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Plan Would Fix Financial
Responsibility Before
License Issued.
UTILITIES COMMISSION
CONSIDERING PROPOSAL
One Attempt to Regulate Liability
Failed When Order Was
Held Illegal.

The Public Utilities Commission at
its meeting today. had before It for
consideration another attempt to solve
the problem of financial responsibility
Of taxicab drivers and owners for acci-
dents caused by the cabs.
Earl V. Fisher, executive secretary Of
the commission, after consultation with
Corporation Counsel William E. Bride
and Assistant Corporation Counsel Rob-
ert z. Lynch. submitted to the Com
mission today q written recommends-
ton that before any license Is given
to a person to operate q taxicab. he
satisfy the commission as to his f1nan-
cial responsibility.
In the form Of Mr.. Fishers recon-
mendation. the commission would re-
quest the District Commissioners to in-
struct Wade H. Coombs. superintendent
of licenses, to refer all applicants foI
licenses to operate taxicabs to the Pub
lie Utilities Commission for. examination
as TO their financial responsibility.
Much Agitation for Measure.
No license would be issued without
the Public Utility Commissions ap-
proval in this respect. The regulation
as proposed would apply to all taxicabs
having meters, whether the application
is for the IL or livery tags or for H
or common carrier tags.
There has been much agitation for
some sort OF regulation along these lines
for several years. The last attempt of
the Public Utilities Commission to regu-
late the matter. however, failed. This
was in the form of an order. issued
February IS, 1925. compelling all oper-
ators or owners of taxicabS not having
assets satisfactory to the commission to
either file an indemnity bond with the
commission or else to take out an In
surance policy covering indemnity for
accidents. If the vehicles were oper-
ated by a firm, association. or corpora .
ton having net clear assets of $1,000 for
the first cab. $1,000 for the first two
cabs, and. 81 900 each for the next ~
cabs, then no insurance or bond would
be required.
Independent Cabmen Are Hostile
This met with the hostility Of the in
dependent cab operators, who claimed
that they could not AFFORD the insur-
ance necessary. and that there was no
more reason for compelling them to
insure than for compelling owners of
private automobiles to do SO.
The order was declared illegal by the
District Supreme Court in the case of
Robert Harlan. who was arrested for
violating 1t, and since that time no
effort has been made to enforce 1t.
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PHILIPPINE POSTAL GROUP
HEAD FACES THEFT COUNT
$1O9.O 900 in Stamps Stolen by Him,
Complaint Charges-Seven
Others Lose Jobs.
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MANILA, August 10.-The first
criminal complaint In connection with a
recent investigation. which disclosed
widespread thefts in the Bureau OF
Posts and the Bureau of Commerce and
Industry. resulted today In the arrest of
Florencio Reyes, chief of the stamp
section Of the Post ONCE Department.
Reyes was charged with the theft of
stamps worth 218,000 pesos ($109, ,0O0)
Seven other section chiefs were dis
missed from their jobs and may be
subjected to criminal prosecution.
BY order of Gov. Gen. Dwight r
Davis, complaints probably will be 1lled
against several former employees of the
Engineer Island section of the Bureau
OF Commerce and Industry, where
100000 pesos worth OF Government
property allegedly has been stolen
Engineer Island is a place where Gov
eminent ships are overhauled.
Besides the theftS, the investigation
disclosed that with the connivance OF
Bureau Of Posts employees, the mails
were widely used for smuggling mar
cotics, jewels and silks.
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WILLIAMS FORCED
TOPOSTPONE TEST
Faulty Propeller Causes
Naval Speed Ace to Defer
Flight Until Monday.
BY JOSEPH EDGERTON,
Aviation Editor Of The Star.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, August 10-Dis-
covering At the last moment that the
deeply pitched racing propeller OF his
Mercury plane appeared to be out OF
true following taxing tests here yes
terday evening. Lieut.. Afford j. VIII
liams. Navy pilot. who is expected to
represent the United States In the
Schneider Trophy races In England next
month, today called of flight tests OF
the plane until Monday.
The propeller will be sent to the An
acostia Naval Air Station at Washing
ton today TO be checked for pitch and
probably will be returned Monday
morning.
The proposed flight was called off
shortly before IL o'clock this morning
after all preparations had been COM
pleted for the first aerial test of the
racer, which is the most powerful ever
built in this country.
Taxing tests, In which the plane
reached speed of 106 miles per hour,
just on the verge Of leaving the water,
were held on the Severn River in front
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TRIO SEIZE TROLLEY
IN HOLD-UP MURDER
Guard Killed and ZOO
Taken From Collector by
Men Who Flee in Auto.


CHICAGO, August 10.-Three gun-
men took possession OF an Illinois Cen
tral Electric suburban train last night
shot and killed a guard, stole $4,000
from q railroad collector and escaped
in an automobile after forcing the
motorman to stop at q seldom used
station.
The bandit slayer was partially iden-
tified rs Wee Willie" Doody, desperate
already sought for several other muir
ders and numerous robheries. The slain
guard was Delbert Sudds. who was with
Jerry Carey, the collector. Sudds and
Carey boarded the train at the Ran
dolph street terminal after collecting
the days receipts from outlying sta
tions. Two Of the bandits entered the
train q minute later and took seats
opposite them In the front part OF the
rear car. The third robber boarded the
train at Roosevelt road and took seat
in the rear of the front car.
Passengers Surprised.
As the train passed Twenty-third
street, the robber partially identifled AS
Doody, tied a handkerchief over the
lower part Of his face, drew pistol
and stepped across the aisle TOWARD
Carey. His companion drew two guns
and faced passengers before they real"
lied a robbery was in.progreSs.
Sudds. seeing the bandits weapon
aimed at Carey. tried to draw his own
pistol. but was shot before he could re-
move the gun from its holster.
Passengers In the front car. startled
by the shot, jumped from their seats
and turned to witness the commotlon
JThey were confronted by the third
bandit, who stood in the doorway hour
ishing two pistols.
One of the other robbers hurried
from the rear car to the motorman'S S
coop, pressed a pistol to the motorman IS 5
back and ordered him to stop the train
at Twenty-Seventh street. There the
trio backed from the cars. ran across
a foot bridge to the street and sped
away in an automobile.
Description Like Doodys.
Passengers and the train crew were
taken to the Bureau Of identification
to look over pictures Of known crlml-
the man who killed Sudds. the chief
of detectives said 1t tailed closely with
those OF Doody.
wee willie" Doody, also known as
Baby Face" because Of the innocence
Of hts expression and the clearness OF
his complexion, has been sought since
the shooting last Spring Of e. L. jack
son, postal inspector. Jackson recov-
cred. During the search for Doody
Chief Of Police Charles Levy Of Berwyn,
ILL.,, a suburb. was slain by gunman
partially identified as Wee Willie" The
desperate also is sought for other muir
ders and a score Of daring holdups
Doody has vowed never to be taken
alive.
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SNOWDEN DEMANDS
ACTION AT HAGUE
Says He Cannot Wait Much
Longer for Decision on
Revision Proposal,

THE HAGUE. August 10 (P.-
The chiefs Of the French. Belgian,
italian and Japanese delegations to
the Hague reparations conference
met in the apartments of Premier
BRAND Of France late this afternoon
to consider the situation created by
British attacks on the Young plan.
By the Associated Press.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, August
10.-A slight recovery Of confidence ir
conference circles today. when genera
discussion Of the Young plan was re.
sumed without incident. was again up.
set before the end of todays vital meet.
ing of the financial committee by the
Intervention of Philip Snowden, British
chancellor of the excheouer.
He declared that he had placed his
case before the conference and coulc
not wait much longer for a decision.
In don't want to spend the rest Of
my days at The Hague" he declared
I'VE must come to grips on the ques.
ton at issue. My resolution Is still be.
fore the committee and ! cannot per-
nit delay In action upon II much
longer" .
General Discussion Need.
The financial committee meeting this
morning was first devoted to a genera
discussion, w. Graham, president Of the
Board Of Trade stating that the system
Of deliveries In kind had affected Brit.
ish trade and caused unemployment
The British wanted them abolished oi
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$15O.OOO IN JEWELS
STOLEN AT BEVERLY
Sydney Hutchinson's Summer
Home in Massachusetts,
Is Ransacked.
~ the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press. ,
BEVERLY. Mass. August l0.-Jewels
valued at $1S000O were stolen early to-
day from the Summer home OF Sydney
Hutchinson of Philadelphia, The loot
included q 100000 diamond necklace,
the property of Mrs. Hutchinson.
The reflection from a fiashlight
awakened Mrs. Hutchinson, but before
she could summon assistance the bur-
glar or burglars escaped. Several bed
rooms had been ransacked.
The Hutchinson Summer home is To-
Gated In the West Beach section Of
Beverly. Police termed the robbery the
biggest jewel theft ever committed on
the North Shore.
i Last week burglars entered the Sum-
fneY residence of Godfrey l.. Cabot ano
escaped with considerable amount Of
=. F e 8 80 y
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CHARRED BODY FOUND
IN FLAMING MACHINE
Man Was Taken for a Ride
Newark Police Indicate in
Murder Probe.
BY the Associated Press


NEWARK. N j.. August 1O.-Ap-
parently the victim of a gangster
ride" the badly cfarred body of an
unidentified man was found in blaz-
ing automobile on the city dump last
night.
Frank Ferrara, foreman at the dump
ing grounds, told the police the car was
driven to the dump by two men. who
drove of In another machine mo-
ment before the car burst into flames.
Police expressed belief that the man
either had been unconscious or dead
when the match was applied to the
gasoline that saturated his clothing and
the machine.
The abandoned machine carried no
license plates, and the police said the
engine number had been chiseled OF.
The body was removed to the n1orgue
for an autopsy
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SNOOK'S DEFENSE
STORY UNSHAKEN
Ohio Professor, Recounting
Killing. Holds He Beat Coed
to Protect His Life.
By the Associated Press.

BY the AS60ciat ted Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, August lO.-The
defense was near the end Of its efforts
today to prove that DR.. James H. Shook
driven to insanity by the naggings of an
protect his life and those of his wife
and 2-year-old daughter on the night
he slew Theora Hix, 24-year- coed
on an automobile ride nearly two
months ago.
Denies Fermentation.
Shook completed his denial of pre-.
meditated murder, charged by the State
in his last testimony just before the
close Of yesterdays session. Recountins
history Of the killing Shook held to di.
rect testimony that he remembered
beating the girl with a hammer, but
denied all memory of infiicting knife
wounds at her throat and body.
Under a searching cross-examination
by County Prosecutor John j. Chester
jr., he denied purported confession in
which he admitted Sitting her jugular
vein, and his memory failed him at
admissions which authorities announced
he had made.
Patholosists Testify.
Quitting the stand after admitting
the killing, as a means of defense be-
cause he thought the girl meant to
shoot him. Snook was followed by four
pathologists called by the defense to
bolster their contention that the ham,
mer blows, and not the knife wounds
caused the girls death. None would
say which killed her, but agreed that
the injury to her skull would have
caused almost immediate death. The
State, seeking to prove premeditation
and establish basis for a death pen
atty, contends that Shook slit her throat
while she was unconscious, but still
alive.
The retiring coed. known on the
campus as an extraordinarily bright
student, would have been Is years old
today.
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WHEELER ON RADIO
TO DISCUSS INDIANS
Problems and Federal Assistance
Will Be Senator'S Forum
Subjects Tonight.

The twentieth century life Of the
American Indian, his problems and how
the Federal Government should assist
him In facing them are to be discussed
from the viewpoint of an expert this
evening by Senator Burton X. Wheeler
of Montana in the National Radio
Forum, arranged by The Star and spon-
sored by the Columbia Broadcasting
System.
Senator Wheeler q Democrat, is q
member Of the Senate committee on
Indian affairs and recently completed
an extended trip. comprising visits to
Indian reservations In wisconsin, North
and South Dakota. Nebraska and Mon-
tana.
his address will be broadcast locally
from Station WNdAL at Q o'clock.
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TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES
GET PAY FOR HOLIDAYS

Temporary employees at navy yards
and naval stations are entitled to pay
for legal holidays designated by law.
Controller General McCsrl today ruled
in decision to the Secretary OF the
Navy
Although such employees are not on
a permanent status they may receive
pay for such holidays If the holidays
fall during the period Of temporary en-
ployment, McCarl said. The legal holi-
days in the law are January 1. February
%, July 4, December IS and Thanks
giving.
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amount of liquor is being sold; how
many bootleggers are there in the buSi-
neSs?"
These questions cannot be answered
exactly, but we know that bootlegging
is certainly not one of our infant indus
tries" in need of care and protection.
Protection it does have, but that pro-
lection is from the law and not from
"low-wsge foreign competition"
Remus Rapid Rise.
The evidence that bootlegging, large
and small. is in a flourishing condition
is definite and certain. RemuS, the Chi
cago lawyer who became one of the
most extensive and successful masters
of bootlegging, according to his own
sworn statement. was worth, prior to
entering upon his adventures in law
leSsness, about $4,000. After cnly 13
months of illegal liquor operations he
was worth more than So, 600, 900, accord
ing to sworn statement he gave to a
bonding company. This amount of
money, Of course, could not have been n
but the larger metropolitan centers. r
in the cities.
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RESCUER SLAYS GUIDE, ATTACKED
BY BEAR, AS FALL ON ICE FIRES GUN
Tragedy That Stalked Italia Holds Grip Of Death Over
Rescue Expedition.

in a march of 500 miles about North
eastland, seemed in danger and Gian-
nine Albertini. head of the expedition,
ran to his aid with rife.
Albertini unhappily fell In an ice
crack and accidentally discharged his
rifle as he fell. The shot hit Guidoz,
who, although transferred Immediately
to the whaler. died three hours after
ward.
making for land, so GuidQ2 was buried
in the icy sea, wrapped Fl an Italian
fiag, while members of the expedition
stood at salute.
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Fire Still Raging on Oil Tanker.

CANSO. Nova Scotia, August 10 (P).
The 2,500-ton oil tanker Nina Brae
was still afire today, four miles at sea
of Canso.
The tanker was abandoned. on. We'd
nesday afternoon. The blaze, however,
has not reached the $4,000 gallons of
gasoline and oil that make up her car
go. The. tug Reindeer, with fre-fghting
apparatus, has been sent from Halifax.
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NlCARAGUAN MINISTER
TO REMAIN AT POST
DR.. Sacasa Announces That Presi-
dent Moncada Rejected His
Resignation.

BY the Associated Press. y
DR.. Juan B. Sacasa, one Of the lead
ers Of the Nicaragtian revolution two
years ago, Is to keep his post as Min
ister to the United States.
He has announced that President
Moncada rejected his resignation, which,
he rendered recently.
DR.. SacaSa Is graduate Of Columbia
University In medicine with Gen. Mon
cada, now his President. He organised
the revolt against the government then
headed by Adoifo Diaz.
The Sacasa party was victorious in
can Marines.
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Destructive Storm Hits Chile.

ANTOFAGASTA. Chile. August ~
R.-A violent blow here early this
morning wrought considerable destruc-
ton In the harbor and forced ships In
the bay to 60 out to sea to escape the
fury OF the surf, The artificial port
was completely destroyed, with enor-
nous material losses. Firemen are aid
ing troops in salvage.
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Bank Statements

Washington clearing house, $4,46s,-
54e.56.
New York clearing house exchange,
81 AIS. 900 900.
New York clearing house balance,
S145 000. 900.
Treasury balance, August 8. $685.
4i296712.
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many records began to crumble before
the tide of visitors. records have con-
tinued to tumble, one by one.
The public tourist camp on the
Speedway by the Potomac River has
been a mushroom town Of tents and
are folded away. only to be replaced by
others. Last night nearly 1.600 were in
camp. and since January q total OF 49,
029 have been harbored there for Pc
RODS varying from day to a week.
City streets are full OF automobiles
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By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, August 10.-Tragedy which
stalked the dirigible Italia polar expe-
dition from the first has continued In
the footsteps of rescue expeditions.
On August a famished polar bear
attacked some members of the whaling
expedition OF the steamer Suaeai. which
has been searching north Of spitzbergen
for possible survivors of the Mobile ex-
pedition.
An Italian guide named Guidoz. who
had participated with great fortitude
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GRANADoS IN MEXICO.

MEXICO CITY, August 10 R.-
Miguel Garcia Granados, Guatemalan
army aviator, arrived at Valbuena Field
at 1:05 pm. yesterday after a nonstop
flight from Brownsville, Tex, in S
hours and IS minutes He is returning
home from a good will tour to Havana
and Washington.
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VISITING TOURISTS SKATER
D. C. RECORDS DESPITE HEAT
Nearly 400, 900 Persons Have Ascended To
of Washington Monument in Recent
Months, Records Show.
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG.

months ascended the of the
of tourists the Capitol and vpn Of historic
!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-10

While scores trudged. hot but eager,
toward entrance OF the Monument to-
day. an. of1icial gszed past them and up
along the silver shaft.
Visiting Records Tumble.
Exactly 3s3. .752 have been up to the
top during this year." he said. and
that is 50 1853 more than we had during
the same months last year. And 122.-
$40 Of them walked up the stairs this
year.
Oficials at Government buildings said
that ever since Easter Monday. when
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ALLIANCE OF BOOTLECCERS
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
in CITIES is REAL PROBLEM
Mrs. Willebrandt Reviews Difficulties In
Enforcing Dry Laws in Larger Towns,
but Sees Ultimate Success.

0rfcle
cut in the places where the
cities politics its head but ctoreS al
0r the
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BY MABEL WALKER w1LLEBRANDT.

Throughout the country there is opinion prevalent that 1T
country small
will succeed in drying the big cities"
foundation in
bulk OF the liquor trac everyone knows in the larger cities
that cannot disputed
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CONTEMPT is HELD
REMOVABLE CHARGE
Commissioner Turnage Rules That
Bowles Must Answer to U. s.
Court at Baltimore.

Contempt of court was held yester-
day to be removable offense by United
States Commissioner Needham G. Turn
age, when he held Norman S. Bowles,
former member of the District bar, for
removal to Baltimore to answer charge
of contempt of court preferred by Judge
William C. Coleman of the Federal
Court of Maryland. Bowles appeared
in a case before the court and repre-
sented himself to be a member of the
bar of the District, after he had been
diSbarred by the District Supreme
Court. Bowles recently was fined 500
by the local court for holding himself
out as a lawyer after his disbarment.
An appeal from that decision is pend
ing in the District Court of Appeals.
At the hearing before the commits
sioner, Bowles offered a pardon from
President Coolidge, under which he had
been released from a prison term, and
urged that it restored his civil rights, in
which he included the right to practice
law. Assistant United States Attorney
Neil Burkinshaw opposed the receiving
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London and Ambassador Hugh s. Glib
son, at Brussels. Neither of these dele
gates is expected to return to the
United States before the conference
opens January 81.
Secretary Stimson, who will head the
delegation to the parley; Secretary OF
the Navy Adams, Ambassador Morrow
and Senators Reed, Republican, Penn
svlyania. and Robinson, Democrat,
Arkansas, were those present. Admiral
William v. Pratt and Rear Admiral Hi
larry p. Jones, retired, the two ranking
naval advisers to the delegation, parttci-
pated
Undersecretary of State Cotton, upon
whose shoulders will fall the bulk of
the Iiaison work between President
Hoover and the delegation in London,
and William r. Castle, jr., Assistant
Secretary of State and special Ambas-
sador- designate to Japan during the
conference, assisted Stimson in the
preliminary conversations today.
F. L. Belin, who will be designated
secretary of the American commission;
Arthur Wilson Page, who will be Slim
sons personal aide and adviser, and j.
Theodore Marringer, chief of the West
ern European division of the State De-
partment, who will be a diplomatic ad-
wiser at the conference, also were
present.
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TWO WERE KILLED
|NJULY OUTBREAK
Four Big Prison Riots Were
Staged in Country During
Four Months.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 1.-TWO
prisoners were killed, IL wounded and
4 escaped in an outbreak at the Auburn
State Prison last July 90. Several
buildings were fired by the rioting con-
victs and damage estimated at a quar-
ter of a million dollars resulted TO
prison equipment.
State troopers aided guards and police
In quelling the riot.
This outbreak was the second OF a
series Of four major prison upriSingS
which occurred in various parts OF the
country within period OF four months
First at Clinton.
The first of the series occurred at
Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y, on
July %, known as Siberia" to the I'M
derworld, Clinton Prison houses only
the most desperate criminals. Thirteen
hundred of them rushed the guards in
a daring attempt to escape.
Three of the convicts were killed and
the uprising finally subdued by guards
and troops from the State Militia camp
at PlattSburg.
Convicts at the Federal penitentiary
at Leavenworth, Kans., rebelled over
the quality of their food and the dis
cipline system on August l. One prisoner
was killed and three injured.
The most serious of the four out
breaks was at the Colorado State Prison
at Canyon City october 3.
Colorado Mutiny.
Seven guards and five convicts lost
their lives in the Colorado mutiny. The
riot ended after "a hours of furious