The Washington Post
July 6, 1930

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NO. 19,743, Semeast Seca “— WA SHINGTON SUNDAY, JULY 6. 1930. COPYRIGHT. 1930. BY THE ee POST, co. | FIVE | es eewets ENTS. HECTIC SESSION DF CONGRESS I MOTO DISTRICT Capital Profits by Acts of - Seventy-first Assémbly; Workers Benefit. / RAISES DISTRIBUTED AMONG U.S. EMPLOYES Police, Fire Department Men Also Win Higher Scale of Salaries. STARTS ARE PROVIDED ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS Jackson, O’Brine Plan New Attempt tq Win Endurance Honors. Major Projects Affected by Second Deficiency Bill Will Cost $30,000,000. By EDWARD T. FOLLIARD. Hectic_though it was from a local standpoint, the first session of the Seventy-first Congress was a fruitful one for the District of Columbia. Chicago, July 5 (N.Y.W.NS.).—‘“Get it while the getting is good,” is the slogan of the flying Hunters. Less than 24 hours after John and Ken- neth brought their endurance plane to earth the family appeared on the vaudeville stage. The engagement, at the Palace Theater, is for a week and other engagements are under Legislation was enacted that shouid | Comsideration. Hunters Out to Cash On Record Air Jaunt Associated Press Photo. Dale. Jackson (left) and Forrest O’Brine have announced they will take off soon on an attempt to re- gain the endurance flight record taken from them by the Hunter brothers in Chicago. Dale Jackson and Forrest O’Brine, previous holders of the endurance flight record, are prepared to take off at the first favorable opportunity in an attempt to regain the honor. Their previous record was established at St. Louis. ' The money in sight at present for the Hunter family is about $27,500, Continued on Page 8, Column 4. give the city a big shove forward in the coming fiscal year. There was legislation to enhance its wealth, leg- islation to improve its looks, and leg- islation to guard its health and add to its happiness. Under the heading of wealth come two types of bills; Those that directly increase city’s income, and those that indirectly increase it by provid- ing. building projects and, conée- quently, jobs. The Brookhart-Lehibach bill dis- tributes about. $1,000,000 in raises among Federal and District workers here. OLX BALLOONS DOWN; NINE REMAIN ALOFT == Contestants Left in Race Soar Over . Arkansas and Oklahoma. More Money for Police. The Capper-Zihlman act puts about $600,000 a year additional into the pay envelopes of policemien and fire- men, The Dale-Lehibach retirement act increases the annuities of thousands of retired Federal. aud District em- ployes. 4 The building projects-that were au-: thorized. pWarious, acts call for the expendi of millions of dollars by the Federal and District governments. Early in thé session, Congress enacted the Keyes-Elliot{ bill authorizing an additional $115,000,000 for the Fed- eral building program here. . The second deficiency bill, which Mike the disputed District appropria- tion. bill, was passed in .the closing hours of the session, provides for a start on a half dozen major projects, that ultimately will cost more then. $30,000,000. Postoffice Addition Voted. These include a new Postoffice Department Bullding, a new Depart- ment of Justice Building, a new De- partment’ of Labor Building, a new Interstate Conimerce’ Commission Building, a new Public Health Service Building, and @ remodeled State, War and Navy Building. . Other projects authorized in vari- ous acts include a $4,000,000 addition to. the city postoffice, a $6,500,000 addition to the Library of Opngress, and a $6,000,000 addition to the Natural History Building of the National Museum. David Lynn, architect of the Capi- tol, was authorized to spend the fol- loWing amounts: For extending the Capitol Grounds to Union Station Plaza, $4,763,893; for a new ~ House Office Building annex, $2,347,654; for a new Supreme Court Building, $1,- 500,000; for relocating and improving and enlarging the Botanic Garden, $1,309,000; for improving the approach to the Senate Office Building, $500,- Market Project Planned. HILLS SCOURED FOR ONE Texarkana, Ark., July 5 (A.P.).— Six balloons, bringing up the tail end of ® procession of fifteen bags which swept over and near Texarkana various places in Arkansas and Okla- homa, still in the eir tonight. © “The bdalloofts’ down were the Detroit Aircraft .Corporation ‘entry, which made a forced landing on the L. C. Adams Plantation, 15 miles northeast of here near Homan, at 1:40 p. m.; the Aero Digest, of New York, and the Navy No. 10, which were un- eble to hop a mountain ridge, near‘ Daisy, Ark., 50 miles to the north- east, coming down safely within half & mile of each other at about 5 p. m., the Kelvinator, of Detroit, which descended three miles west of Hora- tio at 5:45 p. m.,. Army balloon No. 3, of Scott Field, Mll., which landed at 7:30 p. m.> The sixth bal- loon was down. at Egger in Polk County, 1,160 miles west of Little Rock. Farmers were searching the foot- hills 8.or 10 miles north. of- Daisy tonight for the Navy balloon No. 1, which the other aeronauts believed had landed in the timber. It was flying very low when they last sighted it, they said. Houston, Tex., July 5 (A.P.).—Lieut. W. R. Turnbullis Army entrant in the national balloon race came down “somewhere near Bogata, Texas,” at about 4 p. m., the race committee was advised by wire at 10:45 o'clock to- night. Lieut. C. M. Brown was the aid. ‘They must have been way out of town, to report so late,” the com, mittee said. Bogata is 60 miles west of Texarkana. Little. Rock, Ark., July 5 (A.P.).— Army balloon No. 3, of Scott Field, Ill., landed 4 miles east of Danville, Ark., at 7:30 tonight. Pilot W. D. |} Bule and his aid, Lieut. J. P. Kidwell, ‘The 1931 District appropriation bill provides for a number of building Continued on Page 3, Column 3. GANG WAR FLAREUPS TE LES OF FOUR Bootlegger and Investigator Are Killed Near Detroit Just Before Court. TWO DIE AT CLEVELAND Detroit, July 5 A.P.).—The second gangster assassination in 36 hours to- day sent a Hamtramck prohibition investigator: and: an alleged hootleg- : ger.to their deaths, bringing the totel number of gun. victims here, this week to four. : _ The investigator, Barney Roth, was shot down in the kitefien of his home by one of two men who én- tered at. breakfast time. The other man shot was Johnny Mietz, -who was to have been arraigned in Federal court today on a beer making charge. Mietz had been sitting on -Roth’s front porch waiting for the latter to go to court with him. After an inquiry,-Charles T. Wine- gar, commissioner of public safety, said that he believes Roth was killed because he “promised protection he could not deliver.” Mietz, he said, apparently was a victim of his associ- ation with the investigator. Roth acted as an undercover man for Hamtramck and Federal officers, and was carried on the Hamtramck police payroll ag a patrolman. Mrs. Roth said one of the killers had been to see him previously to ask his as- sistance in some case. He had agreed to help Mietz, she said, accounting for the latter’s presence. Police still were trying to learn the identity of the gunman who shot William Cannon and George Collins to death Thursday night as they sat in an automobile in front of a down- town. hotel.. Cleveland, Ohio, July 5 (N.Y.W.N. S.)—Joe Porello, king of Cleveland’s illicit corn sugar industry, was shot to death here today as he stood drinking at a bar and Sam Tilocco, his bodyguard, who pursued the kill- ers into the street, was also mowed down. The bodies of both were rid- died with bullets. Two years ago Big Joe and John Lonardo, Porello’s rivals in the corn Continued on Page 4, Column 2. projects to. be financed by local tax- payers, including a $300,000 farmers produce market, a bridge over Klingle Valley, a subway under Fern street in Takoma Park, and .« number of school, street and sewer projects. ' In the meantime, work continues ‘on the Man in Oak Barrel Hurled Over Niagara to His Death Building, Building, Bridge, and other projects-that were started in previousyears. ~ The various building enterprises will do much to make the city the ~— soe Body of George Stathakis, Writer, Believed Crushed in Wreckage of Sturdy Craft in Which He Tried To Conquer Current of Horseshoe Cataract. architectural jewel which its founder hoped it would be. The Capper-Cramton park act also will help. This measure provides for a mighty park development program in and near Washington. The second deficiency bill made available $1,000,- 000 for a start on one of the projects in this program—the George Washing- ton Memorial Parkway. Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 5 (A.P.) — Niagara’s thundering horseshoe cata- ract ended another dream of fame and fortune today as it took the life of ‘George L. Stathakis, 46-year-old Buffalo chef, who attempted to ride through the maelstrom in a barrel of @ trace of the man’s body was found afterward. William’ (Red) Hill, veteran river man, engaged by Stathakis to haul {Rim out after the trip, gave up hope a ne : ‘of this sum will be spent on the —_——_— | Continued on Page 8, Column % | [3 falls. It bounded high, then was submerged by the heavy waves. As it neared the falls’ brink it just missed an old submarine chaser, a wreck Marooned on the rocks. A diverting current caught the bar- rel and carried it away from the marooned boat and it sped on toward the falls’ brink. It passed over the crest at a point that was very high and some believed it had hit a rock as it rose high in the air, faltered for an instant and then fell straight down. : “Stathakis’ barrel broke up,” Hill said, “I knew from the start he would never make it. The cask is caught back there in the rocks and surely ‘lis @ mass of ruins.” After Stathakis took the fatal plunge the “Maid of the Mist” made two trips up to the foot of the falls. Continued on Page 8, Column 3, “> ; ‘- ONE LYNCHED TAREE AUT IN| ALAA HOT Attempt of White Manto Collect Debt Ends in First. Slaying. HOME MOBBED, FIRED FOR SECOND DEATH Killer Meets Own Fate as Flames Destroy His Refuge Place. POSSEMEN CONTINUE HUNT THROUGH NIGHT Search for Four Fugitives Is Abandoned Only When Escape Is Assured. Emelle, Ala., July 5 (A.P.)—Con- vinced that t -r quarry had escaped, possemen late. today abandoned their search for four Negroes in connection with the slaying of two white men yesterday which resulted in the death of two Negroes, one of them being lynched. Possemen seeking the slayers of Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, white men, said this afternoon it was ap- parent the quartet had eluded them and escaped into Mississippi. Quiet Was restored here tonight. The Negroes slain were John Rob- ertson, shot down resisting a posse seeking to search his home, and Jacob Robertson, who was lynched hid a mob last night. Men Now Sought. The Negroes sought, Tom Robert- 60n and his-—sons, brothers of the lynching victim, Esau, Ollie and John, were sought throughout last night by between 200 and 300 armed men, after they had beaten up Clarence Boyd, nephew of Grover, who was slain as he sought to aid Grover. A coroner’s jury late today returned a verdict that the two Negroes came to their deaths at the “hands of party or parties unknown.” Officials had made no indication that an investi- | gation would be conducted. Jim Ayresy white, was suffering a cheek wound received in a battle with the Negroes last night, and Clarence Boyd, nephew of Grover, was Mjured severely about the head with a bottle held by a Negro. Shot Down From Behind. Grover Boyd was shot down from behind by one of the Negroes and Charlie Marre was killed while posse- men and citizens stormed John Rob- ertson’s house last night, where the Negroes had taken refuge. John Rob- ertson was killed as he fied from the house @end Jacob Robertson was hanged to a tree by the mob. First reports of the trouble were exaggerated, the death list being given as high as eight. Sheriff W. D. Scales, who took charge of the search last night and attempted to control the unruly mob of 200 to 300 men, today checked the casualties and found four dead and two wounded. Reports that two Negroes had been burned to death also were proved un- founded by a search of the ruins of John Robertson's home. The trouble started late yesterday when Clarence Boyd met Jacob Continued on Page 3, Column 3. AS CHINA REDS FIRE ON : , 1p FOLLOWING PROTEST A 1 ie AE Se sadiicsomaaaiaas An American sailor was killed when the United States gunboat Guam (above) was attacked by communists on the Yangtse River in China yesterday. The vessel, which is especially constructed to navigate the shallow Chinese rivers, is armed with two 3-inch guns and 8 Lewis machine guns. BY U. cies Adams Gets” Report on Clash Front Head of Fleet. U.S.S. GUAM ATTACKED — AS YOCHOW IS LOGT =D — Three-Inch and Mactine Guns Silence Attack on Fighting Boat. EMBOLDENED ee MASSACRE HUNDREDS Action Taken to Saf ag imperifed ulsslonaei Elicits No Reply. ( Press.) 4 Difficulties with revolution~tarn China, already climaxed by a State Department protest, were augmy. ved yesterday by a radio report te the Navy Department that an American LONDON NAVY PRCT CALLED INIQUITOUD International Adventures for United States Foreseen by Senator Johnson. PREPARE FOR TOMORROW (Associated Press.) Opponents of the London naval treaty made the first move yesterday preparatory. to this week's special Senate session to consider. the pact, - Johnson (Republican), Cali- pa “Grging its ‘rejection Ii" for- ma] statement on the ground that it was “iniquitous and inequitable.” Tile ‘fiery Californian, who wili lead the opposition to ratification, asserted the treaty was the “first. step under the guise of @ fictious limitation of armaments; and in the holy name of peace, to take the United States into the international adventures which our people abhor.” Senator Johnson’s statement came after a day. of preparation by both sides for the special treaty session called by President Hoover for tomor- row. Republican leaders said it was likely the debate would not get under way until Tuesday because of the de- sire of many senators to prolong their brief vacation between sessions. Senator Watson, of Indiana, the ma- jority pilot, thought tomofrrow’s ées- sion would be brief, but said the treaty would be taken up immediately if a quorum developed. A_ special message from Mr. Hoover urging rati- fication is expected to be read Tues+ day. The document was in the course of preparation today at the presi- dential camp in the Virginia moun- tains. Senators Watson and McNary, of Oregon, assistant Republican leader, Continued on Page 4, Column 3. Beauty Contestant Victimized By Thief Miss Nicaragua, Mother and Friend Lose to Capital Robber. Miss Haydee Morales, Nicaraguan beauty prize contestant and “Miss Nicaragua” at the Miami beauty pag- eant, was victimized by Washington's suit case robber yesterday while her automobile was parked in front of the Honduran Legation offices at 1622 Rhode Island avenue northwest. Miss Morales, in company with her mother, Mrs. Josepha H. Morales, and Mrs. Laura Mitchell, of 1277 Oakdale road, Atlanta, Ga. had gone to the legation to pay their respects to tile officials there. They left two suit- cases in their automobile and when they returned to the car they found both missing. The report of the larceny is the longest that hms ever come over the agente installed “teletype” system in police headquarters. The contents of the two carriers were listéd in de- tail, amd fully fifteen minutes were required to send the report to each The stolen articles were valued at nearly $1,000. Mrs. Mitchell lost clothing and money totaling $680; Miss Morales lost about $200 worth of clothing, while her mother lost ap- proximately $100 in apparel. The trio are staying at a downtown hotel. Mise Morales recently was the ob- il ject of a search after a report from Miami that she had been missing for several weeks after the recent inter- national beauty pageant. She was located on June 27 at Atlanta, Ga., when several other Latin-American girls appealed to Mayor I. N. Rags- dale there for financial aid, following the close of a road show in which they had been appearing since the Miami contest. Mies Morales, in Atlanta, said she had not heard the reports that was missing. ee ret os The Day in Sports By defeating the New York Yan- kees, 3 to 2, for their sixth straight victory , the Nats kept 1 point be- hind the champion Athletics, who defeated the Red Sox, 7 to 2. The Chicago Cubs regained the lead in the National League, win- ming over the Pirates, while the Brookiyn Mobins were losing to the Giants. At Wimbledon, Bill Tilden re- gained his singles titie, after nine years, by defeating Wilmer Alli- son in three hard-fought sets wit- nessed by the King and Queen of England. Mrs. Moody and Eliza- beth Ryan won the women’s dou- bies title. : Interesting and detailed accounts of these and other sports events will be found a rae Sports pages of The Post. PRESIDENT AT CAMP. WEIGHS PACT PLANS Confers With Fess, Who Is Mentioned as Successor to Chairman Huston. WILL LEAVE LATE TODAY Orange, Va., July 5 (A.P.).—In the coolness of his mountain lodge, Presi- dent, Hoover today planned the course of the administration for the special session of the Senate which convenes Monday to consider the London Naval Treaty. With Walter Newton, his secretary for politica] affairs, Senator McNary, of Oregon, the assisant majority lead- er, and Senator Fess, of Ohio, an ad- ministration stalwart in the Senate, the Chief Executive discussed the pos- sibility for early ratification of the London pact and worked &t intervals upon the final draft of message he will send to the Senate Monday or Tuesday. Tomorrow he will haye the oppor- tunity to discuss the controversy that has centered recently upon the con- tinuation of Claudius H. Huston as chairman of the Republican national committee Senator Fess has heen prominently Continued Gn Page 4, Column 1. ONE DEAD, SIX HURT IN TRIPLE SMASH-UP George L. Portrost Is Killed y When Three Cars Figure in Road Crash. ANOTHER MAY BE DYING George L. Portrost, 48 years old, of 19 P street northeast, was killed early this morning in a crash in which three automobiles figured on a high- way near T. B., Md., injuring six , other persons, one seriotisly. Portrost was driving one of the machines when it was said to have collided head on with a car operated by Fred Randolph, 18 years old, of Sixth street near F street southeast. Randolph was taken to Casualty Hos- pital, where he was reported in a serious condition. densburg road northeast, admitted to Providence Hospital. Mrs. Rose E. McCullough, 46 years old, also.of 19 P street northeast, was with lacerations of the head and a possible admited to Casualty Hospital fracture of the skull. In the machine with Randolph were William KEesterson, 18 years old, of He sustained lacerations of the head. His condition was reported as undeter- 766 Eleventh street southeast. mined at Casualty Hospital. dolph. The which they crawling through windows raised from the inside. A moment before the collision of the two cars, one of the machines was said to have been sideswiped by another machine as it swept along the road. The third car disappeared, however. In the car with . Portrost were Thomas Daker, 44 years old, and his wife, Mrs. Oora Daker, of 1144 Bia- both of whom received numerous lacerations about the face and body. They were John Abel, 20 years old, of 513 Fifth street southeast, was hurt about the scalp and back while riding @s an occupant of the car driven by Ran- machine driven by Portrost, a large sedan, overturned in the crash and the Dakers extricated themselves from the partially demolished car, in had been trapped, by slightly bluejacket had been killed in a battle with bandits. The seaman was Samuel Elkins, of” Brooklyn, N. Y., attached to the United States gunboat Guam. He was struck by a bandit rifle ball during-s short. encounter at Yochow, Hunan, China, when brigands turned from looting the city to fire upon the ship, A news report from Shanghai said three British gunboats had beém fired upon at the same time, and two sall- ors wounded before the British and American seamen silenced the bandit riflement. Report of Battle. A report of the encounter sent to Secretary Adams by Rear Admiral Charies B. McVay, commander in chief of the Asiatic fleet, said: “YU. S. ship Guam reports she was heavily fired upon by Communists st about 1 p. m., July 4, while convoying the Nething past Yochow. Fire wes silenced by 26 rounds $-inch and 1,206 rounds Inachine guns. “Seaman First Class Samuel Wilkins was killed by rifle bullet. “No sign of foreigners in Yochow,” The next of kin of Elkins was listed by the Navy as Mrs. Rose Teitlebaum, his grandmother, of 2845 West Thirty sixth street, Coney Island. No Reply to Protest. Two days ago, the State Depart- ment instructed the American Lega- tion at Peiping that “urgent pro- tests” were to be made against the mistreatment of American citizens in China. This action followed a report from Prank P. Lockhart, consul general at Hunkow, that he had received reliable advices that American missionaries at Suiping, Honan, China, had been driven through the streets with sticks, State Department officials said to- day no reply had been received from this protest, and they probably would not for at least a week. Instructions . had been to deliver one protest to the highest military authorities now in control of Suiping, but because of difficulties of communication, of- ficials said the protests could *not be delivered for some time. Clash With Reds. tae Mr. Lockhart’s report to thé de- partment saRi the Rev. Thomas 1. Lee, of Minneapolis, and Deaconess Thonea Sandland, of Grygla, Minn., had been paraded through the streets of Suiping and roughly handled seal A local political organization. thee Late last month a treaty of - tion between the United S and the Republic of China was signed by Secretary Stimson and the Chinese Minister in Washington. But evert if the treaty had been ratified Representative Goes Free Following Immunity Claim John C. hex, Democratic Whip in House, Is Released When He Makes Plea After Road Accident in Tennessee on Way Home. ies i Knoxville, Tenn., July 5 (A.P.).— Representative John C. Box, of Jack- sonville, Tex., was on his way home today sfter being detained here on a reckless driving charge preferred by officers of a nearby county at the request of a New York tourist. The representative was stopped here by a motorcycle officer. Chief of Police Haynes said he released Box when the latter pleaded his constitu- tional rights as a congressman. The Constitution provides that sen- ators and representatives shall not be subject to arrest on misdemeanor / charges “while attending sessions of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same.” The chief of police said Represen- tative Box told him he “sideswiped” a New York automobile as he passed » - while en route from Washington to his home in Texas. Box told the officer he had talked to the tourist. and “never suspected he would bring charges.” The police chief took the name of the firm insuring the congressman's tourist was car. The name not learned. Prisoners Senethian of the Jailer; Nine Escape Fort Payne, Ala. July 5 (AP.).— him in a corridor and took it about 30 miles from Knoxville, Pr amar ed in effect by the two it was not known yesterday whether it would apply to the situations now causing international cers = China. Information regarding anothet.eh~ counter between the British ship Teal and a band of Communists was ON INSIDE PAG y ‘ THE SENATOR'S DIARY—— Page 9 SPORT NEWS— | Pages ie CHINA WAR sOOnne ee NEW TANK IS SPEEDY— ~~ ps o AT THE FILM THEATERS— ©