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Bureau Forecast). Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; probably local show:rs and ‘Temperatures—Highest, p.m. yesterday; lowest, 69, at 4:30 am. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 Entered as sec post_office, No. 31,811. ‘Washington, cooler. 88, at 3:30 ond class matte; D. C. @h WASHINGTON, AYNES CONVICTED![$200,000 Cellini Shield Faked ON AL 14 CHARGES OFFRALDS N BANK Jury, Out Two Hours, Returns Verdict Carrying Maximum Penalty of Five Years. BANKER DENIED BAIL AND ORDERED TO JAIL ‘Wife Told of Outcome Beforehand. Mrs. Chambers Sits in Court. $72,000 Fine Possible. Harry V. Haynes today was convicted on 14 charges of violation of the na- tional banking act while president of the Farmers & Mechanics National Bank. ‘The jury, which for four weeks had #at in the case in Criminal Division, No. 1, of District Supreme Court, deliberated two hours before returning the verdict against the banker, who blamed his plight to operations in the stock market. Haynes is liable to five years im- prisonment and a fine of $5,000 on each of the counts. Committed to Jail. After formal motion for bail by his counsel, H. Winship Wheatley, had been | denied by Justice Peyton Gordon, pre- siding, Haynes was committed to the District jail to await sentence. He probably will be brought in to hear the verdict of the court a week from today. At that time, counsel will file formal notice of appeal and ask for bond. Haynes has been at liberty under bond of $10,000 since his indictment about 18 months ago. The jury, deliberating just about two hours, found Haynes guilty on each of the 14 counts of the indictment. Receives Verdict Calmly. Haynes received the verdict stoically, as did his wife and daughter, Mrs. C. H. Young, who were with him in the court room. As soon as the verdict was returned Haynes was taken in charge by John J. Clarkson, chief deputy marshal, to bs taken to the District Jail to await sen- ence Before he was removed, however, Clarkson went to Mrs. Haynes to tell her that she might see her husband downstairs. Fourteen Ballots Taken, John C. Hall, head of the Capital Guides’ Association here, was foreman of the jury. He said that 14 ballots were taken, one on each count. The charges against the banker grew out of his operations in the years 1927 and 1928. His defense was that he had sought, by manipulation of the bank's funds, with which he was charged in seven counts of the indictment, to re- store the finances of Mrs. Louise T. Chambers, a customer of the bank, whose stock market speculations, car- ried out with his advice, had terminated poorly, and that he also sought to pro- tect the bank, where she was a cus- tomer. Mrs. Chambers Present. Mrs. Chambers, who now has sued Haynes, charging that he dissipated her fortune, was in court when the verdict was returned. The case went to the jury on its twentieth day. The 11 men and 1 wom- an comprising the jury received their charge from Justice Gordon at 10:47 o'clock this morning and just a few minutes before 1 o'clock informed a deputy marshal that they were ready with their verdict. As the jurors filed into the court room in silence and lined up in front of their places in the jury box Haynes took his place before the bench with counsel. Then Willlam S. Adkins, the clerk, asked the jurors if they had reached their verdict. “We have,” replied John C. Hall, the foreman. ; Adking then asked for the findings and as he called off each count Hall Teplied, “Guilty as indicted.” Haynes resigned from the Farmers & Mechanics’ on September 12, 1928, at a special meeting of the board of directors, called after his involve- ments were bared. It was not until October, however, that the resignation was made known, simultaneously with the announcement that the bank it- self had been taken over as a branch of Riggs National. In September of the following year he was indicted, but this bill was in- validated when it was discovered that a member of the grand jury was ineli- gible. Then another indictment was returned, bringing additional charges, though covering. in general, the same ground as the first. Three Lines of Defense, ‘When Haynes was brought to trial he set up three general lines of defense. Where false cntries were alleged, he Jaid them to improper bookkeeping by subordinates, for which he disclaimed Tesponsibility. On the charge of misapplication of funds, he said that the money had been used to restore the fortunes of M Chambers. Defending tne counts of abstracting sccuritics, described as having been held as collateral against Mrs, Cham- bers' loans. he sald he had released these securities to protect other stock s1ansactions by Mrs, Chambers, As Haynes explained his case, he had become involved in Mrs. Chambers® finances at her request, and as he said, succeeding efforts to straighten out her affairs and keep the bank from having trouble with her, only brought added complications. Attacking this line of argument, the " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) . BARRYMORES IN ALASKA Actor and Wife Cruise North in Search of Rest. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 5 (#).— John Barrymore, actor, and his wife, Dolores Costello, of the films, were cruising today in Alaskan waters, avowedly in search of rest. Arriving here yesterday aboard their yach; Infanta, Barrymore said he was “tired.” “That's why I came to Alaska,” he eaid. “I may stay two weeks or two months.” He said he planned to fish and hunt, Radio Prognn; on Page C-3 BY REX COLLIER. HE expert eyes of Government micrescopists have just revealed | an unprecedented art fraud per- petrated by unknown art thieves who stole a priceless ancestral Cellini shield frcm Baron Eugene A. Medem Fersen or his family some time | during the past half century, substi- | tuting therefor an almost perfect elec- | trotype reproduction. | The shield, a decorative copper plaque RARE PLAQUE REPIACED BY FRAUD. sculptor, Benvenuto Cellini, had been in the possession of Baron Ferson's family for about 400 years. Cellini's works are rare, and the shield was re- garded as particularly valuable because | it perpctuated in metal a famous battle “cartoon” by Michelangelo, long since destroyed by vandals. The reproduction was submitted for examination to the Bureau of Stand- fards by represcntatives of the baron after the M-tropolitan Museum of Art n New York had questioned its au- " (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) '“Ll'lbuled to the renowned Italian MUSSOLINI OFFER ’ l REFUSED BY POPE Duce Ready to Let Catholic . Clubs for Women and Girls Reopen. By the Associated Press. ROME, June 5.—Premier Mussolini made a gesture of conciliation in the controversy between his governm:nt and | the church today, offering to permit| reopening of Catholic clubs for wome: and girls. The Vatican refused, how-| ever, replying in effect that all or none | of the Catholic clubs recently dissolved must be restored to good standing. ‘The premier's offer was regarded as the first tangible result of the unoffi- clal negotiations in which diplomsts on both sides have been seeking a solution of the present troubled situation. The Pope's refusal was regarded as a rziteration of his expressed determina- tion to stand by the Catholic clubs. ‘The Papal nuncio and the Marches2 Pacelli, who have been conducting in- formal negotiations with the Italian Ambasasdor to the Holy See, conferred again with the Pope today, but they is- sued no statement after their meeting. ‘The newspaper Osservatore Romano, which is edited in the Vatican City, car- ried an editorial condemning a state- ment issued on Wednesday by the Fas- cist directorate counseling all Fascists to defend the achievement of the re- gim> against all attacks from what- ever source. The editorial described that pro- nouncement as “indicating a threaten- ing way of thinking which remains un- | cbanged.” | Meanwhile the Pontiff still awaited a | reply to & note of protest filed with the | Italian foreign minister against disso- lution of the Catholic cluos and attacks 1on Catholic institutions by Fascist stu- dents. ’ NEW ENVOY WILL SAIL ledlrllgl to Leave Spain July 20 on Trip to U. 8. MADRID, June 5 (#).—Ambassador Madariaga, new representative of the Spanish Republic to the United States, will sall for New York on July 20. | bad requested the examination for a | report to the District of Columbia Su- ROVER WILL HAVE FALL EXAMINED Acts to Determine if Health Permits Trip Here to Begin Sentence. District Attorney Rover said today he planned to ask Justice Wheat of the District of Columbia Supreme Court to name a physician to examine Albert B. Fall, former Interior Secretary, to see whether his physical condition would permit him to come to Washington to begin serving a prison sentence of a year. Fall is now in E! Paso, Tex., and four physicians who examined him there said they did not think he could stand the trip here. Fall, however, said he was determined to attempt the trip if the Government “says to come ahead.” He is under sentence for bribery in connection with the leasing of naval oil reserves. Physician Undecided. Rover said he did not know whether the chief justice would designate a Washington physician to make the ex- mination, or would name one in El Paso, although-in view of the distance to_the Texas city, it was thought the latter course would be the more likely. Members of Fall's family said he has been unable to walk more than a few feet without assistance for months and that he is now sick in bed. There is a possibility the former cabinet officer’s jail sentence would be suspended if he came to Washington in view of his age and ill health. His physicians’ statement was issued after Frank J. Hogan, attorney for Fall, preme Court trial judge, who has been notified by the Supreme Court of its refusal to review the case. Doctors Discourage Trip. It was signed by Dr. H. T. Safford and said that Dr. J. H. Gambrell, Dr. R. B. Homan and Dr. Felix P. Miller, all of whom had previously examined Fall, concurred in the opinion that Fall was too weak to make the trip. Dr. Safford said the former cabinet mem- ber was suffering from congestion at the base of his right lung, with a marked tendency to attacks of bron- chial pneumonia. “Because of Mr. Fall's enfeebled health, advanced age and marked tendency to attacks of bronchial pneu- monia,” he stated, “I do not feel that his health is such as to permit him to go to Washington.” The former Sec- retary came bere recently from his ranch at Three Rivers, N. Mex. |LOWELL FESS PAYS $10 FINE IN DISORDERLY CONDUCT CASE Self-Styled *‘Senator’s Son” Arrest While Intoxic: By the Arsociated Press. NEW YORK, June 5.—Lowell Pess, 38-year-old sales manager, who told ar- resting policemen he is the son of Sen- ator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, was fined $10 today for disorderly conduct. Fess was arrested after midnight in front of an East Fifty-second street speakeasy by a patrolm2n who accused him of creating a disturbance. The policeman, Richard Broderick, quoted Fess as saying his father was Senator Fess, and that he would get him to “clean up this town.” ‘The police blotter entry charged that Fess, “while intoxicated, did use abusive and profane language, and attempted to take the officer's baton Broderick said Fess struck him in the chest al_:d that he grappled with him. f Hit Gotham Officer Upon ated, Police Charge. A chauffeur nearby picked up the m. liceman's baton and sounded it on the sidewalk, summoning another patrol- man. The two officers were un- able to induce Fess to enter a taxicab, 50 the three finally walked to the police station. After paying his fine, Fess sought to dodge several photographers and was so successful that the best the camera men were able to get Was a icture of his straw hat in front of is face. Fess bore a cut on the nose from his affray with the patrolman. Brod; erick, who he referred to as “Dick, was his particular friend, Fess told the court, which made him unsually sorry for the occurrence. At the East PFifty-first street station, where he was booked, and at the East Sixty-seventh street station, where he ~(Continued en Page 2, Column 7.) WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TR | !T[]M ARMOUR WINS BRITISH OPEN WHEN JURADO BLOWS UP Argentinian Starts Final Nine Four Strokes Leader, but Takes 41 for Round. FORMER CAPITAL PRO SHOOTS 72 HOLES IN 296 Mac Smith and Farrell Come in 3 Behind Champion—Horton Smith Has 303. By the Associated Press. CARNOUSTIE, Scotland, June 5.— Tommy Armour, American open cham- plon in 1927, today won the British open golf championship after Jose Jurado, the Argentine star, tossed away a great chance for victory on the last nine. Armour's score was 296 for 72 holes. Armour, known as the “Black Scot” and a veteran of some of the hardest fighting of the World War, finished with a par—cracking 71 after previous rounds of 73—75—77. Jurado Goes to Pleces. He was 5 strokes back of Jurado at} the start of the final round, and 4 strokes back at the end of the first nine, but where he came in in par, Jurado went to pleces. Armour, the former Scotch amateur champion, succeeds Bobby Jones as the | British open king, making it 10 out of the last 11 years the title has come to the United States. Jurado had a 77 to finish in second place with 297. Gene Sarazen and Percy Alliss, the | British-bred Berlin pro, were tied for third with 298, and Johnny Farrell, also | a former American open king, and Mac- donald Smith, the Cnrnoustle-born‘ American, tied for fifth with 299. i Horton Smith, 303. Other finishers in order were; Marco Churio. Argentina, 300; Henry Cotton and Arthur Havers, British profes- sionals, 302: Abe Mitchell, Horton Smith, the Missourian, and Tomasco Genta, the Argentine open champion, 303. W. H. Davies, British Ryder Cup player, who went around with Jurado and the 10,000 spectators, carded a subpar 71 for a total of 300 and a tie| with Churio for seventh place. Gets Slow Start. Armour failed to strik= his stride and took 39 going out. He was over par on four holes and had only one birdie to make up for these slips—a 3 at the seventh hole. Troubled by the head- winds into which he was forced to shoot, Armour took 5s at the tenth and | fourteenth holes, but _otherwise shot | steady golf on his incoming round. His | card: | Armour— Out. 4 5445634439 In.. 54 4354445387122 H: made the first nine of his final| round in 35, one under par. He made a| birdie on the first hole, lost the stroke back to par at the next, but then made the fourth with a birdi> 3 and finished out the nine in perfect figures. Despite two fine birdies eleventh and fourteenth_hol mour (Continued on Page 4, Column 4. AL CAPONE INDICTED | FOR EVADING TAXES U. §. Grand Jury Charges Gang Leader Failed to Pay on Income. at the CHICAGO, June 5 (#).—Alphonse Capone, the scar-faced leader of Chi- cago gangdom, was indicted by a Federal grand jury today for violating the in- come tax laws. ‘The Government's claim, based on an | Investigation which required two- years, | was that Capone owed $215.864 on a| income of $1,038,654 for several The indictment was returned before | Federal Judge John P. Barnes and bond was cet at $50,000. It was re. | ported that Capone might surrender lelcher late today or tomorrow to give 1BondA MRS. STILLMAN WINS DIVORCE FROM MATE ll‘inal Decree Entered in Pough- keepsie Court, It Is Learned Today. By the Associated Press. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 5.— A final decree of divorce in the marital difficulties of Mrs. Anna Urquhart Stillman and James A. Stillman has been granted Mrs. Stillman by Supreme Court_Justice Jcseph Morschauser. Al- though the decree wasrentered yester- day it was not discovered until today. The action follows an interlocutory decree granted last February. Mrs. Stillman is permitted to resume her maiden name, Anne Urquhart Potter, known as “Fifi.” No alimony is involved. ‘The decree records that Stillman, former president of the National City Bank of New York. declared he was the father of four children by Mrs. Still- man, and included Guy, now 12 years old, whose legitimacy Stillman ques- tioned in a countersuit in 1921, after his wife had begun action for a divorce. ‘The other children are Anne Davison, wife of Henry P. Davison of New York: James, 26, who married the daughter of a Three Rivers, Quebec, lumberjack, and Alexander, 19. ‘The decree listed Mrs. Stillman's claim that Stillman had been unfaith- ful to her during a visit to Havana in 1930. She declared in her bill of par- ticulars upon which the interlocutory decr granted that she knew the names of the women with whom she claimed her husband had affairs, but the final decree recorded that she sald she did not know, them. ¢ Ceoar Rap DECLARES AR BiGGeR | AND THIKER SLICES OF BACON~AcAINST Z~, | THE THIN-SLicinG * | MEAT MACHINES NOw USED IN | N ¢ Foening Shar. FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1931—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. #%#% LE oF DS, lowa | HE MIGHT B Y MISSING LINK Q A i I ~ x The Star's every city tion is delivered to carr (#) Means Associated “‘From Press to Home Within the Hour” ier system covers v block and the regular edi- Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 115,876 Press. TWO CENTS. IFHE weRE oLy t A DEMOCRET A GERMAN LEADERS ARRIVE IN ENGLAND FOR CONFERENCES Bruening and Curtius Hop: ful for Sympathetic Atti- tude From Britain. e_i By the Associated I LONDON, June 5.—Chancellor Bruen- ing of Germany and Forcign Minister Julius Curtius arrived here from South- ampton this afternoon and werc met at the station by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Arthur Henderson, the foreign secretary. After an exchange of greetings the visitors were taken to the hotel where they will live while in London. After an elaborate welcome by Brit- ish officialdom they will go to the prime miinster's country estate at Chequers to discuss questions which claim the attention of the entire world. While no announcement has been given out as to the nature of their con- versations, it is highly probable that the war reparations will be the chief subject, with the Austro-German cus- toms treaty and the general question of 5. | tariffs coming in for discussion. May Ask Moratorium. ‘The German delegates are expected to ask for a moratorium on all repara- tions pavments listed as “conditional” in the Young plan. They are expected to plead that unless this request is | granted the life of the Bruening gov- | ernment and the existence of the Ger- | man state in its present form will be ! in_peril. | The Germans arrived at Southamp- ton this morning on a British destrover to which they transferred from the liner Hamburg outside the port. | “We have come with no papers and | no pregram.” the chancellor said in a reply to the speech of welcome by | Southampton’'s mayor, ‘“our intention is to have a friendly talk on all matters | ?{l common interest to our two coun- ries.” Will Discuss Depression. “I can assure you,” he said, “that | Herr Curtius and I welcome the oppor- tunity which Mr. MacDonald has given us for frank discussion with him and Mr. Henderson. “You know as well as we do that Europe is facing problems of immense | difficulty and of vital importance to all of us, “I need hardly say that the chief | topics of our conversations at Chequers no doubt will be the economic crisis from which the whole world suffers | and the problem of disarmament. I am sure solutions for these problems can best be promoted by open ex- | change of views.” The German statesmen, it is under- | stood, have some doubt that much can | be achieved in the way of concrete re- | sults at Chequers, since the reparations | problem is an international issue which | cannot be solved by England and Ger- many alone. Hope for Sympathetic View. ‘What they do hope for is an ur- ance from Mr. MacDonald !hll%\l- land understands and sympathizes with Germany's attempts to balance her bud- get. reduce her unemployment and get back on her feet economically and that the British government will support a German request, if it should be made, for_financial relief. ‘The very fact that the two German statesmen have been asked here is in- terpreted as a proof that Germany no | longer is & second-rate power among | the nations, but is regarded now as an equal, a friend and partner with Eng- land in_the reconstruction of Europe. The Laborite Herald describes the ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 4) IRENE CASTLE WEARS OVERALLS TO COURT Attires as Farmerette to Testify Against Accused Animal Abuser. MORTON GROVE, Tl1, June 5 (#).— Irene Castle McLaughlin, the famous former dancer, went to court yesterday as farmerette. Attired in blue overalls and a blue shirt, open at the throat, she appeared as a complaining witness against Wil- liam Schroeder, accusing him of cruelty to animals, maintaining & nuisance and disorderly conduct. Mrs. McLaughlin, a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said that when she sought to investigate re?om that Schroeder did not_adequately feed his stock, he shoved her off the premises PICCARD MARK ACCEPTEDi Switzerland Club Stamps Balloon | Record Official. BERN, Switzerland, June 5 (#)— The Aero Club of Switzerland today ac- | cepted as the official altitude attained by Prof. Auguste Piccard in his recent | ballon flight to the stratosphere 15,781 meters or 51,7932-10 feet. BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 5 (). — Prof. Auguste Piccard today said it was impossible to estimate accurately the scientific achievements of his flight to | the stratosphere before he could check | his figures more closely. | He was able to measure the intensity | of the cosmic rays, he said, but not their SEA FLIGHT ENDS AS GERMAN PLANE ALIGHTS AT NATAL Do-X Flies From Fernando Norohona to Mainland speed. His observations, he believes, | may be of assistance to research in the | | field of intra-atomic disintegration of | 1 matter. | | BN | | By the Associated Press | | NATAL, Brazil, June 5—The sea-| plane DO-X arrived here at 2:10 p.m. | |today (12:10 p.m. Eastern standard | DRY PI-ANK UEMAND time), completing her transatlantic voy- | | age from Altenrhein, Switzerland. H The last lap of the ambitous flight | Prohibitionists Also to Insist | | took her across the South Atlantic| |fmm Porto Praia, Cape Verde Islands,| | Upon Candidate Favorable to 18th Amendment. After Refueling. |& stretch of 1,249 miles, in 12 hours | | and 26 minutes. | She came down last night at Fer-| nando Noronha Island, 200 miles off | | the Brazilian coast; refueled there and | set out at 9:45 am. for this town. She descended here in the Potengy River, whers Italo Balbo's Italian squad- | ron staved after their recent forma | tion t, ane 1 t every VO~ A demand for dry candidates and en- | man asd chiid h Natal vac on the | forcement planks is to be presented to river bank to cheer. the Democratic and Republican conven- A half holiday had been declared and | tions next year by the Allied Forces for | tn, oumyC P8l Authorities were on hand | Prokibition. | . ; | | Comdr. Christians pecis to stay | Dr. Daniel A. Poling of New York, | here for several days while the plane is chalrman, announced that the new or- | gterRauled. Then he Wil fly down to . > io de Janeiro. nearly a thousand miles | ganization’s ultimate goal was to retain | to the South, without stopping at Per- | the eighteenth amendment, and its im- | nambuco as he originally intended. He | mediate objective to secure dry commit- | is afraid the Pernambuco harbor may I ments in the political conventions. | The organization plans to open its campaign in Columbus, Ohio, Septem- ber 8, and to carry on three-day drives | in major cities for several weeks. Poling sald Senator Sheppard, Democrat, Texas, co-author of the eighteenth amendment, and Senator Borah of| Idaho, Republican, would be two of the prominent speakers to carry the pro- | hibition campaign to the people. Women's Chairman Named. The chairman said his organization | expected to have more than a million pledged votes to submit with their de- mands for dry candidates. After the conventions, he said, the forces would be reorganized for the presidential campaign. Mrs. Rushmore Patterson of New | York and Washington was named yes- terday by Dr. Poling as chairman of the women's branch. Dr. Poling estimated the minimum cost of the plans at $350,000, with the | maximum dependent upon contributions. | National offices were opened in New | York City on June 1, with Oliver W.| Stewart, vice chairman, in charge. Ad- vance men are now in the field organiz- | ing local commitees. Program of Allies. Activities of the allies include mass meetings, conferences, enroliment of voters and young people, publication of a weekly newspaper and popular litera- ture and the organizing or strengthen- ing of local units in cities, towns and precincts. Among the more than 200 prominent men and women sponsoring the new drive for the eighteenth amendment are Thomas Edison, Miss Jane Addams, Col. Patrick Callahan, Willlam Gibbs McAdoo, Miss Evangeline Booth, Fred B. Smith, former Representative Franklin W. Fort and others. The regular speakers are Col. Raymond Robins, Dr. Ira Landrith, Miss Norma C. Brown, Robert Ropp, chairman of Allled Youth; Mr. Stewart and Dr. Poling. Fred B. Smith, Dr. John A. Lapp of Marquette University, Dr. | terday from Cape Verde Islands. " (Continued on Page 3, Column not be suitable for so large a plane. REFUELED ON ISLAND. DO-X Passengers Say Motor Functioned Perfectly During Flight. FERNANDO NORONHA, Brazil, June | 5 (A).—The seaplane DO-X took off | at 9:45 am. for Natal, Brazl. She! had refueled here after the flight yes- At Natal she will undergo a thorough overhauling which probably will take a week and then fly to Rio de Janeiro in- stead of going first to Pernambuco as was originally intended. The ccm- mander thinks the harbor at Pernam- buco may not be suitable for handling s0 large a plane. The Do-X left Porto Praia at 7:52 a.m. yesterday and arrived here at 8:18 pm. last night, negotiating the 1429 miles in 12 hours and 26 minutes. Her passengers and crew were en- thusiastic over the flight, saying the 12 500-horsepower motors functioned | perfectly as the great flying boat | hummed along on tte resumption of her long delayed trip from Europe to the New World. Gatbering speed in a 30-second take- off, the seaplane lifted herself off the water at Porto Praia with a heavy load | of fuel and set her course in a south- | westerly direction. The extremely low altitude at which she was flying led to reports that she had fallen into the ocean, but these were disproved. As she settled down for the long pull, her speed was increased and her aititude raised. Several hours after the start she radioed the Dornier works in Friedrichshafen and the wireless station at Porto Praia that all was well aboard (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Mrs. Dunlap Leaves France. PARIS, June 5 (#).—Mrs. Robert H. Dunlap, widow of the American gen- eral of Marines who was killed re- cently at Tours, sailed today on the Leviathan. COUZENS MOVES T0BLOCK EVASION OF ESTATE TAXES Justice Department’s Han- dling of Hill Case Attacked by Senator. EXCHANGE OF LETTERS WITH MITCHELL REVEALED Declares He Has Had No Reply to Request for Information Made Two Months Ago. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Senator James Couzens of Michigan today started a drive to make the Fed- eral estate tax effective and to prevent, as far as possible, the avoidance of this tax by great fortunes through the in- strumentality of before-death *gifts.” At the same time the Michigan Sena- tor attacked vigorously the Department of Justice because of its handling of the estate tax case of the late Mrs. James J. Hill, widow at the time of her death of the famous railroad magnate. He made public correspondence be- tween himself and Attorney General Mitchell regarding this case, consisting of his original letter to Mr. Mitchell and the inclosed memorandum, the At- torney General's reply, and a second letter written by Senator Couzens to the Attorney General, to which, Senator Couzzns says, he has never had a reply, although it was gent to Mr. Mitchell two months ago. Full Explanation Asked. Senator Couzens, in his letter, asked Attorney General Mitchell to explain fully and to justify the action of the Government in the Hill case. “I am interested in this matter,” said Senator Couzens today when he made public the correspondence between him- self and the Attorney General, “pri- marily because of the illustration it of- fers of the failure of the present statute to catch thos2 who dispose of their property in anticipation of death for the purpose of avoiding estate taxes. Congress, in enacting the provision that gifts made within two years of death should be considered as made in antici- pation of death, believed that this would prevent evasions of the estate tax. It is apparent, however, that the courts, by their decisions in ‘the Hill case and others, have nullified to a great extent this intention of Congress. “The facts in the Hill case, entirely aside from the serious question of offi- cial ethics which they raised against the present Attorney General, are im- portant as indicating the neced for re- enactment by Congress of the gift tax as the only effective means of prevent- ing evasion of the estate tax. Cer- tainly the estate tax either should be repealed or all available means should be employed to make it apply to all citizens alike. The Hill case, I am informed, is only one of many instances where it has been evaded with a re- sultant loss of many millions of tax revenue.” The defense which has been made in the past for Attorney General Mitchell in connection with this Hill estate tax cese is that it was before the Department of Justice while Sar- gent was Attorney General, and that Mr. Mitchell, who was then solicitor general, kept strictly out of the case because he had acted as attorney for Mrs. Hill when the trusts for the benefit of her children and grandchildren were drawn up. Attorney General Mitchell was first attacked be{;use of his connection with the case of Mrs. Hill by Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota. Mr. Mitchell had refused to accept Senator Schall's recommendation that Ernest Michcl be appointed United States district judge in Minnesota, and Schall countered by making various charges against the At- torney General, including the one that his previous position as personal attor- ney for Mrs. Hill had influenced the Government against_pressing the sult for collection of $1,130.616.08 additional tax which the Treasury Department held had been evaded through disposal by Mrs. Hill of her property before death. Asked Report on Hill Case. Senator Couzens was first attracted to the situation by the speeches of Senator Schall. With a view to de- termining the real facts of the situation he asked the Government official to give him a report on the Hill case, to- gether with an opinion as to the pro- priety of the Government's action re- specting it. This report when received bote out the facts presented by Senator Schall, as follows: 1—That Mr. Mitchell as attorney for Mrs. Hill drew up trust agreements, transferring $16.000,000 to relatives a a time when she was seriously fll. 2—That Mrs. Hill died within two years after these trust agreements were executed. 3—That the Treasury Department held that these transfers were made in anticipation of death and that the estate accordingly was subject to an additional inheritance tax of $1.130.- 616.08, and this decision was affirmed in the first decision of the case on ap- peal by Judge Molyneaux of the United States District Court for Minnesota. 4—That the administrator appealed the case to the United States Court of Appeals. and in that court, at a time when Mr. Mitchell was serving as United States solicitor general, the Gov- ernment made no oral argument what- soever in defense of the Treasury's po- | LINCOLN IS PSYCHOANALYZED AS “SCHIZOID MANIC” PERSON Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Personality Is Diagnosis on Civil War By the Associated Press. TORONTO, June 5.—Abraham Lin- coln was analyzed as a “schizoid manic personalit; a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde who had his baser nature under rigid control—at the American Psychi- atric Association meeting today. The analysis was read by Dr. A. A Brill, a psychoanalyst of New York City. /When an abstract "of Dr. Brill's speech appeared in the program of the association last month, it-brought & bitter protest from Dr. Edward E. Hicks, prominent Brooklyn psychiatrist, Counsel for the accused man asked for and was granted a change of venue befe the complaints were who described the allusions to Lincoln | from others 25 “Insulting.” Dr. Hicks entered & President. formal protest against the speech with the association. Schizoid is & word meaning to split, and the expression applied to Lincoln does not mean insanity. Dr. Brill found the trace of dual personality in a muud tendency to tell off-color an which bubbled up as part of Lincoln's humor. The split personality source was traced to his conflicting in- heritances from his mother and father, two natures “that never became fused in_him." Dr. Brill confined his study to the emotional side of the Emancipator. “What is very peculiar about Lin- coln’s stories and jokes,” sald Dr. Brill, “his own and he appropriated is the fact that man; (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) sition, and the case was decided against the Government. 5. That_thereafter C. M. Charest, “(Continued on Page 4, Column 1) MAN KILLS GIRL, UNCLE AND SELF IN HER HOME Suitor Breaks Into House at Night, Firing on Family—Mother Escapes by Leap. By the Associated Press. ROUND LAKE, N. Y. June 5.—A girl and her uncle were slain by Clyde Clemens, father of five children, who shot and killed himself today. The two killed were Miss Grace De Witt, 19 vears old, and Gordon De Witt, 56 years old. Clemens, members of the De Witt family said, broke into the house in the early hours and opened fire on the De Witt_family. Mrs. De Witt, widow of the slain man, escaped by jumping from a second-story window. Her shoulder was fractured in the leap. Relatives said that Clemens, who was 45 years old, had indicated affection for Grace De Witt.