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I .APPARENTLY BEST
I HOPE OE SOLVING
I BAKER GIRL’S DEATH
Sisson and Gallagher May Be
Released as Hunt for Man
■ Who Sold Timepiece and
Coat Continues.
QUERTERMOUS DOUBTED
IN NAMING OF SUSPECT
Virginian Who Witnesses Trans-;
action Near Murder Scene De-j
Clares Barge Foreman Mistaken.
• Habeas Writ Held Not Possible
in Crime of Murder.
A gold watch appeared today to
ft be one of the most important
clues to aid Department of Justice
ft agents, Washington police and
ft Arlington County officials in the
I * solution of the mysterious murder
of Miss Mary Baker.
The trail of the slayer has
grown cold after 10 days of in
tensive investigation during which
the authorities have run down
scores of leads, the majority of
which proved to be utterly use-
B • less, leaving them with the watch
ft ,as the only valuable bit of evi
dence to work on at this time.
In the meantime. Arlington County
authorities continue to hold Mervin Sis
■V son and Julian Gallagher, traveling
salesmen ot Warsaw, Va„ while certain
■ details of their seemingly unshakable
alibis are being checked. Common
■ wealth Attorney William C. Gloth of
Arlington County indicated, however,
that GaUagher probably would be re
leased this afternoon. Sisson will be
B detained, Gloth said, because Charles
■ Quertermous identified him yesterday
as the man who sold him the watch
and a gray topcoat about a mile from
■ the scene of the crime on the night
Miss Baker was murdered.
Identity in Question.
If an investigation now underway
ahows that Sisson had no connection
with the watch, he also will be released,
• unless there are some unexpected de
velopments in the near future, Gloth
■ Indicated. Gloth. It seems, does not ,
place much credence in the Identifica
tion of Quertermous, particularly in
view of the fact that Alonzo Lloyd of
Hume Springs, Va., who witnessed the
transaction, said positively after look
■ ing at Sisson that he was not the man
who sold the watch and overcoat.
■ Quertermous is a foreman on a Gov
ft iemment dredge operating in the vicinity
of Highway Bridge. He is a former
member of the Alexandria, Va„ police
force and lives at 629 North Columbus
street in that city.
The topcoat involved in the transac
tion has thus far been worthless as a
ft clue. The only mark of identification
it contained was a label of a Washing
ton men’s clothing store from which it
was purchased, but salesmen at the
store were unable to assist the detec
tives in tracing its owner. Moreover,
the coat is old, and the labal appeared
. to have been removed from another
ft coat and sewed in by an amateur,
ft The watch, however, is considered im
portant, because detectives believe they
Bf can determine its owner through the
serial numbers.
Other Possibility.
Even if it is determined that Sisson
did not own the watch, police pointed
out today, there is a possibility that
the man who had the watch may
Jtnow something of the crime.
Aside from the watch, the police
have a gray cap, stained with green
paint, which was found early this
morning on the Military road bordering
the Arlington experimental farms of the
Department of Agriculture, about a
mile from the culvert where Miss
Baker’s body was discovered. The cap
was turned over to Sheriff Howard B.
Fields of Arlington County, but it is
not regarded as important evidence,
even though the man who was seeta
struggling with the slain woman in her
Automobile at Seventeenth and B streets
& few hours before she was killed was
said to have worn a gray cap. Sheriff
| Fields thinks the cap was either lost
9 er thrown away by a laborer.
James Ft. Duncan, an Alexandria at
torney, who has been retained by Mrs.
Bisson, was at the Arlington County
court house this morning making prep
arations for the release of his client on
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ROY IS ELECTED^
HAITI PRESIDENT
fer Council of State Unanimously Ap
proves of Him to Succeed
Borno.
Hr the Associated Press.
PORT-AU-PRINCE. Haiti. April 21.
—Eugene Roy unanimously was elected
temporary President of Haiti by the
council of state today.
President-elect Roy is to assume of
fice next month, when the term of Pres
ident Borno will expire. He will hold
office until regular elections can be held
for the presidency.
I Mr. Roy’s election was in accordance
f With the recommendations of the Hoo
ver commission, which suggested him
after virtually all of the political ele
ments in Haiti had approved him as a
non-partisan candidate.
Eugene Roy is former president of
the government clearing house and is
widely known in financial circles. He
never has held political office before.
The council of state was to have acted
bn his election a week ago, but its
meeting was suddenly postponed by
Borno and there were rumors
' bf a possible hitch, due to opposition
L- within the council to his selection.
President Borno last week made
I Ifchanges in the personnel of the coun
■ 'ell. and it was stated that this was done
In order to make certain Mr. Roy’s elec-
I tion and fulfillment of the program out
s lined by the Hoover commission and ac
cepted by the opposition in Haiti.
WEATHER.
W. B. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Occasional rain this afternoon and to
night; tomorrow generally fair and
colder. Temperatures—Highest, 68. at
4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest. 48, at 3
am. today.
Full report on page 3.
Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 13,14 &15
Entered as second class matter
post office. Washington. D. C.
Key Witness
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SB
CHARLES QUERTERMOUS,
Who says Mervin Sisson sold him a
watch on the night that Mary baker
was stain. —Star Staff Photo.
THREEOF CAPONE’S
ALLIES ARE SLAIN
Gang Leader’s Plan to Join
Labor “Racket” Is Blamed
for Killings.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 21. —The Blue Hour
Saloon, no stranger to gang murder,
saw a triple slaying early Easter
morning.
One man entered the speakeasy,
tossed a dollar bill on the bar and
ordered beer. Two minutes later he
ran out, the beer untouched, change
from his dollar still on the bar—
and three dead men on the sawdust
floor.
Walter Wakefield, “The Fibber,” lay
dead behind the bar. A bullet had
struck him in the back of the head.
Frank Del Re, sometimes called Frank
Dire, 33, also had been shot in the
back, apparently as he sought to flee.
Joseph Special, 28, partner of Del Re
in the operation of the groggery, lay
dead in front of the bar. He had
been shot in the chest as the assassin
turned to meet his attack. In one
hand Special clasped a knife. In the
other, gripped like a club, was the
plaster bust of a saint.
Detectives saw the murders as a
score against the A1 Capone gang, for
the three dead men were Capone disci
ples. They saw the crime both as a
challenge to the reported “peace agree
ment” in gangland and to the Capone
overlordship.
There were political and labor angles,
too, the racketeering possibilities being
regarded as particularly significant In
view of persistent word lately that
Capone had ambitions to “muscle” into
laboi organizations.
Wakefield, police heard, was a protege
of Dan Serritella, city sealer and Re
publican power in the first ward. Serri
tella has been regarded as friendly to
Capone. Wakefield and Del Re were
active in the recent election in Serri
tella's successful campaign for commit
teeman.
A man whose name was withheld by
police said Wakefield on Saturday night
had attended a meeting of the Bread,
Crackers, Yeast and Pie Wagon Drivers’
Union, Local No. 734.
All three dead men were known to
the police, but none of them, so far as
the records reveal, ever had any serious
trouble with the law.
A man living above the saloon ran to
the street as the slayer drove away. He
looked through a window into the bar
room, saw the three bodies, and called
police.
CURTIS NAMES FIVE
FOR LEASE INQUIRY
Senator Blaine Is Chairman of
Special Post Office Probe
Committee.
By the Associated Press.
Vice President Curtis today named
the five Senators who will form the
special committee to investigate Fed
eral leases of post office buildings with
Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wis
consin, as chairman.
Others named to the committee were
Senators Hastings. Delaware, and
Hebert, Rhode Island, Republicans, and
George, Georgia, and Hayden, Arizona,
Democrats.
Senator Blaine is the author of the
resolution authorizing the inquiry.
two killed’by officer
SIMLA, India, April 21 (/P).—Two
European employes of the Imperial
Bank of India, Dunsmore and Hutchin
son by name, were shot to death by a
native non-commissioned officer at an
outpost near Khyber Pass.
A native soldier also was shot dead
by the same man, who was promptly
shot and killed himself by a guard.
Medical examination showed that the
man was suffering from meningitis.
CHURCH WITH JAZZ ORCHESTRA
OPENS DOORS TO BROADWAY
Saxophones Take Part in Syncopations, With Sermon
and Prayers.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 21.—With a
dance orchestra playing a syncopated
arrangement of the Pilgrims’ chorus,
from “Tannhauser,” New York’s most
modem church, housed in a $3,000,000
23-story apartment hotel, opened its
doors to Broadway last night.
Rev. Dr. Edward H. Emett introduced
the orchestra of Paul Specht—a com
plete jazz orchestra, save for drums —
in Manhattan Congregational Church,
in the new Manhattan Towers Hotel, at
Seventy-sixth street and Broadway.
The music was played by two saxo
phones, a trombone, clarinet, banjo,
guitar, violin and piano. i
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WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1930—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. ***
ARMAMENT TREATY
DRAFT IS APPROVED;
FIVE WILL SIGN AT
SESSIONTOMORROW
Three-Power Limitation Pact,
With Some Provisions That
Affect Italy and France, Is
Sent to Printers.
AMERICAN DELEGATION
TO BE FIRST WITH PEN
Robinson, in Careful Discussion of
Conference in Radio Talk, Re
veals 11. S. Was Not Asked to
Pledge Security Alliance De
manded by Paris at Parley.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 21.—The heads
of the five delegations to the
Naval Conference met today and
formally approved the draft
treaty, which then was sent to
the printers.
Those present were Secretary
Stlmson, Prime Minister Macdon
ald, Reijiro Wakatsuki, Ambas
sador Fleuriau of France and Am
bassador Bordonaro of Italy. The
two ambassadors officiated In the
absence of their chiefs.
Foreign Minister Briand was en
route to London today from Paris,
while Dino Grandi, the Italian
foreign minister and chief of dele
gation, will not be present for the
signing. Grandi was ill when he
last returned to Rome and was
said still to be suffering from his
indisposition.
Although at first it was stated that
the full text of the treaty would run
about 16,000 words, it was reported late
today that it would not run more than
7,000 words.
The last plenary session of the five
power Naval Conference will be held at
10:30 a.m. tomorrow. The treaty, a
three-power limitation pafct with some
five-power sections, will be signed at
that time.
U. S. Will Sign First.
The American delegation will be the
first to sign the historic document, Col.
Stimson, as its head, leading off. The
powers will sign according to their Eng
lish alphabetic order—America, France,
Great Britain, Italy and Japan. Fol
lowing Col. Stimson will be Ambassador
Dawes, Secretary Adams, Senator Rob
inson, Senator Reed and Ambassadors
Gibson and Morrow.
The treaty drafting committee took
final survey of the treaty this forenoon
and pronounced their work done. Am
bassador Morrow, the American mem
ber of the committee, announced after
the meeting that everything was set for
the signing tomorrow. His announce
ment set at rest strong fears that some
hitch would develop.
Prime Minister Macdonald will broad
cast a talk on the Naval Conference
Tuesday evening at 8:40 o’clock. The
address, which will last 20 minutes, will
be transmitted from all British stations.
Opened Three Months Ago.
It was three months ago today the
conference opened with expression of
high hopes of a five-power treaty of
limitation and reduction.
Although falling short of the original
aim of the conference, some observers
were loud today in their praise of the
results of the conference.
Senator Robinson, Democratic mem
ber of the American delegation and
minority leader in the Senate, in a
radio address yesterday to America
pointed out that while all sought for
had not been achieved, certain definite
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SKELETON FIND CLEARS
EIGHT -YEAR MYSTERY
Civil War Veterans’ Two Sons
Identify Watch and Other Ef
fects at Brentwood, N. Y.
B; the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 21.—The mys
terious disappearance eight and a half
years ago of Henry L. Norton, Civil
Wc: veteran and prominent Mason, had
been solved today with the identifica
tion of a skeleton found in a thicket
two miles from Ross Sanitarium, in
Brentwood, N. Y.
Identification was made by two sons
through a watch, a scarf pin, a pair of
eyeglasses and other personal effects
found about the thicket. They said no
marks of violence were found and that
their father evidently had died of ex
posure.
Mr. Norton disappeared November 8,
1921, two months before his eighty
fourth birthday anniversary. Although
he had been in good health, he had
gone to the sanitarium for a rest. For
months after his disappearance a search
was carried on vigorously in New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut, where Ma
sonic lodges conducted State-wide in
vestigations.
“Not jazz exactly,” said Mr. Specht;
“symphonic selections, I think you’d call
them.”
The orchestral numbers were inter
spersed with the regular events of the
church service—a short sermon, prayers,
selections by the choir and offertory
duet. The choir sang typical Easter
music.
In addition to the “Tannhauser” mu
sic the orchestra played MacDowell’s
“To a Wild Rose" and “Meditation,”
from “Thais.”
The hotel in which the church is lo
cated is owned by the church. Mr.
Specht’s orchestra, which plays in the
hotel case, has been loaned to the
church to play at six Sunday evening
services.
EASTER EGG ROLLING.
THOUSANDS FILL WHITE HOUSE
GROUNDS FOR EGG-ROLLING
Mr. Bunny Rabbit, as Master of Cere
monies, Presides Over Circus of
Joy and Merriment.
Eggs and children, Maypoles and
grown-ups and police and balloons are
mixed in the White House grounds to
day in one of the breeziest, busiest and
most bewildering Easter Monday fetes
ever held in the President's back yard.
As a matter of fact. Mr. Bunny Rab
bit is master of ceremonies there over
a three-ring circus of dances, music
and roving throngs.
It was 10 o’clock when things got
started, for then the early-rising Billies
and Marys and Janes saw the White
House gates open before them into a
newly mowed, fence-protected fairyland.
They saw roped-off areas with berib
boned Maypoles quaking in the smart
breeze which swept up from across the
Ellipse. They saw special drinking foun
tains, installed for them, with connec
tions made from Mr. Hoover’s lawn
SHELLS A. P.
ABOUT NAVAL AIMS
Statesman Describes Agree
ment as Long Step For
ward for World.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 21.—Members of
the Associated Press assembled here
today for their annual meeting and
luncheon and heard, by means of one
of radio's latest advances, Secretary of
State Stimson, in the British capital,
describe the London naval agreement.
For years the Associated Press annual
meetings were held in the old Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel, demolished within the
last year. This year's meeting was held
ai the Hotel Commodore and there to
day the members heard at their
luncheon Secretary Stimson’s address,
greetings from President Hoover, con
veyed through Frank B. Noyes, presi
dent, and the address of the general
manager, Kent Cooper. Mr. Noyes was
toastmaster.
"The past 14 weeks have given me
more confidence in my belief that the
peaceful methods of diplomacy can
eventually take the place of war than
anything I have witnessed since the
last war drew to a close," Secretary
Stimson said.
Application of Kellogg Pact.
He described the treaty as a practical
application of the peaceful declarations
of the Kellogg anti-war pact. There were
two problems, he said—the problem of
the relations between the navies of the
United States, Great Britain and Japan
and the problem of the relations be
tween the navies of Great Britain,
France and Italy.
“These are quite distinct problems,”
Secretary Stimson said. “The first of
these has been solved. In the second,
members of the American delegation
have been privileged to sit as iriendly
observers, watching the development
and clarification of these underlying
questions. Sitting on the sidelines, it
has been quite evident that the result
of the conference has been to clarify
issues and make their solution in the
future more possible.”
Throughout the morning and after
noon the annual meeting of the Asso
ciated Press was in progress. There
was to be an election of five new di
rectors, the number whose terms expire
this year. Names of 10 candidates
were submitted by the nominating com
mittee.
The five whose terms in office expire
(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.)
"Jim the Conqueror"
A Tale of Adventure
on the Texas Range
By
PETER B. KYNE
(Author of “The Pride of
Palomar ”)
Begins Today in
THE EVENING STAR
On Page B-6
spraying faucets. They saw a big band
stand. empty then, but destined, they
reasoned, to produce from somewhere
the musicians who were to play as they
frolicked. They saw shaded green knolls
that beckoned to them to come roll their
gaily colored eggs. And they stared
wild-eyed.
Here was an egg-rolling place where
something was going to happen.
Scores of the early arrivals made for
the roped inclosures with crowd-wise
mothers, who knew that to see one
must pick his place early and hold it
against all attacks. The roped spaces
became the center of eyes.
Some youngsters, bent on the egg
rolling they had been planning since
away last week, refused to be led to any
Maypole performance, and, tugging, they
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LINDBERGHS BREAK
RECORD ACROSS U.S.
Fly From Glendale, Calif., to
New York in Less Than
15 Hours.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 21.—" We” have
another record, a cross-continent flight
faster than anybody else.
Taking off from Glendale, Calif., just
at daybreak, Col. and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh yesterday brought their new
brilliant scarlet and black monoplane
to a three-point landing on Roosevelt
Field, where the colonel took off for
Paris three years ago this Spring. The
arrival was 48 minutes before the day
was done.
The approximate distance flown was
2,500 miles, the flying time, 14 hours
23 minutes 27 second; the average
speed, 172 miles an hour. A stop was
made at Wichita, Kans., of 22 minutes
and 5 seconds for fuel, but not food.
Lunch was eaten in the air.
Although the colonel disclaimed any
new record, the time of the flight was
3 hours 15 minues and 29 seconds
faster than it ever had been flown be
fore. Capt. Frank Hawks last June
29 flew from Glendale to Roosevelt
Field in 17 hours 38 minutes and 56
seconds, non-stop. The fact that he
and Mrs. Lindbergh made a stop, the
colonel pointed out, technically made
their flight not one to compare with
that of Capt. Hawks. Capt. Hawks
himself, however, and probably every
one else except the colonel, accepted
the flight as a new record.
Col. Lindbergh, who made the flight
to test the possibility of commercial
routes at high altitudes, believes that
such flights will follow along the trail
he blazed across the country.
The colonel gave to Mrs. Lindbergh
much of the credit for the actual
technical details of the flight. She did
the navigating, he said, kept the charts,
and occasionally handled the controls.
Their plane is equipped with dual con
trols.
Although there is no way in which
to record the number of miles traveled
by a plane in a long flight, the air line
distance from Los Angeles to Wichita
and from Wichita to New York, figured
on a great circle route bv spherical
trignometry. gives the distance as 2,479
miles.
Their monoplane, although techni
cally an open-cockpit plane, has a
glass cowling which slips back over the
top of the cockpit after the occupant
is seated.
AVERAGE SPEED RECORD STANDS.
Lindberghs Fall to Approach Mark
Set by Boeing Pilot.
Although Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
has established a new elapsed time
record for the coast-to-coast flight, he
failed even to approach the record for
high average speed for the trip, it
was revealed here today.
Lindbergh’s trip was made at an
average speed of approximately 175
miles an hour.
An average speed of 200 miles an
hour for the 3,000-mile flight from
Seattle, Wash., to the National Cap
ital was made several weeks ago by a
new Boeing fighting plane now under
test at the Anacostia Naval Air Sta
tion. The plane was flown here by
"Eddie” Allen, Boeing chief test pilot.
•■■■■ ■
Radio Programs on Page B-5
HOOVER KILLS BILL
FOR SPECIAL COINS
Declares Confusion and Coun
terfeiting Are Result
of Practice.
President Hoover let It be known
today that he is opposed to the is
suance of special coins commemorating
historical events, because he thinks
such practices tend to bring confusion
to the monetary system of the country,
serve to make counterfeiting easier, and
are absolutely unsound.
This stand of the President was re
vealed in a message sent by him to
Congress today in which he vetoed an
act authorizing the coinage of 10,000
silver 50-cent pieces in commemora
tion of the seventy-fifth anniversary
of the Gadsden Purchase. The coins
in question were to have been legal
tender and to be issued only upon the
request of the Gadsden Purchase coin
committee.
The President made it clear that he
considered it proper for the Govern
ment to commemorate certain historical
events in a suitable manner and stated
that the Government should be glad to
assist such celebrations, but he thought
that appropriate medals which have no
coinage functions would serve the pui
pose and be more practical.
Mr. Hoover thinks that the multi
plicity of these demands have largely
destroyed their interest and values for
the purpose intended.
He pointed out that during the past
10 years, 15 such special coins have
been issued, an aggregate of over 13,-
000,000 such coins having been author
ized. Also, he stated that there now
pending before Congress five other bills
for such coinage and before the Treasury
Department several requests for sup
port to proposals of the same character.
During the Christmas holidays, Presi
dent Hoover vetoed a bridge bill through
the medium of what is described as a
"pocket vetoe,” but this veto of the
Gadsden purchase coin is the first one
which was accompained by a message
setting forth his reasons for disapproval.
GREEfHWAiTENTER
RACE WITH COUZENS
Michigan Governor Considering
Fight in G. 0. P. Senate
Primaries.
By the Associated Press.
LANSING, Mich.. April 21.—Gov.
Fred W. Green intimated today that
he might enter the Republican pri
maries September 9 as a candidate
against Senator James Couzens when
the latter makes his bid for renomi
nation as United States Senator.
The governor said that when any
one "wants a fight as bad as Senator
Couzens does some one should give it
to him.”
Gov. Green, persistenly rumored as
a senatorial candidate, has indicated
he will not seek a third term as gover
nor. He said today it was "too early
to make an announcement regarding
his plans.”
Gilbert Cornett Dies.
ATLANTA, Ga„ April 21 (IP). —De-
spite a blood transfusion from a fellow
golf professional, Gilbert Cornett, 23
years old, pro at the Candler Park
course here, succumbed today to in
ternal injuries suffered yesterday in an
automobile accident.
More than a pint of blood was given
last night by Billy Wilson, professional
at Piedmont Park, who volunteered for
the transfusion.
Cornett came to Atlanta about a year
ago from Washington, D. C.
EASTER RAIN, SLIPPERS AND PARTY
NEXT DOOR BRING HUSBAND GRIEF
Anniversary Celebration Guests Protest Smashing of
Headlights by Irate Man—Forcibly.
By the Associated Press.
EVANSTON, 111., April 21.—A typical
Easter raining, raining, raining
nevertheless, Mrs. Newell D. Ely was
determined to wear her new slippers.
Mr. Ely decided to do what he could
to keep the slippers dry. He attempted
to drive his car in front of his house so
Mrs. Ely would have only a few steps
to take in the rain.
Unfortunately the next door neigh
bors were celebrating a silver wedding
anniversary. Guests had parked in
front of the Ely dwelling.
The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press news
service.
Saturday's Circulation, 116.418
Sunday’s Circulation, 120,286
(JP) Means Associated Press.
Bananas on Road
Cause Car to Skid
And Kill Man, 86
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md„ April 21.
—Bananas caused the death of
Henry Ford, 86, near here today.
T*d by curiosity, he went from
his home on South Mountain to
see what the commotion on the
pike below him was about. He
found a produce truck had over
turned and dumped a cargo of
bananas over the road.
While Ford was leaning against
a telephone pole watching several
men trying to right the truck,
Henry E. Fay of Baltimore drove
up. His automobile skidded on
the bananas, ran into a ditch and
killed Ford.
An accidental death verdict was
rendered.
BUILDING AWARDS
TOTAL $303,000,000
Lamont Says First-Quarter
Record Indicates $7,000,-
000,000 for Year.
By the Associated Press.
Secretary Lamont said today that
awarding of $303,000,000 in public con
struction contracts during the first
quarter of 1930 in 37 States indicated
that his estimate of $7,000,000,000 for
the year would be fulfilled.
A new five-year record for the first
three months was set by the awards this
year. The Commerce Secretary said he
expects a steady speeding up during the
remaining three periods to carry the
year’s activities in public works and
public utilities construction to the total
he forecast several months ago.
This $7,000,000,000 program was esti
mated on a basis of reports of the Gov
ernment, State governors and officials
of public utilities corporations. It would
carry the year far ahead of last year.
While the $303,000,000 would set a
new first quarter record, the Secretary
said this figure undoubtedly would be
further swelled by reports from the
other 11 States and from awards upon
which reports were not received.
Total for Public Buildings.
Contracts for public buildings totaled
$32,337,000, as compared with $24,318,-
000 in the corresponding period of last
year. Lighting systems awarded con
tracts aggregatinfi $20,458,000, as against
$5,864,000 in the first quarter of 1929,
an increase of 249 per cent.
An increase of 128 per cent was noted
in railroad construction, the figures be
ing $70,648,000 for the first three months
of this year and $30,973,000 for the
same period of last year. Contracts for
hospital and institutional construction
moved upward from $22,588,000 last
year to $39,364,000 this year.
Park Development Gains.
Contracts for park development gained
127 per cent, water front property 73
per cent, water supply systems 70 per
cent, incinerators 60 per cent and bridges
47 per cent.
Decreases of 55 per cent in the con
struction of railway buildings, 23 per
cent in park buildings, 14 per cent in
sewerage systems and 3 per cent in edu
cational buildings were reported. Resi
dential building lagged behind last year
by 48 per cent, commercial buildings
were 15 per cent off and industrial
buildings 17 per cent less than a year
ago.
SHERIFF IS KILLED
BY MAN ON STREET
Deputy Says Victim’s Enemy Fired
Behind Back Without
Warning.
By the Associated Press.
BLOUNTSTOWN, Fla., April 21.
Sheriff C. D. Clark of Calhoun County
was shot to death on a street here
today by J. T. Blackwell, an employe
of the Federal Government.
Deputy Sheriff McClelland said
Blackwell, apparently without warning,
drew a pistol as Clark passed him on
the street and fired five or six times
at his back. Three of the bullets struck
the sheriff, killing him instantly.
McClelland said ill feeling had ex
isted between Blackwell and Clark for
some time. Blackwell, the deputy said,
was recently arraigned in court on a
charge involving marital relations.
Blackwell was imprisoned to await
the outcome of a coroner's investigation
to be held later in the day.
GRAF TRIP, APRIL 26
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany. April
21 (fP). —Capt. Ernst Lehmann, vice skip
per of the Graf Zeppelin, announced to
day that the giant dirigible would fly to
England April 26. Departing at 6 am.,
it expects to reach Cardington at 5 p.m.,
anchoring there for an hour to take Dr
Hugo Eckener, head rff the Zeppelin Co.,
aboard. Arrival at the home hangar is
planned for Sunday morning.
■'— •
Marital Condition Is OK’D.
CHICAGO, April 21 (IP). —One woman
has just made a return to the Southwest
Side census supervisor. Her answer to
the question as to her marital condition
is succinct and encouraging.
"Marital condition—O. K„” she wrote.
Mr. Ely. however, is a determined
l person. He put his car into gear and
. gave the line of cars a push. The
. sound of smashing glass tinkled out
upon the calm Sabbath afternoon.
Such things do not go unnoticed, even
I at silver wedding celebrations. Pretty
I soon Mr. Ely was mixed up with wed
ding guests who happened to own the
automobiles attached to what formerly
i were headlights. A bit later Ely and
four others found themselves glaring at
each other at police headquarters.
Ely put up $1,600 bond. One of the
’ car owners. Jack Wright, put up S4OO.
i It was not learned whether or not
Mrs. Ely got her slippers wet.
TWO CENTS.
{PARKER IS REJECTED
TOR JUDGESHIP BY
SENATE JUDICIARY
COMMITTEE, ID TO 6
Unfavorable Report Ordered
in Secret Session After an
Hour’s Discussion—Labor
Opposed Nomination.
EXPECT BETTER SHOWING
| IN UPPER HOUSE BALLOT .
Group Rejects Overman Motion to
Call Judge to Answer Attacks
Growing Out of Mine Workers’
Dispute Over Sanction of “Yel
low Dog” Contracts.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN-
The nomination of Judge John
; J. Parker of North Carolina, to be
; an associate justice of the Su
preme Court, was adversely re
ported today by the Senate judici
i ary committee.
! The vote in committee stood 10
i to 6 against Judge Parker. Six
! Republicans and four Democrats
| cast their votes for rejection of
the nomination. Republicans re
corded against confirmation of
, the nomination were Senators
i Borah of Idaho, Blaine, Wiscon-
T sin; Deneen, Illinois; Norris, Ne
k braska; Robinson, Indiana, and
[ Steiwer, Oregon. Democrats vot
; ing against him were Senators
i Ashurst, Arizona; Caraway,
Arkansas; Dill, Washington, and
Walsh, Montana.
I Four Republicans, Senators Hastings,
' Delaware; Hebert, Rhode Island; Gll
. lette, Massachusetts, and Waterman,
: Colorado, and two Democrats, Senators
> Overman of North Carolina and
■ Stephens of Mississippi voted to report
. favorably the nomination.
. If the vote in the committee today
a reflects the sentiment of the Senate it
' self. Judge Parker’s nomination is
1 doomed to defeat, unless the nomina
, tion should be withdrawn. There is a
feeling, however, among some of the
Senators that the nomination will re
ceive stronger support in the Senate
j than it did in committee.
3 Refuse to Invite Judge.
r Before voting to report the nomina
-3 tion adversely the committee rejected
a motion by Senator Overman of North
■ Carolina to invite Judge Parker to ap
pear before the committee and reply
1 to attacks made upon him by repre
■ sentatives of organized labor and of the
• National Association for the Advance
' ment of Colored People
* The vote turning down Senator Over
-1 man’s motion to hear Judge Parker was
10 to 4 Senators favoring the motion
were Deneen, Hebert, Overman and
Stephens. Those opposing were Ash
urst, Blaine, Borah, Gillette, Dill, Hast
ings, Robinscn of Indiana, Steiwer,
Norris and Walsh, Montana.
■ The vote against hearing Judge Park
er was a surprise. On Saturday sev
eral of the Senators recorded against
hearing Judge Parker said they expected
Senator Overman's motion to call Judge
I Parker before the committee would be
adopted.
When the vote on the nomination
was taken three so-called regular Re
publicans, counted upon to support the
administration, voted to report the
nomination adversely.
Opposed by Labor.
They were Senators Deneen, Robin
son and Steiwer. It was expected that
Senator Norris, chairman of the com
mittee, and Senators Borah and Blaine,
all three of the progressive group, would
vote against the nomination.
Judge Parker’s decision in a case
brought by the United Mine Workers
of America against the Red Jacket Coal
Co. of West Virginia, In which the "yel
low dog” contracts between the mine
owners and the mine workers were in
volved. has aroused the opposition of
organized labor to the North Carolina
jurist. His campaign speeches in 1920,
when he was running as a Republican
for Governor of North Carolina, brought
down upon him the wrath of the Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Colored
People.
Senate Gets Report.
Nomination of Judge Parker was re
ported adversely to the Senate by Sen
ator Borah soon after the Senate met
today. Senator Overman, who has had
charge of the nomination and who has
supported it, said he expected the Sen
ate to take it up for action within a
few days. He admitted that tn view
of the strong vote against Judge
Parker in the committee there was doubt
of Senate confirmation.
Senator Robinson of Indiana, one of
the Republicans who voted against
Judge Parker, said he believed the Sen
ate would reject the nomination. He
called attention to the fact that in the
judiciary committee today six Repub
licans were recorded against Parker and
only four in favor of him, and that four
Democratic Senators voted against
Parker and only two supported him.
Members of the Senate committee
who on Saturday said they believed
Senator Overman's motion to Invite
Judge Parker to appear before the
committee would be adopted said today
apparently there had Been a misap
prehension of the situation. Judge
Parker, in his telegram to Senator
Overman Saturday, expressed a willing
ness to appear before the committee If
Invited. Members of the committee
took the position they would be willing
to give Judge Parker a hearing If he
himself asked It, but without such a
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mort aiTfoeslnTtruce
Whales and Sea Lions Peacefully
Entertain Holiday Crowds.
NEWPORT. Oreg., April 21 UP).—
Whales and sea Hons, said by majjpers
to be mortal enemies, were rawing
northward together today under an
"armistice.”
Thousands of sea lions moved past
Newport yesterday, furnishing a spec
tacle for holiday crowds at the beach.
A few large whales manoeuvred Just
outside the breakers.