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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02
ARMSTRONG TALKS
IN BONDSMEN QUIZ
Asks to Testify Before Grand
Jury Regarding Alleged
Collision.

DR.. James Armstrong, Montana
Apartments, at his own request was
witness today before the grand jury in
connection with repeated rumors of col
fusion between professional bondsmen
and members of the Police Department
or between bondsmen and lawyers. He
was in the grand jury room about Is
minutes and declined to be interviewed
as he left the court house.
United States Attorney Rover was re-
ticent in reference to the testimony
given by the witness, but it was rumored
that the grievance which the witness
had arose out. of case several years
ago and beyond the limitations of the
statute and shed no light on the al
ing situation. The testimony, 1t was
indicated, did not involve the Police
Department.
Milton S. Kronheim, president of the
Professional BondSmen'S Association,
some days ago asked Rover to inveSti-
gate the rumors of the supposed collu-
sion between police and bondsmen, but
was told that nothing could be done
until facts were laid before the prose-
cutor, which he might submit to the
grand jury
Last Friday Rover received letter
from DR.. Armstrong asking permission
to go before the grand jury in event of
such investigation. Rover summoned
him to appear this morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02
Speeding Over America at 100
Mile Clip, He Is First to Reach
Continent Without Stop.
RANKS OF FOG CLOUD FINAL LAP.
BUT FAIR WEATHER HOLDS INLAND
Landfall Over French Islands Is Tribute
to Countrymen From Daring Pilot
of Plane Question Mark.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the
Along cloudpah maritime provinces and toward
famous French flyer and his COM
the last thousand miles OF flight
Paris to New York.
tme) this morning Deudonne Coste
Maurice their Question Mark scared
the Canadian mainland achieving the
flight the continent OF North
America
passing the entrance to Halifax Harbor
more than York. and headed true
swiftly for their goal
for French Islands.
reversing which Charles A. Lindbergh followed from
outside Paris CoSte MS
made patriotic depression They edged around the southern UP
an insuar Francehe Isle of ST Pierre
at Standard tmel this morning
the coast indicated that they would
Field Long Island In New XorKs
purieus before sunset this evening.
New YorkG Gets Ready
spontaneiy of enthusiasm for the feat OF the successors
Coli New YORK prepared 10
welcome such as it would have heaped on the
Atlantic
good city streets Where are tne myers
the
wait them with welcoming committee in the van
the o'clock tonight eastern STAND
ard tme) Paro-New York Journey IN
81 hours.
Along Coast.
Scotia coast but the myers
struck followed by hndoergh they Shoud
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02
Log of the 2"

BY the Associated Press.
eastern standard time.)
Monday.
asa Anticipated from lie Bourget.
6 am.-Passed over Les Andelys,
France, on English Channel.
8:45 a.m.-Sighted over Rosslare Pier,
East Irish coast.
$40 a.m.-Passed over Limerick, Ire-
land.
10:45 craftsmanship Berengaria re-
ported that Coste plane said everything
was 80. K"
IL am.-Passed over French steam
ship Maria ThereSe in 52.40 n. 1920
w.
1920 pm,-Liner Columbus heard
position given as 51.20 N. 16 w.
245 p.m-Marconi Montreal station
heard position given as 81 N. "a w.
p.m.-Liner st. Louis gave planes
position SOLO N. 30.40 w.
b pm.-Liners Bremen and Europa
gave planes position as 48.39 N. 80 w.
IL p.m.-Liner Jacques Cartier heard
position 43 N. Ais w.
Tuesday.
6 am.-Passed over st. Pierre, south
of Newfoundland, completing trars-
atlantic crossing.
9:35 am. passed over Canso, Nova
Scotia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02
ONE DEAD, 800 HURT
IN BUDAPEST RIOT
Communists Blamed for Agitation
as Unemployed Gather on
Promise to Be Orderly.

BY the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, September 2.
Three hundred persons were injured,
80 seriously, and one man was killed
in a riot for food and work among
the unemployed in Budapest streets
yesterday. Communist agitation was
blamed. Four of the seriously injured
are policemen.
Police permitted the meeting of the
unemployed, which had been widely
advertised for weeks, on the promise
that 1t would be orderly. The demon
strators stoned windows, halted street
cars and automobiles, and attacked the
police with revolvers, stones and iron
rods
Mounted police and armored cars
finally dispersed the throngs.
Approximately 300 persons who par
;icipated in the demonstration will stand
trial, charged with acts of violence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02
$4OO, 900 Annual Decrease
of Revenue Would Result
From Costs Filed.
THREE SEPARATE LISTS
FILED WITH COMMISSION
Prices Provide Expense of Sc to
"a Cents Per 1000 for Aver
age Consumer.

Substantial decreases in gas rates
house heating are provided in the new
schedules filed by the Washington Gas
Light Co. with the Public Utilities
Commission today.
The schedules are so arranged, ac-
cording to the accompanying state
ment of the company, that assuming
that the same amount of gas is sold
by the company under the new rates as
under the present rates, it will mean
an annual decrease of revenue of
$400, 900.
The rates would allow the average
consumer, heating a six-room brick
house, to get his gas for this and all
other purposes at a rate somewhere be-
tween Sc and "A cents per 1000 cubic
feet, as compared with the present
charge Of 81 per 1000 cubic feet.
Three Separate Schedules.
There are three separate schedules
filed. The average consumer is repre-
sented in the first, called general gas
service" rate. He will get his gas, under
per 1000 cubic feet, assuming that he
pays his bills promptly. If the bill is
not paid in 10 days, then the rate
jumps to 95 cents. Either would be
saving, since the present rate is 81.
There is, however, for this service
minimum bill of rs cents Cor IS cents
If it is not paid promptly. For this
minimum bill the consumer is allowed
500 cubic feet of gas This differs from
the rate schedule formerly filed, in that
under that schedule there was a "serv-.
ice charge" of so cents added to every
bill, whether any gas was used or not.
A person now using 500 cubic feet of
gas per month gets it-for SO cents. I'm
der the new rate his bill will be in
creased by 25 cents. The company de-
tends this, however, by an analysis of
their sales, in the following words:
AT present approximately IL per cent
of the total meters use less than 500
cubic feet a month. The gas COM
pany meter books prove incontestibly
that these small consumers are not
the poorer families, or the so-called
little fellow The poorer sections of the
city. almost without exception, show
bills of 3 400 cubic feet a month or over.
CAS- matter of fact most of them are
over this figure, because the poorer
families depend on gas not only for
cooking, but for heating their houses
with when they sometimes have not
the ready cash to purchase coal.
Represents RealIocatiOn.
1.-THE small consumers are those who
live in apartments and use gas only
occasionally as convenience. Hereto
fore the average user who depends on
gas has been paying the bill of the very
small convenience consumer. The new
rate, then, represents q reallocation as
we'll as a reduction.
-Four per cent (estimatedD of the
meters are now idle. (This figure was
included in the IL per cent who use less
than 500 cubic feet month"; These
idle meters are an expense to the gas
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column ID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02
WOODCOCK OPENS
SCHOOL FOR DRYS
Director Outlines Policies of
Enforcement to 80
Picked Agents.

Declaring that the old days of the
"disorderly, rough and tough prohibit
ton agent" we're gone forever, Amos
w. w. Woodcock, director of prohibition,
today laid down a policy of honesty"
as the basis for enforcement, and warn
ed that the Department of Justice in
tends to make no ''borderline cases."
These pronouncements, Col. Woodcock
delivered before the new school of in
struction for prohibition officers, which
opened at prohibition headquarters this
morning, with about 80 men from all
parts of the country in attendance.
Don't urge agents to make border
line cases." he said. I'VE are not in
terested now in lest cases. The law is
sufficiently clear cut, to go forward and
make straight cases for year at least"
The law and court decisions now make
1t clear, he said, how far agents can go
and how far they cannot 60"
Honesty Stressed.
The men. who were picked from the
IL prohibition enforcement districts,
were urged to insist upon both intel
lectual and moral honesty on the part
of all agents. They were told that this
was one OF the most important prin-
cipleS for them to inStill into the great
body of agents throughout the country
when they go out during the next nine
months as ambassadors of education
among the rank and file of prohibition
agents. to improve enforcement condi-
tionS.
II don't want agents to get into habits
of slipShod mental processes" declared
Col. Woodcock, so they will answer in
court the way they think lawyer
wants questions answered. That isn't
honest 1t isn't decent"
Instructions to clean up and dress up
the prohibition agents were given by Col.
Woodcock.
An earnest and at the same time
sane and sensible" appeal for improve
ment of the morale" OF the prohibit
ton service was made by Col. Woodcock
to his picked men. 1t would not be
sufficient, he explained, to get the
agents trained in the great body OF
knowledge of the law and procedure
for putting the law into effect They
must be infused with faith and belief"
in their work, pride i'll the service.
I'VE don't want agents to interfere
with the rights of innocent. persons"
declared Col. Woodcock. I'VE don't
want them to go beyond the law. We
Continued on Page 2, Column a.
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MRS. MCCORMICK REVEALS SHE
HAD SENATOR NYE ''SHADOWED''
Says She Is Still Doing 1t
and That Results JUS
tify Course.
Senatorial Candidate Asks:
''What Is Senator Nye Co.
ing to Do About It?"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September Ruth Han
ma Mccormick, whose Republican sena-
torial primary campaign expenses were
recently investigated by Senator Gerald
P. Nye's Funds Committee, was self
revealed today as the one who retained
private detectives to inquire into what
she termed Nye'S methods and affilia-
TONS"
The "shadowing" of Senator Nye, the
Republican senatorial candidate said in
a statement issued last night at her
Byron, Ill, estate, was an aftermath of
the campaign funds inquiry.
Mrs. Mccormick pointedly answered
press dispatches quoting Senator Nye's
indignation" at being investigated
with the terse remark:
IT did it. 1 am still doing it, and the
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airmen who sought to make the cross
ing.
For six hours, from S pm. to IL pm,
Eastern standard time, the "?" took a
sharp southwestward course, which
placed it far to the south of the usual
ship and air routing of the coast or
Newfoundland and set 1t almost due
east of New York City. 1t was pre-
suned that this diversion was to es-
cape adverse weather and the fog or
Newfoundland, which Wing Comdr.
Charles Kingsford Smith found bathing.
Paris dispatches said progress OF the
plane exceeded even the most sanguine
hopes of its hackers and the friends Of
the pilot and Bellonte, who had ex-
pected to meet adverse winds before
they reached midatlanti-
Tail Wind Helps Pair.
For much of the flight the two avia-
tors had tail wind upward of IS miles
per hour. Adverse winds, although not
strong, blew off the American coast.
Countering the disadvantage in speed
at which the winds would place Coste
was the advantage gained with Hghten-
ing of his tremendous fuel load, factor
which ordinarily would accelerate prog
ress greatly.
Capt Coste and Bellonte left lie
Bourget Field after a five-hour delay
occasioned by haze and a crosS-wind
which made a take-of dangerous.
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
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THREE OUT FRONT
IN BALLOON RACE
French Are First to Land
Craft, Coming Down at
SmithviIIe, N. Y.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, September Like rae
ing horses, three of the six balloonists
in the nineteenth International Gordon
Bennett Balloon Race were speeding to
indefinite goals somewhere in the East
ern part of the United States.
The Goodyear VIII, the Belgica and
the City of Detroit were reported over
Eastern New York this morning. They
sailed swiftly onward at times, then
slower, first one and then another re-
ported in the lead, while the pilots, like
jockeys, tried to coax the maximum
speed from the steeds.
French Balloon Down.
The French balloon, carrying Albert
Boitard and Jean Herbe, was the first
of the six reported to have descended.
1t came down at Smithville, N. Y.
shortly after noon &c. S. t.. The bal
loonistS left for Cleveland this after
noon by train, a dispatch from Smith
vile said.
The City of Cleveland was sighted
over Little Falls, N. Y, at 1850 am.
Z. s. T. The German bag Barman has
not been sighted or reported to race
headquarters here.
Capt. Ernest Demuyter OF Belgium,
who has won the Bennett Classic four
times, at latest reports, seemed to be at
or near the head of the procession. His
balloon, the Belgica, was sighted 80
miles west of Albany, N. Y, at 1890 am.
Struck Reverse Wind.
The City of Detroit, with E. j. Hill
and Arthur G. Schlosser aboard, was
over Syracuse at am, and Ward Il.
Van Orman's Goodyear VIII was at
Norwich, Chenango County, N. Y, at
$3.50 am. Less than two hours earlier
Van Orman's craft was struck by some
wind current that sent him backward,
but he caught new wind and moved
on with the procession shortly
DIR. Hugo Kaulen, jr., and Carl
Goethe, jr., were in the Barman, seek
ing honors for Germany. Roland j.
Blair and F. A. Trotter were in the
Cleveland entry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02


To roach st. Pierre the go" travelled
an airline distance of approximately
2 a25 miles from lie Bourget in 70 hours
and 6 minutes from the time OF lCS oe-
narturef 1854 am. (4:54, Eastern
standard time) yesterday.
Gesture to Countrymen.
AS a matter of fact, the distance
travelled probably was several nunofeo
miles greater, due to conSloerapie
southwark detour from the course IN
Midatlantic, made. 1t was presumed, 10
escape fog and adverse weather coilui-
tons 1905.
of 100 miles an hour, he might pc eX-
nected over New York at about D pm.
eastern standard time) today.
Coste's landfall and passage over 81.
Pierre was a gracious gesture 10 ms
coIntrvmen. The st. Pierre group pc
longs to France Just is miles fartner
north is Newfoundland, British pos
session.
First to Reach Continent.
When his "?" flew over Cape Canso.
in Nova Scotia. today, Capt. CosIe
achieved something new in aviation. an
nals-a nonstop fight from continent
There have been two other successful
westward flights straight across the
North Atlantic, but both started IN Ire
land and landed on ISLANDS OH the
American coast.
The first was the German expedition
In the Bremen. 1t took off in Ireland
and made a forced landing on Greeniy
Island. The other was the southern
Cross, which also started its ocean mop
in Ireland and stopped Tor tuel III
Newfoundland. ~,
mates. who arrived last week IL ny
ing boat, also crossed the Norm AT
Iantic. but they kept far to the nortn
and made stops in Iceland, Green!ano,
Labrador and elsewhere along their
route.
Get Record Even If Fail.
Even If Coste and Bellonte, his com.
panion, should be forced down ShorG
of their goal in New York, they sun
would be credited with the best west
ward flight ever made across the Nortn
Atlantic. for they started in France
and in passing Canso they reacheo 'ne
continent of North America.
BY Landing late this afternoon at new
York in their flight from France. Coste
and Bellonte will bring about the re-
aliZation of a dream which In 1927
brought about the death of Charles
NungeSser and Francois Coli, the hrst
to attempt the flight.
Plane Veers to Southwest.
The latter stages of. the long air trip,
however, were being made in the lace
of adverse winds, which Coste hlmsen
a year ago described as wall OF
wind" Those winds undoubtedly IN
the past have been the ruin of other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02
ANDREE MEN SLEPT INTO DEATH
DR.. Horn Pictures Last Hours of Ill
Fated Arctic BallOOnists.

DR.. Horn Pictures Last Hours OF Ill
Fated Arctic BallOOnists.
BY wireless to the Associated Press.
ABOARD THE MOTOR SHIP BRAT
VAAG, Skjaer Island, Norway, Septem-
Der 2.-Salomon August Andree, Swed-
iSh balloon explorer, and his two COM
panions in the 1897 attempt to fly
across the North Pole died OF exhaus-
ton and slept themselves into death, 1T
is believed by DIR. Gunnard Horn, head
of the expedition which found their
remains on White Island, east OF Spitz-
bergen.
After a tortuous march and ride in
frail boats across 100 miles of ice and
icy water from the spot where their
balloon came down, the explorers Sus-
tanned life on White Island only few
months, Horn believes, killing birds and
a bear for food. With the approach
of Winter 80 years ago they died one
by one, and at least two of their bodies
froze into a sort of Semi-permanency.
Bodies in Natural Graves.
Those bodies remained in their natu-
raj graves of ice and snow until Au-
gust 6, when two harpooners OF the
Horn expedition, seeking drinking water
on the bleak island. discovered boat
and hoat-hook, which once belonged to
the Andree expedition. They began an
investigation, which ended in discovery
of the headleSs, clothed skeleton OF
Andree. the clothed skeleton of one OF
his companions and a group Of bones,
which may be those of the third MEM
Der of the party.
Andree's body, sitting, with foot
encased in ice and a rife and oil stove
by its side, was found near the base OF
a mountain A skull nearby evidently
was Andree's. The body had greatly
deteriorated and was not much more
than a skeleton clothed in Arctic APP
parel, in the pocket of which was found
a monogram by which it was identified,
The teeth OF the other skeleton, found
nearby, partly covered with stones, may
determine whether it is Nils Strindberg
or Knut Frankel, the other members OF
the party.
Dramatically the little sealer Brat
vaag sailed into Hasvik Sunday, after
a search by Swedish official vessels and
news expeditions which covered wide
area of the North Seas. DR.. Horn there
notified the authorities officially OF his
discovery, news of which. had already
reached the world through the captain
of the sealer Terningen. Then, without
awaiting an answer, he took the sealel
to Skjaer Island to await the michael
Sars, Swedish battleship sent TO escort
the Bratyaag to Tromsoe.
Deduces Last Days of Andree.
He sat with Odd Arnessen, CORE
spondent for the Associated Press anc
the Oslo Aftenposten. in the ships
cabin, with some of the relics of the
Andree expedition on the table in front
OF him, and told the story of his dis.
Continued on Page 2. Column 3D.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02
MAN GETS 100 DAYS
FOR STEALING PAPERS
Taking II Copies From Honor Rack
Proves Costly to Mason
Turner.

Charged with stealing II newspapers
from an honor system rack and being
drunk Mason Turner, Fl years old, 1922
days by Judge Robert e. Mattingly in
Police Court.
Mason was arrested by Policeman G.
Sorber of the second precinct, Saturday.
Judge Mattingly issued warning that
persons who indulge in the practice of
taking papers from racks without pay
ing will be penalized heavily when
brought before him.
Mason was charged with three cases
of larceny, including nine, five and
three papers each, and drew 30-day
sentences on them. Police declared that
he was intoxicated at the time of ar
rest and Judge Mattingly assessed To-
day sentence. ..-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02
COLORED HOLD-UP MEN ARRESTED
WHEN THEY RETURN TO SCENE
War Department Clerk Recognizes Trio Who Robbed
Him and Police Recover Ring and Money.

to the scene and were hearing Browns
version of the affair when the latter
happened to glance at an automobile
passing in the street and recognized
the men who had robbed him a few
minutes before
The three men were arrested and the
ring and part of the money recovered.
According to police, the men admitted
taking part in the robbery. They iden-
tilted themselves as James H. Smith,
10, of the 400 block of Delaware ave-
nue. southwest, the man who actually
committed the robbery; Leroy G. o.
Ashton. rs, 800 block of South Capitol
street, and John Washington Courtney,
10, first block of D street southeast. A
fourth member Of the party leaped
from the car and escaped during the
CHASE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02

If the three colored men who held
up Bernice Brown, War Department
clerk, and robbed him of $11 and a
ring last night had been content to
stay away from the scene of the rob-
berry they probably would not be in jail
today.
Brown was robbed by colored youth
who approached him on Ivy street near
New Jersey avenue southeast, last mid
night, and asked for a cigarette. AS
Brown reached for the cigarette the
colored man grabbed him by the chin
and took the ring from his finger and
his pocketbook. He then got into a
car with three other men and drove
away.
Detectives Charles z. MeAsfield and
Van D. Hughes and Pvt. w. AIS went
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02

u. S. Vice Consul
At Naples Expires
AS Result of Fall
John r. Robinson Plunges
From Hotel Window.
Was Well known Here.
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press,
CAPRI, Italy, September John
Randolph Robinson, 26, of New York,
United States vice consul at Naples,
died this morning from the effects of
a fab from a window of the Hotel
Quisisana, on the Island of Capri. He
fell several stories onto a cement pave
ment He was taken to hospital suf-
tering from many bone fractures and
internal injuries.
Robinson was the son of prominent
attorney living in Paris. He was born
in Paris and educated in French. Swiss
and English schools, later graduating
from Harvard in 1927.
He joined the United States foreign
Continued on Page 4, Column %
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Ry lhe AssocIated Press. Il

BY the Associated Press.
EVANSTON, ILL.,, September Capt
Samuel Casperson of the Zion City
Police was taking prisoner, Robert
Thompson. back to Zion City from
Evanston last night, and the prisoner
suddenly developed a thirst.
ct wish I could have drink Of
water" said the prisoner to Capt. Cas-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02

Publisher Says Publication Of Anglo
French Treaty Brought Emulsion.


French Treaty Brought Expulsion.
LONDON, September 2 (F1.-William
Randolph Hearst, American publisher,
arrived in London today. Mr.. Hearst,
asked about his expulsion from France,
said: ST have no complaint to make
They said was an enemy of France
and a danger in their midst.
THE reason for our strained relations
was the publication of an Anglo
French treaty, two years ago, by the
Hearst newspapers.
'"Officials we're extremely polite" con-
tinued Hearst. They made me feel
quite important They said I could stay
little while longer If I desired, that
they would take a chance on nothing
disastrous happening to the republic.
But I told Them didn't want to take
the responsibility of endangering the
Continued on Page S, Column A.