinitely. No contribution is required from em- ployes, on the theory that any taxation eventually will be passed on to the consumer. As an inducement to maintaining employment stability, the law provides for reduction of the rate to 113 per cent or increase to 4 per cent after 1941, depending upon rec- ord of employe turnover. Faced with the necessity of begin- ning this tax collecting early next year, the local board drew up tentative regu- lations for operation of the law nearly two months ago. Early in November hearings were held and the questions and objections of some of those at- tending have resulted in new proposals. Final regulations, however, have not been drawn. Included in the first plan of the District board was the suggestion that a card-index record of every employe in the so-called eligible occupations be kept. Such a procedure, it was admitted, would necessitate extensive bookkeeping by large business con- cerns, thus requiring additional cler- ical personnel. As an alternative, it has since been suggested that all employes be registered on January 1 and then be divided into two cate- gories—permanent and temporary. Returns Plan Studied. For the permanent list no individ- ual monthly return would be required, all such employes being ccvered in @ blanket report. A’ return would be | made on each temporary employe and a “separation” report would be the permanent listing. This plan, and two proposals for amending the law itself, have received considerable attention from the local board and E. Barrett Prettyman, cor- poration counsel, who is working with the board. First of the amendment proposals is that & flat rate of benefits be estab- lished instead of using the complicat- ed formula now provided. The present regulation requires detafled informa- tion on wages earned, length of em- ployment and similar data, the benefit then to be 40 per cent of average weekly wage, plus allowance for de- pendent spouse and children. Individual Reserve Proposed. Second of the major amendment proposals is that the individual plant reserve system, instead of pooled fund system, be adopted for the District. The former system, contained in the Wisconsin and Utah laws, allows a company to contribute to a trust fund for its own employes and limit contri- butions after it reaches a certain steady level. In such a system a con- cern with stable employment record is not forced to continue tax contribu- tions to bear the unemployment bur- den caused by another concern with rapid personnel turnover. In addition to the problems involved in the almost immediate application of the local unemployment compen- sation law, employers also are await- ing instructions on the Federal phases of the unemployment compensation program and on the taxes to be levied for the old-age insurance program. In the former case, a Federal re- turn for the year 1936 must be made during the first quarter of :1937. The rate of the Federal tax coincides with that of the District levy, with 80 per cent of payments on the latter being credited to that due on the former. Regulations for handling of this tax are being by the Income Tax Division of the Bureau of Inter- nal Revenue, the levy applying only to employers of eight or more persons. Old-Age Levy Begins in 1937. The old-age insurance taxes begin on January 1, 1937, a rate of 1 per cent to be imposed on individual income up to $3,000 yearly and in like amount on the pay roll of the em- ployer. In this case, the employer is to be responsible for both his own and his employes’ payments, deducting the latter from salaries. This rate rises gradually until both employers and employes are paying 3 per cent each by 1649. For this system, a personnel record of every employed persod must be kept but further details on such rec- ord requirements and methods of pay- ing the taxes have not yet been de- termined. The Miscellaneous Tax Di- vision of the Bureau of Internal Rev- enue is working en this provision at present. VICE RAIDERS SEIZE GAMBLING EQUIPMENT Squad Finds 37 in New York Avenue Place, but Makes No Arrests. A quantity of gambling equipment mnmd?m when the police vice squad raided an establishment in the 1200 block of New Y:k m;vg.u; at the time, but no arrests were made. A loud-speaker, which police said was used to describe races, was in op- eration when the squad, headed by phernalia were two slot machines, & crap table, race slips, poker chips and Breaks: Finger in Class. George Walterhalter, 18, of 605 H street southwest, suffe & broken | submitted for any employe leaving submit recommendations on a pro-| - photograph to be made of the two CONVICTS TRAILED Mae West and Marlene Dietrich, film actresses, shown in the first together, although both work at the same studio. Cameramen have tried for three years to snap them. ' —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. PROCESS TAX RALT HITS LEGAL SNAG A. A. A. Proposal to Suspend Collection Pending Rul- ing Is Stopped. By the Assoclated Press. . Legal difficulties were understood today to have halted a proposal by the A. A. A. to suspend collection of | all processing taxes until the Supreme Court rules on validity of the adjust- ment act. High administration sources said the plan was given “serious and care- tration officials as an aid to friendly processors and small manufecturers Government. The Treasury was understood to have rejected the proposal. It was said there was some question concern- ing the authority of an executive agency to suspend the collection of any tax imposed by Congress, Disadvantages Feared. Some officials were reported to have felt processors who were payving the taxes to the Treasury rather than to a court under a temporary injunction might suffer some disadvantages in establishing prices. Also, there were some who believed that should the Supreme Court hold the A. A. A. unconstitutional, those processors who have been paying the taxes to & court under an injunction might recover the amounts more speedily than those who have been paying to the Treasury. It was estimated 30 per cent of the processors of taxable commodities are | paying the taxes to the Treasury, 70 per cent into court registries and that about $120,000,000 in taxes had been impounded. One reason for abandonment of the move to suspend all collections until the court rules, out of deference to the paying 30 per cent, was reported to have been a feeling that the public might have misinterpreted it as an A. A. A retreat in anticipation of an adverse decision. Collections for Quarter. A. A. A. records showed processing tax collections for the first quarter of this fiscal year, the three months ended September 30, were $40,855,548, compared to $123,213,256 for the same period last year. The slump in processing tax col- lections because of injunctions first was noticeable last June, when the total was approximately $30,000,000. ‘The monthly figure prior to that time had averaged about $40,000,000. In July the collections dropped to $15,364,401, in August to $12,820,863 and in September to $12,670,283. No figures were avallable on collections after September, but some slight fur- ther shrinkage was expected. Officials said new taxes on rye and sugar now were effective and the nor- mal rate of collections at present should be about $60,000,000 monthly. Total collections from May, 1933, to September 30, 1935, were $938,500,791. CHARLES S. WILSON, 78, DIES AFTER FALL Former Pepco Engineer Played Major Rolc in Benning Plant Development. Charles Sumner Wilson, 78, former chief engineer of the Potomac Electric Power Co.'s Benning plant, died yester- day in Garfield Hospital. He had been injured in & fall in his home, 1505 Criffenden street, about a week ago. Mr. Wilson, who retired two years ago after having been employed by the electric company for many years, played a major part in the develop- ment of the Benning plant. A native of Ridgeway, Orleans County, N. Y., he formerly was em- ployed as engineer aboard Stendard ful consideration” by Farm Adminis- | unable to finance a suit against the‘ TOULRSESTO 15 WOHAN ES | Struck by Auto Last May, Mrs. Lottie Davis, 65, Succumbs. Washington's official traffic toll for the year reached 105 today, when an autopsy revealed that the death Sun- day of Mrs. Lottie Davis, 65, of 138 Adams street, was due to injuries she received in an accident more than six months ago. | Struck by a delivery truck near her | home May 20, Mrs. Davis was taken to Garfield Hospital with a broken arm ! and several fractured ribs. Later she was transferred to Sibley Hospital, | where she died. George H. Bamberger, jr., 23, of | 1339 Perry place, who was driving the | truck, police said, has been at liberty in custody of his attorney since the mishap. He will be summoned to an inquest, the date of which has not been set. Two Seriously Hurt. Two serious accidents were reported | to police in the past 24 hours. Charles B. Finnell, 40, of 38 Long- fellow street may have a fractured skull as the result of a crash between his car and a bus at Michigan avenue and Harewood road. He was removed to Emergency Hospital. The bus, po- lice said, was operated by Paul Koe- nig, 1403 F street northeast. Mrs. Ada Forrester. 52, of 13671% | L street southeest, suffered severe head injuries and a broken collar- bone when struck at Pennsylvania avenue and Eighth street southeast by | an automobile said by police o have }bur. driven by John C. Meeks, 25, of {1508 D street southeast. At Casualty | Hospital it was believed she may have & skull fracture, A police scout car figured in an accident yesterday while en route to | cruiser, driven by Pvt. William Thom- son, collided with the machine of Alice M. Ashby, 46, colored, 2428 On- tarlo road. Virginia Ashby, 42, col- ored, received an injured ankle in the crash, which occurred at Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue, Inguest Scheduled. An inquest was scheduled today in |ored, of 629 W street, who died Sat- urday in Casualty Hospital from in- Juries received Thursday when struck |by & hit-and-run car on Benning |road northeast. Two other persons | were run down by the ssme machine. Two traffic deaths will be investi- gated by a coroner’s jury tomorrow: known newspaper court reporter of 30 years ago, who was killed Sunday in an accident at Fifteenth and L streets, and Henry W. Andrews, 67, of 3603 New Hampshire avenue, vice presi- dent of J. B. Kendall Co., iron products dealers, who died Monday from in- Juries received in an accident near his office. Walmsley, who lived at the Portland Hotel, was st~'ck by a car, said to have been (.‘sen by Henry A. Mag- nuson, 40, of 1480 Chapin strezs. Ruehl, 708 Irving street northeast, ‘was the driver of the car that hit An- drews, according to police. PAUL J. CROGAN DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Commerce Department Press Serv- ice Chief, 47, Well Known to Correspondents. Paul J. Crogan, veteran chief of the Commerce Department’s press service, died in Sibley Hospital today after a long illness. He was 47T. Mr. Crogan was known to most of ‘Washington’s newspaper correspond- ents, who called him “Pete.” He had been chief of the press service for 15 years and previously was with the department’s Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. He joined the . | Government service as a clerk in the at 10 am. at the home, 2901. Fourteen D. Vernon N. Ridgley Church will officiate. in Glenwood Cemetery. JOB DEADLINE NEAR | get & report on a trafic mishap. The | the case of Jcseph Coleman, 20, col- | Thomas Albert Walmsley, 86, well- | IN TWO STATES Investigation of Bloody Prison Break Is Started in Massachusetts. By the Associated Press. Prison officials of two States trailed escaped convicts today, while authori- ties began an investigation in a third. Four men died and one was critically wounded in the breaks yesterday. ‘The hunt for five fugitives from the Muskogee, Okla., City Jail centered in the Winding Stair Mountains, A sixth convict was killed and a detective wounded. Officers pursued three Tennessee Penitentiary convicts who carried off a deputy warden, later freed. Three prisoners were recaptured after a break from the Massachusetts State Prison. Two other convicts were killed after a truck driver was beaten to death. FIVE DESPERADOES TRAILED. Oklahoma Posse Reported Closing in on Escaped Convicts. MCALESTER, Okla., December 4 (P)—Armed possemen stalked five desperate fugitives in the rugged ‘Winding Stair Mountains today. Sheriff H. H. Sherill of McAlester reported the men, including four members of the “Irish” O'Malley mob of bank robbers and kidnapers, “are bottled up on the Winding Stair Mountains 23 miles south of Wil burton.” Thirty National Guardsmen, com- manded by Capt. Hiram Simpson, Jjoined the hunt under orders to “take no chances” with the fugitives. The sheriff asked for an airplane to help spy out the quarry—Leonard Short, Dewey Gilmore, Dan T. Heady | and Russell Cooper, O'Malley mob- sters under sentence for a double bank robbery at Okemah, Okla., last December, and Dan Garrett. under seven-year sentence for Mann act vio- lation. A sixth prisoner in the Muskogee City-Federal Jail, John Blackburn, was shot fatally in the break in which Chief of Detectives Ben Bolton was wounded. possibly fatally. TRIO SOUGHT IN TENNESSEE. Tkree Convicted Robbers at Large | After Prison Break. NASHVILLE, Tenn., December 4 (#).—Officers pursued today three con- victed robbers seeking to retain the | freedom they gained in a daring break from the Tennessee Pententiary. Warden A. W. Neely reported the hunted men, identified as Pete Dean, George Wilbur Moss and Gus McCol abandoned the motor car of Deput. Warden Ed Connors at Spring Hill, Tenn., south of Nashville, and stole a physician’s sedan. THREE CAUGHT AFTER BREAK. | Two Convicts and Truck Driver Killed In Prison Battle. BOSTON, December 4 (#).—Three convicts were back in State prison to- day after an attempted escape in which three men died. District Attorney Willlam J. Foley said he would ask first-degree murder indictments against the three surviv- ing prisoners. Two others died from gunshot wounds inflicted by guards. The recaptured convicts are Edward McArdle, 24; Charles O'Brien, 28, and Frank Joyce, 21. The dead prisoners are William (Red) McManus, 27, and Philip Naples, 32. Louis Richards, 27, truck driver, died of injuries when he was beaten by the prisoners, who seized his truck and rammed through three prison gates. PRISONER KILLS GUARD. Youth Stabs Officer at Vermont | State Prison. WINDSOR, Vt, December 4 (P)— Hervey Burnham, 56, State Prison guard, was stabbed to death in the | prison hall shortly after breakfast to- | day by Wiltred Pelletier, 17-year-old prisoner. Warden James W. McDermott said no motive had been determined and that the incident caused no disturb- ance among the 350 other prisoners. CHEAP IMPORTS HIT | CLEVELAND, December 4 (#).— Combating cheap foreign imports | through widespread use of the patent restrictions was proposed yesterday at | the United States Potters’ Association Convention. G. L. Tillbroke of Philadelphia, patent counsel, urged the potters to organize along with the glass industry in this effort. He said most products could be patented and coples of the | patents sent to ports of entry for pro- | hibition of infringing goods. Joseph M. Wells of Newell, W. Va, chairman of the Labor Committee, warned of current Nation-wide unrest, but foresaw no immediate dangers for | the pottery industry. Irvin S. Cobb Says: One Born Every Minute, Speculative Stocks’ Rise Shows. SANTA MONICA, Calif., December 4 (NANA).—Wouldn't it seem to sort of put the laugh on somebody if we sent a lot of Jewish athletes—and there are many splendid ones much of the money now being put up on specu- ery minute, but never before suspected & whole crop could have grown up singe 1920. Still, I do recall reading somewhere that the suckers are one of the species that spawn close to shore and they hatch nearly all mature, Everybody in Hollywood turned out for a party to H. G. Wells. I think they thought he was a visiting produea. Sure sign of returning prosperity— women have started in again, marrye ing the Mdvani boys. IRVIN 8. COBB. (M’ngt 10385, u the North r-mu