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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and probab continued cool tonight; temperature tomorrow. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 72, at noon yesterday; lowest, 53, Full report on page 3. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 12 and 13 ly tomorrow; slowly rising at 7:30 a.m. today. ch ¢ Fhening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION - “From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are pi L 2 Yesterday’s Circulation, 127,553 No. 32,159. vnst office. Wa: Entered as second class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1932—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. FFF TWO CENTS. () Means Associated Press. SENATE DEFEATS BEER IN TAX BILL BY G024 VOTE 2.75 Per Cent Measure Lost After Bingham Fails to Raise Limit. CURTIS RAPS FOR ORDER AS SPECTATORS LEAVE Fight Expected Next on Excluding Tariffs From Bill—House Beer Vote Due Monday. The Senate today refused to legalize beer. The vote rejecting 2.75 per cent beer was 61 to 24. The first Senate roll calls for beer since prohibition brought overwhelming defeat. ‘The main vote was on an amendment by Senator Tydings (Democrat, Mary- land) to the revenue bill to legalize 2.75 beer and tax it 24 cents a gallon to help finance a $1,500,000,000 public construction program. Bingham Plan Rejected. | Just previously the Senate had turned | down, 60 to 23, a proposal by Bingham | (Republican, Connecticut) to alter the | Tydings amendment to make it allow | 4 per cent alcoholic content. Eleven Democrats voted with 12 Re- | publicans for the Bingham 4 per cent | amendment. | The Republicans were: Barbour, Bing- ham, Blaine, Davis, Glenn, Kean, La Follette, Metealf, Moses, Oddie, Reed and Walcott. | Democrats were: Broussard, Bulow, Coolidge, Copeland, Hawes, Lewis, Long, Tydings, Wagner, Walsh of Massachu- setts and Wheeler. House Vote Due Monday. Over in the House a vote will be had Monday on whether the O’Connor-Hull bill to levy a tax of 3 cents a pint on beer of 2.75 per cent alcoholic content | by volume will be taken up for con- sideration. Indications are the vote will be heavier than that there on the Cullen beer amendment to the revenue bill, which was defeated, 216 to 132. Exact- 1y 145 members signed a petition to dis- charge the House Ways and Means Committee from consideration of the ©O'Connor-Hull bill. About 30 more have indicated they will vote for it. Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massa- chusetts, had opened today's debate for the Tyt amendment, saying it wasa of helping finance a $1,500,000,- 000 public construction bond issue. ‘The usetts Senator said the had showed sentiment * on prohibition, and offers an rtunity recent “rapl changing “this amendmen for those who believe the time come | the for modification of the Volstead act to Tegister their position.” Btresses Revenue Needs. He emphasized also the Treasury would receive a large sum of money from a source “that has been reccgnized | as less burdensome” than other taxes proposed. The prohibitionists, confident of their strength, left ctically all the talking | to the beer advocates. Only a handful | of the anti-prohibitionists listened to the debate which dragged slowly. Senator Broussard, Democrat, of | Louisiana, challenged a statement last night by Senator Sheppard, Democrat, | of Texas, co-author of the eighteenth | amendment, that Senators who voted for the Tydings amendment would be | viclating their ocath to support the Con- | stitution. “The amendment is not in violation | of the eighteenth amendment, but in direct accord with it,” Broussard said. He told the Senate he proposed a § per cent beer law in 1921 which many Senators supported who were in the Senate when the prohibition amend- ment was adopted, including some of those who voted for the amendment The first reply from the drys today was made by Senator Sheppard, who said Congress had adopted the one-half of 1 per cent definition of intoxicating liquor before the Volstead act was passed. Immediately after the decision on beer, the controversy over including tariffs in the bill was expected to break loose. It is considered probably the most troublesome issue involved in the whole bill, with only the sales uxi threatening to rival it. | Today's roll call brought the first vote in Congress on beer since nation- | “(Continued on Page 2, Column 2) CANTON-NANKING UNITY PLEDGES ARE DOUBTED | Reports That Hatchet Has Been | Buried Are Termed Propaganda. By the Associated Press. ! HONGKONG, China, May 18—Re- rts that the Canton and Nanking po- mtcal factions had buried the hatchet and exchanged pledges of unity were in- terpreted here todsy as window-dress- Listening to Talk On Quick Thinking, He Captures Snake By the Associated Press. AUBURN, Ala., May 18.—The dissertation of the virtues of having presence of mind in the face of emergencies, which Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder, president of Wofford College, gave at Auburn’s graduation exercises, was timely As he admonished the seniors along the lines of quick thinking and bravery to meet the vicissi- tudes of the world, a green snake 2 feet long wiggled from under a fern box on the rostrum, within easy reach of the speaker. A stifled gasp came from the audi- ence. A senior quietly picked up the snake and as he walked to- ward & window it wrapped its colls about his forearm. Tossing it through the window, he calmly resumed his seat and Dr. Snyder continued his address. | FIGHT-DAY PENANCE IS ASKED BY POPE Calls World to Prayer to Save Itself From Present Conditions. By the Assoclated Press. VATICAN CITY, May 18.—Pope Pius XI, in an encyclical issued today, called the world to prayer, penance and mor- tification to save itself from “the peril of terrorism and anarchy” and “the still graver evils that are threatening.” For this purpose he set aside a period of eight days for “reparation” on the octave of the feast of the Sacred Heart, beginning June 3. He abjured the faithful to abstain| during the eight days “at least from | entertainments and amusements, how- ever lawful.” and urged that “those in easier circumstances” give to the poor “the proceeds of this retrenchment.” In the encyclical, entitled “Charitas Christi"—Christ's Charity—he lists the causes of the present “evils that are crushing humanity.” Cites Six Causes. ‘They are, he said, greed, the accumu- lation of the wealth of nations in the hands of a small group of indiviauals, exaggerated nationalism, unequal dis- tribution of wealth, Communism and “the revolt of man against God.” From greed, he said, arises “the mutual distrust that casts a blight on all human dealings"” He reiterated the words of St. Paul: “The desire of money is the root of all evil” the point ‘gt hhd criticism 1lly upon Cemmunists an fors, the Pontiff sald & small group of holders of the world’s wealth “manipu- late the markets of the world at their own caprice to the immense harm of masses.” “Even those very few,” he added, “who with their speculations were and are in great part a cause of 50 much woe, are themselves quite often the first and most notorlous victims, dra down with themselves into the abyss the for- tunes of countless others.” Restraint Broken Down. “Profiting by so much economic dis- tress,” he added, “and so much morai disorder, the enemies of all social order, be they called Communists or any other name, boldly set about breaking through every restraint. “This is the most dreadful evil of our times, for they destroy every bond of law, human or divine; they engage openly and in secret a_relentless | (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) BANDITS GET $25,000 IN HOLD-UP OF BANK| Trio Loots Vault and Pockets of Victims in Daylight Robbery. By the Assoclated Press. CALDWELL, Ohio, May 18.—Binding four bank officials and seven customers with rope, three hold-up men escaped | today with $25,000 from the Noble County National Bank here. They looted the cashier’s cage, the vault and the pockets of their victims. Entering the bank the robbers menaced the officials and customers with pistols, herded them into the presi- dent's office and bound them with the rope they carried. They then searched the victims and took all valuables. A systematic search of the vault and cashier’s cage followed and all currency was removed. The safety deposit boxes were not disturbed. Noble County officials said the rob- bers devoted from 5 to 10 minutes to the search for money and they walked to a waiting automobile in which they fled toward Marietta. — MELBOURNE REGIME OUT Labor Government Resignations Due to Defeat at Polls. ing. Snterest centered on Kwangsi Prov- | ince, which hitherto has supported | Wang Ching-Wel, Nanking premier. Gen. Chang Chai-Tong, Cantonese leader, must have the help of Kwangsi for any independent movement. | Naval insurgents have established themselves on the Island of Hainan, where they have dismissed all magis- MELBOURNE, Victoria, May 18 (). —The Labor government of Premier E. J. Hughes which has been in power three years in this Australian state, re- signed today as a result of Saturday's general election, which swept away its majority in the House of Assembly. Sir Stanley Argyle, leader of the trates and seized the funds of the Cen- | United Australian party, which scored tral Bank. They have invited Dr. C. C.| a sweeping victory in the election, an- ‘Wu, widely known Cantones: leader, to | nounced that he had succeeded in form- become civil governor. ing & cabinet to be headed by himself. MANY BURNED ALIVE IN LIBERIA, LEAGUE OF NATIONS IS TOLD Military Police Accused of Razing Villages as Tribesmen Flee Homes on Kru Coast. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, May 18.—The burning alive | of many men, women and children by | the Liberian frontier military force was | reported to the League of Nations today | in a communication signed in behalf of the American, British and French gov- ernments, ‘These atrocities, the report asserted, were committed against tribesmen of the Kru coast. The Liberian delegate eubmitted & memorandum to the League's Liberian Commission confirm- ing the burning of 44 villages and the killing of 81 men, 49 women and 29 children. D.C. TAX RATE HELD AVERAGE DUE T0 HIGH ASSESSMENT Other Cities Base on Lower | Values, Richards Tells Hearing. PRICE DROP TO BRING CHANGES AFTER YEAR Assessor Says Totals Will Not Be Cut Immediately—Denies Rent Loss as Great as Elsewhere. Washington’s real estate tax rate compares favorably with rates of com- parable citles when allowance is made for what other cities pay in interest and sinking funds on indebtedness, District Assessor Willlam P, Richards told the Senate subcommittee considering the District’s appropriation bill when it re- sumed hearings today. Mr. Richards told of a study he made about a year ago of 25 other communi- ties. He saild some of them had higher tax rates than Washington, but that on the average they were placing their as- sessments at about half value, Drop in Prices Cited. Another highlight in the testimony of the assessor came when Senator Bing- ham of Connecticut, chairman of the subcommittee, inquired.what effect re- cent sales of property at prices under the assessed value would have on as- sessments next year. The assessor sald these reduced sale prices would not affect the assessment situation during the coming year, but that they would result in a lowering of assessments during the succeeding year or two. The morning session also was marked by a discussion over the House pro- vision designed to prevent the Public Utllities Commission from enforcing its order to place taxicabs on a meter basis, and the appearance of a large| delegation appealing for playground | space for more than 6,000 children in the northeast section. After Mr. Richards had given several illustrations of real estate sales recent- ly at reduced prices, in response to questions of Senator Bingham, the Senator inquired if the assessments on those properties will be reduced next year Richards replied he would not lower these individual cases immediately un- less the property owners appealed from the assessments, but he added that in the ensuing few years there would be an equilization downward of assess- mel:u over general areas. e response to & question Sepator Capper, Richards said there has not been the fall in rentals here there has been in other citles. Expensive Rents Drop. Senator Bingham asked if that is not due to the fact the biggest business in Washington, the Federal Government, hes not had to cut salaries, as have industries elsewhere. Richards agreed that was so. Sena- tor Bingham sald, however, it is also true that rents in the more expensive apartments and hoteis have come down. The assessor previously had testified the increase in the per capita property wealth of cities generally since before the war came about largely through rental properties. He said that just before the war a study cf a number of | cities showed per capita wealth of $1.600 in property and that a few years ago they had an indicated value per capita | of $2,500 or $2,600. He sald about 2| years ago & study was made of rents to see how they compared with 15 years | ago and he found the difference to be| about 60 per cent. He then expressed | the belief the per capita increase in property values over that period was due to rental properties. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, told the committee that if Congress wants | to take taxicabs from under the control of the Public Utilities Commission there is a much easier way to do it, but if | taxicabs are to be left to the jurisdic- | tion of the commission it should not | be restricted in exercising that control. | Senators Dickinson and Capper both indicated they thought the meter re- quirement would put a large number of | cabs off the streets and thereby add to | unemployment. | Ask $160,000, for School. A lagge delegation headed by Edward R. Willams of the Business High! School Parent-Teachers’ Association, urged the committee to allow $160,000 | for completing the Roosevelt (Business) High School and for improving the | grounas, The delegation, representing | a number of civic groups, also asked for an increase in the item for furnish- ing the new high school, and made a plea for early erection of a stadium there W. L. Bruckart testified to the need for the new elementary school in Fox- hall Village, which was eliminted by the House. George L. Gee, of the Rhode Island avenue section in northeast Washington testified concerning the need for the erection of Taft Junior High School and for more trafic lights on Rhode Island avenue northeast. Wilbur Finch, head of the Burroughs Citizens' Association, outlined several projects he said are needed in that area, | AUTOMOBILE'DYNAMITED; LABOR TROUBLE BLAMED | Five Escape Injury in Blast at Home of United Mine Work- er's Member. By the Assoclated Press. PINEVILLE, Ky., May 18.—Milt Har- bin, an active member of the United Mine Workers of America, reported to| authorities today his automobile was dynamited last night and that five men narrowly escaped injury in the blast. Harbin intimated that labor troubles may have caused the dynamiting. ‘The explosion occurred while the au- tomobile was parked at the side of the highway in front of Harbin's home at the edge of Pineville Harbin told police a party of five The commission recommended to the men from North Carolina, en route to League Council that a representative be | the West, happened to be passing and sent to the Kru coast to assist in pacify- | noticed the smoke from the dynamite ing the country and to bring about the | fuse. He sald the men halted in belief return of 12,000 tribesmen who have |the smoke came from a When they saw it was dynamite, rushed to his porch to call him. It was at that moment the explosion occurred. Radio Programs on Page B-6 fled their homes, the Liberian military force followed an inquiry by the League Com- mission, in the course of which many tribesmen accused thxlovemment of | oppression, 8 Doc, Everyrme \ 1T MEBBE So, SAM, Bur I'M AFRAID ITD MELP You 1 JES'SPRUCE RIGHT UP SEES CONSPIRACY TO BANISH MLEAN oostieeisem o Peyser Tells Court White Slave Charge Is Being Used as Threat. | The charge that a conspiracy exists | to prevent the return to this country of Edward B. McLean, with a threat of his arrest on a white slave charge, was made in Distrjct Supreme Court today by McLean's attorney, Julius I.} Peyser, at the opening of the defense testimony in the suit of Mrs. Evalyn ‘Walsh McLean to oust her husband as co-trustee of the estate of his father. Peyser's charge came shortly after Nelson T. Hartson, Mrs. McLean's at- torney, had rested his case, referring to an agreement of counsel, made yes- | terday, that the plaintiff would mmn‘ from offering testimony of a gensational | character if testimony offered by the defense did not necessitate it. | Checks Are Banned. | Peyser's charge was made during an argument between counsel over the ad- | mission in evidence of a number of | checks held by Miss Elizabeth E. Poe“ literary and music editor of the Post, | who was the first witness for the de- fense, Peyser claimed that through these checks he would attempt to show Mc- | Lean’s return to this country is being prevented through the threat of a white slave charge against him. Introduction of the checks was over- ruled by Justice Jennings Balley as the court recessed for lunch. Hartson rested his case after intro- duction of testimony of Mr. McLean's former chauffeur, Harry R. Kohler, that in view of the agreement made by coun- sel yesterday, the plaintiff would not present sensational testimony. The announcement came as & sur- prise to Maj. Peyser who sent court at- taches scurrying about the courthouse rounding up his witnesses, Kohler said he first went with the McLean family as a chauffeur about 20 years ago. He said he left the first of the year because Mr. McLean owed | him three months salary and a 16-| month garage bill for which he sued. the money was paid, he said. Drove During Means Deal. About three months ago, Kohler | said, he was employed by Mrs. McLean | to do all the driving in connection with | her negotiaticns with Gaston B Means, in_an effort to return the Lindbergh baby. He said he last saw Mr. McLean the | day before he left for Europe and that | he drove Mr. McLean by a roundabout | route from Belmont Farm, the McLran estate near Leesburg, Va., avoiding g the District, to 1 tinued on Page 2, Col MILITARY CONTROL OF HAWAIl ASKED Britten Bill Proposes Army or| Navy Officers of United States Govern Islands. By the Associated Press. Expressing bellef that “the very lifs of our Nation might some day depend upon a military campaign” around the | Hawalian Islands, Representative Brit- ten, Repubican, of Illinois, today pro-| posed that they be placed under com- plete military control of the United States. He introduced a bill to permit the President to appoint. with approval of the Senate, the governor and secretary of Hawali, selecting only active or re- | tired officers of the Army or Navy. At present. only citizens of the territory are eligible for appointment to the executive offices. “No other nation on earth but our- selves would allow so important & pos- session to be so completely dominated by a native population,” Britten said in a statement. “The Massie case has shown us the extreme to which the civilian popula- tion as well as the courts will go to up- hold the native spirit against anything that is American. The complete pro- tection of American citizens and Amer- ican rights makes it advisable to put | the islands immediately under Ameri- | can control.” e L Akron Visits Coast Communities. SAN FRANCISCO, May 18 (#).—The dirigible Akron, pald visits at widely . | separal today ted communities in California after making a practice contact with the U. 8. 8. Patoka, naval aircraft tender, on San Prancisco Bay last night. ‘Tonight the Akron is due to moor at its Sunnyvale, f., base, for another rest. PREMIER IS IMPROVED MacDonald Returns to Downing Street After Operation. LONDON, May 18 (#).—Prime Min- underwent_an eye operation, left the Nursing Home today and returned to his official residence in Downing street, | where he had lunch before going home to Lossiemouth, Scotland, to his convalescence. Dr. W. S. Duke-Elder examined Mr. MacDonald's right eye—the one operat- »d on—and decided the prime minister complete |could safely leave the Nursing Home. Mr. MacDonald said he would be glad to get back to work again and that he expected to be very busy in Lossie- WEAVER SUECEEDS OO0 NG4S POST Georgetown Official Named Acting President of Wash- ington Company. Robert D. Weaver, president of the Georgetown Gas Light Co., today was elected acting president of the Wash- ington Gas Light Co. to fill temporarily the vacancy created by the resignation | last Thursday of George A. G. Wood. Weaver also was elected first vice pres- ident of the Washington company. The election of Weaver was an- nounced by the board of directors of the ges company at the close of a two-hour meeting which was held despite a warn- ing from the Public Utilitles Commis- sion that a session at this time would be construed as a violation of the recent order forbidding voting of the majority | stock while it is held by the present owners. Three Members Elected. The directors also named three new members to the board—Sidney F. Talia- ferro, former District Commissioner and now vice president and trust officer of Riggs National Bank; Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson and Corcoran Thom, president of the American Security & Trust Co. Mr. Thom was a former member of the board and resigned about | a year ago. Two vacancies existed on the board of directors until the meeting, due to the resignation some téme ago of Mr. Thom_and Albert Peirce, president of | bill the Central Public Service Corpora- tion of Chicago. The third vacancy was created by the resignation at the meeting of George B. Prazer, vice pres- ident of the Washington company, who has been acting president since Mr. Wood's resignation Frazer was elected a member of the board of directors at a special meeting last week, when | Wood's resignation was accepted. Stockholders Adjourn. The election of Mr. Taliaferro, Ad- miral Grayson and Mr. Thom to the board was looked upon in public utility circles as a move on the part of the owners of the gas company to restore managment of the concern to Wash- ington men with the hope of minimiz- ing opposition to foreign ownership. A scheduled meeting of the stock- holders held immediately after the session of the board of directors was adjourned for the second time within the last 10 days because of the lack | of & quorum. The adjourned meeting was called for noon, June 15, PROTESTS COPPER DUTY American Society in Peru Says Tariff Would Cut Imports. LIMA, Peru, May 18 (#).— The | American Soclety of Peru today cabled Speaker John Garner of the United States House of Representatives, pro- testing against the proposed tariff duty on copper in the present revenue bill. “Referring to cablegram said, *'Wwe that all copper exported from Peru is | produced by American capital, and the duty would seriously curtail importa- | tion of American merchandise into Peru. “It would be considered unfriendly and would seriously interfere with ex- isting cordial relations.” ALABAMA FOR HOOVER President Assured of State’s 10 Convention Votes. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May 18 (#).— President Hoover was assured of Ala- bama’s 19 Republican votes in the national convention next month as party leaders met in convention here to elect four delegates and as many alternates from the State at large. The convention was slated to bind the State's delegates to the unit rule and pledge them to the President and adopt a platform for the c: the State. The State Execu mittee yesterday named W. brect, Mobile, temporary chairm: keynoter. in itive Com- . Arm- an and RELIEF PROGRAV - ACTON ASSURED ‘Third Party Seen Unless Con- | gress Settles Issue Before [ Adjournment. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Assurance was given today by Senator | Watson, Rpublican leader of the Sen- ate, there would be no adjournment or recess of Congress until after the relief | program for the unemployed has been | put through Congress. At the same time a warning of & pos- | sible third party movement unless Con- | gress enacts an unemployment relief | program before the party conventions | was sounded by Senator Borah, Repub- | | lican, of Idaho. ; He said he could not conceive of the | two great parties going to their con- | ventions without having adopted & pro- gram for relieving the jobless. “If anything would call a third into existence that would,” he declared. Senator Watson's statement was made on the floor of the Senate during the debate of the Tydings beer amendment to the pending revenue bill. The Ty- dings amendment authorizes the man- ufacture and sale of 2.75 per cent beer. Separate Bill Proposed. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, | | Democrat, declared that in dealing with | the relief program a separate bill ap- ropriating $300,000,000 to be loaned | by the Federal Government to States | | to relieve the unemployed and dis- | | tressed should be brought in and put| | through without, delay. The Massachusetts Senator pointed out that Both President Hoover’s relief | program and that advanced by Sena- | tor Robinson of Arkansas, the Demo- | cratic leader of the Senate, proposed | | appropriation of such a sum to be | loaued to the States. He said he saw no reason why such | a relie. measure should be complicated, perhaps delayed, by adding to it other relief proposals, including a big bond issue for a public works progrem. Committee Continues Work. | While this debate was proceeding in |the Senate, a subcommittee of the Pemocratic Steering Committee, headed | by Senstor Wagner of New York, still was mulling over a general relief pro- (gram which it hopes to embody in a | | Senator Borah of Idaho was respon- sible for bringing into the Senate de- bate the statement by Senator Watson that there would be no adjournment or | recess of Congress until a relief measure | has been passed. | Senator Tydings of Maryland urged | the adoption of his beer amendment | to_the revenue bill on the ground that " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) BANKER SHOT BY TRIO Cashier Kidnaped in South Dakota Raid as Posse Takes Trail. IPSWICH, S. Dak, May 18 (#).— Three robbers held up the Bank of Ipswich today, shot the president, Plin Beebe, perhaps fatally, kidnaped the cashier, and fled wit! an undetermined | amount of money. | First reports said the bandits fled in an automobile toward Aberdeen. Police | and deputy sheriffs pursued them. Home Improvement Your Home represents an in- vestment. Any improvement you make protects that investment. Every dollar you spend on such improvement buys more today than almost any dollar you've ever invested before. Washington merchants are telling you of new opporturities for economy in the advertising columns of The Star. Yesterday's Advertising (Local Display) es. The Evening Star . . . 31,44.2 2d Newspaper 3d Newspaper 4th Newspaper 5th Newspaper Total & Yesterday’s circulation of The Star was nearly 9,000 more than the corresponding day last year. People are vitally interested in all CURTIS UNDER GUARD TO PREVENT EFFORT TO COMMIT SUICIDE iJersey Officials Fear “Remorse” May Drive Him to Seek to Kill Himself. PART OF STORY WITHHELD, NORFOLK CHIEF SUSPECTS Shipbuilder’s Movements on Night of Kidnaping Checked and His Green Sedan Is Examined. By tha Associnted Press, MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., May 18.—Dr. John F. Condon, “Jafsie,” Lindbergh case negotiator, left police headquarters here this afternoon, after examining 1,900 rogues' gallery photo- graphs without finding a clue to the kidnapers with whom he had negotiations. The survey was made with Chief of Detec- tives Michael Silverstein. Dr. Condon indicated that his inten- sive scrutiny of the pictures gave “no encouragement.” By the Assoclated Press. HOPEWELL, N. J., May 18—A fantastic picture of the activities of John Hughes Curtis, bankrupt Norfolk shipbuilder, in his in- credible Lindbergh baby hoax, was painted today as details of his recent movements came to light from many sources. While New Jersey police guarded Curtis for fear that he would commit suicide in remorse for his action, Inspector Harold R. King of the Nassau (New York) County police declared that an hour before the shipbuilder confessed he was confronted in Hopewell with a Long Island bootlegger, who charged him with having double-crossed him in a deal involving a large sum of money. Believes Something Being Withheld. At the same time Chief of Police S. W. Ironmonger of Norfolk, Va., said he did not believe Curtis had made a complete confession and that he was withholding “something important.” The police of- ficial, however, gave no indication of what he had in mind. Earlier it had been revealed that Norfolk police were checking on the movements of Curtis the night the Lindbergh baby was kid- naped and had gathered mud scrapings from his green sedan to de- termine if it could be identified with New Jersey soil. Mrs. Curtis said her husband was at home. On the heels of this came a statement from Maj. Charles Schoeffel. assistant superintendent of New Jersey State police, that “we had information from a confidential source in Norfolk that this man be- came involved in financial difficulties and attempted suicide, and, after receiving that information, for his own protection, we placed a guard over him 24 hours a day.” Jafsie Views Rogues’ Gallery. As Jersey police continued their interrogation of the whilom Norfolk negotiation, Dr. John F. Condon, or “Jafsie,” who paid $50,000 to the s kidnapers for the return of the baby, arrived at Mount Vernon, N. Y., police headquarters in the company of three party | New York detectives to view rogues’ gallery photographs. In New York, Frank Parzych, narcotic user, who “confessed” yes- terday that he was one of the baby kidnapers, today said his tale was false, Woman Alds Inquiry. CURTIS ACCUSED |, 203,55 e aetermine the OF SWINDLIN G | trve and complete facts concern- BY BOOTLEGGER | ing the activities of Curtis. They | were questioning a Miss Ruth Gay, who came voluntarily to head- v | quarters. e N 3 May 18—Tnspector| _Investigation disclosed that Miss Harold R. King of the Nassau County | G2y's name had been mentioned police said today that one hour before|in a statement in which Curtis | John Hughes Curtis confessed his whole | said that she and Edwin K. Bruce |ot Elmira, N. Y., were with him during alleged negotiations to sell his story to a newspaper. Gov. A. Harry Moore of New | Jersey announced today that “all ‘ponce work, State and Federal, is by John Fogarty, a private detective|IOW co-ordinate and all forces employed. from the start by Col. Henry | 7€ SWInging along with the same Breckenridge, Col. Lindbergh's friend| purpose in view.” and sitarney. | Gov. Moore said it was probable Lived in Long Island. that Curtis would be arraigned He withheld the name of the boot- | today after a complaint had been ]éng:i-. “&%ghfilifigf vy du ackville | sworn out against him by the po- The man’s story, according to King, | lice. A State charge, if made, the was that last December he paid Curtis| ly be © Fibstkcatial mia of moey with Ahej ConCInor ARid, wt;uld p"’b:'b" i understanding that Curtis was to use|that of making false statemen it to purchase influence for him with | “which in effect means hampering the authorities at Norfolk. This, he|po ends of justice.” said, Curtis failed to do. There were reports here today story about the Lindbergh kidnaping hoax he was confronted in Hopewell | with a Long Island bootlegger, who| charged hinfwith having double-crossed | him in a deal involving & substantial sum of money. King said the bootlegger was found TU. S. Actress to Be Released. PARIS, May 18 (#) —Ruth Putnam After Curtis entered the search for| é’;fi!l,,';g“:‘r"Esrghm“’i“"fiym’gé"“m:“‘&;’f‘ also that Curtis would be charged ates m’me ;/xccmn{s of Norfolk an in- | by the Federal Government with vestigation of Curéla hampering the functions of the Fogarty also had become suspicious of Curtis' story, King said, and had Government, on the strength of }n\":sugx;ed ums b{:)c?h'hie& K&e e his story the Coast Guard pa- looking for the tlegger, g said, | when the bootlegger got in touch with | troled the coast. him. They both told King the story.| The Bronx grand jury started its in- Phone From Fogarty. (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) King said that at 5:30 Monday aft- R s ernoon he received a telephone call from Fogarty summoning him to Hopewell. At 3 a.m. Tuesday, an hour before he sat down to write out his confession, Curtis was confronted with the_bootlegger. The bootlegger is_deseribed as a Scotchman, about 45 years old, big and powerful. He is married and has several children, the ygungest about the age of the Lindbergh baby. Mason, American actress and producer, who was arrested on a charge of issu- ing worthless checks, received a sus- pended sentence of one month today. | She had covered the checks with funds received from her family. She will be released tomorrow and probably will go to a hospital, as she is said to be ill. |[JUSTICE “KIDNAPED” 8 MONTHS, FOUND BOUND ALONG ROAD Unable to Tell of Whereabouts During Strange Disap- By the Associated Press. SCRANTON, Pa., May 18.—A strange tale of being kidnaped from his home in Montoursville and held captive for eight months without apparent motive was told today by a man found bound and gagged by the roadside on the out- skirts of the city. The man, who said he is J. Drew Fague, 31-year-old justice of the peace of Montoursville, and cancidate for Con- gress in 1930, disappeared from his home the night of September 17, 1931, | and had not been heard from since. Rev. T. M. Furey, pastor of the West Park _ Methodist _Episcopal Church, identified him as his nephew and cor- im nt news developments and naturally turn to The Star for the latest cjfject information. roborated the reported facts of the al- leged kidnaping. Because Fague seemed unable to re- call the several places in which he said pearance—Believed Drugged. he was imprison other important detalls of his ence, police were inclined to the theory he had been given drugs to dull his senses. He said three men jumped upon him as he sat in his kitchen last Fall and | fled with him in his own truck which | was later found abandoned five miles | trom Montoursville. He is married but has no children. | Kenneth Stigner and Michael Kosrak, |printers on a Scranton newspaper, found Fague attired only in a blue shirt and overalls. His eyes and mouth were closed with adhesive tape and the rope which bound his hands and feet was covered with tape. Fague told police he seldom saw his captors who kept him an idle prisoner in different buildings whose location he did not know. From his wkhlbo'l;la at time of his d.l-mnn? m&a to 130 pounds. e ed by his captors and experi-