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FOUR ARE HELD ON VICE CHARGES Two Men and Two Women Under $2,000 Bond for Grand Jury. Two men and two women arrested yesterday by vice squad detectives and & Justice Department agent were held for the grand jury under $2,000 bond each today when arraigned before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage on charges of violating and conspiring to violate the Mann act. They pleaded not guilty. ‘The arrests followed an announce=- ment by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion, that his agents, in co-operation with local police, were prepared to launch a determined drive to stamp out wholesale transportation of wom- en for immoral purposes. Detectives Roy Blick and Willlam G. Fawcett and two Federal agents took Roy J. Torvillo, 32, of Lebanon, Ohio, end Alberta B. Brown, 28, of Orlando, Fla., into custody early yesterday in the downtown section. In the afternoon Charles R. Spiel- man, 21, and Helen M. Smith, 27, both of Hagerstown, Md., were ar- rested by the same officers in a down- town hotel. The men were charged with vio- lating and conspiring to violate the white slave law, while the women were booked on the latter charge. Torvillo, according to police, was arrested on the street after he al- legedly was seen accepting money from a young girl. He and the Brown woman, police said, were conspiring to bring girls here from Florida for immoral purposes. Spielman and the Smith woman are suspected by police of being the leaders of a Hagerstown “ring” which sends girls to Washington, Russia ‘(Continued Prom First Page.) A giant hose was pressed into service at Moberl, e , Mo., today to pump fresh ozygen to rescue workers, who are trying to save four men entombed in a coal mine by fire and cave-ins. The orygen, pumped down the main shaft, offset deadly black damp which overcame several workers, AN NINE SNAFY e T N SELIEVED TRAPPE! 1 wERE a statement from his sick bed yes- terday in which he made a strong appeal for the re-election of Presi- dent Roosevelt, Just where the President will meet Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas, his Re- publican opponent, has not yet been determined. It is thought now that Des Moines, Iowa, probably will be selected, and that the’meeting will not be with Gov. Landon alone, but with a group, including him and the Govewors of Nebraska, Oklahoma and Iowa. As the plans stand now the President will return to Washington September 3 or 4 to remain nearly a week before going to Charlotte, N. C., to deliver a political address. SUICIDE VICTINS BODY AT MORGUE Warren S. Sample, 66, Gov- ‘ernment Auditor, Leaped 10 Stories to Death. The body of Warren 8. Sample, 66- year-old Government suditor, who ended years of falling hesith with & 10-story leap yesterday, lay in the morgue today, pending word from his only living relative regarding funeral arrangements. Police telegraphed the dead man' sister, Mrs. Lannie Gatton of Louis- ville, Ky., and expected a reply toda Sample, a patient at the Soldiers’ Home Hospital, jumped from a window of the General Accounting Office branch at 514 Eleventh street about 1:30 pm. He was pronounced dead at Casualty Hospital and Coraner A. Magruder MacDonald issued & sul- cide certificate. 36 Years in Service. Sample had been in the Government service since 1900, first with the Treasury Department and, since 1921, with the General Auditing Office au- dit division, military pay section. He had applied for disability retirement following his admittance to Soldiers’ Home Hospital August 3. Yesterday he left the hospital for an interview regarding his case with Edward W. Bell, chief of the division in which he was employed. Bell was not in, and Sample sat at a table to await him. . J. C. Nevitt, assistant division chief, and Ernest L. Loving, a co-worker, suddenly noticed Sample, 20 feet away, climbing through an open window. Nevitt bounded across the room and grabbed Sample’s arm, but the weight of the falling man wrenched loose his grip, tearing off Nevitt's wrist watch. Barely Misses Pedestrian. Sample’s body struck the pavement inches from startled pedestrians. Until his admittance to Soldiers’ Home, Sample had a room in the resi- dence of Miss Elizabeth Rushforth, HIT-RUN TAXI SOUGHT with no children. His wife died in Man, 40, Receives Severe Head Baltimore in 1917. Injuries in Accident. native of Tennessee, was| A hit-and-run taxi driver, who the United States Military | struck Julius Shields, 40, of 1328 for three years, but was | Cedar court, at Fourth street and Vir- . As an enlisted | ginia avenue southwest early today, the Infantry from 1884 to|is being sought by police. the rank of ser-| Shields was taken to Emergency Hospital suffering from severe cuts Fight Against Smugglers. Representatives of 21 provincial and municipal chambers of commerce in China have formed an association to combat smuggling, the aim being & nation-wide boycott by all trade " against smuggled goods. Sample, & cadet at Academy never man in ! o [ | by NO FOOD PRICE INCREASE! Much is read in the papers about an im- pending rise in food prices. UNITED buy- ers have been busy studying the market, making “future” purchases and making preparations so that our stores would not be obliged to increase the cost of food to our customers. United warehouses are well supplied with nationally known standard brands of merchandise at low cost— THESE SAVINGS WILL BE PASSED TO YOU! BAKER'S COCOA Cooling and Refreshing Beverages—Ice Cold—Deliveries Free UNICO BEER ARROW BEER hOGKECRiCK 4v:25¢c 3wu25¢ Telephone Your Order We Deliver FREE Freely! Ib. can I5e OLITAN RADIO | MET. 7071 past as to the court’s reactions to my Plus deposit, words. I can corroborate my past in noth- Diagram illustrating efforts to reach the entombed men ing but words, but I shall speak the truth. Trotzky’s Role “Greater.” “Ivan Nikitich Smirnoff (the de- fendant who called Zinovieff a liar) is still lying and concealing the truth. “Trotzky's role in the counter-revo- lution was greater than mine, although mine was great enough. I am guiltier than Trotzky because I was here doing the actual work.” Abjectly, Zinoviefl confessed he and Kameneff had “fallen so deep into the sbyss of counter-revolution” that at one time they could not determine whether the program advanced by the consiprators was left or right, what form of right it was or what it was. Kameneff spoke in a conversational tone, but Zinovieff, shoving a loud speaker aside, shouted across a 40- foot expanse of court room, almost fgnoring the judge and prosecutor. He presented the harried look of a man deeply troubled, while blue- capped Red Army soldiers, changing guard every half hour, provided the only interruption to his words. Strong Feeling Disclosed. A strong feeling between the prin- eipals in the plot was disclosed when Zinovieft declared the depths of his degradation were reached when he wrote a8 newspaper editorial condemn- ing the sssassins of Sergei M. Kiroff, Stalin’s chief aide, whom he had di- rected. “Kameneff planned the thing,” he added. Kamenef! interrupted heatedly: “I did not! I had no intention of writing an article!” Zinovieff, shaking his shaggy head sadly, continued: “I admit now I was the one with the greatest guilt in Kiroff's death.” Earlier, T. Reingold, during the tes- timony of Kameneff, jumped up and faced the witness. Shaking his fist, Reingold screamed: “You are responsible for the death of Bogden (A, Bogden, Zinovieff’s secretary).” Kameneff, who had been on the stand all day, calmly denied the ac- cusation and said he was not a party to a reported conspiracy to murder men named to carry out the sssassinations of Stalin and others. Was to Have Killed Stalin. Acearding to the testimony, Bogden was to have killed Stalin at the time Kiroff was assassinated at Leningrad. Kamenefl admitted that a blood- thirsty lust for personal power moti- vated the conspirators. He denied he wanted to overthrow the government because it was suc- cessfully building Socialism. . “Naturally,” he added, “political groups deprived of power feel their policies are superior.® “Were you & bloodthirsty enemy of the government?” asked Prosecutor Andrey Vishinsky. “Yes, I was,” Kameneff replied. Vishinsky treated Kameneff, once & powerful Communist party member, with extreme deference, and the whole morning session was conducted in low tones until Reingold jumped up with his shouted accusations. Kameneff, with professional mien, spent two hours in a simple recital of the aims of the terrorists. “We faced in 1932 two alternatives,” be said. “Because of the success of the government we knew we had fai d. We could capitulate, threw in the sponge and conform to Stalin. ©Or we could conspire for terrorism, 8s a desperate effort to regain power. A “We decided on the second alterna- ve.” Gamble Seen Only Chance. The “outs” failed in their effc to win popular support because gov- ernment policies had succeeded, Kam- eneff said, and while it was agreed terroristic methods might fail, they formed a desperate gamble frnishing the conspirators’ only chance to re- gain power. ‘Therefore, the oppositionists em- barked on a recruiting cruside de- signed to line up all enemies of Stalin, whether leftists or rightists. yourself from FOOT AGONY there’s comfort in the famous Canfllever&- ! STACH'S through an old air shaft (right) and by digging out the decbris- —C clogged main shaft. ‘opyright, A. P, Wirephotos. (Story on Page A-1.) Roosevelt (Continued From First Page.) his latest reports dealing with the drought. He will remain at the President’s home for luncheon and in all probability will sit in during the President’s conference with Taber. It is understood that rural credit and crop insurance will be discussed at the afternoon parley. It is thought likely, too, that Taber will take this opportunity to renew the invitation extended to Mr. Roosevelt some months ago to address the annual meeting of the grange, to be held in Ohio shortly. Political Talk Unlikely. It is not thought that politics will be discussed during Taber’s visit, al- though the latter hezs been trave! extensively over the country recently. Taber is not of Mr. Rooseyelt’s politi- cal persuasion. 2 D. W. Bell, acting director of the budget, who sat in on the drought relief conference, discussed with the President the appointment of the spe- cial committee to study the question of fiscal relations between the Federal aad district governments. It was ex- pected the President would be in a Pposition to announce the personnel of this committee following his talk with Bell yesterday, but announce- ment was postponed uatil tomorrow. Bell intimated the delay was caused by the fact that one of those offered an appointment on this committee had not yet formally accepted. It was learned the committee will not be more than three in number and that at least two of the three members will be non-residents of the District of Columbia. The President today had an oppor- tunity, however, to drop for the mo- ment such subjects as drought and relief and talk politics, when James Townsend, Democratic State chair- man in Duchess County, the Presi- dent’s own county, called for a chat. Chairman Townsend was accompa- nied by Edward E. Perkins, also ac- tive in the county politics. Duchess County is one of the rec- ognized Republican strongholds in New York State. It takes a natural pride in having one of its sons Pres- ident of the United States, but it has shown in the past that it takes a still greater pride in voting Republican. The President arranged his en- gagement schedule so as to be free from work for the late afternoon in order to enjoy driving his automobile about the nearby countryside. More W. P. A. Jobs Planned. Mr. Roosevelt'’s conferences with Wallace and Taber followed closely on yesterday’s drought-relief confer- ence with a group of administration experts. Then the President ap- proved a plan which would increase the number of W. P. A. subsistence jobs in the drought areas from 90,000, the current figure .to a minimum of 120,000 and a maximum of 150,000. It was said after this conference the expenditure of at least $5,000,000 & month may be necessary to provide these jobs in the drought-affected States. Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administrator, who was one of the principal spokesmen at yesterday’s con- ference, made the prediction afterward Formerly $40, $28.50 Foot Health Headquarte 523 11tk Strest N.W. l that there was every indication that Congress would be asked to provide money to replenish 1936 relief funds now going for W. P. A. jobs and Re- settlement Administration loans and grants to victims of the drought. Reports indicating an increase in the drought area and qffering evidence of havoc in the stricken States have caused President Roosevelt to extend his tour of that area to include visits to Wyoming and Montana. When the President leaves Washington next Tuesday night his first stop will be Bismarck, N. Dak. The following day he will visit Pierre, S. Dak. 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