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Evening star., 1931-04-02
OF MURDER SUSPECT
MADE IN SLEEP OFFERED AT TRIAL
Former Luray Prisoner Testifies Remark Alleged to
Have Been Made by Defendant in Jail

said that threats by Sours against
Burracker had been heard on March a.
the day before the murder. BroyleS
and Zella Burracker were firm in their
assertions of the threats by Sours. i.
The overalls, shotgun, gun wads and
other items found at Sours' home we're
presented in the afternoon session OF
the trial and DR.. Howell Grady Pichett
chemist. of Harrisonburg, Va, to whom
the articles had been submitted for
analysis. testified that no blood was
found on the overalls, although part
of them was damp as II washed.
Or. Pichett stated in answer to a
question that it was possible to wash
bleed from garment
The gun wsds found near the crime
were the same size and make as those
from shells found in Sours' home. but
it was admitted that shells of that make
were all similar In texture.
Rev Radford, owner of the blood
hounds which are said to have trailed
TO Sours' home, did not arrive during
the day and the afternoon session was
curtailed. Rev. Radford is witness in
another case In Bath County. which de-
layed his arrival. He Is expected TO
testify todaS.
Evening star., 1931-04-02
STREET CAR TRACK
WILL Be REMOVED
Buses 0. KID for Route on
F and G StreetS-Potomac
Park Coach Change Denied.

The Public Utilities Commission to-
day gave the Capital Traction Co. per-
mission to tear up its street-car track
age and abandon trolley service on F
and G streets between Seventeenth and
Twenty-sixth streets.
The company also was granted leave
to provide bus service for this loop, as
a substitute for the present car service.
The text OF the order putting the
new scheme into effect will not be
written until after conferences with the
company to straighten out certain de-
tails as to routing of the busses. still
left undecided.
In general. however, the busses will
fellow the same routes as the trolleys,
and the fare and transfer arrangements
will be the same.
At the same time, the Commission
denied an application of the Washing
ton Rapid Transit Co. to change the
route Of its Potomac Park line so as to
go south Of the White House, instead
OF making the trip by and K streets
as at present, from the terminus at
Eighth street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Both petitions we're heard at a public
hearing last week.
Evening star., 1931-04-02
STONE IS CONFIDENT
FARMERS WILL CUT
WHEAT PRODUCTION
Tour of Kansas and Okla
homa ConvinCeS Him Grow
ers Will Heed Warning.
NEW CHAIRMAN MAKES
FAVORABLE IMPRESSION
Declares Board Saved Hundreds Of
Midwestern Banks From
Failure.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Wheat has been foot ball of politics
long enough, in the opinion OF James C.
Stone. new chairman of the Federal
Farm Board.
The wheat farmers themselves are
coming to that conclusion, Mr.. Stone
believes. He has returned from visit
to Kansas and Oklahoma confident that
the farmers this year will heed the ad-
vice that acreage should be curtailed in
the interest of better prices, and that
the farmers are more and more inclined
to cooperation and cooperative mar
ketirg.
AS a matter of fact, reports from
Kansas, the greatest wheat-growing
State in the Union today, assert en-
phatically that the new chairman of the
Farm Board made a favorable impress
sion on his Western trip, and that the
attitude of the farmers generally is more
favorable toward the board its advice
and its operations than 1t was year
ago.
Hears Nothing Of Old Plans.
Chairman Stone said today he had
nearQ no one IN Kansas OF III OkidIlOula
demanding either the old equalization
fee plan Of the original McNary- -Haugen
bill nor the debenture plan, which was
advocated more recently by some OF the
ProgreSsives in Congress.
Il have no doubt" said Mr. Stone,
that these and other remedies will be
urged by some of the political leaders.
Wheat has for years been foot ball
of politics. The wheat farmers are told
as regularly as campaign comes around
that something is going to be done for
them. and promises are made by those
who are seeking to be elected
Just what the Farm Board will do
with the wheat which it bought in the
market to help stabilize prices Mr.. Stone
is not saying at present. He insists,
however, that eventually this wheat viii
be sold, but not in a way to depress
prices.
Holds Board Helped Price.
The chairman docs not admit that
the effort of the board to stabilize
wheat prices by purchases OF the 1880
crop have shown the board failure.
Far from it, although the board has
announced it does not plan to go into
the market and buy wheat of the 1881
crop for stabilization purposes. He
contends that by its purchases Of wheat
the Farm Board did actually help to
maintain a higher price for wheat to
the American farmer during an emer-
gency He insists that If the Farm
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1931-04-02
MARCH TAX DROPS
/. LOWEST FOR YEARS
Total Collections on Incomes
for Month Are Only
$334,83O,214.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Income tax collections for the month
of March were the lowest for that
month in recent years, totaling 1884,
83o,2l4, as compared to $559, sos, ,7O3 in
March of last year.
The Treasury statement showing the
total collections for the month reported
that for the first nine months of the
fiscal year income tax had amounted to
81 SOC, PSI ,23S, as compared with sl,S12,-
1884 in the same period Of last year.
Not more than $3.50, 100000 is ex-
pected from this source in the last
quarter, which would bring the total
income tax for the year to $3.50. 900.
600, as compared with $2,41o, ,ss6,977 in
1880.
Other Revenues Drop.
The collections for the last day OF
March were s3,Os3,463. as compared
with $3,523,172, for the same day in
1880.
other revenue kept pace with the
decline in income taxes. The indica-
ton was that the total revenue to be
collected by the Government for the
fiscal year would amount to probably
not more than $325O, 100000 and that
the Government would end the year
with deficit of $700. .000. 900 or more.
Increasing expenditures, which for
nine months amounted to S3.126, SAC, ,3l9,
as compared to $2,932 ,209, las last year,
indicated the Government would have
to raise funds through substantial Sc
curity sales.
1t sold $500 100000 of bonds and
certificates Of indebtedness on March
16 and S100,OO0,000 of Treasury bills
this week.
Must Relinance Debts.
The demand Of the Veterans Bu-
reau for more money to meet loans to
veterans than had been expected would
make it necessary for the Treasury to
raise another 100000, 900 before April
II. 1t might take advantage of that
necessity to offer an even greater block
of securities to meet its requirements
before June IS.
In the meantime several blocks of
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1931-04-02
Special Dispatch to The Star.


LURAY. Va. April "A statement
in his sleep at the jail which David
Sours. on trial here on charges of MUIR
dering Edward Burracker, whose body
was found on a mountain trail March
S, Is said to have made was introduced
by the prosecution yesterday in the
second day Of the trial in an effort to
pin the crime on the defendant.
George Cave released from. Jail a
week ago, where he had been serving a
sentence for a prohibition law violation,
was placed on the stand by the prose-
cution. Cave testified that on March
II he was awake in the jail about 8
O'Clock In the morning and heard Sours,
asleep in a bunk across the corridor,
say john, we got him this time and
he won't &C back no mere"
The trial yesterday opened before a
packed court house despite heavy rains
which made 1t dificult for the noun
tain folks to get to town. Six witnesses
who testified in the morning session
said they had heard Sours make
threats against Burracker's life. Among
these witnesses were Lester Burracker,
Schuyler Dodson and Zella Burracker.
One Of the witnesses, Eiytp Broyles,
Evening star., 1931-04-02
81 BODIES TAKEN
FROM WRECKAGE OF
LINER AFTER CRASH
French Vessel CoIIideS With
British Aircraft Carrier
in Mediterranean.
VICTIMS OF DISASTER
STEERAGE PASSENGERS
Four Planes, Unable to Land, Fall
Into Sea, but Crews
Are Saved.
RN the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
MALAGA, Spain, April 2.-Thirty-one
bodies we're recovered late today from
the wreckage Ct the French steamer
Florida following her collision with the
British aircraft carrier Glorious in a
dense fog 90 miles of Gibraltar yes
terday.
Authorities we're continuing the
search for additional bodies. but because
Of the confusion it could not be def
nitely established whether CT not others
were missing.
The bodies which were identified in
cludcd II Italians, Syrians, PGHs,
! Russian, Slavs and / Spaniard. All
OF them were steerage passengers, chiefly
omigres returning to their native coun-
tries
The Florida was struck between the
bow and bridge. 1t was here that the
majority of the casualties occurred.
This section Of the steerage was oc-
cupied chiefly by Italian emigres.
In spite of mist, planes from the air.
craft carrier flew overhead and witnessed
the accident. The flying deck of the
carrier was Uttered with debris follow
ing the crash so that the planes were
forced to alight on the mainland. -Four
Of them failed to reach the shore and
sank in the sea, but their crews were
saved.
Evening star., 1931-04-02

Of Dallas. Tex, wife of a captain, and
Mrs. Jackson of Boston, wife of SER
geant Jackson.
All Of the trained nurses carried on
through the day and night, doing un-
selfish service.
Another baby was born early today.
making total of three in the field hos
pital which was erected at Campo dc
Marie on the edge of the city, the
American headquarters
The operating was carried on under
the most adverse conditions because
tremorS continued as the surgeons
worked. During the Is hours the five
men performed more than $50 major
operations. There was no time for
sterilization other than chemical.
Bradman Carries On.
Lieut.. Comdr Hatfield and others
were high N their praise of the enlisted
men. Much speculation arose as to
what might have happened If the mill
tary forces had not been on hand to
take charge
There now is plenty of food in the
city. Seven thousand natives we're
given breakfast by the Marines today.
Col. Bradman, with his head still
banNaged from a falling timber, was
busy giving personal directions wherever
possible, intent that every ones needs
be cared Tor.
On one hill, overlooking the city, q
giant f1ssure opened by the quakes OF
Tuesday. is being used as an improvised
crematorium to which most of the
bodies recovered are being taken rs
soon as they are extricated from the
fallen masonry of the ruined city
There probably will be more dead
than injured, Marine Corps officers be-
lieved, commenting that most of those
caught indoors at all by the quake were
killed outright.
Doctors Handicapped.
More than 300 serious injuries have
been treated at the marine barracks
at Campo de Marie and more than 20
persons are confined there with In
juries which in many cases will prove
Continued, on Page 3, Column a.
Evening star., 1931-04-02
MINE RIOT BROKEN
BY GAS AND WATER
Police Call on Firemen When 600
Workers Refuse to
Disperse.
h the Associated Press.

b. the Associeted Press.
SCRANTON, Pa, April 2.--Police and
fremen were called out today when a
clash occurred between mine workers
ind officers at the Dodge colliery Of
the Glen Alden Coal Co. IN West
Gcranton.
Trouble occurred at the mine, where
q crowd OF 500 men had gathered, when
pickets OF striking miners from Wilkes
Barre came here TO request local work.
ers to join their strike, which is not
sanctioned by the miners union.
When policemen employed by the
coal company and the city attempted
to disperse the crowd several officers
were battered about the head. Tear
gas was resorted to, but this failed to
break up the crowd
A call was sent for fremen and they
brought hose and played water on the
crowd and dispersed it.
No arrests were made. A number Of
persons suffered cuts and bruises.
Evening star., 1931-04-02
TONS OF NARCOTICS
SEIZED IN NEW YORK
Ccntraband Valued at More Than
100000 Per Ton Sets Record
for Metropolis.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April Federal At
torney Medalie announced today .
squad Of Federal agents had raided an
once in Greenwich Village, Seizing be-
tween one and two tons of narcotics.
The contraband was valued roughly at
$1,120,c0O per ton.
The seizure WIS believed to be the
largest ever made in this district
Abraham Goodman, alleged proprietor
of the A. B. Trucking Co.. on Hudson
street, in whose cfilces the narcotics
were found. was arrested Agents said
they believed he was connected with the
same ring as Al Splitter and Abe Stein,
who were indicted last month.
The raid was the elimination of
long investigation by the Federal Mar
cotic Bureau here and Mr.. Medalie's
ofIice. Mai. Joseph A. Manning, head Of
the bureau, led the raiders.
Evening star., 1931-04-02
ONE is KNOWN DEAD
IN FIRE AT ROANOKE
Two Missing and Several Persons
Injured When Hotel
Is Destroyed.
gy the Associated Press.

Hy the Associated Press.
ROANOKE, Va, April 2.-One person
was killed and number injured in the
burning Of the Clark Hotel here this
mornir-. Two ether persons were un-
accou- d. for
A. t-.,on, about so, was killed in
jumping from the top floor of the three
story building.
Jesse McGhee, farmer, has his back
broken in two places, and an ankle and
elbow fractured when he jumped from
the third floor.
The names Of the two guests unac-
counted for were not Immediately avail
able. A number of others suffered
burns and bruises.
The FIRE which gutted the brick-iaced
wooden structure was of undetermined
origin. The entire building was In
flames whon fircmen arrived
Evening star., 1931-04-02

Ernest j. Swift, Red Cross oficial
is expected during the day from Miami
in an amphibian plane, and will over
take relief workers who have already
started from several points.
Amphibians from the U. S. S. Lex
ington arrived yesterday and last night,
bringing six surgeons and supplies and
promising more today The U. S. S.
Rochester, steaming up the west coast
from Balboa, is expected tomorrow with
cargo OF food supplies.
Expect Hospital Ship.
A Navy hospital ship will arrive in
Corinto today and dispatch loads of
food and medical supplies through the
hills to the stricken city. A supply
of several hundred blankets is expected
from this source to provide for refugees
who are sleeping outdoors in the ex-
tremely chilly weather caused by cold
winds off the lakes.
Virtually all of the injured have been
treated through the heroic work of the
Marine, Army and Navy forces, who
have worked increasingly since the first
shocks on Tuesday.
Ten minutes after the city fell and
while clouds of dust were arising from
the debris, American doctors went into
the business section and took the dazed,
wounded natives in charge Hospital
tents were hastily erected, operating
instruments were laid out and the work
of treating hundreds began.
A steady stream of wounded natives
was coming in by noon and the most
serious operations were begun at once.
For Is hours. from noon Tuesday until
o'clock Wednesday, FIVE surgeons stood
over their tables, amputating arms and
legs and treating fractures and internal
injuries.
Women Helped Surgeons.
They were Lieut. Comdr. w. B. Hat
field, Lieut.. Comdr W. T Brown,
Comdr c.. d. Hattie and Lieut. Comdr.
H. r. Boone. all of the Navy, and Maj.
Hawley Of the United States Engineers
attached to the Nicaraguan Canal
survey.
without interruption they piled their
instruments while enlisted men of the
Medical Corps and personnel of the
Marines stood by and sterilized their
tools
indispensable aid was given them by
Mrs. H. E. Mauldin of Detroit, wife Of
a Marine lieutenant; Mrs. F. B. Blanton
Evening star., 1931-04-02
THOMAS J. FANNON QUITS
COUNCIL AT ALEXANDRIA
Resignation Is Second Submitted
to City's Governing Body
Within Eight Days.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 2.-The
resignation of Thomas j. Fannon as a
member of City Council was presented
at the regular meeting today. 1t is
the second within eight days, Carroll
Pierce having rendered his resignation
as mayor and a member of the council
at last Thursdays meeting.
Mr. Fannon gave as his reason for
resigning his long service and desire
to retire. He has been on the body
since September, 1922. He stated he
had been contemplatin resigning July
/. but suddenly decided to do so now.
His term expires September /. 1882.
Council received both designations to-
day, but deferred action.
Evening star., 1931-04-02
TRIES TO SLEEP WITH WILDCAT;
DOCTOR BELIEVES HELL RECOVER
Man Gets Shortest Nap Record When Feline Hides
in His Bed.

20 pounds of animal dynamite in the
form of wildcat went into action with
all four claws and a good set of teeth.
The melee was fast and soon over,
Smith reaching the kitchen just little
ahead of the wildcat, which escaped
where it had entered through hole
in the Kitchen door. hich Smith had
cut for his house catato enter when
he was at work.
The doctor said the scratches and
bites ought to heal in two weeks
In two weeks" said Smith, down
comes the shotgun from the wall and
it'll be my turn -
Evening star., 1931-04-02
President Lauds
Marines for Aid
During Disaster
BY JOSE NJ. MONCADA,
President OF Eicarasua.

BY Radio to The Star.
MANAGUA.. Nicaragua, April 2.
N.ANA).- During the worst
moments Of our catastrophe here
the United States Marines under
the command OF Col. F. L. Brad
man and Col. Sultan. have helped
in n splendid and efficient way,
for which the people Of Nicaragua
and my government are CRATE
full.
The capital Of Nicaragua has
been almost destroyed by the
earthquake and fire, and we do
not know yet how many lives
have been lost and how much
property ruined.
Copyright. 1881. By North American
Newspaper Alliance
Evening star., 1931-04-02
Ry the Associated Press.

WATERLOO, N. Y. April 2.-It
probably will be a long tine before
Byron Smith will retire in dark room
without looking carefully under the
bed, and more particularly-in it.
Smith was exhibiting a face and
hands swathed in bandages today as
proof of the unwelcome bedmate he
found after he had undressed in his
home at Dublin, near here, and
clambered into bed with sigh after
hard days work.
Il was probably the shortest sigh on
record, for it, had hardly begun when
Evening star., 1931-04-02
River Boats
Through Channel
By Dishpan Beats
Widow, rs, Has Kept 40
Year Vigil at Mouth
of San Joaquin.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associat ted Press.
STOCKTON, Calf, April 2.-Whsn
night and fogs hang thickly about the
mouth of the San Joaquin River,
where it rushes into the Sacramento
River and pilots grope for the chan
nel, there comes a ''beat-pause-beat,
beat" and shippers know they are safe.
Once again in the channel rivermen
steer stern-wheelers close to the ships
ca bin home Of Mrs. Kate L. Nevins,
rs. and shout a Thank you" Like a
monotonous tom-tom the "beat-pause-
beat. beat" then echoes across lonely
Winters Island, where for 40 years Mrs.
Nevins has kept vigil.
The river light house is without a
foenorn. To warn mariners Mrs.
Nevins takes her dishpan and stove
poker to the pier and beats out the
signals Shs has been the keeper since
her husbands death 10 years ago.
Evening star., 1931-04-02
Weather Postpones Flight.

NEWARK, N. j., April tP).--Feg
and sleet over the Pennsylvania noun
tainS today postponed for "a hours the
inauguration Of the 3l-hour coast-to-
coast air service to be operated from
the Newark Airport by the National Air
Transport Co.
Evening star., 1931-04-02
$4,000 Violin Reported Stolen.

SAN FRANCISCO. April 2 tAl.--The
theft Of a 200-year-old Italian violin,
sSSertedly valued at $1,000, has bsen
reported by Miss Clementine Chapel,
ls. scholarship student at the San Fran
cisco Conservatory Of Music. Her father,
Lnalis Chapel, said neighbors had COM
a qed about the girls practice hours.
Evening star., 1931-04-02
P0LA NEGRI Is GRANTED
DIVORCE IN FRANCE
Actress Wins Decree From Prince.
Sails for United States to Make
Her First Talkie.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 2--Pola Neeri, moving
picture actress, was granted divorce
by the French courts today from Prince
Serge MdiYani. She sailed yesterday
for America
Before sailing the actress said. Il am
going to make my first talkie. want
10 be free and stay free"
Prince Serge, a member Of the former
Russian nobility, and Pola Negri were
married at Serraincourt, France, in
1927, She sued for a decree In October,
1880.
Prince Serge is a brother of Prince
David MdiVani, husband of Mae
Murray.
Evening star., 1931-04-02
French Airmen Land.

ORAN, Algeria. April 2 (Al.-The
French ayiators, Paillard and Mermoz,
landed at dawn today after having been
50 hours and IA minutes in the air IN
flight over closed circuit. They be-
lieyed they had bettered the distance
mark Of 5.625 miles set by the ayiators
BousSoutrot and RoSsi on March /,
Evening star., 1931-04-02
Aviator Seeking Record.

KHARTUM, Sudan, April 2 P).-
Glen Kidston. wealthy British sports
man and aviator, who is attempting a
record fight from England to Cape
Town. passed here at l o'clock this aft
ernoon, flying to Juba.
Evening star., 1931-04-02
STEAMER GOES AGROUND
Passengers Abandon Ship in Night
Clothes Near Port Jackson.

SYDNEY, New South Wales, April 2
P)-Psssengers of the British steamer
Malabar. which went aground on
reef near Port Jackson last night, had
TO dsembark so hurriedly that most
were put ashore in their night clothes.
A calm sea enabled a safe and quick
transfer. 1t was believed that the ship,
which was badly holed, would sink.
There were 27 passengers. The acci-
dent occurred in a dense fog.
Evening star., 1931-04-02

BIZ Z. C.
sANJUAN DELSUR Nicaragua April DIt will require MANY
years to rebuild Managua which virtually
earthquake.
There number of dead but it
believed that reach 5000 many bodies are still
ruins.
Survivors leaving available means some
walking and others making their city looks
nearly deserted
The roads CRYING women and
children half starved they have only water
comes from Lake Managua.
The city is controlled
National Guard Marines are concen
atng refugees the food and bed
ding being supplied.
Truckoad after truckload taken from the market
place Guard officer said that
market place quake occurred in the middle
of the busy hour
The hospital and penienary collapsed killing all the inmates
which numbered about
President Moncada is in Granada a present
ciaed Pressst ncorrep
ter PreM
MANAGUA Nicaragua, April recovered
from the ruins, Col Frederick L. Bradman
the relief work today estimated the earthquake
at 1000 persons
The excavatng
were being taken out hourly
Meanwhile
shook down number of rcky standing The hardest
appeared about had
tered to the outskirts Of the city on the
ground.
Refugees PrOpert
At daybreak hundreds Of natives
and pokd through
household furniture
into the hills
hand An abundance
he niured
Evening star., 1931-04-02
Troops Busy Excavating Bodies
From Ruins of Nicaragua
Capital Resort to Cremation.
SUFFICIENT MEDICAL SUPPLIES
AND FOOD BELIEVED PROVIDED
American Women Help Surgeons Treat
Injured-Refugees Search City's
Ashes for Personal Goods.

Kelly Associated Ne.raus
Just returned
Knunr
Evening star., 1931-04-02

Radio Programs on Page D-4
Evening star., 1931-04-02
WEATHER.

WEA HEN.
%. s. weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair tonight and tomorrow; lowest
temperature about 40 degrees; somewhat
warmer tomorrow.
Highest, 46, at noon
today; lowest, 43, at am. today.
Full report on page 9.