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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
BARRING OUTSIDE
PUPILS IS UPHELD
Power Vested in Education
Board, Bride Says in
Legal Opinion.

The District Commissioners today for
warded to the Board of Education a
legal opinion to the effect that the
board has the power to exclude pupils
who do not reside in the District of
Columbia If their presence creates con-
gestion and unsatisfactory conditions.
The opinion was in response to a re-
quest from the Board of Education for
construction of the various laws on the
subject
One Of the laws, approved March g.
1899, reads: "That hereafter pupils shall
not be admitted to or taught free OF
charge in the Public Schools of the Dis
trict of Columbia who do not reside in
said District, or whose parents do not
reside, or are not engaged in business OF
public duties therein, provided that
such pupils may be admitted to and
taught in said public schools on pay
ment to cover the expense OF
their tuition
The act of March s, 1915, provided:
Hereafter all pupils whose parents
are employed officially or otherwise In
the District of Columbia shall be adj
mitted and taught free of charge in the
schools of the District"
After explaining the method Of con-
STRUNG such statutes Corporation Coun-
sci William w. Bride, who wrote the
opinion for the Commissioners, said:
I'm applying these principles to the
course of legislation outlined above I
am of the opinion that where non-resi-
dent pupils desire to enter schools In
this Jurisdiction, under the conditions
provided for in the statute, they are
entitled to admission If. in the opinion
Of. the Board of Education, their pres
ence in the schools does not create I'M
satisfactory conditions to resident
pupils. If, on the other hand, the
schools are already congested, do not
think it was the intention of Congress
that nonresident pupils must be adj
mitted. In all events, think the Board
of Education is vested with some Ge-
cretion in regard to the conditions in
the schools, but that this discretion
must be reasonable in its exercise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
SHOOTING IN TOXIC
CALLED ANTI-RED PLOT
Moscow Papers Say Attack on
Soviet Official Aimed at Widen
ing Fisheries Controversy.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, March 1.-THE conclu-
sion was voiced today by two morning
newspapers, Izvestia and Pravda, that
the attempted assassination Of Paul
Anikeieff, Soviet commercial counselor,
in Toxic yesterday by a Japanese was
an incident in the conspiracy which
they charged to exist between Japanese
fisheries and other interests to create
friction between Soviet Russia and
Japan.
Anikeief was dangerously wounded,
and the episode was followed in the
Upper House of the japanese Diet by
passage of a resolution calling for a
settlement of Japanese fishery rights In
Soviet waters.
Soviet officials would make no COM
ment on the shooting, but 1zvestla, Oh
fetal Soviet organ, said: The Japa-
nese government has taken no steps
to halt attacks and propaganda OF the
anti-Soyiets, and this shooting is the
natural result of such policy
Pravda, Communist organ, said: This
new attack on the Soviet representative
in Japan shows our enemy Is not Sleep
ing. There is nothing our enemies will
not do to undermine our victorious So
cialistic constructions. Under such cir
cumstances we must be extremely calm.
Later events will show what steps the
japanese government takes to bring
the anti-Soviet conspirators to justice
and to put an end to campaign which
has been going on for some time"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
THREE ACCEPTED
FOR JINGLE JURY
Prospective Talesmen Evince No
Scruples Against Death
Penalty.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 17.-Alert and in
terested in every detail of his case, Leo
v. Brothers, st. Louis gangster, watched
as the State proceeded with its efforts
to get a jury qualified to send him to
the electric chair, if deemed necessary,
for the Staying of Alfred Lingle, Chi
cago Tribune reporter.
None of the prospective jurors ques-
toned yesterday by Assistant States
Attorney c. Wayland Brooks gave indi-
cation Of any scruples against sending
the defendant to the chair. Brooks ex-
planned carefully, however, that he was
not suggesting that electrocution would
be the disposition of the case, but that
he wanted to know the jurym ms
thoughts in the event the evidence re-
suited in a verdict that would put the
question of capital punishment up to
them.
Three jurors had been tentatively ac-
cepted by both the State and the de-
Tense wheI court was opened today.
Meanwhile copies of song entitled
"An My Days Are Wasted Away
with words and music by the accused
st. Louis man, were sold outside the
court room. There was big crowd on
hand and business was good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
Mail Flyer Fights
Storm Five Hours
On Richmond Run
Jameson, Forced Back
Twice, Reaches Boiling
on Third Attempt.

Caught in banks of fog and storm
clouds nearly two miles deep, aftermath
Of the storm which forced Verne Treat
to jump for his life from an ice
sheathed plane less than 80 hours
earlier, L. S. Jameson, airTnan pilot on
the coastal route passing through the
Capital, battled for five hours early to-
day to get through from Richmond, Va,
to the National Capital, ordinarily an
hours flight.
During his five hours Of fighting with
the elements, however, Jameson COW
cred the distance between Richmond
and the Capital five times, being forced
back twice and finally getting through
on his third attempt. Reports that a
mail plane had been lost in the storm
were received by postal officials after
Jameson had been out more than three
hours and for a time it was feared that
he might have been forced to duplicate
Treats jump for life.
Jameson took off from Richmond
with about 800 pounds of mail aboard
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
COMPLETED
FOR HOOVER TRIP
Cabinet Members, Aides and
80 Writers and Photograph
erS to Go to West Indies.

President Hoover has decided definite
ly to leave Washington tomorrow night
by train for Old Point Comfort, where
he will sail Thursday morning on his
visit to Porto Rico and the Virgin Is
lands.
To those with whom he has discussed
his forthcoming trip he has insisted
that he will do no work while away, and
that he will devote his time to relaxa-
ton and to the enjoyment and benefits
of the salt air and the tropical sun.
Thirty News Men Included.
The Presidents party will include
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, under
whose Jurisdiction the administration of
the affairs Of the Virgin Islands was re-
Gently ordered by the President; Secre-
tary of War Hurley. under whose juris-
diction the affairs of Porto Rico are in
trusted; Col. Campbell B. Hodges and
Capt. Russell Train, military and naval
aides, respectively; Capt. Joel T. Boone,
the Presidents personal physician, and
Lawrence Richey, one OF the Presidents
secretaries. The party will include about
20 newspaper correspondents and about
half that many cameramen.
During the absence Of her husband
from the White House, Mrs. Hoover
will visit her son, Herbert, jr, in Ashe-
vile, N c., where he has been recuper-
ating from a long illness.
VIII Tour Island.
The Presidents itinerary has not been
made public, but it Is understood that
he will land in Porto Rico early next
Monday morning and before leaving
the island will engage in an automobile
ride of more than 100 miles, to see for
himself the living conditions of the
agricultural people, and to see also the
extent of the damage caused by the
hurricane of 1929.
While in San Juan, the capital,
President Hoover will be the personal
guest of Gov. Theodore Roosevelt at
the Governors mansion, which was
at one time the home of Ponce de Leon
At the Virgin Islands, the President
will be entertained by DR.. Paul Pear
son, who was only recently appointed
by him as Governor Of the Virgin
Islands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
rs Autos Circle About Depu-
ties in Ravine, Exchanging
400 Shots in IL Minutes.
4 OF WORKERS ESCORT
HIT IN FIRST VOLLEY
Labor Row in Building of Oil
Tanks Blamed for Attack on
Illinois Roadway.
BY the Associated Press.

by the associated FreSS.
ST. LOUIS, March 17.-About 100
men armed with shotguns and revolvers
ambushed six guards of the Phillips
Pipe Line Co. today as they drove along
hog-haven road to escort laborers to
the tanks of the company and wounded
four of the guards in gun battle.
The attack was attributed to labor
troubles, as the tanks of the pipe line
company are being erected by the Chi
cago Bridge &c Iron Co. under an open
shop" policy.
AS the guards, all special deputy
sheriffs, travelling in three automobiles
about 100 yards apart, entered ravine
between two railroad embankme nts
about IS automobiles appeared from a
side road.
1.-THE cars began to circle around us
Indian fashion, said Jack Johnson
chief special deputy, who was treated
for gunShot wounds in the leg. 81
stepped out and said, Don't come any
further, boys; stay off this road and
then they opened fire. Some of them
fired from their cars. Others got be-
hind trees. AS our two other cars ar
rived we all jumped behind them and
fired back from behind them. About
400 shots were fired, the shooting last
ing about II minutes, but those of us
who were wounded were shot in the
first volley.
I'VE couldn't tell whether we hit the
other men or not They drove off after
an automobile truck appeared"
Warns Approaching Workers.
The other guards wounded were
Thomas j. McMurray, who received
pellets in the leg and hips; Clarence
Watkins, pellet under the left eye
and Ernest Golf, shot gun pellets in the
back.
The attack occurred on the Illinoi.
side of the Mississippi. After the truck
passed the attacking party got into theil
cars, the guards related, and drove of
toward Cahoki, yelling "Scabs, scabs
scabS," and curstng and firing into the
air.
johnson said he went to ferry land.
ing to warn ferry boat full of ap.
preaching workmen not to land there
The men landed later and were es-
corted to their work of erecting the
gasoline storage tanks, which consti-
tute the eastern terminus of the Phil
lips pipe line from the Texas Panhandle
Union Leader Speaks.
Commenting on the attack, John L
Mccarthy, financial secretary and bust.
ness agent of the Ironmakers' Loca
Union, No. 2, of East st. Louis, aff1l.
lated with the International Association
of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental
Ironworkers, said his organization OBJ
jectS to the employment of lover 10C
non union ironworkers and boilermakerS
on the job.
Mccarthy said these non-union EN-.
ployes were apparently imported here
for the express purpose of breaking
down the union conditions that have
existed here for years"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
MORROW TO DISCUSS
NAVY PACT IN LONDON
Will Confer With British Officials
on Side Trip to His Holiday
in Europe.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 17.-Senator Dwight
w. Morrow's visit to official Britain on
matters pertaining to the Anglo French
Italian naval agreement VIII be a mere
E I trip in his European holiday.
Arrival of the liner Leviathan at
Southampton shortly after noon will
enable the New Jersey Senator to reach
London late this afternoon. Arthur
Henderson, minister for foreign affairs,
will be waiting to receive him at the
foreign Office for a discussion of the
naval agreement when the Senator ar
ives with Ambassador Charles G.. Dawes
who has arranged to have Mr.. Morrow
carried quickly from Waterloo Station
to Downing Street.
Messrs. Craigie, Rosso and Masigli, ex-
perts representing Britain, Italy and
France, will begin work Thursday on
the formal draft Of the new pact.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
UTILITIES MAGNATE
MAY HEAD GAS CO.
A. L. Pierce, President of
Chicago Corporation, Re-
ported to Replace Wood.

The scene Of the investigation into
the ownership of the Washington Gas
Light Co. and its subsidiaries centered
today in New York as reports spread
through public utilities circles that A.
L. Pierce, head of the Central Public
Service Corporation Of Chicago, may
become president of the Washington
gas companies.
The Central Public Service Corpora
ton is the gigantic public utility COM
bine which recently took over the man
agement of the Washington and George
town gas companies and other holdings
of the newly created Washington &
Suburban Companies. These include
the Alexandria Gas Co. and the former
Hyattsyille Gas Co., which Is now
known as the Washington Suburban
Gas Co.
Mr.. Pierce became president Of the
HyattSville company at the time OF Is
acquisition by the Washington & Sub
urban Companies, and the rumorS now
are to the effect that he is soon to head
the Washington companies, replacing
time Mr.. Pierce is president of a ma
jority of the $50 subsidiaries Of the
Central Public Service Corporation,
which he also heads. If the reported
change Is made, 1t is expected that the
local company will be under the i'm
mediate direction of a resident execu-
tive under Mr.. Pierce.
Roberts in New York.
The reports of an impending change
in the executive staff of the gas COM
pany were strengthened by the state
ment of an official of the Central Pub
lie Service Corporation last week when
1t took over the management of the
Washington gas properties. This on
cial intimated then that shifts were TO
be made when he said no changes were
contemplated Eat the moment"
William A. Roberts, assistant corpo-
ration counsel, who was sent to Boston
last week to inquire into the high
finance involved IN the shift in owner
ship Of the gas companies, is now in
New York, searching for additional EVIL
dence. He is scheduled to confer today
with a prominent banker who is ex-
pected to throw some light on the re-
cent transactions, and will return to
Washington Immediately after the con-
ference.
Corporation Counsel William W. Bride.
who is directing the investigation for
the Public Utilities Commission, said
Roberts had kept him fully advised Of
the information he had developed. He
declined, however, to make it public,
and explained that there would be no
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
CARS PLUNGE, STOP
ON EDGE OF LAKE
Pennsylvania Train Leaves Rails.
Few Hurt as Coaches
Halt in Mud.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Fress.
BRISTOL, Pa, March 17-Railroad
men and Bristol police today viewed
the derailment of a Pennsylvania pas
senger train here last night with no loss
of life and serious injury to only one
person as remarkable.
Six cars of train No. $50, bound from
Philadelphia for New York, left the
rails. Three day coaches and a bag
gage car toppled down a steep embank-
ment, coming to rest on the edge of
Grundy Lake, which is 80 feet deep.
Less than 10 feet of muddy, slippery
earth separated the coaches from the
lake. All cars were steel.
When flremen and police had extri-
Gated the passengers from the over
turned cars, all but six or eight were
found to have escaped unhurt. Those
injured, with the exception of James w.
Wahl, 60, of Philadelphia, suffered only
slight cuts and bruises. Wahl was
injured about the back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
snecial pisnatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, March
t.-.-Whllc rescue tugs carrying doc
tors and nurses battered and rammed
through the ice foes toward bl5ak Horse
Island today, the survivors of the Viking
blast, many horribly MANNED and in
jured, lay in or huddled about the tiny
shacks of the little settlement, still too
stunned to understand the disaster,
which had taken the lives of their lead
ers and at least 90 of their comrades.
1t seemed impossible to obtain con-
nected account Of the terrific explosion
which tore the Viking asunder Sunday
night and sent her in flames to the bot
tom of the sea eight miles across the
ever-shifting ice from Horse Island. Sur
vivors sat with their heads in their
hands and ignored questioners, or turned
away.
Only one had recovered sufficiently
from the shock to tell of his own ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
RECEIVERS NAMED
FOR WARDMAN FIRM
G. L. Boothe of Alexandria
and H. L. Barker of Wash
ington Appointed by Court.

Gardner L. Boothe of Alexandria and
Harry L. Barker of Washington were
named receivers of the Wardman Mort
gage g. Discount Corporation by Judge
William P. Woolls in Corporation Court
at Alexandria today, following the con-
ference here of attorneys for both sides.
Boothe is statutory agent for the cor
poration in Virginia, and Barker is
chairman of the committee of minority
stockholders who secured the receiver
ship. They are to give $4,000 bond each
and Immediately begin the work OF
winding up the affairs of the corpora
ton.
Harry F. Kennedy, chief counsel for
the stockholders, and Norman Fischer OF
Washington, were named attorneys for
the receivers.
Decision to allow the appointment OF
receiver was handed down by Judge
Woolls Friday on the basis of the suit
filed by the minority stockholders last
october, trial of which was completed
January z. The only visible assets OF
the corporation are $500 shares of stock
in the Wardman Realty 81 Construc-
ton Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
HORROR OF VIKING BLAST
DESCRIBED BY SURVIVOR
Night Explosion Scatters Bodies Amidst
Wreckage-Groaning Sufferers
Logged Across Ice.

periences. He was a chap named
Brown.
"All except the deck watch were
below when the blast came" Brown re-
called. Some were abed, some we're
lounging about and all were happy
and merry. Then came terrific eX-
ploSion. It shook the ship. Every
body scrambled for the deck. 1t was
horrible.
'She sank kind of quickly after the
explosion. don't know how many
minutes she was above water, but it
seemed so short. The forward portion
burned to the waters edge. Then there
was a fearsome hiss and we could only
see the ice and the water and some
wreckage floating about.
Most of the dead and wounded oc-
cupied the cabin and afterberths, near
where the magazine was located. That
goes to prove that the force of the
explosion was aft, not amidship.
''The whole stern deck was ripped
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 10
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
CABINET
RESIGNS EN- MASSE
Entire Staff of Chicago
Mayor Quits to Assist in His
Race for reelection.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. March 17.-Mayor Will
liam Hale Thompson's entire cabinet
resigned today, the designations to take
effect at the mayors pleasure.
Samuel Ettelson. corporation counsel
and chief of the mayors aides, said the
move was to give Thompson free hand
in the conduct of his campaign for re-
election against Anton j. Cermak,
Democratic chairman of the Cook
County Board.
I'VE felt we should relieve the mayor
of any obligation to continue any of us
in Office IN his next administration, Z"
Ettelson said. IAN of us have pledged
ourselves to work vigorously for his re-
election"
Among the leaders Of the cabinet are
DR.. Arnold H. Regal, health COM
missioner; Morris Eller, city collector;
Richard w. Wolf, commissioner of
public works; Michael j. F1aherty,
president of the board of local i'm
provements, and Daniel Serriteua,
city sealer and first ward leader.
Another member, Christian Paschen,
building commissioner, recently was
indicted by, Federal grand jury for
income tax evasion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
BY the Associated Press.

By inc ASSOCIaLeu FTcS5.
BOMBAY, India, March INA
hatma Gandhi, accustomed to sdulatior
and worship, and commanding the re-
spect even of his British antagonists
last night heard jeers, boots, Kisses and
catcallS from a labor audience which
he was about to address.
Communists taunted him with failure
to provide for release of labor agitators
in his truce with Lord Irwin which led
to abandonment of the civil disobedi-
ence campaign, and charged him with
betraying the workers.
Down with Gandhil". they shouted.
Down with the National Congress-
Down with British imperialismR'
They tore down the Nationalist flag
on the platform where Gandhi sat,
amazed and bewildered, and replaced 1t
with q flaming red banner. Nationalist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
FIVE JOLIET CONVICTS
CLUBBED BY MATES
Bombing of Chair Factory Fails
to Occur After Warning
Is Given.
Rx the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JOLIET, Ill, March 17-Five men
were injured today in quarrel among
16 convicts in the band room at the new
penitentiary at Statesville, across the
river from the old prison, in which a
riot broke out Saturday.
No guards were present at the time.
The cause of the argument had not
been learned Immediately.
The convictS beat each other with
clubs, and five men were hurt badly
enough to require hospital attention.
Deputy Warden Frank Knef said
he had been warned that the chair fac
tory at the new prison was to be
bombed at 10 am. Extra guards were
posted, however, and the attack did not
materialize.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
70 CHINESE EXECUTED

CANTON, China, March II (P. -
Seventy-three officers of the Chinese
army were executed here today after
discovery Of a Communist plot to start
mutiny in the troops at Swatow. A
hundred other officers and soldiers are
awaiting sentence.
The central government stated in
connection with the executions that it
was having considerable trouble with
Red activity and influences, which
have obtained strong hold throughout
the country.
Ten days ago a division of govern
nent troops stationed on the Peking-
Hankow Railroad mutinied because they
believed that their disarmament was
imminent, and tore the tracks up in
their neiehborhood They joined Red
forces in ravaging the surrounding
country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
GANDF1I JEERED BY COMMUNISTS
ON FAILURE TO FREE AGITATORS
Tainted Truce With Lord Irwin, Amazed Nationalist
Leader Sees Red Flag Hoisted at Meet.

volunteers fought with the Communists
for q few minutes and replaced the red
nag with the Nationalist emblem.
Gandhi then pleaded that he had
done his best for the labor agitators,
but that what he had been able to do
depended upon the extent to which
they had been aligned with the move
ment for independence.
He said that the forthcoming Ma
tional Congress convention at Karachi
would demand complete independence
from Great Britain and that National
ist delegates at the forthcoming round
table conference would reiterate the
demand.
AS Gandhi has explained before, he
does not mean complete independence
in the American sense, so much as do
minion status with no reservations,
which Britain thus far has not been
willing to grant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
BLAST WRECKING HOME
is LAID TO GANGSTERS
Fire Sweeping Ruins of Denver
Residence Hampers Search for
Bodies by Authorities.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo, March 1.-THE two
story home Of Pete Carlino was de-
stroyed last night by an explosion which
police interpreted as another outbreak
in the gang warfare for control of tlSe
bootlegging business in Southern Colo
RADIO.
Fire, which swept the ruins, ham
pered a search for bodies. Neighbors,
however, said they had not seen the
Carlinos for several days.
Carlino was a leader in bootleg
gers convention" which police broke up
last January. He recently was attacked
by gunner as he stood on street cor
ner, escaping unscathed. Ignazio Va
sarro, Carlina's nephew and bodyguard,
disappeared about month ago.