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The Washington times., 1931-02-21
Ban .TGk-
Chance by Doctors

ST. LOUIS, Feb. II u.N.S).-
Ban Johnson, former president of
the American League, continued
to hold his own today, his rhysi-
clans, reported. He was given a
chance to pull through.
The Washington times., 1931-02-21
SALVATION TESTS MEN

The Salvation Army has re-
ceived $50 cords of firewood from
the District Committee on En-
ployment to be used as a work
test" for men applying for
vt.g4ngs.
The Washington times., 1931-02-21
Canal "NUUuL" War
Ended at Panama

ABOARD U. S. S. LOS AN
GELES, Feb. 21-The great
Naval War" for possession of
the Panama Canal ended today,
with the attack" partially sue
cessful, but capture of the main
objective itself still in doubt.
The Washington times., 1931-02-21
THE WEATHER

Cloudy tonight; lowest temperature about 81
dsgrees; Sunday fair; gentle northwest winds.
Temperature yesterday-Highest 42j lowest, 80.
Full Weather Report on Page
MnahoR,ou r1uoea IN the Only afternOuu ma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-21
KEY MAN SOUGHT
IN YACHT MYSTERY
Mrs. Ceilings Says He Told
Her He Was Father of
Three Children.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 21.-Suffolk
County authorities today pressed a
search for a middle-aged married man,
whose arrest, they hoped, might solve
the mystery Of the death Of Benjamin
P. Ceilings in Long Island Sound.
This man, Mrs. Ceilings has told au-
thorities, had taken her of the cruiser
Penguin after throwing her husband in
the sound, and leaving her little daugh-
ter, Barbara. aboard. The man, she
said, told her he had three children
woman.
Detectives today were awaiting word
from Charlotte, N. c., police about two
men who registered at q hotel there on
September 2, and an anonymous letter
to District Attorney Alexander q. Blue
Of Suffolk County said the two men
would know something about the crime.
Authorities did not take the letter too
seriously, as hundreds Of crank notes
have come to both Mrs. Ceilings and TO
police.
Mr.. Blue returned from a week end
yachting cruise today to pick up the
LnIehQS OF the lnVeSGlRdCiOu CdLIlcu
along by his assistant, Fred Munder,
and Felix de Martini, New York private
detective.
De Martini headed so policemen in a
search Of the Long Island coast yester-
day for possible clues to the drowning
Of the Stamford, Conn, engineer. Col
lings' body was washed ashore at
Lloyds Neck last week.
De Martini said Mrs. Ceilings was
not under suspicion in as far as he
had gone into the inquiry. Homer s..
Cummings, her counsel, has branded
insinuations against her as unfair.
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racketeer had been shot to death in an
Office building in New York, Is believed
to be the principal cause Of the in
vestigation into affairs Of this bureau.
The Staying of this racketeer also
caused the limelight to be turned on
the Immigration Bureau. A woman
clerk is said to have assisted him to
obtain his citizenship through fraud.
The department said her arrest Is
likely. Forged entry blanks and other
counterfeit immigration papers have
been turned up by agents since Secre-
tary Doak ordered the investigation on
a Nation wide scale nine months ago.
Department officials also said today
that Carson had obtained a confess
sion in New York from Alfred G.. Bral,
an Army corporal stationed at the
Army disciplinary barracks at Fort
Jay, that he permitted DR.. Umberto
Bianchi, Sing Sing convict, to escape,
Promised 100000.
Bral said that he had been promised,
according to the confession, $400, 600
fortune and a beautiful 17-year-old
blonde" to aid the prisoner, who Is
said to be q Rumanian nobleman and
a notorious international confidence
man, to gain his freedom.
The escaped prisoner, 1t was ex-
planned, was to have been the Govern
ment's principal witness in its effort
to convict score of men Of smuggling
aliens as the result of the recent in
vestigations. Twenty-eight men are
now under arrest in New York alone on
charges of conspiracy Of alien SNUG
Cling involving some 5000 aliens.
Bral confessed to Carson and his
superior ofi1cer after 12-hour grill
ing. admitting that Bianchi gave him
$4,000 In cash and an order on the
Bank of France for 100000 more.
After Bianchi escaped, Bral was to buy
his discharge with the $4,000, go to
Paris, draw his money and meet the
"blue-eyed blonde" who would be wait
ing for him.
Army authorities, according to an
Associated Press dispatch from New
York. announced today that Bral, q
veteran of IS years service and re-
cipient of several war decorations, faced
court martial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-21
SCHENCK BROUGHT
BACK TO TESTIFY
IN STAPLES CASE

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Columbia from whom the Commits
sioners could choose five men to sit as
a Police Trial Board, should one be
required to hear any cases based upon
the recent grand jury report.
Selected Carefully.
THE Commissioners have gone over
this list very carefully. and have selected
the following five gentlemen: (The
names Of the men selected were then
given.)
"All these gentlemen have accepted
the invitation solely because of their
interest in the District of Columbia and
their willingness to aid in a public
service. None of them Is in any way
associated with police affairs and all are
outstanding citizens whose standing in
the community and whose integrity
insure a verdict which the Commits
sioners believe will be accepted as free
from any bias"
Transcript Provided.
Members of the Lawyers Investigat-
ing Board were furnished today with
copies of the transcript in the Staples
case.
OF the men selected on the citizens
board. Mr.. Cooper, member of the
banking firm of Crane, Paris & Co.,
formerly was general secretary of the
Y. M C. A. here and was connected
with the Y. M. G. A. for many years.
Mr.. Lewis, colored lawyer, is a MEM
Der of the Federation of Civic Associa-
tons and one Of the delegates of that
body to the Citizens Advisory Council.
Dr. Marvin Is president of George Wash
ington University. DR.. Neill is profess
sor Of political economy at Catholic
University and formerly United States
Commissioner of Labor. Rabbi Simon,
leader Of the Washington Hebrew Con-
gregation, Is a member of the Board of
Education and formerly was its presi-
dent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-21
W|MBLEY II FACE
MURDER CHARGE
crOwder Taken to Virginia
After Admitting Plot to
Wipe Out FamiIyA

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overturn the canoe while the latter was
padding Mrs. Wimbley and the Nhaby
up the river.
That he was present when 80 tcal-
iber revolver was bought in a D street
store before he and Crowder staHed
for Dendron to bring Mrs. Wimbley aAld
the child to Washington.
Detective Sergts. Springmann ana
FLOYD Truscott, after questioning
Winblev at the seventh precinct, dis
closed the gun was bought with 500
which Wimbley borrowed from his
room mate, William Max Jungren, n,
ostensibly for a visit to his first vile
and children in Baltimore.
Jungren TO Be Freed.
When Wimbley denied this, he was
confronted. with Jungren, who repeated
his statement. Wimbley maintained
his denial, police said. Jungren, who
also has been held by police in connec-
ton with the drowning, was to be re-
leased today. He was not present at
the picnic on the Chesapeake & OHIO
Canal above Chain Bridge, which Gull
minated in the deaths of Mrs. Wimbley
and her daughter.
Disclosure that Wimbley's first wife,
Mrs. Lulu M. Wimbley, wrote him last
week asking payment OF back almony,
was made last night by Detective Sergt
Barrett. He went to Baltimore yeSter-
daV to see the woman, but ELECTED no
information relative to the drownngs'
She said she and Wimbley were mar
ried 10 years ago and she obtained
divorce December 2, 1929. She told
Barrett she married Wimbley without
knowledge of his past life or criminal
record. AS soon as she learned OF this,
she said, she had no more to do with
Wimbley. The last time she saw him,
she said. was in July at the Veterans
Bureau in Washington, when she met
him to collect back alimony from his
bonus loan.
Mother Refuses to Talk.
Mrs. Emma Dickerson, Wimbley's
mother-his real name Is John German
Dickerson-also was located in Baltl-
more. She refused to be interviewed.
Wimbleys latest wife, who is being
held at CaSsville, Mo, will be brought
here by Barrett If she reveals anything
pertinent to the case, police said. Dis
patches from Cassyille quoted her as
saying she knew nothing of the drown
mRS or Oh n6E uuSpduO having ally
other name than Dickerson. He repre-
sented himself to her as real estate
dealer, she said
She has been living at Exeter, Mo,
with her parents since she left Wash
ington about 10 days ago. She had
been employed here as clerk in the
Census Bureau.
Wimbley apparently was as puzzling
to his neighbors as he is to police. On
his mailbox at 306 G street, where he
had room was written, II. G. Dicker-
son. also Wimbley." Even his landlady,
Mrs. Eugene ]. Leonard was confused.
She thought Dickerson and Wimbley
were two separate persons and told
police on the day of the drownings that
Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson had left her
house several days before. She made
this statement only half an hour after
talking to Wimbley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-21
THREE PITTSBURGH
BANKS ARE CLOSED
Highland National and Franklin
Savings (State) Follow
Bank of Pittsburgh.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, September 21.-The
Highland National Bank of Pittsburgh
and the Franklin Savings and Trust
Co. of Pittsburgh, State institution
were closed today following the decision
Of the directors of the Bank of Pitts
controller of the currency to take
charge of its assets.
The Highland National Bank was
closely identified with the Bank of
Pittsburgh, National Association.
j. d. Swigart, chief State bank
examiner, said the Franklin savings In
stitution was closed because it had a
large share of its funds on deposit with
the Bank of Pittsburgh, National AS
ISOLATION.
Closing of the latter institution was
announced early today. James G.
Chaplin, vice president of the Clear.
ing House Association Of Pittsburgh.
said the action was due to a drain
which has arisen most largely from
Withdrawals of deposits made by banks
in other sections of the country" The
bank reported assets Of $53,34S,953 last
July /.
The directors OF the Highland Ma
tional Bank said that institution was
threatened with large Withdrawals due
to the closing of the affiliated oank. and
that 1t was their opinion that the best
interests Of the depositors and creditors
would be most fully protected by
suspension. They, therefore, decided to
place the institutions affairs in the
hands Oh the controller of the currency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-21
YEARS ARMS TRUCE
PROPOSED BY ITALY
Gentlemen's Agreement Asked at
Geneva-Wilson Seated a.
U. S. Spokesman.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, Switzerland, September 81
The Italian government proposed to
the League of Nations Assembly today
that gentlemen's agreement be ar
rived at for one-year armament truce
on land, on sea and in the air.
The proposal was presented to the
Disarmament Committee, in which Hugh
r. Wilson, American Minister to
Switzerland. had just taken his seat.
AS explained by the italian spokes-
man, Gen. Alberto de Martins, the
project Is an extension Of the sugges-
ton made to the Assembly by Dino
Grandi, Italian foreign minister.
The application of the truce would
be separate for the three arms. For
land ornaments it would forbid aug
menting expenses. For naval arma-
ments 1t would suspend all new con-
Struction. For air ornaments 1t %ould
forbid the construction of a new mill
tary air machine, except for the pur-
pose OF replacing those becoming un-
serviceable.
Mr., Wilson expected to take part
later In the day in the committees
debates upon proposals for a holiday
IN the construction OF naval arr1a-
ments.
1t was not expected that the Ameri-
can spokesman would have any inn
mediate proposal to make In behalf
OF the washington GovernWent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-21
MOYLE AND ALLEN
ARRIVE At NOME
Pacific Flyers Hop 600 Miles
on Diesel FueI-HaIt
for Repairs.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NOME, Alaska, September 21.-Don
Moyle and Cecil A. Allen. California
flyers who failed in an attempt to make
a nonstop flight from Japan to Amer
lea and were missing for several days
in the North Pacific, arrived here last
night after a flight Of about 500 miles
from Miano Pilgino, Siberia.
The aviators arrived at sos pm.
(9:05 Pacific standard time), having
left the Siberian coast at e:l5 am.
Monday (Siberian time), the difference
being accounted for in their crossing of
the international date line.
Moyle and Allen said they had been
unable to obtain aviation gasoline in
Siberia and asserted they had used
Diesel engine fuel to fly across the
Bering Sea to Nome. They said they
burned a hole in the exhaust pipe of
their plane, but that otherwise 1t was
in good condition.
VIII Repair Plane.
The flyers said they would remain
here today to work on their plane and
ettend receptions.
we are pretty glad to return to
American soil again." said Moyle as he
climbed out Of the plane 1--WE are
feeling fine, although we had q close
call with freezing weather"
Moyle said they flew into several
snowstorrns while crossing the Bering
Sea. Bad weather he said, forced them
to go far up the Siberian coastline be-
fore making the crossing.
Started Flight September Z.
The flyers left Samushiro Beach,
Japan, September with heavy load
of gasoline, announcing they expected
to make 4,465-mile nonstop flight
to Seattle. Nine days later they turned
up at Miano Pilgino after having been
picked up on little island OF the ST.
berian coast by Russian ship.
They said they had flown "a hours
over the Pacific, had been forced down
on an uninhabited island of the Aleu-
tian chain and had managed to take
off for Siberia again after spending
eight days on the Aleutian island wait
ing out q storm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-21
KANE LETTER WRITER
is BELIEVED LOCATED
Philadelphia Paper Says Woman
Mentioned in Drowning Case
Is Ex-Ship Stewardess.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, September II.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
today says that the Betty Dodd" men,
toned in the case of Elisha Kent Kane.
charged with drowning his wife near
Hampton, Va, is q former resident Of
Mount Holly, N. j., temporarily living in
Philadelphia.
The Bulletin says her name Is Eliza
beth Harris Dahl, that she is about 40
years old and is a divorce. Her father.
now dead was John w. Harris, deputy
clerk Of Burlington County.
Virginia authorities held Kane after
they had received information that
Kane had received letters, apparently
from woman, signed "E. H. D."
Mrs. Dahl, the Bulletin says, came to
Philadelphia several days ago after a
days visit with brother and sister-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Harris Of
Belleville, N. j., about miles from Nclv
York City.
Both her sister-in-law and l..r
brother said it was absurd" to con-
strue Mrs Dahls letters as being "af-
fectionate" and described them as being
written only with the frankness of a
woman who is writing to a friend she
has known for long time.
Mrs. Dahl was a StewardeSs on the
liner America until the ship was laid
up for repairs. Formerly she held a
similar position on the Leviathan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-21
ARKANSAS FARMERS
COTTON VIEW SOUGHT
Gov. Parnell Solicits Opinion on
Session to Consider
Holiday.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, September 81.
Gov. Parnell called upon the farmers
Of Arkansas today for expressions of
sentiment as to whether a special SEES
sion of the General Assembly should be
convened to enact cotton. relief legis-
lation similar TO that pending in the
Texas Legislature.
Special representatives sent by the
Governor to Austin to study relief plans
before the Texas Legislature recon-
mended last night that special session
be called To pass an acreage limitation
law similar to the one awaiting approval
OF the Texas legislators.
Gov. Parnell said he would take no
action until he had been assured ma
iority of the Arkansas farmers wanted
such law.
II have the same attitude regarding
this rs 1 had toward the Long cotton
holiday plan" he said II was convinced
that so per cent of the cotton farmers
in Arkansas wanted the Long plan, and
now want to know whether they want
the next best plan
Il want the farmers to hold meetings
and make known their views on the
subject before act"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-21
MAI. HENRY DAILY
RITES WEDNESDAY
Funeral for Retired Officer
Will Be Held at Sa-
cred Heart.

Funeral services for Maj. Henry W.
DAILY, U. s. A., retired, 81 years old, who
died Friday at Naval Hospital, San Diego
Calf, will be held here at the Shrine
Of the Sacred Heart at IL o'clock We'd
nesday morning. Military services and
burial will be in Arlington National
Cemetery.
Since his retirement, in 1922, Mai
DAILY had resided part of the time at
the home Of a daughter, Clara j. DAILY,
at 1440 Monroe street
Maj. Daily had served for more than
so years in the Army's mounted service.
He was among the pioneers employed
by Gen. George Crook shortly after the
Civil War in training mules and de-
veloping pack trains for use in rough
and mountainous country. His manual
on pack transportation, written more
than 20 years ago, still serves as the
offcial test.
Had Wide Service.
with the pack service, Daily served
IN Mexico, Alaska, Cuba, China and the
Philippines. He accompanied Gen.
Crook in the Indian wars, campaigning
against the Shoshones, Apaches, Yumas,
PimaS, TontoS Sioux and Cheyennes.
In the war with Spain he took charge
of pack trains in Cuba.
During the World War, at the age of
81, he was commissioned captain,
Quartermaster Reserve Corps, and pro-
NOTED to major in 1918.
Born in Ireland in 1850, Maj. DAILY
emigrated to the United States at Is.
He crossed the American Continent
from New York to Vancouver, British
Columbia, by stage-coach shortly after
the Civil War In the early 70s he en-
tered the Government service.
Pack Train Instructor.
During Gen. Hugh L. SCOTS term as
superintendent of West Point, Mai.
DAILY was instructor of pack transpor-
tation there. He was continued in the
service long after retirement age, be-
cause OF his position as authority on
pack transportation.
Maj. DAILY had contributed several ar
ticles on the Indian campaigns to the
American Legion Monthly, and at the
time Of his death was engaged in the
preparation of a book to be entitled
With the Old Army on the Great
American Desert"
Maj. DAILY is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Katherine McGrath DAILY; his
daughter, Miss Clara j. DAILY of this city,
and two stepchildren, Catherine e. Null
roy and Robert E. Mulroy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-21
CHINA APPEALS TO LEAGUE.
Special Session Of Council Called to
Consider Plea Tomorrow.

Special Session Of Council Called to
Consider Plea Tomorrow.
GENEVA, September 81 (P).-China
formally appealed today, for League OF
Nations Intervention in the Manchu-
rian situation under Article II of the
Leagues Covenant.
The Leagues Council Immediately
called special session for tomorrow
morning to consider the Chinese plea,
which arose from Japanese military ac-
tiyity In Manchuria during the last few
days.
The note Of the Marking government,
delivered by Alfred SEE, Chinese Minis
ter to London, cited Article II as a
whole as the basis for League interven-
ton. This left the Council with broad
limits within which to act.
Article II of the League Covenant
states:
Any war or threat of war, whether
Immediately affecting any Of the mem
bers OF the League or not, is hereby
declared matter Of concern to the
whole League, and the League shall
take any action that may be deemed
wise and effectual to safeguard the
peace of nations. In case any such
emergency should arise the secretary
general shall on the request OF any
member of the League forthwith sum-
mon a meeting of the Council.
1T is also declared to be the friendly
right of each member Of the League TO
bring to the attention Of the Assembly
or of the Council any circumstances
whatever affecting international rela-
lions which threatens to disturb inter-
national peace or the good understand
ing between nations upon which peace
depends"
International observers pointed out
that the probable action Of the Council
in this case would be TO invite the Jap
anese and Chinese to submit a full re-
port Of their respective positions upon
incidents In Manchuria. Then the
Council would appoint military COM
mission OF representatives Of disinter-
ested states to examine the situation in
Mapuchuria and report their findings
to the Council.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-21
MOSCOW WATCHES ORIENT.
Newspapers and OfIiciaIs Refrain From
Commenting on Trouble.

MOSCOW, September 81 (P.-Mos-
cow is following the Sino-Japanese de-
yelopments In Manchuria with the
closest attention, but ell official COM
ment was withheld.
All newspapers yesterday published
prominently accounts Of the Japanese
occupation Of Mnkden without adding
editorial observations.
in Manchuria lies In the Chinese East
ern Railway. which 1t jointly owns and
administers with China. It now is
negotiating here for q permanent set
tlement Of the railways status.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-21
THREE HURT BY PLANE
Girl One of Two Passengers il
Michigan Accident.

MT CLEMENS. Mich, September IL
tP).-The pilot and two passengers, one
of them girl. were seriously injured
today when q plane fell into Lake st.
Clair near 12-mile road. They were
rescued and removed to st. Joseph's
Hospital here.
The pilot was James Singelyn, owner
of the Lake Shore Airport The pas
sengers were Geraldine Cadotte, II:
and walter Lyman, 20, both OF De-
troit.
The plane fell from q feirht az
about 800 feet and landed in ave feet
Of water near the shore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-21
Entertains Society in Barn,

NEW YORK (R.-Long Island
society folk are being entertained in a
converted barn, owned by Lawrence
Smith Butler. known as the FIRST
bachelor" of the north shore colony. He
thinks 1t Is q modest abode but it has
IS rooms and l2-car garage. 1t has
one Of the largest ball. rooms IN those
paris.