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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and cooler tonight and tomorrow; winds. moderate northwest . Temperature—Highest, 80, at noon yesterday; lowest, 66, at 7 am. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y, Markets, Pages 13, 14&15 he Fn ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Star. “From Press to Home Within an Hour” The Star’s Carrier system coversevery city block and the regular edition is delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday's Circulation, 116,761 = Entered as s No. 32,287, [t omce, ‘Wi class matter ton, D. C. na cl shing ROOSEVELT COUNTS ONG. 0.P. SPLIT AS COAST CHEERS HIM ‘Remarkable Response’ From Republicans Claimed in California Speech. McADOO SEES VICTORY IN HOOVER HOME STATE 100,000 Line San Francisco Street to See Governor—Goes to Los Angeles Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, September 23.— LWith a prediction party lines would be broken more than ever before in his- tory in the November elections, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt today carried his presidential campaign to within 35 miles of the legal residence of Presi- dent Hoover, whom he hopes to succeed in the White House. The Democratic nominee’s statement that liberal Republicans were giving & “remarkable response” to his plea to forget party lines, was coupled with praise for Senator Hiram _Johnson, California independent Republican who has often clashed with President Hoover. Shortly before he was welcomed by great San Francisco throngs last night, the New York Governor in Sacramento -—the State capital—described Johnson us “long a warrior in the ranks of true American progress” and indorsed his most recent criticism of the adminis- wration. Sees Party Lines Loosening. Earlier ! the week, Johnson had told the State Federation of Labor a government which “thinks only of a favored few * * * is unworthy of the name and unfit to govern. Said Mr. Roosevelt at the capital: “There is another principle that I am stressing wherever I speak that I know is in line with the fundamental ideas of your State, and that is that in this campaign there is going to be less following of party lines than ever be-| fore in history. “The people of this country have come to believe that what this country needs | is new leadership and that the battle we are waging is a battle for new lead- ers—not a mere change of party; not a merge change of party emblem: not a mere change of names, but a change of Principle—a new deal Near Hoover Residence. At this half-way point of his 8900- mile campaign swing Gov. Roosevelt was almost next door to the Palo Alto Tesidence of President Hoover. Enthused by a tumultuous reception last night, the Democratic. candidate today faced a busy program of speeches and conferences with State and local party leaders. Police estimated approximately 100,- 000 persons iammed the water front at Oekland and the Embarcadero, San Francisco's water front, and along Mar- | ket street, as Mr. Roosevelt entered the Golden Gate city and drove to the his- toric Palace Hotel. His suite at the Palace was on the sixth floor, three floors under where the late President Harding died in 1922. Roosevelt. as Vice presidential nominee in 1920, was U. S. Delegates Must Go On American Vessel, He Tells Stimson. MAY BE TOO LATE, State Secretary Pleaded Exigencies Forced Appeal For Lenient Ruling. The cause of disarmament means nothing in the life of Controller Gen- | eral McCarl if it happens to run coun- ter to laws regulating Government ex<" penditures. | This was made clear in a letter from | the controller to Secretary of State; Stimson denying & request for permis- | | sion for American delegates to the forthcoming Geneva Conference to use | a foreign instead of an American Ves- | sel to get across in time for the first | session, on October 3. ‘ Incidentally, in the letter which went forward to the Secretary of State yes- terday afternoon, the controller gen- eral said that matters should have been arranged to allow the delegates to ship on an American vessel before they were pressed for time. | Stimson States Case. In a diplomatically couched communi- cation to the controller general under | | date of September 16, Secretary of State’| Stimson advised Mr. McCarl that on | July 23, in the closing days of the first | session of the General Disarmament | Conference, there was adopted a reso- lution which provided for the initiation of discussions between the powers sig- natory to the Washington and Londen | naval treaties on the general subject of a possible modification of these treaties, in an effort to effect, if pos- sible, changes which would further the ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 1. ASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1932—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. M°’CARL’S TRAVEL RULING HITS ARMS PARLEY GROUP| SECRETARY STIMSON. | LOTTERY TICKETS HELD SENT T0 DAVIS Express Agency Employe| Tells Court He Saw Package Addressed to Senator. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 23.—The Government introduced evidence today that a package alleged to contain lot- tery tickets was addressed in 1930 to | 3. J. Davis and that the receipt was | signed by Fred W. Jones, who has been | described as secretary to United States Senator James J. Davis. Senator Davis is on trial on a charge | in| [ | of violating the Federal lottery laws connection with charity balls held in | 11930 and 1931 by the Loyal Order of | | Moose, of which Davis is director | | general. | J. J. McNeil, an employe of the rail- | MANCHUKUODENIES ULTIMATUM PLAN Reports of Soviet Recogni- tion Also Declared to Be Groundiess. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, September 23.—Reports that Manchukuo was preparing an ultimatum to the powers threatening abolition of extraterirtoriality if the state were not recognized were denied officially in both Changchun and Tokio today. Reports that the Soviet government was planning definite recognition of the new government also are without any substantial basis, official scurces said, but it was added that the impression was gained that “some form of recog- nition for the new state” was possible. It was explained that these reports emznated mostly from Japanese ad- visers of the Manchukuo regime and one of the Democrats’ chief campaign- | way express agency at Philadelphia, |stressed for the most part Moscow's ers against Harding. G. O. P. Governor Calls. Soon after he arrived, Mr. Roosevelt was visited by Gov. James Rolph, jr., 8 Republican, who came to pay his re- spects to the Empire State Chief Execu- tive. They had dinner together. Today was the eleventh of the Roose- velt campaign tour, From here he swings south to Los Angeles and the return journey by way of Arizona, New | Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Wis- consin, Illinois and Michigan. He will return to Albany on October 3 in time | for the State Convention of his party. After leaving Los Angeles at 1 a Sunday, Roosevelt will go to Phoenix, | FRISCO RECEIVERSHIP DENIED BY U. S. JUDGE Railroad Entitled to Another Chance, Is Ruling on Suit by Bondholders. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 23 —Federal Judge C. B. Faris today denied the first of two suits asking a receivership for the St. Louis-San_ Francisco Railway Co., known as the Frisco. The suit was filed August 27 by Charles $3.500 pior lien bonds, who were joined Jater by nine others holding $88.000 of the bonds. Another receivership suit was filed by a group of stockholders September 19. Both suits sought to prevent a proposed financial reorganiza- tion of the road. Judge Faris held that the Frisco should have another chance. Attorneys for the railroad had contended better times were ahead, while attorneys for the bondholders asserted there was 1o hope the railroad would ever again be profitable. and Dora Gans, holders of | | testified today that he had been told | "the packages contained advertising and | books of dance tickets. He said he saw |one of the packages. | Receipt Admited in Evidence. | ceipt showing that the addressee was | J.J. Davis at Pittsburgh and that it was signed for by Jones. | The receipt was admitted in evidence | with the provision the jury must not | consider it conclusive proof that the | package was actually sent to the| addressee. | The Government contends that the charity balls in question, held to raise funds for the Moose orphanage at | Mooseheart, were in effect lotteries and | | that Senator Davis knew this and ap- | proved. Much of the evidence to date has been brought forth in efforts to prove that the tickets to the balls were lot- ery tickets in that a drawing was held and purchasers of lucky tickets received cash prizes. Telegraph Employe Called. Wilson S. Fowler, a member of the staff of the commercial vice president of the Wéstern Union Telegraph Co., was called next to relate a conversation with Bernard C. McGuire, one of the purported promoters of the alleged lot- tery. Fowler said McGuire asked him if the ‘Western Union would be able to deliver packages with its messenger service. Harry Bolshaw, another Western Union employe, identified a letter in which McGuire guaranteed payment for messenger service for the B. C. McGuire (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Von Gronau Reaches China. SHANGHAI, September 23 (®).— Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau, German aviator who is flying around the world | with three companions, arrived here to- day after a flight from Kagoshima, IJspan. SPIDERS ATTACK ANOTHER SNAKE NEAR SCENE OF 25-DAY BATTLE Illinois Bank Teller to Let Fight Go to End, Though Other Was Halted on Humane Societies’ Plea. By the Associated Press. ELGIN, Ill, September 23.—The Jatest news from the snake-spider war is that two spiders are picking on one 8-inch garter snake in the basement of the home of Roland Swanberg, a bank teller. The fight is believed to have started at least a week ago, because the spiders already have the snake wound up in One of the about 5 inches of web. spiders is a male and the other a fe- male. still be one left to, carry on finish it with e snake. mm‘fi battle will go to a finish” Swanberg said. “There will be no inter- e in 1s 10 miles from St. Charles, scene of a recent struggle of 25 days between a snake and a spider, which was finally terminated by the mayor, v following protests from humane socie- Observers pointed out that even if the female follows the old spider custom of eating its mate there would ties. The ma; liberated the snake, which is now yxmna fat on a diet of cream at a St. Charles hotel. ST. CHARLES, 111, September 23 (). —Pete, the first snake to win Nation- wide fame by getting caught in a spider web, has found a good home. He poses as a hero, although his escape from death in a 25-day struggle against a spider was due to the aid of the mayor who cut the web. All day Pete basks in a glass case among the cigars and tobacco of a cigar store. Three times a day a dish of cream is placed in the case. ‘Townspeople stop to gaze. Here are no spiders to worry about, and Pete is fast regaining the weight lost during the long, frantic wriggling to escape the spider’s meshes in the St. Charles G. Langum, who released pump house. Mayor I. Pete from the web and awarded the spider a technical victory, said today he planned to give Pete to the first zoo that makes a request. Pete is & 10-inch : .Y friendly attitude toward the new state. A source close to the government ‘was responsible for the statement, how- ever, that L. M. Karakhan, acting for- eign comissar, at Moscow, had told | the Japanese Ambassador, Koki Hirota, ! The Government then produced a re- on September 19 that the Soviet gov- | ernment was undecided. As for “recognition in some form,” it was officially pointed out that for sev- eral months the Soviet and Manchukuo governments had maintained practical relations since they had jointly been operating the Chinese Eastern Railway. Further, the Soviets recently tacitly | consented to the opening of a Man- chukuo consulate at Blagovestchensk. A Chinese Manchukuo consul and a Japanese vice consul are en route to that city across the border from Manchuria. CHINA TO COLLECT CUSTOMS. SHANGHALI, September 23 (Special). —While not exactly imposing an eco- nemic blockade against Manchukuo, China will collect duties on all goods entering Manchukuo at customs stations otutslde th?ss new state, according to a statement issued this evening by Fii Minister T. V. Soong. S Soong cites Japanese interference in Manchukua, declaring that through its mouthpiece, the “so-called Manchukuan foreign minister.” Japan is severing Manchuria from the rest of China, not only politically but also economically, by building a tariff wall in defiance of in- ternational treaties, pacts and economic laws. thus forcibly cutting adrift 30,- 000,000 Chinese from 307,000,000 of their countrymen. “The further announcement of the Japanese, Chuichu Ohashi, the so-called vice minister of foreign affairs,” says Soong's statement, “that Manchukuo does not intend to open the interior of the country for residence and invest- ment concessions to the nationals of uny powers, except those that grant de jure recognition to the Manchukuo yovernment, and who, at the same time, relinquish * extraterritoriality, shows that the open door in Manchuria is clesed not only to all foreign nations except Japan, but even to China itself.” “a:n:xs:o iretallatury acts China will p m Eremnt pose a tariff, commencing (Copyright, 1932.) {COOLER WEATHER AHEAD Forecast Says Summer Tempen-l tures Will End Tonight. Summer temperatures that have per- sisted despite the advent of “official” Fall, will probably leave the city and vicinity tonight or tomorrow to make place for real Autumn weather, Weather Bureau forecasters said today. Yesterday's maximum temperature ‘was 80 degrees, 14 degrees above the normal temperature for September 22, and the mean was 74. The mercury probably will drop to normal tonight, following scattered showers -this after- noon. The precipitatio ~ of the past two days has amounted to only sixteen hundredths of an inch. Akron Back at Lakehurst. LAKEHURST, N. J., September 23 (#)—The Navy dirigible Akron returned to the Naval Air Station at 9:45 am. (Eastern standard time) today after a 36-hour routine training flight along the Atlantic Coast. i R Radio Programs om Page C-3 IPINCHOT WILL DEFY) R.F. . “DICTATION" ON APPLYING FUNDS Pennsylvania Governor Says He Will Not Limit Relief to Three Counties. CALLS LOAN INADEQUATE AND RECEIPT ILLEGAL Illinois Asks for Second $9,000,000 After $2,500,000 Is Advanced to Keystone State. While Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Penn- sylvania was issuing a new blast at the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and indicating he would defy its in- structions concerning distribution of the $2,500,000 advanced to his State, the controversy over unemployment relief loans took & new turn today when Illi- nois sought to obtain another emergency advance of $9,050,000. Sixteen representatives of Illinois and Chicago conferred this morning with R. F. C. officials in an effort to obtain the new advance so as to prevent clos- ing of emergency relief stations. The Reconstruction Corporation already has advanced $9,000,000 to Illinois. From his home in Milford, Pa., Gov. Pinchot criticized the loan to Pennsyl- vania as “totally inadequate” and in- dicated he would use the money where he thought it was most needed, re-| gardless of the Roconstruction Corpo- ration’s attitude. He asserted the form of receipt he had been asked to sign for the loan is “illegal.” Made for Three Counties. In its announcement last night that $2,500,000 had been advanced to the Keystone State the R. F. C. stated the money was to be used in aiding the needy in Philadelphia, Alleghany !and Northampton Counties. | The Illinois delegation today was | headed by Speaker David E. Shanahan of the Illinois House of Representa- tives; Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chi- cago, Emmett Whalen, president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, and Dewitt Billman, representing Gov. Emmerson. They told Fred C. Croxton, who handles relief matters for the corpora- tion, that uniless another loan is forth- coming in 24 hours relief stations in many sections of the State must be closed. Later members of the party sad they had received encouraging treat- ment and that they hac reason to hope some favorable action would be taken the day. At Milford today Gov. Pinchot eriti- cized the $2,500,000 loan for relief in Pennsylvanis, as a “totally inadequate advance,” which “is licated upon the signature me a wholly {llegal form of receipt.” | He also indicated that he would use the money where he thought it was most needed regardless of the attitude of the R. P. C. ‘Will Continue Efforts. He also said he would continue his efforts to obtain a larger Federal loan for the State. “After months of delay,” the Gov- ernor's statement said, “the Recon- struction Finance Corporation has of- fered Pennsylvania a totally inadequate advance for unemployment relief. Its offer is predicated upon the signature byl x:le of a wholly illegal form of re- celpt. “The Reconstruction Finance Corpo- ration is substituting its judgment for that of the State emergency relief board as to where relief money shall be spent in Pennsylvania. “The Federal relief act expressly pro- vides ‘all amounts paid to a Governor of a State under this section shall be administered by the Governor or under his direction and upon his responci- bility.” No power whatever was con- ferred upon the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to limit a Governor to the expenditure of relief money in particu- lar counties of his State. Will Follow Act. “Whether or not I sign the receipt | when it reaches me, I propose to be governed by the act of Congress, and | not by the dictates of the Reconstruc- | tion Finance Corporation. “In announcing the action of the Re- construction Finance ration, Sen- ator Pomerene falsely stated the situa- tion as other representatives of the Re- construction Finance Corporation had previously done. “They will not deceive the people of Pennsylvania. I shall not cease my ef- forts to secure the relief for this State which Congress intended it to have.” Officials Cite Law. Pinchot’s latest attack on the R. F. C. brought no comment from corporation officials. R. F. C. officials, however, pointed ‘o the emergency relief law, which says “whenever an application under this section is approved by the corporation (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) e e e PR First Day of Autumn Follow the trend of fashion from style illustrations in the advertisements of Washington merchants in The Star. The stores are full of new Fall things, more moderately priced than for years past. Careful buyers use The Star as their shopping guide. Yesterday’s Advertising Local Display s 56,432 26,094 10,277 6,163 5,369 47,903 The Evening Star. . 2d Newspaper, 3d Newspaper. 4th Newspaper . . .. 5th Newspaper. . . . Total (Four other newspapers) Wise merchants appreciate the results from The Star’s great circulation and concen- trate their advertising largely in The Star. 2 ' FH¥ (P) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. FORECASTER! DNT D‘l‘l' So EXPECT SOoN NOTHER ECLIP EAGUE PREPARES FOR FAR EAST ROW New Session of Council Is Dominated by Report on Manchurian Situation. By the Associated Press. ¢ GENEVA, September 23—While the League of Nations Council this morning devoted its first energies to the Chaco conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia this sixty-eighth regular session of the Council was overshadowed by the Manchurian conflict. The report of the Lytton Commission on conditions in the Far East has been officially filed and is now in the hands of translators. Probably it will not be published for another two weeks, and | 1t will be even longer before it is con- | sidered by the Council or the League | Assembly. ‘This is at the request of Japan, which | asked for more time to study the decu- | ment and to send a special representa- | tive from Tokio whenever it shall be presented for discussion. Believed Opposed to Tokio. Unofficial reports have said that the document is unfavorable to Japan, but | it also is said that its recommenda- tions leave room for argument by both Japan and China. Presumably it will raise the question as to whether the Council or the Assembly will employ | the concerted action prescribed in the | covenant for enforcing the wili of the | League. It also is believed that there may be & possibility of Japan's withdrawal fromn the League if the Council or the As- sembly should take too firm a position | against the Japanese military policy in Manchuria. i In the opinion of many authorities these questions are of the gravest im- portance for the future of the League and the peace of the world. As for the possibility of Japan's with- drawal, some diplomats assert that a member of the League cannot legally (Continued on Page 2. Column 8) CRISSINGER CHARGE IS DROPPED BY U. S. Former Currency Controller Was Aoccused of Fraud in F. H. Smith Co. Case. Neil Burkinshaw, special assistant to Attorney General Mitchell, today nolle prossed an indictment charging mail fraud against Daniel R. Crissinger, former Centroller of the Currency and | later an official of the F. H. Smith Co,, investment brokets. The indictment was reported by the District grand jury in November, 1929, against G. Bryan Pitts, former chair- man of the board, and other Smith com- y officials, but had never been called Tor trial. No reason was given for drop- ping the charge. The action taken with regard to Cris- singer was believed to have been influ- enced by testimony at the trial of G. Bryan Pitts, former head of the Smith company, which indicated that the former Treasury official had no part in the active management of the Smith company. At one point it was brought out that recommendations from Crissinger were ignored by Pitts and that the latter had given instructions to subordinates to “keep from Crissinger” information pertaining to some of the ac- tivities of the company. Shortly after the indictment, Gov- ernment prosecutors said Crissinger and former g.epnsenunve Prederick N. Zihiman of Maryland were used es | “bajt” to secure the investment of funds in Smith Co. bonds. It has never been wnwndmal;' either :t‘ ttl;fi; men re- ceived exce] eir salaties in return for their efforts in behalf of the Co. Smith Co. No explanation was forthcoming as to the failure to nolle pros the indict- ment against Zihlman. Others named in the indictment were Pitts, Samuel J. Henry, C. Elbert Ana- dale, John H. Edwards, jr., and Henry | girl that any an under the It is not expected of them will be prosecuted mail fraud indictment. LEJEUNE SHADE BETTER Former Marine Commandant, How- ever, Is Still Unconscigns. GTON, Va. tember 23 (®). LEXING A5} Sep! g Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune as “a -l;emvmur" this morni.n:,u:'l; superintendent, whose skull was frac- tured by a fall on the campus several days still is unconscious. by g0, County Crimeless, Grand Jury Ponders OverWasp Nuisance By the Associated Press. WEWAHITCHKA, Fla, BSep- tember 23 —There’s been no crime in Gulf County, Fla., for six months and in lieu of that, the wasp nests on the wall and ceiling of the court house have become a pressing issue for the grand jury. Its semi-annual meeting was held today and the jurors searched diligently for human misdeeds. Finding none, they confined their report to recom- mendation_that the nests be re- moved with dispatch. CANDHI MAY END DEATH FAST TODAY Agreement Expected as Re- sult of Conference of Lead- ers in India. By the Associated Press. POONA. India, September 23.—Ma- hatma Gandhi's death fast in protest against the British government's plan to solve the electoral problem for the millions of India’s lower caste of un- touchables may be ended today. Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, one of his former lieutenants, who has been | active in the conferences of Indian leaders to reach a compromise during the last two days. visited the Mahatma early this morning and said afterward he hoped an agreement would be reach- ed before the day is over which would | enable Gandhi to partake of food again. | ‘The Mahatma himself slept well dur- ing the night, lying on a webbed cot under a somewhat shabby mango tree in the yard in front of the jail. When he awoke he conducted his morning prayers as usual Predictions were made yesterday fol- lowing a long heart-to-heart talk be- iween the conference leaders and Gan- dhi, that an agreement would be work- ed out today, but his closest friends felt | tense about the situation, fearing that at the last minute he might pick out some flaw in the proposed agreement and refuse to accept it. Plan Believed Accepted. The compromise plan of Sir Tej Ba- hadur Sapru, famous before for his arbitrations of Indian troubles with the the government, was the one which, it was understood, was partially accepted. It calls for joint electorates for the higher caste Hindus and the untouch- ables, with safeguards for the latter. The part on which agreement has been reached concerns primary and final elections for untouchable representa- tives in the Legislatures. ‘The chief difficulty, however, - was over the insistence of Dr. Shimrao Ramji_Ambekdar, leader of 60,000,000 untouchables, for appointments of un- touchables in the government service, provision of funds for educational fa- cilities and the right to appeal to the viceroy. Gandhi's_face was drawn and his “(Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) 20 GIRLS CARRY BODY OF BOY SLAIN IN RIOT 3,000, Including Many Strikers, in Funeral Procession in South River, N. J. By the Asscciated Press. SOUTH RIVER, N. J., September 23. —The body of 9-year-old Walter Rojek, killed by & bullet Monday in a riot that marked the climax of the needlework- ers’ strike, was carried 2 miles througn the streets of South River today in a funeral procession of nearly 3,000 per- sons. Twenty little girls, dressed in white, relieved one anther in groups of six to carry the casket from St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church to St. Mary’s Polish Cemetery in East Brunswick township. Behind the casket and pallbearers walked most of the 1,726 women and strikers. Following them rode rela- tives and friends of the dead boy in au- tomobiles. The Polish Boys' Band layed. B e 1,500 men and women were present from workers' delegaticns in ‘New York City, Perth Amboy, New Brunswick and Essex and Hudson Counties. 34 Balloon Racers at Basel. BASEL, Switzerland, ber (/) —Thirty-four pilots from the United States and seven oth tries have of the Swiss Aero * BOAT DEATH SEEN DUETOTOURNQUET “Most Unusual” Evidence Found on Woman’s Neck. P. 0. Clerk Quizzed. Indications that Miss Sylvia Rockin, 23, may have been strangled with a tourniquet made of her bathrobe cord were discovered today during an autopsy performed on her body by Deputy Cor- ,oner C. J. Murphy. | An indentation one-fourth of an inch ' deep was found on Miss Rockin encircling it without a break, Dr. Mur- | phy said after the autopsy at the Dis- 1 trict Morgue. 1 In most cases of death by hanging, | the deputy coroner pointed out, the marks left by the rope disappear at the point of suspension. In Miss Rock- in's case, however, he added, the knot | made an even deeper indentation than the rest of the cord. ‘The cause of Miss Rockin's death was | given as “asphyxia caused by strangu- | lation.” The mark on the young wom- |an's neck was termed “most unusual.” Found Dead by Police. Miss Rockin, whose home was in Ozone Park, Long Island, was found dead in a houseboat in Little River, near Rosslyn, Va, by seventh precinct | police, responding to a telephone call from George B. Speidel, 30-year-old City Post Office clerk and amateur artist. Speidel, who is being held at the |seventh precinct pending a coroner’s 's neck, Jjury set for 11:30 a.m. Monday, told po- | |lice he found Miss Rockin, with the pajama cord looped around her neck, hanging from a nail in & rafter of the galley. Nalil Still in Cord. | When he lifted her, he said, she slumped in his arms, her weight caus- |ing the nail tc drop from the rafter. | Miss Rockin was lying on a bed in the | adjoining room when police arrived. The bathrobe cord, witl. the nail still in it, was beneath her head. | K. Wilson, chief of the Homicide Squad, sald he would take Speidel to police headquarters later in the day for fur- ther questioning. Miss Rockin under- went an illegal operation a short time ago, and still was suffering from its effects at the time of her death, accord- ifg to Dr. Murphy. Story Given by Speidel. Speidel, who is married and has a ‘5-yelr-old son, telephoned seventh pre- cinct police at 12:48 a.m. and said he had discovered Miss Rockin suspended from a rafter of the kitchen. When reported, Miss Rockin was lying on a bed in the adjoining room, with the bathrobe cord beneath her head. She | was pronounced dead by Dr. J. Thomp- son, who accompanied an Emergency Miss Rockin’s body was removed to the morgue, and Acting Coroner Mac- Donald ordered Speidel held pending completion of an investigation. Fragments of a note indicating Miss Rockin might have committed suicide were found on the floor of the bed room by Detective Sergt. John C. Dalgish. Pleced together, the note declared Speidel had nothing to do with the case, adding: “What I have done is my own business.” ‘Although the note apparently matched specimens of Miss Rockin's handwriting found in the room, De- tective Sergt. Wilson turned it over to Dr. MacDonald. A ‘The suicide theory was strengthencd by the fact several books on the philos- ophy of self-destruction were found on a table in the room. The table also bore numerous books on sex and free love. One of the officers who went to the houseboat in response to Speidel's tele- phone call reported the nail from (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) | After the autopsy, Detective Sergt. H. | police reached the house boat, they | Hospital ambulance to the house boat. | INSULL COMPANIES HELD BANKRUPT IN §300,000,000 CRASH Investors Face Loss of All Money Through Court Proceeding. NAMES OF “FAVORED STOCKHOLDERS” SHOWN Many Given Opportunity to Buy at $12 a Share Before Securi- ties Were Listed. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 23.~Corpora- tion Securities Co. and Insull Utility In- vestments, Inc, the two Insull invest- ment trusts in which the public had $300,000,000 invested, were adjudged bankrupt today by Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley. ‘The decrees, which Judge Lindley had indicated last night he would sign, were filed with the clerk of United States District Court during Judge Lindley's absence in Danville, his home. “It seems unlikely,” Judge Lindley declared, “that the stockholders will receive anything on their investments Both companies have been operating under equity receiverships since April 16. Judge Lindley, at his home in | Danville, Ill., last night consented to act on a bankruptcy petition against | the concerns presented by a Chicago |law firm which represents a group of bondholders in both companies. Earlier in the evening the receivers for the Corporation Securities Co. filed their report, in which they held that the investment trust was “hopelessly | insolvent.” The assets of the once $140,000.000 concern were so meager, the receiver Teported, that they were unable to meet the expense of having an inventery | made. “There were bales and bales of worth- less stock certificates in the treasury | when we took possession April 16,” they reported. “The only assets convertible into cash were $30,000 in tax anticipa- tion warrants.” | Frantic Effort to Save Company. | Through the maze of statistics con- tained in the report could be traced the last desperate efforts of Samuel Insull to save the tottering company. The statement of liabilities ind-cated be had obtained succor from banks, from affiliated companies, and from manu- | facturers with whom his companies did business. Then, with other sources ex- hausted and the market value of the company’s securities steadily declining, he had pledged his own credit in a last | vain attempt to stave off disaster. Yesterday was replete with develop- | ments in the investigations being con- | ducted into the affairs of the companies | once headed by Samuel Insull, and his brother, Martin, now both voluntary exiles in foreign lands. State's Attorney John A. Swanson | made public, without comment, a list | of 205 “favored investors” in the stocks of the Insull Utility Invesiment, Inc., a $250,000,000 enterprise. With the list was attached a copy of an agreement purportedly made in January, 1929, by Samuel Insyll and the 205 persons whereby they were per- ‘immed to purchase 250,000 shares of Insull Utility Investmenis at $12 a share. A few weeks later the stock was first offered to the public on the Chi- coga Stock Exchange at $27 a share. | Later, in the same year, before the stock market collapse of October, the | stock reached its peak of $147 a share. The purchasers, however, were bound | in the agreement not to dispose of the | stock for two and one-half years with- }oun first offering it to the company at its market price. This provision, how- | ever, was referred to by Assistant State | Attorney Charles Bellows as “a joker.” Prominent Investors. ‘The list of persons and firms and the number of shares allottcd them. as (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) SPEAKER GARNER BACK FROM TEXAS Sorrow Over Loss of Mother Ex- pressed by Group at Station. Will Go to New York. | By the Associated Press. | Speaker John N. Garner returned to Washington today after attending the | funeral of his 81-year-old mother, Mrs. | Sarah Jane Garner, at Detroit, Tex. | Met by a few friends at the station, | who expressed their sorrow over his loss, | the Democratic vice presidential candi- | date told them “it was & sad mission.” Mr. Garner made the hurried trip to his old home in Texas in time to see his mother before she died. In so doing, he postponed plans to confer in New York with party leaders over a proposed speaking itinerary. The Texan plans to proceed to New York Monday. He said he had not definitely decided yet where he would speak, or how extensive a tour he would — 50 Hurt in Clash in India. SRINAGAR, India, September 23 (#). —Fifty persons were reported injured and a number of shops looted today during a communal clash in connection with a procession which was part of & Boy Scout exhibition week. U. S. Court By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., September 23.— The argument that the eighteenth amendment is invalid because it never was submitted to the States for rati- fication was prepared to be submitted to the United States District Court here today by local attorneys defending an alleged dry law violator. John 8. L. Yost and Joseph McCormick, have flled a demurrer and motion to quash indictments against their client DRY LAW TEST BASED ON PLEA STATES FAILED TO RATIFY IT Validity of Eighteenth Amendment to Be Questioned in at Baltimore. who is charged with sale and possession of liquor and maintaining a nuisance. In their brief it is asserted the eight- eenth amendment has been void since January 17, 1926, because section 3 of the amendment reads: “This article shall be inoperative un- less it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the sub- mission hereof to the States by the Congress.’ 'flougr'oce:dm. thfy contend, never ® hd