The Washington Post
April 26, 1930

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- a The Washington Post ts the only Washington newspaper publishing . the reports of The Associated Press home delivery —ñ⸗ ashington Post. ‘Weather — Partly cloudy and continued cool today; tomorrow increasing cloudiness, fololwed by rain, Temperature — High- est, 55; lowest, 38. Details on page 10. Wil f 1, y DRM "NO. 19,672. ENTERED AS POSTOFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C. MATTER, WASHINGTON: SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1930. COPYRIGHT, 1930, — BY THE WASHINGTON POST CO. THREE CENTS, BAKER MURDER eae ⸗ x on Page 3, Columns, | HUNT VEERS TO COUNTY TOWN Rendezvous of Thieves Combed for Slayer of Capital Girl. ROBBERY ACCEPTED AS CAUSE OF ATTACK All Other Leads Thought False After Long Investigation. PROMINENT OFFICER — RECONSTRUCTS CASE Movements of Assailant and _ Victim on Fatal Night : Traced in Detail. Mary L's killer is being sought $m Queen City, Va., commonly known as “Hell’s Bottom,” a rendezvous for the colored element of the under- world. Concentration of the hunt in the @mall settlement of Negroes in Arling- ton County followed acceptance of the theory that the girl was killed by a thief who used “Hell’s Bottom” . as aw hidedut, and who pilfered arti- cles from automobiles in the vicinity of the Ellipse. One prominent of- . ficial in the murder investigation last night said that he had adopted the thief theory as the most plausible and is confident that the perpetrator of the crime will be apprehended by . its development. When this theory was advanced several] of the investigators were in the midst of an attempt to, pin the crime*on an acquaintance of the: girl. Since All previously under suspicion have been vindicated, police have turned to the belief that a looter of parked cars is the man who com- mitted the murder. ih Shelby Fayors Theory, | Inspector Williamt S. Shelby, when ‘questioned’ regarding the theory . - STERLING MORAN, WARNING ON CENSUS 5 ISOUED BY ROVER U. S. Attorney Quotes Law Penalty Provided for Recalcitrants. REPEATED CALLS MADE Irked at the indifference, lack of cooperation and general laxity of many Washingtonians toward census enumerators in their work, now three- fourths completed, Census Directar Willlam M. Steuart and J. Sterling Moran, District supervisor, yesterday asked United States Attorney-Leo A. Rover to issue a warning of penal- ties that face” census law violators. Form letters, signed by Mr. Rover, were sent last night to between 300 and 400 residents, calling attention to the law which provides penalties of $100 fine or 60 days dn jail, or both,.“for any person who shall re- fuse of willfully neglect to answer the cénsus inquiries, or wfo shall willfully give answers that are false.” Form letters, signed also by the district attorney, were mailed to be- tween 35 and 40 persons Msted as owner, proprietor, manager, superin- tendent or agent of hotels, apartment houses, boarding or lodging houses, who have refused to fyrnish names of occupants of the structures, ac- cording to the announcement. At- tention was called to the law pro- viding a fine of not exceeding $500 for violation of this section. “In many instances enumerators have made as many as 20 trips to one .apartment. or house to obtain information, amd repeatedly have left blanks to be filled out, but resi- dents have balked all attempts,” de- clared Mr. Moran. “Managers or owners of various apartment houses have been derelict toward us, and in various boarding and lodging houses they were refused the names of oc- cupants and told to try to get into rooms to question occupants. Some- thing had to be done to round up many of these laggards by the ciose of the enumeration period on May 1.” Trio Burned to Death 2 In Oil Still Explosion Port Arthur, Tex., April 25 (A.P.).— Three unidertified men were burned to death in a still explosion at the Texas Co. refinery here this after- noon. ARMORED AUTO. SCATTERS MOB AT PESHAWAR Troops Jeered by Natives Before Machine Gun and Car Arrive. REBELS EXAGGERATE CASUALTIES IN RIOT Long Row of Coffins Is Found to Contain “Live Corpses.” GANDHI DESCRIBES REVOLT PROGRESS Leader Declares Object Not Immediate Independence, but Remedy of Evils. '.» London, April 26 (Saturday), (A.P.). Dispatches from Lahore, India, to the Daily Mail this morning reported that fresh disorders had broken out on Friday at Peshawar, turbulent capital of the northwest frontier province. A mob paraded the streets shouting revolutionary cries and taunting the troops on guard. A British officer, facing the ringleaders with drawn re- volver, vainly tried to persuade them to disperse their followers. An armored car was sent for and when it arrived and a machine gun was trained on the mob the Indians scattered. The Daily Mail correspondent said that Indian agitators arrested in con- nection with the riot on Wednesday were being tried secretly and held un- der strong guard in @ fort. “Live Corpses” Exposed, An attempt was apparently made to hoodwink British officials seeking to ascertain the number of persons killed on Wednesday, according to the correspondent, who said exaggerated figures had been submitted! by . the natives ahd that a long row of coffins alleged to contain the corpsés of riot- ers had been put on display. The “corpses,” when examined, proved to be very much alive. The arrival of two companies © British infantry and two machine gun sections has created a feeling of security among the Europeans in Peshawar. Signallers on the city walls are constantly on the alert and maintain communications with headquarters. Sir Horatio Bolton, chief British commissioner, withdrev’ the troops from the city streets aftér a con- ference with the leading citizens of Peshawar, but kept strong guards posted at the gates. Mob Injures Sixteen Police. Calcutta, April 25 (A.P.).—A re- port received today sajd that sixteen policemen were injured last night at Neela, where salt was being manu- factured, when a crowd of 2,000 per- Fahy Is Hurt in Plane Crash; Wife Escapes Pegs. * Operation May Follow in Effort to Save Flier’s Life. Grayling, Mich., April 25 (A.P.).— Herbert J. Fahy, holder of the solo endurance flight record, was critically injured late today when the airplane he was piloting turned over on the estate of Cliff Durant, near Roscom- mon, Mich. ’ His wife, a prominent West Coast aviatrix, was riding in the cabin, & Herbert 4. Fahy and Mrs. Fahy, who figured in a plane crash yesterday in Michigan. The Capital filer was seriously hurt, while his wife es- caped injury. separated by a compartment from her husband, and escaped injury. Mr. Fahy suffered a fractured skull and other injuries and an operation may be performed in an effort to save his life. Mr. Fahy is a salesman for the Detroit Aircraft Corporation. He left‘ Continued on Page 3, Column 5. 100.000 HAIL QUEEN IN BLOSSOM PARADE Chill Weather Fails to Man Colorful Event at’ Winchester. PAGEANT IS APPLAUDED (Picture on Page Five.) Special to The Washington Post. Winchester, Va., April 25.—Richly robed in silks and laces befitting a reigning monarch, Miss Suzanne Pol- lard, daughter of Gov. John Garland Pollard of * rginia, rose in state to- day as “Queen Shenandoah VIR” at the head of a triumphal parade cli- mexing the seventh annual Shenan- doah Apple Blossom Festival. She was acclaimed by the largest gather- ing of people éver seen in the festival city. State and local police estimated the crowd close to 100,000. Continued cold weather rendered it necessary for thg queen to wéar over her coronation gown a gorgeous white robe trimmed with ermine. Her sons pelted them with stones. Theé¢crown was of ‘platinum studded with police fired on them with buckshot and injured three persons, who were sent to the hospital. Later another demonstrator was found dead on the ground where the disturbance oc- curred. — Bombay, April 25 (A.P.)-——-The at- mosphere of India continued ominous today. with evacuation of all Euro- pean women and children from Pesha- war miost serious feature of the situ- ation. Peshawar lies for up on the north- estern frontier, commanding the en- trance to the famous Khyber Pass. The hills around it are the home of the most dangerous Indian tribes, chief;among them being the Afridis and Mohmands, who are born fighting men. They are well armed and are a Continued on Page 3, Column 4. Byrd’s Dog Teams Keturn, . Leaving Self-Exiled King SIX PAGES: OF SPORTS Beginning tomorrow the sporting section of the Sun- day Post will consist of six full pages. Among other improved features of unusual interest will be the complete Major Léague averages in- cluding the figures from to- day's games . . . The sports enthusiast will find the most complete, timely and accu- rate reports of all sporting events most capably covered - daily and Sunday editions | THE WASHINGTON : POST Master Mourns Chinook, Who Vanished in Snow As Power Fell. - New York, April 25 (A.P.).—Arthur T. Walden, veteran of a thousand snowy trails, who went down to Ant- arctica as chief dog driver of the Byrd expedition, came home on the ice-scarred whaler C. A. Larsen today. Sixtyseight dogs came back with him —heroes, their job well done. But Chinook, their undisputed king when they sailed from Norfolk a year and a half ago—Chinook, who always slept at the foot of his master’s bed-— was not among them, and Chinook’s master will never return to Antarc- tica Standing on the top deck of the whaler, his handsome, shaggy charges about him, the wiry little gray-haired Walden, who was driving dog teams in Alaska before the gold rush of 98, paid his tribute to Chi- nook. As he finished he turned away and his keen blue eyes—<eo intensely blue diamonds. She carried the _ royal golden. scepter. The quee®n’s. float, largest in the long linc, was made to represent an immense sea shell, and was decorated with silver and white to represent waves of the sea. Sitting immediately in front of her majesty and on either side were her maids of honor, Misses Louise Baker Glass and Mary Virginia Steck, in white silk gowns. with arm bouquets of apple blossoms. Farther below were half a dozen children, dressed as pages and jesters. One dressed as a .airy held the golden apple. ‘a The queen's special escort were the Veterans of Foreign Wars Band, drum and bugle corps, of Washingtor, D. C. Following the royal float were two containing half a hundred prin- cesses from Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and District of Columbia, occupying seats built in’ tiers. The floats of white were trimmed in green and supported by | | DIATE TAKES OVER OMITH CO, OFFICES Accounts as Check-Up ls Started. $250,000 IN BONDS HELD New York, April 25 (A.P.).—Rich- ard J. Cornell, deputy assistant at- torney general in charge of the State's investigation of the F. H. Smith Co., investment bankers, accysed of using the mails to defraud, said today a check-up of the company’s records and assets here probably would take several days. Mr. Cornell) took over the com- pany’s office flere yesterday for the receivers and/also obtained from the court orderg of attachment tying up the bank accounts of the firm in the Bank of America’s branch at Fortieth street and Madison avenue, and in the Harriman National Bank. A safe deposit box and a $250,000 deposit of bonds also were seized. Action against the company began in Buffalo several months ago when the State asked for a receivership against the Fairfax Apartment Cor- poration, a subsidiary. The case goes to trial in that city next Tuesday. A permanent injunction against the company, restraining it and its officers and employes from further Sales of the $1,550,000 issue of 6%, per cent: first and refunding bonds secured by the Fairfax Apartment Hotel, of Buffalo, was granted April 7 by Supreme Court Justice Samuel! J. Harris, of Erie County, and sub- sequently George D. Crofts, Stanley A. Falk and Charles Hickey, of Buffalo, were named receivers. Mr. Crofts and Mr. Falk appeared at the Bureau of Securities with the request that they be assisted in tak- ing over the books and assets. They were accompanied to the comy uny's offices by Deputy Attorney Genera] William Millholland, Richard Cor- nell, accountant, and Sergt. Rotch- ford, of the State police. Action taken yesterday against the FP. H. Smith Co? is another major Continued on Page 5, Column 3. Continued on Page 3, Column 7. Will Hoover Sign Tariff Bill? article presenting the historical tions on tariff measures. will affix his signature to the cost of living.”’ “Incorporated in Delaware" business world. by the little State every year. nerstone,” by H.‘O,. Bishop. Continued on Page 3, Column.2 | TRL Ba David Rankin Barbee has written for The Post tomorrow an It is particularly timely in view of present-day speculation as to whether or not President Hoover . soon will be placed on the White House desk. A few years ago and even today one hears about the “high What about the “high cost of living” in terms of averages and index numbers? the Sunday Post on the “high cost of living.” Between 6,000 and 7,000 charters are issued published in The Post tomorrow answers the question. “Are We Committing Race Suicide?” is the title of a mag- azine article in which it is made startlingly clear that Wash- ington is facing a real threat of the cendition warned against by Theodore Roosevelt 25 years ago. Other tabloid magazine features are “Virginia's Historic Garden Week,” by Barbara Trigg Brown; “The Tragedy of New Year's Day,” by John J. Daly and “Laying a Nation's Cor- background of presidential ac- Hawley-Smoot tariff bill which Read A. H. Utm's article in has become a by-word in the Why is this? A story to be ‘Court Orders Tie Up Bank HOUSE IN FIGHT Ao WATERWAYS BILE To PAQOED Charges of Trickery Fly in Midst of Rivers and Harbors Debate. HOOVER DISAPPROVAL EXPECTED BY MANY $111,000,000, Twice That of Budget Estimate, Would Be Spent. U. S. TO TAKE OVER ERIE CANAL BY ACT Assaults on Provision Fail, but Retirement Clause ls Defeated. (Associated Press.) A $111,000,000 river and flarbor im- provement program was approved by the House yesterday in a wild, dramatic session that bristled with charges of deception, bribery and pork barrel legislation. Even while the House was passing the bulky measure, the expectation gained credence that President Hoo- ver would not approve appropriations of more than the $55,000,000 fixed by the budget bureau for such expendi- tures in the fiscal year 1931. The projects in the measure are expected to be considered in three classes, as necessary and urgent, as necessary, but not urgent, and as projects which in time will become necessary. A study is being made to place them definitely in these three Classifications, but it became known that the Erie Canal project was con- sidered as belonging in the third class. Passage Comes Late in Day. Pinal passage of the omnibus bill, carrying authorization for about 154 projects and 346 c-irveys, came late in the day after supporters of the méas- ure had turned back repeated assaults against its provisions, including that authorizing the Federal Government to take over the Erie-Oswego barge canal from New York State. Heralded for days as the major point of controversy in the entire bill, this provision was retained by a vote of 148 to 59 in the face of a bitter onslaught by a determined group of mémbers from Northwest States. Pleading for support in their effort to strike out the provision, the North- westerners branded the entire bill as “a pork barrel,” and charged Chair- man Dempsey, of the Hc se rivers and harbors committee with “deception” for not providing more information concerning the demands likely to be made in the future for deylopment of the barge canal. Clause Killed. This controversy had hardly sub- sided when Representative LaGuardia (Republican), New York, shouted an accusation of “bribery” in opening a successful fight for elimination of a provision t permit the assistant chief of_Army engineers to retire as a Major general. Brig. Gen. Herbert Deakyne holds this post and passes on all] river and harbor recommendations. Mr. LaGuardia insisted such a pro- vision did not belong in the bill, that Retirement shook his fist toward Chairman Dempsey and shouted: “That's not legislation. That's bribery.” Mr. Dempsey defended vision with an explanation that it was intended to reward faithful and Continued on Page 3, Column 5. the rivers and harbors committee was | exceeding its authority, and finally | the pro-| DRY BILL FOE — eo ae . : * —— * a — ae a MRS. FREDERICK H. BROOKE. UOVER NOT 10 MIX IN WET CAMPAIGN President to Stay Aloof in Case of G. 0. P.’s Favor- ing Modification. ‘MORROW STAND IS CITED By CARLISLE BARGERON. President Hoover will not inter- vene in the instances of Republicans running on a wet ticket this fall. He is not encouraging any of them to do so, neither is he discouraging them. It is a matter entirely with- in their own politieg] conscience. This is rather contrary to the pre- vailing view. Im political circles Mr. Hoover haé Been secepted as a very dry President, and, consequently, it has been looked upon as an incon- gruity when a Republican announces as a wet. It has been said that this is the reason Secretary of Labor Davis does not announce as a wet in his Pennsylvania campaign for the Re- publican senatorial nomination. It would seem incongruous, polit- ical observers have pointed out, for a member of Mr. Hoover's dry regime to espouse the wet cause. Of course, Mr. Davis’ situation is rather an ex- treme one, but there is reason to be- lieve that he has never received any intimation from Mr. Hoover that it would be embarrassing if he were to announce as a wet, and that, after all, the motivating influence in Mr Davis’ hesitation is more his inde- cision as to whether it would be the best political move than any serious fear that Mr. Hoover would not like it. A more pointed case is the can- didacy of Ambassador Morrow for the senatorship from New Jersey. Many observers at the first assumed that Mr. Morrow would run as a dry because being close to the adminis- tration he could not afford to do anything else. It so happens that Mr Morrow intends to run as noth- ing of the kind. His manager said se veral days ago that Mr. Morrow |} would run as a modificationist. Ab- 'surd, chorused the political observ- ers. One that clicse to Mr. Hoover's administration could not run as a | wet. However, Mr. Morrow intends to run exactly as such and it is doubt- ful. extremely so, that the mat*er |will ever be a subject of discussion between him and Mr. Hoover. There is the case of former Sena- tor Butler, of Massachusetts. He re- | Continued on Page 2, Column 2. Drinking Reports on House Members Hidden at Quiz ‘Senate Lobby Quiz Ends | as Data Is Excluded From Record. (Associated Press.) Concluding a seven-day examina- tion of Henry H. Curran, president of the Association Against the Prohibi- tion Amendment, the Senate lobby committee announced yesterday that it would not inquire into confidential] reports of the organization, which dis- cuss the attitude of certain members of the House of Representatives to- ward prohibition. made the announcement, reports were “so remotely not go into the record. The reports were made by Carter Field, employed to make political sur- veys and recommend for or against support of candidates by the associa- tion. One of hy reports, previously Continued op Bage 2% Column & — | VIRGINIA’S GARDENS The famous gardens of the Old Dominion will be thrown open to the public during the week from April 27 to May 3, inclusive, and an interesting resume of the high points of romance and history associated with them will be presented in an ex- clusive article by Barbara Trigg Brown. This story will be published, with many others of diversified appeal, in tomorrow’s issue of the Sunday Post— TABLOID MAGAZINE OWELL’S BILL © TO DRY UP CITY © IS UNDER FIRE © Throng Crowds Office of Senate Committee to Score Measure. WOMEN IN MAJORITY AT UNUSUAL HEARING Legislators Are Told They Ought to Make Tour of Speak-Easies. DRASTIC PROVISIONS POINTED OUT BY FOES Antisaloon League Adher- ents Lead Fight to Place Act on Books. For the first time since the city went dry, the opponents of prohibi- tion got together and spoke out yes- terday. Crowding the office of the Senate District committee, they de- nounced the Howell bill to place a drastic enforcement act on the local statute books, and when they had concluded there was every evidence that the bill was dead. No more unusual gathering was ever seen at a Capitol hearing. Wom- en were in the majority, women whose names stand out prominently in the social register. They outnumbered the men in the room four to one. There were grandmothers, matrons and debutantes, all pledged to a war on prohibition. The witnesses were Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke and Miss Elizabeth C. Har- ris, representing the Woman's Orgal- ization for National Prohibition He- form; Lee P. Warren, attorney for the Crusaders; Capt. William H. Stayton, of the Association Against the Prohi- bition Amepdment; Dr. H. C. Mac Atee, of the District Medical Society; Rufus 8. Lusk, of the Operative Bulld- — ers Association, and John R. O'Neil, who eald he represented himself and his ten children. Tour of Speakeasies Urged. Mr. Warren, attorney for the Crusaders, told the senators present that they\owed it to the people to make a personal tour of the speak- easies in Washington, and he then proceeded to lambast three of the provisions in fhe Howell bill. Under these provisions, « police- man could obtain a warrant to search a private home that had been visited by a bootlegger; a parent could be punished for giving a drink to & minor son or daughter, and physi- cians could be debarred from practice for violating the liquor prescription regulations twice. Commenting on the provision aim- ed atthe physicians, Mr. Warren wanted to know if there was any- body in the room who would not violate the law by giving a drink ‘o a loved one if the latter might be helped by it. ‘df there is,” he aid, “I wish they would stand up.” Four Leap to Feet. Four men promptly jumped to their feet, one of them shouting that he wished his photograph might be taken at that moment. The four were Dr. Andrew Wilson, president of the local ~hapter of the Antisaloon League; E. B. Dunford, general counsel of the Antisaloon League; Albert E. Shoemaker, another Antisaloon League lawyer, and Albers Stabler, an elder of the Friends Meet- ing House, the Quaker church on I street, which President Hoover at- tends. Mr. Stabier, a venerable citizen with a white Van Dyke beard, evidently thought that Mr. Warren was talking about giving a drink to minors. “If I ever give liquor to my chfl- dren,” he told # repo.ter, “you may hang me. Put that down.” Others Remain Seated: Seeing that all the others remained seated, thus indicating that they NEWS of SUBURBAN Washington and the Surrounding States J — — —— ———— SO ASE oho — ——429