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LEGGE TO SPEAK
IN KADIQ FORUM
U. S. Drought and Farm Re
| lief Programs Will Be '
Described.
What the Federal Government Is
doing for the relief of the farmers, not
only in drought emergency aid but to
set the entire agricultural industry on
its feet to give the men and women of
the soil a fair return for the sweat of
their brows while feeding the world,
will be graphically told tomorrow night
by Chairman Alexander Legge of the
Federal Farm Board, over the Nation
wide hook-up of the National Radio
Forum.
This feature broadcast service on
Subjects of widespread current interest
Is arranged by The Washington Star,
end will be transmitted over the Colum
bia Broadcasting System's network at
9:30 p.m.. Eastern standard time.
Chairman Legge has been described
as a "farmboy who by hard work, ex
traordinary ability, and broad vision
helped the United States to win the
World War through his services on the
War Industries Board, and who is new
devoting himself as a business man
with farm background and instinct to
making the farming industry self-sup
porting ”
His aim is with the support of the
Federal Government to put the farmer
on a fair footing with other lines of
business.
He is a result-getter par excellence,
who built up the biggest farm ma
chinery business in the world. There,
as head of a $300,000,000 concern, he
proved his executive ability.
During the past few months, he has
been conspicuous in the public gaze be
cause of his distribution of farm aid
to various co-operative associations of
farmers to help Market their crops effi
ciently. and mOffi recently In confer
ences with Presfdfctit Hoover. Secretary
Hyde of the Department of Agriculture
and the governors of States In the
region most seriously crippled by the
drought.
What the fanners need most and
What Uncle Sail Is doing for them in
their great emelfency will be told in
pithy, pungent gentences by this out
standing farm leader. In language that
will give all the people a clearer insight
into the great problem that has been
confronting the administration.
He will make it plain to each listener
in how the Individual homes are
affected in the matter of food supply
and the prices to be paid for agricul
tural products.
WOMANRESCUES FOUR
CHILDREN FROM FIRE
Helps Them Escape Through Win
dows of Burning Home, Then
Is Carried to Safety.
Trapped by flames and smoke yester
day on the second floor of her home, at
1100 W street southeast, Mrs. Eleanor
Chisholm helped her four young chil
dren through a window and made them
jump into the arms of neighbors in the
yard below before she herself was car
ried down a ladder to safety by Fireman
F. D. Ford of No. 15 Engine Company.
The family was on, the second floor
and did not detect thfc fire until It had
gained considerable headway in the
lower part of the house. When Mrs.
Chisholm heard the flames, she ran to
the stairway but smoke drove her back.
The mother then flung up a window
and called to neighbors. Policeman J.
I. Hicks of No. 11 precinct, who llvea
next door, and another man of the
neighborhood ran to the window and
caught the children as they fell. None
of the children was injured.
When firemen arrived a ladder was
raised to the window. Mrs. Chisholm
Was assisted down the ladder and fell
about the time she reached the ground,
causing a slight scalp wound for which
she was treated at equally Hospital.
Origin of the fire, which caused
about SI,OOO damage, has not been de
termined.
PAY PROBEREPORT
AWAITED BY CHIEF
Consul Director to Take Stepi to
, Prevent Recurrence of Mill
ing Envelope.
Census Director William A. Steuart
was today awaiting a report of an in
vestigation of the circumstances sur
rounding the disappearance of a pay
envelope intended for a member of his
bureau, which resulted yesterday in a
delay in paying 6,000 census employes.
The matter arose when an employe
asked for his pay envelope and was told
that it had already been given out. The
investigation was ordered immediately.
Mr. Steuart. while declining to com
ment pending conclusion of the investi
gation, indicated that at the proper
time steps would be taken to prevent
the possible recurrence of such a condi
tion. He has been asked by the De
partment of Commerce to submit a
complete report.
Each employe at the bureau is sup
posed to be identified by the head of
his department before receiving his pay
envelope. It Is believed that this
practice may not have been strickly fol-
When the error was discovered, dis
tribution of pay was temporarily halted,
but with Instructions that the identifi
cation system be strickly observed.
It was reported that the employe who
lost his envelope has been reimbursed.
His name was withheld pending in
vestigation.
MUSSOLINI DEATH
PLOT IS UNCOVERED
Jugoslavian Prisoner Reported to
Have Confessed Plans for
Assassination.
Br the Associated Press.
TRIEST, Italy, September 3.—The
authorities announced today that one
of 18 Jugoslavian prisoners on trial here
for terrorism had given the court a
written confession of a plot to attempt
the life of Premier Mussolini.
The confession stated that the assas
aination attempt was to take place
within a few days. The name of the
confessing defendant was held secret
and no further details were given.
H Duee has been the object of several
murderous attacks. He has narrowly
escaped death on some of these oc
casions.
The confession was announced as the
third day of the trial opened this after
noon. The defendants were taken from
steel cages, where they were kept in
the court room, and lined up for cross
examination.
New Wrinkle Non-Stop Flight.
ST. PAUL.—A new wrinkle in non
rtop flight is planned by Dale Jackson
for Spring. He will try to fly to the
Capital of every one of the 48 States
SiUa, cut landing
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BOLIVIA RECOGNIZES
PERU GOVERNMENT
La Paz Seeks to Maintain
Friendly Relations With
Cerro and Junta.
By the Associated Press.
LIMA. Peru, September 3. —Bolivia Is
the first government to recognize the.
new military junta, headed by Presi
dent Luis M. Sanchez Cerro, which has
replaced the administration of the de
posed president, Augusto B. Lcguia.
Notification of the step taken by the
La Paz government was made with
,the comment that the Bolivian Junta
had decided to “maintain the friend
ship and feelings uniting Bolivia and
Peru.”
CABINET MEETS AT NIGHT.
Argentine Ministers Disagree, Prevent
ing Immediate Action.
BUENOS AIRES, September 3 (A*). —
The Argentine cabinet remained in ses
sion during most of the night consider
ing what was understood to be a move
of the greatest probable consequences.
When finally adjourned, the body was
prevented from taking any action be
cause of disagreement between the
foreign minister and the minister of
interior.
Only Gen. Luis Dellepiane, minister
of war who resigned yesterday after
disagreement with President Yrlgoyen,
was not present.
While the cabinet made no announce
ment as to its deliberations precautions
in the city against a military uprising
or attempt against the life of the presi
dent were doubled today.
GROW REMAINS IN PRISON.
Status of American Is Difficult of
Interpretation.
LIMA, Peru, September 3 UP). —Lieut.
Com dr. Harold B. Grow, an American,
who commanded the Peruvian flying
forces under the deposed President
Leguia, Is still held in prison at Are
qulpa by the new government but his
status is difficult of interpretation.
Lieut. Col. Luis M. Sanchez Cerro,
head of the new government, has stated
that Grow will be tried and punished
on charges of violating the military
code, but it is understood the case is
complicated by Grow’s American citi
zenship and the fact he is a Reserve
office! 1 in the United States Navy.
Officials of the American embassy
are reluctant to comment on the affair.
MISS BRAGANZA WEDS
RUSSIAN ARMY CAPTAIN
Bride's Mother Announces Mar
riage Took Place at "Capri,
Italy, August 16.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 3. —Society
circles learned today of the marriage
of Miss Nadejda de Braganza, daughter
of Princess Miguel de Braganza of New
York and Newport, to Vadim Vadim
Boroeynskl, son of a former captain In
the Russian army.
An announcement made by the bride’s
mother said the marriage took place at
Capri, Italy, on August 16.
The bride’s father was Prince de
Braganza, son of the pretender to the
throne of Portugal. He died here in
1923. Her mother was Anita Stewart,
daughter of the late William Rhine
lander Stewart.
Mme. Borozynski was introduced to
society as the first debutante of the
Newport season of 1828. She has been
In Europe since early this year. Her
mother and brother returned from
Europe to Newport August 20.
Her husband's home is In Paris.
BORAH GOING HOME
Leaves Tonight After Spending
Month in Maine.
By the Associated Frees.
Senator Borah of Idaho leaves here
tonight for his home in Boise. He
plans to spend the Fall in the West.
Having rested a month at Poland
Springs, Me., he intends to give another
month to recuperation. While he has
no speaking engagements, he said today
it was probable that if ask. d he would
respond with speeches in the West. He
is expected to participate in some politi
cal campaigns there.
SHOOTS WIFE AND SON
i
Father Then Critically Wounds
Himself With Gun.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., September 3
UP l. —George B. Duke, 33. shot and
seriously wounded his wife and 14-year
old son and then critically wounded
himself at their home here early today.
Mrs. Duke said she was awakened by
a blow over the head and saw her hus
band standing over her. Before she
could get out of bed. she said, he fired
1 -t her.
The boy. sleeping in an adjoining
room, said he. too. was awakened by a
blow and then shot.
Neighbors found Duke shot through
1 the head in his home.
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FILES $50,000 SUIT
I J. L. Connelly Alleges Personal
Injuries Resulted From Collision.
s Joseph L. Connelly, 1369 D street
■ southeast, today filed suit in the Dis
i trict Supreme Court to recover $50,009
» damages from Harry P. Cliff, 104
• Fiftieth place northeast, and his son.
Harry P. Cliff. Jr., for alleged personal
injuries resulting from an automobile
collision August 4 at Sixth and G
streets southwest. Connelly claims that
- an automobile'owned by the father and
i operated by the son collided with his
r machine and caused him to sustain
a serious injuries. He js represented by
' ■ Attorney Faster -Wood. ■
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. 0.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1930,
DRY AGENTS TOLD
TO WATCH RIGHTS
Spates Warns Prohibition
Officers Against Being
“Overzealous.”
Warning prohibition officers against
“overzealous” efforts to enforce the law,
Webster Spates, instructor in the new
prohibition school today admonished
the group of selected men here taking
the course that the Constitution of the
United States specifically protects citi
zens against infringement of their rights
by officers of the Federal Government.
Lecturing in his course on the Constl-
I tution and law, Mr. Spates declared;
! “It is unfortunate indeed that in the
■ past, so many officers of the govern
ment flagrantly have violated and
trampled upon some provision of the
Constitution in their over-zealous efforts
to enforce another.
“If those who are charged with the
duty of enforcing obedience to the law’s
were less inclined to venture upon
doubtful grounds, and were more care
ful to bring all their acts clearly within
the law, as it has been laid down by the
courts,” he said, “not only would more
guilty offenders be brought to justice,
but it would be easier to establish a
wholesome respect for all laws, which
is so essential to the successful enforce
ment of any.”
Explaining the constitution and laws
as they affect prohibition officers, Mr.
Spates stressed the protection given the
American citizen against "unreasonable
searches and seizures.”
Mr. Spates’ lecture was one of his
series on the legal side of prohibition
enforcement. The criminal investigation
phases of the school are in charge of
Harry M. Dengler, field supervisor.
The group of picked prohibition
officers are from ail parts of the country,
and are in school here for one month,
with hours from 9 to 12 and 1:30
to 4:30. The school room is on the
fifth floor of the old Southern Railway
Building, on the same floor with the
Prohibition Bureau, of the Department
of Justice, of which it In reality Is a
part.
JESSE MANN RITES
SET FOR TOMORROW
Retired Contracting Painter, 85,
Native of City, to Reit in
Glenwood Cemetery.
Funeral services for Jesse - Mann, 85
years old, a retired contracting painter
and a native of Washington, w’hose
death occurred Monday at the resi
dence of his daugh
ter, Mrs. - Jessie
Metzger, 413 Gal
latin street., will be
held at 2 o’clock
tomorrow afternoon
from the Metzger
home. Burial will
be in Glenwood
Cemetery.
Mr. Mann retired
almost 20 years ago
from active parti
cipation in the
painting business
which had occupied
him almost half a
century. He was a
I member of the As
sociation of Oldest
Inhabitants and of
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the Master Painters’ Association. 1, --
In addition to Mrs. Metzger, Mr.
Mann is survived by another daughter,
Mrs. Mamie Ferguson, and by seven
grandchildren, all of this city.
TEXAN ANSWERED
BY GOLDSBOROU6H
Maryland Senator Challenges Dem
ocrats to Take Some Con
structive Action.
Replying to Senator Tom Connally
of Texas, who had criticized the ad
ministration in a radio address Monday
night, Senator Phillips Lae Oolds
borough. Republican, Maryland, last |
night challenged the Democratic party
to take some constructive action.
“If the Democrats have a program,
now is the time to bring it forth,”
Goldsborough said.
He declared the Republican admin
istration and the American people have
a right to demand of the Democratic
party that in asking for the suffrage
of the people it submit a bill of par
ticulars as to what it will do in event
it is given conttol of the legislative
branch of the Government.
“The answer is that there remains
for the Democrats only a picked-over
heap of discarded and defeated issues,”
he said. “They can offer nothing.”
reducedgasTrates
HEARINGS ORDERED
Washington Company Affirms New
Schedule to Save Consumers
$400,000.
Public hearings on the application
of the Washington Gas Light Co., for
the introduction of new reduced gas
rates were ordered by Public Utilities
Commission yesterday. They will begin
at 10 o’clock Wednesday, September 17,
in the board room of the District Build-
In.
A thorough examination will be made
ol the proposed new schedule, particu
larly In Its relation to the company’s
statement that It will effect a saving
tp gas consumers of $400,000 annually
at tne present rates of consumption.
The company has offered to put the
rates into effect October 1, both for
Itself and for its subsidiary, the George
town Gas Light Co., should the commis
sion approve the rates by that time.
FASCIST LEADERS QUIT
POSTS IN AUSTRIAN GROUP
Hy the Associated Pres*.
SCHLADMING. Upper Austria, Sep
tember 3. —Two leaders of the Fascist
Helmwehr resigned at the national con
ference today because of widespread
criticism of their policy as "ineffective.”
They were t>r. Steidle, commander In
chief, and his lieutenant. Dr. Pfrlmer,
who Is head of the Styrian Fascists.
The chkf command was turned over to
Prince Ernst Rudiger Starhemberg,
who was an adherent of Adolf Hitler In
the notorious “Kapp Putelj.”
Starhemberg is a National Socialist,
and many believe he has an ambition
to rule some day over Austria and Ger
, man Bavaria. He is immensely wealthy.
, the largest landowner in Austria and
l has organized his own army. Political
i observers believed Starhemberg’s as
i sunjption of command among tHe Aus
' trian Fascists would complicate ths
situation.
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Girls Gel Chart
Which Fell From
* Into Orchard
Souvenir Reveals Course
French Aees Planned, To
gether With Deviations.
By the Associated Press.
PORTSMOUTH. N. H, September 3.
—Two girls here today had a prize
souvenir of the flight from Pari* to
New York of the French plane
They had a chart which Capt. Dieu
donne Coste and Maurice Bellonte ap
parently had used in plotting their
course across the Atlantic.
As the French flyers sped over Ports
mouth on their Anal lap of their bril
liant flight yesterday afternoon, the
chart fell from the plane. It came to
earth in the orchard of John Steff. His
daughters. Alice and Irene, alert to the
souvenir value of the falling object,
dashed into the orchard and recov
ered it.
The chart was about two by one and
a half feet in size and showed portions
of the continent of North America and
Europe and minute latitude and longi
tudp details of the Atlantic.
Plotted in black ink, was the course,
which the flyers had intended to follow.
In blue pencil, evidently marked while
they were enroute, were lines showing
slight deviations from the original
route. There were brief notations in
French at points along the route.
HURRICANE PASSES
PORTO RICAN COAST
Storm Moving Rapidly North
west—Caribbean Navi
gation Threatened.
The storm of hurricane Intensity
which was discovered yesterday south
of Porto Rico was reported by the
Washington Weather Bureau today
south or scuth-southeast of Santo Do
mingo City.
The vortex of the storm was reported
today by weather observers as moving
12 miles an hour in a west-northwest
ward direction. Weather officials say
ships In the Caribbean and in the vi
cinity of the windward passage and
Turks Island, in the Atlantic, have re
ported low barometer readings and stiff
northeast winds, Indicating the ap
proaching storm as being a severe one.
The velocity of hurricane winds is
75 miles an hour and up. blow
anti-clockwise. Weather records show
that these storms - have reached a .ve
locity of 150 miles an hour.
Meanwhile the Weather Bureau re
ported today there was no danger at
present to the United States from the
hurricane.
Will Reach Haiti Tonight.
The storm is expected to reach the
Southern Haitian coast tonight, passing
over or near Aux Cayes, and by tomor
row should be in the vicinity of Santi
ago, Cuba.
The Weather Bureau at 10:30 ajn.
today Issued the following advisory
storm warning:
"Tropical disturbance of hurricane
intensity central over Caribbean about
100 miles south or south-southeast city
of Santo Domingo moving west-north
westward about 12 miles an hour. This
disturbance still of hurricane intensity
and caution advised all vessels near
its path.”
Word of the hurricane was picked
up by a local radio amateur. C. A.
Briggs, who last night had been in
communication for more than 24 hours
with an operator in St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands, through his short-wave set at
1311 Spring road.
Mr. Briggs was advised last night
that no further fear of the hurricane
was felt at that point, as the center
of the disturbance had veered off from
St. Thomas.
He first established communication
early yesterday and was informed that
a “gale of hurricane proportions’* was
approaching the island.
The St. Thomas amateur agreed to
advise of further developments at 2
hour Intervals, and last night five other
amateurs here established watches to
pick up the communication. This was
discontinued, however, when the gale
passed out to sea. >
‘ Messages Relayed to League.
Mr. Briggs relayed the messages he
received to the American Radio Relay
I League headquarters at Hartford, Conn.,
which acts as a clearing house for the
more urgent amateur messages.
In event of emergency. Mr. Briggs
said, the radio amateurs of the Capital
can be quickly organized to pick up
and transmit messages from localities
where other means of communication
may have been interrupted.
tew driveTTlaunched
AGAINST CHINESE REBELS
Sharp Fighting Follows Ten-Day
Truce Effective Since Recapture
of Shantung Capital.
Br the Associated Free*.
SHANGHAI, September 3. —A Na
tionalist attack along the Haichow-
Tungkwan Railway front, marking an
other government attempt to drive the
forces of the rebellious Northern al
liance out of Honan and Shantung
Provinces, was announced today by
President Chiang Kai-Shek.
Chiang launched the drive after a
10-day lull during which he awaited
the outcome of his offer of amnesty to
the men of the rebel ranks if they
would leave the Northern leaders and
join the Nationalist Army. The North
ern soldiers ignored the offer.
The Nationalist President tele
graphed from his field headquarters in
Northern Klangsu Province stating the
“truce,” which virtually had been ef
fective since the Nationalist recapture
of Tsinan, capital of Shantung, August
15 had ended the sharp flghtlng near
Lanfeng. Honan. Chiang claimed his
forces had pushed back the rebels
slightly.
Chiang also said activity had been
resumed north of the Yellow River, in
Shantung, with the Nationalists ex
pecting to head for Tientsin, principal
North China port, shortly.
MAIL PLANEDAMAGED
Pilot Cut and Bruised in Forced
Landing at Mercer, Pa.
MERCER. Pa.. September 3 (/P).—A
Cleveland-to-New York mail plana was
badly damaged in making a forced land
ing at the air field here early today.
The pilot. Charles Haas, suffered cuts
and bruises about the body.
Hass, flying eastward, encountered
stormy weather sfter leaving Cleveland
and. finding low, heavy clouds as he
entered Pennsylvania, decided to land
here.
COTTON AGAIN ON DUTY
Undersecretary Joseph P. Cotton, who
spent his vacation at Beverly Hills, Long
Island, has resumed his duties at the
State Department and is acting Secre
tary In the temporary absence of Sec
retary BMmson. While on leave he had
his tonsils removed and is fully re
stored •to health. -
CALIFORNIAN WINS
NATIONAL SHOOT
Gairie Upshaw Scores 96
Out of 100 to Defeat
421 Civilians.
Br the Associated Press.
CAMP PERRY, Ohio, September 3
Competing in a field of. 421 civilians,
Oaiile M. Upshaw of Pasadena, Calif.,
won the individual civilian club mem
bers' match at the national rifle and
pistol matches here yesterday on a 200-
yard range with a ,30-callber rifle.
His score was 96 out of a possible
100. In close competition with him yas
Louis Bernard of Payson, Utah, and
John G. Freitag of Chicago, who fin
ished second and third respectively,
with scores of 94 each. Bernard out
ranked Freitag by having the highest
score at the last stage fired.
On the small-bore ranges. Henry
Adams, Fostorla, Ohio, was winner of
the individual long-range match, in
which 150 contestants were entered.
Outranked on Last String.
Adams topped the list with a score of
198 out of a possible 200. Just behind
him was Frederick Kuhn of Stratford,
Conn., and Edward Doyle of Hamden,
Conn., who also had scores of 198, but
were out ranked by Adams on his last
string. The match was a 200-yard
course.
In the short-range small-bore match,
with 180 contestants, Philip A. Ronfor
of Norwood. Ohio, won with a 398 out
of a possible 400. outranking Therman
Randle of Fort Worth. Tex., who also
had 398, but who fell short of Ronfor’s
score on his last string. Four others in
this match had scores of 397 each.
The Wimbledon, one of the principal
match s for the small ranges, went to
Vere Hamer of Prlghar. lowa, who
scored 196 out of a possible 200. He
outranked Quenton Foster of Delaware,
Ohio, who also had 196. Hamer had
the largest number of “Vs” in his inner
circle of bullseyes. Mrs. Tess Nordu*
of Chicago, was third with 195. There
were 130 entries in this match.
Girl Wins Expert’s Medal.
On the postal ranges. Arlayne Brown,
14, world’s champion girl revolver shot,
scored 88 out of a possible 100, quali
fying for an expert’s medal. She also
totaled 270 in slow, timed and rapid
fire.
Sergt. L. C. Center of Grants Pass.
Oreg., National Guard, a youth of 20
years, topped a list of 1,460 competitors
late yesterday to win the Wimbledon
Cup match when he scored a pois'ble
of 100 with 10 “Vs” In the Inner circle
of his bull’s-eye; Ronfor was a close
contender with a possible of 100. but
had only nine “Vs” on his target. Capt.
Joseph Jackson of Washington. D. C.,
member of the United States Marine
Corps, was third with 99, outranking
several other scores of 99.
This match is fired at 1,000 yards,
with 20 shots for record for each man.
The Wimbledon Cup, presented In 1874
by the National Rifle Association of
Oreat Britain for annual competition,
goes to the winner.
Wright Memorial Winner Announced.
The winner of the Wright memorial
match was announced late last night
as Capt. C. R. Peck. United States
Infantry, who had a possible score of
75, with 13 “Vs” In the Inner circle
of his bull’s-eye. C. G. Kelsey, civilian
of Jefferson City, Mo., was next with
75 and 12 “Vs”; Sergt. John Carlson,
United States Infantry, third, with 75
and 11 “Vs.” This was over an 800-
yard range with 15 shots a man for
record and was contested for by 967
riflemen.
DISTRICT RIFLEMEN SHINE.
Sergt. Beudinot Adda te Laurels at
Camp Perry, Ohio, Shoot.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
CAMP PERRY. Ohio, September 3.
Sergt. Henry M. Boudinot, Company E,
121st Engineers. District of Columbia
National Guard, star of the George
Washington University indoor rifle
team, who distinguished himself Mon
day in the Navy match, yesterday gain
ed further laurels by winning the sixth
bronze medal and second National
Guard money from 1,459 competitors
in the historic Wimbledon Cup match.
His score of 99 points out of a possible
100 over the 20-shot, 1,000-yard course
was 1 point less than the “10-V” pos
sible rung up by First Sergt. L. C. Cent
ner, Oregon National Guard, who now
becomes yie proud possessor of the
famous trdphy which was presented In
1874 by the National Rifle Association
of Great Britain to the shooters of
America. t
Local Marksmen Shine.
Yesterday proved quite a harvest for
the marksmen from Washington and
vicinity, who captured in all 55 cash
prizes and. 6 bronze medals. In the
small bore Wimbledon, which is fired
at 200 yards with a .22-caliber rifle.
First Lieut Walter R. Stokes, Medical
Detachment, 121st Engineers, and First
Lieut. Hugh Everett, jr„ 2nd Battalion
headquarters, same regiment, won sixth
and ninth, medals over 110 entries with
scores of 194x200 and 191x200, respec
tively.
Capt. Just C. Jensen, Ordnance De
partment, State staff, finished 20th
with 189, while Vere F. Hamer, Primgar,
lowa, won first medal and the win
chester Trophy with 196 points. Douglas
C, McDougall, Jr., 1746 K street, who
took second, place this year in In
dividual intercollegiate indoor cham
pionship, took seventh bronze prize in
the Individual Civilian Club members
match of 418 entries with a 93x100 tally.
The National Rifle Association Tro
phyjnd gold medal went to G. M. Up
shaw Pasadena, California, who totaled
96 points. William Cook, 1719 Eigh
teenth street, National Capital Rifle
Club, finished twentieth with 92, and
John D. McNabb, 2037 F street, same
club, forty-eighth with 90.
Shooting 397 out of 400, Lieut. Stokes
took the fifth bronze medal from 160
entrants in the Individual small-bore
short-range competition. Jensen was
twenty-fifth with 394 points, Ralph H.
McGarity, 1332 Quincy street, National
Capital Rifle Club, twenty-eighth, 398,
and Lieut. Everett, twenty-ninth, 393.
Philip A. Ronfor, Norwood, Ohio, drop
ped only 2 of his 40 shots out of
the 10 ring and was awarded the United
States Cartridge Co. Trophy and gold
badge.
The Peters Trophy and gold emblem,
offered In the individual small-bore
long-range event, was taken by Henry
J. Adams, Jr., Fostorla, Ohio, with 198
points out of a possible 200. McGarity
was fourteenth with 191, Jensen twen
ty-first, 188, and Everett twenty-second,
same score.
Sergt. David E. Schwartz, 13th En
gineers, Fort Humphreys, won the
eighth bronze medal in the 800-yard
Wright Memorial match, scoring a pos
sible 75 Capt. C. R. Peck, detached
officers’ list, U. S. Infantry, took first
honors with a higher ranking “pos
sible."
Other Local Experts Place.
Other local experts who placed in
the prize money are as follows: Na
tional Guard Division, Corpl. Philip C.
Geraci, Ordnance Department staff,
eleventh (12 ties). 75 out of 75; Staff
Sergt. Alex J. Thill, same department,
thirty-sixth (4 ties), 74 points; Sergt.
Boudinot of Wimbledon Cup fame, for
ty-second, 73, and First Sergt. William
D. Putnam, Company E, 121st Engi
neers, fifty-seventh, 73. Civilian class,
Robert Hartshorn, 903 Webster street,
thirty-third, 73; Alfred H. Yeomans.
3324 Nineteenth street, former Central
High School sharpshooter, slxty-sev
» enth. 72, and Paul H. West. 1719 Eight
: eenth street, a tyro, seventy-ninth, 72
! points
Regular service. Schwarts, fifth;
Corps. Sam E. Alden. 13th Engineers.
I Fori Humphreys, eighth. 75 out of 75;
■ Corpl J. H. Rogaleskie. 3d Cavflry,
Fort Myer, twenty-second, same man,
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PVT. E. C. MOORE
Os the thirteenth precinct shown examining the result of his marksmanship at
Camp Perry, Ohio, where he is attending the school for police officers during
the national pistol and rifle matches. The Metropolitan Police Department, with
25 men entered, has the largest team at Camp Perry this year.
G.O.P. RENOMINATES
NEVADA GOVERNOR:
Balzar’s Lead Indicated by
Partial Returns —Demo-
crats Name Richards.
By the Associated Press.
RENO, Nev., September 3.—lncom
plete returns from Nevada’s 17 counties
indicated today that Gov. Fred B. Bal
zar had been renominated by the Re
publicans In the State primary yester
day.
Charles L. Richards, former Repre
sentative and Democratic gubernatorial
aspirant, held a substantial lead over
Horace A. Agee, his primary opponent.
Judge H. Bartlett, presiding over the
Washoe County District Court at Reno,
wideiy celebrated as a divorce tribunal,
apparently was renominated on a non
partisan ballot with Benjamin F. Cur
ler, former district judge, his Novem
ber opponent.
Judge Bartlett met opposition In the
primary for the second time during his
10 years on the Washoe County District
Court bench.
Senatorial seats were not at stake in
the primary.
The latest tabulation of all counties,
complete and incomplete, gave, for gov
ernor, Republicans, F. B. Balzar, 6,566;
R. H. Cowles, 1,458; E. E. Roberts, 2,989.
Democrats, Charles L. Richards, 3,860;
Horace A. Agee, 3,249.
ARKANSAS FARMER KILLS
WOMAN AND HANGS SELF
Estranged Wife Is Wounded in
Shoulder and May Die—Of- -
Accra Blame Marital Troublea.
i
•r the Associated Press.
SILO AM SPRINGS, Ark., September
3.—John Ridgeway, 60, shot and killed
Mrs. Dorah Reed, 55. seriously wounded
his estranged wife, Mrs. Amzy Ridge
way, and then committed suicide by
hanging himself at the Reed home near
here early today.
Officers said Ridgeway believed Mrs.
Reed was responsible for the estrange
ment from his wife.
Mrs. Ridgeway is in a critical condi
tion in a hospital here. She was shot
through the shoulder and hand.
A posse headed by City Marshal N'. G.
Baldwin of Slloam Springs, found Ridge
way hanging in a barn on the Reed
fe m about an hour after the shooting.
He was still breathing, but died soon
afterwards.
Mrs. Ridgeway and her three small
children went to live with Mrs. Reed
after domestic trouble. Officers said
Ridgeway had attributed the family
troubles to interference by Mrs. Reed.
and First Lieut. George A. Rehm, also
of Fort Myer, forty-first (6 ties), 74.
Wimbledon Cup—National Guard di
vision, Boudinot second, Capt. Clarence
S. Shields, Company E, 121st Engi
neers, thirteenth, 97; Sergt. Harry B.
Parsons, same company, twentieth, 96;
Staff Sergt. Thill, twenty-ninth, 95:
Master Sergt. Donald A. Falk, Head
quarters Detachment, 29th Division,
thirtieth, 94; Stokes, thirty-eighth, 94;
First Lieut. Thaddeus A. Riley, Com
pany E, 121st Engineers, forty-third,
94; Jensen, forty-fourth, 94; First
Sergt. Putnam, fiftieth, 93, and Sergt.
Frank M. Richard, Company F. Ist
Maryland Regiment, Hyattsville, eighti
eth, 91.
Civilian class, Alfred Yeomans, third
prize, 98 points; Paul West, twenty
second, 96; McGarity, forty-second, 94,
and H. Slay Eapey. 57 Adams street.
National Capital Rifle Club, seventy
ninth, 92.
Gunnery Sergt. Morris Fisher, 1415
T street southeast, United States Ma
rines. who was the only District shooter
in the Regular Service group, took
thirty-fourth place in that group, with
a 96 tally.
The Coast Guard rapid fire cham
pionship match was won by A. A. Lewis,
third-class gunner’s mate, United States
Navy, Eagle Rock. Mo., with perfect
scores in both the 200-yard sitting from
standing and the 300-yard prone from
standing rapid fire stages.
Second Lieut. William R. Lane, Com
pany E. 121st Engineers, was tied with
two others for eighth place in the
National Guard division, with a 96
total; Riley, twentieth <two ties),
95x100; Sergt. Theodore L. Harrell,
Ordnance Department, State staff, and
Capt. Shields tied with four others for
thirty-third, with 94; Stokes, thirty
ninth, 94; Corpl. Gerachi. who shot a
•’possible" in the Wright memorial
event, sixty-first (six ties!, 93; Thill
and Putnam tied with five others for
eighty-second, with 92, and Sergt. Par
sons, ninety-eighth (two ties), 92.
Civilian class, Robert Hartshorn,
thirty-sixth, 93; William Cook, fortieth
(three ties),.92. and Clay Xspey. sev
enty-seventh (three ties), 91 points.
Regular Service, Lieut. Harley E.
Grogan, 806 Van Buren street. United
States Coast Ouard. twelfth (five ties),
97; Sergt. Joseph H. Whitehead, 13th
Engineers. Fort Humphreys seventeenth
(three ties), 97, and Lieut. Rehm, 3d
United States cavalry, thirty-fifth
(eight ties). 96.
Today’s program Includes the small
bore long range and two-man team
matches, tfife Marine Corps Cup, the
Scott and the members match.
VAN LEAR BLACK’S
WILE IS PROBATED
Brother Named Trustee of
Estate After Proof of Death
Is Accepted.
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, September 3.—The will
of Van Lear Black, Baltimore publisher
and world flyer, who disappeared last
month from his yacht, was admitted to
probate today after a hearing at which
proof of his death was established.
The will, disposing of an estate of
several million dollars, leaves the pub
lisher's brother, Harry C. Black, his in
terest m the A. S. Abell Co., publisher
of the Baltimore Sun and the Evening
Sun, and leaves sums of from $50,000
to $250,000 each to various relatives and
others.
His widow, Mrs. Jessie Gary Black,
and their five children, with one excep
tion, are provided for in a provision
that gives her one-third of the residuary
estate and four children the remaining
two-thirds.
A $50,000 trust fund is provided for
Van Lear Black, jr., the - publisher’s
eldest son. Mrs. Jessie Black Blakiston,
his daughter, is bequeathed $250,000
and her husband, Buchanan Blakiston,
$lOO,OOO.
Friend Is Given $160,959.
Mrs. J. Walter Lord of Baltimore, a
widow, ana a lifelong friend of Mr.
Black, who was with him on the yacht
Sabalo when the publisher disappeared
last month, is left $lOO,OOO.
Bequests of $25,000 each are made
to his two pilots. G. J. Geysendorffer
and J. B. Scholte of Holland, who flew
with Mr. Black on his flights from Lon
don to Tokio and to Cape Town and
the Dutch East Indies.
The publisher’s confidential secre
tary, Thomas W. Rogan of Baltimore
is bequeathed $lOO,OOO mid a similar
sum is left to Miss Allison Bone of
London, England, his secretary there.
Testimony on the circumstances of
the death of the publisher at sea off
the New, Jersey Coast was given at the
hearing by Capt. John N. Kelly of the
yacht Sabalo; a steward, Thomas C.
Cardwell; Mr. Black’s valet and Perry
Sellers of England.
Seamen Give Testimony.
Capt. Kelly. Cardwell and Sellers re
peated at the hearing testimony they
had given at other hearings of the dis
appearance of Mr. Black the evening
of August 18.
The yacht had sailed from New York
for the Chesapeake Bay, and the wit
nesses said the publisher had been seen
on deck after dinner and then, after
more than an hour, the disappearance
was discovered by the valet.
Capt. Kelly said his employer had
been warned several times to avoid a
dangerous perch on the rail he habitu
ally occupied. All said they believed
he had fallen accidentally from the
rail.
Capt. Kelly said the yacht was be
tween 2*3 and 3>2 miles from shore at
the time, and that It would have been
impossible for Mr. Black to have
reached shore. The steward said he
could not have lived more than 15 min
utes in the fairly heavy sea that was
running.
Probate Judge Gaither announced at
the conclusion of the hearing that the
court accepted the evidence as proving
that Mr. Black was dead, and letters of
administration were granted Harry C.
Black, who was named in the will as
trustee of the estate.
Will Made This Year.
The will was made January 8. 19S0.
in London, before he started a flight
that took him to Tokio and then, after I
a trip by ship across the Pacific, from
San Francisco to Baltimore.
It was directed that in case he died
in the United States his body be burled
at sea.
The minor bequests, of from $l,OOO to
$5,000 each, were to James Bone, Lon
don editor of the Manchester Guardian,
the father of his London secretary; Paul
Patterson, president of the A. S. Abell
Co., and Mrs. Albert Ritchie, mother of
the Maryland Governor, among others.
The children not specifically men
tioned are Mrs. Alfred J. Bolton, Gary
Black and Madeleine Black.
STERLING WILL LEAVES
HIS WIDOW PROPERTY
The will of Thomas Sterling, former
Senator from South Dakota, who died
August 28, has been filed for probate.
He leaves to his widow, Mrs. Mayme
Sterling, premises 2700 Thirty-sixth
street, with the furniture and an au
tomobile. A son, Cloyd D. Sterling of
Redfleld. S. Dak., is to have certain law
books in the office of his father’s firm
in that city and such other books from
the father's library as he shall wish. A
note of the son for $3,000, if unpaid, is
to be canceled. Other law books are
left to his step-son. Walter W. McCaslin.
The remaining estate is devised to the
wife. No schedule of the value of the
estate has been filed.
The son. Cloyd D. Sterling, and the
step-son, Walter W. McCaslin, we
named as executors. -
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MRS. M’CORMICK .
HITS SENATOR NYE
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Opens Campaign Denouncing
“Personal” Investigations.
Defends Sleuthing.
By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURO. 111., September s.
Ruth Hanna McCormick opened her
campaign for the United States Senate
yesterday with a bitter denunciation of
Senator Nye of North Dakota and his
methods in Inquiring into her campaign
expenditures and. "personal affairs,”
Will Go to supreme Court.
Speaking first at Carbondale, 111., and
later at Harrisburg, the Republican
nominee promised to take the issue to
the United States Supreme Court if
necessary to settle the controversy. She
said the Nye Investigation was a per
sonal one and not a committee inquiry.
She told her audiences that she acted
in self-defense when she employed de
tectives to inquire into Nye’s affairs
and his connections.
Mrs. McCormick's address at the
opening of a State-wide two weeks’ tour
of Illinois was devoted almost solely to
discussion of what she emphatically
called the "Nye Investigating commit
tee. not the United States Senate In
vestigating Committee.”
’’lt has turned into a personal prose
cution is so far as my .candidacy is con
cerned,” she said, and continued: *
“Committee Has Never Met."
“The Senate Investigation Commit
tee has never actually met. Senator
Nye sat alone until yesterday, when
Senator Dale of Vermont joined him.
There has never been a quorum of the
committee present at any of its meet
ings..
“Under the Constitution. United
States Senators have the right to judge
the qualifications of the men it scats.
I feel greatly flattered that Senator
Nye assumes that I am already a IW7*-
tor. As a matter of fact, 1 halt not
been elected yet.”
3 CONVICTS ESCAPE
FROM PRISON PLANT
Armed With a Pistol, They Over
power Guard and Flee
in Auto.
By the Associated Press.
JUNCTION CITY, Ohio. September
3.—Three convicts, armed with a pistol,
made a daring escape from the Junc
tion city Penitentiary brick plant today
after overpowering a guard. They
escaped in an automobile owned by
Howard Grunsler, an engineer at the
plant.
The men who escaped were:
Lee Meddelton, 28, serving from 2
to 15 years for burglary and larceny;
Ben Caddes, 24, 5 to 12 years on a
statutory charge; Clyde Fisher, 20, 5 to
20 years for stealing an automobile.
In some undetermined manner, the
convicts obtained the gun. They
entered Grunsler's auto inside the plant,
and drove the car to the main gates.
There they overpowered the guard, and
after tieing him up, opened the gates
and escaped. /
J. P. MORGAN’S NEW YACHT
ON ROCKS OFF MAINE
Two Tugs Fail to Move CcrrsAir,
500,000 Floating Palace,
at High Tide.
By the Associated Press.
ISLESBORO, Me., September 3
The yacht Corsair, $2,500,000 floating
palace launched for J. P. Morgan, only
a few months ago, remained aground
on a rocky point off Minot Island in
Gilkey’s harbor today despite the efforts
of two tugs and her own engines to pull
her off at high tide.
The yacht, with Junius Morgan, son
of the owner, and his wife aboard, ran
on the rocks last evening aa it was
entering the harbor here. It was
traveling between six and eight knots.
The vessel's bow at high tide was
four, feet above the water and At low
tide one-third of the vessel was clear.
There was a four-foot list to port at
low tide during the night.
First reports last night said that a
number of guests were aboard, but after
Mr. and Mrs. Morgan went to a home
of relatives at Dark Harbor it was
learned they were cruising by them*
selves when the yacht grounded.
MINE OFFICIAL SHOT
Attack Near Madisonville, Ky.,
Follows Firing Into Hpwjh'J
MADISONVILLE, Ky., September 3
(fP). —Charles Blanchard, superintendent
of the Norton Coal Mining Co., ,ivas
shot and slightly wounded gel 'the
home of three Negro miners enußAyed
by the company was fired ifiw’«rly
today at Nortonvllle, 10 miles* soul* of
here. / ——•-—
Blanchard was on his way to inves
tigate the shootings at the miners’
home and was waylaid by a group 'of
unidentified men. He was shot in the
back and his automobile was damaged
by rifle bullets. Many shots were fired
into the roof of the miners’ home, but
there were no casualties. The shootings
marked the first serious disorder in
Hopkins County since the reopening
last Spring of coal mines closed by
strikes.
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BAND CONCERTS; - * •
By the United States Marine Band,
this evening, at the United States Cap
itol, at 7:30 o’clock. Tayldr Branson,
leader; Arthur Witcomb. second leader;
’’’Song of the Marching Men,” from
‘The New Earth” Hadley
Prelude to “Die Meistersinger”,.Wagner
Saxophone solo, “Fantasy”... iGurewich
Musician Kenneth Douse.
Rhapsody, "Virginia” Haydn Wood
Cornet solo, "Hungarian Melodies,"
Bach
Musician Winfred Kemp.
Tone poem, "Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry
Pranks” Richard Strauss
Xylophone solo, “Valse Caprice,”
Wienlawski
Musician Wilber D, Kieffer.
"Second Polonaise”.../. Liszt
Marines’ hymn—
“ The Halls of Montezuma.”
"The Star Spangled Banner.”
By the United States Navy Band, this
evening, at the Navy Yard bandstand,
at 7:30 o'clock. Charles Benter, leader;
Charles Wise, second leader:
March, “Clear for Action”..Blankenburg
Overture, “Precioso” Von Weber
Solo for comet, "Birth of Dawn.”
C .rke
Musician Birley Gardner.
Tone poem, “Carnival in Paris,”
Svendsen
Valse, "Voices of Spring” Strauss
Excerpts from the musical corned.
“Rio Rita” Tierney
Two numbers from the opera “Pag
liacci” Leoncavallo
"Chime Chorus.”
“Bird Song.”
Prelude to “Lohengrin”........Wagner
Second movement from the suite
“Cuba Land,” ’’Under the American
P1«F” Sousa
“Anchor* A weigh.”
“The Star Spangled Banner."