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tomorrow; lowest tonight about 35 de
grees.
Temperatures—Highest. 50, at noon
today; lowest, 37. at 1 a.m. today.
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AUSTRIA ANSWERS
TARIFF PACT FOES
WITH ‘JOIN-IN’ PLEA
Customs Ugion Planned With
Germany Urged for All
European Nations.
FRANCE BACKS BRIAND
in Probe of proposal
British Position Undefined on Eve
of Meeting of Committee on
Economic Federation.
■y the Associated Press.
VIENNA, March 23.—Austria today ;
answered protests against her proposed i
customs union with Germany with an
invitation to other European countries
to join them in an abolition of customs
barriers.
A formal protest by diplomatic rep
resentatives of France, Italy and
Czechoslovakia drew from Dr. Johann
Schober, foreign minister and vice
chancellor, the word that Germany and'
Austria had no Intention of concluding
any treaty which excluded the other
powers.
On the contrary, he said, both have
invited any other European state —all
European states—to join the projected
customs union, so as gradually to ex- !
tend it to embrace all European coun
tries.
Believes Briand Approves.
He declared also that Austria felt
more encouraged to embark on the cus
toms arrangement with Germany since
she was conscious that the plan had
the approval both of Aristide Briand,
French foreign minister and author of
an ambitious pan-European scheme,
and of the League of Nations.
The protest of the three countries
against the customs union project,
which they based upon an allegation
that the union would impair and com
promise Austria’s pledged independence,
aroused considerable bitter feeling in
this country. The comment was made
that it had been logical to hope that
any honest effort to overcome the eco
nomic depression of European states,
no matter by whom inaugurated, would
receive encouragement.
Official information of the contem
plated union took the Austrian com
mercial world entirely by surprise since
German competition was an element
greatly feared in Austria. Fears have
been somewhat allayed by information
that existing duties on Austrian weak
industrial products will remain in force
for many years. The union is described
as only a nominal one designed to stim
ulate neighboring countries to embark
upon so-called regional preferential
treaties.
Denies Treaty Impairment.
Dr. comment is that the
plan is still only in project form, re
quiring long negotiations, because rs
w hich it is too early for outsiders to be
come alarmed or to protest. He told
the diplomats who visited him yesterday
that the scheme would not infringe
upon the Geneva treaty obligations and
that he hoped they would recognize this
and withdraw their protests to allow a
calm perusal of the project.
The diplomatic representatives of the
three countries in a Sunday rail upon
Dr. Schober informed him that their
governments wished to remind Austria
that the conclusion of such a union
would infringe the Geneva protocol of
October 4, 1922.
This protocol is that which Austria,
obtaining a loan from the former allied
countries, reiterated its support of the
treaty of St. Germain between Austria
and the allies to preserve and guard
zealously its independence.
May Torpedo Agreement.
The demarche of the three govern
ments was regarded In some circles as
an effort on their part to torpedo the j
agreement with Germany, which was
announced here and at Berlin Saturday.
It was understood that under its terms,
which are subject to ratification by the
German and Austrian Parliaments, all
customs barriers between Austria and
Germany will be removed.
Although the projected pact was an
nounced at Berlin with the comment
that it was expected to lead the way to
other pan-European agreements, dis
patches from Paris state there is con
siderable resentment there and that it
is regarded as both evasion of the spirit
of the peace treaties and as a blow at
the Briand European economic union
ache me.
BRIAND INQUIRY APPROVED.
Frrn-.li Cabinet Is Not as Alarmed ,
as Press.
PARIS, March 23 i/P). —The French
cabinet approved today the movement
initiated by Aristide Briand to attempt
to determine whether the Austro-Ger
man economic accord involved any in
fringement of the independence of
Austria.
Briand explained that the ministers
of various European powers interested
have requested information on the pro
posed treaty from Vienna.
Dispatches from Vienna brought the
information that diplomatic repre
sentatives of France, Italy and Czecho
slovakia had called upon Austrian
Prime Minister Schober, but there was
no mention of Schober’s having re
ceived the British governments repre
sentative.
The Paris Echo says that Briand in- *
vited England to participate in the in- <
qutry, but that no reply had been re- |
reived from Downing Street. A spokes- j
man for the French government, how
ever, expressed the opinion that the
reason the British government had
taken no action at Vienna was due to
the ebsenee_of_ Foreign Minister Hen
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32,500 TRAFFIC DEATHS
1930 Shows Increase of 4.5 Per
Cent Over Previous Year.
NEW YORK, March 23 (/P)—' There
were more than 935,000 automobile
accidents in the United States last year
and they killed 32,500 persons and
injured 962,000. the Travelers Insur
ance Co. reported today.
Deaths increased 4.5 per cent over
1929. New York State went contrary
to the general tendency, reporting 3,074
fatalities, a decrease of 3.1 per cent.
Noted Britiih oar*man Die*.
BURLEY. Hampshire. Bigland, March
22 </P>.—Col. Frank Wlllan. widely known
rowing man, died yesterday at the age
Davis Is Silent
Regarding Movie
Telling Life Story
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. March 23.
Senator Janies J. Davis of Penn
| sylvania, former Secretary of
Labor, who arrived here by plane
last night, was non-committal
today concerning reports that he
would give expert aid in the pro
duction of a motion picture fol
lowing, in a general way, the story
of his own career.
He is a guest at the Santa
Monica home of Louis B. Mayer,
vice president of the Metro-Gold
wyn-Mayer Film Production Co.
As a Welsh immigrant boy.
Senator Davis began work in
Pennsylvania steel mills.
RAM INDICTED
IN SABOTAGE CASE
UNDER OHIO LAWS
I
V !
Accused of Violation of State
Syndicalism Act by Akron
Grand Jury.
1 By the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio, March 23.—Paul K.
Kassay, 37, Goodyear Zeppelin employee,
who is alleged to have made a remark
which showed he intended to commit
sabotage against the giant Navy Zep- j
pelin "Akron,’’ was indicted by the !
Summit County grand jury today on a
charge of violating the State criminal
syndicalism law.
The grand jury investigation was
begun today.
Department of Justice agents said
Kassay, who was employed in construc
tion of the ship, had planned to wreck
it by weakening the frame.
An attempt to obtain Kassay's re- ;
lease from custody through an action j
for habeas corpus, was scheduled to be |
heard in the District Court of Appeals
here late today.
The indictment alleged that Kassay
"openly, willfully and deliberately jus
tified by word of mouth an attempt to
commit sabotage, to wit, that on or
about March 10 he said to divers per
sons that he was attempting to effect
malicious injury and destruction of the
airship Akron, the property of the
United States, within the walls of the
dock of the Goodyear Zeppelin Cor- j
poration.’’
"The word so spoken of the said at- ;
tempt to commit sabotage was spoken i
with Intent to exemplify, spread or ad
vocate the propriety of the doctrines of I
criminal syndicalism.”
TAX COLLECTIONS
CONTINUE DECLINE
Income Revenues Up to Fri
day Little Over Half as Much
as for 1930 Period.
Income tax collections continued their
downward swing today when the Treas
ury statement for March 20 showed
that $44,105,314 was collected that day
as compared with $75,475,289 on the
same day of last March.
The income tax collections for March
20 made the total for the month
1 $283,229,295, as compared with *460,-
328,715 for the same period of last
March and a total of $1,454,660,320 for
the fiscal year, as compared with
$1,712,962,857 for the same period.
The collections for the month now
appear certain to drop nearly $200,000,-
000 below the amount collected in
March last year and much below the
amount expected.
The decrease of $177,000,000 on Friday
, may be changed either way by returns
to be received for the remainder of the
month, but with the reports so lar
being materially below those of last
year it is doubtful if the remaining
days will show any increase.
MADRID WORKERS RIOT
!
City Employes Storm Council De
manding Pay Raise.
MADRID, March 23 OP;.—Rioting
broke out around the city hall and in
side the council chamber today when
during a meeting of the City Council
Alderman Garcia Cortes, formerly a So
cialist and new a Liberal, opposed a
measure for an Increase of pay for mu
nicipal employes. Clerks, porters and
all classes of city hall employes stormed I
into the council chamber shouting for
more money and “Down with Garcia
Cortes!”
On the outside street cleaners and
other employes packed the plaza, shout
ing. When Alderman Cortes left the
city hall the crowd attacked him. Police ,
i dispersed the rioters without injury or
; arrest.
POLICE SQUAD RUSHED TO TAKE
RING OFF 2-YEAR-OLD’S FINGER
i Clarence Holmes, Colored, Found Right in Middle of an
Emergency at 1812 Fourteenth Street.
Sirens blew and traffic parted this
morning for the fire resque squad, the
squad’s new red ambulance, two radio
patrol cars. Police had learned there
was something in the nature of an
emergency at 1812 Fourteenth street.
Sure enough, there was!
Two-year-old Clarence Holmes, col
ored, was right in the middle of an
emergency.
Only yesterday Clarence’s father,
David Holmes, hotel porter, presented
him with a new ring. Clarence was
pleased, to say the least.
No one could persuade Clarence to
take the ring off until Clarence began
to suspect he couldn’t take it off. Then
he began to wail.
They tried soap and hot water and
Wcvt %‘amm Skf.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1931—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES.
PORTO RICO CHEERS
HOOVER’S ARRIVAL;
ROOSEVELT AT PIER
Some Hissing Heard as
Mayor Extends Official
Welcome to Party.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE PRAISES
SELF-RELIANCE OF PEOPLE
Fangot Sajs Visit Revives Coun
try'* Hope for Constitutional
Equality,
By the Associated Press.
PONCE, Porto Rico, March 23.—The
battleship Arizona, with President
Hoover and two members of his cabinet
I aboard, anchored outside Ponce Harbor
at 6 a.m. today and began immediately
to debark the President’s party by motor
boat to the quay here.
The President w»as the last to leave
the Arizona, boats previously having
taken the large company of newspaper
men, photographers and others of the
entourage, including Secretaries Hurley :
and Wilbur, ashore.
I The President stepped ashore at 7:58 1
a.m, and was given an enthusiastic \
'■ welcome by the great crowd which had ;
j awaited his arrival.
| The city was bedecked with flags, j
bunting and banners which screamed
the word welcome—in Spanish "bien
venido” —and a large triumphal arch
had been erected across the entrance
to Abolition Park to mark the occasion.
The city was enjoying a double holiday,
the emancipation fete which fell yester
day having been carried over until the
I week day.
From Ponce, w'here Gov. Roosevelt
and Island officials and political leaders
; were assembled to meet the President,
j the party was to go in a caravan of 23
| automobiles across the Island to San
Juan where Mr. Hoover planned to make
an address in answer to his welcome.
Second President to Visit.
Mr. Hoover was the second President
of the United States to visit Porto Rico,
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, father of the
present Governor of the island, having
preceded him here in 1906.
The President will remain on the,
island about 36 hours, leaving Tuesday
afternoon for the Virgin Lslands, the
second and final stop on his combina
| tion vacation and official trip,
i National Guardsmen patroled the
roads en route from Ponce to San Juan.
President Hoover was enthusiastically
j cheered as he landed, but there was
i some hissing as the mayor officially
| welcomed him to Ponce.
{ School children serenaded the caval
j cade with songs as it passed through
the streets, which were decorated with
' pennants praising President Hoover's
i appointments of American officials of '
; the Porto Rican government.
Praise* Self-Reliance of People.
! The President thanked the mayor
j briefly lor his welcome. He praised the
j self-reliance of the Porto Rican p-ople
! and said he hoped that his visit would
I result in closer co-operation between
i Porto Rico and the United States.
In his address of welcome Mayor
; Emilio Fagnot told President Hoove
that his administration had produced
more legislation for solving the island’s
problems than any since the beginning
of American sovereignty in Porto Rico.
This fact, he said, had served to renew
the interest of Porto Ricans and to re
vive their hopes that Porto Rico might
be incorporated on a basis of constitu
tional equality as a self-governing State
in the Union.
"Your arrival this morning,'* he said,
"strengthens the ties oi mutual under
standing and reciprocal affection be
tween this territory and the continental
United States."
Predicts Blending of Civilization.
He predicted that the Incorporation
of Porto Rico into the United States I
would "exemplify the possibility of a
pan-American commonwealth under
the Stars and Stripes, where Anglo-
Saxon and Latin civilizations shall
blend together in the furtherance cf a
common destiny.”
The reception by the municipality of |
Ponce was held at the city hall, several j
miles from the President s landing I
place.
President Hoover was given an elabo- j
rate embroidered banquet cloth on ;
which had b en worked designs of the
favorite flowers of all of the American '
Presidents who have held office since !
Porto Rico became part of the United i
Stat s. The poppy, designated by Presi- j
dent Hoover as his favorite flower, was
Included in the design.
Up to the last minute a small, active
group of Nationalists continued their
opposition to the entertainment pro
gram, urging all Porto Ricans, “for
their own dignity” not to participate.
One handbill, signed by Luis Vergne
Ortiz, president of the Nationalist party
of San Juan, was distributed in the
cars of the reception committee. It
criticized President Hoover as leader of
the National Republican party, which
it described as "capitalistic, plutocratic,
antl-Socialist, and opposed to the in
terests of workers.”
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Havana Guard Maintained.
HAVANA. March 23 OP).—Although
disturbances which were threatened j
over the week end failed to materialize, .
the government today continued to
, keep heavy detachments of troops at!
important centers in the city. Machine i
guns were mounted at strategic spots.
the neighbors came in with suggestions,
but the ring stuck.
At 4 a.m , David Holmes said, they
tried Freedmen’s Hospital, with no suc
cess. Clarence went right on wailing.
“We just had to call the police,’’ his
father said.
When the firemen arrived they pro- j
duced a giant pair of shears from their i
emergency equipment used in cutting J
through steel entanglements. ,
Clarence could not be persuaded at
first the firemen weren’t going to cut
off his head. When they caught him,
however, they deprived him of his Jew
elry In short order.
David Holmes hid the ring away to
day. “Clarence yells,” he explained,
“every time he sees it.**
| “THE GOOD STORY!"
CANCER TISSUE KILLED BY SERUM
| DEVELOPED IN LONDON HOSPITAL
Experiments on Tumors Growing Arti
ficially Hint Possibility of Application
to Disease in Man.
j BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE.
Associated Press Science Editor.
j NEW YORK, March 23 —Cancer tissue
i growing artiflcaliy in glass dishes is
1 killed in a few minutes by a new serum
developed in the Cancer Research Labo
ratory of London Hospital, England.
Unlike other tumor remedies this
serum is harmless to living tissues except
cancer.
These discoveries and their possibilities
for experimenting wdth cancer in man
are told in the April issue of the Ameri
can Journal of Cancer by Thomas
Lumsden, M. D.. director of the London
laboratory. The journal is edited by ,
Dr. Francis Carter Wood of Columbia j
University.
The serum comes from animals which
LOST NAVAL FLYER
SAFE IN COLOMBIA
I
Enlisted Pilot, Who Sep
arated From Squadron 100
Miles at Sea, Reaches Port.
Chief Aviation Pilot Verne Warren
Harshman, enlisted naval air man, who
became separated from his fellows dur
ing maneuvers in the Pacific last Tues
day, is safe at Buenaventura, Colombia.
This information was conveyed to the '
Navy Department this afternoon in a
j dispatch from Rear Admiral N: A. Ir
win, commandant of the Jsth Naval
District, in the Canal Zone. He for
ward ed a message from the Balboa,
Canal Zone, cable office, reporting the
| manager of the All-American Cables at
. Buenaventura asserted United States
I Naval Flyer Harshman is now safe at;
! that city.
j Admiral Irwin advised the depart- ;
I ment further details will be sent to
! Washington as they are received. The I
j cable manager requested the Naval au
i thorities be notified.
Harshman, who was attached to the
i airplane carrier U. S. S, Langley, be
i came separated Tuesday morning from
j the remainder of his squadron while
! climbing through clouds between 4,000
i and 4,500 feet altitude, during exercises
!at sea. about 100 miles southwest of
I Cape Corrientes, Colombia, w'hich is to
i the northward of the community in
j which he is now reported safe.
Harshman’s plane had been In the air
! about tw>o hours at the time it became
: separated from the squadron and had
fuel for approximately two hours' addi- j
! tional flying. An unsuccessful search )
was conducted for him by surface craft
and airplanes.
EIGHT JURORS CHOSEN
Four More Needed to Try Suspect
in Lingle Slaying. \
CHICAGO. March 23 UP. —Answers
Ito the questions, "Who killed Jake
Lingle, and Why?’’ may be given this
week.
Only the selection of four more jurors
remained today before the opening
statements and testimony can be started j
in the trial of Leo V, Brothers, St. Louis, i
charged with firing a bullet into the i
reporter's head last June 9.
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First Overture !
for Peace
I Read Pershing's Story j
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, have been inoculated with cancer. It
I is tested upon cells of cancer, of heart,
kidney and other body tissues growing
j artiflcally outside of living beings. A
start has been made in testing it upon
living animals, a few rats having been
cured of cancer, and others made im- i
mune.
"Animals,” Dr. Lumsden says, "are
capable of forming anti-bodies having j
a specifically lethal effect upon malig- ;
nant tumor cells of any variety, but
which are non-toxic to normal cells ”
Whatever these protective anti-bodies
are, human cancers also possess them. *
Dr. Lumsden reports:
"Perhaps the most specifically anti- j
malignant of all the sera tested Is the
anti-serum obtained from a sheep which I
ha* been repeatedly Inoculated with;
.human cancer and human breast tissue. ]
Whan this anti-serum Is applied to t
mouse cancerin _yitro (in a glass dish)
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WOMAN IS KILLED
AS AUTO UPSETS
Mrs. Ruth Partin Crushed,
Husband Injured When
Car Skids 150 Feet.
Mrs. Ruth Partin of Rockville, Md , 1
was killed instantly and her husband, j
Ambrose Partin, was seriously injured :
early this afternoon when their auto- j
mobile overturned on the Rockville Pike
near Grosvenor Lane.
The couple were pinned beneath the
heavy machine. Mr. Partin was badly
crushed.
According to the police report, the
machine, which was a heavy touring
car converted into a wrecking truck,
got out of control and left the road
when Partin tried to apply the brakes.
It skidded 150 feet before running into
a ditch.
| Partin conducts a garage- in Rock
ville. He is thought to have been driv
’ ing at high speed when he rounded a
; curve and saw two cars on the road just
jin front of him. Bernard Cox, 5425
Eighth street, driver of one of the au
tomobiles, took Mrs. Partin to the j
Georgetown University Hospital. She
was dead upon arrival. Her husband j
was taken to the same hospital In the
ambulance of Warner Pumphrey, Rock-1
ville undertaker.
The other vehicle ahead of Partin’s ,
car was a Peoples Drug Store truck, j
driven by E. H. Satterwaite. With him .
was R. F. Koenig.
The wrecking car was built from the j
chassis of an automobile in which R. L
Taylor of the Taylor Motor Co. wa < -
killed in an accident at Thirty-fourth
and Macomb streets on June 9, 1928.
MAN FOUND KILLED
ON BALTIMORE ROAD
Kentuckian Identified by Card in
Pocket Thought Hit-
Run Victim.
| By the Associated Press,
j BALTIMORE. March 23.—Apparently
1 a victim of a hit-and-run motorist, the i
1 body of a man tentatively identified as
1 James E. Hood. Louisville. Ky.. wai
i found today on the Washington boule- j
I vafd. He was about 50 years old.
The identification was made by a
card in his pocket. Another card,
labeled "permit” read:
"This is to certify that I hereby!
permit my husband to go where he j
pleases, drink what he pleases and.
furthermore, to enjoy the company of I
any lady or ladies as he sees fit, as I
know he Is a good judge.
“I want him to enjoy life while hej
can, as I know he is going to be dead
a long, long time.”
It was signed "Mrs. Rhoda Hood.”
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Bank Thieve* Captured.
MEXICO CITY, March 23 OP).—
Capital police today captured a band of
thieves who robbed El Banco Nacional
de Mexico of approximately 50,000
pesos. They substitued bags contain
ing iron washers for bags of pesos in
trucks which were transferring money
within the city.
WATSON DEMANDS
EQUALIZATION FEE
Farm Board Refusal to Buy
1931 Wheat Followed by
Senator’s Action.
By th* Associated Press.
A renewed demand for the equaliza
tion fee plan of disposing of agricultural
j surpluses was voiced today by Repub
| lican Leader Watson of the Senate in
[ the wake of the Farm Board’s an
nouncement that it would purchase
none of the 1931 wheat crop.
Senator Watson long has been an
advocate of the equalization fee, which
as a feature of the McNary-Haugen
bill was vetoed by former President
! Coolidge.
Annoimcemepf Discussed.
Discussing the effect of the Farm
, Board's announcement today Watson J
said:
’We have got to take the equaliza- S
| tion fee. That appears to be the only
remedy."
The Indiana Senator said he did not
believe in the export debenture, which
i the farm group supported in the last;
Congress in the face of opposition from
President Hoover.
He added he did not know what would
be done with the more than 200.000,000
bushels of wheat accumulated by Farm
Board agencies, but said he had been
informed that one-third of it already
has deteriorated to such an extent it
could only be used for cattle feed.
Holdings Caused "Menace.”
The Farm Board holdings, Watson
said, constitute a "menace” to the mar
ket, because they have driven the spec
ulator out of it.
“The speculator helps largely to make
i the price of wheat,” he said, adding it
would be desirable to restore specula
i tion.
Senator Couzens, Republican, Michi
gan, said the "equalization fee, deben
j ture or any other artificial method”
i would not solve the surplus question.
The situation would never right it
i self, he thought, until the farmer is j
able to sell more directly and to spread
out his crop sales over a long period
instead of dumping all his wheat on
the market after harvest and accepting j
whatever price middlemen were willing
to pay. ’ .
Asked if he though the Farm Board
should be’ discontinued, Couzens said
there were many other functions for
the board besides buying and selling
surplus commodities.
Two Alternatives Left.
Learning that he cannot expect the J
Government to attempt stabilization of \
the 1931 wheat crop, the farmer today ;
had two alternatives —-to limit produc- .
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WHEAT PRICES SLUMP ;
11 CENTS AT CHICAGO '
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Announcement of Early With- *
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drawal in Farm Board Support t
Weakens Market.
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By the Associated Press. '
CHICAGO, March 23.—Wheat prices j
on ,the Chicago market dropped to low
ground unknown since 1895 today, sag
ging as much as 11 cents a bushel on j
1931 crop options.
The crash followed announcement by ; -
the Farm Board that it would not at- ; 1
tempt to maintain prices by stabiliza- I i
tion operations beyond the month of j i
May. when the 1930 crop passes from 11
dealing. ' 2
50-50 ROBBER GETS 80 CENTS
AND GIVES BACK HALF OF SUM
Taxicab Driver Held Up at Pistol Point After Taking
Fare to Cherrydale, Va.
An armed bandit doing business on
the 50-50 basis held up a cab driver at
pistol point this morning, robbed him
of 80 cents and then after a moment’s
consideration returned 40 cents of it.
That’s the story Henry H. Smith, the
cab driver, of 810 E street northeast,
told police. He said the bandit hailed
him at Seventeenth street and Pennsyl
vania avenue and asked to be driven to
Cherrydale, Va., where the bandit said
he had left his broken-down automobile.
Arriving at Cherrydale the bandit
drew a gun. placed it in Smith’* back
and demanded his cash.
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“From Pre»» to Homo
Within the Hour 9 *
The Star’s cairier system covers
every city block and the regular edi
tion ii delivered to Washington homes
ss fast as the papers are printed.
Saturday’s Circulation. 114,3*4
Sunday’s Circulation, 124.972
AMP* UP) Means Associated Prose. TWO CENTS.
3 POLICE CAMS
FACE RETIREMENT
; UNDER NEW PLAN
| Inspector William H. Harrison
Also Included in 64-Year
Limit.
COMMISSIONERS TO ACT
ON PROPOSAL TOMORROW
Gen. Crosby Hopes to Set Up Uni
form Regulation for De
partments.
One police Inspector, three captains
and 14 privates will automatically re
tire the last of the fiscal year under the
proposed plan to retire all members of
the Fire and Police Departments when
they have reached the age of 64.
The order, drafted at the suggestion
of Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby, Is
expected to go before the Board of
Commissioners, meeting tomorrow, and
after the Commissioners have acted
upon it. will become effective July 1,
Gen. Crosby said today.
He explained that at present the
Commissioners have the power to re
tire a policeman or fireman after he
reaches the age of 60 and has served
25 years. The order which he has
drafted is designed merely to remove
any doubt as to exactly when a man
' Is to be retired, he said.
Greater Incentive Sought.
| He thought it would prove an incen-
I tive to the younger officers in both
j branches of the service and would not
! make much difference now, since there
I are relatively few men in either branch
I who exceed the maximum age.
The order has been sent to Corpora
tion Counsel William W. Bride for final
study as to the legal points involved.
Inspector William H. Harrison is the
only one in the higher ranks ready
for retirement, should the Commission
ers adopt the proposed regulation. He
was born November 5, 1866, and has
been a member of the force since No
vember 2, 1892.
Several years ago he sought retire
ment. Members of the Board of Police
Surgeons reported him physioally fit,
however, and his request was refused.
One Captain TO Years Old.
Capt. Charles R. Bremerman, In com
mand of No. 14 precinct, one of the
three captains to go should the regu
lation be adopted, is 70 years old, and,
according to officials, continues much
more active than some of the younger
captains. He was born August 6, 1860,
and has been a member of the police
force, since April 14.,1918.
Capt. J. M. Walsh, in command of
1 No. 6 precinct, is the next oldest cap-
I tain In the service. He was born Octo
! ber 5, 1865. and appointed a policeman
! April 24, *894.
! Capt. J. E. Wilson of the ninth
i precinct celebrated his sixty-fourth
| birthday last December 26, having been
boin on the corresponding day in 1866. |
He has been a member of the police
force since June 8. 1900.
Capt. Walter Emerson of the thir
teenth precinct will attain the age of
64 next October. There are said to be
several lieutenants and sergeants ap
proaching the same age.
Should the regulation be made effec
tive, it will mean the elevation of five
lieutenants before the close of the year.
Maj. Pratt will experience no delay in
making promotions to the vacancies,
the Civil Service Commission having
furnished a list of enough eligible* to
fill the positions.
WIFE-BEATER FACES
WHIPPING POST TODAY
Baltimore Judge Remit* 30-Day
Sentence, but Insists
on Lashes.
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. March 23. Joseph
Kowalski, the third man to be lashed
for wife beating In Maryland in 11
years, faced the whipping post here
today.
The sentence, imposed last week by
Criminal Court Judge Eugene O’Dunne
after he had heard testimony that the
man had beaten his wife while she was
ill and had been guilty of other'acts of
cruelty, was scheduled to be carried out
this afternoon in the city jail.
Judge O’Dunne entered the formal
order for ten lashes, but struck out an
additional sentence of 30 days, directing
that Kowalski be released by sundown.
Judge O'Dunne said a parish priest
and a justice of the peace interceded
with him.
“I refused parole ard told them if a
delegation of at least 10 women who
had been beaten by their husbands
wanted to come down and ask remission
of the sentence of the lash, I would hear
their plea. No promise of such a dele
gation has been made.”
Judge O’Dunne, in a letter to Sheriff
Joseph C. Deegan. recommended that
the lashing be carried "without bru
tality” and that all newspaper pho
tographers be barred. Reporters were
given permission to be present, however.
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Flyers Seek Distance Record.
i
ISTRES, France, March 23 (£*). — 1
Joseph Lebrix, with two companions, ,
Doret and Cadiou, took off at 6:35 a.m. i
in their airplane, the Hyphen, In an ]
attempt to break the world’s flight dls- ]
tance record over a closed circuit with i
2,000 kilograms useful load.
“I’ve only got 80 cents,” said the cab
driver.
“Give me that then,” said the bandit.
Smith complied with his demand and
the bandit then asked to be driven to
Twenty-second street and Pennsylvania
avenue, where he alighted from the cab
and bid the driver a pleasant "good-by.”
Smith told police he notread, particu
larly that the bandit wore iL black
derby and appeared as if he Aadn’t
shaven in a week. He said that the
man was about 30 years old, about six
feet tell and weighed 160 pounds.
wore a gray overcoat and blue pants, a
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SOCIALISE LEADER
ASKS WATSON’S AID
I ON EXTRA SESSION
i Norman Thomas Leads Con
ference Here Urging Special
Meeting of Congress.
WANTS TAX REVISION
1 TO HELP JOBLESS FUND
■ Republican Senatorial Leadar
Promises to Discuss Problem
When President Returns.
i An Impromptu debate between Sena
. j tor Watson of Indiana, Republican aen
• | atorlal leader, and Norman Thomaa.
’ | former candidate for President on the
l Socialist ticket, over the advisability of
a special session of the new Congress
i featured a conference of 10 or more
i; organisations held here today to con
sider ways and means of urging an ex
tra session on unemployment and in
i ternational problems.
Senator Watson told the delegation he
did not believe economic conditions were
such at the present time to necessitate
calling the new Congress and that he
did not believe a special session would
I be helpful in expediting a return to
prosperous conditions. He assured his
callers, however, that he would be will
ing to talk over their suggestions with
President Hoover when the latter re
turns to Washington.
Urges Loans to Communities.
Thomas, one of those who came to
Washington lor the unofficial confer
ence, told of information he had gath
ered as to the need for unemployment
relief In large cities throughout the
country and urged the calling of Con
gress immediately to make loans to
communities to assist them in
for unemployed. He advocated the re
vision of income taxes as a means ol
meeting the cost of such appropriations.
The conference, which had assembled
m one of the committee rooms of the
Senate Office Building at the call of
Benjamen C. Marsh, executive secretary
of the Peoples’ Lobby, had already de
cided on a program of procedure by
which to stimulate interest in a pro
posed special session of Congress, one
step being to call on various congres
sional leaders. One member of the con
ference communicated with Senator
Watson by telephone and reported back
that the Senator said that while he
was strongly opposed to a special ses
sion at this time, he would be glad to
see them in his office.
Call at Senator’s Office.
Mr. Marsh promptly suggested thst
they adjourn temporarily to call on
the Indiana Senator.
Gathering in Senator Watson’s office,
the arguments for an extra session
were presented for the group by Mr.
Thomas and by Miss Dorothy Detzer.
secretary of the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom.
Senator Watson said that of rnurss
no one wants to see human suffering,
and that if he felt the various com
munities of the country had reached a
point where they were unable through
local taxation and local agencies to
care for the unemployment problem, he
would favor prompt action to bring
about aid from the Federal Treasury
He emphasized, however, that he did
not believe conditions are at that point
in the United States at this time. He
said he has been keeping in touch with
Col. Arthur Woods of the President's
Employment Committee and with John
Barton Payne of the Red Cross.
Other Issues Considered.
Members of the calling delegation
argued that Federal aid to the unem
ployed would Increase their purchaaing
power, and In that way help improve
business conditions.
Before calling on Senator Watson
ihe group had decided that the special
session should be urged not only to
consider unemployment, but also inter
national aspects of present conditions.
Several speakers took the view that
economic conditions throughout the
world have a partial bearing on condi
tions in this country.
The group also' decided to ask a
number of Senators who took pari In
the recent Progressive conference here
to make speeches in the near future
in support of a special session. This in
vitation, it was decided, would be ex
tended to Senators Norris of Nebraska
Cutting of New Mexico, Wheeler of
Montana, La Follette of Wisconsin and
Senator-elect Costigan of Colorado, the
five who took the lead in arranging that
meeting of Progressives two weeks ago.
The invitation also will be made to
Senator Borah of Idaho.
Another resolution was adopted to
lay the request for a special session
before the chairmen of the Republican
and Democratic National Committee*.
ENTERS PLEA OF GUILTY
IN HOSPITAL ROBBERY
Man Brought Back From San Biego
Tells Probation Officer Three
Were in on Hold-up.
Walter O. Jones, 30, arrested at Ban
Diego, Calif., February 17, pleaded
guilty today before Supreme Court Jus
tice Peyton Gordon to an indictment
charging him with complicity in the
robbery at Children's Hospital July 31
last, when $3,289 was taken from Mias
Eleanor E. Page, who was returning
from the bank with the pay roll.
Jones had been employed in the hos
pital and told Probation Officer Amos
A. Steele, to whom his case had been
referred for investigation, that he was
waiting at the Public Library for a di
vision of the spoils because he feared
Miss Page might recognize him.
He told the probation officer he was
living at the home of Earl Roberts, who
has not been apprehended, and planned
with him for the robbery. A third man,
whose name he said he did not know,
was in on the deal, he declared. Rob
erts returned to the library and gave
him S7OO of the stolen money. Jonea
said. He then took his wife and two
children to California, where he was
located.
Archbishop to Cruise.
LONDON. March 23 OP).—The arch
bishop of Canterbury left London for
Paris today en route to the riviera,
where he will embark on J. P. Morgan’s
yacht Corsair for a Mediterranean cruise
with the American financier.
The archbishop has been ill for some
time with neuralgia and he hopes for
a complete cur« during the coming
voyage.