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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-01

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whether it contains a bed or not.
A flreside chair and club chair to
match, covered with genuine mo-
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velour.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
CALL TRACED
IN MCPHERSON CASE
Nurse Friend Says She Spoke
to Woman on Night of
Death.

New evidence in the investigation
into the mysterious death of Mrs. Rob
ert A. Mcpherson, found strangled with
a pajama cord in her apartment in the
Park Lane September IA, was reported
last night by police, who said they had
found the woman believed to have been
the last person to talk tQ Mrs. McPher-
son before she died.
She is Miss Eleanor Sheppard. %, of
the Chelsea Apartments, 800 Eighteenth
street. Miss Sheppard, a nurse, who
was IN training with Mrs. Mcpherson,
told Lieut.. Edward j. Kelly, chief of
the homicide squad, that 1t was she who
talked to Mrs. Mcpherson over the tele-
phone on Thursday night preceding the
discovery of the body: that Mrs. NC
Pherson was sobbing when she answered
the phone and declared, "Shep, I am
busy, call me again."
The telephone operator at the Park
Lane had told police of a connection
between Mrs. Mcpherson and her moth
er-in-law, and reported that she became
alarmed when the young wife answered
later call, sobbing, and asked the
party to call back later. 1t was this call
which Miss Sheppard described to
Lieut.. Kelly yesterday. Her story is re-
garoed as an important link in the sui
eide theory.
Thought Woman tainted.
This conversation between Miss
Sheppard and Mrs. Mcpherson ended
so abruptly that the telephone operator,
believing Mrs. Mcpherson had tainted,
opened the outer door of the apartment
and turned on the light in the living
room. When she did not see Mrs
Mcpherson before the telephone she
left.
Miss Sheppard described herself as
close friend of Mrs. Mcpherson. so
far as her being able to kill herself by
tying a pajama cord about her neck"
she stated, II do not know do know
that I could not kill myself in that
manner"
Two weeks ago, Miss Sheppard de-
clared, Mrs. Mcpherson visited her
apartment, apparently in good spirits
She said the next time she COM
municated with her was the night, of
Mrs. McPherson's death.
Assistant United States Attorney
william H. Collins made preparations
yesterday to subpoena more than
score of witnesses to appear before
the grand jury Tuesday, when it be-
gins an investigation into the death of
Mrs. Mcpherson, which a coroner's
jury last Tuesday held to be suicide.
Allen will Be Called.
Policeman Robert j. Allen of the
third precinct. who claims he can
prove Mrs. Mcpherson was murdered,
is to be one of the first witnesses
called. Names of other witnesses were
not disclosed.
Decision of Collins to have the grand
jury investigate the death of the young
Continued on Page S, Column ID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
FORT WORTH PLANE
MISSING IN STORM
Four Prominent Citizens of Texas
on Craft Which May Be
in Trouble.
BY The Associated Press.

by bEE AoSVCidkEu ETeSS.
BROWNSVILLE, Tex, September q
Fear that a Lockheed plane, partici-
pant in the Fort Worth good will aero
cade, flying to the south, carrying four
prominent Fort Worth men besides the
pilot, was down and IN trouble some-
where between here and Corpus Christi,
was expressed tonight.
The ship was one of four which de-
clined ito turn back to Corpus Christi
this morning when IS others Of the aero
cade did 50 because Of rains. The three
other planes which braved the elements
landed here safely.
Local airport oficialS believed that
the plane must have been forced down,
since no word had been heard from it.
They considered that the crafts oc-
cupants would be mindful of the alarm
their failure to appear would occasion
and would have advised had they
alighted safely.
One of the first suppositions was that
the ship might have come down at
houston, but telephone calls to airports
there failed to disclose 1t.
The pilot Is Bert Tidcoke and the
messengers Forst Lynn, chairman of serv-
ice for the Texas company which owns
the plane; Jack Hodt, manager Of the
fort Worth Association of Commerce; !;
James Darcy, manager OF the Glover
Land Co.. and A. L. Ford Of the Cooke
FeaerIe Motor Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
GANG SEEN BUSY.
IN WALL STREET
WhaIen Says Boy Who Sold
$4,000 Securities Was
Directed.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 21.-A big
time crime coach of Wall Street was
hunted tonight on clues furnished by
Milton tier. 18-year-old brokers mes
senger, who traded more than a half
million in stolen securities for dollar
The r. v. Hiscoe Brokerage Co., the
youths employers was out $4,000 in
negotiable stocks and bonds. but police
held the boy on charge Of grand lar
ceny and had his detailed confession
In 1t he described the man who engi-
neered the theft, and through 1t Police
Commissioner Grover A. Whalen hopes
to reveal crime school for financial
district messenger boys and clerks.
The confession was obtained after the
boy had been grilled practically all
night. For hours he had maintained
he had been kidnapped and dumped to
a Brooklyn sidewalk after men in a
limousine driven by hvered chauffeur
had taken the securities from him.
Many discrepancies occurred in his
story, however, and he later confessed
he had taken the bonds, at the urgings
of a Jack Rosen, identity unknown,
and had left them in his possession for
the cost Of a motion picture show. a
subway 1A0C d1lu LAlC IkCAClo hklO 0AIICc
remaining out Of q dollar.
Aftel obtaining the confession from
the boy, who had been employed by a
furrier before he joined the Hiscoe Co.
a month ago at salary Of SIS q week,
Commissioner Whalen Said:
II believe that the boy was induced
to leave his furrier job and to take a
job in the fiancial district so that this
principal crook and his accomplices
could get the boy to steal securities.
The whole thing was plant from the
start. 1t was arranged for Alter to go
to work for brokerage house. The
waited their opportunity"
Alfred Tyrill, chief adjuster of the
National Surety Co., said:
This is but one of the many cases re-
ported. There Is an organized gang at
work uptown, corrupting young boys
teaching them to be crooks, and giving
them thorough training in thievery be-
fore sending them to the financial dis
trict to get jobs. The boys get little
for their work"
Indemnity Check Forwarded.
William P. Joyce, chairman of the
National Surety Co., sent the Hiscoe
firm check for 100000 as indemnity
for the lost securities.
Alter got dollar and apparently can
expect no more. He parted with the
securities and Rosen before he entered
a Fourteenth street movie house yester-
day afternoon. In his confession the
boy said Rosen had met him on the
street after he left the Hiscoe offices en-
route to a bank with certified check
which redeemed the securities, posted
as collateral on a loan.
He said to me he needed money and
that I should walk of with the loan,"
the boy asserted, land he then told me
that my father was to receive $4,000
as my share. Then I finally con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
Western Republicans to Seek
to Confine All Revisions
to Agriculture.
HOLDS BALANCE OF POWER
WITH 14.VOTE STRENGTH
Group Also Is Opposed to. Granting
President Power to Raise or
Lower Customs Duties.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Coincident with a decision by the
Senate yesterday to meet an hour
earlier tomorrow to speed action on the
tariff bill. group of IL Western Re-
publicans perfected an organization
aimed to eliminate the proposed in
dustrial rate increases and to confine
the revision to agricultural products.
Headed by Senator Borah Of Idaho,
the independent group assessed its
strength at IA, number which 1t feels
will give the organization the balance
of power as between the Democrats
and Republican regulars in the tariff
controversy.
Opposes Flexible Issue.
The group also is expected to stand as
a unit against the flexible provisions
granting the President power to raise
or lower customs duties. These pro-
visions are liberalized in the pending
DILL. While the finance committee Re-
publicans have decided to eliminate the
proposed amendment and virtually to
restore existing law, many Senators
favor complete repeal of the clause
with Congress given exclusive power
to change rates.
Those attending yesterdays 1nde-
pendent gathering were Senators Boral1,
Norris. Howell, McMaster, La Toilette,
Blaine. Nye, Frazier, Brookhart. CUT
ting, Schall and Pine. 1t was the first
time Senators Cutting Of New Mexico
and Pine of Oklahoma had entered the
groups meetings.
The votes of Senators Shipstead,
Farmer-Labor. Minnesota, and Nor
beck, Republican, South Dakota, are
counted on by the farm bloc.
Developments in the Senate touching
upon the silence Of President Hoover
in the tariff controversy brought the
official assertion yesterday that the
Executive adhered to the tariff ideas
expressed in his message to the special
session, which proposed a limited re-
vision. confined primarily to agricul-
ture but extending also to suffering
manufacturing industries,
Earlier Meeting Proposed.
The request that the Senate convene
at IL o'clock instead OF noon was pre-
sented by Senator Watson Of Indiana.
the Republican leader, who said it
applied only to that day. A similar
motion would have to be approved. he
said. If the longer day was to be made
permanent.
Democrats and Republican independ-
ents, while not objecting to the re-
quest, served notice they would not
approve of holding the Senate later
CONTINUED on Paige 2, Column -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
ARMS TRUCE AT GENEVA.
Britain and France Compromise on
Limitations.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, September 21.-After three
days of hot debate which stirred the As
sembly Of the League of Nations, Great
Britain and France today adopted a
conciliatory manner in their dispute
over the scope of the movement for
general disarmament.
The two powers accepted compro-
mise which will leave the merits OF
their conflicting positions on the liml-
tatlon of military forces to be deter
mined later.
The settlement leaves England free to
reopen the question of restricting the
material and personnel for land war
fare. Lord Cecil, spokesman Tor the
empire, had said this restriction was
essential to the ultimate success OF the
disarmament crusade.
France, by the terms Of the corpro-
mise offered by M. Politis OF Greece,
gained her points that the Assembly
should not at this stage OF the naval
discussions agitate the question OF gen
structions to the preparatory dlsarma-
ment committee.
Lord Cecil Withdrew the British pro-
posal, for which in any case majority
in the disarmament commlttee was
doubtful. He announced, however. tnat
his government at every opportunity
would urge the limitation OF lano forces
by general conferences.
Norway's proposal at the opening OF
the present Assembly session lot estao-
fishing an intimate connection oetWeen
the proposed international reparations
hank and the League of Nations met
formidible opposition in the commlttee
on technical organizations.
Allied with Norway in this movement
were Denmark, Poland and Austria,
who argued. that the purpose OF tns
League in the economic Iield Is identical
with the purpose of the bank, ana tnat
all countries have deep interest," In
the banks program. as Wen as Cnose
who receive reparations. But France
Great Britain and Belgium. the coun-
1c,ontinIIed on PAGE S. Column ID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
AUTOMOBILE RACE
CRASHES |NJURE Il
Car Runs Into Crowd and
Second Turns Over at
MineoIa Fai Grounds.
BY the Associated Press.

MINEOLA, N. Y, September al
Eleven persons were injured, three of
them critically, in two accidents which
occurred within q few minutes of each
other during the speedway races at the
Mineola fair grounds this afternoon.
Ten were hurt when speeding car
plunged over the fence into a group
Of spectators. The other victim was
James Gleason, 80, race driver of Phila-
delphis, whose car overturned on death
curve" a short tine before the second
crash. =
All of the injured were taken to the
Nassau County Hospital. Most of the
spectators who were in the path of the
detracked car suffered mainly from
shock, cuts ard bruises. Two of them.
Jack Mason, 13, of East Rockaway
N. Y, and Mrs. Josephine Ring, 80, of
Mineola, were the most seriously hurt
Gleason received fractured skull, a
broken jaw and all of his teeth were
Knocked out. His condition was re-
ported critical.
George Condor, driver of the car
which hurtled off the track into the
crowd Of spectators, was uninjured. His
machine had collided with one in front
of him in the fourth race, and the
steering mechanism broke, allowing the
car to run wild
Gleasons car was forced off the
track in the third speed event of the
afternoon by racer driven by Billy
Arnold OF indianapolis. The accident
occurred on curve where several driv-
ers have been killed in past races.
Gleason's automobile, owned by Mrs
Maude Yagel of Philadelphia, was the
one in which Ray Keech was fatally
injured at the Altoona, Pa, speedway
recently. The car had been entered in
the name of Bob Robinson of Daytona
Beach, Fla, but Gleason took the wheel
just before the event started.
Mrs Yagel, when she learned Of the
accident, collapsed and was taken to
the hospital suffering from shock.
Most OF the spectators in the grand
stand were unaware of the accidents,
which occurred at opposite ends OF the
track. The heavy dust kicked up by
the cars clouded vision over the entire
fair grounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
COOLIDGE WEDDING
REHEARSAL IS HELD
Flood of Gifts Arrive for Cou-
pie on Eve of Ceremony
Set for Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PLAINVILLE, Conn, September 81.
"A rehearsal of the ceremony which
will make John Coolidge and Florence
Tnlmbull husband and wife Monday
today occupied the vanguard Of the
Bridal party.
The stage was complete except for
rings and ministers and costumes, but
the routine of professional and recess
sional was prescribed for practice so
that there might be no hitch in the
formalities of the wedding of the son
of the former President and the daugh-
ter of Connecticut's Governor.
The white frame village Congrega-
tional Church was opened for the re-
l1earsal, and Prof. william G. Ham
mond of Mount Holyoke College, who
will play the wedding march, was on
hand to play the music for the prac-
tice steps.
Photographers "Shoot" Scene.
Camera men and news reel photog-
raphers were on hand to shoot" the
rehearsal and a large delegation of re-
porters also was present, engaging early
the services of spokesmen for Mr.. and
Mrs. Trumbull and the young couple,
all four of whom Have found 1t neces-
sary to speak through proxies because
of the pressure of the nuptial prepara-
tionS.
Members of the wedding party al
ready are assembling and will remain
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
GERMAN EXPLAINS
REPORTED ALLIANCE
Glasses Proposal for a Franco
Prussian Pact Against
Russia as Fiction.
Nv the Associated Press

4 BY the Associated Press
BERLIN, September 81. - Moritz
Kloenne. Reichstag member, tonight
said that the Peoples Party Press Serv-
ice story today of secret conversations
In Paris for Franco-Pussi military
alliance against Soviet Russia was
truth and fiction strangely mixed"
He said that he had conversations
with British and French political
leaders In 1927 and 1923 as private
citizen holding no claim to represent
the German government. He expressed
to them "the demands Of nationalistic
Germany" and urged that rapproache-
n1ent between the three countries could
only, be based upon evacuation Of occu-
pied territories, increase In the German
army, withdrawal Of war guilt charges
and also unconditional return of the
Polish Corridor. complete reservation of
German sovereignty and revision of
the Dawes plan to reduce annuities by
at least q half"
He said that he Immediately informed
the German foreign office, of all his
conversations, but fiatly denied ac-
quaintance or negotiations with any
French general, as had been reported.
The Peoples Party Press Service,
which Is regarded as the mouthpiece of
Foreign Minister Gustav Streseman,
today had said that Kloenne had pro-
posed an alliance against Russia to
both English and French leaders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
SHIP MAKES PORT
AFTER PIRATE RAID
japanese Vessel, Attacked by Chi.
nese. Led by Woman, Shows
Battle Stains.
Ry the Associated Press.

by Jne ASSOClaJeu FTesS
HONGKONG. September 2l.-With
blood-stained decks and looted holds,
the japanese steamer Deli Maru ar
rived today from Bias Bay, notorious
haunt of Chinese pirates, where she
had been taken by band Of outlaws
led by woman pirate. After capturing
the vessel, on her voyage from SwatoV
with 1913 Chinese passengers the ship
was looted. Despite precautions taken
against pirates boarding the ship as
passengers. 13 of them leaped from the
steerage early yesterday morning on
given signal and, headed by their wom-
an leader, who brandished two revolvers,
they rushed the bridge and seriously
wounded three Indian guards. AL the
officers were overpowered and forced
to navigate the ship to Bias Bay, where
she was looted in broad daylight and
then released. Four wealthy Chinese
business men, residents of Shanghai,
were taken of and held for ransom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
TWO MEET DEATH
IN PLANE PLUNGE
Stunt Flyer and Student Pilot
Killed in Gilman, Ill,
Crash.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GILMAN, Ill, September 21.-Twc
Indiana f1iers were burned to death to-
day in their plane, which crashed from
a height of 500 feet onto the Illinois
Central Railroad tracks, almost in the
heart of this city
The dead are: Ted Center, 90, Terre
Haute, Ind, licensed pilot. and Lester
D.. Baker, "a, Paragon, Ind, a pas
Senger.
The two took off from the Terre
Haute field this morning and were fly
ing to- Gilman to participate in dedi-
catory exercises at the local airport
tomorrow.
Center, who was at the controls. had
circled the town twice and was coming
around into the wind, preparatory to
landing. Witnesses said the motor ap-
parently stopped, throwing the plane
into spin, from which Center was
unable to maneuver it.
An explosion followed the crash and
both bodies were burned almost beyond
recognition.
Center was a licensed pilot. His
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Center,
live at Sheldon. Ill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
Secretary Has Nothing OFF,
ciaI Regarding Choice of
Another City.
AMBASSADORS ARE TOLD
OF NAVY NEGOTIATIONS
Official 1vitations Believed De.
layed Until After Visit of
Premier to q. S.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
London very likely will be the place
OF the projected five-power naval linni-
tation conference in January. Secretary
Stimson said yesterday, explaining that
no suggestion of any official Character
had reached him concerning the selec-
tion OF some other place.
Inc Secretary of States statement
was IN reply to inquiries based upon
publications both here and abroad that
some OF the participants in the parley
would prefer that the gathering be in
some neutral city, one in some Eu-
ropean country not party to the con-
ference,
Mr.. Stinson said he had conferred
with the Ambassadors of the interested
powers from time to time during the
Anglo American negotiations for the
Limitation Of cruisers, keeping them in
formed Of what was taking place in the
conversations between the American
and British Governments.
Advise Ambassadors.
Beyond that the Secretary declined to
go. but there was a suggestion that
the Ambassadors Of Japan, France and
Italy had been advised particularly
concerning the American proposals as
to cruiser limitation and especially
which the United States regarded as
essential.
While without any official informa-
ton that the Japanese government de-
sired three months notice before the
convening of the conference, Mr.. Stim-
son said he had no doubt that any goy-
ernment that issued invitations to the
parley would make these conform to the
convenience Of the countries to be in
yited.
Toxic dispatches yesterday indicated
the Japanese desired this notice because
Of the long time that would be required
London by way of the Suez Canal, as
we'll as the length of time that would
be necessary to make the necessary
preparations.
After Macdonald Visit.
Although there has been no, ofacial
indication as to the time the British
tions, 1t was believed they probably
would be withheld until after the con-
clusicn of the conferences which Pre-
mier Ramsey Macdonald is to hold here
early next month with President
Hoover.
with the conference now tentatively
set for the latter part of January. this
would permit the invitations to go
forward fully three months before the
delegates would gather in the British
capital.
Premier Macdonald probably will
spend shorter time away from Eng
land than was first suggested. He will
remain here six days. then go to Phila-
delphia and New York, and then pro-
ceed to Canada for conferences with
Premier Mackenzie King. He would re-
main in that country only few days
under present plans.
The program for the British states
mans stay in the United States is nov
nearing completion and probably will be
made public early this week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22

Plans of Army personnel to bring TO-
gether, for the first time IN IL years
Sergf. Alvin C. York and his six sur
yiving comrs les who fought beside him
In the Argo,ne offensive when he killed
% and captured 1872 Germans became
known today at the Army War College.
Three of the World War heroes, how
ever, are missing. Invitations sent
them have been returned.
Army folk extended invitations to the
seven men to attend the annual mill
tary exposition st the Army War Col
lere which v'i'' S.i~~ t,'~ h~~~nne