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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
BRUNDIGE CHARGE
HIT BY GRAND JURY
Chicago Evidence of Reporters En-
gagged in Racketeering Held
Based on "Hearsay."

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 31.-The charges OF
Harry T. Brundige, st. Louis newspa-
per man, that Chicago reporters have
been engaged in racketeering were de-
scribed by the county grand jury to-
day as founded on hearsay and con-
tanning nothing of an discriminating
character"
The July grand jury ended its inquiry
into the crime situation and the muir
der of Tribune crime reporter, Jake
Lingle, which crystallized sentiment ON
that subject, with this report to Chief
Justice Denis j. Normoyle of the Crimi-
nal Court. Judge Normoyle, who had
instructed the jurors to investigate the
widespread rumors of the aff1liation of
certain newspaper reporters with gang
sters, received the report with thanks
and offered no comment.
publication of Brundige's articles re-
suited In an invitation to present his
evidence before the jury and he was
brought here 10 days ago. His testi-
mony was not made public.
There followed a procession of news
paper publishers and reporters, the cor
poration counsel of Chicago and the
former police commissioner and detec-
tive chief. friends of Lingle, who gave
their accounts of the situation. The
jurors then heard report yesterday of
the progress of the Lingle murder in
vestigation. With its final report TODAY
the jury went out OF existence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
PRESIDENT TO FISH
FRIDAY TO MONDAY
Expects to Go After Bass in
Shenandoah River Near
Luray, Va.

With no business of an especially
pressing nature confronting him, Presi-
dent Hoover is going to indulge in an
other Friday-to-Monday holiday at his
fishing camp In the Virginia mountains.
The Executive, with a small party
of friends, expects to leave the White
House tomorrow and will not return
until the forenoon Monday. Mrs. Hoo
yer, with Mrs. George Akerson, wife OF
one of the Presidents secretaries, and
her 7-year-old son Charles will motor
to the camp this afternoon.
President Hoover anticipates some
enjoyable bass fishing in the Shenan-
doah River In the vicinity of Luray
which by road is about 80 miles from
the camp. He probably will devote the
greater part Of tomorrow TO this outdoor
sport. He has had no fishing fun since
the closing of the trout season at the
beginning OF July. During the last
week end party at the camp, the Presi-
dent went on a accommodating trip tc
get the lay of the bass pools In thai
section and he seemed to decide that
the Shenandoah in the neighborhood oil
Luray would afford him the fun he wa
looking for.
Others in the week end party vii
be Secretaries Akerson and Lawrence
Richey: Capt. Joel T. Boone, the White
House physician; Edgar Richard OF New
York, for many years a business as
sociate of Mr.. Hoover, and Mrs. Rick
ard; Mr.. and Mrs. William Hill of Bing'
hamton, N. ", and Mr.. and Mrs Alber
r. Dawson. Mr.. Dawson Is the execu
tive secretary of the Senatorial Re
publican Campaign COMMITTEES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
GODDARD TESTING
CAMPBELL PISTOL
Bullets Fired Into Special
Target to Be Compared
With Fatal SIugs.
BY REX COLLIER,
Stan Correspondent of The Star.

CHICAGO, July 31.-The expert eye
of Col. Calvin H. Goddard, world
renowned pioneer in the new science of
forensic balfstics, today was focused
on two grimly SCARED bullets in a
critical test to determine If fellow
scientist could have erred when he de-
clared the slugs removed from the body
of Mary Baker came from the revolver
of Herbert M. Campbell, Arlington
County realty dealer.
Campbell's .32-caliber gun and the
two small 1eaden objects we're turned
over TO the noted ballistics authority
this morning by Samuel w. Hardy,
special agent of the Bureau Of Investi-
CATION of the Department of Justice.
Col. Goddard who is managing
director of the newly established
scientific crime detection laboratories of
Northwestern University and occupant
Of specially created chair of ballistics
there, lost no time in proceeding with
his examination.
The outcome of the new test is being
awaited with unusual interest in ma
tional police and scientific circles, for
on DR.. Goddard's verdict hinges not
only the future status of Campbell,
who is charged with the staying, but
the prestige as whole OF experts on
gun Identification.
Check Of SOuder Findings.
The examination at the university
here is really check on the findings
of DR.. Wilmer Souder, ballistics author
ity of the Bureau of Standards, who
declares the bullets which ended the
life of Mary Baker and precipitated an
extraordinary murder mystery were
fired from the barrel of the real estate
mans weapon. ProteStations of Camp
bell and his attorney that the Govern
ment expert must have made mistake
led to the decision to submit the gun
and bullets to Col. Goddard for another
test.
Col. Goddard was out of the city yes
terday afternoon when the justice agent
arrived from Washington, but he re-
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
KEECH WINS PLEA
FOR RETALIATION
Utilities Commission to Issue
Official Order Soon, Paving
Way for Action.

The Public Utilities Commission today
granted the petition of Peoples Counsel
Richmond B. Keech to revalue the
properties of the Capital Traction Co.
and the Washington Railway g. Electric
Co.
The revaluation will begin as soon
as an ofilcial order on the subject can
be prepared. Retaliation is one of the
methods being pursued by Mr.. Keech
in his effort to obtain a reduction of
street car fare.
The revaluation will take about Is
months before the case Is ready for
public hearing. Public hearings will
occupy not less than three or four weeks
after the conclusion of the valuation
work. The commission will set up a
staff of engineers who will examine
and appraise every item of property
them in the public service. This will
be the first search proceeding to be
undertaken in the case of the street
car companies for Is years. The first
valuations were started in 1914 and
completed in 1919. Since then these
valuations have been litigated inter-
minably and no very satisfactory state
ment is possible as to just what the
valuation of either company is.
Fare Is Directly Connected.
It was because of this unsatisfactory
condition that the commission last Fall
refused to increase the street car fares.
When this decision was taken to court,
Justice Jennings Bailey ruled that the
companies had made q SUFFICIENT show
ing of a minimum valuation In order
to justify the increase.
Street car fares are directly con-
nected with valuation. Public utility
companies are allowed to earn a 'rea-
Sonable return" on their valuation. The
higher the valuation, the higher is
the income they are allowed to earn to
obtain a reasonable return" and the
higher the allowable income, the higher
the fare becomes.
The cost of revaluation will be borne
by the street car companies. Under the
law, the commission is allowed to assess
such cost against the companies under
going valuation; the companies are al
lowed to charge this cost of operating
expenses over number OF years, vary
ing with the amount charged. Although
no estimate has been made OF the cost
of this proceeding, some idea may be
obtained from the fact that the recent
valuation of the Washington Gas Light
Co. cost $4,000. Since the properties
involved in the street car case are far
larger, 1t would not be surprising If
the cost of the present undertaking
would be two or three times greater
than that.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
KING GEORGE SIGNS
LONDON NAVY PACT
British Monarch Departs
From 400 Year-0Id Custom
of Giving Royal Assent.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 31.-King George has
signed the instrument of ratification of
the London naval treaty. which now has
been ratified and signed by both Great
Britain and the United States.
The announcement of the Kings sig
nature was made by Philip Snowden,
chancellor of the exchequer, and was
greeted by cheers in the House of
Commons.
Chancellor Snowden said the ratifica-
ton will be deposited simultaneously
with the ratifications of the Dominions
and India and the ratifications of the
United States and Japan when all three
parties TO part three of the treaty are
in a position to bring the treaty into
force in accordance with articles "a.
A traditional form of royal assent
which has existed some 400 years had
been expected to put into effect the
naval treaty bill.
The King, after reading copy of the
measure, was to have signed a royal
commission, which authorizes three or
more peers to give his assent.
The ceremony itself would have been
held in the House of Lords. At the
time set the peers designated, CARRIED in
scarlet and ermine robes, would have
taken seats before the throne and in
struct the BLACK rod" an official, to
summon the House of Commons.
Then the bill would have been read
and the clerk of Parliament say, in old
Norman French: lie roy leveult" (the
King wills it,
The quaint procedure was instituted
in the reign OF Henri VIII.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
PRISON KILLING PLOT
BLOCKED BY MEXICO
Federal Penitentiary to Have Been
Burned in Outbreak After
Staying of Guards.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, July 81 "A plot to
incite inmates of the Federal district
penitentiary here to kill their guards
and burn the establishment has been
frustrated by prison authorities.
Ohicials who late last night con-
fiscated a quantity of handbills inside
the prison, believed that group held
on charges Of being Communists
planned to distribute them to the other
prisoners.
Sonora Maria Trinidad Sandoval, q
frequent visitor to the prison, was ar
rested on a charge of being a go-be-
tween of the suspected Communist
prisoners and the outside world. The
suspected inmates number about Is.
They were arrested May / after Com
munist manifestation.
The handbills also called for attacks
upon President Ortiz Rubio. Gen.
Plutarco Elias Gales and Dwight w.
Morrow. American Ambassador, charg-
ing them with responsibility for perse-
cution Of Communists in Mexico.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
WARRANT is TAKEN
IN BUCKLEY DEATH
Man Found in Hotel Where Radio
Man Was Held Formally
Accused of Murder.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 3l.-Angelo L.ivecchi,
alleged to be connected with the slay-
ing of Radio Announcer Jerry Buckley.
in the La Sale Hotel, early July %. was
formally charged with murder In a
warrant signed by Recorders Judge
Thomas M. Cotter today.
Lvecchi, who has been under arrest
ever since the killing, was found in his
room in the La Sale Hotel shortly after
the three gunner had fired IL bullets
into Buckley's body as he sat in the
lobby. The police suspect him of hay-
ing been the man who pointed out the
announcer to the gunner.
Livecchi is the first man to be for
mally charged with murder as a re-
suit of the killing
The warrant was sworn out aRainsr
Livecchi shortly before he was sched :
uled TO appear at hearing on writ
of habeas corpus.
Meanwhile the police continued their
search for the three gunner who did
the shooting Police Commissioner
Thomas c. wilcox has announced thai
they are known to the police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
FIGHT BIG BooTLEGGERs.
WOOdcOck Says Agents viii Not Seek
Small Cases,

WOOdcOck Says Agents Will Not Seek
Small Cases.
Minor violations Of the prohibition
laws, which have resulted in thousands
Of cases crowding court dockets
throughout the country, are not to be
the concern of the reorganized prohibit
ton enforcement unit under Amos W
w. Woodcock.
Announcing yesterday that mainte-
nance of STEADY pressure" against the
larger violators of the dry laws would
be his guiding policy, Mr.. woodcock
said, Il will not have our agencies fol-
lowing the course of least resistance and
wasting their time upon pitiful, plea
yunish, non-commercial cases."
IT think the prohibition laws can be
successfully enforced against commercial
operations. I propose to make that our
objective and not to dissipate our en-
ergieS in other fields"
Mr.. Woodcocks statement was his
first public utterance since his appoint
ment by President Hoover to direct the
reorganized enforcement unit, which,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
L0WMAN TO DESCRIBE
U. S. BORDER SERVICE
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
to Speak Tonight in
Radio Forum.

How America Guards Her Borders
will be the dramatic story which Sey-
mour Lowman, Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury, will tell the radio public
tonight during the National Radio
Forum period arranged by The Evening
Star and sponsored by the Columbia
Broadcasting System over its coast-to-
coast network. Mr.. Lowman will begin
speaking at $50 o'clock through WNAL.
Mr.. Lowman's Treasury duties place
him in charge of the United States
Coast Guard and the Bureau of Gus
toms. If the new border patrol bill now
in the Senate becomes a law he will be-
come administrator of this combined
new service which will control Amer
ica's far-flung border lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
SOVIET GETS TIME
TO FIGHT EMBARGO
Treasury to Receive Proof
PulpWood Was Not Con-
vict Product.
BY the Associated Press.


Further evidence will be introduced
by Soviet representatives before the
Treasury makes it's final decision on
the embargo against Russian pulpwood.
The pulpwood was barred after re-
ports to the Treasury that convict labor
entered into its production. Repre-
Sentatives of the Amtorg Trading Cor
poration and the Spanish American
Steamship Lines protested and were
heard. They did not, however, intro
duce evidence to show the pulpwcod
was not handled by convict labor and
Assistant Secretary Lowman today
promised to give them an opportunity
to 90 so and ample time in which to
arrange their data.
Three Senators, Reed of PennSyl-
vania, Black of Alabama and Oddie of
Nevada have urged embargoes on lum-
Der, anthracite and manganese. The
Government, however, has indicated
that no action would be taken unless
it was SHOWN convict labor entered into
their production or the goods were
being dumped here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
Ry the Associated Press.

by HS5UCIdItu TICso.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 31.-Down on
the Mississippi River front this morning
they said the Valley Queen was due.
They said it would not leave again.
An epoch will end as the Valley Queen
swings around the bend and glides into
the shadow of the Memphis skyline. 1t
is the last of the Memphis packets.
The Valley Line Steamers, Inc, goes
out of business today, closing the last of
the packet lines, which have sent boats
from Memphis to the ports and landings
along the big river for more than CEN
fury.
The docking Of the Valley Queen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
FIREMEN BLOCK EFFORT TO GARB
VENUS DE MILO IN POISON IVY
Police Chief Supports Use of Hose for if Statue Is O. K
With Billy Sunday It's o. K. With Him.

base of the statue. Mrs. Starr expressed
the hope according to the f1remen, that
the ivy grow and grow until finally that
indecent figure shall be all covered up
The firemen, who are really art lovers
at heart, decided to foil the scheme.
They did not want to touch the ivy with
their hands, so they turned the hose on
it, roofing 1t up.
Police Chief Frank c. Ellington, up
holding the firemen, said Winona Lake
| is the home town of Billy Sunday, the
evangelist. and that Sunday never had
become publicly exercised about the
statue.
IF it's Q. x. with Eilly, It's o, <.
! with me-" the chief concluded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
SUNSPOT CYCLE TELLS EXPERT
HEAT RESPITE IS TEMPORARY
Records of 1913 and 1874 Show This Year Was Due
Long Dry Spell, Says Forecaster.

mers came every 56 years Similar con-
ditionS to those of this Summer pre-
vailed in 1874 and in 1918, Browne said.
The forecaster said the moon had
travelled so far north it had pulled the
waters of the Atlantic westward, drag
ging with them the heat of the Gulf
Stream, under which the Mississippi
Valley has sweltered
Similar conditions, he said, prevailed
in 1874 and 1918. when records kept In
the Middle West showed the Great
Lakes had receded greatly. Moon and
sun conditions then we're much the
same as this GUNNER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
~ the ASSOCIATED Press.

WINONA LAKE, IND, July 31.--The
fire department has come to the rescue
of the Venus de Milo, and a scheme to
cIothe the goddess statue in poison ivy
has been thwarted.
Mrs. Mary Schell Starr Of Chicago,
Slmmerng here, holds the opinion that
the statue, which has been a figure OF
artistic pride for 20 years, should wear
something. Yesterday the statue was
moved to a location near the f1re de-
partment and the circumstances gave
Mrs. Starr an opportunity to put hef
idea into action.
Poison ivy was planted around the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
Is DEATHS IN HEAT WAVE
District Fatalities for Week Laid
in Whole or Part to Weather.

Deaths occurring in the District OF
Columbia for the week ended July rs
show 16 cases in which excessive heat"
was one of the contributing factors, &C
cording to the weekly statistical report
of the District Health Department.
OF this number, three we're babies
only few days old and one months
old. The remainder OF the heat deaths
were in the age group from 81 to 80
years, except for one, in which the age
of the victim was 20 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
OLD MAN RIVER AT MEMPHIS
SAYS FAREWELL TO PACKETS
When Valley Queen Puts in Today Last of
Romantic Mississippi Boats Will End
Service of By-Gone Days

leaves no packet on the river between
Cape Girardeau, Mo-, and Memphis. A
few boats run from New Orleans to and
beyond Vicksburg, Miss. A few operate
far to the North.
But today landings dotting the banks
Immediately above and below Memphis
no longer know the sound of a packets
whistles, summoning farmers and their
colored workers down to the waters edge
to attend the arrivals and departures,
which in others days were part and par
Gel of their lives.
Not long ago Capt. G. Peters Loe,
principal owner of the Valley Queen,
sold the Harry Lee, the last boat bear
ing the Lee name. He is the grandson
OF James Lee, who ran the first Lee
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
NOD AT WHEEL FATAL

FAYETTEVILLE, N. c., July 81 (P).
Jesse Wellons of Fayetteville went to
sleep at the wheel of his automobile
early today and 1t crashed into a con-
crete pillar near here, fatally injuring
his 6-year-old daughter, Drosey.
Wellons was brining the little girl
from Norfolk, where she lives with her
mother, to Fayetteville for a visit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
BY the Associated Press.

him into conflict with the Weather Bu-
reau from time TO time, today said the
present break in the heat was only tenn
porary and there would be no definite
end to the wave until after Labor day.
Months ago, Browne said, he was con-
WINGED sunspot cycle. coupled with a
lunar cycle, had destined that the
Summer of 1880 be hot and dry. He
said persual of weather records, dating
back through the centuries. had con-
WINGED him unusually hot and dry Sum-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
Bandits Rob Polish Train.

LWOW. Poland, July 81 R.-One
bandit and one policeman were killed
in battle when bandits held up and
robbed mail train near Bobrka.
The robbers secured about $500. a
part Of which was found in the pockets
OF the slain man. Police said there were
five In the band.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
GALE is REPORTED

North Carolina Village Hit, but
No One Is Injured.
WALLACE. N c.. July 81 Gp).-H.
l.. Oswald of the Wallace Enterprise,
received reports today that wipdstorni
early today had blown down numerous
trees and buildings at Teacheys, small
village near Kenansville, but that no
one was injured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
MEXICO BANS PISTOLS
stops Customs Agents at q. S. Dor
der From Carrying Weapons.

MEXICO CITY, July 81 (P.-Mexi-
con customs agents along the American
horder have been ordered to leave on
their pistols, the government holding
that tourists get an unpleasant impress
sion when armed men go through their
The customs department also has
| ordered the discharge of agents who
are not polite to tourists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
Stand of Director Seen as
Result of Careful Planning
to Improve Enforcement.
DRIVE TO BE CENTERED
ON LARGER OFFENDERS
Supreme Court Ruling on Pur-
chaser of Liquor Regarded as
Influencing Position.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The outline of policies by the new
prohibition administrator, A. w. w.
Woo6cock, is of more than passing sig
nif1cance. 1t is not merely the trying
out of a new method by man who
faces large responsibilities, but it is
the result of careful planning on. the
part of the administration to make Jaw
enforcement as efficient as possible.
1t has all along been the objective
of the prohibition Offices to disrupt the
commercial traffic in liquor, but there
has crept in nevertheless so many in
stances of interference with personal
rights in the home that now it has
become necessary to announce definite
ly something which Government off,
Gals have hesitated heretofore to de-
clare,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
Argument Used in Past.


One of the arguments made in the
past against saying that the individual
would not be moleSted in his home or
If he toted a flask was that the Gov
eminent would be making a distinction
between different violators of the law.
The illegal possession of liquor even in
the home violates the Volstead law
Just as carrying a container of any
kind from place to place constitutes
transportation.
There is a recognition now, however,
that the whole cause of prohibition has
been damaged by the emphasis given
to insignificant violations. In an effort
to concentrate public sentiment on the
bootlegger and racketeer, the Federal
Government hopes to be able to mar
shall the help of all law-abiding citizens.
The recent decision of the Supreme
Court Of the United States that it was
not illegal to purchase liquor has aided
in developing policy of differentiation
between the individual who buys and
the bootlegger who sells.
The announcement by Mr. Woodcock
of his plans TO avoid picayunish cases
will be welcomed by the Federal courts
where many bootlegger has been able
to get his case delayed indefinitely be-
cause of the congestion in the courts
This frequently means a loss of time in
getting or preserving evidence. It is
also believed that the courts and the
Juries will be more sympathetic toward
Government prosecutions IL they are
conferred on bootleggers and those who
actually engage In the trafic of liquor
rather than upon individuals who hap
pen to imbibe.
Policy Significant.
The significant thing about Mr.
Woodcock's program is that it repre-
sents such a definite and outspoken
policy. This has led to the belief that
the administration was waiting until
new prohibition administrator was APP
pointed before giving to the public its
matured conclusions on the best way
to enforce the liquor laws.
The consolidation of the prohibition
units which used to be in the Treasury
Department with the bureaus of the
Department of Justice means a central
iZation of all detection and prosecution
in one department of the Government.
1t is considered that the Department
OF Justice has always been less sensitive
to political pressure than other depart
mentS and that its detective personnel
has usually been of high standard. All
this is expected to produce a combined
benefit in the attempt to enforce pro-
hibition.
Copyright. is3oJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
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as fast as the papers are printed.