Evening Star Newspaper, April 24, 1932, Page 1

WEATHER. . 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy and cooler; tomorrow, cloudiness, possibly followed by showers; gentle to moderate north winds. Temperatures—Hig! hest, 80, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 49, at 6 am. yesterday. Full report on page 7. No. 1414—No. 32,135, econd cla Washington, Entered as post office, D. C FEDERAL ECONOMY BILL TO BE GIVEN HOUSE TOMORROW Battle Scheduled Wednesday on Legislation Drafted to Balance Budget. REDUCED WAR VETERANS’ BENEFITS REINSERTED Moover's Compuisory Furlough Plan Will Be Offered Substitute for Pay Cut. as ‘The omnibus pay cut and economy bill s drafted, approved in committee | and ready to be introduced in the House tomorrow by Chairman McDuffie of the House Special Economy Committee after more than eight hectic weeks of struggle to Jop off some $200,000,000 from Federal empenditures to “balance the budget.” Determined to complete the bill, the members of the committee worked in | — shirtsleeves until nearly midnight last | Man Capper | Committee will night and are planning to devote much of today to preparation for the battle 8t€ tomo the mu | and also to deal with the taxation of | | other cor | in the field of t munication. that is scheduled for Wednesday when the bill is taken up in the House. Committee Reverses Itself. Shortly before sending the bill to the | printer last night, on motion of Rep- | resentative Douglas, Democrat, of Ari- | zona,. the committee reversed and reinserted, in a modified form, President Hoover's recommendations to reduce benefits to World War vet- terans by approximately $50,000,000 is change would cut allowances, pensions and free hospitalization to ex- service men having incomes of $1,500 if single and $3,500 if married. with $400 for each dependent. and by re- ducing pensions to veterans receiving subsistence or treatment in hospitals and homes. ‘While the omnibus bill contains the 11 per cent slash in all Federal salaries with $1,000 exemption expected to save $67,000,000, the counter proposal of | President Hoover for compulsory fur- | loughs without pay on a five-day week basis has been prepared in legislative i ; . Senator Capper said he was impressed form and will be offered as a substitute | Senator Capper said he was impressed | Mapes report, and that the subsequent discussions before the Senate District Committee has led him to believe the allowances to rural mail carriers, is utilities ‘are getting off very lightly." by Representative Ramseyer, Repub- lican, of Indiana. N President Hoover's plan, including the elimination of $17,000,000 in vehicle estimated to save $82,000,000. Members Divided on Bill. ‘This omnibus bill is admittedly the most controversial measure that has come before the House in many ) 8o much so that even the members of the Economy Committee are bitterly . divided on it. ; Those who,hope to defeat the bill agree it is the best strategy to ac-| cept the special rule that is to be granted to make the omnibus bill ger- mane on the legislative appropriation bill, and “keep it all in one bag,” so as to keep the opposition consolidated. ‘This opposition includes organizations of the National Federation of Federal Employes, the “big four" organizations of postal employes, the American Fed- eration of Labor, the American Legion and the Disabled Veterans. The draft completed by the com: ¢ tee late last night contains the pro- posed consolidation of the War and Navy Departments, to which the ad- iministration is opposed, and would give President Hoover authority to reor- ganize the Government, but in a more closely restricted form than he re- quested. Under the authority granted Presi- dent Hoover to reorganize the Gov ment, subject to congressional within 60 days, the bill propos activities created by statu t be disposed of through executive order. Fund Interchanges Provided. The committee also inserted a vision, requested by the Chief tive in his economy program, to pe an interchange of appropriations w a department or agency up to 15 pe cent, President Hoover is anxious this b approved in order that functions of d partments might not be discontir through the 10 per cent slash imp by the Senate Specific consolidations of Gov ment activities carried in the bil clude the merging of the Pers Classification Board with the Service Commission and the Inspection Service with the Navigation in the Commerce ment Provisions affecting Government sonne! include Retirement (Continued on F VANDALS WRECK WALLS OF NEW WAR MEMORIAL Is | e pro- - ontiel Civil amboat Depy of superan: ge 2, Column 4.) Political Friction Bl d for CAPPER PROPOSES | are not being taxed s itself | ator Capper tax that wou templated bi pan! | which early in the session brought out | and put through the House four bills | | to increase local taxes generally, dis- | cerns, Senator Capper also dealt in his | statement with the question of taxation of steam railroads, |and bus lines, cable companies and steamboat com- | panies. ] | O gross receipts, but the rate is not uniform. cent railways | ceipts, cent on gross earnings, and telephone companies 4 per cent on gross earnings. They also pay real estate taxes. taxes, read in part as follows weight. service should not be taxed. I 2 “ TARDIEU ASSAILED | Sound of Starlight Like Violin’s Tone Is Radioed in Test By the Associated Press. i NEW YORK. April 23.—Scien- tists broadcast for the first time tonight what they believed was the sound of starlight i The beam of Venus was picked up from the eyepiece of a tele- scope by a photoelectric cell, amplified into a microphone and broadcast over a > network. The sound resem t of & ained high note a violin, he experiment wa: ducted in the general science laboratory of New York Unive Albert Sheppard, as E. E. Free. The pr been used before, Dr. explained, to measure and for other observations. Sheppard light UTILITY TAXBOQST Local Companies Are Not Bearing Share. Believing that local utility companies ficiently, Chair- the Senate District fler a bill in the Sen- ow to increase substantially 1 revenue from this sourc ions entering the District nsportation and com- ora ement issued last night, Sen- ‘> estimated that the total | d be paid under the con- | In a st s would amount to $2,815,683, as inst taxes paid these local cor nies of $1,3 40 under existing ' s. The Mapes Committee in the House, ¢ { | cussed in its report the question of re- | vamping the public utility tax system, b that subject. ut did not draft any legisiation on “Getting Off Lightly.” In announcing his intention of tak- ng up the public utility tax question, In addition to the local utility con- interurban trolley telegraph companies, At present the various local public ilities pay a tax on gross earnings Gas companies pay 5 per gross earnings, electric street Pay 4 per cent on gross I electric light companies 4 per on | Capper’s Statement. ! The statement Senatr Capper issued explaining how he would revise these “During our hearing on the bill tn ax motor vehicles according to tf representatives of the loc: treet 1ailway companies told the com- ttee that the busses they have as they re covered by the gross receipts tax paid by the companies to the Distric ne utility companies also pay a real ate tax. There was introduced a chart pre-| " ared by the District assessor showi that the utilities companies of Wash- n were paying a total of $1.309- each year on their gross earn-| &' or gross receipts The chart 1owed that the companies would p: ach year, if taxed at present rates eal estate, tangible personal proper d intangible personal property, geregate toial of $2,501.397.83 I was impressed also by a st the report of the Mapes Committer the committee selected by the Hous (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) 0 | | IN HERRIOT SPEECH Radical Socialist Leader Says Lack of Confidence in Premier Hits Business, 23—Edouard Herriot werful opposition radi- de t Premier Andre Smas Tard| camp rsons in_an e gh before {ing delegates who | Broad street, he WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION WASHINGTON, ROOSEVELT GIVEN ODDS OVER SMITH IN PENNSYLVANIA Governor Faces Bitter Fight, However, From Foes Who Would “Stop Him.” JEFFERSON DAY DINNER PRECIPITATED BATTLE On Republican Side an Empty Victory by Default Will Go to France—Hoover Not Entered. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. PHILADELPHIA, April 23.— Gov. | Head of D. C. Committee Says{ Franklin D. Rooseveit of New York and Alfred E. Smith go to the mat in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary on Tuesday. Both sides claim victory. The odds appear to favor Roosevelt, although the balloting may be close. Roosevelt and Smith are hooked up In the presidential preferential primary. They are also fighting it out for dele- gates to the national convention. It is conceivable Roosevell might lose the preference vote and still have a majority of the delegates. If Roosevelt wins the preference vote, there seems no doubt whatever that he will also have a ma- jority of the delegates. Here in Pennsylvania the anti-Roose- velt Democrats are seeking to stage & real “stop Roosevelt” primary election They are attempting to make it a com- claim they will have in the Massachu- setts primary, also on Tuesday. Un- doubtedly if the anti-Roosevelt Demo- crats can win in these two populous Eastern States, Rocosevelt'’s candidacy will have received a severe check. France Only G. O. P. Entrant. On the Republican side of the presi- dential preferential primary the only entrant is former Senator Joseph L France of Maryland. President Hoo- ver's name was not entered. The “‘preference” goes by default to France. But it is an_empty victory for the Marylander. The organization is elect- will vote for Mr. Hoover when the national convention meets in June. Some of the delegates will be friends of Gov. Pinchot, pos- sibly a dozen of them, who would be willing to swing to the Governor if there was any possibility of his becom- ing a contender for the presidential nomination. There seems none now. The anti-Roosevelt Democrats in this State have been up against the old game of trying to “beat somebody with nobody” until finally they obtained on Friday from Mr. Smith a letter which went further toward making him an aggressive, active candidate for the presidential nomination than any of his other utterances to date. Smith's supporters in Pennsylvania pleaded with him for weeks to come out and be a real candidate, fearing that the gossip that Smith was not a candidate was sapping all his strength and the strength of the anti-Roosevelt movement. They urged him to come to Philadelphia and just walk down if he wouldn't make & speech. But Mr. Smith held off. It was not until Smith’s Jefferson day din- ner speech in Washington that the E supporters really began to be uraged Plight Called Sad. The great difficulty of the anti- Roosevelt movement in Pennsylvania was to get a candidate, either Smith r ther, Even now, when the lead- the anti-Roosevelt movement alking turkey,” they admit they no chance of Smith’s nomination that the man they will go to in a Newton D. Baker of Obhio, t Wilson's War Secretary. But using Smith’s name today in they will be able to_stop rush of Roosevelt. ~With lf a candidate, and Baker nself not a candidate at of the anti-Roosevelt d on Page 4, Column 6. are (Cor TODAY'S STAR. PART ONE—24 PAGES. ('-v‘;v v Local, National ore Schools and Colleges—Page B-4. PART TWO—8 PAG! d Editorial Features. y—Page 4 i ed Lives"—Page 5. 5 Page 6 eterans—Page 6. ign Wars—Page 7. PART THREE—10 PAGES. Society Sec Kathleen Women in ¢ Article—Page 5, Official Life—Page 7. the local utility com- | panion piece for the victory which they | | | French industry is suffering because lacks confidence in the present n M. Herriott declared vear, he asserted. there )0 business failures in Babotage in Suburb of Chicago. PART FOUR—10 PAGE! ment Section—Stage, nd Radio, Page 3 World—Page 4. Screen, During the I BY the Asso e been 11,06 CHICAGO, April constructed walls morial building to the in suburban B today to 3 time Pri ed Press | In the Mo u in the inter- | Aviatios s in the domes- | Di cader charged Guard—Page 5. ar Mothers- America Page 5. en presented | ¥. W Fraternities the wreckers wa by president of the Memorial Park Board Boncour n to which ) marked the be- | sive phase of the r the election on May 1 | Pinancial News and Classified Adver- | then put on the stand . DIET OF HEALTHY PRISONER Sing Sing Inmate, Grateful for Spared Life, Voluntarily |, Passes Up Chicken and Other Y. April 23—For 10 years Joseph y, Sing Sing pri oner, has lived on a diet of dry bre and 'tea only, Warden Lewis E. Lawes disclosed today in affirming the prison- or's health as good sk started the diet in 1921 g death in the electric ‘er. When Gov. Miller Specials. ce d the sen imprison- ment, the prisoner continud the re- stricted diet in a spirit of gratefulness. ‘Warden Lawes today said Jaworsky even passes up chicken dinners and ent, PART SIX—14 PAGES. tising. Community Centers—Page 13. American Legion—Page 13. PART SEVEN—20 PAGES. Magazine Section otes of Art and Artists—Page 14. eviews of New Books—Page 15. Cross-word Puzzle e 16. Bridge Forum—Page 17 Tre Boys' and Girls' Page—Page 18 Highlichts of History—Page 19 Those Were the Happy Days—Page 20 GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. | World Events in Pictures. COLORED SECTION—S8 PAGES. | other special meals enjoyed by the in- ' Keeping Up With the Joneses; Tarzan; Mr. and Mrs.: The Timid Soul; Moon mates on holidays. And. he added, h as he was when | el t and Jeff. Little Or- D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 24, 1932—106 PAGES. Sy Star, * “From Press 1o Home Within she Howr” ‘The Star is delivered every evening and -| FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS EN CENTS le |President and Other Notables Attend Ceremony in Eliz- abethan Setting. i \ Collection of Priceless Books Housed in $2,000,000 Marble Shrine. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A noble shrine was dedicated in Washington yesterday afternoon to the | supreme genius of the English-speaking | race. Before President Hoover and a notable assembly of officials and robed | scholars, in an Elizabethan setting and with the exquisite accompaniment of Elizabethan music played on the clavichords and virginals of the sixteenth century, ‘the Folger Shake- | spearean Library was turned over to | the American pecple represented by the | trustees of the little New England col- | his interest and his inspiration. The events which culminated yester- day began when the words of a totter- ing old philosopher. spoken from the lecture platform of Amherst College more than a half century ago, struck 'FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY 1S PRESENTED TO PEOPLE OF U. §. MRS. HENRY C. FOLGER. fire in the imagination of one of the | students, Emerson. Folger. world of commerce. The one was Ralph Waldo The other was Henry Clay He became one of lege from which its donor had drawn | the commanding figures in the industry | of a new age and one of the country’s wealthiest men. But through all his days the ac- cumulation of wealth and the affairs of an enormous corporation were only secondary interests in the career of the great oil magnate. Emerson had (Continued on Page 5. Column 1.) MASSIE TESTIMONY [0 END TOMORROW Jury Due to Get Case by Mid- dle of Week; Alienists Call Officer Sane. HONOLULU, April 23 ANANA\—‘ The battle of the alienists in the For- tescue-Massie murder trial is over and | Monday will see the end of the testi- mony in the famous political and so- ciological case, which was started by the moody walk of a bored girl dow a dark road in Honolulu last Fall. The probability is that the case will g0 to the jury the middle of next week, and then only the developments in the jury room will determine its fur-| ther length. That deliberations will| not be brief is certain, for any one would have difficulty in deciding this complex and still debated matter. Clarence Darrow, chief counsel for the defense, amused the court room to- | day by dismissing one of the alienists for the prosecution with one question in his gentle, disparaging drawn. Dr. Paul Bowers of Los Angeles, with a long record in psychiatric practice, gave it as his opinfon that Lieut. Thomas H. Massie. who. with Mrs.' Granville Fortescue, his mutherdn-law.t and two Navy enlisted men, is on trial | for the killing, was sane at the time Joseph Kahahawai, at native, was shot. Spectators Admonished. Darrow merely asked - Dr. Bowers whether he expected to be paid for coming to Honolulu and when the doc- tor said he did, the famous attorney | smilingly dismissed him. There was a | slight murmer of voices and Judge Charles S. Davis again admonished speciators to keep quiet. ; When the court convened, the public prosecutor, John C. Kelley, asked that the record show that the request to| examine Lieut. Massie had been denied | by the defense and reiterated his re- quest. It was again refused. Mr. Kelley tenographer " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) VETERAN PILOT KILLED New York Police Flyer Dies; Own- er of Plane Badly Hurt. NEW YORK, April 23 (#)—Sergt Allen Vo Hagen, 35, a pioneer among New York City’s police pilots, was killed today in the crash of a private airplane | he was piloting. George Kirchhuber, 37, owner of the plane and Von Hagen's passenger, was injured critically. ‘The plane, a monocoupe, had reached a height of about 75 feet when the motor stopped and Von Hagen attempt- ed to turn the plane around and land. ‘The plane went into a flat spin and crashed. FRANCE EXPECTED 10 PAY INTEREST Assurance on U. S. Deht Likely to Be Given Secre- tary Stimson. BY CONSTANTINE BROW Alter a long and strenuous week of negotiations and conversations with the leaders of the principal powers, Secre- tary Henry L. Stimson left Geneva yesterday for a week end, tired, hoarse nd to a certain degree disappointed. At the advice of his doctor, the Secre- tary is seeking a rest near Montreux, where, in the seclusion of the moun- tains, he will have a chance to recover his voice and think undisturbed about the prospects of the disarmament con- ference in particular and world affairs in general During the first week he spent at Geneva, Mr. Stimson has learned one thing positively, that the French are determined to oppose any reduction in the personnel and the material of their land. sea and air forces, unless France's security is guaranfeed in unequivocal terms by Great Britain and the United States. Expected to Meet Obligation. Before leaving the shores of Lake | Leman the Secretary also may learn that the present French government ! intends to meet its financial obligations towards the United States, at least dur- ing the first six months following the Hoover moratorium, this regardless as 0 what Germany may do about reparations. Secretary Stimson ald not go to Geneva last January, not only because the Far Eastern crisis required his presence in Washington, but also be- cause he did not want to waste his time in Europe. He intimated that he would g0 over as soon as the powers as- sembled at Geneva were ready “to do something constructive.” __According to those who were keeping (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) ELEVEN ESCAPE JAIL Pair Indicted in Slaying Missing; 12 Prisoners Stay. HINTON, W. Va., April 23 (#).— Eleven prisoners, two of them awaiting trial on murder charges, escaped from the Summers County jail tonight. The prisoners, grouped in the bull- pen, were released from the inclosure, officers said, by Amos McKinney, a trusty. Twelve other prisoners refused to join in u:vev escape. Houston kel and Lonnie kel brothers, uunycud Thursday L murder of E. Plerce Gwinn, preacher, were among those wheo fled. The student went out into the | for the |do BABY NEGOTIATORS *OALLCLIMAX NEAR Important Developments Ex-| pected to Follow Three Mysterious Missions. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va, April 23—Maneuv- ers by three Norfolk men seeking to bring about the return of the Lindbergh baby were accelerated tonight as at least one of the principals indicated their negotiations were moving towards | a climax. While maintaining his usual silence regarding details, Very Rev. H. Dobson- Peacock intimated some important de- velopment was expected upon culmina- tion of three secret missions undertaken this week. John Hughes Curtis, contact man for | the negotiators, was away todsy on a mission presumably in connection with the negotiations, while Dean Dobson- Peacock said that he himself made a | plane flight of several hours' duration | early this morning. | Dean Dobson-Peacock said he could | not. tell what progress had been made and when conclusion of their negotia- tions might be expected. | _“I don't know myself,” he said. He then intimated, however, that some im- portant development might be expected soon. It could not be learned if the present mission engaging Mr. Curtis and the flight made today by the clergyman were to points near to those which Mr. | Curtis went on other of his missions. The trips made earlier this week by the two men were to points in New Jersey and New York. On their return from these trips it was announced through their spokesman, Rear Admiral Guy H. Burrage, retired, that Mr. Curtis had conferred with Col. Lindbergh and that | Dean Dobson-Peacock, who left here later, had gone to New York to co- operate with his associates in their negotiations. “JAFSIE” AD WITHDRAWN, Lindbergh Reported in Direct Touch | With Kidnapers. HOPEWELL, N. J., April 23 (#).—Dr. John F. Condon, the “Jafsie” who paid | on behalf of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh $50,000 to persons supposedly holding the colonel's stolen baby, but failed to obtain the child’s release, today with- drew the “What is Wrong?” advertise- ment he had kept inserted in news- | papers since the ransom payment. | Whether the action meant Dr. Condon had re-established contact with the kid- napers could not be ascertained, al- though it was reliably reported yester- { day that Col. Lindbergh himself had | made a contact early in the week. A member of Scotland Yard, In- | spector T. Gallacher, was reported from | Ottawa, Ontario, as working in the | case. He has been in the United States | two weeks. | PENNSYLVANIA PAIR HELD. Alzelhd as Result of Letter Written to Colonel. DOWNINGTON, Pa., April 23 () — A man and woman who mailed a letter " (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) OHIO WITHDRAWS TROOPS AT MINES |Four Companies Sent Home as Tension Eases—Handful of About 350 Remain. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 23—Four companies of Ohio National Guardsmen were ordered withdrawn from the coal mine strike area of Eastern Ohio to- day, their job of maintaining peace apparently ended. The Governor said he believed law and order has been restored sufficiently that the remaining handful of Guards- men, about 350, could meet any emer- gency with the assistance of local au- thorities. He said he hoped the remainder of the troops could be withdrawn soon and that he could go ahead with a | peace plan which he has not yet re- | vealed. Meanwhile 27 Eastern Ohio operators | informed Secretary of Labor Doak they | would not accept his second invitation | to meet at his office with union lead- | ers in an effort to reach a seitlement. The operators, who have tuken the stand sald they cannot afford to rec- ognize the union until all other 80, told Secretary Doak they ( { Al POLICE DRIVE NETS J0 IN GAMBLING RAIDS DOWNTOWN Ceiling Chopped When Door at 915 Ninth St. Defies Battering Crew. | | SLEDGES USED IN TWO STREET ONSLAUGHTS Glassford Heads Visits and Patrols Are Kept Busy. Simultaneous | | Striking simultaneously at three | downtown gambling establishments yes- terday afternoon, squads of picked police battered their way through | heavily barricaded doors and arrested | more than 300 alleged gamblers. A majority of shose arrested were booked as witnesses and released under | $100 bond each. The others were charged as principals. Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, | superintendent of police, personally | directed the raids. This, his first big offensive against the gamblers, was planned and executed with military precision. Chops Through Ceiling. At 915 Ninth street the door was so strongly barricaded that police could not break through, so they went up- | stairs and chopped an entrance through | the ceiling. Doors were smashed in | the other raids at 713 I street and 1402 | I street. In each place police found an assort- ment of gaming tables and race track betting paraphernalia. The Ninth street | establishment, was equipped with a radio set capable of receiving broadcasts from | the Police Department Short Wave | Station. All persons found in the three places were rounded up and taken to precinct stations in patrol wagons. Gambling | tables, charts and other equipment was confiscated for later use as evidence. Gaming Charges Preferred. Eight alleged proprietors of the estab- lishments were charged with setting up | a gaming table Clifford Voorhes, 39, of the 800 block of I street; Pred J. Fillah, 22, of the | 1100 block of Tenth street; George Drew Craig, 27, of the 1200 block of N street: | Joseph Ruppel, 33, of the 900 block of Fifth street, were arrested at the raid staged in the 900 block of Ninth street. One hundred and thirty-six persons were arrested in this raid. Thirteen separate patrol loads were brought from this address. In the raid on a place in the 1400 block of I street, Percy C. Jones, 41, of the 1400 block of I street, was charged with setting up a gaming table. Sixty- eight persons were arrested there. In the raid on an alleged establish- ment in the 700 block of I street, police arrested and charged Joseph H. Lin- kins, 32, of the 3600 block of O street; John A. Mahoney, 26, 900 block of Eleventh sireet; Herman E. Roach, 38, of the 800 block of K street. Police ar- Tested 48 patrons in that raid. The eight alleged proprietors posted $2,000 bond each. Of the witnesses, 219 furnished $100 bond each and 25 were | released upon posting $25 cash col- | lateral, The raids were carefully planned by | Gen. Glassford and Inspector James F.| Beckett at conferences beginning weeks ago with vice squad officials. Nine men were set to gathering evi- dence at the three places, and care- fully prepared the groundwork of the case. When the offensive was set for vesterday afternoon, all was in readi- ness. Warrants were in hand. Forty | picked men assembled at No. 1 pre- cinct, and were met by Gen. Glassford and Inspector Beckett. Final instruc- | tions were gone over carefully again, | and the men were divided into three| flying squadrons - To avoid suspicion, police cars were left behind and the men took to taxi- cabs, arriving simultaneously at the three places at the prearranged time of 3:20 o'clock. So_carefully were plans laid, so well " (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) FATHER OF IhISSING BOY IS SOUGHT BY POLICE Estranged Wife Says Child Disap- peared When She Was Called SENATEMAY CALL RASKOB 0 TESTIFY INEXCHANGE PROBE Democratic Leader, W. C. Durant, W. F. Kenny and Others Named in Pool. TWO BIG BEAR TRADERS SURPRISE COMMITTEE Thomas E. Bragg and Bernard E. Smith Appear Voluntarily to Tell of Activities. The Senate's delvers into stock ex= change operation dug out yesterday the history of an ill-fated $32,000,000 “bull” pool in Anaconda Copper which netted heavy but unstated losses for many persons prominent financially, socially and politically just prior %o the final market collapse of 1929, John J. Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Percy A. Rockefeller, W. F. Kenny, New York contractor and close associate of for- mer Gov. Alfred E. Smith; W. C. Du- rant, once head of General Motors; Fred J. Pisher, who still holds placs near the top 'of that industrial or- ganization, and M. J. Meehan, broker, were among the notables described as taking part of the beating. The inquiry session as well threw some light on the inner methods of moving and dealing with stocks—inci~ dentally enabling Senators partici- pating to indulge in_some passages of acrid criticism of financial arrange- ments. It foreshadowed, foo, the future compelled attendance of several men notable in speculative enterprise, and laid the basis for further search- ing and detailed inquisition into the mechanism of the late speculative era. It did not, however, bring forward any- thing except negligible data as tv col- lusive short selling, or “bear raiding™ the type of tactics against which the Senate Banking and Currency Com- mittee, conducting the investigation, is at present aiming its dragnet. Dropped Temporarily. ‘Thomas E. Bragg, once a partner in the exchange house of W. E. Hutton & Co., and Bernard E. Smith, who reluc- tantly conceded that “people do call me one of the big operators,” though he sharply asserted that “nobody has ever called me a big bear raider to my face, whatever they have said elsewhere® were the prime sources of the commit- tee's information yesterday. Both men were brought into the in- vestigation when Percy A. Rockefeller, tesifying Friday, told of their participa- tion with him in speculative ventures. They were led somewhat reluctantly by the round table of senatorial inquisitors and by William A. Gray. the committee attorney, through the tale of great out- lay in high-priced stocks of 1929. Dropped only temporarily from the in- quiry, both were warned to return with complete records of all their trades and transactions and their associations with pools and syndicates, for many years back. Both Mr. Bragg and Mr. Smith, sought unsuccessfully Friday by Senate subpoena servers, presented themselves voluntarily to the committee, having come instantly to Washington on learn- ing through press reports that their at- tendance was desired. Mr. Bragg, after his connection and general activities were established and after promising the full report of transactions from his private Yecord, told Mr. Gray that he had “mostly had a long position in stocks prior to the Summer of 1929 and mostly & short position since.” Protesting that he “didn't know whether the quantity could be considered important,” he es- timated that he had been “short as much as 50,000 shares at one time, but right now my short accounts are be- tween 12,000 and 15,000 shares.” Describes Transaction. Senator Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, switched the examination to specific transactions in which he had associated with Mr. Rockefeller, When the witness told of the purchase dur- ing 1928 in join® account with Mr. Smith and Mr. Rockefeller of & con- siderable block of Lima Locomotive, (Continued on Page 6, Column 1. STUDENT SET FREE AFTER POLICE LINE-UP to Telephone. By the Associated Press | LOS ANGELES, April 23.—Police to- night are searching for Dr. Leon Ken- neth Meredith of Des Moines, Iowa, at | the request of his estranged wife, Mrs. Irene Hix Meredith, who yesterday re- | ported that their son, Kenneth, 6, had disappeared from home. After a report had been received that Dr. Meredith had left Des Moines, Mrs Meredith conferred with police in the belief, they said, her husband had taken the lad. Forged Record at Johns Hopkins Charged in New York In- vestigation. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, April 23 —Gerald Kapl- loff, 24, was in the police line-up to- day, charged with an involved forgery which concerned his record as & stu- dent at Johns Hopkins University, Police said they learned the physi- | Dismissed from the university in 1930 cian reserved airplane passage to Los|for failure to pass his examinations, Angeles from Des Moines April 12, but | Police said he obtained a copy of his dispatches quoted his secretary as say- | college record, struck out demerits and ing that he had gone to Padueah, Ky. |unfavorable notations and had a pho- His mother, Mrs. C. B. Meredith, added | tostatic copy and, subsequently, a steel that he was “on a business trip in the | €ngraving made. South.” few days ago he submitted the The authorities admitted they had e to a printing office and asked for no clew as to his whereabouts impressions. Becoming suspicious, In connection with the search it was | the shop owners notitfied the university revealed that a month ago Mrs. Mere- |and Page Nelson, a representative of dith asked police to make an identifi- Johns Hopkins, was sent here to inves- plat 50 cation photograph of her son, declar- ing she “wouldn’t be surprised” if Dr. Meredith were to take the child away. Mrs. Meredith said she was called to her telephone terday, that a man's| voice held her in meaningless conversa- | tion for a few minutes, and that when | she returned her son was gone. tigate. Kapiloff was arrested yesterday when he accepted a steel engraving and 10 copies struck from it at the shop. Later in the day the charge of forgery against Kapiloff was dismissed in Jef- ferson Market Court by Magistrate Au- gust Dreyer when Nelson refused to press a complaint. CLEVELAND POLICEMEN CARRY WORTHLESS KEYS FOR 17 YEARS Fire Chief Surprised Patrolmen Unaware of Fact They Can’t Unlock Alarm Boxes. By the Associated Press. | CLEVELAND, April 23—For years and years, Cleveland policemen have | been trudging home nights and telling | their wives to mend those trousers pockets again. “It's that confounded key” they would explain. The key is made of brass, almost 2 inches long. It weighs more than a silver dollar and has the same effect an trousers pockets. “It's the master key to all the fire alarm boxes,” the policemen would in- form their wives. Somebody mentioned the matter to Fire Chief George Hanrahan today. He was surprised. “Do the police s Why, it's been x‘;";un m% g s 'ml!dlmkfl- any fire alemm boxes