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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 67, at 3:30 p.m. yesterdey; lowest, 42, at 6:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 @h ¢ Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION iny Star. ‘The only in Washin, Associated service. Yesterday's Cir Entered post offic second W lass mai on, D, No. 31.761. tter ¢ WASHINGTON, D. THURSDAY, A PRIL 16, 1931 —FIFI PV EIGH ;vening paper gton with the Pre: culation, 119,481 @ M s Associated Pry TWO CENTS. I STILL AN KING, DECLARES ALFONSD;, —— ELECTIONS IN JUNE, metcpmone wdria News of Situation. ly to for Royal Couple, Upon Reacmng‘(]hm‘ring Throng Greets France, Deny Abd'cahon':QueenulSlalion,Slrvwing Asserting Ruler Will Remain Path With Flowers. Aloof Awaiting Voting. By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 16.—Spain’s King and Queen, driven from their throne at Madrid in a movement which has cul- minated in establishment of a Spanish republic, today found an asylum in DUKE OF MARINDA SAYS ALL RIGHTS ARE RETAINED Spain Quiet Again After Commu- " VICTORIA BREAKS DOWN; AWAITS ALFONSO IN PARIS | QUE imnscqurncc of the strain of the past ' four days. The Queen recovered sufficiently a few hours later to telephone Madrid for latest news of the situation there. She (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) N VICTORIA. France. Sad-faced and tearful, Queen Victoria, who left an English home to become ilboa—Cabinet Tackles | Paris with five of their children this bt i | forenoon. She retired to a hotel apart- Formidable Mass of Problems| ment, where she was said later to be —Alfonso has 'not abdicated the| " ~" throne of Spain, the Duke or'Nl[}ARAGUA AS NEw hold, speaking for the dcposedl_ monarch upon his arrival from| Cartagena aboard the Spanish A]’]’A[;KS ARE MADE said. | of his rights,” the duke declared. qp; “He has merely avandoned e SMP Takes 22 Aduits, Mostly power in order to avoid trouble or‘ Women, and 8 Children | “King Alfonso awaits the forth- | coming elections in June to settle the fate of the country. He wm”ay e decided the form of government | chjidren from Puerto Cabezas was under they wish, and then will abide bylw:y today as insurgents extended their their decision.” | operations both to the north and south moment they reached France made en- | coast. * phatic declaration that Alfonso did not | abdicate his throne or renounce the|Co’s vessel Cefalu, with 22 adults, royal prerogative until such time 2s he | yesterday from Puerto Cabezas, where decides whether the people want Bim \yyo™ jnrapieants have been panic SEQVUN tosaat hinaias, He | stricken for several days owing to the has not even passed over his powers. | descent of outlaws on the surrounding He has merely left his country,” Victoris | territory. insisted to newspaper men Wwho sour- | “pithough Comdr. nistic Flares in Seville, Barce- ¢z bride of King Alfonso, reached Facing Republican Government. in a state of virtual prostration as a MARSEILLE, France, April 16.1‘ Miranda, chief of the royal house- | cruiser Principe Alfonso today, “His majesty has retained all| even civil war.” From Puerto Cabezas. remain aloof until the people h“"‘ Evacuation of American women and Both the King and Queen from the |of that port on Nicaragua's eastern royel line, but merely suspended the | mestly women, and 8 chlidren, sailed “The King has not abdicated. neyed with her.fram Hendage, on W. W. Waddell, frontier, to ll»‘.m, e | SOMManding the - gunboat- Asheville at Puerto Cabezas, did not mention her QUIET IS RESTORED. destination in his report, it was pre- . : | sumed to be New Orleans. New Ccbinet Attacks Problems Con- | "5 10 sy american women remained fronting Government. bt iPasito” Caberas. N DUBOSE. e [ Two New Attacks Made. (Copyright, 1931, by the Associated Press.) The Standard Pruit & Steamship | MADRID, April 16—Spain seitled | down today and went back to Work afer a prolonged and little lsss than Gelirious holiday of celebrating the new | Tepublic. The new cabinet was tackling the formidable mass of details and general problems which were demanding the at- tention of the government. Alejandro Le:roux, minister of state in'the new republican government. to- day announced that Mexico and Uru- guay had Tecognized ths new republic. Hie aded that Argentina would follow Communist _disturbances which had flared at Seville, Barcelona and Bilbao seemed {o have subsided. Order continued in Madrid. The streets resumed their normal appear- an The police, who we:e back on the job today, all wore the red arm- bands of the republic and republican or red flags floated everywhere. It seemed strange to see no civil guards on the streets. They were still on duty, but they were being made as ineenspicuous as possible on the streets because heretofore the civil guards al- ways represented the force which was aimed at suppressing the republican movement. ‘ghey are crack nation-wide military police, whose tradition 15 to obey t government and preserve or- der, whatever the government may be. Create Own Guards. “Theoretically v fight for the republic_as they for the monarchy. The republicens, neverthe- less, have created their own volunteer civil republican guards, which are not yet in uniform and are distinguishable y by red arm bands. Many army officers and soldiers seen today had removed the from their caps and n moved the ins Emblems of everywhere er disappearing cr being covered with red or republican colors. A big problem still remained. however, to get rid of all monarchial stamps, coins and currency. These m be re-made. for ail of them carry tures of King Alfcnso or otber former monarch All face a similar item to supply Republican, _instead crests for all_ships, government offices. Much of the pic. turesqueness of ceremonial for wh Spain has been famous will presumably be lost in the new order, such as the gorgeously-uniformed Royal Guard and the medicval court costumes used on gala occasions The royal palace here has been for- Continued on Fage 4, Coumn 1.) ments and publications ation. It is no small en the new flags and of Monarchist army posts and MONARCH’'S AUNT, 80 YEARS OLD, | score Marines, Dispatches to the Navy and State| Departments reported new insurgent at- tacks at Cape Graclas a Dios, north of Puerto Cabezas, and at Rama on| | the Escondido River, 60 miles from | tenseness the House of Commons assem- Bluefields, well down the coast from Puerto Cabezas. | The Asheville’s commander said Cape Gracias a Dios had been captured and looted by bandits, and that two Ameri- can Marine planes dropped 14 bombs on the bandits returning in boats up the Coco River with loot. The attack on Rama was reported to the State Department by American Consul Rowe at Bluefields. Comdr. Waddell said conditions at Puerto Cabezas were quiet. A patrol of the Nicaraguan guardia found no bandits at a distance of 26 kilometers from the city. For two days no ban- dits have bcen seen in the immediate vicinity of the port. Gunboat to Guard Americans, 1t seemed less probable today that the United States would send a material force to Nicaragua to protect American pioperty. “The Government has indicated, how- ever, it would make every effort to pre- vent loss of American lives. The gun- boat Asheville, with her nearly three- was _under oiders to remain at Puerto Cabezas to guard Americans. Officials here, however, ex- pressed the opinion attempts might not be made to protec; property unless more urgent circumstances develop. The department has under considera- tion repeated requests frcm the Stand- ard Fruit & Steamship Co. of New Or- leans for steps which would ofler addi- tional protection for its $13,000.000 worth of holdings in Northeas.ern Nicaragua. No official statement” of policy was made, but it was indicated the State Department is inclined to the belief that the job of maintaining order is that of the native Guardia. It was added (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) BURMA POLICE SLAIN of “King” Create Disorder in District. RANGOON, Burma, April 16 (#)— Three police, including a Burmese of- ficer, were killed today in a battle be- tween followers of a new native pre- tender “King” and a small force of the ccnstabulary in the Thayetmyo district The Burmese rebels, who wear khaki uniforms, are creating considerable dis- order in Kama Township villages, in som: of which tfic headmen have been assassinated. Military police and a sec- tion of a Kunjabi regiment are en route to the scene. Followers Pretender ISLAST TO LEAVE ROYAL PALACE Infanta Isabelle Learns of Revolt Through Servants;| Saw Her Mother’s Throne Fall in 70s. By the Associated Press. MADRID, April 16.—When King Al- fonso and his family fled from Spain yesterday, the Infanta Isabelle, 80-year- old princess of the blood who once be- fore saw a Spanish throne fall. was left in her private palace to_learn of the latest royal debacle through her serv- ts, 5 .nThe infanta, aunt cf King Alfonso, Jearned of the royal family’s hasty de- orln’.ly - told :-he resolutely ‘When sbe was r departs set sbout preparing for her own . | The last time she left Spain was when her mother, Queen Isabelle, was de- throned in the 70s. | Alfonso, it was said, refused to bid her farewell because she was !l and be-aure cf the suffering the news would bring her. That the rcpublicans would not harm the sick princess seemed to | have been confidently believed by the royal suite. : But the din in the street outside her Quintano avenue palace aroused the in- fanta’s curiousity and she ded to know the cuse of all the 3 BRITISH LIBERALS VOTE 0 SUPPORT PREMIER IN CRISS MacDonald’s Fate Resfs on| Ballot Tonight Concerning | Unemployment Policies. | | | | | By the Associated Press, LONDON, April 16.—Government majority on tonight's division was be- | lieved assured by a vote taken by the | Liberals this afternoon. Twenty.eight | favored supporting the government, seven were in favor of voting for the! Conservative motion of censure, and eight were in favor of abstaining. After listening to former Prime Min- deliver a slashing attack on the Mac- Donald ministry for its handling of the unemployment problems, the Liberals | heard Tom Johnson, lord privy seal, | make the Laborites' defense. “Johnstom~finished, - the Liberals “trooped solemnly out of the Chamber, headed by Lloyd George, to | dectde what action they would take. { MacDonald Appears Nervous. Silence fell on the House, and ob- servers in the press gallery noticed Prime Minister MacDonald tapping softly with one foot on the floor—his ineivtable practice when he doesn't| think things are going too well. In an atmosphere of considerable bled for the session after all parties had made every effort to obtain the attend- ance of the last possible member for the | expected clash on the vote of censure. The result, was visible in the well filled | benches eight hours before the vote was | to_be taken. | It was felt generally that the gov-| ernment would have a small majority. The Laborite Daily Herald thought it would_be about 10 votes, or even 20, if ! the Conservatives did not poll their | full strength. i Cites Election Pledges. 1 | Speaking of the accompaniment of | frequent Conservative cheers and Labor | | interruptions, Mr. Baldwin said it was | unnecessary to go back more than two | years to get all the evidence required to support the first part of the motion, | which declares the government has| failed to carry out its election pledges | regarding unemployment The Conservative leader quoted de- risively the pledges made by the| Laborites in 1929 regarding their de- | termination to deal with unemployment. | “The country has given the Labor party a fair chance and what the House has to examine today is what use they have made of it” he said. Knowledge that the government's de- | feat wou!d mean its resignation hed | the members keyed up to the highest | pitch and cheers and counter cheers; echoed from the very opening of the debate. | The first member to get into trouble | with the speaker was Lady Astor. After| | she had kept up a steady series of in- terruptions while Johnston was speak- | ing she was warned from the chair| that if she persisted in interrupting she would have to leave the house. Baldwin Taunts Rivals, Baldwin spoke 40 -minutes and dis- played a vein of humor which he does not usually permit himself. His sup- porters rocked with laughter over his at the MacDonald government. nment supporters greeted his sal- lies with derisive appiause. The Liberals alone sat silent. On their shoulders depends the fate of the government and from the start they preserved an attitude of judicial calm. Tom Johnston, new lord privy -seal, opened the government'’s defense by | declaring Great Britain was one indus- trial country which was meeting its difficulties without rcsort to bread- lines or soup kitchens. Since the last debate on unemployment, on February 20, he sad, approximately $100,000.000 wort of work had been stimulated by government assistance. Gives World Figures. The House and the country, Johnston said, should appreciate the magnitude of the problem with which the govern- ment is faced. There are, he said, (5,000,000 unemployed in Germany and 3,000,000 in the United States. He was proceeding to give the figures for France when Jack Jones, Laborite who is achnowledged as the “licensed” jest-r of the House, interjected “there’s one more now—Alfonzo.” The members r':celved the sally with a roar of laugh- ! ter. | One of the auditors was George Hicks, | new Labor member for East Woolwich, {who was elected only yesterday. He {took his seat early this afternoon, in time to ed4 one more vote against the | censure motion. i i CORANAN: ot New Minister Leaves for U. 8. BOGOTA, Columbia, April 16 (#)— Pabio Lozano, new Minister to the H:M States, left today for Washing- | ! questions ister Baldwin, the Conservative leader, | Sery Lice SGNED CONFESSION IND. G HOLD-LP PLOT IS REPORTED Police Say Stumm Admitted| Part in Alleged Plan to Seize $120,000. SON-OF-LAW OF'LATE LEGISLATOR ALSO HELD Investigators Posed as Accomplices‘ to Get Evidence of Disbursing | Office Conspiracy. Breaking down under a barrage of by headquarters detectives, | Philip K. Stumm, 20 years old, of Syra- | cuse, N. Y., is said by police to have signed a confession this afternoon ad- mitting his part in an alleged plot to stage & machine gun hold-up of the $120,000 District government pay roll on Decoration day. Police claimed the plot was revealed last night, following the arrest by them of Stumm and Arthur Allen Fisher, 24-year-old clerk in the District audi- | tor’s office, Who was the son-in-law of the late Representative Florian Lampert of Wisconsin, in a Fourtcenth street hotel room. | Fisher, who is estranged from his wife and three children, was to be| questioned by detectives at police head-| quarters today. So far police have| made no effort to obtain a confession of the hold-up plot from him. Fisher, Stumm, Leo A. de Ward, a Post Office inspector, and Jack Trainor, described by police s a “volunteer in vestigator,” were discussing the plo police say, when the hotel room was | raided. Police say de Ward and, Trainor had been working on the case | for about a week. In Stumm’s con- fession he refers to de Ward as “Johnny Mack, the Brooklyn machine gunner,” and to Trainor as “Jack.” Stumm made the detailed confes- | sion, according to detectives, within a few moments after he was taken to| police headquarters and grilled by In- | spector William S. Shelby and De Ward. Made to Inspector Shelby. Stumm’s confession was made to Inspector Shelby in the presence of Lieut. C. J. P. Weber and Detective T Howard Ogle, It is in part as | follot “I had been in town about a week | before I met Fisher. * ¢ * In our conversation I told Fisher I had been | around the country working in oil fields | and other places. He said he would | slso like to see the country and. that any; time he wanted to, be knew where he ‘eould get about $100,000. ‘There was nothing more said until Fisher was“Waiting for the bus, and | Fisher mentioned that when the right | man came along he was going to get it (meaning the $100,000). He then told me that when I got a job and | stayed around in Washington we could g0 out together some time. He gave me his card and told me to call him up. I said ‘All right,’ and he then got on the bus and left. “About a week after T met Fisher I met Jack on Ninth street near Thomp- son’s lunch room. I told about meeting Fisher and having his card and told him about my conversation with Fisher about the $100,000. Jack said that we'd both go and see Fisher and find out what it is all about. So we both went to Fisher's apartment on New Hampshire avenue and I Jack to Fisher, telling him he was a friend cf mine. “Fisher told us that the money was in the District Building and that he had been figuring on it for about two years, and said it was nothing to get and that it could be gotten easy. We were over there about 20 minutes and then left. Three or four days later we went back to Fisher's apartment. He drew a plan of the auditor's office of the District Building and then tore it up, and told us that the best time to do it was when a month ended on a Monday, because the pay roll was then made up on Saturday: because on Sat- urday ths money would be in the safe and some on the table, the safe not being locked until about 1-o'clack. “Fisher asked us if we could get the (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) SPECIALIST TO TREAT FOXX'S LEG INJURY First Baseman of Athletics Re- ceived Hurt in Yesterday's Game in Washington. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 16. — Jimmy pion Athletics in the present base ball | campaign, will consult a specialist here late today on leg injury received yesterday in the game at Washington | As Foxx rounded second base in an ef- fort to go from first to third on a hit, him on his left leg. Phil Tedt, acquired at first base while Foxx is on the dis- abled list. Ice Breaks, Three Drown. ROBERVAL, Quebec, April 16 (#). —Mrs. Elzear Tremblay, 52; her son. Paul, 18, and her 6-year-old n:phew | were' drowned here yesterday when the | ke undsr them while they were | cressing the Mistassiki River. " WEBSTER, WHO WILL ENTERTAIN YOU Daily and Sunday in The Star STARTS HIS SERIES OF AMUSING DRAWINGS TODAY You will find the first of his daily cartoons on page D-1, Sports Section. TURN TO IT AND CHUCKLE THEN GET A CHUCKLE EVERY DAY' introduced | ANTITRUST POLICY in Business Emergency. compromise with violators of the law‘ administration here to the many sug- For a long time business men have interferes with its processes. Mr. horbitant " pries and to prevent the commerce.” Holds U. S. Cannot Compro- | | mise With Violators | BY DAVID LAWRENCE. | ‘The Federal Government cannot even in a business emergency. This word from Attorney General Mitchell is the answer given by the gestions that anti-trust suits be dispensed with during -the business depression. been saying that the Hoover adminis- tration on the one hand seeks to simu- late business and on the other hand Mitchell takes the position that the | purposes of-the anti-trust laws are to| protect the consumer “against ex- oppression of the small business man and insure to the average individual freedom to engage | 1t is true, however, that the Govern- | ment has not been looking for technical reasons at this time to attack business | and has been handling o.ly those cases | in which it felt it was justited. i Statement Held Significant. ‘ The Attorney General's speech de- livered at Minneapolis was a significant | statement of the policy of the Hoover | administration with reference to many | suggestions being made from time to time to improve the relations between the business world and the Department of Justice with respect to mergers and | consolidations. ' Mr. Mitchell thinks that for the Government to bring about agreements restricting production for an entire industry must have the effect Itimately of raising prices and that he public through the Government { would have to have something to say | about the prices to be charged. He feels that this would put the Government into the business of fixing or regulating prices to be charged the public. The most striking revelation in Mr. Mitchell's speech was his statement that as matters stand now business men who submit proposals for mergers “in advance to the Federal Trade Commis- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) LONGWORTH DISTRICT PRIMARY ARRANGED Governor Announces Candidat: ‘Will Be Chosen in August for Fall Vote. - | By the Assoclated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 16.—A pri- mary will be held in August in the first | congressional district of Ohlo to select a successcr to the late Nicholas Long- | worth, Cincinnati, it was officially an- | | nounced today at Gov. Whi'e's office. | | The primary, for nomination of can- didates, probably will be held on the | regular primary day, the Tuesday after | Foxx, first casualty of the world cham- | the first Monday in August. The elec- tion will be held on regular election day in_November. = | It was said at tHe Governor's office that it was very probable State Senator David Lorbach, Democraf, Cincinnati. would be a candidate for the Demo- | cratic-nomination. | *his spikes caught in the dirt, throwing By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, April 16.—Speaker | | from Boston last season, will substitute | Nicholas Longworth left his entire es- | tate to his widow, Alice Roosevelt Long- | worth, under terms of his will, which | | was filed here today In Probate Court. | | No_estimate of the value of the estatc | | was_given. | | _The document was dated November | 12, 1925, and was brief. Mrs. Long- worth was named as executrix. Representative Longworth died one ek ago at Alken, S.'C, after a brief n Great Cartoonist , A ( L il ADJourNg af S AFY DECLARAT ON GAINSY TyE MINAT(ON * OF AL .SMITH, AL Q\TCNIE' JIM REED or Fransuy Roogerecr <) Boy Swims Under Blazing Surface to Safety After Bla: By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, April 16.— Jolted from a barge when he tossed a lighted match into the gasoline-covered waters of the Moncngahera River last night, John McNamara, 16, swam under the blazing surface and climbed to a dock and safety. McNamara and several river- men were spinning yarns of the river on a houseboat and Mc- Namara lighted a cigarette and tossed the match away. There was an explosion apd in an in- stant the boat was enveloped in | flames. The rivermen, several | degs, a litter of kittens and other | pets were helped from the boat ! by firemen. The houseboat burned | to the water's edge. ! MAYOR SHOT DEAD READING IN HOME Seek Clue in Crusade Against Bootleggers. JAPANESE ROYALTY * JUST FOLKS TODAY Prince and Princess Taka- matsu Tour Capital Prepa- ratory to Reception. | P_\xrbelows of formality were laid aside temporarily by Prince and Princess Takamatsu of Japan today and they became only a honeymoon couple on an interesting, if strenuous, sight seeing tour of the National Capital. The Prince and Princess are doing the traditional today. Leaving their hotel shortly after 9 o'clock, they motored first to Arlington, where they pald their respects to America's war dead. and then to Mount Vernon, where they mingled with hundreds of other | tourists in homage at Washington's tomb. Basin to spend an hour with the world- |renowned cherry blossoms, now in full | bloom on the trees, which Tokio pre- sented to the United States nearly 20 | years ago. Pose Among Blossoms. The Prince and Princess went to the | After’ luncheori st the Mayflower | Hansey 7 Fine soval """ue"'t‘:'&u“':w"% In"trade snd | Aggassin Escapes as Police Basin to speng an o basin prepared to obey the whims of By ibeARcesea Pty "newspaper and newsreel photographers PINEWOOD, §. C., April 16.—Mayor 100 o oo E. Clyde Geddings of Pinewood was| But, while the royal honeymooners essassinated late last night as he sat w‘elll'e “just I;!’:A" ;n dlmxr f!odly. they in his home reading a newspaper. will resume Spendos of thele ThEN - {at the formal reception which the An unidentified assailant fired 8| Jananes Ambassador and Mme Do shotgun through a window, fatally buchi will given in their honor at their wounding’ him. | residence, 1321 K street, tonight. The H. C. Scott. chief of police, expressed | reception will be attended by nearly belief that the mayor's crusades against | 2,000 of the Capital's officials, diplo- prohibition law violators was the mo- mats and social leaders, who havs been tve for the slaying. He also said the mayor “had some trouble with Negroes” last Saturday. Geddings, who was 48 years old, was alone in’ the room with his back to the window when he was shot. He died instantly, Geddings was unmarried and lived with his mother and sister. ke had held office two years. County Aids Inquiry. County officers came here from Sum- to aid in the investigation. This °noocn no arrests had been made. C. B. Rowland, chairman of the Board of Commissioners, wired State Senator 5. K. Nash of Sumter County, ssking i'm to see Gov, Ibra C. Blackwood and 1equest him to offer a reward for Ged- wings’ slayer. Nash was in Columbia. Rowland _expressed doubt that the whisky traffic in the county was con- nected with the slaying, pointing out that Ceddings as mayor had nothing to do with the raids made on illegal dis- til'ers in this section. Raids by U. S. Officers, “Most of the raids were made by Foderal officers,” Rowland said. He added that there hadn’t been a big raid in the past yeir. The Santee River swamp, described by officers as the center of illegal whisky manufacturing in this section, is. near Pinewocd. Geddin, as mayor, presided over the Pinewcod Town Court. He had been accustomed to give severe sentences to | piohibition law violators brought before | him. D. C. VETERAN SHOT HER, SAYS BALTIMORE WOMAN | Accused Then Takes Poison and Both Are Taken to Hospital in Serious Condition. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md. April 16.—Mrs. Edith Stevens Wayson, widow of World War veteran, was shot and wounded twice today, and Henry E. | Kelm, whom she accused of the shoot- ing, took poison. Both were taken to a hospital in a serious condition. occurred at Mrs. Wayson's home and she told officers Kelm tried to force his | attentions upon her. Members of Kelm's family said that for some time he had been living and working in Washington, D. C. o Baltimore police were told by Kelm that he resided in Washington, at 709 Third street northeast, the home of | Thomas J. O’Connor. Mr. O’Connor sald that Kelm had resided with him for more than a year while acting as the Washington agent | for a Baltimore firm. Was a na- tive of the Maryland city, but had many friends here. Kelm is reported to have left Wash- ington last night for Baltimore, pre- sumably to visit the headquarters of his company. Mr. O'Connor said he was in the best of spirits. He added that Kelm had never mentioned the name of a woman while residing at his home. Radio Programs oa Page D8 | invited to be presented to the Prince |and Princess. The reception will be preceded by a dinner party to be at- | tended by about 50 of tbe highest offi- | clals of the Government and the diplo- | matic corps. Tomorrow Prince Takamatsu and his tride will visit the United States Naval | Acadory at Annapolis, and the day will | be concluded with an infermal dinner | at ‘the residence of the Japansse Am- | bassador. | Guests at White House. | _ The high light of the royal couple's first day in Washington was the state | dinner at the White House last night, | when high Government officials and | prominent citizens gathered with the | honor. ' ‘The guests were greeted with | Japanese national airs as the Marine | Band Orchestra played in the great | marble entrance hall. After the reception in the blue room the President escorted the princess to the dining room. The prince was Mrs. Hoover’s escort as the remainder of the comparatively small ccmpany fol- lowed in to dinner. The rectangular table was decorated with pink tulips, snapdragons and Japanese cherry blos- soms. _The latter also were the out- ontinued on Page 2, Column 6.) ICALIFORNIA LIFE GUARDS | SAVE MICHAEL ROMANOFF | Associate Film Director, Suspected | of Leaping Into Ocean, Re- | fuses to Discuss Act. By the Associated Press. REDONDO BEACH, Calif., April 16.— Michael Romanoff, associate film di- rector, was recovering today from ex- posure suffered when he fell or leaped into the Pacific Ocean from a munici- pal pler here yesterday. He was rescued by life guards. | was not serious. Romanoff refused to | talk. STOWAWAY QU By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 16.— Louis Chianese, stowaway, who tried to come to America as a case of hats, arrived on the liner Lafayette today for a brief stay or Ellis Island pending his return by Government order to his native Paris. Chianese worked out about as elab- orate a me cating the immiera- tion law # inspectors have e encou E He J#id himself nailed u¥ bex uring 7x2x3 feet. biscuits, chocolate and printed he box contained hats bo on that President and Mrs. Hoover to do them | Hospital authorities sald his condition | 'SHIPPED AS CASE OF HAT Both are 38 years old. The shooting | RHEEM DECLINES SHOREHAM OFFICE BUILDING FACTS | Testimony ‘Refused Creditors on Ground It Might In- criminate Him. {HOLDERS OF NOTES HEAR SALE QUESTIONS $2,250,000 Original Trust Is Dis- closed by Attorney Jackson. Pleading that he might incriminate himself, Edmund D. Rheem, vice presi- dent of Swartzell Rheem & Hensey, refused to answer a number of ques- tions dealing with the sale of the Shoreham Office Bullding at & creditors’ examination today. The examination of Rheem by the creditors, resulting from the faflure of the firm, was held in the company's of- fices on Fifteenth street. Rheem was questioned in the presence of notehold- | ers and a number of former employes by Attorney E. Hilton Jackson. | The attorney confined his questions to the sale of the Shoreham Building by Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey to the Shoreham Investment Corporation. Sec- retary of War Patrick J. Hurley and Joseph Cromwell, Oklahoma ofl man, are stockholders in the latter corpora- tion. $2,250,000 Original Trust. | In the early examination, Attorney i Jackson brought out that there was an original trust of $2,250,000 on the Shoreham Building. On July 16 or 17, 1930, officers of Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey took steps to have this trust released and to substitute a trust held by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. | “As ap art of this proceeding, how- ever, it was sought to have a special account_established in the Riggs Na= tional Bank to pay individuals hold- ing notes under the original mortgage. , It was understood the New York Title & Mortgage Co. agreed to guarantee title to the property to the Shoreham | Investment Corporation after this step | had been taken. About $1,500,000 Advanced. Mr. Rheem testified that the title and | mortgage compeny advanced approxi- mately $1,500,000 toward this account. The balance, $785,000, was placed in the account by Swartzell, Rheem & purpose. After the special account, which totaled $2,341,645.80, had been opened, title to the property was transferred. Mr. Rheem denied that the nflnm trust was released of record before money to pay off the trust had been i placed in a special account. Bank Official Called. George Vass, vice president of the Riggs Bank, was then called to intro- duce bank records dealing with tie transaction. ““Were any of the multitude of notes paid out of this deposit?” Jackson asked. -~ “Ne Rheem replied. Jackson then asked a question de- signed to show that Rheem, or Swart- zell, Rheem & Hensey Co. borrowed money from the Riggs Bank to place in the special account for the benefit of the note holders so that the sale might be consummated and that on the fol- lowing day a check for $900,000 was, drawn on 'this account to pay off obli- gations of the firm at the bank. “In view of the criminal prosecution threatened against Mr. Rheem, I advise him not to answer that question,” Leon ‘Tobriner, Rheem’s attorney, stated. Referee Fred J. Eden then instructed Rheem that he was not bound to an- swer a question which he honestly thought night tend to incriminate him “Would your answer to that question have a tendency to incriminate you?" the referee asked. “Yes,” Rheem replied. Answer Again Declined. “Suppose you borrowed the money | for the establishment of a special ac- | count for the beneiit of the note holders !and then drew out $900,000 to pay off | company obligations—in that situation | did_the companv_have enough money | on hand to pay off the trust?” Jackson | demanded. |~ Tobriner again interrupted to advise | his client not to answer the question. | Referee Eden said he did not sce how {an answer to the query could have a tendency to incriminate Rheem. “The "question is leading up to a material one. which might show a con- | version of the money in the special account,” Tobriner answered, Rheem stood upon his constitutional . “ts and refused to answer. . | The next question was: “Did the peo- vle to whom you sold not>s und-r the |original trust got any part of the |$900,000.” Rheem again refused to an- swer on the same ground. Attorney Jackson, who led the ques- tioning today, has filed a suit in Dis- | trict Supr:me Court in an effort to re- establish the original trust of t jerty. A number of his ques | phrased in an effort to show that the | Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. was put | on notice when it advanced money for the substitute trust that the originat trust had not been paid in full. Rheem testified that he owned 423 of ' the 675 shares of stock in the Swartz<1l, Rheem & Hensey Co. | | S, ITS UPSIDE DOWN | Pistol Fired to Bring Help When Crate Is Left Ended Up at Pier—Elaborate Plan Fails. & New York department store. When the packing case was delivered at the pier in Havre it was placed up- side down. It stayed that way for half an hour, Chianese said, and he thought his head was going to burst. Two days in the hold were enough for him. To draw attention to his plight he fired two revolver shots—they were blanks. A few minutes later the box was ripped open and Chianese, groggy from the smoke, stepned out. He was washed and combed when he saw reporters today. H's suit was de~ cently pressed. It was e said, to be able to move about. And he'd never that one again.