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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
FIVE DIE IN BLAST
IN STORM CELLAR
Members of Two Oklahoma Fam
lilies Meet Tragedy Fleeing
for Safety.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEMINOLE, Okla, May 10.-The
deaths of three children in hospital
here tonight brought to five the number
OF dead in an explosion Of gas In
storm cellar in Mission City, miles
southwest of here.
Bonnie Edwards, z, her brother,
Sonny Boy" S, and Dorothy Breed
love, 8, who were seriously injured In
the blast which occurred as they were
entering the cellar to escape storm
were those who died tonight. Mrs.
Charles Breedlove, Al, mother OF Dor
othy,s and her 5-year-old son Leroy
died short time after the blast
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Edwards, parents
of Bonnie and Sonny Boy" were m
jured slightly. They had just started
to enter the cellar when the explosion
occurred.
The two families lived In the same
house and sought refuge In the cellar
when they saw the storm approaching
AS the children entered the cave, one
Of them lighted match and the ex-
plosion followed. The cause OF tne
blast has not been determined. NO
damage resulting from the storm was
reported
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
MOODY PROCLA|MS
MARTIAL LAW ON
PLEA OF SHERMAN
Citizens Ask That Troops
Rule to Insure Order, Texas
Governor Says.
| IA ARE HELD IN JAIL
FOR PROBE OF RI0TING
Town Is Quiet, With Lawless Spirit
of Mob Broken as Guards
men Patrol Streets.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Tex, May 10.-Gov. Dan
Moody said at 10:45 pm. that he had
signed the proclamation declaring a
state of martial law in Sherman. He
said Col. L. E. MCGEE would remain
in command.
Additional troops would not be or
dered there unless they were requested,
the governor said.
"They will remain in Sherman as long
as they are needed" he added.
Citizens Ask Decree.
Gov. Moody said the proclamation
was issued upon representations made
to him by substantial citizens of Sher-
man that martial law was needed to
clear up mob disorders.
Gov. Moody said he had been advised
by telephone by Judge r. M. Carter
and Judge F. G. billiard of Sherman
that meeting of more than so bust
ness men there this afternoon voted
unanimously to make the request for a
declaration of martial law as q means
Of quieting the mob spirit in the city.
He said he later talked to Col L. s.
Davidson, second in command of the
guardSmen there, and he concurred in
the opinion that state of martial law
would tend to bring back orderly con-
ditions.
GUARDS PATROL STREETS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11

PAPEETE HEARS MODEST
STORY OF BYRD'S FEATS
Members of Explorers Party Tell OF
Perils That Beset All in
Antarctic Adventures.

for another Winter. Ice began to come
in so rapidly that they had to make
haste to embark before the ice fields
solidified. It took skilful navigation
to get clear without damage to the
ships. In this they were more for
tunate than the whaling fleet in the
same waters. The whalers were nearly
caught in the ice and some were badly
damaged before they got free.
Bernt Balchen, who piloted the air.
plane. which carried Admiral Byrd to
the South Pole-was aboard the City
of New York
The success of this adventure was
founded on the most careful prepare
ton on the flight South, the airplane
party had arranged to overtake the
geological group under the command
of Prof Gould, who had departed some
weeks before on foot with dog sleds
to explore the map and Queen Maud
Mountain region 500 miles south of the
base of the expedition, Little America.
When the airplane sighted the Gould
party, they were on the ice barrier
within so miles of the Quean Maud
Mountains. To communicate with
Gould and his companions and to drop
supplies and mails which had arrived
Continued on Page 4, Column A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
BOARD OF TRADE
TO SURVEY CAPITAL
Complete Analysis Intended
as Guide to Future
Development.

The first comprehensive survey of
Washington, rejecting every major
phase of the city's varied activities, is
to be commenced by the Washington
Board of Trade within three weeks, it
was announced yesterday. Rufus S.
Lusk, for number of years executive
secretary of the Operative Builders
Association, will direct the survey and
will begin at once to establish offices
and assemble a corps of experts for
the work.
The board intends to spend more
than $4,000 on the survey, which IS
expected to provide complete analysis
of Washington life and prove a re-
liable guide for the future develop
ment OF the community.
Model Survey Completed.
Lusk recently completed an analysis
of apartment vacancies in the District
which has been made annually for
several years, the method of which Is
to be recommended by the Department
of Commerce as a model for such
studies.
The boards survey will follow the
plan outlined by the civic develop
ment department of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States. One
Oh GIle pun POoCo VA Vic OIL
vey is to provide an accurate guide
to the board in its efforts to pro-
mote the welfare of Washington and
its citizens.
Arrangements are to be made for
the survey data to be kept up to date
by annual revisions.
In addition to inquiries of local
character, blanks will be distributed to
guests at all hotels, inquiring the name
of their home cities, reasons that have
brought them to Washington, how
many times they have been here and
how long they usually remain, what
they find most valuable to them here,
and requests for suggestions as to what
they think is needed to improve general
conditions in the District and its &C
comnnodations for visitors.
While the survey will go into great
Continued on Page 2, Column ID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
PRISONER QU|zzED
IN BAKER MURDER
Alexandra Woman Charges
Attempt Was Made to
Force Her Auto to Curb.

Acting on the complaint of young
woman, who said man had made sew
eral efforts to force her automobile into
the curb, park police yesterday after
noon arrested Robert Joseph Janney,
30-year-old mechanic, of the 900 block
of New York avenue, for questioning in
the Mary Baker murder case. Mrs.
Irene Mccarthy of Alexandra, the COM
plainant, first told her story to Park
Policeman william Riley at Seventeenth
and B streets, where Miss Baker was
last seen alive. Apparently because of
this fact, Janney was questioned for
more than four hours at police head
quarters to find out II he knew anything
about the murder of Mary Baker. He
finally was locked up in No. precinct
and will be questioned further today.
Janney said that all he knew about
the killing of Mary Baker was what he
had read in the papers. His only ex-
PLANTATION for pursuing Mrs. Mccarthy
was that he knew her and wanted to
talk to her.
Furious Jursuit Starts.
Shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday aft
eTnOOH MIS-. MCSdIbiiy, ICIIOI
jumped from her automobile and ran
screaming to Park Policeman Riley,
saying that Janney was chasing her.
Quickly signaling to Park Policemen p.
r. Toland and r. B. Jenkins to accom-
pany him Riley leaped on his motor cycle
and took after Janney, who had turned
into the Ellipse back of the White
House. AS the police began the chase
Janney stepped on the gas and attained
a speed of SIS miles an hour around the
Ellipse and into Fifteenth street. Thepur-
suit continued east into Pennsylvania
avenue, but at Fourteenth street Janney
was blocked by the traffic and the police
(Continued on Page 8, Column b
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
KILLS SISTER-lN-
THEN TAKES OWN LIFE
Virginian's Grandmother, Report
ed 103 Years Old, Dies From
Shock of Sayings.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG Va, May TO-
A triple tragedy which occurred near
McDuff, in Caroline County, on Mon
day, has just become known here. AS
related by the county officers. MUIR
der, suicide and sudden death, all in
the same family, took place at the home
of Russell Whitaker just before the
MONDAY meal.
There were no eyewitnesses to the
tragedy, Russell Whitaker having gone
to the spring nearby to get water, when
he heard two shots. Rushing back to
the house, he found his wife dead from
a load of shot fired by his younger
brother, Thomas Whitaker, IS, who
then had gone into the yard and ended
his own life by placing the muzzle of
the shotgun against his head and
pressing the trigger with his toe.
Whitaker's grandmother, Mrs
Grymes, said to have been 103 years
old, was found dead in another part
of the dwelling, and it is believed that
the shock of the tragedy caused her
demise.
County officers attribute the murder
and suicide to the infatuation of
Thomas Whitaker fdr his sister in-law,
who was about 80 years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
CANNON MAY FACE
STOCKS CHARGES
MethodiSts AIIege Four Played
Party Politics in 1923
Campaign.
By the Associated Press.

DALLAS, Tex, May 10-Fresh re-
ports of charges to be preferred against
bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South were heard today at the
quadrennial general conference of the
church here, with Bishops James Cam
non, jr., of Washington, d. c., H. M.
Dobbs of Birmingham, Ala, and w. B.
Beauchamp of Atlanta, Ga, the new
targets of attack
1t was definitely learned that charges
would be filed against Bishop Cannon
next week alleging marginal trading in
stocks, and the reports said charges
against the other bishops named prob
ably would be brought by unfrocked
ministers in their jurisdiction who
sought redress.
One of these ministers said he was
awaiting a hearing before the Episco-
pacy committee, and intended to get
1t ''if have to break down the door"
The episcopacy committee by tradition
meets in executive session.
Capt. @. T. Fitzhugh of Memphis,
Tenn, was named as the delegate who
will prefer the stock market charges
against Bishop Cannon. He said they
had not yet been handed the episco-
pacy committee and declined to give
particulars of the charges.
Political Activity CHARGED.
Other charges known to have been
filed were those preferred by the Rev.
Rembert Smith of Washington, Ca,
against Bishops Cannon, Mouzon, Du-
bose and Moore, charging "unwar-
ranted" political activities in the 1928
election. Smith charged specifically
that these four superintendent fought
Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic candi-
date, because he is Roman Catholic.
The Rev. Smiths charges especially
were directed against Bishop Cannon.
Two indications led to the belief that
Bishop Cannon would be indicated by
the conference. First was the virtual
vote Of confidence given him by the
committee on temperance, in executive
session yesterday, when the committee
voted In the absence of Chairman
Josephus Daniels to indorse his report,
which dealt with his activities in the
presidential campaign. Second was the
rousing round of applause which greeted
him today when he presented the report
OF his episcopacy.
Just before the close today DR.. G. C.
French of Denton, Tex, proposed an
amendment TO the constitution, which
was under consideration, limiting bish-
ops terms to eight years and disqualify-
ing them for reelection until they had
been out of office for four years.
Power Check Attempt Fails.
Attempts to curtail the power of
bishops in assigning ministers in an
nual conferences met with decided re-
verses when the conference voted down
proposals to adopt the open cabinet"
policy and to require one-third of the
presiding elders of a district to concur
In the appointments.
The conference took notice of the
burning of a colored man at Sherman
by mob yesterday to avenge an at
tack made on white woman, and with
out dissenting vote adopted a resolu-
ton reaf1rming lasting opposition to
all mob violence" The resolution said
the conference learned of the shocking
affair" with sense of horror and
deep regret"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
HINES APARTMENT
ROBBED OF GEMS
Society Matron Discovers
Theft on Returning From
Horse Show Yesterday.

The apartment of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph H. Hines, socially prominent
and wealthy real estate owners, of 1705
K street, was burglarized yesterday and
several thousands dollars worth of
jewelry stolen. Last night the exact
number of articles taken or their value
was not known.
According to reports, Mrs. Hines dis
covered the theft when she returned
from the children's horse show at the
Preece Riding Academy early yester-
day afternoon. She entered the auto
matte elevator and when she neared
the fourth floor, where her apartment
is situated, she said she heard a door
slam. It is thought that the door
may have been closed by the robber
leaving the place.
The first report to police of the af-
fair was made to Maj. Henry @. Pratt,
superintendent, yesterday afternoon by
Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro. wife Of the
former District Commissioner and
friend of Mrs. Hines. A headquarters
detective was sent to the apartment to
investigate, but later it could not be
learned who he was. Although writ
ten report was made at the Detective
Bureau. it was said there that only a
revolver was stolen from the apartment.
The report listed a revolver, two sets
of shirt studs, platinum watch and
chain and numerous other articles Of
jewelry.
Last night attempts were made to
locate Mr. or Mrs. Hines at their X
street apartment and at their home
in Frederick, Md, but without success.
Mr. Hines is large property holder
owning the Transportation Building and
the Draper Building, where he lived.
He is a former member of the House
of Representatives from Ohio and was
twice president of the Congressional
Country Club. Mr.. Hines has the dis
tinction of being the first Washing
tonian to suscribe to a million-dollar
life insurance policy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
GUARDS PATROL STREETS.
Mob Spirit Is Crushed BY Troops in
Sherman After Rioting.

SHERMAN, Tex, May 10 P).-Mob
spirit flickered out here today as Ma
tional Guardsmen patroled the city and
State officials took steps to single out
leaders in the rioting yesterday and last
night when George Hughes, colored, was
killed, the Grayson County court house
burned and three blocks of buildings in
the colored district wrecked.
Aided by downpour of rain, 800
Texas National Guardsmen, assisted by
Rangers and county officers, restored
order.
The rioting ceased early today after
the body of Hughes, who had pleaded
guilty to assaulting a white woman,
of the court house, dragged through
the streets and burned while hanging
from tree In the colored district.
Hughes was left in the vault, where
he had been placed for safety, when
officers were driven from the court
house by the fire set by the mob yes
terday afternoon.
None of Residents Hurt.
Several homes and buildings in that
district were fired by the angry crowd,
but none of the residents there was
injured.
1udI0SLlcu SSIlJ mere 1TOU1 nearby
cities on orders from Gov. Dan Moody,
arrested IL members of the mob while
1t was still raging through the colored
settlement and after daybreak another
man, on whom officers found a stick
Of dynamite, was taken into custody.
The prisoners were lodged in the
county jail, around which 100 guards
men were stationed It was not de-
termined what disposition of the cases
would be made. No charges have been
filed against the prisoners. Oficers
said that no weapons of any kind were
found on those arrested.
Rain kept most of the residents in
side today and the streets resembled
those of any ordinary rainy day save
for guards of uniformed soldiers sta
toned at strategic points.
At a meeting of county, city and mill
tary officials, it was decided to keep the
guardsmen here until there was no fur
ther fear of renewal of the rioting.
Arrangements were completed for re-
moving records from the ruins of the
court house to a junior high school
building, where affairs of the county
Continued on Page 2, Column 3D.
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ONE KILLED, 5 HURT
IN TEXAS TORNADO
Small Hill Area North of Austin
Hit-Damage Believed
Slight.
ny the Associated Press.


AUSTIN, Tex, May 10.-A tornado
swept down on a section of hill coun-
try 80 miles north of here today, kill
ing one person and injuring at least
five others.
The tornado hit In only small area,
and property damage, owing to the
sparsely populated section, was expected
to be slight.
Unconfirmed reports stated that the
home of Chris Sylvester had been de-
stroyed and that Sylvester had been
seriously injured. Other members OF
his family also were reported to have
been hurt. none seriously.
F. w. Tucker, SO, lumber worker
was killed. Herold johnson was In
jured seriously when struck by flying
debris. Less seriously injured were
M S Fletcher, l.. c. Fletcher, w. H
johnson and j. A. Tucker.
Tucker was killed when the six men
who were In a house at Anderson
Bend, rushed from the structure when
the tornado struck. A heavy timber
borne in the teeth of the gale hit Tucker
in the back Of the head, killing him
instantly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
PILOT AND MANAGER
HELD FOR NINE DEATHS
Order to BLOW Them Off," Aimed
at Non-Paying Crowd, Is
Charged in Airplane Case.
BY the Associated Press.

FAYETTEVILLE. Tenn, May TO-
Milton P. Covert, pilot of an airplane
that crashed into a crowd assembled
here to watch stunting exhibition, re-
sulting in nine deaths, two weeks ago,
was bound over to the Circuit Court
today at the conclusion of his hearing
on second-degree murder charge.
AL Gombert, manager Of the company
staging the exhibition, was bound over
on the same charge. Both made $500
bonds.
G. F. Cheatham, testifying for the
State yesterday, said he had heard
Gombert tell Covert to elbow them off"
the railroad trucks, where a crowd had
gathered to watch the stunning exhibit
ton without having to pay a Csc admis-
sion charge to the field. 1t was into
this crowd that the plane fell
Qheatham said that Covert had agreed
to scatter them"
Gombert denied having given such in
structions and two passengers in the
plane at the time of the crash testified
that they had heard no conversation
between the manager and the pilot,
Covert did not take the stand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
RESIGNATION OF eagle TO COACH
FOOT BALL IS DENIED BY DAWSON
Acting War Secretary Hits Rumor Cadet May Break
Promise to Serve Four Years.

mediately after his graduation next
June. There is no evidence in the War
Department that such action is con-
templated."
eagle announced Friday that an offer
Of a coaching position at Mississippi
A and M. College, with business OPP
portunity in addition, would give him
more remuneration Immediately than
is received by major general.
Major generals receive $4,000 year.
Second lieutenants. on the other hand,
which is what West Point graduate
becomes. are paid $500.
The difficulty over eagles resignation
centers around the promise Of each
man entering West Point that he will
serve in the Army at least four years
after graduation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
BRITISH CONFlSCATE
ARMS IN Z TOWNS
Sikhs, MosIem Element, De-
eide to Support Gandhi in
Nationalist Drive.
BY the Associated Press.


BOMBAY, India, May 10.-with
Mahatma Gandhi in Yeroda prison
and nearly a quarter of million troops
on the alert, British authorities today
safely got through the first par of an
anxious week end in the development
of the Indian situation. Z.
With memories Of Thursdays rioting
at Sholapur fresh in mind, they feared
further trouble would break out today.
But the principal event was political
instead of violent.
At Amritsar, the general meeting of
the Central Sikh League, chief organi-
zation of a fighting race famous for
prowess in the Indian army today re-
solved to support Mahatma GandhiS
civil disobedience campaign, chiefly
conducted hitherto by Hindus.
Support Creates Complications.
Such Moslem support for the cam
paign injected disturbing. but unpre-
dictable, clement into the situation fac
ing British authorities. Thus far most of
the Moslems have held aloof from the
Gandhi movement, being traditionally
suspicious of the Hindus.
Since the boiling of three Mohamme-
dan policemen in Oil by the mob at
Sholapur, disorders had been feared from
the Moslem feast of Bakrid today. AS
part of the ritual, cows, which are
sacred to Hindus, are sacrificed.
In the past such pretexts and even
less have been responsible for bloody
fighting between followers of the two
faiths and precautions against COM
munal rioting had been taken by the
r.. A.~,~ - AI.< -r% hive fnT
centers, Lahore and Sholapur, all stocks
of arms and ammunition in the bazaars
were seized
May 10 is the anniversary Of the out
break of the great Indian mutiny OF
1857, Of whose horrors legendary tales
are handed down from one generation
of Anglo-Indians to another.
Poona Is Urged to Fight.
At Poona, the people were thrown into
an uproar early today by a food OF
phamplets urging them to seize all the
arms and ammunition possible to fight
and overthrow the British. These were
written In red ink and were found post
ed conspicuously throughout the city
They were signed Commander chief
of the Hindustan army" The police
managed to obtain few of them, but
the inhabitants destroyed the rest. Nc
disorders were reported at Poona.
Abbas Tyabji, Gandhi's successor, an
nounced that he would lead a salt pill
grimage to Dharsaana with 300 volun-
teers on Monday, marching from
Karadi Matvad. He said that or
Thursday he would raid a government
operated salt depot.
The chief commissioner at Peshawal
today notified Pandit Motilal Nehru, the
new president of the All-India Congress
that no congress committee would be
permitted to enter Peshawar to investi-
gate the recent riots and that proper
measures would follow any attempt by
the congress to do so.
v. j. Patel at Surat, addressed large
meeting of Mahatma Gandhi's civil dis
obedience cohorts, urging them to refuse
to pay taxes and proposing social boy
colt of government servants during the
Mahatma's imprisonment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
London Daily Mail
Calls Gov. Moody
For Riot Details
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AUSTIN, Tex, May 10.-"I
say, is this the Governor of
Texas?"
Thus came the voice of a cor
respondent of the London Daily
Mail. 5000 miles away, who was
calling Gov. Dan Moody to ascer-
tain particulars of the riot at
Sherman, Tex. The call was re-
ceived by Moody at am. today.
After dderying the governor
about what was going on, the
correspondent added:
well, well! Is this common
occurrence in Texas?"
Assured by the governor that
it was not, the correspondent
hung up with Thanks, and
cheerio."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
CLAIMS PARACHUTE RECORD
WITH DROP OF 2O,4OO FEET
Canton Jumper, Making 151st Trip Completes Journey
in IS Minutes at Akron, Ohio.

sent to Washington tonight along with
certiflcations by Lieut.. r. G.. w. Settle
Of the United States Navy, B. e. Full
ton, airport manager, and Ward T. Van
Orman, international balloonist. who
acted IS official representatives of the
National Aeronautical Association.
The jump was made from a CONNER
cial plane which consumed two hours
In reaching the 20,400-foot altitude.
A temperature of "A degrees below
was recorded at the maximum height.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
"a cadet named eagle" yesterday
drew the attention of F. Trubee Davi-
son, acting Secretary of War.
Dawson, in 200-word statement,
said that the War Department knew
nothing about the desire of Christian
Keener Red" eagle, West Points foot
ball hero, to resign from the Army to
take up foot ball coaching.
In a prepared statement, Mr.. Davis
said:
Press reports have appeared to pro-
mulgate an erroneous impression that
az cadet named eagle at the United
States Military Academy would be al
lowed to resign from the Army i'm