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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
PORTUGAL TO BEGIN
DRIVE FOR MADEIRA
Trawlers Fitted With Guns to Aid
in Blockade to Starve
Island Rebels.

BY the Associated Press.
LISBON. Portugal, April 20.-Victor
in a bloodless battle with rcvolutionaries
in the Azores Islands. the government
moved today to rc-establish its author
1ty in Funchal. Madeira, where a rebel
junta has been in control for more
than fortnight.
The fishing trawlers Portugal Joao
Gualdino, Azvedo Comes and Maria
Christina, all fitted WITH Big guns, were
ready to sail for Madeira today 10 aid
in tightening the blockade about the
islands and stayve out the rebels.
Two destroyers also had steam up
and the steamship Carvalho Araujo
was being transformed at the arsenal
into an emergency auxiliary cruiser l.
aid in a determined effort to bring the
island capital back under the homl
government rule.
The Azores victory was accomplished
without firing a sHot. The government
beats threatened the island ports one
by ore and they cspltulat-d. Portu-
guese troops entered the cites and
were said I'm a government communlque
10 have been received with acclaim b.
residents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
FORMER PAGE WINS FIRST
APPEAL IN SUPREME COURT
Attorney Reilly Obtains New Trial for
Colored Man Convicted of Staying
Policeman Mcdonald.

was tried twice on the charge of Shoot
ing the policeman. The jury at the
first trial was unable to agree. While
Jury was being selected for the second
trial, counsel tor the defendant went
I'D to the bench and requested the court
to include in the examination OF pro-
spective jurors a question regarding ra-
cial prejudice According to the brief,
the lawyer for the defense told the
court information hadAcome to him in
dicating there may have been such a
prejudice on the part of one OF the ]u-
rors at the previous trial,
The trial judge, however, disalloWed
the question, and defense counsel noted
an exception. The Court Of Appeals
later upheld the conviction, and, fol-
lowing that defense counsel applied to
the Supreme Court for a review. The
court consented to review the case on
the sole question of whether the jury
should have been examined relative TO
racial prejudice.
Alfred Scott Aldridge was one Of two
colored men who had been taken into
custody by Policeman Mcdonald in the
vicinity of Seventeenth and @ streets.
early one morning in the Summer Of
1929. Mcdonald placed the two men
in an automobile with him. After they
had gone several blocks, a shot was
fired, wounding the officer. Before COL
lapsing, the policeman fatally wounded
Continued on Page 2, Column So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
ANNAPOLIS JUDGE
URGES CLEAN UP
Town Is Criminal Dumping
Ground for Large Cities,
Moss Declares.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS. April 20.-The forma-
ton of a Law and Order League in
Anne Arundel County. to administer its
own law on undesirables. was recon-
mended to the people by Judge Robert
Moss in his charge to the grand jury
at the opening of the April term of
court here today.
Judge Moss said Anne Arundel
County is the dumping ground for Bal
timore and other large cities, and that,
when a person became too vile to
stay in the larger cities, he found his
way down into this county.
1T Is my belief" Judge Moss said,
that six men and five women bent
upon law and order could clean up
this town in six months. 1t is my
contention that the county is chuck
full of dives and gambling joints, many
of which harbor youths"
President had the power to permit the
legal sale Of liquor for period of six
months. II such were the case. Judge
Moss said, so many people now boot
Logging would be thrown out of en-
ployment that every person would have
to sleep with another keeping watch
over him with a gun to protect him
from robbers.
The Judge also took slap at birth
control and at what he termed the
spending age" holding these are sure
signs of decay in any government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20

Attorney James F. Reilly today won
his first case in the United States Su-
preme Court, where he once served as
a page and literally snatched from the
electric chair Alfred Scott Aldridge, COL
orcd, convicted of the murder of Harry
j. Macdonald, Washington policeman
in July. 1929. Aldridge, sentenced to
be executed on May 8, was granted a
new trial on Reilly's representation that
the trial court erred in refusing to
question prospective jurors as to whether
they would have any racial prejudice in
a case where the defendant was col
ored and the deceased white police
man.
Reilly, % years old, was appointed by
the court to defend Aldridge.
Justice McReynoldS diSSented from
the opinion, asserting no one knows
precisely what constitutes race preju-
dice, adding that the trial judge and
the appellate court should be sustained
in their attitude that there was no
prejudice materially affecting Aldridge's
rights.
The opinion was read by Chief Justice
Hughes.
In his brief TO the United States Su-
preme Court, when the case was pre-
sented, Reilly pointed out that Aldridge
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New Republic to Indemnify
Present Owners by Float
ing Internal Loan.
MOVE PLANNED TO WIN
SUPPORT IN ELECTIONS
Universities Reopened in Madrid
as Exiled King Picks Fon-
tainbleau as Residence.
BY CAMILLE LEMERCIER.

BY cable TO Inc Star
MADRID, Spain, April 20-The Re-
publican government will soon issue
DEGREES for its projected land reform
Big estates are to be divided up and
given to the peasants. The present
proprietorS are to be Unidentified. For
this purpose an internal loan will be
issued. Haste is considered necessary
in order to make sure of the peasant
support for the new government in the
forthcoming elections to the constitu-
tional assembly.
During the course Of the first Sunday
after the elections which tolled the
knell Of the Bourbon dynasty Madrid
offered one of those strange contrasts
which surprise nobody here. While
1000 persons were piously singing a
royal hymn in the Church of San
Marco, in the heart of the city, a crowd
of more than 100000 gathered in a
great Madrid cemetery to honor the
memory of an old republican and So
cialist leader, Pablo IgleSias.
Corporations Are Represented.
This was the first public manifesto
ton held since IgleSias' funeral in 1925.
Friends and followers poured from the
four corners of the city and marched
in perfect order past the splendid
mausoleum OF the famous Socialist
leader.
All corporations, from the powerful
railway syndicates to the modest unions
of knife grinders and hawkers, were
represented.
Copyright, 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
|ROYAL S|AMESE
I. SEE DAKOTA PLAINS
King and Queen En- Route
Across Continent After
Border Welcome.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTAL, N. OAK. April 2o.-Speed-
ing across North Dakota prairies, the
King and Queen of Siam got their
first glimpse of the United States today.
En- route to washington and New
York, King Projadhipok, first reigning
Asiatic monarch to visit this country,
and Queen Rambai Barni gazed upon
vast stretches of wheat lands, much
of it freshly Sovn with Spring crops,
as their special train carried them to-
ward the end of their long journey.
Richard Southgate and Stanley Horn
beck, representing President Hoover and
Secretary of State Stimson, respectively,
extended greetings as their majestteS
arrived late last night at this interna-
tional boundary town from Vancouver,
British Columbia.
Queen Ill With Cold.
The King, who has been suffering
from malaria and bronchitis since
shortly before disembarking at Van
couver, appeared to be in fairly good
health as he received the official Ameri-
can Reception Committee. but the
Queen failed to appear. She was re-
ported i'll with a cold.
large crowd had gathered here de-
spite the late hour in an effort to catch
glimpse of the royal couple.
Mr.. Southgate, who is acting chief
of the division of international confer
ences and protocols, in extending the
greetings of President Hoover, said:
Il have been directed by the Presi-
dent to extend to your majesty and to
Her Majesty the Queen a most cordial
welcome to the United States, and to
assure your majeSties of the pleasure
with which the people of this country
will receive their royal visitors. The
President and Mrs. Hoover trust that
your ma jestieS' stay in this country will
be in every way enjoyable, and they ask
me TO say that they are looking for
ward with the keenest anticipation to
your majesties' visit to Washington"
Operation in New York.
After his arrival in Washington, the
King will go to New York to undergo
an operation on his eye. which is the
purpose Of his long trip to this country.
The Kings train Is due in st. Paul
late today and In Chicago tomorrow.
Greetings were extended the Ameri-
can people in statement by the King.
To come from Siam to the border
Of the United States" he said, lis 10
approach the home Of a friend, where,
seven years ago, the Queen and I spent
many happy weeks" the King said
Il bring back cordial recollection of
the courtesies shown to us on that &C.
casion and look forward to renewing
associations then formed, as well as TO
availing myself of the skill of your sur
geons, whose mastery of medical science
is renowned throughout the world
I'VE have Sensed the underlying SYM
pathy that has characterized the feel
ings of the people of this Republic to-
ward my country. and at this threshold
I would voice the reciprocal good will
Of the SianeSe nation"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
YOUTHS FACE QUIZ
IN JAYNES Staying
Two Arrested at Richmond With
Arms and Burglar Tools
in Car.

Two youths, held for investigation by
Richmond police, were to be questioned
by Washington detectives today in con-
nection with the murder of Mrs. Eliz-
abeth S. Jaynes, slain April 8 in the
Garden T Shoppe hold-up.
The quiz was to be conducted by
George Darnell and Robert ]. Barrett
who were accompanied to the Virginia
capital by Sheldon Fairchild of the
Underwriters Detective Bureau.
The young men-John Kelly and
Charles Crew, both 20 years old-were
riding in an automobile bearing District
license plates at the time of their ar
rest. They we're armed. according to
police, and a set of tools of the type
used by burglars was found in their
car.
An employee of the tea room. which
is at 1885 Columbia road, is said to
have told police a photograph of one
of the men resembles one of the two
bandits who staged the robbery.
The license tags. police said, were
issued to James Comedy, GAL Grant
place"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
vHOW CUTE SHE DANCED" FATHER
WRITES, KILLING THREE CHILDREN
Man Applauds Chds Last Effort Before Poisoning Her
and Two Others Blames Separation From Wife

He also addressed letters to two
brothers.
In one note he wrote:
Poor Richard, enc of the best boys
ever born. :. To think that Rosa
lind is such darling girl. There
never was q man that loved q child
any more and to think Of the deed ]
am going TO do. - and poor Richard.
how love him and ! can't leave him
for her to look after.
And poor little Jacqueline, and how
cute she did dance tonight and to
think it was her last dance. D."
Police broke into the wainwright
home after neighbors feared son1ethirg
was wrong. They found the father had
made elaborate preparations fof the
death scene, even to the laying out b
hts lodge anon for burial.
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BOILING LYE BURNS
MAN AND TWO SONS
Stepmother Arrested After
Hammer Also Is Used on
Sleeping Victims.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 20.-Boiling I've
and water were poured on Samuel
Aisenson and his two sons-Harold, IL,
and Martin, 14-as they slept early to-
day in their Brooklyn apartment. Po-
lice arrested Mrs. Minnie AiSenson,
stepmother of the boys, whom they
found in nightdress in a courtyard.
Detectives said neighbors informed
them the stepmother had been jealous
of the boys. A year ago she married
Aisenson, who is AZ and printer,
bringing TO his house her own child,
now a.
Police were called to the apartment
by neighbors, who heard AisenSon' S
screams. They found him in the hail.
trying TO beat down the locked door.
His body was badly scared.
Inside the two children were almost
as badly burned. In addition, they had
been beaten with a hammer. Mrs.
AiSenson was arrested as she limped
out of the courtyard. Police said she
had jumped from the rear window Of
her apartment, spraining her ankle.
Physicians said AisenSon was burned
from head to waist and might not re-
cover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
VAN DUzER TO AID
TRAFFIC SURVEY
Engaged by Park Commission
to Lay Groundwork for
Count in City.

The Districts new director Of trafic,
William A. Van Duzer, who takes office
July 1, today was engaged by the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission on a per diem basis to aid
in formulating traffic survey in the
metropolitan area, and to examine at
first hand conditions in the city.
This action was taken, following a
conference between Mr.. Van Duzer and
Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. vice chair
man and executive officer of the COM
mission. The conference was also at
tended by Charles W. Eliot, I'd, direc-
tor of planning of the commission, who
is also secretary of the Metropolitan
Highway Committee. which is arrang-
ing for the traffic count, beginning July
l, in an area within 20-mile radius
of Washington.
In his new duties with the commits
sion, Mr.. Van Duzer will lay the ground
work for this traffic count in the
metropolitan area, Col. Grant explained,
as he has had extensive experience in
this field.
Will Examine Report.
Col. Grant said Mr.. Van Duzer will
pick up some of the threads of the
study in the McClintock report" which
deals with the traffic situation in
Washington, The colonel explained
that the Districts new traffic chief will
examine the McClintock report, which
was prepared at the instance of the
commission by DR.. Miller McClintock,
head of the Erskine Bureau of Traffic
Research, Harvard University, to ascer-
tain If Mr.. Van Duzer can develop any
more recommendations, to be made to
the District Commissioners before they
make their final traflc Set-up provided
for under the new legislation.
Mr.. Van Duzer has been given head
quarters in the Navy Department Build
ing, at Seventeenth street and Consti-
tuition avenue.
Thomas H. Macdonald, chief of the
Bureau of Public Roads, Department of
Agriculture, Is chairman of the Metro
politan Highway Committee. sponsored
by the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, which will supervise
the traffic count in the Greater WASH
ington area, starting July l and ex-
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column ~
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SLIDES 500 FEET DOWN SIDE
OF STONE MOUNTAIN, IS SAVED
Man Signals With Matches From Narrow
Ledge; Lost Shoes, Shirt and Socks
in Descent on Steep Incline

Trainor and his wife had been riding
in an automobile near the mountain
Sunday afternoon with a man named
Griffith of Decatur, Ga. Mrs Trainor
later told police her husband told them
he was going to climb this mountain
until I fall Off" The wife said she
and Grifith then left for Atlanta,
thinking Trainor would follow later on
a street car.
saw his match signals. They let down
ropes from above and hauled him OF
the ledge He said he remembered
sliding about so feet"
Trainor said he and his wife were
en- route from Florida to Rhode Island
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
BALTIMORE DAIRYMAN
WOUNDED BY BANDITS
Collector, Shot in Back by Two
Attempting to Hold Him
Up, May Die.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 20.-John Ander-
son, "a, collector for dairy, was
shot and probably fatally wounded to-
day by two robbers, who attempted to
hold him up while he was making his
rounds IN the Guilford residential Sec
ton. Anderson was shot in the back.
He was unconscious when taken to- a
hospital and efforts of police to obtain
information from him failed.
William Adams, a gardener, said the
shot was fired by one of the two men,
who apparently followed the collector
in a green automobile. He said he
heard a shot and saw one of the rob-
berS, apparently between 25 and 80
years old. get into the car as it was
driven away. Anderson was lying on
the sidewalk.
Whether the robbers obtained money
from the collector was not determined
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
APPLE BLOSSOM FETE
SET FOR MAY So
Authorities at Winchester Report
100000 Trees Will Be
in Full Flower.
ny the Assoclated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WINCHESTER, Va, April 2o.-The
Shenandoah apple blossom festival Wlll
be held here May and when the
II 900, 200 apple trees in Virginia, West
Virginia and Maryland are expected to
be in full bloom.
Miss Patricia D. Morton of Win
chester, England, viii preside over the
1ete as Queen Shenandoah VIII, while
more than 100 princesses, representing
cities, counties and States throughout
the Middle Atlantic and Southern
States will form the regal court.
Festival dates were announced today
by Nelson F. Richards, director general
of the festival, after careful survey
TO determine the blooming time for
the trees. The northern part of the
Ehenaudoah Valley g . yeritable flower
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga April 20.-Frank
Trainor. who said his home was in
Bristol, Me-, slid 500 feet over the steep
side of Stone Mountain last night, but
was unhurt.
Trainor was taken from a narrow
ledge half way down the mountain by
4 rescue party of more than 200 per-
sons who saw him signaling with
matches seven hours after he had tum-
bled over the precipice.
His socks were worn away by the de-
scent and his shirt and shoes were
gone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
j. S. TAKES SAFETY
STEPS IN HONDURAS;
DANGER M|N|M|zED
Minister at TegucigaIpa Pre-
diets Revolution Will Be
Suppressed Soon.
CRUISER MEMPHIS RIDES
AT ANCHOR OFF LA CEIBA
Rebel Forces Reported Composed
of Unemployed, Communists
and Criminals.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, April 20 (P).-Ameri-
cans and foreigners of all nationali-
ties were represented in no danger as
a result of the Honduran revolt in
an announcement issued today by
the United Fruit Co.
Our advices indicate sporadic
uprisings at various points. on the
north coast of Honduras" said the
announcement. Every considera-
ton thus far has been shown in
treatment of Americans and all for
! eigners. We have no reports indi-
eating any danger to foreign men,
women and children at any point.
At all stations operated by us United
Fruit Co. ships are standing by as
a precautionary measure, but it is
not anticipated that it will be nee
essary for them to evacuate Ameri-
can or other citizens
~ the Associated Press.
American oficials today pushed for.
ward precautionary measures to protect
their citizens from the backwash o.
revolution along Honduras northern
coast, although official reports failed u
show that any American thus far hac
been injured.
Nevertheless, the cruiser Memphis
having rushed north from Puerto Ca
bezas, Nicaragua, stopping briefly er
route at the American-built city o.
Puerto Castillo, rode at anchor of La
Ceiba, the largest seaport of the trou.
bled coastal area, while the cruiser:
Trenton and Marblehead were speeding
across the Caribbean from Cuba K
other Honduran coast towns, where
they were expected to arrive tonight.
Oficial dispatches showed that the
revolutionary outbreak began Saturday
afternoon and spread along Northern
Honduras in the areas behind the prin-
cipal fruit-expcrting seapor,s Of Tela
Ceiba and Puerto Castillo
Apparently 1t was in support OF the
presidential aspirations Of Gen. Gregorio
Ferrera.
u. S. COnsuls Anxious.
Minister Lay at Tegucigalpa tele-
graphed the State Department that nc
revolutionary force had yet come nearer
than 30 miles to any other principal
seaport, and predicted that the rising
would soon end. The rebel forces, he
said. appeared 70 be made up of un-
employed, Communists, the riff-raf and
criminals of Northern Honduras.
Nevertheless, the American consuis al
the coast towns have considered the
situation sufficiently dangerous TO ask
that warships be sent
Minister Lay said loyal troops hac
regained possession Of Progreso, IS mile.
from Tela, after the rebels had raidec
it, robbed the Bank of Honduras branch
there, requisitioned arms and supplies
and Communicated railroad rolling
stock with which they advanced to IRA
CO, 40 miles from Tela
The minister said Puerto Cortez, west
ernmost Of the fruit ports, had not beer
affected.
He added that American consuls al
the ports had been instructed to take
all possible measures to protect Ameri-
can and other foreign citizens.
Managers Of the American fruit COM
Continued on Page 2. Column D.
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UNIVERSITIES REoPENED.
Students Return to Glasses for First
Time Since Before Kings Fall.

MADRID, April 20 [P.-Students OF
all classes returned to their school rooms
in Madrid today for the first time since
the deposed monarchist government
closed the universities prior to the recent
balloting
A dispatch from Brussels said Belgium
today recognized the republic. Other
countries which have recognized the
new republic, according to the an
Portugal, Uruguay. Cuba. Chile, Argen-
tina, Turkey, CzechoSlovakia and Jugo-
slavia.
Church Problem Studied.
Italy and the Vatican may delay
recognition, but provisional President
Niceto Alcala zamora has made it clear
he desires no friction with the Catholic
Church and will try to give the Vatican
no reason for withholding recognition.
High churchmen are known to be
privately quite disturbed over the estab-
lishment of the republic and the posi-
bility of It's developing policies unfavor-
able TO the Catholic Church. However,
they are not making public declarations
to that effect, and the government con-
tinues to indicate its attitude will not
be enmity to any creed or church, but
liberty and freedom for all religions.
Women to Demand Rights.
Spanish women have decided to de-
mand equal rights under the new re-
publican regime
Prisoners in Madrid jailS have de-
cided on hunger strike and announced
that they will refuse TO leave their cells
unless they are granted full amnesty.
Yesterday was tag day about the
Puerto Del Sol, principal section of
II. l-s i aid -
families selling pictures of the executed
Capts. Fermyn Galan and Garcia Her
nandez martyrs" of the Jaca revolt,
for the benefit of Garcias widow and
Fermyn Galan's mother. The pictures
were autographed by President Alcala
Zamora. About $1,000 was raised.
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u. S. STEEL ADOPTS
PENSION FOR HEADS
James A. Farrell, President, to Be
Retired at 70 in 1888 Under
New Plan.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOBOKEN N. j., April 20-Stock-
holders of the United States Steel
Corporation today adopted the proposed
pension plan, under which James A.
Farrell, president, and for several years
a leading figure In the steel industry
would automatically retire on reaching
the age of 70, or in 1888.
Mr. Farrell was the first to advocate
the new plan before the annual stock
holders meeting today, pointing out
that the old plan had been unsatisfac-
tory.
Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the
Finance Committee, said he and Mr.
Farrell had spent considerable time in
perfecting the new plan.
II think that the pension plan is the
greatest thing that this corporation has
done with respect to the welfare of its
men in the history Of the corporation, "
Mr.. Farrell said.
Compensation under the new plan
will be materially greater than it was
under the old arrangement.