The Washington Post
April 29, 1929

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- ) — Ocis 25732) / — “ The only newspaper in Washington with the Associated Press news every morning in the year. For home delivery call Main 4205. 30 8 The Washington Post. — — a — + NO. 19.310. / -AUTOISTS NEAR WASHINGTON: MONDAY. APRIL 29, 1929. HOPE FOR SEAS ‘TORCH KILLING ENTERED -AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER , POSTOPPICE, WASHINGTON, D. C. Titled French Family \ ' ⸗ — J + . 7 ?# . > >. 6 rT) — * » * a > . ’ . DEATH AS MAN “FIGHTS POLE Shot Enters Seat Beside Them; Fugitive Makes Getaway in Alley. SECOND GUNMAN HELD AFTER WILD TAXI RIDE Trapped in Home, He Tries to Keep Captors at Bay With Pistol. FIRED AT CHAUFFEUR WHO DEMANDED FARE Had Declined to Meet Mate of Woman for Whom He ‘ Called in Hack. Lives of four policemen and of at least four civilians were endangered yesterday by pistols in the hands of e+. FF ~¢ : a iS ¢ > | : a : i ig ae > ’ - 2 wi) . * = ¥ 4 € ? *~ = ag - ae 2 —* » ® a? * ⸗ = — 9— * — is Ys 2 i a J F | j colored men, one of whom. was. -In his home by four mem- i J Tr + * ge Eg 2 gg il! * ẽ 8 ~ ffrg ‘seta? cincts throughout the city. In falling during the pursuit, Evans suffered in- juries to his knee and hip, and after receiving first-aid treatment was or- dered to report to the police clinic this morp ing. — The encounter between the officers and McCoy was precipitated when the policemen went to the man’s house to atrest him on charges of firing his re- volver in an argument over a $285 gambling debt at the home of William Taylor, colored, 30 years old, 1729 Twelfth street northwest. McCoy was in the alley when they approached and started to run. When he saw Evans fall be is said to have turned and fired four shots at the policeman. Galimore had gone in another direction to head him off. Bvans and Galimore had no sooner reported back to their precinct station. than word was received that William A. Robinson, 32-year-old colored chauffeur for the Howard Cab Co., had been fired upon by a colored passenger at N street and Scott Circle northwest. Thinking that Robinson’s assailant might be who was not hit by the t told them, however, that his ‘asesilant was John Hooks, and that he was known at 936 L street northwest, in which vicinity he had hailed the | Declines to See Husband. “Hooks, he said. hailed him at Ninth ef it FE peck ifzies E rE Parr € PU f ,™ Plot Relatives of Rasputin Slayer Bare Story | of Death Tries. — Paris, April 28 (N.Y.W.N.S.).—The whole dramatic story of how a titled French family lived for months in terror of an unknown polisoner is be- ing told plecemeal to the police. The narrative began yesterday with the disclosure of a mysterious attempt to poison the Count de Larentys, rela- tive by marriage of Prince Yousoupoff, who brought about the death of Res- putin, Russia’s mad monk. Countess de Laerentys( who was Princess Demi- doff, of Russia, attributed the plot to enemies of Prince Yousoupoff seeking jto avenge Rasputin and operating through Prince Yousoupoff’s valet, Illia Pedan. Today it became known that the de Larentys, who was Princess Demi- polisoner. While walking in the garden of the count’s chateau near Carecas- sonne, after breakfast one morning, re- cently, the countess told the police, the duchess fell and broke a.leg. The fall/was due, the duchess said at the time, to a sudden incomprehensible inability to support her own weight. This sudden partial paralysis, the authorities explain, might have been caused by administration to the Tells of Poison Duchess de Luynes, aunt of the Count |‘ — Sa Buen ge cate eee. > J as ~_ —y J — ae Nee ax y xf Re 2 Whe 5 * * 8 * % ; *5* oe Se % a % x > PRINCE YOUSOUPOFF. duchess in her food of a drug called scopolamin, which causes death in large doses and partial parslysis in small doses. Traces of this were found in coffee served at the De Larentys’ chateau. * “Twilight Sleep,” which was intro- duced some twenty years ago, is. pro- duced by the use of scopolamin and CONTINUED ON PAGE 6, COLUMN 65. JONES WANTS LAW ‘APPLIED AT PORTS Author of “Five-and-Ten” Act Sees No Reason Why Tourists Escape. $5 FINE PENALTY NOW Senator Wesley Jones (Republican), Washington, annouaced lest night that he would take up with -the Treasury Deparmtent the question of prosecution under the Jones-Staelker act. of tourists who attempt to smuggle whisky into the we States. — — lerstand ‘that it is the practice of the department at present to exact. & penalty or fine of $5 a bottle of tourists who attempt to smuggle “I see ho reason why such violations of the eighteenth amend- ment should not be subject to prosecu~- tion under the bill of which I am one of the authors.” While Senator Jones did not set any definite date for taking up the question with the Treasury Department, -1e intimated that action would be taken this week. The Jones-Stalker act, familiarly known as the Jones law, provides pen- alties of five years and $10,000 for vio- lation:: of the prohibition law. Representative M. Alfred Michaelson, of Illinois. was the last person of na- tional’ prominence to be involved in alleged whisky smuggling. While the charge against Michaelson was made long before the Jones-Stalker act be- came a law, it did not become known until after the drastic measure had be- | come effective. Michaelson, who voted for the Jones- St. cr act, just before it became pub- lic knowledge that he was under indict- ment at Jack wmville, Fla., is alleged to have brought the contraband into the United States through the customs un- der immunity granted members of Congress. Daughters Will Speed By Plane to Ill Father New York, April 28 (A.P.).—Two daughters of a man seriously ill in Newton, Iowa, were notified by radio aboard the ite Star Liner Baltic today that a plane will be waiting at Roosevelt Field to expidite their trip to the West after the ship brings them to Quarantine at 4 « m. tomorrow. . Jasper and Miss Stella to permit the women to | ‘The body of the lad, the sov.of, Mp. | ashington leave the liner at Quarantine. Artists Organize to Obtain Repeal of Dry Amendment | BUY. 5, (5 DROWNED OFF CHANNEL DOCK Albert Best Stumbles. From Sandpile Into Hole While Playing. IS RESCUED — COMPANION Tumbling down a pile of sand on which ‘he had been playing with two companions at the District sand wharf, foot of I and Water streets southwest. 5-year-old Albert Best slid through a hole in the dock to death in the Wash- ington Channel at 10 o’clock yesterday morning. and Mrs. Noah L. Best, of 929 H street aOuthwest, was dragged from the wa- ters beneath the wharf after a search of more than 25 minutes by the Fire Res- cue Squad, which had been summoned to the scene by W. F. Lair, of 3553 Eleventh street northwest. Attempts at resuscitation by mem- bers of the squad failed and Dr. J. E. Lewis, of Emergency Hospital, who re- sponded to the call, pronounced the boy dead. ? A near-accident that might have re- sulted in the same fate for a com- panion of Best was narrowly averted at the same moment. Apparently caught in a portion of the sand and being sucked toward the same hole through which Bést went to his death, little Walter Owens, of 920 G street south- west, was rapidly sinking in the shift- ing embankment when he was pulled to safety by 9-year-old Cecil Kennedy, of 918 G street southwest. Owens, however, suffered no il) ef- fects from his experience and walked home withy his rescuer after the body of their friend had been retrieved. The Kennedy youth and Benjamin Owens, 9 years old, a brother of the youngster he rescued, y are recalled as the two boys. who last November 17 drank a pint of poisoned bootleg Uquor they found in the rear of their homes and were s. ed from death by ahtidotes atiministered by the Fire Rescue Squaa At Emergency Hospital. where they were taken, attendants declared at the time that the liquor was sufficient to have killed them has not first aid been given promptly. Parachute Jumper Dies As Spectators Watch Port Jervis, N.Y., April 28 (A.P.).— While hundreds lookd on, “Daredevil” Dan Smith, of Paterson, N. J., para- chute jumper, plunged 2,000 feet from an airplane to his death in the flood- swollen Delaware River nea here last evening. The hundreds of persons who saw him fall were powerless to offer assistance because no boats were available. Smith's wife was among the spctators. Prominent Authors in Dis- trict Pledge Support to Antiprohibition Groups. Pledging their support to the Asso- | ciation Against the Prohibition Amend- ment, 212 writers, cartoonists and ti- Headquarters of the committee have street, New York, and Eric Schuler has been named executive secretary. Invi- tations to join are being sent to more than 1,000 other artists and writers. Twenty A been established at 21 East Fortieth | y 4J fa FAEEDOM PAGT FELT IN GENEVA English _ Labor Party’s Proposed Statement May Force Action. MATTER IS DISCUSSED IN ARMAMENT CIRCLES Britons Are to Take Stand on Second of Wilson’s Points, Is View. MARITIME WARFARE LAWS MAY BE CODED First Week of Conference Ends With General Air of Conciliation. Geneva, April 28 (A.P.).—Geneva was wondering tonight whether the ‘next important step would not be an under- standing concerning the freedom of the seas now that an Anglo-American naval agreement is rosily expected. Apperently no delegation to the pre- liminary commission for a disarmament conference has a mandate to open this great problem here. The instructions of American Ambassador Hugh 8. Gibson, for instance, seem to limit his activi- tiles to preparing as speedily as may be for an international conference for re- duction of armaments and specially to concentrate an methods of reduction of naval strength. Talked of in Private. Nevertheless, the problem of freedom of the seas hovers over the delibera- tions, and many delegates have done much private talking about it. One reason for thig is that many publicists, both in Europe and the United States, have been debating the problem. The chief immediate reason, however, was an announcement mede here by British circles of the League of Nations. yt Connected with the Brite, t délegation, that the Labor would enunciate decisive’ opinions on the subject. This party was described ag holding to the ieague view——that seas can only be closed when nations by common action take plock- ade and punitive measures against a nation which has launched an aggres- sive war. , The labor renunciation of right of private war and private blockade éhd acceptance of the doctrine that the high seas should only be closed by ine | ternational agreement for the enforce- ment of an international covenant, is virtually a restatemient of the second of the “fourteen points” of Woodrow Wilson. The possibility was held out tonight that some delegate might Idunch a movement for codification of, sea law as a cardinal means of lessening chances of conflict between naval pow- ers, although such initiative probably would be ruled out as beyond the scope of the commission. More Concessions Likely. The second weer of the disarmament\ session closed with conciliation as the dominant note. Concessions made by the United States on naval problem and the question of trained reserves induced other countries to give up something and to toss concessions into the basket of an accord. France will abandon her demand for an international commission to see to it that future disarmament treaty pro- visions are being lived up to and, if necessary, make investigations of any country suspected of violating the treaty. The United States and Italy opposed this plan. France also will doubtless renounce, because of unlike- lihood of agreement, its project of achieving disarmament by tearing dowr military budgets. Concessions by other countries also were expected. Ambassador Gibson is keeping in close touch with President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson about de- velopments on naval questions. He is trying to keep the delegations away from discussions of quantitative naval tonnage and to center éfforts on find- ing the best methods by which ton- nages may be ironed out in diplomatic negotiations. It was thought here that perhaps the first assignment of Gen. Charles G. Dawes as Ambassador to Great Britain would be to discuss the subject in.a general way. Man and Wife Killed Mysteriously in Home Fort Worth. Tex., April 28 (A.P.).—A J. Payne and his wife of ten days. Har- riet, were shot to death in their apart- ment here last night. Payne died in- stantly. His wife in the last minutes of her life resolutely refused to make a statement to officers attempting to clear up the affair. The couple were lying together on the floor, a pistol nearby. Investigators, ad- mitting circumstances indicated a mur- der and suicide, were inclined to be- 2 lieve that a third person did the enoot- ing, though they offered nothing to sub- stantiate the hypothesis. F:orlde-“favana round trip tickets for one way fare plus 25 cts. sold Washington, D. C.. May 11. Atlantic Coast Line, 1418 H St., Washington— Adv, be UF GIRL OPURy NEW MAN-HUNT Body of Victim, 20, Found in Thicket of Wood: Near New York. TOOTH, BURNED DRESS ARE TWO BEST CLEWS Woman Is Third One Slain by Fire in Same Area Within Year. CLOTHING SATURATED IN OIL, THEN LIGHTED Injury on Head Indicates Blow Before Strangling Cause of Death. White Plains, N. Y., April 28 (N.Y. W.NS.).—A survey of Westchester County dentists was being made by the police tonight in an effort to iden- tify the torch victim found Saturday in a secluded spot near Ardsley road, in the town of Greensburgh, near here, by what the authorities consider their strongest clew—a false tooth in the upper left jaw. This tooth is attached by bridgework to another tooth. An attempt to identify the torcn victim as g missing woman of Yon- kers ended unsatisfactorily today when Steven Murz, 18 years old, viewed the partly cremated body at the funeral parlors of Lyop and Hartnett « 4ere. He expressed doubt that it was that of his sister Gladys, 22 years old, who disappeared April 24. District Attorney Frank H. Coyne also declared that he did not think the victim was Gladys Murz, but stated that he would investigate tne lead, thoroughly before abandoning it. The. district attorney stated that a com- parison of a snapshot the youth brougth with him with measyrements of the | the victim’s face was longer. Clews Are Scarce. Clews, in addition to that furnished by the victim’s teeth, are scant. Near the body was an empty quart milk bottle, marked as belonging to the Morrisania Dairy Co. which seals milk in Yonkers, Mount Vernon and gold ——“4 the Bronx. The bottle reeked with the |, odor of kerosene, which had appar- ently been poured over the body be- fore the match was applied. The po- lice are working on the theory that some one may be found who will re- member selling kerosene to persons who used a milk bottle as a container. There is also a scrap of flowered cretonne, the material of the victim's dress; a kerosene-soaked man’s hand- kerchief found near the .bottle; stock- ings which the killer had not had time to draw from the girl’s legs, and the scorched remnants of a bath towel which, twisted tightly about her neck, had caused death by strangulation be- fore the body was burned. None of these bits of cloth was initialed and none bore a laundry mark. There were no finger prints on the bottle and finger prints would not be visible on the other articles. Discarded Clothing Found. Several bundles of clothing, found discarded by the roadside within a few miles of where the body was left or picked up from public dumps in the vicinity, have been taken to the police, in the belief they might furnish clews. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6, COLUMN 4. Fire, Poison, Bullet, Are Used in Suicide New Orleans Business Man, Office Ablaze, Swallows Drug and Shoots Self. New Orleans, La., April 28 (A.P.).— James B. Otis, prominent business man, died hére today as the result of self-administered poison and a gun- shot wound yesterday. He also set fire to his office before attemptimg suicide, he told hospital attendants. Otis was found in a critical condition in the office of the J. 8. Otis Mahogany Co., Inc., yesterday afternoon after per- sons living nearby had been attracted to the place and smashed a door to gain entrance. Otis was said by those first to arrive to have begged them to let him die, Financial troubles were considered by the police as the reason for his act Man Dies in Gun Battle; Poultry War Is Blamed New York, April 28 (A.P.).—A man was shot and killed last night in Brook- lyn in what police described as a fresh outbreak of the intermittent “poultry war” waged between independent deal- ers and the so-called poultry trust. Pasquale Pinto, 39, an independent dealer, was shot down after a running gun fight with three men. The men escaped. Pinto, with the day’s re- ceipts, was on the way home from his shop when fired on. The war, which has been in progress for several years, has resulted in several bombings, stab- a : that) > . — bings and other acte of violence, ¢ PLANNED BY SIX AI IS REVEALED IN CAP : 3 a= a ‘y * 9 Days at Sea’s Mercy, 10in 4 Eleventh Dies of Cold After Ship Founders in Mid Ocean. New York, April” 28. (AP.)—Ten sailors, rescued from a emall boat in which they had drifted helplessly for |’ nine days, part of the time without food or water, after their schooner sank 350 miles off Bermuda, arrived at a Brook- lyn pier tonight aboard the yecht Amida. An eleventh man, the oldest in the heroic little band which absnddéned | nm — — — — — —— — Nine of One Family Wiped Out at One Crossing; Four Perish at Another. HITS BUS; FIVE ARE DEAD Middletown, N. Y., April 28 (AP.)— Nine members of one family were killed and ‘re tenth seriously injured today in a grade-crosging crash at New Hampton, 4 miles from here. The west-bound New York-Chicago express of the Erie Railroad ran down the auto- mobile driven by:-Antonio Vianchi and in which were hig wife and their eight children, of this city. Seven were killed instantly and two ‘died in a hos- pital. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Vianchi, the dead are Lucy, 16; Marina, 14; Minnie, 10; George, 8; Louise, 6; Helen. 10 months and Rose, 3. Frank, a 12-year-old son, was the only one to escape with his life. Physi- cians said tonight that he probably would recover. S The Vianchis had .waited at the crossing for an east-bound freight to pass. He drove into the path of the fast train. Elkhart, Ind., April 28 (A.P.).—Five persons, four of them of one family. were killed today and eleven injured 'n a head-on collision of an automobile and a Ni-Sun bus on a highway 8 miles east of Elkhart. The dead Mrs. Ural Mabie, 41; her son Charles, jr., 17; her two daughters, Vaughn, 19, and Ruth, 14, and Danie) Papa, 20. Rubie Mabie, Ruth's twin sister, was critically hurt. All lived in le te a el le i ee Lifeboa — — —— — J J > The schooner James E. Coburn, which foundered in-midatiantic when the pumps failed to work. Ten members of the crow of gjeven were reseped. the four-masted schooner, James &. April 16, died of the hardships. J. Pereira, the captain of the schoon- ree i a t 7? e E > > Men, All Connect Films or Stage,, Killed Near Los Angeles. START FLIGHT AT DAWN Los Angeles, April 28 (AP.).—~-Three men, all connected with moving pictures or the stage, were burned to desth in an airplane crash which occurred when they took an early morning spin from Rogers Airport here todsy. The desd were William H. Oviatt, jr. 22: Ray M. Scott, 25, and Mack A. Fluker, 25. | ‘The plane, a .Travelair monoplane, was purchased for the pilot recently by Palmouth, Mass., for years manager of the Morris Gest productions in New York City. Young Oviatt had been wintering here. Airport officials said the fatal fight was the first the plane had made since it was delivered here for Oviatt. Scott left a wife and a 2-year-old daughter. Oviatt. jr.. who was a nephew of Charles Murray, screen actor, was 8 moving picture scenario writer. Fluker played “heavy” parts in films. L. L. Jones, of the Culver City police, who arrived at the scene of the acci- dent before the plane ceased burning, said it crashed in an oat field in which a number of Japanese laborers were working, near the site of Loyola College. 4 Japanese told Jones the plane went into a tail spin “several hundred feet in the air” and came down to within “30 yards” of the ground where it apparently was righted. The engine was sputtering but the occupants of the plane were shouting and laughing. The Japanese said one occupant waved CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 5. CONTINUED ON PAGE 7, COLUMN 4. Florida Lawyer, Vice Foe, Beaten, Warned to Leave — « — THE W ASHINGTON POST IS THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN THE CAPITAL WHICH GIVES ITS READERS ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS SERVICE Every Morning of the Year James Bickers, St. Peters- burg, Seized Near Home; Will Quit: State. St. Petersburg. Fla., Apr 38 (A P.).— James F. Bickers, prominent attorney, was abducted from in front of his home shortly after noon today by five men whom he says took him far into the country. stripped him, robbed him. of $2,000, then whipped him severely with a knotted whip and ordered him to leave the city and the State. Bickers, for whom a widespread «earch was conducted, was brought to «a hos- pital by unidentified motorists whom he said he hailed after working tree of bonds with which his abductors had bound him. . The attorney. who has been active in @ campaign against lawlessness, said he did not know the identity of his “we CONTINUED ON PAGE 7, COLUMN 32. Coburn, of New Bedford, Mass, on|: TE EE ie I his father, William H. Oviatt, s7., ef Take-Off From New Yor’ — — in September. Refueling Will Be Done ity 22 Statio * > ow — —— PLANE TO HAVE SPEED. . ~» * 4 i * ‘we J 4— 7 > — 5 >: . ~ ,. i tit j : 2 . 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