Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1932, Page 1

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CHICAGO, June 27.— Democ- racy’s hosts, bitterly divided over candidates, the old two-thirds rule | of nominating and the selection of a permanent chairman, met at noon today in national conven- tion. The opening session of the con- vention was peaceful enough and, outwardly at least, all the fury of the Democrats was directed against the Hoover administra- | tion and the Republican party. The keynote speaker and tem- | porary chairman, Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, shook | hard times in the faces of the delegates and the roaring gal- leries, charged that the depression was due in large part to the mis- | takes and inefficiency of the Re- | publican administration, and de- clared that a Democratic victory was needed for the salvation of the Nation. But back of the cheering of the Democrats lurked intra-party antagon-| isms that have threatened to disrupt| the Democrats at the moment they are choosing their standard bexrer and pre- mnc for the coming campaign &an- nisms between the Roosevelt Demo- crats and the Smith and anti-Roose- velt Democrats, These are expecte:. to | burst forth at the second session of the | convention tomorrow. The situation is | full of dynamite. | Convention Opened. | The conventien was called to order | by Chairman John J. Raskob of the | Democratic National = Committee at | 12:45 p.m. | ‘Mayor Cermak of Chicago was intro- duced by Edward N. Hurley, chairman | of the Citizens' Committee, to welcome | the delegates and the guests. | Cermak was cheered when he said | the convention would name the “next President of the United States.” | Another and louder cheer greeted the | mayor when he said that the eight- | eenth amendment should go. When Al Smith entered the hall, there were shouts and handclapping from the galleries. The Massachusetts | delegation led a cheer for Smith, but | it left most of the delegates unmoved | and uncheering. The demonstration was over in a minute. Chairman Raskob, addressing the | eonvention, gave praise to Jouett Shouse, | who has had charge of the Democratic | Executive Committee and who is a can- didate for permanent chairman of the convention. Shouse’s name was cheered. Party Chairman Speaks. Mr. Raskob said, in part: “Four years ago our party honored | me with election to the position of chairman of the Democratic National Committee. I knew little of political life and strife. It has been a splendid education and experience. We were blessed with good fortune in securing | for the solution of difficult problems the | master mind of Jouett Shouse, than whom there is no man no more astute, able, honorable and fairer to deal intel- | ministration and the policies Keynote Points Highlights in Introductory Address Delivered by Sen- ator Barkley. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 27.—Here are some | pointed sentences from the keynote ad- dress of the Democratic National Con- vention, delivered today by Senator Alben W. Bariley of Kentucky: “Th's convention should recommend > by Congress of a resolution amendment xis ion to the p2ople oi the States through conventions.” ‘No fair man or woman wishes to be to Mr. Hoover or his administra- * * But that the Hoover ad- it has pursued have largely contributed to the disaster which has overtaken ours and the world affairs no intelligent observer can dispute.” “We propose to Teduce the exhorbitant and indefensible rates of the Smoot Hawley, Hoover-Grundy tariff act. * * * ‘We, propose again to start the wheels of Industry and afford an outlet for the energies and ambitions of dustrious men and women.” “We shall undertake to afford (to| the farmer) in this emergency the character of relief which has been so generously granted to other forms of industry and finance. “We propose to abolish every useless office, every unnecessary bureau and commission.” | “We should restrict the channels of 'tion committee. stock market operations and expand those of commercial operations. * * * Banking institutions as such should be diverced from stock market operations of the character which contributed to the * * * loss of billions of dollars and the confidence of our people.” “The only constructive ' measures brought forward in this Congress originated with the Democratic me: bership of that body.” “On the fourth of next March * * * the nominee of this conventicn will b2 inaugurated President of the United States.” PROHIBITION PLANK 1S SAVED FOR LAST Formal Decision Expected Today—Platform May Not Exceed 1,000 Words. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 27.—Platform-build- ing Democrats faced today their first formal decision cn the prohibition | plank, saved for the last in recognition | of its trouble-stirring qualities. Have Wav onAll ' Convention Groups 'PARTY LEADERS GIVEN OVATION Dropping Fight on Two-Thirds Rule Considered. | BY BYRON PRICE, Associated Press Staff Writer. CHICAGO STADIUM, June 27. —True to the promise of months |of tumultuous preparation, the Democratic party opened its con- vention today keyed high with for | partisan enthusiasm, but torn by | internal strife over the bid of Franklin D. Roosevelt for the | presidency. In the saddle temporarily, at least, the Roosevelt men took complete charge of temporary or- ganization, having their way with- | out opposition on every conven- The troubles stirring underneath were seared | over for the moment by outward ‘marmuny as the big party conclave | went through the prearranged motions of getting its work under | way. | One Continuous Ovation. | It was a cheering, seething conven- almodt started parading and demonstrat- ing before it came officially info being. On the floor the banners of nearly a ‘doun candidates recorded the rivalries| which will come to their decision later in the week. Filled galleries were swept with roar- | ing applause again and & | of the most colorful figures of the party | got up on the floor and platform. It was | almost one continuous ovation as they | came in one by one—William G. Mc- | Adoo, John W. Davis, Albert C. Ritchie, | Alfalfa Bill Murray, Huey Long, James J. Walker, John J. Raskob and many besides. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, | the temporary chairman, was greeted with an ovation of his own as he | appeared on the flag-draped platform to deliver the party keynote, the high peak of the largely cut and dried pro- izrnm of first-day preliminaries. The real work of the convention be- gins late today when the committees meet to hear credentials contests, write |a platform and take up many other | perty troubles, including the much ‘erv;hamea subject of the two-thirds rule. May Drop Rule Fight. | Although the Roosevelt managers took | temporary control of every convention | n as many | { i evertheless, in old-time style. It| ference report on the 1933 District of )\ ! 3 RORROR 2 5> 2 KON AT THE QUADRENNIAL PICNIC. HOUSE APPROVES D.C. BILL REPORT Accepts Conference Compro- mise on 1933 District Ap- propriation Measure. ‘The House today adopted the con- Columbia appropriation bill, carrying $41,245:622, ‘of which $7,775,000 con- | stitutes the Federal lump sum contribu- tion toward the municipal government. The five amendments on which the conferees disagreed, but which were ap- proved by the House today, will have to 8o back to the Senate for concurrence. This is a mere formality, Chalrman Byrns of the Appropriations Committee explained. It was expected the District bill will be sent to the President for signing later in the week as no objec- tion will be raised in the Senate. Included in the amendments was the | DAWES HEADS BANK Resumes Chairmanship of Board Which He Quit to Be Envoy. CHICAGO, June 27 (#)—Charles G. Bank & Trust Co., a post he aban- doned when he became ambassador to Great Britain. Announcement of his resumption of the bank leadership and declaration that the Central Republic will continue under its present management dissi- pated reports of an impending merger with the Continental Illinois Bank & AL AKS S0 TOBELP VETERANS Transportation for Bonus Marchers to Return Home. A definite move to provide public COBLENTZ ADMITS !the Board of the Oentral Republic | ;Says Raichle Assured. Him i Smith Company Documents | Had Been Destroyed. Emory L. Coblentz, Prederick, Md., | banker, testified in District Supreme | Court today that Prank G. Raichle, young Buffalo, N. Y., attorney, on trial | charged with subornation of perjury, told him prior to the trial of the F. H. Smith Co. case that certain authoriza- Itions introduced at that proceeding |hld been destroyed. These authorizations were used during |Copeland Would Provi de! ne trar of G. Bryan Pitts, president of | the Smith Co., on conspiracy-embez- | zlement charges, in an effort to sho: Pitts was entitled to money he was accused of embezzling from the com- pany. After their introduction as evi- dence, the Government charged they were spurious and instituted <uborna- |tion of perjury proceedings against Raichle, who defended Pitts at that $850,000 authorization for emergency | funds for relief of the Bonus Expe- |time, in connection with their use. employment relief, which will be ex- pended by the Board of Public Welfare. | Not to exceed $35,000 of this is to be | used for administrative purposes. Representatives La Guardia of New | York and Byrns, who had charge of the measure in the absence of Repre- sentative Cannon, chairman of the | House conferees, halted a verbal attack | on the $350,000 for unemployment re- | | ditionary Forces in Washington was | made in the Senate today, when Sen- | ator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, introduced a resolution designed to au thorize an appropriation of $100,000 for that purpose. The funds, under the resolution, would be administered by the Commis- | sioners, with the approval of the Presi- | dent, for food, shelter and transporta- |tion of the veterans to their homes. | The resolution ordered laid on the lief. Representative Holaday of Illinols, Republican conferee who criticized the relief fund, singled out the Community | | Subcommittee was agreed on a pro- | impends both in the whole Resolutions | | The Roosevelt-d-minated Platform | 88€ncy, the crumblirg of their support | on the propesal to do away with the old | two-thirds ncminating rule led some posal to submit a reapeal amendment|of them to consider abandoning the to the States, but a stubborn contest project. ec;:erélerences (08, thisquestion pro- ce amor: nots of delegates on the Committee and on the ficor for & decla- | fioor and behind the scenes as the con- ration recording the party for repeal | vention went through a previously and the immediate modification of the |a8reed on program of preliminary or- VOlthd act ganization. The only change seemed |to be a steady growth of insurgency More than twoscore other planks, |in the Roosevelt ranks. carefully trimmed to onme paragraph| Meantime, as one speaker after an- each to keep te platform, if possibe, | other, including Raskob and Senator within the record-breaking goal of 1,000 Barkley, the keynoter, asked for a pro- words, have been tentatively accepted. | :mmo; hchange.h it develiuped that a | floor fight on_that question, too, was Three Planks Delayed. in procpect. Senator Walsh of Massa- Farm relief, unemployment and war | chusetts, an Al Smith supporter, said debt planks alone remained for com- pletion ahead of the tail-end prohibi- | ihe would take to the convention itself | a plank committing the party to repeal, | Policeman | Chest for what La Guardia characterized as an unwarranted attack. Charges Huge Salaries, Holaday claimed that out of the $2,200,000 raised by the Community | Chest, more than $1,800,000 is going to | pay the salaries of 2,682 employes. He asserted the House conferees felt they | were not warranted in appropriating relief funds in view of these circum- stances | Replying to the Republican conferee, Mr. La Guardia accused him of distort- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) HUSBAND, AMUCK, SLAIN | table temporarily, and Senator Cope- land pians to call it up tomorrow for action. Senator Copeland said he introduced the resolution independent of any action that may be taken later by Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wisconsin, be-| cause he considered the presence in | Washington of so many veterans ccn- | stituted a menace to the health and | welfare of the community. Would Speed Action. Senator Blaine had previously an- nounced he would seek to have the | Senate District Committee discharged | from further consideration of the Costi- gan bill, carrying $75,000 for relief of the veterans, so he could introduce a redraft of the measure in the Senate. Senator Copeland, however, thinks his Shoots Man Who Coblentz testified he signed the dccu- | ments in Florida a few weeks before the |opening of Pitts’ trial in November, | 1930, although they bore dates in 1927, | 1928 and early 1929. Used for Records, He Says. | The banker said he signed the papers with the distinct understanding they were to be used only for the purpose of | completing corporate records and not in | connection with the defense of any criminal charges then pending against | Pitts. He admitted, however, he signed them in Pitts’ Palm Beach home, using | several different pens and different col- ored inks, furnished by one of Pitts' asscciates. He said his suspicions were |aroused by these circumstances and he turned to Pitts and the others and said: “Look here, fellows, I'm signing these to complete corporate records only. If they are ever used for any other pur- pose, I will tell all the circumstances under which they were signed.” Shortly before he took the stand as a defense withess during Pitts’ _trial, Coblentz continued, he met Raichle in a room at the Mayflower Hotel. As he | walked into the room, Coblentz testi- fled, Raichle look up and said: “In | order that you may feel easy, Mr. Cob- | lentz, I want to tell you Pitts and Ed- | wards have assured me that the au- thorizations you signed in Florida have | HOLSE TO RENANE CONFEREESNRDH ON ECORONY BIL |Garrier Declares He Will Not | Change Stand “if We Stay Here Until August.” McNARY ACTS TO BAR FINAL DEATH OF PROGRAM Senate Reconsideration of Vote Weculd Leave Door Open to Accept Previous Report. | By the Associated press The much contested national econ- omy bill today seemed headed for ad- d!tmnn.(‘onfllc! before becoming law. The Senate sent the $150,000,000 measure back to conference FPriday. Today Speaker Garner said he would reappoint the same House conferees, two of whom are in Chicago. Chairman McDuffie of the House group will not return until Wednesday night. Douglas of Arizona is expected back about the same time. This would delay another meeting until Thursday, last day of the fiscal year. Will Stick to Demands. “I'm not going to appoint new con- ferees,” Garner sald. “I'll name the same ones if we stay here until Au- gust.” ‘The House, in session for the first time since ‘Thursday, was formally notified today of the Senate’s un- expected action. McDuffie is chair- |man of the House conferees, and |the success of the new conference is largely dependent on his wil- lingness to acquiesce in the demands of the Senate. Before leaving Wash- ington McDuffie served notice that the House would refuse to yield and de- clared a deadlock would be inevitable. In anticipation of such an even- tuality, Senator McNary of Oregon, | sistant Republican leader of the Sen- |ate, has taken a parliamentary step, | however, to prevent the death of the bill in conference and salvage at least | some of the $150.000,000 savings it is | estimated to produce. McNary plans | to offer a motion in the Senate some | time toaay have the Senate recon- | sider the voce vote by which it returned the bill to conference. May Recall Measure. The move is designed solely to give the Senate jurisdiction over the b:ll, so it can recall the measure and &c- cept the conference report, should a deadlock develop in conference. McNary feels the-Senate will accept the report, despite the injustice the bill might work on the Government employes, rather than have it fail. Throughout debate on the bill belief was expressed by some Senators that the injustices might be worked out in administration, although they would rather have them removed before en- actment, if that can be done without jeopardizing passage of tne measure before adjournment of Congress. One thing is certain—Congress does | not propose to let its pet economy bill |80 to an untimely death. WOMAN ASTRONOMER OF HARVARD DROWNS Miss Adelaide Ames, 31, Noted for Catalog of Thousands of External Universes. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 27.—Miss Adelaide Ames, 31, member of the staff of the Harvard College Observatory and | noted for the surveys of external uni- verses in which she collaborated with Dr. Harlow Shapley, was drowned yes- | terday afternoon in Squam Lake, N, H., plan will expedite the appropriation if | Congress is in & mocd to provide relief | been destroyed.” according to word received at the ob- CONFEREES TURN TOWARD HOOVER VIEWS ON RELIEF | Committee Unable to Agree, but Shows Disposition to Back President’s Stand. GARNER TAKES HAND IN CONFERENCE SESSION Sets Precedent by Directing Nego- tiations, but Avoids Entering Controversy. Congressional conferees on the un- employment relief bill failed today to reach an agreement, but showed a dis- position to consider President Hoover's contention that emergency aid funds should be distributed on the basis of need. Chairman Norbeck of the Senate conferees on the $2,300,000,000 bill sald no agreements were reached in a two-and-one-half-hour session this morning, but added the negotiators would make another attempt this after- noon to iron out the differences. He indicated a disposition among the conferees to listen to President Hoover's arguments for distribution of the pro- posed $300,000,000 emergency relief | fund on the basis of need. Feels Progress Is Made. “I realize the difficulty of getting a bill to suit the Senate, the House and the President,” Norbeck said, “but really I feel like we are making pro- gress. “Nothing definite has been settled, but the situation does not look so im- possible as it did at first and frankly I am of the belief the President's wishes will be given every consideration pessible as to the distribution of the $300,000,000 relief fund in order that needs of the situation may govern.” Speaker Garner shattered precedent today by assuming perscnal direction of the negotiations. Garner appeared personally in the m;xdéng :( conferees. ed by newspaper men afterward if he had pointed the way to a compro- mise, the Speaker said he done con- siderable “orating,” but would not re- veal the details of his discussion. Silent on Public Works. He said, however, he had confined his remarks to the sections of the bill dealing with emergency relief funds and expanding the borrowing power of he Reconstruction Finance Cérpora- tion for construction loans. Garner said he had not discussed the controversial public works section of the bill, to which President Hoover is op- posed, feeling it was a matter for con- ferees to adjust by compromise. ‘The Speaker's appearance came as the Senate and House conferees met for the second time to attempt to com- pose differences. Garner went to the conference in company with Represent- ative Rainey, the Democratic leader, who introduced the bill in the House, It had been the Speaker’s ori contention to serve as a conferee - self, but this plan was blocked when Representative Snell, the Republican leader, declined to take a place on the committee. Garner then named the five ranking members of the ways and means group which prepared the House bill. Green Makes Appeal. ‘The necessity of relief was brought before the conferees forcibly in a state- ment yesterday by William Green, pres- ident of the American Federation of Lahor, in which he said “Unemployment has been increasing this Spring at a rate unprecedented even in the two years of distress we have just been through. * * * If un- employment keeps on increasing at this rate we shall have 13,000,000 out of work by next Winter. “From January to May, 1932, well over a million men and women have been thrown out of work in industry. The rate of increase this year has been considerably more than twice that of tion one when the committee resumed i not merely submission. deliberations this morning. < Since the membership was divided Raskob Makes Surprise Speech. on the agricultural declarstion, it was| Raskob’s espousal of a repeal submis- arranged to have an open hearing on | sion plank was contained in a surprise this question late in the day. Despite speech, preceding that of the keynoter. servatory today. Miss Ames had been spending a vaca- tion at the New Hampshire Lake re- sort. She had been research assistant at the observatory since 1923. Her chief scientific work was with Dr. Shapley, Wounded Estranged Wife. OAKLAND, Calif., June 27 (#)—A | lows: policeman shot and killed Andrew | “Whereas, the health and welfare of Schafer of San Francisco yesterday an | the District of Columbia and its per-| | instant after Schafer had shot his wife, | manent and transient inhabitants, are | Coblentz explained that Raichle was | referring to John H. Edwards. jr. a vice president of the Smith Co., who was tried with Pitts. Identified Signatures. ligently with political problems in these | for the veterans. His resolution fol- United States. My faith in him is ab- | solute and my love for and loyalty and | devotion to him are unbounded. The party has pald him not one penny for 1930 or 1931. Trade union figures for June show a still further increase. “Our preliminary estimate cf un- employment shows at least 10,800,000 =il out of work in May. Trade union his services, nor can it compensate him, except as it may register its approval and appreciation of his accomplish ments. “May I pay tribute also to Charlie Michelson and to the splendid results | flowing from our publicity department conducted with great dignity and ef- | fectiveness under his able direction “We assemble in convention here to pledge the Democratic party to the Herculean task of resurrecting our country from a pit of depression that seems almost bottomless. Religion teaches that the three great virtues are faith, hope and charity. Under Repub- lican’ administration faith has been so | far destroyed that people have little hope left. and if a change is not quickly RITCHIE AND M’ADOO ON FORUM TONIGHT Democratic Leaders’ Views Will Be Presented in Radio Interview by William Hard. The al viewpeints of Demo- cra rs in the East and West will be discussed by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland and William Gibbs Mc- Adoo, Secretary of the Treasury under President Wilson, in the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Washington | Star. and broadcast over a coast-to-| coast network of the National Broad- casting Co. at 9 o'clock tonight. ‘ Gov. Ritchie, as a candidate for the | presidential nomination, will outline the | viewpoint of the acknowledged “wet | East” on the political questions of the | day, while Mr. McAdoo, dry Californian, will discuss the attitude of the West. Both men will be interviewed in Chi- eago by William Hard, political com- mentator and analyst. Mr. McAdoo is expected to respond to Hard's questioning with a discussion of questions likely to come up in the Democratic convention from the stand- point of the West Coast. Gov. Ritchie | will tell what he believes people on the | Atlantic Coast think of issues confront- ing the Nation. Oliver Owen Kuhn, managing editor of The Washington Star, will be master #f ceremones, the argument in committee, the Roose- He declared the time had come to do velt machine was driving surely ahead with its program. The platform for | 1932 will be one conforming to the| ideas of Gov. Roosevelt. A. Mitchell Palmer, former Attorney General, brought the Roosevelt pro- gram to the committee and he has taken charge of the deliberations be- hind closed doors. Report Tomorrow. Tharks to the running start gained on the work, the Drafting Suocom- mittee expected to complete its job be- fore midnight and a report from the whole committee to the convention by tomorrow appears certain. Palmer and some of the Roosevelt leaders on the committee held a secret session last night, revising some of the | language intended for the remaining | cortroversial planks. They announced nothing. | YANGTZE RIVER RISES e | Chinese Stream Is Near Flood Stage. AANKOW, China, June 27 (#)— Swollen by continued heavy rains, the | Yangtze River rose 2 feet today and | was 38!, feet above normal, almost at tne same level as at this time last year Jjust before disastrous floods which did uncounted damage to property and human life. | Already vast areas of the Yangtze | Valley are flooded and thousands of persons are homeless. It was feared that if the rains continued, last Sum- mer's floods might be repeated. YACHTSMAN LOST IN SEA NEW YORK, June 27 (#)—Clarence Kozlay, yachtsman, of Orange, N. J., was lost in the sea early yesterday, when the schooner Adriana was de- | stroyed by fire caused by spontaneous | combustion. Ten others leaped to the deck of the English sioop Jolie Brise and were saved | The Adriana was a scratch boat in| the race from Montauk Point, N. Y., to Bermuda. The Jolie Brise, also an entry in the contest, raced back three miles to effect the rescue of Kozlay's companions. —_— Rdi-hmnlu?qcu | tion, | lina, away with the reign of the dry laws. Barkley, long a prohibitionist, made almost the same recommendation in the course of a keynote speech. Only a few formalities, aside from that, were before the convention at its opening session. Out of a whirl of week end develop- ments had come unquestionable signs of a swing toward the Roosevelt can- didacy, putting him within striking dis- tance of the nomination unless his or- ganization is wrecked meantime by the mounting dispute over the vital issues of permanent convention organization and ‘rules. tions on these issues, however, that even a telephone appeal by Gov. Roose- velt himself last night apparently had failed of conclusive results. Split on Changing Rule. The major split was over the pro- posal of the Roosevelt captains to ig- nore the hundred-year tradition of the two-thirds rule and nominate by a plain majority. Opposed solidly by the non-Roose- velt delegations, whose strength at least approaches half of the conven- this departure also had come under the displeasure of many Roose- velt delegates. Kentucky, North Caro- Utah, New Mexico, Mississippi, Maine and Alaska all had either de- clared ‘against the majority proposition in caucus overnight, or had shown signs of wavering. At a caucus of the big New York delegation the Roose- " (Continued on Page 5, Column 5.) SENORA CALLES SHOWS SOME IMPROVEMENT By the Associated Press. BOSTON, June 27.—Senora Leonor Llorente Calles, young wife of former President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico, who is nearing the crisis which will determine the outcome of a deli- cate brain operation, was more com- fortable today than at any previous noon reached 90 degrees. time since the operation. Hospital authorities so advised the Calles party.| had interest in their welfare joined Since Dr. Harvey Cushing noted brain | those who claimed they have caught surgeon removed a large tumor from ! hundreds the left tenporary side of her brain last Thursday, Senora Calles' condition has been little changed. Those in at- tendance upon her agreed today, how- ever, that the critical point in her ill- ness was expected within the next few ! ing, ms The patient was visited her &nmmy.h So serious were the defec- Prancis, in the back, inflicting & fresh | {wound. The double shooting occurred | solved: in the home of Mrs. Violet de Villiers,| “That it is the sense of the Senate Mrs. Schafer’s sister, with whom Mrs. | that the sum of $100,000 should be ap- Schafer went to live six wecks ago when | propriated and placed at the disposal she left her husband. Schafer went to the dwelling and | police of the District of Columbia, and he | expended with the approval of the threatened 1o il his wife unless she | proCdent of the United States Confronted by police, his pistol missed [ “This fund may be used for the bene- fire repeatedly as he pulled the trigger. | fit of the transient veterans and em- One cartridge exploded vhen'he turned | the weapon on his wife. She was not seriously injured. | VETERAN WRITER DIES | Salt Company Ex-Controller New | i | Charged With $493,000 Theft. York Editor, Ill for Long Time. ‘) NEW YORK, June 27 (#)—A sen- LINCOLNTON, Ga. June 27 (#).— tence of 3'2 to 10 years in Sing Sing Remsen Crawford, once city editor of | Prison today was imposed on Thomas P. the old New York World, and later on | Curran, 41, former controller of the the staffs of the New York Times and | Worcester Salt Co. the old New York Herald, is dead at| Curran pleaded guilty to forgery in his home here after a long illness. the second degree in connection with He was one of the last writers to |the theft of $4983,000, which he ob- interview the late Thomas A. Edison, |tained by forging stock certificates of and his story of that appeared in the |the company and obtaining loans on Saturday Evening Post. | the certificates. COOL WATER IN TROUT TANK DRAWS SWELTERING THRONGS | ! menaced by existing conditions, “(Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) SENTENCED IN FORGERY Is Crawford, Former Even Old Oscar, the Turtle, Reacts With Vim to Depart- ment’s Refrigerating Plant. Pisheries officlals explained that if the | temperature in the tanks should rise 10 higher the trout would probably perish. Standing directly in front of the tanks, the “trout admirers” were enjoy- ing & cool Summer morning of exactly | 80 degrees. The icy exhausts from the n Al nor | the e on, causi e glass fronts P of the tank to become frosted and making the aquarium look like a Jan- 8o cool was the basement room today Oscar, the 50-year-cld snap- S ing a hun out Winter came again today to the trout in the Commerce Department’s aquarium and “keeping cool with the fish” proved to be one of the most popular pastimes among many Wash- ingtonians after the temperature in neighboring mountain streams. ‘They stood in front of the of the commissioners of health and| ployed to return them to their homes | Colbentz said that after he took the stand during Pitts’ trial and identified | his signature on the authorizations, he | went to Raichle and said: “Frank, I | believe a number of those papers on | which I identified my signature were ones I signed in Florida.” The banker also testified about a con- versation in Florida among Pitts, | Raichle and himself. At that time, he said, Pitts remarked he thought it would | be all right to use the recently signed authorizations at the pending trial be-l cause they had located a general au- | thorization giving him the same power | | delegated by the individual papers. | Raichle, he testified, interrupted and | said the authorizations signed in Flor- ida could not be used at the trial. Coblentz also testified at some length concerning a promissory note for $147,- 000 which he gave Pitts in Florida. Explains Transaction. “My associates and I were holding | some $300,000 of Smith Co. securities,” he sald in explanation of this transac- | tion. “I was trying to get Pitts to| | take them back and he said he could | not do this, but he would finance a | securities corporation, through which | | they could be liquidated. He then | offered to give me a block of Smith | Co. preferred stock to be used as an asset for this corporation if I would | give him the note for $147,000. He| | said he had paid $100 a share lor" this stock and would convey it to me for $20 a share.” Coblentz said he gave Pitts the note | | in September, 1930, but dated it back to December 18, 1929, the date when they first discussed the forming of the securities corporation, at Pitts’ request. He said that, when Pitts subsequently failed to carry out the rest of his agree- ment with regard to the securities cor- poration, he became suspicious that his real purpose was to deduct the apparent loss in the transfer of the stock from his income tax returns for 1929. Cob- leniz said he then told Pitts he would | disclose all the circumstances if the | $147,000 note should ever be used for that purpoee. __On cross-examination, Defense Attor- | (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) 18 Drown in Cloudburst. BUCHAREST, Rumania, June 27 (). director of the observatory. on detailed surveys of the brighter extra-gallactic nebulae. Miss Ames published in 1931 a cata- log of nearly 2,800 external galaxies forming a system in the constellation of Coma and Virgo near the North Pole of the milky way. Miss Ames had also published with Dr. Shapley a series of notes on the Coma-Virgo cloud of galaxies. At pres- ent, there is in press a survey of all the | galaxies brighter than the thirteenth magnitude over the entire sky. Perhaps no other survey of these ob- jects has been so complete and so uni- form, it was said at the observatory. It gives an extensive catalog based on pre- cise and uniform observations and em- bracing every discovered object of this kind down ‘to the magnitude lmit chosen. Miss Ames was a member of the American Astronomical Society. HUNTED BANKER'S WIFE ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE | Mrs. Walter C. Davis, Whose Hus- band Is Wanted in Big Short- age, Returns to Colorado. By the Associated Press. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 27.—Apparently on the verge of a nervous collapse, Mrs. Walter C. Davis, wife of the missing president of the City Savings & Loan Association, re- turned here yesterday from New York City. She was placed under the care of a physiclan, after a brief interroga- tion by Chief of Police Harper and Charles T. Fertig, association receiver. Little information of value in the search for Davis and $1,270,000 of the assets of the association was obtained from her, Chief Harper said. Mrs. Davis said she had been living at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City for the last three months. Her husband joined her there about June 6, she said, but she has not seen him since June 13, when he told her he was going to ‘Washington. figures for the first part of June show the largest increase this year. Apply- ing them to industry generally would indicate that at least 200,000 more have been thrown out of work since May. Farms Supply Jobs. “Farm work has provided some jobs, but unquestionably the number now out of work is nearly 11,000,000: * * * “The report for cities shows unem- ployment increasing in 15 of our 24 | reporting cities. Detroit and Cleveland report the highest unemployment, while New York, Paterson, Chicago, Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia follow closely. The month has brought se- rious increases in Denver, Baltimore. St. Louis and San Antonio.” ‘The only source to which the uncm- ployed can look for jobs, Green said, is the Federal Government, which should take hold of the situation and set up the methods and the means for providing citizens with opportunties to earn bread, shelter and heat.” CHINESE DROP BOMBS NEAR BRITISH SHIP Vessel Mistaken for Rebel Craft as Planes Search for Ship Carrying Rifles. By the Assoclated Press. HONGKONG, June 27.—The British gunboat Moorhen was bombed by mis- take today by Chinese airplanes sent by Gen. Chan Chaitong to recover & quantity of munitions captured by Ad- miral Chan Chak, rebel commander of the Cantonese navy. Admiral Chan Chak's gunboats earlier in the day had captured a Chinese steamer carrying a quantity of rifies, valued at $500,000, which belonged to the regular Cantonese forces. The planes were sent out to bomb Chan Chak's boats, but near Kiau Island they lrppuenny mistook the British boat for a rebel craft. Six bombs were dropped near her, but she Endurance Flyer Killed. ROSEDALE, Miss, June 27 (#)— John Hunter, one of four brothers, who 55 Chnlcago two sears ago. was ‘Eiled WO Ago, was here , when the propeller of his iy siruck his head: was not struck. Storms Devastate Towns, ISTANBUL, Turkey, June 27 (#)— Violent devastated the district around town of Caesarea