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GRANT TO PUSH
D. c. BATHING POOLS
Need Brought Out by Heat
Wave-AvoidS River
Pollution Problem.

The recent prolonged heat wave,
which strikingly manifested the lack
of adequate bathing facilities in Wash
ington, has led Col. u. S. Grant, Sd,
director of public buildings and public
parks of the National Capital, to make
definite plans to carry out the compre-
hensive bathing pool construction pro-
gram authorized by Congress in 1926.
Col. Grant said he would make a
vigorous effort at the coming session
of Congress, IN December, to procure
funds to build two additional pools,
which could be completed and made
ready for use by next Summer. Two
pools, one at Mckinley Technical High
School and the other at the Francis
Junior High School. are the only ones
constructed under the old program, and
these are inadequate, it has been shown,
to meet the demand of the public for
bathing facilities in hot weather.
Authorization of the bathing pool
construction program followed the clos
ing of the Tidal Basin bathing beach,
which Congress legislated out OF ex-
istence. This program provided for
two large pools, but when 1t was SUBJ
sequently discovered that pools of great
size were difficult TO keep clean and
sanitary, series of IL small pools were
authorized. These pools were to be
strategically located in various sections
of the District where they would most
conveniently serve the different COM
munities.
Program Is Amended.
The pools at Mckinley High School
and the Francis Junior High School
were the first to be constructed under
the series plan, and before appropria-
tions for any of the remaining 10 were
forthcoming, Congress, in February,
1929, amended the program, fixing SIX
additional pools as the total to be built
and limiting the cost to $150,000 each.
The failure of the pool construction
program has been felt more this sum
Continued on Page 2, Column IL
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Richards Gathers Figures on
Area and Land Values for
Senator Bingham.
BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY
READY TO MAKE INQUIRY
New Population Figures Are Now
Available and May Be Checked
by Experts.

With fiscal relations between the
United States and District Governments
regarded as one of the chief local ques-
lions to come before the next session OF
Congress, District officials are taking
steps to assemble as much data as pos
sible on taxation here and in other
cities.
The special House Committee created
just before adjournment to investigate
the subject has not called on Federal or
District agencies up to this time for in
formation, but in view of the fact that
the text of the resolution directs the
committee to inquire into present and
proposed methods of taxation, Commits
sioner Reichelderfer has suggested to
Assessor William P. Richards that he
gather such information on tax mat
tiers as might be called for in such a
study.
At the same time Senator Bingham
OF Connecticut, chairman OF the Senate
|! subcommittee on District appropriations
has asked the local authorities to COM
pile for him the latest available figures
on the area and value of land held by
the United States, the amount held by
the District government, other tax
exempt property and certain data re-
Ia ting to taxable real estate.
This is a clear indication that while
the House has its special committee
delving into the problem, Senator Bing-
ham will be arming himself with facts
and figures for the guidance OF his SUBJ
committee in considering the next ap-
preparation bill and in considering what
ever proposals the House may advance
Differences Brought to Head.
The Iong-standing difference in view
point between members OF the two
| branches of Congress as to what con-
| stitutes fair division of the cost OF
maintaining the Capital City was
brought to a head at the last session
when the Senate declined to yield again
to the House on 100000 as the Fed
eral share in a total appropriation bill
of more than $45 900, 900, and succeeded
in obtaining compromise on S9,500,0 DOC
a few hours before adjournment.
1t was Immediately following this
compromise for the current fiscal year
that Representative Simmons Of Ne
braska, in charge of local appropria-
lions in the House, had the resolution
! adopted under which the Speaker has
named a special committee of seven
House members to go further into the
fiscal relations problem and also to de-
| termine whether new forms of loca
| taxation should be considered.
The promptness with which Senator
Bingham has moved since the adjourn
ment of Congress to have further date
collected means that research work or
the question in preparation for the next
session will not be confined by any
means to the House inquiry.
| The Bureau of Efficiency Is holding
itself in readiness In make anV inVeSti.
Continued on Page 2, Column So
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Jim DANDY, 100 TO |,
BEATS GALLANT FOX
Years Greatest Racing Upset
Sees Outsider Lead Cham
piOn Home.
special pispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y, August
16,-Gallant Fox, pride of the Belair
stud and 3-year-old champion of the
year, finally met his Waterloo here to-
day after six successive major stake
triumphs, but not at the hoofs Of
Harry Payne Whitney's Whichone, his
admitted deadliest rival.
While $4,000 race-mad enthusiasts
looked on and swayed to excitement as
the small but select field battled
through the stretch, the Stout-hearted
son of Sir Gallahad III and Marguerite
was forced to take the mud of Chaffee
Earl's Jim Dandy, 100-to-1 shot, after
he had broken the heart and the heels
of the flying Chicle colt.
Gallant Fox met his Waterloo in the
sixty-first running Of the Travers,
Americas Oldest stake, which ever has
been the graveyard of thoroughbred
dreams History repeated itself in this,
the latest chapter of the TraverS, and
doubly so. 1t was in the Travers that
Reign Count, much in the same position
as Gallant Fox stands today, ran last
in field of four to Petee Wrack, Vic
torian and Sun Edwin two years ago.
And last year Chaffee Earl sent this
same Jim Dandy, that took the measure
OF (IdlldIlI FOX GOOdy, OUT EIdoI W WAi
the Grand Union Hotel stakes at the
juicy odds of so to /.
Whichone Pulls Up Lame.
Gallant Fox may yet go on to all the
triumphs attained by Reign Count, the
champion of his year. Beaten, he was
not diSgraced, nor was Whichone dis
graced, though beaten farther. Yet, his
chances in future are slim, indeed, for
in the running not even the bar plate,
which hampered him. could protect the
quarter crack 1t shielded, and he pulled
up so lame Sonny Workman was forced
Immediately to dismount.
Few of the big crowd OF SO ,000-one
of the very largest that has ever seen
thoroughbreds run in the East-suspect-
ed the tragedy to Whichone. And
among that number was Gov. Franklin
d. Roosevelt and his staff. Gov. RooSe-
welt, as well as George H. Bull, presi-
dent of the Saratoga Association talked
over a nationwide hook-up shortly
after the finish of the race.
For until the very finish 1t was a
horse race fit for the gods of sports-a
titanic battle between the giant two
that exhausted stamina and strength
to degree where a David might step
in to Stay Goliath. Neither would
give an inch of ground to the other
They raced at breakneck speed. far in
front of the other two, till they were
drunk and Keeling from their efforts.
Then, when they had spent themselves
beyond peradventure, F. Baker, on Jim
Dandy, came through the heavier going
between them and the rail and carried
on to brilliant victory.
The track over which this Travers
Continued on Page 2, Column a.
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j. S. REVIEWS PROBE
OF EWALD CHARGES
State Prosecutor Also Acts
as Gov. Roosevelt Asks
Records in Case.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 16.-Instead Of
ending Investigations into the charge
that $4,000 was paid to influence
George J. Ewald's appointment as a city
magistrate, the collapse of county in
quiry this week has led to Federal in
quiry of new intensity and today a
State investigation also seemed possible.
A county grand jury declined to in
dict anybody after hearing the story of
a $4,000 loan made by the resigned
magistrates wife to a Tammany district
leader at about the time of Ewalds ap-
pointment.
But today District Attorney Grain
complied with request from Gov.
Roosevelt for the records of the case,
and Federal Attorney Tuttle prepared
subpoenaS for all the principals.
Tuttle tried once to get some light on
Mrs. Bertha Ewald's loan of $4,000,
without interest, to Martin j. Healy,
Tammany official and former city official
in l927-but Mrs. Ewald, Healy and
Thomas T. Tommaney, sheriff's clerk,
through WHOSE hands the loan passed,
declined to testify. He called today for
the minutes of the county grand jury's
proceedings, and planned, with them as
basis, to renew his questioning, forth
fed also with bank records of Healy
and the Ewalds.
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.HOODLUM LEDGER
SHAKES CHICAGO
Judges, Police and Politicians
Must Explain Names on
Zuta Books.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 16-The ledger of
a slain gangster furnished eloquent
testimony today, something no living
hoodlum ever gave.
1t told of the rich profits of the
liquor traffic, of a notorious gangs
losses in dog race enterprise, of loans
and gifts, and contained the names OF
judges, policemen and politicians.
Public Men Rush to Explain.
1t started a procession of public mer
to the State attorneys office to explain
their entries on the books of the Moran
Aiello gang.
At the Criminal Court Building q
corps of photographers was busy
throughout the day making photostatiC
copies of more than 800 pages from the
ager, who was shot dead by four mes
just two weeks ago in a Delafield, Wis.
dance hall while he dropped nickels II
music box
Those pages, only few of which
have been examined and made public
by the investigators, already have given
the first documentary evidence ever
obtained III Chicagos gang history OF
an affiliation, friendly or commercial
between the underworld and public Of
fcials.
Judge Confronted With Checks.
Judge Joseph Schulman of the Mu-
nicipal Court, payee of checks totalins
| $4,000 and indorser of notes aggregat-
ing $500, fastened home from South
Haven, Mich, to offer explanation Of
his dealings Needing money to builc
a home several years ago, he said, ht
had obtained the required sum from
Morris Greene, an attorney, giving hi:
personal checks with advanced dates tt
| be cashed later in settlement. Greene
was attorney for zuta.
IT never attached any significance tt
Zuta's signature on the checks" III
said.
Louis I. Fisher, attorney and brother
of a judge, told the investigators III
could not remember for what purpose
he was given $500 and 800 checks
made out by Zuta tc currency and in
dorsed by Fisher.
1T knew Zuta, but never received any
money or checks from him." Fisher
said. IT am certain didn't get thest
checks from Zuta. They may have
been for attorneys fees or in settle
ment of card games"
Two Trunks Hunted.
While the States attorneys inveSti
gators took Zuta's post norton teStl
mony from his minutely detailed books
others hunted through the city for twt
trunks believed TO contain other rec,
! IN0pf}p1ad on paoe . Column Al
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GIRL BELIEVED KIDNAPPED
TO PREVENT PROSECUTION
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Smith of
Unity, Md, Ask Aid of Mont
gomery County Police.

Mr.. and Mrs. W. M Smith Of Unity,
Md, last night reported to Montgomery
County police that they believed their
daughter Retha had been kidnapped to
prevent her from prosecuting an al
legged fraudulent marriage charge Po-
lice said they were informed that the
girl disappeared last Sunday, the day
before her sixteenth birthday.
Howard County records show that
Kenneth Higgins, IS years old, of Eli
colt City, Md, is being held on bail
of $4,000 on a charge of having been
a principal in an alleged faxed we'd
ding. Retha Smith was said to have
been the supposed bride. Jennings
Bazzell, also of Howard County, is also
out on bail, on charge of having i'm
personated a minister in connection
with the affair.
The fraudulent marriage charge was
supposed to have gone to trial in
Ellicott City on September 1.
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BY the Associated Press.


ELMIRA, N. Y, August I6.-Ailene
Holmes and Mabel HuSa, directors of
the Workers International Relief Camp
at Van Etten, near here, were convicted
of insulting and desecrating the Ameri-
can flag in Justice Of the Peace West
brooks court at Van Etten today.
Each was sentenced to pay a fine of
$50 and to spend three months in the
Monroe County Penitentiary.
Flag Refused, Is Charge.
The charges resulted from the alleged
refusal of the two young women to ac-
cept an American flag for the camp, a
refusal which, the witnesses said, was
accompanied by the statement ITO he'll
with the American flag and the Ameri-
can Government"
A red flag bearing the sickle and
hammer was destroyed by group of
Pennsylvanians last week.
Miss Beatrice Carlin of the Workers
International Relief Society and the In
ternational Labor Defense was trying
to reach Supreme Court justice to-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17

Quick action on the part of the opera
tor of a Seminary, Va, bound bus
shortly before midnight last night
thwarted an attempted hold-up of the
coach by man who had thrust shot
gun into its door as it stopped to admit
him as a passenger.
E. L. Prince. driver of the A. B. and
w. Co. bus, brought the vehicle to a
stop short distance west of Alexandra
on the run to Seminary from Washing
ton, when he saw q man standing by
the roadside as though cswaiting to
board the bus.
The man, who Prince declared he
into the door with the curt order:
Hands upp'
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AIR RACERS PO|SE
IN MANY CITIES TO
START BIG DERBY
Pistol Shot on Radio to Signal
Getaway of Women in
Dash at Long Beach.
MANY THOUSANDS
IN PRIZES OFFERED
Event Expected to Promote Knowl-
edge and Develop Handy
Small Plane.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
CHICAGO, Augut 16.-Scores of
planes stood poised, East, North, Sohth
and West today to wing to Chicago for
the 1880 National Air Races, hailed as
a studied effort to hasten the day when
Americans, en- maSse, will take to the
skies.
The report of gun fired in Chicago,
echoed by radio to Long Beach, Calf,
tomorrow will launch the first great
sweeping movement Chicagoward of
planes. That will be the start of the
woman's derby, one of seven from
scattered points on the rim of the
country, to converge on Curtiss
Reynolds Airport for the races August
% to 80.
Air race executives emphasized to-
night that the program of these 1880
air olympics is particularly designed to
develop a docile little plane to fit the
purse and needs of the average citizen,
long the aim of the. manufacturers.
For example, there is a special prize
offered for planes taking off and land
ing in a 15o-foot circle-low landing
speed being deemed especially essential
in ships for laymen. And to encourage
flying by laymen, competitions for
"sportsmen," or amateur pilots, are on
the program for the first time in the
history of the races.
Information to Result.
Moreover, all of the competitions, in
Guiding the derbieS, are calculated to
give information needed in building
planes for general use, according to
Maj. Reed Lands, director of the
races
1.-THE races are designed to bring about
an increase in the speed of aircraft with
This lowers the initial investment and
operating cost and makes the plane
more desirable TO the average person.
Then, too, an aim is to decrease land
ing speed as step toward greater
safety.
Exciting and colorful as the races
will be, they are, after all, primarily a
practical laboratory from which even
tually will come a plane within the
be parked in bed room, so trustworthy
1t can be used by nurse to take the
children for a spin and so amenable II
can be landed In a back yard il
necessary.
Millions to BE Spent.
1.-The air races this year will cost
| millions of dollars and months of cease
less preparation. Ten million dollars
worth of airplanes will be on hand and
there will be million spectators. Yet
those who question the value of the races
should remember that the automobile
driver today with the automobile race
spectator 20 years ago. Spectators OF
the 1880 air races will be the pilots a
few years hence"
Although the program at Curtiss-
Reynolds Airport does not begin until
| next Saturday, six of the air derbies
get under way this week and several
/ events. including a mammoth inaugural
parade, the annual banquet and re-
ception of the National Aeronautic AS
ISOLATION and special events honoring
noted flyers from Germany, France and
England, are scheduled in Chicago
Events at the airport have been ar
(Contlnued OH Page 7, Column So
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BUS BANDIT WITH SHOTGUN
FOILED BY QUICK-WITTED DRIVER
Washington Coach Way to Seminary, Va Escapes
Hod-Up After Thrill for Passengers.

Prince ducked as the man stepped
back for q moment and his six pas
sengers, including one woman, dove
foot and Prince threw in the bus ReaFs
and the vehicle lurched forward and
away to safety.
At the time Prince was carrying
about $50 In cash.
As the coach sped away the woman
passenger, whose name was not OBJ
tanned by the driver, declared that she
had attended her first motion picture
show in 10 years on her visit to WASH
ington and, she declared, she "ajtlst
knew something was going to happen"
Alexandria police, who were notified
Of the attempted robbery, were comb
ing the countryside In their search for
the bandit at an early hour today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The AZ varieties of woman's legal
status in the 4S States of the United
States had been summarized yesterday
in the catechism form Of query and
answer by the League Of Women Voters.
The questions were compiled under
supervision of DR.. Sophonisba p. Breck-
1nridae, professor of social economy OF
the University of Chicago, while Mrs.
Sayilla Mills Simons, graduate OF that
university, performed the detailed re-
search necessary to find the answers.
All in all they fill volume OF 228
napes. titled "A Survey of the Legal
Status of Women in the Forty-eight
States"
"Can a wife collect for services per-
formed in a homer" the survey asks
"There is no State in which the wife
may collect for services performed in
her own home" 1t answers.
"Is the wife entitled TO voice in the
choice of the family homer" is another
query.
On no state is the wife entitled x
determine the choice of the famil,
home" is the answer to that one.
questions Of contractual rights, prop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
GEORGIA DEPUTY SHERIFF
KILLED AT WAREHOUSE
Body Found on Loading Platform
After Shooting at 8 O'Clock
in the Morning.
NV the Associatsd Press.

BY the Associated Press
BUTLER, Ca, August 16.--The body
of Homer Bazemore, a deputy sheriff
of Taylor County, was found face
downward in a pool of blood here
today. His pistol, containing one empty
cartridge, lay feet away.
A coroners jury heard several wit
nesses and recessed until Monday
morning. Witnesses said powder burns
were noted on the forehead.
The shooting took place about 8
o'clock this morning on cement
loading platform at q cotton ware
house, after the officer had arisen
and left his home.
Members of his family said he
frequently left the house during the
night. a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
MINES MINISTER LEADS
RESCUERS IN EXPLOSION
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BLACKBURN, British Columbia,
August l6-Despite belief that lower
levels of the Blackburn mine, in which
an unexplained explosion occurred last
Wednesday, entombing As men, was a
blazing furnace, rescue crews re-entereo
its main tunnel again today, after being
forced to withdraw last night because
of smoke and gas.
AS mine officials and rescue workers
all believed today none OF the men re-
naming in the mine could be alive, the
death list was set at As. Four bodies
have been brought out, and one man
got out alive. Forty-one miners are not
accounted for.
w. A. Mckenzie, minister of mines
decided today TO resume the search and
personally led the party into the
tunnel.
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SWIFT, JR., is SUICIDE;
ALCOHOLISM VICTIM
Chicago Meat Packers Son
Shoots Himself in New York
Sanitarium.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 16.-William
Swift, member of the Chicago meat
packers family, shot himself to death
late tonight in Park avenue Sani-
tarium, where he was undergoing treat
ment.
Swift, who was 80 years old and mar
ried, was undergoing treatment for In
flammation of the brain, alcoholism and
pital eight months.
Edward CoWle, head of the sanitarilm,
notified the medical examiners office
of the shooting, and police and med
ical examiner hurried to the institution.
The patient had been shot through
the heart with a .38-caliber revolver,
long-barreled and of the type used for
target practice. The weapon lay on the
floor beside the body.
Hospital officials said the man had
tried earlier in the night to jump from
the window Of his fifth-story room. He
was restrained by man nurse, who
put him to bed Half an hour later
the nurse heard shot and ran to the
room to find the patient lying on the
floor with bullet through his heart.
Leaves Wife and Son.
CHICAGO, August Is william
e. Swift, 80, who was found self-slain
in New York hospital tonight, was
the youngest son of Louis r. Swift,
president of Swift g. Co., meat packers
Friends here blamed his suicide on
dependency over i'll health.
Swift is survived by his wife, who
was Miss Helen Morton. and a son, Will
liam, 5 years old. His father is in
Europe, and he leaves also two broth
ers, Alden Swift of Chicago and Louis
F. Swift. jr., of Denver, Colo, and a
sister, Mrs. James Minotto
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Curtis Rescues
Woman Knocked
Down by Horses
Vice President Springs
From Coach After Fright.
ened Animals Shy.
BY the Associated Press.

PORTSMOUTH, r. l., August 10
Vice President Charles Curtis jumped
from William H. Vanderbilt'S coach to
aid woman knocked over by the horses
here today.
The accident occurred at the entrance
to Oakland Farm, the Vanderbilt estate.
The party was returning from the New
port horse show to garden party, with
Everett Colby of Orange, N. j., prom
inent New York lawyer, at the reins.
The horses, frightened by band,
SHE'D slightly and Mrs. Bertha Horton
of Providence and Mrs. j. B. McLennan
of Portsmouth were knocked over. The
Vice President sprans from the coach
to Mrs. Horton. who was not seriously
injured while Mayor Mortimer A. Sulli-
van Of Newport dragged Mrs. McLennan
from in front of the coachs wheels.
Mrs. McLennan was taken for treatment
to the Newport Hospital.
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Train Hits Crowd; 100 Hurt.

ZAGREB, Jugoslavia, August 10 lF1.
"A freight train ran into large crowd
watching a fireworks display from a
railway bridge here tonight and about
100 persons were injured
Many persons leaped from the bridge
into the waters Of the Save River.
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MACHADO DENIES UNREST
Cuban President Says This Country
Will Not Intervene.

HAVANA. August 16 (P.-President
Machado in an interview today with
the Associated Press discredited recent
reports of political dissatisfaction and
unrest in Cuba. He also denied reports
that the United States might inter-
vene in the Cuban elections this Fail.
AT the present time" he said, the
political situation of the republic Is
normal Peace prevails throughout the
island and I have the honor of being
the first Cuban President who has not
seen actual or attempted overthrow Of
government by armed revolution during
his administration"