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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
Nan Found Murdered.

CHICAGO, September 2s R.-The
body Of a man who had been shot to
death was found tonight on the side Of
side Of the city,
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LAVAL AND BRAND
VISIT TO GERMANY
STIRS PEACE HOPES

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Sarah Bernhardt Is said to have over
looked him at banquet, not knowing
who he was.
LAVAL GETS U. S. BIDS.
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GANDHI MISTAKEN
BY COTTON WORKERS;
INDIA WORSE, HE SAYS

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HULL WOULD DROP
PROHIBITION ISSUE,
HE SAYS IN FORUM

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CONGRESS MAY ACT
TO BAN STOCK AND
GRAIN SHORT SALES

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
ORIGINAL AUTOG|RO
COM|NGHERET TODAY
Will Land on Museum Lawn
for Formal Presentation
to Smithsonian.

The first autogiro flown in America
will take its place among the Nations
most famous aircraft in the halls of
the Smithsonian Institution following
a presentation ceremony in the museum
grounds this afternoon as the climax
of the final fight of the historic ma
chine from Willow Grove, Pa, today.
The historic windmill plane" took
off from Pitcairn Field, Willow Grove.
at 1855 o'clock this morning. accord
ing to Associated Press dispatches, with
James G. Ray. famous autogiro pilot
and hero of landings in the White
House Grounds and on the Capitol
plaza, at the controls.
Pitcairn Goes Along.
Harold F. Pitcairn. president of the
Autogiro Company of America, flying
a modern type autogiro, took off at the
same time to escort the museum piece
to its final resting place.
Ray at 2 O'Clock this afternoon is to
land the machine in the circular lawn
in front of the Arts and Industries
Building of the museum group. where
it will be exhibited in the hall with
the Wright 1908 biplane. The landing
is expected to be nearly as spectacular
w
Capitol since many high trees land the
Smithsonian and Arts and Industries
Buildings ring the park area.
Was Built by Spaniard.
Pitcairn will present the autogiro to
DR.. Charles G. Abbot. secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, in the pres
ence of governmental and aviation
notables. After the ceremony the ma
chine will be TAXED under its own
power to the door of the Arts and In
dustries Building. dismantled. and
moved inside for reassembly and perma-
nent mounting
The historic craft was built in Eng
land under supervision of Juan de la
Cierva. Spanish inventor of the auto
giro principal. 1t first was flown in
England, was brought to the United
States during the celebration of the
twenty fifth anniversary of the Wright
brothers first heavier-than-air fight at
Kitty Hawk, N. c., and was flown for
the first time in America near Phila-
delphia, on December 19, 1923.
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of public aid had increased TO II per
cent in the same cities.
Conditions in Washington, 1t was
said, are not to be compared with great
industrial centers where unemployed
workers have greatly increased during
the past year. With the steady Gov
eminent payroll, business confined
chiefly to local retail trade. the number
of families in Washington recurring
public support was said to be negligible.
Washington is one of the few large
cities of the country which makes no
contributions through taxes to public
relief.
In conducting the drive for relief
funds, Mr.. Burns pointed out tne coun-
try has been divided into 10 regions TO
promote eficiency and intensive CO.
operation. Each region is to be served
by an experienced executive to aid pub
lie officials and welfare authorities IN
determining local needs and stimulating
the necessary organization.
Nine Executives Named.
Assignments already have been made
to nine of these regions and three re-
gional executives are already IN the
field, covering the New England states,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey ana IL
linois and Indiana.
This concentrated drive does not
mean that Community Chests normally
holding Spring campaigns Will De
obliged to change, Mr.. Burns said, al
though several of them, notably San
Francisco, now represented on the
Board of the National Association by
the Interior, have Voluntarily done 50
to benefit by the united program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22

pions. Mrs. v. Elk, not to be outdone
claimed not only the womens title but
the mixed doubles championship. A
former Duluth policeman said his name
was C. Sy.
Then Paramount, MINI, entered E. Ply.
farmer; Clinton, Iowa, put forward
G. Au, j. Au and w. Au, triple threats;
Indiana offered Ed Ply, inmate OF New
castle Jail, and indianapolis made a
poor try with Fix AK
Mr.. A of 1891 Elston avenue. Chicago,
quietly waited on the side lines until
just before the entries closed. His name
really Is Aaron A, but he likes the dis
Effectiveness of A. A, the worlds short
est name-the name that leads all
others in the Chicago telephone direc-
tory, alphabetically as well as longi-
tudinally.
Mr.. A said he has no idea Of the
origin Of the family name, but insisted
1t was not hand picked. His ancestors
were jewelers. in Saxony, but he has
been unable to trace the meaning Of his
name.
Leonard Bloomfield of the University
OF Chicago, professor of Germanic
philology, said "A" In old German
meant river" and expressed the opinion
the family name "a came from the
same source.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
NARRATIVES RAID
STORIES CONFLICT
Three Police Tell Court of Seeing
Through Windows Three
Others Hold Dark.

Conflicting testimony of six police
men today in Police Court marked the
second day of the trial of Louis
Palumbo and William Baroni arrested
two months ago after "warrantless"
raid on an alleged gambling estab-
lishment at 4o8 Ninth street.
Meanwhile. decision of Police Judge
John P. Mcmahon in regard to the
legality Of the warrantless entry was
awaited in similar case.
Three police officers told Judge Ralph
Given and jury they were able to
see into the Ninth street house, once
used as a pool room. through small
window located near barred door.
Three others subsequently declared the
window was darkened and it had been
impossible for them to see anything
that was going on inside.
Police also were unable to agree as
to who admitted them to the premises
Two stated they thought Palumbo did.
while a similar number were convinced
it was Baroni who first opened the
door.
After about half of the witnesses had
testified in the other "warrantless" case,
ATTORNEY Harry Whelan for the defense
moved to strike out the evidence. and
asked Judge Mcmahon to direct a ver-
dict in the trial of Steve j. Nichols and
Thomas Simon. 9l5 Ninth street, on the
grounds that police entry was illegal
Judge Mcmahon announced he would
render a decision this afternoon.
Previously Simon had admitted he
ran a gambling place at the Ninth
street address, stating that Nichols had
nothing to do with the place. He denied
the police story that he had agreed to
their entering and said the officers
forced him to open the door.
Should Judge Mcmahon decide that
police had a right to raid the Simon
place it is unlikely the case will go to
the Jury today. In the other trial, very
little defense testimony has been heard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
AUSTRIAN ATTACKS
CUSTOM PACT FOES
Guarding of independence
Seen as Cloak for Policy
of Ruin.
BY the Associated Press.

Dg tIr hSSuNldtru TIcSS.
THE HAGUE. Holland. July o.
Taking up Austria's argument for APP
proval of the Austro-German customs
union before the World Court. Dr..
Erich Kaufman, professor of law at
Vienna University. charged today that
safeguarding Austrian independence"
as it Is interpreted by some nations,
amounts almost to policy of annihila-
ton.
He was developing the major premise
laid down by DR.. Victor Bruins. Ger
many's representative, that Austrian
independence, guarded by postwar
treaties, is not threatened by the pro-
posed customs arrangement
Some theories would so completely
safeguard Austria" he said. "as to re-
duce her to second or third rate
power"
Cites 1922 Promises.
This, he said, would be at variance
with the promises of the powers in
London in 1922 in which they forswore
policy of aggressiveness in Austria at
time when they were seeking to at
tract foreign investors to bolster Aus
tria's weakened financial structure.
Concluding Germany's side of the
proposed Austrian customs treaty. DR..
Bruins yesterday told the World Court
that the projected treaty alienated Aus
tria's sovereignty no more than did
Germany's relations with the United
States on the Mixed Claims Commits
sion
Discussing the aspect Of violating
Austrian sovereignty and independence
as opponents of the projected customs
accord put forth, DR.. Bruins said Ger
MANY never alienated her independence
by acting on a committee with the
United States in matters following the
war"
Says Austria Not Endangered.
I'VE requested America to name an
American umpire and they did" he
said. After many years experience,
am happy to say that Germany cannot
complain OF an American majority on
this commission Did Germany ALLEVIATE
her independence when she placed her
future in the hands of an Americana"
A blanket denial was made by DR..
Bruins that any function of the Aus
TRAN government whatsoever would be
in the slightest way infringed by the
projected union.
DR.. Bruins discussed the Austro-Ital-
ian accord under which both nations
set an arbitrary list of customs duties
on interchanged products, and said this
is no farther than the Austro-German
project planned to go.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
DRY RAIDERS SEIZE
THREE AND LIQUOR
Police and U. S. Agents Conduct
Series of Drives Through.
out City.

Three persons were arrested and a
large quantity of liquor confiscated in
a series of raids yesterday.
Led by Sergt. N. o. Holmes, police
raided house at 315 Thirteenth street
southwest, where they arrested John l..
Abenschein, 80, of that address, and
Thomas L. Glascock, 26, of the 200
block of Twelfth street southwest, on
charges of illegal possession of liquor
More than 700 bottles of beer, 80 gall
Ions of liquor and distilling equipment
were confiscated.
In a raid at 142 Carroll street south
east police arrested John Hearley 81,
and CHARGED him with illegal possession
of IA uarts of alleged rquor. The raid
at the latter place was led by Federal
dry agent. according to police.
Sergt. A. E. Miller and Pvt. F. j.
Knoble 80 No. police station seized 10
gallons of alleged liquor stored in a
house at 1853 Pierce street. The house
Is said to have been unoccupied and no
arrests we're made there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
JACK DIAMOND WITNESS
ARRAIGNED IN PERJURY
DR.. D'Urglo Who Told of Seeing
Gangster Far From Assault
Scene, Pleads Not Guilty.

By the Associated Press
TROY, N. Y, July 22.-Dr. Joseph
D'Urglo Of Brooklyn was arraigned in
Police Court today on charge of per-
jury growing out of the alibi testimony
at Jack Diamonds trial here last
week. He entered plea of not guilty
and the case was adjourned until Fri
day.
DR.. D'Urglo was arrested yesterday at
Catskill.
Diamonds sole defense was his alibi
that he was in Albany the night the
State said he assaulted a Cairo truck
man in the Catskill Mountains. DR..
DUrglo was one of a number of men
who swore they had seen the gang
chief in Albany.
Perjury committed during the trial
for felony carries sentence of 10
to 20 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
EXCURSION PARTY
VIEWS RUM CHASE
One on Detroit River Church
Outing Hit as Speedboat
Escapes Guards.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 22.-An excursion
steamer with 900 members of church
Young Peoples Society on board be-
came the center of a brush between
liquor runners and United States Gus
toms border patrolmen on the Detroit
River last night, and one of the shots
wounded an excursionist in the arm.
The fugitive speedboat and its crew
of two escaped into Canadian waters,
having dumped a part Of its cargo.
The consensus of witnesses to the fast
moving drama was that the shot which
wounded Arthur Gajeski, %, on the
steamer Ste. Claire probably ricocheted
from the hull of the rum boat as it sped
past the steamer. The Ste. Claire's rail
was lined with merrymakers, who had
deserted the dance floor to watch the
chase.
40 Shots Reported Fired.
First stories told by the passengers
after they landed we're that the rum
boat had taken refuge from three pur-
that the crew of a border patrol boat
had fired 40 shots at the two liquor
runners, with the ste. Claire In the line
Of fire.
Waiter S. Petty, assistant United
States collector of customs, after inter-
viewing the patrolmen involved, said it
had been a running fight between the
rum runner and the patrolmen, started
by the smugglers. and that the patrol
men had withheld their fire when the
Ste Claire and a yacht that was pass
ing in the channel came in line.
He said IL shots were fired by the
patrolmen, all directed away from the
steamer. If border patrol bullet
struck Ora jeski, it must have ricocheted,
he said.
Petty said the patrolmen told him
they had seen the liquor boat heading
toward private dock on the American
side, and. after waiting for it to tie up,
approached 1t. Three automobiles were
waiting to receive its cargo he said.
Pursuers Fired On.
At the approach of the patrolmen. he
said. the rumboat sped for the Canadian
shore, one of the runners opening fire
at the pursuers from behind a steel
shield back of the drivers seat. and
dumping bulky sacks overheard.
The fire was returned by patrol Of
ficers." he said, which continued until
they reached a point 600 feet from the
ship channel. when our men stopped FIR
ing on account of the proximity of the
steamer Ste. Claire. going down river"
Two more shots were fired when the
rumboat veered back toward the Ameri-
can shore, he said. then the fugitive boat
circled toward Canada again. ahead of
the Yacht on the starboard side of the
Ste. Clair and escaped.
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Lone Girl Stages
Riot and Injuries
Three Policemen
Blocks Store Doorway and
Punches Men Trying
to Enter.
Ry the Associated Press.

CHICAGO. July ga one-girl riot
is what police called 1t.
A report that 500 men and women
we're milling about and fighting in the
street was the first intimation the police
had that there was anything wrong.
Riot squads were sent out. but when
they arrived they found that all of the
500 except one were spectators. The
exception was Miss Marie Gallagher
who. the police we're told, had an
nounced she was descended from line
of fighting Queens and would brook no
interference.
For some reason, unrevealed to police,
she was blocking the doorway of a
store. Several men who tried to enter
were punched by her.
The police arrested Miss Gallagher,
but not until Sergt. Michael Jennings
had been struck on the nose, Police
man Charles Foote had bruises and cuts
where Miss Gallagher kicked him and
Policeman James Clune had been Bit
ten so severely that he had to be taken
to hospital.
Miss Gallagher weighs about 100
pounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
HONEyMOONBEG|NS
FOR A|MEE'S SON.
Rolf Mcpherson and Bride
Depart After Ceremony at
AngeIus Temple.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. July 22.-Rolf Nc
Pherson, son CT Aimee Semple McPher-
son. evangelist, and his bride, the for
mer Lorna Dee Smith of Alva, Okla,
were honeymooning today.
They were married by Mrs. McPher-
son before an audience of $500 last
night at Angelus Temple, headquarters
of the -Four Square Gospel Church.
The ceremony was broadcast and fol-
lowed two-hour program which IN
cluded light opera, drama and vaude-
vile.
Excluded From Wedding.
A daughter of the evangelist, Ro-
berta Semple Smyth. and her newly
acquired husband, William B. Smyth,
former ships purser, who were to have
been bridesmaid and best man, were
withdrawn from the wedding party list.
Mrs. Mcpherson said the program
had been arranged around the four
square idea" and that since Smyth is
not identified with any of the four
temple departments, 1t was impossible
to place him in the group"
Smyth decided recently that he would
not enter temple work and got job
keeping books for an automobile con-
Germ.
S25O.OO0 Suit Filed.
A $3.50 900 breach of promise suit
was on file here today against Guy Ed
ward Hudson, making the third legal
action involving him since he went
through marriage ceremony recently
with Mrs. Minnie A. Kennedy, mother
Of the evangelist.
The breach of promise case was filed
yesterday by Mrs. Ethel Lee Parker
Harbert. who asserted Hudson had re-
fused to marry her after winning her
love and taking her on a pre-nuptial
trip in 1929.
While Hudson had the new suit to
worry him, Mrs. Kennedy Hudson was
preparing to go to court tomorrow to
have her name Topped of at the hyphen.
She filed suit last week for annulment
of the marriage. The couple was mar
ried last month al Longview. Wash. in
picturesque moonlit setting on the
banks of lake.
Bigamy Charge Looms.
Mrs. Kennedy Hudsons annulment
petition alleged that at the time of her
marriage to Hudson he was already
legally welded to Mrs. L. Margaret
Newton Hudson. The latter has filed
suit for divorce.
In CowlitZ County. Wash. Prosecutor
Cecil G. Hallin said he was looking for
witnesses TO testify to the marriage OF
Mrs. Newton Hudson as a step toward
the possible prosecution of Hudson on
a bigamy charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
SCOUTS
KRESS DRY CHARGE
Finds "No Substance" in
Complaint of Resigned
Administrator.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Prohibition Director Woodcock today
said investigators thus far had found
no substance" in charges made by
Charles w. Kress, former senior inveSti-
gator in Northern New York, who re-
signed after protesting against enforce
ment conditions there.
Most of Kress' charges, Col. Wood
cock said. we're against Lowell D. Smith.
deputy prohibition administrator for
Northern New York. Smith was charged
by Kress with "collusion with local dry
law violators," Woodcock said.
Says Charges Old.
Asked whether the charges involved
persons politically prominent in New
York. the Federal dry chief said some
of Kress' statement apparently marked
back to old stuff concerning incidents
before the Justice Department took over
prohibition enforcement"
Il do not intend to give currency to
charges" Woodcock said. unless /
believe they are true. Don't think We
are satisfied with the enforcement OF
the law in New York State, but at the
same time have found nothing to show
there was collision between of1cials and
violators there"
Kress Is Praised.
Woodcock praised Kress as "a good
man and smart investigator" He added,
however. that Kress apparently had "a
dissemination to work under certain
people"
Kress was suspended by the prohibit
ton bureau last October for his re-
fusal to work under Smith. He re-
signed from the service recently rather
than accept transfer to New York City
under Andrew McCampbell. Woodcock
said Kress also had made charges
against McCampbell, but that they CEN
tered principally upon his refusal to
rename Smith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
FIRST TEXAS VICTIM
OF WAR is REQUIRED
Body of Ernest H. Gragg Is Rein
tered at Arlington With Full
Honors.

The body of Ernest H. Gragg. Navy
seaman, the first Texan to die in the
World War, YVES re-interred with full
military honors in Arlington National
Cemetery yesterday afternoon. The
first burial was in ireland.
Gragg died of exposure when the
Rochester. a merchant vessel. was sunk
off the Irish coast in 1917. He was
member of the armed guard of the
boat The seaman died after he and
other members of the crew drifted in
an open boat for four days, death being
due to exhaustion and exposure.
The body arrived week ago, but the
funeral was delayed in allegiance pend
ing the arrival of his mother, Mrs.
Coma Gragg, Corpus Christi, Tex.
She had travelled, en- route to Wash
ington, as far as Birmingham, Ala,
where a son, who was accompanying
her. was stricken seriously i'll. Repre-
sentative Buchanan of Texas took
charge of funeral arrangements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
AIR MILITlAMEN'S
DEATHS ARE PROBED
Pennsylvania National Guard Fly
ers Killed in Crash of
Plane.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIDDLETOWN, Pa, July 22.-Maj.
]. Sidney Owens and a board of inquiry
today were investigating the cause of
the airplane crash in which two mem
bers of the Pennsylvania National
Guard air unit met death late yes
terday.
The dead flyers are Lieut. Franklin
A. johnson, 40 years old, of Drexel
Hill, near Philadelphia, communications
officer, and his observer. Sergt Paul
w. Dernoeden, % years old. of Phila-
delphia Both were connected with the
103d Observation Squadron, of which
Mai Owens is commanding officer.
The airmen were burned to death
when their plane hit tree and crashed
to the ground behind the officers quar-
tiers at the Army air depot here.
Student Pilot Is Killed.
BAXTER SPRINGS, Kans., July %
P1.-Charles Stone. II years old. a
student flyer, was fatally injured last
night in an airplane crash. Harold
Norris. % years old, the pilot, was
injured critically.
The plane was a reconditioned one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
CANNON FILES SUIT
AGAINST HEARST
$1,000, 900 Libel Charged to
Washington Times and
Herald by Bishop.

James Cannon, jr., Bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, has
filed suits in the District Supreme
Court totaling $l,5oo,oO0 damages
against William Randolph Hearst and
the Washington Times Co. for alleged
libel. The sum of $1,000000 is asked
in one of the suits for articles appear
ing in the Times in July, 1880. and
ments made in the Washington
Herald in the same month.
The articles complained of referred
to the courtship of the clergymen with
Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum, whom
he married last year in London. The
Bishop complains that the publications
brought him into public scandal and
lessened his influence as bishop. He
is represented by Attorney Robert H.
Mcneil.
Sued for $4,000, 900.
Bishop Cannon first brought suit here
last october against Hearst, individual
ly, asking $5,O00,000 damages for al
legged libel in connection with articles
appearing in the New York Evening
Journal and the Los Angeles Examiner.
The bishop charged the publisher had
pursued him and members of his family
with intent to discredit him and mini
miZe his influence.
Early last month the bishop filed
suit here against Representative George
H. Tinkham of Massachusetts for $780,
900 damages.
For this action. he claimed he had
been injured by the publication in a
New York newspaper of a statement
by Tinkham repeating charges made
on the floor of the House concerning
disposition of money received by Can
non for use in the last presidential
campaign.
Challenge Follows Charges.
Cannon had criticized the statements
and had challenged Tinkham to repeat
them outside the House, where he would
not be protected by congressional i'm
munity 1t was Tinkham whose charges
resulted in the Senate Lobby Commit
tees inquiry into Cannon's handling of
money donated for the anti-Smith
campaign in Virginia
The United States Marshal has never
been able to serve Hearst in either of
these two suits.