Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1932, Page 2

A—2 ¥x¥ TAX RECEIPTS DROP| ONETHRD Y YEAR Collections for Eight Months $549,686,000 Below Like Period of 1931. B the Associated Press. | By comparison with last year, Federal | tax receipts for the first eight months | ®f the current fiscal year are more | than one-third off | A drop of $540,686,000 was figured by | the Internal Revenue Bureau, of which | $515,587,000 came from decline in in-| come taxes. This left the Government’s | receipts for the neriod at $1,003,690,074. Income Taxes Slump. ! This calculstion was made as col-| Jections from the 1931 incomes, which | began to come in with the March 15! final date for returns, displayed a/ further reduction fully up to the ex-| pectations of Treasury officials, who | have expressed a belief that the total | income tax return would be the smallest in a decade. Income taxes reported so far this month were reported by the Treasury to have totaled $100,312,836, but be- cause of & change in the department’s | banking system it included one day's | more tax than in the same number of days last March. For comparative pur- s, this made it $94,000,000 less than credited in the same number of days s vear ago. For the fiscal vear, the Government has collected $758,434.178 in income tax against $1.277,685.346 in the same period of last vear. Only Two Increases. The Internal Revenue Bureau's re- | wview of all tax receipts showed in-| creases In only two important divi- sions Manufactured tobacco returned $490,557 more than the $38,562283 total during the same eight months of the 1931 fiscal year. and cigarette pa- pers brought in $1,178,452, an increase of $205,849. 1 The cigarette tax returned $211,767,- ) 796, a drop of $25.458,795, while cigars | returned $10,069,662, decrease of $2,158,801, The bureau said that tax- paid cigarettes in February had de- 1,224,000,000, as compared with | the 8,836,000,000 on which tax was paid | in February 1931. The number of cigars en which tax was paid in February was 202,000 greater than in the same month | s year ago, when they amounted to! 25,455,507, GARNER FORMALLY ASKS PASSAGE OF SALES TAX PLAN (Continued First Page.) from the meeting with a declaration that a majority of his party would sup- port the measure as it stands, but that | # Jot of Democratic votes would be peeded to win. Representative La- Guardia of New York, leader of the re- volters, pred there would be no more claims as to the number of votes available for the sales tax. indicating a belief his forces had made inroads on | the Republican regular strength. La Guardia will seek, he said, to have the estate taxes raised to compare with | the war-time surtaxes put into the bill | terday. The estate tax section of the will be reached ahead of the sales | tax. | JFoes Score Twice., | By boosting all the charges on big . his forces hope to whiitle the int which will have to be- raised By substitutes for the sales tax if they.suceeed in knocking it out. Bipartisan opponents of the sales tax scored two victories yesterday in forcing the House to accept the Swing amend- ment im, war-time surtax rates on incomes of $100,000 and more and the La Guardia proposal raising the maximum normal rates on incomes in exeess of $8,000 from 5 to 7 per cent. After the Republican conference, however, Snell said La Guardia’s pro- posals to substitute the Treasury's orig- inal program for the sales tax “is worse thap the sales tax.” “In fact, $138,000,000 of his i s retail sales tax, and $358,000,000 is for heavy excise taxes that will bring a how! from certain industries,” Snell sdded. The La Guardia amendment, open- ing yesterday's battle, is ex] to return an additional $20,000, The Bwing amendment is estimated to pro- duce anywhere from $100,000,000 to $200,000,600 and call for = 40 per cent jevy on incomes of $100,000, graduated up to 65 per cent on those of $5,000,000 and above, PROSECUTION RESTS | AT TRIAL OF TALLEY ! Detective Sergeant Accused of Un- necessary Force in Mak- ing Arrest. The prosecution rested its case today at the Police Trial Board hearing of | Cariton ~ Talley, = detective sergeant, | charged with using unnecessary force | in making an arrest. Alfred H. Lawson, a vice president of the Washington Loan & Trust Co., one | of the final witnesses. testified Raymond | Grimes, colored complainant. had been employed by his company since 1928. He sald Grimes appeared with a swol- Jen lip the day after he was arrested by Talley Emily Carter, colored, of the 1200 block of South Capitol street, at whose home Grimes visited shortly before his arrest, testified she saw him the next morning. She said he still was wear- ing a blue tie which he had worn the night before and that it contained no bloodstains. Grimes previously had testified he had been struck by Talley until his clothes became bloody. James A. O'Shea, of defense counsel, announced Talley would take the wit- ness stand later in the day. C. M. HENRY DIES; U. S. BOARD MEMBER Berved With Vocational Education Group, Representing Agriculture, for Five Years. Claude M. Henry, member of the Pederal Board for Vocational Educa- tion, died at Walter Reed Hospital last night. He had been a member of the board. representing agriculture, for the last five years. Mr. Henry had come here from Rad- field, 8. , where he had been en- ::f'd in agricultural and business pur- ts. He was & veteran of the Span- ish-American War, having served as & SRR 1 will be In Arlington National Cemetery Monday or Tuesday. Be sides his widow. he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. David Andrews, also of The number of ized workers in Japan small and it will be is v grve el U e mgtemer e %mm‘mwm. Baby Hunt Collington, Md., Storek They're on Wrong THE EVENING Irks Grocefi eeper Convinces Sleuths Trail as They Run Down Ship Clue. “Hmph,” sald C. W. Schneider at something after 4 -o'clock yesterday afternooon. came around from the rear of his very excellent gen- eral store at Collington, Md., just off Defense Highway, and found a couple of visitors cluttering up his front porch. “Hmph,” Mr. Schneider said again, mounting the steps. and deciding with expert eye that strangers were not cash customers. “What paper are you from?" Then, as the objects of the question grinned in amiable silence. Mr. Schneider declared firmly and flatly }io[ I don't know anything about that baby!"™ Whereupon he opened the door and went into the establishment where some people were craving to spend their money. The guests also entered, for they hadn't come out from Washington just to be hmphed at. They were on a mission. e How It Started. It was this way. On the morning, or some time during the day—the time doesn’t matter—of March 2. which was the day following the disappearance of the Lindbergh baby, Mrs. Alfreida Schneider, who is Mr. Schneider’s wife, sailed from Baltimore on the steamer City of Baltimore, which was bound for"Hamburg and Havre, or Havre and Hamburg With her was & 20-month-old baby. identified on the passenger list as Frances Quirbach. Sometime thereafter, some one with sleuthing tendencies noticed this on the hip record, whereupon he put two and two_together, and made 22. “The Lindbergh baby," he said “Frances is the name of a girl a boy.” some one else belittled. But a real sleuth can't be squelched by a little thing like sex not VOLSTEAD SPIES ENBRYONI BOOW Father of Enforcement Law Says He Is Out of Pol- itics to Stay. By the Associated Press. | MINNEAPOLIS, March 19.—Andrew | It was either the Lindbergh baby | and a nurse, or a baby that had been | taken from its home, and the Lindbergh | baby put in its place, the inference | being, of coufse, that neighbors wouldn't know one baby from another, and that such a_substitution would conceal the ' — kopf. whereabouts of the kidnaped child. This rumor gained limited circula- tion earlier in the week, and since then. MNMr. Schneider has had 8 H—; that is a very troubled existence, what with one question and_another. It was that that was responsible for yesterday's visitation, and while Mr. Schneider ladled out Easter eggs and | candy rabbits, in which the trade was right brisk, he explained how Mrs. Schneider had planned last vear to make a trip back to_her old home in Saarbrucken, Alsace-Lorraine, but had been unable to leave, so went this year, when the opportunity presented itself. Baby Taken Along. The Schneiders have no children, and | when the {riends in York, Pa. wanted their baby taken over, Mrs. Schneider was agreeable, which gave Frances the trip, Mrs. Schneider some publicity, and Mr. Schneider a pain in the neck to this, Mr. Schneider—" his visitors said Inquiringly as he outlined the situ- ation “Eight dollar,” time was balancing & book belonging to one of his customers. “A dollar five,” he continued in a ty-five, ninety, ninety-five, one | said Mr. Schneider, who by this | tone that was becoming slightly bored, | at the same time turning his glance toward a very fine shotgun resting at arm’s length. “Well, good-by, Mr. Schneider,” said the two would-be sleuths. HOPES OF FINDING EXPLORER GROW Italian Believes Fawcett Has Been Indian Captive for Seven Years. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, March 19.—Hope Volstead says he is proud of the law|that Col. P. H. Fawcett, British ex- which made him famous, but seeking | plorer, missing in Brazilian jungles for the presidency, to make certain that it seven years and long given up for dead, will live on, would be distasteful to him. 1 might still be found alive was further Today a one-minute presidential | revived here today by Capt. Luis Longo- boom in his behalf was flat, the victim | bardi, Italian explorer, who spent eight of a direct statement from Volstead | years in the Brazilian Matto Grosso sec- that under no consideration would he tion. consent to re-enter politics even if the| Capt. Longobardi said he thought Col. STAR, WASHINGTON JORNSON EXAMINED AT KIDNAP SCENE Sailor Taken to Lindbergh Estate—Suspect Arrested at Highland Park. (Continued From First Page,) superintendent of State police. “They are not being held in connection with ‘the case." Schkarzkop! said when Johnson ar- rived at the estate last night he was tired and so was permitted to sleep before detectives began examining him. “He is being questioned this morn- ing.” Schwarzkopf said. “His statement indicates that he had been to Hopewell several times, and it is desired to take him over the ground to verify the state- ment. His status has not changed and he is not under arrest by the New Jer- sey authorities on any charge, but is still held on a detainer lodged against him by the immigration authorities.” New Theory Investigated. Johnson, who was formerly a deck- | hand on Thomas W. Lamont's yacht, entered the police ivestigation a few days after Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jr., was stolen from his crib March 1. Detectives have asserted repeatedly ““There are a couple of other angles| there was no evidence to link him with the abduction He left his Englewood boarding house the day after the kidnaping and went in his automobile to Hartford, Conn ‘The night before he had s “date” to meet Miss Gow, but the engagement was broken. Instead of meeting her, he said, he telephoned her at Hope- well about the time the kidnapers were committing their crime. Police have explained they were holding him for d.;omllon because he came here from Sweden illegally. A new theory set detectives to work vesterday. It is that the abductors fooled pursuit by substituting the child for another. ‘The police think it possible they took the child to a family which already had one of the same age. The cus- todians of the Lindbergh infant would then have to send their own child away. That is why two detectives from Newark were in Washington last night checking pm?nrl records on the chance the child may have been sent to_a foreign country. The detectives also visited Baltimore on a tip the custodians’ real child may have been sent to Europe on the Bal- timore mail liner City of Baltimcre, which departed forn Havre the day aft- er the kidnaping. Ten children were on the ship, the line officials said, and one was about the Lindbergh baby's age Meanwhile, the pursuit of countless leads and tips went on. An alarm was sent out when some one reported he saw three men drive through Keyport, N. J, with a hole-punched box from which cries of a baby came. In Pocatello, Idaho, Ignace Blau- stein recanted his story that he drove | the automobile for the kidnapers. | the kidnaping, prohibition enforcement statute were Fawcett was a prisoner of the Bororos | Mawr, Pa. at stake. | Indians, 200 miles east of the Madeira David L. McBride of Minneapolis, su- | River. perintendent of the Minnesota Anti-Sa- | o These Indians inhabit a swampy val- loon League, a friend of Volstead, near the point where Stephan Rat- started the boom. A minute later Vol- | tin a Swiss trapper, told Arthur Abbott, stead had spiked it. | British_consul st Rio de Janeiro, this McBride, taking cognizance of & ver- | Week that he talked with Col. Fawcett X T 18. bal statement attributed to Secretary | ™5 0 Fre of War Hurley quoting him as ex-| seven vears ago to hunt traces of lost pressing the opinion a “more liberal” | civilizations, including a site= he be- | lieved was that of the Garden of Eden stand on prohibition would be taken by | Sov. oot Boen the Republican National Convention, | Several expeditions were organ expressed the belief that prohibition forces may offer a candidate of their Sought Garden of Eden. appear, most notable of which was that of George M. Dyott. search for him when he did not re-| own for President if the major parties “go wet.” Secretary Hurley in Wash- | ington subsequently said he did not mention prohibition for publication. ‘The Minneapolis superintendent went | on to say that prohibition groups could | “muster a heavy vote," and mentioned Volstead as a candidate who would | never waver in his support of prohibi- tion. Volstead, meanwhile, sat in his little | office in the St. Paul Pederal Building, | pouring over correspondence relnlni‘ to his S\ltlu as legal adviser of the Fed- | eral Government's industrial alcohol | permit division in Minnesota. Then newspaper men telephoned him to ask if he would accept the nomina- tion for President in event prohibition- | ists should offer it to him “I'm out of politics; 1 have been fo! some time and I intend to stay out, Volstead said. “I wouldn't be a candi date for President under any considera- tion, even as the representative of the drys. “But 1 guess it is nothing to worry | about,” he laughed. BOOKLOVERS HEAR FIRST OF REVIEWS' Mrs. Barbara Knight Cobb of Bosv‘ ton Opens Series of Lectures on Latest Literature. Mrs. Barbara Kaoight Cobb of Boston, well known as a book lecturer and au- thority on New England, spoke before several hundred booklovers of the Cap- ital last night at the Hotel Grafton. The lecture was the first of a series of three similar book lectures, and con- | sisted cniefly of a review of the Spring | books and their publishers. Among the " non-fictlon works to which she called attention were Ludwig Lewisohn’s “Expansion in America,” | Walter Lippman's “World Affairs,” | “Nonesich,” “Twenty Thousand Years In Sing Sing” “Once a Grand Duke,” “Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear,” “Mem- oirs of a Soldier of Fortune, Sila: Bent's “Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and others. - She read extracts from some of the newer verse collections, including “Food and Drink.” Louis Untermeyer; Arthur Guiterman’s “Song and Laughter,” and Johnny Weaver's “Trial Balance.” In up-to-dat: fiction she listed “That Girl." “Mr_Gresham and Olympus,” Megnolia Strcet.” “This Man Is My Brother” and about 50 others. Another lecture will be given at the hotel on April 19. and a third on May 24 by Mrs. Cobb, ENGINEERS TO MEET The Washington section of the Ameri- can Institute of Mining and Metal- lurgical Engineers will hold its regular meeting Thursday evening preceded by an informal stag dinner at 6:30 o'clock at 614 E street The technical session will be called | at 7:45 o'clock and following speakers Bradford. Pa. “Exploration and Pro- duction Methods in the Mayne-Dundee Gas Fleld": E. V. Kesinger, Chicago, “Construction of the Amarillo-Chicago Pipeline,” and Walter M. Rus¢ell, chief -engineer of the Washington Gas Light Co., “Mixing Natural and Manufactured Gas” and “City Distribution System.” will include the Colorado Rancher Vl{n‘ngei CANON CITY, Colo., March 19 (&) — E. J. Farmer, Moffat County, Colo., rancher, died on the gallows at the State Penitentiary here last night. The trap was sprung at 8:18 pm. and he was pronounced dead at 8:33 p.m. Farmer was convicted of slaying t fellow [{lnchefl January 8, 1931, quarrel @per a load of hay. WO in s Prank Brewster of | In 1928, after months of exploring through the jungles Dyott reported that spot where they fell had been found. Believed Held Hostage. Rattin, the Swiss trapper, who has had a long experience in the jungle, said he believed Fawcett was being held as a hostage by the Indian tribes be- tween the Tapos and Madeira Rivers, which are about 300 miles apart. He sald the explorer asked him to com- municate with Sir Ralph Spencer Paget, British Ambassador to Brazii Some features of Rattin’s story, Capt. Longobardi. said, caused him to doubt that the trapper actually saw Col. Faw- cett, but he believed Rattin heard In- ian stories, which have been current ince 1928. He said he believed these Indian tales were true. He said he was willing to accompany a searching party. NEUTRALITY NEED STRESSED IN PRESS Political News Must Give Both Sides, G. Gould Lincoln of Star | Tells G. W. U. Journalists. | “The political reporter must print the | news and must give both sides of the story,” said G. Gould Lincoln, political editor of The Evening Star, in an ad- | dress before the class in journalism at George Washington University yester- day afternoon. Mr. Lincoln told of the extent of the news field in Washington and the variety of news sources found here “With Congress, the President and the Government departments, the re- | porter has many kinds of news.” said the speaker, giving special attention to the unusual tasks of a national cam- paign year “One thing that the Washington writer has to do,” he told the students, “is to travel around the coun‘ry and study the conditions in the several States.” Mr. Lincoln discussed the candidates of both parties and predicted that much attention would be given to the pro- hibition question. He directed atten- tion to the fact that as soon as an elec- tion has been held the parties give their attention to preparing for the next elec- tion. For the newspapers. he said, the national conventions present a big job, especially where there is a real fight for the nominstion He spoke of the rules governing writ- ers in the National Capital, especially those requirements which prevent lobby- |ists from getting into the press galleries. WAIF HOLDS HER OWN IN PNEUMONIA ATTACK Social Workers Ready at Hospital to Give More Blood if Necessary. June, 18-month-old waif, was holding her own against pneumonia at Provi- dence Hospital today as social workers | stood by to necessary. | Doctors cxpect no sudden change in the next few days and base their hope of June's recovery on efforts to build up her resistance against the infection. | “one welfare worker gave her blood r & transfusion after the child be- | cime desperately ill and another is | reacly to make a similar donation should “fairly comfortable” need arise. M spent & filght last night. other transfusion | may be necessary in a few days, should | the tiny patient show of weak- ening. volunteer more blood fl’ | Col. Fawcett’s party had met death at, | the hands of the Indians ana that the| | | Two servants, who quit their jobs in Pranklin Park, J.. the day after were found and ex- plained their movements satisfactorily The servants, Paul and Katle Engsten- berg. had gone to new posts in Bryn Two persons out of a steady stream of men and women seen to enter and leave the office of Police Capt. Henry Gauthier in Jersey City were recog- nized as Jobansen Junge, friend of Johnson, and the sailor's brother, who lives in Hartford, Conn. They left after several hours. Police, however, refused to discuss the inci- Col. Fawcett went into the jungles gent or even to admit that Junge and Johnson were questioned. CLEARS BALTIMORE BABY. BALTIMORE, March 19 (#).—Sergt. Leo V. Vogelsang of the Baltimore De- tective Bureau, has reported soiving the matter which brought two Newark de- tectives to Baltimore Thursday looking for clues to the Lindbe! baby. He found out, after a day’s investi- gation, he said late last night, that a child who sailed from here on the Bal- timore Mall Line steamer City of Bal- time March 2 was Frances Quirback, the 2-year-old daughter of & butler and a maid now employed in York, Pa. It was this incident whichs led inves- tigators to Baltimore. Sergt. Vogelsang said today he re- ceived a telephone message from De- tective Strcng of Newark, furnishing him with additional information re- garding the Baltimore angle of the kid- paping case and asking him to run down all possible leads. Jonn Hoffman, chef of an exclusive Baltimore club, was questioned last night by detectives here ‘n connection with two couples being investigated in the Lindbergh kidnaping case. The detectives made it clear that Hoffman was not questioned concerning the kid- naping, but merely concerning the background of the couples, friends of his for a number of years ESCAPED FROM ASYLUM. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 19 (#)— A man named Ignace Blaustein escaped from_the Columbus State Hospital for the Insane on February 13. 1930, offi- cials at the institution said late yes- terday. Blaustein, who registered as from Brooklyn, N. Y. was admitted to the hospital December 23. 1920. He was registered as “a simple case of demen- tia praecox.” The officlals said the State of Ohio attempted to send the man to New York. but the authorities of that State refused to receive him because he had not been a resident of New York State for more than a year. ROYAL THREAT DENIED. Scotland Yard Knows Nothing of Kid- nap Report. LONDON, March 19 (#)—Police officials at Scotland Yard said today they knew nothing of any threat to kidnap the Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret Rose, infant daughters of the Duke and Duchess of York. Re- ports published in the United States said such @ threat had been received. There always is a detective in the vicinity of the duke's houge, but Scot- land Yard denied reports that the guard had been increased or that an increase was contemplated FRESHMEN BARRED SWARTHMORE, Pa.. March 19 (#)— Freshmen are barred from sororities at Swarthmore College under a ruling made yesterday by a committee of stu- dents, faculty and alumnae, and each sorority is limited to one formal dance a season instead of two. Complaints had been made that the sororities dominated the social activ- ities of the campus, and the new regu- lations are designed to reduce the domi- nation. Freshmen were barred as sorority members on the theory that they then would make friendships which would last throughout their college career r gardless of future sorority connections, SPEAKS IN SYNAGOGUE An address by Henry A. Alexander, Atlanta attorney and past president of Grand Lodge No. 5 B'nai Brith, marked special services in the Sixth Street Synagogue last night. 1 Alexander discussed the patriotie, fra. ternal and social activities of the crfixmthn. legates to the Grand Lodge con- vention, which opens in the Willard Hotel tomorrow, have been arrivi n and more than 500 are expected to on hand for the convention. . D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1932 Executed Murderer and His Victims “BLUEBEARD” CONFESSES SLAYING FIVE BEFORE HE . shown above (center) with police. and her three children. odicals. dren, shown below, are, The bodies were found buried near a specially constructed left to right: Annabelle, Greta and Harry Eicher. ARRY F. POWERS, 45, alias Cornelius O. Pierson, modern-day “Bluebeard, He confessed killing Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher (lower right) of Park Ridge, Ill., He also confessed slaying of Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lempke (upper right) of Northboro, Mass. He lured his victims to his home near Clarksburg, W. Va., through advertisements in matrimonial peri- GOES TO GALLOWS. " who died on the gallows last night, is arage” on his property. The slain chil- —A. P. Photos. BRIDGE OPENED DESPITE “PLOT" TO THROW PREMIER TO SHARKS Sydney Policeman Rushes Forward and: Cuts Ribbon With Sword as Official | ' Disregards Warning A By the Associated Press. SYDNEY, New South Wales, March 19—The new Sydney Harbor Bridge, | said to be the largest in the world. was opened today a little prematurely by a policeman who cut the official ribbon | after hearing of a plot to throw Pre- | arks in the :\1,5‘; AT e 050 shes | by Mayor James J. Walker of New | Mr. Lang, prime minister of New | YOrk. | Bouth Wales disregarded o warning | Pageant Enacted on Bridge. | PP gl | There was a great din of whistles, | the span, which is 175 feet above the [ [TIere W8S 0 Ereet el water, and appeared to perform the | | opening ceremonies, lywith an inaugural pageant which was | enacted on the bridge to the strains of Policeman Dashes Forward. a tune, “Advance Australia Fair,” and | As he was about to snip the ribbon a fanfare of trumpets. | Archbishop Kelly drove across the' | at one end of the huge structure, & pridge in an automobile yesterday be- | mounted policeman dashed forward | fore leaving for the Eucharistic Con- | which is opposed to the premier's Socialist policies. At the other end of the bridge the mayor of North Sydney cut bbon with scissors used for the ina tion of the Kill Van Kull Bridge between | Staten Island, New York, and Bayonne, N. J.. which was sent for the purpose | and severed it with his sword. Fellow | officers dragged the policeman from | nis_horse and the ceremony proceeded. | from A. C. Willis, agent general from New South Wales in London, who said that the plot was hatched by the Australian “New Guard,” an organiza- gress at Dublin, stopped in the middle and blessed the structure. The bridge is a large single-arch | with abutment towers of Australian | granite. It is designed to carry a load | |of 10,000 tons, with a capacity of 80| | trains, 6,000 other vehicles and 40,000 | tion of workmen:and war veterans pedestrians per hour. G. 0. P. LEADERSHIP Maryland Executive Asks for End of Political Sidestepping and Buncombe. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, March 18.—What Amer- ica needs, Gov. is a “mobilization of the constructive brains and energy of the country and ping and buncombe." Speaking over a radio network for the Democratic victory fund campaign, the Governor devoted much of his ad- dress to a criticism of the Republican administration and the “misrepresenta- tion and false promises that came like an avalanche out of Republican head- quarters” during the Hoover-Smith campaign. After summarizing the unemployment and general economic situations, he added: “All the while the Republican admin- istration at Washington, its vaunted patent on prosperity gone, closed its eyes to the crisis, even after the crisis was here; murmured sweet the Nation's business to an alarmed populace; issued inflationary statements which intensified the crash; promised an early recovery when the worst was still to come; erected tariff barriers which heightened the collapse, and blamed our troubles on people across the sea, * ¢ * “Why should we stand supinely by while the Federal Government builds up a huge Federal bureaucracy, with its red tape and incompetence, its waste and extravagance, its downright en- croachments on the duties and func- tions of the States, its excursions into the domain of private business and in- itiative, and Its amazing increase in the army of tax-fed office holders?” ol LEGAL VALUE OF PESO SUSPENDED BY CHILE Government Submits Law Freeing Foreign Exchange Market Form Restrictions. BY the Assoclated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, March 19.—The government sent to Congress last night a proposed law suspending the conver- slon of currency, freeing the foreign exchange market from rigid restrictions now in force and allowing the peso to seek its natural level in the open market. Chile has been virtually off the gold standard for six months, as the peso could not be converted into gold, but until now the peso has been maintained at an official par value of about eight to the dollar. By its measure last night the gov- ernment abandoned the experiment of regulating the monetary yalue. The legal value of the peso would be merely suspended, rather than abandoned. British capital to the tune of a half billion dol] lars is said to be largely r sponsible for the making of the of today. Albert C. Ritchie of | Maryland said in an address last night, | a_demobilization of political side-step- | nothings | about the fundamental soundness of | GOV. RITCHIE SCORES |RAIL NEEDS FOUND | BELOW ESTIMATES ‘ AFTER CONFERENCE __(Continued From Pirst Page.) | great trustee institutions of the United | | States, which are, he pointed out, in fact the property of the entire B,eople.‘ He stated that the co-ordination of programs and policies has been ar-| rived at by the Government and the| railroad agencies to effect these results. | President’s ShismenL | The President’s statement on the | railroad problem follows in full: “I have held & number of conferences | | for survey of the railway situation and | for determination of general policies |in respect to the railroads. The ele- | ments in these conferences are the |directors and heads of staff of the| | Reconstruction Finance Corporation, | | members of the Interstate Commerce | | Commission dealing with these prob- | lems, and representatives of the Rail- | way_Credit Corporation. “Examination of the financial prob- | lem confronting the railroads shows that it is of smaller dimensions than has been generally believed or reported. It is estimated that the financial neces- sities of the important railways of the country which are likely to require aid in meeting the interest and renewal of their maturing securities, and in meet- | ing_other obligations during 1932, will be from $300,000,000 to $400,000,000. Of | this amount the Railway Credit Cor-| poration will provide a minimum of | | from $50,000,000 to $60,000,000, and it | | is assumed that many bank loans will | be continued in the normal way. There- fore, recourse to the Reconstruction | Corporation by the rallroads will be | much less than was originally thought. |and even the mentioned amounts will | | be diminished by revival of the bond | market and the placing of bond re- | newals in normal fashion. To Be Handled as Whole. “The problem is to handle the sit-| uation as a whole, so as to lay the foundations for the restored employ- ment on the rallways, and through| their purchase of supplies, and at the | | same ‘time to establish confidence in the security of the bonds which are| the reliance of great trustee institu-| | tions of the United States, which are, | in fact, the property of the entire| | people. The end to be attained is, ‘thert(nre, one of increased employment | on the one hand and stability in the | | financial structure of the country on| | the other, | | “The co-ordination of programs and policies has been arrived at by the| Government and the railway agencies | to effect these“results.” Parleys dealing with the administta- tion of the Reconstruction Finance | Corporation act as it affects loans to the railroads were held repeat- | edly yesterday at the White House. Strict silence was observed by the par- ticipants, and at the end of the day a formal statement was given out on be- half of the President, to the effect he was working for “co-ordinstion of re- construction activities.” 1t was indicated then more conferences were to follow. Eugene Meyer, chair- man of the board, and Charles G. | Dawes, president of the Reconstruction ‘ Corporation, were the first called. Others at Meetings. | _Pollowed Balthasar H. Meyer, finance chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Secretary of Com- | de BLUEBEARD' HANGS FOR SLAHIG FIE = Meets Death on Gallows Fearlessly—Confesses Murders Before End. By the Associated Press. MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., March 19. —Denying gullt in the hour of his death, Harry F. Powers, mass Kkiller, died on the gallows last night for the murder of a “mail order” sweetheart. He went to his death fearlessly— braszenly. In life, he was the “Bluebeard” who lured lonely women to death with ardent confessions of undying love and promises of life-long happiness. He Wwas & man of many moods, a man with a Jekyll-Hyde nature—a puzzle to psychiatrists and allenists. After the trap had sprung, exacting ‘The warning to the premier had come | span 3,770 feet long, made of steel |society’s toll for the murder of Mrs. Dorothy Pressler-Lemke, Northboro, Mass,, divorcee, Dr. H. H. Haynes, & Clarksburg, W. Va., physician, disclosed he has Powers' ten confession, ad- mitting in detail the murder of five persons. Thess flve—Mrs. Lemke and Mrs. Asta Buick Eicher and her three children of Park Ridge, Ill.—were killed and their bodies were buried in a narrow diteh near Powers' “‘chamber of horrors” garage on his wife's deserted farm in Sylvan‘Quiet Dell, near Clarksburg. A short time after Powers' body was removed from the death chamber, an envelope addressed to Warden A. C. Scroggins was opened. Therein was a letter in which the man about to die had protested his in- nocence. He assailed capital punish- ment, which he insisted fails to reduce the number of murder cases. He reiterated that his trial was “un- fair,” that it was held in an opera house “where people go to be enter- tained” He recalled he had twice been menaced by § mob, yet had been re- fused a change of venue. Fears that Powers would suffer a | nervous collapse were expressed an hour before the hanging, when he was vis- ited by the sheriff and the warden. Questioned about what had become of Mrs. Lemke's jewelry, Powers, sob- bing bitterly, staggered from his bunk, crossed to & table on which there wa: & Bible, and cried: “With my hand on this book of God, I swear by the teachings of my mother, that I know nothing about them.” Nearly an hour later, however, he walked, unassisted, with firm step to the gallows. Asked If he had anything to say, Powers replied, “No,” with an em- phatic shake of his head. FRANK WAGNER RITES ARE SET FOR MONDAY Memorial Service at Home of Re- tired Fire Official to Be Held by Elks. Frank J. Wagner, retired chief engi- neer of the District Pire Department, | who died Thursday night at his home, 4709 Georgia avenue, will be buried in Rock Creek Cemetery Monday, follow- ing services at his home at 9:30 o'clock and mass in St. Gabriel's Church at 10 o'clock in the morning. A memorial service will be held at the home by the B. P. O. Elks tomorrow t. Fire Department officers and men will act as pallbearers and honorary pall- bearers at the funeral services, and the ment’s Drum and Bugle Corps will march at the head of the funeral procession. merce Lamont. Next came 15 railroad heads, members of the Executive Com- mittee of the Association of Rallway Executives, with E. G. Buckland, pres- ident of the Railroad Credit Corpora- tion. This unit, the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Reconstruction Corporation all must work together on loans to railrads made by the Dawes unit. ‘The law requires Interstate Commerce Commission approval of these loans and the commission has adc a pol- icy In several instances requiring that Railroad Credit Corporation funds, when available, shall be made lable to repay such loans. raiiroad agency, set up to collect, and distribute in loans, surcharges on freight, author- ized last Fall as an emergency meas- ure, has received so far a much lower sum ticipated and has not been able to help the needy carriers. | ARMS DISCUSSIONS IMAY LAST A YEAR Slow Progress Expected as Parley Takes Recess Until April 11. ___(Continued From Pirst Page) treaty_and the Japanese withdrawal from Shan The London Conference was preceded by the informal Anglo-American un- derstanding at Rapidan. The reason why this political preparation is neces- sary is explained thus: If countries are dominated by suspicion and fear, they will le cver the smallest points and make petty resistance a matter of vital interest, even national honor. But if they already have reached a palitical understanding, the details are second- ary and the powers will agree that the main plan sweeps all before it Many saw in advance that the Dis- armament Conference was insufficiently EM on the political side. The ritish for this reason tried to get it postponed. But, in the long run, they seemed more eager to hold it than put it off again. and now that the long- heralded conference actually is sitting its only recourse has been to slow up the technical work while attempting to carry out the political negotiation: on the side. Far East First Obstacle. The first and most serious obstacle encountered was the sudden worsening of the Far Eastern conflict, due to the Japanese invasion of Chinese territory at and near Shanghai. How could nations like Great Britain, the United States and Russia say noth- ing to Japan or China and talk seri- ously of disarmament while Japanese guns were shelling Chinese trenches? The United States, in the letter written by Secretary of State Henry L. Stim- son to Senator Will E. Borsh, even intimated that, if Japan continued to rd the treaties, the United States would be obliged to revise the disarma- ment agreements of 1922. Moreover, events in China had ap- peared to discredit the world's so-called janization, consisting, on one Bana, of the League of Nations covenant and on the other of the Kellogg anti- 'War pact. The most urgent task before the Dis- ‘mament Conference was therefore to hl-lt the w{nr in the Far East and to re- store, as far as possible, the prestige and efficacy of the world's pempchu“lls. Unsuccessful So Far. Theoretically the course of the Dis- armament Conference had had nothing to do with the Far Eastern conflict, which was being handled jointly by the United States and the League. But ctically the conference and the to be almost It is too soon to prognosticate, but at the nt moment it appears that the conference or the League Assembly or whatever it should be called has not been unsuccessful. hting in ushmguwhnl ice negotia are un 1 The United States and the 1;:'“:'3: working closely together. The validity of the League's principles has been re- established. Confidence in the League and the Kellogg pact is growing again. And to the world's peace organization a momentous principle, formulated by | Mr. Stimson and then 'adopted by the entire League, has been added, namely, the principle of non-recognition, accord- ing to which all nations seem to agree not to recognize territorial changes ef- fected by violence in contravention of ;h.:: covenant or the Kellogg The second obstacle that the Dis- | armament “Conference encountered was the Jmhonmu atmosphere that had en- tered Europe by the Franco-Italian and Franco-German misunderstandings. Await Second German Ballot. There is reason to believe that France, Germany and Italy are all ready and | willing to talk, but obviously it is dif- jfcult tor any one to talk with Ger- many until the elections reveal whether Adolf Hitler, National Socialist leader, is going to succeed Chancellor Heinrich Bruening at the head of the German government. And on the Prench side it would be difficult for France to make concessions either to Italy or Germany until after the Prench elections, now scheduled for the end of April. The reason why the conference is adjourning until April 11 is that the second ballot of the German elections occurs April 10. The Europeans wanted to adjourn until May, that is until after the French elections, and con- sented to meet in April only under pressure from the American, Japanese and Russian delegations. Meanwhile, nevertheless, something is being done regarding these European disputes. There have been talks be- tween France and Great Britain, and between France and Italy and, with the view apparently of engaging in more general negotiations a little later, the Prench have launched the idea of a union of the Danube States on the basis of preferential tariffs. Prance's allies—Czechoslovakia, Jugo- slavia and Rumania—want this. Hun- gary and Austria, though in dire need of economic and financial help, are suspicicus and hesitant. Great tain Is lukewarm, Germany firmly opposed and Italy, after first seeming to ap- piove, now is hanging back, possibly until it has seen on what terms a gen- eral Franco-ltallan agreement might be reached. U. 8. Contributing. Thus the Disarmament Conference is perhaps preparing the way for the conclusion of genuine peace in Europe. And it is & curious fact that indirectly, perhaps unconsciously, the United States is contributing to this effort The Stimson non-recognition prin- ciple seems to line up the United States against forcible territorial re- vision of the treaties, which is what France and its allies profess they main- ly fear. At the same time the Amer- ican disarmameént plan seems to line up the United States on the side of | Germany in the disarmament problem. 1f, under this double American im- petus, Germany were accorded Some- thing llke equality of armaments, while after the election it should find itself in a position to abandon any idea of- forcible revision of the treaties. the way for a Franco-German agreement would seemingly be open and the suc- cess of the Disarmament Conlcrence be virtually assured. (Copyright, 1932.) e turned out identical. has ceased. STATE RUM VOTE ASKED COLUMBIA. 8. C, March 19 (#).— A joint resolution, providing a referen dum on the question of repeal of the eighteenth amendment in the State Democratic primary this year, was in- troduced yesterday by three house mem- bers. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers' Home Band Orchestra this evening at Stanley Hall, beginning at 5:30 o'clock. John March, “Under the Double Eagle,” ‘Wagner Overture, “The Italians in Algiers,” Ross Waltz suite, PFinale, “Under the “The Star Spangled Banner.