Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1931, Page 1

\WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Porecast.) Rain tonight and tomorrow, not much change In temperature; lowest tonight about 40 degrees. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 51, .at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 43, at 5 am. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14&15 e Foening Star. ——————— e ———— WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press Wi The Star's every city block tion is delivered t. unday’s carrier rday’s Circulation, Circulation, to Home thin the Hour” system covers and the regular edi- o Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. 114,123 123,246 Entered as second class matter post office, Washingten, D. C. No. 31,751., V ASHINGTON, . -0 MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1931—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. L L (#P) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. Slain Marine CUNTHOUGHTUSED HIARNEMURER - OFFERS NEW CLLE, Weapon Found to Be a .32,; Same Caliber as Bullet Lodged in Body. AUTO BELIEVED USED BY SLAYER IDENTIFIED' Constable Asserts Thorne Was Kill- ! ed March 14 During Drunken Brawl. The .32-caliber revolver believed to der of Pvt. Emanuel Thorne, 23-year-| old Marine, whose body was found in | a shall:w grave in Greater Capitol Heights, Md., Saturday, has been found, by Prince Georges County authorities and was to be examined by ballistic experts today. The revolver was brought to Wash- ington by Chief Deputy Sheriff Thomas | Garrison of Prince Georges Gounty, who admitted he was bound for the Bureau of Standards, where it was t> be turned over to Government experts. Garrison tefused to reveal how long the weapon had becn in his possession or where it was found. A similar atti- tude ‘was taken by Sheriff W. Curtis{ Hopkins, who declined to discuss the matter other than to say he was “fairly sure” the gun was the cne used by Thorne’s sayer. Caliber Is Similar. The revolver, it was learned, was in Garrison’s pessession early today when he visited the woods in which Thorne’s body was found. The weapon is a .32 caliber, and the two bullets removed from Thorne's body during an autopsy Saturday night were of th same type. One of the slugs entered Thomne's head and loéged in his neck, while an- | The third | other piercea his spine. bullet, which struck his elbow, was not Tecovered. Hide Man's Identity. Both Garrison snd Hopkins refused ! tc reveal the identity of the man with whom the chief deputy has an appoint- ment af the Marine Barracks. Hopkins admitted, however, the interview was expected to shed some l'ght on the slaying. " Meanwhile, Vincent Selbicky, a mem- rine Band, in the rear of horne was found, and Edward C. other Marine, still were being 1d incommunicado at the Upper Marlboro. jall. : The automobile believed to have been used by the slayer already is.in posses- sion of the investigators, who ere en- deavoring to trace car, & small coach, was found aban- doned on Crystal Spring road, about two blocks from the patch of woods in which the corpse was found, by Con- stabie Earl Blackwell. Lays Slaying to Bra ‘The discovery was made March 15, 4 ®ccording to Blackwell, who fixed the time of th: murder about midnight of March 14. The constable expressed the opinion the murder was the result of a <crunken brawl. The machine, Blackwell * was found on the side of the road. slayer, h- said, probably thot Thorne in a roadside battle and then dragged his body through the underbrush. Residents of th> neighborhood said Garrisson’s companion was a neighbor, 2% whose home Szlbicky had boar until a short time ago. Selbickey, it was added, began boarding there on re- turning from Washington, where he had g-n= following his separation from his wife, Mrs. Beulah Selbicky, 1512 Twen- ty-first street. Schaefer, who lives street, near Seventh stro at Beltsville, Md., ¢ dey about the same time Tho identity was established. He was taken to the Prince Grorges County Jail, at Upper Maribcro, where both he and Selbicky ars being held incommunicado. Under the Maryland Jaw they must be released today, unless charges of some kind are filed againct them. Au- thorities saild, however, ihe charges probably would be placed, but they re- fused to reveal their nature. It is be- lieved. however, tbhey will be technical, designed only to make it possible to keep the two musicians in custody pending the outceme of an inquest ext Monday night Both men have been questioned by Shegiff W. Curtis Hopkins, who said he ! ownership. The 4 continuzd, on Hamilton as arres.ed planned to continue questioning them. He refused to disclose the result of the Quiz. Thorne's body was identified by Pyvt. John E. Harmon, 901 Elevent, street southeast, alco a member of ! Marines Harmon, who said he had known Thorne since their “rookie” days at the Marine encampment at Parrls Is- (Continued on Page 2, Column‘1.) BRIDGE SUICIDE LIST INCREASED TO THREE| Colored Man Jumped From Con- necticut Avenue Structure, Coroner Decides. The third suicide within 60 days at the Connecticut Avenue Bridge was recorded this morning when the body of & man identified by a driving permit as Robert E. Starke, colored. 39 years old, of street, was found under the middle of the structure Coroner Nevitt certified suicide after police reported that the indications were he had jumped from tre bridge, though as far as is known no one saw him go over. He had been dead several hours. and indications were that he had plunged through a tree, the nearby ground being covered with branches. His watch still was running. The discovery was made by William C. Gibbs of 1114 Virginia avenue south- west, who was walking through Rock Creek Park about 10 o'clock. Gibbs immediately notified the police. At the address given on the driving permit no one knew Starke. The point where the colored man's hdy was found is at the opposite end of the bridge from where James P, Skogland, 1316 C street nortaeast, 1aped Pebruary 10, to be followed a month later by Mrs. Clara P. Rice, Q streets ik “_I hel the 2200 block of Thirteenth: - OF RASKOB MEETS .~ C0OL RECEPTION 1 | Opposed by Most Democratic ] Congressmen, Including | Some From North. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The letier of Chairman John J. Raskob to members of the Democratic Natlonal Committee, ealling upon them 1o say whether or not they favored his “home rule” plan for dealing with liquor traffic, has agitated again the | prohibiticn question in Demdcratic cir- cles. » A great majority of the Democratic members of Congress are opposed to having thé National Committe> or the | natlonal convention write what they consider a wet plank in the party plat- i form next year. This is true cven in the case of some cf the Democrats from wet Northern States, although they are reluctant to say as much for publica- tion Hull Expresses Views. Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee, former chairman of thc Democratic 8 Committee and a strong op- ponent of the propdsal of Chairman Raskob, said today: ‘ “Cha.rman Raskob's letter s, with slight variation, a repstition of his so- led articles of party faith, gro sed at the recent Democratic National Committee ‘meeting, in which it Is strenuously attempted to make prohibi- tion nct only a partisan issue, but a paramount partisan issue, which auto- { matically would, for an indefinite num- {ber of years, exclude serious or delib- | erate consideration of all other issues i2nd problems by party esgencies. no | matter how vital and pressing. Chair- iman Raskob's references to other ques- | tions impress one 25 being minor and parenthetical. I “I fe:l kindly toward all Democrats and cherish almost a passionate desire to see the great Democratic rank and file of the Nation unify itself in support of a suitable program, vitally affecting the welfare of the American people, as { we approach the campaign of 1932. It would, therefore, only accept or seek de- bate and ‘controversy from our Repub- lican adverseries relative to questions and problems which fundamentally divided the two political parties. If‘internal strife and dissen- sion would' help, rather than seriously hurt, the opportunities of the Demo- | eratic party to secure control of the | Federal Government, I would #id in | promoting _strife. rather "than peace, ! within Demoecratic ranks.” ‘Puts Uncmployment First. | Eenator Hull raid that there are =ix {or seven millions of wage earners out | of work, who, With their fomilies, | gregate near 20 mflion “aen |and children who rr2 in need. He |asked what problem could be more ipressing than t> mive thete workers {employment. He pointed out that dur- ing 1930 the American Workers ‘e- ceived from 9 billion to 10 billion dol- {lars less than in 1929. “Who moved to postpone’ indefinitely serious thought or consideration of this Inug- problem, its cause and remedies?” | contifued Senator Hull. He referred also to the agricultural problem and to | the problem of foreign trade, and to !the Treasury deficit, and declared that |these were matters which had concerried the Democratic party at this time. He asked if the Democrats should forget the problem, “while we plunge into a | controversy inside the Democratic party |about whether an essentially non-par- | tisan matter shall be labeled partisan?” “The record of the party in power over the past 10 years presents the foregoing problems,” dutles and tasks to any political party which would seriously offer its services to the Amer- {ican people in 1932 continued Sen- ator Hull. “The people, including the Democratic National Committes mem- bers. and the rank and file of the party | | | | have heretofore | (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) Lord Irwin, governor general, SEAPAGTNENAGE BY OBIETIONS OF LONDON AND ROME \ | | Compromise on French Re-| i placements at Meeting Week Ago Opposed. | |PARLEY CALLED TO FIX PARIS’ FINAL ATTITUDE il’lilure of Three-Power An'nnge-’ | ment Would Endanger Confer- { ence Scheduled for 1932. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, France, April 6.—The Brit- ith admiralty has demurred at a com- promise over French naval replace- | ments Teached by Foreign Ministers Arthur Henderson and Aristide Briand | in a three-hour conference -in Paris a | | week ago. This compromise was to | leave the Prench claim for 66,000 tons | of additional réplacements to be settled | | at the Disarmament Conference next | year. Italy, however. objects. The Italian | objection, coupled with the stand taken | by the British admiralty, seems to jeo- | pardize the whole French-Italian-Brit- | ish agreement in principle in February. | President Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic will confer with M. Briand and Naval Minister Charles Du- mont, at Villefranche, Thursday, with | |the view of fixing France’s final| attitude. i Pessimism Felt in Paris. [ | Ths situation is regarded here some- | | what pessimistically. Following the | | Austro-German project for a customs, |unizn, and the enigmatical attitude toward it thus far taken by Italy,| | French opinion is indisposed io naval | congessions. On the other hand. if the Jeboriously Teached FPrench-British- | Italian naval agreement now falls| | through, the success of the General | Disarmament Conference, scheduled for n:xt February, will be rendered dubi- ous, it is said. | | French opinion regrets that the| | United States, after being instrumental | | in bringing about agreement in princi- | | ple, has since dropped out. The French | trust the impartiality of American diplomacy, but not fhat of the British. The Paris newspaper Le Metin asks | | plaintively why Hugh S. Gibson, Amer- | | ican Ambassadcr to Belgium, has sud- | denly retired, leaving everything to the | | British - expert, Robert L. Craigle, and why the British Labor government is| | apparently unable to impose its will cn | the British admiralty. | | Spesch Revives Suspicion. i Trench suspicions of British naval circles have been revived by & speech | delivered March 25 before the British | Institute of Naval Architects by Admiral |'Sir Arthur Hurd, in which he said: | | “The only hope for the Royal Navy is |that the dispositions of the Lcndon | treaty will be rendered nuil and void | by activity In naval construction of the | ! non-signatory powers, France and Italy.” | This#seems to mean that certain | naval officers would prefer to see the, Franco-Italian building race “continue, | 50 that Great Britain would have the i Tight to invcke the escape clause in| vond the treaty figures in certain cate- ories. ¢Copyright. 1931 g POLICE UNWITTINGLY ACT ASAID TO AUTO THIEVES Arrest Motorist as Speeder, Then| | Park Car Outside Station With | Soldiers, Who Drive Away. Eleventh precinct police inadvertent- aided crime yesterday. They arrested Edwsrd W. Unkle, on a spreding charge, then lelt his au- tomobile parked outside the station house with two soldiers he had picked | up on the road. The soldiers ap- | parently took advantage of the oppor- | tunity and drove off with the car Unkle, who lives at 3609 Eleventh street, was halted on Nichols 2venue | soutteast by Policeman Thomas Hayes Unkle was detained at the precinet while collateral was sought, and a half- hour later when police fold him he could go home. his mactine had mys- teriously diszppeared a'ong with the two soidiers. “I think this little {rouble probably has cost you encugh already.” said Po. lice Judge John P. McMahon in tak- ing Unkle'’s personal* bond on the | spceding charge today. Pclice have been unable to find either the car or the soldiers. Iy 25, AGITATORS FACE JAIL NEW DELHI, India, April 8 (#) | An ordinance providing for punishment by two years' imprisonment or a fine. or both, for the publication of state- | ments lkely to cause unfriendly rela- | tions between the British government land foreign states was promulgated by | toda: ; Immigrant Creates Fund to 1 | | By the Associated Press NEW YORK. April 6.—Gustave Ober- laender of Reading. Pa., an immigrant who earned only $7 a week when he was a clerk in a New York bookstore 42 years ago. has esiablished a fund of $1,000,000 to promote good will be- tween the United States and Germany, his homeland. The gift is announced by the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation which, with a board of directors including Mr. Oberiaender, will administer the fun The money will distributed over a period of 25 years among.adults who wish to study in Germany, who have an interest in international affairs and “are qualified to interpret their findings to the American people.” Mr. Oberlaender, at one time a manu- facturer of knitled wear, retired from ata his home in Reading he explained the reasons for the fund. “I've_ come to the conclusion.” he sald, ‘flml. I want to dispose of my money P v o FORMER $7-A-WEEK CLERK GIVES MILLION FOR U. Land to Study . | Wyomissing, and eny onc member’s re- S.-GERMAN AMITY| Send AJults to His Native World Affairs. i while T am living. This endowment | will be followed by others the nature of which I am unable to tell because I haven't definitely made up my mind what they will be.” Although the money for the fund | came from Mr. Oberlaender, it was pre- | sented to the Schurz Foundation: | through the Wyomissing Foundation, | which is composed of Mr. Oberlaender, | Ferdinand Thun and Henry Janssen. | Each has contributed large sums to | quest for & gift is respected by the oth- ers. In this way, while the foundation is maintained jointly, each member's | doration is used in the manner he | desires. | Only students in the fields of public health and welfare, old age insurance, | race relations. music. art, or kindred business several vears ago. Yesterday | subjects will be eligible to share in the | | was driving, were in the car. | to the nearest hospital. fund. “1 don will actuslly do." he said, ' hopes that it will :do much, $ 284 5k o ! 't know what the endofment “huy T have 3NG4 8 &5 SMITH CANDIDATE WILL RUN AGAINST HOOVER. MOSES THINKS Sees Little Opposition to Renomination of President. Declares Chances of Demo- crats Impaired by Fric- tion Within Party. Special Dispatch to The Star. CONCORD. N. H.. April 6 (NANA) —President Hoover will b> renominated in 1932 without serious opposition. says United States Senator George H. Moses, who adds to that statement these ob- servations: Alfred E. Smith, despits his feeble showing in the electoral college in 1928 (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) SENATOR MOSES. BOY'S THROAT CUT INAUTO COLLISION Handle Bar of Bicycle Injures Windpipe as Wheel Strikes Woman’s Car. Donald Benjamin, 17-year-old bi- cyclist of 1310 Spring road, is in a sori- | ous condition at Garfield Hospital, with a deep gash in his wind-pipe, as a re- sult of a collision with an automobile today on Spring road, near the inter- | zection of Sixteenth street. Mrs. Sarah Johnston of Detroit, a sister-in-law of Fred A. Tilton, Third Aselstant Postmaster General, and & colored cheuffeur, John Hamlin, who The bi- cycle and machine just missed a head- on collision as tiae automobile enterad Spring road, east from Sixtecnth street A handieber of the bicycle cut the youth's neek at the wind-pipe. Police say either th> bicycle or the car side- swiped the other. as on> of the door liandles of the automobile was bent Policeman Robert Floyd of the Tenth precinct, wha was called. held the boy, still conscious. in his arms, as Mrs Johnston directed the chauffeur to speed At the hospital, said the boys' condition was serious, but it was not known whether an operation would be necessary. His only other Injuries were minor cuts 2bout the mouth Mrs, Johnston is visiting her sister d brother-in-law at their home, 1633 Van Buren strect. The chauffeur, Ham- lin, is being held at the Tenth precinct, it was said, pending an investigation. Mrs. Johnston did not see the accident. Police say the automobile was not going fast as it had just turned the corner into Spring road. it was 'VENEZUELA REVOLT GAINS HOLD ON WEST | Insurgents Reported to Have Wounded Many Soldiers and Taken Horses and Arms. By the Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia, April 6.— A Venezuelan revolutionary —movement apparently authentic reports said, has gained a foothold on the Western fron- tier. El Tiempo, Bogota daily, published a report from Arauco, Colombia, which stated that Gen. led a successful attack against Guas- dualito, village just across the border from Arauco. Many government sol- diers were said to have been wounded and horses and arms were taken hy the insurgents, whose leader styles him- self “chief of the Venezuelan revolu- tionary forces.” Gen. Cedeno, who three times before | has failed in a revolutionary attempt, announced that he wduld gather forces for a march across the hundreds of miles of mountain and marsh to Cara- cas to unseat President Bautista and Gen. Juan Vincente Gomez, secretary of war and Venezuela's strong man. His Venezuelan government in the p2st has denounced Cedeno’s operations as cattle thievery. Radio' Pr;n;-.a zl P:(e B-6 Arevalo Cedeno had | MARINES PROBIG IANACUA SLAYING U. S. Naval Officer Leaving City After Verbal Row ‘ With Moncado. By the Associated Press MANAGUA, Nicaragua. April 6.—A searching inquiry was under way today into events of Saturday night which culminat:d in the shooting of a Marine Corps sergeant and & subsequent dra- matic contact between a naval surgeon officer and the President of Nicaragua. The Marine Corps sergeant, W. H Pigg, who also was a second leutenant in th Nicaraguan National Guard, is understcod to have become slightly de- merted as a consequence of the severe strain to which every one here has bsen subjected last Tuesday's quake In the course of a reprimand to mem bers of the Guardia Nacionzl he was shot and killed and was taken to a nearby where President Moncado and members of his staff had estab- lished their residence. Interse excite- ment prevailed and feeling outside ran high Lieut. Comdr. William Hetfield, who at nearby Campo de Marte has been in charge of the herculean surgical task which followed the earthquake, heard of the shooting. and understanding that a Marine was wounded, rushed to the heuse. since Stopped by Officials. | to the children. | gown, D.C. MANISKILLED AS CAR OVERTURNS . W. Irving Hobbs Dies in De- fense Highway Accident. Brother Critically Injured. W. Irving Hobbs, a steward at the Broadmoor Apartments, was killed, and his brother, James D. Hobbs, former Washington real estate man, formerly connected with the Wardman Construc- tion Co., was critically injured in an automobile accident on the Defense Highway near Scuth River Bridge early | today. The car overturned on a sharp curve, kiling W. Irving Hobbs, while h's brother was found sometime later wandering dazedly In a nearby swampy wood. En Route to Summer Home. James D. Hobbs, who now conducts & realty business in New Jersey, had flown down from New York to rest. He was met by his brother and the two set out for West River, Md., where James D. Hobbs maintains a Summer home. ‘There were no witnesses to the acci- dent, the discovery being made Richard Willlams of Annapolis at 6:15 o'clock, as he was on his way to work in Washington. Extent of Injuries Unknown. ‘Williams brought both men to Emergency Hospital here. W. Irving Hobbs was pronounced dead, upon ar- rival. James D. Hobbs was admitted to the hospital, where it is said the full extent of his injuries have not been | determined. | State Patrolman James O. Shockley sald it was evident the car was travel- ing at a high rate of speed at the time it overturned. The automobile was listed in the name of Mrs. Margaret S. Sypesteyn, 101 Bradley Lane, Chevy Chasé, Md. James Hobbs was connected with the Wardman firm for more than 20 years. W. Irving Hobbs, who was 535, has been a steward at the Broadmoor since the latter part of last year. BOMBING OF STORE COSTS 2 GIRLS’ LIVES Six Injured When Tenement Is Fired War Against Racketeers. in Grocers’ | | ? By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, April 6.—Racketeers who planted a bomb in the grocery store of Sebastian Giarussio in Shabby | Avenue B were responsible for a tene- ment fire In which two young girls | were burned to death last night. Six other persons were injured. The two dead children were Mary, 11, and. Lil- He was stopped at the door by two | lian, 9. daughters of Charles Prena, a Nicaraguan officials, supposed Anastacio Samoza, acting foreign min- ister, who was educated in the United States, and Antonio Flores Vega, min- | ister of public works, who does not|Period of weeks. | speak English. Licut. Condr. Hetfield. worn almost to the breaking point by the tremendous strain of hundreds of operations and other relief work with which he has been associated since last Tuesday, de- manded entrance, and when it was re- fused forced his Wway into the house. Inside he found the Marine sergeant dead instead of wounded, as he had expected. and in the excitement of the moment reminded the American naval officer (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) FARMER KILLS YOUNGER OF 2 SONS; ENDS LIFE World Too Hard for Boy to Face With Farm Going for Debt, Says Note With Bodies. By the Ascoclated Press. HOMER. Mich., April 6.—Apparently despondent over financial affairs, a 56- vear-old farmer yesterday killed his at bis home near this village. | The farmer, Myron C. Littlebrandt, called the boy, Richard, who was play- ing with the brother, Leslie, 14. “Do you want me, too?” asked Leslie. “No, just Richard,” answered the father, and led the boy to the rear of {a woodsied. A few minutes later two |shots were heard by Mrs, Littlebrandt, who found her busband and son dead. A note in Littlebrandt's billfold zaid he feared he would “lose the farm” and that Richard “was too young to face a hard world.” President Moncado appeared, | to be | laborer The bombarding brought to an end a quiet warfare which tke grocer had been waging with racketeers over a | Their demands for “protection money” gave way to threats | and the bombing came as & punish- ment. The explosion wrecked Giarussia's | store on the ground floor of the tene ment and set fire to the building. | MANAGUA RELIEF PLANE FORCED 112,000 Egg-Rolling | Throng Approved By Little Hoovers i l | Drizzle Disappoints First Lady, Who Wanted Sun-I |shine—Boy Breaks Arm. | | Small Herbert Hoover, 3d, nodded ap- | proval and his big sisier, Pegg Ann, iapped her slippers in time with the | Marine Band today as 12,000 visitors | braved a persistent drizzle to attend | the annual egg-rolling on the White House grounds Four-year-old Herbert was lifted in | the arms of his grandmother to view the Easter celebration from the south | portico of the presidential mansion, while Peggy Ann, a year older, and somewhat taller, looked on from above the railing. Mrs. Hoover waved a grect- | ing to_the crowd and a few moments later the President on his way to lunch stopped for a minute and smilingly gave his approval to the fest First Lady Disappointed. In a second appearance on the portico, Mrs. Hoover bowed in return | o shouts of greeting. “Oh, look at this old rain.” she said, looking up. “We had hoped there would be lots ol sunshine.” Calling, “Welcome,” and, “Glad_to FALL'S SENTENCE ON BRIBE CHARGE UPHELD BY COURT ‘ Wifee s {Harry M. Blackmer Also Loses Appeal From $60,000 Fine in Contempt Case. {JUSTICES HOLD \_NALSH | ACT IS CONSTITUTIONAL ]lMcn Were Convicted as Result of i Government 0il Lease | Inquiry. | By the Associnted Press { A sentence of one year in jail and a | fine of £100.000 against Albert B, Fail, | former Interior Secretary was affirmed see you,” Mrs. Hoover pointed out Girl | today in the District of Columbia Court |sult with Scouts and other groups on the lawn She wore a deep plum with a wrap thrown over her shoulders. The drizzle set in shortly before the White House grounds were opened to the youngsters, but failed to dampen the spirits of some 300 youngsters and their parents, who had collected at the White House gates. The children romped over the White House grounds, their spirits gay despite the weather. Their elders, however brought umbrellas and rainco These sheltered the spectators while an un- | ually extensive program of folk dances s presented. Costume Dance Presented. The first dance was presented under auspices of the Neighborhood House, a cosume affair, entitled, “Push the Business On.” While newsreel oper tors and newspaper photographers to pictures from all angles dancers trooped from an arena in the central part of the south grounds and were followed by another_group. This number was en- titled, “The Scarf Dance,” and was fol- lowed by an ensemble, ““The Frolic.” In his excitement to see the President and members of his family, 10-year-old Samuel Jackson of Muskeegon, Mich slipped and fell on the wet grass, break- ing his arm. One of the ambulances detziled to emergency duty by the Dis- trict Chapter, American Red Cross, took the boy to Emergency Hospital, where his arm was set. White House police announced at noon today that 12,796 persons \were admitted to the grounds to attend the egg-rolling. At least that many more visitors are expected later today aithough the inclement weather prol ably will reduce the total attendance (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) MAHATMA GANDHI PLANS U. 5. VISIT Believes Trip Would Give Im- | petus to Campaign to Liberate India. By the Associated Press, NEW DELHI, India, April 6.—Ma- hatma Gandhi is considering a visit to the United States, either before qr after the second round table conference in Lindon, it was announced today. Gandhi believes, it was said, that Indix's liberation movement will receive greater world support if he visits the country which 150 yeers ago faced much the same problem which he claims is now confronting India. The Mahatma feels, It was said, that if there is any Western people who have an outlook on human problems similar to his it is America. He believes that if_he can strike a resp-nsive chord in Afnerican hearts for Indian emancipa- tion his creed of universal non-violence as a weapon for winning what he con- siders the rights of man will receive & great impetus. Gandbhi is anxious, it was declared, to bring into fruition, with the Eastern spiriiualism, Woodrow Wilson's ideal of an international brotherhood, which he claims was killed by European materialism after the war. It Gandhi decides definitely to visit America, it was sald, he will go as a private citizen, without a formal invita- tion. His friends here feel that after he lands on American soil, if he goes, the President would be free to invite him to Washington as a distinguished foreign guest, after which Gandhi would con- responsible Americans re- specting a formal itinerary. Gandhi paid a farewell vis Irwin tonight and discussed the pro- cedure of the approaching London con- ference as well as the latest phases of the Moslem Hindu communal problem. The Nationalist Congress appointed a_committee of Indian experts today to examine the financial transactions of ' the British government and India dur- ing the last 50 years, with a view to determining what part of the govern- mental costs should be borne by India and what part by Great Britain. BACK BY PERILOUS FOG WALLS ‘Maj. Geiger of Marine Corps Returns to Hampton Roads After Start With Cargo of Medicines. | ing to a flight report to the Navy De- | 10-year-old son and tnok his own Hle; thick | airmail Roy S. After weather, plares along the coast, Dattling dangerously which forced down Maj. | Geiger, Marine Corps, flying a cargo- | plane loaded with medical supplies for | the relief of Managua, Nicaragu forced to return to the Hampton Naval Air Station, Va., this morning. Maj. Geiger took off from Hampton Roads Station at 9:15 o'clock, accord- partment, but was forced to return | Iater after seeking in vain to find way through. walls of fog, rain and| thick clouds. Maj. Geiger is receiving constant ther information from airway sta- tions along the New York-Miami air- way and is standing by at Hampton waiting to take off again at the first word of a break in the weather. He hopes to. get off during the day. In the meantime the Navy Depart- ment reccived word that doctors, hos- pital attaches and women nurses for | Managua, along with al and surgical supplies, | had reached Corinto aboard the Navy Hospital Ship Rellef. The Relief transferred her patients in midocean to battleships off Lower California to steam under forced draft to Corinto, nearest port to Managua. ‘The Relief carried several hundred cof tents and 73,000 units of tetanus anti toxin. The oiler Salinas, now at Bal- boa, will sail tomorrow for Corinto w 30,000 food rations. Admiral Smith reported to the Navy hat the transport Chaumont sailed Saturday night for Balboa carrying 185 American women and children, some of whom will b: reshipped from the Canal Zone on other vessels, while 75 will be brought to American Atlantic coast ports April 13. Mt » k off from Quantico. terday morning 0 Al g o'cl ded at Hamptom,Roads at 6:3 e aboard 650 poumds of anti- toxis, in addition to abou% 50 pounds plaged aboard before the Yeraft left Quantico. He contemplated direct to Miami yesterday, A 4 aid of | to Lord | ot Appeals. | At the same time the court upheld {the decision of a lower court undsr ,Which Harry M. Blackmer was fin-d 1 560,000 for contempt of court in refus- {ing to return from France to appear as a witness in the cil trials of Herry F. | Sinclair and Fall. Convicted in Bribery. ? Fall was convicted ‘of accepting A {bribe from Edward L. Doheny for & !leass granted the California oil man {to naval oll reserves while Pall was Secretary of the Interior. : | At the conclusion of a lengthy deci? {slon, in which he quoted liberally from arguments in the lower court case, As- soclate Justice Jesiah A. Van Orsdel of | the Court of Appeals said simply, “The { judgment is affirmed.” ; The decision against Blackmer was' |handed down by Astoclate Justice”. | Charles H. Rob and upheld the judg- , ment of the lower court, with the addi- { tion of costs. Finds “Commen Motive.” | Justice Van Orsdel devoted a large | part of his decision to the contention {of Fall's counsel that it was improper to admit, in the Fall-Doheny bribe case, | any evicence of transactions with Sin- | clair in making a l2ase of the Teapot clair of a large amount of Government bonds and. the alleged loan-of $100,000 by Doheny to Fall to purchase the | Harris ranch,” the . “were | prompted by initial suggestions from f'" l:lud\fllcull:‘l'e! that was having n relation to ranch holdings in New :uexlm." > The court said that, although the | record discloses no beiweer; | Doheny and Sinclair, “it that Fall was considering the two on behalf of the Government at same time and conside: each relations to the other” apd with & common motive in mind.” Appeal May Be Taken, In the absence in Europe of Frank J. Hogan, Fall's attorney, no word came from defense counsel as to whether an ‘ppntl would be taken to the Supreme urt. The Court of Appeals has 15 days in which to invoke the mandate which might send Fall to the penitentiary. However, Fall could be paroled. Should his counsel seek a writ of certiorari | from the Supreme Court, he would have three months in which to make the ap- iphcll\on. During that time 1t would be the normal step for counsel to take ac- | tion to prevent his going to prison until {Lh;i Supreme c;un, decision. owever, such petitions must show a | constitutional question is involved be- fore a review is granted. Cites Expatriation. ! Justice Robb, in ruli ( Blackmer case, said: B AN It is inconceivable that a citizen Vliness may clog the -wheels of justice ! by crossing the international border and | that the Government siould be power~ {less to summon him to rewurn and to ::mrpcahm;n ]lawl\ penalty if, without . he fails to res N - oo pond fo th. sum. ustice Robb said he had no | Congress had consider:d "the pmbl““: | serious consequences which might -re- sult” from the refusal of a witness te respond to a subpoena in a foreign | country when it authorizsd “a pemaity | of $100,000 for.cach ofiens . “It had a right to take into consider ation that ordinarily only a _man of mean., could afford the luxury of aban- doring his business and practically. ex- ratriating himself by taking up -his residence abroad,” the court said. “A small fine in such circumstacces would have no deterrent effect. 1In the present case the records indicate Mr. Blackmer is a man of extensive business interests and larg: means. Considering | the records as a whole, we are_ clearly of the view that the trial court, in as- sessing the fines, did not abuse its | discretion.” Walsh Act Upheld. Blackmer was found guilty of ‘eon- tempt cn two charges of failing to heed a subpoena and fined $30,000 on each charge. The action was taken under the Walsh act permitiing the Government to seize property of any citizen who re- fused to return from abroad to testify for the Government in a criminal case, The law was attacked as unconstitu- tional by Blackmer's attorneys and was upheld by Justice Frederick L. Siddons in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. 5 Blackmer went abroad two years be- fore he was summoned to appear as a Government witness in the oil seandal |'cases and maintained he had given up his residence in the United States and had established one in Paris. Seized $100,000 Bonds. After the first refusal to Teturn the Government fil=d contempt proceedings against him and seized $100,000 . in bonds belonging to Blackmer. The law permitted that amount to be seizéd as the maximum, but when Blackmer w: " (Continued or Page 3, Column 1.) BILLION IN CONTRACTS, $1,028,079,178 in Building Jebs in Four Months Listed. By the Associated Press More than one billion dollars’ worth of construction work has been eon- tracted for since December 1 and Te- ported to the President’s Emergenc: Employment Committee, Chairman Woods of the committse announced today that reports of con~ tracts received totaled $1.028,079,173. During the ppst week repirts were re- ceived from 38 States and the Distriet of Columbia, tfl"'-l;l"lnl 203 prejeets, k