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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
SECOND WOMAN
QU|zZED IN PROBE
Witness Is Said to Have Been
With Buckley Day Before
He Was Slain.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, August 2.-Police today
frightened their hold on young woman
who they say knows the "voice" which
lured Jerry Buckley to his death and
took another woman into custody for
questioning.
radio station WMBC-the station for
which Buckley was the militant political
commentator-waS ordered held for 20
hours more under the equivalent of
$4,000 bond after hearing this
morning before Judge Henry s. Sweeny
in Recorders Court on o writ of habeas
corpus.
The latest woman to enter the case is
Miss Ethel Bronson, said by police to
have been with Buckley "a hours be-
fore he was shot down. She was re-
leased tonight. Police said she had
revealed nothing of Importance in the
case.
Meanwhile, the police said they were
continuing their search for Egbert M.
Hofmann, scion Of q wealthy family.
whose bank book. showing average daily
deposits Of $4,000 for recent weeks. was
found in Miss ManseIl's apartment.
He had not been found, but his at
had made some sort of a statement"
to Police Commissioner Thomas c.
Wilcox Hofmann's secretary, Behr
said, lived with Miss Mansell She
frequently made deposits for him of
rents collected for his mother, whom
he described as very wealthy
woman"
TT is perfectly natural" he added,
that his secretary should have taken
the book to her home and then have
forgotten 1t. She left early this week
for her vacation and no one knows
where she is"
Hofmann, member of a prominent
and wealthy family. is regarded as
rather eccentric. He has been acting
as q volunteer policeman under the
administration of Mayor Charles
Bowles. who was recalled July ~ after
a bitter campaign in which Buckley
criticized the administration Buckley
was killsd two hours after he an
nounced the result of the election.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
MEARS PREPARES
TO HOP Off TODAY
Flyer Speeds to Harbor
Grace From New York
for Start.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press
HARBoR GRACE, Newfoundland
August 2.--John Henry Mears, who
twice in q comparatively short lifetime
has broken the round-world time record
only to see it again shattered, was
poised here tonight for the longest hop
OF his latest effort. 1900 miles across
the North Atlantic from this airport
TO the Baldonnel Airdrome at Dublin
ireland.
Mears dropped out Of the skies at
1:55 O'Clock Eastern Standard Time
this afternoon in his red and silver
monoplane, the City of New York, after
q speedy flight from Roosevelt Field,
N. Y, in the unusually good time Of 8
hours and IS minutes. The distance
was 1850 miles.
TaiIwind I'd Goes Along.
with him were two passengers, Henry
J. Brown, 31-year-old airmail pilot,
who acquitted himself perfectly in his
nrst long overwater test, and Tailwind
I'd. terrier and the gift to Mrs. Mears
from Mary Plck1or0.
II all goes well, and there was every
prospect tonight that weather tomor-
row would be as near to ideal as pos
sible over the dead stretch of the fog
shrouded North Atlantic which they
must next negotiate, the flyers hope to
be of at dawn.
The worlds record for the circum-
ferential journey they have undertaken
is 81 days, 8 hours and rs minutes, and
IL belongs to the Graf Zeppelin which
made the mark last year. Mears and
Brown hope to cut it to is days.
The trim craft circled over this city
twice before it came gracefully to q
perfect landing. Mears alighted while
Brown TAXED back to the head OF the
field and both we're given rousing
cheers by the large crowd which quickly
closed in upon them.
Tune Up Plane for Hop.
The two men posed for about 20
minutes for newspaper and other pho
tographers and then turned their at
tention to the all-important business
of tuning up the plane for its greatest
test tomorrow A local aviation me-
chAnic took the ship in hand and be-
san a detailed check for possible flaws.
Mears set worlds record in 1913
BY girdling the globe in IS days, Fl
hours and So minutes. Again, in 1923,
he made new mark Of % days, Is
hours, 81 minutes and 3 seconds. On
that trip he was accompanied by G. b.
D. Collyer The men used an airplane
to cross Europe and Asia, but steam
ers on the oceans.
The next year the Graf Zeppelin
still further lowered the mark.
The Mears-Brown flight tomorrow
Will be the FIRST west-to-east crossing
attempted in 1880, Mai. C. s. Wynne-
Eyton of England, who was to have
made the first try on July 10. crashed
on July at st. Johns during test
flight and was injured. His plane was
demolished and the flight abandoned
for this year at least.
Confident Of Success.
Mears said tonight he was confident
Of success. The plane he is using Is a
Lockheed Vega cabin monoplane.
They hope to cross the Atlantic in IA
hours. The plane used up ITS gallons
Of fuel on the way here. and will take
On $40 gallons more for the jump
across the ocean.
He said If the weather conditions
hold good the first peep OF dawn win
see the City Of New York on on its
jaunt to Ireland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03

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when published in 1918. In it, how
ever, Mencken almost in as many
words predicted his own ultimate
marriage. He insisted the book was
made up of "platitudes."
Miss Haardt was graduated In 1920
from Goucher College here and was q
member OF Phi Beta Kappa. Three
chology followed, but illness prevented
her from taking the degree of doctor Of
philosophy. While recuperating at
Montgomery she started her writing
career, ana returned to Baltimore in
1926.
Commutes TO New York.
Mencken has maintained his resi-
dence here In the house in which be
was born, committing TO New York
After graduating from the Baltimore
Polytechnic Institute, he went into
newspaper work when he was 10, be-
came editor of the old Baltimore Her
aid, Joined the stan Of the Sun and
later was associate editor Of the Eve
ming Sun. He is still q contributing
editor Of the latter
Known as the most caustic Of Amer
lean critics, Mencken started his cEe-
alive literary career with q book Of
poems In 1908. He Is the author of q
score of volumes, mostly of literary and
social criticism. including series of
"Prejudices' which has been translated
into many foreign languages.
In 1908 he began his work as 1T
srary critic of the old Smart Set Maya
zine and there began his association
with Nathan. which eliminated with
the establishment of the American
Mercury under their joint editorship Ia
1924.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
HEAT WILL HOLD,
BUREAU PREDICTS
Water Consumption Increases
as Little Hope of Break
Is Seen.

Fair and continued warm weather
today and tomorrow, with 94-degree
temperature again almost q certainty,
is the Weather Bureaus oficial fore
cast for the Washington area. The
Weather Bureau last night at 10 o'clock
could promise nothing more attrac-
tive than moderate southwest winds. "
Always loath to hazard q guess as to
what the weather might do, officials
nevertheless said with a degree of
finality that nowhere on the map" is
there a suggestion Of relief. Their ref
erence was to the weather map and
not the geographical map, and the
statement was accompanied by the
opinion that the 95-degree temperature
reached at o'clock yesterday after
noon would predominant again today
and tomorrow
While the Capital continues to swell
ter In the hottest weather on record,
residents continue to consume more
water than in any similar period in the
history of the city. The daily average
consumption during July reached the
stupendous total of $500, 900 gallons.
4 AAc udAy dFCIhBC cACCcuSu blIS uduy
average of the preceding fiscal year by
14,430,000 gallons.
Statistics showing the water con-
sumption, which were compiled by D.
w. Holton. superintendent of the Dis
trict Water Department showed also
that on July 81 the populace consumed
ia, 07l 900 gallons, which was about
100000 gallons more than on July
81, last year, when the previous record
in this respect was marked up.
The drought which has baked the
country between the Rocky and Appa-
lachian Mountains has created ex-
IRENE fire hazards In the national
forests. The Forest Fire Service OF the
Federal Government, with only month
of the new fiscal year behind it. has
marked down a flre-flghting cost of
$500, 900, more than twice as MITCH as
had been expended at the correspond
ing date a year ago.
While such fires as exist are now I'M
der control, the Forest Service said yes
terday that fight fighting organizations
in all the national forests had been te-
cruited to full strength as q precau-
tionary measure.
The drought has been so severe in
the hardwood forests Of the East that
the trees are shedding their leaves
weeks earlier than usual
Conditions on the West Coast and in
the Rocky Mountain regions are not
bad compared with other years, but
high hazard conditions exist through
out the forests of the AppalachianS.
Normally they present less fire hazard
at this time of year than at any other.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
NAVY TO RETIRE
3 BATTLESH|PS
Utah, Florida and Wyoming
Out of Service Would
SaveU. S. $4,000, 900.
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will permit the slowing down of re-
cruiting and reduce the force of men
in training. For q while, about 800
men will b. kept aboard the two ships
held in reserve for training and target
purposes.
The possible saving of $4,000 900 this
year is rough estimate based on the
fact that 1t costs 81 900 year for each
man aboard q warship and the cost of
$450,000 to 100000 year to operate
such vessels, exclusive of personnel ex-
pense.
Whatever saving is thereby effected
will contribute to President Hoover's
effort to reduce this years projected
expenditures by 5000, 000, 900, If possible,
to avoid a tax increase In the next
Congress.
Although it normally takes about so
days to lay up a warship, such as one
about to undergo extensive repairs. the
Navy thinks about 80 days will be
enough to dispose of the Utah, Florida
and wyoming, since the ordinary pre-
cautions Of painting and lining the
empty bunkers and attending to the
machinery will not be required All
three vessels are due in Hampton Roads
August IA, but they will still have
short tour of duty for target practice
before bidding farewell to the feet Of
which they have been part for nearly
twenty years.
Good will Tour Ship.
The Utah was the ship which car
ried Mr.. Hoover during his South
American goodwill tour following his
election to the presidency.
This Governments voluntary de-
cision to cut down its battleship feet
in advance of the date required is ex-
pected by unofiiclal commentators to
have healthy effect on the progressive
improvement in American Japanese
relations, especially in view of the ex-
IRENE reluctance with which Japan
finally acquiesced last Winter to scrap
one of her capital ships. The agree
ment, as finally signed, was designed to
permit Japan to keep her battle fleet
at its present strength up to the time
the other two powers were required to
take the last of their doomed" war
ships out of the line.
The nine battleships to be taken out
of the three fleets under the treaty
would have been replaceable before
1885 under the Washington treaty.
The agreement to expedite their re-
tirement was a part of the broader
agreement providing for a holiday in
capital ship construction during the
life of the new treaty, expiring De-
cember 81, 1885.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
RICO TO RESUME
FLIGHT IN 3 DAYS
Visits of British DirigibIe to
Canadian Cities Waits
on Repairs to Fin.
Rx the Associated Press.


ST HUBERT AIRPORT, Quebec,
August 2.-Determined to make their
own repairs without resorting to the
use of the United States Naval Hangar
at Lakehurst, N. j., the crew of the
British dirigible R-100 today began the
work of patching the air monarch's
damaged fin.
Unable to use ladders because of the
air currents which move the giant ship
around despite her ground cables and
mast anchor, the crew is faced with q
most painstaking task For a time
officials considered taking the R-l0O
to Lakehurst, where the hangar and
equipment would facilitate the repairs
Fabric Laced on Fin.
The work of lacing the new piece of
fabric over the huge rent will be COM
paratively easy but it is when the work
of doping" the new covering begins
that the task becomes dangerous. Men
must be swung down from the top of
the dirigible to apply glue and paint
to the patch.
Meanwhile refueling operations were
continued and officers estimated that
LLIc ICpdAS WOulO UC dAlQ
the ship ready to sail aloft again with
in three days. The R-100 will visit
several Canadian cities before she
starts on her return trip to Cardington,
England.
Oficers who conducted a party of
newspaper men about the palatial ship
today minimized the reports that their
craft was in danger Thursday afternoon
when she was caught in the storm near
Quebec and her fabric damaged.
Girls Made Fabric.
The repairs were effected by a man
lying across the Orders inside the
envelope. they said. land there was
nothing very difficult about it,"
The fabric for the patch was turned
out in a Montreal factory by group
Of girl employees, who worked all last
night at the task.
A dinner party at Montreal. which
will bring the state invitation list into
use for the first time since the visit
Of Queen Marie of Rumania has been
planned for the officers and crew of
the dirigible August 49, The governor
general, lieutenant governor, the pre-
nier and his cabinet will be among
those invited.
j. L. Ralston, minister of national
defense, held an official reception for
the officers and crew of the R-100 this
afternoon in a hangar at the airf1eld.
Rain during part of the day held up
repairs to the dirigible, but the refuel2
ing operations were unhampered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
SENATE IS BLAMED
FOR TRADE SLUMP
Bingham Says Coalition of
Democrats and G. O. P. In
surgents Scared U. s.
ny the Associated presa.

BY the Associated Press.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, August a.
The pgotracted controversy over the
tariff, engendered by a coalition -con-
trolled Senate, was advanced tonight
by Senator Hiram Bingham as one of
the causes materially contributing to
the present business depression.
Speaking at the annual banquet of
the John Ericsson Republican League
of Connecticut, Senator Bingham said
when the power of the Democrats and
Progressive Republicans was apparent
credit became frightened, faith in the
immediate future lessened, a top-heavy
stock market crashed and the present
business depression began"
Timid Credit Leaders.
The election of President Hoover and
a Republican Congress and the calling
of an extra session for the considera-
ton of farm relief and traff revision
affected business favorably rather than
adversely, the senior Connecticut Sem
ator said. He pictured business men,
particularly those who control the
credit situation. as being tinid, and
this timidity, he said, is due to a nat
ural fear of what might be done in
the upper branch of Congress over
which whip hand Is held Dy group
virtually anti administration.
THE action of the coalition of Demo-
Gratis and Progressives In insisting upon
the publication Of income tax returns
and in repeatedly giving as the reasons
for its action on the tariff bill that
such-and-such q concern was prosper
GUS and had been making money" he
said, very naturally destroyed that
confidence In the helpfulness and COM
mon sense of the Government which
had been so carefully cultivated during
the administration of President Cool
idge."
Sees Rude Awakening"
The manufacturing and industrial
world, according to Senator Bingham,
received rude awakening" when the
Democrats, who had led 1t to suppose
they favored a protective tariff, aban-
doned this position when they were
offered an opportunity to join the
coalition with the Progressives and
favored the views of the representa-
tives of agriculture rather than the
representatives of industry"
"If the Democrats in the Senate" he
said, had carried out the intentions
they expressed during the campaign Of
1928 and voted accordingly, instead Of
forming the coalition, believe we could
have avoided q large part Of the pres
ent business depression"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
JACKSON AND O'BRlNE
PASS 3OO-HOUR MARK
Flyers, Who Hope to Stay Up 80
Days, Are Near Hallway
Point of Two Weeks.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, August 2.--Dale Jackson
and Forest O'Brine had rounded out
800 hours of sustained flight at TIL
pm. tonight in their attempt to regain
the refueling endurance record. At that
hour their monoplane, the Greater st.
Louis, was idling leisurely over Lam
bert-St Louis Field.
If they are still up at TIL am. Mon
day the flyers will have completed two
weeks of sustained fight, which will be
near the halfway mark of their pro-
jected 30-day flight. They are within
asa hours of equaling the present rec
ord % approximately 554 hours set by
tie Hunter brothers at Chicago.
Large crowds are expected at the
flying field tomorrow, and special de-
tails Of police and deputies win be on
duty to direct trafic. .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
Two Suffer From Cold ON 1900 Mile
Hop to Iceland.

mop 10 ACckaUus
REYJAVIK, Iceland, August 2 Dr.
Two German airmen, Wolfram Hirth
and Oscar Weller, en- route to America,
today braced themselves for the most
difficult phase Of their journey, the
hop to Greenland
The flyers, who made the 1.300-mile
jump from the Orkney Islands yes
terday. lost no time in visiting an out
fitting store to equip themselves with
the warm clothing necessary for their
next flight. They chose jackets made
of Iceland wool.
Hirth and Weller were a pair of
cold aviators when they alighted upon
the improvised airf1eld last evening
after their long trip along the edge
waters of the Arctic. They had hoped
not having wished to burden their
plane with the weight cf such gar
ments, at the expense Of its fuel ca
pacity.
The men had some difficulty IN find
ing their landing place. having taken the
wrong direction after reaching land.
Seeing they would have hunt before
them. the flyers came down to q low
altitude. The people on the ground
helped them out of their predicament
by waving and pointing in The opposite
uTecClOn, ana almost at the same Time
a rocket from the land field burst in
the sky. The airmen quickly changed
their course and landed between long
strips of white cloth upon which lights
had been trained to show them their
path.
They waited on the flying field only
long enough to have hot coffee, and
to protect their plane.
The Danish government tonight had
not granted permission for the flyers to
land on Greenland, but was expected
to shortly. The airmen said they would
make sure of q fair wind before set
ting out on the next hop. This may
necessitate some delay.
The plane carries fuel for so hours,
but the German airmen calculated they
could make Labrador in Is, leaving an
ample fuel margin for unexpected dim
cultieS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03

persons. He said be wanted to clear
hts conscience, because his false iden-
tification Of the men Mt their trials had
helped send them TO prison for life.
want with me-" he added. I'm telling
the truth. I'm sorry for what have
DONE"
Macdonald came nere during week
end recess Of the Billings Supreme
Court hearing The Governor has au-
thority to act on Moneys application,
but must have Supreme Court recon-
mendation on Billings because OF a
prior felony conviction Of the defend
ant. No decision by Gov. Young Is ex-
pected until after the Billings case Is
concluded,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
BLASTS DARKEN TOWN

PROVIDENCE, KY, August Dr.
A series of dynamite explosions shat
tered power lines near the Diamond
Coal Mines here and for an hour or
more early today left four towns in
darkness The towns affected were
Clay, Dixon, Madisonville and Provi-
dence
Bloodhounds were put on the trail by
Utilities Co, whose tension lines were
damaged. Sheriff Ovenby said he
feared the dogs could not pick up the
scent. as the men probably were travel
ing in automobiles.
No one was injured and no property
damaged, save for poles and wires.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
Rubio Rejects Brothers Bid.

MEXICO CITY. August 2 ~
Francisco Ortiz Rubio, brother of the
President Of Mexico. today was listed
among the unsuccessful bidders for o
contract to repair the Mexico City
drainage canal. The President person.
ally bose the lowest bidder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
PERU OFFICIAL RESIGNS:
Fuchs Succeeds Masias az Finance
Minister.

LIMA. Peru, August 2 E9.-Finance
Minister Manuel q. Masias Of Peru re-
signed ONCE today, and Senator Far
nando' Fuchs wac sworn In as his sue
cessor early tonight.
Ofncial circles explained that Senior
Masias resigned because he had beer,
nominated for the senatorship In Madre
de dos department..
Senator Fuchs. who replaces him, was
finance minister during a previous ad-
nlinistration under President Legliia. II
Is rumored that he viii reduce the nas
tional budget I'M view of the present
financial situaticn. -
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boats and boat houses. The engine was
attached to a fire plug in the 800
block of Canal road, and Seabold leaped
over the wall into the canal to carry
the hose to the rivers edge.
Roney had lived on the boat through
out the Summer, having lived for
merly at 1852 M street. He left Wash
ington Wednesday for Colonial Beach in
his cruiser, and had been back only
few minutes when flames burst out in
the craft. His explanation of the flre.
as told to witnesses, was that he had
lighted a match to look for something
In the darkness of his boats cabin, and
that flames burst suddenly from one
end Of the craft to the other.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
Franco-P Polish Air Pact Signed.

WARSAW, Poland, August q pa
10-year Franco-Polish air convention
air line from Warsaw to Paris via
Prague and the opening of q new one
to Paris via hHerlin. It also envisages
the organizi4 Of other lines between
Poland and ance in the future,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
Rail Man Drops Dead.

SEATTLE, August 2 (41.-E. H. Lam
try, general manager Of the Western
Department of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, dropped dead here today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
THIRD BANK BANDIT
SUSPECT ELUDES
WIDESPREAD HUNT

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03

Their airplane can carry enough gaso-
line for this Jump. which they estimate
they could make in IS hours
PILOTS BRACE FOR ORDEAL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
MACDONALD TELLS
MOONEY CASE STORY
TO GOV. c. C. YOUNG

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
GREENLAND MAY DENY
TRANSATLANTIC PAIR
PERMISSION TO LAND

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
FIREMAN, WITH HOSE,
SWIMS CANAL TO PUT
OUT BLAZE ON BOAT

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
MENCKEN WILL WED
GIRL FROM SOUTH IN
SEPTEMBER CEREMONY

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
PREPARE
LEGAL BATTLE TO
TRY CAMPBELL HERE

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Nogales international., 1930-10-03

LOST-Wrist watch. Reward Iur
return to office of the Nogales In
ternational. (9-5 2t)
Nogales international., 1930-10-03
No Better Foods Anywhere

Every nation boasts special
foods which it proclai1ns better
in their native habitat than any
where else. But take the French
petit pois," for instance, those
succulent green vegetable globules
which seem to fairly melt in your
mouth. They are no better, ac-
cording to gourmets, than the
carefully selected little peas which
are processed here so successfully
by the vacuum pack method. And
canned pineapple is preferred.
right in Hawaii where it is grown,
to the fresh fruit.*