Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1933, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and warmer tonight, minimum temperature about 34 degrees; tomorrow incteasing cloudiness and warmer, fol- lowed by rain. Temperatures—Highest, 40. at noon yesterday; lowest, 26, at 7:20 page am. today. ~ Full report on Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 —_ he Fpening Star. - The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. No. 32,433. post _office, Entered as second class matter Washington, C. Yesterday's Circulation, 120,309 ———== D. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1933—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. kkkk (®) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Pre e D —— 'ROOSEVELT, HEAVILY GUARDED, STARTS NORTH CERMAK’S LIFE HANGS IN BALANCE, - WOMAN MAY DIE OF GUN WOUNDS; - HOOVER ORDERS THOROUGH PROBE Mayor Too 11l to Undergo Operation. ZANGARA GLAD HE FIRED SHOTS Mrs. Gill Believed Losing Ground in Fight to Live. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., February 16— PBolemn and intent, President- ‘Plect Roosevelt called by the Jack- $on Memorial Hospital here today o say good-by and to encourage the five victims of the assassin Who sought his life last night. He found Mayor Cermak of Chicago, one of the wounded, in ® very critical condition. Mrs. Joe Gill of Miami was fast losing ground. She underwent a blood transfusion just before Mr. Roose- velt arrived. The others were de- clared on the road to recovery. Resting Much Easier. The following bulletin on Mayor Cermak’s condition was issued at the hospital at noon: “Mayor Cermak is resting much easier; has slept part of the morning (pulse’ 98, temperature 99, respiration 14); no unfavorable developments have arisen to the present time. “(Signed) . “DR. J. W. SNYDER. DR. E. S. NICHOL. DR. T. W. HUTSON.” The diminutive hatér of Govern- ment officials, Guiseppe Zangara, Who fired into the crowd about Mr. Roose- velt's car last night remained in police care high up in the Dade County jail, mm the street from the train Mr. velt boarded at 10 a.m. to go to New York. Dr. Joel T. Boone, physician of Presi- dent Hoover, called by telephone while the President-elect was at the hospital. Marvin McIntyre, the Roosevelt secre- tary, gave him & report. Hopes to Be Out Soon. the room of Mayor Cermak, he President-elect said: “You are g fine. The first thing you know ou will be back on your feet.” Cermak in a faint voice replied: “I \hope s0. I hope it will be in time for the inauguration. Before you came I visited here with Jim Farley and Mac Bnd we had a good time.” Traveling away from Miami, Presi- dent-elect_Roosevelt sent the following | message he had promised President oover about the condition of the vic- “Have just visited hospital and seen patients. The mayor had a fair ht, as did Mrs. Gill. The other ree are on rapid road to recovery.” Talking over the incident with mem- bers of his party on the train, Mr. Roosevelt said that he found “Tony | Cermak still talking business at the | ospital today and very concerned about | e pay for the school teachers.” | Mr. Roosevelt left the yacht of Vin-| pent Astor shortly after 9 o'clock nnd‘ roceeded by motor to the hospital, on | outskirts of the city. He rode in | he front seat with the chauffeur. ‘ Astor accompanied him. An extra detail | police_and secret service men sur- fiunded Roosevelt at every turn. Returning to the train Roosevelt was d by a huge throng which cheered mumn reaching the back platform he turned, took off his hat, and waved | a response to the greeting. ‘Three secret service men were immediately sbout him. | Valenti Still Held. J Police were still holding Andrea Va- | nti, arrested on suspicion last night | tclu&e he resided at the same place | with Zangara, although police indicated | they did not think he was connected with the incident ; Physicians said they were becoming wery concerned over the condition of ayor Cermak and were watching his (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) Vaccine Experiments Fatal. SANTIAGO, Chile, February 16 (P).— Pr. Augustin Duran, technician at the Biological Institute, died of typhus today, having contracted an infection during experiments with vaccines for use in treatment of the disease. EIEDS TO MARCH ON D. C. OFFICES | have come 1,000 miles for this.’ Roosevelt Assassin Confesses Guis Roosevelt His trousers were torn from him during the IAMI, Fla, February 16—The M G e Zangara, slow] ol to police, brought the infor- mation that he purchased his $8 .32-caliber pistol three days ago with the original idea of assassinating Presi- dent Hoover. He said he read in a newspaper that President-elect Roosevelt was coming here and he changed his mind and de- cided to go after Roosevelt. He insisted that no one encouraged him or prompted him and that he had not discussed his plans with anyone. He said he had lost more than $200 at the race track. Zangara, his bulging eyes dilating as | he talked with several interrogators high | up in the Dade County jail, today said | eppe Zangara, who failed in an attempt to assassina at Miami, Fla., last night, shown after he had been Buying Pistol to Kill Hoover te President-eteect | placed under aryest. after the 3 —A. P. Photo. he had no regrets for his attack on President-elect Roosevelt. Speaking in broken English, the pris- oner answered questions readily, Sheriff Hardle, something of a linguist, helped carry the conversation. Here is Hardies' account of the examination: “Why do you want to kill? Did you nn?t to kill the policeman who caught you?” “I no care to kill police,” he replied. “They work for leeving. As & man I like Meester Roosevelt. As a Presi- dent I want to keel him. I want to keel all Presidents. In Italy 10 years ago, I want to keel the king, but I cannot get to heem.” “Are you an Anarchist?” “I do not belong to any society. (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) I ROOSEVELT GIVES VERSION OF ATTACK President-elect Says He Thought First Shot Was a Firecracker. By the Associated Press. EN ROUTE with President-elect Rocsevelt 10 New York, February 16.— Relaxing on the train carrying him to New York, President-elect Roosevelt | today told the story of the attempted | assassination of himself. He was persuaded by newspaper men | to permit it to be published. Here it is: | “T have heard so many _accounts | myself that I have been trying to| ihink what really happened as I saw it. “After I had finished speaking, some one from the talking picture people | climbed on the back of the car and said ‘You must repeat that speech for us’ I said I would not. He said ‘We 1 said, | ‘I am very sorry, but I can't do it | “Having said that, I slid off the back of the car into my seat. | “Just then Mayor Cermak came for- ward and I talked with him about a minute about Chicago in general. (Continued on Pagz 4, Column 8) | AS PRELIMINARY TO INAUGURAL Call Rally Saturday to Visit Assembly A “national demonstration” in be- half of a five-point relief plan which 3t is said will be demanded of Congress and President Roosevelt, will be held here March 4 by the Unemployed Councils of Washington, under the leadership of the Young Communist Yeague and the Communist Party, it| was said today in a statement which snnounced that a preliminary assembly will take place in front of the District Building at 1 o'clock Saturday, when the program will be presented to the Commissioners. The aims of the organization are: Minimum direct relief of $10 plus $1 for each dependent per week; no evic- tions of unemployed for cne year; free Commissioners; Plan Huge | March 4. nation” against the colored race, and | $7 a week to every unemployed single person. | The meeting Saturday, it is said, will be participated in by “over 10,000 local workers” from the “International Red | Unions” and organized labor. Speakers | are announced as Earl Browder, who | was Communist party senatorial candi- | date in New York, and James W. Ford, | colored candidate for Vice President on the Communist ticket. The announce- ment says that those behind the affair | “are prepared to resist forcibly any po- | lice interference with the plans to hold this demonstration.” On March 4. it is said, from 10,000 to 20,000 will unite in the demonstration. | ' Local headquarters of the council are in the 500 !‘:lock of s—:?rexézy-tmm siregt. | The participants urday proj stage Tndependent, marches on. the Die- | WORY VAN, SAYS MRS, ROLSEVELT No Escape From Assassin in Public Life, Declares Fu- ture First Lady. By the Associated Press. | ITHACA, N. Y., February 16—Mrs. | Pranklin D. Roosevelt gave expression | Offic I Link ials Assassin to Alien Case. ALL AGENCIES JOIN IN INQUIRY Added Precaution Planned Against Second Attack. Federal agencies joined today in an intensive investigation of the attempted assassination of President-elect Roosevelt and in precautions against any further attacks. President Hoover per- sonally called the heads of the de- partments concerned and ordered that neither expense nor effort be spared. Possibility that the Italian bricklayer who shot at Mr. Roose- velt and hit five other persons in Miami last night was the Guiseppe Zangara whose lengthy record is in files of the Department of Labor, and who is said to have been ordered deported, was being studied by immigration officials. Check Identity. Labor Department authorities were carefully scrutinizing the Zangara file with a view to establishing “beyond & doubt” whether it was the record of the man under arrest in the Florida city. Officlals would not confirm the report that the Zangara named in the immi- gration reports had been the subject of & deportation order. They were re- luctant to discuss their inquiry pending & check on the identity of the Miami prisoner. It Zangara had been ordered from this country, it was pointed out in other quarters, he may have remained here under &n appeal proceeding, involving a review of the case by a board at he rtment of Labor. Zangara told officers in Miami he was a naturalized native of Italy. Spurred by direct instructions from President Hoover, the secret service and the Department of Justice were bend- ing every effort to clear up all angles of the shooting and prevent a recur- rence of any such incident during the inauguration ceremonies. After several conferences with the President, Chief Willlam H. Moran of the secret service arranged to increase immediately the staff of secret service operatives guarding Mr. Roosevelt and to take extra measures for protection during the inauguration ceremonies. No Fingerprint Record. Attorney General Mitchell, after re- ceiving telephonic instructions direct from President Hoover, ordered the United States Bureau of Investigation to co-operate to the fullest with the secret service, whose primary duty it is to guard Presidents and Presidents- elect, and with Miami police. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bu- reau of Investigation, assigned two special agents to the shooting case and had a search made of fingerprint files of the bureau for apy record under the name given by the Miami prisoner. No criminal record under such a name was found. Fingerprints of Zangara are being rushed here for definite against the more than 3,000,000 criminal (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) today to a fatalistic attitude in regard “THANK GOD,” SAYS DALL, to her husband’s escape from an as- sassin’s bullets at Miami. | “If they want to get you they can,” | OF ROOSEVELT’S ESCAPE she said, “And so the only thing to President-elect'’s Son-in-Law Ex- do is just to go along and not think | about such things any more than you | have to.” In these words, quietly, with a thoughtful expression on her face, Mrs. Roosevelt this morning reaffirmed her philosophy concerning whatever dan- gers may surround her husband, into | whose party at Miami Giuseppe Zan- | gara fired five bullets last night, wound- | ing Mayor Cermak of Chicago and four | others. Mrs. Roosevelt arrived here early this morning to speak on the Farm and | Home week program at Cornell Uni- | versity. She heard of the shooting be- fore leaving New York City last night, but_held to her schedule with the re- mark that “I have the habit of doing things I have said I will do.” Gets News After Breakfast. After inquiring about her husband, the friends who met her at the station dropped discussion of last night's shooting. Mrs. Roosevelt breakfasted at the home of Miss Flora Rose, dean | of the College of Homie Economics. After breakfast she was shown the latest bulletin on the condition of Mayor Cermak. _“That's good,” she said. “At least, (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) MRS. RbOSEVELT GUARDED Special Precautions Taken to Pre- vent Any Possible Attack. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt hereafter will be guarded from any possible at- tack. Treasury officials said today, but declined to indicate how this would be done The attempt on the life of the Presi- | dent-elect last night has caused Gov-| ernment agencies to exert every effort ches for all school children whose | trict Building from their respective |to prevent a repetition of such attacks ts are unemployed; no “discrimi- headquarters. » on officials or members of their families. presses Concern for Those ‘Wounded. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, February 16— Curtis B. Dall, son-in-law of President- elect Roosevelt, hurriedly left a dinner party here last night to secure addi- tional details when informed of the shooting at Miami a few minutes after it had occurred, by James M. Thom- son, Item-Tribune. When told that Roosevelt had es- caped the bullets, he said “Thank God for that,” and expressed deep sympa- thy for those who had been wounded. Dall has been in New Orleans for sev- eral days as the guest of W. G. Wilmot. NEW LOAN REQUESTED Gov. Murray Applies for $1,648,-| 719 From R. F. C. OKLAHOMA CITY, February 16 (%) —Gov. W. H. Murray applied to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation yes- terday for an additional advance of $1,- 648,719 with which to extend relief work in Oklahoma through March and April. Ira Mitchell, secretary of the State Rellef Committee, said about 125,000 persons were given work in January. The adllitional loan would bring the :.‘OZEI“ advanced to the State to $3,826,- —_— Plan Benefit at Brentwood. BRENTWOOD, Md., February (Special) —On Saturday evening Firemen’s Hall here another card party will be held by the Brentwood Welfare Association. 16 Bombay Bank Cuts Interest. BOMBAY, India, February 16 (#).— The Imperial Bank of India reduced its interest rate from 4 to 3'; per cent. - checking | publisher of the New 'Z)l'leansJ in | EVEN Boys. THERERE SOME VERY,VERY CHoIcE SEATS BUT THEY'RE NOT FREE! COME ACROSS ForR FIRSTCLASS ACCoMMopATIoNS | K YWAGRR A 2 CARLeY {77707 \ ) | [ P AVOID THE CIRCUS DAYS ARE HERE! NUM BERLESS POLITIGAL B 77 2 7% 4. YOUNG OVERAWE BY INSULL TANGLE hend Vast, Uncontrollable Structure. | By the Associated Press. Owen D. Young, who worked out a | plan for settlement of reparaticns, told |a Senate committee today he had a feeling of “helplessness” when he dis- covered the complicated structure of the Insull crganization. “I think it is impossible for any man, however able, really to grasp the real situation of that vast structure” he told the Finance Committe after re- lating tthe that he had played in working out a $2,000,000 loan from the General Electric Co.,, of which he is chairman, to Samuel Insull, sr. “We should try to work toward the objective of having these structures simplified,” he said. Follows Young Insull Young testified after evidence had been put into the record that, while the public statements of the Insull properties were showing net profits of millions of dollars, tax returns were showing l!osses of huge sums. This evidence was brought out by Ferdinand Pecora, during the testimony of Samuel Insull, jr. Insull agreed with Pecora that the public - statement of the company showed net earnings of more than $2,- 000,000 at a time when the tax report showed a loss of $3,463,000. Pecora also put into the record a notation that 1000 shares of Insull stocks had been put aside to “take care of certain people.” At about the same time, Carl Depue, an examiner for the Federal Trade | Commission, was telling that commis- sion that the Insull-owned Public Serv- ice Trust had existed for two years, with its chief income funds derived from acting as intermediary between Insull companies. Former Vice President Dawes was in the Senate Banking Committee room as the hearing began. He and Melvin A. Traylor, banker, are expected to testify tomor- Tow. Other witnesses to be heard today were Harold L. Stuart, president of " (Continued on Page 6, Column 2.) MRS. ROOSEVELT LED FROM TRAIN’S PATH String of Cars Comes Within 20 Feet—Party Unaware of Danger. By the Associated Press. ITHACA, N. Y., February 16—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt today was escorted by a policeman but of the way of a string of railroad cars that had come within 20 feet of her at the Le- high Valley Station, shortly after her arrival here. She had just alighted from her spe- cial train and was standing on one of the tracks, with members of her party and with Mayor Herman Bergholtz and Miss Flora Rose, director of Cornell University'’s College of Home Econom- ics. Neither Mrs. Roosevelt nor any of the other members of the party no- ticed the string of cars being backed in their direction until Motor Cycle Po- liceman Edward J. Moore took Mrs. tracks. SEVEN KILL‘ED IN PANIC Disorder Caused When Police Try to Break Up Red Meeting. ATHENS, Gre ve, February 16 (#)— Seven workmen were killed and 20 others infured during a panic caused when pclicemen fired shots in the air to break up a Communist meeting at Salonika. A staircase collapsed when the crowd suddenly rushed to get out of the building. Eighty were arrested. Two police- men were hurt. Says No Man Could (:ompre-‘ another Chicago | Roosevelt’s arm and moved her off the | Zero Hour Nears | For Sino-Japanese | | “Battle of Jehol”| {50,000 of Emperor’s | Troops Drive Toward Positions on Front. By the Assoclated Press. | MUKDEN, Manchuria, February 16.— Roads southward and westward from this most important Manchurian city | are alive day and night with Japanese | and Manchukuo troops moving steadily | toward positions, whence they will | “jump off,” probably within two weeks, for the long-awaited invasion of Jehol provinee. The drive along the 200-mile front is expected to bring the biggest Sino-Japa- nese clash since fighting began in Sep- tember, 1931, with the capture of this city by the Japanese. 50,000 to Oppose 150,000. The combined Japanese-Manchukuo force is expected to total 50,000, half of them tested Japanese veterans. They will oppose about 150,000 loosely or- ganized Chinese. Realizing the campaign to wrest this additional territory from Chinese con- trol may be difficult, the Japanese com- mand has diverted its ablest officers (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) BRAZIL SHUTS OFF WARRING ARMIES {Isolates Colombians and Peruvians by Barring Upper Amazon Channels. By the Assoctated Press. LIMA, Peru, February 16.—Brazl| HOUSE BLOCKS FIVE DISTRICT INGREASES Wild Confusion Marks Fight by Holaday to Amend Measure. The House today persistently blocked repeated attempts of Representative Holaday, Republican, of Michigan, to increase a number of important items im the 1934 District appropriation bill. Five times in the first two hours of debate on the bill Holaday offered amendments only to have them voted down. In each instance the House turned a deaf ear to his pleas that the increases he proposed would provide immediate capital improvement that would put unemployed men to work— improvements that could be made with the unobligated tax revenues that would otherwise pile up a huge surplus in the Federal Treasury to the credit of the District. Two of the amendments which the House turned down denied increases to the office of the recorder of deeds and paved the way for the closing, on July 1, of the highway department testing laboratory. . Other Plans Defeated. Another amendment voted down was designed to increase the appropriation for the maintenance and repair of bridges from $87,500, as carried in the bill, to $122,500, and a fourth amend- ment would have added $100,000 to the appropriation for resurfacing or re- placement of granite blocks and asphalt E:vemems, The fifth amendment would have provided for operation of the test- ing laboratory after July 1. resentative Blanton, Democrat, of the arguments became so heated that the House was thrown into wild con- fusison as the presiding officer rapped vainly for order. Representative Holaday pointed out the highway laboratory is a decided advantage to the District and instead barred upper Amazon channels today to Colombia and Peru, who began an un- | declared border war Tuesday in Brasil- | | ian territory. [ Gen. Mora, commander of Brazilian | defense forces, informed his govern-| ment that the channels of Aramaza, | | Cleto and Esperanza have been clos!d" | to the two combatant nations. (It was | assumed this action would isolate the | Colombian army, transported up the Amazon to the fighting zone, as Colom- | bians have no other way of reaching | the area except by air. It also would shut Peru off from the Amazon River outlet to the Atlantic Ocean.) ‘The general visited Leticia, the upper | Amazon port which is the prize in the | border struggle and is now held by Pe- ruvians, and sent his message from | there. ‘The Peruvian commander informed | him the Colombian _hydro-airplanes have their wings painted green and blue, in the same manner as Brazilian hydro-airplanes. He said the Colombian plages also were taking off from Bra- zilian waters. Information from Eastern Peru said there was no further fighting today and " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) |FRENCH TAX PROTEST CLOSES MANY STORES By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 16.—The shutters were closed at noon on thousands of | stores and even restaurants in Paris and tens of thousands of others in | France as a protest by storekeepers against higher taxes and Parliament’s reluctance to economize. Dressmakers and the de luxe trades set the example, but many trades re- fused to sacrifice business although sypathizing with the movement. | Taxpayers meanwhile called meetings | in Paris and the provinces and at Lille | the textile exchange ordered quotations suspended tomorrow. (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) CONFESSION CLAIMED IN STORE GIRL’S SLAYING Rock Island, Ill., Man, 25, Charged With Throwing Victim From High Bridge. By the Associated Press. ROCK ISLAND, Ill, February 16— Maurice Meyer, 25, has confessed the slaying of Rose Gendler, Sheriff Fred R. Schleuter said today. The girl dis- appeared the night of December 21 after leaving a Davenport department store, where she was a clerk. Texas, led the fight against each of the | Holaday amendments, and several times | SENATE APPROVES BLAINE RESOLUTION TOREPEAL DRY LAW Passage by Two-thirds Vote. Garner Predicts 0. K. in House Monday. CONFORMS TO DEMOCRAT |PLANK, SPEAKER ASSERTS Robinson Wins State Convention Method of Ratification in Upper Chamber Fight. The Senate this afternoon adopted the Blaine resolution for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, providing for the convention system of ratifica~ tion by the States. The resolution now goes to the House, and if passed by a two-thirds majority there will 80 to the States for ratification. The vote was 63 to 23. Previously the Senate had refused by a vote of 70 to 14 to strike from the Glass amendment a clause giving Congress concurrent power to en- force a proposed ban against the . It then defeated the Glass amendment as a whole, 46 to 38. The Senate then voted down the Reed amendment designea to prohibit the drinking of distilled spirits on the premises where sold. With the Senate prepared to vote at 3 p.m. on the Blaine prohibition repeal | resolution, Speaker Garner predicted | today that if the Senate passed a flat prohibition repeal proposal providing for the convention system of ratifica- tion, it would be “brought up and passed by the House Monday.” “As perfected by the Senate last night and with the Robinson amend- ment for the convention method of ratification, the resolution is satisface tory and in conformity with the Demo- cratic platform,” Garner said at his dally press conference, “It will be brought up under a sus- pension of the rules in the House if the Senate passes it.” Robinson Leads Fight. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader, led the it 'hlz last night resulted in tien of the resolution so as to take away the e for by State conventions instead of Legis- He also expressed the opinion the House would approve it. On the first g;yn:l tl'i‘; mkmi :.‘ho:‘llou.le defeated votes a resolul calling for en the repeal dis) was this afiernoon, Senator Rottson, R publican, of Indiana, a dry, denounced | the action of the Senate last night in striking from the resolution the ban against the return of the saloon. He said that when the Senate so voted it practically gave life anew to the saloon. He predicted that if the Constitution | ;;trebenlmendggr as proposed, it would long before saloons we: - mgNWId!ly. T AT “No matter what others may do,” the Indiana Senator, I pmpoyu to tln.k’g my stand with the forces of temperance and morality against the liquor traffic.” He insisted the demand for repeal of the eighteenth amendment had come from wealthy wets who wished to trans- fer the burden of taxation from their mu'at?c:gldenu 'fi the poor man’s e collection o of beer and liquor. AL o e Glass to Seek Vote, Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vis told the Senate he would press for .l’ vote on his substitute resolution, which seeks to prohibit return of the saloon and provides for protection of the dry States, although it repeals the eight- eenth amendment. His substitute, he said, is identical with the resolution which he introduced in the Senate during the last session and which was taken up for consideration in that body (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) SPEED CAR ADJUSTED DAYTONA BEACH. Fla., February 16 (#).—Sir Malcolm Campbell of Eng- land likely will be unable to make an official attempt to break his own world’s automobile speed record of 253 miles an hour before Saturday. The giant Bluebird racing car of the 48-year-old driver has been torn down Her body was found the next day and the parts strewn about its garage on_the ice covering Rock River under | as mechanics labor to complete teversi the high Moline Bridge. | major adjustments. They said it would Meyer, according to the sheriff, said | not be in condition for speed trials he threw the girl from the bridge. before tomorrow at the earliest. |YOUTH ADMITS SLAYING FRIEND, 12, WITH KNIFE FOR “SNITCHING” Leader of Boyish *“Secret Society” Stabbed Playmate in Heart After Tieing Him to Tree. By the Associated Press. in the lonely district, iny | y district, swearing each NEW YORK, February 16.-—A school- | other to secrecy with childishi rites. boy leader of a children's “secret soci-| Once. they said. Murch beat a young ety” was accused today of plunging a | ::;nu:ul.‘ and Bender told his relatives knife into the heart of a lad he blamed | Murch watched his chance for re- for violating a boyish oath not to| venge. “gnitch.” {nADout two weeks ago, according to e police story, he induced Bender to Harry Murch, 15, confessed, detec-|go to the abandoned house. tives said, that he inveigled 12-year-| “Come on and I'll show you how I old Willism Bender into an abandoned o up Peanut vendors.” he was quoted ing. house In s forsaken section of Queens, | **gay 108 entering gleefully into the trussed him with sashwelght cord.| spirit of what he thought was a game, rammed a gag into his mouth, then | held out his hands to be bound. Murch killed him with a pocketknife. tied his feet, too, and stuffed a wad The body was found yesterday after | of dirty cloth into his mouth. pong had searched more than two| “Now,” the police quoted him as say- ‘weeks. ing, “take this.” Police sald the soclety, playing He drew out a knife, the detectives Radio mfil' C4 g gangsiers and pirates, prowled at nl(;: | said, and plunged it into the boy's chest. p »