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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Foracast) Rain this afternoon; cloudy tonight; tomorrow rain; not much change in tem- perature; lowest tonight about 38 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, 62, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 41, at noon today. Full report on page B-12. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 -— ¢h ¢ Fhening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION —~—— No. 82,084, Enterednas Entered_as second ¢ Washington matter D C. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1932—FORTY-EIGHT —— PAGES. #%» Star. “From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers arc printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 126,628 (#) Means Associated Pr TWO CEN LINDBERGH PLEADS FOR KIDNAPERS' TERMS LEAGUE DEMANDS HALT IN' CONFLICT AND WITHDRAWAL OF TOKIO TROOPS Resolution Adopted Unani-| mously by Assembly Ses-| sion After Plea of Chinese| Spokesman. ! i FIGHTING STILL GOES ON ! NORTHWEST OF SHANGHAI Nationalist Government New Series of Japanese Demands. Rejects Foreign Minister Says Terms Compatible With Nation's Dig- nity Alone Will Be Accepted. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, March 4—Cessation of hostilities at Shanghai and withdrawal of the Japanese troops was demanded in a resolution unanimously adopted tonight by the League of Nations Assembly. This action followed an appeal by China’s spokesman that the League act immediately to halt the advance of the Japanese Army in the Shanghai area and to_arrange a formal armistice. He charged that the Japanese troops kept on fighting yesterday after the order had been given to cease firing. Tsuneo Matsudaira and Noatake Sato, Japan's repre- sentatives, denied this and as- serted that their troops would be withdrawn from the area as soon as_conditions warranted. Then, said Dr. W. W. Yen, head | of the Chinese delegation, “I must ask you to take your eyes off this mirage the Japanese are throw- ing up. Insists on Measures. “Just now I received telegrams that the Japanese are still ad- vancing, their transports pouring fresh troops into the fighting, even to a point 40 miles west of Shanghai. The defenders of the forts at Woosung were killed to the last man. “Now I insist that this Assembly take measures to assure cessation of these hostilities and arrange for a formal armistice.” When the Assembly reconvened he presented this resolution calling on China and Japan to cease hostilities ‘and recommending preparation of ar- Tangements for the withdrawal of the Japanese troops. Sato Accepts First Part. Mr. Sato accepted the first part, but moved to amend the second by adding that representatives of the great powers selected to arrange the Japanese with- drawal also should determine the future | situation of the Chinese troops To this Mr. Hymans objected, as- serting that such an amendment in- troduced a political issue foreign to the problem and would change the mean- ing of the resolution. FIGHTING STILL GOING ON. Battle Reported North of Shanghai. Chinese Reject New Demand. BY MORRIS J. HARRIS. (Copyright, 1932, by the Associated Press.) SHANGHAI, March 4.—The Chinese national government late today rejected the series of new Japanese demands presented yesterday as a basis for fur- ther peace parleys just as the city of | Shanghai, surrounded by war for a month, had begun quletly to get down to work again The announcement was made by L Wen-Kan, foreign minister. Another disturbing report came !n“ Chinese official advices from Nanking, | which said that a new battle was under | way at Taitsang, 25 miles northwest of here. The dispatches said tI 1ith Division attacked the forces there and a severe battle was | under way. The dispatches reached here by w said the Ci stifl resis northwe: from Taitsang itsang is eigh of Kating, which the Japa-| id they did | ction of their | They had re- | tion of the re- notcare o discu: demands by the ceived no official not dection, they said, but th the opinion that if it were Lrue situation was “deadlocked” and that | Japanese military forces were likely to| maintain their defense lines around Shanghai “indefinitely.” | Japanese naval and military officials | denied late in the al y fighting was taking however. Milita: nt forces are maintaining as yesterday, calling a halt to the and ncen- | trating their uits within an ares east ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) | MOTHER TAKES HER SON IN DISPUTE WITH UNCLE By the Associated Press. EDWARDSVILLE, IIl, March 4— Mrs. Vera Williams was believed to be on her way to her home in Denver, ! Colo., last night with her 14-year-old son, Carl Dame, who was taken from his ‘school at Troy, near here, yesterday. Officers said Mrs. Williams and an mncle of the boy had been in dispute over his custody since the youth's| grandmother. with whom he had liv ied about two months ago. The teacher said Mrs. Williams appeared at he school and took her son away. Held Not Elected JOHN HASTINGS REPORT UPHELD, BANKHEAD OUSTER DEMANDED Alabama Election of 1930 “Fraudulent,” Senate Sub- committee Finds. H. BANKHEAD. By the Associated Press. A Senate Elections Subcommittee found today that Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama was not elected in 1930 and that his seat should be declared vacant. The Bankhead-Heflin contest sub- committee divided along party lines on the report prepared by Chairman Hastings, holding the election was fraudulent because of widespread viola- tion of election laws. Democratic members of the commit- tee, Senators Bratton of New Mexico and George of Georgia, will submit a mincrity report. The Republicans who agreed to the Teport, in an executive session, were ‘Watson, Republican leader, and Glenn of Tlinois in addition to Hastings. Holds Nomination Invalid. Hastings in the majority report which was agreed to by the Republicans, held | that Bankhead not only was not elect- ed, but that his nomination was invalid because of an illegal primary. The Democerats said in their minority view that they would take a directly | contrary position. “We take the position,” Bratton said, “that the irregularities do not affect | the result of the election, were mere irregularities and that Bank- head received & majority of the legal votes cast. “We also hold that the primary is legal, but that if it was illegal it does not reach into the election, and the Senate has no jurisdiction over the primary.” The reports will be submitted to the full committee as soon as the Demo- crats have drafted their conclusions. Gro;ge sald this probably would be next week. that they Bitter Row Forecast. The decision of the subcommitter forecasts a bitter row in the Senatc over Bankhead's seat, which was con- tested by his predecessor, J. Thomas Heflin. It is the first time for many years that a Democrat's seat has been chal- lenged, as all the recent contests have " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) SHERRILL IS NAMED ENVOY TO TURKEY Former Minister to Argentina Is Chosen by Hoover to Replace Grew. President Hoover today named Charles H. Sherrill of New York to be United States Ambassador to Turkey He will replace Joseph C. Grew, re- cently appointed Ambassador to Japan to_succeed Ambassador Forbes. Mz, Sherrill is a lawyer and was born in Washington in 1869. Since grad- uating from Yale, ke has for the most time practiced law and made his home in New York City. He was Minister to Argentina from 1909 to 1911. He declined an appointment to the em- bassy in Japan because of ill health which later forced him to retire from the diplomatic service. He has been one of the prominent members of the Union League Club of New York and has been actively inter- ested in amateur athletics. He was one of the leading spirits in the Olym- pic games. GENERAL SALES TAX ON MANUFAGTURES BACKED IN FORMAL COMMITTEE VOTE 2.25 Per Cent Levy Expected to Add $625,000,000 to ; Federal Budget for Fiscal | Year of 1933. FORMS BASIS FOR BILL TO RAISE $1,100,000,000 Increase in Individual and Cor- porate Income Figures Also Pro- posed, but No Decision Is Reach- | ed on Changes in Administrative | Clauses of Law. | By the Associated Press, The House Ways and Means Com- mittee today agreed formally on a 2'¢ per cent general manufactures sales tax designed to bring in approximately $625,000,000 in additional revenue. | Acting Chairman Crisp announced the vote was overwhelming, but de- clined to make known the number sup- porting the measure. ‘This big item forms the base for the new revenue bill expected to bring in approximately $1,100,000,000 to balance the budget for the fiscal year 1932, Plan Income Levy Rise. On this base the committee plans to erect the remainder of the bill, which will include increases in individual and corporate income taxes to bring in | approximately $250,000,000. The Georgia Democrat declared, how- ever, the committee had reached no decision on proposed administrative changes, particularly those affecting the capital gains and loss provisions of the existing law. Neither has it acted upon the recom- mendations of & subcommittee to levy excise taxes on a number of commodi- ties, including electricity, gasoline and industrial alcohol. 1 Crisp said he hoped the commitiee could come to complete agreement on | all of the remaining issues by tomorrow noon, in order that the bill could be introduced and made ready for action by the House during the coming week. | " In reaching the decision on the rate | of 214 per cent for the manufactures’ | sales tax, the committee accepted the recommendations of a subgroup headed by Representative Rainey of Illinois, the Democratic leader. It rejected ef- forts to keep the rate at a flat 2 per cent. It was over this rate that the ‘Commit(er became involved in a con- troversy which resulted in delay in formulation of the bill. ‘The vote on the higher rate was bi- partisan. Crisp called the committee to meet again late today to continue its stud on exemptions from the sales tax lev: These exemptions include raw and plain foodstuffs and other commodities that are ingredients in products com- plete and ready for sale. ~L i CARDOZO COMMISSION IS SIGNED BY PRESIDENT Only Oath of Office to Supreme Court Seat Remains for New Yorker. socluted Press. a new oath of office remains between Benjamin N. Cardozo and the title and robes of a justice of the Su- preme Court of the United States. President Hoover this morning signed the commission of the present chief Jjudge of the New York State Court of Appeals, who will succeed to the seat left vacant on the highest tribunal by he resignation of Oliver Wendell House officials were ot in- { when Cardozo would take his He lunched recently with the ent and talked for an hour with him concerning legal affairs and the dutles of his new post. Bank Bandifs Captured. LAWRENCEVILLE, IIl, March 4 (#). —Three bank robbers, one identified as & former police lieutenant at South | Bend, Ind., robbed the Flat Rock State Bank at Flat Rock, 111, of $4,900 today and were captured on the Wabash River Bridge an hour later. The money was recovered German Banker Df;ps Dead. BERLIN. March 4 () —Walter Brann, ‘manaa»r of the Handelsbank Aktien Gesellschaft, which suspended payments vesterday, died suddenly today. {*“VOICE OF MUSCLE SHOALS, 90,000 HORSEPOWER STRONG,” QUIETED Colored Min A colored minister's gift to the mdlo' “The Volce of Muscle Shosls” the world. an unlicensed station at Sheffield, has been put out of business by Federal Government. In selling advertising time to mem- bers of his congregation, Director W. D. | Terrell of the Commerce Department’s radio division said today, the minister made claims that his station was of 90,000 horsepower” and what went on the air through his powerful apparatus waves stayed there. I Director Terrell said he was forced to send inspectors and an automobile radio laboratory to the scene because the station was reported to be operat- ''What Went on Air Over His Radio Station Stayed There, ister Claimed. Inspectors reported today the station | had been closed, and that instead of the preacher operating a 90,000 horse- power” plant, ft was one of 7.5 lwms really wa They said the owner pleaded igno- | rance of the law and willingly signed a statement that he had been operating & station without a license and prom- ised to close down his plant. | Director Terrell said today the in- formation gathered by his inspectors would be turned over to the Federal | Radio Commission, but probably would not be prosecuted unless “The Voice of Muscle Shoals” again breaks into {©Officers said they would not take any ing on various frequencies and afforded | the ether. otion in the case, as the boy had not een legally adopted by the uncle, serious interference with reception of stations, The department declined to make bpublic the nlnlllnu’l name, 0.0, JURYCHARGES S153372 FRAUD TOTEAAS CONCERN Indicts Company for Failing| to Report Official “Graft” in Tax Case. For failing to report to the Govern- ment in their income tax returns payment. of so-called “ecommissions” amounting to more than a million and a half dolla:s to officials in three Texas counties, W. | L. Pearson & Co., a road building cor- | poration of Corpus Christi, Tex., which | was granted a number of contracts for bullding roads in that State, and W. L. Pearson, himself, president of the com- pany, were indicted today by a Federal grand jury in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for violation | of the revenue law. | ‘The indictment lists 16 persons, in- | cluding a State Senator, county com- | missioners, county judges, a sheriff and | deputy sheriff and others as having re- | ceived certain'sums which the Pearson | company failed to report to the Gov- ernment. Fifteen of these 16 persons, however, who received the ‘“commis- | sions” are not made defendants in this action, which is directed against the Pearson company and its president, | Pearson is listed as one who received a commission. | Vilful Failure” Charged. The indictment was returned here | because it is charged the Pearson com- pany “wilfully failed” to show the big sums paid to such officials when the company'’s income tax return was filed to the commissioner of internal revenue, whose office is in this city. The action of the grand jury was be- | lieved to have been dropped on that section of Texas like a bombshell, as |lhfl case had been developed very quietly. Disclosure of the payment of such ‘“‘commissions” was considered as sensational as the indictment itself. The indictment charges that this corporation failed to show payments | made by the corporation during the | calendar year 1928 totaling $1,593,372.24. Section 148 of the revenue act in- volved in this case provides that any person making payment to another per- son of interest, rent, salaries, wages, compensations, remunerations, emolu- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6., ARCTIC EXPLORER DIES IN SANATORIUM PLUNGE Robert Tafel Was Youngest Mem- ber of Fiala-Ziegler Expedi- tion in 1903. EASTON, Pa., March 4 () —Robert R. Tafel, 56, youngest member of the Fiala-Ziegler North Pole expedition of 1903 which was marooned for two years, died today of a fractured skull received | when he fell from a second-story win- | dow of the Easton Sanatorium. He left a note thanking the officials of the hospital for their “‘unceasingly kind and attentive” treatment of him. He had been a patient at the sana- torium for some time, his family said. The expedition, marooned after it lost its ship in 1903, was rescued in 1805 with _only one fatality among its 30| members. Tafel continued his exploring activities long afterward. | $10,000,000 FARM CREDIT | APPROVED BY HOOVER Signs Jones Resolution to Aid Creation of Agricultural Loan Corporations. By the Associated Press. President Hoover today signed the Jones resolution setting aside $10,- 000,000 for the Secretary of Agriculture to aid in the establishment of agricul- tural credit corporations. The measure, sponsored by Chairman Jones of the House Agriculture Com: mittee, was approved recently by Con- gress, with but little opposition. Tt will enable credit corporations and live stock loan companies to be formed to obtain the advantages of ~inter- mediate credit banking facilities. No new appropriation is made. The $10,000,000 is unexpended and repaid balances of the drought relief funds made 8 | A N \GRANATA A TURKISH CONSUL SLAIN Suicide After Shooting Because of Grudge. MARSEILLE, France, March 4 (). —Server Djemel Bey, the Turkish con- sul general here, was shot four times and killed today by a 23-year-old consulate clerk named Ahmed Osmann, who then committed suicide. Police were informed that the consul had complained of the clerk’s ineffi- ciency and that Osmann had been nursing a grudge against his chief. DEMOCRATS SEE HOOVER' DEFEAT Seize on Anniversary of In- auguration to Predict Course of Coming Year. Clerk Commits BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. While Republican leaders today ex- pressed belief that President Hoover | was growing constantly in popular favor, Democrats in the Senate seized upon the fact that Mr. Hoover's first term as President ends a year from | today to predict defeat for the Repub- lican President at the polls on No- vember 8. Senator Dill of Washington, declar- ing that he expected to see Gov. Roose- velt of New York “inaugurated as President a year from today,” put into the Congressional Record a message by the New York Governor to the State Legislature on the subject of public utilities. Senator Dill, an ardent sup- porter of the Roosevelt-for-President movement among the Democrats, said that the message showed the need of reducing the cost to the people of pub- lic utilities services, which he said has become a necessity. Question Most Important. “Gov. Roosevelt's message,” contin- ued Senator Dill, “points out that there has been no voluntary effort to reduce their charges. It seems to me that there is no question so important to the people today as the public utilities question. I hope that this message of Gov. Roosevelt, which shows him on the side of the people in this fight, will indicate the need that something be done.” Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi then began a critical analysis of the Hoover administration. ‘The Mississippi Senator prefaced his speech with the remark that as this is the third anniversary of President Hoover’s entering upon his duties as President he wondered if Senator Fess of Ohio, chairman of the Republican National Committe nator Reed of (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) . ND KUNZ WAGE VERBAL FIGHT Contestants for Seat in House Clash Over Intimation Involving Recount. By the Associated Press. A heated exchange between the two participants today threatened for a time to disrupt & House Elections Com- mittee’s consideration of the contest between Representative Peter C. Gra- | nata and Stanley H. Kunz for the | eighth Illinois congressional district. Closing arguments for both men were being made when Granata, a Repub- lican, suggested to the committee that it ask Kunz, a Democrat, several ques- tions. He intimated that Kunz and Judge Edmund A. Jarecki, who supervised a vote recount showing the Democrat had a majority, were “too friendly.” “You're a liar,” Kunz shouted. Representative McDuffie, Democrat, of Alabama, interrupted to remark that the committee would not tolerate “ethics of gangland” and that both men should restrain their feelings. Representative Willlams, Democrat, of Texas, suggested the contestee and contestant possibly should leave the committee room, but the hearing ended before his suggestion was put to a vote. A decision may be made tomorrow. Radio BEARRAD CHARGED AFTER WARNNG 10 SCP PIPE LINE |Standard 0il and Doherty | Named in Statement Read at Hearing. | | } A broad investigaticn of stock mar- ket operations was ordered today by the Senate, the resolution of inquiry being approved without opposition and without a record vote. A fund of $50,000 was made available for the investigation, which will begin early next week. The Banking Sub- committee, headed by Senator Norbeck, Republican, of South Dakota, will in- quire into both buying and selling operations. Approval of the inquiry came shortly after a House judiclary subcommittee heard a statement by Frank P. Parish, president of the Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co., that a 100,000-share order had | proved insufficient to support his com- pany's stock in June, 1930, “in the face of an attack by Standard Oil and (Henry L.) Doherty.” The statement was presented by Representative Greg- ory, Democrat, of Kentucky. The Parish statement said a bear raid | had occurred after his company began | construction of a 1,200-mile natural gas | pipe line system between the Texas Panhandle and Indiana, and was en- deavoring to secure the necessary financing through common stock. It said that L. Fischer, vice president | of the North American Light & Power | Co., told him in Chicago on June 14, 1930, that unless the proposed line was abandoned, the stock would be raided on June 16. Personal Threat Alleged. “Mr. Fischer said that unless I would abandon the Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. project and cause that company to sell all of its gas reserves to the Stand- ard Oil Co. of New Jersey, and all of | our pipe lines and pipe contracts and construction contracts to H. L. Doherty & Co., the market on Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. stock would be attacked and raided on June 16; that I would be bankrupt and thoroughly discredited, and that if I showed opposition I would even be attacked personally and slan- dered and my family attacked; * * * that I was not capable of bucking such powerful interests as Standard Oil of New Jersey and Doherty.” Earlier at the hearing, the assaults on short selling were explained by Joseph S. Lawrence, an editor of World's ‘Work, as efforts to find “a p}l\uible ex- planation for the depression.” “Excited citizens point to short sell- ing even as an earlier age in periods of adversity sought for witches and ma- gicians,” he said. “It provides a satis- fying scapegoat for these who have lost during the past two years and is a zrand alibi; it is a balm for the wounded | vanity of those whose market judgment has been in error.” BABY’S SAFE RETURN ONLY DEMAND MADE IN PARENTS’ APPEAL 'Note Promises They Will to Those Who Bring No Injury Attempt Child to Them. OFFICIALS QUESTION NURSE WHO DISCOVERED ABDUCTION Police Also Turn to Detroit as All Clues to Crime Fail—Mysterious Call Asks for Immunity By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J., March 4—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh issued an appeal direct to the kidnapers of their baby today, assur- ing the criminals that entire confidence might be placed “in any promise we may make.” The appeal, made jointly by the colonel and his wife, was issued through the office of Gov. A. Harry Moore. It was given to the press in the hope the kidnapers would read it and immediately open nego- tiations for return of the baby. ‘The appeal follows: “Mrs. Lindbergh and I desire to make personal contact with the kidnapers of our child. Our only interest is in his immediate and safe return. We feel certain that the kidnapers will realize that this interest is strong enough to justify them in having complete confidence and trust in any promise that we may make in connec- tion with his return. We urge those who have the child to send any representatives that they desire, to meet a representative of ours who will be suitable to them, at any time and at any place that they may™ designate. “If this is accepted, we promise that we will keep whatever ar- rangements that may be made by their representative and ours | strictly confidential and we further pledge ourselves that we will not | try to injure in any way those connected with return of the child.” The appeal was typewritten at the Lindbergh home, signed by both the colonel and his wife, and brought by hand to the Governor’'s office, where it was given to the press by John Toohey, the Gov- ernor’s secretary. Baby’s Nurse Questioned. (Copyright, 1832, by the Associated Press.) HOPEWELL, N. J., March 4—Betty Gow, the handsome young nurse of the kidnaped Lindbergh baby, was subjected to lengthy examination by police at the Lindbergh home today. It was learned that police questioned Miss Gow at length last night and started again early this morning. No statement was issued as to the nature of the questioning or as to what police hoped to develop by their protracted examination. It was Miss Gow who discovered the kidnaping when she went into the Lindbergh nursery at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday night. put the baby to bed at 7:30. She had When the baby, who had been ill with a cold, was put to bed Mrs. Lindbergh started to follow the usual procedure of opening the nursery windows and closing and fastening the wooden shutters. She found, however, that one of the shutters was so warped that it would not close. This shutter was, therefore, left open and through that unguarded window child. HOOVER ASKED FOR ENYOY AT KIDNAP PARLEY By the Assoclated Press. TRENTON, N. J., March 4—Gov. A. Harry Moore today sent a telegram to President Hoover inviting him to send a representative to a conference on the Lindbergh kidnap case in the Governor's office tomorrow. The telegram read: - “Will you kindly send representative Department of Justice to attend confer- ence at my office in Trenton tomorrow at 11 o’clock of police officials of leading American cities covering co-ordinated efforts to apprehend abductors of Lind- bergh baby?"” The following telegram was sent to the mayors of Newark, Jersey City, Buf- falo, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Cin- cinnati, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Phila- delphia and New York: “Entire country shocked at kidnap- ing Lindbergh baby. Imperative that co-ordinated efforts be made to appre- hend abductors and restore child. Have called conference at my office at the State House in Trenton for tomorrow (Saturday) at 11 o'lock of police offi- cials of leading American cities. “Regard it as plain duty of every one to co-operate. I earnestly urge you to send a representative of your depart- ment best qualified to assist. Signed, A Harry Jersey.” Moore, Governor of New By the Associated Press. HOP N. J., March 4—The kidnaping of 20-months-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jr., shocked the Nation and shocked Hopewell, too. but 2 boom's a boom and Hopewell has it. OVl ulated overnight, the tiny town has hiked the rates, or, rather, is hiking the rates, for every trainload of newspaper reporters arriving from premium on the prices. Ham and eggs, once 30 cents, now 75 cents. Hotel rooms, $5, take it or Taxicab fare—how much have you got? Even the bootleggers have the spirit and applejack is going up where ex- Ppense accounts won't stretch. of permanent residents around today and watched the feverish activity of police and report. usiness recalled Shelby, Helen: Placid with their “one night 9 = CROWDS DRAWN BY KIDNAPING *BOOM” TOWN OF HOPEWELL Crime in Lindbergh Home Reacts in High Prices for Little Community’s Business Houses. Philadelphia or New York places new |seeking The telephone operator, who had to cope single-handed with the deluge of long-distance calls Wednesday, slept through yesterday. Two new operators n added and telephone calls were going through well with the addi- tion of four new trunk lines. Streams of autos ran through the town. They were loaded with curious a glimpse of the scene of the crime. Despite the inability of any of them to get past the gate of the Lind- bergh estate, a mile from the house, the cars kept coming along the steep, winding mountain road in ever in- creasing numbers. Folks in the outl: section were cautions, as one New York photogra- pher who knocked at a farm house door at night to inquire his way learned. The farmer met him at the door with the kidnaper entered to steal the Regarded One of Family. Miss Gow, a pretty, black-haired woman with a cheerful, smiling face and the springy step of an athlete, was selected for the position by Elizabeth Morrow, Mrs. Lindbergh's sister. Miss Morrow is an educational ex- pert who runs a school of her own in Englewood, and she spent considerable time in choosing the person she thought best suited for her nephew’s nurse. Miss Gow has probably seen much more of the baby than has its mother because of Mrs. Lindbergh’s many ab- | sences from home with her fiying hus- band. The child was said to be very fond of her. The young woman was considered by the Lindberghs almost as & member of the family instead of as_a servant. Since the baby was kidnaped she has been Mrs. Lindbergh’'s constant com- panion. A hundred clues and half-clues in the kidnaping case paraded today be- neath the careful magnifying glass of the police—and ‘one by one wilted under its burning focus. Clues Avail Nothing. Letters, threats, phone calls and telegrams, all pretending to be highly important—some pretending, indeed, to be from the kidnapers themselves— (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) FILIPINO IND.EPENDENCE BILL GIVEN APPROVAL House Committee Acts on Measure Granting Islands Freedom in 7 to 9 Years. By the Associated Press. The House Insular Affairs Committee today approved a bill intended to give the Philippine Islands complete inde- pendence in seven to nine years. Chairman Hare explained the meas- ure as finally accepted by the committee would require the United States to maintain sovereignty over the Philip- pines five years after they had estab- lished a new government. “They tell us it would take from two to four years to get the new government in operation,” Hare said. “That woald let the islands become independent in from seven to nine years.” ICE FLOES SEEN BY SHIPS Large Bergs Reported Off Grand Banks by Liner Captain. NEW YORK, March 4 (#).—Large ice floes in the North Atlantic off the Grand Banks, which he interpreted to indicate an early Spring in Greenland and Labrador, were reported by Capt. Theodore Buch of the liner Deutsch- land, on his arrival here 3 Capt. Buch said he encountered the ice floes on Tuesday as he was turning down from the Grand Banks, about 1,000 miles from New York. He said he sighted a number of “growlers,” or small icebergs, to the north of the o pistol in his hand. *His wife stood| behind him with s double-barreled S S, ship's course. The report was the first received this Winter of ice fices in the -y