The Washington Post
March 31, 1930

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vo Ww and Tuesday Tuesday; + Warmer moderate northwest winds. Temperature yesterday: Highest, 57; lowest, 40. Details on page 16. > * ——— > them fe tee Pare Y aa 2 19,646. "WASHINGTON: MONDAY. MARCH 31. 1930. BY THE COPYRIGHT. 1930. ASHINGTON w POST CO. ~ —— THREE CENTS.” RING GANG, DES Ott TOMAC SPAN Runs From Union Station and Commands Cab to “Highest Bridge.” — DRIVER 1S HANDED HIS TOTAL WEALTH Cold-WaterWarning Fails to Halt Plunge From - High Structure. HEEDS RESCUE TRY AND GRASPS ROPE Safe in Hospital, Describes How Thugs Dogged Him From Detroit. August Lozi, 30 years old, who gave his address ws Bellaire, Ohio, jumped from the middie of the High- way Bridge about 6 o'clock last night in an effort to end his Iife. He was rescued by workers and guards on the bridge, who sent him to Emetgency Hospital, where he was treated for cold and shock. According to the only witness who actually saw Lozzi jump from the bridge, Kenneth Macdonald, 21 years old, who was driving a cab stationed at Union Station, Lozzi ran out of Union Station about 5:30:o'clock and ‘dashed up to the cab which Mac- donald was driving. “Take me to the highest bridge near here.” he is quoted by Macdon- ald as saying. “end the one where there is the most water.” Starts to Highway Bridge. Macdonald immediately thought of the Highway Bridge, and started driv- ing in that direction. When the cap ‘Teached the bridge and hed driven half way across, the passenger asked the driver to stop 60 that he could get out. - " “If you ate going te jump of this ‘Dridge.” Macdonald said fie told the men, “I warn you that the water is good and cold.” He said the mau paid. no attention to him, and Aand- e@ him $6 which he told him to ‘eep. Before the driver could interfere, the man had leaped” over the rail, and he heard the splash as the body hit the water. Macdonald immediately started Calling for help, and attendants who were stationed at the bridge rushed to the ladders which reach down to the platform under the draw span, Ropes were thrown to Lozzi, anda he Was pulled wut by Policemen J. P. Comiskey. of the Fourth Precinct, and J. Hite, of the Traffic Bureau, and rushed to the hospital in the cab Which carried him from Union Sta- tion. Pursued From Detroit. At the hospital he told a story of how he had been pursued from ie- troit, Mich., where he had lately peen employed in-a large motor car com- Pany’s plant as an expert metal fin- isher. by members of two gangs of “eutthroats and murderers” which he said he had been unfortunate in get- ting mixed up in. ; He would not carry out some orders which were given him, he told the hospital attendants, and because ne Tefused, he was.told that he was to be “taken for a ride.” In order to escape this fate, he bought a ticket for Washington and boarded the fits! train out @f Detroit. On the train, he said, he found that he had not escaped them, for there were members of two gangs on the same train, evidently following him. At the first possible station he left this train and took another. Only to find that he was still being ‘followed. Hid in ——— Room. He hid in a drawing room of the train, he told the group of eager listeners who had gathered around _ the bed .where he lay shivering at Emergency, until he had arrived in “"Washington. Here, when he left the train he found one of the members of the gang blocking his path as he left the station. “I made .q break for the nearest cab,” he said, “and thought that if any one was to end my life, I would do.it myself and not let a yang member have the satisfaction.” “The $6 which he gave the cab dtiver was all the money he Wad. Before the driver left the hospital, where nurses and physicians were _fubbing his hands and feet in an effort to restore circulation, he asked the driver if he would give him the change due him. Tné fare from _ the station to the bridge was 95 cents, and he was giveh the correct “change. Later he was taken to rei sad Hospital, where he was booked investigation. f “Driver Killed in Debut As Professional Racér Houston, Tex., March 30 (A.P.)— Driving his first race as a profession- al, William H. Pyser, 32, Houston elec- . trical contractor, was. killed today when his car ran off the track at the way here and crashed into a pri- automobile — Oba .|to make John Q. Tilson Lists Major Accomplish- ments of Hoover. L (Associated Press.) ‘A charge that Democratic leaders had concealed facts. in discussing publicly the first year of President Hoover's admin tion was made yesterday by ntative Tilson, of Connecticut, the Republican leader. In a statement issued- through the Republican national committee, Rep- resentative Tilson said that “in the welter of discussion in which some of our Democratic friends have been in- dulging there has been such a con- tinuous concéalment of the facts as it a ‘that there has been a studied e at misrepresenta- tion.” Representative Tilson made the statement public shortly after leaving the White House yesterday, where he has been convalescing since last Tues- day, following « se¥ere attack of the grippe. “So that the situation may ‘be clari ”" the Republican leader said, “and record kept straight, I list here some of the high lights of the legislative proposals recommended by President Hoover and passed by the Congress.” . The list consisted of six items: The $160,000,000 tax reduction prograth: the $500,000,000 farm relief legisia- tion; the §230,000,000 public build- ings program; the §300,000,000 good roads legislation; the act setting up @ permanent Federal Radio Commis- G. OP P Léa 28 S trikes At Democrat Critics wr ~ ° JOHN Q. TILSON. sion, and the reapportionment meas- ure. “Most of these measures have their direct reflection upon business con- ditions, and more especially tax re- duction and the bulldings and roads bills,” Representative Tilson -sald. “These last two measures represent the Government's awn part of the very comprehensive program which President. Hoover so promptly and enepgetic set about after the stock matket crash last fall as a means of restoring confidence and alleviating unemployment in the country.” The bullding program would not only permit the Government to pro- ceed with housing iteelf throughout the country, Representative Tilson said, but would “furnish employment Continued on Page 5, Column 1. GRASH AND ARREST EMD WILD TAX! RDE Cab Driver Is Held on Four Charges; Stole Machine, Garage Declares. DRUNK, POLICE ASSERT Culminating what police termed & wild ride tn @ stolen taxicab whicb ended after the car crashed into a sandbank in its second seccident the day, James Murfay, 32 years old, a taxicab driver, of Massachusetts avenue near Fourth street northwest. was booked at the Seventh Precinct station at 6:30 o'clock last night on four charges. Observing the man staggering at Wisconsin avenue near W street northwest, Policeman P. Oo. Mangum arrested him on charges of intoxica- tion. In fast succession, three other charges were placed against him after calls began to come into the precinct station that a man resembling Mur- ray'’s description had abandoned a taxicab when it ran into a sandbank on Thirty-first street extended and W street northwest. On a call from the Eighth Precinct station, Murray was charged with joy- riding in a cab which the Glassman Garage, at 2121 Fourteenth street northwest, reported the man had taken after having checked in an- other cab which he had been driving for the City Cab Co. Bighth Precinct police telephoned charges of operating a car while drunk and leaving the ‘scene of a collision without making identity known after he was reported to have collided on New Hampshire avenue between U and V streets northwest with a car driven by Eli Van Meter, 65 years old, of Buc stre.* near Fourteenth street northwest. $640 Loss Reported tp Police. James F. Brown, a guest at a down- town hotel, last night reported the loss of a pocketbook containing $140 in cash and a certified check for over $500. He said the loss probably occurred while he was Sentecing | in one. of the public buildings. of | March, when he ¢scaped from WIFE OF JACK HART DIES: IN. BALTIMORE spouse of Notorious - Jail- Breaker Succumbs to Spifial Ailment. ONCE LIVED IN CAPITAL A famous character as the wife of Jack Hart, notorious breaker and fugitive from j since iast the Maryland Penitentiary whilé serving a life term for murder, Mrs. Kitty Hart, known also as Mrs. Kitty Kava- naugh, 35 years old, former resident of Washington, died yesterday after- noon at the Hospital for the Volun- teers of America at Baltimore, Death came after hours in which she had tightly clasped a locket con- taining @ picture of her husband and called his name constantly. Enter- ing the hospital Decemiber 15. she had been suffering from spinal trovu- bie and softening of the brain. She became delirious last Monday and for more than fifteen hours before her death the énd had been —— momentarily. Mrs. Hart made her home here at intervals for a lengthy peridd. She was residing here on March 15 last’ year in an apartment at Pennsylvania avenue and Twenty-second street norgh west, when Hart made his get- away in Baltimore. Washington po- lice made a thorough search of. the rooms and his other haunts here without locating the man, although belief prevailed that he was in hid- ing here. On the 5th day of this month Hart was arrested by police in San- Pranciseo, Calif., on charges of grand .| theft and was released on $250 bond. He had disappeared when that case was called in court there. Mrs; Hart came into the limelight through her steadfast dévotion and loyalty to Hart, who began serving a life term in 1922 for his complicity _Sontinese dn Fase & Cotenin. 6 ‘Declines to Appear as Exhibit for Benefit of French Diners. Nice, France, Ambassador Walter E. Edgé, arriv- ing here today in pursuance of his industrial inspection tour of south- eastern France, had a shock when he discovered a large restaurant was advertising the fact that the Ameri- can Ambassador would dine. there this evening apd selling tickets for 80 franc ($3.25) to those desirous of dining in company of an am- bassador. Mr. Edge, who is on a tour of com- mercial study, felt this .was carry- : @ little too far, and announced he would refuse to be put on exhibition at any price. Edge Balks at $3.25 Fee For Guests to See Him Eat ; March 30 (A.P.)>— HOOVERS VIEW ‘BLOSSOMS AT POTOMAG PARK Great Crowds Come to Tidal Basin to See Cherry Trees. 15,600: AUTOS PASS OVER | INLET BRIDGE | Publisher's Yacht Draws Interest of Throng at Hains Point. LINCOLN .MEMORIAL No Arrests Made by Park Police, Despite Big Traffic Flow. The President and Mrs. Hoover led the Nation in coming to see the cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin yesterday afternoon. They went for a drive »°ompanied by only one secret-service car, which led them through all the park system where great crowds were enjoying the warm spring alr. Despite. the statement made by members of the park police that the seers did not flock to Potomac Park and the Tidal Basin to see the cherry blossoms, Capt. Ray C. Montgomery, of the park police, announced that 15,600 cars passed over the Inlet Bridge between 10 o'clock yesterday morning and 6 o'clock last night. This was an actual count taken by one of the policemen who was #sta- tioned there. The mumber was less by 10,000 than the record for last year, which incidentally was the rec- ord for all time im the histary of the cherry blossoms. Bieoms Beginning to Open. The flowers yesterday were just be- ginning to open and a pink border formed by the buds made a colorful with its sky-biue water and the pic- turesque skeletons of the trees which have not yet put forth their leaves. Within a day or two the pink will have changed to snow white when the petals open fully, and the picture will | transport ome Wack to Japan, the original home of the trees. The weather man predicts warm weather for this week so that the cherry blossoms will experience favor- able conditions for developing beauti- fully. No rain is expected, allowing the blossoms to burst forth in full glory without danger of being beaten to shreds by showers which caused such havoc jast year. One of the points of interest along the park drive yesterday was the yacht belonging to Cyrus H. K. Cur- tis, Philadelphia and New York pub- lisher and owner of the Saturday Evening Post, which was anchored along the seawall near Hains Point. Hundreds of persons stopped their cars to get out and closer inspect the snow white boat. Crewds Around Memorial. Around Lincoln Memorial the crowds were greatest. Sightseeing buses ‘ere discharging tourists there all day long, and the interior of the memorial was packed to overflowing. At 4:30 o'clock, when the memorial was closed, buses and private cars were still arriving, only to be waved away by the guards. The tennis courts, golf , courses, baseball diamonds and bridal paths in all the parks were filled all dzy, and the Reflection Pool, between the }Lincoin Memorial and Washington Monument, was the ecene of some lively model yacht races, at one time there being almost 50 miniature boats under full sail. Photographers, professional and amateur, were out in force, and the Continued on Page 2, Column 7. Dry Agent Shoots Farmer to Death Deputy Sheriff Kills Man as He Attempts to Run in Liquor Raid. Richmond, Ky., March 30 (A.P.).— Ambrose Williams, 30 years old, a farmer, was shot and killed today when his home was raided by a party of oofficers who said they found a small quantity of whisky in his home. He was shot in the back as he fied, /by Deputy Sheriff Lloyd Lane. The shooting occurred at Owsley Fork, about 14 miles troͤm this central Kentucky county seat. Williams was shot once, Lane firing from a doorway in Williams" home when the latter ignored a command to surrender, the officers said. Williams’ wife and two children witnessed the He fell in hte yard and died before medi- cal assistance could be summoned. Other officers in the raiding part} included @ deputy United States marshal - DRAWS SIGHT-SEERS. anticipated record crowd of sight-/ WIrE DETAILS POLICE ACTIO N AUTO SL Mrs. Friedman Recounts “Horrible Experience” as Mate Is Freed. ELUDED DETECTIVES, FEARING DEATH RIDE Children Left Alone as Mother Was Locked in Detention House. PAIR DID NOT SHOW BADGES, IS CHARGE Domestig Drama in Wake of Hunt for Hit-Run Driver in Death of Doctor. Coming under the suspicious eye of the police is “one horrible experi- ence,” Mr. and Mrs. fenjamin Pried- man, of 814 Four-and-a-half street southwest, agreed last night after the Fourth Precinct police absolved Mr Priedman of all suspicion of any con- hit-and-run driver last Tuesday. tempted to take Friedman‘ in custody. | and how he eluded them thinking that they were going to take fh for “a ride” and the su featured th identity sole! House .of Detention drama of mistaken took place Saturday. Mrs. Friedman gave her version sl reported of The Post last night. Dentes Identities Disclosed. Saturday.” she said. “They asked —* husband t6 accompany them to th they were detectives but they dis- frame for the picture of the basin played Ho badge. They didn’t tell my husband what they wanted him for and they refused to tejl me. “They took my husband away with them. 1 saw him drive his car and the three men got into another ma- chine and followed him. I was wor- ried and I went with a neighbor to the Fourth Precinct station to in- quire concerning my husband, but he was not there. “I turned home bewlidered.” Mra Friedman continued. “I was thi ing that perhaps somethirg had hap- pened to my husband; that the men who had taken him away were not detectives. When I arrived home the same three men were waiting at the house. “As I approached they demanded ‘where is your husband,’ and I told them that I did not know, that they probably knew more about his where- abouts that I did as he had left with them. “They then took me away. I went Mta some big building, the House of Detention, I later learned. They were nice to me there, but they kept ask- ing me where my husband was and I said, ‘I wish to God I knew.’ Then I began to worry about my children. Dorothy is only 11 and Edith 9. They were at home alone. House. her,’ and they then let me go. Husband Returns Home. “I went home, but still was pr-- plexed. I was worried about Ben. He never was away so long in the ten years that we lived in Washington. Centinued on Page Auto Hurts Sister Of Boy Hit by Car Girl Is Injured Running Across Street 18 Hours After Brother Is Hurt. While her little brother lay serious- ly injured in the home of 619% I! street northeast, victim of an auto- mobile accident eighteen hours ear- lier, 5-year-old Audrey Perry was struck down by another car as she dashed across the street in front of the residence at 11 o'clock testerday morning. Like hér brother. she was treated at Casualty Hospital and removed to her home by her mother, Mrs. Elmer Perry. The child suffered severe in- juries to the left shoulder § and abrasions about the face when she was knocked down by a machine operated by James Chaconas, of Eighth street near H street north- east, according to Ninth Precinct police. Late Saturday afternoon, 3-year- old Curtis ‘Perry received severe la:- erations of the scalp along F street between Eighth and Ninth streets mortheast, when he was struck by al automobile operated by John Bowen, 23 years old, of Fourth street near A street northeast, a boxer, and member of the Washington fenally of “Pighting Bowens.” , Column 2. — nection with the death of Dr. Keene | R. Forston, of 1731 P street north- | Capt west, who was fatally injured by 4 mental flier, took off from Lind- The Fourth Precinct detectives at- | tion of his wife for three ome at pow | ' “Three men came to the house las* j | above NAVAL CONFERENCE’S COLLAPSE AT FRIDAY ‘SESSION NOW Ha wks Makes Tucson Landing in Transcontinental Flier Is Towed 400 Miles During Day. Tucson, Ariz.. March 30 (A-P.).— Captain Frank Hawks, trans-conti- nental flier, attempting a coast-to- coast glider flight. loose from his tow plane over Tucson tonight and landed safely in the dark at 7:26 o'clock Automobile lighta marked the airport for him. He traveled 400 miles in the glider today. The flight started at 7:45 a.m. at San Diego. Phoenix, Ariz. March 30 (A-P.).— Capt. Frank Hawks, attempting «a transcontinental glider flight in tow of an airplane, landed here at 2:10 p. m. (M. 8. T.) today, completing the second leg of his flight. Phoenix was not on the list of stops acheduled for the flight, but Hawks decided not to make the compara- tively long hop from Yuma to Tucson. San Diego, Calif. March 30 (AP.).| With New York his -ultimate goal Prank Hawks, noted transcon- | cut bergh Field here at 7:45 a. m. today! Glider Hop CAPT. FRANK M. HAWKS. on & proposed coast-to-coast glider- towing flight. Hawks piloted a cabin giider. It was towed by a single- Continued on Page 10, Column 1. ‘1B TRAPPED IN MINE ARE DEAD 16 BELIEF her experience with the police to ® Gases Dishearten Rescuers France and Britain Must End Fighting to Reach Blast Vietims. }Pourth Precinct station. They mit “BRATTICE” ONLY HOPE KELLOGG PACT 's BASIS Kettle Island, Ky.. March 30 (A.P.) Although fearful that they fought for dead nftn, rescue squads worked NEW KIND OF TREATY SUUGHT BY oT IMOON Difficulty, However, for Its Success. — — — By ALBERT W. FOX. A new form of political treaty, bind- ing America to cooperate “by peaceful ceaselessly today’ in their search through the dark reaches of the Pioneer Coal Co. mine here for six- | teen miners entombed by an explos- ion yesterday. Fifteen hours of arduous and dangerous effort had brought them | lean delegation at London. to within a thousand feet of the | spot where they believe the trapped men would be found. Hope that the | sixteen, all but one of whom ieft families outside, would be discovered | alive. had lessened steadily as the | rescuers penetrated deeper into the | corridors of the mine, and found with every foot of the advance that the | alr became fouler and more danger- | ous. ' John Daniel, Kentucky State mine | inspector, directed the’squads. Under | him was what experts at the mine | called the finest assembly of skilled reacue men ever gathered for rescue efforts in this section. The mine, which goes back for miles into the interior of the great mountain that overshadows this camp. is all there is to Kettle Island, and any disaster that threatens death | to sixteen of the few hundreds vho | “I sat in a room in this Detention | It seem like I was there years | when my neighbor came with a iaw- | yer friend and the lawyer told the) plosion authorities, ‘you've no right to hoid live here strikes at every person in| the community. | No sooner had news of the ex- spread than groups of miners | gathered near the entrance yesterday afternoon. Soon they were joined | by another group. the families of the | entombed. Only one of the sixteen | was without a family, and he was a’ boy of 17. Several of them noel foremen, Continued on Paze 10, Column 1. | | program is dependent upon the abil- ‘has assigned Ambassador Morrow and | pean powers would be acting in con- means” in making the Kellogg pact more effective and incidentally strengthening Article XVI of the Cove. 1t of the League of Nations, ils now under consideration by the Amer- The role \assigned to the United States in this | ity of Great Britein and France to “agree upon a security plan which will be exchanged for a lowering of the Prench figures of naval tonnage Secretary Stimson, who has always been partial to the league covenant, Senator Robinson, both league ad- | herents, to the preliminary task of | discussing « formula whereby the! United States might conceivably ally itself with Europe in a program of peace based on the Kellogg pact and on the covenant. America would, of course, claim to be acting solely in conformity with the spirit of the Kel- logg antiwar treaty, while the Euro- formity with the covenant of the league. The two paragraphs of Article XVI which M. Briand already has brought to the notice of the the follow:ng: “It shall be the duty of the council | im such case (resort to war) to ve conference are | Ommend to the saeveral governments concerned what effective military, na- | val or air force the members of the | » 7s Continued on Page Column 1. U. S. Report Spikes Charge Of Juvenile Crime Wave Decrease in Offenses of 17-20 Year Old Boys Cited by | Children’s Bureau Following Study of Chicago Conditions. (Associated Press.) The United States Children's Bu- feau yesterday produced figures to dispute statements that there was a crime wave among youths. | In a report based upon a study of crime among boys between 17 and 20) in Chicago, the bureau said offenses | there by youths of those ages were decreasing both numerically and in ratio comparsions. Census Bureay figures of the coun- try at large also were quoted as show- ing the number of 18-to-20-year-old males sent to pena] institutions as decreasing 11.7 per cent in the thir- teen years following 1910, which in- cluded the World War period. 7 More detailed investigations will be made in the decennial census, the Children’s Bureau said. — Chicago was taken as the sample for the youth and crime study be- cause it was the pioneer city in pro- viding a separate court for youths). bove juvenile court age and below we | ' | i ) the age of majority. Records dating | back to 1915 were available to Doro- | thy Williams Burke, who made the | | study under supervision of Miss Kath- | arine F. Lenroot, assistant to chief of the Children’s Bureau. ! Though frank in its criticism of cer- | tain phases of handling youthful crime in Chicago, the Children’s Bu- reau report commended the principle established with its boys’ court. Commenting that all but two States have juvenile courts for chil- dren under 16, the report added that “the feeling is developing that treat- ment different from the usual] crim- inal ings sould be extended —* et people of the next age The following. summary was made of 972 cases selected for study, by sampling at set intervals the general * court: run of the Viola of liquor laws consti- tuted 1.1 per cent of the Auto sax the | with all its breaking possib ities lumped together ‘Continued on Page 5, Column 2. | secretary FEARED Plenary Meeting, Unless Canceled, Expected to Be Last. BRITISH AND FRENCH EXPERTS DEADLOCKED Empire Prepares Public Opinion for Inevitable With Statement. M’DONALD CONFERS WITH ITALY’ . ENVOY Repeats Parleys “Carried On With France Hold No Threat to Rome. Ry JOHN L. BALDERSTON. London, March 30 (N.Y.WNHS.j)— Friday's plenary session of the Lon- don Naval Conference, unless can- celed, will witness, it now seems prob- able. collapse of the efforts of the world’s five greatest naval powers to negotiate here a treaty limiting their fleets. There are unmistakable indications tonight that the British and French experts are finding it impossible to evolve a formula that will give Prance sécurity sufficient to persuade Prime Minister Andre Tardieu t re- duce the French fleet without, in the British view, involving Great Britain in fresh military commit- ments. The British official spokesman, preparing public opinion for the in- evitable, sald this afternoon: “Great Britain is anxious and will- ing to do everything she can for peace, and for improving the machin- ery for keeping the peace and thus giving security against war. But any further military lpents are absolutely impossiul , Patangling Alliardes Forrece®, — “Por Great Britain to attempt any more of these would be tantamount to tying her down to engage in miti- tary operations without being able to control the situation from which they have arisen. No British govern- ment could undertake such commit- ments. It would be contrary to the feeling of the whole British people.” After the British and French polit- ical experte had presented each other with rival formulae Gaturday, Poreign Minister Aristide Briand dis- cussed the deadiock at lunch with Poreign Secretary Arthur Henderson. Mr. Henderson is understood te have proposed an act of international arbitration and discussed the pos- sibility of Great Britain's undertak- ing preventive sanctions against en aggressor under article eleven of the League of Nations’ covenant, through refusing to amplify article sixteen pro- viding for actual warfare at the behest of the council of the league. MacDonald to Go No Further. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, however, who is stiffer than the for- eign office on these points, appears to have declined to support or at any rate to go further than the. foreign in meking proposals that * would satisfy the French. At Chequers today Mr. MacDonald explained Pranco-British negotiations > ito Dino Grandi, Italian foreign min- ‘Queen Attends Church. In Limehouse District London, March 30 | 30 (A.P.).—Queen Mary went into the heart of London's most of the others were| league shall severally contribute to | 9°°*-!and, down by Limehouse, yes- terday, attending the dedication of a _hew church by the Bishop of Chelms- | ford. Her visit was a curpriee to all but a few, but within an hour after it was known she was coming the whole of the drab area was given a féstive air by hastily placed flags and decora- tions. The queen entered the church through an honor guard of boys drawn up in two ranks. Behind the youngsters were hundreds of — traders who had left their Saturday afternoon stalls and and pushcarts to greet her majesty. NEWS of SUBURBAN Washington and the