Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1932, Page 1

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DEBTS STAND BRITAIN CANNOT ENTER INTO NEW DEBT PACTS, ALONE, HERRIOT STATES | Entente Is Held Revived With Agreement. | | | | | POWERS MUST | CO-OPERATE Neither Can Handle Matters Affecting | Both Alone. \ R T TV | By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 13.—The first immediate consequence of a new agreement between France and: Great Britain, announced this aft- | ernoon, is that Great Britain in the | future cannot undertake to make new arrangements for debt pay- ments to the United States with- out first consulting France, Pre- mier Herriot told the Chamber Finance Committee this evening. The new accord, he said, is a complement to the “gentlemen’s | agreement’ 'reached at Lausanne, and the principle of that “gentle- men’s agreement” is that the debtors of the United States would not ratify the Lausanne treaty un- til each had obtained beforehand an acceptable settlement of its own debts. . Concerted Action Certain. | That agreement, he said, is| “happily completed’ ’in the special accord with Great Britain. So far as France and England are concerned, he said, a certainty of a concerted attitude is assured ceforth, “thus facilitating the | success of negotiations with Wash- | inaton M. Herriot said that he conceived Franco-British agreement to be a | irrection of the Entente-Corciale hd the opening of anew era in co-British relations. From now on. under the agreement, no problem affecting the interests of both countries can be handled by either alone. “The two governments” said the premier, “promise to consult each other on all important matters interesting them which are calculated to suggest | the wisdom of European co-operation.” U. S. HELD NOT INVOLVED. | PBritish Foreign Minister Tells Com- mons of French Pact. LONDON, July 13 ().—Announcement was made simuitaneously in London and Paris today that the French and British governments had agreed to co- | operate in efforts to solve European political problems, which parallel the financial and economic matters con- sidered at Lausanne Conference. | Premier Herriot made the announce- ment in Paris and Sir John Simon, the foreign minister, told Parliament of the agreement. here. sir John made it clear that the new ! airangement has nothing whatever to do the United States, but is con- cerned only with European issues. Text Due Today. “If the French people are allowed to believe that this agreement refers to the war debt owed to America,” he said. “they will be quickly disabused.” The text of the Franco-British ac- cord and also the text of the “gentle- men’s agreement.” which was a sort of rider to the Lausanne treaty, will be published here and in Paris this evening. it was announced. he idea of the new agreement was born at Lausanne, where Premier Her- riot and Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- Donald talked it over, but it took form only today. In an official quarter it was inter- as a means of obtaining co- ation in the settlement of out: cal matters. cifically, it was understood, the nch government has in mind a possi- for revisicn cf the treaty of me in the future, presumably by any v the terms of this new pact France | be certain that Germany and Great Britain, or any other Eurcpean nation, | cannot get together in a common cause | for revision of the treaty withcut con- | sulting Paris. | he hope was expressed that other | European governments would signify | their willingness to participate in the agreement, but if they don't it will stand | for France and Great Britain anyway. | Copies Given to Others. | Aside from the provision for a com- mercial treaty, the accord is in no sence special or exclusive. Sir John | said he already had given copies of | e agreement to representatives of | Germany, Ttaly and Belgium and in- | vited those governments to associate themselves with his declaration. “I want to be particularly clear or disarmament,” he said, “we have al- Teady announced our intention of co- | cperating Wwith the United States ltl Geneva and I am going back there now to help work out the principles of President Hoover’s proposals.” The suggestion to other governments, he said, was that they adhere to the rule that “we shall endeavor to pro- mote political concord in Europe by open. friendly discussion on all points | of difference; by seeking a solution et | the disarmament conference which | shall be beneficial and equitable to all, | Pacholek, said to have been a member | and by co-operating in preparations of Scarface Al Caponc’s gang in Chi- | for the all-important world economic conference to take place this Autumn in connection with which we hope to have the advantage of American as- | sistance.” ‘ I‘!ulio i’rogmm on Page C-3 L | including Italy Opinions Differ France Says United States Is Involved, but Brit It Is Not. By the Assoclated Press. A difference of interpretation of the new agreement between France and Great Britain appeared to have developed today immediately after the agreement was announced simul- taneously in London and Paris. The official British interpretation was that beth governments, under the accord, will consult with each other on all matters which concern them both. Parliament was in- formed that it had nothing whatever to do with debts owed to the United States ‘While Sir John Simon was making the ennouncement in London, Pre- mier Herriot was telling the Finance Committee in the Chamber of Depu- ties that the first consequence of the new agreement 1s that in the future , Great Britain cannot make new ar- rangements for debt payments to America without first consulting France. WORLD DRIVE SET 10 LOWER TARIFFS ATLONDON PARLEY U. S. Will Be Asked to Join Preparatory Move at Geneva Next Month. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. GENEVA. July 13.—A powerful world- | wide drive for lowering tariffs and re- moving other artificial trade bacriers, organization of prefersntial tarif among certain regional groups of States, world-wiZe common action to raise and stabilize prices by banking co-operation in eredit policy, and resumption of in- ternational loans under government guaranties to ensure a roturn to the gold standard—these will be the prin- cipal aims of the forthcoming World Economic Conference, according to technicians who already have begun to prepare it This conference, wherein American participation is confidently anticipated. and which will be held under the au- spices of the League of Nations, will be convened, it is now said, in London next October. The League Counc meet here in a few days and small committee to the date and place ‘and issue the invitations A preparatory committee, including two American members, will be sum- moned in Geneva at the end of August. Held for U. S. Elections, Action on tariffs probably postponed _until after the American election. Proposals for general tariff reductions are expected. Recommen- dations will be made, it is said, for the will be removal of all sorts of other trade re- | strictions like prohibitions, censes and import quotas Groups which will endeavor to make preferential agreements among them- selves are said to be the Danube group, and Germany: the Scendinavien group, the new Dutch- Belgian - Luxemburg group and the Franco-German group. while the ques- tion of an imperial British group mean- while will be decided at the Ottawa Economic Conference. The position of the United States is believed to be maintenance of its pol- icy not to forego the most-favored-na- ticn rights to the benefit of any par- ticular group. but the United States would do so if Europe really got to- gether in a general constructive organ- ization. Therefore, it try to make some arrangement among {he different continental groups which import li- can be presented to the United States as a general organization. Another proposal will be to the effect that central banks and the Bank for Mjternational Settlements at Basle shall cancert their credit policies, first, to make a world-wide attempt to raise prices by lowering the discount rate; and second, to stabilize prices around the 1928 level by maneuvering the dis- | count rate in common. Confidence Held Need. Finally. it is considered essential that the present fears of capital shall be overcome and international lending re- sumed. There is no lack of capital, experts say. It is simply that this capital is afrald to seek investment. Confidence, it is suggested. will be re- stored by lowering trade barriers, rais- | ing and stabilizing prices and by ensuring monetary stability. For the latter purpose needed. These loans, it is suggested, car, be made under scme form of joint government guaranty, such as is now b loan Much emphasis is laid Lere on the fact that this conference for the first time since the World War will be a conference not merely of experts—there | have been many expert economic con- ferences—but of governments, that is, a diplomatic conference with full powers to take decisions binding on the governments. (Copyright. 1932.) CAPONE AIDE TO DIE KALISZ, PoflnndA July 13 (#).—Jcseph cago, was sentenced to death here today upon his conviction on charges of mur- der and banditry. He came back to Poland frcm Chicago several months ago. Two accomplices in the crimes of which he was ccnvicted were sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor. ( is planned to | loans are | eing given in the Austrian emergency | 'Stimson Talks | to Heover on Situation. SECRET ACCORD HELD MISTAKE Powers Come Near Wrecking Parley by “Hush” Plan. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Secretary of State Stimson and Assistant Secretary Rogers called this morning at the White House. where they remained in confer- ence with President Hoover for| more than an hour. It is believed the visit was con- | nected with the situation which has arisen out of the declaration of the British chancellor of the exchequer, Neville Chamberlain, | that the American Government was fully aware of the secret gen- tlemen's agrecment with respect to reparations and war debts. Efforts are being made at pres- ent, especially by Premier Ramsay [ MacDonald, to unwind the com- plex international situation cre- ated by the walks along the “wind- ing paths” of the Lake of Geneva | | of Mr. Chamberlain and Ambassa- | | dor Gibson. | Private Views Unimportant. [ Whether or not Ambassador | Gibson has expressed his private | opinion that it would be a good | thing to have a secret gentiemen’s | agreement is today a matter of | no importar.ce. It is now certain | that whatever he has said, if he! has said anything at all, was not the point of view of the American | Government, but merely the ex-| pression of an idea as any prlvalel individual has a right to express| when talking with another pri-| vate individual. The important question is| whether the storm created by the sersational statement of = the! British chancellor of the ex- chequer, in his official capacity in the House of Commons, will have as a result the jeopardizing of the | Lausanne agreement In the opinion of responsible officials | here, tne alleged “secret” agreement | was 'a mistake of the first magnitude To begin with there was nothing secret about the gentlemen’s agreement, since practicaliy every newspaper in the world knew about this iong before it had been formulated as an actul agreement. It is said that if the makers of the Lau- sanne treaty had mentioned their res- ervation in a public document and had | not yielded to that pission of shrouding diplomatic _agreements in “dcep se- crecy,” which is bound to become pub- lic property before the ink had dried, |on the document. the whole matter would have passed almost unnoticed and the unpieasant comments which it would have created would have been drowned in the praise of the repara- tions settlement 1:self. By endeavoring to hush up a state- (Continned on Page 2, Column 4.) ‘OHIO G. 0. P. SESSION HAS DRY OUTLOOK, Hurley to Address Convention, ‘ Answering Roosevelt Ac- ceptance Speech. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio. July 13.—Prohibi- | tion was uppermost in the minds of Republican party leaders of Ohio today | as they prepared the final touches for the State platform convention Thursday and Friday. Secretary of War Patrick | J. Hurley, who will address the con- vention, is expected to answer the ! acceptance speech of Franklin D. Roose- velt, Democratic presidential nominee, on behalf of the Hoover administration. Leaders are not agreed what the State platform will contain on the con- troversial wet and dry question. Some believe it should adopt the wording of the national Republican platform, with xlixn ad;imonal statement for reconstruc- ion of constitutional and st: v pro- hibition 1n the State. ST However, several of the State candi- dates and some of the delegates from Cleveland and Cincinnati have indicated a desire to pledge Ohio Republicans to work for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment and State prohibition. Attorney General Gilbert Bettman of Cincinnati, senatorial nominee, and ;David_ S. Ingalls of Cleveland, guber- natorial selection, won their nomina- tions on platforms declaring for out- and-out repeal. Party leaders agree that the chair- l man of the Resolutions Committee, | | | | which is charged with drafting the | platform. will have a big job. Secretary of War Hurley will speak | Thursday night at the second session of the convention. His address will be carried on a Nation-wide radio network. | State party leaders have revealed that | the convention was called early this | iyeflr at the behest of the national ad- | ministration, which was desirous of hav- | ing one of its leaders speak in the Mid- dle West to answer the address at Chi- cago of Gov. Roosevelt when he accepted the Democratic nomination. . | to continuation of | grounds late yesterday ANTI-BUS PROTEST U CURTISFORBLEF. LEAYING CAPITOL Order for Evacuation by Night Depends on Garner, Says Giassford. Vice President Curtis wants the bonus army to evacuate the Capitol G nds by nightfall, but no formal order for the veterans to leave was is- sued as a result of a conference he had this afternoon with Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, the police superintendent announced. Curtis requested that the 2,000 vet- erans encamped on the Capitol Grounds be treated “just like any other visitors,” according to Gen. Glassford, bu deemed it “inadvisable” for them to sleep another night on the well kept lawns. Asked if he would crder the men to evacuate, Gen. Glassford said a decision on this point awaited word froi Speaker Garner, who. with Vice Pres: dent Curtis, has charge over the Cepi- tol grounds. Gormer was not present at the conference, and his opinion as the occupation of the Capitol was to be obtained by David Lynn, architect of the Capitol. Leader Refuses Expression. Roy W. Robertson of Los Angeles. commander of the California division of former service men who “invaded” the and slept all night cn_the lawns. declned to whether he would evacuate if ordere to do so. “We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.” he said. “There’s no use in building up a lot of smoke over nothing. We have received no order to leave, and won't make any decision until at least 4 o'clock.” In order to make the ground too wet for the men to sleep on tonight, Architect Lynn ordered the elaborate sprinkler system turned on. Blaine Seeks Action. Meanwhile, in the Senate an effort was made by Senator Blaine of Wis- consin to get action on his resolution appropriating $150,000 for the care of the bonus army. The effort failed, when Senator Norbeck, Republican, Scuth Dakota, objected to granting unanimous consent to lay aside tem- porarily the farm relief bill to let Blaine call up his resolution. Senator Copeland, Democrat, New York, joined Blaine in urging Congress to take some action to provide for the bonus marchers. Blaine said the District should not be left with the burden of trying to take care of the veterans. He said that it sickness should develop in the bonus camps, necessitating the Health De- partment taking charge. the District government would then be required to provide food and proper shelter. After he had failed to get unanimous consent. Senator Blaine served notice that later in the day he will make a motion to have the Senate take up his Tesolution for the care of the veterans Californians Are Augmented. The forces of the California division were sugmented greatly this morning when several divisions of so-called “regulars,” under command of Walter W. Waters, chief of the bonus expedi- tionary force, joined in the movement. By noon more than 2,000 men were sprawled on the Capitol grounds, with Teinforcements _arriving hourly. The 700 who stayed all night lined up at 8 o'clock across from the Library of | and were sent breakfast of | Congress porridge, doughnuts and coffee, donated by a group of Washington citizens. “We intend to obey the law,” Robert- son declared, “and we also intend to remain on the grounds until some definite action is taken.” The men spent a hectic night, being aroused several times by insistent Capi- tol police. Finally, sometime after mid- night, Gen. Glassford gave the men periission to sleep on the lawns. but Asked that they spread out as much as possible to prevent I the ~(Continued on Page ECUADOR BARES PLOT GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, July 13 (@) — Reports from the town of Loja to the newspaper El Telgrafo today said sev- eral army officers had been arrested there in connection with the discovery of a military plot. There has not been any trouble in the nature of a rebellion in Ecuador since last April, when a group of mutineers 'seized two gunboats which comprise most of the Ecuadorean Navy. There was a brief skirmish, but that movement was stopped very quickly. ; say MISS M. PEARL McCALL. M. PEARL MCALL - TOGET JUDGESHP ‘Woman Selected by President to Succeed Miss Sellers in Juvenile Court. | Senators an each side. | amendment is agreed to AGREEMENT NEARS ONHONELOANBIL Conferees Gird for Early Action After Senate Fasses Measure. Prospect of early agreement between Senate and House conferecs on the home loan banking bill was seen tcday by congressional leacers following the Senate’s approval yesterday of the measure, the last of the administration’s emergency plans f:r economic rehabili- tation. ‘The biggest point at issue is the Glass currency exparsicn amendment makin $995.000.000 in Federal boncs held by national barks eligible #s s2curity for the jssuance cf currency. This was attached as a Senate ridcr. The House's idea of establishing 8 to 12 banks to aid home owners alsy was cl ed in the Senate. which allowed only 4, with their capital increased from $5,000,000 to $15,000.000. The Senate passed the bill, which been approved by the House some we &go, without a record ‘The messure, setting up a permanent bank- irg system to aid the home o sent immediatcly to conference House for adjustments cn the senatorial rev Dt the discussion on the bill Vice President Curtis was given the op- portunity of casting his first vote of the session. On a rising vote on a minor amendment the count stood 10 nounced with a chuckle. “Ave, and the The Glass plan was accepted at the | request of Senator Borah, Republican ss M. Pearl McCall, one of the assistant United States attorneys for the District. has been sclected by Presi- dent Hoover for appointment as judge of the Juvenile Court to succeed Miss Kathryn Sellers. | Miss McCall's nomination for the post was to go to the Senate either late to- day or tomotrow. Judge Sellers was injured in an acci- dent some months ago, which confined her at home for many weeks. Most of the time during her absence frum court Judge Mary O'Toole of the Municipal Court has conducted the Juvenile Court. It is understood the President’s de- cision not to reappoint Judge Sellers, | whose term expired March 2, 1931, was reached after a recommendation from | Attorney General Mitchell. Miss McCall, who has been an assist ant United States attorney for 11 yeal is a Republican and has the indorse- ment of the Republican organization here. She is a native of Greenville, Ky. but after her graduation from school went to Boise, Idaho, as a school teacher. Later she was appoint- ed a clerk in the Washington office of Senator Borah. | While employed by the Idaho Sen- | ator, Miss McCall studied law at the | Washington College of Law and after | receiving two legal degrees she was ap- | pointed to the United States Attorne: Office, where she has remained since. | Miss McCall, in her capacity as :lssist-J ant United States attorney, has been in charge of non-support cases as well | (Continued on Page 2, Column 7) | St \ FATHER HELD IN SLAYING | OF HIS THREE CHILDREN| 'Lykens, Pa., Man Accused of Kfll-; ing Youngsters With | an Ax. I By the Assoclated Press. | LYKENS, Pa., July 13—Barney God leski of this place was placed under ar | rest today, charged with killing three | of his four small children. The killing occurred last night. Police said Godleski, who is°31, had | been drinking heavily and his wife had left him yesterday. The children were Paul, 8; Lillian. 6 and_Albert, 4. Helen, 10, saved hers:® by fleeing from the house. Justice' of the Pesce James Golden | | said Godleski had come home at mid- | night and carried the three sleeping children, one by one, to the cellar and killed them with an ax. | —e Plane Falls in Irish Channel. LONDON, July 13 (#).—A Royal Air Force seaplane sank in the Irish Chan- | nel oft Larne, Antrim, today and six | members of the crew were saved by the steamer Nicos. Lifeboats were | searching for others, who are believed to have got clear in a rubber boat. of Idaho, who contended increasing the volume of currency was necessar. to Liit commedity price levels The major change in the home loan bill itself was the reduction in the number of regional home loan banks to four, The aggregate maximum of $125,000.- 000 capital remained the same. and Republican Leader Watson of Indiana, who piloted the bill through the Senate. estimated credit would be expanded $1,800.000,000. Final adoption came after the Senate reversed its action of last week sub- stituting a proposal by Senator Couzens. Republican, of Michigan, to set up a home Ican division n the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation. __The Senate also rejected an_smend- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Epidemic Kills 70. SANTIAGO, Chile, July 13 (#).—Re- ports from Puerto Monte today said 70 persons had died in a typhus epidemic in the town of Colulil. RESCUE OF 1,000 FLOOD VICTIMS | RUSHED IN WEST VIRGINIA MUD| 18 Are Dead in Valleys, Estimated at $2,500,000—Fever Threatens. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, W. Va, July 13— Relief organizations pushed desperately into the mud-covered valleys of the Paint and Armstrorg Creeks today in efforts to save the lives of more than 1,000 persons left without shelter, food or pure crinking water by Monday's flocd. Eighteen were dead in the valleys. while damage has been estiwated by relief warkers at upward of $2,500,000. Typhoid fever threatens almost the entire flood areas, with wells partially filled with mud and creeks in even worse shape. Red Cross workers and State troopers are pushing into the val- leys slowly, treating wells, distributing | food and clothing and innoculating against typhoid. . “There is nothing left on Paint Creek,” Capt. Harry A. Cooper, who led scratched mud-spattered State troopers nto the area, said. “These poor people had scarcely anything in the first place, an® now what they had is lost. They have no way on earth to replace it. ‘They must be cared for by public agen- cies the rest of the Summer.” Gardens on which whole families de- pended for food were wiped out, Cooper said. Their chickens, hogs. cows and other live stock were drowned. “We traveled 18 miles and found one horse, one mule and one cow alive.” Children whimpered in their mothers" maurmnn{chymmm.ucmu \ so Curtis an- | ‘Holy Man’ Delays Breaking Silence In Radio Message By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 13—Shri Meher Baba, who came here recently heralded as the East Indian “holy man,” and who supposedly has not uttered a word for 7 years, will not de- liver his “message to the world” tomorrow over a national broad- cast from Hollywood. Quentin Tod, the mystic’s sec- retary, telegraphed from Santa Barbara, Calif., Baba had décided to postpone the word fast break- ing until next February—because “conditions are not yet ripe.” RELIEF BILL VOTED QUICKLY INHOUSE BY BIG MAIORITY Garner Breaks Tie to Pass Provision Cailing for Loans Publicity. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. By an overwhelming vote of 296 to 46 the House this afternocon passed the $2.100,000,000 unemployment relief bill The measure was drafted to meet the views of President Hoover and was dubbed by the Democratic leaders in| the House “the Hoover bil.” 1 However, at the last moment, amendment providing for publicity of the Re- construction Finance Corporation a | of Speaker Gar The vote on this amendment stood 169 to 169—a tie—and Speaker Garner; elf cast the deciding vote, adopting mendment | nents of the publicity amend- | ts adoption would mak ¢ impossible for many of the banks to | vail them: of the aid held out in| e bill; that the publication of thei lications for loans might bring runs on these banks. Treadway Flays Speaker. The charge was made on the foor| by Representative Treadway of Mas-i sachusetts that the publicity amend- ment was violative of the agreement entered into by Republican and Demo- | cratic mbers of the Wayvs 2nd Means Committee to bring out a relief bill in conformity with the recommendations of the President Treadway al ment was being of Democratic members of Garner. The bill now goes to the Senate and the Senate will either agree to the House bill or substitute the Wagner bill pascad last night and demand a confer- ence Deb: on relief measure had! been rict.<l to 40 minutes, 20 min- utes to each sice \ Senate Rejects Move. Meanwhile, the Senate rejected a moticn to recon:ider the vote by which it passed the modified $2,122,000,000 unemployment relief bill. Tne action came a short time affer Senator Glass, Demccrat, of Virgin:a. said that Secretary Mills and Gov. Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board had informed him they favored the brovision in the measure allowing direct loans from Reserve banks to individual The motion to reconsider the vcte b which the modified bill was passed, was rejected. 60 to 10. . | House leaders, including Speaker Garner, prior to convening today. said they saw no reason why the relief bill should not be finally disposed of one way or another before the end of the day and sent to the President. i With that end in view, plans were being made for a speedy adjournment | of Congress, either tomorrow or Fri- | day When the House relief bill reaches | the Senate, that body may either ac- | cept the bill or substitute the bill passed by the Senate last night. known | as the new Wagner bil', and call for a | conference between the two houses on | the measu New Delays Doubted. oat | I as Republican | House by Speaker the Even if that course is adopted, House leaders toox the position that a con-| ference on the bill could be concluded (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) | | While Damage Has Been { winds swept over the soggv country | Babies were born in a Standard home and another in Burwell, in the heart of the flood area as waters churned at foundations of the homes. Both houses | escaped damage. | Red Cross stations were established At various points yesterday and more are going up today. Upward of 300 families were given relief by nightfall. | Calls for more clothing and food went | | forth. | | cCapt. Cooper reported mines which | | furnished support for the majority of families will be unable to function for | many weeks. “One ray of hope appears,” he said. “A man in position to know says more than 1,000 men will be required to labor 90 days to rebuild rai'roads and high- ways swept away by the raging waters. ‘Eundredl of victims will find work ere.” ‘An unknown hero_saved 1.500 resi- dents of Burwell, 13 miles up Paint | Creek. As the waters swept down on the {town in the dark hours of the night | | some one pulled the fire whistle cord and blew it incessantly until all had fled to higher ground. Heavy casualties had been expected Cooper said that althcugh 25 persons | |are reported missing the death lisi would iprnbnbly remain at 18. Only seven | bodies had been recovered. The body of a 2-year-old colored boy was found float- ing in the Ohio River at Huntington. He is belicved to bhave been carried there by the flood waters. |leaders gave their assurances of IDERANGED VETERAN SLAYS DR. AIMONE, MT. ALTO DIRECTOR, THEN SURRENDERS Wild-Eyed Former Patient Refuses to Answer Ques- tions After Shcoting Well Known Army Physician. WAS AWAITING HEARING ON ASSAULT CHARGES Frank Cassell Opens Fire Without Warning, Drops Gun to Floor and Offers No Resistance When Surrounded by Staff Doctors and Attendants. Dr. Victor A officer in chary Aimone, medical e of Mount Alte Hospital, was ot and instarntly killed today by a wild-eyed war veteran who walked into his office at about 9.15 o'clock. The slayer, Frank Cassel, bleck of Fourteenth st serding a bullet through the heart of Dr. Aimone, let his weapon fall to the floor and sat own, apparently in a daze, while ospital doctors and attendants urrounded him ard removed the gun from his reach. Speechless and apparently ob- livious to his surroundings, the killer allowed himself to be taken into custody by seventh precinct police, rode, unresisting to the station house, and steadfastly re- fused to pay any attention to any ore after being placed in a cell. Asked for Dr. Baxley. According to Mount Alto Hospital offi- of 4000 t, after | cials, Cassel, who had once been @ pa- tient at the hospital for mental obsery- ation. arrived at the hospital about 9 o'clock and asked for Dr. H. B. Baxley, a neuro-psychiatrist on the institution’s staf. Informed that Dr. Baxlev had a half day off. he took a seat in the hall outside the office of Dr. Aimene. About 15 minutes later, according te Maj. H. K. Bentley, business manager of the hospital, a single shot rang out and he heard D:. Aimone call out. Maj. Bentley. whose office adjoins that of Dr. Aimone, ran into his chief’s office and found Dr. Aimone lying, face down, on the flocr teside his desk. The pistol was a few feet away. and Cassel sat in a chair beside the desk, expres- sionless. Dr. H. R. Lipscomb. who was in the other office adjoining Dr. Aimone’s, arrived a moment later and. as they examined Dr. Aimone. called for hos- pital attendants who surrounded Cassei and removed the pistol from the floor. Tries to Move Once. Only once did the stolid Cassel at- tempt to move. He rcse in his chair and hospital attendants shoved him back down again. Police had been notified and a radio scout car bearing Sergt. J. J. Tolson arrived a few minutes later. Tolson and Pvt. Marion Moore took Cassel into custody and sent him o the station house in the patrol. On the way to th> station, and after his arrival, Cessel refused to speak to + the policemen, not even giving his name. Once, according to Mocre, he made a motion to get at one of the policemen’s pistols, but otherwise he tock no notice of his surroundings. He was placed in a cell and Pvt. Thomas Scanlcn was placed on guard over him Cassel was identified by Mount Alto attendants, who remembered him when he was there for mental observation from October 30 to November 2, last year Later the identification wascon- firmed through papers and hospital records found at the man's home. Detectives Dennis J. Murphy and Floyd Truscott of the headquarters homicide :quad. sought to question Cassel at the seventh precinct, but were unable to elicit an answer to any of their questions. Cas<el only squirmed nervously in his chair, got up and walked about the room and ran his fingers through his hair. He refused even to give his name Mrs. Mary Aimone, the doctor’s wife, " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) PLEDGES TO BUY TRADE BOOST PLAN Milwaukee Commerce Body Spom- sors Move for Speeding Up Wheels of Industry. By the Associated Press MILWAUKEE, Wis, July 13.—To start the wheels of industry whirling faster, the Milwaukee Association of Commerce has sponsored a united buy- ing plan, designed to open the tightly held purses ¢f America’s miilions of em. ployed. The proposal is being studied by the United States Chamber of Commerce for possible submission to its afliated chambers and other business organiza- tions throughout the country. Estimates of the crders it would pro- duce range as high as $15,000,000,000. Its essence is removal of the fear of losing jobs by the gainfully employed. To accomplish this, they would be ask to promise to buy some needed items; these pledges would be taken to leaders cf industries who would be requested to hire additional men and women on the basis of the expected orders. Then—and not until the industrial in- creased employment with its concom- mitant expansion of general business— would the buying pledges be required to be executed. Campaigns similar to Liberty Loan drives wculd be followed in obtaining the purchasing commitments over the country. s bod 2