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The Washington times., 1929-10-05
SENATE COMPROMISE ON NON PARTISAN TARIFF CONIDlI
To FIX
RIOT BLAME
CONTINUES

MARION, N. c., Oct. S
! G.N.S.).-Sitting as a magis-
trate in the Marion strike
probe, Superior Court Judge
Thomas J. Harding today
delved further into the riddle
of whether officers or strikers
fired the first shots in the
pitched battle between mill
workers and the sheriff's force
here.
Indications were the hearing win
last into next week. Today the court
will take recess at noon until
Monday. The hearing involves
Sheriff o. r. Adkins and eighteen
of his deputies who are under $4,000
bond each on charges Of murder
growing out the killing Of the five
strikers.
Officers Fire First
Along with them are being heard
the cases of 4o-odd strikers of the
Marion Manufacturing Company,
held on lesser bonds Of $500 each and
charged with rioting and rebellion.
A number of eye-witnesses, including
newspaper reporter. have testified
thus far that the first shots were
fired by the officers.
Y number of labor officials in.
cluding representatives of the United
Textile Workers Union which spon.
sored the Marion strike. are en- route
to Raleigh today to discuss the
labor situation with Gov. o. Max
Gardner. Some of them have de-
scribed the killings here as "the
blackest outrage in the stormy his.
tory of labor in America"
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
SLAy|NCS LAID
To DRY LAW

PHILADELPHIA, Oct 5.-Prohi.
bition has helped to keep the murder
rate of this country higher than
England's in the opinion of E. Roy
Calvert, secretary of the National
Council for the Abolition of the Death
Penalty, London. England.
Calvert has been supervising a
survey of crime both in this country
and in England.
There are 110 murders a year In
is country for every IA in England,
he asserted. Gang killings, COM
paratively few in England, help to
swell the total here. he pointed out.
"You have far more premeditated
murders than we. We have about
eliminated the murder for gain.
Nearly all of the murders in England
are pathological, committed by men
who are unable to realize the results
of their actions.
The greater certainty Of punish
ment. more efficient police and
court administration and the lack
of foreign population problems in
England were pictured by him as
other factors to explaining the
greater number of murders here.
Abolition of the death penalty
would make punishment more sure,
Calvert said. It would be easier to
procure convictions.
The Washington times., 1929-10-05

Sergeant Early it was who
started the furore against York 8
claim for which the Tennesseean
was given the highest award this
Government has to bestow for ex-
ceptional valor. The decoration
Early is expected to get Is the
next coveted by soldiers.
The Army's decoration board held
a special session and is understood
to have recommended that Secre.
tary Good grant the award at to-
days re-enactment of the battle
which made York famous. A letter
in the files OF the War Depart
ment dated back in 1920 was dug
out and it was used as the basis
for the decoration boards action on
the suggestion of ajor General
Wells. deputy chief of staff.
The letter called attention at that
time to belief held by many Of
which the 32Sth Infantry brigade to
which the 32Sth Infantry was at.
tached, that Early, as the noncom
missioned officer who gave the orig.
inalM order to advance with II men
against the German stronghold held
by 200 Germans, should have been
given the d. s. C..
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
WITNESS FOUND
I. IN RACE DEATH

BELAIR Nd, Oct. B.-An eye
witness to the shooting Of Ambrose
A. Morrison, Pinkerton detective, in
Havre de- Grace, last Monday night,
has been discovered. 1t was reported
by William Wagner, In charge Of
the Pinkerton investigation.
This person. whose identity the
detective would not reveal, was
within a stones throw Of the de-
tective when the latter was killed.
He plainly saw the shooting, It was
stated, from where he could not BE-
seen by the two principals.
h.: Brady Ordered Held
The discovery was the outstand.
ing development in the investigation
Of the shooting for which Frank V.
Brady. has been ordered held for the
November term of the grand jury
by a coroner's jury which sat
Thursday night.
According to Magistrate Martin
P. Foley, of Havre de Grace, no
der has been served, but the man
-
The new material witness is ex-
pected to be the mainstay of the
prosecutors evidence to be pre-
sented to the grand jury.
Wagner Takes Charge.
The neighborhood Of Havre de
Grace was secured by investigators.
who found several witnesses to hap.
penings previous to the shooting.
: Wagner. in charge Of the Pinker.
ton men investigating, assumed that
post on the departure of Edward s.
Clark, manager of the Baltimore of
flee. who was in charge personally
shortly after the affray. Clark said
Thursday night that reports that
Brady was formerly a Pinkerton
detective were false and that the
man had never been connected with
the agency.
Dewey Bowman. sheriff of Har-
fsrd county. conducted the official
Investigation.
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
DE NY NEGLECT
BY POLICE

A denial Of the charges, made
by Harry e. Strong, former police
man, to Police Court Judge Isaac
r. Hit that First precinct police
refused to allow him to communi-
cate with anyone outside" while
he was held at the station on a
traffic charge, was made today
by Policeman Chauncey A. Water
man, patrol wagon driver at the
station. ,-.'.
Waterman told reporters that he
had answered Strong's shouted re.
quests from the cell room by going
to the mans cell. Strong wanted
to telephone, but rules of the Po-
lice Department would not permit
it, Waterman said. Strong then
asked him to telephone Mrs. Strong,
his wife, and a professional bonds.
man. which Waterman said he did.
Records at the precinct show that
Strong made his bond of SIS and
was released for appearance in
court the following day, where he
made his charges to Judge Hit.
Judge Hit took Strong's personal
bonds on charges of driving an
automobile with bad breaks. At
the same time he dismissed the
case against Lee C. Brown, colored,
who was charged with drunken
ness. Brown made the same charge
against the police.
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
WOMAN IN JAIL
WINS 100000
Photo by International

NEW YOSK, Oct. Mrs. Esther
Evans Wilson, Washington society
matron, explorer, and big game
hunter, has not had her adventurous
spirit curbed by five months confine.
ment in the Welfare Island prison,
where she was sent for the shooting
Of her husband, Dallett H. Wilson.
lawyer and advisory member Of the
Republican National Committee.
Displaying an almost uncanny
knack for picking securities that
went up and then unloading at the
right time, Mrs. Wilson has made
profits of about 100000 in Wall
Street. it was learned today.
At her own request Mrs. Wilson
was placed in cell by herself where
she devotes her time to writing and
studying and scrutinizing the stock
market reports. She was sentenced
to the prison for year, after
wounding her husband last March 20
Mrs. Wilson, who is 40, led q
major hunting expedition into the
wilds of Africa, and on another oc.
casion was said to have ventured
nearer to the North Pole than any
other white woman. She was sep
arated from Wilson at the time Of
the shooting.
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
JURY To PROBE
AUTO DEATH

A Coroner's Jury will hear evi.
dence today in the circumstances
surrounding the death of Mrs. Julia
E. Clarke. so. of the 1000 block of
Twentieth st. n. W.. who, police
of the Third precinct say, was
struck by a street car near Con-
necticut Avenue and M Street
Northwest Tuesday night.
The motorman, H. l.. Heisman.
of Woodmont. Md. told police he
did not see Mrs. Clarke and that
he did not know his street car had
struck her until after the accident
had occurred. Mrs. Clarke died
yesterday in Emergency Hospital.
Police are holding John B. Young,
colored, 26, of the 2S00 block Of
Evans Rd. s. E., driver of truck
which last night struck and injured
Kenneth B. Moler. 81, of Mt. Rain
Ter, Md. at the intersection Of Yer.
mont Avenue and Thomas Circle
Northwest. Young was arrested
by Policeman r. J. Cannon, of tho
Third Precinct, who had. just fin
ished giving Moler street directions
when the latter stepped from the
curbing and was hit by the truck.
Moler was taken 10 Emergency Hos
pital, where it was found he is suf-
fering from a fracture of the left
leg.
Jack Miller, 13. of the 800 block of
Thirteenth st. n. W., suffered a
compound fracture of the left leg
when he was struck by a taxicab as
he crossed r Street, near the Ma
tional Theater. last night. He was
taken to Emergency Hospital. The
driver of the cab. John J. Zaiarkou.
sky, of the 300 block of M st.
N. W., was not held.
A hit-and-run driver is being
sought for the striking Of Elizabeth
Dietz. 26 years old. of the 120 block
of K st. s. F.. The alleged hit-and-
run act occurred at Thirtyfirst and
NJ Streets Northwest. The sedan
bearing Virginia license continued on
its way Miss Dietz was taken 10
Casualty Hospital and treated by
DR.. Louis Jimal for sprained liga
ments of the right knee.
r. D. Messler. 55. of the 500 block
Butternut st. N. W.. Is in an un-
determined condition at George
Washington University Hospital as
result Of being struck by an auto
mobile operated by MacKendal
Allen, of the $40 block of Eighth
st. N. w, police of the Second pre-
cinct report.
The intricacies of Mr.. Harland' s
left-hand turn were too much for
Miss Katherine b. DeShazo, 3S. of
the 1900 block of Biltmore st. N. w.
About $50 o'clock yesterday. she
attempted such a turn at Sixteenth
and o Streets Northwest, with the
result. police allege. that three cars
became involved in a collision. Miss
DeShaZo's car was struck by a
Washington Rapid Transit bus.
driven by Henry Wright, 3s. OF the
1900 block Clifton st. N. W., which
swerved into an automobile operated
by Mabel Mary Owens. 80. of the
l400 block of N st. n. W. Miss
DeShazo was taken to Emergency
Hospital and treated by DR.. John
Baber for shock. a wrenched back
and body bruises.
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
DANCER STICKS
To PANTAGES
STORY

Los ANGELES, Oct. s
G.N.S. after a lengthy de-
fense attack upon her story
Of what took place in the re-
ception room, of the Pantages
Theater last August, the testi-
mony Of Eunice Pringle, IT.
year-old coed with stage aspi-
rations, today stood practically
intact.
For two hours yesterday after.
noon she answered question after
question put to her by attorneys for
Alexander Pantages, wealthy theater
owner, in an attempt to break down
her story OF the alleged attack which
may result in a 50-year prison term
for the 57-year-old defendant.
The grilling cross-examination fol.
lowed the girls morning testimony
in which she voiced her accusations
under the direction of District Attor.
ney Buron Fits.
Re-enacts Scuffle
Several times during the ordeal
she was forced to halt, sob a bit,
then brush the tears away with a
handkerchief. -
She testified that. Pantages led
her into a small office on the mez.
canine floor of, his theater August
3 to discuss her application for a
booking with his vaudeville circuit.
Instead of discussing her vaudeville
engagement, the girl told the court,
Pantages told her of an unhappy do
mestic life. Then he began to make
love to her she asserted.
District Attorney Fits, imperson-
ating Pantages. directed a mock scuf-
file In which Eunice re-enacted the
theater mans alleged advances.
The girl said Pantages threw her
to the floor and placed his hand over
her mouth to keep her from crying
out.
She tainted then. she said. Re.
viving, she ran screaming from the
room with Pantages vainly trying
to stop her, according to her story.
Makes Jurors Weep
Some of the jurors wept as she
proceeded.
Jerry Geisler. for the defense,
took up the ton.
The training Of memory was In.
cluded in your studies?" he sud.
denly asked of the girl.
Yes"
You also studied the expression
Of dramatic emotion?"
Yes. in dramatics," Miss Pringle
answered.
Then followed a series of .ques-
tions, in which Geisler asked how
Eunice had met Pantages, how
often she had seen him before the
alleged assault, and when these
meetings had been.
Court was adjourned for the
weekend while Geisler was still in
the midst of his cross-examination.
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
State Connects Five
Strikers With Death
Of n. C.. Police Chief

CHARLOTTE, n. c., Oct. s.
Q.N.s).-Fred Erwin Beal. organizer
Of the Gastonia strike, and six of
his aides charged with the murder
of Police Chief o. F.. Adsrholt, ap-
parently are getting something Of
a "kick" out their second trial.
A month ago when they were being
tried for murder in the first degree,
conviction of which automatically
carries the death penalty, they were
silent, grim visaged group.
Today, as they are on trial again
after the State has reduced the
charges against them to second de.
gree murder. there is a noticeable
levity in their expression.
Thus far five Of the group have
been connected by the State evidence
with the melee. The only two who
have not yet been mentioned in the
States testimony are K. Y. Hendryx
and Clarence Miller. This is the sec.
ond day on which States evidence
was heard.
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
Bids for New Air Mail
Route Soon to Be Asked

The Postoffice Department yes
terday announced that bids for an
air mail service between Norfolk,
Va. and Washington, Pittsburgh
and Cleveland soon will be asked.
Assistant Postmaster Genera
Warren I. Glover said the route
is already lighted from Cleveland
to Pittsburgh with an air.mail ser.
vice in operation, its contract expir'
ing next May.
The route from Washington to
Pittsburgh has been surveyed and
is to be lighted by April 1.
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
Two COlOred Churches
To Fete Anniversary

Anniversary services will begin
tomorrow at two of the leading
colored churches of the city.
Shiloh Baptist Church. Ninth and
p Street Northwest. will celebrate
it's sixty-sixth anniversary which
will cortinus through two weeks.
Among the speakers will be DR.. Nor.
decai Johnson, president of Howard
University. The Rev. j. Milton
Waldron is pastor of the church.
Friendship Baptist Church, First
and II Streets Southwest, of which
the Rev. B. Fl. Whiting Is pastor. will
observe it's fifty-four anniversary be-
ginning tomorrow morning at II
o'clock when the pastor will speak.
In the afternoon the Rev. AcouilIa
Sayles will speak while the evening
servicek will be conducted by the
Rev. E l. Loving, secretary Of the
Baptist Ninistsss' Ssatsr0nes.
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
WILL 7 urn
T0RATES
SOON
By WIN. K. HUTCHINSON
international NeMa Service

international News Service
Under an armistice in which
compromise was again substi-
tuted for partisan warfare, the
Senate had moved today to
take the United States Tariff
Commission out of politics by
proclaiming it a nonpartisan,
judicial, fact-finding agency
for administration of the tariff
law.
The commission, If it follows the
instructions laid down by the
Senate. will "act judicially" at all
times and ignore all partisanship
and party policy" in it's recon-
mendations. This compromise, by
which the present membership of
three Republicans and three Demo
Gratis Is retained, was adopted with
out record vote. 1t marked the
settlement of another heated tariff
dispute by amicable means, and
served to emphasize the laments of
Republican leaders that President
Hoover entered the flexible tariff
controversy only to go down to de-
feat,
New Treasury List
The Senate Finance Committee,
meanwhile, forwarded to the
Treasury Department another list
of 400 industrial. mercantile, and
importing concerns for reports on
their financial records" during the
last seven years. The Republican
membership sponsored 2S2 names.
topped by the great mercantile
houses of Sears, Roebuck & Co,
John wanamaker. Saks & Co.,
Houbigant, Inc, Lord & Taylor,
Alfred Dunhill, Inc. Gimbel Bros,
r. H. Macy & Co. F: w. wool
worth Co. Marshal Field & Co.
Montgomery Ward & Co., 8. s.
Kresge Co., and the Grnen Watch.
makers Guild.
The other 11S names included two
sets of pencil, lumber. and timber
companies in the Far West. Most
Of these were suggested by Senator
steiwer R) Of Oregon in behalf OF
the Oregon congressional delegation:
The Senate's action on the Tariff
Commission left but one major con-
troyersy over the administrative
features of the bill. This will In
volve the right OF manufacturers
and representatives of organized
labor to participate in cases before
the IT. &, Customs Courts involving
controversies over duties. Demo
cratic opposition has developed
against the provision, although the
American Federation of Labor
Endorsed 1t.
Norris Writes Compromise
eff this provision is persisted in,
Senator King CD of Utah, an
nounced. IT shall seek to amend 1t
SO q similar right is extended to
representatives of consumers or
ganiza tions. I think it Is a very
unwise provision
The Tariff Commission compro-
mise was fathered by Senator
Norris (R.) of Nebraska. He spon-
sored an amendment, continuing
existing law. but adding this dec
laration: 1T is hereby declared to
be the intention Of Congress to
provide that the Tariff Commis-
sion in all it's official functions
shall act judicially and that in he
determination of any matter sub
mitted to it, no consideration what
ever. shall be given to partisanship
or party policy"
Administration leaders arranged
q brief session of the Senate today,
meeting at 10 a. m. with the pur-
pose of adjourning at l p. M, ow-
Ing to the visit of Premier Ramsay
Macdonald.
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
Vets Vote Confidence
In, Ex-InspectOr Shelby

A resolution expressing confidence
in the honesty, integrity. and ef.
ficiency Of William s. Shelby, re-
Gently relieved Of duty al inspector
Of the police department, has been
adopted by unanimous vote Of the
Admiral George Dewey Camp,
United Spanish War Veterans.
The resolution. adopted last night.
was presented by Bernard s.
Buscher. adjutant. It set forth that
since the Grand Jury in it's report
to the Supreme Court Of the Dis
trict of Columbia attacked the
integrity" of Shelby. a comrade Of
Dewey Camp. the veterans sx-
pressed sntiGe and absolute tAonn
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
Shadow Fiend' Executed
For Attacks in Atlanta

MILLEDGEvILLE, Ga, Oct. S
n.N.SJ.--Alvin e. Merritt. the So
called shadow fiend." yesterday paid
with his life for a series of attacks
upon Atlanta women in a fashion
able residential section of that city
early last spring.
Merritt was electrocuted at the
State prison here at 1911 o'clock
this afternoon.
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
-PhotO
STOCK MARKET is KIND
MD. DOCTOR, ST..
KILLS SELF

CUMBERLAND. Md, Oct. 5.-Dr.
Chauncey T. Scudder. 81, practic-
ing physician, former member of
the Maryland legislature and a vet
eran OF the Spanish-American war,
was found in his bathroom by Mrs.
Scudder with a bullet wound in his
head.
He died shortly after being re-
moved to Allegheny Hospital. A
certificate of suicide was issued after
it was found he had purchased a
revolver at noon and had stood
before the mirror and sent the
bullet through his temple.
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
700 Tobacco Workers
Denied Use of
Cosmetics

RICHMOND, Va, Oct s.
Seven hundred girls employed
under one roof in Richmond use
no cosmetics during working
hours. They arrive minus pow.
der, rouge or lipstick at a. m.
and they leave at without hav-
ing once pulled out a powder
puff, touched up a cupid's bow
with the lipstick. or looked In a
mirror, Moreover. they say they
like It. Believe II or not.
The girls are employees in the
cigarette factory Of the Virginia
branch Of the American Tobacco
Company.
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
Navy Awards Contracts
For Plane Wing Floats

The Navy Department yesterday
awarded two contracts totaling
$179,727 for wing tip floats for
naval planes.
The largest contract for $685.
442. was awarded to the Great
Lakes Aircraft Corporation, Of
Cleveland, Ohio. while the other
contract Of s21,2sS was given 10
the PolIak MapI1sacturing CO.. eS
aAklAus4oa. .1NA
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
C0STE IS SAFE
IN MANCHUR|A

PARIS, Oct. S GN.S.).-Capt.
pieudonne Costes and Maurice Bel
lonte, famous French airmen given
UP for lost in a sensational attempt
to shatter all non-step distance
flight records, landed at Kowchinza,
q tiny village near TsitsiHar, Man.
churia, a dispatch from Harbin re.
vealed today.
II the dispatch is true and the
fliers safe. 1t means that they have
broken the existing distance record
by more than 400 miles.
In addition to the dispatch from
Tsitsi-Har, the French air ministry
has received an unofficial COM
munication in which the fliers were
quoted as saying they landed at 3
D, m. yesterday.
There obviously is some miscalcu-
lation in time. or else the landing in
Manchuria was not made after a
direct, nonstop flight from Paris.
The airmen took off from lie
Bourget Air Field a week ago
yesterday, and. on the following
sunday. were reported sighted some
distance from Irkutsk, Siberia.
There is a possibility the message
was sent by the fliers some days
ago and was badly delayed in trans
mission. Their plane, the Question
Mark, was not equipped from the
point of view of fuel supply to re-
main in the air for a week at
stretch.
The air ministry confessed itself
unable to understand the message,
and took immediate steps to verify
It.
Costes and Bellonte failed in an
attempt to fly the Atlantic several
months ago, turning back to France
when caught in a violent storm over
the Azores. Both are well-known war
aces.
LONDON. Oct. s.. n.N.S1.-Dis-
matches from Osaka. Japan. to the
evening newspapers here today state
that the French fliers Costes and
Bellonte have landed at the village
of KowchinEa, near Tsitsi-har. There
0rs no detailA
The Washington times., 1929-10-05
Early York Platoon
Leader, Gets d. S. G.
by International

As result of the flare up the Congressional
Medal awarded Sergt Alvin c. York. Tennessee mounaneer,
credited with killing IS Germans and capturing 1872 at Chatel
Chehery France October 1918 Sergt Bernard Early Com
pany g. 32Sth Infantry, Yorks platoon commander probably
will receive the DISTINGUISHED Service Cross today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-25
Effects Of Prohibition Cited.

Since prohlbltlon the american up
petite has changed. 1t Is up to us
who have so much to do with feeding
the people of our beloved land to sup
plant the former craving for strong
drink with something that is better and
more wholesome, and to uphold the
hands of President Hoover in his strong
efforts to enforce the law in this coun-
try.
In addition to several other hotel
connections, Mr.. Conn is vice president
of the District of Columbia Hotel As
ISOLATION
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-25

outline the plan Of campaign and dis
tribute to the canvasSers large guam
titles Of literature describing advan-
tages Of membership In the Y. M. G. A.
William B. Burrus of New York, "in-
spirational sales counselor" Of q
prominent corporation, will give a talk
or Telling and Selling"
To Explain Details.
c. z. Fleming. secretary of the sps-
cial membership committee will ca
plain details of the drive. Talks may
be made by other officers of the cam
paign committee, including DR.. E. M.
Ellison and q. D. Blackstone, vice
chairmen, and Harry j. Miller, pub
licity director.
Chairmen Of the eastern. midwest
ern ard western divisions. into which
the teams have been grouped, will tell
of plans they have mapped out. John
w. Hardell is chairman of the eastern
group, Charles w. Pimper is head OF
the midwestern teams and w. c. Han
son has supervision of the western d.
vision.
Personnel of the various teams will
be announced at the meeting.