Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1932, Page 2

9% STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. TUESDAY. JUN ATTORNEY HELD | THE EVENING Lindbergh Leaving Tri !SENM[ MAY SHIH r ALY 3 WOOD ELIMINATED | IROOSEVELT TRYINE X Trial BY JAPANESE STAR ro Satoh Merely Lets Amer- fcan Beat Himself in Wim- bledon Match. WIMBLEDON, England, June 28 () —H. W. (Bunny) Austin of Eng- 1and defeated Frank Shields of the United States, 6—1, 9—17, 5—1, 6—1, in the quarter-finals of the all-Eng- land tennis tournament today, leav- ing only Ellsworth Vines, jr, to carry on for the imvaders in the semi-finals. By the Assoclated Press WIMBLEDON, England, June 28.— Sidney Wood, jr. youthful American defender of the British tennis cham- plonship, was eliminated today in the cuarter-finals by Jiro Satoh of Japan. The scores wete 7—5, 7—5, 2—6. 6—4. Wood's defeat followed a decisiv tory for Ellsworth Vines, jr., the United States singles champion, in another quarter-final _match, over Enrique Maier, Spanish title holder, 6—2, 6—3, 6—2 atoh let Wood beat himself by the latter's attempted forcing tactics. Wood became wilder as he tried to speed up his shots and, except in the third set was generally at a disadvantage the exchanges. The Japanese showed splendid control off either hand. He passed Wood repeatedly with beauti- fully placed drives down the alleys. Makes Many Errors. Wood's errors ranged all the way from double faults to loss of his racquet in one terrific lunge at the ball. The racquet hit the turf court and took out & large divot Helen Jacobs and Elizabeth Ryan advanced in the women's doubles by defeating the English peir, Miss N Trentham and Mrs. R. M. Turnbull, 6-1, 4-6, 6-1. In the mixed doubles, Mrs. Anna Harper of San Francisco and Ian Col- lins of England defeated Miss V. H. Montgomery and G. R. Sherrell of Eng- land, 7—5, 6—3. The American mixed doubles pair, Sarah Palfrey and Gregory Mangin, lost in straight “sets, 6—4, 6—4, to the British combination of Kathleen Stam- mers and E. D. Andrews. Jack Crawford, Australian ace, rose to brilliant heights to defeat Fred Perry, English Davis Cup star, in the quarter- finals, 7—5, 8—6. 2—6. 8—6. Crawford thus won the right to play Vines in the semi-finals. It will be their second meeting. Vines defeated Crawford in the Davis Cup matches at Philadelphia. Vines and Mrs. Moody Win. Vines and Helen Wills Moody, in the mixed doubles, defeated J. H. Knot- tenbelt and Miss R. Couquerque of Hol- land, 6—2, 6—4. Betty Nuthall, English girl, and Dr. P. B. Spence of South Africa won from A. Merlin and Mlle. Rosambert of FPrance, 7—5, 3—6, 6—2. Playing the last of the quarter-final matches, H. W. (Bunny) Austin, young English player, took the first set from Frank Shields, lanky American, 6—1. Shields lost six straight games after taking the first. He rallied somewhat in the second set, but still could not mateh Austin's game, dropping the set, 1. Two Helens May Meet. ‘There still is at least an even chance that the British women's tennis singles championship final will American affair. Mrs. Moody and Miss Jacobs had reached the semi-finals in opposite halves of the draw along with Mery Heeley, little Irish player, and Mme. Rene Mathieu of Prance. If Miss Jacobs can upset Mme. Mathieu in her next match and Mrs. Moody wins, as expected, over Miss Heeley, the two Americans will fight it out for the title. TWO 60 ON TRIAL IN STORE SLAYING Colored Men Face Murder Charges in Connection With Shooting of Capital Grocer. George E. Herndon and Marvin Pear- son, both colored, went on trial today in Criminal Division 1 before Justice James M. Proctor and a jury to answer an indictment charging first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Anton Ruppert at his groc ery store, 1900 Eleventh street, on Feb- ruary 20 Jast A third man, who is said to have fired the shot which killed the grocer, has not been apprehended Ruppert had turned his back to get some canned goods ordered when he was shot. His son was serving as a clerk in the store, but the bandits cov- ered him with the pistol and prevented him. from going to his father's assist- ance. Assistant United States Attorne; Irvin Goldstein is conducting the prose- cution, while Attorney Denny Hughes appears for Herndon and Mr. and Mrs, F. Robinson Maddox are representing Pearson, SENATE KEEPS CUT | FOR FARM BOARD The Senate yesterday siood firm on the $400,000 cut in Farm Board funds, wvoting 33 to 12 against reconsidering its action of last week in holding the| board to $600,000 for the coming year instead of $1,000000 voted by the House Chsirman Stone of the board has told the Senate that such a slash will force dismissal of from 150 to 175 work- | ers—half his force—and cause compul- | #ory payless furloughs for the rest The motion to give the million was sponsored by Senitor Nye, Republican, | and the vote came hot in which the board as attacked and defended The Farm Board item in the inde- pendent offices appropriations bill now goes to confere with the House, and on the action of the conferees depends | its fate In the debate, Reed of Pennsylvania, an administration Senator, charged the board with having poured 00,000,000 | of Federal funds “down some rat hole.” The renomination of C. B. Denman of Missouri as a member of the Farm | Board was approved by the Senate. COWLE§IS.CdNFIRMED Benate Acts as Hoover Decides Not to Name President. Gardner Cowles, sr, of Iowa, was confirmed today by the Senate as a di- rector of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, succeeding Charies G. Dawes. The action came after Senator Wat- son, the Republican leader had told the Senate he was authorized to state that President Hcover docs not intend naming the president of the corpo- Tation. Senator Robinson, the Democratic TESTIFIED IN BABY HOAX CASE. in | be an all-| | LINDY SAYS CURTIS HAMPERED EFFORTS Colonel Testifies Hoaxer’s Story Practically Ended Work With “Jafsie.” | | i | (Continued From First Page) | ing that Curtis told him he had in- formation that the kidnaping was ar- | ranged by a member of the Lindbergh household and that he thought that person was a girl Two Servants Present. | of a long series of journeys urtis in efforts to make contact with the kidnapers, all of wihch were futile. And then he testified Curtis told him the kidnapers had disclosed to him that a member of the fiyer's own household | was implicated Among spectators in the court room who heard this testimony were two | woman members of the Lindbergh do- | mestic staff, Betty Gow, the baby's nurse, and Mr. and Mrs. Ollle Wheat- ley, the housekeeper. All were at the | Lindbergh home in Hcpewell when the baby was stolen. They were questioned at the time by the police. And all were completely exonerated of any im- | plication. | Curtis came smiling into court. Pre- ceded by his 11-year-old daughter, he walked briskly in from the jail next | door and waved to friends among the | spectators. On his way to the defense table he passed directly by Col. Lindbergh, wait- | ing at the prosecution table to continue i his testimony regarding the chase Cur- tis led him in vain efforts to secure re- | turn of his son. The two men did not | | exchange a glance. Col. Lindbergh resumed the stand as | soon as court was called to order by | Judge Adam O. Robbins. | | Schooner Was Described. | Under prosecution questioning Col. | Lindbergh told of Curtis' description to him of the schooner on which the de- fendant told him the kidnapers were holding the baby for ransom. He then mentioned a visit to New York City he made with Curtis on April 20. “We went to 2 East Seventy-sixth | street,” he said. “Mr. Curtis left for 8 time and retummed with a chart of | the Block Island area. The chart was marked where the kidnap boat could be met. It was at that time I began to feel definitely that Mr. Curtis was in contact with the persons who had my son.” | . Lindbergh said Curtis told him the kidnap craft had been off the Jersey Coast, that it was a black Gloucester fisherman, and that it had a tempo- rary cabin aft’ He was even told of what speed the boat was capable and what type engine it had. The witness said that on the day he was shown the chart he started for | Block Island to meet the schooner. | With Curtis and Bruce he drove to Stonington, Corn., where they arranged {for a small brat in which they went |to the appointed spot. The kidnap boat was not there. After cruising around for three hours and questioning occupants of other | boats Col. Lindbergh said they returned |to a New York Hotel where in his presence Curtls telephoned a woman he called Hilda who told him her husband, known as “Dyn” or “Dynamite,” was “on location.” Hilda and Dyn were both mentioned by Curtis as members of the kidnap band. Boarded Yacht Marcon. Going to Norfolk from New York Lindbergh said, he boarded the yacht Marcon with Lieut. George N. Richards, U. 8. N, who had been fiying Curtis | |in the presence of State police and a | the boat Cachalot by Curtis. | story to a newspaper,” Col. A OL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH, photographed in his automobile as he | ¢ was leaving the Flemington, N. J., Court House yesterday after testifying In the trial of John Hughes Curtis. Norfclk shipbuilder, charged with hoaxing the authorities in the Lindbergh case. —A. P. Photo. of the Lindbergh household they chlo- roformed the baby, taking him from the house through the pantry door down- stairs, A green sedan was parked a few hundred yards from the house and the baby was taken away in that, under care of a nurse called Gretchen. With the baby lying in an improvised cradle in the car the kidnapers drove to Cape /, N. J, where they boarded the chooner Lindbergh said Curtis told him that Gretchen wrote all the ransom notes. Shortly before he put out on. the boat Cachalot on May 9 in a new effort to contact the kidnapers, Lind- bergh continued, Curtis told him of meeting_ “Hilda,” one of the alleged kidnap band, in a New York railroad station. “Knew Too Much.” “I feel I know tcd> much for my own good about the people I'm dealing with," Col. Lindbergh quoted Curtis as telling him on_that_occasion. Col. Lindbergh said that on numerous occasions when Curtis told him of con- tacts with the kidnapers and instruc tions they gave him, both Bruce and Lieut. George Richards, U. 8. N., were present In telling of Curtis' remarks about a member of the Lindbergh household being implicated in the kidnaping, Col Lindbergh expressed entire faith in his servants “We have only three servants and have absolute fath in them,” he testified The third member of the Lindbergh | household staff is Wheatley, husband of the housekeeper. He is the butler. Explains Contact Failure, Prcsecutor Anthony Hauck asked | Lindbergh what explanation Curtis gave when efforts to make contact with the | kidnapers repeatedly failed { *“He said Hilda explained her husband | was in a difficult position, but would try to make contact,” Lindbergh re- plied. “Mr. Curtis sajd bhe told her —using his words—if they were ‘gin- iggling’ me to say so and get out.” At last Col. Lindbergh came to the point in his story where he had to tell of the discovery of the baby's death. He had himself well in hand and spoke in a steady voice. “On May 12" he said, “Mr. Bruce | told me that my son's body had been| found.” | “Did you identify the body?” the| prosecutor asked. “How?" “By the clothes and the feet.” Col. Lindbergh sajd that when the | baby was found dead Curtis told him he | would do everything possible to bring | the kidnapers to justice. Curtis Was “Afraid.” On May 13, he said, Curtis repeated substantially all his story of negotia- | tions with the kidnapers. The 13th is the first of five days mentioned in the indictment on which Curtis is alleged to have given false information. Curtis told his story that day, Lindbergh said, Federal operalive Col. Lindbergh said that while he| was making the last effort to reach the kidnapers before it was learned the baby was dead he was not accompanied on “Mr, Curtis was ashore from the 10th | to 12th of May," he said. “He said he had gone to Cape Ma here Hilda's | sister, Tnez was operating the kidnaper: radio station. He said he was extremely afraid.” The prosecution completed its direct examination of Col. Lindbergh at 11:05 am., Eastern standard time, and cross- examination was immediately begun, Before being turned over to the de- | fense ol. Lindbergh testified that after | the baby's body was found he promised Curtis to do everything he could to give Curtis a chance to back up his story. Then on May 16 Curtis made the con- | fession that all his negotiations had been a hoax, a confession he has since | repudiated. “He/sald he had hoped to sell his Lindbergh aid, “but he could not give reasons for | everything he did. He was embarrassed when he made the statement.” Lloyd PFisher conducted the cross- examination of Col. Lindbergh. He | ed if Lindbergh required the pres- { the Senate,” asked Senator | ernment will be in | go through by Thursday night, | VIEW ON [CUNUMY! Recalling of Conference Re- port Paves Way to Re- consider Rejection. (Continued From First Page.) clared he heartily approved thg action taken in delaying the reappointment of conferees during the absence of Rep- resentative McDuffie of Alabama, who is in Chicago and will not return until later in the week. “With the utmost deference to the gentleman from Missouri,” Byrns said, “no man has done more work on this bill than Mr, McDuffie. It would have been a great mistake to appoint a new conference committee in his absence. Mr. McDuffie is better fitted to repre- sent the views of the House in confe: ence than any other man in this body.” La Guardia immediately took issue. “This is not a House of personalities but a House governed by rules,” he de- lared. He protested again that the House should have been given an op- portunity to iron out the differences in a new conference. Mr. Byrns replied that what the House had done in this instance was | simply to do the courteous thing in re- | turning the papers as the Senate re- | quested. Fear Death of Bill. The Senate's surprising move v day was motivated by reports Speaker Garner proposed to delay the appointment of House conferees until the return of Representative McDuflie from the Convention—a situation th: probably would have prevented fir enactment by Friday, the beginning the new fiscal year and the effective date of the measure. May Ask Reconsideration. Action was taken on a motion Senator Jones of Washington, chai man of the Conference Committee, r questing the House to return the bill. Jones still has a motion pending to re- consider the vote by which the Senate rejected the conference report. ‘The ultimate fate of the bill may be de- termined when he presses for action | on this motion. | The vote to recall the conference re- port, was considered a test of Senate sentiment, and indicates rather con- clusively that it would rather yield to than have enactment of the d beyond July 1 After the vote was taken, Senator Jones presented a rather pessimistic picture to the Senate of what will hap- pen if passage of the bill is post- | poned much longer, and indicated he | wanted to get the conference report | back from the House so the Sena could accept it. avoid any further de- lay and make additional action un- | necessary, Must Act by Thursday. “What 1s the situstion that confronts ones. “We must have our appropriation bills passed | by Thursday evening or else tha finan cial and business affairs of the Gov- chaos. “That is the situation which con- | fronts us. We have a provision in the | economy bill that applies to all appro- | priation bills. If we are not going to pass the economy bill then we must | recall the appropriation bills upon | which we have acted and incorporate a provision in each one of them with | reference to employes, and all that sort | of thing. In other words, the situation | of | which confronts us now is that unless | (X we get the economy bill through in | ample time to let the appropriation bills | then the business of the United States Gov- ernment will be in a chaotic condition. If Senators want to do that, if Senators | want that condition to come about. I| have no complaint, but I feel that I| am discharging my responsibility in | bringing the situation to the attention of the Senate. “Of course, I expected this discus- sion to come up tomorrow when the proposal comes before the Senate as to | whether or not the Senate will recon- | sider the vote by which we rejected the conference report. If the Senate re- jects the conference report. as it has | a right to do, then, of course, we will | do the best we can. I expect the dis cussion that will take place tomorrow to bring the situation squarely before the Senate. Then. of course, we shall be in a position where every Senator can discharge his responsibility.” Bingham Denounces Action. Senator Bingham of Connecticut. a member of the original bipartisan Economy Committee, was bitter in his | denunciation of the action of the Sen- | ate in recalling the conference report “The Senate,” a dulged in a_very curious procedure.” Senator Bin further declared that during debate on the economy bill it became apparent there were three or four provisions which did not meet the views of the Senate “In the first place” he said, “there was the provision that savings from | the so-called furlough plan would not | result in the employment of employes who would otherwise be discharged, but that the manner in which the controller would interpret the bill would lead to the employment of all employes who | could be employed under the amount of any given appropriation as passed by the Senate. and that then those em- “has fust in- | | He said he might decide b {at Aiken in a meeting designed to re- L | sa | proot N MEANS FRALD Mrs. McLean Identifies Nor- man T. Whitaker as “The Fox” in Kidnaping. (Continued From First Page.) Means in the fraud case. Several other Government witnesses also verified the | identification, but their names were | withheld | A warrant charging Whitaker with| violation of section 37 of tne Criminal | Code, the conspiracy clause, was issued secretly by United States Commissioner Turnage last Saturday at the request of United States Attorney Leo A. Rover. The warrant was taken to New York by Federal agents and used as a basis for issuance there of a fugitive wariant The conspiracy clause provides for a fine of $10,000, or a sentence of two years or both, upon conviction. Means | was sentenced to 15 years on the fraud | charges. Arraigned before Commissioner O'Neill, in New York, on a charge of conspiracy to commit grand larceny, Whitaker expressed astonishment when the commissioner set bail at $100,000 “Why, I've read that $50.000 bail was Means was asked to put up,” Whit- d “I w tand that vou're not able to | up $50,000," replied the commis- oner Whitaker admitted he was provide bond, and said it made no dif- ference to him whether §50,000, $100 - 000 or $200,000 was the amcunt ordered 2 p.m Washington. 5 SEATE PASSES e i unable to] NORMAN tomorrow, the time set for to waive removal proceedings and and his occupation as “patents and trademarks.” At the Patent Office to- day it was said he is not registered as an authorized practitioner before that office, having been disbarred in 1925 At that time he was serving time in Leavenworth Penitentiary “The Fox" slunk in and out of the| Means negotiations at frequent inter- vals and amid great mystery. Desig- nated by Means ¢s “No. 19" under the fantastic signal code devised by the se'f styled kidnaping “Intermediary,” “The Fox” appeared at Mrs. McLean's home Rail Item in Offices Measure Hit by La Follette and Couzens. sult in delivery of the Lindbergh baby By the Associated Press Yo Mrs, McLean. He didn't produce the | The $982,000.000 independent offices child ¢s promised, but told a cclorful | appropriation bill was passed late yes- story of having been followed from |terday by the Senate and sent to con- Washington by four automobiles bear- | ference with the House. ing machine guns. Ho expressed fear | Debate over the railroad valuation of being spied upon and, Mrs. McLean | item became warm in the Senate as La testified, exercised great care not to | Follette, Republican, of Wisconsin, touch anything in the rcom, although |charged that the committee’s reduction he was wearing goves that could have | was an attempt to “repeal the recap- left no fingerprints. He is said to have | ture clause of the transportation law. searched every room in the McLean!He addea it might become necessary cottage before opening the conversation. | for, the Government to take over the railroads. Said He Held Baby. Chairman_Couzens of the Interstate Mrs. McLean said “The Fox” told of Commerce Committee also opposed the having held the Lindbergh baby in his | reduction and predicted that many of arms and said it was in good health | the loans by the Reconstruction Corpor- and would be returned to her at El Paco. | ation to the railroads would not be re- e was shown a street at both = pai 2 csl)];hlfh. The Fox" asserted, were | Couzens said the cut had been insti- stationed machine guns that would be | gated by the railroads and charged turned loose on her if she “double- |they were employing *lobbying methods crossed” him. ¥ to “wreck” the revaluation System of Tater Mrs. McLean journeyed to El | the Interstate Commerce Commission. Paso as directed, but again failed to re- | Senator Johnson, Republican, of Cali- ceive the baby. “The Fox” explained to | fornia, called the cut “infinitely worse her there that ccmplications had arisen | than reprehensible” and pointed to a that prevented immediate return of the | poseibje Joas th Hieiiamieres of $360,- e | Chairman Smoot of the subcommittee d :5”33}?:.2 e llilr:gb;rrghlnfgldn,;fl_ which handled the bill, quickly resented “(;m,m ;.‘he sugdgeak:mn (t’ha{ rallrcads had in- Justice agents first struck the trail | flugnced the reduction. =~ ‘Whitaker during Investigations of ' Th; mt}ékn?_\y B"?lxelr:,r ‘!.".f“},"fi the meetings at El Paso and Aiken. He ' 0T, he sa No raflroad man ha enything to do with it. No raflroad was_under definite suspicion before ; 2 3 et man even spoke to any member of the Means went to trial. Recently the net| Ml even spoke to any men Whitaker, located in Brooklyn, was HEARST SUGGESTS THIRD PARTY MOVE placed under surveillance, He was Publisher Says Time May Be Ripe living at the Brooklyn home of his wife and father-in-law. | to Form Progressive Dem- Taken to New York police headquar- | ters last night, Whitaker was question- | ed by Pederal agents and New York police. | Denles Getting Money. | “How much of the §104,000 did you get?" he was asked by Assistant Chief John J. Sullivan, according to the As- sociated Press. “I got none of it, but I wish I had,” he replied “Were you double-crossed?" Whitaker smiled for an answer. “How long have you known Means? “I never admitted knowing Mean he said. “I don't care to make a state ment. I want a lawyer.' “But you are a lawyer,” the inspector ocratic Body By the Asscelated Press. NEW YORK, June 28.—William Ran- dolph Hearst, publisher, in response to & question asked by the Brcoklyn Eagle, today said that “this might be an ideal | time to start the Pregressive-Demo- cratic perty. The question was: “Would you sup- port Roosevelt, Baker or Ritchie, if | nominated?” Hearst made the following reply: “I will support any genuine Demo- crat, but I will not support any candi- date of Wall Street and the interna- tionsl bankers, nominated to perpetu- ate the Hoover policies and make the interests of the United States Subservi- ent to the interests of foreign countries. f the public wants the Hoover poli- cles, they should elect Hoover. “If they do not want Hoover policies they should have an opportunity to protest them even if a new party has to | tarted to give them that opportu- | This might be an ideal time to | start the Progressive-Democratic party, with leaders who have at this critical 1d “I was a lawyer, but I was disbarred,” Whitaker replied Whitaker said he “worked on inven- | tion, patents and trademarks"” and when pressed for particulars explained he was at work on a method to sound- the interior of automobiles Urged to “make a clean breast” of his connection with Means and the Lind- hergh case, the prisoner said he would as soon as he got a lawyer. Means, when apprised at the fail to- day of the arrest of Whitaker, said he did not krow him and had no further comment to make. May Face Another Charge. It is understood that when Whitaker Independent WHITAKER. FVANS CONVICTED 1N FUNDS THEFT Former Officer of Union Found Guilty of Embezzling $32,000. | (From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) A District Supreme Court jury re- turned a verdict of guilty late today in the case of Dave Evans, former secre- | tary-treasurer of the International Un- jon of Operating Engineers, who has | been on trial for the past week before Justice James M. Proctor on a indict- ment charging the embezzlement of $32.000 of the funds of the union. He was remanded for sentence, prob- | ably Friday. | The alleged defalcation is said to | have taken place between September, | 1929, and March, 1931. Evans was arrested in Chicago and gave bond for his appearance for trial. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover | introduced the testimony of a number | of bookmakers, who declared Evans, | during the 18 ‘months covered by the | indictment, had placed bets on the re- | sult of horse races totaling $200,000 and bhad sustained losses of $30,000. ‘The defense admitted the diversion of the funds of the union, but claimed they had teen turred over to Arthur M. Huddell, deceased president of the | organization, for use in a labor diffi- | Union men from ! | culty in Cleveland. | Detroit and Chicago testified they had | heard Huddell admit receiving certain moneys from Evans. BOLLING FIELD BILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE | $714,420 McSwain Measure Pro-| } vides for Acquisition of Land to | Extend Army Air Base. (From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) | The House late today passed the Mc- | Swain bill, reported from the Military | Affairs Committee, ‘nddluoml appropriations to acquire re- maining tracts of land“for the further development of Bolling Fleld. | It increases the original appropria- | tion of $666,000 to $714,420, which in- cludes $42,000 for the acquisition of the remaining nine tracts of land ac- Joining the field, in lieu of the ad- ministration building. which is not to | be constructed this year. | Another sum of $16,791 is for the balance due on two parcels of land, for which judgment in condemnation pro- ceecings has been entered against the | Government, together with a sufficient amount to pay whatever interest charges | there may be. | | A CORRECTION which authorizes | | groups are opposed to the idea of mak- 10 MEND ERRORS Shift on Two-Thirds Rue Regarded as Effort to Retricve Losses. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. CHICAGO, June 28.—Gov. Roosevelt is struggling hard to keep the tactical blunders that his forces have made here from losing him the nomination. Turning right-about face, James A. Farle; Roosevelt manager, and J. Bruce Kremer, chairman of the Rules Committee, appeared before an informai session of that committee today and announced the decision to abandon the overnight proposal for a suspension of the two-thirds rule after the sixth Dallot. At the same time the idea of nominating a candidate first and adopt- ing a platform afterward was with- drawn Ly the Roosevelt management. It means that this convention will require a two-thirds vote after all for President and Vice President. But the Rocsevelt forces are paying the penalty for thew mistakes. Inroads are being made into their delegations. Almost anything can happen, and the talk of alternate candidates, like Baker, Ritchie and Byrd grows as the Roose- velt management flounders in its strategy The platform debate may cause further schisms. The Smith forces are pressing for immediate modification of the Volstead act in addition to the re- peal of the eighteenth amendment. The Roosevelt forces are incljned to stand for repeal all right, but they. have not yet decided w] u ead act change, which would permit it wines and beer. An act of Con- gress making such a change would re- quire a presidential signature, hence the attitude of the prohibition candidate for President becomes pertinent ‘Two blunders have been made which even some of the veteran politicians in the Roosevelt ranks recognize as pos- sibly costing their favorite the nomina- tion. Leaders’ Plans Uncertain. One is the failure of the New York Governor to retreat the whole distance when he onnounced yesterday his aban- donment of the two-thirds rule fight. The other is the Roosevelt effort to have the presidential candidate nom- inated before the platform can be de- batea and adopted. Then there came another change, when J. Bruce Kremer of Montana, Roosevelt manager on the Rules Com- mittee, announced the majority report would be withdrawn. James A. Farley, the Roosevelt general, said coincidently that he believed that the nomination should be by a two-thirds vote. The anti-Rocsevelt forces were happy this morning. They sensed victory in tkeir effort to bloc kthe nomination. They had nothing last week with which to beat Roosevelt. Over the week-end they were despondent. They grabbed the two-thirds issue eagerly and by noon Monday enough Roosevelt delega- tions had deserted to make sure a de- feat for the proposed majority nominat- g rule, Then came the Governor's surrender. The anti-Roosevelt men were dismayed, It looked at first like a complete retreat and the feeling was that the Roosevelt army would be re- formed and would go ahead. Sign of. Weakness Seen. But Monday night another change occurred, The Roosevelt leaders, stung by stories that they had been b»aten in the informal caucuses on the two- thirds rule, tried to save som-thing from the wreckage. They went back to the idea of suspending the two-thirds rule, but after the sixth ballot. This was hailed immediately as a_ sign of weakness, for it meant the Rooseteit mathematicians could not figure on & sure two-thirds and would not get the nomination on the first ballot, as Man- ager Farley had been boasting they would. The enemy saw this weakness end hammered away at it. Roosevelt managers stuck to their proposition and by their control of the Rules Committee brought forth a recommendation to suspend the two-thirds rule after the | sixth ballot. Irrespective of this fssue, there will be a contest on the rule relating to the crder of business, The anti-Roose:elt ing a nomination and then adopting a platform. They say this procedlre places the delegates in an awkward po- sition and prevents free debate. ‘This gives the oppenents of Roose- velt a real issue on principle. Shall cne man dictate to a party convention? Shall h> boss the show? In other years the party has made the platform, and the candidate has becn given the choice of running on it or rejecting the nomi- nation. The party is the political or- ganization, not the candide Big Guns May Boom. Some of the big guns in the oratori- cal line-up are geiting ready for the fray. John W. Davis, Senator Carter Glass and perhaps even Senator Har- rison of Mississippi will he seen on the rostrum in the debate that is to ensue, Debate will consume all of today and | | In an item appearing in The Star yesterday about the suicide at Sandy Spring, Md., of Cyrus D. Thomas, Mrs Tumb'eson, wife of Dr. C. C. Tumbleson, was quoted as having sald that she gave Thomas a bottle of home brew, which he drank Mrs. Tumbleson said today that she possibly a part of Wednesday before the nominating speeches can get under way Already the talk of alternates to Roosevelt is growing hourly 3 Ritchie, Newton Baker and former Gov. Byrd of Virginia are the three whose names are most often heard. Second- choice sentiment for Ritchiz and Baker around on his trips, and Rear Admiral Burrage, who had vouched for Curtis to Lindbergh. Just as they went aboard, intending to try to meect the kidnap boat “on location” Curtis announced he had been informed the schooner had moved to a point 20 miles east of Chesapeake Light, c of State police on his various trips while he was seeking return of the baby. “It i5 not for me to run the State police,” Col. Lindbergh d. He sald Curtis had asked for no money beyond requesting that $25.000 | Le deposited in a bank as “earnest money. Thought Curtis Misled. is returned here he may have an addi- ticnal fraud charge placed against him as an outgrowth of his alleged effort | to obtain $35,000 from Mrs. McLean on the ground the kidnapers had been section requiring the | duped by Lindbergh in the $50,000 ran- compulsory furloughing | som deal with Dr. John F. Condon, cth- for a long period of time of persons | erwise known as “Jafsie " living with husband or wife, beth hus- According to Mrs. McLean, “The Fox" band and wife being employed by the | expressed keen resentment over the fact ernment, wasa cruel measure, work- | Lindbergh had rendered $49,000 of the ployes would Bave to take a furlough or | be subject to an 8.3 per cent cut, Laments Democrats' Absence. was that many of Jeader, had shown a disposition to hold up the Cowles nomination because of reports the Wuite House proposed to aopoint & president. He contended $here MP no-authority for that, ) “We arrived on location before day- break on the 23d of April" Col. Lind- bergh testified. “We did not sce the boat Mr. Curtis described. We returned to Noriolk.” Other trips followed, Col. Lindbergh said, but they were all futile, although the Navy co-operated, some days Navy fiyers covering 7,000 square miles in their search. ter returning to New York Lind- h said Curtis told him he had been in touch with Hilda and sh> had quoted “Dyn” as saying there was 100 much C Guard activity and he anted the contact made by plane. Tells of Dean's “Contact.” Back to Norfolk they went and there Curtis told of Dean H. Dobson-Peacock. another of his Virginia sponsors, having visited him in New York with a mes- sage from the kidnapers. Curtis said the dean was taken to the eighth floor of a New York hotel, which he found occupled by gangsters who threatened him and told hir the only course to follow was to contact “John” on shore John was said to be the man to whom Dr. Condon had paid a futi'e $50,000 ransom in behalf of Col. Lindbergh. It wes intimated John wes ready to sell the baby to the highest bidder. | Lindtergh then told of various fur- ther trips to sea from the Virginia coast, on all of which Curtis accom- panied him. All were in vain The wild goose chase continued until | on May 3, when still there was no ! contact. “Mr. Curtis said he could not un- derstand it,” Col. Lindbergh testified. “He said there could be no doubt that he had contacted the kidnapers.” | Curtis' story of the kidnaping, as he | told Lindbergh he learned it from the kidnapers themselves, was as follows | according to Lindbergh's testimony: The_kidnaping was staged by two men, John and another known as Eric or Nils, who came from Newark. After confe member Story of Kidnaping. | sentatives." Col. Lindbergh sald he was not im- pressed when Curtis first approached | him about his alleged negotiations with the kidnapers. “I listened to his story and told him I thought he was being misled,” he' testified, “but we wanted to keep alll doors open.” He later bzcame conv was in touch with the kidnapers when Curtis told him of having seen in their | possession some of the ransom money | paid for Lindbergh by Dr. John F Condon “Colonel, did you ever make a com- | against Mr. Curtis?” Pisher iced Curtis | “I signed no complaint,” Lindbergh replied The witness said although it was some_time before he took any interest in Curtis' statements he considered from the first that Dr. Condon was | in touch with the kidnapers because he had actual proof. Believed in Condon. “I have always believed,” he said, “that Dr. Condon had been in con- tact with the kidnapers or their repre- | Tr He said he had received about a hundred thousand letters and could not recall one telling him that Gaston B. Means had been _about his place. Means has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for obtaining $104,000 from Mrs. Edward McLean of Wash- ington under false pretenses of being able to obtain return of the baby. Col. Lindbergh smiled when Fisher asked him if he had invited Curtis to his home as a guest. “I don’t know what you mean,” he said. “He came there while I was away. He used a bed in the northeast corner of the house. Usually a police officer was with him. I understood he was there voluntarily to aid the police.” ‘When court adjourned for the noon recess, Col. Lindbergh retired to the grand jury room with the and Betty Gow for Junch, ing unnecessary hardships, and would | not save one single doliar for the| sury—wes not, in truth, an econ- | omy measure at ail, but was changing | ment policy—and that ought ck_to conference.” E Bingham also_lamented the | fact that a number of Democrats who | oppesed adoption of the report had gone to the Chicago convention, Garner Is Adamant. Speaker Garner today expressed the | hope that the Senate would agree to the report on the economy bill so the bill would become law before the end of the fiscal year. In the event the Senate should send the economy bill back to conferenca today, Speaker Garner said he stood squarely on his statement that the House would reappoint its same con- ferees “if it has to stay here 'til August.” “The House has much confidence in its conferees and at the present time it is my intention to reeppoint the | same ones if necessary,” Mr. Garner id. “The Hcuse voted by a majority of five to one to adopt the conference re- port. In view of this overwhelming confidence in its conferees I see no reason to name new ones.” Hold Government Would Lose. Mr. Garner pointed out that failure of the economy bill to be enacted be- fore July 1 would result in losses to the Government. Representative McDuffie of Alabama, chairman of the House conferees, before leaving the Capitol last week for Chicago said the loss in that event would total $370.000 a day. Mr, Garner expected the House would return the papers on'the economy bill to the Senate in accordance with the resolution adepted by that body last night. He reminded, however, that un- der the House rules unanimous consent would be required to do this. He did not anticipate that the request of the Benate would be refused. o was urgent that all ze~ | $35,000 for that purpose. |and Sunday night, when discovery of | property of customers, as stated through money useless by recording the serial numbers of the bill. She was advised that the gang had disposed of $1,000 before the hunt for the bills was in- stituted ) “The Fox," it was related, told Mrs McLean he would not return the baby until the “hot money" had been re- deemed, and sald he would accept| Mrs. McLean had made arrangements to pawn some of her jewels to raise th additional sum, when her attornevs learned for the first time of her nego- tiations with Means. The case then was turned over to the Department of Justice for investigation. e $5,000 RUGS HUNTED AFTER STORE ROBBERY Police were engaged in a search to- day for Persian rugs, valued at a | total of $3,000, which avere stolen from the store of Armen Nazarian, 1200 block Connecticut avenue, last week | end. Authorities of other cities also have been asked to be on the lookout for the goods. The robbery was effected sometime between the close of business Saturday a broken glass door panel led to an investigation, revealing the theft. Mr. Nazarian said the rugs were part of his retail stock and were not the a typographical error in The Star yes- terday. maining appropriation bills now in con- ference be speedily enacted before the end of the fiscal year. The House, he sald, could easily do all this and ad- journ Saturday if the Senate would speed up action on the supply bills. The conferees on the independent of- fices bill and the Navy bill will sgree pefore night, he belie: v time encugh intelligence to be progres- sive, enough courage to be democratic and enough patriotism to be devotedly | American.” | CHICAGOAN Ié ESCORTED |, FROM HARLAN COUNTY Observer at Trials in Kentucky Mine Fields Warned Not to Return. By the Assoclated Press. HARLAN, Ky, June 28—Sheriff J H. Blair said today he had been in- formed Aron Gilmartin of Chicago representative of the General Defense Committee, was escorted out of Har- an County last night and warned not to return. Gilmartin's escort was comprised of several men who drove up to a spot where he was making & speech to about 200 persons at Evarts and at the point of guns forced him to accompany them Sheriff Blair said he had no knowl- edge as to who formed the party. Evarts was the scene a year ago of a labor battle in which four men were slain Gilmartin was here as an observer of the trials which are now in progress as a result of the Evarts battle, WOMAN POISON VICTIM May A. Bower After Being Found. May A. Bowers, 27, of the 2000 block of I street died last night in Emer- gency Hospital, where she had beem taken after she is said to have swal- lowed poison six days ago. She was found at her residence June 22 by a roommate, who notified au- thorities Chu;ch Merger Approved. AKRON, Ohio, June 28 (#).—A reso- lution approving mesger of the Re- formed and Evangelical Churches was passed unanimously yesterday by the Triennial convention cf the Reformed Church in the United States. ‘The Evangelical Synod of North America meets this Pall to consider the merger did not teli any one that she gave the man home brew, but that she did give the man a bottle of near beer. The Star regrets the error and is glad | o make this correction. is widespread. A ticket like “Baker and Ritchie” is mentioned as is “Baker and Byrd. But before the dark horses can be | brought in, the defeat of Roosevelt has ————— |20, happen. The New York delegates |are bitter agiinst their own Governor BAND CONCERTS. | They wili vote, 64 to 30, against the By the United States Soldiers'’ Home K Roosevelt choice for permanent chair- Band this evening at the bandstand at man, namely, Senator Walsh of Mon- | 5:30 o'clock; John Zimmermann, . band- tana, and will support Jouett Shouse 27, Dies Six Days| | master; Anton Pointner, assistant. March, “Central Park™. | Overture, “Im Hochlan Highlands) | Entr'acte, “Berceus:, (In the | -Gade “Prelude,” Scenes from the opera “Madams But- terfly”. (requested). .. Puccini Patrol—"Jungle Drums"”... .. Ketelbey | Waltz Popular, “Down the River of | Golden Dreams” Shilkret Finale, “Choral” ...........Chambers | “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Navy Band this evening at the District War Memorial at 7:30 o'clock; Charles Benter, ieader; | | Alexander Morris, assistant. March, “The Southerner” . .Alexander Fantasia, “Cavalleria Rusticana.” | Mascagni | Solo for clarinet, “Selacted.” Musician Charles Brendler, Overture, “The Bartered Bride” Smetana |~ “Three Inca Dances”....Valderamma | Excerpts from “The Three Mus- keteers,” ..... . .Friml ..........Drumm s into the Wart- burg.” from “Tannhauser”..Wagner Grand march, “Pomp and Circum- stance” fo et e sh ey AR ‘Anchors Aweigh.” “Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Army Band this evening at the Walter Reed General | Hospital at 6:30 o'clock; Willlam Stan- | nard, leader; Thomas Darcy, second | | leade; | March, “From Tropic to Tropic,"” | Alexander Overture “Flying Artillery”. Bergenholz | Fox trot, “When Lights Are Soft and | Tow" ... Preed-Tinturin Selection from “The Daughter of the | Regiment” Jewish dance, (From the opera “Gabriel.") Fox trot, “When Work Is Through,” Waltz, “Besos Y Pesos” March, “The machete wound 'in the Former Gov. Smith made an indirect ..Goldman | attack on Roosevelt in his speech be- fore the New York delegation on Mon- day night. The fur is flying. And the battle will be intensely bitter when it Jaernefelt | gets going. The private conversation of | the anti-Roosevelt forces indicates this without a doubt. MEXICANS FLEE HOMES ON VOLCANO’S SLOPES Gov. Gomez Orders All Persons to Quit Area Near Long-Dead Crater as Quakes Continue. By the Assoctated Press TOLUCA, Mexico, June 28.—Gov. Filiberto Gomez today ordered all per- sons living on the upper siopes of the Voleano Xinantecatl to evacuate as the result of velcanic activity in the long- dormant crater on the high mountain. A scientific expedition, which started for the crater yesterday, was ordered to turn back because of increasing signs of eruption. The volcano’s activity was linked here with recurring earthquakes that have shaken Mexico for a month. Thirty- three minor shocks were recorded by instruments in Mexico City yesterday. Dispatches from Colima sald recur- ring shocks last night drove persons from homes. — SANDINO REBELS SLAIN MANAGUA, Nicaragua, June 28 (/). —Virgil Hays, serving as a lieutenant Donizetti | of the Nicaraguan National Guard, re- ‘Baruch Habo".Friedsell | ported today that his patrol had killed five insurgents and captured a quan- tity of ammunition in an engagsment Sherman | near San Juan yesterday. Lieut. Hays, whose home is in En- ood, received @ kaee,