Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1932, Page 2

“UFSE" RESUMES | | ‘BABY NEGOTIATIONS Admits New Contact After He Returns From Mys- terious Trip. Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh is critically | {1l from worry. In London the Daily Mail said Scot- | land Yard swung into action after learn- | : ing some of the banknotes had been changed there. Detectives here began to puazle over how they could have got there. | ‘The money was paid out sbout 7 p.m. | April 2. The liner Scythia sailed from | =New York about 11 am. that day, | Touching at Boston, from which it de- | % parted April 3 for England ves Itors thought it conc le that money might have ¢ speeded from | New York to Boston and taken aboard the boat Dr. Condon departed last night with |s & suit case after he had spent a lo time conferring with Col. Henry Br inridge, who is Lindbe closest ad- viser. Al Ll More Details Bared. The Bonx Home News. community paper in which Dr. Condon first ap- pealed to the kidnapers, published mere details describing the payment of ran- som Before it was paid, said, a mysterious woman Dr. Condon in & rummage sk said, “Meet me in the dcpot at Tu 2 hoe, N. J., on Wednesday at 5 p.m Dr. Condon kept -the appointment but the woman merely told him he would receive another message. Other messages came and on April 2 Col Lindbergh and Dr. Condon drove to St. Raymond’s Cemetery in the Bronx where the doctor turned over a box containing $50.000 to a man behind a hedge. The man talked with a foreign accent, it was learned. ARRESTED IN CANADA. New York Man Held in Connection . Abduction. ST. THOMAS, Ontario, April 13 (). —A man claiming to be D. D, Dickerson of New York City was arrested here today in connection with the Lind- bergh kidnaping. Police said he car- ried letterse addressed to Col. Lindbergh and Mrs. Dwight Morrow, mother of Mrs. Lindbergh, together with carbon | copies of telegrams believed to have been sent to Col. Lindbergh. Dickerson was grrested after the night ticket agent at the Michigan Cen- tral Railway station told police five let- ters had been left with him with in- structions that they be posted by train- men at the end of the division. The agent notified police after he noticed the letters were addressed to Mrs. Mor- yow, Col. Lindbergh and Mrs. Evangel- jne Lindbergh, mother of Col. Lind- bergh. Police are seeking permission from the Post Office Department and from ¢ Cel. Lindbergh to open the letters. In Police Court today Dickerson ex- lained he had conceived ideas about ocating the kidnaped child and was merely trying to pass them on to Col Lindbergh. The crown .asked that he be remanded for a week. Meanwhile, his fingerprints and photograph are be- i ing sent to Ottawa and Washington Detroit police aiso were asked to in- | vestigate, as he said he had discussed his ideas to some men in that city. RANSOM BILL FOUND. NEWARK. N. J, April 13 (. —The + News#@aidrtoday that.the first authentic | bill from thé Lindbargh Fansom money to come into the hands of the authori- ‘ties was in possession of Becret Service operatives in New York City. The operatives were said to be trying | to trace the note, & $20 bill, to its source. The story wes based on what the News called “unimpeachable authority." STOCKHOLM IS SEARCHED. STOCKHOLM, Bweden, April 13 (. —Police recelved orders taday to search the city for ths kidnaped Lll!dbtrgh; baby. Pictures of the missing child | appecred on the front pages of all the mewspapers. BILLS TRACED IN LONDON. TONDON, April 13 (#).—The Daily “Mail s@id today that some of the bank-| notes of ths $50,00 ransom which Col. | Charles A, Lindbergh paid In the hope | ®f regaining his kidnaped baby had Jbeen found n London | Scoy'and Yard was doing its utmost | %o discover how they were uggled | into England, was Inquiring at hotels, | panks and oher places where bills were likely to have been changed and | has asked several persons who handled Ths notes to explain how they were obtained, the newspaper said It added that Maj. Charles Schoeffel, New Jersey trooper, who recently came 10 England, Is trying to trace the bills. Maj. Schoeffal's present whereabouts were unknown here. SPANISH “CLUE” DISCOUNTED, MADRID, April 13 Public Safety Menende —Director of | today scouted thet the police suspected Charles Augustus Lind- were in Spain | led that the police had re- ceived a blanket order to remain on the alert and that the baby's photograph dad been distributed in a circular. 5 The reports were based on a story that & suspicious couple and & child dis- embarked from a liner at Vigo recently. | NEGOTIATOR TO EXPLAIN NORFOLK, Va., April 13 () — Rev. H. Dobson-Peacock said last that a frenk statement of the progress of the three Norfolk negotiators in the (Lindbergh care would be made upon the Teturn of his mssociates to the city. In the meanwhile, the clergyman said, there was no informetion to be given toncerning the activities of John Hughes Curtis and Rear Admiral Guy H Bur rage, retired, in seeking to re-establish contact withi men believed to be th kidnapers cf the baby. WOMAN ELUDES SEARCH. ery | t GREENWICH, Conr h in several te a fashionably tendered one of n notes at a Gn d fled when it was identified Mrs. Ella Decornille, the pro- six custo police iption of the woman ered shop hurriedly at 5 p.m. Monday Officers from Boston to Philadelphia were asked to watch for the green town car in which she fled, but none reported seeing it Mrs. Decornille described the woman as “good looking, dark complexioned, and about 42 years old." FLEISCHER IS TRAILED. HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, April 13 (#). «—Col. H. Norman Schwarzkop!. head of the New Jersey State police, today asked the royal Canadian mounted police to watch for Harry Fleischer, Detroit purple gangster sought for questioning about the Lindbergh kidnapirg Halifax city police joined the mounted police today in checking train arrivals and liner sailings. | impatiently THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (.. WEDNESDAY DETAILS OF RANSOM PAYMENT | TO BABY KIDNAPERS REVEALED indbergh Nea.rby When “Jafsie” Turned! Money Over to Abductors in ‘\ Brofix Cemetery. 1 L By the Associated Press. Vlldnlaun' agent that Lindbergh had NEW YORK, April 13.—A detailed Puye fair and wanted mothing in re- story of how Dr. John F. Condon paid lturn but _the child. $50,000 ransom money on behalf of Col. | rogatien tpe carnpd, oyer, the bor, he | cn s arles A. Lindbergh to & man in the |in the car he and Lindbergh opened it. adow of a cemetery 10 days ago was | It directed them to walt at leass, two : £ rs and then go to Martha's Vine- published yesterday by the Bronx Home | (TT% R | News. Thore, the note sald, on a 28-foot | The story tells how a note begging [bolgd:{‘::l;ored‘ off Gay lle{nd. the baby | " ey e - lwou lound in charge of two women, the kidnapers to “play fair was in- fo %8 W0 0 i, were innpcent | closed In @ box with the $50,000 in bills | 6¢ any eonnection with the kidnaping | of small denomination |and were not to be hermed. | It also discloses Lindbergh made fre- mlaindberr(n and Dr. Condon returned quent visits to Dr Condon's home dur- | Ad, conferred with Cel. Breckmridge. | ransom negotiat tells of & |ridge, Dr. Condon, Reich and a fifth ity in the case, and de- 'man, taken along because he knew the | Condon eluded repert- | geography of the coast, went to Bridge- | by disguising him- | port, Conn,, waited for the arrival of nes n amphibian plane from Hartford and the then set out phr Martha's Vineyard, | leaving Reich behind to drive Lind- bergh's car back | r They searched for the boat frcm the | nt of the k ers. On the fair until noon, then returned. The Wond Cemetery in the | next day another vain hunt was made. Branx they discussed the case and the | For some unexplained reason the kid. stranger agreed to send the doctor some | nepers had not lived up to their part token to Pl the child being held | cf the bargaln, actually was the Lindbergh baby i ., BRAIN OF DR BAUER | dosren cawe b' | MAY BE PRESERVED ‘ FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDY heti>" as he [ : | (Continued From First Page) _ wife's elot hlights follows 12 Dr. Condon held his with a man assumed: to lengthy ac es. aul n Ho; tion ribed 8§ * | saw the " He ained at the | Condon ¥ until 4 hoping for some further word from the kidnapers. left he took with him the un- ed “token.” next day, in order to evade re- identifi | kitchen [preparing his nightly drink of uf ont of his home, Dr. Con- | Orange julce. o O g, was ¢s- | RetUrning with the drink, el by Al Reich, a prize | Bauer found the room deserted and the | ged his clothes a few | Window open. She looked eut and ontinuing on to de- |S3W his body sprawled on a tiny grass | plot in the rear of the apartment an approached | house. pered until the ex- his car and cb Will Issue Certificate. . 'Is too much| The case was investigated by Deputy n the Tuckahoe, | Corcner C. J. Murphy, who said he epot on Wednesday &t 5 P | would issue a certificate of suicide be- g9 far you fore turning the body over to the un- On Monday, March Dr. Condon | dertaker, Almus R. Speare, 1633 Con- received a letter pos ked in Man- necticut avenue. Dr. Bauer's neck was hattan, saying the baby was still well 'bwoken and his head crushed, Dr and indicating the money had to be | Murphy said. paid before any one could sce the child. | " He had been in poor health for sev- Dr. Condon, through his advertlse- | era yesrs suffaring a nervous break- ment, continued attempt uce the | down’ about a year ago, His failin® kidnapers to show him the baby. heslth had caysed him to resign as di- v Woma rector of the Department of Terrestrial e et by WO . Gondon | MAgDetism of the Carnegle Institution On Wednesday, M T Ood at|® post he had held for more then a and Reich went to ahoe. and 8% | quarter of a century, two years the appointed hour met the mysteriots | “\rs. Bauer placed all arrangements woman at the depot. She said the serles | g "pig funeral in the hands of John A of n:\-cru‘set;wr’:ud-\h?'«ld b;‘n (;‘;’("g’:“ri“ Fleming, acting director of the Terres- and promised the doctor wou'd S ~ | trial Magnetism Department of the Car- ceive another message from the kid- L o febers."‘No attempt was made to fol- |Re6ie Institutlon. low her as she left. | Received Degree in Berlin. On Tuesday, March 29, Dr. Condon | p gayer was born January 26, 1865, received a communieation that if the | . Cincinnati, the son of Ludwig and meney were not pald by April 8 the | wyeiming Ba ransom would be increased to $100,000. | Aty being graduated from the Uni- That day Lindbergh again eppsared | yorgiy of Cineinnati, he obtained his at the Condon house and it was decided | gocior of philosophy degree from the to pay the money without attempting | e b ‘o Berin, to see the child. The colonel remained | “'yo joineq the United States Coast at the house until 3:30 am. When he | g4 Gaodetic Survey 45 vears ago, serv- left he gave Dr. Condon a note au-|ing g5 astronomer and magnetic com- thorizing him to deliver the money. puter. From 1895 to 1896 he was a Mean time, the $50,000 in small bills | g inematics tutor at the University of had been teken from & Bronx bank and | ghicaga. For the next year he was | put in a safe in & downtown office, 5O | jnctmatar in physics at the Uni- it would be available at any time of | versiy of Cincinnati, assuming the as- | the day or night. | aistant professorship in -methematics | On Thursday, March 31, an adver- | yng mathematical physies in 1897 and tisément was run accepting the Kid- retaining it until 1899, napers’ terms and stating the money | Dyring the same ufm‘d he also was | wa; ready. |chief of the division of terrestrial The next day the doctor received 8 | magnetism of the Maryland Geological letter saying the kidnapers were ready ' Survey. After relinquishing this c to conclude negoiiations, bul Warning nection, he became inspactor of mag- that precautions would be taken to de- | natie werk and chief of the terrestrial feat any attempt t> trap them. With- magnetism division of the United States in two hours Cal. Lindbergh and Col. Coast and Geodetic Survey, retaining Breckinridge arrived at the Condon | tnat pest until 1906. " April 2, Director of Institute, The next day, Saturday, Breckinridge remained at the Condon | In 1904, after serving as astronomor reme all day and Lindbergh arrived and magnetician during the survey of late in the afternoon with the $50.- | the Western boundary ef Maryland, he 000 in & box of the exact speeifications | became directar of the Department of ordered by the kidngpers Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegic Drive to Rendezvous. | Tnstitution. Betgi‘niung in :ass. trf’ 1;(- - 5 . tured on terrestrial magnetism at Johns o B o den dikeciing i w0 | Hopking University, Baltimare, contin- uing this < " SWAtion. REORL iu TPORE of & eong| et batn cattor of Terrestiial Magnetism e Dr. Condon grabbed thelr nats|2nd Atmospheric Electricity since 1896 N4 rushed out of the house. Lind- | At the outbreak of the World War, he e from behind the wheel of | W25 epoointed to the Council of Na- p;‘ih-g“c”,?“md’ drove the doctor to the | Lional Defense as chairman of the Com- appainted place. - mittee on Navigation and Nautical In- e it a. stone | struments. After the armistice, he was found a note directing hi a United States delegate to the Brussels a block awey on the edge meeting of the Research Council | mond’s Cemetery International Geodetic and Geophysical Lindbergh helped Dr Union. cipher the note, then the d the aviator in the car holding of money, while he w his appeintment. In a dark spot surrounded by shrub- bery a, figure popped up from behind a bustf and seid “Here 1 am, doctor. money?” Dr. Condon quested & recel; ‘The dark figure tombstones of the ce eared in & moment r. Condon re end found 1 eh citeme icity N. J. d and I will have a me: Then she hurried aws i Dr. Condon to a spot of St. Ray- on de- ek Lecll Recelved Many Awards. the X x He was & member of numerous or- ent off to KeeP | gonizations, sclentific and _otherwise, including the American Academy of Arts and Sclences, the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Philosophic Soeiety of Washington, the Literary 8o- ciety of Washington and the Cosmos Club. His sclentific work brought him many medals and other awards, and he was recognized throughout the world as an authority in his line. Besides his wife and daughter, he is survived by a brother, William Charles Bauer, dean of the School of Electrical Engineering at Northwestern Univer- sity. The daughter was reported en route here today from her home in note which | West Chester, Pa Funeral arrangementa have not been bargain to the letter, Dr. completed, but tentative plans call for thi - to the man | services at 2 p.m. Priday, in All Souls’ the cemetery. As Unitarian Church, Sixteenth and Har- it reminded the | vard streets, i Cor Have you the id he had, but re- darted off mcross netery and reap- 3 nvelope. moblle usly and ¥ box of money. Money Is Paid, e box a napers to carry out their Inserting uiged the part_of the Condon wall he ¥ % shadowy g handed he FAR EAST QUESTION | ISISSUE AT GENEVA Tardieu Cites Sino-Japanese Conflict as Failure of Ex- isting Peace Pacts. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN, While in responsible quarters in Washington Premier Tardleu's speech vesterday at Geneva s interpreted to | have more bearing on the coming French election issues at the arms conference, serious gpneern is expressed about one sentence of the Frenca premler: “Who could believe,” he asked, “that any state that had broken its ment of the Kellogg pact would keep any secondary engagements?” Thus the fears expressed in Washing- ton ever since the beginning of the Sino-Japanese copflict, that the action of the Japanese in the Far East would have serious repercussions on the issues of the Arms Limitation Conference, ap- pear to have been fully justified. European nations continue to live in fear and suspicion of one another. The American Government has repeatedly told the nch that their demand of additio irity pacts was any fc bec the pact, gg pact and espectaily the ie of Nations were cuffieient guarante that nobody would dare wage an aggressive war any longer The French were skeptical about all these treaties, maintaining that rone of se dation, al | them provided adequate machinery to | deai with a nation that might break any of these security pacts. Tardieu Spoke Plainly, Since there had been no flagrant vio- lation of any of the pacts, the French thesis seemed groundless Since the opening of the conference in January, the French government re- frained from mak y direct allusion to the bearing o Sino-Japanese conflict on the disarmament confer- ence Ye:terday, however, Premier Tardieu is usual biunt way. told the world France thought about the ques- n, end told 1t in plain lauguage. Naturally the British, the Italian and the German representatives are now en- deavoring to work behind the scenes in order to mallify the French premier and officials in Washington pretend to take lightly the French premier's bombshell Nonethelacs, it is admitted in certain quarters that the skies at Geneva are no_longer clear. The Secretary of State left Wash- ington in the bellef that while nothing | spectacular regarding reduction of ar- maments could be expected, the nations of the world would agree at least to limit their war materials to their pres- ent standards Recall Last War. In certain military eircles efforts are considered The dele- gates at Geneva, it is said, think about the next war in terms of the last war They seem to think that the next war will be fought with deacly super en- gines. They imagine the new “Big Ber- thas” and new monstruous tanks will come out of the various arsenals, while huge bombing planes will spread death and destruction throughout the world According to military experts in this country and abroad, the probabilities are that the next war will be fought on entirely new lines and these super en- gines of destruction will be as powerless | as the bayonet and the rifie were in the last war. The next war, if there is one. will be fought, it is thought, on a more humanitarian basis. ‘The teciinical services of various armies are now en- deavoring and have succeeded, to a cer- tain degree, to discover electric and chemical devices which would annihiiate the power of the big guns and super tanks. They are aleo trying to dis- cover means of rendering powerless the action of the huge bombving planes, TARDIEU SEES PLOT TO ISOLATE FRANCE | IN U. S. ARMS PLAN| (Continued From First Page.) recently in London, United States and to work co-op th er that both the | reat Britain desired atively with France Inr" success of this and ent world preblems. eonstru dieu Suspects Plat. the incidents of Mcnday ap- peared to him like a maneuver to rush | through the American plan by surprise, | to isolate France and to torpedo the French plan he concluded, perhaps pre- y. that the whole affair was plotted in advance by Great Britain end the United States, with the con~ nivance of Germany and Italy Because on the basis of this reason- ing the entire French delegation suf- fered bitter memories of the Anglo- American agreement against France at the Washington and London naval con- ferences of the alleged Rritish- G can collugion to surprise ¢ France in the Hoover mora~ Beca s French promptly imagined that | they saw these same alleged tactics be- ginning all over again This is the real explanation of Tar- diew’s refusal. and, in the American opinion, his uncalled for vehemence in yesterday's speech ( 1032) Fleischer was belleved to be on his way to Halifax to board a liner bound for Great Britain, The only trans- atlantic ullm‘: during the next few days are the Montcalm, acheduled for Priday, and the Duchess of Bedl: o I Judiciary Buildin, and transmitted gy Lieut. Thomas H. bodyguard. telephoto to New York. Mastie (slightly behind Lord) and M. . P ville RINCIPALS in the Fertescue-Massle “henor slaying” triai Are shown in this Associated Press telophoto leaving the in Hopolulu after a morning in court. Picture was rushed by fast steamer ‘The defendsnts, shown left to right. are: Albert O f!l:: nlln anneuvo es, B. J. Fortescue. A uniformed “uwauug., than on the actual| fundamental engage- | Locarno | | these gation vesterday at Flemington, N. J PRESIDENT OFFERS PAY IN CUT FIGHT (Continued Prom First Page) of furlough could be authorized. This is the matter which the President de- sires to discuss with the committee of salarles throughout the Federal sery- ice is scheduled to come up in the House tomorrow St ists, both for those favoring a | gen pay cut and for those opposing | reductions” in salaries, are scheming |today how to get the best advantage for their respective sides under the spe- cial rule reporied from the Rules Com- mittee which gives five opportunities to | try out the sentiment of the House on | various adaptations of the salary reduc- tion suggestion. This afternoon the Special Economy | Committee is sencing its representatives for another conference at tae White House with President Hoover and his | advisers. | Gauge of Strength. | The first opportunity to gauge the strength of opposition to salary reduc- | tion comes on the question of adopting the special rules Organized labor, under leadership of Presicent Green of the American Fed- ation of Labor. who has had the lead- s of arganized working men every State in the Unlon canvassing { members of the House the past two weeks, hopes te be able to defeat the adoption of the special rule. That { would force the salary reduction ques- | tion to be brought into the House to | take its chance as an independent meas- | ure entirely divorced from the appro- | priation bills, Fight Against Rule. The fight against the rule on the floar will be led by Reprecentative O'Connor, Democrat of New York, who made the fight yesterday in the execu- tive session of the Rules Committee. the House it was given the broadgst possible powers with privileged status to bring in emergency legislation. This action was teken through the Rules Committee and Representative O'Con- nor argued that the Economy Commit- tee is not playing fair in coming back to the Rules Committec to again ask for special consideration and place its burdens in the lap of the Rules Com-~ mittee. The second oppartunity is the offer- ing.of the 11 per cent salary reduction rezommendation of the Economy Come mittee as an amendment to the legis- lative appropriation bill. Under pro- cedure of the House, amendments to ;,ms amendment will be voted upon rst, | One Amendment Privilege. Under the special rule, onz amend- ment is allowed to be offered to the 11 pe: cent cut amendment. Those who are supporting the original amendment and are in faver of salary redusiicns arc figuring en offering some amend- | ment which weuld shut off the cpposi- tion from ane of its five cpportunities to break down the calary recuction pro- posal. If the parliamentary situation is such that he alone of those cppesing lary reductions will b> in a position a member of the Econcmy Com- ittee entitled to privileged recogni- tion ean gain reecgnition to offer the amendment, then Representative Cochran, Democrat, of Missouri, will 50. | { | Ccchran is unalterably opposed to any salary reduction, but if to pre- vent sharp practice by those favaring reduction, then he is re: some sort cf compromise Secret Conferences. What the three compromise pro- posals to be made by those opposed to the salary reduction bill shiuld be is being considered inesecret conferences today among those outstanding mem- bers of the House who are fighting at every step to prevent the salarles of Government W-rkers, and particulariy those mn the lower- [rom being reduced. These include Rep- resentatives Cochran, Chairman Con- nery of the House Committee on Labor, Representative Cullen, Democrat, of New Ycrk, spokesman for the Tammany delegation; Representative La Guardia, Republican, of New York, who led the successtul fight for the postal employes and to defeat the sales tax; Represent- ative McCormack, Democrat, of Massa- ckusetts, a member of the Ways and Means Committee; Representative Fitz- patrick ¢f New York, Representative Condan of Rhode Islend, Represent- ative Granfield of Mzassachusetts, Rep. resentative Boylan of New York and a score of others. Prospect of Compromsise. There is & good prospect that a com- promise on salary reduction for Gov- ernment employes can be reached with establishment of @ fivesday week as suggested by President Hoover today, | but this must be on & compromise basis | and not entirely on a furlough without pay basis as the President proposed. | Organized labor will be satisfied with | a compromise which includes the five-day | week provision, and so will many mem- | bers of the House who have been fight- ing against the reduction of Govern- ment salaries. Many conservative mem- bers of the House who have not taken active part in the discussion regarding pay cuts are convinced that a satisfac- | tory compromise can be reached. ““You can put it down that the special rule voted out by the Rules Committee vesterday will be defeated if it is called up in the House tomorrow," said Rep- resentative La Guardia, who has been one of the most outspeken opponents of Government pay reduction. Reports| reached Representative La Guardia to- dl?’ thet the specia] rule might not be called up. Checking on this, Chair- man McDuffie of the Economy Commit- | tee sald today, “It is our present inten- tion to call up the special rule to- morrow." Five-Day Week Prospect. Representative La Guardia expressed confidence that & compromise will be reached with establishment of a five- day week throughouy the Pederal serv- ice as one provision Jp the com) 30 DAYS WITHOUT | The big fight over propased slashing | from | He contended that when the Special | Econcmy Committee was authorized by | laries schedules, | ' APRIL 13, 1932. |BEER TAXIS URGED UNDER AMENDMENT TO VOLSTEAD ACT _ (Continued From First Page.) go before the committee at any time to ald in changing the bill, however. Charges Evasion by Mills. Miils' letter was read immediately after the committee resumed its hear- ings. It was in reply to a request e by Harrison when Mills testified last week. Harrison promptly charged the Sec- retary “evaded the question” and “hasn't lived up to his promises to this committee.” I can't agree,” broke in Chairman see.” continued Harrison empt “how Mr. Mills otjects to furnishing a specific program in view of what has happened in the House.” sagreement” or disposition to play politics “on the part of the minority of this committee.” When Smoot observed that the Treasury had submitted a detailed pro- gram to the House Ways and Means Committee, Harrison said the original plan, which included retroactive taxes, “would fall $100,000,000 short of bal- ancing the budget.” | Promised Program He Says. Harrison, reading from Mills' testi- mony before the Senate Committee, said the Secretary had agreed to send up a de.ailed program. “I may say," he added, “that in con- ference with me on the telephone, he told me he was going to send it up im- mediately “He then waits three of four days and I want to say to the administra- tion that they will get nowhere under such policy as ths!." “The Secretary says he is ready to co-operat: in any way,” said Senator Emeot, ‘He's camouflaging,” returned Har- | rison. “Why does he refuse to co- operate here as he did with the House committee? He is not willing to assume the r(:,}z:mlbmtg in the crisis In view of what's gone balore.” Smoot denied any effort was being made by the administration to avoid responsibility. Says Position Is Clear. Mills, in his letter, said that last Wednesday, when he appeared hofore the Finance Committee, he had sub- mitted a summary of the Treasury reccmmendations, tae Ways and Means Committee proposals, and the House | prov'sions. “It seems to me, thorefore, that the | Treasury’s position has been fully pre- sented.” he added. “If the committee desires us to recom- | mend a complete plan as an entire sub- stitute for the House bill, I must refer you to the program submitted to the Ways and Mecans Committee or to the Ways and Means Committee bill, which 1 declared to be acceptable to this de- partment. Either of these plans is preferable to the measure now before you “If, however, the Senate Finance Committeée decided to deal with thq problem by taking the House bill the basis of the revenue which it will recommend to the Senate, and I m not to be understood as opposed to such a course, then I shall, of course, be only too glad to co-operate with the com- mittee in any way I can in attempting to perfect this measure, and shall hold mysel{ in readiness to appear before Yyou at any time you may call upon me.’ CHERRY TREE CEREMONY TO GO ON AIR TODAY Japanese Ambassador and Sol Bloom to Speak on Program Over National Chain, Washington's famcus cherry blossom: on the Tidal Basin will “ga on the air this after At ceremonies to be participated in hy Ambassadar Katsuji Debuchi of Japan and Representative Sol Bloom of New York, asscciate director of the National Bicentennial Commission, the blossoms will be featured in a Nation-wide broad- cast of the National Broadcasting Co. at 4 ('l\;h)?k.( Music for the event will be provided by the United States er‘nep Rldnd playing from the Marine Barracks and synchronized with the radio broadcast Others expected to take part in the ceremonies include Mme, Debuchi, wite of the Ambassador, and their das Mrs. Bloom and Miss Vera Bloo) Attache Miura of the Ja, with Mrs. Miura. DISTRICT VOTES WET Capital Ballots in Poll 8how 3 to 1 Against Dry Law, Residents of the District voting In the Lit Digest prohibiticn poll were 3 to 1 strong in opposition of the eighteenth amendment, & dispatch re- ceived here today states. Of 13.495 votes tallied from Washing- ton, 10491 favored repeal of the amendment and 3,004 urged its contin- uance, the Digest says, . and panese embassy, ——————— “But it must be a real compromise and not a ruthless imposition of compulsery furlough without pay of one month each year on all Government employes from the highest to the lowest,” said Representative La Guardia, It_was also pointed out today that the President's new proposal eliminates at first glance the entire legislative branch because employment in the leg- islative branch does nct coasider leave as one of the items in the employment set-up. Leading members of the House, however, said today that the: is no doubt but that members of Con- £ ‘e85 AN anch wil ~wduction program. Grand Jury Investigating Lindbergh Kidnaping This is the grand jury of Hunterdon County, N. J., to whom the Lindbergh kidnaping case was presented for investi- The Lindbergh home is situated in Hunterdon County. bers of the jury. Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, who appointed the jury, cautioned the jurors to maintain the utmost secrecy regarding evidence laid before them. Three women are mem- —A. P. Photo, VOTE ON HOWARD " FUNDSDUETODAY - Senate to Act on Costigan Amendments to Restore Big Items to Bill. A vote will bz taken in the Senate this ernoon on the Costigan amendm: to the Interior appropriation bill, seek- | Ing to restare some of the money cut from the estimates of Howard U next fiscal y ew m b acted on, so that the Interior bill is likely to be completed and sent to con- ference today For Howard Unis gan has amendments pending 1o aceom plish the following- Increase the salar tem as by the House fro | 000 to $47 crease the ge ex- pense item in the House bill from $225 - 000 to $275.000, d to restare the heat, light and power piant, which was elim- inated by the Senate committee, with an allowance of $460,000. Debate on the Howard items began late vesterday, with Senators Costigan, Demoerat. of Colorado; Cop2land. De: ocrat, of New York. and Haifie'd Re- publican, of West Virginia. all urgingy additional funi university. Senator Smoot, Republ in charge of the il as much int: the university as those who a the amendments, but pointed ouf both the House and the S itees allowed the same amounts for cs and generzl expenses as were iated for the university for the current yesr. The Senate ccmmitiee struck out funds for the erection of the heating plant and toward construction {of a Vbrary. Senctor Smoot sald he reclized & new heating plant is needed hat it could wait another year e necessity of cutting Gov- priations. Senator Costl- the Howard University more severely than other portions of the 30 446 ADDITIONAL MONTGOMERY FUND _ SHORTAGE REPORTED (Continued From First Page) Senator Costi- | | ds for the expenses of toe e ~ kept in the name of “Berry E. Clark, | clerk coun y commissioners,” which was establi:hed in 1925 and against which he is charged with having arewn about $34,000 in checks pareble to himself | and depcrited them in s personal ac- | count and §6,600 in che ta himself | and personzlly indorsed | The last ck on this account, | alleged, was drawn cn March was dismissed, fc | days befcre | The audit report could not cover this account it has be:n stated, because no | | record no bookks to check th kept of it and there were es against which Its existence was disco.erid, howeter, by the audi rm of R. G. Renkin & Co., who ai dited the county's books starting with July 1, 1915 96 Items Located. nately | Ttems nting to approxim $2.896 were located by the auditors. listed as county income in various en- | tries in the general county boks in the | county commissioner's office, but pa ment to the county or aeposits to the county's credit were not loeated Mr. Olark is said to have admitted the existence of the account when questioned by the auditors and the attorneys of the county concerning the $2.896 two days before the audit report was submitted. A eheck for approxi- mately $2.898 to cover these items was turned over to the county treasurer the day he was dismiised. At the | same time he turned over the can- celed checks against the unknown ac- count. The auditing firm continued with the investigation of this unknown bank | account and submitted their informa- tion to the State's attorney for presen- tation to the grand jury Concerning his regular pay checks, Mr. Bond of the auditing firm told the grand jury, it was learned, that it was Mr. Clark’s habit to deposit the: checks directly in his personal ac- count, so that these items did not pass through the unknown account Into this special account, Mr. Bond stated, it had apparently been Mr. | Clark’s custom to deposit checks for bond bids, sheriff's office remittances. fees for building permits, proceeds of several county bond issues between 1925 and 1930, some of the money from the resale of property bought by the county at tax sale and checks of the county commissioner; for the reimbursement of the maintenance of insane persons. When questioned about the account, Mr. Clark is alleged to have maintained that he did not con- sider it an official account. Account Not Authorized. Lacy Shaw, president of the Board of County Commissioners, stated today that the commissioners had never au- thorized Mr. Clark to keep a bank ac- coynt in his name as clerk, and since there was no record pertaining to such an account in their office and no mem- ber of the board or its attorneys had ever beard of such an account, it was cbviously impassible to include that ac- ceunt in the annual county audits that have been held each year, as required by county law. Mr. Shaw also steted that the audit- ing firm was not able to find any refer- 1 d I'Teufii' n m‘;“u:mauu| ence to Mr. Clari’s clerk account dur- ing any portion of their sudit of the county books and te com- | ..’ the secount was not M admitted 'RED CROSS DRAIN MAY EXPAND DRIVE $37,000,000 More Spent Since War Than Received, Says McClintock. With relief demands continually in- | creasing beyond the capacity of its 4.000,000 enrollment, the Red Cross leaders today stressed the need of greater efforts in the Nation-wide drive next Fall for increased membership. James K. McClintock vice chairman in charge of finance, sized up the sit- | uation by explaining that since the war the Red Cross has expended for relfef some $37.000.000 more than it has re- | ceived. To meet the needs of the com- |ing year, he said, increased financial | support is necessary it the Red Oross is {to render the prompt and effective service which the public has come to expect from it It is the intention to seek bequests rather than individual subscriptions to provide an adequate increase in the en- |dowment fund which, under an act ress, is administered by a board s under the Secretary of the Favors Enrollment Increase. R. Bruce McGraw | si 1d, Mass. Chapter, who pre- | general session, likewise essed an increased enrollment as one the most vital things facing the ganization or Red Cross delegates, who are g simultaneously with the nation- al convention, have elected the follow- rman of the or | ng officers: Robert Mallett, Sacramento, Iif, high school boy, chairman; Lu- e del Valle, Porto Rico, vice chair- n, and Alfred Mitehell, Washington, ry. A total of 183 delegates from wapters in 24 States are taking part he junior convention Just ‘before noon today & group of anio from the District of Columbia unjor Council staged a pageant, Everybody's Plag.” for the national i It was under direction of 1. Kinner, principal of tott Junior High School, and served to typify the friendship between the ren of all nations. Piigrimages This Afternoon. afternoon many of the delegates making pligrimages to Mount Ver- n and Arlington National Cemetery. t 5 oclock Mrs. Hoover will receive delegates at the White House. Dele- ions going to Mount Vernon will N in time for the reception. hi at 8 o'clock | Ca e 63 lin |3 | reception will be at McKinley chool. Harold G. Campbell, as- perintendent of schools, New one of the morning speakers, the work of the Junior. Red e American public schools. | praised Cross said. is the furnishing of ejeglazses 1o needy children schools. 0,355 pairs of in the Work in Foreizm Lands. at lest n. gh st P, Bicl ! asters. in contribuied was § more than 511,000,000 was & | disa“ter, the Japanese eartl 1923 While these expenditures are modest compared to_the $52,000,000 expended by tae Red Cross in the United States during the last decade, they. neverihe- less serve to demonsirate the sympathy of the American people for neighbors in misforiune, Mr. Bicknell said. The Junior Red Cua-., he said, is now estebl shed ent countries in the world /600,000 adults; a tig quaze of today is approximat 12,600 juniors. “With this force of 24,000,000 per- sons devoted to amelicration of suffers ing and the cultivation of friendly re- lations among all peoples. it is not too much to hope that the Red Cross may prove an influential factor in promet- ing the ideal of peace,” he said Other speakers at the dinner included | Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi and | Miss Mabel T, Boardman, sacretary of the Central Committee of the Red Cross. Chairman John Barton Payns presided. Earlier in the aftsrnoon Mrs. He bert Hoover, whose husband had ad- dressed the opening session of the cone vention, in during the deliberati¥ns on_unemployment Miss Bo iman, at this meeting, re- ported on the work of the volunteer service of which she is director. A part of this volunteer work among the un- employed was the distribution of cloth- ing. As an example of the extensives ness of this service, she quoted the chairman of the production department of the Boston Metropolitan Chapter, Mrs. W H. Laverack, as having dise tributed 12,500 garments. 'RETURN TO BURNING ¥ | HOME PROVES FATAL Colored Resident of Takoma Park Dies in Flames as He Seeks to Save Money. By & Staff Correrpondent of The Star | TAXOMA PARK. Md. April 13— Going back into his burning home to | recover some money which had been left, Charles Valontine, 54, colored. was trapped by the flames and burned to death near here this morning. A cer- | tificate of aceidental death has ben issued by Justice of the Peace John A, Downing. |~ Valentine, with his family, number- | ing about 12 people. lived in the old house which was located in Prince Georges County, just outside of the corperation limits of Takoma Park. The house was owned by M. Frank Ruppert, Washington hardware mer- chant. Several members of the family were in the house when it took fire, appar- ently from the chimney, this morning, | but all succeeded in making their way out. Valentine, however, stated that | he had about $35 in the house snd went back to get his money. The body was found by firemen and police, who went through the ruins after the house had burned down. The Takoma Park Volunteer Fire Depart- ment responded to the alarm, but was required to run hose more than one- hn“! mile and were unable to save the house. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band this evening at the auditorium, Marine Barracks, at 8 o'clock. Capt, Taylor Branson, Jeader. Overture, “Carneval Romain" “Reve Angelique’ Selections from “Naug) sose Rubinstein hty Marietta,” Herbert Intermezzo, “Cherry Nocturne No, 3, * Waltz, “Danubs. Wayes' Grand scenes from “Alda”, arines’ hymn, “The