Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1933, Page 2

A—2 == PARK SAVINGS BANK] SHORTAGE PROBED Btunz’ - Letters Disclose Disappearance of Several {Thousand to $1,600,000. A Federal investigation precipitated by the suicide of Robert S. Stuns, ex- ecutive vice president of the Park Sav- ings Bank, has disclosed an indicated shortage at the bank of approximately $1,600,000, although the actual loss may e not more than several hundred thou- #and dollars, it was learned today. While Department of Justice officials fn charge of the inquiry refused to giscuss the investigation in any way, it was reported in relizble quarters that Stunz confessed a shortage of less than Balf a million dollars to confidantes Pefore he ended his life at his home With a bullet last Tuesday. Letters to Friends Disclosed. Stunz, The Star was informed, mailed two letters to friends before sending- two bullets into his brain. In the let- ters, delivered Wednesday, Stunz is said to have exonerated every one else at the bank of any wrongdoing. The notes asked that full rmpnns.lblmy be laced cn Stunz in the event “anything ppened” to him or to the bank. Police who investigated the suicide yeported that they were told that no notes were left by the bank official. The alleged defalcations are under- stood to have extended over a pericd of three cr four years. Bank records are said to have been altered in order | to deceive bank examiners when the§ appeared for routine inspections. Richard L. Hargreaves, conservator Pt the bank, has called upon a bonding company which carried $150,000 on Stunz to indemnify the bank for the full amount of the bond. Details Closely Guarded. The United States Bureau of Investi- fgation_was called into the case by the controller of the currency shortly after the suicide of Stunz. The Park Savings Bank was one of the institutions which Failed to open for full banking functions Jast Tuesday following the national nking holiday. bewhilg details of the shortage are being closely guarded by investigators, it was reported today that the “indi- cated” shortage was found by a cursory study of depositors’ records. It is pos- sible that the actual shortage may be ut a fraction of $1,600,000 when the sllegedly tangled reccrds are straight- ened out. Where Money Went Unknown, A careful investigation now is under way to determine if Stunz alone was involved in the reported peculations. What became of the money apparently sisappropriated is a question yet to be answered. Stunz is said to have been in an ex- ceedingly upwrought state before his death. Friends attributed his condi- tion to overstrained nerves. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover 4 being kept advised of the develop- wments in the Federal inquiry. The in- Vestigation is being made by expert ac- pountants of the Justice Bureau. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bu- yeau of Investigation, declined to dis- cuss the case today, except to admit that his agents are making an investi- gation. ROOSEVELT PLEDGED ‘BUSINESS MEN’S AID Poutheast Association Commends - Leadership—“Practical Men” © Urged for Commissioners. President Roosevelt today had re- «eived copies of three resolutions adopt- el by the Southeast Business Men’s As- sociaticn, commending him for his fear- léss leadership in the banking .crlsis. expressing confidence he would ‘selec: only practical men” for the District commissionerships and pledging to the Chief Executive ‘“true and usld!vlded support during this emergency.' The resolution concerning the Presi- dent’s action in the banking emergency yrged “him to persist in his endeavors until our banking business is free and clear of all suspicion, and the violators of the public trust are forever re'r'noved from a place in our financial life. Referring to the commissionerships, e resolution sald: tth“ln the past our District Commis- oners displayec a sectional trend, and e express the hope that in the selec- tions about to be made the appointees will be broad, liberal and cmslder%te of the wants of the ple of the Dis- trict, irrespective of the locality.’ IMMEDIATE ACTION FOR PEACE VITAL, MACDONALD SAYS (Continued From First Page) ‘MacDonsld and Sir John tomorrow at e Vatican. t.hA state dinner will be held tonight at Signor Mussolin’s Venezia palace in me. m’rhe conversations are considered highly important here as an effort to avert European nations lining up in two great alliances against each other. Failure, in the view of Italian officials, may mean a lining up of the Fascist nations, Germany, Hungary and Italy, against France and her Eastern allies, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia. The Fascist campeign in ‘Austria was seen as possibly ultimately throwing that country into a central THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. MARCH 18, 1933. Elliott Meets a Giant SON OF THE NATION'S BIG MAN GREETS TEXAS BIG MAN. e e = 2 o ree| INGLUDES BANKING dent, himself standing over 6 feet, seems dwarfed as he is greeted by Jack Earle, world's tallest man, who stands over 8 feet 6 inches. The two met at El Paso, Tex., during'a recent visit by the President’s son to the Lone Star State. —Wide World Photo. EMBARGO HEARINGS 10 START TUESDAY +louse Foreign Affairs Group Wiil Consider President’s Proposal. By the Associated Press. Hearings will start Tuesday before the | House Foreign Affairs Committee on an | administration proposal to authorize | President Rcosevelt to place an em- | bargo on sh'pments of arms and muni- | tions to any country. | Chairma: McReynolds already has | introduced the measure with the ap-| proval of he State Department. It is| along the line of the proposal sub- mitted by the Hoover administration | l lliance. § : One of the things it was believed Premier Mussolini may_decide to do is to throw his influence behind efforts to smooth over the troubles between ‘Prance and Germany, aroused by the demonstrations of Hitler's Nazis on the restern frontier. N aton Pompeo Aloisi, Ttaly's delegate to the League of Nations, will partici- gne in the conversations with the r itish visitors. SOVIET WILL TRY BRITONS PUBLICLY DESPITE PROTESTS (Continued From First Page.) of sabotage in behalf of counter-revo- Jutionary organizations. X The Reuter’s Agency here in London gssued the following statement: “Grave fears were expressed here this morning that the British subjects im- ed in Russia may be led by third degree methods of questioning to make statements which may be twisted into sb-called confessions. - “Further, the refusal of the Soviet wvernment to allow the British Am- dor at Mosc%vzd to sehe,' \‘ilhl; prison- ers in is regare as l’f‘nl.fl- gnt‘g:d as boding ill for their welfare. - “Meanwhile, every cay that goes by iwithout settlement of the incident makes the position more serious and yeacts more drastically on Anglo-Rus- sian relations.” The British Press Association, in a somewhat similar statement, said the bassador at Moscow is continuing st that he be allowed to see the- agaln, r~ : that failed \f action in the last Con-| gress. Phil'ips to Testify. Undersecretery Phillips will be one of the State Department officials to| testify on it. McReynolds siid he would press for early House actin on the measure. He added he has ccuferred with Secretary Hull on the matier, and that President Roosevelt had incicated he wanted the power. Any conclusions reached at such a mceting, however, would require the unanimous action of the “Big Seven” and the majority of the other countries, exclusive in each case of the parties to the dispute. | The seven major powers are named as | the United States, Great Britain,| France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Rus- sia. - | The objects of the conference would | be to agree upon steps to be taken to avert a threatened breach of the pact | and, in case it had already been broken, | to_determine which side is responsible. | 1t becomes increasingly apparent that | the American Government would use | every possible means to bring the con- ference to some specific agreement and prevent it from failing. Plan Not Shaped. No definite American plan to that end has taken shape, although a state- ment may be forthcoming before Mr. Davis sails. The MacDonald plan is regarded here as a laudable attempt at a compromise between the rival forces in Europe ar- rayed on orie ‘side in support of -the status quo. and on the other seeking some révision of the Versallles treaty under which German military power is sternly restricted. Devis planned to go to New York last night and did not expect to return to Washington before he sails for Europe on Wednesday. PERU IS CONDEMNED BY LEAGUE COUNCIL Given Full Responsibility for Any Loss of Life in Leticia War. Delegate Quits Session. By the Assogiated Press. GENEVA, March 18.—The League of Naticns Council unanimously adopted today a report condemning Peru's occu- pation of territory ceded by treaty to Colombia and demanding immediate and complete evacuation of the terri- tory by Peruvians. Colombia previously accepted the re- port, but Peru, without definitely ac- cepting or rejecting it, asked the Coun- cil not to adopt it, but to open inquiries into the situation. After Eduardo Santos, Colombian dele- gate, announced acceptance, Garcia Calderon, - the Peruvian delegate, launched into a long historical review of the dispute and attacked Colombia’s course with regard to the 1922 treaty. He asked the Council to delay decision until Peru’s positian could -be under- stood. Declaring nothing said by the two delegates gave the committee any rea- son to change the report, Chairman Sea Lester, the Irish delegate, announced responsibility for loss of life which might eventuate in the Leticia region “must be borne by the government which per- mitted and sustained illegal invasion of Colombian territory.” After the Council had voted, Senor Calderon walked out of the room. When asked what this si , he replied “I leave the Council but ‘not the League™ 3 The French and British delegates ad- vised Peru to accept the report. ‘The Council appointed an Advisory Committee to supervise the execution of the reports and recommendations. The Advisory Committee. will be cempcsed of all membors of the Council. Invitations were authorized sent !rlnl" and the United States to particl- pate, HOUSE T0 CONSIDER BANK BILL MONDAY Quick Passage Seen Despite Vain Effort Yesterday to Rush Measure. By the Associated Press. Although President Roosevelt had in- dicated he wanted the measure passed immediately, the House balked yester- day at consideration of a bill to relieve banks outside the Federal Reserve Sys- tem, but agreed to take it up Monday. Quick passage is in prospect. Chairman Steagall of the House Banking Committee said the bill ex- tended to banks not members of the Federal Reserve the privileges of the emergency banking bill. “President Roosevelt wants it passed at once,” he said. Representative Snell, the Republican leader, was on his feet ‘immediately with a reminder that several bills had gone through lately with Little time to study them and said that since the Senate was in recess, nothing was to be gained by passing the measure imme- diately. Uninformed on Provisions. Steagall said approval would let the people know that an “injustice” was to be corrected, but Representative Beedy, Republican, of Maine, a member of | Steagall's committee, said the commit- tee itself had no time to know what the bill contained. “Nobody wants to give relief to State banks more than 1.” he sald, “but there is doubt as to whether this bill ac- complishes its purpose. No Republican member of the committee knew any- thing about it until half an hour ago.” “Ill say the President, the Federal Reserve Board, the Treasury and other experts have agreed that the language is clear,’’ Steagall replied. Beed, however, objected to the unanimous consent required for con- sideration. Then Representative Byrns of Tennessee, the majorily, leader, se- cured the agreement to have the bill taken up the first thing Monday. Democrats Join in Complaint. Democrats joined in Beedy's com- plaint that House members had not had time to inform themselves on the bill. Representative Fuller, Democrat, of Ar- kansas, told Steagall: “By your expla- ration, you show you don't know what is in it yourself.” During Senate consideration of the emergency banking bill there was a complaint that its benefits would not go to non-member banks, expressed by Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisiana and others. Later. however, a bill by Senator Rob- inson, Democrat, of Arkansas, was en- acted to take care of such banks. The Steagall Dbill is a substitute for that measure. It authorizes non-member banks and' trust ‘companies to. borrow from Federal Reserve banks on time or demand notes and makes the notes eli- gible for the issue of Federal Reserve Bank currency. DR. LUTHER NAMED AMBASSADOR TO U. S., SUCCEEDING PRITTWITZ (Continued From First Page.) merber of the Berlin Rotary Club and |. \flwdm seldom misses a meeting. WELL KNOWN IN U, S. Dr. Luther’s Appointment Seen as Move For Caution by Hitler. By the Associated Press. ‘The appointment of Dr. Hans Luther as German Ambassador to this country was regarded today in Washington offi- cial circles as an indication that the Hitler government will move cautiously in_its foreign relaticns. Luther is well known to American officials and in financial circles. He has been in this country many times. He was one of the German signers of the Locarno pact and was a close friend of the late Gustave Stresemann. While not an especially active party man, Luther is -.a member of the Peoples’ party, the middle party of which Stresemann was the most promi- nent leader. Luther was twice chancellor of Ger- many. When his second government fell Luther made an extensive tour of South America and visited most of important German settlements. He served on the board of the Ger- man railways for a time and became NEW FARMAID PLAN Senator Smith to Introduce Bill at Once—Congress Approval Seen. (Continued From First Page.) House, substantially unchanged, next week. The Agriculture Committee ex- pects to report it by Tuesday. As that committee met this morning it received a new plea for approval of the bill, signed by the h of six national farm organizations, The bill has not been introduced in the House yet, 50 no committce vote was possible today, but the to reach substantial received on Capitol Agriculture Committee went into ses- :I“a; to study the emergency measure, 1mj nt emergency the special session of the Seventy-Third Congress has not dealt with the fundamental question of economic reconstruction. It has im- proved confidence in banking and an- ticipates economy in governmental costs. “As & part of the constructive pro- gram for economic rehabilitation, the President, by a special message to Con- gress, has designated agricultural relief as the first prerequisite thereto, Support of Measure, “The bill now before Congress bears the support of the President and farm organizations, | “We hope that the unanimity of the | Natlon's executive branch and of farm organizations will encourage your prompt and effective support of the present bill for agricultural relief.” It was signed by E. A. O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation, L. J. Taber, for the National Grange; C. E. Huff, Farmers’ National Grain Corpora- tion; C. G. Henry, American Cotton Co- operative Association; Charles E. Ewing, National Live Stock Marketing Association, and Ralph Snyder, National Committee of Farm Organizations. As the House Agriculture Committee's 25 members gathered in the locked com- mittee chambers to go Over the new bill section by section, Chairman Jones sald no official vote on the measure would be taken today, but indicated the views of members might be “sound- “The bill has not yet been formally introduced in the House,” Jones said, “so we could not act on it officially. But there may be some expression of committee sentiment.” Experts Are Heard. Most of yesterday's session, which lasted until after 5 o'clock, was de- voted to hearing experts explain the | measure and the way it is mtcndedl to operate. But today the committee | members carried on the discussion themselves. Because of the huge Democratic ma- jority in the House, there are two| Democrats on the Agriculture Commit- | tee to each Republican. In exact figures there are 17 Democrats and 8 Re- publicans. Clarke of New York, the ranking Republican, declined to express his view of the proposal, but last session Clarke filed a mincrity report on the domestic allotment bill, contending its processing tax was unconstitutional. The _same kind of tax is carried in the new plan. Already a move has started in the House to increase the number of com- modities covered in the biil. From North Carolina and Virginia has come strong pressure to include peanuts. In other sections there is some discus- sion of wool, The commodities named in the bill as “basic agricultural” commodities are wheat, cotton, corn, hogs, cattle, sheep, rice, tobacco and milk. Meanwhile, Senator Smith of soum’ Carolina, chairman of the Senate Agri- culture Committes, emerged from a conference with Secretary Wallace and Henry Morgenthau, jr., chairman of the Farm Board, with a proposal for set- ting up a bank system exclusively for farmers. He told newspaper men that the two officials “see the necessity of this con- centration,” and that he would intro- duce legislation for that purpose as soon es it could be prepared. ‘The banks would handle mortgages, crop loans and such things for thc farmers, but Smith gave cut only an outline of the plan pending completion of the legislation. The Senator said many of his Senate colleagues favored the proposal. “1 want a separate system of banks established for the benefit of the farmer,” he said. *“We should consoli- date all farm credit agencies ‘n one bank like the Federal Reserve system, but devoted to agriculture. Mixing Impossible. “You can’t mix commercial banking with agriculture. That’s been the ruin of agriculture and been the ruin of several banks. Long time paper won't mix with 30, 60 and 90 day paper.” At . the same time Representative Byrns, House. majority leader, predicted the farm relief bill would be passed b the House next wee, substantially un- changed from its present form. Byrns he expected liberal op- portunity would be given the House to debate the measure. “It is an administration measure and the House will stand loyally behind the President on it,” he said. Approval Is Predicted. Administration leaders predicted com- mittee approval of the bill without change. There were at least a few signs of dispute. As is usual with farm relief measures, some members stuck to the belief that their plans would work better. General public ap- proval of Mr. Roosevelt’s idea, how- ever, likely would impel these members to accept it for trial, particularly since the Chief Executive admits it is simply an experiment that might or might not work. Secretary Wallace, in whese hands the program would place flexible powers to select methods of aid which he be- lieves are best suited to basic com- modities, mace it clear that he did not intend 4o use the most drastic provi- slons unless compelled to do so. He estimated before the Senate Agri- cultural Committee yesterday that the measure would increase the cost of s_to consumers about $800,- 000,000. This was taken to mean that he intended to fix processing gnd other taxes at a rate to yleld this amount. Some Representatives of processors op- posing the bill, decry it as “wide " and as extending authority to the Sec- retary to raise up to $2,000,000,000 in taxes in one year. Leaders Rally Support. Farm organization leaders, whose agreement served as the basis of the bill, rallied their members over the Processors, Nation in its support. , in- cotton spinners, others, cluding millers, packers, tobacco manufacturers and though numbering many opponents of the measure in their ranks, delayed bringing their points of view in the n. open. t the meamire, sasariing privacely” that measure, lval they felt that Wallace would not exer- president of the Institute for Germans | marks Abroad. He also devoted much time to a movement for the rehabilitation of | to Germany in a nen-political way. Luther was minister of food and agri- culture in Dr. Wilhelm Cuno's cabinet in 1922 and was minister of finance in 1923 in the cabinet of Chancellor Wil- | braska helm Marx, whom he succceded as to | chancellor two years later. He M‘Lflum-. He became benk in 1930. ’Japanese Troops Moving Into Jehol tank company moving up to the J APANESE troops, equipped with the most modern armament, moving into Jehol. front after the invasion began. Nishi's 8th division. Above photo shows a Japanese Lower photo shows supplies going forward, despite snow, cold and miserable roads. This particular supply traln is leaving Chaoyang, in Eastern Jehol, to follow the forward sweep of Gen. —A. P. Photo. The Bank Situation Table Shows Vast Majority of Nation’s Financial Institutions Have Resumed. Operation. By the Associated Press. A survey shows that, with more and more banks throwing open their doors, a vast majority of the Nation's financial institutions have now resumed opera- tions. The situation by States follows: .Open. 124 L 106 151 1002 68 46 12 81 155b 43 153 471 140 590 303 District of Columbia ... 640 1 415d 6 12 | Missouri . | Montana | Nebraska { Nevada .. | New Hampshire New Jersey.... | New Mexico. New York..... | Nerth Carolina 51 | North Dakota.. 77 | Ohio .32 oy 54 31 20 577a 1 | Oklahoma Oregon ... Pennsylvania .. 7 | Rhcde Island. . | South Carolina 28 South Dakota. o1 Tennessee e Texas Utah | Vermont . | Virginia . | Washington . | West Virginia | Wisconsin . | Wyoming }u\ Approximately. i 'b) Possibly incomplete. | f(c) Not reported. Eighty-three non- | members; 1 Federal Reserve member to open Monday. (d) Some restricted. (e) Figures not immediately available. ZEPP IS APPOINTED AS NEW CONSERVATOR Vice President of U. S. Savings Bank Named Successor to J. L. Bailey. ‘William H. Zepp, vice president of the United States Savings Bank, today was appointed by the Treasury Department to be conservator of that bank, suc- ceeding J. L. Bailey, a national bank | examiner, who has been in charge since last Tuesday morning. Mr. Zepp now is in charge of the bank and is an official of the Govern- ment under the emergency banking act. Mr. Bailey returns to other duties as & national bank examiner. —_— CERMAK BEQUESTS VALUED AT $250,000 Mayor Leaves Bulk of Estate to His Family, but Provides $17,000 for Charities. By the Associated Precs. CHICAGO, March 18.—An estate valued at $250,000 was bequeathed to charities and to the family of the late Mayor Anton J. Cermak in his will, filed today in Probate Court. Cermak left the bulk of his estate to his immediate family and distributed $17,000 to charities. State Senator Richey V. Graham. son-in-law of the late mayor, presented the will before Oscar S. Caplan, assist- ant probate judge. ‘To Alderman Henry Sonnenschein, his secretary and confidant for years, Cermak left $10,000. The bequests to"charity were: $4,000 to St. Joseph's Orphanage of Lisle, IIL.; $4,000 to the Bohemian Charitable Afi La Grange Masonic Children’s Home, and $1,000 to M. 8. Szymczak, city con- troller, to be distributed’ at his dis- cretion to Polish charitable associa- tons. To his two sisters and brother Cer- mak bequeathed-$5,000 each, with $5,000 to each of their eight children. Smaller beguests were made to other relatives. ‘The Cermak home, where he had lived with his daughter, Mrs. Helen C. Kenlay, was left to her, with his Sum- mer home at Antioch, Il SCIENTIST WILL MARRY r | MacGregor to Wed Niece of U. 8. Consul at Tangier. 'RUNNING WOLF GETS 6-T0-12-YEAR TERM {Glflslfol’d'l Testimony Helps Al- leged B. E. F. Leader Escape Death Penalty. By the Associated Press. READING, Pa., March 18.—Chief | Glassford said was a leader of the | bonus expeditionary force, was today | given a 6-to-12-year term in the East- ern Penitentlary, after his conviction | of shooting his estranged bride to death |in a restaurant. It was the character testimony of Gen. Glassford, former chief of police in Washington, D. C., which defense council considered most important in bringing a verdict of voluntary man- slaughter. The commonwealth sought the death penalty. The chief, whose real name is C. W. Taylor, wore today the same leather trousers, brightly beaded vest and yel- low shirt he wore during the trial. +The State charged him with planning to kill his 27-year-old wife, Etta. He shot himself while the woman lay dying at his feet. The 58-year-old herb salesman pleaded self-defense, saying he fired only after he saw his bride reach for a pistol. INCOME TAX YIELDS 35 MILLION IN DAY March 16 Figure Below Last Year’s, but Total to Date Still Runs Ahead of 1932 Mark. By the Associated Press. Income tax collections on March 16 jumped to $35,585,679, as compeared to $13,659,901 the previous day, but were much less than the $55,611,451 collected on’March 16, 1932. The increase for the day, 132 | Running Wolf, whom Gen. Pelham D. | STAND ON 3.2 BEER EXPLAINED BY RAINEY | Brewers Say They Would Produce Weaker Drink in Fear of Violating Law. Speaker Rainey explained today that | the House is insisting on 3.2 legal beer because under that limitation the Na- | tion will get a beer of about 3.05 alco- holic content by weight. | Some of the country's largest brew- ers, Mr. Rainey seid, have told him 75 | that if 3.2 beer is legalized, they would be careful not to exceed that alcoholic | content for fear of violsting the law, |with the result that the beverage | would be weaker. | _“I am advised by the brewers,” Mr. Rainey declered, “that authorization for = 32 beer actually will give the American public ¢ 3.05 beer. If the House accepts the Senate plan for a | 3.05 limit, the beer actually would con- | tain 3 per cent or less alcohol by weight. | And the House is of the opinion that | the country wants a good beer.” | —_— [BEER BILL PASSAGE IS SOUGHT MONDAY; PARLEYS ARRANGED (Continued From First Page.) |intcxicating, Blanton sald he hoped “because the higher you get it the bet- ter chance we have of getting it be- fore the Supreme Court.” Taking issue with Blanton, Represent- ative Sirovich, Democrat, of New York, a physician, said that “beer is the only aicoholic. beverage that is not intoxi- cating” and added that “I am trying to knock that into Tom Blanton's head.” Sirovich gave an elaborate explana- tion of alcoholic contents of different alcoholic beverages, and Blanton inter- Jected: “The only thing the gentleman from New York left out was ‘snakes’.” “Fanatics also have snakes” Siro- vich retorted. Rainey Names Conferees. Speaker Rainey appointed as con- | ferees Doughton of North Carolina, | Cullen, McCormack of Massachusetts, Democrats; | setts, and Watson of Pennsylvania, Re- publicans. A plea, addressed to President Roose- velt, and maintaining that “your con- sclence will force you to veto the (beer) bill” was made public last night by William Sheafe Chase, superintendent of the International Reform Federation. He said: “The widely circulated ideas that the bill has been so cleverly drawn that it cannot be carried to the Supreme Court and that the Supreme Court would not declare it unconstitutional are a gro- tesque travesty upon law and govern- ment, due to the psychology of the panic and the anxiety of the under- world to break down all effective gov- ernment.” Chase asked Mr. Roosevelt to refer the bill to Attorney General Cummings for a report before he signs it, and re- quested that the President also grant a :1;11:: to the “dry forces” before he WOMAN TO BE ARRAIGNED IN HUSBAND’S SLAYING Mrs. Jessie B. Costello, Attractive Widow of Peabody, Mass., Fire Captain, Under Indictment. By the Assoclated Press. SALEM, Mass., March 18.—Mrs. Jessle B. Costello, attractive 31-year-old widow of Peabody, will be arraigned Monday in Salem Superior Court on an indict- ment charging the murder of her hus- band, Fire Capt. Willlam J. Costello. She will probably go on trial for her life at the regular session of Superior Court in May. Mrs. Costello was indicted yesterday, a month after the fire captain’s body was taken from a newly dug grave for an examination of its organs. Costello, 39 years old, died at his home on February 17. His death was attributed to heart trouble until “ugly rumors,” District Attorney Hugh A. Cregg sald, forced him to order an examination. A tcxicologist reported a swiftly acting poison had caused the captain’s death. EhSLLs e CONFIDENCE SEEN Belief in Business Future Ex- pressed at Goldenberg’s Meeting. Confldence in the business future ot e oy ofBoials of Coldeabores. G- 's de- partment store last night when at & dinner and social the store’'s Executive Club at the ienberg, president; Harry E. vice ident d | Congress would adopt 3.2 per cent, | Treadway of Massachu- | MATSUOKA SPURNS TALK OF U. S. WAR Japanese Delegate Declares Americans Duped by Chinese Pleas. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 18.—Yosuke Mat- souka, chief Japanese delegate at re- cent League of Nations meetings at which the Sino-Japanese conflict was considered, declared yesterday before his departure for America that war be- tween the United States and Japan “would be an act of madness.” Mr. Matsouka, who will pass through the United States on his way to Tokio, " asserted that Americans have ‘“con doned the faults of Chinese misgovern- ment and magnified those of Japanese good government.” To explain his analysis of the Ameri- can- public attitude, he used American slang, saying that the American peo- ple “fall for appeals to your emotions; this is what you have done regarding China.” He made these statements in the course of a special interview. “The United States and Japan have an important mission to fulfill for the seke of humanity in building up the coming era of Pacific civilization, in which the East and the West will unite in peace for the first time in history,” the Japanese diplomat said. “Under- standing and friendship between these two advanced countries is essential to the welfare of all the Pacific. It will be of benefit not only to ourselves but to others as well, and particularly to the people of China. “Paradoxical as the statement may seem at the present time, Japan is and must continue to be a friend of China. To the United States, friendship for the colossal country across the Pacific is largely a matter of sentiment; you have no vital interests in China. To Jepan, on the other hand, the welfare, fiumy and progress of China is essen- Sees No Cause for War. “There is no cause for war between the United States and Japan. Such a thing would be an act of madness. There can be no war between our countries unless the United States makes it, and I know your country will not do that. “By impairing our power and posi- tion in the Far East you would do no good for the suffering people of China, and you might lay China open to Com- munist control. I don't belleve you want that. “Japan, being an organized, stabilized and progressive country, with industrial development far beyond that of any other Oriental country, is your great. est customer on the Pacific Ocean. We buy more goods from you every year than all the rest of Eastern Asia com- bined, including your own Asiatic pos- sessions, the Philippine Islands. We stand second only to Great Britain among the nations of the world pur- chasing American raw materials and manufectured products. The reverse is also the case: The United States is Japan's geatest customer, buying from us annually nearly 40 per cent of the j8oods we ship abroad. And we could not live without our foreign trade. “Americans are a very sympathetic people. = You are not only ‘dollar chasers’ es you have been called by some cynical foreigners. I, who know you, would say that you are even senti- ,menul. To use a phrase of American isl.nnl, you fall for appeals to your emo- tions. This is what you have done re- garding China. You have accepted fic- tlons and rejected facts regarding China for many years. You have condoned the faults of Chinese misgovernment and magnified those of Japanese good government. “We Japanese, because of our geo- graphic probinouity, have to deal with the hard realities of conditions brought ambo\lt.:by !henshlnue war lords ll;g [< accept the expounded American-educated Chinese politicians. The condition of China has gone from bad to worse during the last 21 years of Chinese civil war, to the ghastly cost of the Chinese people. The real ene- mies of China are Chinese, not foreign- ers, certainly not the Japanese. Unless the Chinese were their own enemies & country the size of theirs, the largest in the world, would not be in its present pitiful plight. Denies China United. “With regard to Jehol, that province has not been newly annexed to Man- chukuo. The Manchukuo government declared at the outset of its declaration of independence that Jehol was part of its territory, just as South and North Manchuria® were. “The truth is that Chang Hsiao- Liang’s attempt to save Jehol for China was an effort to mislead the League and enlist its aid. Marshal Chang's action was proclaimed as one in which all China had rallled in opposition to Japan. By no means is all China against us, nor is it likely to be. The world saw how little fighting the mar- shal's troops did and what little sup~ port they got from the rest of China. The Chinese people want peace, and first of all they want peace among their own war lords, who have plundered them ruthlessly. “It is true that Japan seeks to avoid a clash with Soviet Russia. It is also true, I fully believe, that the U. 8. S. R. seeks to avoid a clash with. Japan. We neither want nor expect a clash. On the other hand, Japan is' opposed to the sovietization of the Far East, which means the sovietizing of China. We could not countenance that. In answer to a question regarding Japanese policy toward mandated is- lands in the Pacific, Mr. Matsouka said: “This was one of the many mandates decided upon by the Supreme Allied Council even before the League cove- nant was written and the Versailles treaty drafted. No other power has & right to claim a mandate over them, nor is it necessary that the mandatory power be a member of the League.” COLORED HOME GUARDED AFTER NIGHT ATTACK Moving of Baltimore Family Into White Neighborhood Brings Bom- bardment of Bricks and Tin Cans. By #he Associated Press. BALTIMORE, March 18—Two pa- trolmen remained on guard during the night over a house occupied by a col- -Ted family after an assault last night on the building. ‘The colored family—John and Jane Purnell and their six chiliren—moved into the house two days ago in a sec- tion which previously had been popu- lated entirely by whites. Several windows in the house were shattered by a bombardment of bricks, stones, tin cans, and other missles. Afraid to venture out until about 1 BAND CONCERT. i SO e S, e 5§:30 o'clock. Jobn 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, March, “The Irish Irish overture, “Barry of Ballymore” i | Characteristic, “An Irish Patrol.” H Puerner ! Waltz song, “Ireland, My Ireland, I'm for You”.. . Young