Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1930, Page 1

' No. 31,608. T o Wemningion, Be . DETECTIV DOGBTS ALLARD ADMISSION ' INBAKER MURDER ‘Flaherty Finds Writing Re- . sembles “Tip-off” Letter . Sentto Police Here. NAGEL KILLING INQUIRY |- REOPENS SECOND CASE Confession Declared Wrung From Suspect After Girl's Name Slips Out During Quiz. BY DOUGLAS WARRENFELS, Staff Correspondent of The Star. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Nevember 14. —-After making a comparison of signa- ‘wures.on papers in possession of Harry 4. Allard, John Flakierty, a Washington detective, told newspaper men here to- day he was convinced Allard had no connection with the murder of Mary Baker in Washington April 11. Flaherty announced he had no faith in a‘confession to the crime made by Allard, a' 25-year-old itinerant painter. He added he believed Allard was merely seeking to evade serving a five-year sentence in the Dannemora prison in New York for an automobile theft. Flaherty revealed the signature of ‘Allard resembled the handwriting g gggg 852 ag:i' E"‘EE "g ’ s“g.sag’géggfi “Eeeld ? giEgtans §§E§§§ i i i gZE OPENED IN NEW YORK Wirst Link Skirts Hudson From Canal Street to Northern Tip New Baker Suspect HARRY J. ALLARD. —A. P. Photo. JAPANESE PREMIER, WOUNDED, MAY LIVE Shot of Assassin Fells Hama- guchi in Railway Station. Cabinet Delay$ Action. By the Assoclated Press. TOKIO, November 14.—Yuko Hama- § o I ] Bs 2 EH g i ess throughout the morning, even on the . mmmbu: of the cabinet re- the hospital ¢ oy WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1930—SIXTY-SIX PAGES. % TROOPS CLAMP LID ON HAVANA RIOTING BY STUDENT BANDS President Machado Expects Martial Law Decree to Be Temporary. DENIAL MADE ONE KILLED WAS AMERICAN CITIZEN Censorship Established on Outgo- ing Cables—Two Papers Sus- pend in Protest. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, November' 14.—The malled fist of the Cuban military was poised today above Havana and its environs, prepared to strike hard in defense of the administration of Gerardo Machado, threatened with a growing island-wide unrest. ‘Troops carrying rifles patroiled the city’s streets, with mounted detalls here and there. Student assemblies were forbidden and householders remained in their homes. A censorship was imposed by the government in the course of the night on all ontgoing “cable dispatches and “fin the mlfll‘l newspapers, two of which, El and Diario De La Marina, suspended publication rather than sub- mit to governmental supervision. i Minor fioting at Night. sA52E8 p g H there.” 3 Called Climax of Unrest. in a clash of demonstrators and police- men at Santiago de Cuba. | ‘Wednesday night students in Havana exchanged shots with policemen in the downtown section. One bullet killed Senorita Mercedes Barbarrosa, niece of the editor in chief of Diario de la Mari- na, as she watched the disturbance from a balcony at her home. Claiming that most of its trouble is with the students, the government has slosed all normal and elementary schools y , {in the city and has adopted other re- an Who Stole Cotton Is Charged ‘With Petty Larceny. SHAWNEE, Okla., November 14. (). agricultural depression, a pressive measures. ENVOY GETS TAGLE REPORT. Wounded Man in Cuba Citizen, It Says. Ambassador Orestes Ferrara of Cuba said last night he had received a mes- sage from the Cuban foreign office say- ing Arturo Tagle y Soria, who was wounded in an encounter with Havana police, was not an American citizen. ‘The telegram said Tagle had held sev- eral official posts in the Cuban govern- ment and, therefore, could not be an American citizen. Ambassador Ferrara said he had been inférmed that President Machado con- sidered the situation in Cuba tranquil. He said martial law was resorted to in the island republic as a preventive Not U. 8. vered, | measure against further student out- breaks. of con! D. F. MOONEY DIES ST. MARYS, Ohio, November 14 (#). —Daniel F. Mooney, 65, United States Minister to lm‘uma( BODY OF MAN FOUND Ga., November 14 (B).— . D. Perkins of Gu:‘ncounfiy was identified as Ru- R. Behrends of Jersey. City, N. J., a 23-year-old ‘who came to this country a short time ago and was en route to New Orleans. " R RED TAPE FORCING POVERTY UPON RETIRED U. S. WORKERS Thousands of Superannuated Employes in « Actual Want While Claims Are Being Adjudicated. Just outside a fence of Government red tape there is untold suffering and among thousands of superannuated retired Government employes as the result of the inabililty of the Government Pension Office, under the, Veterans' Administration, to adjudicate a vast number of retirement annuity cldims, In hundreds of instances, annuitants under the civil service retirement laws ba | have been without funds since June and July, and, according to Gertrude - | McNally, secretary of the National Association of Federal Employes, the situation has left some of the annuitants and their dependents in thesdirest of poverty— but still within a stone’s throw of the money due them lying idle in the United States Treasury. 4 Meorfllnfiwlflflue!hfla.mi nothing on which to live since that no mail delivery at her office that does not bring half 'a dozen pitiful tales of | According to the records of the elderly Government workers an- | Veterans' Administration, vouched for by nuities were tied in the that | Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, administra- hit the Pension July 1, have not | lor_of veterans' affairs, who also_has ‘who have had ! (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) KULP ADMIT NAN ARMY PLAYS Y OFFERED HIM AID| ON DEGEMBER 13 Conspiracy Is Charged in|West Point Officials Agree to Alleged Irregularities in Game in New York for Post Office Leases. Charity Benefit. AGCEPTS BUDGET LIMITATION PLAN 16 Nations Favor Principle Which U. S. Refuses for Itself. SOVIET ASSASSINATION SCHEME IS DISCOVERED Swiss Police Receive Letter Declar- ing Russian Intended to Shoot Litvinoff and Others, ARMS COMMISSION i N N By the Associated Press. GENEVA, November 14—The Pre- paratory Disarmament Commission to- day accepted the principle of limita- tion of land war material by the budgetary method, which the American | Government, through its representative, Ambassador Hugh 8. Gibson, has de- clined to accept for itself. The principle was embodied in a resolution presented by Viscount Cecil of Chelwood for Great Britain, 16 Nations Vote Support. Sixteen nations supported the resolu- tion, including Canada, France and Japan. Three nations opposed it, Rus- SHODT T0 OPPOSE | =S5 The vote was taken & few minutes Treasury Will Need Income to Avoid Deficit, Says Utah Senator. ussian application both the direct mfiu’y method was the fective means of limiting and land war material. sinrultaneous s By the Associated Press. EXTRA SESSION BAN: OF PARTY CHIEFSIS) H BY INSURGENTS Brookhart and Shipstead See Need of Call if Pet Meas- ures Fall. HOOVER 1932 PROSPECTS LINKED TO SHOALS BILL Better Not Run if He Vetoes Legis- lation, Iowa Senator §Ea5s ofi deel i i Ji ? | Paul commercial sub- By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 14.—Testimony that Jacob Kulp, Chicago builder and head of an investment house, was called on by a man who offered to “keep him out of trouble” over the lease of the St. tal station, was given at today's of the Senate committee investigating leases. Scnator John J. Blaine of Wisconsin, chairman, previously had charged that Kulp's expenditures and agreements to- ;l‘l’d extra lpwe'gn the St. Paul build- were part of 'a. conspiracy to new leases without lp uneelhfl clause past the budget director. Kulp Admits Man Called. ‘The Senator returned to the subject today. Departing suddenly from queries concerning the proposed New York sub- asked Kulp: station lease, he : “Do you remember a man’s coming to you and saying: ‘Jake, you are going get into trouble over the St. Paul lease. You know how politicians handle these things. Kulp said he had recelved such a call but refused to identify the person. Under examination by = Chairman Blaine, Kulp said that he was success- ful bidder for the lease to the Govern- ment of a postal station which was to have been built on air rights over the Pennsylvania Rallroad tracks Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth streets in New York City. A Pennsylvania sub- sidiary, he said, bid $24,000,000 for the lsase, but bids were resubmitted and Kulp’s $19,245000 was low. At that time, in 1923, he sald the Government informed him the Pennsylvania sub- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) MARINES FIND PROBLEM TO GET CHARITY $PONSOR Foot Ball Game With Coast Guard Planned for Unemployed, but Backing Is Lacking. ‘While service circles were busily buz- | zing today over the news that the Army bas agreed to play with Navy for a national charity game in New Yu-'l between | Arm: By the Associated Press. WEST POINT. N. Y., November 14. —The Army today agreed to meet the Navy in a charity foot ball game in New York December 13 for benefit of the unemployed. The Army decision was announced by Maj. Gen. William R. Smith, superin- tendent of the Military Academy, after a conference with his athletic council. It makes possible the first service game since 1927 when the Army won by a score of 14 to 9 at the Polo Grounds. ‘Will Complete Details Here. The December 13 date, proposed by | Securities. the Navy yesterday after December 6 and November 29 had proved imprac- ticable because of conflict with the Navy-Pennsylvania and Army-Notre o | Dame games respectively, was accepted by the Army despite its confilct with | the mid-term examinations. Because of the seriousness of the un- employment situation, Gen. Smith sald the Army was willing to make sacrifices to accept the Navy's proposal, Maj. 3 y’s graduate lm‘l of athletics, left by airplane for Wi gton to com- n&l:l ul;rulxemeun with Annapolis’ au- An off shortly “Business is Good— If you go after it.” The manager of a promi- nent New York store has used the above expression in telling of recent increases in His sales of up to 25% over this time last year., He says to get business you must deserve it by giv~ ing the public what it wants in fashion, quality and price—and with this need existed for Representative Byrns of Tennessee, ranking minority member of the House ueanmltm, said he had uhhnpeforlnyhxrzducuonn time." m. Maj. (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.)__ | this ARRESTED IN FIRE DEATH 'WATERLOO, 8. C., November 14 (). arrested here ] U. 8. FIRM ON DIRECT PLAN, League Action on Budget Methéd Won't Influence Stand. : !vfi" iagtnt H LR EEEEE of il i “We don't need statistics; we need said. He added that costs o REPORT RUSSIAN RIOTS LONDON, November 14 (#).—Fight- between peasants and Communist in much was reported in the Riga Press-to have revolted after attempts had been to enforce the seizure of corn and col- lectivization of farms. BROOKHART, BACKING FESS, SAYS FEWER SENATORS DRINKING NOW Predicts G. O. P. Split if Party Fails to Support the Prohibition Law. of Manhattan. policy he has increased his newspaper advertising around 20% and cut out some other forms of less profitable advertising, Yesterday’s Advertising (!fl’;:m) ki ‘The Evening Star. .66,318 JAZZ ORCHESTRA ACCOMPANIES ors LEWIS PRESTON HERE TO WED |5 New York Sportsman and Miss Eppes Hawes, Daughter el of Senator, United at Noon. h il .{ g T i Total Rv2s....... 53,069