Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1932, Page 4

NOW NEAR IT5 PEAK Recent Tax Discussions Have Increased Number of Agents for Interest. By the Associated Press. The “locust swarm of lobby Capitol Hill, so-called yesterday President Hoover, is actuslly one the largest in recént history ‘Taxes and tariffs always attract these representatives of special interests. It's| sure-fire evidence of the fact that no one wants his taxes raised, no one wants appropriations affecting him cut and every business is interested on one or the other side of such legislation. Clutter Corridor: The room where the Senate Finance | Committee has been working to nce the budget attraction of red the cor- pacing and of membe: the fiscal i " on by of ridors there, lolling and swarming about the dc The President was in part one “between the and the locust swarm of lobb haunt the halls m Congre special pnv(leg sections of of propagands.” Business has convinced itself it mus have these agents around, but it is not business alone that is represented by lobbyists. Many organizx their agents at work. Two rival wom- en's organizations are seemingly cor stantly at war at the Capitol. Moved Meeting Place. The drove following the tax bill has kept no bounds. The Senate Finin Committee met for the last two weeks in the Military Affairs Committee room just off the Senate floor so that mem- bers could go in for roll calls without losing too much time. The small corridor leading from the | committee room to the Senate floor was jammed constantly with newspaper men, representing the public, and lob- bylists represemmg special interests. BUTLER KILLS GROOM AND SHOOTS WOMAN| “I'm Going Crazy He Shouts and Ends Own Life After Princeton Attack. By the Associated Press. PRINCETON, N. J., May 7.—A little Japanese butler, employed by Mrs. Dora W. V. Scott Boice, widely known horsewoman, went on a homicidal rampage today, wounded his mistress, killed a groom and took his own life. Mrs. Boice, 34, divorced wife of Nelson B. Boice, Princeton business- man, was shot in the breast and back after she had barricaded herself in a bathroom. The two bullets* crashed through the déor while she was fran- tically begging police, over an extension telephone, to hurry aid. Physicians said she probably would recover. The butler Isamu Yamashita, hed| been drinking last night, police said. | At 6:15 am., he broke into Mrs. Boice's bedrpom, waving a .25-caliber -auto-| matic pistol and shouting: “I'm going | I'm going crazy and I'm going everybody.” A!ter shooting Mrs. Boice and Daley, Yamashita went to Mrs. Boice's yoom, lay down on the bed, pressed. the muzzle of the pistol against his temple and fired. WEDDING OF CAVENDISH AND DANCER SEEN NEAR Edensor, England, Agog With Ar- rival of Adele Astaire of Amer- ica, and His Lordship. By the Associated Press EDENSOR, Derbyshire, England, May Adele Astaire, American dancer, arrived with her fiance, Lord Charles Cavendish, and his parents, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, at Chatsworth House, the ducal seat, to-| day, and there were rumors that the young couple would be married next Monday afternoon. The party came from Lismore Castle, | in County Waterford, Ireland, and this little village was agog tonight with| gossiping about the approaching wed- ding. Neither the duke's vicar, Rev. Foster | Pegg. nor the duke’s secretarv nor the | #family would talk, but the windows of | the little chapel where King Edward and the former German Kaiser wor- ghiped on occasion had been cleaned for the first time in many months. The wedding of Miss Lord Cavendish was June. Astaire and announced for SMITH DELEGATES WIN IN MASSACHUSETTS VOTE | Majorities Over Roosevelt Men Range Over 91,000, Official Returns Show. By the Associated P BOSTON, May large pledged to Smith in the Demc vention next mo: dates pledged velt in the ic National Con- defeated candi- D. Rum.u 91110 to 97,014, Dfl‘ al howed. res today | ONLY SURVIVING OFFICERS OF SHIP NARRATE TRAGEDY. BY LIEUT. A. A. BESTIC. Special Dispatch to The Star. LONDON, May 7 (N.AN.A.).—Capt. | William T. 'Turner, commander of the Lusitania when she was torpedoed May 7, 1915, is marking the sorrowful seven- teenth anniversary of that war tragedy | in his neat little cottage near Liverpool, | close to the sea. Capt. Turner has been living there so | quietly and inconspicuously for years that many of his old acquaintances have lost track of him and, indeed, there are | some who do not know he is in Eng- | 1and I am the only surviving deck officer of the Lusitania, and with the anniver- ¢ liner's loss arriving it { o me to go to Liverpool to see m commander and find out {|how he was faring. When I was an- nounced at the little snug harbor which is his home he gave me a lusty greeting “Come in, Bissitt, my bor.” he hailed He always has insisted upon calling me Bissitt good of you to look up |the old men. As T took the chair the commander briskly drew up for me, I compared | him mentally with the man I had |sailed with so many years ago I found the same alertness of manner end the same quick, penetrating look in his sharp blue eyes. But his abrupt quarterdeck manner has softened coa- | “Fit for Breaking-up Yard.” “Look at me." he ordered, with a rue- | ful grin. “I've never had a day's ill- in 50 years. I was the quickest ft in a sailing ship except for I once met. And he must have had a monkey for & not very re- mote ancestor. Now m fit only for the breaking-up yard.” But Cavt. Turner doesn’t look so, and he doesn't look s though he thinks so. | My former commander and I talked over that fateful afternoon off the Irish coast, when doom struck the Lusitania wiftly, taking the lives of 1,198 ns. Did you expect we would be torpedo- ed on that passage?” I asked. He pon- dered the question. | *“Yes" came his slow answer. “I was distinctly worried. I was advised by the admiralty that I was to keep a mid- |channel course. As you remember, we {learned by wireless that there were six |submarines waiting for us in mid- channel. That was the chief reason I closed in on the coast. I thought that if the ship were sunk nearer shore the top deck might be above water after she had settled, allowing the passengers to escape. But apparently that was not to be.” “Is there any truth in the stories |about treasure on the Lusitania? Not | gold. of course, but—" “There must be a lot of money and | jewelry in the pursers' safes” Capt Turner said quickly. “I am quite sure of that.” i “What about your own safe, tain?" “There are £1,500 that belong to me, that's all.,” he laughed. “But there's an old sextant I value. It's in the left- | hand drawer of my desk on that ship.” | I asked Capt. Turner why he thought the Lusitania had sunk so quickly. Shig Struck Twice. “I am certain she was struck twice he replied. “What ship, however big, could withstand such wounds? I saw a ship which was beached after she had been torpedoed. There was a hole in her side 32 by 18 feet, although she had been hit only once.” And so we talked on and on of the Lusitania and her tragic end, recalling vividly to me jimpressions which had grown dim during the years. I called to mind my first glimpse of the Lusi- tania, in 1907, when she was running |on her trials. My heart had gone out to her in wonder and admiration, and then and there I decided to go to sea |in her some day. In 1915 my dreams came true, and I got my billet on the- Lusitania. I dof't believe I ever thought she would be torpedoed, not even when, on that last voyage, I learned from the wireless operator that so many subma- |rines were lying in walt for us. Yet, looking back, I seem to recall a momen- tary premonition that some disaster was in the air. How was I saved? There are many of us who find that some trivial in- cident has deep significance later on. Had I not, a month before the sinking, strolled into a tailor's and bought a new uniform, I would have been lost. At 10 minutes to 2 the afternoon of | the sinking I was taking a four-point bearing which, had fate so ordained, | | would have fixed the ship’s position | ! with mathematical certainty in about 20 minutes. At 2 o'clock I was relieved and I was writing my log in my cabin when the baggagemaster appeared. “The men are waiting for you down | in the baggage room, sir,” he said. The baggage had to be brought up by lift, and nothing could be touched uniess in an officer’s presence. I had on my new uniform, and the baggage | room was a dirty place. So I decided | to change into an older suit before I | went down. I had hardly completed | | the change when the torpedo struck. | Not da soul in the baggage room was save ‘The 20 minutes which followed the | hit are, indelibly in my memory. They | were electrical. A moment of con- fusion! The quleting of the passengers! | Sharp orders! Then the boat stations! | But although the engines were st¢p- ped, the way of the huge vessel kept | her rushing through the water, and | Capt. Turner dared not order the boats lovered under such conditions. cap- Silence Overcomes Ship. A strange silence fell upon the ship. | It was broken only by the whimpering a child, quickly comforted by r. Such incidents were characteristic of the behavior of all the | women I observed “Lower away the boats; women and | children first.” The order had come at last. I was | on the portside, the high side, when | my first boat, with 65 passengers, was | lowered 90 feet to the sea. The second | | boat_contained one passenger—a man | paralyzed by fear. He ignored my order | [to get out. I told a sailor to lift the | | man out. The sailor leaped into the | boat with an ax. “Hop it,” he commanded. The order was obeyed promptly. That was | of this kind I encuunlered ‘ e I got to launching the| ° | third boat the Lusitania's list had in- 10 led the s at large PAGEANT FRIDAY NIGHT High Officials of 0. E. 8. to Attend. 600 People in Cast. offic Star from all parts of the| will attend the pageant, “Wash- ington’s Vision of a Triumphant Na- tion,” to be presented by the Bicen- ennial Committee of the order at the Washington Auditorium Friday night. The pageant, a feature of the Masonic week program, consists of an 11-scehe presentation by & cast of 600 people. Added attractions include a program by the United States Marine Band and a detachment of soldiers, saflors Marines for the grand finale. il e e PLAN OFFICES HERE Hi East cour h Is of the Order of the and TIE SUNDAY STAR, . MAY 8, 1032— PART ( CAPT. WILLIAM T. TURNER. “ creased. The third boat scraped heavily against the ship's side as it went down. | I am afraid it must have developed bad | leaks, possibly sinking. It was impos- | sible to get the fourth boat off. The end came with dramatic swift- ness. A peculiar. luching movement | made me Jook around. ing wave was 1 devouring pas every ob- | ject in its pate ped into the | the water. Dow the darkest di bursting lungs that my be far away Hurled Upward. Then a mighty roar deafened me The dragging ceased. I was belng hurled upward witn a force even greater than that which had pulled me down I was flung waist high into the outer world. I caught a fieeting glimpse of a mound of frothy zea. and I knew that was the Lusitania's grave I was plucked sround the neck by somebody, but I sank again, I made for the surface once more. This time I came up under an overturned boat. Al- most exhausted, I worked my way under the gunwale, and, virtually semi-con- scious, I found my head again above water. A seaman sitting astride the keel of the bost yanked me out of the sea as if T had been a stranded fish. Many harfids were clutching despar- ingly at the frall support, turning it around and around like a revolving | drum. I dropped off and started swimming again. I encountered wreck- age of a collapsible boat which had been stove in. It wouldn't support me I felt I could fight no farther. And then I bumped into some watertight tanks, and it was only a moment before I had jammed them under the thwarts | of the collapsible boat, keeping it afloat. Four hours later I was picked up by a | trawler, which also had picked up Capt. | Turner, and we were taken into Queens- | o | (Copyright; 1932, by the North American Newspaper Aliiance, Inc.) |SEVEN UTAH DELEGATES | INSTRUCTED FOR HOOVER Group Headed by Emoot— Four | More to Be Chosen in State Later. By the Associated Press, OGDEN, Utah, May 7.—Seven dele- gates at large, headed by Senator Smoot, were elected by the Republican State Convention today and instructed for President Hoover. Four more, | bringing Utait's representation at the | convention to 11, were to be chosen | later. | Ernest Bamberger of Salt Lake City was elected national committeeman over A. B. Irvine, former president of the State Senate. Bamberger was twice the Republican nominee for the | United States Senate against Senator | William H. King. He suceeds Harold P. Fabian, resigned. Mrs, Jeanctte A. Morrell of Ogden was re-elected na- | tional committeewoman, BICENTENNIAL PROGRAM Celebration to Be Held Wednesday in Parkview School. Plans have been completed for an elaborate George Washington Bicen- tennial celebration in the Parkview School Wednesday, beginning at 8 p.m The celebration will be under the | auspices of the Parkview Citizens' As- | sociation, Woman's Club, Community | Cenfer and Parent-Teacher Association. Charles I..Stengle of the District Blcentenmsl Commission will speak on “Washington the Man."” Other entertainment features include | the presentation of the playlet “Mar- tha's Letters” and community singing. Blue Spruce, $1 Old, Bunchy T oy N RYLAND ' NURSERY Edmonston (East Hyatisville) The terms of Morris Plan Loans are simple and practical—it is not necessary to have had an account at this Bank For each $120 bor- rowed you agree to } deposit $10 a month in an sccount, the pro- ceeds of which mey be used to cancel the note when due. Deposits may bemedeona weekly, semi-monthly or monthly basis as you prefer, to borrow. Loans are passed on within & day or two after filing application —withfew exceptions. MORRIS PLAN notes ere usually mede for 1 year, though they may be for any period of from 3 to 12 months. ; HOOVER DISCUSSES SILVER QUESTION Chief Executive Non-commit- tal, but Senator Jones Sat- isfied With Attitude. By the Associated Press. The much-discussed question of an international silver conference echoed yesterday in the President’s office, with a scnatorial advocate of silver remoni- tization declaring himself afterward to be “satisfied” with the Chief Ex- ecutive’s stand. Senator Jones, Republican, of Wash- ington, reporting he had discussed the silver problem with Mr. Hoover, said that, although the President had not spoken flatly, he personally believed a concrete proposal for rehabilitating the metal, if brought to the White House, would result in invitations to an inter- national parley. Mr. Hoover, however, remained Silent. State Department officials also re- mained publicly cool to the subject It was said later President Hoover is not very hopeful of an agreement on the proposal for reehabilitating silver inasmuch as leading powers already have turned down suggestions for an international conference. The President. it was added, would | act if interest was shown by the pow— ers most concerned in an agreeable recommendation. Senator Jones, chairman of the Sen- -w Appropriations Committee and a ber of the Finance Committee, sald he had raised the question with the Chief’ Executive because of the interest on the West Coast in the rehabilitation of silver. “I feel satisfied, although the Presi- dent didn't say s0," sald Jones as he left the White House, “that if a con-| proposal were placed before him | crete it would be submitted to the powers.” if he had a concrete proposal for onitizing silver, Jones answered by recalling the widely publicized speech delivered in the Senate this week by Senator Borah of Idaho. ‘The Washingtonian yesterday indi- cated a belief that Borah might be looked to for “the concrete proposal” needed. He said “Borah has given the matter a whole lot of study.” Senator Borah would not be quou:d‘ on Jones' statement, but he indicated that his suggestion for returning silver to the status it held before was a “con- crete proposal. TIris Show Is Thursday. WARRENTON, Va., May 7 (Special). —A flower show specializing in iris will be held in the Parish Hall at The Plains Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m. for | the benefit of the Church Gufld. Nine classes will be shown, with prizes in each. Mrs. J. W. Slaughter heads the Committee of Arrangements. | 'SHORTS’ INTEREST LOWEST IN APRIL Passage of House Tax Bill Is Shown as Cause of Rout. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 7.—The greatest | round-up of the stock market's bears | since the New York Stock Exchange | began its present daily. statistics on short selling was shown today to have occurred during April. | _On May 2 the short interest totaled 2,758,161 shares, or 521,237 less than the 3,279,398 figure reported April 1 The rout came when stock prices were | steadily going lower. The ménthly report computed on a day-to-day basis showed how the short sellers reacted to congressional investi- gatlon of the stock market. On April 1, when the House passed a bill to increase taxes on stock trans- | actions, the short interest was 3.279.- | 398 shares. By April 6 it was 3,063,- | 927 shares On April 7, when the Senate Investi- gating Committee announced ifs plans to probe short selling, the shorts covered. The -~ total interest fell off nearly 200,000 sharés in a single market session. By April 11, when the investigation was actually started, the | short interest was 2,469,087 shares, and the movement continued to a low point of 2,323,738 shares on April 15. The trend reversed itself, and When the bears were reconciled to a sena- torial study, they lost their timidity. On April 20, when the Senate sum- moned a group of brokers to testify on | short selling, the short interest Tose | 2,450,863 shares. The next day, when | the names of 350 shorts were published, | it rose to 2,510,209 shares. Since then, the vairations have continued on a small but ascending scale. The latest available figure of 2,758,161 shares was recorded May 2. A decrease of 521,237 shares in total short interest in April was the greatest change if those figures for any one month this year except January. Short sales increased from a total of 2,962,127 on the first trading day of 1932, to 3,600,265 shares on February 1 The highest point reached t by the shorts was 3.965,142 s February 10, while the lowest point was the 2,323,738 on ADHI 15, P-T MEETINGS TO END Miss Sowers to Address Federation Tomorrow Night. The final meeting of the year of the Federation of Parent-Teacher Associa- tions will be held at the Garnet-Patter- son Junior High School tomorrow night ’\0. B o'cleck under the direction of Rev ker. Miss Alice Sowers, asso- clflte irman on parent education of the National Congress of Parents and | Teachers, will be the speaker. P. J. Nee Co. FINE FURNITURE Specializing in one department in order to offer the greatest values possible. 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