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CITIZENS APPROVE
GAS RATE INQUIRY
Conduit Road Association
Dispatches Letter to Public
Utilities Commission.

An inquiry into gas rates and the
expediting of an investigation into the
increase Of gas pressure was asked
last night by the Conduit Road
Citizens Association, which authorized
letter to this effect to the Public
Utilities Commission. Members Of the
association declared that there had
been q marked increase in the con-
sumption Of gas in the community, as
evidenced by the January bills. Com
menting on the unusually large amount
of gas consumed per household, men,
bers declared that the increase was so
per cent in some cases.
A motion was passed asking that the
Board of Education and school offlcials
lend all possible aid in the distribution
of the lower-fare tickets for students.
Free interline transfers were also asked
for the students. While there has been
no statement made as to how the rail-
way companies will issue the reduced
fares, whether it be in the form of
tokens or pasteboards, the association
asks that there be no time limit in
voked on these passes. A vote of thanks
was given to William NICK. Clayton of
the Federation Of Citizens Associations
and John j. Noonan, advocates of the
lower fare for school children.
Information given by the Schools
Committee of the association reveals
that a new four-room addition to the
Francis Scott Key School will be erect
ed at a cost Of $4,000. A motion to
improve the So -acre recreational park,
two block east of Conduit road, was
passed. Mr.. and Mrs. N. w. Hazlett
were admitted as new members. The
meeting was held in the st. Davids
Church Parish Hall, 1851 Conduit road.
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BURNETT TO DISCUSS
REVENUE PROBLEM
Bureau Head viii Speak To-
morrow Night in National
Radio Forum.

David Burnet, commissioner Of in
ternal revenue, will speak in the Ma
tional Radio Forum tomorrow night.
The forum is arranged by The WASH
ington Star and broadcast over the
coast-to-coast network Of the Columbia
Broadcasting System. The speech will
be heard locally over station WMAL.
Commissioner Burnet, while he will
offer some advice as to the proper way
Of making out an income tax return,
will not confine himself to a technical
discussion Of the law and regulations.
There are human angles even to 30
prosaic a subject as the collection of
the Federal tax. Commissioner Burnet,
from an experience of IL years, will re-
late some Of these happenings in the
bureau and in the Offices of collectors
Of internal revenue throughout the
country.
One subject upon which he will touch
Is the decentralization program" a
movement inaugurated several years ago
to transfer some Of the functions per-
formed in Washington to the field and
which, by reason of permitting a tax
payer to settle his differences with q
representative Of the Internal Revenue
Service in his own community, thereby
avoiding a trip to Washington and its
attendant expense, has met with great
success Taking Washington to the
taxpayer instead of bringing the tax
payer to Washington" Is descriptive of
the plan.
Commissioner Burnet Is a veteran of
the Internal Revenue Service. He be-
gan his duties as an auditor in the in
come tax unit at Washington, February
II, 1919. and in August of that year
was transferred to the field service as
revenue agent and assigned to the
Cincinnati division. In February, 1922,
he was promoted to internal revenue
agent in charge of the Cincinnati divi-
sion, in which post he served until
March /, 1929, when he was transferred
to internal revenue agent in charge of
the Boston division. On August /, 1929,
Mr.. Burnet was appointed deputy COM
missioner in charge of the income tax
unit at Washington. and in August
1880, upon designation of Robert H.
Lucas, was selected by President Hoover
to be commissioner of internal revenue.
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voLPE ORDERED DEPoRTED.
Capone BOdyguard, Chicago public
Enemy" to Be Sent to Italy.

Capone Bodyguard, Chicago public
Enemy" to Be Sent to Italy.
BY the Associated Press
Secretary Doak today ordered the de-
portation Of Tony ("Mops") Volpe,
known as the bodyguard of Al Capone,
Chicago gang chief, and labeled as "a
public enemy" by Chicago civic COM
mittee.
The order came at the end Of an
inquiry which led to the determination
that Volpe was an alien unlawfully in
the United States.
Proceedings were instituted against
him some time ago, but after the pre-
liminary finding by immigration tri-
bunals at Chicago that he was liable
to exile, his counsel appeared both to
courts there and to the Labor Depart
ment here.
Secretary Doak's decision was taken
after a review Of all the facts elected.
The man Is at present out on bond.
Volpe's association with Capone has
been intimate and he is in addition
brother-in-law to the late Diamond
Joe" opposite, whose death occurred
in one of the gang struggles. Volpe
was placed third on the list of public
enemies" which the committee formally
named months ago.
Volpe will be returned TO italy.
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MUssoLINI TAKES CHARGE.
Talk With British OficiaIs Is Believed
Fruitful.

By Gable TO The Star
ROME, Italy, February 27-Premier
Beaito MusSolini himself pitched into
the naval reduction discussions, spend
ing an hour and six minutes yesterday
with Foreign Minister Arthur Hender-
son Of Great Britain and A. v. Alex
ander, first lord of the admiralty, at the
Palazzo Venezie discussing the political
angles Of the Franco-Italian differences.
Foreign Minister Dino Grand and
Rear Admiral Giuseppe Sirianni also
were present at the conference and at
the conclusion all wore smiles on their
faces, indicating that the discussions
had borne fruits.
While the diplomats were having their
DAY, Italian and British experts labored
over figures and did not conclude their
chores until late in the evening. Signor
Grand and Sir Ronald Graham, British
Minister in Rome, also had a long dis
cuSsion after the MuSsolini talk, indi-
eating that the Italians and the British
mac nnally come somewhere near a goal
The Roman Sojourn of the British is
not without its social side, which SO
distinguished the London conference.
Slgnor Grand rendered a banquet last
night in honor of the British visitors.
At noon today he is taking the British
conferees to the Italian CheQuers.
TtVoh, where they will have a quiet
chat on the fine points of the naval
question.
(CopyrIRht. 1871
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Judge Wilkersons clerk informed
Capone London wanted him on the
phone.
Il don't know any one in London
and don't want to talk to them"
Capone answered. Tell 'em I'm not
here"
Comments on VOlpe Action.
Todays appearance was Capone's
third in Federal Court and was ex-
pected to be his last Each day he
has evaded the crowds gathered to
watch his arrival by hurrying through
different entrance.
And again he wore fresh suit Blue
Wednesday, grey Thursday and today
a rich brown with touch of dark grey
stripe, complemented with tan shoes
and orange and white tie.
Capone was asked his comment on
the approval by Secretary Doak of the
order to deport his former bodyguard,
Tony Volpe
The gangster missed a beat in his
gum chewing.
That's too bad" he said.
What's the matter with Volpe?" he
echoed a question. We'll, he's all right,
isn't he? He's raised seven kids, and
that's the best recommendation I
know Of"
A letter was handed him. He opened
1t, glanced and pocketed it.
'Oh, another touch" he told in
quirers.
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lOontnueo From f1rSG Page)
too bad for you. I intend to 60
the limit. and you know as well az do
that this will mean your finish"
The letter was dated January 10 and
sent from Brooklyn, according to Sergt
Dewey Parker of the Audubon Police
He is quoted as saying that Bischoff's
second wife, who occupies the home at
Audubon, said the first wife had writ
ten her husband frequently during the
past few years demanding custody of
her 16-year-old daughter.
"She bothered my husband so much
former residence. Several times she
came here and created scenes Parker
quoted Mrs. Bischoh as saying.
Mrs. Bischof said her husbands
former wife had been raised in a con-
vent in Detroit, and that her maiden
name was Bonita Franklin After
spending several years on the stage she
married Bischof in Charleston, s, C.
They were divorced in Philadelphia
and barbarous treatment after being
separated from her for more than three
years. The father was given custody OF
the child at the time.
Woman's Picture Taken.
After questioning the second Mrs.
Bischoff, the investigators left, taking
with them picture of the dead woman.
New York police records show that
the woman killed was first arrested
under the name Bishoff in 1923 by
Laughlin. When Commissioner Null
rooney of the New York police force
sought to get in touch with Mclaughlin
for questioning, he found that the
officer had sailed Monday on q six-day
cruise to Bermuda.
Mclaughlin, according to the New
York Times, is the partner Of Richard
B. Ganly, now under suspension on
framing charge.
The killing of Miss Gordon took place
just six days after she had failed to
appear before the vice inquiry after
volunteering to give information ''in
connection with 'frame-up' by police
officer and Others"
Her body was found in Van Cortlandt
Park with a length of clothesline
wound about her neck. The rope had
been noosed with a Slipknot, pulled
tightly with the knot at the back of
her neck, and then wound around
thrice. The rope apparently had been
used to drag her along the street be-
fore the body was thrown over the
embankment where it was found.
She had been dead about five hours,
which linked her killing in with the
story of a taxidriver who told police
he had seen a woman screaming as
she struggled with two men in an
other taxi, which he had followed for
a long distance to Van Cortlandt Park.
when engine trouble forced him to give
up the chase.
Advice from New York also is that
Miss Gordon was arrested last year
on a charge of extortion, but was
cleared. Fingerprints from the police
files brought about her Identification.
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FRAZER WILL FACE
CHARGE OF MURDER
Prosecutor Says He Has
"CIear Case" in Staying of
Mrs. Phoebe Stader..
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ELIZABETH, N. j., February 27.-A
charge of first degree murder will be
filed against William Frazer, 81, of
Railway, for the killing of Mrs. Phoebe
Stader, 32-year-old hairdresser, Prosecu-
tor Abe J. David said today. David
said he had a clear case"
Frazer was silent on his arrival in the
custody of police officers, and it was
evident that he was holding himself
together with effort.
Refused to Talk.
He posed willingly for photographers,
but refused to say a word in answer TO
questions.
Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Hueston
said that Frazer would also be ques-
toned about reports that a second man
was in the car when it drove South with
Mrs Stader's body.
Frazer insisted the death was acct
dental, in a confession to Prosecutor
David of Union County, who went
to Raleigh to bring him back after
his arrest He said a rife he had in
bAlC DdIh oCdb Va LllS us
charged as he reached for it, killing her
as she sat beside him. They were re-
turning from a jaunt into New York
State, and Frazer said both had been
drinking.
Venue Is Problem.
David was faced today with the prob
lem Of establishing definitely the place
of the shooting. He said Frazer's talk
led him to believe Mrs. Stader died in
Union County in New Jersey, but the
couple rode through several counties in
New jersey and in Orange County, N. Y.
County Prosecutor David said there
was no truth in the story that second
man was in the car
Frazer carried the body in the car
two days before he disposed of it,
sleeping in his home in Railway one
night and on street in Washington
another.
No formal charge has been made
against him and none will be made
until it is determined in what county
Mrs. Stader died, the prosecutors Of
fee said
Frazer'S mother, Mrs. Edna Frazer,
visited him in the Jail shortly after his
arrival. She said she would arrange
his defense.
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C. 0. P. NOM|NATES
L0NGWORTH AGAIN
is House Republicans Refuse
to Attend CaucuS-Demand
More Rights.

BY the Associated Press.
House Republicans last night decided
to support Speaker Longworth and the
present slate of officers for reelection
next session.
But away from the party caucus
stayed IS members who refused to COM
NIT themselves either on candidates or
policies. Five of these were Kansas
regulars, incensed at the final refusal.
delivered yesterday by Chairman Haw-
ley Of the Ways and Means Committee
to consider oil embargo legislation at
this session.
The rest were members of independ-
ent tendencies vita various demands
for legislation and further recognition
Of their group. United, this group can
hold the balance Of power in the next
House, for the membership is almost
equally divided between the parties.
Rule Changes Due.
Republicans of the powerful Rules
Committee were instructed to bring in
at the next caucus recommendations for
changes in the House regulations.
Chairman Smell agreed. Present rules
by their stringency have caused numer-
Gus grievances. He indicated they would
be loosened.
Two other matters brought up at the
meeting, behind closed doors, were pro-
hibition and adoption of policy favor
ing restriction Of oil and anthracite
imports. But no action was taken on
these controversial issues, which were
remanded to the first conference Of the
next Congress.
Kansas Is Omitted.
Members from every State with Re-
publican representation, except Kansas,
were placed on the Committee of Com
mittees, which selects the Republican
membership of these groups. Kansas,
although represented at the caucus by
Representative Strong, was omitted be-
cause of the bolt by the remainder of
the delegation.
Kansans absent were Representatives
Sparks, Hoch, Hope, Huyer and Lam
bertson. They issued statement say
ing while they remained Republican
believers in party organization and dis
trusted Democratic protestations, the
oil action forced them ito preserve be-
yond any question our freedom OF
action"
Representative Gerber, Republican,
Oklahoma, although attending the
caucus, said the oil decision was one
the Eastern States will repent in sack
cloth and ashes"
"Open Up Tariff"
He said a sufficient number of West
ern Republicans would join the Demo-
Gratis in the next Congress to open up
the tariff"
When we do duties are going to be
leveled and apportioned on Eastern
manufacturers on the same basis with
their arguments against an oil tariff"
Other known abSentees at the meet
ing were Representatives Mas, Selvig
and Christgau of Minnesota; Peavey,
Schneider, Cooper, Kading and Nelson
of Wisconsin, and Laguardia of New
York. Still others were away because
OF illness, or other cause.
Selection of officers was unanimous.
Besides Speaker Longworth, who has
served six years, they included Floor
Leader Tilson of Connecticut, William
Tyler Page, clerk of the House; Joseph
G. Rogers, sergeant at arms.
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Lord Robert Cecil has proclaimed Ger
manys right to equality.
The coming slogan here will be
equality Of armament, but whereas to
the allies equality means in everything
which is not specifically settled by the
treaty Of Versailles, to the Germans it
means equally the elimination of the
unequal situation created by the treaty
Agreement between these viewpoints
will be hard to reach, especially since
according to Germania, reparation con-
cessionS would not modify the Ger
mans demand for equal disarmament
or armament.
The Berlin Tageblatt's Washington
correspondent inclines to the view that
the American administration is inter-
ested so exclusively in naval disarma-
ment that 1t will not be disposed to
risk troubling agreement with Great
Britain and France on this subject
merely to assist Germany.
Copyright, IsSi)
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STUDIES
SHOALS MEASURE
Hoover Also Sends Wagner
Bill to Labor Department
for Doak's Study.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Hoover today referred the
Muscle Shoals bill and the Wagner
unemployment bill to interested Depart
ments for investigation and report.
Proponents of the two measures in
Congress have expressed fear that he
may veto both.
The Muscle Shoals bill was sent to
the War Department and also will be
studied by the Department Of Justice.
1t would provide for Government power
production and private production of
fertilizer at the huge Alabama plants.
Wagner Bill Studied.
The Wagner bill, which provides for
the establishment Of State employment
agencies with the aid of Federal funds,
went to the Labor Department.
Secretary Doak has already expressed
his opposition to the measure.
There Is some question, however, that
Doak will recommend q veto.
Sponsors Of the Muscle Shoals bill,
who have been calling on President
Hoover for the past week to urge his
approval, have expressed a belief Mr..
Hoover will take action one way or the
other before March and not give the
bill a pocket veto.
A Muscle Shoals bill, passed three
years ago, was killed in this way by
President Coolidge.
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TWO oUIzzED IN DEATH.
Vivian Gordon's Lawyer Named in
Diary as Feared.

NEW YORK, February AZ R.-
Named in her diary as persons she
feared, her own lawyer and an ex-con-
vict were held for questioning today in
the strangling of Vivian Gordon.
John A. Radeloff, a Brooklyn attor-
ney, and Sam Cohen, alias Charles Har-
ris, were taken into custody yesterday
and examined today as to their asso-
Citations with her. An unnamed woman
friend of Miss Gordon also was ques-
toned and released.
One inscription in the diary, Police
Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney
said, read as follows:
IT fear but one man, ard he is Rade-
loft, my lawyer, who, if he wanted,
could get Cohen and couple of his
henchmen to do away with me-"
Radelo6 told the commissioner that
Miss Gordon informed him several
weeks ago that she had made an ap-
pointment to testify concerning alleged
graft on the part of the vice squad and
that he had advised her not to.
II will. I'm going to give McLaugh-
lin the needle" she was quoted by him
as replying.
Commissioner Mulrooney Immediately
sent for Patrolman Andrew B. Nc
Laughlin, who arrested Miss Gordon on
charge of immortality in 1928, and
was instrumental in sending her to
Bedford Reformatory, but discovered
that he had left on a five-day vacation
Monday, presumably for Bermuda.
Miss Gordon's body was found in Van
Cortlandt Park yesterday with length
Of clothesline wound about her neck.
1t was six days after the date che failed
to appear as a volunteer witness in the
Magistrates Courts inquiry.
After seeing a photograph Of the
slain woman, Irving Ben Cooper, one
Of the attorneys conducting the magis-
trates' inquiry, remembered he talked
with her about framed-up vice cases
concerning which she had volunteered,
in letter, to furnish information.
Mr.. Cooper opened the safe contains
ing his records and gave the informa.
ton to Commissioner Mulrooney.
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FOOD COST DATA NEAR

The Capper subcommittee of the
Senate investigating food prices here
probably will make its final report to-
morrow. This afternoon the Subcom-
mittee was to go into session to draft
the report.
Information particularly with regard
to wholesale and retail prices Of bread,
milk and meats was gathered by the
committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-27
GERMAN PRESS ALARMED.
Questions Of Military Equality and
Treaty Revision Raised.

By Cable to The Star.
BERLIN, Germany, February 27.-The
German press fears greatly lest naval
agreement between Great Britain and
France and probably Italy has been
bought at the expense Of Germany'S
claim for greater military equality.
The Germans are particularly angry
at the French War Minister Andre
Maginot's cool statement that equality
of armament between the aggreSsor and
attacked nations in the late war would
not be just The Germans are getting
sick Of one-sided disarmament and
would prefer to see the allies disarm,
but hope to arm themselves If the allies,
particularly France and Poland and the
little entente, continue at the present
level, If only because this armed pre-
dominance makes further treaty revision
o matter of French good will.
The Berlin Catholic Germania, a
newspaper which presents the chan
cellor's views, states that II M. Magnet
spoke for France and England, then
the Germans really have no reason 70
attend the coming disarmament con-
ference
On the other side. Adolf Hitler's
Racial Observer newspaper notes that
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the country come first before the House
District Committee and 1.-THE legislation
we sponsor Is later presented as models
to State Legislatures, with the indorse-
ment Of Congress" He thanked par
active Democrat, for her sincere CO.
operation and consideration. The COM
mittee then gave a rising vote of ap-
probation to Miss Patterson and Mrs.
Waterfield.
This Is the last meeting Of the House
District Committee for the present
session.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-27
HIGH COURT TO DECIDE ON
PLANE AS MOTOR VEHICLE
BY the Associated Press.

The Supreme Court was called upon
yesterday to decide whether an airplane
is motor vehicle.
The question arose through an ap-
peal by William w. McBoyle of Galena,
Ill, from his conviction for transport
ing a stolen airplane from Ottawa, ILL.,,
to Guymon, Okla.
Harry F. Brown, attorney for Nc
Boyle, argued that Congress did not
have airplanes in mind when it passed
the motor vehicle theft act in 1919.
The court then pointed out q pro-
vision of the act which specifies that
1t apply TO ANY other self-propelled
vehicle not designed to run on rails.
Brown replied that clearly indicated
Congress was dealing only with motor
driven vehicles which ran on land.
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VETERANS DEATH CAUSE
UNDETERMINED AT QUIZ
Body of Shell-Shocked Ex-Service
Man Found in Woods Near Prince
Georges Court House.

BY the Associated Press.
PRINCE GEORGES COURT HOUSE,
Va, February 27.-COroner w. c. Webb
returned verdict today that Walter
G. Spangler, 42-year-old shell-shocked
veteran, whose bleached bones were
found in woods near here this week,
came 20 his death in a manner I'M
known to authorities.
The inquest also failed in fixing the
time of the death of the veteran, who
was last seen alive September IL, 1929,
near the spot where the bones were
discovered.
Mrs. Spangler of Reidsville, N. c.,
widow of the dead man, identified cloth
ing ana other articles as those belong
ing to her husband.
The body was sent to Reidsville for
burial
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SHOALS LEASER SOUGHT.
Gov. Miller of Alabama Receives Wire
From President Hoover.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, February n up.
Gov. B. M. Miller last night made pub
Lie a telegram from President Hoover
asking for information as to any one
who might lease the nitrate plants at
Muscle Shoals and his reply.
In his reply the Governor said he
knew of one Alabama industrialist who
was seriously studying the bill now
awaiting the Presidents signature with
the view Of entering negotiations for
the lease of the Shoals property.
Would be glad to have any infor-
nation as to any one who will lease
the nitrate plants under the conditions
imposed"
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CAPONE CONVICTED
IN CONTEMPT CASE;
GIVEN SIX MONTHS

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TWO BLAINE BILLS
WILL BE DELAYED
FOR NEXT CONGRESS

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SLAIN NEW YORK
ARTISTS EX-HUSBAND
AT LORTON, VA, QUIZZEl

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