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Ready to Take Stand in Own Defense in $12,000,000 Racket Trial. Py the Associated Press. NEW YORK. May 30.—Pictured by State witnesses as the "boss" of a 512,000,000-a-year vice syndicate, Charles (“Lucky”) Luciano tonight was prepared to take the stand in his own defense Monday and issue a blanket denial of the characterization. As Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey rested his case against the 10 alleged leaders of the huge combine last night, Luciano told reporters: ‘T certainly expect to be acquitted. I never was engaged in this racket at all.” Identified as "Boss.” Several of Dewey's 46 witnesses, most of whom were engaged in the white slave traffic themselves, identi fied Luciano as the man they under stood to be the boss of the racket. One of them, Nancy Presser, a platinum blond who said she had been on intimate terms with Luciano, at tributed to him an ambition to or ganize the city's bordellos along chain Operators of disorderly houses told of being assaulted and otherwise in timidated when they demurred at paying tribute to Luciano's co defendants. One madam testified hei “joint was wrecked" when she failed to leap at an opportunity to join the combine. Luciano told interviewers, however that he earned his living at the race tracks and in other legitimate gam bling enterprises. He never saw eighl of the men accused of being hb lieutenants, he said, until he wa; hailed Into court with them. Dewey Charges Threats. Among those who fell in this cate gory was Nancy Presser, the girl wh< claimed to have been his intimah friend. Dewey, charging that some of hb witnesses had been threatened out o: court, disclosed that Miss Presser hat changed her address suddenly aftei testifying. The number of defendants may b< reduced from 10 to 9 when the tria Is resumed Monday. Jack Ellenstein a booker of prostitutes, negotiatet through his counsel over the week ent for an opportunity to plead guilty, i Three other bookers turned State’i evidence at the start of the trial. AIR CRASH KILLS ARMY MECHANIC Companion Is Injured as Plan Dives Into Boston Harbor. By the Associated Press. BOSTON. May 30.—An Army plam roomed out of a loop and nose-dive< Into Boston Harbor late today, carry ing one mechanic to his death am causing "probable fatal” Injuries t< another. Somewhere tonight in Boston Har bor was the body of Robert Tanckei 24. address unknown—drowned o killed, police said, when the plan crashed. His companion in the Army ship which Lieut. John E. Curran assert ed the two mechanics took withou permission, was in Carney Hospital Police gave his name as William E Hallawah, 24. of Charlottesville, Va. Dr. R. J. Duffy said Hallawah wa suffering from a compound fracturi of the jaw, a possible fracture of th skull, a broken rib and possibly in temal injuries. "His condition is crit leal,” said the doctor, "his Injurie are probably fatal.” Army officials told police the me ehanics had taken up the plane brought here only yesterday fron Langley Field. Va . for a test flight. While scores of small craft cu through the rough seas in the harbor the Army plane looped and stunte< over the harbor. -• PLANTER FOUND DEAD AS FIRE RAZES HOME Left Leg and Arm and Top o: Head Severed From Body of Mississippian. Ex the Associated Press. ANGUILLA, Miss.. May 30.—E. W Cook, prominent Sharkey Counts planter, was found dead in the charrec ruins of his home early today, his lefi leg and left arm and the top of hit head severed from his body. A coroner’s jury was called and offi cers began an investigation. Cook, who usually paid his planta tion workers on Saturday, was re ported to keep large sums of monej In an iron safe at his residence. Th< condition of the safe made it impos sible to determine whether it had beer tampered with. The town marshal of Anguilla which the Cook plantation adjoins discovered the house in flames, bu his efforts to arouse Cook, asleep ir the side of the house not burning Were futile. The home was destroyed Mrs. Cook was in Shreveport anc her husband was alone in the house -• Old Horse Thieves Trying Come-Back In Northivest Area Montana Sheriff Rounds Up Band After Wave of Stealing. By the Associated Press. JANESVILLE, Wis., May 30.—The Old-time horse thief, the original public enemy of the West, is threat ening a come-back. A Montana sheriff, H. P. Lowe oi Roosevelt County, said he rounded up a band of them here tonight. Horse stealing has been "spread ing alarmingly” in his territory, Sher iff Lowe declared. Wholesale thefts occurred, he said, during 40 below rero weather in January. They were discovered by ranchers during the Spring round-up. Tracing some of the missing ani mals, Lowe said he found that 17 head of a herd of 25 stolen from four Montana ranches had been driven 80 miles overland and shipped to Janes ville. After identifying the horses here, the sheriff arrested Fred Radons, 61, of Outlook, Mont., and three other men on charges of grand larceny. He said the horses had been sold. A Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things, s ROOKIES. THIS Is a story that gets a guf faw around police headquar ters, and may have been do ing it for years, for all the operative who Just heard it knows. It has the tone of a classic, but he never has heard it before. The story concerns two rookie po licemen who picked up a drunk in the northeast section. They decided he was the kind of drunk who should be sent to jail instead of to his home. That necessitated a call for the wagon, so the three of them, the officers and their prize, started looking for a call box. They walked and walked and walked, and looked and looked and looked, but never a patrol box did they see. . The walk gradually evaporated the alcohol out of the system of the pris - oner, and becoming sober, it was necessary, the officers thought, to turn him loose. They did, but that wasn’t the last they saw of him. He showed up about an hour later, still sober and in a helpful mood. “You fellows are absolutely right,” i he greeted them. "I've looked this whole section over, and there isn't a single call box around.” * * * * WIZARD. It is said to have happened in a downtown theater. There was a news reel shot of some ditnng champion streaking into a pool in a graceful plunge. Then, so the commentator could slip in a wise crack. the film was reversed and the swimmer streaked from the pool up through the air and back onto the diving board. "My goodness." gasped an ample lady to the left of the operative, "How in the world did he ever do that?" i * * * * ABSENT-MINDED? THEY'RE whispering this tale about a flyer over at the Naval Air Sta tion, and maybe it is being whispered about other flyers elsewhere. It seems the pilot for weeks had been putting in all his flying time on s land ships, and hadn't so much a$ 1 looked at a seaplane or an amphibian. ■ ' Then one day he was assigned to test l a seaplane, just arrived at the station. > Everything came off perfectly until time to land. Absent-mindedly, the flyer nosed the • ship toward the field. The mechanic, r wise in the vagaries of aviators’ minds, 5 kept quiet until he saw the pilot was really intending to land. - “If you don't mind me saying so.” ' he shouted to the flyer as the earth : rushed up, "this is a seaplane, and • there aren't any wheels on it.” The pilot wasted no time on dis , cussion. He swung over and made | the river just in time. The plane , floated to a stop out in the middle of ' the potomac. The pilot turned to his uitri naiiK.. J "F'ewens sake,’’ he begged, “don’t mention a word of this. The boys would razz me off the reservation.” “Never fear,” replied the mechanic. [ “Mum's the word.” With that the flyer loosened his ; belt, climbed from the cockpit and , dropped to the ground. Rather, he 1 hought he was dropping to the ground —until its splashed. * * * * ESCORT. Two boys from Tennessee, now employed in Washington, passed in the street the other day and one of them still is ribbing the other about the achievement of a life long ambition. The ribber remembered, when he saw his victim, that the latter always had expressed a desire to drive through a city with a police escort. He had it, all right, a motorcycle officer in front and an other behind him; the double honor being due to the fact that the man under arrest had talked back pretty volubly and the officers were determined that he wouldn’t get away. He eventually did after paying J5 for the escort. * * * * MEETING. BROADCASTING does not turn out always as it is scheduled. Four newspaper men were chosen to do the ' iamlliar “man-in-the-street” interview. At the proper time they gathered at Twelfth and F streets to question passers-by on their opinion of the traffic “walk-light.” Seeing the radio equipment was missing, the scribes anxiously waited. It is hard to get a crowd to step until the microphone comes into evidence. The deadline came and still no radio operators. One of the would be broadcasters called the studio. Imagine his amazement when he was told that the broadcast was on! It turned out that the control had been put up at the wrong location, and the announcer, all alone, was desperately trying to fill up the 15 minute period by his own chatter. Finally the reporters appeared on the scene and gave final aid by being interviewed themselves. * * * * wuKKUur, 'T'WO persons in Washington, at least, turned first to the sport pages of their newspapers this morning to see how Bill Lannigan. Duxbury, Mass., finished in The Evening Star Mara thon. They were two who saw Bill when he arrived in Washington late Friday night, too. Bill’s traveling gear con sisted of a r~'r of tennis sneakers, no socks, an odd coat and trouser hook-up and his method of travel ap parently was any conveyance that happened to be immediately at hand. Bill was fatigued, so obviously fa tigued that the two Washingtonians walked up to a man with whom he had been talking and asked about him. "Who the heck is that guy and how did he get so tired?” they asked. “That,” said the man who knew, "is Bill Lannigan. a marathoner, and he probably just finished his final hard workout.” % FAX BILL FACING SENATEBATTLES Republicans Call Confer ence-Passage of Compro mise Plan Predicted. Ej the Associated Press. Clashing opinions sounded yesterday over the Senate Finance Committee's revised bill to boost income sur taxes and levy heavily on corpora tions, with battle lines forming on three fronts. Senate Republicans were called to confer before the opening of floor de bate this week to determine their at titude toward the bill. Senators who forced committee ap proval of the compromise bill, which ignored President Roosevelt's call for higher taxes on undistributed cor poration income, predicted It would be passed by the Senate. On a third front, administration forces served notice they would flght on the floor to shove the bill back into line with White House wishes. Black Writes Minority Report. Senator Black, Democrat, of Ala bama, spent yesterday morning writ ing a minority report and said he would attempt to insert more drastic taxes on undistributed corporation profits when the bill comes before the ornate iur uuiiMurx nuun, Congressional leaders, pressing for adjournment next Saturday night, hoped meanwhile to obtain prompt Senate approval of the $2,370,000,000 deficiency-relief appropriation bill. But with the entire adjournment situation pegged on the tax bill, many were openly skeptical of reaching the June 6 goal. The Senate Committee bill would increase surtaxes on individual income surtax brackets between $6,000 and $50,000; tax corporation Income at 15'2 to 18 per cent; levy on undistri buted corporate earnings at a flat 7 per cent rate, and subject dividends in the hands of shareholders to the 4 per cent normal income tax. Parley Is Called. Senate Minority Leader McNary of Oregon told party members to stand by for a parley tomorrow or Tuesday, after copies of the tax bill in its final form and the majority report on it are available. Although McNary did not offer any forecasts as to how Republican senti ment would crystalize, a number of minority members said they expected to combat the tax bill, but to favor it in preference to any measure that would approach more closely to that passed by the House. The acting Finance Committee chairman. Senator King, Democrat, Utah, said he hoped to start the bill through debate tomorrow' and ob tain final action on it in two days. But with the measure far afield both from that passed by the House and that urged by President Roose velt, a sharp and prolonged confer ence fight with the House apparently was assured unless the Senate makes wholesale revisions. Harrison's Aid Sought. Supporters of the compromise pri vately expressed hope they could count on the help of Chairman Harri son of the Finance Committee in their drive to jam the legislation through the Senate w’ith no major alterations. When the compromise originally was worked out, Harrison told four differ ent committee members he would back it. He has been ill for several days, however, and there was no certainty that he would be able to return for the start of floor skirmishes. Dur ing his absence the one per cent boost in income surtaxes was added. Black said his minority report would recommend retention of the present 12*2 to 15 per cent corporation tax with graduated levies superimposed on corporation earnings not distributed in dividends. The latter would not apply to the first 20 per cent of retained profits, but on the next 20 per cent the rate would be 20 per cent, and on all with held earnings beyond that, the tax would be 30 per cent. $600,000,000 Yield Seen. The Senator said his plan would produce more than *600,000,000. Senator La Follette i Progressive, Wisconsin) said he expected to sign Black's report, but whether there would be other signatures remained undetermined. Asked whether he considered the compromise measure satisfactory, King said: "There is no tax bill that is satis factory. This is a compromise bUl and it meets the situation. It will supply more money than the President asked for." The President wanted *620,000,000 of permanent revenue and $517,000,000 of temporary. The latest Treasury calculations show the Senate bin would bring in some *620,000,000 of permanent Fed eral income and $82,000,000 of tempo rary. King has contended, however, that the Treasury is at least $87,000 - 000 too low on its estimates of perma nent yield. China to Build Plant. Kwantung, China, is preparing to start erection of its $10,000,000 pro vincial steel works, which will pro duce 100,000 tons of steel a year. OF $13,000 BY PAIR Richmond Attachment Pro ceeding Starts Hunt for Suspects. By the Asreclated Press. RICHMOND, Va.. May 30—The fleecing of Richmond banks was dis closed in attachment proceedings in City Circuit Court today, designed to prevent two men from withdrawing an estimated balance of $2,000 to their credit. Police said they were looking for two men who operated under the names of Fred B. Reeves, John Y. Clancy, B. R. Swift and E. C. Pitt. They had conducted a novelty shop here from the middle of April until last week, officers said. Bank offi cials said the total loss might reach £13 non Check Forging Alleged. The pair are wanted specifically for the alleged forging of two checks, aggregating $8,200, in the name of T. Justin Moore, Richmond attorney. The forgeries came to light, police said, when Moore was informed his ac count was overdrawn Thursday. An examination showed the signatures to be spurious. The attachment papers disclosed that Moore's name was forged to a check for $3,700, made payable to Pitt and indorsed by Pitt and F. B. Reeves and to a second check for $4,500, payable to Swift and in dorsed by Swift and Clancy. Four Names Reported Csed. Authorities said the two opened ac counts under the four names in four banks here after beginning business as a curio shop and establishing credit. How they secured Moore's checks remained unknown. Bankers said the number of per sons who were victims of the swin dle would remain unknown pending examination by depositors of their next bank statements. The forgeries might have escaped detection until that time, had the alleged swindlers not overdrawn the account. The $2,000 was attached after the check-up revealed that of approxi mately $15,000 on deposit under the four names, all had been withdrawn except that amount. The curio shop, meanwhile, has closed. The banks were protected by for gery insurance. Boy Guilty of Extortion. OKLAHOMA CITY. May 30 (A>).— Manning Bulla, 19, pleaded guilty to day to attempted extortion of $300 from Mrs. Wire Franklin, wife of an Oklahoma oil man, and was paroled after being sentenced to 18 months in prison. The youth said he “just made up” the threat May 18 to Mrs. Franklin “because he heard some one say it might work.” I Myers Forum Speaker E three years’ work of the Farm Credit Administration will be reviewed for the Ameri can public tomorrow night by Gov. W. I. Myers of the administra tion, whose subject will be, ‘‘The Comeback of Agriculture.” He will speak over the National Radio Forum, arranged by the Wash ington Star and broadcast over a Nation-wide network of the National Broadcasting Co., beginning at 9:30 p.m. It will be . in the nature of a third birthday anniversary celebration, as the Farm Credit Administration, under President Roosevelt, completed its third year May 27. Gov. Myers is a practical farmer, formerly was professor of agricultural economics at Cornell University, and was secre tary of the local co-operative credit agency, the National Farm Loan Association for his home community near Ithaca, N. Y., where he operates a large poultry ranch. With this background and as governor of the administration, he is adequately equipped to discuss the growth of co-operative credit during the past three years. He plans to show how the co-operative agencies have taken over most of the load formerly handled by direct Govern ment loam 0 _W. I. MYERS. Without going too far into the field of statistics. Gov. Myers expects to present a '‘humanized" picture of the status of the American farmer, and the progress that has been made in the handling of farm mortgage in* debtedasea. “Fugitives” Return Home When some one told Julia Ann Scrivener, left, and June Gwin they faced jail for tearing up some old canceled checks they decided to run away to Virginia. They are shown returning after an adventuresome trip of five hours■—Star Staff Photo. -- A _ Girls (Continued From First Page ) for the rest of our lives for tearing up $5,000." About two months ago, according to the parents of the children, the two found a bunch of cancelled checks. They played with them for a while, then tore them up. One of their neighbors told them, jokingly, that they had tom up $5,000. This latter phase of the check story did not get to the parents until last night, but they have known for some time that the girls were trying to run away. Earlier Preparations. “About a month ago I found their suitcases all packed with every stitch of clothing they had," Mrs. Gwin said last night. "I tried to get them to tell me then why they wanted to run away, but they wouldn't," The girls had 49 cents between them, all of it saved up—a penny or two at a time—during the last two months. “We thought that would take us to Hot Springs,” June told reporters. Her grandparents live in Hot Springs, Va. Austin Gwin, taxicab driver and father of June, drove his cab to the ends of all street car lines looking for the girls when he learned they had run away. Frank Scrivener, father of Julia Ann, is a clerk for the Southern Railway. When the two children left home they carried two dresses and other clothing in paper bags. “We were afraid to take the suitcase because mother would have noticed," Julia Ann explained. Finally Tell story. Bit by bit. the parents and the re porter got the story of what actually happened to them. Here is how Julia Ann told It: "We slipped out while nobody was looking and started walking. We got to the Speedway and went around it three times before we could find the Lincoln Memorial. Then we went across the white bridge (Arlington Memorial Bridge) and then walked for a long time. We started to walk across a field when we heard a po liceman’s whistle. That was what we were afraidest of and we started to run. "The policeman got out of a ear and chased us. He caught us and asked us our names. We didn't say nothing. He asked us where we lived. We didn’t say nothing. He asked us where we were going. We didn’t say nothing. And then he asked us a lot more things, but we didn't say noth ing. "Then he put us in the car with another man and drove around and crossed the white bridge again. He asked us again where we lived and we told him Warner street. He said he didn't know where Warner street was and put us out on the Monument grounds and asked us if we knew the way home. We told him we did and promised to go right home. We tried to hurry, but we were getting pretty tired and we sat down sev eral times to rest . . . and besides It was getting awfully dark.” The first place the children went when they got back in their neigh borhood and before they went home was to a store where they spent five cents for candy. The parents spent the evening at home, explaining that tearing up canceled checks is . not a terrible crime, after all. ACTS TO END STRIKES Spanish Government Moves to Terminate Disorders. MADRID. May 30 UP).—Spain's gov ernment clamped a hard hand on strikes and disorders tonight. Almost 200 syndicalist leaders were arrested. Conferences were begun with Socialist leaders to end the period of wide-spread strikes. A special Judge was sent to Yeste to investigate a fight In which 15 peasants and one civil guard were slain yesterday. The civil governor of Sevilla re ceived reports that "grave events" were transpiring in the town of Ca sa lia de la Sierra, where a general strike recently was declared. The governor was en route to the scene to investigate. Firemen Quench Passing: Blaze. KANKAKEE, HI. (JP).—As Hugh Lewis drove past Fire Station No. 3 > short circuit in the battery cable 5f his car set the machine afire. Fire men grabbed extinguishers, flagged down Lewis and put out the blase without moving a truck. % CUT IN RAIL FARES IN EFFECT TON IT New Schedule Will Go Into Force Under Protest of Eastern Lines. By the Associated Press. Although already the target of a court attack, new low passenger fares ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission as a means of bolstering travel by rail will go Into effect at midnight tonight. Fares as low or lower than those fixed by the commission already are In operation In Southern and Western territory. In the East, however, all major carriers except the Baltimore St Ohio said they would conform to the reduction ruling "under protest." They then filed a suit in New York Federal Court seeking to Invalidate it. These roads contended the new charges would cut seriously into their revenues. In addition, they argued, the commission’s action was "caprici ous" and exceeded Its statutory au thority by assuming control over mat ter* which should be left to the dis cretion of railroad management. aurcnarge wipea uui. After a lengthy study, the com mission fixed fares of 2 cents a mile in coaches and 3 cents in Pullmans, compared with the present basic fare of 3.6 cents for both classes of trans portation plus a Pullman surcharge. The surcharge, which averages four tenths of a cent a mile, was ordered wiped out. Splitting five to four, the commis sion majority said there had been Increased travel in the South and West since passenger fares were re duced in 1933. and that this indicated similar results could be accomplished in the East. “There is no reason to believe,” the majority held, “that the average per son living in the East is not just as willing and able to travel by rail as is the average person residing in the South or in the West. “It seems reasonable to asume, therefore, that a reduction In the fare in the East would be as attrac tive to the traveling public and as likely to stimulate increased passen ger miles as was the fare reduction made in the South and in the West." Optimistic for Future. The commission took an optimistic view of future passenger traffic, say ing “the passenger market for the future looks as promising as at any time in the history of the country,” but adding: "The railroads cannot hope to share reasonably in that market except at fares more nearly commensurate with the cost and convenience of travel by highway and with changed eco nomic conditions.” The commission said dwindling pas senger revenues made "immediate extraordinary measures imperative in order to enable the railroads to con tinue in the passenger business.” But the Eastern roads, which carry more than 60 per cent of the Nation's railroad passengers, contended revenue increases similar to those in the South and West could not be realized in M11.U 0CV.UI/U. A large portion of their business, attorneys asserted, came from com muter travel, which would not be Increased by a fare reduction. They said also that even should passen ger figures swing upward because of a reduction, there also would be a sharp increase in operating costs, off setting any possibilty of a net revenue gain. Reconsideration Asked. After the commission handed down its ruling, the Eastern roads re quested reconsideration, submitting an alternate proposal of their own. These carriers suggested that they be permitted to establish "experi mental'’ faxes of 2.5 cents a mile in coaches and three cents in Pullmans for a period of 18 months. During this time, they said, revenue results of the lower rates could be measured and the I. C. C. would have concrete data on which to base any future fare orders. Transportation Co-ordinator Joseph B. Eastman cast a deciding vote \ against the roads’ proposal when the commission divided its votes evenly. Although the commission had set June 2 as the deadlme for new rates, the railroads later Informed the com mission they would put the new schedules into effect at midnight May 31, to simplify their books. Whether the rates will remain in effect for more than a brief period depends on how and when the court rules on the Eastern carriers’ suit. Under the direction of Patrick J. Farrell of Vermont, former member of the I. C. C., commission attorneys are mapping a defense to the action. U. S.-BRAZIL TRADE PACT SAFEGUARDED Cabinet Member Says Proposed Treaty With Reich Will In volve $30,000,000 Exchange. —^ ***'• *»owi«iru rress. RIO DE JANEIRO, May 30—A member of the cabinet said today that the proposed commercial accord with Germany in its revised form involved a reciprocal exchange of mercandise valued at more than *30,000,000. He emphasized, however, that Finance Minister Artur Souza Costa had agreed that the United States Brazil treaty of February 2, 1935, would be safeguarded. Germany's signature to the pact has been pending for a week It was learned officially that the accord had been revised since May 23 to raise the proposed sale of Brazilian cotton to Germany from 62,000 to 80,000 metric tons. At the current average price and free rates of exchange this would mean a sale of *19,200,000 of the equivalent of 352,000 bales of the United States standard size. The agreement also specifies vary ing amounts of cocoa, tobacco, vege table oils, lard and nuts which Brazil will seU. ORBETA SUCCEEDS RIGGS SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, May 30 (iP).—Gov. Blanton Winshtp today named Maj. Enrique Orbeta, U. S. A., retired, to be Insular police chief, suc ceeding the late Col. Francis E. Riggs, assassinated February 23. Orbeta, 49, was born In Puerto Rico and educated In Spain and the United States. His appointment followed an un successful attempt to offer the post to Brig. Gen. Pelham Glasford- former District of Columbia police commis sioner. 9 a New Rail Rates Changes in Effect Tonight Between Washington and Other Cities. The following table shows rail rates effective tonight between Washington and other cities. Where Pullman la used, there la, of course, In addition to the train fare given below, the charge for the extra accommoda tion: Ftfat City Class Coach Pittsburgh ..._I 9,10 ( 6.10 Cleveland .. 13.05 8.70 Akron . 12.85 8.45 Chicago - 23.15 15.45 Louisville ......_ 19.80 12.15 St. Louia . 27.15 18.10 Cincinnati _ 16 80 11.20 Cumberland __4.60 3.05 Connells vllle ....... 7.45 4.95 Wilmington __.... 3.30 2.20 Baltimore _ 1.20 .80 Philadelphia __ 4.10 2.75 New York_ 6.80 4.55 The Pullman rates (lower berth) to the cities named are: Pittsburgh, 12.50: Cleveland. *3.00: Akron, *3.00: Chicago. *5.50: St. Louia, (6.00; Louis ville, *5.00; Cincinnati, *3.75; Cum berland. S2.00; Connellsvllle, *2.50; Wilmington. $2.00: Baltimore (par lor car, 50 cents: Philadelphia, *2.50, and New York, $2.50. ■' 1 - •— ■ Two Dead, Third Missing as Heavy Rains Add to Swol* len Rivers. Br the Associated Press. GRANADA. Colo., May 30—Flood waters twirled over portions of the Southwest dust bowl tonight, leaving two persons dead, a third missing and several towns inundated. Just one year ago ona of the worst floods in the West's history took more than 100 lives in Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas. The dead in today’s flood were Don Gates, 27, of Denver, drowned near Stratton, Colo., and Mrs. John Dyatt, caught in flood waters near Goodland, Kans. An unidentified youth was missing at Carlton, Colo. Republican River Overflows. The high waters poured down the Arkansas and overflowed the Repub lican River 100 miles to the north. The Republican was one of those whose waters, a year ago, caused $13,000,000 damage and heavy loss of life in the three States. It was reced ing today. A week of rain saturated Eastern Colorado prairie lands, and heavy storms, last night brought precipita tion that ran oft almost as fast as It fell, filling dry gulches and stream beds to overflowing. The 400 residents of Granada fled from their homes, recalling a flood last July 12 on Wolf and Granada Creeks in which nine persons drowned, water was 18 inches deep in streets. Holly, east of here; Wiley, northwest of Lamar, and Carlton were flooded. The Arkansas River from Pueblo to Lamar and beyond the Kansas bund ary was out of its banks tonight and Lamar was threatened with high water. Santa Fe Road Washed Away. The Santa Fe Railroad on both sides of Granada was washed away and several highway bridges were torn out. At Coolidge. Kans., water flowed over the Santa Fe Railroad tracks. The Arkansas River cut a channel 10 feet from the Lamar irrigation canal and official^ said if it broke through- into the canal Lamar might be flooded. Gates- body was recovered today. His wife and small child and sister-in law, Miss Mary F. Ewing, 20, Nelson, Nebr., escaped. Mrs. Dyatt was drowned as she and her husband attempted to reach high ground after their home at Smoky Gardens, Kans., was flooded. 1924 OLYMPICS STAR FOUND DEAD IN AUTO Heart Attack Blamed in Death of Former Syracuse TJ. Back field Ace. By the Associated Prfss. WEST LONG BRANCH. N. J.. May 30.—Chester A. Bowman, 34, who competed successfully in the 1924 Olympic Games at Paris and starred in the baclcfield of Syracuse Univer sity's foot ball team, was found dead at the wheel of his automobile today. County Physician Harvey W. Hart man said he believed death had re sulted from a heart attack. He said Bowman had been in poor health for some time. He said he would sign a death certificate tomorrow. The body was found in a garage near Bowman’s home by Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Ed ward Juska and William P. Beatty, foot ball coach at Long Branch High School, both friends of Bowman. Bowman ran fourth in the 100 meter dash at Paris and was a mem ber of the United States 400-meter relay team which set a record of 41 seconds in the 1924 Olympic Games. He won numerous national A. A. U. titles and held several national rec ords for varying lengths of time. He ran the 100-yard dash in 9}s seconds In 1927. PLOT IS THWARTED Paraguay Blocks Attempt at Counter-Revolution. ASUNCION, Paraguay, May 30 (fP). —Official* revealed today that an at tempted counter-revolution plot was thwarted last night with the arrest of several politicians. Official* of the government of Pres ident Rafael Franco claim those ar-. rested were adherents of the former regime of President feuseblo Ayala, which was overthrown by those favor ing Franco last February. Officials said the arrests were made without any difficulty and there were no other incidents as a result of the plot. Dispatches last night reported from Buenos Aires there had been an armed Insurrection. Polish Session Called. WARSAW, Poland, May 30 C^).— Parliament today was summoned into executive session June S to grant the President special powers to issue de ems concerning the country's defense. t I Mayor of Tientsin and Cus toms Chief Reported Re moved by Japanese. BACKGROUND— Chinese-Japanese relations be came once more seriously strained the middle of last week when 3,000 additional Japanese troops were landed at Tangku for service in Tientsin and Peiping. Chinese officials protested at once and called on the 11 nations signer to the Boxer protocol to use their Influence to halt the Japanese. By the Associated Press. PEIPING, May 30—Tension In North China between Japanese and Chinese is growing hourly as the re sult of a series of incidents during f the last two days. Chinese sources, with no immediate direct verification, said the mayor of . Tientsin and the Tientsin customs superintendent had been ousted from unite uy Japanese Army uniters. The mayor, Hsiao Chen-Ying. is generally regarded as one of the most astute of Chinese politicians. The customs superintendent is Lin Shi Chen. Chinese interpreted these reports as signifying Japanese determination to dominate increasingly the affairs of North China. A detachment of 650 Japanese troops arrived here late today, bring ing the local Japanese garrison to a strength of 1,300 men. A Japanese military airplane flew over the city this afternoon making observations. Students Go on Strike. Local students followed the example of their colleagues in Tientsin by de claring a strike in eight schools and colleges as an anti-Japanese protes*. They walked out of their class rooms for a five-day period, demanding Chinese government resistance to the Japanese. Japanese consular authorities at Tsingtao reported the local Japanese Residents’ Corp., at an emergency meeting, had "considered steps to deal with the recrudescence of Chinese ac tivities against Japanese ’’ The authorities stated the action ! was the result of an alleged assault by Chinese students on a Japanese schoolgirl in which the girl suffered a broken arm. SABOTAGE IS CHARGED. Bridge and Track Blown Up Between Tientsin and Tangku. TIENTSIN. May 30 OP)—Chinese and Japanese made accusations and •' counter accusations today concerning two acts of railroad sabotage last nigh;. A bridge and a portion of track / were blown up on the line between here and Tangku. Although no one was hurt, the de tonations of the explosives surcharged the political air with danger. The Japanese immediately indicated they believed the sabotage was an answer by Chinese to the reinforce ment of Japans garrisons in North China. Chinese authorities openly hinted Japanese were responsible to « create an excuse for further conquests on Chinese territory. Confer on Explosions. Lieut. Gen. Kanichiro Tashiro, newly-arrived commander of the aug mented Japanese forces in North China, conferred at length with his aides concerning the explosions. The military authorities were not inclined to discuss the incident, but intimated it would be "settled locally.•’ Expert observers said the two blasts * might result in a repetition of the Mukden incident of September, 1931, , which plunged Japan and China into war and culminated in Japan creating the empire of Manchukuo out of Man churia. Unidentified persons blew up the 4 Chuanliangchen Railway Bridge on the Tangku-Tientsin line near Tangku last night. Early today the rails were blown up at Chankuelchuan, 6 miles east of Tientsin. The Tientsin-Mukden express was . flagged, before it could plunge into the gap, by a Chinese trackwalker. The express backed away to Tientsin and reported the sabotage. When Chinese railway officials at tempted to send out a repair crew, however, Japanese Army authorities intervened and refused to permit the repairmen to leave. Machine Guns Dispatched. Instead, a Japanese machine gun detachment was dispatched to the scene and officers made a close exam- , ination, including flashlight photo graphs of the scene. The last train to cross the spot, previous to the blasting, was a Japa nese military special which departed for Tangku at 11:14 p.m. with 30 of ficers aboard. After the Japanese inspection was completed, the track was repaired and the Mukden express left at « a m. Much apprehension was expressed by Chinese that Japan would take drastic military action. The Japanese military authorities complained that the railway authori ties were negligent and demanded that, henceforth, a pilot train precede . all passenger trains in this territory. Japanese said they believed the sabotage was the work of Chinese extremists, whom they also charge with responsibility for the recent Chinese student demonstrations against the Japanese. Chinese said that a Japanese mili tary transport train, bearing hundreds of soldiers, was to have come here from Tangku last night but that Its departure was suddenly cancelled without explanation. They said they viewed this act with suspicion, in sinuating the Japanese knew the sabotage was under preparation. BARTHOLEMEWS MEET Guardianship of Child Star Sub ject of Conference. HOLLYWOOD. May 30 UP).—Mem bers of the Bartholomew family met today in a private conference aimed at settlement of the guardianship of 12 year-old Freddie, $l,000-a-week film actor. Freddie, the family’s chief money earner. was the only Bartholomew not talcing an active part. Conferees were Freddie’s father, Ce cil Lewellyn Bartholomew, who ar rived Friday from England; hla moth er, Mrs. Lilian May Bartholomew, who has been here six weeks seeking to wrest custody of the boy from his aunt, , Miss Myllicent Mary Bartholomew; » the aunt, and Freddie's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Robert Bar tholomew. I