Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1931, Page 4

District Attorney, Puzzled ‘,' More Than Ever, Leaves . on Cruise Today. B the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 19.—Puszled jrore than ever by the drowning of Ben- in P. Collings from his cruiser Pen- guin in Long Island Sound, District At- Alexander G. Blue of Suffolk County left on a yachting trip himself #odsy. He said it was only a week end gacation. But the nature of it aroused Surmises. The coroner’s inquest was suddenly lted by Mr. Blue, when a brother-in- 3 Meyer, Long Island told him of two mysterious hiding on an island. The district men ttorney postponed the inquest for a v ’l'nnnunggd two arrests were im- week, minent and d Collings Papers Puzzle Creator of Craig Kennedy Sees Clue in *'Pirates’” Destruction of Documents W hile Widow Was in Their Canoe. BY ARTHUR B. REEVE, Creator of Cralg Kennedy. HUNTINGTON, N. Y., September 19 (N.AN.A.) —The mystery of the brutal slaying of Benjamin P. Collings, the retired and retiring Stamford, Conn., yachtsman whose body was left. by the tide on the beach of Lloyds Neck three days ago, has become as deep the waters of Long Island Sound. Far from clearing up the mystery, the cor- orner's inquest in the little Colonial town hall at Huntington is kicking up a muss like a nor’easter on that same body of water which shrouds the real story. Since the very beginning of the case there has loomed in my own mind important question of what ings’ first_story as actu- ally related to Sergt. Robert G. For- rest of Cove Neck, that secluded com- munity, where Theodore Roosevelt once made front-page stories at Sagamore Hill. Now ve have it. 1 shall pass over the testimony Sergt. Porrest gave that he found her “smil- ing” and that she “frequently laughed and jested” in telling her bizarre story to him. To me the important thing that she told him that while she was in the canoe with her elderly abductor he carefully tore up a paper or some papers, scattering the pieces on the d | waters of the sound. Was under care of two physicians. Several policemen testified to Coro- mer Willlam G. Gibson of the story %old them by Mrs. Collings when she was found in a motor boat on the She said her husband had been killed by two men, who after clubbing him snd binding his arms and feet, tossed Him into the bay. His body floated to shore at Lioyds Neck last Wednesday, & week after his death. Mrs. Collings ®aid she was attacked by the men, who removed her from the Penguin and S0k her aboard a canoe, later trans- ferring her to & motor boat. —Her daughter Barbara, old, was left on the drifting o Jachtama mhr yach! Y - Mrs. described her two as- sailants as & man about 50 and s Boy 18. § years Pt TRANSFER MOONEY FUND California Labor Federation Hears Charge Money Diverted. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., September 19 (#)—The California State Federa- tlon of Labor late yesterday adopted a yesolution to put the Thomas Mooney defense fund, which it sponsors, under the federation's Executive mfli:z!n of John P. Metcalf of San Francisco that of the $162,000 raised for y's defense, $103,000 had “gone for communistic activities.” The Mooney D!knu' Commm lfi‘e;n. ‘% said, had ac- lor ,100. fl’?‘::conunuyon also favored an im- mediate pardop for Mooney, who with ‘Warren the 1916 Preparedness day bombing in San Prancisco. ‘SUPPORT SWOPE’S PLAN Electrical Manufacturers Favor Proposed Job Stabilization. NEW YORK, September 19 (#).—The National El Manufacturers’ As- vote yesterday to the industrial stabili- re is scmething very strange about this action told by Mrs. Collings in this first story, although passed over lightly in the later versions. It seems to me that the arthorities have been quite remiss in respect to follow- ing up what is lied here. Were there any Rlper! on the Penguin itself? If 80, what has become of them? X am told that for the first time in numerous visits to Northport, Collings cashed a check at the First National Bank for $20, instead of using habitual express money orders. Nine- teen of the $20 was found on the boat. His sapphire ring was found still on his finger. True, Mrs. Collings had hidden two of her own rings in the shoes of baby Barbara as though she feared robbery. But the motive of this attack was not robbery, most clearly. ‘What was the motive? Why were the pockets of Collings turned inside | ;. out ‘when his body was found on the beach of Marshall Fields’ estate as was told:in detail in the testimony yester- day? The viclous and brutal attackers were after something, something that Collings had. They got it and they did him in. ‘There were many other important facts in Sergt. Forrest's testimony, but they are & matter of news. Here I am concerned only with what gets forward in solving the mystery. For instance, the sirange movements of Herman P. Chelius, Mrs. Collings’ father, the music master of Boston. « Why did he register at Block Island as from Daytona, when, as far as is known, he has never been in Daytona? ‘Why was there no communication, as far as can be found out, between Collings and Chelius when the Penguin put in at Block Island over a month ? “vw'hlt is the reason for the secret of Chelius from Block Island the fatal K. Billings, was convicted of | off N is | Mrs. his | Take, for instance, Sergt. Forrest’s recollection af what Mrs. Collings said at first about “the wounded man.” ‘That grows in significance by its omis- slon in her later stories. Either the wounded man Wwas a mere ruse or a myth. In fact, the carefulness with which this attack was planned and executed, the secrecy shown whenever another craft approached, preclude any- thing but the calmest premeditation. One might be tempted to write it down as another gangster or rum-run- ner tragedy but for the fact that the gangster strikes at once, regardless of women and children, and beats it. Here was an unusual regard for a woman and a child for either a gang- ster or an insane person. District Attorney Alexander Blue professes to marvel at the attitude of the Collings' family toward Mrs. Col- lings. The public in Suffolk County are marveling at the ¢ntr¥ace of Homer Cummings, the far™mg agtorney, into the case just as the WM of Nassau Cnmn“tey1 n‘:’;rveled at 11..1'0‘) ance of Samy ntermeyer inf > Starr Faithful case. " Whatever the cost, 1t would seem, Collings owes it to the memory of her husband to leave no stone un- turned in fathoming this mystery. (Copyright, 1931, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) TARIFF WALL SOUGHT BY BRITISH INDUSTRIES Federation Joins Protectionist Ranks and Demands Quick Ac- tion to Restore Trade Balance. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 19.—The Fed- eration of British Industries today joined the protectionist ranks with the plea that a tarif should be enacted at once to restore the balance of trade to the right side of the ledger. Such a tariff should be on an ad valorem basis, it was urged, and should assess commodities on a sliding scale upward from the unfinished to the fin- ed article. It would be temporary only and would be followed by a permanent law designed to meet the exact requirements of industry. ‘The federation recommended that such a measure should afford effective protection to home industries, prevent dumping and provide for the extension o{r preferential trade within the em- pire. Ten thousand London school teachers, assembled in & stormy mass meeting at Westminster Hall last night, added their voices to those of the sailors of the Atlantic fleet by protesting 15 per cent reductions in their salaries, a fea- ture of the government's economy pro- gram. ANK AUDITOR INDICTED Illinois Official Held in Connection ‘With Failure. WAUKEGAN, Ill, September 19 (). located | —State Auditor Oscar Nelson yesterday nn. These are all facts perhaps capable of a reasonable explanation, bui in the present picture they seem strange. Now as to: the Coll family itself. of Mrs. Collings it hardly was charged with malfeasance in office in an indictment returned by the Lake County grand jury in its investigation of the closing Jast June of the Wauke- gan State Bank. bank were named in indictments charg- diversion of funds. ol A. V. Smith, State’s attorney, said the indictment against. Nelson was based on testimony that_the Waukegan Bank wes insolvent last Fall when bank oy el Doy Pro as lvent. Vice Presidents John nors and with diversion:of funds. State suditor could mnot be reached last night for comment on the indictment. Y Two officers of the Murray Cen- Milton E. Smith were the - COTTON CUT PLANS | OF TEXANS DIFFER House and Senate Pass Bills at Variance on Acreage. May Compromise. By the Associated Press. AUSTIN, Tex., September 19.—Cot- ton acreage reduction plans in Texas have reached the compromise stage, with special committees of the Senate and House scheduled to confer today in an effort to adjust their differences. ‘The major differences in the two bills edopted by the House and Senate | was the extent of the acreage cut. The Senate measure provided for reduc- tion of cotton to one-fourth of all crops under cultivation in 1932. ‘The House bill ealled for curtailment to one-third of the cultivated crops. Indications were that the report would not be ready for presentation to the two branches before Monday. In South Carolina legisigtors sent back a report of a Free Conference Committee on a cotton holiday bill as a result of attacks in both Houses last night. Opponents criticized stringent prohibition provisions of the measure. Texas legislators rejected a similar bill. Gov. Willlam H. Murray has “|on record a&s being o] cial session of the Ol ture to adopt an emergency cotton program. He sald the legislators would want to remain in session 30 days and would knock his reduction bill into a “cocked hat. PLANS TO SAVE WISENT, NOW NEARLY EXTINCT Henry Ruhe, Noted Animal Dealer at 26, to Cross Rare Russian Buf- falo With $merican Bison. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 19.—Henry Ruhe, who at 26 has acquired a reputa- tion as a dealer in wild animals and fowls, believes he can save the lonely wisent, or Russlan buffalo, from ex- tinction. He explained the plan last night after his return from Germany. With the assistance of Dr. W. Reid Blair, director of the New York Zoo- logical Park, and the International So- clety for the Preservation of the Wisent, he said he would bring two wisent from his Zoo at Alfeld, Germany, and_cross them with American bison at Bronx Park. Inbreeding, he said, has weakened the wisent to such an extent that a cross with the pure-blooded bison, their nearest kin, is the only honest biological move to save the Russian animal, |CASTILIAN ADVOCATE CAUSES STIR IN SPAIN Basque, Catalan and Gallegan Dep- uties Protest Suggestion of Salamanca Professor. By the Associated Press, MADRID, September 19.—Miguel Unamuno, University of Salamanca professor, aroused a storm of protest last night by arguing, in the purest Castilian, that Castilian should be the | sole language of Spain. The protests were voiced in the Basque, Catalan and Gallegan dialects | Deputies from those provingces. ere was much debate, but no vote was taken. i meiw Gpaniahsomplimsiion 30 adpu to " late Castilian as the official language, ‘THe Assembly approved articles of the constitution renouncing war as an Instrument of national policy, and naming Madrid as the capital, of the country. 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