Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1932, Page 5

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 10, 1932—PART ONE. s A-S ° I HNS LUTHER ESAPES ASASSN Bullet Fired at Reichshank Head Hits Porter in Rail- way Station. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 9—Dr. Hans Luther, president of th» Reichstag, narrowly escaped assassination by a bullet fired at him tonight while he was pacing the platform of the Potsdamer Station, in Berlin, waiting for a train to take him | to Bacel, Switzerland. One shot was fired at close range by & well dressed man who, accompanied by another, had been quietly walking up and down the platform. Dr. Luther was unhurt, the bullet entering the heel | of & nearby railway porter's boot. | The man who fired the shot told| police his name was Dr. Max Roosen | &nd that he was 58 years old. He said he was born in Buenos Aires, went to| London in 1930 and had been only -E short time in Berlin. Surrenders Smilingly. He smilingly surrendered his pistol. Both he and his companion, who gave | the name of Werner Kertscher, admitted cheerfully, police said. that they plsn-| ned to shoot Dr. Luther becauss they v the Reichsbank's defla- disapproved of the O aoned| tion policy and wanted a mnsn%%." They denied any political | motive. The whole affair developed so quick- 1y that few of the amz1 travelers were yware of what happened. " Dr. Luther, who was about to entrain on the 9 o'clock Basel Express with & delegation of German officials to at- tend & meeting of the Bank for Inter- national Settlements, did not lose his composure, Seeing both men safely in the hands of the pnl{(;!. he entered the , which left on time. m’:“k‘m police said they found (hlt‘ Roosen and Kertscher some months ago lodged a complaint against Dr. Luther and the directors of the Reichs- bank, whom they accused of “currency swincling,” faking balance sheets and other financial malpractices. Court Refuses Hearing. A court refused to give their case a hearing and the police said they be- Jieved the pair attacked the Reichsbank president out of spite and to attract blic attention. PuBom ‘men enjoyed some reputation as | economists and financial writers, !he{ police said. They told the lutborma!; that they had been members of the Na- | tional Socialist (Fascist) party for some time, but had resigned owing to differ- ences of opinion. Dr. Luther ordinarily prefers the air- plane to other modes of conveyance and usually drops in on the monthly | meetings of the Bank for Intemltlnnnl‘ Settlements at Basel out of the air. Police Guard Train, | The police at Magdeburg took special precautions to guard Dr. Luther's train | on its arrival there tonight and a num- | ber of secret service men boarded the | train_ to accompany the Reichsbank | president to Basel, on the assumption | that a new attack might be made egainst him. | Dr. Luther was interviewed at Magdeburg by the Wolff News Agency. 1 can say very little,”” he said. “The person who attacked me stepped toward | me, saying in English, ‘I suppose—' then fired.” TURTLES AND EELS HIDE CACHE OF OPIUM Boatswain Seeking Easy Way to Care for Charges Makes Discovery. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, April 9.—The boatswain on the American-Hawaian Co.'s steamer Golden River surveyed 24 tubs of live turtles and eels and sighed. SHILES IS WINNE Leaders in Greater Capital Movement PROMINENT MEN HEAD DRIVE TO SUPPORT CITY PROMOTION GROUP. UTSTANDING civic and business leaders are conducting the drive to obtaln financial support for the Greater O National Capital Committee of the Washington Board of Trade, engaged in promoting the interests of Wash- ington by advertising and publicizing the city throughout the country. way last week. Photo shows, seated. left to right: Robert V. Fleming. president of campal oup; Lloyd B. Wilson, president of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., co-chairman; George Offutt, e rigs ‘standing, left to right. Gurtls Hodges, director of the committee; Robert J. Cottrell, secretary of the board: Francis J. Addison, jr., president of the Security Savings & Commerclal Bank; D. L. Moorman of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad: A. C. Case, vice presicent of Palais Royal and chairman of the Greater National Capital Committee; L. P. McLachlen, president of the McLachlen Banking Corporation: E. C. Graham, president of the president of the Board of Trade. National Electrical Supply Co. and George Plitt, president of the George Plitt Campaign Committee. - FOR APE-MAN'S OF JUNIOR HONOR v.1. Universicy Scientists to Seck Place in North India, Where Anthropoids First Left Trees. Miss Cotter’s Pony Hunter Sweeps Three Classes in Horse Show F"‘a" BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Assoclated Press Science Editor. Miss Margaret Cotter's pony hunter,| NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 9—The Smiles, made ra r'irrnd swe=p xin lthrm ape-man’s garden of Eden is sought in Classes in the final indcor junior horse | No-th In St ieaaits : Show st the Riding and Hunt Glub ges- | o0 Indis by a Yale Univeraity expe terday. to win the championship cup | dition announced last night. and tri-color from more than a score| This Eden, if it existed, was a rough of the best younger riders of Washing- | place, a dramatic alteration of the ton. In addition to her triple victory,| earth's face millions of years ago. which Miss Cotter scored one second place. | forced the ape-men out of their trees Close behind her in the high point|into a struggle for existence which evo- competition was Miss Virginia Rodgers, | lutionists think developed human with a first, second and third place to | brains. her credit. Among the very young | ‘garden” was where now stands equestrians, George Patton, 3d, Charles | the “roof of the world." It was then Lewis and Miss Isabella Hagner were|a low-lying tropical forest. In vast outstanding with a blue and red each. | geological alterations this forest rose thousands of feet, up into cold aititudes | Five Events on Program. The show opened at 10 a.m. and con- Plains tinued through a program of five hotse- | o1l e orced o the sround snd two classes where horses alone were 'EXPEDITION PLANS TO SEARCH that changed the jungle into grassy|dj The epes instinctively clinging to the | | to development of human character- | A campalign to raise $75,000 got under Riggs National Bank, chairman of the Co., Inc. Mr. Addison is treasurer of the —Star Staff Photo. GARDEN OF EDEN 000 to 14,000 feet in the air. This may | | have taken millions of years. As it went on, the climate became drier. That, of course, killed off the forests. Second Thing Happened. “Thus the anthropold ancestors of man found that the regions fitted for their kind of life among the trees were restricted. Life presumably became so hard that the only survivors were those especially well fitted for the new en- vironment, with few trees and broad grasslands. “Then the other thing haDDenrd‘ Scmehow—no one has any idea just how or whv—the anthropoids suffered | various rapid mutations, or changes of bodily form. The animals which mu- tated in unfavorable ways must have d off. But some mutated in such a | way that they became more erect, their forelimbs became better fitted to grasp sticks and stones and their brains be- came so clever they were able to use ‘They were en route from the Orient to San Francisco. Manifest directions called for regular changes of the water in the tubs. | Simplification of that chore was the boatswain's alm. Boring holes for in- sertion of bungs would help, he decided. He chose a tub and went to work. The bit plunged through. But it didn’t strike water. | Instead, Cept. Griffin of the Goldern River notified Federal authorities here vesterday, it disclosed a cache of opium ealed within double walls. More opium was found in the other tubs, he said Agents are investigating. | ASKS ECONOMIC PARLEY President of Oglethorpe University Calls 26 College Heads. ATLANTA, Ga., April 9 P).—A con- ference to secure a workable program for the solution of the country’s eco- nomic ills was proposed tcday by Dr Thornwell Jacobs, president of Ogl thorpe University. in a_letter to 26 of the Nation's leading college presidents Dr. Jacobs also wrote a letter to Presi- dent Heover asking his approval of the proposed conference. 30 QUIET MAY Automatic OIL BURNER q] 100 prospective oil burner owners are in position to obt part of this $2,500.00 during April ... you to_inv tional QUIET For further at our show- rooms or phone for one of our representatives. This offer will last 30 DAYS ONLY! Columbia Specialty Co., inc. 1636 Connecticut Ave. those primitive, unfashioned weapons Will Explore for Year. “Thus the uplifting graduslly pro- If there was such a prehistoric event | Vided a new environment, not favor- it is belleved. that examination of the | 8ble to apes, but favorabie to man. It Best rider, 8 vears and under, Miss | rocks and bones of animals there today | ¥8S grassland environment, presumably Isabella Hegner, George Patton, Rob-| will reveal the story. is geological | Where they were many antelopes and ert von Pagenhardt: best between 9| and biological search is the objective of | Other such animals that are excellent and 12 years, Charles Lowis, Carlyle|the Yale expedition, which the an-|for food. There a manlike creature, Cochran, Helen Gwinn; best pony, not| nouncement states has just arrived at | Walking on his hind legs and throwing exceeding 145, to be ridden by child | Delhi, North India | stones or sticks with his hands, could 13 and under, George Patton_ on| The leader is Prof. Hellmut de Terra, |survive, whereas a tree-living creature Patches, Isabella Hagner, Jane nusz.‘mmrm associate in geology at Yale. | Would perish.” Best Rider Scores. | Assisting are Dr. G. E. Hutchinson, —_— . | zoologist, and George E. Lewis, v Best boy or girl ricer attending lo- | ¢ (koxg‘depnnmegf nfg!grzl::io;)c-luscigzllle’; TRIP YIELDS ROMANCE of three Tiders from Tiding schiool or |South of the Himilavas which geologlsts | PHOENIX, Ariz. April 9 (). —Miss club Margaret Cottar. Helen Gwinn, ;'r'ars ago. They will proceed ‘hm ‘th Garriett E Huntington, Los Angeles Jerry Karr; best saddle horse, Little Jrith S€0- “hey WL Procec b0 Ane | society girl, was married here Thursday Bis, owned 'by Riding and Hunt Club, (i a¥A8 8nd West . Planning | to Charles Hoppe, South African news- Miss Harriet Agnew up. Marguerite ' S¥Pice for & year. g | paper man. Brsehon Eenvey millions o tens of millions of years ago judged end two championships. A | Istics. musical chairs contest was added to the | schedule and provided some of the best | sport of the day. The summaries are: the South Seas last to obtain s, Margaret Cotter. Charles ing out-of-the-way places el :’?rngdm\a Rodgers; open jump- | Tibet was a region of low, worndown |mot'on pictures of native dances ing, 'Miss Betty Couzens on Bean Mountains, rising only a few thousand She is the daughter of Mrs. Harwood feet above the sea. There were no Himilayes then. Great forests spread | Huntineton, former rector of the Epis- over what is now Tibet. | copal Church in Hartford, Conn. For “Then two things presumably hap- | many years the family was prominent pened. Pirst a vast upheaval of the|in Springfield, Mass., the bride’s birth earth’s crust gradually raised Tibet 12.- ' place. e e e, ey ——— Open Daily to 5:30; Saturdays to 2:30 —— Beetle, Miss Virginia Rodgers on O. K., Huntington and the late Rev. Mr Miss Louise Herron on Pzpoose; touch and out, Miss Cotter, Miss Rodgers, Miss Mary Norton: hack and hunter, Miss Rodgers, Miss Cotter and entry, Little Sis; musical chairs event, Miss Rodgers; champion pony of show, Miss Cotter's Smiles; champion horse, Little Sis Documents recently found in Scot- land show that in 1400 the penalty for vear when Miss Huntington was tour- | POSSEWEN TRAL | OUTLAW-KILER “Pretty Boy” Floyd Slips| Trap After Slaying of Ok- lahoma Ex-Sheriff. By the Associated Press. TULSA, Okla., April §—Tulsa offi-| cials reported a heavy concentration of officers in the vicinity of Earlsboro, | Okla,, tonight on the trail of Charles | A. (Pretty Boy) Floyd, long-sought Oklahoma outlaw and killer. Floyd eluded a trap set for him early today at the home of his father-in-law, | Ben Hargraves, near Bixby, which re- | sulted in the slaying of E. A. Kelly, | former sheriff of McIntosh County. Trailed to Brother's Home, Detectives who participated in un- successful attempts to capture the out- law sald they were convinced it was Floyd who shot Kelly, leader of the | posse, and that Floyd was urompamed[ | | by his lieutenant, George Birdwell. They said he had been trailed to the vicinity of a brother's home at Earls- boro. Kelly was shot down in a lane near the Hargraves home when he stepped into the bright lights of an approaching automobile and commanded the driver to halt. | Two farmers, whose names were with- held, but who had been enlisted as| possemen, said there was a burst of | pistol_shots from the automobile, and that Kelly fired a round from his sub- machine gun as he fell mortally wounded. Auto Escapes in Darkness, ‘The automobile turned in the narrow lane, dragging down part of a wire fence, and sped off in the darkness, The officers had information Floyd planned to visit his wife at the home of her father last night, and it was on the strength of the tip that the ambush was planned Mrs, Floyd went to the Hargraves| house last night and remained there during the day. | | FOUR SAVED AT SEA | Castaways of Wrecked Ship Had Been Afloat Two Days. By the Associated Press LONDON, April 9 (# —Four casta- ways from the French steamer Rouzic, shipwrecked in the Bay of Biscay, were rescued today by the British steamer Deerpool after they had been afloat in nal boat two days. Eight boats with en, still were missing tonight. ‘The Deerpool informed Lloyds in ra- dio messages that the Rouzic, bound from St. Malo to St. Pierre, foundered in a storm and sank last Thursday. The British ship, after picking up the four members of the French crew in a dory on the western edge of the Bay of Bis- cay, headed for Cardiff. ne | newspapers and some diplomats in an Plans Shad Bake THOMAS L. EAGAN. [TALYHINTS PLAN 10 LEAVE LEAGUE Fascist Council to Confer; French Bomination Is Charged. By the Associated Press ROME, April 9.—A veiled threat that Italy may consider withdrawing from the League of Nations was seen by announcement today by the grand council of Fascism that the “problem of Fascist Italy's position in the League” is to be examined in October. Sessions Condemned. The Ttalian press has long com- plained that the League has been domi- nated by France, and Premier Musso- lini frequently has expressed dissatis- faction with the results of the League's | international conferences, These conferences were condemned once again in a communique issued by the grand council at the conclusion of the session, presided over by the pre- mier, which came to an end early today. Outspoken in Criticism. The newspaper La Tribuna was par- ticularly outspoken in its criticism of the conferences. 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