Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 1

ll The Weather Owirtjf and imith enlrtr ifh nw RurriM in iim mountains today to-pwrra fair Temperatures: High 76 li Full Weather Report on PAOK Average (Ircul-llitn fur W-k Mbu Msnk SI 64943 68159 POLICE RESCUE Ol'T I OR fUrrelarv be New (arils It Mllhnr mums-ha yesleidsy to iMim the ham-hev ef (emmeue there annmuired hia support nf Hoover for Frn deni Threat of Rain Fails to Halt Plans for Easter Observance Dcppile IVonihc of Cool YVratlirr Inlrrrpt Uiuliniiu-i-tlinl in Church Programs Mowers Gaily-Col orril Kpga and Inevitable Iliinnv Rahhit I'rofraaional Prayrr Hampcrrtl ly Her Apr IBv Universal Service NEW YORK April 7-rir more tnan slaty years Miss Catherine Conley who Is 0 years old has earned her living by praying for others "I prayed for women who wanted good husbands for somebody to get a Job aa a rook and for others to become well again I prayed In fart for everything unttci the aun I rant do so much now" continued the old woman "because cant get up at A in the morning any longer" Naples Iimli Annual I'arndc of Clothe NAPLES ITALY? April 7 (iM Todo marked the dose of tho "Btnierlo" or parade ef rlohea which has enlivened the great promenade Via Toledo Uirmiahout the lluly Wrrk For all classes of Italian people Easier among other things means tho lima they Ilka to east off old clothes This habit fa pushed especially here at Naples In the "Siruarla" The VI Toledo and the adjacent streets have been crnwdrd at noon every day this week when the shops closed to give greater solemnity to tho function with a holiday throng dressed In Its finest who talk gossip hall their friends and visit the churches Rehmond's Easier parsde todsy fared threatening or at least root weather but church programs flowers and even Easter eggs and bunny rabbits hold been Immemorial in the history of the human rare Spring always has been an uplifting time Maypole dances originally were vastly different I rib- esoiisii writ THii7 amprrnb North nml Smith Will Join I land nt I n-7 riling PR El IH IRATE Key Giles Conk of Vir-giiiia Lit Staff Officer Will Attcml 'a 1 undlmlnWlNl by I'esUrdaySjUies to Ceres goddess of fertility Rlrhmond will attend rhurrh as like Christmas Easter In Richmond! usual There will be a rebirth TJX In will be strictly Included of the here win be Boulevard holds a religious significance aside from the older traditional one treasured by rhlldren Virtually all churches have special musical programs as well as Easter sermons scheduled today From the Christian point of vlrw Easter fa the festival commemorating the resurrection It la rrlcbrated In th -hrn of pranklln Street and elsewhere Navarelh left his tomb and went up agan Into hraven lint rrarlalm Easier Ceremonials dating hark thrmigb the ravoritr Son Far lesllval of the Hebrews through tho Norse and Tcutonlr spirit and costume and there the flowers of spring Those religious will remember that In tho svmbollsm la the rebirth world's Savior and a promise of after Barring bad weather there an Easter parade on the Official Washington Complete! Plan for a Quiet Easter WASHINGTON April Rivals in Each Early See 0inrtunity for Horne' LOWDEN DISPLACED IX FROM RANK New York Governor Captures 186 Instructed Delegates WASHINGTON April The political eroaa winds of April arc sweeping away some of tho clouds that hart made It difficult to alia up the trend of tho presidential campaign but conditions still are too unsettled for accurate June forecasts Convention delegates are bring chosen at such a dip that a politician to qualify an expert must have a head for figures aa well aa know aomrthlng about campaign strategy At that two-lhlrds of the Republi eans who will hold credentials Mi ATLANTA OAt April Monday on Hie sixty-third annlvereary of Hm surrender ot the soldiers of the Rrforc Cunfederary at Appomattox Court-hnue Ya North and South will Join to unveil an equestrian figure of General Robert lee the Confederate chieftain rhleled on the gigantic cliI AUTO IMllNTHY Kirvrs of anf Mountain rU KMHO (1 1 Mur iliau twenty State will be represented officially at the exercise dsy mid ry units through the city of AUsnia and a gathering of hosts before the peakera' platform at the mountain sixteen mllrs away At a signal Robert lee IV great-grandson of the general will wave hi hand A curtain will drop from the mountain 200 feet to the rocks below and the figure of Lee Majority of Rrjnihlican EB lJ Eliui? Standing Pat for $200- h- 000000 Cut WASHINGTON April 7-uP)-The administration tax reduction program presented to tho Senate this week by Secretary Mellon la In for some severe in Content for Dele-pate RETURNS INCOMPLETE One County Holds Two Conventions Following Fight Official Washington has completed Its plena for a quiet Easter but honl cultural Washington hss flamed out In a riotous mass of color to dcllsnt the 35009 visitors here for the holiday Thousands of visitors and many official will gather in the churches o( the city fur the religious rituals President Coolldge plans to attend the First Congregational Church to hear Its pastor the Rev Jason Noble Pierce He probably will be accompanied by Sir and Mrs Frank Stearns of Boston White House guests aa Mrs Coolldge 111 spend her Easter at the bedside of her mother Mr Lemlra Ooodhue at Northampton Maas Religions Services The first of the many religious aerv Ices of the capital will take place with the sunrise on the slopes of the great amphitheater of Wallet Reed Hospital where the gleaming while of nurses' uniforms will form a "living ws" at the outdoor service which has become the regular opening iff Easter worship in Washington Almost every hour of the remaining day win rce and hear special services in the city's churches Vicing with the churches 111 be the unusually brilliant floral display (Continued on Fourteenth Page) ancestor of Englishmen and bark to lha Persians and Egyptians are at least recalled in the usual Easter celebrations When the Nlrrsn church In 325 first proclaimed Easter and missionaries carried It lo the English they sc cepted the Idea Joyfully and Incorporated the pagan symbolism and cele braled No objection wai raised to brilliantly colored eggs and references to rabbits From tho pagan onward the rebirth Idea of spring Is Incorporated In Easter celebrations Like tide Easter Is affected by the moon It occurs after the first full moon In which is the season when the world seems to be reborn This season of buds and youth was noted by the ancients aa a season for celebration Long bafore Christian times the general Jollity of the season was recognised Symbolizing the rebirth the egg attracted attention aa an obvious example of the thought that the world had been made new again The pagan however were concerned solely with buds and green grass and youth and because they thought the hare had something to do with the moon they Included rabbits In the Easter season tradition "Eastre" tba Norse divinity of spring is considered the original source of the term Easter Spring festivals have knocks next week by the representative 0 centra! group of the huge mrmn- of business and the automobile Indus- rial to the Confederacy will be retry but the Republican majority of: vested togethrr with the outlines of the Senate Finance Committee wu his famous horse Uon for In Mellon plan mental Association which hu chant Public hearing were to have opened of the carving of the memorial will Monday but both the automobile -Ul? fl5Ire' Judw MrcuJI w-pie who asked to be heard and of 0wgta Supreme Court Chamber of Commerce of the United'1! Tfbt lhe the South sent its ease nd Mayor JmM J- Walker of New States which will present Its case Ill UK 10 START ITTEMPT 10 MURDER DEB MOINES IA April 7-MV Former Beeretsry of Agriculture Meredith lowa'i "favorite son" can dldats for the Democratic presidential nomination lagged far behind Governor Al Smlt of New York In the contest for delegates to the lows Democratic State Convention scattering returna received from Iras than half of the 8 tale's county conventions Indicated late today Governor Smith had a lead of more than threa to one in the number of Instructed county delegations to the State convention the reports hawed These were based on returns irom eighty-seven counties two counties of which held county conventions earlier In the month Of these Smith received eighteen In' structed county delegations and Meredith five Eight counties reported un-mstructed county delegations Three counties postponed their conventions until next week on aecount of un-favorable weather and three counties were listed In the split column or ss bidding two county conventions with delegates Instructed for Smith and Meredith respectively Folk County which Includes the city of Dei Moines snd Woodbury County which Includes Slonx city the two largest counties in the State In point of population anti number of state convention delegates held double convention! following a diaagreemept over the seating of county convention delegates pledged respectively for Smith and Meredith on separate precinct conventions On the basis of the rountleq reporting Smith obtained 323 Instructed delegates and Meredith fifty-nine These no not Include the fifty-one delegates from Polk County or the thirty delegates from Woodbury County which will be contested In the State eon ventlon Total number of delegates In the State convention la 1333 THREE SAILORS HURT FIGHTING HAVANA FIRE York Clly will deliver the address of acceptance for the nation A barbecue will precede the unveiling exercises and after the return to Atlanta the offlcal party will prepare for a dinner at the Capltul Clly Club while the visiting mllllsry organizations are entertained by the old guard of the Gale City Ouard of Atlanta Following the parade of military units through the streets of Atlanta in the morning the party will entrain for Slone Mountain on a special train Arrangements have been made to care for thou wind of motorists at the memorial site Governor John Richards of South Carolina will attend with twenty of his staff Governor Bibb Graves of Alabama will bring fcls staff while Governor Hardman of Georgia and his entire staff are expected to be In the party It will be the second time that a head of General Lee has been unveiled on the side of Stone Mountain Pour years ago a rarvtng by Gutzon Borglum former sculptor in charge of the work was unveiled with 10000 parsons present Since the first unveiling controversy has entered the memorial work resulting In the discharge of Borg- (Con tlnued on Second Page) SI 00 Reward Offered by Person County IV Authorities HEIONG TO COLONY isitation Occasioned by Much Talking' Is Alleged fSperlal to The Tlmes-Dlspalchl HALIFAX VA April A flogging whlrh took place on the night of March II and In which Tom 'fartln and his wife Breedy Martin were lashed by unidentified men waa brought to light today In tha adjoining County of Person where a reward of $100 haa been offered by county official for the arrest of the guilty It Is admitted that there are no clues and that tha number of flnggers la not known Belong to CroaUn Colony Thu victims belong to the so-called CroaUn colony which for many generation has been known as "Cuba" and which la alxteen miles from ben Historians have often argued the theory that the tribe descended from the lost colony The settlement of 300 sprawls across the Vlrglnla-Csro-Jin lint and According to Jtmea 6 emIcj Attorney of this county their members are peaceable folk engaged In trucking and wdIia resentful of being clgsAlfled aa "colored people" are so regarded They were In Issue In the last Virginia Assembly when the racial Integrity Dili designed to draw a sharper line of demarcation between the races wa up Denies Attack In Halifax While dispatcher from North Carolina charged that tha whipping took place In Halifax Easley denied It and Mid If In hia Jurisdiction he would have heard of it He added that as the reward la offered In Person County North Carolina thla is proof or location Walker Roxboro officer said this afternoon that Martin and his wife were called from their cabin an a Sunday night lasJied to near-by tree and after being flogged were left tied up The woman waa In serious condition for several days The vtslla-tlon to Mid to have been occasioned by much talking" on the part of the Martins the nature of which Is obscure Official of DuPont Company Give Instructions Former Klan Head Alleges Conspiracv Against Ilis Life Kansas City nine weeks hence and 75 per cent of the delegates to the Houston convention two weeka later remain to be and this factor adds to the uncertainty of the days ahead Aa It stands now among Republican contenders Hoover la out ahead with 154 Instructed and claimed delegate Lowden in the lead until this week has an even 100 Curtis 23 and Norris 16 with the preference of 56 In doubt Of the Democrats Smith Is far to the front with 186 Instructed and claimed convention votes Reed of Missouri has 36 and George of Georgia 38 with 38 In doubt Generally it Is agreed that barring upsets Hoover will go Into the Republican convention with the most delegatee and that the New York Governor will be In the same position at Houston Whether either will muster the strength to nominated time will tell Both Hoover and Bmlth find them-sehrea Uned-up against "the field Some of the Commerce Secretary's supporters say they sea victory In sight others more cautious are making no claims but are hopeful There Is the same division of sentiment In the Bmlth camp Aa for their rivals most of them are going on the theory that both are far away from the nomination and will make the grade They foresee a demand for a compromise candl date or an opportunity for a "dark horse" and are making preparations to take advantage of any such breaks Whoever Is nominated at Kansu City must muster a while at Houston 7331-2 will be needed During the week Hoover's msnagers claim to have picked up forty-seven delegates In New York (some of them lay claims to more while opposition estimates place the total Hoover following at low a dozen) twenty' nine Instructed delegates from Kentucky and one from Wisconsin Lowden gained two in Wisconsin with bis supporters looking forward to winning at Inst forty-one In the Illinois primaries Tuesday The Kansu delegation of twenty-three pledged to Curtis was completed with the boosters of the Senate floor leading continuing to put him forward an Ideal compromise candidate Norris of Nebraska broke Into the delegate column for the first time getting sixteen Instructed delegates from Wisconsin In that State he had the support of the LaFollette-Blalne faction from which the conservative Republicans wrested ten delegates seven of them unlnstrucled and non-committal to candidates ilt1iv IIofrl Ownrr Held fr 100000 Random Moncv SEVEN (fN(sTERS CAPTUliEDlN RAID Thrilling Expedition Not Yet Completed Offi eial Declare CHICAGO April Kidnaped week ago and held for 8100000 ransom Thomas Oaynor rich automobile dealer and hotel owner waa rescued today by fiva squads of Chi eago deter lives who rsptured seven of the alleged kidnapers Ills defectives armed with maehtna tuna and shotguns began their dramatic expedition at midnight when five automobile loads of them reared away towards the northwest Their work had not been completed Mid Michael Hughes Commissioner of Police and he would not hamper their effort by revealing details of tha thrilling releass of Mr Gaynur tbs capture of the kidnapers or tha Identities of ths men Give Bare Statement Ha merely repeated this telephone conversation with William O'Connor deputy commissioner rescued Gaynor He's allra and welL We got ths gang They're that Detroit mob that has been writing so successfully for more than yer' rti the nsit mob that kid-naped Jake Adler and two of hia men Uimkd ihlelLUnu1 Ulcy Pld M0A0O they're the same gang that Ebhii VUton HeW' nd dldn 1F him down until hia friends cams wltl 615000 That's an Sp tha tamrt £1Md preprltor- Held reputed to ba a gambler Gaynor was seized aa he was drir- In hia automobile Ha la £reVnd UOur 01 mj Oaynor waa a prisoner was revealed last Tuesday when twn McCormWVClif? W5 Frtner- McCormick wit" a demand for iioo- 000 ransom and the threat that McC Connlck would be "taken for a rid" if he notified the police r-5ormlfk fd lor the men to return yesterday for the ha held out for a lower figure and' of- and Ta WU wen Hrerind £id' th dcth threat ha had jecreted dozen detectives In tha automobile sales room The men refused the money hurried out and sped away in an autouiobUa The detective followed for mhra and miles nrlng an escape overtook tha automobile and rrretcdthVtw7mre! Alter long questioning at the detee-bureau the pair suddenly was hustled into a detective motor car and away at midnight Ends In Cottage lha gang's wealthy victim wu made in a drab two-room summer cottage at Crystal Lake HL forty miles northwest of Chlcagou where detective squads broke In on the gang's hiding place and found Gaynor under the armed guard of two kidnapers Police had spent what appeared to be an almost futile day on the trail of tha gang searching more than forty cottages In the sum-mer resort region before arriving al the hiding place Gaynor unshaven and unkempt after hia week aa the prisoner almost collapsed when he realized hs wm safe He said the kidnapers kept him In complete darkness all week either by having him blindfolded or else locked in a dark room so that he wu unable to see his captors However he said they had not abused him When found Gaynor said he had no -Idea what day of the week It wu nor even the time ot day although he uld he felt he had been prisoner a long time The gang seized him he told police test Sunday afternoon just he left hi motor ear salesroom As he started down tho street a car swerved up to the curb beside him Its occupants forced him into the automobile From then on he said he could not tell whete he taken although he said be wu moved several times Tipped he had been taken to Crystal Lake the squads continued their search until they met with success late this afternoon Police Commissioner Michael Hughes said he wu convinced tba gang wu the same which had operated recently In Detroit Philadelphia and other large cltiei and numoered among Its recent victims here Jake" Adler cabaret owner and broker who wu held captive until his friends paid $15000 for him have petitioned for hearings later in the week and the public meetings of the committee may not get underway until Tuesday or Wednesday Corporation figure Tentative Meanwhile Chairman Smoot of the committee who la In charge ot the Republican majority on the committee announced today that the previous declrlon for a 13 per eent corporation tax waa only tentative He Indicated strongly that an attempt may be mads later to make thla rate 13 1-2 per cent Tra corporation tax la ona of the main points of contention In the bill The House voted to sltsb this rate from 131-3 per eent to 111-3 per cent Mr Mellon said thla waa too much He favored 12 per eent and In Its Drat action the committee tentatively accepted this figure but no Senator Smoot appears to be ready to boost It up to 131-2 per cent breaure of other prospective reduc ttons Stand Fat for 8206606565 Cut Ti Republican majority also is standing pat for the $200000000 limitation on tax reduction set by See-ratary Mellon but the Democrats hone to nave their contention tor a 1300-000000 figure bolstered up during the week by experts who will appear before the committee In public hearings Lveis should the Republican majority in committee succeed In holding the bill within the limitations set by the Trea-ury Democrats believe they will be supported sufficiently on the floor to obtain repeal of the automobile tevy of per cent which waa voted by the House but which Sir Mellon wonts to retain Study Technical Provision Awaiting tha public nearlngs on the rate piovlslona the committee has pent most of the week on the administrative provision ot the bill relating mostly to technical changes With progress In this reported as and with a week of open hearlrga In sight leaders were pessimistic todsy over the outlook for early action It was pointed out that even after the Senate passe a bill If it does will be necessary to have protracted conference with the House If there Is any difference between the measures passed by the two bodies to Engineers Preliminary grading of the "AmpthllT site In preparation for construction of the DuPont Rayon plant will be started this week the work having been subcontracted In Richmond Dants of the DuPont Rayon Company wired TheTlmes-Dls-patch from New York yesterday Actual construction of the four-unit plant will be started about May 1 was said and Eaton head of the DuPont construction department la expected to direct the work At the peak of construction which will be reached In August is many aa 2000 workers will be employed Warner senior consulting engineer for I DuPont de Nemours Ss Company who announced here that the company would double the capacity originally planned for the Richmond artificial silk plant said due notice would be given through the press of the opening of an employment office here Although preliminary grading work has been subcontracted the DuPont engineering corps Is expected to handle the actual construction plana of which already are practically complete It vu said PITTSBURGH April (AV-Charg-Ing that he was marked for death because he openly opposed "maladministration" of the affairs of the Ku-Klux Klan under the Evans administration William Simmons founder of the order filed a deposition in Federal Court here today supporting five former members In their suit to have a receiver appointed tor the klan In this State The recelversnlp suit a counter action filed after the klan bad asked that the former members be restrained from using Its name will be called up in court Monday The former members ask that a receiver be named and that the klan account for all money collected In the Bute The klan asking the restraining order sought $100000 damages from tha ex-members claiming they collected that sum from klan members without authorisation Simmons Assails Evans Simmons in his deposition assailed the administration of Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans and charged that be had "reliable information" Indicating that persona connected with Evans nad sought to take his life He said that Phil Fox publicity agent for Evans WASHINGTON April The identity of three bluejackets from the battleship Wyoming who recel-ed burns while fighting a fire at Havrna Friday on BUndard Oil Company property was messaged to the Navy Department today by Vice-Admiral Robinson commander of the scouting fleet They are: Sharp Jacksonville Fla Roberson Iron City Tenn and Alfred Stelnblaer Young-wood Pa Two officers and 100 bluejackets fought the fixe when It broke out Ute Thursday night and twenty-five continued the fight when It resumed Friday 7 1NJ11RFI) AT MEETING I1" to aseasslnate him the MJUKCU Hi UICCI 111 day before Fox killed Captain 8 OF BULGARIAN OFFICER 0oburn- Attant tomey ur BULUHMHn urriuta Blnce the present admlnlItration took charge of the klan" Simmons continued from all that continuro -judging man all that 1 SOFIA BULGARIA April £V- Seven persona were Injured and fifty hsve been able to see and hear It or more roughly handled today at has been destructive and conducted New Chamberlin Vanderbilt Host to Enthusiastic Throng NEWPORT NEWS April (AT-With Governor Harry Byrd and other notables In attendance the new Chamberlin Vanderbilt Hotel opened at Old Point Comfort tonight with a banquet and ball celebrating the reconstruction of the famous army and navy hostelry Six hundred or more guests from all over the East snd Point as far away as the Middle West were In attendance and a number of congratulatory addresses were made during the banquet Governor Byrd saw In the reconstruction of the I2OCOO0O hostelry the symbol of the new Virginia Indicative of the progress and prosperity of the State He mentioned In this connection the State highway construction program and the development of the Shenandoah National Park George Gordon Battle native North Carolinian and now an attorney ot New York was toastmaster The speakers Included Brigadier General Robert Calls commanding Chesapeake Bay roast defense Admiral Coontx of the naval operating base for Hampton Roads Darling president of the hotel corporation and others contrary to its original plana and purposes I could not consistently remain or be a member of the order (Continued on Fourteenth Page) Mellon Vbil Bermuda HAMILTON BERMUDA April Andrew Mellon American Secretary of the Treasury has arrived In Bermuda for an Easter vacation SEX REVEALED AFTER SIX YEARS AS IOWA CITY IOWA April 7-(AV-After successfully hiding her sex behind men's clothing lor sixty years Mary Miller who had been known a Miller was unmasked today when taken to a hospital 111 with pneumonia Miss Miller for many year had worked in Johnson County aa a farm hand night watchman and at other Job Previously she had worked as a section laborer and traveled with a circus as a trapeze performer while playing the part of a man Bhe smokes a corncob pipe but never bought a razor She began her masquerade when 10 years old ERECT EMBASSY HOME political meeting addressed by General Ghekoff Bulgarian generalissimo In the World War Ghekoff who recently angered the patriotic associations when he joined the Agrarian party had let It be known before the meeting that he would attack the government knowledge led to the assembly hostile element many of whom hurled epithets at him of and the like These finally made an attack on Ghekoff on the platfocm the meeting ending in a free-for-all fight he Cemetery in Backyard Bones May Be Those of John Brown9 Men TOT DRINKS DRUG DIES Threr-Year-Old Takes Wlniergreen Fallowing Grandfather's Example AIKEN 8 April Wesley Hunt aged 3 died In a hospiui here today within an hour after taking a teaspoonful of oil of wlntergreen The youngster had seen his grandfather take a few drops of the medicine as a remedy for rheumatism After the bottle had been replaced on a shelf the little boy secured It and drank a teaspoonful He was rushed to a hospital but died within an hour POLICE DISPERSE WOMEN I Special to The Tlmes-Dlspatch1 WINCHESTER VA April 7-A graveyard has been discovered la a 3nl In the read of the residential Wllmer A Stults Levine Pllol to Aid EdWrd W' Ctthfr- wellhy Commander In Polar Test NEW YORK April Wllmer A 8tuJtt who was expected to pilot Charles A Levine's plane In a proposed endurance flight today an farmer and fruit grower here It was learned today when a local undertaker admitted he had received a considerable number of human bones and was waiting for the com aletlon of excava-Hons for the Dr McGuire stated in his -iccoum that he was an eyewitness having been a student at the Medical College and saw the bodies being Drought in It to said to be quite pnutblr that the bones Just found In the Cather lot are those of several of John Brown's felloy abolitionists ne body of Brown himself was not Drougnt here having been taken to he North INDICTMENT SOUGHT basement Sn SL Take Action Against WilncM fleclion I'robe WASHINGTON April DU- trlct Attorney Rover announced today that Indictment ot Thumas Cun- of Philadelphia who rc-has fuwd to toll the Senate Election Site Acquired for Building In Ottawa Canada WASHINGTON April Chair-man Porter of the House Foreign Affairs Committee announced today that the American Ambassy and consular buildings commission of which he Is chairman hss acquired a site Ir a diplomatic building in Ottawa directly opposite the Canadian Parliament buildings He Mid that a $98-000 office building will oe erected and that addition the commission Plans to purchase a residence for the American minister In the Democratic scramble for delegates Smith made a clean sweep during the week picking up 124 Given an Instructed delegation of twelve from Maine on Monday he followed it up on Tuesday by getting Wisconsin's twenty-six and elghLy-slx district delegates from his home State all pledged to fight foe his nomination In addition Smith unopposed won the Michigan preferential primary giving him a claim to the 30 delegates to be selected later at a convention Hoover by getting the Republican primary vote got the same hold on the 13 Michigan delegates still to be chosen Lowden stands to pick up 13 votes from South Dakota with Smith getting the Bute's ten Democratic delegates They alone are entered In 'he May 22 primaries and already have received enforcement at the party conventions For the moment the Republicans have their eyes on the approaching Ohio and Indiana primaries when Hoover is facing (US fights and on Massachusetts New York and Penn' aylvanla The Hoover managers are seeking to strengthen the Secretary's hand In the Bay State primaries April 24 the same day voting In Ohio will tell conclusively the effect of Senator Willis' death On all sides there a tendency to feel that the uninstructed delegates frem New York Pennsylvania and Massachusetts may have the deciding say In the Kansas City convention and campaign plans -are being laid accordingly In both the Hoover and anti-Hoover camps California with 1U May I primaries la counted on to give a line on tfab comparative strength ot Smith Walsh and Reed In the Democratic eon test All three have Bute of ttoi-gmt-In Wisconsin Reed got the preference vote which la not binding but sought no delegates Smith took all the delegates a Walsh slate of delegates at large going down to defeat At least one of the preliminaries to the Kansas City convention has been disposed of Senatbr Fesa Ohio baa been selected keynoter He Imv- fDaaUnucd on Fourteenth Page) Weaker Sea" Gels Dose of Trsr Gas at Xon-L'nlnn Pennsylvania Mine PITTSBURGH April Coal and Iron police and State police were summoned today to the non-union Montour No 10 Mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company at Library where upwards of forty women had congregated and coal company officials said their policemen resorted to the use of tear gas bombs to disperse the gathering No one was reported hurt nounced he hu been engaged by M- Commander Richard Byrd to aid In LS1 Lerson Counl wecutlon at Cliarlej the tests for the coming South pdar WOrkmrn ould unMrth TSrwin lMn Mimda tnr I Th dlcoverle" were made It be-oiuiiz will letve Monday for Deicame known iftr iir kh trolt He Mid he would pilot Byrd's- Mr' cthr hd Towl1 Dr A Henkel of Winchester In hta private museum a piece! an old barn razed of the preserved or "tanned hide' ss and excavations be- BODY OF SLAIN GIRL CLAIMED BY FATHER Committee the source ol 550000 he he calls it of one of the men i contributed to the Va re senatorial campaign fund will be sought next 'week tri-matored Fokker plane back East Levine would not comment on Stultz's new connections Retail Furniture Dealers Will Put on Fashion Show this Week gun for a dwelling on the lot Ie Mid enough bones to form several skeletons already bad been placed In the care of the mortician who ti' endeavoring to assemble them to correct position It is generally accepted that the bone were those of bodies dissected jmsny years ago by students of the ibid Winchester Medical College head- led by the late Dr Hugh McGuire those visiting the various stores wtlti father of the late Dr William have the opportunity of "browsing McGuire thla city The college bulld- ISO Men and Horses on Ice Island Taken Mile Downstream by Current Dlsplajrlng the latest in spring and summer furniture members of the Richmond Retail FUmlture Dealers' PRINCE ALBERT SASK April Charles Bmlth straw boss of Camp 'B" of the Fu Lumber Company north of here today wu the hero uf KANSAS CITY April -Jerry Black tall raw-boned farmer ot Hawk Point Mo came here today to taka borne the body ol tils stain daughter Opal Black 20 The girl wu found in a dying condition In a street la a residential section early yesterday Police expressed the belief tnat see had been struck over the head and tossed from a speeding motor car Black told detectives a married man in St Louis might shed light on tha mysterious scaling He Mid hta daughter had referred to him In lettera and said he wu trying to get a divorce to marry her Tha father believed that the man might have brought hta daughter here ten days ago from Si Louis ried nearly a mile downstream by the current and wu separated from shore by a channel of water nearly 150 feet wide Estate Begins Today Many remarkable values ara listed now la tba Classified REAL ESTATE COLUMNS: homes lots farms apartments and flats for cala or rent Choose youra today Real Estate Week April Nih lo 15th Inrluslre le hich Without parallel in Bmlth volunteered to swim ashore from basement to attic as Association will hold "open-house" re there will be no solicitation for Mies the dealers merely to act aa hosts Members of the association who are taking part In the spring fasnlon show are Adkins Furniture Company Inc A Black Ac Son Brown At Co Columbia Furniture Company Inc Dabney Ac Bugg Inc Dowdy Furniture Company A Da tiro Oerson Furniture Company Blake Ac JEiriley Inc Jones Brothers St Co Inc Charles Jurg-n's Son Phillip Inga were burned by Federal troops during the Civil War Not long before his death Dr McGuire dictated an article for a medical magazine in which he stated that the bodies of two or three cf the men nanged with John Brown the abolitionist at Charlea Town Va late In 1859 for treason and rebel-! lion had been dug up la Jeffrrson County the ulght after the executions and brought here by students ol the! Medical College (or disaeetlng purposes captions and furniture fashion shows for the people of Rhmond next Thunday and Friday evenings from to 10 o'clock the president of the association announced yesterday These affaire are staged semiannually by members of the furniture association to afford patrons the opportunity of observing with leisure what la best In modern furniture It was stated Special display! have been planned for every room of the bouse and I A rope wu tied around hta waist ind he plunged Into the Ice torrent fully clothed Reaching shore after several narro escapee from careening Ice rake Smith fixed the end ot the rope to a tree and gradually succeeded swinging the huge floe toward land As soon as the lee grounded the m-n Jumped ashore and drove tba hones to Mtety these part While a hundred men and fifty horses were encamped on the north bank ot the Saskatchewan River near Ntpawln prior to crossing the rivet Into the village the Ice began to move The men decided to chance a crossing The hone were driven through the rut rising water and afier great difficulty both horses and men succeeded In gaining a position on one of the targe Hoes The floe with Its freight wu car' Leaves SIS00tW Evlale NEW YORK April Cdnfirt Herbert Blocuv Untied States Army retired of Washington left Ik Levy ft Co Co Rountrerlas the students had had no such Corporation and Ryan-Smlth ft Co practice for quite i long time LrM than fifteen minute after thelbulk of his estate ef nearlv IfOUOJOA floe had been vacated It broke up hta widow and two son.