Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1932, Page 4

T K—4 = YEGES GET §1,750 FROM THREE SAFES Horton Wholesale Grocery Warehouse and Shell Filling Station Are Visited. Yeggmen over the week end rifled three safes in two separate robberies in the city, making away with more than $1,500 in one theft, and approximately $250 in the other. Two safes in the office of the M. E. Horton Co., wholesale grocery ware- house at Sixth and C streets southwest were fotced open some time between Saturday night and this morning and a quantity of money, believed to be in excess of $1,500 stolen. Officials of the firm were unable to set a definite figure, ponding & checkup of accounts. The office of a filling station of the Shell Eastern Petroleum Products Co., e and Yuma street, en 11 o'clock last k this morning, and stolen from a floor Door Window Broken. Entrance was gained by breaking a window in & door. In addition to the cash, a quantity of cigarettes and sev- eral packages of safety razor blades, and $40 worth of credit slips were stolen. The robbery was discovered by Paul Alexander, manager of the day shift. ‘Alexander, who is 21. and lives in the 300 block East Bradley lane, Chevy Chase, was detained by police for ques- tioning. Evidence that the Horton warehouse had been entered was found by George M. Thomas, office manager, when he arrived at work at 7 o'clllock today. He jmmediately notified police. The thicves entered the building by acing a large door against the wall in r and forcing a second-floor Documents Left in Disorder. The entire office was ransacked and apers and documents left in disorger. he two safes, one of which was an old-fashioned, heavy iron type. were standing open, their combinations shat- tered. Fingerprint experts from police headquarters were unable to find any lues. b Police were informed several pay en- velopes of employes of the company were in the safe. Approximately $1,000 had been brought from a benk for the y roll Saturday, and although some of the men had drawn their pay, much had been left in the safe. In addition, Saturday's receipts also were in the safes. The Horton warehouse was_ entered about five months ago, although efforts to break open one of the safes were unsuccessful. orth wind: and Virginia—Fair and tomorrow a—Fair tonight and to- and River Report. Potomac River clear, and Shenandoah very muddy today Report for Last 48 Hours. Temperature. Barometer. Des Inches. % 29.98 con . pm pm - midnight Noon . Record for Last 24 Hours. st, 93, 5:30 pm. yesterday. Year Hi es Coast and vey.) Tomorrow. 8 a.m. . 1550 pm. .. 8u2pm The Sun and Moon. 8un, today Sun, tomorrow Moon, today. Automobile lij one-half hour after sunset. Rainfall. Monthly rainfall in Capital (current month to date): Month. 1932, Average. Record. January .... 4 3.55 7.09 '82 February March April June July August September . October . November . 869 December 7.56 Weather in Various Cities. " Temperature. 33 L] 6.84 9.13 10.69 10.94 10.63 14.41 10.81 857 E g Stations. Weather. © gupiarsas §F H 8 Abilene, Tex... Huron. S. Dak.. 3006 Indianapnlis.Ind 30.12 Jacksonville.Fla. 30.12 Kansas City, Mo 3018 Lo Angeles.. ... 29.90 Touisville, Ky 3012 Miami, 13008 N. Orleans, La_. 3012 New York, N. Y. 2082 Oklahoma City. 30.12 Omaha. Nebr. hiladelphia hoenix, Ariz. . Pittsburgh, Pa.. 30. Portland. Me... Portland, Oreg A5 Eake et % t Lake City! San Diego, Calif 29. n sco. 29.92 68 Clear [.. Pt.cloudy © Pt.cloudy Clear Clear Clear Cloudy .. Pt.cloudy 010 Clear ... Clear 0.26 Cloudy ... Clear 0,01 Clear +.v. Pt.cloudy Franci: . Louis, Mo.. 30 inn . inches in the | y | perscns. It would be within the power THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JULY 11, 1932. Text of Veto Message President States Reasons for Disapproving “Emer- gency Relief and Construction Act of 1932” as Passed by Both Houses. (Continued From First Page.) ment through construction of sound self-liquidating or income-producing projects. “3. Authorization to the corporation to undertake to finance exports of agricultural products and to make loans to institutions on the security of agri- cultural commoditles in order to assure the carrying of normal stocks and the orderly marketing of these commodi- ties. “4. To increase authority of the cor- poration to issue securities by a further $1,500,000,000. “The bill now under consideration consists of three titles, of which I shall first refer to Title I and Title III: Title I Amended. “Title 1. “As this title has been amended, it now stands in accord with my recom- | endation. Title IIL “This portion of the measure pro- poses to expend $322,000,000 on public | works. I have expressed myself at | various times upon the extreme unde- sirability of increasing expenditure on non-productive public works beyond the | $500.000,000 of construction already in the budget. It is an ultimate burden upon the taxpayer. It unbalances the budget after all our efforts to attain that object. It does not accomplish the purpose in creating employment for which it is designed, as is shown by the reports of the technical heads of the | bureaus concerned that the total annual | direct employment under this program would be less than 100,000 out of the 8,000,000 unemployed. Strongly as I feel that this departs from sound public finance, and that it does not accomplish the purpose for which it is instituted, I am not prepared for this reason alone to withheld my assent to the bill pro- vided there is a proper provision that (except for expenditure on public roads which is deductable from futire appro- priations, together park and forest roads and trails) these works should not be initiated except on certificate | of the Secretary of the Treasury that the monies necessary for such expendi- ture are avallable, or can be obtained, without interference with current financing operations of the Government. The expression of this principle in the present bill is not in this form and is not adequate. “Title II. ‘This title is the major ex- tension of the authority of the Recon- struction Finance Corporation The creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation itself was warranted only as a temporary measure to safely pass a grave national emergency which would otherwise have plunged us into destructive panic in consequence of the financial collapse in Europe. Its pur- pose was to preserve the credit struc- ture of the Nation and therehy protect | every individual in his employment, his farm, his bank deposits, his insurance policy, and his other savings, all of which are directly or indirectly in the safekeeping of the great fiduciary in- stitutions. Its authority was limited practically to loans to institutions which are under Federal or State control or | regulation and affected with public in- terest. These functions were and are | in the interest of the whole people. | Widening of Activities. | “Our problem now is to further widen !the activities of the Reconstruction | Corporation in the field of employment | {and to further strengthed agriculture | in such a practical fashion as will ben- | efit the wknle people. as will not dam- | age any part of the people and confer no special pr! fleges upon any of the le. o far as those portions of the pro- | posed extension of authority to the| corporation_provide authorization tem- | porarily to finance self-liquidating works up to the sum of $1,500.000.000, it is in | accord with my recommendations. The | section dealing with agricultural relief !'does mot provide for loans to sound institutions upon the security of agricul- tural products in order to assist in production and finance of normal hold- ings and stocks of these commodities and thus aid in the orderly marketing of agricuitral products so sorely needed } at the present time. Such action would | contribute to improve price levels of farm_products. , “There are several secondary objec- tions to this title with which I will not trouble the Congress, because my major | objection to the measure. as now | formulated, lies in the inclusion of an extraordinary extension of authority to | the Reconstruction Corporation to make loans to “Individuals, to trusts, estates partnerships, corporations (public or quasi-publicor private), to associations, tock companies, States, political jons of States, municipalities, or political subdivisions thereof.” The following objections are directed to this r xpansion of authority the Reconstruction Corporation would mean loans against securily for any conceivable purpose on any con- ceivable security to anybody who wants { money. It would place the Government in private business in such fashion | as to violate the very principle of pub- lic relations upon which we have builded our Nation, and renders inse- cure its very foundations. Such action would make the Reconstruction Cor- poration the greatest banking and money-lending institution of all his- tory. It would constitute a gigantic | centralization of banking and finance to which the American people have been properly opposed for the past 100 years. ‘The purpose of the expansion is no longer in the spirit of solving a great major emergency, but to estab- lish a privilege whether it serves a great national end or not. “Second—One of the most serious ob- jections is that under the orcvisions of this bill those amongst 16,000 munic- ipalities and the different States that have led courageously to meet their responsibilities and to balance their own budgets would dump their financial liabilities and problems upon the Federal Government. All proper and insuperable difficulties they mav confront in providing relief for distress are fully and carefullv met under other provisions in the bill Miscellaneous Loans Hit. “Third. The board of directors of the Reconstruction Corporation inform me unanimously that miscellaneous loans under this provision are totally imprac- ticable and unworkable. It would be necessary to set up a huge bureaucracy, to establish branches in every county and town in the United States. The task of organization, of finding com- petent personnel, would not be a matter of months, but of years. Hundreds of thousands of applications, representing every diversity of business and interest in the country, would immediately flood the board, all of which must be passed upon by seven men. The directors would be dependent upon the ability and integrity of local committees and branch managers. Every political pres- sure would be assembled for particular | i of these agencies to dictate the welfare of millions of people, to discriminate between competitive business at will, and to deal favor and disaster amongst them. If it be contended that these hundreds of thousands of miscellaneous loans will be used to increase employ- ment, then an additional bureaucracy for espionage must follow up each case and assure that these funds be used for such purpose. “Fourth. e sole limitation under the bill is that loans shall be secured and that the borrowers shall not have been able to obtain loans from private institutions upon acceptable term: ‘This at once throws upon the corpora. tion all the doubtful loans in the United States. It would result in every finan- cial institution their calling upon cus- tomers whom they regard as less ade- | | ton. quately secured to discharge their loans and to demand the money from the Government through the Reconstruc- tion Corporation. The - organization would be constantly subjected to con: spiracies and raids of predatory inte ests, individuals and private corpora- tions. Huge losses and great scandals must inevitably result. It would mean the squandering of hundreds of millions of public funds to be ultimately borne by the taxpayer. “Pifth. The bill provides only the funds to the corporation which the Senate with reason deemed the mini- mum necessary to aid construction proj- ects and to cover loans to the States in aid of distress. There is, therefore, no provision in the bill for any sum of money for the purpose of these miscel- laneous loans. The corporation would thereby be charged with a duty impos- sible to carry out in practice with no additional funds with which to make loans unless the unemployment projects and the loans to the States are aban- doned or seriously curtailed and the fundamental purpose of the legislation defeated. Sees Threat to Credit. “Sixth—Under the new obligations upon the Reconstruction Corporation to finance the additional construc- tion activities and loans to the States in addition to its present activ- itles, it wiil be necessary for the cor- poration to place over $3,000,000,000 of securities. It can place these securities only because the credit of the United States is pledged to secure these obliga- tions. To sell any such vast amount of securities at a time like this is a diffi- cult enough task, strong as is the credit of the United States, without having the credit of the Government under- mined by the character of use to which it is directed that these moneys should be applied As long as obligations of the corporation are based on wholly sound securities for self-liquidating pur- poses, of which early repayment is as- sured, there is no burden upon the tax- payer. There is an assurance of a strengthening of the economic situa- But if the funds of the corpora- tion are to be squandered by making loans for the purpose here referred to, it will be at once evident that the credit of the Government is being mis- used and it is not too much to say that if such a measure should become a law it further weakens the whole economic situation by threatening the credit of the United States Government with grave consequences of disaster to our people. Conclusion. “This proposal violates every sound principle of public finance and of gov- ernment. Never before has so danger- ous a suggestion been seriously made to our country. Never before has so much power for evil been placed at the unlimited discretion of seven in- dividuals. “In view of the short time left to the Congress for consideration of this legislation and of the urgent need for sound relief measures, the necessity of which I have on several occasions urged upon the Congress, I recom- mend that a compromise should be reached upon terms suggested by mem- bers of both houses and both parties, and that the Congress should not ad- Journ until this is accomplished. Such compromise proposal should embrace: “First: Title I of H. R. 12445, the act now under consideration, covering provisions for loans to States in amount of $300,000,000 for the care of distress in States where needed. “Second: Title III of this act, with the provision made applicable to all parts of the title except for roads and trails, that such works shall not be initiated except on certificate of the Secretary of the Treasury that the funds necessary are available and can be obtained without interferences with the current financing operations of the Government. “Third: That there should be sub- stituted for Title II the substance of the provisions in the substitute bill in- troduced by Senator Wagner and passed by the Senate, or Senate bill 4822, in- troduced by Senator Barbour or Sec- tion 4 of the substitute bill introduced ! . Among them | by Representative Hawl they provide not only loans for con- struction work of projects of self- liquidating ch: T, but also essential | aids to agriculture. “Fourth—That the corporation be authorized to increase its issue of capi- tal by $1,800,000,000 for these purposes. “With the utmost seriousness I urge the Congress to enact a relief measure, but I cannct approve the measure be- fore me, fraught as it is with possi- bilities of misfeasance and special priv- ileges, so impracticable of administra- tion, so dangerous to public credit and so damaging to our whole conception of governmental relations to the people as (o bring far more distress than it will cure.” TWO ESCAPE INJURY IN FIGHTING TIE FIRE Bladensburg Firemen Leap to Safety as Street Car Fails to Stop. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE. Md,, July 11.—Two members of the Bladensburg Fire De- partment escaped possible serious in- Jjury last night while fighting a fire on | a street car track tie along Rhode Island avenue when the motorman of an oncoming car failed to obey a fire- man’s signal to stop. ‘William Norgle and Richard Murphy leaped to safety a moment before the car reached the flaming tie. Lawrence Dayton, another fireman said he sig- naled the car to stop, but it kept go- ing. Dayton said the fire company would lodge & complaint with the rail- road company. The origin of the fire was unde- termined. PEACE GROUP TO CALL FOR HOOVER’S PROGRAM President Hoover, as a presidential | nominee, will learn the issues which ! | the Women's International League con-!of the five men who staged that rob- siders vital to maintenance of peace and ‘“restoration of decent economic conditions” when a committee of the league interviews the Chief Executive at_the White House Wednesday. The call on Mr. Hoover will be the first of contemplated visits to presi- dential nominees to ascertain their at- titudes on three issues—universal dis- armamegt. revision of tariff schedules and adjustment of war debts. The league maintains that the vital issues of peace must not be buried by prohibi- tion or any other question. The delegation will be led by Mrs. Hannah Clothier Hull of Swarthmore, Pa., national chairman of the Women's International League. Washington mem- bers of the party will include Miss Dor- othy Shoemaker and Mrs. Olive Clapper. $10,000 ASKED FOR DEATH WINCHESTER, Va, July 11 (Spe- cial) —The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is asked to pay $10,000 to the adminis- trator of Page Ashby, 17, killed in a crossing acc'dent at Red Bud, near here, last July 11, according to suit filed in Circuit Court. The declaration asserts the crew failed to sound the engine whistle or ring the bell when the crossing. Ashby was traveling in an autom He was & son of Vernon Ashby. < F PRESIDENT VETOES JOBLESS AID BILL Congressional Leaders Pre- dict Passage of Substitute Within Next Week. (Continued From First Page. projects of self-liquidating nature, but also essential alds to agriculture. ‘Fourth: That the corporation be au- thorized to increase its issues of capital by _$1,800,000,000 for these purposes.” In conclusion, the President said: “With the utmost seriousness I urge the Congress to enact a relief measure, but I cannot approve the measure before, fraught as it is with possibilities of misfeasance and special privileges, so impracticable of administration, so dangerous to public credit, and so dam- aging to our whole conception of gov- ernmental relations to the le as to bring far more distress than it will cure.” Substitute Bill Ready. As the bill went to the White House with the signatures of Vice President Curtis and Speaker Garner, congres- slonal leaders agreed upon the proce- dure for enacting a modified bill after the veto. After conferences with Garner, Sena- tor Wagner, Democrat, of New York had prepared a substitute bill to be intro- duced as soon as the veto was received. Little difficulty is expected with the new measure. Among others, Speaker Garner today predicted Congress would adjourn within a week. He is the spon- sor of the loans-to-individuals clause and insisted upon it despite White House opposition. The issue, however, is expected to fig- ure in the campaign, with some Demo- crats taking the attitude that the President prevented financial relief to individuals. This modified bill will be offered by Wagner as an amendment to a House road bill now pending in the Senate, in_order to expedire procedure. It carries the same provisions as the bill vetoed today except that the sec- tion for loans to individuals has been eliminated. 1f the Senate approves the bill as an amendment in the form of a substitute for the House road bill, it will go to the House, where leaders plan to move that the Senate amendment be agreed to. This would complete congressional action and send the modified measure to the White House without the formal- ity of a conference between the two Houses, or further consideration by the Senate. Senator Reed (Republican, of Penn- sylvania) said earlier after a call at| the White House that it was his opin- fon Congress would pass a new relief bill “easily within the week. The President’s veto message, recom- mending elimination of the provision for loans to private individuals, had been completed and mimeographed for distribution. ~ Arrival of the bill from Capitol Hill was the signal for Mr.: Hoover's messenger to start out with the veto. FRIENDS DEMAND U.'S. CUT OR CANCEL DEBTS ! Liberal Attitude Toward Lausanne Reparations Settlement Also Favored at Conference. By the Associated Press. CAPE MAY, N. J., July 11.—Demands | that the United States wipe cut, or reduce war debts and for a liberal at- titude on the part of the administra- tion toward the Lausanne reparations settlement was voiced yesterday at the Friends' General Confersnce. Rachel C. Nason, one of the discus- sion leaders of the National Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, urged that the United States join Europe in a general reduction or cancellation of war debis. She declared such action would have no adverse effect on trade or employment in this country. “We have not made one commitment for international accord.” she said, | criticizing what she said was the country’s lack of world co-operation. Clarence E Pickett, executive secre- tary of the American Friends Service Committee of Philadelphia. made a plea for the continuance of the relief work of Friends among the miners of West Virginia and Kentucky. “Other ways have to be used than that of the sawed off shotgun,” he said. 'ADMITS HELPING BURKE TO HIDING Man Arrested With Two Ex-Con- victs on Kansas City Golf Course Denies Gang Membership. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, July 11.—John J. Brennan, alias John Brown, who dubbed his shot’ Wednesday at a Kansas City golf course when detectives closed in to arrest two of his companions as escaped convicts, told police yesterday he is Harvey Bailey of Sullivan County, Mo., friend of Fred Burke. The golf course arrest, which already {has caught_the attention of investiga- tors in the Lindbergh case, the Leaven-! worth Prison break last December and several major robberies, thus attained new im ce as a possible lead to members of the Burke gang, police said. Bailey admitted, police reported, that he is the man who took Burke, sus- pected of being the trigger man in the Chicago St. Valentine's day machine %’un massacre of 1929 and then wanted or murder, bank robbery and other crimes, to the rural Missouri hideout where he was captured a year and a half ago and placed in a Michigan prison. Bailey denies, police said, any con- nection with activities of Thomas | Holden, 35, and Francis L. Keating, 33, who were his golf partners, or with the | $32,000 robbery of the Citizens National Bank at Fort Scott, Kans. Employes of the bank have identified him as one | | bery. CHICAGO WORLD FAIR POST IS GIVEN NEW Former Postmaster General Ap- pointed Commissioner to Direct Government Part in Event. Harry 8. New of Indiana, Postmaster General under Presidents Harding and Coolidge, was today appointed by Presi- dent Hoover as a commissioner of A Century of Progress, more commonly known as the Chicago World Fair Centennial Celebration, to be held in Chicago next year. Mr. New since retiring to private life at the end of the Coolidge administra- tion in 1929 has continued to live at his home in Edgemoor, near Bethesda, Md.. and besides occasional writ! he has been more or less inactive. President Hoover several days ago signed a bill appropriating $1,000,000 tion icago ury of and Mr. New will be one of the missioners to direct the Federal Gov- ernment’s part in the celebration. - OLD GUARD CLASS PLANNED AT SHOW! Hunters Who Rode Before 1906 Will Have Feature Spot on Orange Program. Special Dispatch to The Star. QRANGE, Va, July 11—The old guard ciass, open to members of an organized hunt prior to 1906, or, if in- vited, to have ridden to hounds prior to that year, is one of the features of | the program for the 1932 Orange Horse Show, to be staged on the show grounds here, July 20-21. The conditions for the class call for mounts to be shown over four standard height jumps with the riders in hunting colors. The class is presented by E. B. Sydnor of Rich- mond, one of the veteran members of the Deep Run Hunt Club of that city. A total of 40 classes with cash prizes amounting to approximately $1,200 will make up this year's event. Practically all of the prominent stables in Virginia and the East will have representatives in the ring here. ‘The 1932 event, marking the 33d an- nual exhibition, comes at a time when most of the campaigners for show ring honors are in midseason form, which means that the performance here will reach the high-water, mark of the Sum- mer campaign. An innovation in the saddle classes in this year’s program will be the five- gaited class, money prizes and ribbons being awarded. Horses will be judged on conformation, style, manners and a true all-round action at their respec- tive gaits, and will be shown at five dis- tinct gaits, & free open walk, a slow gait or stepping pace, a square trot, an easy canter and a fast rack. The class for hunt teams will also prove a popular feature. Rules govern- ing this class call for teams of three hunters to be ridden by members of a recognized hunt or by huntsmen or whips, or by a combiration of the above. The trophy in this class is presented by Mrs. Thomas H. Somerville of Mont- pelier farm, the former Marion du Pont, and has to be won three times by the same exhibitor before becoming his or her property. Mrs. Somerville also presents the class for hunters 4 yvears old or under, and Mr. Somerville the class for 3-year-oid hunters. Capt. Dirk Van Igen and Victor P. Noyes will judge the hunter classes and John B. McComb will judge the saddle classes. Recently elected officers of the Orange Horse Show Association are Mrs. Thomas H. Somerville, Montpelier Station, president; H. C. Warren, Orange, secretary treasurer, and M. W. Carter, manager. STILL AND DICE GAME ARE RAIDED BY POLICE Man Is Arrestod at Rum Plant Near Berwyn—Five Taken for Gambling. | | By a Staff Correspondent €1 The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md, July 11.—A still and a dice game—both in rural settings—were raided by Prince Georges County police yesterday. William Dodson, colored, was arrested in the raid on the 50-gallon still, located near the Metzerott road, Berwyn, and charged with manufacture and possession. Scme liquor and mash were confiscated. Five young white men were captured and about 45 escaped when three policemen broke up a dice game in the woods near University Park. The pris- oners were released after posting $8.50 collateral. Officers Claude Reese and Ralph Brown participated in both raids, with Policeman William E. Clifton joining them in the raid on the dice game. CASES OF FOEJR TAKEN WITH LIQUOR CONTINUED Quartet Is Arrested in Apartment Charged by Police to Be Fash- ionable Speakeasy. The cases of two men and two wom- en, arrested in a raid early yesterday in an apartment in the 1400 block of Columbia road, which, police said, was operated as a fashionable “speakeasy, were continued until July 20 in Polic Court today. . The four, who were charged with possession of liquor when they were; escorted to the tenth precinct, gave | their names as Marjorie Morris, 22, 28 block of Connecticut avenue; John W. Clephane, 22, 6000 block of Con-| necticut avenue; Don Lewis, 20, 1300 block of L street, and Mamie Bowen, colored, 30, 1800 block of Twentieth | street. A score of couples were seated at tables in the double apartment when they entered. the officers stated, many of them in evening dress. Police reported finding 530 bottles : of beer, 65 gallons of beer mash and a | small quantity of liquor. The prisoners are at liberty under $500 bond. | ASSAULT OF POLICEMAN BRINGS ARMY PROBE Seventh Corps Officer Is Ordered to Investigate Iowa Protest Against Soldiers. By the Associated Press. | OMAHA, Nebr, July 11.—An Army | officer was ordered to proceed to Stuart, | Towa, today to investigate an alleged assault upon Night Marshal Harley Rouse July 4 by troops returning from Fort Ripley, Minn,, to their home bar- racks at Fort Crook, Nebr. Maj. Gen. Johnson good, com- | mandant of the 7th Corps Area, yes-| terday tendered apologies to Maj. C. F. Graf of Stuart and offered to return for civil presecution the soldiers al leged to have been implicated. The Stuart Council has dispatched a protest to the War Department, charg- ing Rouse was disarmed and trampled upon by soldiers who were intoxicated. —_——— FORMER ARMY OFFICER KILLED IN CAR CRASH Capt. Samusl W. Stephens, 37, retired Army officer, whose home was in Vir- ginia, was killed in an automobile acci- dent at Denver last Priday, according to word received today at the War De- partment. Capt. Stephens was a native of Mid- dleburg, Va., and is survived by his mother, Mrs. H. R. Stephens, who re- sides at Stanardsville, Va. He entered the Army during the World War with the rank of lieutenant of infantry, hav- ing formerly been ccnnected with the Virginia National Guard. He was pro- moted to captain in 1925 and retired from disability in line of duty in 1929. Missing Ketch Arriv s. NEW YORK, July 11 (#).—The ketch Curlew, which had been missing several days until found by a Coast Guard cutter on Friday, arrived a few T Atteia acibfiub, 1n " Wele el Creek, the nmnx.\m HERMIT LEADS TWO. Hollywood in Person “Boots” Mallory and Her Second-Hand Flivver Adorn the Colony—Chevalier’s Runner-Up Scores in “Congress Dances.” BY MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, Calif, July 11 (N.AN.A.) —Boots of the New York_ stage arrives in Hollyvood as & member of the Fox studio, buys herself a second-hand flivver and sets about the business of movie making. Time was when a young lady who did such a.thing would not be con- sidered in the rating among the celluloid famous. But today the lowly flivver has its place, economies are regarded as a sign of intelligence rather than | an indication of misfortune and some | of those who sported pale lilac runa- bouts of foreign make or brilliant blue limousines with chauffeur liveried in the same shade are washing cars in the local laundries. Life is funny that way. From the camera test recently shown Boots Mallory will be one of the cutest additions to the colony to arrive here in & long time. And Henry Garat, whom the same studio considers a runner-up for Chevaler, certainly has a fine art and an intriguing personality. In “Congress Dances,” recently shown in the studio, his work is outstanding and he should be able to do the same type thing| Chevalier has succeeded with a motion | pictures, very well indeed. Lillian Harvey, the importation who | won her claim to Hollywood fame as' leading lady of the same picture, didn't | drive local reviewers cuh-razee. They | felt her technique, described as “some- thing entirely new,” to be vaguely fa- miliar and smacking of the old days| when a pout and & wink and a moue | were the passports to being adorable. | — | ‘When Lilyan Tashman gave a lunch- | ®n at her red-and-white house many of the guests came in the same colors. It becomes almost a compulsion if you' /| have anything fresh in the wardrobe to fit in with the general color scheme. Mrs. Edmund Goulding (Marjorie Moss) succeeded the most admirably. Her white jersey pajama suit carried a scarlet_monogram on the front collar tab. Her sport shoes were moccasins with a scarlet patent leather fitld and a toe of softest white doeskin. Her bracelets were scarlet. And is ‘she adorable! One of the loveliest additions to the local picture. Lil Tashman, the best-dressed woman in Hollywood today-—and from the that is going it pretty nearly means the world—received her guests in the latest thing in beach hats. One of those peas- ant straws fluted at the edge like an old-fashioned lflpu le. It was tied to her golden curls with a velvet ribbon of faded red. Disdaining the pajama as being of last year’s mode, Lilyan Tashman wore | a beach skirt which had a saucy top like a feminized overall with little wings over the shoulders. It was developed in white with a red polka dot, and the skirt, which tied in front, was like two skirts wrapped one about the other. That sounds like a pretty silly de- scription, but each skirt wraps so far about the figure that all joinings are unnecessary, and when walking the wearer has the same freedom as she would have in pajamas, but has the added femininity of the skirt which flares prettily. Oh, I forgot to say that beach clogs of knitted red and white cotton' on cork soles completed the cos- tume. And when you have a red-and-white house, by the way, tomato juice cock- tails blend in perfectly with the color scheme when served in crystal glasses with tiny red polka dots. (Copyright, 1332. by North American News- paper Alliance. Inc.) T0 MURDER SCENE Mysterious Man in Weods | Reveals Body Crammed in Casket of Trees. By the Associated Press. MEDIA, Pa., July 11.—A scoutmaster and his Boy Scout assistant returned from a midnight hike in the woods | yesterday with an eerie tale of a hermit with flowing white beard and a| cackling' laugh, who led them to the scene of a murder. The hermit had met the scouts in the woods and bade them follow him, which they did. | The flashlights of Wilmer Brown, 35, | and Walter Hawks, 17, flickering on tangled brush and & dim trail through the woods, suddenly picked out the strange apparition of the hermit, they said. Curiosity overcoming fright, they | stayed while he challenged them to ‘zee something " * He led them to a spot about 500 yards off the trail. they related. and pointed at three fallen trees, which formed a sort of natural casket. The Scouts peered closely and saw the decomposed body of & man. Nearby was a revolver. They turned to address their guide, but he was gone. It took the Scouts an hour to find the spot again for the police. Coroner J. Evan Scheehle concluded after an examination that the man had been beaten to death and his body stuffed away there. Despite the revolver there were no bullet holes. The man was well dressed. The only thing in his pockets was a pair of smoked glasses. Expensive dental work probably will be the only clue to his identity. Searching parties beat through the woods all day but found no further trace of the old hermit. | DEATH CLAIMS FIRST WOMAN STATE SENATOR Dr. 75, Served| Two Terms in Utah Legislature. Was Native of Wales. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 11.—Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon, 75, physician and first woman State Senator in the United States, died here vesterday. She was elected to the Utah Legisla- ture in 1896 and served two terms, sponsoring laws pertaining to public health and the welfare of women and children. Dr. Cannon was the widow of Angus M. Cannon, president of the Salt Lake Stake of the Mormon Church. She was a native of Wales, Martha Cannon, | Special Dispatch to The Star. Voters to Receive Curb Service at Kansas Town Hall By the Associated Press. MANHATTAN, Kans,, July 11 —Curb service enters politics. For the benefit of the motoring populace, Charles Lantz, Manhat- tan city clerk, plans to have his pencils, pads 'and records on the curb in front of the city hall from 7 until 10 o'clock each night for 10 days preceding closing of the registration books for the August primary election. POLICE CHIEF IS HELD ON DRIVING CHARGE| Man Claiming to Be Renton, Pa., Official Is Arrested at Berwyn. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BERWYN, Md.. July 11 —Fearson W. Anderson, who told Justice of Peace | George S. Phillips that he was chief of police of Renton, Pa., near Pittsburgh, | was arrested on a charge of reckless driving vesterday after his automobile | sideswiped a machine operated by | George E. Williams, first block of L street southeast, Washington, who was | making a left turn Mrs. Fmma Burgdorf of Renton, mother-in-law of Anderson, suffered severe |averations about the head and was taken to Providence Hospital by the Blandensburg rescue squad. "State | Policeman G. A. Wollenburg, who in- vestigated, 0 preferred charges of reckless driving and inadequate brakes against Williams. ROOMS FOR FIREMEN _ AT CONVENTION ASKED ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 11.—An ap- peal for rooms for delegates to the State Firemen's Convention, to be held here August 9 to 12, was issued today by S. B. De Vaughan, chairman of the Housing Committee. The committee desives the immediate listing of rooms for rent, but has received few up to this time. Following are the ward workers in | charge of securing accommodations: First ward, Miss Ruth Rudd, 125 South Fefrfax street, and Michael Sutton, 311 Prince street; second ward, Mrs. J. W. Travers, 410 Prince street, and Mr. De Vaughan, 209 North Royal street; third ward, Mrs. Margaret Wells, | 511 Duke street, and Lee Moore, 901 South Washington street; fourth ward, Harvey Struder, 407 North West street; fifth ward, Mrs. Lena Scott, 115 East Alexandria avenue, and A. J. Sheffield, 228 West Howell avenue; sixth ward, Mrs. A. A. Lucas, 47 Washington avehue, | and T. W. McHugh, 1216 Terrett avenue. gardener all | .. INGERPRINS D BELCAN POUE International Exchange of Criminal Records Results in Arrests. BY REX COLLIER. One of the first fingerprints sent to Europe by the United States Bureau of Investigation, under its new arrange- ment for international exchange of criminal records, has revealed a Federal prisoner in California as a Belgian war | deserter once convicted by the Council of War of Western Flanders. The interesting identification, while of no special legal importance in the California case, is cited by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the bureau, as an indication of the possibilities of crimi- nal identification in the recently estab- | lished “international rogues' gallery.” According to Director Hoover, the identification division of the bureau received from the United States Dis- ciplinary Barracks at Alcatraz, Cali the fingerprint record of Alfred G. Bral, who is serving 18 months for aiding in the escape of a prisoner. Prints Traced in Belgium. “As Bral was reported to be a Belgian,” the director said, “a copy of his finger- print card was forwarded to the Directeur de Eervice d'Identification Judiciare, at Brussels. A report has | been received from the director that in | June, 1920, Bral was sentenced to serve | two vears by the Council of War of Western Flanders for desertion in time of war, and that he also had been sen- tenced for ‘abuse of confidence.’'" | _ In another international case, the | Bureau of Investigation has been able to identify an American arrested in Panama as a robbery suspect wanted by police in Buffalo, Hoover pointed out. A prisoner arrested in Colon, | Panama, for robbery, and giving the name “Prank Alaimo,” was found to be identical with Alfonso Travali, for whom Buffalo authorities have bfi; conducting a wide search. He will returned to New York for trial. A third long-distance identification, involving prints of a man arrested f larceny in Alaska, has ended a sev | year hunt by Pennsylvania State Prison authorities for -a convict who escaped from a Pittsburgh institution. The prisoner, Charles Ohls, is being returned to Pennsylvania to serve tne | remainder of a 10-year sentence for burglary and larceny. Ohls, although |only 30 years old, has a long police record. He was sentenced to a reform- atory for arson when only 11 years oid. Receive Thousands a Day. The fingerprint that trapped Ohls was one of several thousand received daily from all parts of the United States, its possessions and several foreign coun- tries. Sent in by a United States marshal at Juneau, the print bore the name “John J. Roberts.” Although there are more than 3,000,000 finger- prints on file at the bureau, an exam- iner experienced in classifying the loops and whorls that distinguish one print from another found that the Juneau print matched that of Ohls. The dis- covery was telegraphed to Pennsylvania authorities, who arranged for Ohls’ re- turn, by way of Seattle. During the past fiscal year the iden- tification division received and classi- fled more than half a million finger- prints and succeeded in making identi- fications in more than 200,000 cases The percentage of criminal identifica- tions achieved during the year was 39, compared with 36 per cent in the pre= ceding fiscal year. Only fingerprints of criminals known or believed to have had foreign careers are exchanged undei the international identificaticn system. The United States sends abroad prints of aliens or others with foreign background, while other countries forward to Washington rec- frda of criminals thought to be Amer- cans. | , Hoover predicts the plan will become “a primary aid to police officials throughout the civilized world.” JAPANESE CONFESSES MURDERING HIS WIFE Admits He Drove Car Into Another Woman After Attempting to Commit Hara Kiri. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 11.—Police said yesterday Shizuo Hanamoto, 30, Japa- | nese gardener, had confessed he strangled his 19-year-old bride, cut | himself deeply in the throat and ab- | domen and then drove his motorcar at | such a pace he struck Mrs. Bertha | Koerner, 62, inflicting injuries from | which she may de. | . Hanamoto said fear that he was los- | ing his mind led him to kill his wife | as she slept and to attempt hara kiri. | He said he was seeking to crash his car when it went over a curb and struck Mrs. Koerner. She suffered a skull fracture and internal injuries. Physicians said they believed the ould recover. LINCOLN NATIONAL BANK Washington, D. C. (U. S. Government Depositary) CONDENSED STATEMENT Condition of this bank as shown by report to the Comptroller of t:c Cur- rency at the close of business June 30, 1932: Cash and reserve Loans and discounts .. Bonds owned: \ RESOURCES $1,015,343.52 3,457,402.98 WS- Bondsi - -til . oo SIS 01238, Other bonds ... Federal Reserve Bank stock Banking houses and equipment ...... Real estate (purchased for expansion of banking houses) .. Other resources U. S. redemgption fund . Capital stock Surplus Undivided profits .. Reserve for dividends .......cciviviiniiiiiniiiiiiiiiieinnnnen. Circulation Other ligbilities. ...cocuueeieeeeiececeennnanncsassssnccssiacacane DEPOSITS ..... Total LIABILITIES 2,259,404.80 24,000.00 362,993.50 240,171.76 20,432.69 6,000.00 $7,385,749.25 .$400,000.00 ..... 305639.58 1,105,639.58 20,000.00 119,100.00 88,236.96 6,052,772.71