Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1931, Page 2

© A2 wx¥ CANNON EXPECTS SMITH NOMINATION Pry Democrats to Oppose | Either New Yorker, Says Bishop—Sails. Alfred E. Smith “in all probability” will be the Democratic presidential nominee next year, Bishop James Can- non, jr., militant Southern Methodist prohibition leader, said today in s statement which declared also that “dry Pemocrats” would not support either Smith or Franklin D. Roosevelt. Bishop Cannon's pronouncement Was made public after he left for Europe to attend international church and prohi- bition conferences. “Alfred Emasuel Smith, the titular leader of the Democratic party, who fully realizes that he received around 15,000,000 votes for President,” Cannon sald, “has very recently declared in the Princetonian that ‘both political parties will have to take a definite stand on prohibition in the next presidential campaign’ He added that Smith advocated the home cantrol plan of the chairman of the Democratic National Committec, as ™ t important suggested. meux:z&s‘ and Raskob,” the statement , “are determined to write their anti-prohibition views in the Demo- cratic platform and they probably will control enough votes to do so. Sees Smith Nominee. " Democratic candidate in 1032 \'lll";rnll probability be Alfred Emanuel Smith. But if it should be Franklin Roosevelt he is openly and officially committed to Tepeal of the elghteenth amendment. ‘Ht mnhot. m‘:}z’ :fi inated withou! e :?fr"r‘!d E. Smith, m;1 ‘Iltfi?ut !l'{:flvg:f: of wet delegates, who will com; to agree w“nm on the wet record he s made. hx”" Smith or Roosevelt should be nominated, neither would be supported by dry Democrats, who put ‘moral principle above party regularity and there would be a Tepetition of the 1928 campaign. “X? lgh parties will nominate per- sonally and politically dry candidates and adopt strong planks pledging en- forcement of the eighteenth amendment, the prohibition question will be elimi- nated and other issues will dominate the campaign. “But the indications are that the present titular leaders of the Demo- cratic party (Smith and Raskob) will insist upon making prohibition the dominant issue, and if so 1928 will be Yepeated in 1932, with the majority of the_electoral votes of the South cast against any wet candidate.” Asks Writ Against Probe. Prior to his departure, Bishop Can- non, through Attorney Robert H. Mc- Nelll, applied in District Supreme Court yesterday for a writ of prohibition to halt the investigation by the Senate Campaign Funds Committee into his anti-Smith expenditures in Virginia in 1928. Justice Proctor, to whom the applica- tion was made, declined to issue the writ until the five Senators composing the committee, which is headed by Senator Nye, Republican, of North Dakota, had an opportunity to present their views. The committee inquiry is based on charges by Representative Tinkham, Republican, of Massachusetts, that the bishop violated the Federal corrupt practices act in Virginia in the last campaign. Bishop Cannon holds that the investigation is a usurpation of the functions of the judiciary and infringe- ment on grand jury dutles. A letter to Chairman Nye, in which Bishop Cannon asked for deferment of hearings set for August also was made public yesterday. The statute of limi- tations of three years begins in Sep- tember. Senator Dale, Republican, of Vermont, the only member of the com- mittee here, said the inquiry would proceed in August. To Be in Europe. Writing to Nye Wednesday, Cannon said: “I told you when I last saw you in your office that official duties will re- ouire me to be in Europe during August and a part of September. I have de- Jayed my sailing as late as possible thinking that I might receive some in- formation as to the plans of your com= mittee.” Cannon explained that he was sail- ing in connection with the work of Methodist Board of Temperance and Social Service, and to meet officials of the forelgn branch in Belgilum in August. “If there are to be further hearings by your committee on the complaint of Representative Tinkham, of course you can well understand that I should de- sire to be present. I trust, therefore, that in view of all the circumstances that if another hearing is held by the committee, it will not be before ths twenty-fifth of September, the date which you suggested in our last con- wersation.” PAPER MlLL.TO RESUME Abitibi News Print Plant to Re- new Operations September 1. By the Assqciated Press. TORONTO, July 31—The Abitibi Power & Paper Co. will recommence operation of its news print mill @t Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, on Sep- tember 1, Hon. Willlam Finlayson, provineial minister of lands and forests, @nnounced yesterday. Operations will be on a full-time basis. The mill gives employment to ‘about 1,000 men in the Summer months and about 1,200 in the Winter, It has been closed about nine months. SOt LS, [ BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Army Band this wvening at the United States Capitol @t 7:30 o'clock. Willlam Stannard, Jeader, conducting; Thomas Darcy, sec- ‘ond leader. March, “Festival”. ..Munoz Overture, “Calm Sea and Happy Voyage" . . .Mendelssohn Tropical Suite, Festival in Central America® (“Bull's Death in the Ring,” “The Masqueraders’ Dance,” “The Serenade,” and ‘“Peasants’ Dance”) .. De Adalid y Gamero $olo for euphonium, rado” .De (Musician Frank J. Jakubec) “Prayer at E-entid Eli Cuban_song, “Algun Dia’ Da; . Selection from the opera, land” *March, “America First” 4 The Star Spangled Banner. By the Community Center's Band this evening_at the Sylvan Theater, Monument Grounds, at 7:30 o'clock. James Mlg:r. dicectac, March, “Gener: jeune,” Taylor ®Plastique Studies” _Waltz, “Fruhling Schon’ Branson wie Bist du so Lincke “/Overture, «*Mornin, Dancers | years. He had been a Publisher Dies PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN _HEAD PASSES AT 78, WILLIAM MCcLEAN, Publisher of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and a former director of the Associated yesterday, at the age of 79. been confined to his home for the past six months. His son Robert succeeded him as a director of the Associated Press. Mr. McLean had been con- nected with the newspaper fleld since | W —A. P, Photo. the age of 20. —— e PARLIAMENT LOOKS FOR EXTRA SESSION British Body Adjourns After Request for Notice in Case of Early Meeting. By the Assoclated Pres: LONDON, July 31.—Both houses of Parliament adjourned this afterncon until October 20, or until any earlier date decided upon by the Lord Chan- cellor and the Speaker of the House, should an extra session in connection with the international financial situa- tion be considered in the national interest. Before the session closed a resolution ‘was moved by Prime Minister MacDon- ald providing that if the public interest required that the House meet at an earlier date than October 20, the Speak- er, after consulting the government, should give notice accordingly. The House agreed to the motion, as did the House of Lords to a similar resolution. It was understood these precautions were taken because of the national and international situations in the event that any turn in these should seem to call for legislative action. Indian Policy Lashed. Grasping their final opportunity be- fore the Commons adjourned, conserva- tive speakers lashed the government's Indian policy, declaring there were signs everywhere that British rule was weakening and that the present state of affairs in India was far worse than anything known in recent years. Replying for the government, William Wedgwood-Benn, secretary for India, admitted “troubles, fatalities and dis- asters in India,” but added that per- haps the word disaster was too strong. He maintained that on the whole ef- forts to restore good will had been re- markably successful and that every- thing promised well for the round table conference to be held in September. $482,890,000 Saving Asked. Reductions totaling £96,578,000 (about $482,000,000) were recommended today in a report to the House of Commons by the government commission created to investigate the possibilities of cutting government expenditures. The principal item proposed is a de- crease in unemployment benefits and an increase of the weekly contributions of workers and employes to 10 pence (about 20 cents) per worker, by which £66,500,000 (about $332,500,000) would be saved. ‘The commission also recommended a saving of £7,865,000 (about $39,325,000) by postponement of road-building proj- ects and reduction of the present high standard of maintenance; abolition of the empire marketing board, reduction of percentages of wireless license re- ceipts paid to the British Broadcasting Co., reduction of teachers’ salaries by 20 per cent and reduction of grants to higher education by 50 to 60 per cent. Reductions are recommended in po- lice salaries, abandonment of the de- velopment of the State maternity serv- ice is suggested, the road fund would be abolished and all proceeds of motor taxation would be left in the exchequer, grants to be made only by parflament- ary vote. ' Empire Defense Costs. ‘The recommendation is made that | the some ‘time in the future consideration be given to a more equitable distribu- tion of the costs of empire defense, and the government is advised to appoint a representative committee before the next naval conference to ingdiire into the whole subject of naval design and consider whether modifications are pos- Slbrllz without endangering naval se- curity. ‘The bulky report is considered one of the most impbrtant documents in re- cent parliamentary history. The com- mission was headed by Sir George May. Chancellor Phillip Snowden told the House of Commons yesterday the out- look for the budget next year was very serious unless considerable economies could be effected. Great Britain’s budgetary position is more satisfactory than that of any of the other great countries, however, he said, and the government intends to take every possible step to balance next year's budget no matter how unpleasant the process may be. Would Dispose of Blim In a letter to Chancellor PhiligiSnow- den accompanying the T ir George recommended that the ible R-100 be either dismantled or séld and that after this year expenditures on airships be reduced to $100,000. A minority report by two Labor members | the expressed disagreement with the pro- posed reductions in the dole. Piime Minister MacDonald an- nounced that a Cabinet Committes composed of himself, the chancellor, Arthur Henderson and William Gra- ham, president of the Board of Trade, had been set up to consider the report during the parliamentary holidays. FRANK T. CASTLE DIES Veteran = Photographer, 81 Had Bgen Il for. Three Years. . Frank T. Castle, 81, veteran’ Wash- died at lot there. 5 3 c:me had been attached to the o L e el g it re for re ¥ A‘rbc tesident of ‘Washington for_about 50 years, com- Inll' here from Brownsville, Md. Sur- vivors include his wife, Mrs. Ida G. g;fle, and & son,. Esrle, both of this e el DS hia, | braced, as THE EVEN IRITCHIE DEMANDS ACTION FOR IDLE Government Must Act Business Won't, Virginia Bar Told. if Roger Babsons and the Harvard Eco- nomic Soclety and to the other very capable agencies now wrestling with the problem. Cycles of Depression. “Perhaps these depressions occur in 10-year cycles, as some say, or in 3- year cycles, as others deduce, and per- haps these smaller cycles are em- larger -year sweeps. ‘erhaps o~ pression always. follows a destructive 3 the case after the Na- poleonic wars and the Civil War and as is the case now after the World ar. “However all this may be, our pros- :rl when it returns will some time followed by another period of indus- trial depression, and it is the duty of industry now to put its mind to work on ways and means of relieving the distress of unemployment when it comes again. “It may be, as President Hoover said in his Indianapolis speech, that ‘we have through 15 major degr“el- sions in the last century, and ‘we have learned something as the result of each of these experiences.’ “But we did not learn enough to avoid or mitigate the distressing re- sults of this last depression on Ameri- can labor. From six to eight million men and women are out of work, and whatever we may have learned from p':n e; iences has not helped them ndustry builds up depreciation and obsolescence funds to care for its plant when that needs repair or wears out. It maintains sinking funds so that its bonds may pay interest and be re- deemed. It sets aside a surplus from which dividends may be paid when times are . It looks out for its plant, for its bondholders and for its stockholders, but when business is bad, generally speaking it cuts down its labor, turns it adrift and bids it look to citizens’ rellef committees for the necessities of life. Other Problems Solved. “Industry has worked out the prob- lem of protecting its labor against ac- cident and injury. It should likewise work out the problem of protecting its lnbm; against involuntary unemploy- ment. “If industry will mot fulill this social obligation, then I predict that government is going to step in and take the remedy in its own hands. In many States of the country there is alre: & movement, more or less ad- vanced, for compulsory unemployment insurance. ‘The erican Assoclation for Labor Legislation is now giving wide circulation to the draft of an act pro- posed for adoption in the several States, which provides for an unemployment reserve fund to be raised in much the same way as State accident funds are raised. The Federal unemployment in- surance bill will be before when it meets next December. “If industry and capital fear that the consequences of governmental ac- tion may be harmful to their interests, it they fear that government may do something unsound or half-baked or wasteful or extravagant, then it be- hooves industry and capital to become statesmen and make governmental ac- tion unnecessary. Insurance in Other Countries. “In 18 other countries of the world unemployment insurance plans have | tiviti been established and are in operation: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, d, France, Germany, Great Britain, Irish Free State, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain and Switzerland. “Those most available for our study and most applicable to our conditions are the British and German systems, and it would be a calamity if the ex- perience of those countries were re- peated in ours. The British system was established in 1911, and was the first national compulsory unemployment insurance plan undertaken by any gov- ernment. the beginning it covered not very many industries and about 2,250,000 workers. It got off to a good start. Business was prosperous, and when the World War came there was practically no unemployment at all. So by 1920 a surplus of $100,000,000 had been built I:E Purflnzh e past 1: years the total cost o e system has been almost $2,500,000,000. e “The system is said to havc degen- erated so far that almost anybody out of work can demand a job as as the best he ever had, and if he not get it he draws insurance benefits paid from the national treasury and from other people’s money and lives on m. “The German system was established in 1927 and cavered about four-fitths of the working population. At first farm labor and home workers were in the system, but this. proved so ex- pensive that they were soon taken out. By January, 1929, the fund became insolvent, and had to borrow from the national ‘Within a year the government’ inces reached $80,- 000,000, and in April, 1930, Reichs- tag voted to cancel the existing gv- emnment loans and make a fresh start. It then granted an annual sul from the treasury equal' to one-half the deficit each year, the other half to be made up by increasing the contributions from employers and employes. -Under this plan the government's subsidy for 1930 was over $48,000,000. In Bfltm? and German experience these obstacles have. so far proved impossible to overcome. Experience as Teacher. “At present no compulsory plan has been tried out in this country and all proposed are subject to revision, but is only the part of wisdom and sanity to remember that experience in other lands shows that in established compulsory plans there lurk the dangers of waste and graft, of favoritism and exploitation-and of a huge deficit which lic treasury must carry. hard times. The intervention of go ernment in business is largely a political intervention, and iness should be as free of it as possible. But unless industry realizes that this problem of unemployment is primarily its own, it is going to find government undertaking to solve it, and this will ‘put govern- ?;nt in business more than it has ever n. “Under our theory of government, ple must care- for themselves if|N. Y. 5: the | ference Board points out that 62 per y can, and ‘when: they cannot community must care for them. But this tem down, af G _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1931.° Children Honor Playmate Killed in Gang War Fusillade FORM LINE TO VIEW BODY OF HARLEM MACHINE GUN VICTIM. |A HILDREN waiting in line at the home of Michael Vengalll, who was killed in East 107th street, New York City, the night of July 28, to see his body. Pirst in line is Sam Devion, one wreath can be seen bullet holes of the boys who was wounded in the knee from the blast made by shots from the attackers’ guns. of gunfire from a passing gangster car. To the right of the —A. P. Photo. MORE RACKETEERS FACE CAPONE FATE New York and Chicago Re- main as Chief Battlefronts of U. S. Drive. By the Associated Press. ‘The case against “Scarface Al" Ca- pone was regarded by Federal au- thorities foday as only a minute- gun in the Government’s war against racketeers who have made big business of crime. “We are not through, and there will be others to go the same road.” This was the declaration of Attorney General Mitchell in connection with the Capone | c that plans for concentrated leral anti-crime activity centered principally around New York and Chicago, and that for the present these would con- tinue as the main battlefronts. Despite the actions against Capone and 10 of his cotemporaries, it was learned that a considerable force of | Justice Department agents and internal | revenue men have continued their bur- | rowing into Chicago gangland affairs. Co-ordinator Back at Work. ‘William J. Froelich, special assistant to the Attorney General, who acted as “co-ordinator” for the various Federal agencies in the drive against Capone, has returned there and is now at work. | Discarding their customary secrecy, Jus- tice officials have made known also that more than two score special investigat- ors are at work in New York under United States Attorney George Medalie peering into gangdom's bank accounts and tracing its narcotic and liquor ac- es. In addition, Prohibition Director ‘Woodcock has regularly assigned 65 of his force of New York dry agents to New York State alone, and 57 more the Chicago district, all of them specifically instructed to go after the higher-ups. More than 300 agents of the Justice Department’s Bureau of Investigation are now distributed throughout the country, many of them in Chicago and New York, and more in such citles as Philadelphia, St. Louis, Cleveland and Detroit. All of them are available for action under the ordegs of local Unitéd States attorneys. Officials have discredited reports that Federal aetivities in many of these cities have reached the proportion of drives, but it was conceded that agents of the Internal Revenue Bureau were follow- ing down every suspected income tax evasion, and justice agents were pre- pared. to carry out the orders of the Attorney General to “hit out at the gangster blem wherever it becomes particularly obnoxious.” War Started Two Years Ago. ‘The start of the Federal war against racketeering gathered steam more than two years ago, when President Hoover in his first public address declared that life and property in the United States had become ‘relatively more unsafe than in any other civilized country in the world.” He asserted the Govern- ment would proceed “by steady pres- sure” against those responsible. To this, Attorney General Mitchell added, in commenting upon the three years of effort in building up, piece by piece, the evidence against Capone, that while the responsibility for eliminating the gangster lay primarily with the States, the Government was determined to carry on. “The fact that these criminal gangs incidentally violate = some Federal statute,” Mitchell said, “does not place the primary duty and responsibility of punishing them upon the Federal Gov- ernment, and until State police and s, td, £ opinion, take hold of t VA mot be solved.” i GENOA HAS BIG FIRE GENOA, Italy, July 31 (#).—S8ix per- sons were injured and 200 rescued last ht as flames swept over the tallest | fresh bullding in Genoa, the first major fire the city has seen in 100 years. Thirty girls dropped five floors into police nets without injury. The build- ing was the seven-story Palazoo di Via Venti Septembre, bl Soasury. " They are I the spifit ic 3 are it ov;‘ American initiative and uu-h.e’lp. “The United States Chamber of Com- merce in April, 1931, constituted a special committee to study means of fruits | years’ imj securing continuity of American industry. This as d the personnel to func- “Next month the first convention of small manufacturers ever held in meet at Lake at ‘The National Industrial Con- cent of all our industrial for some legislation or governmental supervision would become ap) t. ‘Then that could be adopted. is no reason the States or the Nation should not help in any way which is economically sound and v;.aleh leaves em] ent_in | H. comueh CAPONE ALLOWED TO CHANGE GUILTY PLEA IN TAX CASE| (Continued From First Page.) indictments as favorable to Capone, forcing the Government 1o prove the 5,000 overt acts it alleged he com- mitted in violation of the prohibition act. Judge Wilkerson at first intended calling the trial September 8, but on request of United States District At- torney George E. Q. Johnson agreed merely to hear motions on that date and set the trials for the last week of September. Judge Wilkerson charged the grand jury, which he had summoned to his| court to review the indictments and | the offenses charged therein as well as to determine whether there had beer subsequent offenses. May Ask New Judge. Intimation that Capone may ask a change of venue from Judge Wilkerson ase, | was given by the gangster’s counsel. Meantime, it was said authoritatively | “My client that you are. preju- feels him,” he 1¢ |son said, “he could transfer the case to another judge.” Attorneys said a change of venue was frequently qranted in Federal courts, and that there were cases on record of reversed convictions because a judge had refused a change. Victor La Rue, assistant United States district attorney, said he interpreted Judge Wilkerson's remarks to mean the prosecutors must ask the grand jury now to indict Capone under the Jones law, carrying maximum ‘penalties of five nt and $10,000 fne, and setting forth specific charges in place of the general col count. If a change of venue is made th Capone case would probably be tried be- fore Judge John P. Barnes, who pre- sides over the criminal docket in Sep- tember. He is the newest addition to ::e Federal bench in the Chicago dis- ct. United States Senator Thomas D. Schall, Republican, of Minnesota, said at Minneapolis that he would ask an inquiry to determine what arrangements, if ‘any, was made by the Department of Justice for leniency for Capone. “Any arrangement,” he said, “such as I understand was made between the Department of Justice and Al Capone is almost unbelievable.” He added he had wired Government agents in Wash- ington, asking for full details of cor- respondence between the district attor- and the Department of Justice at_Washington. Ci e’s decision to take s chance on trials came yesterday after Judge Wilkerson had told him “it is utterly impossible to bargain with a Federal court,” and it became apparent to the gang chief he might receive & stiffer sentence than he had anticl- pated. The “bargain” referred to Wwas described is a statement by Capone’s attorney, Michael Ahern, who pro- tested that Capone had received as- surance that the Government would recommend leniency if he pleaded guilty to the indictments. He declared the prosecution and defense had agreed to a stipulated term and to have all sentences run concurrently, “It's up to the officers who made the deal to carry it out,” Judge Wilkerson said. “Executive officials have pardon- ing power, but they cannot transfer to the court s judgment that does not represent the cold, sober record. The Secretary of the Treasury has power to_compromise on civil and criminal liability. All recommendations will be considered, but in the end the court must rule on the record.” Johnson Talked With Defense. District Attorney Johnson, when ques- tioned by the court, said he had talked with the defense, and had agreed to cer- tain recommendations for which he had received the approval of Was! . At the same time Capone's counsel told the court the Department of Justice had given its sanction to a proposal by John- son for leniency. Without the assurance of = light sentence Capone would not have pleaded guilty, Ahern said. Before the session was over beads of sweat were rolling down the face of the man who is listed by the Chicago crlmg Commission as “public enemy No. 1. The collar that had been white and in the moming was wilted, and the smile he wore was gone when he slipped from the court room in the late afternoon with his attorneys. He was surrounded by & cordon of police. Meanwhile the notorious gang leader remained free on bond. INVESTIGATORS PRAISED. Eroup of young prohibition agents, Teput built. up the evmle:ee ‘The who against Al Capone, were fornia Anti. Attorney Ahern told | a | entered after the JUDGE WILKERSON NEMESS OF GANGS Capone, Facing: Him Twice, Gets Contempt Term and Upset on Leniency. BY OWEN L. SCOTT. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, July 31.—Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson, one important governmental officlal who refuses to bargain with Alphonse Capone, the country’s leading gangster, has a rec- ord of harshness in dealing with crimi- nals of this 3 ‘Twice he has caused Capone to bite his tongue as he clamped those heavy jowls in surprise at pro- nouncements of the court. The first time was last February, when Judge ‘Wilkerson jarred him with a six-month prison _sentence for contempt of his court. The second time was before the Federal bar yesterday afternoon, when Capone had the entirely new experience of hearing from the lips of any official the statement: “It is time to impress upon this de- fendant that it is utterly impossible to bargain with the Federal court.” Two Others Given Joit. Besides, back in 1926, this same judge jolted two other gangsters, Terry Drug- gan and Frankie Lake, when he put them in jail for contempt of court. ad accepted Judge Wilkerson's earlier sentence for a dry law violation to be a mere scrap of paper, and spent most of their prison time tending to the beer business. ‘When they went before the judge yesterday, Al and his attorneys thought that they had a nice deal fixed up with every one. Al appeared to believe the attitude of a judge would be unim- portant. ‘When Jydge Wilkerson disillusioned the jaunty Capone, the gangster's at- torney let the cat out of the bag. He said that an agreement had been reached with the distfict attorney to enter pleas of gullty in return for recommendations concerning the dura- tion of punishment. “The recommendation of the district attorney, its concurrence by the attorney general, its concurrence of the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, constituted an inducement to the defendant and to us to enter the pleas, and I am frank to say to the court that unless we were confident and firmly believed that the court would acquiesce in that recommendation we would not have entered the pleas,” asserted Capone'’s attorney, Michael Ahern. But the judge was not to be budged. It has been much the same during his career. Prosecuted Standard Oil Judge Wilkerson sprang into national prominence over 20 years ago, when he ‘was chief counsel for the Government in its prosecution of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana for rebating. The trial before former Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis resulted in a $29,000,000 fine for the company. In 1911 the now Judge Wilkerson was appointed district attorney by Presi- dent Taft, and when Judge Landis re- tired in 1922, he was named to be & Federal judge. Frequently in the past Judge Wilker- son has scolded prosecutors who bring small-fry prohibition law offenders be- fore him. “It is impossible to enforce any law 50 long as we make a practice of deal- ing merely with the petty offenders and give no attention to the large offenders who are accumulating vast sums of money, but who have not been pre- sented to the court for prosecution,” he declared. | Raps Pursuit of Money. in he has said: “We have drifted away from the high standards of the early days of the Re- public. The pursuit of money has be- come the chief end of individual ambi- tion. We pretend to search for the cause of the present deplorable condi- tion with ita gangs of outlaws and racketeers. We lay it to the World ‘War, to prohibition, to weakness in the courts. We overlook the main fact, the establishment of the regime of money.” nu“u‘:: he sets do:‘n' l:he dm;elr in re- to bargain a gang! ] “Certainly it is an unheard-of thing in a criminal proceeding that anybody, even the court itself, could bind th court to the juc ent which is to be = Wi (Copyright. 1931.) rederat | GIRL APACHE VICTIM’S BODY REACHES GOTHAM bUC | Columbia U. Faculty Members to Attend Funeral of Stident Slain in Arizonac By the Associated Press. St NEW YORK, July 31.—The of take place faculty of the e, Yo tentions together | JULY CORN AT 723 AS CORNER ENDS Closing Price Represents - Jump of 15 Cents in Last Three Days. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, July 31—A ‘corner on | corn for July delivery came to an end today with the price at 72! cents a | bushel, the peak figure which shorts | were forced to pay on the Board of Trade. The closing price represented a jump of 15 cents a bushel in the past | three days. ‘Thomas M. Howell, Chicago trader credited with other spectacular deals {in the past, was said to have executed the corner in association with James P. Bickell of Toronto, Canada. All other options of both corn and wheat closed the day near the lowest prices for the season. September wheat dropped at one time to 497, an all time low, and closed at 503 to Y4 cents; July wheat closed at 48 to 48 & mere fraction above the low, and 3% cents under yesterday's price. Corn for September delivery closed at 50%, to % cents, or at a discount of more than 22 cents over the cornered price for the July option. Cash sales of corn were similarly af- | fected, the final sales in some instances :ess( 5 cents above yesterday's final leals. Rumor had it that Howell, a gray- haired veteran who began life 49 years ago in Cedar Rapids, Jowa, had made a million dollars paper profit in the corn squeeze. Spectacular Operator. Howell has long been a spectacular La Salle street operator. Essentially a grain trader, he is also said to have made an occasional sally into the securities market. His name has often been linked with that of Jesse Livermore, New York stock and cotton operator, especially during 1925, when the pair was re- ported to have cleaned up fortunes in May wheat. It was in January of that year that May deliveries jumped to $2.057% a bushel—then collapsed, dropping back to $1.44 the rate of 10 cents a day. Howell and Livermore were credited with being on the buying side while the prices went up, and on the selling side when the prices broke down. Has Winter Home in Miami. Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine asked for a report on dealings from the Board o. Trade, but all trans- actions were found in order. Born in Iowa, Howell was educated in the schools of Lincoln, Nebr. He came to Chicago in 1900. Now he maintains a Winter residence in Miami, Fla, and conducts much of his ex- tensive trading from that point over private wires. FORMER CONGRESS MEMBER INDICTED Felony Theft Charged Against Thomas H. Ball by Houston Grand Jury. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., July 31.—Col. Thomas H. Ball, 72, active in the Democratic party of Texas and former ngress member from this district, was indicted today by the Harris County grand jury on a charge of felony theft. ‘The charge related to & land trans- action alleged to have occurred during 1927 between a company of which Col. Ball was president and the Port Com- mission here, of which he was, and is, legal counsel. ‘The indictment charged. theft of cer- tain checks involving land purc] made by the Port Commission in 1927. Bail was set at $5,000. Col. Ball denied the charges. He was credited with be- ing the father of Port Houston, as he was in ess when the first appro- priation for the deepening of the Hous- ton .ship channel was obtained. The port now is worth more than : $20,000,000. FLORIDA TO PUT TAX OF 7' CENTS ON:GAS By the Associated Press, hase | there, ISHOTGUN PATROL TO HUNT GANGMEN -Night Vigil Ordered in New York—Garment Rack- eteers Kill Man. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, July 31.—In relentless ‘war against the gangster baby shooters of Little Italy, Police Commissioner Mulrooney announced that the sids- walks of New York would go under shotgun rule at 6 o'clock tonight. ‘From 6 o'clock every evening to 6 o'clock in the morning until further no- tice, Mulrooney said, detectives would patrol the whole city in automobiles armed with long-range shotguns. “We will meet force with force and guns with guns,” he said in revealing the new order. Previous Patrol Shorter. Previously the motorized detectives have patroled the city only from mid- night until 6 a'clock and have carried only their service pistols. At a police meeting last night Com- missioner Mulrooney called on his force of more than 13,000 men to bring the gangsters who killed one child and wounded four others on the crowded sidewalks of East 107th street to ac- count. Another murder was committed in New York today. Guido Ferreri, 26 years old, was shot as he was about to enter his automobile, parked in front of his house. Three men in another car opened fire upon him simultane- ously, then drove away. Police attributed the murder to rack- eteers in the garment trades. Ferreri's family operates two small plants, one in Brooklyn, the other in Plainfield, N. J. The Plainfield plant has been the subject of dispute for some weeks, police learned, as a result of labor dis- agreements. The Brooklyn plant is unionized. ‘The weapons used by the killers a parently were shotguns and automatic pistols. The hunt for Harlem’s “Little Italy”™ gunmen was intensified today as a new clue and offers of rewards totaling $25,000 spurred every policeman on. ‘The new clue, which Commissioner Mulrooney called his most important, was the finding of a man who said he was the intended victim of the gunmen, He is Anthony Buzzone, a_bookmaker, known in police circles as “Big Teed.” ‘With Buzzone admitting io police that it was he the gunman aimed at, detectives today almost definitely placed the cause of the shooting on a policy gaming feud and not a beer fight, as previously reported. Names Given Police. Under constant questioning for Tour hours, Buzzone told police about his iriends and enemies and furnished de- tectives with a long list of names of men who might like to see him out of the way. The two previous newspaper rewards of $15,000 was augmented today by $10,000 by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, a_police social group. Mayor Walker and Police Commis- sioner Mulrooney, who adressed 1,200 policemen yesterday at a downtown theater about the shooting, warned the policemen to get the gunmen and “shoot above, the waist.” The $10,000 reward offer was voted at that meeiing. Mayor Walker's ringing remark to the policemen was: “Drive the dogs Who were guilty of the killing of one of these little ones—drive them out for the protection of your own children. Find the perpetrators and bring them {back dead or alive. This shooting was |a diabolical thing.” Legion Offer 30,000 Men. The American Legion, in a letter to Mayor Walker, offered to place 30,000 men at the disposal of the city to help rid it of gangsters. The Legion said it was ready to organize vigilante com- mittees if necessary. In a telegram to President Hoover Representative Andrew L. Somers, Dem= ocrat of the sixth congressional district, called the “shooting orgy” an “eloquent evidence of the benefits of prohibition.” DISARMAMENT MOVES SEEN BY WRITER AS THREATENING WAR (Continued From First Page.) war, resolved not to accept the peace treaties as a definite settlement. The people of France, Poland, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Rumania resolved not to permit any revision. And this fundamental difference explains the post-war chaos.” Simonds pointed out that while the German and French peoples hold to their present views about the treaty of ;’ex;snlles what you have is war, in ef- ect. “As long- as the Poles and the Ger- mans stand on either side of an- imag- inary line, in their present frame of mind, the Vistula is a battle front, just as much as the Aisne or the Somme ‘was in the World War.” Policy is fundamental, he said. What is accidental is the means employed to carry out the purpose. “In point of fact, armsare becoming too expensive and dangerous to be used. The French occupation of the Ruhr was terribly expensive and it upset French national life. But the French occupation of the mark—if I may use that term—was inexpensive, efficient, deadly. It foreshadows a new era in war. It is a variation of what the League of Nations used to call & peaceful blockade. You do not shoot your enemy, but fust as certainly you do fight him and you do smash him to the point where he surrenders his policy to yours, and that is all war was ever intended to do. Take all their arms away from the French and leave them their money and their present . purpose and ycu will have war, pro= vided a similarly disarmed Germany is at once resolved to scrap the h’elly."- War On, but Without Arms. Disarmament, at present, might lead directly to armed conflict Simonds as- [serted. At present, the odds between armies are too great for conflict but, as the margin between the armies of the two sides is reduced, he said, fight- ing odds are lessened between two groups already at war. “The war is it has been going on, but not with arms. You only make it more likely that arms will be used. “When the United Stated appears at Geneva pressing for disarmament she actually enters the war now in progress in Europe on the side of the disarmed powers. She asks their opponents to give up one of their means for resist- ing what they consider an attack upon their most vital interests, security for France, territorial integrity for Poland, existence itself for Czechoslovakia. But you do not ask for a parallel dis- armament of purpose and policy on the other side. Thus in our disarmament program at Geneva we are just as clearly anti-French now as we were in || the World War anti-German.” Baker’s Speech Opens Parley. ‘The institute opened yesterday after- hour-long speech by New- Secretary of War under