Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1932, Page 1

WEAT (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight; tomorrow cloudy, contin- ued cold; lowest temperature tonight about 20 degrees; moderate winds, mostly west and northwesf Highest, 27, at 3 p.m. 18, at 7 a. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 . today. Pull report on page 9. HER. t. Temperatures: . yesterday; lowest, ch ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny B tar. The “From Press to Home Within an Hour” Star’s carrier every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. system covers Yesterday’s Circulation, 124.738 No. 32,088 ol i e Entered as second class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1932—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. #%#% () Means Associated Pr TWO CENTS. PRESIDENT FAVORS CURTAILING WORK OF DEPARTMENTS 10 CUT EXPENSES Hoover Takes Position Little Else Remains to Reduce Cost of Conducting Govern- ment Business. PREVIOUS ECONOMIES CITED IN STATEMENT Executive Says Ways and Means Committee Requires Further Sav- ings in Budget Amounting to $125,000.000 in Order to Balance Figures for Year. President Hoover took the posi- tion today that the best remain- ing means of slicing Federal ex- penses is for Congress to help cut down or suspend duties and functions of various Government branches. In stating this today at his bi- weekly press conference, President Hoover said the administration officials were co-operating with the Special Economy Committee of the House in a general drive to cut down expenses and bring about further economies so as to make the. budget balance. Other Means Sought. Due to the trimming of the budget for the next fiscal year resorted to by the Budget Bureau and subsequently by the House Appropriations Commit- tee, there is very little left to be cut. Therefore ways and means of effect- ing further economies are now being | studied. “You will recollect,” Mr. Hoover ex- plained, “that the budget sent to Con- gress represented reductions in expen- ditures for the next fiscal year of about $365,000,000 below the present fiscal year. The House Appropriations Com- mittee has reduced the amounts of bills so far reported out by about $112,000,000. Of this, however, between 60 and 70 million dollars is a defer- ment until Congress meets next De- cember when they will be compelled to meet positive obligations by de- ficiency bills. To this extent, there- fore, the reductions do not help next year's expenditures. “In order to meet the requirements of the Ways and Means Committee,” Hoover continued to explain, “that e must be reduced by $125.- 000,000 in order to balance the budget, it is necessary that further cuts be made. There is very little room left for reductions by administrative action and the House Appropriations Commit- tee has passed upon the major supply | bills except the Army and Navy. Fur- ther economies must be brought about by authorization of Congress, either by reorganization of the Federal machinery or change in the legal requirements as to expenditure by the various services. Economies Recommended. Plane to Drop Food To Beaconkeeper Marooned by Snow By the Assoclated Press NEW YORK, March 8.—The United Airlines' noon plane from Newark to Chicago was loaded with a 50-pound bag of food to- day to be dropped on Ring Mountain in_the Alleghenies, where Morris Williams, keeper of a beacon, is marooned by the storm without supplies. Pilot C. W. Hudson will guide the plane while co-pilot Paul Norman drops the bag out the door. The beacon is three or four miles trom Ringtown, between Allentown and Sunbury, Pa. FEDERAL AGENTS SEIZE SUSPECT IN Secret Raid Conducted at Home of Reputed Anarch- ist in Chicago. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 8.—Federal officers captured a man today who was believed by them to have dispatched the bombs that killed two postal clerks at Easton, Pa, and menaced the lives of many prominent Italians last December 31. Cloaking their movements with secrecy, the Federal agents rushed to the home of Columbo Boris, alias Joan- nis Bori, reputed anarchist. They said they had information Boris was back of the plot that terrorized Italian consulates and friends of Fascist Ttaly throughout the country. Squads of immigation agents, police and other Federal officers raided the man’'s home while he was held, sup- posedly at the Immigration Bureau. ‘They hoped to make other arrests and obtain clues to possible confed- erates. Bond of $100,000 was understood to have been set by the Secretary of La- bor for his release. ‘Two trunkloads of dynamite, nitro- glycerine and bombing paraphernalia and anarchistic literature were seized by postal and labor officials. JAPANESE LOSSES ARE PUT AT 2,769 Figures Cover September 18, 1931, to February 29, 1932, Omitting Navy Casualties. By the Associated Press. ‘TOKIO. March 8 —Figures released by the war office said the price of the Japanese army’'s campaign in Manchur- ia and Shanghal between September 18, 1931, and Februarv 29, 1932, inclusive, was 565 dead and 2,204 wounded. These figures did not include the several hundred casualties of navy at Shanghai nor the dead and wound- ed in the army's last three days of heavy fighting in the Shanghai region. The Manchurian campaign cost 25 officers and 352 men dead, and 50 of- ficers and 767 men wounded, with total casualties at 1,194. Casualties at Shanghai included 14 officers and 174 men dead and 52 of- ficers and 1,335 men wounded, a total “The director of Veterans' affairs | has proposed to the special House Com- mittee on economy changes in the laws relating to pensions and other allow- | ances which would produce economies | of between $50.000,000 and $60.000,000 | per annum. The Postmaster General | is placing before the committee changes in the legal requirements of post office expenditures. The Secretary of Agri- culture has suggested changes in the law requiring expenditures in the De- | partment of Agriculture, and the other | departments are engaged in prepara- tion of similar drastic recommenda- tions. “1 believe the Committee on Economy through administrative reorganization jand such methods as I have mentioned will be able to find a large area of leconomy “Nothing is more important,” Mr. Hoover declared with emphasis, “than balancing the budget with the least in- crease in taxes. The Fede:al Govern- ment should be in such po increase the public debt, after the be- ginning of the next fiscal year, July 1. That is vital to the still further pro- motion of employment and agriculture. It gives positive assurance to business and industry that the Government will Kkeep out of the money market and al- low industry and agriculture to borrow the moneys required for the conduct of busiress. I cannot overemphasize the importance of the able non-partisan effort being made by the Ways and Means Committee and the Economy Committee of the House, whose work are complementary to each other.” 13 PERSONS IN BUS MAROONED IN SNOW Made for Planes to Drop Food to Cars in Wintry Trap. ( Arrangements By the Asso BATAVIA, N. Y., March 8. —Thirteen passengers on two Katavia-Rochester [busses were marooned in deep snow- drifts near Bergen, 16 miles east of here, today. The busses stuck in the drifts about 6 o'clock last night and the passengers spent the night in them. Officials of the Blue Bus Co. said there was little hope of freeing the [busses today. One bus left Rochester for Buffalo about noon yesterday, while st about the same time the other bus Pleft Batavia for Rochester. Arrangements were made today for n airplane to fly over the spot and op food to the marooned passengers. e Leroy Airport is only 3 or 4 miles' distant across country but the high wind pf the past 24 hours has drifted the gnow to a depth which would make it most impossible for the passengers to of 1,575 casualties. CAPT. RUMBOLD, ARTIST | Brother of British Envoy to Berlin | Will Be Married to Play- wright Saturday. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, March 8—Miss Zoe wright, and Capt. Hugo Rumbold, artist and Ambassador in Berlin, filed notice yes- terday of intention to wed, They said the ceremony will be performed Satu:- day in Pasadena, where Miss Akins lives. It will be the first marriage for each. Miss Akins gave her age as 40. Capt. Rumbold said he was 48 and gave his address as 85 Carlisle Mansions, Lon- don. Miss Akins is the daughter of Thomas J. Akins, former St. Louis post- master. The romance began eight years ago in England, where the couple met while Capt. Rumbold was directing a show. It was revived a few years later in New York. A few months ago Capt. Rum- bold came to Hollywood, where Miss Akins has been writing screen plays for Paramount studio. Polish Archbishop Dies. VILNA, Poland, March 8 (®).— Archbishop Ladislaw Bandurski died | vesterday of a heart attack. He was 69 years old. EASTON BOMBING 31 AE ARESTED N ROT KILLING 4 ATFORDPLANT Communist Leaders and Labhor Agitators Sought. Face Homicide Charge. MANY SHOTS ARE FIRED AS WATER AND GAS FAIL Scores Injured in Storming Dear- born Factory—Militia in Readi- ness for Renewed Attacks. | By the Associated Press. | DETROIT, March 8—Thirty-one persons were under arrest today while State, city and Federal officers sought the men believed by them to have in- | stigated yesterday's rioting in which | four were killed at the gates of the Ford Motor Co.'s River Rouge Factory. Several score of persons were injured Five known Communist leaders and labor agitators were sought. They in- | cluded William Z. Foster, national head | of the Communist Party of the United | states; William Reynolds, former Com- munist candidate for mayor of the sub- urb of Lincoln Park; Jhon Schimes, for- mer Communist candidate for mayor of Detroit, and Albert Goetz and John | Pace, said by police to be agitators. | Foster delivered an address at a | meeting Sunday at which plans for the | march to the Ford factory are be- | lieved to have been made. Schimes recently was arrested by the Detroit police for leading a demonstration at the City Hall. Reynolds served a jail | term last Fall for participating in & riot in Lincoln Park. Goetz and Pace have been active in starting riots, the police said. The authorities today contemplated the issuance of warrants charging homicide, assault with intent to Kkill und felonjous assault in connection with the disorder. The bringing of charges of criminal syndicalism under | the Michigan law also was contem- | plated. Ford Company Statement, An official of the Ford compan™ to- day issued the following statement con- cerning the riot: | "“It is not up to the Ford organiza- | tion to explain the disorder, it's up to | Detroit. “If Detroit wants an explanation of | such demonstrations as that just ended, | Detroit should look to the leaders who recruited the rioters and the source from which their men were drawn. There were no Ford men in the mob, and we have learned that the number of former Ford men was negligible, if there were any.” Carl Brooks, chief of the Dearborn police, today criticized the Detroit po- lice for allowing the marchers to pro- ceed without interference to the Dear- Brooks was ill at | ‘l.(btmen stood by without making a move to stop the marchers from com- | ing into Dearborn,” he sald. “My men | were thoroughly justified in shooting, | because they did so for their own pro- | tection, after everything else had | failed.” | Detroit authoriites said the parade was permitted under the police depart- ment’s policy of granting such privi- leges to any group that requests them | In the morgue, in jail and in hospitals | were victims of the bitter battle that developed late yesterday when unem- oloyment demonstrators marched on the | MISS ZOE AKINS TO WED | piant. Four Shot to Death. | Four men, marchers or bystanders, | were shot to death and several score of persons—including Harry H. Ben- nett, chief of the Ford service depart- men (private police), and eight other officers—were injured before the dem- onstrators, carlier victorious over a smaller number of Dearborn police, were | repulsed at the gates of the factory. |~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) TWO FIREMEN MISSING, FIVE HURT IN OHI0 BLAZE Trapped Under Falling Wall as | 200,000 Damage Is Done in Portsmouth. By the Associated Press. PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, March 8—Two firemen are missing and five others are in a hospital suffering from injuries re- celved early today while fighting a fire in the business district that caused damage estimated at $200,000. The missing and injured firemen were trapped under a falling wall. Neither the missing nor injured were immedi- nu;;y Xdenlldfivd ampered by subfreezing tempera- tures, the firemen experienced. consid- erable difficulty in controlling _the flames, which destroyed the Distel Fur- niture Co., the largest store of its kind in Portsmouth: the Weber Shoe Store and the Brown Derby Lunch Room. | == al ¥ i | I1¢'s $100.00 in gold win be p a why hoarding was stopped. best letter. THER THE WAR AGAINST CREDIT. Names will be kept confidential Address all communications to Evening Star. Ik across the fields to the airport. State troopers reported the passengers re not suffering from the cold. Troop- o1 and the bus drivers carried gasoline )m a nearby station last night and kept the bus motors operating, thereby e g heat to the interior of the HELP THE CAUSE ALONG—TELL OF YOUR EXPERIENCES—ACT NOW! A Have Y ou Stopped Hoarding? YOU SHOULD DO SO! Patriotic D. C. citizen who has returned his or her money to normal chan- nels and who will write the best 100-word account of the reasons $50.00 in gold winl be paid to the writer of the second Duty.’ ald by The Evening Star to the $25.00 in gold will be paid to the resident of the District of Columbia who writes the third best letter. WRITE AND TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO FUR- IDLE DOLLARS AND FROZEN until the victors are announced. the Anti-Hoarding Editor of The | | PRIMA RY SPORT IN NEW HAME *SHIRE. ASK 275 BEER TAX TOREDUCE BURDEN House Minority Demands Levy Calculated to Raise $350,000,000 Revenue. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. A minority report from the House Ways and Means Committee demand- ing a tax on 2.75 per cent beer, calcu- was filed today by Representative Thomas A. Cullen of New York, Repre- sentative Christopher D. Sullivan, also of New York, and Representative John W. McCormack of Massachusetts. ‘This minority report agrees that the Ways and Means Committee was wise in undertaking to frame a bill calcu- lated to wipe out the Treasury deficit at the close of the fiscal year 1933. It urges, however, that taxes on beer would relieve the people and industry from s good part of the burden imj by tax bills as reported by the Ways Means Committee to the House. The members of the Ways and Means Committee supporting the beer amend- ment sought to have it included while the bill was still in the hands of the committee. Their proposal was defeat- ed, however, last Saturday by a vote of 21 to 6 in the committee. Says Burden Would Be Cut. “If a new source of revenue could be discovered,” said the minority report submitted today, “the extent to which it would bring revenue into the Treasury would cperate to reduce the burden im- posed upon the people and upon indus- try in the bill as reported. “It is about time that the taxpayers | realized that a modification of the Vol- stead act permitting the manufacture and sale of beer would not only bring greater respect for law and order; not only yeduce crime and corruption; not only {)ring about an elevation of moral | and social conditions, and assure em- | ployment to hundreds of thousands of the unemployed, but would bring into the Federal Treasury revenue approxi- mating $350,000,000, without regard to | income in corporations’ taxes, and with- | out regard to the revenue that would flow to the Federal States and their subdivisions.” i The report said some persons have estimated that such a tax would pro- | duce for the Treasury & sum In excess | of $450,000,000. “It is our intention,” the report con- tinued, “to propose an amendment to | the bill reported, making legal the | (Continued on Page 4, Column 5) MT. VE}iNON BOULEVARD WORKER ELECTROCUTED | Grasps Live Wire While Working on Steam Shovel Near Four-Mile Run. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 —Grasp- | ing & live wire while working on the Mount Vernon Boulevard near Four- mile run, Sam Arve, 28, an employe of the Grier & Lowrence Contracting Co. was almost instantly killed shortly after noon today. | The Potomac rescue squad and am- | bulance responded to the call and car- ried the man to the Alexandria Hos- pital. He was pronounced dead there. Arve was employed as a greaser on a mechanical shovel being used in land- scaping of the boulevard between here | and Washington. from Westminster, S. C. H The accident happened when Arve was attempting to connect an electric wire with the mechanical shovel on | which he was working. STUDENT KILLS FATHER, WIFE, MAIDS AND SELF Goes to Party After Three Mur- ders—Police Believe Young Man Insane. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 8.— | Prederick von Sydow, a young law| student, committed suicide today after his father, his wife and two His father, Hjalmer von Sydow, was a well known figure in Sw indus trial circles. The young man battered his father and the two maid servants to death at his father's home and then went with his wife to Upsala and joined a festive mty of his fellow students. After the ies were found at Stockholm a de- tective was sent to Upsals. When the detective arrived the young man shot | his wife dead with a revolver and theu turned the gun on himself. He was be- | lieved to have been insabe, 2 lated to raise $350,000,000 in revenue, | He is believed to be | ~ Describing Chilean Laborers as Lazy, American Deported By the Associated Press. ANTOFAGASTA, Chile, March 8.—A. L. Randall, said to be & former resident of Los Angeles, Calif, was deported from Chile today on a charge of having written for a university publica- tion in Los Angeles an article derogatory to the Chiiean work- man. He was taken under guard from the nitrate plant where he was employed to the steamer Santa Olivia. Police said he had been threatened with lynching. The offending article, which was reprinted by a Chilean news- paper, charged the Chilean was | the laziest workman on earth and that Randall's work was so | dangerous he had to carry a revolver all the time. DRIVE ON HOARDING MEETS RESPONSES itizens’ Associations Voice Approval—Idie Dollars Begin to Emerge. | Hbarded dollars began to crawl out of | safe-deposit boxes, from under the mattress and out of the old “sock™ today to help pull the “prosperity wagon" out | of the muck of depression as the Presi- | dent’s anti-hoarding campaign swung into more accelerated action in the Na- tional Capital. Reports from many sources indicated | that confidence was returning to people who previously had withdrawn their money from investments, or from banks, and that this idle money was being put into the new “baby bonds,” issued by the Government, and into banks. Approved by Citizens. Several citizens' associations last night approved the anti-hoarding campaign, and it was expected that many more organizations throughout the city meet- ing within the next few days would add their indorsement. The Federation of Citizens' Associations has recommended | to its delegates to carry the anti-hoard- ing message back to all constituent i Most of the associations meet y the month. Substantial results are expected from this source. Purchase of baby bonds by hoarded money was reported by letters received by The Star in its letter-writing con- test on anti-hoarding. This was inter- preted as an indication of much more activity in this direction, which will come to notice later. Three speakers were listed to go on | the air tonight in the local radio cam- | paign to stir up confidence and rouse from their lethargy tne idle hoarded dollars, The speakers will be Samuel H. Kauffmann, at 7:15 o'clock over WOL: Newbold Noyes, chairman of the local Anti-Hoarding _Committee, at 7:30 o'clock from WMAL, and Edward F. Colladay, over WRC at 7:45. Lasl night's radio address was by H. L. Rust, jr., who spoke from station WJSV. Improvement Noted. Definite indications of improvement throughout the country already came irom the Federal Reserve Board in its weekly statement, which showed the first increase in bank deposits in sev- eral months. The statement of the weekly condi- tion of reporting member banks in (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) RAIL LABOR TO MAP POLITICAL COURSE Representatives of 1,500,000 Or- ganized Workers to Meet Here March 15. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, March 8.—Representa- tives of 1,500,000 organized railroad | workers will meet in Washington March 15 to determine their political course in the coming primary elections. David B. Robertson, president of the Railway Labor Executives’ Association, announced today he had called a con- ference of the association, which is of the heads of 21 railroad loyes' organizations. Robertson also is president of the Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Firemen and Enginemen. It was the executives' association that represented railroad workers in the re- c°nt negotiations with their employers Al Chicago which resulted in a 10 per cent wage cut, SIB00000LOM BY FIMANCE BODY Corporation Announces Total Given Bank, Railroads and Agriculture. | By the Associated Press. | The Reconstruction Finance Corpora- | tion has loaned a total of $183,000,000 to banks, railroads and agricultural | credit corporations. A total of $61,800,000 has been loaned to banks and building and loan associa- tions. Two hundred and fifty-five different | institutions of this nature have been | aided, it was disclosed toduy, the great- er majority of them being country | banks. ‘The corporation has loaned $47,000,- 000 to railroads, the greater part of which is expected to be repaid as soon as the Railroad Credit Corporation begins to function. | set up following imcreases in rates by | the Interstate Commerce Commission | as a pool through which the stronger railroads would assist the weaker ones. Agriculture has been allocated $75,- | 000,000 through the Agriculture De- | partment and Intermediate Credit Banks. TWO CENTURY PILOTS DIE IN TEST FLIGHT jrhm Other Men Injured While ; Practicing Night Landings in Middle West. | | By the Associated Press. | ST. LOUIS, March 8—Two Century Alr Lines pilots were killed and three other pilots injured when the plane in which they were practicing night land- ings crashed near the Curtiss-Stein- | bergh Airfield in East St. Louis early | today. The aviators recently were employed by the Century Air Lines, following the dismissal of other pilots by the com- pany when a salary disagreement arose. The plane struck the skeleton of an old windmill about 500 yards from the edge of the field and crashed to the ground. The dead are L. H. Atkinson, 35, and James S. Kirk, 35, both of Chicago. The injured: Ira Smalling, 33, Chicago, fractured leg; Sidney Cleveland, 34, Goldfield, Towa, cuts and bruises and shock; Theodore Graff, 29, Chicago, cuts |and bruises. The Century Lines have been operat- {ing on a daylight schedule, and had | planned to inaugurate a night sched- ule. The aviators were practicing land- ing their tri-motored ship at the Chi- cago, Springfleld and St. Louis airports. The Century Airlines recently slashed the pay of its pilots, and when they re- fused to take the cut dismissed them, hiring other fiyers, HOOVER APPOINTS VAIDEN Names Virginian to Federal Farm Loan Board. President Hoover today appointed Vullosko Vaiden of Farmville, Va., to be a member of the Federal Farm Loan Board to fill a vacancy caused by the Tecent resignation of George M. Cooksey, who has been appointed secretary to :lhe Reconstruction Finance Corpora- on. Late Star's Ex-Husband Dead. BUDAPEST, March 8 (#).—Former Judge Zoltan Szepessy, first husband of the late screen star Lya De Putti, was_found dead of a revolver shot in his hotel room here today. Police said he committed suic e because of nancial difficulties. Idle Dollars NEMPLOYED dollars mean unemployed men. Hoard- in Washington t! to do with hoarded money. Bpmhm‘: it for sound merchandise or necessary home improvements. Place it in a savings or checking account in & sound bank. Invest it in sound securities. And, final- ly, if none of these appeal, g.ur- chase the new United States baby bonds, available at any bank in Washington, which are in effect, interest-bearing dollars. LINDBERGH hold Is Still 'REPORTED VISIT SERVANTS STILL BEING PROBED, POLICE HEAD REVEALS Col. Schwartzkopf Declares In- vestigation of Colonel’s House- Incomplete. OF LAWYER HELD UNKNOWN TO OFFICIALS Interception of Mail Stopped to Allow Kidnapers Better Opportunity to Communicate With Family. BOSTON, March 8 (#.—The statements of Earle Edwards, 40, of Derry, N. H,, to a fellow train passengerr that his father- in-law, who he said was an amateur fortune teller, had divulged important clues in the Lindbergh kidnaping case, caused a flurry of excitement today. It resulted in Edwards and his newly made friend, Samuel Black, 51, of Lawrence, being taken to police headquarters for questioning. Black quoted Edwards he had sufficient funds. By the Associated Press. now resides here. they are ever arrested. By the Assoclated Press. baby a week ago today. | consultation with the Lindberghs One of the questions read: hold?” “Investigation incomplete.” New Haven Man Arrested in New Angle of Case By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn, March 8— Tony Meslo, 43, New Haven contractor, was held in $25,000 bonds today for State police investigating what they de- scribed as an entirely new angle in the Connecticut inquiry into the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby. State police, who arrested Meslo on a technical charge of idleness, declined to discuss his connection with the case, nor would they disclose what new lead they were pursuing. 5 Maj. Frank M. Nichols of the State police said information received from Meslo had centered the investigation of the new angle in Colchester. Meslo was arraigned in City Court today and the case was continued until Thursday to permit State police suffi- clent time for their investigation. State police checked a story Saturday night that a baby had been given treat- ment for a cold at a Colchester phy- (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) VESSEL IN DISTRESS IN LAKE MICHIGAN Steamer, 400 Feet Off Breakwater, Calls for Help in Severe Blizzard. By the Assoclated Press. LUDINGTON, Mich,, March 8.—The Pere Marquette passenger steamer Vir- ginia was in distress today in Lake Michigan outside the Lndington harbor in a severe blizzard. A Coast Guard lifeboat was launched to investigate the trouble. The ship was only 400 feet off the south arm of the breakwater, but, because of the driving storm, it was impossible for shore watchers to determine the nature of the trouble. Coast guards suj the ship might be aground or have lost its rudder. ‘The ship was en route from Mani- towoe, Wis. The Pere Marquette Car Ferry Co., No. 18, and the Virginia’s sister ship Nevada also steamed to the assistance of the boat. ‘The Virginia, wallowing in heavy seas, maneuvered unsuccessfully for the harbor and, when the heavy seas washed her away from the breakwater entrance, she sent out distress signals. Pere Marquette officials said the Vir- ginia had a crew of 25. She is com- manded by Capt. Andrew Coleman of Ludington. BIG GUNS AT WOOSUNG FORTS ARE DISMANTLED By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI March 3.—The big guns of the Woosung forts, targets of the shells from the Japanese warships for , will bark no more inst Japan. were dismantled the Jap- today to be shipped to Japan. All them were more or less will be exhibited in Japan as they rophies of the campaign at Shanghai as saying he would transmit the inormation to Lindbergh if Black agreed to fnance a telephone call to the Lindbergh home, and, Black said, Edwards was in the booth putting the call through when the arrests were made. NEW YORK, March 8.—William Lafferty, attorney, who was a colleague in the House of Representatives of the late Repre- sentative Charles A. Lindbergh, the kidnaped baby's grand- father, has offered $50,000 for the child’s return. Mr. Lafferty, who says he “has known Lindy since he was 8, was once a member of Congress from Portland, Oreg., and If the kidnapers will return the baby un- harmed he offers them legal defense “to the last ditch” in case HOPEWELL, N. J., March 8.—Police revealed today that they were still invastigating the possibility that some member of the Lind- bergh household was involved in the kidnaping of the Lindbergh That such investigation was still going on was acknowledged by Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf, superintendent of State police, who is in general charge of the police search for the kidnapers. In accordance with procedure established by State police a list of questions was submitted by the press this morning to Col. Schwartz- kopf at the Lindbergh home. He made his replies by telephone after or their representatives. “The refusal of State police to answer any questions pertaining to a possibility that a servant or employe in the Lindbergh home was involved in the kidnaping has created a general impression that such a theory is the most plausible now held by police. De e care to The railroad credit organization was|88y anything that will exonerate any or all members of the house- To this Col. Schwartzkopf replied: Full List of Questions. ‘The full list of questions submitted to ;:ol. Schwartzkopf and his answers fol- low: Has Arthur Garfield Hays (lawyer) been at the Lindbergh home in the past 24 hours?” Not known to the police. Has Dudley Fleld Malone (another noted lawyer) been at the Lindbergh home in the last 24 hours? Not known to the police. When did Col. Henry Bre (Col. Lindbergh’s attorney, ‘who is con- ducting a private investigation from the Lindbergh home), last arrive at the Lindbergh home and where is he now? No answer. Did Col. Lindbergh ask the State po- lice to permit a strange car to reach :il:e ?houn unmolested last night or to- Y No. Did a car from the Lindbergh home meet a train in Princeton last night or early today? Not known to the police. Has Col. Lindbergh received assur- ance the baby is safe and will be re- turned in 12 hours? Not_known to the police. Is Pat Roche, Chicago investigator, (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) M’BRIDE’S RING BELIEVED FOUND Officials Trying to Identify It as Belonging to Slain 0il Man. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star UPPER MARLBORO, Md., March 8.—Believing he has found the ring stolen from Barney McBride, wealthy Oklahoma ofl man, when he was mur- dered August 10, 1922, Deputy Sheriff Thomas H. Garrison today requested McBride’s foster daughter to come to Prince Georges County to identify “the ring. g Garrison announced he has wired Miss Alice Deer, Chicago, IIl., the fos- ter daughter, asking her to come here. Garrison said he had no assurance she would come. The deputy refuses to reveal where he obtained the ring. It is known, however, he went to a Virginia city last week in search of it. Since Garrison and Sheriff W. Curtis Hopkins renewed their investigation of the 10-year-old murder two months ago, two men have bene arrested and are now in jail at Marlboro as suspects. One of them, Hugh G. Jackson of Petersburg, Va., was scheduled to be given a hearing Thursday on a charge of m McBride, preferred by Garrison, but the hearing was post- poned today until March 18. The other prisoner is Temple Biggs of Camp Md., accused as an accessory NEW JOBLESS OFFICE Chicago Headquarters Will Cover ‘Work in 20 States. NEW YORK, March 8 ().—As the united action drive for a million jobs for the pobless approached the 200,000 mark was 170,033 yesterday, when 38 States o ported 9,452 wage earners been o work, _ 3 4