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BALKED IN TRACING
POISON TO PROCTOR
Probers Meet Delays in In
vestigation of Youth’s Re- J
ported Suicide Plans.
Whether John Cline Proctor, ex
ecuted Busch murderer, and his friends
conspired to defeat justice by sending '
h m to a suicide s grave may not bo (
known before the middle of this week. *
Obstacle upon obstacle blocked the
rrh of investigators last night, and
v ‘v'> these obstacles will not prevent I
eventual solution of the problem sur- i
rounding Proctor's fate, they have
fc .vcd to delay the investigation.
District chemists who began labora
tory examinations vesterday to deter
mine whether Proctor's stomach showed ]
traces of poison found their search j
comnllcated by the fact that the body ,
h'd been embalmed.
To Analyse Fluid.
The chemists sent to the undertak
fnr parlors of Adolph J Schippert. 2008 !
Pennsylvania avenue, for a sample of j
the embalming fluid, and it was an
ncunced that they would have to give
up their examination until after an'
analysis has been made of the fluid, j
which was known to contain a large !
percentage of formaldehyde.
The codec investigation to determine
Vperson could have been smuggled!
u> the condemned man. either in
the dealh row at the jail or while he
\as at the District courthouse, also
las attended by many difficulties. The i
fact that no record was kept at the j
ail of packages received by Proctor
proved the first barrier.
An examination of his clothing re
sulted in a promising clue when it was
found that a cuff had been ripped from
b shirt which was sent to him at the i
jail. It is thought likely the cuff con- j
t.'utcd poison in solution and that j
Proctor ‘may have cither chewed the 1
cull or sraked the cloth in a glass of |
wr.'cr and swallowed the solution.
Shirt Cuff Missing.
The shirt was turned over to the j
Police Department by jail officials but
the cuff Iras not been found. Had it
teen found and the suspicion that it j
contained traces of poison verified, not j
cnly would the work of the chemists be ;
axpecited but detectives wpuid be as- j
forded a definite clue in tracing Proc
tor's outside assistant in his fight to
beat the law.
There is some hope that a direct clue .
may be obtained from jailmates wf the i
executed man. following the disclosurej
yesterday that Proctor had boasted to I
louts W. Hoffman, awaiting sentence i
xor second degree murder in the death
of Miss Eleanor Lehman in his office i
3o_'t March, that he would never go to
the chair.
While Proctor did not disclose enough ;
of his intentions to Hoffman to throw j
direct light on the manner In which i
he proposed to cheat the chair, it is «
thought possible he may have spoken
more fully to other prisoners regarding ;
Mis plans and that one of them may
be induced to make disclosures. Hoff- !
■man was hostile to Proctor and did not
encourage the youthful murderer to
talk, it was learned.
Poison Group Eliminated.
Because of Proctor's condition prior
to his execution, when he lay for many
Inara in a coma, though heart and
respiration were normal. District chem
ists and physicians have been aide to
eliminate a certain group of poisons
from consideration to their investiga
tion
A local physician called polioe head- j
quarters yesterday afternoon and I
voiced the opinion that Proctor had
taken a powerful drug often used to
induce sleep. He named a drug which
he said would induce a coma similar
to that to which Proctor lay Friday
morning. There are several other
groups of drugs and poisons, however,
which might work to a similar man
ner. either singly or to combination.
It was pointed out.
The District chemists do not expectj
to complete their work before Tuesdays
cr Wednesday, although they said they 1
might stumble on a clue at any time
during the tests
Proctor's body, on which an autopsy*
was performed early yesterday morn-1
fa*. was turned over to his family i
shortly before noon yesterday and was
taken by his relatives to Joplin. Va.. j
whew the funeral will be held at 2:30
o'clock this afternoon.
CYCLE POLICEMEN
AND CARS COLLIDE;
j
Ooa Accident Comes in Parsnit of
Speeding Motor—Both Men
Escape Serioos Injury.
Two me tor cycle policemen collided j
with street cars yesterday afternoon.
O-i? accident occurred while in pursuit
o' a speeding automobile Kellner of
ficer was seriously inured.
Officer Joseph P. Comiskey of the
fourth precinct report de that he was I
hit toy * street car at Four-and-a-Half I
ari H streets southwest while he was
pursuing a car being driven ty John
colored, 835 Springmans court
KtHifeweet His left thigh was slightly j
injbred, but he continued to the chase
end finally overtook Newell and placed j
Jim under arrest.
Overton J Smith, 1116 North Capitol!
•treat, the motorman of th; ?treet tar,
wtos not h“*d Bewrtl was charged with j
lectors* u ving. operating an automo
bile e ter revocation of driver* permit,
defective brakes and assault on an of
ficer Comiskey said that th: man hit
him after he had put him under arrer,'..
Officer Vance V. Vaughan. 27 year*
old, attached to the third precinct, col
lided with a street car about 2 o'clock
yesterday afternoon at the intersection
of Thirty-first street and Wisconsin
avenue The car was operated by Al
to* rt E Ware Vaughan was taken to 1
Emergency Hospital in a passing auto
inpbtk and treated fer a Might r.jury
lo hts knee He later went home j
FLYERS CRASH; ONE DEAD.
/bother Hurt When Plane Dives
VFt. Near Camden, in Tail Spin.
g tb*l Ut The SUM.
CAMDEN, N J.. June 23—Stephen
ftitoe, 18, of Audubon, N J, a student!
|:y«r received tittJ injuries, and Frank
f fanzenerzo, 23, of Philadelphia, was
f .-vereiy hurt, whan an airplane hi j
w bl*h they were cringing crashed on
I'lije Valley Flying Field, on the White •
|io«e turnpike, near here.
TV plane, a Lincoln-Paige dual con
trol biplane dived from a height of
feet after going into a tali spin, i
Recording to Mansrnerzo,
Mike, who was burled in the wreckage
Hied on the way to a hospital, Man- j
»-riwa/ was able to crawl clear of the i
flat* His left leg to broken and has 1
• cull may be fractured doctors said
fi WO DIE IN PLANE CRASH.
CC’U.KAOO SPRINGS, 0010 June
fll *JP> Capt Frank Earl II Zimmer
man, airplane instructor, and W Cowan i
* student flyer, were killed instantly j
■when their airplane crashed one-half
true east of ihc Municipal Airport to-
K«t»
A boy who witnessed the accident j
reported that the wings "looked like'
they collapsed'* when the plane war,
M feel \n th; air.
FRANC STABILIZED
AT 25.52 TO DOLLAR
rin?.no2 Ccrniiteo Approves
Measure to Put Currency
on Gold Basiis.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS. June 23.—Stabilisation of
I the franc on a gold basis at a rata
i equal to 3 93 cents in American money
r was undertaken today by the French
1 government A bill to this effect intro
duced in the Chamber of Deputies by
Premier Poincare was approved this
! evening by th? finance committee of
; that body. Th? vote was 32. 1 against
j end 8 abstaining from the ballot.
The Chamber and the Senate will
i both assemble tomorrow to vote on th?
; bill, the Chamber convening at 9 a.m.
] Every prophecy was that the measure
i wouid pass.
Bank notes of 5. 10 and 20 francs
; denomination will be withdrawn from
circulation before December 31, 1932,
and will be replaced by silver coins of
5 and 10 francs. The mint is given i
authority immediately to coin 100 franc '
gold pieces, 990 fine.
!" The entire gold and silver French |
' currency, coined previous to th? pro- !
mu's?-iion of the present law. ceases to |
. b? legal tender between individuals and j
I must b? turned in, to the Bank of;
France, where reva’orised credit will b?
given th? bearers at th? new ratio.
Redeemable in Gold.
The stabilization bill provides that
| the Bank of France redeem its bank
notes "in gold to bearers at sight upon j
demand."
Reimbursements for bank notes in;
i gold can only be transacted at the I
• mein office in Paris.
The Bank of France must maintain i
j in its vaults reserves of gsld currency j
; cr bars equaling 35 per cent of the}
j entire paper circulation.
All laws prohibiting the export ofj
i gold and silver currencies or bars are
! canceled by the bill and gold and i
silver will be free and may be taken in
and out of the frontiers.
May Issug Bank Notes.
The law fixing the limit of paper;
bank notes to circulation also is re-
I pealed and the Bank of France is I
authorized t® issue notes td a limitless !
amount provided they are covered by a
35 per cent gold reserve.
It was 9 o’clock at night when the
premier appeared before the committee i
and gave a concise explanation of the j
bill. A few minutes later several mem- j
bers of the committee circulated among |
the hundreds of newspapermen awaiting j
in the lobbies and the word was passed I
around that the rate would be 25.52 to ;
the dollar and 124.21 franees to the;
| pound sterling.
The individual franc, therefore, will
be worth 3.93 cents in American money.
In terms of metal it will be 65* 2
j milligrams of gold, 900 fine.
I The committee was expected to de
i vote a good portion of the night to
consideration of the various provisions
of the bill, particularly those having
to do with redemption of paper money
and old coinage.
Same as New York Rate.
The stabilization rate differs only
slightly from unofficial trading on the
Paris Bourse today. It corresponds
exactly with the last New York quo
tation received here. On the Bourse
sterling was transacted at 124.20 and
the dollar at 25.47. . ,
The new coinage, which the Bank of
I France will have struck in order to be
i ready to pay gold to holders of paper,
i will be worth Just about one-fifth of,
the coins that were in circulation before
the World Wkr. Consequently, the
gold coins will be 5 times smaller than
the old. The principal coin will be
the 100 franc piece, of about the same
size as the old "Louis.” or 20-franc
pieoe that was to current circulation
until July. 1914.
Economically, the effect of the stablli
ration will be far-reaching, but the
! man in the street will have no more
! Bold to jingle to his pockets than before.
The French Republi’s entire stock of.
! gold will remain for the present in
big, gold bars held in the vaults of!
the Bank of France for use to adjust-
I mg international balances. . j
French butchers, bakers and taxicab
drivers will transact their affairs on j
Mondav with the same old paper francs, i
[They will read the heavy declarations;
of government experts, but find that the j
! value of thetr notes has not varied ■
a centime.
MYSTERY SHROUDS
HUGE MAIL THEFT
ABOARD LEVIATHAN I
(Continued from glrat Page-1 j
and Inner mail bags still bore the i
American seals intact, md because a
microscopic examination of the oags
| reveals that they were not slit and
afterward sewed up.
Scotland Yard men and Inspector j
Vaughan end Detective Bergt. Jarvis ;
of the criminal investigation depart- .
ment are convinced, after hours of in
vestigation. that the bags were not
I touched on the boat. The duties of the ■
sorting clerks do not involve th« open- i
i ing of the sealed registered bags, nor !
: '-ou’d they have had the opportunity to j
I do so.
CUNNINGLY HIDDEN.
Hit Envelopes First Inkling, Only
Negotiable* Taken.
SOUTHAMPTON England. June 23
<>?>■.—After a 24-hour investigation into ,
i the loss of negotieb'e paper and money
v mounting perhaps to $500,000 from j
registered parcels carried by the Lev)a- j
than from the United States, Scotland j
Yard she detective branch of the gen- ;
i eral post office and insurance investiga- j
tors late today had no information to :
give respecting ftetr findings j
It was indicated, however, that there 1
Is a strong belief in British detective j
circle.-, that the robbery took place in I
: the United States before the mall bags
w%re loaded on the Leviathan This is ,
baaed on the fact that the seals on the ,
! registered packages were Intact, and j
that the bags in which these packages
were contained were also under seal i
when the steamer was unleaded here, j
Bo cunningly was the robbery carried i
out that Its existence was noi even sus- ]
p&cted until th? mail reached its des- j
! Unatton Opening of the packages In j
which the registered letters were sealed :
; disclosed the fact that then* letters j
had been slit open. The seals on the j
i bags and on the package*, bore the •
j Imprint of the United States post office.
Only contents that were readily ne
gotiable were touched The r obbers took
j checks bank drafts, bills of exchange
; and bank notes Everything else was
■ left severely alone
Th"* Leviathan sailed from New York
; June 18.
Ci p* Cunningham, commander of
the Leviathan, said today that the roto
b ry could not possibly have been per- i
j petrated aboard Uv* liner.
"We urpoad the mail bags at South
ampton.” he said "exactly in th-* same
j conditions as we took them on board
I The United States Government seal
was placed on th bags in the New York
poet office, They then were brought to
i the ship in mail autoraobth a with
armed guards They were placed to
' the man room and th? door locked
' throughout voyage. Four armed
Ci'j'.iimo l nt fi'Sigl ckika were con-
THE SitJWbAY STAIC \vAftm D. C., 54. Ifl2g u !' L
CR ASH IN WHICH NOTED MARINE FLYER AND TWO COMPANIONS WERE KILLED
The trl-motored transport plane photographed shortly after it smashed at File. Va., yesterdey. killing Ma.f. Charles A. Lutz, winner of th? Curtis T *gh.r
seaplane race, held recently at AnacosJa; Lieut. H. C. Busby and Corpl. D. C. McChcsnfy, and badly injuring Corpl. Reeder Nichols. —Associated Press - hum.
MU KIDNAPER
SEARCH IS ORDERED
I
Troops to Seek Bandits Who
Hold Two Americans
for Ransom.
By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, June 23 —Federal |
troops have been ordered out by the .
Mexican government to pursue a ban- j 1
dit party which kidnaped W. M. j
Mitchell and John F. Hooper, American :
mining men, in the state of Jalisco and ! ,
are holding them for ransom under j
threat of death.
The bandits, raid to number 150 men, j
also raided several towns and ranches, ‘
drove off cattle and captured several )
Mexican workers who later were rc- * .
leased. *t-
Money Demand Made.
Mitchell is understood to be the
manager of the Mesiuital Del Oro
Mines, property of the Pacific Mining
Co. in the Mesquital Del Oro Camp in
the state of Zacateca*. Although
Hooper has not been definitely identi
fied the American embassy believes j
that he might be of the same company. ■
Guadalajaraa press dispatches say j
that the bandits demanded 3,000 pesos
(approximately $1,500). for the re
lease of each of the captives, while
the American embassy has received j
advices from private sources that 18.-
000 pesos (approximately $9 000) has
been demanded for both
The embassy, which has made repre
sentations to the Mexican foreign of- ;
flee for the safe return o! the men. was
informed that Mitchell and Hooper were j
going by automobile from Guadalajara,
Jalisco, to the mine Friday morning
when the bandits surrounded them and
took off dhe Americans. They sent the
Mexican driver back to Guadalajara
with a message demanding ransom.
Mitchell’s mining camp is stated to
I have been attacked by bandits previous
ily in each case he was threatened
with kidnaping because he would not
nay them tribute and would not permit
them to loot the property unresisted.
Insurgents Active.
Federal reinforcements from Guad
alajara and other Jaiijpo garrisons have
been ordered to the region of the kid-
A renewal of insurgent activity in
! other parts of Jalisco also is indicated
!in press dispatches. One federal soldier
was killed In a battle near Texcalema.
, during which the federal troops killed 1 1
tjgustin Sevilla, alleged leader of the
band, and dispersed the insurgents. ,
DICKSON ATTENDS SCHOOL
Organist and Choir Efrectoi Here
Chosen for Fo inableau.
Etc:wart Dicks'; n, organist and choir
director of the Columbia Heights Chria
' tlan Church, arrived yesterday in Paris, j
where he will attend the Summer ses- ,
| : ion of the Fontainebleau School of
| Music at the Palace of Fontainebleau.
This school of fine arts U under the
j protection of the French Government,
| and is for selected, advanced music
j students, with M Charles-Marie Wldor
1 and M Camille Decreus as directors.
| Walter Damroseh of New York is chair
! man of the selection committee,
Mr Dickson was fotmerly a membet
j of the fine arts department of Kansas
i University, wlvre he was engaged when •
■ he was invited to attend at Fontaine- j
• blcau He is the son of Col. and Mrs,
I Thomas J. Dickson of 3383 Sixteenth
street.
— *'-■ j
stantly on duty to see that the bags J
were not touched.”
The mail, which was in charge of the i
i United State# sea postal staff while
i aboard the liner, was landed at South
ampton last evening under such strict
supervision that it was considered im
possible that, they were Interfered
with in any way. It was when the mail
reached Its destination and the bags
containing the registered letters were
opened that the robbery was discovered
NEW YORK DOUBTS.
fill Ilrg dercd Hirjs I'.rf ct When
Hut.d, Says Inspector.
NEW YOItK, June 23 </!*). -Doubt {
that the mail begs on board the lin*r
l.eviathan could have been rifled hi
New York before the #htp sailed for
Southampton was expressed by United
States postal inspectors today,
"AH registered bag# were in perfect
condition when they were sealed and
placed in the ordinary mail bags here,"
the inspector in charge of the mve*-
ligatiou bald. _ „„
SURVIVOR TELLS
OF PLANE CRASH
WHICH KILLS TRIO
(Continued from First Page.)
equipped with radio. It was the first
jhance I had for a long flight, though, i
“I guess I'll never know how it hap- !
pened. but It sure took three of the
best fellow’s in the game. Maj. Lutz
was right in his prime and both he
and Lieut. Bushbey were the finest offi
cers I ever met. Red was a cracker
jack mechanic and a fine fellow. I'm
sorry poor Red's gone. I don’t know’
why I am not with them. It sure is
a miracle to me.
"The Fokker was brand-new and r.he
had only eight hours in the log. She i (
had passed every test, so there's no :
telling what happened to cause the 1
crash.” i i
On the tables in his room at the An- j
drev/s home the youthful Marine radio ] 1
man had the tubes and batteries of j
his radio. The tubes were intact, but
the batteries were broken. ; '•
Nichols Is suffering from, shock and
severe bums on all parts of his body,
but will be moved lo Quantico as soon
as possible.
MAJ. LUTZ D’ES IN CRASH.
Ueat. Basbey and Corpl. McChesney <
Also Killed in Wreck.
FILE. Va., June 23 id’).—A tri-mo- ,
tored transport plane nose-dived to
earth here early this morning, carry
ing to death Maj. Charles A. Lutz,
Lieut. H. T. Busbey and Corpl. D. C. ,
McChesney. Corpl. Reeder Nichols, .
fourth member of the ill-fated crew,
received serious burns and internal in- •
juries which physicians believe will not i 1
prove fatal.
En route to Managua, with a stop
programmed for Miami, the plane leu
Washington shortly after i o’clock this ,
morning and it is believed the plane j
was attempting a landing when the
crash came.
Awakened by the roar of motors, the ;
residents of this village came out to see
a plane circle the place several times
before spiraling in a nose-dive to the j
earth. Somersaulting three or four
times after hitting the ground, the de
molished plane came to rest in a little i
ravine on the farm of Edward Andrews,
the birthplace of Edmund Pendleton,
presiding officer of the colonial con- j
vent ion prior to the Revolutionary War
Two Killed Instantly.
Maj. Luta and Lieut. Busbey were
killed instantly, their bodies lying prob
ably 53 feet lrom the wreckage. Corpl.
McChesney, thrown clear of the plane,
died a few hours later,
Corpl. Nichols, badly hurt, managed
to extricate himself from the wreckage
before the arrival of aid.
The bodies were removed to Quantico,
Va., from which place they will be sent
to their relatives.
Forty-seven years old, Maj. Lute has j
been flying for five years and had been
in command of the air forces at |
Quantico. His home is in Boise, Idaho, j
but his widow lives In Washington.
Commissioned in the Marine Corps
in 1922, Lieut Busbey, a native of \
Washington, D. C., is survived by his j
widow, Mrs Rowena Busbey, who lives
in Pensacola, Fla, He was 28 years |
old.
Corpl. McChesney's home is Detroit, i
while Corpl. Nichols came from Flor
ence, Ala
Recently Won Race.
Maj. Lutz recently won the Curtiss
Marine trophy for speed. He was ap
pointed to the Marine Corps in 1903.
Immediately upon the receipt of the
official message of Corpl, Nichols, telling
of the crash, Maj. Gen, John A. Lc-
Jcune, commandant of the Marines at
Washington, dispatched Maj L. M
Bourne of Quantico to the scene, to
take "charge of the situation and re
move the bodies.
The reason for the attempted land
ing is still a mystery,
BURIAL PLANS NOT FIXED. ,
j
r.laj. Lutz Will Be Buried at ArlinjUn,
Widow Says. i
No definite arrangements had been
made last night for the burial of the j
.Marines killed in the crash at File, Va !
Maj. Lutz will be buried in Arling- 1
ton, it was said at his home in Cathe
dral Mansions, North, last night, but ;
definite arrangements will not be made <
for the funeral until word is received l
from his mother, Mrs. B. F. M, Lula.!
who lives at. Ban Diego, Calif. His i
widow and two daughters. Priscilla, 18 '
years old. and Christiana, M, are at)
the home
Mrs. Kathrine Cl Busbay, the mother !
of Lieut.. Busbey, who resides at 930 j
Nineteenth street, was at Quantico last
night Officers there sai lno arrange- j
nvsnta for the funeral had been made
Lieut. Busbey'a father was the late L
While Busbey, who was secretary to
“Uncle Joe" Cannon
Beiignation Is Accepted,
The President, has eeceuted th*
j ation of Second Lieut. Ralph B ltoo
inson, Medical Administrative Corps,
recently Stationed at the Walter Reed
General Hospital He is from Indiana , !
and waa commissioned in the Medical.
Corps April 30. 1938. *
YOUTH SELLS SKIN
TO BEL EDUCATION
j
C. H. Dunee Also Offers Blood
for Cash at Takoma
I
Park Institution.
i
Lack of ready cash need not prevent
any ambitious American youth from
obtaining a higher education.
Charles H. Dupee, 19. was convinced
of that. So he went out from his home
in Seattle, Wash., last Winter without
cash, or job, but with a determination
to reach the National Capital, where >
he planned to enter Washington Mis- '
sionary College.
Eventually, he arrived here, obtained i
work and lodging at the Takcma Park
School, and to get additional funds fer i
his education he recently sold a
quantity of his blood for transfusica j
purposes and gave a large section of his!
skin for grafting.
All has not been smooth sailing, how
ever. While working his way East from
his heme, obtaining rides from friendly ;
tourists, young Dupee was taken into j
custody at Hopeville, Calif., on suspicion
that he was Edward Hickman, slayer of >
Marion Parker, who at the time was !
desperately attempting to make his
escape on the West Coast. Dupee was
said to be virtually Hickman's double,
in appearance. He was released after
authorities were satisfied as to his true
identity.
Arriving in Washington, Dupee in
formed officials at the Takoma Park
institution that he wanted to b* trained
as a gospel worker and to study piano j
and voice along with other coursr-a and
was given work In the school's paint
shop. He also works evenings at the
Washington Sanitarium, across thaj
campus.
Recently when Dr. O K. Abbott,
medical superintendent of the sani
•arium, called for some one to sell his
blood for a transfusion, the youth
volunteered later he volunteered to;
submit to a skin-grefting operation to j
?ave th? arm of 4-year-old Gerald 1
Jones, who had been hurt in a traffic j
accident In doing so he took the olace
of the child’s mother, who had planned
to give her skin for her child.
Young Dupee is in the sophomore
class at the college and expects to com
pete his studies He plans to
becomp a gospel worker in the Seventh
lay Adventist denomination, of which
he is a member.
Seven farm laborers, each with 50 ]
vears or more service on th? same!
farm or with the same master or mis- j
tress, were awarded premiums recently ;
at Bury St, Edmunds. England, by the j
Suffolk Agricultural Society. *
SELLS BLOOD FOR EDUCATION
ItIAUMS \\\ UVPKK.
Who hi paying hta way through Washington Missionary College by seihn* hi*,
blood transfusion*. Itewntly ho h!«i> gave several square tiwhtt of »Kim lor
a grafting operation. Dupre, photographed with Mis* Lorena Hall, a nu**e at
Washington hanltariww* -"Star Stag i»how^
1 START SEASON
AT SUMMER CAMPS
Beginning of Vacation Work
. and Play This Week to
j
Benefit Families.
The Summer camps of the outings
commLiee of th? Associated Charities
j will open this week, when nearly 300
children and their mothers will start
the season, for a two-week stay. Camp
Pleasant, at Blue Plains. D. O, will be
j opened Tuesday, and Camp Good Will.
‘ in Rock Creek Park, th? following day.
Camp Pleasant, which will be in th?
I charge of Mrs. Laura B. Glenn, will
j entertain 125 mothers and children
from the mid-section of the dity. who
! have been Invited by Mrs. Ethel C.
; Williams, th? second district, visitor of
j the Associated Charities. Th’ Rock
! Creek camp will receive 150 mothers and
children from the Georgetown and
j Southwest sections.
Physical Examinations.
All the children will b? examined,
nrior to going to camp, to ascertain
i that they do not have any eommunica
‘ ble disease. The examination will be
j made by Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, chief
: medical inspector of the public schools,
and Dr Charles A. Tigner.
It was announced that the following
I organizations have contributed to the
1 funds with which to maintain the
1 camps: Rebecca Wallace Charity fund
jof All Souls' Church: Calvary Methodist
; Episcopal Church; Everygirl's Bible
1 Class of the Church of th’ Covenant;
j Commissariat of th? Holy l and. Frnn
| ciscan Monastery; Church Society.
First Congregational Church; Lincoln
; Temple Senior C. E. Society; Sherwood
! Presbyterian Church. Alpha Ladies’
Class: Takoma Park Baptist Church,
Ladles' Bible Class; Charles Datcher
I Lodge No. 15, F. A. A. M.; Columbia
Lodge No. 3. F A A. M.; Columbia
i Typographical Union, No. 101; Har
j mony Lodge No. 17, F A.. A. M.; Home
i Interest Club, Takoma, D C.; Pet worth
Woman’s Club; Ruth Chapter No. 1,
: O. E S.; the Sorority Club; Temple-
Noyes Lodge No. 32. F. A. A. M.. and
Twentieth Century Club.
Tents Provided.
Th* following tents have been pro
vided. “H. V Havden." "Philadelphia
Market C 0.." "J D. Watkins.” • W J.
Eek.” "Lydia P. McDonald" nrm?d by
Miss Jessie C. McDonald: "Th’ Five
I Virginias.” "Dorothy and Dorland Lay.”
j "Billy Clark" all three named by Miss
Jan? B. Silvester; "In Memory of
i Thomas A. WUhsrsooon." named by
I Mrs. Thomas A Withersoocn; "In
j memory of Annie S. Holmes." nsmed bv
1 her daughter. Mrs. Hattie Holmes Hill.
MEN EXPENSES
PLACED AT 518,953
r/l?nager Points to $lO 000
Surplus and Thinks He Is
-Piker in Spending.
By the Associated Press.
I CHICAGO, June 23.—The unsuccess
! ful campaign of Prank O. Lowden for
; the Republican presidential nomination
! cost $73,953.14, Clarence F. Buck,
j Lowden’s campaign manager, testified
j here today at a brief meeting of the
j Senate campaign expenditures com
! mittee.
| Contributions to the campaign, Buck
said, totaled $88,976.31, and in pointing
to the balance of SIO,OOO, Buck re
marked, “I guess I’m a piker in spend
ing money.”
The committee, represented by Senator
Frederick Steiwer. Republican, Oregon,
and Senator William H. McMaster. Re
publican, South Dakota, was in ses
sion less than four hours, hearing only
four witnesses, most of the testimony
| concerning expenditures in behalf of
j Republican convention delegates in Wis
consin and Minnesota.
I At the conclusion Senator Steiwer
said no further inquiries would be made
until August, when investigations would
: be started in Texas and California.
Various Leaders Heard.
Besides Buck, the others before tire
■ committee today were A. B. Fontain,
Green Bay. Wis„ one of the leaders in
the faction opposed to the group headed
j by Senator Robert M. La Follette; State
j Senator Claude McKenzie, Gaylord,
Minn., Lowden preconvention manager
i in that State, and Ivan Bowan. Min
! neapolis, who directed the effort to
i name Minnesota delegates favorable to
, Herbert Hoover.
1 Fontain said the regular Republicans.
; as members ctf his group call them
selves, raised about $36,000 to elect nine
: delegates to the Kansas City conven
j: ion who were antagonistic to La Fol
iette and the presidential candidate of
j ihat faction. Senator George Norris,
Republican, Nebraska. The regulars
i .ought to elect uninstructed delegates.
I Fontain would not say, in response to
! questions by Senator McMaster. that all
those who voted for Norris in the pri
' mary were not Republicans.
Tm not indicating the Republicans
of Wisconsin.” observed the witness! “I
am interested, however, in ridding Wis
consin of the element we complain of
—now representing the State in the
Senate."
Farm Influence. •
McKenzie said the Lowden organ:-
| i ion in Minnesota was formed a year
ago. but that the Hoover people were
.list in the field with headquarters.
The Lowden sentiment crystallized be
cause of a desire for farm relief, and
following President Coolidge’s first veto
of the McNary-Haugen bill, he related.
The witness said that $16,000 was
spent in Minnesota to name Lowden
delegates. SIO,OOO coming from the na-
I tional headquarters of the candidate,
j with the remainder raised in the State
| Bowen told the committee the Hoover
campaign in Minnesota was centered
! in three districts, each of which named
two delegates favorable to the Con
i merce Secretary. He added that about
j 036 500 was spent.
TOWN DEPUTIES
Impressive Ceremony Marks
Burial of Jugoslav Offi
cials in Croatia.
By the Associated Press.
ZAGREB. Croatia. June 23—With
bowed heads and tear-filled eyes, fully
200.000 Croatian peasants lined the
treets today while the flower-smothered
coffins of Paul Raditch and Dr. Basarit
chek, slain deputies, were borne aloft
on the shoulders of comrades to the
graves of the national martyrs.
Jugoslavia has witnessed no such
moving and impressive ceremony since
venerable King Peter's death seven
years ago.
The great legions of peasants marched
five abreast through a forest of crosses
to the cemetery, carrying lighted can
dles, sacred and vials of holy
water. Their shaved heads, bare feet
and ghostlike costumes of pure white
gave a biblical tinge to the procession.
While sobs shook the mourners at the
j graveside. Deputy Prebitchevltch. in a
choking voice, pronounced a panegyric
over the fallen deputies. He officiated
in place of Stefan Raditch. the peas
ant leader who was wounded in the
Belgrade shooting and could not come.
The most pathetic figures at the
grave were the widows and nine small
children of the slain deputies
As the coffins were lowered Prebitch
evitch read a message from King Alex
ander and also a long statement from
Stefan Raditch. written from his hos
pital In this message Raditch de
clared that the Croatian deputies and
1 the representatives of all provinces
j would never return to Belgrade until
i the present cabinet resigned.
The leader also paid personal trtb
i ute to King Alexander, who, he said,
was doing superhuman work trying to
pacify and unify the political and
racial elements of the three-fold king
* dom.
K. OF C. BOYS’ GROUP
ELECTS DEAN HEAD
Keane Council Man Is Chairman of
First Board of Directors—Mem
bership Passes 400.
The first permanent board of execu
tives of the Kuights of Columbus Boys'
Club, 918 Tenth street, was elected at
j a meeting of the organiaatlon’s spon
-1 >ors Thursday night .
Charles A. Dean. Keane Council, was
named chairman, while the others of- 1
fleers chosen include J. H. Zabel. Spal
j fling Council, vice chairman; J. E Lloyd, 1
i Carroll Council, secretary. Arthur
! O'lcary. Potomac Council, treasurer, and
j Zube Sullivan, athletic director F.
X Cavanaugh of St. Martin’s Church I
I was chosen spiritual director,
i The Boy*’ Club te open every week
elay from 1 to 8 p.nv and membership j
is open to any Catholic bey 10 to 18 j
years of age The membership of the
organisation has passed the 400 mark, j
RASCHE PLANE IN HANGAR.
NEW YORK, June 23 (4*> The
monoplane Ncrth Star, in which Thea j
Rasche, German aviatrix, hopes to fly !
• to Europe, was wheeled into a hangar
Miller Field. Staten Is’and. today
. fter a flight from Hadley Field, N, J.
The olane was flown to New Jersey
vom Curtiss Field last night while
lawyers for Mrs. Anne U. Stillman, who ,
bought the rhm for Miss Ranche, and
counsel for the flyer 1 * previous finan
cial hacker* continued litigation over
an Injunction by which her former
associate* seek to prevent Miss Roach*
from «UMHl{'nllg|g i tranaa!lauUc flt|P
utjflwlusplces
DEPUTIES’ DEATHS
j ROUSE BALKANS
Shooting in Jugoslav Parlia
ment Taken as Inten
sifiyng Crisis.
BY GUSTAV STOLPEE.
By Radio to The Star.
BERLIN. June 23.—The shots which
killed two leaders of the opposition in
Jugoslav Parliament thh week have
alarmed the world. The conseoucnc?'-
cannot at the moment be foreseen, tu,
I they may be far-reaching.
The murders, committed by the gov
ernment party deputy, RatcMtch, have
no parallel in the history of the world’s
parliaments. They throw a searchlight
on the tremendous tension that charac
terizes the life of the young Jugoslav
‘ state.
> The slayer had been accused of cor
ruption by one of the opposition leaders
he killed, and these charges of corrup
tion. which the opposition long has been
’ making against the government parties,
• naturally poison the whole political
■ atmosphere.
But back of the bitter struggle of
the parties lie greater and more serious
! differences, which long have been
l known to those familiar with Jugo
slav conditions.
Lack National Unity.
‘ The Kingdom of the Serbs. Croats
! ! and Slovenes,” as the state is officially
■ called, has not yet found itself after
1 I almost 10 years of existence.
I j The peoples, who. as their names
■ j indicate, belong to three races, did not
. achieve national unity in the same
’ manner as Germany and Italy in 1871
■ The German and Italian peoples had
i for decades been inspired with a strong
> desire tor union. There was no such
feeling in Jugoslavia. The territory
, today constitutes the kingdom in
1918 of seven states, or para of
■ states, with differing legislation and
administration Serbia. Montenegro.
Austria, Hungary, Croatia. Bosnia and
Bulgaria. These were heterogefieou.-
elements, not merely in respect to their
social structure and degree of civiliza
, tion. but also religion, and writing,
i The' Serbians are G-~eek Orthodox,
t the Croats and Slovenes are Roman
j Catholics, and there are numerous Mo-
I hammedans in Bosnia and Macedonia
The Serbians have Cyrillic letters; the
: Croats and Slovenes, Latin.
But above ail. the Serbians and Croat.-,
come from a different culture. Until
a few decades ago the Serbians be
i longed to Turkey and hence to the
• Balkans. and the Croats belong'd, as
’ A”stro-Hungarian subjects, to the
j Western cultural world.
Croats Good Soldier*.
I The war found them on different
sides. The Serbians belonged to the
Allies, whereas the Croats were the test
soldiers in the Austrian army and also
i the truest to the last, especially on the
» j Isonzo front against the Italians.
■ The chasm is not yet bridged. The
Croatian peasants struggle against Bel
grade’s centralizing tendency and re
. gard themselves as forced into the posi-
I tion of second-rate citizens.
1: The two Radi tc his—the murdered
1 nephew and the wounded uncle—were
leaders in the struggle fer Croatian
home rule. They fought corruption as
the most dangerous means of falsifying
the real will of the people.
There is also a second factor. Jugo
slavia feels itself oppressed and isolated
by Italy, and this increases the tension,
j The Croat who dwells on the Adriatic
i Coast, which he regards as menaced
I by Italy, and who is the nearest neigh-
I bor of the hated Italy, suspects the
! Belgrade government of betraying him.
This explains why the announce-
M ment of the Jugoslav government that
it would ratify the Nettuno agreement
with Italy evoked such tremendous ex
citement in Croatia. The government
> remained firm because of foreign polit
ical and financial reasons and the op
position grew more passionate.
The shootings now have made ft im
possible for the Jugoslav state to take
any political action in the near future,
and thus the Balkan menace, which
threatens Europe's peace, becomes
greater.
AU the European cabinets are trem
i bltng at the thought tht the shocUnc
’ j mav begin at any ir -lent an the
> | Balkan frontiers, which would disrupt
j all political conditions.
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'FARE HEARING DATE
■ I TO BE SOUGHT AGAIN
l
\ initiation Decision and Relation cf
W. R. & E. Co. to Bt
Arranged Tomorrow.
The Public Utilities Commission wi"
s attempt for the second time tomorrow
i to fix a date for a hearing on the appfi
• cation of the Capital Traction Co for
I a higher fare and at the same Urn
■ reach a decision on several other ques
• tions which have an important bearing
. on the case. These are whether a new
•; valuation should be made and whether
|j the Washington Railway A Elcctnc
! Co. should be made an unwilling party
.} to the application.
, t All of these questions were considered
,I by the commission last week but its
I deliberations failed to produce a de
cision.
The W R A K. Co. has not re?
joined the Capital Traction in asking
,for an increased fare and the iwlua
tions are that it will not do so, despite
the announcement of William F Ham
its president, that the earning* of the
carrier are slightly in excess of 4 per
cent on the existing valuation A re
turn of 7 per-cent has been considered
fair by the commission and the courts
, in the past.
MAN KILLED IN GRASPING
LIVE WIRE ON BRIDGE
Victim Wa* Installing Light on
Waynesboro. V*., Structure
When Electrocuted.
Special Dispatch tc* The Star
STAUNTON. Va„ June Grasp uv
a live wire while engaged st Installing
* light on the iron bridge over South
1 River at Waynesboro this afternoon,
j Horace Gordon Kirby, aged S 3, was elec
! txocuted
A fellow'workman. Cal Hall, cut the
wire, which had burned its way to the
‘ bones of the victim’s right hand, tel ere
hte body could be lowered to the ground
[The voltage of the wire was 2.30 d
Two physicians. Dr* Moeby and Her
‘ bert, were summoned In the hope that
. Kirby’s life might be saved, but their
efforts ware hi vain.
Mr Ktrbjr. a son of Mr and Mr*
Emmett Kirby, of near Waynesboro *»
I survived by his wife and two children
: two sisters and flee brothers. His hom.
, was in East Waynesboro, where he was
j empkiped bv the Street Department
1 Funeral service.* will be held Monday
•
Levee Collapse Feared.
MEMPHIS. Trim, June 23 <F
Collapse of Woodruff County level's w» - .
ol Cotton Plant. Ark., was considered
imminent as a driving wind and rain
storm swept down the White Rher
Valley tonight The wind lashed th'
stream furiously against the top-heavy
embankments and workmen who toiieJ
to hold back the river.
Ten surviving members of a. family
In England have a total age of 133