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* WEATHER. (V. «. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Temperatures—Highest, 97, at 3:15 p.m yesterday; lowest, 74, at 5 a.m. today. Pud report cm page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14 &15 No. 31,510. AFGHAN TRIBESMEN MOVING TO ATTACK PESHAWAR TROOPS British, With Bombing Planes . Ready, Prepare to Fight Force of 10,000. NORTHWEST FRONTIER DEFENDERS CONFIDENT Youth Leagues, Supposedly Con nected With Red Organizations, Bbmed for Disorders. By the Associated Press. PESHAWAR, India, August B.—Ten thousand savage Afghan tribesmen to day advanced against Peshawar in an Increasing effort to break through the northwest frontier. British advance troops were in contact with the Afridi warriors this forenoon and bombing planes were in readiness to repel a general assault. There was no lack of confidence among the defending forces, however, whose officers asserted every precau tion had been taken and that every move of the tribesmen was being made known quickly to the British com mand by reconnoitering scouts of the royal air force. Communistic Connections Alleged. BOMBAY, August 8 OP).—Afridi tribesmen to the number of about 10,- 000 were reported moving at dawn in the Bara Valley in an intended as sault upon the Peshawar frontier. Their activities were reported to be due to the Afghan Youth League of the Burhankhel district, combined with rumors circulated by the new League of Youth of Peshawar. Both of these organizations supposedly have Com : munistic connections and are said to be responsible for the persistent circu lation of- rumors among the tribesmen that Peshawar and the surrounding dis- j tricts were in the hands of National Congress members and undefended. The Afridis are the most powerful of the Pa than tribes which live in the mountainous borderland near where Kyber Pass leads to Kabul. Government forces have been con centrated heavily at strategic points beyond Peshawar. It was stated here that the Peshawar city gates had been closed last night wad residents forbidden to leave their homes. The government has upward of 50 military airplanes ready for action, many of them of the bombing type. Two Killed in Rioting. KARACHI. India, August 8 (A*). —Two persons were killed and seven wounded In a new outbreak of communal riot ing at Sukkur early today. Looting was reported and the fighting is spreading northward. WAITRESS KILLED, h. COMPANION SHOT 1 Suicide Pact Suspected in Death of Margaret Limerick and In jury of Earl Turner. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., August 8. —ln what appears to have been a sui cide pact, Earl Turner, 42, shot and killed Miss Margaret Limerick, 20, this morning at 8:10 o’clock, then turned the pistol on himself, inflicting two injuries which may prove fatal. The girl was shot four times in the head, dying instantly, as she sat in Turner’S automobile parked on a side road near the Washington highway, about five mues from here. Turner then placed the .25-caliber automatic pistol against his head and fired two shots which failed of their purpose. With his ammunition ex hausted, Turner walked to the main highway and collapsed on the road. When discovered by passing motorists, he was conscious, and told them he had just slain his sweetheart, whose body was found in the automobile. Turner was brought to Mary Wash ington Hospital here, where it is be lieved he cannot recover. Turner told physicians he and the girl were tired of living. The couple left the boarding house here, where Miss Limerick was employed as a wait ress and where Turner was rooming about 6 o’clock last night and did not return. The whereabouts of the couple during the night are unknown. A number of love letters from the girl to Turner were found in the car and indicated that the desire of the couple to marry was thwarted by Turner’s wife and children, supposed to be living in Philadelphia. Turner was employed here last year in factory con struction work, but had been away for several months. He returned recently, saying he was going to Colorado to join his father At the boarding house it was said the couple had been on friendly terma and frequently went automobile riding to gether In the evening. Miss Limerick was the pretty daughter of Joseph limerick of this city. She is survived by her father, two sisters and one brother. ' Portugal Approves Attache. LISBON, Portugal, August 8 (JF). — The Portuguese government today assented to the appointment of Lieut. Comdr. Calvin H. Cobbe as United States naval attache at Lisbon. RETURN FROM UNCLE’S "FUNERAL” TO FIND HIM ALIVE ON CORNER Nephews and Nieces of Baltimore Man Learn They Buried an Unknown Man. By the Associated Prei*. BALTIMORE. August B.—Nephews and nieces who yesterday believed they bad attended the funeral of their uncle came back from the cemetery to find they had burled a stranger. They dis covered their uncle alive and well and rtanding at the intersection of a busy atreet. . _ . Police to whom they appealed for Bi lief were only able to change health e Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. “WETS” CHALLENGED TO OFFER | IMPROVEMENT ON PROHIBITION Anti-Saloon League, Announcing Educa i tional Campaign, Demands Showdown and Specific Substitute for Temperance. By the Associated Press. LITTLE POINT SABLE, Mich., August B.—The executive board of the Anti-Saloon League of America has challenged opponents of prohibition to offer a better plan to bring temper ance and sobriety to the Nation. The challenge ,was included in the declaration of policy and program of action adopted by the board in the last session of its two-day biennial confer ence yesterday. Mcßride Calls for "Showdown.” "In view of the loose talk by the wets about repeal or modification of the pro hibition law, the time has come for a showdown,” said the challenge made public by Dr. F. Scott Mcßride, na tional superintendent of the league. "We must insist upon specific state ments and enlighten the voters as to merits and demerits of any proposed plan. The public has a right to know exactly what is proposed.” In a preamble to the declaration of policy, the board placed blame for much of the anti-prohibition agitation upon metropolitan newspapers. "We are gratified over victories of the past,” it said, "and the fact that we have held our lines although confronted AGENTS FIRED UPON DURING NIGHT RAID Officers Escape Injury in Ex change of Shots —3 Men Held —Still Destroyed. Surviving % pitched battle with boot leggers at a still within 13 miles of | j Washington, Federal prohibition agents last night captured three young Mary land men and dynamited an elaborate whisky-making system. The action took place about 10 miles from the Capital, near Beltsville, Md. j An undertermined number of bootleg- j gers opened fire on two of the agents as they sat around their flashlights at the still, waiting for their leader to re turn with explosives for the demolition. None was hurt, although tr.e action was brisk and lasted for about 30 minutes. Entering the elaborately concealed still site about dark, the agents set up a two-man guard when the place was found to oe apparently abandoned, in the hope that visitors wculd put in an appearance some time during the night. While the leader traveled to Upper Marlboro for dynamite, the two men ; whiled away the hours and at 10.40 ; o’clock, when the first shots rang out, | pach man was opening a can of beans, thinking to have a light meal at the ex pense of the bootleggers. About 50 Shots Exchanged. Their plan was short-lived, however. At the first shot, the beans went in one direction and the men in another, behind trees. About 50 shots were ex changed with the attackers, who came in from a southerly direction and fired upon them against the bright back ground of the gleaming flashlights. When the actiort was over the two agents located 15 bullet marks on the trees, seveial of which were within inches of where they had been. The two agents kept in hiding, and at 12:55 a.m. a light truck came out of the dark and stopped on a hillside at the entrance to the still, within 10 feet of the hiding place of one of the Fed eral men. Three men got out and flash ed their lights over the trees and down toward the 24 great vats which con tained 12.000 gallons of reeking mash. The agent In hiding jumped from behind a tree almost in their faces. The men ran. but the agent gathered them in after giving one a light tap at the base of the skull with the flash light and Jumping on the second as he stumbled into an 8-foot ditch. Taken to Baltimore. The three men and the two agents were sitting quietly somewhat removed from the cleared place where they had opened their beans when the leader (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) FILIPINOCHALLENGES ROOSEVELT TO DUEL Vice Governor Receive! Desi Through Press Association Fol lowing Book Episode. By th« Associated Press. MANILA, August B.—Nicholas Roose velt, president Hoover's recess appointee to the Vice Governorship of the Philip pines, today was challenged to a pistol duel by Narciso Lapuz. The challenge was issued through a press association. Several days ago two young Filipinos hurled into Manila Bay a package which they said contained a copy .of Roosevelt’s book "The Philippines: a Treasure and a Problem.” This book has been widely criticized here. A news photographer hired a boat man for one peso (50 cents) and went a-grappling for the widely advertised package. On fishing It out of the bay he found a book, but not Roosevelt’s. The book stores took advantage of the publicity and ordered a large number of copies from the United States. department records to ahow an un known man had been buried. The coroner could do no more, and told them there was no way to recover funeral expenses. Last Monday a man was found dead in Carroll Park, and Charles Howser identified it as William L. Lewis, an uncle who had lived with him for IS years. The identification was confirmed by other nephews and nieces. _ . / Uht %)mim Star. v J V WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1930—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. ** I with an extraordinary situation in that. ! we now face a highly financed and well ; organized wet movement creating an I erroneous impression, chiefly through access to metropolitan dallies.” The league inserted in its declara tion of policy a threat of opposition for the wet candidates and a promise of support for drys, regardless of party, in forthcoming elections. "Within the rights of citizenship and democracy.” it said, "we will use every endeavor to elect a dry Congress, in both branches, and keep an avowed dry in the White House. • "We accept the suggestion of Presi dent Hoover and others that respective States do full duty in the matter of law enforcement. We pledge ourselves to an aggressive movement in every State for adequate enforcement meas ures ” Educational Campaign Intended. A five-year educational campaign to lay responsibility for success of prohi bition before the voters and instruct the younger generation in the effects ot alcohol In the human system was outlined, to be in charge of Dr. Ernest H. Cherrlngton of Westerville, Ohio. A half million dollars Is to be spent and use is to be made of motion pic tures, radio, the press, debates and oratorical contests. INDIANA MOB HANGS 2 COLORED YOUTHS One Had Admitted Attacking Girl of Man Killed, Police Say. By the Associated Press. MARION, Ind., August B—A fren zied mob of 1,000 persons which stormed the Grand County Jail late last night snatched two colored youths from their cells and hung them on the court house square. The victims of the mob’s fury were j Thomas Shipp. 18, accused of fatally shooting Claude Deeter, 23, of Fair mount, Ind., and Abe Smith, 19, who, police said, admitted attacking Deeter’s girl companion after the shooting on a lonely country road east of here. Using sledge hammers after they were driven off once by use of tear-gas bombs, members of the mob smashed a hole in the masonry beside the jail door and broke their way through two steel doors to reach the cells of the pair. Shipp’s clothing was torn from his body by the maddened men, and he was borne In a blanket to the court i house yard and hanged from the bars iof a window in the building. Smith, borne from the jail by a group of men after they had knocked him uncon scious with their fists and hammers, was thrown on the ground, where a horde of screaming women trampled on him and tore his body with their finger nails. He then was hung on a tree in the court house yard. Third Youth Is Beaten. The mob dispersed early today after it had taken from the jail and severely beaten Herbert Cameron. 16. Today 50 State policemen and police officers from surrounding towns, armed with sub machine guns, maintained order in this citj', while Gov. Harry G. Leslie said he stood ready to recall the National Guard from its training quarters at Camp Knox. Ky., if further trouble developed. The vengeance of the mob was ap peased after Cameron was returned to the Jail, It was discovered the men had intended taking Robert Sullivan, 19, who was implicated in the killing of Deeter, instead of Cameron, whose connection with the others was only that of an accomplice in several recent robberies. A move toward Sullivan, after the mistake was discovered and Cameron returned, was thwarted by a man who said he was an uncle of the girl at tacked. He harangued the mob, say ing the two men directly involved had been punished .and advised against fur ther violence. Soon after the crowd broke up into small groups, and tfc? danger of another outbreak was con sidered slight. The bodies of Shipp and Smith were left where they were hanged, the lynch (Continued on Page i. Column 7.) OFFICIALS PROBE DEATH OF 3 POSSIBLY POISONED Samples of Food Eaten by Chil dren Victims Are Examined by Chemist. UTICA. N. Y.. August 8 OP).— With the death today of Edward Hand, 4. third child of Joseph Hand to die of 1 an undetermined cause within a week, officials revealed they are investigating the possibility that all the deaths re sulted from accidental poisoning. . Dr. Robert K. Brewer, professor of , chemistry at Syracuse University, is examining samples of food the children ate. At first the disorder was diagnosed as ’ Intestinal inflammation. Subsequent abdominal tests, however, failed to ! show that germs were present. \ Frank Hand and Marjory Hand, 12. •re ill, Frank being in serious con dition. Their cousin, Hazel Bowen, 10, ; of Hamilton, also is ill. IOWA VIGILANTE KILLED AMBUSHING ROBBERS Prominent Business Man Attempts to Wayley Trio After Drug Store Hold-Dp at Davenport. By the Associated Press. TIPTON, lows. August B.—R. O. Sproat, prominent business maa and Cedar County Vigilante, was shot and killed by three robbers today. Sprost was in ambush with Sheriff C. H. Elwood and John Carey, await ing the men, who had held up a drug store at Davenport an hour and a half earlier. The vigilantes attempted to stop the robbers' car, but its occupants began firing. Bproat was hit three times in the back. After killing Sproat the men continued in their automobile and escaped. COE, BACK HOME, RECOUNTS WEIRD TALE OF KIDNAPING Laundry Superintendent Says Man Took His Car and Money, Asking Ransom. STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE STARTED WIDE HUNT Tells Police Traveler Choked Him and Kept Him Prisoner Within “Pour Blank Walls.'’ A weird story of being held prisoner for four days within “four blank walls’’ by a man who kidnaped him, took his automobile and $l4O in cash and then released him when he refused to sign demands lor ransom was related to police in the early morning hours today by Joe Coe of 3122 Monroe street northeast, superintendent of a laundry at Montello avenue and Raum street northeast. Coe dropped from sight last Saturday and his continued absence prompted members of his family to report the affair to police, who broadcast descrip tions to the various precincts and to neighboring cities. Telephoned Employer. Nothing was heard from him, how ever, until Coe telephoned his employer about 4 o'clock this morning, saying he had Just been released from an au tomobile on Bladensburg road near Mount Olivet Cemetery and that he had walked the remaining distance to his residence. When Coe’s employer heard details of the former’s story he notified police of No. 12 precinct and Lieut. J. W. Mc- Cormack, in charge there at the time, went to the man’s home, on Monroe street northeast. Coe explained to the lieutenant that he was cn his way to Annapolis Sat urday night to spend the week end there with his wife and children, who had gone on ahead to visit relatives. Turning his light sedan from Blad ensburg road into Defense Highway. Coe said he stopped his car at the hail of a man on the roadside, who requested and was granted a lift to ward Annapolis. When the two men came to a point on the highway where it crossed the Pennsylvania tracks, Coe said another machine pulled up from behind, forced, him over to the side of the road and to a halt. Choked Into Insensibility. His machine had hardly stopped, Coe said, when his companion seized him ! about the throat and choked him into ! insensibility. Coe said he had a hazy j impression of other men emerging from | the second car, though he did not see them again. He woke up, Coe went on, inside the “four blank walls” of a room which had a concrete floor, no windows, and whose only furnishing was an Army cot and blanket. Coe said the man darkened the single electric light in the room when he! came from time to time to bring food. [ He declared the other insisted on numerous occasions that he write a! (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) j STOCKS DEPRESSED j IN HEAVY SELLING Prices Drop $3 to $9 on Batch of Unfavorable Business Reports. By Ihe Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 8. —Share prices were driven down $3 to $9 to the lowest levels in a month in a fresh wave of liquidation on the New York Stock Ex change today. Although the volume of trading was moderate in comparison with the 5,000.- 000 to 8,000.000 share days during mid- June, the turnover during the early hours of trading indicated that the day’s sales would be the largest since that time. Belling of stocks was influenced by such developments as reports that U. S. Steel had reduced mill operations from 64 to 61 per cent of capacity this week, the passing of the Warner Bros, divi dend and a break in cotton market on publication of the Government’s August 1 crop estimate, which in turn influenced a reaction in wheat. Warner Bros., Bullard, Auburn, Case, Vanadium, Westinghouse Electric, American Tobacco arid Worthington declined $6 to $9. U. S. Steel, Ameri can Telephone, Eastman, Dupont, Stone & Webster, Goodyear and North Ameri can lost $4 to $6. Radio, Atchison, Rock Island and Standard of New Jer sey lost $3 or more. ADMITS RACK THEFT Colored Youth Is Fined $5 for Tak ing Paper. John Francis Barner, 17 years old, colored, 1000 block Twenty-ninth street, pleaded guilty to stealing a newspaper from an honor system rack in Police Court and was fined $5 by Judge Ralph Given. . . Barner was arrested yesterday after noon when Policeman W. T. G. Mills of the seventh precinct saw him take a paper from a rack at Twenty-eighth street and Pennsylvania. He took money from his pocket, hesitated a moment and placed the coins back into the pocket. The officer strolled up at this time. Barner threw the paper down and ran. . .. ... The policeman overtook the fugitive after a two-block chase. He ya* es corted to the precinct station and locked up over night. , Judge Given severely reprimanded Barner today. ✓ . • ; Sought Water, Got Beer. NEW YORK. August 8 (A I ).—The day was hot and Detective Alexander sought relief in a drink of cool water from a faucet attached to a pipe in the rear yard of a Brooklyn garage. A clear, brown beverage poured forth which, much to the detective’s surprise, proved to be beer of good quality. Now 17 men found in the garage are in Jail. Radio Programs on Page A-12 i P BABY BAMBERGER j ORDERED TO COURT Writ Requiring Couple to Produce Child Is Obtained by Watkins. By the Associated Pres*. CHICAGO, August B—A writ of j habeas corpus requiring Mr. and Mrs. j Charles Bamberger to produce in court j the infant given them by the Engle- j wood Hospital as their child but claimed ; by Mrs. Margaret Watkins as her baby I instead of the one given her, was grant- ; ed today by Judge Robert E. Gentzel. The writ also restrains the Bambergers from leaving the jurisdiction of th? j court. The alleged baby mix-up case re- i suited from the finding by William Watkins, one of the fathers, of a , “Bamberger” tag on the back of the j child given the Watkins by the hospital.; Investigation revealed the Bamberger’s! baby wore a “Watkins” tag. i A jury of scientists said the infants | j had b’en switched, but a group of phy- I 1 sicians disagreed. In behalf of the ; j baby in the Watkins’ care a suit has been filed asking the court to deter mine its identity. Also a SIOO,OOO dam age suit has been filed against the hospital in the name of Mrs. Watkins. The bill in today’s action alleged that Baby Bamberger was wrongly christened and was the son of Mrs. Watkins. It i also alleged the Bambergers planned to i leave the city with the child and asked | that they be restrained. The Bambergers have been certain all | along they have the right child, while I the Watkins believed the babies were i j mixed. ! HOSPITAL ROBBERY ! SUSPECT IS NAMED Police Broadcast Lookout fox Wal ter 0. Jones, Wanted as Pay-Roll Bandit. Search for the bandits who staged the Children’s Hospital pay roil hold-up ! eight days ago assumed definite shape today when the police oroadcast a look out for Walter O. Jones, 30 years old, as a suspect in the robbery of Miss Eleanor Page, assistant cashier of the hospital, ol $7,000 on July 31. The man has been identified accord ing to Inspector William S Shelby, chief of detectives, as one of the men who figured in the hold-up and a United States commissioner’s warrant, in which Jones is charged with the rob bery has been sworn out by detectives investigating the ease. Police are also reasonably certain of the identity of the other two bandits, according to In spector Shelby. Jones, police say, is 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighs 150 pounds, has dark brown hair brown eyes, and two small moles, - one back of the right ear and the sec- ! ond under the left Jaw. | —— • 1— BAY STATE MAY LOSE MEMBER OF HOUSE Indiana, Believed Doomed to Yield Two Seats, May Retain One, Census Discloses. By the Associated Press. Massachusetts will probably lose one of its House delegation in the reap portionment of the figures announced today by the Census Bureau. Previous estimates based on prelimi nary official figures had given the Bay State more than 100,000 persons over the 4,253,646 made public today. Some comfort was seen for Indiana in the official announcement. The State probably will lose only one repre sentative. On earlier census figures, it had been thought Indiana would lose two. COAL-LADEN BARGE WATCHED FOR LIQUOR By the Associated Press. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., August B. The barge Frederick, laden with 4,500 tons of soft coal and suspected of hav ing a cargo of rum. today was under Government surveillance at the T. A. D. Jones Co.'s wharf. Wont of unloading the cargo, which the barge brought to Bridgeport from Norfolk, Va., was started today and is expected to require a week. In the , meanwhile the vessel will be kept under surveillance and later searched for liquor. The Frederick was followed by Coast Guard cutters during the entire trip from Virginia to Bridgeport and then seized on suspicidn by Federal officials. State Primary Victor % 2 mt:. M CORDELL HULL. IHULLS MAJORITY MOUNTS STEADILY Carroll Reece, Favored by Hoover for House, Is Piling Up Lead. ! Bt the Associated Press. NASHVILLE. Tenn., August 8. Cordell Hull, veteran of 11 terms in the House of Representatives, today re ceived reports of his steadily mounting majority over Andrew L<. Todd in yes ! terday's senatorial Democratic primary for the six-year term. Returns from 1,689 precincts out of 2,251 gave Hull 110,206 and Todd 62,014. Gov. Henry H. rfbrton was nominated for another two-year term on the face of unofficial returns, but L. E. Gwinn, Memphis and Covington attorney, re fused to concede defeat and declared he was awaiting the complete figures from all counties. Returns from 1,789 pre cincts gave Horton 122,382 and Gwinn 85,283. Brock Defeats Neal. Senator William E. Brock defeated Dr. John R. Neal, 79,915 votes to 29,717, in 1,429 precincts for nomination for the short Senate term, from November to March. In the Republican primary J. Will Taylor, second district, the other Re publican Representative, was renomi nated over Judd Acuff, and C. Arthur Bruce, Memphis, defeated Harry T. Bum, Sweetwater, for the gubernatorial nomination. , - Six incumbent Democratic Repre sentatives were unopposed in the party primary, and Edward H. Crump. Mem j phis political leader, was named with out contest for the tenth district seat, made vacant by the retirement of Rep resentative Hubert Fisher. | J. Ridley Mitchell defeated two op ponents for the Democratic nomination i for the fourth district congressional seat, relinquished by Hull. Paul E. Divine. Johnson City attor ney, and F. Todd Meacham, Chatta nooga lawyer, were without opposition for the Republican nomination for the iong and short Senate term, respec tively. Reece Defeats Price Decisively. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., August 8 Carroll Reece, the congressional Rep resentative from the first district of Tennessee, whose campaign for re nomination received the personal In dorsement of President Hoover and other party leaders, won a pronounced victory yesterday in the hottest cam paign known in this district. Reece’s majority is expected to be in excess of 5,000 Unofficial returns show that he carrier his native county, Johnson, by more than 1,300 majority, while his opponent, Sam W. Price, carried his home county, Washington, by only 500. Nomination in this district is equiva lent to election. COTTON DROPS $2 BALE Higher Government Crop Forecast Expected Sends Prices Down. NEW YORK. August 8 (/P).—Cotton futures declined approximately $2 to $3 a bale on the New York Market to day as trading resumed after suspen sion for the readin gos the Government crop report. The Washington forecast of 14.362,- 000 bales was about 300,000 bales higher than was generally expected. It was reported In brokerage circles, however, that there was good trade buying on scale down. The decline was checked after all positions had sold off from $2.50 to $3.00 a bale. t ' ' £ The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 106,516 14>) Means Associated Press. TWOSUSPECTSHELDj IN M’CftORY HOLDUP Owner of Get-Away Car Is Taken in Baltimore and An other in Alexandria, Va. With two suspects under arrest, one in Baltimore, local police today intensi fied their efforts to apprehend tour white men w r ho late yesterday staged a daring daylight holdup in front of the McCrory 5 and 10 cent store, 416 Seventh street, and escaped in an au tomobile after robbing two employes of $1,200. John Irwin, the Baltimorean to whom police say the tags on the get-away car were listed, was taken Into custody early this morning when he walked into a Baltimore police station to re port his automobile stolen. Later in the day James W. Callen, 23, of Alex andria, Va., was brought to police headquarters here for questioning. Callen was a Government Witness in the Busch murder trial. At I: IS o'clock this morning Irwin informed the Maryland police that his car had been stolen from a bathing beach near Baltimore some time yes terday. He was immediately arrested for the Washington police, who had asked Maryland authorities to be on the watch for him. Leave to Identify Irwin. Accompanied by Earl Flory, 34-year old assistant manager of the store, and Harvey W. Smith, 20-year-old messen ger, the bandits’ victims. Headquarters Detectives Thomas Nally and L. M. Wilson left for Baltimore this morning. If the two store employes are able to identify Irwin, he will be brought to Washington for further questioning. The license number of the car in which the hold-up men escaped was secured by Smith. Police also say that a bystander recognised two of the ban dits. One is said to live in Alexandria and the other in Washington. One of the pair is said to have a long police record. Flory and Smith left the store shortly after 6 o’clock to carry the day’s re ceipts, $1,200, to the Second National Bank, at Seventh and E streets. Ming ling with the late shopping throngs, they failed to notice four men sitting at the curb in a parked automobile, its motor running. Ordered to Hand Over Bag. As the pair drew abreast of the car, however, three men stepped out. Cov ering Flory with automatic pistols, they ordered Smith over to the car. “Give us that bag.” they said, ‘‘or we’ll drill you.” Startled. Smith hand ed over the satchel in which he was carrying the money. Jumping back into the machine, the bandits sped away at high speed, and disappeared after turning east into D street. Smith jotted down the license num ber on the car, while Flory ran to a telephone and notified police. Os the hundreds of men and women on the street at the time, only one man realized that a holdup was being staged before his eyes. And, by the merest chance, he happened to rec ognize two of the bandits. Unable to communicate his information to police at the scene, he walked to police head quarters and there told detectives who the men were. Familiar With Store Routine. The manner in which the robbery was executed, police say, indicates that the perpetrators were familiar with the store routine. The actual holdup was carried through so smoothly that the persons in the vicinity, except for the one man, had no inkling of it until the headquarters’ car, its siren screaming, drew up to the curb. The holdup was the third of its kind staged in Washington during the past two weeks. The others were the rob bery of the cashier of Children’s Hos pital and the kidnaping and theft from a Mount Vernon Savings Bank mes senger. WOMAN PUSHCART VENDOR SENDS JUDGE LETTER AND BEATS CHARGE Italian, 70, Unable to Speak English, Cleared on Count of Perking in Restricted Area. Marie Profeta, an ftalian push cart vendor, unable to speak a word of English, was cleared in Police Court today of "parking her cart in a re stricted zone” without a word of testi mony spoken in her defense. She wrote Judge Robert E. Mattingly a let ter. He immediately dismissed the charge. *'l really hate to bother you with these letters, but as it is I do not speak your language, so I must have away to explain to you. This is what hap pened: I was walking in the street wit my little cart, and as you know TWO CENTS. PRESIDENT GIVING CABINET DROUGHT RELIEF PLAN TODAY Calls Farm Board Heads to Conference Pending Com plete Report. SOME HOPE IS IN SIGHT, WEATHER MAN REPORTS Red Cross Plans Action if Nation- Wide Survey Shows Human Suffering Requires It. President Hoover virtually has put aside all other business to give his full attention to relief of the drought stricken sections. Pending receipt of definite informa tion from the Agriculture Department Monday on the damage done and threatened, he called three members of the Federal Farm Board and Its gen eral counsel Stanley Reed, to the White House for a conference. The board members were Samuel R. McKelvie, William F. Schilling and Charles S. Wilson. ; Relief Measures Expected. | Secretary Hyde also saw his chief for | the second time in two days and it was i announced at the White House that at ! the cabinet meeting today Mr. Hoover would present relief measures under consideration. Later he expected to talk over long distance telephone with Alexander Legge, Farm Board chairman, who is in the West and in direct touch with the situation. In order that no time may be lost in laying the basis for relief work, the President was considering canceling his proposed trip to his Virginia moun tain lodge today and not leaving until tomorrow. It was reiterated at the White House that, because of the many conflicting reports, nothing could be done until the report of the Department of Agriculture is compiled Monday, showing what aid is needed. nl addition to the measures cor.tem plaetd by 'the Government, the Red Cross also is ready to take a hand if the report shows a large extent of human suffering. ‘Some-Hope in Sight.’ The Weather Bureau said today "some hope is in sight” for a break in the prolonged drought. R. H. Welghtmau, forecaster, ex plained that no immediate relief was in sight, but added pressure conditions in the Far North now prevailing have been generally followed In the course of a few days by showers and lower tempera tures in the upper Mississippi Valley and Plains States. He said alleviation for the corn and wheat belt might come about the middle of next week. A high-pressure area attended by lower temperatures exists in the Mc- Kenzie Valley area and the Great Slave Lake regions of Canada. Weigbtman made it plain, however, that he was unable definitely to predict rains from present conditions or to tell when it would come or the amount of precipitation. Dry Heat Predicted for District. For the Washington district dry heat will prevail again tonight and tomor row. Despite higher early morning temperatures, it was said the maximum this afternoon would hardly equal the 97 ‘degrees registered at Weather Bu reau station yesterday. A minimum of 74 degrees was reported at 5 o’clock this morning. By 9 o’clock the mercury had risen to 88 degrees and at 10 o’clock it was registering 91. This was 4 degrees higher than the correspond ing hour yesterday. The humidity how ever, had dropped from 67 to 32 per cent, which served to counteract the higher temperatures. Slightly ltwered temperatures will prevail in the Washington district to night, according to expectations, but to morrow will be continued fair and hot. Inhabitants of sections where 100-de gree temperatures are now common place and where J. Pluvius has forgot ten to rain upon scorching fields for w#eks might like to know that the weather hasn’t changed permanently for more than 200 years. In fact, C. F. Marvin, chief of the Weather Bureau, believes there has (Continued on Page 2, Column 1). BIRTH CONTROL ESCAPES CHURCH CONDEMNATION Failure of Bishops to Censure Practice Is Held Victory for King's Physician. By the Associated Press LONDON. August B.—The Daily Herald today says the Anglican bishops at the Lambeth Conference have de cided not to condemn uncompromisingly the practice of birth control, revising to go further than to suggest it*has no part in "the perfect Christian married life.” The decision, the Herald adds. Is considered a great victory for Lord Dawson of Penn. King George's physi cian, who has been striving to prevent any outstanding condemnation of the principle. ■ ■ • Hindenburg Sees Poling. BERLIN, August 8 (/P).—President Von Hindenburg today received Dr. Daniel A. Poling, International Chris tian Endeavor Union president, and others of his delegation to the world convention here, in a private audience. as old lady like me can not walk fast, so now and then I stopped, either for the automobiles or to get my breath. It was during this moment of resting ias I call it) that I was arrested. I do not know the reason why, but as a plain fact that all officers are after me. What have I done to them? What can 1 do to them? They seem to be always after me. That is all, your honor, and I hope you will use a little consideration for me and this letter. I thank you kindly for doing so.” Mrs. Profeta gave her age as 70 years. It took her over two hours to scrawl the letter.