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WEATHER. <U. S. Wei'her Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature. Temperatures: Highest, 81, at 2:50 nm yesterday; lowest, 63, at 6:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 Entered ns sooond class matter post office. Washington. D. C. N«>l O. 01,1 JU, DRIVER IDENTIFIES MAN HE SAYS WENT ID PARK LANE ON NIGHT NURSE DIED; Garnett M. Frye, Taxi Chauf feur, Goes Before Grand Jury to Support Affidavit Concerning Charges. REPORT TO BE MADE SOMETIME MONDAY “Startling Are; Hinted by Official—Mrs. Brown j Gives Version of Her "Quarrel" With Husband and Reported “Screams." The grand jury investigating the mysterious death of Mrs. Vir ginia McPherson called a halt to day in its questioning of witnesses and prepared to make its report Monday, after receiving last-min ute testimony reputedly of a most sensational nature. ' The sensation was provided by a surprise witness, Garnett M. Frye, youthful taxicab driver, who last night signed an affidavit iden tifying a man, already know'n to police in the case, as a passenger he drove to the Park Lane Apart ments late on the night Mrs. Mc- Pherson strangled to death there with a pajama cord knotted around her neck. Frye was closeted with the grand jurors for nearly an hour, this morning, and he is under- j stood to have repeated to them startling statements made in a paper sworn to before Assistant! District Attorney Collins. The affidavit was introduced as evi dence today. The jury also questioned Ed- j ■ward Dyer, Frye's employer, and Mrs. William Brown, occupant of an apartment in the Lombardy, j just across the areaway from the McPherson apartment. Mrs. Brown corroborates previous testimony that a woman’s screams were I heard between 2 and 3 o’clock the ; night cf the tragedy. . After summoning newspaper men to ! whom Frye first made his disclosures 1 the grand jury decided it would not j need their testimony and indicated that | no more witnesses would be questioned ! unless there were further developments. The jury must hand down it* report some time Monday, as its term expires automatically Monday night. Tells of Passenger. The affidavit by Frye alleges he took the man in his cab at Fifteenth and New York avenue after midnight and carried him to an alleyway between the j rear of the Park Lane and the Westend Market. The paid ths i (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) 17 CONVICTS ESCAPE. Texas Prison Farm Inmates Dig Tunnel 75 Feet; Hounds Trail. HUNTSVILLE, Tex.. September 28 (fp). —Seventeen convicts at the Wynne State prison farm for tuberculars near here, escaped last night, Warden G. F. Hanell reported today. The men dug out through the kitchen floor 6 feet into the ground and tunneled 75 feet to the surface behind a building outside the confines, and. out of sight of the guards. Fifty men, every guard and prison official available in this section, fol lowed a pack of bl°°dhounds today on the trail of the escaped convicts. ADM. ROBERTSON ILL. llth District Commandant Is Con fined in San Diego Hospital. SAN DIEGO. Calif.. September 28 (/Pi. —Rrar Admiral Ashley H. Robert- | son. commandant of the eleventh anval ; district, Is seriously ill at the local naval. hospital. Admiral Robertson was successfully j operated on recently, but complications | subsequently developed. I HOOVER’S OWN PICTURE GALLERY MAY GIVE MACDONALD CHUCKLE Naval Conversations Expected to Take Place in President’s Study. . By the Associated Press. Full masculine prerogatives at the White House will mean for Prime Min ister Ramsay MacDonald a glimpse of President Hoover’s own, very Individual art gallery. Reflecting a very hi man side of Her bert Hoover, the little gallery, a very recent growth, is fast gaining fame in high official circles. It gives a whim sical flavor to that mellow after-dinner moment while the men have their cigars in the President's study. The same quiet humor which prompted the President to make his speech on how humble a man must be in the eyes of a fish also prompted the picture gallery. It covers the walls of a small room adjoining the study, and consists of pencil, pen and oil portraits, sepia studies, and etchings of the President as conceived by widely scat tered artists, mostly amateur. Posed for None of Group. All have arrived at the White House as gifts since Mr. Hoover took office In March. None was posed for. and sev eral apparently had none too lifelike photographs as inspiretion. Several, done with Impressionistic flourish and little attempt at likeness, are excellent. Denver Man Is Killed For Using Fountain To Wash False Teeth DENVER. September 28 i.P).— John Stoltz 67, is dead because he chose to wash his false teeth at a public drinking fountain on a downtown street. James D. De Losier. 66. who saw him. became angered and struck Stoltz in the face, knocking him down and fracturing his skull, i De Losier is held by police. Arrest suspected SLAYER OF LAWYER AFTER LONG HDNT J. A. Wood, Missing 6 Weeks, I Taken as He Applies for Compensation Check. i Sought by police since the fatal shooting six weeks ago of Charles N. Joyce. 56-year-old Arlington County lawyer, James A. Wood, 57 years old, alleged to have shot Joyce, was arrested at the Veterans’ Bureau this morning when he called for a compensation check. Although admitting his name. Wood refused to answer any questions con cerning the shooting of the lawyer, who had obtained his release from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and then had let I him have a room at his home in Claren- j don. Wood said he would return volun- | tarily to Arlington County. * Wood, who is an ex-Army officer, i came to the Veterans’ Bureau about 10:30 o'clock this morning from Roan oke. Va.. where he had been staying at the Salvation Army. He was dressed in a chauffeur's uniform. He was rec ognized by a man who saw him come in the I street entrance. Detective I. P. Mclnerney, assigned to the Vet erans' Bureau, was summoned. Mc lnerney walked up to Wood and in quired'if he could assist him. Wood replied that he came for his check. The detective escorted him to his office, where he left him. telling him that he • would go for the check. Find Pistol in Pocket. Instead Mclnerney hurried toward the street, but found Policemen James ; P. Miller of the Traffic Bureau and j W. T. Tass of the third precinct before | he reached the door. Miller and Tass placed Wood under arrest and took him to the third precinct, where he I was lodged in a cell to await the ' arrival of Arlington County authorities. The policemen found a 32-caliber ' automatic pistol of foreign make in 1 Wood's pants pocket. The gun was loaded. When notified today of Wood's ar- ; rest. Commonwealth Attorney William G. Gloth immediately Issued a warrant ; charging Wood with murder and turned it over to County Policeman Raymond • j Crack and Deputy Sheriff Archie ! Richards for service. Return Wood to Arlington. Crack and Richards, accompanied by j E. Bruce Green, Gloth's associate, went j to the third precinct shortly before noon to return Wood to Arlington County. 1 An effort will be made to talk with him as soon as he is safely lodged in ; the Arlington County jail. Because of the fact that Wood was formerly an inmate of St. Elizabeth's j Hospital, it was considered doubtful ■ whether he would ever be tried on the murder charge, even if he confesses to j the shooting. Authorities consider it j probable that he will be examined by ! a sanity commission, and found to be ' insane, returned to St. Elizabeth's Hos pital, from which he is now said to be on parole. BANDITS GET PAY ROLL. Dash Into New Orleans Office and Escape With $8,500. NEW ORLEANS. La., September 28 i/P). —Three hooded raincoat bandits with pistols and sawed-off shotguns today dashed into the Todd Shipbuild ing Co.. Howard avenue and Fulton street, and robbed the paymaster of the weekly pay roll, amounting to $8,500. The robbery was carried out so quietly that a score of workers in the office section hardly knew that the bandits had jammed a gun into the side of Raymond Kirkpatrick, the paymaster, until the trio had made their exit. Getting the money, the robbers es caped in a stolen automobile. Fare Jumps Taxi on Long Ride. ROCHESTER. N. Y„ September 28 i/P). —W. J. Ewen. Detroit taxi driver, is disillusioned. It looked like velvet when a fare in Detroit ordered him to drive to New York. The fare jumped the cab in Yonkers, near the largest city in the country. Ew'en, doubling back home on his 700-mile trip, stopped here to wire for money. Appreciating the work that went into them, and the spirit in which they were sent. President Hoover accords equal honor to all. It is not a gallery where a stern judge decides before a picture is hung. The largest canvas, from South America, depicts a full-length President standing behind four conventional flower pots, equally spaced along the front foreground. The smallest is an old-fashioned medallion, framed in woven raffia, red, white and blue. As Others Se- Him. The President walks into his gallery and chuckles to see himself as others see him. The gallery may thus become his Winter-time substitute for Rapidan fishing, which gave him opportunity to see himself as he must appear in the eye of fishes. He tells his* guests it is his "one-man show.” * It is probable the President's study will be the scene of many of the Presi dent's conversations with Mr. MacDon ald. If so, the adjacent gallery may afford a few light moments in a very serious talk. Announcement of a formal dinner the night of the 7th is taken to indicate that the men will, as usual, have their cigars in the study, with the picture gallery providing that after dinner chuckle prescribed for good digestion. Mhe Mietiitm Site. ' J V WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1929-THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. , ** M’DONALD BOARDS LINER FOR AMERICA: GETS BIG SEND-OFF Demonstrations Given Pre mier at London and Again at Southampton. GOOD WISHES EXPRESSED IN MESSAGE FROM KING Hopes to Be Able to Do Something to Narrow Atlantic, He Declares. BY HARRY HOUSTON ROMER, Associated Press Correspondent. S. S. BERENGARIA, September 28 Ramsay MacDonald, prime minister of Great Britain, sailed into the West from Southampton this morning on a mis sion of peace and good will. His physi i cal destination Is Washington. His spiritual goal is the achievement of a i I unity between the two great English ; speaking peoples which might lay the I foundation for a really universal era of 1 peace and good will among all the na tions of the earth. MacDonald's barque is the palatial Berengarla, formerly the liner Impera tor, upon which the British messenger !of peace occupies the imperial suite | i originally intended for the use of the j j war lord who is in exile at Doom. The prime minister, his daughter and his official party spent restful hours aboard the liner after being the center of farewell demonstrations in London and again in Southampton. "I am off in the hope of being able to do something to narrow the Atlantic," Mr. MacDonald said. Great Day in London. It was a great day in London, where arrivals and departures of notable mis sions and royal envoys are not unusual. : But rarely has the departure of a Brit-1 ish statesman on a mission abroad ever ; attracted such widespread attention or evoked such universal approbation as I the Journey of this Scots Labor leader, j whose rise from obscurity to the most powerful political post in the empire is | 1 one of the romances of modern Eng- I land. Shortly after 10 p.m. last night the j busy program of the day ended as the ; special train bringing the prime min ister and his party rolled into South- j ampton. Almost immediately the travel i ers came aboard the liner, and soon I sought their cabins after a gratifying but trying day. All day long at No. 10 i Downing street the primejmlnister_was ; (Continued on Page 2, Column 4j FIRE COMPANY 21 WINS STAR TROPHY No. 5 Truck Also Fastest in Its Division in Annual j | * Speed Tests. Supreme in their respective classes, : , No. 21 Engine Company and No. 5 j Truck Company were adjudged the win- : ners today of the annual speed tests of the District Fire Department. Its record of 6% seconds, made yes terday, untouched by 14 other com panies competing early today in the j concluding tests, No. 21 company comes into permanent possession of The Eve ning Star Cup by reason of previous victories in 1926 and 1927. Although several other companies gave it a close call. No. 21 came within two-fifths of a second of equaling Its 1926 record of clearing quarters on a fire alarm in 6 seconds fiat, the greatest burst of speed ever shown by a District engine com pany during the five years of the of ficial tests. Wins Merchants' Cup. In establishing a time of 7 2-5 sec onds also yesterday No. 5 Truck is the winner of the cup awarded annually to the fastest truck company by the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Associ ation. This snappy outfit from George town crushed the hopes of Truck No. 14, winner in the two preceding years. Official confirmation of the records set in this year's tests will be forwarded to Chief Engineer Watson by the com mittee. of which Chief Engineer Thomas O'Connor, drillmaster of the Fire De partment, was chairman. Today's sharpest competition was furnished by Engine Companies No. 14, No. 2 and No. 4, the latter a colored company. They tied in the fast speed of 7 seconds flat. Although it had little hope of win ning, the steady fire tug cleared the mark at the stroke of the gong in 23 2-5 seconds. Considering the climb that Pilot J. B. Raleigh had to make into the pilot house and the difficulties of starting, this time was considered nearly a record. Makes Perfect Start. No. 14 Engine crew dashed clear across Eighth street in its effort to set a new' record. Except for a slight skipping motor, it is believed the com pany would have succeeded. Lieut. H. Buhler was In command. Driver F. Litteral. and W. P. Bateman at the crank, performed an excellent job In getting under way. No. 2 engine. Twelfth street between G and H streets, got away to a perfect start. Sergt. N. S. Bradford was in charge of the crew. The driver, J. H. liennig, pressed his foot on the self starter and the engine roared imme diate response. These two companies easily demonstrated their superiority in the speed tests involving half a dozen companies today. Truck Company Leads. While tests conducted yesterday aft ernoon at 14 engine and truck houses failed to smash any of the records made earlier in the day, No. 11 Truck Company came very near doing it. It showed the greatest speed of the after noon, 7 3-5 seconds, just a fifth of a second behind No. 5 In Georgetown. In a number of cases in the afternoon, when the men had done their utmost, the motors failed, with a result that an otherwise good job was spoiled. Among the engine companies No. 26 and No. 22 were the stellar performers .(Continued on Page 2, Column 2J P :NATS BEAT YANKS, 6 TO 4, IN IST GAME Myer Knocks Home Run With Two On in Fifth to Take Decisive Lead. BY JOHN B. KELLER. Washington defeated the Yankees in j the first game of the double-header j here this afternoon. ! The score was 6to 4. FIRST INNING. ; NEW YORK —Combs filed to Goslin. ! Cronin threw out Lary. Ruth singled j sharply to right. Gehrig forced Ruth, ; Myer to Cronin. No runs. WASHINGTON—Judge walked. Du i rocher got Rice's low liner and doubled i Judge off first. Sherrid tossed out Gos j lin. No runs. • SECOND INNING. NEW YORK—Durst took a third : strike. Koenig doubled to right center. • Dickey took a third strike. Cronin threw out Durocher. No runs. WASHINGTON—Koenig threw out ; Myer. Koenig went back for West’s looper. Lary threw out Tate. No runs. THIRD INNING. NEW YORK—Jones tossed out Sher rid. Coombs singled to center. Lary doubled down tne right-field line. Coombs stopping at third. Ruth singled to right, scoring Coombs; Lary trying to score from second was out at the plate. Rice to Judge to Tate. Gehrig singled to center, sending Ruth to third. Gehrig overran first and was retired, ! West to Cronin to Judge. One run. WASHINGTON—Cronin walked. Lary made a fine one-handed pick-up of , Hayes’ grounder and threw him out, I i Cronin taking second. Jones walked. I Durocher picked up Judge's grounder I and threw wildly to second trying to : force out Jones. Cronin scored and ! Jones stopped at second. Rfce grounded !to Gehrig, both runners advancing, j Coombs came in for Goslln's high one. I i One run. FOURTH INNING. NEW YORK—Durst flied to Goslin. Koenig walked. Dickey forced Koenig. ! Cronin to Myer. Durocher singled past i Haves to left, sending Dickey to second. Sherrid walked, filling the bases. Coombs ' singled to center, scoring Dickey and! Durocher. while Sherrid stopped at second. Lary forced Coombs, Cronin to Myer. Two runs. WASHINGTON —Durocher threw out Myer. He glso threw out West. Tate flied to Durst. No runs. FIFTH INNING. NEW YORK—West got Ruth’s hoist in deep center. Gehrig popped to Cronin. Cronin threw out DurA. No runs ! WASHINGTON —Cronin lined a single over Lary’s head for the first hit off Sherrid. Hayes grounded to Gehrig. Cronin going to second. Jones singled to left, scoring Cronin. Judge singled to center, sending Jones to third. Rice singled to right, scoring Jones with the tying run and sending Judge to second. Ruth came in for Goslin's hoist. Myer hit a home run to the angle back of right center, scoring Judge and Rice ahead, and putting the Nats in front. Heimach, a lefthander, relieved Sherrid for New York. Koenig threw out West. Five runs. SIXTH INNING. NEW YORK —Koenig took a third strike. Dickey popped to Cronin back of second. Durocher filed to Goslin. No runs. WASHINGTON—Spencer batted for Tate and Koenig threw him out. Cronin singled to center. Cronin tried to steal, but was turned back by Dickey’s throw and was retired. Dickey to Du rocher to Gehrig. Hayes fled to Coombs. No runs. SEVENTH INNING. NEW YORK—The crowd has now grown to 10,000. Spencer now catching for Washington. Jones tossed out Heimach. Combs walked. Lary got a single with a bounder that Jones knocked down, Combs stopping at sec ond. Ruth singled to right, scoring Combs and sending Lary to third. Geh rig fanned. Cronin got Durst's liner with one hand. One run. WASHINGTON —Jones double to cen ter. Judge dropped a single in short left, sending Jones to third. Rice was hit by a pitched ball, filling the bases. Goslin’s looper aws dropped *y Koenig. Jones tried to score, but was forced at the plate. Koenig to Durocher to Dickey, and Rice, trying to go to second, was out, Dickey to Durocher. Goslin was caught stealing, Dickey to Durocher. No runs. EIGHTH INNING. NEW YORK—Myer threw out Koenig. Cronin threw out Dickey. Cronin also threw out. Durocher. No runs. WASHINGTON—Myer popped to Koenig. Koenig threw out West. Heimach threw out Spencer. No runs. NINTH INNING. NEW YORK—Paschal batted for Heimach and grounded to Judge. Cronin pulled down Combs’ high bound er and threw him out. Lary flied to West. No runs. U. S BEAUTY DISAPPEARS. Mrs. May France, London Husband Fears, Victim of Tragedy. BRIGHTON, England. September 28 Mystery surrounds the disappear i ance of Mrs. May France, beautiful | American wife of Ernest France, an I antique dealer, after her return to Eng land from America recently. She landed at Liverpool from the liner Scythia on September 6. bringing with her more than $5,000 worth of jewelry and money. Since then noth ing has been heard of her and there are no clues to her whereabouts. In the United States she visited her parents in South Richmond, Va. “I’m afraid something terrible has happened to her,’’ her husband said today. HOOVER APPROVES PARTIAL BUDGET $656,571,234 Allowed for Executive and Independent Functions in 1931. The first 1931 budget figures to be revealed show estimates of $656,571,234 for expenses of the executive and in dependent establishments of the Fed ' eral Government have been approved | oy President Hoover. In announcing these partial estimates late yesterday the White House called ■ attention to the fact that this total ; represents a decrease of less than ! $1,000,000 from the appropriations for the current fiscal year ending June j 30 next. No Farm Estimate. The total does not include any esti mate for the Federal Farm Board, for which $151,500,000 was included in the current appropriations and which brought the total expenditures for the current year to $808,689,123. It was I explained by the President that the j Budget Bureau did not include an esti mate for the Federal Farm Board for I next year because the board has been unable to determine how much money It will need to operate. The largest item in the estimates for | next year is $606,225,000 for the United i States Veterans’ Bureau, which Is about $8,000,000 more than the amount avail | able for the current year. Executive Office Slash. The amount estimated for the execu tive office is $402,320. compared with i $611,944 for the present year. This re | duction. however, is brought about by , several special items, such as the re building of the interior of the execu tive office. $43,000 for remodeling of ; Mounts Weather, to be used as a rural retreat for Presiderts. and $5,000 for the purchase of an oil portrait of Calvin Coolidge. - ■" -■ THREE ARE ACQUITTED IN MINE MURDER TRIAL Former Coal and Iron Policemen Were Accused of Beating Borkowski to Death. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Sepember 28.—Three former coal and iron policemen today were acquitted of a charge of murder in connection with the death of John Borkowski. a miner. The death of Borkowski last Febru ary, which the prosecution claimed re sulted from a beating given him by the officers at the private police bar racks at Imperial, brought about wide spread protests against the private police system that had their echoes in the State Legislature. A measure was intro duced in the Legislature to abolish the private police, but the move was not successful. The defense contended Borkowski was \ beaten by one of the defendants, Harold j Watts, in self-defense. The other offl- i cers, Walter Lyster and Frank Slapikis,! had no part in the beating of the miner, j the defense asserted. The prosecution refused to quash charges of involuntary manslauthter, and the defendants were taken back to j jail pending arrangements for bail. ; LADY MURRAY IS SLAIN. Scottish Baron’s Widow Believed to Have Been Shot Accidentally. INVERNESS. Scotland, September 28 UP). —Lady Murray, widow of the first Baron Murray of Ellbank, was found dead with a gunshot wound in her head on a hillside near her home at Easdale, Argyllshire, last night. Lady Murray had been in the habit of frightening off a herd of goats which sometimes strayed into her garden, and in doing so traversed a treacherous and slippery path. It is believed that she fell and shot herself accidentally. - ——■ ■ ■ ■ ♦ ■■ . ■■"■ ■■ . . - Radio Programs—Page 38 FLEXIBLE TARIFF i VOTE DUE TUESDAY; j Ballot by 4 o’Clock to Be! Sought by G. 0. P. Leaders* in Senate. A vote by 4 p.m. Tuesday on reten- j tion of the flexible principle in the pend- , ing tariff bill will be sought by Senate Republican leaders. Chairman Smoot of the finance com mittee said it was present intentions 1 to carry out this plan if all absentees ! could be rounded up by that time. i The prospect of a vote on the flexible I issue made today's recess merely an op- j portunity for leaders of the contending j sides to work harder than ever to line up their forces. After four days of debate, enlivened : with vigorous attacks by Democrats and Republican independents upon the ad- ! ministration’s proposal to continue the I : flexible principle in effect with little ; change, the issue appeared so closely j ' drawn that leaders of each group, while ! claiming a majority, predicted a very i close vote. Both Sides Confident. Senator Simmons of North Carolina. | ranking Democrat of the finance com- ' mlttee and leader of his party's attack | on the Republican proposal, expressed j a willingness to have the roll called ! before the week end recess was taken, j but Chairman Smoot, leading the ad- ! ministration forces, preferred to have j it go over. Countering Simmons' display, of con- I fidence In the result. Smoot said he i i believed at least six Democrats would I vote with the Republican regulars for j the amendment he sponsors, under i which the President would continue, as ! he desires, to hold authority to raise or lower tariff rates as much as 50 i per cent upon recommendation of the j I Tariff Commission. Whether the Smoot proposal will be given priority in the voting was not | | clear today. Simmons, who had an j amendment looking to repeal of the j I flexible provision of the existing law | I pending, has introduced a substitute I I with » view to having it brought to j i a vote first. HLs substitute amendment I I would take away the President's power ' I to change rates and authorize him merely to transmit recommendations of ] the Tariff Commission to Congress. j i An idea of the significance which ; | some of the Republican regulars jt- j tach to the outcome of the issue, mean- i while, has been given by Senator Sack- | ett of Kentucky. Saying he would : rather see the rates of the present law continued than have a new law’ en acted without continuing the flexible policy, he predicted; “As goes the flexible provision, so | goes the bill.” Norris* Contention. His objection that the Simmons sub stitute proposal, if adopted, would open up the whole tariff question every time a rate change was recommended to Con gress by the Tariff Commission was countered with a suggestion by Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, that the law be made to stipulate no amendments could be introduced under such circum stances unless they bore directly on the rate or rates under consideration. The NorrLs suggestion made a favor able impression on Senator Gillett. Re publican. Massachusetts, who had been arguing in favor of the Smoot proposal, on the ground that “some machinery is necessary to correct inequalities in herent in every tariff law.” a point stressed in President Hoover's statement on the subject. Support of the flexible principle by dairying interests, which the President cited as having obtained valuable re lief under its operation, has been called to the attention of Senators, meanwhile, by A. M. Loomis, Washington repre sentative of the American Dairy Feder (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) — SAAR PARLEY TO OPEN IN PARIS OCTOBER 17 I j Beturn of Mines to Germany or j Economic Collaboration to Be Determined. 1 ! Bv the Associated Press. PARIS. September 28.—Formal ne- I gotiations between France and Ger many over the future of the Saar Basin j and its important coal mines will begin ! in Paris on October 17. The discussions, which are expected ; to be long and intricate, will seek to determine whether the mines which j are now held by France shall be re- I turned to Germany at the valuation . price or whether some sort of economic I collaboration can be worked out be- I tween the two countries so that the products of the basin shall be available to both. The Germans are understood to be asking the immediate return of the mines, while the French take the posi tion that unless collaboration can be worked out, the Interests of France demand that the status quo remain until a plebiscite, w’hich is scheduled for 1935 under the treaty of Versaille can be held. * “Frcfm Press to Home Within the Hour** The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi tion is delivered to Washington homes •s fast as the papers are printed. Yeiterday’s Circulation, 105,793 <£’) Means Associated Press. ? Clocks Go Back Tonight for End Os Daylight Saving By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 28 The daylight saving time, which has been in effect during the Summer in this and hundreds of other cities in the country, will end at 2 a.m. tomorrow with a return to standard time. Under daylight saving timepieces have been an hour fast since April 28. Most persons will set their clocks an hour back as they go to bed. , WATER RIG ISSUE IN CONSERVATION Secretary Wilbur Finds Old Covered-Wagon Region Awake to Progress. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. “Economy as a watchword for the country seems to have served its pri mary purpose. The people have set their eyes in the direction of constructive progress. They demand an economic! status that would have been luxury to : a king of a hundred years ago.” Such is the impression gained by Dr, Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the | Interior, who has just returned to Washington after practically an all- j i Summer survey of the transmississippi i country. He spent his time studying at J dose range the vast variety of problems which within the sphere of the In terior Department. All and sundry connected with oil conservation, the public domains, Indian reservations, na tional parks, reclamation and irrigation ! engaged his attention. Secretary Wil j bur declares water is the overwhelm j ingly outstanding question confronting ' the West. He found it responsive to | | “forward-looking progressive measures for the common good’’ and ready to practice “communal living and think ing” in a spirit of “rigid co-operation i and fair play.” Building Spirit Omnipresent. “You cannot help but be struck.” said : Secretary Wilbur in a special interview | with this writer, "by what may be called 1 the building spirit’ now omnipresent | throughout the old covered-wagon | country. It is, of course, nothing else j i than the traditional American pioneer i bent finding new expression. To no j i other problem is the constructive spirit; ■ being applied with more determination | than to the West’s water necessities, i i There has been a good deal of con- J ! servation. The real conservation prob- I lem of the West is the conservation of ; water. Plant life demands water. We ! must have plants suitable for our ow n J ! uses or we can have no civilization, j Prom Nebraska west, water and water alone is the key to our future. We need I the mountains and the hills and a great j protected back country, or we cannot ! have sufficient water for our valleys. I We must replace homestead-thinking I with watershed-thinking, since water l sheds are primary to Western homes. I We can no longer afford to think only j ' in terms of immediate uses and selfish interests. There must be a great West -1 ern strategy for the protection of our | j watersheds and the plant life on them.! | however undesirable and unimportant ! some of it may seem to be.” Importance of Water. ' It is because of water’s paramount importance to the West that Secretary ; Wilbur approves of the public land pol icy advocated by President Hoover. A j commission is to consider a plan where iby there will be transferred to those States willing to accept the responsi bility control of the surface rights of all ! public lands not included in national j parks or monuments or in the national ; forests. "These States of the West,” ■ says Secretary Wilbur, “are water-con -1 scious. They can more readily build up | these wise water conservation measures i upon which their very life depends than | can the distant Washington Govern ! ment. It would be fair, too. for the cit j izens of Western States to have the | privileges already in possession of those lof the East. With sound State policies, based on factual thinking, it may event--j ually develop that it is wiser for the j i States to control even the present na ional forests. Such a policy will need to I be worked out so as to hold the oil. ! | coal and mineral rights of public lands, subject to some form of proper Federal ; prospecting law. with development on_a i (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) LOS ANGELES POLICE GRAFT QUIZ STIRRED New Indictments Returned in County Grand Jury’s “Protec tion” Probe. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES. September 28.—In vestigation of charges of corruption and bribe-taking by Los Angeles policemen ! was stirred up yesterday after the re turn of additional indictments by the county grand jury. The jury yesterday returned indict ments againtrr M. B. Sheffield and A. T. Lanahan, colored police lieutenants. They were accused of taking protection j money from bootleggers. The grand jury also returned addi- j tional indictments against W. E. Evans, M. H. Ledbetter. H. M. Hill, O. L. Peter son and L. F. Sale, vice squad police men. who previously had been indicted 1 for bribe-taking. W. B. Westman, con- 1 lessed bootlegger, told the grand jury he had paid protection money to offi- I cers for six years. GOVERNMENT WORKERS TO ASK YEAR-’ROUND HALF HOLIDAYS Today Marks End of Short Saturdays, Granted Employes During Summer. While Government workers today were bidding good-by to the last Sat urday half holiday for this year, j Luther Steward, president of the Na i tional Federation of Federal Employes, I came forward with the promise that his organization will make a determined effort at the next session of Congress to get the half holiday all the year round. Backed by a resolution passed unani mously by the federation at its bi ennial convention at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., this, month, the national officers here are determined to push their cam paign for legislation to accomplish the purpose. “To grant the short Saturday all year to Government workers,” said TWO CENTS. KEY WEST REPORTS WIND OF DO MILES; CENTER OF STORM SOUTH OF MIAMI j* Expected to Pass Midway Between Island and Main land; Matacumbe Message Tells of Velocity of 90. HURRICANE TAKES TOLL OF 20 LIVES AT NASSAU • West Coast Warnings Ordered From Tampa Southward — Storm Un abated After Eaging All Night at Miami—Train Marooned at Homestead. MIAMI, Fla., September 28 (rP). —The hurricane will move across the straits north of Key West, R. W. Gray, Miami weather man, said at 10:45 a.m. Mr. Gray said gale winds would continue here for two more hours, after which there would be an abatement at Miami. By the Associated Pies.v KEY WEST, Fla., September 28.—Whipped by a wind that in creased from 40 to 60 miles an hour between 8:30 and 9:30 o’clock this morning, a heavy sea was j breaking over the sea wall here, ! endangering small craft anchored close to shore and flooding the lower end of the streets running to the waterfront. The Govern ment barometer reading at 9 o'clock was 29.42. The wind was reported as shift ing slowly from north to west, indicating that the storm center would pass approximately mid way between here and the main land. The center of the disturb ance at 9 o’clock was placed by H. B. Boyer, Government mete orologist. as 95 miles east north east of Key West and 80 miles due : south of Miami. Unofficial reports received here by the Pan-American Airways said an esti j mated wind of 90 miles an hour was sweeping across Matacumbe Key. 80 miles northeast of here. The report did not state whether there had been ' any damage to the fishing camps located on the key. 1 Shortly after the receipt of the mes | sage from Matacumbe Key, telephone communication between Key West and the mainland was cut off at No Namf Key, 40 miles south of Matacumbe. All telegraph lines were out with the excep tion of the cables from here to Havana, Miami and Punta Rassa. HURRICANE WARNINGS RENEWED. Storm Is Unabated After Raging All • Night in Miami. MIAMI, Fla.. September 28 (jP).— Southeastern Florida today renewed its vigil against approach ol a furious West Indian hurricane in the face of renewed hurricane warnings from the United States Weather Bureau at Wash ington, extending from Miami to Key | West. The westward movement of the , storm brought for the first time since its approach was indicated the direction ;of northeast warnings on the west coast of the State, from Key West to Tampa. The threat of the storm, which thrust Us fury upon Nassau during a 48-hour period to exact a toll of at leats 20 lives and unestimated property damage vas felt in winds of gale force and moderate gale force along the lower I east coast from West Palm Beach i south. With Key West cut off from tele phonic communication in the face of j murky weather and a 7:30 o’clock read j mg of 29.49. accompanied by winds of moderate gale force. United States Weather Forecaster H. B Bover pre dicted an increase in wind velocity up to hurricane force there unless the dis turbance changes its direction within the next few hours. Richard W. Gray. United States mete (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) MAN RACERS TAKE LEAD. PHILADELPHIA. September 28 (AY —Speeding up their slow pace of the ; past two days, the men swung into the ! lead in the six-day endurance race be tween man and beast at the arena here I today. As the contest entered the 103 d hour, the team composed of Joie Ray, Chi cago. and Johnny Salo, Passaic. N. J.. 1 led the horses by almost 6 miles with ! a score of 440 miles and 2 laps, j The score of the leading horses. Red- I wood and Fleetwood, was 434 miles 9 laps. j President Steward today, “will only be following the trend in industry and business and we expect to see a bill | introduced early in the regular session to bring the Government into line with the progressive movement in the world of affairs.” The Saturday half holiday was estab lished several years ago as a three month proposition, but about two years ago President Coolidge extended it so as to run through the entire Summer ! from the first of June to the last of September. It formerly extended from ; the middle of June to the middle of | September. Government workers planned to take ; full advantage of the last half holiday today and there was an early exodus from the city to the Capital's play grounds at nearby golf courses, beaches and mountain resorts.