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The Washington times., 1931-06-05

RANTOUL, ILL.,, June 5 GN.S).
For three-quarterS of an hour
today Private Harold L. Osborne,
of the Chanute Field Air Corps,
rode on the tail Of an airplane.
helplesSly entangled in the lines OF
his parachute.
His pilot dared not land for
fear of battering him to death.
OSborne'S rescue was one of the
most daring accom~li he'd at the
Army base Re.
Other planes taking part in
parachute maneuvers punched
around OSborne's plane and fol
lowed his pilot until they arrived
over Decatur Lake.
A rope was thrown to the
The Washington times., 1931-06-05
Central Labor Union
Fair on June 1927

The Central Labor Union to-
day announced plans for an
exposition and fair to be held in
cooperation with the Northeast
Citizens Association, June IS to
27, at Florida Avenue and Fourth
Street Northeast. President
Green, of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, will participate.
The fair is to be held, as a Mne-
fit for the District of Columbia
War Memorial.
The Washington times., 1931-06-05
PRISON
5 TERM FACES
BANKER
Jury DeIiberates Only Two
Hours and Takes But One
Ballot on Each Charge

Harry v. Haynes, former presi-
dent of the Farmers and Me
chanics National Bank of George
town, who for the past three
weeks has been on trial before a
criminal court jury of IL men
and one woman on account in
dictment charging violation of
the national banking laws, was
convicted on all counts shortly
after noon today.
The jury deliberated but little
more than two hours in arriving
at its verdict.
Haynes was committed to jail
without bond by Justice Peyton
Gordon and will not be allowed
his freedom on bond until the ap'
peal noted by Defense Counsel H.
Winship Wheatley has been per
fected.
The indictment included six
charges of making false entries
in the banks books, six charges
of illegal abstraction of the
banks securities, one count of
misapplication of funds, and one
count charging a false report to
the comptroller of banking.
Haynes faces a maximum pen
atty of 10 years in prison and
$4,000 in fines, as each of the IA
counts of the Indictment carries a
maximum of five years in prison
and $4,000 in fines.
John C. Hall, a sightseeing
guide, foreman Of the jury, de-
The Washington times., 1931-06-05
ANGRY SU|T0R
. KILLS z, SELF

ROUND LAKE, N. Y, June
GNSO.-Unrequitted love was
held responsible for a double kill,
ing and suicide at farm home
near this village early today.
Clyde Clemens, a middle-aged
painter, shot and killed Grace
Dewitt, 10; slew her uncle, Cor.
don Dewitt, Sc, and then fired a
bullet through his own brain. She
had repulsed his attentions, po
lice were told.
Clemens, the father of five chill
dren, lived at Maltaville, a short
distance from the Dewitt home.
The Washington times., 1931-06-05
Snubbed Wife Wins
AUdrd of $4,000

wilmington, Del, June s.
Mrs. Ethel Hopkins Ramsay, for
mer pretty hotel cashier, is today
$4,000 richer and jubilant about
it, feeling as she does that the
"Snobbery" of her ariStocratic
mother-in-law has been neutral
lied and the money atoneS for the
Snubbing she has received because
of her less exalted social position.
The Washington times., 1931-06-05
'Chute-Bound Pilot. SaUed
In THRILLING Air Rescue

dangling Osborne. He caught 1t
and held on.
Slowly another plane came
alongside. From the open seat
near the pilot a man reached out
with a knife in his hand. While
fellow pilots looked on breath
IessIy, one by one the cords Of
OSbOrne's entangIed parachute
were sIashed away by the avia-
tor in the other plane.
Suddenly freed. he toppled
downward a few feet, but he
hung on to the rope that was
thrown him by the rescue plane.
Then slowly, inch by inch, he was
hauled up into it's cockpit and
was carried safely back to Cha
mute Field.
The Washington times., 1931-06-05
Zoo Python Breaks Eggs,
Instead ofHatching En1

glaSsed-in cage we're unable to
catch even a glimpse of the
eggs, the snake has been the
object of unusual interest.
Something went wrong. They
failed to hatch, according to DR..
w. w. Mann, director of the
park. They were badly mashed
The snake continues to lie
coiled in the same corner of her
quarters. Her bulk is noticeably
lessened and is said to have shed
her skin.
The Washington times., 1931-06-05
TRUCK HURTS OFFICER

Private j. F. Grove, of the
park police, was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital today for injuries
suffered when his motorcycle and
a truck were in collision at Con-
necticut Avenue and Woodley
Road Northwest. The officer re-
ceiVed cuts and bruises,
The Washington times., 1931-06-05
Bobby Jones Admits
He's out of Movies

ATLANTA, June Sim as
definitely out of the movies as
1 am out of competitive golf"
That is the way Bobby Jones,
Atlanta lawyer and international
golf idol, expresses his severance
from Hollywood. He is tired of
the movies after three months of
making educational golf pictures.
The Washington times., 1931-06-05
Burmese Rebels Put
To ROut bY PuniQbiS

LONDON, June 5 Q.N.SD.-One
hundred Burmese rebels were
killed or wounded today in a bat
tie with Punjabi troops at Pau
kiaung, it was stated in an ex-
change Telegraph dispatch from
Rangoon. The rebel forces were
put to rout.
The Washington times., 1931-06-05
Lady InUercLyde
Files Suit TOd0y

RENO, New, June S UN.SO.
Lady June Inverclyde, former in
ternationally known dancer, will
file a suit for divorce here today
against Lord Inverclyde, Scottish
peer. She will charge cruelty.
The Washington times., 1931-06-05
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance as of June 3,
$lOl, ,457 ,900.05; expenditures, $10,-
595,346.25; customs receipts, 3d.
218,225.89.
The Washington times., 1931-06-05
MOTHER OF 8 SLAIN

PORTSMOUTH, Va, June S.
Mrs. C. w. Cahoon, mother of
eight children. was shot to death
here today by her husband as
she slept. The husband in turn
shot himself in the head and is
diving in q local hospital.
The Washington times., 1931-06-05
THE WEATHER

Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturdays probably
local showers and cooler; moderate northwest
and north winds. Temperature yeSterday-
Highest, ss; lowest, ST.
Full Weather Report on Page
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
ARM AID FAILURE,
SAYS GRAIN LEADER
Program Menaces Coming
Crops, Chicago Trade Board
Head Declares.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 8-President James
C. Murray of the Chicago Board of
Trade declared today that the stabili-
zation program Of the Farm Board
"has failed completely in the attempt
to maintain the markets on any salts
factory level" In an address before
the Chicago Association of Commerce
he said the Farm Boards operations
"have only resulted in accommodations
which are a menace to the coming
crops"
Passage Of the agricultural market
ing act, intended to be of benefit to the
farmer. has admittedly failed Of its pur-
pose. Ably managed by honest men
definite scheme Of farm relief, the OPP
Grafton of the act has again demon
strated the futility of interference with
the normal action and reaction to
supply and demand" he declared.
Others Experiences Cited.
Through the act, he said, the Gov
eminent has advanced Large sums for
the purpose of building up cooperative
companies, under obligation to market
their grain through the single channel
approved by the Farm Board" But it
has been clearly demonstrated in the
experience of other countries that "the
unit system of marketing through one
national channel is not a success, and
that free and open market, one carry
ing wide public interest, is the only
sound and safe means of disposing Of
staple crops"
Mr.. Murray said the Board Of Trade
strongly recommended the following:
First, that the Government should
at the earliest possible date divest it
self entirely of the business of mer-
chandising grain, to the end that the
marketing of the surplus already stored
dealers in the domestic and export
trade with the least possible disturb
ance to the marketing Of the coming
crops.
Open Market Held Essential.
Second, that in assisting the devel-
opment Of cooperative marketing, as
required under the terms of the act,
Government funds should not be used
at lower rates of interest in the mer-
chandising of commodities in competi-
ton with the established trade.
Third, that the maintenance of q
free and open market for grain, with
wide public interest, Is essential to
the best interests of the producer and
consumer
Fourth, that the market should be
relieved OF unnecessary detailed gov
ernmental supervision and bureaucratic
control"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
TWO KILLED, 3 HURT
IN AQUEDUCT BLAST
Explosion COZ Feet Below Street
Level in Bronx Entombs Men.
Sixty Others Escape.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 8.-Two men were
killed, three seriously injured and so
escaped death last night In an explo-
sion in part of 22-mile aqueduct be-
ing constructed from Yonkers to Long
Island City.
The dead:
Edelmino Fernandez 81 years old. SUI
perintendent.
Weiman Moffett, 80, superintendent
in charge Of blastars.
The aqueduct, being constructed at a
cost of $44,0o0,000 and with Patrick j.
McGovern as contractor, has been called
''the Black Luck Tunnel" because a
dozen workers have been killed in its
construction
The explosion occurred in the Bronx
portion of the tunnel, COS feet below
street level. Seventy charges Of dyna-
mite had been laid.
The dead and injured were buried I'M
der tons of rock and dirt. other work.
erS were blown from their feet. The
uninjured quickly dug out their COM
panions.
The Bronx homicide squad and other
police officers began an investigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
FOREIGNERS ASKED
TO LEAVE MADEIRA
Lisbcn Acts to Safeguard Visitors
Before Acting Against
Rebels.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LISBON, Portugal, April a.-Evacua-
ton of foreign residents Of Madeira was
provided for and closing Of all ports
Of the island group was ordered in an
emergency cabinet decree published to-
day.
The decree intimates that all resi-
dents of the island who have accepted
posts under the rebel junta set up there
will be dismissed and tried in special
courts.
The decree affirmed intention of the
government TO suppress the revolt which,
apparently instigated by political de-
portees. has overthrown the Lisbon
authority in Funchal An offer will be
made the garrison at Funchal and the
military junta there to allow them to
return to the government fold, where
after, in the event of its refusal, mil
itary measures, made possible by a
large expeditionary force sent to Ma
deira, will be undertaken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
WUPPER SENTENCED
TO 21O YEARS IN JAIL
100000 Bank Embezzler Also
Fined $500 Each on 90
Forgery Charges.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WEST POINT, Nebr., April paul
Wupper, who embezzled $1,000, 900
from his bank at Beemer, today plead
ed guilty to 20 counts of forgery in
District Court, and was sentenced to a
total of 2l0 years in prison.
He also was fined $500 on each count.
He was arrested in Philadelphia a few
days ago for bigamy.
District Judge Clinton Chase SEN
fenced the former mayor and bank
president, on his plea Of guilty, to 20
years in prison on the first forgery
charge and 10 years on each Of the
other 10 charges. The sentences are
to run consecutively. The charges in
volved forgeries totaling $4,000.
Wupper, who is 81 years old, also
was charged with the embezzlement OF
SGT 900 from the bank, which failed In
September, 1928, but this count was not
pressed by County Attorney Harvey
Ellenberger.
The former bank president viii be
taken to the State penitentiary, at Lin
coin, as soon as his commitment papers
are ready.
When asked by the district Judge Il
=. - e3--S'1iny- to say, Wuppe1
num-. ri ,crltg"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
GR|FFMEN RETURN;
PLAY HERE TODAY
Earl Clarke to Be Honorec
in Contest With Braves.
Sam Jones May HurI.
The Gritfmen are home.

Washington was to have its first
glimpse today of the ball team Walter
Johnson confidently predicts will win
the American League pennant.
A long and unusually successful
training grind at an end, it was cheer
full band of athletes that filed through
Union Station shortly before noon out
into a whey Spring day, to be greeted
by stable group of the faithful"
Will Play Braves.
At 3 o'clock they were to meet the
Boston Braves of the National League
in an exhibition contest that was to fea-
tuer Earl Clarke, a Washington youth
for whom many have forecast a bril-
liant career. In honor Of him it has
been designated Earl Clarke day" at
the ball park and many of his old play
mates Of the sandlots were expected out
TO give him hand"
Clarke is a center fielder and holds
the all-time major league record for
chances accepted in one game. He
made IL putouts and assist to beat
a mark which had stood since the
early days of the American League.
Sam Jones was the probable Wash
ington pitching choice. Manager Bill
McKechnie of the Braves was uncer-
tain who would be his selection.
Charley Wilson, the Boston third
baseman, got to town day earlier
than his mates to undertake a bit
of serious business. Charley was mar
ried here yesterday. The bride was
Maureen Collins of Rochester, N. Y.
Tomorrow the Griffmen will play
the Philadelphia Nationals here. Al
though not counted among the stronger
teams Of their league, the Phillies have
been making 1t hot for the world cham
pion Athletics in the annual Phila-
delphia city series, having won two
games to the Mackmen's one.
President Gets Pass.
President and Mrs. Hoover will be
on hand at Griffith Stadium April Ia
to see the Washington and Philadelphia
clubs open the 1881 American League
season.
Assurance of this was given by the
President today to Clark Griffith,
president of the Washington club, who
called to present to the President a
season pass contained in a morocco
wallet with the Presidents initials on
the cover in silver. Mr.. Griffith also
left with the President a handsome
wallet for Mrs. Hoover, made of alliga-
tor leather, highly lacquered and trim
med in silver, containing an annual
pass.
President and Mrs Hoover have not
missed an opening ball game since they
have occupied the White House anc
each year have attended one game
Of the world series.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
MACHADO MOVES
TO AVERT CRISIS
Grants Three Important Conces-
sions to Opposition Trying
to Gust Him.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, April 8.-Presidens Mach
ado, in an effort to avert wha' appears
to be an almost unavoidable .risis in
the Cuban political situation, has de-
cided to make three important conces-
sions to the opposition which is trying
to GUST him.
They are:
Enlargement to permit return
to Cuba Of more than 60 political pris-
oners recently transferred to the Isle
of Pines Prison from Principe Fortress
here.
Second-Granting of liberty to Col.
Aurelio Hevia, Nationalist chieftain,
who has been held somewhat as hos
tage by the government for many
weeks.
Third-Agreement to liberate Mai.
Manuel EspinoSa, former presidential
aide de camp, who was court-martialed
on charges Of an attempt against the
Presidents life, and reaccused yesterday
by palace guard as having been an
nti-administration plotter
The first concession is expected to
placate the students, and the second
Is considered a compromise move in
the direction Of the Nationalist Union,
principal organized body seeking Gen.
Machado's removal The third is ex-
pected to block criticism Of the public,
which. has been given to, understand
that the court-martial trying Espinosa
found him innocent.
Two general amnesty proclamations
published in the official gazette today
pardon persons charged with offenses
through the medium of the press
against election judges Of the electoral
law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
NEW CLUE FOUND
IN MURDER PROBE
Bloody Handkerchief Discov-
cred Near Grave of Slain
Marine.

A bloody handkerchief found in the
woods in which the bullet-riddled body
of Pvt. Emanuel Thorne, 25-year-oid
Marine, was buried in a shallow grave
dug by his slayer, was expected to be
turned over to Prince Georges County
investigators today.
The handkerchief, considered the
most important clue thus far in the in
vestigation of the mysterious murder
was picked up by a man who was dump
ing rubbish in the woods on March Is
He communicated with Constable Ear.
Blackwell Of Capitol Heights, Md, who
already had found an automobile be.
lieved to have been used by the killer
Both car and the handkerchief were
found on the same day, causing Black
well to place the time of the murder a:
about midnight, March IA.
BrawI Is Reported.
At that time, Blackwell declared to-
day, a drunken brawl in which several
shots were fred is known to have oc-
CURED in a garage not far from the
woods in which Thorne'S body was
found.
Blackwell heard of the shooting at
the time, he said, and rushed to the
garage, but was told nothing had hap
pened.
On the night of the battle in the
garage an ambulance was summoned to
Greater Capitol Heights, but the crew
was told the alarm was false one,
according to Blackwell. The ambulance
returned to Washington, stopping at
Fifteenth and H streets northeast, where
the driver told curious bystander of
the call to the Maryland town. Black
well has talked with the man who saw
the ambulance, he said, but has been
unable to learn whether the vehicle be-
longed to the various Washington hos
pitfalls or was privately owned.
Since the discovery of Thorne's
corpse, however, Blackwell has investi-
gated the disturbance in the garage.
His probe, he asserted, has convinced
him Thorne was slain in the garage and
that his body was placed In the auto
mobile, carried to the edge of the woods
and dragged from the machine to the
place of burial.
''Only a drunken man would have
maui ouCIl d UUCCA Oh ClSpOSIIlB OF Ills
VICTIM" Blackwell declared.
Stain Found on Car.
"The layer of dirt covering the BODY
was only an inch or two thick and a
sober man certainly would have buried
his victim deeper than that"
The automobile, found abandoned on
Crystal Spring road, about two blocks
from the improvised grave, bears a
dark brown stain, believed to be blood,
Blackwell continued. The stain, he
said, "looks as though somebody tried
to wash it off,"
Blackwell said he has the names of
several persons who witnessed the fight
in the garage and that he plans to
question them today. He also plans to
interview the man who found the hand
kerchief, which bears no initials or
other mark of Identification.
The man claims to have seen an au-
tomobile near the woods early on the
morning of March Is, however, and
Blackwell is endeavoring to learn the
identity of the occupants. The machine,
Blackwell said, probably was the same
one which he is now holding in a Cap
itol Heights garage.
Vincent Selbicky, a member of the
Marine Band, in the rear of whose home
Thorne's body was found, was question
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
COUNTERFEIT BILL
SUSPECTS ESCAPE
Two Wanted for Flooding
Cumberland Valley With
Bogus SIS Currency.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, April 8.-Two
men, thought to be counterfeiters, who
have literally flooded the Cumberland
valley section with bogus IS bills, es-
capped arrest by Department of JUS
tice agent by margin of about
minutes here today, when they left
their rooming house just before the
investigator arrived TO take them into
custody. Authorities say the men
made their escape in an automobile
bearing District of Columbia tags.
The men. who arrived at the home of
Mrs. Bertha L. Finfrock several days
ago, driving. a car with Ohio license
plates, registered under the names of
A. NJ. Kilburne and Farnham Kill
burne, father and son, respectively.
They at first had refused to register
at the rooming house, but at Mrs. Fin
frock's insistence they did so, adding
they were from Baltimore.
The SIS bills, nearly 500 worth of
which have been turned over to police,
have been passed in various towns
throughout the Cumberland Valley,
starting at Harrisburg, Pa, and includ-
Complaints continue to flow in from all
sections of the counterfeit money.
Mrs. Finfrock informed authorities
that she noticed during the stay Of the
men that they kept in their room sew
eral bottles of different colored ink and
what appeared to be dies. The counter
felt bills are very poorly executed, police
say.
The landlady at the boarding house
said the tags on the machine the men
drove evidently were changed during
their stay at the house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
GRAIN FACES PROBE
IN NEW YORK CITY
District Attorney Takes Stand
to Fight Charges of
Inefficiency.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April s.-Thomas c. T.
Grain, Manhattan's silver-haired district
attorney, took the stand today to fight
charges Of inefhciency on which the
City Club demands his removal. He be-
gun Immediately to answer questions
about his investigations of racketeering
Commissioner Samuel Seabury. hear
ing the charges for Gov. Roosevelt, pref
aced the proceedings with a statement
that the accusations do not in any
respect call into question the honesty
and integrity of the district attorney"
Hearing Formal and Dignified.
The atmosphere Of the hearing room
was formal and dignified Both Sea-
bury and Grain wore frock coats and
striped trousers. So did John Kirk
land Clark, inquisitor for the commits
sioner, and Samuel Untermyer, attor-
ney for the district attorney.
Attorney Clark's first questions laid
the groundwork for getting into the
record details of investigations into al
legged racketeering at the Fulton Fish
Market, in the sale Of milk and ether
business enterprises, and the organ1Zt--
ton by Grain of citizens committee
to look into racketeering last year.
Grand jury minutes in the Fulton
Fish Market investigation were iden1-
fed and placed in the record.
An investigation Of all municipal
affairs has been voted by the Legisla-
ture. The members of the Investigating
Committee were appointed yesterday.
Mayor Walker is continuing prepara-
tions for a vigorous defense of his ad-
ministration in reply to charges filed
against him with Gov. Roosevelt by
the City Affairs Committee.
Legislative Probers Named.
The legislative committee to investi-
gate the city government from street
sweeper to judiciary and the mayor was
named yesterday.
The Republican leaders of the Legis-
lature selected Senators Samuel H.
Hofstadter, New York, and Leon F.
| Wheatley, HorneI, and ASsemblymen
William J. Lamont of Orange, Abbott
Low Moffat of New York and William
F. Potter of Suffolk.
The Democratic leaders chose as their
| two appointees the youngest and Oldest
Democratic members OF the Legislature
| In point of service, Senator John j.
McNaboe, serving his first term in the
| Legislature, and Assemblyman Louis A.
Cuvillier, who began his service in the
Lower House in 1907. Both represent
| New York districts.
Ex-InfOrmer Threatened.
An attorney threatened to punch
| Chile Acuna, eX-police informer, on
| the nose.
The trial of four vice squadsmen was
going on. Samuel Liebowitz, defense
| attorney, became angered at Acuna's
actions and declared himself of a minc
to lay a punch on Acuna's nose.
Nelson Ruttenberg. fourth deputy po-
lice commissioner conducting the trial
promptly told Liebowitz any more such
threats would result in Liebowitz's be-
ing elected as counsel.