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The Washington times., 1929-03-09
u. S. Is Working Out
Plans to Get Army
Sunnlies to Federals

War Department officials today
were working out the problem of get.
ting surplus Army rifles and am.
munition to the Portes Gil govern
men, in Mexico.
President Hoover authorized Secs
retary Of War Good to sell to the
Mexican government any surplus
munitions available.
The problem now confronting the
War Department. Secretary Good ex-
planned. is one of transportation
whether to send by boat, which would
take considerable time, or whether
the arms could be safely gotten
through northern Mexico where the
principal rebel strongholds are.
AS soon az authorization for the
disposal of the surplus was given,
orders were sent to the Army's
various ammunition depots to as
semble the available stock for ship
mOnt.
Interest was manifest among
Army officials concerning the con-
: centration of Mexican Federal
troops in southern Mexico. at Mon
+, terey and other sections definitely
under control Of the Portes Gil
government 20 move norshward and
quell the revolution where thus
~ Ne progrsss has been made
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
COURTS To SCAN
POCKET I VETO

The current Presidential practice
of killing certain measures by a
pocket veto"---tlne method adopted
by former President Coolidge for
side.tracking the Dale.Lehlbach
Civil Service Retirement Bill--will
be the subject Of argument before
the United States Supreme Court
next Monday.
Attorney General Mitchell will
make the closing statement in favor
Of the validity of the pocket veto,
which is being questioned by at
torneys for several Indian tribes,
whose legislation was disposed of
in this way some years ago.
i Should the United States Supreme
Court decide that the pocket veto
is an unconstitutional practice, It's
practical effect will be to place
upon the statute books more than
120 bills which have thus en-.
countered the Presidential negative
and have been regarded as dead,
lawyers say.
Among these bills is the liberal
lied Civil Service retirement meas.
ure. According to constitutional
experts, 1t would become law i'm.
nediately IL the Supreme Court
decides that the pocket veto is an
illegal practice.
For many years It has been the
subject OF controversy among those
learned In the law, but has never
before come up to the Supreme
Court for settlement,
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
I FAVOR GUT ON
EARNED TAX
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guished from the "unearned'' class.
fication.
Such a reduction would prove .
great boom to the man who is earn.
ing his living and who has no inde'
pendent income, according to Whit
well.
Whitwell emphasized. however,
that no steps should be taken look.
ing toward a reduction which would
jeopardize the financial condition Of
the Government, or disturb its
fiscal program.
Provided reduction on earned
. income can be put into effect with.
out disturbance to the Government,
I am heartily in favor OF it. said
WhitWell.
Z ATLANTA, March 9.--Approval
OF the movement to reduce Fed.
eral income taxes by raising the
amount Of exemption was given
today by A S. Nance. newly elected
president Of the Atlanta Federation
OF Trades.
''The Atlanta Federation OF
Trades is deeply interested in the
movement to raise the Federal in.
come tex exemption on earned in.
comes from 25 to so per cent" he
said. Corporation taxes have al.
ready been reduced several times,
and It is now time for the indi.
viduals to be given more consid.
eration."
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
MARK
/. FLIER FINED

Capt Ross q. .Hoys, one Of the
pilots Of the Question Mark. Army
plsne which established an endur.
ance record at an average speed OF
more than 100 miles an hour. was
airaigned in Traffic Court today
cn charge Of Etcond offense speed
ing.
Policeman r. J. Scovil1e accused
him Of driving an automobile dow
Sixteenth Street at "a miles an
hour late last night.
/. He required the aviator 10 de.
posit $50 collateral at the Thir.
teenth precinct station. Hoyt was
accompanied by Lieut.. Elwood
Quesda. also a member Of the
Question Marks crew, and q hop
to Florida the fliers had planned
today was postponed by order to
appear in court.
Captain Hoyt and Lieutenant
bags. the former In immaculate
clothes. They told of their iI1tsn.
ton to start for Florida today.
Judge Gus A. Schuldt fined Hoyt
S25 and suspended sentence. The
captain thanked him and, iSamedi.
ately thereafter the aviators de.
parted for Boiling Field to start on
their flight.
Hoyt lives in the 100 block of
Sixteenth st: n. w. He was con-
yieted of first offense speeding in
April OF last year.
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
NAN ONFESSES.
CHILD. ATTACK

After confession alleged to have
been made early today to Common.
wealth Attorney william G. Cloth,
Clarence Walter schutt, 20, of the
21OO block of H st. N. w, is being
held without bond in the Arlington
county jail charged with having
committed a criminal assault on .
II years old girl of Fort Myers
Heights on January is.
Schutt was arrested at 3 q. m.
today by county officers. w. II.
Thompson mad Raymond Crack,
and was taken to the home Of
the little girl, who identified him.
He Is then said to have signed
q written confession in the pres.
ence of the county officers and
the commonwealth attorney.
1t is alleged that Schutt seized
the child, whose name is being
protected, when she was returning
home from school,
He is said to have frightened
her with a shotgun and to have
dragged her into nearby woods,
where the assault was committed.
Sehutt is married and his wife
is said to be an employe OF one
Of the Federal departments.
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
1000 FEDERAL TROOPS PREPARE FOR ATTACK BY REBEL ARMY
He | D
IN Al TACK
ON GIRL

CHARGED with having robbed and
With having attempted to criminatiy
attack the slrl hs neta at a dance and
whom he was seeing home. Z Charles
a. Martin. Is. said to be 8 soldlsr
stationed at Fort IIumphrey, Va.
was arrested today BY Town Sergeant
Al. r.. Driscoll. Of Potomac, va. and
lodged IN the Potomac town jail.
According to Sergeant DrIscoll, the
soldier was escorting Virginia High.
lands Girl home from q dance and.
shortly after leaving the bus At Ad.
Olson station, at a. ma today, he
robbed her. The attempted criminal
attack followed. hut the girls
screams scared of the escort and
he fled.
Martin was arrested by Sergeant
DriscoI on Fort Humphrey bound
bus at 4 o'clock. The sergeant said
his prisoner had been identified by
the girl and that ne would be given
|a preliminary arraignfnent in Arling.
ton County court today.
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
BLALOCk.
|sHUN|TED
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the defense called almost rs wit,
nesses to the stand to back him up
So widely at variance IL the
testimony OF the two sides that viii
liam e. Leahy yesterday explained
It by charging that Burlingame had
been framed" by his enemies, who
persuaded Mrs. BIalock to turn
against her former friend and pro
tector.
BIanton Named
The names Of former Representa-.
tive Thomas L. Blanton, former
policeman orville Staples, and Mrs
Blalock were constantly linked to-
gether by Leahy as he promised to
prove that a triumvirate had been
formed to break his client.
Bride declared that Leahy was
merely attempting to throw out 4
smoke screen to obscure the charges
on which Burlingame is being tried
He pointed out that all of the love
letters Burlingame is accused OF
writing were penned long before
there was any reason for Blanton
and Staples to be unfriendly toward
buFilHBdLles
The Oratorical skirmish was pro.
voked when Leahy attempted to in.
troduce into the record the remarks
Blanton made at the Staples trial
and Congressional Records contain.
ing speeches in which Blanton at.
tackled Burlingan1e from the floor ot
the House.
Sees Desire For Vengeance
"Animosity and venem and a de.
sire for vengeance prompted this
whole proceeding" shouted Leahy
and pleaded with the board for an
opportunity to show who was back
Of It all.
Major Donald Dawson, assistant
engineer commissioner and chair.
man of the extraordinary trial
board. ruled that Leahy could intro.
duce the evidence and adjourned
the proceedings until Monday.
Only one more witness will be
presented for the defense, Leahy
said. Bride will place four or five
rebuttai witnesses on the stand, and
then the closing arguments will be
made.
The fate Of Burlingame's Ss-year
career of police service in this city
will be placed in the hands Of the
board late Monday or Tuesday.
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
Women TO BACK
DRY DRIVE

The prospective "dry drive" OF
President Hoover is to have the
support of millions of American
women, according TO declarations
made at the ''Victory Lunch" OF
the National Woman's Committee
on Law Enforcement at the Wash
ington Hotel yesterday.
I Resolutions were adopted pledg.
ing support to President Hoover in
his drive for dry enforcement.
Among the speakers at the luncheon
were: Mrs. John F. Sippel. of Mary
land; Mrs. Glenn Shaver, of West
Virginia; Mrs. Edward Thurman
Smith, Of Missouri: Mrs. Jesse w.
Nicholson, of Maryland; Mrs. John
F. Sherman, of Colorado: Mrs. Will
liam r. Pattangall. of Maine; Mrs.
william Tilton. of Massachusetts,,
and Mrs. William l.. Darby, Of
Washington.
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
ASKS To
RETIRE
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Fire Department retirement board
when 1t meets at Its next regular
session March 81.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Francis Stephens, Inspector e. w.
Brown and Fire Battalion Chief C.
z. Schrom compose the board. DR..
J. ]. Kilroy. police surgeon, win
appear before the board, declare
Major Hesse physically unfit for
further service and recommend that
he be retired. The report of the
board Of surgeons viii be submitted.
If the retirement board finds that
the police chief is unfit for further
duty 1t viii order him retired and
given a pension of one half his
present salary Of 5000 year.
Seek Successor
Then Police Commissioner Proc.
tor L. Dougherty will be faced with
the task OF finding some one to fill
NHesse's place. When he selects his
candidate he will submit his name
to the Board of District Commits
sioners and If 1t Is agreeable he
will be appointed.
In his plea for retirement Major
Hesse submitted the following let
ter to the Commissioner:
IT have the honor to apply for
retirement as major and superin-
tendent of police for the District
of Columbia in accordance with the
provisions Of the act of Congress
approved September 1. 1916, to take
effect from and after March 81. 1929.
My record and service in the
District of Columbia Is as fol-
lows:
August 2s. 1sss-Appointed a
clerk (stenographer).
August IA, 1S95-Transferred to
the Fire Department as a clerk.
September /, 1S99--Transferred
to Police Department as secretary
to the major and superintendent
Of police.
July 9, 1907-Promoted to chief
(also property clerk.
"July 1, 1925--Made an assistant
superintendent of the police force
by special act of Congress.
October 6. 1926 - Promoted to
major and superintendent of police.
II transmit herewith report of the
board Of police and fire surgeons.
certifying as to my physical dis
(signed) EDWIN B. HEssE.
March r."
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
COL. LINDBERGH
!. SKINS WAR
ZONE
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Ing newspapers-Al Universal and
Excelsior--sent representatives -
passengers!
The new air mail service from
Mexico City, which will extend to
New York city from Brownsville,
win cut the time OF letters from
tiiis city to one day. and a half.
Colonel Lindbergh plans to bring
back the same plane from Browns.
VILE with both mail and passer.
gers.
BRoWNsvTLLE. Tex, March ?
s(T.N.s9.--As the republic to the
south seethed with revolutionary
activities, this American border
city today opened two.day celebra.
ton inaugurating international mir
mail. and also Signalling the open
ing Of the new airport here. Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh, Americas
Lone Eagle. was due here at 1I5
D. m. from Mexico city to partlci.
pate in the ceremonies.
Colonel Lindbergh will begin the
return trip to Mexico City Sunday
carrying the first official mail for
the new route that links two re.
publics.
Other routes to be opened are
from Brownsville to Houston, and
from Brownsville to san Antonio.
The San Antenio route win link up
with Chicago. The Aeronautica de
Transportes was scheduled to start
its route from Brownsville to Mazat-
Ian but may be prevented from
doing so by the Mexican revolution.
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
Press Services Agree
On Radio Allegations

An agreement was reached yes.
terday by applicants for short
wave communication channels set
aside for the use of the press by
the Federal Radio Commission.
The agreement, which the com.
mission win consider later, provides
that the International News Serv-
ice, the United Press, and the As
sociated Press each receive seven
of the 40 channels available. The
remaining 10 channels would be
allocated to the Consolidated Press
and the large newspapers that
maintain news distributing organi.
zationss
The ALLEGATION would be predicated
the commission was informed, on
the commissions waving the policy
which requires all those receiving
short wave channels to become pub.
lie utilities.
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
8 Runaway Boys Come
Across .SYInnathetic Con

Contrary to the belief Of habitual
traffic law violators, all Washing.
ton policemen are not hard boiled.
w. B. Kuhns, a Seventh precinct
patrolman, proved this. early today
when three runaway boys from
Toledo, Ohio, walked up to him and
complained Of being tired and hun
restaurant nearby and paid for all
they could eat
the. Receiving Home on Potomac
Avenue Southeast, near where they
had accosted him. They are Don.
aid Mcdonald, Ia; Charles Dunn,
16, and Albert Werner, rs.
The Washington times., 1929-03-09

NEW YORK. March 9.Two is
company and three Is a crowd.
That is what attracted the atten-
tion of clerks in the Newark City
Half when Margaret and Mary
Glib. Is, famed as the "Siamese
Twins of America, !" appeared with q
man who said he was Daniel Josese.
to obtain a marriage license for
Margaret and Josefe.
Now 1t is unusual for two girls
joined together to marry a. single
voung man. who, besides being a
Mexican, is the son of the manager
of the Ford Motor Car Company OF
Mexico and IL a graduate Of the
University of Mexico, according to
himself.
Claim Is Denied
But, according to officials of the
Ford plant in Detroit: no "Josefe is
or ever was Ford's general manager
in Mexico"
The Siamese Twins" are also tc
appear Monday in q Jamaica thea.
ter to fill a vaudeville engagement
but their press agent says the two
events have nothing to do with one
another. OF course it Is possible
the marriage may. not come off
But Papa Gibb says 1t is love.
The Gibbs puffed their way ur
the long flight Of steps at the City
Hall and asked that reporters be
barred OF course they did not
want publicity. but two photograph.
ers who departed for Newark stop
ped to eat an ordered meal and
still found the twins and the Mexi.
can bridegroom-elec waiting. They
detest publicity, according to Josefe.
but city clerks suggested there was
no glue on the floor.
Josefe said he lived at 144 West
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
Elsie Janis Seriously
I'll of Flu in Paris

PARIS. March 8 Q.N.S1,-Miss
Elsie Janis, the American actress
who was known as the Sweetheart
Of the A. e. f.. during the World
War and now is suffering from
influenza, was in a serious condi.
ton today.
DR.. Edmund Gros. who Is attend
ing her. made the following state.
ment regarding her illness today:
Miss Janis temperature is 102.
Her pulse is 10. The influenza
has extended % the base % the
left lung. but ] DO not believe her
lie Il IN dangsr.s
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
D. D.E(iI5IVE [
BAT TTLE|S
LEADERS !.
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withdrawn from the Sonora bank.
Machine guas wers mounted on the
i liill tops surrounding the Nogales
j garrison today in preparation for q
possible recurrence OF the flight Of a
/ Federal airplane over Nogales. A
! military pursuit plane from Mexicali.
I Lower California, caused great ex-
citement late yesterday when 1t ap.
peared from the west. Handbills
were dropped urging the rebel sol
Iliers to desert their leaders and
avoid treason"
The situation in northern Chihua-
hua dictated the concentration OF
rebel forces at Santa Ana, General
Borquez said, and not the possibility
1of an air attack. He pointed out the
! concentration was we'll under way be-
fore the plane appeared.
Ell PASo, Texas. March 9
! tI.N.S.l.-Quiet reigned in Juarez
]. today with the Mexican revolutions
ary forces in complete control after
driving the federal forces from the
J city yesterday.
On this side Of tho Rio Grande,
q family nlourned the death OF
2.year-old Lidia Rodarte. one of the
two American victims OF, yester.
days battle.
The other American fatality oc.
Cured in Juarez in the heat of the
battle. A bartender. believed to
be Teddy Barnes, of Augusta, Ga,
was killed while In bed in the st.
Louis Hotel. A 6-year-old boy. Luis
& Chavez, was wounded while playing
in front of his home in Ell Paso.
About 800 federal troops, includ.
ing their commander, Gen. Matthias
Ramos, were being held at Fort
Bliss today until the State De.
partment at Washington decides
what Is to be done with them.
They were interned after Brig.
] Gen. George Van Horn Moseley
/. had effected a truce when the
Federals were overwhelmed by over
1000 rebels.
q Communications between this city
and Juarez were to be resumed to-
day. Gen. Miguel Valle, the rebel
commander, has assured Mayor r.
r. Thonlason, Of FL Paso, and Gen.
eral Moselcy, that all Americans
3 normal conditions would be re-
established Immediately.
: MEXICO CITY, March 9. Q.N.s.).
The Federal Government today took
a philosophica- view of the fall of
.Juarez, declared it without signifi.
canoe and went on with its plans for
. sweeping campaign in Northwest
ern Mexico.
War Minister Gales plans to rush
an army of more than 10000 Federal
troops against the rebels there in
q supreme effort to crush the re-
eurrection.
The vanguard of General Juan
Andreu Almazan's forces, now ad-
, vancing towards Torreon, h a s
reached Paredon. Coahuila. This
force consists Of more than 5000
men.
Another force of 4.500 Federal
troops is moving upon Torreon from
!, the vicinity of San Luis Potosi.
III The .nn crying forces hope to
! bottle up the rebel General Escobar
i with the aid of 5000 additional
/ troops now being sent north from
/ the subdued Vera Cruz front
I According to estimates here the
! various rebel chieftains in the North.
west have no more than 10000 troops
kllf1der them in all
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
Mrs. Goelet's Millions
Left to Her Children

NEW YORK, March 9.--Mrs. o.
den Goelet, Of Newport and New
York, who died February 23, left
all but $1,000 of her estate, esri.
mated to be worth several million
dollars. to her son and daughter,
Mary. Duchess Of ROxburghe. wiSe
of Henry John Innes-ker, Duke OF
Roxburghe, Of Kelso. Scotland. and
Robert GOelet. 0f Chester, ". T.,
and % her son's four children. Il
vas shown when her win was filsd
Cor prUbafO today.
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
By RICHARD C. WILSON
SCopyright. 1929, by Interna tional

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MONTERR REY, Nuevo Leon,
Mexico, March 9.--One of the major
battles OF the present revolution in
Mexico will occur soon on the
Col1huiia-Durango border. probably
in the vicinity of Torreon, Gen.
Juan Andreau Almazan, the federal
commander whose forces recaptured
this city from the rebels, predicted
today in an exclusive interview
with this correspondent.
'sOur troops are steadily closing
in on General Escobar's forces" he
said.
Trainioads Of federal troops passed
through this city en- route to Tor.
reon throughout the night.
{ General AlInazaT's force numbers
more than 5000 men, and is stead
lily being augmented from the
south by troops released from the
Vera Cruz sector. Another federal
force OF almost equal strength is
believed to be heading towards
Torreon under General Cedillo.
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
Snow and Wind Drive
Endurance FIiers Down

BAY CITY, Mich. March 9u.N.Sl
The endurance flight record of SIS
hours now held in Germany stood
today after Eddie Stinson and r. @.
Page were forced to abandon their
record-breaking aspirations because
Of heavy SHOWS end strong winds.
StinsOn and Page brought their
plane. Sally Sovereign. down on
Saginaw Bay last night after buck.
Ing q lake gale for nearly II hours
yesterday
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
D. C. COlOred Elks Will
Parade i'm Alexandria

Washington's colored Elks will
parade tomorrow in Alexandria.
Columbia Lodge, No. IS, will leave at
noon for the Virginia city where it
win celebrate with Alexandria Lodge,
No. 45, their twenty.fifth anniver-
sary. Columbia Temple, the march.
ing clubs and the health unit will
Join in the celebration.
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
LICENSE TO MARRY SOUGHT
BY "SlAMESE TWINS"

lSeveEity.third St. which proved to
be correct, only he had been there
two weeks His Mexican affilia.
tions were not known by fellow
roomers, who for several days have
been trying to find out the inside
of the revolution from him.
The Glib, family, coming from
Holyoke, Mass, could not stop at
q roonina house, so they put up at
the Manhattan Square Hotel, ac-
cordlng 10 Papa Glib. But II seems
that they forgot to register.
The Washington times., 1929-03-09
STORM WARNINGS

Storm warnings were issued to.
day by the United States Weather
Bureau to shipping off the Atlantic
coast from Eastport, Me-, to the vir.
ginia Capes. ~
The Washington times., 1929-03-09

Twenty.three days left to file
your Personal Tax Return. Auto.
mobiles being bought on the deferred
payment plan are taxable to the
purchaser II In their possession Oal
January 1, 1929.
The Washington times., 1929-03-09

SIAMESE TWIN SEEKS LICENSE
MARGARET STRATTON GIBBS 1S, right above,
famed member Of Americas only Samese twins is going
be married and her sister Mary is perfectly agreeable
to the union Margaret and Carlos Joseph, Mexican,
have applied for their marriage license at New York
The twins are shown above with their mother
Seward daily gateway., 1929-12-03
ERSTWRILE R0DE0 BUSTER. CONVICT.
 ROBBER SUSPECT
THOUGHT TO BE THE LONE TRAIN ROBBER OF THE
 LIMITED

PAWNEE, Okla, Dec, 3, (P Tom Vernon, 43-old erstwhile cowboy, rodeo rider, fireman and five times a convict. awaits i'd Jail here the outcome of efforts of wyoming and California officers to claim him for interrogation about the wrecking and robbing of two passenger trains.
 Officers from both states de- clared passengers on the Port land Limited, of the Union Pal cific, derailed and robbed near Cheyenne, and the Pacific Coast Limited, similarly derailed and plundered near Saugus, Calif-, have identified Vernon's photo graphs as those of the man who single-handed lined them up and took their money
 Thos. J. Higgins. deputy sher- if of Los Angeles, picked up Ver- non's trail having known Vernon for almost a decade; also the fact he had been a locomotive fireman at one time
Seward daily gateway., 1929-12-03
BIRDS FLIGHT . |S QUEST|O NED w. BY NO|NE G|A N
WHOLE EXPEDITION SPECULA- TION SENSATIONS; NOT
 INSPIRING

LONDON, Dec, 3, P-Today, The London Mail, says the accur- acy of the report of Commander Byrd regarding his South Pole flight has been challenged by Major Trygove Gran, the Norwe- gian airman and explorer. who was a member of the Scott Ant arctic expedition.
 A dispatch from Copenhagen cites the statement of Major Gran made to the newspaper Ekstra- Bladet in which he said:
 ftI am not justified in saying Commander Byrd did not pass over the Pole but the whole ex- petition appears to be one of speculation in sensations" and that the report of the American aviator does not inspire conf
 dence and i'd particular he doubt
 ed the statement that Byrd saw X the cairns of Scott and Amund- sen.