Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1932, Page 2

A2 ELASS ANSWERS | WAR LOAN CHARGE “Replies to Hyde, Reading Authority for Action, on | Floor of Senate. e ok ok K By the Associated Press, Senator Glass of Virginia, Becretary " under Woodrow Wilson e today the legal au- which he said loans were of Secre illegally e read the record of “any further representations” by the Racretary of Agriculture, He called the Hyée attack “a harsh and hateful ex- hibition of partisan malice.” Replying Hvde that made, the law to clear th m to the I virginian Cites Language of Act. ry Hyde had charged that specifically denied authority | by ry Glass and his| am to| 00,000 in 10a | , reading from a pre- | d statement. cited the language of | v loan act, passed four months | ustice was signed. He ted predecess e the $2,00 bond act tion 2 of t ¥ He quoted ' as amended, credits, etc guage of the act je,” he said, “in order to s ‘own foolish interpretation time limit for foreign loans, sup- presses the plain intent of Congress as reflected in the Victory Loan act, passed ‘after the armistice, making reference to authorized assistance to any foreign ! government now_engaged in war with ! enemies of the United States.” Reads From Letters. Glass read from letters of the Re- publican chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Fiance Committee in the armistice period of Congress in which he said “bot en assured the Treasury that ther be no objection what- goever to the policy being pursued.” He said Hyde had resorted to a Sen- aent prepared by & clerk of a r to base his contentions clerk's paper,” he added, “that Secretary of Agriculture vainly invokes to extricate himself from | the charge of having wantonly aspersed a dead President and maligned two of his surviving officers.” 45 CHINESE KILLED ° IN RIOT AT HARBIN; LOOTERS START FIGHT (Continued From First Page.), “foreign office spokesman, “is that the %Anti-Japanese movement, Tecently in- reasing in violence, is & constant ien- ce to Japanese lives and property.” = The additional warships are expected fo arrive at Shanghai Thursday and Flll carry & landing party of approxi- Famately 700 to 900 troops, it was re- orted, although the definite number $ae not announced #.The Supreme Military and Naval EBouncil tentatively drafted a number ““%1 measures to be taken in case the situation in Shanghai grows worse. These were, in order (1) Dispatch of the second squadron of destroyers to the scene. (3) Congentration of Japanese citi- zens in the Japanese Club and consulate general within the international settle- ment, under the protection of Japanese bluejackets. (3) Provision for additional protec- tion of Japanese shipping on the Yangtze River, especially on the stretch between its mouth and Shanghal. (4) Seizure of Chinese vessels, but E extreme measure in the event that Chinese troops should at- tack Japanese sailors A dispatch to the Rengo News Agency Manchuria, said about 45 Chiinese were killed there when troops f Ting Chao, who formerly command- od the Chinese Eastern Railway guards, entered the Chinese quarter and began | looting it Many More Wounded. | About 20 Chinese policemen were killed in the street fighting which fol- Jowed, the dispatch said, and 25 Chinese citizens, As many more were wounded, it sai Ting Chao's troops, the dispatch said, began looting the principal jewelry and other shops 25 soon as they entered the Chinese quarter, shooting into the streets and firing directly at ar sons who resisted them. Some of them, | it extended the sphere of their | 1oof » the edge of the Russian quar- | fiing a department store operated | Russians. | Joters appeared to have avoided | es of the Chinese Eastern Rail- | which Russia 5 Interested. but | tores not far from the railway bbed before the invaders aid, te Ting Chao said officers control of their men and the ere being_rounded up and inished, Chang Chin-Hui's soldiers repared to protect the city against | onslaughts. as sent the Japanese te presumably concern- | se extraterritoriality. Its con- ere divulged, but was | for granted that similar notes | d gone to Washington and Paris PLANNED. erents « DEFENSE COUNSEL — | Chiang Kai-Shek Is Probable Head of | C. Chinese Organization NANKINQG, January 26 () Plans for the formation of a Chinese national defense council, which would probably headed by Gen. Chiang Kal-Shek, re under way to- onal gevernment indicated ecutive Committee of g urged Bun Fo, head of Yuan and virtual pre- to withdraw his resignation sub- 1\ yesterday irmen of the defense council y would be Mar- | Chang Hsiao-Liang, former Man- rnor, and Feng Yu-Hslang SECRET SESSION AT GENEVA. A)—The 12, of Natlons Chinese and into secret to discuss the after a brief was devoted to League the went i1, excluding Japanese members session this morning Manchurian question public session which routine matters The private session had not been an- nounced previously. In informed cir- cles the belief was expressed that the shift in the national government at Nanking would make a change in the procedure of W Yen, Chinese spokesman before the council, and that his position probably would be more moderate than when Eugene Chen was still forelgn minister. BIG SHEEP LOSS LISTED GALLUP, N. Mex., January 26 ¢P) John Hunter, superintendent of lhe southern Navajo district, estimates In- dians of that area lost 36 per cent of | Melville Church, Mrs. Katherine V. H. Wreckage of Stinson’s Plane THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY DESIGNER KILLED AND THREE PASSENGERS INJURED. Wreckage of the plane in which Eddie Stinson, noted flyer and airplane de- signer was fatally injured and his three ship was being tested at the time of the Chicago. Stinson is shown in the inset. companions were hurt yesterday. The crash on & golf course in Jackson Park, —A. P. Photos, NEW CHEST GIFTS BRING TOTAL FUND UP TO $1,763,835 (Continued From First Page) out this country more than they ever have before,” Mrs. Norton said. “It is horrible shame that people are going | hungry. We must give jobs to every- body. All they want is a chance to work and a chance to live. If we grant their wish, we won't be bothered with communism or any other ‘ism." " Mrs. Norton was accorded & rising vote of thanks as she concluded with the announcement that she must hurry back to the Capitol in order to | do everything she could to prevent a slash in the pay of Government | workers. Mrs. Hoover Speaks. Elwood Street, Chest director, re- ported solicitors had beers unusually well Teceived this year by the public. He suggested workers assigned to seek do- nations from merchants should: rémind | them that organizations affiliated with | the Chest spend more than $5,600,000 | in Washington annually, He explained the Chest funds were augmented by earnings and endowments. Mrs, Herbert Hoover, the guest of honor at yesterday's lincheon, pre- dicted the Chest would surpass its goal by from 15 to 20 per cent. She declared many persons in unforiunate circum- stances this year who find it necessary to accept charity. probably would be able to become Chest contributors next year. ¥ The First Lady was accorded a-rising vote of thanks when she finished, “She attended as the guest of Mrs. John Jay O'Cgnnor, chairman of the information unifc Eyery member of the American Legion is behind the Chest, F. G. Fraser, de- partment commander, declared. “The American Legion,” he said, “knows what | the Community Chest means to Wash- | ington. We see the need for aid in- creasing daily and know that but for the Chest it would not be met.” Mr. Street received a letter from H. C. Phillips, corresponding sectetary of | the Federation of Citizens' Associations, | indorsing the Chest. The communica- tion follows | “At its meeting on January 16, 1932, the Federation of Citizens' Associations voted that it heartily indorses the aims and principles of the Community Chest and recommends it to the people of Washington.” New Gifts Reported. Gifts of $100 and more reported yes- terday included: $15,000, Potomac Electric Power Co.; $5,000, C. C. Glover, sr., 8. Kann & Sons Co.; $3,500, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam P. Eno; $3,000, Washington Railway & Electric Co., Capital Traction Co., M. | and Mrs. W. §. Corby; $2,500, Byron | S. Adams, Mrs. Hennen Jennings, Mrs. | J. L. Proctor; $2,000, Mr. and Mrs, Charles F. Fadeley, Mr. James Sharp, E. Lee and Miss Helen Jones, Abram | Lisner; $1,800, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Mer- rill; 81,500, Coleman Jennings, Mr. and Mrs. John' W. Davidge, Dr. and Mrs. | Stanley M. Rinehart, Washington Ki- | wanis Club; $1,500, Mr. and Mrs. Ches- | ter C. Bolton, Barber & Ross, Mr. and Mrs. William F. Ham, Mrs. Anne C.| Glover, Col. and Mrs. N. E. Locke, Morris Cafritz, Wiliam Hahn & Co, E. I Kaufman, Leon Torbiner, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Cooke; 81,300, Mrs. Henry W, Fitch; $1,200, Mr. and Mrs. J. Philip Herrmann, Maj. and Mrs. Henry Leon- ard, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Kaufman, Mr, d Mrs. Frederic Delano; $1,100, Mr. nd Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney, Melvin and Leopold Behrend; $1,000, Maj. and rs. Willam C. Crane, Miss Helen Nico- ay, Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Steliwagen, and Mrs. Simon Lyon, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Snow, sr., George R. Bene- man, Mr, and Mrs. George E. Hamil- Harris & Ewing, John C. Letts, W. and Mrs. Griffith, Mrs. Sarah Halkett. Griffith Consumers Prederick H Bi Mr. and Mrs. William J. Eynon; $800, Herbert J. Rich & Sons, William L. Bush; $750, Young & Simon, Washing- ton Sanitarium Co.; $700, John H. Wil- kins Co., Inc, J. D. Horning, People's Life Insurance Co.; $650, Mrs. Paul Himmelfarb; $600, Weaver Bros, Mr. and Mrs. John Poole, Ourisman Chevro- let Sales Co., King's Palace Department | Store, Gerson Nordlinger, Clark C. Grif- | fith, Merchants Transfer & Storage Co., | Capt. and Mrs, Stuart Farrar Smith, | Rear Admiral and Mrs, Cary T. Gray- | son; $500, Milton Hopfenmaier (estate); $500, Dr. and Mrs, John W. Burke, Dr. | and Mrs, Walter §. Harban, Mr. and Mrs, Arthur J. Sundlun, E. G. Schafer | & Co., Mr. and Mrs, Sidney W. Strauss, Simon, Koenigsberger, Young & Brez, Mr. and Mrs, Charles Schwartz, Schnei- | der Baking Co., Joseph Sanders, Marlow | Coal Co., Mrs. Hannah M. Lansburgh, | Hub Furniture Co.,, Harry Kaufman, Mr. | and Mrs. Mark S. Goldnamer, Mr. and | Mrs. Lawrence Gassenheimer, Elite Laundry, Inc. Peter M. Dorsch, Mr. and Mrs, Aubrey L. Clarke, Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph B. Behrend, Gude Co., Frazee Potomac Laundry Co., Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Eisemann, Col. Wade H. Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Appleton P. Clark, | jr; L. E. Breuninger & Sons, Arcade Bunshine Laundry Co. Emmons 8. Smith, jr.: Mrs. W. E. Wilder, Admiral | and Mrs. Ridley McLean, Mr. and Mrs. ‘Wylle, Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Ferguson, | Mrs. Walter E. Burnside, Maj. Gist Blair, Willard Hotel, W. D. Hoover, E. Russell True, jr.. Mr. and Mrs. Ord Preston, Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Haw- | ley, Mr. and Mrs. Fenton M. Fadeley, Mr. and Mrs, Frank H. Edmonds, Henry N. Brawner, Harry Blake, Lester A. Barr; $400, Col. and Mrs. Paul Hender- their sheep in recent blizzards. Reports t0 him covered 18,000 head in 47 herds. ‘The region is the one hardest hit by blizzards of the entire Navajo country. In the Techatchi Flats all grass has been v.red for 60 days. . son, Senator and Mrs. Hiram Bingham, George C. Bowie, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Hamilton, jr.; Schwab, Inc.; Mr. | her after finding the bodies of the two | cord without defense opposition. | E. Clement, STATE T0 PRESENT JUDD GASE MOTIVE Two Women Due to Testify Before Defense Is Given Change of Witnesses. By the Associated Press PHOENIX, Ariz, January 26—With the calling of two additional witnesses the State announced today it would rest its case against Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, confessed slayer of her two former women friends. The defense probably will open its case in the afternoon. The two witneésses to be called by County Attorney Lloyd J. Andrews are Miss Lucille Moore, a nurse, and Mrs. Arthur Lepker. From their lips, An- drews hinted, will come the alleged mo- tives for the killing of Mrs. Agnes Le Roi and Miss Hedvig Samuelson last October 18 Miss Moore first told authorities of a dinner party at Mrs. Judd's house, at- tended by several men who previously had been at the home of Mrs. Le Rol and Miss S8amuelson. The nature of Mrs. Lepker’s testimony was withheld. Halloran Held for Rebuttal. Andrews sald he would use J. J. Hal- loran, wealthy Phoenix lumber dealer, as a rebuttal witness. Halloran told in- vestigators hé wi innocent, hut per- baps indiscreet,” when investigation of the slayings were under way. He ad- mitted friendship with all three women in the tragedy. Showing signs of breaking under the strain, Mrs. Judd, 26-year-old wife of Dr. W, C. Judd, Los Angeles physician, yesterday saw her alleged written con- fession fo the slayings introduced into court records. It was in the form of | a letter addrsssed to her husband, which was found in a Los Angeles de- partment store where Mrs. Judd bad hidden while authorities searched for slain women in trunks in & Los Angeles | railway station. The document gave & detailed ac- count of Mrs. Judd’s alleged version of the killings and revealed sp]r-de{ennel as & motive. It was placed in the re- Mrs. Judd has repeatedly said and written that she shot both women in fear of her own life, She sald there EDDIE STINSO IN CRASH OF PLANE Three Companions of Dean of U. S. Aviators Injured in Chicago Wreck. By the Avacia‘ed ress CHICAGO, January 26.—America's dean of aviators—Eddle Stinson—is dead. His long and sometimes perilous ca- reer as a flyer came to an end early this morning in the Illinois Central Hospital from injuries suffered when a huge 8tinson-Detroiter plane fell to earth In a public links golf course in Jackson Park, not far from the shore- line of Lake Michigan. The accident occurred last night while the noted flyer and three com- panions were attempting to return to the Wayne, Mich., plant of the Detroit- Stinson Corporation, of which he was president. While over the lake motor trouble de- veloped and Stinson maneuvered to make a safe but forced landing. The {plane, however, struck a flagpole and crashed. 8tinson, pinned beneath the wreckage, suffered a crushed chest and internal injuries, which caused his death at 1 am. His three companions—Clark Field of Kalamazoo, Mich.; John Tompkins of East Chicago, Ind., end Frederick Gil- lies of Chicago, were all injured Glllies suffered a broken left leg and spinal injuries. He is 30 years old, an assistant general superintendent of the Inland Steel Co., and was a star at foot ball at Cornell University 13 years ago. He was making the trip with Stinson for pleasure. Field, 30, is a Chicago representative of the 8tinson Alrcraft Corporation. His shoulder was fractured and he was in- Jured internally. Tompkins, aged 36, was bruised, but was so dazed he was unable to give much aid in determining the exact cause of the tragedy. Held Many Records. It was the first time Stinson had been injured in 20 years of flying, which had brought to him numerous endur- ance records and the distinction of hav- ing been in the air more than any other man in the history of aviation—more than 14,000 hours, for a distance of nearly 1,500,000 miles, equivalent to 60 times around the globe. Stinson, who was only 38, pionecred in aviation and never during the whole of his long career used a parachute. He earned his wings at the old Kin- loch Field in St. Louls, having_been taught to fly by his eldest sister, Kath- erine, and later obtaining a position as test pilot for “Jenny” planes, which he described as “crates.” His was a family of the air, his sis- ters. Katherine and Marjorfe, and his brother, Jack, also having won fame in the field of flying. Stinson started when he was 20 and engaged in the business continuously, either as & test pilot, an instructor or a designer. Built Atlantic Planes. He bullt the transatlantic planes of Ruth Elder and George Haldemann, the around-the-world machines of William Brock and Eddie Schiee, as well as nu- merous others, Strangely enough, he was opposed to transatlantic fights. He called them “stunts” and went so far as to forbid the sale of his “ships” to any one con- templating such a project. ‘This de- cision was reached by him after the Georglan, Paul Redfern, was killed in an attempt to fly from Atlanta to Buenos Alres in a Stinson monoplane. He held that land planes had not yet reached the stage of perfection to Justify transatlantic flights. “Of course,” he was quoted as saying, “it was such an exploit that gave us Lindbergh, but they are stunts and, as such, are & detriment to aviation. Stinson himself was a Southerner, been born at Fort Payne, Ala., in 1804, He was the founder of the Detroit-8tinson Aircraft ~Corporation, Jater acquired by the Cord Corporation. Saved By Splil. Perhaps his most spectacular experi- ence occurred a few months after he began his career. That was when he was testing planes in New York. While several thousand feet in the air, his plane lost an aileron and part of the Janding gear. He was nedrly out of gasoline, but he saved himself by nos- | ing the plane down to an embankment near a railroad right-of-way, making an angular landing that prevented the dameged sides from dragging. In this manner he escaped death Stinson's father, E. A. Stinson, sr., i8 enroute to Chicago from Aberdeen, Miss. He left when word that the noted airman was injured reached him had been a quarrel and that, both women attacked her. Says She Trled to Borfow Car. | John Ralston, building contractor, testified yesterday Mrs. Judd tried on October 16, the day of the killings, to borrow his car for use the next morn- | ing. He did not lend it to her. | Two patrolmen and a fingerprint ex- pert testified to police arrival and occu- | pancy of the apartment of Mrs. Leroi| and Miss Samuelson on the night of | October 19, when the women's bodies were found in Los Angeles. Bruce Howe, A. F. Fox; $350, Walter S. Pratt, jr.; Capt. and Mrs. H. G. Gill- | mot, Mrs. Annie M. Clephane; $325,! Dr. and Mrs. John Minor; $300, Harry N. Bhelton, Dr. and Mrs. Harry 8. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hy-| man, Dr. Harry H. Kerr, Benjamin W. Thoron, Mr. and Mrs. George P.| Shiras, Mrs. Louis C. Lehr, James Ell- | wood Jones, Mr. and_ Mrs. Frederick de C. Faust, Dr. and Mrs. Bernard L.' Hardin, Mrs. D. J. Dunigan, William H. ! Donovan, Mr. and Mrs. G. Thomas Dun- | lop, Senator Bronson Cutting, Edward and Mrs. Harold W. | Marsh; $275, Milton Nathan; $250, Mr. | and Mrs. Charles A. Douglas, Mr. and | Mrs. E. C. Brandenburg, Sidney H. Rezenstein, Joseph H. Milans, Mrs. Ernest D. Mayer, Bynum E. Hinton, Mr, and Mrs. Prederick W. Buchholz, Holmes & Son, Inc.: Frank B. Essex, C. N. Gregory, A. M, Nevius, R. V. Van Orsdel, Hanse Hamilton, M. D. Sedan, Mrs. M. Plamick, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse 1. Miller; $225, Miss Olivia E. P. Btokes; $200, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Hamilton, Dr. and Mrs. Prancis R. Hagner, Mr. and Mis. Wilson Compton, Mrs. Alex Wolf, 8aks Fur Co., William H. Rapley, Mr. and Mrs. Morton J. Luchs, Leibman Bros., Miss Nana Heath Peters, Mr. and | Mrs. George W. White, Mr. and Mrs. Breckenridge Long, Mrs. H. H. Hawkins, | Mr, and Mrs. William K. Quinter, Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Denegre, John E. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest F. Mech- | lin; $175, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Gewirz; $150, Albert Sigmund, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sherby, Albert G. Redpath, Abe Cohn, Miss Ella C. Clephane, Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Gilbert, James E. Anderson, J. A. Remon, George O. Vass; $130, Dr. and Mrs. Clarence B. Allen; $125, Allen V. DeFord, Capt. and Mrs. Louis B. Montfort; $120, Miss Eliza H. Perkins, Hilleary G. Hoskinson, Wayne Kendrick; $100, Admiral and Mrs. H. R. Cone, George Bond Cochran, Y. E. Booker & Co., William A. Simpson, Mr, and Mrs. A. C. Moses, H. M. Fillebrown, Mr., and Mrs. Haywood Newbold, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Larner, J. F. Dryden, ‘Walter E. Burnside, Mrs. C. C. Glover, jr.: Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Frost, Ruth 8. Pratt. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Fish Kean, Myron A. Hofer, Mme. de Rosales, Mrs. Arthur Ballard. F. G. Kayhoe, David E. Buckingham, National Tribune Co., Earle M. Amick, Mrs. ESCAPED CONVICTS’ AUTO KILLS TRUSTY “Murder Farm” Operator Is Run Down as Three Flee Georgia Prison Camp. By the Assoclated Press. MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Januaty 26. —Aubrey Smith, Abe Powers and Roy Gardner escaped from a steel cage at the State Penal Farm here early today and their speeding automobile killed a trusty who trled to stop them. The trusty was John 8. Willlams, principal in Georgia’s notorious “mur- der farm mystery” of 1921-22. He was serving a life sentence on charges of killing several colored men. Willjams and several guards attempt- ed to stop the trio as they sped from town in a stolen automobile. Author- ities said the fugitives turned the ma- chine into the crowd, clipped Williams, and disappeared into the night. The 70-year-old trusty died in a few minutes. Smith was the prison pal of Leland Harvey and Jack Martin, and together they ~composed Georgla’s notorious “Houdini Trio.” Harvey and Martin escaped last week from the prison. 8mith was serving a long term for a series of robberies. He has escaped frequently. Powers, member of what was known | as the Woodward Bunco Gang, was one lof the State's most highly publicized prisoners QGardner was serving a short sen- tence. The three men were confined to the tuberculosis camp and were quartered in a portable steel cage. Authorities said they either cut the bars or broke the lock of their open-air prison. The escape brought three of Georgia's most notorious criminals back into the limelight. Williams' case was a sen- sation several years ago. The State charged he operated a “murder farm" n Monticello, Ga. holding colored men in peonage and killing them when they threatened to expose him. The number who met death on the farm was never determined. ARGENTINE DECREE DUE Electoral Colleges to Be Called to Set Up 12 Elected Governors. BUENOS AIRES, January 26 (#)— Howard R. Eccleston, Dr. and Mrs. Warner, Mrs. Theodore Mosher, Mrs. Smith Hempstone, Dr. Willlam H. Jenkins, Mrs, Julia D. Cordley, A. H. Ryan, A. E. T. Hanzmann, Joseph Luchs, Ritter & Ritter, Chatles J. O e Starkey, Wilbur ¥. Nash, Ralph L. ldsmith, Alexander Legare, Floyd E. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Walter O'Nefll, Arthur B. Willlamson, Robert C. Watson, R. V. Russell and D, J. Osl- The government prepared a decree to- day to convoke the electoral colleges on February 5 and outlining arrangements for elected provincial governors to re- place, on February 17, the interventors, appointed by the provisional govern- ment, who have governed 12 of Argen- tl‘a“:‘o.l 14 states since the revolution ef N DIES |AKRON ‘SABOTAGE' ORDERED PROBED House Naval Committee to Study Justice Depart- ment’s Investigation. By the Associated Press. Chairman Vinson today announced the House Naval Committee would study the Justice Department's investi- gation of reported sabotage on the air-| ship Akron. | He directed Representative McClin- | tic (Democrat) of Oklahoma to obtain | the Justice Department's file on the | study it made of charges against Paul F. Kassay, a former worker at the Ak- ron plant, where the ship was built. McClintic had presented & letter as- serting Kassay received a check about the time he was supposed to have ob- strueted work on the ship. Rear Admiral Willam A. Moffett, chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aero- nautics, said he knew nothing about the check, but would be glad to look into | the guestion if the letter were turned over to him. Found No Evidence. “Did your investigators find any evi- dences of sabotage?” McClintic asked. “No evidences of any,” Moffett re- plied Vinson asked what had happened to Kassay. Moffett replied he understood the man had been discharged, but no further action had been,taken “Then you think this committee can assume that, since no further action was taken, there was no unusual evi- dence of guilt?” Vinson asked. “Yes,” Moffett replied. “Who would be interested in the sabotage on the ship?” “Why, we would, of course,” the naval officer answered. “But I mean what other country might be interested in seeing sabotage on_the ship?” Before Moffett could answer that question, Representative Woodruff, Re- publican, Michigan, interposed: “That question might be embar- rassing to the admiral.” Vinson then said he would ask th: Justice Department for the file in the case. Moftett Answers Critics. Criticism of the airship was met to- day with the statement that "§he is the best airship ever constructed.” Admiral Moffett made this answer to; published reports of defects in the Akron at the opening of an investiga- tion of her speed, weight and safety. Representative McClintic, sponsor of the investigation, said his only in- terest was to determine whether her efficiency was impaired and whether she “offers the safety she should.” He recalled dirigible accidents of the Roma, the Shenandoah and the R-101, said: ‘n“"l felt it the duty of this committee to see that no errors had occurred in construction of the Akron which might be duplicated in the sister ship.” The sister ship to the Akron is now ing built. b'Adgmh'll Moffett sald the contract for the Akron had been lived up to with two exceptions—weight and speed. Overweight, He Says. “She is overwelght a little over 19.- 000 pounds,” MofTett testified. He said this was only 4 per cent and that “doesn't materially affect the per- formance of the ship or her radius of action.” ‘Surface ships and hen‘vi‘::-thlg-llr ships usually are overweight, yet we n"zsr hear é’rl!h:lsm of that,” Moffett said. He added that the contract specified the airship should be able to make 72 knots, whereas she has made only 89. “We have had difficulty in making our tests owing to the fact that the ship uses the largest propellers ever made in the world, and they are of wood,” Moffett said. A new set of metal propellors is now being prepared, which the admiral as- serted, he thought would enable the Akron to make 72 knots. “I think in time if we can get bet- ter motors she will make more than 72 knots,” he sald. SEEK ABDUCTORS OF RICH WIDOW California Oficials Hunt “Secret 8ix" Who Sought $6,600 Ransom. By the Associated Press. SALINAB, Calif., January 26.—Mon- terey County officers directed a State- wide search today for kidnapers who held Mrs. Mary Hansen, 62, wealthy Salinas Valley widow, a captive nearly 36 hours while they attempted to ex- tort $6,600 from her relatives. Mrs. Hansen was rescued last night The kidnapers had left her alone in & cottage at Carmel, where they had] driven her after luring her from the | home of a friend at Salinas. Ransom notes_received by Mrs. Han- | sen's two sons, Ralph and Henty, were | signed “the Secret Six” One of the gANE WAS a Wwoman, known as “MIS. Mason,” & comely brunette about 30 years oM. Officers dald “Mrs. Mason” lured Mrs. Hansen {rom the home of a Mrs. Lonnle Jensen of Salinas with a fictitious story | about a party in the Monterey cottage of one of Mrs. Hansen's sons. Instead | of driving to Monterey, however, “Mrs. Mason" headed for Carmel, where the mother was confined. Ransom demands were outlined in notes delivered to the sons later. A telegram telling the Hansen broth- ers to go to & store in Monterey for directions was intercepted by sherifl’s officers. They obtained a diagram of directions and raided the kidnapers cottage. Mrs. Hansen said she had been treated kindly. She saw only two of the gang aside from the woman, she said. These two were men. U. S. ENVOY APPROVED Japan Accepts Grew's Appoint- ment to Bucceed Forbes. TOKIO, January 26 (#)—The ap+ pointment of Joseph C. Grew as Am- bassador from the United States to Japan to succeed Ambassador W. OCameron Forbes has been approved by the Japanese government, Ambassador Forbes was notified today. PERU OBSERVES PARLEY LIMA, Peru, January 26 ().—Dr. Francisco Garcia Calderon, Peruvian Minister at ris, will represent this country at the Disarmament Confer- ence at Geneva as an observer, it was announced today. Peru is not sending a regular delegation to the conference because of financial stringency. & g Insurance Head Dies. UTICA, N. Y., January 26 (B— Theodore M. Glatt, president since 102 of the Commercial Travelers' Mutual . organize, died last n. his home here on his 79th birtndsy ersary, ¢ WILLIAM W CITiZEhiS PETITION CONGRESS FOR FAIR FISCAL TREATMENT | (Continued From First Page.) port of this plea there was appended to the petition a detailed argument. The Citizens' Joint Committee, refer- ring to the House bill to repeal the definite proportion plan and to “several bills increasing the tax burden of the District,” challenged the “theory that District’ taxpayers are not bearing an adequate tax burden.” “The Citizens' Joint Committee con- tends,” it was declared, “that the Dis- trict taxpayers are now reasonhably, and, in view of their peculiar disabil- ities, even heavily taxed, and that no | increase of their tax burden should be | considered unless it is clearly demon- strated that such additional taxation is absolutely necessary to meet urgent municipal needs which cannot other- | wise be satisfied. At congressional hearings, especially that on H. R. 6285, the committee will ask the privilege of submitting the facts® and reasoning upon which its contention that the District is not undertaxed is based. Ask Correction of Injustices. “Your petitioners fufther respectfully represent that as long as a lump sum payment is the appropriation practice temporarily on annual appropriation acts, immediate correction should be made of some of its grosser and more obvious injustices. “To prevent glaring inequity, your petitioners, therefore, urge, for reasons stated in the argument hereto attached as part of this petition, that Congres should (1) increase substantially, both on general and specific grounds, the basic lump-sum payment; (2) exclude great national or semi-national projects from the District bill and finance them on some other supply bill, so wording the items thus excluded as to set forth the exact method of financing in rela- tion to the amounts of contribution by Nation and Capital that is thought to be just, or (3) provide for a local as well as a national maximum of contri- bution, on the assumption that it is the impotent local partner who alone heeds this protection, or (4) by referendum or otherwise, permit the local taxpay- ers to have some effective say in regard to the amount of local taxes and the purposes for which the tax money is to be expended.” The petition was signed by the fol- lowing: E. F. Colladay, chairman Citizens' Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations and vice chairman of its Executive Commit- tee; Theodore W. Noyes, chairman EX- ecutive Committee; George W. Of- futt, president Washington Board of ‘Trade; Harry King, president Washington Chamber of Commerce; . H. Pope, acting president Dis- trict of Columbia Bankers' As- sociation; J. F. M. Bowie, president Washington Real Estate Board; Percy ‘Thompson, president Rotary Club; Rob- ert V. Fleming, chairman Fqnance Com- mittee, D. C. Bankers' Association; Joshua Evans, jr., chairman Committee on Municipal Finance, Board ef Trade; R. A. Dickson, president Central Labor Union; Katherine 8. Merritt, president District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs; Ethel Olin Corbin, president Woman's City Club; George C. Havenner, president Federation of Citizens’ Associations; Mark Lansburgh, president Merchants and Manufac- turers’ Association; George P, Hoover, president Bar Association; Evan H. Tucker, president Northeast Washing- ton Citizens’ Association; Eugene R. Woodson, president Kiwanis Club: L. A. Carruthers, chairman Committee on Fiscal Relations, Federation of Citizens’ Associations; E. G. Bliss, chairman Committee on District Finance, Cham- ber of Commerce: Ruth 8. McKelway, president Voteless D. C. League of Women Voters; Agnes B. Husband, | president Twentieth Century Club; M. | Pearl McCall, president Women's Bar Association, U. S. LIKELY TO ACT WITH BRITAIN IN SHANGHAI THREAT _(Continued From First Page.) including that of the treaty port of Shanghali. Such an act on the part of Japan would have been impossible a few years ago, when the European powers and the United States acted jointly every time there was a crisis in the Far East. To- day a common action of all the white owers seems impossible, because their nterests are no longer similar. France Has Special Interests. France has her special interests in China, which are more or less similar with those of Japan. Germany is no | longer in a position to take any mili- tary action anywhere and Italy has only a small force and comparatively small interests in the Far East. But the interests of the British Empire and | of the United States there are similar. The interests of Australla and Canada are as vital regarding the policy of the open door as those of the United States. ‘Today QGreat Britain, which is en- deavoring to reorganize the empire on the basis of a closer association with her two most important dominions, will have to act if Canada and Australia judge that their paramount interests are likely to be jeopardized. Consequently the governments of the United States and the British Empire are drawn together by the high-handed methods of the Japanese government. | Although no common action has been decided between the governments of the two countries, it is understood conver- | sations are being carried out in view of the possibility of acting together. DEWEY GETS POST { CHICAGO, January 26 (#).—Charles | D. Dewey, former financial adviser to Poland, was elected president of the nfwg established International House of Chicago yesterday. The house is being built a8 a haven for foreign col- | of the profits. SPANISHPLOT LAID 10 EXILED TROTSKY Once Powerful Soviet Leader Declared Backing Prole- tarian Dictatorship, By the Associated Press. MADRID, January 26.—An extreme- ist movement to establish a proletarian dictatorship in Spain is afoot, Minister of Interior Casares y Quiroga said to- day, and is being promoted by Leon Trotsky, former Russian Soviet leader now exiled from Russia and living in RIGLEY, JR. WILLIAM WRIGLEY, JR., CHICAGO BALL GLUB OWNER, DIES AT 70 __(Contlngg:;“;zmi;l;s} Page) contalning prizes. Under Wrigley's Istanbul, Turkey. “This movement is not the big one,” the minister said, refetring to the Syndicalist and Communist general strike which was slated to occur in Spain yesterday, but which appeared only in a few places. “The big move- ment is planned for February, but the government is prepared to swamp it with stern measures.” Would Abandon Strike. Syndicalist leaders at Malaga, one of the places where troubles did occur yes- . were reported to be preparing 0 publish a note advising their followers to abandon the strike. The cabinet met last night to discuss the state of the public order and ended by agreeing that the situation was well under control. Seville dispatches reported an attempt to assassinate the provincial governor as he passed through a downtown street on a tour of inspection. The shot came from the roof of a leadership chicle was brought into use as the basic ingredient of the product, the packages were standardized and machinery was substituted for manual methods. Within 10 years after Wrigley began the manufacture and promotion of chewing gum, what had been a bad habit had become a general custom. Advertised on Big Scale. Premium helped him popularize chewing gum, and he gave &way tons throughout the country to help peten- tial customers acquire the gum-chewing habit. He advertised on a big scale. When he invaded other countries he used the same tactics. Twenty-five years after he had em- | barked in the business, the public was paying $30,000,000 a year for his prod- ucts, and by 1925 his annual sales were between $65,000,000 and $70,000,000. Factories in Chicago, New York, Ber- lin, London, Toronto and Sydney, Aus- tralia were, manufacturing the four brands upou which he had staked his business success. Selling his chewing gum on the road during his early Chicago career, Wrig- ley was twitted about his City of Chi- cago by a rival salesman who re- marked that the town did not even own its own ball club—the Chicago National Lcague team, controlled by Cincinnati interests. The jest struck home, for base ball was Wrigley's hobby, and the whim born then was gratified 25 years later when Wrigley and several associates acquired the club from the Cincinnati men who still owned it. A few years later he obtained sole control of the club and added to his base ball hold- ll’zfis the Los Angeles team of the Pa- cific Coast League. Purchased Catalina Island. His third major business venture was the purchase in 1919 of Catalina Is- land, off the California Cosst, which he converted not only into & popular Summer resort, but Into silver, iead and zinc mining properties which pyra- mided his fortune. Because the son born to Willlam Wrigley, sr., and Mary Ladley Wrigley st Philadelphia, on September 30, 1861, was not content to ascend to the owner- ship of his father's scouring soap man- ufactory, William Wrigley, jr., was en- | abled to make his own son, Philip K., | president, at 28, of his chewing gum ! company and the gnungeu executive in | the country of a business of that size. Philip and a daughter were born from | the union in 1885 of William Wrigley, jr., and AdA Foote of New York. | BASE BALL ONLY A HOBBY. | | Owner of Cubs Never Received Cent of Club’s Profits. CHICAGO, January 26 (&) —Base ball has lost not only one of its greatest | leaders but one of its greatest spenders |in the death of William Wrigley, ir., at | Phoenix, Ariz, today. | ‘Taking up the national pastime as a | hobby, Wrigley spent millions to give |Chicago a pennant-winning team and always insisted he never realized 1 cent frem his interests in the club, one of | the best money earners in all base ball | history. | _ "I bought the Cubs npt only because | I love base ball but because I once was | joshed about a large city like Chicago | having such poor ball elubs,” he once | sald in telling of his interest in the game. “When I was on the road sell- ing soap, years ago, the other salesmen used to kid me about Chicago's weak clubs and I resolved to buy the Cubs. Spent $6,000,000 on Team. “Altogether, I think I have spent $6,000,000 or more in building up my team, but I have never taken a nickel It is purely a hobby for me, and as long as I can afford such an expensive hobby and give the fans a thrill, why, I'm happy. I'd rather watch a good ball game than to attend a stockholders’ meeting and listen to bumper reports, and I guess I play hookey regularly to go out to Wrigley Field.” Wrigley's death, which came as a dis- tinct shock to base ball and to Chicago's civic leaders, who regarded him as one of the stanchest pillars in this city's | civic life, removed from base ball Chi- cago's second major league club owner in three months. ~ On October 26, 1931, Charles A. Comiskey, “base ball'’s old Roman” and owner of the White Sox, died at his country home in Eagle River, Wis. Comiskey Offers Condolences. Lou Comiskey. son of the “old Roman” and heir of the White Sox club, was the first to offer condolences to the bereaved Wrigley family. “The passing of Willilam Wrigley was a distinct shock to me. My father and 1 always admired him as a sportsman and as a man. Base ball has lost one of its outstanding and stanchest sup- porters. Chicago has lost its foremost citizen.” PLANNED NEW COTTON OFFER. Gum Magnate Was Considering Invest- ment in 1932 Crop. CHICAGO, January 26 (#).—William Wrigley died just as he was considering extending his offer to purchase cotton with the proceeds of chewing gum sales in the,South. His company bought nearly 100,000,- 000 pounds of the 1931 crop at prices up to 12 cents in an effort to “leave its money in “the South, in the South's own coin,” in proportion to purchases of the company's gum there. Officials said today the firm was con- sidering similar investment in the 1932 crop, as the first offer expired last| December 1. Similar operations in Canadian wheat for the past two years have been ‘“very satisfactory” to the | Willlam Wrigley, Jr, Co., Ltd, of | Canada. * Chicago’s unemployed, for whom Wrigley opened a free shelter on the West Side in 1930, will also miss his philanthropy. For a long time he gave $500 a week for unemployment relief. Philip K. Wrigley, his only son, will continue as president of the company, lege students with a $2,000,000 dona- tion from John 1>. Rockefeller, jn & post Te has held since Februsry, 1025, nearby building, police thought, but the bullet went wild. The governor went ahead with his tour. ‘The inhabitants spent a panicky night, however. Most people rematned indoors and there was scattered firing throughout the city, as Extremist snip- ers and civic guards exchanged shots. Warned Back on Jobs. Gov. Sol, fearing that the situation was growing worse, issued a manifesto warning all municipal workers that if they did not return to their fobs to- day they would be discharged. An unconfirmed report from the town of Follana, in the Valencia dis- trict, said today two civil guards and a judge had been killed there in wu battle between guards and strikers. At Valencia the Extremist strike continued on a reduced basis. Stores and cafes were open, but the majority of com- mercial houses were closed. Gen. Luis Trillo, military commander of Andalusia, was fired upon as he rode along a street in an automobile. He returned the fire. A group of people at San Sebastian held a demonstration to protest the dis- solution of the Jesuit order. Exodus Under Way. ‘They marched to the Jesuit House, but none of the members of the order came out to receive them The newspaper La Humanitat at Barcelona said a travel agency there soid 200 tickets to foreign countries to members of the order. Indalecio Prieto, minister of publie works, said the workers in Andalusia were demanding a maximum workday of four and a half hours. SUSPECT ARRESTED, ACCUSED OF HELPING IN ILSLEY SLAYING (Continued From First Page.) arose, turned on the lights and went to investigate the sound. It stopped at once, Shortly after 9 a'clock the next morn- ing he went to the cottage, intending to have breakfast with his sister, Boe« ing said. The front door was locked. No one answered the bell. He said he supposed the maid had gone to the grocery and his sister had spent the night with friends. Going to the back door, he opened it by reaching through a broken glass pane. Boeing sald he did not remember seeing any lights burning in the cottage when he en- tered. He then walked down the hall w] the maid's room and his sister’s room were located: He said he first saw the body of the maid. Then he turned and saw his sister lying in the doorway of her room. Boeing ran to the Middle« burg National Bank to obtain assist« ance. Dr. Stitler, the family physician, and Roy Seaton, Middleburg magistrate, returned with him, $200,000 ESTATE PROBATED, MILWAUKEE, January 26 (#).—An estate valued at more than $200,000 was listed in the will of Mrs. Agnes Boeing Ilsley, who, with her maid, was slain January 13 on her estate at Mid- dleburg, Va. The document was ad- mitted to probate yesterday. Mrs. llsley was the widow of Spen- cer Ilsley, former Milwaukee banker, Mrs. Ilsley left cash bequests of $25,- 000 each to her mother, Mrs. Amelia Boeing; her father, Julius W., Fargo, N. Dak., and two brothers, John K. and Paul Boeing, New York. Her Middleburg estate was to be sold. THEATER MEASURE PASSED IN SENATE | Bill Prohibiting Misrepresentation of Seating Accommodations Goes to House. The Senate this afternoon passed the Carey bill to prohibit misrepresenta- tion as to seating accommodations by theaters in the District of Columbia. The measure went through without de- bate, and now goes to the House, which has not considered it. The bill declares that it shall be un- lawful in the District of Columbia for any person engaged in the management or operation of a theater to knowingly misinform or mislead prospective pa- trons concerning the avallability of seats. It also provides that when all seats ara occupled the manager or op. erator shall display near each ticket window & sign giving notice that no seats are available. Where there is more than one floor to a theater, the signs would indicate on which floor the seats are all taken. In theaters in which the seating ca- pacity is 1,000 or more, a public an- nouncement shall be made in the lobby regarding the seating situation at least once every 5 minutes during the time that all seats are occupied. Before reporting the bill to the Senate the District Committee struck out the provision which would have prevented & theater from selling mcre tickets for any performance than there are seats available. Discussing this, the report accompanying the bill stated: “The subcommittee recognized = the fact that motion picture theaters have a continuance performance policy, so that patrons may leave the theater at v time. This policy makes for a constant change in seating accommodations, and many treater patrons prefer to stand in the theater or the lobby with the hope of thus getting a desirable seat.” The bill as amended is intended to assure prospective patrons of accurate information as to whether they will have to wait for seats.