Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1932, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Falr, colder tonight: minimum tem- degrees, High noon today; lowest, 44, at 2 am. today, Full report on page Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 he FEpen * WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 32,123 post office, Was Entered as second class matte: WASHINGTON, r hington, D. C. D ©, ny Star “From Press every city block tion is delivered t to Home Within an Hour” The Star's carrier system covers and the regular edi- o Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 125,475 NIL\A\_'. APRIL 12, 1932—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. L 3ok (#) Means Associated Press. —————— TWO CENTS. PAY CUT PROPOSAL RULED IN ORDER AS SUBSTITUTE LODMS Amendment to Appropria- tions Bill Is Approved by Committee. FURLOUGH PLAN GAINS ADDED HOUSE SUPPORT President's Suggestion Likely to Find Place in Cochran Move to Shelve Reductions. Atter considerable opposition in ex- ecutive session, led by Representative O'Connor, Democrat, of New York, the House Rules Committee today reported a special rule requested by the Economy Committee yesterday, making in order on the legislative appropriation bill as an amendment, the recémmendation of the Economy Committee for an 11 per cent cut on all salaries in the Federal service, with an exemption of $1,000. When the special rule is adopted by the House and the 11 per cent slash proposal offered as an amendment on the legislative appropriation bill, which carries the salaries for members of Congress and the legislative establish- ments, Representative Cochran, Demo- crat, of Missouri, who has been leading the fight in the committee against sal- ary reductions, will offer a substitute amendment. Favors Hoover Proposal. It is probable that Representative Cochran will offer both his own pro- posal as a substitute for salary reduc- tion, which includes cutting annual leave in half, prohibiting any increases in salary, promotions or filling vacan- cies, and also President Hoover’s sug- gestion for compulsory furloughs with- out pay. ‘There seems to be a considerable | sentiment in the House that the Presi- dent’s proposal is preferable to that of the Economy Committee in that, while 1t is in fact @ reduction in salaries, yet | it preserves the salary standard as fixed mh the Personnel Classification . In this respect, it should not be | construed by industry throughout the | country as a signal from the Pederal Government in approval of general sal- | ary reductions. The special rule reported by Repre- sentati tee on 1s as follows: “Resolved, That after the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order in the consideration of H. R. 11267, the legislative don bill, for the chairman of the Economy Committee, or any member of the Economy €nm: mittee acting for him by direction of that committee, to offer an amendment to said bill, notwithstanding the pro- wision of clause 2, rule 21, or clause 7, rule 16, and one motion to amend that amendment shall be in order, and it| shall also be in order to offer one amendment by way of substitute for the original amendment, to which one amendment may be offered, and no further amendment shall be entertained by the chair, “The provision of clause 7, rule 16, or clause 2, rule 21, shall not apply to said substitute amendment. In addi- tion to the motion to recommit, pro- | vided for in clause 4, rule 16, and clause 1, rule 17, the chairman of the | Economy Committee or any member | of the Economy Committee, acting for him, by direction of that committee, may make one motion to recommit said bill and such motion shall be in order, any rule of the House to the contrary notwithstanding.” Own Salaries Debated. Chairman Connery of the House Committee on Labor, Representative La Guardia of New York and Representa- | tive Cullen of New York, speaking for the Tammany delegation, expressed the opinion today that it will be possible to muster enough votes to defeat the pro- posed 11 per cent salary slash. ! Special interest centered today on the | attitude of members of the House re- | garding their own salaries. Many mem- bers have been fearful of a 20 per cent cut in their salaries, and will welcome | the 11 per cent proposal as a lesser evil. Many members of the House protest that they are willing to suffer a reduc- tion in their own salaries, while some, like Representative La Guardia, insist ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) GUNS BRANDISHED AT LEGION MEETING Near-Riot Created as Friend of! Stevens Hits Back at Criticism of Bonus Stand. By the Associated Press. GREENSBORO, N. C, April 12—A near riot during which guns were brandished by participants, but not used, broke up an American Legion meeting last night when a friend of Na- tional Comdr. Henry L. Stevens took | exception to the Legionnaires' criticism of Stevens for his stand against cash bonus payments. The friend, whose identity was not | learned, was rushed by the Legion- | naires when he branded several of the evening’s speakers “liars”™ | It was with difficulty that police restored order and escorted the man to safety. No arrests were made. Prior to the meeting, service men staged a parade through the business district, carrying banners demanding cash. At the courthouse the assembly heard Harold D. De Coe of Washing- ton, national commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and James E. Van Zandi of Altoona, Pa., Junior vice commander, urge that pres- sure be brought to secure action by Congress on the cash payment proposal, A resolution to this effect was adopted. | BAN PANTAMERICAN DAY "People of El Salvador Dissatisfied by U. 8. Attitude. MEXICO CITY, April 12 (#).—The newspaper Excelsior said today it had learned neither the pecple nor the gov- ernment of El Salvador would celebrate Pan-American day today because of dis- usfaction over the m&u of the States to recognize the Martines government there. d from the Commit- |f | Graf Zeppelin, German dirigible re- | standard time. 'FRONT ROYAL WILL REFUN Parachute Safety Demonstrator Hurt In Test on Ground GRAND JURY OPENS PROBE IN KIDNAPING OF LINDBERGH BABY |Hunterdon County Panel Given Instructions on Law Covering Case. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 12— Louis Babbs, 27-year-old stunt man, was demonstrating in the cockpit of a grounded airplane just how safe a parachute is high in the air, With nonchalance he pulled the ripcord. A blast from the whirring pro- pellor inflated the parachute. Babbs was jerked from the cock- pit to the ground. He is recovering from head in- Juries and a possible fracture of the left shoulder. ERUPTIONS SUBSIDE AFTER TERRORIZING CHILEAN FOOTHILLS | Hunterdon County April grand jury was | sworn in today and began immediate consideration of the Lindbergh kidnap case. In charging the grand jury, Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Trenchard read that part of the statutes referring to kidnaping. The grand jurors then retired and Attorney General William H. Stevens joined them after announcing that he | was going to give them all the infor- | mation now in the hands of the au- thorities concerning the kidnaping of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's baby on | March 1. WOMAN WHO HAD BILL NOW OBJECT OF SEARCH Collector Who Received $50.000 Believed Estranged Member of Original Gang. By the Associated Press. Danger Believed Passed After Plans Made to Evac- uate 80,000 at Mendoza. By the Associsted Press. SBANTIAGO, Chile, April 12.—Vol- canic eruptions which had terrorized villagers in the foothills of the Andes for two days appeared to be subsiding this morning. The sun shone feebly from & sky only partially hidden by clouds of fine volcanic ash. The dust bad stopped falling in Santiago and over the rest of the wide zone aflected yesterday the fall was not so heavy. Seismologists took advantage of the improving conditions to make an air survey of the volcanic area. They said they believed the danger of violent eruptions or earthquakes was over, at least for the time being. Fears of hundreds of thousands of Inhabitants of Central Chile had in- creaser earlier as earthquake shocks and ground settlings became frequent and darkness covered a wide area show- ered by dust from more than a dozen volcanoes, The area extended from Talca in the South to several miles north of Santiago. Since Sunday Talca has been shaken a score of times by earthquakes reminiscent of the 1928 earthquake disaster woman or child to a point within this Twe, Mare Eruptions. State or into some other State, Terri- Two more volcanoes, San Jose and or country, or shall force any child Maipo, joined the p to- mln the of 14 to leave his mother day, both of them nee:rvm' here, 'Am:mnn g or_father or guardian or shall conceal North brought the ashes last night and the| (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Aatmosphere it s had been illu S OPHOLE 1 GEN CAPON BY RULI | Court Upholds Limitation in Tax Cases, but Gangster Loses Chance. Judge’s Instructions. Justice Trenchard told the jurors: “The case of a kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jr, a child of | tender years, will be presented to you |'if and when proper evidence is avail- |able. And the question when proper evidence is available is a question con- cerning which you will do well to be guided by the advice of the attorney general. “In anticipating the case may be | presented during your term, the court tion statute— Reads Part of Law. “‘Any person who shall kidnap or steal or forcibly take away any man, woman or child and send or carry or with intent to send or carry such man, iture dropped sharply in the eruptive zone. Freez- ures took the place of nor- | weather around Curaco. dark yesterday at Curaco on the streets carried umbrellas to protect their eyes from the falling ash. Persons who made quick trips to the mountains reported three feet of ashes in cne pass. Farmers of Talca herded their cattle into sheltered places. In Camarico no one has dared to sleep since Sunday night, and business throughout the province was practically [ |at a standstill. Darkness Blocks Plane. The United States Supreme Court, Capt. Raph H. Wooten, military and | through s decision handed down yes- air attache of the American embassy, |terday in & Boston income tax case, made a two-hour flight over the area has inadvertently supplied Al Capone and sald a dense pall of purple pre- | with a slim—very slim—legal loophole vented him from flying nearer than 10 through which he may escape imprison- miles to the volcano. The air was be- ment at Leavenworth Penitentiary. coming thicker every minute, he said,| The loophole would have been large |and it was so dark when he flew into|and effective as a means of avoiding (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) | Prison had not Capone’s attorneys over- WOMA‘N—'S'MD | the gangster's appeal to higher courts. IN FOUR-FLOOR FALL By failing to plead the statute of limitations before the Circuit Court of Plunges Over Staircase Railing Stanhope Apartments. Appeals, Capone’s counsel have made it almost impossible for him to take ad- vantage of a decision by the Supreme | Court that the three-year limitation ap- plies to income tax evasions. Sight Was Failing. Three Counts Old. | The three major counts on which | Capone was convicted were based on offenses committed in 1925, 1926 and 1927—each more than three years be- fore Capone’s indictment in~ Chicago. e The other two counts which the court Mrs. Lula Dodd, 56, who suffered from | sustained were within the three-year failing sight, was instantly killed early | limit, but were only misdemeanors. this afternoon when she plunged over Had Capone’s lawyers raised the the staircase railing from the fourth |Question of the three-year limitation floor of the Stanhope Apartments, 735 | before the Circuit Court, it was said in New Jersey avenue, and fell to the high lecal quarters here today, he could ground floor of the building. have obtained freedom on the felony Mrs. Dodd was pronounced dead by a | counts of 1925, 1926 and 1927, physician from Casualty Hospital | Having failed to do this, Capone must Mrs, John Dodd, a daughter-in-law, rest his plea now—and he undoubtedly fainted and was given first aid by first | Will make one—on the ruling that the precinct police. courts have certain discretionary pow- Police expressed the belief that Mrs. | ers regarding rehearing of criminal Dofid had stumbled and fallen over the | cases railing. The Supreme Court in the past has Mrs. Dodd was the wife of James| ™ ( Dodd Beides the husband, there are | Continued on Page 2, Column 7. two daughters, Miss Myrtle Dodd and | * == Mrs. Grade Piper, and three sons, John | W|L| Dodd, a soldier in the Regular Army, L cut CONSTABULARY detailed as sergeant instructor in the == National Guard. and James Dodd and | Philippine Economy Program Will William Dodd, living in Virginia. | Reggie Lewis, colored janitor, told | Reduce Force by 500. police of hearing a thud when Mrs.| aanria p Dodd hit the first floor landing. drastic lhsiiar edonoins ooty The result in slashing 500 members from the Philippine constabulary, Brig. Gen. | Charles Nathorst, commandant, said today. The force now numbers 7.000. Stringent retrenchment measures are | being devised by Governor General Theodore Roosevelt and his cabinet in conjunction with territorial legislative leaders in an effort to balance the budget. The 1932 deficit has been es- Limated at $8,500,000 at Graf Reaches French Coast. HAMBURG, Germany, April 12 (#).— A report received by the Hamburg- | American Line gave the position of the turning from Pernambuco, Brazil, as a short distance off Cape Pinisterre, on the coast cf France, at 1 am. Eastern D 1931 TAXES IF 1932’S ARE PROMPT July 1 Set as Deadline for 40 Per Cent Return—Austin Also Benefits. By the Associated Press. | September electric rates were cut 10 NEW YORK, April 12—Here are a | per cent and the sewer tax rate to 50 couple of American towns that n.veit""‘l:_:fnm,rw rr;xzu 2ad few financial worries, as reported by |, AR Tex. 83.000 population, en the National Municipal League Coenury, e sl alanie £ |its treasury, having collected 93 per Front Royal, Va., has authorized | cent of the tex levy during the year. refund of 40 per cent of the already | The town further cut the rates of small 1931 tax levy, provided taxes ne:lhe municipally-owned electric plant paid before July 1. Front Royal, a town | and effected & reduction of fire insur- of 2,500, has neither curtailed municipal | ance rates from 28 to 17 cents, with & services nor reduced ‘The tax | maximum credit rate of 15 cents. refund came from the profit of the city- [ A saving of $55,000 & customers owned and operated QWML -n{e resulted from the electric rate cut. city's 8‘.‘ income is $85,000, of which | Both Austin and Pront Roysl ’ have FLEMINGTON, N. J., April 12—The | | will now proceed to direct your atten- | this phase of the criminal| —_— AT | ! CLASH ON METHODS | OF RAISING BONUS Thomas, Opposing Patman, Sees Currency Plan as Menace. By the Associated Press. A sharp difference of opinion over means to secure money for paying the $2,400,000,000 soldiers’ bonus developed between advocates of the legislation tn today's hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee. Representative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, who is directing the bonus cam- paign, has urged the issuance of United States currency on the Treasury. Today, Senator Thomas, Democrat, Oklahoma, - another advocate of the bonus payment, testified the Patman plan would “kill the Federal Reserve unless Congress appropriated system directly for its support.” Thomas said the bonus certificates should be cashed in Federal Reserve bank notes based on 2 per cent Govern- ment consols issued to the amount of | $2,400,000,000. ‘ Pather Charles E. Coughlin, director of a Detroit radio program, appeared for the bonus payment. He said he did not represent the Catholic church, but expressed the sentiments of more than | 2,500,000 letters received in the last 27 weeks. Acting Chairman Crisp of the Ways | and Means Committee announced ihat George L. Harrison, governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and Charles E. Mitchell, chairman of the National City Bank, will be requested to | testify on the soldiers’ bonus issue. Crisp explained that Thomas had made partial quotations | | to credit expansion, and believed it only fair that they should have an oppor- tunity to state their exact position. Wants Dollar Down. ‘Thomas said that of $5,500,000,000 outside the Treasury, only $2,500,000,- 000 is in actual circulation. “This scarcity has put the dollar too high,” Thomas said. “It is my conten- | tention there can be no relief until we | bring the dollar down. “As a result of the President’s anti- | hoarding campaign, I make the state- ment he has reduced circulation by | $200.000,000. “The only way to help the country is to get the buying power back into the hands of the people.” Watson (Republican, Pennsylvania) | asked Thomas why last year's bonus payment had not accomplished much of the result he desires | “Because the Government pald In credit, not actual money,” Thomas re- plied. Compared With Credit Body. [ “It is just like the Reconstruction Finance Corporation; it advances credit | and does not put more currency into circulation.” Asked by Acting Chairman Crisp if | $200,000,000 had not been allotted (o farm loans out of the Finance Cor poraticn’s capital, Thomas replied | “In my part of the country the farm. | ers not only can't get the money. but | cannot even get the blanks to apply for | the money.” Father Coughlin said the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation was hurried through both the House and Senate to | make available $2,000,000,000 of public funds “f financing financiers luml | strengthening tottering railroads.” Points to Rail Loans. “If the Government can pay $2.000.- | 000,000 to the bankers and the raliroads to whom it owes no obligations, why | should it not pay $2,000,000.000 to the soldiers to whom it recognizes an obli- getion?” “To pay this bonus would enable millions of idle and part-time veterans to purchase necessities.” he said. “That would put $2,000,000,000 into channels of commerce and trade. “It will compel us to revalue the American dollar to the approximate Jevel it attained in 1929. It will prob- ably throw us off the gold standard. “Revaluation of the dollar will come eventually either legally or revolution- arily. We “have given the last trans- fusion to the sickly economic system of this country and soon will have a corpse on our hands. The Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation has done little good. “If we do not revalue the dollar legally—remember Russia of 1917 re- member the French revolution, remem- | ber our own Revolution of 1775.” | Belittles Legion Stand. ‘The priest concluded by urging the committee to give precedence “to hu- man rights over financial rights.” He disposed of the action of the Detroit convention of the American Legion by saying: “The convention was attended only by those who had train fare.” Spain to Import Wheat. o wuthoriied. private purchasers. 10 import 50,000 of foreign wheat, because of & | Hawall and Alaska. Sale of “Baby Bonds™ Will End Today With $30,000,000 Bought By the Assoclated Press. “Baby bonds,” the anti-hoard- ing tonic administered by the Treasury to a public afflicted with a tendency to hide money, will cease to be available after today. The sales of these Government securities, issued in small denom- inations to reach holders of small sums who feared to invest them in ordinary channels, are placed unofficially at about $30,000,000. They were first offered about a month ago for disposal through individual banks rather than by the normal process of Govern- ment financing. Believing they have accom- plished their purpose, doing bene- fit far beyond the actual sales amount, Secretary Mills an- nounced their sale will be discon- tinued tomorrow. HEARINGS ON TAX BLLARE SPEEDED Efforts to Close Testimony Before Senate Finance Body Fails. By the Assoclated Press. The Senate Pinance Committee agreed in executive session today to speed hearings on the revenue bill, but efforts to close the door to further testimony were laid aside. The committee session brought sharp from these | discussion and considerable confusicn | bankers indicating they were favorable |as a drive to speed action was initiated. | | Members demanded an appearance for | their constituents | Senator Couzens, Republican, Michi- | | gan, moved to break up the committee |into subcommittees and to hasten the | | aearings. He was supported by Senators | Bingham, Republican, Connecticut, and | La Follette, Republican, Wisconsin, but | was defeated, 10 to 6 As the hearings were resumed Senator Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi, de- manded amid some confusion that if any witness did not answer when his aame was called that his name be passed up. This was approved Complainants against the House rev- enue bill then were informed that their testimony The full hearings, scheduled to last un- il April 22, will be carried out. V B K Houston, delegate for Ha- wall. opposed the extension of the in- come fax to Government officers in He said this meant double taxation for the Federal officials who are taxed by the Territorial gov- ernments Houston argued that an exemption | allowed In the organic act of Hawail| indirection lhruughi wag tepealed by extension of the tax William # Hennett, speaking for the National Lumber Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation, protested the House change in the adminiatrative provision relating to distribution of dividends. GOV. MURRAY MISSING ON TRIP IN OREGON Left Portland Hotel Last Night for Klamath Falls—Not Seen Since Then. By the Associated Press PORTLAND, Oreg.. Willlam H. April (Alfalfa Bill) 12—Gov Murray of Oklahoma was missing somewhere in | Oregon today. After announcing he would speak in Klamath Falls at 10 am. today, he left | a Portland meeting last night, appar- ently for the Union Station, to take a train for the Southern Oregon city. He was not on the train when it reached Klamath Falls this morning, and the | porter said he was not a passenger. Those who had arranged the Kla- math Falls meeting which Gov. Murray was to address in the interests of his candidacy for the presidency received no explanation of the Governor's ab- His Portland hotel sald he left at 11 o'clock last night. Paraguay é:hinet ‘Worried. ASUNCION, Paraguay, April 12 (). —It became known today that the cabi- g::u was seriously concerned with re- was limited to 15 minutes. | ELECTION-AT-LARGE - SEEN I DECISION districting Laws Brings Speculation. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Supreme Court made a hard | game harder for members of the House from Missouri and Minnesota, when it | decided yesterday that their congres- sional redistricting laws were not laws without the approval of their Governor. Today it appeared that all members | of the House from these two States | will be elected at-large next November instead of by congressional districts, for the Governors of Missouri and Minne- sota, one a Republican and the other a Farmer-Laborite, have indicated that they did not intend to call special of the legislatures to put “rédistricting laws at this time. Ney York Law Invalid. The Supreme Court also decided that | New York's new redistricting law was not valid since it had not been sub- mitted to or signed by the Governor of the State. In New York, however, under the new reapportionment act of Congress, two additional members of the House are to be elected. Chief Justice Hughes, who handed down the opinion of the court, held that unless a new redistricting law is put through and signed by the Governor the Em- pire State will elect 43 Representatives from the old congressional district and that the two additional members of the House would be elected at large. Missourl and Minnesota, however, both lost seats in the reapportionment of the House, Missouri being reduced from 16 to 13 and Minnesota from 10 to 9. In States where representation was lost it is obviously impossible to | elect from the old districts. Therefore, under the court’s decision the members this Fall will have to be both nominated and elected at large. Present Line-up. At present the Republicans have four Representatives from Missouri and the Democrats 12. From Minnesota, in the | present Congress there are nine Re- | publicans and one Farmer-Labor. The | Republican members from Missouri are Niedringhaus and Dyer, both from St. Louis, and Manlove and Hopkins, from | other parts of the State. These Repub- | lican members have urged the Gover- | (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) S \CRUISER AT ST. JOHN'S Arrives in Harbor to Find Capital Quiet. By the Assoclated Press. —The British lght cruiser Dragon nosed into St. John's harbor today, | having been ordered here as a result |of the disorders of last week when rioters damaged the colonial building |and threatened Sir Richard Squires, | prime minister. Although British naval authorities announced several days ago that the Dragon had been ordered here, the sight of the ship startled many St. | John's residents. as government officials | here had said they had no knowledge of the Dragon's trip. The city continued quiet today. | |Supreme Court Ruling on Re-| STARTLES RESIDENTS | | British Warship, Sent After Riots, | ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland. April 12. | T0 PRESENT SCENE INFORTESCUE HOME |Calls Witnesses in Effort to Prove Slaying Took Place in House of Matron. DARROW HOLDING BACK PLANS OF DEFENSE Reserves Opening Statement and Makes Few Efforts to Cross- Examine Men on Stand. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, April 12—Efforts to picture what happened behind the drawn blinds of the home of Mrs. Granville Fortescue January 8, when Jo- soph Kahahawai was allegedly lynched, were made by the prosecution today in the trial of the society woman and three Navy men for the killing. John C. Kelley, public prosecutor, has produced witnesses who linked the de- fendants with the abduction of Kahaha- | wal and with the motor car stopped by police while rushing toward Koko Head with the body, which apparently was to | have been thrown to the sharks. ‘The prosecutor lined up today's wit- nesses in an attempt to show that the killing took place in the Fortescue home. Describes Visit of Police. He did not reveal the names of those summoned to take the stand and, as far as is publicly known, he has no actual witnesses to the shooting which ended Kahahawai’s life. In his opening statement Kelley told the racially mixed jury something of what he expected to prove concerning the home. Two officers, he said, went to the place after the shooting and found windows closed and blinds drawn. They | feund a revolver, he said, and a bullet lying on a table. A purse containing a photograph of Kahahawai, a cap which had been worn | by the victim, blood stains, a rope iden- tical with that used to bind Kahaha- wali's sheet-enveloped body and evidence indicating the floor had been recently ummopved were found in the house, Kelley Victim's Cousin Testifies. Mrs. Fortescue and thé other defend- arts—Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, J. Lord and Albert O. Jones—reacted from his chair, to Jones as the man who Kahahawal the t." nc! y al ness. Ulii said iwal gon: to the Judic Building to make his "‘?emm. retrial on a charge it he and four other men attacked Mrs. Massie, wife of the lieu- tenant and daughter of Mrs. Fortescue. Court Clerk on Stand. clerk, to whom Kahahawai had been reporting, testified Mrs. Fortescue had gone to his office a few days before Ilhe lynching and had learned the young Hawalian was making daily re- rts there. wflow the death car was spotted, stopped and Kahahawai's body and the living occupants, Mrs. Fortescue. Massie and Lord, removed, was told by George Von Arnswald, the arrest- ing officer. Von Arnswald said Mrs. Fortescue, whom he named as the driver of the car, speeded up the machine when he started in pursuit. He said he stopped it only after firing two shots and then | pulling up ahead of it for a second time. | " Kelley asked Von Arnswald what the three said when he asked them why they had the body. The officer asserted none of them said anything except Lord, whose answer was, I don't | know.” | Clarence Darrow, head of the defense | battery, continued to hold his fire. When' the time came for him to make his opening statement he reserved it. He was sparing also of his cross-ques- | tioning, putting only a few queries to Ulii and Von Arnswald. e 31 Poisoned by Food. | DURBAN, Natal, Africa, April 12 () | —Dr. Chaim Weizmann, prominent | Jewish leader, and 30 other guests at a | banquet in his honor were suffering | from ptomaine poisoning today. Dr. Weizmann's condition was not serious, but he was confined to his room under a physician's care. Mrs. Weiz- mann also was among the victims. An investigation was to ascertain the cause of the trouble. —_— Ear Specialist Slain. VIENNA, April 12 (#).—Prof. Gustav Alexander, widely known ear specialist, who has lectured in the United States, was killed today in the street by a tailor's apprentice, who shot him three times. The assailant was captured, but police were unable to learn his motive. | High winds and a drop in tem- of | almost continuous ramnfall or [COLD SNAP TO BRING 30-MILE WIND, NEAR FREEZING WEATHER! Minimum Temperature of 33 Forecast Tonight—Cherry Blossoms Safe—Flying Curtailed. brought out storm warnings to shipping frem Portland, Me., to the Virginia capes. The barometer at Block Island stood at 20.06 today and the storm is cne of the few such disturbances noted over the Atlantic at this season during recent years. Clearing skies brought a cessation of misty, damp weather that set in Friday and broke at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. tions west of the National halt y extending as far east as Buckstown, Pa., about 100 miles west of weather station of heavy snow over the and was ki William Dickson, part Hawalian court PROSECUTOR TRIESRECENT SHRINKAGE IN STOCKS PLAGED AT §,000,000,000 Whitney’s Estimate Given Hearing Covers Last Two or Three Weeks. INQUIRY IS RECESSED UNTIL NEXT MONDAY Loans of Customers' Holdings to Short Sellers to Depress Value Denied. By the Associated Press. Shrinkage in stock values during the last two or three weeks was estimated at $6,000,000,000 today by Richard | Whitney, president of the New Iswck Exchange. Y | Whitney made his estimate at the jconclusion of his second day of testi- mony in the Senate Banking Commit- tee's investigation of short selling. The inquiry was recessed until next Monday when the names of short deal- ers will be presented by the Stock Ex- change head. With another huge crowd on hand, the Exchange head again defended practices on the market. He denied that brokers loaned custo- mers’ stocks to short sellers to depress their values and insisted that specula- tion was essential to a balanced market. Signers Labeled “Goats.” Whitney protested against “this hue and cry, perhaps helped by the gentle- men of the press in regard to loaning cunomg.:' - utlhu has been in vogue throughout the country for last two ur“'three years.” =~ o Senator Couzens, Republican, Michi- gan, remarked that any man who signed the customer’s agreement which Whit~ margin indicated as good business by the New York Stock Exchange is 25 per cent “Do they ever go lower than 25 per cent?” asked Couzens. “Not if they know it, sir.” “Absolutely?” Couzens inquired. ‘_‘rv::. 8i1,” sald Whitney. committee agreed to adjourn its investigation until Monday, Shert Holdings Made Public. The committee made public the ApeR . smowlng oo shes United States Steel greater short short holdings de- 410 shares on 1 to 77489 Ak April 6. e short interest in American Tele- phone & Tel h jumped from 182,- 019 April 1 to 201,879 on April 4 and then dropped to 197,695 April 6. The number of stocks in which there was a short interest for the four days, , 608. holdings was in Wrigley, Jr., Co., from 550 on April 1 to 2,050 on April 6. Other Short Holdings. Other short holdings as of April 1 and April 6, respectively, follow: Westinghouse Electric & Manufac- turing Co., 139,800 and 125,107. American Can, 103,615 and 84,694. American Tobacco Co. class “B,” 26,750 and 30,276. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, 14,552 and 21,079. Bethlehem Steel, 68.598 and 66,309, J. 1. Case Co., 101,609 and 79.279. lscnkl:eupuke Corporation, 4,181 and Chrysler Corporation, 11,955 and 20,665. Coca Cola, 18,375 and 24,612. Commonwealth & Southern Corpora- tion. 276 and 5,750. Consolidated Gas 51687 and 42.126. (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) WASHINGTON-BOSTON GAME IS CALLED OFF Rain and Cold Weather Greets Opening in Sev- Snow, eral Cities. By the Associated Press. Plagued by snow, rain and cold weather, base ball’s major league cam- paigns faced an inauspicious start to- day. | Despite the poor weather, at least {150,000 fans, who had the necessary tickets and overcoats, were expected to pass through the turnstiles in six major league parks to witness the gen- eral opening of another pennant race. Only at Philadelphia, Cincinnati and St. Louls was there anything resembling “base ball weather,” and even in those cities hot coffee was more in order than 1 soda pop. Snow ushered in the season in De- troit and caused postponement of the | opener between the Tigers and the In- dians, and rain caused postponement of the game scheduled at Boston be- tween Wi n and the Red Sox. As befitted the outstanding game in the two leagues, the meeting between the Athletics and Yankees, the weather at Philadelphia was the most favorable of all the big league cities, It was clear, with the thermometer at 48 de- grees at 8 am. and mounting every minute. ‘The outstanding game in the Na- tional League also drew fair weather, the temperature being 42 at St. Louis at 8 am, for the @ardinals and Pirates. temperatures and a brisk wind mar) the day at Chicago, where the White Sox and St. Louls Browns were scheduled. The morning tem- perature was only 36 at Cincinnati, although a warm ‘The skies were cloudy in New York for the Giants-Philadelphia meeting and the Brooklyn-Boston set-