Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1932, Page 2

A—2Z xx - THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1932. ANTISALOON FIGHT ON BOTH PARTIES League, Says McBride, Not Backing Dr. Poling’s Tour for Hoover. The Anti-Saloon League frowns on both major party platforms and any dry organization or individual who sup- ports President Hoover does so with- out the league's approval, Dr. F. Scott McBride, general superintendent, made plain today. Dr. McBride was particularly anxious that the impression should not obtain that the airplane tour of Dr. Daniel A. Poling, head of the Allied Forces for Probibition, in behalf of President Hoover, has the backing of the Anti- Saloon League. Allied Forces Single Unit. “The Allied Forces for Prohibition is in no way a league of organizations supporting prohibition,” Dr. McBride decl “but is a single unit. Its name is a misnomer and might give the impression that Dr. Poling’s utterances | Tepresent the united dry stand of the | entire country.” Dr. Poling is scheduled to tour 31 States and deliver 201 addresses. He will travel in a plane to be christened | the Raymond Robins, after the dry| leader who disappeared mysteriously | September 3 on his way to call on President Hoover. “Our position is clear,” Dr. McBride said, “and is that enunciated by the Prohibition Board of Strategy, the only body truly representative of all dry or- | ganizations in y. which re- fused to indorse either the Republican or Democratic candidate.” Meanwhile, the Allied Forces for Prohibition filed its financial report with the clerk of the House, showing Teceipts during the second quarter of this year amounting to $26,281, while disbursements were $21.871. A bal- ance of $6939 on August 31, along with $48,468 in unpaid pledges, was shown. CONGRESS CONTROL SEEN BY DEMOCRAT Byms Gives Garner “Certainties” of Election After Study of Campeign. Democratic control of both Senate and House as a result of the November elections was promised yesterday by Representative Byrns of Tennessee, | chairman of the Democratic Nationa!| Congressional Committee. “We went over the situation and Mr. Byrns showed me that the Democrats were certain to capiure the Senate and to swell our majority in the House in the next Congress” the vice presi- dential candidate told newspaper men Byrns is in charge of the campaigns of Democratic candidates for the House and co-operates with Senator Swanson of Virginia, chairman of the Senatorial Committee. The Texan said he planned to go to New York late tomorrow to confer on Monday with party leaders with regard to his activities in the cam- paiga. His plans to arrange a speak- ing itinerary were disrupted last Satur- day when he was hastily summoned to the bedside of his mother. Garner indicated he would return to Washington the latter part of next week to await the return of Gov. Franklin D. Rocsevelt from his Western speak- ing tour. The speaker then will go to Albany. FATHER HELD IN JAIL AFTER KILLING SON ‘Will Keehner, Wisconsin Farmer, Says Child Was Feeble- Minded. Associated Press. LAN@ASTER, Wis, September 24. —Having confessed, the authorities gaid, that he killed his 8-year-old son Martin because the child was feeble-minded. Will Keehner, 49. town | of Hickory Grove farmer, was held in | Jail here today on a charge of first de- | gree murd | Keehner told authorities, they said. that he tcok the boy cn either Septem- ber 6 or 7 into a woods, beat him to death with a stone and then buried the | body, marking the grave with a piece | of an old chair. | “The boy was incurable, so I thought | he would be better off dead.” Keehner | said. “I tried to get him into an in-| stitution, but couldn't.” H Keehner was arrested yesterday for | questioning after neighborhood gossip about the boy's disappearance reached | officials. He first said the boy had| been taken to an institution. but ad- mitted the crime when officials de- manded to see commitment papers. POLICE DENY SKELETONS ARE NUNGESSER AND COLI “There Is No Truth in the Report” Telegram From Curling, New- foundland, Reads. 'd Press. By the Assoc! ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, Septem- | ber 24 —Denial of a report that skele- ! tons found near Curling, Newfoundland, yesterday might be those of the long- | missing _ Prench__transatlantic flyers, Capt. Charles Nungesser and Capt. Francois Coli, was received in a telegram from Police Sergt. Lee of Curling today. Nungesser and Coli were lost in an attempted flight from France to the United States in May, 1927. The skele- tons were reported found on Blomidon, a mountain on the south side of the Bay Islands. “There is no truth in the report,” the telegram from the police sergeant said, but it added no further expianation. HOSTILITY TO HOOVER ON IOWA SPEAKING TRIP HELD UNLIKELY (Continued From First Page.) paign’ matters with Postmaster General Brown. During his talk with the latter, the President took up with him the arrangements being made for the corner stone laying here next Monday for the new Post Office Building, the cere- monies for which call for an address by the President. Jowa Topics to Be Varied. Those who have discussed the Des Moines speech with the President say he will not confine the address to the farm subject, as has been reported, but will discuss a variety of vital matters. There is reason to believe the President will take great pains in the preparation of | the address because of the significant bearing it will have upon his’campaign, Upon completion of this speech Mr. Hoover will begin drafting the address | Henry Field, Republican nominee for | | par CHAMBER INDORSES |[ROOSEVELT'S FARM EXPLAINS HIS VIEWS, Republican Candidate lowa Hits Governor’s Plan as 0ld. in New Yorker’s Estate Has No Hog Lot, but It Has a Polo Field. By the Assoclated Press. SPENCER, Iowa, September 24— Senator from Iowa, charged yesterday in® a speech that Gov. Franklin D. Roose- velt “is attempting to play guessing games with the farmers.” “There Were a good many points in Rcosevelt's recent speech at Topeka on | agriculture,” Field said, “but they have been recognized and indorsed by both | ies for years. Any real plan he | outlined was too obscure, too much hedged around with impossible condi- | tions. “The kind of farm relief he prup&é may be explained by the kind of a farm | he lives on. It has all the modern con- | | veniences a New York gentleman farm- | crete swimming pool er could enjoy. There is no hog lot, but ' FIELD DECLARE HENRY FIELD. there are a polo ground and tennis court. “What appears to be a silo is an ele- vated water tower for care of the lawn and sunken garden. What looks like a hen house is really a glass-inclosed hot house. Few Iowa farmers have a con- Gov. Roosevelt has two on his farm." FORTY-HOUR WEEK Directors of U. S. Body Ap-‘ prove Hoover’s Plan—0p- pose Bonus. ‘The 40-hour week, advocated by Pres- ident Hoover, was indorsed vesterday by the bcard of directors of the United States Chamber of Commerce during the “present emergency of excessive un- ployment.” Oppose Bonus Payment. Before voting approval of a five-day week and eight-hour day, the chamber directors flatly opposed immediate cash payment of the soldiers’ bonus and re- | ceived from its Commerce Committee @ proposal that any future foreign debt concessions be conditioned upon improvement of foreign exchange re- strictions. This same committee, headed by James A. Farrell, former head of the United States Steel Corporation, also submitted a second report, urging legis- lation to protoct domestic industries against competition of products from foreign countries having depreciated currencies. Guiding Principles. As a guiding principle in drafting such legislation. the Farrell Committee reccmmended the levy of compensating exchange duties to offset foreign money depreciations of 5 per cent or more, with administrative reductions author- ized should costs or production in the foreign country increase. The chamber's action on the 40-hour week followed closely after a confer- ence between its president, Henry I. Harriman, and President Hoover. Har- riman said the Chief Executive had asked the organization’s aid in boost- ing business and employment. | reconsiderea his ARNS DELEGATES USEFOREGN SHP McCarl Reconsiders Ruling on Travel of U. S. Group to Geneva Parley. American representatives to the Geneva Arms Conference will sale from New York on the German liner Europa. | shortly after midnight tonight. and the Government will pay the bill Controller General McCarl yesterday o an previous _ ruling Secretary of State Stimsoh that American vessel must be used, even | though it would prevent this count representatives from being on hand at the opening session. Secretary Stimson had maintained that certain preliminaries must be at- tended to here, and that by the time they were completed, the foreign ship would be the only one avaiable to get the delegation to the opening meeting, where, he said, it was necessary they be. he law gives the controller discre- | tion as to whether the use of a for- | eign ship. in preference to one under | the American flag, is necessary for an American mission, and he finally came | 'around to the view of the Secretary | of State Norman H. Davis, and Allan W. leaving on the Eu a delegate. ropa British Auto Racer Killed. BROOKLANDS. England. September 24 (#) —Clyde Dunfee. well known auto- mobile racer, was killed today when Woolf Barnato’s Bentley, which he was driving, crashed over an embankment during a 500-mile track race here. The event was the fourth annual British Racing Club drivers’ contest. }LIBBY HOLMAN REYNOLDS HOPES FOR APOLOGY IN MURDER TRIAL Singer, Indicted in Death of Husband, Expects Vin- dication. Wife of Tobacco Heir, Soon| to Be Mother, Grants \ Interview. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, September 24.—Libby | Holman Reynolds, facing the two great | climaxes of her 26 years of life—moth- | erhood and the trial for the slaying of her husband—told Ward Morehouse, in | a copyrighted interview, published to- | day by the New York Sun: “God in heaven knows that I did not kill Smith Reynolds.” | The interview, obtained by the Sun | writer at the unnamed rustic retreat | where she is awaiting the calling of her | trial and where she is preparing cloth- ing for the baby to be born of a mar- riage severed by gun fire early last July, quoted the former Broadway torch sing- er as saying: | “It is knowing that I am going to give birth to the child of the man I loved that affords me my only gleam of hap- | piness, that gives me any desire to live | at all. The fact that within four months I will have a child—his child— makes me strong enough to fight for a complete and absolute vindication.” ‘Wants Complete Apology. The interview granted the Sun’s col- umnist was the first in which the husky-throated Broadway singer has | spoken for publication since her 20- | year-old husband, an heir to the to- bacco fortune of the late R. J. Re! nolds, was found dying from a bullet wound at Reynolda, the family estate at Winston-Salem, N. C., last July 6. I didn’t shoot Smith,” she told More- | “I loved him as J never loved | any one before or ever will again. The fullest and richest hours of my life were spent with him. I loved him tenderly, dearly and completely, and to him I meant everything, everything. “When I realized that he was gone, I didn’t want to live. My life was over. To learn that I, his wife, was actually suspected of murdering him stunned and horrified me, but it didn't matter. The fact that he was dead caused nothing to matter until I knew positive- ly that I was to have a child. With that knowledge, with that gleam of hap- piness, I had something to live for, something to fight for. And now I want to go through with the trial. I want no strings left, no doubts left in people’s minds as to my innocence. I don't only want acquittal, I want a complete apology.” Recalls Fatal Night. Morehouse asked her to tell him of the happenings of the night of Smith Reynolds' death. The Sun quoted her as saying “It was about 12:30 o'clock, T believe, when 1 heard Smith call out' my name. I saw him standing beside the bed—our bed—with a pistol to his temple. I remember nothing more, though I had the feeling of holding his head in my arms and having the warm blood pour- ing through my nightdress against my skin. I don't remember going to the hospital. I remember nothing that happened there.” She described Smith as “morbid.” “I'd often sit up with him until 6 o'clock in the morning, arguing and pleading. He had some strange delu- sion that I was going to leive him.| “He'd often disappear for hours at night | he is to make to the wemen of the Na- tion October 7, which will be delivered from the White House and broadcast by radio, A and come back weeping with joy be- cause I had not fled.” She said he was. pistol.” LIBBY HOLMAN REYNOLDS. “He often said to me, ‘if anything happens there's always the little Mauser.” Many, many times I'd see him holding the pistol to his head More times than I can remember he threatened suicide.” Will Be Named “Smith.” The baby she is expecting will be named “Smith,” the Sun's interview said. “Boy or gil, thats to be the name,” was the way she expressed it. “It will be hard to convince people | that I married Smith Reynolds because | I loved him,” she said. “There were times when I pleaded with him to get himself disinherited. I told him we could get along. During~my married life I paid my own way. I saw nothing of any Reynolds money. Why, I had much more money than Smith had— much more. I made a lot of money on the stage. “This trial will take every penny I can scrape up. I'll have a child to sup- port. I'll go back on the stage. That's the only thing I know how to do.” She was asked where she would like to have the child born. “I don't know. Not Cincinnati—not the South. Maybe in France. I feel like a man without a country. But tell Broadway that it's my fight and I'm game; that I can take it.” The interview in the Sun said Mrs. Reynolds is the guest of a friend at a “rémote and beautiful estate.” Walker Worshiped Smith. She said that when she first realized she was being suspected of having killed her husband she said to her- self: *“How can_things like this hap- pen to people? The irony of it. I, his wife, and Ab Walker, his best friend, suspected of doing away with, of shoot- ing him through the head.” Concerning Walker, who has been indicted with her in’ connection with Reynolds’ death, she said: “Ab Walker worshiped Smith. He was utterly de- voted to him. If Smith had said, ‘Ab, go shoot yourself Ab would have done it.” She spoke of the plans she said they had made for their future: ‘“He was to enter New York University. I was studying for the dramatic stage. He was to continue with his aviation, at which he was a genius. We had many, many plans—and then came that er- rible night. I might have known he would do it some time. He threatened it so very often.” Fall Proves Fatal. Charles Grant, 54, colored, of the 1300 block of New Hampshire avenue, died in Emergency Hospital last night from in- jurics received yesterday when he fel three floors to the pavement while mfin:: the front of the building where e live e A Dulles, his legal adviser, are | OF INSULL FAILURE District Attorney at Chicago Seeks to Learn if Federal Laws Were Violated. By the Associated Pre CHICAGO, September 24 —United States District Attorney Dwight H. Green announced officially today an investigation has been started into af- fairs of the Insull utility companies “with a view to determining whether any Federal statutes have been vio- lated.” Green conferred last week in Wash- ingion with other Federal officers over the possibility of criminal action against officials of the Insull organization, which collapsed with a loss of millions of dollars to investors. Another investigation has been started by the Cook County State’s attorney office. State’s Attorney John A. Swan- son has assigned an assistant to look |into extradition treaties with France and Canada. Samuel Insull, organizer and head of the Insull system, is in Paris, and his brother Martin is in Canada. While Swanson was seeking an ap- propriation of $50,000 yesterday with which to further his probe of the col- lapse, Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota announced the Senate Banking Committee, of which he is chairman would undertake an investigation of the financial activities of the Insull enterprises, The Senator, at his home in Redfield, S. D, said: “Investigations carried on this Summer have confirmed my sus- picions that much @f the Insull stock was sold on misrepresentation and fake reports as to ownership.” The committee’s investigation would not be started, however, until after Con- gress has reassembled, the Senator said. DOAK ASKS LABOR SUPPORT OF HOOVER Connecticut Told Tariff and Immi-| gration Policies Justify Support. By the Associated Pr LAKE COMPOUNCE, Conn., Septem ber 24 —Secretary Doak today asked the | working man to support President Hoo- ver for re-election on the grounds that | Rep an tariff and immigration poli-| ies were designed and had been ad-| | ministered for the benefit of labor. Speaking before a meeting of the Third Ward Republican Club of New Britain, the chief of the Department | of Labor said: “Our candidates for office do not have | to change their tariff policies every time they cross a State or county line in| order to catch sentiment or to secure votes in campaigns. Neither do we | have to seck a catch-all word every | time a convention meets to describe | what our position will be on the tariff | question. Reput icans in thres districts and | Demociats in one held conventions to se their Congressional nominees Representative E. W. GOss Was unop- posed for re-nomination as the fifth district Republican choice, while fourth district Republicans were expected to | nominate Schuyler Merritt for the sea: | | he formerly he! | | Representative Richard P. Freeman and Dr. William L. Higgins, Secretary of State, contested for the Republican ! nomination in the second district. In the Democratic contest were three can- didates—William C. Fox of New Lon- don, John M. Dowe of Killingly, and | | Harold B. Pinney of Stafford Springs. |'a major on Governor Wilbur L. Cross’ i staff. LABORER HANDLES JOBS Man From Ranks of Unemployed Directs City's Relief. | HOBART, Okla., September 24 (#).— | Hobart's efforts to relieve unemployment are being directed by a man selected |from the ranks of the jobless—Arthur {Anderson, who has worked as a common laborer most of his life. Civic authorities are convinced the selection was a happy one. pointing out { that under Anderson's leadership most I of the city's unemployed have been put to work. FLOOD ENGULFS COUPLE i Texas Autoist Found in River as Search Is Made for Woman. KERRVILLE, Tex, September 24 () —Fred Tullos. 36, was drowned, and Miss Cleo McCallum, 33, probably met 1a similar fate, when their motor car |was swept off a bridge near here Thursday night by flood waters of the Johnson Fork of the Guadalupe River. Tullos’ body was recovered yesterday about two miles downstream. The car| was found about half a mile below the | bridge, battered into wreckage. An in- | tensive search was being made for Miss | McCallum. — o PURCELLVILLE MAN DIES John T. Grubb Was Loudoun Na- tive—Funeral This Afternoon. Special Dispatch to The Star. PURCELLVILLE, Va. September 24 —John T. Grubb, 84, prominent citi- , zen of Purcellville, died at his home; in Purcellville last night. He was a native of Loudoun County. He was formerly connected with the Y. M. C. A. in Hagerstown, Md., and | for many years was superintendent of the Bethany M. E. Sunday school, in| Purcellville. | He is survived by his wife, who was | a Miss Grege; one daughter, Dora, at home. and a son, Julian, in Washing- ton, D. C. _ Funeral services were to be held this | afternoon at the Methodist Church | Tere, with burial in the Hillsboro Cem- | etery. ARBITRATION EXPECTED NEW YORK, September 24 (#).—A 10-day halt in a wage conference be- tween officials of the United Mine Work- ers of America and anthracite operators who desire a wage cut appeared to in- dicate today that the question will be put befcre a board of conciliation next month. The conference recessed yesterday un- til October 3, which is two days before the time limit in which the conferees can decide the question. Operators are understood to desire a 20 per cent reduction. A CORRECTION By a Staff Correspondent of The Stas UPPER MARLBORO, Md., September 24.—PFrom information received from United States Commissioner_J. Frank Parran, The Star stated Wednesday that James Farrell of Hughesville was jcharged with manufacture and posses- ‘shm of liquor. 11’ cused is James Miles Farrell of An costia, D. C. James G. Farrall, a resi- dent of Hughesville, was not the man named in the item. | tifications and others made less p | cago Federal | unfortunate neglect to cancel his ap- Official records show that the ac-|Gov. 5|1 5. BEEINS PROBE |COL ROBINS SAFE, | FRIENDS BELIEVE Lukewarm Search for Miss- ing Dry Leader Held Sign He Is in No Danger. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, September 24.—Col. Ray- mond Robins, who vanished after leav- ing the City Club in New York City on | September 3 and for whom a general alarm was sounded from the White House on September 8, is well and in: no danger, but became a will o'wisp for private and unexplained xeasors, friends here have concluded. They reached this decision because of the remarkable spathy with which Robins’ associates and Federal agents are conducting the much heralded “Nation-wide search” for the missing leader and the remarkable antipathy of some of Robins' intimates for publicity— one of the most effective methods of “turning up” those who vanish. Robins was seen twice in Chicago by those who knew him so well there could be no mistaking, but it wss only be- cause these people talked before they were “shushed” that it became public knowledge. Last Seen September 3. Robins was last seen September 3, when he checked out of the City Club in New York, leaving as his forwarding address the Dodge Hotel in Washing- ton. On the following Tuesday tember 6, he was to have appe: the White House for a conference with President Hoover. The arrangements had been made in a_ telephone conversation with Walter Newton, the President’s political sec- retary, on September 2. Robins never showed up at the White House and the report spread that the famed Bull Moose campaigner, reformer and pro- hibitionist leader had met with foul play. It was intimated that bootleggers he had fought in Florida might have een responsible or that “Russian Red: might have abducted him, but the why and wherefore were not explained. On September 9 Robins was seen on a Chicago downtown corner by Mrs, W. ! Requa Brayant, an old friend, who did | not get a chance to speak to him be- | cause he hurried away. W. W. Haupt | of Chicage also saw Robins near the | same corner at the same time, but did not speak to him. Robins’ hurried | along_recognizing nobody. Haupt and | Mrs. Brayant were positive in their icen- | = tive identifications. Mrs. Brayant kn | Robins well and told friends about her | dentification and they told the news- | papers. Poling Abandoned Hunt. | ‘The White House order for a national search for Robins resulted in me | perfunctory action on the part of Chi- | operatives who seemed | more interested in going through the | motions than finding the man who was | definitely seen in apparent good physi- cal health here. Dr. Daniel A. Poling national dry leader who flew here from | Portland, Me., to “aid the search.” re- mained only a brief time before aban- doning his efforts to locate his friend. Police were plainly skeptical that Robins wished to be “found.” So these who followed the case con- cluded that Col. Robins, in a perfectly | proper and legal manner, was tending ' his own private affairs and the unwel- | come excitement and “Nation-wide search” were merely the result of his pointment with President Hoover. IR WILBUR TELLS WEST HOOVER GAINS IN EAST Appreciation of President’'s Work in Depression Found Lagging in Pacific States. By the Associated Press : 1 SALT LAKE CITY, September 24— | Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur of the| Interior Department said in a news-| paper interview here yesterday “the wave of appreciation of what President | Hoover has accomplished is sweeping the East, but it has not reached the Pacific and Intermountain States.” “People out West right now seem to regard the presidential election as a sport,” he said. “They don't seem to realize just what it means.” When the West realizes that President Hoover has saved it from a shove over the preci- pice, then it will appreciate him.” | On the tour of Gov. Pranklin D.} Roosevelt, the Democratic presidential nominee, Secretary Wilbur said: 1 can’'t see any program. He runs| in and ouf —— COUNTERFEIT PLOT TRACED TO PRISON| Michigan Guard and Convict Have | Signed Confessions Telling of Molds, U. S. Agents Claim. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, September 24.—An alleged counterfeiting plot which, Secret Ser- vice men said, had its incgption within the walls of Michigan State Prison at Jackson, was revealed yesterday with the arraignment of Irving W. Favorite, 45, prison guard. Investigators said Favorite and Frank Briggs, 44, a convict, had signed con- fessions in which they told of making molds for spurious 50-cent pieces in the prison garage, where Favorite was a guard and Briggs was employed. Both denied passing any of the coins, Secret Service men said. Favorite pleaded .not guilty before United States Commissioner J. Stanley | Hurd today to charges of making and possessing "counterfeit money, and fur- nished $2,000 bond. Briggs was placed in a punishment cell and probably will be prosecuted on a counterfeiting charge when his term for automobile theft expires. ELECTION OF SENATOR CALLED FOR COLORADO Successor to Late Charles W. Waterman to Be Chosen at Balloting in November. By the Associated Press. DI , September 2¢.—Gov. W. H. Adams late yesterday called a special election to select a United States Sen- ator to succeed the late Charles W. ‘Waterman in connection with the gen- eral election November 8. The Republican State Central Com- mittee designated Karl C. Schuyler, Republican candidate for the United States Senatorship term starting March 4, as a candidate for the_ unexpired term of Waterman. The Democratic Central Committee is expected to name a Democratic candidate. Senator Waterman was a Republican. . Adams, a Democrat, has indi- cated he will make an appointment to fill the vacancy up to the time the man chosen at special election takes office. P4 o | | been nervo | sult George B. Speidel (upper right), questioned by the police in their inv tion of the death by hanging cf Sylvia Rochkin, artist's model, an of whcm is shown (upper left). Belo which is believed to show that she intended to take her own life HOUSEBOAT SUICIDE THEORY STRONGER Inquest in Death of Sylvia Rochkin Is Set for Monday. (Continued P;om”hrst Page) when he awakened from a nap in the adjoining rc knowledge of the wom- death, Speidel declared she had s and despondent for the past several days, presumably as a re- of a recen Miss Rochkin told him, he said, that her flance, known only to him as “Phiilips.” committed suicide in Green- wich Village, New Ycrk City, several vears ago. She asked Speidel, he as- what h® would do if she should and he replied that he Tt A purported suicide note, fragments of which were found in the bed room of ten Thursday after- statement indicated. He bserved her writing a letter. ng her what she was doing, was : “I am writing a note to my mother.” A moment later, he continued, she tore the note into pieces and threw it across the bed. When he lay down on the bed some time later, he added, he brushed the pieces onto the floor, where they were found by Dalglish. Contents of Note. Pieced together by the detective, the note read: “I went and did this thing without George's approval. He must be left alone, no matter what happens to me. I do not matter any more. I am better | off away from everybody, and no one must grieve.” Comparison of the note with speci- mens of the woman's handwriting found elsewhere on the boat revealed they were the same, according to Dalglish. Despite the apparent indications Miss Rcchkin hanged herself, detectives still were giving consideration to the possi- bility she was strangled while asleep. An “autopsy performed yesterday by Deputy Coroner C. J. Murphy disclosed an unbroken rope mark around Miss Rochkin’s neck. In most hangings, Dr. Murphy said, there is a ®eak in the mark left by the rope at the point of suspension. In this case, however, he added, the dead woman's neck bore an even deeper indentation where the cord was knotted. Both he and Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald term- ed the mark “most unusual.” Investigation of Case. Investigation of the case was begun ! after Speidel notified police he had just discovered Miss Rochkin's death. When detectives reached the boat, they found the dead woman lying on the bed, with the cord beneath her head, and knotted around a small nail. Speid:l explained that when he lifted Miss Rochkin from the floor the nail dropped from the rafter above her head. Speidel, separated from his wife and 5-year-old son for the past two years, said he and Miss Rochkin moved aboard the boat, cwned by a friend of his, last Monday. He and the woman previous- Iy had becn living together in the 1700 block of Connecticut avenue, he added ‘While Speidel was making his state ment, the dead woman's sister and brother, Mrs. Laura Kramer and Ben jamin Rochkin, arrived at headquar- ters from their home in Ozone Park. Long Island. They left for Baltimore after a brief interview with detectives, promising to return in time for the inquest. Sought Teacher’s Position. Miss Rochkin, according to cispatches from New York City, was graduated by the Jamaica, N. Y., Normal Scheol, and, for the past three years, was on the eligibility list for appointment as teacher in the New York City public schools. She had been unable to ob- tain a position, however. ‘The dispatches quoted relatives as saying Miss Rochkin often had been de- pressed over her failure to obtain a teacher’s post. Miss Rochkin's mother, who is subject to heart attacks, has not been informed of the young woman's death, it was said. Hyattsville Seniors Elect. HYATTSVILLE, Md. September 24 (Special) —Edward Koch of Riverdale yesterday was elected president of the senior class of Hyattsville High School. Charles Shirley was chosen vice presi- dent; Robert Bradley, secretary, and Carol Goodmen treasurer, Girl’s Death 1ga- ist’s sketch The note, pieced together by police, —Star Staff Photo. CREDIT MEN PLAN FIGHT ON ABUSES Intensive Educational Cam- paign for Rehabilitating Structure to Begin. By the Associated Press i CHICAGO, September 24—The na- | tion’s credit experts soon will begin an intensjge educational campaign on the vhole’ subject of credit—benefits of its proper use and costli of its abuse. To aid in rehabilitation of A ca’s credit structure the National Ascociation | of Credit Men in Oc 1l launch its program of ins largely through advertising. | About 100 credit speci: sections of the Nation Chicago this w annual “working vention, mapped plans for the drive. Evils to Be Corrected. Correction of past and present evils' extension will be the theme of | ction, s from all d in tion's | have T it Henry H. Heimann, executite manager of the asscciation | “If credit is extended reasonably, it means that credit is at w and worl ing credit means working m=n.” he said. “At no time during the depression | has there been a lack of credit, but it has been so frozen that it could not circulate with the freedom necessary to insure normal business. “Overproduction. about which we have heard so much. really means an overextension of credit—beyond rea- sonable needs.” In 1931, Mr. Heimann said, total earnings of major corporaticns in United States were less than $2 000,000, while the Nation's loss on “bad debts” was about half that amount. Proportion of Credit. very time you freeze a dollar in cash,” be declared, “you take $10 out of credit circulation, bacause the world’ business is done on credit in that proportion " From the credit man's point of view, | he said, “the cardinal mistake” made | during the depression was “failure to| realize the necessity of making an im-| mediate, modest readjustment in wages | and salaries at the inception of hard | time: A poll of credit conditions in all sec- | tions at the association’s convention | revealed improvement everywhere, Mr. | Heimann said, with betterment most pronounced in’ the South and in some | wreas of the Northwest. — UPTURN IS REFLECTED IN RAILWAY LOADINGS' ‘L. ‘W. Baldwin, Chief of Missouri | | | Pacific, Points to Increases in | Traffic as Mark of Progress. | By the Assoclated Press. | MEMPHIS, Tenn. September 24— L. W. Baldwin, president of the Mi: | souri "Pacific Railroad, yesterday said | there was “tangible evidence” of busi- | ness improvement, “as reflected by car loadings and cars received from® cen- nections in the last six weeks.” “The increases in traffic have been | steady and gradual, which appears sig- nificant of definite improvement and sound progress toward revival.” Commenting on Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s address at Salt Lake City, Baldwin said the Governor's program in so far as it affects railroads is, in the main, satisfactory and construc- tive.” BUTLER FAILS TO GET UPSHAW DRY CHALLENGE | Columbia U. Head Scorns Proposal for Debate as Another of “0ld Tricks.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 24.—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, said today he had not received a challenge to debate the prohibition issue with Willilam D. Up- shaw, prohibition candidate for Presi- dent, and that in no case would he con- sider accepting such a challenge. “That's just one of Upshaw's old | tricks,” he said. “He challenges every 5o often. I would not even think about accepting such a challenge.” ispatches from Knoxville, Tenn., st night told of such a challenge by haw, who proposed the debate be held in Carnegle Hall here, A | fecting the | party. which wi | Sol PEACE ACREEMENT REACHED IN INDIA Gandhi May End Fast as Hindus and Untouchables Sign Pact. By the Associated Pres POONA, India, September 24— Leaders of the Caste Hindus and the Untouchables, who have been strive ing for three days to draft a compro- mise plan on the electoral question which would halt the death fast of Mahatma Gandhi, reached an agree- ment today. ‘The agreement followed several anx- fous hours in the earlier part of the day when a new rift among the negoti- ators arose at the same time that Gandhi's physician pronounced his condition to be growing grave. MacDonald to Get Agreement. The plan was to cable the agree- ment to Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- Donald at London immediately in the hope it might be accepted by the British government in time to persuade Gandhi to end his fast today Gandhi's condition grew weaker and his voice ter as the day progressed. He suffered recurrent attacks of ex- haustion which prevented him from - drinking water, which has been his only sus ing his fast Mrs. Gan in const tendance be irgn cot o her husband lay under’ the mango tree in the prison y A physician, who was summoned from Bomtay this morning. examined the Mahatma in the presence of the prison physician. said the time had arrived when Gandhi should not be subjected to any further strain in connection with the political dis- cussions, Gandhi Approves Pact. Nevertheless Mr. Gandhi formally approved the agreement reached by the political leaders, removing the last obstacle to its submission to the gov- ernment at London The Mahatma was at- which shabby g prostrate mile significd his assent, MacDo With a weak In cab leaders that part of the Hindus may break his fast Terms of Agreement. | award af- that Gandhi hatma, provide t vincial legiclatures he d the seats to be d Iso wou g Legislature, electorates The select sentati be a system of primary ele system of reserved seats elections will cease at the years. Re) classes i provided. the public INEW LIBERAL PARTY SEEN ON HORIZON Large Socialist Vote Would Help Force Democrats and G. 0. P. to Merge, Thomas Backer Claims. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, S tion after the electi ember 24 —Fcrma- n of a new Liberal include the Socialists and also “men like Franklin D. Roose- velt and Gifford Pinct versity who is not a Socialist hairman of the “Committee of 100.0 supporting Norman Thomas, So candidate for President He also is vice chairman of for Independent Political which Jo head. “If Thon a large vote, Te- gardless of elected President, Liberals can expect some conces: ue the Leag Ac , of the Democratic party 1ssues. “Tre way to force a co: two old parties is to su cratic party and gamation. “When that happens, there wil good chance for us to draw g men as Franklin D. Roosevelt. Dem cratic Governor of New York and G ford Pinchot, Republican Governor of Pennsylvania. They're in parties where they haven't any support for their liberal ideas, and they get driven into all sorts of prac- tical alliances.’ CHACO BATTLE CONTINUES WITH LINES UNCHANGED Col. Ayorao, Former Bolivian Revo- lutiorary, Is Permitted to Enter Country. By the Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia, September 24.—Re- ports from the Chaco region today said the battle with Paraguayan forces at Fort Boqueron, which has been going on for two weeks, was still in progress today and that the situation was “un- changed.” The president authorized the en- trance into the country of the former Bolivian revolutionary, Col. Ayoroa, an expert in the wild Chaco region, who is now at Arica, Chile. GLASSFORD IN NEW YORK D. C. Police Chief Attends Re- union of 77'th Division. NEW YORK, September 24 (#)— Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, su- perintendent of Washington, D. C., po- lice, was in New York today to par- ticipate in_the parade and_reunion of the 77th Divislon. Gen. Glassford at one time commanded the 52d Field Ar- tillery Brigade of the 77th. He will speak at a reunion banquet tomorrow night and then return to Washington. BAND CONCERT. By the United State3goldiers' Home Band this evening at the bandstand at 5:30 oclock. John S. M. Zimmer- mann, bandmaster. Anton Pointner, assistant. March, “Columbian”, Overture, “Undine” Suite, “A Love Episode land .Bendix “Magpie and the Parrot,” “The Gentle Dove,” “The Merry Lark,” “The Brokenhearted Sparrow.” Grand selection from opera, ° hauser” .Goldman ..Lortzing in _Bird- ‘ann- Wagner o for xylophone, “Popular Jig Med- ley” soloist. (You and . ..Llewellyn Finale, “The Wooden Soldier and the China Doll”. Jones “The Star Vous et Je” I