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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06
"PAN|CLAWS" HELD
DEPRESSION CAUSE
Chicago Trade Board Head
Urges Slash in Cost of
Government.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 6.-Thomas Y.
Wickham, director Of the Board Of
Trade, In statement yesterday charged
that governmental interference and
what he called "the four panic laws"
sion in a land Of plenty" The panic
laws he listed as: Grain futures act,
Volstead act, Grundy tariff and farm
marketing act. He added:
mo one can live permanently beyond
his income. The cost of government
everywhere, from the school district to
Washington, has finally exceeded the
ability of the people to pay for it.
"Can't Keep Up Both"
1--WE can quit eating. close our schools,
junk our autos. railroads, banks and
factories; and keep on with our COM
missions and bureaus and multitude Of
governing bodies; or we can put the
Government back to the proper sphere
of government, where we say what it
does and what it spends instead Of 1t
spend and go ahead with our normal
activities. We simply can't go on keep
ing up both.
I'VE can keep up the pay roll at the
Office and factory and pay the Govern
ment more than the Office and factory
earn; and now we e learning we can
not even earn If the Government is
going to be competitor, using taxes
for its special pay roll.
why wonder that wheat and cotton,
copper and coal, stocks and bonds.
homes and Office buildings do nothing
but decline or that labor and capital,
bank presidents and merchants, white
collar men and labor lie awake nights
and wonder, in fear.
"Snoopers All About"
This is land of plenty. From its
fertile fields to its skyscrapers, its rich
mines to its modern factory plants,
nothing but wealth greets the eye. But
over it all has fallen the CHASTITY death
hand of Government control. Skulking
everywhere is the Governments snoop-
err at each mans back and in every
home is the tax collector, all about Is
the governing body, always feasting, al.
ways laying more trouble. always seek
ing to control the lives and the wealth
of the people. Citizens should not toll
crate panic created by laws"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06
HOOVER TO CONFER
ON UNITY PROGRAM
Summons Congress Leaders
for Meeting at White
House Tonight.
Continued From First Page.)

cratic member of the Senate Finance
Committee. Mr.. Garner hurried To
Washington from his home in Texas In
an Army airplane, put at his disposal
by the President.
Senator Walsh Of Montana is another
Democratic Senator in Washington who
may attend the conference.
On the Republican side, Senator Wat
son of Indiana, leader of the Senate
Senator Fess of Ohio, chairman Of the
Republican National Committee; Sena-
tor BorafI Of Idaho, chairman Of the
Foreign Relations Committee; Senator
Reed of Pennsylvania, q member Of the
Finance Committee Representative
Smell Of New York. chairman of the
House Rules Committee; Representative
Treadway Of Massachusetts,, a member
CT the House Ways and Means Commit
tee, and several others are expected to
attend. Representative John @. Tilson
of Connecticut, the Republican leader
of the House, will be here If the invi-
tation to attend reached him in time.
He has been at his camp in New Hamp-
shire. The invitations to the confer
ence were sent cut from the White
House Saturday night.
Silent on Farley Report.
The White House would not discuss
today report from New York that or
Sunday night President Hoover held AT
important conference with a group Of
New York bankers. This conference
was not held at the White House, II
was reported, and was surrounded with
great secrecy. Four Of the country.
most powerful financiers are reported
to have held meeting yesterday at the
Federal Reserve Bank in New York anc
to have talked over the White House
conference of Sunday night. These
financiers were George Whitney, part
ner of j. P. Morgan & Co.; Albert H
Wiggin, chairman of the governing
board of the Chase National Bank
Charles E. Mitchell, chairman of the
National City Bank, and William c.
Potter, president Of the Guaranty Trust
Co.
The death of the late Senator Dwight
W. Morrow of New Jersey removes from
the conference one of the Presidents
most trusted advisers. 1t is not long
since Mr.. Morrow was in consultation
with the President. The conference OF
the congressional leaders set for to-
night at o'clock follows a series of
conferences, indeed, which the Chief
Executive has held in recent days with
members of his cabinet, including Sec
rotary Mellon and Secretary Lamont
the heads of the Treasury and Com
merce Departments and with leaders
in the business world, among them
Bernard Baruch Of New York and
Julius Barnes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06
Science
Flies Found Making Sea
Surf Home.

Two flies that live IN the sea surf
were found by DR.. J. NJ. Aldrich, asso-
ciate curator of insects at the United
States National Museum, during a re-
cent collecting trip on the Pacific Coast.
One is the paraclunio. thus described
by DR.. Aldrich: 1T is a member of the
nudge family, but is robust and strong,
and its leathery wings are unaffected
by sea water. Coming out of the reced-
ing wave, it runs with fluttering wings
over the wet rock until it is submerged
again"
The other does not actually become
submerged, but lives on the wet rocks
feeding on the soft-bodied organisms
found there. I'm this fly" says DR..
Aldrich, 1.-The mouth is developed into
a pair of pincers for holding its prey
structure unknown in other flies,
where the mandibles, such as occur in
lower orders of insects, are reduced to
small needles, hardly recognizable. This
species was the principal find Of my
trip"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06
KILLING FOLLOWS
MYSTERY SHOTS
Death at Dunn Loring Is
Climax to Series of
Threats.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DUNN LORING, Va, october g.
Melvin Stevens, %, was shot to death
about midnight last night in front OF
his home on the Merrifield road by ar
unknown assailant whose shotgun blew
of the side of Stevens head. The victim
was taken to Georgetown Hospital By
Paul Herman, town sergeant Of Falls
Church. but was dead before he reached
Washington.
Last nights catastrophe climaxed q
series of mysterious shootings which
have baffled local police for some time
According to Sheriff E. p Kirby, he and
his deputies had been summoned tc
Dunn Loring on several occasions ir
the past three weeks, Stevens and his
next door neighbor, Arthur j. Shugars
claiming that some one was shooting at
them from the woods adjoining their
homes. According to the story TOLD
police, some one would first throw stones
at the houses and then open fire with
a shotgun on whoever appeared.
Previous Searches Made.
It was also charged that on one oc-
casion a shot was fired at Stevens as
he sat in his house next to an electric
light, the bullet missing his head by a
few inches. Police on each occasion
searched the woods and the neighbor-
hood without finding any trace of a
suspicious character. Kirby said today
that he has been unable to find any
evidence on the exterior of the house
that it had been fired on as charged.
Last night Stevens and his two
brothers, John and David, OF TySons
Corners, together with Shugar and a
number of neighbors, armed themselves
to hunt for the mysterious assailant
Town Sergt. Herman, Constable Ben
Runyon and others searched the woods
on either side of the Stevens home
without success. Herman then left the
party in pursuit of an automobile with
a drunken driver. Five minutes later
he heard a pandemonium OF shots and
screams break loose. Rushing back tc
the Dunn Loring road, he found Stevens
stretched on the ground near his home
The men with Stevens told the officers
they had been fired on from the woods
nearby.
County Coroner Dr. c. A. Ransom
was summoned and held an inquest al
the Shugar home, taking testimony
from eight OF the nelghborS and wit
nesses. The inquest adjourned at
o'clock this morning without verdict
DR.. Ransom has continued the case
until tomorrow to permit further in
vestigation.
Deceased Was Well Digger.
Stevens, who was % years old, was a
well-digger. The neighbors state that
so far as Is known, he had no enemies
Shugar, on the other hand. told Sheriff
Kirby that he thought some one was
after him"
Stevens is survived by his widow anc
three small children, the youngest
months old. Mrs. Stevens took the
children to her mother in-law's home, II
Ballston, last night Immediately afte'
her husbands body was rushed to tht
hospital and before the inquest wa:
held. No funeral arrangements have
yet been completed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06

out a program which would permit
the Federal Government to render the
greatest service in the field of edu-
cation.
The general chairman Of the COM
mittee is Charles r. Mann, director of
the American Council of Education.
j. w. Crabtree CT the National Edu-
cation Association is general secre-
tary.
A donation of 100000 was made by
the Julius Rosenwald Fund to be used
in the compilation of information by
the committee, composed of 81 out
standing educators.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06

ing two landing gear struts. We were
then over the Gulf of Alaska.
We were both suffering from the
terrific cold in spite of the fact that
We were wearing heavy flying suits and
had four warm blankets over us.
We had figured on reaching Queen
Charlotte Island at 10 o'clock on the
night of October S. We finally reached
the north part of Vancouver Island at
midnight, two hours later than we ex-
pected, and they were very anxious
hours. We kept looking for lighthouses
blinking on the coast, but for long
time we saw nothing but winking stars,
which We mistook for lighthouses.
Change Course for Seattle.
The first sight of America was a
flashing beacon on Vancouver Island.
We changed our course for Seattle
Soon. flying at 10000 feet, with the
clouds just under us, we thought we
were over Seattle. We could see the
glare of lights reflected on the clouds,
but We weren't sure it was Seattle A
high cloud bank ahead proved to be
Mount Rainier, so we established our
position definitely.
We then had to plan on landing in
a b. field, from which we might have
to take a heavily loaded ship on a
11OLl-oLOp 1l1SI1L u OcLldS, Sh-, D6CduSe
we still believed that We had been
accepted as entrants to Col Easter
woods Japan-to-Dallas one-stop flight
for prize of $4,000.
We changed our course for Spokane,
where we knew there was big field,
but on arriving there we found it fog
bound, so we headed for Wenatchee,
which we knew was always clear, hav-
ing visited that city several times in
the past and for which we had always
had fond spot in our hearts.
Had we not been planning on flying
to Dallas, we would have continued
on until our gas was exhausted, not
caring where we landed, so long as
We established a long distance record.
We gave up the long distance record
idea in the hope Of capturing the
Easterwood prize.
(Copyrigr- 1927. hv 4ra No-t1 American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06
D. C. EDUCATION PLAN
IS BEING DRAFTED
Two Year Study of Cooperative
Needs With Government
to Be Outlined.

Members Of the National Advisory
Committee on Education and Secre-
tary Wilbur Of the erior today
start drafting their recommendations
to be submitted to President Hoover
and to Congress following a two-year
study Of the present relations of the
national Government to education.
The committee will be in session
here throughout the week and it is
not expected that the recommended
lions will be completed before Friday.
This group was appointed by Secre-
tary Wilbur on June S, 1929, to work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06

district. If the Democrats organize the
House in the coming Congress, he I'M
doubtedly will become Speaker to sue
coed his late colleague, Longworth.
Will Attend Conference.
Ruddy of face and clear of eye, de-
spite his long service and hard work,
Garner said he was feeling in excellent
condition. He received an injury to his
left hip when he was struck by a fall
ing tree limb while holding ladder for
workman.
THE only time my pocketbook ever
helped me was then" he said. 1.-THE
limb struck my billfold, loaded with
papers and softened the blow. But the
hip is black and blue"
Garner declined to disclose the pur-
pose of his hurried visit, but it was
learned he would attend conference
at the White House tonight.
Wednesday he plans to return to
Invade by airplane to remain until
shortly before Congress convenes, De-
cember 7. He approves Of flying, and
expects to wing back over the Southern
route.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06
AKRON HANGAR STARTED

Construction work is in progress on
a second dirigible hangar at the Naval
Air Station, Lakehurst, N. j., home Of
the U. S. S. Los Angeles and future
home of the U. S. S. Akron, worlds
largest airship, according to warn
ing issued to all aviators today by the
Navy photographic Office.
The hangar is being built 1900 feet
east of the big hangar and will have
a maximum height of 100 feet. it was
stated A portion of the framework
has been erected and there will be
danger from cranes $50 feet high during
the course of construction. Flood lights
will play on the structure and cranes
at night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06
FLYERS LANDED WITHOUT CENT.

WENATCHEE, Wash, October Up.
Out of the terrors of their historic
nonstop flight across the Pacific came
aihuence, praise and rest today for
Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, jr.
Wenatchee and the State of Wash
ir.gton in general went to heretofore
unheard-of pains to shower two avia-
tors with comfort. Townspeople forgot
about the depression and raised to purse
OF $500 to provide the flyers spending
money.
Pangborn and Herndon were without
q cent when they landed here yester-
day morning to complete their 4,877-
mile flight from Samushiro Beach,
Japan. Before the first cheers had died
away a representative of the Toxic
newspaper Asahi handed them an or
der emitting them to $4,000, prize
money, which long had been posted by
that periodical for the first nonstop
airplane flight between Japan and the
United States.
But the $4,000 order didn't provide
any immediate spending money, and
the collection was taken up to take
care of that situation.
Wenatchee staged spontaneous cell
ebration. From its $4,000 persons about
10000 collected to make the flyers well
come. The flight was praised in an ad-
dress by Lieut.. Gov. John A. Gellatly
and described by Maj w. I. WILDLY as
greater than Col. Lindbergh's flight
over the Atlantic"
A movement was started to have the
SIS, 900 prize offered four years ago for
nonstop flight between Toxic and
Seattle given to Pangborn and Herndon.
This morning the flyers were allowed
to sleep late, but were called upon to
go to a neiphboring town for a lunch
con and community banquet.
Behind all the felicity, however, there
was the indelible memory of what might
have happened had they not outflown
the hazards that beset them.
Ice had formed on the wings Of their
plane. Their motor stopped when they
were 5000 miles from Japan. Their
hopes suffered severe shock. when
they thought they were approaching the
mainland and then flew for three hours
before sighting terra hGJna.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06
Australian Doctor Uses Plane.

SYDNEY, Australia (P).-The old
fashioned country doctors chaise has
a modern counterpart. DR.. Vickers. a
member of the Australian Inland Mis-
sion, is off to care for the natives CT
Mornington Island in the Gulf of Car
pentaria in his plane Radio summons
him to remote settlements where there
is illness and his plane takes him there
CrOntc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06
NEW VETS POST ELECTS
Policeman ]. E. Bennett Heads
Service Group.

Motor Cycle Policeman J. E. Ben
nett of the Traffic Bureau was elected
Washington Police and Firemeps Pos
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars last
night at the first meeting of the as.
ISOLATION.
Other officers names at the session
which was held at the home of Hubert
S. Riley Of No. 10 Engine Company
are Sergt. Oscar L. Rose, No. IS En-.
CINE Co., senior vice commander; Sergt
John E. Fondahl, Traffic Bureau, Junior
vice commander; William E. Riley, Parl
Police, adjutant, and Pvt. Herbert M
Smith, Traffic Bureau, quartermaster.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06
FEAT PRAISED BY JAPAN.

Congratulations on the transpacific
flight of Clyde Pangborn and Hugh
Herndon we're conveyed to Secretary
Stimson today by Kijuro Shidehara,
Japanese foreign minister.
Now that the ocean between us has
been bridged by one continuous flight"
said the message forwarded through the
American embassy at Toxic, accept my
on the intrepidity, skill and patience
which have enabled Messrs. Pangborn
and Herndon to achieve this memorable
result, which will always remain land
mark in the history of aviation"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06
STORY OF FLIGHT
TOLD BY HERNDON
He and Pangborn Had Hard
Time Finding Place to
Land in U. S.
Continued From First Page)

Beach, less than 800 miles from Toxic,
but actually it was more than 400 the
way the japanese routed us.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-06

After passing the volcano we came
to high bank of clouds, which we
could not fly over, so we had to go
through, and took on a very dam
gerously heavy load of ice. We had
to fly with wide-open throttle at 1900
feet for four hours, thereby using up
our precious supply of gasoline rapidly.
The clouds at last lowered and the
Ice melted, to our great relief. With
the ships release from the additional
weight of the ice, we flew over clouds
and fog from Attu Island east.
Pangborn here climbed out on the
wing struts and unscrewed the remain
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
BY
DEATH; INSISTS
ON SEEING PEAK
National Parks Director Is
Flown Around Mckinley
in Ambulance Ship.

By Scripps-HotCord Newspaper Allionce
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-Strangs
requests often are made by people
who feel themselves under the
shadow OF death, but few are more
novel than the desire TO fly around
Mt. Mckinley, expressed by Horace
NJ. Albright, director of national
parks, when seized with a critical
attack of appendicitis, in Alaska,
recently.
I. Albright still is very much alive
and on the job and just has re-
turned from a summer spent in the
field. but late in July, when he was
stricken without warning, just after
arriving at Mt. Mckinley park, III
Alaska, he thought his hours were
numbered.
The park is in the widest portion
of Alaska, $50 miles from the near
est hospital An airplane was suns
moned from Fairbanks by wireless.
however, and landed next day on a
dry river bed to take Albright 70
the Fairbanks hospital.
II made up my mind was not
going 20 die without seeing Mt. Nc
Kinley," said Albright. After hav-
in been in the national park service
many years and having seen prac-
tically all its wonders except Mt.
Mckinley, 1 was determined not to
be cheated.
It figured if the operation was
not successful, at least I'd have seen
the highest peak in North America
before passing out. So I prevailed
upon the pilot to fly around the
peak and spend an hour or two
inspecting the park from the air,
before we headed for Fairbanks"
Albright found modern hospital
and nursing facilities awaiting him
after the queerest ambulance ride
on record. He was confined three
weeks at Fairbanks and then re-
peated his flight around Mt. Nc
Kinley before coming home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
ADMITS KILLING GIRL
Youth Reveals Choking of
Companion in Auto.

By United Press
LOS ANGELES, Oct. "A pasty-
faced youth who appeared Is years
old instead of 10, as he contended,
faced removal to San Diego today
for questioning concerning his pur-
ported confession that he killed
pretty Louise Tauber last April and
left her nude body hanging from a
tree.
The youth, Lowell M. Bell, has
been in Jail here since last May
when he was arrested for petty
theft. He had just been sentenced
to the state reformatory when,
shaking and sobbing, he asked to
make a confession.
His story that he choked the
Tauber girl. to death during a
drunken frenzy, was told freely and
then as freely repudiated, Captain
William Bright of the sheriff's Of
flee said.
Bell said he and Miss Tauber
started for Tia Juana in a stolen
automobile. He had been drinking
alcohol, he said. When Miss Tauber
resisted his advances. he choked her
with the sleeves of his coat, he
said,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
HYDE COVERING
ALL PHASES IN
BEER INQUIRY
Hint Hoover Ordered Probe
to Refute Arguments for
LegaIization.

b. scyfpps-Hoioqrd Ne,ospoper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Oct. Study of
the economic effect of the return
OF beer now being conducted by
Arthur NJ. Hyde, secretary of agri-
culture, will cover the whole field
rather than the relationship be-
tween legalized beer and agriculture.
Although Hyde said at first he
planned to study only the prospects
of additional crops resulting from
modification of the Volstead act.
1t was learned today that his in
vestigators are looking into the
questions of employment resulting
from brewing and all allied indus
tries, additional government rev.
enues, railroad TONNAGE beers
tendency to lower consumption of
dairy products, etc.
The question Of new federal rev.
enues will figure large in Hyde's in
quiry, it is understood, because Of
the farmers need for reductions Of
federal and local taxes.
Point to Enforcement Act
Almost every spokesman for agri-
culture contends that the farmers
condition will improve tremendous
~ if the tax burden, which takes
about one-third of his income, can
be lightened. Figures show beer
alone would provide approximately
$250,oO0,00O annually for Uncle
Sans cash box, in addition to doing
away with an annual bill OF $780,
100000 for enforcement.
The inquiry is understood to have
been ordered by the White House,
following the disclosure that Walter
Newton, President Hoover's political
secretary, had asked for informa-
ton on the jobs legalization OF beer
might make.
Newton said then that he was OBJ
tanning the data for an Outside"
source, denying it was for the Presi-
dent. Moreover, he confined his re-
& searches only to the number OF jobs
the brewing industry itself would
provide, not taking in collateral &C
tivities.
Hope TO Strengthen Hoover
It was believed the Newton sur
vey reflected desire to refute wet
arguments that brewing would help
to lift the depression rather than to
pave the way for administration
backing of the proposal. Prelimin-
airy reports Of studies by Hyde, a
Missouri Methodist dry. as he has
pointed out, indicate he hopes for
conclusions which will strengthen
Hoover's prohibition policies.
Many saw more than coincidence
in the fact that anti-prohibition
data issued by the executive COM
mittee of the National Grange con-
tanned the same figures recently
made public by the department of
agriculture as result of par
tial survey.
The statement by Grange leaders
declared the return of beer would
hurt the farmer because it would
reduce consumption of dairy pro-
ducts which go into the making of
bread, pastries, milk and similar
beverages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
ASKS FIRE FIGHTING AID
Sullivan Pleads for Citizens Support
in Prevention Week.

Citizens of indianapolis today
were called upon by Mayor Reginald
H. Sullivan to join whole heartedly
in observance of Fire Prevention
week, starting Oct. 4.
1.-THE private citizen can do much
toward holding down the city's fire
losses by taking every possible pre-
caution to remove fire hazards, %
Sullivan said in his proclamation.