Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer tonight. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 69, at noon today; lowest, 42, at 6:45 am. today. Full report on page 9. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. he Z WASHINGTON, D. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION pening Star. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 31,754, Yesterday’s Circulation, 118,076 Entered as second class matt post office, Washington, D. No. i C., THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1931—FIFTY PAGES. #%% UP) Means Associated Préss. TWO CENTS. SPEAKER LONGWORTH DIES OF PNEUMONIA BODY TO BE TAKEN TO CINCINNATI 'BANK BANDIT SLAIN DIRECTLY FOR FUNERAL SATURDAY; INMARYLAND TOWM: G. 0. P. FACES FIGHT FOR MAJORITY " CONPANIONS FLEF |C. H. Owens, Assistant Cash- RAskoa House Sergeant-| at-Arms Will Plan Rites. AIKEN FLOODED | BY MESSAGES]| Condolences Sent| From All Quarters of Globe. By the Associated Press. AIKEN, 8. C., April 9.—Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the Na- tional House of Representatives, uocumbed to pneumonia here to- day. The debonair, kindly, dignified i jtatesman fought for more than | @hree days, exhibiting a vitality ghat was the marvel of his physi- i pians, against the infection of the Jung, but succumbed at 10:49 a.m. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, widow of the Republican leader, made arrangements with the Speaker’s office at Washington to have the body taken directly to Cincinnati, where funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Funeral arrangements were placed in the hands of Sergeant at Arms Rogers of the House, at Washington, and he immediately got into communication with rail- road officials to make special pro- visions for the funeral party. Messages Pour In. Miss Mildred Reeves, Speaker Longworth’s secretary is to leave| ‘Washington for Cincinnati today | to complete arrangements there.' Services will be held in the Long- Aiken tomorrow morning bearing Speaker’s’ body directly to Cincinnati. It will arrive there snuxgymmormr;g\‘i A ional party, nam hur%n““rmmt Congress at the fu- neral, will leave Washington Friday afternoon_and go direct to Cincinnati. It probably will include Vice President Curtis. Senator Watson of Indiana will be a member. Shortly after the news of his death was flashed to the world, telegraph boys hegan to deliver messages of condolence which poured in from all over the globe. Unusual Stillness. There was an unusual stiliness about the big Coionial house as car after car came up, packed and the occupants walked siowly into the building. The window of the first floor room where the Speaker lay fighting for his life from Monday, was shaded for the first time in days to keep out the| sunlight. It was from this window that a physician signaled to newspaper men across the street that the debonalr,| friendly statesman, whom even the! smallest street urchin loved, had died.| Stricken Last Monday. | At the bedside of the Speaker when he died was his wife, the former Alice| Roosevelt, daughter of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, and his friend, Mrs. James F. Curtis, at whose home he contracted the discase His daughter, Paulina, was not with Yields Gavel to Death NICHOLAS LONGWORTH. —Underwood Photo. CAPITAL MOURNS -FOR GENIAL “NICK" RITES FOR SPEAKER Grief Is Deepest for Long- worth, the Man, Rather Than Speaker. By the Associated Press. Under the mourning for Speaker Longworth there was deeper grief in the Capital today for the genial “Nick” who | was what Representative McDuffie of Alabama called “a natural human be- ing.” “There are a lot of Republicans we could do without,” McDuffie, the Democratic whip, wrote the Speaker just a few days ago, “but you are not one of them.” HOOVER T0 ATTEND ' First Lady Will Accompany President on Special Train Friday Night. President and Mrs. Hoover will at- |tend the funeral of Speaker Long- worth in Cincinnati Saturday. This announcement, made &t the | White House this afternoon, stated that the President and Mrs. Hoover and those who accompany them will travel | to Cincinnati in a special train leaving | Washington Priday night. The death of Speaker Longworth | brought expressions of regret from all official Washington. | Battle to Retain Speakership to Be Close. FIVE VACANCIES NOW HOLD KEY| Democratic Success Would Give 217- 217 Tie. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘The death of Speaker Nicholas Longworth, in addition to remov- ing from Washington one of the| best loved men in public office,' | creates for the Republican party a real problem. It becomes necessary for the Republicans to fight in the Ohio district for the seat in the House | occupied for so many years by "Mr. Longworth. They must have |1t if they are to retain their majority of one in the next House. It also becomes necessary for the Republicans to select a candi- date for Speaker in the place of Mr. Longworth, who was chosen‘ unanimously at the caucus of| Republicans held before the last| Congress expired. | The election last Fall placed 218 | Republicans in the House, 216 Demo- |crats and 1 Farmer-Laborite. While | there have been several deaths of mem- | bers elected to the next House, there |has been no change so far in the | political lne-up. There js one Repub- | liean vacaney today in Wisconsin, due | to the death of the veteran Henry | Allen Cooper. But 1t s expected the | Republicans will be able to elect his| | successor. | Possible Tie in Standing. | carry that district the count would be 217 Republicans, 217 Democrats and 1 Farmer-Labor member. Last November Mr. Lcngworth car- ried his district _with a majority of 3507 over his Democratic opponent. | Two years earlier, in the 1928 Repub- | lican “landslide, Mr. Longworth rolled | up & majority of 30,932, In the earlier “cff year” election in 1926, he won by 18,808 votes over the Democratic can- didate. It is clear that the conditions in the district politically changed greatly from 1926 and 1928 to 1930. Whether another Republican without the personal popularity and prestige of Speaker Lcngworth can win there against a Democrat remains to be seen. | The names of three members of the House today were mentioned as possible selections for the speakership on the | Republican side of the chamber. They |are Representative John Q. Tilscn of Connecticut, who has been Republican floor leader for years; Representative Bertrand H. Snell of New York, chair- man of the powerful Rules Committee, |and Representative Will R. Wood of Indiana, chairman of the Committee on | Appropriations. Difficult G. O. P. Problem. Mr. Longworth was frcm the Middle ReQuests RATIC COMMITTEE RHEEM FOR RETURN OFSIG2000NNOTES Accused Man Asks That Se- curities Be Delivered to Trus- tees by Trust Company. Edmund D. Rheem, ex:cutive vicr president of Swartzell, Rheem & Hen sey, today announced he favored t return to the trusteces of $162,000 ! mortgage notes allegedly embezzled b him from customers who had left th'n in the firm’s vaults for safe keeping. The return of the notes, secured principally by trusts on the Shoreham | Hotel . which have not been released, would reduce the potential loss growing out of the failure of the mortgags house by their aggregate face value. Mr. Rhem, who was arrested in Feb- tnat they be returned to the trustees. Having his consent, it was expected the bank would readily turn over the notes. If returned, the notes will be given by ihe trustees to the owners. ‘Will Be Taken From Estate. The $162,000 loss, it was understood, would be borne by the estate of the late | Clarence B. Rheem. I. was also learned today that the trustees expect the total value of notes missing from_the company’s vaults, in " (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) GOVERNOR IS AMBUSHED Mexican and Aides Fight Off Ban- | dits With Machine Guns. | MExICO CITY, April 9 (P).—Gov. Agustin Arroyo of Guanajuato, and two aides were ambushed by bandits on a road near Irapuato Sunday night but fought them off with machin guns. | " The governor and his party were traveling in an armored automobile, | said = dispatch to La Prensa today, ! when they were obliged to stop at & barrier. The bandits opened fire from | New Requirements Bring 50 Per Cent Drop in Marriages By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK. April 9.—Mar- rlages have fallen off nearly 50 per cent at Grace Church since the rector. Dr. W. Russell Bowie, “tightened” the requirements Dr. Bowie noted that the slump had taken place since he began requiring newlyweds to sign an agreement that the tie would actually bind and also that the couple join & church The church had 55 marriages in 1929, he said, and 29 in 1930 “TRDON MURDER BELIEVED SOLVEL Harry Stein Charged With Should the Republicans, however, ot ot R SN ing him witn | Slaying—Four Others Held fall to carry the first Ohlo district in | o1ypespling the securities, said he had | the election of & successor to Mr.| . iiten the Washington Loan & Trust | Longworth and the Democrats should| ¢, = where the notes are held, urging | as Witnesses. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 9.—Harry Stein, | who went to prison in 1921 for at- tempting to strangle a woman, was held today for the February 26 murder of Vivian Gordon, strangler victim. Four others were arrested as Wwit- nesses. Police sald the motive for the murder had been robbery and not, as |as a vice inquiry witness. Police produced three persons who | identified "Stein as the man who on the day after the Gordon murder was in possession of articles similar to those stolen from Vivian Gordon—a mink coat, a wrist watch and a chain, Records revealed Stein was convicted |10 years ago and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment_for robbing Mary Glick- man at her Bronx apartment after he Arrests Made Simultaneously. The arrests were made simultaneously last night in various parts of the city. Besides Stein, those arrested were: alias Greenberg, fe,” 44 years old; Greenhear and “Gi first suspected, to prevent her testifying | had bound, gagged and attempted to | e strangle her. COMMISSION ACTS T0 ANSWER PEPCO “'tilities Group to Send Re- quest for Legal Advice to Bride’s Office Today. The Public Utllities Commission to- appeared to have accepted the <hallenge of the Potomac Electric Power Co. to go to court about Washington's clestric rates. At its regular meeting the commis- ~n considered at length the action 1 the corporation's board of directors '=ct Wednesday, flatly refusing to enter | into any compromise with the com- | mission looking to reduced rates. Pinally | it was decided to send to the corpora- | tion counsel's office a list of possible | courses of action, and ask for legal ad- | vice on which would be the best to pursue. Bride on Sick Leave. ‘The list will be sent up sometime this afterncon. Corporation Counsel Wil- | lam W. Bride is away on sick leave, | and not expected to return until next Tuesday. The commission will not make public the nature of the possible courses of action to be submitted to | Mr. Bride, but judging from the tone of their letter to the power company of | March 14, they intend to take the mat- | | ter_to court. ‘The present disagreement between | the commission and the corporaticn has been brewing since December 30, when the commission found as a fact that the return enjoyed by the com- papy on its agreed valuation since the | present consent decree regulating rates went into effect in 1924 was too high. Since that time there have been wo | | conferences with power company of- |ficials in an effort to arrive at some | compromise, neither of which yielded anything. Company Declines Plan. ‘The commission suggested at one time that the consent decree be modified so as to change the 7!, per cent return allowed to the company before rate reductions are made to 63, per cent and also to make other changes as the { company's earnings increased. | suggestion. In its letter of March 14 | They leaped into their ‘The company declined to accept this | ier, Shoots Robber at Upper Mariboro, Md. ;DEAD MAN IDENTIFIED AS CAPITAL RESIDENT | One of Trio Armed With Machine Gun—Washington Police Join Pursuit. One of three armed bandits who at- tempted to hold up and rob the First National Bank at Upper Marlboro, Md., today was shot and killed by C. H. Owens, assistant cashier, “'Stick 'em up,” one of the bandits demanded. Fired Three Shots. Owens' response was to pick up a revolver and fire three shots at the trio. The man nearest Owens collapsed to the floor while his two companions fled. automobile, parked just outside the bank, and whirled away in the direction of the Capital. A half hour after the hold-up a car believed to contain the bandits flashed across the Anacostia Bridge at Eleventh street southeast, was fired on by police who were lying in walt for it and turned back toward Maryland, over the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge. The eleventh precinct patrol car kept in pursuit of the bandits’ machine, and had not been heard from an hour later. Meanwhile Washington police rushed a special squad armed with a machine gun to Brown Corner, Md., in,re- sponse to reports that the bandits had been surrounded in a patch of woods and were ready to shoot it out with Maryland police. Came From Chicago. Several customers were in the bank when the robbers, one of whom was al with a machine gun, entered. The man with the machine gun stood in the doorway, while the other two strode toward the cage behind which Owens and other employes of the bank were at work. hu‘ll;‘he :loumed bandit, with two bullet chest, - waspromounced dead by Dr. Reverdey Sasccer. He was identified as Joseph Hayes of the Clifton | Terrace Apartments, Washington, by an automobile registration card found in his pocket. Identification papers found in the dead man’s pocket indicated that he came here from Chicago. Police scent- ing some connection between the Marl- boro hold-up and the murder of Mrs. Elizab:th Jaynes, Garden T Shop cashier, dispatched detectives to the Clifton ent house to ch for some evidence of Hayes' residence. there, Bandits Waited in Car. Miss Polly Pollock, proprietor of & general merchandise store across the street from the bank, told Sheriff W. Curtis Hopkins' the bandits’ automobile had been parked in front of her store throughout the morning. While the eleventh precinct patrol car was giving chase to the bandit machine, Inspector William S. Shelby of ' the Detective Bureeau, by radio, ordered the radio cruisers cf the first and second precincts, the patrol cars cf the ninth, eleventh and fifth precincts, motor-cycle men and all available foot patrolmen to the eastern section of the city to pick up the bandits if they attempt to enter the Chpital again, JAPANESE PREMIER AGAIN OPERATED ON | Resignation of Hamaguchi, him. The tribute went with hope for quick| Word spread quickly over the Capital, | West. Both Tilson and Snell are {rom | pehind stone walls on both sides of ' goinaiion 6o the commission pointed out that it had Taken sick Monday, physicians diag- nosed Speaker Longworth's illness as pneumonia Monday night. He steadily grew worse and 48 hours later they ad- | mitted his condition was desperate. | Mrs. Longworth was notified as soon 25 it was determined he was suffering from pneumonia and she arrived in Aiken Wednesday morning. Her forti- tude, Dr. R. H. Wilds of Aiken, one of the attending physicians said, was re- markable. No Plans for Funeral Yet. Two of Mrs. Longworth’s brothers, Kermit and Archibald Roosevelt, were believed to be speeding to the bedside in a plane, but they had not arrived st the time of the Speaker's death. | Mr. Longworth arrived in Alken March 30 to rest after the arduous du- | tics as Speaker of the House. He de- | veloped a cold soon after arriving, but | it was not believed serious until’ this| week. | He had played a little golf after ar- riving, friends said, but had done little else in the way of exercis | Mr. Longworth came to Aiken on March 30 for a visit to Mr. and Mrs Curtis, Washington residents with a Winter home in this resort. The Speaker contracted a cold last week and Monday night was found to have pneumonia. No announcement was made of his iliness until Tuesday. .Mrs. Longworth arrived _yesterday “(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) PAYNE LEAVES ALABAMA Assistant Secretary of War Takes Off From Maxwell Field for New Orleans. By the Associated Press. MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 9.— Frederick H. Payne, Assistant Secretary of War, accompanied by Mrs. Payne, took off from Maxwell Pield here today in a transport plane for New Orleans, their next stop on a trip to Panama. recovery from the cold that became fa- tal pneumonia. It accompanied & reso- lution urging Speaker Longworth to ad- | dress the Alabama Legislature. The ges- ture was proposed by an Alabama Dem- ocratic leader who had talked with the Speaker for a few moments in Mc-, executive departments of the Govern- | Duffie’s Capitol office. It was the “Nick” of such incidents who received first tributes up and down the Capitol. It was he who is said to have Inspired Democratic Leader Garner of Texas to refer, once, to “about 200 Longworth votes,” which concededly dep:nded upon the decision of the Speaker. Big Man With Smile for All He was a big man, this “Nick.” He was bald and ruddy-faced, uncommoniy healthy. His clothes and the hand- some cane he carried were those of the (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) LOST CLOSEST AND where he had been known and lked for | more than a quarter of a century. Expressions of Tegret were spontaneous. Flags on the Capitol were half-staffed 15_minutes after his death. | " President Hoover issued an executive order directing that the flags on all ment and on the White House be put at half-stafl today and on the day of the funeral. It is the first time the White House flag has been at half-staff since the death of Chief Justice Taft. President Hoover issued this state- | ment: “Mr. Longworth served countrymen in State and Nation for over 33 years—nearly the whole of his | adult” life. In his service he con- tributed greatly to_the welfare of the American people. His happy character, his_sterling honesty, his courage on ublic questions, endeared him and held the respect not alone of his myriad of friends but of the country at large His passing is a loss to the Nation.” President Hoover's message of con- (Continued on Page 2, Cclumn 1.) D BEST LOVED | FRIEND, LEADER GARNER DECLARES [Rival of Speaker Longworth Pays Tribute to Manhood, Citizenship and Statesmanship. By the Assoriated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 9.—Rep- deplored the death of Speak Longworth. “He was my closest and best-loved | loss to the coun- friend. It is a great | Speaker Longworth for nearly 30 years,” Garner sald. “I knew him as a man and as a legislator and he was the best | resentative John H. Garner of Texu,“m of citizen and his statesmanship Democratic leader qf the House, today | was of the highest and most patriotic. er Nicholas | True, he was a partisan, but he was | honest and courageous and was loved by all his countrymen. Republical in his fellow | “He was as fair and impartial a try,” sald Mr, Garner, who was informed | Speaker as the country has had for the of ‘Speaker Longworth's death by the |past half century, He was a rTegular San Antonio Light over long-distance | n, which means he believed organization and party re- the North and East. The Republicans will have to determine whether they are 2, Column 4. ""(Continued on Page Circulation Average Net Circulation i 1922 Increase in Circulation Percentage of Increase. Dal The Evening Star | 115,726 112,847 ! 110,637 | 103/270 the road, but were driven off when the machine guns were turned on them. None of the governor's party was hurt. of The Star for the Month of March During the Past Ten Years. The Sunday Star 123,231 118,132 118,278 111,304 110,998 108,582 108,321 105,659 98,242 93,498 Sunday, 29,733 31.8% ily, 22,338 ‘o 24% The circulation of The Star has steadily increased during the past year until it has reach Adve | March, 1931. March, 1930. | its total volume of advertising Increase in Advertising ed the highest point in the his- tory of both the Evening and Sunday editions. rtising Total Volume of Advertising in The Star. Agate Lines . 2,195,747 . 2,112,661 83,086 The Star not only made a gain in advertising in March, but for the month was exceeded by only two papers in the United States, the New York Times and Morris (Doc) Levine, 36; occupation, electrician. 34; David Butterman, | Jobber. Jack Holdceroft, 29, former Canadian trooper. Skeleton keys and a pistol were found in Holderoft's room. occupation, three of the men mentioned in Vivian Gordon's diary—the diary in which she set down her affairs of love and black- mail and fear. Deny Knowing Gordon Woman. ‘The three—Stein, Levine and Green- hauer—denied knowing the Gordon woman. They could not explain their names in her diary. Another bit of evidence against Stein, police said, was the appearance in_the (Continued on Paj WILL DISCUSS INDIANS Dr. Roy Lyman Sexton to Address Episcopalian Men's Club. An illustrated lecture, “Forgotten People of the Shenandoah Valley,” will be presented by Dr. Roy Lyman Sexton, under the auspices of the Men's Club of the St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church, in the auditorium of the parish house, at Sixteenth and New- ton streets, at 6:45 o'clock tonight. pictures will show the Shenan- doah, Great Smoky and other Eastern naf parks and a game of Indian ball played by Cherokee Indians. Dr. Sexton will be introduced by Hcrace M. Albright, director of national parks in the United States. ADDRESSES FIREMEN Brig. Gen. John A. Johnston, former chairman of the District Red Cross Roll Call Committee, addressed a class of firemen, students in the Red Cross life saving classes, at engine house No. 20, in avenue and Warren street, yesterday afternoon. The address was made at the special request of the Dis- e 2, Column 6.) Stein, Levine and Greenhauer are | the power to revalue the company’s properties at any time should the com- pany not go with it on the matter of modifying the consent decree. The commission accepted the pro- posal of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. to charge a $4 cash price for the installation of hand-set tele- phones, with no extra monthly charge, or to charge each consumer $4.50 for | the new type telephone, payable in 25- | cent monthly installments dating back | to June 30, 1930. Schedule Is Filed. The company's schedule was filed without elther approval or disapproval and will remain in effect until the | commission decides to take any other | action with respect to it. The telephone company has in-| formed the Public Utilitles Commis- sion that only the usual installation | charge will be made to hand-set users | when they move and that they will | not be forced again to pay the $4.50 charge for the phones after they have done so once. The company pointed out, however, that the instruments re- main the property of the company and | the amount paid for the privilege of | having & hand set in one’s home or | office does not purchase the instru- | ment. | | | YOUTH HELD AFTER RAID ; Charles E. Adams, 19, Arrested as Police Find Liquor in Apartment. Raiding an apartment near Thir- | teenth and Euclid streets last night, members of the police vice squad ar- rested Charles E. Adams, 19, on a charge of illegal possession. Seizure of | 52 quarts of assorted liquors was re- ported. Adams, who gave his address in the 1400 block of lmont street, is said escape fr¢‘n the third-floor apartment. He was taken into custody by a policeman stationed | on the second floor. Wounded by Shot Last Novem- ber, Denied in Tokio. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 9.—A Reuter'’s News Agency dispatch from Tokio said today there was no foundation for reports published here that Premier Hamaguchi of Japan has resigned. A second operation was performed last night upon the premier, shot and | wounded last November by a young pa- triot who had objected to the govern- ment's espousal of the London Naval Treaty. A local anaésthetic was administered. Surgeons later said the premier was doing as well as could be expected. Incapacitated for several months, Hamaguchi recently returned to his official duties, only to discover soon he had not sufficiently recuperated. Late last night his condition became such that an immediate operation was de- cided upon. DITCH WORKER RESCUED AFTER HOUR UNDER DIRT Colored Man, Caught by Cave-in at 1118 Fifty-first Place North- east, Taken to Hospital. Buried for almost an hour in a cave-in of the heavy wet clay o1 & sewer ditch, Wesley Young, colored, 37 years old, of 403 Twenty-second street, was seriously injured this morning. It was said at Casualty Hospital, where he was taken by the rescue squad after being removed from the ditch, that he is suffering from factured ribs on the left side, and cuts and bruises about the body. ‘The man was working in the diteh, about 12 or 14 feet deep, with a con- struction crew from the F. W. Rose Co., in front of a house at 1118 Fifty-first place northeast, when the side of the ditch gave way, burying him under the rain soaked earth. The fire rescue squad and an ambulance from Casualty Hos- The Assistant Secretary and his wife | tel arrived here late yesterday and spent | the night as guests of Maj. Walter Weaver, Maxwell Field commandant. ‘Their plane was piloted by Lieut. F. H. Kimble of the Army Air Corps. New Orleans they will fiy to Kelly Field. Tex. lephone at his home at Uvalde. ‘The Representative declined to dis- cuss the political situation in the House. Messages of condolence were dis- patched by Garner immediately. He said he would attend the funeral services. "le:m intimately -associated with trict Chapter Instructor, Ira Lee Law,| Leaves to Inspect Water Ways. and Fire Chief Watson. Gen. Johnston will also speak before the next Police Department Red|Cross class. the Detroit News. The Star carries this great volume of adver- tising because its advertisers appreciate that their announce- ments in The Star reach practically the entire community— both the city and suburbs. part sponnb:{ny, which is the opinion of | most men who have had experience in | legisiative efforts. “I have lost one of my best loved friends; the country has lost a good cit- izen and the Congress has lost a most valuable member.” - pital responded, and directed the other members of the crew m rescuing the Maj. Gen. T. Q. Ashburn, chairman worker. The work of d!flin‘ the man from which completely cov= o the Ii vays Corporation, left herg“this mornifiaig make an in- spectioff of water ways in’ South and | under the clay, West,. and will return t8 this city ered him, took almost an hour, Deaner is foreman of the crew, J. Radio Pngr_nn; n Page D-4