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NEW RAIS SWELL OHIO VALLEY FLOOD Eight Dead as Thousands Flee From Waters in Tri-State Area. (Continued From First Page.) Thrig, 18, was killed by electrical dis- charge through the water. George Heideman, Henry Linneman and John Bain were drowned at Covington, Ky., after a back-wash car- ried their automobile into a creek. And at Lawrenceburg. Ind.. Charles Stephen, 14. drew a bottle from the | stream, drank of its contents, and died | THE EVEN MA]. SAXTON DIES HERE AT 103; . BELIEVED OLDEST D. C. CITIZEN Retired Government Employe Had Lived in Capital Since 1865. Received Commission In Army Signed by Lincoln and Stanton. Maj. S. Willard Saxton, 103-year-old | Civil War veteran, retired Government employe. probably the oldest citizen of | the District, died yesterday at his home, 1347 Harvard street. He would have reached the age of 104 in August. A Washington resident since 1865, af_convulsions Rescuers carried Mrs. Anna Morgan, 26, Negro, and her new-born child from their flooded home on the river front. but the child soon was dead cf exposure. | Even if no more rain fell. the Ohio would be 12 feet above its flood stage by night, Weather Bureau officials pre- dicted, and still water-logged skies | spread threateningly over West Vir-! ginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. A eold snap lingered in them, too. so that snow may fall to cloak miles of misery. Rain started it all. now drizzling, now coming in torrents, from the Great Lakes to the blue grass region. Hamil- | ton, Ontario, had recorded 7.27 inches | this month before a respite came early Sunday. That fall was typical. Water Rushes Southward. It filled the Allegheny far up in Western New York, and sent it roaring ! through Western Pennsylvania to meet | 8 Monongahela swelled in West Vir- | inia’s mountains. Down the Ohio| River then water rushed south to meet | the Kanawha, the Scioto. the Musk- | ingum, the Licking of Kentucky, the | Big and Little Miami Rivers of South- | western Ohio and the White Water of | Indiana. Around Cincinnati was every evi- dence of their meeting. At Newport, Ky., 50 city blocks lay | under dingy waters and 1500 were | homeless. Covington, Ky., next door.j fared as badly. In Cincinnati's East End, Little Columbia, Marmet, Cumminsville and | Sedamsville were islands in a flood. | Seven thousand bags of sand were, massed to hold the river off the municl- | pal airport and suburban Linwood. Every house in California, Ky.. gubmerged, and 6 feet of water coursed through California. Ohio Nearly 500 people were Tescued from river camps about this “gateway to the South.” The youngest was 3 months old, the oldest 80 years. | Walter Stratham’ alone saved 67 per- | sons from their cottages. A woman spent a night atop her cabin waving & parlor lamp to draw attenticn. Suburban Milford and nearby Batavia were almost isolated. So was suburban Loveland, and, its normal supply cut | off, it relied on tank trucks for its| rinking water. ¢ To snogme degree flood waters harassed residents north to Pittsburgh and south to Louisville. Adams, Pike, Jackson and Scioto Counties in Southwestern and South Central Ohlo were cut off. Water poured through Greenup, Ky. and. except for, a single high rallroad bridge, Lolated ‘the eastern section of Maysville, Ky. A hundred families were driven to high ground there; 20 more in Ripley, Ohio; 50 in Athens, Ohlo, and scores in Parkersburg, W. Va.; Ash- land, Ky.; Louisville, Evansville, Ind. Gallipolis, Ohio, and Huntington, W. Va., | and their suburbs. | In all these places churches, lodge | halls and the homes of frlends re- ceived & homeless horde. Boats were poled along to carry more to safety. Food went rapidly, 2.000 sandwiches in Cincinnat{ vanishing within an hour. ! Highways were impassable. Trains felt their way slowly over water-threatened roadbeds. A freight train spilled from an undermined track near Cincinnati. Rising waters drove four trunk ltnes from _their terminals into the new $41,000,000 Union Treminal here 10 days Pefore its dedication. 200 FAMILIES NEED AID. River at Huntington, W. Va., Expected to Go Still Higher. By the Associated Press. © HUNTINGTON, W. Va., March 20— Bwirling above its flood stage, the Ohio River forced hundreds of families from their homes in West Virginia today. | -~ In_ Huntington, with the stage at 855.4 feet at the city wharf, 200 families | were expected to appeal to hastily or- ganized relief centers for food and shelter. The waters continued moving upward about an inch an hour and a foot or more additional water is expected be- fore the crest is reached. Upstream at Parkersburg the rain was falling slowly after driving many families from their homes. The f: 4t a rate of one-tenth of a foot an | hour, was expected to continue there. WINTER DELIVERS BLOW. Large Areas of West and Midwest | Covered by Snow. By the Assoclated Press. ‘Winter took a last official wallop at| the Nation today and provided a set-| ting of snow, ice, sleet, slush and floods | for the inauguration of Spring. | A glance at the weather map of the | Nation was like a review of a season instead of the happenings of a day. While residents of the Ohlo Valley in Ohio end Kentucky were fleeing their homes in boats, residents of parts of the Middle West and West were digging out of & foot deep snow. A wind uprooted trees and blew sev- eral farm houses from their founda- tlons near Victoria, Tex., yesterday. It brought a severe electrical storm during which hail pelted the district. Shipping Imperiled. Bhipping was imperiled on both the Pacific and Atlantic and vessels in dis- | tress asked for assistance. The Great Lakes were also storm-tossed. In Indiana 11 State roads were blocked as streams left their banks and flood warnings were issued along | the Wabash and White Rivers. Pennsylvania reported that rivers were rising in the wake of heavy rains. The flood stage of 25 feet was expected today at “the Point” where the Allegheny and Monogahela Rivers join to form the Ohio. They were re- rted at 185 and 19.8 feet, respec- vely, several hours after midnight. ‘While the snow made the going im- ible on some Minnesota hways, it brought joy to Western Kansas wheat ers who said it was the first mois- re of consequence since last July. Even Oklahoma hed freezing tem- | tures and flurries as the snow | Efled up in other States. Twenty-four ches fell in parts of Southern Minne- sota. Chicago escaped the snow Sunday but it was forecast for today to cover the icy coating given trees, wires and poles by continual week end rains that made driving hazardous as ice formed on windshields. Milwaukee slipped and sloshed about in a similar manner, hospitals report- | ing six patients suffering from falls | on icy walks, DIE IN NEW ENGLAND. BOSTON, March 20 (#).—The north- ‘east storm, ushering in Spring, brought @eath to flve persons and injuries to nine others in two automobile acci- dents in New England early today and last night. Joseph Gagliano, his wife and three children of Monson, were killed as their sutomobile was struck at a crossing by a freight train on the Central Ver- mont Railroad. It was believed the driving enow Gagliano's “sision. | mediate reduction of arms. But during all, | are at the bottom of Europe’s arma- Maj. Saxton saw service in three Gov- | ernment departments, and lived through a century filled with events vital in the Nation's history, includ- ing three wars. His wife, Mrs. Mary G. Saxton, died only three years ago at | the age of 94. | Maj. Saxton was born in 1829 at Deerfield, Mass. After attending the district school he went to Greenfleld, | Mass., at the age of 15 to learn the | trade of printer in the office of the Franklin Democrat. From 1845 until| 1848 he was a printer on the Har- binger, organ of the Brook Farm As- sociation of West Roxbury, Mass., & social organization of transcendentalists who- entertained at various times the noted New Eugland poets and authors of the day. Maj. Saxton was a mem- ber of the association, which included among its membership Charles A. Dana and George Willlam Curtis. Upon leaving West Roxbury, Maj. axton went to Boston and there pur- sued his trade as printer until 1853. During that year he went West to en- ' gage in engineering work on the Great ! Northern Railroad with his brother. | After some months of engineering along | the Wabash River in Indiana young | Saxton returned to his trade in Cincin- | natl. Later he moved to Memphis, Tenn., where he became printing fore« man of a daily paper, the Eagle and | Engquirer, On January 26, 1861, Maj. SBaxton was married at Amesbury, Mass, the | home of his bride, Mary Wells Grant, | & neighbor of John Greenlesf Whittier. | The couple celebrated their 69th wed- ding anniversary in 1930. Soon after his marriage Maj. Saxton was appointed by President Lincoln as a | captain on the staff of his brother, Gen. | was | Rufus Saxton. whose command was at | Unitarian Chi Beaufort, S. C. In March, 1865, he re- | ceived from Secretary of War Stanton | & commission as brevet major, also signed by President Lincoln. | Near the close of the war Maj. Sax- ROME CONFERENCE 1S HELD FALURE Results of Ma¢Donald’s Talk With Duce Are Consid- ered Negative. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. The results of the MacDonald-Mus- solini conversations are considered in responsible quarters in Washington as negative. ‘The situation in Europe is believed to have remained as obscure and full of | dangers as before MacDonald's spectac- ular trip to Rome, MAJ. S. WILLARD_SAXTON. ton was assigned to Washington for duty ‘ on the staff of Gen. O. O. Howard, and had resided here continuously since. On July 1, 1869, he was appointed & | gressad clerk in the office of the first controller of the Treasury. He advanced to the office of chief of the division of war- | | rants and appropriations. Subsequently | ! he served in the Department of Com-| | merce and the Census Bureau. He was | g, | retired for age on August 1, 1921, after | | 30 years in the Government service. | Both Maj. and Mrs. Saxton were de- | voted lovers of music and for years at- tended most of the outstanding concerts | | and musicales given here. Maj. Saxton | + gathered one of the largest collections | | of concert programs in Washington. He kept a diary from the time he was 16 years old until after he reached 95. On his 96th birthday the insurance company in which Maj. Saxton had been insured for 38 years ruled that he was “legally dead” and paid him his life Insurance. He is survived by four children, Ed- ward H. Saxton of Boston, Mass.; Mrs. Harry L. Clapp of Chicago; Mrs. Jam E. Miller of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Mrs. Rees E. McDuffle of Guilford, Conn., and ‘Washington, and five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Maj. Saxton was a vice president of the Assoclation of Oldest Tnhabitants of the District of Columbia and & member of Burnside Post of the G. A. R, ex- commander of the Loyal Legion, and member of the Laymen's League of the urch Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the S. H. Hines fu- neral home. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. IAPANESE CAPTURE NORTH CHINA CTY 'Invade Undisputed Térritory in Reprisal for Chi- nese Attacks. By the Assoclated Press TOKIO, March 20.—A Japanese in- fantry brigade was reported today to have occupied Sahochiso, a town in | North China proper about 90 miles northeast of Peiping. This is 9 miles into the undisputed Chinese territory south of the Great | | Wall, which the Japanese command | MYSTERY MILITARY PRISONER HELD $PY British Officer Charged With “Selling Country” as Trial Opens. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, March 20.—A charge that Lieut. Norman Baillle-Stewart of the British Army had “sold his country for the sake of £50” was made today by Maj. H. Shapcott, the prosecuting offi- cer, in opening a court-martial against the young officer. The lieutenant has been a prisoner in the Tower of Lon- don for' several weeks. ‘The general nature of the charges revealed that Balllle-Stewart, an officer of the Seaforth Highlanders, allegedly planned with a German suspected of being a forelgn agent to procure and communicate army secrets which might be useful to an enemy. Letter Is Produced. Ma). Shapcott produced a letiter ad- to Balllle-Stewart, signed “Marie Louise” and mailed at Berlin. It was sald to have contained ten £5 notes. The prosecutor sald he would mince no words and declared the ac- cused had sold his country for that mount. ‘The main charge is that between Au- gust 1 and November 12, 1932, Baillle- Stewart communicated to Otto Walde- mar Obst of Berlin “information which might be useful to an enemy.” Obst is the man suspected of “being a foreign agent within the meaning of the offi- cial secrets act.” The charge specifies that the accused, in association with Obst, “made a note | of the following matters: (1) Organ- | ization, tanks, armored cars, equl ment, arming, structure; (2) Automatic ‘rlfll. pattern, extent; (3) Organization | of brigade tanks; being an act prepara- | tory to obtaining for a Purpou preju- dicial to the interests of the state in- formation which might be useful to the enemy.” Prisoner Salutes. Lieut. Baillie-Stewart, son of & Brit- |ish Army lieutenant colonel. looked {pale and drawn as he appeared for | trial in Chelsea. Upon entering the | court he clicked his heels smartly, how- jever, saluted the President and then stepped across the width of the hall | and stood facing the court as the for- malities of the opening proceeded. ‘The_ 24-year-old officer of the Sea- forth Highlanders was wearing his kilt and glengarry bonnet, but was minus | bis Sam Browne belt There are 10 charges altogether against him and he pleaded not guilty to each. Trial Interrupted. The trial opened with an unpro- grammed incident. A man in clergy- man’s attire rose from the audience Just after the members of the court were sworn in and holding dramatically a Bible over his head, cried “I protest in the name of Jehovah against this young officer being committed to the tower.” He was quickly escorted outside. It was in an effort to back the charges by circumstantial evidence that the prosecution produced the “Marie Louise” letter and some others which had come Into the possession of the authorities after they had placed a watch on the lieutenant. A second letter from “Marie Louise” | contained four £10 notes, said Maj. Shapcott. and another, signed “Al- phonse Poiret,” was mailed from Alder- shot to Obst in Berlin last November. Identifies Writer as Officer. “You will want to know who Alphonse Poiret is,” Maj. Shapcott said, “I shall | tell you. It is this accused officer. ‘This letter is in his handwriting.” The letter requested that Obst use smaller seals on his communications to While Italy has recelved skeptically |sald would not be invaded unless Chi- | England, “because these large ones are the British proposals for disarmament, | nese operations forced such action. It apt to arouse the curiosity of unscrupu- | because they contalned no actual dis- | armament, the French government and | is on a highway leading to Peiping. A Rengo (Japanese) News Agency dis- lous people.” Maj. Shapcott sald that last January, | | when Baillie-Stewart was questioned, the French press have been up in arms | Patch from Hsifenkow, most important | he admitted he had received £90 in during the last 48 hours. The reports | Great Wall pass in the central section | English bank notes from Berlin, but Tecelved this morning from Paris indi- | cate that neither the government nor | the French people are in & mood to ac- cept. at the present moment, either the | MacDonald or the Mussolini sugges- | tions. That I1 Duce has considered the new | disarmament plan of the British prem- | ler as not sufficiently constructive, is no wonder, it is stated in responsible | quarters. Politics Must be Settled. Mussolini and the Italian people have been strong for a drastic and im- | the last few months it has become evi- | dent that no such reduction is possible unless the political difficulties which | ment race are settled. Thus to the MacDonald disarmament proposals, Mussolini replied by suggest- ing a comprehensive flm. comprehen- sive at least as far as Italy is concerned, for an attempted solution of the politi- cal problems. 11 Duce has proposed the extension of | the Locarno pact which at present guar- antees only the eastern frontiers of France to the minor European nations. That is.to say, that Italy does not want to remain only the guarantor of France’s frontiers as is the case in the Locarno agreement, but wants her own frontiers protected by an internstional | agreement, against a possible attack from Yugoslavia. ‘The reason for this is easy to under- stand. For the last few months the Belgrade government, under the pre- text of taking precautionary measures against a possible revolutionary out- break in Croatis, has been massing im- | portant forces on the Italian frontiers. | The Itallan government has sent & note { to Belgrade demanding explanations, | but the object of this note was merely to inform the Yugoslav government | that Italy knows exactly what is going | on at her frontiers and is going to take the necessary measures to prevent any surprise. Under the present circum- | stances, it is difficult for the Itallan government to accept any reduction of | her national defense forces, but in order | to make such a thing possible, Musso- | lini has suggested the extension of the Locarno pact to all nations which might | eventually be involved in a conflict. New League Considered. MacDonald is reported to have ac- cepted such a suggestion and in his| desire to have the most important| countries co-operate for international| security he is playing with the idea of | another League of Nations, and hopes to be able to draw the United States| Into such a combination. The result of the MacDonald-Musso- | diplomatic circles as follows: | “MacDonald has gone to Rome with disarmament plan, which was not nsidered either sufficiently far reach- ing, nor good enough for Italy’s securi- ty. He has left Rome with a political plan, which is not likely to be accepted | by France or Germany. Both these countries are fighting over ratios and arity.” 5 ‘The whole situation, as far as France Is concerned, remains as difficult as it was before the MacDonaldeMussolint interview, with the additional draw- back that the French people who since last Summer have been led to believe in Britain’s assistance in case of trou- ble, are now worried that the British government is trying to dodge the issue and is preparing the ground to with- draw from whatever commitments it may have assumed toward France after the Lausanne conference. The French see in MacDonald’s efforts nothing else but an effort to dispose of the most important clauses of the Versallles treaty by ;lvln& Germany s parity in man-power with France, and thet i of the Southern Jehol border, said Maj. Gen. Heijiro Hattori's 14th Infantry Brigade took the town to end repeated counter-attacks on Hsifenkow. About 1,000 Chinese were reported killed in severe fighting in that area which has persisted for several days. Military leaders here said the Japa- nese would return to Hsifenkow as soon as the pressure is relieved. The Tokio war office lacked, confirmation of the seizure of Sahochiao, but said such limited thrusts south of the wall could be expected as long as Chinese con- tinued to harass the Japanese positions on the frontier. The Chinese were reported to have abandoned all positions at the pass and to have retreated southeastward along the Lwan River. Gen. Sung Cheh-Yuan, commander of the 28th Chinese Army, threw his entire command into the fight in an attempt to recapture Hsifenkow. Japanese claimed their machine guns mowed down hundreds of the Chinese. Other Japanese dispatches said there was a general Chinese retreat from poai- tions all along the south side of the Great Wall. the last thing that the Prench govern- ment will accept. hermore, it is believed in well informed quarters here that the French, considering this new international sit- uation. will be reluctant to accept even the “paper parity” regarding naval forces with Italy, a parity which Her- riot had accepted in principle last De- cember, before he was forced to resign. On the other hand, it is little prob- able that unless some definite political compromise can be reached between France and her allies on the one side and Italy on the other, I Duce would use his influence with Adolf Hitler to induce him to adopt & more conciliatory attitude toward the question of equality in_armaments. MacDonald will stop in Paris, on his way to London, to discuss with Premier Deladier the present situation. In well informed quarters it is said that there is little hope of the meeting between these two premiers yielding anything positive. The maximum concession the French premier i believed able to make is to agree to carry on the present dis- cussions until Ambassador Davis reaches Europe, next Thursday week. Expect Davis Proposals. For some_ mysterious reason, French and British premiers are of the opinion that Mr. Davis will arrive in Europe with a definite set of proposals | from President Roosevelt, proposals which would cover, not only the com- ing International Economic Confer- ence, but also the present political | lini meeting is expressed in Washington | crisis in Europe. The European nations remember that it was the Democratic party under Wilson which has orig- | inated the ides of the League of Na- tions, and there is forlorn hope that, while the League in its present set-up is dead, as far as the American people are concerned, there may be & possi- bility of devising something slightl different and, . especlally, new, which might meet with their approval. They believe that President Roosevelt's un- precedented popularity with the people of this country will enable him to go much further than any of his prede- cessors and that Mr. Davis is carrying in his pocket epoch-making proposals for America’s co-operation with Europe. Until it is known what the President intends to do in regard to Europe, the principal nations across the ocean want to keep things going and avold & col- lapse of the Geneva Conference. It is also believed that the Prench and the Germans will to avoid an overt breakdown of the present pourparlers until Ambassador Davis can tell them what President Roosevelt has on his | said the money had been sent to him | by & woman “in consequence of a love | affair.” At that time, said the major, the | accused officer said he knew the woman only as “Marie Louise,” that she was| 22 and falr and that he had “made | love to her once beside a lake.” 'U. S. TO BE ASKED | TO JOIN EUROPE IN PEACE PROPOSAL (Continued Prom First Page) | | Italian and British premiers sat on | either hand of the King. Last night the British embassy gave |a dinner for government leaders which | was attended also by United States Am- | or Garrett and Mrs. Garrett. The French and German Ambassa- dors met with Mr. MacDonald and Signor Mussolini after the dinner to | talk over the latter's project. DAVIS TO SAIL THURSDAY | By the Associated Press. | Arrangements were made today for | Norman H. Davis, special ambassador on disarmament and world economics, to sail Thursday from New York on the Manhattan for London, where he will see leading British officials before going on to Geneva. State Department officials said they | assumed Mr. Davis would see Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and For- jelgn Secretary Sir John Simon in London. He would then be in a position to ex- change views on the efforts now being made to assure European peace by col- laboration of the great nations, a move in which MacDonald and Premier - solinl of Italy have taken a leading part. | . The State Department also announced | that Robert Pell, attached to the em- | bassy in Paris, would go with Davis to | Geneva. | Officials said that in the absence of | full details from Rome on the Mac- Donald-Mussolini week end conference |1t had not been determined just what | part the United States could or would | play in the peace plan. | FRANCE FAVORS CHANGES. PARIS, March 20 (#).—Premier Dala- dier will seek to modify the Mussolini four-power peace plan when he con- fers tomorrow with Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain. The modifications will be discussed this evening by the cabinet. government said today premier contains the seeds of a possible agreement, but the PFrench insist that the scheme be kept well within the framework of the League of Nations and not infringe upon the rights of the smaller powers. BRITISH CABINET MEETS. N, LONDO! March 20 (P)—It was learned today that Premier MacDonald is returning Wednesday from his Paris- Geneva-Rome mission, and there may be of Commons & debate in House laboration mentioned in last night's Rome official communique. The cabinet is meeting this afternoon. 'l‘hehe;l’m embassy in Rome forward- ed s port, A spokesman that the project evolved by the Italian | the three officers who lost their lives. pilot’s father, and Maj. John A. Parker. Wreckage of the Army plane which crashed near Petersburg, V: Left to right: Lieut. James Willis, IANGARA, DEFIANT, Pays Penalty for Killing Cer- mak—Sorry Photogra- phers Are Absent. ___(Continued From Pirst Page) the world. Good-by.” With his feet not quite touching the floor and his head completely covered he then leaned back in the chair and relaxed to await the shocks. One of the guards who fixed the elec- trode stepped back and said in a quiet voice, ““All right, Joe.” With that signal Sheriff Dan Hardie of Dade County (Miami) walked behind the chair and threw the switch that sent 2,300 volts through Zangara's body at 9:15. The little assassin’s body stiffened at the first shock and his head gave & jerk upward. Officially Dead in 12 Minutes, His hands clenched the chair. The utes and Zangara's body relaxed, slump- |ing forward. Guards hastily released the straps about his arms and physicians stepped forward to make their examina- |tion. He was officially pronounced dead | 8t 9:27 a.m. (Eastern standard time). A heavy rain beat a tattoo on the flat tops of the prison building at the hour of the execution. National Guards- men with machine guns oceupied strategic locations and kept close watch on all who approached. Three physicians. who performed an autopsy on Zangara’s body announced they found the assassin’s brain “per- fectly normal on gross examination.™ ‘The report said: “Having completed an autopsy. we found his (Zangara's) brain perfectly normal on gross examination. “A microscopic examination will be made later, was therefore a victim of chronic in- digestion. He was, however, a healthy, well nourished individual. Last Conduct Heid Rational. dicated clearly he had a proper under- about to be meted out to him as evi: demeanor. “In our opinion this man was re- garded as havi regarded medically as criminally re- sponsible for the crime for which he was_executed.” N. Greene, former chief of staff of the State Hospital for the Insane; R. R Killinger, Duval County medical officer; J. J. Kindred, New York City. Commissioner of Agriculture Nathan Mayo, who also is head of the Prison Bureau, was among those who witnessed the execution. Mayo and Chapman went to Zangara just before the execution and asked the assassin if he wanted a minister or priest. Refuses Spiritual Adviser. ‘Throwing his hands into the air, Zangara replied: “No, I no want minister. There no God. It's all below.” On the insistence of Mayo and Chap- man, however, Rev. L. O. Sheffield. prison chaplain, entered the death cell and made a brief prayar. “What's your business: Zangara of the minister. Sheflield was a minister, Zangars threw up his hands, shouting: | “Get out of here. I no want no mjn- ister.” Sheffleld began reading the fourteenth chapter of John's Gospel. Zangara interrupted the minister with more ‘hwtthm' ll;t‘inflntm' quieted, lis- tening to the reading. 'l"::n, suddenly, the assassin broke into -n:m:;; upm;r which was ended the death march. hysupt_ Chapman said he had examined |the sheaf of papers which Zangaras | handed to him in the execution room, saying it was his “bn:."'mm papers contain personal requ 3 the suj tendent said, lndcm be made public. Does Not Regret Acts, emanded ‘Told that fore the execution this morning, Com- | missioner Mayo asked the condemned man if he was a memoer of any : “No,” Zangara replied. “And I have 1t was idea of my own. Mnyoulmthemmlk“uwuwrry wounding Mrs. Joe H. another of the victims who still is in a Miami hospital. “No,” Zangara said. “She had no business getling in the way of the bullet.” Mayo said he believed Zangara's worst punishment since his arrest in m.nnlt h‘::l thfio flat remn'l”o{ rh:fix est a photographer be .pei t“:u.ke gnmuru of the execution. This request, yo sald, was the only one the man made while await- ing_execution. ‘There was no immediate announce- ment as to what would be done with Zangara’s body. Several medical schools and clinics have asked that the body | be given to them for scientific research, but Gov. Dave Sholtz did not say what would be done about these. nnmm%h e e 1S ELECTROCUTED current was turned off after three min- | “Zangara had a chronically-diseased | gall bladder which had -adhesions and | “Zangara’s conduct duflng his last | moments in the execution chamber in- | standing of his surroundings and real- | ized fully the nature of the punishment | denced by his verbal expressions and | been sane and also | The autopsy was made by Drs. Ralph | C. D. Whitaker, prison physician, and | again | not be In a conversation with Zangars be- | Executed | WEZON i GUISEPPI ZANGARA. lived near the town of Ferruzzano, Cal- abria, Italy. He gave his age 2s in the early thirties. He was a naturalized citizen of the United States. Speedy Justice. Just 33 days after Zangara fatally wounded Mayor Cermak the death penalty ~was ordered exacted under swift operation of Florida justice. ‘These are the rapidly moving events: February 15—Zangara. armed with a cheap pawn-shop pistol, thwarted in n attempt to kill President Roosevelt, | | but shot down Mayor Cermak and four others at a public reception in Bay- ' front Park, Miami. Pebruary 16—A special grand jury was called to indict Zangara for at- tempting to kill Mr. Roosevelt and the | five wounded persons. February 17—Zangara declared sane y_county physician. bruary 18—Sanity Commission, ap- declared Zangara “a psychopathic per- sonality.” Zangara insisted he was not insane and derided physicians. Sentenced to 80 Years. Pebruary 20—In a court scene made bizarre by Zangara's outbursts, the as- sassin was given 80 years sentence, 20 vears each on four charges of attempted deputies led him away, ‘make it & hundred years." March 6—Mayor Cermak died. The March 9—Zangars pleaded guilty. Zangara called Judge Thompeon “crook man.” Shouted “I no fraid that chair.” March 11—Secretly removed from | Dade County Jail at Miami, Zangara arrived at State Prison here to await the chair. March 20—Zangara executed. VICTIM STILL IN DANGER. Mrs. Joe H. Gill, Shot by Zangara, in of the five bullet victims in his plct to kill President Rooseveit, was still in & | Hospital here. Hospital authorities said Mrs. Otb‘};‘ » it | there was no indication that she would sufficiently recovered to return to her home in a week or eight days. HOUSE VOTE DUE ON STATE BANKING Steagall Bill Providing Aid Ex- pected to Be Passed by Nightfall. By the Associated Press. The Steagall bill to let State banks and trust companies participate with Federal Reserve members in the bene- fits of the emergency banking act was | taken up by the House today with the | fore nightfall. Its sponsors said the bill was de- signed to correct an oversight in the ncy“ the House Banking Com- mittee sald it had the support of the President and the Treasury. ‘The measure would let State banks and trust oomrnln for one year, de- | posit collateral with Federal Reserve | banks, receiving loans on the securi- ties. Eligibility of the collateral would be decided by the reserve bnnkl.'m: killing three Washington Army officers Jr., the pointed at request of defense counsel, . “Don’t be stingy, judge” he | grand jury met the same day and in- | dicted Zangara for first degree murder. | March 10—Given death sentence, | of Chicago, Mrs. Joe H. Gill, another | | serious condition in Jackson Memorial | | expectation of passing the measure be- | Below, . Maj. James A. Willis, the —A. P. and War Department Photos. AIR CRASH PROBERS OFF'FOR PETERSBURG TO EXAMINE WRECK (Continued Prom First Page.) throwa clear of the wreckage, instantly killed by the impact. His father and Maj. Parker, also believed to have been killed instantly, were badly burned be- fore their bodies were dragged out by passing motorists. Left Washington Friday. The three officers left Washington | Friday afternoon and had spent the | week end at Spartanburg, taking off on | the return trip in the face of thick | weather yesterday afternoon. It is be- | lieved that Lieut. Willis, finding the weather too thick to continue with | safety, was attempting to land beside | the highway when he crashed, possibly ! while blinded by the storm. Detective Sergt. Hoyle D. Secrest, in | charge of clerical work at the Detec- tive Bureau, escaped being in the crash only through a last-moment decision not to accompany Maj. Parker, close | friend and first cousin of Secrest's wife. | Secrest had been invited to go as far as Charlotte, N. C., his former home. Lieut. Willis, 30 years old, was & | graduate of the United States Military | | Academy. West Point, and of the Air | Corps Primary and Advanced Flying Schools. He had been on continuous fiying duty at Bolling Field for the past four years. except for a short time of duty as Wi te House aide, which ended with the caange of administration on | March 4. In his capacity as assistant operations officer at the local fleld. he took charge of the operations of flying officers of the local Army Air Reserve. Maj. Willis and Maj. Parker were old friends and for several years had been colleagues in service in the office of the Judge Advocate General. | Graduate of West Point. Lieut. Willis was a native of Willis- ton, S. C, and was graduated from West Point, June 12, 1926. He was com- missioned a second lieutenant of In- fantry, but was transferred to the Air Corps in 1929 after graduating from the advanced flying school. Since that | time he has been stationed at Bolling | Pield. His father, Maj. Willis, 55 years old. was born at Barnwell, S. C. A veteran of the Spanish-American War. Maj. Willls served as_a lieutenant in the South Carolina Infantry during that conflict. Since then he practiced law | until 1917, when he attended the first Officers’ Training Camp and was com- missioned a captain of Infantry in the National Army. He served with the 323d Infantry, both at home and over- seas, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. On July 1, 1920, he was permanently commissioned a major in the jue advocate general’s depart- ment. e then his service has been divided between Washington and San Antonio, Tex. He had returned to Washington from San Antonio, where he had been detailed as judge advocate of the 8th Corps Area. Maj. Willis is survived by his wife and daughter, Miss Margaret Willis. Maj. Parker's Record. u-{. Willis is survived by his widow | County, N. C., November 23, 1877. His | early military service was as a captain of infantry in the North Carolina Na- | tional Guard from 1909 to 1917. When the United States entered the World War he was commissioned & captain of infantry in the National Army. A fleld artillery with the rank of ma. and on July 1, 1920, was given perm nent rank in the Regular Army as a major in the judge advocate general's dej ent. ce the war Maj. Parker has been on duty in Washington, at Fort Ben- ning, Ga., and in the Panama Canal Zone. He came here from Panama last He is survived by his widow. TWO0 BANDITé HOLD CLERK | WITH SACK OF POTATOES Pair Weight Him Down in Rear of Store and Take $5 From Cash Register. Forcing 8 clerk into a rear room, where they made him lie on the floor and placed a heavy sack of potatoes on him, two armed white bandits this aft- ernoon held up and robbed a Sanitary Grocery store at 1015 Eleventh street. escaped with approximately $5. e clerk, James L. Allen, 25, of the 1100 block Morse street northeast, said the was alone in the store when the bandits entered. Ome of them bran- ept. The man demanded the “key” to the safe, but Allen informed him his broth- er, R. M. Allen, 39, who is manager of | the store, had the “key” and was out at lunch, After warning the younger Allen that “blow his brains out” if display " when they asked for a “ke " to the safe, which was oper- ated Dy 8 combination. The clerk’s stall s purpose, however, year later he was transferred to the CABINET T0 SPEAK IN RADID FORUM President Roosevelt’s Official Family Will Be Intro- duced to Country. (Continued From First Page) forum. In referring to this nationally prominent manufacturer, who, at the time he entered the cabinet was pres- ident of the American Car & Foundry Co. and a director of a dozen other large industriel concerns, President Roosevelt said, “Will Woodin has b2en the real epic of Washington in this banking situation.” This gray-haired, slimly built and smiling head of the Treasury, who has labored night and day with his problem almost from the moment he took office, is new to guhllr life, and new to public speaking, but there will be a virtually feverish interest in what he has to tell the public on this occasion Next to follow in this series will be Danfel C. Roper, Secretary of Com- merce, upon whose shoulders the Pres- ident has thrown a good portion of the responsibility of working out the plan for a definite and constructive reorgan- ization of the Federal Government so as to effect the necessary saving to make possible the balancing of the na- tional budget. Mr. Roper, a native of South Carolina, but who has been a resident of the Capital City for more than 40 years, will speak in the Forum on the night of April 10. He was a member of the United States Tariff Commission and later collector of in- ternal revenue under Woodrow Wilson. Hull Speaks April 17, | Secretary of State Hull will speak on the night of April 17. Secretary Hull before joining Mr. Roosevelt's official family was a member of the United States Senate from Tennessee and prior to that was in the House of Represent- atives. He is recognized as one of the really great economic suthorities in American public life and has & pro- found knowledge of our international problems confronting the country. He promises to deliver a message of genuine Interest and importance. Henry A. Wallace of Des Moines, Towa, who at 44 years of age, is pre- siding over the Department of Agri- culture, a position held by his late | father under Presidents Harding and | Coolidge, is scheduled to address the | Forum on April 24. Because of the | paramount importance of agricultural | Telief in the President's general plan, | his remarks on this forthcoming occa- | sion will be awaited with real interest Mr. Wallace is a farm paper editor and was selected by Mr. Roosevelt because of his intimate knowledge of the agri- cultural problem George H. Dern of Utah. Secretary of War, is to speak in the Forum May i He was formerly Governor of Utah and has been identified with the mining industry. He is regarded as one of the most eloquent speakers in the cabinet James A. Farley, Homer Cummings, Claude A. Swanson, Harold A. Ickes and Miss Frances Perkins already have agreed to appear in the Forum series and will be heard during the month of May, the dates not having been definitely fixed. Mr. Farley, the Postmaster General, who shares honors with Mr. Wallace of being the youngest cabinet member, acquired a national prominence as Mr, Roosevelt's chief political lieutenant during the preconvention campaign as well as the recent national campaij As chairman of the Democratic tional Committee during the campa he displayed a real talent for engag- ing and interesting public speaking as well as a gift for political leadership. Homer Cummings, Attomey General, is 63, & prominent attorney of Stame ford, Conn., and at one time was chair= man of the Democratic National Com- mittee. He was slated originally to be governor general of the Philippines, but the sudden death of Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana prompted Mr. Roosevelt to shift him to head the Department of Justice. Long in Public Service. Claude A. Swanson, the new Secretary of the Navy. who was born in Swan- sonville, Pittsylvania County, Va., in 1862, has been in public life nearly half a century. He had served in the House of Representatives and as Gov- ernor of his State before starting his i:n(’clreer in the United States Senate 191 Harold A. Ickes, Secretary of &nterior, is 59 years of age and a lawyer of Ohi- cago, Ill. He has been prominent! identified with civic and welfare |and has far-reaching knowledge of z public domain of this country and the | problems bound up in his | Miss Prances Perkins of New Y | the first one of her sex to serve in | presidential cabinet, is 51 years of |and a sociologist. At the ‘time of appointment she was State ing commissioner of New York. This cabinet series is expected %o not only further enlighten the people 6f the Nation as to what President Rooses velt's administration is doing to pllot | this country safely through the storm, |and vhat it is planning to do later on, | but to serve as the means of a better | understanding; to give the public an | opportunity to get better acquainted | with the cabinet members by hearing them personally discuss thelr particular tasks under the Roosevelt leadership. — ——— \U. §. MAP MAKER James B. Stubbs, 55, Cartographie Engineer, Served With Peace Commission in 1918. James B. Stubbs, 55, a cartographic engineer in the division of charts, United States Coast and Geodetic Sur- vey, whose maps were used by the United States Peace Commissicn in 1918 and subsequent years, died yesterday at | Homeopathic Hospital after a short ill- ness. He was a native of Galveston, Tax., and was educated at the Virginia Mili- tary Institute and United States Mili- tary Academy. He entered the survey #8 a nautical chart draftsman on March 19, 1908, and at the time of his death 'Was senior cartographic engineer. ~For the first 10 months of 1918 he was called upon to take charge of the preparation of maps for the United States Commission to Negotiate Peace and from December 2 of that year to June 23, 1919, he was granted further leave from the survey at the urgent request of Col. E. M. House. He spent the time in Paris in charge of drafts- men preparing cartographic data for the commission. Funeral services will be held at 2 pm. :tmmt. at his home, 1316 Juniper Tee Nurse Who Shot Husband Dies. ENID, Okla, March 20 (#).—NMrs. Daisy Davis, 34-year-old nurse, died last night a few hours after a coroner’s Jury she had shot her husband to death earlier in the day. Sheriff Joe Cavin said she had taken an over- of a narcotic. ‘The husband, John E. Davis, 45, was farm foreman of the State Institute for the Feeble Minded here. TR R L Vera Cruz Council Suspended. VERA CRUZ. Mexico, March 20 (). —The Vera Cruz Municipal Council has been by the local Lagis-