Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1932, Page 2

A Lk THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, Do, JANUARY 4, 1932 5700 00000 NAVY PROGRAN 1S URGED Vinson Proposes 120 New Vessels to Give U. S. Sea Power Second to None. By the Associated 255 ngressional effort was on today A cor o spend $700,000,000 in creating for | the United States a Navy second to nene, fully up to the limita laid down aties, nan of the House ation: The new c ! Naval Committee—Representa vin son, Democrat, Georgia—presented & bill of 120 ateme first cle ot n rize co vessels. To quote messure would provide & a first class Nation which f conf ral Board, 6,250,000 for 130 new shi the 16 vessels to already authorized. All two of the three new to h! 58 y for 1t carriers, Vinson said, would re- place others that has made un- suitable Schedule for 10 Years. His 10-year schedule—construction wouid be Sf over that period— require expenditure of $18,001,000 w in the 1033 fiscal year, the total sealing upward to $90.110,000 in 1937 n to $65.473,000 in 19 yover of $31,987,000 to succeeding « id since the W ir rference in ' 1922 the Ur had fallen far behind At the has somewhat modified its the Navy 1 for the 8-inch gun ships now on Anti-rolling tanks are being 1 armor is being placed raft guns are being more protection. Most of these changes were decided upon several months ago after tests of the recently-launched Pensacola were completed. Disarmament discussion _centered abc he scheduled arrival in New York wo nbassador Charles G. Dawes, one of tne tea States delegates, who will come Washington Tuesday. and the changed and given to Discuss Arms Policies. Here he will meet Senator Swanson, Democrat, Virginia; Mary Emma Wool. ley of Mount Holyoke College, Norman Davis of New York and State and Navy Department officials to decide what poli- Death Machine Seized POLICE EXAMINE BOMB AT EASTON, PA. examining a bomb seized at the several addressed to prominent dents. | one had exploded, killing two clerk E on, Pa, post office after a similar This infernal machine was one of New Yorkers and other large-city resi- ~—Wide World Photo. .S, FACES DEFICT OF §138549.81 Government Expenditures for Six Months Reach Total of $2,5634,229,296. By the Associated Press. cies will be pursued at Geneva. e two Toter = American delsgates| A 81385.440.607 defiolt faced the named oo far—Minister Hugh R. Wil. | Government on Jaousry 1 when < . A S started the last half of the 1932 fiscal son, aljernate, and Ambassador Hugh S Gibson—will join the other delegates in Bwitzerland. Both have been in the United States recently, discussing dis- armament questions with the admin! tration, The conferees must decide what at- titude they will adopt toward the re- striction of aircraft, the budgetary sys- tem of reduction and any possible dis- cussion of the size of battleships The position on the latter point al- ready is crystallizing. Washington of- ficials will suggest postponement of that question, since it must come up in 1935 before the London treaty expires, and most countries are in agreement against the construction of new battleships, Program Up Tomorrow, Chairman Vinson will bring the eon- struction program before his committee tomorrow. The Senate Naval Commit- tee will begin hesrings Wednesday on the bill by Senator Hale, Republican, Maine, to authorize ® fieet as big as differs from Vinson's in that- Hale | Government. Some changes, however, treaties allow, His {mpourmm, will be proposed by the Democrats, Tax would not direct that any ‘veg- | legislation will come up in Congress sels be bullh within any pertiouiar me. | this Week. | The House Democrat’s program {s| The decline of income tax receipts, about ltke-this: which largely has been responsible for vpe shi 1 Total |the great decline in Government in- AR oy N TR stk tonnEe, | come, was intensified during the six froit aarrlert § Hedindl 48300 | monthe just closed. ‘Tney smounted to | Fiylne deck eruti 2o 1000 | $615,324,342, compared with $1,107.307,- detrovers e 1 Z:%a,,zsx 3§§R 012 in the same period last year. Destroyers 72 272520,000 108.000 | Miscellaneous internal revenue dropped PN 28 78,108,000 "381990 | 25 000,000, compared with last year, Totals .. ..13 1616250000 30,240 | When it totaled $270,871,381. Oustoms receipts, which had gone upward in the first three months of the present THREE POLICE OFFICERS GIVEN TERM OF YEAR IN BRUTALITY CASES (Continued From First Page.) tried jointly with Mostyn and Laflin, but were acquitted. The Harker case was the first of a serles of assult charges involving Washington police- men investigated by the Department of Justice. James A. O'Shea, attorney for Mos- argued they should be granted & mistrial on the grounds the Jury was coe ed into returging a ver- He also contended the court's charge to the jury was unfair. Leo A ted es attorney, argued charge and his actior g the jury to deliber hours could not be criticized under recent rulings of the United Btates Bupreme Court In denying the motions for a new trial, Justice Proctor said about half of the time of the jury actually was spent eating and resting. He said the Jjurors showed no signs of fatigue and offered no complaint. He pointed out there were four defendants, and that much of the time consumed probably was spent considering the charges against the two men 'quitted. He ruled this charge was in line with in- I3 ions other cases which had been upheld by the Supreme Court, Charges Violation of Duty. t go beyond doing and within the law ¥ou not only violated the law, but you violated your duty “The evidence torture of a pris disclosed deliberate to gain a confes- confession, and plication is if the case you would have taken d testified concern ing this extorted confession. Such tes- timony is not permitted in this er ened en, too, we have the ire of pi you two young men beating and abus- ing a prisoner. Y ere disclosed a brutal instinct y have confess in before hope on ¢ ou never have gained con confessions ssault on this prisoner con- reflection on the entire Po- ci rtment. Altogether it is a good department, but you have done what you could to break down the con- fidence the people have in it “This evidence presents as serious a case as could possibly be imagined T've got to be controlled by the facts Regardless of how unpleasant it may be to me, I must punish you. The sentence is that you serve in prison for one year and pay a& fine of $500 each.” Methods Denounced. Tn pusing sentence on Barett, Jus- tice Proctor denounced methods em- ployed by some police officers in solving crimes. “I feel very sorry for Mr. Barrett” Justice Proctor said. “I have the ut- most respect for the Washington police force and have been closely connected with many of its members, but this is s most exceptional case. This was a wvicious assault. “I have difficulty ‘s motive was in making sault, waether it was of a brutal ngture year, | The Treasury statement for Decem- | ber 31 showed receipts from all sources | had amounted to $1,148,779,808. while | expenditures had climbed to $2,634,- 229,296, | At the end of the calendar vear the public debt was $17.825,449,753, an in- crease of nearly $2,000,000,000, com- pared with December 31, 1030, when it amounted to $16,026,087,087. | The increase in the debt was ac- | 000,000 for the 1931 fiscal year ending last June 30 and the new deficit rolled up-n the six months of the 1032 fiscal year. Adds Half Billion to Debt, The deficit of the 1931 fiscal year added approximately $500,000,000 to the public debt The administration already has rec- ommended to Congress a tax program to- provide more money to operate the fiscal year, slumped to & total of $197,38,802. Total ordinary receipts amounted to $1,134,45¢,002, compared with $1,749,- 466,270 a year ago. At the same time, expenditures increased by $800.000,000, bringing the total for the six months Jjust closed to $2,489,415,470 $1,372,071,210 Expended. General expenditures totaled $1,372,- 071,210, and the public debt charges cost the Government $290,008,399, while the sinking fund requirements called for $355,299,200. The postal deficiency on December 31 amounted to $85,000,000, while the Fed- eral Farm Board spent $88,601083 in the half year, and $200,000,000 was turned over to the Veterans' Bervice for loans on World War veterans' certifi- cates. For the fiscal year to December 31 the Government issued $5.401,893,027 in various forms of securities to ralse money needed to meet operating ex- penses and retire maturing paper. Dur- ing the year it retired $4,377,726,666 in securities, leaving it with more than $1,000,000,000 more outstanding than had been paid off. BORAH INTRODUCES BILL TO CUT PAY OF CONGRESS $2,000 Page.) (Continued From Firs y under this act shall be paid in | excess of $15,000 a year. The last bill was referred to the Sen- ate Committee on Agriculture, and the first two were referred to the Benate Committee on Judiciary, headed by Sen tee member. Senator Borah's bill proposing a re- duction of salaries paid members of Congress is not likely to be popular on Capitpl Hill, although it is admitted that if the matter comes to a vote in Congress it is likely to pass. The proposals to cut the salaries of Federal employes s a matter of gov- ernmental economy will be attacked from many quarters in Congress, it was sald today. The feeling is growing stronger that a general slash of sal- aries of the Federal Government at this time would be taken as an exampie by corporations and business coneerns throughout the country to cut wages and salaries still further. Many members of Congress believe that it would be a great mistake to set such an example. One suggestion made today was that a cut in Federal salaries should be ac- companied by & cut in the hours of employment. In this way, it was said, the rate of pay could be pri maintained and at the same time many thousand additional employes would have to be put on the rolls in order to perform the necessary work. This sug- gestion was advanced, not as a measure of economy, but as & plan to help re- lieve the unemployment situation. rris of Nebraska, a commit- iich Senator Borah is also & |or & desire to secure a confession. .It all seemed 5o senseless. Barrett went into the apartment without any legal | right and assaulted an innocent man | reading a magazine. “We can't depend on police to solve mysteries with their fists. If they ex- t to solve crimes, they must use cannot consider this omer to one year in jall. counted for chiefly by a deficit of $903,- | D'Alene, BOMBS EXPLODED - IN3 MORE CITIES |Blasts in Idaho, Trenton and Chicago Probed—St. Louis Plot Fails, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 4—Police of four cities today sought the perpetrators of | three bombings and an attempt to dyna- | mite the St. Louls Mart, & 20-story | structure in the heart of the industrial district of the Missouri metropolis. No one was killed or injured. None of the bombings, however, had | any apparent connection with the recent widespread plot directed agsinst Italian citizens and officials The bombs were exploded in Coeur | Idaho; Trenton, N. J, and| | Chicago yesterday and last night. At Coeur D'Alene two dynamite bombs | were thrown at the home of County| Commissioner Emmett M. Barnes. First Fails to Explode. The first one failed to explode nnd‘ the second struck a smell tree and ex- | ploded with terrific force before reach- ing the house. Barnes is in charge of unemployment relief crews working on county roads, but could give no ex- planation of the motive. Racketeers were bmmed fof 'the ‘bombing of & beauty shop in Trenton. Two bombs were exploded at the shop, which is directly across the street from the East Trenton Presbyterian Church. Members of the congregation were ter- rified by the detonations. The calmness | of Rev, J. Elliott Epright, the pastor, who was preaching at the time, was belleved to have averted & panic. He urged his congregation to.rcmain seated In Chicago a black powder bomb— the first of 1032—was exploded in front of a garage, but the damage was slight, The police were investigating a report that the failure of the owner of the place to join an association of garage men might have been the mo- tive. | | $t. Louis Probe On. 8t. Louls police believed the attempt to damage the St. Louis Mart was made | by inexperienced persons. A fuse at- tached to 28 sticks of dynamite became extinguished almost as soon as it Was lighted. Two policemen found the bomb, | which had been dropped into the en- trance through a door, the glass of which had been broken. Charles E. | Richardson, president of the Building Corporation, was unable to ascribe a motive, adding that there had been no labor difficulties at the building. Meanwhile, Federal and other in- vestigators continued a search for those responsible for last week's Easton, Pa., bombings, which caused the deaths of three men. Two men, Oscar Siola of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Anthony Cipolla of New York, were released yesterday after being questioned .in connection with the alleged anti-Fascist! plot. Another attempted dynamiting was discovered at Youngstown, Ohio. Two sticks of the explosive had been wired together and placed near the home of Peter Bask. CABINET MAKER SOUGHT. | Bomb Probe Turns to Lower East Side [ of New York. | NEW YORK, January 4 (#).—A cabi- net maker who used to Work in an ex- plosive factory was hunted todsy to tell | vhat he may know of the mail bomb plot. The Lower East Side was the hunting ground, following tips from Easton, Pa., | where the explosion of mailed bombs killed three postal employes. The man’s identity was not revealed. FALL PAROLE AGAIN STUDIED BY BOARD Additional Information From New Mexico State Prison Awaited in Capital. | By the Associated Press Albert B. Fall's plea fr parole once more is under active consideration by the Federal Parole Board ‘ The Justice Department said today final action awaits “more information” from the New Mexico State Prison at Santa Fe, where the former Secretary of the Interior is serving a year and & day for accepting a bribe. t was indicated at least some of the data needed will come trom the warden. It is expected soon. The board dug into the big record of Fall's case when he became eligible for parole last November 20. It was sn- nounced officially action could be ex- pected by January 1, but later the board disbanded and Attorney General Mit- chell said the investigation was still going on. An impression that the former cabinet member will be paroled is discernible here, although without official substan- tiation. Conjectures recently have been to the effect that should he granied, it would become ective not many months before Fall's term next Augush ' ? | MEMBER of the homicide squad of the New York Police Department MEN SLAYING SIX TRAILED TO TEXAS Man Hunt for Desperadoes Is Spurred by Discovery of Auto and Weapons. By the Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, January 4.— | Search for the ruthless Young brothers, who slaughtered six besieging officers to escape from their mother's farm house near here Saturday, was spread throughout the Southwest today by the story of a Kansas City garage owner and the identification of a wrecked car abandoned in Texas. The overturned motor car near Street- man, Tex., which was abandoned by its two occupants, proved to be an auto- mobile stolen from Harry Rogers, motor car dealer, from the business section of Springfield after dusk Baturday night. Ohio Search Abandoned. Chief of Police Ned Waddle regarded it s the most authentic clue as to the whereabouts of the desperadoes, Harry and Jennings Young, who put up such deadly resistance when Sheriff Marcell Hendrix sought to arrest the former for the slaying of Marshal Mark Noe of Republic, Mo. onvinced the trail of the slayers led far from the Ozarks Hills, search for the killers virtually was abandoned here today, although a few persons con- tinued their efforts in the rain which was falling. Third Fugitive Reported, With the presence of the Young brothers in Texas indicated by the wrecked ear, which contained firearms, seven Houston detectives this morning surrounded and later searched a cot- tage in a futile effort to find the kill- ers. They acted upon a report that Harry's bride of three weeks occupled the house, Their search was continued in_all known criminal haunts. Meanwhile officers of Navarro and Freestone Counties, Tex., pushed a search for two men who caught a ride after crawling from the overturned car near Btreetman. A story told officers by a Kansas City garage owner led to the belief Charles Floyd, an Oklahoma killer, might have been in the party besieged in the farm house and made his escape with the ‘Youngs. Funerals for Six Planned, After describing three men, one of them wounded, who applied at his ga- rage Sunday for storage, the garage owner unhesitatingly identified a pic- ture of Floyd. Officers said it is possible that Paul Young, another brother, was in the house during the siege, and that the party had divided after the escape. Preparations were made for the fu- nerals today of three of the victims of the Young brothers' deadly fire. were Ollie Crosswhite, Springfleld de- tective; Wiley Washburn, deputy sheriff, and Tony Oliver, Bpringfield chief of detectives, The other three victims will be buried tomorrow. Announcement was made that Mrs. Marcell Hendrix, widow of the slain sheriff, will take his office until the vacancy is filled by an election are under arrest here, but officers ex- pressed belief they were not definitely linked with the massacre. The prison- ers include Mrs. Willle Young, mother of the fugutives; another brother, Os- car; his wife; two sisters of the sus- pects, Vinita Young and Mrs. Albert Conley, and the latter's husband. 18 OUTLAW, “PRETTY BOY Oklahoma “Bad Man" Is Wanted in Six States for Crimes, MUSKOGEE, Okla., January 4 (#)— Oklahoma's newest bad man is Charies Arthur Floyd, so_handsome he is named “Pretty Bo; 86 desperate he is cred- ited with the slaying of 11 peace offi- cers. He wears & stee] vest. He drives his motor csr, armed with two machine guns, at breakneck speed. In six years the 25-year-old desperado has built up a reputation as a cold and ruthless killer, kidnaper, highwayman and bank robber. Believed One of Slayers. The killing of six officers near Sprin field, Mo;, In which the Young brothe; and Floyd are believed to have partic; pated, clmaxes his bloody career. Floyd has police records in Kansas | Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, Colorado and Oklahoma, most of which States want him now on varlous charges Known as a “good boy" near Balli- saw, where he was reared, Floyd went to St. Louis-in 1925, and the farm boy became a desperado. From that time on his record has been written on police blotters. Hides Out With Poor He Aids. Seven recent Oklahoma bank rob- beries are attributed to Floyd. Officers eay his activities include “Robin Hood" acts of charity, He is reputed to sup- port a dozen poor familles with his plunder. In return they give him refuge from the law. Earlsboro, an oil boom town, is known as his headquarters, but the Cherokece Hills are sald to be his favorite hiding place Is Wanted in Slaying of Four. Floyd is wanted in Kansas City, Mo., for the killing of Curtis C. Burke, a Federal prohibition agent. Authorities of Kansas City, Kans, hold him responsible for the murder of William and Wallace Ash, brothers, whose bodies were found in a ditch beside & burning motor car last March 25. Both had been shot in the back of the head Floyd and Willlam Miller, also be- lleved to have been implicated in the killing of the Ash brothers, fled from Kansas City to Ohio. Patrolman Ralph Castner of Bowling Green, Ohlo, was shot to death when police there sought !to question Miller and Floyd and two women companions in connection with an Ohio bank robbery. Miller was killed and the two women, identified as Mrs. Rose Ash, widow of Wallace Ash, and her sister, Beulah Baird, were arrested. Floyd escaped from the motor car in which the quartet was riding. FLOYD IS ESCAPED CONVICT, Companion of Ohio Officer’'s Slayer Leaped From Prsion Train, AKRON, Ohio, January 4 () Charles Floyd, sought by Missouri au- thorities, is known as Frankie Mitchell to officers here. He was arrested in March, 1930, as a companion of Bert Walker, Missouri killer, at the time Patrolman Harlan F. Manes was slain. Machine guns, revolvers and nitro- glycerin were seized in the house where the two were apprehended. Walker, found guilty of first-degree murder, died in the electric chair at Columbus, November 10, 1830. Mitchell, turned over to Toledo authorities on & charge of robbing a bank at Sylvania, was sentenced to from 12 to 15 years, but en December 10, 1930, made a sen- sational escape from the train bearing him to Columbus and the penitentiary. BOY, 7, GETS WARRANTS Colored Youths, Who Took His $1.20, Arrested at Beckley, W. Va. BECKLEY, W. Va,, January ¢ (). — Ralph Price, 7, knows his law. Two colored boys, 11 years old, robbed went to Bla ice head - obtained a warrant and had the boys arrested. They | Carlos Bix members of the Young family | '37 HURT WHEN BUS | caught fire near Stoyestown early today. Scene of Gun Battle With Outlaws MISSOURI FARM HOUSE WHERE SIX OFFICERS WERE KILLED, HOTO, sent b of Bpringfiel Fd, Mo., where six wounded in & desperate gun battle January 2 Harry Young (below) on & charge of murder when they were brought | down by the deadly fire of the telephone from St. Louis, Mo., shows the farm house west | officers were killed and three others Officers sought to arrest concealed outlaws. A posse of over a thousand, including members of the National Guard, scoured the hills throughout the night in search for the desperadoes, who are believed heading for the Ozarks, | ) —A. P. Photos. BEDELL 1S INDICTED NURSE HANGS TWO REN AND SELF ONENVOY'S GHARGE Man Held in New York Ac-:Chicago Parents Find Baby, cused of Stealing Liguor From Legation, An indictment charging William Estes Bedell with robbing the EI Salvador legation last May and assawting Don | Leiva, at that time charge d'affaires at the legation, was returned | today by the District grand jury. | The indictment charged Bedell spe- cifically with housebreaking, larceny and assault with a dangerous weapon Police said the intruder was surprised | by Dr. Leiva while attempting to re- | move liquor from the legation Bedell is now being held by New York authorities, having resisted efforts | by Washington police to bring him here | for questioning. The indictment is ex- cted to make possible an extradition aring. Others Are Indicted. The first count ef the indictment charges that Bedell forced his way into | the legation, the second that he stole | several hundred dollars’ worth of fur- | nishings and five cases of liquor, and | the last two, that he struck Dr. Leiva, | now Salvadorean Minister, with a flash- | light, | Forty-seven other indictments were returned by the grand jury in its final report to Justice James M. Proctor to- | day. A new jury will be selected Yo- | MOrrow, One of these indictments charged Paul P. Walsh, editor of the Washing- ton Police Post, magazine, with crim- inal libel. It is alleged the magazin: libeled Orville Staples, former police- man, in the October 25 issue. John A. Kennedy, alleged to have shot George W. Brandt, foreman of the Washingten Post composing room, was accused of assault with intent to kill with & dangerous weapon. Police said Kennedy had been discharged by Brandt several days prior to the shoot- ing last Cctober. Embezzlement Charged. Ward A. Cheshire, former cashier of the Shoreham Hotel, was charged with embezzling $858 of the company's funds on September 20. The grand jurors also returned in- dictments against two Philadelphians in connection with the recent robbery of the Pirst National Bank of that city. David N, Chadwick, jr, and Willlam Silinsky were accused of exchanging a $10,000 bond, allegedly stolen from the | bank in Richmond. Va. for a $5,000 bond and five $1,000 bonds. It is charged they then came here to the Treasury and exchanged the $5,000 bond for five 81,000 bonds. The specific charge is a conspiracy to bring stolen property into the District. Two first-degree murder indictments were returned, one charging Willlam Turner, colored, with the killing of Maurice McCoy, also colored, last De- cember 9, and the second accusing Eva M. Jones, colored, with shooting Van Delia Mosby, also colored, last Decem- | ber 18. William Tucker Jordan, col- ored, was indicted for second-degree | murder in connection with the slaying of Daniel Watkins, also colored, in a quarrel over some liquor December 12.| Willlam E. Wright was indicted for | manslaughter in connection with the | death of Herbert Birch, who was run | down December 12 at Georgia avenue | and Emerson street, | UPSETS AND BURNS Two Passengers in Hospital After Accident on Mountain Curve. By the Associated Press, JOHNSTOWN, Pa, January 4— Thirty-seven persons were injured, two seriously, when an eastbound motor bus left the highway, overturned and Mrs. Bessie Brown of Woodbridge, N. J, and R. A. Kneff of Akron, Ohio, were brought to Memorial Hospital here. Mrs. Brown's skull and spine were frac- tured. Kneff suffered a fractured arm. The other passengers were shaken up and bruised. After being treated in a Stoyestown hotel, Lht:x); continued their I m‘;s:xll)ely gefi:?:“:r of Cleveland, the driver, said he belleved 8 steering knuckle broke, causing the front brakes to lock. He suffered lacerations on the hands and face. The accident occurred at a curve on a down grade. The bus, a Great Fast- ern stage, left tne Lincoln Highway, leaped a ditch 2 feet wide and over- turned in a field. Fire broke out im- | mediately. Stoyestown is about 28 miles east of here. | Frenc; VWnr Head Very IlL PARIS, January & (). —Minister of War Andrew Maginot, in a hospital with typhoid fever, was reported today to be in less satisfactory conditien than d = (HILD Dangling From Crib, Older Child From Door. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 4—Authorities today sought the reasons ‘why Mary Roth, 23, & nursemaid, hanged her two small charges and herself in the John H. Heindel home, in the fashionable suburban River Forest. The blond domestic, who cared for the children with devotion which some- | times, the children’s parents said, bor- | | dered upon jealeus insanity, suspended ” Arrested at pmsburgh fOI‘ 9-month-old George by the neck to the side of his crib. The elder brother, John B. Heindel, 4, was found hanged with a short piece of rope in the doorway. Miss Roth hanged herself in a closet of the basement. Mr. and Mrs. Heindel, who were at- tending a bridge party Saturday night, found the bodles after police helped break into the barred and locked home. Deteot Odor of Gas. ‘They called the officers when, failing to arouse any one to let them in, they detected an odor of gas at the kitchen window. Bursting in, they found gas uc-plng from the kitchen range, Bed sheets had been hung about to arrest drafts. Their frantic scearch for the children ended at the nursery doar. Police said they believed the nurse- malid carried the sleeping children into [the gas-filled kitchen, where she left them until they were stupefied or dead. Then she tied up the motjonless little bodies. The grief-stricken parents were at a loss to account for the tragedy. Miss Roth, they said, loved the children with such intensity that she refused to leave them during their waking hours. She even slept in an adjoining room. Upon cecasions, she appeared jealous when the mother fondled the children. During the past several days, Heindel said, she had seemed depressed, but mnasmuch as she refused to confide her troubles, he assumed they were personal | affairs. He sald there was no reason for her to believe that she was to be discharged. Insane, S: Df. Prancis J. Gerty of the Psycho- pathic Hespital advanced the theory s Doctor. that the mald's affection for the chil- | dren had developed into a form of in- sanity. Such aberrations, Dr. Gerty as- serted, were not unusual in childless women and often caused similar trage- dies. Police were, however, inclined to fol- low another line of investigation. Miss Roth became employed by the Heindels three weeks after George was born. Mrs. Heindel engaged her through a church | employment agency. . Two weeks previous to this she was & roomer in the home of Mrs. John Drex- man of Chicago. She packed two suit cases and a hatbox when she left the Drexman home. She had only the hat- box when she arrived at the Heindels" Silent on Own Affairs. Mrs. Heindel said the girl explained that she came from Ceorgia. eyond that, the girl said nothing, elther to Mrs. Heindel or to Mrs. Drexman. She never talked of her personal affairs. The girl made several telephone calls during the past few days and even had police ran up against dead ends when they tried to run these clues down. Pos- sibility that the fourth person killed the children and the nurse was precluded, | police said, by the fact that the gouse was securely locked from the de. Heindel is secretary of the Leonard Construction Co. PINCHOT APPEALS BEFORE Calls Relief Plan “Vicious” OV. GIFFORD PINCHOT of Pennsylvania, to help the unemployed in the Keystone | OFDS FAIL TO STOP MARCH ON CAPITAL | | | By the Assoclated Press. | PITTSBURGH, January 4.—Eleven C:mmunists were held in City Jeil to- day. for attempting to break pp plans for the “non-redical” march of unem- | ployed to Wehingten headed by Rev. Father James R. Cox The march starts from Pittsburgh | tomorrow. | The 11 men were engaged in dis- tributing literature attacking the priest | among the resid:nts of Shanty Town, |a homlet of maksshift shacks located |in the shadow of old St. Patrick’s Church, of whith Rev. Cox is pastor. The men are fed by the church relief | fund. | Urge Marchers to Desert. The literature urged the men to desert the priest, declaring ke was in leagic With moneyed interests. Plans were completed todey for the several thousands who will make the Attack Made on Jobless Leader. trip. To charge of Rev. Ocx, the moter cade of 1,000 trucks and cars planned to leave for the trip across the moun- ! tains early Stops will be made at several cities and towns in Pennsylvenia and then the caravan will swing southward through Maryland to the Capital, arriving ‘Thursday. On Wednesday at Harrisburg, Gov. Pinchot will address tie marchers Food and Bands Furnished. At Washingion the group will pray at the T mb of the Unkncwn Scldier and Father Cox will present pe‘itions to President Hoover and Congress ask- ing jobs for the unemployed. Two brass bands will be in the line of march. There will be a medical division and commissary dcpartment, including 15 truckloads of bread do- | nated by Pittsburgh bakeries. Steam- ing coffee and hot soup will be served Sng the route by civic and iraternal | organizations. JAPANESE GUNBOATS ORDERED TO FOOCHOW By the Associeted Press. | TOKIO, Japan January 4—Two | Japanese ' destroyers were ordered to | Foochow, China, today on receipt of information of the slaying of a Japa- | a visitor shortly before the tragedy, but | nese school teacher and his wife there | They were reported to have been killed | by & Chinese mob, which also assaulted two Japanese naval officers. The destroyers Sumire Ashi and Highi were ordered from Sasebo. The crujser Kitagami already had been sent to Foochow and 100 sailors landed there for protective purposes COMMITTEE FOR U. S. AID, r of State legislation leaded for Federal Fate, the ‘simimiseration elief mian meiimss s Rignt 1o iaft ve ¢ . e el “viclous.” gl are Chairman se far have found no tra La Follette of the , Gov. Pinehot and Senator Costigan of or the mluln& cab. ’rhn"uob‘ i:h S;"flé‘ . by Crouse E. Zirkle. A LEVEE DYNAMITING FEARED IN SOUTH Blasting to Divert Water to Other Sections Threatened in Mississippi. By the Associated Press GLENDORA, Miss, January 4.— Threats of the deliberate blasting of levees to divert the course of flood waters rolling through the Tallahatchie Valley added to the gravity of the ait- uation in the Delta lowlands today. Shotgun squads patrolled parts of the threatened system, while convicts, la- borers and householders worked to- gether to strengthen the water-logged and crumbling barriers against the steadily rising water. Chief Engineer Offenheiser of the Yazoo-Missiasippi Delta Levee Board, official observer of the flood situation, said the water probably would reach its peak here today. He was fearful, he said, of what might result as recession began and considered that the situa- tion will remain critical throughout the week. Water Still Rising. Water continued to rise about an inch every 24 hours at Glendora, Swan Lake, Sumner and Webb. The most, serious menace remains on the eastern side of the Tallahatchie River at Twilight, Grassy Lake and Matthew Bayou, which are being pro- tected by plantation labor on account of the inability of convict workers to get across the swollen stream, which is 3 or 4 miles wide in places. On the western banks of the Talla- hatchie River Prederic’s levee held the center of the limelight, and most of the convicts were concentrated there. Boils developed along the Glendors levee line, but workers kept down danger spots with sandbags, Breaks Are Expected. The pressure against Tallahatchie River levees at Asa and Stone is par- ticularly menacing and growing in strength, Wilmer Kennedy, Batesville publisher, reported. Weak spots have also developed northeast of Mimms, Curtis Station and Carriere. Kennedy said he belleved there would be addi- tional breaks in that territory. Attempts to dynamite Pattison Bayou levee in the past three days were at-' tributed to dwellers of that region who wish to divert floods into other streams. Guards are patrolling levees with in- structions to shoot suspicious charace ters seen around dikes. GOV. PINCHCT HITS HOOVER VOLUNTARY JOBLESS AID PLAN (Continued From Pirst Page.) giving them vocational training for that time, La Guardia would authorize $20,- 000,000 to purchase 1,000,000 suits of clothing for men; 1,000,000 for women and children and 2,000,000 pairs of shoes. These would be manufactured entirely of domestic materials and distributed through State or municipal agencies or directly by the Labor Department. Re- cipients either could accept them as ifts or promise to pay for them in the uture. He suggested establishment of five public health centers, and that the Public Health Service care for unem- ployed seamen. He proposes establishe ment of a guaranty fund to proteet depositors against future bank failures, efore the Senste Commitiee, Pin- chot estimated Secretary Mellon's in- come to be “at least $10,000,000 a year and how much more we do not know.” “Many Flee Appeals.” He sald he understood “a good many rich people left the country this Winter so as not to be present when relief driv came along.” He revealed the letter of Senator Reed, Republican, of Pennsylvania, to himself last Summer saying Pennsylvania could and would take care of her own unemployed. “The Republican machine to which Senator Reed belongs defeated State re- lief plans,” added the Governor. | “Is that machine controlled by Mel- lon?” asked Senator Costigan. “It is controlled in part at least by Mellon, but not as much as it was” added the Governor. Lewis pleaded before the committee | for a special Federal relief agency to | meet “destitution” among the unem- ployed miners, “To a large extent,” he said, “these miners and their families are colonized in mining communities removed from the industrial centers where community chests have been provided, remote from the eyes of those fortunate citizens whose hearts are touched in the pres- ence of destitution and beyond any hope of relief from local appropriations. Living Forced Lower. “The billions invested in bituminocus coel mines have gone penniless for years, while the miners have been pushed down to the lower levels pauperization. Many mining come munities located In Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Illinois, Kentucky, In- diana and other States are, from the standpoint of self-help, literally flat on their backs, ucntceg' able to raise the bare necessities for the sustenance of life. “Approximately 175,000 of the 240000 distressed bituminous coal miners are located within six States and are iso- lated in regions whewe coal mining is practically the only industrial enter= prise, merchants are bankrupt; banks are closed, schools are without operat- ing funds, and even once considered wealthy residents, by reason of their holdings of coal securities, are in al- most as dire want as are the coal miners. These coal mining municipal- ities and townships cannot collect taxes and have exhausted their credit.” Red Cross Declines Aid. Mr. Lewis said “The American Red Cross has not put a single silver dol- lar into the mouths of the hungry mine workers and their families.” He re- called that the miners contributed “100 per cent of their quotas to the Red Cross” in the war. Asked the reason for this, Lewis said the Red Cross held to the position that its relief work was restricted to war, fire, flood or pestilence. He recalled a recent Governor of Indiana to Pr ver saying Indiana would “take care of her own” “Yet there are 60,000 miners and their families in Indiana,” he said, “whom neither the Governor nor any other agency has given a single dollar or penny to reliel. “Of all the Governors, Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania has taken a more ad- vanced position and has done more to help the poor.” HACKER ROBBED OF TAXI Two Bandits Get $7 and Put Man Out Mile From Alexandria. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., January 4—Held up by two white men who had hired him to drive to Alexandria, Raymond Edelin, 1009 E sire~. ssuthwest, Wasn- ington, was robbed of 87 in cash on’ the Alexandria-Washington road early this morning by the two men, who took his cab and put him out ene mile south of Alexandria. Alexandria police were notified, but