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WEATHER.
(U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Fair and ctrider, with lowest tempera
ture about 32 degrees tonight; tomorrow
fair, with rising temperature. Tempera
tures—Highest, 73. at 1:30 p.m. yester
day: lowest, 41, at 7:40 a.m. today.
Full report on page 4.
New York Markets, Paget 13,14 ft 15
No. 31,368.
YOUNG DISCLAIMS
INTENI TO REFLECT
ON ANY SENATORS
Citizens’ Association Speaker
Declares He Is “Sincerely
Sorry” for Statement.
AIRPORT INVESTIGATION
ENDED BY EXPLANATION
Witness Allowed to Keep Secret
Name of Man He Says Was
Informant.
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The senatorial airport investigation
came to an end today when Harold E.
Young of the lowa-Thomas Circle Cit
izens’ Association disclaimed any inten
tion of reflecting upon any present or
former member of the Senate in his
apeech at the Federation of Citizens’
Associations Saturday night and said
he was “sincerely sorry” if anything he
was quoted as saying had reflected on
any member of Congress.
In a prepared statement which he
feed to the subcommittee Mr. Young
declared that he may have misunder
stood the statement made to him by
friends, upon which he based the re
mark he made at the federation meet
ing.
Explains Statement.
"It may be,” Mr. Young testified,
“that my informant really referred to
•two ex-Senators’ rather than Senators,
as I am Informed that ex-Senator Dial
of South Carolina, and ex-Senator
Southerland of West Virginia, have or
may have had some financial interest
In these properties or the corporation
or corporations owning them at some
stage of the development of the Wash
ington Airport or Hoover Field. If such
interests were or are held by these gen
tlemen, I do not wish to be understood
as intimating that they are improper,
or that they are subject to criticism
therefor.”
Mr. Young asked the committee to
excuse him from disclosing the name of
the friend who had discussed the mat
ter with him. Chairman Vandenberg
granted his request, but in doing so
the Senator from MicMgan character
ized the whole incident as "a fine
example of the utterly Indefensible
practice of retailing gossip, and I think
you are entirely without defense upon
that score.”
Vandenberg Tells Senate.
Senator Vandenberg added that he
would be very much interested in know
ing "who was hiding behind you in
peddling this sort of insinuation, but In
view of the complete retraction, which
Su make In regard to statements In
e newspapers, I have no Interest in
going further.”
After the subcommittee had ad
journed Senator Vandenberg told the
Senate on the floor that Mr. Young
had made a complete retraction. Speak
ing in the Senate, Senator Vandenberg
declared:
“In the light of this unequivocal
statement, under oath, the committee
felt it has no further interest in the
pursuit of the sources of Mr. Young’s
gossip. I desire, however, to make these
concluding observations.
“First, the airport commission mem
bers—speaking at least for myself and
Senator Jones, who conducted this
week’s hearings—never knew until
this week that even any ex-Senators
were stockholders in any of these
private properties; and no remote criti
cism is entitled to attach to them be
cause of the fortuitous fact that they
happen to be such stockholders, if such
Is the fact. We do not know that it is
• fact, and we do not care.
Has Prepared Statement.
"Second, this episode is a shining ex
ample of the ugly ease with which loose
and groundless gossip can assassinate
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debatTTslimited
ON TARIFF RATES
Oil, Lumber, Silver and Anti-
Monopoly Proposals Are
Excepted.
Bt the Associated Press.
Determined to get the tariff bill out
of the way as soon as possible, the
Senate today agreed upon a program of
limiting debate on all remaining
amendments except those involving oil,
lumber, silver and an anti-monopoly
proposal by Senator Norris, Republican,
Nebraska. ~
Senator Jones, Republican, Washing
ton, plans to propose a compromise
aofewood lumber tariff of $1.50 a thou
sand board feet, while Senator Thomas
Democrat, Oklahoma, was ready to offer
another compromise on oil which would
apply moneys collected from such a
tariff to road building pending deter
mination of a proper levy by the Tariff
attempt to gain a silver duty
Is to be made by Senator Pittman,
Democrat. Nevada, while Senator Nor
ris’ amendment would provide tor ana
pension of duties on any commodity in
which a monopoly in restraint of trade
was found to exist,
The agreement reached at the outset
today wil limit each Senator to 10 min
utes’ debate on amendments, except
those enumerated.
plane chartered to deliver
RANSOM FOR OIL MAN’S RELEASE
Son of 60-Year-Old American Prepares to Rescue
Father From Bandits.
Br the Associated Press.
SAN ANGELO, Tex.. March 19.—An
airplane to carry 3,000 pesos ransom (or
j. E. Bristow, 60. American oil operator
reported held by bandits at Mazatlan,
on the West Coast of Mexico, was under
charter here today to fly immediately
to the oil man’s rescue.
Gordon Oble Bristow, son of the pris
oner, expected to make an early depar
ture for Mazatlan with the money. He
planned to stop at El Paso, Tex., en
route.
A Wlehlta Falls, Tex., merchant. Sam
JCimberlin, also has started rescue plans
He wired his cousin, William Blocker,
Entered aa second class matter
post office. Washington, D. C.
LORD BALFOUR, ONE OF GREATEST
BRITISH STATESMEN, DIES AT 82
Noted Diplomat Began Ca
rear in 1874 in Par
i liament.
King George Regrets Loss of
Stanch Patriot and Wise
Counselor.
By the Associated Press.
WOKING, Surrey, England, March
19.—The Earl of Balfour, veteran Brit
ish statesman, died here at 8:45 a.m.
today in a room at the home of his
brother, Hon. Gerald Balfour. A win
dow at his bedside overlooked one of
tbe most beautiful scenes in Surrey.
The end came peacefully to the
statesman, who was in his eighty-sec
ond year. He had been distressingly ill
for a long time with laryngitis and
came here after an improvement in his
condition to convalesce. He had sev
eral setbacks, however, and was never
able to return to his home at Whit
tlngehame, Prestonkirk, East Lothian.
The House of Commons sat for two
minutes today and then adjourned out
of respect for the memory of Lord Bal
four. The adjournment was moved by
Prime Minister Macdonald.
From the time he entered Parliament,
In 1874, until the closing years of his
DESCRIBESTAXICAB
TRAFFIC AS CHAOTIC
Efficiency Bureau Urges Dis
trict Heads to Enforce So-
Called “Loitering Act.”
Describing as "chaotic” conditions
resulting from excessive taxicab traffic
in front of various places in the con
gested business section of Washington,
especially the hotels and theaters, the
Federal Bureau of Efficiency today
urged the District Commissioners to
make every effort to correct them by
enforcement of the so-called “loitering
act.”
“A great amount of chaos and traffic
congestion has resulted at times near
hotels and theaters In the congested
area from the driving of taxicabs slow
ly past these places for the purpose of
soliciting fares,” said the bureau. "An
observation of this condition at a point
on F street between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth streets northwest showed
that beween 10 and 10:25 p.m. empty
cabs passed at the rate of approximate
ly four a minute. Less than 5 per cent
of these cabs discharged or received
pasengers while passing through this
block. This condition is general be
tween the hours of 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.,
and is worse at theater-closing time.”
Loitering Act Cited.
The bureau pointed out that an act
of Congress of July 11, 1919, forbidding
the loitering of public vehicles around
or in front of hotels, theaters, or pub
lic buildings, vests in the Commission
ers the authority necessary to prevent
such conditions.
Enforcement of the "loitering act" is
only one of a series of recommendations
made by the bureau to alleviate traffic
congestion in the business section.
Amendments to the traffic code and
license law also were urged to tighten
the regulations on motor buses and
sightseeing vehicles so that full use may
be made of the limited amount of park
ing space in the congested area.
The recommendations are contained
in a 17-page report, which is based on
an exhaustive study of the parking sit
uation by Donald P. Evans of the In
vestigation staff of the bureau The
survey was made at the direction of
Representative Simmons of Nebraska,
chairman of the House subcommittee
on appropriations. . .
Motor busses, the report declared,
should be prevented from parking in the
congested section except at places desig
nated for that purpose, and then not
longer than a period of 10 minutes.
Sightseeing busses, it said, should not
be permitted to use the busy streets.
Report Discusses Cab Stands.
A large section of the report is de
voted to a discussion of the situation
around the hotels created by the park
ing of taxicabs which have private con
cessions at these places to the exclusion
of all other passenger vehicles for hire.
Although such vehicles are required to
be either owned or leased by the hotel,
to carry L tags, to be used exclusively
for the accommodation of guests of the
hotels and kept only “in a reasonable
number and a reasonable manner,” the
report declared “it is known that these
conditions are not being met at the
present time. These vehicles are not
owned or leased by the hotels,” it added.
“They are not used exclusively for the
accommodation of the guests of the
hotel and they are not always kept at
these locations in a reasonable number.”
The report, however, said that there
appears to be no adequate remedy for
these conditions “which are admittedly
unsatisfactory,” under existing legisla
tion, and recommended that the license
law of 1902 be amended to provide
regulation to meet the situation.
Paragraphs 11 and 13 of section 7 of
(Continued on Page 2, Column 7.)
senior consul In Juarez, Mexico, guar
anteeing payment of the ransom.
According to dispatches to Blocker,
the elder Bristow was captured while
exploring for oil in the rugged country
south of Teplc, Nayarit, Mexico. He
was at Santa Maria Del Oro, Nayarit,
at the time of the capture.
The occurrence was the first reported
In several months. The region, infested
several months ago by religious fanatics,
is considered the most hazardous of all
Mexico.
According to advices last night from
Mexico City the American embassy there
has requested the Mexican government
to make every effort to free Bristow.
Three Mexicans captured with Bristow
also were reported held. ,
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life he figured as an important factor
in British politics. He visited America
as head of the British commission in
1917 and was a member of the British
delegation tp the Washington Arms
Conference in 1922.
Secretary for Scotland in 1886, chief
(Continued on Page 4, Column 5.)
HUSTON RECALLED
IN LOBBY INQUIRY
Committee Toid Association
Fund Was Deposited
- With Brokers.
By th» Associated Press.
Recalled to the stand again today by
the Senate lobby com.nittee after testi
mony had been given concerning
$36,100 deposited to his account with
Blyth & Bonner, New York brokers,
Claudius H. Huston, chairman of the
Republican national committee, said
he had turned over that sum to the
Tennessee River Improvement Associa
tion.
The $36,100 was given Huston by* the
Union Carbide Co. for the improvement
Association and it was deposited by
Huston to his personal account. Charles
A. Krickl, member of the brokerage
firm, said that two checks had been de
posited, one lor $22,000 and one for
$14,100, and that funds in the latter
deposit had been used by Huston to buy
stocks.
The Republican chairman explained
that he had turned the $36,100 over to
the improvement association and added
that he did not distinguish between de
posits after He had paid out the money.
Money Used as Margin.
Houston is a former president of the
Tennessee River Improvement Associa
tion. which had advocated acceptance
of the bid of the American Cyanamld
Co. for Muscle Shoals. He was called
for questioning in connection with the
lobby committee’s Muscle Shoals inquiry.
Krickl testified that the $14,100 was
used as margin for the purchase of 300
shares of Loose-Wiles Biscuit, 200 shares
of National Cash Register and 200
shares of Kelvinator and that a profit
of $526 had been made.
He presented a number of checks to
the committee which he said was all
that had been issued • except one for
$3O, which he added, he had overlooked.
Krickl said he did not know definite
ly that the money deposited had come
from the Union Carbide Co.
Senator Blaine, Republican, Wiscon
sin, read a list of several of the checks,
most of which were payable to W. E.
Moore, Huston's personal representative.
One. for $5OO, was payable to Catherine
Huston, described by Krickl as Hus
ton’s daughter. Some of them were
payable to Huston.
Had Separate Accounts.
Krickl testified that he could not tell
what the checks were for, explaining
that the account was in Moore’s name
and checks were paid out on his di
rection.
Krickl said the two checks were de
posited in separate accounts.
“Mr. Moore has a number of ac
counts with us,” he said, adding this
was a common practice.
Huston, who had been in the com
mittee room all morning, was recalled
and asked by Senator Walsh, Demo
(Contlnued on Page 2, Column 5.)
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Russia Gets New Plane.
BUCHAREST, Rumania, March 19
(&).—'The first of 300 bombing planes
ordered by Soviet Russia in Italy ar
rived at Constanza yesterday lot de
livery to Russia. It was flown by an
Italian military expert.
Following the Trends
Washington merchants send
their buyers to the fashion
centers of the world for all
that is new for men and
women and the household.
There is fascination in the
shops and all that is newest
and best is described in the
advertising in The Star.
Yesterday's Advertising.
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ton and suburbs.
YIELDING OF FOUR
NATIONS ONLY HOPE
OF NAVAL PARLEY
Concessions by Italy, France,
Britain and Japan Seen
as Necessary.
OUTLOOK NOW DECLARED
AS DISTINCTLY NEGATIVE
Conference Described as Merely a
Series of Private Talks
Among Delegates.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
By Radio to The Star and Chlcaco Dali,
News Copyright. 1930.
LONDON. England. March 19.—The
fate of the London Naval Conference
appears today to hang by three ex
tremely tenuous threads:
1. The hope that Italy may abandon
parity with Prance and that Prance In
consequence will make reductions satis
factory to Great Britain.
2. The hope that Japan will finally
accept something less than its full de
mands.
3. The hope that Great Britain will
change its mind and make a Mediter
ranean pact acceptable to Prance.
Outlook Negative.
The present outlook Is distinctly
t negative, though, of course, there can
always be happy surprises at the last
moment. Italy today shows no signs of
dropping parity with Prance, either
directly or Indirectly. The Italians,
moreover, are angry at the threat of a
joint demarche to Rome by the other
powers. This demarche, as a matter of
fact, will probably never be made.
Yesterday the British representatives
seem to have tried to explain to the
Italians as well as to the British press
that the idea of a Joint demarche was
suggested by M. Tardieu to Mr. Mac
donald and that the latter refused. It
Is not the first time that such all
around misunderstandings have arisen
at this conference, probably owing to
the fact that this is,not really a con
ference at all, but a' series of private
talks between the delegates sitting apart
In twos and telling slightly different
stories afterward regarding what hap
pened.
What Mr. Macdonald seems to have
suggested to M. Tardieu Sunday was
that he would try to get Italy down to
something like 400,000 tons and a 3-to
-2 ratio with Prance. M. Tardieu seems
to hate agreed that he would be able
to make some reductions In the French
figures If Mr. Macdonald thus succeeded
with the Italians.
Tardieu to Return.
It has been learned that the French
demand ten 8-inch-gun cruisers to
Italy's six, or nine to Italy's live, and
a minimum of 85,000 tons of subma
rines even under the most favorable
circumstances. In global tonnage
France might come down to about
625,000 tons, provided Italy accepts
400,000. For the present there seems
to be not the slightest chance, as al
ready has been said, that Italy will ac
cept any such combination.
M. Tardieu will return to London at
the end of this week. Prance, it is
said, will make nq further proposals, .nor
will France quit the conference. The
French point of view is that of the five
powers here represented, France alone
has clearly and frankly stated its case.
The French building program has
been a matter of public knowledge
since 1924. The French memorandum
prior to the conference declared that;
France could make reductions in this
program only if security were in- 1
creased. Since the conference began !
France is the only power which has
fully explained, in great detail and in
the presence of the British and Ameri
can delegates, all of its figures and pre
cisely why it is building what it is
building in all categories.
France does not demand that the
United States, Great Britain and Japan
give similar explanations, for it does not
care at present what size of navies
those three powers have, but France
does Insist that Italy shall put down
and explain its figures Just as Prance
has done.
Japan’s Explanation.
Meanwhile, it is explained, Prance will
simply sit tight.
Private explanations given by the
Japanese of why they are unable to ac
cept the latest American compromise
offers can be summarized thus:
Japan thinks that capital ships may
be abolished at the next Naval Confer
ence. in 1935. In this case the largest
ships would be 8-inch-gun cruisers.
Hence Japan is not willing here to ac
cept less than a 70 per -ent ratio with
the United States in these ships. Sev
enty per cent rather than 60 per cent
has been the fixed Japanese policy, it is
said, ever since the Washington Naval
Conference, and there is no reason to
modify it here.
The head of the Japanese naval staff
is Admiral Kanjikato, who at the Wash
ington Conference, as Admiral Kato’s
chief adviser, wanted them to hold out
for 70 per cent Instead of 60 per cent.
In any case, it is not the Japanese gov
ernment, but the Emperor himself, it is
explained, who will finally decide. The
Emperor's lord chamberlain and chiel ;
political adviser is Admiral Suzuki, for
merly commander-in-chief of the navy,
and he is believed to be favorable to i
the naval point of view.
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I The Gripping Story of a Criminal
Gang That Operated in peepest j
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SPRING SPROUTING.
CALCUTTA MAYOR’S
TRIAL BRINGS RIOT
More Than 100 Persons In
jured in Disturbance Out
side Court in Rangoon.
By the Associated Press.
RANGOON, Burma, March 19.—More
than 100 persona were Injured today at
a disturbance outside the court room
wherein J. N. Sengupta, mayor ol Cal
cutta, was being tried for sedition
growing out of utterances made in sup
port of Mahatma Gandhi’s campaign
of civil disobedience.
Thirty police were among those in
jured. The crowd outside the court
room threw stones at the police and
the militia was requisitioned- to dis
perse them.
One prominent Indian who went out
side the court to try to pacify the
crowd also was injured.
It was understood the trouble arose
when an Indian leading a procession
struck a policeman.
GANDHI ARRIVES AT RAAS.
Footsore Party Will Conitnue to Jalal
por to Make Salt.
BORSAD, Bombay, India, March 19
UP). —Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Na
tionalist leader, and his party of de
votees arrived at the village of Raas
this forenoon three hours after leav
ing here. It is only five miles from
Borsad to Raas, but the footsore party
traveled slowly.
Tonight Gandhi and his party will
cross the river at Kankapur by boat,
continuing on their way to Jalalpur,
where they will manufacture salt in
violation of the British monopoly, thus
beginning in earnest their campaign oi
civil disobedience of the British gov
ernment.
EUROPASTARTS
MAIDEN VOYAGE
Liner Is Expected to Attempt to
Take Record Held by the
Bremen.
By the Associated Press.
BREMERHAVEN, Germany, March
19.—The North German Lloyd liner
Europa, twin sister ship of the Bremen,
blue ribbon liner of the Atlantic, left
here at 1 p.m. today for the Channel
ports and New York.
The Europa started on her maiden
voyage to New York amid howling fac
tory whistles along the Weser estuary
and the salutes of other ships while
thousands of spectators lining the shore
cheered.
The new ship outwardly is similar to
the record-holding Bremen except that
she draws two feet more and has oval
funnels instead of streamlined.
Fair weather on leaving was regarded
as a good omen for a fast voyage on
which, despite the company’s state
ments to the contrary, it is generally
believed she will try to establish a new
world record for the crossing of the At
lantic. The Bremen on her maiden voy
age established a record for the west
ward crossing of four days and 17 hours.
The Europa is a 49,746-ton vessel
driven by turbines and has four pro
pellers. She was christened in 1928 by
Jacob Gould Schurmann, then Ameri
can Ambassador to Germany.
Hoover Improves
In Health, Asserts
Senator Copeland
By the Associated Press.
President Hoover’s health has
been improving during his first
year in the White House, in the *
opinion of Senator.. Copeland of
New York, a physician:
After a call at the executive
offices today Mr. Copeland said
Mr. Hoover apparently had lost
some weight and looked better.
A year ago the New Yorker ex
pressed apprehension that the
President’s medicine ball exercises
might be too strenuous.
DIPLOMAT TRAFFIC
IMMUNITY IS HIT
McKellar Bill Would Subject
Envoys to Common Rules
of Road.
Expressing the belief that members
of the diplomatic corps in Washington
should be subject to the same traffic
regulations applied to American citi
zens, Senator McKellar, Democrat, of
Tennessee Introduced a bill in the Sen
ate this afternoon which would deprive
diplomats of immunity in traffic cases.
Senator McKellar introduced the bill
following an accident Monday night in
which Juan Polich, Chilean naval at
tache, was involved. It was referred to
the Senate District committee for
report.
Includes All Laws.
“I do not think they ought to be al
lowed to disregard the traffic or any
other laws,” the Senator said, referring
to foreign representatives on duty here.
He added that he did not believed those
connected with the embassies should be
’ treated any differently from other citi
' zens in the enforcement of laws.
Meanwhile, Maj. Henry G. Pratt
superintendent of police, today sent to
1 the State Department the police report
on the accident Monday night. An auto
driven by Polich, collided with another
driven by Paul Edward Hammond, a
Southern Railway clerk. Hammond is
in Emergency Hospital suffering from a
fractured skull, ruptured kidney, and
other injuries, and is in a serious condi
tion.
Report Is “Incidental.”
The report is simply a copy of the
police “incidental” sent to headquarters
on all accidents. It states that the col
lision occurred at Connecticut avenue
and N street and that both cars were
damaged and that the officers making
the report did not witness the collision.
The names of witnesses are included, .
but no statements were taken from
them. The witnesses listed are Dewey
Spurvey and Lonnie Beal of 2019 N
street, W. S. Shaw of 1511 Twenty
second street and Russel M. Smith oi
145 West Eighteenth street, New York
City.
A further report will be sent to the
State Department, Maj. Pratt said,
when another witness to the accident
is Interviewed. Polich has defended
his part in the accident.
ENGINEER Is'cRUSHED
IN HEAD-ON COLLISION
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 19.—An engineer
was killed and a score of others were
injured in a head-on collision of the
Badger State Limited and a suburban
train on the Chicago & Northwestern j
Railroad last night near Arlington
Heights, a suburb. |
Carl Kutzner, engineer on the - sub
urban train, was crushed to death to
his cab.
The limited, southbound from Min
neapolis, crashed into a section of
sewer pipe that had slipped from its
sled as it was being towed across the
tracks. I
The locomotive was derailed and six
cars were hurled into the ditch. The {
on rushing suburban train then crashed
into the engine of the limited.
Alleged Kidnapers Freed.
NEW YORK, March 19 (A s ).—Samuel
Handel and Harry Fleisch, both of De
troit, who were accused of aiding in the
kidnaping of Max Price, New Haven.
Conn., real estate dealer, last January,
were freed yesterday in Supreme Court
in habeas corpus proceedings. The men
declared they were in Detroit the night
of the kidnaping.
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Yesterday’s Circulation, 114,740
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MAN, SHOT BY DRY
OFFICER. MAY DIE
Reported Attempt to Escape
Is Blamed for Wounding
by Policeman.
James O. Grotts, 28, of Lexington
N. C., is in a critical condition at
Casualty Hospital with a bullet hole I
through the lung as the result, of an ;
alleged attempt early today to escape
from Spottswood Gravelly, prohibition
enforcement officer at the third pre
cinct. Gravelly said that he shot
Grotts when the latter made a move
ment as if to draw a gun from his
pocket. Grotts later was discovered
to be unarmed.
Policeman Ardin C. Swartzel of the
fourth precinct is under arrest at the
third precinct in connection with an al
leged attempt to extort money from
women in an apartment house in the
1900 block ot First street which pre
cipitated the shooting. Gravelly is not
under suspension.
A hold-up ot the same house last
Saturday by some unidentified gang
sters, thought to have been from Phila
delphia, also was thrown into the story
of today's shooting, when it was learned
that Gravelly and Detective W. F.
Burke were investigating the hold-up
when the shooting took place.
The hold-up which Burke was in
vestigating netted the two robbers $1,555
in jewelry and $165 in cash, according
to a complaint made to the Police De
partment by Della Greathouse, of the
First street address. She said that at
an early hour Sunday morning, twc
men came into the place and held up
eight men and four women who were
there, robbing all the women cf their
jewelry and the men of their wallets.
Car Is Found Abandoned.
The men are thought to have used f
stolen roadster belonging to Miss Helen
Robinson of 2029 F street, daughter oi
the former Assistant Secretary of thf
Navy.
This was reported stolen to police by
Gordon E. Barter, her chauffeur, who
found the garage door jimmied Sunday
morning. The car later was found
abandoned near the corner of Eight
eenth and F streets.
Headquarters detectives believed that
the hold-up was staged by a gang of
racketeers from other cities and gave
that as the reason for the careful watch
on the house at the time the shooting
occurred. According to Miss Great
house’s complaint, after the hold-up
men had taken all the Jewelry and
money available they robbed the men
of their trousers and shoes, and locked
all of those in the house in a room and
escaped in the large roadster. *
Were Guarding House.
According to stories gathered from
various police sources, Burke had asked
Gravelly to help him keep a watch on
the house as they were expecting the
return of a man alleged to be a gang
ster.
Marie Foster, 22, a resident of the
apartment house, who knew the police
men were hovering near, went to them
and complained that man exhibiting a
police badge had tried <o extort S3O
from her.
Burke and Gravelly, who had been in
the rear, went to the front where a
coupe was drawn up at the curb in
which three men were sitting. One of
them, Grotts, jumped out and ran
toward U street. Gravelly followed him
and eventually shot him. while Burke
placed the other two under arrest and
took them to the third precinct. One
of these was Policeman Swartzel and
the other gave his name as John C.
Elgin, 24. of the 1200 block of K street.
Swartzel and Elgin now are held at
the third precinct on a charge of in
vestigation. Inspector Thadeus Bean
said that Miss Foster had identified
Swartzel as the man who had attempted
to extort money from her. He said that
Swartzel had dictated a statement deny
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MUSICAL ENGINE SNORTS BY,
"CALLIOPING CASEY” AT WHISTLE
Southern Railway Division to Use Calliope to Clear
Crossings and Save Residents' Slumber.
By the Auoclated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 19.—1 f
sleepers in some of the towns along the
Southern Railway awake some night
and hear a calliope playing “Casey
Jones," It simply means Mike Brady,
veteran engineer, is blowing for a cross
ing.
The Southern Railway had com
plaints from residents of towns between
Memphis and Sheffield. Ala., that the
shrill blasts of locomotives were dis
{
TWO CENTS.
SALVATION ARMY
LEADER DEFENDS
{ PROHIBITION LAW
Evangeline Booth Declares
,• Lives of Tenement Dwell
ers Have Been Improved.
BROTHER TESTIFIES TAFT
HELD DRY ACT SUCCESS
r
Head of Taft School Tells House
Committee Straw Vote Means
Nothing.
Those who live in the tenement dis
tricts of big cities or make their homes
in the little Salvation Army Hotels
nestling under towering skyscrapers
have had their lives improved as a re
sult of prohibition in the opinion of
Comdr. Evangeline Booth, who today
was recorded before the House Judiciary
committee as a staunch defender of Hie
eighteenth amendment.
Her view was presented by H. W. Jen
kins, a colonel in the Salvation Army,
who read her prepared statement. She
denied that under the dry law more
young girls were being led astray and
asserted that the automobile rather
than prohibition was responsible for
most of the cases coming to the army’s
attention.
A recent survey, her statement said,
showed an improved condition among
wording men in industry, and she cited
a case wnere a smallpox examination in
a Salvation Army hotel in Chicago had
' failed to disclose a single intoxicant out
of 500 roomers.
». Taft Held Prohibition Success.
Jenkins offered the statement after
Horace Taft, brother of the late Wil
liam Howard Taft, had submitted a let
ter written by the one-time President
and Chief Justice under date of Novem
ber, 1928, to Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale,
in which he said the results of the
eighteenth amendment had been “glori
ous,” although he at first had felt it
would meet with failure.
Comdr. Booth’s statement added that
drunkenness had diminished 70 per
cent in Boston, according to the obser
vation of industrial workers, while a
similar improvement had been noted In
Columbus, Ohio; Altoona, Pa.; Brook
lyn; Philadelphia; Los Angeles; Port
land, Me., and Jacksonville, Fla.
Another listed to take the stand to
i day was Josephus Daniels, Secretary
I of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson,
who in 1914 issued the now famous
i order abolishing the “wine mess” of
i officers on American warcraft.
During the day, Mrs. Lenna L. Yost,
In charge of presentation of dry wlt
: nesseS, expected to present a state
ment in support of prohibition from
, Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale.
In addition to presenting the views of
: his brother Horace Taft, head of the
Taft School for Boys in Connecticut,
also testified that straw votes on pro
r hibitlon meant nothing. Even though
[ he estimated there was “more drink
ing” at Yale University than when he
i was in school, he said he doubted if
there was “one-twentieth of the drunk
. ennessi”
Letter Contains Taft's Views.
The views of the one-time Chief Jus
' tlce and President as set forth in a let
ter to Prof. Fisher, under date of No
i cember 21, 1928. were read by his
i brother, Horace Taft, who is head of
' the Taft School for Boys in Con
■ nectlcut.
Mr. Taft’s letter read:
"My Dear Irving:
“Thank you for sending me your new
book, I shall read It with a great deal
i of pleasure.
“In the late campaign I found myself
in a very awkward situation. I could
not issue any publication during it, be
cause of my being on the bench, and
i yet the New York World published my
anti-prohibition letters written to Lin
coln (a dry of New Haven) before the
adoption of the amendment, and then
nobody seemed to take the trouble to
publish my speech at Yale, given after
the amendment was adopted.
“But the result Is glorious and points
the only way that we have to work out
the problem presented. The solution
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TILSON, SENT TO HOSPITAL
WITH FEVER, IMPROVES
Nature of Malady Not Tet Deter
mined Definitely by House
Leader’s Doctor.
Representative John Q. Tilson of
Connecticut, Republican leader of the
House, who was sent to the Naval Hos
pital last night, following an attack of
grippe, was reported today to be slightly
better.
1 According to Lieut. Comdr. Joel T.
Boone, President Hoover’s personal
physician, who is attending the House
leader, the latter's temperature at 11
o’clock today was 99.4 and pulse 80,
with a normal respiration.
Representative Tilson became ill at
his office during the forenoon yester
day. When examined by a physician,
he was suffering from chills and fever
and upon the latter's advice, went to
his home at the Mayflower Hotel. Later
In the day Dr. Boone was summoned
and when he discovered that Mr. Tilson
had a temperature of 103 (he immedi
ately had him removed to the Naval
Hospital, where he will be kept for a
few days as a precautionary measure.
It was said at the hospital today that
Mr. Tilson had what was described as
a “good night” and appeared stronger
and otherwise improved today. ’
turblng their slumbers. The railroad
decided to give them music. So a
calliope whistle was installed on the
engine Brady runs.
Residents of towns on the Southern
were amazed last night when Mike’s
engine snorted by, playing snatches
from popular songs and ditties. Rail- I
road officials believe the music can be
heard as clearly as the whistle blasts
but will not disturb sleepers. They an-*
nounced that all Southern engines in
this division will be equipped with
calliopes.