Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1932, Page 2

PEN WOMEN NAME . PRESIDENT TODAY Writer and Composer Oppos-l ing Candidates in League’s Annual Election. ‘With & writer and & composer as lead- ing candidates for the presidency, vot- ing was In progress today at the con- vention of e National League of American Pen Women at the Willard Hotel. Polls will close this evening and Tesults of the election will be announced | {tomorrow. The presidential candidates placed in nomination at the opening of teday's sessions are Mrs. Clara Heflebower, a writer, of Cincinnati, and Mrs. Phyilis Fergus Hoyt of Chicago, the first com- poser placed on an election ticket in the history of the league, ‘t was said. Opponents of Mrs. Hoyt contend that only authors should hold office in the league, while her friends point out that the membership embraces many com- posers. 150 Delegates Voting. About 150 delegates are voting and ‘they represent 36 States. Discussions of writing for juveniles and of the composition of the short story were in progress today. Speakers included Inglis Fletcher and Elizabeth Burgess Hughes. Isabella Griffith Fleck led a discussion of markets for literary work. % A choral concert has been arranged | at 8 oclock tonight in Mt. Vernon M. E. Church, Ninth street an Massa- | chusetts avenue. The convention will close tomorrow night. At the afternoon session yesterday, Mrs. Flora Jesseph of Chicago, fifth national vice president and chairman of the manuscript service, gave her Teport covering two years' service. This | was followed by Teadings by Mrs. Blanche E. Johnston and Elsye Tash Sater of Burlington, Jowa. Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis and Carmea L. Kest- ing also spoke. Received at White House. The convention members were fe- ceived at the White House yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Hoover and were ests later of the Ambassador of Po- nd, Tytus Filipoweiz, at the Polish ¢mA mfnor accident befell one of the delegates during the reception at the embassy. Mrs. Mirian B. Hilton, & member of the District branch of the league, suffered a fractured ankle when she slipped on a carpet. Mrs. Hilton was admitted for treatment at Emer- gency Hospital, where her condition was said to be improved today. ROOSEVELT WINNING DISPUTED DELEGATES Three of Four Contested Seats at Large in Pennsylvania Going to Governor. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 27.—Roose- welt candidates for Democratic dele- gates at large held three of the four contested positions in the ranking of candidates on the basis of returns from 2,500 of Pennsylvania’s 8,181 districts today. 'I’ge 2,500-district totals ranked the delegates at large in this order: Edward J. Lynett, Scranton, uncon- tested, 37,287, Guy K. Bard, Denver, uncontested, 83,708. Robert Gilmore, Muncy, uncontested, 83,521, John F. Short, Clearfield, uncon- tested, 26,706, James J. Campbell, Philadelphia, un- contested, 26,235. Judge H. C. Niles, York, Smith, 25,412, Micheel Donohoe, Philadelphia, Roose- wvelt, 24,665. ‘Warren Van Dyke, Harrisburg, Roose- wvelt, 24,512, ® John R. Collins, State chairman, | Smith, 24,2457, Judge Samuel E. Shull, Stroudsburg, Roosevelt, ‘21, Roland'S. Morris, Philadelphia, Smith, Spanish Royalist Given Position in Ford Paris Plant By the Assocated Press. PARIS, April 27—A new hand reported for work at 8 o'clock this morning in the Ford plant outsige Paris and punched the clock as Mr. Orleans. In Detter days his chief claim to distinc- tion was that King Alfonso of Spain was his first cousin and that Isabella II of Spain was his grandmother. That was when he ‘was Alfonso D'Orleans. He wrote Henry Ford some time ago asking for a job at De- troit and ‘Mr. Ford offered him a place in the French assembling plant. He is a clerk now, but will have s working permit in two weeks and will move to a job in the plant. His mother, the Infanta Eu- of his job. “Work she says. Her FORESHLEJRY GETS CASETODAY Darrow Expected to Plead Unwritten Law in Defense of Massie. By the Assoclated Press. HONOLULU, April 27.—Clarence Dar- row, astute criminal attorney, today faced his final attempt to clear four | Americans in & murder trial whicn brought the 75-year-old legal veteran out of retirement. He was to present a.three-hour clos- ing argument before a raclally mixed jury which is trylag Mrs. Granville Fortescue, Lieut. Thomas H. Massle, her son-in-law, and two Navy enlisted men, for the lynching of Joseph Kaha- hawai. The Hawailan allegedly had confessed participation in a criminal attack upon Mrs. Thalla Massie, the naval officer’s wife. Although -the prosecution was al- lotted a period following Darrow's ad- dress. attorneys for both sides were hopeful the case would be in the hands of the jury before adjournment for the day. An afternoon session of the court was planned. The instructions of Judge Charles 8. Davis remain to be given after the closing ‘arguments. “Unwritten Law” Claimed. Darrow was expected to plead not only the defense confention that Lieut. Massie was momentarily insane when he held the pistol that killed Kaba- hawai, but also. the “unwritten law.” The insanity plea presumably had a jolt coming at the hands of Judge Davis in the instructions. This was fore- shadowed by a remark of Barry S. Ul- rich, associate prosecutor, in ad- dress to the jury yesterday. Tlrich told the jurors Judge Davis would instruct that the insanity claim would not beé sufficient to clear Massie if it merely showed Massie to be men- tally deranged the moment the shot was fired. Ulrich also said the judge would rule the insanity defense, in order to be considered, would have to indicatc the naval officer was mentally deranged through every step of the tragedy. Kahahawaj was slain early in January. Neither Judge Davis nor the defense challenged Ulrich’s statement. In the defense testimony the claim was made Massie’s mind ‘went blank when he stood before Kahahawal with a pistol and heard the native confess the attack on Mrs. Massle. Remembered Nothing More. The Navy officer testified he remem- bered nothing thereafter until he was taken to the police station, less than two hours later. Among Ulrich's statements to the jury were: “The alleged fact the deceased as- saulted the wife of one of the defend- ants furnishes no defense for any of the defendants.” hg'n‘;ou accept this insanity plea, then you publish to the world that Hawail is a safe place to commit murder if In addition ta the eight male candi- dates, each with half a vote at the Na- tional Convention, eight women, unop< posed, were elegted. STIMSON TO SAI FOR U. S. TUESDAY AS EFFORTS FAIL (Continued Prom First Page) other in the Iist of failures” the paper said. In Nationalist circles the Disarma- ment Conference is regarded as finished | except for discussion of technical ques- tions, and the Nationalists see in those discussions material for their campaign against Chancellor Bruening. TARDIEU SENDS REGRETS. By the Associsted Press PARIS, April 27.—Premier Andre Tardieu was ill of laryngitis today as a Tesult of the strenuous work of his election camp&ign ang it was announc- | ed he would be unable to participate in the projected five-power parley at Geneva next Friday, arranged by Sec- retary of State Henry L. Stimson. M. Tardieus physician ordered him to quit the campaign and as a_result his final speech, scheculed for Belfort tomorrow, will be read by one of the members of the cabinet. 5 The premier telegraphed Joseph Paul- Boncour, his colleague at Geneva, ask- ing him to inform Secretary Stimson, Prime Minister MacDonald, Chancel- lor Bruening and Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy, the other members of the five-power group, that silence and lc;;mr:h:te rest have been imposed upon | m. | “When I learned yesterday the de- | sire of my colleagues to see me at Geneva,” he said, “I replied yes in spite of the fact that I was ill. But the| laryngitis has progressed and the doc- | tor has forbidden two nights of travel, | I am sorry, but I cannot get away.” | DEATH SENTENCE STAYED Gov. Pollard Grants 30-Day Delay | to Lawrence Fleet. RICHMOND, Va., April 27 (#) —Gov. Pollard today granted a 30-day stay of execution to Lawrence Fieet, Baltimore | youth sentenced to die in the electric chair at the State Penitentiary here to- morrow for the murder of W. F. Keller, ‘Winchester merchant, on the night of January 16. e BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Marine Band evening, at 8 o'clock, at the auditorium, Marine Barracks. Capt. ‘Taylor Branson, leader. Qverture, “Euryanthe” Grand scenes from “Faus Gounod Cornet solo, “Willow Echoes”. .. Second Leader Arthur 8. Witcomb. Patrol, “Southern” .. Voelker Paraphrase, “Old Folks at Home,” Characteristic, “Down South,” Busch | .Simon | you have money enough.” y “You ot make Hawall safe against nge y licensing murder.” ‘George 8. Leisure, Darrow’s associate, told the jury that but for Kahahawai's death other women might have been attacked, He sought to minimize Ul- rieh's statement the political future of Hawali depended upon the verdict. Unless Judge Davis’ instructions alter the situation, the jury may bring in a conyiction of second-degree murder, as chatged; manslaughter or acquittal. Second.degree murder 18 punishable by 20, years to life imprisonment. Darrow in Good Spirits. Darrow lpgennled halnn d:oodi:hgm;.; yaf- rda; Wi assie, ;A;rg yfib‘lmuegand the other defend- ants, Albert O. Jones and E. J. Lord, at the. outset of the court session. Had the pians of Judge Davis been carried out, he would have addressed the jury vesterday. ' Darrow told the court, how- ever, he did not feel equal to speaking after the morning session. Because of Darrow’s age, the court sessions have been limited to three hours daily. With tompletion of the final argu- ment by Prosecutor John C. Kelley, and delivery of Judge Davis’' instructions, the case will go'to a jury of five Ameri- cans, three inese, a German, a Dane, a Portuguese and a Hawalian. JURY DEADLOCKED IN WIMBLEY CASE SINCE LAST NIGHT (Continued From First Page.) tirely on circumstantial evidence, there having been no witnesses to the drown- ing of the mother and daughter. In so far as Crowder’s “confession” to police that Wimbley plotted to mur- der h&si\fle is concerned, the court charged®the jury may consider it as incriminating “Wimbley only if it re- gards Wimbley's silence when the state- ment was read to him as “evidence of guilt.” Didn’t Remember Statement. “You should disregard it altogether as evidence against Wimbley,” the court sald, “if you believe Wimbley's state- ment that he was unconscious at the time it was read to him. If you have any doubt whatsoever as to his con- sciousness, then I think you should dis- regard it entirely as having any bear- ing on his guilt or innocence.” Wimbley had testified that he did not “remember” the statement having been read to him. Justice Proctor e:filuned to the jury that in failing to take the stand in his own defense Crowder was in his constitutional right and that his re- fusal to testify could not be regarded as incriminating. | Closing the defense argument for ac- quittal, Defense Counsel Louls | Whitestone told the jury: | “There is the voice of some one who has not testified in this case (Mrs. Wimbley) and it seems to be saying: ‘For God's sake acquit my husband.’” Assistant United States Attorney Willlam H. Collins adapted White- stone’s closing remarks his own ar- gument, adding: “Oh, how 1 would like to hear that voice that has been spoken of. What a story of oppression and she would tell you, gentlemen,” WOMEN MAY FACE DRY LAW BATTLE Controversial Issues Expect- ed to Be Raised Today by League of Voters. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, April 27.—This is the day such controversial issues as prohibition aand birth cofitrol will come before the Biennial Convention of the National League of Women Voters—if they are to come up during the current sessions. General sessions open today and there were reports that the prohibition issue might be raised by some members of the Michigan delegation, while dele- gates from three States, including New York, had plans in formulation to pre- sent proposals for discussion of birth control. Evasions Are Charged. Speakers in an open forum on politi- cal issues last night were in agreement that the major political parties are secking to evade the main issues. Charles C. Isely of Dodge City, Kans., representing business, suggested a pro- portionate cancellation of war debts in return for trade with the United States. Ray Tucker, Washington political writer, sald the true issues are radical readjustment of the existing social, eccnomic and industrial order; practical settlement of intergovernmental debts and a rational approach to world dis- armament.* ‘Wants Definite Program. Dan’ A. Wallace, St. Paul, Minn, farm paper editor, said issues should be framed “in.a definite and compre- hensive program that will command the respect and support of all classes.” James Mulenbach, New York labor arbitrator, said “the six-hour day and the five-day week ought to be made a practical issue for ‘every candidate.” Miss Ruth Morgan, vice president of the league, urged as issues “abolition of child labor, the care of infancy and maternity, a warless world and an or- ganized international world.” MITCHELL DECLINES RAIL MERGER OPINION Informs Senate Congress Has Never Passed Law Requiring Him to Advise Either House. Attorney General Mitchell has de- clined to express an opinion on whether recent railroad mergers or combines had violated anti-trust laws. His statement was in reply to a reso- lution by Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, asking the Attorney General for an opinion on whether formation of holding companies and “other combina- tions of parallel or competing railroads n’lcre made without authority of the 2 “The first two subdivisions of this resolution request me to give an opin- jon to the Senate on the legal phases of the subject matter of the resolution,” Mitchell wrote. “I feel obliged to refrain from re- sponding to this request.” He cited a long list of precedents, and added: “Congress has accepted this long- standing interpretation of the law and has never attempted by law to enlarge the powers or duties of the Attorney General so as to require him to give opinions to either House of Congress or to committees thereof. * * * “With the utmost deference for the request of the Senate, I am obliged to decline to give an opinion in this case.” HITLERITES ASK PROBE INTO GERMAN ELECTION Use of Public Funds for Hinden- burg Hinted—Ban on Nazi Troops to Be Protested. By the Associated Press, MUNICH, Germany April 27.—The headquarters of Adolph Hitler's Na- tional Socialist party announced today that agresolution would be introduced in the Reichstag when it convenes, May 9, asking for the appointment of a2 committee to investigate what, if any, public funds were spent for the election campaign of President Paul von Hindenburg. Motions also would be presented, the announcement said, calling for the dis- solution of the Reichstag and the revo- cation of the emergency decree dissolv- ing the]Nui storm troops promulgated by President von Hindenburg before the Tecent presidential run-off election. The Nazis also protested to the Fed- eral Election Board, which meets May {3 to confirm officially President von | Hindenberg's election, that the freedom | of the election was violated by one- sided use of the radio by Von Hinden- !burg and Chancellor Bruening during the campaign. The radio privileges | were denied Hitler, the protest charged. LOS ANGELES TO PROBE RADICAL’S COMPLAINT Alleged Communist Organizer Claims He Was ““Oiled and Feath- ered” After Jail Release. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 27.—An inves- tigation of the “oiling and feathering” of James Lacey, 35, alleged organizer for the Communist party, was promised today by the district attorney’s office. Lacey was kidnaped late Monday night when released from the Long Beach City Jail, where he had been held for suspicion of criminal syndicalism. He said he was taken to an isolated spot, stripped of his clothing, covered with crude oil and rolled in feathers. | Leo Gallagher, attorney for Lacey, un- successfully applied to the district at- torney’s office for a conspiracy com= plaint against Detective Sergt. R. L. Duncan of Long Beach, charging the officer had released Lacey from jall “directly into the hands” of four men, who applied the oil and feathers. Lacey had been arrested Saturday in an open forum meeting of the Long Beach City Council chambers after he had made a speech attacking Gov. James Rolph's refusal to grant a pardon to Tom Mooney, convicted San Fran- cisco Preparedness day bomber. GOTHAM BOOSTS RELIEF $5,000,000 More in Bonds Voted to Continue Aid of Needy. NEW YORK, April 27 (#).—Father Knickerbocker dug down in his pockets once more today to help his unemploy- ed. Mayor James J. Walker announced $5,000,000 in serial bonds had been L. | voted to carry on relief work until Au- gust 1. The mayor said this would make a total of $81,000,000 spent by the city for relief since September, 1930. Glass Transparent One Way. Two luxurious motor busses built in England for an Indian prince have been fitted with a window glass that out, ill permit st IO ® Bicentennial Blooms 200-YEAR-OLD CHERRY TREE IN FULL DRESS. = S cherry tree, now blooming in the yard of Mrs. D. C. Leizear’s home, at 5301 North Capitol street, had its beginning in the year of George Wash- ington's birth—1732. The venerable tree is attracting wide attention in its “Bicentennial dress.” —Star Staff Photo. BANKHEAD REPLIES 0 HEFLIN ATTACK Says He Has Sought. to Avoid Bringing Politics Into “Judicial Case.” By the Assoclated Press Senator John H. Bankhead of Ala- bama replied in the Senate today to the appeal made yesterday by his predeces- sor, J. Thomas Heflin, that he be un- seated. He began by quoting Senator Hast- ings, Republican of Delaware, as hav- ing said that in passing on an election contest Senators occupy a judicial po- sition. Bankhead then said that since he came to the Senate he has done no | “electioneeting” and has carefully re- frained from talking with Senators on the matter. “1 have not in any way pressed my claim,” he said, explaining that he wholly agreed with Hastings. Stands on Facts, He Says, “I have been content for the members to pass on the law and the facts in the case as they may be directed by their judgment and their consciences.” He added that he had not wanted to inject any political controversy into a judicial case, Bankhead's manner of address was | unadorned and in contrast to the ora- torical style of Heflin, who yesterday told the Senate in a five-hour speech that he had been “robbed” in the elec- tion. Master of impassioned phrases in the old tradition of public speaking, Heflin employed every talent he possessed in the desperate battle against political eclipse, and was rewarded with such a burst of gallery applause, as he brought his plea to a smashing end, that the Senate peremptorily ousted all spectators. v Hardly ever does that chamber treat the galleries so harshly, but with Heflin drama ended, the listeners were ready to go and there were no hard feelings. Heflin cannot win back his seat un- less he succeeds in a new election in his home State, for should the Senate hold with_him that the 1930 contest | in which Bankhead defeated him was marked by widespread fraud and ir- regularity, it could only declare the seat vacant, compelling Allabama to elect two Senators this Fall, as Hugo Black’s term ends in March. In the five hours he spoke, Heflin renewed all the charges that have been aired in the contest, asserted he had been “robbed” and “put on the spot.” He termed the Alabama group that barred him from the Democratic pri- mary because he refused to support Alfred E. Smith two years earlier, “the worst political machine outside of Tammany, Philadelphia and Pitts- burgh.” Called “Wild Vaporings.” A statement by Heflin that he had a “lead” that money was spent against his re-election through e office of Representative McDuffie of Alabama was described by the latter today as “wild vaporings of a defeated candi- date.” Heflin made the assertion yes- terday in his lengthy address. “Having had Mr. Heflin's remarks brought to my attention,” McDuffie said, “I think the country recognizes the ex-Senator from Alabama is ob- sessed and in his extremity doubtless made statements he would not make under normal conditions. “He spoke of a ‘lead’ to the effect money was spent for the Bankhead campaign through my office and my secretary. Both my secretary and my- self have been in Washington and available to the Senate subcommittee that investigated the election during :il:‘ these many months it has been sit- g. not followed up. “The people of Alabama, even the followers of the former Senator, are satisfled with the results of the elec- tion. I have never known a State-wide election where there was so little fraud and corruption as that in which Mr. Bankhead was elected and Mr. Heflin defeated. “I have too many imy porings of a defeated candidate,” Man and Wife Lawyers. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Morrison, Lon- con, England, lawyers, appeared on the same side in a law suit recently and their client won. I regret the so-called lead’ was | portant things to attend to to listen to the wild va- | REPORTER, FIGHTING -CRIME IN OHI0, SHOT BY TWO GANGSTERS' (Continued Prom ‘Pirst Page) bis life by shiéiding himself with a iarge porch chair, which protected him against the shotgun slugs. ‘The shooting came just six years after the slaying of Don R. Mellett, crusading Canton editor, who was assassinated .while waging a newspaper war against crime in the “jungle sec- tion” of the city. Police Chief Earl W. Hexamer, whose administration of the Police Depart- ment has been attacked by the exam- iner many times, took personal charge of the investigation. He said his men were tracing an automobile said to have been used by the gunmen. Bouklias first came into the lime- light in 1923 when hi appeared before Gov. Vic Donahey as a chief witness in the hearing which resulted in the ousting of C. C. Curtis, as mayor of c{:nwn. Curtis again is mayor of the | city. Bouklias also testified aghinst E. E. Curtis, former safety director under his mayor-brother, who was convicted of accepting a bribe. Bouklias himself was convicted of perjury. Faces Liquor Charge. Several arrests in liquor law cases are listed against Bouklias and at pres- ent one such case is pending against him in Tuscarawas county. Doctors who examined him at a hos- pital said his condition was “fair” and not necessarily critical. Approximately 100 shotguns slugs entered his body. Fleming, at Columbus, asserted the shooting was an “effort to intimidate” his newspaper. He said Bouklias “came to us as a former bootlegger who had helped Federal and State men” at Can- ton and “has been truthful in all his | stories.” Bouklias, Fleming said, was his Canton reporter and oirculation man, . Fleming himself faces three charges of criminal libel and a charge of issuing alleged fraudulent statements about a national bank at Springfield. The libel cases were brought by Police Chief O’Leary of Sidney, Ed Miller, superin- tendent of the Shelby Count Home, and Charles Sauer, Piqua policeman. The editor recenl.li' was acquitted of an- gther criminal libel charge at Colum- us. He said “our work will go on in Can- ton, Piqua, Sidney, Hamilton and else- where.” It is not definitely known in | what city the Examiner is published. EIGHT MEN ATTEMPT T0 PICKET GOVERNORS | Virginia Police Halt Demonstra- tion and Warn Participants to Disband. | Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va, April 27.—Five white and three colored men undertook | today to establish a picket in front of the John Marshall Hotel, where the Governors’ conference is in session. They carried placards, one of which read “Gov. Rolph is a hangman.” An- other read “Delegation against brutal Mooney decision —stop capitalistic terror.” The delegation, according to the placards, hailed from Virginia, Mary- land, Washington, D. C.; North Caro- lina and New York. The men were ordered away from the hotel, but were not arrested. T. McCall Frazier, director of State mo- tor vehicle police, warned the men they would be locked up if they persisted in hanging around the hotel during the conference. ‘Two other men representing them- selves as Socialists tried to make s%:echu in the lobby of the hotel about the same time. They were or- dered out of the place. -— ERROR IN ADVERTISING Railroad Rates Published Wrong Newspaper. An advertisement offering round-trip tickets between Washington and New York over the Lackawanna Railroad was publisiied through error in The Evening Star of April 21. The rates quoted do not apply as the Lackawanna Railroad does not operate into Washington, D. C. The advertisement should have been irserted in a newspaper of the same name in Washington, N. J. in — Country. ington spirit. In the Spirit of George W ashington By the Honorable Sol Bloom Assoclate Director, the U. 8. George Washington Bicentennial Commission The City of Washington is the pride of every American, but this year it will be es- ecially that, as the heart and soul of the Nation-wide tribute to the Father of Our ( Millions of citizens will come here in 1932, when the city, laid out by George Washington himself as the seat of our Gov- ernment, takes on new power to stimulate patriotism. It therefore behooves every Wash- ington resident to see to it that the city of which we are the proud custodians presents its finest aspect to visitors, As George Wash- ington ever improved and beautified his prop- erty, every dweller here should do the same. We could not add a finer touch to the celebra- tion, or one more true to the George Wash- G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1939 | SLAYER OF HENRY REMAINS UNKNOWN Six Witnesses at Inquest Fail to Throw New Light on Gambler’s Death. After hearing six witnesses at the inguest into the death of Milton W. (Milsié) Henry, 35-year-old gambler who was shot to death last Thursday, a jury decided today he “came to his | death at the hands of & person or per- | sons unknown.” The gambler's widow, Mrs. Regina M Henry, who, according” to other wit- | nesses, was among the first persons to reach the scene of the crime, was subpoensed, but failed to appear. Those who " testified were Politeman L. M. Francis, tenth precinet; Detective Sergt. John C. Dalglish, who has been in- vestigating the case; George Seitz, 3508 | Sixteenth street; George C. McGee, 3435 | Brown street; Leslie 1, 3432 Brown street, and ‘Dr. Riley D. Moore, 3421 | Brown street. | Testimony threw no new light on the = Continue Investigation. | Meanwhile, headquarters detectives, | under Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, | continiled their investigation of the! slaying, checking all information that | bore the semblance of a clue. Other headquarters men were work- ing to clear up the mystery surround- ing the killing of the middie-aged man whose body was found in the George- townr- Channel last Priday. With the | body still unidentified in the morgue, | gf‘ meuez; continued working on : A man was strangled and thrown <ir the river at-.some point farther ip. the Potomac jand his body was cal down by spring freshets. Henry ‘was shot while driving his automobile in the 3400 block of Brown street, less than a block from his apart- ment at 3620 Sixteenth street. The murdered afid a companion fled in & dark sedan bearing’ New Jersey license plates. A car of similar type, found aban- doned in the 2200 block of Twelfth street last night, had no possible eon- nection with the slaying, Inspector Burke said after a painstaking exami- nation for fingerprints and other clues. | “I-am still of the opinion the sedan picked up shortly after the shooting w:; the one used by the killers,” he said. Jersey Clues Run Down. Detective Sergt. Frank Q. Brass was |back in Washington today after 'at- tempting to check on the ownership of the car, which also bore New Jersey tags, and running down other clues in Camden, N. J. He failed to obtain any information of value, however. Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, su- perintendent of police, and the detec- tives assigned to the case, held a con- ference at headquarters last night. ‘They declined to reveal what phases of the killing they discussed. Following funeral services yesterday in Hines' funeral parlors, 2901 Four- teenth street, Henry's body was sent to Baltimore for burial. Besides the widow, Mrs Refllnl Henry, only a few fri:nds of the slain gambler were pres- ent. MILLS AND MEYER OPPOSE CASH BONUS AT HOUSE HEARING «Continued Prom First Page.) financial bankruptcy. It would con- stitute moral bankruptcy. “Destroy confidence and you dry up credit and paralyze enterprise. No measure was ever drafted better cal- culated to destro confidence than the one now before you. Enact it into law and you will stifie all hope of any early economic recovery and write the most lamentable chapter in Ameri- can_history.” Though he thus dealt chiefly with the Patman bill for an issue of Treas- ury notes to cash bonus, Mills attacked arguments of those who advocate bor- rowing the necessary funds. “The financial position of the Gov- ernment is not such as to permit the Treasury to meet this demand,” he said. “We are faced with an enormous deficit. No additional $2,400,000,000 cen be raised by taxation. “Taking into consideration all of the elements of the existing situation, no such sum can be borrowed except at excessive cost, with serious embarrass- ment to the Government in meeting its SECRET STOCK QUIZ unavoidable obligations and with dam- age to the public credit.” Consequences Incaloulable. ‘Then, reminding the committee of his own veteran status and service in :;lg:nxzmg the American Legion, Mills “Nothing will persuade me that the men who 15 years ago stood ready to give their lives to their country in the crisis of war are today, in a crisis which in so far as human misery and suffer- ing in this country are concerned far exceeds anything experienced during the war years, really seeking this huge grant of $2,400,000,000, the effect of which will be to impeir public and pri- vate credit, to destroy confidence and to prolong the depression. * * * “The passage of this bill would, in my judgmert, deal such a severe blow to public confidence as to make the consequences almost incalculable.” When Mills concluded the statement, Representative Ragon, Democrat, of Arkansas, asked what amount in securi- ties the Treasury would offer for sale this year. “Qver and above refunding operations about $1,500,000,000,” Mills replied. To further questicns, Mills emphasized that “it is very desirable to expand credit.” Called Dishonest Device. “I have no quarrel with any one who wants to stop the deflationary process,” he said. “But I do have a quarrel with such an essentially dishonest device.” “What effect do you think the new reserve bank poiicy of increasing pur- chases of Government bonds will have toward enlarging credit?” Ragon asked. “A most decided effect,” Mills said. Meyer Takes Stand. Mills was on the stand one hour and a half before Meyer came forward to testify. “This proposal to inject a larger amount of currency in the guise of a bonus is a departure from the previous step this Congress has taken,” Meyer said. The one thing to endanger world confidence, he said, would be “tinkering with the currency of the United States.” “The fear of currency tinkering to- day, I believe, is retarding the restora- tion of currency,” he went on. “There is nothing so ruinous to the trade of a country, internally and ex- ternally, than violent inflation of the currency. There is no country that has tried inflation that does not abhor it-as the devil does holy water.” OCEAN AIR MAIL PLAN PROGRESS IS REPORTED By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 27— Judge Gudmunder Grimmson of Rugby, N. Dak,, who has been negotiating with authorities here and in Iceland in con- nection with establishment of a trans- atlantic air mail service, left for home today saying that he was satisfied with the results he had attained. The Danish government, he said, had given him ission to continue ex- perimental flights for two years, at the end of which time it will give favorable gonsideration to granting the propoged Clothing' Shipment Rushes Season for .Oklahoma Indians By the Associated Press. MUSKOGEE, Okla., April 27— Somebody either rushed the sea- or delayed a shipment of finm underwear, When the fifth carload of sur- plus Army clothing was receétved yesterday by A. M. Landman, su- rintendent of the Five Civilized bes, immediate disbursement was planned. But when the car was opened it ‘was found to contain nothing but woolen underwear. It will be distributed to needy Indians next Winter, PLAN WORKED 0UT | Senate Committee Decides | on Undercover Study of Exchange. By the Assoclated Press A secret plan for investigation of the New York Stock Exchange was worked out today by the Steering Committee of the Senate Banking Committee. At the end of a session behind closed doors, the newly-formed committee was believed to have agreed to send eecret agents to New York to study Stock Exchange and brokerage records. Chairman Norbeck said the group was “working in secret on a program that will best develop the abuseés of the system that all know to exist, but are hard to prove.” The comgnittee will meet again to- morrow. Townsend on Committee. Before today’s meeting, the. Steering Committee was completed, and Senator Walcott, Republican, Connecticut, who originally s the stock market inquiry, 'was not included in its mem- bership. Instead, Chairman Norbeck of the Banking Committee, named Senator Townsend, Republican, Delaware, to the group. Other members in addition to. Nor- beck are Senators Couzens, Republican, Michigan; Glass, -Democrat, Virginia, and Fletcher, Demograt, Florida. Formation of the commmittee takes the leadership away from the adminis- tration group which originally spon- sored the investigation into charges of bear raiding. The question of sending agents into Wall Street already has been generally approved by the whole Banking Com- mittee. Chairman Norbeck, however, had an eye on more immediate affairs, with the intention of resuming hearings within a few days. Choice of Twe Leads. For this the committee had the choice of two leads: To go deeper into the pools in which Percy Rockefeller and such big traders participated, or to follow the trail blazed by Represent- ative La Guardia’s charges of extensive subsidizing of New York financial writ- ers to “ballyhoo™ stocks. Should the first be followed, there was much speculation as to whether John J. Raskob, chairman of the Dem- ocratic National Committee, might be subpoenaed, as he was one of the most prominent men named by witnesses as taking part in big pools. ‘The second lead brought before the committee the question of calling A. Newton Plummer, New York publicity agent, who, La Guardia said, paid ofit more than a ‘quarter of a milllon to | writers. Plummer now is under indict- ! ment with a group of seven others, | charged with forging stock certificates. SAYS STATEMENT INCORRECT. Col. John W. Prentiss Answers Testi- mony of Representative La Guardia. NEW YORK, April 27 (#).—The men- tion by Representative La Guardia yes- terday of a letter sent out by the firm of Hornblower & Weeks, which, he said. “misrepresented the' facts” re- garding the proposed stock transfer tax, brought a statement from Col. John ‘W. Prentiss, a member of the brokerage | concern. “Congressman La Guardia refers to a letter issued by me on April 6,” said Mr. Prentiss, “in which, according to his testimony, he says that I attribute the decline since March 3 to the pass- ing of his tax on stock transfers. This is incorrect. “As a matter of fact, between March 2, and the date of the original lefter issued by Hornblower & Weeks, and March 9, there was a substantial rally in security prices and not until March 14 did security prices again reach the level of March 2. “From then until Thursday, March 31, there was an irregular decline in| security prices. On that day, however, the La Guardia resolution to tax stock transactions was and from March 31 until the present day we have had one of the most severe declines of our entire depression. This decline I then attributed and still do attribute to the jumbled tax bill that came out of the House of Representatives as a result of the action of the so-called La Guardia bloc.” The Arthur N. Plummer, mentioned by La Guardia in his testimony charg- ing that financial writers were paid to boom certain securities, was identified as under indictment, accused of forging General Motors stock certificates. Seven men were indicted with Plummer. He was arrested on January 9 last and gave his occupation as that of a publisher. Indictments were returned against him two days later. He is now at_liberty on bail of $5,000. Plummer, while connected with a financial news service in 1920, was in- dicted for criminal libel on the com- plaint of Jesse L. Livermore, promi- nent Wall Street operator. The in- dictment subsequently was dismissed. LOESCH IS IN FAVOR KIDNAPING PARLEY ENDS OBSTACLES Curtis Returns From Trip on Which He and Lindbergh May Have Met Gang. (Continued From Pirst Page.) were understood to be the same group which received $50,000 ransom recently and then failed to return the child. Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, head of the State police, announced today that Maj. Charles SchoefTel, deputy po- lice head, had returned from a trip of several weeks in Europe in connection with the kidndbing and is now mak- ing his report. 100,000 Records Studied. Records of 100,000 criminals in Eng- land, Austria and Germany are being checked by Scotland Yard and con- tinental police authorities in an effort to trace the kidnapers, Col. Schwarzkopt said later. The check-up of records is the result of the visit to the foreign countries by Maj. Schoeffel. Maj. Schoeffel fook with him copies * of the handwriting in the note left by the kidnapers en March 1, when they stale the flyer's son from his crib and demanded $50,000 for his return. Schwarzkopf said European authorities promised “the utmost co-operation in carrying on this investigation.” Aside from establishing a liaison with foreign police, Schoeffel’s investigation in Eu- rope “did not reveal any developments,” Schwarzkopf said. It also was stated by a high omficial that $1,500 of the original ransom bills have been recovered, most of them in or around New York, but that investi- gators so far have been unsuecessful in tracing them. Coast Guard Hunts Boat. ‘The next meeting between Col. Linde« bergh and the group he has been deal- ing with originally was planned for a certain spot off the New Jersey Coast, the State official said. The change to Virginia was made, he added, because of the intensive activity of the Coast Guard off the New Jersey shore, where they have been hunting a boat reported to contain thé abductars and possibly the child. BABIES ARE SUBSTITUTED. Woman Held in Lindbergh Case Imw volved in Another Planto Get Estale. PHILADELPHIA, April 27 (#).—Fan« tastic details of a baby substitution al- legedly perpetrated by a wealthy and childless married woman to collect an inheritence and two unwedded mothers came to light yesterday in an action filed in Dauphin County Court. Euston A. Sullivan of suburban Merion filed a petition to strike from the vital statistics of the State the record of the birth to his wife of Grace May Sullivan -on October 12, 1931, at St. Vincent's Hospital, Philadelphia. His petition denied that he was the father of the 6-month-old girl or that his wife, Helen Blair Sullivan, was the mother. He declared the baby is the child of e ‘Was ArTe 0 on, s week, in connection With the Lindbergh kidnaping and subsequently absolved in that case. Marriage Certificate Shown. Sullivan declared his wife, represent~ ing herself as Mrs. Gerald E. Hardy, visited Miss Crebbe in the matern: ward of the hospital and conspired wit her to représent the baby as that of { Mrs. Sullivan’s. This was accomplished, it is all by informing hospital huthorities that Miss Crebbe in reslity was the wife of Euston Sullivan and laying the real Mrs, Sullivan’s marriage certificate. The baby was registered as Grace May Sullivan. Later, Miss Crebbe refused to relin- quish her baby to Mrs. Sullivan, the petition declares, but another unmar- ried mother at St. Vincent's, described as Mary Smith, turned over her baby, and this chilq was christened Grace May Sullivan at St. Margaret's Chyrch November 8, 1931. ‘Wife Now Missing. Sullivan says he has no knowledge of the present whereabouts of his wife or the second baby. Miss Crebbe's child is sald to be in Detroit. Just how Mrs. Sullivan’s alleged fraud would have won her a legacy was not made clear. Her father was the late William L. Blair, a former partner of Milton Hershey, the candy manufac- turer. Blair left his fortune in a trust fund for his widow, to be divided at her death. One-half was to revert to a son, William A. Blair, and the other half kept in a trust fund, the income of which was to go to Mrs. Sullivan. At her death this principal was to go to the son or his heirs. PUBLISHERS OPEN ANNUAL CONVENTION Special Discussion Is Held on Problems Confronting Small Papers. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 27.—The forty~ sixth annual convention of the Ameri~ can Newspaper Publishers’ Association opened today at the Waldorf-Astoria with a special discussion of the probe lems of the publishers of small news= papers. Howard Davis, business manager of the New York Herald Tribune and vice president of the association, delivered the opening address in the absence of the president, Harry Chandler, pub« lisher of the Los Angeles Times. He in« troduced E. H. Harris, president of the Richmond (Ind.) Palladium-Item, who spoke on the obligation of newspapers to the Nation. “The people still have confidence in newspapers,” he said, “and they are the only means through which public cone fidence may be restored and our instie OF LIQUOR CONTROL Member of Wickersham Commis- sion Recommends Adoption of Anderson Plan. By the Associated Press. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., April 27— Government control and sale of liquors under the Anderson plan recom- mended by Prank J. Loesch, Chicago attorney and member of President Hoover'’s Commission on Law Observ- ance and enforcement, as “a way out” of prohibition’s “failure.” Under the exuun? conditions, he told the Institite of Justice at the University of Chattanooga last night, drinking is increasing and organized crime that ‘is able. to- finance .itself a8 ;ruult of the prohibition.laws is grot worse. Loe:gh OEM repeal measures and said the is clear for establishment of a sound system of government con- trol of the liquor situation and should be kept clear. The Anderson plan, he ed, is similar to the Brett sys- tem of Sweden. Under it a bi-partisan national com- mission would be empowered to fix the alcoholic content of all liquors sold in the United States, set prices and “fully regulate every aspect of the mat- ter within the legitimate scope of the Federal Government.” ould Seng 1o hd bostessing ‘and wou en bring about ernment through Gox-_found tutions be made to survive.” Mr. Chandler’s annual address will be read by Mr. Davis at the opening of to- day’s session. Reports will be heard from the secretary and the treasurer and from the committees on freedom of the press, radio, press telephone rateg and others. M’BRIDE SUSPECTS WILL BE RELEASED Two Held in Mystery Slaying Arg Not Indicted by Grand Jury. Special Dispateh to The Star. kins. lowed failure.of the Prince Georges County grand jury to return indict- ments against the two men, both of -mc;n have been in jail for several weeks. The two men were arrested by Dep= uty Sherif Thomas Garrison, Wwho launched a new investigation of the murder of McBride, whose body wag