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The Washington times., 1931-07-02
CROP DAMAGE
| BY HEAT WAVE
I N|N|M|ZED
Drought Damage Serious,
But Expert Says Farmers
Lucky 1t Isn't Any Worse

Reports of devastating crop
damage by the terrific heat wave
are exaggerated, Government crop
experts said today.
The drought in the Northwest Is
serious and there has been crop
damage in other sections, but on
the whole farmers are lucky" it
isn't worse.
DR.. J. B. Ringer. agricultural
meteorologist of the Weather Blu
1eau, after a survey of the entire
country, said that if the heat wave
had struck the Middle West earl,
1er, the winter crop might have
been ruined.
Too Early For Big Loss
1 If oats were a little further ad-
vAnced in some of the Northern
States, farmers would have suf-
fered a loss of millions of dollars
he said:
"Winter wheat was hit some
in Western Kansas and part of
Nebraska. It ripened too fast.
Shriveled grain is reported in
some other portions of the belt
TO the northeast.
"The oats crop was hit hard
in Iowa and some adjoining Sec
tiOns but little damage has been
reported in Wisconsin and other
Northern States.
Spring Wheat Damaged
"Spring wheat in the western
part of the belt, including the
DakOtas and Montana, has been
Managed by dry and hot weather,
rs well as rye, barley and other
crops in the Northern. Plains sec
tiOn. Corn, which thriveS in hot
weather, has not been hurt so
much.
Cotton is in fair to good con.
fiitiOn, except in Eastern Ten
heSSee and Georgia"
The Washington times., 1931-07-02

1t is Immediately apparent to all
Washington mothers that they must
buy ONLY locally made, UNION
BAKED, safe bread for the sake Of
their family's health and welfare.
TO MAKE SURE......LOOK FOR the
BAKERY ADDRESS ON The WRAPPER
Regardless of where it was made in what
store you find it, every loaf of bread SOLD
in Washington must give the name and AD-
DRESS of the bakery that made it. LOOK
FOR THIS ADDRESS make it is
the and addre.. of any Washington
bakery Then you KNOW it is UNION
BAKED-the BEST bread you can buy!
The Washington times., 1931-07-02
SHARP DECLINE
IN D|PHTHFRIA

The death rate in May was
lower than in any other May in
the history of its records, accord.
ing to the monthly report of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany.
The rate was 8.4 per 1000
among the industrial policyholders
of the company. The nearest ap-
proach to this record was 8.8 per
1000 in 1921 and 1880.
Among the causes of death in
which the toll has been most
sharply reduced this year is diph-
iberia, which declined 81 per cent
in the first five months
The Washington times., 1931-07-02
LEGION DELEGATES

T Electing 10 of their number to
represent their post at the depart.
Inent convention here August 5,
members of Sergeant Casper Post,
Mo. 13, of the American Legion,
last night chose William A. Ke-
hoe, Louis r. Dennis, Thomas j.
Erailey, William B. Kershner, Jo-
seph j. Malloy, Edward L. Mart
hill, Francis j. Mcdonald, John
]. McGinniS, Paul H. McMurray
and Daniel H. Pratt.
The Washington times., 1931-07-02
Italian Kings Cousin
Ne1rs Deaths Door

TURIN, Italy, July 2 UN.SJ.
The Duke of Aosta, cousin Of
King Victor Emanuel and noted
military leader and authority,
lapsed into Inconsistencies to-
day. The aged duke, who was
stricken with pneumonia some
weeks ago, was visited by the
Crown Prince and Princess today.
The Washington times., 1931-07-02
Telephone Workers
Call Strike in Spain

MADRID, July 2 (U.SO.-Work-
ers for the Spanish-American
Telephone Company yesterday
called a strike for July 4 in
furtherance of their demand for a
six-hour day and the reduction OF
the American managers salary
50, 900 a year,
The Washington times., 1931-07-02
Philadelphia Asks
NeU Customs Site

Mayor Mackey, of Philadelphia,
yesterday headed a delegation
which urged Treasury officials to
place the new Customs House
and Appraisers Stores Building
in that city at Second and Chest.
nut Streets. Mr.. Mackey said the
city planned to establish a public
park adjacent to the site.
The Washington times., 1931-07-02
TUttIe's Dry Post
Made Permanent

Prohibition Director Amos w.
w. Woodcock announced yester-
day that Robert E. Tuttle, acting
administrator at New Orleans.
has been removed from probation
status and given a permanent
commission.
The Washington times., 1931-07-02
Canned Music Gets
Can at City'S Jail

REDFIELD, s. Dak., July 2
UNS0 .-Redfield doesn't believe
in furnishing canned music" to
the inmates of the Sphinx county
Jail. They are provided with gen.
uine band concerts twice a week
The municipal band OF 3S
pieces gives concerts Just outside
the Jail windows.
The Washington times., 1931-07-02

"AAA1AD m DO O4N
A GAVEL made of wood from
the home of Lincoln was pre-
sented to President Willis A. Sut-
ton. of the National Education
Association, by Mrsl Edward A.
Armbrustor, president of the Chi
cago division of the Illinois State
Teachers Association, at the con-
vention of the education asso-
citation at Los Angeles.
The Washington times., 1931-07-02

City and Suburban homes for sale
all sections, all prices. are ad-
vertised for sale in tOday's Classified
Section.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
GARDEN JUDGING
COURSE AT Y. W.
Instruction Glasses Will Be Con-
Quoted Tomorrow and
Saturday.

A course in flower show and garden
judging" for members of the National
Capital Federation of Garden Clubs will
be given at the Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth
and K streets, tomorrow and Saturday,
the initial instruction to be tomorrow
morning at 10 O'Clock. The course has
been planned by Miss Margaret c.
Lancaster, newly elected president of
the federation
Mrs. BalthaZar Meyer is chairman Of
the committee in charge of arrange
ments for the course. with Mrs Clarence
c. Carr. Mrs. Truman Able ana Miss
Laura Wadsworth assistants.
Mrs. Wheeler Peckham, honorary
curator of iris and narcissus collections
of New York Botanical Garden, will be
the speaker tomorrow morning.
M. F. L. milford of the Department
of Agriculture will speak tomorrow
afternoon at l o'clock and at 2:30 Miss
Lancaster will speak.
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock r. w.
Rogers, landscape architect of the Ma
tional Capital-Maryland Park Planning
Commission, will speak and at II AM.
Saturday Mrs. william Hunter LS7=zrer,
New York State Federation of Garden
Clubs, will talk.
An illustrated lecture on Japanese
Gardens" was given by DR.. r. x.
Beattie under the auspices OF the fed
Grafton last night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
HUNTING SEASON
CUT BY HOOVER
Presidential Order viii Close
Migratory Bird Shooting.
IS Days Earlier.

An order just issued by President
Hoover reducing by IS days the shoot
ing season on migratory birds WIN close
the duck hunting season In nearby
Maryland and Virginia two weeks ear
lier than last year. The season, which
opened last year on November / and
closed January 81. will close In 1882
on January Is. :
The mandate also calls for q year
round ban on shooting Of three species
Of geese to save them from extermina-
ton. The species affected are the
greater snow goose, the Ross goose and
the cackling goose
In II Of the Northern States the sea-
son will open Is days later than last
year, while in 9 others it will close IS
days earlier. The Southern States in
general will close their season Is days
earlier.
The geese had regular habit of
spending their Winters concentrated in
limited area and the effect has been
Ike sending massed bodies of troops
against machine guns
The greater snow goose, in appear
ance much like the common snow
goose, gathers in emile stretch along
Back Bay, Va.
The Ross goose, a pocket edition Of
the snow goose. and the cackling goose
concentrates in the San Joaquin and
Sacramento Valleys in California. on
Gals OF the Bureau of Biological Sur
vey decided after a survey last year that
something had to be done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09

extemporaneously. Radio intrigues the
Interior Secretary.
Mellon Speech Widely IIeralded.
Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the
Treasury, though a controlling genius
Of the financial world, is nervous before
a microphone. He sits on the edge of
a chair all during his broadcast and
resorts to business logic rather than elo-
quence to put across his speech. Secre-
tary Mellon has addressed the radio
audience three times in the past two
years. His speech in the National
Forum was one of the widest heralded
in the history of special broadcasts.
Secretary of War Hurley, debonair,
friendly, talks into mike as if he
were chatting with a friend. His clear
cut delivery always interests and COM
pels the attention of his auditors
Secretary Hurleys first speech after as
Stunning his official position as Assistant
Secretary of War was made in the Ma
tional Forum.
Like Secretary Mellon, Secretary of
Commerce Robert p Lamont, another
business leader, drives his speeches home
with business logic in matter-of-fact
way instead Of depending upon spell
binding oratory.
A real orator, from the radio stand
point, is Secretary of Agriculture Arthur
M Hyde, whose talks on the air have
marked him as man exceptionally
fitted for broadcasting. He has very
effective radio voice, deep, melodious
and with pleasing delivery.
Although quite at home in the court
room and before a jury, Attorney Gen.
eral William D. Mitchell is not quite
as much "at home" when approaching
a microphone. This, perhaps, is be-
cause he has spoken less over the radio
than any of his brother cabinet officers.
But Mr.. Mitchell, in his speech in the
National Forum, made an emphatic
impression on the country at large.
Adams Reminiscent Of Coolidge.
Secretary of Navy Charles Francis
Adams, descendant of the famous New
England family is reminiscent of for
mer President Calvin Coolidge in his
manner of speech and delivery over the
radio. Very matter of fact, Secretary
Adams, however, drives his points
home with precision and interest.
Secretary of Labor William N Doak,
while the newest member of the cab
met, rapidly is becoming its ablest vet
eran on the air His two presentations
have been marked by sincerity and
earneStneSS.
Postmaster General Walter F. Brown
made his first and only radio network
speech in the National Forum. He was
as calm and deliberate in its delivery
as one of his postmen delivering a let
ter. Interested in the mechanics Of
radio, Brown spent some time after his
broadcast inquiring about how it got on
the air, how stations received it and
transmitted it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
WHITE VOICES REGRET.
Governor Sends Messages of Coincidence
to Speakers Family.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 9 R.-
Gov. White expressed regret when in
formed of the death of Speaker Nicholas
Longworth of Cincinnati today. The
Governor said he had served with
Speaker Longworth on the House Ways
and Means Committee during the World
War and had become intimately ac-
quainted with him during that time.
Messages of coincidence were sent the
Speakers family and friends by Gov.
White.
ohio has lost a distinguished citizen
and a public servant" the Governor
said. This public service included ac-
tiyity as a member Of the Ohio House Of
Representatives and Senate as well as
in the national Congress.
Il first became acquainted with Mr..
Longworth in the Sixty-second Congress
and was familiar with his leadership on
the floor of the National House of Rep
resentativeS.
Il was more closely associated with
him as fellow member of the House
Ways and Means Committee during the
strenuous days of the World War.
There was no man on that committee
who gave more of his time and ability
in those stirring days than Mr.. Long
worth"
MRS. MCCORMICK GRIEVED.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
SPEAKER PLANNED
CINCINNATI VISIT
Secretary Reveals Intention
to Return Home After
Leaving Aiken.

BY the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, Ohio. April 9.--Nich-
olas Longworth had planned to return
to Cincinnati after completing his
Aiken, S. c., visit. Carl Rankin, the
late Speakers secretary said today just
before the Representatives death.
Longworth, an attorney, loved Gin
cinnati, and spent most of his time
at his home here when Congress was
not in session.
The Speakers home was in one OF
the city's fashionable residential dis
tricts, known as lockwood Drive, and
it was there that President and Mrs.
Hoover had luncheon a year and half
ago. when the Chief Executive visited
Cincinnati to dedicate the canalization
of the Ohio River.
Although he belonged to the Queen
City and University Clubs, Mr.. Long
worth usually went home for his lunch
con, preferring to be with his wiie'
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and daugh-
ter Paulina, rather than dine with &C
quaintances.
Liked TO Gaze AZ hlVers
Mr.. Longworth, a wealthy man, gave
much of his time not occupied by
politics to managing the Longworth
estate. He had offices on the sixteenth
floor of the First National Bank Build
ing and it was there he made appoint
msntS with friends and business con-
stituents. Associates said one OF his
characteristics was to rise from MS
desk. walk to a window and for long
periods of time gaze down upon the
Ohio River winding its way for miles
along the Ohio and Kentucky shores.
A sister of Mr.. Longworth's, Mrs.
Annie Wallingford, also lives in Gin
cinnati. The Speaker was devoted to
her and frequently was found at her
home Longworth also had another
sister, Clara, who became the Countess
de Chambrun, wife Of Gen. Adelbert de
Chambrun.
Admitted to Bar in 1894.
Speaker Longworth was the third OF
his family to bear the name Nicholas.
His father was Judge Nicholas Long
worth and his grandfather also
had the same name, the latter being
one of Cincinnati's early settlers who
owned vast tracts of land.
Mr.. Longworth was graduated from
Harvard and the Cincinnati Law
School. was admitted to the bar IN
1894, but instead of practicing law de-
voted himself TO managing his estate.
He entered politics when a compare
lively young man and always was q
staunch Republican.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09

Continued From First Page)
morning with Miss Elizabeth Nelson, a
nurse from Baltimore, to supplement
the four nurses already assigned to the
case. The physicians treating the
Speaker have employed an oxygen
tent" which IS described as one of the
newest remedies for pneumonia.
The Curtis home is rambling CO.
lonial structure foiled with mass of
deep shrubbery and wistaria-laden trees
and fenced by high brick wall.
Princess Alice" Bears Up Wen.
princess Alice" of the wide smile and
strong self-control despite the long
hours of vigilance. bore up magnihcently
under the blow of her loss. She was a
Roosevelt. it was expected of her and
as always. she was equal to 1t.
Mr.. Longworth knew little that trans
pired in and cut of his room from
early last night. He was fighting his
last battle, losing, but still fighting with
such vitality that his physicians mar
,veled.
He knew how to fight He learned
that when he was elected to the Board
of Education in Cincinnati in 1898 and
through subsequent political victories to
LHe SpedReTSLlp OF Iue I1OuSc, OIle Vi
the most important of American official
posts.
Newspapermen stood with bowed
heads in the lowered portico of the
Curtis Colonial mansion early in the
day as DR. R. H. Wilds, one of Mr..
Longworth's physicians, told them he
would live but few hours.
Vigil Is Continued.
The doctor would not give up hope,
but Mr.. Longworth didn't have a
chance, he said.
Back to their typewriters went the
men of the press, their hearts heavy
with the task, to tell waiting world
what they feared and hoped against
Both inside and outside Of the cur
tanned window of the sick room the
vigil continued. Doctors and nurses
and loving hands administered to the
losing fighter inside, newspaper men
watching the moving figures in white,
awaiting the inevitable.
Then the doctor stepped out 0f the
house and told the newspaper men the
end has come.
Throughout the world the news of
his death flashed. Thousands of words
described his career.
The vigil was over.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
RIOT IN MARYLAND
PRISON is QUELLED
Hagerstown Police Called 10 Put
Down Uprising Of Fed
eral Prisoners.
Special Dispatch the The star.

Special Dispatch the The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, April City
police. called by the sheriff, entered the
Washington County Jail here yesterday
at dinner time and, with drawn guns,
forced half hundred menacing Fed
eral prisoners back into their cells,
quelling for the time being what might
have been a serious riot
A letter struggled out Of the Jail by
one of the prisoners told of the riot,
which was admitted today by Sheriff
w. Bruce Downin. The note promised
that If conditions complained of were
not remedied other riots would take
place. All of the men were locked in
their cells today.
Bedlam broke out in the jail shortly
after noon yesterday and when dinner
was served at 4 o'clock the prisoners
threw down their plates and assumed
menacing attitude. Sheriff Downin
acted promptly in summoning city pc
lice and the men were herded back into
their cells.
In his letter to a newspaper today,
the prisoner said the men had rioted be-
cause of poor and insufficient food and
the lack of proper sanitary conditions.
The prisoners stated if the conditions
were not corrected more serious riots
would take place
Forty-eight Federal prisoners are
quartered in the jail, most of them pro-
hibition law violators sent up from Bal
timore City because of crowded jail
conditions there. ~
Sheriff Downin said the Federal pris-
oners come to the jail here flushed with
money and expect unusual privileges,
such as being allowed to roam outside
OF the jail at night and visit movie
theatsrS and take automobile rides. He
SAID the prisoners informed him such
treatment was accorded them in other
Maryland jails.
The sheriff said he had allowed the
men many liberties, such as stoves on
which to cook their own food, radio sets,
and permission to roam freely about the
corridors He said the county was given
only rs cents per day to feed each pris-
oner, of which SIS cents went for food.
Grumblings and cat-calls greeted per-
sons who approached jail today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
Liquidating Assets.
STRATEGY WHIPS REBELS

RANGOON, Burma, April 9 Dr.
Strategy of police today turned
seeming victory of rebels at q village
in the TharaWaddy district into their
rout, with IL dead and many wounded
left behind them.
The head man of the village, hearing
that the rebels planned a raid, handed
his arms to the nearest police post and,
acting upon police advice, allowed the
raid to take place.
When the rebels withdrew the police
had prepared an ambush for them and
inflicted deadly punishment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
Longworth's Last
Speech to House
Was a Prophecy
Responding to Tribute.
He Said His Reply
Might Be Last.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
The House paid spontaneous tribute
to Nicholas Longworth when he ad-
dressed the last Congress with a
prophetic observation that it might be
the last time he addressed that branch
from the Speakers chair.
Applause, spontaneous and unani-
nous, welcomed this tribute from Rep
resentative Crisp, Democrat. Georgia, a
former parliamentarian of the House:
Il desire to say that in every in
stance, in my Judgment, the Speaker
impartially and fairly construed the
rules of the House and ruled in ac-
cordance with them.
Il recall that when our distinguished
Speaker first assumed the chair he said
that as a Representative from one of
the congressional districts of Ohio he
was a partisan; that as the Speaker of
this House he would know no partisan
ship, but would be the Speaker of the
entire body and faithfully, fairly,
courteously and impartially discharge
the duties of that great Office.
II desire to say that he has kept
faith and lived up to that promise. He
will take rank as one of the great
Speakers of this House"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
GORDON'S
MURDER BELIEVED
SOLVED; FIVE HELD

Continued From First Page)
Gordon dairy of the names Harry
Sanders and SOL Lubin," both of
which Stein admitted to police are
names he has used as aliases.
Throughout last night New York S
highest law-enforcement officials Ques-
toned the men. They included Police
Commissioner Mulroony, District At
torney Charles d. Mclaughlin OF the
Bronx and Inspector Henry Brakeman,
in charge Of Bronx detectives.
After formal charges had been placed
against the prisoners they were turned
over to the homicide squad to be
placed in the morning lineup at
police headquarters.
Private Detectives Called.
The immediate thought upon the dis
ccvery of Vivian Gordons body was
that her murder mad been done tc 81
lence her threatened testimony in the
police vice squad investigation. She had
written Isidor j. Kresel, the prosecutor
OF the probe, shortly before her death,
offering to testify.
This theory never gained great Gre
dence among investigators. Some be-
lieved her death was the result of per-
sonal vengeance, and others suggested
her alleged Matchmaking activities may
have brought about an accounting.
Private detectives were callsd into the
case-an unusual procedure. The arrest
of the five men last night, however, was
made by police officers. Just who obtain
ed the evidence on which the arrests
were made, whether 1t was gotten by
private detectives or members OF the
police department, was not revealed.
Vivian Gordon was known to feel very
bitter toward the police, especially vice
suuadsmen, because CT her inSistence
that she had been framed and SEN
fenced to the Bedford Reformatory for
Girls in 1928.
j. Radeloff, whose name or initials
appeared in her amazing diary, was ar
rested and held for several weeks as
material witness. He was released
finally under bond. One notation in
her diary said Radeloff could get
Cohen or his henchmen to do away
with me-"
John C. Bischoff, former husband OF
Vivian Gordon, was questioned, but
could give authorities little help Their
l6-year -old daughter, Bonita Bischoh
killed herself, presumably from the no
toriety that surrounded her mother. A
brother of the Gordon woman. Pierre
M. Franklin, suffered a temporary
nervous collapse while IN New York ar
ranging for his sisters burial.
The reference to Stein. Greenhauer