Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1931, Page 2

" A2 % THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1931 PRESIDENT PLEADS Last Stand Made by Convicts FORCLPERATON Outlines 12 Principles in Ask- ing United Action for Real- ization of Plans. (Continued From First Page.) the Winter, but that almost every lo-| cality in the country had reported it | could take care of its own indigent and | unemployed. The appeal for local re- | lief funds, he said, has met with a re-, gponse unparalleled since the war. | The expenditure of more than $60.- | 000,000 a month by the Government on | construction projects will go on, as its | bit toward employment. Part-time work, | said the President, is giving aid to mil- lions otherwise without resources | Upon the Reconstruction Corpora. tion Mr. Hoover said he relied to give | new confidence to agriculture, industry | and labor against paralyzing infiuences | and shocks, and also to reopen credit | channels which will assure normal | working of the commercial fabric | “This program,” he concluded, “will | affect favorably every man, woman snd child—not & special class or any g * * * To re-establish nor ing 15 the need of the hou Text of Statement. The text of the President's statement follows recol [ the organizations created dur-| st few months there is a| Upper to recovery been formulated after consultation with | con Jeaders of every branch of American public life, of laber, of agriculture, of | commerce and of 'ndustry. A consid- erable part of it gspends on voluntary | — ——— organization in tb¥ country. This is already in_action. part of it re- | quires legislation s a non-partisan | program. 1 am interested in its prin- ciples rather than its details. I appeal | for unity cf action for its consummation. | “The major steps that we must take | sre domestic. The action needed 15 in | the home field, and it is urgent. While re-establishment of stability abroad is helpful to us and to the world—and I | am confident that it is in progress—yet we must depend upon ourselves. 1f we deyote ourselves to these urgent domes- tic questions, we can make a very large | measure of recovery, irrespective of for- | eign influences Reviews Major Parts. “That the country may get this pro- oughly in mind, I review its icts were captur their escape, in w Lower, left ed and taken to right TS START AUSTIN MAY SERVE FUND DRIVE JAN. 14 OND.C COMMITTEE $1,500,000 “Victory Cam- Vermont Senator Slated to | i | paign” Plans Under Way. Success Predicted. | ion for distress among the | B unemployed by voluntary organization | and united action of local authorities in | to rajse $1,500,000 will be launched on co-operatio e President’s un-|a Nation-wide scale Thursday evening employmen! ganization, whose | January 14 appeal for crganization and funds has| Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Dem- met with a response unparalleled since | ocratic National Exacutive Committee, the war. Almost every locality in the |jaid plans for the launching before country has reported that it ‘will take | care of its own’ In order to assure| that there will be no failure to meet problems as they arise, the organization ugh the Winter iployers are organized and to give part-lime work | discharging a portion of their This plan is affording help to several million people who otherwise would have no resources. The Govern- ment continue to aid unemploy ment over the Winter through the large program of Federal construction now in progress. This program represents an expenditure at the rate of over $60,000,000 a month. “3. The strengthening of the Fed- eral land bank system in the interest of the farme “4. Assistance to home owners, both sgricultural and urban, who are in| difficulties in securing renewals of | mortgages by strengthening the country | banks, savings banks, and building and | ciations through the creation | home loan discount By restoring these institutions | functioning, we will see a| yment in new construc- the Associated Press The Democratic ‘“victory campaign” cuss final arrangements for a simultan- ecus start in every State John H. Fahey of Massachusetts, pre- siding officer at ths meeting, announced that a definite effort to raise $500,000 before asking for public subscriptions was meeting “with pleasurable success.” A series of “victory” dinners in larger cities throughout the country, built around a national broadcast from New York of a campaign keynote speech by John W. Davis, Democratic nominee in 1024, will mark official inauguration of the drive John J. Raskob, chairman of the National Committee, who was present at today's meeting; Shouse and other party leaders also will speak at the New_ York dinfer “The Democratic party is out to win in 1932 Shouse said, in announcing his plan. “The prospects for a national triumph have never been brighter.” SURGEON OPERATES banks. Other Financial Aids. opment of a plan to assure | | ON JANE ADDAMS THREE OF PRISONERS IN JAIL BREAK AND ABDUCTION. The farm house of Emerson Salsbury. program for turning the tide of | where Will Green, Grover C. Durrill and George Curtis, and starting the country upon | from Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary on December 11 This program has | being surrounded by a posse and realizing that escape was futi back hich they abducted and later Grorge Curtis, | Tom Underwood, alias Fred Devers, who were recaptured State chairmen, meeting today to dis- | Winner of Nobel Peace Prize Un-| 1tion Lo depositors in closed | thus relieve distress among | of smaller depositors and| businesses 6. The enlargelment under full safe- guards of the discount facilities of the | Federad Reserve Ban the interest | ©of a more adequate credit system 7. The creation for the period of the emerge of a reconstruction | tion to furnish necessary | credit otherwise unobtainable under | existing circumstances, and so give con- fidence to agriculture, to industry and to labor against further paralyzing i fluences and shocks, but more especial by the reopening of credit channe ch will assure the maintenance and | normal working of the commercial| fabric. | 8. Assistance to all railvoads by pro- tection from unregulated competitio and to the weaker ones by the forma- tion of a credit pool, as authorized by The entrance of Miss Adéams to the the Interstate Commerce Commission, | pospital was delayed 8 week by bron- other measures. thus affording | chia] trouble—an affiction that has at- to the bonds held by our in-|tacked the peace advocate anew each. companies, our savings banks | winter for the last decade. She is 71 Denevolent trusts. theredy | vears old and for years her primary family | interest has been advocacy of the cause of the | of pesce throughout the world Miss Addams came to Baltimore | Wednesday morning accompanied by | her secretary, Miss Mary Rosa Smith 5land a group of women. She went di- ly to the hospital as a patient of Cullen. The operation was decided upon the following day. | Wednesday evening Miss Addams was + €X~ | informed that she and Dr. Nichol: loans to | Myrray Butler of Columbia University || had been awarded the 1931 Nobel Peace public | pee | hile declining_ to statement until official notification was received, Miss Addams let it be known ough Miss Smith, that her share of the money would be used to advance the cause of peace and the work of the league dergoes Major Treatment at Johns Hopkins. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, December 12.—Jane Addams of Chicago, social worker and president for 15 yeais of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, underwent a major operation at John Hopkins Hospital here today performed by Dr. Thomas S. Cullen of Baltimore In @ signed statement after the op- eration, the doctor said: “Miss Addams was operated on this morning and a | simple ovarian cyst was removed. She stood the operation well and is rest- ing comfortably.” surance Revision of Bank Laws. “9 The re 80 as better . ect given | the make a formal the expenditure un- proportion ability groups and in such | ki o™ | KEEPS GRID TROPHIES y amongst all HOLLYWOOD, Calif, December (P)—William _ Bakewell, actor, who irpose of this program | Played halfback in a recent motion pic- old job instead of | ture featuring players of Notre Dame to help the worker |5 placing foot 1l mementoes in a as the bench, to|*Pecially built case in the foundation % power for the farm. | ©f his Hollywood home, now under con- fact, turn the ~ | structio it on anq| These include a battered foot ball hountry foracgitiion &0d |4 iopraphed by the lats Knute Rockne ey H aloNg | and Orville Mohler and Johnny Baker affect favorably | URIVersity of Southern California stars and childonol 5 |8nd others. With the foot ball are foo One 0¥ 2| photographs and eutographs of the one of its| 5iavere who will compete in the South- e. flow of credit! g, fornia-Gr ame today impeded by fear and uncertainty, | o ornia-Georgla game today 1o the detriment of every manufac business man and farmer, T e5- | tablish normal functioning is the need of the hou: | 2y e broad create a made et the desk as restore t pro p ob, well esses start the the line spect purpeses is to start th BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers' Home Band this evening at Stanley Hall at| 5:20 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmer- menn, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant March, “The Emblem of Liberty,” Smith | Koppitz | “Mass St. 1 Gounod Tatt,” Hatden | Grand fantasia, “Favorite Songs of | Robert Schumann” Roberts Oddity, “Overture Miniature," Tschaikowsky Waltz suite, “Hawaiian Moonlight,” Kilckman Finale “Folie-Bergere” i‘I«: Star Spangled Banner.” Overture, “The Far West”. Bacred, “Sanctus,” from Cecilia” ite “Gloria,” from “Mass in B FI 12| [ near Leavenworth, Kans., convicts, who escaped | killed themselves after | Three other shortly after B. White, Brown and P. Photos. to Leavenworth Prison wounded Warden who was killed; Stanley A Succeed to Place Left Vacant by Gould. (From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) Senator Warren R. Austin, Republic- an, of Vermont, was understood today to have been selected as one of the new members of the Senate District Committee. While the work of filling vacancies on the various standing Senate com- mittees 1s not yet completed, indica- tions were Senator Austin would be | assigned the Republican vacancy on the District Committee, succeeding for- mer Senator Gould of Maine, 1, as seems likely, the ratio of the committee is fixed at seven Republic- ans and six Democrats, it would | mean there will be two new Democrats named on the District Committee. | There has been no intimation, however who the Democratic members will be and the finel slate of new members may not be known until Monday Senator Capper, Republican, of Kan- sas, who has long been a close student of Washington affairs, is continuing as chairman of the District Committee Senator Austin was elected to the Senate last March to finish out the term of the late Senator Greene of | Vermont. The new Senator was born | at Highgate Center, Vt., and is 54 years | old. He graduated in 1899 from the University of Vermont and is a law CONVICTS QuIZZED ON GUNS’ SOURCE: FUGITIVE HUNTED| (Continued From First Page) his companions and then ended his own life when faced with capture Five men were wounded during the | flight of the prisoners, including Ward- | en White. Warden Undergoes Operation. The warden, whose left arm was shat- | tered by a shotgun charge after he grappled with one of his abductors dur- | ing a helt on a country road, under- | went an operation in a Leavenworth | hospital. None of those hurt was in a | critical condition. Warden White will not lose his arm, physicians said last night. At first it was reported that amputa- tion might be necessary. Surgeons re- moved a piece of shattered bone from the forearm above the wrist and later announced the operation a success. He | also received a flesh wound in the left | side of the chest Thayer was under sentence for the robbery of a mail traln near Okesa, Okla, in August, 1923. Durrell and Curtis, found slain in the Salsburg attic were under 25 years sentence eich for the same hold-up. | Green entered Ledyenworth Prison | as City in 1924, also to serve | for mail robbery. Warden White and Berta e wounded were J. D. Galvin, acting assistant deputy warden: I. W. Mooney, | prison guard, and W. 8. Bradford, mayor of McLouth, Kans., a posseman All" were injured by convict bullets. BATES WILL INVESTIGATE. Prison Bureau Chief Leaving Today for Leavenworth. By the Associated Press | The Prison Bureau began a prompt study of the break which cost the lives of three Leavenworth prisoners. By long-distance telephone and other- | wise officials kept in close touch with | each succeeding development. Justice Department agents were dispatched to ! the prison to inquire into the circum- | stances surrounding the escape and learn the nature of outside assistance | given the prisoners. | In the meantime F. G. Zerbst, as-| sistant warden, who led the posse from the prison after the escaped convicts, was designated by officials here as act- ing warden. Assistant Director J. V. Bennett of | the bureau said he was satisfied the break was not caused by dissatisfac- tion with conditions in the prison Bennett added that the escape ap- peared to be almost exactly like one | at the prison 15 years ago. ‘At that time some prisoners cap- tured the warden and used him as a, hield in getting out,” he caid. “They | had no automobile waiting, of course, | but they had assistance outside.” | Prison Bureau officials said White, was one of the most pobular wardens in | the service, both among his fellow workers and the men under his charge in the prison. White became warden nine years ago after serving as an in- vestigator fcr the Justice Department. Sanford Bates, director of the Fed- eral Trison Bureau, was to leave today for Leavenworth to “go to the bottom™ of the break. Hurrying back here from an inspec- tion trip in Pennsylvania after hear- ing of the trouble, he said Austin H.| McCormick, an assistant director of the bureau now in Chillicothe, Ohio, would | join him in ferreting out the source of the weapons used. Bates expects to arrive fdy. Sunday night, " 4 | Jacoby to 11 for their opponents. dealt were 45, reaching the grand total i Plays Great Cards Well to Pile Up 5,650 Advantage Over Culbertsons. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December Sidney 8. Lenz and Oswald Jacoby tot ad- vantage of great cards to run away from Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbe in the fourth session of the co bridge marathon ending early today By taking 7 of the 12 rubbers of the lon representatives of the “official em of bidding accumulated 3835 more points net for a grand net total of 5,650, It was a slam session. Lenz and Jacoby bid three little slams, and made them. Another could have been made with a correct choice of bids. Mrs Culbertson made one. Her husband could have tried for another, but pre- ferred a safe game and rubber It was a speedy session. More rubbers were played than during any other, and the grand total rose to 17 for Lenz and Hands ses of 154. Lenz and Jacoby shut out the Culbertsons in three rubbers. The Cul- bertsons won one shutout Session Was Peaceful, It was peace session, Jacoby praised the Culbertsons for being graceful losers and poor winners. Culbertson remarked that he found his opponents in cxtel- lent humor for a change Proponents of the rival systems found grounds for argument, but neutral kibitzers were impressed again by the act that shrewd old Lenz and youthful nervy Jacoby know how to minimize their losses when the cards are running against them and also how to get the most_out of pianola hands or almost ianolas. They have out-maneuvered the Culbertsons in the tactics of deliber- ately being set in the hope of keeping opponents from going game and rubber And this is a matter of diagnosis of the moment and not of systems Lenz found in the last rubber of the session, the longest, which went 10 hands, much material to contrast tactics of the teams. Cubertson lay in ambush, but the enémy refused ‘c_be ved. Al the kibitzers said Ely have made game in no trump but he let the official team get away with a one-club make. Strong Enough for Force. After a_minimum_opening one-club bid by Jacoby, Culbertson, with 515 | honor tricks in front of him, second | hand. passed. The hand was strong enough for the famous forcing two bid of his system. He explained he passed for a swing; he expected Lenz to bid and then he intended to unmask nis batteries and plank a most profitable double on the surprised and vulnerable officialites But Lenz passed, and Mrs. Culbertson passed. Their hands both were nigh worthless. After the session Culbert alibied that there was no game in the hand and Lenz insisted any palooka cculd havs made three no trump. HURLEY TESTIFIES 70 GOOD FAITH IN BUILDING PURCHASE (Continued Prom First Page.) i | | | { holders against the bank, it was charged that on the following day the funds in this special account were transferred by check to the general account of Swart- zell, Rheem & Hensey Co., and that the $635,000 borrowed from the bank was then repaid by a check on the general account Louis Titus, representing Mr. Hurley, asked the witness whether there was | The residence was one of the LENZ INCREASES FOE OF GOLD BASIS | . LEAD AT BRIDGE ELEVATED BY TOKIO Leader of Wakatsuki Opposi- tion Summoned to Form New Ministry. (Continued From First Page.) s it was sald the 1 hope to over- hout necessitating authoritative quart Japanese milit; awe the Chin, serious fightnig There are already nese troops in Man contends this number isting treaties because of M. InuMhi had the his political career aft sleepless _right. His was crowded by politicfans soon after day- light. The greatest excitement pres vailed among his followers when the first summors came from the aged Prince Sajonji and again soon af ward when the call came fro palace itself. It was the gr circles since Apr Premier Tanaka cabinet. Among polit Inukai is known cause of his sly politician almost_from h member of the Diet et on in 1890 It is said of misses even about 2 hur residence day in Beiyt when form ns and his friends h a | e first he seldom ng, tical af- the goal years, s which has so fa g he 50 many Veteran of Journalism. He betoke! fond g s speeches e of . write s had a a journalist chief recrea- illa on the or of great jokes in long expe When whenever he | was not engaged in’ politics, his friends always knew he could be found some- where on a hike, accompanied by a companion or two Kenkichi Yoshizawa sentative at the League of Nations Council and the country’s ambassador to Paris, is his son-in-law and as a con- sequence the Ambassador already has been mentioned as a possibility for the post of foreign minister in the new cabinet. Other possibilities to succeed Baron Shidehara as foreign minister include Jotaro Yamamoto, former pr dent of the South Manchurian Railway. Three additional telephones were in- stalled in the Inukal home cdrly today. busiest se was jammed streets were Japanese repre- spots in Tok®. The hou with callers and nearb congested with automobiles DOUBTS GOLD CHANGE. New York Head of Yokohama Bank Says Fears Are Exaggerated. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 12.—Fears in America that Japan will suspend the gold standard are very much exag- gerated, Saburo Sonoda, head of the Yokohama Specie Bank in New York, said yesterday. There were no reasons for government in his country taki action, he added. Japan, Mr. Sonoda pointed out, is in an entirely different position than any of the Buropean nations that have gone off the. gold is. In the first place,” he said, e have no foreign short-term notes and there are no foreign balances in Japan. It is true that we shipped to the United | States about $125,000,000 in gold this year. Of this amount about $80,000,000 was used for the purchase by Japanese citizens of our country's dollar bonds. The remainder was Jargely used in cotton purchases. “Secondly, in the best cendition that it has been for years. In 1930 we had an adverse m a | | | Cancellation By the Associated Press ECRETARY MELLON, in his statement giving assurance that | cellation of war debts, said “There should be no misinter- | pretation as to the administration’s recommendati>ns to the Congress re- |lating to the debts due us from foreign governments and the recreation of the World War Foreign Debt Commission The administration is opposed to can- cellation. No recommendation made carries any such implication “It is, however, the duty of those in authority to deal with realities, and there is no escaping the fact that some Ylof our debtors cannot meet in full the {payments due us until there has been |2 “substantial measure of economic recovery, and that the position of oth- is 50 changed as to call for consid- tion of their present situation in 1t of existing circumstances | debt settlements were effected |on the basis of the capacity of the debtors to pay. As the President said in his statement of June 20: ‘As the basis of the settlement of these debts was the capacity under normal condi- |tions of the debtor to pay, we should be consistent with our own policies and principl we take into account the abnermal situation now existing in the | world.’ Cites British Change. “Take the case of Grezt Britain, our | best customer, which even in the de- | pression vear 1930 took $678,000,000 | worth of American agricultural and in- dustrial products. The economic and financial changes of the past year have immensely payments to us. The series of events | through which Great Britain was forced off the gold standard are too recent to require enumeration. Today the pound sterling s selling at $3.315 to the pound, which is a 32 per cent discount as compared with last year when it stood | at parity, or $4.866. ~All debts to Great | Britain from foreign governments, ex- ceptreparation payments, which are not being collected at all this year and are not likely to be collected in full next year, are payable in sterling. Her debt to us is payable in gold dollars The combined effect of these unfavor- { able factors results in an enormously increased burden for the people of Great Britain “Payments due during the present fiscal ‘year will serve to exzmplify the | magnitude of the additional burden. With the pound ling at par, the | in order to piy us $159,500,000. With the pound sterling at the rate at which it sold on December 10, 1931, it would take 48,100,000 pounds, or an increase {of 15,300,000 pounds, or 47 per cent. | Or in other words, the burden on the British taxpayer is increased by almost one-half. Warns U. S. Cannot Force Large Debt Payments on Already Overburdened Europe—Denies the administration opposed can- | increased the burden of her | British treasury needs 32,800,000 pounds | Mellon Urges Caution Considered. | “When the British debt settlement | was made it was estimated that its pres | ent value at a 41 per cent interest rate | was 80 per cent of the total amount | due prior to funding. If the amount to be raised in pounds sterling to m the obligations to us in dollars is in- creased by 47 per cent, it becomes ap- parent that from the standpoint.of the British taxpayer he is asked to meet not the obligation as established by cur Debt Commission but an amount considerably in excess of such obliga- tion “Nothing could more forcibly fllus- | trate the changed situation which places on the exesutive as well as the legislative branches of Government the duty of re-examining the obligations of our debtors and their ability to meet them during a period of worldwide economic depression. i “Does any one believe that Austria | or Hungary should be asked to pay the | installments due from them in view of the extraordinarily straitened circum- stances in which the people of those two countries find themselves and the great difficulty which they experience in obtaining foreign exchange for the purpose of carrying on even the mini- mum of essential commerce with the | rest of the world? “Does any one believe that Germany | should be asked by the United Stites Government to meet her payments on the costs of the Army of Occupation when such a demand by us must be inevitably followed by demands of | other creditors to pay her reparations in full? | | | | | | | | | See Situation Altered. | “These instances should suffice to | demonstrate that to stand on the letter | of our bond, and to refuse to investigata | or to consider the facts, is to fail in our responsibility to the American people whom we represent and to the debtors whose capacity to pay we our- selves undertook to determine. “What intelligent business man or banker would blindly refuse to in- vestigate or to consider the altered circumstances of a debtor whose un- secured abligation he held? “The situation of our debtors has | been immensely altered during the course of the last two years. New questions in relation to those debts are bound to arise in the course of the next few months. The Congress should be in & position through a commission cre- ated by it and compos2d in part of its own members to ascertain what the facts actually are and to deal with these new problems as they arise. “IL is with such thoughts as these in mind that the President recommend- ed the recreation of the World War Foreign Debt Commission. I am con- fident that upon mature consideration this recommendation will commend it- | self to the Congress.” EXECUTIVES GIVEN Union Leaders, Non-Commit- tal, Ask Presidents to Ne- VAL PAY QLESTON |SENATE LEADERS ACCEDE TO DELAY OF DEBT PAYMENTS (Continued From First Page.) | Britain, “Our best customer. | outstanding example of why a cut in | European debts is necessary. “With the pound sterling at par,” he explained, “the British treasury needs | 32,800,000 pounds in order to pay us | got under way | went into session, with questioning of Japan’s trade balance is | | $159,500,000. - With the pound sterling | at the rate at which it sold on Decem- | ber 10, 1931, it would take 48,100,000 | pounds, or an increase of 15,300,000 | pounds, or 47 per cent. Or, in other By the Associated Press. | words, ‘the burden on the British tax- CHICAGO, December 12.—Wage cuts | payer is increased by almost one-half. and settlement of railway labor's bid | “Nothing could more foreibly illus- for relief of its unemployed await the 'trate the changed situation which call of a joint conference of plenipo- places on the executive as well as the tentiaries of the railroads and their or- | legislative branches of the Government ganized employes. the duty of re-examining the obliga- The meeting of brotherhoods ad- |tions of our debtors and their ability journed last night without taking a|to meet them during a period of world- stand for or against the suggested vol- | wide economic depression.” gotiate Agreement. | balance of some 193,000,000 yen (about $96.000,0000). This year, up to the end of October the excess of imports over The men offered, however, to meet with the managements and “negotiate to a conclusion” the issues of unem- untary wage reductions of 10 per cent. | The secretary pointed also to Austria |and Hungary and to Germany, whose | reparations to the allies are used in ACCUSED SLAYER'S FIANCEE TESTIFIES Lu Nephew of Wolfenden Also Aids State in Trial for Miller’s Death. Special Dispatch to The Star. MANASSAS, Va., December 12.—The trial of Walter Wolfenden on the charge of murder in the death of three near Kopp, Prince Willlam County, which yesterday, last night prosecution witnesses lasting until 10:30 o nephew of WolferMen and Mary © Thomas, flancee of the accused, were the trump cards for'the prosecu- tion yesterday, and both gave damaging testimony, which the defense was un- able to break down on long and vigor- ous_cross-examination The nephew, Joseph Wolfenden, who lived at his uncle’s home, testified that he heard his aunt question his uncle at breakfast about his whereabouts when she siw him coming in early on the morning of September 25. The witn sald that his aunt asked what he w doing around 2 a.m. that morning, and Wolienden explained his absence by saying that he had heard cows in the yard and had gone out to put them in | the pasture. Real drama entered the case when Mary Thomas Carter took the stand, as she and the defendant have been close friends for several years and had expected to be married early next year. It was she who could have furnished the alibi for the defendant, who spent the week end after the alleged murder at her home in Middlesex County, 100 miles from the scene. rfect alibi could have been established if she had said he arrived on Thursday night, September 24, but she set the date of his arrival as the afternoon of Sep- tember 25, Fiancee Testifies. It was during Miss Carter's testi- mony that the insurance angle was brought out as she testified to Wolfen- den’s d'scussions relative to making the payments on the farm mortgage. She also told of her visits to Predericks- burg when the insurance policy was paid, of her receipt of the check by in- dorsement from the defendant and of & deposit of the amount of $740 in a Fredericksburg bank. She explained that this arrangement was made be- cause of Wolfenden's involvement in other matters and that she looked upon it as his money. She accountede for a check of $518.02 to a Manassas bank as first payment on the Wolfenden home, which he was about to lose; $26.19 was paid on insurance premiums, $90 for a second-hand tractor, $15 cash for the defendant, $40 to his sister Bertha, with unexpended balance still in the bank. Judge Walter T. McCarthy ordered the jury locked up for the night and they were taken to Metz's Inn in_cus- tody of Sheriff John P. Kerlin. Pros- pects that the jurors will pass tonight and tomorrow night in the local inn secmed likely, as several more witnesses for the Commonwealth remain to be heard. The defense expects to use some 10_witnesses. The case was resumed this morning, with B. H. Hoover, prosecution witness, under cross-examination. The defense seemed bent on showing that the wit- ness was unfriendly to the defendant because of Hoover's failure in an al- leged attempt to purchase the Wolfen- den property. Hoover was questioned closely on his testimony that he had on several occasions discussed with the de- fendant the effect of burning on humag bones and had been asked by the de- fendant whether human bones burned beyond recognition, or, if not, whether it could be distinguished whether the bones were those of a white or colored man. Revolting Crime. ‘The crime of which Wolfenden stands accused is one of the mos: revolting in the crime annals of Prince William County. The State charges that Wol- fenden on September 25 murdered Goodwin Miller and his wife, Virginia; placed the bodies on their bed and then set fire to the home to prevent dis- covery of the crime. The charred re- anything to suggest any irregularity in | exports only amounted to some 99,000, the manner in which Rheem proposed to get the money to pay off the original trust. Company’s Books Open. “Not a thing in the world,” Mr. Hur- ley declared. “Had there been, I would not have gone through with the deal Furthermore, there was not the slight- est thing to indicate that Swartzell Rheem & Hensey Co. might use the money to pay obligations other tk those imposed by the deed of trust. My check specifically stated on its face that it was to be used in payment of the money due the original note holders I firmly believed that the original trust had been released and that the note holders under it had actually been paid in dollars and cents | After he had been cross-examined by Attorney E. Hilton Jackson, Mr. Hurley said he had a statement he wished to make to the court “I'd like to say,” he stated, “that the Shorcham Investment Co. has no secrets in connection with this trans- on further information the cof is available.” 000 yen (about $49.000,000) At the same time our invisible exports this year will show a favorable balance of some 100,000,000 yen (about $50,000,000) So it can be seen that there is abs: lutely no reason for us to suspend the gold standard or place an embargo on gold. I cannot speak for the Japanese government, of course, but my deduc- tions are made from the standpoint of a banker.” EVIDENCE CLUB PLANNED Catholic Group to Be Formed Here at Meeting on Wednesday. A District of Columbia branch of th Cetholic Evidence Club, recently organ- ized in Baltimore, will be formed at a preiimirary meeting to be held in the Nazareth Social Service Center, 200 I street, Wednesday evening. The organization will confine work to an intensive training of its lay Its books are open and any |speakers and teachers for the wide- | may want |s pread presentation of the Catholic po- sition in religious and social questions. Coveted Prize Presented HOOVER HONORS NAV. AL RESERVE FLYERS. RESIDENT HOOVER is shown p head, commanding officer of the Field, N. Y., the cove safety and efficiency. Re: fiying tim dinne mercial because of accidents Trophy for the past 1 resenting to Lieut. Richard F. White- Naval Rgesvr\'e Squadron, Floyd Bennett ted Schiff Memorial Trophy, awarded annually for Lieut. Whitehead’s squadron, composed of some 50 serve pilots, who fly during spare time, put in a total of 3,442 hours of €, or approximately 355,000 miles, without acc! Lieut. Whitchead and officers of his command were guests of honor at & er given by the Trophy Committee last night in the Mayflower Hotel. Com- stunt flying was denounced by William Schiff, donor of the trophy, and their effect on public opinton. six years were present. nt of any kind. ‘Winners of the Schiff —Underwood Photo. A ployment and wages. | " The employers moved immediately to | bring about such a conference. Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & | Ohio and head of the rail executives that asked the men to accept voluntary | wage cuts, said he had arranged to cail | a conference of all railway presidents next week to lay the matter before | them. | Without committing themselves in any way, the 1500 general chairmen representing the principal railway | brotherhoods, last night “invited and {urged” the presidents to meet with | union leaders and negotiate an agree- ment. The brotherhoods made it clear, how- ever, that any agreement must be based upon measures to ment and to better labor conditions and they notified the railways that their representatives must be empcw- | | ered to consider these matters. | Otherwise, the chairman said, union executives would be authorized “to | take all the steps necessary for con- | certed and co-operative action in con- formity with the provisions and spirit | of the railway labor act to protect the | interests of our membership in existing rates of pay and working conditions.” Willard issued a statement in which he said, in part: “The resolutions propose a confer- ence between a committee representing the railroads and a committee repre- ' senting the employeg and the terms of | the resolution seem to promise that an amicable understanding may be arrived |at. I am hopeful that an early and | satisfactory understanding may be ar- rived at.” Willard refused to say where the con- ference he had called would be held. 'SURETY HEAD URGES JOBLESS POLICIES Insurance Firms Asked to Lead Way in Protecting Their Employes. | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, December 12.—Life in- | surance companies were urged (o lead the way in developing unsmployment insuranes for their employes by Archi- bald A. Welch, president of the Phoenix Mutual Lif2 Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn,, yesterday. Speaking at the twenty-fitth annual {convention of the Association of Life | Insurance Presidents, Mr. Welch pre- dicted that “unless industry does take the initiative in insuring employes against unemployment, to a degree At least, Government will provide a system of its own which may include a dole.’ Charles F. Collisson, farm editor of the Minn~apolis Tribune, asked the con- vention*to consider a “ten-year plan” for the rehabilitation of agriculture which has already worked well in Min- nesota, the two Dakotas and Montana. | |, The plan consists of finding the | {farmers who now are making money | despite economic conditions, and then |8lving wide publicity to their methods | with the co-operation of business men. Births Reported. Henry and Fannie Go 3 3 Brveridre 1 and Afi:nmfl'-'«f, 234 i 3 : Nick and Flurenc‘e Mhl\ll’lnl‘lbl«K" ]hay B. and Evelyn Richa P4 Eisie Man race hardson. ke Sirl by making American debt payments. | mains of the victims, with thes: of an relieve unemploy- | into foreign sec | punishment is excessive and oppressive, The sharp dissent from Mr. Hoover's | debt revision proposal was led yester- day by Senator Watson of Indiana, the | Republican leader, who demanded that Europe reduce her armaments before | asking such financial help from the | United States. “Our people never will be satisfied to scale down the war debts, much less to forgive them, unless Europe shows | | some disposition to reduce her arma- | ments,” Watson said So severe wa: s the reacti ! | Senate that e aom the Republican leaders ex- | | pressed real concern over the situation, | Chairman Smoot of the Finance Com- | mittee called a meeting for Monday to | take up the moratorium ratification | | resolution and also the investigation | urities directed by the | Senate upon motion of Senator Johnson | of California. Smoot will be ask | cail as the first wi tives of ever: ed in the inquiry to itnesses representa- v New York banking house dealing in foreign securities. A list has | been presented to him mentioning the | following firms: J. P. Morgan & Co., | Kuhn, Loeb & Co. National City Bank. Chase National Bank, Guaranty Trust, Dillon, Read & Co.; Lee Higginson & | Co. J. & W. Seligman | and Harris, Forbes & Cor o 01e TUst PRESIDENT IS URGED BY BANKER TO FREE 14 JOBLESS MARCHERS __(Centinued From Pirst Page.) ment is excessive and oppre: and unusual, and it wouid be the part ' of justice as well as wisdom for you to | issue a pardon to the entire 14, without waiting for their friends to request it.” Full Text Given. The full text of Col. Cooper’ to_Mr. Hoover follows: _ v © Yetter “Honorable Herbert Hoover, “The White House, “Washington, D, C. "My dear Mr. President: "1 am inclosing clipping from The Washington Evening S?..rg of two or three days ago, stating that Judge Isaac R. Hitt had sentenced the 14, the ad- vance guard of the hunger marchers, to Jjail for six months for an illegal parade in front of the White House. All know about this is what the clipping | | cruel shows. “Under the Constitution of the United | States, our people have a right to| assemble or to petition for their griev- ances. Under our Constitution, punish- | ments shall not be inflicted which are excessive and oppressive or cruel and unusual. There is nothing wrong per se in these men parading in front of the White House, whether they are hungry or mnot; they only violated a police regulation and it strikes me that this cruel and unusual, and it would be the part of justice, as well as the part of | wisdom for you to issue a pardon to the entire 14, without waiting for their friends to request it. Believe Penalty Excessive. “I imagine these people were hungry, or at least out of employment, and when a man is/hungry he is ready to do almost anything. I think it contrary to the spirit of our Constitution and infant son, were discovered in the ruinse in the late afternoon of September 25. The separate charge of murdering Virginia Miller awaits the outcome of this trial, while an indictment for chicken stealing, which first led to the defendant's arrest, is. se; for hearing at_the February term of court. Wolfenden, despite his alleged alinost total deafness, smiled frequently dur- ing the testimony. The motive for the crmme is given as Wolfenden’s desire to collect on an insur- ance policy, which he carried on Miller o that he could buy the property on which he and his sister, Bertha Wolfen- den lived, and which was due to be foreclosed. Thirty-four prospactive jurors were questioned in selecting the jury y day. Several were thrown out ause of having taken part in discussions on the cas2, others because of fixed opin- lons, three due to objection to capital punishment, one on faulty hearing, and one because he was a brother of the county sheriff. Following luncheon adjournment, ‘Thomas H. Lion, commonwealth attor- ney, made the opening statement in which he told the court that he ex- pected to prove by a complets chain of circumstantial evidence, substantiated by creditable witnesses, that the de- fendant murdersd and burned Miller for the purpose of collecting insurance money. Flynn Opens Defense. Frederick L. Flynn of defense counsel, in opening sald he would prove that his client was in bed on the night of the burning of the Miller home, and that Miller was hopelessly drunk in Triangle, several miles from his home near Kopp, shortly before his home is alleged to have been burned: that a suicide pact or an accident, the result of Miller's condition, might have caused the trag- edy, and that Wolfenden took out in- surance policies on Miller at the latter’s request for his own protection while employed by the defendant to drive a tractor, Wolfenden becoming beneficiapy only after Miller left his employ. Dr. E. H. Marsteller, county cor- oner, told of having viewed the charred remains of the three victims on the evening of September 25 and, despite endeavors ¢f defense counsel to have him admit that Miller and his wife might have suffocated or burned to death, declared that in his opinion both were dead before the fire. Objections of defense counsel to the line of questicning and numerous un- dertone arguments between the prose- cutor and Defense Counsel Flynn were heated and frequent. Defense twice moved for a mistria’ on the grounds that the Commonwealth attorney was permitting improper information to be heard by the jury, but in both pleas the court overruled the motions, with Defense Counsel Didlake noting ex- ceptions. Members of the jury are C. J. Gillis, R. B. Gossom, E. B. Bell, J. B, Farney- hough, E. S. Hcoker, W, F. Free, jr.; M. B. Leach, E. B. Hoffman, Joseph L. Rollins, John W. Ellis, John N. House and A. O. McLearen. TREASURE HUNT HALTS Ship Seeking $5,000,000 in G- for Rest for Winter. BREST, France, December 12 () — The treasure-hunting ship Artiglio II = set forth yesterday to verify ths state our statutes to lock men up for six months simply because they make grievances. “I am writing this without any sug- tion from any one, solely because I lieve it is {i good of our ‘tommen country.” will and just and for the ary treasure will :é the buoys marking the position of e steamer manifest by a parade their desires or |is $5,000,000 ‘Wh be 1a Egypt, aboard which there in gold. en the Artiglio returns she will id up for the Winter and the crew 1 go on leave by shifts until Febru- or umrhwhm the quest for'the resumed.